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Chuck & Buck 7-13 Hour 2: 12th Man News with Gregg Bell, who is Khosla and World Cup chalk talk. · Chuck in the Morning

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Speaker 1: Rose Arata to right center field. That's deep. Mason goes
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Speaker 1: back at the wall. God, it's out of here.
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Speaker 2: A rose Arrata with a three run shot and at
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Speaker 2: seven nothing Seattle barely got out.
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Speaker 1: Had to take a second look. It's his eleventh on
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Speaker 1: the season. Fairness TV eight to two.
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Speaker 2: The Mariners do win a game on Sunday eight to
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Speaker 2: two over the Tampa Bay Rays. Only one win on
0:40
Speaker 2: the sixth game road trip to Florida, and so they
0:44
Speaker 2: hit the All Star Break a game under five hundred,
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Speaker 2: a game and a half out of first place. But
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Speaker 2: believe it or not, if the season ended today, they
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Speaker 2: grabbed the third wild card in a first half that
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Speaker 2: was down obviously in the American League. Notice I didn't
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Speaker 2: say bad. I don't think the American League is bad.
1:01
Speaker 2: I think that there are a lot of teams that
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Speaker 2: are pretty decent. They just had bad first halves, including
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Speaker 2: the Mariners.
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Speaker 1: But I do believe it'll be a.
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Speaker 2: Different story in the second half, which means they can
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Speaker 2: play a lot better and still be on the outside
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Speaker 2: end because of the way they played in the first
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Speaker 2: half of twenty twenty six.
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Speaker 1: So we'll see how it goes.
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Speaker 2: But we have hit the All Star Break officially, and
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Speaker 2: there are a lot of baseball headlines to get to
1:25
Speaker 2: in frost brewed cors like chews chill headlines before we
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Speaker 2: talk some football with Greg Bell, so we better get
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Speaker 2: after it. The Mariners forty eight and forty nine on
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Speaker 2: the season won't play again until Friday.
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Speaker 1: Tonight. The Home Run Derby will take place on Netflix,
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Speaker 1: and it is a great field.
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Speaker 2: I mean, I realize that it didn't turn out to
1:46
Speaker 2: have as many of the superstars as maybe you would hope,
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Speaker 2: But Kyle Schwarber, Ben Rice, Junior, Caminero, Jordan Walker, Bryce Harper,
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Speaker 2: Wilson Contreras, moon At, Taka Moricami, and Jack Caglion they're
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Speaker 2: going to put on a show tonight. Those guys are
2:02
Speaker 2: going to put on a show tonight. Those are some great,
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Speaker 2: great contestants for this Home Run Derby, and of course
2:11
Speaker 2: we've heard of all of them, unlike an NBA Slam
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Speaker 2: Dunk contest. So where you criticize baseball, remember what other
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Speaker 2: sports do and how difficult the time that they have
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Speaker 2: trying to get people interested in their exhibitions. So I
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Speaker 2: think baseball does a phenomenal job getting a field together
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Speaker 2: for the home run derby. There's going to be a
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Speaker 2: brand new format and it is going to be a
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Speaker 2: complete left turn. I don't have time to tell you
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Speaker 2: about it now, but we will discuss it at nine
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Speaker 2: o'clock today. The All Star Game will be played tomorrow.
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Speaker 2: This I have a bigger problem with so many cancelations,
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Speaker 2: so many guys that were on the original rosters that
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Speaker 2: have decided to tap out for this game. It's very unfortunate.
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Speaker 2: I don't want it to end up like the Pro Bowl.
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Speaker 2: After all, we do this in the middle of the season.
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Speaker 2: It's supposed to be a showcase. It's the Midsummer Classic, right,
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Speaker 2: and that will be hell tomorrow. But there're gonna be
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Speaker 2: a lot of guys sitting out this game, and that's unfortunate.
3:06
Speaker 2: The MLB Draft was held over the weekend. UCLA shortstop
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Speaker 2: Rock Chelowski went number one to the Chicago White Sox
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Speaker 2: and the Mariners took Mississippi State power hitter Ace Reese
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Speaker 2: played third base for the Bulldogs, might play first base
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Speaker 2: eventually in his career, but by all accounts a bit
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Speaker 2: of a steal for the Mariners at twenty four overall.
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Speaker 2: The Futures Game held yesterday, the American League One. Kate
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Speaker 2: Anderson started the game, scoreless inning from him, scoreless inning
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Speaker 2: from Ryan Sloan, and so those two guys just continue
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Speaker 2: to build their prospect resume. The World Cup's going to
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Speaker 2: resume tomorrow with the final four. France versus Spain will
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Speaker 2: play at noon tomorrow, and Baseball's like, whow glad they're
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Speaker 2: not playing primetime. Whew. Yes, So you'll have a noon
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Speaker 2: start for France Spain tomorrow and then baseball would have
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Speaker 2: the American Stage to themselves in the evening, and then
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Speaker 2: on Wednesday you'll have Argentina taking on England. So the
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Speaker 2: four that we expected, and I mean that in more
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Speaker 2: ways than one. We'll talk more about that later on
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Speaker 2: in the hour. But what we want to talk about
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Speaker 2: right now, the Seattle Seahawks have a.
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Speaker 1: Brand new owner.
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Speaker 2: It broke over the weekend, Venode Koshla, who we discussed
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Speaker 2: at great length on Friday, from Sun Microsystems. Fifteen billion
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Speaker 2: dollars is what he's earned over his life and he
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Speaker 2: and his family.
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Speaker 1: That's a very important part of the story because his wife's.
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Speaker 2: Going to be very involved as an owner, his son's
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Speaker 2: going to be very involved as an owner, and Cosla
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Speaker 2: is seventy one years old, So I would imagine the
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Speaker 2: Sun becomes the heir apparent to the Seahawks, you know,
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Speaker 2: Seahawks organization. And so we've got a lot to discuss
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Speaker 2: with our Seahawks insider Greg Bell about this big story
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Speaker 2: that we're going to talk about all hour long here
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Speaker 2: on Chuck and Buck.
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Speaker 1: Good morning, Greg, Good morning, all right.
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Speaker 2: First of all, I've heard his name pronounced thirty eight
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Speaker 2: different ways.
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Speaker 1: Nobody really seems to know.
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Speaker 2: I even entered it in AI this morning, and seven AI.
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Speaker 1: Told me, Yeah, but seven different. There were like seven
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Speaker 1: different examples of how to how to pronounce his name,
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Speaker 1: and they were all different. How could they all be different?
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Speaker 1: So do you have a handle? Is it vanad Koshla,
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Speaker 1: Cosla Coesla? Have you heard it the right way?
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Speaker 3: Kasla? I don't know what the right way is because
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Speaker 3: I've never spoken to him or his family or his
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Speaker 3: wife's son. Kasla is what I was told and what
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Speaker 3: I when he first emerged as a potential bidder a joke.
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Speaker 3: But it's fitting that you consulted AI because the family's
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Speaker 3: wealth is deeply intertwined in Ai. He ten years ago
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Speaker 3: and Casla was in the beginning stages of AI and
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Speaker 3: investing in it as an entrepreneur. He was on the
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Speaker 3: forefront of this, and of course now it's hugely taken off.
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Speaker 3: Your point at the very beginning about the family is
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Speaker 3: a good one that an Odd Causla is the front
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Speaker 3: man that everyone's given attention to, and all the reports
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Speaker 3: of this sale lead with him. But in fact, the
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Speaker 3: NFL memorandum that went to all teams on Saturday when
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Speaker 3: the news that this broke to inform the teams of
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Speaker 3: this sale agreement says that his wife, Neru Causla, is
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Speaker 3: going to be the controlling owner. What does that mean, Well,
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Speaker 3: they can divest. They will divest the road term, they
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Speaker 3: could divide the shares of how much they own individually,
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Speaker 3: where her husband could own x percentage of shares and
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Speaker 3: the son Neil could own expercentage of shares. According to
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Speaker 3: the NFL, the wife new is going to own the
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Speaker 3: majority of the shares if she's controlling owner, that means
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Speaker 3: she would own at least thirty percent, and the league
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Speaker 3: prefers up to fifty percent or more of the shares
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Speaker 3: is the controlling owner's interest, so that she is actually
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Speaker 3: the principal owner according to the league, and she would
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Speaker 3: have the ultimate authority as the controlling interest in the club.
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Speaker 3: So who is Nero Causeley? I wrote a story last
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Speaker 3: night that I posted this morning at the News Tribune
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Speaker 3: about her because no one's talking about her. She was
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Speaker 3: the founder and is the chief executive of something called
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Speaker 3: c K twelve. It's a foundation, a nonprofit, not for profit,
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Speaker 3: I should specify organization that has been founded to make
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Speaker 3: K through twelve education more affordable and more accessible for
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Speaker 3: everyone across the world. She founded this about eighteen years ago,
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Speaker 3: twenty years ago now, and they claim to have taught
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Speaker 3: three one hundred and seventeen million people across the world
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Speaker 3: for free with AI software, using textbooks that they can
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Speaker 3: provide online to people anywhere, converted into ninety different languages.
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Speaker 3: And it's been her passion in life for education and
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Speaker 3: free education and access for all, and as a not
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Speaker 3: for profit, a lot of her time, effort and moneys
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Speaker 3: have gone to philanthropy. So she's really interesting in a
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Speaker 3: continuation of what has been going on in Seattle. Jody Allen,
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Speaker 3: of course, has been the team chair of the Seahawk
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Speaker 3: since their brother's death in twenty eighteen, Samantha Holloway, the
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Speaker 3: Krack and owner, has started One Room Sports and Entertainment
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Speaker 3: to own the Kraken, the Climate Plage Arena, and the seams.
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Speaker 3: Will and she's already said will position to bid for
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Speaker 3: the new return of the Sonics in the NBA. And
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Speaker 3: she just brought Melinda Gates, Melinda French Kates on board
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Speaker 3: on one Sports Entertainment. So women owning sports teams and
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Speaker 3: the philanthropy legacy. Of course, Paul Island the nine point
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Speaker 3: six billion dollars sale, all of that money is going
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Speaker 3: to charity. Wow, because that's what Paul Island stipulated in
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Speaker 3: his estate is will as a demand for selling his assets.
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Speaker 3: So it's quite interesting they make Neeru Cosla the point,
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Speaker 3: the primary controlling owner in the NFL specified that to
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Speaker 3: teams because there is a continuation there of what's been
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Speaker 3: going on in Seattle sports and ownership with women.
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Speaker 2: Greg bellis with us our Seahawks insider, talking about the
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Speaker 2: ownership change. I mean that really does need to be
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Speaker 2: repeated and expanded upon. Like all of that money, a
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Speaker 2: record setting number fifty nine percent higher than the other
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Speaker 2: biggest sale in NFL history, and all going to charity.
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Speaker 1: I mean, who's going to be overseeing that?
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Speaker 2: I mean, are we going to get like a detailed
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Speaker 2: breakdown in the future of who gets what? Because, my goodness,
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Speaker 2: ten billion dollars, I mean one hundred dollars you feel
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Speaker 2: like you've given to something. Ten billion dollars should go
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Speaker 2: a long way, right, Greg?
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Speaker 3: Well, yes, and I can think of zillions of things
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Speaker 3: in our country. I wish ten billion dollars would go
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Speaker 3: to education, homelessness, mental health crisis, drug abuse, on and on.
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Speaker 3: But there is such a worldwide array and vast array
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Speaker 3: of interest that Paul Allen had, that he's got all
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Speaker 3: kinds of philanthropic interest that he will have dictated. I
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Speaker 3: haven't seen, obviously, the copy of the state of the
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Speaker 3: will to determine where this money goes. But it's not
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Speaker 3: like all nine point six billions going to one place.
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Speaker 3: He's got so many interests across the world. It will
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Speaker 3: be across many, many, many, many, many many spectrums.
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Speaker 2: Greg bell Our seax insider with us. So what do
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Speaker 2: the Kaslas know about football?
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Speaker 3: Well, we don't know. We don't know a lot. Frankly,
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Speaker 3: we don't know what they will want to do with
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Speaker 3: the team. We won't know what they will want to
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Speaker 3: change and not change. We will want to know what
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Speaker 3: they want to do with the stadium. What we do
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Speaker 3: know is that there are no indications from the league,
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Speaker 3: from anyone in this process, from anyone anywhere, that they're
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Speaker 3: going to Seahawks are gonna be anywhere but in Seattle.
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Speaker 3: It's where the league wants the team to be as
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Speaker 3: its anchor in the Pacific Northwest. It's been hugely successful
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Speaker 3: ever since the Nordstroms bottom to bring them into the
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Speaker 3: league in nineteen seventy four. What we do know is
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Speaker 3: that vod Prosla and their son Neil have been attending
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Speaker 3: forty nine Ers games for twenty five years. Has said
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Speaker 3: that back when Neil was five years old, they've bought
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Speaker 3: season tickets to the forty nine Ers and they've been
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Speaker 3: going ever since. And that's the reason in twenty twenty
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Speaker 3: five in the spring they bought a three point one
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Speaker 3: percent share in the forty nine Ers. It turns out
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Speaker 3: that that's purchase that shitting' alarm Seahawks fans. They have
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Speaker 3: to divest to that and they're not going to be
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Speaker 3: forty nine or owners owning the Seahawks. League rules say
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Speaker 3: they got to sell that.
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Speaker 2: Share, at least he's got effectively new to move on
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Speaker 2: to a better organization.
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Speaker 4: Well, if you're going from three percent interest to controlling interest,
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Speaker 4: you should probably yeah, I'd be pretty sure about that
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Speaker 4: for the cost of nine point six billion. But what
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Speaker 4: that in effect, what that three point one percent stake
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Speaker 4: by in the forty nine ers did, is it familiarized
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Speaker 4: the cause was with the process of NFL ownership. More importantly,
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Speaker 4: it familiarized the NFL and their owners with the causeless
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Speaker 4: because they had to approve them, even as a minority owner.
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Speaker 3: All owners have to sale of any portion of any
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Speaker 3: team has to be approved by the other thirty one owners.
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Speaker 3: So Commissioner Roger Goodell and all the team owners know
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Speaker 3: these people, and this wasn't a bit out of left
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Speaker 3: field of people that they had not already vetted and
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Speaker 3: approved just a year and a half earlier. So that
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Speaker 3: went a long way toward giving this group a head
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Speaker 3: start over the one that they beat out. Obviously, we
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Speaker 3: don't know Chuck. We don't know what they're gonna do
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Speaker 3: at all. Nobody working for the Seahawks do unless they've
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Speaker 3: talked to him personally. And I don't know that they have.
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Speaker 3: It would be absolutely malpractice for any new owner of
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Speaker 3: any ILK from anywhere, with any experience with anybody to
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Speaker 3: come in and change the football operations. Obviously, John Schneider
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Speaker 3: has sixteen years, the most successful run ever, the only
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Speaker 3: two Super Bowl titles the Seahawks have had. He's the
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Speaker 3: fourth longest tenured general manager in the league, third if
13:31
Speaker 3: you don't count Jerry Jones, the owner as the GM
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Speaker 3: of the Cowboys. There's no reason to change with John
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Speaker 3: Snyder's been doing. Snyder and Jody Allen's choice to hire
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Speaker 3: Mike McDonald as the first time he head coach two
13:42
Speaker 3: years ago obviously was a master stroke. Winning the Super
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Speaker 3: Bowl as a first time head coach last year. Nothing
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Speaker 3: football wives should change. But having said that, everything else
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Speaker 3: is on the board to change. Business operation, marketing, sale,
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Speaker 3: community relations, or anything that doesn't have to do with
14:03
Speaker 3: between the lines, I would think is up for review
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Speaker 3: and change. Because these billionaires don't make billions of dollars
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Speaker 3: just doing it better themselves. They have trusted people that
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Speaker 3: worked with them and all the entrepreneurial endeavors that they've had,
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Speaker 3: and they will undoubtedly bring many of those people with
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Speaker 3: them to Seattle. It is noticeable that they are only
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Speaker 3: the second of the four ownership groups over the fifty
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Speaker 3: four fifty fifty two years that the Seahawks have existed.
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Speaker 3: They are only the second one that's not from here.
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Speaker 3: They norcht Thems. Of course, the original owners sold the
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Speaker 3: Ken Bearing and Bearing is a southern California real estate
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Speaker 3: developer for nine years, threatened to move the team to
14:46
Speaker 3: southern California. That's why Paul Allen Bottom and the Seahawks
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Speaker 3: have enjoyed a unusually stable, local based ownership group with
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Speaker 3: the Island family for the last thirty years. So that's
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Speaker 3: not the norm in professional sports and not unusual at
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Speaker 3: all for teams to be owned by owners from out
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Speaker 3: of town, and for the first time in thirty years,
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Speaker 3: the Seahawks are in that situation.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, what a unique situation.
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Speaker 2: I think of my old professor in college, John Regnew,
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Speaker 2: when I said something was very unique, he goes, that's impossible.
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Speaker 1: It's either unique or it's not. There's no degree of uniqueness.
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Speaker 2: And so I've always remembered that now this is truly unique.
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Speaker 2: You're never going to see a sale like this again.
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Speaker 2: You're never going to see all the money handed over
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Speaker 2: to charity. You're never going to see a relationship passing
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Speaker 2: of the torch from brother to sister to sail And
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Speaker 2: now we try to get to know an ownership group
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Speaker 2: that has never truly owned a professional franchise before. So,
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Speaker 2: I mean, sports fans have a tendency to worry anyway.
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Speaker 2: And then you're coming off a Super Bowl. The last
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Speaker 2: thing you want is the boat rocked. After coming off
15:55
Speaker 2: of Super Bowl, things are going really well. So what,
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Speaker 2: if anything, do you think a Mariner should be Mariner?
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Speaker 2: A Seahawks fan should be justifiably worried about.
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Speaker 3: A Mariner fan should be worried about a lot, But
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Speaker 3: a Seahawks fan should be worried about the fact because
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Speaker 3: they aren't from here. They just don't have an innate
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Speaker 3: sense for the Pacific Northwest sports fan, for the legacy
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Speaker 3: and history of the team. That's why I thought the
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Speaker 3: choice of words of an old Cosla had in his
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Speaker 3: statement on Saturday was interesting. He said, we are thrilled
16:30
Speaker 3: I'm paraphrasing we're thrilled and excited to carry forth the
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Speaker 3: legacy of the Allen family's ownership of the Seahawks. He
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Speaker 3: gets the concern he gets that they're not from here,
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Speaker 3: and he gets people who are gonna say, wait a minute,
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Speaker 3: they're not from here. He wants the first words to
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Speaker 3: be that we appreciate and continue, we expect to continue
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Speaker 3: the legacy of the Allen ownership grip. That's a tall order.
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Speaker 3: Paul Allen kept the Seahawks here, kept them from moving.
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Speaker 3: They got him the new stadium, they brought he Paul
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Speaker 3: Allen dispatched Todd light Wicky to Los Angeles to get
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Speaker 3: Pete Carroll out of USC to change the fortunes of
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Speaker 3: the middling franchise that had been the Seahawks, the eight
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Speaker 3: and eight, nine and seven, seven and nine Seahawks for decades.
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Speaker 3: Paul Allen did that. Paul Allen made the Seahawks what
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Speaker 3: we know the Seahawks be today, super Bowl champions, perennial
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Speaker 3: playoff contenders, that pack a stadium that shakes and rocks
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Speaker 3: and beast quakes. Paul Allen did all of that. And
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Speaker 3: so nobody's going to be an owner like Paul Allen ever,
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Speaker 3: especially ones that are from the Bay Area. So let's
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Speaker 3: just state that off the top. But if you're a
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Speaker 3: Seahawks fan, you have to be encouraged about the unprecedentedness
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Speaker 3: of this. No Super Bowl champion has ever been sold
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Speaker 3: in the months after winning it all, so that even
17:45
Speaker 3: more underlines the fact that you don't mess with the
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Speaker 3: football operation. Most professional sports franchises are sold in some
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Speaker 3: state of transition or devalue. I hate to even bring
17:57
Speaker 3: it up, but think Sonics, Think think any franchise, even
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Speaker 3: the Lakers that just sold for ten billion, the record
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Speaker 3: they owned the second They're the only richer deal than
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Speaker 3: the Seahawks deal in North American sports history. Even the Lakers,
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Speaker 3: if Lebron James coming in and Kobe Bryant passing away
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Speaker 3: and the former championships and not being able to replicate
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Speaker 3: it since and they even they are in something of
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Speaker 3: a transition period from what their legacy.
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Speaker 1: Used to be.
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Speaker 3: This is the height of the Seahawks. This is it,
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Speaker 3: This is their peak. That you don't see franchises sold
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Speaker 3: like this in this situation, especially not mere months after
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Speaker 3: they won it all. I think that should be a
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Speaker 3: sav and soothing to Seahawks fans concerns that the Navy
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Speaker 3: is good. They haven't owned the professional sports franchise and
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Speaker 3: they can leave the football side alone.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and I do want to give you the opportunity
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Speaker 2: to sort of address it, because you thought and correct
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Speaker 2: me if I'm wrong, kind of all along that some
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Speaker 2: sort of secret local guy was there in the we
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Speaker 2: and would end up owning this franchise.
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Speaker 1: That didn't happen. Why did that not?
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Speaker 3: Ever? No, and there was that, And I don't know
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Speaker 3: since Saturday, or even in the days leading the Saturday,
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Speaker 3: whether that person was outdid or didn't get interested, but
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Speaker 3: it was obviously the two multiple bidders against each other
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Speaker 3: drove the price up, and that was what Jody Allen
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Speaker 3: and Burke Cold were seeking before the maximum value for
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Speaker 3: the philanthropic interest of Paul Allen. I don't know how
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Speaker 3: far down that there was. It was an area. It
19:37
Speaker 3: was the possibility it did materialize, and I don't know
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Speaker 3: if that's because the person was outbid or just the
19:44
Speaker 3: price got higher than they wanted to do. It also
19:47
Speaker 3: bears repeating that the cause was the three that we
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Speaker 3: know of. The husband, the wife, and the Sun aren't
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Speaker 3: going to be the only owners. The NFL statement that
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Speaker 3: memost of the teams made clear that there will be
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Speaker 3: other limited partners. The NFL rules say that can be
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Speaker 3: up to twenty four limited partners for a total of
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Speaker 3: twenty five owners a controlling owner plus twenty four limited partners.
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Speaker 3: I'm not saying there's going to be twenty two in
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Speaker 3: the NFL, saying that there will be a few limited partners.
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Speaker 3: Several is what the term was in the memo suggests
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Speaker 3: it won't be twenty two. But there is the possibility
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Speaker 3: that some of the minority owners have ownership experience in
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Speaker 3: professional sports. We don't know that yet either, I guess
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Speaker 3: I should say overall to this conversation is we don't know. Yeah,
20:31
Speaker 3: we have two, we have owners coming in that they're
20:34
Speaker 3: from out of town who have never owned a professional
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Speaker 3: sports franchise before, and there are a lot we don't know,
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Speaker 3: no doubt.
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Speaker 1: All Right, So what are you going to talk about
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Speaker 1: today at ten o'clock?
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Speaker 3: Well, this, and I'm going to explain quite a bit
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Speaker 3: about how I find it interesting that COSLA's wife is
20:52
Speaker 3: the controlling partner here and the continuity and the Seattle
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Speaker 3: ownership and women and philanthropy. Just I explain to you,
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Speaker 3: we'll talk about that, we'll talk to them about the
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Speaker 3: the Mariners and there all start break as well. And
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Speaker 3: I don't know Chuck, I guess they also break comes
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Speaker 3: at a good time this year. Sometimes they don't come
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Speaker 3: at a good time, but it seems like you keep
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Speaker 3: it a good time.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I think maybe not for all, but yeah,
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Speaker 2: all right, well well listen at ten. Thanks man, We
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Speaker 2: appreciate it.
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Speaker 3: All right, Happy Monday, all right.
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Speaker 2: Greg Bell, our Seahawks insider, also right here on KJAR
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Speaker 2: from ten to noon every day, so we'll have more
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Speaker 2: on this story coming up. If you want to follow
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Speaker 2: him on x at gmail, Seattle or Thenewstribune dot com.
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Speaker 1: He's got all.
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Speaker 2: Sorts of articles up right now discussing the ownership change
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Speaker 2: for the Seattle Seahawks, and we will as a show
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Speaker 2: this morning, that I knew how to pronounce our new
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Speaker 2: owner's name, right, And now we learn that our new
22:38
Speaker 2: owner is like third in line, right, Yes, it's the wife,
22:42
Speaker 2: and then the Sun's the heir apparent.
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Speaker 5: And then and then and then.
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Speaker 1: Then money bags. Yeah. Then that's very interesting that that
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Speaker 1: you went with.
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Speaker 2: That, because you call it up spelled wright v I
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Speaker 2: n o d k h o s l a pronuncia search.
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Speaker 2: First thing that comes up the nod coowslav nod coowsla.
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Speaker 1: Then it says underneath it.
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Speaker 2: The nod kousla is pronounced v nod koshla. Okay, completely different, right, yep, yep,
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Speaker 2: And it specifies the first name is said with a
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Speaker 2: long e sound followed by a soft nod v nod.
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Speaker 2: The last name is pronounced with a silent o in
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Speaker 2: the first syllable, rhyming loosely with mosque la or rash la.
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Speaker 2: So kosh la completely different than what Greg told us, Right,
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Speaker 2: did he say kosla?
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Speaker 3: Uh?
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Speaker 1: Yeah?
23:46
Speaker 3: All right?
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Speaker 2: And then then there's one other example where our guy
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Speaker 2: I'm just gonna say, our guy for right now goes.
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Speaker 1: To tykon twenty seventeen. Apparently it's a nerd convention in.
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Speaker 2: The Silicon Valley, and he's the keynote speaker, and this British,
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Speaker 2: fine proper woman sits down and lectures the audience about
24:09
Speaker 2: if you've not heard of our next guest, then you
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Speaker 2: pretty much have your head up your alls. And she
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Speaker 2: doesn't say that, but that's the air that she has
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Speaker 2: about herself. And then she proceeds. After all these pronunciations,
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Speaker 2: because they're very clear, like you know, about how it's
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Speaker 2: supposed to be pronounced, then she does it completely.
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Speaker 1: Opposite than anything else that was presented. She went with
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Speaker 1: va node the node kosh lah, so.
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Speaker 5: She would combinations.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, she liked the exact opposite of what AI is,
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Speaker 2: two different versions of what AI said it should be pronounced,
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Speaker 2: like she went vun node kosh la. Now I will say,
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Speaker 2: there was a look on his face like you got
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Speaker 2: it wrong. There was that luck on his face. But nonetheless,
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Speaker 2: we'll go with vanad today.
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Speaker 1: Yeah that's just koshla. Yeah, sure, until we're told differently.
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Speaker 2: But we have VK yeah, vk VK it is, so
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Speaker 2: we have a brand new ownership group. And I think
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Speaker 2: that's very important to specify, because I don't think that Vanad.
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Speaker 1: Is all that interested in football. I think he is a.
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Speaker 2: Businessman who has a family that is interested in this,
25:33
Speaker 2: and so he puts up the money.
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Speaker 1: He you can't get it without him.
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Speaker 2: And then it sounds like the wife's gonna have a
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Speaker 2: little bit more power. And it really feels like the
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Speaker 2: sun is the one that we should get to know
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Speaker 2: over time. I mean, not that Vanad is old seventy
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Speaker 2: one years old, could live for another one hundred and
25:53
Speaker 2: or see me thirty five forty years. But nonetheless, I
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Speaker 2: think that this is an investment in the family's future.
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Speaker 2: And so as we try to figure out whether or
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Speaker 2: not we're excited, disappointed, worried about this new ownership group,
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Speaker 2: I think you need to study all three of those
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Speaker 2: principal figures, because I think they're going to have their
26:19
Speaker 2: hands all over it. I think the more so than ever,
26:24
Speaker 2: wife and son might have more to do with how
26:27
Speaker 2: the Seahawks are operated than Pops in this entire process.
26:32
Speaker 2: That's my initial read, but I don't know. I mean,
26:38
Speaker 2: it's just such a unique situation that you're coming off
26:43
Speaker 2: a championship.
26:44
Speaker 1: Everything's great.
26:45
Speaker 2: You don't expect a team to get sold in that
26:48
Speaker 2: under that scenario, and yet they are for a record
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Speaker 2: number for those that reported once upon a time, there's
26:55
Speaker 2: not a real big.
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Speaker 1: Interest in this team.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, turns out there not many people want this team. Well,
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Speaker 2: it went for fifty nine percent more than the last
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Speaker 2: highest bid in the NFL for a franchise, so they
27:11
Speaker 2: paid huge bucks. Apparently got in a bidding war with Matal,
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Speaker 2: the other Indian investor that was looking to buy the team,
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Speaker 2: And so they take over.
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Speaker 1: And I can't sit here and tell you, hey, we won.
27:27
Speaker 1: I have zero idea, you have zero idea.
27:31
Speaker 2: No one knows how this is going to be operated
27:34
Speaker 2: from this point forward. I will just say I know
27:38
Speaker 2: that they're very bright people, and it would take a
27:41
Speaker 2: really stupid individual or collection of individuals to mess with
27:47
Speaker 2: how well things are going for the Seattle Seahawks. So
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Speaker 2: I'm just going to trust that these three really smart
27:54
Speaker 2: people who have spent ten billion dollars on this football
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Speaker 2: team have not done it to come in here and
28:03
Speaker 2: make wide, sweeping, stupid changes to something that is right
28:07
Speaker 2: now at the top of its game.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, and I would assume that would have been part
28:10
Speaker 6: of the conversations that Jody Allen and the group were
28:13
Speaker 6: all having with anyone that was coming in. Granted, you
28:15
Speaker 6: could say something and then when you buy the team,
28:17
Speaker 6: they're yours. You could do whatever you want, but you're right,
28:19
Speaker 6: they would be stupid to take anything away from their investment,
28:23
Speaker 6: and if they were to make all those changes, that
28:25
Speaker 6: could be sending them down the wrong path, and a
28:28
Speaker 6: path that would lose them lots and lots of money.
28:31
Speaker 6: It is interesting, though, with the sale price. I think
28:34
Speaker 6: it's kind of like everything in the NFL, like, ooh,
28:36
Speaker 6: he's the highest paid wide receiver in NFL history until
28:39
Speaker 6: the next guy comes home. So you know, it's the
28:42
Speaker 6: highest sale till the next team gets sold eventually.
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Speaker 1: And they raise the bar here.
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Speaker 5: Yeah they really did though, Yeah, so we'll see yeah.
28:48
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean the last thing you want to see
28:51
Speaker 2: is that, you know, they show up and Indians are
28:54
Speaker 2: known as pretty passive people, and they're like, this is
28:57
Speaker 2: just way too violent.
28:58
Speaker 1: We can't hit this hard.
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Speaker 6: Wait, they're hitting each other like that. I was unaware.
29:02
Speaker 6: I thought this was a soccer team. You said football.
29:06
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I don't know, there's really no other analysis
29:11
Speaker 2: than that.
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Speaker 5: No, there's nothing nothing about them.
29:14
Speaker 2: We can't tell how good about because we don't have
29:16
Speaker 2: anything to compare it to. I'll give him credit that
29:20
Speaker 2: he did recognize that the forty nine ers are crap
29:23
Speaker 2: by comparison to the Seahawks.
29:24
Speaker 1: So at least he had that going on.
29:26
Speaker 5: Yeah, but it took a while.
29:29
Speaker 2: So there's really no way to judge this and think
29:32
Speaker 2: that we have a good ownership group or a bad
29:34
Speaker 2: ownership group. I'm just going to trust that anybody that
29:37
Speaker 2: spent that much money that is smart enough to have
29:40
Speaker 2: earned that much money, because he's kind of a self
29:42
Speaker 2: made man.
29:42
Speaker 1: This isn't I didn't. He didn't get this from daddy.
29:45
Speaker 5: No, he started, he was a co founder of a company.
29:47
Speaker 2: The other guy got it from daddy. Yeah, so we
29:50
Speaker 2: may have dodged Daddy's boy. This is somebody that kind
29:53
Speaker 2: of put his self made man here, from what I understand.
29:58
Speaker 1: So I like that. I like that about him, and
30:01
Speaker 1: so I know he's really smart.
30:03
Speaker 7: And and anybody that's smart isn't going to come in here
30:08
Speaker 7: if they don't really know football and make any changes
30:12
Speaker 7: to what is an excellent operation right now.
30:15
Speaker 6: Yeah, and I will say I still wanted an owner
30:17
Speaker 6: that had local ties.
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Speaker 1: Good it does.
30:20
Speaker 6: I don wouldn't say that it necessarily makes me more comfortable,
30:22
Speaker 6: but it just feels like that's the right way to go.
30:25
Speaker 6: So that part is a bit of a disappointment to me.
30:28
Speaker 6: But I can't say, you know, oh, I'm mad these
30:30
Speaker 6: people bought it.
30:31
Speaker 5: I don't know anything about them.
30:32
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think he'll act like Ballmer during games.
30:35
Speaker 6: Probably not, Okay, I think you're probably pretty safe with that,
30:38
Speaker 6: with that assumption.
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Speaker 2: All right, World Cup Next Sports Radio ninety three point
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Speaker 2: three KJRFM. And you might be proving to everyone in
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Speaker 2: the world you're the best soccer player in the world.
30:49
Speaker 2: But you are named Jude. You're from England, bags greatest
30:56
Speaker 2: band of all times. Sings a song called Hey Jude.
31:00
Speaker 2: One of the English know every word to that song
31:04
Speaker 2: and then they're just screaming it at.
31:06
Speaker 1: The top of their lungs. At the World Cup, in
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Speaker 1: a game that you want beat, you lifted your team to.
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Speaker 6: Including the most famous soccer player ever from England, David Beckham,
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Speaker 6: singing it there looking like with his son's arm around him,
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Speaker 6: just looking so proud.
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Speaker 5: And I thought Jude Bellingham. The way he took it
31:21
Speaker 5: all in was just cool.
31:23
Speaker 6: He just stood there with his hands on his hips,
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Speaker 6: looking around the stadium, and then he waited and he
31:29
Speaker 6: just listened while everyone sang it. And then he just
31:32
Speaker 6: did this like kind of running thing and brings his
31:35
Speaker 6: fist up and was like and then the whole stadium erupted.
31:39
Speaker 1: I mean, it was just cool.
31:41
Speaker 6: I got emotional on Saturday watching after because I was like.
31:44
Speaker 5: Between that and Wonderwall and they're all singing.
31:46
Speaker 6: At the top of their lungs, I was like, how
31:48
Speaker 6: can you not watch this and think you gotta have
31:50
Speaker 6: some feeling like an entire stadium singing the same song together.
31:55
Speaker 5: It's a cool feeling.
31:55
Speaker 1: Yeah. Plus it's it's in your blood, that's right.
31:59
Speaker 6: I'd have to tell my mom that England one. And
32:01
Speaker 6: then she said, who'd they play?
32:04
Speaker 5: Norway?
32:05
Speaker 1: Okay, she might dislike soccer more than I did.
32:09
Speaker 5: She did. She didn't say like who cares though. Luckily
32:11
Speaker 5: she said all good for them?
32:13
Speaker 2: Uh, well, we we have our Final four and the
32:17
Speaker 2: World Cup and.
32:20
Speaker 1: Literally no surprises. No, it's very.
32:23
Speaker 2: Strange that you could have a tournament and that many
32:27
Speaker 2: battles and that many come from behind, and just a
32:31
Speaker 2: series of low scoring affairs where one bounce could determine
32:36
Speaker 2: the outcome of a match. Uh, and you had such
32:41
Speaker 2: And there did seem at times there were some upsets
32:44
Speaker 2: and big upsets along the way, but where we started
32:48
Speaker 2: and where we end pretty much the exact same place.
32:51
Speaker 2: I mean, we did a green jacket draft World Cup
32:54
Speaker 2: preview with our resident local guys here, Jackson and Anders,
33:00
Speaker 2: who know a lot more about this stuff than what
33:01
Speaker 2: Ashley and I do, and all of our first round
33:06
Speaker 2: picks are alive.
33:08
Speaker 1: Yep, I know.
33:08
Speaker 6: I was like, I thought it was fun that we
33:10
Speaker 6: each have one team remaining.
33:12
Speaker 5: What are the odds of that?
33:13
Speaker 2: All first rounders too? It was all of our first
33:15
Speaker 2: round selections. So I mean, you want to talk about chalk?
33:19
Speaker 2: I mean, I guess this is how this works. I
33:21
Speaker 2: don't follow it closely enough, but I would think that
33:25
Speaker 2: this sport would be right for all sorts of upsets,
33:29
Speaker 2: And instead, the chalkiest tournament in the history of tournaments
33:33
Speaker 2: has unfolded, with Spain, France, Argentina and England ending up
33:38
Speaker 2: in the final four like you would have predicted, unless
33:43
Speaker 2: you were trying to get cute with it. Or trying
33:45
Speaker 2: to be the team the guy, the smartest guy in
33:47
Speaker 2: the room that wanted to come up with which I
33:50
Speaker 2: do that all the time.
33:52
Speaker 1: It's fun.
33:52
Speaker 2: Wanted to come up with the upset. Oh, I got
33:55
Speaker 2: this sleep I got the real sleeper. Nope, it was
33:58
Speaker 2: all chalk, the four best.
34:00
Speaker 3: Yeah.
34:00
Speaker 6: And we did try to come up with some of
34:02
Speaker 6: our sleepers too, they just all lost to the chalk.
34:06
Speaker 6: I mean, you know, we had Cape Verde and Morocco
34:09
Speaker 6: and you know, different Japan and different small, smaller, you.
34:13
Speaker 5: Know, teams that would have been upsets for sure.
34:15
Speaker 6: But the way which that is the surprising thing because
34:19
Speaker 6: some of these games, the way we have watched, the
34:21
Speaker 6: games that we have watched, some of them have just
34:23
Speaker 6: been so incredibly close and you know, just a bounce
34:28
Speaker 6: of a ball away from being an upset and it
34:31
Speaker 6: has still worked out this way.
34:32
Speaker 1: Well.
34:32
Speaker 2: Tomorrow will be Spain in France at noon, and then
34:35
Speaker 2: Argentina versus England will play on Wednesday. I mentioned this
34:39
Speaker 2: a couple of times. Baseball should be very relieved that
34:44
Speaker 2: they're playing these matches during the day.
34:46
Speaker 6: Yeah, exactly, because people will be tuning into that and
34:48
Speaker 6: not the All Star festivities.
34:50
Speaker 5: If it was the other way area it would they.
34:51
Speaker 2: Would, And I'd like to think, I mean, I am
34:54
Speaker 2: a huge fan of the All Star Game. I mean
34:56
Speaker 2: it goes back to my childhood. It goes back to
34:58
Speaker 2: my brother playing wol ball in the backyard. Our annual tradition.
35:02
Speaker 2: We'd play the American League versus National League, and you'd
35:05
Speaker 2: had to bat like everybody in the mash, you know
35:08
Speaker 2: what your team, and then we would play with fotball
35:11
Speaker 2: in the backyard. And it was just an annual tradition.
35:13
Speaker 2: And we had all sorts of annual traditions that we did.
35:16
Speaker 2: So my brother and I just grew up just All
35:17
Speaker 2: Star fanatics, and I still am to this day. But
35:21
Speaker 2: between everything, all the players tapping out of the game
35:26
Speaker 2: for tomorrow, and then obviously the specter that has become
35:31
Speaker 2: the World Cup, biggest sporting event in the world. How
35:35
Speaker 2: it has caught on here in America here in the
35:38
Speaker 2: last you know, ten years, becoming more and more popular
35:41
Speaker 2: with every second that passes. And then to host the
35:44
Speaker 2: event and for people to have gotten into it as
35:47
Speaker 2: much as they have, I mean, there's no chance baseball
35:50
Speaker 2: would have stood no chance.
35:51
Speaker 1: Against this Tomorrow night. They've gone head to head.
35:53
Speaker 5: Yeah, that would have been round.
35:55
Speaker 2: So it will make for a better, a better sports
35:59
Speaker 2: viewing day for me knowing that I don't have to
36:01
Speaker 2: wake up Wednesday morning and hear about Baseball's horrible rating
36:07
Speaker 2: in the All Star Game. We can put them in
36:10
Speaker 2: two different time slots and we can enjoy them both.
36:13
Speaker 2: All right, Coming up next on the radio program, we
36:17
Speaker 2: do this every year. It's the Huskies One Series. You
36:20
Speaker 2: know how we do the Seahawks one Series, Well, we
36:22
Speaker 2: always do a week, we do a week.
36:24
Speaker 1: It's a Seahawks one Series is a month.
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Speaker 2: Every day we break down one key player with one
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Speaker 2: analyst for one entire interview. Well, for the Huskies one Series,
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Speaker 2: one analysts, one entire interview, but we break down one
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Speaker 2: entire unit and we get it all done in one
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Speaker 2: tidy week.
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Speaker 1: So we get that started.
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Speaker 2: Next with Scott Ecklin from dog Man, we're going to
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