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Best of Chuck & Buck 3-17 · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 4: Good morning, our number two of this Tuesday edition, Saint
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  Speaker 4: Patrick's Day edition of Chalking Back in the Morning Sports
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  Speaker 4: Radio ninety three point three.
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  Speaker 2: K A R F M.
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  Speaker 4: May you all be passed with a look of the
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  Speaker 4: Irish Mike Borkanof's gonna be joining us here in a
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  Speaker 4: little bit. But first let's get your frost brewed cors
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  Speaker 4: will start with the WBC. That is FS one with
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  Speaker 4: a call. Last night Venezuela four to two over Italy.
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  Speaker 4: It was a come from behind victory, and so it's
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  Speaker 4: Venezuela for the first time advancing to the WBC Finals
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  Speaker 4: where they will meet the US tonight on Fox on
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  Speaker 4: the mother Ship at five o'clock this evening, and so
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  Speaker 4: it is on. It is cal and Spire versus Gino
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  Speaker 4: Bizardo and the Venezuelan squad, and it is an outstand
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  Speaker 4: that's a great matchup for tonight. McClain versus Rodriguez is
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  Speaker 4: your pitching matchups making of Rodrigez, Pioria awaits Julio's return
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  Speaker 4: to spring training. The Mariners will be taken on Colorado
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  Speaker 4: at one o'clock today.
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  Speaker 2: Rick rizz is going to join us today at nine o'clock.
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  Speaker 4: Forty nine Ers sign another veteran wide receiver yesterday. Christian
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  Speaker 4: Kirk is now in the fold. We'll talk a little
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  Speaker 4: bit about that later on this hour. Cracking him now
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  Speaker 4: won two straight, look to make it three in a
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  Speaker 4: row against the Tampa Bay Lightning before heading out on
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  Speaker 4: the road. Feels pretty big. All these games feel pretty big.
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  Speaker 4: And don't forget it is a Cracking ticket Tuesday. Be
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  Speaker 4: five will automatically win tickets to see the Utah Mammoth
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  Speaker 4: take on the Seattle cracket. NCAA tournament, of course, is here.
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  Speaker 4: Playing games start tonight with UMBC versus Howard at three
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  Speaker 4: point forty and then Texas versus NC State at six fifteen.
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  Speaker 4: the NCAAA Women's Tournament starts this week as well. We
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  Speaker 4: will have a local representative in that tournament you doub
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  Speaker 4: will be taken on South Dakota.
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  Speaker 2: State Friday at eleven thirty.
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  Speaker 4: And of course, the big news from yesterday which we
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  Speaker 4: led with today, the NBA will have its Board of Governors.
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  Speaker 2: Meet next week at this time one week.
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  Speaker 4: From today and Mike stretch into Wednesday to vote on
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  Speaker 4: whether or not they like the idea of Vegas and
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  Speaker 4: Seattle being added to the league as expansion franchises and
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  Speaker 4: to join us now to discuss this very topic. In
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  Speaker 4: lieu of Greg Bell, who we've given a couple of
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  Speaker 4: days off too, we are having We're gonna have an
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  Speaker 4: NBA conversation this morning with Mike Vorkinoff, who is with
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  Speaker 4: the Athletic. He's a basketball reporter. I think he does
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  Speaker 4: a podcast. Oh man, he just let's just put it
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  Speaker 4: this way. Dude knows this stuff, and we need somebody
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  Speaker 4: who knows his stuff right to educate us on what
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  Speaker 4: is going on with this story from yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Mike, Hey, how's it going great? You know
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  Speaker 2: your stuff? Right? We haven't so yeah, we haven't investment
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  Speaker 2: in the wrong person, have we.
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  Speaker 5: No, No, they haven't fired me yet, so I think
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  Speaker 5: legally I do know my stuff right now?
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  Speaker 4: Are you celebrating Saint Patrick's Day today? Do you have
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  Speaker 4: a green beer already in hand?
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  Speaker 2: By chance?
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  Speaker 5: I listen, I'm gonna admit it, I'm a little too
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  Speaker 5: washed for this. I I will maybe drink them later tonight,
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  Speaker 5: but I'm not gonna be out in the streets.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, all right, all right, you're quitter, Mike is quit celebrating?
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  Speaker 6: Agree?
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  Speaker 1: I agree.
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  Speaker 2: I'm right there with you. I'm right there with you, Mike.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Well, let's dive into this story.
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  Speaker 4: Obviously here in Seattle, this getting the Sonics back ripped
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  Speaker 4: the heart out of this city. Excuse me, Losing them
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  Speaker 4: ripped the heart out of this city. And then they've
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  Speaker 4: been teased with maybe, maybe not that Seattle's going to
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  Speaker 4: get another franchise, and in the last couple of years,
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  Speaker 4: it just feels like Adam Silver is kicking this decision
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  Speaker 4: down the road time and time after again. And so
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  Speaker 4: there are a lot of people up here that are
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  Speaker 4: just living in a world of I need to see
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  Speaker 4: it in order to believe it. What would you tell
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  Speaker 4: them about yesterday's news and how good they should feel
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  Speaker 4: about Seattle getting an NBA franchise back.
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  Speaker 5: Well, look, it's a great first step for Seattle and
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  Speaker 5: for expansion. The NBA has been kicking this idea.
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  Speaker 6: Around for I mean a better part of a decade.
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  Speaker 5: At this point, I think this is the first substantive
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  Speaker 5: move towards that. It is not a guarantee that expansion
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  Speaker 5: is happening, but I would think that when the team
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  Speaker 5: owners vote on this next week, they will vote to
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  Speaker 5: explore which just means they will then vote to see
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  Speaker 5: if someone is willing to throw enough money around to
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  Speaker 5: bring teams to Las Vegas and Seattle. And that's better
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  Speaker 5: than what had been the status quo. So I think
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  Speaker 5: it's a good first step, but it's not the final step.
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  Speaker 7: Mike, obviously, Yeah, it's not the final step. And yet,
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  Speaker 7: I mean the idea if we were just to assume
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  Speaker 7: that there is going to be some folks that are
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  Speaker 7: going to come up with with big money, whether I
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  Speaker 7: mean it's Vegas folks or some people up here in Seattle,
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  Speaker 7: is there any other hang ups? I mean, if you
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  Speaker 7: were just to think of getting past this initial vote
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  Speaker 7: that should happen in a week or so, is there
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  Speaker 7: any potential hang ups that you could see that would
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  Speaker 7: make that first vote not pass.
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  Speaker 5: I would think if they're getting this far down the road,
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  Speaker 5: it's become public. I mean, Adam Silver has been talking
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  Speaker 5: for so long about, hey, we need to at least
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  Speaker 5: look at this.
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  Speaker 6: You know, leagues.
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  Speaker 2: Grow over time.
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  Speaker 6: And I also think there.
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  Speaker 5: Is no downside to exploring it. Right, They're going to
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  Speaker 5: explore whether there are enough bidders to make a substantive
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  Speaker 5: enough offer for an expansion team in those cities. You know,
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  Speaker 5: I think there's no downside for the league to go
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  Speaker 5: through and see what's the financial outlook look like, who
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  Speaker 5: are the bidding interested investors out there, and what would
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  Speaker 5: the cost be for an expansion fee. I think that
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  Speaker 5: that I would think would go through. There's no downside
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  Speaker 5: for the league, so why not just do it.
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  Speaker 4: Mike Warkanoff is with US basketball reporter at the Athletic.
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  Speaker 4: He has confirmed that he knows his stuff and it's
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  Speaker 4: why he is joining us here this morning in reaction
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  Speaker 4: to yesterday's news that there will be a meeting next
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  Speaker 4: week to discuss the next phase in the expansion process.
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  Speaker 4: And where do you think that the figure is going
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  Speaker 4: to be? I mean it was reported yesterday like seven
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  Speaker 4: to ten billion dollars for a franchise. Do you think
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  Speaker 4: that's lofty? Do you think that's under selling it? I mean,
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  Speaker 4: how big could this number get before it's all said
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  Speaker 4: and done?
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  Speaker 5: Mike, I think they're probably eyeing about eight billion dollars.
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  Speaker 5: Obviously they'll be super happy if it goes above eight billion.
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  Speaker 5: But you know, the presumption a few years ago, before
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  Speaker 5: the Celtics sale, before the Lakers sale, was that an
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  Speaker 5: expansion team in Vegas and Seattle will cost about five
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  Speaker 5: billion dollars. Right in that time, we've had those two
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  Speaker 5: teams go for a lot of money, and.
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  Speaker 6: So that's pushed the price up.
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  Speaker 5: And so I think they have some good idea of
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  Speaker 5: the market too. Like you know, interested investors and bidders
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  Speaker 5: have been getting their stuff together for years. They've let
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  Speaker 5: the league know they're interested, so they have some idea
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  Speaker 5: what the market looks like. But once it actually starts
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  Speaker 5: happening and people start placing bids, you know, that's that's
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  Speaker 5: what can drive prices up even higher, more so than
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  Speaker 5: just like someone telling the league, Hey, I'm interested, this
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  Speaker 5: is what I might pay.
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  Speaker 7: How about the the stuff that kind of surrounds the
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  Speaker 7: entire decision and whatnot. That the new arena here, Climate
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  Speaker 7: Pledge Arena is pretty amazing. There's there's some stuff that
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  Speaker 7: that was part of the reason that they were kind
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  Speaker 7: of ripped out of here with some stuff like that.
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  Speaker 7: So is there anything outside of that that you're hearing
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  Speaker 7: is is good in favor of the Sea of Seattle
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  Speaker 7: getting their team back?
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  Speaker 6: I listen.
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  Speaker 5: I think the good is that everyone knows that the
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  Speaker 5: NBA expands theoretically, Seattle should be a top the list, right.
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  Speaker 5: I think there's remorse within in the league that the
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  Speaker 5: NBA ever left. They are the I believe the second
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  Speaker 5: largest media market, or Seattle is the second largest media
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  Speaker 5: market without an NBA team. It's got major, you know,
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  Speaker 5: companies there. It's got significant wealth that can sell luxury
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  Speaker 5: suites and all those things that are important to a
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  Speaker 5: team owner, and you know, making revenue on arenas and
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  Speaker 5: all that stuff. I think there's a lot going for it,
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  Speaker 5: and so really the question is will it draw enough
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  Speaker 5: in an expansion feed to make the delution of revenue
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  Speaker 5: worth it for other team owners. I think there's a
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  Speaker 5: lot that's going in Seattle's favor. I would think that
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  Speaker 5: it's the favorite, presumptively over Las Vegas in terms of, Hey,
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  Speaker 5: if you had to pick one, which city would it be.
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  Speaker 4: Mike Workanoff is with us from the Athletic talking about
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  Speaker 4: this story about the governor's meeting next week in the
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  Speaker 4: National Basketball Association. Looks like we're and we've been in
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  Speaker 4: a long time to actually seeing this come to her
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  Speaker 4: reality expansion and the Sonics returning here to the NBA.
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  Speaker 4: What about the dilution of the talent. I mean, you've
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  Speaker 4: got a tanking problem already in the NBA, and now
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  Speaker 4: we're going to thin out the available talent by two
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  Speaker 4: more franchises. Do you believe that could be problematic?
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  Speaker 6: Mike, Yeah, Listen, that's an interesting question. I think there's probably.
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  Speaker 5: There's probably more talent in the NBA now than there
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  Speaker 5: ever has been, Like some of the players who are
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  Speaker 5: deeper down on the bench, you know, you know, the
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  Speaker 5: fifth guy on a team are probably more talented now
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  Speaker 5: than they used to be. But adding thirty new roster spots,
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  Speaker 5: six new two ways, if you add up, you know,
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  Speaker 5: two new expansion.
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  Speaker 6: Teams is a lot.
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  Speaker 5: It's definitely going to delude it. But that's the tradeoff
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  Speaker 5: I think that the league is willing to make. And
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  Speaker 5: you hope that, you know, down the line, you're able
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  Speaker 5: to produce more.
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  Speaker 6: Talent and make up for it.
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  Speaker 5: And you know, I think nothing's clean about expansion, So
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  Speaker 5: you have to have some trade offs, and so they're
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  Speaker 5: willing to take the financial upside over maybe a drop in,
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  Speaker 5: you know, the talent delusion across the league.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, last time they expanded, I don't think that
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  Speaker 4: the game was as globally sound as it is now.
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  Speaker 4: I think there's plenty of talent out there despair, but
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  Speaker 4: that's just me personally. What about the expansion process the
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  Speaker 4: National Hockey League The last time it expanded, and we
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  Speaker 4: know this very well, they made it easier on the
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  Speaker 4: expansion franchise to compete earlier than what they have in
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  Speaker 4: the past. Do you have any insight into this at
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  Speaker 4: all as to whether or not they might adjust rules
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  Speaker 4: so that these new franchises don't have to wait five years,
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  Speaker 4: ten years like they used to before they're competitive.
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  Speaker 5: Well, there are rules, very specific ones written out in
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  Speaker 5: the CBA, so I don't know what the NHL did,
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  Speaker 5: but for the end, if you're coming in, you know
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  Speaker 5: your salary cap is going to be two thirds of
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  Speaker 5: what the other NBA. You know the existing NBA teams
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  Speaker 5: are in year one, it's gonna be eighty percent.
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  Speaker 6: In year two.
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  Speaker 5: You're probably not getting an opportunity to win the number
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  Speaker 5: one overall pick in the lottery, So you know, there's
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  Speaker 5: there's some there's some costs to come in, and they
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  Speaker 5: do make it harder to compete right away. So I
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  Speaker 5: don't think that unless there's the new CBA before a
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  Speaker 5: team comes in which you know, based on the timeline,
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  Speaker 5: there probably isn't going to be It's probably a little
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  Speaker 5: bit tough to come.
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  Speaker 6: In and you know, be great in year one like the.
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  Speaker 5: Las Vegas Knights were or you know, I know, the
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  Speaker 5: crack and have had success.
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  Speaker 6: But on the other hand, you're bad but you have
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  Speaker 6: an NBA team.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, I guess there's nowhere to go.
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  Speaker 2: But uh, I think that's the way.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, you know, there was rules kind of hamstring in
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  Speaker 7: the organization to start with it.
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  Speaker 2: It kind of sucks your your wife is homicidal, but
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  Speaker 2: you're married. Yeah, yeah, you know.
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  Speaker 7: I mean money talks and obviously you were talking the
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  Speaker 7: number probably somewhere around eight billion dollars, and you can
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  Speaker 7: overlook different things where whether it's you know, winning earlier,
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  Speaker 7: the dilution of talent across the board. I mean, when
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  Speaker 7: you're just talking to other people outside of the Seattle market,
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  Speaker 7: does it sound like most people are really wanting Seattle
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  Speaker 7: to get a team in Vegas for that.
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  Speaker 5: Matter, you know, I actually think that there is a
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  Speaker 5: good amount of you know, of NBA fans who want
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  Speaker 5: a team back in Seattle. If you're a certain age
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  Speaker 5: like the Sonics are, you know, this great franchise with
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  Speaker 5: a great logo and uniforms, and you loved watching Sean
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  Speaker 5: Temp and Gary Payton and those teams.
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  Speaker 6: So I think anytime you bring up expansion just to.
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  Speaker 5: NBA fans outside of the NBA, sorry, outside of Seattle,
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  Speaker 5: there's some interest in, like, hey, let's just bring a
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  Speaker 5: team back to Seattle and get this over with, right.
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  Speaker 5: I think they're a little bit annoyed too, that this
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  Speaker 5: has been kind of going, you know, back and forth
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  Speaker 5: and spectatably for the last decade too. So I think
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  Speaker 5: there's a lot more interest in having a team back
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  Speaker 5: in Seattle, bringing the SuperSonics back than there is, you know,
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  Speaker 5: a team in Vegas or something like that.
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  Speaker 2: How old were you when the Sonics left, Mike, Do I.
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  Speaker 6: Have to answer that question?
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  Speaker 2: Please?
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  Speaker 6: No?
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  Speaker 5: I was I'm trying to think now, probably about twenty one.
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  Speaker 4: Oh okay, oh okay, former yeah, I remember those I
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  Speaker 4: was I was expecting here.
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  Speaker 6: Like, yeah, nose.
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  Speaker 5: Those teams from the nineties are awesome, you know, the
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  Speaker 5: nineties Sonics teams, the early two thousand Sonics teams, and like,
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  Speaker 5: I think just everyone likes to think through the the
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  Speaker 5: realm of nostalgia and so everyone wants to bring that
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  Speaker 5: back if you're an NBA fan.
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  Speaker 4: Really, all right, last thing, and let's just I do
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  Speaker 4: want to ask you while we got you, well, just
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  Speaker 4: a general NBA question.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, here we are, We're not too far away.
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  Speaker 4: March Madness is beginning in college basketball, so the NBA
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  Speaker 4: playoffs will start after that. I mean, what's the story
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  Speaker 4: this year in the National Basketball Association? What's the sexiest
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  Speaker 4: thing about the league right now? According to Mike Borkinoff,
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  Speaker 4: as we get ready for playoff basketball.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, to me, it's is this the start of
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  Speaker 5: the era of Wemby. You know, everyone thought that we
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  Speaker 5: might have a new dynasty with the Okay Oklahoma City Thunder.
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  Speaker 5: You know, not to bring that up, but Wemby now
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  Speaker 5: might be taken over the league a lot earlier than
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  Speaker 5: anyone expected. And you know, it's possible that the Spurs
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  Speaker 5: win a title. And so that, I thought, to me,
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  Speaker 5: is the most interesting thing this year is do we
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  Speaker 5: have a coronation of a new kind of like top player,
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  Speaker 5: top star.
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  Speaker 1: In the league.
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  Speaker 2: I think you're right. I think it nailed it.
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  Speaker 4: Nice work, Mike, Thanks man. We appreciate great to get
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  Speaker 4: to know you a little bit. We'll bug you again
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  Speaker 4: another time, all right.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I assume we'll be having a lot more conversations
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  Speaker 5: on this issue going forward.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, good, good, good, Thank you, Mike.
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  Speaker 6: Thanks guys.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Mike.
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  Speaker 4: Borkanoff joining us right here on Chucking Buck in the morning,
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  Speaker 4: basketball reporter for The Athletic as he's given us the
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  Speaker 4: latest on the Seattle situation.
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  Speaker 2: Again. NBA Board of Governors will meet next week.
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  Speaker 4: It looks like most people believe that's just part of
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  Speaker 4: the process. As I said earlier, I don't think they
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  Speaker 4: would be having that vote if Adam Silver didn't already
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  Speaker 4: know that it was going to get past that stage.
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  Speaker 4: But there's Mike Borkanoff, who covers the league for a living,
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  Speaker 4: and he's telling you what Ashley and so many of
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  Speaker 4: our Texters are trying to warn us of. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: it's not like it's a guarantee. It's not a foregone conclusion.
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  Speaker 4: There is a process here to work your way through.
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  Speaker 4: I just think that they will work through it just fine.
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  Speaker 4: I don't think they're going to be any heavy obstacles here.
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  Speaker 7: Well, is there anything that we ever talk about when
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  Speaker 7: it comes to large sports or just basically life in general,
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  Speaker 7: that you can't follow the dollars and make it make sense.
• 16:58
  Speaker 7: I mean, to me, so if a couple of years ago,
• 17:02
  Speaker 7: when we've been kind of strung along or whatever with
• 17:05
  Speaker 7: this whole topic, if the idea to these owners was
• 17:10
  Speaker 7: four billion dollars to dilute the product to some degree
• 17:13
  Speaker 7: by two more teams, then I could see them being like, yeah,
• 17:18
  Speaker 7: you know, I've already got a lot of money, and that's.
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: Not really that big of a deal.
• 17:21
  Speaker 7: You double it just a few years later, right, basically
• 17:24
  Speaker 7: say no, it's not four, it's eight or maybe ten
• 17:27
  Speaker 7: per team, per team. Yeah, Then all of a sudden
• 17:30
  Speaker 7: they're like, Okay, now, now maybe I'm kind of a
• 17:35
  Speaker 7: little bit more interested. I mean, just you just have
• 17:38
  Speaker 7: to follow the money, and you typically will find the
• 17:40
  Speaker 7: answers that you want to find. And so I think
• 17:43
  Speaker 7: for a long time Adam Silver has been wanting this
• 17:46
  Speaker 7: to happen. Now, he obviously can't do anything on his own.
• 17:48
  Speaker 7: He has to go to this board and the owners,
• 17:51
  Speaker 7: and he has to get approval from a majority of
• 17:54
  Speaker 7: these guys. And yet he's had to figure out a
• 17:57
  Speaker 7: way to kind of string this thing along. And that's
• 18:00
  Speaker 7: at our expense is sonic fans of quit stringing us along.
• 18:04
  Speaker 7: And yet he's like, I'm trying to do I'm trying
• 18:07
  Speaker 7: to get you a team. And if you wanted me
• 18:09
  Speaker 7: to just jump the gun and go straight to a vote, Seattle,
• 18:12
  Speaker 7: do they get a team or not? If you wanted
• 18:14
  Speaker 7: that four or five, six, ten years ago, you wouldn't
• 18:17
  Speaker 7: have got it. I mean thirteen years ago, in that
• 18:19
  Speaker 7: twenty thirteen time that actually was talking about when they
• 18:21
  Speaker 7: were thinking about we still had the old Key arena,
• 18:23
  Speaker 7: you didn't have. You hadn't done enough that the NBA.
• 18:27
  Speaker 8: Aliens Huh they had arena plans down by the stadiums.
• 18:30
  Speaker 7: Yeah, but you would have had a couple of years
• 18:32
  Speaker 7: where you would have had to wait for a team limbo.
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: Yeah, there would have been a team in limbo. So
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: I mean, it's just you. I think that now you.
• 18:38
  Speaker 7: Got all the ducks in a row, right, Seattle has
• 18:41
  Speaker 7: their ducks in a row, And it seems like to me,
• 18:43
  Speaker 7: it feels like there's more momentum going in the direction
• 18:46
  Speaker 7: of all right now the you know, they're actually taking
• 18:50
  Speaker 7: this to a vote, which it is further than we've
• 18:53
  Speaker 7: been right, the vote of are you going to get
• 18:55
  Speaker 7: a new team. Are we going to let two new
• 18:56
  Speaker 7: teams in this league right now? You're gonna We're gonna
• 18:59
  Speaker 7: find out.
• 18:59
  Speaker 6: No.
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: Yeah, And Climate Pledge Arena probably is like the key
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: to it all. And I think that's why toddleli Wiki
• 19:05
  Speaker 4: told us on the air two years ago, like it's
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: it's happening, you know. I think that's why he knew
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: that there's there's not going to be that. I mean,
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: Kansas City built us an arena a few years ago
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: just in case the NBA ever wanted to come there.
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: And now it's too old. Now that's sad, and that's sad.
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: It's just sitting there and they're never they're not going
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: to get an NBA franchise because now it's not the
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: state of the art thing that we have here down
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: the street from us. But they thought of that. Toddleli
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: Wiki thought of that. I'm sure others thought of that,
• 19:36
  Speaker 4: and and we're set to go now. So I don't
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: think there's anything getting in the way of this. I mean,
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: I get it. Go ahead and keep your obstacles in
• 19:43
  Speaker 4: front of you, keep the wall around your heart. I
• 19:46
  Speaker 4: realize it got broken all of you out there.
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: But I don't see anything get in in the path
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: of this now.
• 19:55
  Speaker 7: But I can understand where, you know, where most people
• 19:58
  Speaker 7: are just a little guarded.
• 19:59
  Speaker 8: I think most people have thought it's happening. It's just
• 20:01
  Speaker 8: we keep talking about it's happening. Eventually, it's gonna happen. Eventually,
• 20:04
  Speaker 8: it's gonna happen. Well, yeah, that's all that's been happening,
• 20:08
  Speaker 8: all right.
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: Coming up next, we are in the midst of our
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: countdown toward one of our favorite days of the entire year,
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: and it's going to involve a certain guy with a
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: big butt. Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM. We
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: are nine days away from the start of the Major
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: League Baseball season. Yes, the countdown continues opening day. Just now,
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: how sweet does that sound? Just rolling off the lips
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: right there? Day about it? Now, there's a national holiday.
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: You always make fun of me for making up holidays.
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: That's a holiday.
• 20:40
  Speaker 9: It's not made up.
• 20:40
  Speaker 7: No, this was not made up. It's a real one.
• 20:42
  Speaker 7: I'm with you one hundred percent. And it should be
• 20:44
  Speaker 7: a day off. Matter of fact, two days off that
• 20:46
  Speaker 7: day and the next day should be off. Let's like,
• 20:49
  Speaker 7: let's do this thing, right, there's a bunch of holidays
• 20:51
  Speaker 7: that we get days off for that are not nearly
• 20:53
  Speaker 7: as cool.
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: We don't even get a day off for draftness exactly. Yeah,
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: I mean, what on earth seems ular? Yeah, we don't
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: need more together. Get it together, America. Yeah, let's go
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: pull yourself together, world.
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: Yeah, what are we doing voting on all of these
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: school issues and we're not even getting Draftmas off?
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: You don't even give kids off Draftmas.
• 21:13
  Speaker 8: We should at least get it off for one hundred
• 21:16
  Speaker 8: and fiftieth year of America in Draftmas.
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: I'm not talking about the entire month. Oh not yet. Yeah,
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: I just the week of that's all. That's all I'm
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: asking for.
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: But nine days away from opening day of Major League Baseball, and.
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: Man, I don't know.
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: I mean, I'm sure in his own way that Cal
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: is loving this experience of the WBC and being on
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: Team USA and everything that goes with that, and and
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: tonight they got a chance.
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: To win the whole thing.
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: And I'm sure what we know of Cal that he
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: wouldn't trade this experience.
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: That's anything. That's it.
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: It could have gone a whole lot better, could have
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: gone a whole lot better for the big dumper and
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: My guess is that there's a little bit of a
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: part of him that just can't wait to get back
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: into the fold with his rotation, playing every day, you know,
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: and preparing for the Mariners to get ready for opening Day.
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: I mean, by the time he gets there, even if
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: he jumps on an overnight flight back to Peoria tomorrow,
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: he'll get back. Tomorrow will be the earliest that he
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: could get back with his team. Something tells me, I mean,
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: this has not exactly been storybook no, for cal this experience.
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: He doesn't have a hit.
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: He has played every other day because it's the catcher position,
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: and you know how much he wants to play every day.
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: He can't stand.
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: I mean, just watching him sit in the dugout when
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: he's not playing, it looks like he's being tortured over
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: there on the sidelines. He's had the first, like real
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: negative criticism about him and his character for the first
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: time in his career, and even though I think it's unfounded,
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: nonetheless it's real. I mean, he's been destroyed the last
• 23:11
  Speaker 4: week and a half by social media warriors out there
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: for the way that he's conducted himself at the WBC.
• 23:20
  Speaker 4: I just I just I think there would be. I
• 23:23
  Speaker 4: know he wouldn't trade this for anything, Bucky, but I
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: think there's a little part of him is like, I
• 23:28
  Speaker 4: just can't wait to get back with my guys and
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: start getting ready for the Mariners season.
• 23:33
  Speaker 7: I mean, I'm sure the day after the handshake Gate
• 23:38
  Speaker 7: and when he was talking to reporters was the most
• 23:40
  Speaker 7: uncomfortable he's been in front of a camera. And that's
• 23:43
  Speaker 7: from a guy who wasn't super comfortable when he first
• 23:46
  Speaker 7: came on the scene just because he was young, and
• 23:49
  Speaker 7: he you know, he wasn't He's not a natural speaker.
• 23:53
  Speaker 7: I wouldn't say, kind of more of a you know,
• 23:55
  Speaker 7: I lead by example, not necessarily talking as much. Now
• 23:58
  Speaker 7: he's grown into that, and you thrust himself into the
• 24:02
  Speaker 7: spotlight with hitting sixty homers last season, sixty five if
• 24:05
  Speaker 7: count of the post he's night. I think that he's
• 24:07
  Speaker 7: he's grown into it. He's he's turned into like, Okay,
• 24:10
  Speaker 7: I can carry this weight. I'm fine with that. I
• 24:12
  Speaker 7: think that when he was all of a sudden, I
• 24:15
  Speaker 7: have to answer questions like whoa Jesu Louise, all I
• 24:17
  Speaker 7: was doing was just trying to stay in my lane,
• 24:20
  Speaker 7: just trying to do my thing, and I wasn't trying
• 24:23
  Speaker 7: to be personal, you know, wasn't trying to be bad
• 24:25
  Speaker 7: against my teammate.
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: He actually had to he had to use the phrase,
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: I'm not taking any questions. Yeah, he had to actually
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: use that phrase. So I think that he obviously was not.
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: He's not super pumped in the way in which it's went.
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: I don't think he's probably, you know, I mean, he's
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: not hung up too terribly much on the fact that
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: he's you know, zero for nine or whatever, even though
• 24:47
  Speaker 4: he wants to be doing better. I mean, for him,
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: he cares more about the team winning than him having
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: some great WBC and then getting knocked out in the
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: first or second round, you know, or not making it
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: out of pool play.
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: So I think that you're right.
• 25:01
  Speaker 7: I think the big thing is, you know, we heard
• 25:03
  Speaker 7: about Julio and how he said, you know, how much
• 25:06
  Speaker 7: this would mean winning the WBC for him. I don't
• 25:08
  Speaker 7: think for most American born players that's the case, because
• 25:11
  Speaker 7: they just don't. It's not the same. When you grow
• 25:14
  Speaker 7: up here, you're like, I would love to win the
• 25:17
  Speaker 7: World Series. That is the pinnacle. When you're in Latin America.
• 25:22
  Speaker 7: What they do there is. I mean, their winter ball
• 25:25
  Speaker 7: thing is off the charts.
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: They want to be recognized that they are at the
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: same level as anyone out there, and this is their
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: opportunity to show that.
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: Yes one.
• 25:35
  Speaker 7: So to me, it's yeah, the idea of what he's
• 25:38
  Speaker 7: what he thought about all postse or all off season,
• 25:42
  Speaker 7: wasn't just winning the WBC and then we'll see what
• 25:45
  Speaker 7: happens in the regular season. His main thought was, I
• 25:49
  Speaker 7: want to win the World Series. I want to take
• 25:51
  Speaker 7: the you know, the Seattle Mariners in this fan base
• 25:54
  Speaker 7: to a place they've never been before. And then oh
• 25:58
  Speaker 7: and before that all goes down, I get to where
• 26:01
  Speaker 7: I get to have the pride of wearing the USA
• 26:03
  Speaker 7: across my chest and hopefully winning that tournament. So to me,
• 26:06
  Speaker 7: I'm with you. I think that he's I bet he's
• 26:09
  Speaker 7: pumped up about wanting to win this thing. He's I'm
• 26:11
  Speaker 7: sure he's wanting to be in the game tonight, and
• 26:13
  Speaker 7: yet when this thing's over, it's going to be okay.
• 26:16
  Speaker 7: Now it's back to the true mission at hand, and
• 26:18
  Speaker 7: that is leading the Seattle Mariners club.
• 26:21
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I feel like he'd be very good at the
• 26:23
  Speaker 8: second it's over. It's like all right, business.
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he might take a red eye, yeah.
• 26:28
  Speaker 9: Right, just to be back and ready to go tomorrow.
• 26:30
  Speaker 8: I wouldn't be surprised by that, because he just seems
• 26:32
  Speaker 8: like he's going to give it his all while he's there,
• 26:35
  Speaker 8: and because that's the kind of athlete he is. But
• 26:38
  Speaker 8: the second he's back to spring training, the earliest he
• 26:42
  Speaker 8: can be back to spring training, he's there and ready
• 26:44
  Speaker 8: to go.
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: I mean the pass ball, Yeah, it's about as uncharacteristic
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: a play as cal Rawley could even make you. And
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: so I don't know, I don't know. I don't know
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: if all of this, I mean, he's never had to
• 26:56
  Speaker 4: experience this before. He's never had to experience backlash before.
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: I'd never have to experience being raked over the coals
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: by an entire you know, generation of you know, of
• 27:10
  Speaker 4: communicators on social media.
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: It's never had to I don't know if it has
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: bothered him. I don't know if it is.
• 27:17
  Speaker 4: You know, I'd like to get back with my pitchers.
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: I'd like to get back in my comfort zone. I
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: don't know if it's affected his play whatsoever, but it
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: probably would have mine. Yeah, you know, it probably would
• 27:29
  Speaker 4: have affected me a little bit. Experiencing that for the
• 27:34
  Speaker 4: first time on this grand of a scale. Maybe it
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: has kept him from playing his absolute best in this WBC.
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: I don't know. I'm sure that that Randy thing.
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: I'm sure that there's a big part of him, just
• 27:46
  Speaker 4: like I want to see Randy and I want to
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: get this thing buried. You know I would be I
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: mean you, no, I don't have the I don't know
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: if I have the mentality of a champion, but it
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: would bother me that that was still unsettled. And I'm
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: the captain of the baseball team, and I would want
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: to get in front of him and have this thing
• 28:06
  Speaker 4: hammered out as soon as possible. But you're still playing games,
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: and you're trying to keep your focus on your present team,
• 28:14
  Speaker 4: which is Team USA. I don't think he's going to
• 28:16
  Speaker 4: play tonight. I think Will Smith's going to get the start.
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: I know that Cal was the starting catcher when the
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: process began, but I think DeRos is going to probably
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: play the hotter.
• 28:27
  Speaker 4: Hand right now and Will Smith will see. But maybe
• 28:31
  Speaker 4: he's played his last pitch in the WBC. But I
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: know there's a part of him. It's just like I
• 28:36
  Speaker 4: want to get back to being cal Rawley of.
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: The Seattle Mariners, and I can't wait until I'm back
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: with my guys.
• 28:42
  Speaker 7: Yeah, oh, I think that. I think it's definitely not nothing,
• 28:47
  Speaker 7: I'll say that. I mean it's I think that you
• 28:50
  Speaker 7: got to be able to be good at compartmentalizing to
• 28:52
  Speaker 7: be a baseball player, first and foremost, you got to
• 28:55
  Speaker 7: be able to just kind of get rid of things
• 28:57
  Speaker 7: you don't really want to think about and focus on
• 28:59
  Speaker 7: the things you need to. So I think he's doing that,
• 29:01
  Speaker 7: but the idea of wanting to get this as buried
• 29:04
  Speaker 7: as possible, get it put behind him, make sure that
• 29:07
  Speaker 7: it's he and Randy are on the same page, and hey,
• 29:10
  Speaker 7: we're good to go, right, I mean, this is what
• 29:11
  Speaker 7: this matters, right. I wasn't intending that as something negative
• 29:15
  Speaker 7: towards you personally. I'm sure that he's chomping at the
• 29:18
  Speaker 7: bit to get back there and do that. But first
• 29:20
  Speaker 7: things at hand, go out there and win one more
• 29:21
  Speaker 7: game and celebrate with your boys, and then get to
• 29:24
  Speaker 7: your real family.
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, welcome home.
• 29:27
  Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, I'm excited for everybody to get back to
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: Peoria safely.
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: I want all my little birdies in the nest.
• 29:33
  Speaker 9: YEP, tuck them all in, Mama bird feed him all right.
• 29:38
  Speaker 4: Coming up next a little bit on the Seahawks secondary.
• 29:41
  Speaker 4: It's experienced a little bit of change here in this
• 29:44
  Speaker 4: off season.
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: Is everything? Okay?
• 29:46
  Speaker 4: Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM. And then that
• 29:50
  Speaker 4: was great experience for me. And that was the first
• 29:53
  Speaker 4: time that I've ever seen them, and I'm like, what
• 29:54
  Speaker 4: is the big deal? And then all of a sudden
• 29:57
  Speaker 4: they started playing and I'm like, this is melting my face.
• 30:03
  Speaker 4: This is unbelievable. If you've never heard them, they are incredible.
• 30:07
  Speaker 4: I mean it's just like it's Irish music, but at
• 30:10
  Speaker 4: a thousand miles per hour, and believe it or not.
• 30:13
  Speaker 4: And I didn't think I would ever say this about
• 30:14
  Speaker 4: the band. You know what the key to it all
• 30:16
  Speaker 4: is what the woman playing the tin whistle?
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: Oh oh all interesting? Yeah, isn't that interesting?
• 30:22
  Speaker 4: You know you got these, you know, expert musicians and
• 30:25
  Speaker 4: this great lead vocalist, but it's that woman playing the
• 30:29
  Speaker 4: tin whistle.
• 30:30
  Speaker 7: Like takes it over the time I watched Dropkick Murphy
• 30:33
  Speaker 7: down in uh somewhere in Soda, I don't remember, right
• 30:36
  Speaker 7: down south of the stadiums there, and that was similar.
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: My face was melting.
• 30:42
  Speaker 6: It was.
• 30:42
  Speaker 7: And then there was a mosh pit that I was
• 30:44
  Speaker 7: right on the edge of. Oh, and there was a
• 30:46
  Speaker 7: couple of times that guys with mouthpieces thought that I
• 30:50
  Speaker 7: was a good It was a good idea to come
• 30:52
  Speaker 7: in my direction. It was not a good idea because
• 30:56
  Speaker 7: I and it took away from my experience, my enjoyment
• 30:59
  Speaker 7: of the right all of a sudden, I have to
• 31:01
  Speaker 7: watch out for people just ramming into me. But it
• 31:04
  Speaker 7: only happened twice and then and then I got to
• 31:06
  Speaker 7: go back to enjoying the show.
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: Oh okay.
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: I've often wondered, like, what are you getting out of
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: just doing this? Washing? Yeah, into each other? You brought
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: a mouthguard? Yeah? Ayway is that so you you're prepared
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: for a concussion? Yeah exactly, You've gone to the concert.
• 31:23
  Speaker 9: That's dumb.
• 31:23
  Speaker 4: You know I'm gonna go to the concert and they're
• 31:25
  Speaker 4: gonna throw in a concussion for free?
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I can't wait. Yeah, yeah, I'm not. I don't.
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: I've done it before.
• 31:35
  Speaker 7: I've jumped in on him once or twice and I'm like,
• 31:37
  Speaker 7: why am I what is this?
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: This is dumb? Yeah, this is really not enjoyable. Well,
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: you're probably at less risk of getting hurt.
• 31:44
  Speaker 7: Yeah, but I'm also have a lot of guys that
• 31:46
  Speaker 7: are looking at me like, oh, I'm gonna run into
• 31:48
  Speaker 7: that guy. And if you're in it, then you you're
• 31:50
  Speaker 7: you asked for it, right, if you're in it. That's
• 31:52
  Speaker 7: where I didn't like being on the edge of it
• 31:55
  Speaker 7: and people still thinking, Oh, I'm going to make.
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: Him in it. No I'm not. I'm Danny still on
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: the I'm not in it. I'm not in it.
• 32:03
  Speaker 4: Don't come over here on the edge not it. Forearm
• 32:06
  Speaker 4: shivers will be coming your way, playing fair here well,
• 32:11
  Speaker 4: happy Saint Patty's Day. If it caught you off guard and.
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: You're looking down, oh I didn't wear green.
• 32:15
  Speaker 4: I don't think that we really have a stiff penalty
• 32:18
  Speaker 4: for that in America these days. But nonetheless, uh, you know,
• 32:22
  Speaker 4: an opportunity for you to celebrate the Oytishu in a
• 32:26
  Speaker 4: very responsible way.
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, go to Tulala Resort Casino, great place. Yeah, yeah,
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: go do it there. I bet you beer.
• 32:35
  Speaker 4: I would imagine occasion they will mix you up green beer,
• 32:39
  Speaker 4: and I would imagine they could even They've even got
• 32:41
  Speaker 4: like a corn even.
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: Cabbage special going on. Oh I guarantee it. Yeah, they
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: got it all.
• 32:46
  Speaker 4: They also are going to host Bucky and I. This Thursday.
• 32:49
  Speaker 4: We're gonna have a little watch party with the NCAA tournament.
• 32:52
  Speaker 4: We're going to be at the Tulalap Resort Casino Draft
• 32:54
  Speaker 4: Kings Sports Book. Our show gets over at nine that day,
• 32:58
  Speaker 4: but gives us plenty of time to get there by eleven. Uh,
• 33:01
  Speaker 4: so we're just gonna pick a two hour window. I mean,
• 33:05
  Speaker 4: may stay for longer, may stay for the whole shooting combang.
• 33:08
  Speaker 4: I have no idea, but uh, eleven to one is
• 33:11
  Speaker 4: when we're going to be out there and we are
• 33:13
  Speaker 4: going to have some prizes to give away. So we
• 33:15
  Speaker 4: invite you to come out to the DraftKings Sports Book
• 33:17
  Speaker 4: hang out with us for a little bit. We'll have
• 33:19
  Speaker 4: a little bit of a bracket challenge, but it's only
• 33:21
  Speaker 4: going to be the games that are played that Thursday.
• 33:24
  Speaker 4: You'll go head to head against Bucky and I, and
• 33:25
  Speaker 4: all you got to do is beat one of us
• 33:27
  Speaker 4: in order to win a fabulous prize, which we will
• 33:31
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• 33:33
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• 33:37
  Speaker 4: Book to watch them and see a tournament action this
• 33:40
  Speaker 4: Thursday from eleven to one.
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: If you're interested. If you're interested, I might still be
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: drinking green beer Thursday.
• 33:47
  Speaker 9: Be interested.
• 33:48
  Speaker 7: Yeah, it's Saint Patty's Week, not Sat Patty's weeks.
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: I like the idea.
• 33:56
  Speaker 7: I haven't haven't haven't. I haven't really partaken in St.
• 33:59
  Speaker 7: Pats His Day for a minute, like really gotten into it.
• 34:02
  Speaker 7: So I might have to make up for lost time
• 34:04
  Speaker 7: at the toy.
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: It does. It is a fun.
• 34:06
  Speaker 4: It is fun when you do it the right way.
• 34:08
  Speaker 4: And I'm not talking about holding somebody's hair in the bathroom.
• 34:11
  Speaker 4: I'm talking the right way hold my beer. If I
• 34:14
  Speaker 4: get too many green or my beard, I get too
• 34:16
  Speaker 4: many green beers in I don't think so.
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: I don't think I will.
• 34:20
  Speaker 9: Are not as close as I thought.
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: You we're not there. We're not there.
• 34:23
  Speaker 7: No, I don't think I'm gonna let you puke on me.
• 34:27
  Speaker 7: Oh you know, I don't want to puke on you.
• 34:29
  Speaker 7: That's you can you can hold it. If you hold
• 34:30
  Speaker 7: me by the beard, you can kind of direct where
• 34:32
  Speaker 7: it goes.
• 34:34
  Speaker 9: It's like a fire hydrant.
• 34:35
  Speaker 4: Yeah, no, it doesn't sound enjoyable, okay, or or a
• 34:38
  Speaker 4: true test of friend a listener that will help you
• 34:41
  Speaker 4: want to.
• 34:44
  Speaker 5: Uh.
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: In the meantime, we've got a big story.
• 34:47
  Speaker 4: Maybe you're wearing your Sonics green here today since it's
• 34:50
  Speaker 4: Saint Patrick's Day. We've got every reason in the world
• 34:53
  Speaker 4: to do it. It seems some positive momentum toward NBA
• 34:58
  Speaker 4: expansion next on this day next week we will have
• 35:03
  Speaker 4: a vote board of governors, or at least they will convene.
• 35:05
  Speaker 4: They might not vote until next Wednesday. But it looks
• 35:08
  Speaker 4: like the most positive momentum we've had in years, maybe
• 35:12
  Speaker 4: a decade or more, for getting basketball back here in
• 35:16
  Speaker 4: Seattle where it belongs. And look, I mean for a
• 35:18
  Speaker 4: long time. I mean, there's been this argument or is
• 35:21
  Speaker 4: this a football city? Is it a baseball city? Is
• 35:24
  Speaker 4: it a summer city?
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: Is all that?
• 35:26
  Speaker 4: I mean, what I've grasped from most people is that
• 35:31
  Speaker 4: this is a basketball town. And even though you know,
• 35:35
  Speaker 4: the Huskies haven't been great since I've been here, They've
• 35:39
  Speaker 4: had a couple of good teams since I moved here
• 35:41
  Speaker 4: a little over a decade ago, but without the NBA,
• 35:45
  Speaker 4: I mean, and for that to still be a prevailing
• 35:50
  Speaker 4: thread that people still believe this is a basketball town,
• 35:54
  Speaker 4: and if we get the team back, we'll show you.
• 35:56
  Speaker 4: I haven't got to experience that, but for some reason,
• 35:59
  Speaker 4: I believe it.
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I believe that it is.
• 36:02
  Speaker 4: I believe that the high school basketball talent here in
• 36:04
  Speaker 4: town and the fact that people still buy Sonics merch
• 36:08
  Speaker 4: on the reg I mean nobody. There are people that
• 36:13
  Speaker 4: there are people that walk around with bright green Sonic.
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: Sweatshirts and jackets for goodness sake.
• 36:19
  Speaker 4: I mean, yeah, there are a few faded debt of
• 36:21
  Speaker 4: shrimp jerseys from twenty years ago that somebody still might
• 36:25
  Speaker 4: wear to mow the lawn, but I mean still fresh merch.
• 36:30
  Speaker 4: I mean still dominated the thoughts of some people out
• 36:34
  Speaker 4: there about getting the Sonics back, and it's got to
• 36:36
  Speaker 4: happen in my time. Hell, one of the first things
• 36:38
  Speaker 4: I did when I moved here was go to a
• 36:40
  Speaker 4: go to a not a watch party, but a rally,
• 36:43
  Speaker 4: a Sonics rally ten eleven years ago. Saw Puck cry,
• 36:49
  Speaker 4: you know, over the idea that are we that close?
• 36:51
  Speaker 4: So are we going to get there?
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: I mean, I mean, that's that's the.
• 36:57
  Speaker 4: That's the driving force behind all of this is just
• 37:00
  Speaker 4: this city's love for basketball. So I realized that there
• 37:03
  Speaker 4: are a lot of people they don't even want it back.
• 37:05
  Speaker 4: They're hurt so badly and maybe they didn't really love basketball,
• 37:09
  Speaker 4: or maybe they did and it just tore their heart
• 37:11
  Speaker 4: out and they don't want to give the NBA another chance.
• 37:14
  Speaker 6: I get it.
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: But there are a lot of people that cannot.
• 37:18
  Speaker 4: Wait, that have been waiting twenty years, that were so
• 37:21
  Speaker 4: crestfallen when the team left here that they've been counting
• 37:25
  Speaker 4: the seconds to get a franchise back. So I think
• 37:28
  Speaker 4: yesterday was a great day. I think that's great news,
• 37:32
  Speaker 4: that's great information together. I think it's all systems go
• 37:36
  Speaker 4: toward finally getting this team back. And yeah, there are
• 37:39
  Speaker 4: a few more steps to take, a few more hurdles
• 37:42
  Speaker 4: to clear. But for all of those that couldn't wait
• 37:45
  Speaker 4: for the Sonics to get back, I think yesterday was
• 37:47
  Speaker 4: your best day in over a decade.
• 37:50
  Speaker 7: Yeah, And I understand the you know, the hesitation about
• 37:54
  Speaker 7: getting your hopes up. You know, Ashes is a great
• 37:57
  Speaker 7: voice for those fans out there that are not want
• 38:00
  Speaker 7: too because they've felt like we've gotten close and it's,
• 38:03
  Speaker 7: you know, gotten your heart kind of stomped on again.
• 38:05
  Speaker 7: And so I mean, I understand it, but it does
• 38:07
  Speaker 7: feel to me like this is positive momentum in the
• 38:10
  Speaker 7: right direction, right, I mean it would be. It wasn't
• 38:13
  Speaker 7: that long ago that we were we were hearing that may, hey,
• 38:15
  Speaker 7: we's any news coming, there's any news coming? And then
• 38:18
  Speaker 7: what was the news that they were gonna give us
• 38:20
  Speaker 7: any news?
• 38:21
  Speaker 6: Right?
• 38:21
  Speaker 7: I mean it was just a month or so ago
• 38:22
  Speaker 7: that it was. We were expecting them so over to
• 38:24
  Speaker 7: say something and he just said, we're tabling that for now.
• 38:28
  Speaker 7: So at least it's not tabled, right, I mean to me,
• 38:31
  Speaker 7: I would rather have the answer yes or no instead
• 38:34
  Speaker 7: of this, well maybe may maybe we're gonna yeah, we'd
• 38:38
  Speaker 7: like to, but we'll let you know later. Like at
• 38:41
  Speaker 7: least now we had we know in a week from now,
• 38:44
  Speaker 7: we're going to find out something, right, if they're taking
• 38:47
  Speaker 7: one drastic step towards at least entertaining offers, find out
• 38:51
  Speaker 7: if there's some bidders out there that want to pay
• 38:53
  Speaker 7: enough money for these owners to say, yep, here's your
• 38:56
  Speaker 7: team back.
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: So to me, it feels closer.
• 38:59
  Speaker 7: Than ever, even though, and I can understand those that
• 39:01
  Speaker 7: are going to be a little bit hesitant towards letting
• 39:04
  Speaker 7: themselves go there. And there's some people just flat out
• 39:06
  Speaker 7: are not going to I'll say this though, when it
• 39:08
  Speaker 7: comes to the you know, baseball city or football city
• 39:12
  Speaker 7: or basketball city, I mean there is a generation.
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: You know my buddy Ken, you know Ken, I mean
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: he like skipped school to go to that seventy.
• 39:20
  Speaker 7: Nine parade, right, and then there was you raise your
• 39:22
  Speaker 7: kids with the Sonics, and then all of a sudden, you,
• 39:25
  Speaker 7: all of a sudden when you're you know, his kids
• 39:27
  Speaker 7: were just little, you don't have that opportunitymore. It's like
• 39:30
  Speaker 7: a that was something part of my childhood and then
• 39:32
  Speaker 7: I didn't get to give that to the next Well,
• 39:35
  Speaker 7: it missed an entire generation. But there still is those
• 39:39
  Speaker 7: kids of a father like Ken that they understand it
• 39:43
  Speaker 7: from their dad's perspective. And at least if you can
• 39:45
  Speaker 7: get it back while he still has a chance to
• 39:47
  Speaker 7: be come to be a fan, and then he can
• 39:50
  Speaker 7: continue passing it on to where it's like there's a
• 39:51
  Speaker 7: lapse in there to some degree of children that got
• 39:55
  Speaker 7: to be got to go to Sonics games and got
• 39:56
  Speaker 7: to be Sonics fans. But I don't think you're going
• 39:59
  Speaker 7: to be able to I think you're gonna be able
• 40:00
  Speaker 7: to regain that or recapture that to some degree. And
• 40:03
  Speaker 7: I do think that this city, I mean, this city
• 40:06
  Speaker 7: turns on for its team's period. I mean during the
• 40:08
  Speaker 7: baseball season, we saw it last year, during the football season,
• 40:11
  Speaker 7: we see it.
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: It's not going to be any different.
• 40:13
  Speaker 7: It's the same people essentially that are going to be
• 40:15
  Speaker 7: coming out in droves to welcome back the Sonics and
• 40:18
  Speaker 7: then cheer them on as they become more relevant after
• 40:21
  Speaker 7: the expansion years. And so to me, it's I think
• 40:24
  Speaker 7: there's room for all of it in Seattle. And I
• 40:27
  Speaker 7: think that's part of the reason they'd be so pissed
• 40:28
  Speaker 7: off twenty years ago or eighteen years ago, is because
• 40:31
  Speaker 7: it's like this, this city can handle having an NBA
• 40:34
  Speaker 7: franchise along with the baseball team and the basketball team
• 40:37
  Speaker 7: or in the football team. So hopefully we're getting closer
• 40:40
  Speaker 7: than well, I just do feel like we're closer than
• 40:42
  Speaker 7: we have been in a long time.
• 40:43
  Speaker 8: Well, and I think that, Yeah, people were mad eighteen
• 40:45
  Speaker 8: years ago because we were told, oh, no, you're gonna
• 40:48
  Speaker 8: we're gonna sell the team, but this guy's gonna keep
• 40:50
  Speaker 8: it here. And then it was oh, but you have
• 40:51
  Speaker 8: to help us build a five hundred million dollar arena
• 40:53
  Speaker 8: in renting, and I mean everything they wanted us to
• 40:56
  Speaker 8: do in order to be able to quote unquote keep
• 40:59
  Speaker 8: our team, which they were never really allow us to do,
• 41:01
  Speaker 8: felt impossible. And yet people were still out there fighting.
• 41:05
  Speaker 8: I mean that rally you're talking about with Pucket, like
• 41:07
  Speaker 8: I was dressed up in a fake Sasquatch costume. I
• 41:10
  Speaker 8: mean at rallies and with this station, and I mean
• 41:13
  Speaker 8: we gave every game I wish I could have.
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: I mean we were We gave.
• 41:17
  Speaker 8: Everything with the rallies at City Hall and rallies down
• 41:20
  Speaker 8: in Pioneer Square and all sorts of things. You know,
• 41:22
  Speaker 8: I was at the final Sonics game standing there watching
• 41:25
  Speaker 8: crying as the entire arena is just chanting save our Sonics,
• 41:29
  Speaker 8: and knowing that there was literally nothing we could do
• 41:32
  Speaker 8: because us being fans of the Sonics was not enough.
• 41:35
  Speaker 8: And so that's where I think it Just it's like,
• 41:38
  Speaker 8: I don't blame anybody who doesn't want the NBA back.
• 41:41
  Speaker 8: I do think eventually they will soften and they'll support
• 41:45
  Speaker 8: their team again, because there's a reason they are so angry, right,
• 41:49
  Speaker 8: It's because they love the Sonics so much. And so
• 41:52
  Speaker 8: I think you're going to have those heated, heavy emotions
• 41:55
  Speaker 8: and eventually you're going to realize, Okay, I do love
• 41:58
  Speaker 8: this team. I'm so glad they're back, but I you know,
• 42:00
  Speaker 8: it's going to take you longer, and that's totally understandable.
• 42:03
  Speaker 8: And then there's also, yeah, people like me who are
• 42:06
  Speaker 8: I want them back. I want them back like more
• 42:08
  Speaker 8: than anything. Okay, not more than anything, but I want
• 42:12
  Speaker 8: them back.
• 42:13
  Speaker 9: But until it is stamped and they say, okay, here's
• 42:18
  Speaker 9: your team. They're coming back. It's starting this day.
• 42:21
  Speaker 8: Let's go then, and then I'll be excited because again
• 42:24
  Speaker 8: we have been very close before and led to believe
• 42:29
  Speaker 8: that we were getting a team and then.
• 42:31
  Speaker 9: Had it rejected.
• 42:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 42:33
  Speaker 4: I'm telling you, though, there are signs everywhere that it's
• 42:35
  Speaker 4: real this time. I mean even now on the television
• 42:38
  Speaker 4: and I didn't turn this on, there was a game
• 42:40
  Speaker 4: called Omegaball on. Okay, I've never even heard of a
• 42:43
  Speaker 4: mega ball, but the field is entirely green with a
• 42:47
  Speaker 4: yellow center and the sponsor is Sonic.
• 42:50
  Speaker 9: Oh that's weird.
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah, So I mean there are signs everywhere. Yeah, there
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: you go. It's happening, and I think it's happening. I
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: think it's.
• 42:58
  Speaker 4: Happening regardless of what the vote is next Tuesday. Number One,
• 43:02
  Speaker 4: I don't think they're having that vote next Tuesday. I
• 43:04
  Speaker 4: don't think that comes out of left field unless Adam Silver,
• 43:07
  Speaker 4: who the last time that he addressed this take it back,
• 43:11
  Speaker 4: not the last time he addressed it, because the stuff
• 43:13
  Speaker 4: at the All Star break was garbage, but the off
• 43:16
  Speaker 4: season when he said, we got to come to a
• 43:18
  Speaker 4: decision on this, and I can't keep stringing along these cities.
• 43:22
  Speaker 4: So the fact that Number one, he's saying, because that
• 43:24
  Speaker 4: usually there is a process where you don't have just
• 43:28
  Speaker 4: a bidding war with owners within the city. You have
• 43:32
  Speaker 4: a bidding war with the cities to get the two
• 43:35
  Speaker 4: franchises you're going with or the one franchise that you're
• 43:37
  Speaker 4: going with. He's saying, we're past that part. We never
• 43:40
  Speaker 4: even really had that part. But we're skipping. We're jumping
• 43:46
  Speaker 4: over it. It's Seattle or Vegas. That's what we're voting
• 43:49
  Speaker 4: on next Tuesday.
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: And then.
• 43:53
  Speaker 4: On top of that, even if it doesn't go through,
• 43:57
  Speaker 4: which I think it will, I think that's the only
• 43:58
  Speaker 4: reason that he's hastening this. That he makes this announcement
• 44:01
  Speaker 4: and then seven days later they're convening and eight days
• 44:05
  Speaker 4: later they're going.
• 44:06
  Speaker 2: To vote on this. So I think he knows he
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: has the votes to get this done and to get
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: it passed through.
• 44:13
  Speaker 4: Even if he doesn't, I think it's a good day
• 44:17
  Speaker 4: because if he doesn't get the votes, then to me,
• 44:21
  Speaker 4: that says, all right, we're not expanding. We're not going
• 44:26
  Speaker 4: to expand, we're going to stay at thirty teams. Now,
• 44:28
  Speaker 4: this isn't the avenue we want it to go down.
• 44:31
  Speaker 4: But I think if you find that information out Adam
• 44:35
  Speaker 4: silver Is, then like, all right, owners don't want to expand,
• 44:39
  Speaker 4: so now we relocate. I think they're trying to get
• 44:42
  Speaker 4: Memphis Grizzlies out of Memphis.
• 44:45
  Speaker 2: And I think they're trying to get the Blazers out
• 44:47
  Speaker 2: of Portland.
• 44:47
  Speaker 9: The only thing with that, though, is they just approved
• 44:49
  Speaker 9: a new arena plans in Portland too.
• 44:52
  Speaker 2: So no, I mean not, although for your words, does
• 44:57
  Speaker 2: that mean it's done deal?
• 44:58
  Speaker 9: No, it doesn't.
• 44:59
  Speaker 8: No, I'm not saying, and I was going to say,
• 45:00
  Speaker 8: although we've been in that situation too, But Portland is
• 45:03
  Speaker 8: fighting hard to keep their team as well.
• 45:04
  Speaker 4: All right, but they're two teams, yeah, all right, that
• 45:07
  Speaker 4: they're thinking about really. I know they're fighting hard. They
• 45:09
  Speaker 4: might not have a choice, So I think this is
• 45:12
  Speaker 4: one way or the other. All right, we would like
• 45:14
  Speaker 4: to expand. If the owners are bullish about not expanding,
• 45:18
  Speaker 4: then we need to at least know that and then
• 45:20
  Speaker 4: move on to Plan B, because I do believe there's
• 45:23
  Speaker 4: going to be a franchise if not to relocated in
• 45:26
  Speaker 4: the NBA one way or the other.
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: But I do believe that they want to expand the
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: product right now.
• 45:34
  Speaker 4: And I think that the global popularity of basketball, not
• 45:38
  Speaker 4: the NBA, but of basketball giving them the opportunity to
• 45:43
  Speaker 4: feed an expanded league with enough talent.
• 45:47
  Speaker 2: The requisite talent is there, and now's the time to
• 45:50
  Speaker 2: do it. So I think that's the plan.
• 45:52
  Speaker 4: And even if it's not the plan, even if it
• 45:54
  Speaker 4: gets voted down, then Adam Silver knows now I can
• 45:57
  Speaker 4: go to Plan B. But I think Plan A is
• 46:00
  Speaker 4: try to keep Memphis, try to keep Portland, and let's
• 46:02
  Speaker 4: expand by two teams, and let's get a basketball team
• 46:05
  Speaker 4: to Vegas, and let's get a basketball team back to Seattle.
• 46:07
  Speaker 4: And I think one way or the other we're going
• 46:09
  Speaker 4: to end up with a basketball team.
• 46:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 46:11
  Speaker 7: Well, I mean, you know, I don't know what Vegas's
• 46:13
  Speaker 7: situation is with what infrastructure they have, but we've just
• 46:17
  Speaker 7: seen it the last five ten years or whatever. I mean,
• 46:20
  Speaker 7: they want to they're getting everything right, Baseball teams on
• 46:22
  Speaker 7: the way, football.
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: Teak donkey, right, I mean, well, I mean.
• 46:25
  Speaker 9: It's so many, so quick.
• 46:27
  Speaker 4: Yeah, so I don't think they can suport. They don't
• 46:28
  Speaker 4: even support the Raiders. Well, the Raiders are supported by
• 46:31
  Speaker 4: people from California.
• 46:32
  Speaker 7: Yeah, Well they're supported from the opposing fans too, because
• 46:36
  Speaker 7: it's so easy to go there and it's a destination
• 46:38
  Speaker 7: where you can just go watch your team play against
• 46:40
  Speaker 7: the Raiders. And yet to me, it feels like, I mean,
• 46:45
  Speaker 7: all of these sports organizations and you know, these leagues,
• 46:49
  Speaker 7: they're all wanting to expand, right, I mean we were
• 46:51
  Speaker 7: talking about how what they're doing overseas, and they're all
• 46:54
  Speaker 7: wanting to expand. It's just a matter of if the
• 46:57
  Speaker 7: numbers make sense. If all of a sudden you get
• 47:00
  Speaker 7: these billionaires on the same page, of thirty, two teams
• 47:03
  Speaker 7: is going to be better than thirty or at least
• 47:06
  Speaker 7: the money that comes along with two extra teams is
• 47:08
  Speaker 7: going to be better. I think that there's there's a
• 47:11
  Speaker 7: lot to that, and I think Seattle, obviously Seattle in
• 47:13
  Speaker 7: Vegas right now, the fact that it's not this, it's
• 47:16
  Speaker 7: no longer we're wanting to expand, and here's all the
• 47:19
  Speaker 7: cities that we're interested in. It's just now narrowed down
• 47:23
  Speaker 7: to these two. And I do think that there's a
• 47:25
  Speaker 7: part of it where Silver wants to make this happen.
• 47:28
  Speaker 7: And so it's just it's just a matter of the
• 47:30
  Speaker 7: formality of going through the whole thing.
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: Now.
• 47:32
  Speaker 7: It has to make sense, and it has to make
• 47:34
  Speaker 7: dollars and all of that stuff. And so until it's
• 47:36
  Speaker 7: signed and dotted, I'm not going to go out and
• 47:39
  Speaker 7: you know, run and jump in the streets by any
• 47:41
  Speaker 7: stretch of the imagination.
• 47:42
  Speaker 2: But I do feel like we're closer than we have been.
• 47:43
  Speaker 2: We gotta get it going because I can't wait to
• 47:46
  Speaker 2: start tanking.
• 47:47
  Speaker 8: It don't be fun noll If we're gonna have the
• 47:52
  Speaker 8: kind of team that Mike Worganhaw said, we don't really
• 47:54
  Speaker 8: need to tank out if this's happened.
• 47:56
  Speaker 4: By the way, a quick little breaking story before we
• 47:59
  Speaker 4: go two break, Bucky, you might want to be paying
• 48:03
  Speaker 4: attention to this. The Denver Broncos have traded for Jalen Waddle.
• 48:08
  Speaker 2: Oh about that. I thought it was gonna be a
• 48:10
  Speaker 2: j Brown.
• 48:10
  Speaker 4: The Broncos have traded for Jalen Waddle from the Miami Dolphins,
• 48:14
  Speaker 4: and so the Dolphins continue to purge their roster in
• 48:18
  Speaker 4: a rebuild effort. Meanwhile, the Denver Broncos they are they're
• 48:24
  Speaker 4: loading up for a better, more complete roster for a
• 48:27
  Speaker 4: Super Bowl run. So interesting, interesting move. I did not
• 48:31
  Speaker 4: see the compensation. I don't think it's out yet.
• 48:33
  Speaker 2: Coming up next effort fits you Joints. The Sports Radio.
• 48:36
  Speaker 4: Ninety three point three KJRFM, we got details on the
• 48:43
  Speaker 4: trade Broncos and Dolphins. They were available for some reason,
• 48:46
  Speaker 4: they were not front and center, but Jalen Waddle heading
• 48:49
  Speaker 4: to the Denver Broncos along with a fourth round draft
• 48:53
  Speaker 4: pick in exchange for the Broncos first round selection this
• 48:55
  Speaker 4: year thirtieth overall plus a third rounder and a fourth
• 48:59
  Speaker 4: rounder and this year's draft. So uh, Sean Payton hunting
• 49:03
  Speaker 4: a little bit on this year's talent pool in the
• 49:06
  Speaker 4: NFL Draft to land a speed demon like Jayleen Waddle
• 49:10
  Speaker 4: to their offense. Fascinating trade, But right now it's time
• 49:14
  Speaker 4: to turn our attention to the Seattle Kraken, who lo
• 49:17
  Speaker 4: and Beholder playing excellent hockey again out of nowhere. Everett
• 49:20
  Speaker 4: fits you now joins us the voice of your Seattle
• 49:23
  Speaker 4: crack in, as he does every Tuesday at this time.
• 49:25
  Speaker 2: How are you, sir?
• 49:26
  Speaker 3: It's like it's like a roller coaster Disney. You know,
• 49:29
  Speaker 3: we're going up, and then we went down for a
• 49:32
  Speaker 3: little bit an hour, we're back up and you're just
• 49:35
  Speaker 3: waiting for the loop to loop and hopefully you're you're
• 49:38
  Speaker 3: on the upswing when you go into the playoffs.
• 49:41
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I guess that's fun. I mean, nobody wants to
• 49:44
  Speaker 4: just ride a roller coaster. I guess that just stays
• 49:47
  Speaker 4: up the whole time.
• 49:48
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 49:49
  Speaker 3: Listen, nobody wants to be ten points clear of everybody
• 49:53
  Speaker 3: and in a playoff spot, no one wants that. That's
• 49:57
  Speaker 3: not fun.
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: Okay, this is the best.
• 50:00
  Speaker 3: We love sports. We're sports fans. It's the the the the,
• 50:03
  Speaker 3: the joy of victory and the agony of defeat. We
• 50:07
  Speaker 3: like to live on the razor's edge every single day
• 50:11
  Speaker 3: and when we wake up, we don't know and if
• 50:13
  Speaker 3: you need to double our heart medication or just take
• 50:16
  Speaker 3: the regular dose. And I enjoy that part of being
• 50:19
  Speaker 3: a sports fan.
• 50:20
  Speaker 4: Well, if that's what the Crack and felt, they have
• 50:23
  Speaker 4: really nailed it this season because it's just been one
• 50:26
  Speaker 4: of those years.
• 50:27
  Speaker 2: I mean, I mean Bobby McMahon, we kept.
• 50:29
  Speaker 4: Waiting for him to play, he finally gets activated, and
• 50:31
  Speaker 4: now all of a sudden, you dominate two teams in
• 50:34
  Speaker 4: a row with him playing a big part in that.
• 50:36
  Speaker 2: How much of this has to do with the newcomer,
• 50:40
  Speaker 2: you know.
• 50:40
  Speaker 3: I think anytime you get a new player, regardless of
• 50:44
  Speaker 3: if he's that top stud or a really good role
• 50:48
  Speaker 3: player or someone in between. And that's not just on
• 50:52
  Speaker 3: Seattle to Crack and I think that's any sport, right,
• 50:55
  Speaker 3: anytime you get a new player midway through your season,
• 50:59
  Speaker 3: you're going to get a chute. And I think that
• 51:01
  Speaker 3: McMahon brings an element that I feel this team was
• 51:05
  Speaker 3: lacking a little bit of.
• 51:06
  Speaker 6: That was speed.
• 51:07
  Speaker 3: I think that's a willingness to consistently shoot the puck.
• 51:10
  Speaker 3: I mean his first two games, he's got eight shots
• 51:14
  Speaker 3: on goal and three goals. He's got a couple of assists,
• 51:18
  Speaker 3: and he's also dished out seven hits. So I mean mean,
• 51:21
  Speaker 3: he really has been that full package player you had
• 51:25
  Speaker 3: to shuffle up the lines a little bit, but it
• 51:28
  Speaker 3: worked because you bumt Jared McCann down to the second
• 51:32
  Speaker 3: line with Stevenson and Tolden in and then McCann snaps
• 51:36
  Speaker 3: a ten.
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: Game goal drout.
• 51:37
  Speaker 3: So I think that he his coming into the lineup
• 51:44
  Speaker 3: was worth the wait and we're seeing exactly the type
• 51:47
  Speaker 3: of talent that he is, what he can bring to
• 51:50
  Speaker 3: the to the to the roster, and Layne Lambert having
• 51:54
  Speaker 3: coached him before, I asked him, I said, what are
• 51:56
  Speaker 3: we going to get out of Bobby mcmahd, And he said,
• 51:58
  Speaker 3: You're going to get a guy that works hard. He's
• 52:01
  Speaker 3: a very low maintenance player. He doesn't need or want
• 52:06
  Speaker 3: for a lot. He just wants to go out there
• 52:09
  Speaker 3: and play well. And so far these first two games,
• 52:12
  Speaker 3: I mean he's set in the standard like we're gonna
• 52:15
  Speaker 3: need multi point nights every night from him, because he
• 52:18
  Speaker 3: had two goals in an assist his first game. He
• 52:20
  Speaker 3: had a goal and an assist Sunday against Florida. So
• 52:24
  Speaker 3: he really has stepped in and fit in in his
• 52:27
  Speaker 3: lineup seamlessly.
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 52:28
  Speaker 7: Well, I mean that's fine if he just wants to
• 52:30
  Speaker 7: score a goal or two. I mean multiple points every
• 52:33
  Speaker 7: every single game. That'll that'll work. I guess we'll go
• 52:35
  Speaker 7: ahead and chalk that up as a good move. I
• 52:37
  Speaker 7: mean how much I mean enlighten me as the novice
• 52:41
  Speaker 7: hockey fan around here. I mean how much can one
• 52:44
  Speaker 7: guy the speed and the you know, I guess, the
• 52:47
  Speaker 7: hits and just everything that we've seen so far in
• 52:49
  Speaker 7: a short, little sample size. But how much can one
• 52:52
  Speaker 7: guy like that change the Liney's on or the rest,
• 52:56
  Speaker 7: you know, the shifting of the line, So just the
• 52:58
  Speaker 7: entire offense.
• 53:00
  Speaker 3: I think because as a couple of factors, Number one,
• 53:03
  Speaker 3: the opposing team has a lot of film on the
• 53:06
  Speaker 3: seatle Crackett. They watched their film, they watched their most
• 53:09
  Speaker 3: recent games. When you add in another player, whether that's
• 53:13
  Speaker 3: Bobby McMahon or anyone else, you don't know how to
• 53:16
  Speaker 3: necessarily game plan for that player in that offense and
• 53:20
  Speaker 3: in that system. So I think there's going to be
• 53:24
  Speaker 3: that's a little bit of catching the opponent by surprise
• 53:28
  Speaker 3: your first couple of games, because you're not sure how
• 53:33
  Speaker 3: he fits in. You know where he fit in with
• 53:36
  Speaker 3: the Toronto maple leaps, you knew what he was going
• 53:38
  Speaker 3: to do with that cast of characters. Well, now who's
• 53:41
  Speaker 3: on a brand new TV show and you don't know
• 53:43
  Speaker 3: how he's going to fit in with the cast here
• 53:46
  Speaker 3: at Seattle. So far pretty well, So the other team
• 53:49
  Speaker 3: might have an issue or might have some trouble fitting
• 53:52
  Speaker 3: finding where he fits in to that game plan. But
• 53:55
  Speaker 3: I also think it's too Like I said before, it's
• 53:58
  Speaker 3: something that we haven't seen that this team hasn't had
• 54:02
  Speaker 3: this year in their lineup. It's a new piece, it's
• 54:05
  Speaker 3: a new wrinkle, and you really do have that first week,
• 54:11
  Speaker 3: that first two week honeymoon period, if you will. Now
• 54:15
  Speaker 3: the big test is going to be in a couple
• 54:17
  Speaker 3: of weeks when you're down to your final four six games.
• 54:21
  Speaker 3: Is this production going to continue? That's where I think
• 54:24
  Speaker 3: a lot of the questions are going to be answered.
• 54:27
  Speaker 3: You look at a guy like ty kar Ja the
• 54:28
  Speaker 3: Krack and put on waivers. Well, he's now got seven
• 54:31
  Speaker 3: points in a five game points sore he got in
• 54:33
  Speaker 3: New York. He needed to change the scenery. He's doing
• 54:35
  Speaker 3: really well in that scenario. Bobby McMahon will set out
• 54:39
  Speaker 3: his last two games before the trade deadline in Toronto.
• 54:43
  Speaker 3: He hasn't played before he got here. He hadn't played
• 54:46
  Speaker 3: since before the Olympic break, So I mean he'd been
• 54:49
  Speaker 3: off basically a month before coming here to the krack
• 54:52
  Speaker 3: In and then he had all of the immigration issues.
• 54:54
  Speaker 3: So he played four games in his last four and
• 54:57
  Speaker 3: a half five weeks before Saturday in Vancouver. So you're wondering,
• 55:02
  Speaker 3: is he gonna be a little bit rusty, Well, clearly
• 55:04
  Speaker 3: he wasn't. And he brings that element that this team
• 55:07
  Speaker 3: hasn't had the speed, the willingness to shoot, the drive
• 55:11
  Speaker 3: to go.
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: To the net.
• 55:13
  Speaker 3: And it's not saying that other guys don't do that,
• 55:16
  Speaker 3: but I think Bobby McMahon is a player that understands
• 55:19
  Speaker 3: that has to be his role, very much like Jayden Schwartz.
• 55:23
  Speaker 3: When James Schwartz is effective, he goes to the net,
• 55:25
  Speaker 3: he finds ways to score. He scores pucks off of shin,
• 55:29
  Speaker 3: he scores pucks, you know, tips into flee out of bush,
• 55:32
  Speaker 3: goal off his face last season.
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: I remember that.
• 55:35
  Speaker 3: So those are the type of players that understand their
• 55:38
  Speaker 3: role and they have to play that role, not when
• 55:42
  Speaker 3: they want to play it, they have to play that
• 55:44
  Speaker 3: role every single shift. And he's one of those guys
• 55:47
  Speaker 3: that does that.
• 55:48
  Speaker 4: The voice of your Seattle Crack and Everard fits you
• 55:50
  Speaker 4: our guest every Tuesday at this time, and so it
• 55:53
  Speaker 4: feels like we asked this question a lot about whether
• 55:57
  Speaker 4: or not this is a big game coming up up
• 56:00
  Speaker 4: with the Lightning tonight. Maybe we overdo it, but man,
• 56:03
  Speaker 4: I'm looking at a six game road trip after tonight's
• 56:07
  Speaker 4: game at Climate Pledge Arena against the Lightning, I'm thinking
• 56:11
  Speaker 4: about you getting you know, all your hugs and kisses
• 56:13
  Speaker 4: in with the wife and child here with the course
• 56:17
  Speaker 4: of the next twenty four hours before you won't see
• 56:19
  Speaker 4: him for a while. But winning late in a season
• 56:22
  Speaker 4: with a playoff berth on the line and trying to
• 56:24
  Speaker 4: get it done on the road is not all that easy, Everett.
• 56:27
  Speaker 4: So how important is tonight's game to not go into
• 56:31
  Speaker 4: that road trip.
• 56:32
  Speaker 2: With a loss?
• 56:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 56:34
  Speaker 3: For me, these type of games are are some of
• 56:38
  Speaker 3: your most important games of the season. It's your last
• 56:41
  Speaker 3: home game before a long road trip late in the season.
• 56:45
  Speaker 3: You want to leave a good taste in the mouth
• 56:48
  Speaker 3: of the fans of yourselves, knowing that you protected home
• 56:53
  Speaker 3: ice you go on the road. I think there are
• 56:55
  Speaker 3: some pretty manageable games for Seattle on this road trip.
• 57:00
  Speaker 3: Six games on the road. That's twelve points. I mean,
• 57:03
  Speaker 3: I feel like eight points needs to be the minimum.
• 57:06
  Speaker 3: But you know, I do believe that seven, eight to
• 57:10
  Speaker 3: nine points are definitely not out of the realm of
• 57:13
  Speaker 3: possibility for this team. And then they need you. They
• 57:15
  Speaker 3: need it on this road trip. But I think tonight
• 57:18
  Speaker 3: gives you an opportunity to do a couple of things.
• 57:20
  Speaker 3: Number One, you go back against the Colorado Avalanche a
• 57:23
  Speaker 3: few games ago, the top team in the NHL, top
• 57:26
  Speaker 3: team in the Western Conference, and you heard the guys
• 57:29
  Speaker 3: after the game. You know, maybe we respected them a
• 57:32
  Speaker 3: little bit too much. We put a little bit too
• 57:34
  Speaker 3: much respect on their names. We went into that game,
• 57:37
  Speaker 3: we spotted them three goals right off the hop, and
• 57:40
  Speaker 3: we were behind the eight ball before it even began.
• 57:43
  Speaker 3: This Lightning team very very similar. While they're not the
• 57:47
  Speaker 3: juggernaut that Colorado is, they are still a team that
• 57:51
  Speaker 3: has gone to what four the last six Stanley Cup Finals,
• 57:56
  Speaker 3: two three the last six Stanley Cup Finals. They've got
• 58:00
  Speaker 3: two Cups in that time. They've got a core group
• 58:03
  Speaker 3: that's been together for years. They've got one of the
• 58:06
  Speaker 3: best coaches I think of our generation in John Cooper
• 58:08
  Speaker 3: in the NHL. They're a team that has very few weaknesses.
• 58:11
  Speaker 3: So I think you take the lessons that you learned
• 58:14
  Speaker 3: against Colorado and apply them here. I mean, this is
• 58:17
  Speaker 3: a game where you need to get off to a
• 58:19
  Speaker 3: good start. You can't afford to sleep walk into the contest.
• 58:24
  Speaker 3: You have to start on time. So that's gonna be
• 58:26
  Speaker 3: a big factor for me. But this game I think
• 58:28
  Speaker 3: is as big as any, even though you know it's
• 58:31
  Speaker 3: out of your division. You want to protect your home
• 58:34
  Speaker 3: eyes and you want to set up, you know, set
• 58:37
  Speaker 3: that expectation that these are the type of teams, your Colorado's,
• 58:41
  Speaker 3: your Tampa's, You're going to have to beat these teams,
• 58:45
  Speaker 3: this caliber of team if you want to have success
• 58:48
  Speaker 3: in the playoffs. So I see this as kind of
• 58:50
  Speaker 3: a mulligan again for the Avalanche game. Another top team
• 58:54
  Speaker 3: that you have a chance.
• 58:56
  Speaker 1: To pick two points up on.
• 58:58
  Speaker 3: They did it against Carolina, being out shot thirty three
• 59:02
  Speaker 3: to fifteen. Last two weeks ago. They out hit the
• 59:05
  Speaker 3: Hurricanes thirty three thirteen. They're going to need to do
• 59:08
  Speaker 3: the exact same thing here Tonight's Campa.
• 59:11
  Speaker 4: All right, thirty seconds, we're already over Saint Patty's day. Tonight,
• 59:15
  Speaker 4: do you go with a green pocket scarf. Do you
• 59:16
  Speaker 4: go with the tie or do you just go all
• 59:18
  Speaker 4: green suit tonight?
• 59:20
  Speaker 3: Oh I'm thinking about just doing the gray suit, black shirt,
• 59:24
  Speaker 3: green tie, green and black tie and some orange orange
• 59:29
  Speaker 3: bowl and green socks.
• 59:30
  Speaker 2: Okay, all right, love it, yeah, love it.
• 59:33
  Speaker 3: Accessories will be very say Patty's day on the accessories today.
• 59:38
  Speaker 2: Have a great call. We'll talk to you next week.
• 59:41
  Speaker 3: All right, fellas Ashley, take care.
• 59:42
  Speaker 4: Evert Fitzi Voice of your Seattle Crack And they play
• 59:44
  Speaker 4: the Lightning tonight at Climate Pledgerina at seven o'clock. You
• 59:47
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• 59:49
  Speaker 4: three point three KJRFM, the The Everett and Al Show,
• 59:53
  Speaker 4: six thirty pre game with Mike Benton. So big night
• 59:56
  Speaker 4: tonight against the Tampa Bay Lightning. They can make it
• 59:59
  Speaker 4: three in a row before they had on the road.
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 4: Coming up next big week for us. As we fill
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 4: out our brackets, we got one region that we have
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 4: not evaluated yet. Here on this show, we'll do an
• 1:00:08
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• 1:00:22
  Speaker 4: All right, nine o'clock hour here on this Tuesday. The
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 4: old Judge will stop by a little bit later on
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 4: this hour and of course, we close out the show
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 4: with one last thing. Make sure you're filling out your
• 1:00:31
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• 1:00:34
  Speaker 4: and make sure you're getting.
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 2: Ready for the last season of Rick Rizz's play by play.
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 2: Still sad, single tier more than a single tier?
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, multiple tiers streaming down my freckled face right
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 7: into my salty beer.
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 2: Huh. We got a year to talk them out of it, though,
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 2: that's true. Look at it that way. Bet sure you
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 2: can't go Riz, Yeah, I can't go, Riz, don't.
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 1: Okay, all right, I changed my mind. I sign a
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 1: twenty year contract.
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 4: You're welcome, Seattle joining us Now it's gonna be the
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 4: voice of Summer.
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 2: Rick Riz joins us. How are you doing all right?
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 1: I'm fine. I'm fine. Chuck and Buckham sitting near like
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 1: that around deck chair as you know, outside of the
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 1: mare in his dining room and clubhouse, and the sun
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 1: is so bright in the sky. It's going to be
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 1: ninety something degrees. It's gonna be over one hundred degrees
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 1: for the next four or five days. So the guys
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 1: are getting lose being Dunning is throwing a rubber ball
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 1: against the wall, which these guys do to get ready.
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 1: Tucker just showed up. How you doing, Tuck, My little
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 1: buddy looking for a treat. Yeah, say hi to the
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 1: guys on Kjrhucker said, I And so everything's going great.
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: It's now the season. Yeah, spring season is running down.
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 8: You know.
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: When the truck gets here and we put our personal
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 1: luggage on the truck, the truck leaves to row to
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 1: go back to Seattle. Each troj just showed up. You're
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 1: getting ready to work out. It's another typical spring day
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 1: here in the Valley of the Sun.
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 2: Well, it hasn't been a typical spring training. I mean,
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 2: not only has it been over one hundred degrees on
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 2: a lot of days during this spring training. Also the WBC.
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 4: I mean, you've been without several of the players, several
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 4: of the star players throughout most of the spring training games.
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 4: What is it like to getting getting them back? What's
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 4: the environment alike, the energy like? Now that guys are
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 4: trickling back into camp, it feels.
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 1: It feels great because Josh Nayler is back and he's
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 1: in the lineup today. Randy Rosarini came back a few
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: days ago from Team Mexico. He's in the lineup today.
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 1: We saw Munoz the other day back from Team Mexico.
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 1: Cal Rawley is still busy in Gabe Spire and Julio Rodriguez,
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 1: but that championship game is coming up. What tomorrow, I
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 1: believe tonight and tonight tonight, tonight, you're right, and so
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 1: we'll get them back here in the next few days.
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 1: So you're see the guys kid going from you know,
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 1: they've been ramping up and high energy games, back to
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 1: spring training mode. But they're gonna have to, you know,
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 1: get get up to speed in a hurry. But that's
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 1: gonna be easy because they've been up to speed for
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 1: the last couple of weeks, you know, in the World
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 1: Baseball class they put. It's nice to get the guys
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 1: back here in camp. The young players have been outstanding
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 1: to watch, and the minor league camp has been open
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 1: for a long time, so it's it's been fun to
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 1: get these guys back.
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 6: Ri.
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 7: I'm hearing that Bryce Miller is going to throw again
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 7: today off the mound. I was wondering that's probably because
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 7: I envision you doing the mister miogi, you know, slap.
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 2: Your hands, make them hot. Put that on his side.
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 2: You've you've healed him correct, No, no, I.
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 1: Leave I leave that to the trainers. No, no, no,
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: But yeah, he's gonna throw a book in today and
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 1: obviously he's not gonna be ready for the start of
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 1: the season. But that's that's that's sad news for him
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 1: because he's so value full of pitcher mean, a couple
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 1: of years ago, he was outstanding, I mean a thirtd
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 1: last year and came back and pitched well in the postseason.
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 1: We made he had two upstanding starts, you know, in
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 1: the postseason. But Emerson Hancock is doing his thing. He's
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 1: ready to go again because he was ready last year
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 1: when George Kervey was out remembered for the first two months.
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 1: And that looks like Bryce is going to be out
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 1: for who knows how long, I don't know. But Emerson
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 1: has had a great spring, so as Cooper. Chris Well,
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 1: who's pitching in the second game today, We've got a
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 1: foot squad game. Louis Castillo is going here in Peory
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 1: against San Diego. Chris Well is going over against who
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 1: we played or I think the Rockies Tolay over in Skunsdale.
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 1: So he's had a really good spring too. So the
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 1: pitching depth is really going to come into play in
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 1: the early part of the season. Hopefully the bullkmen goes great.
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 1: With Bryce Miller this afternoon, that'll be a big test
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 1: for Chryce.
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 2: Rick Riz with us right here on checking Buck this morning.
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 4: He's down in Peori in an Ada, Ryan doock chair
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 4: getting ready for one hundred degree day down there, and
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 4: to call a little mayor baseball. But I'm speaking of
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 4: injuries b our eyes and ears down there about JP
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 4: and this shoulder thing. How worried should we be about that?
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 4: And does if he can't go as Colt Emerson the
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 4: guy that replaces.
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 1: Him, Well, Danny was talking about that this morning. Then
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 1: justin Hollander, our GM you know, had a brief you know,
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 1: meeting with the media before Danny came in the room
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 1: and said he JP is going to you know, nurse
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 1: in the sore shoulder. He's going to see a doctor
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 1: meister who's I believe, in Arlington to check on his shoulder.
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 1: The level of concern, Danny said, is not real, real high. Uh.
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 1: JP has been able to get some Mett Betts in
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 1: as a DH and play a couple of games at shortstop,
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 1: but it is a concern. I mean, here's your starting shortstop,
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 1: and and so they just don't know yet, you know,
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 1: when he'll be able to get a lineup the degree
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 1: of the injury. But they'll find out more after JP
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 1: has a visit with doctor Meister. So keep our fingers
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 1: crossing hopfully JP's all right, But just in case, this
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 1: Cole Emerson kid man, he's having a great spring, and
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 1: you know, the Mariners have been great drafting position players
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 1: the last few years. Years Ago is pitching and that's
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 1: new crease of his call club. But Cole Young is
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 1: having a great spring at second base. Colf Emerson has
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 1: played very well. Brendan Donovan has been incredible over at
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 1: third base with the bad and the gloves, so they
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 1: always find a way to, you know, make things work.
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 1: But keep our fingers cross Hopefully JP is going to
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 1: be all right. We'll find out more in the next
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 1: few days.
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 7: I would imagine Rizzar you were saying, Brendan Donovan playing
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 7: third and obviously having an unbelievable spring. I'm hitting four
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 7: fifty two. Has he been coming in just trying to
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 7: push for ways to get spring training over with. Just
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 7: go ahead and get into the regular season so that
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 7: these all these knocks start counting.
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's he's working on everything, you know, to get
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 1: ready for the season. I talked to him a couple
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 1: of days ago, and he's obviously and gear it up
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 1: for at the start of the season. He loves his
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 1: new teammates and ball club. He's so happy to be here.
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 1: But I talked to him a couple of days ago,
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 1: I said, what are you working on? This guy was
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 1: an All Star last year, go Globe winner in twenty
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 1: twenty two. Is a rookie, he said, Rick, my numbers
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 1: weren't that great against left handed pitching last year. I
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 1: want to improve that. I said, how do you do?
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 1: How do you go about that? Working with Edgar and
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 1: Kevin and Bobby, He said, well, I just wanted to
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 1: hit the ball up the middle, you know, and drive
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 1: it the other way. So anyway, here comes the game
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 1: two days ago in Cincinnati and Brennan gets four hits,
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 1: three against left handed pitching, and all three hits were
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 1: hit back up the middle. So this guy is working
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 1: on some here as an All Star who wants to
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 1: get better, he said, I never want to be a
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 1: blue tune player. I wanted lefties as well as I
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 1: do righty. It's right. He's like crazy because as a
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 1: left hand hitter, he had too eighty seven last year,
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 1: so you know what he did against right hand pitching,
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 1: but you're going to see it much better hitter against lefties,
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 1: and he's seen a lot of left handed pitchings that
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 1: it helps out. I'm here at Springs anyway. But he's
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 1: just he's just an amazing guy and a great ballplayer
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 1: in the Mayor has been a great trade to get him.
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 1: So he's working hard. He's getting ready.
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 4: The voice of Summer, Rick Riz with us right here
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 4: this morning on Chuck and buck Up Sports Radio ninety
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 4: three point three kh A r FM. Just we just
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 4: talked him into signing a twenty year contract extension.
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 2: So that's good news. That's breaking news.
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 4: Yeah, good job, Bucky's not hard, Yeah hard negotiation twenty second.
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, No, it's it's time for me to next year too,
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 1: to see what the next chapter is. Like I said,
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 1: spend time with the grand kids. But I'm still gonna
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 1: be with the club some way.
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 5: You know.
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 1: It's just kind of hanging out bugging you guys. Anything
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 1: you anything, you let.
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 2: Me know, all right, well we'll do that.
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 4: I'm not done with you today though, because I want
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 4: you to tell me what's going on with the climate,
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 4: with the Randy Col's situation with the handshake. Can you
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 4: give us a little behind the scenes, like what what's
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 4: been the vibe, what's been the mood in regards to
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 4: how this thing has played out before us here in
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 4: Seattle and nationally and globally.
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 2: Frankly, well, you know.
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 1: From what I've seen, you know, Cal's not here yet,
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 1: so there's really no vibe. Randy's here getting ready for
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 1: the season. He's back, you know, as turned out to
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 1: be a big story over the last week or sue
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 1: so about you know, Randy going up there looking for
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 1: a handshake. But Cal's very impetitive. Guy is you know,
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 1: you're my teammate during the regular season, but you know
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 1: you're not by DBA right now. But we'll see what happens.
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 1: And Danny said, right after the incident, which was about
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 1: what a week and a half ago or so, now,
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 1: he said he'll get the two guys together. They're going
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 1: to be fine. And Kel said, I love Randy, you know,
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 1: you know, so you know they're going to get back
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 1: and they're going to work things out. And I think
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 1: everything is going to be fine. I really do. So
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 1: we'll we'll have to wait and see. Great guys.
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he'll be fine, rich and if not, it's like you, you.
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 1: And Bucky, the way you guys get along, your your symmetry,
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 1: you know, the way you care about each other. You know,
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 1: the way you tug's perard at times.
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah, buddy, Yeah, he offered me his hand today. I
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 2: told him to go to help.
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, so he can uh, he can take that
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 7: that fake good to see you and he can stick
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 7: that with a sun note shine.
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 1: Right. Yeah, things were said anyway, I do. They're gonna
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 1: get along great.
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's gonna be fine. I'm with you.
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 7: I do have one other thing, I mean, coming into
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 7: spring Cole Young, I mean I don't know if his
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 7: I think he's probably penciled in as you're starting second basement.
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 7: He is having a pretty good spring. I mean he's
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 7: swinging it and hitting some big, big long balls too.
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 7: I mean, is he pretty much at this point solidified
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 7: himself as you might as well write that in pen Danny,
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 7: he's your starting secon basement opening day, I.
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 1: Think, so, you know, at the early part of the
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 1: springy you know, nobody has their timing down yet, you know,
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 1: and then we saw him have good at bats and
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 1: you know, and worked account things like that. Then here
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 1: come the hits, and that came along, and then here
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 1: come the home runs.
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 5: You know.
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 1: He said about four home runs or in the spring,
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 1: but I'm happy if be it's a few home runs,
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 1: but gets a lot of base hits all over the place,
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 1: and hits for an average. He did a triple a
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 1: Tacoma last year when he had two seventy seven. If
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 1: he can do that at the bottom of the order,
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 1: you know, with JP and whoever else is at the
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 1: bottom of the order for the guys at the top
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 1: six and top six is amazing in that lineup. I
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 1: think that's what I want out to cool young. But
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 1: he's had a great spring. It looks like he's going
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 1: to be the starting second baseman and question mark with
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 1: JP Crawford. Hopefully he's all right. So you know, there's
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 1: some some big questions, just a few, not a whole lot,
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 1: but some questions here last week of spring, which usually
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 1: there is anyway with every spring, but going into spring training,
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 1: this ball club was pretty well set. They didn't have
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 1: a lot of question marks. You know, maybe a guy
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 1: or two in the bullpen, utility guy, backup catcher. Now
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 1: with the arrival of Mitch Garver and Andrew Kisner, both
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 1: have played well. Cal's gonna be the starting Shorts count,
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 1: I believe, and that's the best catcher in history in
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 1: Major League Baseball last season. But there were there weren't
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 1: a lot of you know, battles going into spring training.
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 1: But they're always always a few question marks that we'll
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 1: find out here in the next five six days what
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 1: happens all.
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 4: Right in our last minute, and then we'll let you
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 4: go and get you ready for your workday here. I
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 4: mean when we were there a couple of weeks ago, man,
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 4: there was a great energy. There was a great vibe.
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 4: Now we're sitting here at the you know, a little
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 4: over a week before the season begins, have they maintained
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 4: that energy or are people now ready? Are they ready
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 4: to get the season started in this last week is
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 4: going to be a bit of a drag.
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 1: No, the energy is right here and it's going to
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 1: really ramp up when the other guys, you know, come
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 1: back like cow and Gave Spire and Julio Rodriy. Is
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 1: he ramps up the energy, you know, and as soon
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 1: as he walks into the building, you know, and so
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 1: does col So know these guys, as I've said at
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 1: the start of camping, right now, it's just a quiet confidence,
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 1: you know. They got so close last year. They got
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 1: to the postseason. They won the West for the first
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 1: time in twenty four years. They kicked off a lot
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 1: of boxes, they got the Game seven of the Barca
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 1: League Championship Series. They should have beaten the Toronto Blue Jays.
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 1: They know that, you know. And now they just need
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 1: to stay, help me and do what they're capable of doing.
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 1: Hea said every guy in this balk up. Danny Wilson
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 1: did a super job at the club last year. He
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 1: was the first manager in Mariner history in his first
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 1: full season managing this franchise to take him to the postseason.
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 1: So this team is ready to go. They know they
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 1: can get there, not only get there, but when the
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 1: whole dog gone thing is Cal said, So there's a
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 1: lot of energy in.
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 4: This yeah, yeah, all right, Well, have a great day,
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 4: have a great time there. You rest of time there
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 4: in Arizona, and we will see you back in Seattle
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 4: the next time we see you.
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 1: Okay, checking back. Thank you very much. We try to
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 1: send some sunshine home. You really getting here right now,
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 1: you can send some home to you.
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 2: Back home had snow.
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 7: Last year's snow on the ground, and now Pineapple Express
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 7: is coaching, so now we get to worry about flooding.
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 1: Oh oh boy. Well, hopefully it'd be nice when we
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 1: get home, and it's going to be a lot of
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 1: fun on March the twenty sixth, when we open up
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 1: against Cleveland Guardians. I can't wait for open tonight. It's
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 1: always a special day, Yeah.
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 2: No doubt. I can't wait to see it, all right, Riz, thanks.
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 4: To see him all right, all right, bye guys, hereus
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 4: Rick Riz the one the only joining us right here
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 4: on Chuck and Buck in the mornings.
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, JP's shoulder.
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 4: Ryan Devish was reporting today that this thing's still still
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 4: acting up and there might be a chance that he
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 4: doesn't start the season. And we've been talking a lot
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 4: about cold Emerson being the future at shortstop, but I
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 4: don't think that that future would get activated even if
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 4: JP can't go. Unless JP's facing like an extended amount
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 4: of time off. I don't know if they would get
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 4: cold Emerson going if JP was going to be back
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 4: within a week, and then you got to make another
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 4: roster decision. My guess is if they feel like it's
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 4: something that he could be back within a week or two,
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 4: that they'll just manage from within, whether that's Revas playing shortstop.
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 4: But but there's there's certainly an issue with JP. He's
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 4: not one hundred percent and he hasn't been this entire spring.
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I think you have. Yeah, they're not
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 2: going to rush cold now.
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 7: They're not going to hold him back if he all
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 7: of a sudden it's on a tear at the end
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 7: of spring train, they could be like, all right, if
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 7: JP's going to be out for you know, extended period
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 7: of time, we can go ahead and do this.
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 2: They're not going to want to do it.
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 7: If JP they think he's going to be back five
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 7: games end of the season, so you start him and
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 7: now of a sudden to send him right back down.
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 2: I think they would go with Leo Revos.
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 7: Now, you also Cole Young has been shortstop his whole
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 7: career until he got to the big leagues. Basic, you
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 7: could put him at short and then if Ryan Bliss
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 7: or somebody else or Revoss was playing second possibly I
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 7: think I think right now, if I just had to think,
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 7: if he's on the shelf to start the season, I
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 7: think it's Leo Revoss's. Probably you're starting shortstop, but we
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 7: shall see.
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know what Master Boney's health is. If
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 4: you put Rivas at short then Master Bony probably makes
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 4: the team as your utility. I don't think both those
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 4: guys are going to make the team with the roster
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 4: crunch that you're going to have, and so you know,
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 4: certainly worth monitoring. I don't know if they would bump
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 4: Cole Young over if they're planning on him being the
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 4: everyday second basement and have him played shortstop for a week.
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 2: I don't know if they would do that. But obviously
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 2: JP's going to force some sort of decision here very quickly,
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 2: because we're just nine days away, nine days away from
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 2: the start of this season. Yeah, yeah, giggles and stuff.
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 4: Yeah, all right, coming up next, the old Judge is
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 4: just nine minutes away right here on Sports Radio ninety
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 4: three point three kha RFM.
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 2: I am the original Cornelius. You didn't say the thirty
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 2: second or the sixty fourth. I didn't did that. Yeah,
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 2: the original I don't even think I said it the
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 2: right way, the original.
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 4: Well, we're ready for the old judge. Man, it's been
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 4: an interesting day on the show today. I mean, we
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 4: had the Voice of Summer, we had the Voice of
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 4: the Kraken Winter seven o'clock. We were just working off
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 4: at seven o'clock today, and now we're getting the old judge.
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 2: It's almost like we were like Regal today or something.
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 8: I do feel special, Yeah then you should. Yeah, well
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 8: I did feel special.
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 9: That's what I meant to say. And now look the
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 9: old judges here.
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  Speaker 2: Now it just feels half hass Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: Now it feels like, oh it's Wednesday, it's a normal Tuesday, ordering.
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  Speaker 2: The court for the mu zip bit. Had to be
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  Speaker 2: on my best behavior around those dignitaries.
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  Speaker 9: And no, now we really get to work off.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, sounds bad, it does. It does sound bad.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Well let's get to it. This is how
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  Speaker 2: it works.
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to bring up a few topics in the
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  Speaker 4: old judges courtroom, Ashley and I will discuss. We don't
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  Speaker 4: have to debate, We're just going to discuss. And then
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  Speaker 4: once the old Judge is hurt enough, he's going to
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  Speaker 4: weigh in down in that gavel.
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  Speaker 2: Is I'll do you guys to shit your bowls, and
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  Speaker 2: then I'll lay down the law. He is going to
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  Speaker 2: lay down the law. So he says, get ready to
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  Speaker 2: have the lay law laid law laid down at you.
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  Speaker 9: Oh, I'm ready to bring it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, here we go.
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  Speaker 4: First one, it is Saint Patrick's Day, and I would
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  Speaker 4: think if you do nothing else on Saint Patty's Day,
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  Speaker 4: you should at least.
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  Speaker 2: Wear green and be a part of the holiday celebration.
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  Speaker 8: I mean you should at least acknowledge the great Saint
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  Speaker 8: Patrick and his day and all of the little leprechauns
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  Speaker 8: that are spreading magical joy around the world today.
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  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, I.
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  Speaker 9: Think the green would be the least you could do.
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  Speaker 6: I think the.
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  Speaker 2: Actual holiday is about the time that they ran the
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  Speaker 2: snakes out of Ireland. Oh so it's not about lots
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  Speaker 2: of wearing green or anything like that. But then they don't.
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  Speaker 8: Actually eat corn, beef and cabbage in Ireland for this day, either,
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  Speaker 8: is that right?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, bacon and cabbage.
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  Speaker 6: I do like it.
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  Speaker 4: I don't think it's I like the holiday because any
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  Speaker 4: excuse that we have to to celebrate somebody else's culture,
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  Speaker 4: even if it is just you know, drunken revelry.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's fun. I think it's good. Maybe there
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  Speaker 2: are Irish Americans that feel differently. I have no idea,
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  Speaker 2: but I like it. But I think that the best
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  Speaker 2: way to do it. And we've been doing it all
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  Speaker 2: morning long. Play some Irish music.
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  Speaker 4: To me, there's nothing that gets you in the mood
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  Speaker 4: for Saint Patrick's Day more than here in Irish music.
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  Speaker 2: Cal oh yeah, oh geez, Cable boy, I'm with you.
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  Speaker 2: I think I like the Irish music.
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  Speaker 7: There's something distinct about it and it does make you
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  Speaker 7: feel But then again, you know, Irish music just like
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  Speaker 7: today while we're working, fine, that suffices. But if you
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  Speaker 7: think I'm gonna go to the rest to day without
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  Speaker 7: having some sort of green beer, okay, you got it.
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  Speaker 7: Because you can have both. There's no reason to just
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  Speaker 7: stop at Irish music. It's you gotta have a green
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  Speaker 7: beer or six. And I don't know what it is
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  Speaker 7: about this holiday more so than a lot of other ones.
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  Speaker 7: It's like you kind of if you're going to get
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  Speaker 7: in there, you didn't celebration with the Irish. You gotta
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  Speaker 7: have more than one or two. You know, you gotta go.
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  Speaker 9: You gotta be Irish.
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  Speaker 2: Get after it a little bit, get a little sloppy.
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  Speaker 6: M m m.
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  Speaker 9: That's what I'm going to the last name Ryan didn't
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  Speaker 9: come from Germany.
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  Speaker 2: There you go. It doesn't sound German.
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  Speaker 9: You're right, yeah, it came from Ireland, the Irish.
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  Speaker 2: That's right, Yes, yes, indeed, Colleen, get a fine loss
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  Speaker 2: with your ash name behind.
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  Speaker 9: And when you hear.
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  Speaker 8: Irish music, can't you like also in the background, just
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  Speaker 8: in your mind here glasses clinking together and beer spilling
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  Speaker 8: and people laughing and being jovial.
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  Speaker 4: There's something about it just takes your right there. It
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  Speaker 4: does takes your right to the corroboration, all right. Next one,
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  Speaker 4: Gino is going to ask Cal for a high five tonight.
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  Speaker 8: M Actually, I feel like he could find that funny. No,
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  Speaker 8: I don't think he's going to do it. I think
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  Speaker 8: they're taking this championship too seriously.
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  Speaker 4: I don't think he's going to either, because I honestly
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  Speaker 4: don't think Cal's going to play tonight. I don't think
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  Speaker 4: he's going to get the start. But if you've noticed,
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  Speaker 4: and I think I've noticed this accurately, when Gino sworez
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  Speaker 4: Ever comes across a buddy he'll take his bat and
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 4: he'll just like tap the catcher like on the and
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  Speaker 4: then and then he'll go to digging around in the box,
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  Speaker 4: and that's all it is. It's like it's a gesture.
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  Speaker 4: And I'm sure that under his breath Cal will say
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  Speaker 4: good to see you, buddy. Yeah, you know, that sort
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  Speaker 4: of thing without it turning into an incident. So I
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 4: expect Gino to do that if Cal catches it all tonight.
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  Speaker 4: I'm hoping Cal catches, and I think he is going
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  Speaker 4: to catch. I think d Rose smart.
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  Speaker 2: I can't until oh ga, I didn't know you were
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  Speaker 2: even talking. Sorry, you know you guys better watch it.
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  Speaker 9: Okay, it's just rules in your courtroom.
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  Speaker 4: I thought, I make the rules. You tell me what
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  Speaker 4: the rules are. Yes, now ordering the court. I think
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  Speaker 4: I think I's gonna play, and I hope he plays.
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 4: I think d Row it would be smarter too. Otherwise,
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 4: you're gonna have a right handed hitter in there. And
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 4: it's not like Will Smith can't hit off righty's, but
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 4: you're gonna be facing one of these reliefers, and why
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 4: not have a switch hitter that's just playing as simple
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 4: as a better catcher.
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  Speaker 7: So I am hoping that happens. When it comes to
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 7: the whole Geno part of it, I wouldn't be surprised.
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  Speaker 7: I'm sure that these guys still talk, and I wouldn't
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 7: be surprised if Cal's like, don't please, don't, you know,
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  Speaker 7: try to do anything, because I'm not going to do
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 7: it right if you do it at this point, if
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 7: you hug.
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  Speaker 4: Gino, now it's a big issue. It stokes the fire.
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 4: And so if anything, my teammate anymore. Yeah, you know
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 4: what I mean, You're not even on the same team.
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 4: He is really the enemy. So I think that it's
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 4: one of those I think that Gino does exactly what
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  Speaker 4: you said. If Col's back there behind the dish, he
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 4: walks up taps from the shin guards, I'm fine with that, yeah,
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 4: and then get ready to go hit because he's going
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 4: to try to call every pitch to get you out,
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 4: and you're gonna do everything you can to try to,
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 4: you know, rain on the US's parade today. So to me,
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  Speaker 4: I hope that if they do have some sort of interactions,
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 4: exactly what you said, agreed. By the way, I saw
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 4: Geno interviewed after the Venezuela game. He got on the
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 4: field and they sent it back to the booth. I
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 4: think maybe to the set. Maybe it was Kevin Burkhart said, like, man,
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 4: he is really likable.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, welcome to the party.
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  Speaker 9: It was like crying because he's not on our team
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 9: anymore last night.
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 4: All right, Item number three, Kevin Durant is going to
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 4: play for the Sonics again.
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  Speaker 8: Okay, So if we're looking twenty twenty eight, and I
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 8: feel like that would be something he would do, be like,
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 8: all right, well if it once it becomes official, he'd say,
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 8: all right, let's figure out a way to do this
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  Speaker 8: so I can at least suit up one more time
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 8: for the Sonics and then retire.
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  Speaker 9: I would not be surprised. I just I don't know
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 9: how old is he now.
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 2: Thirty seven?
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  Speaker 9: Oh yeah, he'll do it.
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  Speaker 4: I think this cements it. If they're planning on twenty eight,
• 1:24:11
  Speaker 4: twenty eight, twenty twenty nine, it will be two years
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 4: from now he'll still be thirty nine years old. He's
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 4: averaging twenty six points per game for the Rockets. I mean,
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 4: his game's really not falling off at all despite being
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 4: aged thirty seven plus.
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 2: He's on a two year extension with the Rockets. And
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 2: guess what that means.
• 1:24:28
  Speaker 4: He's a free agent for twenty twenty eight, heading into
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 4: the twenty twenty eight twenty twenty nine season. I don't
• 1:24:35
  Speaker 4: know how long he'll play for the Sonics, but Kevin
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 4: Durant's going to play for the songs Gavel, gavel, gavel.
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  Speaker 2: You're right, he will. It is perfect to bring that
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 2: thing full circle.
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 7: Not only is he going to come back and he
• 1:24:47
  Speaker 7: will be the aged superstar that brings back the Green
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 7: and Gold, but I think Gary Peyton Junior, Gary Payton.
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 2: The Second is going to come back as well.
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  Speaker 7: Oh all right, I think as matter of fact, I
• 1:25:01
  Speaker 7: think he's already said something that he would request a
• 1:25:03
  Speaker 7: trade to come back there, so might as well if
• 1:25:05
  Speaker 7: you're gonna have coming back.
• 1:25:09
  Speaker 9: Spencer's up, warming up right now, stretching, practicing.
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 7: He just ripped off his tair away pants, just all
• 1:25:14
  Speaker 7: excited about that idea.
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 2: Dat dead?
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  Speaker 1: Ye yep?
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 2: Tom Chambers and why not might as well? Yeah that's
• 1:25:23
  Speaker 2: Ashley's favorite, all right?
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 9: For Tom?
• 1:25:26
  Speaker 8: He really just confused me as a child. Why is
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 8: that because I didn't understand how NBA trades work?
• 1:25:32
  Speaker 5: Oh?
• 1:25:32
  Speaker 9: I see when I and I was a Sonics fan
• 1:25:34
  Speaker 9: and then he went to the Suns. Where was it
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 9: the other way around? I can't remember Sonics? Then yeah,
• 1:25:39
  Speaker 9: and then I thought, oh so you went to the
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 9: Suns and then chose to play the Sonics. That's just rude.
• 1:25:45
  Speaker 2: All right, last one for you.
• 1:25:47
  Speaker 4: I believe and I will continue to believe throughout the
• 1:25:51
  Speaker 4: NCAA tournament this year that Jim Nance makes love to
• 1:25:55
  Speaker 4: one shining moment.
• 1:25:57
  Speaker 9: I mean, if not, why what was the song even
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 9: here for?
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  Speaker 2: That's got to be it? Yes, absolutely, yeah, I do too. No, yeah,
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 2: miss that he's in his mock turtleneck and nothing else.
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 2: Oh god, and he's just one shine. You're ruining something.
• 1:26:13
  Speaker 9: It would be like the Masters theme songs could be.
• 1:26:18
  Speaker 2: That's sparkling afterwards.
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 4: That makes me yeah yeah, yeah, because one shining moment's
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 4: kind of a build up.
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 8: Yeah, and then it's like mouths uh yeah yeah, rolled
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 8: up on the bearskin rug.
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 4: You can time it out with one shining moment and
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 4: then it's stop you guys, zero respect for this courtroom.
• 1:26:39
  Speaker 4: Oh you pound in your yeah, twenty seven times pound
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 4: this thing so you don't ruin, You don't ruin. That
• 1:26:48
  Speaker 4: is a great song that makes gets me in all
• 1:26:50
  Speaker 4: the fields and now you've ruined it.
• 1:26:52
  Speaker 2: Oh, oh, you have ruined it. Jim Nance no pants dance.
• 1:26:57
  Speaker 6: No it is not.
• 1:26:59
  Speaker 2: I'm not even gonna watch it now.
• 1:27:01
  Speaker 4: Whenever somebody cuts down the nets and they do it,
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 4: I will not watch it this year because otherwise I'll
• 1:27:05
  Speaker 4: be thinking about that the ball is.
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 2: It's so good, so bad.
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 9: But you probably you think it probably happens though, now,
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 9: don't you.
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 2: That's a good chance, good chance. I don't have to
• 1:27:21
  Speaker 2: have the visual though. They got it forever now, yeah, stained,
• 1:27:26
  Speaker 2: all right, one last thing. Next Sports Radio ninety three
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