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Whatcom Preps Podcast Episode 240 - Winter Sports Wrap Up 2-5 to 2-10 · Whatcom Preps Podcast

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This is Lyndon's sophomore payon Mells and you're listening to the Welcome Preps Podcast with
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Tyler and Ryland. Go Lions, Greetings, and welcome into the Watcum Preps
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podcast. This is episode two hundred and forty Winter Sports Weekly wrap up for
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Monday, February fifth through Saturday, February tenth. I'm Ryland Spencer. Along
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with me as always is Tyler Anderson of Watchcum Preps. Tyler, how are
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we doing? Doing great? Doing great? It's postseason right now and all
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these sports just like it's crazy. You know, you play all year for
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the postseason and a lot of stuff happening right now where you're getting into district,
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regionals, state upcoming. It's a lot of fun. Need to give
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it thank you to Peyton Mills. Lyndon girls basketball will be talking about her
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Tyler, Yeah, you were down in Vegas this past week, and we'll
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get to that here in a second. Before we get there. Did you
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get to watch the Super Bowl? We are recording this at ten pm.
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Super Bowl has been over for a few hours. To get to watch the
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game? I did, I did. I I had to work a bunch
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this morning and kind of get I been catching up on stuff. Like you
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said, I've been out of town, but I made sure I was able
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to sit and enjoy the game. Have you Have you watched like every Super
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Bowl since you've been alive. The first one I remember watching was the forty
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nine Ers beating the Dolphins. That was January of eighty five. It was
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this eighty four season, and I and I can can exactly point out where
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I was, like like I because I would tell my parents, you know,
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you had the TV on this side of the house in eighty eight,
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because I remember watching the Super Bowl there, you know. But I the
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first I've missed. I've missed two. I missed the Broncos beating the Packers
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because I was working at Walmart and and I'd work like four pm to one
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am. Or something like that. So I was missing that, and which
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was fine because I hated the Broncos grown up and then and I missed the
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Buccaneers beating the Raiders. But I remember I had a VHS tape I was
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recording it. I had slept during the day, so I was working nights,
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and I even the phone rang and woke me up. The game was
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over, and I picked it up and I answered the phone by saying,
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I just woke up. I have no clue what happened to the Super BOWLOW
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And it was my It was my buddy Clayton, going, how about those
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bucks? I'm like, you idiot, I just said, and he's like,
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well, I didn't tell you anything, and I just was so I
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was so angry that I never watched it. Yeah that would honestly, you
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know, I don't know that i'd be talking to that guy today, so
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so yeah, so I just I was like, oh, so I've never
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watched that. I've seen the highlights obviously, you know, they show the
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pick six and stuff like that, but but yeah, those are the two
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that I've missed since I started watching in eighty four. The first one I
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can remember is the forty nine Ers in Bengals, and I don't really remember
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it. I think I was like five six. You know. It's crazy
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about that game? Was that? Just to butt in really quickly? Is
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that Miss Walkham Preps was born the next day? Wow? Yeah? About
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that was born the day after that Super Bowl? But go ahead, Oh
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yeah, that's the first one. I like, I vaguely remember, you
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know, but I don't really remember a whole lot of it. The only
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one that I that I know that i've that I've never seen still to this
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day was the Bears and Colts from uh the one. Yeah. Yeah.
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So I was like brutally sick that week, and so I stayed home,
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didn't go anywhere. And what I ended up doing was I was like,
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you know what, I can't sit on the couch because I'll fall asleep.
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So I sat in a chair and then I fell asleep, and I fell
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asleep. I'll never forget this. I see the coin toss, they go
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to commercial, you know, come back. I don't know if they did
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the ant, I don't know the order of it, but I remember like
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seeing the coin toss and then they went to commercial and then waking up and
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they were handing over the Trophy and being like wow, the rain and everything,
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like I've had the most miserable week of my life. And then I
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don't even watch the Super Bowl, you know, and I was probably hungry,
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you know, and I probably couldn't keep anything down, you know what
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I mean. Like it was just one of those ones where it was like
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that was not fun. And so I've never watched the game because I can't.
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I have a hard time watching, Like I can't watch stuff tape delayed.
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Now if I'm sitting at home during COVID when there was all those you
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know, old Mariner games on and stuff like that, Yeah, if it's
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a good game and it's something I know and I want to watch it,
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like, yeah, I'll watch it. You know. One thing I did
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like during COVID that was kind of fun is how they had so many like
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you'd like, turn on the MLB Network and they just have some like random
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game from like a Wednesday in July and it was the Cubs and the Mets,
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and You're just like, why are these two on? You know?
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The thing I hated about it is in the description sometimes they put the score
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in there. Yeah I can't and I'm like, no, don't don't like,
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let me figure out what it is that's gonna happen in this game.
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I don't need to be reminded of what it was, because then maybe I
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don't want to watch it, right, you know, but yeah, I
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don't know. I have a hard time watching stuff that's tape delayed or you
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know, things like that, Like like you said, you know, you
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tried to tell them, hey, you know, don't tell me the score,
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and you know, then they give it away. And that's the thing
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is I'm especially now with like how easy it is to you know, what
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do you call it? Like it used to be called TVO? What do
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you call it now? I don't even know what it's called. Yeah,
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you know, yeah, I know what you're talking. Yeah, you can
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like record it whatever. I just fast forward through everything. Yeah, and
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I end up just like I might as well just watch the highlights, you
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know, Like I don't know, that's just me. But anyway, good
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game. I mean I thought it was a tremendous game, even from the
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stuff I saw it. Right before half time. I saw a lot of
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people that are like, oh, it's a boring game, and I'm like,
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the turn it off. You wouldn't be you wouldn't continue watching a boring
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movie, would you know? That turned it off? Shut up, Like,
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Yeah, it was a good game. I thought it was just awesome.
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I thought it was great from the start. I thought it was good
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offense and good defense, like they were they were doing some good offensive things
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in the first half. I just thought the defense were doing better things.
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I just yeah, it was crazy special teams, you know, the muff
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punt, the blocked extra point. There was a lot of big, huge
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plays you know where I mean the guy like tearing his ACL trying to run
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into the game onto the I know, and it was a big time player,
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Yeah, great green Law like green Law, Yeah, I mean he's
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has a huge player now. It was a guy that was, you know,
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rooting against the forty nine ers. I didn't oh sure, yeah,
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I didn't hate it too. But it's crazy because you know, they're so
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jacked up, yeah, so excited that that could happen. I mean,
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it's just unbelievable. Yeah. I thought it was a good game, though,
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I thought the officiating was I think there was a couple of things that
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were missed where I was like, I think that was bad. But as
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a whole, I like I don't think officiating caused either team to gain that
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advantage, you know, but I'm sure somebody's out there complaining. Well,
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I take that back. I'm sure there's somebody from San Francisco. It's probably
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out there complaining about it because that's why their team lost. But overall,
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I thought it was a great game. I mean it was. There was
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a lot of drama both ways. There was a you know, ten point
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lead and then no, all of a sudden, it's the tie game.
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Oh well, next you know, the you know, the the Chiefs are
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up, and then before you know it, the forty nine. Yeah,
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and I loved it because I love I love when history is made. You
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know, you saw the longest field goal ever and then you saw that broken.
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Yes, a couple of quarters later. I was thinking about it.
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How many times in NFL, like in the Super Bowl history, has a
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record been broken by you know, then broken again in the same game,
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Yeah, in two different guys. Yeah, yeah, I mean it.
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It hasn't happen very often. No, definitely not. I mean maybe early
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early on, like Super Bowl nine or ten, Yeah, when they were
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there. Hasn't been that many yet. But but also, you know,
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with the Chiefs back to back hasn't happened in nineteen years, and now they're
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the chance for three pete which has never been done. So those kinds of
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things, I like, those kinds of historical type things. And that's and
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I've and I know that you are die, die, die hard Seahawks fan,
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and I am a big Seahawks fan. But I do love the NFL.
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I love all teams in a way like I can, I can,
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I can, you know, except the Cowboys. But I really enjoy the
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history of everything, and so I'm totally fine with, you know, a
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lot of stuff and seeing things. Baseball is a little different, like I'm
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like, I want the Mariners win, and if they're not, I don't
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want I don't want anyone to win. Yeah, But but football, I
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think starting to see the leagues. Yeah, I love the Seahawks, but
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I hate the forty nine Ers. Other than that, I don't really care.
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Yeah, Okay, see I was like that growing up with the Broncos
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because you know, they were the big rival. And well I hate the
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Raiders too. I mean, who doesn't hate the Raiders. But when you
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think of about when you think about like the old AFC West, like you
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and I when we think of Seahawks, we think AFC West as much as
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we think NFC West. Yeah. But for me, I always hated the
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Broncos. I always hated the Raiders. I never really cared about the Chargers.
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Yeah, the Chargers and Chiefs were not a factor. No, And
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I loved Derek Thomas, and I loved Neil Smith, Nebraska guy. But
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I love Neil Smith. I love Derek Thomas. So it was like I
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didn't really care about the Chiefs too much. And then I loved Joe Montana
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when I was a kid, and then of course he goes over and you
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know, he plays for the Chiefs, and so I never really minded the
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Chiefs too Like they didn't they didn't bother me. If the Raiders were in
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the Super Bowl, I would not root for them at all. If the
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if the Raiders Broncos ever played the forty nine Ers in the Super Bowl,
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I might just end it. Like I don't know what I would do if
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I'm telling you right now, if the forty nine Ers were playing Vladimir Putin,
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I'm rooting for Russia, you know what I mean? Like that's just
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I. There's not anybody in the NFL that would you would get me to
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root for the forty nine ers. There just isn't. Yeah, there's nobody
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or as you call them, the Santa Clara forty nine ers, Well they
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are in Santa Clara. I mean that's right, you know. And I
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always love that. Every year when you put that and you do that post,
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I'm like, yeah, yeah, that's right. Yeah. Well the
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thing that cracks me up to is like every year I do that, there's
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always one or two forty nine er fans that will hit me up and go.
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You know, that doesn't get us as riled up as much as you
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think it does. Really, why are you reaching out to me exactly?
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Why are you letting me know? You're letting me know because it does actually
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do it, you know. Yeah, it's fun. Let's see here,
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Tyler. We have a ton of stuff to talk about. But you were
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in Vegas, yeah, and you went down, you were on the Dan
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Patrick Show. I'm getting pictures. By the way, there's a new Instagram
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account out there, Tyler. We got to give them a little bit of
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shout out here, right, Oh, this is hilarious. Yeah, you
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don't know who it is, right, I don't. I got a couple
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of ideas. But I have a couple of ideas, but I don't know
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who's who's doing it and it's and what it's what is it? It's at
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like watcom preps. What is it? I don't even know at wakam preps.
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Spotted. Yeah, so somebody is taking shots of you, like in
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the stands on the court. Well not necessarily what they're doing is I mean,
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yes, But at the same time, they say, send me shots
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of him reaching out for submissions. They sent me a message the other day,
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or no, I sent them a message the other day because they every
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day there's a new picture. And I said, who said this one?
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And he's like, you know some guy named Jacob Clark and oh, you
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can't say he because we don't know if it's he or she and so.
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But see, right, that's true. But that's the thing is like they're
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getting submissions from people and so, you know, and there was a video
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the other day. They put music to it. It's it's it's hilarious.
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And you know what you gotta start doing. You gotta start like standing at
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the end of a basketball court and keeping your head straight, but like using
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your eyes to look around and see if there's anybody holding up their phones looking
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at you. Yeah. You know, well I'm always checking to see who's
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following that page. Yeah, and I'm like, oh, okay, this
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person is someone that I know goes to games. Okay, this person,
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you know, like Coach Wood is following I'm like, okay, really is
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he? Did he get a picture of me? So it's it's interesting.
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It's always funny to see see you know what's gonna end up happening. Coach
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Wood's going to like go to a basketball game because he's going to know you're
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going to be there, and he's not even gonna come say hi. He's
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just gonna like hide up in the corner, snap that shot, and then
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go home. Yeah. He's going to pay the eight bucks to get in
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or whatever it is, and then he's going to go home. He just
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wants to help out. Wat Come preps spotted. Yeah, that is that
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is too funny. But Tyler, Yeah, Dan Patrick's show. You were
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down there, you were doing your thing. Yeah, you were sitting like
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front row or something. I saw a picture and I just started laughing.
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It was crazy because I it was kind of the last second thing for me
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to go down there, and I didn't get a ticket to the show.
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They were free tickets on their website and they went in like ten minutes,
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like for all five shows, and they're all free, so you just kind
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of go in, you sign up and you get it and you have your
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number and whatever. So I was like, well, okay, I'm not
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going to go the show, but I'll go down there and i'll see if
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i can hang out with the guys because I've become friendly with a few of
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them, and so I thought, yeah, that'll be cool. And I'm
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staying probably two miles away from there where their show is being held. And
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I reach out to Marvin, who's the newest Danet on Monday night and I
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just said, hey, you know, last time I was I went and
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visited you guys. I got a group picture, but you weren't one of
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the official Danet's yet. He was still answering phones at the time, and
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so I go, but I'd like to get one now with you in it,
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and he's like, are you going to any of the shows? I
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said no, Those tickets went really fast, and he's like, oh bummer,
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and I said, I'd be happy to be a seat filler. Though,
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if you need somebody, and he kind of laughed, and then he
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called me on Facebook, like you can call somebody, you know, Facebook
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or whatever. Yeah, and and then with his butt, I think for
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me. Yeah, And I'm sitting there, like, you know, in
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my hotel room on Monday night, and I get this call and it's Marvin
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from the Dan Patrick Show. And I start laughing and I'm like, it's
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and so we start talking and he goes, what's your email address? So
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I told him my email address and he goes, Okay, we're going to
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get you on the show tomorrow. He goes, if you can come out,
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and I said, yeah, Well the show starts at six am.
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The line starts at five am to get you know, and and I'm two
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miles away, so you left there at like three am. Just make sure
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that time. And I don't want to walk down Vegas Strip at four o'clock
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in the morning. Yeah. So I actually got an uber set up and
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everything, and yeah, I did. I figured it out and and so
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they picked me up. I drop off, so I'm second in line to
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get in and then when I'm standing when they when we got really close,
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we're probably you know, ten minutes from going on to the set. This
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guy comes out and he's like, okay, what's your name? Show me
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your confirmation number, and I'm second line. I give him my name and
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and they don't and it's not on there, and so I show him my
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confirmation number and he looks at confirmation number, he goes, oh, you're
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a special guest. So he kind of swipes over to the the names on
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it said like Chris Simms, Brady Quinn, Albert Breer. Tyler anders walking
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from right and I just started laughing and I go that's me, Tyler.
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And I say, oh, okay, so and the guy standing next to
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me is like, who are you? And then right after that, like
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Marvin comes up, and everyone's like Marvid Marvin. He comes straight over to
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me and gives me love, gives me like a bro hug. He's like,
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oh, I'm glad, I'm glad you're able to make this work.
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I was like, oh, thanks, buddy, And then now everyone's looking
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at me really funny. So then we walk out there. I make sure
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I get a really good seat right in the front row and it's supposed to
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be and you know, it's like forty degrees raining. Oh really, everybody's
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got slickers on, and I've got shorts on, of course. Yeah,
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And they gave out bonchos and stuff, and I'm like, man, yeah,
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exactly. It's like, I'm from northwest Washington, Man, this is
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nothing Brandy small for a weather forecast. I know what to wear, right,
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And so I'm sitting there and and uh, it was great. They're
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all coming out, you know. Fritzy pointed at me a seat and came
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up over and gave me a bro hug too. And that was when people
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start asking him more like do you know these guys? Are like, yeah,
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kind of. I got up and got my picture taken with all of
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them, which was great. Again. Nice to see all those guys.
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It was awesome. Went to the Super Bowl experience. That was too many
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people for me to handle, but I got through it pretty well. Stood
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in line to do the precision passing thing. You get ten seconds to throw
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a little bit and then die and then yeah yeah, And then I stood
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in line to kick. You got to kick two extra points and then you
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go back, well the college extra points, high school extra points, and
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then you go back and kick a thirty yard field goal. If you made
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one of the two extra points and the percentages were like between eight and ten
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percent. With the people on line, it just wasn't good. And so
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when I got up there, I just said, hey, I'm just gonna
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kick one from thirty yards and he's got the guys like are you sure.
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I was like, yeah, that's fine. And because I stod in mind
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for about an hour for that and then I just teed it up, picked
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it, walk off and that was a lot of fun. I you know,
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there was some cool things going on, but man, there's just so
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many people and uh, well, and the thing about that experience stuff like
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I've you know, I went to the one when we're in or when it
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was in San Francisco, and it's it's cool, but it's also like there's
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some good history stuff that you can go see. Yeah, but for the
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most part, it's very much a it's not tailored to guys like you and
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me that love the major history side of the game. Yeah, you know
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what I mean. It was very corporate with a lot of sponsors. Yeah,
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there's like like there's like a ton of stuff for kids. Now,
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did you get to see like the locker room like or like yes, yeah,
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yeah, where they have every team that got got a locker set up
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or whatever like. So I took that picture a DK Metcalfs locker that had
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DKs there. That was That was That was neat. It did take a
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picture of any things Seahawks related. They had like the big giant helmets,
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just but a lot of Tyler the one in San Francisco when we were down
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there, Yeah, walking through and then they had like these big like logos
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on the floor in front of the lockers of each team, and I walked
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over and pretend like I was taking a poop on the forty nine er logo.
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Of course you were. Yeah, yeah, that's how much I like
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the forty nine ers anyway. But yeah, so I I was in there
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for you know, probably three hours, and it was just so many people,
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and I'm not great with people. I didn't I didn't want especially where
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you're not in a comfort like going around Lyndon. That's one thing. Yeah,
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but yeah, Vegas, Yeah, and it was you know, I
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there was you know, I could have got a picture with C. J.
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Stroud, but I would probably have to stand in line for a while.
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He was there signing autographs, doing pictures and and a lot of the
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historical stuff. But I did look at the stuff that I saw at the
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Hall of Fame a few years ago, so stuff I already took pictures of,
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but it was cool. It was great to actually see it that night,
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I because that was at Mandalay Bay. So if people have been to
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Vegas, it's the very south end of the strip where I'm and where I'm
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staying is kind of the middle of the strip, kind of where it turns
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at the Flamingo. So I'm gotta so I'm gonna walk all the way back.
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I've just been on my feet for four hours, and I'm not in
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the kind of shape I used to be in, and so I'm walking all
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the way back. It's a night. It's a beautiful night, kind of
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crisp, not too bad. You see all these crazies out, you know,
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and I just keep my head down and go. And but I am
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hungry, like I haven't eaten all night. It's probably seven o'clock so and
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I've been to in and out five times already, and so I'm like,
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okay, I'm going to go to a different place. I go there,
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it's packed, of course, everything's packed everywhere, and they go, well,
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can we they are you're by yourself. I said, yeah, they
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go. Can we see stick in this little one spot, like kind of
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off away from everybody. I'm like, yes, please, absolutely yes,
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put me away from everybody else. So I did that and I got,
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you know, cheeseburger and tots. You'd have been proud, right, And
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and oh they were great. She the waitress talked me into the tots.
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I said, did these come in to fries? And she goes yeah,
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but she goes, but our tots are really good, I said, done
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so like to hear that. Yes. So they were fantastic. But I
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was so tired and and I remember signing like you know, like the tip
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and everything, and then I was like, oh, I signed it on
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the wrong one. I'm supposed to do it on this one. Okay,
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sign this okay, do I leave this one? No? I leave this
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one? Do I know? I'm it's their pen I take this piece of
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paper. So I was all flustered. And that was the night before I
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was heading out, heading back to Belly on the next day. The next
22:48
day, I'm in the airport. I've already gone through security. I'm twenty
22:51
minutes away from boarding. I better get a snack for the plane. So
22:55
I just go to get some pringles and I don't have my debit card in
22:57
my wallet, and I'm like, oh no, So I kind of freaking
23:04
out a little bit. I'm like, where did I last use my debit
23:07
card? And I was like, oh, it's at the where I ate
23:11
the night before. It has to be there, but they weren't open yet,
23:15
so I had to wait till I landed in Bellingham. Called them up.
23:18
They had me speak with the manager. I told him my name,
23:22
what the bank was, when the expiration date was on the card, and
23:27
they were like, yeah, we got it. So he gave me his
23:30
email address. He was the general manager, and I sent him my address
23:34
and then the next day he sent me confirmation with tracking everything. My card
23:38
is on the way back to Waukham County so you can still get a new
23:41
one. Well, I have so many things tied up with it, with
23:45
that number, with that card number, and I just didn't want to go
23:48
through all that. And he was totally happy to send it back free of
23:52
charge in then good like FedEx, you know envelope, yeah, cardboard envelope
23:59
right, yeah? Oh uh so yeah, it was crazy. It was
24:03
it was a fun trip and uh and I missed a little bit of basketball,
24:08
but I was able to. I came back Thursday afternoon and boom,
24:11
Thursday night, I was out at sea home to catch some girls basketball.
24:15
So it it. I'm slowly getting caught up. I don't know if I've
24:18
ever told you this, Tyler. Every other month, I go get a
24:23
new card. And the reason I do that is for the exact reason that
24:29
you don't want to do that is because I'll sign up for something and then
24:33
you'll forget it, and then I forget about it. So if I just
24:36
go get a new card every two months, all I have to do is
24:37
go reput that number into the four or five things that I know I need
24:42
to pay for, right and it's and then anything else that I happened to
24:45
do and forget, I get rid of it and I don't have to worry
24:48
about it. I'm not kidding. Go I do it. I do it.
24:51
I like it every two months because I'm with b Ecu. I just
24:53
walk right in and boom, they printed off and away they go. Yeah,
24:57
it's pretty cool. Originally I had a you dub you know card.
25:02
I walked in one time and the guy goes, oh, we don't have
25:03
any U dub ones. I go, just, I don't give me a
25:06
Wazoo one. He goes what and I go, yeah, I don't care
25:10
if it's a stinking card, and he goes okay, And so then he
25:14
got a Wazoo one, and you know, the next time I was in
25:18
there, I probably got a you know, Seahawks one or something, and
25:19
I kind of stuck with it ever since, just because. But yeah,
25:22
yeah, anyway, Tyler, Yeah, Vegas was sounds like it was awesome
25:27
and super Bowl was fun. The highlights are right here in front of me
25:30
right now watching Patrick Mahomes. Right, did he end up winning the MVP?
25:34
I assume, I'm sure. I'm sure he did. I actually don't
25:37
even know who won the MVP. I didn't really watch the key. Yeah,
25:45
Patrick Mahomes wins Super Bowl for third time or super Bowl MVP for third
25:48
time. Oh, I didn't realize he won the I didn't realize he's already
25:52
won two m vps too. Yeah yeah, anyway, let's uh, let's
25:56
see here, we got boys wrestling. We're gonna talk girl are wrestling today
26:00
also, and then we've got boys and girls basketball and we've got boys swim
26:06
and dive, so we got all kinds of stuff to talk about here.
26:08
Let's start off with boys wrestling. We're gonna go three A Region one tournament.
26:14
Yelm takes home the championship one hundred and seventy five and a half points,
26:18
Arlington not far behind one sixty seven and a half, Marysville Pilchuck they
26:22
finished third at one forty five, and then Ferndale they finished seven excuse me,
26:26
eleventh with seventy four points. They didn't finish seventy fourth with eleven points.
26:33
Ferndale did have three placers that are headed onto the state tournament, including
26:38
a champion hut Tyler, Yeah, Gabrios Gordia one oh six pounder, the
26:45
senior at one oh six. We talked about that last week. If how
26:48
rare that is. He's had a great year. He's the regional champion going
26:52
on to state. That's three a state. It's going to be a grind
26:55
whyatt straight at two eighty five he plays second tournaments, he's been in first
27:00
place, he's been very impressive all year. And then Mason Philippini at won
27:04
twenty six third place, So three really good wrestlers, the big notable or
27:11
noticeable non name or name that's not there, as Jacob Gandy, who I
27:18
believe he got injured and you know, wasn't able to perform, and that's
27:22
and that's tough. I mean he's a junior. Good thing because I think
27:26
I think he's a guy that could have done some damage. But he has
27:30
another year. I hope he gets better and is gonna be ready for football
27:33
and then wrestling again. But three very good wrestlers from Ferndale going on to
27:38
the three A state tournament in the two ways Region one. Ana Chordis gets
27:44
the win as a team with two hundred and one points, Sedro Willie one
27:47
hundred and eighty seven in second, and Burlington Edison finishes third with one hundred
27:52
and sixty three. So well, actually, Tyler, as I look this
27:56
over, the first seven teams all come from the Northwest Conference. Yeah,
28:00
Bellingham finished fourth with one hundred and forty two, Seahome seventh with sixty four,
28:07
Squalicum tenth with fifty one and a half, and Linden finished twelfth with
28:11
twenty seven. Let's start off with Linden, Tyler, I see, I
28:17
see one name going in one name is also an alternate here. Yeah,
28:22
for the two A level, it's the top four go on and fifth fifth
28:26
place is alternate. It's different for all three classifications for who's going on.
28:32
So Christian Velasquez that the one hundred and twenty six pounds took second place for
28:36
Linden, He's had an awesome year. He's always been their top wrestler.
28:38
It seems like at every event they're at, every tournament's always their highest placer.
28:44
And then Clarence via Daris at one fifty seven took fifth place, so
28:48
he's an alternate going to state for Linden. Let's talk about Squalicum. I
28:52
see a champion, and I see a couple other placers. Yeah, Lucas
28:57
Hanson at one hundred and fifty seven pounds a regional champion, very very impressive
29:04
year for him. He kind of snuck up on me as the year's gone
29:08
on. I haven't seen much about Squalicum wrestling, but lately I have and
29:12
he's always right up there. Griffin Smith at one hundred and forty four pounds
29:17
took third place, and Simeon Blast at one hundred and fifty pounds took fourth
29:21
place. So those are the three Squalicum wrestlers heading to state. Seaholme has
29:26
a four moving on, including one alternate, Tyler. Yeah, Grant Oliver
29:30
who's kind of been their main guy all year. At one hundred and fifty
29:33
pounds, he took third place. Caleb Davis a one hundred and fifty seven
29:37
pounds, also took third place. Colin mciverern at one hundred and forty four
29:41
pounds took fourth, So they'll be all going to stay, as well as
29:44
Aiden Holmes, who is the alternate as a fifth place finisher at one hundred
29:48
and sixty five pounds. Now, Bellingham, they finished what I say fourth
29:52
as a team and they have won two, three, four, five guys
29:57
get into the final. Yeah, and uh, overall they have eight wrestlers
30:03
moving on to state. Yeah, really impressive showing here. And like you
30:08
said, the top seven teams were all Northwest Conference teams and it's probably the
30:12
same order. Bellingham took fourth, you know last week at district so they
30:18
take fourth again here. But it almost looked like they had better showings than
30:23
they did at districts in this way, in this one than they did last
30:26
week. Dylan Roath at one hundred and six pounds took second place. Nate
30:30
Loss at one hundred and forty four, Avel shintar At won fifty, Alexander
30:36
Scott at one fifty seven, and Sunny Palette twot fifteen all took second place.
30:40
They'll all be moving on to state. Third place finishers include Connor Rodriguez
30:44
Stiff and Finnegan Jensen at two eighty five. I mean finegain, I think
30:48
he I think Finn took like fourth last week, you know, and now
30:52
he's taking third here, which is awesome. And then fourth place Aiden Borcher
30:56
at one twenty six. So so yeah, they got eight guys going on
31:00
to state. That's a big, big feather in the cap for coach Breierly
31:04
in BayHawks. In the one A region, Cascade Christian comes away with the
31:10
team championship with one hundred and eighty one points. Mount Baker finishes second with
31:15
one hundred and seventy, Blaine right behind him at one sixty eight, seventh
31:19
place Meridian eighty three and a half points, and Nuksack Valley finishes thirteenth with
31:25
thirty five points. But Nuksack Valley did get one guy in the state and
31:30
it is a champion Tyler Yeah. Regional champion Wyatt Bacon. We've been talking
31:36
about him a lot this year. At one hundred and ninety pounds and a
31:40
lot of these tournaments going against bigger schools, he'd get like, you know,
31:42
second or third, but he's a district champion, he's a regional champion,
31:47
and he'll be going for that state championship. Has been an awesome year
31:49
for Wyatt Bacon. For the Knucksack Valley Pioneers. Three wrestlers from the Meridian
31:55
Trojans are moving on, including one alternate Tyler Yeah. Only the top or
32:00
go on to state. Fourth place is an alternate for one a including Trason
32:04
Lewis Kelly at one hundred and six pounds. He took fourth place from Meridian,
32:07
so he's an alternate. Our guy, joshin Elmer took third place at
32:12
one hundred and fifty pounds, but and in second place with a great showing
32:16
from Meridian. Rhet Dirsh at two hundred and fifteen pounds, who is high
32:22
on my guess list for who's behind this walk and prep spotted thing? Oh
32:30
a, rhtt Dirsh is the guy who I think might be behind it,
32:32
but I don't know for sure, and I don't want to mess with him
32:37
either. If he's taken second place at two hundred and fifteen pounds, yeah,
32:40
he's a great kid. Maybe what you do is you go find the
32:44
guy that took first place and bring him along with you. Right, let's
32:46
see here, we've got eight guys from Blaine moving on, including one champion
32:53
who in the final got in there with his own teammate. And did I
32:58
see it correctly? Was it a forfeit the final? I don't know if
33:00
I saw that right. Yeah. Yeah, that's what happened to the district
33:04
championship, and that's what happened the regional championship. You're right, it's the
33:06
same. It's the same both times. Victor Gerval two hundred and eighty five
33:09
pounds is a regional champion again at to eighty five, so an Auto Shelton,
33:14
who's junior second place at two eighty five. So those guys will both
33:19
put up pretty good fights at state tournament. It's gonna be excited to see.
33:23
Second place finishes include Vinnie Saia at one twenty six, Cal Fitzgerald at
33:28
one forty four, which I think was a little bit of an upset.
33:30
I was kind of expecting a regional championship from him. He'll probably bounce back
33:34
and do pretty well at state. And Blake Goltz at one hundred and ninety
33:37
pounds also took second, and then third place finishers include Christopher's A Mudio at
33:43
one hundred and six pounds, in Cold Voight at one hundred and thirteen pounds,
33:45
oh, and Daniel Joner at one thirty two. These are there's they
33:50
just they have a lot of talent up and down that that roster at Blaine
33:54
and not surprised at all to have eight wrestlers moving on the Mount Baker Mountaineers.
34:01
They've got nine moving on with one alternate in there also and came away
34:07
with two champions. Yeah, this was a great showing by the Mountaineers,
34:12
who finished behind Blaine in the district tournament but ahead of them in the regional
34:15
regional tournament. I think there was some great, great matches. I heard
34:22
from a few parents about how stressful some of these matches were, and and
34:27
you know they're all texting each other and being like we got one more weekend
34:30
moms. You know, it's it is crazy. You get in that wrestling
34:35
routine where it's this during the week, you kind of got your routine,
34:37
there's gonna be some things going, and then every weekend there's a tournament somewhere,
34:40
and it's just it just goes and goes, and you just it's a
34:44
lot of stress, but a lot of fun. Champions include Daniel Washburn at
34:49
one hundred and fifty seven pounds. He's just he's been that way all year.
34:52
He's just very dominant. And Andrew Monteeth at one hundred and twenty six
34:57
pounds, which is a little bit of I'm a surprise there. He's been
35:00
kind of, you know, a second, third, fourth place kind of
35:04
guy. To take there be a regional champion is really something. A one
35:07
hundred and twenty six pounds A great job by him. Wyatt Freeman took second
35:12
place at won sixty five, Vance Lawrence second place at won seventy five,
35:16
and Isaac da Creek second place at one hundred and six pounds. Those guys
35:21
are all going to do quite well. I would imagine Gavin Compton third place
35:24
at one hundred and thirty eight pounds, Dylan Moa third place one ninety,
35:29
and alder Gardi at third place at two hundred and fifteen pounds, and then
35:32
the alternate fourth place finisher was Sean Dugger at one thirty two. Who you
35:37
know, he's a guy who played a lot of linebacker this year too.
35:40
You say, you see a guy wrestling at one thirty two and being a
35:44
linebacker. That shows a lot about his toughness and stuff like that. So
35:47
Mount Breaker bringing eight plus one alternate to the state tournament, that's a great
35:52
job by by you know who the coach. High school. I'm trying to
36:00
remember which one it is. I think it's this one here high school.
36:07
Oh man, the my recording equipment is sitting at a slightly different angle than
36:13
normal, So when I looked up, I was like, oh, shoot,
36:15
which one is it? Then I thought to myself, I know that
36:20
one will give me the Mount Baker High School. It's weird because I as
36:22
I'm halfway through saying, I'm like, man, I'm this. We didn't
36:28
talk about this, but we like to go on the fly every once in
36:30
a while, and all like to do is look at it. Though I
36:32
couldn't remember which one it was. School, all right, Tyler. Now,
36:38
for the first time ever in Wakam Preps, we're gonna talk girls wrestling.
36:44
Yeah, the three A four A, Now, Tyler, just look
36:47
at it over here. I get the idea that three A and four A
36:51
are their own state tournament, and then two A, one A, one
36:53
B, and two B are their own state tournament. Yeah, I was
36:57
looking at that. I think this is a pretty recent thing. I know
37:00
it wasn't that long ago where all the girls were just a one pate tournament.
37:05
Yeah, right, and so, but because regionals was broken up this
37:09
way, I would imagine State's going to be like that too. I don't
37:12
know how long it's been like this. I don't think it's been like this
37:15
for very long. Yeah, I fully admit I've watched the girls wrestling down
37:19
there before, haven't paid close enough attention to know how that all works.
37:22
So, yeah, this is new to you and me. But the three
37:25
A four eight Region one tournament here, it was won by Oak Harbor with
37:31
one hundred and twenty Now, well, Olk Harber's the home much both had
37:34
one hundred and twenty nine. Glacier Peak had one hundred and twenty eight.
37:37
Lake Stevens right behind it one hundred and twenty one. Ferndale finishes twenty sixth
37:42
with twenty points, and they do have one member of their team headed onto
37:46
the state tournament. Yeah, Eleanna Gillery at one hundred and seventy pounds took
37:52
fourth place, so she's she's moving on. So she's the sole Ferndale Golden
37:57
Eagle going on to the state tournament for girls restle. I guess we should
38:00
call it the Matt Classic, right, Yeah, I know, I guess
38:02
what it is. Why? Yeah, it is what it is. I
38:06
mean, it's it's and it's for everybody, so all classifications and everything.
38:08
So, uh yeah, Matt Classic. Oh yeah, and football is the
38:13
Gridiron Classic, Basketball is the Hardwood Classic. Yeah. Is baseball called the
38:17
Diamond Classic? I have not heard. I'm not quite sure. Softball the
38:22
uh dirt infield Classic. Dirt, Yeah, it's the first thing I thought
38:28
to the dirt Classic. Let's see here Tyler D two A one A two
38:32
B one BE Region one girls wrestling tournament. Ordering one hundred and sixty points,
38:38
they are the winners. Sedro Woolley finishes second with one hundred and twenty
38:42
three and a half. White River third with one hundred and nine. Then
38:46
we get four straight from Wakam County Mount Baker seventy eight. They are in
38:51
a fourth place. Blaine with fifty four points they are fifth, Meridian fifty
38:55
two points at sixth and Squalicum with forty six in seventh, and then a
39:00
couple other Wacom County finishers in twelfth place. The Linden Allions with thirty five
39:07
points. Nuxack Valley finishes twenty second out of thirty four teams. That's a
39:12
lot of teams, man, but they had eighteen points. And we've got
39:17
quite a few different places where girls are moving on. Nuzack Valley a second
39:22
place finisher. Yeah, Mina Azam at two thirty five. She's the lone
39:29
Nuksack Valley pioneer going on to the Matt Classic. Lindon had a champion at
39:34
one fifty five. Huh, Tyler, Yeah, Bell and Lopez has just
39:37
been dominant. I believe she took second in state last year. I don't
39:42
want to speak out of school, but I think I remember seeing that.
39:45
And she's undefeated this year, so she is definitely on a mission. And
39:50
so yeah, she's a regional champion for the Linden Lions. That is uh,
39:54
that's pretty cool. Yeah, let's see her. Squalcum two wrestlers moving
40:00
on, including a champion. Yeah, Isabella Phillips at one hundred ninety pounds
40:04
also undefeated on the season. So some really great top end wrestlers here in
40:08
Walking County. Sadie Wilson took second place at one hundred and forty pounds.
40:14
And then we've got to Meridian with two moving on, including another champion.
40:19
Actually they were wrestling each other in the final exactly. Yeah, so this
40:22
is pretty impressive. Both wrestled the same weight one seventy. Reagan Swape is
40:29
your champion and Kennedy Ferrar second place. So Meridian's guy. I mean,
40:32
imagine those practices, you know, as they always say, iron sharpens iron,
40:37
so you could imagine they just make each other better year round. Yeah,
40:42
probably some serious, serious battles there. Yeah, that would be fun
40:46
to watch. Yeah, let's hear Blaine three moving on, one alternate but
40:52
also another champion. Yeah, Lucian Adult won forty five is a champion.
40:58
McKenna lost their at one hundred is third place, and then Claire Hume at
41:02
one twenty is an alternate fourth place finisher and then last but was certainly not
41:08
least here in what we're talking Mount Baker. They are also sending three including
41:13
an alternate. Yeah, Anna Camacho one five took second place, Tyler Olsen
41:19
at one forty third, and Carolyn Cook at one fifteen is your alternate fourth
41:22
place finisher. So there it is. Tyler. We have talked more girls
41:28
wrestling today than we ever have. I love it and it is apparently like
41:32
the fastest growing sport in the United States or something, is what I read.
41:39
Yeah, I would, I mean for youth sports. Yeah, I
41:43
mean, yes, I'm talking high school sports. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
41:47
I can't imagine there's a whole lot of women hopping into wrestling at this
41:52
point. But hey, you never know, I mean, you really don't.
41:57
Uh. Let's see here, Tyler, we've got boys swim and dive,
42:00
which means we need to talk about Stafford Insurance one nine to three Front
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Street in Linden. That is their address. You can find them three six
42:08
zero seven four six eighty eight oh three. Staffer Insurance says here it is
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our mission to provide personal attention in family based business model, because your family
42:19
is our family, and Tyler, swim and dive that is family. If
42:23
I've ever seen It's right. We got all kinds of stuff going on here,
42:27
Tyler. We've got lots of people moving on and it's going to be
42:30
a really exciting state tournament down there. Let's see here we've got how do
42:36
we want to do this? I guess we'll just go I'll name it off.
42:39
You tell me who's doing what. How about that? Yeah, all
42:43
right, Tyler. How about the two hundred medley relay. Yeah, A
42:46
couple teams squalk them really strong. Fourth, So they're the fourth place team
42:52
in the state right now with their team and Seahoma's ranked twelve. So and
42:57
this is these are all two way at three A. It's really hard to
43:00
get into the state tournament. Ferndale did a good job that actually had a
43:05
couple of school records broken, but nobody moving on to the state tournament.
43:09
How about two hundred Oh, this is where we start getting crazy here the
43:14
two hundred free. Yeah, this is Miles Kratzenberg of Bellingham is the top
43:19
ranked swimmer in the state in this in this discipline, and it's really impressive.
43:24
He's you know, you you see these things every once in a while
43:28
where I'll get these time sheets where it will say like two A D or
43:31
two as and Basically, what it means is you've qualified for district for two
43:36
A or you've qualified for state for two A. And then I saw AAC
43:39
on this one, and I'm looking. I'm googling stuff up and it's basically
43:44
like an All American qualifying time. So really impressive what Miles Kratzenberg has done
43:52
in his career for Bellingham. So what you're telling me is Miles Kratzenberg swims
43:55
really fast. Oh yes, Tyler, We've had Dylan Fiske on. What
44:01
do we gotta do to get Miles Kratzenberg for the intro? I just guess
44:05
I got to reach out see if we'll do an intro, and if he
44:07
says no, then we're never talking about him again on the podcast. Yeah,
44:12
I don't know. No, that's definitely not gonna happen because he's gonna
44:14
say yes, Ye, let's see here. How about the two hundred individual
44:19
Medley. Yeah, Dylan fisk who's had a great year, just a sophomore
44:23
from Squalicum. He's ranked second the state and that and man, that'd be
44:28
great if he could take home some the big hardware on that one. I'm
44:31
seeing three names here, Tyler at the fifty three. Yeah, see Holmes.
44:37
Jack Champagne is ranked fifteenth, and then a couple guys from Squalicum.
44:40
Hayden Nelson is ranked sixteenth and Finn Smith from Squalkum is ranked twentyeth Now,
44:45
this one's gonna take a while, Tyler, because we'd gott a lot of
44:50
dudes headed down to dive this weekend. I assume it's this weekend. Yeah,
44:54
yeah, because it's usually the same weekend as the Matt Classic. Lots
44:59
of guys going down here. I see three six I see eight total names,
45:01
Tyler. Yeah, and this is really impressive because and these guys have
45:07
all have been diving against each other, so it's I don't really know how
45:10
the rest of the state compares, but eventually, but these guys must be
45:15
some of the best. Obviously, Jack Leagan from Seahome. All year,
45:17
he's been putting up these huge numbers, huge scores over three hundred, and
45:22
he's ranked first. His teammate Kayden Schmidt and from Seaholm was ranked second.
45:27
Miles Ludwig from Bellingham ninth. I love the drum sets that he makes.
45:31
By the way, Ludwig drums are the best. Nolan Whitman from Squalkhum ranked
45:36
tenth in the Yeah it spelled that way, isn't it. Yeah, it
45:40
is. I just noticed it. That's why I had to ask. Yeah,
45:44
I'm not quite sure. We'll find that. Thomas Knutson from Squalicum ranked
45:47
twelfth, Key and Mesilek from Squalkum rank thirteenth, Gus de Luca from Seahome
45:52
fourteenth, and Ben Land from Squalicum eighteenth. So you got a lot of
45:57
guys from Walking Prep or Walking Prep from Walkham County from Yeah, ay mean
46:02
jumping off that diving board, it's gonna be awesome. Yeah, that's pretty
46:06
cool. How about the one hundred butterfly. Another top ranked swimmer here,
46:10
Dylan Fist number one in the state, ranked at the hundred butterfly. It's
46:15
pretty awesome. And then Scottie Lee from Seahome ranked eighteenth one hundred free Tyler,
46:20
what do we got there? Yeah, Finn Smith from Squalcum is fifteenth.
46:23
Jack Champagne from Sea Home is eighteenth. These are a couple of guys
46:27
that you know you saw him in the fifty free as well. So these
46:30
are guys just short distance shoot out of a cannon, go as fast as
46:32
you can freestyle, five hundred free, yes, the long distance. And
46:39
this is interesting because you got Miles Kratzenberg, who's we've talked about him with
46:44
these amazing times and all American stuff. He's the top ranked swimmer from Bellingham,
46:50
you know, in the state, so he's he's a guy that's looking
46:52
to win that. And then you got, you know, a freshman Liam
46:57
Deheim from Seahome ranked eighteenth. And then you got a swimmer from Mount Baker
47:00
who's going to be competing. He's ranked nineteenth, Rock o'conn. So you
47:05
kind of got a little sprinkle of a lot of different things going on in
47:07
there. Let's talk two hundred free relay again. Three teams from Walkom County
47:14
that have been strong all year. Bellingham is ranked third, Seahome seventh,
47:19
and Squalicum sixteenth. So we'll see how those teams bear this weekend. I
47:23
wonder what the general idea of like, you know, oh, if you're
47:28
in the top six or seven, you probably got a shot, you know,
47:30
I mean, I guess I guess it would. It would vary because
47:34
if there's somebody like Kratzenburg that's just super dominant, it almost doesn't matter what
47:37
everybody yeah, you almost have to look at the times. Yeah, let's
47:42
see here where we at one hundred backstroke Tyler, Yeah, Aiden Nelson from
47:45
Squalkham ranked eighth and Ky Arthur from Sea Home eighteenth. One hundred breaststroke Yeah,
47:53
Cohen Matthew from Seaholme is ranked nineteenth. He's the lone Walkham County swimmer
47:58
in that event. And then one on the list here the four hundred free
48:01
relay. Very impressive by squal It come to be ranked second here all year
48:07
They've been putting up some really really great times and then see them was also
48:10
ranked sixteenth. Really just great across the board for these Walking County teams to
48:17
have so many swimmers be competing at this at this state tournament. That's boysm
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eight three. Tyler, let's talk boys and girls basketball and we'll start with
48:47
the girls side again sponsored by Edeling Dairy big sponsors. We love everything about
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Edeling Dairy. Man, I want some ice cream. You know what I
48:58
have in the in the cupboards right now? The tyler I have. I
49:00
have popcorn. It was on sale and I bought like every box they had
49:06
because it was so cheap. It was I haven't that's that's really good.
49:12
I have not made microwave popcorn in years. I bought a popper years ago,
49:19
and it was kind of a weird, like kind of like, hmmm,
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I'm gonna get this, Like it was not it wasn't really an impulse
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by but I just saw it and I thought. We used to have a
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popper when I was a little kid, and I just always loved All three
49:34
of us kids would be standing around it and we'd watch the butter melt and
49:36
we'd hold the bag open. I mean, it was just it was just
49:39
a really cool deal. We're probably gonna watch like a Disney movie or something
49:42
that when you put the butter on top, yeah, and the little cut
49:45
and the little thing and it eats up and it melts the butter and the
49:49
little cup thing, and so I just thought, man, that'd be kind
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of cool, you know. And I remember buying that and then I bought
49:53
a little little thing of kernels and brought it home and popped the popcorn and
49:59
it was so fresh and so good. I was just like, I don't
50:04
know if I can go back to quickcorn. Oh no, I'm with you.
50:07
It was just a weird like and I've been on it ever since.
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I love it. I only bought it because it's so cheap. I was
50:14
just like, you know what, absolutely, I can deal with the microwave
50:16
popcorn for that price, Like, oh yeah, although I have a lot
50:20
to deal with now because I got a lot of them. I actually brought
50:22
one into our training room at the height at Bothel High School. I brought
50:25
one in there and I stuck it up on top of the because we have
50:28
a microwave in there, and just in case, you know, a kid
50:30
needs a shoulder thing, we just throw them in the microwave real quick and
50:32
heat it up. Yeah, but I put it up on top so that
50:37
nobody can find it, because kids will find it, like they always do
50:40
it, and they steal all my stuff. You can put your name on,
50:44
it doesn't even matter, they're going to steal it. Yeah. Let's
50:46
talk girls basketball. Tyler the scoreboards again, Edelne Dairy. Thank you to
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them. Three A district tournament. I see Ferndale has been eliminated. Yeah,
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you know three a's tough, and so many teams had to play a
51:01
playing game to get to the you know, the the round of eight basically,
51:07
and Ferndal had to play a playing game. Lost. They played it
51:12
at home, so they were probably favored, but they lost him in a
51:15
row sixty two to forty seven seasons over Mallory Button Show and had a huge
51:21
game twenty nine points. I think that's a career high for her last game.
51:24
And she's someone we've talked about a lot during volleyball now and now basketball,
51:30
and she's going to be you know, great fast pitch and she's related
51:35
to yeah yeah, their cousins. I think. Yeah, so she's a
51:40
very common right, she's one. She's very very competitive. I always love
51:45
watching her play a lot of sports. And I think she's moving on to
51:49
do a couple I think she's moving on to play volleyball and fast pitch at
51:53
community or Gadget Valley College or something like that. So really cool that she's
51:59
going to keep playing, because but it's tough, tough way, but tough
52:02
tough way to go, but it has to end at some point. Sticking
52:06
in the two A district tournament, I see Seahome and Squalicum. They are
52:08
still alive. Yeah, they started the tournament against each other. Seahom won
52:16
that game sixty five to thirty four to put them in the semis, but
52:21
then they lost to such a strong Linden team sixty to twenty. So they
52:25
are they are still alive. They're gonna be They're going to be playing against
52:31
Anacordis on February thirteenth, so that's Tuesday at five point thirty at Mount Vernon
52:37
High School and that's gonna be a loser out gain. So they're still alive,
52:40
but they are hanging on. Yeah. Squalicum took the loss against Sea
52:47
Home, so they went down to the loser bracket early, but they beat
52:52
Sidro Wooley to stay alive. So they will be facing Burlington Edison, who's
52:58
the third ranked team in the tournament, and that will be the same day.
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That'll be the next game. That'll be at seven to fifteen, another
53:04
loser out game. That's gonna be a tough one. Burlington is very very
53:07
strong, so it's you know, we'll see how that one all. How
53:13
those two games all turn out. But yeah, it's gonna be really tough.
53:19
Looking here, now we've got Linden. Oh, excuse me, we
53:23
forgot to talk about somebody here, Tyler Bellingham. Bellingham has been eliminated,
53:29
correct. Yeah, they had to play in a playing game as well out
53:31
at Lakewood, and Lakewood's kind of up and down. I've seen Lakewood go
53:35
on a tear and then not score any points in the next quarter. But
53:38
they played really well against Bellingham. Bellingham lost forty eight to twenty eight.
53:44
So they've been eliminated. But they bring I think they only have one junior
53:49
and the rest of their team as sophomores and freshmen, so very very young
53:52
team. Yeah, and they and they're gonna they're gonna learn from their mistakes.
53:59
There's just a lot of this little, you know, little things where
54:02
you dribble it and then you pick up your dribble on the right as you
54:06
pass the half court line on the corner. It's like that's that's the last
54:08
place you want to pick up your like this little things like that, Like
54:12
look up when you're dribbling, you got a wide open person down the court.
54:15
So I think that they'll be fine going forward. But they're just a
54:19
very very young team. But uh, they but they were eliminated in the
54:22
playing game. Now I'm looking here and I see Lynden. They are in
54:27
the district championship game here coming up this week on Wednesday, Hot Tyler.
54:30
Yeah, they've just they continue to do what they've been doing all season.
54:35
There's no drop off for them there. They are the top seeded team in
54:37
the tournament. They began by beating Sieger Rely seventy eight to nineteen and then
54:43
follow that up by beating Sea Home sixty to twenty. Sem is and seem's
54:46
great. They returned almost everybody from a state tournament team last year. I
54:52
mean, this Linden team right now is on a roll. You know,
54:57
regardless of classification. They are one of the top teams in the state.
55:00
So they'll be facing Archbishop Murphy for the district championship on Wednesday at five thirty
55:06
at Mount Vernon High School. That's gonna be a tremendous game. Archbishop Murphy
55:09
is ranked second in this tournament, so it is the one versus two.
55:14
I've seen Archbishop Murphy a little bit. I saw them against Lennon Christian earlier
55:17
in the year, Elsie beat him in overtime on a game winning three,
55:22
which was it was one of the best games I saw all year. But
55:23
it was like it was so long ago. I think it was late November
55:27
when that game took place. It is so long ago. But they are
55:30
very, very strong teams. So that's gonna be a great matchup for the
55:34
district championship. That is the two A district tournament. Let's talk about the
55:38
one a's Tyler and I see Mount Baker and Blaine appear to be eliminated.
55:45
Yeah. Mount Baker lost in the playing game to Meridian thirty eight to twenty
55:49
five. They were without probably their best player, Natalie van Lews That she's
55:54
a player that's you know, led their team in scoring all year. I
56:00
think she averages more free throw attempts than any player in the county. She
56:05
just drives to the hoop and takes contact and flies around and has no fear.
56:09
And she was out for that game. So that's a really tough player
56:14
to replace. They did get Jenna Weininger back, the senior who had the
56:17
concussion that scary, scary event that happened a couple of weeks ago, but
56:24
they just couldn't get past Meridian thirty eight twenty five. So Mount Baker's has
56:28
been eliminated. Blaine, they were the three seed in this and they lost
56:35
to the two seed Lennon Christians seventy four to twenty one. So they got
56:38
knocked down to the consolation round where they played Meridian. They were up the
56:45
whole game, they were up the whole game, and they lost it at
56:47
the end forty to thirty eight. Tough way to lose for the border rights.
56:52
But and the future is really iffy for them because they only had eight
56:55
players on the roster. Four of them are seniors, three refreshmen, and
57:02
one was an exchange student that's going to be going back to Europe. So
57:07
next year, unless they have a lot of freshmen coming in, they only
57:09
have three players remaining. There was no sub varsity, so it'd be really
57:14
interesting to see what they do with that program and how it moves forward.
57:19
But to beat ten and twelve this year with only eight players really really showed
57:23
me something. And bick Wolfus is one of those amazing coaches that he's the
57:28
guy that's like he will be coaching somewhere, no matter what. He's coached
57:31
the playing girls now, he was the Linden girls coach. He's coached Mount
57:35
Vernon girls, He's coached Meridian girls, he's coached Squalicum girls, He's coached
57:38
the Linden Christian boys to state championships. He's been a coach forever and he
57:45
always does really good job wherever he goes. Now, Tyler, we're going
57:49
to go a little out of order from what you and I had discussed here,
57:52
okay, and we're going to get this out of the way. Nooksack
57:54
Valley District Championship. Huh yeah. I mean it's it's no surprise, but
58:00
it's you can't just, you know, say oh, they're going to do
58:06
it. They still have to put in the hard work. They played Meridian
58:08
after Meridian beat Mount Baker in the playing game, and they took care of
58:12
Meridian eighty three to thirty two. And then they played Linden Christian in the
58:15
district championship game, which was a great, great, a great game.
58:21
Linden Christian I believe was up at halftime. I mean that was an unbelievable
58:27
game. Huge crowd, I would say probably a few thousand people. It
58:31
was just just a humongous crowd, great venue, you know, out at
58:37
Lyndon High School. That was the fourth game of the quadruple header that I
58:40
was at on Saturday. It was just a great atmosphere all around. But
58:46
Nooksack Valley came back won at fifty three to forty five. They're back onto
58:51
state now. They you know, they played in the last two state championship
58:55
games against Lynden Christian lost of them two years, ag Go beat them last
59:00
year, so that that game is always just a great game. Those two
59:05
teams when they when they play each other, it's fantastic. Yeah, it's
59:09
a really really, really really talented group. And and and a great result
59:16
for the Pioneers. Now you mentioned Lennon Christians, so they're still alive in
59:22
this. And then we also got to talk about Meridian, who when you
59:25
talk about staying alive, I mean, this is a team that's seven and
59:29
sixteen and they're just finding a way to win when when they need to get
59:31
a win. Absolutely, i mean they you know, they beat Mount Baker
59:36
to just to get into it, and then you know they they took one
59:38
on the chin to Knooksack Valley, but then to come back and beat Blaine
59:42
to stay in. This has really shown me something. You know, it's
59:46
gonna be tough against Lennon Christians. So Lendy Christian beat Blaine, but then
59:50
lost in the state championship game. But they still have to play for their
59:52
game, I'm sorry, the district championship. So but they still have to
59:57
even though they lost the district championship, they still have to win another one
1:00:00
just to get to state. And uh, those two teams are going to
1:00:04
be playing each other on Friday at Lennon High School at seven fifteen. So
1:00:08
Meridian Lynn and Christian. You know, Lennon Christian is gonna be heavily favored
1:00:13
in that one. But Meridian has been they they you know, they're they're
1:00:17
finding ways to do what they can. I mean, they're they've been without
1:00:20
Ali Richter most of the year, who's their best player, and but they
1:00:24
have a lot of a lot of younger players that can do some really good
1:00:30
things, very athletic players, and they just they have all the kind of
1:00:34
the rules. They have the feisty point guard with Brooklyn Fuller, They've got
1:00:37
the really talented freshman with Eden Bernardi. They got Kinsley Neil can shoot outside.
1:00:44
Taya Benson's about five eleven, she can grab a lot of rebounds.
1:00:46
So you got you kind of got all your spots doing their things. Malliam
1:00:51
McCauley's great kind of overall player. So but beating Lynn and Christian is a
1:00:55
tall task, and especially with they had Now they have grace back, but
1:01:01
you never know. That's why they play at the games. And that's gonna
1:01:04
be a good one out at Lyndon High School on Friday. That is the
1:01:08
girls basketball wrap up there. Let's talk about boys also sponsored by Edelyne Derry,
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and we'll start with the three A district tournament where I see Ferndale has
1:01:17
been eliminated on this side also, yeah, very similar. They had to
1:01:21
play a playing game at Marysville Getchel and man, it's just there's a lot
1:01:27
of talent at the three A level, you know, when you start getting
1:01:30
on to the next levels and different things like that. And Ferndale they just
1:01:32
won one game last year to jump up to win seven this year. Completely
1:01:37
new staff, really liked their team all year. It's just a tough one
1:01:42
to lose, but a great year by the Golden Eagles. Let's talk two
1:01:47
a district tournament and I see Squalicum there they have been eliminated. That was
1:01:52
a heartbreaker. I was watching that game Monday night. That was when I
1:01:58
was talking to Marvin from the Dam Pat Show. Was watching that game on
1:02:01
the live feed. They were down I think they were down twenty three to
1:02:07
start the fourth quarter. Squal woes the fourth quarter. Wow, Yes,
1:02:13
starting the fourth quarter and the first three quarters were kind of you just you
1:02:16
know, it's just kind of some rough basketball, kind of sloppy. They
1:02:21
were down twenty three. They outscore Archbishop twenty five to two in the fourth
1:02:27
hole tie to send it into overtime. Unbelievable. Fabian Singing hit a three
1:02:34
pointer with no with you know, within the last seconds to tie the game
1:02:37
and send it in overtime. He's he's one of those kids that you watch
1:02:42
him in pregame and he never misses and it's like man, and he's shooting
1:02:45
like NBA threes and he's got a four. Yes, he's got great form.
1:02:52
He's just fantastic to watch. But then in the games, it's like
1:02:58
how did he miss that? It's like that guy he makes everything, you
1:03:00
know, and you look over his stats, he's shooting about like twenty five
1:03:04
percent from threes, and like, man, that guy seems like he can't
1:03:07
miss this game. He went off, He made a ton of threes.
1:03:09
I think he led them in scoring, was sent in the foul line a
1:03:14
bunch of times, so he just had a huge game. And they get
1:03:17
into overtime and just kind of run out of gas and Archbishop got him.
1:03:22
But another a good season by Squalkum. Again, another team where their entire
1:03:27
team returns, no seniors on the team, So unless there's some hot shot
1:03:30
transfers or freshmen coming up, you're gonna see the very same kids for the
1:03:35
Squalkam Storm next year. Now let's do it again here, Tyler. Let's
1:03:38
bounce up and we'll talk about the Linden Lions right now, who they got
1:03:43
a couple of wins this week and they are into the district championship game.
1:03:46
Yeah, it's good for them because you know we've taught we talked about this
1:03:51
off off the air a little bit. This is a really high end,
1:03:55
top tough bracket where only two teams are going to advance to state. And
1:04:00
you're looking at Anna Cortus, who's ranked third in this bracket and they've got
1:04:03
Davis Fogel. They've scored over one hundred points multiple times this year, and
1:04:09
they might not make it, or Cedar Crest might not make you know,
1:04:12
or Cedar Crest is great. Yeah, the Lakewood's won some games this year
1:04:15
against teams that they maybe shouldn't have. You know, Lakewood is fantastic when
1:04:19
they get shoot, when they're when they get hot, they're so tough to
1:04:23
beat. They beat Anachortus this year. You know, they beat some really
1:04:27
good teams. They are they are fantastic. But then, uh, you
1:04:30
know, they've they've kind of lost some teams against some teams where you kind
1:04:34
of scratch your head and go. So they're very hot and cold. But
1:04:38
when they get shooting and they get and they can make a ton. And
1:04:43
Ben Rucker, I've talked about him before. That kid is just he can
1:04:46
just shoot the lights out. So he's a guy you got to watch out
1:04:48
for. But be wrong. Wasn't that game tight at one point? Kind
1:04:51
of later in the contest too? Which one is a lake Lakewood Linden game?
1:04:57
Oh yeah, well I haven't gotten to that one yet. Oh they
1:05:00
could, but Lindon beat Burlington's eighty one to sixty five as kind of expected
1:05:05
to get into the Semis. But the game against Lakewood, Lakewood is up
1:05:10
by thirteen at the half, so Lakewood was up pretty big in that one,
1:05:15
and it was and they just couldn't miss in the second quarter. But
1:05:17
then it was completely different in the second half. I think they held Lakewood
1:05:21
to just like thirteen points in the whole second half. The big thing that
1:05:26
the Cougars had going was that they they found a way to control Anthony Canalis.
1:05:30
He didn't go off. He scored like ten points, and you know,
1:05:33
Lindon, they rely on him to score more way more than that.
1:05:36
He's averaging twenty three a game this year. But Jack Stapleton had a huge
1:05:43
game. The six sixth junior starts at center and he just he had one
1:05:49
of those really good games where he scored twenty three points. So it's great
1:05:54
to have other players come up. And also in that game, congratulations to
1:05:59
Brady El's who broke the school record for assists in a season. So that
1:06:04
that was a record that has been held since nineteen seventy eight, oh by
1:06:09
Rick out by Rick de graf So and lind When you talk Lyndon Boys' basketball,
1:06:14
and that's history and it's you know, it's just unreal what they've done.
1:06:19
And uh, that's a that's just a great record. And Brady Elsner
1:06:24
is just one of the most unselfish basketball players I've ever seen. He sees
1:06:27
everything so well. He's the floor General's floor general. I mean, he
1:06:30
has control all the time. He wants to get everybody involved. He makes
1:06:34
everyone else get look better. And congratulations to him on breaking that school record.
1:06:41
Yeah, that is what what what was that like? Forty six years
1:06:45
forty six years? Yeah, oh my goodness, that is unbelievable. I
1:06:48
mean, and he got a picture taken with Rick de Graf after the game.
1:06:51
How cool is that? That's awesome? Yeah, like that is really
1:06:56
really cool. Uh let's see here, I'm looking at Seahome and looking at
1:07:00
Bellingham. They're still alive in this thing. Huh. Yeah, it's unbelievable.
1:07:04
See home ranked six in this tournament, Bellingham's ranked fifth. Both lost
1:07:11
in the first round. Seaholme lost to Anacordus fifty six to forty, a
1:07:15
lot better than their showing where or Anacordas beat them by fifty five points the
1:07:19
first time they played. Just a few weeks ago and Seahom played a lot
1:07:25
better defense and they did lose that game. They turn around and beat Archbishop
1:07:31
to stay alive. That was a loser out game. They win that game
1:07:33
sixty one to forty nine. So they will be taking on Lakewood on Tuesday
1:07:41
or I'm sorry, on Monday at so it'll be tonight if you're listening to
1:07:44
this right now, on Monday at five point thirty at Mount Vernon High School.
1:07:48
So that's a loser out game against Lakewood. That's going to be really
1:07:53
really tough. See home versus Lakewood and then Bellingham. They lost to Lakewood
1:07:58
to start the tournament seventy one to four forty nine. They turn around they
1:08:00
eliminate Burlington Edison seventy one to sixty one. That was pretty much the Wyatt
1:08:06
Stepan show. He when he wants to kind of take over, he gets
1:08:12
this look in his eye and it is just really impressive. But this is
1:08:17
gonna be tough because then they play the night game out at Mount Vernon tonight
1:08:20
against Anna Chordis and the fighting Davis Fogels. That's that is just that's gonna
1:08:27
be. That's gonna be really really tough for belling Am. But you just
1:08:30
never know, man. And I I'm excited because I'm gonna be down there,
1:08:34
and oh I love going to Mount Vernon for games because it's just,
1:08:40
Oh, it's gonna bring back so many memories. And I haven't been down
1:08:45
there yet for the tournament, so I'm excited this week to catch a bunch
1:08:48
of games down there. So they play a lot of games down there at
1:08:54
Mount Vernon during this district tournament stuff. Huh, Yeah, I mean the
1:08:59
one A's used to play down there, but now they're playing at Linden and
1:09:01
so the two A's are playing there. Yeah, but it's and there's and
1:09:03
girls, and it seems like there's just games going on all the day time.
1:09:08
Yeah, and I think the three A is down there too, because
1:09:10
Mount Vernon they played a game last week and it was against Everett and it
1:09:15
started like at eight o'clock. Well that was yeah, that would have been
1:09:18
so And I don't know if this is the way they do it there,
1:09:21
but usually it's like you play kind of like the first game or so in
1:09:28
the at home and then the championship will be somewhere else. But Tyler,
1:09:32
what I'm thinking is next year we just need to get like somebody to rent
1:09:38
you an Rv'm just set you up in the parking lot down there. Oh
1:09:43
man. I used to love going down there, like with like when the
1:09:45
band would travel down there and we take the bus. I mean it was
1:09:48
just I have so many great memories of going down to Mount Vernon and then
1:09:54
shortly after high school I'm covering. They always sent me down there that the
1:09:58
Herald would send me down there to cover. They're like, I want you
1:10:00
to do four games today away place. Yeah, and it was but I
1:10:04
loved it because it was those I had those memories. You know. That
1:10:08
was where I remember I interviewed Luke Riddin now the first time was out Mount
1:10:12
Vernon High School and and it was it was. I just have a ton
1:10:16
of great memories there. And and it's funny because I think if like former
1:10:20
players I saw there, Jason hewdinc was awesome. He was a four year
1:10:24
starter, ended up winning a state championship. Now he's the head coach at
1:10:27
Nuksack Valley for boys. Uh. Just just tons of great upsets. I
1:10:32
remember Mount Baker beating Stillicum in a last second three point shot. They should
1:10:38
you know, still come as ranked like six in the state and Mount Baker
1:10:41
barely made the tournament. And it's just some really cool memories and I'm excited
1:10:46
to just walk into that gym again and take it all in. So it'll
1:10:48
be fun. Make sure you hit the old big scoop on the way out
1:10:53
of town. Huh. Yeah, that's right. Get yourself a birthday cake
1:10:57
shake. Yeah, tell them tell him I sent you, Yeah you Yeah,
1:11:00
it won't get see anything. Let's see. So that's the two A
1:11:03
tournament. Yes one A. I see Blaine Mount Baker. They have both
1:11:10
been eliminated. Yeah, they played each other in the playing game. Mount
1:11:14
Baker won that one. They avenged a loss from earlier in the season to
1:11:17
end Blaine's season. So Mount Baker goes into it having to play the one
1:11:23
seed Lynnon Christian, which is tough. They lose seventy eight to thirty five,
1:11:28
but put in the Constellation bracket where they played against Nukxac Valley and then
1:11:32
lost that one sixty six to forty seven. Watched that game, sat right
1:11:38
at mid court for the whole game and that was the first one out of
1:11:43
the four. On saturdaywn out at Lyndon High School and you know, Baker
1:11:47
there, they're scrappy, man. They just they're just young and they're still
1:11:50
trying to find their way. They hit a couple of they hit like the
1:11:55
end of the half. They hit a three pointer right before the buzzer.
1:11:58
They did the same thing right at the end of the third core. Uh.
1:12:00
So they put on you know, some gave some thrills to the audience,
1:12:03
which was cool, but they were just kind of out athleted, if
1:12:11
the best way to put it against Nuxzact Valley, who just had some some
1:12:15
taller guys that can jump not just higher, but get off the ground faster
1:12:19
and just get rebounds. And if you're not in position, that's it's tough
1:12:23
to beat out athletic. Yeah, let's see here, we'll we'll do it
1:12:28
again. Tyler's let's talk about lend and Christian here really quickly and yeah,
1:12:33
yeah, they they ended up winning the district tournament or district championship. I
1:12:38
guess you will, and they are headed on the state. Yeah, it's
1:12:41
kind of what you expected. You know, them and Zilla are kind of
1:12:45
the two one A teams that are always you know, they're you're kind of
1:12:48
yeah, you're kind of looking at head and shoulders above the net, the
1:12:51
net, the rest of them. So they took care of business. They
1:12:54
beat Mount Baker seventy eight to thirty five, and then they beat Meridians seventy
1:12:58
one to fifty eight. I was at that game. They were Meridian was
1:13:01
up at halftime that you know, it just you kind of sat there watching
1:13:05
it, going, Man, Meridian right now is doing everything right, But
1:13:10
how long can they hold on to this? Because Lindy Christian is just so
1:13:14
talented across the board is you know, every loose ball the Trojans were getting,
1:13:17
every close call went the Trojans way. But you just kind of knew
1:13:20
at some point that Lennon Christian was just gonna take over, and they did
1:13:26
that in the third quarter, held on in the fourth to win the district
1:13:29
championships. So Lynda Christian's back going to state looking for a three peat.
1:13:34
Two times state defending champions and they'll be back to defend their crown. Let's
1:13:41
talk Nook Sack Valley Meridian. Two teams that are still alive and two teams
1:13:45
that started off the week by playing each other. Yeah, this is and
1:13:48
this is a really tough one because one of these two teams is going to
1:13:55
be going on and one's going to be staying home. And all year you've
1:13:58
looked at this where you kind of went, Okay, Elsie's you're talking just
1:14:01
one a boys. ELC is the kind of the class. Yeah, and
1:14:04
and Baker and Blaine are are, you know, fighting each other for fourth
1:14:10
and Meridan and Nuksack are just so even for that second third play spot.
1:14:14
During the season, Knuksack Valley got them at the district tournament. Meridan beat
1:14:18
them sixty seven to sixty two to get to that disc to get to that
1:14:21
district championship game where the Links got them, and Nukxack Valley, you know,
1:14:26
they go to the h they go to the Constellation bracket. They beat
1:14:29
Mount Baker sixty six to forty seven. So now this is what was expected.
1:14:34
They're going to play each other for that winner to state loser out game.
1:14:40
That'll be Friday at five thirty at Lyndon High School. That's gonna be
1:14:45
it's the rubber match. It's the third game they've each won one. They
1:14:48
were both pretty close and it's you know, it's one of those ones where,
1:14:55
yes, I was just at Vegas where you'd say it's a pick em.
1:14:58
Uh. It's so hard to choose because they both are I would say
1:15:03
that Meridian has the size advantage. They could. They've put out starting lineups
1:15:08
where they have three guys that are six or five or taller, which you
1:15:11
don't see too much at one A and and then but but Knooksack, I
1:15:16
think they they they they might be a little bit deeper, but not by
1:15:20
much. I mean, it is just so close. But and and Knooksack's
1:15:24
got a brand new coach, Jason Hughton, who I've brought up. But
1:15:27
and Meridian has Shane Stacy who's been there for twenty years. So it's you
1:15:31
know, it's just, oh, it's gonna be a great game. I
1:15:34
cannot wait to see that one. It's gonna be fantastic, which with a
1:15:38
lot riding on it as well, so it's just extra the extra incentive is
1:15:42
is great. Yeah, and could when you start talking about like neutral location,
1:15:46
neutral site game, can there be any more like in the middle than
1:15:50
Noksack Valley and Meridian playing at Linden. You're absolutely right. I was just
1:15:56
trying to think like which, like which school is actually closer and just can't.
1:16:00
But it's it's it's gonna be awesome, and it's it's two loyal fan
1:16:04
bases. Boy, I cannot wait. It's gonna be a great way to
1:16:10
kind of end the week that Friday night game. Uh, really really excited.
1:16:15
It's gonna be a fun week of basketball for games to go to.
1:16:18
That is the boys district tournament. Kind of recap here again sponsored by Edeline
1:16:25
dry Tyler. Let's talk girls and boys basketball. Game of the week.
1:16:28
Let's start with the girls. What was the what was the game of the
1:16:30
week over on that side? There were some great ones. Uh, I
1:16:33
saw a handful of them. Again, there was a few, you know,
1:16:38
bow outs and stuff like that. But that that Meridian Blaine District game
1:16:42
loser out game was that was the That was game two of the quadruple header.
1:16:48
Sat up in the stands watched that one really really close all the way
1:16:53
through Blaine. I don't know how they do it because I talk about the
1:17:00
eight players, but they had I believe they played three of their players the
1:17:08
entire way through. Wow. Uh, that is just impressive. And Jordan
1:17:15
Vizzetti, who's their best player, she picked up her fourth foul in the
1:17:18
second quarter. Oh and you don't see that very often. You know,
1:17:25
usually if you got three in the first half, you're sitting until the third
1:17:28
quarter. I mean, that's just kind of the wain. No, you're
1:17:30
absolutely right. And when she picked up her fourth with like two minutes to
1:17:33
go until halftime, I just thought, oh my goodness there and because they
1:17:39
were ahead, and I just thought, if if you know, if she
1:17:42
goes out, that's what's going to be the downfall. Yeah, she did
1:17:45
not pick up a foul the rest of the game. She played really smart
1:17:48
defense. She made some big threes. She kept playing in the game,
1:17:53
and and then right before you know, probably a minute to go in the
1:17:57
game, a Leah ball falls fouls out for Blaine. She goes and she
1:18:03
had a great game too. She made I think she made like two or
1:18:05
three deep balls. Had she leads the team and assists. So she goes
1:18:10
out and and Meriting came back at the very end and there was a miscommunication
1:18:15
on defense. It was tied at thirty eight and on the zone defense,
1:18:20
one of the back defenders came up all of a sudden, briting a wide
1:18:24
open player down below. They got the ball door, she laid it up
1:18:27
and with like you know, eight seconds to go or something like that,
1:18:31
and that was it. I mean it was just like oh no, and
1:18:34
the crowd went crazy. Uh, you know, a rivalry game, loser
1:18:40
out game. It was emotional, but it was a good game all the
1:18:44
way through for a couple of teams that have been struggling for most of the
1:18:47
year. But uh, but put together a great game to watch. What
1:18:51
about the boys side, what was the best game over there? Well,
1:18:56
it was really hard to go go against that squalic and come back where they
1:19:00
came back twenty five to two in the fourth to tie it up. But
1:19:04
Lindon had a similar comeback and they were down thirteen and a half and to
1:19:11
play to beat Lakewood sixty two to fifty three. Being down pretty big at
1:19:15
half and and we your best player is just not having it that that day
1:19:23
says a lot to how they were able to you know, get Jack Stapleton
1:19:28
involved, Brady Elsner had the big assists, you know where he broke the
1:19:31
school record and is for them to come back and win that game to get
1:19:35
to the district championship game. Really really get great job by the Lynnen Lions
1:19:41
and coach Brian Roper, who is, you know, nearing his four hundredth
1:19:45
victory now really really impressive. Anytime Fitness Linden, Linden North and Ferndale they
1:19:53
sponsored the boys and Girls basketball Player of the Week, Tyler. Let's start
1:19:57
on the girls side. Who is the Anytime Fitness Girls a Basketball Player of
1:20:00
the Week. Yeah, I gotta go with Peyton Mills. She won it
1:20:04
earlier in the season, just a sophomore from Lyndon. You know, she
1:20:09
is really impressive to watch. She really stands out on film, six foot
1:20:14
two sophomore, but can really soft hands. Every time that she's close and
1:20:19
she makes a move, she never misses inside. I mean, you know,
1:20:25
you see kind of some flailing layups and stuff like that, Like she
1:20:28
is under control, very very soft hands, good underneath. And then she'll
1:20:32
shoot threes too, and she'll shoot like like high thirties to low forty percent
1:20:38
from three point land, which is super impressive for someone who's six foot two
1:20:43
and can really dominate down low. So she can do it from all aspects
1:20:45
of the game. Fate Mills, who gave us the intro as well.
1:20:48
So great, great week for her. I think in that first game of
1:20:54
the district tournament, she was seven for seven on from the field. I
1:20:58
mean she can just you know, you get the ball in her hands and
1:21:01
good things happen. When they had the Linden Christmas Classic with really good schools
1:21:05
out at Lyndon Christian. During the basketball tournament that they had, she was
1:21:11
the MVP of that tournament, just as sophomore. I remember watching her mom
1:21:15
play at Seahome. She was man, she could. She was one of
1:21:18
the best outside shooters I had ever seen up to that point in the late
1:21:24
nineties at Sea Homes. They had a really, really good team and it
1:21:27
was cool as I was coached by Mike McKee, who's now the athletic director
1:21:31
out at Lindon, so you know, it's kind of a fun tie in
1:21:35
there. But really great player Faton Mills on the boys side, who is
1:21:41
the eighty time Fitness Player of the Week. Yeah, this was this was
1:21:45
a tough one. I was looking around, but then all of a sudden
1:21:47
it just kind of jumped out at me that Jeremiah right at Lyndon Christian.
1:21:51
He is really, you know, as a senior is really he's fully back
1:21:58
now from the elbow injury from football and that game against Mount Baker. He
1:22:02
scored twenty points in the first half, I believe, and he ended with
1:22:08
twenty points and then he scored I think he scored thirty in the district championship
1:22:13
game against Meridian. He could not be stopped. He was automatic from the
1:22:17
line. And you know, Meridian had a good dad. They can match
1:22:23
LC up with size, but when you have the size and athletic ability of
1:22:29
Jeremiah Wright, it's really tough to combat that. And he put the team
1:22:34
on his shoulders in that district championship. And he has been a big time
1:22:39
player in these last two state championships and he's looking for that third one.
1:22:43
And he kind of turned his game up another notch at the district tournament.
1:22:49
So he's your Anytime Fitness Boys Basketball Player of the Week again. Anytime Fitness
1:22:54
in Linden, Linden North, and Ferndale, those three specific locations are the
1:23:00
sponsors of the Boys and Girls Basketball Player of the Week. Tyler. Let's
1:23:03
talk about the upcoming games to look for. And I mean we kind of
1:23:06
already talked about all the games going on this week, but what are the
1:23:10
games you're most looking forward to going to seeing? Well, one that one
1:23:15
that really there's there's a handful, I mean all of them. I'm really
1:23:18
excited about them. I've talked about the Meridian Nukxac Boys game. That is
1:23:23
just that, you know, I just I cannot pick a winner in that
1:23:28
one. It is so fifty to fifty. But the big ones to look
1:23:30
for are gonna be these two way district championship games. You know, the
1:23:33
girls Linnen versus Archbishop Murphy. I'm really excited to catch that one, and
1:23:40
then in the boys side, it'll be Linnen versus Cedar Crest. Cedar Crest.
1:23:44
I've seen them on film. I saw them on film against squal Cum.
1:23:47
I think it was squal Cumb's first game of the year. They're very,
1:23:50
very impressive, but that was early. I want to see what they
1:23:55
can do now the Linden Boys. That's gonna be such a great game.
1:23:58
And it's a shame that one of those teams is gonna lose and then they're
1:24:01
gonna have to fight to get into the tournament. And he got other teams
1:24:04
down below, like you know, Bellingham and Lakewood and Anacordus that are I
1:24:12
mean, these are all really good teams that are going to take on the
1:24:15
loser of that game just to get that last State berth. So both these
1:24:20
games are on Wednesday night, Happy Valentine's Day. Follow you for that,
1:24:25
and a doubleheader at Mount vernon five point thirty seven fifteen. It's gonna be
1:24:29
fantastic. Boy, it's a great It's a great time of the year for
1:24:32
high school sports. Tyler, I think we're done. I think so.
1:24:39
This is by far the longest Winter Sports Weekly wrap up we've ever done.
1:24:43
Our twenty four Yeah, you know, I apologize for that with the Las
1:24:47
Vegas stories, but hopefully people got a kick out of it. We had
1:24:50
about twenty minutes a good back and forth before we got into anything, so
1:24:54
we're basically right on time. Yeah, not too bad. Alrighty, let's
1:24:58
wrap it up right there. What do you say? Yeah, sounds good
1:25:02
to me. Yeah, alrighty. He's Tyler Anderson, WACOM Preps walkompreps dot
1:25:08
com. I'm Ryland Spencer. You've been listening to episode two hundred and forty
1:25:12
Winter Sports Weekly wrap Up here on the WACOM Preps podcast. We will talk
1:25:15
to you next week and thank you Chiefs.