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Chuck & Buck 2-23 Hour 2: 12th man news with Gregg Bell, Olympic hockey momentum and Reckless at Breakfast. · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: Watch up behind the neck, all right, it's Warensky now
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  Speaker 1: Jack Jes posing Rob mccar you know, takes the covers
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  Speaker 1: kass of coups. Jacks witche the Golden Doll for the
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  Speaker 1: United States for the first time since the night Gee
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  Speaker 1: Daddy better gold in the United States takes the goll
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  Speaker 1: Jacks been in Benny Jack NBC on the call. I
• 0:38
  Speaker 1: think Kenny Albert got a little caught off guard by that.
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  Speaker 1: He was like, that was his moment, that was his
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  Speaker 1: al Michaels makes my legacy moment.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think he got caught off guard by that,
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  Speaker 2: which is weird.
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  Speaker 1: Mm hmm.
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  Speaker 2: She'd been playing for that one.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, exactly. Should have either to your seat.
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  Speaker 3: Kind of yeah, you knew it was gonna go one
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  Speaker 3: way or another. Well, if there was three options, right,
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  Speaker 3: you go.
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  Speaker 1: Mm hmm.
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  Speaker 2: The shootout, I suppose.
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  Speaker 1: But think John Forsland would have nailed it.
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  Speaker 2: That's hockey baby, that's USA hockey baby, That's what he
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  Speaker 2: would have said.
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  Speaker 1: Think everatge Fitzer would have nailed it.
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  Speaker 3: Go.
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  Speaker 1: Think Ian Forness might have nailed that. Year would have
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  Speaker 1: been mm hmm.
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  Speaker 2: He would have forgotten he was ever born in Canada.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning, and welcome into this Monday edition if Chucking
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  Speaker 1: Buck in the Morning Sports Radio ninety three point three
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  Speaker 1: k j R F M. Bucky Jacobson was on my
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  Speaker 1: last nerve signed after him in Arizona. Stay down there.
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  Speaker 1: Good work, Yeah, welcome, he designed Otherwise you would have
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  Speaker 1: to be dealing with him to thank goodness. Yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 1: Ashley Ryan is here as well as we enter our
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  Speaker 1: second hour here on this Monday. Greg Bell is going
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  Speaker 1: to be joining us in a moment. He's under several
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  Speaker 1: blankets of snow in the Pacific or see me the
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  Speaker 1: the Atlantic Northeast, not the Pacific Northwest, the Atlantic Northeast today,
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  Speaker 1: but is en route we think, to Indianapolis later this week,
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  Speaker 1: so we'll get the latest from him, what he's hearing
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  Speaker 1: on the ken Walker front, and so much more here
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  Speaker 1: in a matter of moments. But let us begin the
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  Speaker 1: seven o'clock hour with your headlines brought to you by
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  Speaker 1: Frost Brewed Corps Light Choose Chill, and the US did
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  Speaker 1: defeat Canada on the last day of the Winter Olympics.
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  Speaker 1: And Milan. I've always called it Milan, but I heard
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  Speaker 1: them yesterday European types calling it Milan. I had no idea,
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  Speaker 1: so I guess I've been pronouncing it wrong. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know why we can't just get like a universal pronunciation
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  Speaker 1: of these things. Why do we always change it here?
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  Speaker 1: No clue, no clue.
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  Speaker 2: Great question.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but anyway. The Olympics came to an end last
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  Speaker 1: night closing ceremonies, but not before the US took hockey gold,
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  Speaker 1: first but the women's side, and then yesterday on the
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  Speaker 1: men's side with a two to one overtime victory. Jack
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  Speaker 1: Hughes with the game winner, broken teeth, fresh blood coming
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  Speaker 1: from his mouth after being hit by a high stick
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  Speaker 1: earlier in the game, and quite the picture of Olympic
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  Speaker 1: gold there on the ice in Milan as the US
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  Speaker 1: takes it. I don't either. I think Milan sounds better.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sticking with it.
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  Speaker 1: What are you gonna do?
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna stick with what sounds better.
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  Speaker 1: Kraken are going to resume their season on Wednesday. They'll
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  Speaker 1: be in Dallas to take on these Stars. The Sounders
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  Speaker 1: started their season yesterday at home against the Colorado Rapids,
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  Speaker 1: and they end up winning. Two to nothing is the
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  Speaker 1: final score there. There is a new number one team
• 3:37
  Speaker 1: in college basketball, the Duke Blue Devils knocked off Michigan
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  Speaker 1: on Saturday. What a day for college basketball.
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  Speaker 4: Man.
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  Speaker 1: They had like four outstanding games just lined up, one
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  Speaker 1: after the other, and the biggest of the day was
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  Speaker 1: Duke winning over Michigan and they are now the new
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  Speaker 1: number one ranked team in college basketball. Mariner spring training
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  Speaker 1: games got underway on Friday. Our coverage down there wrapped
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  Speaker 1: up last Friday. Good to be back, but we had
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  Speaker 1: a great time down there. Hopefully we delivered the kind
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  Speaker 1: of content you were looking for from us here on
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  Speaker 1: Chuck and Buck and so two out of three wins
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  Speaker 1: over the weekend, knocking the rust off and getting the
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  Speaker 1: springs started. But it's going to be a lengthy spring,
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  Speaker 1: and of course we've got WBC in the middle of
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  Speaker 1: it as well this year. And finally, the NFL Combine
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  Speaker 1: is this week. People will start trickling into Indianapolis as
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  Speaker 1: soon as today. They'll do the weights and the measurements
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  Speaker 1: and what have you. The workouts don't start until Thursday,
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  Speaker 1: but for our own Greg Bell and many other Beat reporters,
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  Speaker 1: they use this week as access to their general managers,
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  Speaker 1: head coaches, and decision makers of the franchises they follow.
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  Speaker 1: And so before Greg tries to get to Indianapolis, He's
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  Speaker 1: going to join us right now from New England with
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  Speaker 1: the Bell tolls.
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  Speaker 5: It must be seven o'clock and time for twelfth Man
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  Speaker 5: News with Greg Bell, brought to you by Coppola Diamond
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  Speaker 5: Now with twelk Man News, Here's Greg Bell with Chuck
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  Speaker 5: and Bud. How are you Greg?
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  Speaker 4: Good morning? Yeah, I'm I'm in a snow globe. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: it's not too often you get to sit in the
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  Speaker 4: middle of the storm. They measured by seat instead of inches. Wow. Wow,
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  Speaker 4: two feet of snow and that's twelve fourte Oh my gosh.
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  Speaker 1: So, I mean, are you nervous at all? Worried? Or
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  Speaker 1: is it beautiful? You be able to soak it in?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, what's what are you feeling right now?
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  Speaker 4: It's beautiful. I'm stranded with my wife, which doesn't help.
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  Speaker 1: That's right, We don't care.
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  Speaker 4: No, we went out to dinner and Little Italy, North
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  Speaker 4: end of Boston last night and they were salting the
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  Speaker 4: hell out of the roads and it started a little
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  Speaker 4: bit after midnight. We've just been watching the snowfall and
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  Speaker 4: it's blowing. Really, I take five blows here with the
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  Speaker 4: wind show and sixty mile an hour winds, and its
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  Speaker 4: sound like they're going to go out and walk around
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  Speaker 4: Beacon Hill in this So no freedom Trail for us today.
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  Speaker 4: But I'm not sure I'm gonna make the combat oh
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  Speaker 4: really at all? No, I mean, well not not the
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  Speaker 4: John Schneider and Mike McDonald parts the west. But they're
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  Speaker 4: supposed to talk tomorrow and Wednesday. It looks like, why
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  Speaker 4: might not get out of Boston till Thursday unless the
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  Speaker 4: driver take a train somewhere else. But you know, if
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  Speaker 4: there was ever a year not to be at the
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  Speaker 4: combine this one because I just saw those guys a
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  Speaker 4: week and half ago at the super Bowl and then Parade,
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  Speaker 4: and there's not a whole lot that they've been doing,
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  Speaker 4: and there's not a whole lot that they're going to
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  Speaker 4: offer us that we don't already know.
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  Speaker 1: Well, do you think we'll have any more answers updates
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  Speaker 1: on Ken Walker or is that just a treasured secret
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  Speaker 1: right now?
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  Speaker 4: Well, yeah, we've entered the negotiation posturing face, So anything
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  Speaker 4: they would say would be for cat posturing, for leveraging
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  Speaker 4: with their age and public perception wise. But the actual
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  Speaker 4: what is happening on boots on the ground about that
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  Speaker 4: is in between his age and David the new group
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  Speaker 4: that Kenna Talker hired right for the NFC title game,
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  Speaker 4: and John Schneider and his CAP guys. So they deciding
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  Speaker 4: how much are they willing to offer how many years
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  Speaker 4: in one of in his favor Walkers. Of course, not
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  Speaker 4: only is he the Super Bowl MVP. People forget he's
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  Speaker 4: still just twenty five years old. And if you're on
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  Speaker 4: his side of the camp and his age, and you
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  Speaker 4: could see him arguing, I'm barely entering my prime. He
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  Speaker 4: just had me on a job share this year. I
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  Speaker 4: hadn't played a full season up to now. This is
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  Speaker 4: a pretty freshrunning back at the top of his game,
• 8:02
  Speaker 4: at the top of the exact of the sport. He'll
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  Speaker 4: never have more max value than he does right now,
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  Speaker 4: I mean at this moment, and the Seahawks have to
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  Speaker 4: wag at him what they want to do at a
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  Speaker 4: position that you don't normally pay big box dollars two
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  Speaker 4: for multiple years. So he would he probably would get
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  Speaker 4: more in the open market because of multiple bidders. It'd
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  Speaker 4: be up to Kenneth Walker and his agent whether they
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  Speaker 4: want to do that round.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, And I know you don't learn a whole lot
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  Speaker 1: about what they're thinking draft wise this week at the
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  Speaker 1: NFL Combine. Maybe nothing. Maybe you don't learn anything about
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  Speaker 1: what they're thinking draft wise. But I got to assume
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  Speaker 1: an organization that has taken Ken Walker as high as
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  Speaker 1: the second round and Zach Charbonay in the second round
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  Speaker 1: in recent years, I would think with this negotiation going on,
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  Speaker 1: Charbonay injured, that they're probably going to watch the running
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  Speaker 1: back class closer than any other thing this weekend.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, they will draft the running back. It would be
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  Speaker 4: I mean, they have four draft picks right now. First
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  Speaker 4: of all, it would be very un John Schneider like
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  Speaker 4: even drafting at thirty second, at the bottom of each
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  Speaker 4: of the first three rounds and Super Bowl champion to
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  Speaker 4: not trade back and try to get more than the
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  Speaker 4: four picks he currently owns. Wouldn't surprise me if he
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  Speaker 4: doesn't have a first round pick and trades it back
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  Speaker 4: when habitually, when he's this high in the draft, I mean,
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  Speaker 4: this low in the first round I should say high twenties,
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  Speaker 4: Super Bowl runner up, Super Bowl. He's traded down because
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  Speaker 4: he doesn't see thirty two first round picks first round
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  Speaker 4: quality picks, So it's a value analysis for him. Why
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  Speaker 4: not go big more draft picks for later in the
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  Speaker 4: draft and not pay overpay for a first round pick
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  Speaker 4: you don't have a first round great on this draft.
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  Speaker 4: I'm sure you'd talk to some others, and I've heard
• 9:46
  Speaker 4: Rob Raang with Ian and a couple others talk about
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  Speaker 4: how this draft is not particularly strong. In fact, it's
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  Speaker 4: one of the weaker ones in the generation they think
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  Speaker 4: across the board as far as just depth of quality
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  Speaker 4: NFL players. It's much reminds me of the COVID when
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  Speaker 4: John Schneider only had three picks, ended up only making
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  Speaker 4: three picks, and it was basically a last year, and
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  Speaker 4: he said at a time, we just don't see the
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  Speaker 4: value of drafting guys who some of many of them
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  Speaker 4: haven't even played in the last eight to twelve months
• 10:14
  Speaker 4: because of COVID and canceled seasons, and so the STS
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  Speaker 4: basically punted that draft. Now they had that affected them,
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  Speaker 4: and the teams in the league who did okay were
• 10:24
  Speaker 4: at the top of the draft because they had sure
• 10:26
  Speaker 4: fire prospects. This reminds me of that the seas having
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  Speaker 4: only four picks and at the bottom of each round.
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  Speaker 4: That's a long way to say, Chuck, that they are
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  Speaker 4: going to draft a running back, whether it's in the
• 10:36
  Speaker 4: first three rounds of the ones they currently own or
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  Speaker 4: a pick that Schnyder goes and gets by trading down
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  Speaker 4: some thirty two.
• 10:41
  Speaker 1: Greg Bell is with US Seahawks Insider. He is in
• 10:45
  Speaker 1: the northeast snowstorm up in the Boston area and yet
• 10:50
  Speaker 1: still joining us here on Chuck and Buck in the
• 10:52
  Speaker 1: mornings Sports Radio ninety three point three KJR FM. IF
• 10:58
  Speaker 1: and I don't even know, maybe Walker's not number one,
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  Speaker 1: But if Walker's not the number one priority amongst their
• 11:04
  Speaker 1: free agents, is it still Rashid chi Heat in your mind?
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  Speaker 1: Or has somebody else, perhaps you've gotten the impression, has
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  Speaker 1: moved up that list.
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  Speaker 4: Well. I ranked Rashid chi Heat as the number one
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  Speaker 4: priority because I think he's going to be the easiest
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  Speaker 4: to resign, not that he's not worth it, but they
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  Speaker 4: value him, and I think his market value, in fact
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  Speaker 4: is I know it's as a kick returner, and although
• 11:29
  Speaker 4: he does play wide receiver, He's not going to get
• 11:30
  Speaker 4: paid for that. So you're paying for a special team's ace,
• 11:34
  Speaker 4: and you should be able to get to IFC numbers
• 11:37
  Speaker 4: of fourteen million a year. Yeah, the aren't going to
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  Speaker 4: pay him that. I don't know who's coming to what
• 11:42
  Speaker 4: I remember the zerarraxin't going to pay him that. And
• 11:44
  Speaker 4: if he wants to go try to find that on
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  Speaker 4: his own, they'll say, yeah, good luck, come back when
• 11:48
  Speaker 4: you find what you're looking for. So it'll be something
• 11:52
  Speaker 4: short of that that they could then bring Tory Hortenbeck,
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  Speaker 4: who they think is going to be fine after that
• 11:57
  Speaker 4: shin injury, fine enough to be ready for to start
• 11:59
  Speaker 4: a training camp. That's their deep wide receiver threat, and
• 12:03
  Speaker 4: they really have seen him only half a season in
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  Speaker 4: six seven eight games. The two touchdown game against Washington
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  Speaker 4: was just a tease of what he could be for
• 12:12
  Speaker 4: them in this offense with Sam Darnold, and then days
• 12:15
  Speaker 4: later he's on the show for the rest of the
• 12:16
  Speaker 4: season with the Shinnon get right after the Washington game.
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  Speaker 4: That was, of course, the same week they fortuously traded
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  Speaker 4: for Rashid s. John Schneider talked to us at the
• 12:24
  Speaker 4: Super Bowl and he said, we honestly didn't know at
• 12:27
  Speaker 4: the time we got Shahed that Horton was going to
• 12:29
  Speaker 4: be out for the rest of the year. He called
• 12:30
  Speaker 4: it God's will and serendipity that they traded for Shaheed
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  Speaker 4: exactly when they lost Horton and basically swapped the roles
• 12:40
  Speaker 4: for each other. So they think they've got Horton coming
• 12:43
  Speaker 4: back to be the deep off the top, a fast,
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  Speaker 4: deep throat wide receiver, and they've got they can resign
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  Speaker 4: as a kick returner Shaheed to be that role, and
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  Speaker 4: then they'd have two guys that could take the top
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  Speaker 4: off the defensive if they want to put them in
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  Speaker 4: the same formation with kept coming back and checking Smith
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  Speaker 4: and Jick. That's what they're visioning when Horton comes back.
• 13:02
  Speaker 4: So she heat is for what it's worth. He has
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  Speaker 4: absolutely loved his time here, and immediately when he came
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  Speaker 4: here said he fell him over the area of the
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  Speaker 4: locker room culture. I want to stay. I want to
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  Speaker 4: retire here, but I want to retire twenty four years old.
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  Speaker 4: But how could you not want to come back to
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  Speaker 4: a Super Bowl champion that you were absolutely featured and
• 13:22
  Speaker 4: could argue that be a super you could say he
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  Speaker 4: was an MVP of the half of the season that
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  Speaker 4: he played here, it's more saying again, but throughout Rashid
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  Speaker 4: Shaheed's pump return against the Rams, I'm not sure we
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  Speaker 4: have a parade down Fourth Avenue a couple of weeks ago,
• 13:37
  Speaker 4: because if they don't win that game, and they were
• 13:39
  Speaker 4: losing by sixteen or eight minutes left until sh He
• 13:41
  Speaker 4: ran that pump back, they lose that game to the
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  Speaker 4: Rams on Thursday night at home, They're doing three road
• 13:46
  Speaker 4: games to get to the Super Bowl and having to
• 13:49
  Speaker 4: win three road playoff games and then probably had to
• 13:52
  Speaker 4: go to Inglewood and beat the Rams on their home
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  Speaker 4: field to even get to the super Bowl. They won.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and we've we've spoken about this in the past,
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  Speaker 1: but I mean, yes, I mean the thing that a
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  Speaker 1: player's looking for, he wants to be a part of
• 14:05
  Speaker 1: a winning product. But I'm telling you both. I mean,
• 14:08
  Speaker 1: I was just down spring training last week, and it's
• 14:11
  Speaker 1: not just that they have a good team, they have
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  Speaker 1: the organization. They made a shift a couple of years ago.
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  Speaker 1: They did recognize they acknowledged clubhouse matters, chemistry matters, and
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  Speaker 1: I love we were noting it for three drafts in
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  Speaker 1: a row, you and I and our conversation Saturday at
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  Speaker 1: the draft. How intriguing, how entertaining, how intelligent, how team oriented.
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  Speaker 1: All of the interviews sounded on Saturdays at the draft
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  Speaker 1: another reason to create that culture. I mean, yes, rashidcha Heat,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure wants to be a part of a winning team.
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  Speaker 1: But this is a culture you just don't like to
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  Speaker 1: walk away from.
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  Speaker 3: It.
• 14:49
  Speaker 1: Sounds like Leonard Williams, Julian Love, all of them speaking
• 14:54
  Speaker 1: to how much better they enjoy football in Seattle because
• 14:58
  Speaker 1: they're part of the Seahawks. And it matters. It just matters, Greg,
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: it does.
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  Speaker 4: Chuck and John Schneider admitted that when they missed on
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  Speaker 4: some picks like Malie McDowell and some of the first
• 15:08
  Speaker 4: round picks that they whipped on Jermainafetti. I hate to
• 15:12
  Speaker 4: point out individual players as being the ones that the
• 15:15
  Speaker 4: atten to this, but they went for need over quality
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  Speaker 4: of the player. And Schneider said that he had to
• 15:22
  Speaker 4: regroup his scouting staff about three or four years ago
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  Speaker 4: and say, look, let's get back to talking to the
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  Speaker 4: ras and the janitors of the dorms and their high
• 15:31
  Speaker 4: school teachers, and to go back and find out who
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  Speaker 4: these people really are as guys, and they got away
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  Speaker 4: from that for a while and it hurt the chemistry
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  Speaker 4: and the clubhouse. To use a baseball in alogae there
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  Speaker 4: a limited time I've been around the Maris, and you
• 15:46
  Speaker 4: remember I went to Toronto and covered the league Championship
• 15:48
  Speaker 4: Series double dipping with the Seahawks last fall. I felt
• 15:52
  Speaker 4: the same way about their clubhouse culture, that there was
• 15:55
  Speaker 4: a brotherhood together in and now winning. Of course Foster's
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  Speaker 4: at but there is a chicken in the egg argument
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  Speaker 4: to be made for both the Mariners and the Seahawks
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  Speaker 4: in the last year of Did they win because of
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  Speaker 4: how close they were and how much they liked each other,
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  Speaker 4: or do they like each other so much because they're winning.
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  Speaker 4: And we've talked about the Seahawks started this back in
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  Speaker 4: April and May when they were one hundred percent participation
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  Speaker 4: on involuntary stuff. Ernest Jones and Leonard Williams and those
• 16:19
  Speaker 4: guys after the Super Bowl, after I mean the cigar
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  Speaker 4: smoke and the patron and the champagne was still flowing
• 16:26
  Speaker 4: talking to me about I'm sad man, I'm sad, I'm
• 16:29
  Speaker 4: gonna see these guys every day and I'm they said,
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  Speaker 4: even if everyone came back, and he said that everyone
• 16:36
  Speaker 4: in the veterans know that's impossible, and the guys like
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  Speaker 4: Kenneth Walker won't come back or someone like them, and
• 16:42
  Speaker 4: they won't have all seventy guys back. He said, that
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  Speaker 4: makes me sad because I'm never going to be on
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  Speaker 4: a team this close again, even at Ernest Jones' telling me,
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  Speaker 4: even if they come back and win the Super Bowl
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  Speaker 4: again next year, even if that it won't be as
• 16:55
  Speaker 4: close as this team, he said, it's impossible now close
• 16:58
  Speaker 4: and the other hood and the kendness that the squad had,
• 17:03
  Speaker 4: and I really create Mike McDonald for that. Yes, John
• 17:06
  Speaker 4: Schneider and his staff can bring in the right guys,
• 17:09
  Speaker 4: but then you need somebody who can coalesce a bunch
• 17:12
  Speaker 4: of twenty somethings to all have individual agendas from all
• 17:15
  Speaker 4: different backgrounds, who all have goals and making money and
• 17:18
  Speaker 4: taking care of their families for life, and to get
• 17:21
  Speaker 4: them on a course that had them so cooperative and
• 17:25
  Speaker 4: such a unified group from again from August in May
• 17:29
  Speaker 4: or excuse in April and May. So it does matter,
• 17:32
  Speaker 4: and a lot of people don't like to hear about
• 17:33
  Speaker 4: the intangibles of that stuff. But there's only one team
• 17:37
  Speaker 4: that won the Super Bowl, Issuaran. It's the closest one
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: I've ever recovered.
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, Yeah, it matters. Greg Belli is with us
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: our Shawks insider here on chalking' buck in the morning.
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: So what's the latest with the sale and what kind
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: of timeline are we looking on looking at for that.
• 17:53
  Speaker 4: Well, it's gonna take a few months at least, you
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: were saying multiple months to find a buyer that's going
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: to have the money to put it together. I'm here,
• 18:03
  Speaker 4: and it could go ten billion with a B dollars,
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: which would challenge the Lakers for the largest richest purchase
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: in sports North American sports history. It's definitely going to
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: eclipse the six billion that the Washington Commanders sold for
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: in twenty twenty three. Just the valuation of the NFL
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: and how they print money here after year. In the
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: new media rights deal, they could land between nine and
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: eleven billion dollars. And that's going to take a little
• 18:28
  Speaker 4: bit of time, both to find an investor who wants
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: to do that, a group of investors, and to get
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: that vetted and finances and the lawyers and all that,
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: so it's probably gonna last through the entire offseason. They
• 18:40
  Speaker 4: would like to, for tidiness sake, get it done before
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: the season begins in September. I don't know how feasible
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: that is. It's already been just above March. That would
• 18:47
  Speaker 4: be six months from now. I don't know that Jeff Bezos,
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: for instance, one is interested or two would buy it.
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: I don't think. My inclination is it's more likely to
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: be a group of investors ad a one singular gazillionaire.
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: I hear Steve Balmer getting thrown around quite a bit,
• 19:05
  Speaker 4: and people would love that for that to happen because
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: of the ties that here. He's had a lot of
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: stuff going on off the court with the Lake with
• 19:10
  Speaker 4: the Clippers lately. I don't know, I know. I do
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: know that the league would love to have Jeff Bezos,
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: for instance, in their brand. They would love to have
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: Steve Balmer, and I've always been enamored of Steve Balmer
• 19:23
  Speaker 4: and being in the group of owners. It could be
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: a consortium of people like that who co invest rather
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: than one singular investor. But we talked about this. It
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: is going to change, not the football, but it's going
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: to change some of the interplay in personal relationships day
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: to day that John Schneider has with ownership obviously the
• 19:43
  Speaker 4: new owner, and even Mike McDonald, who said that Jody
• 19:46
  Speaker 4: Allen was more integral than maybe a lot of people realized.
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: Was after games every game meeting with Mike McDonald to
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: recap the game and ask what McDonald called we're piercing questions.
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: And it looks like if not to buy the season
• 20:01
  Speaker 4: beginning soon after that, there'll be a new person that'll
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: be answered.
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: Tom Well, the name Elon Musk was floated around over
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: the weekend. Are we just in clickbait season or is
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: that something that it could be legitimate.
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: Well, anytime someone has that much money, he could buy
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: whatever he wants. Yeah. Yeah, he buy spaceships to go
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: to the herb Mars and back. So I'm just going
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: to reserve my comments to say that, let's just hope
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: that's what that is. Right now. I don't know too
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: many fans that would be in side of the play,
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: but it does appear, at least in the short term,
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: it is worth saying checked it for the fans, for
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: the players, for the product on the field, nothing will change.
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: It's not like that they're going to totally change their
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: team colors or logos, or the stadium is going to
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: be remodeled overnight or Now there is a question down
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: the road, would a new owner want to modernize women field?
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: Not that of course it's old, but it's not young either,
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: and it's what now twenty three twenty four years old?
• 21:04
  Speaker 4: It'll opened in early two thousands. That is a question.
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: What would the new ownership pour into the stadium, luxury suiting,
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: all the things that increase an owner's bottom line. You
• 21:16
  Speaker 4: could see that down the road, but it would be
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: it'd be the most colossal business decision mistake I think
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: in sports history for them to change the football operations. Yeah, team,
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: you ever had it? So I don't think you're going
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: to see a lot of day to day tangible difference
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: here as this goes down all right.
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: Last minute, Since you don't have anywhere to go, we
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: might as well. I don't keep you.
• 21:36
  Speaker 4: From but we got to talk hill Thursday.
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: I did did you watch the hockey game yesterday?
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: They sure did. My daughter we're here in Boston because
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: we came to a rowing kickoff rowing and then for
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: her seniors. The seniors were honored at the Coast Guard
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: Academy down the Freeway in Connecticut, and we were there
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: and it was great Saturday night, knowing this whole time
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: that we were going to be snow on Monday, but
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: we did. We watched it in a hotel room. Yesterday.
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: My daughters plays ice hockey for the Coast Guard and
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: the Coast Guard Hockey team and it was such a
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: how First of all, it's just a tremendous athletic competition.
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: I mean, the best in the world playing at the best.
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: Connor Hellibuok. If we were in Canada, Connor Hellibuk would
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: probably be already have been elected Prime Minister this morning.
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: He is an immortal in hockey Gore for what he
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: did yesterday, an instant immortal. Yeah. To see players, yeah
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: they are millionaires and yeah they're except for life, but
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: to see them just loving and excelling in the competition
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: aspect of it, and the best players in the world
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: being at their best, it was so cool. It was
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: just a neat experience. I hope everybody got up to
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: see that, because you don't see athletic competition at that
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: high of a skill level, at that competitive of a
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: nature for all that's at stake. I know, I have
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: a lot of buddies in Canada who are really it
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: hurts Canada to lose a game like that. I do
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: you believe though nineteen eighty the ice was last time.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: I know, that's amazing crazy. I mean, they've been close
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: many times.
• 23:11
  Speaker 4: But the storm here, the hockey team was supposed to
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: fly back to New York City and they got diverted there.
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: I think they flew back to Miami instead, and so
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: everybody's going to spread up from Miami instead of New York.
• 23:23
  Speaker 4: But yeah, that was a club that was a new
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: event yesterday.
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I know fans always want their athletes
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: to go one hundred percent at all times, but it's
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: really just not possible for basketball players baseball players. I mean,
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: it's not even advisable to go all out at all times.
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: I mean you are usually told to chill out if
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: you do that, if you Rudy Rudiger at all all
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: the time. But that event, it felt like they were
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: going one hundred percent the entire game, every single player
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: on the ice, it felt like, I mean it was
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: so fast and they were hiddening SI.
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: Well, yeah, it was crazy to go and to go
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: one hundred percent all out in hockey fool time is
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: one very hard to do and very punishing. Like your
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: body and those guys just to get through a season.
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: Would never do that. You could never do that in
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: this Timely cut playoffs aren't even as good as what
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: yesterday was.
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: It was fun, all right, Well, stay safe, keep the
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: family safe. I don't know, without all the fear, it
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: could turn into something romantic for you there. Just to
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: be caught inside a snow globe with your wife, that'd
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: be great.
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: It's a lot better to being by myself. I can
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: tell you that I'm good. I'm more than good. Let's
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: put it that way. All right.
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: Well, we'll talk to you tomorrow one way.
• 24:35
  Speaker 4: Or the other. Yes, sir, you probably will, thank you.
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• 25:02
  Speaker 1: Coming up next, is there anything to Olympic momentum for
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: a sport we've been We discussed this every time the
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: Olympics come around, and maybe we're silly for even suggesting it,
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• 25:28
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• 25:29
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• 25:33
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• 25:44
  Speaker 1: Well, good morning to you. We got you covered, And
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: of course we are going to talk some hockey today.
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: I can't wait to talk to Joey to cord what
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: he thought of yesterday's gold medal winning performance by the
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: US hockey team at the Milayan Olympics. But I did
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: want to have the conversation about Olympic momentum today because
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: we get caught up in it to a degree every
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: single time.
• 26:12
  Speaker 4: Now.
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: I watched fewer Olympic events this year than ever.
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, me too.
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: This was pretty much the only one I watched, like
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: from beginning to end. Yeah yeah, I mean no, I've
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: been on the road and we had the Super Bowl
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: and everything else. So it has certainly gotten back burnered
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: by the Seattle sports talk show host.
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah it was because Fubo doesn't carry NBC. Oh oh
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: oh yeah, they can't figure their you know what out,
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: so we got peacock. But it's just I don't think
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: about putting peacock on because that's just that is Fubo.
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: It is.
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: That is yeah, aft up beyond recognition. I guess that's
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: fo bares similar all right. So so yeah, I didn't
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: watch a lot of it. I'm just going to admit it.
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: But what I did watch yesterday, it does make you
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: think and people are going to have this conversation. I
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: will say this after watching that, and I know that
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: the Cracking or plan on Wednesday, I'm not sure I've
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: had a game since Opening Day that I'm more excited
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: about than Wednesday. I agree, And part of it is
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: we've been without Cracking hockey for a while, so three
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: weeks is a long time to go without your favorite
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: hockey team. But also, certainly whatever happened in that game,
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: even if the US would have lost, just the excitement
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: of it, the energy of it, the story it became.
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: I immediately was like, man, I want to watch some
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: more hockey and we will get to resume the season
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: on Wednesday. So I don't know how significant it is.
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: This happens every time there's an Olympics. You get all
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: fired up for it, for it, and then okay, well
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: what else can I do? I need something else to
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: fill this void that I didn't even really was going
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: to be a void. We do it almost every Olympiad
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: and I don't know. I don't know what the numbers suggest.
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: I do know that in nineteen eighty it ignitiated all
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: sorts of popularity for hockey like we've not seen before
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: in America. And I wonder what this is gonna do Sunday,
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: a gold medal in the US for kracking hockey and
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: for the hockey season the rest.
• 28:25
  Speaker 4: Of the way.
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: I definitely think it's a boost for the NHL to come.
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: I think people are more excited, like what we are,
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: for it to return. It feels like forever and you're like, okay,
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: now these you know, I want to see my favorite
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: team play and I think. I do think, especially here
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: in Seattle area, just getting a hockey team alone boosted
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: the interest in people playing.
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: Hockey and in hockey.
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: But if you have a game like what you had yesterday,
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: in a run like what the US had in the Olympics,
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: I don't know how it doesn't spark you know, some
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: kids to say, Okay, I didn't really think.
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: About hockey before, but look at that. That's pretty bad ass. Yeah,
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: I'd like to play, or.
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: At least like, at the very least like, oh, yeah,
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: I want I want to watch Wednesday.
• 29:11
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: And then if that sinks its teeth into you, then
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: you maybe you're more likely to watch Friday, yeah, and
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: so on and so forth. I do remember. And this
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: is why I'm not sure what the math is. I mean,
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: almost everybody arrives at the end of an olympiad at
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: you watch some great event and you're like, I want more.
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: And it's like curling.
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: Everybody was obsessed with curling this year.
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: They really were. I know, John Stanton and Tim Heavily
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: with the Mariners, Oh my gosh, he gave me an earful.
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: It was all over my Instagram, just people coming up
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: with their home curling games.
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so I think maybe people will take up playing curly, yeah,
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: and maybe participating at the local curling auditorium. But in
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: terms of like that was exciting, I want more. I
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: don't know what the math is whether or not we
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: do continue to consume that product. And I'll give you
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: a perfect example. Back in nineteen I guess it was
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: eighty four, was the Carl Lewis, Michael Johnson and it
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: was Summer Olympics, obviously, but it was like some of
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: the greatest track and field figures in the history of
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: and we tend to do pretty well yeah in track
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: and field every Summer Olympics, but this was a special group,
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: special group, and it just seemed ridiculous. I mean, Carl
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: Lewis was the biggest name in sports coming out of
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: that Olympics. Michael Johnson wasn't too far behind. Jackie Joyner
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: Kersey was in that group, for goodness sake, And I
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: was sure, like we could have a track and field
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: professional league, because there's no way I'm gonna want to
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: go four more years without seeing Carl Lewis on a
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: big stage, even though they have track.
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: And field meets all the time, right, And you never
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: go and you never watch.
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they're on television now. Maybe they weren't in nineteen
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: eighty four, but they are now.
• 31:12
  Speaker 4: But I was sure.
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: I'm like, why couldn't there be a track and field league?
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: I mean, we are now in twenty twenty six. We
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: need to find sports where men and women can be
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: on the field together, on the same team. And it's
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: like the perfect I was thinking this at age thirteen
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: in Illinois' like this is the perfect, Like we could
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: have men and women's team. They could run relays together
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: and be a part of the same professional sports team
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: and same professional sports league. That's just how the sport
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: is set up. And I had this whole idea about
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: how they were gonna be, you know, ten different teams
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: across the country, and there'd be a professional track and
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: field league and we'd be able to watch Carl Lewis
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: and Michael Johnson because we didn't get enough of them.
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: Of Course, it never happened. And I hear that they
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: do make money, and so they do have somewhat professional
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: leagues four track and field. It's just certainly doesn't come
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: to mind for me. I've never watched one, never watched
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: a meet.
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: I've never thought, oh my gosh, I'm missing out.
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but but it went nowhere. And if that didn't
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: create some sort of movement to try to have a
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: professional track and field league that I'm not sure. I'm
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: not convinced that it has much staying power. You know,
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: the enthusiasm that we have for Olympics, and so maybe
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: I exaggerated in my mind. Maybe that is the ultimate
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: prisoner of the moment sort of fan experience. You think
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: you want more, but you really don't.
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: You just don't want to put in the effort to
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: You really just want more Olympic, right, You want more
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: of what you're watching energy.
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: Yes, and so we'll see. I think that between what
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: happened last year and the four Nations and then what
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: we saw yesterday with the Olympic gold medal match, I
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: mean I would think that it should provide a boost,
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: as you mentioned, not just for the kid watching that.
• 33:14
  Speaker 4: Dad.
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: I want to play hockey. I don't want to play baseball.
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: I want to play hockey. Maybe we'll have a few
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: more of those, yeah, But I am curious to see
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: what the ratings do and if the NHL, if the
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: CRACK and themselves get to benefit from this boost that
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: they got yesterday, because this is the first time in
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: a long time that the number one show at KJR,
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: the number one excuse me, the number one story starting
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: a show at KJR is hockey.
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: No, and I agree.
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: And I remember back in twenty ten when the US
• 33:44
  Speaker 3: lost to Canada, I think it was to Canada in
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: the finals and got silver, and I remember thinking.
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: Like, man, Ryan Miller, that guy is amazing. I want
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: to watch him, like I want to watch I want
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: to watch more hockey.
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: It didn't last long because we didn't have our own
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: hockey team, so it was like I'm not going to
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: watch Nashville or whatever, you know, And I wasn't that
• 34:02
  Speaker 3: into it, but I remember thinking like, this was so cool,
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: and so I hope it, you know, I as I
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  Speaker 3: as you pointed out this, I'm so excited for Wednesday. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I mean it is must watch television for me. I
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  Speaker 3: will be sitting down with the family ready to watch
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  Speaker 3: the cracking in the stars, right right, and we better
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  Speaker 3: get a win so that that momentum keeps going.
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  Speaker 1: Right, And that's just that. And there might be somebody
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  Speaker 1: that's not a big hockey fan, doesn't watch a lot
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  Speaker 1: of cracking, but maybe for the first time in their
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: lives after Sunday or cannot wait, Yeah, to watch the
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  Speaker 1: crack and play on Wednesday. You know, is it real?
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  Speaker 1: Is Olympic momentum real? I don't have the numbers or
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  Speaker 1: the data to back that up, but I'm going to
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: pay attention to it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, going hereward, see what happens.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, when the US actually does win the gold medal game,
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  Speaker 1: Everybody's talking about it the next day and really throughout
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  Speaker 1: the next week because finally there's a lull from in
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: football yep that I'm curious to see if it does
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  Speaker 1: provide a boost. And right now the NBA is just
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: getting crushed. They can't get a positive headline in the NBA,
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: So maybe there is an opportunity right now in the
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  Speaker 1: NHL to grab a little more.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think this is the prime opportunity.
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  Speaker 1: We'll see.
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  Speaker 2: It's on a platter for you.
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  Speaker 1: If ever there was, I would think this is it.
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  Speaker 1: We shall see. We'll talk to Joey to court about
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: that coming up at eight o'clock, coming up next. Normally
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: I do reckless at breakfast Wednesdays at this time, but
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: without Bucky here judging me, I'm going to do it
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: every day this week. Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: who knows, who knows what kind of fun you could
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  Speaker 1: find yourself dabbling in?
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  Speaker 3: Well, let me think about it, right, Olympics are over,
• 35:44
  Speaker 3: football is over, You've got hockey.
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  Speaker 2: In two days. What are you going to do? Tonight's
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: run time? You got to count down the days till
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  Speaker 2: the NHL resumes.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, the NHL resumes. He's still got two days
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: before you can see NFL aspects in their pajamas running forties. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, what are you gonna do with your life?
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: Sign me up there, you go.
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: All right, we're gonna get a little reckless at breakfast
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: today and every day this week. And I really, I
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: know we talked about this here and there, but with
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: Super Bowl coverage and with Spring training coverage, I haven't
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: really had a chance to sink my teeth into this
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  Speaker 1: topic as of yet. But we are transitioning, right, We
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: have this little bit of transition, like college basketball season
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: kind of feels like it's starting this week even though
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: they're at the end of the year. Hockey's gonna have
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: its best week we think of the entire calendar year
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: and so you know, we're starting to this week turn
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: our attention into some of those topics that I've wanted
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: to discuss, but it just wasn't headline material, not when
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: your team's going to the super Bowl, for goodness sake.
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: I know we've dabbled in the arena of the tanking
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  Speaker 1: issue and the National Basketball Association, and so I just
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: have been talking about this for a number of years.
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  Speaker 1: I would like to think that we could just get
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  Speaker 1: rid of the entire lottery system. Yeah, just get rid
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  Speaker 1: of it. I mean, nobody really likes it. Everybody thinks
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: it's fraudulent. Well yeah, you know, not everybody, but a
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: lot of people think it's fraudulent. Even the players who
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: were drafted number one through the lottery believe that the
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: thing was rigged. You've heard enough of this show that
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: you know that I believe that it's rigged. I think
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: it's the only thing rigged in sports, professional sports. Otherwise
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't watch. But I do believe that there's some
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: funniness that goes on with this. I don't know how
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: many people are in on it. I don't know if
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: they're all in on it. I have no idea, But
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  Speaker 1: why don't we just get rid of it. I don't
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: think that anybody's like, I can't wait for the lottery.
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: You know, it's not that great of an event. It
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: was a great idea at the time to try to
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: curb tanking, but it's not working. As a matter of fact,
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: they're trying to tank even more than what they've ever
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: tanked at any point in the season. So I've got
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: a few different ideas that I'm going to share throughout
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: the week, but let's start with this one because I
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: have floated this out in the past. What if you
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: did have a tournament at the end of the year
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  Speaker 1: where the winner gets the lottery balls. Okay, so you know, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: maybe there's some tanking that goes on during the course
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: of the season to get into that tournament, and then
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: people will flip a switch potentially. But I kind of
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: like the idea of getting rid of the play in
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: and putting in there an opportunity to try and win
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: the lottery as opposed to try to lose your way
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  Speaker 1: to a number one pick. I think that we need
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: to just stop encouraging losing, period in professional sports, and
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: there clearly is a very tangible advantage to tanking to losing,
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: Otherwise you wouldn't have this big of an issue. So
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: why don't we get to the point where, all right,
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: let's grab the eight worst teams. But then they don't
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: have the opportunity to play their absolute worst because they
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: would then have to try and win in order to
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: get those picks. And I really don't know if players
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  Speaker 1: are all that motivated to get a lottery pick. All right,
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: so it behooves the organization to inspire its troops to
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: try to win every night. And if you don't want
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: to do it in the postseason, I think you could
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: even do it during the regular season. Adam Silver is
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: trying to pull a page out of Soccer's book and
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: introduce these two little this end season tournament that he's
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: doing that is very confusing, and nobody really understands. The
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: only thing they understand about it is that the courts
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: are all turned very gaudy.
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: They're horrible, really hard to look at it.
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  Speaker 1: Right, So what if you add, what if you just
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: chose at some point in the year during the regular season,
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: you know, and you just toward the end of the season,
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: you just had a three day competition, single elimination, eight
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: team tournament and the winner of that tournament gets and
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: we so we know the draft order with a couple
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: weeks left in the regular season, what would that hurt?
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: You know, so you're not exactly stretching it out and
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: having to put fan bases through. We know our teams
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: trying to lose, and yet you still want us to
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: come to the games. All right, what if you did
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: suddenly inspire the worst teams in the league, give them
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: more motivation to win at the end of the year
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  Speaker 1: versus to lose at the end of the year.
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I don't think that's a bad idea.
• 40:41
  Speaker 3: I was as you were saying it, I thought, oh, yeah,
• 40:43
  Speaker 3: that could work, And then you brought up though, yeah,
• 40:45
  Speaker 3: you could still have the people that kind of tank
• 40:48
  Speaker 3: to get into that and then play well m hm.
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: And but I don't think. I don't think there's going
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: to be anything that.
• 40:54
  Speaker 3: They could do that would be fool proof, right that
• 40:57
  Speaker 3: that's just going to completely eliminate any team trying to lose.
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: Maybe there could be a couple of things. We'll explore
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: that at another Reckless at Breakfast, because that's the I mean,
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: that is the task. Yeah, I got to come up
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  Speaker 1: with the most full proof method to keep this from
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: happening anymore. And so that is the task. And so
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: one of the ideas I present to you this week
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: and a week's worth of Reckless at Breakfast is a
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: tournament where you have to win in order to get
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: the benefit of It's a tournament of the worst teams
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: in the in the NBA, but you have to win
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: the tournament in order to get your draft selection, whether
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: that's regular season or postseason. Either way, you know, we
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: do have to stop encouraging professional sports leagues to lose
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: on purpose because there's a benefit.
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  Speaker 2: Aamen, all right?
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: Coming up next, Joey de Cour joins the Sports Radio
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