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Furness Show 2-18: Benton in! Seahawks sale, Bucky Jacobsen and Brandon Montour · The Ian Furness Show

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  Speaker 1: Now from the Star Rentals Sports to us your ninety
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  Speaker 2: All right, lots to get to here for today headlines
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  Speaker 2: are brought to you by Frostbrew Corps, Light Shoes, Chill,
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  Speaker 2: the Estate of Paul G.
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  Speaker 3: Allen.
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  Speaker 2: In case you are just here in this here for
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  Speaker 2: the first time, and in case you're just hearing this
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  Speaker 2: here for the first time, where have you been? Paul
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  Speaker 2: Allen announcing today that they've officially commenced a formal sale
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  Speaker 2: process for the Seahawks franchise. This, according to Allen's directive
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  Speaker 2: to eventually selles sports holdings and direct doll estate proceeds
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  Speaker 2: to philanthropy. The estate, by the way, selecting investment bank
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  Speaker 2: Allen and Company and law firm Latham and Watkins to
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  Speaker 2: lead the sale process, which is of course estimated to
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  Speaker 2: continue here through the twenty to twenty six off season.
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  Speaker 2: All NFL owners, of course, must ratify the final agreement
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  Speaker 2: once that is all done. Seahawks also set to hire
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  Speaker 2: Thomas Hammick as new running backs coach and senior offensives
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  Speaker 2: Hamck spend in the last seven years as a head
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  Speaker 2: coach of Northern Illinois and while He also interviewed for
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  Speaker 2: course the Seahawks OC position. He is also looking like
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  Speaker 2: he'll become the NFL's highest paid running backs coach. On
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  Speaker 2: top of that, the Seahawks also going to lose a
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  Speaker 2: coach here to the Raiders another one as well in
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  Speaker 2: the run game coordinators spot and senior offensive advisor Rick Dennison.
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  Speaker 2: He's had a long standing relationship with the Koobiak family,
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  Speaker 2: so that shouldn't be a huge surprise here in essence,
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  Speaker 2: by the way, Pitcher's day coming up in spring training
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  Speaker 2: here for the Mariners, well, checking with Bucky Jacobson and
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  Speaker 2: all things Mariners. Looking like one twenty is our go
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  Speaker 2: time here with Bucky. By the way, Huskies football, they're
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  Speaker 2: making changes as they plan here to part ways with
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  Speaker 2: OC and quarterbacks coach Jimmy Doherty forty seven year old.
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  Speaker 2: Initially he joined the Huskies two years ago as QB
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  Speaker 2: coach and also a passing game coordinator. Of course, he
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  Speaker 2: followed Jetfish from Arizona, where Doherty had been the quarterback
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  Speaker 2: coach and passing game coordinator for three seasons. Olympics update,
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  Speaker 2: Mikayla Schiffren back to glory, absolutely dominant in the slalom
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  Speaker 2: and got her second career gold medal, and she got
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  Speaker 2: the gold during her second run, defeating Camille Rass of
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  Speaker 2: now just one of a handful of Alpine skiers to
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  Speaker 2: win three career limp the gold medals and the only
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  Speaker 2: American ever to do so. On the hockey side, Canada one,
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  Speaker 2: but at what cost? They won four to three in overtime.
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  Speaker 2: Those Sydney Crosby leaving the game with a lower body
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  Speaker 2: injury did not return for that game. Ho boy, hold
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  Speaker 2: as our coverage continuing today. No, this is not the
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  Speaker 2: getting some must needed R n R. It is busy time,
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  Speaker 2: of course coming up for the NHL side. We just,
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  Speaker 2: by the way, got through about nineteen games in thirty
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  Speaker 2: here for today and for tomorrow. And the bonus part
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  Speaker 2: of all this, I get to work with Jessmon McIntyre
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  Speaker 2: once again back.
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  Speaker 6: On the Hello, my friend, how are you?
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  Speaker 4: Oh? This is great? This is great, just like old times.
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  Speaker 6: Right, I always love But I wish I was out
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  Speaker 6: there with you though. Thirty two.
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  Speaker 2: I'm watching her ten to one guy absolutely just slam
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  Speaker 7: Well, I mean, I'd expect nothing less, and I hope
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  Speaker 7: you I said I'd expect nothing less.
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  Speaker 4: I'll be hey, the food is that good? Right, it's good.
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  Speaker 2: You got to get after it here, and there's a
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  Speaker 2: Morty already and the rest of the crew here at
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  Speaker 2: thirty two Bar and Grill, of course, right above Rink one,
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  Speaker 2: the practice headquarters of the Seattle Kraken. They just got
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  Speaker 2: off the ice about roughly an hour and a half
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  Speaker 2: ago from their second day back on the ice right
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  Speaker 2: out of the Olympic break, and about roughly one week
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  Speaker 2: from now they will be back to action to open
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  Speaker 2: back to back on the road against the Dallas Stars
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  Speaker 2: and the Saint Louis Blues.
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  Speaker 4: So you're wondering, why did.
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  Speaker 2: These guys need about eight days here to escape before
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  Speaker 2: they get back to game action. Well, the reason why
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  Speaker 2: they have had about roughly about a week and a
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  Speaker 2: half off here to go here, there, everywhere and enjoy
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  Speaker 2: some indulgences that you'd usually take in here for the
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  Speaker 2: off season and kind of shake the sweats out, shake
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  Speaker 2: the cobwebs out, and get some puck touches right back there,
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  Speaker 2: and we'll talk to more from the crack and resting
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  Speaker 2: room about that Brandon Montur was with us. We're gonna
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  Speaker 2: have that conversation coming up at about two o'clock later
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  Speaker 2: on today. Joey to Court also going to be joining
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  Speaker 2: us here in the next couple of days.
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  Speaker 4: Just some great dudes.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you talk with them and it kind of
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  Speaker 2: feels like that you're having a beer with them or
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  Speaker 2: over a barbecue, and it just goes on and on
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  Speaker 2: and on, but.
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  Speaker 6: Maybe maybe a little fire in the background.
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  Speaker 4: I love it.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I'll also tell you this here. One of
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  Speaker 2: the reasons why I love Brandon Montour is that it
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  Speaker 2: doesn't feel like a formal interview. It is always a
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  Speaker 2: conversation and he is willing to break the fourth wall.
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  Speaker 2: And you're gonna hear that in a little bit. I
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  Speaker 2: think Ryker Evans was sitting nearby and something that money
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  Speaker 2: was needling Ryker Evans about and it had to do
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  Speaker 2: today with the quarterfinal game between Canada and Checky as well.
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  Speaker 2: Keep in mind Ryker Evans is also from Canada, so
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  Speaker 2: we're gonna hear a little bit of that needling coming up.
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  Speaker 2: But also, where do the cracking fit in for this
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  Speaker 2: playoff picture? With the Mariners getting so closer to the
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  Speaker 2: World Series, the Seahawks just hoisting their second Lombardi Trophy,
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  Speaker 2: and this place, this town in Bedlam about roughly a
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  Speaker 2: week ago, where do the crackn fit into this? And
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  Speaker 2: as far as the importance of keeping this chain going,
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  Speaker 2: I'll tell you this here. There's there's already some sense
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  Speaker 2: of belief here from this dressing room that they watch
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  Speaker 2: the Super Bowl, they indulge in the the baseball postseason,
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  Speaker 2: and there's a prevailing feeling that there's no insulation here
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  Speaker 2: from what's going on outside these four walls. They have
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  Speaker 2: one mission in mind now and it is made. It
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  Speaker 2: is to make the playoffs. And with that, once the
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  Speaker 2: team is back from the Olympic break, where do the
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  Speaker 2: crackn go as far as their trade deadline picture? And
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to open this here to you down the road,
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  Speaker 2: But again four nine, four or five one is where
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  Speaker 2: you can text us here. I think without question they're
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  Speaker 2: gonna be a buyer. But how much do you want
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  Speaker 2: to see them give up? And who might fit best
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  Speaker 2: for a top line superstar if you followed them here
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  Speaker 2: for a while, that could fit this team again four
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  Speaker 2: nine four five one Texas right now. But we have
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  Speaker 2: also important pressing matters here to get to and Jess,
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  Speaker 2: we've been going back and forth here with this and
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  Speaker 2: we're gonna get Bucky Jacobson on a little bit later
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  Speaker 2: on here to talk about Mariner spring training. But I
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  Speaker 2: think the most important pressing matters here of the day
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  Speaker 2: outside these four walls have to do with the Seattle Seahawks.
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  Speaker 2: And I think folks, again we knew that that this
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  Speaker 2: was coming, and I think maybe, depending upon your rooting
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  Speaker 2: interests and your level of conspiracy theories, was this the
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  Speaker 2: ideal time to announce it?
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  Speaker 4: Well, who cares?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, the Seahawks won anyway, they fought off that distraction,
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  Speaker 2: and I think for the Seahawks to basically announce that, hey,
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  Speaker 2: we're not talking about this, the team is not up
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  Speaker 2: for sale, I mean, you can say it's corporate speak.
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  Speaker 2: I think it was just basically and I think we
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  Speaker 2: all knew that it was meant to limit a distraction.
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  Speaker 2: But I think we all saw this coming from about
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  Speaker 2: ten miles away. And now it is finally here that
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  Speaker 2: Jody Allen will be selling the estate. It will all
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  Speaker 2: go to philanthropy. And of course the biggest question bears now,
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  Speaker 2: who's next to step in line here for this Seahawks franchise,
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  Speaker 2: because I think many of you remember back in the
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  Speaker 2: nineties when this was not a for sure thing that
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  Speaker 2: this franchise would stay put. But my goodness, looquid they
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  Speaker 2: have built under the Allen ownership era. They have been
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  Speaker 2: now to four Super Bowls, they have put up now
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  Speaker 2: two Lombardi Trophies, and we're talking now about an NFL
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  Speaker 2: franchise that has spoken of in the same breath as
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  Speaker 2: the Packers, as the Steelers, even throwing the Patriots there.
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  Speaker 2: I know that they have certainly won more. But I mean,
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  Speaker 2: this is not just a middling franchise who just trip
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  Speaker 2: fell and landed on one title. We're now talking about
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  Speaker 2: a franchise that is known as the upper echelon tier
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  Speaker 2: group within the NFL. And so I think besides this,
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  Speaker 2: for you to think of who should own this franchise next.
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  Speaker 2: I know, of course that Jeff Bezos's name has been
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  Speaker 2: thrown out there a ton, and there's more dialogue that
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  Speaker 2: we can toss around about this year again four nine
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  Speaker 2: four or five to one, maybe Steve Balmer if you're
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  Speaker 2: thinking about that. But this is also a day I
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  Speaker 2: think of appreciation. So whether it is I think, if
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  Speaker 2: you're considering who should own this team next, what might
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  Speaker 2: be best here for the Seahawks, or whether you just
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  Speaker 2: want to find a way to express your appreciation for
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  Speaker 2: what was something that was just kind of teetering on
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  Speaker 2: the edge about to fall off a cliff back in
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  Speaker 2: the nineties. Could they move or not be moved to
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  Speaker 2: Anaheim for example, Well, here we are now the game
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  Speaker 2: has totally changed. What has this era of the Paul
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  Speaker 2: Allen the state meant to you as a Hawks fan?
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  Speaker 2: Four nine four or five to one? Bety Yet, I
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  Speaker 2: want to really open things up here for voicemails. Go
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  Speaker 2: ahead and find the iHeartRadio app ninety three to three KJR,
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  Speaker 2: hit the red mic icon and just unload there for
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  Speaker 2: thirty seconds and boom you're done.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, Well, you know what, while you're bringing this up,
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  Speaker 7: one of the things I was in at the Super Bowl,
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  Speaker 7: and I was in the locker room afterwards and had
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  Speaker 7: a really good conversation with John Schneider, and uh, the
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  Speaker 7: final question I asked him was how you know it
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  Speaker 7: was to watch Jody Allen hoist that trophy. Yeah, And
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  Speaker 7: he talked about how important it was and how amazing
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  Speaker 7: it was, and how she was the way she was involved.
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  Speaker 7: You know, she'll call you out on your stuff, and
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  Speaker 7: you know she she actually wasn't just someone with a checkbook.
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  Speaker 7: She was intimately involved. But also she's following the trust
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  Speaker 7: that Paul Allen, her brother, left for the intentions for
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  Speaker 7: this team. So I want people to actually get a
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  Speaker 7: full grasp of that that this is not something that
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  Speaker 7: the Seahawks, you know, enabled, they didn't. Nobody's pushing her out,
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  Speaker 7: nobody's force her to sell. It's in the will and
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  Speaker 7: it's in the trust that you know, Paul Allen wanted
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  Speaker 7: to sell this team to go to philanthropic causes. So
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  Speaker 7: that doesn't speak to Jody in any way. She's following
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  Speaker 7: her brother's wishes. I just ye, I don't know what
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  Speaker 7: her net worth is, but I want her to sell
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  Speaker 7: it and buy it back.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I mean, what wouldn't we all I mean,
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  Speaker 2: put put Jody Allen in disguise maybe and just come
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  Speaker 2: right back.
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  Speaker 6: She sell it to herself, put the money into.
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  Speaker 4: Well.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, I like I said, I don't know what.
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  Speaker 7: Her net worth is, but if if that's possible, and
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  Speaker 7: then she could buy it in you know, there's multiple
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  Speaker 7: ways around that.
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  Speaker 6: I have accountant friends and everything.
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  Speaker 7: If she had, if she sold it to a trust,
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  Speaker 7: don't needed the sale of the team to the philanthropic
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  Speaker 7: causes that Paul Allen dedicated in his will. Couldn't she
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  Speaker 7: couldn't she be still the owner?
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  Speaker 2: This is going to be so compelling. I think again,
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  Speaker 2: friends four nine four five one, or hit us up
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  Speaker 2: with a voicemail right now, iHeartRadio app read Mike Icon
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  Speaker 2: ninety three three KJR. This is going to be so
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  Speaker 2: compelling because it's not just going to be any kind
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  Speaker 2: of Johnny cum Lately, Jane come Lately owner just kind
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  Speaker 2: of borrowing those terms here that can buy this franchise.
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  Speaker 2: It's going to scoop up an NFL record, It might
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  Speaker 2: push the pro sports franchise record. And I reference again
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  Speaker 2: how much to Washington the Commanders sold for back in
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty three, six point zero five billion dollars. That
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  Speaker 2: was a franchise that just came off PR Nightmare after
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  Speaker 2: PR Nightmare after PR Nightmare. Now you have an NFL
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  Speaker 2: franchise that just came off of Vence Lombardi Trophy bump.
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  Speaker 2: This is going to push the Lakers pro sports franchise record.
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  Speaker 2: It could easily be ten billion dollars maybe, if not more.
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  Speaker 7: Well, especially just considering the geographical location of being the
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  Speaker 7: only show in ten when it comes to the NFL
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  Speaker 7: until you go to California. So I just really think
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  Speaker 7: that that's another thing. You're getting a top fifteen market
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  Speaker 7: along with it. So and obviously there's lots of dollars
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  Speaker 7: in this market as well, so.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of directions that we can certainly go in
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  Speaker 2: again Texas four nine, four or five one or voicemails.
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  Speaker 2: Hit the Red mic Icon back on the iHeartRadio app
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  Speaker 2: and tell us again, either who do you want to
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  Speaker 2: see pick up this franchise as a new owner or
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  Speaker 2: what did the Paul Allen era of Seahawks football mean
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  Speaker 2: to you now that this is going to be officially
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  Speaker 2: official again four nine four five one or hit talkbacks
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  Speaker 2: as well, Red mic Icon iHeartRadio app. Just find ninety
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  Speaker 2: three three kjar and go ahead and hit us up
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  Speaker 2: right there. A lot more to get to, of course.
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  Speaker 2: Pitcher's day underway here for the Mariners, Bucky Jacobson, he
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  Speaker 2: and Chuck Pale fighting the good fight, showing up, sweating
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  Speaker 2: it out there in Arizona. I kid, they're in paradise,
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  Speaker 2: my goodness, I think it especially.
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  Speaker 7: I don't know if you've been to Arizona this time
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  Speaker 7: of year. It is absolutely lovely, but it is pretty
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  Speaker 7: chilly in the morning. So by the time they get
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  Speaker 7: out there, I mean their show starts, obviously, they're an
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  Speaker 7: hour later than us in Arizona right now because daylight
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  Speaker 7: saving time hasn't happened seven am when they start their show.
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  Speaker 7: It's pretty chilly, thirty two degrees.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, quarters of territory out there.
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  Speaker 7: I do.
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  Speaker 2: I do recall going out to spring training. I want
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  Speaker 2: to say about fifteen years ago when I was working
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  Speaker 2: in minor league hockey and had a chance to check
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  Speaker 2: out the Dodgers in White Sox new facility, not so
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  Speaker 2: much new now, but camel Back.
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  Speaker 4: Ranch, and yeah it is. I love Glorias.
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  Speaker 2: It is my goal one of these days here to
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  Speaker 2: get my kids out there to check out what the
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  Speaker 2: Mariners are doing over in Pori as well. But Bucky
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  Speaker 2: Jacobs isn't going to be checking in here with us
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  Speaker 2: back at Mariner spring training much more daily power play.
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  Speaker 2: I do want to get to some trade names here
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  Speaker 2: for the Kraken, and I'm curious based on the fact
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  Speaker 2: that our Timmy Peneren's name was out there before the
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  Speaker 2: Kraken and the Red hit the Olympic break and reports
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  Speaker 2: souther Krack and we're so close, but the.
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  Speaker 4: Kings got him. That would have been a.
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  Speaker 2: Massive splash, even for a guy who's thirty four years
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  Speaker 2: of age and was commanding a massive extension. But I mean,
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  Speaker 2: times are different here for the Kraken. We know they
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  Speaker 2: want to be a buyer, but what kind of names
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  Speaker 2: are realistic and who's most likely here to come right
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  Speaker 2: through these doors by trade deadline time. I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: talk more about that here for the daily power play.
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  Speaker 2: But Bucky Jacobson up next here from Mariner spring training
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  Speaker 2: right here on ninety three to three, kjir at them
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  Speaker 2: all right. That music is iconic because we know that
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  Speaker 2: Mariner Spring training is underway. Today was day two of
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  Speaker 2: full workouts, also Pitcher's day.
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  Speaker 4: And the guy who's right now next to the line,
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  Speaker 4: I believe to.
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  Speaker 2: Get the guy who is a receiver here for a
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  Speaker 2: lot of them, that being Calrawly. No if he's not
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  Speaker 2: up next to but he'll be on these airwaves soon,
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  Speaker 2: by the way. But the guy he's talking to is
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  Speaker 2: Bucky Jacobson very soon. So we're just gonna cut to
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  Speaker 2: the chase right now. Bucky Jacobson joining us live right
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  Speaker 2: now back in Peoria, Arizona again, Mike Benton filling in
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  Speaker 2: for Ian Forness here for today. Bucky, Hi, sir, how
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  Speaker 2: are you have you had a bite to eat in
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  Speaker 2: between shows and stops?
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  Speaker 8: Now it is good to be on Benton.
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  Speaker 9: Good to talk to you, and no, we are sitting
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  Speaker 9: here starving to death, have not en all day. But
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  Speaker 9: that's fine because we got the big dumper heading over
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  Speaker 9: here shortly, and so we're gonna record that interview and
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  Speaker 9: then go get something deep.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's about time for you guys to finally fill
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  Speaker 2: up here doing a Yeoman's workout in Peoria. So for
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  Speaker 2: as much time as we have here right here for you,
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  Speaker 2: day two, what have you seen so far that I
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  Speaker 2: think gives us a better indication as far as how
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: these pitches are looking and as far as how the
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: hitters are also facing them so far?
• 17:00
  Speaker 8: Well, I mean we didn't.
• 17:02
  Speaker 9: We got a little bit of a rainstorm that came
• 17:04
  Speaker 9: in here today, so I think kind of shortened their workout.
• 17:06
  Speaker 8: After today was the day blood work day. Soever.
• 17:09
  Speaker 9: He was a little lightheaded, not really, but they were
• 17:13
  Speaker 9: walking around with a little bit less blood in their
• 17:15
  Speaker 9: body to start the day.
• 17:17
  Speaker 8: And then they after their meetings and whatnot, they went
• 17:19
  Speaker 8: out there and did a little workout.
• 17:20
  Speaker 9: Then a little rain came through, so shortening it up
• 17:23
  Speaker 9: a little bit. Everybody headed over the cages. I watched
• 17:26
  Speaker 9: JP swing was looking good over there. I was watching
• 17:29
  Speaker 9: Victor Roeblis hitting in the cage a little bit. They
• 17:33
  Speaker 9: did a little bit of base running and pickoffs and
• 17:38
  Speaker 9: run down some of the old fundamental stuff that you
• 17:40
  Speaker 9: see you're probably your your young bet and boy doing
• 17:44
  Speaker 9: in his league workouts. So just kind of going through
• 17:47
  Speaker 9: the motions, kind of getting stuff going, implementing the game
• 17:49
  Speaker 9: plan on certain little strategic things.
• 17:52
  Speaker 8: But there wasn't a ton of live work today, I.
• 17:55
  Speaker 9: Think wu through a bullpen he looked great as usual,
• 17:58
  Speaker 9: and you know, just overall just kind of watching the
• 18:01
  Speaker 9: guys go about their business, kind of starting to get
• 18:03
  Speaker 9: ramped up and get warmed up for when the games
• 18:06
  Speaker 9: you're going to start here soon.
• 18:07
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: I saw one of our guys for the local paper
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: cover George Kirby's session yesterday against Randy E. Rosarin and others,
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: and my goodness, does he look solid and sharp out
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: of the eight of course of this spring and training.
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: And depending upon our time, we'll get to Kirby here,
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: but cal Rawly, who will be getting on these airwaves soon.
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: I did want to bring this up here, Bucky, because
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: there's I think expectations and then unrealistic expectations based on
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: last year. I mean do you think that we're talking
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: enough about Cal Rawley and what he can do after
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: playing so much and the bar he's set last year,
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: And when you think about it with I think the
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: book being out and what he could do, I mean,
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: is around forty five homers realistic here for this next
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: year for him?
• 18:52
  Speaker 9: Yeah, I don't think that's out of the room with
• 18:53
  Speaker 9: possibility at all. Matter of fact, if anything to me,
• 18:57
  Speaker 9: I probably would think that Cal all these floors probably
• 19:01
  Speaker 9: forty homers at this point. I mean, yeah, to repeat
• 19:04
  Speaker 9: a sixty homer season like he had last year, that seems.
• 19:09
  Speaker 8: Like a lot of pressure to put on somebody. I mean,
• 19:11
  Speaker 8: it was historic.
• 19:12
  Speaker 9: I mean, nobody's ever done that as a catcher ever
• 19:16
  Speaker 9: period in the history of the game. And there's only
• 19:18
  Speaker 9: a handful of guys that have ever even reached that
• 19:20
  Speaker 9: number without getting behind the dish and taking the beating
• 19:23
  Speaker 9: that it catched us. So I mean, I'm not setting
• 19:25
  Speaker 9: the expectations there. I also wouldn't say that it's impossible.
• 19:29
  Speaker 8: It just it's historic, and to go back.
• 19:32
  Speaker 9: To back historic seasons, it seems like a lot to
• 19:35
  Speaker 9: ask of a guy. But when we're just talking about
• 19:37
  Speaker 9: what to expect, I think that last year we saw
• 19:42
  Speaker 9: a huge step forward as far as his right handed
• 19:45
  Speaker 9: swing goes. He before that was he was a different
• 19:48
  Speaker 9: hitter from the right hand side. He was the power
• 19:51
  Speaker 9: and just overall how good of a hitter he was.
• 19:55
  Speaker 9: He was better from the left side. Last year we
• 19:57
  Speaker 9: saw the right handed swing come into it to where
• 20:00
  Speaker 9: it wasn't you know, given away at bats nearly as
• 20:03
  Speaker 9: often from the right hand side, and he was dangerous
• 20:05
  Speaker 9: from both sides.
• 20:06
  Speaker 8: I don't think that's going to change.
• 20:07
  Speaker 9: And so I think you're gonna get the six hundred
• 20:10
  Speaker 9: plate appearances regardless of what side, and all of them
• 20:13
  Speaker 9: are going to be, you know, filled with danger for
• 20:15
  Speaker 9: the opposing pitcher, for him to run into to forty balls,
• 20:20
  Speaker 9: I don't think, not only do I think that's that's attainable.
• 20:23
  Speaker 9: I almost kind of feel like thirty five to forty
• 20:26
  Speaker 9: homers I think is the floor for cal Rawley moving forward,
• 20:29
  Speaker 9: and then it's just a matter of if he gets
• 20:31
  Speaker 9: on a couple of hot heaters, you know, getting up
• 20:34
  Speaker 9: there to forty five and fifty all of a sudden
• 20:36
  Speaker 9: seems even closer and more attainable.
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: My goodness, how much as that high tea drill helped
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: him over the last twelve months and for what he
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: can do for this offense and the scope as well
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: for this offense.
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: As Bucky Jacobson joining.
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: Us live right now from Mariner spring training, it is
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: picture's day, so I'll get into more of the arms,
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: and I begin here with a guy named Ryan Sloan
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: who's been turning a lot of attention toward his favor
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: here and he's yet to pitch above high. But I mean,
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: to me, Bucky, the biggest question what kind of swing
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: and miss stuff can he generate? And how much from
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: what we are seeing right now translate to what he
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: can do in real game situation.
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: What's your feel so far on him?
• 21:15
  Speaker 8: Well, I mean the build.
• 21:17
  Speaker 9: I mean it's It's very odd though when you see
• 21:20
  Speaker 9: Ryan Sloan walk by, because if you didn't look above
• 21:24
  Speaker 9: his shoulders, you would think, oh my god, that's an
• 21:26
  Speaker 9: absolute thoroughbred. If you look at his face, he looks
• 21:29
  Speaker 9: like an eleven year old, and so he's he's absolutely different.
• 21:33
  Speaker 8: I don't know what a swing smiths, swing and miss
• 21:35
  Speaker 8: stuff's gonna be.
• 21:36
  Speaker 9: He just a guy that has five pitches he can
• 21:38
  Speaker 9: throw for strikes and absolutely dominate so I think at
• 21:41
  Speaker 9: this point that's what you're looking at with this guy.
• 21:43
  Speaker 9: And I think he's the top of the rotation type
• 21:46
  Speaker 9: guy whenever his time does come.
• 21:47
  Speaker 8: But Ben, and I hate.
• 21:49
  Speaker 9: To do this to you, but I got the big
• 21:52
  Speaker 9: dumper actually walk in this direction.
• 21:54
  Speaker 4: Right now he comes and here he comes.
• 21:56
  Speaker 9: Yeah, I think I think I'm gonna have to go
• 21:59
  Speaker 9: ahead and about this one a little bit short.
• 22:02
  Speaker 8: I don't want to, or.
• 22:03
  Speaker 9: I could probably just tell Cal how about you wait
• 22:05
  Speaker 9: on me now. I've been waiting on you for three days,
• 22:07
  Speaker 9: But I'm not going to do that.
• 22:10
  Speaker 6: Cal was a good decision, Bucky, good business decision tonight.
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: Al is in the flesh out there. All right, we
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: will we will cut you loose, Bucky. You got two
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: important things here to get to and we'll look forward
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: to more with you and Chuck and Cal and the
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: restler for tomorrow.
• 22:22
  Speaker 8: Appreciate you, all right, talk to you later, Betton.
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: All right, thank you, Bucky. That's Bucky Jacobson joining us
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: here at Mariner screen training. Of course, we were waiting
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: for the word that Cal Rawley. His time is always precious,
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: it is always at a premium, and this is the
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: one time that we can get him and Bucky squeezed
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: in for a very very important conversation that you will
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: be hearing here on these airwaves coming up for tomorrow
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: on Chuck and Bucks six to ten am here on
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: ninety three to three KJRFM. I did think that it's
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: a very very important thing for us to I think
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: transition into this one topic. And cal Rawley, after breaking
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: records last season left and right with the season that
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: he had to you, what is a realistic expectation for
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: cal Rawley? Are you thinking over or under for fifty
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: homers again Texas right now? Four nine, four five one.
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: And Jess, I think the one concern for me is
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: that are you going to be facing the exact same
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: kind of pitching this year as you would be facing
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: last year? And what can he do with it? Because
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: it is really, of course, all based on situational stuff.
• 23:31
  Speaker 7: It absolutely is, and I mean, I mean that's the game,
• 23:34
  Speaker 7: right and I think you could it obviously spans multiple sports,
• 23:38
  Speaker 7: but it's not so much the home run production because
• 23:41
  Speaker 7: I think it's unfair kind of as Bucky alluded to, to
• 23:44
  Speaker 7: expect him to do exactly what he did last year.
• 23:47
  Speaker 7: I still think he's going to be a stalwart in
• 23:49
  Speaker 7: the lineup, but I'm not expecting production that even comes
• 23:54
  Speaker 7: close to what he did last year, especially because he catches.
• 24:01
  Speaker 6: The games.
• 24:01
  Speaker 4: Yes, you know, I don't.
• 24:04
  Speaker 7: I don't think they'd want to put that on his body,
• 24:06
  Speaker 7: especially after they extended him at the beginning of the
• 24:08
  Speaker 7: season last year.
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: And that's so important here to understand, because catchers take
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: so much and I mean so much of a beating
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: during the season based on their position. Now you have
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: days where cal Rawly will want to DH and he
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: said this before that he has been very comfortable at
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: filling the d ah slot when he has had to.
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: He's not comfortable sitting out as well. But there will
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: be times that he will have to sit out because
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: again you have to play the long game of one
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: sixty two and then can you keep him fresh here
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: for a postseason? That really isn't the bar anymore here
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: for the Mariners. It is now an expectation, and the
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: bar that you're looking at right now is getting to
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: the World Series. So again, four nine, four five, one,
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: tell me if you think fifty homers is realistic for
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: cal Raley or what is your expectation for cal Rawley
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: for this next season that's also gonna I think put
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: a bit of a different look and I think set
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: of goals and expectations here on other parts of the lineup,
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: and I think for the time that we have here
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: until we're going to get to the daily power play,
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: this will also I think bring Dan Wilson's part of
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: this more and more into the conversation, because if you
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: go back and think of two years ago when Scott
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: Service was here, then he was let go and Dan
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: Wilson was brought in. Compared to now, how much the
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: conversation is changing about how much the manager means to
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: the Seattle Mariners because he nearly won American League Manager
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: of the Year last year.
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: M hm and so.
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I certainly saw it to And I think
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: from from where I start with this, the Mariners virtually
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: have everything. They've got Cal Rawley behind the plate, They've
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: got a better lineup now than two years ago. They've
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: got Julio who has been shattering expectations, and any talk
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: that you had that he's underperforming have got to be
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: a thing in the past. Now they have one of
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: the best pitching staffs in baseball. They have a bullpen
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: that is supposedly being upgraded. Do they have the al
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: manager of the year in Dan Wilson this year four
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: nine five one?
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: And where I go with this?
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: First off, over the last two seasons, Dan Wilson is
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: now one hundred and eleven and eighty five. Repeat, one
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: hundred and eleven and eighty five. He finished the prior
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: year when he took over for Scott's service at twenty
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: one and thirteen. And I remember just the weeping and
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: the angst that came out of many of us here,
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: flooding these airwaves, flooding the text line as well, by
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: the way, flooding voicemails. Why would you give Dan Wilson
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: the full time job at least make him interim.
• 27:01
  Speaker 6: If they believed him super quick?
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, and you know what, there was at
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: least I think a sense of let's just not bother
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: with this here at all.
• 27:08
  Speaker 4: He's got what this team needs and the numbers certainly
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: have shown that.
• 27:12
  Speaker 8: Now.
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: I do think it is fair to question some moves
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: that he made as well back in the postseason. And
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: one of the things that I love that when the
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: mayor's here and he's got Chris Crawford, Nathan Bishop as well,
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: here for molliwat Monday is that we can effectively, and
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: I think objectively, look at the issues that the micro
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: issues that this team has had to overcome with in
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: game management and think of where would they be if
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: it was handled differently. It's a fair question here to ask.
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: But again I think from where they are right now
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: versus two years ago, they are in a much much
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: much better position. And I think if Dan Wilson can
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: press buttons a little bit better, is he going to
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: be your American League Manager of the Year.
• 28:00
  Speaker 7: You know, I was gonna say, because they've had the
• 28:02
  Speaker 7: talent at various levels for many years before Dan Wilson
• 28:05
  Speaker 7: took over. He did something and I think, honestly, the
• 28:09
  Speaker 7: support staff has a huge part to do with it.
• 28:12
  Speaker 7: When you have Edgar in the hitting role. I mean
• 28:14
  Speaker 7: I still remember when you know, when he was became
• 28:17
  Speaker 7: the batting coach that he basically it's like, yeah, he
• 28:21
  Speaker 7: doesn't poo poo stats and statisticians and you know, all
• 28:26
  Speaker 7: saber metrics or anything, but he doesn't want his players
• 28:29
  Speaker 7: thinking about it.
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: Well, I mean now versus thirty years ago, managers have
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: a totally different role. I mean, now it's analytics driven.
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: I mean managers had to collaborate with the analytics team
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: on their lineups here. Managers, though, can still make unilateral
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: or as we say, gut decisions here, but they're often told,
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: your gut has better be right. And I can't think
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: of maybe a better example of that for a guy
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: who's had to overcome similar obstacle and always staying by
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: the script and now learning to trust his gut. Then
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: a manager who is residing right now, two states south
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: of US now has three World Series rings in six years.
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: His name is, by the way, Dave Roberts, and I
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: get that. You can say, oh, he's got Otani, Oh
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: he's got Freddie Friedman, Oh he's got Mookie Betts. G
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: I can manage that team? Really, could you manage that team?
• 29:23
  Speaker 8: Guys?
• 29:24
  Speaker 4: They were two outs away.
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: From being beaten by the Blue Jays in the World Series, right,
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: and when he decided to go ahead and keep Miguil
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: Rojas in, For a guy who hadn't had a hit
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: in a month to come up with one of the
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: greatest World Series moments in baseball history and tie it
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: up against Jeff Hoffman, that was a gut decision by
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: Dave Roberts. Dave Roberts eventually had to overcome basically his
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: own malaise and his own decisions and his own self
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: destruction of taking a guy out just because the analytics
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: said so. But now find this way to evolve and
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: manage the analytics and the emotional side of it and
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: go and find a way to win the battle of
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: brain versus gut. Eventually that led him the three World
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: Series rings in six years. So does your opinion change
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: of Dan Wilson if the Mariners one Game six or
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: Game seven? I think it's fair to ask the handling
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: of Edward Bizarto in Game seven is a factor. Does
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: George Kirby stay in longer here than Brian Wu? Does
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: Brian Woo stay in longer than Edward Bizartro? Does that
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: home run by George Springer? I hate to mention it,
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: but I had to.
• 30:34
  Speaker 6: Well, it's a thing that happens.
• 30:36
  Speaker 4: Does Brian Woo staying in change your mind?
• 30:40
  Speaker 8: Maybe?
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: I mean, the guys the playoffs are full of darned
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: if you do and darned if you don't.
• 30:44
  Speaker 4: Scenarios here.
• 30:45
  Speaker 7: I was just gonna say, obviously at that point in
• 30:47
  Speaker 7: the season, no matter where who the manager is, they're
• 30:50
  Speaker 7: going to be under a microscope because the only games
• 30:53
  Speaker 7: that are happening and everyone is watching.
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: I mean we talked about this in these airwaves earlier here.
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: I mean, to be an effective team of haven't effect
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: the manager. It is a coarse hand in hand. You
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: have to push the right buttons, but you've got to
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: also have the talent to be able to do what
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: you want to do. And I think for the Al Central,
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: I mean Dan Wilson I think is well deserving of
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: that to be considered. I mean as far as the
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: Al West, I think he's already the best manager in
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: this division. I mean, Skip Schumacher just took over in Texas.
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: I think he's better than Mark cootsee Joe Espada. I
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: think Wilson's now better and miles and miles ahead. I
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: think of Kurtzuzuki with the Angels as well. John Schneider
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: could easily and I'm talking Blue Jays, John Schneider could
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: be his biggest challenger again. I mean, he pulled a
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: lot of the right strings and I think really up
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: into the World Series Jess, that was where I think
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: that he hit his peak, and then he began to
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: kind of overmanage a little bit.
• 31:52
  Speaker 6: Well, yeah, I mean I guess that's you know, the.
• 31:58
  Speaker 7: I don't want to say glass half full, glass half empty,
• 32:00
  Speaker 7: but you know, knee jerk, like I said, under the
• 32:03
  Speaker 7: Microsoft scope, you know, like, how do you if he
• 32:08
  Speaker 7: doesn't make that decision and things go wrong with the
• 32:12
  Speaker 7: other way, right, Like, he's still going to be criticized
• 32:15
  Speaker 7: with that. And I just think that again, darn if
• 32:17
  Speaker 7: you do, darn if you don't exactly exactly. And I
• 32:19
  Speaker 7: just think that, honestly, like his more thirty thousand foot
• 32:23
  Speaker 7: view of what he's done is more important than some
• 32:27
  Speaker 7: of the nitty gritty game managing decisions.
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: So I think for me, in just kind of slicing
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: and dicing this away here from potential candidates. And again
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: this is all assuming that that that the Americas can
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: duplicate what they did last year. To me, I think
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: the biggest challengers for him for Manager of the Year,
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: beside Schneider might be Stephen Vote, might be aj Hinch,
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: and maybe if you throw in a miracle run by
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: the Red Sox, also Alex Korra. But I think Stephen
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: Vote does he have enough talent to overcome the America
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: in League Central and win three in a row. Nobody,
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: and I mean nobody has done that three years in
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: a row.
• 33:08
  Speaker 4: Votes now got two.
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: And by the way, last year, you might forget Cleveland
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: had to erase a fifteen and a half game deficit
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: to win the American League Central.
• 33:17
  Speaker 6: Will out of it by annoying.
• 33:20
  Speaker 4: Yes, I remember, they would not stop winning.
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: I mean as back at the Alds, I know, I mean,
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: I think I think Detroit. I mean again, I go
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  Speaker 2: back here to the Astros thing. It soured me like
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  Speaker 2: a lot of you. I think aj Hinch was was
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: a part of that program and he got the hammer down.
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  Speaker 4: I think.
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  Speaker 2: He definitely got the well deserved hammer. But I think
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: it's showing here in the Detroit aj Hinches got it.
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: He managed a young Tigers roster, had unconventional use of
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: bullpen games, and they're the favorite to win this year
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: in the AL Central. That will draw plenty of attention here.
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: And they also got some upgrades here and from Valdez
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: and got the age with Justin Verlander back in there.
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  Speaker 2: More so I think for leadership as well. But he's
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: showing that he can still be put out there and
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: get a few pretty important outs as well. But I
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: think that's your prime competition for ale Manager of the Year,
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: John Schneider, maybe Steven Vote, maybe a J. Hinch And
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: we'll see if the Red Sox can pull off a
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: miracle run back here to the postseason with Alex Korra,
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: because Dan Wilson's got enough tools to do this once again.
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: But it all comes down to can he win enough
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: by what he is doing in late game situations. The
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: postseason will have nothing here to do with this, of course,
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: but I think it's just more for window dressing. Can
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: he find a way to make those right decisions right?
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: And that's gonna be I think a big step here
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: in the right direction to get this team finally over
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: the humping right back into the World Series.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 34:50
  Speaker 7: I think that also we have to give him a
• 34:52
  Speaker 7: little bit of grace on the short learning curve that
• 34:55
  Speaker 7: he's been on and that he is also not an
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  Speaker 7: arrogant type of person who will rely on others to
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  Speaker 7: give some feedback on the decisions as well.
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  Speaker 2: And I think a lot of that comes from calculator
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  Speaker 2: optimism and I think and be able to manage a
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: roster like this, and there's a hockey team as well,
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: not too far through. And I think that began this
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: year on a lot of calculator optimism, and that being
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: the Seattle crack at. Of course we're right back here
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: at thirty two Bar and Grill, but coming up here
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: as part of that feeling that optimism back in October,
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: if you were to talk about playoffs, a lot of
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: folks outside this area are probably laughing at you.
• 35:35
  Speaker 4: But I think this.
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: Has been, as I have said, Seattle versus everybody type
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: of season. You talk about this with the Kraken, you
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: talk about this with Sam Darnold, you talk about this
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: here with the Mariners as well. The Mariners did their
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: thing getting into the postseason, the Seahawks won the Super Bowl,
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: and there is some feeling now and we'll talk more
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: of Brandon Montor coming up at two o'clock with how
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: they can kind of keep this chain going because there
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: is certainly, I think a direct connection to success and
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: where victory and winning fuels one franchise and it becomes
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: a chain reaction across every major pro sports franchise. And
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: we'll have more about that with Montour at the end
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: of our conversation that will air coming up in the.
• 36:18
  Speaker 4: Two o'clock hour. But the question bears how do they
• 36:20
  Speaker 4: get there?
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: Because once the Crack can get back out of the
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: Olympic break, there's going to be a trade deadline coming
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: up here. And reportedly the Crack and we're big game
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: hunting about a few weeks ago, pardon the expression, and
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: they nearly came up with our Timmy Penaren from the
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: Rangers before he went to the Los Angeles Kings right
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: before the roster freeze happened earlier this month. That will
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: end here in about a few days. So what will
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: they need to finally get that big score and who
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: do you think they need? We'll talk about more of
• 36:51
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  Speaker 2: Are an hard time here for the mayor of Maple Valley.
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  Speaker 2: He is right now off an undisclosed location. I think
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  Speaker 2: probably asleep right now. That's a home, I think, I
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  Speaker 2: think I think the rains cleared up now by now.
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  Speaker 6: I would definitely be r e m.
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  Speaker 4: He's probably he's probably chilling it right now. Back over
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  Speaker 7: Oh yeah, probably that too. I for you, Maw with
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  Speaker 4: Good for you.
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  Speaker 2: May or go get some this week you deserve it.
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: Here Ian Finesses op here for this week. Mike Benton
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: again filling in back at thirty two barn Grill. Right
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: back here at practice headquarters for the Seattle Crack. And
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: they just practiced earlier today for the second time now
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: back from the Olympic break, still missing three out and
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: out of the Olympics. It is down to two because
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: the Germans and Philip Grubauer have been mathematically eliminated. That
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: happening earlier this morning, six' two loss to Slovakia Canada
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: by the way hung onto the hair or by the
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: hair their chitting chin chin four to three over Checkia
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: and overtime Mitch Marner had the game winning goal, by
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: the way, and in case you might know the name
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: Mitch Marner or Nadia COURSEI former Maple Leaf Toronto hometown guy,
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: basically run out of town via trade. And let's just
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: say a lot of Leafs fanboys maybe punching air right
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: now with the Mitch Marner againting the ot winner.
• 39:05
  Speaker 4: He is a hockey player.
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: It is close right now for a Team USA and
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: they are up just one nothing over Sweden through two periods.
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: The playofk a good old friend Eddie oldchik, by the way,
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: was on the TV screens here in front of us.
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: It's about a few moments ago.
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  Speaker 4: We love that. Oh we love those, We love ed Zoe,
• 39:24
  Speaker 4: Life of the party.
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: Thirty nineteen shots in favor of Team USA, but just
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: one goal here to show for this. Because Jacob Markstrom
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: right now is playing like Hercules and net for teams Sweden.
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: So this is gonna be a tough one here. Do
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: not count Sweden now. They can play a tough shift
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: by shift man on man if you will. So this
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: is gonna go down to the wire. Looks like but
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: us on top one nothing. Dylan Larkin with four points
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: so far in the tournament, by the way, one of
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: the big headliners here for Team USA. So here's a
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: scenario right now, and Team USA wins, here's how the
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: semi finals match up. It will be Canada versus Finland,
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: and then Team USA against Slovakia, and then if Sweden
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: finds a way to come back fingers cross here for
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: a lot of us around here, it does not happen,
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: but it'll be Canada getting Sweden and the Slovakia getting Finland.
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: By the way, Team Finland with Coppo Kako and Ellie
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: Tobin and two members of the Kraken who are still
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: alive right now in this Olympic tournament, but looking like
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: right now that Team USA just got a hold on
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: right now and they will be taken on Slovakia coming
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: up tomorrow in the semi finals. So I did want
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: to get to more of a conversation that we'll have
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: later on with Brandon Montour that coming up at the
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: two o'clock hour. But this is gonna also lead us
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: on to I think more conversation once the krack and
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: are back here from the Olympic break. The trade deadline
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: will be coming up. The NHL will also be coming
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: out of a roster freeze just in about a matter
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: of a few days, which means teams can go and
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: make trades once again. And the way it works in
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: the NHL is that you basically now have two trade
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: deadlines that you're working with now in this league. One
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: was right before the Olympic break, which happened the day
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: of the last Kraken game pre break at Los Angeles,
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: and that's when the whole ur Timmy Paneren trade went down.
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: He was arguably the biggest superstar dangling on the market
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: here that could be moved by trade deadline time, and
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: the Kings got him. But reports where the Kraken were
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: well in on him despite his age right now creeping
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: up in the mid thirties and the massive salary that
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: he commands, the krack and were willing to move heaven
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: and er for portally to get our Timmy Paneren here
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: in Seattle. But the big part of this is that
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: Paneren also had a no movement clause, which means he
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: could basically veto any trade he would want, and Paneren said, nope,
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: I'm going nowhere but Los Angeles. So that didn't work out.
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: But now once the Kraken come out of this roster freeze,
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: who might be there for this next big fish again
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: four nine, four five one. And there are certain doors
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: that they can go through here to make this attainable
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: and to upgrade their roster and to really put themselves
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: in good position versus other teams that they are fighting, scratching, bodying,
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: clawing with just to get into the playoffs this year.
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: And you might ask, well, why is that so important.
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: They're a young franchise. Well, they're in your five right now.
• 42:27
  Speaker 2: And again I go back. The Mariners came with an
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: eight outs of making the World Series. The Seahawks won
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: another Super Bowl, folks, I remind you, by the way,
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: and I heard this here from a very good source,
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: there are still on average two thousand fans per home game,
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: two thousand brand new fans that come in every Kraken
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: game to climb and plug ana.
• 42:52
  Speaker 6: I love that.
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: And what's that one phrase that we heard. You never
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: get a second chance to make a first impression.
• 42:59
  Speaker 6: There you go.
• 43:00
  Speaker 4: And the NHL is.
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: A box office league versus say Major League Baseball or
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: the NFL, where they are more of a TV revenue
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: driven league. So box office numbers mean everything, and at
• 43:14
  Speaker 2: this point, optics mean everything, not just for players in
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: the dressing room, but for also what the Krack and
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: are doing long term here outside the glass and establishing
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: more of a footprint here in this area. So could
• 43:28
  Speaker 2: there be another big fish coming in here so to
• 43:31
  Speaker 2: speak by trade deadline time roughly about a week after
• 43:35
  Speaker 2: the team gets back here from the Olympic break. I'll
• 43:38
  Speaker 2: toss some names out here to you that have been
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: reportedly on the market. One is one by the Way,
• 43:43
  Speaker 2: multiple Stanley cups here with a team in Florida. He
• 43:47
  Speaker 2: has since moved on. Another, by the Way, an up
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: and coming center in his twenties, but one team has
• 43:53
  Speaker 2: said it's gonna be basically quite the hall to get him.
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: Another could be also a winger that was totally on
• 44:00
  Speaker 2: the market earlier this year. He's had a bad year,
• 44:02
  Speaker 2: but he has basically approached the forty goal campaign and
• 44:07
  Speaker 2: he's still very much young. So what do you want
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: to go through? Door number one, door number two, or
• 44:11
  Speaker 2: door number three. We'll talk about that again four nine,
• 44:14
  Speaker 2: four to five one such as your cracking thoughts. So
• 44:16
  Speaker 2: we're gonna get some more of this year coming up
• 44:17
  Speaker 2: in this next hour. But right around the corner here
• 44:20
  Speaker 2: Brandon mon tour. We caught up with them, by the
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: way earlier today at crack in Community. Ice plugs that
• 44:24
  Speaker 2: conversation coming up here in just a bit of a
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• 44:31
  Speaker 11: Laying demands a lot from our group. But I think
• 44:35
  Speaker 11: this year is also different because it's so close by everyone,
• 44:37
  Speaker 11: you know, so win or loss, the other teams are
• 44:39
  Speaker 11: losing or winning same thing. I think, you know, ansistency. Obviously,
• 44:42
  Speaker 11: we've been off and on winning games, losing games, you know,
• 44:46
  Speaker 11: throughout throughout the year. But you know, I think it's
• 44:49
  Speaker 11: again you it doesn't matter. You want to be in
• 44:51
  Speaker 11: the mix.
• 44:52
  Speaker 5: We're in.
• 44:52
  Speaker 11: You're in the mix right now. We believe our group,
• 44:56
  Speaker 11: you know, obviously close playoff style games, I think is
• 44:58
  Speaker 11: a lot you could say this year, and that's what
• 45:01
  Speaker 11: you want to play for, uh, you know. And as
• 45:03
  Speaker 11: we keep going here, we got to keep, you know,
• 45:05
  Speaker 11: stuffing on our gass. You can't you know, stop. So
• 45:08
  Speaker 11: I think in order for our group to keep succeeding
• 45:12
  Speaker 11: day by day, gay by game, we got to push
• 45:14
  Speaker 11: right to the end.
• 45:15
  Speaker 2: There has been some talk that your head coach might
• 45:17
  Speaker 2: be in the conversation at the end of the year
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: for the Jack Adams. What's been most consistent about Lane
• 45:23
  Speaker 2: Lambert his approach and his message.
• 45:25
  Speaker 11: Yeah, I think he's got the belief in our group.
• 45:26
  Speaker 11: But he's demanding on you know, every single player on
• 45:28
  Speaker 11: our team. But no matter who you are, myself, young guy,
• 45:32
  Speaker 11: you know, it don't matter. And he challenges us. He
• 45:36
  Speaker 11: expects us to win, you know, and and uh, when
• 45:38
  Speaker 11: you know, when we're off, you know, he he'll tell us.
• 45:40
  Speaker 11: So I like to have a guy behind us there
• 45:44
  Speaker 11: just wanted you to succeed and believe in the group.
• 45:46
  Speaker 11: You know that we have to push towards you know,
• 45:49
  Speaker 11: our goal, which is playoffs, and that's all you could
• 45:51
  Speaker 11: ask for. So, uh, you know, kudos to him. Uh,
• 45:54
  Speaker 11: he's obviously it's been a one year so it's been
• 45:56
  Speaker 11: tough obviously, you know, just knowing everyone and getting to
• 45:59
  Speaker 11: know you know, his management, you know the rest of
• 46:02
  Speaker 11: his coaching staff, players. But he's done a good job
• 46:05
  Speaker 11: so far.
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: There's been a course, I think part of those elements
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: that go into helping drive culture and maybe I think
• 46:11
  Speaker 2: different platforms from where this team is right now versus
• 46:14
  Speaker 2: some teams that you played on about three years ago
• 46:16
  Speaker 2: that won the Stanley Cup. But what do you see
• 46:19
  Speaker 2: in common that is growing as far as culture and
• 46:22
  Speaker 2: helping that to develop a winning team in good.
• 46:24
  Speaker 4: Habits as well.
• 46:25
  Speaker 11: Definitely a coach, the coach that's you know, demands you know,
• 46:27
  Speaker 11: a certain certain thing when he comes into the room,
• 46:29
  Speaker 11: he speaks and everyone listens. Little things like that. Tight
• 46:35
  Speaker 11: games too. You know, on my team in Florida, we
• 46:37
  Speaker 11: were in some some seasons we high scoring. You know,
• 46:41
  Speaker 11: we won the President's Trophy a couple years ago, but
• 46:44
  Speaker 11: we were winning games six, five, six or four, and
• 46:47
  Speaker 11: we're relying on talent and you know skill and next thing,
• 46:51
  Speaker 11: you know what, you go in the playoffs and you know,
• 46:52
  Speaker 11: we're getting swept by Tampa Vay in the second round.
• 46:55
  Speaker 11: So it's it's a different ballgame when you come there.
• 46:57
  Speaker 11: I think we're built work so for playoff hockey in
• 47:00
  Speaker 11: that style. Here Lane understands that and knows that, you know,
• 47:03
  Speaker 11: the defense is the number one thing. And again I
• 47:07
  Speaker 11: don't think we're a team that you know, is relying
• 47:09
  Speaker 11: on high end, high on talent you know, each night
• 47:11
  Speaker 11: and demanding you know, difference maker. It comes in bunches,
• 47:14
  Speaker 11: It comes with you know, on whoever our first line
• 47:16
  Speaker 11: might be or our fourth line. You know, all year
• 47:19
  Speaker 11: you've get one of the lines stepping up in different
• 47:21
  Speaker 11: you know, so we're different, that we're built different, So
• 47:25
  Speaker 11: I can't really compare it to what we had in Florida.
• 47:28
  Speaker 11: But again, yeah, it doesn't matter.
• 47:32
  Speaker 4: You want to be in the mix.
• 47:33
  Speaker 11: We're in the mix, and that's all you can ask
• 47:35
  Speaker 11: for a per player.
• 47:35
  Speaker 2: This team has banked some pretty important wins and including
• 47:38
  Speaker 2: the ones that you've stood it up for.
• 47:40
  Speaker 4: There was the OT win.
• 47:41
  Speaker 2: Against Los Angeles back in December, the Lake comeback in
• 47:44
  Speaker 2: the third period than winning it in O T. There
• 47:46
  Speaker 2: was a win at Vegas as well at the end
• 47:48
  Speaker 2: of the month, and then the win again at LA
• 47:50
  Speaker 2: before the Olympic breaks. So is there any one win
• 47:53
  Speaker 2: that kind of sticks out in your mind that you
• 47:55
  Speaker 2: can like that meant a lot to where we want
• 47:58
  Speaker 2: to go.
• 48:00
  Speaker 11: It's huge when you especially you said you want to
• 48:02
  Speaker 11: play the best teams. You said Vegas, especially teams in
• 48:05
  Speaker 11: your division LA. You want to beat those games. I
• 48:08
  Speaker 11: think it was just as as myke, like I said,
• 48:10
  Speaker 11: my career has gone on. Each game is important, you know,
• 48:12
  Speaker 11: you might We've had a couple where we've should have
• 48:14
  Speaker 11: won and we've lost too, So you take it for
• 48:17
  Speaker 11: what it is, and at the end it's going to
• 48:19
  Speaker 11: come down to a point or two and you can
• 48:20
  Speaker 11: look back and say, we should have had that one.
• 48:22
  Speaker 11: Should have You know, it's nice that we won this
• 48:24
  Speaker 11: and kept it close. But again, you got to take
• 48:27
  Speaker 11: each game for what it is and again put your
• 48:31
  Speaker 11: best foot forward and see what comes. But we've had,
• 48:34
  Speaker 11: like I said, some big, big wins that have helped
• 48:36
  Speaker 11: us get to where we're at right now. But you know,
• 48:39
  Speaker 11: again you got to focus on each game.
• 48:41
  Speaker 8: You don't.
• 48:42
  Speaker 11: We're in a playoff spot right now, so that's what
• 48:43
  Speaker 11: you You know, our goal is to be in that spot.
• 48:46
  Speaker 11: And you know our division is so tight still, so
• 48:48
  Speaker 11: anything can happen. So be ready for you know, a
• 48:52
  Speaker 11: tough challenge back to back. To start us.
• 48:53
  Speaker 2: Off, Brandon Montour joining us. You're cracking Communian I places
• 48:56
  Speaker 2: last couple of weeks before we let you go. Brandon,
• 48:58
  Speaker 2: First off, what do you do with eight days of
• 49:01
  Speaker 2: practice here and use those to the best of your
• 49:03
  Speaker 2: advants before you finally get back into gameplay.
• 49:05
  Speaker 11: Yeah, you got the temple up, you know, work on
• 49:09
  Speaker 11: whatever you need to work on as a group. Kind
• 49:12
  Speaker 11: of remembering everything that you have, our success, just getting
• 49:16
  Speaker 11: back into game speed and challenge each other. It is
• 49:19
  Speaker 11: still a longer break, so we got a practice, small rest,
• 49:23
  Speaker 11: recover as much as you can, because it's like you said,
• 49:25
  Speaker 11: we got five six weeks until the end of the season. Months,
• 49:28
  Speaker 11: you know, we start back up. So are you ready?
• 49:32
  Speaker 2: I couldn't help but notice when Canada went to overtime
• 49:35
  Speaker 2: here for their game this morning, and everybody was on
• 49:39
  Speaker 2: pins and needles, maybe on the ice, but what was
• 49:42
  Speaker 2: it feel like back here in the in the room
• 49:43
  Speaker 2: before everyone jumped back out there.
• 49:45
  Speaker 11: I feel like guys, even Kaye's like Ryker Evans uh
• 49:49
  Speaker 11: wanted the other team win for some reason.
• 49:51
  Speaker 4: I don't know what is that true, Riker.
• 49:53
  Speaker 11: I don't know what you have against Canada, But yeah,
• 49:56
  Speaker 11: a lot of guys, obviously, I think from the other
• 49:58
  Speaker 11: countries we're cheering for obviously, check you. I just I
• 50:02
  Speaker 11: don't know if they expect an easier way to Golden medal.
• 50:05
  Speaker 11: Maybe you know, I think you want to play the
• 50:08
  Speaker 11: best at the end. Okay, yeah, I mean you again,
• 50:12
  Speaker 11: That's what this tournament's so great, you know, it's anybody
• 50:15
  Speaker 11: can be anybody, especially when you get into the metal rounds.
• 50:18
  Speaker 11: It's exciting, it's you know, hard checking. Obviously check you
• 50:22
  Speaker 11: had numerous chances to win, but total Canada. So I mean, yeah,
• 50:27
  Speaker 11: it'd be interesting to see how it ends up.
• 50:28
  Speaker 2: I want to ask you a fun question, kind of
• 50:31
  Speaker 2: off the tracks a little bit here. We had head
• 50:33
  Speaker 2: coach Lane Lambert on with our three to seven show
• 50:35
  Speaker 2: there a day and they were talking about curling and
• 50:38
  Speaker 2: kind of teasing Lane that is a real sport, and
• 50:40
  Speaker 2: Lane said, I want to see you get back out
• 50:42
  Speaker 2: there and try here because I've seen guys crack their
• 50:45
  Speaker 2: heads open on the eyes curling before.
• 50:48
  Speaker 11: I know, you know what I have once in just
• 50:50
  Speaker 11: a team of that when we were young here. But yeah,
• 50:52
  Speaker 11: I mean I'm sure it's it's got, it's dangerous in
• 50:54
  Speaker 11: the factors in the sport. People obviously enjoyed. It's on
• 50:58
  Speaker 11: TV all the time. Yeah, you know, it's it gets intense,
• 51:01
  Speaker 11: it's it's obviously a talented skill set for sure. But yeah,
• 51:06
  Speaker 11: I mean that's just for it. You know, it's seems
• 51:08
  Speaker 11: like it's like you said, it's intense, but it's also
• 51:11
  Speaker 11: calm and you know, I don't know how the crowd.
• 51:14
  Speaker 11: I haven't watched specifically how loud the stadium is and stuff.
• 51:16
  Speaker 11: I'm not sure I haven't tuned into that sport that much,
• 51:19
  Speaker 11: but something that could definitely interest you.
• 51:22
  Speaker 2: Finally, with you, of course taking care of kids, a
• 51:25
  Speaker 2: pat and then a third baby on the way here,
• 51:26
  Speaker 2: we're able to catch Hawks Patriots here for the Super Bowl.
• 51:30
  Speaker 11: Watched the game. You know, I didn't. I didn't go
• 51:31
  Speaker 11: to Prade or nothing like that, but it's cool for uh,
• 51:34
  Speaker 11: you know it. You've got baseball that did well, obviously
• 51:37
  Speaker 11: didn't get to the finals.
• 51:38
  Speaker 8: But did well.
• 51:39
  Speaker 11: Had the excitement for the city, the Hawks winning cities.
• 51:42
  Speaker 11: You know, good sports, you know right now, So I'm
• 51:45
  Speaker 11: expecting the kracking to make some moves here and keep going,
• 51:48
  Speaker 11: get the chain going, right, that's the plan.
• 51:51
  Speaker 4: I appreciate Brandon Paget right much.
• 51:54
  Speaker 2: Let's just say they're in a good mood. Brandom on tour.
• 51:57
  Speaker 2: That was right from the crack and dressing room. Did
• 51:59
  Speaker 2: you buy the catch that last said a few words
• 52:03
  Speaker 2: that Brandon Montour had. Let's make some moves, let's keep
• 52:07
  Speaker 2: this going. And now I can differ. I can think now,
• 52:12
  Speaker 2: I mean, first off, number one, whether you want to
• 52:16
  Speaker 2: think that he's talking about, you know, trade deadline, bring
• 52:18
  Speaker 2: a new body in here, you can think that. I
• 52:21
  Speaker 2: think he's more referencing the standings here, like make some
• 52:24
  Speaker 2: moves up there, that that's something for people above his
• 52:27
  Speaker 2: pay grade, so to speak. But I mean, my goodness,
• 52:31
  Speaker 2: every time you talk with Brandon Montour, there is something
• 52:35
  Speaker 2: that carries extra meaning that just tells me and I
• 52:39
  Speaker 2: think tells others, how long until this guy moves up
• 52:44
  Speaker 2: the chain As far as a leader and I mean
• 52:47
  Speaker 2: a concrete wearing a letter leader on this team.
• 52:53
  Speaker 4: I think it's already moving right now. And I think it's.
• 52:57
  Speaker 2: Going to be very very, very very compelling to not
• 53:01
  Speaker 2: just see where this roster goes maybe in about roughly
• 53:04
  Speaker 2: a month from now, but definitely this next summer because
• 53:09
  Speaker 2: the Krakens still have several players who have been here
• 53:12
  Speaker 2: since day one, but they are at the end of
• 53:14
  Speaker 2: their rope as far as their contracts, and they are UFAs,
• 53:18
  Speaker 2: and there are some names that you might be familiar
• 53:20
  Speaker 2: with that eventually, maybe sooner here than later, you might
• 53:26
  Speaker 2: have to see them part ways with because it's just time.
• 53:29
  Speaker 2: Whether that's Jordan Eberley or that might be Jaden Schwartz,
• 53:33
  Speaker 2: whether it might be Jamie Alexiak as well. Even Ellie
• 53:36
  Speaker 2: Tolden they got to figure out his situation, and he's
• 53:38
  Speaker 2: also appending UFA and GM. Jason Botterrel did say that
• 53:42
  Speaker 2: through a report that they're going to be looking at
• 53:43
  Speaker 2: potentially or who used to say it. Reportedly Botterol is
• 53:46
  Speaker 2: going to be looking at which UFA would be staying
• 53:49
  Speaker 2: around here talk with them and then maybe based on
• 53:52
  Speaker 2: other reports, they could be moving some pieces in and out.
• 53:57
  Speaker 2: But the bottom line here is that change is inevitable
• 54:00
  Speaker 2: and we could be seeing some serious change here on
• 54:02
  Speaker 2: this roster. So depending upon where this goes, I am
• 54:05
  Speaker 2: very very very curious to see what kind of a
• 54:09
  Speaker 2: letter an extra letter is on Brandon Montor's chest maybe
• 54:14
  Speaker 2: about a couple of years from now. That's gonna be
• 54:17
  Speaker 2: the interesting question because there's always a changing of the
• 54:20
  Speaker 2: guard in the NHL. Players come and go eras change
• 54:24
  Speaker 2: as well. And while the crack And are in the
• 54:27
  Speaker 2: playoff mix, there are still a lot of loose threads
• 54:31
  Speaker 2: right now on this roster which needs some tying up
• 54:34
  Speaker 2: right now, and the question bears what do you do
• 54:37
  Speaker 2: with them if they don't fit here for the long term?
• 54:41
  Speaker 2: And this is where I get into the roster part
• 54:43
  Speaker 2: of this, because the trade deadline is going to be
• 54:45
  Speaker 2: coming up almost right smack after everybody gets back here
• 54:50
  Speaker 2: from the Olympic break, and the Crack can begin play
• 54:53
  Speaker 2: this next Wednesday against the Dallas Stars. They were reportedly
• 54:57
  Speaker 2: so close. So landing are TIMI panerin from the New
• 55:01
  Speaker 2: York Rangers and the Rangers are just in shambles right now.
• 55:06
  Speaker 2: About a week after the Kraken beat them at Madison
• 55:09
  Speaker 2: Square Garden, the Rangers came out with the letter two
• 55:12
  Speaker 2: point zero. And in case you don't know what that means,
• 55:15
  Speaker 2: well about several years ago when the Rangers, who just
• 55:18
  Speaker 2: play in, I mean justin you know this a hyper
• 55:21
  Speaker 2: intensive New York market.
• 55:23
  Speaker 7: Oh, I'm are you aware of that? How do you
• 55:25
  Speaker 7: think I'm hypertensive?
• 55:27
  Speaker 2: I mean me, I think maybe more sometimes here, but
• 55:30
  Speaker 2: uh but that's just me. Sometimes I guess there's too
• 55:32
  Speaker 2: much caffeine. But when you play in a market like
• 55:37
  Speaker 2: New York, the demands to win don't just come every
• 55:43
  Speaker 2: five years, not just every other year, not every year,
• 55:48
  Speaker 2: but virtually every waking moment. And if you're not winning,
• 55:54
  Speaker 2: or if you're not performing up to standards, there aren't
• 55:58
  Speaker 2: just fans who will let you have it. There are
• 56:00
  Speaker 2: members of the media who will let you have it
• 56:02
  Speaker 2: as well. I do recall when the Kraken were at
• 56:06
  Speaker 2: the Rangers, and this is the first game after the
• 56:10
  Speaker 2: Rangers got their doors blown off by Boston. On National TV,
• 56:14
  Speaker 2: you heard Chance with for the GM fire Drury. And
• 56:18
  Speaker 2: after that game, which the Kraken won, the Rangers came
• 56:22
  Speaker 2: out with another letter like they had about roughly five
• 56:25
  Speaker 2: six years ago, pledging that this is gonna be a
• 56:28
  Speaker 2: quick turnaround. We're going to be shifting into a brand
• 56:31
  Speaker 2: new era, and there might be some names that you
• 56:34
  Speaker 2: have loved to watch before in a Rangers uniform which
• 56:37
  Speaker 2: may not be here for long. And we saw the
• 56:40
  Speaker 2: first Domino drop here with our Timmy paneren out the door.
• 56:45
  Speaker 2: So to tie all this up here, the Kraken were
• 56:47
  Speaker 2: so close to landing him reportedly didn't work out. Paneraen
• 56:50
  Speaker 2: only had one place and one place he wanted to
• 56:53
  Speaker 2: go because he has a full no movement clause, and
• 56:55
  Speaker 2: that was the Los Angeles Kings. But I think it
• 56:58
  Speaker 2: was more important, Jess, I think for the crack and
• 57:01
  Speaker 2: to make a statement, and that wasn't realistic to maybe
• 57:05
  Speaker 2: land Panerin, maybe not, but it's just the optics of
• 57:10
  Speaker 2: it that you are willing to take a big swing
• 57:13
  Speaker 2: to land a big fish, to finally bring in a
• 57:15
  Speaker 2: guy who was going to be a part of your
• 57:18
  Speaker 2: top line, be your most important score on the ice,
• 57:21
  Speaker 2: and be a box office draw potentially, that's what they
• 57:26
  Speaker 2: want to do next, and finally bring in a guy
• 57:29
  Speaker 2: who can help fortify this team here for the future.
• 57:32
  Speaker 2: And I think for me, I think for me, that's
• 57:35
  Speaker 2: that's that's super important because you've got for the Mariners
• 57:38
  Speaker 2: the Julio factor. You've got here for the Seahawks, a
• 57:41
  Speaker 2: brand new era coming in JSNS arguably the best receiver
• 57:45
  Speaker 2: now in football. And we'll see what happens here with Canine.
• 57:49
  Speaker 2: I love watching and play by the way, and I
• 57:50
  Speaker 2: was prepared to talk about Canine and this franchise tag
• 57:53
  Speaker 2: before this whole pseudo bombshell dropped of the Seahawks up
• 57:58
  Speaker 2: for seal though we knew what was going on. But
• 58:00
  Speaker 2: that's for a different day though. But then you have him.
• 58:03
  Speaker 2: You've got also Sue Bird who played previously in this
• 58:06
  Speaker 2: town here with the Storm, and he got arguably the
• 58:09
  Speaker 2: best hockey player in women's hockey on the planet now
• 58:12
  Speaker 2: playing here in the PWHL, and they're drawing great crowds.
• 58:16
  Speaker 2: By the way, not too far down the road here
• 58:18
  Speaker 2: from us in Hillary Knight. So what can the Kraken
• 58:21
  Speaker 2: do to land that big fish? It is so important
• 58:24
  Speaker 2: here for a market that just grips onto stars just
• 58:28
  Speaker 2: like any other major league market would.
• 58:31
  Speaker 7: And I would say even though the Kraken have been
• 58:33
  Speaker 7: here for multiple years now, they're not a novelty anymore.
• 58:38
  Speaker 7: They still have a phenomenal fan base and that they
• 58:42
  Speaker 7: don't want to lose that. Yeah, in any way, and
• 58:45
  Speaker 7: they're not a novelty.
• 58:46
  Speaker 6: People have really gravitated towards hockey.
• 58:48
  Speaker 7: And we know how much Seattle Market is a transient town,
• 58:52
  Speaker 7: so many of us have moved from other places that
• 58:55
  Speaker 7: we didn't need to grow up on hockey here to
• 58:57
  Speaker 7: appreciate the sport. And yeah, if they could make a
• 59:02
  Speaker 7: splash like we saw two years ago in their postseason run,
• 59:06
  Speaker 7: it truly makes a difference.
• 59:07
  Speaker 6: It moves the needlelike crazy.
• 59:09
  Speaker 2: So I'm really curious with what they're looking at. Once
• 59:12
  Speaker 2: this trade debt or this trade embargo was lifted for
• 59:15
  Speaker 2: the Olympics, which is coming up here and again four
• 59:18
  Speaker 2: nine four five. One would any of these names interest
• 59:21
  Speaker 2: you to become a potential part of the Seattle Kraken.
• 59:25
  Speaker 2: And they are a possibility, sir, if you just go
• 59:26
  Speaker 2: ahead and look up.
• 59:27
  Speaker 4: And I think the Athletic.
• 59:28
  Speaker 2: Really laid this out great as far as the lightliest
• 59:31
  Speaker 2: names here to be moved. And then you have the
• 59:33
  Speaker 2: hurdles with maybe the cap it because the NHL is
• 59:36
  Speaker 2: a hardcap league. There's one guy, folks that you may
• 59:39
  Speaker 2: have heard of. His name is, by the way, Steven
• 59:41
  Speaker 2: stamkos and there's been a potential that he could be
• 59:45
  Speaker 2: moved from the Nashville Predators. He's now thirty five years
• 59:49
  Speaker 2: of age, making eight million a season but again surpassing
• 59:54
  Speaker 2: already the twenty goldmark for the sixteenth time in his career,
• 59:58
  Speaker 2: and Stamkoast, by the way, is sniffing thirty goals once again.
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 2: At his age, he's only got two more years left
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 2: on his deal. He's won two Stanley Cups. The Tampa
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 2: Bay Lightning is just right now two years removed from
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 2: forty goals. But the potential star attraction for him, the
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 2: potential offensive boost that might be an option. And you
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 2: think of a guy like maybe in Saint Louis. His
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 2: name is Robert Thomas. He is younger than Steven Stamkos,
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 2: he is more expensive than Steven Stamkos. I'm not talking
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 2: about Robert Thomas, the pop top forty singer. I'm talking
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 2: about Robert Thomas, which can you imagine the gold songs
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 2: for him? By the way, once we get through Lithium by.
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 6: Nirvana, Gotta do it, man, gotta do it.
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 4: Real world. Yea hey, why not real world?
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 2: Robert Thomas, by the way, he is hadding it down here.
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 2: A lot of the Saint Louis Blue is the team
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 2: he's on right now, is adding it down here. Thirty
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 2: three points in forty two games, but last two years
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 2: go through this year eighty one points in seventy games,
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 2: last season, eighty six points in eighty two games last season.
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 2: He then took a twenty one point dip way back
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 2: in twenty twenty two to twenty three sixty five points
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 2: in seventy three seasons. You compare that year by year
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 2: to what the Kraken have had produce offensively, that is
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 2: still head and shoulders way above anything with what they've
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 2: had here for about roughly four seasons. Take out maybe
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 2: Jared mccannon's forty goal year. Matty Beniers couldn't even push
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 2: sixty points back when he won the Calder Trophy three
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 2: years ago. He could still get there once again. But again,
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 2: this is talking about adding somebody who will help fortify
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 2: your offense. Robert Thomas is going to cost you a
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 2: lot of money. Robert Thomas reportedly will also cost anyone
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 2: who wants to trade for him a haul, and I
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 2: mean an absolute hall. He's making right now eight million
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 2: a year. But also there's potential that you may have
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 2: to part ways roster players, first round draft picks, everything.
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 2: The Blues basically want an offer to blow them out
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 2: of the water. And there's guys like Vincent Trocheck in
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 2: New York, a little bit less numbers, but still very
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 2: much one option than Elias Petterson may be with the
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 2: Vancouver Canucks. He's been much maligned maybe for on ice
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 2: off the ice commitment, but yet the productions certainly there.
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 2: So I'm curious where they go. But I want to
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 2: know from you four nine four or five to one
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 2: what they can maybe do and what might maybe satisfy you.
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 2: I think, as this trade deadline is coming up, all
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 2: that plus your reaction right around the corner here as
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 2: we're getting closer here to the soft one and Dick
• 1:02:39
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• 1:02:42
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• 1:02:46
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• 1:03:10
  Speaker 4: Hey, guys, what about Jody and the fan? Can we
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 4: do something like a do out in Green Bay at
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 4: Jody by uh for.
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 11: City and the fan all become owners?
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 10: So who goes with up?
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 11: People out?
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 2: What's the one website www dot GoFundMe dot com. Anybody
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 2: interested here in the public spectrum this year for the Seahawks.
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 7: I mean, if we get just like two multi billionaires.
• 1:03:41
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• 1:03:43
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• 1:04:00
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• 1:04:03
  Speaker 4: About a few seconds ago. All right, Mike Betton in
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 4: for Ian here for today.
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 2: The mayor a Maple Valley is off somewhere in an
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 2: undisclosed location, getting his slumber on R and R golf.
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 4: I have no idea, but all of those things. I
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 4: think all of the above, just like me.
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 6: Probably a nice libation somewhere.
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 4: All of the above. Yeah, throw something in there. I
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 4: think you might have something with the Chambers Beta stillery.
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 7: Little Chambers, maybe a little Ferrelli's pizza.
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna get out there, by the way.
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 6: Everything. Every time he and Rob Ryan talk about it,
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 6: I'm like, why have I.
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 11: Not been there?
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 2: See, I've got I've got a Chambers bait for Golf.
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 2: I gotta try a Chambers Beta stillery though.
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 6: Oh yes, oh they.
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 4: Have big big check.
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  Speaker 8: Off for me.
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 7: Yes, all right, bucket list it and well this is
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 7: appropriate as we're talking about the mayor. That's coming in
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 7: from Keith Miller.
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 4: Who's the text line time?
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 9: Now?
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 6: Oh yeah, we're doing tax talkbacks.
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 4: Every things go off text line time, by the way,
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 4: all right, go.
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 6: Ahead, Yes it is so.
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 7: Keith was just saying that as many jobs as the
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 7: mayor has, he could buy the Seahawks as long as
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 7: he doesn't try to move them to Maple Valley.
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, hey, if he owns the Seahawks, doesn't
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 2: the one with the pen and the checkbook get to
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 2: do whatever they want?
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 6: I mean technically, but they.
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 2: If he wants to move into Maple Valley, he can
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 2: move them to Maple Valley.
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 7: Now, I mean, just yeah, build the build a new
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 7: field in his backyard.
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 2: No, I mean, I'm I'm kind of biased here. I'm
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 2: on on the north end. So if you want to
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 2: put him up with Marysville, hey, fine by me.
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 6: Hey, listen, we're not moving the team.
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 4: Okay, I don't mean Luman, I just mean the practice facility.
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 6: The practice facility.
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 7: Yeah, then, but I don't know if the Seahawks would
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 7: like that very much, as a lot.
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 6: Of them are located.
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 4: Grow the game.
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 7: Right, Well, it's it's not bad. Yeah, It's just like
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 7: the Aqua Sox up in Everett, right.
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 6: No, I love going to those games.
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 3: They've had a great show up there.
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 6: By the way they do.
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 7: They are really really good with the fan entertainment aspect
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 7: of the game and I love it.
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 6: And we always know that.
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 7: You know, when guys have rehab assignments and everything, sometimes
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 7: you'll see some stars up.
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 4: There more than we want to get to here of chorus.
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 2: The news earlier today breaking the Seahawks officially up for sale.
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 2: We also talked a little bit about cal Rawley expectations,
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 2: Dan Wilson, Manager of the Year, and cracking trade deadline
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 2: moves again four nine, four five one on the Tacoma
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 2: Dodge text line.
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 4: Should get this sin by the way.
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 2: Shot to Koma Dodge Chrysler geep Ram at the corner
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 2: of thirty eighth and South Tacoma Away the intersection of
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 2: savings get one here from four to five. Why exactly
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 2: do we want Steve Balmer to buy the Seahawks because
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 2: he's eccentric? What has he done with the Clippers? A
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 2: fair question to ask, very very fair point to ask.
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 2: Fair question. But again, the Seahawks are going to go
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 2: for about ten billion dollars. I'm just throwing that ballpark
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 2: figure out out there. They're going to command more than
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 2: the Commanders did, and they may.
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 4: Push the Lakers. So who in theory could buy them?
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 2: And I will say this, you can say, yeah, maybe
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 2: ownership group consortium. Well, I thought a great thing that
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 2: we had from our front of the program Mike Florio,
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 2: that I didn't get a chance to touch on earlier
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 2: is that the NFL prefers to have a solo owner
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 2: rather than a consortium because you've got to go to
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 2: one person and one person only when it comes to
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 2: voting on Linkeude deadline on link matters. So there's there's
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 2: that wrinkle in there. I'm not sure if this is
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 2: just standard, if it's concrete, if it's a case by
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 2: case basis, but that that, at least according to Mike Florio,
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 2: is a big part of the puzzle here for this.
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 7: It makes sense, this one coming from the two o
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 7: six praying to God whoever buys the Hawks doesn't turn
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 7: us into the bleeping Jets.
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 4: Just six here to comment.
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 6: Hear you, and I'm with you.
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 7: I hear you as someone who has been through that franchise. Yes,
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 7: a lot of people are weighing in on whether Jody
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 7: could buy the team, but I don't think we have
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 7: the specifics on how that could happen. But another two
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 7: oh six says, I'm with Jess, Jody buys the team,
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 7: keep the continuity. If a four or five one, which
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 7: I believe is Portland area, she could absolutely be the
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 7: buyer unless there are terms in which it says she cannot.
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 7: Her selling it to herself or a company she owns
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 7: makes the most sense for things to stay the way
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 7: they are and continue the success their family has built.
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 7: Do it, Jody, But we have to get into the
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 7: legalax of its legalities.
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 2: I did want to get to the jet basis thing here,
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 2: by the way, and I think how much of the
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 2: NFL wants jet basis? But then there's also an ian
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 2: raised this point. I thought a great point that I
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 2: retweeted earlier today in that if you really want Jeff Bezos,
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 2: you have to really, really really look into the business
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 2: decisions that have gone into this with the Washington Post
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 2: other entities here where there have been cost cutting measures,
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 2: and think could the same thing happen with the Seahawks. Two,
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 2: how much are you welcoming that because people are just
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 2: assuming whatever owner comes in here is going to run
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 2: the exact same way that the Allen family did and
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 2: it's just gonna be all sunshine roses end of the day. Well,
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 2: I mean, again, the purpose of ownership and owners will
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 2: tell you the Seahawks have been in the minority here
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 2: with this compared to other ownership groups. They are in
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 2: here for a competitive reason plus making money. A lot
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 2: of ownerships and I don't care NFL, MLB whatever across
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 2: the board. They have one mission and one unilateral mission only,
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 2: and it is to make money. There is less and
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 2: much less of an emphasis here on the competitive the
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 2: compete aspects of it.
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 7: Also when it comes to ownership, you know, billionaires are
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 7: usually friends with billionaires, right, so they are going to
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 7: be more into we want more of the piece of
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 7: the pie and rather than thinking about what's best for
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 7: the community in which they are. So I do understand
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 7: why people would be interested in see Balmer because he is,
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 7: you know, very entrenched in the Seattle community, or at
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 7: least was for a very long time.
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 2: Nine to seven too, with the cal Rawley poll, he'll
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 2: be under fifty homers but over thirty five homers. He
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 2: will still split time as a catcher in DH just
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 2: like last season.
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 4: Maybe expect also a two to thirty batting average.
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 2: I think if you get to forty home runs and
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 2: maybe if you want to agree to disagree, we had
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 2: earlier Buck you talked about this. Forty home runs is
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 2: the floor. I mean great, but.
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 6: I I mean darn touton if he got there.
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 4: If he gets forty home runs, I think you're you're
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 4: walking away very very happy, yes, very I.
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 7: Just I feel like he exceeded xpectations last year.
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 6: You and I were at the All Star Game.
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 7: We watched him in the home run derby, and just
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 7: it was just sheer elation on his face. And I
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 7: hope that because we saw Julio get a lot of
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 7: undue expectations put on him as the new superstar, and
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 7: then Cal was just raking and midway through the season
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 7: home run derby, everyone all of a sudden was all
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 7: over him from a national perspective, and I don't want
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 7: any of that in his head. I want him to
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 7: play his game the way he does. I want him
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 7: to want to play every day, and luckily enough, we'll
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 7: hear from him on this station on the morning show
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 7: in the near future.
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 2: I think the moment that meant the most for me
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 2: for Cal Rawley just was not the home run derby,
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 2: and it was huge, but it was Game five America
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 2: League Championship Series last year, and I thought the home
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 2: run he hit to put the Mariners right back in
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 2: positioning with the Blue Jays in that game was the
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 2: most important home run this franchise, that scene at that point,
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 2: and guess what lo and behold what happened a few
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 2: batters later with Aohannioswaraz on the basis loaded.
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 4: Yep, he basically sid hold my beer.
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 6: Yes, but that's exactly.
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 4: But I will never forget.
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 2: I think the gravity of the moment, how he met
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 2: the moment, and I think, just again adding to more
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 2: of the legend of cal Rawley is not just about
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 2: putting on a show, but for the kind of at
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 2: bats he put together in a cludg situation, just like
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 2: Edgar Martinez back in ninety five. And I think that
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 2: meant the most to me. I think that crazy to
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 2: a lot of people around here. And unfortunately Game five
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 2: was the high point for the Mariners in that seven
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 2: game series. Very quick here, crack and talk four two
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 2: to five scene. I want Justin Falker, Blake Coleman four
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 2: to two five, Jordan Kyru or alexeiy Lafrenier and we're
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 2: kind of up against it here, and I want to
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 2: just kind of very in about twenty seconds split this
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 2: difference here, Jordan Kyru is the guy who's going to
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 2: give you a bump in scoring, and I talked, and
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 2: I mean like first line scoring. His numbers are up there.
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 2: Alexei law Fronier is from what many people would consider
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 2: a reclamation project, and some have thrown the word bust
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 2: out there already. He was a first round draft picks
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 2: six years ago, but has only had one season where
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 2: he's maybe even push point per game totals. Other than that,
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 2: he's been floundering on a ranger team that just hasn't found.
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 4: A way to make good use out of him.
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 2: But for the fact that they could be changing over
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 2: their roster, would that be sufficient enough to see Alexei
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 2: law Froner. His name has been thrown out there and
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 2: the cracket had been tied to it. But again, it's
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 2: a question of do you want to go, do you
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 2: want to swing? Do you want to go aim high
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 2: for someone who's established expensive bring him in, or do
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 2: you want to set the bar lower again and try
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 2: to get a guy where you think and hope you
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 2: can unlock his expectation. And that's kind of the dilemma
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 2: that they are going through right now. Before we get
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 2: to break looks like TUSA. Just one, by the way,
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 2: in case you heard this, big roarer go off in
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 2: three two bar and grill. That's what that was, Team USA.
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 2: You want to No, team Let's go over Sweden. They're
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 2: moving on to the semi finals. Besides that, we'd cheer,
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 2: we clap, we screamed, because the soft ones coming up
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 2: next right here in ninety three three kh air them.
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 2: All right, So we are day three now into the
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 2: where in the world is Ian for neest Tour? Because
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 2: I'm sitting in his chair, I wonder if Softy has
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 2: an idea?
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 4: Could he be sleeping or could he be golfing right now?
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 4: What do you think?
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 5: So?
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 3: I know where he is, But I've been sworn to secrecy.
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 4: Man, What is this like now, like the FBI or something.
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you got to be in the circle the trust man.
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 4: You're just not there yet associated the cone of silence thing.
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 3: Yeah, just keep trying, just keep doing your thing.
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 12: We're all very impressed with your work so far, but
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 12: you're just not quite there yet.
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 8: All right.
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 4: I gotta have that whole like double hand in my
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 4: chin someday.
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 3: Well, there's all.
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 12: It's good to have goals, man, I just love. I
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 12: just love having you on filling in so I can
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 12: play my favorite Mike Bent and drop of all time.
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 4: All down here from him or here it kills? Oh,
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 4: speaking of that, By the way, how's that curling going?
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 3: Boring? His hell is how it's going?
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 4: You kidd may you have not set foot on the ice.
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 3: One, of course I haven't. Why what are you kidding me?
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 3: My god?
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 12: The only the only ice I got is going in
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 12: my cocktail for crying out that boy. We had Lane
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 12: Lambert on the radio show yesterday and we talked about that.
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 12: I asked, uh, Lane Lambert, and I said, listen, man,
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 12: will you finally admit that curling is not a sport?
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 12: And he looked at me, and I swear to God,
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 12: there was anger and fire in his eyes. He said,
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 12: you try banging your head against the ice in a
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 12: curling match and see if your head cracks open.
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 4: He literally said, I've seen guys crack their heads. That's
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 4: right on the ice, that's right.
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 2: I said to myself, I cannot see this interview, but
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 2: I can hear my seen this.
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 12: Well he also he also, by the way, promised, did
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 12: you hear the promise.
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 3: That he made to me?
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 12: And Dick on the radio show yesterday and win the
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 12: Stanley Cup and he brings the cup back to his
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 12: home in.
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 4: Scotts telle we we are.
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 12: Invited because I weaseled my way to the front. That's
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 12: why I put him.
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 3: On the spot, you dirty rat. That's right. That's how
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 3: you do it, man, Just get right to it.
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 12: You put a guy in an uncomfortable position where he's
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 12: got no choice but to say yes to millions of
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 12: people listening on the radio.
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 3: And he said yes to me.
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 12: And at some point, well he did tell us off
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 12: the air that we can each bring a plus one.
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 12: By the way, so you better be nice to me, man,
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 12: or the better be nice to me. Okay, I'll work
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 12: on well.
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 3: Gina.
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 12: Gina would be a candidate for something like that because
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 12: she is now officially known. You guys may have heard this,
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 12: by the way, as postseason Gina. I'm not sure if
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 12: you guys knew that or not. Anyway, Yeah, she's only
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 12: interested in stuff that happens in the postseason regular season.
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 12: She could not give a damn't make.
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 4: It out of the sale. Now now that things are official.
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 12: I think we're screwed, man. It's all over the run
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 12: of dominance is done.
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 4: Forget about it, go home.
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 12: I'm gonna start taking suggestions from fans on the air
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 12: today of what NFL team I should start rooting for,
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 12: because it ain't gonna be the Seahawks.
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 4: No you won't. No, you want know you want?
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 12: Look, man, I mean we just had, you know, maybe
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 12: the greatest ownership run in Seattle sports history, right, I
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 12: mean when you consider magnitude, impact success all that. Paul
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 12: Allen bought this football team thirty twenty nine years ago
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 12: for one hundred and ninety four million dollars, and now
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 12: there's reports that it could be the most expensive franchise
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 12: ever sold in North America, you know, potentially besting the
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 12: Cowboys that are worth about thirteen billions. So we'll see.
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 12: You got a guy and a gal and Paul and Jody.
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 12: You know, I look at a two ways BA and
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 12: AA before an Allen, after an Allen. It's just it's
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 12: like two totally different planets with this football team compared
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 12: to where they were before he showed up and what
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 12: they did after he bought the football team. So I
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 12: don't know, man, Mike, the new owner is gonna have
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 12: some big ass shoes to phil.
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 2: Pet I think it's a huge funny because, like we all,
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 2: we all throw names out there. But I think for me,
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 2: it just comes from like the center of hope and
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 2: not from thinking of not the most money before out
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 2: there you'll have there everything.
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 3: You're an optimistic guy, and I appreciate that.
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 12: I'm not sure if I want Jeff Bezos running the Seahawks,
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 12: to be honest with you, right, I mean the way
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 12: he ran the Washington Post into the toilet, you know,
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 12: nights ago.
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 3: I don't know, man, I mean I think I think Bomber.
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 12: I mean, there's look, there's the obvious candidates, and anybody
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 12: with billions of dollars in their bank account is anybody
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 12: that you'll talk about. I mean, it's probably gonna be
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 12: a conglomerate of numerous people with one person at the
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 12: top is the chairperson.
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 3: Right, So we'll see.
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 12: But I do feel pretty comfortable saying this that by
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 12: the opener in September, I think we're going to.
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 3: Have a new owner of this football team. I don't
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 3: buy it. I don't think this will take very long.
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 4: Mike, what would you do if you own the Seahawks?
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 12: I'd fire everybody and keep everybody out of the stadium
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 12: and just let my friends come in and sit wherever
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 12: they want.
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 3: How does that sound? You're fired?
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 12: No more fans, no more season ticket holders, Me and
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 12: my buddies, all ten of us, just sitting in the
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 12: stands watching the game, doing whatever the hell we got.
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 2: Darn old machine, do that like a long time ago
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 2: game and bought the whole section now just because you
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 2: want to catch a home run ball.
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 12: Maybe, Yeah, that's a great idea, machine from I want
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 12: to put that down on my list of things to
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 12: do if I buy the Seahawks.
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 3: You wire everybody and not let fans in. Got all right?
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 4: What's today?
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 3: Wednesday?
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 12: Mike Florio will be with us the butthole himself at
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 12: three ten Petros on at four o'clock. Chuck Pow checks
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 12: in from Arizona on day three from Peoria for those knuckleheads.
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 12: And obviously we talk a lot about the news that
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 12: came out with the Hawks, so this morning as.
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 3: Well, so I get about some curly We're all over it, dude,
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 3: see you man.
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 4: All right? Cool, that's not to up here again for
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 4: I and I might see you
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 3: For the mild mannered and marginally objectionable e Inverness, this
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 3: is paddle Day, saying so long everyone,