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Furness Show 10-15: Farhan Lalji, Stewart Mandel, Mike Holmgren · The Ian Furness Show

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  Speaker 1: Starting the show off today and yes, of course it's
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  Speaker 1: Game three ALCS has just mentioned. Welcome in our show,
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  Speaker 1: want to do just a little different today. Right out
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  Speaker 1: the get go. We got stuer Mendel coming up here
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  Speaker 1: at the bottom of the hour talking all things college football,
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  Speaker 1: coach Holmgren and my c Hombrian at two o'clock is
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  Speaker 1: weekly visit talking Seahawks. But I know, like, listen, the
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  Speaker 1: main game in town, the biggest thing going on here.
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  Speaker 1: We all know, Game three Mariners tonight taking on the
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  Speaker 1: Toronto Blue Jays from Toronto, Ontario, Canada. They're coming in here,
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  Speaker 1: invading our country again. While some are some are Listen,
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  Speaker 1: everyone's breaking the game down. Everyone's talking about here's this
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  Speaker 1: spin rate, pitch this, all that stuff. Listen. You know
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  Speaker 1: me like, I'm not into that. I'll leave that up
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  Speaker 1: to Crawford and Ino Sarris and all the experts we
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  Speaker 1: have on the show. I want to talk about what's
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  Speaker 1: important as someone with deep Canadian ties and blood running
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  Speaker 1: through me with my mom from moose Jo, Saskatchewan and Nelson,
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  Speaker 1: BC and everything else up north. I'm torn a little bit,
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  Speaker 1: but I know this. The Blue Jays aren't my team,
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  Speaker 1: never were, never will be. I've got a guy joining
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  Speaker 1: me right now that can maybe explain the Blue Jay
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  Speaker 1: fandom a little bit better and what we may or
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  Speaker 1: may not expect tonight. And you've heard him on these
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  Speaker 1: ways before when Greg Bell was doing the show from
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  Speaker 1: Tend to Noon, he was on quite a bit with him.
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  Speaker 1: Farhan Lolgy is with TSN. For those who don't know,
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  Speaker 1: TSN is basically the ESPN of Canada. Far Hand covers
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  Speaker 1: everything across Canada and also the US. Basically he's their
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  Speaker 1: NFL reporter and also their college football reporter. And he
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  Speaker 1: joined us right now in the Beacon Plumbing Hotline. Hello, sir,
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  Speaker 1: how are you?
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  Speaker 2: I'm good, my friend. I always get to talk anything
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  Speaker 2: Seattle sports with you. I know we have a big
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  Speaker 2: Hutskies guys, so we'll go there. But Marris, it's a
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  Speaker 2: lot of excitement to that. I can't wait.
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  Speaker 1: We will get to the Huskies because that's part of
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  Speaker 1: the story with you. In a second, I want to
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  Speaker 1: play a little clip and this is from yesterday you
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  Speaker 1: posted something on x Twitter whatever we want to call
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  Speaker 1: it these days, and I understand probably why. But we'll
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  Speaker 1: get into it more in a second, because I think
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  Speaker 1: a lot of our fans here in Seattle, they're stressed
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  Speaker 1: and they're worried. They basically think the entire country north
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  Speaker 1: of border are are Blue Jays fans, and they're you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's it's almost Trump like. They're worried they're going to
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  Speaker 1: come invade or something. I don't know what's going to happen.
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  Speaker 1: Are we are we sending the National Guard up to
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  Speaker 1: Blaine right now? I mean they're standing there at the
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  Speaker 1: pce archs of the truck crossing making sure that nobody
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  Speaker 1: comes across. But I think it's interesting again far Hunt
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  Speaker 1: is as Canadian as it gets, all right, as at
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  Speaker 1: TSN been there for twenty five years, I think, I
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  Speaker 1: mean been there forever, big face of the of the
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  Speaker 1: of the network up there, here's Canadian as it gets.
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  Speaker 1: But take a listen to his post and we'll talk
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  Speaker 1: about this from from last night and why it matters
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  Speaker 1: to our fans here in Seattle.
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  Speaker 3: Go ahead and ISSU you have fandom and what people
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  Speaker 3: align themselves with. Well, for me. Distance matters. Now, I
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  Speaker 3: don't think it should matter for you. I'm just telling
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  Speaker 3: you that it matters for me. If you want to
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  Speaker 3: cheer for the Blue Jays and you want to cheer
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  Speaker 3: for them because you believe that you're more Canadian if
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  Speaker 3: you do so, good for you. I'm not judging, but
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  Speaker 3: I would appreciate not being judged because I don't cheer
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  Speaker 3: for Canada's team because I don't believe in the notion
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  Speaker 3: of a Canada's team.
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  Speaker 1: I believe in Team Canada.
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  Speaker 3: When there's an Olympics or a World Cup of Hockey
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  Speaker 3: or pick the event World Juniors, and you can wear
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  Speaker 3: a Team Canada jersey, red, big maple leaf on it
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  Speaker 3: and it's full of Canadians and they represent our country.
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  Speaker 3: I am all in. Team Canada is a fact. Canada's
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  Speaker 3: team is an opinion and it's not one that I share.
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  Speaker 3: So regardless of the sport, don't tell me that the
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  Speaker 3: last teams standing or the only team standing in this
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  Speaker 3: case with the Blue Jays, must be the team that
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  Speaker 3: I need to align with, because other things matter to me,
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  Speaker 3: and distance is one of them.
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  Speaker 1: All right, far Han, First of all, before we get
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  Speaker 1: into the details of this and what part of Canada
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  Speaker 1: is rooting for the Jays and not why? And it's
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  Speaker 1: a lot. It's about twelve minutes and you can. I'll
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  Speaker 1: retweet it today. Although you did tag me, I appreciate that.
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  Speaker 1: I got like a zillion mentions now from all the
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  Speaker 1: people on the border. I'm doing a crack Oh no,
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  Speaker 1: it's fine, I do listen. I'm doing a crack it broadcast.
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  Speaker 1: Last night, I looked down, I've got like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it says like twenty plus. I'm like, I didn't. Did
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  Speaker 1: I do something? Did I get hacked? What's going on?
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  Speaker 1: I looked out there and you would tag me on
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  Speaker 1: about a twelve minute video. But I listened to it
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  Speaker 1: on the way home last night after our hockey game,
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  Speaker 1: and I thought it was really interesting because again I
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  Speaker 1: think that there's this perception that all of Canada's a
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  Speaker 1: Blue Jays fan, and that's not necessarily the case. But
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  Speaker 1: why did you feel like you had to post that
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  Speaker 1: last night?
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  Speaker 2: Well, because every time I post anything to support the
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  Speaker 2: Mariners in any success that they're getting, I get a
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  Speaker 2: lot of pushback from Canadian fans and some of it
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  Speaker 2: is offside, right, I mean, some of it is racist.
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  Speaker 2: Some of it is hey to port this guy out
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  Speaker 2: of our country and people calling me a Canadian and
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  Speaker 2: I am a proud Canadian. Yes, you know it matters
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  Speaker 2: to me. But regional affiliation matters. So there's a ton
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  Speaker 2: of there's a ton of Seahawks season ticket orders, almost
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  Speaker 2: thirty five hundred seasons holders for the Seahawks that are
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  Speaker 2: from British Columbia, right. Why Well, because it's their regional
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  Speaker 2: team and that's the team they align with. In Toronto.
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  Speaker 2: There's a huge number of Buffalo Bills fans. Why because
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  Speaker 2: you can drive to the Buffalo to watch a game.
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  Speaker 2: But for some reason, you know, in hockey, it's a
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  Speaker 2: big thing up here that the last Canadian team standing
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  Speaker 2: people should be cheering for as Canada's team. And I'm
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  Speaker 2: think it'll wait a minute. Like if you know, if
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  Speaker 2: you're a Canuck fan and you hated Edmonton all season
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  Speaker 2: long and now you're supposed to cheer for them, that's
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  Speaker 2: kind of not how it works. But then say, people
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  Speaker 2: will say, well, okay, well with the Raptors and the
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  Speaker 2: Blue Jays, because there are no other teams, you have
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  Speaker 2: no excuse not to cheer for them. Well I do
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  Speaker 2: because I grew up cheering for the Mariners. And I
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  Speaker 2: think there's a divided fan base in British Columbia. I
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  Speaker 2: do think the majority are Blue Jay fans. I don't
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  Speaker 2: want to sit here and say it's you know, there's
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  Speaker 2: a hidden number of Mariner fans, you know that rival
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  Speaker 2: the blue Jay fans. I think there are Mariner fans here,
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  Speaker 2: but the Blue Jay fandom here, the Blue Jay mafia.
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  Speaker 2: It's kind of been cannibalized, right because when I grew up,
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  Speaker 2: you could watch Mariner games in British Columbia on KSTW,
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  Speaker 2: and I you know, another channel, cable back can't do
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  Speaker 2: that anymore. You only get Blue Jay games. You only
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  Speaker 2: get Blue Jay content. One of our sports networks, My
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  Speaker 2: rival owns the Jays, they carry all their games, and
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  Speaker 2: you can't get any Seattle content. So no, you know,
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  Speaker 2: there's no wonder that they've got the fans that they have.
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  Speaker 2: But it really is an emotional sticking point. And you
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  Speaker 2: mentioned Trump a second ago, like all of those things
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  Speaker 2: add layers to the argument and the conversation and the
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  Speaker 2: tariffs and measure you've got to support Cana's team. Well,
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  Speaker 2: I'll get this for you. My tariffs and taxes aren't changing.
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  Speaker 2: The Blue Jays and Mariners win, So yeah, I mean
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  Speaker 2: I grew up. I grew up on the Mariners, and
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  Speaker 2: I hope they win well.
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  Speaker 1: And I think there's a lot of people like that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, Like fandom is an interesting dynamic. It really
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  Speaker 1: to me, It really is, because it's you know, you
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  Speaker 1: mentioned that they're in that clip, and again there's a
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  Speaker 1: whole We'll post the thing and people can go listen
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  Speaker 1: to any I think it's fascinating, not just Blue Jays
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  Speaker 1: and Mariners wise, but it's just you know, on being
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  Speaker 1: a fan, Like you're a huge Husky fan, and I
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  Speaker 1: get that. You know, you're a football guy. You grew
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  Speaker 1: up you know up close that that was the team
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  Speaker 1: close here, and you know, you go to a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of games and I think you've been to a couple
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  Speaker 1: of Rose Bowls and things like that. That's that's the
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  Speaker 1: that's your team. I tell people all the time, I
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  Speaker 1: grew up a Canucks fan. Well, why well, because it's
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  Speaker 1: a hockey fan and I'm in Seattle and we had
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  Speaker 1: BCTV and CBC, I could like Toronto. Not necessarily I
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  Speaker 1: didn't want, you know, or but I was. I was
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  Speaker 1: a Canucks fan. Now I'm torn because I worked for
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  Speaker 1: their rival down here in Seattle, like literally get a
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  Speaker 1: paycheck from their rival. So it's you know, like your
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  Speaker 1: fandom change is pretty quick with a paycheck. But honestly,
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  Speaker 1: like it's hard to kind of to to kind of
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  Speaker 1: get rid of the normal emotions you have. But you know,
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  Speaker 1: there's this massive stress here far hunt that that the
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  Speaker 1: Blue Jays fans, much like the regular season, are going
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  Speaker 1: to come pouring into Tea Mobile Park. Now, last I checks,
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  Speaker 1: he had to play two road games. Didn't seem to
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  Speaker 1: affect them that much up in Toronto. But nevertheless, what
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  Speaker 1: are you hearing up there? Do you think there's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of fans that are going to pay all that
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  Speaker 1: money to buy tickets on the secondary market tonight and tomorrow.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I don't think.
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  Speaker 2: It'll be like it is during the regular season. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it happens like that in the season because there are
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  Speaker 2: so many maritor tickets available right the easy access. Whereas
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  Speaker 2: now I think it's going to be a little more difficult.
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  Speaker 2: I think fans appear absolutely going to try to get
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  Speaker 2: down there. I mean, this is a game of massive consequence,
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  Speaker 2: and I don't know if the Mariners have done anything
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  Speaker 2: to prevent it. And I could be wrong here, but
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  Speaker 2: I recall in twenty twenty two when they played in
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  Speaker 2: the short Series where Seattle won both games in Toronto,
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  Speaker 2: that they were putting some things in place ticket wise
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  Speaker 2: where you had to, you know, have a zip code,
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  Speaker 2: not a postal code, and things like that to get tickets.
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  Speaker 2: So I don't have anything like that's been done, but
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  Speaker 2: I would think people are going to try. I just
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  Speaker 2: don't think it's going to be easy for them to
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  Speaker 2: get down, you know. And I remember a few months
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  Speaker 2: ago people were talking about boycotting all things American, and
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  Speaker 2: there was there were people at the border and border
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  Speaker 2: based businesses, and I'm you know, I'm living in that
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  Speaker 2: area that would talk to you all the time about
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  Speaker 2: how their businesses and their economics were affected because people
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  Speaker 2: weren't crossing the border. But I got news for you.
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  Speaker 2: People that have Seahawk tickets are still crossing the border,
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  Speaker 2: not leaving. So if Jay's fans have the ability to
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  Speaker 2: get them, they'll they'll certainly try. But you know, do
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  Speaker 2: I think there's gonna be ten thousand like there are
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  Speaker 2: during the season. I mean, heck, you go to the
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  Speaker 2: team stores at Tea Mobile. When the Blue Jays come
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  Speaker 2: to town, the Mariners, they revel in it. They put
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  Speaker 2: out Blue Jay souvenirs and jerseys and things like that
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  Speaker 2: that you could buy. If you're gonna come, we're gonna
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  Speaker 2: take your money. But I think it'll be a different
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  Speaker 2: dynamic tonight. You'll probably get I would say, a couple
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  Speaker 2: thousand fans that have managed to sneak their way in,
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  Speaker 2: But it won't be like it is in the season.
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  Speaker 1: Far honology from TSN joining us right now up in Canada,
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  Speaker 1: all right in your home province up there of British Columbia, Like,
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  Speaker 1: how torn are they with Blue Jays versus whether it
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  Speaker 1: be Mariners or other fan or if they're baseball fans.
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  Speaker 1: I know baseball's not the biggest sport up there, but
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  Speaker 1: how torn are they? Because I do believe and going
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  Speaker 1: on and doing stuff with your buddies Donnie and Dolly
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  Speaker 1: every week. There is kind of an anti Toronto sentiment
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  Speaker 1: up there as well, isn't there? So it almost feels
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  Speaker 1: like there's a lot of people that's a popular belief
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  Speaker 1: down here. Not every Canadian is rooting for a Toronto
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  Speaker 1: based team.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 1: You mentioned across Canada for the Stanley Cup, and if
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  Speaker 1: you're a Canucks fan, you don't want Edmonton to win necessarily.
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  Speaker 1: But you know there isn't there sort of an anti
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  Speaker 1: Toronto slant going on as well, especially through Western Canada?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I think there is a certain amount
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  Speaker 2: of that in Vancouver. Look like you get it, right,
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  Speaker 2: You get there's gonna be certain waws. You people that
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  Speaker 2: just hate all things Washington and hate all things Seattle,
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  Speaker 2: and it's kind of big brother little brother like that, right,
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  Speaker 2: It's kind of a one way rivalry.
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  Speaker 6: Right.
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  Speaker 2: The folks in Toronto, they don't viewc any differently or
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  Speaker 2: Vancouver any differently, but there are people in Vancouver that
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  Speaker 2: just don't like the center of the universe mentality that
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  Speaker 2: comes with Toronto and the fact that we are force
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  Speaker 2: fed Toronto. Right that you know, an accident holds up
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  Speaker 2: traffic on the Down Valley Parkway in Toronto and we
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  Speaker 2: hear about it on national news in Vancouver, Right, So
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  Speaker 2: there is a certain level of Toronto resentments that happens
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  Speaker 2: on all things West Coast and really for other major cities, right,
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  Speaker 2: they get a level of Toronto fatigue. So I think
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  Speaker 2: there's some of that there, and I do think that
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  Speaker 2: we're now getting you know, some closet Mariner fans that
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  Speaker 2: maybe we're in it the mid nineties and into two
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  Speaker 2: thousand and one that are able to come back now
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  Speaker 2: and come back with a level of pride. So if
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  Speaker 2: I were to handicap, but I'm not going to sit
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  Speaker 2: here and say it's fifty to fifty, but it's probably
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  Speaker 2: a lot closer than any Toronto fan would like to admit.
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  Speaker 1: Is Toronto to the rest of Canada, especially Western Canada,
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  Speaker 1: British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, maybe Manitoba is Toronto and all
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  Speaker 1: things Blue Jays, maple Leafs, maybe even the Raptors a
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  Speaker 1: little different because there's no other NBA team, but just
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  Speaker 1: it's I guess same with MLB. But is Toronto the
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  Speaker 1: same way as maybe a lot of us here in Seattle,
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  Speaker 1: Frankly View, New York, maybe even LA at times, And
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  Speaker 1: you come down to this country, you work here, you
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  Speaker 1: cover a lot of NFL games at college football games,
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  Speaker 1: You've got a better handle on both countries than most
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  Speaker 1: people would. Is that kind of the same sentiment?
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  Speaker 2: Oh totally, yeah, that exists for sure, right again, the
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  Speaker 2: content given to Toronto is very akin to the content
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  Speaker 2: given the New York. And we talk about East Coast
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  Speaker 2: biased all the time, and you know whatever, one team's
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  Speaker 2: not ranked yet despite being five and one because they're
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  Speaker 2: not paying attention back east, and yeah, there's certainly a
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  Speaker 2: lot of that here. In the irony of all of
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  Speaker 2: that is, I think Toronto wants its validation from New York,
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  Speaker 2: right because they're kind of you themselves as being above
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  Speaker 2: everything else in Canada. So what's next for them? Well,
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  Speaker 2: we want to, you know, be a rival of New York.
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  Speaker 2: So when you hear people from Toronto talk about their
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  Speaker 2: rivals and they talk about the Yankees, I don't believe
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  Speaker 2: the Yankees view Toronto the same way as Toronto used
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  Speaker 2: The Yankees like their rival as Boston and you know,
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  Speaker 2: the Red Sox and all of that. So there might
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  Speaker 2: be a baseball rivalry to a point, but there's not
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  Speaker 2: a fitty rivalry like they would be between New York
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  Speaker 2: and Boston. But Toronto would like there to be. So
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  Speaker 2: when you look at that dynamic, it is kind of
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  Speaker 2: amusing that Torontonians, Toronto sports fans want their validation from
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  Speaker 2: New York whereas maybe others in Canada want it from Toronto.
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  Speaker 1: So far on honolology from TSN joining it. So if
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  Speaker 1: I get this correct, there might be a bunch of
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  Speaker 1: fans from British Columbia and Western Canada down here watching
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  Speaker 1: this game and help me out here, especially with the BC.
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  Speaker 1: They might be wearing a Blue Jays hoodie tonight when
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  Speaker 1: it's chili, but would they have maybe a Seahawk T
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  Speaker 1: shirt underneath?
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  Speaker 2: Heck, yeah, this is absolutely Seahawk country, There's no doubt
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  Speaker 2: about it. So yeah, you'll be getting a lot of that.
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  Speaker 2: They't want to wave the flag and cheer for their
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  Speaker 2: team mat but when it comes to football season they'll,
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  Speaker 2: you know. And then I asked this question that what
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  Speaker 2: would happen if all of the sudden Toronto got an
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  Speaker 2: NFL team and you were a lifelong Seahawks fan, would you,
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  Speaker 2: all of a sudden, you know, if you're a Seahawk
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  Speaker 2: Blue Jay fan, would you all of the sudden switch
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  Speaker 2: your allegiance to the you know, the Toronto NFL team?
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  Speaker 2: And I think about eighty percent said no, they'd be
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  Speaker 2: sticking with the Seahawks. Tried and sure, but the fact
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  Speaker 2: that even twenty percent said they would contemplate and blew
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  Speaker 2: my mind, because fandom is formed when you're a child, right,
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  Speaker 2: generally your fandom happens. People talk about the good old
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  Speaker 2: is it's usually around the time you're twelve to fifteen,
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  Speaker 2: kind of in that range where those passions come and
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  Speaker 2: the moments you spend going to the ballpark with your
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  Speaker 2: dad happen, and all those kinds of moments are formulated.
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  Speaker 2: It would be difficult barring a move, right like all
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  Speaker 2: of a sudden you move to Detroit, you might just
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  Speaker 2: decide you're going to get into that those teams and
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  Speaker 2: things like that. But I was blown away to twenty
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  Speaker 2: percent actually had the nerve to say, yeah, we would
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  Speaker 2: switch our allegiance to Toronto just if that was the
• 14:25
  Speaker 2: only Canadian team. But it was still eighty percent.
• 14:28
  Speaker 1: I completely respect, totally respect your football. IQ. SO and
• 14:33
  Speaker 1: I sat with an all transparency sat with Farhan a
• 14:36
  Speaker 1: couple weeks ago when the Tampa bay was in town
• 14:38
  Speaker 1: for that game of the SEAHAWKSYS and in press box
• 14:40
  Speaker 1: coverment for Ts Santas Area, MJA was next to us
• 14:42
  Speaker 1: on the other side. You've watched Mike McDonald's gonna quick
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: Fuugh on football. Before you let you go football, you've
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: watched Mike McDonald's team, You've watched them up close in person.
• 14:51
  Speaker 1: They lose that tough one, their defense bounces back last
• 14:54
  Speaker 1: week against Jacksonville. What are your impressions of what Mike
• 14:57
  Speaker 1: McDonald's doing in this team this year?
• 15:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I think this defense has such a
• 15:02
  Speaker 2: ceiling and coming into the year, I really thought they
• 15:04
  Speaker 2: were a dark horse super Bowl contender. I thought that
• 15:07
  Speaker 2: this defense had the ability to carry.
• 15:09
  Speaker 6: Them a long long way.
• 15:10
  Speaker 2: By so many injuries, right, especially on the back end,
• 15:13
  Speaker 2: and until you get Devin Witherspoon back, and until you
• 15:16
  Speaker 2: get Loved back, they're gonna get exposed in certain spots,
• 15:19
  Speaker 2: right especially if they can't sustain you know, a full
• 15:22
  Speaker 2: time pass rush. And they've got some injuries up front there.
• 15:24
  Speaker 2: But look, when this group is healthy, they are absolutely,
• 15:28
  Speaker 2: in my mind, as good as any defense in the
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: National Football League right now. I love the way he
• 15:32
  Speaker 2: calls the game. I love the way he takes advantage
• 15:34
  Speaker 2: of matchups and specific skill sets that certain players have,
• 15:37
  Speaker 2: and you know, he's not afraid to be to do
• 15:40
  Speaker 2: it a little bit differently. And yeah, so because of that,
• 15:43
  Speaker 2: I think there's a huge ceiling with this group, and
• 15:45
  Speaker 2: you know, none of these injuries look like they're going
• 15:47
  Speaker 2: to be terribly long term or catastrophic. So I think
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: by the time we get to the back end of
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: the season, especially with the way some Darnold is going
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: right now, it's gonna be a pretty good group.
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: All right, Well, I appreciate your time today, and I agree.
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: By the way, coming up to the bottom of the hour,
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: I'm and talk to my guy Stuart Mandel from The Athletic.
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: They're a senior college football writer. I'm gonna tell them
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: my impressions. This is my hot take of the week.
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: I'm not a hot take guy, Andrews right, I'm not
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: very much not hot take out at all. I don't care.
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: But watching Wazoo and Old Miss last week, you can't
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: tell me that Washington isn't a better team than Old Miss.
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: I don't care if you're looking ahead of Georgia or not.
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: And that pains me. Far Han, You know that pains
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: me to say that.
• 16:23
  Speaker 7: It pays me.
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: It pains me to say that. But I'm telling you, quarterback,
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: running back, wide receiving, corps, offensive line all better for Washington.
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: The defense, maybe it's a push, maybe probably a push,
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: but one team plays in the SEC and the other
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: team's not rank. So but I'm gonna tell him that
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: to that and that's just for you, Farhan for coming
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: on today. I'm gonna tell him. I'm I'm gonna give
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: him the my husky love coming up at bottom of
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: the hour, buddy.
• 16:47
  Speaker 6: Love it pal.
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: Thanks thanks for doing that, Thanks for having me on.
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: Go Mariners, and thanks for tagging me. I appreciate all
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: the love from all my Canadian friends up north of
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: the border. Usually usually I only get that stuff when
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: I'm on with Donnie and Dolly up there and I
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: say something derogatory softy too.
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: He takes softy too. He's gonna be some sad.
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: He doesn't even listen. You'll find this hard to believe.
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: He doesn't even know what date it is right now.
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: His mind is a scramble. The guy's got adhd as
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: it is, and the Mariners are.
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: I don't find that hard to believe at all.
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: I'll talk to you soon, buddy.
• 17:17
  Speaker 8: Thank you.
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's far honology from TSN joining us hopefully explaining
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: the Canadian fandom up there or maybe even coming down
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: here today. As mentioned as Stuart Mandel from the Athletic
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: Hill join us. Coming up next, former Top of the
• 17:30
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• 17:32
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• 17:38
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• 17:41
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• 18:11
  Speaker 1: All right, here we go, Stuart Mandel joining us. Yeah,
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: we're gonna get some college football in because I think
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: there's a baseball game tonight. I know there's a baseball
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: game tonight, but we got this is a big market.
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: I tried to explain to people, Stuart Mandel, that we're
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: in a big market here, Like you don't just go
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: to one sport. We're used to that this time of year,
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: we're used to just talking NFL and or college football.
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: But you know we can multitask and we're going to
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: do that right now. How are you, my friend, I'm good,
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: I'm good.
• 18:35
  Speaker 5: I noticed last Friday night and you guys had the
• 18:39
  Speaker 5: Mariners going on and then you in that you know,
• 18:42
  Speaker 5: crazy X training game and at the very same time,
• 18:45
  Speaker 5: all right, Husky Stadium. Yeah, it was h that's some
• 18:49
  Speaker 5: activity going on.
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: That's what happens in a big market. That's what happens
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: in a big market. LA had the same thing. They've had,
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: the Dodgers playing the same time as USC. Kings had
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: their home opener in the NHL the same night the Dodgers,
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: they're playing, Lakers playing preseason, and all that stuff happens.
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: We're okay with it. We just have to train people here.
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: The big thing, Stuart, Honestly, we're not used to having
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: baseball this time of the year. The organization has been
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: in business for forty nine years and this is about
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: as late as they've ever played. So that's that's our
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: that's our thing. We're trying to get used to all
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: of that and we're enjoying every second of it. Sports
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: are fun and a way we go. I want to
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: get to all the bigger picture things in college football,
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: especially Penn State and some you know, the rankings, college
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: football playoffs coming up soon and all those things. Let
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: me start first, just with some quick thoughts from you
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: on Michigan hosting Washington big noon kickoff on Saturday. I
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: bring that up. I watch the Michigan USC game the
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: other night. Michigan's an interesting team to me in a
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: lot of ways. I think Washington is vastly underrated by
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: people across the country. But give me, give me super
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: Mandel's thoughts on what you expect to see with Michigan
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: and Washington on Saturday morning.
• 19:51
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I agree. I think I think Washington is very
• 19:55
  Speaker 5: underrated because a lot of people the only time they
• 19:57
  Speaker 5: saw them was against Ohio State, and that was not
• 20:01
  Speaker 5: a bad loss despite what the score said. And I
• 20:04
  Speaker 5: think Michigan is mildly overrated, not like egregiously, I think
• 20:09
  Speaker 5: the Oklahoma game that they lost, which at the time
• 20:16
  Speaker 5: kind of elevated Oklahoma's broke file, well, I think Oklahoma's
• 20:20
  Speaker 5: going to turn out to be not that great. We
• 20:21
  Speaker 5: kind of saw a hinto that against Texas. So I
• 20:24
  Speaker 5: don't know that Michigan. You know, they're not a playoff team.
• 20:28
  Speaker 5: Certainly they might be kind of a low top twenty
• 20:30
  Speaker 5: five team. Definitely an opportunity that for Washington. Now, I
• 20:34
  Speaker 5: think the tough thing for Washington is you're doing back
• 20:36
  Speaker 5: to back trips into the Eastern time zone. You know,
• 20:42
  Speaker 5: not back to back. But they've had a couple of
• 20:43
  Speaker 5: thos very recently. In the last one in Maryland was
• 20:47
  Speaker 5: a tough one, right, So the travel I always get
• 20:51
  Speaker 5: a little hung up on the travel in this new
• 20:53
  Speaker 5: big tent. But in terms of the matchup, great opportunity
• 20:56
  Speaker 5: for demon Williams, great opportunity for the Huskies.
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: I agree. I think it's there's a couple of things
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: with that game Washington. Now, listen, I'm coog because I'll
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: know that pains me to say this. I'm not a
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: big hot take guy, but my hot take, I'll throw
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: this at you. I I would rather I think Washington
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: might be, when it's all said and done, a better
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: football team than Mississippi State. And I'm sorry not Missippi's
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: a ole miss And just watching that Lane Kiff and
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: team the other day, I know and I know I
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: know that they might have been looking ahead to Georgia.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: I understand that Washington's quarterback is better. If Jonah Coleman's
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: a better running back and their dude's a stud, I
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: think that there's no doubt Washington has better receivers from
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: the freshmen to Boston all the way through. And defensively,
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: Washington State moved the ball on that Ole Miss team
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: and had some big plays which they didn't have explosives
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: against Washington. I don't know. I just I know it's
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: an SEC team, stoo, But I think Washington just is
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: so underrated, and I hate saying that. It makes me
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: sick stewart to my stomach, but I'm part of me.
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: We'll see what happens with with Georgia and Old Miss,
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: But I don't know. I just Washington scored when they
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: wanted to against Wazoo and Ole Miss did not, and
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: I'll just leave it at that.
• 22:09
  Speaker 5: I'm it was a bizarre game, to say the least,
• 22:14
  Speaker 5: and it was hard to tell is I'll miss just
• 22:16
  Speaker 5: leaving that day or not. But I also got to say,
• 22:19
  Speaker 5: like Wazoo has been a confusing team. You know, a
• 22:23
  Speaker 5: lot of a lot of wild swings over the course
• 22:26
  Speaker 5: of the season, so I don't really, frankly know what
• 22:29
  Speaker 5: to make of any of that. I think if it
• 22:31
  Speaker 5: turns out Ole Miss as a frog, you'll find that
• 22:33
  Speaker 5: out this weekend.
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: Well, listen, when you say, you know Wazoo is you know,
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: that's that's what we that's we call Wazoo football the
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: nutshell Stewart. I mean, just ask your friend Bruce Feldman.
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: He's been around it for a while too. It's that's
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: that's that's who we are. As Koop's all right, let
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: me get to Penn State. You guys talked about on
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: the pod the other day on the on the Audible podcast.
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: Did I mean the pressure obviously there is to get
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: over the top and to to make that next move
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: and to get you know, to to to get to
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: pass just a ten eleven win season, which I know
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: those have to be really hard for teams to suffer
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: through those ten eleven seasons, but obviously they had higher
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: aspirations this season. Now that you had a few days
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: to kind of percolate and simmer on a little bit,
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: some thoughts on Penn State getting rid of James Franklin.
• 23:17
  Speaker 5: Yeah, the more days went by the more because at
• 23:20
  Speaker 5: the time you know, we got on the Audible Sunday
• 23:22
  Speaker 5: Mornings that he's done, like that's the end. But we
• 23:25
  Speaker 5: didn't mean the next morning, right. It actually happened right
• 23:27
  Speaker 5: after we got off the air, and so the timing
• 23:30
  Speaker 5: definitely caught me by surprise at that time. As the
• 23:33
  Speaker 5: days went on, I don't know that there was any
• 23:35
  Speaker 5: other way. I mean, if you, if you, there's a
• 23:38
  Speaker 5: video that went around Twitter of him walking off the
• 23:41
  Speaker 5: field that after that game and going into the tunnel,
• 23:44
  Speaker 5: and it was like he was being marched to the guillotine.
• 23:46
  Speaker 5: Like people stayed well after the game just to boo
• 23:49
  Speaker 5: him to his face.
• 23:51
  Speaker 8: It was.
• 23:51
  Speaker 5: It was nasty and that if that's where you are,
• 23:54
  Speaker 5: where your fan base is, just we're just disgusted with you,
• 23:58
  Speaker 5: Like we don't there's no point right riding out the season,
• 24:01
  Speaker 5: a huge buyout or not. I just think everybody, a
• 24:07
  Speaker 5: lot of people there had had mixed feelings about him
• 24:08
  Speaker 5: for some time. They appreciated that he rescued the program.
• 24:11
  Speaker 5: They appreciate waning ten eleven games a year, but when's
• 24:15
  Speaker 5: the next step coming? You know, we keep we keep
• 24:18
  Speaker 5: calling short in these games. And so everybody was all
• 24:21
  Speaker 5: in on this season. We got everybody coming back that
• 24:23
  Speaker 5: we've invested the money, we got Jim Knowles. The defense
• 24:26
  Speaker 5: courting are for three million dollars a year, and this happens,
• 24:29
  Speaker 5: and it's just like the ultimate letdown, and I just
• 24:31
  Speaker 5: think it reached a point of no return.
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: Kurt Signetti from Indiana is a name that seems to
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: be near the top of the list. But you wrote
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: a story, a great one on the buyouts and what's
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: going on with that. But more importantly, there's timing issues
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: here too, and how challenging is that for Penn State
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: or if Florida gets to that point, which they probably will,
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: who knows what happens at LSU With Brian Kelly, we
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: just go down the list of these openings across the country. Uh,
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: what is what's the biggest challenge? Is it buyouts if
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: you want to bring a big guy in or is
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: it just like the timing because of a team's going
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: to the college football Playoff, you're going to be hard
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: pressed to get a guy before middle or end of January.
• 25:15
  Speaker 5: Well, I mean, after what Penn State did forty nine
• 25:19
  Speaker 5: million dollars, I don't think buyouts will be I don't
• 25:22
  Speaker 5: think sans are going much sympathy now if your school
• 25:24
  Speaker 5: is not gonna fire Smith because of the buyout. The
• 25:26
  Speaker 5: timing though with the CFP is a new element to
• 25:30
  Speaker 5: the coaching carousel that we haven't seen before. It didn't
• 25:34
  Speaker 5: come up last year. But yeah, if you're if you
• 25:36
  Speaker 5: you know, if you're if Kurt Signetti has Indiana, not
• 25:39
  Speaker 5: just in the playoff, but you know, let's say top
• 25:41
  Speaker 5: four seeds, do they get a buy or they're winning
• 25:44
  Speaker 5: and their season goes into January, that probably just takes
• 25:48
  Speaker 5: them out of this cycle. And so does that mean
• 25:51
  Speaker 5: if you're the coach of a really good team you
• 25:53
  Speaker 5: can never get another job? Does that mean that the
• 25:56
  Speaker 5: schools that are making these hires do they need to
• 25:59
  Speaker 5: be willing to wait? Because what we've seen in recent
• 26:01
  Speaker 5: years is there's a mad dash to hire a coach
• 26:04
  Speaker 5: as soon as the season end, the regular season ends,
• 26:07
  Speaker 5: so they can be ready for the portal. You know,
• 26:10
  Speaker 5: I've seen you know, Bill Belichick say that they were
• 26:13
  Speaker 5: put behind. They were behind because they got hired two
• 26:15
  Speaker 5: days after the portal open. Are you willing to wait
• 26:18
  Speaker 5: till January? Because now, starting this year, the portal is
• 26:21
  Speaker 5: not opening until January second, with Penn State, that would
• 26:25
  Speaker 5: mean since you already fired your coach in October, going
• 26:28
  Speaker 5: two months without a permanent coach, So we'll see where
• 26:32
  Speaker 5: things are at the end of the year. You could
• 26:34
  Speaker 5: see though, if Indiana is eleven and one twelve and
• 26:37
  Speaker 5: oh like the fever pitch around her signetti is going
• 26:41
  Speaker 5: to be so high? Is a school willing to put
• 26:46
  Speaker 5: up with a month of social media rumors and you know,
• 26:49
  Speaker 5: just deafening noise around the program? And by the same token,
• 26:53
  Speaker 5: will the coach just say you got to take me
• 26:55
  Speaker 5: out of consideration, like we're trying to win a national championship.
• 26:58
  Speaker 5: I can't have this going on every day.
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: He's fascinating, That program's fascinating, you guys talked about on
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: the Audible Just like this Mark Cuban or some other
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: alums step up and just pay him, and I mean
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: he'd have a lifetime contract there with what he's done
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: so far, and that's not even in two full seasons.
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: Or wrap it up with this Stuart Mandel joining his
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: athletic and the audible podcast usc Notre Dame. I wonder
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: if it was you or one of your your one
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: of the other guys said, whoever wins this game might
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: be a playoff team. Do you believe that?
• 27:24
  Speaker 6: Yeah?
• 27:24
  Speaker 5: That was rou Okay, Well, he didn't say might, he
• 27:26
  Speaker 5: said whoever wins this game will be a playoff team.
• 27:29
  Speaker 5: I definitely think that's the case of Notre Dame because
• 27:31
  Speaker 5: their schedule is very soft after this one, and I
• 27:34
  Speaker 5: think that anybody who you know wrote them off after
• 27:38
  Speaker 5: those two losses, now you look back and say, well,
• 27:40
  Speaker 5: the two teams they lost to by one point and
• 27:43
  Speaker 5: three points are now.
• 27:43
  Speaker 6: In the top five.
• 27:44
  Speaker 5: They've been very good since then. If they handle a
• 27:47
  Speaker 5: USC like they're in really great shape to run the table.
• 27:51
  Speaker 5: You know, I'd like to see USC first. I don't.
• 27:53
  Speaker 5: I still don't trust Lincoln Riley in a game like this,
• 27:56
  Speaker 5: a big road game. If he pulls it off, then
• 27:59
  Speaker 5: suddenly what I think they're seiling this year could be
• 28:05
  Speaker 5: may well become playoffs.
• 28:07
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: For folks who don't like Notre Dame, it's USC. They
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: have a bye week and then they go Boston College, Navy, Pittsburgh,
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: Sarah Use Stanford. Now pitt coming off a big win,
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: but that's not a gauntlet by any stretch of the imagination,
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: and ten and two should be very much well in
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: reach for them. Stewart tell people about the audible podcast
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: it's fantastic. I'm a huge college football fan to listen
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: to it every week. I'm not just it because there's
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: multiple episodes, but tell people about it.
• 28:33
  Speaker 5: The Audible with myself, Bruce Settiman and Ralph Russo comes
• 28:36
  Speaker 5: out every Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday, and the Sunday show
• 28:40
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• 28:44
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• 28:44
  Speaker 1: You guys do a great job. We'll talk to you
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: next week. Thank you, Stewart, all right, thanks Ian, Stuart
• 28:49
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• 29:35
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• 29:38
  Speaker 1: and olt. We're squeezing bowl, hockey and baseball into this segments.
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: Let's get right to the baseball. Uh, pregame press conferences
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  Speaker 1: taking place have taken place, have taken place already.
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  Speaker 6: Today.
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  Speaker 1: We want to hear a little bit from cal Rawley, who,
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: by the way, got screwed today. Uh the Gold Glove
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: finalists were announced. He was not one of the three.
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: Didn't allow a pass ball all year? Like, did he
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: regress defense? Was he worse? I know he didn't throw
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: out runners at as high rates a year ago, Right,
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: that was the only thing. Okay, I guess that's all.
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  Speaker 1: We're just basing it on that.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know.
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  Speaker 9: He says there's something to do with the different strike zone,
• 30:11
  Speaker 9: and like all the framing and stuff.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know. I don't know.
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: Watch a game, somebody. Okay, how about cal Rawley meeting
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: with the media, including our own Mike ben CALLI here.
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  Speaker 10: About George the Big Game competitor and what he did,
• 30:22
  Speaker 10: you know three years ago in the ALDS. What he's
• 30:25
  Speaker 10: done now for this year, whether it's preparation or mentality,
• 30:29
  Speaker 10: what sticks out to you as far as the biggest difference.
• 30:31
  Speaker 7: For him in big games like these. Yeah, I think
• 30:35
  Speaker 7: I think you've seen it a lot with a lot
• 30:36
  Speaker 7: of our guys that on the mound.
• 30:38
  Speaker 11: You know, this seems like when the bright lights come on,
• 30:40
  Speaker 11: they're not shying away from from the spotlight.
• 30:42
  Speaker 7: So you know, you know, you always feel if he
• 30:47
  Speaker 7: can look back to so many games.
• 30:48
  Speaker 11: You look back to the the Astros game a couple
• 30:50
  Speaker 11: of years ago when George started that one. I believe
• 30:54
  Speaker 11: it was King Felix night we played the Orioles a
• 30:57
  Speaker 11: couple of years ago. He pitched a full nine innings
• 31:00
  Speaker 11: and we didn't get any runs. So but you know,
• 31:03
  Speaker 11: he went a full nine innings and was unbelievable with
• 31:06
  Speaker 11: the packed house that night.
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  Speaker 7: So you know, he he doesn't shy away from it.
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  Speaker 11: He he really you know, accepts that and takes the
• 31:12
  Speaker 11: challenge on and he uh he you know, kind of
• 31:16
  Speaker 11: busts through in a way and uses that you know,
• 31:20
  Speaker 11: adrenaline a focus to.
• 31:22
  Speaker 7: Make a make a really good out and usually so
• 31:25
  Speaker 7: go to second roller.
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  Speaker 12: Cal Mitch said the other night that he was going
• 31:28
  Speaker 12: to say something, has he addressed the team or just
• 31:30
  Speaker 12: done it on an individual basis about the uh, the
• 31:33
  Speaker 12: situation he was in two years ago, going on the
• 31:35
  Speaker 12: road win the first two games and having to come
• 31:37
  Speaker 12: home and then losing the next three and then having
• 31:38
  Speaker 12: to go back out there, and just kind of keeping
• 31:40
  Speaker 12: that same mentality given that anything can happen in a
• 31:43
  Speaker 12: series like this.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah, I mean we we we understand. You know, obviously
• 31:47
  Speaker 11: we put ourselves on a good spot. But job's not finished.
• 31:51
  Speaker 11: And I think we've done a good job of that
• 31:52
  Speaker 11: so far this year. All the way starting back to
• 31:56
  Speaker 11: when we did clench. You know, we weren't weren't satisfied
• 31:58
  Speaker 11: with just making the playoffs. We wanted to to finish
• 32:01
  Speaker 11: this thing off and get the division. And then you know,
• 32:04
  Speaker 11: fast forward to the entire series. You know, just trying
• 32:08
  Speaker 11: to keep that focus and you know, whether we go
• 32:10
  Speaker 11: down or go up, you know, trying to keep the
• 32:12
  Speaker 11: same same level of consistency and focus. And you know,
• 32:17
  Speaker 11: like I said, we want to want to try to
• 32:18
  Speaker 11: finish this thing out here, and and uh, you know,
• 32:21
  Speaker 11: take care of business that way.
• 32:22
  Speaker 7: You know, you know, we're not give him any kind
• 32:25
  Speaker 7: of room to breathe.
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: Well they win tonight, there's no room to breathe. That's
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: that's as simple as it gets. And if you are.
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: If you are the Toronto Blue Jays, it's pretty simple.
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: You've got to win two of three in Seattle, like otherwise,
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: season alive. Keep your season alive, like seriously, like the
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: tall task. I know that there's stress and consternation here.
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: I know our guy that's coming on with me in
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: an hour talking to him cross talk is losing his mind.
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: Put yourself in Toronto shoes for a second. How do
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: you think they're feeling. If you're a Toronto Blue Jays fan,
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: how are they feeling? I'd much try to be where
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: we are really exact things tips, Yeah, really exactly, yeah, absolutely.
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: I mean both road teams in the ALCS NLCS stranglehold
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: on their series, Dodgers doing it last night in Milwaukee.
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: I mean, if you're a Brewers fan, you're like a bomber,
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: and you know what, I'm a petty individual. Screw them.
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: They take the pilots and I see way too much
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: and see end of the thing is is like they're
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: really going, They're really embracing the yellow and the gold,
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: the original mirrors and pilot's colors too.
• 33:45
  Speaker 7: So screw them. Go Dodgers.
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: All right, let's uh, let's do this take a break
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: come back. Mike Holmgren joins us. Coming up next no
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  Speaker 4: Not all losses are equaling.
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• 36:45
  Speaker 6: I'm doing great. I gotta say something before we kick on.
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: Fire away, fire away.
• 36:50
  Speaker 6: No, yeah, I mean normally, you know, you lift my
• 36:52
  Speaker 6: spirits and you are on fire and you're going all
• 36:56
  Speaker 6: the time. But I will I will say this in
• 36:58
  Speaker 6: that the last couple of minutes you're looking, you're this
• 37:02
  Speaker 6: is good stuff happening in Seattle right now in sports.
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: Very very good, right, very good stuff, very good stuff.
• 37:08
  Speaker 6: I know, it's I mean, I'm happy for everybody, and
• 37:12
  Speaker 6: let's go Mariners. Let's go love it.
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: Mike I I our guy, Chris Crawford. We do think
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: call my what Monday on Mondays. I know you're a
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: regular listener, but for those who might have missed it,
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: he brought up a great point. You know, this is
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: the cool thing about sports is it just brings a town, community,
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: region together, you know, like and you can kind of
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: forget about some of the other differences you may have
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: along the way. You know, I go back, you know,
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: we had that, you know, way back when in seventy
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: nine with the Sonics winning a title. The Sonics didn't
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: win in ninety six, but what they did for the
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: city and all the fun that people had with the
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: ninety six Sonics going to the NBA Finals was special.
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: The ninety five Mariners, you know what you guys did
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: in five getting to the Super Bowl for the very
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: first time. I'll just ask you this, I know, and
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: sometimes we kind of mess around and Josh Brown and
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: have some fun. The loss would sucked for everybody I
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: mean nobody more so than you and the players. But
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: force the Seahawks to get there for the first time
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: in five And I bring that up because the Mariners
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: have never been to the World Series. Getting just cracking
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: through and getting to the finals, championship game, championship Series.
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: How satisfying would that be? Do you think for the
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: Mariner's front office, players and coaches. I know they want
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: to win it all and you get there and it hurts,
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: probably wor worse than anything. You'll tell me if you
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: lose when you're that close, but just if you've never
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: been there before, Like the Sonics had won it in
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: seventy nine, so when Carl and those guys got it
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: back George Carl and ninety six, they had already been there.
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: You guys had this Seahawks team had never been there.
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: I just remember how how excited I was, how proud
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: I was a Seahawks fan. I was living in Portland, Mike.
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: It was the best thing ever. You guys got there.
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: It didn't end that way how we wanted. But how
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: important is it is just to get there?
• 38:58
  Speaker 5: Well?
• 38:58
  Speaker 6: I think it means a lot. I mean I really do.
• 39:01
  Speaker 6: And you're right when I and you and I have
• 39:03
  Speaker 6: talked about this before that if you lose it, it's hard.
• 39:07
  Speaker 6: It's hard, and it's six with you a long time,
• 39:10
  Speaker 6: and I still have I still think about it every
• 39:12
  Speaker 6: once in a while. But to get there and what
• 39:15
  Speaker 6: the players have done, and if you do it for
• 39:17
  Speaker 6: the first time, you know, I just couldn't have been
• 39:20
  Speaker 6: more proud. And I get emotional when I think about it.
• 39:23
  Speaker 6: I mean, it was a special time, and I I
• 39:26
  Speaker 6: you know, I hope they go all the way, but
• 39:28
  Speaker 6: if it's something happens and they can't get it done
• 39:30
  Speaker 6: this time, they're going to do it again. And and
• 39:33
  Speaker 6: that's what happened to the Seahawks obviously.
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean for you guys, I'll go back. I
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: mean even Green Bay. You know when you guys got
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: there and won it in Green Bay and went back again.
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: I think it's it was different because it had been Mike,
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: how long had it been since Lombardi and those guys
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: did it?
• 39:49
  Speaker 9: It?
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: Like a long time?
• 39:50
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I've been twenty. It had been a long time. Yeah,
• 39:52
  Speaker 6: it had been a long time. And they talked a
• 39:54
  Speaker 6: lot about that, and and it was it was special,
• 39:58
  Speaker 6: But that made it even more so because we finally
• 40:01
  Speaker 6: got there, and then uh, you know, the celebration afterwards,
• 40:05
  Speaker 6: and it's hard to describe quite honestly, but it's the players,
• 40:10
  Speaker 6: and you love him, you hug him a lot of tears.
• 40:12
  Speaker 6: It's it's just now the champagne. The thing is football
• 40:15
  Speaker 6: never had any champagne.
• 40:16
  Speaker 4: I know.
• 40:17
  Speaker 6: That's what you know.
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: Hockey campaign, No, they do when they win it all
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: like they do. Yeah, I don't get baseball, Mike. I'm
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: the same this this you and I can share being
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: you know, old men yelling at clouds. For a second,
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: I don't get I don't you clinch a wild card spot,
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: you party like you want a title, you clinch a division,
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: You party like to win to tiele, you win one
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: division series.
• 40:38
  Speaker 7: The same thing.
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: I don't quite get that. But hey, you know what
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: you guys do you baseball? That's fine. I don't think
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: it's that way in any other sport.
• 40:46
  Speaker 6: No. And then in Green Bay, you know the fellow
• 40:48
  Speaker 6: who was in charge of finances when I first got there,
• 40:52
  Speaker 6: you know, he was a very very frugal, and so
• 40:55
  Speaker 6: we were going to do champagne and we were going
• 40:57
  Speaker 6: to do maybe diet seven up. I don't know, but
• 41:01
  Speaker 6: That's when he gave me the Reharse cell phone out
• 41:02
  Speaker 6: in the parking lot and he goes, you know, I
• 41:05
  Speaker 6: want it back when you get fired. I go, okay, thanks, yeah,
• 41:08
  Speaker 6: thank you. My.
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: How things have changed in the NFL, man, Yeah, I mean,
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: oh gee, they give intern cell phones now probably, so,
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: I mean much less a head coach and all that. Listen,
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: you were in you were in Wisconsin. You guys, there
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: was at least beer somewhere to be seen. Wasn't there
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: for a celebration?
• 41:29
  Speaker 6: Oh? There was. There was going to be That's Kurds
• 41:33
  Speaker 6: and Chilie John's. Yeah, there's going to be some real
• 41:36
  Speaker 6: healthy stuff, really real healthy good stuff.
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: Well, I'm gonn tell you right now the best thing
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: about Lamba is cheese Kurds at halftime in the press box.
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: That right now. I don't know if you had anything
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: to do with that when you first got there, but
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: I'll tell you right now, that's the best thing about
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: going to Lambo as a media guy.
• 41:49
  Speaker 6: So pretty good. Lambo's. Lambo is quite a place.
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: It is, Mike, before we get to football if and
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: you know, I know you've talked to John over the years,
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: and still some other people in the Seahawks organization and
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: so forth. You talked, you know, Andy Reid's people don't
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: know any reads one of your closest friends, and you
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: have conversations. Dan Wilson's in this thing for the first
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: time as a Mariner's manager. Different sport, but same thing.
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: You're trying to lead your team to the title. What
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: would you tell him? What would be the advice you
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: would give him or any other person in that position.
• 42:16
  Speaker 6: I would just say, you know what, just enjoy every minute,
• 42:21
  Speaker 6: every minute, because you know, there's a lot of stress
• 42:24
  Speaker 6: on the manager obviously, and the coach, and and I
• 42:27
  Speaker 6: used to tell the players that too. You know, when
• 42:30
  Speaker 6: you walk out on the field before the kickoff or
• 42:33
  Speaker 6: we get there early in the stadium, and look around,
• 42:35
  Speaker 6: breathe it in, look to where your your your family's
• 42:39
  Speaker 6: going to be sitting in the stands, and just think
• 42:40
  Speaker 6: what got you here and how hard you've worked and
• 42:44
  Speaker 6: all that kind of stuff. Just enjoy the moment. And
• 42:48
  Speaker 6: you know, that's easier for me to say now, but
• 42:52
  Speaker 6: I really wanted them to do that because it's it's
• 42:56
  Speaker 6: you're going it's hard, but it's like nothing you've ever
• 42:59
  Speaker 6: been through before. So now's the time to really soak
• 43:02
  Speaker 6: it in.
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: I'm glad you use that phrase because I think even
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: even from a fans standpoint, maybe just because I'm a
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: little older now that you know, I'm kind of the
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: same way. Like, it's just kind of enjoying. Try to
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: enjoy the ride because you know, Sonics going ninety six,
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: they don't go back to the finals. You know, you
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: guys went No. Five, and you know, I thought, I
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: think we all thought, hey, this is the start, right Like,
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: Mike built this thing up, and it's hard to get
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: to a title. It didn't happen when those guys wanted here.
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: When Pete and those guys won it in twenty twelve
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: or twenty thirteen, I should say, they say, hey, this
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: is the start of a whole bunch in a row.
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: Well we know what happened the next year, and they
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: haven't been back since, right, Like, it's just getting to
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: that just to the cusp. You have to enjoy it,
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: and you have to be proud of what you've done.
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: I mean, I think to me, sales in the World Series,
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: they are up two games and none and they got
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: games at home now. But whatever happens, man, enjoy the
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: ride because it's it's you don't know when it's going
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: to happen again.
• 43:52
  Speaker 6: Right, That's exactly right. And then you know, no one,
• 43:56
  Speaker 6: I guess if you're if you're Dan, you don't want
• 43:59
  Speaker 6: to hear that necessarily, but I hope he does. And
• 44:03
  Speaker 6: you know, it's you know, he's been in baseball a
• 44:05
  Speaker 6: long time, so he knows how hard it is to
• 44:08
  Speaker 6: get there and how you have to earn it. And
• 44:10
  Speaker 6: then once you if you are fortunate enough to win
• 44:13
  Speaker 6: one of those games, then that's, uh, you might not
• 44:17
  Speaker 6: get it another chance. Because you look at his historically
• 44:20
  Speaker 6: in the NFL prior to lets see the Patriots and
• 44:25
  Speaker 6: and now what and he's doing in Kansas City. It's hard.
• 44:28
  Speaker 6: It was hard to repeat. It was really hard. Teams
• 44:30
  Speaker 6: didn't you know. The Bears did not repeat. Teams did
• 44:33
  Speaker 6: not repeat. Because the second year we were fortunate to
• 44:36
  Speaker 6: go back. It's two years in row in Green Bay,
• 44:38
  Speaker 6: and uh, you know, and I thought we had a
• 44:41
  Speaker 6: really good chance to repeat, but it didn't happen. So
• 44:44
  Speaker 6: if you can get there, please enjoy it.
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: Mike Hongrid joining us, what do you make of this
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: year's NFL? Mike, and I say that from this standpoint,
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: I'm looking at the AFC. Indianapolis Pittsburgh are both one
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: loss teams five and one, four and one. We all
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: know who Pittsburgh gloss to would be team out here.
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: Andy's team Kansas City is three and three, Baltimore is
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: one and five this year, Yeah, it's crazy. In the NFC,
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: Tampa Bay's five and one, they should be four and two,
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: but Seattle lost that game. We talked about it last week.
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: Green Bay is a weird three to one and one
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: had to hold on to beat Cincinnati. San Francisco, a
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: paper tiger at four and two with all their injuries.
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: He kind of dropped down Minnesota playoff team last year
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: out of it right now, Chicago, all these Washington with
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: Dan or three and three? Is it just the year
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: of injuries and so we have more parody and stranger
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: things happening.
• 45:40
  Speaker 6: I think that's one of the big things this year.
• 45:42
  Speaker 6: In fact, that's a conversation around our house a lot
• 45:45
  Speaker 6: with my daughters and my wife that our kids are
• 45:49
  Speaker 6: the guys getting hurt more than when you coached. And
• 45:52
  Speaker 6: I would say it seems like it does. Does it
• 45:55
  Speaker 6: does you take a team like the forty nine ers
• 45:57
  Speaker 6: or you know, Balton more good good football teams on paper.
• 46:02
  Speaker 6: I mean they got it and their their preseason picks
• 46:05
  Speaker 6: and all that, and then guys get hurt, Key, guys
• 46:08
  Speaker 6: get hurt, and and then it changes it changes out everything,
• 46:13
  Speaker 6: And so, uh, why why it's happening? Is it more happening?
• 46:17
  Speaker 6: Is because they don't practice? I don't know. And I
• 46:19
  Speaker 6: have theories, you know, and conspiracy theories about how they
• 46:22
  Speaker 6: practice and the preseason get ready and how they don't play,
• 46:25
  Speaker 6: how they don't play guys you know in the preseason.
• 46:28
  Speaker 6: Does that have anything to do with it? I don't know,
• 46:30
  Speaker 6: but you know it it is different. And I think
• 46:33
  Speaker 6: that's that's kind of been target that this year. That's
• 46:37
  Speaker 6: what's happened, and the teams that used we weren't wrong
• 46:41
  Speaker 6: saying this team has a good chance to do this,
• 46:43
  Speaker 6: and then all of a sudden, what's what's happened? Well,
• 46:46
  Speaker 6: injuries have happened.
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: Michael Ngrid joining us. What do you make of Seattle
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: last week? They get lit up defensively the week before
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: by Tampa Bay. Now, obviously you know we talked about it.
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence isn't isn't what Baker is right? Now, but
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: that defense back in a big way, didn't they.
• 47:02
  Speaker 6: They really did, particularly the guy's up front. I mean,
• 47:05
  Speaker 6: when you think if I've been going into a game
• 47:07
  Speaker 6: and I'm going in and three of the starters on defense,
• 47:11
  Speaker 6: three of the guys are in the secondary, aren't starting,
• 47:14
  Speaker 6: I'm looking at my chops, I just think, Okay, we're
• 47:16
  Speaker 6: going to throw the ball and we're going to score
• 47:18
  Speaker 6: some points. Well, they were not able to do that.
• 47:21
  Speaker 6: So give credit to the young guys who were substituted
• 47:23
  Speaker 6: in there, but also you got to give credit to
• 47:26
  Speaker 6: the to the defensive line. Putting pressure on Trevor Lawrence.
• 47:30
  Speaker 6: Having said that when I watched that game and I
• 47:33
  Speaker 6: hadn't seen him play very much, Yeah, Trevor Lawrence, that
• 47:38
  Speaker 6: I was, I'd come away thinking, I'm not sure, you know,
• 47:42
  Speaker 6: I didn't. He held the ball too long, in my opinion, often,
• 47:46
  Speaker 6: and then he missed some throws. He made some. Then
• 47:49
  Speaker 6: all of a sudden, he makes a couple of beautiful throws,
• 47:51
  Speaker 6: but pretty inconsistent, and no one expected them to get
• 47:55
  Speaker 6: off to a four and one start though, so good
• 47:57
  Speaker 6: for them, but he's got to play better.
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: You'll find this hard to believe. Our friend Hugh Millen
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: broke down every sack by the Seahawks, and how long
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence held the ball for those sacks?
• 48:07
  Speaker 6: Did every time? Yeah?
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: Are you surprised by that?
• 48:11
  Speaker 6: Yeah? No, of course I am. You know he doesn't
• 48:13
  Speaker 6: he doesn't look at it that way.
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: But but but what you said was true. And he
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: broke up at the first play was six and a
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: half seconds, Hugh told us. And and then Murphy got
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: the sack. And I mean most of the sacks were
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: in the three you know, the three four second range
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: or more as he broke it down. And you know,
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: we've talked about what did you tell your quarterbacks back
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: in the day, how long do they have to throw
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: the football?
• 48:35
  Speaker 8: No?
• 48:35
  Speaker 6: You well, you get into a rhythm and you go
• 48:38
  Speaker 6: a three step, five step, four step throw, step throw,
• 48:41
  Speaker 6: itch throw. That's how you do it. If you're holding
• 48:44
  Speaker 6: the ball after that, dump it, dump it because the
• 48:48
  Speaker 6: good guys on defense are going to get to you.
• 48:50
  Speaker 6: And you know what we're I'm watching the game and
• 48:52
  Speaker 6: I've got the feeling I didn't time it out like
• 48:54
  Speaker 6: you did. But and who does I mean, he's unbelievable, yes,
• 48:58
  Speaker 6: but you know it. That's what happened, and that's what
• 49:02
  Speaker 6: you saw that, you know, and it played right into
• 49:06
  Speaker 6: a good defensive rush hands and it made the difference
• 49:10
  Speaker 6: in the game.
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: Sam Darnold has another really strong game, Mike. And then
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: I'll tell you my favorite play at the end. And
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: I guess this is probably where you give the offensive
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: coordinator credit, right that they need to get a first
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: down and probably a couple first downs, and to put
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: this thing away, you're up by eight at that point.
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: But the pass to a J. Barner, the tight end,
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: the long pass at the end, I mean, who gets
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: I mean Sam made the throw, Barner made the cash.
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: But that's that's a Klint Kubiak call, isn't it is
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: that who we give credit to you there?
• 49:41
  Speaker 6: Absolutely absolutely, because you go into that situation and you're
• 49:45
  Speaker 6: with the timing and where they were on the field,
• 49:47
  Speaker 6: and you're thinking about that because you know, if you
• 49:51
  Speaker 6: can get a couple of first downs or a first
• 49:52
  Speaker 6: down the game, you got the game. But it surprised
• 49:57
  Speaker 6: me because they're been kind of conservative at times my opinion.
• 50:00
  Speaker 6: But they came out and they play action pass beautiful, beautiful,
• 50:05
  Speaker 6: And I wrote down on the seat as I was
• 50:07
  Speaker 6: making my notes I said, best player of the game,
• 50:09
  Speaker 6: just really really special, and you know, I'd love to
• 50:13
  Speaker 6: see it, and I hope they do it more.
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: Well, what is it what we talk about him? Every week?
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: We'll talk about him again. What's what's really jumping out
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: at you about Sam Donald? Anders asked me a question?
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: What was the question you asked me?
• 50:24
  Speaker 9: So I asked, how many quarterbacks could you put in
• 50:27
  Speaker 9: Sam Donald's shoes and get the same or better results?
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: I said, maybe, I don't know, Mike, maybe like four
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: or five guys in the league. I mean, I think
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: he's playing that high of a level right now.
• 50:36
  Speaker 6: Oh, I would agree with you. I think, you know,
• 50:39
  Speaker 6: he's showing he can really pass the ball. I mean,
• 50:41
  Speaker 6: he can really throw the ball, and he shows good judgment.
• 50:44
  Speaker 6: He's throwing on time. He's not making a ton of mistakes,
• 50:47
  Speaker 6: you know, so his processing after the snap of the
• 50:50
  Speaker 6: ball and then his drop and that's that's coaching. That's
• 50:53
  Speaker 6: a lot of things. But he is doing no he's
• 50:56
  Speaker 6: I'm glad we have him. And I said this at
• 50:58
  Speaker 6: the beginning, and I'll take all the credit for it
• 51:01
  Speaker 6: in the world that I said he's going to be great.
• 51:03
  Speaker 6: And so you know, I was very rarely wrong, and
• 51:07
  Speaker 6: anything that I came up with correct. So I think
• 51:10
  Speaker 6: I think I'm pretty good on this one.
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: Well, I think, in all due respect, I think of
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: all the people we talked to, you do want to
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: know a little bit about the playoff quarterbacks in the NFL.
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: I just I there's you have you have. I think
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: the thing that presses me most, and I talk about
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: this with you a lot, is the the average passing.
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: Like his average pass length completion number one in the league.
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: Has average pass length is number one in the league.
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: His average gain is number one in the league. He's
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: number three in yards so far this year. I mean, like,
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: like they're driving the ball down the field little bit.
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: I'd like to see it, Like I like to see
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: Tory Horton get the ball a little bit more and
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: spread it out because jas N's having a great year.
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: But I mean I'm quibbling probably right if I say, hey,
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: I want to see other guys get the ball more.
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: But I mean they're they're putting the ball down the
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: field for not Isn't this offense designed to kind of
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: be a little bit more run based, dink and dunk
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: and stuff.
• 51:59
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I think so, And I think yes, But and
• 52:02
  Speaker 6: but I'm with you, I'd like to see him spread
• 52:04
  Speaker 6: it around a little bit more because I think eventually
• 52:07
  Speaker 6: or I would think that teams, you know, start to say, well, listen,
• 52:12
  Speaker 6: this guy jigma Is is their guy. We've got to
• 52:16
  Speaker 6: if nothing else, we're clamping down on him. When that happens,
• 52:20
  Speaker 6: they have to be ready to go a different direction
• 52:23
  Speaker 6: because there will be games where it happens. But you know,
• 52:26
  Speaker 6: you have to you have to give credit to Clint Shubiac.
• 52:30
  Speaker 6: I mean, but at the same time, they want to
• 52:32
  Speaker 6: run the ball, and you know, you know they do.
• 52:35
  Speaker 6: They talk about it a lot, and they it'll make
• 52:38
  Speaker 6: me even that much better. But right now, credit credit
• 52:42
  Speaker 6: what they're doing in the passing game. I like it.
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: The Monday night is this week. I know you probably
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: were more fond of Monday as opposed to Thursday night
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: games along the way they take they take Tuesday Wednesday off.
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: How important is it just to get those two days
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: off if you know, in the middle of the season, say,
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: it's huge.
• 53:01
  Speaker 6: You know, you get you get a little bit tired
• 53:02
  Speaker 6: as you get going towards the middle of the season,
• 53:05
  Speaker 6: and then you really have to change your practice plans.
• 53:07
  Speaker 6: You have to do some stuff that's a little different,
• 53:09
  Speaker 6: just to make sure that everyone catches their breath just
• 53:12
  Speaker 6: a little bit and can play on Sunday. But to
• 53:14
  Speaker 6: have a little bit of extra time, I think it
• 53:17
  Speaker 6: means a lot. And so you know, the way they're
• 53:20
  Speaker 6: going right now, they're playing a lot of close ballgames, yes,
• 53:23
  Speaker 6: and and so to have a little extra stamina, a
• 53:26
  Speaker 6: little extra spark, you know, means all the world to
• 53:30
  Speaker 6: a team. So I hope they can keep it going.
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: I didn't think about that. That's great for the players
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: physically and stuff, all those close games. How good is
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: it for the coaches, the staff, not just Mike, just
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: to take a mental health break for a day or two,
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: because that's got to be taxing playing all these one
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: score games, one possession games.
• 53:49
  Speaker 6: Yeah, really, I mean it's just it's it's it's hard.
• 53:53
  Speaker 6: It's hard, and you have to really kind of suck
• 53:56
  Speaker 6: it up and you keep going and you go. But
• 53:59
  Speaker 6: the fact that they were able to emerge victorious, you know,
• 54:03
  Speaker 6: it says so much and means so much that you
• 54:07
  Speaker 6: know they should you can feel real good about what's happening.
• 54:12
  Speaker 6: The Seahawks fans can feel real good about what's happening
• 54:14
  Speaker 6: with that football team right now.
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: I love it, Mike, have a great week, I think
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: Softy tomorrow and then we'll check in with you next
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: week after Monday and football, my friend.
• 54:21
  Speaker 6: Thank you so much, but take it easy.
• 54:23
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  Speaker 1: the next segment. It will be interesting anders the atmosphere tonight.
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: I think if you missed our interview earlier with far
• 57:24
  Speaker 1: Han Lolgy from to this end way really fun. Who
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: is a Canadian working for a Canadian sports network and
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: then says I'm not a Blue Jays fan, and I'm
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: not afraid to admit it. He's a Marrier's fan, he's
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: a Marritors fan, and a Huskies fan and a Seahawks fan.
• 57:37
  Speaker 6: Love it.
• 57:38
  Speaker 1: But and as he said, not all Canadians. Don't paint
• 57:41
  Speaker 1: them all with a broadbrush. They're not all Blue Jays fans,
• 57:45
  Speaker 1: but there are a lot of them up there, no
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: doubt about it. What will that atmosphere be like tonight?
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: Will we hear the Blue Jays fans? That's the question,
• 57:54
  Speaker 1: Will we hear them? It won't be. I don't think
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: there's any chance it'll be like it was like a
• 57:59
  Speaker 1: regular season game. If for no other reasons, say there's
• 58:01
  Speaker 1: like thirty thirty five thousand, like this place will be full,
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: so you're can to add another ten thousand class matter
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: of fans, right right.
• 58:08
  Speaker 4: Hopefully that's the idea.
• 58:10
  Speaker 9: But I just think in general, and I don't know
• 58:12
  Speaker 9: how representative this is for the rest of the city.
• 58:15
  Speaker 9: But I've had like, my parents are going to their
• 58:18
  Speaker 9: first playoff game that they've ever been to on Friday.
• 58:22
  Speaker 9: I've had two different friends text me and be like.
• 58:24
  Speaker 4: Dude, I'm going to the game Wednesday. I'm going to
• 58:26
  Speaker 4: the game Thursday.
• 58:27
  Speaker 9: I put it all into one pair of tickets or
• 58:29
  Speaker 9: whatever it is, and I just hope that that's kind
• 58:32
  Speaker 9: of the vibe of the rest of the kind of
• 58:35
  Speaker 9: sports fans here in Seattle, that you realize that this
• 58:37
  Speaker 9: is a once in a lifetime opportunity and you're taking
• 58:40
  Speaker 9: advantage of it. Now. I realized that might be the
• 58:42
  Speaker 9: case for people who live in Vancouver who happened to
• 58:44
  Speaker 9: be Blue Jays fans as well. This is I don't
• 58:48
  Speaker 9: want to say just as rare because they've done it
• 58:50
  Speaker 9: in the last thirty years, but it's still.
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: They have them be into the World Series since twenty three, right,
• 58:57
  Speaker 1: so it's yeah, that's that's not as long as forty
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: nine years and they have been there and won it.
• 59:03
  Speaker 1: But it I mean, you think about that ninety three
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: were you alive?
• 59:08
  Speaker 4: No, no, no, I was four years from being alive.
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: I mean that's that's three decades ago. Yes, So it's
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: you know, they're kind of thirsty four as much as
• 59:16
  Speaker 1: we are, not as much as we are, but they're still.
• 59:19
  Speaker 1: Here's the thing, they have a portion of their fan
• 59:23
  Speaker 1: base that's every bit as as thirsty for this. Yes,
• 59:26
  Speaker 1: as a portion of our fan base because there's a
• 59:28
  Speaker 1: portion of our fan base it's only suffered for thirty
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: thirty years or less, not forty nine like me and
• 59:33
  Speaker 1: Softy others, So it is a little bit different. But
• 59:36
  Speaker 1: I think the atmosphere will be great tonight. For no
• 59:38
  Speaker 1: other reason, the Marina fans are insane. I heard Carl
• 59:41
  Speaker 1: Ravitch talking on the ESPN broadcast. On the ESPN radio
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: broadcast of today, Carl Rabbitch is just effusive in his
• 59:48
  Speaker 1: praise for what this place is like and how loud
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: it is, and said it's allowed as stadium in baseball
• 59:52
  Speaker 1: right now, which is pretty cool. So take pride in that,
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: Marina fans. All right, let's get to it. Factor Fiction.
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  Speaker 1: for Softy tomorrow because we have early cracking game, so
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  Speaker 1: I have we have two picks left this week. All right,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going college football, and I'm putting my money more
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  Speaker 1: than my mouth is. You heard Suart Mandel earlier. By
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  Speaker 1: the way, we're playing factor fiction. You text fact if
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  Speaker 1: you agree with the pick. You text fiction if you
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  Speaker 1: just agree with the pick four nine, four to five one.
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  Speaker 1: While I'll tell you in a second money where my
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  Speaker 1: mouth is.
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  Speaker 4: I like to pick? Do you like to pick? I
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  Speaker 4: do I really do?
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  Speaker 1: I am going with Georgia minus seven and a half
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  Speaker 1: over Ole Miss. Georgia minus seven and a half over
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  Speaker 1: Ole Miss?
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  Speaker 4: Why Ian?
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  Speaker 1: Because I think Old Miss isn't very good and I
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  Speaker 1: don't buy the we're looking ahead nonsense. What I saw
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  Speaker 1: last week with Ole Miss? I heard all about the
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  Speaker 1: big bad sec. This is where the big boys play.
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  Speaker 1: It means a lot more to everybody else. Blah blah blah,
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  Speaker 1: it means more. First of all, stadium wasn't full, which
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  Speaker 1: I thought was interesting, means more. Except for Oxford number two,
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  Speaker 1: Wazoo was not physically outmatched. Overall. They hung with those
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  Speaker 1: guys that now zebi at coals great great, I mean
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  Speaker 1: he's an equal wizer. He played really well. But when
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  Speaker 1: I watched Washington and Washington State play I felt like
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  Speaker 1: our team was over at SKIS. I felt like my
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  Speaker 1: school was physically just kind of at times dominated. Now
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  Speaker 1: it was close for a while till the fourth quarter,
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  Speaker 1: but when Washington wanted to hit the gas pedal, they did,
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  Speaker 1: and I don't think they punted all day. When I
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  Speaker 1: watched Old Miss on Saturday, their quarterback play isn't as
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  Speaker 1: good as Washington's quarterback plan. I'm bringing up Washington. I
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  Speaker 1: know they're not part of my pick, but I just
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  Speaker 1: saw a Washington team that I think is better than
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  Speaker 1: Old Miss. I think Oregon, despite his lost to Indiana's
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  Speaker 1: better than Old Miss. I think Indiana's better than Old Miss.
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  Speaker 1: I think Ole Miss is a paper tiger at number
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  Speaker 1: five in the country. They beat Georgia last year, but
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  Speaker 1: this year it's in Athens. It's not in Oxford. And
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  Speaker 1: Kirby Smartin ain't losing the lane kiff in two years
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  Speaker 1: in a row. No, it didn't happen. Now, I know
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  Speaker 1: this spreads a little bit bigger than I like seven
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  Speaker 1: and a half would have loved six and a half
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  Speaker 1: would have loved that, and it was earlier that's gone up.
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  Speaker 1: But I'll take it all day and every day. Man
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  Speaker 1: I'm taking it all day and every day. Georgia minus
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  Speaker 1: seven and a half over Ole Miss, paper time, overrated,
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  Speaker 1: not as good as not as good as their ranking,
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  Speaker 1: just not. They don't even know who their quarterback is
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  Speaker 1: Trinidad Shambliss. Come on, man, that guy can't throw a
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  Speaker 1: deep ball to save his life. Got to help an arm.
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  Speaker 1: Just not accurate. He's like the high school kid that
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  Speaker 1: could just check it fifty five yards in the air,
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  Speaker 1: but nothing was accurate. Sometimes a guy might run into
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  Speaker 1: under it, sometimes they won't. Yeah, I'm all over Georgia. Georgia. Also,
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  Speaker 1: now this is an interesting one. George's got more pressure
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  Speaker 1: on this in this game than they do, ye because
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  Speaker 1: George has already got a conference loss last I checked. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: there are things called standings that kind of matter, and
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  Speaker 1: even if you're the SEC, you don't want to pick
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  Speaker 1: up that second conference loss if you're Georgia.
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  Speaker 4: That's why I almost like this pick more. Yeah, they
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  Speaker 4: kind of need it more.
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  Speaker 1: They do need it more. Ole Miss is three and
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  Speaker 1: oz one conference. George is three and one. Ole Miss
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  Speaker 1: undefeated at six in all on the season. Wazoo very
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  Speaker 1: easily could have beat them. I don't know. About our
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  Speaker 1: play calling at the end, I'm running old voar, he's
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  Speaker 1: up the middle when you just need to get down
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  Speaker 1: field forty yards and get a field goal attempt. I
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  Speaker 1: didn't quite understand that. But yeah, man, I their LSU
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  Speaker 1: win was impressive of twenty four to nineteen. Outside of that,
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  Speaker 1: they ain't beat nobody, including US. Georgia wins and they
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  Speaker 1: win going away.
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  Speaker 10: I like it.
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  Speaker 1: They win going away.
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  Speaker 4: I like this pick.
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  Speaker 1: Plus, I just don't like Lane Kiffin. I'll be honest
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  Speaker 1: with you. Part of me is part of it's that
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  Speaker 1: it's another heart one ian. Yeah, but I watched the
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  Speaker 1: team play. Yeah, I watched that thing start to finish,
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  Speaker 1: and I'll just go through Ohio State. From what I've
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  Speaker 1: seen this year. Hell, I'm not so sure Maryland wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: give them a hell of a game too. They should
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  Speaker 1: have beat Washington and they've kind of lost that one.
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  Speaker 1: At the end, Marcus in two US six says, darn it.
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  Speaker 9: I agree, but already answered because I thought I'd missed
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  Speaker 9: the pick, like just automatically sending it in.
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  Speaker 4: That means they're I'm doing fiction without even hearing you're
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  Speaker 4: picking in.
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  Speaker 1: Well, they might be looking at standings and frankly, frankly,
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  Speaker 1: I can't blame him for that. You're trying to win
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  Speaker 1: a thousand dollars week we prize ten thousand dollars Grand
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  Speaker 1: prize Factor fiction text fact. If you agree Georgia at
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  Speaker 1: home minus seven and a half over ole miss fact.
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  Speaker 1: If you disagree fiction four nine four to five one,
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  Speaker 1: it's a big number. I get it. Come on, Bulldogs,
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  Speaker 1: Come on, bulldogs, Come on, Kirby. I'm done with that
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  Speaker 1: commercial bye. I know that's the reason I shouldn't have
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  Speaker 1: picked them. Oh, Georgia, get some new commercials. All right,
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  Speaker 1: that's our pick for Factor fiction four nine four or
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  Speaker 1: sports are regional. Is that we've always said.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I think what far Han said earlier is
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  Speaker 1: he thinks maybe a fifty to fifty split in Blue
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  Speaker 1: Jay fans and NBC. So yeah, I think he's probably right.
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  Speaker 1: What do you got You said you liked one or two?
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  Speaker 9: For T five, Oh Miss clearly overlooked wase going to
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  Speaker 9: that Georgia game camp bet on prisoner at the moment,
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  Speaker 9: oh Miss covers and beats Georgia.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, the overlooking part lasts for a quarter or two halftime.
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  Speaker 1: You came out were no better, and Lane lit into him.
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  Speaker 1: By all accounts, Yeah, here's a thing. I'm I'm just
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  Speaker 1: gonna I'm gonna go through again what I saw again
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  Speaker 1: with my own eyes, and I'm I use Washington as
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  Speaker 1: a comparison. I think Washington is woefully underrated. I think
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  Speaker 1: Washington's quarterback is far superior. I think Washington's running back
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  Speaker 1: is a little bit better. They're running back to stud Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: The receivers, it ain't close. Stribblings. Their best receiver former
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  Speaker 1: Wazoo guy. He's okay, He ain't Denzel Boston, Nope, okay.
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  Speaker 1: And Washington's the freshman kid. The receiver for Washington. The
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  Speaker 1: freshman is a beast. Offensive line for Washington's better than
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  Speaker 1: Old Misses. I'm just using NASA conperison, and I think
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  Speaker 1: defense is probably comparable. So I'm telling you, if you're
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  Speaker 1: telling if I'm when I'm telling, use this. I don't
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  Speaker 1: think Washington. I think Washington is just as good, if
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  Speaker 1: not better than all miss and Washington had their way
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  Speaker 1: with our team. I hate that makes me ill to
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  Speaker 1: say that, but it happened. Yeah, I saw it my
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  Speaker 1: own eyes, both away from home. So since there's no
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  Speaker 1: home road or anything like that, I just I think
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  Speaker 1: that you can just I'm gonna tell you, I think
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  Speaker 1: Kirby's gonna lay it. And they lost last year. You
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  Speaker 1: think Kirby hadn't forgot has forgot about that. I think
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  Speaker 1: he's a little sick about hearing about Old miss down Athens. Now,
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot of people to think that Georgia is
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  Speaker 1: what it used to be. I would agree, because of
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  Speaker 1: Anil there's a little more parody than there used to
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  Speaker 1: be in college football, right, Okay? And I don't think
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  Speaker 1: or I don't think Georgia upgraded at quarterback. But what
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  Speaker 1: George is gonna smack them?
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  Speaker 5: All?
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  Speaker 8: Right?
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  Speaker 1: What else?
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  Speaker 4: Get three to six?
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  Speaker 6: Oh?
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  Speaker 9: I just bought two nine hundred dollars tickets yesterday to
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  Speaker 9: see Game four. This is historic and I've been waiting
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  Speaker 9: on this since the fifth grade. Let's ef fing go.
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  Speaker 9: Thanks for the pep talk yesterday. Softy, don't go. Don't
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  Speaker 9: not go for money or anything else. Find a way
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  Speaker 9: to go, or you'll regret it for your life. If
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 9: you love the Mariners like me, show the f up
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  Speaker 9: today and tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, I mean it's easier said than done, right, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I'm as I'll throw it back at you. You have
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  Speaker 1: a child on the way I do. Could you go
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  Speaker 1: spend nine hundred dollars in tickets?
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  Speaker 9: Probably not, But I'm also lucky enough to you're going
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 9: work your work in the situation that I'm in.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: You know, what's an interesting debate or what not?
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  Speaker 7: Debate?
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 1: An interesting question. I'm never going to tell me a
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  Speaker 1: how to spend their money now, And I always think like,
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 1: it's like, what's your drop dead number? Right, yeah, I
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 1: put your cut off. And I think for a lot
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 1: of us in our business, we just we're kind of spoiled.
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  Speaker 1: We get paid for granted. Yeah, yeah, So you don't
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  Speaker 1: really pay for tickets all that often.
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  Speaker 7: I don't know what.
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 1: I don't know what mys something like this.
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  Speaker 9: As big of a Mariner fan as I am, i'd
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  Speaker 9: drop five hundred on take I would two o six.
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 9: I'm a bartender, and I picked up four after hour
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  Speaker 9: shifts so I could pay for a single ticket to
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  Speaker 9: go to the game tomorrow. Regard wardless of the outcome,
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  Speaker 9: It'll be worth every penny.
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  Speaker 1: I'll say this. One of the things that I just
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 1: always truly hated about, well the si zillion things. This
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 1: is too long politicians in our city, in our area,
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 1: is when people would just say, oh, you know, there's
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 1: no economic impact and blah blah blah and all this.
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 1: So if you're a bartender or you're a server at
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 1: any of the establishments down in Soto right now, you're
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 1: loving it. This is the greatest thing ever man, I
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 1: mean it is just I mean, we've had these bonus
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 1: baseball games and it's not a bonus baseball game where
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 1: there's fifteen thousand people. Yeah, and even last even the
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 1: last few nights, I mean, there's been a number of
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 1: bars in Seattle having viewing parties. People are making money.
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 1: It's good for the economy, it's good for the soul,
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 1: it's good for everything.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and it's keep it going. And you mentioned this.
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  Speaker 4: I don't remember when it was.
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  Speaker 9: It might have been earlier this week, but having downtown
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 9: be as active as it was during the Low's last
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 9: couple games of the Alds, you know, it's not perfect,
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 9: but it kind of is like, Okay, this.
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 1: Is like when I walked out, when I walked out
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  Speaker 1: of game two of the Alcs it Alds Alds, it
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  Speaker 1: felt like it felt good. I felt like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I felt good about being downtown walking around. It just
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  Speaker 1: felt good. And we haven't said that about our city
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  Speaker 1: in a long time. So it was good. Yeah, we'll
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  Speaker 1: get him tonight, clincher. It will be tomorrow, mark my word.
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 1: Clinch clinching game will be too morol. I think they
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 1: get it done tonight. Huh, who's pitching George Kirby. What's
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 1: his record so far in the postseason? It's technically zero
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 1: and zero. What's his what are his numbers?
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  Speaker 4: Very good?
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  Speaker 1: Like crazy elite?
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  Speaker 6: Yes?
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  Speaker 1: Right, Yes? Do I think that they're going to have
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 1: a chance to clinch tomorrow? Yes, I know they're going
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 1: to have a chance to clinch tomorrow. Come on, boy,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think I know that's a fact. Four nine,
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  Speaker 1: four or five one mirrors win fact four nine, four
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  Speaker 1: or five one. Softy has Rick Riz, God, he's coming up.
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 1: That'snna be great coming up next year. For the mild
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 1: mannered and marginally objectionable Inverness, this is Paddled Day saying
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  Speaker 1: so long everyone,