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Chuck & Buck 3-17 Hour 3: How close are we? Everett Fitzhugh and a peek at the brackets. · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: And then that was great experience for me. And that
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  Speaker 1: was the first time that I've ever seen them, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, what is the big deal? And then all
• 0:07
  Speaker 1: of a sudden they started playing and I'm like, this
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  Speaker 1: is melting my face. This is unbelievable. If you've never
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  Speaker 1: heard them, they are incredible. I mean it's just like
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  Speaker 1: it's Irish music, but at one thousand miles per hour
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  Speaker 1: and believe it or not. And I didn't think I
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  Speaker 1: would ever say this about the band. You know what
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  Speaker 1: the key to it all is what the woman playing
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  Speaker 1: the tin whistle?
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  Speaker 2: Oh?
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  Speaker 3: Oh?
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  Speaker 2: All interesting?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, isn't that interesting? You know you got these, you know,
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  Speaker 1: expert musicians and this great lead vocalist, but it's that
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  Speaker 1: woman playing the tin whistle like takes it over.
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  Speaker 4: The time I watched Dropkick Murphy down in uh somewhere
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  Speaker 4: in Soda, I don't remember, right down south of the
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  Speaker 4: stadiums there, and that was similar. My face was melting,
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  Speaker 4: it was. And then there was a mosh pit that
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  Speaker 4: I was right on the edge of.
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  Speaker 1: Oh.
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  Speaker 4: And there was a couple of times that guys with
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  Speaker 4: mouthpieces that that I was a good it was a
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  Speaker 4: good idea to come in my direction. It was not
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  Speaker 4: a good idea because I and it took away from
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  Speaker 4: my experience, my enjoyment of the thing, right, all of
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  Speaker 4: a sudden, I have to watch out for people just
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  Speaker 4: ramming into me. But it only happened twice and then
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  Speaker 4: and then I got to go back to enjoying the show.
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  Speaker 1: Oh okay.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I've often wondered, like, what are you getting out of
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  Speaker 1: just doing this washing? Yeah, and into each other. You
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  Speaker 1: brought a mouthguard? Yeahyway? Is that so you you're prepared
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  Speaker 1: for a concussion? Yeah, exactly, You've gone to the concert.
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  Speaker 2: That's dumb.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I'm gonna go to the concert and they're
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  Speaker 1: gonna throw in a concussion for free?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I can't wait. Yeah, yeah, I'm not. I don't.
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  Speaker 4: I've done it before. I've jumped in on him once
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  Speaker 4: or twice, and I'm like, why am I?
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  Speaker 1: What is this? This is dumb? Yeah, this is really
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  Speaker 1: not enjoyable. Well, you're probably at less risk of getting hurt.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, but I'm also have a lot of guys that
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  Speaker 4: are looking at me like, oh, I'm gonna run into
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  Speaker 4: that guy. And if you're in it, then and you
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  Speaker 4: you're do you asked for it right if you're in it.
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  Speaker 4: That's where I didn't like being on the edge of
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  Speaker 4: it and people still thinking, oh, I'm going to make.
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  Speaker 1: Him in it. No I'm not. I'm standing still on
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  Speaker 1: the I'm not in it. I'm not in it.
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  Speaker 2: Don't come over here on the edge.
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  Speaker 3: Not it.
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  Speaker 4: Forearm shivers will be coming your way, playing fair here.
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  Speaker 1: Well, happy Saint Patty's Day. If it caught you off
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  Speaker 1: guard and you're looking down, oh I didn't wear green.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think that we really have a stiff penalty
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  Speaker 1: for that in America these days. But nonetheless, uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: an opportunity for you to celebrate the oytishuh in a
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  Speaker 1: very responsible way. Yeah. Go to Tulala Brazor Casino, great place. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: go do it there. I bet you beer. I would
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  Speaker 1: imagine the occasion. They will mix you up green beer,
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  Speaker 1: and I would imagine they could even They've even got
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  Speaker 1: like a corn even cabbage special going on. Oh I
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  Speaker 1: guarantee it. Yeah, they got it all. They also are
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  Speaker 1: going to host Bucky and I this Thursday. We're going
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  Speaker 1: to have a little watch party with the NCAA tournament.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna be at the Talalap Resort Casino, DraftKings Sports Book.
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  Speaker 1: Our show gets over at nine that day, but gives
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  Speaker 1: us plenty of time to get there by eleven, so
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  Speaker 1: we're just gonna pick a two hour window. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: may stay for longer, may stay for the whole shooting Combane.
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  Speaker 1: I have no idea, but eleven to one is when
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  Speaker 1: we're going to be out there, and we are gonna
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  Speaker 1: have some prizes to give away, So we invite you
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  Speaker 1: to come out to the DraftKings Sports Book hang out
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  Speaker 1: with us for a little bit. We'll have a little
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  Speaker 1: bit of a bracket challenge, but it's only going to
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  Speaker 1: be the games that are played that Thursday. You'll go
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  Speaker 1: head to head against Bucky and I and all you
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  Speaker 1: gotta do is beat one of us in order to
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  Speaker 1: win a fabulous prize, which we will let you know
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  Speaker 1: about coming up here in the next couple of days.
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  Speaker 1: But yes, Talalap Resort Casino, DraftKings Sports Book to watch them.
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  Speaker 1: NCAA a tournament action this Thursday from eleven to one.
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  Speaker 1: If you're interested. If you're interested, I might still be
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  Speaker 1: drinking green beer Thursday.
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  Speaker 2: Be interested.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a Pattie's Week, not Patty's Yeah, I like
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  Speaker 4: the idea.
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  Speaker 1: I haven't haven't. I haven't.
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  Speaker 4: I haven't really partaken in Saint Patti's Day for a minute,
• 4:11
  Speaker 4: like really gotten into it. So I might have to
• 4:13
  Speaker 4: make up for lost time at the toy it does.
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  Speaker 1: It is a fun. It is fun when you do
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  Speaker 1: it the right way. And I'm not talking about holding
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  Speaker 1: somebody's hair in the bathroom. I'm talking the right way.
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  Speaker 1: Hold my beer.
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  Speaker 4: If I get too many green or my beard, I
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  Speaker 4: get too many green beers, I don't think so.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think I will are not as close as
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  Speaker 2: I thought you.
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  Speaker 1: We're not there. We're not there. No, I don't think
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna let you puke on me. Oh you know,
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to puke on you. That's you can
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  Speaker 1: you can hold it. If you hold me by the beard,
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  Speaker 1: you can kind of direct where it goes.
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  Speaker 2: It's like a fire hydrant.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah no, it doesn't sound enjoyable, okay, or or a
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  Speaker 1: true test of friend A listener that will help you
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  Speaker 1: want to.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: In the meantime, we've got a big story. Maybe you're
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  Speaker 1: wearing your Sonics green here today. Since it's Saint Patrick's Day.
• 5:02
  Speaker 1: We've got every reason in the world to do it.
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  Speaker 1: It seems some positive momentum toward NBA expansion. Next week
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  Speaker 1: on this day next week, we will have a vote
• 5:14
  Speaker 1: board of governors, or at least they will convene. They
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  Speaker 1: might not vote until next Wednesday, but it looks like
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  Speaker 1: the most positive momentum we've had in years, maybe a
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  Speaker 1: decade or more, for getting basketball back here in Seattle
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  Speaker 1: where it belongs. And look, I mean for a long time.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, there's been this argument or is this a
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  Speaker 1: football city? Is it a baseball city? Is it a
• 5:35
  Speaker 1: summer city? Is all that? I mean, what I've grasped
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  Speaker 1: from most people is that this is a basketball town.
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  Speaker 1: And even though you know, the Huskies haven't been great
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  Speaker 1: since I've been here, They've had a couple of good
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  Speaker 1: teams since I moved here a little over a decade ago,
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  Speaker 1: but without the NBA, I mean, and for that to
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  Speaker 1: still be a prevailing thread that people still believe this
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  Speaker 1: is a basketball town and if we get the team
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  Speaker 1: back will show you. I haven't got to experience that,
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  Speaker 1: but for some reason, I believe it. I believe that
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  Speaker 1: it is. I believe that the high school basketball talent
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  Speaker 1: here in town, and the fact that people still buy
• 6:18
  Speaker 1: Sonics merch on the reg I mean nobody. There are
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  Speaker 1: people that there are people that walk around with bright
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  Speaker 1: green Sonic sweatshirts and jackets for goodness sake. I mean, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: there are a few faded debt of shrimp jerseys from
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  Speaker 1: twenty years ago that somebody still might wear to mow
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  Speaker 1: the lawn. But I mean still fresh merch. I mean
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  Speaker 1: still dominated the thoughts of some people out there about
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  Speaker 1: getting the Sonics back, and it's got to happen in
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  Speaker 1: my time. Hell, one of the first things I did
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  Speaker 1: when I moved here was go to go to a
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  Speaker 1: not a watch party, but a rally, a Sonics rally
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  Speaker 1: ten eleven years ago. Saw Puck cry, you know, over
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  Speaker 1: the idea that are we that close? So are we
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  Speaker 1: going to get there? I mean, I mean that's the
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  Speaker 1: that's the driving force behind all of this is just
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  Speaker 1: this city's love for basketball. So I realized that there
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  Speaker 1: are a lot of people they don't even want it back.
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  Speaker 1: They're hurt so badly and maybe they didn't really love basketball,
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  Speaker 1: or maybe they did and it just tore their heart
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  Speaker 1: out and they don't want to give the NBA another chance.
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  Speaker 1: I get it, But there are a lot of people
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  Speaker 1: that cannot wait, that had been waiting twenty years, that
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  Speaker 1: were so crestfallen when the team left here that they've
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  Speaker 1: been counting the seconds to get a franchise back. So
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  Speaker 1: I think yesterday was a great day. I think that's
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  Speaker 1: great news, that's great information together. I think it's all
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  Speaker 1: systems go toward finally getting this team back. And yeah,
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  Speaker 1: there are a few more steps to take, a few
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  Speaker 1: more hurdles to clear, But for all of those that
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  Speaker 1: couldn't wait for the Sonics to get back, I think
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  Speaker 1: yesterday was your best day in over a day.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, And I understand the you know, the hesitation about
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  Speaker 4: getting your hopes up. You know, Ashes is a great
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  Speaker 4: voice for those fans out there that are not wanting
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  Speaker 4: to because they've felt like we've gotten close and it's
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  Speaker 4: you know, gotten your heart kind of stomped on again.
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  Speaker 4: And so I mean I understand it. But it does
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  Speaker 4: feel to me like this is positive momentum in the
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  Speaker 4: right direction, right, I mean, it would be. It wasn't
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  Speaker 4: that long ago that we were we were hearing that
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  Speaker 4: may hey, were's so many news coming, there's any news coming?
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  Speaker 4: And then what was the news that they were gonna
• 8:30
  Speaker 4: give us any news, right, I mean, it was just
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  Speaker 4: a month or so ago that it was. We were
• 8:34
  Speaker 4: expecting them so over to say something and he just said,
• 8:36
  Speaker 4: we're tabling that for now. We're so at least it's
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  Speaker 4: not tabled, right. I mean to me, I would rather
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  Speaker 4: have the answer yes or no instead of this, well
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  Speaker 4: maybe may maybe we're gonna yeah, we'd like to, but
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  Speaker 4: we'll let you know later. Like at least now we
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  Speaker 4: had we know in a week from now, we're going
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  Speaker 4: to find out something, right, if they're taking one drastic
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  Speaker 4: step towards at least entertaining offers, find out if there's
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  Speaker 4: some bidders out there that want to pay enough money
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  Speaker 4: for these owners to say, yep, here's your team back.
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  Speaker 4: So to me, it feels closer than ever, even though,
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  Speaker 4: and I can understand those that are going to be
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  Speaker 4: a little bit hesitant towards letting themselves go there, and
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  Speaker 4: there's some people just flat out are not going to
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  Speaker 4: I'll say this though, when it comes to the you know,
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  Speaker 4: baseball city or football city or basketball city, I mean,
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  Speaker 4: there is a generation. You know my buddy Ken, you
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  Speaker 4: know Ken, I mean he like skipped school to go
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  Speaker 4: to that seventy nine parade, right, and then there was
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  Speaker 4: you raise your kids with the Sonics and then all
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  Speaker 4: of a sudden, you, all of a sudden when you're
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  Speaker 4: you know, his kids were just little, you don't have
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  Speaker 4: that opportunitymore. It's like a that was something part of
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  Speaker 4: my childhood and then I didn't get to give that
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  Speaker 4: to the next Well, it missed an entire generation, but
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  Speaker 4: there still is those kids of a father like Ken
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  Speaker 4: that they understand it from their dad's perspective. And at
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  Speaker 4: least if you can get it back while he still
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  Speaker 4: has a chance to be come to be a fan,
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  Speaker 4: then he can continue passing on to where it's like
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  Speaker 4: there's a lapse in there to some degree of children
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  Speaker 4: that got to be got to go to Sonics games
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  Speaker 4: and got to be Sonics fans. But I don't think
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  Speaker 4: you're gonna be able to I think you're gonna be
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  Speaker 4: able to regain that or recapture that to some degree.
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  Speaker 4: And I do think that this city, I mean this
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  Speaker 4: city turns on for its team's period. I mean during
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  Speaker 4: the baseball season. We saw it last year, during the
• 10:21
  Speaker 4: football season, we see it. It's not going to be
• 10:23
  Speaker 4: any different it's the same people essentially that are going
• 10:26
  Speaker 4: to be coming out in droves to welcome back the
• 10:28
  Speaker 4: Sonics and then cheer them on as they become more
• 10:31
  Speaker 4: relevant after the expansion years. And so to me, it's
• 10:34
  Speaker 4: I think there's room for all of it in Seattle.
• 10:37
  Speaker 4: And I think that's part of the reason they'd be
• 10:39
  Speaker 4: so pissed off twenty years ago or eighteen years ago,
• 10:41
  Speaker 4: is because it's like, this city can handle having an
• 10:44
  Speaker 4: NBA franchise along with the baseball team and the basketball
• 10:47
  Speaker 4: team or in the football team. So hopefully we're getting
• 10:50
  Speaker 4: closer than well, I just do feel like we're closer
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  Speaker 4: than we have been in a long time.
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  Speaker 5: Well, and I think that, Yeah, people were mad eighteen
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  Speaker 5: years ago because we were told, oh, no, you're gonna
• 10:58
  Speaker 5: we're gonna sell the team, but this guy's going to
• 11:00
  Speaker 5: keep it here. And then it was oh, but you
• 11:02
  Speaker 5: have to help us build a five hundred million dollar
• 11:04
  Speaker 5: arena in renting, and I mean everything they wanted us
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  Speaker 5: to do in order to be able to quote unquote
• 11:09
  Speaker 5: keep our team, which they were never going to really
• 11:10
  Speaker 5: allow us to do, felt impossible.
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  Speaker 2: And yet people were still out there fighting.
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  Speaker 5: I mean that rally you're talking about with Pucket, like
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  Speaker 5: I was dressed up in a fake Sasquatch costume. I
• 11:21
  Speaker 5: mean at rallies and with this station, and I mean,
• 11:24
  Speaker 5: we gave every game I wish I could have. I
• 11:27
  Speaker 5: mean we were we gave everything, with the rallies at
• 11:29
  Speaker 5: City Hall and rallies down in Pioneer Square and all
• 11:32
  Speaker 5: sorts of things. You know, I was at the final
• 11:34
  Speaker 5: Sonics game, standing there watching crying as the entire arena
• 11:38
  Speaker 5: is just chanting save our Sonics, and knowing that there
• 11:41
  Speaker 5: was literally nothing we could do because us being fans
• 11:44
  Speaker 5: of the Sonics was not enough. And so that's where
• 11:47
  Speaker 5: I think it just it's like, I don't blame anybody
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  Speaker 5: who doesn't want the NBA back. I do think eventually
• 11:53
  Speaker 5: they will soften and they'll support their team again, because
• 11:57
  Speaker 5: there's a reason they are so angry. It's because they
• 12:00
  Speaker 5: love the Sonics so much. And so I think you're
• 12:04
  Speaker 5: going to have those heated, heavy emotions and eventually you're
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  Speaker 5: going to realize, Okay, I do love this team. I'm
• 12:09
  Speaker 5: so glad they're back, but I you know, it's going
• 12:11
  Speaker 5: to take you longer, and that's totally understandable. And then
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  Speaker 5: there's also yeah, people like me who are I want
• 12:17
  Speaker 5: them back. I want them back like more than anything. Okay,
• 12:20
  Speaker 5: not more than anything, but I want them back. But
• 12:24
  Speaker 5: until it is stamped and they say, Okay, here's your team.
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  Speaker 2: They're coming back. It's starting this day.
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  Speaker 5: Let's go then, and then I'll be excited because again
• 12:35
  Speaker 5: we have been very close before and led to believe
• 12:39
  Speaker 5: that we were getting a team and then had it rejected.
• 12:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I'm telling you though, there are signs everywhere that
• 12:45
  Speaker 1: it's real this time. I mean even now on the
• 12:48
  Speaker 1: television and I didn't turn this on, there was a
• 12:51
  Speaker 1: game called Omegaball on. Okay, I've never even heard of
• 12:54
  Speaker 1: a mega ball, but the field is entirely green with
• 12:58
  Speaker 1: a yellow center and this sponsor is Sonic. Yeah, so
• 13:03
  Speaker 1: I mean there are signs everywhere.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, there you go.
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  Speaker 1: It's happening, and I think it's happening. I think it's
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  Speaker 1: happening regardless of what the vote is next Tuesday. Number one,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think they're having that vote next Tuesday. I
• 13:14
  Speaker 1: don't think that comes out of left field unless Adam Silver,
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  Speaker 1: who the last time that he addressed this take it back,
• 13:21
  Speaker 1: not the last time he addressed it because the stuff
• 13:23
  Speaker 1: at the All Star break was garbage. But the off
• 13:27
  Speaker 1: season when he said, we got to come to a
• 13:29
  Speaker 1: decision on this, and I can't keep stringing along these cities.
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  Speaker 1: So the fact that number one he's saying because that
• 13:35
  Speaker 1: usually there is a process where you don't have just
• 13:39
  Speaker 1: a bidding war with owners within the city. You have
• 13:43
  Speaker 1: a bidding war with the cities to get the two
• 13:45
  Speaker 1: franchises you're going with or the one franchise that you're
• 13:48
  Speaker 1: going with. He's saying, we're past that part. We never
• 13:51
  Speaker 1: even really had that part, but we're skipping. We're jumping
• 13:57
  Speaker 1: over it. It's Seattle or Vegas. That's what we're voting
• 13:59
  Speaker 1: on next Tuesday. And then on top of that, even
• 14:05
  Speaker 1: if it doesn't go through, which I think it will,
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  Speaker 1: I think that's the only reason that he's hastening this.
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  Speaker 1: That he makes this announcement and then seven days later
• 14:14
  Speaker 1: they're convening and eight days later they're going to vote
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  Speaker 1: on this. So I think he knows he has the
• 14:20
  Speaker 1: votes to get this done and to get it passed through.
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  Speaker 1: Even if he doesn't, I think it's a good day
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  Speaker 1: because if he doesn't get the votes, then to me.
• 14:32
  Speaker 1: That says, all right, we're not expanding. We're not going
• 14:36
  Speaker 1: to expand we're going to stay at thirty teams. Now,
• 14:39
  Speaker 1: this isn't the avenue we want it to go down.
• 14:42
  Speaker 1: But I think if you find that information out Adam
• 14:46
  Speaker 1: silver Is, then like, all right, owners don't want to expand,
• 14:49
  Speaker 1: so now we relocate. I think they're trying to get
• 14:53
  Speaker 1: Memphis Grizzlies out of Memphis, and I think they're trying
• 14:56
  Speaker 1: to get the Blazers out of Portland.
• 14:58
  Speaker 5: The only thing with that, though, is they just approved
• 14:59
  Speaker 5: it new arena plans in Portland too.
• 15:03
  Speaker 2: So no, I mean not, although I will see.
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  Speaker 1: Your words, does that mean it's done deal?
• 15:09
  Speaker 2: No, it doesn't.
• 15:10
  Speaker 5: No, I'm not saying, and I was gonna say, although
• 15:11
  Speaker 5: we've been in that situation too.
• 15:13
  Speaker 2: But Portland is fighting hard to keep their team as well.
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  Speaker 1: All right, but they're two teams. Yeah, all right, that
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: that they're thinking about. Really, I know they're fighting hard.
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: They might not have a choice, so I think this
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: is one way or the other. All right, we would
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: like to expand. If the owners are bullish about not expanding,
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: then we we need to at least know that and
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: then move on to Plan B, because I do believe
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: there's going to be a franchise, if not to relocated
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: in the NBA one way or the other. But I
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: do believe that they want to expand the product right now.
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: And I think that the global popularity of basketball, not
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: the NBA, but of basketball giving them the opportunity to
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: feed an expanded league with enough talent. The requisite talent
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: is there and now's the time to do it. So
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: I think that's the plan. And even if it's not
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: the plan, even if it gets voted down, then Adam
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: Silver knows now I can go to Plan B. But
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: I think Plan A is try to keep Memphis, try
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: to keep Portland, and let's expand by two teams, and
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: let's get a basketball team to Vegas, and let's get
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: a basketball team back to Seattle. And I think one
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: way or the other, we're going to end up with
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: a basketball team. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, you know, I don't know what Vegas's situation
• 16:25
  Speaker 4: is with what infrastructure they have, but we've just seen
• 16:28
  Speaker 4: it the last five ten years or whatever.
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: I mean, they're wanting. They're getting everything right.
• 16:32
  Speaker 4: Baseball teams on the way, football team donkey, right, I mean, well, I.
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: Mean it's so many, so quick.
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so I don't think they can support they don't
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: even support the Raiders. Well, the Raiders are supported by
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: people from California.
• 16:43
  Speaker 4: Yeah, well they're supported from the opposing fans too, because
• 16:46
  Speaker 4: it's so easy to go there and it's a destination
• 16:49
  Speaker 4: where you can just go watch your team play against
• 16:51
  Speaker 4: the Raiders. And yet to me it feels like, I mean,
• 16:56
  Speaker 4: all of these sports organizations and these leagues, they're all
• 17:00
  Speaker 4: wanting to expand, right, I mean, we were talking about
• 17:02
  Speaker 4: how what they're doing overseas, and they're all wanting to expand.
• 17:05
  Speaker 4: It's just a matter of if the numbers make sense,
• 17:09
  Speaker 4: If all of a sudden you can get these billionaires
• 17:11
  Speaker 4: on the same page of thirty, two teams is going
• 17:14
  Speaker 4: to be better than thirty, or at least the money
• 17:17
  Speaker 4: that comes along with two extra teams is going to
• 17:19
  Speaker 4: be better. I think that there's a lot to that,
• 17:22
  Speaker 4: and I think Seattle, obviously Seattle in Vegas right now,
• 17:25
  Speaker 4: the fact that it's not this it's no longer we're
• 17:28
  Speaker 4: wanting to expand, and here's all the cities that we're
• 17:30
  Speaker 4: interested in. It's just now narrowed down to these two.
• 17:34
  Speaker 4: And I do think that there's a part of it
• 17:36
  Speaker 4: where Silver wants to make this happen, and so it's
• 17:40
  Speaker 4: just a matter of the formality of going through the
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: whole thing. Now it has to make sense, and it
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: has to make dollars and all of that stuff. And
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: so until it's signed and dotted, I'm not going to
• 17:49
  Speaker 4: go out and you know, run and jump in the
• 17:51
  Speaker 4: streets by any stretch of the imagination.
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: But I do feel like we're closer than we have been.
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: We gotta get it going because I can't wait to
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: start tanking.
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: It'll be fun.
• 18:00
  Speaker 5: No ill if we're gonna have the kind of team
• 18:03
  Speaker 5: that Mike Worganhof said, we don't really need to take
• 18:05
  Speaker 5: it as this happened.
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: By the way, a quick little breaking story before we
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: go to break Bucky. You might want to be paying
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: attention to this. The Denver Broncos have traded for Jalen Waddle.
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: Oh about that. I thought it was gonna be a
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: j Brown. The Broncos have traded for Jalen Waddle from
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins, and so the Dolphins continue to purge
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: their roster in a rebuild effort. Meanwhile, the Denver Broncos
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: they are they're loading up for a better, more complete
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: roster for a Super Bowl run. So interesting, interesting move.
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: I did not see the compensation. I don't think it's
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: out yet. Coming up next effort fits you. Joints the
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• 18:53
  Speaker 1: on the trade Broncos and Dolphins. They were available for
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: some reason, they were not front and center, but Jayalen
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: Wall heading to the Denver Broncos along with a fourth
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: round draft pick in exchange for the Broncos first round
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: selection this year thirtieth overall plus a third rounder and
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: a fourth rounder in this year's draft. So Sean Payton
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: hunting a little bit on this year's talent pool in
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: the NFL draft to land a speed demon like Jayalen
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: Waddle to their offense. Fascinating trade. But right now it's
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: time to turn our attention to the Seattle Kraken who
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: lo and Beholder playing excellent hockey again out of nowhere.
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: Everett fits you now joins us the voice of your
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: Seattle crack in as he does every Tuesday at this time.
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: How are you, sir?
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: It's like a roller coaster Disney. You know we're going
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: up and then we went down for a little bit
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: an hour. We're back up and you're just waiting for
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: the loop to loop and hopefully you're you're on the
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: upswing when you go into the playoffs.
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess that's fun. I mean, nobody wants to
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: just ride a roller coaster. I guess that just stays
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: up the whole time.
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: I don't know, nobody wants to be ten points clear
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: of everybody and in a playoff spot like, no one
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: wants that. That's not fun. Okay, this is the best part.
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: We love sports. We're sports fans. It's the the the
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: the the joy of victory and the agony of defeat.
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: We like to live on the razor's edge every single
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: day and when we wake up, we don't know and
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: if you need to double our heart medication or just
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: take the regular dose. And I enjoy that part of
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: being a sports fan.
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: Well, if that's what the crack and felt, they have
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: really nailed it this season, because it's just been one
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: of those years. I mean, I mean Bobby McMahon, we
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: kept waiting for him to play. He finally gets activated
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: and now all of a sudden, you dominate two teams
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: in a row with him playing a big part in that.
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: How much of this has to do with the.
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: Newcomer, you know, I think anytime you get a new player,
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: regardless of if he's that top stud or a really
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: good role player or someone in between. And that's not
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: just on Seattle to track, and I think that's any sport, right,
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: anytime you get a new player midway through your season,
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: you're going to get a chultze. And I think that
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: McMahon brings an element that I feel this team was
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: lacking a little bit of. That was speed. I think
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: that's a willingness to consistently shoot the puck. I mean
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: his first two games, he's got eight shots on goal
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: and three goals. He's got a couple of assists, and
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: he's also dished out seven hits, So I me mean,
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: he really has been that full package player. You had
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: to shuffle up the lines a little bit, but it
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: worked because you bump Jared McCann down to the second
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: line with Stevenson and Tolden in and then McCann snaps
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: a ten game goal drout. So I think that he
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: his coming into the lineup was worth the wait. And
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: we're seeing exactly the type of talent that he is
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: with he can bring to the to the to the
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: roster and Wayne Lambert having coached him before, I asked him,
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: I said, what are we going to get out of
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: Bobby mcmah and he said, You're going to get a
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: guy that works hard. He's a very low maintenance player.
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: He doesn't need or want for a lot. He just
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: wants to go out there and play well. And so
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: far these first two games, I mean, he's set in
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: the standard like we're gonna need multi point nights every
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: night from him. Because he had two goals in an
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: assist his first game. He had a goal and an
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: assist uh Sunday against Florida, So he really has stepped
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: in and fit in in his lineup seamlessly. Yeah.
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: Well, I mean that's fine.
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: If he just wants to score a goal or two,
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: I mean multiple points every every single game, that'll that'll work.
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: I guess we'll go ahead and chalk that up as
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: a good move.
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: I mean how much I mean enlighten me as the
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: Novice hockey fan around here. I mean how much can
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: one guy the speed and the you know, I guess,
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: the hits and just everything that we've seen so far
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: in a short, little sample size, But how much can
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: one guy like that change the Liney's on or the rest,
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: you know, the shifting of the line, So just the
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: entire offense.
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: I think because as a couple of factors. Number one,
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: the opposing team has a lot of film on the
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: seatle Crackett. They watched their film, they watched their most
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: recent games. When you add in another player, whether that's
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: Bobby McMahon or anyone else, you don't know how to
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: necessarily game plan for that player in that offense and
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: in that system. So I think there's going to be
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: that's a little bit of catching the opponent by surprise
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: your first couple of games, because you're not sure how
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: he fits in. You know where he fit in with
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: the Toronto Maple Leafs, you knew what he was going
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: to do with that cast of characters. Well now who's
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: on the brand new TV show and you don't know
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: how he's going to fit in with the cast here
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: at Seattle so far pretty well. So the other team
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: might have an issue or might have some trouble fitting
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: finding where he fits in to that game plan. But
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: I also think it's too Like I said before, it's
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: something that we haven't seen that this team hasn't had
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: this year in their lineup. It's a new piece, it's
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: a new wrinkle, and you really do have that first week,
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: that first two week honeymoon period, if you will. Now,
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: the big test is going to be in a couple
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: of weeks when you're down to your final four six games.
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: Is this production going to continue? That's where I think
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: a lot of the questions are going to be answered.
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: You look at a guy like ty Karcha the krack
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: and put on waivers. Well, he's now got seven points
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: in a five game points sore he got in New York.
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: He needed to change the scenery. He's doing really well
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: in that scenario. Bobby McMahon will set out his last
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: two games before the trade deadline in Toronto. He hasn't
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: played before he got here. He hadn't played since before
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: the Olympic break, so I mean he'd been off basically
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: a month before coming here to the crack end, and
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: then he had all of the immigration issues. So he
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: played four games in his last four and a half
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: five weeks before Saturday in Vancouver. So you're wondering, is
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: he gonna be a little bit rusty? Well, clearly he wasn't,
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: and he brings that element that this team hasn't had
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: the speed, the willingness to shoot, the drive to go
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: to the net. And it's not saying that other guys
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: don't do that, but I think Bobby McMahon is a
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: player that understands that has to be his role, very
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: much like Jayden Schwartz. When James Schwartz is effective, he
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: goes to the net, he finds ways to score. He
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: scores pucks off of shin, he scores pucks, you know,
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: tips into flee out of bush, goal off his face
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: last season. I remember that. So those are the type
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: of players that understand their role and they have to
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: play that role, not when they want to play it,
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: they have to play that role every single shift. And
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: he's one of those guys that does that.
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: The voice of your crack and evert fits you our
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: guest every Tuesday at this time. And so it feels
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: like we asked this question a lot about whether or
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: not this is a big game coming up with the
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: lightning tonight. Maybe we overdo it, but man, I'm looking
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: at a six game road trip after tonight's game at
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: Climate Pledge Arena against the lightning. I'm thinking about you
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: getting you know, all your hugs and kisses in with
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: the wife and child here over the course of the
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: next twenty four hours before you won't see him for
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: a while. But winning late in a season with a
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: playoff berth on the line and trying to get it
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: done on the road is not all that easy, Everett.
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: So how important is tonight's game to not go into
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: that road trip on a with a loss. Yeah?
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: The for me, these type of games are are some
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: of your most important games of the season. It's your
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: last home game before a long road trip late in
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: the season. You want to leave a good taste in
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: the mouth of the fan of yourselves knowing that you
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: protected home ice you go on the road. I think
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: there are some pretty manageable games for Seattle on this
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: road trip. Six games on the road, that's twelve points.
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: I mean, I feel like eight points needs to be
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: the minimum. But you know, I do believe that seven,
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: eight to nine points are definitely not out of the
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: realm of possibility for this team. And then they need you.
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: They need it on this road trip. But I think
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: tonight gives you an opportunity to do a couple of things.
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: Number One, you go back against the Colorado Avalanche a
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: few games ago, the top team in the NHL, top
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: team in the Western Conference, and you heard the guys
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: after the game. You know, maybe we respected them a
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: little bit too much. We put a little bit too
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: much respect on their names. We went into that game,
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: we spotted them three goals right off the hop, and
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: we were behind the eight ball before it even began.
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: This Lightning team very very similar. While they're not the
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: juggernaut that Colorado is, they are still a team that
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: has gone to what for the last six Stanley Cup Finals,
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: two three the last six Stanley Cup Finals, They've got
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: two Cups in that time. They've got a core group
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: that's been together for years. They've got one of the
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: best coaches I think of our generation in John Cooper
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: in the NHL. They're a team that has very few weaknesses.
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: So I think you take the lessons that you learned
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: against Colorado and apply them here. I mean, this is
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: a game where you need to get off to a
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: good start. You can't afford to sleep walk into the contest.
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: You have to start on time. So that's going to
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: be a big factor for me. But this game I
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: think is as big as any, even though you know
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: it's out of your division. You want to protect your
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: home eyes and you want to set up, you know,
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: set that expectation that these are the type of teams,
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: your Colorado's, your Tampa's, You're going to have to beat
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: these teams, this caliber of team if you want to
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: have success in the playoffs. So I see this as
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: kind of a mulligan I gain for the Avalanche game,
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: another top team that you have a chance to pick
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: two points up on. They did it against Carolina, being
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: out shot thirty three to fifteen. Last two weeks ago.
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: They out hit the Hurricanes thirty three thirteen. They're going
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: to need to do the exact same thing here tonight's Campa.
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: All right, thirty seconds, we're already over Saint Patty's Day tonight.
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: Do you go with a green pocket scarf? Do you
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: go with the tie or do you just go all
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: green suit tonight?
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: Oh? I'm thinking about just doing the gray suit, black shirt,
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: green tie, green and black tie and some orange orange
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: bow and green socks.
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: Okay, all right, love it, yeah, love it.
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: Accessories will be very safe Patty's Day on the accessories today.
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: Have a great call. We'll talk to you next week.
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: All right, Fellas Ashley, take.
• 29:53
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• 29:55
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  Speaker 1: I mean, if the wind blows just the right way,
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  Speaker 1: to relocate. I don't. I mean just we live on
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: the edge of a knife at all times. I mean,
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: yesterday Alabama lost a player because he got arrested for drugs. Yeah,
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: then stuff like that happens during bracket week.
• 31:41
  Speaker 5: And go ahead and change that pick then, Yeah, and
• 31:44
  Speaker 5: they kicked him off campus while they investigate him.
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: Who knows if he's going to even be playing.
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: I would doubt that he is, and he is a
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: peace I mean, I don't think that it crumbles. I
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: don't think Alabama, with the high scoring offensive team in
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: college basketball, falls apart without Aiden Holloway nine points per game.
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: But you don't have any games to get used to
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: playing without him. Yeah, so your next game you're gonna play,
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: you're gonna be, you know, without one of your contributors.
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: So I don't think they'll have any problem against Hofstra,
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: but they could have a problem against Texas Tech in
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: the next round. It's a pretty good matchup, and even
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: they are adjusting constantly on the fly, they're playing without
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: their best player and have been for the last month.
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: So they might not be the team that they were,
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: but they aren't the team that they were early in
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: the year when people were talking about them having perhaps
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: the national player of the year in a national championship contenduer.
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: So right there, just a little information, it can go
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: a long way, or it can ruin you because you've
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: over evaluated.
• 32:43
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yep, that's what I'll do, almost certainly, because I
• 32:47
  Speaker 4: did just change it in my bracket.
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: And then did you really just change it?
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: No?
• 32:53
  Speaker 4: I thought about it, and then you said, but then again,
• 32:54
  Speaker 4: they could probably get away with it. I mean, I
• 32:56
  Speaker 4: have them beaten Hofstra, Yeah, but I already had them
• 32:59
  Speaker 4: losing to Texas Tech anyways.
• 33:01
  Speaker 5: And I couldn't tell you the name of a coach
• 33:04
  Speaker 5: or a couple players on the team.
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: I'm still filling out a bracket.
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: You're not supposed to do that.
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: I decided to break the rules.
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: Bucky, you get thrown in jail. Yeah, Michigan is the
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: one in the Midwest. I have them cutting down the nets.
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: They are my pick to win the national championship. I
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: don't think they're playing the best right now, but in
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: terms of like that six games survival, you know where
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: you have to, you know, I think they're the least
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: likely to have one of those off days because they're
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: so balanced, they're so complete. They're big, they're long, they're
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: down a player themselves, more of like a backup point
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: guard type, but he's been pretty valuable for them this year.
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: But Michigan, I think is the team to beat in
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: that region. And then if you're looking for the upset,
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: the one that people are talking most about is Santa Clara,
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: the ten seed over Kentucky. A lot of love being
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: given to the wcc A lot of people think St.
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: Mary's is beaten Texas A and M and Santa Clair's
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: beating Kentucky, and so that seems to be the most
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: discussed upset in this region.
• 34:07
  Speaker 4: No, I don't. I didn't pick either of those one.
• 34:10
  Speaker 4: Maybe I should go ahead and switch that I do have.
• 34:13
  Speaker 4: Who is that one?
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: St?
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: St.
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: Louis? That's the that's the guy I was talking about.
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: You got Milk Chamberlain. That's right, Milk Chamberlin.
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 34:21
  Speaker 4: Yeah, although he's gonna get he's gonna get his milk
• 34:25
  Speaker 4: spilt against.
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: Michigan as long as he doesn't cry over it.
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: Well, they got to get past Georgia first. I'm not
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: so sure that's gonna happen.
• 34:32
  Speaker 5: But I have Santa Clara with the upset though, Clara, Yeah,
• 34:35
  Speaker 5: I don't have the St. Mary's upset. It wouldn't be
• 34:39
  Speaker 5: the seventh seed. Yeah, I have Texas Tech ups or
• 34:42
  Speaker 5: Texas A and M upsetting them.
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: Okay, I'm taking both the WCC teams there. I'm going
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: to listen to the the experts way in. All right,
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: speaking of experts way and in, we're going to get
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: the last year of expertise from our next guest coming
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: up this spring and summer and hopefully fall. The Rizzard
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: joins us next Rick Riz on Sports Radio ninety three
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: point three kJ RFM,