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Furness Show 6-16: Jason Botterill, Joe Sheehan and John Lund · The Ian Furness Show

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  Speaker 1: No from the Star Rentals Sports to US Jordan JJRFMS
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  Speaker 1: Sports headlines.
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  Speaker 2: The headlines are brought to you by Frost Brewed Corsel.
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  Speaker 2: I choose chill EM's returned back to T Mobile today
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  Speaker 2: that hosts the Baltimore oriol Is a three game homestand
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  Speaker 2: cal Rawley expected to return of the lineup tonight, been
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  Speaker 2: on the injured list since May fourteenth with a right
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  Speaker 2: oblique string. How about that PAC twelve commissioner Teresa Gold
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  Speaker 2: has received a five year contract extension as the conference
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  Speaker 2: has reborn this fall basically in fact that you know what,
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  Speaker 2: I don't even know this chess. The conference begins on
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  Speaker 2: July first, nine, full time officially World Cup France and
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  Speaker 2: Senegal just underway. We're in the second minute, no score.
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  Speaker 2: We'll keep you updated on that. There's other games tonight
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  Speaker 2: Iraq and Norway at three, Argentina and Algeria at six.
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  Speaker 2: And I know you're not making mistakes even though you're
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  Speaker 2: coming off of vacation. Austria and Jordan at nine pm tonight.
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  Speaker 2: Is that right? That is? World Cup? Game must be
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  Speaker 2: in on the West coast somewhere, right, must be USA Australia.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, is Friday noon here in Seattle and
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  Speaker 2: right here on nine three point three kjr FM. Brendan
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  Speaker 2: Soorsby is going to the NFL, at least he thinks
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  Speaker 2: he decided he's going to go to this supplemental draft.
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  Speaker 2: He will not play for Texas Tech this fall. We'll
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  Speaker 2: get to that and much more. Let's get the show started.
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  Speaker 2: Here we go. I'm at the thirty two bar and grill,
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  Speaker 2: and I've got France and Setegal up right now on
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  Speaker 2: all the TVs here. There is no score. Neil, Neil,
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  Speaker 2: We're in the third minute. We'll keep you updated on that.
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  Speaker 2: World Cup has been awesome so far. It's well underway,
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  Speaker 2: of course. We got the game on nine three point
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  Speaker 2: three kjr FM on Friday at twelve o'clock eleven thirty.
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  Speaker 2: Pre game all across the iHeartRadio app and network as well.
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  Speaker 2: Anderson Hurst, Jackson, Felts, Danny Jackson, Peter Fewing, Steve Zachilwane
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  Speaker 2: been doing a great job with all the coverage. It's
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  Speaker 2: been sensational. We love being the home of the World
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  Speaker 2: Cup here with iHeart and ninety three point three KJRFM,
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  Speaker 2: as well as nine fifty on the AA. I will
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  Speaker 2: keep you updated on that game. Yesterday was spectacular. I'm
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  Speaker 2: at full transparency. I'm out here at thirty two Bar
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  Speaker 2: and Grill. We've got some meetings going on. I'm heavily
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  Speaker 2: involved in the scouting process for the No, I'm not
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  Speaker 2: not anything. I'm heavily involved in free agency. They're asking
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  Speaker 2: my opinion on what to do with free agency on
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  Speaker 2: July first, what to do on the amateur draft. So basically,
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  Speaker 2: Samantha Hallway, Todd Light Wiki, Jason bott Roll, they all said, hey,
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  Speaker 2: and we need you out here for some meetings. I
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  Speaker 2: got out for meetings. I had all my prep work
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  Speaker 2: done and was ready to tell them what to do
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  Speaker 2: in free agency, and then it was actually other meetings.
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  Speaker 2: So here we are. So I'm out here today with you.
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  Speaker 2: You're just I'm not even that. I'm just here because
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  Speaker 2: we're having some meetings. So I said, well, what the hell?
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  Speaker 2: Will do the show at the thirty two, watch a
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  Speaker 2: little world Cup and talk to Jason Botroll. He's going
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  Speaker 2: to join us coming up at twelve twenty. We'll ask
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  Speaker 2: him about the audit and free agency and all that stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Joe Sheen at one twenty, John Lund at two o'clock
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  Speaker 2: and you did hear that voice in the background. Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: She left to go on vacation about the same time
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  Speaker 2: that cal Ralely went on the injured list, sometime in
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  Speaker 2: the middle of May. But she is back va.
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  Speaker 3: My return is healing him because he's expected. Be Yes,
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  Speaker 3: I have healing powers.
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  Speaker 2: In Jessevin McIntyre is back. Welcome back. We missed. Yah.
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  Speaker 2: How was your vacation.
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  Speaker 4: I became a bird whisperer.
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  Speaker 2: And always wait wait stops up.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, return you've been and uh it was amazing. Mike
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  Speaker 3: and I delayed our honeymoon for two years and we
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  Speaker 3: got to go as far away as possible from this
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  Speaker 3: place and had literally the best time that we could
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  Speaker 3: have imagined. I saw all the whales, I saw all
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  Speaker 3: the sharks, I saw all the lizards, the snakes.
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  Speaker 4: Nothing killed me, but I did become a little bit
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  Speaker 4: of a cockatoo whisperer.
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  Speaker 2: Okay that yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I think I shared a couple of the videos and pictures.
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  Speaker 4: Which is like the embarrassing.
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  Speaker 3: But yes, I am back and I feel actually refreshed.
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  Speaker 3: You usually don't feel refreshed after a vacation.
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  Speaker 4: Good I do. I did miss you.
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  Speaker 2: Guys though, well, we missed you too, and missed you
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  Speaker 2: so much. He took the day off.
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  Speaker 3: He was like, oh god, I've just seen her again.
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  Speaker 3: I'm you know what, I don't feel that well.
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  Speaker 4: I gotta go.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's I think that's what happened. Well,
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  Speaker 2: it's good to have you back. Thanks, Uh, go ahead,
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  Speaker 2: go ahead.
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  Speaker 3: I was just gonna share this because you were talking
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  Speaker 3: World Cup. I got to watch back to back in
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  Speaker 3: Australia and we had like eight hours to kill before
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  Speaker 3: our flight in Sydney, so we went to this place
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  Speaker 3: in Cranella Beach and got to watch the Nicks win
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  Speaker 3: the NBA Finals, which was very lovely. And right after
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  Speaker 3: that was the Australia game. Okay, so we got to
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  Speaker 3: watch them win surrounded by Australians, so it was just
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  Speaker 3: like very celebratory.
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  Speaker 2: It was a really awesome. Well, and I would think
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  Speaker 2: some of your people from Australia have followed you up here.
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  Speaker 2: Were there people on the plane because playing here on
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  Speaker 2: Friday there's already a ton of Australians.
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  Speaker 4: We actually did.
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  Speaker 2: Meet a few, that's cool. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: It was Sydney to Honolulu, five hour layover, then to
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  Speaker 4: Seattle so we did meet a few.
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  Speaker 2: So we mentioned this yesterday, Jess, you know, with the
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  Speaker 2: game coming up on Friday here, the second game in Seattle,
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  Speaker 2: the second ever World Cup game in Seattle, and Greg
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  Speaker 2: and I just talked about this a moment ago. Yesterday
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  Speaker 2: was one of the I just think a highlight in
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  Speaker 2: our city's history. And it'll be topped on Friday, for sure,
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  Speaker 2: with the US playing against Australia, but yesterday Belgium and
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  Speaker 2: Egypt was that was just a highlight for our city. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: so many different ways we showed off. We looked great,
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  Speaker 2: The stadium was unbelievable, the atmosphere was great. I'll be
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  Speaker 2: honest with you. Okay, here's the thing. This is where
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  Speaker 2: our city is just weird sometimes. I had a fairly
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  Speaker 2: easy commute yesterday going by the stadium and then coming
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  Speaker 2: and going home. They cleared that thing out so quick afterwards.
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  Speaker 2: Great job by SPD. I'm never gonna give s Dot
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  Speaker 2: any credit. Great job by the Seattle Police Department forgetting
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  Speaker 2: the cleared out yesterday quickly and easily. In and out
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  Speaker 2: yesterday easy. Today it took me two hours to get here,
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  Speaker 2: two hours wait to get to the case. I because
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, somebody decided to have a fender bender
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  Speaker 2: on the way. I always part of it. Part of
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  Speaker 2: it is I always think I'm the smartest guy in
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  Speaker 2: the world with Seattle traffic, I know how I When
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  Speaker 2: you drive the live truck for a TV station for
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  Speaker 2: a few years, like I did out of like my
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  Speaker 2: first gig in broadcasting, you know, setting up live shots
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  Speaker 2: and being mister news guy driving around the Olclomo news truck,
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  Speaker 2: I always think I can maneuver way around the city
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  Speaker 2: better than anybody. And that's not the case. That's not
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  Speaker 2: always the case. So it I had, but yesterday was sensational. Man,
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  Speaker 2: So shout out to SPD man. Shout out to all
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  Speaker 2: those officers that did such a terrific job. Everything seemed
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  Speaker 2: like it went off without a hitch.
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  Speaker 4: That's great.
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  Speaker 2: It's just it was a really cool thing. We're all
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  Speaker 2: over it with iHeart and kJ R and you know,
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  Speaker 2: Anders and Jackson have been killing it. I've been so
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  Speaker 2: proud of those guys. They yes, yeah, it's just been
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  Speaker 2: a really really cool atmosphere. And hey, lo and behold,
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  Speaker 2: lo and behold cal Rawley returns tonight. It just gets better.
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  Speaker 2: Probably JP as well. It just gets well, JP. I'm
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  Speaker 2: sure because yeah, they haven't made the moves officially yet
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  Speaker 2: unless I just missed it. I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: I didn't get it yet.
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  Speaker 2: Hold on, I just double checked. They haven't sent it
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  Speaker 2: out yet. I mean it's gonna happen.
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  Speaker 4: Well, justin Hollander is speaking at two, so we'll.
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  Speaker 2: Find out more. Yeah, but listen, it's things are looking up.
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  Speaker 2: Things are looking up all around the area. So yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we're excited about that. We have missed year. We've had.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's also been It's also been a fun week
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  Speaker 2: for us because I don't know if you know this.
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  Speaker 2: We're giving away later this week and I haven't told
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  Speaker 2: you how. Oh yeah, uh from Riches.
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  Speaker 4: I was drooling over that when I found.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, we're giving away just so people know two
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  Speaker 2: and get some great prizes. But on this particular show,
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  Speaker 2: because Father's Day is a week front or is coming
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  Speaker 2: up on Sunday, so five days away, we're giving away
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  Speaker 2: a green Mountain Pellic grill from Riches for the home.
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  Speaker 2: last year when we gave it away online to see
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  Speaker 2: what it looked like. It's it's sensational. I'm assuming it's
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  Speaker 2: the same grill. And if so, that's like a combo smoke,
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  Speaker 2: smoker and grill. Fantastic. Oh yeah, here's what I'll ask
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  Speaker 2: you guys to do. Listen carefully to the show. When
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  Speaker 2: you listen to the show, remember who's on the show.
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  Speaker 2: I want to give it away on Friday. Actually I
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  Speaker 2: said Friday. I'm wrong. We're gonna give away Thursday, Jess,
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  Speaker 2: because we don't have a show Friday. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I am pleasantly surprised by that.
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  Speaker 2: We do not have a show Friday because we're crying
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  Speaker 2: the soccer game we're got out US Australia. So on
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  Speaker 2: Thursday we're gonna give this away. Listen carefully to the show.
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna ask a little thing on Friday or Thursday,
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  Speaker 2: and what you need to know is who's on our
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  Speaker 2: show on a regular basis. In other words, we're gonna
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  Speaker 2: give this to someone who is a regular listener, the
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  Speaker 2: Keith Millers, the Ryan and Scottsdales, those types of folks.
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  Speaker 2: We're gonna give it away to someone who is a
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  Speaker 2: diehard listener of this show. All right, are people someone's
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  Speaker 2: gonna win that grill?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, come on?
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  Speaker 2: And as Andrews mentioned yesterday, and this is very true,
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  Speaker 2: Like Anders said, if you're like me, he just bought
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  Speaker 2: his condo. If you're if you're living in a like,
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  Speaker 2: if you can't use it, don't try to win it, okay,
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  Speaker 2: because you gotta yes, right because like it's almost.
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  Speaker 3: Like the tickets that we give away, right, don't don't
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  Speaker 3: bid on them if you can't attend.
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  Speaker 2: All right, So here's what we do. We can take
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  Speaker 2: a break, come back. Jason Bottle is gonna join us,
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  Speaker 2: uh and we uh and we're gonna talk to him.
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna get into Brendan Soresby thing a little bit
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  Speaker 2: as well. We'll get to Joe Sheen at one twenty
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  Speaker 2: talk and all things Mariners and then lund I don't
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  Speaker 2: know where that's gonna go. Yeah, he asked about He
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  Speaker 2: asked about being on time today. I told him, don't worry,
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  Speaker 2: just stay on brand and just show up whenever you want.
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  Speaker 2: Hopefully he'll be here.
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  Speaker 4: That sounds very lunned.
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  Speaker 2: So we got a lot going on with the thirty
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  Speaker 2: two Bar and Grill, which, by the way, great place
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  Speaker 2: to watch World Cup games. Got them all on right now.
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  Speaker 2: Friday should be awesome here. They got drinking food specials.
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  Speaker 2: Will tell you about that as day goes on as well.
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  Speaker 2: Hi, welcome back with the thirty two barn Early internets
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  Speaker 2: with you on this Tuesday, gorgeous Tuesday afternoon. We got
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  Speaker 2: Senegal and France up there. No score there in the
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  Speaker 2: twenty first minute does appear as I get my my
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  Speaker 2: you know, I go from hockey numbers when was a
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  Speaker 2: goal scorer. I was like, okay, fifteen minutes to go
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  Speaker 2: five minute mark whatever doing that backtiming. Now soccer, you
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  Speaker 2: front time it. So it's twenty minutes and forty one
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  Speaker 2: seconds into the game from the twenty first minute. No
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  Speaker 2: score Senegal in France here and you're home for the
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  Speaker 2: World Cup nine three point three KHTERFM and the iHeartRadio app.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, we're also home for the Crack and I'm
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  Speaker 2: at the thirty two bar and grill. I mentioned this earlier.
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  Speaker 2: Jason bot rolls with us, the vice president a GM
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  Speaker 2: of the Seattle Crack, and I said, I was summoned
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  Speaker 2: out here for some meetings today. Yep. I came prepared.
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  Speaker 2: I had my whole draft list ready. I got a
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  Speaker 2: free agent board for you, ready to go. I started
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  Speaker 2: walking down the hall towards the Hockey Operations Department and
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  Speaker 2: they stopped me and they said, no, actually, you're meeting
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  Speaker 2: with Todd and Rob and some business. And I'm like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: so you. I guess you didn't need my help out
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  Speaker 2: here today. Hey, we're always looking for your helping, your
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  Speaker 2: assistance for sure. No, you're not, No, you're not not
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  Speaker 2: at all. Well, first of all, thanks for popping by.
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  Speaker 2: I know it's a busy time of the year. Yep,
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  Speaker 2: you got back from the combine. We'll get to that
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  Speaker 2: in a second real quick, just the general this is
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  Speaker 2: what people well ian. You had Jason on asking about
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  Speaker 2: the audit. How's the audit.
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  Speaker 5: No, it's been a situation where we certainly really enjoyed
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  Speaker 5: working with the Mike Forda and his group. They're extremely
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  Speaker 5: extensive of their very thorough I think you've seen it
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  Speaker 5: from our organization, from our staff members. They're open, they
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  Speaker 5: want to, you know, get their thoughts out there, get
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  Speaker 5: their knowledge out there to them and you know, you
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  Speaker 5: look at Sportsology, they've worked with so many different teams
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  Speaker 5: and leagues all over North America and Europe. Like their
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  Speaker 5: experiences are very valuable and it's just some of the
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  Speaker 5: recommendations that they've passed on to us. I know it's
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  Speaker 5: certainly going to make our organization a lot better and
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  Speaker 5: no looking going through some of their sort of suggestions
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  Speaker 5: right now, and it's been a it's been a very
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  Speaker 5: enjoyable process.
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  Speaker 2: I know there's more to come on that, and that'll
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  Speaker 2: come from higher up in the food chain with Todd
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  Speaker 2: and others, and that'll come over the next weeks or
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  Speaker 2: days or whatever it will be. But the one file
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  Speaker 2: thing for you, just for you. You had to be
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  Speaker 2: open to this, yep, and you were, Yeah, I don't
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  Speaker 2: think people maybe not realize this. You get a Master's
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  Speaker 2: of Business like this is this is very business like.
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  Speaker 2: I'm assuming for you you're like, oh, that seems like
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  Speaker 2: normal thing to do. Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I got my NBA at Raw School of Business, University
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  Speaker 5: of Michigan and it's a big consultant school.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, go.
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  Speaker 5: Going through things with Sportsology took me back to those
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  Speaker 5: days a little bit there from that perspective, but like, look,
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  Speaker 5: there's ideas and then there's that human element. I think
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  Speaker 5: Sportsology does a great job. Talked about Mike like he's
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  Speaker 5: interacted with a lot of general managers in different sports
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  Speaker 5: and just ideas of you know, relationship with the ownership,
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  Speaker 5: relationship in managing your staff and giving some of that
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  Speaker 5: feedback has been very helpful. How how has this just
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  Speaker 5: in terms of this job, how has it evolved in
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  Speaker 5: a sense from when you first got into it to
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  Speaker 5: where it is now. We're just talking about an outside
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  Speaker 5: group coming in who, by the way, have done like
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  Speaker 5: dozens of teams, including some English Premier League teams which
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  Speaker 5: have had great success. So This isn't out of the
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  Speaker 5: box necessarily, but it probably would have been fifteen years ago,
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  Speaker 5: right yep. Yeah, Like what I would just say is
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  Speaker 5: when materializes now, like coming up as an assistant general
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  Speaker 5: manager in the Pittsburgh Penguins organization and then get an
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  Speaker 5: opportunity be a GM in Buffalo.
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  Speaker 2: And then obviously here now too.
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  Speaker 5: Is the biggest thing is just the amount of time
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  Speaker 5: for both managing up to make sure you're on the
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  Speaker 5: same level as as your ownership group, but also to
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  Speaker 5: just interacting with the other thirty one general managers and
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  Speaker 5: then what we're doing from a standpoint of agents out
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  Speaker 5: there communicating with that. So it's impossible for just to
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  Speaker 5: be a one person show, and it's imperative that we
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  Speaker 5: have good communication group. I'm very fortunate brought on Patrick Elvin,
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  Speaker 5: here have Ryan Jankowski, Alexamandrecki and Ricky Olcik as my assistants.
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  Speaker 5: Like it's important that I give them the responsibility and
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  Speaker 5: diversify our group here, and it's I feel they give
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  Speaker 5: me a lot of knowledge and we get the responsibilities
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  Speaker 5: in place, and it makes us to be a stronger organization.
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  Speaker 2: But let's talk about that because that's one of the
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  Speaker 2: I mean bringing in Patrick Alvin for people to know
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  Speaker 2: he was the general manager in Vancouver for the last
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  Speaker 2: few years. He worked under Jim Rutherford, which was a
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  Speaker 2: little different dynamic I think than say, with you and
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  Speaker 2: Ron the last couple of years, but he did work
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  Speaker 2: under Jim. He was out there. My understanding is he's
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  Speaker 2: pretty highly sought after around the league. What enticed you
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  Speaker 2: to You had a private relationship, obviously, but what is
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  Speaker 2: it about Patrick Alvin that you think he can bring
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  Speaker 2: to this organization and to help the crack and elevate
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: where they are. You look at him.
• 16:08
  Speaker 5: He went three Stanley Cups in Pittsburgh, worked his way
• 16:10
  Speaker 5: up in Pittsburgh's organization from an amateur scout right up
• 16:13
  Speaker 5: to an assistant general manager. To me, he took the
• 16:16
  Speaker 5: right steps to be very in his career to make
• 16:19
  Speaker 5: sure that he was ready to be a good executive.
• 16:23
  Speaker 5: I think he's an amazing evaluator of talent, an excellent scout,
• 16:28
  Speaker 5: communication skills, going through a process. So I think his experiences,
• 16:32
  Speaker 5: connections with agents, as connections with other general managers in
• 16:35
  Speaker 5: the league two is certainly going to help our group.
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: You're moving forward, Yeah, Jason. I just I ran into
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: him just joking in the hallway a little while ago,
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: and very engaging, very outgoing. I can see why he
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: would have that connection, and I think how important is
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: it to have that relate. Hockey's a different sport than
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: others in this sense the relationship that an organization, whether
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: it be the general manager, coach, what have you, has
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: with not just players, but with agents. Yeah, and there's
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: a handful of agents that oversee the entire league. Basically
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: that relationship part of the business. I feel like in
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: hockey it maybe is more important than it is in
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: some of the other sports.
• 17:10
  Speaker 5: But I can't talk to other sports. But it's imperative
• 17:12
  Speaker 5: that we have relationships with these agents, and you know,
• 17:15
  Speaker 5: it's not just working with their players here, but also
• 17:18
  Speaker 5: selling them on you know, the opportunity if of future
• 17:20
  Speaker 5: players coming to Seattle from that standpoint, and you know,
• 17:24
  Speaker 5: I think my rollot ofex is different than Patrick's rolodex
• 17:27
  Speaker 5: And the fact that we can sort of divvy things
• 17:29
  Speaker 5: up and stuff amongst not only Patrick, but also Ricky Olchek,
• 17:32
  Speaker 5: Ryan Jackkelsie and Alex Mandreckett. It really helps things out
• 17:35
  Speaker 5: a lot.
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: From that staff, you have four different or assistant gms,
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: do you right. Ricky's kind of your salary cap guy.
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: Alex's player is pro personnel, but also some ROI obviously,
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: Jankowski's what kind of player development guy. And now you've
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: got Alvin who has been a sitting GM and is
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: probably a great resource for you. It feels like you've
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: really kind of completed that staff.
• 17:54
  Speaker 5: Well, you want to round up the staff and the
• 17:56
  Speaker 5: right way to sort of help you in different areas
• 17:58
  Speaker 5: from that perspective, and that's certainly what we feel we've done.
• 18:00
  Speaker 5: And I think it's always great bringing in people with
• 18:04
  Speaker 5: outside perspectives too, and that's what did last year with
• 18:07
  Speaker 5: Ryan Gankowski and bringing to Patrick Covey in this year.
• 18:09
  Speaker 5: There's a lot of things that we've been doing well
• 18:11
  Speaker 5: in our organization, like it, but having that sort of
• 18:14
  Speaker 5: different perspective what they came from their own organizations and
• 18:18
  Speaker 5: so their viewpoint not only of our situation here, but
• 18:22
  Speaker 5: sor their perspective on other teams in the league too.
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: Jason bott roll with it. So I hear the thirty
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: two barn Garly in fronaced with you this afternoon. All right,
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: let's get to the off season, So you get the
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: draft coming up a wee kept Friday, and that'll be
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: that's the first kind of step in the process, and
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: then after that you've got free agency in July. First,
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: let's start first. Before we get to the free agency,
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: they do kind of intertwine a little bit in a sense,
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: But let's start first with the draft. You got back
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: from the combine. Combin's a little different. I mean it's
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: really kind of grown in the NHL. Yeah, how important
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: is that combine for you? Your scouts have been all
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: across North America Europe for the last year watching these
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: young players. They've got their evaluations. What gets done at
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: a combine? We know an NFL combine, you've got all
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: his college tape, But does a guy run a forty well?
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: Does a guy bench press two twenty five which is
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: cone speed?
• 19:07
  Speaker 6: All that?
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: In the NFL, it's a really big deal. How important
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: is it for the NHL.
• 19:10
  Speaker 5: Well, it's still very important. I think it's the difference
• 19:12
  Speaker 5: element is just NFL players are are obviously trying to
• 19:15
  Speaker 5: make the team that you know, a couple months later
• 19:17
  Speaker 5: after being drafted. What are most of our players? It's
• 19:20
  Speaker 5: the projection element. You're evaluating eighteen year old kids, it's
• 19:23
  Speaker 5: you're looking for most of them, you know, five six,
• 19:27
  Speaker 5: seven years down the road from that thing. So how
• 19:29
  Speaker 5: can they even if they don't do that well from
• 19:30
  Speaker 5: the physical testing, do they have the physique to add weight,
• 19:33
  Speaker 5: to add strength? From that perspective, But for for a
• 19:36
  Speaker 5: general manager, get to sit in some interviews, get to
• 19:39
  Speaker 5: know these kids a little bit better. It's certainly it's
• 19:42
  Speaker 5: enjoyable from that perspective. I give our staff a lot
• 19:45
  Speaker 5: of credit. They know these kids already. They've done the
• 19:47
  Speaker 5: due diligence, not only on the ice, but off the ice,
• 19:51
  Speaker 5: you know, long before the combine actually happens. But you know,
• 19:54
  Speaker 5: being in that scenario, they've they come. Most of the
• 19:58
  Speaker 5: players come very well prepared and are very articulate from
• 20:01
  Speaker 5: that standpoint. But it's a great opportunity to interact with him,
• 20:03
  Speaker 5: then see them doing the test and see how they
• 20:05
  Speaker 5: are compared to the peers. And now with a decentralized draft,
• 20:09
  Speaker 5: you know, it's the one opportunity where general managers are
• 20:12
  Speaker 5: all together, agents are all together. There's a lot of
• 20:15
  Speaker 5: communication going on at that time too.
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: All right, So every fan sitting around right now, we
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: went Okay, Well, all that communication, all the talk we've
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: you know, we've discussed it, how important this offseason is.
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: Let's start first with your own free agents. You've got
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: to handful them. I know you're not gonna tell me
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: who you're gonna sign or who you're not gonna sign,
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: but let me just start with a big one. I mean,
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: Bobby McMahon is a guy that I mean, sure when
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: you traded for we talked about this before that you
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: want to ring him back. Yep, where can where? Where
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: do you stand with that right now? I mean, are
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: you having conversations with Bobby and his agent and and
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: are you optimistic? And how would you phrase what's going
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: on with Bobby.
• 20:48
  Speaker 5: No, we've certainly stayed in touch with Bobby. He's been
• 20:50
  Speaker 5: doing some traveling now back in North America here. From
• 20:53
  Speaker 5: that standpoint, certainly stayed in touch, you know, both myself
• 20:56
  Speaker 5: and laying with him and his representatives and sort of
• 20:59
  Speaker 5: laying out I know what we see, his responsibility, his
• 21:01
  Speaker 5: role moving forward here. I think you saw on social
• 21:05
  Speaker 5: media him enjoin the area in the Pacific Northwest after
• 21:10
  Speaker 5: the season and stuff. So it's great to see from
• 21:11
  Speaker 5: that standpoint. So, no, it's from day one. We've told
• 21:14
  Speaker 5: Bobby that he's a big part of bringing things back
• 21:16
  Speaker 5: here and we're certainly hoping to get something done here soon.
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: Do you use your players to recruit them to I know,
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: we play some golf with some guys and stuff like that.
• 21:23
  Speaker 5: Is that part of the retied percent? Like, it's a
• 21:25
  Speaker 5: big part of you know, what we're trying to do
• 21:27
  Speaker 5: here and stuff. For sure, it's you know, we're continuing
• 21:29
  Speaker 5: to evaluate how we're interacting with our players, how we're
• 21:32
  Speaker 5: treating our players. You look at our facilities, you know,
• 21:35
  Speaker 5: it's something that Patrick mentioned and stuff too, just both
• 21:38
  Speaker 5: down at CPA and CACI here. But to me, it's
• 21:41
  Speaker 5: a big part of it. At the end of the day,
• 21:43
  Speaker 5: from a financial standpoint, things across the league are usually
• 21:46
  Speaker 5: fairly equal, and it's some of these things where the
• 21:50
  Speaker 5: success of the team on the ice, how they're being treated,
• 21:52
  Speaker 5: those are big things that go into the equation for players.
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: What do you hear from agents around the league, because
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: in a league that is filled with no trade movement,
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: you know all these it feels like it feels like
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: you're a nobody in this league if you don't have
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: some sort of trade clause protection right along the way,
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: or even guys that are free agents, and there's a
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: I mean, it feels like if you're floor to our
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: Tampa Bay or Vegas, you can just snap your fingers
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: and guys want to come and play there. But I
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: don't know how many facilities are better than this, fan
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: bases are better than this and all that. So what
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: do you hear about Seattle when you talk to agents
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: around the league?
• 22:21
  Speaker 5: Oh, look, it's a scenario. We're still developing our legacy.
• 22:23
  Speaker 5: We're just still developing our reputation.
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: I think.
• 22:28
  Speaker 5: They know it's how my staff works with them. From
• 22:31
  Speaker 5: an interaction and standpoint of the young players coming into
• 22:33
  Speaker 5: the system, it's important to make sure that we're always
• 22:35
  Speaker 5: communicating with the agents, not only the players, just on
• 22:38
  Speaker 5: their steps of them in our development aspect of it.
• 22:41
  Speaker 5: And you know, I think they see the commitment from
• 22:44
  Speaker 5: our ownership group on what we want to do. And
• 22:46
  Speaker 5: you talk to any players too, they get to CPA,
• 22:48
  Speaker 5: there's an energy in our building and stuff for sure.
• 22:50
  Speaker 5: From that standpoint, nowaday do we have to become that
• 22:53
  Speaker 5: perennial winner. That's something that we still have to continue
• 22:55
  Speaker 5: to work on. But hey, I think there's a good
• 22:58
  Speaker 5: feedback about throughout the league on our organization.
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: It feels Jason like it's like a chicken or egg thing, right, Like, guys,
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: if all things are being equal with money, and feels
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: like everyone this year has money to spend. Right the
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: CAP's gone up, they gone to revenues are gone up,
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: which is a good thing. It means business in the
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: league is good. But it feels like a chicken or
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: egg thing in this sense, like you need good players
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: to elevate your game. Good players will want to go
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: to places they know they can win, probably right away
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: as well. Am I right in that regard, And what's
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: the challenge? Feels like that's a challenge for a GM.
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: It's a challenge.
• 23:27
  Speaker 5: And it's also like it's why we have to continue
• 23:30
  Speaker 5: to take steps with our younger players, like when they see,
• 23:33
  Speaker 5: you know, we got a big jump when Matty Beneir's
• 23:35
  Speaker 5: came into our organization and he energized our veteran players
• 23:39
  Speaker 5: and they got it excited. And now it's we've talked
• 23:41
  Speaker 5: about it before. I think we've done a very nice
• 23:43
  Speaker 5: job of getting players to the National Hockey League. It
• 23:45
  Speaker 5: always takes time. We still talk about that first draft.
• 23:48
  Speaker 5: Now the winter Tins, the Malanson's have now finally joined
• 23:51
  Speaker 5: the Riker Evans of the world, and the Matti Beneers.
• 23:54
  Speaker 5: Now it's important that we continue to their development here
• 23:56
  Speaker 5: at the National Hockeygue level where they go from you know,
• 23:59
  Speaker 5: being players the fourth line to the players on the
• 24:01
  Speaker 5: third line. You know, a player like Berkeley Caatton takes
• 24:03
  Speaker 5: a step from an offensive standpoint, next year, Ryker Reverence
• 24:06
  Speaker 5: becomes that true top four sort of minute crunching defenseman
• 24:09
  Speaker 5: that we think he can can be. So when you
• 24:12
  Speaker 5: have that situation of younger players making the step, it
• 24:15
  Speaker 5: excites other players and wanting to come to our organization
• 24:18
  Speaker 5: and be a part of things bots.
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: How important are the next what four weeks to the organization,
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: both short term and long term and obviously draft is
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: long term, but short term, whether it's signing free agents,
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: your own guy and a Bobby McMahon maybe some of
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: the other free agents that are out there, or using
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: some of that draft capital to make this team better quicker.
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: How important to the next four weeks? What would you
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: tell fans?
• 24:42
  Speaker 5: Well, I just say, look, we're we're We talked about
• 24:44
  Speaker 5: being aggressive at the end of the season here. We
• 24:48
  Speaker 5: continue to do that throughout the last couple of weeks here,
• 24:51
  Speaker 5: and then we'll do that and moving forward here, you
• 24:53
  Speaker 5: look at the free agent market, there's not a lot
• 24:55
  Speaker 5: of depth to it and stuff from that standpoint, and
• 24:57
  Speaker 5: I think that's why there's a lot of communication going
• 24:59
  Speaker 5: on between general managers because they see that's trying to
• 25:01
  Speaker 5: find the fit of improving their team has to come
• 25:04
  Speaker 5: through more from a trade perspective. But we have to
• 25:06
  Speaker 5: have a parallel paths here. We have to have acquisition
• 25:10
  Speaker 5: to our organization through trades through free agency, but then
• 25:13
  Speaker 5: it also has to be the development plan for our
• 25:15
  Speaker 5: young kids and stuff too. They have to coincide for
• 25:17
  Speaker 5: us to really take a big step.
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: But you plan on doing what you can now, it
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: takes two to tangle, right Like you you may want
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: to do something, it takes another side to do it.
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: But your plan is, like you said before, is to
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: hey throttle down over the next few weeks. One percent.
• 25:30
  Speaker 5: We feel we have young players who are stepping in
• 25:33
  Speaker 5: here now and ready to take more responsibility.
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: And look, we we.
• 25:36
  Speaker 5: Want to try to add some players to that mix
• 25:39
  Speaker 5: that can help them melt through this process and stuff.
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: For sure, the development of young guys to is key
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: like what kind of step does a Berkeley cat and
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: take next year?
• 25:46
  Speaker 5: Well, I think what what gets us to say it
• 25:48
  Speaker 5: was just his hockey knowledge, in his hockey sense, he
• 25:51
  Speaker 5: you know, very reflective on the season where he felt
• 25:54
  Speaker 5: he could have, you know, maybe done a little bit
• 25:56
  Speaker 5: better in situation, not making the same mistakes.
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 25:59
  Speaker 5: I just think about a scenario at the end of
• 26:01
  Speaker 5: the season he had an opportunity front the net, just
• 26:03
  Speaker 5: didn't have the body position there. You know, that reinforced
• 26:06
  Speaker 5: him a lot about just the strength element, and that's
• 26:08
  Speaker 5: something that we tried to drill into a lot of
• 26:10
  Speaker 5: our players as they left here in Seattle. Was just
• 26:12
  Speaker 5: importance of physical training. I think our players are very
• 26:15
  Speaker 5: dedicated on the ice and working on their craft, whether
• 26:18
  Speaker 5: it's a skating stride, whether it's their hands, you know,
• 26:20
  Speaker 5: improving their shot. I think just having so many young players,
• 26:24
  Speaker 5: it's imperative that we have to get just get physically stronger,
• 26:27
  Speaker 5: and something that you know, our sports performance staff has
• 26:30
  Speaker 5: worked very closely with our players and trying to push
• 26:32
  Speaker 5: that and especially with not making the playoffs, we have
• 26:35
  Speaker 5: more of an opportunity. In April may to really add
• 26:39
  Speaker 5: strength to our group, and that's what we've tried certainly
• 26:41
  Speaker 5: done with a lot of our players.
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: Do you take any solace in like you had great
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: success against Vegas last season, that last game, notwithstanding, you
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: beat Carolina here in one of the better games of
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: the season and competed with them back there. Those are
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: the two best teams in the NHL last year, you
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: were right there with them. How far away is this
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: team because I, and I'll even take another step further,
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: Carolina didn't have anybody in the top what forty in
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: terms of points, thirty ninth I think in points in
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: the league, didn't have anybody received a first or second
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: place vote for all NHL. They did it through some depth, yeah,
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: which is how this team got to the playoffs in
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: year two. How close do you feel you are to
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: turning that corner and finding your way into that postseason?
• 27:18
  Speaker 5: Well, look, I think where obviously we didn't accomplish our
• 27:22
  Speaker 5: goals in March and April, that was very evident stuff
• 27:24
  Speaker 5: from that standpoint, But we felt sitting here at the
• 27:27
  Speaker 5: Olympic break, we liked our position and where we were at,
• 27:30
  Speaker 5: and I think that's what we focus in on Okay,
• 27:33
  Speaker 5: we took steps. We played very well in a very
• 27:35
  Speaker 5: difficult January. Now what do we have to do to
• 27:37
  Speaker 5: this team to make sure that we finish off the
• 27:40
  Speaker 5: goal of getting into the playoffs. I think, you know,
• 27:43
  Speaker 5: you can talk about specific games of success marks, whether
• 27:47
  Speaker 5: that's against Carolina or Vegas, but at the end of
• 27:49
  Speaker 5: the day, you have to win. We have to be
• 27:51
  Speaker 5: just more consistent from that standpoint, and we've talked about
• 27:54
  Speaker 5: we have to create more from an office perspective, you know,
• 27:58
  Speaker 5: whether that's through special team so or just getting more
• 28:01
  Speaker 5: you know, NetFront presence is something that we have to
• 28:03
  Speaker 5: focus in on a lot.
• 28:05
  Speaker 6: You know.
• 28:05
  Speaker 5: To me, that's where we can take a big step
• 28:07
  Speaker 5: as an organization, as a team. And you know, that's
• 28:10
  Speaker 5: part of the reason why we brought it in Pascal
• 28:11
  Speaker 5: Vincent onto our coaching staff. There was to continue to
• 28:14
  Speaker 5: help these younger players, our younger forwards having more success
• 28:17
  Speaker 5: to really help our team make a step next year.
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: Botts, I appreciate your busy guy this time of year,
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: so I appreciate you coming by. We will see you
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: a week from Friday. Whether you like it or not,
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: we're going to be here. That's awesome. Thank you very much.
• 28:28
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• 29:01
  Speaker 2: with you here on a Tuesday afternoon. A great place
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: to watch World Cup soccer. We've got Senegal in France.
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: No score with Oh, actually they're in the final minute
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: or two well, depending on stoppage time of the first
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: half of that game. So that uh that coming to
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: an end or first half coming to and end soon.
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: Was it four games you told me yesterday? I used
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: four games today? Yes, a game at nine o'clock tonight.
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: That's crazy. I think I saw that the other day too,
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: and I thought it was a typo. I was watching
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: Fox or News in the morning at not Fox News,
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: Fox thirteen News. I should say, people get mad at me,
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: but the uh, but was watching not that we can
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: watch we can watch whatever we want, but we.
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: Have for instance, Senegal, Iraq and Norway are three, and
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: then Argentine, Argentina and Algeria all R at six. We
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: know that Andrews and fam will be celebrating that one,
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: and then Austria and Jordan.
• 29:53
  Speaker 4: Yes, at nine pm today.
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: That's crazy. Yeah, I saw that the day. I think
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: somebody messed up. I think somebody was looking at the
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: Eastern time whatever it was, right, and but yeah, that's good.
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: Got soccer all day on.
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: I've been very well versed in time zones of recent times.
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: How far ahead is Australia seventeen hours seven?
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: So it's basically a day ahead? Are they answer me this?
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: I don't know if you you were down there in front,
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: hopefully you were not working, although.
• 30:19
  Speaker 4: You I was enjoying.
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: Did you get the text from Stuart Mandel? Yes?
• 30:24
  Speaker 4: He told me to stop tweeting. Yes, he told me
• 30:28
  Speaker 4: to unplug.
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: For those who are Stuart Mandel from the Athletic, our
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: weekly college football guest. Yes, senior senior college football writer for.
• 30:37
  Speaker 4: The Athletics and an amazing human being.
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: Great guy. We had Stuart on last Thursday, Wednesday or
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: Thursday last week?
• 30:43
  Speaker 4: Oh you had him on without me?
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: Yes? And he and I were talking off the air,
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: and he said yes because I said, hey, Jess is gone,
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: so and Andrews is doing World Cup stuff. So I'm
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: kind of helping, you know, I'm producing and doing some stuff.
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: And he's like, oh great, and he said, he said,
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: is she really on vacation? I said, well, well, what
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: do you mean. He goes, well, she's tweeting. I go, yeah, no,
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: I've I've I've tried to tell her not to. I
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: just ignore you.
• 31:06
  Speaker 6: And but.
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Stuart Stewart said, he just was going to text
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: you and just say, hey, stop. It like one vacation
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: to enjoy yourself.
• 31:14
  Speaker 3: And he did, and then I sent him a picture
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: of the sunrise.
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: Perfect. Well. He he had a busy week last week,
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: as did everybody in college football that covers college football.
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: And it it feels like maybe it has slowed down
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: and come to an end because uh, Texas Tech quarterback
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: Brendan Soresby has now planned to enter the NFL Supplemental Draft,
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: so that the long two months saga that has been
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: whether or not Soresby and is going to play in
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: the fall for Texas Tech seems to have come to
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: an end.
• 31:46
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that whole story.
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: Well, and and and and I'm going to get to
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: that a little bit more. At one o'clock. I brought
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: up though, the college being down in Australia and not
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: working for this reason. Are they excited? Isn't that where
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: the nine Ers are playing the Rams?
• 32:02
  Speaker 6: Right?
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: Yep? Is there excitement for that? No?
• 32:07
  Speaker 3: Well I didn't really inquire because the World Cup was
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: happening and they're so excited that Australia is in it, right.
• 32:14
  Speaker 4: We didn't really talk.
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: There are more people interested in the NBA finals, to
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: be honest, wow, really, yes.
• 32:21
  Speaker 4: A lot of interest.
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: Well basketball is big there, right.
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, I mean there are some people that have
• 32:28
  Speaker 3: come over to play in the NBA. Yeah yeah, yeah,
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: so there's there's interest. But the college athletic part, it's
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: like not a thing like it is here.
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: But what about But the forty nine Ers and Rams
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: are playing on September eleventh, which is weird because they're
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: not really playing on September eleventh. They're playing on Thursday,
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: September tenth, right, it's nine at five thirty. They're playing
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: in Australia and Melbourne Cricket Grounds wherever that is.
• 32:59
  Speaker 4: Yeah. Actually Melbourne is a really cool city.
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: So yeah, that's where. So that's where they're playing the
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: first game. Those two teams are playing in Melbourne on
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: uh and they're playing at ten thirty in the morning
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: Australia time, which is ten thirty in the morning on
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: Friday September eleventh. Thursday September tenth is when the game
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: is here. So they're actually playing on two separate days.
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: One here, one there.
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: Hey listen, I missed an entire Tuesday and I lived
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: two Sundays on my way back.
• 33:30
  Speaker 4: So that's yeah, I'm just letting you know. That's how
• 33:33
  Speaker 4: it works.
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so that's so that. Yeah, but you didn't really like,
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: no one was saying, hey, I can't wait for the
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: NFL to come here.
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: No, see, even when I toldeotball.
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: Yes, that's my point. That is my point. What are
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: we doing? Why are we playing that game there?
• 33:49
  Speaker 6: Like?
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: Why why aint you doing that?
• 33:52
  Speaker 4: I don't know. I mean, we have what we have,
• 33:56
  Speaker 4: Michael Dixon, right, we have. But I'm just saying.
• 34:00
  Speaker 3: The international because former players, there's not a lot of
• 34:08
  Speaker 3: intrigue when it comes to the NFL.
• 34:10
  Speaker 4: No, it's my own personal experience being a sport.
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: If there's one criticism of the National Football League if
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: there's one.
• 34:20
  Speaker 4: There's only one.
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: Well but like some people just don't care about your sport. Yeah,
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: like they don't want they're playing in a cricket so
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: they've got soccer aka their football. They've got cricket and
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: they've got rugby. And Australian was well, yeah, they don't
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: need in basketball. They don't need the NFL guys, they
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: don't need it down there. I just I don't want
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: to talk to lend about that. A little bit more too,
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: coming up at two o'clock today when he joined us.
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: But yeah, that whole thing seemed.
• 34:47
  Speaker 3: But when I went to you were at the London game,
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: I was you weren't, No went, oh, okay, I was there.
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: Which is good that he went, because again I'm so
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: anti European or BORGN games. That is probably best that
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: I wasn't there, you know, saying how dumb this is,
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: even though I'm sure the great Apps. I mean, everyone
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: says the atmosphere is great there, but over there it's different.
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: The ex I was gonna say, Australia is different. When
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: I was in England, the excitement was palpable. It was, yes,
• 35:17
  Speaker 3: really really exciting for them. Yeah, I can see that,
• 35:21
  Speaker 3: and we have a lot of Seahawks fans over there too.
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, in London. Yes, I get that. I get that.
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: All right, we'll take a break, come back. When we
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: come back, we're gonna check in one twenty with Joe Sheen.
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: He wrote an interesting thing about strikeouts that I want
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: to get to, including something how involved in one of
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: the Mariner players. We'll get to that. With Joe talking
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: all things baseball, we'll get into a little bit of
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: Brendan Soresby as well. John Lound at two o'clock with
• 35:45
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• 35:51
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• 36:02
  Speaker 4: I would love to choose chill right now, would Joe?
• 36:06
  Speaker 6: Yeah?
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: Of course. I see a tap for corps light here
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: at the thirty two Bar and grill just across from me,
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: right below the screen showing France and Senegal, which are scoreless.
• 36:15
  Speaker 4: I might have to make us stop by there on
• 36:16
  Speaker 4: my way home.
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: Up there you go, let's see marriage. We turned back
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: to Tea Mobile Park. They'll host the Baltimore Orioles three
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: game homestand tonight. Cal Raley slated a return to the lineup.
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: He's been on the injury list since May fourteenth, went
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: down and tore it up in Tacoma. Looks to be
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: healthy and ready to go. See if Cal's out there
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: to see double check. They have not made the roster
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: move official yet, it does not appear, but he is
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: expected to play tonight. Big boost to the Diner lineup.
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: All right, let's see what else we got going on here.
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: Pack twelve commissioner Trees of Gold received a five year
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: contract extension. As the conference is reborn the new PAC twelve.
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: We'll officially launch July first, with nine full time members,
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: including the holdovers Oregon State and Washington State, Boise State
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: and others coming into the fold, of course, Gonzaga for basketball,
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: all sports not named football. I mentioned Franz Senegal. They're
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: at the half at MetLife Stadium right now. Nil nil,
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: as they'd say. In soccer. Iraq and Norway get off
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: at three o'clock tonight, Argentina and Algeria at six. Austria
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: and Jordan take on each other at nine pm this evening,
• 37:21
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• 37:27
  Speaker 2: go all right, we're back at the thirty two bar
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  Speaker 2: and Grilly internesced with you this afternoon. We're hanging out
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: having fun. Carne asado, taco, carne asada, taco's fantastic.
• 37:45
  Speaker 4: I should mention, wow, I don't we're call seeing that
• 37:48
  Speaker 4: on the menu.
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I don't know it's new or not, but I
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: had to try something good, crazy fuy, so I had
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: to try them.
• 37:53
  Speaker 3: That is my husband's favorite. Is it carne asada yet?
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: Tell Mike come on by the thirty two bar.
• 38:00
  Speaker 4: Maybe we will date night there together.
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: There you go, there you go, yeah, yeah, there'll watch
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: the watch some World Cup or some Actually tonight you
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: have World Cup admarrators on all the TVs here.
• 38:11
  Speaker 4: So oh we get a double debt.
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: You do have a double debt. Mariners return home after
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: their longest road trip of the season, with ten games.
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: They'll get their catcher back tonight. Presumably they're short. Well,
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: the question is where he's gonna play, and I say
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: the shortstop, the shortstops slash maybe third baseman, and JP Crawford,
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: we'll be back cold Emerson has been sensational at shortstop
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: since JP has been out, at least defensively and certainly
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: hitting the ball as well in his rookie season at
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: the ripe old age of twenty years old. So but
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: calculve I heard it interesting Chuck talking with Ryan Heey
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: this morning on my commute out here, and a good
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: conversation in that regard, and Chuck asked Ryan Healy, like,
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: what what does it mean to get cal Raley back?
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: And Ryan's Ryan people to know, former Mariner, former major
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: league he's on the broadcast now on the broadcast team.
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: And his answer was, it means everything. And I thought
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: it was a kind of an all inclusive like it
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: means I'm thinking, well, they had a winning record when
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: Cal's been out, they're sixteen to thirteen, But what does
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: it mean to have him back? Everything? And it's not
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: just the offense. The offense hasn't been there this year,
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: but part of that you have to wonder if he
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: just wasn't healthy. And we'll find out over the next
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: not tonight necessarily, but over the next few weeks. He
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: hasn't been what he's been last year, but nobody expected
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: sixty one home runs. But Ryan was talking about his
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: swing looked different before he went on the injured list,
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: and a lot of what Ryan said makes sense when
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: you think about what you're seeing in terms of results
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: with Cal. This year goes down and they had to
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: shut him down for a couple of weeks. Then he
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: starts to rehab assignment down in Arizona, then at Everett
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: for a day or two, and then now in Tacoma.
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: And Ryan studies and I just I love the conversations
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: with him and Chuck have studies hitters. And he said
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: he looks to be back to where he was before,
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: which I thought was an interesting comment because before was
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: last year. This year he hasn't looked the same. He
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: didn't look the same in the World Baseball Classic, didn't
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: look the same in spring training, and certainly didn't look
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: the same before he was shut down in the middle
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: of May. So what is was Cal robber look like offensively?
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: We'll see. But what Ryan's comments were, and I think
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: this is interesting because there was a little story that's
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: circulating around. I don't know if it's a rumor true
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: that Hancock was upset with the way Pareda was calling
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: a game, which if that's the case, I guess I
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: would ask the question why was Parada calling two straight
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: games for Emerson Hancock. But nevertheless, some questions about that
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: Parada is not a great defensive catcher in terms of
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: blocking the plate and things like that. We talked about
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: that on Malay Want Monday yesterday. But what Cal brings
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: is elite defense, an elite handling of the pitching staff.
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: And even if he's just okay offensively, which I don't
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: think we all expect him to be just okay, But
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: even if he's just okay offensively, he also brings an
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: element offensively that's a thread every time he steps up.
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: So when he says he means everything, I don't think
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: he was overstating it by any means. I think he does.
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: He means everything to this football or to this baseball teach.
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: And that's good. So we'll see him tonight. We'll talk
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: about that with Joe Shean coming up here in just
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: a couple minutes as well. Yes, he'll join us as
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: our weekly baseball guest too. I wanted to get into
• 41:28
  Speaker 2: this a little bit that Brendan Sorosby situation with Texas Tech.
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: So he's planning to enter the NFL Supplemental Draft. He
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: put out a statement today. Texas Tech put it out
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: a statement today. Everyone's putting out statements today. Yeah.
• 41:40
  Speaker 4: Do you think that's legally eased when they do that? Uh?
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: No, I think it's just everyone something.
• 41:46
  Speaker 3: No.
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: I think sometimes you just do it so you don't
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: have to do a press conference. Yeah, and then you're done.
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: We were talking about this with Greg earlier, Greg Bellencom
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: and Crosstalk. So basically, he's not going to be playing
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: this year for college. He's going to enter the NFL
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: Supplemental Draft. That deadline was coming up in a few
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: days anyway, But it comes just a week after a
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: ruling by a Lubbock County judge that barred the NCUBA
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: from stopping him from playing, even though the guy admitted
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: to betting on college football, including his own team, which
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: is just the most egregious thing you can do in
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: all of major sports.
• 42:26
  Speaker 4: It's a blackball situation.
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: Which brings us to the NFL. First of all, we
• 42:32
  Speaker 2: could take it one step back. We were saying this
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: last week. We were talking about this last week. I
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: just never and finally, the big twelves kind of stepped
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: up and they did their own court filings. I don't
• 42:41
  Speaker 2: know why the Big twelve didn't just use as a
• 42:44
  Speaker 2: precedent nineteen ninety three when the PAC ten at the
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: time sanctioned Washington and the Huskies and Don James for
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: some god, in today's world, nothing burger violations. But when
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: they did that, it was the conference, not the nc DOUBLEA,
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: that said, no, you have a bowl band, you have
• 43:02
  Speaker 2: a TV ban, and again a TV ban for those
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: that are younger. Back in the day, not every game
• 43:09
  Speaker 2: was on television in college football, and if you were
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: on TV, you reaped the financial benefits of it, and
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: it was lucrative. So getting banned from TV was a
• 43:19
  Speaker 2: financial penalty, a recruiting penalty, and a lot of bad things.
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: But the PAC ten did that. The NCAA did not
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: do that. And for the life of me, I couldn't
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: understand why the Big twelve wouldn't just say listen, you're
• 43:30
  Speaker 2: not because fifteen fifteen to sixteen athletic director said no,
• 43:35
  Speaker 2: this is wrong. Almost every school president saying no, this
• 43:38
  Speaker 2: is wrong. Texas Tech was in a battle is a
• 43:41
  Speaker 2: one versus one versus fifteen battle just say no, this
• 43:45
  Speaker 2: kid can't play. You just can't play. In the end,
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: And just a reference this morning, I heard the Morning
• 43:53
  Speaker 2: Show talking about it. Does this mean that other kids
• 43:56
  Speaker 2: are going to say, hey, we can gamble, we can
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: gamble on our own team, and we're going to be
• 44:00
  Speaker 2: protected by the courts. No, not even close a local court.
• 44:03
  Speaker 2: And Lubbock, Texas said that the NCAA couldn't ban him.
• 44:08
  Speaker 2: You would be a fool to go down that road.
• 44:10
  Speaker 2: And in fact, I think in the end, the Soorsby case,
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: if it does nothing else, it proves the point that
• 44:16
  Speaker 2: if you do gamble on your own team, you're gonna
• 44:18
  Speaker 2: be black bull Just just use that term. I think
• 44:20
  Speaker 2: that's a good term. You're gonna be blackballed. Yeah, why yeah,
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: I just but they just got payments, Dreedgie Bush with
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: this guy was gambling on his own team.
• 44:29
  Speaker 4: I mean people, Well, yeah, Rose, that's exactly he Rose.
• 44:33
  Speaker 2: Banned from life the Black Socks scandle Calvin Ridley a
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: year ago, which brings us to the NFL, And Greg
• 44:38
  Speaker 2: brought this up. Yes, he's going to enter the NFL draft.
• 44:43
  Speaker 2: There is no league more in tune with the world
• 44:46
  Speaker 2: of sports wagering and gambling than the National Football League.
• 44:50
  Speaker 2: Now I'm assuming and maybe I'm wrong here, but I'm
• 44:53
  Speaker 2: assuming that Brendan Sorosby's but the Sorsby's lawyers have consulted
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: the NFL before they just bailed on the NCAA to
• 45:03
  Speaker 2: say that maybe he's eligible. But God, I'd be terrified
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: if it was an NFL team to take a chance
• 45:08
  Speaker 2: on this guy with any kind of high supplemental pick
• 45:10
  Speaker 2: because remember, whatever pick you use, and it just goes
• 45:14
  Speaker 2: through the list the draft order. If you use a
• 45:16
  Speaker 2: first round pick, you lose your twenty twenty seven first
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: round pick. If you use a second round pick, whatever
• 45:21
  Speaker 2: it ends up being where he gets selected, he won't
• 45:24
  Speaker 2: go through all seven. But boy, I behsitant to use
• 45:27
  Speaker 2: a Day one or a Day two draft pick on
• 45:28
  Speaker 2: this kid. And I would too. And part of it
• 45:32
  Speaker 2: is because if he really does have the serious gambling
• 45:36
  Speaker 2: addiction that he says.
• 45:37
  Speaker 3: Don't you think that he does to be able to
• 45:41
  Speaker 3: do this while as young as he is.
• 45:43
  Speaker 4: Yes, And if it's either that.
• 45:46
  Speaker 3: Or you're that stupid, why do you have an addiction
• 45:49
  Speaker 3: or you're a moron?
• 45:51
  Speaker 4: Well, I'm sorry when it comes to that.
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: I think both are in existence here, I do too.
• 45:56
  Speaker 2: I mean, gambling addictions exist, and they're a real thing.
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: I'm not gonna I mean.
• 46:00
  Speaker 3: I'm not discounting gambling addictions. I'm just saying, if you
• 46:04
  Speaker 3: don't have one, then you are incredibly either naive or stupid.
• 46:09
  Speaker 2: Well, the problem is if if that addiction hasn't been
• 46:13
  Speaker 2: fully cured. And I don't think addictions ever are fully cured, right,
• 46:17
  Speaker 2: you just manage them. Yes, if he slips up and
• 46:21
  Speaker 2: bets it while he's in an NFL locker room, he's done.
• 46:25
  Speaker 2: And if you're going to think, and if you're an
• 46:27
  Speaker 2: NFL team, what did you invest in him? It better
• 46:30
  Speaker 2: not have been a Day one or Day two pick.
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: His talent is allegedly really strong.
• 46:38
  Speaker 4: Well, talent supersedes a lot of criminal activity. When it
• 46:42
  Speaker 4: comes to what does.
• 46:43
  Speaker 2: That mean for him moving forward, we'll find out. Anyway,
• 46:46
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  Speaker 2: now to you again how to do that all things
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  Speaker 2: baseball with Joe. Mariners are expected to have Cal Rawley
• 47:48
  Speaker 2: back Tonight's maybe JP Crawford back tonight to start a
• 47:51
  Speaker 2: series against of all Tomorial? Do they saw a short
• 47:56
  Speaker 2: time ago as well? And what's going on in baseball?
• 48:00
  Speaker 2: Get to Joe with us?
• 48:01
  Speaker 4: We do have Joe.
• 48:03
  Speaker 2: Hi, Joe, how are you good? You know what's going
• 48:05
  Speaker 2: on in uh? You know? Well, I'm glancing up at
• 48:08
  Speaker 2: a TV screen here and see that France and Senegal
• 48:11
  Speaker 2: are still scoreless. I'm doing that? Are you a World
• 48:13
  Speaker 2: Cup guy at all?
• 48:15
  Speaker 7: I just have some prof bets. I've got the uh,
• 48:17
  Speaker 7: I've got over twenty two and a half minutes of
• 48:19
  Speaker 7: ribing on the ground. I've got over the thirty eight
• 48:23
  Speaker 7: and a half pass passes back to the goalie. And
• 48:26
  Speaker 7: this this is this is the one I like the best.
• 48:28
  Speaker 7: I've got over one hundred and fourteen and a half
• 48:30
  Speaker 7: ball goes out of bounce.
• 48:32
  Speaker 2: Oh my god, you're that guy. You're gonna be that guy,
• 48:34
  Speaker 2: aren't you now? Listen. I don't like base I tried
• 48:37
  Speaker 2: to get in soccer.
• 48:39
  Speaker 7: I tried to get into soccer about ten years ago,
• 48:40
  Speaker 7: and I just every game I watched was scoreless, and
• 48:43
  Speaker 7: it just it just doesn't work for me. You got
• 48:44
  Speaker 7: to have something. I'd be watching the ticker and every
• 48:47
  Speaker 7: game would be five four, and then the game i'd
• 48:49
  Speaker 7: watch would be nothing.
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: Nothing.
• 48:51
  Speaker 2: There's been a couple of those, but there have been
• 48:53
  Speaker 2: a lot of I mean, yesterday it was a I
• 48:55
  Speaker 2: made the joke earlier, I said before the tournament started,
• 48:57
  Speaker 2: when I was doing a show up at our casino
• 48:59
  Speaker 2: sponsored is still the casino, that there's got to be
• 49:02
  Speaker 2: a day when you can do a parlay on all ties,
• 49:06
  Speaker 2: all draws. Yesterday would have been that day. You would
• 49:08
  Speaker 2: have made some money partly first.
• 49:10
  Speaker 7: Time in twenty years or something, or I saw no
• 49:13
  Speaker 7: first time in a long time. There have been four
• 49:15
  Speaker 7: ties on one day.
• 49:16
  Speaker 2: I think that I think this early round, like I'm
• 49:18
  Speaker 2: watching Senegal in France, I just kind of glanced in
• 49:20
  Speaker 2: at some some comments people are making. I guess France
• 49:22
  Speaker 2: isn't playing very well. They're kind of not mailing it in,
• 49:25
  Speaker 2: but they're kind of going through a little bit of
• 49:28
  Speaker 2: a lull in this particular game. Although there may be
• 49:31
  Speaker 2: a PK coming up here. But I think I think
• 49:34
  Speaker 2: you would have learned from watching, if you're any other
• 49:36
  Speaker 2: team that's supposed to be a favorite in this tournament,
• 49:38
  Speaker 2: from watching Spain yesterday mess around and tie zero zero
• 49:42
  Speaker 2: with a team by the way, that game was thrilling,
• 49:45
  Speaker 2: mostly because the goalie for whatever that small ass country
• 49:49
  Speaker 2: was the smallest country in the history of the sport
• 49:52
  Speaker 2: to like to hang in there. You would have thought
• 49:55
  Speaker 2: that would have been a wake up call. But maybe not.
• 49:56
  Speaker 2: We'll see, but we'll keep an eye on that. We
• 49:58
  Speaker 2: have Joe on here, not just for a soccer knowledge,
• 50:00
  Speaker 2: but of course for his baseball knowledge as well. We
• 50:03
  Speaker 2: have an opportunity, hopefully to see cal Rawley return to
• 50:06
  Speaker 2: the lineup tonight for Seattle. I'll ask you a couple
• 50:09
  Speaker 2: of different ways here, but let me just first say,
• 50:12
  Speaker 2: what do you think the return of a cal Rawley
• 50:14
  Speaker 2: to the lineup, if healthy means for Seattle. It's a
• 50:17
  Speaker 2: big deal.
• 50:18
  Speaker 7: Even you know, we've talked about last year being a
• 50:20
  Speaker 7: peak for him, and you're really expecting him to go
• 50:22
  Speaker 7: back to where he was in twenty three twenty four.
• 50:25
  Speaker 7: I think this's player you can expect two thirty two
• 50:27
  Speaker 7: forty hitter, you know, well above average power, who draws
• 50:30
  Speaker 7: some walks, he gets the catcher, figure to move the
• 50:33
  Speaker 7: catcher at the top of the lineup, and extends the
• 50:35
  Speaker 7: lineup because now you're taking Johnny Pareda or Mitch Garver
• 50:38
  Speaker 7: against right handers out of the lineup, so everybody else
• 50:41
  Speaker 7: goes down. It's a really big upgrade for them. And
• 50:44
  Speaker 7: even if you start to manage his workload a little bit,
• 50:47
  Speaker 7: you know, you talk about I talked to him earlier
• 50:50
  Speaker 7: this year about he played such a long year last
• 50:53
  Speaker 7: year and then went right into the World Baseball Classic.
• 50:55
  Speaker 7: I think some of what we saw in April and
• 50:57
  Speaker 7: May was tigue, and aside from the injury itself, I
• 51:03
  Speaker 7: just think getting that break is going to be helpful
• 51:05
  Speaker 7: for him. So I would project over the rest of
• 51:07
  Speaker 7: the year him to get two thirty average, three forty
• 51:11
  Speaker 7: OHBP four seventy slugging. Maybe something going on to twelve
• 51:15
  Speaker 7: to fifteen homers, he'll go. He'll give you the same
• 51:18
  Speaker 7: good defense that he's given you all along. I think
• 51:20
  Speaker 7: the one concession might be he's not going to DH
• 51:22
  Speaker 7: on the days that he doesn't He's not going to
• 51:25
  Speaker 7: DH on the days as a catch. I think that'll
• 51:27
  Speaker 7: be the biggest thing to help manage his body.
• 51:29
  Speaker 2: You're my numbers guy, so help me out with this.
• 51:33
  Speaker 2: How much of a difference does the catcher make, like, like,
• 51:37
  Speaker 2: in terms of in terms of the staff calling the game, backstop,
• 51:42
  Speaker 2: blocking balls, throwing guys out like like his impact is
• 51:45
  Speaker 2: and I've we've always kind of thought of him as
• 51:48
  Speaker 2: being a very very good defensive catcher, which is all things.
• 51:52
  Speaker 2: How much of a difference does that make for a
• 51:54
  Speaker 2: team overall?
• 51:56
  Speaker 7: Well, some of that is a black box. We talk about,
• 51:58
  Speaker 7: you know, managing the pitchers and haul of the game
• 52:00
  Speaker 7: and things like that, and we don't really have great
• 52:02
  Speaker 7: ways of quantifying that. You'll hear, You're gonna hear part
• 52:05
  Speaker 7: of Yaddie Molina's Hall of Fame case is going to be, well,
• 52:07
  Speaker 7: look at how well these guys like Ada Wayne Right
• 52:10
  Speaker 7: pitched with him. I'm the numbers guy. I'm willing to
• 52:15
  Speaker 7: believe that's real. I just don't think we're we gonna
• 52:16
  Speaker 7: get a handle on be able to quantify it. But
• 52:18
  Speaker 7: other stuff, you know, keeping the ball in front of
• 52:20
  Speaker 7: you is something we can quantify. You have many bases
• 52:22
  Speaker 7: forget whether it's a pass ball or a wild pitch.
• 52:24
  Speaker 7: Just throw it all into you know, seeing the catchers
• 52:26
  Speaker 7: back and you really get a sense of guys who
• 52:29
  Speaker 7: keep the ball in front of them and guys who don't.
• 52:32
  Speaker 7: We can conviously quantify framing, and framing goes into one
• 52:35
  Speaker 7: of the wars at fan grabs. It doesn't go into
• 52:38
  Speaker 7: baseball Baseball reference. That's something that we can do. We
• 52:41
  Speaker 7: can look at a lot of it. And of course
• 52:42
  Speaker 7: no offense and throwing, throwing out runners we've always had
• 52:46
  Speaker 7: a handle on. So most of what a catcher does
• 52:48
  Speaker 7: now we can quantify and think about rally. And you know,
• 52:52
  Speaker 7: we talked about this for years. It wasn't just that
• 52:54
  Speaker 7: he was a back behind the plate. He was a
• 52:56
  Speaker 7: legitimately good catcher, good framing numbers most years, pretty good
• 53:00
  Speaker 7: throwing numbers. I mean, he did all the things you
• 53:02
  Speaker 7: want your catcher to do. And he was an eight
• 53:06
  Speaker 7: hundred ohps guy. So I think all of that is
• 53:10
  Speaker 7: what they get back in him. And even if we
• 53:12
  Speaker 7: can't quantify the pitch calling, sequencing, pitcher management part, I
• 53:17
  Speaker 7: certainly don't think it's a negative for him when you
• 53:20
  Speaker 7: look at the pitchers that they've brought along in his
• 53:21
  Speaker 7: time in Seattle.
• 53:23
  Speaker 2: Okay, now, maybe this will come across as me being
• 53:26
  Speaker 2: the village idiot and Joe feel free. I know you
• 53:30
  Speaker 2: will to tell me that I am. But is framing
• 53:33
  Speaker 2: still a thing with ABS?
• 53:36
  Speaker 7: Yes, simply because you can't challenge every marginal pitch. Your
• 53:40
  Speaker 7: capped at two ruling challenges again. Each team has capped
• 53:43
  Speaker 7: at two rule challenges again, So catchers are still out
• 53:46
  Speaker 7: there trying to get the call. Sometimes those calls will
• 53:49
  Speaker 7: be challenged. Sometimes they're going to get challenged and the
• 53:52
  Speaker 7: batter's going to be wrong and the strike is going
• 53:54
  Speaker 7: to hold up. So I don't think there's any way
• 53:57
  Speaker 7: that framing is completely out of the game. Until we
• 54:00
  Speaker 7: go to full ABS, all the extremes going to be reduced.
• 54:04
  Speaker 7: Is Patrick get Bailey gonna go from plus twenty five
• 54:07
  Speaker 7: maybe the plus fifteen? Sure, the bottom of the scale
• 54:11
  Speaker 7: has been getting brought up for years now because we're
• 54:15
  Speaker 7: taking guys who are bad framers just never get to catch.
• 54:18
  Speaker 7: And we haven't yet seen teams make decisions based on
• 54:23
  Speaker 7: the ABAS system. What I mean by that is they're
• 54:25
  Speaker 7: still trying to identify catchers who can frame, as opposed
• 54:28
  Speaker 7: to just saying just go back there and be a bat,
• 54:31
  Speaker 7: or just go back there because you've got a really
• 54:33
  Speaker 7: strong arm. Teams are still selecting catchers based on their
• 54:36
  Speaker 7: free ability.
• 54:38
  Speaker 2: See that's why we have Johan on Joshianjoshian dot com,
• 54:41
  Speaker 2: the Joshian Newsletter. I knew there was a reason. I
• 54:44
  Speaker 2: guess it does make sense with the limit of two,
• 54:46
  Speaker 2: especially when you run out and you're still basing a
• 54:49
  Speaker 2: lot of times your challenge hitter or catcher right on
• 54:52
  Speaker 2: what the empire calls. So if you're able to I guess,
• 54:55
  Speaker 2: for the lack of a better term, right trick the umpire,
• 54:58
  Speaker 2: then you've done your job right as a catcher, because
• 55:01
  Speaker 2: that's either going to force somebody to use another one,
• 55:04
  Speaker 2: or they're going to force somebody to you know, or
• 55:06
  Speaker 2: or you're gonna be wrong right, like I guess, So
• 55:08
  Speaker 2: that does make sense to me.
• 55:10
  Speaker 7: You make a really good point here, even in terms
• 55:13
  Speaker 7: of hitters, can't challenge every pitch because they want to
• 55:16
  Speaker 7: save their challenges. You also can't challenge every pitch because
• 55:19
  Speaker 7: you'll run out of them sometimes. And my perception, I
• 55:22
  Speaker 7: don't have numbers behind this yet, My perception is that
• 55:25
  Speaker 7: when a team runs out of challenges, the umpires do
• 55:29
  Speaker 7: tend to go back a little bit to that everything's
• 55:32
  Speaker 7: a strike mentality. Maybe not as bad as it has
• 55:34
  Speaker 7: been in recent years, with the pitches three inches off
• 55:37
  Speaker 7: the plate getting called strikes, but it does seem to
• 55:39
  Speaker 7: me that when challenges, when a team has had of challenges,
• 55:42
  Speaker 7: umpires calm more strikes.
• 55:46
  Speaker 2: Joe she enjoining us, all right, can you help me
• 55:48
  Speaker 2: make sense of this? Then you're one for one. Can
• 55:51
  Speaker 2: you make sense of the way that Brian wu is
• 55:54
  Speaker 2: pitching this season at home versus how Brian wu is
• 55:58
  Speaker 2: pitching away from home? Batting average at home one fifty
• 56:02
  Speaker 2: nine away two seventy eight. Ops away from home is
• 56:07
  Speaker 2: at seven fifty five at home four forty two. The
• 56:10
  Speaker 2: numbers are every number imaginable is skewed to being really
• 56:14
  Speaker 2: good at tea mobile and just like bottom of the
• 56:18
  Speaker 2: American League on the road, How can that be?
• 56:22
  Speaker 7: Uh okay? When I'm looking at home road splits, I'm
• 56:28
  Speaker 7: mostly going to tell you it's just a sample sized fluke.
• 56:30
  Speaker 7: It's one hundred and forty PA's at home, it's one
• 56:32
  Speaker 7: hundred and eighty nine away. That's just these are really
• 56:35
  Speaker 7: microscopic samples. It's we're not even to a half a season,
• 56:38
  Speaker 7: and we're covering that half a season up into halves.
• 56:41
  Speaker 7: So really this is mostly just variance. But let me
• 56:43
  Speaker 7: give you the key number. At home, he's allowing a
• 56:45
  Speaker 7: two sixteen batting average on balls and play on the
• 56:49
  Speaker 7: road it's three eleven.
• 56:50
  Speaker 6: So most of this.
• 56:51
  Speaker 8: Difference is just babbit.
• 56:53
  Speaker 7: And we know, you know, babbit bounces around in large samples,
• 56:57
  Speaker 7: and we're talking about tiny little samples here. If you look,
• 57:00
  Speaker 7: can a strike out and walked in. When I want
• 57:01
  Speaker 7: to look at platoon splits, whether for hitters or for pitchers,
• 57:04
  Speaker 7: or any splits at all, I want to look at
• 57:07
  Speaker 7: strikeouts and walks. WU has a seven to one strikeout
• 57:10
  Speaker 7: to walk ray show at home, which is fantastic obviously,
• 57:13
  Speaker 7: But here's the thing. It's four to one on the road.
• 57:15
  Speaker 7: Now that's worse than seven to one. See, I give
• 57:17
  Speaker 7: you the big math answers here, but four to one
• 57:20
  Speaker 7: strikeouts to walk dought is fantastic. Brian Wu is not
• 57:23
  Speaker 7: pitching badly on the road. He's getting some bad babbitt blucked.
• 57:26
  Speaker 7: And I don't have home and a fly ball in
• 57:28
  Speaker 7: front of me, but it's seven homers and one hundred
• 57:30
  Speaker 7: and seventy six at bat, so I'm gonna say the
• 57:32
  Speaker 7: home and a fly ball is probably also a little
• 57:34
  Speaker 7: jacked up there. So really it's just outcomes on batted balls,
• 57:37
  Speaker 7: and outcomes on batted balls have enormous variants. So I
• 57:40
  Speaker 7: am not worried about Brian Wu at all.
• 57:43
  Speaker 2: The balls in play, the bat balls in play, how
• 57:46
  Speaker 2: much do they take into at all defense or lack
• 57:51
  Speaker 2: thereof or poor defense? How does that work?
• 57:55
  Speaker 8: Gosh, I can't imagine why you're answering asking.
• 57:56
  Speaker 2: Me that number.
• 58:03
  Speaker 7: The raw batt numbers don't now some of the advanced stuff.
• 58:06
  Speaker 7: Stack cast. You can look on a player stack cast
• 58:10
  Speaker 7: page or a team stack cast play pitch and they
• 58:12
  Speaker 7: will tell you which pitchers have benefited or been hurt
• 58:16
  Speaker 7: the most by the defense behind them. Go to baseball Simont,
• 58:21
  Speaker 7: and I'm not gonna go all the clicks here be
• 58:24
  Speaker 7: really bad radio. But if you go to Baseball Savant,
• 58:26
  Speaker 7: you go to the team pitching pages, you can actually
• 58:28
  Speaker 7: see which pitchers have had their offense and had the
• 58:31
  Speaker 7: defenses save the most runs behind them and allow the
• 58:34
  Speaker 7: most runs behind them. Aaron Nola had a huge number
• 58:37
  Speaker 7: in this category a couple years ago. I remember, and yeah,
• 58:40
  Speaker 7: it is quite possible that what we're seeing here is
• 58:42
  Speaker 7: that Brian who was being left down by the defense
• 58:44
  Speaker 7: at home, but maybe not on the road. And that's
• 58:46
  Speaker 7: where like that, that's where you get into the question
• 58:49
  Speaker 7: of what are we talking about Skiell versus Luck? Why
• 58:52
  Speaker 7: would the Mariners be playing worst defense behind? Why I'm
• 58:54
  Speaker 7: Brian wo at home or on the road versus at home?
• 58:58
  Speaker 7: These are just slightly small.
• 59:02
  Speaker 2: Because we were trying to wrap our arms, Joe, just
• 59:03
  Speaker 2: around this pitching staff as a whole. And you know,
• 59:06
  Speaker 2: they've got Kate Anderson down in double A right now,
• 59:09
  Speaker 2: whose numbers are through the roof crazy, Yeah, insane. They've
• 59:13
  Speaker 2: got six starters up here right now. And by no
• 59:17
  Speaker 2: means am my saying, hey, trade Brian wou like I
• 59:20
  Speaker 2: I want to make that perfectly clear. But I think
• 59:23
  Speaker 2: at some point, if you're Jerry Depoto and Justin Hollander,
• 59:26
  Speaker 2: are you not going through going Okay, we've got this
• 59:28
  Speaker 2: and we have we have six guys plus and actually
• 59:31
  Speaker 2: it's not just it's the other kid too, sloan to
• 59:32
  Speaker 2: whatever it is you got the all these guys and
• 59:35
  Speaker 2: then another guy that seems major lye ready right now
• 59:38
  Speaker 2: at least maybe even for a bullpen roll, and maybe
• 59:40
  Speaker 2: that's what the role ends up being. We've got to
• 59:43
  Speaker 2: do something because whether it's piggybacking and six man rotation,
• 59:46
  Speaker 2: it's great to have pitching depth, but we also have
• 59:49
  Speaker 2: some of the holes we could fill in. So you
• 59:50
  Speaker 2: probably have to start ranking some guys. Who's the most movable,
• 59:55
  Speaker 2: right like, who's the who's the the guy that you know,
• 59:57
  Speaker 2: whether it's contract, what you're con earned with, who's the
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 2: most movable for these guys.
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 9: The better least Castio pictures, the more likely he could
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 9: be traded in the office in the oldest probably number
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 9: six started by talent in that rotation at this point,
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 9: which is a lot.
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 2: Hang on one second, we just we kind of had
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 2: Joe kind of get a little a little squirrely there,
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 2: because that's a it's a good answer and the and
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 2: by the way, we do have to say a great job,
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 2: but Joe's phones looking so much better until just like
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 2: that great answer. So I think Jess is probably calling him.
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 4: Back real quick because we have Joe.
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 2: No, I'm right here, Okay, all right, all right, Joe, Okay,
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 2: so you kind of got you got Gurley there for
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 2: just a second. I don't know Nick's parade's going on
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 2: or something like that. Uh so, yet who's the most movable.
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 7: I was just taking a shot at Jim uh good.
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 4: Anya.
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 7: Yeah, Well, I think at the end of the year,
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 7: you look at trading Luis Castillo, particularly as he pitches
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 7: well here down the stretch, then you can say, okay,
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 7: we're he's the oldest obviously probably the least talented, which
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 7: is saying a lot about the pictures you have on
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 7: hand here.
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 8: He's a guy to trade the off season.
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 7: The problem with trading of Brian wol in season, it's
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 7: very hard to find a match where you're going to
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 7: get value. You really want to trade Brian Wood for
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 7: prospects in the middle of a season, I don't think
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 7: that's necessary of the message you want to send.
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 8: Okay, so now you're looking for a player for player trade, Well,
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 8: it's gonna be hard to get equal value for Brian especially.
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 8: I look at this team, it's not really obvious we're
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 8: even be looking to upgrade this this option in this lineup,
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 8: maybe an outfield corner where I didn't move for an
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 8: outfield corner.
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 6: I can trade.
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 8: That line is very awkward, and I say this name
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 8: occur to being bubbler.
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 9: Of these guys were very.
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 8: Hard to trade in season.
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 7: So now you're looking at Okay, you know what can
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 7: we do as.
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 8: Far as how do we align our talent?
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 2: I don't think.
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 7: I think they've done a really good job with the
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 7: six starters. Kate Anderson threw one hundred and nineteen ninon
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 7: last year for Arkansas. He's at fifty five this year for.
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 8: Our not for alls years. He's at fifty five for Arkansas.
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 8: I don't know that he's going to build much beyond
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 8: one twenty five, one thirty. I see him more as
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 8: a reliever option, especially action down. You don't know about
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 8: movie noses back. You have some real issues from the
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  Speaker 8: right side. I think he's a relief option more than
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  Speaker 8: he's a.
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  Speaker 7: Necessarily start option. I said to you in April, I
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  Speaker 7: didn't think he'd be in the majors this year. And
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  Speaker 7: I was clearly wrong about that. I think at the
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  Speaker 7: very least he's going to be pitching in the majors
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  Speaker 7: for this team over the last six weeks.
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  Speaker 2: Or so, is it. Does it then make sense just
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  Speaker 2: to say, hey, look, we we you know we've got
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  Speaker 2: some issue. Well, especially if you're gonna keep the six
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  Speaker 2: guys your bullpen shorter anyway, maybe you need a guy
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  Speaker 2: that can go longer. Maybe whatever, does it make sense
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  Speaker 2: to get him? I guess what makes more sense going
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  Speaker 2: to Triple A for a while or going and frankly,
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  Speaker 2: you know, in coming or coming up to the majors
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  Speaker 2: and getting a taste of this and kind of acclimating
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  Speaker 2: him to the big leagues.
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  Speaker 7: I would love to see him in a role that
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  Speaker 7: doesn't really exist anymore. The brakes is down a little
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  Speaker 7: bit of this this year or Dinia Cuentes. But you
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  Speaker 7: think about the way Earl Weaver fifty years ago would
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  Speaker 7: bring up young pitchers. We put him in the bullpen
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  Speaker 7: and happen to throw these these long relief outings, and
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  Speaker 7: that was an error where starters would come out of
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  Speaker 7: the game earlier. If you were getting knocked around in
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  Speaker 7: the third inning, they might take you out now, they
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  Speaker 7: tend to lead you in for five innings.
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  Speaker 8: Kate Anderson in a three to four inning would be
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  Speaker 8: forroll twice a week. I think would be.
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  Speaker 7: Both managing his innings and getting developing him well.
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  Speaker 8: I really like that as a role for him. Maybe
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  Speaker 8: a spot start here and there. Maybe anybody already.
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  Speaker 7: Having six starters, although that I'll be honest with you,
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  Speaker 7: the manors having six starters for three weeks, now that
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  Speaker 7: might be a record because usually when he can go
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  Speaker 7: through a six man rotation, somebody ends up with an
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  Speaker 7: ali it's not being able to play it.
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  Speaker 8: So this is a never surprise.
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  Speaker 9: But I just don't think Anderson is going to bump
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  Speaker 9: any of the guys in this rotation, so a couple
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  Speaker 9: get hurt.
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  Speaker 8: Maybe we're talking about him as a starter, but I
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  Speaker 2: it up with this you wrote about it. Houston and
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  Speaker 2: Detroit's twelve games und five hundred, Houston's eight games under
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  Speaker 2: five hundred. Two teams would playoff team last year in Detroit. Obviously,
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  Speaker 2: we know what Houston's resume is. Can one of these
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  Speaker 2: two teams right the ship this year?
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  Speaker 7: I think the Astros more likely. They're closer to a
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  Speaker 7: playoff spot, the closer to first place. I think I
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  Speaker 7: like their talent based better. They've had a lot of
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  Speaker 7: injuries early in the early going here, they're finally getting it.
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  Speaker 7: Just about everybody who's going to come back is back.
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  Speaker 7: They get Hunter Brown tonight, he'll start, Yeah, ener Diaz
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  Speaker 7: the catcher, he'll be back soon, hopefully, Christian Havier maybe
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  Speaker 7: had a week away. So they're gonna have the best team.
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  Speaker 7: They're going to have the rest of the year on
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  Speaker 7: the field soon. I think there's more motivation for Jim Crane.
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 7: I don't think Jim Crade wants to go into a rebuild.
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  Speaker 7: It also be harder for them because outside of Jordan Alvarez,
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  Speaker 7: they don't have a ton that's marketable, maybe Jeremy Kanya.
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  Speaker 7: If they wanted to trade Brown, they could trade Brown.
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  Speaker 7: The Tigers, you know, their bullpennag just killed them. They're
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  Speaker 7: seven to fourteen in one run games. They're zero to
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 7: five in extra inning games. So yeah, I think their
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  Speaker 7: record is less indicated indicative of how well they've played.
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  Speaker 7: They also have the decision on tour at tux. If
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  Speaker 7: they fall far in AO back, they're gonna have to
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 7: trade Schooble because they're likely going to they wouldn't be
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 7: able to retain him in free agency, so they have
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  Speaker 7: a lot of motivation to get back in this race
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 7: to keep him. They're actually I mean, they were basically
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 7: tied for the worst record in the AL as of
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 7: a couple days ago, but that also only leaves you
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 7: six games out of a playoff spot because the AL
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  Speaker 7: is so for Cockton this year.
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  Speaker 6: So don't bleep me.
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  Speaker 7: That's not a bad word.
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  Speaker 4: No, Yeah, I grew up on Long Island, right, I
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  Speaker 4: know what that means.
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  Speaker 7: So again, you know, the Tigers one last, nay, one
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 7: of the things you want to start watching for. And
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  Speaker 7: I hate that this is the system now, but tiebreakers
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 7: start to matter. The Tigers and Astros will play six
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 7: games over the next week and a half two weeks,
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 7: and if one of them can come out four and
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 7: two or two, and you know, four and two, that's
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 7: a half game up on the other. When we start
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 7: looking at the wildcard standings down the road. This is
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 7: stuff that's I mean, we end up talking about it
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 7: in September. We talked about it a lot with the
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 7: Mariners over the last few years. Who has the tiebreaker,
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 7: you know, who can if they win two out of
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 7: three in the series. But for teams in the Wildcard
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 7: that are going to play twice that don't play in
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 7: the same division, these series in June start to take
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 7: on and outside importance.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, the Mayor is just moments ago did
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 2: make all the moves official. Cal Raley reinstated JP Crawford,
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 2: reinstated Johnny Pereda optioned at Tacoma, and Patrick Wisdom was
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 2: optioned yesterday to Tacoma as well. So roster moves are
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 2: in place, and the Mannors get their catcher back and
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 2: we'll see where JP Crawford ends up playing. They just
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 2: put JP. Gonna say, that's.
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  Speaker 7: That's the question I have.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, that's the question I have.
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  Speaker 8: I'm you know, the lineup isn't out yet.
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 7: It's four o'clock here, but I really want to see
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  Speaker 7: what the first lineup tonight because I think that will
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 7: give us a real good sense of how what's going
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 7: to be the rest of the year. I think if
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 7: Crawford comes back and play short tonight. I don't think
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 7: they'll make a move during the season, so we're gonna
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 7: learn a lot to it.
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  Speaker 2: I mean everyone here is saying the same thing. I
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 2: got to have him working at third right now, and
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 2: I mean the way cold Emerson's playing, not just offensively,
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  Speaker 2: but his defense at shortstop's been sensational. At some point.
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 7: Don't you best defensive shortstop.
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 2: On the team then, isn't it? Isn't it major League Baseball?
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 2: Don't you just go with the best player?
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  Speaker 4: Uh?
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  Speaker 7: Well, no, I think historically we've seen a lot of
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 7: teams go with defer to their veteran. I mean we're
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 7: twenty almost twenty five years removed from the Yankees trading
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 7: for Alex Rodriguez when Alex Rodriguez was best defensive shortstop
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  Speaker 7: in the American League and making him go to third
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 7: to defer Derek Jeter who had four rings and no rage.
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 7: You do see teams defer to the veteran rather than
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 7: play their best team. The Oh it's not who's there's
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 7: another team out there, blanket, there's another team right now? Oh,
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 7: the Nationals. C J Abrams, the shortstop Nassy Nunia is
• 1:07:38
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• 1:07:41
  Speaker 7: but they're deferring to the veterans.
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  Speaker 4: Minutes I was really going for Senecal.
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  Speaker 2: John Tortorella took over for the Vegas Golden Knight for
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: Took him all the way to the Stanley Cup Final.
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  Speaker 2: Will not be back as the head coach of the
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  Speaker 2: all right. I love yeah, but I'll tell you right now,
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  Speaker 2: see Torch on TV again. Man. The way he traded
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  Speaker 2: the media in this part in the playoffs, well yeah,
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  Speaker 4: Some respect, all right, asking for it the Uh.
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  Speaker 2: the twelve o'clock hour to talk about their off season.
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  Speaker 2: How far away is this team? Because I and I'll
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  Speaker 2: even take another step for there. Carolina didn't have anybody
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 2: in the top what forty in terns of points, thirty
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• 1:11:01
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  Speaker 2: and finding your way into that postseason.
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  Speaker 5: Well, look, I think where obviously we didn't accomplish our
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  Speaker 5: goals in March and April, that was very evident stuff
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  Speaker 5: from that standpoint, but we felt sitting here at the
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  Speaker 5: and I think that's what we focus in on. Okay,
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  Speaker 5: we took steps, we played very well in a very
• 1:11:25
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• 1:11:30
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  Speaker 5: you can talk about specific games of success marks, whether
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  Speaker 5: that's against Carolina or Vegas, but at the end of
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  Speaker 5: have to be just more consistent from that standpoint, and
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  Speaker 5: we've talked about we have to create more from an
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  Speaker 5: just getting more you know, NetFront presence is something that
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  Speaker 6: You know.
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  Speaker 5: To me, that's where we can take a big step
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  Speaker 5: as an organization, as a team. And you know, that's
• 1:12:00
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• 1:12:04
  Speaker 5: help with these younger players, our younger forwards having more
• 1:12:07
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  Speaker 2: Well, there you go. That is Jason Bottrell. He also
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  Speaker 2: five year contract extension. The conference is reborn in Brendan,
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  Speaker 2: soursby Texas Tech quarterback no more. He has withdrawn all
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 2: the litigation and he will enter the NFL Supplemental Draft.
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 2: John Lunch standing by It's weekly visit with John Lund Unleashed.
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  Speaker 1: He's a Bay Area media icon who's known Ian for
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 1: over twenty five years. But don't let their age change
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 1: your opinion of them. John takes you through the Bay
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 1: Area and the NFC West and dukes it out with
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 1: the inn Over, the Niners and the Hawks. So let's
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  Speaker 1: unleash it now with John Lund.
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  Speaker 2: Here's Ian hanging out the thirty two Bar and Grill
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  Speaker 2: today Cracking Community ice Plex thanks to Jason BoNT Roll
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  Speaker 2: GM who joined us in the twelve o'clock hour watching
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  Speaker 2: a World Cup right now. Good place to come watch
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 2: USA Australia on Friday eleven thirty pregame here on KJAR
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  Speaker 2: and noon kickoff at not Loomenfield, not Levi Stadium.
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  Speaker 4: Nope, Seattle Stadium.
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 2: Seattle Stadium they call it. That's right, No longer Levi
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 2: Stadium in the Bay Area as well. What's up, buddy?
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 2: How are you?
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  Speaker 6: I've never better, never better?
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 2: That's a lie.
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 6: I was just I was, you know what, I was
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 6: just in a I'm really embarrassed. I was just in
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 6: like a place to pay my cable bill or something
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 6: because we were having issues and I never do this,
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 6: and I got really pissed to the guy and I
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 6: just start going off. And then before I left, I'm like,
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 6: I'm sorry it was such a d there. Man, I apologize,
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 6: like I was like, it's cool, it's cool, but sometimes
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 6: you get frustrated and I'm using a really nice guy
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 6: and I hate to make a scene, but man, I
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 6: just I don't know. I just readline for a minute.
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 6: Then I just came out to the car. I need
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 6: a drink. I'm really embarrassed, man, really embarrassed.
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 4: At least if you were really a k then you
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 4: would not admit it.
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 6: But I mean, I'm not normally a jerk, but I
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 6: just I you know, it's a crazy guy. I won't
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 6: take much time on it. But long story short is,
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 6: I know they were a problem with my credit card
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 6: or something, and so they said, well, you can't use
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 6: that credit card. It's been turned down. I go, well,
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 6: this is my business credit card.
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 2: This is what I'm using.
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 6: Do you want my money or not? And he goes, no,
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 6: well we can't take it. I go, do you want
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 6: my money or not. I don't know. He was a
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 6: punk kid and he was pissing me off, and so
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 6: I just I just kind of lost her for a minute.
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 6: But you know what you find out not that I
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 6: because I'm not normally like this.
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 2: I'm not.
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 6: But all of a sudden, it was like, fine, we'll
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 6: take the card. Like sometimes you got to be an
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 6: a hole, like sometimes you just gotta. And I feel bad.
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 2: But now they're talking about, Okay, so the credit card's
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 2: not working. Is that kind of an issue?
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 6: No, I guess no, let's see, I knew you were
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 6: going to say that it's not the credit card. It's
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 6: just something happened where they charged. You know, your cable
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 6: just comes out of here, you know, every month, you
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 6: don't even think about it. Yeah, and for some reason,
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 6: I don't know what happened. But anyway, so they're like,
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 6: well they for some reason, they go, well, that's on
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 6: a ninety day, like you can't use it for ninety days.
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 6: And I'm like, that's the dumbest thing I ever heard.
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 6: I go, I'm here, I go run it. It'll run
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 6: straight through and we'll be done here. Because I can't
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 6: have my cable turned off my wife will get all mad,
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 6: and you know, you got to have your Internet and
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 6: all that kind of stuff. It's like, you know, it's
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 6: one of the most important things you have in your
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 6: life now anyway. Yeah, so I got mad and guess what,
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 6: they usually went through it and it got done. So
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 6: I don't need to be a jerk, but sometimes you
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 6: got to be a jerk.
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 2: I don't. I find myself every now and then, like
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 2: you got to catch yourself in today's world, right, like
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 2: you just want to want to you want to snap,
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 2: and then you go, you know what, it's not that
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 2: person's fault, Like, it's just it is.
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 6: And that's what I said to him. Yeah, that's why
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 6: I did. I go, Dude, I go, and I did.
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 6: I said, I hate to be a d I'm sorry
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 6: that was not cool. And you guys don't deserve this
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 6: man because you know, they're just a couple of I mean,
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 6: the manager was probably twenty five, no fans, just you know,
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 6: a young kid in the twenty five year old you know,
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 6: the guy helping me. He's got tattoos and a nose ring.
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 6: He's just you know, he doesn't really want to work.
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 6: He's just kind of like gotta do something with my life.
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 6: I guess I'll be a customer rep in a cable blaze. Like,
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 6: you know, he's just hanging out and some some jerk
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 6: is you know, some jerk is yelling at him. That's
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 6: not cool. So I told him that, I go, that's cool.
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 2: I'm not just coming to just shirping me for some reason. Yeah, no,
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 2: I get it.
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 3: I did that at a knee surgery appointment one time
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 3: to a nurse, and I went back and bought her
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 3: a twenty five a dollar gift card to Starbucks.
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 4: So I hear.
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 3: You, Yeah, because I said, I'm so bad because I'm like,
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 3: that's not me.
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 6: I'm not doing that. I'm not doing that.
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 4: Well no, I'm just saying I hear you because I'm.
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 6: Like, I've gone from man, I feel really bad that
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 6: I was talking out and I feel really good, and
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 6: now I feel really bad again. Yeah it's not cool.
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 6: Like it's not. It's not customer service reps fault when
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 6: you call them on the phone. It's not you know
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 6: what I mean. It's been America. They don't care.
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 2: They're just trying to make a body. Just be nice.
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 2: I give you to pay the cake you get going
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 2: down there to pay the cable bill. I'll give you
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 2: a little known fact about Ian. I'll give you this
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 2: one third person reference. I don't I cannot remember the
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 2: last time I paid a bill.
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 4: Like my wife does how much dinner are you?
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 2: No? No, no, no, no, no, no, she does no,
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 2: she does everything like I. She does not trust you
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 2: with any of that, like she said to me once,
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 2: she trust either.
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 6: No, I'm gonna tell my wife.
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 2: That, like, we're just morons like and and we have a.
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 4: Nice growing to cut that.
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 2: By the way, We're just she said to me, Like
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 2: she said to me recently, she goes, you know, I
• 1:21:22
  Speaker 2: should probably teach you how to do all this stuff?
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 2: Is something ever happened to me? And I said, listen,
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 2: hun like if something happens to you, I I got.
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 2: I'm I'm in. There's nothing that's gonna help me, it
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 2: really is.
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 6: I'm not out. First of all, we know this. We're
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 6: not out living our wives. I mean, my wife thinks
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 6: really well, doesn't drink like I do, doesn't you know,
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 6: smoke cigars, and you know I do dumb stuff constantly.
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 6: There's a way I'm outliving her. So I'm not worried
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 6: about it. But when my dad passed away, this is
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 6: no lie, and then we can move on to other stuff.
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 6: He had a binder because my mom did you know
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 6: how to get gassed? She never went grocery shopping like
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 6: my dad did everything. He had to make her a
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 6: binder on his deathbed of like, I'm not kidding, you
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 6: look like gone with the wind. This is this, this
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 6: is this, this is this, This is how you pay
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 6: the bills. She didn't have a clue. She couldn't get
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 6: gas in her car. She never drove nothing nothing.
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well she she should have just lived in She'll
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 2: live in Oregon. You don't have to pump your own gas.
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 4: Right, although I like that, j and Philly are like
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 4: that too.
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 6: Would drive crazy. That would drive me crazy.
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 2: You know an option? Yeah, I know. Before people think
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 2: I'm a total neanderthal, I do all the grocery shopping
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 2: and I do all the all right, just so you know,
• 1:22:40
  Speaker 2: the fessa's listen. The Fronessa's play to their strengths is
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 2: what we do. We play to our strengths.
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 6: And she has the business numbers.
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah, she's got the business So I'm like, you have
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 2: the business degree and the minor and stats and accounting.
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 2: You do that. I worked in restaurants and cooked in
• 1:22:59
  Speaker 2: restaurants for years. I'll do the cooking. It's as simple
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 2: as that. And she hates cooking. I like it. It's
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 2: like glass of wine, do some cooking, decompress at night.
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 2: Then she'll ask me. Then she'll say, what's this bill for.
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 2: I'm like, I don't know. I don't know. That's something
• 1:23:15
  Speaker 2: I needed for work? And she says, she said, you
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 2: mean from the golf superstore. Yeah, that's work.
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 6: Worth about it? You got to trade that off?
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, where at the bar? You need something to
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 2: the bar? All right?
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 3: Uh?
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 2: John Lund joined us right now, Hey tell us about
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 2: Matt Chapman. But the Giants are wanting to move this guy.
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 2: Is he Is he worth like Seattle's been rumored to
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 2: get him? Is it? Or like would be interested? Is
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 2: is he worth it?
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 6: Well? You you probably remember what the a's and he
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 6: played played against the Americans a lot, and look, he's
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 6: not only a gold glove third basement, he's like a
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 6: platinum glove third basement. I mean, there's nobody better defensively,
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 6: but he's wildly inconsistent. He's an up and down kind
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 6: of hitter. Like right now, he's actually on fire. Earlier
• 1:24:01
  Speaker 6: in the season he couldn't hit anything, and that's kind
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 6: of his career, Like he'll give you in a given season,
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 6: however he gets there, it's kind of up and down,
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 6: like I said, but he'll give you twenty to twenty
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 6: five home runs. He should knock in sixty seventy runs
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 6: and he'll probably hit you two thirty, two forty. But
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 6: it's a way that is maddening. And he'll go and
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 6: he'll go crazy, and he'll you know, have a month
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 6: where he hits eight home runs and then we'll have
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 6: a you know, two months where he doesn't, where he
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 6: hits two. You know. But there's a few different things
• 1:24:28
  Speaker 6: if you value these kind of things. He's great in
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 6: the clubhouse. He's an amazing guy. I talked to him
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 6: both with the A's and the Giants for years, and
• 1:24:35
  Speaker 6: he's a clutch guy. He'll come up with with big
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 6: plays both at the plate and you know, defensively. So yeah,
• 1:24:41
  Speaker 6: I think he's worth it. His contract is a little
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 6: bit high. I don't have it right up the top.
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 2: Of my head.
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 6: But a couple of years ago, when he had a
• 1:24:47
  Speaker 6: nice season, he had come over so he went from
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 6: the A's to the Blue Jays to the Giants. He
• 1:24:51
  Speaker 6: came over to the Giants. He signed really late in
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 6: spring training. In fact, I was covering spring training that year,
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 6: and he came really late, got off to his slow start.
• 1:24:57
  Speaker 6: But he's he just signed a new contract a couple
• 1:25:01
  Speaker 6: of years ago off a really good season. So his
• 1:25:03
  Speaker 6: contract's not the greatest. I think the Giants would probably
• 1:25:05
  Speaker 6: pay some of that. They've got money, they might pay
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 6: some of that down so that they could get a
• 1:25:10
  Speaker 6: better prospect from the Mariners. But yeah, you could do
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 6: a lot worse than Matt Chapman at third base.
• 1:25:14
  Speaker 2: John Lynn joining us right now. We always have fun
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 2: on this segment and rightfully sold, But I do want
• 1:25:19
  Speaker 2: to bring this up. Alden Smith died a couple of
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 2: days ago. Yeah, and just one of those like like
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 2: Seahawks fans remember him, everybody remembers him. Just a great
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 2: start to his career and then obviously some demons and
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 2: other things took over. You covered him, you were around it.
• 1:25:38
  Speaker 2: What do you remember about Alden Smith.
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 6: Well, there's a couple of different things. The play that
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 6: he made against the Seahawks that was the biggest play
• 1:25:45
  Speaker 6: was was that the first or second play of the
• 1:25:47
  Speaker 6: game NFC Championship game, he knocked the bab ball.
• 1:25:49
  Speaker 2: I think I think it was the first play the
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 2: force fumble, I think.
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I think it was, yeah, yeah. And then but
• 1:25:55
  Speaker 6: the Seahawks held him to a field goal, which was huge,
• 1:25:57
  Speaker 6: and that was of course, you know the ball that
• 1:25:59
  Speaker 6: that Sherman away and all that kind of stuff. But
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 6: he had forty three and a half sacks his first
• 1:26:04
  Speaker 6: three years. His second year in the league he had
• 1:26:06
  Speaker 6: nineteen and a half sacks. But he and I mean
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 6: he was taken in that draft. He was taking seventh
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 6: over all that draft. He was taken ahead of guys
• 1:26:13
  Speaker 6: like JJ Watt, same draft as von Miller. He could
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 6: have been as good as any of those guys. I
• 1:26:17
  Speaker 6: remember his first practice. We went down and Harbaugh was
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 6: coaching the Niners, and Joe Staley, really good left tackle
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 6: for the Niners, was out there, and we're like, who's
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 6: ninety nine Because not a lot of people knew who
• 1:26:27
  Speaker 6: Alden was. He came out as a sophomore. He was
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 6: only twenty years old. He had these long arms and
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 6: Joe Staley after the practice was like, are you kidding you?
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 6: With this guy. But the number one thing I remember,
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 6: and you were obviously you were at this super Bowl
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 6: because I remember remember the Super Bowl in New York.
• 1:26:40
  Speaker 6: Obviously the Seahawks beat de Broncos, but remember the radio row.
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 6: How clustered it was, how clusey. You know, everybody was
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 6: like right on top of each other, because I remember
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 6: hanging out with you at that Super Bowl. Well, Alden
• 1:26:50
  Speaker 6: came on with us, as they do, you know for
• 1:26:52
  Speaker 6: those who don't know the radio row, and they they
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 6: all these different people come on. You have like twelve
• 1:26:56
  Speaker 6: fifteen interviews a show, and they're always talking something at
• 1:26:59
  Speaker 6: the end like hey you lett Raisers, Oh my god,
• 1:27:01
  Speaker 6: these are the best things ever. Blah blah blah. You know,
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 6: you do ten minutes of content one minute of like,
• 1:27:05
  Speaker 6: you know, great, you got the greatest, you know, Faber
• 1:27:09
  Speaker 6: software in the world. So but Alden came on and
• 1:27:12
  Speaker 6: his handler. They all have handlers, and they tell you
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 6: here's the sheet, here's what you talk about. Don't talk
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 6: about this, you can talk about that. Well, handler tells
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 6: me in New York, don't talk about his off the
• 1:27:21
  Speaker 6: field transgressions. Well, that year you would probably remember this.
• 1:27:25
  Speaker 6: He was so hammered. He had a car that he
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 6: had crashed up against a tree and his foot was
• 1:27:30
  Speaker 6: still in the accelerator. And oh, by the way, it
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 6: was seven thirty in the morning and that was the
• 1:27:36
  Speaker 6: same season. So his handler tells me, don't say anything
• 1:27:39
  Speaker 6: about you know, that specific incident. Try to stay away
• 1:27:42
  Speaker 6: from those kind of things. So you know me, that's
• 1:27:45
  Speaker 6: what people wanted to know. And so the first thing
• 1:27:47
  Speaker 6: I do is I said, I said, alten man, I
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 6: got asked, you know the incident this year, and the
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 6: guy was losing his mind, like the handler was giving
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 6: me the cut sign, you know, the yeah, and Alden
• 1:27:59
  Speaker 6: held up his hand and then he said to the guy, no,
• 1:28:01
  Speaker 6: I got this. I gotta do this. And he proceeded
• 1:28:04
  Speaker 6: to give us the best ten minutes ever because he
• 1:28:06
  Speaker 6: just said, look, I'm an idiot and I got to
• 1:28:08
  Speaker 6: get help, and I got to do this and this
• 1:28:10
  Speaker 6: is what I've been doing, and I got to get better.
• 1:28:12
  Speaker 6: But that was his whole life, you know, his whole
• 1:28:14
  Speaker 6: life was screw up, I gotta do better, screw up,
• 1:28:16
  Speaker 6: I gotta do better. And it seemed like, you know,
• 1:28:19
  Speaker 6: at the age of thirty six, he was giving back
• 1:28:21
  Speaker 6: to the community. He had just moved back to the
• 1:28:22
  Speaker 6: Bay Area. I had a couple of people talk to him.
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 6: Seemed like he was in a really good place. And
• 1:28:26
  Speaker 6: the toxicology reports aren't out. But I don't know if
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 6: you know, you can die of natural causes at thirty six,
• 1:28:33
  Speaker 6: but probably not. So he probably had gone back into
• 1:28:36
  Speaker 6: something or drug related, whatever the case may be. But
• 1:28:39
  Speaker 6: I had never seen a guy in my whole life
• 1:28:42
  Speaker 6: that I covered that had more talent and that had
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 6: wasted it more than what Alden Smith did.
• 1:28:46
  Speaker 2: It's sad, it's it's tragic in a lot of ways.
• 1:28:50
  Speaker 2: I know the parent, the family's going to donate his
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 2: brain to check out on CTE. But listen at thirty six.
• 1:28:59
  Speaker 2: A few games he played ct I mean, that's a
• 1:29:02
  Speaker 2: good thing to do, right, But his issue was what
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 2: you just said. It was substance abuse, right, That's what
• 1:29:09
  Speaker 2: it was.
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 11: Yeah, And you know he.
• 1:29:14
  Speaker 2: He he was in Seattle for People may have forgotten
• 1:29:17
  Speaker 2: about this. He was in Seattle for a cup of
• 1:29:18
  Speaker 2: coffee and in twenty twenty one, and I remember we
• 1:29:24
  Speaker 2: interviewed him and I'm pretty sure we had him. I
• 1:29:28
  Speaker 2: want to say I had him one on one on
• 1:29:31
  Speaker 2: the show because I remember interviewing, I remember talking about
• 1:29:34
  Speaker 2: it afterwards, and he was one of the most engaging,
• 1:29:39
  Speaker 2: articulate guys I spoke to, like and for first of all,
• 1:29:43
  Speaker 2: like he comes to Seattle and you're like, all, this
• 1:29:46
  Speaker 2: smith Man, this dude was a like he was a
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 2: son of a guy against you know, for the Seahawks,
• 1:29:51
  Speaker 2: like just kill yeah, killed the Hawks. And then obviously
• 1:29:55
  Speaker 2: all the issues off the field, and you know, is
• 1:29:57
  Speaker 2: he right? And he kind of did. It was interesting.
• 1:30:00
  Speaker 2: He's one of those guys there's a lot of accountability publicly,
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 2: which you appreciate, but then behind the scenes that's not
• 1:30:06
  Speaker 2: actually being followed through on. But I do remember a
• 1:30:09
  Speaker 2: like you said, the talent was unbelievable, but really a
• 1:30:12
  Speaker 2: very like a guy. I was like, I was rooting
• 1:30:15
  Speaker 2: for him here, God, I hope this guy. Yeah, and
• 1:30:17
  Speaker 2: then he yet then he he had an issue again
• 1:30:19
  Speaker 2: and they had to let him go. So, I mean,
• 1:30:21
  Speaker 2: one of those things with him, it's just it's it's frustrating,
• 1:30:23
  Speaker 2: it's sad, tragic in a lot of ways. Uh, And
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 2: we see that all too often in sports. But yeah,
• 1:30:29
  Speaker 2: he was he was. He was a terror, an absolute
• 1:30:33
  Speaker 2: terror on those forty nine er teams going against Seattle
• 1:30:35
  Speaker 2: during the time. But that's it's a sad, sad story.
• 1:30:39
  Speaker 2: John Lynn joining us right now on the Beacon Plumbing Hotline.
• 1:30:42
  Speaker 2: Are you do you have some World Cup fever? But
• 1:30:44
  Speaker 2: do you watch it or what? Do you just give me?
• 1:30:46
  Speaker 2: Give me the yes or no?
• 1:30:47
  Speaker 6: Oh yeah, there's no doubt. I think I'm like a
• 1:30:49
  Speaker 6: lot of people. And again, I'm not anti soccer, and
• 1:30:52
  Speaker 6: I don't know why people get mad if you're not
• 1:30:54
  Speaker 6: totally into it. I'm definitely into it. I watch it.
• 1:30:57
  Speaker 6: It's kind of like the Olympics. For me, you get
• 1:30:58
  Speaker 6: more excited and then in four years to do it again.
• 1:31:01
  Speaker 6: And apparently for those who know, we're supposed to be
• 1:31:04
  Speaker 6: pretty good. Plus, let's be honest, I mean, I think
• 1:31:06
  Speaker 6: we're all a bit of conspiracy theorist. Most of the
• 1:31:08
  Speaker 6: games are in the US, so I bet that the
• 1:31:11
  Speaker 6: US might do weight weight nudge nudge pretty decent and
• 1:31:15
  Speaker 6: we'll see what happens. But I know what's gonna happen.
• 1:31:18
  Speaker 6: We're all gonna get hyped on the team. They're gonna
• 1:31:19
  Speaker 6: lose to probably somebody they shouldn't lose too. We're all
• 1:31:21
  Speaker 6: gonna get mad and then we're gonna ask ourselves, God,
• 1:31:23
  Speaker 6: we got this huge country, why aren't we better than
• 1:31:25
  Speaker 6: you know, whatever country just beat us. You know, there's
• 1:31:27
  Speaker 6: a there're ten percent of our size, how come we're
• 1:31:30
  Speaker 6: not better? And it's like, well, it's like I played soccer.
• 1:31:32
  Speaker 6: In fact, when I lived up in Seattle, when I
• 1:31:34
  Speaker 6: was a young kid, I played soccer. We played against
• 1:31:36
  Speaker 6: Canadian teams. I was actually really good. But then you
• 1:31:38
  Speaker 6: start you start realizing that, like soccer doesn't get girls,
• 1:31:41
  Speaker 6: and soccer doesn't get fame, and like when you're that kid,
• 1:31:44
  Speaker 6: and then you go over to high school baseball or
• 1:31:45
  Speaker 6: football or basketball or something. But and I love soccer,
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 6: I really do. But it's you know, we're I don't
• 1:31:51
  Speaker 6: know why we're not better at it. But well it
• 1:31:53
  Speaker 6: kind of is going to follow that same pattern, isn't it.
• 1:31:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah, But I'll be tell you right now, I've seen
• 1:31:59
  Speaker 2: some of the Sounder wife They get girls. Dude, I
• 1:32:00
  Speaker 2: don't know that that's a that's a misnomer, right.
• 1:32:02
  Speaker 6: There, you guys a great pocket, that's true.
• 1:32:05
  Speaker 2: They yeah, yeah, there's there's Listen, pro athletes don't marry
• 1:32:12
  Speaker 2: down like they that that never happens, like like that
• 1:32:16
  Speaker 2: doesn't have you're a pro athlete. You're doing okay, my
• 1:32:21
  Speaker 2: favorite to look at it.
• 1:32:22
  Speaker 6: You know who does really well? Not not to go
• 1:32:24
  Speaker 6: this tan to a race car drivers? Ye, good night,
• 1:32:27
  Speaker 6: But anyway, I mean tall good knights.
• 1:32:29
  Speaker 2: Let's go, because you know they look well, they're honestly,
• 1:32:33
  Speaker 2: they're like hockey players. They're like average size, right yeah,
• 1:32:37
  Speaker 2: and and they're like they're not they're like like three
• 1:32:40
  Speaker 2: hundred and forty five pounds and you know, huge and
• 1:32:43
  Speaker 2: ugly and like a lineman or something. No, man, those
• 1:32:45
  Speaker 2: guys do fun. It's hockey. Hockey players do really well.
• 1:32:49
  Speaker 6: It's like, yeah, that's a good call.
• 1:32:51
  Speaker 4: I feel very intimidated in that locker room. I just
• 1:32:54
  Speaker 4: say that. In that I'm like, don't stand next to me, please,
• 1:32:59
  Speaker 4: thank you.
• 1:32:59
  Speaker 2: The players do quite well. Yeah, they do well. They do.
• 1:33:02
  Speaker 2: They do listen. Man, well, I'm not gonna get to it,
• 1:33:05
  Speaker 2: but it's it's you know who else does really well?
• 1:33:08
  Speaker 2: Radio guys? You led up. I did level up. I
• 1:33:14
  Speaker 2: got lucky. That's before I was in radio. I met
• 1:33:16
  Speaker 2: her before I was in radio. That's why before I
• 1:33:18
  Speaker 2: got into radio. Radio guys not too much.
• 1:33:21
  Speaker 6: Maybe you guys do do well. Pray you guys not
• 1:33:23
  Speaker 6: so much. But no, look I love soccer. I think
• 1:33:26
  Speaker 6: it's fun. I think anybody bab now says like, come on, man,
• 1:33:28
  Speaker 6: have a good time. I hope we do. Well. It's
• 1:33:30
  Speaker 6: kind of like, you know, but look, this is a
• 1:33:32
  Speaker 6: it's just a massive event and you got to get
• 1:33:34
  Speaker 6: into it. I think it's great. I think it's great
• 1:33:36
  Speaker 6: that we have it here in our country. And I
• 1:33:38
  Speaker 6: think it's great that we've actually got some players because
• 1:33:41
  Speaker 6: I've got a few friends that are just into it
• 1:33:42
  Speaker 6: so so at such a high level that you know,
• 1:33:45
  Speaker 6: they tell me that we've you know, not that we're
• 1:33:46
  Speaker 6: gonna win this thing or anything, but we should we
• 1:33:48
  Speaker 6: should do all right, which is you know, that's all
• 1:33:50
  Speaker 6: we need to do.
• 1:33:51
  Speaker 2: You you came up with a good line though, like
• 1:33:53
  Speaker 2: like what happened, Like we're all living off the euphoria
• 1:33:56
  Speaker 2: the four to one win, Like that's great. They went
• 1:33:58
  Speaker 2: forward to one in the first match. You know, we'll goals,
• 1:34:00
  Speaker 2: they score all all that stuff. So the next the
• 1:34:02
  Speaker 2: next game is here on Friday in Seattle and they're
• 1:34:05
  Speaker 2: taking on They play Friday in Seattle against against Australia.
• 1:34:08
  Speaker 2: It's I think the get in price right now is
• 1:34:11
  Speaker 2: two thousand dollars. That's the game. And you're and you're
• 1:34:15
  Speaker 2: talking like upper deck and if you're.
• 1:34:18
  Speaker 6: On the on the east.
• 1:34:19
  Speaker 2: Side, it's gonna be like sitting at Levi Stadium because
• 1:34:22
  Speaker 2: the sun is gonna be beating on you and stuff.
• 1:34:24
  Speaker 2: It's yeah, yeah, so it's it's gonna be But that's
• 1:34:27
  Speaker 2: two thousand and to get in. And this is a
• 1:34:30
  Speaker 2: great soccer town, like a great soccer town. Yeah, And
• 1:34:33
  Speaker 2: I mean absolutely so what you just said scares me
• 1:34:36
  Speaker 2: because they are like all the if they win on Friday,
• 1:34:39
  Speaker 2: they're into the second round, like they're they advanced out
• 1:34:42
  Speaker 2: of the group stage through two games. So now you
• 1:34:44
  Speaker 2: just set it up. What's gonna have if they lose
• 1:34:46
  Speaker 2: on Friday. I'm gonna blame you for that because that
• 1:34:48
  Speaker 2: would be the game.
• 1:34:49
  Speaker 6: Like Australia, that's what we do in the World Cup, right,
• 1:34:52
  Speaker 6: That's what we do. And then Alexi Lawless goes off,
• 1:34:54
  Speaker 6: and you know a couple of other guys and Donovan,
• 1:34:56
  Speaker 6: you know Landon, Donovan's new hair goes off and all
• 1:34:59
  Speaker 6: this different. But it's like, like, how did that happen?
• 1:35:02
  Speaker 6: By the way, guy, the worst hair in the world.
• 1:35:03
  Speaker 6: All of a sudden, it's like, hello, it's hair club
• 1:35:05
  Speaker 6: for men, and I'm landed out of it. Well, just anyway, you.
• 1:35:08
  Speaker 2: Just just answered your old question how it happened.
• 1:35:11
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I know that's crazy, but anyway, and then you know,
• 1:35:14
  Speaker 6: that's kind of the thing, you know that what really
• 1:35:16
  Speaker 6: stinks about what you just said though not what you said,
• 1:35:18
  Speaker 6: but it's two thousand bucks to get in and in soccer,
• 1:35:21
  Speaker 6: like that's how kids get into it. It's you can't
• 1:35:24
  Speaker 6: get into these events and where like you see kids
• 1:35:26
  Speaker 6: obviously at the NBA Finals and the Knicks and all
• 1:35:27
  Speaker 6: that kind of stuff. But like that's the you know,
• 1:35:30
  Speaker 6: that's the one percenters. But kids would in that town,
• 1:35:33
  Speaker 6: especially where you guys are, and it's such a great
• 1:35:36
  Speaker 6: soccer town, and kids, you know, play when they're young,
• 1:35:38
  Speaker 6: and I did in that town and and and these
• 1:35:41
  Speaker 6: kids can't go. You know, you got the World Cup
• 1:35:43
  Speaker 6: in your town. Man, you want to cement a kid
• 1:35:45
  Speaker 6: into playing soccer the rest of his life or caring
• 1:35:48
  Speaker 6: about it, Don't get me wrong, it'll be just as fine.
• 1:35:51
  Speaker 6: We've got great TVs nowadays and everybody sets up their
• 1:35:53
  Speaker 6: theater rooms and everything like that. That's no problem. But
• 1:35:56
  Speaker 6: you'd love to drag your kid to the game. And
• 1:35:57
  Speaker 6: it's like two grand, two grand for ticket. That's not like,
• 1:36:01
  Speaker 6: that's not like parking, which is outrageous, and all the
• 1:36:03
  Speaker 6: other stuff that we always.
• 1:36:04
  Speaker 2: Have to do.
• 1:36:04
  Speaker 6: I mean, you're for a family of you know what.
• 1:36:06
  Speaker 6: You know, you couldn't get four kids get it's been
• 1:36:09
  Speaker 6: ten grand to take four, you know, your family of
• 1:36:11
  Speaker 6: four to the game.
• 1:36:12
  Speaker 2: What's the most? What's the most? What's the most you'd
• 1:36:14
  Speaker 2: pay for a sporting event? And and what would it
• 1:36:17
  Speaker 2: have to do?
• 1:36:17
  Speaker 6: Oh?
• 1:36:20
  Speaker 4: Boy, that is such a question.
• 1:36:23
  Speaker 2: You can't ask.
• 1:36:26
  Speaker 6: That's what I was just gonna say that. Did you
• 1:36:28
  Speaker 6: see that thing? You probably did? Ben Stiller, so he
• 1:36:31
  Speaker 6: was on inside the c Yeah, yeah, and they go
• 1:36:34
  Speaker 6: they say to him, They say to him, so how
• 1:36:36
  Speaker 6: much Jack says to him, or Charles says to him, Hey,
• 1:36:38
  Speaker 6: how much you pay for your season tickets? He goes,
• 1:36:40
  Speaker 6: I've never paid for season tickets. My dad, you know,
• 1:36:42
  Speaker 6: his dad's Jerry Steeler. He goes, We've had nixt tickets
• 1:36:45
  Speaker 6: since the seventies. We've never paid a dime for the tickets.
• 1:36:47
  Speaker 6: Can you imagine how many people vomited when they heard that,
• 1:36:50
  Speaker 6: Like you've got to me.
• 1:36:52
  Speaker 2: So we'll get we'll get in, we'll get into the
• 1:36:54
  Speaker 2: next next week, we'll get into the NBA and the
• 1:36:56
  Speaker 2: finals and the Who's Who and all that stuff. But
• 1:36:59
  Speaker 2: because by the time we get to that, well, by
• 1:37:01
  Speaker 2: next week, the Nicks.
• 1:37:02
  Speaker 6: Will be saying price wise though, like oh yeah, like
• 1:37:05
  Speaker 6: and that's what I mean is so Ben Steelers is
• 1:37:07
  Speaker 6: never going to pay for anything. And like you and
• 1:37:09
  Speaker 6: I have gone to so many events unfortunately, and all
• 1:37:11
  Speaker 6: of us, all of us here, have gone to so
• 1:37:13
  Speaker 6: many events. It's like, not only do I not have
• 1:37:16
  Speaker 6: I not paid for tickets? If like if my wife
• 1:37:19
  Speaker 6: buys tickets, is like, hey, I bought your surprise to
• 1:37:21
  Speaker 6: this game or something, and I'll look at the tickets
• 1:37:23
  Speaker 6: and they'll be like nose bitterers. I mean, nah, I'm good.
• 1:37:25
  Speaker 6: Like She's like, no, I bought tickets. I'm like, no,
• 1:37:27
  Speaker 6: I won't sit there.
• 1:37:28
  Speaker 2: I'm not.
• 1:37:28
  Speaker 4: We are spoiled.
• 1:37:31
  Speaker 6: I know, That's what I mean.
• 1:37:32
  Speaker 2: That's also why that's that's also why we're talking about
• 1:37:36
  Speaker 2: your third wife. Sooner enough, So all right, yeah, she's.
• 1:37:41
  Speaker 6: Not happy with me. I don't understand it. Anyway, we
• 1:37:44
  Speaker 6: don't need to get into this all.
• 1:37:46
  Speaker 2: Right, are you on the radio again, west Wood one?
• 1:37:48
  Speaker 2: Still are still here?
• 1:37:49
  Speaker 6: Yes, you know what I'm on Thursday and Friday morning,
• 1:37:53
  Speaker 6: bright and early. That's three to six am in Seattle.
• 1:37:55
  Speaker 6: That's where they put all the real talent. Uh So,
• 1:37:58
  Speaker 6: three to six am a good time.
• 1:38:00
  Speaker 2: Hey.
• 1:38:01
  Speaker 6: By the way, that's six to nine am Eastern. Okay,
• 1:38:03
  Speaker 6: that's a big deal. And then uh and then you
• 1:38:06
  Speaker 6: know my normal weekend on Saturday and Sunday, so uh yes,
• 1:38:09
  Speaker 6: after tomorrow for straight uh so, listen this weekend. We
• 1:38:12
  Speaker 6: always get tons of calls from Seattle. We appreciate it.
• 1:38:14
  Speaker 6: And follow me at John Londradio. And that's it, man,
• 1:38:19
  Speaker 6: talk to you. And by the way, I'm sorry for
• 1:38:20
  Speaker 6: last week. I was like twenty minutes late last week.
• 1:38:22
  Speaker 2: Got is that's it, that's all.
• 1:38:23
  Speaker 4: That's okay, that's right.
• 1:38:26
  Speaker 2: Congrats your son, by the way, congrats your son getting
• 1:38:28
  Speaker 2: the gig, first media gig. Very happy for him.
• 1:38:32
  Speaker 6: And he's right, he's got he's got two gigs. Never
• 1:38:34
  Speaker 6: them paying anything, and I'm still paying for everything. But
• 1:38:36
  Speaker 6: it's a start. It's a start. Thank you for Thank
• 1:38:39
  Speaker 6: you for saying well.
• 1:38:40
  Speaker 2: Good job, George. All right'll talk to you next week.
• 1:38:42
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  Speaker 2: and grilled today Bottle for jumping in and joining us
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  Speaker 2: in the new nowur yes.
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  Speaker 4: You use the word we you are there. I would
• 1:39:33
  Speaker 4: love to see Kenny and order.
• 1:39:35
  Speaker 2: Some lu Terry Ryan's here. It's a week, Terry ryans
• 1:39:40
  Speaker 2: so it's two of us. So it's a week. It's
• 1:39:43
  Speaker 2: a week. I mean, you could have been here. I mean,
• 1:39:45
  Speaker 2: but where's Anders? He's not in today? Dude?
• 1:39:47
  Speaker 4: Do you know how much work that man is putting
• 1:39:50
  Speaker 4: in over the next cottle days and we are giving
• 1:39:53
  Speaker 4: him a reprieve and he's moving also on top of
• 1:39:56
  Speaker 4: that with a four month of your old baby.
• 1:40:00
  Speaker 2: That would be a challenge. I think that.
• 1:40:02
  Speaker 4: I think it is a good life experience. Anyway, I
• 1:40:05
  Speaker 4: was just giving you a little bit of ish, but
• 1:40:08
  Speaker 4: you were talking about Bottrell.
• 1:40:10
  Speaker 2: And hey, I gotta read this one four two five
• 1:40:14
  Speaker 2: it's Stephen from Sultan. Never Stephen from Stephen Sultan from
• 1:40:19
  Speaker 2: Fantasy Football Time with Funston. Uh, glad you're back, jeffs
• 1:40:22
  Speaker 2: Now the show is listenable again.
• 1:40:24
  Speaker 3: Okay, well wait, hold on, Steve, I did not see that.
• 1:40:28
  Speaker 2: Guess what's Stephen and Sultan. Guess what's going to happen
• 1:40:31
  Speaker 2: next fall? Oh your phone will your your call will
• 1:40:34
  Speaker 2: not make it on the air. Fella, come on.
• 1:40:39
  Speaker 4: Well I do like that. I'm at least listenable.
• 1:40:43
  Speaker 2: The uh so we mentioned yesterday? The only problem I
• 1:40:45
  Speaker 2: had from this game. Yesterday they had everyone leave the stadium.
• 1:40:48
  Speaker 2: You can only exit the main stairs. Took a really
• 1:40:50
  Speaker 2: long time to get out. The Seahawks NFC Championship game
• 1:40:54
  Speaker 2: had more people got out of the stadium, thirty minutes faster.
• 1:40:57
  Speaker 4: I mean things are different.
• 1:40:59
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yes, I've really wanted a furious Felts.
• 1:41:06
  Speaker 4: I really wanted one, the one yesterday.
• 1:41:09
  Speaker 2: It might have been the greatest talk back we've ever had. Yeah,
• 1:41:14
  Speaker 2: furious Felts. Let's see. IHEARTI World Cup covers by the
• 1:41:18
  Speaker 2: yet to be FIFA credential. Furious FIFA Felts and Anders.
• 1:41:21
  Speaker 2: Oh Jess, why it doesn't know about furious fels Fifa
• 1:41:22
  Speaker 2: fel says, you know she's heard about him. Now you've
• 1:41:24
  Speaker 2: heard about it.
• 1:41:25
  Speaker 4: I'm we're very well aware now by this time of day.
• 1:41:28
  Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, yeah, I'm still on like seventeen hours of
• 1:41:32
  Speaker 3: difference in time, so I'm working.
• 1:41:35
  Speaker 2: I did have somebody criticize me for not talking enough
• 1:41:38
  Speaker 2: soccer today. That's a new one. Okay, good, wait.
• 1:41:40
  Speaker 3: What we usually get criticized if we utter a word.
• 1:41:44
  Speaker 2: I know. Okay, let's see. Uh so good to have
• 1:41:49
  Speaker 2: Jess back. Then will be late. He's signing Westwood one merchandise.
• 1:41:52
  Speaker 2: So I'm saying after two seven was on time.
• 1:41:55
  Speaker 4: I actually did text that person back and said, I'll
• 1:41:58
  Speaker 4: give you an under over of three and a half minutes,
• 1:42:01
  Speaker 4: and he lost.
• 1:42:04
  Speaker 2: Let's see Brown's Keith Miller. Brown's are drooling over Brendan Soresby. Perfect,
• 1:42:09
  Speaker 2: perfect to match with the Shawn and Shader. Yeah, that
• 1:42:12
  Speaker 2: would actually be great. That would be fantastic. Shador Sanders,
• 1:42:16
  Speaker 2: Brendan Soresby, and Deshaun Watson all the same team.
• 1:42:18
  Speaker 4: I do that is very cleveland of them. Well, we
• 1:42:23
  Speaker 4: can just say.
• 1:42:24
  Speaker 2: That two six says hydration break, time to grab a
• 1:42:27
  Speaker 2: Georgetown Rogers pilsner. I don't think they're pounded pillsners right
• 1:42:32
  Speaker 2: now during the hydration break. I could be wrong.
• 1:42:34
  Speaker 4: I mean, that'd be baller if they did.
• 1:42:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, let's see. Jeremy says Vak has ten days
• 1:42:42
  Speaker 2: to drink heavily before producing softy show. I oh, probably
• 1:42:46
  Speaker 2: won't be doing that.
• 1:42:47
  Speaker 3: No, no, he he is, he is.
• 1:42:50
  Speaker 4: He'll be coming hot off the World Cup game.
• 1:42:52
  Speaker 2: Otherwise, you'll be doing all the fun stuff.
• 1:42:55
  Speaker 3: I will be down there covering hotmails.
• 1:42:58
  Speaker 2: You'll be doing the what's what's the fun with audio? Yeah,
• 1:43:03
  Speaker 2: you'll be doing all that stuff.
• 1:43:04
  Speaker 4: No, no, no, he will. I will be down covering
• 1:43:08
  Speaker 4: everything for our solution.
• 1:43:10
  Speaker 2: We've got the conversation with lund. I got one. I
• 1:43:13
  Speaker 2: haven't done a load of laundry for forty seven years.
• 1:43:15
  Speaker 2: Come on, seriously, I at least do laundry.
• 1:43:17
  Speaker 4: Sometimes forty seven years.
• 1:43:19
  Speaker 2: First of all, you've been married for that long and
• 1:43:22
  Speaker 2: well or.
• 1:43:23
  Speaker 4: That includes parenting time, So say third mom did it?
• 1:43:27
  Speaker 2: Then you're then you've got married your wife. Did you
• 1:43:29
  Speaker 2: not live in college or on your own at all?
• 1:43:31
  Speaker 2: Come on?
• 1:43:31
  Speaker 3: I remember teaching people how to do laundry in college
• 1:43:35
  Speaker 3: to my mom taught me when I was like seven.
• 1:43:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I can I do. I just don't
• 1:43:40
  Speaker 2: pay the bills. Ian taking the office space approach to life.
• 1:43:42
  Speaker 2: I don't like paying bills. I'm not going to do
• 1:43:44
  Speaker 2: that anymore. Perfect.
• 1:43:47
  Speaker 4: Oh that office space, that's perfect. Yeah, I'm just not going.
• 1:43:50
  Speaker 2: Just let me clarify again, I don't because she won't
• 1:43:54
  Speaker 2: let me because she doesn't trust me, and she also
• 1:43:57
  Speaker 2: knows it'll be done wrong. So that's so, that's it.
• 1:44:00
  Speaker 3: As a good friend of mine of ours would say,
• 1:44:04
  Speaker 3: play yourself out of a job, as in wanting to
• 1:44:08
  Speaker 3: not be on the kickoff team.
• 1:44:10
  Speaker 2: Ah, there you go.
• 1:44:11
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 1:44:11
  Speaker 2: The guy that said the headon laundry also says I
• 1:44:13
  Speaker 2: was living in a house for ten years before I
• 1:44:15
  Speaker 2: realized we had a built in dishwasher. Come on, fella,
• 1:44:17
  Speaker 2: come on.
• 1:44:18
  Speaker 4: Laundry and dishwashing.
• 1:44:19
  Speaker 2: Is different, very different.
• 1:44:21
  Speaker 4: Wait, hold on, I don't understand.
• 1:44:25
  Speaker 2: My gosh, uh, purple sheet better be giving Andrews a
• 1:44:28
  Speaker 2: raise hardest working employee at the station.
• 1:44:31
  Speaker 3: Well, both of us could take issue with that statement,
• 1:44:34
  Speaker 3: but he has he is working very hard.
• 1:44:37
  Speaker 2: Here's one two oh six disappointed in the international listeners.
• 1:44:41
  Speaker 2: Still no live report from the Seattle FIFA Soccer bro barge.
• 1:44:45
  Speaker 4: I am That's where I'm gonna go be on Friday.
• 1:44:48
  Speaker 2: Oh you're you're gonna go to the bro barge.
• 1:44:49
  Speaker 4: I'm gonna try.
• 1:44:51
  Speaker 2: Okay, So you've been gone, yes, are we've come to
• 1:44:55
  Speaker 2: the conclusion or I came to the conclusion that the
• 1:44:57
  Speaker 2: bro barge is just what they did is they took
• 1:44:59
  Speaker 2: the pay at Tea mobile and moved it and put
• 1:45:02
  Speaker 2: it on a BArch. Yes, exactly, barge so we asked
• 1:45:05
  Speaker 2: for but we haven't heard from maybe it's actually been
• 1:45:07
  Speaker 2: on the bro barge yet. So you're going to the
• 1:45:09
  Speaker 2: bro Barche on Friday.
• 1:45:11
  Speaker 3: I am going to be covering it so that everyone
• 1:45:14
  Speaker 3: can see.
• 1:45:15
  Speaker 2: Are you going to the bro barge or you just
• 1:45:16
  Speaker 2: gonna be on Peer sixty two everything.
• 1:45:19
  Speaker 4: I'm going to be at everything.
• 1:45:21
  Speaker 2: I believe Fane's going to the bro Barche too, so
• 1:45:23
  Speaker 2: hopefully we can get a report from her. I am
• 1:45:25
  Speaker 2: going I'm curious.
• 1:45:26
  Speaker 3: I am going to be everywhere and getting my steps
• 1:45:29
  Speaker 3: in because I'll probably have to walk from the station
• 1:45:31
  Speaker 3: because it's going to be a little bit crowded.
• 1:45:35
  Speaker 2: Wait, we're getting a lot of people texting about what
• 1:45:36
  Speaker 2: they don't do because they're married. More people saying no laundry, man, See,
• 1:45:42
  Speaker 2: I don't like again. There's a difference between doing laundry
• 1:45:46
  Speaker 2: and dishes and stuff and paying bills. Like paying bills
• 1:45:51
  Speaker 2: is a skill and it's it's necessary and you've got
• 1:45:54
  Speaker 2: to do it right right.
• 1:45:57
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm the bill payer in my house, all right,
• 1:46:00
  Speaker 4: But I was.
• 1:46:02
  Speaker 2: I love Mike, but I can see why. Yeah, Mike's
• 1:46:08
  Speaker 2: like me, I can I I can see why. I
• 1:46:11
  Speaker 2: can understand.
• 1:46:11
  Speaker 3: I've always been a really good cook, though, but he's
• 1:46:14
  Speaker 3: better at it than me. So I let him do
• 1:46:17
  Speaker 3: the grocery and cookie Yeah. I do the bill paying
• 1:46:21
  Speaker 3: and getting us tickets to.
• 1:46:23
  Speaker 2: Events every now and then we'll go to Costco together.
• 1:46:28
  Speaker 2: And then if we because normally I'll just do it myself.
• 1:46:31
  Speaker 2: But she wants to go to Costco, and we go
• 1:46:32
  Speaker 2: to Costco.
• 1:46:33
  Speaker 4: That is a brave move.
• 1:46:35
  Speaker 2: Inevitably, what happens is, like, God, we spent so much
• 1:46:38
  Speaker 2: at Costco today, way more than last time I go.
• 1:46:41
  Speaker 4: She's the bill checker.
• 1:46:43
  Speaker 2: I go because last time it was me and I
• 1:46:45
  Speaker 2: got what we needed. I didn't. I didn't get Oh,
• 1:46:48
  Speaker 2: we need to get this or that we should pick
• 1:46:50
  Speaker 2: up this, And I'm like no, no, no, no.
• 1:46:52
  Speaker 6: Because I'll go to go.
• 1:46:53
  Speaker 2: Then she says, I'll be in the fun aisle. What
• 1:46:55
  Speaker 2: does that mean? What is the fun Well, there's two.
• 1:46:58
  Speaker 2: There's there's a big one, there's the booze asle, but
• 1:47:02
  Speaker 2: then the other one. Yeah, but then the other one
• 1:47:05
  Speaker 2: is like, oh, all the candy and treats are and
• 1:47:07
  Speaker 2: stuff up front.
• 1:47:08
  Speaker 4: Yeah, well I like their clothes there very underrated.
• 1:47:13
  Speaker 2: There you go, I mean, yeah, but when I go,
• 1:47:15
  Speaker 2: it's we're in and out. We get a thing of tithes,
• 1:47:17
  Speaker 2: some tps, some paper towels, yeah, things. Yeah, I get
• 1:47:22
  Speaker 2: the coffee that we need and we're out. Man, it's simple.
• 1:47:25
  Speaker 2: Thanks for coming, No, no, no messing around. But all right,
• 1:47:29
  Speaker 2: Softy is down at Jimmy's on First for the return
• 1:47:31
  Speaker 2: of Col Rawley. He'll join us.
• 1:47:33
  Speaker 11: Next already, then let's send down to the Jimmy's on first.
• 1:48:01
  Speaker 2: Oh alrighty then, ah, alrighty already alrighty. Hey are you
• 1:48:08
  Speaker 2: a hiker? Okay, think so hike for what reason? Well?
• 1:48:14
  Speaker 10: It walks on the golf course. Why would I hike?
• 1:48:17
  Speaker 2: Here's a reason not to. I just saw this man
• 1:48:19
  Speaker 2: injured in bear attack on mount side trail closure is
• 1:48:23
  Speaker 2: now requested. Okay, I'm good. Yeah, we're not doing that.
• 1:48:26
  Speaker 4: Oh man, I got lost in the mountain.
• 1:48:27
  Speaker 2: Actually yeah, well luckily you didn'tet attacked by a bit.
• 1:48:31
  Speaker 4: It was four hours of fun.
• 1:48:33
  Speaker 2: Were you sober? Uh?
• 1:48:35
  Speaker 4: Well, we left at.
• 1:48:36
  Speaker 3: Three third in the morning, so there might have been
• 1:48:38
  Speaker 3: a little crossover from the night before into the morning.
• 1:48:41
  Speaker 2: Okay, hey, welcome back. By the way, she's back. Thanks.
• 1:48:44
  Speaker 10: I was Australia. Did you run into the Crocodile Dundee.
• 1:48:47
  Speaker 2: While you were there?
• 1:48:49
  Speaker 10: No?
• 1:48:51
  Speaker 4: No, they hate Foster's there.
• 1:48:52
  Speaker 2: Did you enjoy loomin onion?
• 1:48:55
  Speaker 4: Oh my god? What are you out central?
• 1:48:58
  Speaker 10: What if you walked into an australiaan bar they called
• 1:49:01
  Speaker 10: bars in Australia, by the way, okay, walked into an
• 1:49:03
  Speaker 10: Australian bar, have like an American flagged T shirt on
• 1:49:07
  Speaker 10: it and said, hey, is there an outback steakhouse around here?
• 1:49:09
  Speaker 4: Oh my god, I would have.
• 1:49:11
  Speaker 2: Right, I do need a blooming onion right now? Do
• 1:49:14
  Speaker 2: you have one of those?
• 1:49:15
  Speaker 10: Did you see a Joey while you were there?
• 1:49:17
  Speaker 3: By the way, I saw a lot of wallabees and
• 1:49:19
  Speaker 3: Joey was in the pouch.
• 1:49:20
  Speaker 2: Actually, there you go.
• 1:49:22
  Speaker 4: I think I sent you pictures you did?
• 1:49:24
  Speaker 10: You hung out with a cockatoos too many? That was
• 1:49:27
  Speaker 10: a fun word to say.
• 1:49:28
  Speaker 4: I still have.
• 1:49:31
  Speaker 2: There you go too.
• 1:49:34
  Speaker 10: It's not a cock of one, it's a cockatoo.
• 1:49:37
  Speaker 2: Well, hey, the big dumpers back. Is that why you're
• 1:49:38
  Speaker 2: down there celebrating the big dumpers?
• 1:49:40
  Speaker 6: Yes?
• 1:49:40
  Speaker 10: No, no, no, no, no, no no, we're down here
• 1:49:42
  Speaker 10: celebrating the return of JP Crawford.
• 1:49:45
  Speaker 2: Is there a lineup yet? Nope?
• 1:49:47
  Speaker 10: Keeping an eye out of man, I keep refreshing Twitter.
• 1:49:50
  Speaker 2: What's what's it gonna be?
• 1:49:53
  Speaker 6: Oh?
• 1:49:53
  Speaker 2: God? Left?
• 1:49:54
  Speaker 10: They move Emerson back to third base, then you know, like,
• 1:49:57
  Speaker 10: what are we doing? I said this to Dick and
• 1:49:59
  Speaker 10: Jackson and here you yesterday. Man, just one bad boot
• 1:50:02
  Speaker 10: from JP Crawford at shortstop, and just let's hope it
• 1:50:05
  Speaker 10: doesn't happen in a big game, because if they stick
• 1:50:06
  Speaker 10: with him all year long at shortstop and he boots
• 1:50:09
  Speaker 10: the ball, that cost the Mariners a big game. Oh boy,
• 1:50:12
  Speaker 10: look out, man, look out, that's all I'm saying.
• 1:50:15
  Speaker 2: Look out, it's I asked joe she and this isn't it?
• 1:50:18
  Speaker 2: Like it's pro baseball? Right? Isn't it about winning? Right?
• 1:50:20
  Speaker 2: Putt the best guys on the field. It's just unbelievable.
• 1:50:24
  Speaker 10: Like defensive loyalty to JP Crawford at shortstop, Well you
• 1:50:29
  Speaker 10: put that, Joe.
• 1:50:29
  Speaker 2: Joe pointed out, it's a baseball thing, and other teams
• 1:50:32
  Speaker 2: have done that historically over the years. There's like a
• 1:50:35
  Speaker 2: deference to to veterans in this sport more so than others.
• 1:50:39
  Speaker 2: Like can you imagine the NFL going, Yeah, you know what,
• 1:50:42
  Speaker 2: hes in a really good left tackle for a while.
• 1:50:45
  Speaker 10: Yeah, I understand that, and we're gonna keep him there
• 1:50:47
  Speaker 10: and right, but there's a reason why JP Crawford's on
• 1:50:50
  Speaker 10: the team because he's got a good bat. Yeah, I
• 1:50:52
  Speaker 10: and the the Orioles moved cal Ripken to third base. Okay,
• 1:50:57
  Speaker 10: if cal Ripkin can move to third, then JP Afford
• 1:51:00
  Speaker 10: can move the third or go do something else or
• 1:51:03
  Speaker 10: does that tell us right there? Hey, look, we appreciate
• 1:51:06
  Speaker 10: the offer, j Ap if you playing third, but we
• 1:51:08
  Speaker 10: think you might be worse over there, so we're gonna
• 1:51:10
  Speaker 10: keep you in short stop.
• 1:51:11
  Speaker 2: He said, you know what, you might be onto something there. Honestly,
• 1:51:15
  Speaker 2: you might be on I.
• 1:51:16
  Speaker 10: Mean, he knows, he knows, he's so bad at shortstop,
• 1:51:20
  Speaker 10: and he knows that cold Emerson is gonna be the
• 1:51:22
  Speaker 10: you know, he's got a chance to be a Gold
• 1:51:24
  Speaker 10: Glove Award winner for a while, I think defensively shortstop,
• 1:51:28
  Speaker 10: He's like, hey, man, I I'll move all right, I'll
• 1:51:31
  Speaker 10: take the burden off your back.
• 1:51:33
  Speaker 2: I'll go do something else.
• 1:51:34
  Speaker 10: But the guy's even offering for God's sake, So I
• 1:51:36
  Speaker 10: don't know, And we'll see. We'll see what happens when
• 1:51:38
  Speaker 10: the lineup comes out today. But the Orioles are in
• 1:51:40
  Speaker 10: town every time Baltimore comes to town and reminded of
• 1:51:42
  Speaker 10: the Felix Baptista incident? Can you remember that my number
• 1:51:47
  Speaker 10: one all time biggest tweet I ever made?
• 1:51:51
  Speaker 2: I made a tweet you were.
• 1:51:54
  Speaker 10: It was not a jerk at all, not even close
• 1:51:56
  Speaker 10: to being a jerk like you. How was that jerk?
• 1:51:58
  Speaker 2: Jess? Tell me how how ratio hard make it quick?
• 1:52:03
  Speaker 6: Sure?
• 1:52:03
  Speaker 2: Because people are stupid.
• 1:52:05
  Speaker 10: I asked him about the real King Felix thing, and
• 1:52:07
  Speaker 10: he said, you know, that's Felix Hernandez and people went nuts.
• 1:52:11
  Speaker 4: Well, I asked real King Felix actually at the top
• 1:52:15
  Speaker 4: of the space needle, and he said there was only one.
• 1:52:18
  Speaker 10: There's exactly, so him and Batista, both those people. You
• 1:52:21
  Speaker 10: know what, you go back to Australia.
• 1:52:23
  Speaker 2: I don't want to please send. Let's go down on
• 1:52:27
  Speaker 2: the should today. Let's come on with this.
• 1:52:28
  Speaker 10: Let's see what's today Tuesday. John Wilmers that join us today.
• 1:52:31
  Speaker 10: Brian Schmetzer's back on today talking some World Cup. You
• 1:52:34
  Speaker 10: know what the Sounders did today? By the way, are
• 1:52:36
  Speaker 10: you aware they scrimmaged the Belgian national team today? Because
• 1:52:40
  Speaker 10: they're hanging out in town so I think it was
• 1:52:42
  Speaker 10: the second team they played against. But we'll talk to Brian.
• 1:52:45
  Speaker 10: Get a World Cup take from him at at four
• 1:52:46
  Speaker 10: o'clock today as well.
• 1:52:47
  Speaker 2: Can you make sure you play furious Felts for him?
• 1:52:50
  Speaker 10: That's a great idea, Rake. Sure Jackson's got that all right.
• 1:52:54
  Speaker 10: Sure he's got it all right.
• 1:52:55
  Speaker 1: See it for the mild mannered and marginally objectional bully
• 1:53:00
  Speaker 1: in forness. This is paddle day saying so long everyone,