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7-10: Mariners tough trip, Seahawks ownership and more · The Gregg Bell Show

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  Speaker 1: Now from the Star Wintles Sports Tests, Jordan ninety three
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  Speaker 1: point three KJRFM Sports Headlines. Good morning, Hi, Happy Friday,
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us. Headlines are brought to you by
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  Speaker 1: Frost brewed cords like choos Chill. Maren's loss again, yes again,
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  Speaker 1: getting swept out of the three game series at Miami.
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  Speaker 1: They got beaten by Junk last night, literally Marvin Starter
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  Speaker 1: Jansen Junk, you walk four and five innings, yet the
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  Speaker 1: Mariners only scored one earned run off of him. They
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  Speaker 1: fell behind eight two eight four loss. Mariners made two
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  Speaker 1: airs on one play to kind of personify how last
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  Speaker 1: night went. It was not ideal, nor was the trip
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  Speaker 1: to Miami at all. They're no longer in first place,
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  Speaker 1: back to five hundred and forty seven and forty seven now.
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  Speaker 1: They finished the first half, the pre All Star Game
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  Speaker 1: half of the season with three games at the American
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  Speaker 1: League's best team, probably the only really good team, the
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  Speaker 1: Tampa Bay Rays. Luis Castillo starts the four to ten
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  Speaker 1: game Our Time Today, Logan Gilbert starts at one ten
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  Speaker 1: Tomorrow Saturday, and then Emerson Hancock at ten forty am
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  Speaker 1: start on Sunday, and then it's the All Star break.
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  Speaker 1: They are limping into to say the leaves we talked
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  Speaker 1: about yesterday, and there's a new highest paid player in
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  Speaker 1: the NHL. He's twenty one years old. Anaheim match Philadelphia's
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  Speaker 1: wild offer of ninety million, number five years for Leo Carlson,
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  Speaker 1: the twenty one year old center who made nine hundred
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  Speaker 1: and fifty thousand dollars last year on his entry level.
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  Speaker 2: Contract with the Bomb contract.
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  Speaker 1: That's good. Yeah, that's that's a great deal. Huh. Go
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  Speaker 1: from nine to fifty to eighteen mil.
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  Speaker 2: I mean nine fifty fifties, all right, nine.
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  Speaker 1: Fifties, all right, yeah, nine fifties, okay, But now he's
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  Speaker 1: going from nine to fifty to eighteen million. World Cup
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  Speaker 1: Quarterfinals today live here in ninety three point three KJRFM,
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  Speaker 1: Spain in Belgium, eleven thirty pre game, the kickoff from Inglewood,
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  Speaker 2: Yesterday we have Jackson Felts.
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  Speaker 3: It's like Dana Jackson Jackson situation, the Jackson two.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, yes yesterday France beat Morocco to no killing. Imbappe
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  Speaker 1: just irrepressible. His twentieth goal and twenty career World Cup matches.
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  Speaker 1: Seventeen of those twenty of coming the second half of
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  Speaker 1: those World Cup matches, so he doesn't just do it
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  Speaker 1: in when it doesn't matter. He's amazing.
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  Speaker 2: He had best under pressure.
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  Speaker 1: He's amazing. He missed the penalty kick like Messi the
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  Speaker 1: other day did in the first half yesterday, and then
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  Speaker 1: he made a shot that no keeper in the world
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  Speaker 1: could have saved. It skimmed off the inside of the
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  Speaker 1: far post. Just brilliance with the ball. It's just amazing
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  Speaker 1: what they do with the football. Tomorrow quarterfinal doubleheader England
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  Speaker 1: Norway is gonna be a great one down in Miami.
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  Speaker 1: We talked a great coach to the other day that
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  Speaker 1: six pm, both two pm, six pm tomorrow. The World
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  Speaker 1: Now I'm with the Friday Show. You know, usually we
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  Speaker 1: talk about this, usually this is the gone fishing portion
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  Speaker 1: of the NFL year. Everyone's gone. I mean the headquarters
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  Speaker 1: are crickets.
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  Speaker 3: I can't get a phone call back. You shouldn't any
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  Speaker 3: of my friends who will work in the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you shouldn't. This is their only six solid weeks
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  Speaker 1: have gone, gone gone of the entire year. Yet the
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  Speaker 1: Seahawks are making news and they've made it in three
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  Speaker 1: different ways. Mike McDonald made his own news yesterday down
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  Speaker 1: in Lake Tahoe in a personal manner, and we're going
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  Speaker 1: to talk about that. John Schneider is apparently making moves
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  Speaker 1: or let sniffing around about something that would be of
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  Speaker 1: a peak interest. I don't think John sits still no,
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  Speaker 1: of course he.
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  Speaker 2: Is God bless you, Tracy.
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  Speaker 1: Of course he was at he by the way, was
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  Speaker 1: in Mike McDonald. We're at the World Cup match right
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  Speaker 1: right below me at the Leland Field on Monday. John
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  Speaker 1: Schneider's making an interesting potential move or maybe not, but
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  Speaker 1: he's at least kicking at tires. Of course he is,
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  Speaker 1: That's what he does. We'll talk about that. There are
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  Speaker 1: two leading bidders reportedly emerging in the Seahawks sale process.
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  Speaker 1: With there's still the possibility that someone who has not
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  Speaker 1: declared him or herself will still do that. This is
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  Speaker 1: a process. I can just say that.
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  Speaker 2: Of course it is.
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  Speaker 3: Look at the bazillions that are yes, Yes, of course
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  Speaker 3: it's going to be a process. This is not going
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  Speaker 3: to be cut and dry and very fast exactly.
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  Speaker 1: And the motivation again for Jody Allen, Burke Hold and
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  Speaker 1: the representing the Paul G. Allen Foundation the estate is
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  Speaker 1: to get the maximum value they can for the philanthropic
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  Speaker 1: interest of Paul Allen. That's what the will says they
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  Speaker 1: should do well.
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  Speaker 3: And every NFL owner wants it to be that way
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  Speaker 3: for the valuation exactly.
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  Speaker 1: You want the valuation of your franchise to go up
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  Speaker 1: because the Seahawks would go up. It will not sell
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  Speaker 1: for less than six point whatever billion, because the Washington
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  Speaker 1: Commanders was six point oh five, and they will not.
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  Speaker 1: The NFL will just stall the sale. If it doesn't
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  Speaker 1: come in, it's going to come out at least more. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: it looks like at least eight, maybe nine, maybe more
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  Speaker 1: billion dollars for the Seahawks. We'll talk about that. Col
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  Speaker 1: Young he talked yesterday before the game down in Miami
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  Speaker 1: about not challenging that called third strike the other night
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  Speaker 1: why he didn't do it. Talk about that and what
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  Speaker 1: he said. Well, have an update on Julio Rodriguez's concussion status.
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  Speaker 1: It's what we told you it would be at the
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  Speaker 1: beginning of the week. I have something for the text
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  Speaker 1: signed four nine four to five one that to come
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  Speaker 1: about textan or your talk back at the juments. I
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  Speaker 1: love those the iHeartRadio app. Find that little red microphone
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  Speaker 1: button at the bottom and hit it and you get
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  Speaker 1: thirty seconds or less. I guess seconds. You can count them.
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  Speaker 1: Thirty seconds are fewer, as I would tell my U dub.
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  Speaker 2: It okay journalist Greg Comes.
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  Speaker 1: If you can count them, it's fewer in thirty seconds
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  Speaker 1: or fewer. You can talk about what you want to
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  Speaker 1: talk about. But here's the question for the text line
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  Speaker 1: and the talkback line. Do the Mariners need a kick
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  Speaker 1: in the ass. Let's just start there. Yeah, I think
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  Speaker 1: we all know the answerment. Yes, I think it's at
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  Speaker 1: this point, and I'm talking about internally inside the clubhouse.
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  Speaker 1: So do they have the guy in the clubhouse now
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  Speaker 1: to do that.
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  Speaker 2: It's a good question.
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  Speaker 1: It is a trickier question than just saying, yeah, they
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  Speaker 1: need a kick it. Who's going to do that? I mean,
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  Speaker 1: is Dan Wilson going to go in there and up
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  Speaker 1: end a buffet table? Probably not. Can they rehire Lou
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  Speaker 1: Panella for a day? That might be a good idea.
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  Speaker 3: He had a lot of votes for that on the
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  Speaker 3: text line yesterday, like we did like full like marble
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  Speaker 3: red smoking panel.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody on the text light yesterday said Lou Penello would
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  Speaker 1: take the iPad out the second base and throw both
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  Speaker 1: it and the base into center field, as he once
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  Speaker 1: did in Cleveland.
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  Speaker 2: He still has the arm. I'd welcome it.
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  Speaker 1: So that's what I want to know. The Mariners need
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  Speaker 1: to kick the ass. I think we're going to get
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  Speaker 1: a universal yes on that, or at least most people
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  Speaker 1: would agree. But then who is it? Is it col Raleigh?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he's the face of the franchise.
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  Speaker 2: Well, he's a lead by example guy.
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  Speaker 1: He doesn't strike me, that is what I know. And
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  Speaker 1: I spent a lot of time with that team last
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  Speaker 1: year at the end of the season, in their postseason run,
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  Speaker 1: including in Toronto at the American League Championship Series. Is
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  Speaker 1: it Julia Rodriguez. No, He's been the face of the
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  Speaker 1: franchise force ever since he signed that two hundred million
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  Speaker 1: dollars shiny.
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  Speaker 2: I just don't think it's him.
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  Speaker 1: Is it Josh Naylor?
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  Speaker 2: That's who I would put my chips on.
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  Speaker 1: I would say Randy and Rose Arena, but he has
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  Speaker 1: been part of some of the reason of the things
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  Speaker 1: you would need to go kick people's ass for. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: m a Rose Arena would do it. But I could
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  Speaker 1: see guys getting chewed out by Roserina. Go, oh, wait
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  Speaker 1: a minute, are you the guy that took off on
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  Speaker 1: a two two calendar basis loaded not know what the
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  Speaker 1: count was?
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  Speaker 3: Transparent and the mistakes that you've made isn't the worst
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  Speaker 3: thing ever?
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  Speaker 1: That would be an accountability piece. Yeah, are you the
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  Speaker 1: one that challenged two pitches when in the first fourteen
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  Speaker 1: pitches of a game and lost them both?
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  Speaker 3: And I would also say that though when it comes
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  Speaker 3: to and then one hundred and sixty two game season,
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  Speaker 3: there's no purity in the clubhouse.
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  Speaker 2: Everyone has made a mistake, that's true. Yes, So who
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  Speaker 2: is the.
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  Speaker 1: Fire You would say pitcher? Perhaps Louis Castillo is a
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  Speaker 1: very popular presence of the clubhouse. When I used to
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  Speaker 1: cover ball daily basis, the pitchers are not the people
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  Speaker 1: to do that because they only take the ball every
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  Speaker 1: five days.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's the everyday dudes.
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  Speaker 1: That are grinding, playing hurt, playing day games after night games.
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  Speaker 1: Those are the guys who carry the cachet for doing
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  Speaker 1: this kind of thing. Do they need it now, that's
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  Speaker 1: another question. We're three days before the All Star Break.
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  Speaker 1: I think if you did it now, you lose some
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  Speaker 1: of its effect because they're all thinking about going to
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  Speaker 1: Cancun and Vegas and wherever, back to their families. Make
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  Speaker 1: no mistake, they are going to play that game, those
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  Speaker 1: games in Tampa this weekend Saint Petersburg technically with the
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  Speaker 1: one eye toward where they're headed for the All Star
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  Speaker 1: breg they absolutely will do that. Randy Rosarene is the
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  Speaker 1: only one on the All Star roster from the Mariners
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  Speaker 1: at least last I checked, unless there have been some
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  Speaker 1: injury fillings, and everybody else will have an eye to
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  Speaker 1: a manic. It's just human nature. You've been grind since February.
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  Speaker 1: It's spring training. I know spring cares not a grind,
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  Speaker 1: but you still have to be there all the way
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  Speaker 1: through mid July. You of course, are looking forward to
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  Speaker 1: and I've already made plans for where you're gonna spend
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  Speaker 1: Sunday night, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. So that is human nature,
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  Speaker 1: that is part of what's going on here. So do
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  Speaker 1: you want to do the throwing the buffet table around?
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  Speaker 1: And I mean, I'm not sure this is the time
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  Speaker 1: to do it. So then you wait another week and
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  Speaker 1: maybe another three games of poor play against the best
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  Speaker 1: American League team, and suddenly you're three games under five hundred.
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  Speaker 1: It's an interesting dynamic inside the clubhouse on what to
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  Speaker 1: do about this. The one time, jessmen that I saw
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  Speaker 1: the Mariners do a buck up like this, it was unforgettable.
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  Speaker 1: It was a day game. I was covering for the
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  Speaker 1: Associated Press. I was always out there for the AP then,
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  Speaker 1: And this is in six oh seven maybe, and John
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  Speaker 1: McClaren was the manager. Bill Bavesi was a mineral manager.
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  Speaker 1: And Bill Bavesi, after another terrible loss on a day game,
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  Speaker 1: had the players force them to sit at their lockers
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  Speaker 1: in the clubhouse, sit on their chairs in their full uniform,
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  Speaker 1: facing out to the clubhouse for the assembled media to
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  Speaker 1: come into. Don't go into the hideaway meal room, don't
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  Speaker 1: go get showers, treatment, don't go to treatment for twenty
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  Speaker 1: five at the time, twenty five players sitting at their
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  Speaker 1: lockers facing in and we came in and there they
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  Speaker 1: weren't wearing whoa this isn't usually it's two or three
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  Speaker 1: guys and they sat there. They wouldn't even allow the
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  Speaker 1: equipment guys to issue towels, so they couldn't shower.
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  Speaker 2: That's accountability.
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  Speaker 1: And we talked and John McClaren went on this rant
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  Speaker 1: that John McClaren's one of the nicest guys in the world.
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  Speaker 1: He was always a deputy to lou Penela, and it
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  Speaker 1: was somewhat miscast and the role as manager because he
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  Speaker 1: couldn't be the crack the whip guy, but he tried
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  Speaker 1: to be and it just came off as hilarious manufactured.
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  Speaker 1: But the vaisy told him to publicly to the media
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  Speaker 1: and then we went charging into the clubhouse and there's
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  Speaker 1: twenty five dudes without talles, angry that they're being told
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  Speaker 1: they have to do this. He got some crazy quotes
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  Speaker 1: that day. Milton Bradley. Milton Bradley was on that TV.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my god, remember him. Yeah, that's a dude, Milton Bradley.
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  Speaker 1: I had a great relationship with him. But he was hilarious,
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  Speaker 1: great well, he was he was off the hook in
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  Speaker 1: a lot of ways, throwing bats and off the fields.
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  Speaker 1: It was he was crazy and I got along. He
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  Speaker 1: had some great quotes that they just basically, what the
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  Speaker 1: hell is this making major league players? It backfired the team.
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  Speaker 1: Actually it was bad. I think that was one of
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  Speaker 1: the last things that John McLaren and then soon but
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  Speaker 1: Bill Mavesey did.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, So that's the extreme that we're talking about.
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  Speaker 1: And it was so manufactured in staged it was not
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  Speaker 1: even effective.
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  Speaker 2: So yes, the players aren't going to take it seriously.
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  Speaker 1: No, And I'm behind closed doors, not public, nothing like that.
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  Speaker 1: I'm talking inside, take care of your own house, players
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  Speaker 1: only meeting, That's what I'm talking about. Not even bringing
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  Speaker 1: in the management, not even bringing in the photos, certainly
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  Speaker 1: not the upstairs dudes. I'm talking who in that clubhouse
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  Speaker 1: is going to just round up and kick ass? And
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  Speaker 1: I don't know that I see that. And I'm again
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  Speaker 1: I'm I'm a Seahawks beat writer and a talk show host.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not in the clubhouse. But from being in the
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  Speaker 1: clubhouse during the playoffs last year, including on the road
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  Speaker 1: in Toronto in the ALCS, I got the impression I
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  Speaker 1: didn't see well they were winning at the time, of course,
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  Speaker 1: but Cavalley would be the closest thing because of the cachet.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm not sure he would do it. I mean
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  Speaker 1: maybe he would do it, I'm not sure how it
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  Speaker 1: would resonate me.
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  Speaker 3: I'm in their clubhouse quite frequently, and I would say
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  Speaker 3: that you had mentioned Luis Castillo too, and no, a
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  Speaker 3: pitcher shouldn't be that person. But he's pretty chill, like
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  Speaker 3: I think it's it's very chill, like Gino Suarez was
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  Speaker 3: the guy who brought the vibes.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but they were chill as well.
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  Speaker 3: So if you're looking for an ass kicker, I don't
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  Speaker 3: know if I see it. I'm like, you look at
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  Speaker 3: the pitching staff, you look at the guys. Josh Nayler
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  Speaker 3: is the closest thing that I could see being an
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  Speaker 3: ass kicker.
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  Speaker 1: I think so. But he's only been here for not
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  Speaker 1: even a full year yet, but they gave him a
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  Speaker 1: new contract, so he's definitely part.
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  Speaker 2: Of the found They chose this place.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, he chose to come back. I think that he
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  Speaker 1: and Randy Rosereina the two that came into mind immediately,
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  Speaker 1: and then rest of the roster is pretty much too
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  Speaker 1: young or platooning or part time Luke Rayley and Dominic
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  Speaker 1: Canzone and Cole Young and Cold Emerson a JP. Crawford
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  Speaker 1: certainly has the tenure.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I was gonna say he has that on his
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  Speaker 3: side when it comes to it. But he's also so chill,
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  Speaker 3: and that is what made this team so great for
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  Speaker 3: many reasons.
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  Speaker 2: If you go back to last season, is because of
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  Speaker 2: that calm vibe.
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  Speaker 1: Right, So, chill's great until you don't need chill anymore
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  Speaker 1: and you need something else.
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  Speaker 2: You need some fire fire, and which about andres.
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  Speaker 1: Again, A pitcher, a closer not usually the prototypical guy
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  Speaker 1: to upset the apple cart and flame your teammates.
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  Speaker 3: No, no, And I don't know if flaming is necessary.
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  Speaker 1: Oh I think it's blowtorch time inside that clubhouse. If
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  Speaker 1: I'm talking about I'm just again internally, I'm not talking
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  Speaker 1: about players only meeting. Yeah, I'm not talking about benching
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  Speaker 1: and none of that. I'm talking about players holding up
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  Speaker 1: players to accountability.
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  Speaker 3: The one thing that I take issue with when it
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  Speaker 3: comes to these players only meeting is it screams desperation.
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  Speaker 3: Of course, right, so can they be chill during the
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  Speaker 3: All Star break and come back and be good.
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  Speaker 1: And I think that's what's going to happen. Ye practically speaking,
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  Speaker 1: because they have only three days until that break. It
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  Speaker 1: would be really I'm not sure how effective it would
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  Speaker 1: be to go into Tropacanna Field to night in the
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  Speaker 1: visiting clubhouse and just start ripping dudes, and they're gonna
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  Speaker 1: be like, I'm a out man, I'm going to Cancun
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  Speaker 1: on Sunday night. Yeah, I mean.
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  Speaker 3: Seriously, I just don't think it would stick, right right,
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  Speaker 3: because anybody would.
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  Speaker 1: Care You're gone in two days? Yeah right, But that
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  Speaker 1: begs the question. So then when after the All Star break, well,
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  Speaker 1: now you're talking a week from now. When they come home,
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  Speaker 1: they play the Giants next week in a home series.
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  Speaker 1: The Giants are just terrible. I mean, on top of
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  Speaker 1: terrible how that season has gone down. You think the
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  Speaker 1: Mariners have problems. We talked to An Killey in a
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  Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago, but the Giants, they can't do
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  Speaker 1: anything right now. They got Logan Webb getting taken his
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  Speaker 1: social media account off of the Internet because of a
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  Speaker 1: fight with a radio producer in kmb R.
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  Speaker 3: That is just one of the hysterical things that I
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  Speaker 3: witness in our business.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm like, that is just phenomenal. I love it
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  Speaker 2: so much.
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  Speaker 3: And you torched as a radio producer myself, if I
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  Speaker 3: got a professional athlete to torch their account and I'm
• 15:49
  Speaker 3: too nice to do something like that, I would be
• 15:52
  Speaker 3: really proud.
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: He may be. Before we got break a couple other notes,
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: and they bring up that final compute combined viewing number
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: for US Belgium, Fox and Telemundo was fifty point one
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: million viewers, Mexico and England forty six point seven million
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: viewers in the World Cup. Those are the most watched
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: non NFL sports events in the US since the nineteen
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: ninety four Olympics. Damn, that was Nancy Carrigan. And remember that.
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: Do you think I watched like seven downs.
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: Tonya harding Nancy Kerrigan. That's the last time so many
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: people watch something that wasn't the NFL nineteen ninety.
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: Four kirty radyear for the Olympics.
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: You see what the Blazers owner did yesterday? I did not.
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: He's also someone still owns that place.
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, the Blazers were bought by Tom Dundan, who's also
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: the Carolina Hurricanes.
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: The worst owner in sports history.
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: Maybe let's staying something, Donald Sterling.
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: Is you still on a toh okay. But there's different
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: reasons why people suck.
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: Carolina Hurricanes owner Tom Dundon, who was now the New
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: Blazers owner, he has put his he has etched on
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: the first line underneath Carolina Hurricanes on the new panel
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: of the Stanley Cup that the Hurricanes just won. Has
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: etched his wife and all five of his children's names
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: on there, even though none of them have anything to
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: do with any official capacity on the team. Is the
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: youngest is seven years old. And get this, they did that.
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: All the Dundon's wife and kids are on the cup.
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: And they omitted the longtime equipment manager who is like
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: a legend there his name's not on the cup.
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: Oh my god.
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: So we have Eric Kennedy here at the Seahawks is
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: an institution. He's an institution. And I could not see
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: the Seahawks.
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: Like the Seahawks saying, ek, you don't get a ring,
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: but let me give one to John Schneider's kids.
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: Well that's pretty bad.
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: That's awful. Yeah, of all the things you can say
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: about the New Blazer's owner, that's pretty bad.
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: I do understand wanting to give your family a place
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: in history.
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: Nobody has ever done this.
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: Right, I'm just I'm putting it alone cup.
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: As like it's limited space. Man, I don't just throw
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: chucks off the street on there.
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: I am aware, so I'm doing this and that. So
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: I do see that.
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: And but.
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: For the what went into the success of that team,
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: more people need to be recognized.
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: Not the family. Give them a replica cup or something.
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: They've got billions of dollars they're doing. Okay, you don't
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: put them on the stanley.
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah, as the Blazers, that's sacred. They don't treat it
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: like they that.
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: Billions, but they do. And that's how billionaires stay billionaires
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: by not spending money. Why is there Why are their
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: turf fields on NFL stadiums when they disprove they can
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: put in grass fields. I mean, come on, yeah, you're right.
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: Okay, I'm rethinking it because I wasn't aware that he
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: put his entire family.
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: Unbelievable. Unbelievable. It's a sacred, sacred chalice that people as is.
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: It's the most revered trophy in sports.
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: It's one of the only trophies I've seen besides the Heisman.
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: I freaked out at that as well.
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: But I when I saw it, I actually swooned.
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: And I've seen a lot of things, and that one
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: got me.
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: They have two dudes that are signed to that to
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: carry it with white gloves and suits.
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: We paid a lot of money to do that too.
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: That's how I found out. I was like, can I
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: have that job?
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: I would walk that thing around up next, we got
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: Seahawks News threefold in the middle of July. Mike McDonald
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: made some of it. I wrote it in News Tribune
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: this morning. It's last I checked the most red story
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: at the News Tribune dot com. We'll tell you about
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: it next on ninety three point three KJRFM. Welcome back
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: Greg Belt Jesson McIntyre with here as we are every weekday,
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: ten am to noon on ninety three point three KJRFM.
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: Remember the World Cup is coming up on your area,
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: on your airwaves here on ninety three point three.
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: kJ airwaves and in your area.
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: In your area, in your earl canal, in your ears
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: eleven thirty pre game show and the twelve o'clock kick
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: in Englewood of the World Cup quarterfinal between Spain and
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: the team that vanquished the Americans, Belgium in the round
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: of eight tomorrow doubleheader. The first one is England and
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: Norway from Miami at two o'clock and at six o'clock Australia.
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: Excuse me, Switzerland is playing Mighty Messi and the Argentinians
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: at six o'clock. That's tomorrow two and six on ninety
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: three point three KJRFM, Greg.
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: Do you have any skin in that game?
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: Uh? Uh? I think England is going to go to
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: the final against France.
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: But no I did, Okay, so I do just because
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: of Anders. Oh yes, yes, Argentinian wife, and I am
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: all Argentina from here on out now that the US
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: is out.
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: I didn't expect to be talking about the Seahawks on
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: July tenth, but I am because there are three different
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: news items in the last twenty four hours from them.
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: We told you yesterday about Mike McDonald. We had rareed
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: his comments to Dan Patrick at the Celebrity Golf tournament
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: in Lake Tahoe about analytics and how he uses analytics
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: as a support crutch but not the be all end
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: all and he still trusts his gut and his eyes
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: on the sidelines during games.
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: I think that's the perfect way to use analytics.
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: He is Dan Patrick was then dribbling out segments of
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: the rest of his talk with Mike McDonald, and I
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: was reviewing it yesterday afternoon, and I stumbled across at
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: the very end of this News that and writing for
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: the News Tribute, and this is Mike McDonald Dan Patrick yesterday.
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: Do you feel like you're a Super Bowl winning coach?
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: And I don't, like, I don't know when reality sets
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: in for something as big as it is and how
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: you're now viewed.
• 21:48
  Speaker 5: I'm not used to it.
• 21:49
  Speaker 6: It's it doesn't honestly in all I mean, I'm not
• 21:52
  Speaker 6: just like, it doesn't feel like it. I just because
• 21:54
  Speaker 6: I don't feel like I've changed.
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: But people will change around you, because I think you're
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: gotta be aware of that.
• 22:01
  Speaker 6: But it's it's cool to meet like people out here
• 22:03
  Speaker 6: and you're like that that they know who we are
• 22:05
  Speaker 6: and they know our team, and you know that we
• 22:07
  Speaker 6: affected them in like some way, which is really cool.
• 22:10
  Speaker 6: So that that's probably like the that's a really cool
• 22:12
  Speaker 6: like byproduct of it. But I don't feel any different.
• 22:15
  Speaker 6: You know, I still have a year and a half
• 22:16
  Speaker 6: old son that he doesn't know anything. I gotta make
• 22:19
  Speaker 6: sure his diaper's changed and he's fed and he's.
• 22:21
  Speaker 5: Not pissed off. He was on, we were on, I forget.
• 22:23
  Speaker 6: The whole was, but he came out, ran through the ropes,
• 22:26
  Speaker 6: grabbed my driver as we're walking down the fairway, and
• 22:29
  Speaker 6: then I needed it back, so I was I didn't
• 22:31
  Speaker 6: want to be the guy to grab it from him,
• 22:32
  Speaker 6: and so I think I think Steph my wife ended
• 22:34
  Speaker 6: up taking it from and he like you could hear
• 22:36
  Speaker 6: this his cry, like two holes away, just losing his mind.
• 22:41
  Speaker 6: I was felt bad for a second, but now it's
• 22:44
  Speaker 6: it's really cool to see him.
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: Could you change the diaper before the play clock expires?
• 22:48
  Speaker 5: I've gotten pretty good, really good.
• 22:50
  Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, it's but it's also depending on his his
• 22:53
  Speaker 6: like his attitude, so you need.
• 22:55
  Speaker 5: To bring out the baby and the diapers here we're
• 22:57
  Speaker 5: going to have coaches.
• 22:58
  Speaker 6: Is it like is it a full like we did
• 23:00
  Speaker 6: blow blowout or is it like is it a solid?
• 23:03
  Speaker 6: Is it a solid? You know how different types? You know,
• 23:06
  Speaker 6: you got to evaluate it.
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: But having that escape, how important is it when he
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: doesn't know anything? Yeah, and you could go home. You
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: don't have to answer any questions.
• 23:15
  Speaker 6: Well, I get to spend more than thirty minutes now,
• 23:17
  Speaker 6: you know with him that was that was a story
• 23:19
  Speaker 6: last year.
• 23:19
  Speaker 5: But are you a grinder that you're going to be
• 23:22
  Speaker 5: there all day all night? No, I can't. I I
• 23:24
  Speaker 5: a quality of life man.
• 23:26
  Speaker 6: I just like I can't I tell the team like
• 23:28
  Speaker 6: if I'm making decisions after nine pm, like, we'ren't trouble
• 23:31
  Speaker 6: you know. So and we got to work out in
• 23:34
  Speaker 6: in the morning with our crew and then we and
• 23:36
  Speaker 6: then we put in a great day's work and then
• 23:38
  Speaker 6: we go home.
• 23:38
  Speaker 5: You know.
• 23:39
  Speaker 6: Now, like there's a process you have to abide by
• 23:41
  Speaker 6: that we have to do. But to spend all the
• 23:44
  Speaker 6: time like with our family, this like to this off season.
• 23:46
  Speaker 6: Now Jack Sie's a year and a half, so you know,
• 23:48
  Speaker 6: he's he's got a personality and attitude and you know,
• 23:51
  Speaker 6: he's got some interest and we're trying to teach me
• 23:53
  Speaker 6: how to talk. And it's just it's a it's so
• 23:55
  Speaker 6: much fun right now. It's it's just it's really awesome.
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: Uh, congratulations, thanks for stopping and by and I'll go
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: back to quality of life. After talking to Dick for
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: meal many times about he sleep at the office, and
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: Tony Dungee said that Chuck Noles said go home to
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: your families. That was important and it is important so
• 24:16
  Speaker 4: quality of life, man, and being there when with your kids.
• 24:21
  Speaker 5: There's no substitute.
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: I did second shift at ESPN for fifteen years when
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: my kids were all born, and you miss out on
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: so much. Don't miss out on those little things because
• 24:33
  Speaker 4: you can never get them back.
• 24:34
  Speaker 6: I appreciate that you're an ask gone by. Really yes, yes,
• 24:38
  Speaker 6: we've got another on the way, so it's oh fun.
• 24:40
  Speaker 6: Do you know what you're having at baby girl? Kind
• 24:43
  Speaker 6: of December Samantha after Sam Darnold, Well you have a name,
• 24:46
  Speaker 6: but we'll tell her.
• 24:47
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's yeah, don't tell, never ever tell. Thank you, coach, all,
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: thanks stopping mine.
• 24:52
  Speaker 5: Thanks guys.
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: That was Mike McDonald's Seahawks coach, super Bowl winning coach
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: with San Patrick at Lake Taylo yesterday at the Silbody
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: Golf Tournament and I was like, wait a minute. I
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: had to replay. I was like, wait a minute. He
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: just threw that in there at the end. That was news.
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: I hadn't seen anybody reporting that. He hadn't mentioned has
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: a baby baby on the way in December, will be
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: a daughter. They already know it's a girl. He has
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: his wife Stephanie already have a one and a half
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: year old son. He heard him alude to Jack, it's
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: changed him. He was football only. I mean he wanted
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: to talk about even off the record, even when we're
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: just hanging out, which you sometimes do, especially on those
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: joint practice and road trips like that, it was all football.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: And then when Jack was born last year at Green Bay,
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: when we hung out with him, he was talking about
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: being a dad and chasing and crawling and diapers and
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: it changed him. It did. It is it changed every
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: parent when you have newborns. Now we have a second
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: one and a girl.
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: As the daughter of a football coach, I can tell
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: you how much that changes a man.
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: It does. I've twined twenty three year olds born and girl,
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: and the daughter does change a flight.
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: I mean, you guys hit the jackpot on it.
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah. My wife tapped me on the shoulder after she
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: came out of it was a really hairy emergency surgery
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: the delivery, and Chie tapped on the shower. So what
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: we have? He said, we had a boy and a girl.
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: She tapped on the show. So thanks, we're done. We
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: only that's all we have ever since that. But yes,
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: he and Stephanie the background. Stephanie, his wife, was a
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: former cheerleader with the Baltimore Ravens who met McDonald and Stephanie.
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: Mike McDonald and his wife, Stephanie met when he his
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: first year as a coaching intern, the first of ten
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: seasons as an assistant coach for John Harbo's Baltimore Ravens. So, yeah,
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: he's a football nerd, but he doesn't exactly just keep
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: his eyes completely peeled onto the field. He's obviously had
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: a wondering eye for his future wife.
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: I think a well rounded coach is the best kind
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: of coach, though, you know, you can't be completely alluded
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: to your office and be in touch with your team.
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: That was a good move for him, a good career
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: and personal move.
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: Sports so young too, he's so young.
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: Yes, he's still on. We just turned thirty nine. So
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: Mike McDonald and his wife Stephanie, congratulations. Due to have
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: a baby, a baby girl, in December, right at the
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: end of the Seahawks coming season. Second child for them.
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: That story is up at the News Tribune dot com,
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: But I basically just told you the News the gist
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: of it.
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: We would like to offer a hearty congratulations. I know
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: you you said it, but I didn't, and I would
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: like to just put it out there for me because
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: that's awesome it is, and also, good luck coach.
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: It is.
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: It's gonna be tough.
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: We better hire a couple more people to take care
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: and help the mom. Two front runners have emerged in
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: the competition, the bidding competition to buy the Seahawks. According
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: to Front Office Sports, leading the pack is a group
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: that current we've talked about the groups that are known
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: to be bidding and the one. The two that are
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: leading the pack of corn to Front Office Sports are
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: the one that has current Celtic's minority owner Eata Mattal
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: from an Indian steel conglomerate family, former Celtics lead owner
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: Wick Grossbeck. And then the second group that submerged as
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: a leader is led by forty nine Ers minority investor
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: Van Kosha. He has Kozla has been linked to the
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: Seahawks since almost the very first day of this too.
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: He would probably he would definitely have to divest vest
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: his interest in the forty nine ers. These are two
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: out of towners. Yes. Front off of Sports says that
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: at least one of the two groups features at least
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: one former Seahawks player interesting, which immediately two players came
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: to mind. To me, who this could possibly be?
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: Oh, I want to know yours because I have one.
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: Who are yours? On the text line four nine four
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: or five one? Who do you think you now think?
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: Who's capable of being a minority investor in an eight
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: to ten billion dollar endeavor? And who would be an investor?
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: I think I there's one of two. One is more
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: likely than the other. But there's one of two four
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: nine four five one under the commodage text on who
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: you think that is? So we'll see. I will also
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: say this. The Front Office Sports story did allude to
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: the fact that there is still the possibility of a
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: bidder who is yet to emerge. But it hasn't he
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: or she has not emerged yet. I mean that goes
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: without saying, but that's how this stuff works. They want
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: to see how the bid. They have a competition of bids.
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: They drive up the price to see what the bids
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: can compete with each other. There were three initial interested
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: parties reportedly in this process, two have emerged as leaders.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: And then if anyone wants to come at White Night
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: this thing and come in on a white horse. At
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: the end of it, they know what the price is
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: so they don't not bid themselves early. That's still a possibility.
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: Here's all I say about that.
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: Oh is it a billion dollar white horse?
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: Yes? Yes, like billions with a capital B and a
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: horse that's really really white and really really big.
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: And also the s on the end, yeah, billions, not billions.
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: And locally locally sown. We've talked about this before.
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: Too, So are we doing a big reveal on this
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: of who you think or No.
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: I'm not going to spare I've people reading between the
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: line know who I'm talking about. I'm not ready to
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: just throw it out there. And the journalist and me
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: does not want to report this because I don't have
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: it pegged. I've heard it through secondhand sources that this
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: is the talk around those circles.
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: But we'll show and the journalists that you are.
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: Well.
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: I just don't want to throw that because if I
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: throw it out there, then everyone's going to say Greg Bell.
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: The News Tribune reported this, and.
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: I'm not reported this is Hey weekends you can read, but.
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: I would get I'm telling you, people would say Greg Bell.
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: The News Tribune reported this I'm not going to do it.
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: I'm with you.
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: I was thinking of actually now three people because the
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: text line is chiming in. Yeah, but most of them
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: are exactly in my headspace.
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah. The two, I'm thinking of one that's certainly capable
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: of two that still has kept ties here both off
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: the field in business and whatnot.
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: Okay, third story, Yes.
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: The third story came this morning out of Florida. What
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: are we talking about? Remember I told you about Terry
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: On Arnold. We know the story of the starting cornerback
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: for the Detroit Lions who's facing felony, kidnapping and burglary
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: charges like life in prison bad. Yes, Well, he had
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: a court hearing today. His agent, Nicole Lynn, who I've
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: bumped into a couple of times and combines and whatnot.
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: She is his agent. And he's a former Alabama star
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: corner that everybody in the league knows and scouted. And
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: it's not like he's still in the third year of
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: his four year deal.
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: We know his name.
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: Yes, So his agent said that Ford in the court
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: hearing this morning, that was trying to decide whether he
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: was going to have a bracelet on his ankle that
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: will confine him to home confined. The prosecutors wanted that,
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: and it turns out the court, the judge said no,
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: we're not going to have that. So he's not having that.
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: So he's just out.
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: He's on a billion he's on a million dollar bail.
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: I don't know if he posted that. He's certainly able to,
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: but I don't know if he posted that or not.
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: But there was a hearing of whether I would assume
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: he's out or else. They wouldn't be doing the bracelet
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: thing right, they wouldn't even be considering it right.
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: So he must have pasted Jill, you're just there.
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's kind of what the bars are for. So
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: the agent, Nicole Linn, said today in court that four
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: teams have reached out about signing Arnold, and he had
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: a visit with one of them this week. Well, guess
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: who one of the four teams are. She mentioned the
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: Seattle Seahawks.
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: That sounds like agents speak, or it.
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: Sounds like John Schneider is always involved in everything.
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: He will pick up the phone, of course, and he
• 32:53
  Speaker 3: openly admits that, of course.
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: He wants to be in on everything. Here's a guy
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: who wants when he had at the height of Russ
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: Wilson's career with the Seahawks at the height of him
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: going to back to back Super Bowls, went to the
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: pro day of Josh Allen at Wyoming in the middle
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: of a snowstorm in February March. So yes, does not
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: surprise me at all. The presumption and innocence until guilt
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: applies to TENIFOL general managers too, so they have to
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: plan for the possibility that this He's either free to
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: play until the jurisprudence takes its course or what have you. Anyway,
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: that's how business in the NFL works. If there's a
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: possibility you're able to play, we're going to think about it. Now.
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: They have a coach who would probably take a long
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: look at this, because the coach, he holds a pretty
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: firm line on some things.
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: You would have to evaluate it on a professional and
• 33:49
  Speaker 3: a personal level, and I think that Mike McDonald is
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: very good in both those categories.
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: I might I just put it out there that it
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: should not be a huge surprise that John would be
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: at least kicking attires on what the possibility would be
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: or what's going on in this situation. We'll see it's
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: very premature to say this, but other than to say
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: that the agent, it's a fact. The agent in court
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: today said the Seahawks are one of four teams that
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: have contacted her client as they wait for the legal
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: process to unfold in Florida. Four nine four or five one.
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: Your feelings about that, we'll read back. I won't read well,
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: we'll talk about it. When do we go to do
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: the text. Because we've got a shortened show.
• 34:28
  Speaker 3: Today, we'll get to some of them and if there
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: are talkbacks, I will play them up next.
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: Cole Young talks about not challenging that strike three the
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: other night in Miami, the second of the three losses,
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: and I already mentioned. We'll talk about do the Mariners
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: need a kick in the ass and who in the
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: clubhouse might be capable of doing that. Eleven thirty the
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: pregame show for the World Cup quarterfinal between Spain and Belgium,
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: which will be on our air at twelve o'clock on
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: ninety three point three KJRFM. Welcome back, I've be Friday
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: to you, Greg Bell, the News Tribune, Desmond McIntyre, Live
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: in your airways as we are every day ten to noon.
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: Today it's ten to eleven thirty because we got action,
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: we got footy soccer. Footy is England soccer.
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: No, it's football, isn't it.
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: Footy is England soccer?
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: Okay? I have my sports that we don't play very
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: much here. Confused.
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: I know what Australian calls their football footy as well,
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: but they do the British do call.
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: Football they do, Okay, all right.
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: Wembley Stadium taught me that when the Seahawks and the
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: Raiders played there, you were I remember that. We were
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: talking about the Seahawks and the potential sale of the Seahawks.
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: We'll talk more about who the ex Seahawks who. We
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: have a pretty good idea or at least an idea
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: of who we think it is. Your text line is
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: blown up about that. Cole Young yesterday before the game,
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: talked to Ryan Divish and the beat writers in Miami.
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: Ryan Divish, of course of the Seattle Times, the Mariners
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: beat writer, and they went and asked, as they should have,
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: Cole Young, why didn't you challenge that third strike with
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: as the tyger and representing the tygern at the plate
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: in a two nothing game at the top of the
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: ninth in Miami. It was well off the plate and
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: Cole Young told Ryan Division the Times quote in the moment,
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: I was so upset that I didn't swing the first thing.
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: When he got in the locker room in the clubhouse,
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: he saw he picked up his phone and he had
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: a text. The text said, you should have challenged that.
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: You know who the text was from? Who his mom?
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. I love that he's still young enough.
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: The second year. What are you twenty two years old?
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: Second year in the league? He call, Young explained to
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: his mom and to Ryan Divish of the Seattle Times
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: quote in the moment, it was like expelted. Why didn't
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: I take that pitch right down the middle? It looked
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: like it was a strike, And I just was pissed
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: off that I could have put the ball in play there. Obviously,
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: looking back, I should have challenged it. I looked back
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: at the video and it was like, damn, it was outside,
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: Young said, So I should have challenged it. Young told
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: the reporters that he was having a hard time picking
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: up the ball out of the hand of Marlin's closer,
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: Pete Fairbanks. Fairbanks is former Tempa bay Ray. He's known
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: for that he keeps the ball behind his wrist and
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: it comes out late and it's tough to pick up
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: at times. That's a skill, it is. It's part of
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: the deception of a pitcher. So Young thought the ninety
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: eight million hour fastball was in fact over the heart
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: of the plate, and he was so disgusted with himself
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: he didn't even think of challenging it. I get it, though,
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: I before you. I'm gonna preemptively say this before I
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: even read the text line in that situation, because you
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: have challenges left and there's nothing else to lose. Just
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: challenge anyway. If you're getting wrung up, just tap your helmet.
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: That's just a reflexive and he'll learn from that. But
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: it was not, according to Cole Young, because this seat
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: the Mariners had a team meeting and said nobody challenge
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: anything after Randy Roserena's gaff on Friday night. Yeah, so
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: there was a theory out there that maybe that was
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: part of the reason Young last night went over three
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: with a walk in a strikeout in that Mariner's eight
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: to four loss that pushed them back to five hundred
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: not of first place in America West. By the way,
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: the Mariners the esteemed our friend of mine. Larry Stone,
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: the retired Seattle Times column this pointed out this last
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: night online the Mariners with runners in scoring position in
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: that three game series when they lost all three games,
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: two for twenty five.
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: That is a rough stat.
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: Two for twenty five is when players start getting it
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: in their heads that they're two for twenty five, that
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: the pressure, oh, can we finally come through now with
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: a runner scoring? You know what would help for them
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: coming through with the runner in scoring position, Jaman not
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: trying to hit a you know what home run every
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: single time there's a runner on base.
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: And we've talked about this.
• 39:20
  Speaker 3: Cal Rowly talked about it the other week, Yes, and
• 39:23
  Speaker 3: we played his audio of that.
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: And they do it all of the time. Everyone does it.
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: The only ones who haven't done it habitually and have
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: actually come through Cole Young and cold Emerson. They will
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: hit the ball in the opposite field. And I remember I've
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: talked about why I think Cole Young is the MVP
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: of the team is because he actually does hit the
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: ball where it's pitched and he doesn't mind taking a
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: two strike fastball in the outside corner of the left
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: field as a left handed hitter. Josh Naylor does it. Occasionally,
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: he'll just tomahawk a high fastball into center field to
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: get a single on a two strike pitch. The rest
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: of the lineup. JP Crawford, I mean JP Crawford swings
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: like he should have chiropractor right behind him. He swings
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: so hard rand Rose Arena, like his neck is gonna
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: break that. They've been so groomed for so many years
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: by this sport about exit velocities and launch angles. That's
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: all they care about with men on base, when all
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: you need is to put the ball in play, runner
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: at third and one out, your job is to put
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: the ball and put your bat on the ball. Just
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: put in play. Chances are unless the infield's in, if
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: you hit it to the right side of specially, you're
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: gonna score run. If you hit it in the air
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: to the outfit, you're gonna score a run. Just hit
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: the ball, don't try to kill it, and don't try
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: to hit a home run because you're gonna be prone
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: to striking out. The one thing a pitcher and a
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: defense want with a runner at third and less than
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: two outs of a strikeout to not have the ball
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: and play and still get it out, because then if
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: the ball's not in play, there's no chance that runner
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: is gonna score. And how many times do we see
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: with runners in scoring position them trying to hit the
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: ball so hard do they strike out? Which is the
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: one thing a pitcher once when there's men in scoring position,
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: a strikeout. So there's no chance of runners advancing. That's
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: the problem with that.
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: I mean, we've kind of been saying it too.
• 41:08
  Speaker 3: We've gone through the stats of them not winning without
• 41:11
  Speaker 3: a home run over and over and over again.
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: But where is that coaching coming from?
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, and I would submit that coaches can say
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: what they want, but when the guys in the batter's box,
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: it's up to them. They have to make the choice.
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: When the pitch is coming down the pike. It's their
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: mind that's going to decide whether how I'm going to
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: swing at this, whether I'm going to swing at it anyway.
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: Who needs to be the kicking the ass guy in
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: the Mariners clubhouse. We've mentioned that at the top of
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: the show four nine, four five one. We'll read back
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: your text next and include who you think the one
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: seahawk that has been reported by Front Office Sports to
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: be involved in the lead bid of buying the team.
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: We have an idea who we think it will discuss
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: that next. On ninety three point three KJRFM, Hi, welcome back,
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: Happy Friday. Jessmonan's got us in the funk portion of
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: the Great Belt Show. It's Jessman McIntyre.
• 42:32
  Speaker 2: Well we are getting fucky, are webr.
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: On ninety three point three KJRFM at eleven thirty. Remember
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: we got the World Cup iHeart National Broadcast pregame pre
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: match show before the World Cup quarterfinal at noon high
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: noon in Inglewood between Spance, Spain and Belgium. Looks like
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: that's going to be the winners. That's going to play France.
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: Then tomorrow doubleheader on ninety three point three KJRFM at
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: two o'clock from Miami. Really good one there England and Norway.
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: Earling Holland gets Harry Kane and Jude Bellingham and yeah,
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: that's gonna be That's gonna be great. We talked to
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: Great Code the Miami Herald about that earlier.
• 43:14
  Speaker 2: By the way, it was them on the podcast.
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: They go to the nine three three KJR on the
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: iHeartRadio appoard nine through three kjer dot com in here.
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: Greg Kote from the Miami Herald talking about that match
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: and other things in South Florida. And then tomorrow at
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: six o'clock our time, Argentina and Lionel Messi, who just
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: cannot be defeated no matter what their odds are in
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: these matches, they play Switzerland. Those two winners of tomorrow's
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: matches will play in the other semi final. The final
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: is July nineteenth in the meadowlands outside New York City
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: where there is a grass fiel very.
• 43:49
  Speaker 3: Very far outside New York City in the swamps. It's
• 43:53
  Speaker 3: in New Jersey.
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, swamp land in New Jersey. I mean, it's just
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: ridiculous that they're having it there. Did you see where
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: the FIFA is selling patches of that grass field at
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: the metal Lands. Of course they are. They're monetizing it
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: for four hundred and fifty up to thirty five hundred
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: dollars a piece per patch. Come on, instead of selling
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: it and profetizing and profiteering it almost racketeering at that point,
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: Why don't you just keep it? Let the Jets and
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: Giants play on it. Imagine that.
• 44:26
  Speaker 2: Imagine what Army.
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: Navy play on it the second Saturday in December. Instead,
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: they're gonna be back on turf.
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: Mark Davis talked to the La Times about this yesterday.
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: Mark Davis is not exactly known as an progressive NFL owner.
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: I covered his father, Al Davis, and we thought Mark
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: Davis was not exactly fit to run an NFL frenchis,
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: but here he is. He stewarded the Oakland Raiders to
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: Las Vegas. The one thing he did, though, was he
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: insisted on a grass field. And even though Allegiant Stadium
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: in Las Vegas is indoors, they have a grass field
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: that they roll in and roll back out. Yeah.
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: Arizona does that too.
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: Yes they do, Yes, they do. Arizona does the same
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: thing for Cardinals games. Those are grass fields. So don't
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: tell me you can't run a grass field up here
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: in Seattle because it rains too much.
• 45:17
  Speaker 2: That's actually pretty good for dress for gross.
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: And Okay, it would get muddy and they'd have to
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: replace the grass. Yeah they would, and that would cost money.
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: And that's why NFL billionaires stayed billionaires, because they don't
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: want to spend their money on things like that optional.
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: But to Mark Davis's credit, he was telling the La
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: Times it was the right thing to do for his players.
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: He said it was a player safety issue and his
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: players wanted to play on grass, so he said, Okay,
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: we're gonna roll in grass and roll it out. That's
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: what we have to do now. Interestingly, that stadium, when
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: it is also home to unlv in college games bowl games,
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: used to be the PAC twelve title game. They play
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: turf for the colleges. They don't roll the grass field.
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: The Raiders play on in and out because Mark Davis
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: doesn't want to pay for that.
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that's tough.
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: So the college kids, we're pros anyway, They got to
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: play on the harder stuff.
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: They are pros.
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: Now Again, I reiterate the last three words I had
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: in my mind as I walked out of Lumenfield on
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: Monday night after that US Belgian match. I looked down
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: on the pitch and said, keep the grass. Yeah, they won't.
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: Lumenfield's already the people that run Lumenfield have already said that.
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: The Rain and the Sounders are going to play one
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: match each, the Sounders next week on July sixteenth against
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: the Portland Timbers, and then they're bringing in back into
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: the turf. They're going to just deconstruct the grass is
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: on a platform above the turf field and they're going
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: to deconstruct the platform and here comes the turf. It's
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: still there, it's underneath.
• 46:42
  Speaker 3: Do you ever get those little pellets in your shoes?
• 46:44
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, me too all the time. It's really
• 46:47
  Speaker 3: ruined a couple of washing machines for me.
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: So, oh yeah, marching up and down sidelines, that's true.
• 46:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: The text line four nine four five one and the
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: Koma Dodge text line, Juman's very disappointed that nobody's on
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: the talk back.
• 47:00
  Speaker 3: App No, but we also technically usually promote this at eleven.
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: Correct, we're a little bit. We're thirty minutes early because
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: of World Cup soccer. I positive to begin the show,
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: do the Mariners need to kick the ass? And there's
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: no overwhelming, complete not even nobody's saying no, one hundred
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: percent of you say yes among hundreds of texts, and
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: then who okay, if we all agree they need to
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: kick in the ass inside the clubhouse, I'm talking player
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: to player, who could it be? We have a couple people,
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: well forty visses. The Mariners absolutely need to kick the ass.
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: Dan is not the man I mean Dan Wilson.
• 47:35
  Speaker 2: I think we need a little more funk for this segment.
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: Hold on, I don't care if the players really like him.
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: Oh there's Chris Kids old music. Thank you.
• 47:44
  Speaker 2: Chris bequeathed it to me.
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: Because he did. I'm not saying he can't.
• 47:48
  Speaker 2: He didn't die, guys.
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: No he didn't. But I miss Chris and this reminds
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: me of him. I don't care if the players really
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: like Dan Wilson. Did everyone like Blue? I would say no,
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: but I bet they sure respected it. Yes, they need
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: to kick in the ass four two five says another.
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: Fortune five says they need to trade for a respected
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: player who has that fire.
• 48:13
  Speaker 2: Yes, but can you bring that fire into a clubhouse?
• 48:16
  Speaker 2: You are not a part of.
• 48:18
  Speaker 3: That's what I wonder when it comes to a mid
• 48:20
  Speaker 3: season thing. I mean to be honest, Josh Naylor did it,
• 48:23
  Speaker 3: but you did it more through the media than I
• 48:26
  Speaker 3: saw him do.
• 48:26
  Speaker 2: In the clubhouse.
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: Fortune five says, poor roster construction. They don't have a
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: player to hold other players accountable. You can't have a
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: roster full of chill dudes. Interesting, but we do they do.
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: Jeff frequent listener and texter. Thanks Jeff third three to six. Oh,
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: they don't have a player on the roster right now.
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: That's going to light a fire. They also don't have
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: the coaching staff to do it either. They need to
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: bring in someone like Buck Showalter, Alex Core. We've talked
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: about why those guys aren't managing the Mariners, Joe Madden.
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: They would. I'll tell Jerry PoTA where to shove his
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: iPad a player.
• 49:04
  Speaker 3: This is a front office driven management system.
• 49:07
  Speaker 2: We are aware of that.
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: A player Jeff says they could bring in would be
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: Wilson Contreras, who just got suspended with the Red Sox.
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: I hate to say it, but George Springer. Oh no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, Jeff,
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: let's not bring in George Springer. We don't need trash
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: cans here in Seattle. No no, I don't think that
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: would be a good idea. Two six, the MS will
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: be praying that Castillo can have a good outing against
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: the Rays and they can point to that as a
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: selling point. Yes, I think every start Castillo makes is
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: a showcase. That would be the best case. We also
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: asked who the Front Office Sports if you missed us
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: talking about it last segment. Front Office Sports has reported
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: that there are two groups of the three known bidding groups.
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: Two of them have emerged as leaders to buy the
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: Seahawks way the Wick Grossbeck, theydatam a Tall group, the
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: Boston Celtics investors, and the minority investor from Sun Microsystems
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: in the San Francisco forty nine ers. So far, the
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: process continues. In that report, Front Office Sports also states
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: that at least one ex Seahawk is involved in one
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: of those two lead bids. They didn't say which player,
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: and they Front Office Sports did not report which of
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: the two groups involved in You can make some summation
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: or at least a surmise that it might be the
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: Sun Microsystems co founder group, because there's only one lead
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: investor known there rather than the two Boston Celtics owners.
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: But that's just supposition on my part. So I asked
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: you who do you think and immediately, who do you
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: think the X Seahawk is that is in the league.
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: One of those two lead groups. And when I spread
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: this yesterday, one immediately came to my mind. Russell Wilson. Duh,
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: he has the of course.
• 50:56
  Speaker 3: You're retired, and he's got a bomb contract when it
• 50:59
  Speaker 3: comes so CBS sports.
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: So and he signed the course. The two hundred and
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: fifty million dollar deal with the Denver Broncos when he
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: left the Seahawks. Yeah, and I can hear already. I
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: see it on the text line. Hell no, Russell Wilson.
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: But let me hear me out here one. Russell Wilson
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: has always wanted to be like Tom Brady about everything,
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: everything from playing to work ethic, to his own brand
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: of clothing, to his what they call it miracle bubbles,
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: the recovery water.
• 51:27
  Speaker 2: Oh what was that, Nato bubbles?
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, nan, all of that. Yes, that would Russell Wilson's
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: eat the ball, Eat the ball.
• 51:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that wasn't even good bread.
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: They brought they sold that it Safeway for a while.
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: They brought that into the media room one time.
• 51:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we had it there. It was not good. No,
• 51:47
  Speaker 2: but he's uh. I feel like he's always been an entrepreneur.
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: He has and he wants to be like Tom Bradycuse
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: Tom Brady's a minority investor in the oak the Las
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: Vegas Raiders. My mistake used to cover the Oaklan Raiders.
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: And this would be another extension of trying to be
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: have a legacy and an influence like Tom Brady when
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: he played in here Russell Wilson always talked about Tom
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: Brady and went in a legacy like Tom Brady. This
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: would be a very Tom brady esque move on Russell
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: Wilson's part. And now that he has just been alludes
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: to is now not playing football, retired and in the
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: CBS analyst chair. I think that's that's a meeting who
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: came to my mind. The second person who came to
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: my mind from an entrepreneurial bent, and the fact that
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: he has maintained ties here and the fact he's already
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: a minority owner as is Russell Wilson, a minority owner
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: in the Sounders. Bobby Wagner. Bobby Wagner recently became a
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: minority investor in the Storm.
• 52:42
  Speaker 2: The Storm. Yeah, that came to my mind as well.
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: He is very much. He actually spends a lot of
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: his off the field time teaching entrepreneurial skills to younger
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: some from disadvantage of communities, but from younger people. Off
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: he's gone to now that he's plays for the Washington Commanders,
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: he spent time at Howard University, the historically black college
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: university in Washington, d C. Talking entrepreneurship to students there.
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: This would be very much on brand and still local
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: for Bobby Wagner, who still has local ties here and
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: comes back here often and has business ties here and
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: a lot. And I have a feeling I know where
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: the text line stands on those two. Which one would
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: be ya and which one would be made to be
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: an investor?
• 53:29
  Speaker 3: And it's not hard to decipher, yes, but I do.
• 53:35
  Speaker 3: Bobby has just been more quiet about it, where Russell
• 53:38
  Speaker 3: has been more out loud.
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: Yes, that's absolutely true.
• 53:42
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean we have to dig up those stories. Sorry, Greg,
• 53:45
  Speaker 3: you have to dig up those stories in your journalistic
• 53:48
  Speaker 3: integrity way.
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: Dig up stories of what.
• 53:52
  Speaker 2: What Bobby Wagner does?
• 53:53
  Speaker 3: You know that's not just out loud, it's more behind
• 53:57
  Speaker 3: the scenes.
• 53:57
  Speaker 1: And you're a journalist and you have well you're challenging me, Jessman.
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: I will tell you that I've already done this. If
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: you go to the News Tribune dot com and you
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: go Bobby Wagner Walter Payton Man of the Year. I
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: wrote the many of the things and in any other
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: stories as well, from tiny houses that he and kJ
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: Wright have invested in here for to help homelessness in Seattle,
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: to food banks. There is one day I wrote this
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: at the News Tribune dot com. You look it up
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: and google it or whatever the kids do. He Thanksgiving
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: time about this about six years ago, right before the pandemic.
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: He was in West Seattle. I don't know why he
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: was in West Seattle. He didn't live there, but that's
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: where he was. On a Tuesday before Thanksgiving, Bobby Wagner
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: walked into a West Seattle Safeway and he picked up
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: the microphone that goes across the pa of the entire
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: You may know this story already.
• 54:51
  Speaker 2: Yes, Greg, I do read your material.
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: Okay, thanks, And Bobby Wagner picked up the microphone. The
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: manager has to make announcements like chicken come to the deli,
• 55:01
  Speaker 1: and he said, everyone in the store, buy whatever you want.
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: Thanksgivings on me.
• 55:08
  Speaker 2: I'd love that story so much.
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: You know you remember that, of course I do. And
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: he bought everything, he said, he bought everything that everybody
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: had in their carts in the moment.
• 55:17
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: Who was in the store. Yes. And he said that
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: the Safeway was near West Seattle High School and it
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: was right it was Thanksgiving week, so they were just
• 55:26
  Speaker 1: out of school, or maybe we were out of school
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: for the day.
• 55:28
  Speaker 3: Or were off but were usually on those Wednesdays to
• 55:31
  Speaker 3: get early dismissing.
• 55:33
  Speaker 1: There were kids that were in the high school. Kids
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: that were in there started throwing gift cards like Best
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: Buy Amazon, and Bobby comes over and goes, no, man,
• 55:47
  Speaker 1: that's not the intent here. I'm trying to buy families
• 55:51
  Speaker 1: Thanksgiving dinners. Don't be throwing Home Depot and Apple and
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: all these gift cards into your bag. That's not what
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: I'm trying to do that.
• 56:00
  Speaker 3: He's a very high schooler move though, and I respect
• 56:03
  Speaker 3: the hustle, but no, that was not Bobby's intention. So
• 56:09
  Speaker 3: going back to the point where I talked about the
• 56:11
  Speaker 3: way that you approach journalism is that Bobby doesn't put
• 56:15
  Speaker 3: it on his Instagram, correct, and then the world knows.
• 56:20
  Speaker 2: You actually have to find out about these stories.
• 56:23
  Speaker 3: And I think Bobby has gone about it in a
• 56:25
  Speaker 3: very respectful, quiet way.
• 56:27
  Speaker 1: And the text line rightly points out and these are
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: good points. Two or three people are already saying it
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: to two five three. Bobby can't. I'm assuming Bobby can't
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: be an owner of the Seahawks while still playing for
• 56:38
  Speaker 1: the Commander's question mark. Correct. He is currently a free agent.
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: He has not signed with anybody. He turned thirty six
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: years old two weeks ago the end of June. So
• 56:50
  Speaker 1: it's not my favorite terms. Not a fate, a complete
• 56:53
  Speaker 1: that he's going to play this year.
• 56:55
  Speaker 2: It is not, And he was just pure speculation, is what.
• 56:59
  Speaker 1: I told earlier that I don't like to do as
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: a journalist. We're doing right now. But yes, he would
• 57:04
  Speaker 1: not be an active NFL player and an part owner
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: of an NFL team. That is true. He would if
• 57:10
  Speaker 1: he did, if he was that investor, he was making
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: the decision he was no longer playing anymore, and he
• 57:14
  Speaker 1: would in fact have to officially put in his retirement
• 57:16
  Speaker 1: paper to the NFL. As I understand it, you can't
• 57:19
  Speaker 1: just be kind of out there as a free agent.
• 57:21
  Speaker 1: You'd have to be officially retired.
• 57:22
  Speaker 2: You have to officially retire. Yeah, that is correct.
• 57:24
  Speaker 1: So, yes, good point, that's what we Yes. Are there
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: any others?
• 57:30
  Speaker 2: We do have some Mariner texts, Oh go ahead. Yeah.
• 57:39
  Speaker 3: So Dan Wilson is a coach, not a manager, and
• 57:42
  Speaker 3: there's a huge difference.
• 57:44
  Speaker 2: I would agree with that text.
• 57:46
  Speaker 3: However, he was thrust into a manager role from the
• 57:50
  Speaker 3: broadcast booth, and I would say that he deserves a
• 57:54
  Speaker 3: little bit of grace for working his way through the
• 57:56
  Speaker 3: managerial experience, which is very different from others who have
• 58:00
  Speaker 3: been lifelong managers.
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: Because he deserve grace or criticism. I mean, maybe he
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: doesn't deserve criticism, but I think he can. He could
• 58:10
  Speaker 1: get grace. But the people who hired him probably deserve
• 58:14
  Speaker 1: criticism or at least a skeptical eye as to why
• 58:17
  Speaker 1: you hired him. Of course, we have talked about this.
• 58:20
  Speaker 1: The reason Dan Wilson is manager is the same reason
• 58:22
  Speaker 1: Scott's service was the manager. They agreed to do everything
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: Jerry Depoto told him to do, and down to handedness
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: and platooning guys and six man rotation and don't let
• 58:34
  Speaker 1: a reliever pitch more than one inning and start a
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: new ending and all of it. There are a lot
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: of managers who would have said no, thank you.
• 58:41
  Speaker 3: Joe Edden of course, yeah, yeah, I think he's done
• 58:45
  Speaker 3: a great job with vibes in the clubhouse, which can
• 58:48
  Speaker 3: actually be a very significant portion of baseball in as
• 58:53
  Speaker 3: long as the season as it is. But that Texter
• 58:57
  Speaker 3: might have a point where may be the you need
• 59:01
  Speaker 3: an ass kicker as a manager.
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, sure, work for the Mariners and Loop Panelo in
• 59:05
  Speaker 1: their heyday, of course, didn't get him a World Series
• 59:08
  Speaker 1: you still haven't had fifty years two five three, says
• 59:11
  Speaker 1: Marshawn is the dark horse potential owner. He has maintained
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: his presence in Seattle coming back, but he does still
• 59:19
  Speaker 1: live in Oakland, his roots, and that's where he stays
• 59:22
  Speaker 1: the most. So but no, that's that would be a
• 59:26
  Speaker 1: popular pick, would it not.
• 59:29
  Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, but he hasn't made the investments that
• 59:33
  Speaker 3: others have.
• 59:34
  Speaker 2: Correct, Yeah, I mean we would love it.
• 59:38
  Speaker 1: Coming up next World Cup Soccer quarterfinals, Jackson Felts Danny
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: Jackson are gonna have the national iHeart Radio pregame show
• 59:47
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• 59:50
  Speaker 1: and then at twelve o'clock Spain right at twelve. They
• 59:53
  Speaker 1: don't mess around fefuss twelve. They start at twelve the
• 59:56
  Speaker 1: kickoff of the quarterfinal between Spain and Belgium from Inglewood.
• 1:00:02
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• 1:00:04
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• 1:00:09
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• 1:00:11
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