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- 0:00Speaker 1: Not a surprise. John Schneider is not going to use
- 0:02Speaker 1: a franchise tag, and you know the fourteen million, because
- 0:06Speaker 1: if they can't sign him, then you're on the hook
- 0:10Speaker 1: for that money. I like to sign him to a longer
- 0:12Speaker 1: kurt term deal, assuming he signs that trag, which he
- 0:15Speaker 1: probably would. You don't want to spend that. I think
- 0:19Speaker 1: Corbin had a great point today. You know, it feels
- 0:22Speaker 1: like you've got a lot of money to spend in
- 0:24Speaker 1: free agency, and with the cap fifty eight million or
- 0:26Speaker 1: so for the Seahawks, all of a sudden, that would
- 0:29Speaker 1: drop you down to forty four because that kicks in
- 0:31Speaker 1: immediately on your cap in terms of what your number is,
- 0:34Speaker 1: and so then you're down a forty four. You've got,
- 0:37Speaker 1: you know, other stuff to take care of in this offseason.
- 0:40Speaker 1: I didn't mention this. Jake Bobo also not tender to contract.
- 0:44Speaker 1: That means he becomes a free agent. Our buddy Corbin
- 0:47Speaker 1: reporting that they do like to keep him to bring
- 0:49Speaker 1: him back. If they would have exercised whatever they could
- 0:54Speaker 1: have on Bobo's contract, it was it wasn't cost effective
- 0:58Speaker 1: for them. They'll probably be able to bring him back
- 1:01Speaker 1: on a deal. That's teamed friendly and for a guy
- 1:04Speaker 1: that was an undrafted free agent and was even a
- 1:06Speaker 1: healthy scratch a couple of times last year, and yes,
- 1:07Speaker 1: we know what he did, had a couple of big
- 1:09Speaker 1: playoff moments. That's a guy. That's a guy that is uh,
- 1:14Speaker 1: you know, probably able to come back in some way,
- 1:16Speaker 1: shape or form. So we'll keep an eye on that
- 1:17Speaker 1: as well. So yeah, we're we are six days away,
- 1:21Speaker 1: NFL wise from legal tampering oxy morons stupid. But it's
- 1:29Speaker 1: when things really kick in, like next Monday. At this time.
- 1:33Speaker 1: By the time we go on the air next Monday,
- 1:36Speaker 1: it will probably have seen a flurry of activity and
- 1:39Speaker 1: a lot of stuff going on. You know what the
- 1:42Speaker 1: local team does. We don't know Schneider. I long ago
- 1:48Speaker 1: stop trying to predict what he's gonna do. I just
- 1:50Speaker 1: know this. I think we all would like to see
- 1:52Speaker 1: ken Walker stick around. And you know that with a
- 1:55Speaker 1: Super Bowl win, you can't keep everybody. You're going to
- 1:58Speaker 1: probably lose Witherspoon, try to keep Joe, maybe Bryant.
- 2:02Speaker 2: Lose Witherspoon.
- 2:03Speaker 1: I'm sorry lose. I'm telling you, man, my mind is
- 2:09Speaker 1: mush today.
- 2:10Speaker 3: My apologies because you spent all your energy calling an
- 2:13Speaker 3: amazing game.
- 2:14Speaker 1: It was a very fun game last night. So I'm
- 2:15Speaker 1: a little bit I'm a little bit messed up today.
- 2:17Speaker 1: But yeah, no, I think Kobe Bryant depends on who
- 2:21Speaker 1: you talk to. There are some that will say and
- 2:23Speaker 1: tell you McDonald loves him, they want to keep him.
- 2:26Speaker 1: There's others that say, there's no chance they're gonna be
- 2:27Speaker 1: able to keep Kobe Bryant. That's why they tend are
- 2:29Speaker 1: the offer to Tyle Katta. They tended the offer to
- 2:32Speaker 1: Tyle Katta and George Halane today. I didn't get that
- 2:34Speaker 1: in the headlines because those might be there. Sorry if
- 2:38Speaker 1: I didn't. Oh yeah, exclusive free agents, Tylecotta, George Hallane. Nice,
- 2:42Speaker 1: there you go. They did good job, Andrews, thanks for
- 2:45Speaker 1: writing that down for.
- 2:46Speaker 4: Me at es.
- 2:47Speaker 2: I did most of the other stuff.
- 2:48Speaker 1: But yes, those those are just no brainers. So I
- 2:52Speaker 1: I would just caution when we say, well, they got
- 2:55Speaker 1: Tyle Kotta, so they're not going to want to resign
- 2:57Speaker 1: Kobe Bryant. Well, we see how it works. Guys, get hurt.
- 3:01Speaker 1: You need depth, you have four draft picks. I think
- 3:03Speaker 1: in an ideal world they'd love to have Kobe Bryant
- 3:05Speaker 1: and Tyo Cotta, Right, George Halaani is a guy that's
- 3:12Speaker 1: kind of it runs hard, good special, really good special
- 3:16Speaker 1: teams player. I'd say maybe just a more explosive, better
- 3:20Speaker 1: version of Travis Homer. Remember him our free agent uh
- 3:24Speaker 1: from our late draft pick, seventh round pick. I think
- 3:27Speaker 1: he was George what's his face? Travis Homer. He was
- 3:33Speaker 1: a training camp all pro.
- 3:36Speaker 5: He was, but everyone fell in love with him. He's undersized, and.
- 3:40Speaker 1: You know, well, sure, but he wasn't underside he was.
- 3:43Speaker 1: He ain't missing I know this. Travis Homer never missed
- 3:46Speaker 1: arm day, not once. Did he miss arm day like Robert. Yeah,
- 3:53Speaker 1: Turbo was a little better running back, but yeah, he
- 3:55Speaker 1: was like Turbo. When you see Turbo walking around, it's like, okay,
- 3:58Speaker 1: there show with him every week. So oh yeah, Turbo man.
- 4:02Speaker 1: He loved he He never missed an arm day or
- 4:05Speaker 1: a leg day. No, he's an arm He.
- 4:06Speaker 3: Came in one time when I saw him holding a
- 4:08Speaker 3: football and his bicep was the same exact size as
- 4:12Speaker 3: the football.
- 4:13Speaker 5: It was insane.
- 4:14Speaker 1: So yeah, we got a lot going on Seahawk wise
- 4:16Speaker 1: coming up in the next little while, Mariners, we'll get
- 4:19Speaker 1: to that we got our buddy Joshi in his first
- 4:21Speaker 1: visit of the years, coming up in just a couple
- 4:22Speaker 1: of minutes. Big thanks to our friends Eric Gordon and
- 4:24Speaker 1: the crew at Northwest Handling Systems. We'll talk about them
- 4:27Speaker 1: in a second. But really thrilled to have Joe back
- 4:30Speaker 1: to Joshian newsletter. I really like talking to Joe. It's
- 4:33Speaker 1: a different type of baseball weekly guests that we do
- 4:36Speaker 1: every time, and he's just a ton of fun. So
- 4:39Speaker 1: we'll have Joe Wan coming up here in just a
- 4:40Speaker 1: couple of seconds. We'll talk a little bit about the
- 4:42Speaker 1: World Baseball Classic, but also kind of the off season
- 4:44Speaker 1: and where we are heading into. I mean, what are
- 4:46Speaker 1: we work three weeks three and a half weeks away. Yeah,
- 4:49Speaker 1: we're twenty two days away. After three days away.
- 4:54Speaker 5: Wow, Yeah, we gotta get ready.
- 4:57Speaker 1: Not sure from loving that early start. Yeah, actually kind
- 5:01Speaker 1: of them.
- 5:01Speaker 5: To be honest, fitting earlier.
- 5:03Speaker 3: Well, we have had such a small window because the
- 5:05Speaker 3: Seahawks took us through February.
- 5:07Speaker 1: So yeah, it's it's really kind of been nice with
- 5:11Speaker 1: the Seahawks going late cracking, kind of have the day
- 5:14Speaker 1: the floor to themselves for the next few weeks. Hopefully
- 5:16Speaker 1: they can stay in it. Daily power play coming up
- 5:19Speaker 1: at one forty five today. We had a hell of
- 5:22Speaker 1: a game last night. It was it's it's a very
- 5:26Speaker 1: old phrase and sometimes overused cliche, that it was playoff like.
- 5:32Speaker 1: Atmosphere felt like but you know from the weather, you know,
- 5:36Speaker 1: like spring weather, spring hockey playoff weather. Last time, the
- 5:39Speaker 1: one time they've been in it. If you remember me,
- 5:42Speaker 1: you're talking about April and May, and it felt like
- 5:44Speaker 1: that yesterday. And then you have a team coming in
- 5:46Speaker 1: that's one of the best teams in the National Hockey League,
- 5:49Speaker 1: arguably a top three team in the NHL, maybe a
- 5:51Speaker 1: top four at worst, but probably a top three or two.
- 5:55Speaker 1: And you go toe to toe with them, and you
- 5:57Speaker 1: beat them at home and you get a very important
- 5:59Speaker 1: two points. Kind of makes up a little bit for
- 6:01Speaker 1: the two points you didn't get in Saint Louis. But
- 6:04Speaker 1: that was an incredible game last night. So we'll get
- 6:06Speaker 1: to that coming up at one forty five, and then
- 6:07Speaker 1: yes two o'clock it's our buddy John Lund will join
- 6:11Speaker 1: us as weekly visits lots of NFL. We spend most
- 6:14Speaker 1: of time when we've talked to John about talking NFL,
- 6:16Speaker 1: and there's a Ton to get to with John Lund.
- 6:18Speaker 1: We'll do that coming up at two pm today. I
- 6:21Speaker 1: want to get into the whole thing with Arizona. I mean,
- 6:25Speaker 1: if you're a Seahawks fan, you're loving it like just
- 6:28Speaker 1: You're already in the toughest division in football in the
- 6:31Speaker 1: NFC West. You already have to deal with the Rams
- 6:33Speaker 1: and the forty nine ers. Just let's move Arizona off
- 6:38Speaker 1: into the distance. You guys will check back in with
- 6:40Speaker 1: you in two or three years, and in the meantime,
- 6:42Speaker 1: we just worry about those other two teams, which is
- 6:44Speaker 1: actually very very nice. All right, let's take a break,
- 6:45Speaker 1: come back. Joshian joins us.
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- 8:18Speaker 1: All Things Baseball's Joe she and the Joshian Newsletter. Welcome back, sir,
- 8:21Speaker 1: how are you?
- 8:23Speaker 7: I just want to say your Quest Family Systems sponsored
- 8:25Speaker 7: me last year and the seahawkspital the win the Super Bowl.
- 8:28Speaker 7: So I'll just say it could be a coincidence, but.
- 8:31Speaker 1: I don't think it is. I think it's all connected, buddy,
- 8:34Speaker 1: it's all good vibes only, as our friend Gino Suarez,
- 8:37Speaker 1: the highest paid player on the Cincinnati Rids, would say,
- 8:39Speaker 1: all good vibes only along the way, we got a
- 8:42Speaker 1: lot to get to and I want to actually, uh,
- 8:47Speaker 1: let's just talk real quick about the news today with
- 8:50Speaker 1: profar getting getting suspended for an entire season. We've talked
- 8:56Speaker 1: about things like this before, breaking the rules in baseball,
- 8:59Speaker 1: and I don't get it. I know the MLBA, MLBPA
- 9:04Speaker 1: is trying to, you know, fight it a little bit,
- 9:08Speaker 1: but Jill, what are we doing here? You got suspended once, buddy,
- 9:11Speaker 1: what are you doing now?
- 9:13Speaker 7: Yeah, it's the second one that you kind of want
- 9:15Speaker 7: to wonder about because the first time, you know, between
- 9:17Speaker 7: things that you might take in other countries and things
- 9:20Speaker 7: that you might accidentally ingest, I think there's a reasonable
- 9:23Speaker 7: case that the first time you might actually have a
- 9:26Speaker 7: false positive. I go back to listen eight years ago
- 9:29Speaker 7: now where Rob Benford basically said that, oh no, what
- 9:32Speaker 7: David R. Keys was supposedly popped for in two thousand
- 9:34Speaker 7: and three that didn't count. We know that there are
- 9:37Speaker 7: error rates here, so I think the first time, I'm
- 9:39Speaker 7: a little more inclined to say, you know what, and
- 9:41Speaker 7: he has Steven's suspension is pretty significant. But if you
- 9:44Speaker 7: go back to the well a second time, Robinson Cano
- 9:46Speaker 7: Manny Ramirez and it was a minor leader I'm not
- 9:49Speaker 7: thinking of and now today pro far now you got
- 9:51Speaker 7: a wonder Okay, this doesn't what's the line? One? Shame
- 9:55Speaker 7: on one full me want shame on me for me twice,
- 9:57Speaker 7: shame on you or I got it backwards, make the
- 10:00Speaker 7: same mistake twice. So whenever you were ingesting, potentially or otherwise,
- 10:04Speaker 7: you need to stop doing it. So yeah, I mean
- 10:06Speaker 7: it's basically I'm not gonna say it cost in his career.
- 10:08Speaker 7: He's got a third year left on this deal with
- 10:10Speaker 7: the Braves, but it's very hard to be off for
- 10:13Speaker 7: a year and come back, and he will be thirty
- 10:16Speaker 7: two I think next year. He's already had a broken
- 10:19Speaker 7: career with the shoulder injuries early on, but you know
- 10:21Speaker 7: he did come back with him corrective player, and it
- 10:24Speaker 7: is you know, I mean, it means something great on
- 10:26Speaker 7: the Braves don't really have an obvious fill there for DH.
- 10:29Speaker 7: He came back at the end of last year. He
- 10:30Speaker 7: played reasonably well. You know, I don't think that worked
- 10:35Speaker 7: up about it from some kind of moral standpoint. I
- 10:37Speaker 7: just I've never really been that, you know, that kind
- 10:40Speaker 7: of guy and said, oh my god, I can't believe
- 10:41Speaker 7: he's cheating. Guy's cheated for one hundred and fifty years.
- 10:43Speaker 7: Guy's cheap for the next hundred and fifty years. He
- 10:45Speaker 7: got caught, and he'll untill do the suspension. And you know,
- 10:48Speaker 7: like I said, whether it cost him his career. It
- 10:50Speaker 7: can't be easy, you know, I want to say the maritors, well,
- 10:54Speaker 7: actually by the time Canoe came back, he was a
- 10:57Speaker 7: met It can't be easy to watch back into a
- 11:00Speaker 7: clubhouse that barely knew you to begin with, having been
- 11:04Speaker 7: suspended for a year and a half of the first
- 11:06Speaker 7: two years when you were there, Like, how does that
- 11:07Speaker 7: even work? Next year? Yeah, pro part, Hey guys, how
- 11:10Speaker 7: you doing. I know that I kind of blew up
- 11:13Speaker 7: the last two seasons, but hey, let's let's get it
- 11:15Speaker 7: going in twenty twenty eight. I don't know how that works.
- 11:18Speaker 1: Probably not well, it would be my guests. It's probably
- 11:21Speaker 1: not going to work out well for him. Joe, she
- 11:23Speaker 1: and Jonas Joshian newsletter. A couple of weeks ago, you
- 11:26Speaker 1: wrote about I guess what was the most significant offseason
- 11:29Speaker 1: acquisition for our baseball team out here. Let's start there
- 11:31Speaker 1: with the Brendan Donovan and the Mariners. A little three
- 11:34Speaker 1: way trade. Ben Williamson, who he talked about on the
- 11:37Speaker 1: show in this segment last year, quite a bit, great glove,
- 11:40Speaker 1: not sure if you can hit or not at the
- 11:41Speaker 1: major league level. They get a guy in Donovan that
- 11:44Speaker 1: at least on one side of the plate, can hit,
- 11:46Speaker 1: play a little defense. Maybe what do you see his
- 11:48Speaker 1: role being and what do you think of that move?
- 11:50Speaker 7: Let's slides right into the leadoff spot. This is the
- 11:52Speaker 7: thing this narrative team hasn't really had. You Zarina played
- 11:56Speaker 7: there a bits, is coming over Julliardrigez let off a bit.
- 11:59Speaker 7: They just didn't have that OVP forward player and Donehovan
- 12:02Speaker 7: in That guy is a legitimately fifty OBP guy, which
- 12:05Speaker 7: is today's game is fantastic. He's played around the diamond
- 12:08Speaker 7: the lot, mostly at second base. You know they had
- 12:11Speaker 7: to play him in a third because you've got the cold,
- 12:13Speaker 7: you've got young Emerson and Crawford all Rolph, the middle
- 12:16Speaker 7: spiority of jammed up there. So he could probably played
- 12:18Speaker 7: a lot of third days. They played a little bit
- 12:19Speaker 7: of outfield. He hasn't played there that much. I want
- 12:22Speaker 7: to say, you haven't played there in He's played one
- 12:24Speaker 7: inning in two years or something. Now, I don't think
- 12:27Speaker 7: that's a barrier. I think can go back over there
- 12:28Speaker 7: and be fine. The bigger concern I had if you
- 12:30Speaker 7: think about Donovan's skill set, it's knowing the strike zone, swinging,
- 12:34Speaker 7: get good pitches, taking the rest dry walks, not striking out.
- 12:37Speaker 7: And he's going for a park that's basically neutral for
- 12:40Speaker 7: walks and strikeouts to the worst park in baseball for
- 12:43Speaker 7: walks and strikeouts. I came up with a junk stat
- 12:46Speaker 7: and that best you mentioned, and basically he was looking
- 12:49Speaker 7: at the strikeout rate and the walk rate of the
- 12:51Speaker 7: ballpark factors for strike out right walk rate, and they
- 12:55Speaker 7: was the worst park in baseball. So I do worry
- 12:58Speaker 7: whether the things he does well are a poor fit
- 13:02Speaker 7: for what's about to be his home park. Doesn't mean
- 13:04Speaker 7: it was a bad trade, doesn't mean it's probably not
- 13:06Speaker 7: going to help the team. But if you ask me
- 13:08Speaker 7: right now, is it going to be closer to a
- 13:09Speaker 7: three thirty OBP or a three seventy OBP at probably?
- 13:13Speaker 1: Okay, help me out here because we talk about Joe.
- 13:18Speaker 1: It's our favorite term in Seattle, especially in the spring.
- 13:23Speaker 1: Andrews is smiling, you know what I'm saying. The marine layer, Joe, Joe,
- 13:26Speaker 1: the marine layer at t Mobile Park. It's a thing
- 13:28Speaker 1: we think out here, the marine layer, with the marine layer.
- 13:31Speaker 1: How does the marine layer or how does the ballpark
- 13:34Speaker 1: affect strikeouts and walks? I'm curious about that.
- 13:38Speaker 7: It's usually just visibility. There's an element there. And this
- 13:41Speaker 7: was a big deal two years and when the park
- 13:42Speaker 7: played terribly two years ago, there's a lot of talk
- 13:45Speaker 7: about the visibility in the background. Your kidder's not being
- 13:47Speaker 7: able to pick up the ball.
- 13:49Speaker 2: Has actually mentioned that when leaving.
- 13:50Speaker 1: Oh that's right, yeah, Oscar, Yeah yeah.
- 13:53Speaker 7: And if you look at this, then when the should
- 13:54Speaker 7: marriage have had the last few years where they'll bring
- 13:56Speaker 7: you the guy he won't hit. And you look at Tiaska,
- 13:59Speaker 7: you look at Mitch Garber's first year, you look at
- 14:01Speaker 7: Jplants first year. See, like every hitter they tried to
- 14:05Speaker 7: import for about a four year period there just didn't
- 14:07Speaker 7: launch and then if they step around a second year,
- 14:10Speaker 7: it got better. So that's a conpx the only but
- 14:13Speaker 7: that was going to be concerned with everybody, Right, anybody
- 14:15Speaker 7: you bring in, you worry are they going to be
- 14:16Speaker 7: able to adapt to the conditions there. So whether they're
- 14:18Speaker 7: done event whoever you're going to bring in, you're going
- 14:20Speaker 7: to run into this. But you know it's the track
- 14:23Speaker 7: record of players coming in and playing their first season
- 14:25Speaker 7: with the Maritors in this park has been you know,
- 14:27Speaker 7: pretty bad for the last few years. That's something else
- 14:29Speaker 7: can be concerned about.
- 14:30Speaker 4: Fun.
- 14:31Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, I forgot the batter's eye. Yeah, which I'm
- 14:33Speaker 1: still trying to figure out. In today's world, when we
- 14:36Speaker 1: can put you know, a man in space a space station,
- 14:41Speaker 1: when we have chat, GPI or AI and all these
- 14:44Speaker 1: different things, we got all these things going on, Joe,
- 14:48Speaker 1: how can we not fix a batter's eye in a ballpark?
- 14:50Speaker 1: It seems like that would be relatively simple. I'm very
- 14:53Speaker 1: flummixed by this. I'm trying to figure this one out.
- 14:56Speaker 8: Well.
- 14:57Speaker 7: The argument is that it's the same for both teams,
- 14:59Speaker 7: and it all it helps our pictures, so you know,
- 15:01Speaker 7: maybe they're hurt this way. The batter's eye isn't The
- 15:04Speaker 7: batter's eye isn't there to help the hitters. The batter's
- 15:06Speaker 7: eye is to keep the hitters from getting killed. Remember,
- 15:09Speaker 7: it not really necessarily about to may have a good
- 15:11Speaker 7: background to hit, you just want to make sure the
- 15:12Speaker 7: picture you think back to when yeah, a long time ago.
- 15:16Speaker 7: I'm not going to say when you were I were kissing,
- 15:18Speaker 7: but you know you think they had batter's eyes. You
- 15:20Speaker 7: just have but fans sitting in the centerfield seats in
- 15:26Speaker 7: white T shirts. I can't imagine what it was like
- 15:29Speaker 7: to try to get Bob Gibson in that context. So
- 15:31Speaker 7: you know, the batter's eye is just there basically to
- 15:34Speaker 7: make sure that the hitter can see the balls. You
- 15:36Speaker 7: get out of the way at the fastball. It's not
- 15:38Speaker 7: necessarily there to make any easier.
- 15:41Speaker 1: Well, now I know why when I was playing eighth
- 15:44Speaker 1: grade cyo baseball for our Lady of Fatima that I
- 15:47Speaker 1: had a struggle hitting the ball that year because I
- 15:50Speaker 1: was looking out. Yeah, i was thirty second Avenue West
- 15:53Speaker 1: and Magnolia, and I'm looking out at probably an empty
- 15:55Speaker 1: parking lotter at Bartel's drug store, which doesn't exist anymore.
- 15:58Speaker 1: That makes sense. I feel a lot better about I
- 16:00Speaker 1: sell thanks to Okay, good, Okay, Well I've learned something
- 16:02Speaker 1: and I'm a lot better off now. Joshian joining us
- 16:05Speaker 1: Joe Newsletter Joshia dot com. The uh you mentioned Polonko,
- 16:10Speaker 1: The Marriers didn't want to get into a bidding war
- 16:12Speaker 1: with him. Uh, let him go. They let swar As
- 16:15Speaker 1: walk as well. You mentioned Emerson and Young. What do
- 16:19Speaker 1: you think about the fact that they let those two
- 16:21Speaker 1: guys go. They're gonna go a little younger in the infield.
- 16:23Speaker 1: How that all shakes out we can get to in
- 16:25Speaker 1: a minute. But uh, what do you think about losing
- 16:27Speaker 1: those two key pieces from last year's playoff team.
- 16:31Speaker 7: I'm fine with that two of forty and the Mets
- 16:34Speaker 7: came in very early and very hot on him, even
- 16:36Speaker 7: though they didn't have a place to play. These didn't
- 16:38Speaker 7: place space for them and d a really a really
- 16:40Speaker 7: strange signing to kick off the winter. I don't think
- 16:43Speaker 7: that's a big deal. Sores. You know, we talked about
- 16:45Speaker 7: it even before they trained for him. We're talking about
- 16:47Speaker 7: his home runner flat ball rate, and now that was
- 16:49Speaker 7: probably going to regress and blow and behold, it did
- 16:51Speaker 7: regress when he when he got to Seattle. Older player
- 16:55Speaker 7: Hi k Right. Yes, he did have a great four months,
- 16:58Speaker 7: took the Donava's last year. But again, he'sactly where you
- 17:00Speaker 7: want to play at third, so you're gonna have to
- 17:02Speaker 7: d agent. You already jammed up with DH anyway, perfectly
- 17:05Speaker 7: fine letting him go. And yeah, they didn't spend a
- 17:08Speaker 7: lot of money. I mean they you know, they traded
- 17:09Speaker 7: for done it. He's not making a ton of money.
- 17:11Speaker 7: They didn't really, you know, invest big time in this
- 17:14Speaker 7: roster this year, but they did make the key trade
- 17:15Speaker 7: that they needed. One of the things about this team
- 17:17Speaker 7: is that they are set just about everywhere, and I
- 17:19Speaker 7: don't I'm I guess we'll talk about this and you
- 17:22Speaker 7: get closer to the season. But if you watched the
- 17:24Speaker 7: playoffs last year, I saw a guy in JP Crawford
- 17:27Speaker 7: who can't play shorts company. They just seemed like the
- 17:31Speaker 7: entire postseason was singles up the middle to his left,
- 17:33Speaker 7: and I really would like to see them elevate Emerson
- 17:35Speaker 7: to that role. Maybe Crawford plays in third base. Maybe
- 17:38Speaker 7: it was it to the utilly role. Popular guy one
- 17:40Speaker 7: year left on his contract taking nothing. You know, some
- 17:42Speaker 7: MVP skills are still there. Although we got overmatch in
- 17:44Speaker 7: the playoffs at the play but I really think you've
- 17:47Speaker 7: got to go forward with Young and Emerson up the middle,
- 17:49Speaker 7: and you put those guys there with Rally and Roderiguez
- 17:52Speaker 7: and say this is our the middle for the next
- 17:53Speaker 7: five years.
- 17:55Speaker 1: Well, and I was, this is where I know you
- 17:58Speaker 1: like doing the show better with my My bike is
- 18:00Speaker 1: Crawford when I'm not here and he's filling in. We
- 18:02Speaker 1: had that conversation yesterday about Crawford. Really yeah, we just
- 18:06Speaker 1: we had that conversation yesterday and our Molly want Monday
- 18:08Speaker 1: staying with Nathan and Chris, and you know it's one
- 18:11Speaker 1: of those like like are they going to be able
- 18:15Speaker 1: to talk themselves into it? I just jo We know.
- 18:18Speaker 1: What's odd to me is that it's pro sports, and
- 18:23Speaker 1: I understand there's some loyalty and things like that, but
- 18:26Speaker 1: you know, the numbers I'm sure that you can tell
- 18:28Speaker 1: us about and what Chris and others are saying JP
- 18:31Speaker 1: Crawford is not good at that position, which is a
- 18:34Speaker 1: fairly important position when you lean on your pitching staff, right.
- 18:36Speaker 1: I mean, I just don't know why you wouldn't make
- 18:38Speaker 1: a move if you have a better option.
- 18:40Speaker 7: Yea, and the difference and Emerson might eventually end up
- 18:44Speaker 7: in another position, but right now it's perfectly finding short stop.
- 18:46Speaker 7: I have no problem say he's a better differensive shortstop
- 18:48Speaker 7: then than Crawford. He might be a better hitter. Cole
- 18:51Speaker 7: Young is basically a short stopped playing second and if
- 18:53Speaker 7: that wasn't there last year, I'd like to say he
- 18:55Speaker 7: was one within this year. Obviously, what's dunnanvan around? If
- 18:59Speaker 7: Young doesn't hit now, maybe you done it in a
- 19:02Speaker 7: second base and you kind of fake third base for
- 19:03Speaker 7: a while. There there's going to be some options here
- 19:05Speaker 7: for Wilson. I think you want to go this is kind.
- 19:09Speaker 1: Of with this.
- 19:11Speaker 7: You're familiar a little bit with gambling, or at least
- 19:14Speaker 7: the concept of.
- 19:16Speaker 1: Our show is sponsored by My show is sponsored by
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- 19:21Speaker 7: Yes, yes, so so if you're a favor, the Marriagers
- 19:25Speaker 7: go into the season as the favor. What a favorite
- 19:29Speaker 7: wants to do, or if you're a head of the
- 19:30Speaker 7: poker hand, you want to minimize variants. Sometimes if you're
- 19:33Speaker 7: playing a poker hand and you're all in and say hey,
- 19:35Speaker 7: let's write twice because you want to minimize variants. You
- 19:38Speaker 7: don't want to leave it all on one. You know,
- 19:41Speaker 7: one flock card on Terry one one of the river card.
- 19:44Speaker 7: So the same here is the Marrigers wanted to me
- 19:46Speaker 7: reduce varyings this year because coming into the season, I
- 19:50Speaker 7: have about five days better than the Rangers, and more
- 19:52Speaker 7: than that are of the rest of the division. So
- 19:54Speaker 7: the Marrigers just go out, don't do silly things. Should
- 19:57Speaker 7: in the division, probably get a buy to the division series.
- 20:01Speaker 7: I'd be said to make a playoff run next year.
- 20:03Speaker 7: So I think they want to minimize you this and
- 20:05Speaker 7: I think they'll probably see leaving Crawford at shorts up
- 20:09Speaker 7: as the move that minimizes worsk that minimizes theirs. If
- 20:12Speaker 7: you elevate Everson, maybe he doesn't play well, maybe you've
- 20:16Speaker 7: kicked off Crawford, maybe you've kicked off the veterans, and
- 20:19Speaker 7: now you've created increasing variants. So there's an argument. That's
- 20:22Speaker 7: the argument for not making this move in that it
- 20:25Speaker 7: increases variance in a situated season where all you've got
- 20:28Speaker 7: to do is go out and not make mistakes.
- 20:31Speaker 1: That's that's I like how that sounds. Actually it is
- 20:34Speaker 1: Joe she and Josh News. There are two more things. We'll
- 20:36Speaker 1: let you go and turn you loose. But just kind
- 20:38Speaker 1: of off season into the spring training that we're starting
- 20:41Speaker 1: to see. Let me start first with the ability to
- 20:44Speaker 1: get a replay on balls and strikes now And I
- 20:47Speaker 1: was just watching the game the other day. We have
- 20:49Speaker 1: a game up on the background here. I think it
- 20:51Speaker 1: happened three times in the first two innings or something,
- 20:54Speaker 1: and it was all of them were right, like the
- 20:56Speaker 1: Empire was wrong in all of them. What's Joe Shean's
- 20:59Speaker 1: thoughts on what we're going to see this year with that?
- 21:02Speaker 7: There have even more hilarious sequences than that. There were
- 21:04Speaker 7: sequences in when they were five consecutive calls were overturned
- 21:08Speaker 7: but ball strikes, strike, the ball didn't matter. It's five
- 21:10Speaker 7: consecutive challenges they were all overturned. So there are people
- 21:16Speaker 7: who are training this as well. It shows you how
- 21:19Speaker 7: good the dumpires actually are, because you know, we're not
- 21:21Speaker 7: seeing a lot of the calls are getting you are
- 21:24Speaker 7: not getting overturned. There are a lot of players are
- 21:26Speaker 7: not changed. But I do think when the game start
- 21:28Speaker 7: to count it's going to be a figure issue right now.
- 21:31Speaker 7: Exhibition baseball tex lastion, there is a spring training been
- 21:35Speaker 7: in the minor leagues. All of this doesn't matter. What
- 21:37Speaker 7: matters is when the games actually mean something and we're
- 21:40Speaker 7: having these sequences of extended challenges that get overturned, or
- 21:44Speaker 7: we're still the players getting wrong and now it's the
- 21:48Speaker 7: sixth inning and you have those challenges left, and you've
- 21:50Speaker 7: got an umpire who's just completely lost the strikes. I
- 21:53Speaker 7: do think the when we see this in games that matter,
- 21:57Speaker 7: it's going to I hope, increase the calls that we
- 22:00Speaker 7: just used the system full time. I don't like the challenge.
- 22:03Speaker 7: I don't think the players should be asked to officiate
- 22:05Speaker 7: the game. I think we have this technology that can call,
- 22:08Speaker 7: particularly the lateral strike zone across the plate of seventeen
- 22:12Speaker 7: inches across the plate correctly. I would like to see
- 22:14Speaker 7: that use full time. And I think if we have
- 22:16Speaker 7: these sequences in the regular season where five consecutive calls
- 22:20Speaker 7: are getting challenged, or we have sequences in the season
- 22:22Speaker 7: where teams use the challenges early and don't have any
- 22:26Speaker 7: recourse in the ninth inning with remember the plass last year,
- 22:29Speaker 7: Xander Bogas got called out on a pitch three inches
- 22:32Speaker 7: outside or from the three inches low, and there was
- 22:34Speaker 7: nothing they they could do about it, Like that's going
- 22:36Speaker 7: to happen, and I think that's going to increase the
- 22:39Speaker 7: intolerance for that type of era when people can see
- 22:43Speaker 7: we can correct this mistake in the second inning, why
- 22:46Speaker 7: don't we just correct them the ninth as well?
- 22:48Speaker 1: Final thing for Joe Sheian, what do we got? World
- 22:51Speaker 1: Baseball Classic? Excited? Fired up, not caring? What are we
- 22:56Speaker 1: thinking about that?
- 22:57Speaker 7: I don't dislike it, It's just not really my thing.
- 23:00Speaker 7: There a couple of things I'd rather just watch. I'm
- 23:02Speaker 7: following teams making decisions on players, and that generally happens
- 23:06Speaker 7: less outside the grey World Baseball Classic. I went to
- 23:08Speaker 7: some of the games the first year Mexico US in Phoenix,
- 23:12Speaker 7: and then I watched I swear to got Canada South
- 23:15Speaker 7: Africa at a minor league park in Phoenix. It was
- 23:17Speaker 7: one of the most fun games I've ever been to
- 23:19Speaker 7: South Africa, which has like no baseball program. Nearly upset
- 23:22Speaker 7: the Canadians four or four in the night. So I
- 23:24Speaker 7: think it's enjoyable, But my focus is on, you know,
- 23:28Speaker 7: the actual job. Battles and stuff happening spring training, and
- 23:31Speaker 7: to the entreprenean, I'm a huge college basketball guy, and
- 23:34Speaker 7: the World Baseball Classic being up against Championship week and
- 23:37Speaker 7: then the tournament really eats into it for me, So
- 23:41Speaker 7: it just tends to fall into the background.
- 23:43Speaker 4: A little bit for me.
- 23:44Speaker 7: I'm not against it. I'm not all the players again hurt.
- 23:46Speaker 7: I just wish it could happen at a better time.
- 23:48Speaker 7: I wish they could play maybe the pre wins and
- 23:51Speaker 7: then do like blow off the All Star Game and
- 23:53Speaker 7: just do this for a week in July. I think
- 23:55Speaker 7: that would be so much better than the system the around.
- 23:57Speaker 1: I think that's what we kind of touched in on
- 23:58Speaker 1: that yesterday's taking it a step further. I think, what
- 24:01Speaker 1: what you do? You listen, you can you can do
- 24:03Speaker 1: Like I'm a hockey guy, like you do like a
- 24:05Speaker 1: lot of hockey tournaments, Like we know that there are
- 24:08Speaker 1: you know, there's what is there twenty teams in it.
- 24:10Speaker 1: We know that about twelve of those twenty aren't very good.
- 24:14Speaker 1: Let them play off and get you know, narrow the
- 24:16Speaker 1: field down, and then do it later on. But we
- 24:18Speaker 1: we'll revisit this after that, after it tell people in
- 24:20Speaker 1: the meantime, about the Joe Shean Newsletter. Mariner fans, I
- 24:24Speaker 1: know you guys love reading about your team, and unlike
- 24:26Speaker 1: a lot of other national publications, guess what Joe does.
- 24:28Speaker 1: He writes about everybody, including our team out here, fire Away.
- 24:33Speaker 4: It's funny.
- 24:33Speaker 7: Just yesterday I wrapped up. I do an option series
- 24:36Speaker 7: breaking down everybody's frost starts in December, one of until
- 24:39Speaker 7: hopefully February. I finished up yesterday. And that's a good
- 24:42Speaker 7: point he makes it because I cover every team. It's not
- 24:44Speaker 7: just Dodger Gat's Red Sox Cups. I'm making a point
- 24:47Speaker 7: to cover every team. That's one of the ways that
- 24:48Speaker 7: do that. Joshian Newsletter have been doing it now for
- 24:51Speaker 7: almost sixteen years. For the sixteen years in Many, I
- 24:54Speaker 7: used to do a Baseball Perspective as one of the
- 24:55Speaker 7: founding guys there works for Illustrated Baseball America Farmers his
- 25:00Speaker 7: guide whatever you want, I've written everywhere and now I
- 25:02Speaker 7: get to do this and a thousands of people subscribe.
- 25:05Speaker 7: They enjoy it. If you love the game. I'm a stahead,
- 25:08Speaker 7: you know, I'm a stathhead, but I also enjoy the game.
- 25:11Speaker 7: So it's not just a running numbers at you. It's
- 25:13Speaker 7: good reading. I hope you know. People tell me they
- 25:16Speaker 7: like the writing of it as much as the baseball,
- 25:18Speaker 7: so I appreciate that. Do you like reading, if you
- 25:20Speaker 7: like baseball. If you can sell baseball, I'll take your money.
- 25:24Speaker 7: But I think you should go to site. Go to
- 25:26Speaker 7: joshinin dot com. Check out. There's a page that has
- 25:30Speaker 7: a whole bunch like twenty twenty five articles completely free.
- 25:34Speaker 7: The main part of the site is excerpts and everything
- 25:37Speaker 7: I've written. If I write something, I throw when I
- 25:38Speaker 7: started there. But really go to that page with all
- 25:40Speaker 7: the free stuff twenty to twenty five three pieces, so
- 25:43Speaker 7: it's stat stuff, some of its commentary, some of his analysis.
- 25:46Speaker 7: Check it out see if you like it, And then
- 25:49Speaker 7: got to say check it out. Check out the newsletter.
- 25:50Speaker 7: There is a free list that's kind of on dormant.
- 25:53Speaker 7: I actually have to update that. You can quickly there,
- 25:55Speaker 7: send me an email and you'll get put on the
- 25:57Speaker 7: free list that I got to actually restart that. Here's
- 26:00Speaker 7: the free list about eighteen months ago and then kind
- 26:02Speaker 7: of forgot about it. So there are people who have
- 26:04Speaker 7: signed up for the free list, and I think there
- 26:06Speaker 7: should be admittings, but people have sign up for the
- 26:07Speaker 7: free lists that I just have her cut back to,
- 26:09Speaker 7: so I'll be getting the free list start again.
- 26:11Speaker 1: I love it. Man, great stuff, It's fantastic. We're thrilled
- 26:15Speaker 1: to have you back on this year talking all things
- 26:17Speaker 1: baseball on Tuesdays. Big thanks again to our friend Eric
- 26:20Speaker 1: Gordon at Northwest Handling Systems as well. We will talk
- 26:23Speaker 1: next week, my friend. Thanks Joe, Thank you, Josh and
- 26:26Speaker 1: Joshian dot Com, the Joshian newsletter. There you go, fun stuff,
- 26:29Speaker 1: and we'll be doing that all year long. I think
- 26:32Speaker 1: we got three basic weekly baseball things. We're gonna do
- 26:34Speaker 1: three weekly baseball segments. We've got Molly Whoppers on Monday,
- 26:37Speaker 1: Joe Shean on Tuesday, not gross, and EO Sirius will
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- 27:56Speaker 6: your daily look at the National Hockey League and the
- 27:59Speaker 6: Seattle Kraken with the infants.
- 28:02Speaker 1: Looking for their fifth string win. Seattle. Here at home,
- 28:05Speaker 1: time out for the snow Calm. The Casino sportsbook opening
- 28:08Speaker 1: face off and we are underway. It's got to sketch
- 28:11Speaker 1: the cop with it and Jarvis. Jarvis took a big hit.
- 28:15Speaker 1: The puck comes back in front. Jarvis is hurt. Darvas
- 28:18Speaker 1: is very slow to get up.
- 28:22Speaker 4: All quickly back in a way.
- 28:23Speaker 1: Another huge hit, but a big ring. Jamie Alexia thrown
- 28:27Speaker 1: has win around tonight like we haven't seen all season.
- 28:30Speaker 1: Compo cocko. They might have a two on one the
- 28:31Speaker 1: other way. Captain with him. Here's compo cocko shoss the
- 28:41Speaker 1: court out to play. The buck swings it along the wall.
- 28:44Speaker 1: Laanson bumps his man, swings it over.
- 28:46Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 28:46Speaker 1: Larson miners speed through center, Ice kicks it over down.
- 28:50Speaker 1: Freddie gets her own in front, Tip shifts off the
- 28:53Speaker 1: colpos face go hill win fake as shot ah, oh,
- 29:03Speaker 1: god's just bear shut cut sag, show me the car
- 29:06Speaker 1: hold on Stall won the last one clean steps in
- 29:11Speaker 1: again against Stevenson. Not so clean this time and a
- 29:15Speaker 1: chance to clear they do, Alexi, I've got them clear.
- 29:18Speaker 1: What a Hugh has a game? What a massive game
- 29:20Speaker 1: by twenty four and a huge face off win. Forty
- 29:24Speaker 1: seconds left to go by Stevenson. Back to the blue line.
- 29:30Speaker 1: Jarvis took a hit from Alexiak held in noo, here's
- 29:34Speaker 1: a shot taking blocks, rolls in front, Stall is there
- 29:36Speaker 1: clear by Alexiak go on the wall, hut food after
- 29:39Speaker 1: not able to clear is Seattle Myers had a chance
- 29:44Speaker 1: to get it out, could not. Eighteen seconds left to go,
- 29:48Speaker 1: Blue line gosstas bear shut the flickted high and wide.
- 29:51Speaker 1: Laterson tried to clear, unable to do so. Ten seconds
- 29:54Speaker 1: to go in the game, blue line one more chants
- 29:57Speaker 1: here for Carolina, he wears dishes it off. Rich shot
- 30:00Speaker 1: the fucking why four seconds left? Three two front.
- 30:04Speaker 4: You want to win.
- 30:08Speaker 1: In the easter We told you in they open. It
- 30:17Speaker 1: felt like a playoff game last night. The intensity at
- 30:19Speaker 1: the end of that game. I hope it came through
- 30:22Speaker 1: on TV. I hope it came through there.
- 30:23Speaker 4: It was.
- 30:25Speaker 1: It was something that team just take it. Just took
- 30:28Speaker 1: a huge step forward last night with that win. Kracking
- 30:31Speaker 1: knockoff the Carolina Hurricanes, who had come in with a
- 30:34Speaker 1: twelve game on beaten streak ten oh and two. Seattle wins.
- 30:39Speaker 1: It's fifth straight at home. The Kraken lookout they are
- 30:42Speaker 1: closer to first place in the Pacific than they are
- 30:44Speaker 1: to being out of the playoffs. They are three points
- 30:47Speaker 1: out of first. They are five points clear San Jose, Nashville,
- 30:50Speaker 1: and LA who are chasing down the final playoff spots
- 30:55Speaker 1: in the Western Conference. Seattle one point ahead of Utah
- 30:58Speaker 1: and Edmonton. Those are the two wildcard teams. Crack and
- 31:00Speaker 1: sit in third place in the Western Conference. Saint Louis
- 31:02Speaker 1: is here tomorrow, loser out of it twenty two, twenty
- 31:06Speaker 1: nine to nine, Maybe sitting some guys tomorrow. If there's
- 31:10Speaker 1: UH trades coming, perhaps maybe one of those guys coming
- 31:14Speaker 1: the Seattle, maybe leaving a guy behind as well. David
- 31:19Speaker 1: Panota is with the NHL Network Fourth Period. He's on
- 31:22Speaker 1: with Mike Benton. Ben's got his cracking weekly show coming up.
- 31:24Speaker 1: Here's a little snippet talking about Seattle in the trade deadline.
- 31:28Speaker 9: I put Seattle into the category of big fish hunting.
- 31:32Speaker 9: If they can find that big fish at either end
- 31:34Speaker 9: of the ice, preferably upfront, then I think, you know,
- 31:37Speaker 9: Jason Botterol and Ron Francis and company are going to
- 31:40Speaker 9: want to pull the trigger on that.
- 31:41Speaker 4: They've been exploring it going.
- 31:42Speaker 9: Back to last offseason, going back to last season and
- 31:45Speaker 9: continue to We've seen them connected to guys like Jordan
- 31:48Speaker 9: Cayru and of course they tried with respect to our
- 31:51Speaker 9: Tammy Panerin before he was traded.
- 31:52Speaker 1: To Los Angeles.
- 31:53Speaker 9: That just goes to show you the type of pool
- 31:55Speaker 9: that they're fishing in and that's what they would like
- 31:57Speaker 9: to do. There have been some teams that have poked
- 31:59Speaker 9: around and of their pending on restricted free agents. Everything
- 32:02Speaker 9: and every indication that I've been given is that they
- 32:04Speaker 9: want to hold on to their guys. They'll talk after
- 32:07Speaker 9: the trade deadline and resume contract discussions with a lot
- 32:10Speaker 9: of those players. After the deadline. They want to focus
- 32:13Speaker 9: on adding. And again takes two to pull this off.
- 32:16Speaker 9: But from every indication I've been given from people close
- 32:19Speaker 9: to the organization and league wide, they would like to
- 32:22Speaker 9: make a splash.
- 32:23Speaker 1: And if they can't pull it off now.
- 32:25Speaker 9: They're going to continue to look to do that in
- 32:26Speaker 9: the summer around draft time. But that's the priority for
- 32:28Speaker 9: this club right now. Make a big splash. See if
- 32:31Speaker 9: you can add a top six preferably a first line
- 32:33Speaker 9: type of player. And it wouldn't shock me if they
- 32:36Speaker 9: can actually do that between now and the deadline.
- 32:39Speaker 1: Deadline is Friday at noon. We'll be out at thirty
- 32:41Speaker 1: two bar and grill and checking in with what's going on.
- 32:45Speaker 1: These guys need to make a move. They're trying to
- 32:47Speaker 1: make a move, need to. I think what you know,
- 32:50Speaker 1: Mark and I talked about in cross talk. They listen,
- 32:53Speaker 1: you're competing for you know, some dollars, you're competing for attention,
- 32:58Speaker 1: mostly I mean all the teams like which you know
- 33:00Speaker 1: they kind of support each other in a sense, but
- 33:02Speaker 1: you're still competing along the way. And you know, the
- 33:05Speaker 1: baseball team went to the ALCS Joe she and just
- 33:08Speaker 1: told you he expects him to win the AL West
- 33:10Speaker 1: pretty easy. The team the plays in the NFL won
- 33:14Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. You need to get to the playoffs.
- 33:16Speaker 1: You need to make that push to get to the postseason.
- 33:20Speaker 1: Just remember what it was like three years ago, how
- 33:22Speaker 1: much fun it was.
- 33:22Speaker 2: And I love the way you praised it in crosstalk
- 33:25Speaker 2: where it's the rosters. The core for the roster has
- 33:28Speaker 2: done his job. The coaching staff has done his job.
- 33:30Speaker 2: Now the front office needs.
- 33:32Speaker 1: To do has to do this job. Bots has to
- 33:34Speaker 1: do his job.
- 33:35Speaker 2: You can't just expect this group now to carry it
- 33:39Speaker 2: the rest of the way. You need to reward them
- 33:41Speaker 2: for how well they've played so far.
- 33:43Speaker 1: Everyone else around them is going to get better at
- 33:45Speaker 1: the trade and you cannot stand pat I think last
- 33:50Speaker 1: night's win over Carolina was a really big one, not
- 33:53Speaker 1: just for the points, maybe not if we're being honest,
- 33:57Speaker 1: because you didn't expect to get those points either for
- 33:59Speaker 1: being honest, yes, but also because it keeps you where
- 34:02Speaker 1: you I mean again third place in the Pacific, three
- 34:04Speaker 1: points out of first place. That pushes you into buyer
- 34:08Speaker 1: category without a hesitation. You have more. You have one
- 34:10Speaker 1: more game before the deadline. That's that's tomorrow against Saint Louis.
- 34:14Speaker 1: You should win that game. You've got to do something
- 34:17Speaker 1: before Friday. I think Everett now are going to join
- 34:19Speaker 1: me out there for a little while on Friday, so
- 34:21Speaker 1: it should be fun. We'll get you going for the
- 34:23Speaker 1: trade deadline. Don't forget it's a cracking ticket. Tuesday, we
- 34:26Speaker 1: gave away one pair of tickets already. We'll get away
- 34:28Speaker 1: another pair coming up at the two o'clock hour. Then
- 34:30Speaker 1: Softy and Fame will take over to the same from
- 34:32Speaker 1: three until seven pm. Tickets are for the game against
- 34:35Speaker 1: Colorado on March the twelfth, which is a week from today,
- 34:38Speaker 1: No week from Thursday, right week from Thursday. Yes, is
- 34:41Speaker 1: when that game is so all right? Much for the Cup?
- 34:44Speaker 1: John lott Man. The NFL is heating up today. There
- 34:47Speaker 1: is a ton going on in the National Football League,
- 34:51Speaker 1: with today being the last day you could franchise a player.
- 34:53Speaker 1: Kyler Murray and the issues down in Arizona Brewing as well.
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- 35:18Speaker 1: Seahawks will not, as expected to franchise tag Ken Walker
- 35:22Speaker 1: the Super Bowl MVP. They did tender exclusive rights free
- 35:25Speaker 1: agent offers to Tayo Cotta and George o'lani. Today, speaking
- 35:28Speaker 1: of the NFL, big news coming out of Arizona, Kyler
- 35:31Speaker 1: Murray will be released by the Arizona Cardinals. That'll save
- 35:34Speaker 1: them a lot of money nineteen point five million next year.
- 35:37Speaker 1: They're still paying him thirty six point eight guaranteed though. Man,
- 35:41Speaker 1: what an absolute dumpster fort weird. Now we're here for
- 35:44Speaker 1: it too. We'll get to all the franchise tags, but
- 35:47Speaker 1: Bris Hall, George Pickens, and Kyle Pitch were all franchise.
- 35:51Speaker 1: Colts quarterback Daniel Jones was given a transition tag that
- 35:53Speaker 1: has now come and gone. Trey Hendrickson Cincinnia Bengals pass
- 35:58Speaker 1: rusher was set to become a free agent as well.
- 36:03Speaker 1: You know, today's a hundred days until the World Cup.
- 36:05Speaker 1: One hundred days until the World Cup is here. Let's
- 36:08Speaker 1: go baby Real Madrid and Brazil star Rodrigo for the ACL.
- 36:12Speaker 2: And yesterday's game that is bad, that is very bad.
- 36:16Speaker 1: H one hundre day is till the World Cup. Okay,
- 36:19Speaker 1: he's here on a cracking ticket Tuesday. By the way,
- 36:22Speaker 1: we got one more pair to give away sometime this
- 36:23Speaker 1: hour the Colorado Avalanche game on March the twelfth, So
- 36:27Speaker 1: stand by to hear the sounder coming up a little
- 36:28Speaker 1: bit later in this hour. But the meantime, let's go.
- 36:32Speaker 6: This week visit. Welcome to Ean's weekly visit with John
- 36:37Speaker 6: Lund Unleashed. He's a Bay Area media icon who's known
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- 36:44Speaker 6: their age change your opinion of them. John takes you
- 36:47Speaker 6: through the Bay Area, en the NFC West and dupes
- 36:50Speaker 6: it out with the inn Over, the Niners.
- 36:51Speaker 1: And the Hawks.
- 36:52Speaker 6: So let's unleash it now with John Lund. Here's Ian.
- 36:58Speaker 1: Alrighty It is time to check in with our friend
- 37:02Speaker 1: John LUNs. John LUNs, All Things NFL, Westwood. What did
- 37:06Speaker 1: I see you doing a west On one show yesterday?
- 37:09Speaker 8: Yeah, actually today and yesterday.
- 37:11Speaker 4: I'm doing mid days all week so I'm competing. I'm
- 37:13Speaker 4: not competing with you, but yeah, yeah all week long.
- 37:15Speaker 4: They they're putting me in middays for some reason. So
- 37:17Speaker 4: I was like, yeah, okay, I'll do it. You're not
- 37:19Speaker 4: comprecting with me because you're on with me right now. No, exactly,
- 37:22Speaker 4: I'm not competing with you at all.
- 37:23Speaker 1: You must already you want to be amazed. Is it
- 37:26Speaker 1: middays to the East coast? Is that what it is?
- 37:28Speaker 4: What is it? It's twelve to three east? So what
- 37:31Speaker 4: is that? I don't know?
- 37:31Speaker 1: Nine to nine to twelve?
- 37:34Speaker 4: Yeah, sorry, math isn't my thing. You know that, We've
- 37:36Speaker 4: established that. Yeah, yeah, okay, listen to this. You may
- 37:42Speaker 4: have you may know this already, but get this. We
- 37:44Speaker 4: are and I got a World Baseball Classic up date
- 37:46Speaker 4: for you. But we are one day from WBC. We
- 37:50Speaker 4: are eight days from NFL Free Agency, We are fourteen
- 37:52Speaker 4: days away from March Madness. We are twenty three days
- 37:55Speaker 4: away from MLB opening day. We are thirty seven days
- 37:58Speaker 4: until the Masters, we are forty six days until NBA
- 38:01Speaker 4: and NHL playoffs, and we are fifty one days to
- 38:03Speaker 4: the NFL Draft, and we are one hundred days World Cup,
- 38:06Speaker 4: one hundre days' World cid G Yeah, I mean, I
- 38:09Speaker 4: mean that's pretty good.
- 38:10Speaker 1: This is a good time of good stretch. It's a
- 38:12Speaker 1: good time. In just real quick down World Baseball Classic.
- 38:16Speaker 1: We're just talking to our one of our weekly baseball guys,
- 38:18Speaker 1: Joe she In, a minute ago, and he pointed this out.
- 38:20Speaker 1: I like, it's going to be competing head to head
- 38:23Speaker 1: at times with like the first most important, most popular
- 38:28Speaker 1: part of March Madness. So we'll see how that goes. Yeah,
- 38:31Speaker 1: it's gonna lose.
- 38:31Speaker 8: I I was just I got to be honest with you,
- 38:34Speaker 8: So get this.
- 38:36Speaker 4: I was just out there yesterday. I was in Scottsdale,
- 38:39Speaker 4: or I am in Scottsdale right now, and I was
- 38:42Speaker 4: out there at at Giants with the San Francisco Giants
- 38:46Speaker 4: this week, and I went to the open uh workout yesterday,
- 38:52Speaker 4: and so I saw those guys and our lineup and
- 38:54Speaker 4: what we have and this is what we've never had
- 38:57Speaker 4: in the World Baseball Classic is the pitching. So logan
- 38:59Speaker 4: web of the Giants is going to go day one,
- 39:01Speaker 4: which is one of the reasons I was out there. Uh,
- 39:03Speaker 4: day two, it's going to be Scooball. Day two, it's
- 39:06Speaker 4: gonna be schemes. It's absolutely ridiculous. And you and I
- 39:08Speaker 4: have talked about this, and for some reason, we just
- 39:11Speaker 4: don't as a country. And I'm not being unpatriotic, It's
- 39:14Speaker 4: not me. We care about winning our World Series and
- 39:17Speaker 4: Super Bowls and NBA Finals and Stanley Cups far more
- 39:20Speaker 4: than we care about the national We've only won this
- 39:21Speaker 4: thing once. We won this thing, the World Baseball Classic once,
- 39:25Speaker 4: and the other countries are just more into the you know,
- 39:28Speaker 4: international stuff and we're just not. But I mean, when
- 39:30Speaker 4: you see these guys, and you know, I saw Big
- 39:32Speaker 4: Dumper out there out When you see these guys, man,
- 39:35Speaker 4: it's like, how could anyone beat us? But we probably
- 39:38Speaker 4: won't win.
- 39:39Speaker 1: Well, I'm watching I'm watching the exhibition right now, USA ten,
- 39:45Speaker 1: your San Francisco Giants won. Yea, that's a that's a
- 39:50Speaker 1: right there.
- 39:51Speaker 4: Well, I mean you look at it, honestly, with.
- 39:53Speaker 8: The hitters and I just mentioned.
- 39:54Speaker 4: The pitching because we always haven't had the pitching to
- 39:57Speaker 4: match the hitting which we have at all this year,
- 40:00Speaker 4: and I don't know how we could possibly lose. I
- 40:02Speaker 4: just don't. So maybe I'm one hundred percent wrong in that,
- 40:05Speaker 4: but I mean it's impressive to look out on a
- 40:07Speaker 4: field and see this kind of talent. But the Canadians
- 40:10Speaker 4: probably thought that in hockey too, and they did not win.
- 40:15Speaker 1: They did not win.
- 40:16Speaker 7: No.
- 40:17Speaker 1: Well, I think the WBC's I think a little hard too,
- 40:21Speaker 1: because start of the year, you know, like kind of
- 40:24Speaker 1: an odd time to have its Uh you've got what
- 40:27Speaker 1: is it?
- 40:27Speaker 4: Is it?
- 40:28Speaker 1: Who is the pitcher? Is it Scooble that's going to
- 40:30Speaker 1: pitch like one game in the league one? Yeah, you know,
- 40:33Speaker 1: so so like if you're not if the players aren't
- 40:37Speaker 1: going to take it serious in that regard, right, then
- 40:40Speaker 1: how are the fans supposed to take it serious? No?
- 40:44Speaker 4: I agree, I mean I know people that are going
- 40:46Speaker 4: to cover it, and you know they'll have the crowds
- 40:48Speaker 4: out there because you know, you're going to get baseball
- 40:50Speaker 4: people to go see great baseball players. But I mean,
- 40:52Speaker 4: just in terms of reaction, like I'll ask you, I mean,
- 40:55Speaker 4: it's not like if we don't win we're going to
- 40:57Speaker 4: be in an uproar like Canada. Probably there. Their production
- 40:59Speaker 4: of work, you know, after they lost to the US
- 41:02Speaker 4: that week was probably terrible. They were just like, oh
- 41:04Speaker 4: my god, you kidding me. We lost the US. That's
- 41:05Speaker 4: our sport. Baseball, I think is supposed to be our sport.
- 41:08Speaker 4: Yet if we don't win it, people will just go whatever,
- 41:11Speaker 4: moving on. And you know what part of it is,
- 41:13Speaker 4: I think is that we're kind of conditioned at certain
- 41:15Speaker 4: times of year to care. It's like spring training. It's
- 41:18Speaker 4: really hard to get I just mentioned all the things
- 41:19Speaker 4: that are coming up, and you guys already knew that,
- 41:21Speaker 4: but you know, it's hard to kind of get amped
- 41:23Speaker 4: up in spring training. And the players are too, and
- 41:25Speaker 4: like I said, I'm down here with the Giants this week.
- 41:27Speaker 8: And and yeah, you know, it just is kind of.
- 41:31Speaker 4: Hard to get amped up. I talked to Logan web
- 41:32Speaker 4: about it, and you know, he's stoked for it. He's
- 41:35Speaker 4: the game one starter. He's stoked. But you know, it
- 41:37Speaker 4: just in terms of just us as fans, it's like
- 41:40Speaker 4: spring training time is not really when we get amped
- 41:42Speaker 4: up for baseball.
- 41:43Speaker 1: No, it's and it's just there's there's ways to do it,
- 41:47Speaker 1: you know, like there's definitely ways to do it, to
- 41:50Speaker 1: do it better. You know, we talked about it yesterday
- 41:52Speaker 1: on our show a little bit. Like one of those
- 41:54Speaker 1: things I think, to me, honestly, would be if you,
- 41:57Speaker 1: you know, if you did it during the All Star
- 41:58Speaker 1: like the Four Nation Hockey last year, which was a
- 42:01Speaker 1: made up event, like just a made up event, but
- 42:04Speaker 1: kind of a precursor of the Olympics because we had
- 42:06Speaker 1: gone i think at that point eleven years without having
- 42:10Speaker 1: Best on Best hockey in the Olympics. So they make
- 42:13Speaker 1: this thing up and it was a massive success and
- 42:15Speaker 1: it took the place of the NHL All Star Week,
- 42:19Speaker 1: you know, which nobody cares about All Star Games anymore.
- 42:22Speaker 1: There's got to if you want to do this thing right,
- 42:24Speaker 1: you do it in the middle of the season. You
- 42:25Speaker 1: do it. You just get rid of it All Star
- 42:26Speaker 1: Like nobody needs the Home Run Derby. We don't, even
- 42:28Speaker 1: though our guy won it last year that was cool,
- 42:30Speaker 1: But I mean outside of that, nobody needs that. Nobody
- 42:32Speaker 1: needs the All Star Game. And you take a week,
- 42:34Speaker 1: week and a half off and you play around Robin,
- 42:36Speaker 1: but you do it with the best on best. You
- 42:38Speaker 1: don't need to have. You don't need to have Brazil
- 42:41Speaker 1: and Israel and Chechia, who are all part of the
- 42:45Speaker 1: World Baseball Classic playing in whatever you want to call
- 42:48Speaker 1: this thing in the middle of the season. But if
- 42:50Speaker 1: you go best on best and it's just like four
- 42:52Speaker 1: teams like the hockey season did, maybe you'd narrow it
- 42:55Speaker 1: down to a bigger field and you have those guys
- 42:57Speaker 1: play in spring. Like you just said, our body just
- 43:00Speaker 1: mentioned that maybe you do it that way and maybe
- 43:02Speaker 1: more people will care. But I think in this country,
- 43:04Speaker 1: and I think even with the players not caring, it's
- 43:06Speaker 1: just it's just difficult because like you, and you're not
- 43:08Speaker 1: gonna do it at the end of the year because
- 43:10Speaker 1: the playoffs are over. Roman's gas, you've run out, you've
- 43:12Speaker 1: thrown your innings, and the teams that don't make the playoffs,
- 43:15Speaker 1: those guys are shut it down. So yeah, you got
- 43:17Speaker 1: to do it in the middle of season somehow. Yeah.
- 43:20Speaker 4: No, Look, I agree with one hundred percent. And it's
- 43:22Speaker 4: so funny because they they they sit there constantly in
- 43:25Speaker 4: all the sports and they think of the solf, well,
- 43:27Speaker 4: what can we do, what can we do? What can
- 43:28Speaker 4: we do? And you just solved it right there. I mean,
- 43:30Speaker 4: I'll give you a perfect one, and I know we
- 43:31Speaker 4: got to get some other things. But you know, the
- 43:33Speaker 4: NBA tried the US versus the world. That's not how
- 43:36Speaker 4: we're wired as sports fans in the United States. We
- 43:39Speaker 4: just don't care. We're just it's, oh my god, it's
- 43:42Speaker 4: US versus the US. I got news for these guys.
- 43:44Speaker 4: We're very arrogant as Americans, and we think we're the
- 43:47Speaker 4: best at everything, and we don't care if we win
- 43:49Speaker 4: it or not. If we lose the WBC, we're still
- 43:51Speaker 4: the best. If we lose and get a silver medal
- 43:53Speaker 4: in basketball, we're still the best, like we did. That's
- 43:55Speaker 4: how we feel. So it's like like, okay, in the
- 43:58Speaker 4: US versus the world, And you know, I give them
- 44:01Speaker 4: some sort of a tiny bit of credit for trying.
- 44:04Speaker 4: You know, you should try, and everybody's cynical about it.
- 44:07Speaker 4: But I mean, we didn't get all jacked up because
- 44:09Speaker 4: the US was playing against you know, the world.
- 44:11Speaker 8: It just doesn't We don't.
- 44:12Speaker 4: Work that way.
- 44:13Speaker 1: No, we do not, John Lynn joining us all right. Uh,
- 44:16Speaker 1: we got to get to the NFL as we got today.
- 44:19Speaker 1: As you mentioned, we're we're eight days away from free agency.
- 44:22Speaker 1: Were actually kind of more six days away. As you
- 44:24Speaker 1: all know, as we all know, it's you know, the
- 44:26Speaker 1: legal tampering Monday is a big thing. Franchise tags come today. Uh,
- 44:30Speaker 1: kind of a quiet day in that regard franchise tags,
- 44:32Speaker 1: the Breeze Hall, George Pickens, Kyle Pitts transition tag, the
- 44:35Speaker 1: Daniel Jones and that was its kind of a quiet
- 44:39Speaker 1: little franchise world. Today we're living in.
- 44:42Speaker 4: Yeah, And I mean, the only big thing it really
- 44:44Speaker 4: wasn't even big. And I'm only saying this because I'm
- 44:46Speaker 4: down here, is Kyler Murray is one hundred percent gone
- 44:49Speaker 4: and out of the.
- 44:50Speaker 1: Let's get right to that. Actually that's probably the best.
- 44:53Speaker 4: Well, yeah, let me go back. We can go back
- 44:55Speaker 4: to this, to this tag things. I want to talk
- 44:56Speaker 4: about ken Walker. But you know, the thing is what
- 44:58Speaker 4: I don't understand with Aeron, and I understand it. They
- 45:01Speaker 4: have a new coach, and Kyler's kind of MOPy and
- 45:03Speaker 4: all those kind of things, But I don't know if
- 45:04Speaker 4: you know this. Arizona's not very good. We know that,
- 45:07Speaker 4: but they're thirty three and thirty eight with Kyler, and
- 45:10Speaker 4: when he doesn't play over his career, they're five and
- 45:12Speaker 4: twenty five. I'm not saying Kyler Murray's great, but before this,
- 45:16Speaker 4: I know this is just a basic principle of life.
- 45:18Speaker 4: And before you fire somebody, you better have somebody better.
- 45:21Speaker 4: And I think they're better. Is gonna be Malik Willis
- 45:23Speaker 4: because of the the you got Matt Lafleur, you got
- 45:25Speaker 4: Mike laflor And there's a lot of buzz down here.
- 45:28Speaker 4: I've been had here a couple of days that they're
- 45:29Speaker 4: gonna get Malik Willis down here, and I'm just like,
- 45:32Speaker 4: are you guys insane? He's thrown six touchdown passes one
- 45:35Speaker 4: hundred and fifty five attempts in his entire career, and
- 45:38Speaker 4: there's rumors that they're gonna give him twenty five to
- 45:40Speaker 4: thirty million dollars and they're gonna let a guy like
- 45:42Speaker 4: Kyler Murray because why would I don't know why you
- 45:45Speaker 4: would give the Cardinals the benefit of the doubt. They're
- 45:47Speaker 4: one of the bad teams. So Darnold leaves the Jets
- 45:50Speaker 4: via the Panthers to the Niners. A long story short,
- 45:53Speaker 4: as he gets the Seahawks wins the Super Bowl. He
- 45:54Speaker 4: started with the Jets. We see all these teams, That's
- 45:57Speaker 4: why I'm not sure if Fernanda Mendoz is gonna be great,
- 46:00Speaker 4: he's going to the Raiders. It's much more about your
- 46:02Speaker 4: situation than it is a lot of times the player.
- 46:05Speaker 4: Like I'll give you another example, Ty Simpson out of Alabama.
- 46:08Speaker 4: If he goes sixteen to the Jets or twenty four
- 46:11Speaker 4: to the Browns versus going to the end of the
- 46:13Speaker 4: first round of the Rams, his career is going to
- 46:16Speaker 4: be vastly different. If he goes to the Jets, he's
- 46:18Speaker 4: starting week three and he's done. He goes to the
- 46:20Speaker 4: brown same thing. If he goes to the Rams, he
- 46:22Speaker 4: sits behind Stafford for two years and then all the
- 46:24Speaker 4: Seahawks fans hate.
- 46:25Speaker 8: Him because he's going to be good. Like it's just like, okay.
- 46:28Speaker 4: Get Kyler out of the division. That's great, man. I'm
- 46:31Speaker 4: good for that because I'm not saying he's the best,
- 46:34Speaker 4: but he's better than any anybody that Arizona's going to get. Well.
- 46:37Speaker 1: I just love it because I like the fact that
- 46:38Speaker 1: they're a dumpster fire. And I think if you know
- 46:40Speaker 1: I mentioned this Star listeners, if you're a Seahawks fan,
- 46:43Speaker 1: if you're a forty nine Ers fan, you're a Rams fan.
- 46:45Speaker 1: You're all bad. Things happening in Arizona are good because
- 46:48Speaker 1: you're still playing in the best division in football, right
- 46:51Speaker 1: and there's three hammer playoff teams that are not going
- 46:54Speaker 1: away anytime soon. We don't need, if you're out here,
- 46:57Speaker 1: to be dealing with another fourth team to make it
- 46:59Speaker 1: even deeper. You guys, go by week. You need a
- 47:02Speaker 1: bye week. Everyone needs. Everyone needs those week and then
- 47:06Speaker 1: you and then you hope if you're you know, then
- 47:08Speaker 1: you hope that the other teams lose, like take take
- 47:10Speaker 1: a loss to what that team along the way. But yeah,
- 47:12Speaker 1: you're right, I Murray. It just shows how a bad contract, though,
- 47:16Speaker 1: can cripple a franchise. Does it? Not like you just
- 47:19Speaker 1: can't do that.
- 47:20Speaker 8: It does.
- 47:20Speaker 4: But then you know, again, the only reason I'm bringing
- 47:22Speaker 4: it up is because it's in division and I'm down
- 47:24Speaker 4: here right now covering the Giants. But they're going to
- 47:26Speaker 4: eat fifty four million dollars to have him go play
- 47:28Speaker 4: for I don't know who. And the other the scary
- 47:31Speaker 4: part of at least in the NFC is look, I'm
- 47:33Speaker 4: not saying Kyler Murray's great, but again, he played for
- 47:35Speaker 4: the Cardinals, so I don't know how good he is
- 47:38Speaker 4: everybody wants to go to the Vikings. All these quarterbacks
- 47:41Speaker 4: will say, oh my god, Darnold won fourteen games there
- 47:44Speaker 4: and if we could just get a decent quarterback there,
- 47:46Speaker 4: and word is, that's where Kyler Murray wants to go.
- 47:49Speaker 4: I don't know if Minnesota is in love with him
- 47:52Speaker 4: like he is there, But then we can find out
- 47:55Speaker 4: if Kyler Murray really can play, and they become possibly
- 47:58Speaker 4: a factor in the NFC. And if we've seen it
- 48:01Speaker 4: enough times.
- 48:01Speaker 8: You have I have with San Francisco.
- 48:04Speaker 4: The weirdest game I ever had or ever covered was
- 48:07Speaker 4: it was a first game and it was the uh,
- 48:10Speaker 4: you know, the year you couldn't have anybody in there. Uh.
- 48:13Speaker 4: And Kyler Murray beat the Niners on you know, last
- 48:16Speaker 4: second and he just there's no way that the Cardinals
- 48:18Speaker 4: should have won. So you know, I'm not saying he's great,
- 48:21Speaker 4: but I am saying he can be a pain in
- 48:22Speaker 4: the butt. And if he gets to Minnesota instead of J. J. McCarthy,
- 48:25Speaker 4: they could be a factor in the NFC.
- 48:27Speaker 1: Well you go, you go, just get to go play
- 48:28Speaker 1: for a quarterback gurutuo in O'Connell, right, So like you have,
- 48:31Speaker 1: you get, you go to a You go to a
- 48:33Speaker 1: coach that knows how to coach quarterbacks you want to
- 48:35Speaker 1: get your career. I mean, giuse listen. You can have
- 48:38Speaker 1: all the money in the world and these guys do
- 48:40Speaker 1: like a guy like that Murray, I'm sure there has
- 48:42Speaker 1: to be a big part of this is man, I
- 48:44Speaker 1: I what happened to me? You know, like I got
- 48:46Speaker 1: that extension for a reason, but what the hell happened
- 48:49Speaker 1: to me? Go Go somewhere where you think like a yeah,
- 48:52Speaker 1: like you said, I think yeah, I mean, go someplace
- 48:56Speaker 1: that has a track record or coach at least has
- 48:59Speaker 1: a track record of making quarterbacks who were thought to
- 49:02Speaker 1: be you know, on the on the scrap heat pretty good.
- 49:05Speaker 4: I e.
- 49:05Speaker 1: Sam Darnold. And it also says something about Minnesota, by
- 49:08Speaker 1: the way, because they dropped JJ McCarthy. And if he
- 49:10Speaker 1: ain't the guy, then that's a first round draft pick
- 49:13Speaker 1: wasted along the way on a quarter too. But you
- 49:15Speaker 1: know they might that might be the fit. I'm just glad,
- 49:18Speaker 1: like you said, he's going and leaving all that dead
- 49:20Speaker 1: money behind kind of. And and Arizona just you continue
- 49:24Speaker 1: to be a dumpster fire and that's a good thing.
- 49:26Speaker 1: Along the way, you want to talk about Ken Walker.
- 49:28Speaker 1: We're talking about him up here a lot.
- 49:32Speaker 8: Okay, So I did this saga nationally.
- 49:35Speaker 4: Today because it's really hard, and this is probably what
- 49:38Speaker 4: you guys are doing. So I'm sorry if I'm being redundant,
- 49:40Speaker 4: but it's hard in any way, shape or form to
- 49:44Speaker 4: criticize John Josh Snyder the job that he's done. I
- 49:48Speaker 4: mean everything he's touched and I'm going overground that you
- 49:50Speaker 4: guys have treed, but everything he's touched over the last
- 49:53Speaker 4: years has been absolute gold. But it does not mean
- 49:55Speaker 4: that you're beyond reproach. And so where I'm scratching my
- 49:57Speaker 4: head and you have to explain this to me, is
- 49:59Speaker 4: that vas Hall does sign the you know there they
- 50:03Speaker 4: give the Jets give Bresall this deal, and so it's
- 50:06Speaker 4: fourteen point something million dollars, which is one of the
- 50:08Speaker 4: lowest paid numbers at any position in the league. I
- 50:11Speaker 4: understand running backs are undervalued. I get it. But from
- 50:14Speaker 4: the outside looking in and not having your knowledge of it,
- 50:18Speaker 4: looking at Walker, and this is just not the Super
- 50:21Speaker 4: Bowl MVP. We know that what Seattle wants to do.
- 50:24Speaker 4: They want to run the ball, they want to play defense,
- 50:25Speaker 4: they want to punch you in the face. They don't
- 50:27Speaker 4: want to make Sam Darnold burrow the ball forty times
- 50:29Speaker 4: a game, so you've got to have a running game.
- 50:31Speaker 4: Zach Charbonnay is going to be out probably for a while.
- 50:34Speaker 4: So I know John Schneider has a plan. I get it.
- 50:37Speaker 4: And I know also that there's a lot of young
- 50:39Speaker 4: players on this team and Devin Weatherspoon and JSN and
- 50:42Speaker 4: gone down the line that need to be signed. I
- 50:44Speaker 4: understand all that. But ken Walker at you know, like
- 50:47Speaker 4: a Breeesshall number of fourteen million doesn't sound outrageous to me.
- 50:51Speaker 4: So from a forty nine ers perspective. Believe me, because
- 50:54Speaker 4: I've been in contact with a lot of people down there.
- 50:56Speaker 4: They're like, hell, yeah, ken Walker's leaven. That's good. So
- 50:59Speaker 4: when it's always it's not a great sign when your
- 51:01Speaker 4: opposition is like, oh, thank god, that guy's leaving. So,
- 51:04Speaker 4: I mean, what's the logic. I don't get the logic.
- 51:07Speaker 1: Well, I think it's it's it's strictly financial, and and
- 51:11Speaker 1: what I mean by that is like fifty eight million
- 51:13Speaker 1: on the cap you got if you franchise him, then
- 51:15Speaker 1: you're down to forty four and what you want to
- 51:17Speaker 1: do with, you know, with Witherspoon and with JSN. Sooner
- 51:22Speaker 1: than later, I think is I think those are the
- 51:23Speaker 1: two priorities you have right now. Harder to find a JSN,
- 51:28Speaker 1: harder to find a Devin Witherspoon, And I think just
- 51:32Speaker 1: from now, I don't think it's one hundred percent that
- 51:35Speaker 1: the door has closed on Ken Walker coming back, Like,
- 51:38Speaker 1: I don't think that that's in fact, if I'm not mistaken,
- 51:41Speaker 1: and there's correct me If I'm wrong here, did Ernest
- 51:44Speaker 1: Jones not go to free agency last year? For a second?
- 51:47Speaker 1: Look that up for me, Lee, I will look it up.
- 51:49Speaker 2: I don't remember exactly.
- 51:50Speaker 1: He may have, but nevertheless, whether he did or not,
- 51:53Speaker 1: you know, let's see what the market is like. Cause, yes,
- 51:56Speaker 1: Saquon Barkley got all that money John right two years ago,
- 52:00Speaker 1: three years ago, whatever it was, and then had a
- 52:02Speaker 1: great year, and then what happened last year, Like, I
- 52:05Speaker 1: think there's a I think there's still some I think
- 52:08Speaker 1: there's still some some trepidation by GMS about spending big,
- 52:11Speaker 1: big money on a running back. I wish he would
- 52:14Speaker 1: come back and listen, Schneider has made mistakes. If you
- 52:16Speaker 1: look over the year, there have been some mistakes, Like
- 52:19Speaker 1: he has been far from perfect, but I trust that,
- 52:22Speaker 1: you know what, what's he doing?
- 52:23Speaker 7: Fun?
- 52:24Speaker 1: Here's the other thing. If we all truly believe after
- 52:26Speaker 1: those guys spent a week in Indianapolis at the Combine
- 52:31Speaker 1: that there wasn't quote legal tampering already going on, we're nuts, right,
- 52:36Speaker 1: I think we're crazy. So if you look at it
- 52:39Speaker 1: from that standpoint, you know, what does Schneider know about
- 52:42Speaker 1: the running backs market? What does he know about other
- 52:45Speaker 1: running backs that Travis atn also is out there on
- 52:49Speaker 1: the market right now, right kind of a guy that
- 52:51Speaker 1: would fit what Seattle wants to do a little bit here,
- 52:54Speaker 1: So like like who else is out there that he
- 52:56Speaker 1: maybe thinks he can get for a little cheaper than
- 52:57Speaker 1: a guy that you know was the Super Bowl envy?
- 53:00Speaker 1: I don't know. To me, there's there's probably more of
- 53:03Speaker 1: the story than just yeah, we're not going to plan
- 53:05Speaker 1: you know, pay him the fourteen million franchise. The other
- 53:08Speaker 1: thing is, I like everyone has their beliefs. John Schneider
- 53:13Speaker 1: he loves a couple of things. He loves a couple
- 53:15Speaker 1: of things in life, and he hates a couple things
- 53:16Speaker 1: in life. He loves Manny's pal al from Georgetown Brewing.
- 53:19Speaker 1: And he hates the friend and he hates the friend,
- 53:22Speaker 1: and he hates the franchise tag.
- 53:23Speaker 4: He does and I does, and I and I agree
- 53:25Speaker 4: with that.
- 53:27Speaker 8: But I guess what I'm looking at from the outside.
- 53:29Speaker 4: I'm sure Seahawk fans are thinking this too, is like
- 53:31Speaker 4: this is how Super Bowl teams are road with just
- 53:33Speaker 4: not a lot. Like it's not it doesn't happen ten
- 53:35Speaker 4: things at once. You know, one thing and then it's
- 53:37Speaker 4: all gone. It's a bunch of little things. And you know, again,
- 53:40Speaker 4: you've already lived it up there. You know what happens.
- 53:43Speaker 4: And look, he does know what he's doing. He's not stupid.
- 53:45Speaker 4: And you mentioned a guy like attn or Rico Dowdell
- 53:49Speaker 4: or you know, there's guys out there. It's not like
- 53:51Speaker 4: you can't find game well and you can go on
- 53:53Speaker 4: and on and on. They're going to find a running
- 53:55Speaker 4: back and I'd be shocked if they didn't, you know,
- 53:57Speaker 4: Draft one.
- 53:58Speaker 8: I mean, I was sitting there at the you know.
- 54:00Speaker 4: And they're not gonna get a Jeremiah Love. But the
- 54:02Speaker 4: other kid at Notre Dame, that Mike Washington kid that
- 54:04Speaker 4: ran a four three three at Arkansas. I mean, look,
- 54:06Speaker 4: there's you can find backs. I understand that. But the
- 54:08Speaker 4: one thing I would say, just because I'm sitting here, well,
- 54:11Speaker 4: I mean here is on right now, but I'm you know,
- 54:13Speaker 4: I cover the forty nine ers, which is you know,
- 54:15Speaker 4: and he's not Christian McCaffrey. I'm not saying he is,
- 54:18Speaker 4: but in the playoffs he was damn close to that
- 54:20Speaker 4: type of a player. He fits in and you just
- 54:22Speaker 4: hate to lose those guys. You're not gonna be able
- 54:24Speaker 4: to bring everybody back, Like again, you've discussed this Woolen.
- 54:27Speaker 4: I don't think that guy's coming back. Mafey is gonna
- 54:30Speaker 4: get overpaid, the otherre's certain guys you're just not gonna
- 54:32Speaker 4: be able to bring back. But kt Walker was so
- 54:34Speaker 4: good in the playoffs that when I and yeah, he
- 54:37Speaker 4: hates to put the tag on, but god man, sometimes
- 54:39Speaker 4: you just think to yourself, that kid fits. We know
- 54:41Speaker 4: he fits. It's not a massive number, but John Schnyder
- 54:45Speaker 4: right now is just on such a heater that it's
- 54:47Speaker 4: it's hard to question what he does.
- 54:48Speaker 1: I think the one thing I would say to wrap
- 54:50Speaker 1: up that conversation is that the the thing with with Walker.
- 54:56Speaker 1: I wish he was coming back. I think most Seahawks
- 54:59Speaker 1: fans wish he was coming back, and maybe still hold
- 55:01Speaker 1: out some hope that he will come back along the way.
- 55:05Speaker 1: I just it's it's such a strange phenomenon, this this
- 55:08Speaker 1: whole We don't want to pay guys, we don't want
- 55:10Speaker 1: to franchise guys, and all those things. I'd like to
- 55:13Speaker 1: see him back. I think he could. I think he
- 55:15Speaker 1: helps his football team. I think with sharbonay out, he's
- 55:18Speaker 1: more of a need right now than ever before. And frankly,
- 55:21Speaker 1: he's not as good or Sharbone is not as good
- 55:23Speaker 1: as him. Anyway, we saw that finally on display. He's
- 55:26Speaker 1: not a great blocker past blocker, he's not a very
- 55:29Speaker 1: good receiver, but he is a really good North South
- 55:33Speaker 1: running back and in the zone blocking scheme that they run,
- 55:36Speaker 1: he's really good in that, and he finally came into
- 55:38Speaker 1: his own. I think it's I think it's a mistake.
- 55:42Speaker 1: I think a lot of us think it's a mistake
- 55:45Speaker 1: that you wouldn't find a way to pay this guy.
- 55:47Speaker 1: But I also don't understand what they truly have going
- 55:50Speaker 1: with the cap. They look at as a semiman roster
- 55:52Speaker 1: and who knows it's it's well next Tuesday when we join,
- 55:56Speaker 1: when we have you on John next Tuesday, we will
- 55:59Speaker 1: will be twenty four hours. We're already gonna know everything
- 56:03Speaker 1: has happened in the league by that right, right.
- 56:05Speaker 4: Well, yeah, I loved I like to call it the
- 56:08Speaker 4: heavy petting period, because I mean that's what they do.
- 56:11Speaker 4: And by the time seriously, the dirty old man is
- 56:17Speaker 4: Adam Schefter, like you know, like it's not even like
- 56:20Speaker 4: it's not even midnight, it's not even I mean, by
- 56:22Speaker 4: the time that we all wake up on Monday, we're
- 56:24Speaker 4: gonna know where everybody's gone. I mean it's like and
- 56:27Speaker 4: then they, you know, the league is like, oh, we're
- 56:28Speaker 4: gonna find come on, like, oh, I don't know what's
- 56:32Speaker 4: going on his you know his eighteen so phones go
- 56:34Speaker 4: off and you know, well, you know the one the
- 56:37Speaker 4: one good thing going for the Seahawks is you can
- 56:39Speaker 4: always you know, draft a guy like Rashan Penny. I
- 56:40Speaker 4: mean that'd be good.
- 56:41Speaker 1: That worked out well, all right, my friend. On that note,
- 56:46Speaker 1: you son of a On that note.
- 56:53Speaker 4: That note, I'm just saying it ain't easy to find
- 56:55Speaker 4: running back like every like I know that you can
- 56:57Speaker 4: find running backs.
- 56:58Speaker 8: I'm just saying you don't know.
- 56:59Speaker 4: He's it on the running backs. I'm just saying you
- 57:01Speaker 4: already know Ken Walker. But whatever, that's fine.
- 57:05Speaker 1: Just a quick question for you. Whatever happened to Trey Lance.
- 57:11Speaker 1: I see you. I see you're a shot, Penny. I
- 57:14Speaker 1: see you're a shot, Penny, and I will match you
- 57:17Speaker 1: and up you with the Trey Lance first round draft picks.
- 57:19Speaker 4: Okay, real quick, I know you gotta go. I don't
- 57:23Speaker 4: tell this about the combine. So his brother Brent Seattle
- 57:27Speaker 4: could use him. He's like six three two ten, ran
- 57:29Speaker 4: like a four to three four. The funniest thing ever,
- 57:32Speaker 4: because all these Niner fans they ran out bought five
- 57:34Speaker 4: Lance jerseys. He wore that number at North Dakota State,
- 57:37Speaker 4: so maybe they the Niners could draft him and then
- 57:39Speaker 4: people could use that five Lance jersey again, throw it away.
- 57:42Speaker 4: Just terrible, terrible, Probably end up in Seattle. Anyway, there
- 57:46Speaker 4: you go. That was a good come back to what
- 57:48Speaker 4: you said.
- 57:48Speaker 1: They got hey andw did you find out what Nurict
- 57:51Speaker 1: Jones was?
- 57:51Speaker 2: Yeah, it was March ninth, so right before, so they
- 57:54Speaker 2: sign him right before he did not, but he was
- 57:58Speaker 2: almost in the same like they didn't franchise him, correct,
- 58:01Speaker 2: so he was out there. So it was technically before
- 58:04Speaker 2: the league year. So we're still in a few days
- 58:05Speaker 2: for Seattle to come up with an extension now.
- 58:08Speaker 1: Right, right for for Walkers? Right? Yeah?
- 58:11Speaker 4: So, but I mean who they are? They losing everybody?
- 58:13Speaker 4: So is rasiahed and and Walker and Mafey and Wolan
- 58:18Speaker 4: and Job and like all these guys. I think I'm
- 58:21Speaker 4: going to be able to report back with Lee. Are
- 58:23Speaker 4: they losing all these guys? With Glee?
- 58:25Speaker 1: I thought you were in a closet Seahawks fan, he
- 58:27Speaker 1: is know.
- 58:31Speaker 4: What you're talking about.
- 58:33Speaker 1: No, listen, I think I think Mafey and Wolan are
- 58:38Speaker 1: pretty much gone. I think the wrest those guys are
- 58:40Speaker 1: too much money. I think the wrest those guys all
- 58:42Speaker 1: pretty good chance to come back.
- 58:43Speaker 4: So all right, okay, all right, that's just I like
- 58:46Speaker 4: to see because they won me money. Don't confuse the
- 58:48Speaker 4: two confused. I like I like the I like the
- 58:51Speaker 4: fans up in Seattle.
- 58:52Speaker 8: I just that's not confusing.
- 58:54Speaker 4: I actually got a call from Tacoma today. Wow, I
- 58:56Speaker 4: can tell you that I got to call my show
- 58:57Speaker 4: from Takoma today.
- 58:58Speaker 1: Tell people where they can listen to you. Then you
- 59:00Speaker 1: knuckle ahead.
- 59:02Speaker 4: Uh West and one Sports actually on all week but
- 59:04Speaker 4: normally weekends at nights to try to bury me. But
- 59:06Speaker 4: you know what, I'm not gonna have it so well
- 59:08Speaker 4: one Sports Uh serious xem three seventy five. So make
- 59:11Speaker 4: sure and at John London Radio, big fans of the Seahawks,
- 59:14Speaker 4: don't be at me. Now here we go.
- 59:16Speaker 1: Apparently you're a big deal in Tacoma down south in
- 59:18Speaker 1: the two five three, Soatoma, Tacoma.
- 59:23Speaker 4: I'm huge in Tacoma.
- 59:24Speaker 1: I'm head to Tacoma. We all be down into the Tacoma.
- 59:27Speaker 1: Don I'm doing a show on Thursday, t do. Let's go,
- 59:30Speaker 1: Yeah the Woodshed, all right, see you enter bye. All right,
- 59:33Speaker 1: that's John Lund Yeah big and Tacoma big on Westwood One.
- 59:36Speaker 4: Just big.
- 59:37Speaker 1: Well he's not really big, he's pretty small. It's a
- 59:39Speaker 1: short little fellow. All right. We'll take a break, four nine,
- 59:41Speaker 1: four to five onths coming down text line. We'll check
- 59:42Speaker 1: that next.
- 59:47Speaker 7: From the R and R.
- 59:48Speaker 6: Foundation Specialist Broadcast Studio. Now back to Ian Fernez powered
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- 1:00:02Speaker 4: M oh, and this show is going to be incredible.
- 1:00:09Speaker 7: You remind me of my drunk uncle right now, just
- 1:00:12Speaker 7: waiting if you's gonna say something inappropriate for the dinner table.
- 1:00:16Speaker 4: I can't wait for you to say something. You have
- 1:00:19Speaker 4: a slip out today, have a great show.
- 1:00:24Speaker 1: Uh, you know, there's just days sometimes we're just not on.
- 1:00:28Speaker 1: You know, they're just not sharp people, just not there.
- 1:00:31Speaker 5: You used all your on last night, though.
- 1:00:33Speaker 1: I would say was on, oh so good, so good,
- 1:00:37Speaker 1: but it wasn't. Thank you.
- 1:00:39Speaker 4: But it was.
- 1:00:41Speaker 1: Just been a long couple weeks. We had a lot
- 1:00:44Speaker 1: of like this, the hockey season starting to get a
- 1:00:47Speaker 1: little long.
- 1:00:49Speaker 5: Mm hm.
- 1:00:50Speaker 1: The dog days of March Wednesday, Yeah, I mean Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday,
- 1:00:55Speaker 1: we had a lot going on. It was Black Hockey
- 1:00:56Speaker 1: History Night. We had a lot with that show, and
- 1:00:59Speaker 1: just a lot of stuff with the shows. And yeah,
- 1:01:02Speaker 1: I'm just a little We all go through those days
- 1:01:05Speaker 1: a little mentally, uh fatigued a little bit. So yeah,
- 1:01:08Speaker 1: but I don't think I say anything inappropriate today. I
- 1:01:11Speaker 1: know you didn't.
- 1:01:12Speaker 5: You disappointed and he was.
- 1:01:14Speaker 1: As much. But he wanted me to say, like he
- 1:01:16Speaker 1: was waiting for me just to be like you did
- 1:01:18Speaker 1: not drunkcle.
- 1:01:19Speaker 2: Drunk oggle itunk trunkle.
- 1:01:22Speaker 1: It isn't that a thing now? Unk like? Is that
- 1:01:24Speaker 1: like people call like order people unk?
- 1:01:26Speaker 3: Yeah, that is a nickname for people. Yes, it's an
- 1:01:30Speaker 3: endearing term though sometimes.
- 1:01:33Speaker 1: Let's see, the US fans will get on board when
- 1:01:36Speaker 1: we win the Baseball Classics as the two five three,
- 1:01:38Speaker 1: I think the US I think the Little Baseball Classic
- 1:01:40Speaker 1: has the potential as it goes on to get some momentum,
- 1:01:45Speaker 1: you know, like it all of a sudden we have
- 1:01:47Speaker 1: we could get some momentum.
- 1:01:48Speaker 2: It might not be the best team. They might not
- 1:01:50Speaker 2: be the second best team.
- 1:01:54Speaker 5: Who is the best team.
- 1:01:58Speaker 2: Between Japan and dr which I always.
- 1:02:01Speaker 1: Go dr and those countries take it more The players
- 1:02:05Speaker 1: they you know, the players for those countries take it
- 1:02:07Speaker 1: more serious.
- 1:02:07Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 1:02:08Speaker 1: So yeah, that that could certainly be the case. This
- 1:02:10Speaker 1: guy thinks that Kyler Murray's good ha ha, all credibility lost.
- 1:02:12Speaker 1: First of all, Len never had credibility. Yeah talking about okay,
- 1:02:19Speaker 1: you know the funny thing is against Seattle he was awful. Yeah,
- 1:02:22Speaker 1: two and nine, I believe, yea, I have a good record,
- 1:02:26Speaker 1: but against like he's knocked off the giant or the
- 1:02:29Speaker 1: forty nine ers in the in the Rams couple. Listen,
- 1:02:32Speaker 1: here's the thing. They're not better without him unless they
- 1:02:36Speaker 1: replace him with a better player. And who's that going
- 1:02:38Speaker 1: to be? Like, there's a handful of teams around the
- 1:02:40Speaker 1: league looking for a quarterback.
- 1:02:42Speaker 2: Lee Quillis is not better than him.
- 1:02:43Speaker 1: I'm sorry, No, he's not. He's not. And you know,
- 1:02:48Speaker 1: a rookie if they draft somebody horrible quarterback rookie class,
- 1:02:54Speaker 1: I mean, Dante more would be arguably one or two
- 1:02:57Speaker 1: this year if he was coming out. You know, mendo
- 1:03:00Speaker 1: was the unquestioned one. And last year Mendoza would not
- 1:03:03Speaker 1: have been won. Not many years he.
- 1:03:05Speaker 2: Would have been one even last year. Wasn't that great
- 1:03:07Speaker 2: of a class?
- 1:03:07Speaker 1: No, he would not have like he It's so they're
- 1:03:12Speaker 1: not better without him. I don't even care. I listen,
- 1:03:15Speaker 1: just the fact that they have that. We just spent
- 1:03:17Speaker 1: all this time talking about ken Walker and the money. Okay,
- 1:03:22Speaker 1: we're quibbling here in Seattle over a fourteen million dollar
- 1:03:25Speaker 1: franchise tag that didn't happen. Those guys are paying that, dude,
- 1:03:30Speaker 1: what did John say, think it's fifty one or something
- 1:03:32Speaker 1: something like that. It's the dead money isn't incredible.
- 1:03:35Speaker 2: Man, it's a lot just to get rid of again.
- 1:03:37Speaker 1: I love Joe Shean, but his phone comedy, Yeah, Joe's phone.
- 1:03:41Speaker 1: I don't know if it's Joe's. Joe's voice, isn't He
- 1:03:44Speaker 1: sounded like he had a little bit of a on
- 1:03:46Speaker 1: his phone. But I think also his voice wasn't great today.
- 1:03:49Speaker 1: He might have lost a little bit of a voice. Yeah, well,
- 1:03:51Speaker 1: we'll make it better next week, all right, will Joe's
- 1:03:54Speaker 1: not calling from the movie.
- 1:03:55Speaker 3: He's also he is off next week as he ramps
- 1:03:58Speaker 3: up to the regular season.
- 1:04:00Speaker 5: But that's why he was so.
- 1:04:03Speaker 1: Yeah, well next week we'll have full on free agency
- 1:04:07Speaker 1: going on here. And uh, Travis Homer preseason Hall of Famer. Yes,
- 1:04:11Speaker 1: he was so true. Yeah, he's George Halane and Travis
- 1:04:15Speaker 1: Homer are the same guy. Preseason Hall of Fame, training camp,
- 1:04:18Speaker 1: Hall of Fame. Curtis and all those other nerds out there.
- 1:04:21Speaker 1: I love you, Curtis. He's actually probably gonna come on
- 1:04:23Speaker 1: with us next week Monday or Tuesday. I rip him.
- 1:04:25Speaker 1: But you know, just raving over guys during you know
- 1:04:29Speaker 1: in Corvin Smith likes to do that too. Corbyn's that
- 1:04:33Speaker 1: way too.
- 1:04:34Speaker 2: Hey, you know that when they look at every part
- 1:04:36Speaker 2: of the roster, you have to and I.
- 1:04:38Speaker 1: Will tell you that for sixteen years I did the
- 1:04:40Speaker 1: same thing. It's just but yeah, Travis Homer and George
- 1:04:45Speaker 1: Holane preseason Hall.
- 1:04:47Speaker 2: Of Fame two six. Why are the Rams so pissy?
- 1:04:49Speaker 2: Rams are proposing to change rules regarding backwards passes to
- 1:04:52Speaker 2: treat them like fumbles if touched by a defender. Quote
- 1:04:56Speaker 2: you guys, mad bro I'll be back to Ram rules
- 1:04:59Speaker 2: because that it was a great promotion.
- 1:05:03Speaker 4: Rules.
- 1:05:04Speaker 2: They are trying to change the rule because of what
- 1:05:06Speaker 2: happened in the second game.
- 1:05:07Speaker 1: Yeah, but.
- 1:05:09Speaker 3: Like I'm sorry, dude, Like maybe it's just posturing to
- 1:05:13Speaker 3: show that you're standing up for your team to complain
- 1:05:15Speaker 3: about something that is a legitimate rule.
- 1:05:18Speaker 5: But no, that is a football rule.
- 1:05:21Speaker 1: Listen. Rams rules were the greatest thing ever. I thought
- 1:05:27Speaker 1: of those. The other day we were when the Kraken
- 1:05:29Speaker 1: played in Saint Louis, we showed you know, one of
- 1:05:31Speaker 1: the you know obligatory uh you know, drone shots from
- 1:05:35Speaker 1: above the city of Saint Louis, like you know, every
- 1:05:37Speaker 1: city we have, like they have all those shots and
- 1:05:40Speaker 1: they it was over the Edward R. Jones Dome, and
- 1:05:43Speaker 1: that's the first thing I thought of RAMS rules. All right,
- 1:05:47Speaker 1: now is the time to cheer. I forgot you're ten
- 1:05:50Speaker 1: minutes away. Here's what you have to do to be
- 1:05:53Speaker 1: a fan in the darkest building in America and the
- 1:05:59Speaker 1: quietest building in a Yeah, just so bad.
- 1:06:03Speaker 5: That was I thought it was a skit. No, I
- 1:06:06Speaker 5: know it's not, but I was like, wow, that's hysterical.
- 1:06:09Speaker 5: Oh no, they're being serious.
- 1:06:12Speaker 2: Serious.
- 1:06:15Speaker 5: He was a seven and nine prime guy.
- 1:06:18Speaker 1: Somebody doesn't like JP Crawford's range.
- 1:06:20Speaker 2: I get that those a lot of people don't like
- 1:06:23Speaker 2: his range.
- 1:06:24Speaker 3: Oh and we got to thank you for the tickets
- 1:06:27Speaker 3: the last night's game from the four two five. Thanks
- 1:06:30Speaker 3: to kJ R for the tickets. Last night was amazing.
- 1:06:33Speaker 3: I got to go as a fan, did you.
- 1:06:36Speaker 2: Yes, I'm going tomorrow yea, as a as a fan
- 1:06:40Speaker 2: in seats.
- 1:06:41Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, I love that. Who're going with couple buddies? Wow,
- 1:06:46Speaker 1: friend's outide of here.
- 1:06:48Speaker 3: No.
- 1:06:50Speaker 2: I gave him free tickets and then they're like, yeah,
- 1:06:51Speaker 2: well go and they'll be your friend for the day.
- 1:06:54Speaker 5: You know what that works? Yeah, that's how I made
- 1:06:56Speaker 5: all my friends.
- 1:06:58Speaker 2: Can I give you something?
- 1:06:59Speaker 1: Can I buy your friends? Marcus, h go America. But
- 1:07:02Speaker 1: I did put fifty bucks in the dr because they
- 1:07:03Speaker 1: were the third favorite at the time of Mark.
- 1:07:05Speaker 4: That is really.
- 1:07:08Speaker 5: Odds man. Good job, Marcus.
- 1:07:11Speaker 1: We're good. We're good, all right?
- 1:07:12Speaker 3: Uh?
- 1:07:13Speaker 4: Is he back?
- 1:07:13Speaker 5: Softy? He's wandering the holes. You can feel his presence.
- 1:07:18Speaker 1: Don't have the energy today. Don't worry, I'll buffer thank you.
- 1:07:21Speaker 1: He's next. Well he is back, Yes, sir, yes, yes.
- 1:07:36Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen looking fit, trim, healthy, intant. None of
- 1:07:40Speaker 1: those things are true, actually, no one.
- 1:07:42Speaker 10: I've reached a point now where going to Maui has
- 1:07:45Speaker 10: nothing to do with baking in the sun anymore.
- 1:07:48Speaker 1: Those days are over for me.
- 1:07:49Speaker 3: Man.
- 1:07:50Speaker 1: Why why do you look like you're hurting? What did
- 1:07:51Speaker 1: you do my back?
- 1:07:52Speaker 3: Yeah?
- 1:07:53Speaker 4: What did you do?
- 1:07:53Speaker 1: Toss my back out down there? Man?
- 1:07:55Speaker 10: Jeez, I don't know. You know, I'm an athlete. Man,
- 1:07:57Speaker 10: things sometimes don't work properly.
- 1:07:59Speaker 1: You are now?
- 1:08:01Speaker 7: You are?
- 1:08:01Speaker 4: Now?
- 1:08:01Speaker 1: I went and saw you know what.
- 1:08:02Speaker 10: I am so freaking old that I now have a
- 1:08:05Speaker 10: chiropractor in ki Hey, how about that? I know exactly
- 1:08:07Speaker 10: where to go. Guy named doctor Ladder. He was amazing,
- 1:08:10Speaker 10: got me back in shape so I could be on
- 1:08:12Speaker 10: the golf course the next day. Without him, I would
- 1:08:15Speaker 10: have been screwed. So you're ever in the key? Hey,
- 1:08:17Speaker 10: why leya area and need an adjustment? Go see my boy,
- 1:08:20Speaker 10: doctor Ladder. He is great at what he does.
- 1:08:23Speaker 1: Wow. Yes, yes, you are really a big deal when
- 1:08:25Speaker 1: you have a chiropractor in Hawaii. Do you have one
- 1:08:29Speaker 1: here in Des Moines?
- 1:08:30Speaker 10: Yeah, doctor Bodele, Doctor Bodele, Greenview Drive, Doctor Bodle him.
- 1:08:36Speaker 1: Yesterday, did you play any golf? I played not well,
- 1:08:39Speaker 1: but I played okay? Y well, playing not well in
- 1:08:42Speaker 1: Hawaii is better than not playing. I mean the weather
- 1:08:44Speaker 1: was great at rain for like twenty minutes the first
- 1:08:46Speaker 1: day we were there. Yeah, and then that was it. Hey,
- 1:08:48Speaker 1: how on a morb serious note? Anyway, good to be back.
- 1:08:51Speaker 1: How is man not really? How is Mali?
- 1:08:52Speaker 3: Uh?
- 1:08:53Speaker 1: Maui's fine? Lihina is not okay yet?
- 1:08:55Speaker 4: Yeah?
- 1:08:55Speaker 1: For those of us like needed, haven't been there, right,
- 1:08:57Speaker 1: have you men to Maui?
- 1:08:58Speaker 4: No?
- 1:08:58Speaker 1: Geez, I've been the big island. Oh jeez, we gotta change.
- 1:09:02Speaker 2: Yah, we gotta change that now is my spot.
- 1:09:04Speaker 1: But help me out here because most of us remember
- 1:09:07Speaker 1: the fire, but that was on like just a one
- 1:09:09Speaker 1: beach front area.
- 1:09:10Speaker 10: Of Whileya is on the south side, Lahina is more
- 1:09:13Speaker 10: on the north side of the island. If you're driving
- 1:09:15Speaker 10: from Wileya to Leahina and you're going the speed limit
- 1:09:18Speaker 10: and there's traffic, it'll take you about an hour to
- 1:09:20Speaker 10: get there, Okay, no traffic, you're going night. They rebuilt
- 1:09:23Speaker 10: it forty from what I've heard, not much, not much.
- 1:09:27Speaker 10: They're going to change a lot of things. They're not
- 1:09:28Speaker 10: going to let people build on the ocean, which is
- 1:09:30Speaker 10: gonna suck. Really, you know, Well, if you were ever
- 1:09:33Speaker 10: in Lina, which you never were, I don't know, jess
- 1:09:35Speaker 10: if you've been there or not, nothing was up to code,
- 1:09:38Speaker 10: nothing at all, Okay, and that's what made.
- 1:09:39Speaker 1: It so unique, right, that was part of the charm
- 1:09:43Speaker 1: of some of the issues.
- 1:09:44Speaker 10: Well, I mean, look, I mean wood can burn if
- 1:09:47Speaker 10: it's up to code or not up to code. I
- 1:09:49Speaker 10: guess I'm not a fire expert, but I do know that.
- 1:09:51Speaker 10: But I don't think that is the reason why Leahina
- 1:09:54Speaker 10: burned down. I do think that when you're sitting at
- 1:09:56Speaker 10: Chemo's restaurant, which is no longer there, and you're looking
- 1:09:59Speaker 10: through cracks on the floor and seeing seawater splash up
- 1:10:03Speaker 10: on your feet and crabs walking around.
- 1:10:05Speaker 1: Yeah that's part of the No, that was that charm.
- 1:10:08Speaker 10: Yeah, absolutely part of the charm because you're sitting in
- 1:10:11Speaker 10: buildings that probably were built eighty ninety years ago, back
- 1:10:15Speaker 10: when it was a whaling village, and now all that
- 1:10:16Speaker 10: stuff's gone. So we haven't been out there much since
- 1:10:19Speaker 10: the fire, obviously, but yeah, Wailea is our spot. We
- 1:10:22Speaker 10: love it out there. But that's that's not Lina at all,
- 1:10:25Speaker 10: not even close. All right, all right, yeah, but the
- 1:10:27Speaker 10: bad way but outside you're back. I'm ready to come
- 1:10:30Speaker 10: back and carry the radio station again. Well congratulations, by
- 1:10:38Speaker 10: the way.
- 1:10:39Speaker 1: I'm not sure how we got by without you for
- 1:10:40Speaker 1: a couple of weeks.
- 1:10:41Speaker 10: It's incredible. Man, had phone calls. I had to tell
- 1:10:44Speaker 10: rich Moore to stop bothering me. I'm just just let
- 1:10:47Speaker 10: me know what you need when I get home and take.
- 1:10:49Speaker 4: Care of it her.
- 1:10:50Speaker 1: You are the one guy that would actually answer phone calls.
- 1:10:52Speaker 1: You know what, I got to be honest with you.
- 1:10:54Speaker 10: I am actually super duper proud of myself and I
- 1:10:56Speaker 10: don't talk like that very often because it sounds douchey.
- 1:10:59Speaker 1: I really there's never much of a reason to be no, exactly.
- 1:11:02Speaker 1: I totally checked.
- 1:11:03Speaker 10: Out when I was down there for you, wasn't tweeting much,
- 1:11:06Speaker 10: wasn't instagramming much, hardly did anything. We had three or
- 1:11:10Speaker 10: four days where we didn't even leave the damn property.
- 1:11:13Speaker 10: Went to the eight o eight for door dash sub sandwiches,
- 1:11:17Speaker 10: sat in the deck, got smashed, had sandwiches, watched the sunset,
- 1:11:21Speaker 10: fell asleep.
- 1:11:23Speaker 1: Nothing. Whales, yes, many many whales, many many whales. Yes, yes.
- 1:11:28Speaker 1: And I got to be honest with you.
- 1:11:29Speaker 10: My wife had the idea of the decade because normally
- 1:11:31Speaker 10: when I go to Waileia, I bring my binocular so
- 1:11:34Speaker 10: I can see the whales in the in the ocean, obviously,
- 1:11:36Speaker 10: as opposed to on the on the hillside. I'm glad,
- 1:11:40Speaker 10: I said, ocean hills, you really known where the whales were? Weird,
- 1:11:43Speaker 10: And so I forgot my binox and she's like, why
- 1:11:46Speaker 10: don't you just use your laser from your golf bag.
- 1:11:52Speaker 1: That's a great idea.
- 1:11:53Speaker 10: So I pulled that out, and I can tell you
- 1:11:54Speaker 10: exactly where they are and how far away they are,
- 1:11:56Speaker 10: and what the slope is.
- 1:12:00Speaker 1: Four drivers and in a pitching it's not a laser
- 1:12:03Speaker 1: that shoots a laser.
- 1:12:05Speaker 2: That's not what it is.
- 1:12:06Speaker 10: That's not I'm becoming you know what a golf laser is? Yeah, yeah,
- 1:12:09Speaker 10: all right, just making sure, like does he think I'm like,
- 1:12:12Speaker 10: you know, throwing lasers.
- 1:12:13Speaker 1: Up in the sky. Int you invited him to your
- 1:12:16Speaker 1: golf club. I thought he was a golfer. He wasn't
- 1:12:18Speaker 1: the one that was licking his finger testing the wind
- 1:12:20Speaker 1: like Benton was.
- 1:12:21Speaker 4: That was him.
- 1:12:22Speaker 10: Is this showing up with a T shirt like Jackson belt? Sorry, sir,
- 1:12:28Speaker 10: you have to wear a colored shirt here?
- 1:12:30Speaker 4: What stupid?
- 1:12:31Speaker 1: When he got mad about that? Jackson Jackson got mad?
- 1:12:35Speaker 1: That was the highlight. That was maybe my highlight of it.
- 1:12:37Speaker 1: That was fun and that great job, and that you
- 1:12:39Speaker 1: had broadcast last night.
- 1:12:41Speaker 4: Thank you.
- 1:12:41Speaker 10: Maybe they should have you on more often. Pick Winever Carolina.
- 1:12:44Speaker 10: Geez man, I think I ended up one in five.
- 1:12:46Speaker 10: Maybe that's the problem. That was funny, but the problem
- 1:12:49Speaker 10: is really Foresling. Get him out of there, Get the
- 1:12:52Speaker 10: old man out. Let the young buck take over. Although
- 1:12:54Speaker 10: you're probably the same age as John and he's older
- 1:12:56Speaker 10: than me. Thank god, I'm sure about that.
- 1:12:58Speaker 4: I am sure.
- 1:12:59Speaker 1: How many months forty eight? I think, oh god, what
- 1:13:05Speaker 1: do you coming up? To in your triumphant return.
- 1:13:07Speaker 10: Well, I always say the first day after a long
- 1:13:09Speaker 10: break is like a preseason game in the NFL. Man,
- 1:13:11Speaker 10: just give me a couple of quarters to kind of
- 1:13:13Speaker 10: figure it out, because I'll come out at three o'clock.
- 1:13:16Speaker 1: I have no idea what you're doing. They're used to
- 1:13:18Speaker 1: that because one of the three just happened totally. Leanne
- 1:13:20Speaker 1: Lambert will join us. Great day to have him on.
- 1:13:22Speaker 10: Right after the big win over Carolina last night. John
- 1:13:25Speaker 10: Wilner is on today, Big Smooth. Sam Perkins on the show.
- 1:13:28Speaker 1: He was in town. Nope, not today, he's clean.
- 1:13:31Speaker 10: Not today is good. He was in town with debtlaf
- 1:13:33Speaker 10: on Saturday. So we'll talk about that little fun with audio.
- 1:13:35Speaker 10: And then your buddy Brian Schmetzer from the Sounders FC
- 1:13:38Speaker 10: five forty five tonight.
- 1:13:40Speaker 1: Is he gonna yell at Jackson Bundy?
- 1:13:41Speaker 4: Thank god?
- 1:13:41Speaker 1: I hope so, I hope?
- 1:13:43Speaker 4: All right?
- 1:13:43Speaker 1: Yea for the mild mannered and marginally objectionable Inverness, this
- 1:13:48Speaker 1: is paddle Day saying so long everyone,