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Furness Show 3-16: NBA Expansion News, Mollywhop Monday, Daily Power Play · The Ian Furness Show

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  Speaker 1: All right, I want to get into this.
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  Speaker 2: We're gonna get right into it today and then two
• 0:04
  Speaker 2: o'clock we're gonna check in with Gary Parrish. And you're say,
• 0:07
  Speaker 2: wait a second, I thought you're doing bracketology tomorrow.
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  Speaker 3: I am.
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  Speaker 2: We are from still call me Casino, Hotel and Casino.
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  Speaker 2: Tomorrow we're doing one to three. We'll have our bracketology
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  Speaker 2: show from one to two tomorrow. It'll be if you
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  Speaker 2: are filling out a bracket, And as I told Mark
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  Speaker 2: a moment ago, you can.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody's allowed to.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, we want you to go to nine three
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  Speaker 2: three KJR dot com and film one out there on
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  Speaker 2: our site for free, along with whatever else you may do.
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  Speaker 2: I think I made my point to MJ. Can't be
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  Speaker 2: a sports elitist. I don't know stop gatekeeping people. I fall.
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  Speaker 2: I follow the college basketball probably for ranking the station
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  Speaker 2: Mark one, Dick and me are probably tied for two,
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  Speaker 2: and then there's a pretty significant drop off. Oh yeah,
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  Speaker 2: and I watch a lot of college basketball. I can't
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  Speaker 2: tell you every coach and every player. I can tell
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  Speaker 2: you what teams do. Ask me what a team does.
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  Speaker 2: I can tell you what they do? Well, maybe, but
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  Speaker 2: not all set sixty eight of them fill it out.
• 1:02
  Speaker 2: We'll do that tomorrow with Parish, and he's great. I
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  Speaker 2: heard eron Tory's on earlier with Mark, you did a
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  Speaker 2: nice job. I'll point out one thing with with erin
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  Speaker 2: torries the whole thing with god ZAGAZUK is missing their
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  Speaker 2: second best player. Like I know, we want to kill
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  Speaker 2: the Zags. And trust me, I'm at the top of
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  Speaker 2: the list and wanting to kill the Zags. I have
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  Speaker 2: no problem doing that. I think they grid defensive team
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  Speaker 2: hard to kind of smash these guys right now with
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  Speaker 2: the fact they're missing Huff still so, but we'll get
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  Speaker 2: to that with with Parish tomorrow. I did talk to
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  Speaker 2: Perish today. We taped something earlier real quick with him
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  Speaker 2: because he lives in Memphis, works in Memphis as Sports Radom.
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  Speaker 2: About seventy five percent of his daily show that he
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  Speaker 2: does there, not just the network stuff he does for CBS,
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  Speaker 2: is on the NBA, right, So I I asked him
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  Speaker 2: today about the state of the NBA, what we should
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  Speaker 2: expect in two years.
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  Speaker 1: Why uh Shams.
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  Speaker 2: Sharania Sharania, I guess I better get to know this
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  Speaker 2: guy's name. He's the end that took over for WOJ
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  Speaker 2: when Woj went back to the college ranks to run
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  Speaker 2: a basketball program in is alma Mater Shams This morning
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  Speaker 2: on Get Up on ESPN.
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  Speaker 4: The NBA will hold a vote next week at the
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  Speaker 4: Board of Governor's meetings on March twenty fourth and twenty
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  Speaker 4: five to allow the league to go explore two new
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  Speaker 4: expansion teams exclusively in Las Vegas and Seattle. And so
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  Speaker 4: these two teams would be targeted for the twenty twenty
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  Speaker 4: eight twenty nine season. And there is momentum within stakeholders
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  Speaker 4: here to try to go out there and see what
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  Speaker 4: is the market here and what could those proposals look like,
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  Speaker 4: because industry executives tell me that you're looking at somewhere
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  Speaker 4: between seven to ten billion dollars per team for Seattle
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  Speaker 4: and Las Vegas. And so this first step right now,
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  Speaker 4: this first vote is looked at as a formality. There
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  Speaker 4: is momentum for the owners around the NBA to approve
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  Speaker 4: this vote to go allow the league to go see
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  Speaker 4: what those bids.
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  Speaker 3: Could look like.
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  Speaker 4: This is just the first of a multi step process.
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  Speaker 4: So you go out there, you give permission the league
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  Speaker 4: to go explore, You get the bids, and then depending
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  Speaker 4: on if it reaches the threshold, then you have a
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  Speaker 4: final vote later in twenty twenty six to approve the
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  Speaker 4: move to thirty two NBA teams. And so there is
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  Speaker 4: a growing majority of owners right now, I'm told that
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  Speaker 4: our supportive expansion. You think about Seattle in Las Vegas,
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  Speaker 4: those are two big markets in the NHL in your
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  Speaker 4: world in the NFL, and so could those two teams
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  Speaker 4: immediately emerge as top revenue generators. So that's what we're
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  Speaker 4: going to see play out over twenty twenty six.
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  Speaker 2: And he wrote a story at ESPN dot com. Did
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  Speaker 2: Shams how you say it again? I think it's actually
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  Speaker 2: Shams Shams hew S.
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  Speaker 5: I'm Shirania.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, that guy wrote a wrote a store at ESPN
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  Speaker 2: dot com that I read, and then the dates coming
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  Speaker 2: out as twenty twenty eight starting in follow twenty twenty eight,
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  Speaker 2: so two and a half years from now, So not
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  Speaker 2: a surprise. We've been here rumblings behind the scenes for
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  Speaker 2: a long time. He said something in there. He actually
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  Speaker 2: talked out of both sides of his mouth a little
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  Speaker 2: bit in there to gauge the interest. Okay, shut up
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  Speaker 2: this and that we know what the price is. We
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  Speaker 2: do know that it would be lucrative. Sure, you're adding
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  Speaker 2: two markets that help you, you know, like markets like
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  Speaker 2: Gary's in Memphis, markets like Salt Lake, small market teams
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  Speaker 2: New Orleans, they don't help you. Now, Media Market twelve
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  Speaker 2: helps you. And that's what we are. God, I wish
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  Speaker 2: we had had ownership in place and they could have
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  Speaker 2: gone and fought Idiot and Olympia over the state income
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  Speaker 2: tax thing going on, because that's not going to be
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  Speaker 2: good for us. John Shauder talked about that at the
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  Speaker 2: Sports Star Awards thing on Friday. It's not going to
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  Speaker 2: help us get good players here for any sport anyway.
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  Speaker 2: That aside seven, we've been heard in seven to eight million.
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  Speaker 2: That's fine. That's the billion. I should billion billion with
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  Speaker 2: a B. It feels very much like a formality. We're
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  Speaker 2: going to have a vote to have a vote. We're
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  Speaker 2: having a meeting to set up another meeting. That's what
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  Speaker 2: we're doing. Anybody in the corporate world, you guys are
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  Speaker 2: probably sitting and going, God, yeah, I had three of
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  Speaker 2: those today, Like really, we had a meeting to set
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  Speaker 2: up another meeting to have a meeting. We had a
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  Speaker 2: meeting for a meeting. I know, I gotta be really
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  Speaker 2: careful what I say. But I've Yes, there's a lot
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  Speaker 2: of places that I know well that have meetings to
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  Speaker 2: set up meetings.
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  Speaker 1: Not here, actually not here.
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  Speaker 3: I like it.
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  Speaker 2: We don't have a lot of meetings. Yeah, purple sheet,
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  Speaker 2: we all like no meeting. Yes, please don't take that. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: they're having a meeting to set up a meeting. They're
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  Speaker 2: having a vote to set up another vote. Yeah, they
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  Speaker 2: got to convince a couple owners because they needed twenty
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  Speaker 2: three votes, as he said in the story, twenty three
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  Speaker 2: out of thirty two to go ahead with expansion again
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  Speaker 2: in two and a half years time. Follow twenty twenty eight,
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  Speaker 2: I heard Chris Kidd and I think just my quick
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  Speaker 2: question to everybody is this, and we'll get text four
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  Speaker 2: send a talk back in go to the red microphone
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  Speaker 2: iHeartRadio app Red Micron nine three point three KTERFM and
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  Speaker 2: you can speak in there. I think Chris kids spoke
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  Speaker 2: for a lot of people when I heard him say
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  Speaker 2: this today on i MV in the midday, and he
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  Speaker 2: basically to paraphrase what Chris said. And this is I'm
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  Speaker 2: telling you right now. If I just talked about the
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  Speaker 2: rankings of college basketball fans here in our station, if
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  Speaker 2: I'm ranking NBA fans, it's Chris Kidd and everyone else comes.
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  Speaker 2: Everyone else is a distant second, Yes, like a distant second.
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  Speaker 2: This dude loves the NBA. Yeah, it's like my kid
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  Speaker 2: same keepers a little younger than Chris, but like that demo. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: loves the NBA. And Chris like, yeah, just let me
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  Speaker 2: know when it happens. The exhaustion level of people in
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  Speaker 2: this market, rightfully so, about being teased for the NBA
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  Speaker 2: is to the point now where a lot of folks
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  Speaker 2: are just like whatever, I'm gonna tell you this. Super
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  Speaker 2: Bowl Championships one and two were massive, the NHL getting
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  Speaker 2: awarded here, actually not before the NHL got a word here.
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  Speaker 2: The could drive on that March day. It was March sixteenth, right,
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  Speaker 2: something like that. Two thousand and nineteen twenty eighteen was incredible.
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  Speaker 2: Thirty two thousand tickets the day the NBA announcements are
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  Speaker 2: coming back to Seattle. Will be the biggest thing that
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  Speaker 2: we've seen probably in the last maybe ever in sports
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  Speaker 2: here in this market. Number two, unfortunately, is probably when
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  Speaker 2: they left. Yeah, it will be a massive, massive thing,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm with a lot of people it's going to happen.
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  Speaker 2: I don't have any doubt it's going to happen in
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty eight. I believe that. But I want to
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  Speaker 2: know how you guys feel about this. There's a lot
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  Speaker 2: of people that are still turned off by it now.
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  Speaker 2: I also think it's like I've always called it sports porn.
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  Speaker 2: You say you hate the NBA, you still watch it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I was that guy for a long time. I stopped.
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  Speaker 1: Don't care about don't care about it. Just don't care.
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  Speaker 2: We've been joking about refuse to talk on this for
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  Speaker 2: a while. That's where I'm at. But I want to
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  Speaker 2: get your thoughts on that. We'll get a lot more
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  Speaker 2: into it coming up a two o'clock today, four nine
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  Speaker 2: I like it. I like it, And yes, Chris, you're
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  Speaker 3: Well, I think I think it's a computer issue.
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  Speaker 1: I think we have a.
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  Speaker 3: Operator issue and a lot smarter than all of us.
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  Speaker 3: Let's be honest.
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  Speaker 2: Something I'm gonna just say it has to do with
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  Speaker 2: my heart software. Who said that out loud? Did somebody
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  Speaker 2: say that? Who said that? I think that was MJ
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  Speaker 2: just said that.
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  Speaker 1: I think J just threw the company ut of the bus.
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  Speaker 2: It couldn't have been and there's no way it was
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  Speaker 2: being all right, boy, hey, listen before we get to baseball,
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  Speaker 2: you guys are too what. I love talking you guys
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  Speaker 2: have you're here. Your guys are from here, Chris and Nate.
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  Speaker 2: You guys are Seattle guys. It's kind of why we
• 11:54
  Speaker 2: started this whole thing. I mean, your Mariner fans through
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  Speaker 2: and through, but you're Seattle guys. News coming out today
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  Speaker 2: about the Sonics. There's a couple trains of the schools
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  Speaker 2: of thought. One is the Chris kid who loves the NBA.
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  Speaker 2: He's like, yeah, man, whenever, let me know when they
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  Speaker 2: come Like he's just kind of I think worn out
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  Speaker 2: with stories that they're coming back. Those others are like cool,
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  Speaker 2: I think we finally see some tangible progress. Chris, what
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  Speaker 2: do you think? What's your thoughts? And to hear the
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  Speaker 2: ESPN story, they're having to vote to have another vote,
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  Speaker 2: but it looks like twenty twenty eight might be the
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  Speaker 2: target date.
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  Speaker 8: I mean, you and I have had similar thoughts on this,
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  Speaker 8: where we've kind of thought Seattle has just been used
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  Speaker 8: for a long time, waiting for the ultimate punishment for
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  Speaker 8: teams that don't vote for a new stadium is like, hey,
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  Speaker 8: we'll threaten to move to Seattle.
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  Speaker 3: It feels real.
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  Speaker 8: It finally feels a little bit real, and I am
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  Speaker 8: I can't say that I've paid as much attention to
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  Speaker 8: the NBA as I used to, but the Sonics were
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  Speaker 8: my favorite team and it wasn't even close Like Vincent,
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  Speaker 8: ask you and Michael Cage.
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  Speaker 3: And those guys were who I grew up watching.
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  Speaker 8: And it's a wonderful thing to get closer. I'm still
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  Speaker 8: going to be skeptical until it happens, but I need
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  Speaker 8: the NBA back in my life. The fact that there
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  Speaker 8: are so many unbelievable players that I have not got
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  Speaker 8: to watch play in Seattle Washington breaks my heart and
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  Speaker 8: I need the NBA I understand everybody who's like I
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  Speaker 8: don't pay attention to it. We've had our heartbroken and
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  Speaker 8: all that stuff. You're justified in your opinion. But I
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  Speaker 8: need the NBA. I need it. I need us to
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  Speaker 8: be a for sport Town. And today's a step closer.
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  Speaker 8: And that's really cool.
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  Speaker 2: I you know, the cool thing about the being a
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  Speaker 2: Sonic fan before I get to date is that every
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  Speaker 2: one of us has a different generation of players that
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  Speaker 2: we will just reference. You just do a Vincent ask
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  Speaker 2: you and for that, you and the gold Star today, Sir.
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  Speaker 1: Nathan.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, I guess if we're throwing out at references. I
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  Speaker 7: am the guy that Chris gave permission to exist, So Chris,
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  Speaker 7: I appreciate it. I've got more of the bulldog Frank
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  Speaker 7: Prakowski mindset going on here, where I'm stubborn and said
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  Speaker 7: in my ways, you know what, man like I, The
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  Speaker 7: last thing that I would want to do is try
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  Speaker 7: to I leave my joy thieving for the Seattle Marriers.
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  Speaker 7: When it comes to other things, I like to let
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  Speaker 7: people have fun and have a great time.
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  Speaker 3: And if you're thrilled.
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  Speaker 7: About the idea of the NBA coming back, I'll be
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  Speaker 7: thrilled for the region for people I care about. The
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  Speaker 7: Sonics were also my favorite team growing up in the nineties.
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  Speaker 7: Child Core childhood memories is listening to Kevin Collaboro call
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  Speaker 7: games while I'm in my driveway, while I'm shooting buckets,
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  Speaker 7: skipping out on baseball practice so that I can watch
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  Speaker 7: the nineteen ninety six Western Conference Finals against the Utah Jazz.
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  Speaker 7: Those are foundational experiences for me. I am over them.
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  Speaker 7: I'm over being used as a pond by the NBA.
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  Speaker 7: Twenty years is way too long. This is one of
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  Speaker 7: the crown jewel cities in the entire league, and they
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  Speaker 7: ripped us away for no good reason. Because David's turn
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  Speaker 7: got his feelings hurt, and because Clay Bennett is a
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  Speaker 7: piece of trash and they should have been back the
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  Speaker 7: second that they left, and the fact that they let
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  Speaker 7: it drag on for it, I think exactly the reasons
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  Speaker 7: you guys talked about that we were being used as
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  Speaker 7: a pond. These are really bad taste in my mouth,
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  Speaker 7: so I would never say that, like, I'm not going
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  Speaker 7: to be a son Ex fan. If they come back,
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  Speaker 7: I'll be very happy to have basketball back in the city.
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  Speaker 7: But it's gonna I'm not just gonna throw myself back
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  Speaker 7: in it like they were never there, like they never left.
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  Speaker 7: My kids grew up without the NBA, and I'm never
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  Speaker 7: going to get that back. That's gone forever, that experience
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  Speaker 7: is dead. So I'm not quite ready to forgive yet.
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  Speaker 7: And and maybe when it's actually real and they actually
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  Speaker 7: do it, I'll change And I'm like, that's the thing.
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  Speaker 7: I would never say, I'm never going to do something again.
• 15:32
  Speaker 7: But right now I'm still just kind of pissed off man,
• 15:35
  Speaker 7: and I'm tired of being used as their leverage play.
• 15:37
  Speaker 2: I think you, I think you speak for a lot
• 15:39
  Speaker 2: of people. I think you speak for a lot of
• 15:41
  Speaker 2: people in this market, and there's a lot of hurt feelings,
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: and there's a lot of people that I have a
• 15:47
  Speaker 2: same feelings.
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: By the way, about like the fact that you know,
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: I've got a kid.
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: Who's a huge basketball fan, huge and was really good
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: high school an AU basketball player, and loves a sport
• 15:58
  Speaker 2: and still watches it today, but they watch it in
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: a different way. They're not watching Kevin Claverero listening on
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: the radio. They're watching you know, YouTube clips and stuff
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: like that. But I'll be happy for him if it
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: comes back, even if he's you know, well passed growing
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: the growing up stages. I think Chris, you, I think
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: we're right though. I think this does feel real. I
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: think this does feel little different than some of the
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: other stuff we've heard. So we'll get to that later.
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: By the way, with all of you guys on two
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: o'clock hour, we'll listen to your talkbacks as well on
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: the iHeartRadio app in the red microphone. All right, Lely,
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: in total transparency, I'm not going to be the sports
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: radio guy that says, and I told these guys this earlier,
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: that says, man, what a game last night?
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: That was unreal.
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: You know you said the Dominican rule. Could you believe
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: what happened? I didn't see it. We had a hockey game,
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: go crack, and we'll get to them later. Get a
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: nice win over Florida. I did watch the last pitch
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: with some of the off ice officials. They were holding
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: the phone in the press box hallway. We're looking at it.
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: Let me let me start just with that, Chris. That
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: wasn't just one bad strike call. It was too Did it?
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: Did it take anything away from the win the tournament?
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: I know some people, this is find a good thing.
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: Some people say yes, some people say no, what was
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: your read on that?
• 17:04
  Speaker 8: A lot of people were really mad. Now I will
• 17:07
  Speaker 8: say this because of how I do social media. Now
• 17:10
  Speaker 8: I'm with a lot of like minded folks, so I
• 17:12
  Speaker 8: don't have a lot of you know, a wide variety
• 17:16
  Speaker 8: of people talking to me. But I will say this,
• 17:19
  Speaker 8: it's pathetic, and it's been pathetic all tournament.
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: They have been just awful, and it's just a reminder.
• 17:26
  Speaker 8: Of how silly it is that we rely on these
• 17:29
  Speaker 8: guys to call balls and strikes right now.
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: It's too hard. It's just too hard.
• 17:32
  Speaker 8: And you know, my buddy Mike Petrellio pointed out they
• 17:37
  Speaker 8: probably would have ran out of challenges because of how
• 17:39
  Speaker 8: bad the strike zone was over those nine innings, so
• 17:42
  Speaker 8: maybe they wouldn't have challenges.
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: Well, that's a pretty freaking stupid.
• 17:46
  Speaker 8: System if you can run out of challenges simply because
• 17:49
  Speaker 8: the umpire is so bad that they have to keep
• 17:51
  Speaker 8: using these challenges.
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 17:53
  Speaker 8: No, it definitely hurt because the strike call on Soto
• 17:57
  Speaker 8: it wasn't a clear strike, but the strike colling Prodomo
• 18:00
  Speaker 8: to end the game is one of the worst balls
• 18:02
  Speaker 8: and strikes I have seen in a long time, even
• 18:05
  Speaker 8: when you don't consider how high leverage that situation was.
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: With a runner on second base who just happened to
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: be Julio.
• 18:11
  Speaker 8: Roy Driganz by the way, draws a really nice walk
• 18:13
  Speaker 8: against Mason Miller. It did it dampered it. It dampered
• 18:17
  Speaker 8: it too, just because it was a fairly boring game
• 18:19
  Speaker 8: outside of it. Two solo home runs for the US,
• 18:22
  Speaker 8: one solo homer for the Dominican Republic, some really good pitching,
• 18:25
  Speaker 8: you know, and that's fun to watch. But yeah, it
• 18:27
  Speaker 8: definitely left a sour note that that game ended instead
• 18:30
  Speaker 8: of a great play. By the way, Julio's catch was
• 18:33
  Speaker 8: just absolutely phenomenal. I assume everyone saw the replay of that. Yeah,
• 18:39
  Speaker 8: he might be a center fielder, Nathan. It is just
• 18:42
  Speaker 8: crazy to see a game like that end. Knowing we
• 18:46
  Speaker 8: have the technology, knowing we have the ability to be better,
• 18:49
  Speaker 8: and if I hear another word about the human element,
• 18:52
  Speaker 8: I might show you really how human I am.
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: We'll get off the zoom.
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: Let's know, all right, Yeah, I agree with all of that.
• 19:03
  Speaker 7: I've been a slow adopter of the ABS concept and
• 19:06
  Speaker 7: feel like I've been one of the more died in
• 19:07
  Speaker 7: the wold Umpire defenders. But games like last night really
• 19:10
  Speaker 7: illustrate if they do this system the way that they're
• 19:13
  Speaker 7: going to do it, where it takes so little time
• 19:15
  Speaker 7: for the review, just like in a tennis review, it's
• 19:18
  Speaker 7: such an improvement for the sport. It would have helped
• 19:19
  Speaker 7: last night. We're talking about the human element I do
• 19:22
  Speaker 7: think lost in the controversy there. We'd be remiss if
• 19:26
  Speaker 7: we didn't at least acknowledge the human element of Fernando
• 19:29
  Speaker 7: Tatisse getting thrown out running to third for absolutely no reason,
• 19:32
  Speaker 7: not going from first to third on a play where
• 19:34
  Speaker 7: he clearly could have made it. Austin Wells running the
• 19:37
  Speaker 7: bases slower than a tortoise with a piano on his back,
• 19:40
  Speaker 7: and Brando Toutis and could tell Marte both striking out
• 19:43
  Speaker 7: with runners on second and third and one out. So
• 19:46
  Speaker 7: it's unfortunate that it ended on such an egregiously blown strike.
• 19:49
  Speaker 7: But I think Albert Pooles was right in his postgame
• 19:52
  Speaker 7: comments that you cannot dwell on that the dr had
• 19:56
  Speaker 7: so many opportunities to make that happen and to blow
• 19:58
  Speaker 7: that game open, and they didn't capitalize, And that's baseball.
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: I think it is.
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: I think the bigger picture is that it does hammer
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: home that we're going to see an improvement in Major
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: League Baseball this year, right, like, and it's and there's
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: there's it's like just a and I think the tennis
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: analogy is actually got in front of that, like get
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: it right and get it right quick, Like, here's the problem.
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: We're heading into March madness. And I love March madness.
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: I love I love especially the first four days. I
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: just love it. But my god, guys, you know what's
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: going to happen the final two minutes of right, Chris, Yeah,
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: the last two minutes of every basketball game that's close.
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: We'll take thirty minutes. It just was at least it's right.
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: And it's gonna we're gonna review the out of bounds call, uh,
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: I mean, and we're gonna see the same Charles Barkley
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: what's his face we do the commercial with. We'll see
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: the same ones over and over again, the same eight commercials.
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: And it's like in over reviews. Reviews don't need to
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: take that long. And baseball seems to have it right
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: at least what we've seen so far in spring trending, Right, guys,
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: It feels like they've got it right. It's quick.
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's super fast.
• 21:03
  Speaker 8: By the way, I believe Northern Iowa the most for this,
• 21:05
  Speaker 8: because they blew that like thirteen point lead with like
• 21:08
  Speaker 8: a minute and a half. So every team now thinks
• 21:11
  Speaker 8: they can foul and get into position to win those games.
• 21:13
  Speaker 8: Thanks a lot, you stupid Mountain for whatever conference you're in. Yeah,
• 21:18
  Speaker 8: it's gone quick, it's fast. It's it doesn't take nearly
• 21:22
  Speaker 8: as much time as I think people thought it would,
• 21:24
  Speaker 8: and it it doesn't break up the pace of play,
• 21:26
  Speaker 8: like it's a quick tap on the head to show
• 21:29
  Speaker 8: the pitch move on, so on and so forth, Like
• 21:32
  Speaker 8: it really doesn't break up the pace of baseball at all.
• 21:36
  Speaker 8: I think it should just be fully automated. But I'll
• 21:38
  Speaker 8: take this over what we have or what we had
• 21:42
  Speaker 8: like every day of the week.
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: It probably takes less time than it did for before
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: they change the rules three or two or three years ago,
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: when guys would step out of the box and readjust
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: every piece of armor they had on their body. Right,
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: So mar Garcia, yeah, exactly, Nathan. Do you think just
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: that the WBS overall, has it been good for baseball? WBC,
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: I should say.
• 22:00
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I think it's been fantastic. I mean, we had
• 22:02
  Speaker 7: my son and I had appointment viewing for a baseball
• 22:05
  Speaker 7: game on March fifteenth last night, which you're never gonna
• 22:10
  Speaker 7: get that. I think spring training is fun for exactly
• 22:13
  Speaker 7: seventy two hours and then it's time for the regular
• 22:15
  Speaker 7: season to go. So we talked in a previous show
• 22:19
  Speaker 7: that there's probably a better time for competitive purposes for
• 22:22
  Speaker 7: this tournament to be played. But man, I don't know
• 22:25
  Speaker 7: if if you're able to watch this tournament regularly, especially
• 22:29
  Speaker 7: especially and this is not an anti American statement, but
• 22:32
  Speaker 7: if you're able to watch the non American games, the
• 22:36
  Speaker 7: atmosphere and the juice in these games is so real
• 22:40
  Speaker 7: and it's so unlike anything that you get that you
• 22:42
  Speaker 7: can't have in a one hundred and sixty two game schedule.
• 22:45
  Speaker 7: This is not a shot at Major League Baseball. Just
• 22:47
  Speaker 7: the nature of a knockout tournament, a short form tournament
• 22:50
  Speaker 7: like this leads to drama like we experienced in the
• 22:54
  Speaker 7: playoffs last years. As Mariner fans, you cannot replicate that
• 22:58
  Speaker 7: with regular season baseball. I have it in a national sense,
• 23:02
  Speaker 7: with national pride on the line. It's so fun, man,
• 23:05
  Speaker 7: it's just such a fun experience. I think it's such
• 23:08
  Speaker 7: a cool thing. It's got quirks, it needs to be refined.
• 23:12
  Speaker 7: We saw they need to put in abs and maybe
• 23:15
  Speaker 7: they could find a better time, But I just think
• 23:17
  Speaker 7: it's a frickin awesome experienced.
• 23:20
  Speaker 8: You agree, yeah, totally. It's this is fun and you
• 23:23
  Speaker 8: see how much you know. I'm not saying that the
• 23:26
  Speaker 8: United States doesn't care about this. They would have been
• 23:28
  Speaker 8: eliminated a long time ago if they just flat out
• 23:30
  Speaker 8: didn't care about this, And you wouldn't see Aaron Judge
• 23:33
  Speaker 8: and Big Dumper and these guys playing in this if
• 23:34
  Speaker 8: they didn't care.
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: But it does mean more to some of these countries.
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: You saw it like that crowd was.
• 23:40
  Speaker 8: A thousand percent behind uh, the Dominican Republic in Miami,
• 23:44
  Speaker 8: and you will see the same thing for Venezuela against Italy.
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: Those crowds are just going to be absolutely bonkers.
• 23:50
  Speaker 8: I brought it up a few times now, but the
• 23:52
  Speaker 8: most fun I've ever had in a baseball game is
• 23:54
  Speaker 8: Dominican Republic versus Puerto Rico in twenty seventeen, just because
• 23:58
  Speaker 8: that passion cannot be Replica and Nathan hit the nail
• 24:01
  Speaker 8: on the head.
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: You can't replicate this in the regular season.
• 24:03
  Speaker 8: It's it has to be in this type of tournament
• 24:06
  Speaker 8: format and it has to be spread out because it
• 24:08
  Speaker 8: would lose a little bit of its luster. But it's
• 24:11
  Speaker 8: beyond a good thing for baseball to see all of
• 24:13
  Speaker 8: this happening.
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's a simple thing. It's just to
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: do it. Like, you know, hockey's got a decent model
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: for it. I don't know about soccer, but I know
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: hockey's got a decent model. It's it's like World Junior
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: Championships and so forth, like there's an X number of
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: teams to get in, Like you don't need to have
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: everybody in, like it it needs four nations.
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: Last year hockey was perfect. There were best four teams.
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: Simple. I mean number four was actually should have been Russia,
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: but we all know there's issues there. But that's what
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: it is. Like, give me four teams, give me the
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: four fast four or five. Maybe maybe in baseball it's six.
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: Maybe it's just six, whatever it would be. And you
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: could do that over the court. I saw I think
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: who was it Rosenthal or somebody had had a deal. Oh,
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: you could just you know, play the do the home
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: run derby, play the All Star Game, and then have
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: the no no, get rid of the stupid home run derby,
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: get rid of the damn All Star Game, and just
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: do it the course of a week. Give these give
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: everybody else two weeks off, like it, take the break,
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: got the schedule down, one hundred and fifty four games,
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: whatever it is, it's very doable because what it just did,
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: what you guys just said, and it's what has it
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: has accomplished the goal people are into baseball in the
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: middle of March, like that's a good thing. Like that's
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: a really really good thing.
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: Real quick.
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: To wrap up my quick thoughts on the ABS, I
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: was kind of like Nathan like, kind of slow to change.
• 25:23
  Speaker 5: I'm old.
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: I like I like stuff.
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: Wha it used to be, sure, But talking to you
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: guys over the years, Chris especially like just the way
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: guys throw a ball now, the spin, the leverage, the ball,
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: ball movement. The human eye cannot as an umpire dick.
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: You know, It's not like Nolan Ryan throwing a fastball
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: straight down the middle.
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: It just isn't the same, exactly right.
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: And to have these guys expect them to make you know,
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: I think it's unfair to them to make to expect
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: them to call a perfect ball and strike. That's not
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: It's just it's not like umpires have gotten worse. You know,
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: they probably have better training than they ever had before.
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: But the ball, the game has changed. It's the NBA
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: is the same way. NBA has got a bunch of
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: guys that you know, look like like you like us
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: refereeing games. You know, you need to have played college
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: basketball that are six nine, that can run and see
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: the floor, and I'll remember how to play before I
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: let you guys go real quick, because of course next
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: week we'll have opening days coming up and all that,
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: and that's that's when we really kind of sink our
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: teeth into things. Chris, what are you looking for in
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: the final week of Peoria?
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: Just stay healthy, Please just stay healthy.
• 26:24
  Speaker 8: Let everybody play in bubble wrap and throw underhand if
• 26:29
  Speaker 8: they have to. That's the most important thing, is just
• 26:31
  Speaker 8: just let everybody.
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: Come out of Peoria as healthy as possible, so you get.
• 26:36
  Speaker 8: The very best roster for what I think is a
• 26:38
  Speaker 8: pretty big we'll talk about it next week, a pretty
• 26:40
  Speaker 8: big homestand to be open the year against two teams
• 26:43
  Speaker 8: that made the playoffs last year.
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: So just not a soft landing, thanks MLB. Not a
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: soft landing.
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah it's nice, Yeah it'll be fun. But yeah,
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: absolutely Nathan.
• 26:52
  Speaker 7: Playing that first place schedule, Thank you very much, MLB.
• 26:56
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 26:56
  Speaker 7: I want Bryce Miller to get healthy and get closer,
• 27:00
  Speaker 7: Like I don't think at this point he's going to
• 27:02
  Speaker 7: be a healthy for opening Day, but I want that
• 27:04
  Speaker 7: to be limited. I really don't like the fact that
• 27:07
  Speaker 7: he's now kind of zooming in on his second straight unhealthy,
• 27:11
  Speaker 7: injury riddled season. So the Mariners are fairly well situated
• 27:15
  Speaker 7: to handle something like that, but gosh, I just I
• 27:18
  Speaker 7: hope for the best for him. Otherwise, everything Chris said,
• 27:20
  Speaker 7: bubble wrap all that stuff. Maybe sign like a fringe swingman,
• 27:24
  Speaker 7: reliever guy that you can stash in Triple A just
• 27:26
  Speaker 7: in case bribably Brice Miller is not okay. But other
• 27:29
  Speaker 7: than that, I just want to push fast forward for
• 27:31
  Speaker 7: ten days, ten days, guy's all I want.
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: I know, let's go.
• 27:34
  Speaker 7: I want it to be ten days from now.
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: Then what I'll be doing in ten days, I'll be
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: actually have a hockey game that night, but so early,
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: which is nice. After the hockey game, watch a little baseball,
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: and then I'll be flipping on the old YouTube channel
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: and the postcast because the boys are back in town.
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: My favorite thing. I gave you about a thousand pump
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: ups on the Tide Dame Gonzalez podcast, the Locked On.
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: They invited me to do Locked on Mariners. Chris.
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: I was stunned. I don't know why, lets go, but
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: I did it and it.
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: Felt like I's probably not too happy with it.
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, as I heard on the postcast last year.
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, a lot of Chris Crawford and uh and
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: Andy and Andrews references.
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: But it's my favorite.
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: Now. You guys do a great job with it. It
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: makes it fun. I want, especially now with the scale
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: back television version of Mariner Baseball. I'm a big I'm
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: a big no matter what. I'm biased because I do
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: a post game show, but I want to hear what
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: happened and why it happened. I think that's good. You
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: guys did a great job at that. So Uh, all right, boys,
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: that's it, mile Wi go subscribe on YouTube. Uh and
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: we will talk. We will set this up for next week,
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: but it's how we get there. We'll have had all
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: kinds of March madness and games that have gone you know,
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: two and a half three hours because of Northern Iowa
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: challenging out of Alice call. I gotta get back on
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: Blue Sky and see Chris Crawford raving about that on
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: the old Blue Sky. So I think that's where he's
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: hanging out these days. So well, which it out, guys,
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: great stuff. I appreciate all the insight. That's Nathan Bishop,
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: that's Chris Crawford. Streamyard is indeed way better Chris. Yes,
• 29:06
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• 29:08
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  Speaker 2: you had? I thought a really good, strong opinion on something.
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  Speaker 2: the guy nobody has more passion for what he does
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  Speaker 2: in him and but we usually do about a half
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  Speaker 2: hour thirty five to forty minutes of the most post
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  Speaker 2: game show on TV. So usually I can get in
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  Speaker 2: the car, jump in the car, and right about then
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  Speaker 2: talking cracking starting. Yeah, and then I get a little more.
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  Speaker 2: You know, either you or al or whoever's with him
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  Speaker 2: sometimes Curtis whatever. Yep. And you had the point after
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  Speaker 2: the loss for straight loss, the one to call it out.
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  Speaker 2: You've got to break up the top line, Matty Veneer's
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  Speaker 2: Jordan Eberley and Jared McCann, and I think we all
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  Speaker 2: knew what we're thinking. It's not two of those guys,
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  Speaker 2: it's just one guy, right. McCann can't keep up. He's
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  Speaker 2: Kay Thompson. He's catching shoot guy, catch and shoot. That's
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  Speaker 2: nobody Steve Vich you it's Steve. If you're listening, that's you.
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to that's his And so he's right though, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: he's catching shoot guy. Right, can't skate at that level anymore.
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  Speaker 2: I think he's a little banged depth still. I don't
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  Speaker 2: think he's ever written healthy this year. He can shoot,
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  Speaker 2: he can rip it. Yeah, Bobby and McMahon finally makes
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  Speaker 2: his debut, the guy that got the trade dead line
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  Speaker 2: from Toronto.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't do much this weekend.
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  Speaker 2: Nah, three goals to assist five points in two games. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: my god. There's guys who's been playing in the top
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  Speaker 2: six all year. That haven't done that. Over the course
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  Speaker 2: of a month, he made a difference. Here's Lane Lambert
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  Speaker 2: after the game last night.
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  Speaker 6: That Bobby releases a puck. Well and you know that's
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  Speaker 6: a that's a goal scorers goal right.
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  Speaker 2: There, Lane, big offensive night. That's what it's simple, dude,
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  Speaker 2: rips it man, just absolutely rips it.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, that power play goal. Two power play goals. By
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  Speaker 9: the way, two of his three goals are on the
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  Speaker 9: power play.
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  Speaker 1: Oh and by the way, the penalty kill is perfect.
• 32:38
  Speaker 9: Asked Lane last night, like special teams matters, especially on
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  Speaker 9: this team. They asked Lane last night, what did you
• 32:44
  Speaker 9: like about the penalty kill? And he jokingly laughed and
• 32:46
  Speaker 9: was like he didn't give up any goals.
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  Speaker 2: That was great.
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  Speaker 1: He's got a little bit of a dry sense of hum.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm in on. Lane, got massive red ass
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  Speaker 1: and just his that's.
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: When you're winning, right, Yeah, he's now, he's good. Listen.
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  Speaker 2: Those are two big wins. They're back in the playoff
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  Speaker 2: position right now, but only by one point. Tomorrow's kind
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  Speaker 2: of hard. Tampa Bay rolls in here. They're good.
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  Speaker 1: Forty twenty one and four this.
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  Speaker 5: Year, probably at the Vesna winner on their team.
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  Speaker 1: No, they're not going to score five against vessel.
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  Speaker 2: have been dancing around and getting teased in so many
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  Speaker 2: that was the day after they left. In fact, that
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  Speaker 2: probably even include July second, two thousand and eight. Why
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  Speaker 2: to the bridge. It doesn't matter now, But we've been teased.
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  Speaker 2: waiting to see what happens. Chris Hansen's trying to build
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  Speaker 2: to happen for a variety of reasons, not just zoning,
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  Speaker 2: building and buy the Clippers down in La that that
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  Speaker 2: was his money. Guy Chris Hansen doesn't have the money.
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  Speaker 2: He really doesn't have the money. You see that's going
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  Speaker 2: to cost it. Now, then Kirina gets or then Kierana
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  Speaker 2: gets renovated, demolished actually and rebuilt, and it's called climate plageria.
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  Speaker 2: We got the NHL team here. The crack can have
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  Speaker 2: been a massive success off the ice. Hopefully on the
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  Speaker 2: ice will keep getting better and better and improving. But
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  Speaker 2: off the ice has been a massive success in a
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  Speaker 2: great second largest radio network, great host, pretty good host
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  Speaker 2: on the radio side, TV side. It leaves a lot
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  Speaker 2: to be desired. But no, they've been a great success
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  Speaker 2: off the ice, and on the ice are getting better
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  Speaker 2: and better. The building state of the art. We saw
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  Speaker 2: that last year. If you went to the tournament games,
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  Speaker 2: the March Madness games, they were sending sational it's a
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  Speaker 2: great basketball arena.
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  Speaker 5: Just feels like a basketball arena, it doesn't it.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's really hard to get a building that's
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  Speaker 2: great for both sports.
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  Speaker 1: I've said this for a long.
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  Speaker 2: Time when I went, when I got to Portland and
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  Speaker 2: was working or at the Modus Center forty one times
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  Speaker 2: a year covering the Blazers, and and I actually was
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  Speaker 2: doing that.
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  Speaker 1: It was part of what we had to do evern game.
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  Speaker 1: We were at every home.
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  Speaker 2: Game, and then worked there for years afterwards with Comcast
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  Speaker 2: Sports Net, the Moda Center, and they're going through their
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  Speaker 2: own thing down there with renovation and money and public
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: money and all.
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: This other stuff.
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: The Motor Center is a really good building, you know,
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: especially compared to how Key because it built the same
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: time as Key Arena was renovated. The Motas Center is
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: a better building. It was at least for hockey when
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: the Winterhawks played there, than it was for basketball. Basketball's
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: got some weird seating, like some flat seats behind the
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: baskets and stuff like that, just some weird seating. When
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  Speaker 2: I went last year, and I had not been to
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: a storm game or a basketball game at Climate Plays,
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: but I went there last year for the tournament. I
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  Speaker 2: think it was a first day whatever it was Thursday
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: or Friday. God, it was awesome. I mean it was
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: I was like, in fact, I sat in the press box,
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: which is like at the roof level.
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: You know you're down That was a great view.
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: It was, and where we do our games and our
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  Speaker 2: pre and post game for the Crack and Hockey Network
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  Speaker 2: in the corner that are spacing a lounge. I always
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: kind of look down there and think about it because
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: its kind of between the blue lines where the court
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: would be roughly actually kind of a high slot. Be
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: great there, see you try down below, they'd be fine,
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: no problem at all. Right, great basketball arena. But we've
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: been teased for a long time. The news today that
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: they're going to have a vote to go ahead and
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: have another vote in the summer.
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  Speaker 1: Let's get through this. I don't even care about that.
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  Speaker 2: This feel real, This feels like it's moving forward. The
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  Speaker 2: date is twenty twenty eight. The date is twenty twenty eight.
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  Speaker 2: Follow twenty eight that we're probably gonna get the NBA
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  Speaker 2: back more than likely. They're talking about I'm not gonna
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: worry about the ownership stuff. Trust me, they know who
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: the owners are. They wouldn't be getting there's a lot
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: of stuff done just for optics. They know who the
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: owners are. They know the owners have money, blah blah blah.
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  Speaker 2: My bigger thing is and we're asking you. We've got
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: a ton of text.
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: We'll get to it.
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: Two thirty talkbacks. Want to hear your thoughts on this.
• 42:32
  Speaker 2: I heard Chris Kids say something to Day had just
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: jumped out at me during MG and the Midday, and
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: Chris said, yeah, man, just let me know when it
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: comes back. I'm done with being teased, I'm done with all.
• 42:41
  Speaker 2: I just don't care until it comes back. I don't
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: care about the process. Okay, I'm paraphrasing with Chris said,
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: but I think a lot of people feel that way.
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: How do you feel about the NBA coming back?
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: Excited? Are you?
• 42:52
  Speaker 3: Well?
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: Tell me in twenty twenty eight, I'll let you know.
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: Or maybe I'm just still pissed off all those things.
• 42:58
  Speaker 9: And is it going to stay that way? And until
• 43:00
  Speaker 9: it's announced? Is it going to stay that way, until
• 43:03
  Speaker 9: the ball goes out on the air, until you see
• 43:06
  Speaker 9: a training camp? What's it gonna be?
• 43:07
  Speaker 3: Right?
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: Four nine four five one. We want to get some
• 43:09
  Speaker 2: talkbacks as well. I want to hear your voice. Just basically,
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: I'm just gonna say this, react to today's story, You
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: react to today's story.
• 43:19
  Speaker 5: Or a non story, depending on how you feel.
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: Exactly four nine four five one or the talkback. I'm
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: gonna assume the NBA is coming back. I'm just gonna
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: I think it is. I think it's coming back in
• 43:29
  Speaker 2: twenty twenty eight. After that story today, I've I've I've
• 43:31
  Speaker 2: felt like twenty twenty eight, we've talked about it before.
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: It was a data all along. Oh that's nice.
• 43:35
  Speaker 2: Twenty years later, nice little neat, little easy thing. Gary
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: Parrish covers the NBA. He'll be with us tomorrow for
• 43:42
  Speaker 2: the Bracketology Show, but we call them up today and say, hey,
• 43:44
  Speaker 2: we need a couple minutes of your time. Works in Memphis.
• 43:47
  Speaker 2: About eighty percent of his radio show there is NBA
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: Memphis Grizzlies, but just NBA as a whole. The other
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: nineteen percent is probably college basketball, and one percent's everything. Hell,
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: that's that's how they work down in Memphis. Here's Gary Parrish.
• 44:01
  Speaker 2: We called him up earlier today. Well, Gary Parrish, I
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  Speaker 2: Parrish as our college basketball guy. They saw you last
• 44:20
  Speaker 2: night for a three quality three hours on television, another
• 44:23
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• 44:26
  Speaker 2: this week on I in College Basketball. But you also
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: in Memphis, based in Memphis, and you cover the NBA
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: for your radio show on a daily basis. News coming
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: out today, the NBA is looking at having a vote
• 44:38
  Speaker 2: next week about this is just sot NBA about exploring
• 44:42
  Speaker 2: the possibility of Vegas and Seattle as the two exclusive
• 44:47
  Speaker 2: teams for expansion.
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: A vote.
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: If it is pasted next week, a final vote would
• 44:52
  Speaker 2: come later on, probably this summer. My question to you,
• 44:55
  Speaker 2: Gary is what can Seattle fans expect in two years plus?
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: Look in your crystal ball, what is the state of
• 45:02
  Speaker 2: today's NBA? Because I hear good and I hear bad,
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: and I'm just kind of wondering what to expect. We're
• 45:08
  Speaker 2: gonna be excited, but what is the state from a
• 45:11
  Speaker 2: basketball standpoint of today's NBA.
• 45:13
  Speaker 10: First, I'm just happy for you guys. You are in
• 45:16
  Speaker 10: a great NBA city forever Like the SuperSonics, still matter,
• 45:21
  Speaker 10: like Sean Kemp is a thing, and the idea that
• 45:25
  Speaker 10: you guys have been operating without that, when in theory,
• 45:28
  Speaker 10: in a different universe you could have had the best
• 45:30
  Speaker 10: years of Kevin Durant stinks. And so it's awesome that
• 45:34
  Speaker 10: you guys are getting back to where you always belong.
• 45:38
  Speaker 10: And I know that there's a process to this, and
• 45:41
  Speaker 10: the vote will just be to you know, do another
• 45:44
  Speaker 10: vote someday. But when this becomes this public and this detailed,
• 45:48
  Speaker 10: it's happening. So you're gonna have an NBA franchise once again. Congratulations.
• 45:53
  Speaker 10: As for the state of the NBA, it's an interesting
• 45:55
  Speaker 10: place right now because the television contracts are record setting,
• 45:59
  Speaker 10: like everybody's making a lot of money. But you don't
• 46:03
  Speaker 10: even have to follow it closely to know that the
• 46:06
  Speaker 10: regular season product is not great right now.
• 46:09
  Speaker 11: And it's for a lot of different reasons.
• 46:11
  Speaker 10: One is, I think Steve Kerr, the Golden State Warriors coach,
• 46:15
  Speaker 10: is right when he says that they've got to shorten
• 46:18
  Speaker 10: the season. You know I And for a while I
• 46:20
  Speaker 10: sort of fell victim to this a little bit too,
• 46:22
  Speaker 10: because it's very easy, particularly for somebody my age, to
• 46:25
  Speaker 10: say things like I remember in the nineties when Michael
• 46:29
  Speaker 10: Jordan would play eighty two games in thirty four minutes
• 46:32
  Speaker 10: a game. And if Michael Jordan could do it then
• 46:34
  Speaker 10: while also drinking and smoking and gambling every night, then
• 46:37
  Speaker 10: I don't know why you know, Anthony Edwards can't do
• 46:40
  Speaker 10: it today.
• 46:41
  Speaker 11: And like, if you just keep it that simple, you'll.
• 46:44
  Speaker 10: Win over some people, but not trainers, not people who
• 46:48
  Speaker 10: actually understand how the body works, because what they'll tell
• 46:51
  Speaker 10: you is that, yeah, basketball players are still playing the
• 46:54
  Speaker 10: same number of games or being asked to play the
• 46:56
  Speaker 10: same number of games, but basketball is a different sport now.
• 47:00
  Speaker 10: I mean that number of miles a player, a point guard,
• 47:04
  Speaker 10: say in the nineties, would run move during a basketball
• 47:08
  Speaker 10: game does not even compare to the amount of steps
• 47:14
  Speaker 10: a basketball player takes in a basketball game in the
• 47:16
  Speaker 10: year twenty twenty six. Because shooting is so emphasized now,
• 47:21
  Speaker 10: the space in which you play basketball is bigger.
• 47:24
  Speaker 6: Now.
• 47:24
  Speaker 10: You still always play, you know, within twenty feet of
• 47:27
  Speaker 10: the basket or whatever. Now it could stretch out to
• 47:29
  Speaker 10: twenty seven feet twenty nine feet because there's Steph Curry
• 47:32
  Speaker 10: and Damian Lillard, so there's bigger space to play in
• 47:37
  Speaker 10: constantly moving in ways that didn't happen in the nineties
• 47:41
  Speaker 10: and our bodies. What we're learning is they're just not
• 47:44
  Speaker 10: equipped to handle this. I mean, these athletes take way
• 47:48
  Speaker 10: better care of themselves than any athlete who is currently
• 47:52
  Speaker 10: my age did when they were playing, Like even the
• 47:55
  Speaker 10: ones who you think are you know, out and you know,
• 47:57
  Speaker 10: having a good time. The way they eat, the way
• 48:01
  Speaker 10: they train, the way they are on a bike, everything
• 48:04
  Speaker 10: is just so different than where it was once upon
• 48:06
  Speaker 10: a time. But we're still having injuries, soft tissue stuff
• 48:10
  Speaker 10: way too often, and you don't have a good product
• 48:14
  Speaker 10: if you're asking people to buy season ticket packages, but
• 48:17
  Speaker 10: you can't promise that the stars of the show are
• 48:20
  Speaker 10: going to be on the court consistently. Imagine trying to
• 48:23
  Speaker 10: run a Broadway play sell tickets every night, but your
• 48:26
  Speaker 10: customers don't know whether you know Denzel Washington starring tonight
• 48:30
  Speaker 10: or somebody you've never heard of a starring tonight.
• 48:33
  Speaker 11: It wouldn't work.
• 48:34
  Speaker 10: And that's a real problem with the NBA right now
• 48:36
  Speaker 10: that they'll have to address. The tanking thing is another problem.
• 48:40
  Speaker 10: About a third of the league is just trying to
• 48:41
  Speaker 10: get aj debontser Darren Peterson or Darius Acuff because it's
• 48:45
  Speaker 10: incentivized for them to actually lose games to try to
• 48:50
  Speaker 10: increase their lottery eyds. Like one general manager reportedly told
• 48:53
  Speaker 10: Brian Windhorst at ESPN that his franchise would be willing
• 48:56
  Speaker 10: if you just would let them pick first. Don't even
• 48:59
  Speaker 10: have to promise them that they're gonna get the Hall
• 49:01
  Speaker 10: of Famer. They just want the chance to pick first.
• 49:03
  Speaker 10: They would literally pay one hundred million dollars for the
• 49:05
  Speaker 10: right to do that. So if you try to figure
• 49:08
  Speaker 10: out why, I mean even the Grizzlies today, they've got
• 49:11
  Speaker 10: another important player having an injection that's gonna sideline him.
• 49:15
  Speaker 10: Like we're not even doing surgeries anymore. It's like, hey,
• 49:17
  Speaker 10: you need a shot, so you can miss three games,
• 49:19
  Speaker 10: go miss. So you've got too many injuries, not enough
• 49:24
  Speaker 10: reason for enough franchises to try to win in the
• 49:26
  Speaker 10: regular season. And then the biggest thing is, I think
• 49:30
  Speaker 10: it's a messaging problem. Whether it's players or coaches, they
• 49:33
  Speaker 10: both tell us and show us that the regular season
• 49:36
  Speaker 10: doesn't matter. Like Mike Malone when he was the coach
• 49:38
  Speaker 10: in Denver after winning a championship, actually said publicly one time,
• 49:42
  Speaker 10: our goal is not to win our division. Can you
• 49:45
  Speaker 10: imagine like an NFL coach saying that, like, we're not
• 49:48
  Speaker 10: Our goal is not to win our conference.
• 49:51
  Speaker 11: It's just to be ready for the playoffs.
• 49:53
  Speaker 10: Like NFL coaches don't talk that way, Baseball managers don't
• 49:56
  Speaker 10: talk that way.
• 49:57
  Speaker 11: But it's a real thing in the NBA, and when
• 49:59
  Speaker 11: you can.
• 49:59
  Speaker 10: Trust it with every night in college basketball, it's like,
• 50:02
  Speaker 10: and they're at Michigan State, they're at Perdue, they're at Arizona,
• 50:07
  Speaker 10: they're at Duke.
• 50:08
  Speaker 11: It looks big.
• 50:10
  Speaker 10: And people are diving on the floor and everybody cares
• 50:12
  Speaker 10: winning is the most important thing. Then you turn on
• 50:14
  Speaker 10: an NBA game and the players have told us they
• 50:17
  Speaker 10: don't really care about the regular season and they're just
• 50:20
  Speaker 10: going through the motions out there on the court until
• 50:22
  Speaker 10: there's three minutes to go in the game. None of
• 50:25
  Speaker 10: this is a secret, but it's all a problem. It's
• 50:27
  Speaker 10: not stuff that can't be fixed. But I'll just to
• 50:30
  Speaker 10: compare it to something we're all watching right now, or
• 50:32
  Speaker 10: at least that's all available to us. World Baseball Classic
• 50:34
  Speaker 10: looks amazing, Like the players care, the crowds are great.
• 50:39
  Speaker 10: The NBA can't get their basketball players to care about
• 50:42
  Speaker 10: the regular season. As much as these baseball players are
• 50:45
  Speaker 10: caring about what amounts to an exhibition just before the
• 50:48
  Speaker 10: start of the season, they do it with the All
• 50:50
  Speaker 10: Star Game. So think about all the big products of the
• 50:52
  Speaker 10: NBA has regular season, All Star Game, postseason. The players
• 50:55
  Speaker 10: tell us they don't care about the regular season, and
• 50:57
  Speaker 10: they tell us they don't care about the All Star Game.
• 50:59
  Speaker 10: So what's left. That's what they've got to address. Adam
• 51:02
  Speaker 10: Silver is smart enough to do it, but he does
• 51:04
  Speaker 10: need to do it or else. You guys will see
• 51:05
  Speaker 10: this up close when you get your franchise.
• 51:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think we're gonna get that franchise in
• 51:09
  Speaker 2: two years. I also agree with Gary, I think the
• 51:11
  Speaker 2: I think the the product isn't great right now in
• 51:14
  Speaker 2: the regular season, right.
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: I would agree with him.
• 51:17
  Speaker 9: There that's the guy that's plugged in that like covers everything.
• 51:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that isn't That isn't like people that are here
• 51:23
  Speaker 2: that are bitter saying, right, you know, we hate the
• 51:24
  Speaker 2: NBA and all that stuff.
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: I think the NBA had.
• 51:27
  Speaker 2: I also don't think that it's going to matter to
• 51:30
  Speaker 2: people here initially that the product the product of the NBA. Yeah,
• 51:35
  Speaker 2: I don't I just don't. I don't think that that's
• 51:37
  Speaker 2: gonna matter. I was just gonna look here if I
• 51:40
  Speaker 2: can find it. Here we are, okay. So I'm want
• 51:43
  Speaker 2: to compare something because as he's saying that, I wanted
• 51:45
  Speaker 2: to look at this. Okay, So the worst teams in
• 51:48
  Speaker 2: the NHL right now, and I think the NHL, just
• 51:50
  Speaker 2: in terms of schedule is a comp Uh. There is
• 51:54
  Speaker 2: one team in the West and no teams in the East.
• 52:01
  Speaker 2: There's really one umpster fire in Vancouver. But this so
• 52:05
  Speaker 2: one team in the West, and you just meant it. Vancouver, Yeah,
• 52:09
  Speaker 2: has a winning percentage under forty four percent. The lowest
• 52:16
  Speaker 2: winning percentage in the East is forty eight percent. Two
• 52:19
  Speaker 2: games under five hundred. That's the Rangers. Yeah, Vancouver is
• 52:24
  Speaker 2: twenty and thirty eight. Calgary is seven games under five
• 52:28
  Speaker 2: hundred with a four to forty seven. Let's take a
• 52:30
  Speaker 2: quick look at the NBA, shall we. I'd venture to
• 52:33
  Speaker 2: say there's a couple of teams under forty percent one
• 52:38
  Speaker 2: two three under thirty percent under thirty in the East.
• 52:43
  Speaker 2: Brooklyn is, my god, Brooklyn has a two fifty four
• 52:47
  Speaker 2: winning percentage. Washington to forty two, Indiana to twenty one.
• 52:53
  Speaker 2: In the Western Conference one, two, three, four, five have
• 52:58
  Speaker 2: under forty percent winning percentage Memphis, Dallas, New Orleans, Utah,
• 53:02
  Speaker 2: and Sacramento. And out of those teams Anders, two of
• 53:06
  Speaker 2: them under thirty percent wo, Utah and Sacramento.
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: Wow, So let's just go by that.
• 53:13
  Speaker 2: So I would say one, two, three, four, five, six, seven,
• 53:17
  Speaker 2: eight nine, I'm gonnaet Chicago's right at forty percent their
• 53:22
  Speaker 2: thirteen hunder. So nine teams out of thirty in the
• 53:26
  Speaker 2: NBA are worse than the worst team are worse than
• 53:29
  Speaker 2: the worst team in the NHL. In terms of just
• 53:32
  Speaker 2: competitive can you do? You go to a game thinking
• 53:34
  Speaker 2: your team has a chance to win? Right, that's a
• 53:37
  Speaker 2: broken product. Now, I'm not a huge fan of parody
• 53:40
  Speaker 2: like the NFL wants, but you've got to be competitive.
• 53:44
  Speaker 2: That's a broken model. All right, More on that as
• 53:45
  Speaker 2: day's come by. We got a zillion tax I'm sure
• 53:47
  Speaker 2: we got some time. We'll get to those coming up next.
• 53:54
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• 54:15
  Speaker 12: Stop. Please stop, for God's sake, stop reporting on NBA
• 54:19
  Speaker 12: speculation about the possibility of maybe getting a team somewhere
• 54:23
  Speaker 12: in the near or distant future. Call me when they're
• 54:27
  Speaker 12: ready to tip off. Other than that, stop reporting this speculation.
• 54:35
  Speaker 3: Hey, Ian Aaron from Vancouver, Washington.
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: I'm a lifelong Blazers fan.
• 54:41
  Speaker 13: Always uh yeah, sure, I like the Sonics, but you
• 54:45
  Speaker 13: know I always hated the Sonics too, if you know
• 54:47
  Speaker 13: what I mean. You know, there's that love hate relationship there,
• 54:49
  Speaker 13: and I really want you guys to get the team back.
• 54:52
  Speaker 13: I'm with him, though, like I'll believe it when I
• 54:54
  Speaker 13: see it. I feel like you guys are getting to
• 54:56
  Speaker 13: be just drug around and drug around and drug around.
• 55:00
  Speaker 13: But at the same time, I feel like the NBA
• 55:02
  Speaker 13: isn't it the same product? In Aaron from the cub again,
• 55:07
  Speaker 13: when I was saying that the NBA isn't the same
• 55:11
  Speaker 13: product anymore, Like I mean that, like since you guys
• 55:13
  Speaker 13: have been out of the league, like I don't know,
• 55:16
  Speaker 13: ever since my Blazers were in the Western Conference finals,
• 55:19
  Speaker 13: I haven't, you know, really liked the NBA as much.
• 55:23
  Speaker 13: I just don't find like the star factor to be
• 55:26
  Speaker 13: like Super not entertaining, but like, like, I just don't
• 55:31
  Speaker 13: like them as much the people that are in the
• 55:33
  Speaker 13: NBA nowadays.
• 55:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think there's a lot of that. Man, I
• 55:39
  Speaker 2: think there's a lot of that. Uh, let's far away,
• 55:41
  Speaker 2: We've got a ton of let's keep going.
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: Hey, Bro, don't fill out a bracket.
• 55:46
  Speaker 12: Bro, don't pick those games if you don't know the
• 55:49
  Speaker 12: names of the players.
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: Bro, I know everybody, Bro, Hey.
• 55:55
  Speaker 5: To coming back of the tournaments? Go to gick up.
• 55:58
  Speaker 8: I want to come still college tournament.
• 56:02
  Speaker 12: I know all granted.
• 56:04
  Speaker 5: I only talk about my winners, but don't pick.
• 56:07
  Speaker 14: Games if you don't know the team.
• 56:10
  Speaker 2: Thank me later, Bro.
• 56:16
  Speaker 15: I honestly couldn't care less. I'm still probably not gonna
• 56:20
  Speaker 15: watch off. Stick to college basketball. If I'm gonna watch basketball,
• 56:24
  Speaker 15: you know, the sport where there's rules like you can't
• 56:27
  Speaker 15: travel and they like to play defense. I'm happy for
• 56:31
  Speaker 15: the people who are excited. I just hope it doesn't
• 56:35
  Speaker 15: mean every day I have to hear segments about this
• 56:40
  Speaker 15: sort of non story.
• 56:47
  Speaker 2: How mean do we have left by the way too?
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: Hit those?
• 56:51
  Speaker 12: What?
• 56:52
  Speaker 6: I mean?
• 56:52
  Speaker 14: The news today doesn't really move the needle too much.
• 56:55
  Speaker 14: I mean twenty twenty eight that's great. I was a
• 56:57
  Speaker 14: Songics fan back in the day, just because really they
• 56:59
  Speaker 14: were in Seattle. The NBA has gotten dramatically worse since
• 57:03
  Speaker 14: they left, so it doesn't really move the needle for me.
• 57:06
  Speaker 14: So I wouldn't say I'm excited for twenty twenty eight.
• 57:09
  Speaker 14: But depending on what we put on the court, what
• 57:11
  Speaker 14: type of products out there, I don't know. Give me
• 57:14
  Speaker 14: calling twenty twenty nine, maybe I'll be excited then.
• 57:18
  Speaker 16: Okay, Gary Parrish, I love you, but brother, your argument
• 57:22
  Speaker 16: doesn't hold. A lot of the game is different today. Yeah,
• 57:25
  Speaker 16: they just trot up and down the court. They don't
• 57:27
  Speaker 16: even play freaking defense. There's no effort to just run
• 57:30
  Speaker 16: up the floor a couple of picking rolls and then
• 57:33
  Speaker 16: hit a three. There's no real effort on both ends
• 57:37
  Speaker 16: of the floor. It's just kind of like the boring
• 57:40
  Speaker 16: ass game.
• 57:40
  Speaker 12: Man.
• 57:40
  Speaker 16: I've been watching this NBA my entire life. I'm fifty
• 57:43
  Speaker 16: six years old, and I'm telling you it's crap.
• 57:47
  Speaker 2: So, and as we went through every talk back outside
• 57:50
  Speaker 2: of MJ and the Midday who called in it was
• 57:51
  Speaker 2: a nice one, there wasn't one that was excited, not
• 57:57
  Speaker 2: like overly excited. Yeah, like, oh my God, yes, let's
• 58:01
  Speaker 2: go two year old ten or was let me know
• 58:03
  Speaker 2: what it happens until then, I don't care. Yeah, that
• 58:06
  Speaker 2: was basically what we just am. I right, Yes, that
• 58:08
  Speaker 2: is correct. Like uh Nick writes on the text lines,
• 58:14
  Speaker 2: come a Dodge text line sonics. We'll believe it when
• 58:16
  Speaker 2: I see it. More than that, the NBA will have
• 58:18
  Speaker 2: to rear my interest. Cold Turkey treatment has cleared the system.
• 58:20
  Speaker 2: I don't love the game, don't hate it, just to
• 58:23
  Speaker 2: be honest, I find the WNBA and more interesting game
• 58:25
  Speaker 2: to watch this point. A collaboral call invoking the magic
• 58:27
  Speaker 2: carpet gets me going. But that isn't coming back. This
• 58:30
  Speaker 2: is from the two oh six. I get Christopher kids take.
• 58:32
  Speaker 2: I'm exhausted over the past eighteen years being Charlie Brown
• 58:35
  Speaker 2: in the NBA, being Lucy holding the football.
• 58:37
  Speaker 5: It's true, very true.
• 58:40
  Speaker 9: Oh god see I I I get it because you're
• 58:45
  Speaker 9: the most recent thing in most people's heads regarding the
• 58:49
  Speaker 9: NBA in Seattle is having it taken away.
• 58:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 58:52
  Speaker 5: I wonder how much that will change when it's back,
• 58:57
  Speaker 5: You know what I mean?
• 58:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah? I agree two oh six eight to ten billion
• 58:59
  Speaker 2: per the team, hundreds of millions and salaries of players
• 59:01
  Speaker 2: that won't play all day two fallibating or flopping at
• 59:03
  Speaker 2: an all time high ticket prices, who knows how much,
• 59:06
  Speaker 2: no team for eighteen years, just don't care anymore. Four
• 59:10
  Speaker 2: to five The product just sucks. Uh this is three
• 59:14
  Speaker 2: six so honestly, I don't know the songs fam but
• 59:16
  Speaker 2: stopped fall in the NBA. Watch a few games with
• 59:17
  Speaker 2: my son. Recently wondered why is it? Why was I
• 59:19
  Speaker 2: so into it? The product doesn't impress me. I might
• 59:21
  Speaker 2: pay a little attention between the super Bowl and Opening Day,
• 59:23
  Speaker 2: but while the Hawks and M's are playing, that's where
• 59:25
  Speaker 2: my attention will be.
• 59:27
  Speaker 1: I'm looking. We have guys.
• 59:28
  Speaker 2: I'm just telling you right now, I'm not gonna be
• 59:30
  Speaker 2: able to get to all of them. We have a
• 59:33
  Speaker 2: zillion texts, like as many texts as I can. This
• 59:37
  Speaker 2: is like this NFL free agency level text Yeah. Uh,
• 59:42
  Speaker 2: four five too late for me. Derek says, still don't
• 59:46
  Speaker 2: believe it two five three. When Chris k made those comments,
• 59:49
  Speaker 2: I completely and one hundred percent agree with him. I'm
• 59:50
  Speaker 2: excited for the NBA, but wake me up when it
• 59:52
  Speaker 2: gets here.
• 59:52
  Speaker 5: Like Marcus and the two six, once the over unders
• 59:55
  Speaker 5: are below two hundred.
• 59:55
  Speaker 2: I might watch two o six em sorry to be
• 59:59
  Speaker 2: that guy the left Engel last second of two thousand
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 2: and eight. I was interning Akjr. At the time. We'll
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 2: never forget you asking the question to the stupid city
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 2: Council July second, two thousand and eight. Well for me,
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 2: the last the day U as the sonics. Yeah, I
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 2: was more calm than some at that press conference. What
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 2: do he almost killed somebody? I like literally felt like
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 2: I had to hold her back.
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 2: I was sitting with Steve Kelly at last. Woodward and
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 2: me were sitting there. I wasn't I was still I
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 2: was just in shock. I was I'm like, this isn't.
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 5: Really yet to process everything.
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 2: I just couldn't believe it was happening. Yeah, and then
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 2: I saw the smirks and the smug faces. Then the
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 2: anger creeped in. I remember jumping on the phone with Gas.
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 2: I was both emotional and also stunned. I'm eighteen years later,
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 2: I still can't believe it that we lost it. I
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 2: mean we were sitting there, we went down there. I'm like, WHOA,
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 2: I could give two craps about songs coming back. I
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 2: hate every part of today's Ambas. It was like, listen,
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 2: I'm just gonna and Andrews are looking the same ones. Yeah,
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 2: the gen consensus, not even general consensus. I'm gonna say
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 2: about ninety nine percent of what I see here is
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 2: of the following and includes some of the following. You
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 2: tell me if I'm right or wrong here, this is
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 2: what it is. Whatever, let me know when they come back.
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 2: Don't really care. This doesn't move the needle for me today.
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 2: Just move on to something else. I'm tired of being teased.
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 9: And this is different than I don't believe it's happening,
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 9: because there was a point up until recently where it
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 9: was like, yeah, I don't believe that anything's actually happening.
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 9: I think what Gary said it's real. You're getting a team.
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 1: I believe that too.
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 5: Now it's just like, are you that excited for that?
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 2: I believe that too, And I think most people are
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 2: coming with the thought process of whatever, Yeah, if it comes,
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 2: I'll be excited. I'm gonna tell you, I just I
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 2: truly believe this, no matter what everyone is telling me
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 2: on the text line, whatever, no matter what we just heard.
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 1: On me on the talkbacks. I feel everyone.
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 2: I feel a frustration level from our listeners and I
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 2: e the fans in this town, sports fans. I'm just
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 2: going to generalize say sports fans of this town. I
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 2: think there's just a massive amount of fatigue, and that
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 2: fatigue has also it's fatigue, and also I think it's
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 2: hurt and there's also a little bit of disdain towards
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 2: the league because how they've treated this city. Listen, I'm
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 2: gonna be very honest with you. I'm very torn. I
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 2: heard the story today. I'm like, and I've been following,
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 2: and I kind of got away from it because I
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 2: got a little bit of a conflict of interest. But
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 2: I'm kind of like, whatever kind of I'm on, probably
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 2: on Cristis side when it happens great. I also and
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  Speaker 2: there's a part of me deep down that even though
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  Speaker 2: I feel like this is truly real, there is that
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  Speaker 2: part of me that also is thinking that we could
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  Speaker 2: also have Well, we're gonna we're gonna have the discussion
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  Speaker 2: in July, We're gonna table it until the fall. That's
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 2: gonna push it out to twenty twenty nine.
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  Speaker 12: I just.
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  Speaker 2: I have zero faith in Adam Silver. I think he's
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  Speaker 2: an absolute moron. No, that's wrong, that's not because that
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  Speaker 2: implies he stupid. I think he is just a pawn
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  Speaker 2: for powers. Yeah, I don't think he has the same
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  Speaker 2: just the same juice that David Stern had. And we
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  Speaker 2: all hate David Stern, the late David Stern.
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  Speaker 1: I get it.
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  Speaker 2: I'm with you one thousand percent in that regard. I
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 2: think David Stern. In our City's history of villains, David
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 2: Stern is in the top five. He's in the top five.
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 2: Howard obviously number one. David Stern's right there as well.
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  Speaker 2: Ken Baring's in that list as well. I put them
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  Speaker 2: all together. But Stern had juice. This guy doesn't. It's
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 2: really that's something. Thanks for all the texts, Thanks for
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 2: all the talkbacks, softies. Next, all right, he's here, by
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 2: the way, I've got a brand new favorite show. Take
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 2: a listen to this. Listen to this, hang on, put
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 2: your heads on way? Where's your headst where's your head?
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 2: So I put it on you on ray? This is
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  Speaker 2: my new favorite shot. Take a listen anyway.
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  Speaker 17: All right, A couple of thoughts on the Sonic story
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  Speaker 17: that came out today. First, I want to blame any
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  Speaker 17: Sonic fan for feeling skeptical whatsoever.
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  Speaker 2: I get it.
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  Speaker 17: I don't think there's been a bigger tease in Seattle
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  Speaker 17: sports for us, well, outside of the Mariners for fifty years.
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  Speaker 17: Outside of them, there has not been a bigger tease
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 17: in regards to us being satisfied as sports fans than
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 17: what this basketball team with the league, the NBA has
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 17: done to us for the past almost twenty years. So
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  Speaker 17: I get it. But here's the deal, guys. It's happening
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  Speaker 17: like it is happening, all right. We're talking two years
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  Speaker 17: from this fall, we are going to see the Sonics
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 17: at NBA basketball back on the court at Climate Pledge Arena.
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  Speaker 17: You want to be skeptical, I get it, and I'm
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 17: kind of there with you a little bit. But you
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  Speaker 17: know what, guys, I'm telling you, it's time. It's time
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  Speaker 17: to make preparations. Time to start saving money for tickets,
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  Speaker 17: time to start talking to your pals about who's going
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 17: to take what games, start getting some merchandise from simply
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 17: Seattle going down.
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  Speaker 2: They're coming back, boys and girls, They're coming back.
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  Speaker 18: Well that's a new Instagram segment called Driving with Dave
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  Speaker 18: hashtag Driving Day that I've already been yelled at for
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  Speaker 18: that by the wife By the way.
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  Speaker 1: How do you how do you videotape that while you're driving?
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  Speaker 17: I have a little place for my phone where it
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  Speaker 17: just sits there. You know they sell those on you
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  Speaker 17: know Amazon?
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  Speaker 1: Okay?
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  Speaker 2: Really, so you feel it's safe? Very safe?
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  Speaker 1: Doesn't though?
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  Speaker 2: No, I got yelled at for it.
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  Speaker 1: I don't drive and talk at the same time. Are
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  Speaker 1: you gonna keep doing?
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  Speaker 7: Yes?
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  Speaker 17: My wife sounds like my Jewish grandma.
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 1: And for those who don't know Gina, she doesn't.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my god, so believable.
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 1: Like driving with Dave? Right, are you do that every day?
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  Speaker 2: I might. I might be a new thing. I like it.
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  Speaker 2: Probably a new thing.
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  Speaker 17: Ask ask my wife if it's okay, because I I
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 17: don't want to get yelled at by her.
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  Speaker 2: I get yelled at enough already.
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  Speaker 1: He just block her?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I could do that.
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  Speaker 12: You know.
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  Speaker 17: I'm trying to get a holdie all day long. I
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 17: blocked you, honey. Just block her on the Just block
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  Speaker 17: her on my phone? What the hell? Then she can't
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  Speaker 17: get a hold of me until I get home?
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  Speaker 2: Why not?
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  Speaker 5: Real smart?
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  Speaker 17: Just shove all the abuse into one small little window
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  Speaker 17: between the hours of seven pm and probably eleven pm before.
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  Speaker 2: I'm in bed. How many times do you drive home
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  Speaker 2: and you say every night, oh no and say, boy,
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  Speaker 2: this is I like, knowing full well that your ass
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 2: is in trouble.
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  Speaker 17: Yeah, it happens. I'd probably say thirty five forty percent.
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  Speaker 2: Of the time. I mean, you know, I'm a guy,
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  Speaker 2: so it's not happen. I'm about twenty to twenty five. Yeah,
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 2: mostly she's meloed out over there.
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  Speaker 17: What's the most common complaint that you get from Tam?
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 17: From from uh? From from Tammy?
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  Speaker 1: Where were you? What did you spend all that money being.
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 2: Being out with the just yeah, out with the guys. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I didn't do something I was supposed to do. Like
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 2: now I blame it on Keifer. This guy blame it
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 2: on Keifer, and then that's that's a bad thing because
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  Speaker 2: he's the baby.
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  Speaker 18: I don't have any kids, so I can't blame kids,
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  Speaker 18: and I can't really blame dogs unless you know.
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  Speaker 2: Look, I mean, if if a.
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  Speaker 17: Dog like peas in the hallway or whatever, I could
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  Speaker 17: say that was me.
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  Speaker 2: I'm honest.
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  Speaker 17: Actually half the time I don't know what I'm doing
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  Speaker 17: totally did just hit me with it?
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  Speaker 2: Just hit me with it, kidding me. That's like like
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  Speaker 2: you come in and you see the look like what
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  Speaker 2: I do.
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  Speaker 19: Like you're going through your head like I normally leave
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  Speaker 19: the house and I'll know within five or six blocks
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  Speaker 19: that I've forgotten to do something, and I have to
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  Speaker 19: make a decision.
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  Speaker 18: Yeah, do I go back home and correct it or
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 18: just take the beating? And nine times out of ten,
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 18: that's right.
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  Speaker 17: I know for a fact there's wet clothes in the
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 17: laundry that will sit there all day long.
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  Speaker 18: I know for a fact I have not turned the
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  Speaker 18: light on in the hallway. I know for a fact
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  Speaker 18: I haven't locked this, I haven't done that.
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  Speaker 17: I haven't given the dogs that I'm just gonna take
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  Speaker 17: the beating.
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  Speaker 2: Man, what the hell it's worth it. We call we
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  Speaker 2: call her the little General, and we usually we do
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 2: it behind her back and call her the little General,
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 2: call her behind her back. All good for you. But
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 2: that dipstick said it to her fight one time. But
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 2: he referred to it kind of like I made it,
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 2: made it up, which maybe I sold you out, man,
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 2: And then now now I'm in trouble for that. Wrong,
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  Speaker 2: no wrong, no wrong. I used the baby, that little
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 2: chubby bastard to watch his mouth. Send it right exactly,
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  Speaker 2: oh god, wow, let's see, we're going to be all
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 2: over the place today. You mailing at four, Chris Daniels
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 2: at five, Mike the course, he will spend the final
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 2: half hour of the show with him by the way,
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 2: doing bracket picks, the whole thing for the NCAA tournament.
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  Speaker 18: And Uh, look, I mean they're they're coming. I mean
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  Speaker 18: to me, it's it's done. We're watching NBA basketball in
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  Speaker 18: two and a half years, two and a half years,
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 18: September of October of twenty twenty eight, that team that
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  Speaker 18: you wear proudly on your chest right there, simply returning
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 18: today is the most significant day in this saga, I think,
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  Speaker 18: at least since the NBA denied the Kings move, and
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  Speaker 18: maybe the most significant day since they left for Oklahoma
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 18: City in two thousand and eight.
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  Speaker 2: I think we're going to talk about it. Key, Yeah, right,
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  Speaker 2: it's up there.
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  Speaker 12: Man.
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  Speaker 18: So I'm I'm ready. It's uh, it's done. I'm I'm
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 18: tired of being skeptical. I'm tired of telling people just
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 18: you know, hold on now, it's uh it's going down.
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  Speaker 17: Yeah, what do you want from me? You want to
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 17: I want to want to know what do you want?
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 17: I want to know driving with David tomorrow, You give
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 17: me the topic. Sons who sell out their fathers Tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: For the mild mannered and marginally objectionable Inverness.
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  Speaker 2: This is paddle Day, saying so long everyone,