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Furness Show 8-7: Ricky White III, Danny O'Neil, Ian Rapoport, Rob Rang · The Ian Furness Show

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  Speaker 2: R f M. All Right, practice is wrapping up in
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  Speaker 2: a second, but I want you to get a little
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  Speaker 2: feel for what it sounds like out here, So I'm
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  Speaker 2: gonna turn on the other two mics I'm not using.
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  Speaker 2: Can you hear that? Anders? Absolutely, it is loud. It
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  Speaker 2: is very so they got the take a listen, So
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  Speaker 2: they got now to turn it off right right on. Cue.
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  Speaker 2: Practice is over, how about that? Just like that? So, uh, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: they had the sound. They had the fake crowd noise
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  Speaker 2: being pumped in here today, so it was quite loud
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  Speaker 2: inside here at the or outside here at the practice
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  Speaker 2: facility of Virginia Mason Athletics Center. But they have just
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  Speaker 2: finished up and we're gonna check in with Ricky White,
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  Speaker 2: the third wide receiver. Yeah, we talked to him during
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  Speaker 2: a rookie mini camp because he didn't play. He didn't
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  Speaker 2: play too many games last year. He was active for
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  Speaker 2: a couple and so he was still available for the
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  Speaker 2: Rookie OTA's Rookie Mining camp after the draft. He was
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  Speaker 2: out there as kind of a veteran with a couple
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  Speaker 2: other guys, and we talked to him. Then we're gonn
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  Speaker 2: talk to him again a day ketch up and see
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  Speaker 2: how it's going. Good story, fun guy to talk to.
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  Speaker 2: And he's he's in a battle man, he's in a
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  Speaker 2: roster battle. I love those stories. I love hearing about
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  Speaker 2: the guys and what's what they're going through right now.
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  Speaker 2: It's a grind, but he's very much involved, very much
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  Speaker 2: in the mix, and I think I think worst case
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  Speaker 2: scenario for him would be practice squad. So we'll get
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  Speaker 2: to him in a second. We're gonna have a really
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  Speaker 2: fun interview. I believe it at one thirty today and
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  Speaker 2: and I'll just tell you that we already taped it
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  Speaker 2: because he might be on he's on TV right now.
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  Speaker 2: Ian Rappaport NFL Network, Slash ESPN. Now, remember it's it's
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  Speaker 2: kind of combined, right It's it used to be, you know,
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  Speaker 2: two separate entities, but Rap Sheet, who was a regular
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  Speaker 2: guest on our show for a lot of years. And
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  Speaker 2: then Frank we just honestly got busy, like he's very
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  Speaker 2: busy and rightfully so, but we we still have a
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  Speaker 2: great relationship. And he told me, Hey, I'm gonna be
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  Speaker 2: here on Friday. I said, let's get you on. He says, absolutely,
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  Speaker 2: we'll do it. So we taped something a few minutes ago,
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  Speaker 2: and I think Andrews would agree it's a very fun interview.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yes, it's not just the normal. I did ask
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  Speaker 2: him about Aaron Donald and Devin Witherspoon's contract and some
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  Speaker 2: things like that, but really most of it was how
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  Speaker 2: the sausage is made. And if you were watching Hard
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  Speaker 2: Knocks on Tuesday, one of the first things that we
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  Speaker 2: saw after Derek Hall's massive monster truck was John Schneider
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  Speaker 2: in his office pissed off because Devin Witherspoon was allegedly
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  Speaker 2: upset about a report and it was having to do
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  Speaker 2: from Rap, having to do with his contract and where
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  Speaker 2: it was. So Rap's gonna tell us, he's gonna take
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  Speaker 2: us behind the scenes. Yea, we're gonna go. We're gonna
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  Speaker 2: go behind the scenes a little bit with that. What happened,
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  Speaker 2: What was going on? What were you wrong? Come on wrap,
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  Speaker 2: what the hell's going on? And also what was the
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  Speaker 2: phone call? Like, did John did Shawn Schinder make that
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  Speaker 2: phone call? And if so, what was it like? And
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  Speaker 2: we'll was talk about the business of being an insider.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's a fascinating topic with him working now
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  Speaker 2: with Schefter. They competed for so long, so we're gonna
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  Speaker 2: we're gonna do that coming up in the one o'clock hour.
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  Speaker 2: I think our listeners will really enjoy something a little
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  Speaker 2: bit different with one of the top insiders in the
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  Speaker 2: National Football League and Rappaport, So that's coming up a
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  Speaker 2: little bit later. You'll you'll, I think the old people
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  Speaker 2: enjoyed high ending.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it's I'm always a fan of the
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  Speaker 3: peak behind the curtain sort of thing, like to kind
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  Speaker 3: of give people an id.
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  Speaker 2: That's what Hard Knocks is exactly exactly.
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  Speaker 3: So we're doing our own little version of it today
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  Speaker 3: with Ian Rappaport. And you know, it is interesting because
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  Speaker 3: I think everyone just sees the report treats and all
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  Speaker 3: that stuff and like, oh, okay, he broke the news.
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  Speaker 3: How did he get that news? How does he find
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  Speaker 3: someone to you know, be able to trust to get
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  Speaker 3: him that news. Yeah, it's all about the kind of
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  Speaker 3: behind the scenes work. And I'm telling you, those guys
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  Speaker 3: are a different breed. They do they're never asleep, it
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  Speaker 3: feels like, and they're always doing something. And you know,
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  Speaker 3: it's good to kind of hear from him after a
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  Speaker 3: few years off as well.
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  Speaker 2: It's a spec it's so kind of crazy to want
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  Speaker 2: to do that job. I'll be honest, and I've had
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  Speaker 2: that conversation with him, and you know, I'm lucky we
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  Speaker 2: met him. I think it was about fifteen years ago.
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  Speaker 2: I met Rap out here and he it was at
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  Speaker 2: the end. It was kind of like this was an
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  Speaker 2: early practice and I was sitting here doing my show.
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  Speaker 2: I was by myself and he walks by the patio
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  Speaker 2: and he's he's like, he introduces, I go, I know
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  Speaker 2: you are, And we started talking first and he had
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  Speaker 2: just started working in the NFL network and I think
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  Speaker 2: at the time had maybe two or three hundred thousand
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  Speaker 2: followers on Twitter. Yeah he's in the millions now. But
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  Speaker 2: he's like, hey, let's you want to do something, Let's
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  Speaker 2: do something. So we ended up doing something for many years.
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  Speaker 2: It was a ton of fun having him on every week.
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  Speaker 2: But even then it was kind of crazy because there'd
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  Speaker 2: be times to be on because I got to go
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  Speaker 2: and then like two minutes later he'd see something breaking
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  Speaker 2: story and and even doing the interview today, he was
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  Speaker 2: on the phone and he had a couple of things going.
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  Speaker 2: He's gonna have some something later on today. So yeah,
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  Speaker 2: whether it's Ham or schefter Man, that is a That
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  Speaker 2: is a crazy world that those guys live in. Man,
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  Speaker 2: it really is. It is a crazy world that they
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  Speaker 2: live in. So all right, before Ricky White gets here,
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  Speaker 2: and he'll be over here in just a couple of minutes.
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  Speaker 2: One of the things. So this weekend, it's Mariner's fiftieth
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  Speaker 2: anniversary weekend. Everyone's excited for it. We're revved up, ready
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  Speaker 2: to go fifty years of Mariners baseball. And let's not
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  Speaker 2: take away from what this will be this weekend. This
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  Speaker 2: will be a fun weekend. This will be a this
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  Speaker 2: I mean in terms of the nostalgia and all that.
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  Speaker 2: It's what we talked about yesterday with the Jimithy thing. Right,
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  Speaker 2: you can have more than one thing. You can have
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  Speaker 2: you know, lots of things can be true, Lots of
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  Speaker 2: things can be this Like, you can have fun, you
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  Speaker 2: can have good promotions and also have a good baseball team. Right,
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  Speaker 2: the focus this weekend is you're playing a team in
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  Speaker 2: the Tampa Bay Rays that is the best team in
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  Speaker 2: the American League. They're twenty two games over five hundred. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: they got a really good pitcher going tonight. Right, So
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  Speaker 2: like the focus for many Mariner fans is one hundred
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  Speaker 2: percent on that. Hey, what's going on with the game,
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  Speaker 2: the team, the series. But yeah, at the same time,
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  Speaker 2: we're celebrating fifty years of Mariner baseball history. So there's
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  Speaker 2: a lot going on this weekend and you're coming off
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  Speaker 2: just let's just call it what it was as an
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  Speaker 2: eight to nothing loss. You know, you lose a reliever
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  Speaker 2: who has to fight through an oblique or something in Willcox, Right,
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  Speaker 2: so they ended up having to go to Victor Roebliss
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  Speaker 2: in the ninth inning. There's up three more runs. But
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  Speaker 2: you got your you got boat raced. Yeah, that's that's
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  Speaker 2: the bottom line. You got boat raced today, Yesterday, you
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  Speaker 2: got boat raced on Tuesday. You snuck out a win
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  Speaker 2: by a run on Wednesday. You're just not playing very
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  Speaker 2: good baseball. Bryce Miller was awful early, but give him man.
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  Speaker 2: That guy was a warrior man. He battled back, gave
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  Speaker 2: gave you five innings. Could have been worse. It could
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  Speaker 2: have been a lot worse, could have been worse. But
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  Speaker 2: at the end of the day, the team now sits
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  Speaker 2: in this situation where they're kind of teetering and I'm
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  Speaker 2: gonna anders I'm gonna stay with this and I'm not.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not doing this for any other reason. I think
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  Speaker 2: there's a reality here. This team is still just one
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  Speaker 2: good week away from being not only in first place,
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  Speaker 2: but maybe by a couple of games. Because it's not
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  Speaker 2: like anybody's running away with this thing.
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  Speaker 3: No, it's true.
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  Speaker 2: So now to counter that that, everyone's going to say,
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  Speaker 2: what has given you any indication that they can do that? Nothing?
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  Speaker 2: Nothing but get ahead of it. Nothing, nothing, but you
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  Speaker 2: know what, the other two teams that you're in the
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  Speaker 2: division fight with, they haven't shown you anything. They haven't
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  Speaker 2: shown it because if anybody was any good at all,
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  Speaker 2: someone would have pulled away by now right like there
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  Speaker 2: would be there would be a seven, eight, nine plus
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  Speaker 2: you know game lead in the division. The Ranger. Yeah, yes,
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  Speaker 2: Houston's playing better lately. But listen, slow start, let's see
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  Speaker 2: what they end up doing. Texas. Texas is Seattle just
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  Speaker 2: with the worst roster. Yeah right, yeah, that's who they are.
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  Speaker 2: They're Seattle with the worst roster.
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  Speaker 3: And that's kind of sold at the deadline or tried
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  Speaker 3: to sell even more.
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  Speaker 2: Right, So there's just but I understand the frustration. I
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  Speaker 2: completely understand the frustration, because trust me, I am too.
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  Speaker 2: And you have a game like yesterday, take the score
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  Speaker 2: aside the bigger issues. You lost two or three to
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  Speaker 2: the team that just sold at the.
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  Speaker 3: Deadline, absolutely, and they that and you looked far inferior
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  Speaker 3: of a baseball team to them, far inferior.
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  Speaker 2: You did not look good. You You did not look
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  Speaker 2: good at all. I want to do this as well.
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  Speaker 2: Today Chuck had a fun topic today. Just morbid as hell.
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  Speaker 2: I mean it is, it's it's for being honest. It's
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  Speaker 2: kind of morbid, is but whatever, that's fine. Hey, we're
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  Speaker 2: not you know, we're not the flag ship. We're not
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  Speaker 2: down there hanging out. They don't let us in the ballpark.
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  Speaker 2: So well, you know what, we'll have some fun with
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  Speaker 2: this ourselves. So there's the top fifty players of all
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  Speaker 2: time that they're being honored this weekend.
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  Speaker 3: Everyone's giving their takes on who they think should be
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  Speaker 3: in the top fifty.
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  Speaker 2: Everyone's got a list. I don't know if I could
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  Speaker 2: come up with fifty. They've never been to the World Series. Yeah, okay,
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  Speaker 2: like let's go Junior Edgar, Okay, Eairo Felix. I mean
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  Speaker 2: my list would be like twelve, yeah, whatever. The rest
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  Speaker 2: of these guys are okay, sure, But Chuck and Ashley
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  Speaker 2: brought up this morning, your least favorite Mariner, the most
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  Speaker 2: hated Mariner.
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  Speaker 3: The worst, the worst fifty players.
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  Speaker 2: Well they kind of brought up yeah, so they brought
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  Speaker 2: up worse. So here's what I want to do. I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to ask you guys this on the text line
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  Speaker 2: four nine four five one. All right, Uh, they did
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  Speaker 2: top fifty, bottom fifty and all that. And the funny
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  Speaker 2: thing was the bottom fifty. It was like the same
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  Speaker 2: names over and over again. Yeah, which is fine. I'm
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  Speaker 2: not even gonna bring those names up. I'll see him there.
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  Speaker 2: But I'll ask you this. I want you to send
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  Speaker 2: me a text four nine four or five one or
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  Speaker 2: a talkback on the iHeartRadio app red microphone. Away you go,
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  Speaker 2: and here's what I want on that, if possible, give
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  Speaker 2: me two things. Give me your I'm not even talking
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  Speaker 2: about the top guy. I don't care about ops, batting
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  Speaker 2: average Hall of Fame and I don't care about that stuff.
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  Speaker 2: I want your favorite Mariner of all time and your
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  Speaker 2: least favorite Mariner of all who I like that. I
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  Speaker 2: want your favorite Mariner of all time and your least
• 11:03
  Speaker 2: favorite Mariner of all time. So one of each, both extremes,
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  Speaker 2: because your favorite may not be like I mean, who's
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  Speaker 2: I'm just trying. Griffy's the best player right period, Like
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  Speaker 2: he's the best player. I don't I don't think there's
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  Speaker 2: any debate about that.
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  Speaker 3: None.
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  Speaker 2: Each hero's right there. Edgar was a great hitter, Yep,
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  Speaker 2: you know we've got Felix will be in the Hall
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  Speaker 2: of Fame, going to our Hall of Fame, Expertino Serras, yep.
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  Speaker 2: But and Randy is in the Hall of Fame. But
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  Speaker 2: most of his success, well a good chunk of his
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  Speaker 2: success came elsewhere.
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  Speaker 3: And he went in from a different team wearing a different.
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  Speaker 2: Yet so aris on us. So yeah, and so I'll
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  Speaker 2: just ask you this. You're an nor fan for maybe
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  Speaker 2: fifty years, forty thirty, twenty ten five. It doesn't matter
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  Speaker 2: however long you've been a minor fan. Who's your favorite
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  Speaker 2: player of all time? And who's your least favorite of
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  Speaker 2: all time? Do you Are you able to even answer
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  Speaker 2: that off the top of your head?
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  Speaker 3: And for me, I have my favorite. I have to
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  Speaker 3: think about my least favorite for a while, because there's
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  Speaker 3: got to be someone that I that I have despicable
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  Speaker 3: feeling towards. But my favorite is Genos Farez many different moments.
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  Speaker 3: I know it's kind of recent, and you know, I
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  Speaker 3: won't be able to speak to a lot of the
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  Speaker 3: nineties nostalgia a lot of people can, but it's definitely
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  Speaker 3: more in this recent ilk of Mariner's success that we've had.
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  Speaker 3: It culminated in obviously the Game five home run last
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  Speaker 3: year in the ALCS, and that was probably the greatest
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  Speaker 3: moment in my Mariner fandom life. But also just you know,
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  Speaker 3: someone who's been around the clubhouse a lot, or at
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  Speaker 3: least the last few years during that time, he's about
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  Speaker 3: as good of a dude as you can see. And
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  Speaker 3: I also, like you could tell just the way that
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  Speaker 3: he kind of rallies around his his teammates and when
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  Speaker 3: they traded for him at the deadline last year, I
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  Speaker 3: realized it wasn't an overwhelming success numbers wise, But that's
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  Speaker 3: the thing that really gave me the feeling that this
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  Speaker 3: team was going to in the world or trying to
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  Speaker 3: go win the World Series. It was when they the
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  Speaker 3: Josh Naylor trade was great, but then when they went
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  Speaker 3: and got Suarez as well, that was like, Okay, let's go,
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  Speaker 3: let's do this thing. So that's that's I have a
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  Speaker 3: couple of different reasons why, but Gino Suarez just for
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  Speaker 3: the everyday consistency that he brought, the amount of big
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  Speaker 3: moments that he had, and the type of person that
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  Speaker 3: he is. He's he's my favorite Mariner of all time.
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  Speaker 2: I like that.
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  Speaker 4: That's a good pick.
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  Speaker 2: That's a good pick. And I think part of what
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  Speaker 2: you said that really resonated with me. There's all the
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  Speaker 2: things that we knew he was about in the clubhouse
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  Speaker 2: and everything else. Yeah, the home run, I mean it's
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  Speaker 2: one of the I mean, I know, the double is
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  Speaker 2: the double and the double significant by the way ninety
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  Speaker 2: five And I know people are listen. I know people
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  Speaker 2: sometimes get tired of it. I think it's important sometimes
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  Speaker 2: to remind everybody of the significance of the double. It
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  Speaker 2: wasn't just to put him in the ALCS, the the
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  Speaker 2: you know, the the big thing with the double, honestly
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  Speaker 2: was the fact that it helped save baseball in Seattle.
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  Speaker 2: We needed a building, we needed a stadium, We needed this.
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  Speaker 2: We needed some enthusiasm, some excitement for the baseball team,
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  Speaker 2: and we needed voter support. And I don't think it happens.
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  Speaker 2: Without that, we would be sitting here today. We would
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  Speaker 2: not be talking about fifty years of Mariner baseball without well,
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  Speaker 2: whether it's the double or just that win. True, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: And so I get when people get pissed about it
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  Speaker 2: and all they care about is twenty, you know, is
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  Speaker 2: ninety five. We all should care about ninety five like
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  Speaker 2: we should all care about ninety five, because ninety five
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  Speaker 2: doesn't happen. They don't come from behind. If Jay Buhner
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  Speaker 2: and this whole refuse to lose all those if they
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  Speaker 2: don't do all of that stuff, we don't have a
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  Speaker 2: baseball team, guys. And as mad as we are about
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  Speaker 2: at the baseball team right now, and we are, we are,
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  Speaker 2: we're mad, I get it, But we don't have a
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  Speaker 2: baseball team if those guys don't do what they did
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  Speaker 2: at the end of the year. And that's huge, man,
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  Speaker 2: that is absolutely huge. Ricky White's walking over as we speak,
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  Speaker 2: so and as we're gonna kind of have to play
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  Speaker 2: with the clock a little bit here if that's okay,
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  Speaker 2: that's just that's the way it is. I see, he
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  Speaker 2: was taking some late.
• 15:16
  Speaker 3: Work and we got this hour, you know, open for
• 15:19
  Speaker 3: Ricky White.
• 15:19
  Speaker 2: So let's says, yeah, he's he's walking right here. I'm
• 15:23
  Speaker 2: waving at him right now. There he is. We'll get
• 15:27
  Speaker 2: him here in a second. But that so least favorite
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: and favorite Mariner of all time? Who are they? Four
• 15:33
  Speaker 2: nine five one? On the Tacoma Dodge text line. Also again,
• 15:36
  Speaker 2: we'll we'll get your thoughts, uh as well on the talkbacks,
• 15:40
  Speaker 2: I'll give you mine coming up. I gave listen. I
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: mentioned the one this morning my least favorite to to
• 15:47
  Speaker 2: to Chuck and Ashley and I went down I went
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: down the road of Sean Fagins. I may, but I
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: may switch that for my show. I may. I may
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: switch that. So we'll see, well we may we may
• 15:58
  Speaker 2: switch that here because why not. I mean, there's unfortunately
• 16:01
  Speaker 2: there's way way too many. So Ricky, what's up, what's
• 16:05
  Speaker 2: going on, buddy, we're gonna grab him on and we'll
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: throw this headset. You go ahead, take your stuff off.
• 16:09
  Speaker 2: We'll get you here in a second. Yeah. So we
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: got Wilco. Fun with that today with the Mariners and
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: then uh we'll talk baseball. I we will get to
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: the rappaport stuff. It's gonna be a ton of fun
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: as the day goes on with with that. That's gonna
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: be a fun, fun interview. We're gonna do so. All right,
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: we got Ricky White, the third is gonna sit down.
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: We last talked to him during rookie mini camp. He
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: was here even though he wasn't a rookie. He's out there.
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: He's the he was the Wilie veteran those days. Now
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: he's out here grinding a way. Go and throw that
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: headset on there, Ricky. And oh oh you're waiting some water. Okay,
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: we'll do that. No worries, no worries. He's getting some water.
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: And as let's do this. Let me take a quick break.
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: Let's take a quick break. Can you do that? I
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: might have to come back like halfway through the break. Okay,
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: we'll let Ricky. He was working hard out there. He's
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: waking for some water. We'll do that. We'll come back
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: with Ricky White in a second.
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: Now back to Ian forness at the Virginia Mason Athletics Center.
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: Special coverage of.
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: Seahawks training camp brought to you by the Boweling Classics
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: on sports.
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: kJ r f M. All right, we're back in the
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: Virginia Mason Athletics Center. Early practice just wrapped up. I
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: like good stories. I like introducing the fans to maybe
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: some of the players they don't always hear from. And
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: we did that back at rookie Minni camp and we
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: talked to this next guest. Our next gentleman was stopping
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: by Rocky White, third from UNLV, last year, seventh round
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: draft pick. He was here all year, got activated for
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: a couple of games, has a Super Bowl ring back
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: for year number two, grinding out there. How are you well,
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: It's good to see right, It's nice. Yeah, it's good
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: to see him. Man house camp. So far, how do
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: you feel?
• 17:39
  Speaker 5: I Kent's been really great for me, No, great for
• 17:42
  Speaker 5: the team. Fore Like, we're putting in really great work.
• 17:46
  Speaker 5: The overall offensive defense, spensive teams coming together as a unit,
• 17:50
  Speaker 5: you know, competing well every day. Yeah, and I feel
• 17:53
  Speaker 5: like that that's what makes us stronger.
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: We had the you guys had the early practice. They
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: normally practices at twelve about one o'clock or so, one
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: to three. And although Coach Mike likes to go along,
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: doesn't he right, that's what we're here for. But it
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: was really practiced. Why did switch things up? Do you think?
• 18:11
  Speaker 5: Really just get us going kind of early, really knowing
• 18:14
  Speaker 5: we have some East Coast games that might start at
• 18:17
  Speaker 5: one o'clock, so you know, here's it'll be ten o'clock.
• 18:20
  Speaker 5: So really, just get us going early. Get you to
• 18:22
  Speaker 5: that one o'clock time, you know, start fast.
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: Really, how hard is it to acclimate your body when
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: you go back easter.
• 18:29
  Speaker 5: Back and forth. It's really not that bad. Honestly, I
• 18:32
  Speaker 5: feel like Coach Mike and you know, the rest of
• 18:34
  Speaker 5: the stabb gives us a great schedule. You know, we
• 18:37
  Speaker 5: might arrive a day earlier to get our bodies, you know, acclimated.
• 18:40
  Speaker 5: Like you mentioned, Yeah, I play. That's that's really good
• 18:42
  Speaker 5: for us.
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: You're putting in the hard work. You were out there,
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: you're one of the last guys off the field. Just
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: keep on grinding and stuff. What did you learn from
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: last year to this year, that's changed how you approach.
• 18:51
  Speaker 5: These really just my approach to the game, watching more film,
• 18:56
  Speaker 5: going back in you know, watching first team guys. Of
• 18:59
  Speaker 5: course Jack's he had a tremendous year. Cool she watching
• 19:03
  Speaker 5: guys like those, Man, I play those, they said a
• 19:05
  Speaker 5: great example for you know, people like me this, you know,
• 19:08
  Speaker 5: up and coming. So really my approach it's just trying
• 19:12
  Speaker 5: to see, you know, what those guys do well and
• 19:15
  Speaker 5: you know, adding those tools to my game.
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: Uh, Ricky, when you watch this, did you watch the
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: Hard Knocks? I did? What did you think it was interesting? Okay?
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: So interesting? Was it a good depiction of what's going on?
• 19:28
  Speaker 5: Definitely? Definitely feel like it was. Yeah, you know, it's
• 19:31
  Speaker 5: so the good and you know the grind that was
• 19:34
  Speaker 5: going through, so it was it was good.
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: How did you think Mike mc is that Mike McDonald
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: is what we saw is that Mike is that coach Mike.
• 19:40
  Speaker 5: Or he's the coaches player. Man, he's always thorough, you know,
• 19:44
  Speaker 5: he's he's him. You know, he's always gonna be him.
• 19:46
  Speaker 5: So that's one thing I really appreciate for coaching.
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: One of the things that I thought was really cool
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: with him is that he's he's not a yeller, screamer
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: running backs coach could do that. Coach Hammick, right, he
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: could be that guy. Mike proaches things in just such
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: a calm way. Does he ever get to ten or
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: is he always in that like kind of medium ring.
• 20:06
  Speaker 5: Day he gets It really depends on the day. But
• 20:10
  Speaker 5: you know, it's it's kind of hard to get him,
• 20:11
  Speaker 5: you know there, Yeah, but you know you gotta respect
• 20:15
  Speaker 5: at the end of the day. So I would definitely
• 20:18
  Speaker 5: say it's hard to get him there, but you know,
• 20:20
  Speaker 5: some days he might get there.
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: Ricky White, that they're joining us here. The Seahawks wide receiver,
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: second year NLV guy. That's uh, that's that's out there
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: working hard and grinding away as we try to see
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: how this roster shakes out. You mentioned Cooper Cup. We
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: saw a lot of Cooper Cup in that in that piece.
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: And one of the things, Ricky, that I thought was
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: interesting is something that we've always heard, uh, guys like
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: you have talked about, but we really kind of saw
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: it up there. Was whether it was with Sam Darnold
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: the receiving room or even even with coach Mike, is
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: Cooper Cup's like another coach out there, can you walk
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: us through what it's like to play? He's he's walking
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: off now. He's like one of the last guys off
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: the field. Cooper is my die.
• 20:58
  Speaker 5: I've learned so much from him and he's so very
• 21:02
  Speaker 5: He's very smart at the game of football. He knows
• 21:04
  Speaker 5: the ins and outs. It's there's certain times when you
• 21:07
  Speaker 5: know you can ask Cooper what the office in lineman
• 21:11
  Speaker 5: is doing on a certain play. He knows exactly what's
• 21:13
  Speaker 5: going on. So you know, that's the guy that you
• 21:15
  Speaker 5: can go to for anything, any questions, and you know
• 21:18
  Speaker 5: he's he's always there for you. You know, he's he does
• 21:21
  Speaker 5: just shy away from you know, not give you game advice.
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: And I really respect Cool for that. The we hear
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: things about route running and all the different things that
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: he does so well. But you just said something he
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: reads and sees the game, right. I mean, I'm gonna
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: tell you right now, I'm gonna guess if you ask
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: an offensive lineman about a about a route tree or
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: a route you know, I don't That's not what I'm not.
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: I'm not care there. He is right there. Cool he
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: cat walking by and he's gonna go do a little
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: national TV. Uh, but he knows all this stuff. What
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: is it about him that separates him? Is it? Is
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: it the route running? Is it the hands combo? But
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: what was it really with you as a receiver? What
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: really just kind of go wow?
• 22:01
  Speaker 5: I feel like it's really everything. His pre snap awareness
• 22:03
  Speaker 5: is football IQ, his smartness of the game, and he
• 22:07
  Speaker 5: just plays at his pace, and I feel like that
• 22:10
  Speaker 5: separates him, you know, from a lot of receivers. He's
• 22:12
  Speaker 5: not really you know, the speedy guy or you know,
• 22:16
  Speaker 5: just he just plays at his pace. And one thing
• 22:18
  Speaker 5: that he's told me that you know, really stuck with
• 22:20
  Speaker 5: me is smooth as fast, and you know, I really
• 22:24
  Speaker 5: have implemented that into my game, just playing with a
• 22:27
  Speaker 5: pace you know, when his own cender coverages, you know,
• 22:30
  Speaker 5: knowing with the window, you know, to being and know
• 22:32
  Speaker 5: when his man you know, getting open.
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: Really, so a lot of times Ricky is at house
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: having just a great familiarity and feel and and comfort
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: level with the offense. I assume that.
• 22:42
  Speaker 5: That and just being on you know, timing with your quarterback,
• 22:45
  Speaker 5: having that relationship and that you know, connectivity you know
• 22:48
  Speaker 5: with your quarterback for sure.
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: So so along those lines, how how much did you guys.
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: As an offense, returning players have to learn how much
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: is new with Brian Floyd coming in compared to to
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: Clint Kulbiac. It's not really that that much.
• 23:00
  Speaker 5: A newable offense, same terminology, just different phrases, different words,
• 23:05
  Speaker 5: you know. I feel like it's really no drop off
• 23:07
  Speaker 5: for us. We're still gonna be the same offense. We
• 23:10
  Speaker 5: having some great players on offense. Yeah, you know every room,
• 23:14
  Speaker 5: so you know what's different with the offense. I'll honestly
• 23:18
  Speaker 5: saying subtle things that you don't get in trouble for.
• 23:22
  Speaker 5: We're gonna run the ball a lot more. Yeah, that's
• 23:24
  Speaker 5: good for us. But you know, as receivers, we take
• 23:26
  Speaker 5: responsibility and the ownership and it's just you know, blocking
• 23:30
  Speaker 5: for those those running backs, and I feel like that
• 23:31
  Speaker 5: will open up the game for us.
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: You have to block in this offense. If you're receiving,
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: sure you have to block. You have to block for
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: you personally, how much better of a player are you?
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: And what's better about your game this year in the
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: year ago?
• 23:41
  Speaker 5: Really my my mindset, you know, I feel like I've
• 23:45
  Speaker 5: grown as a player. Yeah, just going to get up
• 23:48
  Speaker 5: the defense every day. Last year really just you know,
• 23:51
  Speaker 5: molding me into a better player. I got to see
• 23:54
  Speaker 5: you know, different different coverages and just like I said,
• 23:59
  Speaker 5: going to gift going up against the best defense.
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: You know, last last I think you told me that
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: in the spring you're gonna go gainst twenty one a lot.
• 24:06
  Speaker 5: Right twenty one. I'm gonna read Joe of course. So
• 24:09
  Speaker 5: you know, those guys made me better and you know
• 24:12
  Speaker 5: I made them better every day. Yeah, And like I said,
• 24:14
  Speaker 5: I just wanted to go out there and compete every day.
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: Special teams are gonna be big for you, Yes, sir?
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: What special teams are you on right now? All?
• 24:23
  Speaker 6: Yeah?
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: Do all?
• 24:24
  Speaker 6: So?
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yes, sir? Are you gonna kick returns are a
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: big thing for you?
• 24:28
  Speaker 6: Right?
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: Kickoff? But not so much punt? Is that safe to say? Okay?
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: But and the other thing that I don't know if
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: people realize you have this ability in college to block
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: kicks like that, we like led the country and I
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: think it's four right your senior year. Is that something
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: we're gonna get a chance to see maybe in the preseason.
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: But what they even turn you guys loose in the
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: preseason for something like that, I'm not sure because they
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: don't want to show anything. I don't want to show
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: that much, right, I'm not sure. So we have to
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: see when that time. What's the art of blocking the kick?
• 24:55
  Speaker 6: Really?
• 24:56
  Speaker 5: Just time and get off at the line of scrimmys
• 24:59
  Speaker 5: chasing in man line the stream is hip. Yeah, it
• 25:02
  Speaker 5: just hand placement, you know, once you're there.
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: Here's the uncomfortable question. But I think a lot of
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: people this has been We'll see this maybe a little
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: bit hard knocks. I don't know, you're driwing it. There's
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: numbers game all that. You're looking around out there, right,
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: How do you not let that affect what you do
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: every day? Or does it come into play? Maybe it's motivation.
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: I don't know, if it's stressed. I think all of
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: us have gone through different things in life and work
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: where you're like wondering what your future might be and
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: stuff like that. How do you approach that?
• 25:26
  Speaker 5: Really, my mindset is just going in every day trying
• 25:29
  Speaker 5: to be the best version of my cell, be the
• 25:31
  Speaker 5: best for my teammates, you know, not letting any plays
• 25:36
  Speaker 5: go by that you know, wish I can go back in,
• 25:38
  Speaker 5: you know, try to do it over again. Just taking
• 25:40
  Speaker 5: advantage of each and every play, whether it's blocking or
• 25:44
  Speaker 5: you know, catching the ball. So really just having a
• 25:46
  Speaker 5: great mindset going in and being consistent. That's really the
• 25:50
  Speaker 5: biggest part of being consistent every day.
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: By all accounts, what we're seeing out here is a really,
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: really good second year from number eighty six out there,
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: and I can't wait to see in the priests using
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: I'm rooting hard for you, man, it's a great story.
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: I'm guessing we won't see one of your big assets,
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: and that be blocking kicks because they ain't gonna show that.
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: They're not going to show that against the Cowboys next week.
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: I don't think they know that they've got that in
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: the back pocket. Uh ricky. Oh by the way, how's
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: the ring man? Awesome? Yeah, people saw that thing coming down.
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: People hadn't seen it yet. They're like, wow, it's crazy,
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: how big it is?
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: What was it?
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: Like you like were you sitting there and like what
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: was going on? It was?
• 26:25
  Speaker 5: It was so crazy man for me to be my
• 26:28
  Speaker 5: first year when the Super Bowl, it's unbelievable.
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: So blessed and thankful you didn't drop it like sand
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: I had anything. Preciously. Where is it now back at home? Okay?
• 26:40
  Speaker 5: Ye put it in the safe, so okay, so help
• 26:44
  Speaker 5: is it heavy? It's not that heavy? Okay, it is,
• 26:47
  Speaker 5: but it's bearable, like.
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: If you're back home, to take it out of the
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: safe and open and close it because it opens and
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: closes right right.
• 26:53
  Speaker 5: To do that, to play with it like a toy.
• 26:55
  Speaker 5: I kind of just cherish it like it's, you know,
• 26:58
  Speaker 5: one to one thing.
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: So hey, let's hope he's it's one of two or
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: one of three and all those all right, Ricky White,
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: the third man. I appreciate you coming by, Thank you
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: so much. We'll take a quick break. Come back with
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: more from training Camp nine three point three KJFM.
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: Now back to Ian Forness at the Virginia Mason Athletics
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: Center and our special coverage of Seahawks training camp brought
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: to you by the Boweling Classics Sports kJ r FM.
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: Hi, we're back here to the Virginia Mason Athletics Center. The
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: Seahawks wrapped up in early practice today, are done for
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: the day, heading out packing things up here. Is packing
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: up some of the tents around here as well, because
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: they are in the stadium tomorrow for the the college
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: just mock game fan fast something like that, so then
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: they're there tomorrow at Loomanfield and then all ready for it. Yeah, yeah,
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: off Sunday, back here on Monday. We'll be back here
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: on Monday as well. I got a quick story to
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: tell you about Cooper Cup. So if you saw the
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: end of at the end of Hard Knocks, they're in
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: the huddle at the end, yeah, And I I don't
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: know if it was McDonald or donald one of them
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: said it, but they said rookies sign autographs.
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: Yes, Donald Donald, Because McDonald said, all right, Sam, break
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: us down. And then Sam was like, it sound sounds
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: like it's a cool, like kind of leadership captain thing.
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: And it's like, okay, you choose who gets to go
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: sign today, rookie signed, and then anyone else who wants
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: to sign.
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah. And I think that might have been day one
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: camps with probably rookies and and rookies have to carry
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: helmets in pads and size just you know, some of
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: the little things they do. But one of the things
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: is yeah, like and he said, you know, veterans can
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: as well, right, so rookies and vets, you know, whoever
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: wants to. But basically rookies were all required. The rookie
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: class all thirteen rookies. It's a pretty small class required
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: to go sign autographs, to go to the bottom of
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: the burm or over the vip a and they signed
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: autographs for ale while, and you know, you can't get
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: every autograph signed, not every guy's to get it, and
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: it's just it's kind of a cluster. But they do
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: it for about ten minutes or so before they got
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: to get inside. So they're doing that. They do that,
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: and then there's a lot of time. JSN signs a
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: ton of autographs. Man, I just saw him over there again.
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: Showed hard knocks as well. Yeah, Offensive Player of the
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: Year on a Friday early practice. He's out there doing
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: his thing signing autographs. It's just I don't know. You
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: tell me, is Jamar Chase and Justin Jefferson Are they
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: doing that? Puka would if you can go over and
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: bite some hot looking girl. Probably, but we're no creep,
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: just a creep. But yeah, so so he's so. But
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: Cooper Cup was signing some autographs, had to go over
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: ahead to meet. I think he's he's either at the
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: podium today for the media. I'm not sure because I
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: couldn't see through all the tents for the NFL Network,
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: but that or he might have done a NFL Network
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: live or the NFL Live stuff. So he does that, Well,
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: the easiest thing is walk ten fifteen feet and go
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: back in side of the walk, right, be done for
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: the day. Yeah, dude came all the way back around
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: and went back and there were some people I think
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: he said, hey, I'll get you guys, and he went
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: back and he signed a bunch of autographs.
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: Oh that's so cool.
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: So there's like, you know, not as many people here left,
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: but he walked all the way back over there.
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: I just think that's it's it's a little things like that.
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: That's how you connect forever with a fan base. And
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: if you signed ten more autographs to young people, they
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: are a fan for life. It's easy, easily the best
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: business decision you could make in so many ways. Yeah,
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: just think about that. And so I thought it was
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: just kind of a cool, Like if anybody doesn't need
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: to go all the way back over there, it'd be
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: he'd be near the top of the list. Yeah. Right,
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: and and then he did he did that. I just
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: I'm impressed by the guy. And we hear you hear
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: the conversation a moment ago as well with Ricky White
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: the Third about what he means to this receiver group.
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: And you know, just real quick on Ricky Ricky White
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: the Third, where's eighty six. You'll see him in the preseason.
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: He'll get a lot of opportunities. Well, he's gonna have
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: he's got an uphill battle that final wide receiver spot
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: is it's gonna be tough. Uh you know, I mean
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: you can kind of pencil in right now. Who's I mean,
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: there's there's guys, there's locks. There's absolute flat out locks,
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: and I mean it's easy JSN, Cooper, Cup, rashii He,
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: Tory Horton. I think Jake Bobo is in that mid
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: Jake Bobo, Yeah, just because of contract, Like the contract
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: they signed him to is is Yeah, that's that's not
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: a hey, we're gonna catch you. So yeah, js N,
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: Rashichi Head, Cooper cup, Tory Horton, Jake Bobo. There's five.
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: There's five. So somewhere between IRV, Charles Montry Foster Junior,
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: Emmanuel Henderson, Rashad Rachelle, and Ricky White the Third and
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: Cody White, someone's gonna get there's like one spot for
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: five or six guys. Now, I do believe that, and
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: that's a really competitive position group. I do believe that
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: in that group, they would like to keep most of
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: those guys on the practice squad. And there's a there's
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: remember there's thirteen hundred players. Whatever is get cut on
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: that cutdown day, most of those guys will probably be here.
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: All right, we'll take a break, come back. It is
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: twelve forty two. We're gonna hear from Daniel and Neil.
• 32:10
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• 32:12
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• 32:15
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• 32:17
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• 32:20
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• 32:21
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• 32:27
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• 32:31
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• 32:42
  Speaker 2: Hi, We're back at the Virginia Mason Athletic Center in
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: Fornests with you as we roll along on a Friday afternoon.
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: Practice is wrapped up, people are leaving, things are quieting
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: down out here. I'll probably get head inside in a
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: little while because it's getting warm again. We set up
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: a topic today earlier, if you missed it, were scrambled
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: around waiting for Ricky White the Third. Appreciate him stopping
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: by our seahawk. Guess we're always a little kind of
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: and he was my second to last guy off on
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: the field. That's crazy. Last guy might have been Cooper Cup,
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: but we were we were setting up a fun topic today. Yeah,
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: and here's our topic. Chuck brought up this morning in
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: Ashley on the Morning Show, the Chuck Pollock Stravaganza they
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: call it now. I think that's the new official name
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: of the show. The They were like the top fifty
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: Mariners of all time and Energy mention it like I
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: think the Times is doing. Everyone's doing a list, right,
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: Who are your topic?
• 33:33
  Speaker 3: We love our lists, don't we?
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I am curious to see who the Mariner's top
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: fifty is.
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: Though there are some fringe players that would be. And
• 33:41
  Speaker 3: Chuck brought this up. I think it was off the air.
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: They're gonna do current players, so what if current player.
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: Well, Jp'll be JP's gonna be but hurt. That's what
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: I mean.
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: What what happens when a current player gets left off?
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: And okay, what let me let's let's start there for so, okay,
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: current current players, it should be among the to all
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: time cal Rawley, yes, Julio, yes, Logan, Yes, Munyos.
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: Munyos is questionable, but I think he should just sneak in.
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: It depends on how many relievers they put on.
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, Schooler will be on there, Sosaki will
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: be on there.
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: I don't think Diaz was here long enough, right.
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: But he was his his heights when he was here.
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, but okay, just for argument's sake, For argument's sake, Julio,
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: cal locks, Logan probably more than likely, Munyo's anybody else
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: deserve it?
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: Probably not. I mean, if you're going like this is
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: the most Mariners thing ever, Hey, he had the most
• 34:45
  Speaker 3: innings ever played at shortstop, JP Crawford, so you got
• 34:49
  Speaker 3: to put him on there.
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: It doesn't mean well, just because he played there super
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: long doesn't mean kind of like Dan Wilson's a Mariner
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: Hall of Fame exactly very average player. So yeah. So anyway,
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: I'm excited to see the list. I'm excited to see
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: who's on there because I know there'll be ones. I go, oh, okay,
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna doubt. I'm gonna I say this now, I'm
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: gonna doubt. I'm gonna come on Monday and say, boy,
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: they missed X, Y and Z these players. I think
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: they'll because I think you're right, they're gonna have to
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: have to get to fifty for teams under in the
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: World Series. They're gonna have to. There's gonna be some
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: guys that are fringe guy. Yes, okay, So they brought
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: up that this morning. Then they said who's the worst
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: player of all time? Or your least favorite? I guess
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: something like that. I forget how they phrased it. I
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: phrased it this way for our topic today, four nine
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: four five one to come a DODG text line. Love
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: to get some talkbacks as well. I want two things.
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: I want your favor I don't care about best necessarily
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: because that's griffy, right, like, I don't need I'm not
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: sure if that's even a subjective question, right, who's the
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: who's your favorite Mariner of all time? And who is
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: your least favorite of all time. So I I pose
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: that to you. You went Geno as your favorite, Yes,
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: who's your least favorite?
• 36:05
  Speaker 3: The easy answer would be like a Sean Figgins or
• 36:08
  Speaker 3: Eric Badard, And I probably leaned towards Eric Bedard, not
• 36:12
  Speaker 3: even really because of you know, his personality, which we
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: all know is just weak, but the fact that a
• 36:19
  Speaker 3: they traded Adam Adam Jones, who ended up being a
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: really good player to get him, yes, And the fact
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: that he took away an opening day start from Felix Hernandez,
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: who was probably my second favorite player of all time
• 36:32
  Speaker 3: on the Mariners. So those both of those things really hurt.
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: And the fact that he was just a terrible teammate,
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: terrible guy, not easy to root for or easy to
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: root against, I should say, probably makes it an easy
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: choice to be Eric Padart.
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: For me, I'm gonna narrow it down. I'm gonna ask
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: Danny that question, so get my heads up when when
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: you give him a ring. But I'm going listen, my
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: least favorite, I'll tell you, I'll talk about my favorite
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: when I have Danny on. But my least favorite, I
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: said this morning with Chuck it was Sean Figgins, and
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: then I forgot about Eric badhard because I wanted to
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: subconsciously true everything you just said, and the part about yeah,
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: like the fact he got an opening day start, didn't
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: even acknowledge the fans, like, didn't even tip his cap.
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: It was just and just was a he's a quitter. Yeah,
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: he just was just was And and the trade was
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: awful and just every level of it. I also threw
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: out my wild card. My wild card was Bill Plumber,
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: the manager after they had their first ever winning season. Yeah,
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: and they fired the fever and they they brought this
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: dipstick up from from Triple A. That was awful. Nice
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: litte hundred and seventy five lost season or whatever the
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: hell was. And then I've got another wild card for you, Okay,
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: least favorite. I'm going back in time. I was a
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: young buck, young young man just just getting his feet
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: in the door, kind of just trying to get this
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: world going. I was working at Como and a guy
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: that was just an absolute jackass to every buddy, and
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: especially younger guys like me, Pee Wee Briley, Greg Briley,
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: I don't even know. It's just an absolute puke of
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: a human. Wow. Yeah, And I'll tell you this. He
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: he did stuff and said stuff to the media. He
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: hit a home run. The Mayors famously played a like
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: eighteen or eighteen or nineteen eighting game or something like
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: that on Sunday Night Baseball in ESPN and the Kingdom
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: against the Yankees. And it was incredible game. Andrews like
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: it was. First of all, we weren't on national TV
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: out here that much back then. Ever, incredible game, back
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: and forth, back and forth. There were like four home
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: runs hit an extra innings, like some of the Yankees
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: had hit one, sanitl answer in the bottom of the
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: of the twelfth, thirteenth whatever, it kept going. Briley won
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: it with a home run and I think it was
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: the eighteenth. Anyway, next day I had to go down
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: and talk to I was working with Como, and like,
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: you know, Bruce King, get down there, go get Pee Bridle,
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: let's get him on. We' get him and we'll do
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: a live shot with him and you know, talk to
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: him and all this kind of stuff. So we'll go
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: down there. I could not have been a bigger jerk
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: to me and everybody else. Really just an absolute like
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: confrontational like just I'm like whoa. And I'll never forget
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: this because I'm like kind of like, okay, well I'm
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: taking aback by it, and you know, and we were
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: used to deal and listen, we were used to dealing
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: with Griffy. Griffy was no picnic. I'm gonna tell you
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: that right now. Like he was no picnic. What's not
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: at all? But we there were things that Griffy wanted
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: that you could get, Like he always wanted videos of
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: himself and that was back in the days before like
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: we had it. He couldn't get it readily. So we
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: bring hi VHS tapes and he was great with and
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: then I'll do whatever you need. Tell Bruce, I'll talk
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: to him. But but brobably and but after that just
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: I just never forget it. Was It happened twice in
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: the same day in the clubhouse, kind of put us off,
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: come out and talk to me. Later, we come out
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: in the dugout and he just was like, yeah, it
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: just couldn't be worse anyway. Harold Reynolds walks By, who
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: was one of the best dudes to ever deal with
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: him and Dave Valley were great and Harold walks By
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: and he looks at all of us, and he goes,
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: you know, some guys are in the big leagues and
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: some guys act like their minor leaguers, And I'm like,
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: whoa wow, that just took a total shot at his
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: own teammate. And I could just tell. So I was
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: thinking to myself, you know what, he's probably not just
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: a jerk to us, that's who he is.
• 40:18
  Speaker 5: Uh.
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: But yeah, because his nickname was Pee Wee War number one,
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: He's a little guy, had glasses and kind of people
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: kind of wanted him to be a fan favorite, and
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: he just was the most surly disgusting human being I've
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: ever been around in that in that in that realm.
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: So anyway, all right, that's it. Four nine, four to
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: five to one, your least favorite Mariner of all time
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: long list, and your favorite Mariner of all times. So
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: go to extremes your favorite and least favorite Mariner of
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: all time after fifty years. We'll talk to Daniel and
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: Neil coming up.
• 40:44
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• 41:06
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• 42:08
  Speaker 2: Danny O'Neil, dang apostrophe joins us right now. Seahawk training
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: camp has wrapped up early practice today, so it got
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: it got empty and quiet here the Virginia Mason athletics
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: that are out in the patio real quick. So as
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: we wrap things up here, we check in with Danny
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: O'Neill right now. Hello, sir, how are you?
• 42:24
  Speaker 7: I'm good?
• 42:25
  Speaker 8: How are you in?
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: Not bad? Hanging in there was kind of cruising around
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: and went from very loud they had the crowd noise
• 42:32
  Speaker 2: being pumped in today went from very loud to very
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: quiet today just like that. So yeah, kind of an interesting,
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: interesting day out here, but all good things are good.
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: I'm actually watching John Schneider walk across the field talking
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: to a gentleman who I don't know who that is,
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: but cruising across right now, Schnatty on the field by himself. Okay,
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: let's get to Mariner's fiftieth anniversary weekend before I get
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: to a rod, which we will in a second. They've
• 42:59
  Speaker 2: got the fifty pl everyone's doing a list. Everyone's got
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: their ones. Our morning show today brought up but how
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: did they phrase it? Andrews this morning?
• 43:05
  Speaker 3: The fifty worst players?
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: Fifty worst players? Yeah, it was at Danny. You are
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: in the majority with that one, all right. In a
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: stunning development, and a stunning development, Shawnie Faggins was right
• 43:19
  Speaker 2: up there with everybody. He was everyone's pick, along with
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: Eric Badar, the obvious ones. Uh, those of us had
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: to come to the team, Casey Kochman to be on
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: that list and go on and on. Okay, so let
• 43:28
  Speaker 2: me ask you this, who is your favorite Mariner of
• 43:31
  Speaker 2: all time? And it doesn't I'm not talking best because
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: they're doing the top fifty, right, Griffy's the best. I
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: think we could all probably agree upon that, But top
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: fifty of all time? Who is Danny O'Neil. Just as
• 43:43
  Speaker 2: a sports fan, someone was here, whether you cover him
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: or not. Who's your favorite, And I think you already
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: said who your least favorite is.
• 43:51
  Speaker 8: Yeah, my favorite tea Tiro. And the reason it's Tiro
• 43:55
  Speaker 8: is because when he came there was so much uncertainty
• 44:01
  Speaker 8: about what kind of players he would be. There had
• 44:04
  Speaker 8: never been an everyday position player, and he played the
• 44:08
  Speaker 8: game in a different way than I've ever seen. I
• 44:12
  Speaker 8: love Griffy, I will always love Griffy, and I think
• 44:15
  Speaker 8: Griffy was Seattle's first true national superstar. And my favorite
• 44:22
  Speaker 8: baseball card I have is the upper deck Griffy card
• 44:26
  Speaker 8: that was number one. I don't care how many of
• 44:27
  Speaker 8: it were produced, that picture of him with his big smile.
• 44:31
  Speaker 8: But the guy that I think I liked watching the
• 44:33
  Speaker 8: most game in game out was Etro because we've never
• 44:39
  Speaker 8: there's never been a player like that, And I don't
• 44:42
  Speaker 8: think he was the best. I think that there were
• 44:45
  Speaker 8: things in his game he could have walked more and
• 44:49
  Speaker 8: would have been a better player, Like he was fixated
• 44:52
  Speaker 8: on purely on the number of hits in a way
• 44:55
  Speaker 8: that I don't think necessarily was best for everyone. But
• 44:59
  Speaker 8: it was kind of the style or the aesthetics that
• 45:02
  Speaker 8: he played with, and I just I loved it. I
• 45:06
  Speaker 8: know that if his teammates off that he wouldn't die
• 45:09
  Speaker 8: or crash into walls. But he played every freaking day
• 45:13
  Speaker 8: and the consistency that he had, and I kind of
• 45:18
  Speaker 8: like the fact that he's such an absolute nut job
• 45:20
  Speaker 8: that he continues to practice baseball.
• 45:24
  Speaker 9: So it's it's been over for a while, and it
• 45:28
  Speaker 9: was over for a while before it was over, and
• 45:30
  Speaker 9: I it's e Troo is the guy who I just
• 45:34
  Speaker 9: love his style.
• 45:36
  Speaker 2: I like it. I trie Suzuki. I I'm going Felix.
• 45:40
  Speaker 2: I'm going Felix. I love Felix, I love Field, I
• 45:44
  Speaker 2: love everything about Felix, So I'm going Felix. There's just
• 45:48
  Speaker 2: something about him, Danny, just the whole field, the Helix,
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: Felix Ranana's experience was just special. Every I think it's
• 45:56
  Speaker 2: because he meant as much to us as we did
• 46:00
  Speaker 2: to him as fans and seam right like, he just was.
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: He was that guy. And I think with Felix, there
• 46:11
  Speaker 2: was just this incredible connection between him and the fan base.
• 46:15
  Speaker 2: Him in the front office and I'm not talking the
• 46:17
  Speaker 2: baseball side, just him in the front office. We saw
• 46:19
  Speaker 2: that when he signed his contract extension, he just and
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: you know the emotions he had, how he acknowledged the
• 46:27
  Speaker 2: King's court, and that was the first thing. It was
• 46:29
  Speaker 2: just such a remarkable marketing tool. But he he bought
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: into it, you know, like he bought into it like
• 46:34
  Speaker 2: he was. He was into it from day one, and
• 46:38
  Speaker 2: the chance of the king and strike, strike, strike, and
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: all the he just was, I just I'm a And
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: you know, Emo Sarrus is on with this every week
• 46:45
  Speaker 2: from the Athletic. He's he's very dialed into the world
• 46:48
  Speaker 2: of the Hall of Fame, and he's telling us, he's like,
• 46:50
  Speaker 2: this dude's gonna be in the Hall of Fame. He's
• 46:52
  Speaker 2: going to be a Hall of Famer.
• 46:53
  Speaker 4: Uh.
• 46:54
  Speaker 2: And I can't wait for that day because I think
• 46:56
  Speaker 2: a guy like Felix, it'll mean so much to him,
• 47:00
  Speaker 2: you know, to be a Hall of Famer, Like it'll
• 47:01
  Speaker 2: mean so much, and to go in as a Mariner.
• 47:04
  Speaker 2: But I'll go Felix along the way. All right, let's
• 47:07
  Speaker 2: get to it. A Rod you wrote about a Rod.
• 47:13
  Speaker 8: Well, and I'm.
• 47:14
  Speaker 10: Glad you brought up Felix before a Rod because and
• 47:17
  Speaker 10: one of the reasons that I really like your pick
• 47:19
  Speaker 10: of Felix is that Felix did something that a lot
• 47:22
  Speaker 10: of players sort of claim or will waffle at, and
• 47:25
  Speaker 10: Felix actually stuck to it.
• 47:27
  Speaker 8: Felix Felix didn't want to go to the biggest, best
• 47:31
  Speaker 8: team he could. He wanted to stay in Seattle. Like
• 47:33
  Speaker 8: that was the decisions he made his career. And I'm
• 47:37
  Speaker 8: not going to tell you that he short changed himself
• 47:39
  Speaker 8: or that he didn't take as much money, but a
• 47:42
  Speaker 8: lot of guys in his position, after making the money
• 47:45
  Speaker 8: he had made, would have said, all right, get me
• 47:48
  Speaker 8: to a team where I can win a World Series.
• 47:50
  Speaker 8: And he didn't do that because his priority was playing
• 47:55
  Speaker 8: for Seattle, and he did have a connection with him,
• 47:58
  Speaker 8: and he put his money his mouth was. I know
• 48:01
  Speaker 8: that later in his career, and he ended up signing
• 48:04
  Speaker 8: with Baltimore but never played because of COVID and it
• 48:07
  Speaker 8: didn't end great with the baseball people, but his connection
• 48:12
  Speaker 8: with the city goes a long way, and that puts
• 48:15
  Speaker 8: him in contrast to a Rod, who this whole idea
• 48:20
  Speaker 8: can you blame a Rods believing or not, misses the
• 48:23
  Speaker 8: bigger point in my opinion, which is we saw over
• 48:27
  Speaker 8: the course of his career what a Rod's made of.
• 48:30
  Speaker 8: And I'm of the opinion that he's a great baseball player. Began.
• 48:35
  Speaker 8: I don't feel anything toward him, and in fact, it
• 48:38
  Speaker 8: tickles me pink that people in Seattle, which is characterized
• 48:42
  Speaker 8: sometimes as a soft city, have just kind of decided
• 48:46
  Speaker 8: we don't like this.
• 48:47
  Speaker 11: Dude.
• 48:49
  Speaker 9: I enjoy that.
• 48:50
  Speaker 8: I'm a small and petty person. It may not be mature,
• 48:53
  Speaker 8: but I like it.
• 48:55
  Speaker 2: I do too, And I brought this up to Andrews earlier,
• 48:59
  Speaker 2: and I'll be honest with you, I haven't had the
• 49:03
  Speaker 2: same vitriol towards him as now. I also when he
• 49:08
  Speaker 2: left to go to Texas. Admittedly I was in Salt
• 49:11
  Speaker 2: Lake at the time and so growing up a diehard
• 49:14
  Speaker 2: Mariner fan, but by then I had moved out of state,
• 49:16
  Speaker 2: and so I wasn't quite as in tune with it
• 49:19
  Speaker 2: on the day to day basis, because what you said
• 49:22
  Speaker 2: is true. I mean, on the surface, he left for
• 49:26
  Speaker 2: more money and in today now I brought this up
• 49:30
  Speaker 2: to Andrews earlier. Dance with me on this, Danny for
• 49:32
  Speaker 2: a second, if you would. It is because I don't
• 49:37
  Speaker 2: now it's changed a little bit. I kind of get it.
• 49:39
  Speaker 2: I understand it. I understand where we're at with the world.
• 49:43
  Speaker 2: Of nil and all that when this free agency in
• 49:47
  Speaker 2: college sport started and people were just literally just leaving
• 49:51
  Speaker 2: for the money. And they still are, that's what they're doing.
• 49:54
  Speaker 2: I was one of those immediately like screw you, like
• 49:57
  Speaker 2: I just know, like I'm not even now listen, Like
• 50:01
  Speaker 2: a cam Ward ends up being the first overall pick.
• 50:03
  Speaker 2: Good for him, right? John Mattier mailed in half a
• 50:06
  Speaker 2: season though, because he already had one foot in Oklahoma.
• 50:08
  Speaker 2: And I'll never root for that guy, and I had
• 50:10
  Speaker 2: no respect for him how he did it. But isn't
• 50:13
  Speaker 2: that what we do in college sports now? Guys just
• 50:14
  Speaker 2: leave for money. It's all about the money, and we
• 50:16
  Speaker 2: don't you know, I mean it's and I get told
• 50:18
  Speaker 2: all the time, you can't be mad at those kids.
• 50:20
  Speaker 2: I just take the money. What would you do? I'm like, well,
• 50:21
  Speaker 2: what would you do if you'r a Rod? Right? You
• 50:23
  Speaker 2: take the money? A Rod? Just felt different for some reason, Yeah,
• 50:28
  Speaker 2: it did.
• 50:29
  Speaker 8: And I also think the entire premise of sports routing
• 50:33
  Speaker 8: is kind of irrational.
• 50:35
  Speaker 2: Right, Oh, he's here for players.
• 50:37
  Speaker 8: Who happened to live in a city that we identify
• 50:40
  Speaker 8: with that we may have very little connection too, but
• 50:43
  Speaker 8: we we embrace it, and we love it like a
• 50:45
  Speaker 8: little bit. It's a little bit crazy to begin with,
• 50:49
  Speaker 8: so I'm not going to force myself to be completely
• 50:52
  Speaker 8: rational about my reactions to things that happen in there.
• 50:56
  Speaker 8: And it did feel different with a Rod, and people
• 50:59
  Speaker 8: have tried to justify that feeling by saying, well, he
• 51:01
  Speaker 8: said it was never about the money, and the best
• 51:04
  Speaker 8: I can tell that is he never said those words.
• 51:08
  Speaker 8: I have never seen any evidence that he said that
• 51:11
  Speaker 8: it won't be about the money or won't but everybody
• 51:14
  Speaker 8: felt like that, and I think that gets to why
• 51:17
  Speaker 8: a Rod feels different. There has always been a huge
• 51:21
  Speaker 8: gap between who A Rod is as a public facing
• 51:26
  Speaker 8: individual and how he operates in private, and this was
• 51:30
  Speaker 8: maybe best demonstrated later in his career with the biogenesis
• 51:35
  Speaker 8: because some of the actual investigation, like federal investigation, the
• 51:40
  Speaker 8: notes came out of that, and he was someone who
• 51:42
  Speaker 8: was very tried to undermine the Major League Baseball investigation
• 51:47
  Speaker 8: at every turn, was getting other people up, like all
• 51:50
  Speaker 8: of these things, and the gap between that person and
• 51:54
  Speaker 8: then the person you hear on Sunday Night Baseball is huge,
• 51:58
  Speaker 8: and I think that one of the reasons why his
• 52:02
  Speaker 8: departure did feel different. Yes, it's how the game works.
• 52:06
  Speaker 8: But man, that is not the person that you led
• 52:10
  Speaker 8: us to believe you were. And when you leave us
• 52:13
  Speaker 8: for them, we're just gonna boo the hell out.
• 52:16
  Speaker 2: How crazy? I don't know what the whole anders do?
• 52:19
  Speaker 2: We know how they're doing this? Are you introducing everybody tomorrow?
• 52:23
  Speaker 2: Is that what they're doing? Yeah?
• 52:24
  Speaker 3: I think Saturday they are starting the pregame ceremony at
• 52:26
  Speaker 3: five thirty, And I would assume, because it's so much earlier,
• 52:29
  Speaker 3: that they're going to do the whole list, the entire list.
• 52:31
  Speaker 3: I don't know what they're doing it in an order
• 52:34
  Speaker 3: or something like that, because that'd be kind of like,
• 52:36
  Speaker 3: how how are feelings going to go in this whole thing?
• 52:39
  Speaker 2: Right? Just alphabetical? I don't know. Well, I bring that
• 52:42
  Speaker 2: up for this reason, Danny, Like you said, like there's
• 52:45
  Speaker 2: a lot of young fans that probably don't even remember
• 52:48
  Speaker 2: a Rod, you know, like like in what he was
• 52:50
  Speaker 2: all about? Like you know, right, Andergy be one of
• 52:53
  Speaker 2: those my daughters, relatively the same age. She probably the
• 52:55
  Speaker 2: same way. But he will get booed on a night
• 52:59
  Speaker 2: in which you celebrating all these people, he will get booted.
• 53:02
  Speaker 2: Now will be everybody. Probably not, but he will get
• 53:05
  Speaker 2: boot which would be awesome.
• 53:10
  Speaker 8: I do want to say there are people out there
• 53:13
  Speaker 8: who kind of feel like it's time to be over
• 53:16
  Speaker 8: it or there I'm mad, but I'm over it now,
• 53:19
  Speaker 8: and I think that's totally fine too. I don't. I
• 53:21
  Speaker 8: don't think you're a soft fan. If you feel that,
• 53:24
  Speaker 8: you feel the way you feel. And if we're being honest,
• 53:28
  Speaker 8: he's he still ranks what I think, he's fifth in
• 53:32
  Speaker 8: career home runs despite playing only five full seasons. He's
• 53:37
  Speaker 8: got the highest lugging percent.
• 53:39
  Speaker 3: He's a man, Danny.
• 53:42
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean he's he is a Hall of Fame
• 53:44
  Speaker 8: Mariner player, like he deserves to be in the Mariners
• 53:47
  Speaker 8: Hall of Fame and and maybe it will be. And
• 53:50
  Speaker 8: if that's the case and everybody's happy with it, I'm not.
• 53:53
  Speaker 8: I'm not going to begrudge that or feel like, oh
• 53:55
  Speaker 8: my god, I just know that I'm never going to
• 53:57
  Speaker 8: cheer for him, Like that's that's just how I feel
• 54:00
  Speaker 8: about it, and I really I don't think that reflects
• 54:04
  Speaker 8: very well upon me. But I'm also not so embarrassed
• 54:07
  Speaker 8: that I'm going to change it.
• 54:11
  Speaker 2: It's also the most manner thing ever for them to
• 54:13
  Speaker 2: be honoring these guys and have a dude end up
• 54:15
  Speaker 2: being getting booed like it really is.
• 54:19
  Speaker 8: Somebody was talking about I just saw I saw the joke.
• 54:22
  Speaker 8: I think it was from Jeremy Chrome on Twitter who
• 54:24
  Speaker 8: said that, like this lead up to the to the
• 54:27
  Speaker 8: fifty fifty seasons has been the perfect embodiment of the
• 54:32
  Speaker 8: majority of those fifty seasons. And I was like, Oh,
• 54:35
  Speaker 8: it hurts because it's true.
• 54:37
  Speaker 2: Oh my god, it does. I mean, god, it does.
• 54:43
  Speaker 2: You wrote, Hey, trade deadline is coming gone. Let's get
• 54:45
  Speaker 2: to that real quick thoughts on what the ms did
• 54:48
  Speaker 2: Castiles out Maybe a salary dump. First appearance by the
• 54:53
  Speaker 2: reliever they got was not good. But what do you
• 54:54
  Speaker 2: think about the trade deadline including Castile?
• 54:58
  Speaker 8: I thought it was fine. I don't have any attachment
• 55:02
  Speaker 8: to Hey, they needed to keep Louis Castillo. I think
• 55:06
  Speaker 8: that his addition was really important. But I also don't
• 55:09
  Speaker 8: want to feel like, oh my gosh, they really won
• 55:12
  Speaker 8: by being able to dump his salary, because they're going
• 55:17
  Speaker 8: to go and put that money into someone else whose
• 55:20
  Speaker 8: salary they might end up having to dump too. I
• 55:23
  Speaker 8: remember very clearly when these sort of moves were made
• 55:27
  Speaker 8: between twenty twenty three and twenty twenty four when they
• 55:30
  Speaker 8: pretty much gave away a Johannio Suarez and they traded
• 55:34
  Speaker 8: Robbie Ray for what was left of Mit Hannagher, and
• 55:36
  Speaker 8: the idea was, we're going to create some rooms. That's
• 55:40
  Speaker 8: the only way we can get the spending room to
• 55:42
  Speaker 8: make these other additions. And they got traded for Jorge
• 55:45
  Speaker 8: Polanco and then sign Mitch Garverer, who weren't good. Now
• 55:49
  Speaker 8: Polonco came back as a free agent was really good.
• 55:52
  Speaker 8: But this is if you're looking for an explanation of
• 55:57
  Speaker 8: why the Mariners are stuck sort of in this of
• 56:01
  Speaker 8: good but not great good in contention, hoping to catch
• 56:06
  Speaker 8: fire down the stretch, make the playoffs and do some damage.
• 56:09
  Speaker 8: This is this is an explanation wise because they kind
• 56:12
  Speaker 8: of rearranged, they make incremental moves and they never take
• 56:16
  Speaker 8: the big fight that that and really really go for it.
• 56:20
  Speaker 8: It's always pretty measure and and and the results is
• 56:24
  Speaker 8: kind of what it is. Where they're they're not a
• 56:27
  Speaker 8: bad team. They're they're they've been in convention now or
• 56:30
  Speaker 8: been at about this level for for the past six
• 56:33
  Speaker 8: years or so. But if things don't break, their way
• 56:36
  Speaker 8: they don't get into the playoffs, and that gets really frustrated.
• 56:40
  Speaker 2: The by the way, the money's already spent, is it not?
• 56:43
  Speaker 2: And this year's money.
• 56:44
  Speaker 3: Already yes, because sar Anthony Domingo has cost ten million
• 56:47
  Speaker 3: and then you spent the rest of it on Taylor Ward.
• 56:49
  Speaker 8: So yeah, so they'll have about ten million dollars next
• 56:52
  Speaker 8: year that they wouldn't have correct.
• 56:54
  Speaker 2: Next year, Yes, yeah, next year they will and then
• 56:56
  Speaker 2: they and they'll have money as well next year if Crawford,
• 57:01
  Speaker 2: who they lose next year.
• 57:02
  Speaker 3: Crawford books, I mean supposedly will be off the books too.
• 57:07
  Speaker 2: He'll definitely, he'll definitely be off the books. Like that's
• 57:11
  Speaker 2: that was pretty obvious from the Scott Boris interview with
• 57:13
  Speaker 2: Softy and Fan a couple of weeks ago. Daniel Neil
• 57:16
  Speaker 2: joining us here, Danny, how would you I'll wrap it
• 57:18
  Speaker 2: up this This should be a great weekend of celebration
• 57:22
  Speaker 2: for the baseball team fifty years And you know, I
• 57:25
  Speaker 2: don't and I mentioned this to Andrews earlier. I don't
• 57:27
  Speaker 2: take that for granted, not for a couple of reasons.
• 57:29
  Speaker 2: One would be what happened with the Sonics, Like that's
• 57:33
  Speaker 2: like we don't and what may or may not happen
• 57:35
  Speaker 2: to the Portland Trailblazers out here in the Northwest as well,
• 57:37
  Speaker 2: So I don't. I don't take fifty years for granted.
• 57:39
  Speaker 2: I've worked in two non major league markets in Salt
• 57:41
  Speaker 2: Lake and Portland, and I love having a major league
• 57:43
  Speaker 2: team in my market. I think it's awesome. But I'll
• 57:46
  Speaker 2: ask you, like, right now, in what should be a
• 57:49
  Speaker 2: great weekend, they're coming off a series in which they
• 57:51
  Speaker 2: were outscored twenty one to four, shut out twice. Only
• 57:55
  Speaker 2: game that they won was a four to three game
• 57:57
  Speaker 2: along the way, and there is I can't even begin
• 58:01
  Speaker 2: to explain, Danny, the feelings, like the negative vibes towards
• 58:05
  Speaker 2: this team. It's the opposite of good vibes, only like
• 58:08
  Speaker 2: Gino Suarez would not like to be here right now,
• 58:10
  Speaker 2: there's no good vibes. I've never seen a fan base
• 58:13
  Speaker 2: just maybe they're frustrated. I don't know what it is, Danny,
• 58:16
  Speaker 2: but it's hard to explain. The fan base here is
• 58:19
  Speaker 2: just done, like they are just done with this baseball team.
• 58:24
  Speaker 8: I accept like the Mariners of my team, I love them.
• 58:27
  Speaker 8: There's nothing they're going to do to change that I
• 58:32
  Speaker 8: accept that rooting for them is going to be at
• 58:36
  Speaker 8: times like a hostage situation where I'm being held against
• 58:40
  Speaker 8: my will and I'm continuing to subject myself to it
• 58:44
  Speaker 8: despite all evidence that this will be an unsatisfactory viewing experience.
• 58:49
  Speaker 8: So I start from that the expectation of paint, and
• 58:53
  Speaker 8: one of the benefits of that is that there are
• 58:56
  Speaker 8: times you can laugh at and I would say that
• 58:59
  Speaker 8: this is one of those times where instead of being
• 59:03
  Speaker 8: so like he's grittingly mad, I'm kind of like Lieutenant
• 59:07
  Speaker 8: Dan in Forrest Gump when they go out on the
• 59:10
  Speaker 8: shrimp boat into the storm and he's up on the
• 59:13
  Speaker 8: masks screaming at God to give him everything he's got.
• 59:16
  Speaker 8: That's kind of how I feel right now. What you
• 59:18
  Speaker 8: can't break me like you, you can't break me. You
• 59:21
  Speaker 8: could bring in Sir Anthony and whoever else you're gonna
• 59:24
  Speaker 8: bring in, and they can do exactly what we expect
• 59:26
  Speaker 8: or fear that they're gonna do like you could. You
• 59:29
  Speaker 8: could do whatever you want, and and at some point
• 59:31
  Speaker 8: I'm just gonna like be able to like, is that
• 59:33
  Speaker 8: all you got? Is that all you got to see?
• 59:35
  Speaker 8: Worse than this, I've been through worse than this, what
• 59:37
  Speaker 8: twenty one years without watching the playoff game, I'm not
• 59:40
  Speaker 8: able to handle your little nosedive against Detroit. So if
• 59:44
  Speaker 8: they really want me to suffer, they're gonna have to
• 59:46
  Speaker 8: bring more than they brought so far.
• 59:49
  Speaker 2: I think. I think I feel the exact same way,
• 59:52
  Speaker 2: and that's why I keep and anders is. I know
• 59:54
  Speaker 2: it's it's both confusing and driving people crazy when I
• 59:57
  Speaker 2: sit there and go, we're fine, nothing to see here,
• 59:59
  Speaker 2: you know, like the guy at the end of the
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 2: animal house, you know, and the parade, nothing to see
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 2: here and move along. Yeah, But I also the reality
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 2: is there one good week away from being back in
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 2: first place. And as far as the whole emotional thing
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 2: I brought up that you just explained so well, I
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 2: think I'm able to. I like the hostage situations. That's
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 2: a great analogy. I'm a Wazoo fan, so I don't know.
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 2: This just seems normal to me, just whatever.
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 8: I mean, we're kind of like, we're kind of like
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 8: two old guys from the Muppet Show. Yeah, Butler and Waldorf.
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, up in the balcony.
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 9: You should have seen these guys.
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: Two thousand of eyes.
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 2: I listen, we all suffered through two thousand and eight.
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 2: All right, like, let's let's just like we all suffered
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 2: through eight, a year in which there was a trial
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 2: going on. During the trial, we had a manager fired
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 2: by the Mariners. During that trial. I remember, never forget.
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 2: At ten o'clock in the morning, we're going in Judge
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 2: Marsha Pekman's office. All the managers fired. Whoever, I don't
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 2: even can't you tell you which manager it was, because
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 2: they fired so many of those years fired a manager.
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 2: They lost one hundred plus games. Huskies went on twelve,
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 2: Coups went one or two and ten. I mean, just
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 2: the disaster. We lose the Sonics. This is child's play.
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 2: What's going on in this year? This is a nothing burger?
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 8: Yeah, man, we got hard knocks, We got yeah Hammick
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 8: dropping sixteen f BOMs in the span of two minutes
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 8: and ten seconds. Yeah, they're all good.
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 2: Do you think do you think the folks at Northern
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 2: Illinois are like, thank God, thank god he's there right now.
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 2: He's not coaching our head coach. Uh Danny tell people
• 1:01:34
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• 1:01:36
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• 1:01:38
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• 1:01:40
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  Speaker 2: All right, we'll back get Sports Radio ninety three point
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  Speaker 2: a guy I met here, I want to say, fifteen
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  Speaker 2: ish years ago.
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  Speaker 4: And I just started up network.
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  Speaker 6: Was that right?
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  Speaker 2: I think that's right.
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  Speaker 4: Crazy.
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  Speaker 2: Ian Rappaport is with US rap Sheet for many years,
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  Speaker 2: part of our show, but he's a big deal now
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  Speaker 2: he's running around his guys fault. You're only a one
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  Speaker 2: phone guy, though.
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  Speaker 4: I've always been a one phone guy.
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  Speaker 12: And the reason that is is because I can put
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  Speaker 12: it on speaker and tweet as I as I talk, so.
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  Speaker 4: I don't need multiple phones.
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  Speaker 12: I only have two pockets and I have my wallet
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  Speaker 12: in my front pocket, so where where else would the
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  Speaker 12: other phone go?
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  Speaker 2: You know what I'm with you, I'm a front I'm
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  Speaker 2: a front pocket wallet guy. Well, first of all, how
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  Speaker 2: are you, man, it's been a long time.
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  Speaker 4: I'm good.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm good. Congratulations new contract. I know there's a
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  Speaker 2: lot going on there and we will get to that
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  Speaker 2: for you, but I mean for you, it's gonna be good.
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  Speaker 12: Though, it's gonna be good. It's gonna be good. ESPN
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  Speaker 12: has been great good. I got an ESPN branded water
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  Speaker 12: bottle i've been using here, which is very great. I
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  Speaker 12: got a T shirt and it's gonna be great. It's
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  Speaker 12: gonna be awesome. I'm I'm excited about it, you know, and.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of fans have been wondering right now, like
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  Speaker 2: you're working against Adam Schefter in some ways for years.
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  Speaker 2: Now you're with him, and you guys are the two
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  Speaker 2: consider the two top guys in what you do in
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  Speaker 2: this in this business. What's it like do you think
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  Speaker 2: working as a teammate with him? Now?
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  Speaker 12: You know, it's been it's been really incredible. Honestly, we
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  Speaker 12: we have competed extremely hard against each other and others
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  Speaker 12: obviously can compete against the whole world. But you know,
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  Speaker 12: for fifteen years and tooth and nail every scoop, and
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  Speaker 12: all of a sudden you join forces and you really
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  Speaker 12: don't know what it's going to be like. And he
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  Speaker 12: has been gracious, he has been welcoming. We've worked together
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  Speaker 12: on some things, including the Miles Garrett trade, which we
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  Speaker 12: broke together. And I was nervous because like when you
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  Speaker 12: compete against someone so hard, it's like you suddenly you
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  Speaker 12: work together, and it like it's not just going to
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  Speaker 12: be like snap your fingers. But he has been above
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  Speaker 12: and beyond what I even hope, and it has been
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  Speaker 12: an excellent, excellent transition.
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  Speaker 2: So congratulations on ESPN, Congratulations on being a focal point
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  Speaker 2: of Hard Knocks as well. I texted you afterwards.
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  Speaker 12: You know, I was actually interested in that because you know,
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  Speaker 12: you never know what they're going to show like, and
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  Speaker 12: they teams can say, hey, get this out of there.
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  Speaker 12: But Seattle chose to show that, and I was kind
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  Speaker 12: of like, you know, you really should because it's true.
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  Speaker 12: Nobody did anything wrong right, nobody did anything wrong. It
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  Speaker 12: was just like a part of business, a part of contracts,
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  Speaker 12: and it's all okay, and should show it because people
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  Speaker 12: should know, like what our jobs are like and what
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  Speaker 12: happens inside buildings.
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  Speaker 4: I thought it was good.
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  Speaker 2: I take it because I think one of our guys
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  Speaker 2: mentioned Greg Bell, who's doing the show right now out
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  Speaker 2: there from the Koma new striping He's gonna beat right forever,
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  Speaker 2: and he said, we kind of got to look inside
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  Speaker 2: to see how the sausage is made. And I thought
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  Speaker 2: that was interesting because and I joke about you and
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  Speaker 2: I met years ago, and for fifteen sixteen years, I
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  Speaker 2: was here every day. I was covering up for Fox,
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  Speaker 2: the Fox affiliate, doing all that. I'm now into hockey
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  Speaker 2: more and working for the Kraken but for all those years,
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  Speaker 2: there were times, and I'll take people behind the scenes
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  Speaker 2: that I would hear something on the road or inside
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  Speaker 2: it and I text you back and forth. And I
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  Speaker 2: think people don't always get how it works. There's a
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  Speaker 2: lot of things going on. It's not like you just hey,
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  Speaker 2: one guy tells you something. You're on the phone, you're talking,
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  Speaker 2: You're texting to people, whether there's low level guys like
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  Speaker 2: me or an agent or a GM right, I mean it,
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  Speaker 2: but that's how it works.
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  Speaker 4: I mean yeah, And it's a constant back and forth.
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  Speaker 12: And I think people think that you just sort of
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  Speaker 12: get a text message and then you send the contract
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  Speaker 12: and that's your tweet. It's like, do you know how
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  Speaker 12: many hours go into just the ability to get someone
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  Speaker 12: to send you contracts and then the ability to be
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  Speaker 12: the first one, and then it's very competitive and to
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  Speaker 12: trust you with information. It's like it's a lot.
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  Speaker 2: And look at the phone ringing right now. I love this, Well,
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  Speaker 2: this will let him. He's he's got to shock the text. No,
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  Speaker 2: that's that's all good. Aaron Donal coming back, is that
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  Speaker 2: what it is is big ninety nine something? Asking about
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  Speaker 2: that because that's a Ian Rockaport is with us. I
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  Speaker 2: should reintroduce him anyway. He's joining us here at the
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  Speaker 2: Virginia based Athletics Center ESPN NFL network here today. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: the cimes is here with them. I think, just thinking.
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  Speaker 12: I just got a text of some news that will
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  Speaker 12: be happening, but it's in a different time zone.
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  Speaker 2: Oh okay, that's the other now you're on the West coast.
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  Speaker 12: I mean I was waiting for some news this morning,
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  Speaker 12: which I ended up being the Osiris towards contract.
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  Speaker 4: But I was told we're gonna have it.
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  Speaker 12: In the morning, and I'm like, well, morning is like
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  Speaker 12: four in the morning on the West coast, so I
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  Speaker 12: was up at four anyway.
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  Speaker 2: How long does it take you to trust somebody? For me?
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  Speaker 12: You know, I'm pretty trusting is My questions are always
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  Speaker 12: like how do you know? So like, hey, I got
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  Speaker 12: this tip that this guy brokes, Like how do you know?
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  Speaker 12: Like were you standing there when he did it? Are
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  Speaker 12: you his agents?
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  Speaker 4: Are you him? Are you his doctor? Are you his dad?
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  Speaker 4: Those are good sources? Are you the agent of a teammate?
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  Speaker 4: That's not as good? A source?
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  Speaker 12: That has to be verified by a couple of people.
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  Speaker 12: And so there's different levels of trust. And then I
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  Speaker 12: would say, like there are people now who when they
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  Speaker 12: tell me things, I know it.
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  Speaker 4: Is rock solid and golden no matter what, no doubt.
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  Speaker 12: And then there are other people when I have to
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  Speaker 12: check and like if someone has you know, information that
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  Speaker 12: has gone out isn't verified, like it's actually not on them,
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  Speaker 12: it's actually on me and right to make sure it
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  Speaker 12: doesn't happen, is it?
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  Speaker 2: Is it general? Can you even generalize agents versus gms
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  Speaker 2: or club personnel who are better because everyone's leaking such
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  Speaker 2: there's no such I've learned this in college years ago.
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  Speaker 2: No such thing as a leak. People want stuff out
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  Speaker 2: for a reason. They want you to know something for
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  Speaker 2: a reason. There's always an agenda on the way. But
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  Speaker 2: agents have an agenda, GMS personnel, guys, they all have
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  Speaker 2: an agenda. Who has a bigger agenda? Is it the agent?
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  Speaker 13: You know?
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  Speaker 12: I think the agent has more of the outward agenda.
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  Speaker 12: But team teams care, especially teams that are struggling or
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  Speaker 12: like trying to do it a certain way, like a
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  Speaker 12: team that's trying to be good, you know, stuff like that.
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  Speaker 12: So like, you know, everyone needs their viewpoint out there.
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  Speaker 12: And I think that's sort of my job. And it's
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  Speaker 12: not just me, it's Schefter and the other people do.
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  Speaker 12: What I do is everyone wants their viewput out all
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  Speaker 12: the time, and you have to make sure that when
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  Speaker 12: someone gives you information, it's like, why are they telling me? Right?
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  Speaker 4: Is it they're tidying to announce a contract?
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  Speaker 6: Okay?
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  Speaker 4: Are they telling me a rumor about a rival?
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  Speaker 8: Like?
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  Speaker 12: Okay, well then then we need to then we need
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  Speaker 12: to figure that out a little bit. If it's an
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  Speaker 12: agent telling you a contract, it's like he's excited. He
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  Speaker 12: wants the biggest contract numbers that he possibly could get.
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  Speaker 12: Hang on, what are the real numbers. Let's get it
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  Speaker 12: all out, put it all, put it all out there.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think you know.
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  Speaker 12: I am always in a big fight for transparency because
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  Speaker 12: I truth is, truth sets you free. Truth matters, and
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  Speaker 12: so that's sort of what I'm always fighting for to
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  Speaker 12: get all of it out there.
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  Speaker 2: I don't see fans will say, Okay, we watched the
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  Speaker 2: Hard Knocks saying there's there's Schneider up there. He's like,
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  Speaker 2: I gotta call wrap. I gotta do this right now.
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  Speaker 2: Walk us through that whole process, Like where was it
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  Speaker 2: with Witherspoon and just I know you can't tell us
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  Speaker 2: who said anything, but how yeah, uh.
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  Speaker 4: He was fired up, But that's okay.
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  Speaker 12: The John and I have known each other for a
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  Speaker 12: very long time, and we're both similar in that we
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  Speaker 12: say what we think, and so like sometimes.
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  Speaker 4: You know, you can sometimes he can get all fired up,
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  Speaker 4: and so can I. But basically it was I reported.
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  Speaker 12: What I knew on Withershoom, which is that when he
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  Speaker 12: gets a new contracts, he's gonna be the highest paid,
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  Speaker 12: and Seattle has made an offer to make him the
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  Speaker 12: highest paid. And I didn't think it was controversial at
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  Speaker 12: all because to me, it's like, duh, right, obviously he's
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  Speaker 12: gonna be the highest paid. If Seattle's negotiating in good faith,
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  Speaker 12: which they do, then it's obviously in all Like they're
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  Speaker 12: not gonna offer him eleven million a year. It's gonna
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  Speaker 12: be real. They know what it's gonna take. Yeah, And
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  Speaker 12: so I think it went sideways. It sounded like some
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  Speaker 12: people involved in the Witherspoon world got upset about it,
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  Speaker 12: thinking the team was putting it out there to try
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  Speaker 12: to get him to accept and it's like that's not
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  Speaker 12: the way this works.
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  Speaker 4: Like teams don't leak me things to make.
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  Speaker 12: Their own players look bad to their own fans, to
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  Speaker 12: then accept a contract that they don't want. Like, that's
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  Speaker 12: not how this works. The way it worked is I
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  Speaker 12: heard something, I verified it through a couple of sources,
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  Speaker 12: and I reported, and I didn't think it was controversial
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  Speaker 12: because like, obviously he's gonna be the highest paid. Obviously
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  Speaker 12: that's what they've offered him. I was so anyway, So
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  Speaker 12: then John calls me in. You know, I delivered the message.
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  Speaker 12: Agent to get back to me. Totally fine, his prerogative,
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  Speaker 12: but yeah, that's kind of the way it was saying.
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  Speaker 2: You never said that he was upset, that Witherspoon was upset, right, No,
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  Speaker 2: My report was just that they've offered it to it, right,
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  Speaker 2: And somewhere along the way Witherspoon's people, I mean, I
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  Speaker 2: think I think.
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  Speaker 12: I don't know because I have not talked to his agent,
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  Speaker 12: but I think that what happened was they felt like
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  Speaker 12: I was trying to make it seem like he should
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  Speaker 12: have accepted this. But like, I don't care what players accept.
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  Speaker 12: What does it matter to me? It doesn't doesn't. I
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  Speaker 12: don't care, Like everyone should make as much money as possible.
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  Speaker 12: That's kind of what I'm for.
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  Speaker 2: You know, let me get two things before you go,
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  Speaker 2: h wrap. First of all, where are they? Because it's
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  Speaker 2: him and Gonzalez, right, it's kind of that's a weird dynamic.
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  Speaker 12: I mean, I would get the sense Gonzalez is is
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  Speaker 12: really anywhere right now? You know, they they seem to
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  Speaker 12: be a little bit of a stalemate. Now, you know,
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  Speaker 12: you hope it gets done. He's really good. Really, you
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  Speaker 12: hope it gets done.
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  Speaker 2: That's Gonzalez or Witherspoon.
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  Speaker 4: Witherspoon, right, both of them.
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  Speaker 2: I mean it's they're both practicing, which I mean, how
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  Speaker 2: many times I text you over the years if you
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  Speaker 2: were here or not here? I'm like, yeah, Earl Thomas
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  Speaker 2: is standing out there. He's not practicing, he's holding in.
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  Speaker 2: He's one of the first hold ins if I'm not mistaken.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, right, you know where the bucket hat doing
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  Speaker 2: his thing? Camp just didn't even show up here. This
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  Speaker 2: guy at least is out there practicing, so his consults.
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  Speaker 2: What's going on with Aaron Donald?
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  Speaker 12: Yeah, I mean Aaron Donald is right now working himself
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  Speaker 12: into shape, trying to see when he's going to go
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  Speaker 12: out and play and you know, I don't know that
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  Speaker 12: it'll be immediate. It wasn't going to be till they
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  Speaker 12: broke camp. They're breaking camp, so we'll see. I mean,
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  Speaker 12: I would at this point, based on the information that's
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  Speaker 12: come out publicly from Sean McVay, I would be surprised
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  Speaker 12: if Aaron Donald is not playing. That is where it
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  Speaker 12: seems to be going.
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  Speaker 2: Final thing for you. Welcome back to Seattle. Great to
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  Speaker 2: see you. Super Bowl champions year two of Mike McDonald's year.
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  Speaker 2: What's seventeen I think of Schneider? Is that right?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Twenty ten of Schneider. What's the perception of this organization
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  Speaker 2: those two specifically around the league?
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  Speaker 12: Yeah, I mean, I think the perception is that this
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  Speaker 12: is an organization there's it the right way, you know,
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  Speaker 12: and even this offseason, which I'm sure they got a
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  Speaker 12: lot of a flag for, you know, not re signing
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  Speaker 12: their guys like this is the way it has to be.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you sign your best players to wiscontract. Yeah, I
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  Speaker 4: get it.
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  Speaker 12: But he was a huge part of the Super Bowl run.
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  Speaker 12: Other parts of the season, was not a focal point
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  Speaker 12: battle some injuries.
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  Speaker 4: There's a lot and so to me, like it is
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  Speaker 4: the model organization. It's where you want to be.
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  Speaker 12: It's draft well, develop well, have really good coaches, have
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  Speaker 12: a good culture, pay the right guys, let a bunch
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  Speaker 12: of other guys go to let other people pay them,
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  Speaker 12: and then you find more of them and you play
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  Speaker 12: them like. This is where you want to be as
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  Speaker 12: an organization.
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  Speaker 4: It really is.
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  Speaker 2: And Schneider's done it better than maybe anybody lost.
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  Speaker 4: You know, he's he's unbelievable.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, even when he's fired up, fire.
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  Speaker 4: It up is okay.
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  Speaker 12: I tell you what I don't like is when people
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  Speaker 12: are mad and don't tell me about it. I've never
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  Speaker 12: had to wonder what Schneider thinks, and I respect that
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  Speaker 12: immensely about it.
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  Speaker 2: Listen, great to see you, man, it's been a long time.
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  Speaker 2: I really appreciate it coming by. I know your massively busy,
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  Speaker 2: so I appreciate carving out sometime. I know our listeners
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  Speaker 2: really appreciate just kind of behind the scenes a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: And again, congratulations, I'm excited for you personally, knowing you
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  Speaker 2: for all these years, that you're in a great situation
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  Speaker 2: and everything worked out well. Uh, you and I will
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  Speaker 2: be texting and talking again.
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  Speaker 4: I think I'm sure we will thank you man. Great
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  Speaker 4: to be back.
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  Speaker 14: There you go.
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  Speaker 2: That's the inner Rapaport. We will take a break, come
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  Speaker 2: Actually thoughts on the Rappaport interview?
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  Speaker 3: Anderson, Yeah, I mean it was really really kind of
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  Speaker 3: a good peak behind the curtain, which I always say.
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  Speaker 3: I really like that kind of aspect of it. And
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  Speaker 3: it's good to kind of know how these things get
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  Speaker 3: broken down. And I know there's a little bit of confusion.
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  Speaker 3: I'm texting with a few people on the text line
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  Speaker 3: about so wait, why was Witherspoon mad and why was
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  Speaker 3: Schneider mad?
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  Speaker 2: About all?
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  Speaker 3: This all kind of clarify for those and you can
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  Speaker 3: kind of jump in and kind of you know, mention
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  Speaker 3: this as well. But rapaport so that the report came
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  Speaker 3: out and Witherspoon or his camp thought it was coming
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  Speaker 3: from the Seahawks. They were purposely putting that news out
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  Speaker 3: to try and pressure him to sign it right, correct,
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  Speaker 3: And that's why Witherspoon was mad, and then Schneider got
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 3: mad because he knew that Witherspoon was upset. It's thinking
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 3: that it came from the Seahawks, and that's where the
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 3: whole hey, this isn't coming from us sort of quote
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  Speaker 3: came from John Schneider. So again, like Rapp said, no
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  Speaker 3: one did anything wrong. It's just it's all posturing here
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  Speaker 3: to try it with negotiations, and neither side wants to
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  Speaker 3: break what has been a good relationship up until now.
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  Speaker 2: And whatever Ian report at the time, he stood by
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 2: as he said too. So it's it's a challenge because
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  Speaker 2: you know, in that case, you know, Schneider's not going
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  Speaker 2: to negotiate through the media, correct, And so that didn't happen.
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  Speaker 2: But at the same time, the you know, when you
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  Speaker 2: know Raps getting stuff and the eight because he said,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not even talking to the agent right now, so
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  Speaker 2: you know, right, So that's which is kind of interesting. Also,
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  Speaker 2: I think if you want to take anything out of
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  Speaker 2: it doesn't sound like they're very close.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I was a little confused on what Rap said on that.
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  Speaker 3: If that was Gonzales, that wasn't very closer one of
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 3: them Witherspoon. Yeah, okay, okay, one of them. Yeah, so interesting.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, if they were close, it would have it
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  Speaker 2: done by now. I think, so too, right, I mean
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  Speaker 2: there's a lot of deals, there's a lot of deals
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  Speaker 2: getting done in camp. It doesn't feel like that one
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  Speaker 2: is one of them, right, so, or even the Gonzales ones. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that was interesting, this fun, fun conversation along the way
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  Speaker 2: as well. All right, four nine, four to five one
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  Speaker 2: that is come tout text line. We're going to get
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  Speaker 2: your text coming up at two thirty today, we asked
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 2: the question your favorite Mariner of all time fifty years
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  Speaker 2: your least favorite over fifty years. There's a ton of texts,
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  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh. By the way, being told that there's
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  Speaker 2: a lot of Mariners currently in that top fifty, including
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 2: former mayor of Luis Castile is a.
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  Speaker 3: Top fifty I totally deserved.
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  Speaker 2: I think if for no other reason just a postseason beast.
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  Speaker 3: Well yeah, and he's like I think he's like second
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  Speaker 3: or third in all time era for the Mariners.
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  Speaker 2: Did I get the wars? Who was I missing?
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  Speaker 6: Oh?
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, missing too? So what did I say? Buner?
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 3: You did say, Buner?
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  Speaker 2: I'm missing what numbers?
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 3: I think it was a five and nine?
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  Speaker 2: I want to say.
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 3: For those who don't know. In the break, while we
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 3: were waiting to come back before the Danie O'Neil interview,
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 3: I asked Ian if you could name the top ten
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 3: war position players in Mariner history, and only as Mariners
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  Speaker 3: by the way.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so I think, okay, let me just guess. Oh crap,
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  Speaker 2: beause I don't think he's coming this weekend. Seeker's not coming,
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  Speaker 2: is he correct?
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  Speaker 3: That is number five?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, Kyle Seer?
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  Speaker 3: And then you're missing number nine?
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  Speaker 2: Help me out? Is the current current Okay?
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  Speaker 6: Oh my god?
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  Speaker 2: Is the JP?
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  Speaker 3: It is JP Crawford.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, yeah, I know, wow? Huh okay, well there you go.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Somebody just texted Morning Ian has ten times the energy
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 2: of Afternoon Ean.
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 3: Really, I heard you were on the morning show this morning. Man,
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 3: you were you were firing an all cylinder.
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 2: Well no, but here's the thing. Like I had to
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 2: get here early because the way the parking works, I
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 2: didn't want to not have my parking spot. So a
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 2: lot of people are here. So I got here early
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 2: at nine o'clock. And I'll walk out say hi to chuckles,
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 2: and and uh, you know why I think I might
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 2: have more energy at least here in the more is
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 2: because I wasn't sitting there in the sun and the
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 2: baking in our oven outs. I've moved inside, by the way,
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  Speaker 2: the Virginia Mason Netfleix Center. But I'm just you just
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 2: that drains you, man, I was it drains you out
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  Speaker 2: there trying to crank it up. I'll try to crank
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 2: up the the energy here for the final hour.
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  Speaker 6: All right, just.
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 3: Let's just we've had three pretty big interviews. I mean,
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 3: you got I Rappaport. He talked to Cody White the
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 3: third earlier.
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  Speaker 2: Ricky White. Excuse me, don't confuse your White.
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  Speaker 3: They're both receivers.
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 2: Man, it's tough. It's one tall, one short. Ok. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: fair enough, fair enough. We've got a good week. We
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 2: had a good week all around. I mean we had
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 2: a lot of good interviews.
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  Speaker 11: Of course.
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  Speaker 2: All right, let's do this, Let's take a break, we'll
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• 1:19:47
  Speaker 2: last Friday, he's toured around the NFL seeing, if I'm
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 2: not mistaken, Broncos, Chargers, Rams, and you know what, All
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 2: three of those are on the Seahawks schedule this year.
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  Speaker 6: I am in Fillmore, California, about forty five minutes from
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  Speaker 6: ox Star in California. I'm evaluating the Cowboys and Los
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  Speaker 6: Just evaluate all the different players that might be cut
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  Speaker 2: By the way, I see your quarterbacks back. I see
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  Speaker 2: All right, So you've seen help me out. You've seen
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  Speaker 6: Is that right correct? Yep?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, well, let's go all and by the way, for
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  Speaker 2: those who don't know, the Chargers and the Broncos are
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 2: both on Seattle schedule this year, so it's very good.
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  Speaker 2: Rob Let's start with the Rams. Did you walk in
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  Speaker 2: there and go, Wow, this is a juggernaut and this
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  Speaker 2: is the team to be? This is I mean, what's
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  Speaker 2: the vibe. Let's just start first one with the vibe
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  Speaker 2: down there? What do you what do you see with
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  Speaker 2: the Rams?
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  Speaker 4: Well?
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  Speaker 6: I think that in some ways they are the team
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  Speaker 6: to be. I just think that we all know how
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  Speaker 6: close it was with the Seahawks and the Rams a
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 6: year ago, and you know, just to move to get
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 6: Trent McDuffie, Jama Watson as well at the cornerback positions.
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  Speaker 6: To me, that was the biggest position of concern for
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 6: the La Rams a year ago, and I thought that
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 6: they made a significant upgrade. And then you walk on
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  Speaker 6: to the field and you see a big number ninety
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 6: five Miles Garrett out there, and it's just like, oh
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 6: my goodness. They have arguably the best player on offense
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  Speaker 6: in all of the NFL, and Matthew Stafford, the ring VP.
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  Speaker 6: They have, in my opinion, the best player bar none.
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  Speaker 6: In all of the NFL in Miles Garrett now and
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 6: there's a possibility you're going to see Aaron Donald. He
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  Speaker 6: actually worked out with the Rams right before I got
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  Speaker 6: to their practice at Loyal and Marrimount. It's a couple
• 1:23:59
  Speaker 6: of days go. And so yeah, I think that the
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  Speaker 6: high end talent that the Rams possess is undeniable. I'm
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 6: a big fan of Sean McVay and less Sneeda think
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 6: that they do a terrific job. At the same time,
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  Speaker 6: they don't have the depth that I think that the
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  Speaker 6: Seahawks have. It's rightfuly the Denver Broncos have as well. Uh,
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  Speaker 6: And so I think that the Rams have got to
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  Speaker 6: stay healthy. And that's why, as excited as I am
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 6: just from a football scout just likes to see good
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  Speaker 6: football players, as excited as I am for the Seahawks
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 6: and the Rams to to square off, I think that
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  Speaker 6: the Rams have to stay healthy to to justify all
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  Speaker 6: of this all this buzz about them, because again, they
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  Speaker 6: they may have three or four of the absolute best
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  Speaker 6: players in the game, but the back end of their
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  Speaker 6: roster I don't feel like is nearly as good as
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  Speaker 6: the Seahawks. And considering that Seattle won't play the Rams
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  Speaker 6: until Christmas Day. Uh, then there's gonna be an awful
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  Speaker 6: lot of football played before, uh, you know, before the
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  Speaker 6: Seahawks really have to worry about what the Rams are
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  Speaker 6: able to do.
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  Speaker 2: You you've obviously the big focus for you is it
• 1:25:02
  Speaker 2: would be the rookies and the young guys as we
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 2: go through that every year and all week every week
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 2: during the season. They, of course famously this year, took
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  Speaker 2: in their first round with their first round pick, Ty Simpson.
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 2: Where's Simpson in the pecking order? Is he the backup
• 1:25:18
  Speaker 2: or is it Stetson Bennett.
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  Speaker 6: It is Stetson Bennett. And I appreciate the opportunity to
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  Speaker 6: talk a little bit about Tys Simpson because I was
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  Speaker 6: as negative as anybody, even though I had Ty Simpson
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 6: as a thirty second ranked player in this past draft.
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 6: I was as critical of the Rams choice of Ty
• 1:25:37
  Speaker 6: Simpson mid portion of the first round is probably anybody.
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  Speaker 6: And then, of course the Rams pulled off the big
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 6: trade for Miles Garrett, and so that was the immediate
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  Speaker 6: impact player that I was thinking that they might want
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 6: to use their first rounds election on going to practicing,
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 6: and I was very curious to see how Tysimson would look.
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  Speaker 6: And I gotta tell you and SUK fans are not
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  Speaker 6: gonna be thrilled to hear this, but Tyson's look terristic.
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  Speaker 6: He looked like the future NFL starter, and a good
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 6: one at that. Uh. None, Certainly, it's a lot easier
• 1:26:06
  Speaker 6: when you're throwing the guys like Puka Nakua and again
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 6: you have one of the great offensive mines in all
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 6: of the NFL and Sean McVay calling the plays, and
• 1:26:13
  Speaker 6: again Stetson Bennett is their backup. But sets and Bennett
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  Speaker 6: struggled a little bit, and they're just gonna take it
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 6: slow with ty Simpson. Bennett. It knows the offense in
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 6: and out. He has been there with the Rams now
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 6: for the last three seasons. Uh. But tys Simpson is
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 6: certainly the future. And I didn't see a great deal
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 6: of arm talent from him on tape. And that's one
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 6: of the funny things about watching quarterbacks throw the ball
• 1:26:39
  Speaker 6: in person as opposed to on television. You really could
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 6: see that the ball basically explodes out of his hands.
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  Speaker 6: He had plenty of arm strength, he had a little
• 1:26:48
  Speaker 6: bit of moxy to him, and you know, but at
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 6: the same time, it's kind of keeping his mouth shut
• 1:26:53
  Speaker 6: and letting his actions speak louder than trying to talk.
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  Speaker 6: This is clearly Matthew Stafford's team and so it's not
• 1:26:59
  Speaker 6: in his spot to say anything. But still, ty Simpson
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  Speaker 6: looked terrific, and I think that Rams fans who have
• 1:27:05
  Speaker 6: watched him in person are going to be his guide
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  Speaker 6: to see what he's able to do.
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  Speaker 2: Would you expect him to be Stafford's backup then when
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  Speaker 2: it's all said and done in pass Bennett, I do.
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  Speaker 6: I expect that to be the case. But again, I
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  Speaker 6: think that if the Rams, if there's something were to
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 6: happen to Matthew Stafford, and I think that they would
• 1:27:22
  Speaker 6: go with the veteran and sets of Bennett just because
• 1:27:25
  Speaker 6: of his experience. But there's no question who the more
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 6: talented quarterback is. And you know Stetson Ben is in
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 6: the final year of his original rookie contract. I would
• 1:27:34
  Speaker 6: be surprised if he has retained after this season, just
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  Speaker 6: because I think that the future is very bright with
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  Speaker 6: Tys Simpson.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Bennett was wrapped it in the fourth round of
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty three. The only other they obviously the additions
• 1:27:45
  Speaker 2: on the defense. You know Trent McDuffie and Jalen Watson
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 2: on the corners, and then we all know about Miles Garrett.
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 2: They may end up getting Aaron Donald back as well.
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 2: Their highest draft picks Keegan Trost was a trust was
• 1:27:59
  Speaker 2: a third round pick. He's a right tackle, and Max
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  Speaker 2: Clair is a tight end who is a second round pick.
• 1:28:04
  Speaker 2: Either one of those guys expect I mean got that
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  Speaker 2: where's Max? They took a they took a tight end
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  Speaker 2: in the second round, and they've got Kolbe Parkinson, Tyler
• 1:28:11
  Speaker 2: Higbee and Terrence Ferguson That that one is a head
• 1:28:14
  Speaker 2: scratcher to me.
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  Speaker 6: Well, it is to me as well, just because as
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  Speaker 6: you just mentioned, I mean, they have already have very
• 1:28:22
  Speaker 6: good depth at that position. But I just think that
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  Speaker 6: you're seeing the way that the NFL teams now are
• 1:28:28
  Speaker 6: are featuring tight ends more and more often. It just
• 1:28:32
  Speaker 6: it's similar to what the Seals are doing at the
• 1:28:34
  Speaker 6: full back position. Brian Fleury talked about this recently. He
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 6: likes having that two back set because it just forces
• 1:28:41
  Speaker 6: the defense to to recognize there's a possibility of a run,
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 6: there's a possibilities. Guys at wide receivers. Of course, at
• 1:28:47
  Speaker 6: the tight end positions are just bigger than the full back,
• 1:28:50
  Speaker 6: so that the same kind of thing. It just gives
• 1:28:51
  Speaker 6: the offense a great deal of versatility. Max Clair is
• 1:28:55
  Speaker 6: an interesting player. You know, he is a guy that
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 6: deserved to be drafted there in the second the third round.
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 6: Big strong athlete, catches the ball really really well. It
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 6: reminds me of a little bit of a J Barner
• 1:29:07
  Speaker 6: for the Seahawks. A good player. At the same time,
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 6: I also think that he's necessarily going to get on
• 1:29:12
  Speaker 6: the field anytime soon for the Rams given their depth.
• 1:29:15
  Speaker 2: All Right, let's talk roberng joins Cursy. I for Relis,
• 1:29:18
  Speaker 2: for Elis Pizza, I will stay in LA. You got
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 2: a chance to look at the Chargers. Let me start
• 1:29:22
  Speaker 2: with I mean in terms of what they did in
• 1:29:24
  Speaker 2: the offseason, and you know, I think that one of
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 2: the bigger moves obviously for them was draft wise, if
• 1:29:30
  Speaker 2: I'm not mistaken, and that would be taking that outstanding.
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 2: We talked about him a lot this year, Key Mesador
• 1:29:36
  Speaker 2: out of Miami. The I guess he's an edge rusher.
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 2: That's how you probably list him in the NFL. What
• 1:29:40
  Speaker 2: you see from him.
• 1:29:43
  Speaker 6: Messidor is interesting guy just because he's He's a native Canadian,
• 1:29:46
  Speaker 6: and so I've been kind of evaluating him for the
• 1:29:48
  Speaker 6: last couple of years because while my DC Lions, we
• 1:29:52
  Speaker 6: can have American born players, but there's also a higher
• 1:29:57
  Speaker 6: priority on Canadian born players as well. Mezzador is just
• 1:30:01
  Speaker 6: too good for the CFL, frankly, and he proved that
• 1:30:05
  Speaker 6: this past season at Miami. He's just he used his
• 1:30:08
  Speaker 6: hands really well. Ian He's very instinctive player. He anticipates
• 1:30:12
  Speaker 6: the snap well, he has enough strength to play inside.
• 1:30:16
  Speaker 6: Then the comparison I've used many times with him is
• 1:30:19
  Speaker 6: a little bit of Michael Bennett in that except he
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 6: is a little bit more consistent with guessing the snap
• 1:30:25
  Speaker 6: count correctly. Of course, that was one of the knocks
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 6: on Bennett is and sometimes he will give himself off sides.
• 1:30:30
  Speaker 6: You don't see that with the key Mezdor. Even though
• 1:30:33
  Speaker 6: he's a rookie, he just he has a he is
• 1:30:36
  Speaker 6: a more He is an older player. I believe he's
• 1:30:39
  Speaker 6: twenty five already, might even be twenty six at this point,
• 1:30:42
  Speaker 6: so an older player than typically is drafted in the
• 1:30:45
  Speaker 6: first round. But you see a maturity about how he
• 1:30:49
  Speaker 6: performs on the field, and just in terms of his
• 1:30:53
  Speaker 6: game is mature, but so is his personality. He was
• 1:30:56
  Speaker 6: the first guy on the field both days that I
• 1:30:59
  Speaker 6: was at the practice for the Los Angeles Chargers. So
• 1:31:02
  Speaker 6: I just think that he's going to be a really
• 1:31:04
  Speaker 6: good player for them, an immediate impact guy for a
• 1:31:07
  Speaker 6: team that's already got you know, some good pass rushers
• 1:31:10
  Speaker 6: Polo to back in the day, and of course when
• 1:31:13
  Speaker 6: we were covering the Morris Trophy for the now you know,
• 1:31:16
  Speaker 6: whatever is left of the Pac twelve conference, and then
• 1:31:19
  Speaker 6: of course the future Hall of Famer Khalil Mack. But
• 1:31:21
  Speaker 6: I do think that a Kee Mezdor is gonna wind
• 1:31:23
  Speaker 6: up being an immediate impact performer for the Chargers.
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  Speaker 2: This team is is I mean, obviously there's been criticism
• 1:31:30
  Speaker 2: of Justin Herbert lack of playoffs success and things like that,
• 1:31:32
  Speaker 2: He's still one of the top quarterbacks in the NFL. Goes,
• 1:31:35
  Speaker 2: how they go is how he goes, and vice versa.
• 1:31:38
  Speaker 2: I'm just curious with them, does he have They drafted
• 1:31:42
  Speaker 2: Brennan Thompson in the in the fourth round as a
• 1:31:45
  Speaker 2: as a wide receiver, but I just look at the
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 2: list of their wide receivers. Does he have enough around him?
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 2: Omario Hampton obviously a stud first round pick last year
• 1:31:52
  Speaker 2: running back, and they got David Njoku, but from Cleveland
• 1:31:56
  Speaker 2: as an undrafted or as a as a free agent.
• 1:31:58
  Speaker 2: But boy, just at the wide out position, Lad mcconukey's
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 2: your top guy. Maybe at Quinton Johnston, I just I
• 1:32:03
  Speaker 2: get maybe Quint Johnson, you can pump me up on
• 1:32:05
  Speaker 2: him a little bit. He's third fourth of your guy.
• 1:32:07
  Speaker 2: But it just feels like they're they're lacking a little
• 1:32:10
  Speaker 2: bit the skill position set on the outside.
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  Speaker 6: They are, I know, I think if that is one
• 1:32:15
  Speaker 6: of the one of the knocks in the Los Angeles Chargers.
• 1:32:18
  Speaker 6: They just don't have the dynamic playmakers at the wide
• 1:32:21
  Speaker 6: receiver position. I've been a big fan of Quinton Johnson
• 1:32:25
  Speaker 6: throughout his time at TCU and of course being first
• 1:32:28
  Speaker 6: round selection, you know, the same year as Jackson Smith
• 1:32:31
  Speaker 6: and Jiggle of course from the Seahawks. Quinton Johnson is
• 1:32:35
  Speaker 6: kind of that classic deep ball kind of specialist, and
• 1:32:39
  Speaker 6: he's six foot four's two hundred pounds. He's a legitimate
• 1:32:42
  Speaker 6: four to four guy, but he is also a little
• 1:32:45
  Speaker 6: bit of kind of a one speed player. He doesn't
• 1:32:48
  Speaker 6: run a lot of those intermediate routes, and frankly he
• 1:32:51
  Speaker 6: struggled a little bit with drops throughout some of his
• 1:32:53
  Speaker 6: career as well. But at the same time, if you
• 1:32:57
  Speaker 6: are going to do a lot of play action and
• 1:32:58
  Speaker 6: we know that this is still Jim Harbaugh, he still
• 1:33:01
  Speaker 6: wants to run the ball. That leads to a lot
• 1:33:02
  Speaker 6: of play action opportunities. Quentin Johnston, to me, is one
• 1:33:06
  Speaker 6: of the best big play receivers in all of the NFL.
• 1:33:08
  Speaker 6: He's just not as consistent. And that's where lad McConkie
• 1:33:11
  Speaker 6: comes in and is I think he's going to wind
• 1:33:13
  Speaker 6: up leading that team with receptions and quite possibly receiving
• 1:33:16
  Speaker 6: yards as well. Even though I don't think that he's
• 1:33:18
  Speaker 6: necessarily a big play guy. He's a little bit more
• 1:33:20
  Speaker 6: of a of a Doug Baldwin type of a guy
• 1:33:23
  Speaker 6: in that he is just as reliable as it gets,
• 1:33:26
  Speaker 6: excellent route runner, but also doesn't have great size and
• 1:33:30
  Speaker 6: so you know the kind of caps the ability in
• 1:33:32
  Speaker 6: the red zone. That's why the addition of a guy
• 1:33:36
  Speaker 6: like a David and Joku, as well as the other
• 1:33:38
  Speaker 6: tight ends that they have on that roster, and again,
• 1:33:40
  Speaker 6: the running game is interesting what I'm fascinating about the
• 1:33:44
  Speaker 6: most with the Chargers, Ean is it's just the marriage,
• 1:33:47
  Speaker 6: so to speak, partnership of Jim Harbaugh and then Mike McDaniel,
• 1:33:52
  Speaker 6: the former Miami offense or the former Miami Dolphins head coach,
• 1:33:56
  Speaker 6: is now the offensive coordinator. It just feels like McDaniel
• 1:33:59
  Speaker 6: is a little bit more of the running gun type
• 1:34:02
  Speaker 6: of a guy. Just we know the success that you know,
• 1:34:05
  Speaker 6: Tua Tago Boola and Jaylen Waddell and Tyreek Hill had
• 1:34:08
  Speaker 6: in Miami. It just feels like a polar opposite of
• 1:34:10
  Speaker 6: what the Chargers have on their rosters. So I'm really
• 1:34:13
  Speaker 6: interested to see, especially given how good the defense is
• 1:34:17
  Speaker 6: for the Denver Broncos, for example, and the upgrades of
• 1:34:20
  Speaker 6: the Raiders and the Chiefs have made at certain key
• 1:34:23
  Speaker 6: positions on defense, how that's all going to translate for
• 1:34:26
  Speaker 6: the Chargers on offense.
• 1:34:28
  Speaker 2: Seahawks are seeing the NFL or AFCU West this year,
• 1:34:31
  Speaker 2: so and you've also you've also seen the Denver Broncos.
• 1:34:33
  Speaker 2: I think I think it's safe to say Rob rang
• 1:34:36
  Speaker 2: with US Broncos. If Boon Nick stays healthy, they probably
• 1:34:39
  Speaker 2: would have been the team Seattle would have saw in
• 1:34:41
  Speaker 2: the Super Bowl as opposed to New England. So let's
• 1:34:43
  Speaker 2: start with bow Knicks and the Denver Broncos. He'll go
• 1:34:46
  Speaker 2: into this. Is this his third year already, Yeah, coming
• 1:34:49
  Speaker 2: up on his third year twenty four five, Yeah, third
• 1:34:51
  Speaker 2: year for bow Knicks. What'd you see there?
• 1:34:55
  Speaker 6: Denver Broncos are loaded. They really are, they are. You know, look,
• 1:34:59
  Speaker 6: I've been to the Seahawks facility of course several times
• 1:35:03
  Speaker 6: Los Angeles Rams, and to me that the Broncos are
• 1:35:06
  Speaker 6: right there with those two teams as far as being
• 1:35:10
  Speaker 6: the just the best clubs in the NFL, I mean
• 1:35:13
  Speaker 6: just stacked from top to bottom. I think that they
• 1:35:15
  Speaker 6: actually have more depth than the Los Angeles Rams do.
• 1:35:18
  Speaker 6: Maybe not quite the high end talent of guys like
• 1:35:20
  Speaker 6: a Matthew Stafford, Miles Garrett and Poopin Toko, et cetera,
• 1:35:23
  Speaker 6: et cetera, but you know they brought in the afore
• 1:35:26
  Speaker 6: mentioned Jalen Waddle and his straight line speed is going
• 1:35:29
  Speaker 6: to give Boat Nicks a really nice deep option to
• 1:35:34
  Speaker 6: go off of the play action game because you know
• 1:35:36
  Speaker 6: that Sean Payton's going to run the football. It was
• 1:35:39
  Speaker 6: really excited to see how the University of Washington running
• 1:35:42
  Speaker 6: back Jordan Coleman was performing for Denver. I don't think
• 1:35:44
  Speaker 6: that he's necessarily going to be, uh, you know, pushing
• 1:35:47
  Speaker 6: for starting reps. That it feels like it's going to
• 1:35:49
  Speaker 6: be JK. Dobbins and R. J. Harvey, who are veterans.
• 1:35:53
  Speaker 6: Harvey was selected the second round a year well almost
• 1:35:57
  Speaker 6: two years ago essentially now. But yeah, but still, they
• 1:36:02
  Speaker 6: just have great depth, and then the defense is just fantastic,
• 1:36:04
  Speaker 6: and they just have waves of pass rushers and of
• 1:36:07
  Speaker 6: course by Nick Benito is one of the great speed
• 1:36:09
  Speaker 6: rushers in all of the NFL. And for my money,
• 1:36:12
  Speaker 6: with all due respect to their formation, Trent McGuffey with
• 1:36:15
  Speaker 6: the Rams, certainly Devil Winderspoon with the Seattle Seahawks. For
• 1:36:18
  Speaker 6: my money, Patrick Satanna still as good a corner as
• 1:36:21
  Speaker 6: there is in all of the NFL. They really are
• 1:36:24
  Speaker 6: a very very good team and a formidable opponent for
• 1:36:28
  Speaker 6: Seatle to face this year.
• 1:36:29
  Speaker 3: Robs you mentioned, yeah, rob As you mentioned that it
• 1:36:32
  Speaker 3: sounds like they're kind of the AFC Seahawks in the
• 1:36:34
  Speaker 3: way they kind of put their team together with depth
• 1:36:36
  Speaker 3: and then maybe not the true superstar talent that you're mentioning.
• 1:36:40
  Speaker 6: I would agree with you Andrews. They just really are,
• 1:36:43
  Speaker 6: you know, especially at the quarterback position. I mean when
• 1:36:47
  Speaker 6: when you look at everybody focuses on the quarterbacks, and
• 1:36:50
  Speaker 6: you know Sam Darnold, there's lots of critics out there
• 1:36:53
  Speaker 6: of him. I have been as critical as anybody about
• 1:36:56
  Speaker 6: Vo Nicks and throughout his college career at Auburn Early
• 1:37:00
  Speaker 6: Oregon Late, but his his athletic ability, his leadership has
• 1:37:05
  Speaker 6: has kind of been there, done that went through all
• 1:37:09
  Speaker 6: that adversity, I think has strengthened him. And then again
• 1:37:12
  Speaker 6: just the speed of the physicality that they have on
• 1:37:17
  Speaker 6: offense and defense around the quarterback. To me, I think
• 1:37:21
  Speaker 6: that that's a that's an app comparison Sanders for between
• 1:37:24
  Speaker 6: the Seahawks and the Broncos.
• 1:37:26
  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, honestly, it's that's a daunting task that
• 1:37:31
  Speaker 2: both West AFC West NFC West pretty good because you
• 1:37:34
  Speaker 2: know that Kansas City is gonna be better this season
• 1:37:37
  Speaker 2: as you go through it. I feel better about Seattle's
• 1:37:40
  Speaker 2: chances against the Chargers, and I'm a lot more worried
• 1:37:42
  Speaker 2: about the Broncos now than I was before. Is that
• 1:37:45
  Speaker 2: a fair assessment, Rob?
• 1:37:47
  Speaker 6: I think so, you know, and I'm intrigued of course
• 1:37:51
  Speaker 6: by the Kansas City Chiefs as always just the tip
• 1:37:53
  Speaker 6: of the cap to future Hall of Fame head coach
• 1:37:56
  Speaker 6: in Andy Reid and obviously future Hall of Fame quarterback
• 1:37:59
  Speaker 6: and Packed Mahomes. But with Mahomes coming off the injury,
• 1:38:03
  Speaker 6: some of the losses that the Chiefs had, we talked
• 1:38:05
  Speaker 6: about Trent mcguffee before. I think that's a significant loss
• 1:38:09
  Speaker 6: for them. They you know, they took the top corner
• 1:38:12
  Speaker 6: in this draft of the first round man Sword de Laine,
• 1:38:15
  Speaker 6: and I expect him to be a very good player
• 1:38:17
  Speaker 6: in the NFL, but to that level of expectation that
• 1:38:21
  Speaker 6: has placed on him as a rookie is significant. And
• 1:38:25
  Speaker 6: you know, they're their best defensive lineman's been along with
• 1:38:27
  Speaker 6: the best guy for the Chiefs for a long time,
• 1:38:30
  Speaker 6: Chris Jones. I mean, he's he's obviously an aging player,
• 1:38:33
  Speaker 6: and I just don't see the talents quite around him
• 1:38:36
  Speaker 6: to allow him to continue to dominate the way that
• 1:38:38
  Speaker 6: he has. So I think that the Chiefs are kind
• 1:38:40
  Speaker 6: of taking a step back. Obviously we're I mean, I'm
• 1:38:43
  Speaker 6: excited about what's going on with the Las Vegas Raiders.
• 1:38:45
  Speaker 6: Obviously number one overall pick in Ferando Mendoza, and you know,
• 1:38:49
  Speaker 6: Quint Kubak certainly knows how to call a game, but
• 1:38:51
  Speaker 6: you know, it's a whole different ballgame when you're the
• 1:38:54
  Speaker 6: head coach. To me, it's that the Denver Broncos have
• 1:38:57
  Speaker 6: a very clear path to win the AFC West. I
• 1:39:01
  Speaker 6: think it's a clearer path, frankly for the Broncos than
• 1:39:04
  Speaker 6: it is for the Seahawks, just because I think that
• 1:39:05
  Speaker 6: there is so much more competition in the NFC West
• 1:39:09
  Speaker 6: than there is an AFC West, even though I think
• 1:39:12
  Speaker 6: that there is more hype about the AFC West just
• 1:39:15
  Speaker 6: because of the quarterback talent. Everybody around the NFL knows
• 1:39:18
  Speaker 6: the quarterbacks there, whereas there's a little bit more skepticism
• 1:39:21
  Speaker 6: I think nationally speaking about the NFC West, which I
• 1:39:24
  Speaker 6: think is silly talk. But that's just the reality it
• 1:39:27
  Speaker 6: is when you need to play, you know, in Seattle,
• 1:39:30
  Speaker 6: basically Southeast Alaska.
• 1:39:33
  Speaker 2: So true, and that's coming from a CFL guy. Okay,
• 1:39:37
  Speaker 2: let's let's thank you, Rob. I appreciate great stuff, man,
• 1:39:40
  Speaker 2: great insight on those teams, and we'll check it. We'll
• 1:39:42
  Speaker 2: keep checking in, my friend, keep grinding. Enjoy the Dallas Cowboys.
• 1:39:46
  Speaker 2: In fact, I'm gonna probably pick your brain for some
• 1:39:48
  Speaker 2: stuff for them next week as well on something so
• 1:39:51
  Speaker 2: I appreciate that. Safe travels. We'll talk soon.
• 1:39:54
  Speaker 6: Looking forward to it and as always, take care guys.
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  Speaker 2: We got some great texts, hopefully some talkbacks as well.
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  Speaker 2: Your your favorite and least favorite Mariners of all time.
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  Speaker 2: We'll tackle that next.
• 1:40:15
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  Speaker 2: All right, eders hit him, Let's go talkbacks.
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  Speaker 14: Hi, Ian, I was hoping you can help me out
• 1:40:35
  Speaker 14: as a young man by the name of Jack Belling
• 1:40:37
  Speaker 14: who went from Seattle Prep to Oregon State to Michigan
• 1:40:42
  Speaker 14: State and is now at the Atlanta Falcons trying to
• 1:40:45
  Speaker 14: make it as a tight end. Just wondering if you
• 1:40:48
  Speaker 14: knew about his status. I know him through Summer Swim League,
• 1:40:53
  Speaker 14: Little League baseball in West Seattle and.
• 1:40:57
  Speaker 2: UH Junior High track.
• 1:40:59
  Speaker 14: Just a fantastic as a kid doing all the sports
• 1:41:02
  Speaker 14: and being a good guy.
• 1:41:03
  Speaker 2: Sounds good. Can't help you have no idea about the
• 1:41:06
  Speaker 2: Falcon's depth chart. If you ask me about the Dallas Cowboys,
• 1:41:08
  Speaker 2: I can tell you that, but I can't tell you
• 1:41:10
  Speaker 2: about that.
• 1:41:10
  Speaker 15: So next, if Richie Section isn't in the Mariner's top fifty,
• 1:41:17
  Speaker 15: I might just go blind with rage.
• 1:41:22
  Speaker 2: You want him in the top fifties.
• 1:41:24
  Speaker 3: That's what I was confused about.
• 1:41:26
  Speaker 2: Because I'm looking at the text line. He's on the
• 1:41:28
  Speaker 2: least favorite list for a lot of people right now,
• 1:41:30
  Speaker 2: so all right.
• 1:41:31
  Speaker 13: Next, for me, least favorite would probably be kell Nick.
• 1:41:36
  Speaker 13: Her favorite guard has always been the guy I grew
• 1:41:39
  Speaker 13: up in the nineties.
• 1:41:40
  Speaker 6: He's my guy.
• 1:41:41
  Speaker 13: Honorable mentions for personalities, I miss Gino, Dee Gordon, and
• 1:41:46
  Speaker 13: of course Joey Koorra.
• 1:41:48
  Speaker 2: Wow, that's an interesting one. That's an interesting one, Calnick.
• 1:41:53
  Speaker 3: For least, I didn't see much of that, but I
• 1:41:55
  Speaker 3: heard that this morning too.
• 1:41:57
  Speaker 2: I heard that this morning from a few people, and
• 1:41:59
  Speaker 2: I like, he wasn't unlikable. I'll tell you that he
• 1:42:05
  Speaker 2: maybe I don't know, Maybe he didn't come across great
• 1:42:07
  Speaker 2: had I had two interactions with him, and in fact,
• 1:42:10
  Speaker 2: both times after a loss, and both times when he
• 1:42:12
  Speaker 2: was struggling, And I thought that Tibod he handled himself
• 1:42:15
  Speaker 2: really well. He was not in the same mold as
• 1:42:19
  Speaker 2: many of these ass hats were.
• 1:42:21
  Speaker 6: Right years next.
• 1:42:24
  Speaker 16: Boom, Danny Vy should be everyone's favorite, my least favorite,
• 1:42:30
  Speaker 16: going to throw a curveball at everyone, Jeff Sirillo. But
• 1:42:33
  Speaker 16: the Mariners version four plus war player until he got
• 1:42:37
  Speaker 16: here and then a one point three war then a
• 1:42:40
  Speaker 16: negative one point for war, so negative war player for
• 1:42:44
  Speaker 16: us after being a pretty solid player up until then.
• 1:42:49
  Speaker 2: Over the years, or a few of those guys, trust me,
• 1:42:51
  Speaker 2: it wasn't the only one, but I get it.
• 1:42:53
  Speaker 6: How many?
• 1:42:53
  Speaker 2: How many do we have?
• 1:42:54
  Speaker 14: Left?
• 1:42:54
  Speaker 8: Three?
• 1:42:55
  Speaker 2: All right?
• 1:42:58
  Speaker 11: Hey, Ian Ill loved to show. Oh, but you're just
• 1:43:00
  Speaker 11: wrong on the Mariners just needed one good weekend or
• 1:43:03
  Speaker 11: one good week. They have fallen behind at least three
• 1:43:07
  Speaker 11: to four teams now, so if the Mariners play a
• 1:43:10
  Speaker 11: good week now, they need other teams to help them.
• 1:43:14
  Speaker 11: So it's not just the Mariners playing a good week.
• 1:43:16
  Speaker 11: They need a good week from the Mariners and all
• 1:43:19
  Speaker 11: the other teams to fall off their rocker, which is
• 1:43:22
  Speaker 11: just not gonna happen. This team's dead.
• 1:43:25
  Speaker 4: Give up on them.
• 1:43:28
  Speaker 2: Okay, listen, okay, time out, Time out for a second here.
• 1:43:34
  Speaker 2: So they're one and a half games out of a
• 1:43:37
  Speaker 2: wildcard spot. Now, yes, Detroit's one, Baltimore's one, Cleveland's a half,
• 1:43:41
  Speaker 2: Minnesotas a half, and then the Rangers are the third
• 1:43:44
  Speaker 2: wildcard team. They're not gonna I'm gonna make an assumption here,
• 1:43:48
  Speaker 2: they're not gonna catch the Red Sox of the Yanks.
• 1:43:50
  Speaker 2: So there's one, two, three, four, five, six teams. Realistically,
• 1:43:56
  Speaker 2: there's six teams battling for one spot in the world
• 1:44:00
  Speaker 2: out card. Okay, and out of those six, Detroit kind
• 1:44:04
  Speaker 2: of gave up, Baltimore kind of gave up. Now Texas
• 1:44:08
  Speaker 2: kind of gave up. So yes, there's a lot of
• 1:44:12
  Speaker 2: teams there.
• 1:44:13
  Speaker 3: Doesn't mean they won't get in though, just because they
• 1:44:14
  Speaker 3: gave up.
• 1:44:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean true, But I don't know when I
• 1:44:19
  Speaker 2: look at one and a half games, you tell me
• 1:44:20
  Speaker 2: a good week, you're not gonna in the hell a
• 1:44:22
  Speaker 2: good week. You can make up the three games on Houston.
• 1:44:25
  Speaker 3: See that's where it is. I think that it's still
• 1:44:27
  Speaker 3: aos for best for me, Like, I don't think they're
• 1:44:29
  Speaker 3: getting the wildcard.
• 1:44:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you're I think that's becoming more and
• 1:44:33
  Speaker 2: more picks.
• 1:44:33
  Speaker 3: I want to save the last two for the end
• 1:44:35
  Speaker 3: of the segment. Just say no. So let's do some texts.
• 1:44:38
  Speaker 2: Least favorite Heath Cuffs, Heathcliff Slow considering who he gave
• 1:44:42
  Speaker 2: up to get him to help with that guy, Jason VerTech.
• 1:44:44
  Speaker 2: Of course is that trade it was? That was not good?
• 1:44:48
  Speaker 2: All right, let me go though, No, you get me. Listen,
• 1:44:51
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna go. We're gonna do this like the Brandon
• 1:44:53
  Speaker 2: Fundston segment. I'm gonna get some early ones once you
• 1:44:55
  Speaker 2: get me some late one.
• 1:44:56
  Speaker 3: Got it sounds good.
• 1:44:57
  Speaker 2: So I got some early tech. Guy we got I
• 1:44:59
  Speaker 2: can't go back. I can't go back. If you send
• 1:45:01
  Speaker 2: a text before twelve seventeen. Sorry, I can't even get
• 1:45:03
  Speaker 2: to it. That's how many texts we got today. A
• 1:45:06
  Speaker 2: favorite Manner of all time, Randy Johnson, least favorite Scott
• 1:45:08
  Speaker 2: Spiezio and since nineteen hundred and seventy seven that will
• 1:45:12
  Speaker 2: be year one. Yes, I'm with you, ninety five King
• 1:45:15
  Speaker 2: Felix and a Rod john So King of Felix's favorite
• 1:45:18
  Speaker 2: a Rod's his least favorite. John Olerud and Edgar Martinez
• 1:45:22
  Speaker 2: tie for my favorite. Bobby i Ella is the worst.
• 1:45:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, Bobby, Yeah not great. Favorite Mariner is Edgar Martinez,
• 1:45:29
  Speaker 2: his character in the story of how he got to
• 1:45:30
  Speaker 2: the MLB, mostly because he is the man. Yep. Most
• 1:45:33
  Speaker 2: hated roads with this, I.
• 1:45:37
  Speaker 4: Can't chigure that one out.
• 1:45:39
  Speaker 2: My favorite all time Mariner, no contest Edgar Martinez. My
• 1:45:43
  Speaker 2: least favorite Manner is Culton Wong. He hated being here.
• 1:45:45
  Speaker 8: Oh.
• 1:45:46
  Speaker 3: I almost thought about Colton Wong for my least favorite,
• 1:45:49
  Speaker 3: to be completely honest with you, just because everyone was
• 1:45:52
  Speaker 3: hyping him up as like this giant upgrade on Adam Frasier.
• 1:45:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah ye after making the playoffs, and he just came
• 1:45:59
  Speaker 3: and was terrible with the Mariners.
• 1:46:02
  Speaker 2: Favorite Mariner as an eighties baby and nineties little leaguer.
• 1:46:05
  Speaker 2: The kid Still the best damn cleats I've ever owned,
• 1:46:08
  Speaker 2: Ownder war he was the man. Also, most most hated
• 1:46:11
  Speaker 2: easy Sean Figgins what a posy true? Yeah, Tino Martinez
• 1:46:18
  Speaker 2: my favorite. Jeff Thrill the worst, Rupert Jones center field
• 1:46:22
  Speaker 2: or first all start for the marriage and seventy seven
• 1:46:24
  Speaker 2: cheap outfield seats in the Kingdome. I'll leave my least
• 1:46:26
  Speaker 2: favorite to somebody else. There's a very positive individual. I
• 1:46:30
  Speaker 2: love Rupert. Rupert Jones with my favorite players ever, one
• 1:46:32
  Speaker 2: of my first earlier. Yeah, he's a you know, Jeff
• 1:46:35
  Speaker 2: got him on the show with me a couple of
• 1:46:37
  Speaker 2: years and I did.
• 1:46:37
  Speaker 3: I was on that price.
• 1:46:38
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 1:46:38
  Speaker 2: That was wild. That was that was crazy. That was
• 1:46:40
  Speaker 2: really fun. That was like, thank you, thanks again Jesse
• 1:46:43
  Speaker 2: for listening right now. Most obvious answer ever Griffy and
• 1:46:46
  Speaker 2: that bum Bobby Ayala that's Eric Getz. Yeah, bum Mariners
• 1:46:53
  Speaker 2: fan my whole life. I'm forty nine faves. Alvin Davis
• 1:46:56
  Speaker 2: and Harold Reynolds. Hate Alex Rodriguez, barf, Richie Sexton worst
• 1:47:03
  Speaker 2: yeah period. Nelson Cruz favorite beard, worst a.
• 1:47:08
  Speaker 3: Hole Nelson cru Is a great shout for a favorite
• 1:47:11
  Speaker 3: Marriner loves the beard.
• 1:47:12
  Speaker 2: Who's the beard? Who am I missing there?
• 1:47:13
  Speaker 3: I think it's misspelling of as we all know.
• 1:47:16
  Speaker 2: Thank you.
• 1:47:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah, he needs some royal asak he does.
• 1:47:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, because it's you know what, that's a voice to
• 1:47:24
  Speaker 2: text you.
• 1:47:25
  Speaker 3: That's my point. That's why he's wrong.
• 1:47:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, uh four nite. I'll get this and
• 1:47:31
  Speaker 2: you can get something first. I'm sixty five, so I've enjoyed.
• 1:47:35
  Speaker 2: This is actually good. I have, in quotations enjoyed all
• 1:47:39
  Speaker 2: fifty years. Then Griffy's my favorite first Seattle superstar. My
• 1:47:44
  Speaker 2: least favorite is Eric Batard, mainly because we gave up
• 1:47:46
  Speaker 2: Adam Jones to get him. Yeah, it's such an Yeah,
• 1:47:49
  Speaker 2: and that's you mentioned that earlier. Yeah, that's the that's
• 1:47:51
  Speaker 2: the that's the part. Okay, what do you got?
• 1:47:53
  Speaker 3: This one's great from Keith, which has a creator higher
• 1:47:57
  Speaker 3: or sorry higher exit Velo and Eric Bedard mound visit
• 1:48:00
  Speaker 3: eighty three pitches or Ian when his shift ends.
• 1:48:06
  Speaker 2: We're very much the same in that rear.
• 1:48:09
  Speaker 3: I no one thought I'd ever be comparing Ian forness
• 1:48:11
  Speaker 3: to Eric Pandartha.
• 1:48:11
  Speaker 11: Here we are.
• 1:48:12
  Speaker 2: Listen, that clock says two point fifty four boom, if
• 1:48:16
  Speaker 2: it might as well say eighty eight pitches and five innings.
• 1:48:20
  Speaker 2: I'm out, just like Eric giving four. The difference is
• 1:48:27
  Speaker 2: he technically had to wait for a manager to come out.
• 1:48:29
  Speaker 2: He did them. I'm just gone, Yeah, I'm just out.
• 1:48:30
  Speaker 3: He just walked off the mountain.
• 1:48:32
  Speaker 6: I got it.
• 1:48:33
  Speaker 2: It's a Friday. I got a happy hour to get to.
• 1:48:35
  Speaker 2: I I got stuff to do.
• 1:48:36
  Speaker 3: Two f three, Colton Wong and Sean Figgins might be
• 1:48:39
  Speaker 3: the same player. Nobody talks s Griffy though. Oh god,
• 1:48:44
  Speaker 3: that's so good, so good. Uh John King Felix because
• 1:48:48
  Speaker 3: he threw his perfect game on my birthday, that's pretty cool.
• 1:48:51
  Speaker 3: That's awes Oh wow, that is a cool ass story.
• 1:48:55
  Speaker 2: I'm sitting exactly. I'm sitting exactly where we were for
• 1:48:58
  Speaker 2: that perfect game.
• 1:49:00
  Speaker 3: You were at Seahawks training camp.
• 1:49:02
  Speaker 2: And here was the crazy thing it was. It was
• 1:49:05
  Speaker 2: exactly the same as today. It was an early practice,
• 1:49:08
  Speaker 2: finished day, yeah, day game for the minors. I don't
• 1:49:12
  Speaker 2: think there were fans here, and so we were doing
• 1:49:15
  Speaker 2: the show. I think Puck was still with me. We're
• 1:49:17
  Speaker 2: doing the show. We came in. It is a great story,
• 1:49:19
  Speaker 2: he said, we're what the game's on the TV in
• 1:49:21
  Speaker 2: the media, and like we're the other. Like there's like
• 1:49:23
  Speaker 2: ten people here. Maybe you guys are doing their stories.
• 1:49:26
  Speaker 2: And Felix goes boom boom boom, one two three, right,
• 1:49:29
  Speaker 2: Puck goes up perfect game. He's throwing a perfect game,
• 1:49:32
  Speaker 2: and we kind of I kind of laughed. We're laughing,
• 1:49:33
  Speaker 2: and then like we get to the third inning, and
• 1:49:35
  Speaker 2: I come out and I think he's still perfect. I
• 1:49:37
  Speaker 2: know it's a no hitter, and he's like really but
• 1:49:39
  Speaker 2: and then all of a sudden, the place empty because
• 1:49:41
  Speaker 2: we had like ap writers and everyone's everyone's gone.
• 1:49:44
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 1:49:44
  Speaker 2: So by the time we got to the seventh inning,
• 1:49:46
  Speaker 2: it was us. It was a two of us. I
• 1:49:48
  Speaker 2: don't know if anybody was in the building, to be
• 1:49:50
  Speaker 2: honest with you. And we're doing the show from the
• 1:49:54
  Speaker 2: room here. We're looking over and it's like, this is
• 1:49:56
  Speaker 2: I mean, like rooting hard for Felix and knowing full
• 1:49:59
  Speaker 2: well I could throw out an F bomb on the
• 1:50:00
  Speaker 2: air and nobody It's it's like, did it have to like, seriously,
• 1:50:06
  Speaker 2: did it have to be a day game? Bring our show? Like,
• 1:50:08
  Speaker 2: did it have to be that? Sitting right here?
• 1:50:10
  Speaker 6: Yeah?
• 1:50:11
  Speaker 2: All right, you have two more talkbacks?
• 1:50:13
  Speaker 13: I do.
• 1:50:13
  Speaker 3: I want to say one more text here? Favorite mariner
• 1:50:15
  Speaker 3: Daveney House.
• 1:50:17
  Speaker 2: Oh God, why did I not say that earlier? Yeah,
• 1:50:20
  Speaker 2: because I did say my least favorite could be Bill Plumber.
• 1:50:22
  Speaker 3: Totally, that's a great shot for favorite mariner.
• 1:50:29
  Speaker 2: Just icon.
• 1:50:30
  Speaker 3: All right, we got we got we got two talk backs?
• 1:50:32
  Speaker 6: All right?
• 1:50:34
  Speaker 9: This one first, Hey, what's going on?
• 1:50:36
  Speaker 8: Man?
• 1:50:37
  Speaker 2: Sean Figgins here.
• 1:50:38
  Speaker 17: Dang, I didn't know I was so hated in Seattle.
• 1:50:42
  Speaker 17: I'm listening here to the radio, and then found found
• 1:50:44
  Speaker 17: a couple other guests that I think Seattle lights might
• 1:50:46
  Speaker 17: not like.
• 1:50:47
  Speaker 6: Let's let's check the first station.
• 1:50:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah, let's try.
• 1:50:51
  Speaker 11: Let's rye.
• 1:50:52
  Speaker 15: I'll turn that station.
• 1:50:54
  Speaker 4: Let us check station two?
• 1:50:55
  Speaker 2: Here? Have I got a pick for you?
• 1:50:59
  Speaker 8: Oh?
• 1:51:00
  Speaker 2: No, turn that house right off.
• 1:51:02
  Speaker 17: Anyway, Seattle Musla from your boy, Sean.
• 1:51:09
  Speaker 2: Can I make a request right now? Please, Sean Field,
• 1:51:13
  Speaker 2: you know what. You may not be liked. Callack anytime.
• 1:51:16
  Speaker 2: Call back anytime, Sean, call back anytime. Sean Figgins talk
• 1:51:23
  Speaker 2: back is that he is the greatest, with two epic imitations,
• 1:51:28
  Speaker 2: including mister m I love that Sean Figgins doing an
• 1:51:33
  Speaker 2: imitation of mister unlimited. I need more, I need more. Yep,
• 1:51:38
  Speaker 2: you got one more.
• 1:51:38
  Speaker 3: I got one more.
• 1:51:41
  Speaker 15: Just in forness here Mariners local baseball team celebration to moral.
• 1:51:46
  Speaker 15: I'll be there tomorrow for the local baseball team. One
• 1:51:50
  Speaker 15: thing Sean Figgins will not be there. He's a nothing
• 1:51:52
  Speaker 15: burger either. Will air at the DAR period and the
• 1:51:55
  Speaker 15: story I do want to chime in here for a second.
• 1:51:58
  Speaker 15: Julio will be dj A the after party of the nighting.
• 1:52:01
  Speaker 15: But what are we doing?
• 1:52:03
  Speaker 3: What are we doing?
• 1:52:04
  Speaker 2: Anyways?
• 1:52:05
  Speaker 15: Check the text line, Yeah we're good, We're good.
• 1:52:09
  Speaker 6: Softy's next.
• 1:52:18
  Speaker 15: Ian forness here Mariners local baseball team celebration to moral.
• 1:52:23
  Speaker 2: I'll be there tomorrow for the local baseball team. One thing.
• 1:52:27
  Speaker 15: Sean Figgins will not be there. He's a nothing burger either.
• 1:52:31
  Speaker 15: Will air the dar period, end the story. I do
• 1:52:34
  Speaker 15: want to chime in here for a second. Julio will
• 1:52:36
  Speaker 15: be DJing the after party of the nighting.
• 1:52:39
  Speaker 2: What what are we doing? What are we doing?
• 1:52:42
  Speaker 6: Anyways?
• 1:52:42
  Speaker 15: Check the text line, Yeah we're good, We're good.
• 1:52:46
  Speaker 6: Softies next, so good man, so freaking I'm trying.
• 1:52:52
  Speaker 2: I'm trying to figure out. Like I it's hard to
• 1:52:55
  Speaker 2: tell if someone impersonating you is on point or not.
• 1:53:01
  Speaker 2: But I can tell you this. The guy the the FIFA,
• 1:53:05
  Speaker 2: Jackson felts bang on number one. Number one, I think
• 1:53:09
  Speaker 2: I think right there with it is when we get
• 1:53:11
  Speaker 2: the softy impression every now and then. I've never heard
• 1:53:14
  Speaker 2: that before. You've never heard that mo like baby baby, Oh,
• 1:53:20
  Speaker 2: it's perfect, It's perfect. I don't know how is there
• 1:53:22
  Speaker 2: a guy that does a chuck Powell pressure, I'm gonna
• 1:53:25
  Speaker 2: f Jerry. That's it right there. That's actually Chuck Powell.
• 1:53:31
  Speaker 2: By the way, Hey, we've got another one though, we
• 1:53:32
  Speaker 2: got another. We've got another impression now. I asked the
• 1:53:36
  Speaker 2: question earlier because I was on with Chuck this morning.
• 1:53:38
  Speaker 2: We were out here at Seahawks and and he's talking
• 1:53:40
  Speaker 2: about top fifty players and all that, and I twisted around,
• 1:53:43
  Speaker 2: I said, who's your favorite Mariner of all time?
• 1:53:46
  Speaker 6: Right?
• 1:53:46
  Speaker 2: Who's your least favorite of all time? Not best or worst,
• 1:53:49
  Speaker 2: just your favorite guy to root for it and your
• 1:53:51
  Speaker 2: least favorite player of all time? And when I brought
• 1:53:54
  Speaker 2: up the name Sean Figgins this morning, text line blue up.
• 1:53:57
  Speaker 2: That's all I see right now is Sean Figgins. And
• 1:53:58
  Speaker 2: guess who called in, Dave? Who's that? Hey, what's going on? Man?
• 1:54:02
  Speaker 2: Sean Figgin's here?
• 1:54:04
  Speaker 3: Damn.
• 1:54:05
  Speaker 17: I didn't know I was so hated in Seattle. I'm
• 1:54:08
  Speaker 17: listening here to the radio. And then found a couple
• 1:54:10
  Speaker 17: other guests that I think Seattle lights might not like.
• 1:54:12
  Speaker 6: Let's let's check the first station.
• 1:54:15
  Speaker 15: Yeah, let's right, let's ride turn that station.
• 1:54:20
  Speaker 2: Let let's check station two.
• 1:54:21
  Speaker 6: Here. Have I got a pick for you?
• 1:54:25
  Speaker 7: Oh?
• 1:54:25
  Speaker 2: Hell no?
• 1:54:26
  Speaker 8: Turn that house right off.
• 1:54:27
  Speaker 2: Anyway, Seattle, much love from your boy, Sean. Sean Figgin's
• 1:54:32
  Speaker 2: imitating mister unlimited. Does it get on a Friday?
• 1:54:36
  Speaker 7: That's pretty damn good, man, Pretty damn good. Although I
• 1:54:39
  Speaker 7: don't remember Sean Figgins sounding like that. I don't remember
• 1:54:42
  Speaker 7: actually what Sean Figgins sounded like at.
• 1:54:44
  Speaker 2: All, to be honest with you, because because you know why,
• 1:54:46
  Speaker 2: he was the most when he was in Seattle. I
• 1:54:50
  Speaker 2: remember him chirping Christian people and Curtis Craptree early. What
• 1:54:54
  Speaker 2: are you talking about? Le me alone? Anyway? Who's who's
• 1:54:57
  Speaker 2: your Who's your least favorite Mariner of all time? Uh?
• 1:55:01
  Speaker 7: Well, Bobby Ayella is an easy answer, but I don't
• 1:55:03
  Speaker 7: think people realize why. Because he was a prick. He
• 1:55:06
  Speaker 7: was a complete prick to be around. From spring training
• 1:55:09
  Speaker 7: all the way through the regular season. He was a
• 1:55:12
  Speaker 7: He was a unhappy, miserable human being, and so from
• 1:55:16
  Speaker 7: a covering like coverage perspective, he was pretty awful. I mean, Buner,
• 1:55:22
  Speaker 7: I'll be honest with you, Buner was kind of a
• 1:55:25
  Speaker 7: tough guy to get along with when he was here,
• 1:55:28
  Speaker 7: no question about it. I remember when Frank de Ford
• 1:55:30
  Speaker 7: came in here, for an HBO special, and he brought
• 1:55:33
  Speaker 7: it a producer who had hair that looked like you
• 1:55:36
  Speaker 7: ever seen the Medusa version from the original Clash of
• 1:55:41
  Speaker 7: the Titans, No, remember her, the Greek goddess Medusa, like
• 1:55:45
  Speaker 7: hair snakes, snake's coming out of her head. That's what
• 1:55:48
  Speaker 7: That's what this guy's hair looked like. Buner just hammered him.
• 1:55:55
  Speaker 7: I mean, almost made the guy cry in the clubhouse, right.
• 1:55:58
  Speaker 3: So he was.
• 1:56:00
  Speaker 7: And there's a lot of great stories about Jay, and
• 1:56:02
  Speaker 7: I've heard a lot of stories about Bnery. He would
• 1:56:04
  Speaker 7: last day of a road trip, he emptied the shampoo
• 1:56:06
  Speaker 7: bottles and the visiting shower and peeing him for the
• 1:56:09
  Speaker 7: next team. That was one of his things he would do.
• 1:56:12
  Speaker 7: God puked on command, you know. He was famous for that.
• 1:56:15
  Speaker 7: But he was He was a tough guy to get
• 1:56:17
  Speaker 7: along with. I mean, and I got along with Jay
• 1:56:19
  Speaker 7: just fine because I just tell him to go screw himself,
• 1:56:21
  Speaker 7: right whatever.
• 1:56:23
  Speaker 4: But there were a.
• 1:56:24
  Speaker 7: Baseball is different, man, because they see the media every
• 1:56:27
  Speaker 7: single day, twice a day, pregame, post game for three
• 1:56:30
  Speaker 7: hundred and twenty four times, right, So I understand it
• 1:56:34
  Speaker 7: why these guys sometimes are a paint in the butt.
• 1:56:36
  Speaker 7: But Bobby, I Yella was just he was a miserable
• 1:56:39
  Speaker 7: piece of extrament.
• 1:56:40
  Speaker 2: I will go into the whole story. I won't go
• 1:56:42
  Speaker 2: to the whole story, but I told her my one
• 1:56:43
  Speaker 2: of my least favorite guys was was Peewee Briley. There
• 1:56:46
  Speaker 2: you go, Greg Briley, absolute jerk, I mean, be like
• 1:56:50
  Speaker 2: of epic proportions. But my, when I I was talking
• 1:56:54
  Speaker 2: to Chuck this morning, I threw out the name Phil Plummer.
• 1:56:56
  Speaker 2: He's not a plumber, not a player. But but you
• 1:56:59
  Speaker 2: think team that actually had a winning record and lose
• 1:57:01
  Speaker 2: one hundred and seventy five games next year, Well they
• 1:57:03
  Speaker 2: fired Jim Lefievra. It wasn't his fault.
• 1:57:05
  Speaker 7: No, I mean they for for some reason they finally
• 1:57:08
  Speaker 7: got to five hundred, they fired Lafevra, and then they
• 1:57:10
  Speaker 7: gave the job the plumber and he's stunk, So I
• 1:57:13
  Speaker 7: don't know. I mean it got him lou Panela right
• 1:57:14
  Speaker 7: when it was all said and done.
• 1:57:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, a couple of years so yeah, true. All right,
• 1:57:19
  Speaker 2: what do you got coming away?
• 1:57:20
  Speaker 7: Uh, Well, we're gonna go over our top fifty marineral list.
• 1:57:23
  Speaker 7: Dick and I will both do our top fifty reveal.
• 1:57:26
  Speaker 4: The entire list on the ear.
• 1:57:27
  Speaker 8: No, we're not doing that.
• 1:57:28
  Speaker 2: I'm kidding, we're not doing that.
• 1:57:30
  Speaker 7: I think you're gonna just go player by player by
• 1:57:32
  Speaker 7: player by.
• 1:57:33
  Speaker 2: I don't know, but I do know that it's got
• 1:57:35
  Speaker 2: to take care for Castile's one of the top fifty,
• 1:57:37
  Speaker 2: would you.
• 1:57:37
  Speaker 6: Agree, Luis?
• 1:57:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, probably okay.
• 1:57:43
  Speaker 4: But he's not here.
• 1:57:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think only him and Logan.
• 1:57:46
  Speaker 7: I mean, not every player that's on the top fifty
• 1:57:48
  Speaker 7: list is going to be here tomorrow.
• 1:57:49
  Speaker 2: I no, no, no, exactly, because.
• 1:57:51
  Speaker 7: There's a couple of guys that are playing elsewhere. Some
• 1:57:52
  Speaker 7: guys couldn't make it. Uh, some guys are no longer
• 1:57:55
  Speaker 7: with us, right, Like I think Julio maybe on the
• 1:57:57
  Speaker 7: list Cruise and he's no longer with us. So it's
• 1:58:00
  Speaker 7: not gonna be every guy. But I'm curious to know
• 1:58:03
  Speaker 7: because I know when the US men's national team came
• 1:58:05
  Speaker 7: here a couple of weeks ago, they introduced every member
• 1:58:08
  Speaker 7: of the US men's team and it took like an hour.
• 1:58:11
  Speaker 2: It was unbelievable.
• 1:58:13
  Speaker 7: So five guys, right, I'm curious to see how long
• 1:58:15
  Speaker 7: it takes to get this whole list out the starting ceremony,
• 1:58:18
  Speaker 7: Like five right, exactly in the games at six forty
• 1:58:21
  Speaker 7: and tomorrow.
• 1:58:22
  Speaker 4: Is that right?
• 1:58:23
  Speaker 2: Yes?
• 1:58:23
  Speaker 7: So I don't know, man, it's gonna it's gonna be
• 1:58:25
  Speaker 7: a while. But I'm just really curious to see what
• 1:58:27
  Speaker 7: happens tonight. Man, if they get their ass kicked by
• 1:58:29
  Speaker 7: Tampa Bay and then hang around and have some fun
• 1:58:32
  Speaker 7: for a home run derby with Julio being your DJ.
• 1:58:34
  Speaker 3: And they need to get swept.
• 1:58:36
  Speaker 2: The timing is so awful, guys, it is. It is
• 1:58:40
  Speaker 2: so bad.
• 1:58:41
  Speaker 6: It is.
• 1:58:41
  Speaker 7: It's like if you're Kevin Martinez, You're like, come on, man,
• 1:58:47
  Speaker 7: Like I heard Greg's rant the other day and I
• 1:58:48
  Speaker 7: get it. But the marketing side and the baseball side
• 1:58:51
  Speaker 7: are two separate things. They got and the marketing side
• 1:58:55
  Speaker 7: really needs the baseball side to get their act together
• 1:58:57
  Speaker 7: they do.
• 1:59:00
  Speaker 2: Did Rob repsnunder make your top fifty?
• 1:59:02
  Speaker 3: Yes?
• 1:59:02
  Speaker 2: Him and Coulton Wong perfect? Okay, good?
• 1:59:04
  Speaker 6: I just.
• 1:59:06
  Speaker 2: You know what we should do.
• 1:59:06
  Speaker 7: We should do like a who's the guy for ESP
• 1:59:09
  Speaker 7: and Lonardi does his first four out, the first four out,
• 1:59:13
  Speaker 7: Tommy last Stella, Cooper Humble, first four out.
• 1:59:17
  Speaker 2: Coulton Wong did on that list too? Or is he
• 1:59:20
  Speaker 2: on there? Aj Pollock is he on there.
• 1:59:22
  Speaker 7: AJ Pollock, Timmy las Stella, Cooper Humble, Coulton, Wong, Rob Rep.
• 1:59:26
  Speaker 7: Snyder first five out. Sorry guys, you barely made it.
• 1:59:29
  Speaker 7: How about if they actually called them and said, sorry,
• 1:59:33
  Speaker 7: we're sick.
• 1:59:34
  Speaker 2: I gotta go. I'll see it. Let's see it.
• 1:59:36
  Speaker 7: For the mild mannered and marginally objectionably infness, this is
• 1:59:41
  Speaker 7: paddle day saying so long everyone,