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Chuck int he Morning 9/2 H4: Cam Cleeland, ABCs of the Mariners and one last thing! · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: But let's face it, the college football season gets going
• 0:02
  Speaker 1: this week, right? Tomorrow there will be games. I don't
• 0:06
  Speaker 1: know what it is about Rutgers. Rutgers always plays like
• 0:09
  Speaker 1: the first game of the year. I don't know if
• 0:11
  Speaker 1: that's a thing that they worked out with the networks,
• 0:14
  Speaker 1: but they play the first game of the first week
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  Speaker 1: of the college football season tomorrow. There will be, I think,
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  Speaker 1: a couple Friday games and then full slate on Saturday. And,
• 0:26
  Speaker 1: of course, the Huskies will play on Sunday. the first
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  Speaker 1: game of the season, the Apple.
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  Speaker 2: Cup, which does continue to be weird for everyone.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody's having the conversation this week about just how much
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  Speaker 1: longer will this game last.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think it will last much longer. I really don't.
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  Speaker 1: Rick Neuheisel had a different opinion of that yesterday at
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  Speaker 1: 9 o'clock. He thinks that there's a will, there's a way,
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  Speaker 1: but I don't know if there's really a will. I
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  Speaker 1: think that There are downsides for both programs. I don't
• 1:00
  Speaker 1: see Coug Nation being all that fired up for the
• 1:03
  Speaker 1: game anymore with the way that the sport has changed
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  Speaker 1: with NIL and Transfer Portal. I mean, the moment you
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  Speaker 1: get a Ryan Leaf to come to Pullman and he
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  Speaker 1: shows he's one of the best quarterbacks in the nation,
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  Speaker 1: how are you going to keep Ryan Leaf if you're
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  Speaker 1: Washington State to help you beat the Huskies that year.
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  Speaker 1: Things like that might not even exist anymore in the
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  Speaker 1: sport for programs like Washington State. So certainly the future
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  Speaker 1: looks a little bit grim in terms of whether or
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  Speaker 1: not we're going to have many more beyond the 118th
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  Speaker 1: playing of the Apple Cup. But we have it right now.
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  Speaker 1: And as I've repeated numerous times on this show, maybe
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  Speaker 1: this is the slot. Maybe this is where you can
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  Speaker 1: save it. Um, maybe giving it the texture of being
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  Speaker 1: on a Sunday night before the NFL gets underway. Um, being,
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  Speaker 1: having a national platform, which let's face it, you always
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  Speaker 1: had to compete with other rivalry games, uh, in the past.
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  Speaker 1: So for it to be the only show in town,
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  Speaker 1: maybe it gives it a spark. Um, we shall see. Um,
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  Speaker 1: but it sounds like, like, uh, From a financial standpoint,
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  Speaker 1: it's going to be difficult for this to continue for Washington.
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  Speaker 1: And then from a competitive standpoint, it feels like it's
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  Speaker 1: going to be difficult to continue for the Cougs. And
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  Speaker 1: so we have Sunday that we probably should hold precious
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  Speaker 1: because who knows how many more of these we.
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  Speaker 2: Are going to get.
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  Speaker 1: Joining us now, somebody that has played in an Apple
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  Speaker 1: Cup or four. It is former Washington Huskies tight end
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  Speaker 1: and current voice of the Dogs, Cam Cleland, is with
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  Speaker 1: us for another college football season.
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  Speaker 2: Happy football to you, sir.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, happy week one. Um, I got to experience zero
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  Speaker 3: week last week, which is weird in its own right
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  Speaker 3: when they call it zero week, but happy week. Well,
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  Speaker 3: happy apple cup.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 5: Chuck.
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  Speaker 3: What does that mean for apple cup for you? Who's never,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, how does the apple cup feel for you? Well,
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  Speaker 3: you're long enough to taste it.
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  Speaker 2: Well, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's a, I mean, I, I knew from afar.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's a great game. It's a great rivalry. And,
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  Speaker 1: Different from other rivalries, but certainly once I moved here
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  Speaker 1: 11 years ago, I did understand and appreciate what made
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  Speaker 1: it so special. But Cam, obviously we're having that special
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  Speaker 1: aspect of it get kind of have bites taken out
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  Speaker 1: of the apple here.
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  Speaker 2: And what makes it special.
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  Speaker 1: I would ask you, as somebody that obviously played in
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  Speaker 1: this numerous times and has called many Apple Cups as
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  Speaker 1: a broadcaster, can we hold on to it? Can we
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  Speaker 1: keep what's special about it at all?
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  Speaker 5: Truthfully, I really hope so.
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  Speaker 3: I don't have any faith in a lot of college
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  Speaker 3: football right now when it comes to decision-making. There's a
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  Speaker 3: lot of stuff out there. There's a lot of things
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  Speaker 3: with with just disorganization. I know there needs to be,
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  Speaker 3: there needs to be a bottom. And before we get
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  Speaker 3: back on track, I believe we've reached the bottom in
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  Speaker 3: college football and how things, but when we talk about
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  Speaker 3: just how much the Apple cup met for years, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, how long this rivalry has been around families, regions,
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  Speaker 3: one half of the state versus the other kids that went,
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  Speaker 3: went from the other side of the state and became
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  Speaker 3: Huskies and vice versa.
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  Speaker 5: And so it does, it means a lot.
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  Speaker 3: There's, I don't know if you would call it as
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  Speaker 3: much as there's pure hatred anymore, but there's just a
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  Speaker 3: respectfulness of the importance of each school and how important
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  Speaker 3: these schools mean for football in this state. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I do value this rivalry, and I hope we find
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  Speaker 3: a way to make it happen. It's strange enough, it's
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  Speaker 3: on a Sunday this year, which... You know, I'm a traditionalist.
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  Speaker 3: I hold sacred Fridays for high school, Saturday for college football,
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  Speaker 3: and Sundays for the NFL.
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  Speaker 5: But what do I know?
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  Speaker 3: I'm just an old, decrepit man now. I guess we've
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  Speaker 3: got to deviate. Now it's the only day we don't
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  Speaker 3: have it is Tuesdays and Wednesdays. So, okay, I guess
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  Speaker 3: we'll deal with it. Yeah, don't hold your breath. That
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  Speaker 3: might change, too.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I know. I guess, yeah, that's a good point.
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  Speaker 5: Very good point.
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  Speaker 1: Well, let's talk about the game itself on Sunday. I'm
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  Speaker 1: sure you've done some homework on the Cougs, and I'm
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  Speaker 1: sure you're caught up to speed with what you're expecting
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  Speaker 1: out of the Dogs this year. A lot of people
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  Speaker 1: on the Cougs side fearing a blowout, and I think
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people on the Huskies side hoping for
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  Speaker 1: a blowout. Do we get a competitive game on Sunday,
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  Speaker 1: or do fears and hopes come true?
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  Speaker 3: I don't like, man, the predictions of this stuff because
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  Speaker 3: it just always is, you know, talent, talent-wise. If you
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  Speaker 3: want to break down a roster and go guy for guy, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, but I've been on teams, Chuck, where the
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  Speaker 3: talent has been swung one way or the other. And
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  Speaker 3: then you have to throw out records, the cliches of
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  Speaker 3: throw out records in a rivalry game. And what does
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  Speaker 3: it mean for the Cougs coming out for their first time?
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  Speaker 3: You've got a brand-new football coach. I mean, this is
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  Speaker 3: three coaches. In three years for the Cougs. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: some stability, that would be great. I mean, it's hard
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  Speaker 3: enough to be able to manage a whole program, and
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  Speaker 3: then you're changing over coaches, and you're looking at, you're
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  Speaker 3: starting a new quarterback, who I got to see very
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  Speaker 3: personally and got to know very, very well with Caden Pinnock.
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  Speaker 3: He played at UC Davis where both my boys played,
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  Speaker 3: so I got to know him, watch him play. An
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  Speaker 3: incredible athlete. a freshman All-American. He was a big sky
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  Speaker 3: player of the year, I think twice during the year,
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  Speaker 3: threw for over 3,000 yards. He's a big-time talent, man.
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  Speaker 3: And he came in and has taken over this offense.
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  Speaker 3: And so he's been in Husky Stadium before. That was
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  Speaker 3: last year. That was a tough game for everybody and
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  Speaker 3: for himself. But, look, you mean to tell me that
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  Speaker 3: the Cougs aren't going to come in and they're going
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  Speaker 3: to be massively fired up to win this football game?
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  Speaker 5: Of course not.
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  Speaker 3: You know, Washington is– we hold what I would call–
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  Speaker 3: you would call the pressure. This team is year three
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  Speaker 3: in Jed Fish. He's got young players on the roster.
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  Speaker 3: He's got four freshmen that are going to start on
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  Speaker 3: the offense and defense. He's got his guys that are
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  Speaker 3: in there that are now– new wide receiver core.
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  Speaker 5: There's just a lot of things that we're going to see.
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  Speaker 3: And this is why when I watch college football, everyone
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  Speaker 3: always asks for predictions and say, what's this player going
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  Speaker 3: to look like? What's this guy going to look like? Chuck,
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  Speaker 3: I can't tell you that. And the reason why is
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  Speaker 3: I haven't watched him play yet. And I need to
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  Speaker 3: see what it looks like when the lights are on,
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  Speaker 3: the pressure's on, the TV camera's on, and everybody's cheering.
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  Speaker 3: I want to know what that kid looks like under that.
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  Speaker 3: Practice can look great. But like Allen Iverson always said, we.
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  Speaker 5: Talk in practice, man. No, not the game. We got
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  Speaker 5: to play the games.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, got to play the games. And let's face it,
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  Speaker 1: there's an element here. I mean, nobody has any film
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  Speaker 1: on what Kirby Moore likes to do as a head coach.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you've got plenty of film on what Jed
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  Speaker 1: Fish likes to do as a head coach. So that's
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  Speaker 1: an unknown.
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  Speaker 2: Going into this game.
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  Speaker 1: Who knows if he's going to be a young Chris
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  Speaker 1: Peterson with all the trick plays in the world at
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  Speaker 1: his disposal. I mean, you've got an idea of what
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  Speaker 1: kind of system he's going to run. but you never
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  Speaker 1: know what kind of flavor he's going to bring to
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  Speaker 1: the field in his first game as head coach of
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  Speaker 1: the Cougs. So let's talk about the dogs, and it
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  Speaker 1: must be music to your ears in the Jed Fish
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  Speaker 1: era that when we start evaluating the 2026 Huskies for
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  Speaker 1: the first time in three years, we're talking about the
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  Speaker 1: strength being up front on both the offense and defensive lines.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, and I'm super excited about the offensive line and
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  Speaker 3: the defensive line. I can just slightly digress and look
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  Speaker 3: at the linebacker room. It might be the strongest room
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  Speaker 3: in all of them, on all positions in this entire roster.
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  Speaker 3: They are extremely deep. When we talk about guys up front,
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  Speaker 3: if you go back to the first year of Jed Fish,
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  Speaker 3: you see when he hit spring, he only had 10
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  Speaker 3: healthy offensive linemen. Um, I mean, it might've been less
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  Speaker 3: than that. It might've been eight when spring ball hit.
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  Speaker 3: And now you're getting to see, I mean, not only
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  Speaker 3: young talent, and we're going to talk a lot about
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  Speaker 3: Cody green throughout the year. He's a, he's a true
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  Speaker 3: freshman at left tackle. We're going to see what he does.
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  Speaker 3: I'm excited to do it.
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  Speaker 6: I'd.
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  Speaker 3: I think that when you're 18 and you get a
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  Speaker 3: chance to fight up against some guys that are 22, 23,
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  Speaker 3: some of these players are going to be out there.
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  Speaker 3: It's going to be awakening a little bit. And I
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  Speaker 3: know he welcomes the challenge. John Mills did it last year.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, he's tricky. Here's taking over for center for
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  Speaker 3: hopefully a healing Landon Hatchett. But I've watched him play
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  Speaker 3: in practices. I've watched him play in the mock game
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  Speaker 3: and the scrimmage.
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  Speaker 5: He's wonderful.
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  Speaker 3: He's excellent. He's got great size, great feet. And then,
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  Speaker 3: of course, Champ takes over at right guard. And then
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  Speaker 3: you have a Solworth with Drew as a party. So
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  Speaker 3: this offensive line is massive. This is the kind of
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  Speaker 3: offensive line when you build something in the Big Ten
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  Speaker 3: to be able to run the football, and that's what
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  Speaker 3: we're going to have to do is run the football
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  Speaker 3: in certain situations, and a lot of it. It may
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  Speaker 3: not be as exciting sometimes, but you've seen what the
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  Speaker 3: Big Ten has done in the three straight national championships.
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  Speaker 3: They have been physical offensive line play and massive pass
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  Speaker 3: rush and just run stuffing defensive linemen.
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  Speaker 5: And that starts with all the big guys up front.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, I'm, I think you win football in the
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  Speaker 3: line of scrimmage. Anybody that says different doesn't know football.
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  Speaker 3: They don't, they haven't received that logic yet.
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  Speaker 2: And you would like to inject.
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  Speaker 1: It in them.
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  Speaker 3: I would like to make a small injection. It's not
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  Speaker 3: fun to watch the offensive. It's not fun to watch
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  Speaker 3: the defensive line, right? Everybody wants to see the stuff
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  Speaker 3: on the outside. But you can't throw the ball unless
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  Speaker 3: you have protection. You can't stop the run unless you
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  Speaker 3: have eyes up front. Everything starts at the point of
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  Speaker 3: attack with the line of scrimmage. I don't care how
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  Speaker 3: fast you think your edge guys are.
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  Speaker 5: It doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 1: Cam Cleland is with us, voice of the Dawgs' former
• 11:00
  Speaker 1: Husky tight end, of course, in his segment this season. Again,
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  Speaker 1: brought to you by Warrior Injury Law, battle-tested. DeMond Williams Jr.
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  Speaker 1: enters his third year with the Huskies, barely. His second
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  Speaker 1: year as a full-time starter. He physically looks different. He's
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  Speaker 1: put on some really good weight heading into this year.
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  Speaker 1: What do you want to see out of DeMond Williams Jr.
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  Speaker 1: this year to take his game to another level?
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  Speaker 3: Okay, so there's a couple things I'd love to see
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  Speaker 3: from him this year, and I think I've mentioned it before,
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  Speaker 3: but I'll regurgitate that because I'll start to watch it
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  Speaker 3: throughout the season. Number one is accuracy. So high percentage accuracy.
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  Speaker 3: To ask a quarterback at the college level to get
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  Speaker 3: in the upper 70s, that's a lot to ask.
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  Speaker 5: 75%, 78%. The last time we saw somebody like that was.
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  Speaker 3: Bo Nix, but that was in an Oregon offense, which
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  Speaker 3: had a lot of quick throws and strikes and stuff
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  Speaker 3: like that. That's not what Jed Fish runs. He runs
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  Speaker 3: a professional offense. It is an NFL offense, NFL verbiage,
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  Speaker 3: all of that. But his percentages need to be elevated.
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  Speaker 3: He needs to be close to.
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  Speaker 5: 68, 72% in that range.
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  Speaker 3: I know I'm putting a benchmark number, but down the
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  Speaker 3: field throws, accuracy, drives, extending third and sixes, accuracy.
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  Speaker 5: We know what he can do outside the pocket. All
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  Speaker 5: of us have seen it. His threat.
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  Speaker 3: That is terrifying for defenses. But when you go back
• 12:32
  Speaker 3: and you watch Tate versus Ohio State, you watch Tate
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  Speaker 3: versus Michigan, you can see in those losses and those situations,
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  Speaker 3: they made him try to beat you from the pocket.
• 12:41
  Speaker 3: They said, we're going to have a spy. We're going
• 12:43
  Speaker 3: to have guys that carousel around you to the outside.
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  Speaker 3: We're not going to create mid-pressure up the middle and
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  Speaker 3: allow you to escape. We're certainly not going to draw
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  Speaker 3: six and seven guys, rush four, and then let you
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  Speaker 3: delay and then get out and make constant scrambles. he
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  Speaker 3: created a shell defense and they tried to say, all right,
• 13:03
  Speaker 3: we'll stop run a little bit, but we want them
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  Speaker 3: on to beat you. So this is, this is his
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  Speaker 3: chance to elevate not only the intelligence of the throws,
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  Speaker 3: because the grasp of the offense, by the time you're
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  Speaker 3: in third year, you're, You're at an elite level of knowledge.
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  Speaker 3: You should be. It shouldn't be about what you don't know.
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  Speaker 3: Now it's about the execution in spots that you have
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  Speaker 3: to get better at. So I think that's what elevates
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  Speaker 3: him this year is those accuracy, those win-from-the-pocket moments for
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  Speaker 3: this offense.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'd just like to see him have a really
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  Speaker 1: great feel for when to run.
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  Speaker 2: I think he struggled with that.
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  Speaker 1: He knows he can run, but that's what I'd like
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  Speaker 1: to see in this second full year of a starter,
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  Speaker 1: to have just a command of when it's time to
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  Speaker 1: use your legs as the weapon they can be.
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: And that's also, too, that's also a decision when you
• 13:54
  Speaker 3: look at it, it's important to understand this because his health,
• 13:58
  Speaker 3: the best ability of all talent is availability. When to
• 14:02
  Speaker 3: take a shot. There were some big hits last year.
• 14:04
  Speaker 3: There were some downfield shoulder shots. There were some hits
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  Speaker 3: you're like, man, you cannot take that week in and
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  Speaker 3: week out and expect to be able to maintain it.
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  Speaker 3: So it's a good point by yourself is selective runs.
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  Speaker 3: But a check down to a back, that's a three
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  Speaker 3: yard throw that turns into an eight, nine yard game.
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  Speaker 3: That's a phenomenal play. And that's an easy, easy thing
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  Speaker 3: to do sometimes. And you don't have to get too
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  Speaker 3: scared about it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Don't be scared. Cam Cleland, never scared.
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  Speaker 5: All right.
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  Speaker 1: So your favorite personal Apple cup memory, whether it was
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  Speaker 1: on the field or off the field, what, what, what
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  Speaker 1: do you, where does your brain go through your own scrapbook.
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  Speaker 2: In your mind?
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  Speaker 3: Well, we had some battles in my day back in– actually,
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  Speaker 3: we had horses and carriages there, and everybody brought.
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  Speaker 5: Torches to be able to light the field. So it was.
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  Speaker 3: Amazing we were able to see through our leather helmets,
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  Speaker 3: but they did give me one bar so I could
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  Speaker 3: see through it.
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  Speaker 5: No, I mean, we had some great runs, man.
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  Speaker 3: We had a battle of overtime over there in Pullman
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  Speaker 3: on a crappy– Omni turf that they used to think
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  Speaker 3: that was actual turf, but to win the first and
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  Speaker 3: get a chance to have a pack 10 championship game
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  Speaker 3: in 1990, that was 96.
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  Speaker 5: That was pretty important. I'm sorry. That was 95 that
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  Speaker 5: we did that. And it'll walk off field goal.
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  Speaker 3: So then, I mean, I think it's more about when
• 15:27
  Speaker 3: you go out on the field and you see those
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  Speaker 3: other colors, it's like when the coots come out, they just,
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  Speaker 3: that's coming down the tunnel. And I can't wait for
• 15:37
  Speaker 3: the say who, say what, and I'm going to keep
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  Speaker 3: the PG version because, you.
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  Speaker 5: Know, I'm a football guy. I might go to the
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  Speaker 5: bad rate.
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  Speaker 3: But the say who, say what chant in the tunnel
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  Speaker 3: with the Cougs behind us, hearing that, seeing the color
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  Speaker 3: of their jerseys, watching that, smelling that musty, football funk
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  Speaker 3: that's in that tunnel when you're getting ready to come
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  Speaker 3: out during the apple cup that's i can still like
• 16:02
  Speaker 3: i'm getting a little twitch in my head sometimes and
• 16:04
  Speaker 3: like i could still hit somebody but i'm going to
• 16:06
  Speaker 3: need an ambulance those are the memories that i miss
• 16:09
  Speaker 3: the most and i loved about that game.
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah you're breaking in a brand new partner this year
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: you're the you're the veteran in the booth uh so
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: what how you feeling about uh elise joining you this year.
• 16:21
  Speaker 5: Look, she's been 21 years on that side. 22? Gosh, man,
• 16:25
  Speaker 5: don't ask me to recite numbers. That's a little struggle.
• 16:28
  Speaker 5: She's phenomenal. And crazy story. I've known Elise.
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: We were both freshmen together. We came in in 1993 together.
• 16:36
  Speaker 5: She was basketball. I was football.
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: Her and my wife, Mindy, were college roommates. Of course,
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: my wife played both softball and basketball. We've known Elise
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: and Troy and their family and their two boys.
• 16:48
  Speaker 5: We've known them forever.
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: And What an amazing opportunity for her. She's, she's an incredible,
• 16:54
  Speaker 3: I mean, I don't want to say the consummate professional,
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: but you don't want to talk about somebody that's as
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: skilled as anybody. So I'm excited for her. And we're
• 17:01
  Speaker 3: just going to be, let me think about this. We're
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: two old dogs.
• 17:05
  Speaker 5: Now I'm old. She's women age gracefully. There's no numbers, guys.
• 17:09
  Speaker 5: I'm old. but we're up there.
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: We're just going to be two former athletes, two former
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: real Huskies, where if you prick this open and be some.
• 17:16
  Speaker 5: Purple and that's what we're doing. Yeah.
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: And then we're going to throw some crazy dude that
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: you work with on the sidelines. He's going to be
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: down there too. So it's going to be, it's going
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: to be a gong show.
• 17:27
  Speaker 5: I'm just going to tell you, just bear with us, everybody.
• 17:29
  Speaker 5: We're going to try our best.
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: Well, what did you do?
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: I hopefully you worked on your game, you know, um,
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: coming into the best broadcasting shape of your life. Uh,
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: I hope you did your part this offseason to make
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: sure that you're a top voice.
• 17:43
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I did. I gargled with salt water. I recited
• 17:47
  Speaker 5: red leather, yellow leather. What is that? I don't know.
• 17:51
  Speaker 5: My voice. Whatever.
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: The arsonist had webbed feet.
• 17:57
  Speaker 5: Yes. Deep pronunciations of the bases.
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: That's what at least he's like, you can just talk
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: like that sometimes. I'm like, no, I'm going to scare everybody.
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: They're going to think I'm off in left field. No, man,
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: I'm looking forward to it. When football season is back,
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: it's just, I mean, every day I just think about it.
• 18:16
  Speaker 5: It's spectacular.
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: Well, we're excited to have you back every Wednesday this year.
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: That's going to be good for us. and excited to
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: hear you on the call on Sunday. So thank you
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: very much, sir. Have a fun, great football season, and
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: we'll talk to you real soon.
• 18:31
  Speaker 5: I appreciate it. We'll talk soon. Thanks, man. All right.
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: There he is, Cam Cleland, joining us right here on
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: the radio program. And of course, this segment this year
• 18:40
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• 18:43
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• 18:49
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• 18:58
  Speaker 1: now it feels like Husky season can begin.
• 19:00
  Speaker 6: Yeah, let's go.
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we've talked to Cam. We'll talk to Softie tomorrow
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: on the show. And yes, here we go. Football season
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: is here. But we're not quite done with baseball season.
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: And that means ABC's and the M's.
• 19:14
  Speaker 5: Next on KJR. How good?
• 19:16
  Speaker 6: We're all good.
• 19:17
  Speaker 5: Very good.
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: Did he leave a little lingering? sent a ball in
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: the air.
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it hangs.
• 19:23
  Speaker 5: Oh, good.
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: It hangs. Well, it's time for the ABCs of the M's,
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: our Daily Mariner segment, and we left off with the
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: letter P, and P is for personality. I do wonder,
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: at this late stage in the process, Ashley Ryan, if
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: a player's personality can lift a team that obviously is
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: baseball depressed and has behaved that way as of late
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: i don't want to put too much actually i don't
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: want to put any pressure on the shoulders of laz
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: montes not sure he'd feel it anyway um I'm certainly
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: not expecting him to hit a home run every night.
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: Oh, I am.
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: To take Major League Baseball by storm. I mean, they're
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: going to figure him out, and they're going to make
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: him look bad on certain nights. Last night, he looked great.
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: But I don't think there's any tarnishing the joy that
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: this guy carries himself with. I met him three spring
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: trainings ago, spent a little time with him last spring training,
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: a little bit more time with him this spring training.
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: And I told you on the air three years ago,
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: that's the nicest person I've ever met. And he just
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: kind of... That morose-ass dugout suddenly... Now, you won, and
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: you were winning the entire game, which certainly helps. But
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: that guy brought something that we haven't seen in the
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: dugout in quite some time. And Randy Rosarino, I've never
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: seen smile more. So I do wonder... What a personality,
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: 22 years old, can inject into a veteran baseball team
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: that has failed at their craft for the last five months.
• 21:07
  Speaker 6: I mean, I think it could inject a lot because
• 21:08
  Speaker 6: it's a fresh attitude. It's not somebody who has gone
• 21:12
  Speaker 6: through this rough season that the rest of that dugout
• 21:14
  Speaker 6: has gone through. And people have struggled individually. The team
• 21:17
  Speaker 6: has struggled as a whole. And anything, I mean, we
• 21:21
  Speaker 6: talked about it at the trade deadline. Just injecting something
• 21:24
  Speaker 6: new can always help. And obviously at the trade deadline,
• 21:27
  Speaker 6: injecting Taylor Ward hasn't helped a ton.
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: No.
• 21:31
  Speaker 5: Or at all.
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, or at all.
• 21:32
  Speaker 6: But he doesn't have the same sparkle that Laz has.
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: He does have a sparkle.
• 21:38
  Speaker 6: He does. And there's something about it. And it kind
• 21:41
  Speaker 6: of lightened everybody. And that's what they need. They need
• 21:43
  Speaker 6: to be a little lighter. They've been carrying this hard
• 21:45
  Speaker 6: season with them. And it's showing. They look heavy.
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: And I don't mean weight-wise.
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: And I'll say that.
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: I think fans carry that heaviness with them more so
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: than even the players. Players still get done, and their
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: appetites aren't hurt by a tough loss. They go out,
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: they have a steak and a beer, and they don't
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: wear it like fans do when we sit there and
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: we're just angry and tweeting and everything else during the
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: course of a game.
• 22:14
  Speaker 6: Emotional about it.
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: So to see.
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: Las Montes kind of distract us, I mean, you went
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: from The season's over.
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: The night before to... All right, I'm going to tune
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: in again because I'm a sucker.
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: And then the next thing you know, you're having a ball,
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: watching your favorite baseball team primarily because of.
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: This guy last night.
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: And Ashley said it earlier in the show, can't wait
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: to watch today to see what he can do on
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: day number two.
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: So, yeah, he's not going to homer every night, but I.
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: Tell you what, that personality did do something for us
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: last night and did something for them last night as well.
• 22:54
  Speaker 6: Yeah, and I don't think that's going to go anywhere.
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: Now, I will say this, because Q is for quit.
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: Uh-oh.
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: What we do need to quit on, though, is looking
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: for a spark. Yeah.
• 23:05
  Speaker 6: I will agree.
• 23:05
  Speaker 5: You know, we have.
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: We're trying.
• 23:07
  Speaker 6: To make too much out of things that we see, too.
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: We've run through every possible spark that there is. There
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: it is. That's what we needed.
• 23:16
  Speaker 5: Yep.
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: Three on Omer from Cole Young saves the day. Here
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: we go.
• 23:21
  Speaker 6: That's going to be the moment we're going to look
• 23:23
  Speaker 6: back on at the end of the season and say,
• 23:24
  Speaker 6: that's what turned it all.
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: Circle that Dom can zone home run circle, Brendan Donovan
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: coming off the injury list circle cow rallies out.
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: Of his slot.
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: Uh, none of it, none of it has provided the spark. And, uh,
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: I going to go ahead and say that last Montez
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: isn't either, but he might melt some of the Hardened hearts.
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: Hardened hearts that we saw just two nights ago.
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: Can't hurt.
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: Nope.
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: I'm not going to put Spark label on him.
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: I've failed at that all season long trying to figure
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: out if that's the turning point.
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: But it can't hurt.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: To have somebody that can hit the long ball and
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: put a smile on people's faces.
• 24:09
  Speaker 6: Well, and here's the difference too, right? Those other things
• 24:11
  Speaker 6: that we were looking at, those were moments. And we
• 24:14
  Speaker 6: were hoping that moment would be the thing that would
• 24:16
  Speaker 6: carry him over to the next game. He's not a moment.
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: He's here.
• 24:20
  Speaker 6: So he's bringing that same personality to the dugout today.
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: And that's the one difference.
• 24:24
  Speaker 5: Can he manage? Yeah, right?
• 24:27
  Speaker 6: But that's the difference. We're not relying on the moment
• 24:29
  Speaker 6: from last night to carry over to today to help
• 24:32
  Speaker 6: us with the spark. We're saying, hey, here he is,
• 24:35
  Speaker 6: and he's got a fresh outlook on this thing, and
• 24:38
  Speaker 6: he's excited to be here, so let's see.
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, there was no wiping the smile off his face
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: last night. And then when you go out and get
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: a walk and an RBI single and a home run
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: over the center field.
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: Wall at Fenway.
• 24:49
  Speaker 6: It's a pretty good first outing.
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: Pretty, pretty good. And you got to see that power
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: on display. I mentioned it once. It's worth mentioning again.
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: He didn't even get his arms extended on that, people. Like,
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: that was a pitch inside that he kind of fought
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: off and lifted and still hit it over 10 feet,
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: 10 rows up over the wall and the furthest fence
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: in Major League Baseball and highest fence, second highest fence,
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: the left field fence is higher, and 106 miles per
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: hour off the bat.
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: Now, that is some power. It was impressive.
• 25:22
  Speaker 6: Very impressive.
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: Very impressive. Finally, R is for ratio.
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: This conversation about what to do and whose heads should roll,
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: this is going to be our life probably for the
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: next two months, unless this team does somehow magically put
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: together a run. We're going to spend a lot of
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: time talking more about Dan Wilson needs to go and
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: Jerry DiPoto needs to go, and I wish we had
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: an owner who's like, Stan Kroenke that bought us. I mean,
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: all of this stuff, this is just going to be
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: our lives when talking about baseball for the next month
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: and a half, two months of our lives, unless the
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: players can figure out a way to put together a
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: streak here down the stretch.
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: But I do want to, I brought this up yesterday in.
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: Our show meeting, and I hope that maybe that it
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: resonates because this is where I stand on the ratio
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: of the blame pie.
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: That I pass along.
• 26:21
  Speaker 6: Okay.
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: Because the example of.
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: Julio playing a single into a triple and costing us
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: the game two nights ago was again used as, you know,
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: that kind of leadership starts from the top kind of
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: argument that took place yesterday.
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: And I'm just not on board with that.
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: I mean, I just, I think that that, that play
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: in and of itself, like, The general manager's job in
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: that moment is, that's the kind of player that we want,
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: and that's the type of player that we extend.
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: And then he goes to the owner.
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: And says, you really do need to crack out the
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: wallet for this guy.
• 27:05
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: So if Julio's the wrong player to have chosen to extend,
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: then I'm going to blame Pi.
• 27:13
  Speaker 5: Jerry.
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: If we spent....
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: John finally did open up the pocketbook and pay for
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: a player since so many people think he never does.
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: And he rubber-stamped, this is the guy that I'm going
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: to invest in, and it doesn't turn out to be
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: the right player.
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: Again, that's on Jerry.
• 27:34
  Speaker 5: Yep.
• 27:34
  Speaker 4: Okay?
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: So, but that play in of itself, that to me...
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: is representative of not being aware of the situation, that's
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: on the player.
• 27:50
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: But if you see a repeated performance of that particular
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: player making the same type of mistake, that's on the coaches.
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: Correct.
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, if you're allowing them to do the same thing.
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: And specifically the manager. So that's how, to me, that's it.
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: If Jerry's chosen the wrong guy to invest in, then
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: that's Jerry's job. It's the player's job to give us
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: an honest and smart effort every single day. But if
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: we have a player with all the talent in the world,
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: if we've all agreed when we were all excited about
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: extending Julio, oh my gosh, we did it.
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: We locked him up.
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: We don't have to worry about Julio Rodriguez being in
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: another uniform and hitting 50 home runs for the Mets.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: So if we were excited about that and excited about
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: the talent, it's hard for me to blame the people
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: that decided he was worth investing in. And if I
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: have a guy that's repeatedly coming off as not making
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: good decisions or not constantly focused like he should be
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: as a professional athlete, there's a pattern of behavior. I'm
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: blaming the coaches and the manager for that. Starts with
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: the player, but obviously Mike McDonald hard knocks. If that's
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: happening on his field, that stops or Mike McDonald's not
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: going to deal with him anymore. So that to me
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: is how I'm going to parcel up the blame because
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: Julio Rodriguez played a single into a triple it's hard
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: for me to blame the owner after that It's hard
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: for me to blame the organizational philosophy because Julio Rodriguez
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: played a single into a triple. If I'm going to
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: blame anybody, it's going to be Julio. And the second
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: person I'm going to blame is the coaches that allow
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: Julio to do these stupid things every once in a while.
• 29:49
  Speaker 6: And that's where it gets frustrating is because I think
• 29:51
  Speaker 6: people want to just blanket blame it's just well I'm
• 29:55
  Speaker 6: mad at Jerry and I'm mad at the ownership so
• 29:57
  Speaker 6: it's just their fault for everything and I mean there
• 29:59
  Speaker 6: was a point brought up yesterday I heard Anders and
• 30:02
  Speaker 6: Ian and you know so many people are mad at
• 30:03
  Speaker 6: Jerry for hiring Dan well that was an ownership hire
• 30:06
  Speaker 6: that wasn't it wasn't Jerry 100% I mean Jerry agreed
• 30:10
  Speaker 6: to it but it wasn't like Jerry was I blame
• 30:12
  Speaker 6: Jerry for that well but it was a combination it
• 30:16
  Speaker 6: wasn't just Jerry just saying no no no this is
• 30:18
  Speaker 6: our guy this is our guy this is our guy
• 30:20
  Speaker 6: it was he's in the organization ownership likes him this
• 30:23
  Speaker 6: is how it's going down. So, but in that situation
• 30:25
  Speaker 6: for the hiring of someone, there you go. That's where
• 30:28
  Speaker 6: you blame things, but everybody wants to then blame everybody,
• 30:32
  Speaker 6: you know, Jerry and Justin and ownership for everything. And
• 30:35
  Speaker 6: I don't know how you can sit there and consistently
• 30:37
  Speaker 6: do that when it's an on-field thing. That's the problem
• 30:41
  Speaker 6: right now.
• 30:41
  Speaker 5: I agree.
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: But what happens is that what happens is you choose
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: your side and you go out on a limb and
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: then You are absolutely convinced and you are waiting for
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: the next opportunity for the team to fail so that
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: you can go back to the point you made six
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: years ago that that guy is wrong for the job.
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: And that's kind of the way it works. People kind
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: of tune in for their own narrative to be supported.
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: That's most people. I like to think that I'm not
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: one of those. But nonetheless, we're going to be discussing
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: this for.
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: The next month and a half, like I said.
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: And I think everything's on the table, just so you know,
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: even though I've been more pro-Jerry and anti-Dan, I think
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: everything's on the table. I think everybody is under the knife,
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: under the microscope on why this has been a failure
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: to this point in the season. And so get ready,
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: buckle up, because I would rather be talking about a
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: playoff rotation right now and who makes the roster.
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: That sounds fun. versus who to blame for a disastrous year.
• 31:48
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: But that's what we're going to do for the next
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: year and a half, so get ready. All right, one
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: last thing to close out the show next on KJR.
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: I want to remind you, we are a week away
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: from the start of the Seahawks season.
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: It will be on a Wednesday this year.
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: College football, the Apple Cup's on a Sunday, and the
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: NFL starts on a Wednesday.
• 32:18
  Speaker 6: Weird.
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: Just like we drew it up. Right, exactly.
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: If you aren't going to the game, but you still
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: want to be around a bunch of 12s and watch
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: the game outdoors, how about joining Ashley Ryan at the
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: Tulalip Resort casino. She's going to be out at the
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: amphitheater where I was just a couple of weeks ago.
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: 3,000 seats out there. Hopefully we get a beautiful, already
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: fall day.
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: That would be awesome.
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  Speaker 1: Next Wednesday, big screen. You're going to have an amazing
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  Speaker 1: sound system out there. So if you want to show up,
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: there's going to be food, drink, obviously, available out there.
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: And then you've got a playground, an adult playground right
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: next door with the casino. So To me, it sounds
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: like a perfect script for the perfect Wednesday to start
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: the NFL season.
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  Speaker 5: Head on out.
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  Speaker 1: Join Ashley at Tulalip Resort Casino for a watch party
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  Speaker 1: next Wednesday.
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  Speaker 2: Everything Tulalip.com.
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  Speaker 6: Let's have some fun.
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  Speaker 1: Have some fun, Ashley. Make sure that you have fun
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: out there. Don't throw a party talking about the Mariners.
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  Speaker 6: Well, I can still have fun talking about the Mariners sometimes.
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  Speaker 2: All right. What's your one last thing?
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  Speaker 6: That's a really great question. I've really only had one
• 33:32
  Speaker 6: thing on my mind, as I told you. It was
• 33:33
  Speaker 6: about the middle school starting today. But I am surprised
• 33:39
  Speaker 6: just kind of how nervous it has made me. I
• 33:45
  Speaker 6: expect it to be a little emotional because it feels
• 33:47
  Speaker 6: like my kid is growing up so much.
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: You didn't watch Mean Girls last night or anything, did you?
• 33:52
  Speaker 6: No, I didn't, but we have watched it. Yeah, that
• 33:54
  Speaker 6: would have been, then I would have been. Really like, okay, oh,
• 33:57
  Speaker 6: it's Wednesday. Wear pink. Don't forget to wear pink.
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  Speaker 2: But no, I don't know.
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  Speaker 6: It's just surprised me a little bit because I think
• 34:07
  Speaker 6: because it's been so long since she went to kindergarten.
• 34:10
  Speaker 6: And when she went to kindergarten, that was different because
• 34:12
  Speaker 6: we were in COVID. So this is her first real
• 34:16
  Speaker 6: first day. Oh. Because in kindergarten, she sat at a
• 34:21
  Speaker 6: computer in our dining room for her first day of school.
• 34:24
  Speaker 6: And so now this is her first, like she's had
• 34:26
  Speaker 6: her first days, you know, in other grades. But like
• 34:29
  Speaker 6: to go to a new school and be starting it
• 34:31
  Speaker 6: and actually be there, I think it's just, I don't.
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  Speaker 2: Know, strange.
• 34:35
  Speaker 6: Strange feeling.
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: Strange. Yeah. It's all working out, it sounds like.
• 34:39
  Speaker 6: It is, it is.
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: You're going to get a full review tonight. I can't wait.
• 34:43
  Speaker 6: I'm probably going to hear more than I want to.
• 34:44
  Speaker 6: At one point I'll be like, all right, that's just
• 34:46
  Speaker 6: too much detail to this story. Let's move on.
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: Let's speed it along here.
• 34:50
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: Let's get to the end. Yeah, please. Skip ahead.
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: I'm going to close out my one last thing by
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: talking about the Angels sale yesterday. Stan Kroenke buys them.
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: I'll say this, that he's hated in a lot of
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: different places for being kind of a shyster.
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: But he wins.
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: He wins where he goes. His Avalanche won. His Nuggets won.
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: His Rams have won. And now he's in on the
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: baseball business. And so, yeah, we've got a guy in
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: our division that's going to move and shake.
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: I don't have any doubt about that going forward.
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: And he spent $ 4 billion on a franchise that can't
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: get out of its own way in the last decade
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: or more.
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: So, yeah, the competition just got a little stiffer.
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: But I'm going to pull a silver lining from this,
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: and that is if Stan Kroenke's getting in the baseball business, Apparently,
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: Stan Kroenke's been a baseball fan primarily most of his life,
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: and he's gotten into the hockey business, the basketball business,
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: and the.
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: Football business over the years.
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: If he's getting into the baseball business, when they're on
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: the verge of a collective bargaining agreement where he might
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: start his ownership in a lockout, for goodness sake, maybe
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: he knows something. Guarantee he's done his due diligence, he's
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: done his homework. And if he's buying into baseball now,
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: this might actually be the most positive sign that we've
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: seen in quite some time.
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: I haven't thought about it at all.
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: If Stan Kroenke thinks that now's a good time to
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: invest in baseball, maybe.
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: It's a good time to invest in baseball. We'll see.
• 36:31
  Speaker 6: That'd be great.
• 36:32
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 36:32
  Speaker 6: I mean, I'll take that as a positive sign if
• 36:34
  Speaker 6: we can.
• 36:34
  Speaker 5: Sure.
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: I mean, he's not just a billionaire. He's a.
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: sports owner billionaire like if this guy didn't think baseball
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: was a good investment right now he wouldn't spend four
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: billion dollars on a stadium issue led franchise right i.
• 36:54
  Speaker 6: Don't think he'd be as rich as he is if
• 36:55
  Speaker 6: he made decisions like that.
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: Well so i'm gonna look at that as maybe a
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: really good sign that stan kronke's gotten into the baseball
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: business And then we won't have an ugly lockout next year. Okay.
• 37:05
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 37:06
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