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Chuck & Buck 5-29 Hour 3: The OCHO, Sup with You and running without Walker. · Chuck in the Morning

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Speaker 2: had the he had the gulf to come to me
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Speaker 2: and say, maybe you should do the Oat Show more
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Speaker 2: frequently this summer?
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Speaker 3: Did he really?
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Speaker 2: Yeah about that? Like, you know, he was there when
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Speaker 3: Yeah, he was a part of the battle.
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Speaker 2: Right, he had a sword in hand, he started cutting
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Speaker 3: Yeah, he was actually on the other side.
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Speaker 4: I know.
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Speaker 2: And then he's like, you know what, I kind of
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Speaker 2: miss the old Ocho days every day. Yeah, I miss
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Speaker 2: having to Fort's Ashley into finding eight clips during the
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Speaker 2: course of the radio show every single day. Yeah, you
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Speaker 2: like that? Wasn't that a lark?
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Speaker 3: I I just remember when we fought those.
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Speaker 5: Wars and we thought we'd settled something. Yeah, we thought,
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Speaker 5: and then we fought to keep Friday. All right, we'll
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Speaker 5: get rid of all of them. We're keeping one day.
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Speaker 2: We thought the community was satisfied. They were fat and
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Speaker 2: happy with what we decided.
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Speaker 5: Suddenly, yeah, moo, all more ocho.
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Speaker 2: They say, all those lives lost, all that blood that
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Speaker 2: was shedding for what?
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Speaker 6: For what?
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Speaker 2: Well, we'll see. Well, welcome in on this Friday. We
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Speaker 2: got your eight top stories of today to roll through.
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Speaker 2: It'll get you ready for the weekend. It'll wrap up
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Speaker 2: the week all in one convenient segment. And so let's
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Speaker 2: get started. And we're going to begin with the NBA
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Speaker 2: because they are going to get their game seven. The
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Speaker 2: Thunder could not close out the Spurs last night. San
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Speaker 2: Antonio won easily one eighteen to ninety one over the
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Speaker 2: OKC Thunder. Victor Winn Binyama had twenty eight points ten
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Speaker 2: rebounds during a game that never became compelling. I wanted
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Speaker 2: it to. Never did. San Antonio was in control throughout
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Speaker 2: and so now we're going to get a game seven
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Speaker 2: on Saturday in Oka. See here's Seattle's own Mitch Johnson,
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Speaker 2: head coach of the San Antonio Spurs, saying bring it home.
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Speaker 6: Tonight was do or die, and I think a lot
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Speaker 6: of fans are gonna be happy. They say that's the
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Speaker 6: best line in sports. I believe so We'll be prepared
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Speaker 6: take the next forty hours or whatever it may be,
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Speaker 6: to try to get ready, get organized, and get ready
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Speaker 6: to go into a hostile environment against the defending champs
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Speaker 6: in the Western Conference Finals, for a team that's done
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Speaker 6: it multiple times and knows exactly what they're gonna what
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Speaker 6: it takes, and I would expect to get their best punch.
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Speaker 6: We're gonna go over our eyes wide open and expect
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Speaker 6: it nothing less.
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Speaker 2: Spencer been following him around, has been creeping on Mitch Johnson,
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Speaker 2: his buddy.
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Speaker 5: I did not see spend last night, but I did
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Speaker 5: see him over the weekend wearing a pink T shirt
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Speaker 5: and a large cowboy hat.
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Speaker 2: If it wasn't him.
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Speaker 5: That's crazy, Yeah, exactly, because I said to five Iron,
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Speaker 5: all that guy looks like Spencer Hawes, and he looks
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Speaker 5: at me, he goes, that is Spencer hawk Like, Like,
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Speaker 5: there's just another guy that's gonna be at the Spurs
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Speaker 5: game that's seven feet tall wearing a cowboy hat.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, Spencer's gonna join us at nine o'clock. So
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Speaker 2: we'll find out the real story about whether or not
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Speaker 2: it was him.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, or if he has a doppelganger in San ante.
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Speaker 2: It would be odd to find a Spencer Halls doppelganger,
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Speaker 2: that's for sure. I would like to see like a
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Speaker 2: five foot two inch version of that looked exactly like him,
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Speaker 2: but was five two be fair.
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Speaker 5: I don't know that that version of him was seven
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Speaker 5: feet tall, right, he was in a crowd, looks a
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Speaker 5: lot taller than everyone around him.
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Speaker 3: But you never know.
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Speaker 2: Well, we'll find out. We'll get to the bottom of
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Speaker 2: that mystery today at nine o'clock. We'll speak to Spencer
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Speaker 2: himself and not his doppelganger. As for the Spurs, I mean, man,
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Speaker 2: it was just we're in control. And I mentioned this yesterday.
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Speaker 2: Where OKC is so good is their front office. They
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Speaker 2: really only have one superstar and a couple of other
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Speaker 2: stars I guess, but their debt. I mean, they've got
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Speaker 2: ten twelve good players and they can kind of come
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Speaker 2: at you in different ways. And when you get to
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Speaker 2: the NBA playoffs, everyone will tell you it's all about matchups.
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Speaker 2: That's who wins the series. So if you have a
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Speaker 2: team so deep and so layered in terms of what
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Speaker 2: they bring to the table, and all of them can
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Speaker 2: shoot pretty well, well, then you've got a much better
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Speaker 2: opportunity to match up well against that opponent, and it's
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Speaker 2: worked to this point, but Wemby changes everything. There's no
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Speaker 2: matchup for seven foot five that has thirty five foot range,
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Speaker 2: three point shooting range and can take one dribble from
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Speaker 2: the hash over by the coaches bench and dunk it.
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Speaker 2: I mean, there's no matchup for that guy. And I
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Speaker 2: don't think it's all that big give a surprise. Is
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Speaker 2: that what he's played well, they've won, and when he's
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Speaker 2: played poorly, they've lost. And I think there are a
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Speaker 2: lot of other people out there that have said, I
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Speaker 2: don't think it's that big a surprise. When Oklahoma City.
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Speaker 3: Gets calls, that's what I was gonna and it goes to.
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Speaker 2: The free throw line, they win, and when they don't
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Speaker 2: get to the free throw line, they lose. So I
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Speaker 2: don't know what's gonna give tomorrow night, but either way,
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Speaker 2: it's gonna be interesting.
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Speaker 3: I'm gonna be tuned in.
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Speaker 2: Yeahs, Gosper Ghostpers. I think they've got a great shot.
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Speaker 2: I really do. I think they. I think that I
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Speaker 2: think in a game seven where you're pouring it all in,
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Speaker 2: they've just got that one element that Okay, see doesn't
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Speaker 2: have an answer for if he doesn't play well. Okay,
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Speaker 2: see will win if he plays well. I think san
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Speaker 2: Antonio is gonna get him.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I'll be, you know, assistant secretary of the Wenby
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Speaker 5: fan Club.
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Speaker 3: If I need to be.
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Speaker 2: He's got plenty. He's got plenty vying for that, Pat
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Speaker 2: so so yes. Game seven tomorrow night, five o'clock in Okac.
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Speaker 2: Which speaking of Okac, that's where the actual best game
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Speaker 2: of the night was played last night.
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Speaker 7: Nine two out at bats, no hits, oh for nine
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Speaker 7: for Nebraska, big pitch time and again for the Razorbacks
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Speaker 7: in the center by Cusack Chunson going back. It's done
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Speaker 7: and it's over. It's Ava two out magic from Ava Cusack,
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Speaker 7: and it was worth the wait ten innings and twenty
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Speaker 7: four years later, Nebraska wins in war confession of the
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Speaker 7: World Series.
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Speaker 2: It's been with the call last night. That game was fantastic.
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Speaker 2: I'm so glad that Game six was a blowout because
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Speaker 2: I only had one TV going last night and I
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Speaker 2: just went in a break and I went over one
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Speaker 2: of the commercial breaks and went over to watch the
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Speaker 2: softball and I did not turn it back. It was great.
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Speaker 2: I'm mad.
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Speaker 5: I forgot that softball was on because I still had
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Speaker 5: that game on and just grabbed a book.
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Speaker 2: National College Player of the Year Jordi From and her
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Speaker 2: Nebraska Corneskers capped off opening day of the College Softball
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Speaker 2: World Series with a dramatic five to three walk off win.
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Speaker 2: A solo home run in the bottom of the seventh
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Speaker 2: tied the game at three, and then From worked a
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Speaker 2: scoreless eighth to ninth to set up the game winning
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Speaker 2: walk off, two run homer for a five to three victory.
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Speaker 2: Double elimination tournament making the first eliminate Nation games to
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Speaker 2: be played today, a double header starting at four o'clock
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Speaker 2: with Texas and Mississippi State. Meanwhile, the men's Field of
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Speaker 2: sixty four just gets underway this morning at nine o'clock.
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Speaker 2: The nearest region will be in Eugene, Oregon, where the
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Speaker 2: favored Ducks are going to host Oregon State. Yale and
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Speaker 2: the Kogs have made.
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Speaker 5: The Field of sixty four. It's like in Sesame Street.
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Speaker 5: One of these things is not like the other. Where
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Speaker 5: Dale come from?
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Speaker 2: Where did Yale come from? I mean, there wasn't a
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Speaker 2: California team you could have sent up here.
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Speaker 3: It seems odd.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, but Yale, You're going to go to Oregon.
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Speaker 2: But the Koogs in action today against the Beavers. I
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Speaker 2: mean they're now brothers and sisters, Oregon State and Washington State.
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Speaker 2: They're linked seemingly in every single way. Now, yeah, they are,
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Speaker 2: and yet they're going to battle in Eugene today at
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Speaker 2: noon to get their tournaments.
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Speaker 5: But the nice thing for them is that one of
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Speaker 5: them will get a win in Eugene, which doesn't happen
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Speaker 5: very frequently.
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Speaker 2: Well, I mean not this year, but Oregon States.
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Speaker 3: No, I'm saying, like just in general and sports.
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Speaker 2: Oh, you just mean in general, that's true. That's true
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Speaker 2: Oregon usually, And I guess I mean they have in
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Speaker 2: the same weather we are. They're going to have to
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Speaker 2: dodge rain drops down there today.
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Speaker 3: Great question.
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Speaker 2: Actually, yeah, I have number three on your roach, Joe.
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Speaker 2: Speaking of baseball, first place Mariners return home after a
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Speaker 2: successful sweep of the Athletics in Sacramento.
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Speaker 3: Right seven. We did what we set up to do.
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Speaker 3: I am ready to go.
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Speaker 2: Well, we're ready to have you.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, welcome home, Yeah, welcome back. We made the weather
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Speaker 3: real nice for you.
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Speaker 2: Welcome back to the Shire.
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Speaker 3: Thanks for all you did.
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Speaker 2: Fro Yes exactly In Kansas.
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Speaker 3: Nope, not in Kansas City.
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Speaker 2: So small but sober.
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Speaker 3: In Sacramento, fifty seven.
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Speaker 2: Games into the season, are the AL West favorite Mariners
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Speaker 2: finally ready to put it together and pull away from
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Speaker 2: a mediocre field of division rivals. Well, the first place
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Speaker 2: Mariners are coming off that sweep. They've won six of
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Speaker 2: their last nine, and of course the incoming Arizona Diamondbacks
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Speaker 2: are even hotter. They've won ten of their last eleven
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Speaker 2: to thrust themselves all the way up and the National
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Speaker 2: League West standings in between the Dodgers and the Padres.
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Speaker 2: So having a good year in Arizona. Now, something's got
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Speaker 2: to give here, obviously, And let's be honest, Diamondbacks, you've
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Speaker 2: been beating up on the chumps of the National League
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Speaker 2: during your streak. You're not chumps, are you? Mariners?
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Speaker 1: Exactly.
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Speaker 2: I think the local baseball team is going to be
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Speaker 2: just fine here, but the Giant excuse me. The Diamondbacks
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Speaker 2: have faced in their last twelve games the two worst
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Speaker 2: teams in the National League, the Giants and the Diamondbacks.
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Speaker 2: Twelve games in a row against those.
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Speaker 3: Two teams, that seems like they know somebody that helped
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Speaker 3: them out.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Credit to them for winning those games. That's what
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Speaker 2: you got to do and beat the teams you're playing exactly.
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Speaker 2: And yet maybe they're in for an eye opener today.
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Speaker 2: We shall see.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, you got to think about this. If
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Speaker 5: you're if you have a snake that you need to kill,
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Speaker 5: what do you do? You stab it right there in
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Speaker 5: the head with the trident? Oh and then you put it,
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Speaker 5: raise that up and show everybody I don't like snakes.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, look, this team has not done well seizing
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Speaker 2: momentum on the road and then coming home and making
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Speaker 2: us feel like okay, things are okay. Now, that's usually
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Speaker 2: been a recipe for them playing their worst baseball of
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Speaker 2: the year.
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Speaker 3: You have no momentum, Mariners, don't worry about it.
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Speaker 2: So let's just snap that nonsense. Starting tonight, get off
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Speaker 2: to a good start at home. Seven oh five, first pitch,
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Speaker 2: two right handers. That's that's music to the year. Zach
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Speaker 2: Gallon will go for the Diamondbacks. Four eyes.
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Speaker 3: I always want to say, Zach Gallifanakis.
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Speaker 2: So kind of uh. And George Kirby will get the
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Speaker 2: start for the Mariners tonight. Now, is this the last
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Speaker 2: major League baseball season before a labor stoppage that's certainly
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Speaker 2: in the background of a lot of baseball fans' minds.
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Speaker 2: The collective bargaining agreement is going to come up, and
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Speaker 2: Major League Baseball owners commissioner they're going to try to
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Speaker 2: get something accomplished that they've never gotten accomplished and a
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Speaker 2: collective bargaining agreement with the players Association. Here's Jeff Passen
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Speaker 2: talking about the game plan.
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Speaker 8: For the first time in thirty years, major League Baseball
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Speaker 8: is going to propose a salary cap and the details
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Speaker 8: of that are going to be the interesting part. What's
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Speaker 8: the revenue split going to be, would it be fifty
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Speaker 8: to fifty, what's the top end going to be, what's.
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Speaker 2: The floor going to be? And more than that, what
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Speaker 2: are they.
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Speaker 8: Going to offer major league players in exchange for this
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Speaker 8: thing that they have vehemently opposed the entirety of the
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Speaker 8: existence of the union.
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Speaker 2: As Jeff pass in the ESPN on the Pat McAfee show,
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Speaker 2: and that was before we actually did get details. So
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Speaker 2: the owners and the commissioner have revealed what they're asking
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Speaker 2: for with the with the salary cap that they're trying
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Speaker 2: to get passed through the next collective bargaining agreement, and
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Speaker 2: Jeff Passen's right, we talked about it earlier. Players have
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Speaker 2: never gone for this ever and may not. They just
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Speaker 2: may not. Bucky, he and I have had numerous conversations.
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Speaker 2: It will never happen. It will never happen. And yet
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Speaker 2: that seems to be the only thing on the agenda.
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Speaker 2: And so the salary cap would look like this. That'd
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Speaker 2: be a two hundred and forty five million dollar ceiling.
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Speaker 2: And it sounds like it's going to be a soft cap,
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Speaker 2: so you would be punished if you went over it.
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Speaker 2: It wouldn't be a hard cap like they have in
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Speaker 2: the National Football League. It would be all It would
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Speaker 2: be more of a soft cap. Wait a minute, I
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Speaker 2: don't know if that's true or not. I don't know
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Speaker 2: if that's true. I'm gonna take that back. I'm just
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Speaker 2: gonna give you the numbers. Two hundred and forty five
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Speaker 2: million dollars would be the high. And the Dodgers right
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Speaker 2: now have a three hundred and forty million dollars payroll.
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Speaker 2: That's one hundred million over, so you can imagine what
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Speaker 2: they would have to do to get in accordance with
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Speaker 2: the new rules by next year. Yeah, you got to
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Speaker 2: cut one hundred million dollars from your payroll by next season.
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Speaker 3: I'll just defer it to twenty eighty maybe.
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Speaker 2: And then there's a salary cap floor as well. And
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Speaker 2: that floor and I think this is a great idea too,
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Speaker 2: one hundred and seventy one million. So that's going to
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Speaker 2: force teams like the Marlins, who are ninety million dollars
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Speaker 2: under that threshold, they have to come up. So that's
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Speaker 2: one way to tell the players, like, Okay, we're going
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Speaker 2: to ask teams to spend we're going to ask the
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Speaker 2: teams to spend less. We're also going to ask everybody
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Speaker 2: to spend more as well. That's underneath it. So that's
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Speaker 2: one way they're going to do it. This will also
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Speaker 2: involve combining one media source, so that's why you see
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Speaker 2: Mariners TV now and not Root Sports. A lot of
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Speaker 2: the teams are doing this. Major League Baseball is shepherding
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Speaker 2: all of these organizations because they eventually want to just
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Speaker 2: have one package of Major League Baseball teams television wise
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Speaker 2: that they can present for maximum revenue, and then they
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Speaker 2: would share that revenue evenly. It wouldn't be based on market.
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Speaker 2: Right now, the Yankees and the Dodgers have such a
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Speaker 2: huge advantage over everybodybody else because of their market size,
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Speaker 2: so they can sell their television package for a lot more.
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Speaker 2: Baseball would get their arms around all that money and
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Speaker 2: then disperse it equally to all of the teams. That's
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Speaker 2: one way they would do it. So you know, I've
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Speaker 2: been against this my entire life. I'm for it now.
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Speaker 2: And for reasons of perception, Baseball does not have a
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Speaker 2: problem right now. Their product is good. It's very popular locally,
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Speaker 2: it's not popular nationally. So what does that tell you?
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Speaker 2: Baseball does not have a revenue generating problem. Owners are
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Speaker 2: not having difficulty making money. Players get great contracts, the
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Speaker 2: best in all of sports. What baseball has a problem
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Speaker 2: with is their perception. Their customers believe the game is
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Speaker 2: unfair based on the financial structure of things, and so
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Speaker 2: it cannot grow nationally. Because fans of the Cleveland Guardians
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Speaker 2: won't watch the World Series because the Dodgers are in
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Speaker 2: it too frequently, and Guardians fans feel like they never
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Speaker 2: even had a shot against the Dodgers all season long,
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Speaker 2: and so they won't watch national Baseball. So from a
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Speaker 2: perception standpoint, Baseball's trying to change that, and I think
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Speaker 2: they're right to do so.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I would agree with that.
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Speaker 5: I do have a question, and you don't necessarily have
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Speaker 5: to answer it now, but just something I was wondering
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Speaker 5: if they if the TV thing went how they want
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Speaker 5: it to, and then you just do revenue revenue sharing,
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Speaker 5: would that solve the issue? Because now you're taking away
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Speaker 5: the massive amounts of money that the Dolls and.
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Speaker 3: The Yankees have.
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Speaker 5: So if they came to an agreement on that and
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Speaker 5: maybe didn't agree on a salary cap, that would still
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Speaker 5: help maybe to even things out.
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Speaker 2: It would help a lot. Okay, I have a push
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Speaker 2: for this for a long long time. It would it
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Speaker 2: would help a lot. Maybe it would make up for
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Speaker 2: it entirely if even if they have to settle for
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Speaker 2: a softcap, We'll settle for a soft cap. Yeah, I
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Speaker 2: mean they sort of operate with one now. They have
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Speaker 2: a luxury tax threshold, so that's kind of a softcap,
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Speaker 2: but maybe a harder cap than what they have, yeah,
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Speaker 2: but not hard.
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Speaker 3: And then yeah, and then you have the revenue sharing.
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Speaker 5: You're taking away one hundred and fifty million the Dodgers
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Speaker 5: get in TV.
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Speaker 3: Right now, I'm.
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Speaker 2: No lawyer, I'm no, Matt Locke, you know, croning my
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Speaker 2: craft down there at Crackleberry quick. So I don't know
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Speaker 2: if I have all the answers, but just from a
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Speaker 2: philosophy standpoint, I think this needs to get done. We'll
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Speaker 2: talk more about it coming up at eight thirty, because
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Speaker 2: it's been my sup with you question today if you
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Speaker 2: had the chance to vote for it, like in an election,
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Speaker 2: would you vote for a salary cap as a baseball fan? Yes?
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Speaker 4: Or no?
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Speaker 2: And then why We'll get to your answers at eight thirty.
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Speaker 2: Seahawks OTAs Round number one will wrap up today. The
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Speaker 2: media hasn't even been allowed access to Seahawks OTAs the
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Speaker 2: last couple of days. Greg bell, Our, Seahawks insider, was
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Speaker 2: on with US earlier this morning, and so I didn't
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Speaker 2: really ask him anything about Seahawks OTAs. You know what
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Speaker 2: I asked him. I asked him, is there still a
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Speaker 2: belief in renting that Sam Darnold has a much bigger
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Speaker 2: ceiling than he's even reached to this point?
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Speaker 4: I think so, And it's because he led the league
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Speaker 4: in turnovers last year, and if he cuts the turnovers
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Speaker 4: even in half, his efficiency should double. I mean, that's
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Speaker 4: just common sense. If you don't turn the ball over,
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Speaker 4: you got twice as many chances to score if you've
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Speaker 4: turned the ball over half as many times, And then
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Speaker 4: it'll start there. And some of it is that Clint
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Speaker 4: Kubiak and Darnold pushed the ball down the field and
18:23
Speaker 4: we're having success doing it. Some of them was just
18:26
Speaker 4: his ball secure. How many times did we see him
18:28
Speaker 4: just get hit and then knock the ball out of
18:30
Speaker 4: his hands the San Francisco game inside the ten yard
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Speaker 4: line and the opener they lost the ball, the Tampa
18:35
Speaker 4: Bay game where he got hit and the ball was
18:37
Speaker 4: deflected for an interception in the final second, final minutes
18:40
Speaker 4: of that game to set up the Bucks winning to
18:42
Speaker 4: the field goal. Just tighter with the ball would be
18:46
Speaker 4: enough to limit his turnovers. But yeah, he wasn't perfect.
18:50
Speaker 4: Last year. He got him the Super Bowl, won the
18:51
Speaker 4: Super Bowl. But there's a lot he could improve upon,
18:55
Speaker 4: and it starts with taking care of the ball and
18:57
Speaker 4: not turning it over and handing scoring opportunities.
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Speaker 2: The other r inside of Greg Bell. If you want
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Speaker 2: up talking more about Sam Darnald. Now I disagree with
19:12
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19:16
Speaker 2: side of this issue. I don't even though Sam Donald
19:20
Speaker 2: committed a lot of turnovers last year, I never viewed
19:22
Speaker 2: him as having a turnover problem a year ago. Sometimes
19:26
Speaker 2: it just happened. Sometimes that's stuff that wasn't in his control,
19:30
Speaker 2: So I never really viewed it. That said, I do
19:33
Speaker 2: believe there's more upside for Sam Donald. And if we
19:37
Speaker 2: get the exact same Sam Donald that we got a
19:39
Speaker 2: year ago, will take it, yes, please, But I do
19:41
Speaker 2: believe he can be even better than he was a
19:44
Speaker 2: year ago, and in a lot of facets of the game.
19:47
Speaker 5: Yeah, well, and especially with the same team. Obviously, I
19:50
Speaker 5: know you have a different offensive coordinator, but I think
19:52
Speaker 5: he's continued to improve year over year with different offensive
19:55
Speaker 5: coordinators anyway, so I don't know why it would be
19:57
Speaker 5: any different.
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Speaker 2: All Right, We'll talk more football coming up a little
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Speaker 2: bit later on, because Matt Hasselbeck has a theory about
20:04
Speaker 2: Ken Walker not being on our roster anymore, and we're
20:07
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Speaker 2: move on with the OCHO item number six. Stanley Cup
20:13
Speaker 2: playoffs do continue. We're very getting very close to a
20:16
Speaker 2: Stanley Cup final matchup. As a matter of fact, we
20:19
Speaker 2: might need just one win away. That could happen tonight,
20:23
Speaker 2: and you know where it could happen. Carolina can close
20:26
Speaker 2: out Montreal tonight and secure a Hurricanes Golden Knight Stanley
20:30
Speaker 2: Cup Final. They are eleven and one in the playoffs.
20:34
Speaker 2: The Hurricanes, I don't know how they are this good
20:37
Speaker 2: without a single superstar on the team.
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Speaker 3: I don't either. It's crazy.
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Speaker 5: And I especially the way they came out in the
20:42
Speaker 5: first game and they were a little rusty. I was like, oh, oh,
20:45
Speaker 5: Montreal might be yeah, might be ready to take this.
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Speaker 2: But they were just rusty.
20:49
Speaker 3: They were just rusty. Let's they got over that real quick.
20:51
Speaker 2: M m yeah. So they got a chance to wrap
20:53
Speaker 2: it up in five games. They will drop the puck
20:55
Speaker 2: tonight in Carolina at five o o'clock. And we are
21:03
Speaker 2: two weeks away from the World Cup. Well hate this place, geographicality.
21:11
Speaker 2: Two weeks from everywhere, Yes.
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Speaker 3: Two weeks from everywhere.
21:14
Speaker 2: Two weeks we are, as far as I'm concerned. Two weeks,
21:18
Speaker 2: two weeks away from the World Cup starting on June eleven.
21:21
Speaker 2: I don't know what the math is, but to me
21:23
Speaker 2: it's two weeks.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: I'm not gonna correct you. Why bother?
21:27
Speaker 2: Actually you probably should Okay, yeah, we are future days
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21:43
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21:45
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21:47
Speaker 3: Okay, thirteen days?
21:48
Speaker 2: Is it thirteing?
21:49
Speaker 3: Yes, it's two weeks officially yesterday.
21:51
Speaker 2: Yeah. I don't usually like to get loose with math.
21:55
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23:25
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Speaker 3: All right, Marcus says, no, cap.
23:47
Speaker 5: I only played college and was a twenty and it
23:49
Speaker 5: was a twenty four hour job. Players don't make a
23:51
Speaker 5: lot of money until almost thirty. They deserve as much
23:54
Speaker 5: as they want, that's from Marcus.
23:55
Speaker 2: Oh wow, that's very generous. I don't think that's the
24:01
Speaker 2: case anymore, Marcus. I think Cole Emerson's making ten million
24:05
Speaker 2: dollars a year. Yeah, I think fourteen million dollars a
24:10
Speaker 2: year right now. He's twenty years old. It's different now.
24:13
Speaker 2: Maybe it was that way. I know Bucky had a
24:16
Speaker 2: hard time rubbing two Nichols together when he came up
24:18
Speaker 2: through the system as well. But they've kind of fixed that. Yeah.
24:23
Speaker 2: Number one, like the signing bonuses that players get their
24:26
Speaker 2: millionaires before they even put on a profession, some of
24:30
Speaker 2: them not all of them.
24:30
Speaker 5: I went to college with a guy who's signing bonus
24:32
Speaker 5: was three point one million dollars.
24:34
Speaker 2: And you went to college exactly, not two years ago,
24:37
Speaker 2: it was a few years.
24:37
Speaker 3: It was a long time ago.
24:38
Speaker 2: Well not a long time ago, a few years ago.
24:41
Speaker 2: So I don't really think that that's the case. So
24:43
Speaker 2: I mean, like I almost everybody's a millionaire. Like Johnny Parade,
24:49
Speaker 2: if he plays the whole season, will make basically a
24:51
Speaker 2: million dollars this year. So I don't really think that's
24:54
Speaker 2: the case anymore. And I'm really you know it. Mues
24:57
Speaker 2: bring up a really interesting point because they said yesterday,
25:01
Speaker 2: Jeff Passen reported yesterday that more than half of baseball
25:05
Speaker 2: fans won a salary cap. I don't think that's true,
25:08
Speaker 2: and I don't know why that's not true. But for
25:11
Speaker 2: whatever reason, even though baseball players have the best contracts, yeah, man,
25:16
Speaker 2: do fans fight for baseball players to make more money.
25:21
Speaker 2: I'd rather them make it than the owners. But it's
25:24
Speaker 2: only this sport. And this is why I was talking
25:26
Speaker 2: about earlier on the show, that what a perception problem
25:29
Speaker 2: baseball has because they don't have a salary cap. This
25:32
Speaker 2: is exactly why the bleeding hearts that fans have for
25:37
Speaker 2: players to make more money, just spend, just pay him
25:40
Speaker 2: whatever he wants to stay like. They've got to control
25:44
Speaker 2: themselves to some degree. Yeah right, Yeah, and yet every
25:48
Speaker 2: very first one we get, no, just keep paying the players.
25:52
Speaker 2: They've earned it, they deserve it. I mean, they're living
25:55
Speaker 2: pretty good lives. I don't think they need one more
25:58
Speaker 2: dollar as a group.
26:00
Speaker 5: Yeah one, And I will say that is an anomaly.
26:02
Speaker 5: The most most of the text we're getting are for yes.
26:05
Speaker 5: I could actually even put a pull up on Twitter
26:07
Speaker 5: to ask okay, and that's ninety percent already saying yes,
26:10
Speaker 5: I'm salary caps nine point one percent.
26:12
Speaker 4: Same.
26:12
Speaker 3: No.
26:13
Speaker 5: One of the reasons for yes not enough parody. Other
26:17
Speaker 5: teams can win, but the Dodgers are the odds on
26:19
Speaker 5: favorite to win. It's just the NL version of Yankees
26:21
Speaker 5: buying teams. The NFL has at least a chance of
26:23
Speaker 5: having a different champion. That's Micah.
26:26
Speaker 2: Well, that's wrong too, sorry, Micah. I mean there are
26:28
Speaker 2: a lot of like misperceptions about this. There are It
26:31
Speaker 2: is a fact, Micah, a fact that more teams consistently
26:37
Speaker 2: make the MLB playoffs. There's a bigger turnover from year.
26:40
Speaker 2: Teamer variety a wider variety than there is in the
26:43
Speaker 2: National Football League, and that has been going on for
26:46
Speaker 2: more than a quarter century and this modern era, and
26:50
Speaker 2: there are also more different champions in Major League Baseball now.
26:54
Speaker 3: Recently the Dodgers have seen its Dodger heavy.
26:57
Speaker 2: Well, well it is Dodger heavy. The Dodgers have kind
27:00
Speaker 2: of changed that narrative here as of late. But it's
27:04
Speaker 2: because they're spending so far out of control, how and
27:09
Speaker 2: they know what they're doing, Like the Mets are spending
27:12
Speaker 2: willy nilly, but they don't know what they're doing. The
27:14
Speaker 2: Dodgers combine, they're a really savvy organization, one of the
27:18
Speaker 2: smartest out there. Plus they get to outspend everybody. And
27:22
Speaker 2: so yeah, that's changed a little bit. And Ashley and
27:26
Speaker 2: I discussed this earlier. I think that's what Rob Manford
27:31
Speaker 2: allowed to have happened. That's why he didn't crack down
27:34
Speaker 2: on them with their deferring payments into the future. He
27:37
Speaker 2: wanted them to look like they were unstoppable once they
27:41
Speaker 2: got to the bargaining table. They won the championship again
27:44
Speaker 2: this year. Do you know how much that helps Rob
27:46
Speaker 2: Manford and the owner's argument that we have an unfair product,
27:51
Speaker 2: and more importantly, our fans think we have an unfair product,
27:55
Speaker 2: and they can use the Dodgers as the example. Look
27:58
Speaker 2: at their spending. They have a payroll three hundred and
28:01
Speaker 2: forty million dollars larger than the Marlins. Right now, I
28:05
Speaker 2: mean that disparity. I mean that is gross. That's just gross.
28:09
Speaker 2: And they can defer payments into the future.
28:11
Speaker 5: Apparently, well that actually is brings me to our next
28:14
Speaker 5: text from the two zero six. I fully support a
28:16
Speaker 5: salary cap and floor if and only if we abolish
28:19
Speaker 5: deferred payments. You can sign a guy to a fifteen
28:22
Speaker 5: year deal, but it counts equally every year you are
28:25
Speaker 5: paying that person, even if they are no longer in
28:27
Speaker 5: the league.
28:28
Speaker 2: Yes, I agree with that one, like, no matter what,
28:31
Speaker 2: let's stop that. But I think there's a reason why
28:34
Speaker 2: they didn't stop it, and it's just what I said.
28:36
Speaker 2: I think I think Rob Manfred wanted the Dodgers to
28:39
Speaker 2: look unbeatable by the time that he got to this negotiation,
28:44
Speaker 2: so he just was like, well, they're staying within the rules.
28:48
Speaker 3: Yeah, well yeah, exactly, They're not breaking a rule.
28:50
Speaker 2: Right, They're not technically breaking any rules, so we got
28:54
Speaker 2: to let them do it. And now the Dodgers look
28:58
Speaker 2: like the unstoppable force that he can use in the argument,
29:04
Speaker 2: and it might actually work. It's a pretty powerful element
29:08
Speaker 2: to your argument.
29:09
Speaker 3: Yeah.
29:09
Speaker 5: There, I will say it seems like there's a theme
29:11
Speaker 5: with the people that are saying no to the salary cap.
29:13
Speaker 5: It's because they're more concerned about the salary floor than
29:17
Speaker 5: the salary cap. They want to encourage more spending, at
29:19
Speaker 5: least at the bottom of the league, and that's part
29:21
Speaker 5: of it. Yeah, that is part of it. And then
29:23
Speaker 5: Randy on Twitter said I would vote no because I
29:26
Speaker 5: remember nineteen ninety four vividly that and I get that
29:30
Speaker 5: that sucked, and I don't want to relive that either.
29:32
Speaker 5: But I also don't want to be at the mercy
29:35
Speaker 5: of well, we don't want to strike, and they know
29:38
Speaker 5: we don't want to strike.
29:38
Speaker 2: So that's but this is why, and I said this
29:41
Speaker 2: earlier as well. If you missed the opening segment, I
29:43
Speaker 2: think maybe you go back and listen to the opening
29:45
Speaker 2: segment today because I was able to go twenty minutes
29:49
Speaker 2: straight on this. But this is why. Oh gosh, now
29:54
Speaker 2: I'm doing promotion. I forgot what I was going to say.
29:57
Speaker 5: What were you just talking about the strike in nineteen
29:59
Speaker 5: ninety four, remember, Oh yeah, Yeah.
30:01
Speaker 2: This is why this year this is so unique in
30:05
Speaker 2: my opinion. I mean, normally these things are just money grabs,
30:09
Speaker 2: and the money's getting larger and we need to fight
30:13
Speaker 2: for the percentage of what we have going forward. And
30:17
Speaker 2: then there are always like some different rules that they pass,
30:21
Speaker 2: whether it's the NFL, NBA, whatever the case may be.
30:24
Speaker 2: But this is why I think this is a unique negotiation.
30:30
Speaker 2: Baseball's doing well, They're not doing poorly. The owners are
30:33
Speaker 2: making money, organizational values are going through the roof. Players
30:37
Speaker 2: have the best contracts in all of sports right now,
30:40
Speaker 2: Major League Baseball, major League base The NFL is far
30:43
Speaker 2: more popular than Major League Baseball. And yet they're the
30:48
Speaker 2: Kings and Major League Baseball's like fourth down the line,
30:53
Speaker 2: the third down the line. It's like Prince Harry.
30:55
Speaker 3: Yeah, just going lower and lower down the line.
30:58
Speaker 2: Yeah, And yet they have much better contracts than what
31:03
Speaker 2: the NFL has. So everybody's thriving in this market except
31:08
Speaker 2: for the growth of the National Game. And so here's
31:14
Speaker 2: Major League Baseball trying to get something pushed through that
31:18
Speaker 2: led to a seven and a half month strike in
31:19
Speaker 2: nineteen ninety four and cost us a World Series. But
31:23
Speaker 2: it's not because they're just money grabbing in my opinion.
31:26
Speaker 2: Maybe I'm naive, maybe I'm gullible, but I don't think
31:29
Speaker 2: that's what it is. For the growth of the game.
31:32
Speaker 2: They are going against a bunch of millionaires. Everybody's a millionaire.
31:37
Speaker 2: You lock them out for seven months. Nobody's financially affected
31:40
Speaker 2: by that. In Major League Baseball, not anymore. They make
31:43
Speaker 2: too much money. So that's why I don't think it's
31:46
Speaker 2: your pure money grab I really do think it is.
31:50
Speaker 2: Look at the NFL, look at the NBA, look at
31:53
Speaker 2: the NHL. They all have salary caps. We don't, and
31:57
Speaker 2: their fans don't spend the entire year that their owners
32:01
Speaker 2: don't spend enough money, they don't spend the entire year
32:05
Speaker 2: saying it's all set up for the Dodgers and the
32:07
Speaker 2: Yankees to win. They don't have that in the other leagues.
32:11
Speaker 2: And because of that, local baseball is insanely popular right now,
32:16
Speaker 2: insanely popular, but national baseball is at an all time deficit,
32:22
Speaker 2: like people just aren't interested in the game. And it's
32:25
Speaker 2: because Seattle Mariner fans don't want to watch the Dodgers
32:29
Speaker 2: face the Yankees in the World Series, so they don't
32:31
Speaker 2: tune in for it because most fans think it's unfair.
32:35
Speaker 2: That's why I said in the OCHO, and that's why
32:37
Speaker 2: I said this morning at six o'clock. This is about
32:40
Speaker 2: a perception problem in baseball that the game is unfair,
32:44
Speaker 2: and the customers of Major League Baseball have this notion
32:48
Speaker 2: that my team doesn't have a chance, and if my
32:51
Speaker 2: owner would just spend more money, we could do it.
32:56
Speaker 2: That's not just a Seattle problem. That's a Yankees problem.
33:00
Speaker 2: Yankees fans act like that, now, yeah, they do. So
33:03
Speaker 2: this is this is a this is a major press.
33:05
Speaker 2: I mean, if you were running a business and your
33:07
Speaker 2: customers just thought your project was unfair, would you not
33:12
Speaker 2: try to address that? If you're you're just selling widgets
33:15
Speaker 2: and the and the customers came in, I don't want
33:18
Speaker 2: your widgets. I know you've got unfair practice. I would
33:22
Speaker 2: I'm gonna get that widget home and it's not even
33:24
Speaker 2: gonna work. Would you not change by the widget?
33:28
Speaker 8: Yeah?
33:28
Speaker 2: Wouldn't you like change the way that you did things?
33:31
Speaker 2: And I think that's what's going on here.
33:32
Speaker 5: Yeah, last one here from the five on nine. Yes,
33:35
Speaker 5: salary cap please. The only people that shouldn't want a
33:37
Speaker 5: cap are either related to a player or a Dodgers fan.
33:42
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, even the Yankees I think want one though.
33:44
Speaker 3: Yeah.
33:46
Speaker 2: Do you know how many times I've had to drive
33:47
Speaker 2: into work and listen to national radios where there's almost
33:50
Speaker 2: always a Yankee fan and he's like, what chance do
33:52
Speaker 2: we have against the Dodgers?
33:54
Speaker 3: Crazy?
33:55
Speaker 2: The Yankees?
33:56
Speaker 3: That is crazy.
33:57
Speaker 2: So if the Yankees fans feel that way, imagine how
34:01
Speaker 2: Marlins fans feel.
34:03
Speaker 3: Viewers fans, Yeah, what you said there?
34:05
Speaker 5: The Yankees' billionaires spend so you can't just say, well,
34:08
Speaker 5: don't be a cheap billionaire.
34:10
Speaker 3: That's not what it is.
34:11
Speaker 5: I mean, there's, yes, some owners are being cheap billionaires,
34:15
Speaker 5: but this isn't about just those ones at the bottom.
34:18
Speaker 2: Nobody complains about the billionaire football owner. Nope, not spending
34:23
Speaker 2: enough on the product. Now, they might complain about how
34:26
Speaker 2: they spend it, Yeah, but it's not. Hey, I can
34:29
Speaker 2: just make up for that terrible draft pick that I
34:33
Speaker 2: made by just I'll spend more than everybody else, And
34:37
Speaker 2: so you don't have the same ire anger, dissatisfaction, you know,
34:44
Speaker 2: lack of faith that you have in baseball, and I
34:48
Speaker 2: think baseball's right and saying we need to fix this.
34:51
Speaker 2: We got to give the perception that our game is
34:53
Speaker 2: fairer than what our fans believe it to be. All right, coming,
34:58
Speaker 2: I'm next on the radio. Thank you very much. It's
35:01
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Speaker 2: I want tickets to see Colin Ray next Thursday on
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Speaker 2: June fourth, and see his concert and we will pick
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Speaker 2: a winner at random before the end of the show.
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Speaker 1: Today.
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Speaker 2: All right, let's talk a little Seahawks football. Our last
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Speaker 2: chance this week to talk some Seahawks football. We had
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Speaker 2: Matt hassel Back on kind of a big deal. He
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Speaker 2: was with us Wednesday. Ask him about all sorts of things,
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Speaker 2: including this little nugget. I asked him how he thinks
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Speaker 2: the Seahawks are going to operate without Ken Walker.
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Speaker 9: You know, it's a thing like with fans and fantasy
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Speaker 9: football people in particular, they really feel like the irreplaceable
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Speaker 9: guy sometimes is the running back. And I know running
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Speaker 9: backs won't like to hear me say this, but when
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Speaker 9: you talk to scouts and g and coaches, it to
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Speaker 9: them it's one of the most replaceable positions. When you
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Speaker 9: look at like the cost that it would, you know,
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Speaker 9: be to cheat somebody, you'd kind of like to go
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Speaker 9: sort of younger and cheaper and more of a committee.
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Speaker 9: And so Kent Walker had a great year last year,
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Speaker 9: certainly finished strong, which was a huge part of the
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Speaker 9: reason that the Sioks were able to win the Super Bowl.
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Speaker 9: But you know, going with Jedari and Price and the committee,
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Speaker 9: maybe sharpa Na comes back healthy. I mean, the committee
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Speaker 9: approach certainly is one that makes some people feel more
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Speaker 9: dynamic as an offense. Now not everybody he feels that way.
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Speaker 9: Some people like the Derrick Henry model where he gets
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Speaker 9: all the touches, or the Christian McCaffrey model where he
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Speaker 9: gets all the touches, And that's another way to go.
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Speaker 9: It's just if you're going to be spending your money
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Speaker 9: there and not spending it up front or on defense,
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Speaker 9: you know. So I think there's that is a hole
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Speaker 9: that needs to be filled. Some people need to step
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Speaker 9: up to fill those to fill those carries or those
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Speaker 9: reps and all that stuff. But at the same time,
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Speaker 9: I think this team's going to be stronger upfront on
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Speaker 9: the offensive line, and they're going to be really dangerous
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Speaker 9: on the back end in the secondary. So if you've
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Speaker 9: got to give up something somewhere, I think I'm probably
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Speaker 9: in line with John Schneider's philosophy that, you know, maybe
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Speaker 9: running back by committee is the way to do it.
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Speaker 2: Matt Hasselbeck with us earlier this week. I would only
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Speaker 2: push back on this only because I think maybe I've
38:49
Speaker 2: been around more fans than what Matt has been. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: I think he's probably he's been around more players than
38:55
Speaker 2: I've been, and more executives and things of that nature.
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Speaker 2: But I probably have been around more fans having done
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Speaker 2: this job over time. I think fans today are a
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Speaker 2: lot more savvy than what they used to be, and
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Speaker 2: I think there are a lot more fans that believe
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Speaker 2: in the running back by committee than what Matt realizes.
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Speaker 2: Maybe just hanging out of different bars. But yeah, I
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Speaker 2: mean there's a huge, huge group of fans that do
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Speaker 2: believe running backs are a Diamond dozen that whole thing.
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Speaker 2: I think this is a really easy problem to solve.
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Speaker 2: I think there are elite guys at this position, and
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Speaker 2: those guys are worth paying and those guys are worth
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Speaker 2: giving the ball to nearly every carry. You only take
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Speaker 2: them off the field just to give them a blow.
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Speaker 2: I think that's a pretty short list, though, and then
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Speaker 2: there's a really long list of guys in the National
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Speaker 2: Football League that can get the job done. And that's
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Speaker 2: where the dime a dozen conversation begins. It's that if
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Speaker 2: I don't have one of those special elite guys, is
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Speaker 2: there much of a difference between having the twelfth best
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Speaker 2: running back in the world and the forty first best
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Speaker 2: running back in the world. And I think a lot
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Speaker 2: of executives would tell you there's not that big of
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Speaker 2: a difference. And here's the problem though, with Ken Walker,
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Speaker 2: which one is he He has the talent to be
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Speaker 2: one of those elite seven guys. We've seen him be both,
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Speaker 2: and we watched him at the very end of his
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Speaker 2: Seahawks career look like one of those elite seven guys,
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Speaker 2: and now after finally achieving it, he's leaving to go
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Speaker 2: play for the Kansas City Chiefs. So it makes a
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Speaker 2: little more complicated because I still don't know which one
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Speaker 2: of those guys ken Walker is. But I'll say for
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Speaker 2: four years he wasn't one of those guys. Nope, for
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Speaker 2: his last three games he looked like it. But I
40:52
Speaker 2: think the four years probably overrides the three games. And
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Speaker 2: I kind of think John, like Matt, just coming at
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Speaker 2: it from a different direction, made the right decision to
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Speaker 2: move on from him.
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Speaker 5: Yes, I would think so too, because yeah, you can't
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Speaker 5: just you can't say, oh, gosh, you know what, finally
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Speaker 5: when we needed you to win a Super Bowl you
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Speaker 5: came through. Let's pay us seventeen million dollars a year.
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Speaker 5: I mean, you got to go off the whole body
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Speaker 5: of work.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, And they've got more experience with him, more knowledge
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Speaker 2: with him, more frustration with him than any of us
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Speaker 2: have had, And so I think they made the right decision,
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Speaker 2: even though I do I will miss him. I will
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Speaker 2: miss having him on the football team, and I don't
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Speaker 2: think we're as strong without him. But in order to
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Speaker 2: keep the rest of the team as strong or perhaps stronger.
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Speaker 2: I think it was one of those decisions that John
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Speaker 2: Schneider had to make. All right, Spencer Awis is going
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