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Speaker 2: John Willer is going to join us in a matter

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Speaker 2: of seconds. So you said right there, the Kenny Walker

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Speaker 1: The free agent's going to free agency will.

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Speaker 2: Yes, unless something happens the Seahawks sign into a contract.

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Speaker 1: So I just want to just want to correct the record.

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Speaker 2: You know, we got people from corporate watching us, man making.

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Speaker 1: Sure we don't know.

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Speaker 2: I don't I think so I got a text from

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Speaker 1: So I don't know. We haven't a meeting. By the way,

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Speaker 1: you should be there two o'clock before the radio show game.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna get John Wilner in a matter of minutes here,

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Speaker 2: I think running around San Jose, we're go his thoughts

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Speaker 2: on the tournament of Big Ten Tournaments happening next week

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Speaker 2: I mean it makes sense, right, Like why not? I mean,

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Speaker 2: make it a destination for people. I mean the tournament

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Speaker 2: was it an Indianapolis? Is that where it was, but

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Speaker 2: Like I don't mind going to Indianapolis, and we've had

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Speaker 1: But you're more apt to get people to travel.

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Speaker 2: I think if you can add a vacation atmosphere to

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Speaker 1: It's it's took a second because it's in Maui.

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Speaker 2: If they had that same tournament in Wyoming, I don't know,

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Speaker 2: I mean Montana whatever, blah blah blah.

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Speaker 1: But I think it's a great.

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Speaker 2: Idea to have all these games in places like that

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Speaker 2: not one reason. So we'll talk to John Wilner about

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Speaker 2: all that in a second. But the Kenny Walker story

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Speaker 2: is obviously getting bigger and bigger as the days go by.

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Speaker 2: Adam Schefter was the first report. Now the deadline has

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Speaker 2: come and gone for franchising and tagging players. Is that correct,

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Speaker 2: Dick And Schefter was right this morning. He's been saying

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Speaker 1: We're not going to franchise Kenny Walker.

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Speaker 2: Now the question becomes, do they get a deal done

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Speaker 2: Kenny Walker's situation will be rectified right.

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Speaker 1: In one way or the other. He'll like signed by somebody.

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Speaker 2: Be signed by somebody in the next ten days, by

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Speaker 2: the the I was the PI Sports Star, the Sports

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Speaker 2: Star banguin next Friday, when Mike Holmgren and Kathy Homegernna

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Speaker 1: We'll know in the next week and a half what's

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Speaker 2: But Adam Schefter seems to think he knows what's gonna

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Speaker 1: He was on the Pat McAfee show today. Check it

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Speaker 2: You reported that the Seahawks will not tag running back

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Speaker 1: Now he will be a free agent.

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Speaker 2: What do you expect his market to be and is

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Speaker 3: I think that's always possible. But I think when something

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Speaker 1: I'm with Jackson. They can't afford to franchise tag him.

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Speaker 1: What is second line? I think he may misspoke, to

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Speaker 2: I think he's talking about they can't afford to sign

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Speaker 2: But here's the thing, man, We've been here before with

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Speaker 2: been here before where the Seahawks have lots of money

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Speaker 2: in free agency and they don't hit the home runs.

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Speaker 2: They just hit a bunch of singles in doubles, right, John,

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Speaker 2: They never go out and they get a big time like,

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Speaker 1: Remember we want Drew Dolmen.

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Speaker 4: Yes, he retired today, a twenty seven Connor Williams and

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Speaker 4: the guy quit after the off the season for God's sake.

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Speaker 1: So there's a reason guys are free agents.

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Speaker 4: I mean, and that's John Schneider's m there's a reason

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Speaker 1: There's a reason that their team did not want to

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Speaker 2: And he's very wary of Well, the question becomes with

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Speaker 4: All right?

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Speaker 2: And I know it's hard to know because you don't

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Speaker 5: You like him.

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Speaker 2: I like him a lot. I think he'd be a

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Speaker 2: Because we're talking about the blade of a knife right

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Speaker 2: that NFC Championship, that Thursday night game, that you talked

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Speaker 2: it's the field, whoever's out there, right, draft trade whatever.

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Speaker 2: How much does this team hurt if Kenny Walkers not

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Speaker 1: Significantly?

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Speaker 4: Okay, the better sign me, the better freaking sign unless

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Speaker 1: He's the greatest GM in in football.

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Speaker 6: So the interesting thing that goes through my head is

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Speaker 6: why is he not using the franchise tag?

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Speaker 7: Like?

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Speaker 6: Because they again, they have the money, They have more

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Speaker 6: do for free agency for them, right We're talking about job,

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Speaker 6: Kobe Bryant, a few players here and there, But you

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Speaker 6: But like so you have the money. So why if

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Speaker 6: Raising is that he doesn't like him that much.

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Speaker 2: Doesn't think he's deserving a fourteen million and the story

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Speaker 2: there's there's the other options and agree with Dick.

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Speaker 1: There's the other one. You said there hurts significantly. He

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Speaker 6: The other option is that is that they've already talked

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Speaker 1: Aren't gonna tag him. But based on the comments, we

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Speaker 6: Remember at the trophy the presentation, right where John makes

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Speaker 6: we weren't doing John says, we weren't doing that.

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Speaker 6: You clearly aren't in that process if you already are

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Speaker 6: confident that something's getting done, So again you fall back

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Speaker 2: I just think when he made that comment at the parade,

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Speaker 2: I just thought and say, well, yeah, he was having

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Speaker 1: Because things when we're in Yeah, but but he's not.

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Speaker 2: He's not a freaking alcoholic that just loses his mind.

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Speaker 2: I'm just saying that John Schneider is fully capable of

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Speaker 1: And I could be totally.

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Speaker 2: Dead wrong that he's got a good, positive, working relationship

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Speaker 2: But what do they have a good relationship?

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Speaker 6: Was it last week where they asked him about that

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Speaker 6: Walker looked at me like, why did you just say that?

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Speaker 1: We aren't even.

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Speaker 2: Talking well again, you know, And and and maybe he

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Speaker 1: Right.

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Speaker 2: I mean things like that happen a lot, obviously, but

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Speaker 2: John Schneider could still today feel good dick about the

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Speaker 2: idea of getting Kenny Walker back and lose him.

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Speaker 1: Right, that's correct. Things happen. I think John's playing a

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Speaker 4: I don't think that John believes that anybody's gonna pay

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Speaker 1: Out the nose for Kemick right all takes his one

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Speaker 2: I think wacky owner who falls in love with the

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Speaker 1: Jackson talked about Aukhin's razor, and he's exactly right.

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Speaker 2: Then you and John Schneider already have a disagreement. And

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Speaker 1: But it took three months it did to get to

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Speaker 4: Well yeah, but with a new with Clint kobiact, it

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Speaker 6: See the amount of filling inside of blizzards has lunged over,

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Speaker 2: Here's the problem with mcflury for me. That's why I

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Speaker 2: I am a freaking sucker for a double cheeseburger from

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Speaker 7: No? Yes?

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Speaker 9: All of a sudden, All of a sudden, the mcflury

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Speaker 2: How much do I change things so I can benefit

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Speaker 2: do I just say, you know what, you guys are

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Speaker 1: And there's the same tree too, So he's probably not

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Speaker 1: he doesn't have to move that far. But with Kenny

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Speaker 4: Win a championship that you were asking me what it

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Speaker 4: would look like before they had it. A replacement I'm saying,

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Speaker 4: right now, signs with somebody else. Yes, at that moment,

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Speaker 2: that's what it just Okay, I just asked you that.

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Speaker 2: I said, knowing what you know about what's available, Okay,

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Speaker 2: what's out there, what's out there in free agency, what's

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Speaker 1: You you've got a pretty good grasp on what's available.

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Speaker 2: Okay, at t N doubt all whatever, blah blah blah,

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Speaker 2: priests Hall's off the table now, but you you have

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Speaker 2: loss will it be? Well, it'd be a big loss.

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Speaker 2: But I do think they can get this guy, or

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Speaker 2: Sharbyurney comes back maybe in October they should be all right.

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Speaker 2: So I'm asking you. I know, I'm asking you to

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Speaker 4: Million dollars a year on a three year contract, right,

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Speaker 4: that tells me one, like we speculated before Ockham's Razer,

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Speaker 1: And so therefore, overall, I will.

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Speaker 4: Say they will probably be slightly affected, But I do

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Speaker 4: to get just.

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Speaker 2: I just don't think that Kenny Walker, and I love

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Speaker 2: I don't think he's done anything consistently to lead anyone

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Speaker 2: all right. I mean he was fantastic down the stretch, unbelievable,

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Speaker 2: Like you could say he was the MVP of the playoffs, honestly,

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Speaker 1: He was that good, and his status in this town

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Speaker 5: Right.

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Speaker 2: Granted, when they come back and celebrate the title that

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Speaker 2: I would trade for a world series, he'll he'll get

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Speaker 2: his due, right, he will always get his due. And

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Speaker 2: he did his job. This guy did his job right.

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Speaker 2: It took four years, and he smashed everything into one year.

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Speaker 2: He smashed it all into a month and a half,

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Speaker 2: two months. But he did his job, and he was

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Speaker 2: a key figure, a massively key figure in bringing us

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Speaker 2: a title. You always talk about how the Vegas line

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Speaker 1: Correct.

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Speaker 2: I don't think the Seahawk odds change at all if

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Speaker 1: We should look that up. Make an event and a half,

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Speaker 1: right now, what are the odds right now to eleven

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Speaker 1: win over under all?

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Speaker 7: Right?

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Speaker 1: No, No, I'm saying to win the title.

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Speaker 2: Look up the odds to win the title, and you

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Speaker 2: tell me how much the odds move if Kenny Walker

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Speaker 6: I do think that at the end of the day,

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Speaker 6: this guy is a home run, and we saw him

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Speaker 6: you have to plan around as a defense. It probably

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Speaker 6: you replace that with a Rico Doubtle or a just

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Speaker 6: plan around. He is he's kind of Kenneth Walker two

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Speaker 1: Maybe he likes. Maybe that's the guy John likes.

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Speaker 6: I mean him and Tank Bigsby and Jacksonville for a

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Speaker 6: even remotely because he's not a SUPERWL MVP. So maybe

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Speaker 6: John has his eye on him.

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Speaker 2: And look, I mean all of us are gonna sit

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Speaker 1: What does John believe that. I don't know.

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Speaker 4: Maybe the running backs had a great combat. There was

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Speaker 2: I was just keep an eye on it. I'm just

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Speaker 2: you know, addition between now and then you never know,

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Speaker 2: anybody on this football team that we could lose right

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Speaker 2: all for next year.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean maybe an injury to JSN or something. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean it would suck to lose Jaysen, But he

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Speaker 4: Anything in the Super Bowl, still like a point or

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Speaker 4: two al right on the other and look, I realized.

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Speaker 2: He's a decoy. Even when he's not producing, he's still

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Speaker 2: a decoy. I get Devin Witherspoon shutting people down. You know,

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Speaker 2: He's like, you know, Spoon island out there. But do

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Speaker 2: you guys agree with that that there's not really outside

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Speaker 2: of Darnold just because of the importance of the quarterback spot.

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Speaker 2: Is there really one guy on this team that you say, well,

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Speaker 2: we if we lose him, we're done.

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Speaker 1: We just cannot win. Cannot win next year other than Jackson,

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Speaker 1: maybe even Jackson? Can they can? They win?

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Speaker 2: Swift and Jig but God forbid went down with an

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Speaker 2: and the Seahawks were a better team. They won twelve

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Speaker 1: He brought up a good point on Friday.

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Speaker 4: He said, Okay, if if you don't bring back Walker

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Speaker 4: electricity on that off?

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Speaker 1: That's fair?

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Speaker 2: I'm there's not a lot of electricity there. Well in

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Speaker 2: Rashid Shiheed's gonna cost a lot of money. I gotta

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Speaker 2: be honest with you, man. When they traded for him,

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Speaker 2: I thought there was no way they would let him

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Speaker 2: walk right, No way.

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Speaker 4: But he doesn't like him much as a receiver. He

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Speaker 4: loves him as a return guy. Didn't like him much

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Speaker 4: as a receiver.

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Speaker 2: Do anything as a receiver, right, I mean I like

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Speaker 2: him more as a return guy in a runner than

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Speaker 2: I do a pass catcher. Right, don't do a guy.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna break five twenty two. A little fun with

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Speaker 2: audio next on ninety three three KJRFM, It's.

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Speaker 1: Now time for someday in Digg's Fun with Audio.

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Speaker 2: Jimmy GA Star, Jimmy mister garoppolo.

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Speaker 1: Now let's have some fun with audio.

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Speaker 2: Hey, Brian Schwetzo's gonna join us at five point forty five.

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Speaker 1: We'll ask him on the air. Uh did you forget

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Speaker 1: about that?

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Speaker 7: No?

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Speaker 6: I reminded me that I haven't sent you guys what

462
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Speaker 6: you need.

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Speaker 1: We don't need anything of you talking about it. We're fine,

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Speaker 1: shut up the time, have Okay?

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Speaker 2: Well, last Schmittzer on the air if he would trade

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Speaker 2: one of his championships for a Mariner's World Series appearance at.

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Speaker 1: Five forty five.

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Speaker 2: Wilner, by the way, John's gonna join us at six

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Speaker 2: for a few minutes tonight, by the way, so uh

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Speaker 2: stay tuned for that. All right, Here we go a

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Speaker 2: little fun with audio slash hated you hear that? Normally

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Speaker 2: get three forty five. We had Laine Lambert on to

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Speaker 2: day from the krack of though earlier today. If you

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Speaker 2: missed it, replay coming up in the six pm hour. Hey, Dick,

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Speaker 2: did you happen to hear that?

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Speaker 1: What's that?

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Speaker 2: Dick Russell Wilson joining Barstools Busting with the Boys podcast

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Speaker 2: this week and discuss the fallout between him and Sean

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Speaker 2: Payton with the Broncos.

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Speaker 10: I'm gonna read the tweet because Buddy, I'll be honest

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Speaker 10: with you. That's awesome tweet. Oh yeah, I'll read the

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Speaker 10: tweet class list dot dot but not surprised. Didn't realize

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Speaker 10: you're still bounty hunting fifteen plus years later through the

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Speaker 10: media and there.

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Speaker 1: Russells bites back. I don't say much. I never hardly

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Speaker 1: or say anything.

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Speaker 11: I think there's a time and place. But sometimes you

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Speaker 11: get fatigued of people talking about you. You just see,

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Speaker 11: like you mentioned, you're all human, you know, but it's

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Speaker 11: one thing for people that maybe aren't in the field

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Speaker 11: or aren't people say bots or whatever, talking like I

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Speaker 11: don't worry about that. Stuff like that never. But to me,

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Speaker 11: when you've been in the ring, or you've been on

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Speaker 11: the same side and this and that, and I got

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Speaker 11: the same amount of rings as you got, meaning Sean listen,

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Speaker 11: I got a lot of respect for him as a

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Speaker 11: play caller or this and that.

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Speaker 1: But to take a shot, I don't like.

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Speaker 11: I don't think it's necessary, especially when I'm not even

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Speaker 11: on your own team anymore.

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Speaker 1: So for me, I've realized I've stayed quiet for so long.

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Speaker 11: There's a time and place where I'm not For me,

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Speaker 11: I know who I am as a competitor, as a warrior,

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Speaker 11: as a as a champion to I've beaten Sean to,

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Speaker 11: you know, like we've been on the same place and

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Speaker 11: the same thing, and so it's not a matter of disrespect.

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Speaker 5: Just don't disrespect me.

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Speaker 1: Huh yeah. I'll tell you what.

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Speaker 2: If you had that transcribed on a piece of paper

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Speaker 2: and you just read that quote and did not know

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Speaker 2: who said it. If I would have asked you who

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Speaker 2: said that, there's no part of me that would have

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Speaker 2: thought it was Russell Wilson. I don't think that voice

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Speaker 2: was a bot.

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Speaker 1: It may have been AI.

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Speaker 4: I don't think it's really Russell Wilson. And I'd never

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Speaker 4: heard him say anything remotely like that.

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Speaker 1: Good for him. I said the same thing when he

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Speaker 1: put the tweet out. Dude, where the hell has this

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Speaker 1: been for fifteen years?

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Speaker 2: Come on, man, grow a set and go after the guy.

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Speaker 2: Don't be a pushover, don't be a weirdo. Don't talk

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Speaker 2: about your faith and how God will guide you, which

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Speaker 2: is good for you. But there's a time and place

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Speaker 2: to fight for yourself and fight for yourself, and he

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Speaker 2: did that. I wish he'd do more of it.

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Speaker 1: I love that. I wish he was doing that here

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Speaker 1: in Seattle. You know what I'd love to do, Dick.

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Speaker 2: I would love to sit down with Russell Wilson, just

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Speaker 2: the two of us, and have a real conversation and

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Speaker 2: see if that's the real Russell Wilson that we just

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Speaker 2: heard right there, because that's awesome. If I were his adviser,

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Speaker 2: I would tell him do more of that. Absolutely, speak up, man,

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Speaker 2: have your own back, defend yourself. You should be on

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Speaker 2: more talk shows and get more Yes, it would.

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Speaker 4: Hey, if he wants to get in this he in

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Speaker 4: the Hall of Fame, He's got a lot better chance

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Speaker 4: getting in the Hall of Fame that way.

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Speaker 1: Well, yes, by being on TV, I mean yes, continuing.

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Speaker 4: Your career, being out there for people to see, being opinionated.

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Speaker 1: I don't know the way to do it.

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Speaker 2: I don't think he's gonna be in the Hall of Fame.

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Speaker 2: I believe that that's done for him. But you may

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Speaker 2: be right that he's got a shot. But I do

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Speaker 2: think that if he wants to be in media one day,

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Speaker 2: he's got a chance to make himself a lot more

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Speaker 2: appealing to people.

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Speaker 1: And that was step number one. I mean, he's good

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Speaker 1: at this. Yeah, God darn, where the hell has that

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Speaker 1: been since twenty twelve. That was great.

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Speaker 2: Do more of that Russ good for you, But don't

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Speaker 2: take any crap off anybody, especially Sean Freakin Peyton.

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Speaker 1: Screw that guy, all right, Dick, you happen to hear that?

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Speaker 1: What's that? The Cardinals.

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Speaker 2: Saint Louis Cardinals made headlines this week when they announced

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Speaker 2: they knew all you can eat concession promotion at Bush

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Speaker 2: Stadium for twenty nine dollars a person. Wfa n's Craig

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Speaker 2: Carton reacted to the news on his New York radio

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Speaker 2: show yesterday.

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Speaker 12: The Saint Louis Cardiners are doing something that might be

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Speaker 12: the single greatest idea for fans when it comes to

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Speaker 12: concession stands.

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Speaker 1: In a very very long time. Twenty nine bucks per person. Okay,

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Speaker 1: so consider that.

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Speaker 12: So you're a family of four, so you're looking at

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Speaker 12: one hundred and twenty bucks out of your pocket.

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Speaker 1: Okay, for family of four, twenty nine bucks per person.

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Speaker 1: But here's what you get. Bottomless coke and die coke,

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Speaker 1: unlimited hot dogs, unlimited.

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Speaker 12: Peanuts, unlimited brought worst, unlimited nachos, unlimited fries, all of this,

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Speaker 12: unlimited chips and more and more and more. Twenty nine

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Speaker 12: bucks a person. How great would that be? Is that

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Speaker 12: not a great deal?

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Speaker 1: Incredible deal?

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Speaker 7: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: I would go to a cardinal game. I think, would

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Speaker 1: you fly there? I think I'm mass to go. Okay,

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Speaker 1: so let me ask you a question. And I'm assuming

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Speaker 1: these hot dogs are the smaller variety. He said brats too,

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Speaker 1: so those got to be a little bigger.

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Speaker 2: Could you have and feel comfortable a hot dog, a coke,

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Speaker 2: a bag of peanuts, A brought some nachos, French fries

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Speaker 2: and chips or were that making nauseous?

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Speaker 1: Use be pushing me? Pushing it? Pushing me?

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Speaker 4: I'd probably say chips or nachos. I probably wouldn't.

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Speaker 2: Got both exactly, and I agree with that. Here's my point.

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Speaker 2: Most people won't even eat all that because they can't

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Speaker 2: eat all that. Now you know, some mediator, I can

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Speaker 2: do it all whatever, right, but most people eventually get

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Speaker 2: to a point where they're full.

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Speaker 1: And they stop eating when they get full. That's why

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Speaker 1: this is such a genius idea.

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Speaker 2: You may as well add pizza and add a cheeseburger

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Speaker 2: to it, because there's no way people will ever do

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Speaker 2: it all.

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Speaker 1: It's the marketing man. This is genius.

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Speaker 4: I'd love to see the Mariners do something like that.

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Speaker 4: He'll add sushi to it if you want whatever. I

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Speaker 4: would take my family to a game just to eat.

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Speaker 1: Well, that's the point.

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Speaker 2: Even if you ate a hot dog and a brot

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Speaker 2: and maybe some nachos and then had yourself a coke

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Speaker 2: and a side of fry.

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Speaker 1: That's a lot of food, dude, it's a lot of fun.

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Speaker 1: That's a lot of food. Family.

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Speaker 2: For a one hundred bucks you don't need to eat

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Speaker 2: all that to make it even worthwhile. And you get

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Speaker 2: a game ticket. This is not thirty bucks worth of food.

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Speaker 2: You're getting into the game. Didn't the Marinders do some

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Speaker 2: kind of all you could eat thing a while back

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Speaker 2: and it didn't work, Like four or five years ago.

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Speaker 1: I got to remember that.

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Speaker 2: I think there was some promotion they did what I

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Speaker 2: would love to see the Mariners do. My idea is this,

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Speaker 2: I think everybody that sits in the stadium should feel

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Speaker 2: like they have access to a club. Not the Diamond Club,

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Speaker 2: not the Press Club, not the sweets, but any club.

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Speaker 2: Take an open area like behind the right field corner

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Speaker 2: up there by the way on the hundred level, and

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Speaker 2: have a cordoned off area where you have popcorn, and

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Speaker 2: buffets and you know, hot dogs and stuff, and you

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Speaker 2: can buy a wristband for twenty bucks and walk in

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Speaker 2: there and eat whatever the hell you want, and that's

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Speaker 2: your club single. You're in the right Field Club, the

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Speaker 2: Jabuner Club. You could be sitting in the three hundred

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Speaker 2: level and still be a member of the club because

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Speaker 2: you gave the team twenty bucks.

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Speaker 1: You pay, So would you pay to be in the

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Speaker 1: club and then you'd pay for the food? Yes? No, no,

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Speaker 1: you would.

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Speaker 2: You just pay one fee and pay whatever ticket you

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Speaker 2: sitting wherever you are, and then you can, on top

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Speaker 2: of that, buy a wristband for like twenty five bucks

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Speaker 2: or whatever and any and maybe there's three or four

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Speaker 2: of them around the state, and you can walk in

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Speaker 2: there whenever you want, just grab something.

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Speaker 1: And sometimes you won't even use it. Sometimes you won't

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Speaker 1: even eat it. Maybe you go one time.

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Speaker 2: But it's the isn't it the idea of going one

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Speaker 2: hundred times during a game or eating everything that gets.

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Speaker 1: You to buy it.

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Speaker 6: I feel like peanuts two innings later, you know what,

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Speaker 6: that wasn't enough. I'm gonna grab go grab two hot dogs. Okay,

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Speaker 6: two days later, you know what I really need coke

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Speaker 6: to watch that.

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Speaker 1: That's right. My kids don't even think about it. You

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Speaker 1: just keep going.

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Speaker 4: My kids would love it because their dad never buys

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Speaker 4: them stuff at the games.

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Speaker 1: It's like, hey, no, you're at the game, you bring

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Speaker 1: your own stuff, you know, And so this would be

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Speaker 1: pretty cool, all right? He Dick did jap into you?

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Speaker 1: What's that?

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Speaker 9: Dick?

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Speaker 1: Three four or five? Pick one? Jackson three three?

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Speaker 2: Yesterday on Fun with Audio, we heard former college basketball

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Speaker 2: coach Bruce Pearl jewish by the way, say the undefeated

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Speaker 2: Miami of A High should not make the NCAA tournament

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Speaker 2: if they do not win the MAC Tournament this month. Well,

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Speaker 2: Miami of Ohio AD David Saylor could be jewish, but

661
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Speaker 2: don't know, joined ESPN Radio yesterday and unloaded on Bruce Pearl.

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Speaker 8: I just don't understand how somebody can make the comments

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Speaker 8: he's making and not put respect on what our student

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Speaker 8: athletes are doing. And so then then when he used

665
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Speaker 8: the word we when describing Auburn, just the media bias

666
00:28:26,960 --> 00:28:30,520
Speaker 8: and the stumping for something that is inappropriate, especially at

667
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Speaker 8: the expense of our young men who have worked their

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Speaker 8: tails off to be really in an historic place. And

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Speaker 8: I think they deserve more respect and this should be celebrated.

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Speaker 8: You know, this is about the magic of March madness,

671
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Speaker 8: This is about the heart and soul of college basketball,

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Speaker 8: and I just feel that some of these people are

673
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Speaker 8: trying to ruin it and they just want ranked teams

674
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Speaker 8: versus ranked teams, power four teams, power four teams, and

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Speaker 8: I'm not here for it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I kind of agree with the ad by the way,

677
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Speaker 2: I do love the idea of having the Cinderella and

678
00:28:59,520 --> 00:29:01,960
Speaker 2: the team that maybe does not play the toughest schedule

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Speaker 2: getting a chance to prove themselves come tournament time. I'd

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Speaker 2: rather see a team like Miami of Ohio than a

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Speaker 2: middle of the road, lower tier Big ten or SEC

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Speaker 2: team make the tournament.

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Speaker 4: Absolutely, and Miami of Ohio has already put themselves on

684
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Speaker 4: really shaky ground by playing a playing a schedule like that,

685
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Speaker 4: so guess what they have to do what they're doing

686
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Speaker 4: to get in the NCAA tournament.

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Speaker 1: But if they do do what they're doing and finish

688
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Speaker 1: thirty and one, what's their net ranking right now?

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Speaker 7: Do you know what?

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Speaker 10: It is?

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Speaker 1: Very high?

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Speaker 2: So you're saying you are you saying if they don't

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Speaker 2: win the MAC, they should not get a bid. No,

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Speaker 2: I still think they should get a boat, right because

695
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Speaker 2: they have been so good. Now, if they were twenty

696
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Speaker 2: six and four and they lost the MAC by playing,

697
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Speaker 2: then that's different.

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Speaker 4: But they haven't lost the game yet, right, And if

699
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Speaker 4: they lose one, you're you're entitled in college basketball, no

700
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Speaker 4: matter how easy your schedule is, to lose a basketball

701
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Speaker 4: game'll go over the.

702
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Speaker 1: Course of a season and still get into the tournament.

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Speaker 2: I just think it'd be that if we just loaded

704
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Speaker 2: up March Madness with just household teams, you.

705
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Speaker 1: Know, and it's gonna get worse. They go to ninety six.

706
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Speaker 1: Yeah terrible. Yeah, I mean it will be.

707
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Speaker 2: But I think you'll just ignore the first round right

708
00:30:10,640 --> 00:30:13,320
Speaker 2: the first week, just say wake me up when.

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Speaker 1: The round the Huskies will play in. Though, see why

710
00:30:18,840 --> 00:30:20,960
Speaker 1: it's true? Though? Why does he take shots like that?

711
00:30:21,160 --> 00:30:22,880
Speaker 6: He knows he has the second team not to get

712
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Speaker 6: a shot against.

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Speaker 1: Gotta break god, what have they been good? I miss something?

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Speaker 1: Son of a bitch, Son of a bitch.

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Speaker 2: Bruce sch Bruce Smetzer, Brian Schmetzer gonna join next on

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Speaker 2: ninety three three.

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Speaker 13: brought to you by Duke Seafood. Why don't you make

719
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Speaker 13: Duke Safood dot com. Now back to Softy and Dick

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Speaker 13: on Sports Radio ninety three point three kJ RFM.

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Speaker 2: All right, we're back on a busy Tuesday night right

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Speaker 2: here on ninety three to three KJRFM.

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Speaker 1: Excuse me plus you sorry? Oh man, allergies are kicking

725
00:31:06,120 --> 00:31:07,960
Speaker 1: my ass here. Baby. Maybe I go back to Maui

726
00:31:08,040 --> 00:31:09,440
Speaker 1: and just do the show from there. How's that sound

727
00:31:09,480 --> 00:31:11,000
Speaker 1: that sounds good? Can I go with you? Nope?

728
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Speaker 2: Just me Jackson. You can come visit the discuss stay here.

729
00:31:14,320 --> 00:31:17,120
Speaker 2: This next guy can come whenever he wants. The head

730
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Speaker 2: coach of the Sounders, FC Brian Schmetzer with us on

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Speaker 2: the radio show.

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Speaker 1: Brian, how are you man?

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Speaker 7: I'm moving good. Look, buddy of mine. Saw you at

734
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Speaker 7: No Boo down at the Grand Wi Lea. He was like, going,

735
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Speaker 7: there's Dave, Softy Mauler.

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Speaker 1: You know what I was doing outside Nobu?

737
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Speaker 7: By the way, what were you doing outside of Nobuo?

738
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Speaker 1: Not going into the restaurant? I just sat there and

739
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Speaker 1: stared at it.

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Speaker 2: By the way, they took that beautiful Annay at the

741
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Speaker 2: Grand while and said, you can't have breakfast here because

742
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Speaker 2: we got to turn it into a sushi restaurant and

743
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Speaker 2: they want no competition throughout the day for anything. So yeah,

744
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Speaker 2: we didn't eat there, but I'm curious if your buddy didn't,

745
00:31:53,720 --> 00:31:55,800
Speaker 2: if he liked it or not. But hey, listen, man,

746
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Speaker 2: we got to get you to weigh in on something

747
00:31:57,480 --> 00:31:59,440
Speaker 2: real quick. We're having some fun today on the radio

748
00:31:59,560 --> 00:32:02,920
Speaker 2: show talking about if we would trade a Seahawks Super

749
00:32:02,960 --> 00:32:06,440
Speaker 2: Bowl title for a Mariner World Series appearance. Jackson and

750
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Speaker 2: Dick both said no. I said that I would. I'm

751
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Speaker 2: getting killed for it. Would you trade any of your

752
00:32:12,640 --> 00:32:16,480
Speaker 2: trophies that you've ever won in professional soccer for one

753
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Speaker 2: Mariner World Series appearance?

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Speaker 7: Well, appearance, yes, or all ferries like victory?

755
00:32:25,320 --> 00:32:28,000
Speaker 2: Nope, just an appearance meaning you beat the Blue Jays

756
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Speaker 2: last year in Game seven.

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Speaker 7: It was an exciting series and I feel bad for

758
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Speaker 7: the Mariners, but.

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Speaker 2: All right, good enough. Finally can move on what happened?

760
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Speaker 2: What happened in Utah? Man, Real Salt Lake two to one,

761
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Speaker 2: talk us through it.

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Speaker 7: Same thing that happened since twenty eleven, And I'm getting

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Speaker 7: kind of pissed about it. So not the best of moods.

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Speaker 7: I mean, we had a really good week of preparation.

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Speaker 7: I think the belief in the squad, and you know,

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Speaker 7: it's the first game of a long run road trip,

767
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Speaker 7: but they trained well and everything, and we were talking

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Speaker 7: about what we need to do to be successful there,

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Speaker 7: and man like, the goalkeeper made two saves in the

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Speaker 7: first ten minutes should have been too nothing for us.

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Speaker 7: We let in a sloppy goal for the first one.

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Speaker 7: We regroup at halftime. I'm like, going, we've got to

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Speaker 7: press higher up the field. You know, we've got to

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Speaker 7: be aggressive, We've got to do all this sort of stuff.

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Speaker 7: And then all of a sudden, one ball beats an

776
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Speaker 7: aggressive press and they get to to nothing, and you know,

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Speaker 7: I had to make some changes, but the guys never quit.

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Speaker 7: We got the first goal two to one. I thought

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Speaker 7: we were in the game. Then we just couldn't make

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Speaker 7: that last play. I mean, we scored an off side goal,

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Speaker 7: We had some chances. The goalkeeper made another unbelievable save

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Speaker 7: on Danny Mausoski. But you know, it's softy. We haven't

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Speaker 7: won there since twenty eleven, and I'm getting kind of

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Speaker 7: tired of it.

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Speaker 4: Well, I can't imagine they've always been a better team

786
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Speaker 4: than you guys during that stretches twenty eleven. So what's

787
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Speaker 4: what's the common theme, what's the thread through all those losses?

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Speaker 7: You know, Dick, I wish I knew, because I really, again,

789
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Speaker 7: I thought the preparation of the guys did. They did

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Speaker 7: a great job. It's something about that stadium, that that atmosphere.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 7: I don't want to use altitude as an excuse because

793
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Speaker 7: there's no excuse. There takes a little bit of out

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Speaker 7: of you, but you get used to it. We had

795
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Speaker 7: more possession, We had fifty seven percent possession. We created

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Speaker 7: some good chances. I wish I had the answer because

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Speaker 7: then we would have won the freaking game.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I got you.

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Speaker 2: Well, listen, we love when you get angry because that

800
00:34:41,880 --> 00:34:43,359
Speaker 2: means you're going to kick the piss out of Saint

801
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Speaker 2: Louis this weekend, by the way, so can't wait for that.

802
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Speaker 1: Take your aggression out on them, by the way.

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Speaker 2: But Brian Schmetzer with us and Brian, look, we've all

804
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Speaker 2: seen young guys come up, young guys get shots and

805
00:34:56,080 --> 00:34:58,680
Speaker 2: it just doesn't work out for whatever reason. And I'm

806
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Speaker 2: not saying that O de Rosario is in that category

807
00:35:02,040 --> 00:35:05,200
Speaker 2: yet at all, but a couple of matches in have

808
00:35:05,360 --> 00:35:08,360
Speaker 2: you have you seen from him what you want to

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00:35:08,480 --> 00:35:11,040
Speaker 2: see from him, or is there any part of you

810
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Speaker 2: thinking that maybe Danny needs to get a little more run.

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Speaker 7: Well, Danny's going to get a little bit more run.

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Speaker 7: I think that shifted the natural kind of way things

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Speaker 7: happen sometimes. I mean, rookies, guys with not a lot

814
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Speaker 7: of experience, they come out of the gates really strong.

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Speaker 7: I thought I saw they had a great preseason, you know,

816
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Speaker 7: but he hasn't been as effective playing against you know

817
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Speaker 7: MLS opposition. You know, what we did in preseason was

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Speaker 7: a little different. So look, the kid works hard, works

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Speaker 7: his butt off. He's a big kid, strong kid, scored

820
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Speaker 7: those goals in preseason. But I need guys to make

821
00:35:47,560 --> 00:35:50,360
Speaker 7: plays and he needs to be involved. And that's not

822
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Speaker 7: all his fault. Some of our players need to help.

823
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Speaker 7: But Danny certainly is chomping in the bit himself. I

824
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Speaker 7: had a good conversation with him today after training me.

825
00:36:00,640 --> 00:36:03,520
Speaker 7: He's fired up, ready to go. So we'll see my

826
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Speaker 7: final choices for Saint Louis. But I've got Saint Louis,

827
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Speaker 7: and I've got the CONQUERCAF Champions Cup with Vancouver and

828
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Speaker 7: then we've got San Jose and we've got all these

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Speaker 7: games coming up. He's gonna he's gonna get minutes. Both

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Speaker 7: of them are gonna get minutes.

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Speaker 4: Similar question with Hasani Dotson and Snyder Burnell. Is it

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Speaker 4: time to get the youngster some more work?

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Speaker 7: Well, that's another great question because Snyder's come on, look

834
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Speaker 7: good now starting a game versus you know, coming on

835
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Speaker 7: in some cameo appearances. There's more responsibility when you start,

836
00:36:36,360 --> 00:36:41,000
Speaker 7: there's other issues. But the kid has looked good. And look,

837
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Speaker 7: it might not be Hassani coming out, but it might

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Speaker 7: be Hayzus or you know, it's Albert I might move

839
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Speaker 7: heyesus over there. So the kids fighting for playing time

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00:36:50,239 --> 00:36:53,680
Speaker 7: as well, and you know Snyder's been Snyder's been good.

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Speaker 1: Well.

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Speaker 2: Brian Schmetzer's with us Sounders FC. Talk to me about

843
00:36:57,440 --> 00:37:01,040
Speaker 2: Jordan Morris the recent injury with him. Has the timeline

844
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Speaker 2: changed at all? Any update ceity status chains with Jordan

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Speaker 2: that you can tell us about.

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00:37:06,560 --> 00:37:09,160
Speaker 7: Yeah, I wish Softie, I wish I had better news,

847
00:37:09,239 --> 00:37:11,520
Speaker 7: but no, he's on the same timeline four weeks from

848
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Speaker 7: the date of injury, like he was jogging on the

849
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Speaker 7: field today. But he's still a ways off. We still

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00:37:17,239 --> 00:37:20,040
Speaker 7: got a pretty we still got a pretty dinged up squad,

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00:37:20,080 --> 00:37:24,680
Speaker 7: and I'm not happy about that because we're coming in

852
00:37:24,800 --> 00:37:29,840
Speaker 7: this sixer congestion. So any miracle, any you know, prayers

853
00:37:29,960 --> 00:37:32,680
Speaker 7: or anything, just keep saying them because I need some players.

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00:37:33,120 --> 00:37:33,680
Speaker 6: Well, you need some.

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00:37:33,719 --> 00:37:36,719
Speaker 4: Players at the center back position. How's the injuries going

856
00:37:36,760 --> 00:37:37,799
Speaker 4: at that position right now?

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00:37:38,960 --> 00:37:41,440
Speaker 7: Well, we had we had a little bit of a

858
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Speaker 7: setback today and breaking a little bit of news here

859
00:37:44,360 --> 00:37:47,239
Speaker 7: softly because I love you, man, I missed you last week.

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00:37:48,560 --> 00:37:54,080
Speaker 7: He had a little setback in training today. Ryan Sailor,

861
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Speaker 7: the U doub grad, he's still a ways away. Stuart

862
00:37:57,080 --> 00:38:00,279
Speaker 7: Hawkins is still kind of on the same program, still

863
00:38:00,320 --> 00:38:03,160
Speaker 7: three to four weeks away. So Dick, we're up against

864
00:38:03,200 --> 00:38:05,680
Speaker 7: it at the center back position. Yeah, but I played

865
00:38:05,680 --> 00:38:08,480
Speaker 7: Alex rolled in there when I took Yamar off. That's

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Speaker 7: kind of a stop gap or if I want to

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Speaker 7: attack more or knew who's going to have to slide

868
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Speaker 7: over there if I need to rest Jackson or Yamar.

869
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Speaker 7: So we're working on temporary solutions.

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Speaker 1: But I got to get some guys healthy.

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Speaker 2: Well, the center back situation is getting kind of ludicrous,

872
00:38:25,320 --> 00:38:28,680
Speaker 2: right obviously. And look, I'm not saying you're doing this now,

873
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Speaker 2: and as long as I've known you, you never have

874
00:38:30,600 --> 00:38:32,919
Speaker 2: done this. But does it ever get to a point

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Speaker 2: for you as a head coach where you say to

876
00:38:35,719 --> 00:38:37,880
Speaker 2: yourself over and over and over and over again, I

877
00:38:37,920 --> 00:38:40,839
Speaker 2: will never use injuries as an excuse for the way

878
00:38:41,000 --> 00:38:44,279
Speaker 2: my team performs. But at some point you got to

879
00:38:44,320 --> 00:38:47,360
Speaker 2: tell yourself, all right, this is insane, right, Like I

880
00:38:47,440 --> 00:38:49,760
Speaker 2: got to give myself and my staff and my team

881
00:38:49,920 --> 00:38:51,160
Speaker 2: a little bit of a break here.

882
00:38:53,239 --> 00:38:56,520
Speaker 7: Well, we say it sometimes internally, sometimes the message I

883
00:38:56,640 --> 00:39:00,279
Speaker 7: give internally externally is a little bit different. I mean,

884
00:39:00,360 --> 00:39:03,640
Speaker 7: I don't like using injuries as an excuse because every

885
00:39:03,719 --> 00:39:06,160
Speaker 7: team has them. Every every MLS team is going to

886
00:39:06,200 --> 00:39:10,000
Speaker 7: go through you know, certain injuries. You know other sports

887
00:39:10,040 --> 00:39:12,480
Speaker 7: are the same. But at the end of the day,

888
00:39:12,800 --> 00:39:16,239
Speaker 7: I think, you know, Craig has been always good, Adrian's

889
00:39:16,280 --> 00:39:19,319
Speaker 7: been good about getting me a deep team, so we're

890
00:39:19,360 --> 00:39:22,840
Speaker 7: able to withstand some of these moments. But you know,

891
00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:25,040
Speaker 7: I just had a I just had a conversation with

892
00:39:25,160 --> 00:39:27,799
Speaker 7: Craig today. I mean, if if things aren't going well

893
00:39:27,920 --> 00:39:30,520
Speaker 7: with Kim or any of the other guys, you know,

894
00:39:30,680 --> 00:39:33,200
Speaker 7: we might have to think about adding another player.

895
00:39:34,200 --> 00:39:37,120
Speaker 1: Saturdayn the road against Saint Louis, give us a preview

896
00:39:37,120 --> 00:39:37,480
Speaker 1: of that one.

897
00:39:39,200 --> 00:39:42,880
Speaker 7: Well, team that is searching, searching for the identity with

898
00:39:42,960 --> 00:39:46,840
Speaker 7: the new coach, got some decent players, went down to

899
00:39:46,920 --> 00:39:49,279
Speaker 7: San Diego, tough place to play, and had a couple

900
00:39:49,320 --> 00:39:51,640
Speaker 7: of moments where they could have changed the game at

901
00:39:51,680 --> 00:39:54,360
Speaker 7: one to one, and he ended up losing two nothing

902
00:39:54,560 --> 00:39:58,360
Speaker 7: against the good San Diego team. So I'm expecting a

903
00:39:58,880 --> 00:40:01,240
Speaker 7: hard working because you know the teams from the Midwest,

904
00:40:01,280 --> 00:40:05,440
Speaker 7: they're all hardworking people out there, hardworking teams, some good players.

905
00:40:06,040 --> 00:40:07,839
Speaker 7: Not sure you know, they're going to play a back

906
00:40:07,880 --> 00:40:11,560
Speaker 7: line of five again like we like we saw against ourselves,

907
00:40:11,600 --> 00:40:15,239
Speaker 7: So that might help us in our preparation, Dick. But

908
00:40:15,680 --> 00:40:19,120
Speaker 7: they're searching for some wins and points at home for sure.

909
00:40:19,520 --> 00:40:22,120
Speaker 2: Well that's on the Seattle Soccer radio channel, by the way,

910
00:40:22,200 --> 00:40:24,520
Speaker 2: on the iHeart app on Saturday pre game five kickoff

911
00:40:24,560 --> 00:40:26,600
Speaker 2: at five point thirty from Saint Louis.

912
00:40:26,600 --> 00:40:27,840
Speaker 1: All right, Brian, great stuff.

913
00:40:28,680 --> 00:40:30,799
Speaker 2: I'm curious to know what your record is coming off

914
00:40:30,880 --> 00:40:34,040
Speaker 2: of a loss in Utah against Reale Salt Lake. As

915
00:40:34,080 --> 00:40:36,520
Speaker 2: you sound pissed, and I think your boys might even

916
00:40:36,560 --> 00:40:39,920
Speaker 2: play pissed on Saturdays. So the money I saved on

917
00:40:40,160 --> 00:40:42,480
Speaker 2: going to Nobu or not going to Nobu by the way,

918
00:40:42,560 --> 00:40:45,000
Speaker 2: which is like four hundred bucks for a meal, that's

919
00:40:45,080 --> 00:40:47,560
Speaker 2: before booze. I'm gonna bet all of it on you

920
00:40:47,640 --> 00:40:50,560
Speaker 2: guys to cover and win on Saturday night. That's how

921
00:40:50,640 --> 00:40:51,360
Speaker 2: much I believe in you.

922
00:40:52,640 --> 00:40:55,480
Speaker 7: Okay, I appreciate it, but I can't talk about gambling

923
00:40:55,520 --> 00:40:55,719
Speaker 7: all the.

924
00:40:57,560 --> 00:40:57,800
Speaker 10: Love it.

925
00:40:58,320 --> 00:41:00,600
Speaker 1: All right, we work all right, and you're the best.

926
00:41:00,640 --> 00:41:03,680
Speaker 1: We're talking a week man. All right, take care of you,

927
00:41:03,800 --> 00:41:04,279
Speaker 1: see you man.

928
00:41:04,320 --> 00:41:07,080
Speaker 2: Brian Schmitzer with us on the radio show We're Gonna

929
00:41:07,080 --> 00:41:10,160
Speaker 2: Break John Wilner. We've actually tracked him down. I had

930
00:41:10,400 --> 00:41:13,640
Speaker 2: a little bit of a family emergency. But everything's okay.

931
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Speaker 2: He's gonna pop on Say Helo next on ninety three

932
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Speaker 2: three KJRFM.

933
00:41:17,520 --> 00:41:20,239
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939
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Speaker 2: All right, normally we have this guy at five o'clock.

940
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Speaker 2: But a little family minor emergency down there in San Jose.

941
00:41:43,400 --> 00:41:47,960
Speaker 2: That's our friend John Wilner. Courtesy of simply Seattle dot com.

942
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944
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945
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Speaker 2: the pack, the Big ten bearon himself, our friend Johnny Wilner. John, everybody,

946
00:42:02,440 --> 00:42:03,280
Speaker 2: Okay down there.

947
00:42:04,000 --> 00:42:04,439
Speaker 1: We're good.

948
00:42:04,520 --> 00:42:08,480
Speaker 5: Yeah, sorry about that little hiccup. We're bad timing.

949
00:42:09,040 --> 00:42:11,359
Speaker 1: That's fine. I mean, if you need a day off,

950
00:42:11,440 --> 00:42:13,000
Speaker 1: you can take a day off, mate, it's not a

951
00:42:13,040 --> 00:42:15,000
Speaker 1: big deal. We're not gonna be mad at you.

952
00:42:15,080 --> 00:42:17,600
Speaker 2: Guys are working on working, okay, fire, let us talk

953
00:42:17,640 --> 00:42:19,200
Speaker 2: about you behind your back, but you can take it

954
00:42:19,280 --> 00:42:21,719
Speaker 2: off that fuck. Well, let's talk about what's going on

955
00:42:21,880 --> 00:42:24,400
Speaker 2: basketball right now. Big ten tournament coming up in Vegas

956
00:42:24,560 --> 00:42:27,279
Speaker 2: next week, and man, the Huskies are just circling the

957
00:42:27,400 --> 00:42:29,920
Speaker 2: drain right now. John up here in Seattle, just a

958
00:42:30,080 --> 00:42:34,080
Speaker 2: horrible loss to Wisconsin over the weekend. They got USC

959
00:42:34,320 --> 00:42:37,840
Speaker 2: coming up tomorrow and Seattle with Senior Night. And the

960
00:42:37,920 --> 00:42:40,279
Speaker 2: only way this team's gonna make any noise is if

961
00:42:40,320 --> 00:42:43,840
Speaker 2: they make a miracle run and win the Big Ten tournament.

962
00:42:43,960 --> 00:42:46,040
Speaker 2: So what are your thoughts as we sit here right

963
00:42:46,120 --> 00:42:49,120
Speaker 2: now on Danny Sprinkle's entire operation in year two?

964
00:42:50,360 --> 00:42:53,000
Speaker 5: Yeah, I would say probably a little bit disappointing that

965
00:42:53,080 --> 00:42:56,560
Speaker 5: they didn't make more progress. They're not alone, you know,

966
00:42:56,600 --> 00:42:57,960
Speaker 5: it hasn't been a very good year for any of

967
00:42:58,000 --> 00:42:59,640
Speaker 5: the West Coast schools that are in the Big Ten.

968
00:43:00,560 --> 00:43:03,880
Speaker 5: I don't I don't think that that's a coincidence. You know,

969
00:43:04,000 --> 00:43:08,440
Speaker 5: the situations are different in each campus, but you know

970
00:43:08,560 --> 00:43:11,120
Speaker 5: they're all facing a really this is a really tough

971
00:43:11,239 --> 00:43:13,120
Speaker 5: deal they got for their basketball teams.

972
00:43:14,840 --> 00:43:17,000
Speaker 1: Washington, Yeah, it's.

973
00:43:17,040 --> 00:43:19,799
Speaker 5: I would have expected a little bit more. I don't

974
00:43:20,239 --> 00:43:22,480
Speaker 5: see any way that they're gonna make enough noise in

975
00:43:22,560 --> 00:43:26,320
Speaker 5: a Big Ten tournament to get on the NCAA radar.

976
00:43:26,719 --> 00:43:28,719
Speaker 5: I mean, they gotta win the thing, and that's gonna

977
00:43:28,719 --> 00:43:30,719
Speaker 5: be awfully hard to do. I mean, nobody, I don't

978
00:43:30,719 --> 00:43:34,719
Speaker 5: think anybody's gonna beat Michigan. But the thing that you

979
00:43:34,960 --> 00:43:38,680
Speaker 5: wonder about too, and this is not just a Washington thing,

980
00:43:38,800 --> 00:43:40,680
Speaker 5: but have you guys looked at Utah State.

981
00:43:41,280 --> 00:43:42,600
Speaker 1: No, they're pretty good.

982
00:43:42,800 --> 00:43:44,919
Speaker 5: They're pretty good. They're gonna make the nc double as

983
00:43:44,960 --> 00:43:49,840
Speaker 5: as an at large, I think, and I wonder Sprinkle's

984
00:43:49,840 --> 00:43:52,840
Speaker 5: not the first former Utah State coach to struggle.

985
00:43:52,960 --> 00:43:53,080
Speaker 7: Right.

986
00:43:53,480 --> 00:43:56,959
Speaker 5: We just saw Craig Smith who was at Utah State

987
00:43:57,160 --> 00:44:00,759
Speaker 5: before Sprinkle. He went to he was by Utah and

988
00:44:00,840 --> 00:44:03,799
Speaker 5: he flamed out at Utah three years. And now then

989
00:44:04,000 --> 00:44:06,759
Speaker 5: Washington goes and hires you Sprinkle from Utah State after

990
00:44:06,840 --> 00:44:08,799
Speaker 5: having a really good year, and you think, boy, if

991
00:44:08,840 --> 00:44:11,480
Speaker 5: he could do that at Utah State, he's gonna be

992
00:44:11,480 --> 00:44:14,400
Speaker 5: a good hire for Washington. But Utah State keeps winning.

993
00:44:14,760 --> 00:44:16,960
Speaker 5: They're going to the NCAA Tournament under the like their

994
00:44:17,040 --> 00:44:19,839
Speaker 5: fifth different coach in the last ten years. So I'm

995
00:44:19,880 --> 00:44:23,520
Speaker 5: starting to wonder if it's more Utah State and less

996
00:44:23,719 --> 00:44:26,399
Speaker 5: the coaches who are at Utah State and get hired

997
00:44:26,440 --> 00:44:27,280
Speaker 5: in other places.

998
00:44:27,520 --> 00:44:27,640
Speaker 7: Right.

999
00:44:28,200 --> 00:44:30,360
Speaker 4: Well, John, the one word you haven't used yet his injury.

1000
00:44:30,600 --> 00:44:32,880
Speaker 4: And they have been the most injury riddled team by

1001
00:44:32,920 --> 00:44:34,440
Speaker 4: far in the Big Ten this year. How much of

1002
00:44:34,480 --> 00:44:36,360
Speaker 4: an excuse. Do we use that to give that the

1003
00:44:36,440 --> 00:44:37,440
Speaker 4: Danny sprinkle this year?

1004
00:44:38,719 --> 00:44:41,640
Speaker 5: Some I mean, Oregon's been pretty injured too. I haven't

1005
00:44:41,880 --> 00:44:47,440
Speaker 5: compared the games missed by potential starters, but Oregon has

1006
00:44:47,520 --> 00:44:50,520
Speaker 5: been battered as well. Now, how much of that is

1007
00:44:51,160 --> 00:44:53,800
Speaker 5: you know, wear and tear from travel. How much of

1008
00:44:53,880 --> 00:44:57,439
Speaker 5: it is just bad luck? You know, I haven't taken

1009
00:44:57,480 --> 00:45:02,160
Speaker 5: a deep dive into that, but you know, injuries, they're

1010
00:45:02,200 --> 00:45:04,360
Speaker 5: part of it. The problem is that last if you

1011
00:45:04,440 --> 00:45:06,680
Speaker 5: have injuries in your first year, it's easier to kind

1012
00:45:06,719 --> 00:45:10,879
Speaker 5: of excuse when second year, third year, it is like, hey,

1013
00:45:11,040 --> 00:45:13,320
Speaker 5: we need to see some progress here, especially with the

1014
00:45:13,360 --> 00:45:14,240
Speaker 5: transfer portal.

1015
00:45:15,440 --> 00:45:18,719
Speaker 2: Well, John, you mentioned the travel problems that teams in

1016
00:45:18,800 --> 00:45:21,239
Speaker 2: the Big Ten are having from the West Coast, and

1017
00:45:21,360 --> 00:45:23,320
Speaker 2: it's way more of an issue for basketball because you

1018
00:45:23,400 --> 00:45:25,239
Speaker 2: play a lot more games and you travel a lot

1019
00:45:25,320 --> 00:45:27,719
Speaker 2: more obviously, like you know, you Dubs got a trip

1020
00:45:27,840 --> 00:45:31,560
Speaker 2: to Purdue in Michigan State and that really is it?

1021
00:45:31,840 --> 00:45:32,000
Speaker 12: Right?

1022
00:45:32,520 --> 00:45:35,800
Speaker 2: And they may have a buy between before or after

1023
00:45:36,360 --> 00:45:39,759
Speaker 2: one of those games. But what's the fix then for basketball?

1024
00:45:39,920 --> 00:45:43,080
Speaker 2: Outside of leaving the Big Ten, which they're not going

1025
00:45:43,160 --> 00:45:45,400
Speaker 2: to do. How do you fix this for basketball.

1026
00:45:47,080 --> 00:45:47,960
Speaker 7: I don't care.

1027
00:45:48,920 --> 00:45:51,279
Speaker 5: I don't see any way to do that, And there's

1028
00:45:51,400 --> 00:45:54,840
Speaker 5: multiple problems in my mind. What it is just the

1029
00:45:55,080 --> 00:45:59,280
Speaker 5: actual travel to go into play Penn State and Ohio

1030
00:45:59,440 --> 00:46:02,359
Speaker 5: State one week, come home, and then you're turning around

1031
00:46:02,400 --> 00:46:05,520
Speaker 5: and going back there. Also, I think the wear and

1032
00:46:05,600 --> 00:46:07,920
Speaker 5: tear adds up, you know, so that you get to

1033
00:46:08,000 --> 00:46:10,280
Speaker 5: the second half of February and the players are tired

1034
00:46:10,280 --> 00:46:14,120
Speaker 5: and the teams are gased the other. But there's more

1035
00:46:14,160 --> 00:46:17,200
Speaker 5: to it than that. It's also there's a lot of

1036
00:46:17,280 --> 00:46:19,560
Speaker 5: times when the West Coast teams will come home from

1037
00:46:19,600 --> 00:46:22,799
Speaker 5: a road trip right to face a Big ten team,

1038
00:46:22,880 --> 00:46:24,440
Speaker 5: Like I'm just pulling something out of my hat. Right,

1039
00:46:24,640 --> 00:46:27,920
Speaker 5: Washington comes back from a trip and they're playing Illinois.

1040
00:46:28,600 --> 00:46:31,320
Speaker 5: But Illinois just played Oregon. So Illinois actually been on

1041
00:46:31,320 --> 00:46:34,759
Speaker 5: the West Coast play four days, and so Illinois is

1042
00:46:34,880 --> 00:46:37,600
Speaker 5: actually Washington is in a lot of ways, in that

1043
00:46:37,719 --> 00:46:40,600
Speaker 5: case the team that has traveled more than Illinois, even

1044
00:46:40,600 --> 00:46:42,880
Speaker 5: though the game is in Seattle, because the Ali and

1045
00:46:42,960 --> 00:46:45,400
Speaker 5: I have had time to adjust and Washington's getting off

1046
00:46:45,440 --> 00:46:47,560
Speaker 5: a plane in the next two days later they got

1047
00:46:47,640 --> 00:46:51,520
Speaker 5: to play. So it works both against the West Coast schools,

1048
00:46:52,120 --> 00:46:55,040
Speaker 5: both ways in some respects well.

1049
00:46:55,160 --> 00:46:57,040
Speaker 4: John Over on the other side of the state, the

1050
00:46:57,120 --> 00:47:00,399
Speaker 4: Koogs have lost six of seven. They're twelve and nine teen.

1051
00:47:00,560 --> 00:47:03,160
Speaker 4: They're at eighth place in the West Coast Conference. Is

1052
00:47:03,239 --> 00:47:04,560
Speaker 4: this it for David Riley?

1053
00:47:07,040 --> 00:47:09,720
Speaker 5: I don't know it for David Riley, but I wouldn't

1054
00:47:09,719 --> 00:47:12,839
Speaker 5: be surprised if it is. They. Yeah, they are going

1055
00:47:12,920 --> 00:47:14,759
Speaker 5: the wrong way at the end of his second year

1056
00:47:14,960 --> 00:47:15,600
Speaker 5: and they are.

1057
00:47:17,239 --> 00:47:17,879
Speaker 1: Spiraling.

1058
00:47:19,920 --> 00:47:23,440
Speaker 5: I don't know what the money situation is, right, it's

1059
00:47:23,480 --> 00:47:25,879
Speaker 5: a tough deal. I don't think he's got very much

1060
00:47:25,920 --> 00:47:28,720
Speaker 5: for his roster, but I also think that they probably

1061
00:47:29,560 --> 00:47:32,440
Speaker 5: would have expected more. And he's got a new president

1062
00:47:33,040 --> 00:47:35,960
Speaker 5: who really wants to win and doesn't have a whole

1063
00:47:36,000 --> 00:47:39,960
Speaker 5: lot of patience, and she fired their athletic director in November.

1064
00:47:41,920 --> 00:47:44,640
Speaker 5: So I would not be I would put it at

1065
00:47:44,760 --> 00:47:47,920
Speaker 5: like fifty five forty five that he stays. I wouldn't

1066
00:47:47,920 --> 00:47:48,799
Speaker 5: be surprised if he's gone.

1067
00:47:49,160 --> 00:47:49,359
Speaker 10: John.

1068
00:47:49,400 --> 00:47:50,920
Speaker 2: Let me go back to the Big ten thing for

1069
00:47:51,000 --> 00:47:53,560
Speaker 2: a second, with the Huskies moving on with Oregon, USC

1070
00:47:53,719 --> 00:47:55,920
Speaker 2: and UCLA, because I can hear some Cougar fans out

1071
00:47:55,920 --> 00:47:57,759
Speaker 2: there going, yeah, I see, I told you, I told

1072
00:47:57,760 --> 00:47:59,719
Speaker 2: you A stupid idea to go to the Big ten.

1073
00:47:59,719 --> 00:48:01,600
Speaker 1: Right that I was saying right now, this was a

1074
00:48:01,640 --> 00:48:02,400
Speaker 1: football decision.

1075
00:48:02,560 --> 00:48:05,200
Speaker 2: I think I know that, But John, I want to

1076
00:48:05,200 --> 00:48:08,200
Speaker 2: ask you from a view from forty thousand feet and

1077
00:48:08,320 --> 00:48:12,480
Speaker 2: it's only the middle of year two. Obviously, did teams

1078
00:48:12,520 --> 00:48:16,120
Speaker 2: like Washington and Oregon, because remember USC and UCLA moved first?

1079
00:48:16,960 --> 00:48:20,520
Speaker 2: Did youwn Oregon right now as you sit on March

1080
00:48:20,640 --> 00:48:23,920
Speaker 2: third of twenty twenty six, did they do the right

1081
00:48:24,000 --> 00:48:24,600
Speaker 2: thing by moving?

1082
00:48:28,600 --> 00:48:32,720
Speaker 5: I don't. I probably, but I don't know enough because

1083
00:48:32,760 --> 00:48:36,319
Speaker 5: I don't know. There's one piece of that Apple deal

1084
00:48:37,120 --> 00:48:43,320
Speaker 5: that remains unknown to me, which was the ability within

1085
00:48:43,560 --> 00:48:49,719
Speaker 5: the contract for games to get sub licensed to network TV.

1086
00:48:50,680 --> 00:48:52,880
Speaker 5: And I've been told that that was part of it,

1087
00:48:53,000 --> 00:48:55,479
Speaker 5: and I have been told that that. I've been also

1088
00:48:55,560 --> 00:49:00,120
Speaker 5: been told that that was very iffy. So that to

1089
00:49:00,200 --> 00:49:01,920
Speaker 5: me is a big thing because if they could have

1090
00:49:01,960 --> 00:49:07,000
Speaker 5: gotten the Apple deal and had game sub licensed done linear,

1091
00:49:07,760 --> 00:49:10,319
Speaker 5: then it looks a little bit different than it does

1092
00:49:10,440 --> 00:49:13,759
Speaker 5: right now. I mean, Washington is I just look at

1093
00:49:13,800 --> 00:49:17,160
Speaker 5: the big picture, It's gonna be hard and at the

1094
00:49:17,320 --> 00:49:20,600
Speaker 5: half share of the media rights revenue is gonna be

1095
00:49:20,760 --> 00:49:23,920
Speaker 5: really hard for the Huskies. And I don't know that

1096
00:49:24,000 --> 00:49:26,080
Speaker 5: they're ever going to get to a full share because

1097
00:49:26,120 --> 00:49:28,080
Speaker 5: I think in the next contract cycle for the Big

1098
00:49:28,200 --> 00:49:32,440
Speaker 5: Ten there's gonna be unequal revenue distribution, and so Washington

1099
00:49:32,480 --> 00:49:35,520
Speaker 5: could be playing from behind for a long time. Oregon's

1100
00:49:35,520 --> 00:49:37,600
Speaker 5: a little bit different because they got you know, they

1101
00:49:37,680 --> 00:49:41,799
Speaker 5: got Phil Knight. So I would love to be able

1102
00:49:41,880 --> 00:49:45,000
Speaker 5: to answer with one hundred percent clarity, but because of

1103
00:49:45,080 --> 00:49:47,759
Speaker 5: that linear, unknown, linear piece, I just don't know.

1104
00:49:48,400 --> 00:49:51,960
Speaker 4: Okay, Well, John, I'm sure with year three, big year

1105
00:49:52,040 --> 00:49:56,840
Speaker 4: for Jed Fish, returning quarterback, returning fantastic defense for the

1106
00:49:56,920 --> 00:49:59,120
Speaker 4: most part that they had last year. I'm sure that

1107
00:49:59,239 --> 00:50:01,600
Speaker 4: in your first four you had the Huskies in the

1108
00:50:01,719 --> 00:50:03,359
Speaker 4: top five of the Big Ten, right.

1109
00:50:03,320 --> 00:50:11,960
Speaker 1: John Adam seventh. Actually, you know, they need to prove

1110
00:50:12,040 --> 00:50:12,400
Speaker 1: to me that.

1111
00:50:12,480 --> 00:50:14,239
Speaker 5: They can beat the best teams in the Big Ten.

1112
00:50:16,800 --> 00:50:18,520
Speaker 5: That's that's what it comes down to. They got to

1113
00:50:18,520 --> 00:50:20,560
Speaker 5: be able to execute on offense against him, they got

1114
00:50:20,640 --> 00:50:22,280
Speaker 5: to be able to hold up at the line of scrimmage,

1115
00:50:22,440 --> 00:50:24,160
Speaker 5: and and they got to be able to stop them.

1116
00:50:24,719 --> 00:50:27,800
Speaker 5: And so it's more of a I need to see it,

1117
00:50:28,440 --> 00:50:31,840
Speaker 5: yeah before I believe it. Then I'm gonna take a

1118
00:50:32,160 --> 00:50:34,960
Speaker 5: take a leap of faith. I mean, just you think

1119
00:50:35,000 --> 00:50:38,520
Speaker 5: about the big you're starting off. Basically, you're behind Ohio State,

1120
00:50:38,560 --> 00:50:43,360
Speaker 5: you're behind Oregon, you're behind Indiana. Realistically, fourth is the

1121
00:50:43,440 --> 00:50:45,560
Speaker 5: best you can do. But then you've got to deal

1122
00:50:45,600 --> 00:50:49,040
Speaker 5: with Michigan and Penn State and USC.

1123
00:50:49,800 --> 00:50:50,320
Speaker 7: It's hard.

1124
00:50:50,520 --> 00:50:52,040
Speaker 5: There's a lot of really good teams.

1125
00:50:52,440 --> 00:50:54,640
Speaker 2: I mean, my gut says, you're just waiting for Jed

1126
00:50:54,719 --> 00:50:57,000
Speaker 2: Fish to show he can win a big game at Washington,

1127
00:50:57,160 --> 00:50:58,840
Speaker 2: and he hasn't done that yet, right, I mean, the

1128
00:50:58,840 --> 00:51:01,480
Speaker 2: biggest game is probably Illinois right last season.

1129
00:51:01,560 --> 00:51:03,440
Speaker 1: But guys, to be fair, he doesn't have to win

1130
00:51:03,480 --> 00:51:05,440
Speaker 1: a big game next year and they can still finish

1131
00:51:07,400 --> 00:51:10,200
Speaker 1: or ten and two, Dick, That's my point. I was

1132
00:51:10,280 --> 00:51:11,200
Speaker 1: gonna follow this up.

1133
00:51:11,480 --> 00:51:16,080
Speaker 2: Their schedule John Wazoo, Utah State Eastern, then they host Minnesota,

1134
00:51:16,320 --> 00:51:19,720
Speaker 2: then they go to USC home against Iowa, at Purdue,

1135
00:51:19,840 --> 00:51:23,120
Speaker 2: at Nebraska, Penn State's here, Michigan State.

1136
00:51:23,000 --> 00:51:24,600
Speaker 1: There, and then Indiana Oregon.

1137
00:51:25,040 --> 00:51:28,680
Speaker 2: Even if he doesn't win technically a big time game

1138
00:51:28,760 --> 00:51:32,160
Speaker 2: against a top fifteen, top ten team, could you still

1139
00:51:32,200 --> 00:51:34,279
Speaker 2: see him getting to nine or ten wins next year?

1140
00:51:34,320 --> 00:51:35,000
Speaker 1: With that schedule?

1141
00:51:35,960 --> 00:51:38,879
Speaker 5: I could see him getting to nine yeah, for sure. Yeah,

1142
00:51:38,960 --> 00:51:40,520
Speaker 5: but didn't they just get to nine.

1143
00:51:40,880 --> 00:51:43,000
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, with a top schedule.

1144
00:51:43,080 --> 00:51:45,520
Speaker 5: So if they get to nine with that non conference,

1145
00:51:45,560 --> 00:51:47,719
Speaker 5: let's assume they win the Apple Cup, so they're six

1146
00:51:47,840 --> 00:51:52,759
Speaker 5: and three again, And I mean, like that's probably a

1147
00:51:52,920 --> 00:51:55,960
Speaker 5: three way tie for fifth or a four way tie

1148
00:51:56,040 --> 00:51:58,600
Speaker 5: for six. Right. That's the thing when I put those

1149
00:51:59,200 --> 00:52:01,880
Speaker 5: that forecast down, like, there's no way it's going to

1150
00:52:01,920 --> 00:52:03,799
Speaker 5: be right, because there's going to be ties all over

1151
00:52:03,880 --> 00:52:06,480
Speaker 5: the place. And so when I look at Washington, put

1152
00:52:06,560 --> 00:52:09,160
Speaker 5: him seventh, to me, that means they could be in

1153
00:52:09,200 --> 00:52:10,319
Speaker 5: a three way tie for fifth.

1154
00:52:12,040 --> 00:52:16,480
Speaker 1: John back to basketball ties though, yeah, no, I understand.

1155
00:52:16,480 --> 00:52:19,160
Speaker 4: I mean, by the way, last year, I will say

1156
00:52:19,200 --> 00:52:22,120
Speaker 4: I was really surprised to see that you had Penn State,

1157
00:52:22,160 --> 00:52:24,600
Speaker 4: who was an unmitigated disaster and fired their.

1158
00:52:24,560 --> 00:52:27,800
Speaker 1: Coach ahead of Washington. I was very surprised to see that.

1159
00:52:28,800 --> 00:52:33,520
Speaker 5: The reason, well, I like to pick a few, uh

1160
00:52:34,600 --> 00:52:37,719
Speaker 5: you know, sleepers, because it never works to form right,

1161
00:52:37,840 --> 00:52:39,600
Speaker 5: So it's just a matter of whether you pick the

1162
00:52:39,719 --> 00:52:41,839
Speaker 5: right sleepers. So I thought Penn State. I think Matt

1163
00:52:41,880 --> 00:52:43,960
Speaker 5: Camp was a really good coach. They still they got

1164
00:52:44,000 --> 00:52:46,279
Speaker 5: good players coming over from Iowa State, and they still

1165
00:52:46,320 --> 00:52:48,640
Speaker 5: got some good players, but I could you know, I

1166
00:52:48,680 --> 00:52:50,759
Speaker 5: could totally be wrong about them, but it might be

1167
00:52:50,880 --> 00:52:52,520
Speaker 5: somebody else that we're not thinking about.

1168
00:52:53,880 --> 00:52:56,240
Speaker 4: John, back to basketball, do you agree with Bruce Pearl

1169
00:52:56,400 --> 00:53:00,759
Speaker 4: who says that if undefeated Miami o Ohio loses a

1170
00:53:00,880 --> 00:53:03,560
Speaker 4: game in the conference tournament, they should not go to

1171
00:53:03,600 --> 00:53:06,960
Speaker 4: the nc DOUBLEA Tournament despite being like thirty one and one.

1172
00:53:09,120 --> 00:53:12,319
Speaker 5: No, I think that if they let's say they get

1173
00:53:12,360 --> 00:53:14,440
Speaker 5: to the finals of the MAC and they lose in

1174
00:53:14,520 --> 00:53:16,960
Speaker 5: the championship game, I think they should be in the

1175
00:53:17,040 --> 00:53:22,239
Speaker 5: NAA's absolutely. Okay, Well, I do, and I think that

1176
00:53:22,360 --> 00:53:24,560
Speaker 5: it's that will be a very that will be a

1177
00:53:24,640 --> 00:53:28,920
Speaker 5: litmus test for the soul of the NCAA Tournament because

1178
00:53:29,080 --> 00:53:32,239
Speaker 5: those are the teams that you want to see in there,

1179
00:53:32,840 --> 00:53:35,919
Speaker 5: and you know, if they get knocked, if they're out

1180
00:53:36,120 --> 00:53:39,200
Speaker 5: and you got a nineteen and thirteen team from the

1181
00:53:39,280 --> 00:53:42,840
Speaker 5: Big ten or the SEC in there instead, that to me,

1182
00:53:42,960 --> 00:53:44,080
Speaker 5: that to me is disappointing.

1183
00:53:44,480 --> 00:53:47,320
Speaker 2: John, Where are we at with expansion with the NCUBAA tournament.

1184
00:53:48,680 --> 00:53:50,920
Speaker 2: Are we going to in our lifetime in the next

1185
00:53:50,960 --> 00:53:53,279
Speaker 2: maybe three or four years, see this thing like get

1186
00:53:53,360 --> 00:53:55,479
Speaker 2: ridiculous and be over like one hundred teams.

1187
00:53:56,880 --> 00:54:00,600
Speaker 5: No, it's I think they have to decide by April

1188
00:54:00,800 --> 00:54:05,120
Speaker 5: if they're gonna expand for next spring, and I think

1189
00:54:05,160 --> 00:54:10,120
Speaker 5: that they will, and they'll add they'll go to seventy six,

1190
00:54:10,320 --> 00:54:13,640
Speaker 5: I believe, is what the plan is. So adding eight teams,

1191
00:54:15,120 --> 00:54:16,919
Speaker 5: you know, there's gonna be a fight over money. There's

1192
00:54:16,920 --> 00:54:19,719
Speaker 5: gonna be a fight over exactly who those extra how

1193
00:54:19,800 --> 00:54:24,360
Speaker 5: they assign the bids between at large and and you know,

1194
00:54:24,600 --> 00:54:27,040
Speaker 5: conference champs, and are they gonna find a way to

1195
00:54:27,440 --> 00:54:30,680
Speaker 5: kind of push down the one bid the champions of

1196
00:54:30,719 --> 00:54:34,319
Speaker 5: the one big leagues into all the first first wark

1197
00:54:34,360 --> 00:54:37,160
Speaker 5: type games. But I would think that they will expand

1198
00:54:37,400 --> 00:54:40,919
Speaker 5: next spring to seventy six, and we will know within

1199
00:54:41,000 --> 00:54:42,319
Speaker 5: about six or eight weeks.

1200
00:54:42,400 --> 00:54:43,000
Speaker 1: Got it all, right?

1201
00:54:43,080 --> 00:54:43,200
Speaker 7: Man?

1202
00:54:43,480 --> 00:54:46,239
Speaker 2: Listen, great stuff. I hope the kid's okay down there.

1203
00:54:46,360 --> 00:54:48,160
Speaker 2: Give them a high five for us and we're talking

1204
00:54:48,200 --> 00:54:48,960
Speaker 2: a week, right man.

1205
00:54:49,880 --> 00:54:50,399
Speaker 1: That's Locke