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Speaker 2: Kjarf, you know we could spend a couple of minutes

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Speaker 2: here talking about what's going on at you Dub by

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Speaker 2: the way, because I know the Debtlift shrimp, not this week,

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Speaker 2: but next week when they come back home, is going

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Speaker 2: to have his number retired. I don't understand, to be

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Speaker 2: honest with you, what the hell took so long with

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Speaker 2: Debtlift and Christian Velp to get those numbers The guys

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Speaker 2: played forty years ago at U Dub forty literally Dick

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Speaker 2: years ago at Washington, Christian Velp died Debtlift's like in

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Speaker 2: his sixties now, for God's sakes, I don't know what

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Speaker 2: the hell took so long over there to get their

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Speaker 2: numbers retired. But good on you Dub forgetting it done

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Speaker 2: and getting those guys' numbers up in the rafters. So

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Speaker 2: we're gonna probably have debtlift on at some point, if

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Speaker 2: not this week, then next week, and I don't know, man,

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Speaker 2: I mean, it's just kind of turning into a little

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Speaker 2: bit of a well not a little bit, but a

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Speaker 2: big time disappointment for you, Dub. And remember sitting here,

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Speaker 2: you and I were talking about this over the offseason,

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Speaker 2: and I mean you had your thoughts on it. You thought, Hey,

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Speaker 2: they're going to be in a world of hurt early

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Speaker 2: on with this schedule, and then once they come out

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Speaker 2: of it, they should be able to make some hay

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Speaker 2: and they're not doing that right. I mean, they're five

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Speaker 2: and ten of the Big Ten. They had that run

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Speaker 2: early in the year where they were playing ranked team

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Speaker 2: after ranked team after ranked team, got a little bit

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Speaker 2: of a break starting with Oregon, after they played Nebraska

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Speaker 2: and Michigan State, and they're three and six in their

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Speaker 3: They haven't won any close league games. That's the thing.

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Speaker 4: Every close game they failed to close. They lost at

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Speaker 4: home to UCLA eighty two to eighty. They lost at

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Speaker 4: UCLA seventy seven to seventy three. They lost at home

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Speaker 4: to Penn State sixty three to sixty. I mean, just

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Speaker 4: take two of those games and change the outcome, right,

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Speaker 4: and you're looking much You're seven and eight in conference,

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Speaker 4: and you're like, hey, we got a legit shot.

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Speaker 3: They just have not made any inroads in those close games.

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Speaker 4: And the second thing is, I don't understand why Hannes

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Speaker 4: Steinbach doesn't get seventeen to twenty shots a game. Right,

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Speaker 4: This is by far your best player on the basketball team,

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Speaker 4: and in these losses he's getting. The Penn State game,

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Speaker 4: he had twelve shots.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, well the.

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Speaker 4: Entire game and then last game they won. Hey look

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Speaker 4: you got seventeen shots.

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Speaker 2: Penn State game was the bottom of the punch bowl

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Speaker 2: for me. I mean was that was a one in

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Speaker 2: twelve Big ten team that came in here from three

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Speaker 2: watch that game, I don't know if you saw that

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Speaker 2: game or not. They just look totally lifeless in that

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Speaker 2: game against Penn State. And I mean one of my

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Speaker 2: they were talking about all the new guys, and you

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Speaker 2: got conference players of the year coming over, you got

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Speaker 2: this guy, is that this account? Well all of them

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Speaker 2: want the basketball, every single one. So how does Danny

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Speaker 2: support role for this basketball team. And that might be

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Speaker 2: like what you're talking about, was Steinbach not getting the ball?

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Speaker 2: Do they want to give them the ball? Do the

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Speaker 2: they a bunch of dudes that just think they're the

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Speaker 2: all of a sudden they're being asked to take a

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Speaker 2: going to the NBA? Is Zoom Diallo coming back next year?

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Speaker 2: Is he going to How many of these guys will transfer?

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Speaker 2: Injuries is certainly a factor, and there's no question about

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Speaker 7: They can overcome it. They haven't done it yet. They haven't.

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Speaker 4: And I mean, just going back to Steinbach for a second,

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Speaker 7: From the four right right.

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Speaker 4: But you have two losses back to back, actually three

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Speaker 4: They're going zero for three just because everything needs to

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Speaker 4: start with him in the first because defenses have to

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Speaker 2: Well, my gun on Steinbach is probably the same gut

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Speaker 2: you had that he's gone. I mean, twenty pick in

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Speaker 2: the NBA Draft, He's going to be gone unless they

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Speaker 2: can dig up some nil money for him and make

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Speaker 2: it worth his while. There's a lot more guys staying

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Speaker 2: now in college basketball than ever before because they're getting

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Speaker 2: They got to dig up enough money take care of

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Speaker 2: money for the guy. I mean they just got they

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Speaker 2: got problems man over at dub with this basketball team

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Speaker 2: because it's just not working right. And I'm not saying that,

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Speaker 2: you know, Danny Sprinkle should be on the hot seat.

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Speaker 2: I mean, he took over a garbage dump from Mike Hopkins, right,

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Speaker 2: there's no doubt about that. But part of the issue

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Speaker 2: but man, it's got to start like now, Yeah, they

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Speaker 2: got almost win out Dick the rest of the way,

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Speaker 2: don't you think.

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Speaker 4: I think the only way to kind of get Seattle

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Speaker 4: have a class of local high school kids like we

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Speaker 3: And then maybe then the business leaders would be.

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Speaker 4: Like, Okay, here's a core. Here's the corp of guys

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Speaker 4: I've been watching the last three or four years. These

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Speaker 3: But you just don't know any of these kids, right.

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Speaker 4: Nobody in Seattle knows any of these guys or where

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Speaker 3: Know them, then the season's almost over.

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Speaker 2: Well, if you win out, you go ten and ten

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Speaker 2: that's saying something. I mean, there's no part of me

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Speaker 2: the way, But they're all winnable game right right, Well,

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Speaker 2: they've had winnable games and they've lost uts. Okay, so

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Speaker 2: if you went out, you go ten and ten, probably

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Speaker 2: But I don't know, man, It's just it's it's bother

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Speaker 2: is amazing, that's right, they're fifty two right now.

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Speaker 3: There are three is seven in the Big Ten.

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Speaker 7: That's how good the Big Ten is.

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Speaker 2: It's bothered some how Husky basketball has become such an

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Speaker 2: afterthought right now, right like this would be the week

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Speaker 2: for God's sakes, the top twenty five basketball team, and

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Speaker 2: they're fricking off. It's unbelievable. We're gonna break. Actually, you

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Speaker 2: know what, Jackson, how long is this next break? Keep

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Speaker 2: going short? Okay, because that, to me is what this

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Speaker 2: was it when when they beat Was it three when

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Speaker 2: Because earlier than that, I think it was the year

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Speaker 2: it feels like they haven't had a moment like that

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Speaker 4: February nineteenth, two thousand and four. It was twenty two

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Speaker 7: Which is nuts. What was the last big moment they had,

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Speaker 3: Going on over there.

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Speaker 7: We gotta get over there. That hasn't happened in forever.

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Speaker 2: So that's what really this town needs, is is they

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Speaker 2: and want to get out to heck at. I mean,

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Speaker 2: when when they get seven thousand people in the stands

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Speaker 2: for a game, that feels like a good night for them.

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Speaker 7: And it shouldn't be like that.

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Speaker 4: And and what's frustrating is like, there's no there's no

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Speaker 4: desire from my son, there's no desire from the kids

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Speaker 4: to be playing like some of them not my son

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Speaker 4: won't be playing college basketball, but some of these guys

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Speaker 4: will be playing college basketball in three years and they've

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Speaker 4: got no desire to go watch a game.

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Speaker 2: Who's your son's favorite college basketball team? Does he have one?

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Speaker 6: Not? Really?

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Speaker 7: You know, we know who it is, Jackson.

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Speaker 4: He doesn't really, he doesn't really have a favorite college BA.

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Speaker 4: You know he would rather Okay, you don't need to answer.

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Speaker 5: We know who it is.

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Speaker 3: Oh, I've got no problem teasing you.

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Speaker 4: If I thought it was true, I'd be happy volley

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Speaker 4: in that name out.

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Speaker 8: But uh, I think Dick is a good enough dad

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Speaker 8: to not inflict him with the Gonzaga fan.

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Speaker 4: He loves basketball, but he'd rather watch the NBA on

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Speaker 4: a Wednesday night. You'd rather watch Lebron play than he

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Speaker 2: College Oh my god, I saw you and your son

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Speaker 2: All right, we're gonna break Chris Daniels. What did Adam

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Speaker 10: We will make decisions in twenty twenty six. I think

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Speaker 2: All Right, Adam Silver says, I don't want to tease anybody,

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Speaker 2: President's Day Monday. Kevin Martinez Sports are ECU to be

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Speaker 7: Right now, though, a guy that covers the.

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Speaker 7: Chris, how are you man?

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Speaker 5: Good? Welcome back from the Super Bowl?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well you as well. You worked your ass offs

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Speaker 5: Well, as we talked about before, guys, Adam Silver watches

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Speaker 4: He says, I don't want to tease cities. There are

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Speaker 5: Well, I think he's following the process. But I think

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Speaker 5: this has dragged out for quite a long time. In fact,

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Speaker 4: a bad spot as the narrative suggests.

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Speaker 5: Well, I think it's depending on how you want to

440
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Speaker 5: look at it. Right. I think there's a lot of

441
00:21:06,680 --> 00:21:09,639
Speaker 5: discussion over the weekend about the NBA All Star Game,

442
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Speaker 5: and there are some empty seeds down in Los Angeles,

443
00:21:13,000 --> 00:21:16,359
Speaker 5: and therefore it's not working anymore. They should cancel the event.

444
00:21:16,400 --> 00:21:18,520
Speaker 5: And then you see the ratings were the best they've

445
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Speaker 5: been in years. I think having silver does have issues

446
00:21:23,200 --> 00:21:28,800
Speaker 5: involving tanking and gambling, and how gambling could impact the sport,

447
00:21:28,920 --> 00:21:33,160
Speaker 5: and whether the NBA needs to do more in working

448
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Speaker 5: with the companies that promote this on your apps in

449
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Speaker 5: some states where it's legal to do that. I think

450
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Speaker 5: those are existential challenges for the NBA, as well as

451
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Speaker 5: just the changing marketplace of TV and digital rights.

452
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Speaker 7: Well, let me ask you this, Chris before you go.

453
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Speaker 7: I got one more.

454
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Speaker 6: So.

455
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Speaker 2: I think I've asked you this question before, and I

456
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Speaker 2: think I may have asked you this question like every

457
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Speaker 2: year for the last two or three years. If I'm

458
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Speaker 2: going to schedule some vacation time over the summer, when

459
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Speaker 2: would I be in town? When should I plan on

460
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Speaker 2: being on the air and available in case an announcement

461
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Speaker 2: does come down that we're getting a basketball team back.

462
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Speaker 5: Well, I think July is the earliest that it would

463
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Speaker 5: potentially happen, with the Board of Governors meeting down in

464
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Speaker 5: Las Vegas, although we've seen the NBA operate differently before

465
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Speaker 5: with different committees and you know that could be part

466
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Speaker 5: of this whole equation and an ownership committee to study

467
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Speaker 5: expansion and another meeting there. But I think the earliest

468
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Speaker 5: you're talking about any sort of vote would be July,

469
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Speaker 5: and more likely towards the fall, before the start of

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Speaker 5: the next NBA season in September.

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Speaker 4: So finally from me, Chris, we appreciate you joining us.

472
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Speaker 4: So it looks like March they'll decide yes or no

473
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Speaker 4: on expansion. We'll get that, and then July they'll decide

474
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Speaker 4: on who is going to expand And will it come

475
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Speaker 4: out on I mean, will this be a Sham's bomb

476
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Speaker 4: that we'll read on Twitter. Will this be all under

477
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Speaker 4: you know, closed door until Adam Silver takes you know,

478
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Speaker 4: takes the podium.

479
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Speaker 3: How do you think it all plays out?

480
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Speaker 5: Yeah, there could be a Psalam's bomb in there somewhere.

481
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Speaker 5: But I think that Adam silver It has worked long

482
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Speaker 5: enough on this issue, you know, again starting in twenty twenty,

483
00:23:13,880 --> 00:23:17,000
Speaker 5: he suggested that here we are six years later, that

484
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Speaker 5: he wants to make this a big deal if in

485
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Speaker 5: fact they do move forward. I would also point out

486
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Speaker 5: that one of the things he said on Saturday was

487
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Speaker 5: that it may not be a two team expansion, doesn't

488
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Speaker 5: necessarily have to be a two team expansion. Maybe there's

489
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Speaker 5: a scenario where it's won r and Seattle's in a

490
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Speaker 5: better position to do that than Las Vegas right now,

491
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Speaker 5: was still arena issues to be worked out there. We

492
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Speaker 5: know the NBA is interested in Vegas, but potentially this

493
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Speaker 5: is something that they stagger out knowing that Seattle is

494
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Speaker 5: ready and that Vegas may still be a couple of

495
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Speaker 5: years out.

496
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Speaker 2: Well, I lied, I got one more when they do

497
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Speaker 2: meet and talk about this, christ and again Chris Daniels

498
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Speaker 2: COMO TV with us. You know, there's been some owners,

499
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Speaker 2: including the guy that owns the Knicks, that we know

500
00:24:00,440 --> 00:24:02,719
Speaker 2: are kind of against this. I mean, he's been public,

501
00:24:02,760 --> 00:24:05,399
Speaker 2: Dolan has in his criticism and doesn't really want to

502
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Speaker 2: see this happen. So we know there's at least one

503
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Speaker 2: guy that's against it. If they do vote on this

504
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Speaker 2: in July. I mean, do you feel like this is

505
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Speaker 2: a foregone conclusion the NBA will say yes to us.

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Speaker 5: I don't think Silver moves forward unless he thinks he

507
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Speaker 5: has the support to do this. It's part of the

508
00:24:23,880 --> 00:24:28,920
Speaker 5: old David Stern playbook. You don't necessarily want to leave

509
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Speaker 5: a meeting with a key vote without close to a

510
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Speaker 5: unanimous decision. We all know what happened with the vote

511
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Speaker 5: back in two thousand and eight, and there are only

512
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Speaker 5: two no votes. It was a little bit closer in

513
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Speaker 5: twenty thirteen with the King's decision. But Silver doesn't want

514
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Speaker 5: to move forward and then have egg on his face

515
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Speaker 5: with ownership not approving this. So I think that if

516
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Speaker 5: they get to a point where he says in March

517
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Speaker 5: we're opening up for an expansion process, that they're going

518
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Speaker 5: to move forward with this and likely have a vote

519
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Speaker 5: right by September the latest.

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Speaker 2: Gotcha, that's great news then, right. I mean, if they

521
00:25:04,640 --> 00:25:06,200
Speaker 2: say we're going to vote on this, then we can

522
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Speaker 2: all maybe start to get in position at least to

523
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Speaker 2: make it happen. So all right, buddy, Hey, keep up

524
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Speaker 2: the great work and we'll talk soon.

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Speaker 5: Man. Thank you, thanks, Chris, you bet.

526
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Speaker 7: Christianiels with us on the air.

527
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Speaker 2: I mean, I guess that really is kind of my

528
00:25:19,840 --> 00:25:22,879
Speaker 2: feeling as well as his dick, that if they go

529
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Speaker 2: to vote on this, I can't imagine them voting to

530
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Speaker 2: say no. Although they did vote to keep the Kings

531
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Speaker 2: in Sacramento. Right when Chris Hansen wanted to buy him

532
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Speaker 2: and move them to Seattle.

533
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Speaker 7: They said no to him. Weren't they in Dallas or

534
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Speaker 7: something like that when they had to vote down there

535
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Speaker 7: or whatever.

536
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Speaker 4: I remember video coming out of Dallas push from Kevin

537
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Speaker 4: Johnson on the other side.

538
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Speaker 2: Well, of course there's going to be pushed on the

539
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Speaker 2: other side. The guy's the mayor of Sacramento. I mean,

540
00:25:45,600 --> 00:25:47,399
Speaker 2: there was push from our idiot mayor too, and he

541
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Speaker 2: couldn't get the job done. If they're not going to

542
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Speaker 2: a vote unless they're ready to say yes, because this

543
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Speaker 2: is this is a scenario where they would then literally

544
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Speaker 2: have to say I'm sorry, we voted and we said

545
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Speaker 2: no a second time in the last fifteen year, fourteen

546
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Speaker 2: years whatever it was twenty twelve right to Seattle when

547
00:26:06,920 --> 00:26:09,320
Speaker 2: he bought the Sacramento Kings. And I'm just telling you

548
00:26:09,400 --> 00:26:11,360
Speaker 2: right now, I think it's going to pass. I think

549
00:26:11,400 --> 00:26:13,800
Speaker 2: they're going to vote for expansion. But if they come

550
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Speaker 2: back and they say no, I'm kind of out at

551
00:26:16,560 --> 00:26:16,920
Speaker 2: that point.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, No, I'm kind of out. I think that's fair,

553
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Speaker 3: and I think I think we're going to find out

554
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Speaker 3: in March. I mean if they if.

555
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Speaker 7: They go forward, great, if they go forward to this mark.

556
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Speaker 4: Yeah, the I think the icing on the cake is July. Right,

557
00:26:31,040 --> 00:26:34,159
Speaker 4: the cake itself is March. If we come out, if

558
00:26:34,160 --> 00:26:37,600
Speaker 4: there's a Sham's bomb next month that says the NBA

559
00:26:37,800 --> 00:26:42,399
Speaker 4: has decided to go forward with expansion, that's the cake.

560
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Speaker 2: You were to vote for expansion, the expansion conversation, whatever act.

561
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Speaker 4: I mean, that's that's the cake itself. Man, we're we

562
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Speaker 4: are down the road now. I agree with that, and

563
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Speaker 4: I agree with what Chris just said. I would be

564
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Speaker 4: pretty surprised because that would be if Chris is right Jackson,

565
00:26:58,040 --> 00:27:00,560
Speaker 4: that this is a legacy deal for Adam, So he

566
00:27:00,600 --> 00:27:02,800
Speaker 4: would then think of that as a failure, that he

567
00:27:02,920 --> 00:27:04,760
Speaker 4: let this thing go to the owners and they told

568
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Speaker 4: him to take a hike.

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Speaker 6: Right.

570
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Speaker 8: I'm just saying, like, I don't want to count any

571
00:27:09,280 --> 00:27:11,920
Speaker 8: chickens before they agree with that, and yes, the elements

572
00:27:11,920 --> 00:27:15,240
Speaker 8: of these owners are all absolutely out for themselves, and

573
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Speaker 8: I'll have various motivations that we don't even know, and

574
00:27:19,400 --> 00:27:21,680
Speaker 8: you never know if something pops up in two months

575
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Speaker 8: that could sway somebody one way or another. I'm just

576
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Speaker 8: not I'm not going to and listen, Dick, I've been

577
00:27:27,320 --> 00:27:29,720
Speaker 8: on your side for most of this thing, but we

578
00:27:29,840 --> 00:27:32,800
Speaker 8: are so close now that the difference for me of

579
00:27:33,280 --> 00:27:35,800
Speaker 8: celebrating in March for celebrating in July is nothing worse.

580
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Speaker 7: So I'm gonna celebrate anything.

581
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Speaker 2: I think that's fair if they want, if they want

582
00:27:40,119 --> 00:27:43,680
Speaker 2: Seattle to stay on board with the NBA, my recommendation

583
00:27:43,800 --> 00:27:46,359
Speaker 2: to them is if you're not gonna say yes, then.

584
00:27:46,240 --> 00:27:47,640
Speaker 7: Don't even bother going to a vote.

585
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Speaker 2: Yes, just tell us in March back we're not doing

586
00:27:49,800 --> 00:27:51,760
Speaker 2: it right because you're going to piss off a lot

587
00:27:51,760 --> 00:27:54,320
Speaker 2: of people. But you'll piss off more people by going

588
00:27:54,359 --> 00:27:56,439
Speaker 2: to a vote in July and having some you know

589
00:27:56,560 --> 00:27:58,520
Speaker 2: nit wit you know, came out of a conference room

590
00:27:58,560 --> 00:28:01,160
Speaker 2: and say sorry, yeah, no, But.

591
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Speaker 4: You're not saying that people would be pissed off if

592
00:28:03,520 --> 00:28:05,840
Speaker 4: they decide to go to a vote in March, right.

593
00:28:05,840 --> 00:28:08,560
Speaker 2: No, I think they'd be pissed off if they said

594
00:28:08,720 --> 00:28:12,600
Speaker 2: no to a vote or they said no during the vote.

595
00:28:12,800 --> 00:28:15,879
Speaker 2: If the answer is no, Seattle's going to give a

596
00:28:15,920 --> 00:28:19,600
Speaker 2: big fat middle finger to bascots in the NBA. And

597
00:28:19,640 --> 00:28:21,400
Speaker 2: by the way, I know what I would do if

598
00:28:21,440 --> 00:28:24,240
Speaker 2: I were an owner, I'd say no, I'd move a

599
00:28:24,280 --> 00:28:26,280
Speaker 2: team here, That's what I would do, he did say.

600
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Speaker 8: Adam Silver also said that that relocation is.

601
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Speaker 7: Not on the table today today.

602
00:28:31,160 --> 00:28:34,160
Speaker 2: But if it comes down to expansion or moving a team,

603
00:28:34,280 --> 00:28:36,960
Speaker 2: I'm moving a team. There's too many teams around the

604
00:28:37,040 --> 00:28:40,640
Speaker 2: league that can't draw squat and fans don't care. Like

605
00:28:40,720 --> 00:28:41,600
Speaker 2: New Orleans by.

606
00:28:41,640 --> 00:28:43,960
Speaker 3: Those teams are still making money handle.

607
00:28:44,480 --> 00:28:47,320
Speaker 2: But they could be making way more money though, way

608
00:28:47,360 --> 00:28:49,960
Speaker 2: more money. And Jackson, I understand what Adam Silver just said.

609
00:28:49,960 --> 00:28:53,480
Speaker 2: I'm just sharing my opinion. If I'm an owner, That's

610
00:28:53,520 --> 00:28:56,160
Speaker 2: what I'm saying. I'm saying, Adam, why are we voting

611
00:28:56,720 --> 00:28:59,960
Speaker 2: to split up this pie two more pieces when they're

612
00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:03,240
Speaker 2: there's three rotten pieces to begin with, that neither.

613
00:29:03,080 --> 00:29:05,480
Speaker 3: New because you're not getting the check in your well,

614
00:29:05,520 --> 00:29:06,000
Speaker 3: that's part of it.

615
00:29:06,040 --> 00:29:09,600
Speaker 4: You're not if you go expansion, you're getting a three

616
00:29:09,680 --> 00:29:12,880
Speaker 4: hundred and fifty million dollar check handed to you.

617
00:29:12,880 --> 00:29:14,000
Speaker 3: You're not getting.

618
00:29:14,080 --> 00:29:16,440
Speaker 2: Much of my losing by splitting up the pie though.

619
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Speaker 2: That's what nobody knows. I don't know the numbers, Dick.

620
00:29:19,360 --> 00:29:22,360
Speaker 2: Nobody knows the numbers. And if I'm an owner, that's

621
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Speaker 2: what I'm voting for. Whatever makes me more money is

622
00:29:24,880 --> 00:29:26,440
Speaker 2: what I'm voting for. This is why I'm scared, and

623
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Speaker 2: I don't want to chickens until July. If expansion makes

624
00:29:29,240 --> 00:29:31,760
Speaker 2: me more money, then let's expand. If keeping it the

625
00:29:31,800 --> 00:29:34,600
Speaker 2: way it is and then moving a team to Seattle

626
00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:38,360
Speaker 2: and keeping that pie slice makes me more money, that

627
00:29:38,440 --> 00:29:39,080
Speaker 2: I'm voting for.

628
00:29:39,120 --> 00:29:42,480
Speaker 7: That I don't know, man. I just see so many

629
00:29:42,560 --> 00:29:43,880
Speaker 7: freaking teams around the.

630
00:29:43,920 --> 00:29:47,440
Speaker 2: NBA that are struggling, and I would be really hesitant

631
00:29:47,520 --> 00:29:49,680
Speaker 2: if I were an NBA owner to do this before.

632
00:29:49,720 --> 00:29:52,520
Speaker 2: I've looked at all relocation options as well. Portlands want

633
00:29:52,600 --> 00:29:54,520
Speaker 2: them to and you know, look, I hear people say

634
00:29:54,520 --> 00:29:56,240
Speaker 2: things like and I don't want to do it another time.

635
00:29:56,280 --> 00:29:59,120
Speaker 7: What was screw that with that?

636
00:29:59,560 --> 00:30:02,719
Speaker 2: If that's the only way I'm getting a team, I'm sorry.

637
00:30:02,760 --> 00:30:06,040
Speaker 2: I'm breaking a five year old kid's heart. Call me immoral,

638
00:30:06,320 --> 00:30:09,040
Speaker 2: Call me a hypocrite. I don't give a crap. This

639
00:30:09,120 --> 00:30:11,480
Speaker 2: is all about what's best for us, not about what's

640
00:30:11,480 --> 00:30:13,920
Speaker 2: best for somebody else's town or fan base.

641
00:30:14,160 --> 00:30:14,440
Speaker 5: That's it.

642
00:30:14,640 --> 00:30:18,720
Speaker 4: But indeed these teams are making even the worst teams

643
00:30:19,320 --> 00:30:23,280
Speaker 4: are making eight percent, or the valuation is eight percent

644
00:30:23,520 --> 00:30:25,960
Speaker 4: more than next year than it was this year, even

645
00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:27,320
Speaker 4: the worst of the worst.

646
00:30:27,440 --> 00:30:29,480
Speaker 2: Well, then it's got to be about just again that

647
00:30:29,520 --> 00:30:31,640
Speaker 2: piece of the pie not being worth it, right, It's

648
00:30:31,800 --> 00:30:33,680
Speaker 2: it's worth it to cut it up one more slice.

649
00:30:34,440 --> 00:30:34,760
Speaker 7: Again.

650
00:30:34,920 --> 00:30:38,440
Speaker 2: Whatever makes them money is what they'll vote for. And

651
00:30:38,480 --> 00:30:40,479
Speaker 2: if this makes them money, then they'll do it.

652
00:30:40,640 --> 00:30:40,840
Speaker 5: Right.

653
00:30:40,960 --> 00:30:43,960
Speaker 2: But I just again, I don't know if the NBA

654
00:30:44,080 --> 00:30:48,000
Speaker 2: really cares about the fans feelings in Seattle and their

655
00:30:48,080 --> 00:30:51,200
Speaker 2: legacy in Seattle. Look, I mean, Chris, maybe right that

656
00:30:51,240 --> 00:30:53,760
Speaker 2: Adam Silver has got, you know, some kind of personal

657
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Speaker 2: legacy that he really, you know, wants to bring the

658
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Speaker 2: NBA back to Seattle. But I think in the end,

659
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Speaker 2: the legacy of every commissioner is told by how much

660
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662
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Speaker 7: That's that's their boss.

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Speaker 5: Right.

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Speaker 2: I think either way we're gonna know before the next

666
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667
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668
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Speaker 2: I did not watch one seconds of the NBA All

693
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Speaker 2: Star Game yesterday. I see four different scores of four

694
00:32:43,560 --> 00:32:46,320
Speaker 2: different games with like our final four round robin type.

695
00:32:46,400 --> 00:32:49,200
Speaker 4: Three round robin games and the best two teams play

696
00:32:49,240 --> 00:32:52,400
Speaker 4: and the Team Stars the Strip Stripes and world.

697
00:32:52,480 --> 00:32:52,960
Speaker 7: Is that right?

698
00:32:53,040 --> 00:32:56,360
Speaker 2: There were three teams going yesterday and Team Stars won

699
00:32:56,440 --> 00:32:59,240
Speaker 2: the final championship game to claim the title.

700
00:32:59,560 --> 00:33:01,600
Speaker 7: Forty twenty one guys.

701
00:33:01,640 --> 00:33:04,600
Speaker 2: I mean, my take on All Star games has kind

702
00:33:04,640 --> 00:33:06,080
Speaker 2: of gone the way of halftime shows.

703
00:33:06,120 --> 00:33:07,520
Speaker 7: I'm just kind of at a point now where I

704
00:33:07,520 --> 00:33:08,520
Speaker 7: don't really care anymore.

705
00:33:08,800 --> 00:33:10,520
Speaker 2: I mean, all Star games for me are kind of

706
00:33:10,520 --> 00:33:13,040
Speaker 2: like a think of my childhood that I used to love,

707
00:33:13,520 --> 00:33:16,960
Speaker 2: the Pro Bowl, the NBA All Star Game, the Major

708
00:33:17,040 --> 00:33:20,360
Speaker 2: League Baseball All Star Game. Every year I would tape

709
00:33:20,360 --> 00:33:23,280
Speaker 2: it on a VCR videotape and save it and watch

710
00:33:23,280 --> 00:33:26,600
Speaker 2: it down the road. And I literally had fifteen twenty

711
00:33:26,640 --> 00:33:30,000
Speaker 2: cassette tapes of games that I would tape and go

712
00:33:30,080 --> 00:33:31,800
Speaker 2: back and watch, and then they ended up in the

713
00:33:31,800 --> 00:33:34,320
Speaker 2: garbage or donated to a guy that I knew that

714
00:33:34,360 --> 00:33:36,960
Speaker 2: wanted to have him. So I'm not really into All

715
00:33:36,960 --> 00:33:39,240
Speaker 2: Star games anymore. I think most of them are kind

716
00:33:39,240 --> 00:33:41,960
Speaker 2: of boring. I know, I don't speak for everybody. I

717
00:33:41,960 --> 00:33:44,719
Speaker 2: don't know what the younger generation thinks. The eight nineteen

718
00:33:44,760 --> 00:33:47,440
Speaker 2: year old kids growing up now, they may love this stuff,

719
00:33:47,480 --> 00:33:52,000
Speaker 2: but I'm curious if most like middle aged men, which

720
00:33:52,040 --> 00:33:55,400
Speaker 2: I am now by the way, okay, middle aged guys

721
00:33:55,440 --> 00:33:57,600
Speaker 2: and gals out there, am I the only one that

722
00:33:57,640 --> 00:34:00,000
Speaker 2: looks at All Star games and just kind of like, eh,

723
00:34:00,080 --> 00:34:02,479
Speaker 2: whatever I can kind of I mean, gotta take him

724
00:34:02,520 --> 00:34:02,760
Speaker 2: or leave.

725
00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:06,120
Speaker 4: Somebody loves Somebody loves the NBA one because it did

726
00:34:06,240 --> 00:34:07,000
Speaker 4: very well yesterday.

727
00:34:07,000 --> 00:34:09,920
Speaker 2: We're talking about me, Okay, we're talking about my generation.

728
00:34:10,360 --> 00:34:13,120
Speaker 2: Of course, people like it. The younger generation I know

729
00:34:13,280 --> 00:34:16,520
Speaker 2: loves the NBA. I'm not debating that, Dick. What I'm

730
00:34:16,560 --> 00:34:19,960
Speaker 2: asking you is, people of my ilk, do they look

731
00:34:19,960 --> 00:34:22,640
Speaker 2: at these All Star games the same way as we

732
00:34:22,680 --> 00:34:25,279
Speaker 2: did as kids? Are we now kind of all moving on?

733
00:34:25,360 --> 00:34:27,239
Speaker 2: Like you're here the same age as me, what do

734
00:34:27,280 --> 00:34:28,440
Speaker 2: you think I think.

735
00:34:29,040 --> 00:34:31,880
Speaker 4: I think people our age have a problem with the

736
00:34:31,920 --> 00:34:33,520
Speaker 4: younger generation not trying.

737
00:34:34,360 --> 00:34:36,040
Speaker 3: I think that's what our generation has them.

738
00:34:36,080 --> 00:34:39,000
Speaker 7: So that's why I don't care, well, because I don't try.

739
00:34:39,360 --> 00:34:41,160
Speaker 4: Don't you think you'd care about the NBA All Star

740
00:34:41,200 --> 00:34:44,000
Speaker 4: Game if guys gave it their all and it was

741
00:34:44,040 --> 00:34:48,479
Speaker 4: an actually competitive basketball game with the best players on Earth.

742
00:34:48,520 --> 00:34:51,160
Speaker 2: I just don't really care anymore about games that don't matter.

743
00:34:52,239 --> 00:34:54,440
Speaker 2: I mean, it just doesn't do anything for me. So okay, well,

744
00:34:54,520 --> 00:34:57,000
Speaker 2: grown up. As a kid, I was infatuated by the

745
00:34:57,040 --> 00:35:00,560
Speaker 2: actual story of the star athlete, and I want to

746
00:35:00,600 --> 00:35:03,600
Speaker 2: just watch these guys play. Now, I'm like, eh, whatever, man,

747
00:35:03,840 --> 00:35:06,440
Speaker 2: I'm glad you put it that way, because that that

748
00:35:06,520 --> 00:35:07,160
Speaker 2: leads me to this.

749
00:35:07,200 --> 00:35:07,840
Speaker 7: Question for you.

750
00:35:08,160 --> 00:35:12,799
Speaker 3: So what games matter? Now? Is there a game in

751
00:35:12,880 --> 00:35:13,759
Speaker 3: Major League.

752
00:35:13,480 --> 00:35:17,880
Speaker 4: Baseball and in the NBA, yes, that matters between the

753
00:35:17,920 --> 00:35:20,840
Speaker 4: beginning of the season and two weeks before the playoffs.

754
00:35:20,360 --> 00:35:22,960
Speaker 7: Major League Baseball in the NBA that matter? Tell me?

755
00:35:23,360 --> 00:35:24,480
Speaker 7: Ask me again, I'm confused.

756
00:35:24,600 --> 00:35:27,399
Speaker 4: Is there a game that truly matters in a league

757
00:35:27,440 --> 00:35:29,160
Speaker 4: that plays one hundred and sixty two and one that

758
00:35:29,200 --> 00:35:31,839
Speaker 4: plays eighty two that actually matters until there's like two

759
00:35:31,880 --> 00:35:32,759
Speaker 4: weeks before.

760
00:35:32,480 --> 00:35:33,640
Speaker 7: The end of the regular argue season.

761
00:35:33,640 --> 00:35:36,439
Speaker 2: I don't really find myself caring about the NBA much

762
00:35:36,560 --> 00:35:40,319
Speaker 2: until the last week of the regular season and the playoffs, right,

763
00:35:40,640 --> 00:35:44,239
Speaker 2: because when half the league makes the playoffs, Why would

764
00:35:44,239 --> 00:35:47,919
Speaker 2: I bother watching much during the regular season when all

765
00:35:47,960 --> 00:35:52,560
Speaker 2: these guys are doing is resting their asses until April.

766
00:35:52,920 --> 00:35:55,040
Speaker 2: I mean, Lebron's already missed like twenty games.

767
00:35:55,239 --> 00:35:57,520
Speaker 4: Is it different, Well, he was legitimately hurt in the

768
00:35:57,560 --> 00:36:00,640
Speaker 4: first two months of the season, right, but you get play, yes.

769
00:36:00,840 --> 00:36:04,279
Speaker 4: But is baseball different though? I mean baseball players. I

770
00:36:04,280 --> 00:36:07,000
Speaker 4: mean it's just not as demanding to play a baseball

771
00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:07,359
Speaker 4: game as.

772
00:36:07,320 --> 00:36:09,880
Speaker 2: It is to play as I love having baseball games

773
00:36:09,920 --> 00:36:12,320
Speaker 2: on in the background. For me, it's just white noise,

774
00:36:12,719 --> 00:36:15,719
Speaker 2: especially in the spring or summer. I really enjoy having

775
00:36:15,719 --> 00:36:17,359
Speaker 2: an on and right now I kind of miss it,

776
00:36:17,400 --> 00:36:19,839
Speaker 2: Like I'm looking forward to Root Sports or not Root

777
00:36:19,920 --> 00:36:22,080
Speaker 2: but whatever channel they're going to be on. MLB TV

778
00:36:22,600 --> 00:36:24,959
Speaker 2: airing a bunch of Cactus League games. I love having

779
00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:28,719
Speaker 2: those games on TV. Preseason football doesn't mean much for me,

780
00:36:28,800 --> 00:36:30,960
Speaker 2: but baseball is kind of different, just for the nostalgia

781
00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:33,239
Speaker 2: I think that's a personal thing for me, But I

782
00:36:33,440 --> 00:36:37,919
Speaker 2: just again, there's probably reasons why, and maybe it's been

783
00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:41,040
Speaker 2: so long for me that I don't even care about

784
00:36:41,040 --> 00:36:42,040
Speaker 2: the reasons anymore.

785
00:36:42,160 --> 00:36:43,840
Speaker 7: I just don't. I think that's.

786
00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:47,360
Speaker 4: The reason that the NFL, the primary reason that the

787
00:36:47,480 --> 00:36:53,800
Speaker 4: NFL dominates is that each game is so important. One game,

788
00:36:54,160 --> 00:36:57,920
Speaker 4: one play of one game can be the determination between

789
00:36:57,960 --> 00:37:00,400
Speaker 4: whether the Seahawks are the one seed and go to

790
00:37:00,440 --> 00:37:03,440
Speaker 4: the super Bowl or the five seed and get bounce

791
00:37:03,520 --> 00:37:06,680
Speaker 4: in the first or second. That is not the case

792
00:37:06,680 --> 00:37:09,080
Speaker 4: in basketball or base play less games then make them

793
00:37:09,120 --> 00:37:09,720
Speaker 4: more important.

794
00:37:10,560 --> 00:37:12,800
Speaker 7: This real symbol for at least me and my group

795
00:37:12,840 --> 00:37:13,400
Speaker 7: of friends.

796
00:37:13,840 --> 00:37:16,279
Speaker 8: We care about All Star Games when we have a

797
00:37:16,440 --> 00:37:18,960
Speaker 8: stake in them. That means either it takes place in

798
00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:22,600
Speaker 8: Seattle or it has Seattle athlete athletes in them. Right,

799
00:37:22,800 --> 00:37:25,959
Speaker 8: we cared about the home run derby last year so much?

800
00:37:26,160 --> 00:37:27,560
Speaker 7: Why cal RAI total?

801
00:37:27,640 --> 00:37:29,839
Speaker 8: We care about All Star games and you have three

802
00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:32,440
Speaker 8: four Mariners in them because they have Mariners. We care

803
00:37:32,440 --> 00:37:34,560
Speaker 8: about MMB all Star Games when we have it in

804
00:37:34,600 --> 00:37:38,440
Speaker 8: our town. But when the Pro Bowl doesn't have anybody

805
00:37:38,440 --> 00:37:40,879
Speaker 8: from our team, no, nothing, don't care. I did I did,

806
00:37:40,960 --> 00:37:43,960
Speaker 8: I will say I watched the Pro Bowl the previous year,

807
00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:46,480
Speaker 8: not this are the previous year, because Devin Witherspoon was

808
00:37:46,480 --> 00:37:49,560
Speaker 8: playing the dodgeball and I was vested in Devin withers

809
00:37:49,560 --> 00:37:51,840
Speaker 8: Soon seems like a pretty darn good dodgeball player.

810
00:37:52,040 --> 00:37:53,120
Speaker 7: What see, how you would do?

811
00:37:53,239 --> 00:37:55,640
Speaker 2: I just don't feel like, like, for example, yesterday and

812
00:37:55,680 --> 00:37:57,200
Speaker 2: you said that you did not watch it live?

813
00:37:57,280 --> 00:37:57,640
Speaker 5: Is that right?

814
00:37:58,520 --> 00:37:58,879
Speaker 3: And I could?

815
00:37:59,000 --> 00:38:00,839
Speaker 2: I would have if I was, but I wasn't home.

816
00:38:00,880 --> 00:38:03,319
Speaker 2: I just don't feel like I'm missing anything if I

817
00:38:03,320 --> 00:38:04,000
Speaker 2: don't watch a lot.

818
00:38:04,080 --> 00:38:04,480
Speaker 3: I agree.

819
00:38:04,520 --> 00:38:06,279
Speaker 7: And when I was a kid, and maybe it's because

820
00:38:06,320 --> 00:38:08,120
Speaker 7: I was a kid, and it's.

821
00:38:07,880 --> 00:38:11,520
Speaker 2: Not fair to compare nine year old Softy to fifty

822
00:38:11,560 --> 00:38:14,840
Speaker 2: two year old David Maler. I get it right, But

823
00:38:14,960 --> 00:38:17,200
Speaker 2: we love football just as much more as we did

824
00:38:17,200 --> 00:38:19,040
Speaker 2: when we were taking But I couldn't give a crap

825
00:38:19,080 --> 00:38:21,479
Speaker 2: about the Pro Bowl games that were on last week

826
00:38:21,719 --> 00:38:24,480
Speaker 2: or the Tuesday before the Super I didn't give a damn.

827
00:38:24,880 --> 00:38:27,239
Speaker 2: We were out doing god knows what in San Francisco.

828
00:38:27,520 --> 00:38:29,680
Speaker 2: You think anybody asked the bartender to flip on a

829
00:38:29,719 --> 00:38:31,840
Speaker 2: TV so we can watch the Pro Bowl games. Not

830
00:38:32,000 --> 00:38:35,000
Speaker 2: one person did that at dinner I just don't care anymore,

831
00:38:35,320 --> 00:38:37,520
Speaker 2: and I don't know. I mean, obviously it's working for

832
00:38:37,600 --> 00:38:40,799
Speaker 2: somebody because they keep doing it. Right, we gotta break.

833
00:38:40,880 --> 00:38:44,439
Speaker 2: Kevin Martinez, President Business Ops for the MS joins next.

834
00:38:44,440 --> 00:38:47,840
Speaker 2: All right, President's Day means we got to have a

835
00:38:47,880 --> 00:38:49,520
Speaker 2: president right on the radio show.

836
00:38:49,480 --> 00:38:51,160
Speaker 7: We're gonna do things a little bit different this year.

837
00:38:51,200 --> 00:38:53,880
Speaker 2: We'll have some presidents hopefully joining us throughout the week

838
00:38:53,960 --> 00:38:57,000
Speaker 2: on the program. But first up, the first victim on

839
00:38:57,160 --> 00:39:01,279
Speaker 2: President's Week is the president of Business Operations for your

840
00:39:01,400 --> 00:39:05,600
Speaker 2: Seattle Mariners, long time Mariner employee, now the big boss

841
00:39:05,640 --> 00:39:09,160
Speaker 2: over there, Kevin Martinez joining us on the radio show

842
00:39:09,440 --> 00:39:11,960
Speaker 2: on this President's Day Monday, Kmart, How are you mad?

843
00:39:12,680 --> 00:39:16,560
Speaker 6: I'm doing great, SAFTI just got down to Peoria, Arizona

844
00:39:17,320 --> 00:39:22,279
Speaker 6: last night and bright and early today at camp and

845
00:39:22,960 --> 00:39:27,040
Speaker 6: it couldn't be better. Great, great atmosphere. So glad to

846
00:39:27,040 --> 00:39:28,839
Speaker 6: be down here, though I think I might have brought

847
00:39:28,880 --> 00:39:32,080
Speaker 6: some of the clouds and rain that Seattle typically has,

848
00:39:32,120 --> 00:39:34,040
Speaker 6: so hopefully we'll get out of the clouds and get

849
00:39:34,040 --> 00:39:34,919
Speaker 6: some sunshine going.

850
00:39:35,000 --> 00:39:37,279
Speaker 2: Well, that's fine, you guys can have the cloud and rain.

851
00:39:37,400 --> 00:39:39,920
Speaker 2: We'll take the Arizona sun up here as long as

852
00:39:39,960 --> 00:39:42,040
Speaker 2: you're down there and then and then we'll swap when

853
00:39:42,080 --> 00:39:44,359
Speaker 2: I go down to Arizona. That's fine. Well, there you go.

854
00:39:44,719 --> 00:39:47,399
Speaker 2: Why don't we Why don't we start off, Kevin by

855
00:39:47,600 --> 00:39:51,200
Speaker 2: just talking about the atmosphere around this franchise man Game

856
00:39:51,320 --> 00:39:55,120
Speaker 2: seven of the Alcs obviously a heartbreaker for all of us,

857
00:39:55,200 --> 00:39:59,600
Speaker 2: but this franchise saw some moments that we've frankly never

858
00:39:59,640 --> 00:40:02,839
Speaker 2: seen for as a fan base. How would you characterize

859
00:40:02,880 --> 00:40:05,640
Speaker 2: the state of the franchise on this President's Day show

860
00:40:05,680 --> 00:40:08,000
Speaker 2: as we are just about a month and a half

861
00:40:08,040 --> 00:40:09,439
Speaker 2: away from the season getting going.

862
00:40:10,200 --> 00:40:14,840
Speaker 6: Yeah, absolutely, the state of the union is very strong.

863
00:40:15,640 --> 00:40:18,440
Speaker 6: You know, as you might expect. We're counting down in

864
00:40:18,520 --> 00:40:22,239
Speaker 6: the days man to opening day and getting this thing

865
00:40:22,280 --> 00:40:26,040
Speaker 6: going because there's unfinished business. And just walking through the

866
00:40:26,080 --> 00:40:31,600
Speaker 6: halls this morning, Softie and bumping into the guys, you know,

867
00:40:31,640 --> 00:40:35,359
Speaker 6: they have the same the same feeling. And you've heard

868
00:40:35,360 --> 00:40:37,640
Speaker 6: me say it before, but I just love this group

869
00:40:37,719 --> 00:40:40,400
Speaker 6: of players that we have in the in the clubhouse.

870
00:40:40,640 --> 00:40:45,040
Speaker 6: And you know, the World Baseball Classic is this year

871
00:40:45,200 --> 00:40:47,480
Speaker 6: and that's going to be cranking up here in just

872
00:40:47,520 --> 00:40:51,560
Speaker 6: a bit. Players are reported down here earlier than normal.

873
00:40:52,760 --> 00:40:55,359
Speaker 6: You know, two of the three first people I saw

874
00:40:55,440 --> 00:40:59,759
Speaker 6: were Cal and Logan this morning, and you know, while

875
00:40:59,800 --> 00:41:02,320
Speaker 6: we're what can you say about tel incredible leader, just

876
00:41:02,360 --> 00:41:07,360
Speaker 6: an extraordinary player. Josh Nahler's down here hanging out with

877
00:41:07,520 --> 00:41:12,319
Speaker 6: Tucker the Dog. What an impact Josh had, you know,

878
00:41:12,400 --> 00:41:15,400
Speaker 6: both on and off the field. And Satie. You and

879
00:41:15,400 --> 00:41:17,840
Speaker 6: I've been in this market, you know, forever. You you

880
00:41:17,880 --> 00:41:20,160
Speaker 6: grew up in Seattle. I didn't, but we've been working

881
00:41:20,200 --> 00:41:23,439
Speaker 6: together for so long, and I don't know if we've

882
00:41:23,480 --> 00:41:28,600
Speaker 6: seen a player have such an impact and connection with

883
00:41:28,719 --> 00:41:32,680
Speaker 6: a fan base like Josh did last year. You know,

884
00:41:32,760 --> 00:41:35,120
Speaker 6: he showed up in the off season at our at

885
00:41:35,120 --> 00:41:37,600
Speaker 6: our fan fest, he was popping up at cracking games.

886
00:41:37,640 --> 00:41:41,880
Speaker 6: He's just immersed himself in the community. It's just incredibly

887
00:41:41,960 --> 00:41:45,400
Speaker 6: cool to watch. I haven't had a chance yet to

888
00:41:45,480 --> 00:41:49,480
Speaker 6: meet uh Brendan Donovan, but I'm looking forward to meeting him.

889
00:41:49,840 --> 00:41:53,400
Speaker 6: He was doing some of the the the video board

890
00:41:53,520 --> 00:41:57,560
Speaker 6: stuff with our team here and they're just raving about

891
00:41:58,640 --> 00:42:02,840
Speaker 6: what an incredible guy and personality and just a great teammates.

892
00:42:02,880 --> 00:42:05,439
Speaker 6: So I think he's going to sit in incredibly well

893
00:42:05,520 --> 00:42:10,840
Speaker 6: with this group of players, pitching staff, all healthy, all back.

894
00:42:12,040 --> 00:42:16,880
Speaker 6: Uh so yeah, I mean, we couldn't be more excited

895
00:42:17,000 --> 00:42:21,160
Speaker 6: to pick up the torch from the Seahawks and uh

896
00:42:21,320 --> 00:42:23,560
Speaker 6: and run with it and and and get to a

897
00:42:23,600 --> 00:42:27,239
Speaker 6: place that this franchise has never been. You're right, we were,

898
00:42:27,960 --> 00:42:30,200
Speaker 6: we were on the doorstep, but we didn't get there,

899
00:42:30,320 --> 00:42:34,239
Speaker 6: and there's there's this feeling of unfinished business. I spent

900
00:42:34,320 --> 00:42:38,360
Speaker 6: a lot of time this offseason with the skipper, Dan Wilson,

901
00:42:38,600 --> 00:42:42,239
Speaker 6: and uh, yeah, they that's that's the goal. The goal

902
00:42:42,320 --> 00:42:44,640
Speaker 6: is to get there and win it. And uh and

903
00:42:44,680 --> 00:42:47,400
Speaker 6: they believe, they all they believe to a person that

904
00:42:48,440 --> 00:42:51,040
Speaker 6: they're a really good team. And that's the expectation. And

905
00:42:51,400 --> 00:42:52,120
Speaker 6: you'd love to hear that.

906
00:42:52,640 --> 00:42:56,480
Speaker 2: Kevin Martinez again, president of business Operations for the EMS,

907
00:42:56,520 --> 00:42:59,120
Speaker 2: is with us on our president stay show and Kevin,

908
00:42:59,120 --> 00:43:01,640
Speaker 2: there's a lot going on obviously off to fill the

909
00:43:01,640 --> 00:43:05,080
Speaker 2: park this week or this week, this year, the fiftieth anniversary,

910
00:43:05,800 --> 00:43:08,480
Speaker 2: Randy's number retirement in May. We'll talk about all that

911
00:43:08,480 --> 00:43:11,399
Speaker 2: in a second, but the biggest change, obviously is how

912
00:43:11,480 --> 00:43:14,160
Speaker 2: fans will consume you guys on television.

913
00:43:14,960 --> 00:43:16,120
Speaker 7: Let's just talk about that.

914
00:43:16,160 --> 00:43:20,440
Speaker 2: What what do people need to know, especially old guys

915
00:43:20,560 --> 00:43:22,959
Speaker 2: like me, you know, fifty two years old, kind.

916
00:43:22,880 --> 00:43:23,800
Speaker 7: Of setting their ways.

917
00:43:24,280 --> 00:43:27,200
Speaker 2: I did make the change to Fubo, so I'm even

918
00:43:27,239 --> 00:43:30,040
Speaker 2: impressed by myself, you know, doing that. But let's talk

919
00:43:30,040 --> 00:43:32,120
Speaker 2: about what fans need to know about how things will

920
00:43:32,200 --> 00:43:34,080
Speaker 2: change this year from a viewing perspective.

921
00:43:35,080 --> 00:43:39,160
Speaker 6: Yeah, and the short answer, sofie is the same way

922
00:43:39,239 --> 00:43:41,520
Speaker 6: as they did last year. You'll be able to watch

923
00:43:41,520 --> 00:43:44,400
Speaker 6: on cable, You'll be able to watch on Fubo. So

924
00:43:44,440 --> 00:43:46,919
Speaker 6: if you've got Fubo, hang with it, right, you're good

925
00:43:47,160 --> 00:43:53,000
Speaker 6: Direct TV and games will be streams, you know. The landscape, Yeah,

926
00:43:53,040 --> 00:43:57,800
Speaker 6: the media landscape continues to evolve, and the regional sports

927
00:43:57,840 --> 00:44:02,400
Speaker 6: network model, which you know provided meaningful revenues for the

928
00:44:02,440 --> 00:44:06,840
Speaker 6: game for a long time, is essentially you know, collapsed.

929
00:44:06,840 --> 00:44:10,040
Speaker 6: And it was painful to see Roots Sports close its

930
00:44:10,120 --> 00:44:13,280
Speaker 6: doors last year. And on that point, you know, I'd

931
00:44:13,440 --> 00:44:17,160
Speaker 6: personally like to thank all the people who worked at

932
00:44:17,239 --> 00:44:19,840
Speaker 6: Root Sports for decades to make that network one of

933
00:44:19,840 --> 00:44:22,920
Speaker 6: the best regional sports networks you know, in the country.

934
00:44:24,120 --> 00:44:28,840
Speaker 6: But things have changed and you're seeing it now as

935
00:44:29,120 --> 00:44:32,839
Speaker 6: more and more teams are migrating over to what it's

936
00:44:32,880 --> 00:44:38,120
Speaker 6: called MLB Media and MLB is putting together the distribution deals,

937
00:44:38,560 --> 00:44:43,440
Speaker 6: the production for Major League clubs. I think we're up

938
00:44:43,480 --> 00:44:48,000
Speaker 6: to fifteen now clubs that are over there. You know,

939
00:44:48,120 --> 00:44:50,640
Speaker 6: our goal has always been, and we you know we

940
00:44:50,760 --> 00:44:54,120
Speaker 6: launched the streaming platform last year, is to make games

941
00:44:54,160 --> 00:44:57,239
Speaker 6: available to our fans the way they want to watch them.

942
00:44:57,719 --> 00:45:01,799
Speaker 6: So the streaming platform will now be on the it'll

943
00:45:01,840 --> 00:45:05,600
Speaker 6: be Mariners dot Tv, it'll be on the MLB platform

944
00:45:05,719 --> 00:45:09,600
Speaker 6: MLB dot com. You know that, and that that streaming

945
00:45:09,640 --> 00:45:13,200
Speaker 6: platform is one of the best streaming platforms that's out

946
00:45:13,200 --> 00:45:17,080
Speaker 6: there right in sports and entertainment. It's really slick, it's

947
00:45:17,160 --> 00:45:20,399
Speaker 6: really good. I think that experience if you're a fan

948
00:45:20,480 --> 00:45:24,680
Speaker 6: who likes to stream games, I think that experience is

949
00:45:25,160 --> 00:45:29,239
Speaker 6: going to be even better than it was last year.

950
00:45:29,400 --> 00:45:32,520
Speaker 6: But fans will be able to get the games exactly

951
00:45:33,080 --> 00:45:37,600
Speaker 6: the same way. Now. If you're a cable subscriber, there'll

952
00:45:37,600 --> 00:45:41,640
Speaker 6: be a channel where Mariners games exist, and it might

953
00:45:41,680 --> 00:45:45,319
Speaker 6: even be the same channel where Root Sports was. But

954
00:45:45,480 --> 00:45:48,480
Speaker 6: during the day you'll see a Mariner's logo on that

955
00:45:48,920 --> 00:45:52,080
Speaker 6: on that channel and it'll say game tonight, you know,

956
00:45:52,280 --> 00:45:56,360
Speaker 6: at pregame at six o'clock, and then at six o'clock boom,

957
00:45:56,400 --> 00:45:59,239
Speaker 6: it fires up, the open starts, and then the game

958
00:45:59,280 --> 00:46:02,000
Speaker 6: comes on. There'll be a replay of the game. There'll

959
00:46:02,000 --> 00:46:04,080
Speaker 6: be another replay of there'll be a post game show

960
00:46:04,360 --> 00:46:06,359
Speaker 6: right then the replay of the game, and I think

961
00:46:06,360 --> 00:46:08,239
Speaker 6: another replay of the game is how it goes, and

962
00:46:08,239 --> 00:46:12,120
Speaker 6: then it'll go back to the logo. So yeah, that's

963
00:46:12,160 --> 00:46:14,000
Speaker 6: that's the only different. That will be the same thing

964
00:46:14,080 --> 00:46:18,600
Speaker 6: on on Fubo and direct TV. However you want watched

965
00:46:18,600 --> 00:46:19,880
Speaker 6: it last year, you'll be able to watch it.

966
00:46:20,239 --> 00:46:20,520
Speaker 7: Got it?

967
00:46:20,560 --> 00:46:23,239
Speaker 2: So so let's but let's make this as more on

968
00:46:23,320 --> 00:46:26,440
Speaker 2: proof as possible, all right, mostly for my purposes. Okay,

969
00:46:26,800 --> 00:46:30,120
Speaker 2: so let's say I've got Comcast or I've got Fubo,

970
00:46:30,200 --> 00:46:33,279
Speaker 2: I've got direct TV, I've got whatever. How do I

971
00:46:33,400 --> 00:46:35,120
Speaker 2: pay for this? Do I have to log on to

972
00:46:35,200 --> 00:46:38,080
Speaker 2: the website and then pay for it? There is there

973
00:46:38,120 --> 00:46:40,560
Speaker 2: an app that comes up on like my Fubo camp

974
00:46:40,600 --> 00:46:42,839
Speaker 2: for example, How do I sign up for this thing?

975
00:46:44,239 --> 00:46:48,560
Speaker 6: Yeah? So it'll you'll you'll have the opportunity if you're

976
00:46:48,600 --> 00:46:52,560
Speaker 6: a cable subscriber. All right, you already have it, right

977
00:46:53,000 --> 00:46:55,680
Speaker 6: as long as you have the right package, got it

978
00:46:55,760 --> 00:46:58,920
Speaker 6: of you know where sports, It'll it'll just be there.

979
00:47:00,239 --> 00:47:03,080
Speaker 6: The same thing with Fubo. It will be very similar

980
00:47:03,120 --> 00:47:05,520
Speaker 6: to with Root Sports. You'll be you know, if you

981
00:47:05,640 --> 00:47:10,440
Speaker 6: paid for that tier of package, you'll get that. And

982
00:47:10,520 --> 00:47:13,200
Speaker 6: now if you want to subscribe to the streaming, you

983
00:47:13,280 --> 00:47:15,080
Speaker 6: have to go to Maners dot com. There's a button

984
00:47:15,080 --> 00:47:17,520
Speaker 6: there you can sign up and subscribe to it. And

985
00:47:17,560 --> 00:47:20,360
Speaker 6: then once we start playing ballgames, you'll see those.

986
00:47:20,320 --> 00:47:22,680
Speaker 2: Got it, So just go go into my Fubo account

987
00:47:22,680 --> 00:47:26,160
Speaker 2: for example Comcast account, log into there and then select

988
00:47:26,200 --> 00:47:29,279
Speaker 2: whatever package includes the Mariners for the season, and and

989
00:47:29,280 --> 00:47:31,879
Speaker 2: you're good to go. Great, well, Kevin Martinez with us.

990
00:47:31,880 --> 00:47:34,280
Speaker 2: And there's a lot happening, you know, off the field

991
00:47:34,280 --> 00:47:36,479
Speaker 2: in the park. I mean, Rady Johnson's getting his number

992
00:47:36,520 --> 00:47:38,800
Speaker 2: retired on the on the second of May. The fiftieth

993
00:47:38,840 --> 00:47:42,400
Speaker 2: anniversary celebration coming up August seventh to the ninth, we

994
00:47:42,520 --> 00:47:45,680
Speaker 2: got some statues being unveiled. Take a minute, Kmart and

995
00:47:45,719 --> 00:47:47,720
Speaker 2: tell people what's happening at the park this summer.

996
00:47:48,640 --> 00:47:51,919
Speaker 6: Well, I'll try to be brief because there's so much

997
00:47:51,960 --> 00:47:54,680
Speaker 6: going on this year. It's it's just great to see

998
00:47:54,719 --> 00:47:59,960
Speaker 6: it all coming together at the same time. It is

999
00:48:00,280 --> 00:48:03,280
Speaker 6: the fiftieth season, and we're gonna make that a season

1000
00:48:03,360 --> 00:48:06,919
Speaker 6: long celebration. We'll kick it off on opening night when

1001
00:48:06,920 --> 00:48:10,440
Speaker 6: we play the Guardians March twenty sixth, We're gonna unveil

1002
00:48:10,600 --> 00:48:14,960
Speaker 6: a new American League West Championship banner up in the rafters.

1003
00:48:15,880 --> 00:48:21,759
Speaker 6: We'll have a special retrospective of the first forty nine seasons,

1004
00:48:21,800 --> 00:48:24,359
Speaker 6: and man, the forty ninth season might have been one

1005
00:48:24,400 --> 00:48:27,680
Speaker 6: of the best, if not the best season in Mariners history.

1006
00:48:28,239 --> 00:48:31,239
Speaker 6: So we'll get the party started then, and then as

1007
00:48:31,280 --> 00:48:34,600
Speaker 6: we go through the year. In early April, April tenth,

1008
00:48:34,920 --> 00:48:38,480
Speaker 6: will unveil each e Ro statue outside of the ballpark.

1009
00:48:38,520 --> 00:48:41,600
Speaker 6: We'll have a special giveaway that night as well. In

1010
00:48:41,680 --> 00:48:45,640
Speaker 6: each euro statue giveaway, you mentioned the unit and I

1011
00:48:45,719 --> 00:48:47,600
Speaker 6: know this was near and dear to your heart and

1012
00:48:47,640 --> 00:48:50,880
Speaker 6: appreciate your passion for Randy over the years. But on

1013
00:48:50,960 --> 00:48:55,560
Speaker 6: May second, we're gonna retire Randy Johnson's number. It's so

1014
00:48:55,719 --> 00:48:59,640
Speaker 6: cool to have him back in the family and being

1015
00:48:59,680 --> 00:49:02,160
Speaker 6: a part of everything. Was so cool to see him

1016
00:49:02,239 --> 00:49:06,480
Speaker 6: last summer come out for each row and his number retirement,

1017
00:49:07,160 --> 00:49:09,680
Speaker 6: and this year it's it's Randy's turn. It's great to

1018
00:49:09,680 --> 00:49:12,840
Speaker 6: see the friendship that's developed between the each row and

1019
00:49:12,920 --> 00:49:17,280
Speaker 6: Randy just an incredible mutual respect. And then you mentioned

1020
00:49:17,320 --> 00:49:20,879
Speaker 6: the weekend in August, and if you've been a fan

1021
00:49:21,120 --> 00:49:24,880
Speaker 6: for five years or fifty years, or anywhere in between,

1022
00:49:25,520 --> 00:49:28,319
Speaker 6: Saturday August eighth is a day you're going to want

1023
00:49:28,320 --> 00:49:30,640
Speaker 6: to be at the ballpark. All right. We are going

1024
00:49:30,719 --> 00:49:36,200
Speaker 6: to assemble the fifty greatest Mariners to ever play for

1025
00:49:36,280 --> 00:49:40,960
Speaker 6: the organization and in a ceremony similar if you can remember,

1026
00:49:41,400 --> 00:49:44,080
Speaker 6: a number of years ago, MLB at the All Star

1027
00:49:44,200 --> 00:49:48,880
Speaker 6: Game did the All Century Team and they brought the

1028
00:49:49,400 --> 00:49:54,160
Speaker 6: best players who played the century of Major League Baseball.

1029
00:49:54,160 --> 00:49:58,160
Speaker 6: We're going to do very similar pregame extravagans around the

1030
00:49:58,200 --> 00:50:02,880
Speaker 6: fifty greatest Mariners. I've never had everybody, the best of

1031
00:50:02,960 --> 00:50:07,239
Speaker 6: the best assembled in one place as an organization. And

1032
00:50:07,320 --> 00:50:11,279
Speaker 6: the excitement around that just internally as we're planning it

1033
00:50:11,680 --> 00:50:16,400
Speaker 6: has everybody just jacked up. So Saturday August eighth, if

1034
00:50:16,440 --> 00:50:19,040
Speaker 6: you're a Mariners fan, I implore you to be there

1035
00:50:19,280 --> 00:50:22,120
Speaker 6: because it's going to be one of those one of

1036
00:50:22,120 --> 00:50:25,399
Speaker 6: those events that you'll talk about for a long time.

1037
00:50:25,600 --> 00:50:29,400
Speaker 6: And you mentioned the other statue SAFI on September third,

1038
00:50:30,560 --> 00:50:34,000
Speaker 6: inside the center field gate in a very interactive setting

1039
00:50:34,880 --> 00:50:39,560
Speaker 6: a statue of Mike Cameron, Mark Macklamore. And you'll remember

1040
00:50:39,680 --> 00:50:43,440
Speaker 6: that plingant moment in two thousand and one, right after

1041
00:50:43,480 --> 00:50:45,920
Speaker 6: the nine to eleven attacks, when the Mariners clinched the

1042
00:50:46,000 --> 00:50:50,680
Speaker 6: American League West, the team walked around the field in

1043
00:50:50,719 --> 00:50:55,600
Speaker 6: a very respectful manner with the American flag, celebrating clinching

1044
00:50:55,600 --> 00:51:00,880
Speaker 6: the division. That moment will be memorialized out center field

1045
00:51:01,800 --> 00:51:05,560
Speaker 6: with a statue of Cammi and Mack holding the American

1046
00:51:05,640 --> 00:51:10,239
Speaker 6: flag as we celebrate also the twenty fifth anniversary of

1047
00:51:10,280 --> 00:51:13,080
Speaker 6: those nine to eleven attacks, or remember I should say

1048
00:51:13,080 --> 00:51:17,520
Speaker 6: that the nine to eleven attacks, and remember all of

1049
00:51:17,560 --> 00:51:21,439
Speaker 6: those who lost their lives during this at the horrible day.

1050
00:51:21,640 --> 00:51:23,799
Speaker 2: No, I love, that's a great idea, man, And you know,

1051
00:51:23,960 --> 00:51:25,600
Speaker 2: just for a guy like me that grew up with this,

1052
00:51:25,760 --> 00:51:27,319
Speaker 2: you know, going to the Dome back in the day,

1053
00:51:27,360 --> 00:51:30,080
Speaker 2: we didn't have any retired jerseys and now we've got

1054
00:51:30,160 --> 00:51:33,400
Speaker 2: you know, the five of them, right with Griffy, Edgar, Ichi,

1055
00:51:33,600 --> 00:51:36,600
Speaker 2: Randy and of course Jackie Robinson. But Kevin, I'm wondering

1056
00:51:36,640 --> 00:51:38,359
Speaker 2: if there's going to be another one down the road.

1057
00:51:38,360 --> 00:51:40,080
Speaker 2: I mean, you guys have kind of always said that.

1058
00:51:40,239 --> 00:51:42,160
Speaker 2: You know, look, I mean it's got to be a

1059
00:51:42,200 --> 00:51:45,479
Speaker 2: Hall of Fame caliber level player. And we're talking about

1060
00:51:45,680 --> 00:51:48,920
Speaker 2: four Hall of Famers and each you wrote Edgar, Randy

1061
00:51:49,360 --> 00:51:50,000
Speaker 2: and Junior.

1062
00:51:50,239 --> 00:51:52,160
Speaker 7: You got a guy like Felix Hernandez who was.

1063
00:51:52,160 --> 00:51:54,879
Speaker 2: On the cuss potentially of making the Hall of Fame

1064
00:51:54,920 --> 00:51:58,840
Speaker 2: nobody's worn thirty four. I believe since him is Felix

1065
00:51:58,840 --> 00:52:01,759
Speaker 2: Hernandez a guy that could be up for consideration to

1066
00:52:01,840 --> 00:52:03,279
Speaker 2: have his number retired one day.

1067
00:52:04,520 --> 00:52:07,960
Speaker 6: Yeah, well, I mean Felix is one of the most

1068
00:52:08,040 --> 00:52:11,160
Speaker 6: beloved players and in my time with the organization, you know,

1069
00:52:11,200 --> 00:52:13,480
Speaker 6: I was talking about Josh Mayler in the connection he

1070
00:52:13,520 --> 00:52:18,480
Speaker 6: had with the fan base earlier. Felix's relationship with our

1071
00:52:18,560 --> 00:52:27,480
Speaker 6: fans is incredibly special and just the way Felix interacted,

1072
00:52:27,719 --> 00:52:32,160
Speaker 6: the way he treated our fans and it was it

1073
00:52:32,200 --> 00:52:39,520
Speaker 6: was really it's really elite. And seeing the surge in

1074
00:52:39,560 --> 00:52:42,879
Speaker 6: the Hall of Fame voting, I think Felix will will

1075
00:52:42,960 --> 00:52:47,480
Speaker 6: definitely be in that that conversation as we move forward

1076
00:52:47,560 --> 00:52:50,280
Speaker 6: in terms of putting a thirty four up on that wall.

1077
00:52:51,320 --> 00:52:54,920
Speaker 6: One of my personal favorites Felix Hernandez. There's no doubt,

1078
00:52:55,040 --> 00:53:00,000
Speaker 6: and just such an electric picture and dominant during his time.

1079
00:53:00,120 --> 00:53:04,839
Speaker 6: And he loves the city, he loves the organization, and

1080
00:53:05,719 --> 00:53:07,640
Speaker 6: it would you know, He's one of the most emotional

1081
00:53:07,880 --> 00:53:10,799
Speaker 6: guys that I've ever had the privilege to know, and

1082
00:53:10,840 --> 00:53:12,919
Speaker 6: I think it would mean the world to him as well,

1083
00:53:13,000 --> 00:53:13,399
Speaker 6: no doubt.

1084
00:53:13,480 --> 00:53:17,200
Speaker 2: Kevin Martinez with us on our President's Day Show, president

1085
00:53:17,280 --> 00:53:21,120
Speaker 2: of business Operations for the MS. You guys also announced

1086
00:53:21,160 --> 00:53:24,920
Speaker 2: you you'll be wearing jerseys on Sunday home games as

1087
00:53:24,960 --> 00:53:29,080
Speaker 2: a tribute to the Steelheads. Obviously, talk more about that

1088
00:53:29,160 --> 00:53:31,080
Speaker 2: a little bit, Kayak, kind of how you came to

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00:53:31,120 --> 00:53:34,279
Speaker 2: that decision. And then the City Connect jerseys that have

1090
00:53:34,400 --> 00:53:37,480
Speaker 2: become so popular with fans that you guys were on Friday.

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Speaker 2: I believe this is the third or fourth year that

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00:53:40,160 --> 00:53:44,920
Speaker 2: you've been doing that. Will those eventually change and if so, when.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, let's start with the Steelheads. You know, for a

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00:53:49,560 --> 00:53:57,239
Speaker 6: number of years we wore the Steelheads jerseys and Major

1095
00:53:57,320 --> 00:54:04,000
Speaker 6: League Baseball had changed its guidelines on uniforms a couple

1096
00:54:04,040 --> 00:54:08,440
Speaker 6: three years ago, and what Major League Baseball now says

1097
00:54:08,480 --> 00:54:13,200
Speaker 6: to all clubs is you can have four different uniforms

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00:54:13,280 --> 00:54:16,680
Speaker 6: plus a City Connect and as part of that, they

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00:54:16,760 --> 00:54:21,000
Speaker 6: said we are no longer doing one off tribute jerseys

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00:54:21,400 --> 00:54:27,760
Speaker 6: or special jerseys. So when we moved away from wearing

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00:54:28,480 --> 00:54:32,680
Speaker 6: the Steelheads jerseys, we had tremendous feedback from our fans

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00:54:32,680 --> 00:54:36,880
Speaker 6: Softy how much they really liked the jerseys and wanted

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00:54:36,960 --> 00:54:40,960
Speaker 6: us to wear them, you know, regularly, which we took

1104
00:54:40,960 --> 00:54:44,759
Speaker 6: that under consideration, and we also got feedback from our

1105
00:54:44,800 --> 00:54:49,280
Speaker 6: players how much they liked those jerseys. But we realized

1106
00:54:49,480 --> 00:54:52,840
Speaker 6: if we brought the Steelhead jersey back, we had to

1107
00:54:52,880 --> 00:54:58,040
Speaker 6: make it right one of the regular four jerseys. So

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00:54:58,120 --> 00:55:00,840
Speaker 6: something had to go away, right we the home whites,

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00:55:01,000 --> 00:55:03,839
Speaker 6: We have the Navy jerseys that we wear on the road,

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00:55:03,880 --> 00:55:06,839
Speaker 6: the Northwest Green jerseys that we wear on the road,

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00:55:07,040 --> 00:55:09,600
Speaker 6: and then we have the Sunday jerseys that were a

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00:55:09,640 --> 00:55:13,719
Speaker 6: nod to the old Mariner's colors, the Royal blue and gold. Well,

1113
00:55:14,160 --> 00:55:17,680
Speaker 6: because the Steelhead jersey is also kind of this cream jersey,

1114
00:55:17,719 --> 00:55:21,000
Speaker 6: it's an off white jersey, feels a little more nostalgic.

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00:55:22,280 --> 00:55:24,880
Speaker 6: The decision we made after a lot of conversation, was

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00:55:24,920 --> 00:55:30,400
Speaker 6: to replace what was the current Sunday jersey, which was

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00:55:30,400 --> 00:55:33,400
Speaker 6: a really great look in jersey. In my opinion uniform.

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00:55:33,440 --> 00:55:35,360
Speaker 6: It was just really sharp. It looked great in the

1119
00:55:35,440 --> 00:55:41,719
Speaker 6: day games, so much to the delight of the fan

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Speaker 6: feedback when we announced it during FanFest. You know, there

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00:55:45,640 --> 00:55:47,920
Speaker 6: were some fans who were sad to see the old

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00:55:47,920 --> 00:55:52,680
Speaker 6: Sundays go, but they're really excited about the Steelhead jerseys.

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Speaker 6: And Josh Naylor had never seen him. He was kind

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00:55:56,680 --> 00:56:00,200
Speaker 6: enough to unveil the jersey and come out for a

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00:56:00,239 --> 00:56:02,759
Speaker 6: quick photo shoot. He's like, this is one of the

1126
00:56:02,800 --> 00:56:05,880
Speaker 6: cleanest jerseys I've ever seen. This is so cool. He

1127
00:56:05,920 --> 00:56:09,040
Speaker 6: didn't know about the Seattle Steelheads, and they immersed themselves

1128
00:56:09,040 --> 00:56:10,880
Speaker 6: some sort of learning more and thought it was just

1129
00:56:11,320 --> 00:56:15,319
Speaker 6: a great story. So that is not though. Some other

1130
00:56:16,120 --> 00:56:18,880
Speaker 6: questions we got, Softie is that the New City Connect.

1131
00:56:19,080 --> 00:56:22,040
Speaker 6: It is not the New City Connect. The Steelheads will

1132
00:56:22,080 --> 00:56:25,759
Speaker 6: be part of those four uniforms that we're allowed to wear,

1133
00:56:25,920 --> 00:56:30,120
Speaker 6: the City Connect, the one that has the royal blue

1134
00:56:30,280 --> 00:56:33,920
Speaker 6: jersey with the Pilot's lettering in the black pants that

1135
00:56:33,960 --> 00:56:37,560
Speaker 6: comes back for this final year, and we are looking

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00:56:37,640 --> 00:56:41,160
Speaker 6: to introduce a new City Connect next year.

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00:56:41,200 --> 00:56:43,680
Speaker 7: Oh wow, okay, great, great well.

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00:56:44,040 --> 00:56:47,520
Speaker 2: Kevin Martinez again with us on our President's Day Show

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Speaker 2: from the Mariners and Kevin before you go, I'm just curious.

1140
00:56:50,880 --> 00:56:53,560
Speaker 2: We talked about the changes to how people will watch

1141
00:56:53,560 --> 00:56:57,120
Speaker 2: you guys on on cable, satellite, streaming, all that stuff

1142
00:56:57,160 --> 00:57:00,120
Speaker 2: with the new plans, But what about the new a

1143
00:57:00,200 --> 00:57:03,040
Speaker 2: BS system that's being put into place this year. I mean,

1144
00:57:03,080 --> 00:57:06,359
Speaker 2: people like me have come to appreciate and rely on

1145
00:57:06,400 --> 00:57:10,280
Speaker 2: the EQUC tracer right which used to be on Root Sports.

1146
00:57:10,360 --> 00:57:14,719
Speaker 2: With the new ABS system, well we still see that

1147
00:57:14,960 --> 00:57:17,840
Speaker 2: on the telecast. Will that betweak? What's the plan for that?

1148
00:57:18,760 --> 00:57:22,000
Speaker 6: Yeah? A great question, and it's a hot topic right now.

1149
00:57:22,280 --> 00:57:27,000
Speaker 6: And I really do think this ABS system is going

1150
00:57:27,040 --> 00:57:31,200
Speaker 6: to add a great element to the game, and in

1151
00:57:31,280 --> 00:57:35,880
Speaker 6: part I think it's really going to be a nice

1152
00:57:35,920 --> 00:57:39,240
Speaker 6: addition to the game. Like so many of the changes

1153
00:57:39,280 --> 00:57:42,479
Speaker 6: that MLB has has recently made, they've all improved the game.

1154
00:57:42,520 --> 00:57:46,240
Speaker 6: They sped up the game. If you're sitting at home, Softie,

1155
00:57:46,280 --> 00:57:49,320
Speaker 6: the way I understand it is you will still see

1156
00:57:49,480 --> 00:57:53,520
Speaker 6: I'll call it that the tracer box will still be

1157
00:57:53,640 --> 00:57:58,800
Speaker 6: on your screen when a pitch is thrown. In the past,

1158
00:57:59,080 --> 00:58:01,960
Speaker 6: the little circle that would appear on the screen to

1159
00:58:02,000 --> 00:58:05,000
Speaker 6: show the pitch location if it was a strike, it

1160
00:58:05,040 --> 00:58:07,560
Speaker 6: was a solid circle. If it was a ball, it

1161
00:58:07,640 --> 00:58:11,600
Speaker 6: was a hollow circle. Right now, all the circles will

1162
00:58:11,600 --> 00:58:12,480
Speaker 6: be hollowed.

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00:58:12,960 --> 00:58:14,320
Speaker 7: Okay, so.

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00:58:16,120 --> 00:58:19,200
Speaker 6: You know those edge pitches, you know, will be up

1165
00:58:19,240 --> 00:58:22,480
Speaker 6: to you at home to be the umpire wasn't a strike?

1166
00:58:22,720 --> 00:58:25,400
Speaker 6: Was it or not? And then you know you may

1167
00:58:25,440 --> 00:58:28,720
Speaker 6: see the pitcher, the batter, the catcher tap their head

1168
00:58:29,120 --> 00:58:32,680
Speaker 6: and there'll be a challenge. Now in the park, this

1169
00:58:32,720 --> 00:58:35,560
Speaker 6: is where it changes. If you go to the game

1170
00:58:36,440 --> 00:58:39,280
Speaker 6: and you're looking on a monitor in the park, in

1171
00:58:39,400 --> 00:58:43,920
Speaker 6: the park, softee, there will not be that that that

1172
00:58:43,920 --> 00:58:47,560
Speaker 6: that tracer box, that will be you know, they'll send

1173
00:58:47,640 --> 00:58:51,400
Speaker 6: a clean feed technical term clean feed to the monitors

1174
00:58:51,720 --> 00:58:56,240
Speaker 6: in the ballpark without those graphics. And so that way,

1175
00:58:56,360 --> 00:58:59,720
Speaker 6: there's no chance that you know, if I put you

1176
00:58:59,760 --> 00:59:02,240
Speaker 6: in the front row of the Diamond Club right in

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00:59:02,280 --> 00:59:04,800
Speaker 6: front of a monitor and we had that tracer on

1178
00:59:04,840 --> 00:59:07,120
Speaker 6: it and you saw that it was clearly a ball

1179
00:59:07,160 --> 00:59:09,240
Speaker 6: and called us right, you could yell, hey, you know

1180
00:59:09,320 --> 00:59:15,160
Speaker 6: cal challenging, right, we can't have that. So that that's

1181
00:59:15,480 --> 00:59:18,440
Speaker 6: that's the direction it's headed. You'll still see the tracer

1182
00:59:18,520 --> 00:59:21,760
Speaker 6: box on your screen at home. And you know, I

1183
00:59:21,840 --> 00:59:25,080
Speaker 6: think the only ones that will be difficult for you

1184
00:59:25,120 --> 00:59:29,240
Speaker 6: to discern, is those those ones on the edges.

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00:59:29,480 --> 00:59:30,200
Speaker 7: Got it good.

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00:59:30,640 --> 00:59:32,720
Speaker 2: Look, well, there's a lot of change going on, man.

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00:59:32,800 --> 00:59:34,280
Speaker 2: I you know, I'm not Kevin. I'm not a big

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00:59:34,400 --> 00:59:34,959
Speaker 2: change guy.

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Speaker 5: You know.

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00:59:35,280 --> 00:59:36,920
Speaker 2: I think I think most of the stuff has been

1191
00:59:37,000 --> 00:59:38,240
Speaker 2: beneficial for the game.

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00:59:39,520 --> 00:59:42,520
Speaker 6: And that's the thing. It happens, right. Yeah, they've they've

1193
00:59:42,560 --> 00:59:45,040
Speaker 6: been some tweaks and they've worked out pretty well. I

1194
00:59:45,040 --> 00:59:47,360
Speaker 6: think they've won a lot of research. Yeah, they really have.

1195
00:59:47,600 --> 00:59:50,360
Speaker 6: They've been testing this A B S system uh for

1196
00:59:50,440 --> 00:59:52,640
Speaker 6: a while and in the minor league parts, and they

1197
00:59:52,680 --> 00:59:55,280
Speaker 6: were not fast to to move it in the folks

1198
00:59:55,280 --> 00:59:56,920
Speaker 6: at MLB. And I give them a ton of credit

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Speaker 6: the way they went about it. And like I said,

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01:00:00,560 --> 01:00:02,280
Speaker 6: I'm excited. I'm excited to see it. I think he's

1201
01:00:02,320 --> 01:00:04,120
Speaker 6: going to have a fun funnel on the game game.

1202
01:00:04,040 --> 01:00:06,280
Speaker 2: A lot of change that for some reason, is all

1203
01:00:06,280 --> 01:00:08,840
Speaker 2: about appealing to the younger fan base. I think everything

1204
01:00:08,880 --> 01:00:11,240
Speaker 2: should be about me, So I'm not really caring about

1205
01:00:11,280 --> 01:00:12,160
Speaker 2: the younger fan base.

1206
01:00:12,240 --> 01:00:13,560
Speaker 7: We won for a year ago.

1207
01:00:13,680 --> 01:00:14,640
Speaker 5: Man, Yeah, forget it.

1208
01:00:14,920 --> 01:00:17,680
Speaker 2: I know, all right, Kevin, you're the man, great stuff.

1209
01:00:17,720 --> 01:00:20,160
Speaker 2: Thanks for doing this. Let's go get a world series

1210
01:00:20,200 --> 01:00:23,080
Speaker 2: this year and we'll see you soon. Man, appreciate it, Bud.

1211
01:00:23,760 --> 01:00:26,280
Speaker 6: Yeah, thanks for the time and look forward to seeing

1212
01:00:26,280 --> 01:00:28,760
Speaker 6: you down here in Arizona and then of course opening

1213
01:00:28,800 --> 01:00:30,600
Speaker 6: day March twenty sixth, Man, it's coming up.

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01:00:30,640 --> 01:00:31,240
Speaker 7: Quick love it.

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01:00:31,320 --> 01:00:34,600
Speaker 2: Kevin Martinez, President and Business Operations for the M's on

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01:00:34,640 --> 01:00:35,880
Speaker 2: our President Today Show,