May 9, 2025 • 36 mins
It's not to erly for MLB power rankings, but where does ESPN rank the Mariners... We hit the text line and read back messages from listeners, and catch up with Ian Furness as he shares what he has planned on his show.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, the Celtics minus five and a half tomorrow, so
uh yes, yes, yeah. How is Bell's Cookies? Anybody know
about Bell's Cookies? I was asking that because I, you know,
my mom said, you ever try this place?
Speaker 2 (00:14):
I'm like, how do you know about it?
Speaker 3 (00:15):
So I saw it on the news.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
It's a local place, and I'm like, all right, sixty
nine hundred East Clean East Green Lake Way, I'm coming
to you.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Bell's Cookies.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
It's gonna try those some'mores, those chocolate chip Yeah, gonna
get They even had like a Columbia cookie with a
flavored like in a rapa. And if you've ever had
an a rape uf you're down in Florida, especially in Miami.
Oh oh, not many things you're gonna love better. That's
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gonna taste better putting you in your mouth in one
of those. And I wish I don't know it. Do
they make a rap as anywhere around here? Because I
if there are, tell me the place that there are,
and I will go there, all right, tell me all right.
So ESPN did their MLB power rankings. Actually it's actually
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according to the Athletic. So the Athletic ranked the number
one team in baseball.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
The Dodgers. No problem with that, no issue.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
They are the defending World Series champions for a reason,
and they have been. They got off to another great start.
They are who we thought they were. Number two the
New York Mets. Juan Soto has not been good, but
Pete Alonzo and Francisco Lindor and Mark Vanos have been
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They've outperformed their expectations. And it's refreshing to see where
when you invest in a team. How about this, John Stanton,
You put money in a team and you actually end
up getting in return.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Wow, uh see how that works? Yeah, yeah, it's amazing.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Imagine if the Mariners had uh brought in Pete Alonso
for a season, how much better would they be?
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Right now?
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Just saying number three, San Diego Padres, they are fighting
neck and neck with the Dodgers in the an L West.
So Padres, I mean, listen, it's they've been consistent. They've
got bowguards and of course you know, like you look
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at this team. They have a good mix of veterans
with Manny Machado and then of course Fernando Tattoos, and
they continue to just get it done year in and
year out, and they're they're doing whatever they can to
compete with the Dodgers down that's so cow Pacific Highway
from San Diego.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Number four, how about this one?
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Not not a team that prior to the season beginning
you would have thought the Detroit.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Tigers hovey Baiez.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
I mean that's they moved in the center field and
it's just it's been unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
He's been amazing.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
So that's what they did, and it's turned out to
be great for a j Henchin company. Of course, they
got schoobl so he's the reigning sing Award winner. And
Detroit Pistons are on a roll. Lions made a run
in the playoffs and before they got hurt losing at
home the Commanders, and now the Tigers. Detroit Sports is
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on fire right now. Number five the Philadelphia Phillies. Yeah,
I say that with a question mark. Really yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
I don't know. I've watched him.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Not really that impressed or barely about five hundred. There's
nothing there that impresses me other than Bryce Harper. They
put Taiwan Walker in the bullpen. I just really, I
mean Zach Wheeler, I mean, he's obviously year and in,
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year out one of the best pitchers in baseball last year.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
I just haven't seen that greatness from the Phillies, So
that to me is ranking them and overrating them way
too high.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Number six. Could it be the Mariners? No, the Chicago
Cubs at number six.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
And here in lies the fact that, and I'll admit,
having lived most of my life on the East Coast,
whether it be the Northeast or the southeast, the East
Coast bias that I don't think a lot of people
have seen the Mariners yet.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
They don't know what's going on out here.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
They don't know the fact that the Mariners are eighteen
and six in their last twenty four and are tied
with the Yankees and on base percentage and second in
home runs and number one and come from behind victories
in the ninth inning. So no, the Chicago Cubs at
number six, all right, The Mariner's got to be at number.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Seven, right And.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
The San Francisco Giants, Yep, the Giants. So they got
three teams in the NL West, all ranked above the
MS Dodgers. Understandably, Padres don't have a problem with it,
and the Giants. Giants have got off to a great start,
though twenty two and fourteen. I just from top to bottom.
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I don't even look at the Mariners right now as
a finished product because Rayley and Roebliss are out, Kirby
and Gilbert are out, and this team hasn't even gotten
close to scratch the surface and how great they would be.
So then the Mariner's got to be at number eight. No, no,
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Now they got the Yankees in at number eight. Devin
Williams brutal start cost him the closers role. Jazz Chisholm
is on the IL. You know Paul gold Schmidt, Remember
I said that Mariners fans, if you're not going to
get Pete Alonzo, go after Paul gold Schmidt.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
He's at a bounce back season.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
And then finally number nine the Seattle Mariners moving up
to spots from last week. Logan Gilbert on the IL.
This team has been nothing short of remarkable. I mean
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they've been awesome all like, not all season, but in
the last twenty four games, this team is playing on
another level. They've won nine consecutive series. They're doing it
at the dish, at the plate, not just with the pitching.
Matter of fact, the pitching's been kind of meh overall,
except for Munoz, who's been the best closer in baseball,
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but starting pitching has not been great. Brash just came
off the il Gabe Speier has gotten his groove back,
which is nice to see. But the pitching overall, yeah,
other than Brian Wu, and Brian Wu got rupped up
the other day. Yeah, so mayors to me should be
higher on this list. I think the Mariners.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Are least a top five to sixteen.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
And you know what, at the end of the day,
who cares other than just continue to move on up.
Power rankings don't mean crap, right, They just don't. They
don't because all you gotta do is just keep winning
two out of three, which is what this team has
done every series since the Astros series since April ninth.
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Keep winning two out of three, maybe you can even
get a sweep. And look at where you are right
now at twenty two and fourteen underrated. Nobody's giving this
team any credit. And what can you say? Cal Raley,
he has been unbelievable, tied with Aaron Judge and Kyle
Schwarber for the MLB lead. Speaking of Kyle Schwarber and
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Aaron Judge, behind those two guys Randy Rose Arena for
on base percentage this season. So all in all, just
keep moving up and keep winning, and let it happen
this weekend against the Toronto Blue Jays.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
And please, and please.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Don't let the Blue Jay fans take over to Mobile Park.
I don't want them doing chance and singing Oh Canada
and all that stuff. Let's not make this Roger Sky
doome West. Let's not do that. Let's make this a
hostile environment. And please do not be selling any Blue
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Jays gear in the Mariner's flagship store other than the
hats which they carry all thirty teams, which I don't
have a problem with.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
That's fine.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
As long as you carry all thirty teams, then you're
not catering to an opposing teams fan base. I can't
bring this up enough. Do you think when the Yankees
go into Fenway Park they're selling their gear across Yakey
Way at the Red Sox gift shop.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
No.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Do you think when the Mets go to Yankee Stadium
for a Subway series which is coming up next week?
Do you think they're selling Mets gear at Yankee Stadium?
Speaker 3 (09:45):
No?
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Do they sell Oregon Ducks gear? At Husky Thedium when
they come to town to play U Dub No. So let's
not do that here now. Reportedly, according to our OWNI Infernes,
it only happened once. Other people on the text line
said no, no, no, no no, it's happened more than once,
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and it's happened with other teams as well. That Yankees
gear has been sold at the Mariners gift shop, the
flagship store when the Yankees come to town.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Please, let's not have that happen.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
It's just it's a bad look and it makes you
It makes you feel It makes you feel like your
team is inferior, that you can't sell enough merch, so
you have to sell the opposing team's gear. That should
never ever happen. The only thing that should be sold
is if there were Yankee sucks T shirts. Yankee suck
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T shirts. Those are okay. Blue Jay suck T shirts
those are fine, but not anything. I don't want Vlad
Guerrero junior jerseys being sold. I don't want Aaron Judge
or John Carlos Stanton jerseys or Garrett Cole jerseys being sold.
Don't make the opposing team feel comfortable in your stadium.
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It's supposed to be called home field advantage and have
a hostile environment for a reason. So I'll be there
Tuesday night. We broadcasting live from Jimmy's on First on
Wednesday for the Businessman Special coming up at one fifteen,
So looking forward to that, and I want to see
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I mean, Yankees pitching has been trashed this year, so
I mean the Mariners should be able to tee them
up when they come in. I'm not overlooking the Blue
Jays money stretch of the imagination, but that's the series
that everybody wants to see coming up Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.
And I would imagine that T Mobile Park, especially after
this another successful road trip in Texas and the one
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they just had against the A's, I would imagine that
we will have a sold out T Mobile Park this week,
this weekend and next week. I would imagine. I just
hope it's not overrun by Blue Jay fans. There's nothing
worse than that, you know, I mean, could you imagine
being a Chargers fan showing up when your team are
playing the Raiders and it's all silver and black in there,
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or when the Packers come in, or the Steelers or
the Chiefs or the Vikings or whatever. That's just horrible.
I remember Philip Rivers said something one time, and it
was when they were playing games in Anaheim, and he said,
I couldn't hear the play call because the Raider fans
were too loud, and he goes, it's sad for me
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to say that because I couldn't hear the plays being
called because it was so loud when the Raiders, when
we were on offense, I couldn't hear the play call.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
That's pathetic. That is not something that you want here.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
But of course you understand it because it's LA and
they don't have real sports fans in LA.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
They have real sports fans here in Seattle.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
So let's just support the Mariners and make sure you
don't getting drowned out. But I know there's gonna be
there's gonna be a smattering of Blue Jay fans there.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
There always are.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
They're gonna get into games, just like met fans will
get in a Yankee stadium and Yankee fans will go
in a city field. I understand that, and same thing
with Red Sox fans at Yankee Stadium and Yankee fans
at Fenway Park. But let's not have it be overtaken
this weekend. Right, It's just a bad look. It's just
a bad look, you know. And I know they're gonna
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play Oh Canada. That's fine because you're supposed to acknowledge,
you know, the attic, which my former co host told me,
that's what he calls Canada America's attic.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
So I get to all that.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
But just let's not go above and beyond and make
them feel like they're playing in the SkyDome.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
Okay, let's not do that. I don't want that.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
When I heard that, I was like, Softy texted me
the other day, I'm like, no, you gotta be kidding
me said no, No, it's it's bad.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
It's bad. So I don't want that at all.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Here's what I do want coming up next, your texts
for the what do you say? Texts of the day.
Give me something on Bell's Cookies. I'm sure some of
you have been there. It's in Seattle, so I want
to try that place today. Tell me about it. I'm
going over there. Tell me all about it for nine
four five one, and any other stories that you might
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know of of their mariners selling the opposing teams gear
at the t Mobile Park flagship store. Let me know
of that. What do you say? Text of the day
coming up next four nine four, five to one on
MJ in the Midday ninety three to three KJR FM.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
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Speaker 1 (15:03):
Okay, here we go four nine four or five to one,
free agent text line. You want to hear your texts
read in real time? Four nine four five one. Let's
do it all right, let's just see. Hey, enjoy the show. Mark,
But you just credited Randy Roseraina for leading the race
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to the twenty twenty World Series, but said you don't
count the Dodgers winning this series that year. Okay, the
Dodgers have an eight hundred and fifty million dollar payroll.
The Rays had about a thirty two million dollar payroll.
It was in an empty stadium with cardboard cutouts in
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a sterile environment, just like the Lakers were that year
at an empty gym in Orlando at the Wide World
of Disney. I don't count any of those titles, none
of them just because they weren't in hostile environments where
you had to win on the road. So yeah, I'm
just saying a Rose arena is he's a guide man.
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I'm telling you, if the Mariners are gonna make a
run to the playoffs and the division and maybe their
first ever pennant, you're gonna need Randy Rose Arena. That
dude is just a baseball player, seriously, and it's essence.
Not gonna win any batting titles, but he's a baseball player.
Speaker 5 (16:25):
From the two actually, from the two oh six. Talking cookies, Yeah,
best cookies I've found in Seattle are im Burian treat cookies.
They are highly addictive. Monthly rotating specials are where it's at.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
Treat cookies, all right, Bury and Burien. All right, all right,
I won't even got any bells here. That's what I'm
looking for. I mean, it's gonna be.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
I mean, this place is getting like national publicity and
it's it's a local joint.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
So you know, I want to just.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
So if they out from the two five three, if
they outlaw the rugby play in the NFL, which you
call it, does that mean that all the pushing and
pulling that gets done and wide receivers, running backs, etc.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Does that need to be outlawed? Also? Is that a
football play?
Speaker 1 (17:13):
You know what, I'm just concentrated on this one particular
all that other stuff. I mean, they outlawed the pick
play after John Harbaugh complained when the Patriots used it
in the twenty fourteen game that they beat the Ravens
in in Foxborough. So, you know what, I'm gonna all
that other stuff, that's a great question. I'm not Roger
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Goodell and I'm not Rich McKay. I'm not on the
competition committee. The one thing I do know, that garbage
rugby play. Get it the hell out of here.
Speaker 5 (17:42):
From the two five three. There's a large contingent of
Mariner fans up north in Vancouver. Why they change their
stripes and put on blue Jay jerseys for the weekend shows?
Are kind of fans? They really are losers L sevens.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
Or or fair Weather. Yeah I could throw fair Weather
there as well.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Yeah, that's that's funny. Hey, uh MJ. I didn't think
anybody else dislike Lebron more than me. You, my friend,
are the president of the I can't stand Lebron and
I wish you would go away club. Amen to that, sir.
That's from the two five three. This is from the
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eight four three. Holy kid, are you alive? I'm still here? Man, Yeah,
he's dude. This is only sports radio. Nobody is there's
no uh, it's all sports radio.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
Nobody's calling out. We're not doing open heart surgery.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Uh. Nobody's calling each other's h you know, significant others names.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
It's just all sports radio.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
That's it. At the end of the day, it's all love.
Nothing but love. Is the late great Heavy d once said,
all right from the two three. You're not winning this
one kid. Any NBA fan can name a hundred better
players to take that last shot, unless you're wearing lebron
tinted glasses. I mean, I I was even thinking about
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last night. I was going team by team. I'm like,
I could go over one hundred easy, all time, not current,
not current, I'm not going all time, and we were
gonna go to Vinnie the Microwave, Johnson and Joe Dumars
and Isaiah's Oh please we are all day, Rip Hamilton,
Johncey Billups.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
I mean that would indebt. I could go.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
I could probably get close to one hundred on the
Eastern Conference, well not.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
The Eastern Conference alone, but you get what I mean.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
All time though, Oh, Alex English, the fat Lever, I mean,
oh uh, what was his name, Mark Aguire, Adrian Dantley.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
I mean those dudes were like Iceman George Gervin. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Man, I'm putting my trust in those guys, like those
guys were ballers.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
I trust for a laptop.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Just talking a last shot, not saying they're better, just
saying a last shot clutch.
Speaker 5 (20:06):
Let's see from the two five three, Lebron has seven
game time or game winning shots in the final second
of playoff games, more than any player in the last
twenty six years.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Twenty six years. I have to look that up. He
could be right, not all time, but twenty six years.
So we're talking nineteen ninety nine, ninety eight, Jordan's end
of his prime. He didn't play the ninety nine season.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
He might be right. Oh is that playoff or or
it's playoff?
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Right?
Speaker 5 (20:37):
I didn't say, but I did respond to someone's text
and they said to Shay because Lebron does lead the
entire NBA in playoff winning shots currently currently, So in
my head, one hundred players are not doing that.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
So that that lets me I'm talking all the time,
to win the finals with one shot, just one shot,
That's what that's why, That's what I'm talking about.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
I mean, do you do you want the numbers of
this playoff go round? It was the last fourteen playoff game.
I'm just saying, if I made one shot, you'd probably
take me.
Speaker 5 (21:13):
That's how much.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
No, no, no, no, no, I I've just made one
playoffs shot.
Speaker 5 (21:16):
You would go, I'll take Kid over Lebron.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
I mean no, no, no.
Speaker 5 (21:19):
The sample size got to start somewhere?
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Is that? Is it?
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Like? All I know is this like like, here's my thing.
And the Lakers in the playoffs this season, with Lebron
on the court, they were minus forty one. With Lebron
off the court, they were plus eight.
Speaker 5 (21:32):
Does that have to do with his question?
Speaker 1 (21:34):
No?
Speaker 3 (21:34):
Okay, but do you want the numbers? I could give
you the numbers.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
The numbers he was, He was like, oh, in these playoffs, yeah,
I mean they they they lost, they lost five. Yeah,
I mean I gave you seventeen point nine percent all time.
Speaker 5 (21:45):
Yes, look up Fat Lever and everyone else you talked about, right,
I mean, to you they took.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Like five shots, nineteen for one oh seven. That's a verdict.
That's not an opinion. It's a set one hundred and
one shots. That is incredible. No, nineteen for one oh seven,
Oh excuse me, one hundred and seven. Ninety nine of
those players are not shooting that volume. They're not given
that opportunity. The guys are gonna name.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
But seventeen point eight percent is horrible.
Speaker 5 (22:08):
And I guarantee you all those guys you just named,
if you gave them one hundred and seven attempts, they
wouldn't do much better. Guarantee.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
Well, I'm not saying, I'm saying to win a shot
in the NBA finals, But Chris, seventy pointy percent, that's
an abortion.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
That's an abortion.
Speaker 5 (22:24):
Abortion, that's a great that's an abortion.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
I mean, if you can't admit that, then I can't
tar down. Well, okay, all good, were the biggest You
just keep flipping. No, I'm not flipping. I'm saying nineteen
for one oh seven, seventy point eight percent in clutch
shots and seven for twenty six and three pointers, that's
twenty six point nine percent. Then on top of it,
he is twenty of one point sixteen for seventeen percent
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field goal percentage in game winning or tying situations in
the fourth quarter of overtime. Those are all abortions. So
I could call him abortion. Matter of fact, that's gonna
be my new nickname for him in the clutch. Abortion.
I love that abortion. Seventeen point eight percent abortion. That's what,
By the way, I came up with a new one today.
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I love it abortion because that's what he is in
the clutch. He is an abortion, and I love it.
How about that. Let's just see here, agreed, American football
is soft. We don't want it to get more like rugby.
Rugby's not soft. I'm just saying that it's not. American
football is something that I mean, it should be on skill.
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It can't just be a bunch of fat guys pushing
a dude who can squat six.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
Hundred pounds a few inches. That's not football. It's not football. Oh,
I know.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
Don't even get me started on Robert oring glenor Gee
Muddy Glenn Rice. I mean, I we be here all day.
I mean Tim Hardaway, I mean, it's it's bro I
could go team by team. As a matter of fact,
I don't even want. I did it on the Jim
Rome Show, and I went through one hundred players and
I had people like, yeah, you forgot this guy, you forgot.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
We're talking all time.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
It's not Chris, You're like, I mean, I gotta look
up the statistics of to have a chick and Bob Cousy.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
No, you don't, because they were because they were unelievable.
They were better shooters than Lebron.
Speaker 5 (24:14):
Okay, that's all I'm fact.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
Yeah, I mean, like Coozie, I wanted to go to
Isiah Isaiah Thomas, not you dub the original one.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 5 (24:26):
Isaiah Thomas probably has like thirteen shots attempted. Lebron has
one hundred and seven. If the volume matches, they're not
They're shooting the same, if not worse. That's my point.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
All right, Well, I'm just saying I take Isaiah.
Speaker 5 (24:39):
Thomas in a game. When he said over Lebron anytime,
I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
Do you original Isiah Thomas?
Speaker 1 (24:43):
No? Okay, well then you didn't watch you didn't watch
him play though, I mean, he was retired before you
when you were born. Let me look up stats and Chris,
I watched him play. I've been watching I know, hold on,
I've been watching that longer than you've been alive. That
doesn't matter. We're talking about Lebron Jang, the gatest players
of all time.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
Chris seventeen point nine percent? What part what?
Speaker 1 (25:02):
What? What?
Speaker 3 (25:03):
What part of that?
Speaker 4 (25:04):
What?
Speaker 3 (25:04):
What part of that? Do you not? I'm just saying,
you pull your stand. He's a horrible shooter. He's a
lot a horrible shooter.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Now and the clutch scene is, Chris, you just admitted
he was, and now you're saying he's not.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
What is this like a oh my.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
God, I just said, Oh my god, you're just saying now.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
You're You just said he was, Now you're saying not.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
Text for me this nineteen for one oh seven seventeen
point eight percent, Chris, I mean I could talk to
her for nineteen for one oh seven seventy from the two.
Speaker 5 (25:31):
O six, This is lebron Is and Lebron clutch talk
has marked backpedaling faster than de row by the way.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
I listen, let me tell you something. I have facts here.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Nineteen for one oh seven seventeen point eight percent in
clutch shots, abortion seven of twenty six and three pointers
twenty six point nine percent. Abortion also twenty for one,
sixteen field goal percentage, seventeen percent in game winning or
time situations in the fourth quarter over time.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
That's a fact. It's a verdict.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
I can't talk if you don't understand basketball.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
I'm sorry. You've been watching it longer you've been alive. Bro.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
I mean, eat your crow, Eat your crow, Eat your crow.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
The cross talk with Ian Fornest next, eat your crow.
Speaker 5 (26:17):
Gott em.
Speaker 6 (26:27):
All right.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
A report has just come out.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
A sixteen team college football playoff bracket is getting support
in the Big Ten and SEC. It would be four
bids from the SEC, four from the Big Ten, two
for the ACC, two for the Big twelve, one group
six in three at large, and then the Big Ten
and SEC could have playing games third versus three versus six,
and four versus five. That's that's the new report out
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there right now. It's not even a playoff.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
Yeah, it's yeah.
Speaker 6 (27:01):
How many SEC and Big ting get how many guaranteed four?
Why even play the regular season? I can pick those
four teams every year?
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (27:10):
Well SEC, well TURE could.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Yeah, But I mean it's like there's so many good ones, right,
I see what you mean, Like Georgia, Alabama Georgia, Alabama, Texas. Yeah,
now Texas they spending thirty five to forty million dollars
on their program this year. Those three are in every year, Georgia, Alabama, Texas,
and then some years you would have l SHU.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
Florida's on the come up. They're doing better.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
Maybe so if they're on the crop, if their quarterback
stays out right exactly, yeah, and if he doesn't go
somewhere else and whatever I mean. And then but then
you get three, so no, only you guaranteed four.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
Then here's three at large.
Speaker 6 (27:43):
Penn State, Michigan, Ohioio State, and then take your pick Oregon, Oregon.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
I forgot Oregon Oregans, aren't you?
Speaker 1 (27:49):
Yeah, I mean I mean if we're yeah, I mean,
it's stupid, right, just dumb.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
Yeah, there's that. So h what a game last night?
Speaker 1 (27:59):
The oiler oilers in in the l A and in
the Vegas Golden Knights going on the road. They've won
six straight playoff games and dry Cydle. Wow that was
that was unbelievable seeing that I was texting you and
just be like, man, this is great. This is bad
NBA game last night again? Yeah, oh horrible, horrible Sea Wolves.
Speaker 6 (28:19):
Yeah, yeah, stuff and yeah, Draymond being a dipstick and
whatever else?
Speaker 1 (28:24):
Did you see that? Did you see that? Soundbody came
out with. Oh, by the way, very convincing. Now I'm
definitely convinced. Now you're not an angry man.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
Is angry black man?
Speaker 3 (28:32):
Angrey black man?
Speaker 6 (28:34):
No, You're just You're just a guy that gets away.
And I like Raymond, I like, but when.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
You come out and you're like, I am not an
angry black Okay, okay, dude, whatever you say.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
Bro, I should have been tossed out of the game.
He should have been tossed out of a lot of games.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
He does so he gets so away with so much.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
But you know what, I go back. I was in Portland.
I covered When did you get traded? I guess it
was three and.
Speaker 6 (28:57):
A half years of Rashid and Rashid led the year,
led the league in technicals every year, was always leading
the league and technicals and same thing. He would get
one and then would be the same guy and wouldn't
get the second one until it just certain guy's got
you know who got him?
Speaker 1 (29:17):
Oh, Donnie, Donnie he well, he wrote Donnie, he wrote
in his book, and Rashid afterwards that he had an.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
In for him.
Speaker 6 (29:24):
Well, they because because Rashid went after him on the
loading dock in.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
The back of the arena.
Speaker 6 (29:30):
Shut the front door. Yeah, really, right by all the
TV trucks. Yeah, I just yeah, I just missed it.
We were just walking out and like the commotion had
kind of like what the hell's going on out here?
And by then like oh you got to stay here?
Speaker 5 (29:41):
No?
Speaker 6 (29:41):
No, yeah, yeah, yeah, he went after him on the
loading dock because the players all parked in the loading
dock area. It's a really small area of Modis Center
and by the way, and that's what and that's where
the referee would leave to get in their shuttle to
go back to the hotel.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
And they ran into each other.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
Yeah, this was like two thousand and two, three three ish.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
Thank Yeah, because he got traded around trade deadline because
I knew Rashid Wallace a little bit.
Speaker 6 (30:05):
He got trade to Atlanta. Yeah, he got traded a
night of money at Rock. Yes, we were sitting in
front of us, he was sitting in front of us.
It was Am, Reuben and Bonzie were all sitting in
front of us. My old Coast and I were sitting
there watching and we had ringsizes.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
He was weird.
Speaker 6 (30:17):
Big WWE fans at the time were watching and literally
a stone Colt smashing beer cans. The two of the
PR guys came walking by us like, Hey, what's up, Faccini,
what's up?
Speaker 2 (30:28):
What's up Woodie?
Speaker 6 (30:29):
Like you know, and man, they're like Ryan wood Ron
Woodcock and Ryan Facina, two his PR guys came walking
up and grab those two guys at eight o'clock at
night on a Monday night and take him out.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
And it was and Rashid got traded.
Speaker 6 (30:42):
Next thing, you know, there's a press conference next door
in the old building because there's money at raw going
on at ten o'clock press conference. That's how much they
wanted to get rid of him that they held. They
traded him at eight o'clock at night Pacific time to Detroit,
which is eleven o'clock there, pulled him out of the
arena and had a press conference at ten o'clock that night.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
John Lund who was on your show lot, he was
a former colleague of Tom Tolber. Correct, yes, and Sara
Candy Ambi are okay, yeah, do you remember this? So
we're going back to three because you cut so you
were there that. Okay, I can ask you this. Do
you remember one of the classic lines by Tolbert for
the three Draft. He goes, it's only fitting the j
(31:21):
where they took Travis Outlaw, and Tolbert goes, it's only
fitting the jail Blazers take someone with the last name Outlaw.
Speaker 6 (31:29):
And the funny thing with Travis, nicest kid in the world,
the most naive kid in the world, had no business
coming into the NBA at that point in time. Would
have been probably a pretty good player with a couple
of years of college. But in his defense, this is
back college. Actually you had to like qualify. I don't
think he would have been a qualifier. And so like
(31:51):
it's like he didn't like he top forty eight or something.
I would I called it back then, right, And so
he came out. But he was a really nice kid man,
and and he got thrown in this locker room with
all of these idiots and Damon, and you know, I
like Damon. I'll be honest with you, I really like Damon.
I liked him a lot, and I kind of forged
(32:11):
a little bit of something with him because I figured
I gotta I gotta have it, because we're covering him
way to be there in the locker room every day,
and and I like, I better find one guy. I
better I like one guy. He didn't like a lot
of people. But yeah, and I don't say he liked me,
but I have messages over the years.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
He's he was.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
He's a college coach.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
Now, Georgia Tech.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
Yeah, Georgia Tech.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
Hey, how about this?
Speaker 6 (32:32):
Do you remember this? One of the best straight I'll
just let me just say. Some guys can have their issues.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
And it was on email Doka's bench for the Celtics.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
Yeah, he's gotten himself together.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
So I told him, I said, hey, Damon, I saw
you for the first time ever in the ninety four
Final four against Arkansas in Charlotte. Do you remember that backcourt,
Damon Stottlemeyer and Khalids, they were my god.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
They would give me my favorite thing.
Speaker 6 (32:57):
I got to Portland in the in fall of two
two thousand and two, height of jail Blazer time, coming
off of when they had the meltdown in the LA
against the Lakers in the Western Commerce Finals of the
previous spring, when Rashid through the talents the Bonus's face
the whole nine yards right, And.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
So that team.
Speaker 6 (33:16):
So I got there that fall. Soa bonus was still
there's the same team, same team there. I mean they're
crazy talented. Yeah, yeah, that's where. That's where I saw
Scotty And for the first time I understood why he
was a top fifty guy watching him on a nightly basis.
He's one of those guys that without the ball and
with the ball doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
He was.
Speaker 6 (33:33):
He was special. Not a great guy, but a special dude.
But I got there and like, I'm hearing all this
stuff about Jill, and I was. I had come from
Utah like every like where everyone's like not liking the
Blazers and I came from and obviously from Seattle originally,
so I don't like Portland at all.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
But anyway, get there.
Speaker 6 (33:51):
I want to say two three weeks in I had
my first jail Blazers experience that we had to talk
about on the radio because it was when they played
Seattle and the players, for some reason, Bonzie, Rashid Ruts
and Damon got in the yellow Hummer, the famous yellow Hummer,
and they drove from they drove home Story and they
(34:15):
were taking bong hit out car and there's one place
on I five that you do not speed as through
Centralli and Shlas and they just in Seattle.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
Yeah, they played the sonic.
Speaker 6 (34:27):
Okay, you know like eleven thirty, twelve o'clock at night
driving through Sela's and Centrillia and like Ray, Chris, you
don't drive fast through that area, like you It says
fifty five or sixty, that's what you go. These dudes
come flying through, got pulled over. As the story goes, yeah,
they roll down the window. The smell of marijuana came out,
and the trooper says, where's where's the marijuana? Bro we
(34:48):
smoked it all. One of them said that. One of
them said, brot.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
No, but give them credit though at least ain't say, well,
we don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 2 (34:59):
No, they just they just admitted they smoke.
Speaker 6 (35:01):
I'd be listen when you open the window. He probably
didn't even doesn't condone driving and paired. But there's just
that line. And I remember the show. We had to
do the show the next day, and I'm looking at
my coast going, wow, he goes this is, he goes
this is. They all get arrested, just citations or whatever,
and yeah, I think the bus picked him up.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
On the way or something.
Speaker 4 (35:17):
You know.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
It was just when I looked at my co host,
He's like, yeah, this is this is how it is?
Speaker 5 (35:20):
This is it?
Speaker 3 (35:21):
What do you got coming up today? On the information?
Speaker 6 (35:23):
Daniel and Neal is going to join us at one
twenty this week we visit. Then at two o'clock today
we'll check out our final visit with Rob Rang. Now
that we've had a mini camp or give me a camp,
the final put a final bow on the draft class.
We'll talk to Rob. Are they a better team right
now than they were when the end of the season
last year in Los Angeles against the Rams?
Speaker 3 (35:41):
I think they are. We will see though, and I
want to see what Rob Rang has to do.
Speaker 2 (35:44):
I think they are too.
Speaker 6 (35:45):
Again, we'll see what Rob says is about that, and
then we'll talk about Canadians not coming down this weekend and.
Speaker 3 (35:49):
Why the Blue Jay's fans aren't coming on.
Speaker 2 (35:51):
That's what well, that's what I'm here and we'll tell
you about that.
Speaker 3 (35:53):
Woo that as it's easy infanacar.
Speaker 6 (35:55):
I'm doing some extensive research with my Canadian media friends
and by the way, Ian for a s just because
you know he's got an unbelievable salad head of hair.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
He got a good haircut today, really nice haircut. He's
looking he's looking dapper. Gotta try to to try to
keep it neath the time. Yeah, all right, fair enough, alright,
thanks to Gary Hill. We'll see you on Monday. Stay
tuned for the Mayor coming up next one to three.
Softing Dick at Cheney Stadium in Tacoma today from three
to seven.
Speaker 3 (36:21):
We appreciate have a great weekend. Go Manners.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
Trying to make it ten consecutive Seriesly Monday ninety three
three KJR FM
Well, the Celtics minus five and a half tomorrow, so
uh yes, yes, yeah. How is Bell's Cookies? Anybody know
about Bell's Cookies? I was asking that because I, you know,
my mom said, you ever try this place?
Speaker 2 (00:14):
I'm like, how do you know about it?
Speaker 3 (00:15):
So I saw it on the news.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
It's a local place, and I'm like, all right, sixty
nine hundred East Clean East Green Lake Way, I'm coming
to you.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Bell's Cookies.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
It's gonna try those some'mores, those chocolate chip Yeah, gonna
get They even had like a Columbia cookie with a
flavored like in a rapa. And if you've ever had
an a rape uf you're down in Florida, especially in Miami.
Oh oh, not many things you're gonna love better. That's
(00:46):
gonna taste better putting you in your mouth in one
of those. And I wish I don't know it. Do
they make a rap as anywhere around here? Because I
if there are, tell me the place that there are,
and I will go there, all right, tell me all right.
So ESPN did their MLB power rankings. Actually it's actually
(01:06):
according to the Athletic. So the Athletic ranked the number
one team in baseball.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
The Dodgers. No problem with that, no issue.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
They are the defending World Series champions for a reason,
and they have been. They got off to another great start.
They are who we thought they were. Number two the
New York Mets. Juan Soto has not been good, but
Pete Alonzo and Francisco Lindor and Mark Vanos have been
(01:41):
They've outperformed their expectations. And it's refreshing to see where
when you invest in a team. How about this, John Stanton,
You put money in a team and you actually end
up getting in return.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Wow, uh see how that works? Yeah, yeah, it's amazing.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Imagine if the Mariners had uh brought in Pete Alonso
for a season, how much better would they be?
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Right now?
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Just saying number three, San Diego Padres, they are fighting
neck and neck with the Dodgers in the an L West.
So Padres, I mean, listen, it's they've been consistent. They've
got bowguards and of course you know, like you look
(02:33):
at this team. They have a good mix of veterans
with Manny Machado and then of course Fernando Tattoos, and
they continue to just get it done year in and
year out, and they're they're doing whatever they can to
compete with the Dodgers down that's so cow Pacific Highway
from San Diego.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Number four, how about this one?
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Not not a team that prior to the season beginning
you would have thought the Detroit.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Tigers hovey Baiez.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
I mean that's they moved in the center field and
it's just it's been unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
He's been amazing.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
So that's what they did, and it's turned out to
be great for a j Henchin company. Of course, they
got schoobl so he's the reigning sing Award winner. And
Detroit Pistons are on a roll. Lions made a run
in the playoffs and before they got hurt losing at
home the Commanders, and now the Tigers. Detroit Sports is
(03:41):
on fire right now. Number five the Philadelphia Phillies. Yeah,
I say that with a question mark. Really yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
I don't know. I've watched him.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Not really that impressed or barely about five hundred. There's
nothing there that impresses me other than Bryce Harper. They
put Taiwan Walker in the bullpen. I just really, I
mean Zach Wheeler, I mean, he's obviously year and in,
(04:18):
year out one of the best pitchers in baseball last year.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
I just haven't seen that greatness from the Phillies, So
that to me is ranking them and overrating them way
too high.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Number six. Could it be the Mariners? No, the Chicago
Cubs at number six.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
And here in lies the fact that, and I'll admit,
having lived most of my life on the East Coast,
whether it be the Northeast or the southeast, the East
Coast bias that I don't think a lot of people
have seen the Mariners yet.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
They don't know what's going on out here.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
They don't know the fact that the Mariners are eighteen
and six in their last twenty four and are tied
with the Yankees and on base percentage and second in
home runs and number one and come from behind victories
in the ninth inning. So no, the Chicago Cubs at
number six, all right, The Mariner's got to be at number.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Seven, right And.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
The San Francisco Giants, Yep, the Giants. So they got
three teams in the NL West, all ranked above the
MS Dodgers. Understandably, Padres don't have a problem with it,
and the Giants. Giants have got off to a great start,
though twenty two and fourteen. I just from top to bottom.
(05:44):
I don't even look at the Mariners right now as
a finished product because Rayley and Roebliss are out, Kirby
and Gilbert are out, and this team hasn't even gotten
close to scratch the surface and how great they would be.
So then the Mariner's got to be at number eight. No, no,
(06:05):
Now they got the Yankees in at number eight. Devin
Williams brutal start cost him the closers role. Jazz Chisholm
is on the IL. You know Paul gold Schmidt, Remember
I said that Mariners fans, if you're not going to
get Pete Alonzo, go after Paul gold Schmidt.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
He's at a bounce back season.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
And then finally number nine the Seattle Mariners moving up
to spots from last week. Logan Gilbert on the IL.
This team has been nothing short of remarkable. I mean
(06:48):
they've been awesome all like, not all season, but in
the last twenty four games, this team is playing on
another level. They've won nine consecutive series. They're doing it
at the dish, at the plate, not just with the pitching.
Matter of fact, the pitching's been kind of meh overall,
except for Munoz, who's been the best closer in baseball,
(07:10):
but starting pitching has not been great. Brash just came
off the il Gabe Speier has gotten his groove back,
which is nice to see. But the pitching overall, yeah,
other than Brian Wu, and Brian Wu got rupped up
the other day. Yeah, so mayors to me should be
higher on this list. I think the Mariners.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Are least a top five to sixteen.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
And you know what, at the end of the day,
who cares other than just continue to move on up.
Power rankings don't mean crap, right, They just don't. They
don't because all you gotta do is just keep winning
two out of three, which is what this team has
done every series since the Astros series since April ninth.
(08:01):
Keep winning two out of three, maybe you can even
get a sweep. And look at where you are right
now at twenty two and fourteen underrated. Nobody's giving this
team any credit. And what can you say? Cal Raley,
he has been unbelievable, tied with Aaron Judge and Kyle
Schwarber for the MLB lead. Speaking of Kyle Schwarber and
(08:24):
Aaron Judge, behind those two guys Randy Rose Arena for
on base percentage this season. So all in all, just
keep moving up and keep winning, and let it happen
this weekend against the Toronto Blue Jays.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
And please, and please.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Don't let the Blue Jay fans take over to Mobile Park.
I don't want them doing chance and singing Oh Canada
and all that stuff. Let's not make this Roger Sky
doome West. Let's not do that. Let's make this a
hostile environment. And please do not be selling any Blue
(09:10):
Jays gear in the Mariner's flagship store other than the
hats which they carry all thirty teams, which I don't
have a problem with.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
That's fine.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
As long as you carry all thirty teams, then you're
not catering to an opposing teams fan base. I can't
bring this up enough. Do you think when the Yankees
go into Fenway Park they're selling their gear across Yakey
Way at the Red Sox gift shop.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
No.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Do you think when the Mets go to Yankee Stadium
for a Subway series which is coming up next week?
Do you think they're selling Mets gear at Yankee Stadium?
Speaker 3 (09:45):
No?
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Do they sell Oregon Ducks gear? At Husky Thedium when
they come to town to play U Dub No. So let's
not do that here now. Reportedly, according to our OWNI Infernes,
it only happened once. Other people on the text line
said no, no, no, no no, it's happened more than once,
(10:09):
and it's happened with other teams as well. That Yankees
gear has been sold at the Mariners gift shop, the
flagship store when the Yankees come to town.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Please, let's not have that happen.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
It's just it's a bad look and it makes you
It makes you feel It makes you feel like your
team is inferior, that you can't sell enough merch, so
you have to sell the opposing team's gear. That should
never ever happen. The only thing that should be sold
is if there were Yankee sucks T shirts. Yankee suck
(10:47):
T shirts. Those are okay. Blue Jay suck T shirts
those are fine, but not anything. I don't want Vlad
Guerrero junior jerseys being sold. I don't want Aaron Judge
or John Carlos Stanton jerseys or Garrett Cole jerseys being sold.
Don't make the opposing team feel comfortable in your stadium.
(11:11):
It's supposed to be called home field advantage and have
a hostile environment for a reason. So I'll be there
Tuesday night. We broadcasting live from Jimmy's on First on
Wednesday for the Businessman Special coming up at one fifteen,
So looking forward to that, and I want to see
(11:32):
I mean, Yankees pitching has been trashed this year, so
I mean the Mariners should be able to tee them
up when they come in. I'm not overlooking the Blue
Jays money stretch of the imagination, but that's the series
that everybody wants to see coming up Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.
And I would imagine that T Mobile Park, especially after
this another successful road trip in Texas and the one
(11:59):
they just had against the A's, I would imagine that
we will have a sold out T Mobile Park this week,
this weekend and next week. I would imagine. I just
hope it's not overrun by Blue Jay fans. There's nothing
worse than that, you know, I mean, could you imagine
being a Chargers fan showing up when your team are
playing the Raiders and it's all silver and black in there,
(12:24):
or when the Packers come in, or the Steelers or
the Chiefs or the Vikings or whatever. That's just horrible.
I remember Philip Rivers said something one time, and it
was when they were playing games in Anaheim, and he said,
I couldn't hear the play call because the Raider fans
were too loud, and he goes, it's sad for me
(12:45):
to say that because I couldn't hear the plays being
called because it was so loud when the Raiders, when
we were on offense, I couldn't hear the play call.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
That's pathetic. That is not something that you want here.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
But of course you understand it because it's LA and
they don't have real sports fans in LA.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
They have real sports fans here in Seattle.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
So let's just support the Mariners and make sure you
don't getting drowned out. But I know there's gonna be
there's gonna be a smattering of Blue Jay fans there.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
There always are.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
They're gonna get into games, just like met fans will
get in a Yankee stadium and Yankee fans will go
in a city field. I understand that, and same thing
with Red Sox fans at Yankee Stadium and Yankee fans
at Fenway Park. But let's not have it be overtaken
this weekend. Right, It's just a bad look. It's just
a bad look, you know. And I know they're gonna
(13:34):
play Oh Canada. That's fine because you're supposed to acknowledge,
you know, the attic, which my former co host told me,
that's what he calls Canada America's attic.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
So I get to all that.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
But just let's not go above and beyond and make
them feel like they're playing in the SkyDome.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
Okay, let's not do that. I don't want that.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
When I heard that, I was like, Softy texted me
the other day, I'm like, no, you gotta be kidding
me said no, No, it's it's bad.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
It's bad. So I don't want that at all.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Here's what I do want coming up next, your texts
for the what do you say? Texts of the day.
Give me something on Bell's Cookies. I'm sure some of
you have been there. It's in Seattle, so I want
to try that place today. Tell me about it. I'm
going over there. Tell me all about it for nine
four five one, and any other stories that you might
(14:30):
know of of their mariners selling the opposing teams gear
at the t Mobile Park flagship store. Let me know
of that. What do you say? Text of the day
coming up next four nine four, five to one on
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Speaker 1 (15:03):
Okay, here we go four nine four or five to one,
free agent text line. You want to hear your texts
read in real time? Four nine four five one. Let's
do it all right, let's just see. Hey, enjoy the show. Mark,
But you just credited Randy Roseraina for leading the race
(15:24):
to the twenty twenty World Series, but said you don't
count the Dodgers winning this series that year. Okay, the
Dodgers have an eight hundred and fifty million dollar payroll.
The Rays had about a thirty two million dollar payroll.
It was in an empty stadium with cardboard cutouts in
(15:45):
a sterile environment, just like the Lakers were that year
at an empty gym in Orlando at the Wide World
of Disney. I don't count any of those titles, none
of them just because they weren't in hostile environments where
you had to win on the road. So yeah, I'm
just saying a Rose arena is he's a guide man.
(16:06):
I'm telling you, if the Mariners are gonna make a
run to the playoffs and the division and maybe their
first ever pennant, you're gonna need Randy Rose Arena. That
dude is just a baseball player, seriously, and it's essence.
Not gonna win any batting titles, but he's a baseball player.
Speaker 5 (16:25):
From the two actually, from the two oh six. Talking cookies, Yeah,
best cookies I've found in Seattle are im Burian treat cookies.
They are highly addictive. Monthly rotating specials are where it's at.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
Treat cookies, all right, Bury and Burien. All right, all right,
I won't even got any bells here. That's what I'm
looking for. I mean, it's gonna be.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
I mean, this place is getting like national publicity and
it's it's a local joint.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
So you know, I want to just.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
So if they out from the two five three, if
they outlaw the rugby play in the NFL, which you
call it, does that mean that all the pushing and
pulling that gets done and wide receivers, running backs, etc.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Does that need to be outlawed? Also? Is that a
football play?
Speaker 1 (17:13):
You know what, I'm just concentrated on this one particular
all that other stuff. I mean, they outlawed the pick
play after John Harbaugh complained when the Patriots used it
in the twenty fourteen game that they beat the Ravens
in in Foxborough. So, you know what, I'm gonna all
that other stuff, that's a great question. I'm not Roger
(17:33):
Goodell and I'm not Rich McKay. I'm not on the
competition committee. The one thing I do know, that garbage
rugby play. Get it the hell out of here.
Speaker 5 (17:42):
From the two five three. There's a large contingent of
Mariner fans up north in Vancouver. Why they change their
stripes and put on blue Jay jerseys for the weekend shows?
Are kind of fans? They really are losers L sevens.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
Or or fair Weather. Yeah I could throw fair Weather
there as well.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Yeah, that's that's funny. Hey, uh MJ. I didn't think
anybody else dislike Lebron more than me. You, my friend,
are the president of the I can't stand Lebron and
I wish you would go away club. Amen to that, sir.
That's from the two five three. This is from the
(18:24):
eight four three. Holy kid, are you alive? I'm still here? Man, Yeah,
he's dude. This is only sports radio. Nobody is there's
no uh, it's all sports radio.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
Nobody's calling out. We're not doing open heart surgery.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Uh. Nobody's calling each other's h you know, significant others names.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
It's just all sports radio.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
That's it. At the end of the day, it's all love.
Nothing but love. Is the late great Heavy d once said,
all right from the two three. You're not winning this
one kid. Any NBA fan can name a hundred better
players to take that last shot, unless you're wearing lebron
tinted glasses. I mean, I I was even thinking about
(19:11):
last night. I was going team by team. I'm like,
I could go over one hundred easy, all time, not current,
not current, I'm not going all time, and we were
gonna go to Vinnie the Microwave, Johnson and Joe Dumars
and Isaiah's Oh please we are all day, Rip Hamilton,
Johncey Billups.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
I mean that would indebt. I could go.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
I could probably get close to one hundred on the
Eastern Conference, well not.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
The Eastern Conference alone, but you get what I mean.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
All time though, Oh, Alex English, the fat Lever, I mean,
oh uh, what was his name, Mark Aguire, Adrian Dantley.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
I mean those dudes were like Iceman George Gervin. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Man, I'm putting my trust in those guys, like those
guys were ballers.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
I trust for a laptop.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Just talking a last shot, not saying they're better, just
saying a last shot clutch.
Speaker 5 (20:06):
Let's see from the two five three, Lebron has seven
game time or game winning shots in the final second
of playoff games, more than any player in the last
twenty six years.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Twenty six years. I have to look that up. He
could be right, not all time, but twenty six years.
So we're talking nineteen ninety nine, ninety eight, Jordan's end
of his prime. He didn't play the ninety nine season.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
He might be right. Oh is that playoff or or
it's playoff?
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Right?
Speaker 5 (20:37):
I didn't say, but I did respond to someone's text
and they said to Shay because Lebron does lead the
entire NBA in playoff winning shots currently currently, So in
my head, one hundred players are not doing that.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
So that that lets me I'm talking all the time,
to win the finals with one shot, just one shot,
That's what that's why, That's what I'm talking about.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
I mean, do you do you want the numbers of
this playoff go round? It was the last fourteen playoff game.
I'm just saying, if I made one shot, you'd probably
take me.
Speaker 5 (21:13):
That's how much.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
No, no, no, no, no, I I've just made one
playoffs shot.
Speaker 5 (21:16):
You would go, I'll take Kid over Lebron.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
I mean no, no, no.
Speaker 5 (21:19):
The sample size got to start somewhere?
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Is that? Is it?
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Like? All I know is this like like, here's my thing.
And the Lakers in the playoffs this season, with Lebron
on the court, they were minus forty one. With Lebron
off the court, they were plus eight.
Speaker 5 (21:32):
Does that have to do with his question?
Speaker 1 (21:34):
No?
Speaker 3 (21:34):
Okay, but do you want the numbers? I could give
you the numbers.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
The numbers he was, He was like, oh, in these playoffs, yeah,
I mean they they they lost, they lost five. Yeah,
I mean I gave you seventeen point nine percent all time.
Speaker 5 (21:45):
Yes, look up Fat Lever and everyone else you talked about, right,
I mean, to you they took.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Like five shots, nineteen for one oh seven. That's a verdict.
That's not an opinion. It's a set one hundred and
one shots. That is incredible. No, nineteen for one oh seven,
Oh excuse me, one hundred and seven. Ninety nine of
those players are not shooting that volume. They're not given
that opportunity. The guys are gonna name.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
But seventeen point eight percent is horrible.
Speaker 5 (22:08):
And I guarantee you all those guys you just named,
if you gave them one hundred and seven attempts, they
wouldn't do much better. Guarantee.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
Well, I'm not saying, I'm saying to win a shot
in the NBA finals, But Chris, seventy pointy percent, that's
an abortion.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
That's an abortion.
Speaker 5 (22:24):
Abortion, that's a great that's an abortion.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
I mean, if you can't admit that, then I can't
tar down. Well, okay, all good, were the biggest You
just keep flipping. No, I'm not flipping. I'm saying nineteen
for one oh seven, seventy point eight percent in clutch
shots and seven for twenty six and three pointers, that's
twenty six point nine percent. Then on top of it,
he is twenty of one point sixteen for seventeen percent
(22:47):
field goal percentage in game winning or tying situations in
the fourth quarter of overtime. Those are all abortions. So
I could call him abortion. Matter of fact, that's gonna
be my new nickname for him in the clutch. Abortion.
I love that abortion. Seventeen point eight percent abortion. That's what,
By the way, I came up with a new one today.
(23:07):
I love it abortion because that's what he is in
the clutch. He is an abortion, and I love it.
How about that. Let's just see here, agreed, American football
is soft. We don't want it to get more like rugby.
Rugby's not soft. I'm just saying that it's not. American
football is something that I mean, it should be on skill.
(23:31):
It can't just be a bunch of fat guys pushing
a dude who can squat six.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
Hundred pounds a few inches. That's not football. It's not football. Oh,
I know.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
Don't even get me started on Robert oring glenor Gee
Muddy Glenn Rice. I mean, I we be here all day.
I mean Tim Hardaway, I mean, it's it's bro I
could go team by team. As a matter of fact,
I don't even want. I did it on the Jim
Rome Show, and I went through one hundred players and
I had people like, yeah, you forgot this guy, you forgot.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
We're talking all time.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
It's not Chris, You're like, I mean, I gotta look
up the statistics of to have a chick and Bob Cousy.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
No, you don't, because they were because they were unelievable.
They were better shooters than Lebron.
Speaker 5 (24:14):
Okay, that's all I'm fact.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
Yeah, I mean, like Coozie, I wanted to go to
Isiah Isaiah Thomas, not you dub the original one.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 5 (24:26):
Isaiah Thomas probably has like thirteen shots attempted. Lebron has
one hundred and seven. If the volume matches, they're not
They're shooting the same, if not worse. That's my point.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
All right, Well, I'm just saying I take Isaiah.
Speaker 5 (24:39):
Thomas in a game. When he said over Lebron anytime,
I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
Do you original Isiah Thomas?
Speaker 1 (24:43):
No? Okay, well then you didn't watch you didn't watch
him play though, I mean, he was retired before you
when you were born. Let me look up stats and Chris,
I watched him play. I've been watching I know, hold on,
I've been watching that longer than you've been alive. That
doesn't matter. We're talking about Lebron Jang, the gatest players
of all time.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
Chris seventeen point nine percent? What part what?
Speaker 1 (25:02):
What? What?
Speaker 3 (25:03):
What part of that?
Speaker 4 (25:04):
What?
Speaker 3 (25:04):
What part of that? Do you not? I'm just saying,
you pull your stand. He's a horrible shooter. He's a
lot a horrible shooter.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Now and the clutch scene is, Chris, you just admitted
he was, and now you're saying he's not.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
What is this like a oh my.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
God, I just said, Oh my god, you're just saying now.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
You're You just said he was, Now you're saying not.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
Text for me this nineteen for one oh seven seventeen
point eight percent, Chris, I mean I could talk to
her for nineteen for one oh seven seventy from the two.
Speaker 5 (25:31):
O six, This is lebron Is and Lebron clutch talk
has marked backpedaling faster than de row by the way.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
I listen, let me tell you something. I have facts here.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Nineteen for one oh seven seventeen point eight percent in
clutch shots, abortion seven of twenty six and three pointers
twenty six point nine percent. Abortion also twenty for one,
sixteen field goal percentage, seventeen percent in game winning or
time situations in the fourth quarter over time.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
That's a fact. It's a verdict.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
I can't talk if you don't understand basketball.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
I'm sorry. You've been watching it longer you've been alive. Bro.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
I mean, eat your crow, Eat your crow, Eat your crow.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
The cross talk with Ian Fornest next, eat your crow.
Speaker 5 (26:17):
Gott em.
Speaker 6 (26:27):
All right.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
A report has just come out.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
A sixteen team college football playoff bracket is getting support
in the Big Ten and SEC. It would be four
bids from the SEC, four from the Big Ten, two
for the ACC, two for the Big twelve, one group
six in three at large, and then the Big Ten
and SEC could have playing games third versus three versus six,
and four versus five. That's that's the new report out
(26:56):
there right now. It's not even a playoff.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
Yeah, it's yeah.
Speaker 6 (27:01):
How many SEC and Big ting get how many guaranteed four?
Why even play the regular season? I can pick those
four teams every year?
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (27:10):
Well SEC, well TURE could.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Yeah, But I mean it's like there's so many good ones, right,
I see what you mean, Like Georgia, Alabama Georgia, Alabama, Texas. Yeah,
now Texas they spending thirty five to forty million dollars
on their program this year. Those three are in every year, Georgia, Alabama, Texas,
and then some years you would have l SHU.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
Florida's on the come up. They're doing better.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
Maybe so if they're on the crop, if their quarterback
stays out right exactly, yeah, and if he doesn't go
somewhere else and whatever I mean. And then but then
you get three, so no, only you guaranteed four.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
Then here's three at large.
Speaker 6 (27:43):
Penn State, Michigan, Ohioio State, and then take your pick Oregon, Oregon.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
I forgot Oregon Oregans, aren't you?
Speaker 1 (27:49):
Yeah, I mean I mean if we're yeah, I mean,
it's stupid, right, just dumb.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
Yeah, there's that. So h what a game last night?
Speaker 1 (27:59):
The oiler oilers in in the l A and in
the Vegas Golden Knights going on the road. They've won
six straight playoff games and dry Cydle. Wow that was
that was unbelievable seeing that I was texting you and
just be like, man, this is great. This is bad
NBA game last night again? Yeah, oh horrible, horrible Sea Wolves.
Speaker 6 (28:19):
Yeah, yeah, stuff and yeah, Draymond being a dipstick and
whatever else?
Speaker 1 (28:24):
Did you see that? Did you see that? Soundbody came
out with. Oh, by the way, very convincing. Now I'm
definitely convinced. Now you're not an angry man.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
Is angry black man?
Speaker 3 (28:32):
Angrey black man?
Speaker 6 (28:34):
No, You're just You're just a guy that gets away.
And I like Raymond, I like, but when.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
You come out and you're like, I am not an
angry black Okay, okay, dude, whatever you say.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
Bro, I should have been tossed out of the game.
He should have been tossed out of a lot of games.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
He does so he gets so away with so much.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
But you know what, I go back. I was in Portland.
I covered When did you get traded? I guess it
was three and.
Speaker 6 (28:57):
A half years of Rashid and Rashid led the year,
led the league in technicals every year, was always leading
the league and technicals and same thing. He would get
one and then would be the same guy and wouldn't
get the second one until it just certain guy's got
you know who got him?
Speaker 1 (29:17):
Oh, Donnie, Donnie he well, he wrote Donnie, he wrote
in his book, and Rashid afterwards that he had an.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
In for him.
Speaker 6 (29:24):
Well, they because because Rashid went after him on the
loading dock in.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
The back of the arena.
Speaker 6 (29:30):
Shut the front door. Yeah, really, right by all the
TV trucks. Yeah, I just yeah, I just missed it.
We were just walking out and like the commotion had
kind of like what the hell's going on out here?
And by then like oh you got to stay here?
Speaker 5 (29:41):
No?
Speaker 6 (29:41):
No, yeah, yeah, yeah, he went after him on the
loading dock because the players all parked in the loading
dock area. It's a really small area of Modis Center
and by the way, and that's what and that's where
the referee would leave to get in their shuttle to
go back to the hotel.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
And they ran into each other.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
Yeah, this was like two thousand and two, three three ish.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
Thank Yeah, because he got traded around trade deadline because
I knew Rashid Wallace a little bit.
Speaker 6 (30:05):
He got trade to Atlanta. Yeah, he got traded a
night of money at Rock. Yes, we were sitting in
front of us, he was sitting in front of us.
It was Am, Reuben and Bonzie were all sitting in
front of us. My old Coast and I were sitting
there watching and we had ringsizes.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
He was weird.
Speaker 6 (30:17):
Big WWE fans at the time were watching and literally
a stone Colt smashing beer cans. The two of the
PR guys came walking by us like, Hey, what's up, Faccini,
what's up?
Speaker 2 (30:28):
What's up Woodie?
Speaker 6 (30:29):
Like you know, and man, they're like Ryan wood Ron
Woodcock and Ryan Facina, two his PR guys came walking
up and grab those two guys at eight o'clock at
night on a Monday night and take him out.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
And it was and Rashid got traded.
Speaker 6 (30:42):
Next thing, you know, there's a press conference next door
in the old building because there's money at raw going
on at ten o'clock press conference. That's how much they
wanted to get rid of him that they held. They
traded him at eight o'clock at night Pacific time to Detroit,
which is eleven o'clock there, pulled him out of the
arena and had a press conference at ten o'clock that night.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
John Lund who was on your show lot, he was
a former colleague of Tom Tolber. Correct, yes, and Sara
Candy Ambi are okay, yeah, do you remember this? So
we're going back to three because you cut so you
were there that. Okay, I can ask you this. Do
you remember one of the classic lines by Tolbert for
the three Draft. He goes, it's only fitting the j
(31:21):
where they took Travis Outlaw, and Tolbert goes, it's only
fitting the jail Blazers take someone with the last name Outlaw.
Speaker 6 (31:29):
And the funny thing with Travis, nicest kid in the world,
the most naive kid in the world, had no business
coming into the NBA at that point in time. Would
have been probably a pretty good player with a couple
of years of college. But in his defense, this is
back college. Actually you had to like qualify. I don't
think he would have been a qualifier. And so like
(31:51):
it's like he didn't like he top forty eight or something.
I would I called it back then, right, And so
he came out. But he was a really nice kid man,
and and he got thrown in this locker room with
all of these idiots and Damon, and you know, I
like Damon. I'll be honest with you, I really like Damon.
I liked him a lot, and I kind of forged
(32:11):
a little bit of something with him because I figured
I gotta I gotta have it, because we're covering him
way to be there in the locker room every day,
and and I like, I better find one guy. I
better I like one guy. He didn't like a lot
of people. But yeah, and I don't say he liked me,
but I have messages over the years.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
He's he was.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
He's a college coach.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
Now, Georgia Tech.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
Yeah, Georgia Tech.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
Hey, how about this?
Speaker 6 (32:32):
Do you remember this? One of the best straight I'll
just let me just say. Some guys can have their issues.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
And it was on email Doka's bench for the Celtics.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
Yeah, he's gotten himself together.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
So I told him, I said, hey, Damon, I saw
you for the first time ever in the ninety four
Final four against Arkansas in Charlotte. Do you remember that backcourt,
Damon Stottlemeyer and Khalids, they were my god.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
They would give me my favorite thing.
Speaker 6 (32:57):
I got to Portland in the in fall of two
two thousand and two, height of jail Blazer time, coming
off of when they had the meltdown in the LA
against the Lakers in the Western Commerce Finals of the
previous spring, when Rashid through the talents the Bonus's face
the whole nine yards right, And.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
So that team.
Speaker 6 (33:16):
So I got there that fall. Soa bonus was still
there's the same team, same team there. I mean they're
crazy talented. Yeah, yeah, that's where. That's where I saw
Scotty And for the first time I understood why he
was a top fifty guy watching him on a nightly basis.
He's one of those guys that without the ball and
with the ball doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
He was.
Speaker 6 (33:33):
He was special. Not a great guy, but a special dude.
But I got there and like, I'm hearing all this
stuff about Jill, and I was. I had come from
Utah like every like where everyone's like not liking the
Blazers and I came from and obviously from Seattle originally,
so I don't like Portland at all.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
But anyway, get there.
Speaker 6 (33:51):
I want to say two three weeks in I had
my first jail Blazers experience that we had to talk
about on the radio because it was when they played
Seattle and the players, for some reason, Bonzie, Rashid Ruts
and Damon got in the yellow Hummer, the famous yellow Hummer,
and they drove from they drove home Story and they
(34:15):
were taking bong hit out car and there's one place
on I five that you do not speed as through
Centralli and Shlas and they just in Seattle.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
Yeah, they played the sonic.
Speaker 6 (34:27):
Okay, you know like eleven thirty, twelve o'clock at night
driving through Sela's and Centrillia and like Ray, Chris, you
don't drive fast through that area, like you It says
fifty five or sixty, that's what you go. These dudes
come flying through, got pulled over. As the story goes, yeah,
they roll down the window. The smell of marijuana came out,
and the trooper says, where's where's the marijuana? Bro we
(34:48):
smoked it all. One of them said that. One of
them said, brot.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
No, but give them credit though at least ain't say, well,
we don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 2 (34:59):
No, they just they just admitted they smoke.
Speaker 6 (35:01):
I'd be listen when you open the window. He probably
didn't even doesn't condone driving and paired. But there's just
that line. And I remember the show. We had to
do the show the next day, and I'm looking at
my coast going, wow, he goes this is, he goes
this is. They all get arrested, just citations or whatever,
and yeah, I think the bus picked him up.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
On the way or something.
Speaker 4 (35:17):
You know.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
It was just when I looked at my co host,
He's like, yeah, this is this is how it is?
Speaker 5 (35:20):
This is it?
Speaker 3 (35:21):
What do you got coming up today? On the information?
Speaker 6 (35:23):
Daniel and Neal is going to join us at one
twenty this week we visit. Then at two o'clock today
we'll check out our final visit with Rob Rang. Now
that we've had a mini camp or give me a camp,
the final put a final bow on the draft class.
We'll talk to Rob. Are they a better team right
now than they were when the end of the season
last year in Los Angeles against the Rams?
Speaker 3 (35:41):
I think they are. We will see though, and I
want to see what Rob Rang has to do.
Speaker 2 (35:44):
I think they are too.
Speaker 6 (35:45):
Again, we'll see what Rob says is about that, and
then we'll talk about Canadians not coming down this weekend and.
Speaker 3 (35:49):
Why the Blue Jay's fans aren't coming on.
Speaker 2 (35:51):
That's what well, that's what I'm here and we'll tell
you about that.
Speaker 3 (35:53):
Woo that as it's easy infanacar.
Speaker 6 (35:55):
I'm doing some extensive research with my Canadian media friends
and by the way, Ian for a s just because
you know he's got an unbelievable salad head of hair.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
He got a good haircut today, really nice haircut. He's
looking he's looking dapper. Gotta try to to try to
keep it neath the time. Yeah, all right, fair enough, alright,
thanks to Gary Hill. We'll see you on Monday. Stay
tuned for the Mayor coming up next one to three.
Softing Dick at Cheney Stadium in Tacoma today from three
to seven.
Speaker 3 (36:21):
We appreciate have a great weekend. Go Manners.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
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