June 9, 2025 • 35 mins
The Mariners lost 2/3 against the Los Angeles Angels, and the concerns are mounting, 65 runners left on base in the last 10 games, also is it time to IL Bryce Miller? MJ has an idea to save the ratings in the NBA Finals. could it be as simple as switching up the broadcast? Stephen A Smith let's everyone know how Michael Jordan plans to change the game with his analysis as he will be joining NBC to cover the NBA.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Maybe not one hundred and eighty degrees, but maybe about
one hundred and ten. Well, yesterday he kind of got
that thing up to about one hundred and sixty degrees.
That looked like the George Kirby that we all know
and love. Hello everyone, this is MJ in the Midday
on Sports Radio ninety three to three KJRFM. Kirby fourteen
k's Jesus George. I mean, my good god, that was
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just unfreaking believable. Fourteen k's. You don't see that much
a career high. So he's back, he's back. His strikeouts
were the most buying MS pitcher since James Paxton had
sixteen back in about eight years no, seven years ago,
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in May of twenty eighteen. So that was the good news.
That was the great news of the whole weekend. Obviously,
cal Rawley continues to lead the majors in home run
He's just out of this, like playing on another level
right now. He's just unfreaking believable. He got the day
off yesterday deservedly so. But so the M's got a
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nice win, which I you know, there was a lot
to kind of because they were on the verge of
getting swept so all in all, I will take that.
I hope everybody out there have a good weekend. Oh
this day, Oh, I would have Christopher kids on the
other side of the glass. All kid, you have no idea.
Oh the barrels of sports gambling. Last night, I took
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the Oklahoma City Thunder team total over one hundred and
twenty and a half points, and it looked like they
were gonna go over easy. And then it came down
to thirty two seconds left in the game. Okase is
stuck on AE hundred and twenty and Jalen william not
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the great Jalen Williams, but my boy from Arkansas's Jalen
Williams hit a three got me the cover. Thank you.
OKAYC made up for Halliburton in Game one not going
for eighteen points. Oh my god. I was like, that
was gonna be such a bad beat. Oh, it was
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gonna be such a bad beat. And they had it.
They had it, and I know they were gonna take
out their stars, which I don't blame Mark Dagnol for doing.
Oh this is a kid. I would have been such
a miserable You know what today if that if Jalen Williams,
thank you Arkansas razorback doesn't hit that shot? Gave me
the over and oh, because I could just sense that.
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I'm like no, and you know it would have killed me.
You know what. It killed me when Aaron Wiggins, with
like a minute and a half left, missed one of
two free throws. Dude, don't miss your free throws. You can't.
When you're when you were like a more a better
than seventy five to eighty percent free throw shooter, you
can't miss your freaking free does. So, OKC did what
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we all thought they would do. They basically, you know,
kind of said, Okay, your little honeymoon Indiana is over
and we're gonna show you what we're made of tying
things up at one apiece in the NBA finals. So
Jalen williams oh Man, I owe you. I owe you,
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Karl Anthony Towns owes me, but I owe you bro
Oh my god. You live by the sword, you die
by the sword and gambling. I want to thank all
the people who came out to Arnold's Appliance in Bellevue
and their owner Jeremy and the fine folks that were
out there. We had great food on Saturday. It was
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like a five star. Everybody kind of competing off the grills.
The competing grills, and the biggest winners were everybody who
showed up. So I met a lot of people came out,
listened to the show, even Christopher Kidd as a fan.
I mean you have fans as well. They showed up there.
Where are you. I'm like, oh, Christopher Kidd, he's you know,
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he's too busy for this stuff. He's not going to
come out here on a yeah. Hey, hey, there's no
there's no shame in my game. If Mark's that kid,
can you just come, you know, a fifteen minutes. I
don't care. I got you, Mark, But you know what, kid,
you know what? I you know what I found out
driving over to Bellevue even on a Saturday afternoon, it
could be me. It was not fun. It was not
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like full time. Did you get there? I got there
before noon, about eleven fifty five And it was no accident, right,
it was no but it was just bumper to bumper
jaffic man four h five and oh my, I'm like
a good scenic view. Oh yeah, yeah, but it was
awesome Arnold's apply and I mean the food was great.
Met some a lot of listeners came out, Rocket Ron
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and his buddy who big fans of the show, Mark
who was I hope Mark with a k wins the
Russell Wilson autograph football which you can register by you know,
going and doing all that thing. But that was a
fun thing. So all that was was really really good
out there. So we appreciate everybody at Arnold's Appliance who
came out on Saturday, Jeremy and all the fine folks.
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We had a wonderful time and thanks to our own
account Executive Extraordinaiy Matt Hobbs for us setting that up.
It was really fun. It was a beautiful day and
free food was to be had, and let's just say
that I certainly par took in a lot of the
great free food that was there. Oh my lord, the
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steak tips, the barbecue chicken sliders with the homemade mac
and cheese, the steak salad, the grilled barbecue chicken. It
was off the freaking chain, all right, So that was fun.
Coming up at the top of next hour, we will
go live to the Kraken Complex Ice Complex. We will
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go out there to Ian Furness as today they will
introduce Lane Lambert to be the new head coach of
the Kraken. The mayor is there on standby waiting for us,
so we'll go to him around the top of next
hour and Lane Lambert will be introduced to everybody and
let the Lane Lambert era begin here in Seattle and
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throughout the PNW excited for that. So we got that
coming up at the top of the hour. You want
to stay tuned for that. We'll talk to Mike Benton
as well, coming up next hour. I you know what, everybody,
everybody here in Seattle, and justifiably so, talks about the
lob era and how great that was here in Seattle,
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how great it lasted. And Earl Thomas Richard Sherman, can
Chancellor Brandon Browner, the lob. Did you know the lob
two point zero in Seattle's back? Did you know that?
You don't have to wait for it's happening right now.
It's happening right now here in Seattle. The lob is back,
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and it's the Seattle Mariners. But the lob instead for
Legion of Boom, stands for left on base. The Mariners
listen to this, and ten of their last fourteen games
they've lost ten of their last fourteen games. In those
ten losses, guess how many runners were left on base
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for LOB two point zero sixty five sixty five runners
left on base And their last ten out of fourteen
games in those ten losses dating back to May twenty
fourth against the Astros, the Mariners are fifteen for eighty
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with runners in scoring position for a one eighty eight
batting average. LOB it Seattle is back, l B, l
B l B. It's back in Seattle, just not the
good lob. It's the bad lob. So's it's left on base,
not legon to boom. But they are leaving runners stranded
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all over the place, all over And yeah, they won yesterday,
that's fine. Let's look at their last fourteen games, because
they're four and ten in their last fourteen, which is
absolutely garbage. They are now a full two and a
half games back in the Al West behind the Houston Astros.
The June swoon has already taken effect as we speak.
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It's already going on right now, barely above five hundred. Still,
they're the only team in Major League Baseball who has
a better than five hundred overall record but has a
losing record. At home. So yeah, I thought this weekend
they maybe get two out of three possible sweep didn't happen,
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And so the Lob is back in Seattle, aren't you?
Are you happy for it? But not as not as
sexy as Earl Thomas laying out Michael Crabtree across the middle.
Not as sexy as that. Huh No, No, I didn't
think so. But the Lob is back, man, the Lob
and Seattle left on base it is back in full
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sixty five runners in the in those ten losses, which
do the math do the math comes to six point
two runners left on base every game and those ten
losses six point two and a six point twenty five.
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So the Lob is back in Seattle. You know what.
I'm just like, oh man, I've got to do this.
The lob, It's just it's there. It's just different. It's
a different lob, but it's still there. So all in all,
nice win over the Angels. They were able to get
it done. I think the thing that I'll take the
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most out of the weekend is that obviously cal Roley
is not only going to be an All Star, the
starting catcher gotta be the starting catcher in the All
Star Game next month. But this team, they got George Kirby,
the real good. George Kirby is finally back where he belongs,
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and that is good news. Waiting for the ace, even
though Brian wu has been the ace all season long.
But Logan Gilbert, the guy that everybody thought was going
to be the cy Young Award winner, waiting for him
to come back, which will hopefully be sooner than later.
But lob two point zero in Seattle is back. And
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if the Mariners don't make the playoffs, If they don't,
you're gonna look at this season and how many runners
have been stranded on base fifteen out of eighty with
runners in scoring position, and those ten losses for a
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one eighty eight batting average fifteen of eighty with runners
in scoring position. That's like an accomplishment, but in a
bad way, in a bad way. People. Yes, yes, uh,
they've been l being for years from the two five three, Yes,
they certainly have been, and they're doing it now. They're
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doing it now, and it's just like it's painful to watch.
It really truly is painful to watch. But nonetheless, they
were able to squander one game against the lowly angels.
And another thing. You know, when you can watch an
athlete who was once the best in the world and
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now you watch him and he's a shell of his
former self. Mike Trout. It's sad to watch Mike Trout now.
There's just something there. And he is healthy, but there's
just something there. He's like JJ Watt after JJ Watt
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won the Defensive Player of the Year three times in
his first four seasons, and then he kept getting hurt,
and he kept getting hurt, and then he he just
wasn't the same after that. Mike Trout is it's painful
to watch him now. It really is painful to watch
Mike Trout. What happened to this guy? Seriously unbelievable, unfreaking believable. Hey,
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bro sixty five out of one hundred. It's like his
six point five. It is the easiest math either. He
went from six point two to six point five. Hey,
I'm half Polish, give me a break mark. This is
how it is with the MS every year dating back
to each hero, same thing, different year. Six point five, yes,
I know, thankfully six point five fair enough runners left
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on base and the last ten losses. That is absolutely pathetic.
And when I say it's looking a lot like last year,
now you know what I'm talking about. It's looking a
lot like last year's team where they can't drive anybody in,
they can't manufacture base runners. They just can't do it, can't.
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I'm not gonna get at all. I mean, listen, I
know that you get what you pay for, right, I mean,
that's pretty much what it comes down to. I mean,
this team didn't do anything, so what I didn't expect anything.
But when you don't do anything, yeah, I'm not gonna
get all over Cole Young. He's just a rookie. Let
the kid get his time. It's fine. Just let him
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get his time. It'll things will turn around for that kid.
I'm not going to get on him. He's just probably
might not should have been called up so quickly. But
you want to see what you got because instead of
leaving these guys down on the farm. Oh by the way,
oh oh, I'd be remissified and mention this. How about that?
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What did I say, kid? Do we have oh? We
have this? Oh I'd be I'd be remiss if I
didn't mention this. Let's go back to a week ago
on this very show, how about Bryce Miller. Nine starts
this season, zero quality starts, couldn't even get past the
fourth inning on Saturday night. You had Logan Evans up here.
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You wanted to bring Bryce Miller back and the guy
he's shot and I've watched him time and time again,
and I thought they called him back up to early.
I well, they they brought him back to early. Kirby.
I don't have an issue with because Kirby you got
get live bullets. But Bryce Miller, I don't know what
it is because last year he was one of the
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most reliable guys, but couldn't get out of the fourth inning.
After the fourth inning, three earned runs and four innings
on Saturday in the month of May, nine to six,
nine ERA in the month of May. Something's wrong with
Bryce Miller. Nine starts, zero quality starts. So I ask
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you the question today, what do you do about Bryce Miller?
And what is wrong with Andres? Sorry way Munio was
gonna looked a little little shaky here yesterday. That was
a week ago. So let me add to that. Ten
starts for Bryce Miller, zero quality starts. That was last Monday,
after his pathetics start at home to where he could
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only get four innings. On Friday night he went five
innings but gave up five earned runs. What are we
doing here? I mean, do you not see this? Does
Dan Wilson Girard too? Do you not see? Bryce Miller
is trash? He's absolute garbage, good good, good, good, good
good good good good good garbage. Get him out and
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if you're a gambler, fade the Mariners. Every time Bryce
Miller starts, he's trash, triple trash, quadruple trash, ten starts,
zero quality, starts, open markets, boats, person inflammation. Eh, well,
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they get him out of there because he's compromising the
integrity of the team. He's a hole on the roster,
a hole. Get him out of there, gone, I mean,
what are we doing here? Every time he got ten starts,
ten starts. The dude's got a freaking what does he have?
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What does his era up do now? Nearly six era?
He had a nine six nine in May. Of course
the other night you saw, you know, five eurned runs
in five innings, ninety ray in June after one start?
What are we doing here with Bryce Miller? How long
do you need to realize that something is wrong with him?
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Whether it's physically whether it's mentally he shot, it's like,
shut him down. Bring back Logan Evans. Put Bryce Miller
on the il and bring back Logan. Anybody in the
Mariners organization named Logan who's healthy needs to be pitching,
whether it's Evans and then hopefully Gilbert will be soon.
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But you gotta get Bryce Miller and basically il that
guy immediately. What the hell? How many times are we
gonna see this? If you if Geno Smith had ten
starts and all ten starts he threw two picks, and
he had twenty picks after ten starts, what would you
say about Geno Smith? You'd be killing him? And here
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we go Bryce Miller, I mean all over again. I
don't get it. I Elvis guy and bring back Logan
Evans please? Will you already? I mean, I know you're
not gonna spend you I know you don't want to
spend money. That's fine, but at least make the right
decisions to do the things to put your team in
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a best position to succeed. Having Bryce Miller on the
mound is a detriment, It's a liability. What are we doing?
What are you doing? I mean, Dan Wilson, I know
you're technically a rookie manager because your first full season.
But my lord, and you got one of the best
pitching coaches in baseball. I mean, everybody's got to see
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what we're seeing. I mean, it's just like, come on,
I mean, what are we doing here? Oh oh, I
can't believe I almost forgot about that. Bryce Miller. What
a oh man? He's It's like, if Pete Woodworth can't
get anything out of him, then nobody can because that
guy is one of the best in Major League Baseball.
He shot put him on the il shut him down
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because he is just trash truh trauh trau trash with
a capital T. And if if he gets another start
coming up this week against the Diamondbacks on Wednesday, bet
everything you can on Arizona. Bet everything you can on Arizona.
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He's gonna give you. He's gonna give up four or
five and runs and four innings. That's what he does.
I mean, do you not are you? Are we not
watching the same game here? I know there's not you know,
there's a lot of like you know, you know, softball people,
you know, when it comes to criticizing in this market.
But I'm gonna call what I see, and this guy
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is killing this team. I don't know how much longer
you need to see this. It's you know, he needs
a hold a piece of crap in front of my
face to know that it stinks, and he stinks. He
sucks bad, really bad. All right? Got that off my chest.
And by the way, I won last night at gambling.
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You would have thought after that ran I lost. No,
I won. Bryce isn't any more of a hole than
Julio is. Send them both down fifty four percent for
the four two five. I'm one hundred percent polish. We
aren't that bad at math? Well I am. Lol. It
doesn't literally matter as long as we win fifty four
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percent of our games. Ah, all right, we got the
math thing. Mark. I hate to be that guy. I
know radio could be tough. Maybe I misunderstood, but the
Mariners left sixty five runners on base and ten losses.
Wouldn't that be six point five runners per game? Lol?
All good? Just busting your balls, no worries. Piece from Everett.
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I half polish, that's my excuse. What can I say?
Just that University of Miami Education didn't come out to
help me as much as I thought it did all right?
Coming up next. Yeah, by the way, everybody here, you
better get ready, you better get ready for a OKC
parade because it's about to happen. It's about to happen.
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They got a market correction in the NBA Finals last night.
Market correction, by the way, actually speaking of that, you
know what calling audible here, there's a lot of talk.
Andrew Marshan reported something big on Friday. We'll get to
that next and what that means and how I will
help out Adam Silver and I will help out the
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NBA and I will fix the finals. You want the
ratings to go up, I'm gonna fix it for you. NBA.
I got that next right here. Don't forget Lane Lambert
press conference at the top of the hour. Ian Furness
will be live out there and getting ready for the
Lane Lambert era to begin. It's MJ and the Midday
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on a Monday, Sports Radio ninety three to three KJR them.
So a report came out over the weekend, and if
Andrew Marshan reports it, it's probably pretty close to happening.
Because I've been monitoring everything that this guy has reporting
for years now since he left ESPN. About a decade ago,
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and he is so plugged in and so well connected,
it's ridiculous. So Andrew Marshan is now with I Believe
the Athletic and he's their sports media reporter, and he's
the guy that tells you what's going to happen. So
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he said, quote about Doris Burke next season. Burke spot
is not guaranteed for next season, according to sources familiar
with ESPN's preliminary plans. While the Basketball Hall of Famer
under a long term deal is not going anywhere, ESPN
will evaluate its entire roster and quote from Andrew Marshan,
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so you can pretty much think that that's that's something
that's gonna happen. You would think that that's something that
will happen. So the ratings have been down because there
aren't brand names in the finals that are so recognizable
Steph Curry, Kyrie Irving, Lebron, James Luka, Doncic. They're not
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big markets, and you gotta get the you know, just
the casual fans or the non casual fans, or people
just like, oh, who's playing Indiana versus Oklahoma City? Oh okay,
So let me just say this, I think Doris Burke
is wonderful. I think she's tremendous. She's a Hall of Famer.
She's great at what she does. She's a pioneer for
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women's basketball and her day at Providence College. She's wonderful.
She does a great job on the broadcast. She started
as a sideline reporter and worked her way up to
get to where she is. But do you remember, kid
wasn't that long ago, so you definitely would remember this.
Remember about four or five years ago when ESPN Monday
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Night Football was going through that transitional phase and at
the time on Monday Night Football, you had Steve Levy,
Brian Greasi, and Lewis Riddick. Remember that. Yep, Okay, I
love Lewis Reddick. I he's one of my favorite people.
So this is not on him. He was just putting
a sit. Hey, listen, someone's gonna tell you that you're
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gonna be going on Monday Football. You're not gonna turn
that down. So this is not an indictment of Lewis Riddick.
I love that guy. Guy is one of the best
in the business of all time. He's phenomenal. He tells
it like it is. He's a straight shooter, you know,
I don't. He doesn't look like he's in the you
know kind of you know and paid for, like somebody
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that he worked with on the NFL Draft, mel kiper
Junior anyone. So this is not on Lewis Rake, but
when you watch Monday Night Football for those years with
Steve Levy and Brian Greasey, it felt small. It looks small,
it didn't feel big. So what did ESPN do. They
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went out and bought, just like they did with the
Pat McAfee show. They went out and got the guys
who've been together for twenty years since John Madden left Fox,
Joe Buck and Troy Aikman. Boom, We're gonna do two things.
We're gonna get that brand and we're gonna hurt our
competitor Fox and steal that brand from them. Mission accomplished.
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Killed two birds at once. Done. Love it. It's been great.
And I don't like Joe Buck at all. I think
he smug. Is he great? Oh yeah? One of the
best announcers to ever do it better than his dad
with his dad rest in peace, one of the best
announcers to ever do I just don't like him personally.
I think he's smug. Okay, I just don't like Joe
buck It. He's just one of those guys I don't like.
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So I'm gonna fix the finals. I'm gonna fix the
NBA going forward. Now I know Mike Breen's under contract.
I like Mike Brain, He's I like him. He's a
Hall of Fame announcer. It's fine. Is he the best? No,
he's not the best. But if if yours truly Mark
with the c James mj was in charge of picking
the best announcers to do the finals. Here's what I'm
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going with now, one of them all. Now you could say, Mark,
you little bias because you're friends with this guy. I
don't care. This guy is the best. And he's the
face and voice of March Madness on CBS. And I'm
talking about Iron Eagle. I want Iron Eagle. And then
I'm bringing back Mama. There goes that man, Mark Jackson.
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He was just great. And I think Irony and Mark
Jackson would be great. And I'm gonna add another person
to the mix, Jimmy Jackson. Former NBA player Dallas Maverick
played at Ohio State. And if you don't want Jimmy
Jackson or you don't want Mark Jackson. You said, well, Mark,
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you can't have two Jacksons. You gotta only have one
of them. Then I'm bringing in Van Gundy, not Jeff,
though Stan. I like Stan Van Gundy better. He's more
enjoyable to listen to than his brother. His brother was
a curmudgeon. I loved him as the Knicks coach, but
as an announcer, he acted like he invented the freaking
game of basketball. I used to call him Jeff Van
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Naysmith because he acted like he invented the game. That's
how you fix the finals Iron Eagle and Mark Jackson
with Stan Van Gundy or Iron Eagle, Mark Jackson and
Jimmy Jackson, or Iron Eagle Jimmy Jackson and Stan Van Gundy.
Because I'm gonna say something right now, you tell me
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what you think about this. It just feels like the
f team that's doing not Mike Breen, but even Richard Jefferson.
It doesn't feel and have that big game sound. When
Breen did it with Van Gundy and Mark Jackson, huge,
that was awesome. That was like, whoa you get? They
got rid of Van Gundy, Mark Jackson. They want to
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save money, fine, they had to pay Joe Bucketroikman, it
just looks small. It just doesn't, you know, Like it's
the NBA Finals. It's gotta sound big, big iron eagle,
Mark Jackson with stan Van Gundy or Jimmy Jackson. That's
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how you fix the finals. You're welcome, ESPN. That's how
you do it, Okay. Coming up next hitting to all fields.
Will the goat be the goat on the mic like
he was when he played. We'll get to that next,
and then the Seattle Kraken press conference to introduce Lane
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Lambert as the new head coach. Coming up at the
top of the hour on MJ in the midday Sports
Radio ninety three to three kJ Artam, all right, we
will be going up at the top of the hour
to the Kracking community, Ice Blecks for the introduction of
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Lane Lambert as the new head coach of the Kracking.
Big day for the Kraken, and kudos to Todd by Wicki,
Ron Francis, Jason Botterol and everybody for trying to get
this thing going here. Man, I haven't been over there yet.
This place looks sweet. Wow. I have not been over
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to the caci Ne yet. This place looks awesome. Oh
my lord, I'm just looking online right now. I'm not
gonna get over there and check this place out over
at Northgate. Very nice, all right. Uh So, Michael Jordan
the Goat will be getting paid thirty eight million dollars.
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It's the largest. Actually, he's gonna be might be close
to forty. He's gonna be getting paid that much next
year for NBC to be a studio analyst. Slash contributor
Steven A. Smith went on a podcast recently because he's
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all over the place, and he was asked about how
the Goat MJ, the real MJ. Michael Jordan will fare
as an analyst.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
Let me tell you something about Michael Jordan. He's gonna
be brutally honest. Oh I can show you that he's
not gonna be somebody that's gonna be passive. Michael Jordan,
I know when talking basketball, he is as candid as
it gets.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
He trying to hurt nobody's feelings.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
I'm trying to be insulting, but he's going to tell
you what's going on. And I'm actually proud of him
for doing it because, you know, with the Jordan brand
and him being worth over two billions, so he don't
need this or his mentality, please, and wasting my time
with that because he never wants to be interviewed at
all this other stuff. And I said, come on, man,
stop acting like you have nothing to say about basketball.
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Not you're retired, you talk about it all the damn time.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
I'm literally talking about getting a call. What the hell
did I just hear you say call me now? I'm like,
what the hell you say that for? It don't make
no damn sense.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
This is him, right, Kobe was a little bit different. No,
I didn't just hear you say that. Don't even think
about getting off the ear and thinking that you're gonna
go someplace else because you got another one of your
damn twelve jobs.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
Pick up the damn phone and call me. Now, that's Kobe.
Mike's not quite like that.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
And I don't think that he's going to be shy
about saying what.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
He sees at all.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
A matter of fact, if he is, he's gonna have
to deal with me because I'm gonna be in the ZEA.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
Tell him, Oh we get shine? Now that ain't the
one I named MJ. I know what you're doing. Let's
go well, I hope you're right, Steven A. Smith. I
hope you're right, and I hope we get that unfiltered,
unadulterated Michael Jordan, who's gonna say what it is and
say like it is. I happen to get up early
(32:24):
on Sunday morning, and uh, they were showing episodes, the
last couple episodes of The Last Dance. I already watched it,
but you know what, I was like, Yeah, I could
just put this on. I'm watching it all over again.
It's just the things that he did to make himself.
It wasn't just talent and nobility, the things he did
(32:45):
to go above and beyond and how the old Druck
competitor that he was as a player, and yeah, he
wasn't great as an owner. I was in Charlotte for
four years and saw that complete total bond nomination. But
you know what, the NBA ripped off his team at
the time when they should have got the number one
overall pick in Anthony Davis. And had they gotten Anthony Davis,
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No more excuses coming on. Next we go to the
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will be formally introduced as the brand new Seattle Kraken
(34:58):
Head Coach. We will also talk to Mike Benton coming
up next hour right here on Sports Radio ninety three
three kJ RT M MJ in the midday
Maybe not one hundred and eighty degrees, but maybe about
one hundred and ten. Well, yesterday he kind of got
that thing up to about one hundred and sixty degrees.
That looked like the George Kirby that we all know
and love. Hello everyone, this is MJ in the Midday
on Sports Radio ninety three to three KJRFM. Kirby fourteen
k's Jesus George. I mean, my good god, that was
(00:27):
just unfreaking believable. Fourteen k's. You don't see that much
a career high. So he's back, he's back. His strikeouts
were the most buying MS pitcher since James Paxton had
sixteen back in about eight years no, seven years ago,
(00:47):
in May of twenty eighteen. So that was the good news.
That was the great news of the whole weekend. Obviously,
cal Rawley continues to lead the majors in home run
He's just out of this, like playing on another level
right now. He's just unfreaking believable. He got the day
off yesterday deservedly so. But so the M's got a
(01:11):
nice win, which I you know, there was a lot
to kind of because they were on the verge of
getting swept so all in all, I will take that.
I hope everybody out there have a good weekend. Oh
this day, Oh, I would have Christopher kids on the
other side of the glass. All kid, you have no idea.
Oh the barrels of sports gambling. Last night, I took
(01:37):
the Oklahoma City Thunder team total over one hundred and
twenty and a half points, and it looked like they
were gonna go over easy. And then it came down
to thirty two seconds left in the game. Okase is
stuck on AE hundred and twenty and Jalen william not
(02:01):
the great Jalen Williams, but my boy from Arkansas's Jalen
Williams hit a three got me the cover. Thank you.
OKAYC made up for Halliburton in Game one not going
for eighteen points. Oh my god. I was like, that
was gonna be such a bad beat. Oh, it was
(02:22):
gonna be such a bad beat. And they had it.
They had it, and I know they were gonna take
out their stars, which I don't blame Mark Dagnol for doing.
Oh this is a kid. I would have been such
a miserable You know what today if that if Jalen Williams,
thank you Arkansas razorback doesn't hit that shot? Gave me
the over and oh, because I could just sense that.
(02:46):
I'm like no, and you know it would have killed me.
You know what. It killed me when Aaron Wiggins, with
like a minute and a half left, missed one of
two free throws. Dude, don't miss your free throws. You can't.
When you're when you were like a more a better
than seventy five to eighty percent free throw shooter, you
can't miss your freaking free does. So, OKC did what
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we all thought they would do. They basically, you know,
kind of said, Okay, your little honeymoon Indiana is over
and we're gonna show you what we're made of tying
things up at one apiece in the NBA finals. So
Jalen williams oh Man, I owe you. I owe you,
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Karl Anthony Towns owes me, but I owe you bro
Oh my god. You live by the sword, you die
by the sword and gambling. I want to thank all
the people who came out to Arnold's Appliance in Bellevue
and their owner Jeremy and the fine folks that were
out there. We had great food on Saturday. It was
(03:49):
like a five star. Everybody kind of competing off the grills.
The competing grills, and the biggest winners were everybody who
showed up. So I met a lot of people came out,
listened to the show, even Christopher Kidd as a fan.
I mean you have fans as well. They showed up there.
Where are you. I'm like, oh, Christopher Kidd, he's you know,
(04:10):
he's too busy for this stuff. He's not going to
come out here on a yeah. Hey, hey, there's no
there's no shame in my game. If Mark's that kid,
can you just come, you know, a fifteen minutes. I
don't care. I got you, Mark, But you know what, kid,
you know what? I you know what I found out
driving over to Bellevue even on a Saturday afternoon, it
could be me. It was not fun. It was not
(04:32):
like full time. Did you get there? I got there
before noon, about eleven fifty five And it was no accident, right,
it was no but it was just bumper to bumper
jaffic man four h five and oh my, I'm like
a good scenic view. Oh yeah, yeah, but it was
awesome Arnold's apply and I mean the food was great.
Met some a lot of listeners came out, Rocket Ron
(04:55):
and his buddy who big fans of the show, Mark
who was I hope Mark with a k wins the
Russell Wilson autograph football which you can register by you know,
going and doing all that thing. But that was a
fun thing. So all that was was really really good
out there. So we appreciate everybody at Arnold's Appliance who
came out on Saturday, Jeremy and all the fine folks.
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We had a wonderful time and thanks to our own
account Executive Extraordinaiy Matt Hobbs for us setting that up.
It was really fun. It was a beautiful day and
free food was to be had, and let's just say
that I certainly par took in a lot of the
great free food that was there. Oh my lord, the
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steak tips, the barbecue chicken sliders with the homemade mac
and cheese, the steak salad, the grilled barbecue chicken. It
was off the freaking chain, all right, So that was fun.
Coming up at the top of next hour, we will
go live to the Kraken Complex Ice Complex. We will
(06:04):
go out there to Ian Furness as today they will
introduce Lane Lambert to be the new head coach of
the Kraken. The mayor is there on standby waiting for us,
so we'll go to him around the top of next
hour and Lane Lambert will be introduced to everybody and
let the Lane Lambert era begin here in Seattle and
(06:25):
throughout the PNW excited for that. So we got that
coming up at the top of the hour. You want
to stay tuned for that. We'll talk to Mike Benton
as well, coming up next hour. I you know what, everybody,
everybody here in Seattle, and justifiably so, talks about the
lob era and how great that was here in Seattle,
(06:49):
how great it lasted. And Earl Thomas Richard Sherman, can
Chancellor Brandon Browner, the lob. Did you know the lob
two point zero in Seattle's back? Did you know that?
You don't have to wait for it's happening right now.
It's happening right now here in Seattle. The lob is back,
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and it's the Seattle Mariners. But the lob instead for
Legion of Boom, stands for left on base. The Mariners
listen to this, and ten of their last fourteen games
they've lost ten of their last fourteen games. In those
ten losses, guess how many runners were left on base
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for LOB two point zero sixty five sixty five runners
left on base And their last ten out of fourteen
games in those ten losses dating back to May twenty
fourth against the Astros, the Mariners are fifteen for eighty
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with runners in scoring position for a one eighty eight
batting average. LOB it Seattle is back, l B, l
B l B. It's back in Seattle, just not the
good lob. It's the bad lob. So's it's left on base,
not legon to boom. But they are leaving runners stranded
(08:20):
all over the place, all over And yeah, they won yesterday,
that's fine. Let's look at their last fourteen games, because
they're four and ten in their last fourteen, which is
absolutely garbage. They are now a full two and a
half games back in the Al West behind the Houston Astros.
The June swoon has already taken effect as we speak.
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It's already going on right now, barely above five hundred. Still,
they're the only team in Major League Baseball who has
a better than five hundred overall record but has a
losing record. At home. So yeah, I thought this weekend
they maybe get two out of three possible sweep didn't happen,
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And so the Lob is back in Seattle, aren't you?
Are you happy for it? But not as not as
sexy as Earl Thomas laying out Michael Crabtree across the middle.
Not as sexy as that. Huh No, No, I didn't
think so. But the Lob is back, man, the Lob
and Seattle left on base it is back in full
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sixty five runners in the in those ten losses, which
do the math do the math comes to six point
two runners left on base every game and those ten
losses six point two and a six point twenty five.
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So the Lob is back in Seattle. You know what.
I'm just like, oh man, I've got to do this.
The lob, It's just it's there. It's just different. It's
a different lob, but it's still there. So all in all,
nice win over the Angels. They were able to get
it done. I think the thing that I'll take the
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most out of the weekend is that obviously cal Roley
is not only going to be an All Star, the
starting catcher gotta be the starting catcher in the All
Star Game next month. But this team, they got George Kirby,
the real good. George Kirby is finally back where he belongs,
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and that is good news. Waiting for the ace, even
though Brian wu has been the ace all season long.
But Logan Gilbert, the guy that everybody thought was going
to be the cy Young Award winner, waiting for him
to come back, which will hopefully be sooner than later.
But lob two point zero in Seattle is back. And
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if the Mariners don't make the playoffs, If they don't,
you're gonna look at this season and how many runners
have been stranded on base fifteen out of eighty with
runners in scoring position, and those ten losses for a
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one eighty eight batting average fifteen of eighty with runners
in scoring position. That's like an accomplishment, but in a
bad way, in a bad way. People. Yes, yes, uh,
they've been l being for years from the two five three, Yes,
they certainly have been, and they're doing it now. They're
(11:35):
doing it now, and it's just like it's painful to watch.
It really truly is painful to watch. But nonetheless, they
were able to squander one game against the lowly angels.
And another thing. You know, when you can watch an
athlete who was once the best in the world and
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now you watch him and he's a shell of his
former self. Mike Trout. It's sad to watch Mike Trout now.
There's just something there. And he is healthy, but there's
just something there. He's like JJ Watt after JJ Watt
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won the Defensive Player of the Year three times in
his first four seasons, and then he kept getting hurt,
and he kept getting hurt, and then he he just
wasn't the same after that. Mike Trout is it's painful
to watch him now. It really is painful to watch
Mike Trout. What happened to this guy? Seriously unbelievable, unfreaking believable. Hey,
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bro sixty five out of one hundred. It's like his
six point five. It is the easiest math either. He
went from six point two to six point five. Hey,
I'm half Polish, give me a break mark. This is
how it is with the MS every year dating back
to each hero, same thing, different year. Six point five, yes,
I know, thankfully six point five fair enough runners left
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on base and the last ten losses. That is absolutely pathetic.
And when I say it's looking a lot like last year,
now you know what I'm talking about. It's looking a
lot like last year's team where they can't drive anybody in,
they can't manufacture base runners. They just can't do it, can't.
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I'm not gonna get at all. I mean, listen, I
know that you get what you pay for, right, I mean,
that's pretty much what it comes down to. I mean,
this team didn't do anything, so what I didn't expect anything.
But when you don't do anything, yeah, I'm not gonna
get all over Cole Young. He's just a rookie. Let
the kid get his time. It's fine. Just let him
(13:58):
get his time. It'll things will turn around for that kid.
I'm not going to get on him. He's just probably
might not should have been called up so quickly. But
you want to see what you got because instead of
leaving these guys down on the farm. Oh by the way,
oh oh, I'd be remissified and mention this. How about that?
(14:21):
What did I say, kid? Do we have oh? We
have this? Oh I'd be I'd be remiss if I
didn't mention this. Let's go back to a week ago
on this very show, how about Bryce Miller. Nine starts
this season, zero quality starts, couldn't even get past the
fourth inning on Saturday night. You had Logan Evans up here.
(14:44):
You wanted to bring Bryce Miller back and the guy
he's shot and I've watched him time and time again,
and I thought they called him back up to early.
I well, they they brought him back to early. Kirby.
I don't have an issue with because Kirby you got
get live bullets. But Bryce Miller, I don't know what
it is because last year he was one of the
(15:06):
most reliable guys, but couldn't get out of the fourth inning.
After the fourth inning, three earned runs and four innings
on Saturday in the month of May, nine to six,
nine ERA in the month of May. Something's wrong with
Bryce Miller. Nine starts, zero quality starts. So I ask
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you the question today, what do you do about Bryce Miller?
And what is wrong with Andres? Sorry way Munio was
gonna looked a little little shaky here yesterday. That was
a week ago. So let me add to that. Ten
starts for Bryce Miller, zero quality starts. That was last Monday,
after his pathetics start at home to where he could
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only get four innings. On Friday night he went five
innings but gave up five earned runs. What are we
doing here? I mean, do you not see this? Does
Dan Wilson Girard too? Do you not see? Bryce Miller
is trash? He's absolute garbage, good good, good, good, good
good good good good good garbage. Get him out and
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if you're a gambler, fade the Mariners. Every time Bryce
Miller starts, he's trash, triple trash, quadruple trash, ten starts,
zero quality, starts, open markets, boats, person inflammation. Eh, well,
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they get him out of there because he's compromising the
integrity of the team. He's a hole on the roster,
a hole. Get him out of there, gone, I mean,
what are we doing here? Every time he got ten starts,
ten starts. The dude's got a freaking what does he have?
(16:54):
What does his era up do now? Nearly six era?
He had a nine six nine in May. Of course
the other night you saw, you know, five eurned runs
in five innings, ninety ray in June after one start?
What are we doing here with Bryce Miller? How long
do you need to realize that something is wrong with him?
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Whether it's physically whether it's mentally he shot, it's like,
shut him down. Bring back Logan Evans. Put Bryce Miller
on the il and bring back Logan. Anybody in the
Mariners organization named Logan who's healthy needs to be pitching,
whether it's Evans and then hopefully Gilbert will be soon.
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But you gotta get Bryce Miller and basically il that
guy immediately. What the hell? How many times are we
gonna see this? If you if Geno Smith had ten
starts and all ten starts he threw two picks, and
he had twenty picks after ten starts, what would you
say about Geno Smith? You'd be killing him? And here
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we go Bryce Miller, I mean all over again. I
don't get it. I Elvis guy and bring back Logan
Evans please? Will you already? I mean, I know you're
not gonna spend you I know you don't want to
spend money. That's fine, but at least make the right
decisions to do the things to put your team in
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a best position to succeed. Having Bryce Miller on the
mound is a detriment, It's a liability. What are we doing?
What are you doing? I mean, Dan Wilson, I know
you're technically a rookie manager because your first full season.
But my lord, and you got one of the best
pitching coaches in baseball. I mean, everybody's got to see
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what we're seeing. I mean, it's just like, come on,
I mean, what are we doing here? Oh oh, I
can't believe I almost forgot about that. Bryce Miller. What
a oh man? He's It's like, if Pete Woodworth can't
get anything out of him, then nobody can because that
guy is one of the best in Major League Baseball.
He shot put him on the il shut him down
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because he is just trash truh trauh trau trash with
a capital T. And if if he gets another start
coming up this week against the Diamondbacks on Wednesday, bet
everything you can on Arizona. Bet everything you can on Arizona.
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He's gonna give you. He's gonna give up four or
five and runs and four innings. That's what he does.
I mean, do you not are you? Are we not
watching the same game here? I know there's not you know,
there's a lot of like you know, you know, softball people,
you know, when it comes to criticizing in this market.
But I'm gonna call what I see, and this guy
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is killing this team. I don't know how much longer
you need to see this. It's you know, he needs
a hold a piece of crap in front of my
face to know that it stinks, and he stinks. He
sucks bad, really bad. All right? Got that off my chest.
And by the way, I won last night at gambling.
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You would have thought after that ran I lost. No,
I won. Bryce isn't any more of a hole than
Julio is. Send them both down fifty four percent for
the four two five. I'm one hundred percent polish. We
aren't that bad at math? Well I am. Lol. It
doesn't literally matter as long as we win fifty four
(20:34):
percent of our games. Ah, all right, we got the
math thing. Mark. I hate to be that guy. I
know radio could be tough. Maybe I misunderstood, but the
Mariners left sixty five runners on base and ten losses.
Wouldn't that be six point five runners per game? Lol?
All good? Just busting your balls, no worries. Piece from Everett.
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I half polish, that's my excuse. What can I say?
Just that University of Miami Education didn't come out to
help me as much as I thought it did all right?
Coming up next. Yeah, by the way, everybody here, you
better get ready, you better get ready for a OKC
parade because it's about to happen. It's about to happen.
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They got a market correction in the NBA Finals last night.
Market correction, by the way, actually speaking of that, you
know what calling audible here, there's a lot of talk.
Andrew Marshan reported something big on Friday. We'll get to
that next and what that means and how I will
help out Adam Silver and I will help out the
(21:40):
NBA and I will fix the finals. You want the
ratings to go up, I'm gonna fix it for you. NBA.
I got that next right here. Don't forget Lane Lambert
press conference at the top of the hour. Ian Furness
will be live out there and getting ready for the
Lane Lambert era to begin. It's MJ and the Midday
(22:02):
on a Monday, Sports Radio ninety three to three KJR them.
So a report came out over the weekend, and if
Andrew Marshan reports it, it's probably pretty close to happening.
Because I've been monitoring everything that this guy has reporting
for years now since he left ESPN. About a decade ago,
(22:24):
and he is so plugged in and so well connected,
it's ridiculous. So Andrew Marshan is now with I Believe
the Athletic and he's their sports media reporter, and he's
the guy that tells you what's going to happen. So
(22:47):
he said, quote about Doris Burke next season. Burke spot
is not guaranteed for next season, according to sources familiar
with ESPN's preliminary plans. While the Basketball Hall of Famer
under a long term deal is not going anywhere, ESPN
will evaluate its entire roster and quote from Andrew Marshan,
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so you can pretty much think that that's that's something
that's gonna happen. You would think that that's something that
will happen. So the ratings have been down because there
aren't brand names in the finals that are so recognizable
Steph Curry, Kyrie Irving, Lebron, James Luka, Doncic. They're not
(23:35):
big markets, and you gotta get the you know, just
the casual fans or the non casual fans, or people
just like, oh, who's playing Indiana versus Oklahoma City? Oh okay,
So let me just say this, I think Doris Burke
is wonderful. I think she's tremendous. She's a Hall of Famer.
She's great at what she does. She's a pioneer for
(23:57):
women's basketball and her day at Providence College. She's wonderful.
She does a great job on the broadcast. She started
as a sideline reporter and worked her way up to
get to where she is. But do you remember, kid
wasn't that long ago, so you definitely would remember this.
Remember about four or five years ago when ESPN Monday
(24:19):
Night Football was going through that transitional phase and at
the time on Monday Night Football, you had Steve Levy,
Brian Greasi, and Lewis Riddick. Remember that. Yep, Okay, I
love Lewis Reddick. I he's one of my favorite people.
So this is not on him. He was just putting
a sit. Hey, listen, someone's gonna tell you that you're
(24:41):
gonna be going on Monday Football. You're not gonna turn
that down. So this is not an indictment of Lewis Riddick.
I love that guy. Guy is one of the best
in the business of all time. He's phenomenal. He tells
it like it is. He's a straight shooter, you know,
I don't. He doesn't look like he's in the you
know kind of you know and paid for, like somebody
(25:02):
that he worked with on the NFL Draft, mel kiper
Junior anyone. So this is not on Lewis Rake, but
when you watch Monday Night Football for those years with
Steve Levy and Brian Greasey, it felt small. It looks small,
it didn't feel big. So what did ESPN do. They
(25:23):
went out and bought, just like they did with the
Pat McAfee show. They went out and got the guys
who've been together for twenty years since John Madden left Fox,
Joe Buck and Troy Aikman. Boom, We're gonna do two things.
We're gonna get that brand and we're gonna hurt our
competitor Fox and steal that brand from them. Mission accomplished.
(25:44):
Killed two birds at once. Done. Love it. It's been great.
And I don't like Joe Buck at all. I think
he smug. Is he great? Oh yeah? One of the
best announcers to ever do it better than his dad
with his dad rest in peace, one of the best
announcers to ever do I just don't like him personally.
I think he's smug. Okay, I just don't like Joe
buck It. He's just one of those guys I don't like.
(26:07):
So I'm gonna fix the finals. I'm gonna fix the
NBA going forward. Now I know Mike Breen's under contract.
I like Mike Brain, He's I like him. He's a
Hall of Fame announcer. It's fine. Is he the best? No,
he's not the best. But if if yours truly Mark
with the c James mj was in charge of picking
the best announcers to do the finals. Here's what I'm
(26:33):
going with now, one of them all. Now you could say, Mark,
you little bias because you're friends with this guy. I
don't care. This guy is the best. And he's the
face and voice of March Madness on CBS. And I'm
talking about Iron Eagle. I want Iron Eagle. And then
I'm bringing back Mama. There goes that man, Mark Jackson.
(26:56):
He was just great. And I think Irony and Mark
Jackson would be great. And I'm gonna add another person
to the mix, Jimmy Jackson. Former NBA player Dallas Maverick
played at Ohio State. And if you don't want Jimmy
Jackson or you don't want Mark Jackson. You said, well, Mark,
(27:19):
you can't have two Jacksons. You gotta only have one
of them. Then I'm bringing in Van Gundy, not Jeff,
though Stan. I like Stan Van Gundy better. He's more
enjoyable to listen to than his brother. His brother was
a curmudgeon. I loved him as the Knicks coach, but
as an announcer, he acted like he invented the freaking
game of basketball. I used to call him Jeff Van
(27:40):
Naysmith because he acted like he invented the game. That's
how you fix the finals Iron Eagle and Mark Jackson
with Stan Van Gundy or Iron Eagle, Mark Jackson and
Jimmy Jackson, or Iron Eagle Jimmy Jackson and Stan Van Gundy.
Because I'm gonna say something right now, you tell me
(28:00):
what you think about this. It just feels like the
f team that's doing not Mike Breen, but even Richard Jefferson.
It doesn't feel and have that big game sound. When
Breen did it with Van Gundy and Mark Jackson, huge,
that was awesome. That was like, whoa you get? They
got rid of Van Gundy, Mark Jackson. They want to
(28:22):
save money, fine, they had to pay Joe Bucketroikman, it
just looks small. It just doesn't, you know, Like it's
the NBA Finals. It's gotta sound big, big iron eagle,
Mark Jackson with stan Van Gundy or Jimmy Jackson. That's
(28:42):
how you fix the finals. You're welcome, ESPN. That's how
you do it, Okay. Coming up next hitting to all fields.
Will the goat be the goat on the mic like
he was when he played. We'll get to that next,
and then the Seattle Kraken press conference to introduce Lane
(29:03):
Lambert as the new head coach. Coming up at the
top of the hour on MJ in the midday Sports
Radio ninety three to three kJ Artam, all right, we
will be going up at the top of the hour
to the Kracking community, Ice Blecks for the introduction of
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Lane Lambert as the new head coach of the Kracking.
Big day for the Kraken, and kudos to Todd by Wicki,
Ron Francis, Jason Botterol and everybody for trying to get
this thing going here. Man, I haven't been over there yet.
This place looks sweet. Wow. I have not been over
(29:49):
to the caci Ne yet. This place looks awesome. Oh
my lord, I'm just looking online right now. I'm not
gonna get over there and check this place out over
at Northgate. Very nice, all right. Uh So, Michael Jordan
the Goat will be getting paid thirty eight million dollars.
(30:09):
It's the largest. Actually, he's gonna be might be close
to forty. He's gonna be getting paid that much next
year for NBC to be a studio analyst. Slash contributor
Steven A. Smith went on a podcast recently because he's
(30:31):
all over the place, and he was asked about how
the Goat MJ, the real MJ. Michael Jordan will fare
as an analyst.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
Let me tell you something about Michael Jordan. He's gonna
be brutally honest. Oh I can show you that he's
not gonna be somebody that's gonna be passive. Michael Jordan,
I know when talking basketball, he is as candid as
it gets.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
He trying to hurt nobody's feelings.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
I'm trying to be insulting, but he's going to tell
you what's going on. And I'm actually proud of him
for doing it because, you know, with the Jordan brand
and him being worth over two billions, so he don't
need this or his mentality, please, and wasting my time
with that because he never wants to be interviewed at
all this other stuff. And I said, come on, man,
stop acting like you have nothing to say about basketball.
(31:21):
Not you're retired, you talk about it all the damn time.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
I'm literally talking about getting a call. What the hell
did I just hear you say call me now? I'm like,
what the hell you say that for? It don't make
no damn sense.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
This is him, right, Kobe was a little bit different. No,
I didn't just hear you say that. Don't even think
about getting off the ear and thinking that you're gonna
go someplace else because you got another one of your
damn twelve jobs.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
Pick up the damn phone and call me. Now, that's Kobe.
Mike's not quite like that.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
And I don't think that he's going to be shy
about saying what.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
He sees at all.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
A matter of fact, if he is, he's gonna have
to deal with me because I'm gonna be in the ZEA.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
Tell him, Oh we get shine? Now that ain't the
one I named MJ. I know what you're doing. Let's
go well, I hope you're right, Steven A. Smith. I
hope you're right, and I hope we get that unfiltered,
unadulterated Michael Jordan, who's gonna say what it is and
say like it is. I happen to get up early
(32:24):
on Sunday morning, and uh, they were showing episodes, the
last couple episodes of The Last Dance. I already watched it,
but you know what, I was like, Yeah, I could
just put this on. I'm watching it all over again.
It's just the things that he did to make himself.
It wasn't just talent and nobility, the things he did
(32:45):
to go above and beyond and how the old Druck
competitor that he was as a player, and yeah, he
wasn't great as an owner. I was in Charlotte for
four years and saw that complete total bond nomination. But
you know what, the NBA ripped off his team at
the time when they should have got the number one
overall pick in Anthony Davis. And had they gotten Anthony Davis,
(33:07):
who knows what would have happened with him and Kemba
Walker will never know. Also, I gotta say this Sports
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