October 25, 2024 • 36 mins
Fox 13 Sports director, Aaron Levine hops on the mic to talk all thing Seattle sports, from the Seahawks to the Mariners and much more. We read messages from listeners, and Gregg makes his final pick for the week in Fact or Fiction. We close the show w/ as Anderson drops in to share what Ian has planned on his show on a Football Friday.
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Welcome back The Greg Belt Show with Christoph Kid rolls.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
On for the second hour here on ninety three point
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Levine is what's for us next? Right after headlines brought
to you by Crossbrud Corslight, Choose Chill Seeaw's got their
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new middle linebacker yesterday, Ernest Jones, the fourth He's wearing
number thirteen. He went right into practice almost We're almost
right off a plane a couple hours after arriving from Nashville.
He went right onto the practice field, right in the
middle linebacker where he will start Sunday for the Seahawks
four and three Seahawks leading the NFC West against the
five and two Buffalo Bills one oh five pm on Sunday, Bloomingfield,
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Channel thirteen. Locally, speaking of Channel thirteen, Aaron Levine will
join us from Fox thirteen Seattle.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Right after these headlines Baker's arrival.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Jerome Baker got traded in the deal that brought Ernest
Jones from Tennessee, so Tyrell Dotson will start in Baker's
old spot of week side linebacker against the Bills on Sunday.
Will dk Metcalf start still to be determined, expecting him
to be maybe doubtful, maybe questionable on the injured list today.
Ryan Grebb, the offensive coordinator for the Seahawks, set after
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practice yesterday that Metcalf is working hard to get back
and if he looks good, but he hasn't practiced either
Wednesday or Thursday. He has a sprain MCL he got
in the game against Atlanta last week. It's usually a
week to week deal with a Grade one sprain rather
than day to day. Greek Woland has practiced the last
two days. Signs are the cornerback's going to start after
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missing one game in Atlanta's like he's going to start
against Buffalo. That would put probably Josh Job there his
second consecutive start started three years three games last year
with the Eagles. Devin Witherson is going to stay inside.
Nicol Kobe Bryanton track to make a second consecutive start
at safety for Rashon Jenkins, who's uninjured. Reserve Abe Lucas
practice yesterday that's a good sign that he came back
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to first practice in ten months after that knee surgery
and the winner. First practice was on Wednesday, and he
followed it up with a practice on Thursday. That's a
good sign for the longer term. They're still eyeing September
or November seventeenth, the game at San Francisco for Abe
Lucas's season debut. Trey Brown did not practice. The quarterback
doesn't look like he'll play for the second consecutive game.
Last night in the NFL, the Rams beat the Bikings
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thirty to twenty. Suddenly the Rams are three and four
and only a game out of first place. They were
Tongard selling the farm and trading Cooper Cup and Matthew Stafford.
Well here they are only a game out of first
because Stafford won twenty five for thirty four with four
touchdown passes for the Rams, beating the Vikings, who've lost
two in a row after a five and zero start.
Dolphins announced today that quarterback tu Tungo boli Well has
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cleared concussion protocol, will start on Sunday against Arizona in Miami.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
That's his first start.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
In six weeks in Washington, Jayden Daniels practice today. Rookie
quarterback who's been a phenom and the Commanders. Looks like
he's going to be a game time decision. He's got
injured ribs. Game time decision on Sunday against the Bears
in Carolina. Andy Dalton doubtful for the Panthers have start
at Denver Sunday because of the thumb injury. You got
in a car accident this week. So Bryce Young number
him's going to start for the Panthers. It appears on
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Sunday at the Denver Broncos, cracking rally from down three
to one to unbeating Winnipeg to tie it with three
late on a Matty Veneer's tipping off of a Brandon
a Tour shot from the blue line, but then in
overtime the Jets scored on a delayed penalty to win
four to three. Grenier scored his first two goals of
the season, cracking lots to turnover, especially in the neutral zone.
Winnipeg's now seven to OH, the NHL's only seven to
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OHO team. Krack Can have four wins, three losses in
an overtime loss, They're two to one to one on
this five game homestand that ends Tomorrow night against Carolina.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
In a long road trip pregame.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Show tomorrow Mike Benton's six thirty puck drop at seven
Saturday with Everitt Fitchew at Al Kaminski here on ninety
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MLS Playoffs Best at three first round Monday night against
Houston at Lumenfield. Seattle's the fourth seed, the Dynamo is
the five College football Washington. The Huskies come off there
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six and one is at UNLV six and one tonight.
The winner gets the inside track to winning the Mountain
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thirty kickoff.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
All right.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
The Beacon Plumbing Hotline has Aaron Levine, good friend of mine.
I've missed him out at some of these road games,
but he joins us talk about all things Seattle sports,
including the Seahawks.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
Hello, Aeron, Yeah, it's too bad there's nothing going on
in sports.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Yeah, right, exactly where?
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Yeh right?
Speaker 3 (05:10):
All right?
Speaker 2 (05:11):
To see aways get a new middle linebacker. We've seen
him get run over in the run the last couple
of years. What do you think Ernest Jones does for
Mike McDonald's defense.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
I mean, he can't do anything bad at this point, right,
I mean the last few weeks, the last few weeks,
they've given up over one hundred and fifty yards in
three consecutive weeks. And clearly it wasn't just the defensive line.
It was mostly happening on the second level. And I'm
really proud of John Schneider. And there's something they always
do is looking to improve the team, but clearly it
wasn't working out with Jerome Baker. He had a great
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first game, but between the injuries and whatever was happening
back there, he wasn't filling gaps the right way. And
so to go out and get a guy who's hopefully
going to fill the center and then you start him
at middle linebacker the mike linebacker spot, He's going to
fill those gaps the right way and Darrell Doddson. Dodson
can still call the defense with the green dot this week,
even though they're moving him to the outside. I really
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looking forward to seeing what this linebacking corps can do
and this defense can do as a whole, especially coming
off the momentum of the second half against last week,
against Atlanta last week and forcing three turnovers.
Speaker 5 (06:11):
With all the newness with this new team, new roster,
new coaching staff, et cetera, et cetera. Where they sit
right now seven weeks in, was this something you expected
or do you expect a little worse regarding their record
how they're looking.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
Yeah, overall, big picture, I'm happy because you take a
look at seven weeks in, you have a winning record,
You're in first place in the NFC West. I don't
think anybody would have said, no, we won't take that
after seven weeks with a brand new coaching staff. I
think it was the way that it happened, though, that
makes some people disappointed because you start off guns blazing,
you have the three and zero record, and then you
drop that game to the Giants, which is a one
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that really stands out because that was a clunker and
it was a part of the three game losing streak.
You're back to three and three. A lot of people thought, Okay, nationally,
the Seahawk's going to go the way of the New
Orleans Saints. They start really hot and then they just
kind of fade off into the sunset. Instead of doing that,
they co out and they beat Atlanta by twenty points
on the road. That was a huge statement win for
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anybody not paying attention. All of a sudden, the Seahawks
are back in the win column. They really have a
productive game, and they finally get those takeaways, which is
something they hadn't gone all year. And so this is
another statement game to show the rest of the nation
because again this is the top game on Fox on
the weekend. Tom Brady coming it down for the first
time since the U mad Bro game against Sherman in
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twenty ten twenty twelve. This is a chance to show
the entire country that the Seahawks are on the right track,
and you get to two games over five hundred and
potentially increasing your lead in the NFCS.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
I got to ask you about the Mariners, Aaron.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
You have been outspoken about the Mariners' ownership and what
they haven't done.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Do you have faith in Jerry Depoto.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Running it back and actually making the changes that would matter?
I of course talking about the offense and of course
upgrading the lineup and changing hitting approaches. What do you
see happening with the Poto still being in charge.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Where do you think this goes this winter?
Speaker 4 (08:08):
I don't know where it goes this winter. Again, this
goes back to the combination of what Jerry to Poto
hasn't done over the last nine years, and that's only
making the playoffs one time in the nine seasons. I
think what Minnesota's GM just got fired after making the
playoffs three out of the years he was there, So
this is a lower standard. I believe that we're holding
to Poto two and it's sort of a pattern that
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we've seen in Seattle with the Mariners organization in particular.
You combine that, though, with the lack of the lack
of willingness to spend money by this ownership group, and
it kind of puts to Poto in a pickle. Also,
so you have the combination of two. I tweeted it
the other day. The World Series starts tonight, Game one
on Fox, by the way, and the Yankees have the
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number two payroll in baseball. The Dodgers have the number
five payroll in baseball. I've always said spending money does
not get and tu success, but it always gives you
a better chance of success. After this year, thirteen of
the last fifteen World Series champions will have had a
top ten pay roll. Eight of the last nine champions
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will have had a top five, top ten pay roll.
This year, the top five pay roll teams all made
the playoffs. And so when you have the Mariners stuck
at number sixteen in payroll this year as an example,
if they had been in the top ten, that means
ownership would have had to pay fifty eight million dollars more.
Imagine what this team could have done this season with
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fifty eight million dollars more in offense. With the pitching
starting pitching rotation that they had, you would have had
a World Series contender.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Or even five offense fifty and listen.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
They could have if Taostar Hernandez wanted to stay here
and got paid what he's paying for the Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
They're getting paid.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
For the Dodge.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
They were afraid they were gonna sign. He's afraid, who's gonna.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
Stay and you keep Geno Suarez. That's thirty four million
dollars right there. You have twenty four million dollars left
to spend. And if you're talking another fifty eight million dollars,
this team would have been a World Series contender bar none.
So when John Stanton comes out and says, oh, this
team is committed to winning, I don't believe him, and
I don't believe him for a second because they're not
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doing everything they possibly can do in order to provide
a winning team for Seattle. Again, you don't have to
spend money all the time, but it does give you
a better chance of success.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
It's undeniable that they're doing everything they possibly can to
maximize their revenues. That's undeniable. Bobbleheads and fireworks and everything else.
But you're right, there's a difference between being committed to
revenues and being committed to winning. And you had the
revenues to spend it on winning, yet they're not doing it.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
What do they need to do? They go out and
buy bats. Who's gonna be their hitting coach?
Speaker 2 (10:46):
How the hell are they going to get Edgar Martinez
to come back from February to October.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
What are they going to have to offer him?
Speaker 4 (10:52):
Well, it's a good question. But then again, you remember
Edgar was the hitting coach, you know, back in the day,
and that didn't necessarily work out either. Fortunately, they they
did see an improvement by keeping things a little bit
more simple toward the end of the season last year,
and that was certainly promising. But yeah, I don't know
what happens from the end of March until October. Is
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a long season, and we've clearly experienced the roller coasters
and the up and downs of a baseball season with
the Mariners. It's just always come up a couple of
games short.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
You've been in town long enough, Aaron to understand the
nuance of this. There are seventeen sixteen, seventeen owners of
the marriage, not just John Stanton stands the majoritia owners
off the front of it. How much do you think
that contributes to the inertia in the lack of fundamental
foundational franchise change, that there are sixteen owners at play
here that they're trying to keep everybody happy.
Speaker 4 (11:45):
I can't answer that question. All I know is whatever
is happening within that organization isn't working, and it hasn't
worked for at least twenty years at this point. And
so whatever is happening with that ownership group, and I
know they made that transition from Nintendo, however many years ago.
Out right, there might be too many what is this saying,
too many chefs in the kitchen, you know, too many voices.
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How did the week of the managerial fire get out?
You know when John stand says it wasn't in our building.
There are certain there are certain things where you just
shake your head, and it is so typical of that
organization and as unique of that organization compared to everything
else we see in the Seattle sports landscape.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Okay, let's shift gears a minute. What do you the
sonic situation? There are some people who are getting a
little nervous that the expansion process for the NBA has
not started yet.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
We talked through that a couple of days ago on
the show. Why that is some of it is the.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Lawsuit that Warner Brothers Discovery has against the Meteorites deals
in the fact that they said they really did match Amazons,
but the NBA ignored it. Another fact that we didn't
talk about to explore was the fact that Samantha Halloway
is in line the krack and owner and the daughter
of Yeah, David Bonderman is in line to be the
principle of the new Sonics ownership group. Yet David Bonderman
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is still tied to the Celtics, who are being sold.
Where do you think all this has to do with
the expansion process? And if you had the forecast, does
it look like twenty seven to twenty eight and a
Sonics expansion team could restart, What does it look like
in the longer landscape to you?
Speaker 4 (13:24):
Yeah, I thought the original optimistic view would have been
if they tied tied all the knots up and figured
everything out, that twenty twenty six would be the optimal situation.
I think it's looking a lot more like fall of
twenty twenty seven. The idea that they're waiting for the
Celtics sale is valid. I understand that, because that's really
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going to set the market value for what a franchise
is worth and what the league might be asking for
in terms of an expansion price for a new team
or two. The frustrating part is that Adam Silver has
now come out December and said we were going to
start sometime next year, and then in April it's going
to be when all of the you know, the TV
revenue deal was was was locked up, and yeah, while
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there might be a lawsuit pending there, you're looking at
how much seventy some one million dollars over the course
of eleven years. The idea that thirty ownership group or
thirty two the number of ownership groups in the NBA,
those owners would say, oh, we don't want to split
any more of the pie with another two. You're getting, however,
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many billions of dollars in this TV media deal. I
think it's enough, and I don't think it's a good
enough excuse. And the fact that Adam Silver came out
after the Board of Governor's meeting and said, no, we
didn't really discuss expansion, it would have really been nice
for fans, NBA fans in Seattle to have been thrown
a bone of some sort, because then we start to
get worried. It's already been, however, long since two thousand
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and nine, since they haven't fifteen years since we haven't
had a team in Seattle. It's long enough, it's gone
on long enough, and it's seems like the never ending saga.
So to that point, yes, I'm confident that there is
an ownership group ready to bring an ex expansion franchise
to Seattle to win a bit ultimately, but remember the
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NBA has to go through that process. The expansion committee
has to be formed, that has to go through a
process probably another six months to an entire year also,
So yeah, I'm thinking twenty twenty seven is the optimal
timeline to bring us the science back.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Maybe what's worth waiting for is worth waiting for it.
Maybe it'll be greater because we're waiting so long for it.
Those expansion fees are likely to be a billion plus
per team.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
I mean the NBA ownership.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
We're talking three billion, right, so six billion per they're
going to get a big check. It's offset to have
to split the pie thirty two ways. Of course, owners
don't get rich thinking that way of sharing anything. I'm
going to ask you about college sports too. Eron you'
or Stanford grad you're a college sport. I just went
on a segment, a little bit of a soapbox here,
the previous segment about not just football and basket changes,
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but how college sports this landscape has changed for all sports,
non revenue sports. My daughter is a collegiate rower, my
son is a collegiate soccer player, and those spots are
just going away at some schools. Is this tenable? I mean,
do you see Stanford and cow somedays saying you know what,
forget this. We're not traveling to Charlottesville, We're not staying
in the ACC. We're not playing this game outside the
big ten in the SEC. Do you see I see,
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and see if you agree with me. I see the
big ten in the SEC splitting off and having a
super super league with all the revenue and money and
rules dumped to their way, and everybody else plays by
a separate set of rules with different rules, and they'll
be haves and they'll be have nots. And if you're
not in the big ten in the SEC, you'll have
have nots and that thing's coming pretty damn soon. And
is that watchable, tenable and supportable if you're a booster.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Of a school.
Speaker 4 (16:47):
I already think we're in the land of have and
have nots.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
I mean, once an.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
Nl I began or ANIL began, which one is it?
Speaker 3 (16:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (16:55):
An il ya last segment too, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (16:59):
It's it's it's become, you know, a professional industry. I mean,
you have these are professional sports. They aren't collegiate sports anymore.
I mean, however you want to define them. You have
what's essentially free agency every year, with the transfer window
opening and athletes going from school to school. So I
do I think that is a possibility that the Stanford's
and the Caws of the world eventually say, I quit,
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We're not going to do this anymore. I think there
is a definite to talk about that this past year,
and given how badly Stanford is playing in general, and
I hate to just rule focus on them, but yeah,
they can't compete even with what thirty eight billion dollar endowment.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
They may not even want to compete, right, can't and
don't want that.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
I think that's that's the point there, right, that you
have these some schools that are just not willing to
compete on that level because they understand the money involved
and they don't see the bigger picture. Also, that is
a very possible situation, but I don't think that it's
going to ruin completely what we're seeing. I mean, you
have Super conferences and people are still going to watch,
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and you're still going to have the major revenue TV deals.
It's just going to be sad for those alumni of
these particular institutions that no longer have major Division one
athletics to root for on a regular basis because either
a they're not competitive anymore or B they're not part
of this story.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
Aaron, I appreciate your broad brush getting the subjects we
don't always get to cover here on the day to
day with the Seahawks focuses. It is appreciate y'all seeing
a press box probably Sunday in Luminfield.
Speaker 4 (18:31):
Thanks a lot, Aaron, Yeah, look forward to that on Sunday,
and then on Monday, go Sounders.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Oh that's right, Sounders Monday night begin the MLS playoff
against Houston Best at three.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
Thanks Eron, have a great weekend.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
Thanks Greg, Thanks guys, Aaron.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Levine Fox thirteen Sports canvassing broadbrush the Sonics, the frustration
he feels with fans that it has.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
Not gone a little more quickly.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
The expansion process is getting there, but it means it
may now be twenty seven to twenty eight before the
Sonics begin play a climate pledge Arena as a new
expansion team Las Vegas, talking about college sports and the
landscapes of changing, and some schools are just saying I'm
out Washington. We don't see that, but we do see
Washington shaking down some donors and some boosters for more
money to try to keep up with the Ohio states
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of the world. Four nine, four to five one and
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It's Tully time. Your reaction to all of that, any
of that. You've been getting letters from the UB Athletic
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Speaker 3 (19:33):
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Speaker 5 (20:13):
Time, all right, from the two oh six. Regarding your
latest discussion for Marsdillinger's piece about college athletics. The problem,
as I see it, its title nine. It's states equal
scholarship opportunity, but women don't have an equivalent of an
eighty five scholarship sport. I have a baseball player on
college and they get nine scholarships for a forty man roster.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Yeah, well that's been true for decades. Yeah, that's irregard,
that's irrespective of this current situation. But he's right, and
they're gonna have to have or she is right. They're
going to have to have a remediation of these new
roster limits and how it affects Title nine baseball are
actually in some schools baseball scholarships are going up. They're
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going from nine to seventeen because there's new untapped revenue
in college baseball because of television and the College World
Series and the postseason being on television. Schools in the
I know in the SEC, for instance, the scholarships have
almost doubled with in the new scholarship women alibi in
baseball is now seventeen with this new house agreement that
takes effect in July.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
From the four to two five.
Speaker 5 (21:17):
The Hawks making this move with Ernest contrasting what the
Mariners have and have not done. The Hawks and other
Seattle teams doing well will be another damning look for
the Mariners.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
There is a much more of an urgency in football
because there are fewer games and there are not guaranteed contracts.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
And all of that.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
There is an apples to orangement argument here, apples to
Orange's argument to be made here because there's just no
comparison because of the contracts in the shorter season and
the roster sizes.
Speaker 5 (21:45):
In football from the nine to five to four takers. Anyone,
anyone where is that. I am a local high school
rolling coach with twenty five years experience. Thank you Greg
for discussing how all those decisions impact on revenue sports. Yes,
I am not sure people understand it, especially in regard
to how it impacts their kids recruiting and collegiate experiences.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
I wrote him back.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
That is from Broward County, Florida, South Florida.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
I wrote him back and thanked him.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
First of all, if you're listening, thank you for twenty
five years of molding and mentoring young adults and giving
him examples in leadership and the task you do.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
Thank you. Hats off to you.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
But yeah, he's living it.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
He's seeing it.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Not quote.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
Non revenue sports doesn't mean those people don't play him
and haven't devoted.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
Their whole lives to him. It's crazy.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
There's a whole universe out there beyond football that people
aren't thinking about.
Speaker 5 (22:42):
Correct me if I'm wrong, guys, But if DK does
not play, that takes away our only deep threat.
Speaker 7 (22:47):
Bobo is not a deep threat.
Speaker 5 (22:48):
Jackson Smith Jigma is not a deep threat and it's
certainly not and I think to lock it also, I
think that handcuffs the team tremendously. If he doesn't play well,
there's definitely handcuffs the team. They're not as good without
him than they were with him.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Smith and Jig was more of a downthrow threat than
he was last year, but that's not saying much. He
was two point five yards air yards per target for
most of last season. Waldron had Bubble Screen Palooza with him.
Noah Fant has had had more deep scene routes this year.
Grub has schemes that are not just DK Metcalf down
the field. They have schemes for all the.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
Receivers to go further down the field.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
The question always is does Gino Smith have enough time
with the offensive line to make the throws deep down
the field?
Speaker 5 (23:30):
From tim four two five. If Ernest Jones is so good,
why does he keep getting traded?
Speaker 3 (23:36):
That's a good question.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
At the end of the Rams were in transition phase defensively,
and at the end of his rookie deal, they must
not have wanted to re sign him as a three
year starter, four year starter and a former Super Bowl champion.
It would cost him a little bit of money, so
they traded him to Tennessee, and then he really only
had six games in Tennessee. They decided that's not a
whole lot to decide whether they liked or didn't like him.
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The three six Las thoughts on Ernest Jones, Did you
guys watch the interviews?
Speaker 3 (24:02):
That makes me laugh?
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Did we watch the interview to day I was interviewing
him when it happened.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
Yes, I watched it.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
I watched him get on the field. Yes, I watched it.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
I was We talked about it earlier in the show.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
He's earnest and not just the name only, He's earnest,
and I thought he was genuine and very likable.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
I liked it.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
He talked about more than just his football, that he
has a wife and a three month old that he's
thinking about.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
Quite a bit.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
He talked about how difficult it is to move them
twice in three months two months. Yeah, he's making a
ton of money, but you still got to pack up
all the diapers and the play pens and everything else
and move your family. And thought something he wants to
do too much. Morning wants to stay in Seattle. First
impression is all positive. If he plays like he impressed yesterday,
the Seahawks.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
Have got something in the middle. They've got a gem.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
What time is it, Greg, time to give away a
thousand dollars from me?
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For's that to go. Glad you're with us. It's your show.
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Speaker 2 (25:27):
I'm still chuckling. Did you guys see the Ernest Jones
interview yesterday? Like we're just on the couch?
Speaker 5 (25:35):
I watched it too, I'll answer that, yes, I did
see it, and then Greg sent me a list of
things he wanted for the.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
For us to replay. So if I missed it, so
I didn't.
Speaker 5 (25:44):
I definitely heard bits and pieces of it earlier on
the show.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
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Speaker 1 (26:10):
Boise State in December is no fun.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
Boise State wins the night they're already seventeenth ranked, they
will have the inside track to getting the automatic spot
in the College Football Playoff. Has the highest ranked non
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need Boise State to lose because they need to give
them lower ranked and Armies twenty third.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
They're gonna buy this week.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
Army needs to be Notre Dame, be Navy and have
Boise State to lose to become that highest ranked non
Power four team.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
But that's for later.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
Tonight, Boise State is a three and a half point
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and Boise State would be undefeated right now in Oregon
would not be the number one team in the country.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
Boise State should have won that game.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
They lost by a field goal in the final play
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country right now, Asen Genty wins the game tonight by
at least a touchdown, give me Boise State, give me.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
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Speaker 7 (29:41):
That's a weird line to me. I feel like that
should be more so do I.
Speaker 3 (29:44):
That's why I took it. Yeah, genty, just give him
the ball.
Speaker 7 (29:47):
I know you and lv's home, but.
Speaker 3 (29:49):
Yeah, six and one, six and one, I guess.
Speaker 7 (29:51):
I guess. Have they beaten anyone UNLV?
Speaker 3 (29:53):
No?
Speaker 7 (29:54):
Okay, So I don't know Bois State.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
The time I saw Boise State. They should play Oregon.
They should have won that game.
Speaker 7 (30:00):
It definitely should have won that game. If they gave
it to gent at the end of the game, they
will Yeah. I don't know. God, that was that was
the one that Oregon was going to lose, and it
would be number one right now. It would not be
number one that in the Ohio State game.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
That was one of the better college sporting events I've
been to. It was in the regular season.
Speaker 7 (30:19):
It is a great game. Yeah, and you were at
the kracking last night on the ice Yeah, that was
pretty cool. We got to sit in the cours light
silver seats, which are like right up on the glass.
Because Mike Benton was doing his nose is still up
in the air this morning.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
It is.
Speaker 7 (30:33):
It is pretty crazy. Like it's crazy how much faster
the game is when you're down there, and that that's
the case for almost any sport too, because I noticed
that with NBAH soccer too, like it seems really slow
when you're kind of sitting up a little bit. When
you're right next to it there, it's the game's fast.
I think it's especially the case in hockey, the skating
ability god and the hits into the walls, they shake
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your seats. It's it's it's awesome. I loved it. It
was a good experience, and Mike Benton had a great
time to I'm sure.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
So sure he did big game.
Speaker 7 (31:01):
Yeah, I mean I definitely think you know, winpeg STI undefeated,
which would have been nice to end that streak for
them to start the season. But I love the fight
back in the cracking last night, down three to one
against probably one of the better teams in the NHL
in the third period, they still they fight back to
tie up at three three. That's that's a good as
good of a loser's point as you're gonna.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Get in the NHL.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
And Matty Beneher is showing signs there with first two.
Speaker 7 (31:23):
That's huge, man. And you could tell he scored right
right next to us and kind of came and celebrated
right in front of us, and you could tell he
was both relieved and like hyped. He was all about
scoring that goal. He knew he read everything that everyone
was saying about him, and now he had to slow
start to the season, and he had slow season all
of last year. But it's good to see him off
the schneid.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
You have some updates on Factor fiction.
Speaker 7 (31:45):
Yes, we just sent out our winners info. I know
usually that would be on Monday or Tuesday, but our
winner it took a while to get back to us,
so we had to go to the next guy. Unfortunately,
So if you if you missed a call from the
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Speaker 1 (32:06):
Yeah it is.
Speaker 7 (32:07):
I want to make sure that you guys can reach
me back at any point. Don't win and then not
take the car. Seriously, that's a that's a big no no.
But Darren Benskin from Bellevue said he was happy to
take spec.
Speaker 3 (32:19):
Maybe it's not Darren's first time, maybe it is, I
don't know. Good for him.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
It's worth a thousand dollars, a thousand bucks, why not, right? Yeah?
But yeah, his winning pick.
Speaker 7 (32:27):
Was I think it was the fiction pick on Monday
for Softy and Dick since they went zero to five
last week. That was pretty interesting.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
Okay, pro tip, Yeah, whatever Softian Dick say, just do
the opposite exactly.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
That's your chance to one thousand dollars.
Speaker 7 (32:41):
Not only are they in last place as a show,
not only are they the three lowest in the host rankings,
they are the three only hosts that are below fifty
percent on the entire station. So yeah, I think that's
a pretty good move.
Speaker 3 (32:55):
Greg.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
That's the odds say, do exactly exactly.
Speaker 7 (33:02):
And we talk a bunch of trash and everything, and
they've wanted the past three years. So I think we'll
be seeing a new champion because they are pretty far
in the hole at this point, so I don't know,
we'll see they can make a huge comeback. They can
make a huge comeback, all right, Greg, Yeah, this week
they are I think so, oh jesus, what are the
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picks they got fiction on.
Speaker 3 (33:24):
That's a five game los Okay, my bad, wrong show.
Speaker 7 (33:26):
Yeah, we're going to I wasn't even gonna say who was.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
Yeah, that means first, you know who we're not in first?
Speaker 7 (33:34):
Great we are morning shows and first.
Speaker 5 (33:36):
We are five behind, four behind them, so they can
lose two and still have the lead. Basically, we have
to go undefeated this week as possible. Armies not playing,
so that that's that's win.
Speaker 7 (33:47):
Every single every single time, I've noticed, every time you
pick it, the percentage of fact goes higher and higher
and higher. Because there's a percentage of fact ninety Like
it's close, it's getting up.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
People are learning, Yes they are, they are, and they're
listening to you.
Speaker 7 (34:01):
Just whatever Greg picks Army, whether it's the over under,
whether it's Army minus the points, always minus the points.
By the way, they're always gonna win some pick pick
with them.
Speaker 3 (34:10):
On that one.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
I can tell you right now. Let's just put it
in Army Notre Dame. At the end of November, Army
will be getting points. Yes, and I am taking Army
plus and just put it down.
Speaker 3 (34:22):
If they win that one. That Army Navy game that
Jess and I are going to.
Speaker 7 (34:26):
So are they gonna play twice this year if they
are both?
Speaker 1 (34:28):
Yes, the agreement it We had some text line questions.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
Yes, the agreement is with the American Association when they
joined the league. That Army Navy game, the standalone game
will never count the league standing. Okay, So the December
seventh is the American Association Championship American Athletic Championship game.
Army and Navy could play undefeated Army name or undefeated
in the League name. It looks likely they will play
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December seventhence championship game and then turn around play each
other in the Army Navy game in Washington. So it's
not on campus for the.
Speaker 7 (35:00):
Does the Army Navy game, I know it doesn't count
the standings for the conference. Does it count towards like
your season totals and like CFP yes calculations. Yes, okay,
So the.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
Winner of that game, if what's the theory is if
the if they're undefeend the conference, say they're one loss
with Notre Dame or even they especially they beat Notre Dame,
the winner of the Army Navy game. If they won
the league, they could be the highest rated non Power
four team and they'll get the automatic playoffs.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
But now that's why they need Boys State to.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
Lose some down to Yeah, yeah, because boy, he States
currently the highest ranked on Power You just picked them
to win.
Speaker 3 (35:30):
I did.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
You're right.
Speaker 3 (35:33):
What do you guys have on the show today?
Speaker 7 (35:34):
Well, we got Danie O'Neil from the Dang Apostrophe, the
best sports coverage from New York City. Uh, that's Daniel
Neil at twelve to twenty. I don't know if you
saw his News Tribune column yesterday. I have not to know.
Speaker 2 (35:47):
He's our guest weekly column semi weekly, and he wrote
about how the Jed Fish is already shaking down Washington
fans for more money and trying to close the big
ten revenue gap.
Speaker 7 (35:57):
Crazy crazy, crazy worl'll be living in right now.
Speaker 3 (35:59):
Sorry interrupt, but that no, no, yeah, let's talk about that.
Speaker 7 (36:02):
His columns are awesome. Then we got Greg co Sel
from NFL Films breaking down Seahawks versus Bills. That's gonna
be a big one at one o'clock. And then Rob
rang previewing the college football weekend and some of the
prospects he's gonna be looking at.
Speaker 2 (36:13):
I bet Rob Brang will say give the ball to
gent thirty times a night probably. I bet Greg Cosell
likes Josh Allen. Yeah, that's my guest.
Speaker 7 (36:20):
Okay, well check it. Listen in at those two times
and there you'll find out. We'll be Yeah, what's Greg
co Sell's toll twenty, Grego Sell's one, Danny o'nials tel twenty. Sure, yep,
I'm on my.
Speaker 2 (36:30):
Way to renting the like McDonough will be listening to
Ian and Anders Jessman's away. She's on her way to
San Diego because Washington State's playing San Diego State tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (36:39):
She's the sideline reporter for WSHU Radio.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
Greg Bell, the news should be on a Christopher Kidd,
thank you as always for listening all week.
Speaker 1 (36:45):
We will be back on Monday.
Speaker 3 (36:47):
I've got a football weekend ahead of me, just like
you do.
Speaker 2 (36:50):
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On for the second hour here on ninety three point
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Levine is what's for us next? Right after headlines brought
to you by Crossbrud Corslight, Choose Chill Seeaw's got their
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new middle linebacker yesterday, Ernest Jones, the fourth He's wearing
number thirteen. He went right into practice almost We're almost
right off a plane a couple hours after arriving from Nashville.
He went right onto the practice field, right in the
middle linebacker where he will start Sunday for the Seahawks
four and three Seahawks leading the NFC West against the
five and two Buffalo Bills one oh five pm on Sunday, Bloomingfield,
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Channel thirteen. Locally, speaking of Channel thirteen, Aaron Levine will
join us from Fox thirteen Seattle.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Right after these headlines Baker's arrival.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Jerome Baker got traded in the deal that brought Ernest
Jones from Tennessee, so Tyrell Dotson will start in Baker's
old spot of week side linebacker against the Bills on Sunday.
Will dk Metcalf start still to be determined, expecting him
to be maybe doubtful, maybe questionable on the injured list today.
Ryan Grebb, the offensive coordinator for the Seahawks, set after
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practice yesterday that Metcalf is working hard to get back
and if he looks good, but he hasn't practiced either
Wednesday or Thursday. He has a sprain MCL he got
in the game against Atlanta last week. It's usually a
week to week deal with a Grade one sprain rather
than day to day. Greek Woland has practiced the last
two days. Signs are the cornerback's going to start after
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missing one game in Atlanta's like he's going to start
against Buffalo. That would put probably Josh Job there his
second consecutive start started three years three games last year
with the Eagles. Devin Witherson is going to stay inside.
Nicol Kobe Bryanton track to make a second consecutive start
at safety for Rashon Jenkins, who's uninjured. Reserve Abe Lucas
practice yesterday that's a good sign that he came back
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to first practice in ten months after that knee surgery
and the winner. First practice was on Wednesday, and he
followed it up with a practice on Thursday. That's a
good sign for the longer term. They're still eyeing September
or November seventeenth, the game at San Francisco for Abe
Lucas's season debut. Trey Brown did not practice. The quarterback
doesn't look like he'll play for the second consecutive game.
Last night in the NFL, the Rams beat the Bikings
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thirty to twenty. Suddenly the Rams are three and four
and only a game out of first place. They were
Tongard selling the farm and trading Cooper Cup and Matthew Stafford.
Well here they are only a game out of first
because Stafford won twenty five for thirty four with four
touchdown passes for the Rams, beating the Vikings, who've lost
two in a row after a five and zero start.
Dolphins announced today that quarterback tu Tungo boli Well has
(02:51):
cleared concussion protocol, will start on Sunday against Arizona in Miami.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
That's his first start.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
In six weeks in Washington, Jayden Daniels practice today. Rookie
quarterback who's been a phenom and the Commanders. Looks like
he's going to be a game time decision. He's got
injured ribs. Game time decision on Sunday against the Bears
in Carolina. Andy Dalton doubtful for the Panthers have start
at Denver Sunday because of the thumb injury. You got
in a car accident this week. So Bryce Young number
him's going to start for the Panthers. It appears on
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Sunday at the Denver Broncos, cracking rally from down three
to one to unbeating Winnipeg to tie it with three
late on a Matty Veneer's tipping off of a Brandon
a Tour shot from the blue line, but then in
overtime the Jets scored on a delayed penalty to win
four to three. Grenier scored his first two goals of
the season, cracking lots to turnover, especially in the neutral zone.
Winnipeg's now seven to OH, the NHL's only seven to
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OHO team. Krack Can have four wins, three losses in
an overtime loss, They're two to one to one on
this five game homestand that ends Tomorrow night against Carolina.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
In a long road trip pregame.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Show tomorrow Mike Benton's six thirty puck drop at seven
Saturday with Everitt Fitchew at Al Kaminski here on ninety
three point three KGRFM. The World Series begins tonight, Game
one at Dodger Stadium. Yankees and Dodgers Sounders begin the
MLS Playoffs Best at three first round Monday night against
Houston at Lumenfield. Seattle's the fourth seed, the Dynamo is
the five College football Washington. The Huskies come off there
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Kickoff here on ninety three point three KJRFM, Dave Softy
Bar and Husky Hanks. A five am pregame show get
up for that on ninety three point three KJRF. In
Washington State, the coog six and one. They play at
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The winner gets the inside track to winning the Mountain
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ninety three point three KJRFM Boise State at UNLV seven
thirty kickoff.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
All right.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
The Beacon Plumbing Hotline has Aaron Levine, good friend of mine.
I've missed him out at some of these road games,
but he joins us talk about all things Seattle sports,
including the Seahawks.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
Hello, Aeron, Yeah, it's too bad there's nothing going on
in sports.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Yeah, right, exactly where?
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Yeh right?
Speaker 3 (05:10):
All right?
Speaker 2 (05:11):
To see aways get a new middle linebacker. We've seen
him get run over in the run the last couple
of years. What do you think Ernest Jones does for
Mike McDonald's defense.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
I mean, he can't do anything bad at this point, right,
I mean the last few weeks, the last few weeks,
they've given up over one hundred and fifty yards in
three consecutive weeks. And clearly it wasn't just the defensive line.
It was mostly happening on the second level. And I'm
really proud of John Schneider. And there's something they always
do is looking to improve the team, but clearly it
wasn't working out with Jerome Baker. He had a great
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first game, but between the injuries and whatever was happening
back there, he wasn't filling gaps the right way. And
so to go out and get a guy who's hopefully
going to fill the center and then you start him
at middle linebacker the mike linebacker spot, He's going to
fill those gaps the right way and Darrell Doddson. Dodson
can still call the defense with the green dot this week,
even though they're moving him to the outside. I really
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looking forward to seeing what this linebacking corps can do
and this defense can do as a whole, especially coming
off the momentum of the second half against last week,
against Atlanta last week and forcing three turnovers.
Speaker 5 (06:11):
With all the newness with this new team, new roster,
new coaching staff, et cetera, et cetera. Where they sit
right now seven weeks in, was this something you expected
or do you expect a little worse regarding their record
how they're looking.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
Yeah, overall, big picture, I'm happy because you take a
look at seven weeks in, you have a winning record,
You're in first place in the NFC West. I don't
think anybody would have said, no, we won't take that
after seven weeks with a brand new coaching staff. I
think it was the way that it happened, though, that
makes some people disappointed because you start off guns blazing,
you have the three and zero record, and then you
drop that game to the Giants, which is a one
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that really stands out because that was a clunker and
it was a part of the three game losing streak.
You're back to three and three. A lot of people thought, Okay, nationally,
the Seahawk's going to go the way of the New
Orleans Saints. They start really hot and then they just
kind of fade off into the sunset. Instead of doing that,
they co out and they beat Atlanta by twenty points
on the road. That was a huge statement win for
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anybody not paying attention. All of a sudden, the Seahawks
are back in the win column. They really have a
productive game, and they finally get those takeaways, which is
something they hadn't gone all year. And so this is
another statement game to show the rest of the nation
because again this is the top game on Fox on
the weekend. Tom Brady coming it down for the first
time since the U mad Bro game against Sherman in
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twenty ten twenty twelve. This is a chance to show
the entire country that the Seahawks are on the right track,
and you get to two games over five hundred and
potentially increasing your lead in the NFCS.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
I got to ask you about the Mariners, Aaron.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
You have been outspoken about the Mariners' ownership and what
they haven't done.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Do you have faith in Jerry Depoto.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Running it back and actually making the changes that would matter?
I of course talking about the offense and of course
upgrading the lineup and changing hitting approaches. What do you
see happening with the Poto still being in charge.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Where do you think this goes this winter?
Speaker 4 (08:08):
I don't know where it goes this winter. Again, this
goes back to the combination of what Jerry to Poto
hasn't done over the last nine years, and that's only
making the playoffs one time in the nine seasons. I
think what Minnesota's GM just got fired after making the
playoffs three out of the years he was there, So
this is a lower standard. I believe that we're holding
to Poto two and it's sort of a pattern that
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we've seen in Seattle with the Mariners organization in particular.
You combine that, though, with the lack of the lack
of willingness to spend money by this ownership group, and
it kind of puts to Poto in a pickle. Also,
so you have the combination of two. I tweeted it
the other day. The World Series starts tonight, Game one
on Fox, by the way, and the Yankees have the
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number two payroll in baseball. The Dodgers have the number
five payroll in baseball. I've always said spending money does
not get and tu success, but it always gives you
a better chance of success. After this year, thirteen of
the last fifteen World Series champions will have had a
top ten pay roll. Eight of the last nine champions
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will have had a top five, top ten pay roll.
This year, the top five pay roll teams all made
the playoffs. And so when you have the Mariners stuck
at number sixteen in payroll this year as an example,
if they had been in the top ten, that means
ownership would have had to pay fifty eight million dollars more.
Imagine what this team could have done this season with
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fifty eight million dollars more in offense. With the pitching
starting pitching rotation that they had, you would have had
a World Series contender.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Or even five offense fifty and listen.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
They could have if Taostar Hernandez wanted to stay here
and got paid what he's paying for the Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
They're getting paid.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
For the Dodge.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
They were afraid they were gonna sign. He's afraid, who's gonna.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
Stay and you keep Geno Suarez. That's thirty four million
dollars right there. You have twenty four million dollars left
to spend. And if you're talking another fifty eight million dollars,
this team would have been a World Series contender bar none.
So when John Stanton comes out and says, oh, this
team is committed to winning, I don't believe him, and
I don't believe him for a second because they're not
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doing everything they possibly can do in order to provide
a winning team for Seattle. Again, you don't have to
spend money all the time, but it does give you
a better chance of success.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
It's undeniable that they're doing everything they possibly can to
maximize their revenues. That's undeniable. Bobbleheads and fireworks and everything else.
But you're right, there's a difference between being committed to
revenues and being committed to winning. And you had the
revenues to spend it on winning, yet they're not doing it.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
What do they need to do? They go out and
buy bats. Who's gonna be their hitting coach?
Speaker 2 (10:46):
How the hell are they going to get Edgar Martinez
to come back from February to October.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
What are they going to have to offer him?
Speaker 4 (10:52):
Well, it's a good question. But then again, you remember
Edgar was the hitting coach, you know, back in the day,
and that didn't necessarily work out either. Fortunately, they they
did see an improvement by keeping things a little bit
more simple toward the end of the season last year,
and that was certainly promising. But yeah, I don't know
what happens from the end of March until October. Is
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a long season, and we've clearly experienced the roller coasters
and the up and downs of a baseball season with
the Mariners. It's just always come up a couple of
games short.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
You've been in town long enough, Aaron to understand the
nuance of this. There are seventeen sixteen, seventeen owners of
the marriage, not just John Stanton stands the majoritia owners
off the front of it. How much do you think
that contributes to the inertia in the lack of fundamental
foundational franchise change, that there are sixteen owners at play
here that they're trying to keep everybody happy.
Speaker 4 (11:45):
I can't answer that question. All I know is whatever
is happening within that organization isn't working, and it hasn't
worked for at least twenty years at this point. And
so whatever is happening with that ownership group, and I
know they made that transition from Nintendo, however many years ago.
Out right, there might be too many what is this saying,
too many chefs in the kitchen, you know, too many voices.
(12:08):
How did the week of the managerial fire get out?
You know when John stand says it wasn't in our building.
There are certain there are certain things where you just
shake your head, and it is so typical of that
organization and as unique of that organization compared to everything
else we see in the Seattle sports landscape.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Okay, let's shift gears a minute. What do you the
sonic situation? There are some people who are getting a
little nervous that the expansion process for the NBA has
not started yet.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
We talked through that a couple of days ago on
the show. Why that is some of it is the.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Lawsuit that Warner Brothers Discovery has against the Meteorites deals
in the fact that they said they really did match Amazons,
but the NBA ignored it. Another fact that we didn't
talk about to explore was the fact that Samantha Halloway
is in line the krack and owner and the daughter
of Yeah, David Bonderman is in line to be the
principle of the new Sonics ownership group. Yet David Bonderman
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is still tied to the Celtics, who are being sold.
Where do you think all this has to do with
the expansion process? And if you had the forecast, does
it look like twenty seven to twenty eight and a
Sonics expansion team could restart, What does it look like
in the longer landscape to you?
Speaker 4 (13:24):
Yeah, I thought the original optimistic view would have been
if they tied tied all the knots up and figured
everything out, that twenty twenty six would be the optimal situation.
I think it's looking a lot more like fall of
twenty twenty seven. The idea that they're waiting for the
Celtics sale is valid. I understand that, because that's really
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going to set the market value for what a franchise
is worth and what the league might be asking for
in terms of an expansion price for a new team
or two. The frustrating part is that Adam Silver has
now come out December and said we were going to
start sometime next year, and then in April it's going
to be when all of the you know, the TV
revenue deal was was was locked up, and yeah, while
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there might be a lawsuit pending there, you're looking at
how much seventy some one million dollars over the course
of eleven years. The idea that thirty ownership group or
thirty two the number of ownership groups in the NBA,
those owners would say, oh, we don't want to split
any more of the pie with another two. You're getting, however,
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many billions of dollars in this TV media deal. I
think it's enough, and I don't think it's a good
enough excuse. And the fact that Adam Silver came out
after the Board of Governor's meeting and said, no, we
didn't really discuss expansion, it would have really been nice
for fans, NBA fans in Seattle to have been thrown
a bone of some sort, because then we start to
get worried. It's already been, however, long since two thousand
(14:53):
and nine, since they haven't fifteen years since we haven't
had a team in Seattle. It's long enough, it's gone
on long enough, and it's seems like the never ending saga.
So to that point, yes, I'm confident that there is
an ownership group ready to bring an ex expansion franchise
to Seattle to win a bit ultimately, but remember the
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NBA has to go through that process. The expansion committee
has to be formed, that has to go through a
process probably another six months to an entire year also,
So yeah, I'm thinking twenty twenty seven is the optimal
timeline to bring us the science back.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Maybe what's worth waiting for is worth waiting for it.
Maybe it'll be greater because we're waiting so long for it.
Those expansion fees are likely to be a billion plus
per team.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
I mean the NBA ownership.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
We're talking three billion, right, so six billion per they're
going to get a big check. It's offset to have
to split the pie thirty two ways. Of course, owners
don't get rich thinking that way of sharing anything. I'm
going to ask you about college sports too. Eron you'
or Stanford grad you're a college sport. I just went
on a segment, a little bit of a soapbox here,
the previous segment about not just football and basket changes,
(16:00):
but how college sports this landscape has changed for all sports,
non revenue sports. My daughter is a collegiate rower, my
son is a collegiate soccer player, and those spots are
just going away at some schools. Is this tenable? I mean,
do you see Stanford and cow somedays saying you know what,
forget this. We're not traveling to Charlottesville, We're not staying
in the ACC. We're not playing this game outside the
big ten in the SEC. Do you see I see,
(16:23):
and see if you agree with me. I see the
big ten in the SEC splitting off and having a
super super league with all the revenue and money and
rules dumped to their way, and everybody else plays by
a separate set of rules with different rules, and they'll
be haves and they'll be have nots. And if you're
not in the big ten in the SEC, you'll have
have nots and that thing's coming pretty damn soon. And
is that watchable, tenable and supportable if you're a booster.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Of a school.
Speaker 4 (16:47):
I already think we're in the land of have and
have nots.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
I mean, once an.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
Nl I began or ANIL began, which one is it?
Speaker 3 (16:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (16:55):
An il ya last segment too, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (16:59):
It's it's it's become, you know, a professional industry. I mean,
you have these are professional sports. They aren't collegiate sports anymore.
I mean, however you want to define them. You have
what's essentially free agency every year, with the transfer window
opening and athletes going from school to school. So I
do I think that is a possibility that the Stanford's
and the Caws of the world eventually say, I quit,
(17:21):
We're not going to do this anymore. I think there
is a definite to talk about that this past year,
and given how badly Stanford is playing in general, and
I hate to just rule focus on them, but yeah,
they can't compete even with what thirty eight billion dollar endowment.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
They may not even want to compete, right, can't and
don't want that.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
I think that's that's the point there, right, that you
have these some schools that are just not willing to
compete on that level because they understand the money involved
and they don't see the bigger picture. Also, that is
a very possible situation, but I don't think that it's
going to ruin completely what we're seeing. I mean, you
have Super conferences and people are still going to watch,
(18:03):
and you're still going to have the major revenue TV deals.
It's just going to be sad for those alumni of
these particular institutions that no longer have major Division one
athletics to root for on a regular basis because either
a they're not competitive anymore or B they're not part
of this story.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
Aaron, I appreciate your broad brush getting the subjects we
don't always get to cover here on the day to
day with the Seahawks focuses. It is appreciate y'all seeing
a press box probably Sunday in Luminfield.
Speaker 4 (18:31):
Thanks a lot, Aaron, Yeah, look forward to that on Sunday,
and then on Monday, go Sounders.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Oh that's right, Sounders Monday night begin the MLS playoff
against Houston Best at three.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
Thanks Eron, have a great weekend.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
Thanks Greg, Thanks guys, Aaron.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Levine Fox thirteen Sports canvassing broadbrush the Sonics, the frustration
he feels with fans that it has.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
Not gone a little more quickly.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
The expansion process is getting there, but it means it
may now be twenty seven to twenty eight before the
Sonics begin play a climate pledge Arena as a new
expansion team Las Vegas, talking about college sports and the
landscapes of changing, and some schools are just saying I'm
out Washington. We don't see that, but we do see
Washington shaking down some donors and some boosters for more
money to try to keep up with the Ohio states
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When it's game time, It's Tulley.
Speaker 5 (20:13):
Time, all right, from the two oh six. Regarding your
latest discussion for Marsdillinger's piece about college athletics. The problem,
as I see it, its title nine. It's states equal
scholarship opportunity, but women don't have an equivalent of an
eighty five scholarship sport. I have a baseball player on
college and they get nine scholarships for a forty man roster.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Yeah, well that's been true for decades. Yeah, that's irregard,
that's irrespective of this current situation. But he's right, and
they're gonna have to have or she is right. They're
going to have to have a remediation of these new
roster limits and how it affects Title nine baseball are
actually in some schools baseball scholarships are going up. They're
(20:55):
going from nine to seventeen because there's new untapped revenue
in college baseball because of television and the College World
Series and the postseason being on television. Schools in the
I know in the SEC, for instance, the scholarships have
almost doubled with in the new scholarship women alibi in
baseball is now seventeen with this new house agreement that
takes effect in July.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
From the four to two five.
Speaker 5 (21:17):
The Hawks making this move with Ernest contrasting what the
Mariners have and have not done. The Hawks and other
Seattle teams doing well will be another damning look for
the Mariners.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
There is a much more of an urgency in football
because there are fewer games and there are not guaranteed contracts.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
And all of that.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
There is an apples to orangement argument here, apples to
Orange's argument to be made here because there's just no
comparison because of the contracts in the shorter season and
the roster sizes.
Speaker 5 (21:45):
In football from the nine to five to four takers. Anyone,
anyone where is that. I am a local high school
rolling coach with twenty five years experience. Thank you Greg
for discussing how all those decisions impact on revenue sports. Yes,
I am not sure people understand it, especially in regard
to how it impacts their kids recruiting and collegiate experiences.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
I wrote him back.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
That is from Broward County, Florida, South Florida.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
I wrote him back and thanked him.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
First of all, if you're listening, thank you for twenty
five years of molding and mentoring young adults and giving
him examples in leadership and the task you do.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
Thank you. Hats off to you.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
But yeah, he's living it.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
He's seeing it.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Not quote.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
Non revenue sports doesn't mean those people don't play him
and haven't devoted.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
Their whole lives to him. It's crazy.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
There's a whole universe out there beyond football that people
aren't thinking about.
Speaker 5 (22:42):
Correct me if I'm wrong, guys, But if DK does
not play, that takes away our only deep threat.
Speaker 7 (22:47):
Bobo is not a deep threat.
Speaker 5 (22:48):
Jackson Smith Jigma is not a deep threat and it's
certainly not and I think to lock it also, I
think that handcuffs the team tremendously. If he doesn't play well,
there's definitely handcuffs the team. They're not as good without
him than they were with him.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Smith and Jig was more of a downthrow threat than
he was last year, but that's not saying much. He
was two point five yards air yards per target for
most of last season. Waldron had Bubble Screen Palooza with him.
Noah Fant has had had more deep scene routes this year.
Grub has schemes that are not just DK Metcalf down
the field. They have schemes for all the.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
Receivers to go further down the field.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
The question always is does Gino Smith have enough time
with the offensive line to make the throws deep down
the field?
Speaker 5 (23:30):
From tim four two five. If Ernest Jones is so good,
why does he keep getting traded?
Speaker 3 (23:36):
That's a good question.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
At the end of the Rams were in transition phase defensively,
and at the end of his rookie deal, they must
not have wanted to re sign him as a three
year starter, four year starter and a former Super Bowl champion.
It would cost him a little bit of money, so
they traded him to Tennessee, and then he really only
had six games in Tennessee. They decided that's not a
whole lot to decide whether they liked or didn't like him.
(23:58):
The three six Las thoughts on Ernest Jones, Did you
guys watch the interviews?
Speaker 3 (24:02):
That makes me laugh?
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Did we watch the interview to day I was interviewing
him when it happened.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
Yes, I watched it.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
I watched him get on the field. Yes, I watched it.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
I was We talked about it earlier in the show.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
He's earnest and not just the name only, He's earnest,
and I thought he was genuine and very likable.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
I liked it.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
He talked about more than just his football, that he
has a wife and a three month old that he's
thinking about.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
Quite a bit.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
He talked about how difficult it is to move them
twice in three months two months. Yeah, he's making a
ton of money, but you still got to pack up
all the diapers and the play pens and everything else
and move your family. And thought something he wants to
do too much. Morning wants to stay in Seattle. First
impression is all positive. If he plays like he impressed yesterday,
the Seahawks.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
Have got something in the middle. They've got a gem.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
What time is it, Greg, time to give away a
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Speaker 2 (25:27):
I'm still chuckling. Did you guys see the Ernest Jones
interview yesterday? Like we're just on the couch?
Speaker 5 (25:35):
I watched it too, I'll answer that, yes, I did
see it, and then Greg sent me a list of
things he wanted for the.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
For us to replay. So if I missed it, so
I didn't.
Speaker 5 (25:44):
I definitely heard bits and pieces of it earlier on
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Yeah, six and one, six and one, I guess.
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I guess. Have they beaten anyone UNLV?
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No?
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Okay, So I don't know Bois State.
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The time I saw Boise State. They should play Oregon.
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It definitely should have won that game. If they gave
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That was one of the better college sporting events I've
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Speaker 7 (30:19):
It is a great game. Yeah, and you were at
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It is.
Speaker 7 (30:33):
It is pretty crazy. Like it's crazy how much faster
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I think it's especially the case in hockey, the skating
ability god and the hits into the walls, they shake
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Speaker 1 (30:59):
So sure he did big game.
Speaker 7 (31:01):
Yeah, I mean I definitely think you know, winpeg STI undefeated,
which would have been nice to end that streak for
them to start the season. But I love the fight
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against probably one of the better teams in the NHL
in the third period, they still they fight back to
tie up at three three. That's that's a good as
good of a loser's point as you're gonna.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Get in the NHL.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
And Matty Beneher is showing signs there with first two.
Speaker 7 (31:23):
That's huge, man. And you could tell he scored right
right next to us and kind of came and celebrated
right in front of us, and you could tell he
was both relieved and like hyped. He was all about
scoring that goal. He knew he read everything that everyone
was saying about him, and now he had to slow
start to the season, and he had slow season all
of last year. But it's good to see him off
the schneid.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
You have some updates on Factor fiction.
Speaker 7 (31:45):
Yes, we just sent out our winners info. I know
usually that would be on Monday or Tuesday, but our
winner it took a while to get back to us,
so we had to go to the next guy. Unfortunately,
So if you if you missed a call from the
two h six, I'm sorry. I had had to move
on before from I've gotten questions. It is from the six. Yes,
it comes from my number valet service.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
Yeah it is.
Speaker 7 (32:07):
I want to make sure that you guys can reach
me back at any point. Don't win and then not
take the car. Seriously, that's a that's a big no no.
But Darren Benskin from Bellevue said he was happy to
take spec.
Speaker 3 (32:19):
Maybe it's not Darren's first time, maybe it is, I
don't know. Good for him.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
It's worth a thousand dollars, a thousand bucks, why not, right? Yeah?
But yeah, his winning pick.
Speaker 7 (32:27):
Was I think it was the fiction pick on Monday
for Softy and Dick since they went zero to five
last week. That was pretty interesting.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
Okay, pro tip, Yeah, whatever Softian Dick say, just do
the opposite exactly.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
That's your chance to one thousand dollars.
Speaker 7 (32:41):
Not only are they in last place as a show,
not only are they the three lowest in the host rankings,
they are the three only hosts that are below fifty
percent on the entire station. So yeah, I think that's
a pretty good move.
Speaker 3 (32:55):
Greg.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
That's the odds say, do exactly exactly.
Speaker 7 (33:02):
And we talk a bunch of trash and everything, and
they've wanted the past three years. So I think we'll
be seeing a new champion because they are pretty far
in the hole at this point, so I don't know,
we'll see they can make a huge comeback. They can
make a huge comeback, all right, Greg, Yeah, this week
they are I think so, oh jesus, what are the
(33:22):
picks they got fiction on.
Speaker 3 (33:24):
That's a five game los Okay, my bad, wrong show.
Speaker 7 (33:26):
Yeah, we're going to I wasn't even gonna say who was.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
Yeah, that means first, you know who we're not in first?
Speaker 7 (33:34):
Great we are morning shows and first.
Speaker 5 (33:36):
We are five behind, four behind them, so they can
lose two and still have the lead. Basically, we have
to go undefeated this week as possible. Armies not playing,
so that that's that's win.
Speaker 7 (33:47):
Every single every single time, I've noticed, every time you
pick it, the percentage of fact goes higher and higher
and higher. Because there's a percentage of fact ninety Like
it's close, it's getting up.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
People are learning, Yes they are, they are, and they're
listening to you.
Speaker 7 (34:01):
Just whatever Greg picks Army, whether it's the over under,
whether it's Army minus the points, always minus the points.
By the way, they're always gonna win some pick pick
with them.
Speaker 3 (34:10):
On that one.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
I can tell you right now. Let's just put it
in Army Notre Dame. At the end of November, Army
will be getting points. Yes, and I am taking Army
plus and just put it down.
Speaker 3 (34:22):
If they win that one. That Army Navy game that
Jess and I are going to.
Speaker 7 (34:26):
So are they gonna play twice this year if they
are both?
Speaker 1 (34:28):
Yes, the agreement it We had some text line questions.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
Yes, the agreement is with the American Association when they
joined the league. That Army Navy game, the standalone game
will never count the league standing. Okay, So the December
seventh is the American Association Championship American Athletic Championship game.
Army and Navy could play undefeated Army name or undefeated
in the League name. It looks likely they will play
(34:52):
December seventhence championship game and then turn around play each
other in the Army Navy game in Washington. So it's
not on campus for the.
Speaker 7 (35:00):
Does the Army Navy game, I know it doesn't count
the standings for the conference. Does it count towards like
your season totals and like CFP yes calculations. Yes, okay,
So the.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
Winner of that game, if what's the theory is if
the if they're undefeend the conference, say they're one loss
with Notre Dame or even they especially they beat Notre Dame,
the winner of the Army Navy game. If they won
the league, they could be the highest rated non Power
four team and they'll get the automatic playoffs.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
But now that's why they need Boys State to.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
Lose some down to Yeah, yeah, because boy, he States
currently the highest ranked on Power You just picked them
to win.
Speaker 3 (35:30):
I did.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
You're right.
Speaker 3 (35:33):
What do you guys have on the show today?
Speaker 7 (35:34):
Well, we got Danie O'Neil from the Dang Apostrophe, the
best sports coverage from New York City. Uh, that's Daniel
Neil at twelve to twenty. I don't know if you
saw his News Tribune column yesterday. I have not to know.
Speaker 2 (35:47):
He's our guest weekly column semi weekly, and he wrote
about how the Jed Fish is already shaking down Washington
fans for more money and trying to close the big
ten revenue gap.
Speaker 7 (35:57):
Crazy crazy, crazy worl'll be living in right now.
Speaker 3 (35:59):
Sorry interrupt, but that no, no, yeah, let's talk about that.
Speaker 7 (36:02):
His columns are awesome. Then we got Greg co Sel
from NFL Films breaking down Seahawks versus Bills. That's gonna
be a big one at one o'clock. And then Rob
rang previewing the college football weekend and some of the
prospects he's gonna be looking at.
Speaker 2 (36:13):
I bet Rob Brang will say give the ball to
gent thirty times a night probably. I bet Greg Cosell
likes Josh Allen. Yeah, that's my guest.
Speaker 7 (36:20):
Okay, well check it. Listen in at those two times
and there you'll find out. We'll be Yeah, what's Greg
co Sell's toll twenty, Grego Sell's one, Danny o'nials tel twenty. Sure, yep,
I'm on my.
Speaker 2 (36:30):
Way to renting the like McDonough will be listening to
Ian and Anders Jessman's away. She's on her way to
San Diego because Washington State's playing San Diego State tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (36:39):
She's the sideline reporter for WSHU Radio.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
Greg Bell, the news should be on a Christopher Kidd,
thank you as always for listening all week.
Speaker 1 (36:45):
We will be back on Monday.
Speaker 3 (36:47):
I've got a football weekend ahead of me, just like
you do.
Speaker 2 (36:50):
So Washington State Beef Commission's Football Friday rolls on with
the Ian Forernest Show and Anderson Hurst next on ninety
three point three kJ RFM.
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