February 5, 2025 • 37 mins
Jerry Dipoto spoke w/ the media yesterday, and boy was it fireworks w/ some of his comments. Gregg and Christopher listen and react to some of the things he said, the guys also play audio from Softy as he shares what Dipoto should've said. We hit the text line and read back messages from listeners, and we close the show w/ Jessamyn as she shares what Ian has planned on his show.
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Okay, what are you up to, Bud?
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Eh?
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What you got going?
Speaker 2 (02:19):
We're gonna talk about Jerry Topoto's comments yesterday, maybe put
him in a different light.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Is he just trying to keep and maintain his job.
I think that's where it's at right now.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
We'll talk about that right after headlines bought you by
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Speaker 1 (02:33):
What did Jerry to Poto say yesterday?
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Well, ten days before the Mariners are pitchers and catchers
are gonna report the spring training in Peoria, Arizona. He
explained about the Mariners making next to no moves this offseason.
He said, quote, it's been a pretty quiet offseason, and
I think that's reflective of a team that didn't have
a lot of holes to fill. We'll talk in a minute.
We'll talk about what he said about the offense and
about the ballpark. He also talked about teams trading, calling
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and trying to trade for Luis Stele and the Veterans
starting pitcher being quota pro about it cause Stell's entering
the third year. At nighteen krack and try to rebound
from their crushing loss to Calgary two nights ago.
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Speaker 1 (03:23):
The Super Bowl in New Orleans.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said he's had informal chats with
the players union chief about adding a game to the
regular season to get to eighteen with two preseason games
instead of the seventeen and three they have right now,
but there have not been any substantial negotiating about it.
Goodell said the players will have a large say. It's
going to be essentially collectively bargained. Jorry Epstein with US
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from New Orleans Last Hour half hour, said that she
believes it'll happen right before the twenty twenty nine media
rights renegotiation option that the NFL has in its current
media rights deal. The next CBA is not due to
be negotiated until one to thirty. Goodell said that he
knows fans want more football, but the league is going
to be extremely careful on how to balance that with
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player safety.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
And want player safety makes me laugh.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Goodell also said the thoughts of the league and it's
officiating favor of the Chiefs is quote ridiculous, but a
reminder of the NFL leaders that officiating is a constant
issue to refine and improve.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
He also said that he sees the possibility.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Of sixteen international games each season, which would mean all
thirty two teams participating internationally at least once each season.
He also said eventually he sees a team based internationally overseas,
as I said to Jory Umberton for Barcelona in the
NFC West.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Please.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
We talked yesterday about Miles Garrett issuing a statement he
wants to trade it out our Cleveland later yesterday's Super
Bowl MVP wide receiver Cooper Cup from Yakama in Eastern
Washington University. Of course, he said his rams will be
quote seeking to trade him, and that he doesn't want
to go. We've mentioned on the text line how viable
is a trader to this the Seahawks might make to
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get Copper.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Garrett Well Sports Betting Ag.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Is an online site that sends me all kinds of
emails about props and bets about things that happened around
the NFL. And they sent this morning thirty one other
teams the odds thirty one other teams trade for Cooper Cup.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
You know where the Seahawks are on that list? Last
fifty to one.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
The longest of shots has something to do with the
fact that they have dk Metcalf, Jackson Smith, and Jigbit
and right now is still Tyler Lockett on the roster,
not to mention that twenty seven million dollars over the
salary cap at the moment, though, they're about to fix out,
and we've talked about that. We talked about the new
Seahawks offensive coordinator Clinton Kubiak hiring his buddy from the Saints,
John Benton, to be the sixty one year old offensive
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line coach for the Seattle Seahawks this year. He's also
hired his thirty six year old quarterbacks coach from the
Saints Andrew Janako. Janako is going to be the Seattle's
new quarterback coach for Gino Smith, as he was the
Saints quarterback coach for Derek Carr last season. Janako has
been in the NFL quarterbacks with the Vikings before this
and the Bears. He entered the NFL in twenty fifteen.
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Coaching Seattle is keeping wide receivers coach Frismon Jackson a
holdover from last year's staff.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
At least one.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Planners are hiring longtime special teams coordinator Brian Schneider as
Washington's assistant special teams coordinator. According to Jonathan Jones of
CBS Sports this morning, Brian Schneider just got run out
of the Bay Area as a forty nine ers special
teams coach. He's reuniting with Dan Quinn after they were
on the same staff a Pete Carroll about a decade
ago here at the Seahawks. All three hundred and twenty
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one voters who allowed their ballots to be made public
Tuesday by the Baseball Writers Associated of America had each
Yiero Suzuki's name and a check mark on it, as
you would expect, so that means the one person, the
one buffoon who didn't vote for each year ownto, the
Hall of Fame remains anonymous. And if you can't have
accountability in having your vote public.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
You shouldn't have a vote, right.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
I mean, if their votes so bad, you won't share
it with anybody, what are you doing voting?
Speaker 1 (07:01):
I have some personal accountability.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
The BBWA, by the way, he voted in twenty sixteen
to make all ballots for the Hall of Fame public,
but the Hall of Fame's leadership said no, And so
now it's still left up to the individual voter to
decide whether he wants or she wants their vote public.
Major League Baseball has fired umpire Pat Hoburg. He's allegedly
for quote sharing legal sports betting accounts with a friend
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who then bet on baseball for and also Hoburg is
accused of intentionally deleting messages central to the Major League
Baseball's investigation into his conduct. The investigation said Hoburg quote
adamantly denied betting on baseball directly or indirectly. Mission rod
Manford said there was quote no evidence that Hoburg directly
bet on games or that the umpire manipulated the outcomes
of any games in any way. Once again, leagues at
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one on all that betting money and advertising revenue, but
then dance with the devil and get burned and again
four nine, four to five, one game time as Stully time.
On the text line, we're asking what best Super Bowl
halftime show you've ever seen? I'm saying it's Prince Miami
in the rain, Purple Rain in the rain.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
It's not even close.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Eighteen years ago tonight Prince did debt at the Bears
Cult Super Bowl outside Miami. JAREDI Poto was the news
of Seattle yesterday, as we still wait to see Thursday
if Mike Hogan gets into the Hall of Fame. The
NFL Honors ceremonies also Thursday night. Jared to Potto yesterday
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talked about the Mariners offense and he had this quote
to say about what he thinks about the Mariners offense
compared to what you think.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
I think.
Speaker 5 (08:34):
There is the reality of our offense and then the
perception of our offense, and we play in a tough
ballpark to hit it. Our offense has generally been above
average based on advanced metrics WRC plus things like that
for a number of years now. You know, the last
three years we've actually had a very stable offense, particularly
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good on the road, I think one of the top
ten and MLB when we're on the road and at home,
we play in a tough run scoring environment that really
benefits our pitching staff and our players' position players have
been asked to find ways and we've generally done that.
You know, we've turned it into one of the best
home records in the league. So, you know, we try
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not to think too much about how to reconstruct a
team for our ballpark. It's working, you know, the way
it is. We just have to figure out how to
make it work better.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Is it working though?
Speaker 2 (09:33):
I mean, note, even the World struck out more than
his team. They were twenty eighth in batting average, twenty
first and run scored. He gets all these WRC and
these analytics stats, but the bottom line is they struck
out and they lost. They make the playoffs of the
World Series caliber team. Dave Softie Maler had his own
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comments about what Jerry Post said yesterday. So it starts
off with Curtis crap.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
She asked the question, and then Softy goes on a
really good rant, and I think you guys will enjoy this.
Let's see, given that you haven't added a ton of
offensive pieces to the roster this offseason, where where do
you see from the group that you have the improvement
level coming?
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Where do you see that stretch coming from?
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Since you guys were you know, on top of the
league in strikeouts and you know second mowst and average
last year, how does that manifest itself?
Speaker 6 (10:21):
Yeah, Curtis, really good question, man, Really good question. I
understand what people see and what they see us do
what they see us not do. Everybody has an opinion
about this baseball team. It shows you how much everyone
out there loves this team and wants a World Series badly,
and we do as well, and we get it. Look,
we are dealing with certain restrictions. I think that's all
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been well documented. There's no reason for any of us
to beat around the bush here in Seattle. It's all
been publicly discussed. I've talked about it. John's talked about it,
Justin's talked about it. You all know the situations that
we're dealing with financially. You asked me, Curtis, where I
believe this baseball team will be better. I'll start with
number forty four. I think Julier Rodriguez has put in
the effort over the offseason to become the elite player
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that we think he can be, and we are hopeful,
beyond hope, that number forty four will have one of
the best seasons in baseball in twenty twenty five. We
also believe, and I know that there's a lot of
people out there that don't want to hear it, that
Hore Polanco was playing the entire year with the major
knee injury. He got that cleaned up in October. What
I have seen from him, and I know he's got
to show it to you, but what I have seen
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from Jorge is a much different version of the guy
that we saw in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
We are hopeful that Randy A.
Speaker 6 (11:31):
Rose Arena's presence on the roster for six months will
be a positive for everybody, including Victor roeblist Or. I
think all of us saw flashes of greatness. But Curtis,
You're exactly right. We have not done a ton over
the offseason that on the surface makes this baseball team better,
and there are reasons for that. I can sit here
and I can tell you about what I see behind
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the scenes, but nobody wants to hear that, and frankly,
you guys don't deserve to hear that. What you deserve
is to hear me talk about how we're gonna bring
a World Series to Seattle. We have a once in
a generation pitching staff that will become harder and harder
and harder as the years go by to keep together
because of finances, and it's my job to take advantage
of that.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
And frankly, time is running out.
Speaker 6 (12:12):
And I know that, and the franchise knows that, and
the fan base knows that. So I would just harken
back to what my good friend Katie Griggs said three
years ago at this Seattle Sports Star banquet when she said,
you've been patient long enough. We're not gonna ask you
to be patient anymore. And I will echo those sentiments.
It is time for this franchise to win, and that
starts with me. And if I can't get the job done,
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I understand the criticism. I hope that if I do
get the job done, you'll acknowledge that. But in the meantime,
I have not got that job done. I have failed.
I have come up short, and I deserve every ounce
of criticism thrown my way because the buck stops with
me when it comes to baseball operations. So Curtis, I
get it. It's a great question. I'm hopeful the people
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we have here, including Julio and including Polanco, will have
bounce back seasons. Cal Rowley as a star, but he
deserves more. The pitching staff deserves more, and frankly, you
fans and the media who cover this baseball team on
a daily basis deserve more. That's what I would have
liked to hear him say.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Yeah, is Jerry Depoto ever gonna have that accountability? I mean,
he did transparency and self awareness and nice plain speaking.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
I think there would be applauses on the text owner.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Of course, there'll be applauses all over the city. Would
hawking horns down? I five, that would be That's exactly
what you want to That's what you wanted to say.
But let's face it as whatever we think of Jerry
Depoto and what he says and the words he comes
out of his mouth and how he says it, it's
working for him. His job is to be the president
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of the baseball team. His job's to win, but his
job is to serve the owners and there is a
wide array of owners, two dozen owners who he has
to cater to the whims too, and those owners have
said make money, don't spend it, stay in contention, and
that's where the fifty four percent comment comes from. That's
his job and he has kept that. Not only has
he kept his job, somebody on the text line pointed
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out he's gotten promoted from general manager to president. That
was from the two five to three. Not only does
Jerry still have a job, he's been promoted. He wasn't
hired as president Baseball operations. He's exact he or she
is exactly right, and so he's doing his job so well.
They promoted him, and so he says and does what
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the owners want him to do. He ends up being
the mouthpiece, and then he ends up being the dartboard
because he's the one, not John Stanton, who's talking about
the team, but he's following the marching orders of his
owners who told him, don't spend money, keep making it.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
That's basically what if.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
You boiled down the Mariner's ownership approach to a nutshell,
it's bobbleheads and fireworks and stay in contention into September.
So we can keep filling seats, and the Poto in
the last five years has done that. They've missed the
plais by one game in two of the last three years,
and in the third of those three years they made
the playoffs. Oh, by the way, it's the only time
in the last quarter century they made the playoffs. But
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they did make the playoffs, and they've stayed in contention
for the other seasons. So de Poto is doing his job.
So should we as fans rip him constantly for what
he says, or maybe take a step back and say.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
He's doing his job.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
He's doing what the ownership is dictating he has to do. Ultimately,
the blame lies on the people who are directing the franchise,
and those are the owners. Because the owners are saying,
spend this amount of money, sign this player thirty seven
years old for three million dollars. Don't sign this guy
for three hundred million dollars or even thirty million dollars.
Go sign this guy for three For some talking about
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Donovan Solano, go re.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Sign Jorge Ponk.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Go cut Jorge Polanco because you're gonna cost twelve million
dollars if you can keep him on his contract. On
that player club mutual option he had for twenty twenty five,
cut Polanco and then when Polonko doesn't sign with anyone
else because he's stunk in hit two thirteen, led the
world in strikeouts for most last year, sign him back
on a cheaper deal seven point five million guaranteed. And
that's what they did. They say four and a half
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million dollars, So they say four and a half million
dollars on the Planku decision.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
They will make.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Four and a half million dollars on a couple bibblehead
and fireworks nights, more than that on clearing with twenty
dollars beers and fifty dollars parking spots. That's the bottom
line for the owners. The bottom line for the fans
is getting damn World Series with this pitching staff. And
Jerry to Pot's caught in the middle of that. He's
he knows as a baseball guy, he has to get
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a bats and he has to spend, and he has
to acquire the talent to make this World Series caliber
pitching staff the maximum can be. But he also knows
that he's an employee of the owners and he's got
to do what the owners tell him to do or
else they're going to find somebody else.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
I don't say I'm liking.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Jerry Depoto and what he's doing and selling, but I
know why he's doing it, and I can see exactly.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
I mean, even he.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
I don't think believe some of the things he's saying,
but I can see why he's saying it and why
he's doing it. John Stanton and the two dozen owners
are the ones that fall here, and de Poto's their mouthpiece.
And I know that's not a popular opinion in this
town because you got to blame one person, but I
think everybody ought'll be blaming the other guy, and that's
John Stanton because he's the one that's pulling all the
strings here, owning a franchise that's massively profitable, massively underperforming
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with the talent they have. That's my soapbox for the day. Anyway,
four nine want to tell him what the text on.
You're shaking your head, Chris up and down, so I
guess you agree.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
But yeah, it's but it's.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Easy to target the Poto right because he's the he's
the one we hear from.
Speaker 4 (17:41):
That's been the rumor for years. It's he's just a puppet.
You know, do what we say and we'll keep you
can keep your job. And he's done with me ten.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Years and one playoff appearance and he's got promoted, so obviously.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
They love them.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
Yeah, so, well more could you add in this situation.
The fans obviously want more, but the guys above him
aren't willing to give him more.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Right, he is, his hands are tied.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Right.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
He wants to probably be honest and do what Softie
just did in a three minute ran and give you honesty,
but that's not what the guys above him are saying.
If you want to keep your job, you want to
do it this way. And maybe he gets fed up,
maybe this at the end of this year he's like,
you know what, I'm done of holding of not speaking
the honest truth there, and he loses his job because
of that. But I don't think that's something he would
want to do. This is a great position for him.
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He's been in it for ten years, although there's only
thirty of them in the world, so it's not as
if the resume screams, oh yeah, you'll get another job.
That's not guaranteed. But if he sticks up for himself
and for the fan base. Maybe that changes things.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
I'm not nostradamus here, but I do see that it's
tough for him to maybe say exactly how he feels
and what he wants to say because people are above
him aren't giving him what he needs to make this
team better. They say, yeah, here's forty million dollars to
go out and get free agents.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Forty millions are you're giving me?
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Well, in this case, it was reported there is only
fifteen this offseason.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
Okay, let's say it is fifteen.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Can you imagine the Dodgers owners telling the Dodgers GM,
you've got fifteen million to spend. Of course, there's a
little bit of an apples orange just comparison between the
Dodgers and Mariners.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
But yeah, I hear you, Chris, So, Yeah, he's It's
just it's a situation that he's probably not excited to
be in. But he has a nice position. He loves
his job. He would want to do more, but he's
going to roll with the punches. We're doing this, and
this will be did in the offseason. We're gonna be successful.
I believe in the plan, and clearly the people above
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him are like, that's what we're gonna do, and he's like,
I got you.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
We'll make it work. We'll run this back again.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
And if all things go to plan, guess what playoffs
and a chance to get in the World Series, a
chance for the Pennant, all those things that all the
fans want for the past what three to four years.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
So here's the sad truth, Chris. If the Mariners get
eighty plus wins, if the Mariner's stay in contention as
they have for most of the last few years, and
they're still drawing thirty plus thousand and sometimes forty and
fifty forty five thousand when it's bobbleheads and fireworks, they'll
make a profit. And the ownership will say, Jerry to Poto,
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great job, you competed. You kept the park interesting, games
somewhat interesting and meaningful. Into September. We filled the park.
We had bibbleheads, we had each e rose retirement night,
we cleared tens of millions of dollars in revenue. Good job,
here's your eleven and here's your twelve.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
He'll stay.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
The team won't go to the playoffs, but he'll stay.
And next year they'll tell him. What evidence do we
have is gonna be any different. They're going to say
you got twenty million or fifteen million dollars to spend.
There we go four nine foury to five one and
tell them we do a text on when his game time.
It's Tully time. Fifty four percent eight working period three six,
So says Ato one says, they do have a great
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home record. Yeah, I realize that, but I also realize
they play eighty one games on the road, end eighty
one at home, and the other teams don't seem to
have a problem winning games whether it's home and away,
at least enough to the Mariners out of a playoff spot. Man,
most teams have had this world as bottom line is,
most teams have had this caliber of pitching would be
in the playoffs because they'd have at least a modicum
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of offense, even middle of the road offense. And we've
talked about it. If they have it, even middle of the
road offense, this team would be perhaps home field advantage
and a buye as good as their pitching is World
Series caliber pitching with Little league hitting four and tell
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Speaker 4 (22:20):
A lot of marors ten years from the four two five,
and you have a whole at third, second, first, and
some would argue shortstop money or no money not acceptable.
From the four two five Jerry to Poto, or in
other words, Jerry dipstick is going to do anything to
improve the team. His vision of his club right now
is asinin.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
He needs a.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Bat, he refuses to get a bet.
Speaker 4 (22:42):
We hear the same crap after the year, so it
makes anyone think that they're going to do something different.
Defending the Poto as a victim after nearly ten years
because he's just doing what he's told is like defending
an embezzler or thief because his wife told me to
do it at some point. Wrong is wrong, and the continued,
regiously misleading comments from Jerry are flat wrong. The standard
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podal fraud is no longer defensible. From the two five
to three, I really want one of those sweet new
spring training hats. But if they're not spending money on me,
I'm not spending money on them. No new jersey, no
new polo, no new sweatshirt, not going to games.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
Yeah, if enough people did that, that's when they would
finally start to notice. Yeah, if they drew like one
point one million for eighty one games, then they'd be like,
wait a minute, this isn't working out. From the way
from the two six, no Mariner puts fear in anyone zero.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
No hitter, that's for sure. Well does Julio rodrig You
have to.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Game plan and pitch playing around Julio Rodriguez last season
and Cal Rowley, I sti't think you have to have
a plan for them.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
All right?
Speaker 2 (23:52):
That plan would be to throw first pitch basketball down
the middle, second and third and fifth strikes, blowing away.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Out of the strike zone. That's the point.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
From the four to five, you are right, the fault
lies with ownership, and we all know you can't tell
the owner of the toy how to play with their toy.
From the three six to oh, I want one player,
Pete Alonso. That's something Greg and I have been from
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the three six. So how does a guy who was
enough of a comparative pitch and the big leagues live
with himself intentionally wallowing h I don't know.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
He wants a job, he doesn't want to lose his job,
and he's probably like you said, Chris, he's probably not
sure he'd get another one. Failed with the Angels, mostly
failed with the Mariners.
Speaker 4 (24:42):
Yeah, congratulations, we have Chris Jodamas well played From the
two to eight. The POTO doesn't get pity for being
complicit in this nonsense. They are equally at fault and
the Poto from the TUOLSI look cordline.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
Thanks for thosening.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
Let's hear from the tight owners. I don't know if
you ever will man.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
I talked to John Stanton at an All Star Game
festivity down in Pioneer Square a couple of days before
the game there a couple of summers ago, and I
asked him, do you have enough offense to make the playoffs?
I asked that three seasons ago? He said yeah. I said,
do you feel like you have to make a move
or a trade or bring someone in in addition to
the offense you have to make the playoffs? And he
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said no, we think we were good with what we have.
And I took that to mean we ain't spend another dime, dude.
We are what we are and we're going to roll
with these guys. And that has stayed true since then.
From the two o six. You can't complain if you
still go to Mariner games and or buy Merge.
Speaker 4 (25:48):
It's hit them where they'll notice, take their propet away
until they get serious.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
It's true. It's just again, we've talked about this, Chris.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
How many fans go just to be at the ballpark
on a beautiful August.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
I get it, July Day, bring their fans, Little League day.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
I get it, bring the dog to the park.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
Park at the park, dog goats, walk around the field,
little League gay kids get the walk on the morning
track and around the infield. And there is a value,
of course, there's a civic value to that, and there
are a lot of people who buy Mariner tickets who
that's what they want out of their Major League Baseball
team in Seattle, the opportunity to go do that. There
are also a lot of people in Seattle who didn't
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grow up here who are fans of the White Sox
or the Yankees, or the Tigers, or the Red Sox
and the road teams Cleveland. There are a lot of
people who don't live in the cities they grew up in,
who live now in Seattle, who come to those games
and contribute to the profits. So even if a large
segment of the fan base who were true diehard baseball
fans that want this team to win protest it and
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just quit buying gear and quit going to games, there
would still be two and a half.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
Million people at the park this season.
Speaker 4 (26:54):
To get off the Mariners a little bit, Greg asked
you favorite super Bowl performance of all time?
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Yeah, there's a couple of good ones on here that
I'd forgotten about.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
So from the four to two five Michael Jackson, that's
a great one.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
You got.
Speaker 4 (27:07):
From the two five three, Bruno mars As entered the chat.
Three six, Oh, Whitney Houston. Yeah, another Michael jeff I said,
Michael Jordan. I meant Michael Jefretty.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Being able to golf. Whitney Houston sang a national anthem.
I talked about that a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 4 (27:25):
And from the two five three, another Michael Jackson fan
was that in Miami?
Speaker 3 (27:29):
Before I go googling this.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
No, I don't think it was. I can remember where
Michael Jackson. I want to say it was in southern California.
Maybe it with the Rose Bulky in the early nineties.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
So that was another one.
Speaker 4 (27:39):
So yeah, a few Bruno mars a couple Michael Jackson,
a few Whitney Houston.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
So yeah. Someone said Tom.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
Petty, who they made the point of being a very
underrated American music hero. I agree with that. By the
way I saw that. My wife and I Saturday night
went to the Crest Theater in North Seattle and saw
the Bob Dylan movie and it was really good. It's
a it's not quite a documentary. It's a fictional portrayal
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of actual events. Why is the name of the movie
escaping at the top of my head right now? It's
one of the lyrics of his song. Why is the
title of the movie. It's Bob Dylan's the history about.
It's how Bob Dylan went electric and just turned on
its folk roots.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
And you know who Bob Dylan is. No, sorry, we'll
move on.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
How many games?
Speaker 1 (28:30):
That's almost like not knowing who Whitney Houston is.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
Almost How many games does Pete Carroll win this season?
What's the over? Under six and a half.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
I say he wins ten games and the Raiders make
the playoffs? Oh my gosh, they finished second in the West.
Who's their quarterback?
Speaker 1 (28:44):
That's the question.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
Geez all right, since we're into predicting, I'm predicting Russell
Wilson signs with the Raiders.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
Pete Carroll.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
The problem with Pete Carroll Russell Wilson Part two would
be that Wilson can't run around and doing his improv
things that he used to do, and that's what Carol
let him do.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
And outside the structure of the offense.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
So he'd have to be a more structure of the
offense quarterback, and that's where the success might not duplicate.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
I think, hmmm, all right, that's a that's an old one.
I like that. My poor Raiders friends.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
Some of you may know I covered the Raiders in
the early two thousand They covered their last Super Bowl
against Tampa Bay and John Gruden, and they have been
absolute mess since then. I left in two thousand and
five to come up here and cover the Seahawks, but
they have been an absolute disaster dump for fire since
then since I left. And those I know people who
both still work for the Raiders and cover the Raiders,
who have been some bad years.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Man, I'm hoping that they have a couple of good ones.
Speaker 4 (29:39):
A few more. We have Keith from the two five. Yeah, Keith,
our guy from the two five to three. The Weekend
was solid. Okay, my daughter loved that show. Push she
loves the Weekend. It's right down the demographic right, twenty
one years old.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
There you go.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
Well, Keith that I think Key's around my age, So
Keith shout out to Keith him. Yeah, chic oh halftime,
i'gad about Usher. Usher was really good. Two six good
call there. Yeah, that's a very underrated one. Usher was
slept on. And then last one, I'll here we go
from the two five three? How can Jerry keep a
straight face and say end quote? He felt like we
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didn't have any holes in the lineup?
Speaker 3 (30:15):
Question mark? Question mark you gotta love it? Yetta love it?
Have you seen the mayor?
Speaker 2 (30:21):
I have? He is taping, so he may not be available,
and so maybe Jessman McIntyre talking to us on Crosstar
and that's okay, of course. One more thing on two
by three about the Poto Regarding Poto's comments yesterday, I
think he was he's playing with fire, hoping that a
bunch of players haven't improved seasons and the starting pitchers
will all remain healthy for a second straighter. Yes, they
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are an injury or two away from having a season,
unlike last year. For sure, they were very lucky healthwise
last year. Brian wu yeah injured, missed a couple starts,
but something that simply never happens back to back healthy
seasons for a rotation. You're right though about Jerry hanging
onto his job by taking the bullets for owners it four,
(31:05):
that's not true. Yeah, another Brunomar. There's like three Bruno
Mars on here. I guess I was a remiss for
not mentioning him. There's a lot of Bruno Mars fans
listening to our show. I'm next. Jessman McIntyre and or
Infernez will join us leading into their show twelve to
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(31:35):
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Speaker 7 (32:14):
I mean, we're clinging onto a string right now. We are,
But I mean this is also an exciting time for
the Kraken, and you know, just because I think we're
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it would have to take a miracle to be in it.
And I think that we could have some excitement.
Speaker 3 (32:42):
About the team, new fresh skates.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
Exactly, gotcha? I asked of the text line.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
And I'm going to ask your opinion now, Jessman, Oka
and Tire the best Super Bowl performance you've seen, either
in person or on television. I thought the best one
in person I've ever seen was at the super Superdome
months after nine eleven. You two and the screen showing
all the people who perished in the terrorist attacks. Poignant,
very but the best one I've ever seen. Period was
(33:08):
Prince in Miami in.
Speaker 8 (33:09):
The rain, Oh forget it, come on that purple rain. Yeah,
I like, I can't top that. But I wasn't there
at that one. Okay, that clearly is the best one
I thought. I thought Rihanna was amazing.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
There you go, Ye, I forgot about her.
Speaker 7 (33:26):
Well, I'm watching that and I every time I hear
one of those songs, I know it's her, right, but
I'm like, dude, how many.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
Hits does she have?
Speaker 7 (33:34):
Right?
Speaker 1 (33:34):
Yeah? Third and fourth quarter?
Speaker 7 (33:37):
Yes, yeah she is so she was fantastic.
Speaker 8 (33:40):
And also she's pregnant, flying one hundred yards are.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
You kidding me? And just crushing it. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (33:49):
I thought she was pretty phenomenal. And my favorite actually
was in Atlanta where I was. It was the night before,
though it was the night before the super Bowl, or
two nights before. It might have been that Friday night,
but Aerosmith and host Malone did a Super Bowl party
that I got an invite to, and it was.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
Prior and those two. What a dichotomy of genres, say
the crowd, that's a very opposite. Oh my gosh.
Speaker 7 (34:12):
Everyone loved both. And my friend was running Aerosmith's tour
at the time. So I got to be, you know,
really close to the stage and got to see post
Malone and Aerosmith and they both were so great. So
that was a really fun concert.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
But what venue in Atlanta?
Speaker 4 (34:29):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (34:30):
Is that a club show? Arena show?
Speaker 7 (34:32):
It was a club show? Yeah, yeah it was. It
wasn't a full No, it was the basketball arena. I'm sorry,
I'm sorry. It wasn't arena show.
Speaker 3 (34:40):
Yes, I was just so close to the stage that
I forgot about all the other people.
Speaker 2 (34:43):
There for you, exactly in the Super in the Super
Bowl in San Diego in the early two to two
thousand and two, Shanaia Twain was a halftime show.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
Was there in Raiders Bucks.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
She was on a guy wire looking me in the
eye in the press box, and I'm trying to call
the corn and agents to find out where Barrett Robbins is.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
I didn't know if Barrett Robin's still alive.
Speaker 2 (35:03):
And know if you remember that story in Barrett Robins
disappeared night before the Super Bowl starting Pro Bowl Center
for the Raiders. And I'm trying to find all these
serious things and Shania Twain, in hardly any clothes, is
right in front of me, like from me to you,
it was an amazing experience to try to do what
work and then look up and go whoa and she's beautiful,
and it was yeah, she's quite studying.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
Yes to this day, I was still Yes, what do
you have going on today? That's not Shania Twain. We
do not have Shanai on the show.
Speaker 7 (35:32):
We are going to revisit some Jerry to Poto comments
from Yester because we had to have an emergency Mollywop session,
which we'll begin at one o'clock today, and we'll get
the fan reaction because Chris Crawford and Nathan Bishop are amazing.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
Is a positive spin on that?
Speaker 7 (35:51):
Yes, they have a realistic spin on that, so well,
we'll find out from them at one o'clock. Two o'clock
we have John Lund coming on, and you know, it's
just it's so funny. It reminds me when I'm listening
to these interviews of Petros and Softie, you know, super.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
Everything.
Speaker 7 (36:11):
It touches on everything in sports, and both of both
Ian and John have a unique perspective, so that's too.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
And I used to work together in Portland and John
is in San Francisco. Canb are or had been at CANBYR.
Speaker 7 (36:25):
Yeah, unfortunately he was part of the unfortunate things that
happened there when it comes to layoffs. But he is
still exactly as entertaining as always.
Speaker 1 (36:37):
You don't say, yeah, shocking.
Speaker 3 (36:41):
But yeah, we have a lot of that.
Speaker 7 (36:43):
And of course the one and only Ian fordesk coming
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We're gonna talk about Jerry Topoto's comments yesterday, maybe put
him in a different light.
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Is he just trying to keep and maintain his job.
I think that's where it's at right now.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
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Speaker 1 (02:33):
What did Jerry to Poto say yesterday?
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Well, ten days before the Mariners are pitchers and catchers
are gonna report the spring training in Peoria, Arizona. He
explained about the Mariners making next to no moves this offseason.
He said, quote, it's been a pretty quiet offseason, and
I think that's reflective of a team that didn't have
a lot of holes to fill. We'll talk in a minute.
We'll talk about what he said about the offense and
about the ballpark. He also talked about teams trading, calling
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and trying to trade for Luis Stele and the Veterans
starting pitcher being quota pro about it cause Stell's entering
the third year. At nighteen krack and try to rebound
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Speaker 1 (03:23):
The Super Bowl in New Orleans.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said he's had informal chats with
the players union chief about adding a game to the
regular season to get to eighteen with two preseason games
instead of the seventeen and three they have right now,
but there have not been any substantial negotiating about it.
Goodell said the players will have a large say. It's
going to be essentially collectively bargained. Jorry Epstein with US
(03:45):
from New Orleans Last Hour half hour, said that she
believes it'll happen right before the twenty twenty nine media
rights renegotiation option that the NFL has in its current
media rights deal. The next CBA is not due to
be negotiated until one to thirty. Goodell said that he
knows fans want more football, but the league is going
to be extremely careful on how to balance that with
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player safety.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
And want player safety makes me laugh.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Goodell also said the thoughts of the league and it's
officiating favor of the Chiefs is quote ridiculous, but a
reminder of the NFL leaders that officiating is a constant
issue to refine and improve.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
He also said that he sees the possibility.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Of sixteen international games each season, which would mean all
thirty two teams participating internationally at least once each season.
He also said eventually he sees a team based internationally overseas,
as I said to Jory Umberton for Barcelona in the
NFC West.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Please.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
We talked yesterday about Miles Garrett issuing a statement he
wants to trade it out our Cleveland later yesterday's Super
Bowl MVP wide receiver Cooper Cup from Yakama in Eastern
Washington University. Of course, he said his rams will be
quote seeking to trade him, and that he doesn't want
to go. We've mentioned on the text line how viable
is a trader to this the Seahawks might make to
(05:01):
get Copper.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Garrett Well Sports Betting Ag.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Is an online site that sends me all kinds of
emails about props and bets about things that happened around
the NFL. And they sent this morning thirty one other
teams the odds thirty one other teams trade for Cooper Cup.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
You know where the Seahawks are on that list? Last
fifty to one.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
The longest of shots has something to do with the
fact that they have dk Metcalf, Jackson Smith, and Jigbit
and right now is still Tyler Lockett on the roster,
not to mention that twenty seven million dollars over the
salary cap at the moment, though, they're about to fix out,
and we've talked about that. We talked about the new
Seahawks offensive coordinator Clinton Kubiak hiring his buddy from the Saints,
John Benton, to be the sixty one year old offensive
(05:44):
line coach for the Seattle Seahawks this year. He's also
hired his thirty six year old quarterbacks coach from the
Saints Andrew Janako. Janako is going to be the Seattle's
new quarterback coach for Gino Smith, as he was the
Saints quarterback coach for Derek Carr last season. Janako has
been in the NFL quarterbacks with the Vikings before this
and the Bears. He entered the NFL in twenty fifteen.
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Coaching Seattle is keeping wide receivers coach Frismon Jackson a
holdover from last year's staff.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
At least one.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Planners are hiring longtime special teams coordinator Brian Schneider as
Washington's assistant special teams coordinator. According to Jonathan Jones of
CBS Sports this morning, Brian Schneider just got run out
of the Bay Area as a forty nine ers special
teams coach. He's reuniting with Dan Quinn after they were
on the same staff a Pete Carroll about a decade
ago here at the Seahawks. All three hundred and twenty
(06:35):
one voters who allowed their ballots to be made public
Tuesday by the Baseball Writers Associated of America had each
Yiero Suzuki's name and a check mark on it, as
you would expect, so that means the one person, the
one buffoon who didn't vote for each year ownto, the
Hall of Fame remains anonymous. And if you can't have
accountability in having your vote public.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
You shouldn't have a vote, right.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
I mean, if their votes so bad, you won't share
it with anybody, what are you doing voting?
Speaker 1 (07:01):
I have some personal accountability.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
The BBWA, by the way, he voted in twenty sixteen
to make all ballots for the Hall of Fame public,
but the Hall of Fame's leadership said no, And so
now it's still left up to the individual voter to
decide whether he wants or she wants their vote public.
Major League Baseball has fired umpire Pat Hoburg. He's allegedly
for quote sharing legal sports betting accounts with a friend
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who then bet on baseball for and also Hoburg is
accused of intentionally deleting messages central to the Major League
Baseball's investigation into his conduct. The investigation said Hoburg quote
adamantly denied betting on baseball directly or indirectly. Mission rod
Manford said there was quote no evidence that Hoburg directly
bet on games or that the umpire manipulated the outcomes
of any games in any way. Once again, leagues at
(07:48):
one on all that betting money and advertising revenue, but
then dance with the devil and get burned and again
four nine, four to five, one game time as Stully time.
On the text line, we're asking what best Super Bowl
halftime show you've ever seen? I'm saying it's Prince Miami
in the rain, Purple Rain in the rain.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
It's not even close.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Eighteen years ago tonight Prince did debt at the Bears
Cult Super Bowl outside Miami. JAREDI Poto was the news
of Seattle yesterday, as we still wait to see Thursday
if Mike Hogan gets into the Hall of Fame. The
NFL Honors ceremonies also Thursday night. Jared to Potto yesterday
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talked about the Mariners offense and he had this quote
to say about what he thinks about the Mariners offense
compared to what you think.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
I think.
Speaker 5 (08:34):
There is the reality of our offense and then the
perception of our offense, and we play in a tough
ballpark to hit it. Our offense has generally been above
average based on advanced metrics WRC plus things like that
for a number of years now. You know, the last
three years we've actually had a very stable offense, particularly
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good on the road, I think one of the top
ten and MLB when we're on the road and at home,
we play in a tough run scoring environment that really
benefits our pitching staff and our players' position players have
been asked to find ways and we've generally done that.
You know, we've turned it into one of the best
home records in the league. So, you know, we try
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not to think too much about how to reconstruct a
team for our ballpark. It's working, you know, the way
it is. We just have to figure out how to
make it work better.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Is it working though?
Speaker 2 (09:33):
I mean, note, even the World struck out more than
his team. They were twenty eighth in batting average, twenty
first and run scored. He gets all these WRC and
these analytics stats, but the bottom line is they struck
out and they lost. They make the playoffs of the
World Series caliber team. Dave Softie Maler had his own
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comments about what Jerry Post said yesterday. So it starts
off with Curtis crap.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
She asked the question, and then Softy goes on a
really good rant, and I think you guys will enjoy this.
Let's see, given that you haven't added a ton of
offensive pieces to the roster this offseason, where where do
you see from the group that you have the improvement
level coming?
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Where do you see that stretch coming from?
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Since you guys were you know, on top of the
league in strikeouts and you know second mowst and average
last year, how does that manifest itself?
Speaker 6 (10:21):
Yeah, Curtis, really good question, man, Really good question. I
understand what people see and what they see us do
what they see us not do. Everybody has an opinion
about this baseball team. It shows you how much everyone
out there loves this team and wants a World Series badly,
and we do as well, and we get it. Look,
we are dealing with certain restrictions. I think that's all
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been well documented. There's no reason for any of us
to beat around the bush here in Seattle. It's all
been publicly discussed. I've talked about it. John's talked about it,
Justin's talked about it. You all know the situations that
we're dealing with financially. You asked me, Curtis, where I
believe this baseball team will be better. I'll start with
number forty four. I think Julier Rodriguez has put in
the effort over the offseason to become the elite player
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that we think he can be, and we are hopeful,
beyond hope, that number forty four will have one of
the best seasons in baseball in twenty twenty five. We
also believe, and I know that there's a lot of
people out there that don't want to hear it, that
Hore Polanco was playing the entire year with the major
knee injury. He got that cleaned up in October. What
I have seen from him, and I know he's got
to show it to you, but what I have seen
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from Jorge is a much different version of the guy
that we saw in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
We are hopeful that Randy A.
Speaker 6 (11:31):
Rose Arena's presence on the roster for six months will
be a positive for everybody, including Victor roeblist Or. I
think all of us saw flashes of greatness. But Curtis,
You're exactly right. We have not done a ton over
the offseason that on the surface makes this baseball team better,
and there are reasons for that. I can sit here
and I can tell you about what I see behind
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the scenes, but nobody wants to hear that, and frankly,
you guys don't deserve to hear that. What you deserve
is to hear me talk about how we're gonna bring
a World Series to Seattle. We have a once in
a generation pitching staff that will become harder and harder
and harder as the years go by to keep together
because of finances, and it's my job to take advantage
of that.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
And frankly, time is running out.
Speaker 6 (12:12):
And I know that, and the franchise knows that, and
the fan base knows that. So I would just harken
back to what my good friend Katie Griggs said three
years ago at this Seattle Sports Star banquet when she said,
you've been patient long enough. We're not gonna ask you
to be patient anymore. And I will echo those sentiments.
It is time for this franchise to win, and that
starts with me. And if I can't get the job done,
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I understand the criticism. I hope that if I do
get the job done, you'll acknowledge that. But in the meantime,
I have not got that job done. I have failed.
I have come up short, and I deserve every ounce
of criticism thrown my way because the buck stops with
me when it comes to baseball operations. So Curtis, I
get it. It's a great question. I'm hopeful the people
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we have here, including Julio and including Polanco, will have
bounce back seasons. Cal Rowley as a star, but he
deserves more. The pitching staff deserves more, and frankly, you
fans and the media who cover this baseball team on
a daily basis deserve more. That's what I would have
liked to hear him say.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Yeah, is Jerry Depoto ever gonna have that accountability? I mean,
he did transparency and self awareness and nice plain speaking.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
I think there would be applauses on the text owner.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Of course, there'll be applauses all over the city. Would
hawking horns down? I five, that would be That's exactly
what you want to That's what you wanted to say.
But let's face it as whatever we think of Jerry
Depoto and what he says and the words he comes
out of his mouth and how he says it, it's
working for him. His job is to be the president
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of the baseball team. His job's to win, but his
job is to serve the owners and there is a
wide array of owners, two dozen owners who he has
to cater to the whims too, and those owners have
said make money, don't spend it, stay in contention, and
that's where the fifty four percent comment comes from. That's
his job and he has kept that. Not only has
he kept his job, somebody on the text line pointed
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out he's gotten promoted from general manager to president. That
was from the two five to three. Not only does
Jerry still have a job, he's been promoted. He wasn't
hired as president Baseball operations. He's exact he or she
is exactly right, and so he's doing his job so well.
They promoted him, and so he says and does what
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the owners want him to do. He ends up being
the mouthpiece, and then he ends up being the dartboard
because he's the one, not John Stanton, who's talking about
the team, but he's following the marching orders of his
owners who told him, don't spend money, keep making it.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
That's basically what if.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
You boiled down the Mariner's ownership approach to a nutshell,
it's bobbleheads and fireworks and stay in contention into September.
So we can keep filling seats, and the Poto in
the last five years has done that. They've missed the
plais by one game in two of the last three years,
and in the third of those three years they made
the playoffs. Oh, by the way, it's the only time
in the last quarter century they made the playoffs. But
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they did make the playoffs, and they've stayed in contention
for the other seasons. So de Poto is doing his job.
So should we as fans rip him constantly for what
he says, or maybe take a step back and say.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
He's doing his job.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
He's doing what the ownership is dictating he has to do. Ultimately,
the blame lies on the people who are directing the franchise,
and those are the owners. Because the owners are saying,
spend this amount of money, sign this player thirty seven
years old for three million dollars. Don't sign this guy
for three hundred million dollars or even thirty million dollars.
Go sign this guy for three For some talking about
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Donovan Solano, go re.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Sign Jorge Ponk.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Go cut Jorge Polanco because you're gonna cost twelve million
dollars if you can keep him on his contract. On
that player club mutual option he had for twenty twenty five,
cut Polanco and then when Polonko doesn't sign with anyone
else because he's stunk in hit two thirteen, led the
world in strikeouts for most last year, sign him back
on a cheaper deal seven point five million guaranteed. And
that's what they did. They say four and a half
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million dollars, So they say four and a half million
dollars on the Planku decision.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
They will make.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Four and a half million dollars on a couple bibblehead
and fireworks nights, more than that on clearing with twenty
dollars beers and fifty dollars parking spots. That's the bottom
line for the owners. The bottom line for the fans
is getting damn World Series with this pitching staff. And
Jerry to Pot's caught in the middle of that. He's
he knows as a baseball guy, he has to get
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a bats and he has to spend, and he has
to acquire the talent to make this World Series caliber
pitching staff the maximum can be. But he also knows
that he's an employee of the owners and he's got
to do what the owners tell him to do or
else they're going to find somebody else.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
I don't say I'm liking.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Jerry Depoto and what he's doing and selling, but I
know why he's doing it, and I can see exactly.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
I mean, even he.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
I don't think believe some of the things he's saying,
but I can see why he's saying it and why
he's doing it. John Stanton and the two dozen owners
are the ones that fall here, and de Poto's their mouthpiece.
And I know that's not a popular opinion in this
town because you got to blame one person, but I
think everybody ought'll be blaming the other guy, and that's
John Stanton because he's the one that's pulling all the
strings here, owning a franchise that's massively profitable, massively underperforming
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with the talent they have. That's my soapbox for the day. Anyway,
four nine want to tell him what the text on.
You're shaking your head, Chris up and down, so I
guess you agree.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
But yeah, it's but it's.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Easy to target the Poto right because he's the he's
the one we hear from.
Speaker 4 (17:41):
That's been the rumor for years. It's he's just a puppet.
You know, do what we say and we'll keep you
can keep your job. And he's done with me ten.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Years and one playoff appearance and he's got promoted, so obviously.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
They love them.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
Yeah, so, well more could you add in this situation.
The fans obviously want more, but the guys above him
aren't willing to give him more.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Right, he is, his hands are tied.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Right.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
He wants to probably be honest and do what Softie
just did in a three minute ran and give you honesty,
but that's not what the guys above him are saying.
If you want to keep your job, you want to
do it this way. And maybe he gets fed up,
maybe this at the end of this year he's like,
you know what, I'm done of holding of not speaking
the honest truth there, and he loses his job because
of that. But I don't think that's something he would
want to do. This is a great position for him.
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He's been in it for ten years, although there's only
thirty of them in the world, so it's not as
if the resume screams, oh yeah, you'll get another job.
That's not guaranteed. But if he sticks up for himself
and for the fan base. Maybe that changes things.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
I'm not nostradamus here, but I do see that it's
tough for him to maybe say exactly how he feels
and what he wants to say because people are above
him aren't giving him what he needs to make this
team better. They say, yeah, here's forty million dollars to
go out and get free agents.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Forty millions are you're giving me?
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Well, in this case, it was reported there is only
fifteen this offseason.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
Okay, let's say it is fifteen.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Can you imagine the Dodgers owners telling the Dodgers GM,
you've got fifteen million to spend. Of course, there's a
little bit of an apples orange just comparison between the
Dodgers and Mariners.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
But yeah, I hear you, Chris, So, Yeah, he's It's
just it's a situation that he's probably not excited to
be in. But he has a nice position. He loves
his job. He would want to do more, but he's
going to roll with the punches. We're doing this, and
this will be did in the offseason. We're gonna be successful.
I believe in the plan, and clearly the people above
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him are like, that's what we're gonna do, and he's like,
I got you.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
We'll make it work. We'll run this back again.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
And if all things go to plan, guess what playoffs
and a chance to get in the World Series, a
chance for the Pennant, all those things that all the
fans want for the past what three to four years.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
So here's the sad truth, Chris. If the Mariners get
eighty plus wins, if the Mariner's stay in contention as
they have for most of the last few years, and
they're still drawing thirty plus thousand and sometimes forty and
fifty forty five thousand when it's bobbleheads and fireworks, they'll
make a profit. And the ownership will say, Jerry to Poto,
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great job, you competed. You kept the park interesting, games
somewhat interesting and meaningful. Into September. We filled the park.
We had bibbleheads, we had each e rose retirement night,
we cleared tens of millions of dollars in revenue. Good job,
here's your eleven and here's your twelve.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
He'll stay.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
The team won't go to the playoffs, but he'll stay.
And next year they'll tell him. What evidence do we
have is gonna be any different. They're going to say
you got twenty million or fifteen million dollars to spend.
There we go four nine foury to five one and
tell them we do a text on when his game time.
It's Tully time. Fifty four percent eight working period three six,
So says Ato one says, they do have a great
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home record. Yeah, I realize that, but I also realize
they play eighty one games on the road, end eighty
one at home, and the other teams don't seem to
have a problem winning games whether it's home and away,
at least enough to the Mariners out of a playoff spot. Man,
most teams have had this world as bottom line is,
most teams have had this caliber of pitching would be
in the playoffs because they'd have at least a modicum
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of offense, even middle of the road offense. And we've
talked about it. If they have it, even middle of the
road offense, this team would be perhaps home field advantage
and a buye as good as their pitching is World
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Speaker 4 (22:20):
A lot of marors ten years from the four two five,
and you have a whole at third, second, first, and
some would argue shortstop money or no money not acceptable.
From the four two five Jerry to Poto, or in
other words, Jerry dipstick is going to do anything to
improve the team. His vision of his club right now
is asinin.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
He needs a.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Bat, he refuses to get a bet.
Speaker 4 (22:42):
We hear the same crap after the year, so it
makes anyone think that they're going to do something different.
Defending the Poto as a victim after nearly ten years
because he's just doing what he's told is like defending
an embezzler or thief because his wife told me to
do it at some point. Wrong is wrong, and the continued,
regiously misleading comments from Jerry are flat wrong. The standard
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podal fraud is no longer defensible. From the two five
to three, I really want one of those sweet new
spring training hats. But if they're not spending money on me,
I'm not spending money on them. No new jersey, no
new polo, no new sweatshirt, not going to games.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
Yeah, if enough people did that, that's when they would
finally start to notice. Yeah, if they drew like one
point one million for eighty one games, then they'd be like,
wait a minute, this isn't working out. From the way
from the two six, no Mariner puts fear in anyone zero.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
No hitter, that's for sure. Well does Julio rodrig You
have to.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Game plan and pitch playing around Julio Rodriguez last season
and Cal Rowley, I sti't think you have to have
a plan for them.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
All right?
Speaker 2 (23:52):
That plan would be to throw first pitch basketball down
the middle, second and third and fifth strikes, blowing away.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Out of the strike zone. That's the point.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
From the four to five, you are right, the fault
lies with ownership, and we all know you can't tell
the owner of the toy how to play with their toy.
From the three six to oh, I want one player,
Pete Alonso. That's something Greg and I have been from
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the three six. So how does a guy who was
enough of a comparative pitch and the big leagues live
with himself intentionally wallowing h I don't know.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
He wants a job, he doesn't want to lose his job,
and he's probably like you said, Chris, he's probably not
sure he'd get another one. Failed with the Angels, mostly
failed with the Mariners.
Speaker 4 (24:42):
Yeah, congratulations, we have Chris Jodamas well played From the
two to eight. The POTO doesn't get pity for being
complicit in this nonsense. They are equally at fault and
the Poto from the TUOLSI look cordline.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
Thanks for thosening.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
Let's hear from the tight owners. I don't know if
you ever will man.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
I talked to John Stanton at an All Star Game
festivity down in Pioneer Square a couple of days before
the game there a couple of summers ago, and I
asked him, do you have enough offense to make the playoffs?
I asked that three seasons ago? He said yeah. I said,
do you feel like you have to make a move
or a trade or bring someone in in addition to
the offense you have to make the playoffs? And he
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said no, we think we were good with what we have.
And I took that to mean we ain't spend another dime, dude.
We are what we are and we're going to roll
with these guys. And that has stayed true since then.
From the two o six. You can't complain if you
still go to Mariner games and or buy Merge.
Speaker 4 (25:48):
It's hit them where they'll notice, take their propet away
until they get serious.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
It's true. It's just again, we've talked about this, Chris.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
How many fans go just to be at the ballpark
on a beautiful August.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
I get it, July Day, bring their fans, Little League day.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
I get it, bring the dog to the park.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
Park at the park, dog goats, walk around the field,
little League gay kids get the walk on the morning
track and around the infield. And there is a value,
of course, there's a civic value to that, and there
are a lot of people who buy Mariner tickets who
that's what they want out of their Major League Baseball
team in Seattle, the opportunity to go do that. There
are also a lot of people in Seattle who didn't
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grow up here who are fans of the White Sox
or the Yankees, or the Tigers, or the Red Sox
and the road teams Cleveland. There are a lot of
people who don't live in the cities they grew up in,
who live now in Seattle, who come to those games
and contribute to the profits. So even if a large
segment of the fan base who were true diehard baseball
fans that want this team to win protest it and
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just quit buying gear and quit going to games, there
would still be two and a half.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
Million people at the park this season.
Speaker 4 (26:54):
To get off the Mariners a little bit, Greg asked
you favorite super Bowl performance of all time?
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Yeah, there's a couple of good ones on here that
I'd forgotten about.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
So from the four to two five Michael Jackson, that's
a great one.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
You got.
Speaker 4 (27:07):
From the two five three, Bruno mars As entered the chat.
Three six, Oh, Whitney Houston. Yeah, another Michael jeff I said,
Michael Jordan. I meant Michael Jefretty.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Being able to golf. Whitney Houston sang a national anthem.
I talked about that a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 4 (27:25):
And from the two five three, another Michael Jackson fan
was that in Miami?
Speaker 3 (27:29):
Before I go googling this.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
No, I don't think it was. I can remember where
Michael Jackson. I want to say it was in southern California.
Maybe it with the Rose Bulky in the early nineties.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
So that was another one.
Speaker 4 (27:39):
So yeah, a few Bruno mars a couple Michael Jackson,
a few Whitney Houston.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
So yeah. Someone said Tom.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
Petty, who they made the point of being a very
underrated American music hero. I agree with that. By the
way I saw that. My wife and I Saturday night
went to the Crest Theater in North Seattle and saw
the Bob Dylan movie and it was really good. It's
a it's not quite a documentary. It's a fictional portrayal
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of actual events. Why is the name of the movie
escaping at the top of my head right now? It's
one of the lyrics of his song. Why is the
title of the movie. It's Bob Dylan's the history about.
It's how Bob Dylan went electric and just turned on
its folk roots.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
And you know who Bob Dylan is. No, sorry, we'll
move on.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
How many games?
Speaker 1 (28:30):
That's almost like not knowing who Whitney Houston is.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
Almost How many games does Pete Carroll win this season?
What's the over? Under six and a half.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
I say he wins ten games and the Raiders make
the playoffs? Oh my gosh, they finished second in the West.
Who's their quarterback?
Speaker 1 (28:44):
That's the question.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
Geez all right, since we're into predicting, I'm predicting Russell
Wilson signs with the Raiders.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
Pete Carroll.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
The problem with Pete Carroll Russell Wilson Part two would
be that Wilson can't run around and doing his improv
things that he used to do, and that's what Carol
let him do.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
And outside the structure of the offense.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
So he'd have to be a more structure of the
offense quarterback, and that's where the success might not duplicate.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
I think, hmmm, all right, that's a that's an old one.
I like that. My poor Raiders friends.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
Some of you may know I covered the Raiders in
the early two thousand They covered their last Super Bowl
against Tampa Bay and John Gruden, and they have been
absolute mess since then. I left in two thousand and
five to come up here and cover the Seahawks, but
they have been an absolute disaster dump for fire since
then since I left. And those I know people who
both still work for the Raiders and cover the Raiders,
who have been some bad years.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Man, I'm hoping that they have a couple of good ones.
Speaker 4 (29:39):
A few more. We have Keith from the two five. Yeah, Keith,
our guy from the two five to three. The Weekend
was solid. Okay, my daughter loved that show. Push she
loves the Weekend. It's right down the demographic right, twenty
one years old.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
There you go.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
Well, Keith that I think Key's around my age, So
Keith shout out to Keith him. Yeah, chic oh halftime,
i'gad about Usher. Usher was really good. Two six good
call there. Yeah, that's a very underrated one. Usher was
slept on. And then last one, I'll here we go
from the two five three? How can Jerry keep a
straight face and say end quote? He felt like we
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didn't have any holes in the lineup?
Speaker 3 (30:15):
Question mark? Question mark you gotta love it? Yetta love it?
Have you seen the mayor?
Speaker 2 (30:21):
I have? He is taping, so he may not be available,
and so maybe Jessman McIntyre talking to us on Crosstar
and that's okay, of course. One more thing on two
by three about the Poto Regarding Poto's comments yesterday, I
think he was he's playing with fire, hoping that a
bunch of players haven't improved seasons and the starting pitchers
will all remain healthy for a second straighter. Yes, they
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are an injury or two away from having a season,
unlike last year. For sure, they were very lucky healthwise
last year. Brian wu yeah injured, missed a couple starts,
but something that simply never happens back to back healthy
seasons for a rotation. You're right though about Jerry hanging
onto his job by taking the bullets for owners it four,
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that's not true. Yeah, another Brunomar. There's like three Bruno
Mars on here. I guess I was a remiss for
not mentioning him. There's a lot of Bruno Mars fans
listening to our show. I'm next. Jessman McIntyre and or
Infernez will join us leading into their show twelve to
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Speaker 7 (32:14):
I mean, we're clinging onto a string right now. We are,
But I mean this is also an exciting time for
the Kraken, and you know, just because I think we're
gonna watch the future unfold with what usually happens in
situations when you're not technically eliminated from playoff contention. But
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it would have to take a miracle to be in it.
And I think that we could have some excitement.
Speaker 3 (32:42):
About the team, new fresh skates.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
Exactly, gotcha? I asked of the text line.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
And I'm going to ask your opinion now, Jessman, Oka
and Tire the best Super Bowl performance you've seen, either
in person or on television. I thought the best one
in person I've ever seen was at the super Superdome
months after nine eleven. You two and the screen showing
all the people who perished in the terrorist attacks. Poignant,
very but the best one I've ever seen. Period was
(33:08):
Prince in Miami in.
Speaker 8 (33:09):
The rain, Oh forget it, come on that purple rain. Yeah,
I like, I can't top that. But I wasn't there
at that one. Okay, that clearly is the best one
I thought. I thought Rihanna was amazing.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
There you go, Ye, I forgot about her.
Speaker 7 (33:26):
Well, I'm watching that and I every time I hear
one of those songs, I know it's her, right, but
I'm like, dude, how many.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
Hits does she have?
Speaker 7 (33:34):
Right?
Speaker 1 (33:34):
Yeah? Third and fourth quarter?
Speaker 7 (33:37):
Yes, yeah she is so she was fantastic.
Speaker 8 (33:40):
And also she's pregnant, flying one hundred yards are.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
You kidding me? And just crushing it. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (33:49):
I thought she was pretty phenomenal. And my favorite actually
was in Atlanta where I was. It was the night before,
though it was the night before the super Bowl, or
two nights before. It might have been that Friday night,
but Aerosmith and host Malone did a Super Bowl party
that I got an invite to, and it was.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
Prior and those two. What a dichotomy of genres, say
the crowd, that's a very opposite. Oh my gosh.
Speaker 7 (34:12):
Everyone loved both. And my friend was running Aerosmith's tour
at the time. So I got to be, you know,
really close to the stage and got to see post
Malone and Aerosmith and they both were so great. So
that was a really fun concert.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
But what venue in Atlanta?
Speaker 4 (34:29):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (34:30):
Is that a club show? Arena show?
Speaker 7 (34:32):
It was a club show? Yeah, yeah it was. It
wasn't a full No, it was the basketball arena. I'm sorry,
I'm sorry. It wasn't arena show.
Speaker 3 (34:40):
Yes, I was just so close to the stage that
I forgot about all the other people.
Speaker 2 (34:43):
There for you, exactly in the Super in the Super
Bowl in San Diego in the early two to two
thousand and two, Shanaia Twain was a halftime show.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
Was there in Raiders Bucks.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
She was on a guy wire looking me in the
eye in the press box, and I'm trying to call
the corn and agents to find out where Barrett Robbins is.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
I didn't know if Barrett Robin's still alive.
Speaker 2 (35:03):
And know if you remember that story in Barrett Robins
disappeared night before the Super Bowl starting Pro Bowl Center
for the Raiders. And I'm trying to find all these
serious things and Shania Twain, in hardly any clothes, is
right in front of me, like from me to you,
it was an amazing experience to try to do what
work and then look up and go whoa and she's beautiful,
and it was yeah, she's quite studying.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
Yes to this day, I was still Yes, what do
you have going on today? That's not Shania Twain. We
do not have Shanai on the show.
Speaker 7 (35:32):
We are going to revisit some Jerry to Poto comments
from Yester because we had to have an emergency Mollywop session,
which we'll begin at one o'clock today, and we'll get
the fan reaction because Chris Crawford and Nathan Bishop are amazing.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
Is a positive spin on that?
Speaker 7 (35:51):
Yes, they have a realistic spin on that, so well,
we'll find out from them at one o'clock. Two o'clock
we have John Lund coming on, and you know, it's
just it's so funny. It reminds me when I'm listening
to these interviews of Petros and Softie, you know, super.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
Everything.
Speaker 7 (36:11):
It touches on everything in sports, and both of both
Ian and John have a unique perspective, so that's too.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
And I used to work together in Portland and John
is in San Francisco. Canb are or had been at CANBYR.
Speaker 7 (36:25):
Yeah, unfortunately he was part of the unfortunate things that
happened there when it comes to layoffs. But he is
still exactly as entertaining as always.
Speaker 1 (36:37):
You don't say, yeah, shocking.
Speaker 3 (36:41):
But yeah, we have a lot of that.
Speaker 7 (36:43):
And of course the one and only Ian fordesk coming
up at one of the at noon like right now, what.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
A great producer you are.
Speaker 2 (36:50):
They will also have a new keyword for it when
a thousand dollars every hour. They will also have giving
They've been giving you the opportunity with a cracking sounder
to win tickets March first to see the crack and
player not to be the tenth called when you hear
the sounder to two O six two eight six ninety
five ninety five. Greg Bell of the News Tribune, Christopher k.
If you missed Jory McIntyre, Jory McIntyre, that was a conflagation.
Speaker 7 (37:10):
You know what people used to call my house asking
for Joey as a child.
Speaker 2 (37:13):
So Jory Epstein from the New Orleans from the super
Bowl Bowl. If you miss that, go to the iHeartRadio
app and get it, or just be ashamed that you
missed it. We'll be on tomorrow tend Anoon, Christopher Kid
and I thank you for listening. Anferness is up next
on ninety three point three kJ RFM
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