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October 31, 2025 36 mins

Dodgers pre-game show starts now before game 6 of the world series.  Can the Mariners trade for Tarik Skubal?  Should the Seahawks re-sign Kenneth Walker III? Fact or Fiction.  Lee Sterling from Paramount Sports joins the show to handicap the weekends football games.

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He was there for twenty six years in some capacity
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to Jamaica.

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I looked it up.

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That would be the equivalent of somebody who makes one
hundred thousand dollars a year giving me forty four dollars.

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I mean, hey, good for you.

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I don't take anything away from those I'm not saying
I know it either, because two and a half millions,
two and a half million, but one hundred thousand dollars
for the Ravens is nothing. Two and a half million
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Is that what I'm being told? The Jackson's throwing a
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day off to get ready for it. I guess, so, hey,
I'm taking I can't judge. I'm taking all of next week.

(02:57):
You can totally judge, trust me, we can we judge.
We can all judge, all right, But good for him,
he's taking a little works on your show before Halloween.
You know what, It's the other way around, Bell working
with him. We should be taken today off for God's sakes,
My god.

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A big one. We got a big one today.

Speaker 3 (03:16):
Lee Sterling is going to join us three forty five
this afternoon. Aaron Levine, Jeopardy champion, will join us in
the four o'clock hour. Hugh Millan's gonna be here as well,
talking some football at five. Rick new Heizel in the
six pm hour. As we get ready for and I'm
not gonna really lie to you, we're not like sitting
around like you know, just preparing for anything but Game

(03:37):
six of the World Series tonight in Toronto, where tickets
are like forty million dollars Canadian to get in the door,
uh for the game tonight, which is like one hundred
bucks American. But it's gonna be raucous, It's gonna be
wild in Toronto with the Rogers Center. Good luck to
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(03:58):
bleeding Dodger blue this afternoon. But I don't know, man,
I got a feeling it's not going to happen. I
just I'm not. I'm not sitting there on some kind
of you know, big time you know. Take when I'm
telling you that the Blue Jays, leading three games to two,
are going to win the World Series, the odds can
change dramatically, obviously, if the Dodgers can win Game six tonight,

(04:18):
we'll see. But I think we all should prepare for
the idea, guys, that Toronto is going to bring home
the hardware for the third time in franchise history.

Speaker 4 (04:26):
I definitely think we should prepare for that. And I
definitely think that Toronto's got all the momentum. But I mean,
I just I remember a team a week and a
half ago that'll had all the momentum too. Will not
say that, please, And that's just freaking something else snapped
in a second.

Speaker 2 (04:39):
So what why.

Speaker 3 (04:43):
Is there any other way to make the point. That's
what I'm asking, Okay, I'll make their point any other way.

Speaker 4 (04:48):
In three two one, the next day's starting pitcher is
what momentum is, and the starting pitching advantage goes to
the LA Dodgers.

Speaker 3 (04:58):
Well, I mean the starting pitching vantage has almost gone
to them in every game.

Speaker 2 (05:02):
But their offense stinks. That's the problem. Does Their offense
is god awful, just like the Mararibales just top heavy. Yes,
it's still brutal.

Speaker 3 (05:10):
I mean, they've got a much deeper lineup than we do,
but they're just not performing. Like even Mookie Betts came
out there and said, man, I suck right now.

Speaker 2 (05:17):
And I you know what I said to the TV,
you know what you're right, can do stuck.

Speaker 6 (05:21):
Honestly, the Mariner's lineup right now would probably be better.

Speaker 2 (05:24):
He can't hit water if you fell off a canoe.
For crying is like three or four guys. Dodgers is
like one.

Speaker 3 (05:33):
Well, I'm I'm I'm praying and hoping, but whatever, you know,
I'm just I know what's coming if the Blue Jays
win this thing, and I know what's coming even if
they don't win this thing in July. Over the fourth
of July weekend next year, It is going to be
a freaking abomination at T Mobile Park next summer when
these clowns come down. So I guy just got to

(05:53):
find a way to you know, I gotta do what
Paul Moyer wants us all to do and just get
over it. You know, I really just to find a
way to get over man, says my buddy Pauly Moyer.
But we can switch gears to the Mariners. We can
switch gears to the Seahawks. You see what Adam Jude
wrote in the paper today about his proposed trade. By
the way, By the way, when did Adam Jude, who
came up here to cover Husky football after covering Oregon

(06:16):
for all those years in Eugene, when did that big
mouth become an expert on Mariner baseball and then he
become the trusted source for Mariner baseball analysis and insight?

Speaker 2 (06:28):
What hell is he know? For crying out loud, he
threw up this trade idea.

Speaker 3 (06:31):
He is probably hearing that from somebody else, for crying
out loud, probably just parroting that from Anders or whatever
its pod?

Speaker 2 (06:36):
Did you mention this on your podcast? This trade? I
knew it.

Speaker 3 (06:40):
I knew it, Jerangelo Sanjay, Yeah, Felnon Celestin, who's an infielder,
and then Logan Evans, the pitcher. He is suggesting that
the Mariners trade all three of those guys to the
Tigers for Trek Scoubel, who has one more year left
on his contract. He's got one more year left of arbitration,
and there's projection that he could make around eighteen million

(07:01):
dollars this year in arbitration.

Speaker 2 (07:03):
He maane, what what ten million? I think last year?

Speaker 6 (07:05):
Andrews, Yeah, is correct, but he's making twenty two next year?
Is that for sure? It's I think they already signed
the pre arbitration agreement.

Speaker 2 (07:11):
Got good.

Speaker 3 (07:12):
So twenty two million though for trek Scuba, right, sign
me up? Dropping the bucket for that guy?

Speaker 2 (07:17):
Are you kidding me? Abso?

Speaker 3 (07:18):
Fricolutely so? The salary for me at least, and I'm
not speaking for the Mariners ownership. For me, it's not
a problem at all. But is the prospect capital too much?
I mean, you'd be hanging on to in this proposed deal,
your top seven prospects, only one of them is a
top one hundred guy in that Sonjay with Selliston, Depending

(07:41):
on what you're doing with cold Emerson. I mean I
guess Colt's your shortstop for the future. You might maybe
play him at third one day down the road. But
you're a little bit redundant, aren't you, with Celliston as
an infielder there, so you feel comfortable moving him, and
then you know, Logan Evans, I mean whatever, right back
into the rotation guy down the road.

Speaker 2 (08:01):
So I would probably do it.

Speaker 3 (08:04):
Obviously, I would feel a lot more comfortable if I
could go out and sign Schooble to a long term deal.
But I think if you're in this window, though, which
the Mariners are in, getting a guy like Tarrek's scuball,
I mean, you think about how disappointed we were guys
in some of the starts in the postseason by some
of these Mariner pitchers. Tarrek Scuoble solves a lot of that.

(08:26):
I mean, Tarrek Scouoble, you could almost say, if you
go to the ALCS and let's say you play in
the wild card round, all right, if you go all
the way through the ALCS, Tarrek Scooble is probably good
for four or five dominant performances. And we sent the
playoffs and we saw two of them. Yeah, right, And
they want both of them, obviously, but it's probably a

(08:47):
deal that I would do. I think, when you're this
deep in your farm system, if you can get away
with hanging on to your top seven guys and dealing
a guy who was in the nineties at Pipeline in Sonjay,
your eighth and ninth best prospects and Logan Evans for
minimum one year of Tarik's school ball. I would not

(09:09):
do this deal if the Mariners were terrible. Obviously, I'm
not doing this deal if they're coming off a ninety
lost season. But to be eight outs away from the
World Series, I don't know if there's ever a better
time to roll the dice on a deal like this
than right now. So I think Adam's onto something. No,
I don't know if they would accept it or not,
but he's onto something. I think he is too.

Speaker 4 (09:26):
I don't think the twenty twenty five salary is anything
at all. In fact, the time, say, is eighteen million,
not twenty two, But I mean still eighteen twenty two.
That's very, very reasonable for a pitcher like Terrek's school.

Speaker 3 (09:38):
But he said, and as you said, they've signed a
pre arbitration. I'm looking at spotshrat Ann because I saw
one projected deal was at eighteen million bucks, but again
six one half dozen.

Speaker 2 (09:48):
You're exactly right, But I mean.

Speaker 4 (09:49):
I think that's you need an ace of the rotation
because the one thing positively that we said about this
rotation is, hey, any one of these.

Speaker 2 (09:58):
Guys you throw out can be an right.

Speaker 4 (10:01):
But the problem with the rotation is none of them
really pitched like aces, except maybe Bryce Miller.

Speaker 2 (10:06):
Or fifth Starter is like the only guy that pitched
like an ace. Trek Scouble. You fear trek Scouble.

Speaker 4 (10:12):
You absolutely, we were shaking in our boots against Terrek Scuoble.

Speaker 2 (10:16):
Now we got him, but it was tough.

Speaker 4 (10:19):
He is the ace, and if you could give up
that package, I think I would do it.

Speaker 3 (10:24):
Well, let me ask you, this is Terrek Scuoble the
best pitcher in baseball. Arguably it's him or Paul Schames, right, Okay,
so at minimum, he is the best pitcher in the
American crrack at minimum, and you're telling me that I
can give up my eighth and ninth best prospect and
Logan Evans for a year of Trek Scuble. Get him
back home where he pitched in college, get him acclimated,

(10:46):
to t Mobile Park, work on a contract extension with
him all season long, and all I gotta do is
give up my eighth and ninth guy, Are you kidding me?
I mean, it just seems like kind of a no
brainer for the Mariners. I don't know if it's a
no brainer for the Tigers. They may want Cold Emerson
and Kate Anderson in return. They might want your number

(11:07):
one and number two prospects. Because just keep this in mind,
if they trade Tarrek Scuball, they're gonna get barbecued by
their fan base. There is a story out right now
that the Tigers and Tarrek Scouball are one hundred and
fifty million dollars apart on their contracts. The wants and
what the Tigers are offering right, well, they should be

(11:28):
They should be closer. They absolutely should be closer. They
got money coming off the books, they got some guys
that are still young that are making nothing right, so
they should be closer. But again, even if they're not,
even if you just came to me, Dick and said,
you know what, these cheap bots are not gonna do it.
He's gonna walk out of here and he's not going
to play for the Mariners in twenty twenty seven, and
you're gonna get a cop pick when he walks away

(11:49):
in free agency. I think I would still do it.
I would still do the deal because you're in a window.

Speaker 2 (11:53):
Again.

Speaker 3 (11:54):
I can't stress enough, you're in a window where you
have to win. You have to at least get to
the World Series. And Tarrek's scuoball will help you way more,
way more in this.

Speaker 2 (12:03):
Window than any of those three guys we just mentioned.

Speaker 6 (12:06):
I'd argue he's more impactful than any free agent that's
available in this upcoming off season. And I realized that
even if you were just getting in for one year,
giving up I prospects can turn into something. But you
never know what those guys problems exactly. So we talked
about this to me, would signal kind of a doubling

(12:27):
down of Hey, everyone talked about the John Stanton article
that he put into the Seattle Times or his quote Whatriever,
this would show Hey, No, we believe right now that
we have a good enough team to go win the
World Series, so we're gonna go do it next.

Speaker 4 (12:40):
I think I think what the problem has been with
Seattle sports teams when they've quote unquote gone for it
with trades like this, is that they've treated supert They've
treated good to very good players like their superstars. Right,
Jimmy Graham was not a superstar. Right, Percy Harvin was
not a superstar. Dion Branch was not a superstar. Trek
Scuball is a superstar. Those are the types of guys

(13:03):
you make those mega trades for, not guys that you hope,
right you're gonna catch lightning in a bottle, and I
hope Percy Harvin's as good as he's been, Like, oh,
I don't know the last fourteen games.

Speaker 2 (13:14):
Jim mull Adams is not a superstar.

Speaker 4 (13:17):
Those are the trade Those are the deals that the
Seahawks have made in the past that have burned them
because they've give up given up superstar compensation for less
than superstar talent.

Speaker 5 (13:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (13:28):
I just again, I just think it's kind of a
no brainer man, for me.

Speaker 3 (13:31):
I mean again, you're not even talking about hitting your
top five or six or seven prospects in your system
and you're able to add a guy like that for
a year. Who I think if anybody would have a
better chance of re signing him, it'st the Mariners.

Speaker 1 (13:42):
Right.

Speaker 2 (13:43):
If he comes here, his buddies are here.

Speaker 3 (13:45):
I mean, you heard all the people that showed up
at T Mobile for his games, and his old coach
should Seattle.

Speaker 2 (13:50):
You I want to go on a real farm.

Speaker 3 (13:52):
You know, people are all mad, but you coach in Seattle.
I don't care what all that stuff. So yeah, do it, man,
totally do it again. I don't think the Tigers would
do it. I really don't. I think the market, if
they do decide to move Scooball, I think the market
would bear more than what Adam Jude is recommending the
Mariners offer. I think somebody would give up more than

(14:13):
that prospect wise, and maybe even major league ready town.
And they may want major league ready talent, which I
don't blame them at all. This was a baseball team
that was you know, they were in the playoffs for
God's sakes.

Speaker 2 (14:25):
They also were.

Speaker 3 (14:26):
In a win now kind of window, and giving up
him for prospects a lot of fans in Detroit would
be a setback. I was going to text our buddy
Matt Deary and see if he wanted a hot pop,
and then I remember he's a Guardians fan.

Speaker 2 (14:38):
He's living in Detroit.

Speaker 3 (14:39):
He got pissed at me when the Tigers made the playoffs,
so they congratulated him. He texted me back and told
me to blow it out my ass. I was like,
what he's like, I'm a Guardians fan living in Detroit, man,
so don't call him.

Speaker 2 (14:52):
It's a big.

Speaker 4 (14:52):
Gamble though for the Tigers, because let's say the Tigers
are forty two and forty five in the trade deadline,
right then they trade Kerk Scooball, they're going to get
forty percent of this package. So they're rolling the dice
if they don't trade them move well.

Speaker 3 (15:06):
The only difference with July versus now, and I would
probably agree with you, Dick, is that you got a
lot more teams that think they can make the playoffs,
right because you got half the league. I mean, now
we really know we can be a playoff team because
we're in the mix. So sometimes teams go a little
nuts to the deadline. But what they gave up for Naylor,
what they gave up for Suarez, I mean, it's not
this package that Jude is talking about all but it's

(15:28):
not crazy, you know, it's it's it's it's not a
crippling deal and for all those that are worried about,
you know, mortgaging the future, which is so dumb, so dumb,
because you can always get more prospects. And we talked
about this of the deadline too in July. I mean,
my look, I'd like kind of trying to compliment to
Poto in the process that Hey, if there's any general
manager or president of baseball option baseball who should be

(15:50):
trusted to restock their minor league system, it's our guy,
right right.

Speaker 2 (15:54):
Yes, because he's done it for four or five years.

Speaker 5 (15:56):
In a row.

Speaker 3 (15:57):
So I mean, look, I know these guys have fancy
names and all that. They're hard to pronounce and they're
kind of mysterious and blah blah blah. Look, guys, in
the end, they're just prospects. They're nineteen twenty year old
kids who may blow their arms out, they may be bums.

Speaker 2 (16:10):
They may never perform, and they.

Speaker 3 (16:12):
May never have higher trade value than they have right now.
Right Like if they trade the same thing with Gino Suarez.
And I was asking the Anders this off the year,
Let's say they gave up a little more for Gino
Suarez than what they gave up. Let's say they did
give up a Las Montest or a Michael Arroyo or
a Johnny Farmelow or hey, even a cold Emerson.

Speaker 2 (16:31):
We'd be ticked right now.

Speaker 3 (16:32):
Didn't squad right now, we would be But if they
had won that series, if they'd won that series, would
Gino's Grand Slam that instigated the series win have been
worth it to trade a prospect like that? And I
would have said, hell yes, to get to the World Series.
Absolutely so. But you're right, in the end, he's done.
He's not coming back.

Speaker 5 (16:50):
Right.

Speaker 3 (16:50):
The Naylor thing you asked me on the Year of
the Year day, if they just signed Naylor of the
offseason is not enough, Absolutely not, because it's the same team.
If you just do Nail and you bring everybody else back,
it's the same freaking team that we saw in October.

Speaker 2 (17:04):
But does what did last year?

Speaker 3 (17:06):
What do you mean we brought back the same team
which which wasn't good enough, Which.

Speaker 2 (17:09):
Wasn't good enough.

Speaker 4 (17:11):
It was good enough to put him in the playoff
race in order to make the trades that they're deadline
to bring him over the time.

Speaker 3 (17:16):
And look, I think in the end, though this team
proved that they needed more help. They needed more help
in the bullpen. I mean, in the end, they did
nothing to help the bullpen. I think all of us
can agree on that, Like, what's the real reason you're
not at the vMac on deadline day and they get
the you know, Ted Ferguson and Duran goes to what Philadelphia?

Speaker 2 (17:35):
Is that right?

Speaker 3 (17:36):
I think from Minnesota, I mean all of us, it
was like nobody was, you know, in disagreement. They all
everyone knew they needed more bullpen help and they didn't
do anything. I mean, really, the biggest improvement they made
to their bullpen was Bizardo pulling his head out of
his butt and turning it around a guy they already had.
That was the biggest difference in the bullpen in September

(17:57):
October to April and million.

Speaker 2 (18:00):
I mean game Spider was the biggest difference at the
beginning of the season.

Speaker 3 (18:03):
Sure, but I'm just saying from a all of a sudden,
a new piece and a new performer, if you will.
In September and October, Bizarto was the one. He was
the one because they didn't do anything. And I honestly
thought that Caleb Ferguson Dia was a good deal. I
had no We're not missing him. I thought it was fine,
didn't pan out, but in the end they did nothing.
So all I want, and I've told Dick this, and

(18:24):
I've told Andrews this, obviously, all I want is just
for these guys to build the best possible team for
Game one of April. Build the best possible team you
can build, and then naturally things aren't gonna go the
way you think they're gonna go. We'll add some pieces
over the season in July, but can you build a
team that doesn't have holes like they had defensively at

(18:47):
third and at first base? With Rowdy tells, build me
a great team from date day one.

Speaker 4 (18:53):
Well, if I'm Jeff Greenberg though the Tigers, I'm saying, sure,
I'll trade Trek School, but it starts with Los Montes
and Emerson.

Speaker 2 (19:00):
It doesn't start with Geronzolo, sing.

Speaker 6 (19:04):
Dick, So I don't think they do that deal. I agree,
And you mentioned major league ready talent. Say you had
to throw in Logan Gilbert to get Cherry School back.
Now you may think, oh, but Logan Gilbert is a
free agent after next the following year.

Speaker 3 (19:17):
Two years, correct, correct, So I have a window where
I can meet with Trek's scooboy can double tree and
see tech and talk about an extension.

Speaker 2 (19:25):
Well, that's to give me forty eight hours before we
do the deal.

Speaker 6 (19:29):
And that's the big reason they're talking about trading him
is because he's asking for a lot. But if you're
going to trade Logan Gilbert, then you were thinking about
re signing him. You could take the money you theoretically
would be using on Logan Gilbert and put it towards
Arrek's Scoobel, right right, So I'm thinking then, yeah, I
still would probably do that as well.

Speaker 2 (19:45):
And he's what twenty eight years old? Correct? Twenty eight
years old?

Speaker 3 (19:50):
So show Heytani's kind of in a class by himself.
I'm going to break here in a second for factor fiction.
But he's making seventy million, but throw him out. Zach
Wheeler's making forty two MILLI and Jacob Dgron's making thirty seven.
I would not be surprised if Trek Schoubel, when he
hits free agency or agrees to an extension, is making
fifty million dollars a year because he's the next guy up.

(20:10):
So you know, with the Mariners pay, it's it's hard
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(21:10):
us as well. At three forty five, we're talking about
Trek Scuball of the Tiger is going to be in
a free agent at the end of the twenty twenty
six season. You know who's going to be a free
agent in about five months from now. By the way,
see if you can tell who I'm thinking? Who am
I thinking? I'm not going to tell you. You got
to get into my.

Speaker 2 (21:28):
Head five months.

Speaker 3 (21:29):
Who's going to be a free agent in about five
months from now?

Speaker 2 (21:32):
Well, that's got to be the end of the football.

Speaker 3 (21:34):
Okay, very good, very good? Who's a free agent in
five months? I'll just tell you in the interest of time.
Kenny Walker, Ada boy, Kenny Walker. Yes, is Kenny Walker
strike you as the kind of guy you want to
sign you an extension right now today?

Speaker 4 (21:53):
Yes, if it's a reasonable contract extension, because he only
deserves reasonable money. I think Walker has been severely mismanaged
by the Seattle Seahawks over the last two years. I
was looking at Ken Walker's numbers. Let's go back to
his rookie year. Do you know when he was at
his best, even at yards per carry, right when he
got twenty plus carries a game. He finished the season

(22:16):
his rookie year twenty six for one oh seven, twenty
three for one thirty three, twenty nine for one forty four.
And then he started the next season just like that,
And then all of a sudden boof yep, Pete Carroll
and now Mike McDonald decided, you know, we're gonna give
you like twelve carries. Well, the problem with that is
Ken Walker gets his four to four and a half
yards of carry like this.

Speaker 2 (22:35):
He goes for one, and then he goes for two,
and then he goes for zero, then he goes for three,
then he goes for nineteen.

Speaker 4 (22:40):
But if you don't give him enough carries, he's not
gonna get the two or three nineteen yard runs a game.

Speaker 5 (22:46):
Right.

Speaker 3 (22:46):
Well, He's only had twenty carries or more three times
in the last two and a half years. So I'm waiting.
I was waiting for Dick to start barbecuing Clint Kubiak
the way you barbecue bro about not.

Speaker 2 (22:55):
Using Kenny Walker, because all we heard and I'm not.

Speaker 3 (22:58):
Look, I mean, I like a lot of what I
see from Klint Kubiak, all right, I will absolutely admit
that a lot of what I see. I think the
offensive line is better than it was a year ago.
I think that's a big reason why I like. I
think the quarterback play is better than what it was
a year ago. And I think the defense is even
better than what it was a year ago. At this time,
because they really emerged, as you know, in the second

(23:20):
half of the year. But this is the same problem
that we had with DK Metcalf that no matter what
coordinator took over, nobody could figure it out. Waldron, Grub, Kubiak, Okay,
now it's Kenny Walker. Nobody can figure it out. They
can't figure out how to use this guy. And I'm
with you. I want to look. I mean, if he

(23:41):
gets hurt and he gets banged up, then whatever, ride
that horse until it falls apart, and then you'll move
on and you'll sign somebody else. But how can you
even remotely begin to take advantage of the guy if
you're not going to give him the damn bolls.

Speaker 4 (23:54):
Exactly right now when it goes back to club Grub
versus Kubiak.

Speaker 2 (23:58):
For me, it's just simply how much you throw the ball.
You didn't like throwing the ball. And I guess.

Speaker 4 (24:04):
They said last year we want balance, and this year
guess what they have balance, no doubt. Fifty percent run,
fifty percent pass.

Speaker 3 (24:13):
This terrible run team, though they are one of the
worst in the NFL. So is it like one question
for you that we got to talk about, is this
balanced approach still the right thing to do. If they
can't run the ball, is it time to ditch it
and just say let's start loading up on Sam Darnold
and Cooper Cupp and Jackson Smith and Jigba Factor fiction
right now for.

Speaker 2 (24:33):
Set to go.

Speaker 1 (24:34):
Glad you're with us, it's your shot at our weekly
thousand bucks and the.

Speaker 2 (24:38):
Ten thousand dollars grand prize.

Speaker 1 (24:40):
It's Factor Fiction, probably presented by Lucky Eagle Casino and
Hotel where every Day Feels Lucky. Fact Door Fiction is
on Sports Radio ninety three point three kjr FM.

Speaker 2 (24:55):
All right, big thanks.

Speaker 3 (24:56):
To the Lucky Ego Casino and Hotel or Everyday Feel Lucky.
I'm looking at a Pittsburgh Steeler football team that has
lost two in a row and they're looking to avoid
a three game losing streak. Close games to Cincinnati Green Bay.
They're back at home on Sunday against the team that

(25:16):
I think is way overdue for a loss, Like way
over now.

Speaker 2 (25:20):
You're going here for a loss.

Speaker 3 (25:23):
Pittsburgh Steelers are hosting Daniel Jones and the Indianapolis Coats Colts,
and I think, by the way, guys, at five o'clock tonight,
we got to give Humil on his props on Daniel Jones. Yeah,
and we should do it now in case Daniel Jones
turns into a pumpkin on Sunday. Pitts Witch could absolutely.
But I like the Steelers in this game. They're getting

(25:45):
three and a half at home. I think they may
freaking win, Like straight up. That crowd's gonna be juiced up.
Colts are due for a loss. Steelers are pissed off.
They're trying to avoid a three game losing streak. Give
me Pittsburgh in the points this weekend at home against
Daniel Jones and Jonathan Tailor.

Speaker 4 (26:00):
Ah the old raw rab Mike Tomlin spot off the loss.
He is sixty one and forty seven against the spread.

Speaker 2 (26:06):
As coach of the Steelers.

Speaker 4 (26:08):
He is twenty five and fifteen against the spread as
an underdog off and out right outright loss, including twelve
and four against the spread as a home dog off
a loss three and a half. It's like nothing, raw rab,
Mike spot Let's go.

Speaker 3 (26:23):
Let's go Aaron Rodgers, let's go DK Metcalf, let's go
Patrick Queen, right, all those guys, let's go.

Speaker 2 (26:30):
Mike Tomlin, Come on.

Speaker 3 (26:31):
Boy, steel City here Pittsburgh plus the three and a
half is these is the game you like it, fact,
you hate it? Fiction the four nine, four five one
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Speaker 4 (26:42):
What's interesting, we have the top two coaches this week
picked in factor fiction come as a home dog in
the last twenty years. We have Mike Tomlin who was
there nineteen and fourteen, right, and we got Pete Carroll
is seventeen and fourteen and we picked them.

Speaker 2 (26:56):
Both this week. Well, let's let's hope they both come through.

Speaker 3 (26:59):
I actually, by the way, was tinkering with the idea
of taken the Vikings in the eight and a half
against the Lions, just so we'd be guaranteed to win
because you took the Lions. Yep, you can had you
a little bit. Yeah, I mean if it gets down
to it at the end of the year. Yeah, we
can be smart at the end of the year. It
was a few weeks before we need it. There's some
strategy involved.

Speaker 2 (27:17):
That is good.

Speaker 1 (27:17):
You know.

Speaker 3 (27:18):
I've always thought that there should be. I've told you
a million times, a prize for the show that wins.
I don't know why we don't do this with a trophy,
at least a trophy. That's up to you, guys. I
just keep jack of everything. I honestly think that the
show that wins should get like a day off and
you guys figure it out, bring it, or the show
that finishes last they have to do the entire day

(27:39):
from six am to seven pm.

Speaker 6 (27:42):
That's my idea and a trophy, and that would not
be happy and food.

Speaker 4 (27:46):
Why don't all the hosts that participate just chip in
for a trophy?

Speaker 1 (27:49):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (27:50):
It cost us like twenty bucks a piece, because who
really wants a trophy?

Speaker 5 (27:53):
Right?

Speaker 2 (27:53):
Like you want a dinner? Dick Fane wants a trophy?
You want to go to the Melphie sitting right here.

Speaker 4 (27:58):
Every time we come into this room and every time
I'm all the other hosts coming to this room know
that that is trophy.

Speaker 2 (28:03):
Yeah, giving Jackson credit?

Speaker 4 (28:06):
Should I just kicking a man while he's down?

Speaker 2 (28:12):
Man? Get him Wally's.

Speaker 3 (28:13):
Down, Pittsburgh the points get him in four nine four
or five?

Speaker 1 (28:18):
One?

Speaker 3 (28:18):
Lee Sterling our actual handicap or not a chump like me.
He'll join next on ninety three three kJ arfm.

Speaker 1 (28:27):
It's time for our weekly visit with gambling expert Lee Sterling.
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(28:50):
with Lee Sterling.

Speaker 2 (28:51):
Here's SUFFI and dial. All right, I forget about picking
the locks.

Speaker 3 (28:55):
With Mark James and Lee Sterling coming up tonight seven
o'clock right here on ninety three three KJRFM. Before he
picks the locks, he picks the winners baby with us
on Fridays twenty five, nineteen and one, another winning week
three and two last week proof the sun shines on
everyone's ass. Eventually our friend from South Florida, my buddy,

(29:16):
twenty five year friend, Lee Sterling, How are you man?

Speaker 2 (29:20):
I'm good?

Speaker 5 (29:20):
You know what. We have a job opening here for
general manager. How about you and I do it together?
First tag team GMS. We take over Miami. I know
you love Seattle. You can keep rooting for them in
the NFC. You become the co GM here at the
Dolphins with me, all right?

Speaker 3 (29:39):
Have the Dolphins ever had a Jewish general manager before?
You know?

Speaker 5 (29:44):
No? But I think they're considering one one of the
guys in the running from Philly. But you and I
together are noses. I mean we won't get nothing will
get past this, right?

Speaker 2 (29:55):
Does it pass the sniff tester? Well? Lee sterlings with us.
Let's get to the games. Let's start with Indiana.

Speaker 3 (30:02):
Man red freakin' hod just rolling, steam rolling through college football.

Speaker 2 (30:07):
They're on the road at Maryland.

Speaker 3 (30:09):
Obviously, Husky's went there and got to win a few
weeks ago, but there's a different animal. The Hoosiers are
given twenty one and a half on the road against
the Turps.

Speaker 5 (30:18):
If this was at home, I would lay off the game.
But Indiana is gonna face maybe the best secondary they faced.
Maryland has the most interceptions in college football with fourteen.
I like their young quarterback Jackson coming off the buy
might have enough time to game plan and you're not
gonna stop Indiana's offense, but maybe slow them down here.

(30:42):
I think Indiana is gonna win thirty eight to twenty three.
The Turps cover.

Speaker 4 (30:46):
Wow, a game that in September we had all circled
on our calendar not so much anymore. Ohio State eighteen
and a half point favorites against Penn State at the Shoe.

Speaker 2 (30:57):
What do you think?

Speaker 5 (30:59):
All Right, So, as great as Ohio State is and
they're really good, they got two things going against them here.
Jim Knowles, Penn State defensive coordinator, was defensive coordinator for
Ohio State. Another game where coach has a buye to
prepare his team. He knows the talent inside and out here.

(31:19):
I think that is one of the biggest advantages. He's
a smart guy. Also, the quarterback Ethan Grunkeemeyer. He grew
up close to Ohio State and was passed over twice
by the Buckeyes. There's still a lot of good parts
on this Penn State team. You're gonna see a lot
of guys drafted late first to third and fourth round

(31:40):
off this team. And I think this. I don't think
they're gonna upset him like Michigan did last year in
the Big House. Now that game was actually at Ohio State.
But I think Penn State's going to take him down
to the wire. Wow, Ohio State wins thirty to seventeen.
I'm grabbing all those points.

Speaker 3 (31:58):
Got it take the Nitney Lyons and the cover against
the Buckeyes, USC on the road at Nebraska just announced
a new deal for Matt Ruhle, extended as buy out
by a few million bucks triplet that I think, as
a matter of fact, to keep them around Lincoln for
at least a few more years. And now they're hosting
USC tomorrow and the corn Huskers are getting four and

(32:20):
a half. What do you think happens in Lincoln?

Speaker 5 (32:24):
So think USC is explosive. I like the fact that
they're running the ball more than they have and sticking
with it. But USC still another team. They go to
the Central Eastern time zone one in eight straight up
and against the spread. Here, I think the Cornhusker's got
a problem on the offensive line, but their back's doing

(32:45):
a good job getting yards after their hit. And I
like betting the Cornhuskers a lot more as an underdog
than is a favorite. Here, two different animals think USC
wins thirty four to thirty Cornhuskers cover all.

Speaker 2 (32:59):
Right to the NFL.

Speaker 4 (33:01):
Looks like Mac Jones going to start again. Forty nine
ers two and a half point favorites in New York.
Who do you like there? And what is the spread
difference when Mac Jones starts a game versus Brock Pardy.

Speaker 5 (33:14):
It's only about two and a half points, So not
as much as you would think here. San Francisco was
in a bad spot last week. I mean, playing against
a team where the head coach knew their personnel and
their schemes extremely well Giants. I mean when I saw
Campscattabu get injured that team, it looked like they had

(33:34):
seen a ghost here. So I think they're done. They
don't have the weapons San Francisco. They'll get five, six
seven yards on first down. They get you in second
and short. That's where the Giants have their most trouble here.
I like San Francisco a lot. Hint, hint, it's on
my card thirty one sixteen forty nine ers.

Speaker 3 (33:52):
I like, well, that's gataboo injury man. That was gnarly, dude.
It was kind of like your pickup basketball jump shot.
It was gross, awful, just awful. How about the Seahawks
man going to the commanders on Sunday night, Jane Daniel
is going to start. We know Jordan Love is out
safety for the Hawks. Hawks are given two and a
half on the road to DC on Sunday Night football.

Speaker 5 (34:15):
This Washington team we're finding out now and just like Minnesota,
he's had no injuries. He lost one starter the entire
season last year, and that's why they got as far
as they did. So they got a lot of holes
on defense, and I think Seattle used the pass to
set up to run against him. And I think they'll
have a lot of success here. And you know, they

(34:38):
just they don't have the running backs to keep teams
honest right now and boat backs out of the backfield
not doing a great job catching the ball and making
big plays there. Also, I like Seattle. Sometimes you got
to lay it if you want to play it. Hawks
thirty one, twenty thirty.

Speaker 3 (34:55):
One twenty I love it. And your game of the
week Rams and Saints coming up to this weekend at
Sofi Stadium, maybe who knows the future home and you
see LA football if they can get the hell out
of their lease with the rose Buls. So you got
to sum up your sleeve, don't you? With the Rams
and Saints. Tyler story for New Orleans.

Speaker 5 (35:12):
By the way, I do I do First five callers
get for free call eight hundred four hundred nine seven
four one First five Callers game is on me. And
how about this, mister Moller, You're going to be getting
a text in about a minute and a half, two minutes.
We raid our games from ten to fifty units once
a month. We have a forty to fifty unit play.

(35:33):
Twice in the last seventeen years, we've had forty two
forty to fifty unit plays in one weekend, first time ever,
not one, not two, three forty to fifty unit max
wagers and one weekend. So I hope that you haven't
spent all your money yet buying Honika gifts, because I'm

(35:58):
going to take care of it for you. You're gonna
be buying a lot of gifts for a lot of people,
and you might even be able to hand out if
you get home in time, some full size candy bars.
How do you get involved? Check it out paramouth sports
dot Com.

Speaker 3 (36:15):
Eight hundred, four hundred nine to seven, four to one.
Give the man a Collie's red Hot Lee. You're the man.
Great stuff. I well here you at seven o'clock tonight
with MJ Buddy. Appreciate it, man, That was good, all right,
Lise Sterling.

Speaker 2 (36:26):
He likes uh Nebraska and the four and a half
at home.

Speaker 3 (36:31):
He likes Maryland to cover against Indiana, Penn State to
cover against Ohio State Hawks, and the two and a
half against the Commanders and the Niners minus the points
against the gents. We have a champion, and not the
kind of champion that you think I think I'm talking about.

Speaker 2 (36:46):
Coming up at about four twenty or so, what could
it be? Who could it be?

Speaker 3 (36:51):
You'll find out in about twenty five minutes on ninety
three three KJRFM

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