Furness Show 3-17: Molly Whop Monday, Daily Power Play, Slick Watts Tribute.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:16):
We have games starting tomorrow on nine to fifty on
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(00:38):
little commercial break and you'll hear the music. And that's
starting coming up on Thursday and Friday and all weekend.
If we don't have hockey on as well. Gonzaga number
eight in the Midwest, we'll talk about that in the
two o'clock hour. They're probably not happy, but the team
that's number one in that region really ain't happy. Okay,
let's see Husky women are in the tournament as well.

(01:00):
All they earned a berth and the elevens. Yeah, women
have playing games too.

Speaker 3 (01:04):
Huh, I didn't know that.

Speaker 2 (01:04):
Yeah, they're playing the playing game on Thursday.

Speaker 4 (01:06):
Everything changes all the time.

Speaker 2 (01:07):
Koog's earned a bid of the inaugural College Basketball Crown
Tournament in Vegas. It's interesting tournament. I think some teams
in that tournament told the nit to pound sand and going.

Speaker 3 (01:16):
To Vegas and hanging out in stead. I like it.
I think it's a smart move.

Speaker 2 (01:19):
Yeah, Cracking lost to Winnipeg yesterday overtime, three to the
final score in that one. It was in overtime.

Speaker 3 (01:26):
Best pick and roll.

Speaker 2 (01:26):
You'll probably see its climate Pledgerina. We should have been
a penalty. The didn't call it away. You go, it
doesn't matter. Sad news over the weekend, super Sonic. Former
Supersonic fan favorite Slick Watts passed away at the age
of seventy three. We'll touch in on that coming up
at two.

Speaker 3 (01:37):
Let's go. Glorious time of the year.

Speaker 2 (01:44):
Huh, glorious, here we go.

Speaker 4 (01:46):
Now, this is a show open.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
We've got, we got all kinds of March madness. We're
gonna get to some thoughts on it at two o'clock today,
We're gonna Malliwop at one twenty today. Can't wait for that.
Boys are standing by. So we're gonna mally Wop at
one twenty. Gets you ready for the baseball season. You
know we're what is it now? Ten days away?

Speaker 3 (02:04):
Is that right?

Speaker 2 (02:05):
Ten days away from the from opening way down at
tobile hours.

Speaker 3 (02:09):
Thank you very much.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
And we got that coming up on Thursday week from Thursday,
but of course March Madness starts this week. We are
your home for March Madness. Curtisy of our good friends
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with them, they're involved with the tournament. Anyway, we got
a lots going on as well. Now two o'clock today,

(02:57):
I'm gonna hit on.

Speaker 3 (02:59):
The read just in.

Speaker 2 (03:02):
North Carolina is the one everyboy's talking about. But I'm
going to tell you at two o'clock why North Carolina
is Alabama football, And if you're a fan of college sports,
it's a really really bad thing, not just because they
made it in, but it's a bigger picture bad thing.
We'll explain coming up at two o'clock today. Also, we'll
spend some time talking sharing some memories of the late

(03:22):
great Donald Slick Watts, who passed away over the weekend
of the age of seventy three. Of course, we all
know his son, Donald, who's worked with us at KGr
for years and years. The son Isaiah playing over at Wazoo.
He's been sick for what I've been sick for about
a year and a half now, and finally succumb to
the illnesses and the things he was battling, a massive

(03:43):
stroke and some other things going on. I know Isaiah
was weighing heavily on his mind. He missed a bunch
of practices and things down the stretch really wasn't himself.
He could see by the way he played very tight
with his grandfather. And we'll touch it on that. I
had touch face a little bit with Donald over the
weekend and her back from him yesterday's and overwhelmed by
support from people in our community, and I know he
thinks and the family thanks everybody for that. But well,

(04:04):
we'll share some memories of slick wats coming up in
the two o'clock hour as well, So we got a
lot to get to at that point in time. And
again Mulliwop as well. Since we last went off the air,
Cooper Cup got signed by the Seahawks.

Speaker 4 (04:15):
Hey, now, I don't know.

Speaker 3 (04:18):
What's going to happen this Friday because we're not on
the air, but in.

Speaker 4 (04:22):
Friday seems to be popular with Seahooks.

Speaker 2 (04:24):
Yeah, consecutive Fridays Somewhere within sixty minutes of us signing
off at three o'clock on a Friday, Gino Smith traded
and Cooper Cup signed. Those were back to back Friday
news dumps, which you know, one's a news dump, Gino,
the other one's just kind of good, I think for
Seahawks fans. But those things happened. I may have time

(04:47):
to get to that in a second. How was the
producer dinner? That's all I want to know.

Speaker 5 (04:52):
We had a lot of off the record conversation. I'll
just say that, well, once you know that's my rule.
I guess Chris Kid is the only one that can
talk about it because once alcohol is on the table,
everything's off the record.

Speaker 4 (05:03):
In my book, that's a.

Speaker 3 (05:04):
Good point, good way put it. I didn't think about that.

Speaker 5 (05:06):
Yeah, and but Kid isn't a drinker, so he's the
only one that talk about it. We did the Hollywood
Weekly podcast beforehand and then went out.

Speaker 3 (05:18):
Wait here or you're there? You did he here and
it all went all out after that, all right, and
then added Ashley to the mix.

Speaker 4 (05:26):
Was a fantastic Was.

Speaker 3 (05:28):
There a karaoke involved with you guys?

Speaker 5 (05:30):
No?

Speaker 4 (05:31):
A lot of squawking.

Speaker 3 (05:32):
I thought I saw karaoke. No, no, there, I thought
there would be, But the place we went to didn't
offer it, so probably a good thing.

Speaker 4 (05:39):
Yes, we're all very very loud, so they didn't need
to add to that.

Speaker 3 (05:43):
I was thinking about that because, like I mean, it
was it wasn't like empty empty, but it wasn't like
super packed or anything. It was a normal night Friday
night at a Mexican restaurant, and you know, I just
felt back if we were just dominating the entire room
with our loud voices. So because we're almost like a
viral vid.

Speaker 5 (06:00):
Yeah, probably Instagram might be without even knowing, Yeah, I
don't have Instagram.

Speaker 2 (06:05):
A lot was accomplished, though, Yeah, I think solved all
the KJR world problems.

Speaker 3 (06:10):
Solving problems, but getting the problems on the table.

Speaker 4 (06:13):
We definitely beefed about them. It's all out there.

Speaker 2 (06:19):
I'm in a cracking game and I was thinking of
you guys all night as I well, I was sitting
next to Benton, so oh yeah, you know, listening to
I was like sitting between Benton and Curtis, two hockey nerds.

Speaker 3 (06:31):
Curtis going through.

Speaker 2 (06:32):
Salary cap stuff and breaking down salary cap for the
cracking in the off season, and Benton just being Benton,
and yeah.

Speaker 3 (06:39):
Living every second of kracking hockey is just a long
night thinking.

Speaker 4 (06:45):
I wish I was with you guys talking movies and Margerite.

Speaker 3 (06:49):
I feel bags I meant to text you, but I
think we kind of had a unspoken rule of you know,
all being present and not yeah, external factors, so good.
Maybe I'll have a conversation about it with you off
the year.

Speaker 2 (07:03):
Okay, good, yeah, I want I want the off the
record stuffs are not slide. You guys all got together,
all right, Seahawks. So the Seahawks make the move, and.

Speaker 3 (07:14):
It's I did.

Speaker 2 (07:17):
I did a radio show elsewhere today for a morning
show somewhere, and they're like, first of all, they absolutely
berated the crack in for ten minutes and then did
the same with the Seahawks, and and which is fine.
You know, I'm finding myself basically, you know, kind of
protecting and kind of defending both organizations. But you know,
I think Mark brought it up earlier. I think it's

(07:37):
a good point if you look at what the Seahawks
have done in the last couple of weeks effectively trading
uh Gino Smith, DK Metcalf. I know they didn't trade
them at Tyler Lockett. Okay, yeah, yeah, four. But in
return you get Sam Darnold, Marcus feldezk Gantling, Cooper Cup,

(07:59):
more money on the cap, and a couple of draft
picks that are pretty significant as well.

Speaker 3 (08:04):
Throw and DeMarcus Lawrence if you want to.

Speaker 2 (08:06):
Sure, so would you take that trade off, like if
I would have come to you three weeks ago and said,
here's what's going to happen. No Geno, no DK, no Tyler.
But you're going to add Donald Cooper Cup, and I'm
assuming Cooper Cup's healthy. Okay, I'm making a big assumption here,
but you know, an assumption because they wouldn't have.

Speaker 4 (08:27):
Signed it they well, yeah, has to pass.

Speaker 2 (08:28):
The picture Shyder talked about. I mean you don't have to.
I mean, the Will Fryes guy signed without doing a
physical and that was what caused the Seahawks not to
basically to bow out of that deal. So they must
feel comfortable with his health. So let's assume he's healthy.
So Sam Donald, a healthy Cooper Cup, Marcus Feldez Scantling,
the Marcus Lawrence, and two draft picks that are Day

(08:51):
two draft picks.

Speaker 3 (08:53):
Okay, for what you got.

Speaker 2 (08:54):
I think I probably initially would have pushed back on
it because I'm just kind of a DK fan. But
now the more I think about it, I kind of
like what they've done. Yeah, I kind of like what
they've done.

Speaker 4 (09:06):
I'm not disappointed.

Speaker 2 (09:07):
No, I think I think they're a better football team
right now than they were two weeks ago.

Speaker 3 (09:14):
A lot of it was the order it happened, like
you got rid of everyone first, so everyone was freaking out,
what are they going to do? They started to kind
of get stuff back.

Speaker 2 (09:22):
Yeah, because like DK, you know, you didn't replace DK
right away. And different player than than Cooper Cup for sure,
but you know that comes into play. And then you've
got you know, Marcus Valdez Scantling is you know, that's
kind of the Tyler trade off this is, and then
Cooper Cup's the DK trade off again, different types of receiver.
We all know that doesn't that's fine, and then Darnold

(09:44):
is just younger version of Geno, cheaper and everything else.
So are they better football team than they were before
free agency started? Probably? You know, And they're a nine
win team last year ten if you want to be
you know, if you want to call a ten win team,
you can, but they're basically a nine win team last year. Well,
they probably have gotten a little bit better. They still

(10:06):
have massive issues on the offensive line, and we all
understand that. I think, who was I talking to the
other day? I forget my mind's wandering if it's on
the air, off the air, but there's probably a feeling
in that in there somewhere It might have been Curtis
at the game, that they feel like somebody can play
amongst those young guys. You know, is it Sundell? Is

(10:27):
it Christian Haynes, is it Oldu?

Speaker 3 (10:31):
Michael Jarell?

Speaker 5 (10:32):
Is it?

Speaker 2 (10:32):
Well, Darrell's a tackle, So I'm not gonna put it. Yeah,
So who who does this new group of coaches offensive coaches,
offensive line coach specifically think can play Because one or
two of those guys will, they'll sign a veteran draft
somebody else. There'll be other guys getting cut down, but
they probably feel like one or two of those guys
can play and take a step forward. So I think

(10:54):
if you're a Seahawk fan, you should probably be fairly
cautiously optimistic with what with how things have gone.

Speaker 4 (11:00):
I don't even need caution right now. I'm optimistic.

Speaker 2 (11:03):
And the Cooper Cup things are the Cooper but the
Cooper Cup things exciting, yea, it is. I mean, like
the guy's just a pass catching, route running machine and
if his body is right. And I heard Lindsay theory
on I actually could hear Softy and those guys Softy
in Faine with Lindsay on Friday, she covers the rams
for ESPN. You can hear him echoing through the halls

(11:24):
of Climate pledg Aina before they open the doors. But
she was bringing it up and like, this is a
guy that really really takes care of himself diet wise
and everything else, and so there's probably reason for optimism
that he's going to be fine.

Speaker 3 (11:38):
So why was he available then?

Speaker 2 (11:39):
Because they didn't want to pay him and they had
that's that was. That was a cost cutting measure for
them to let him go. So similar to us a
DK kind of in a sense.

Speaker 5 (11:48):
YEAHO in a sense too. If you look at that price, that's.

Speaker 2 (11:52):
What teams do. I mean, if they're your guy, it's
cheaper to let him go than it is to keep them.
Sometimes and other people pick them up. So yeah, I
like what I like what they've done.

Speaker 3 (11:59):
I like what they done.

Speaker 2 (12:00):
So fine, all right, we'll take a break. Come back, Mariners.
Ten days away from opening day.

Speaker 3 (12:05):
How about that?

Speaker 2 (12:06):
We are getting closer and closer. We'll check in with
our guys, Nathan and Chris mollywap. Monday coming up next.

Speaker 1 (12:16):
It's Monday, and that means one thing. It's time to Mollywah, uncensored, unscripted,
and filled with the passion that all Mariners fans can
relate to, and brought to you by the company that's
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com for the best Mariners gear. Now with the Mollywop boys,

(12:38):
Nathan Bishop with the light bet and Chris Crawford with
my Oh why here's Ian Furnett's all right, here we go.

Speaker 3 (12:46):
It is time for Mollywop Monday on a Monday. Who
knew that?

Speaker 2 (12:51):
Sometimes that's that's out of the ordinary for us along
the way. Uh, last week we had all hell breaking
loose in the world of the National Football League. And
you know what, even if it's happening right now, we're
gonna ignore it for the next twenty minutes or so
because the boys are here by popular demand. Yes, Nick
Allen and others, they are here today. You asked for it,
and damn it, you got it. Chris Crawford, Nathan Bishop,

(13:14):
we're here. This is our kind of our last Cactus
League off season Molliwop. Because next week and we may
have a special show next week. We're working on some
details and some things we'll see if it all comes
to fruition, maybe it'll end up being Opening Day. And
we're not sure how Mollywap's gonna look next week when
we get ready for Opening Day, which is a week

(13:35):
from Thursday. By the way, tickets still available. Let's get
out there, listen. I know we're all upset at the
team and stuff like that. Opening Day should be a sellout. Sorry,
it just should be. And I know I gave my
tickets to my daughter. We have a hockey game that night.
Otherwise I would be there. Actually I wouldn't. She would
still get DIBs on them, I'm sure. But opening days
a special time. So let's get out there, pack that
place and get going for the first game of the year.

(13:57):
But Nathan's here, Chris is here. I want to just
sit on a cup of spring training topics. We'll talk
about roster battles in a second, but let's start with
the positive and old logan. Gilbert is your opening day starter,
and I think a lot of people just stop. By
default it would be Luis Castill, but Dan Wilson says, no,
Waltter's the guy, and he has earned it. He was

(14:18):
the All Star last year and Logan Gilbert homegrown product
gets the opening day start a week from Thursday. Nathan,
your thoughts.

Speaker 6 (14:28):
I love it.

Speaker 7 (14:30):
It's great to see you guys, by the way, so
I feel like it's been so long since we've got
a chance to do this, but I absolutely love it.
Ian to your point that this is a homegrown guy.
I think one of the things about Logan is that
while obviously the strength of the Marriners is that rotation
that one through five, the thing with Logan that you
love so much is he's the one that feels the
most like the bygone era ace, the guy that could

(14:51):
go out there and shove for seven eight innings and
really shut down the opposing team. All these other guys
I love, they're more lot of a modern five six inning,
kind of an Eric Bedard style start. But Logan is
the guy that feels like he wants to go as
deep into the game as possible. He's also the guy
that has just gotten better and better and better every
year he's been in the big leagues. And you know,

(15:12):
one of the cool things about baseball, y'all is that
we have these things that mean something, even though they
don't mean something, like getting to start.

Speaker 3 (15:20):
On open to Day. Yeah, that doesn't matter, but it does.

Speaker 7 (15:24):
It matters to us, and it matters to the players.
So it's a really cool thing for Logan and it's
really well earned.

Speaker 2 (15:28):
I'll never forget man, I'll go back, and I'm glad
you mentioned that because I think it does mean something.

Speaker 3 (15:34):
It means a lot.

Speaker 2 (15:34):
It's symbolic. I know how much it meant to Felix
when he got it all those years. I also know
how much it hurt Felix when he was taking it
took was taken away from him by John McLarin I
believe it was and given to Eric Badard. And I'll
never forget Eric Badard, who just couldn't care less about
anybody or anything.

Speaker 3 (15:53):
And I still have.

Speaker 2 (15:54):
You know how you have vivid memories in your mind
about certain things, and I remember Opening Day when Eric
Biddard started. Was that gosh, Chris, was that eight maybe
eight o seven eight somewhere in.

Speaker 3 (16:05):
There whenever it was eight?

Speaker 2 (16:09):
Well, and you know what probably appropriate was Eric Bidard
because that was a year that was just awful on
every level for every team in this town, including the Mariners,
who fired their coach or the manager during the trial
for the Sonics, if if I'm not mistaken, I remember
sitting there coming out for a recess and it happened.
But but Dard was warming up in the bullpen. They
announced his name and we were on the air because

(16:29):
it was a day game, and I remember they announced
his name. We're watching it, and he didn't even acknowledge
the fans, didn't tip his cap, didn't do it. It
wasn't throwing either, just standing there like just whatever.

Speaker 3 (16:39):
I don't care.

Speaker 2 (16:40):
It meant nothing to him. It meant something to Marco Gonzalez.
It meant the world to Felix Hernandez, it meant a
lot to Louis Castile. But Chris, when you saw Logan
Gilbert get drafted by this team years ago, I'm brought
into this league. Did you always do you see opening
day starter? And and and how far has he come
since then?

Speaker 8 (16:58):
I didn't see opening day starter. I saw mid rotation
starter for sure, with a chance to be like a
number two and a number one if everything goes well. Well,
everything went well, and I love the decision for Gilbert
to be the opening day starter because he was the
best pitcher last year and he's being rewarded for being
the best pitcher last year. Now the Mariners can count

(17:18):
their blessings that they have when healthy. Four guys that
could be opening day starters pretty realistically, and Brian wu
on a bad team probably could be that opening day
starter as well. But Logan Gilbert was the best pitcher
and he has the best swing and miss stuff on
the roster. He has the most upside on the roster,
and this is a reward for doing well. Now, all

(17:39):
good due respect to Luis Castillo. Luis Castillo was good,
but he didn't pitch like an eighth for the majority
of twenty twenty four, so he shouldn't be the opening
day starter. Obviously. George Kirby, unavailable, Bryce Miller, and Brian
Wiu weren't good enough to be that number one guy.
And that's not an insult to them, it's a compliment
to how good Logan Gilbert was. He absolutely deserves that
number one starter. And to answer your question, the steps

(18:02):
he's made has been leaps and bounds, and a lot
of that credit goes to Gilbert and a lot of
that credit goes to the Mariner player development staff as well.

Speaker 2 (18:10):
It's yeah, I was I was going to say something
about the you know, the five, the five guys. Brian
Wuo would probably be Marco Gonzalez a few years ago,
right sure, right, yeah, absolutely.

Speaker 3 (18:19):
He'd be the guy. He'd be the starter of it
that you know.

Speaker 2 (18:22):
And then if you're sitting there and you're Bryce Miller
and you're George Kirby and you're like, damn man, we'll
ever be the opening they start with this damn rotation
in front of me.

Speaker 3 (18:29):
Let's get to Kirby. Uh, Chris, what's the concern level
for him?

Speaker 8 (18:34):
So my biggest concern level just our shoulders are not
very nice, and shoulder injuries have a tendency to linger
for a long time. And it's worth pointing out that
he had shoulder inflammation once before now it caused him
to miss all of one start the last time. And
it sounds like the Mariners are just taking every precaution
with this stuff. But I will also caution this, don't

(18:56):
believe a word you hear from the Seattle Mariners in
regards to injuries, because Robbie Ray was just dealing with
a little bit of inflammation not too long ago, and
all of a sudden, Robbi Ray is out for the year,
and there are lots of cases. And this isn't just
insulting the Mariners.

Speaker 3 (19:10):
As isn't that a baseball thing.

Speaker 8 (19:12):
It's a baseball it's a baseball thing for sure. Like
they just don't like to be they like to be optimistic,
and they don't like to tell their fans that we
are fubar, Like they just don't like to do that.
So if you don't have to do that, they're not
going to do that. I imagine Kirby will be back
at some point in May, just because the Mariners want
to be as careful as possible with this thing, even

(19:33):
if he's ready to roll. And it's fortunate that they
have the four starters ahead of him, but there is
absolutely some concern. The one thing I would say that
is a little less concerning is you don't have to
worry about George Kirby coming back and finding the strike
zone right Like when you have somebody like a Robbie
Ray or somebody who's not great at finding that strike zone,
sometimes it takes them a little bit of time. George

(19:53):
Kirby could throw strikes right now. He could probably throw
strikes left handed if he wanted to, Like he has
that type of commanded ability to repeat his delivery, so
you don't have to worry about it from that point
of view. But shoulder issues are oftenest thing that just
keep recurring, so it's nice that they have those other
four starters to be.

Speaker 3 (20:10):
Sure, Nathan.

Speaker 2 (20:11):
I believe it was game two two years ago when
Robbie Ray got the start, right Castile was the first start,
and then the next day was because it was a
cold Friday night. I was at the game with my friend,
with my friend with my son. He's a friend too,
but yeah, my son and we were at the game
and we're like, I can't wait to watch Robbie. Just
deal man, This's be fun. And then all of a
sudden he's out and like, oh, shoulder soreness. Shoulder tightness

(20:34):
might have been how it was described, and I'm like, God,
it's colder, it's tightness. And then like then we find
out a few days later, as Chris said, because it's
a baseball not even a Mariner's thing, it's just a
baseball thing. Sore shoulders end up being catastrophic. So let's
just cross our fingers there. But here's the thing, Nathan,
the good news is that's the one place they got

(20:55):
now you can lose maybe one of those guys, Emerson
Hancock can pop in right, and they got some other
options Chris can tell us about, but they but you
probably can't afford to lose more than one of those guys.

Speaker 7 (21:06):
Can't afford to lose more than one. And the scary
thing is this is still you take George Kirby out
of the rotation. This is still one of the deepest
and best rotations in Major League Baseball. But as we
discussed at nauseum all offseason, it has to be one
of the very best rotations in baseball. And that's the
scary thing. I don't think I think you could even
lose two guys from this rotation and still have a

(21:27):
pretty darn good rotation in the major leagues. But the
twenty twenty five Seattle Mariners aren't going anywhere with a
pretty good rotation. They need a really, really great elite
one of the best three in baseball rotations in order
to be as good as I legitimately think they could be,
which is a team that can contend for a weak
American League West Division championship. But so it's it's both

(21:48):
a blessing and a curse, you know, it's it's the
one position they can afford a little injury attrition, but
it's the one place on the roster they can't afford
to have anything less than truly great.

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is it a given Emerson Hancock's steps right in or
is there I thought I saw might be another option
out there.

Speaker 8 (22:17):
I think it's pretty much a given now, especially with
how well he pitched in his last start, four scoreless innings,
and he looked as good as I think I've seen
Emerson Hancock look at the MLB level. And yes, of
course it's spring season and he's facing a few guys
who won't be with those teams going forward. But I
do think it's Emerson Hancock. They could go with the Logan.

Speaker 3 (22:35):
Evans, who tell who is Logan Evans.

Speaker 8 (22:40):
Logan Evans is probably their best pitching prospect at the
upper levels right now. He's not at the same level
as Sane or Ryan Sloan. They're two draft picks, but
he's probably the best of their prospects who was in
the upper levels. He fad infamously got moved to the
bullpen after putting up just dominant numbers for Double A Arkansas,
and it went horribly, absolutely horribly, And when they moved

(23:03):
him back to the rotation after the bullpen move didn't
work out, it didn't go all that great as well.
But he's a guy who throws four average pitches and
he throws them all for strikes. He commands them really well.
He's more high floor than high ceiling. We're not talking
about an upper rotation guy. He's more of what we
kind of thought Bryce Miller was going to be. And
maybe your optimistic view as hey, if they did that

(23:24):
with Bryce Miller, and they did that with Brian wu,
why can't they do that with Logan Evans. It's a
little bit risky to take that kind of approach with it,
but he does have the stuff to be a back
end starter. He certainly has the command and control to
b one as well. But I would imagine that Emerson
Hancock is going to get that job in part because
he's already on the forty man roster and for the
most part, with some exceptions like that absolutely she lacking

(23:47):
that he took in Colorado last year. He's been pretty
darn effect.

Speaker 2 (23:51):
Chris Craffer Nathan Bishop with Ismali want Monday, getting you
ready for the baseball season? Yes, it's marsh madness upon us.
We got the game starting Thursday right here in nine
three point three KJFM. But baseball marsh Madness wins or Thursday,
and then of course baseball the following Thursday. It is
a glorious, glorious time of the year if you're a
sports fan. Chris stick with you, and then Nathan jump in,
what are we looking at for the final week plus

(24:13):
here of Cactus League play in spring training? Mitch Garver's
been okay, Dylan Moore has not been. Do we worry
about those things? Where the position battles? Where are we at?

Speaker 8 (24:23):
It's kind of interesting because I think one of the
most interesting developments has been the use of rowdy t les.
And I'm starting to think more and more that rowdy
te Lez is going to make this roster. And I
can see people screaming about it, and I can also
see Look, I will tell you right now, rowdy Telez
is a BBB a big beefy boy, and I will
always have big beef Boys as a personal favorite. It's

(24:47):
why I love Dan Vogelblack, It's why I love Rowdy Telez.
But I think Rowdy Telez has done enough, maybe this spring,
to justify being on this roster. It'll be interesting to
see how they use him because he can play one
position its first base, and he can't play it all
that well. I think Ryan Bliss might have earned the
second base spot in part because of how bad Dylan
Moore has been this spring. Now, look, Luke Rayley had

(25:09):
a disaster of a spring training last year right and
then started out scuffling and still had a strong season.
I don't want to go too crazy about spring training numbers,
but Ryan Blisch just looks like a player with more
upside than Dylan Moore. Dylan Moore has that floor, and
he's going to get his playing time. But checking to
see what Ryan Bliss and what Rowdy Teles can do.
There's no harm in that because you're not like, it's

(25:30):
not like a big roster of crunch like. It's not
like he's going to make the roster over somebody who's
way better. It's not like there's someone on the forty
man roster who is so elite that they have to
cut to keep these guys. I think both those guys
are interesting. And of course Mitchchanniger injury. I would guess
that Mitch Hanigher is opening the year on the injured list,
whether he's healthy or not, to be completely honest with you,
but the fact.

Speaker 3 (25:51):
That that'd be a spot for t Less, that would.

Speaker 8 (25:55):
Be the spot for Teles for sure. Now you still
have to add him to the forty man roster, and
they have a bunch of organizational depth that they can
just kick to the curb in order to add him.
And if it doesn't work, you can just dump Rowdy
Telez and bring somebody else up. It's a problem with
the roster they built. But now that you have the
roster that you've built, it does not hurt to give
Roddy Tells a look, and it certainly doesn't hurt to

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give Ryan Bliss look.

Speaker 2 (26:16):
So Nathan off Brand, Bucky Jacobson, Rowdy Telez or where
do you want to go?

Speaker 3 (26:23):
Where do you want to go with the roster?

Speaker 7 (26:25):
I Well, one of the things that I'm really interested
about is because if so let's say that Rowdy Telez
makes this roster. We heard a lot in the off season,
and I even read last week Ryan Diivish from the
Seattle Times reporting that the Mariners were working really hard
on Luke Rayley at first base. Well, he's not going
to be playing first base if Rowdy Telez is there,
because to Chris's point, that's the only place you can
put Rowdy Tells on the roster. So that puts Luke

(26:48):
Raley out in the outfield, which definitely means I think
the Mitch Hanniger is getting squeezed out in that spot
because now you're back to having four outfielders for three spots,
with Roeblists and Rosarina and Julio and Luke Rayley. So
so I'm really interested to see where that first base
position shakes out. If I had to guess, this is
no slight on the BBBS. I also am a huge
fan of the vogel Bach body type. It's very lovable,

(27:10):
very cuddly, but I don't think that's gonna work out
very well. Rowdy Tells has not been a very good
hitter for a while, so it's more interesting to me
to figure out if we do end up having to
dump to les. Are they gonna still how much work
has been done on getting Luke Raley up to speed
at first base. I know it's one of the easiest
defensive positions on the field. I know he's a good athlete.

(27:30):
I know he's not totally new to it. But I
would have rather them have the time to vote. That's
the kind of thing spring training can be good for,
is getting somebody up to speed with a newer position.
And I would have liked to have seen him get
more time at first base this spring rather than giving
a guy who doesn't have a great track record with
MLB and Rowdy Teles all of this time. As far

(27:50):
as Ryan Blisten Dylan Moore thing, I think that's gonna
shake out. I think Dylan Moore's best position on this
roster is the UTL spot anyway, So if they want
to see, like what Chris said, I think that you
could sneak a two and a half win season, three
win season out of Ryan Bliss in a best case scenario.
That's a really useful player. If he doesn't end up popping,
you might as well see if he can be that guy.
So it's not like Dylan Moore has a year's long

(28:13):
track record as an everyday major league second basement that
they're looking to infringe. I don't care how he's doing
in spring training. He should be a guy that's bouncing around.
That's where his value is, his ability to fill in
pretty much anywhere all over all over the field.

Speaker 3 (28:26):
Chris.

Speaker 8 (28:26):
That means it one go ahead, one real quick thing
on to last. Sorry, June, July, August. He was a
regular player in all three of those months. Nine twenty
six ops in June, nine to sixteen ops in July,
eight thirteen ops in August. Now, he was absolutely dreadful
at the beginning of the year and the very end
of the year. But there has been success with Tilettes
Like It's not a completely out of nowhere thing. It's

(28:48):
not a complete reclamation project. He had some good moments
in twenty twenty four, which is why I don't mind
giving him a look to begin twenty twenty five. Chris.

Speaker 2 (28:57):
The DH position then is that just by committee, it's
whoever not playing first base or a corner outfield that day.

Speaker 8 (29:03):
I think it's gonna be Teles Now, I think what's
gonna what you're gonna see to begin the year is
I think you're gonna see Teles as DH, and you're
going to see Luke Raley at first base. It's worth
pointing out you're supposed to play first base today. Then
Julio got scratched, so they had to move Railey to
center field. I think it's gonna be te Lez playing
DH and then Mitch Garver dhing against left handed pitching,

(29:24):
and that's very uh, we'll see how it goes, to
be honest with you, With Donovan Solano, I think there's
gonna be a lot of platooning, and I think it
makes sense for to Les, especially if Mitch Scarver isn't
completely over the hand injury. He's already caught, so I
imagine that he can't be too hurt. But I would
imagine that that's what we're gonna see, is we're gonna
see to Les a lot of DH and then some

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rotation there too, where Luke Raley will DH, Mitch Garver
will DH. If Mitch Haniger is healthy, he'll DH. They'll
use it that way. But to me, the guy who
makes the most sense for DH on this roster right now,
and I know this gives people Tommy and Listella flashbacks.
It's rowdy Telez right.

Speaker 2 (29:59):
Now, Nathan, that means your your friend Jorge Polanco is
your third baseman. How comfortable are you there?

Speaker 7 (30:07):
You know he's more of He's probably a better fit
of DH. But I could say that about like two
thirds of this roster at this point. So that's another one.

Speaker 6 (30:16):
I'm so.

Speaker 7 (30:17):
I don't want to lean too hard into the pessimistic
thing with Hojree Polanco because I think that they needed
to resign him. I think it's good that they did,
But the number of things that have to go right
for him to be a real good contributor this year
is really a long one. He needs to bounce back offensively.
He needs to learn a new position. He's already not
a good defensive player. He's getting older. He's never had

(30:38):
a good track record of staying healthy. So this infield
is a you know, when we have for next week's show,
whatever we end up doing, I don't want to focus
on it too much. This infield is a real problem,
you guys.

Speaker 6 (30:50):
I am deathly.

Speaker 7 (30:51):
Afraid of everything that could happen with this infield group.

Speaker 6 (30:54):
It is really, really, really not good.

Speaker 8 (30:57):
Very volatile at the very.

Speaker 2 (30:58):
Best, volatile at the very best. That doesn't sound good.

Speaker 3 (31:01):
I'm just mister Emerald City Spectrum. I don't think that
sounds very volatility.

Speaker 2 (31:09):
Real quick, Chris bullpen set. Basically, how does a bullpen look?

Speaker 8 (31:14):
It's so tough to tell, but I would imagine it is.

Speaker 3 (31:17):
It's nice that that was big last year.

Speaker 2 (31:18):
I just want to insert this that was big last year,
it wasn't quite as good, right and so, And that's
a huge part of what they're trying to do.

Speaker 8 (31:25):
It's a huge part of what they're trying to do.
And you know, it's good. It's a good sign that
Matt Brash has started throwing bullpen sessions and has looked
good doing it. It's good that Gregory Santos looks healthy
to begin the year. Some good reports on Gabe's fire.
Early on, it seems pretty set. I think the fact
that they were willing to let Seth Martinez go after
picking him up after just two weeks of being in

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the organization suggest that they're pretty comfortable with that they.

Speaker 6 (31:50):
Have right now.

Speaker 8 (31:51):
I don't think it's an elite group. I will say
the more I watch Andres Mudio is in that change up,
the more infatuated I get with it. And I'm really
excited to see what he can do. And I feel
good about the closer, and I will feel good about
Matt Brash once he's back. But the fifth through seventh
inn guys, for lack of a better term, there's some
concern there because we talked about volatility with the infield,

(32:12):
there's volatility with bullpens. Regardless, it's very hard to repeat success. Now,
you could argue it the other way that since some
of those guys weren't very good last year, it's a
good chance for bounce backs. Like I would expect Gabespire
to be better, I would expect Taylor sossetto to be better.
It's not an elite group. I think it's a good
enough group. The more I've watched this spring, the more
I think that I'm comfortable and cautiously optimistic about that group.

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I was more cautiously pessimistic, to be honest, heading in
the spring.

Speaker 2 (32:39):
All Right, that does it for now, because now all
you have to do is wait for opening week next week,
which will be fun. In the meantime, let's do some
self promotion here, boys and girls Nathan like bat.

Speaker 7 (32:54):
Yeah, just a fun little project that I've got going.
It's at the lightbat dot substack dot com, a completely
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Speaker 3 (33:09):
If you are interested in financially supporting it. It is
totally free.

Speaker 7 (33:11):
But if you financially support we're looking and getting some
special stuff off the ground, maybe some subscriber chats and
if enough people want it and they seem to, maybe
a little podcast. Of course, not trying to violate the
non compete that I had to sign to be on
your radio show, Ian, but yeah, lots of fun stuff
come in this baseball season, so the lightba dot substack
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Speaker 2 (33:30):
Speaking of which, have we all subscribed to Emerald City
Spectrum yet?

Speaker 6 (33:34):
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Have we done that yet?

Speaker 2 (33:35):
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Speaker 1 (33:37):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (33:38):
Check out Emerald City Spectrum. It's an awesome place. It's
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and we are doing our darnedest to make sure to
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(33:58):
real cheap, it's real good stuff, real quick though. I
gotta tell you Ian, I talked to Skeeter. He said
he sent two talkbacks that weren't heard yesterday. So he's
now listening to Doug Goplieb and he's his assistant coach. Now,
so good for Skeeter.

Speaker 2 (34:12):
Well, I'm just gonna Doug needs help. And if he
sent him yesterday they went into the abyss because that would.

Speaker 3 (34:18):
Have been Sunday. That was Sunday last week. Oh okay, you.

Speaker 2 (34:21):
Said you said yesterday, because that would have been Sunday.
I talked to Skeeter yesterday. You have to listen if
you're hosting a radio I'm sorry. I thought maybe, well,
you know what, it probably ended up doing. It probably
ended up going on to Mike Benton's Crack and Talk
post game show last night.

Speaker 3 (34:35):
Yeah, yes, did you hear Skeeter? You're up next? Skeeter?
What do you think of the power play? Yes? All right,
we're good. We're done. That's Nathan, that's Chris Big.

Speaker 2 (34:46):
Thanks to simply Seattle, simply Saddle dot Com next week TBA,
but we will have a preview show and it'll be
a ton of fun. It's always a fun show for
us to do, and that's coming up next week. We'll
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Speaker 3 (35:42):
That was one of the better cracking performances I've seen
in a while. They played well lately.

Speaker 2 (35:45):
I mean, the bottom line is if they've played nothing
the playoff teams for the most part, they played them well.
Winnipeg's arguably the best team in the league and they
lose three to two in overtime.

Speaker 3 (35:56):
Hit the road.

Speaker 2 (35:57):
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Climate plag Arena coming.

Speaker 3 (36:04):
Up her next few days Friday and Sunday.

Speaker 2 (36:07):
Yeah, Friday, Sunday, So the Crackner in Chicago tomorrow five thirty,
drop of the buck, five o'clock pregame with Benton, and
then they had to Edmonton on Saturday.

Speaker 3 (36:16):
Right Is that sound right?

Speaker 2 (36:17):
Right? A three game trip. I should know these things
I have. You know what, I'll be honest with you,
my apologies. Here's the deal. Wednesday's game is a national
TV game. That's why I didn't know.

Speaker 4 (36:30):
You're only thinking about you.

Speaker 3 (36:32):
Yeah, they're in Chicago, in Minnesota Wednesday, and then in Calgary.

Speaker 2 (36:37):
And then Calgary, Calgary.

Speaker 3 (36:39):
You hear it Calgary. No, they're away, that's away at
four game. Yes, so there they go.

Speaker 2 (36:46):
Yannie Newman scored again.

Speaker 3 (36:48):
Looks like it.

Speaker 2 (36:49):
Big strong kid, got movies, feed better. Yeah, skating's okay,
gotta get better. But shoot, I talked to an NHL
scout about him the other day and they were they
were in love with him. Well we'll get to that
a little bit more tomorrow and we have more time.
So I was just kind of cruiser. I'll do this
in the next segment.

Speaker 3 (37:06):
I was. I was pretty hyped when he scored, more
hype than usual because I'm in my fantasy hockey playoffs
now and I'm playing against Connor Hallibuck and Connor Helivak
was a net when Joannie Newman scored, which was great
that he they subbed him out again. Well, that was
a weird thing last night. Yeah, they scored two goals
on two different goalies because, yeah, they had to check
Connery for a concussion.

Speaker 2 (37:27):
I think, yeah, you got bumped into his own guy
early on, came out Connor Helbot had played ten minutes
and ten seconds and gave up a goal. So, Yanni
Newman'll you know what I mean, He's gonna score a
lot of goals.

Speaker 3 (37:38):
Newman is in this in this league. But end of
the day, it's a lot Patrick Lioning.

Speaker 2 (37:43):
Yeah, but the end of the day, here's the thing,
like your first, your second goal ever was against the
best goalie in the world. Yeah, it's pretty good. Yeah,
it's pretty.

Speaker 3 (37:51):
Cool, Pretty dang cool. Okay, I'm gonna do this.

Speaker 2 (37:55):
I'm gonna talk about the event this weekend coming up
in a second Wolf's pay tributes our friend Slick Watts
and tell you why North Carolina is a bad precedence
that could trickle into college football.

Speaker 3 (38:09):
That's next.

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(38:40):
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Speaker 3 (38:52):
Winner gets Houston. Eh yikes oyeriks for Houston or moyikes
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Speaker 2 (39:00):
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Slick Wat's passing away the age of seventy three this weekend.

Speaker 3 (39:13):
We'll get to that right now. Is moving to our
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Speaker 3 (39:32):
All right, we're gonna do a couple of things here.

Speaker 2 (39:33):
We're going to get into some tournament conversation and why
North Carolina is a really really bad, really bad for
not just college basketball, but good show kind of the
sign of things to come in college football. We'll get
to that in a minute. Tournament talking a minute as well.
Here in Seattle, I want to start with Slick Watson,
and here's what I want to do if we can

(39:54):
four nine four five one talk excuse me four nine
four to five one on the text line open for business.
By the way, the text line four nine four or
five one. Your thoughts on if if you're old enough
like I am to remember watching Slick play, you had
interactions with them what have you, your thoughts, your memories
of Slick Watts and what he meant to you in
our community. I'll get to mine in a second. I'd

(40:16):
love to hear a couple of talkbacks as well today
and maybe if we get a couple of good talkbacks,
we can share those with Donald.

Speaker 3 (40:22):
And his family.

Speaker 4 (40:23):
I would love that, okay, and I can do that.

Speaker 2 (40:25):
I figured you would be up for that challenge.

Speaker 4 (40:27):
So tell me something I can't do about a challenge.

Speaker 6 (40:30):
Challenge.

Speaker 3 (40:31):
It's just a.

Speaker 2 (40:33):
Task, yes, So if you want to share something, if
you want to pass along your condolences to the Watts family,
go ahead to the iHeartRadio app and click on the
red microphone and nine three point three kter FM, and
you can speak for thirty seconds and share your thoughts,
memories of Slick and what he meant to you, maybe
growing up, what have you, And we'll pass those along
if we get some to Donald in the family and

(40:55):
Isaiah and everybody as we else, because he meant a
lot too, not just them, but obviously our whole community.
So let me just start there for a second, because
I think in our in our business, like not business,
in our world, as people growing up.

Speaker 3 (41:13):
If you like sports.

Speaker 2 (41:14):
If you love sports, you probably had people that you
first remember, you know, that kind of gave you a
love of sports, maybe a team or even a particular sport.
For many of us that grew up in Seattle in
the seventies, and really you probably need to be in
your fifties or older to be there, but for many

(41:34):
of us, you know, the Sonics for a long time
were the only top level pro team before the Mariners
in seventy seven and the Seahawks before that in seventy
six came along, but the Sonics were there before that,
and back then games weren't on TV.

Speaker 3 (41:50):
They were on the radio.

Speaker 2 (41:51):
Bob Blackburn was the original voice of the Sonics and
he was sensational, did a great job and listened to
Casey as case But before Kevin came along, Bob Blackburn
was the voice of the Sonics who his microphone. His
name is retired or was retireding key here in before
the team left. It'll hang back up there when they
bring the team back here in a few years. And
I can remember so many nights sitting by a radio

(42:13):
and listening to Bob Blackburn call play by play of
the Seattle SuperSonics with a guy by the name of
Slick Watts. And for so many of us growing up
in this town, Slick meant the world to us. He
was like our first basketball hero. He was our first,
you know, favorite basketball player, and it was because of

(42:36):
how he looked. He had a football injury when he's young,
started losing some hair, kind of little splotches of here,
and said, finally, screwed, I'm just gonna shave it all off.
So he arrived in Seattle undrafted, just as dude right
comes in, makes the team and ends up leading the
NBA and assistant steals during the seventy five to seventy
six season. Long shot to make the team, long shot

(42:57):
to make the league. But from right off the get go,
the guy had a style about him. The bald head,
the headband, multiple risk bands, usually a couple.

Speaker 3 (43:07):
Of knee pads.

Speaker 2 (43:08):
I mean, he had it all going on. And I
know you kind of laugh about it now you think
about that, right, Yeah, I love that. So so many
of us that were playing, you know, youth basketball. I
was playing cyol st Anne or sat a lady fan
on my guess. But for so many of us, we
wanted to look like Slick Watts. That's kind of what
we wanted to look like. You wanted to look like Slick.

(43:29):
You want you wanted your parents to buy you a headband,
You wanted your parents to buy you wrist bands. Guys
were wearing knee pads. Why because were you on the
floor hustling like he was? Probably not, but you did
because Slick was kind of bigger than life, infectious, smile, personality,
what have you. He was an okay player to spent
a ton of time in the NBA less than a decade.
It's okay player, but the personality was what made him special. Finished,

(43:53):
you know, ended up at playing career elsewhere in New
Orleans and Houston, but Seattle was always his home. For
a guy from down south, came home, came back to Seattle.
I was a teacher at a middle school in Seattle
for a couple of decades, started a foundation and was
really a key member of the basketball scene in our area,
our community forever. And then obviously Donald being a start

(44:17):
Lake Washington later at dub kind of took that and
they made it a business and and you know, taught
many kids how to play basketball frankly the right way.
But Slick was such a huge presence in our community.
And I remember the first time I met him, after
being you know, an adult, like I ran into him,

(44:39):
I think beforehand as a kid, but as an adult
when I came back and I was working on KJR and.

Speaker 3 (44:46):
He listened to our station. He listened to our station
and he.

Speaker 2 (44:50):
You know, and I don't know if it was Gas
or Grass or Softy introduced me or we ran into
him somewhere at an event, and it was probably Save
our Sonics because that's what was going on.

Speaker 3 (44:58):
I got your No.

Speaker 2 (44:59):
Six and say our Sonics was going on hard at
that point. Obviously a team left a couple of years later,
but Slick would always wear like his old Sonic warm
up jacket or somethink Sonics on it. He always had
Sonic stuff on him. But I remember, like a you know, here,
I am a forty year old man, late thirties, whatever
it was, and I Slick Watts, oh, you know hey

(45:20):
in Fornas I listened to you, and I'm like I
was overwhelmed, Like you yeah, I was like melting because
this guy was an icon. I think how he handled himself,
how he handed himself in the community, how he treated
other people is what his legacy should be, you know.
And I told Donald's texting with him over the weekend,
his son, I said, you know, like you lost your pops,

(45:44):
we lost our childhood over the weekend. And losing your
childhood isn't nearly as bad as losing your father, obviously.
But what I did share with him, and he knows this,
is that Slick meant so much to so many people
that his loss is mourned by an entire region for

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a guy that was an okay NBA player that played
just a handful of years here. So for you to
make an impact like that, you have to be special.
He could have the bald head, the headband, the wristbands
and the pads, the elbow pads and all that lead
the league and assistant steals.

Speaker 3 (46:23):
He could have all of that but not be Slick.

Speaker 2 (46:26):
He could just be another player. But he was always
bigger than life. But he didn't treat people like he
was bigger than life. And that was what was cool
about Slick. And I think with him, you know, we
all wanted to beat him. We wanted to play like him,
even if we weren't a guard. You wanted to look
like Slick Watts. That's a pretty cool term of endearment
right there when you want to be that guy. And

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you know, early on in our pro sports history in Seattle,
because you know, frankly, we don't have a long history.
We've got fifty years roughly of you know, Seahawks football,
Mariners baseball. We were on forty one years a Sonics basketball.
But you know, instead of being at sixty one years,
we obviously had that taken away. But that shouldn't diminish

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what Slick Watson who and what he was to so
many of us. He was just a first class human being,
raised his son right, raised his family right, and you know,
his legacy lives on with obviously with Donald, but you
know with Isaiah as well. And it's a sad day
in Seattle sports. I mean, we had Spencer Heywood early on.

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He was a superstar in the NBA and was also
a leader in the NBA with free agency and the
other things that Spencer did off the floor. But Slick
was one of our first stars in Seattle at the
NBA level. Unfortunately left a couple of years before they
won a title, so he didn't get experience that. But
we lost a couple of them. We lost Gus earlier,

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just a few months ago, and Gus Williams, and now
you lose Slick Watson. So it's a sad day for
so many of us in our area, in our community.
Really bad day, you know, for the Watts family, and
we we obviously reach out and express our condolences to them.
But like I said, I mean, my run in with
him was like, dude, like I what you know?

Speaker 5 (48:08):
Me?

Speaker 2 (48:09):
Okay, great, thanks, I appreciate, Like I just I was
overwhelmed because this was Slick flipping Watts man like and
for us guys growing up our age, he was the man,
flat out the man. My sister's posted something on Facebook
and I saw this. It was like them trigger treating
at his house, That's how. And back in the day,
like it was wild mer James Donaldson used to walk

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around the village in Magnolia and like like NBA players
were just they're part of the community. It's different now
they live gated communities. They you know, you don't see
these guys, you know, I don't know if you see
cracking players and manner players out and about much. It
feels like probably not world's different world smaller social media,
you don't really want to be out and about. But
Slick was very approachable for so many people. And so

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just thoughts go out to his family and and I
would just say thanks to Slick because for a lot
of us, he's a reason I loved basketball.

Speaker 3 (49:00):
He's the reason I love the Sonics. He was that reason.

Speaker 2 (49:05):
And for a lot of us that wanted to play
the game, watch the game, or grew, you know, fell
in love with the game or the team, it was because, frankly,
of this little known point guard that came out of
nowhere and spent four and a half years in Seattle.
That's why we ended up loving the NBA. And I
think that is the legacy that should always live on.
So thoughts go out to his family, Donald and Isaiah,

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Jay and everybody else in the Watch family. So we're
thinking of you guys today, So share your thoughts. Jess
will cut those up on the on the text line
or on the on the voice text. So go to
the iHeartRadio app red microphone and we'll try to play
some of those bot on the ARP.

Speaker 3 (49:39):
Okay, let me switch gears. Quickly, raise your hand.

Speaker 2 (49:44):
I think most people know this, but we got the
NCAA Tournament games here in Seattle, first second round.

Speaker 3 (49:51):
Yeah, we didn't get the greatest draws. I will say that.

Speaker 2 (49:57):
I don't know if I love the matchups because they're
all wide margin matchups in terms of the seeding.

Speaker 3 (50:04):
But that's fine.

Speaker 4 (50:06):
There's gonna be a lot of Liberty fans in the house,
I think.

Speaker 2 (50:09):
Yeah, they'll be dressed in purple. Let me go through
the schedule and just a couple of quick thoughts on that.
So Memphis and Colorado State play at eleven o'clock. That's
the first game at Climate Pledge Arena on Friday. Our
games are Friday Sunday, and see at eleven o'clock Friday, Memphis,
Colorido State. And then that's Memphis is a five. Colorado
State's at twelve. So the fighting Gary Parrish is roll
into town, yeah, I say. And then Maryland makes its

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second appearance here this year. Right didn't they play at
washing I think they lost at Washington check fact check
that fo Okay, Maryland. The four seed takes on Grand
Canyon out of the ghetto of Phoenix, and that's basically
where it is. It's a gated school around the ghetto
of Phoenix. But then the for profit school called the Lopes.
Antelopes are rolling into town take on Maryland.

Speaker 3 (50:55):
I May.

Speaker 2 (50:56):
Yeah, so Maryland's good. God, could you imagine if they
lose as a four after losing to Washington, the eighteenth
place team in the Big Ten this year. Yeah, they're
probably like less than thrilled to have to come back
out here. So that's the one thirty five game. That's
the early session. The late session Arizona back in Seattle
to play a college basketball game, number four seed taken

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on Akron, and then at that's at four thirty and
then the late game. The last game of the night
on the first round, last game of the Round of
sixty four is Oregon Liberty at seven o'clock. A lot
of people like Liberty in that game. We'll break it
down Gary Parrish on Thursday or Wednesday. Wednesday will break
it down with us. Go through all the brackets, all
the regions. I'm there's always the darlings, there's always the

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teams that people like that. You know, if you're watching
yesterday the bracket shows and CBS Sports Network did a
great one at three hours. It was awesome going through everything. Oh,
I've watched the whole thing, and Liberty is one of
those teams that people were kind of fired about. McNeice
is a team that people are fired up about. I'll
let you guys figure out who your little dark horses are.

Speaker 5 (51:59):
But but.

Speaker 2 (52:01):
Liberty and Oregon a five to twelve matchup at seven
to ten, the last game of the first round period
of the Round of sixty four. It's the late game
out west is is Friday. I was looking on here.
It looks to me like the games are sold out.
Their's secondary tickets, I do believe, yeah, But basically the
games are sold out, so it's gonna be wild weekend.

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It's be fun up here, especially with Oregon in town.

Speaker 4 (52:26):
Oregon, Oregon.

Speaker 3 (52:27):
By the way.

Speaker 2 (52:29):
By the way, I do laugh when you when Oregon
and Gonzaga are called Oregon and Gonzaga. But I heard
it multiple times again yesterday. Why is it your people
in the East Coast can't pronounce those.

Speaker 3 (52:40):
Because we're tournaments.

Speaker 5 (52:42):
It's Florida, Okay, that's but I change Oregon right away,
but my mom still says Aragon, like okay, so it's
both ohs are wrong.

Speaker 4 (52:56):
Oregon Oregon, I say orgon.

Speaker 2 (53:00):
The Gonzaga one's the one that just doesn't make sense.
Sixteen straight trips to the Sweet sixteen and nine st
trips of Sweet sixteen that it is twenty six straight
tips to the tournament. They're a basketball blue blood. I
think you could make in our and their nickname is
the Zags.

Speaker 4 (53:18):
So that's how I feel about tournament.

Speaker 2 (53:21):
I saw Roy Hibbert yesterday called Zaga. I'm like, dude,
come on, somebody. I thought, well, you know what, that's
Parish's fault. We'll talk to him.

Speaker 4 (53:30):
Yes, it is carries fault. Gary.

Speaker 5 (53:34):
No.

Speaker 4 (53:35):
I had to change I had to change it. I
just said Gonzaga all the time. I mean that one.
I picked up pretty quickly.

Speaker 2 (53:41):
Let me get on my soapbox for a second before
I get the break. Every year there's teams that don't
get in the bubble teams, and we ask ourselves why,
and and then you'll have people that hate the sport
that cover the sport, like j Billis tell us not
to worry about the teams that didn't get in.

Speaker 3 (53:54):
It doesn't really matter. It does matter.

Speaker 2 (53:55):
It matters to those teams that didn't get in because
for many it's a once in a lifetime opportunity to
get into the tournament.

Speaker 4 (54:03):
As yes, said, there you go.

Speaker 2 (54:05):
But it's it's that's what you play for. College basketball
is so unique. College football playoff, okay, whatever, it's your
twelve teams, fourteen, whatever it ends up being. And most teams,
about eighty percent of the country knows, I got no
chance to the start of the year. Even if you
think you're good, you probably know within a week or
two that you're not going to be there.

Speaker 3 (54:23):
And that's fine.

Speaker 2 (54:24):
The NCAA tournament's different every year. You know, out of
the three hundred and fifty odd teams in college basketball,
there are opportunities for teams to find their way, and
it's an equal opportunity when your conference you're in. I mean,
that's that's what's kind of cool. Like when your conference
is three hundred and twenty four, I think me see,
I'll play it. Three hundred and sixty four teams in

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Division one college basketball, everybody has a chance to get
in with an automatic bid. Now the thirty five or
so at large bids, that's a different story. A lot's
made out one of the fourteen teams out of the SEC.
I for one, really am a firm believer that you
have to win games at some point to earn your

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way into any playoff. I don't understand how two teams
that were that had a three thirty three winning percentage
in conference six and twelve Oklahoma, six and twelve Texas,
How in God's name do you get into the tournament?

Speaker 3 (55:24):
Why?

Speaker 2 (55:24):
Because you're in the SEC, the greatest conference world.

Speaker 3 (55:26):
That's great. You didn't beat anybody.

Speaker 2 (55:28):
You had six wins all year, LSU South Carolina were
two of those, so yeah, you'd be some other teams,
but you were six and twelve in your conference. Can
you fathom in the college football playoff as bad and
screwed up as it is, if some team that was
like three games under five hundred and their conference got
into the College FOOTBA playoff, it would never happen ever,
as flawed as it is. But we will get to
college football playoff in a second. I don't get the

(55:50):
six and twelve. I think that's wrong. I know that
we wanted to pump up and the metrics tell us
the SEC was good. Gary's gonna tell us out on Wednesday.

Speaker 5 (55:57):
I know.

Speaker 3 (55:57):
Blah blah blah. They're great.

Speaker 2 (55:59):
North Carolina is a whole different story. Their metrics in
some ways are Okay, their net is okay, they're thirty
six in the net. But the NCAA Tournament Committee does
not necessarily look at the net rankings. They look at
all the other analytics, all the other and really the
predictive metrics that go into teams in college basketball. North

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Carolina was thirteen and seven in Conference twenty two and thirteen.
On the surface, you would look at that and say,
all right, in the ACC not bad, right, not bad?
Probably right there, Wake Forest thirteen and seven, twenty one eleven,
SMU thirteen and seven, twenty three and ten. Really not
much of a difference all those three teams, right, Oh,
but none of the SMU didn't get in, and Wake

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Forest didn't get in, right, North Carolina did. So then
what do you look for? And we talk about the
quad system, and I know people get nuts when they
hear it, but the quad system is there for a reason.
It basically tells you if you have quality wins.

Speaker 3 (57:00):
And bad losses.

Speaker 2 (57:02):
Yeah, like, how do you do against other tournament teams? Basically,
when you are North Carolina and somehow, some way the
North Carolina tar Heels find your way in, you must say, well,
what did they do against good teams Quad one good teams.
They had thirteen opportunities to get a win. They had

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one win on a neutral court. That was it a
neutral court win. They were one and twelve. They're Quad two,
which does come into play at times.

Speaker 3 (57:35):
They're eight.

Speaker 2 (57:36):
No, but none of those teams they beat are in
the tournament. They also had a loss in Quad three.
So I was telling my buddies this year when the
Kugs lost to who they lose to, Specific Pacific, the
city is a Quad four loss, You're automatically done.

Speaker 8 (57:52):
You're out.

Speaker 2 (57:53):
Yeah, it's a bad loss. It's Notre Dame losing to
Northern Illinois, not once, but twice. But here's what scares
me about the North Carolina thing, because there isn't anybody
worth their salt that does that studies this stuff, that
does brackets. They believe they should have been in. And
I'm talking about whether it's Jerry Palm, Joe Lonardi, or
anybody else that does it. There is nobody that believed

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they got in.

Speaker 3 (58:16):
But they did.

Speaker 2 (58:17):
Why because they're North Carolina. There's no other reason for it.
Not one metric tells you they should be in. Here's
what's terrifying about that. Two things one talking about expanding
the tournament. Okay, well you could expand it. Indiana was
more deserving, West Virginia was more deserving, Boise State was
more deserving, et cetera. Would any of those teams actually

(58:39):
have got in?

Speaker 3 (58:40):
Probably not.

Speaker 2 (58:41):
ACC was a crap conference this year. Mountain West has
many teams and it has as many teams in the
in the tournament as the ACC. So it's not the
ACC that we all used to know and love. And
that's with UNC, which shouldn't be in. They should have
had three teams, right, and that's it, but they got four.
What scares me is this with college football. North Carolina's
Alabama when it comes right down to it, when push

(59:05):
comes to shove, this is what's scary. You're gonna get
in even if you're not deserving, over teams that are
more deserving because of the brand. Now, maybe there's something
that think that's fine, that's great. Yeah, North Carolina fans do.
Alabama fans would, but that's not how it should be.
It's still a tournament playoff like college football playoff. North

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Carolina is exactly what could happen to the college football
playoff if you expand it by a couple more teams.
It won't help teams that probably are deserving of getting in.
It will just help ensure that the big brands get in.
And it's everything wrong right now with college basket or
college sports. College basketball is like the one last kind
of remaining. Hey, everyone has a chance. But North Carolina

(59:47):
proved that not everybody does have a chance because more
deserving teams got left out because they weren't wait for it.
North Carolina. That's awful.

Speaker 3 (59:54):
It's brutal.

Speaker 2 (59:56):
The worst thing is, here's the worst thing. They're gonna
win games. They're gonna flip and win games. I guarantee
you they're gonna win games. But that doesn't validate them
being in. Yeah, they won eight of their final ten games,
but none of them were against good teams. None were
against good teams. You can win eight of ten, but
none we're against good teams. At some point, winning has

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to matter and losses have to matter.

Speaker 3 (01:00:20):
It shouldn't be a predictive outcome. It should be a
what did you do.

Speaker 6 (01:00:24):
To get here?

Speaker 2 (01:00:24):
What does the resume say? What does Parish tell us
every week? Here's the resume, here's my top twenty five
and one. My resume says this, that wasn't the case
with these guys, and it is a bummer. J billis
that teams didn't get in because why didn't they get in? Well,
their team was better and they had a better resume
and their team was more deserving. But you know what,
they weren't called North Carolina and that's messed up.

Speaker 6 (01:00:44):
All right.

Speaker 2 (01:00:45):
I want to get some thoughts on Donaldre on Slick Wats.
We'll get those from you, hopefully talk back or two
as well. All that coming up next.

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Speaker 9 (01:01:14):
I was taken to a Sonic game in the old
Coliseum by my father and as we're walking to the seats,
he goes, hey, look there's Slick Watts. He's really good,
and so he goes go get his autograph. So I
went over to him and I said, mister Bax, I
don't know who you are, but my dad said you
were really good, and he goes he was right.

Speaker 4 (01:01:34):
That is a phenomenal.

Speaker 3 (01:01:36):
I love that story.

Speaker 2 (01:01:37):
That's a great story. The rest in peace. Slick Watts
uh Brian says Slick was mister approachable in THEES. He
was a security guy at Franklin High School recently six
or seven years ago. You can find him having a
beer and whitsoner the Paradise Bar. Condolence is an rip Slick.
I think he was very, very, very approachable. I'm gonna
read this. I'm gonna be careful with what I read here.

Speaker 3 (01:01:58):
Four two five.

Speaker 5 (01:02:00):
H.

Speaker 2 (01:02:00):
Spencer and Lenny were the first basketball stars. They were cool, smooth,
almost corporate. Early seventies songs were struggling and dull. Then
Slick came in and he was just the Anthys. Yeah,
he was different than Spencer and Lenny. Played with his
hair on fire, played great defense, set the stage of
DJJJ great defenders. Slick also helped recruit Avery Johnson. That's right,

(01:02:24):
although you know what, Avery didn't go to Louisiana.

Speaker 3 (01:02:26):
Zavier.

Speaker 2 (01:02:26):
Avery was from Southern I believe fact check me on that. Anyway,
Stick Slick was big part of the committee, Jim says,
starting five Sonics championship teams. Sickma was the only one
alive now remember Slick wasn't on that team. But you're right,
Jackson News the only one on a Shelton, Gus Williams,
Dennis Johnson, John Johnson all gone every Don Avery Johnson
did go to Southern Yes, yeah, so he wasn't at

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Louisiana sa uh four two five. I wore a headband
when I played a reck in middle school basketball because
a Slick. My grandpa and dad were huge Sonic fans.
Remember when I was young hearing the name Slick Watson,
loved the name. He's my favorite player before he knew
who he was. When I saw pictures him, knew I
had to have a headband on any time I played
our ip Slick. Let's see four two five the headband

(01:03:09):
is a kid playing hoops every day. Wore a headband
because Slick made it cool.

Speaker 3 (01:03:12):
He did, he did.

Speaker 4 (01:03:16):
He bore the heck out of that. I like the
playing with his hair on fire comment because so much
that he didn't have any He played hard.

Speaker 5 (01:03:26):
I love. I only knew him when I moved out here,
so he wasn't playing anymore. And I just love going back.
And there's only so many highlights that you can look
up from that era right, but man, it was really
fun to watch.

Speaker 3 (01:03:42):
Yeah. I mean as someone who was born after he
stopped playing, I didn't. It's hard for me to really
grasp how important he was to this community, but just
from having stories and everything passed down through me, through
my parents, through people like Ian as well. He's more
of like a he's a cultural icon more than a
basketball icon.

Speaker 5 (01:04:01):
Well he's he's not even from Seattle, and this became
his home right, and this is where he influenced.

Speaker 3 (01:04:07):
Oh, let's see fourth two of six. So I was
so cool it.

Speaker 2 (01:04:11):
Slick was my fourth grade gym teacher at dunlap In Elementary.
R Ip Slick, do you love watching Wimbledon on VHS
where we played in the gym?

Speaker 3 (01:04:18):
Nice?

Speaker 4 (01:04:20):
That's a really good story.

Speaker 2 (01:04:22):
Anyway, some good ones out there, so we thank you
for those. Let's see four two point three. I hate
North Carolina. I don't want them in. But A having
your ad is the committee chair has its perks, and
B the a CEC is not that bad. The polls
were terrible and off all year, which is where we
stuck with so much sec. Well, A D wasn't in
the room.

Speaker 3 (01:04:40):
I'll believe that they now he.

Speaker 2 (01:04:43):
Wasn't in the room they voted. I get that, but
he was the head of the committee, so there's an influence,
even if it's not direct. ACC not that bad. ACC
wasn't good this year.

Speaker 3 (01:04:56):
Guys, just wasn't.

Speaker 4 (01:05:00):
I get to see it.

Speaker 3 (01:05:01):
They don't. Yeah, I kind of love to see it.

Speaker 4 (01:05:03):
That's sarcasm.

Speaker 2 (01:05:04):
Yes, let's see, Ben, how did you how you did
against other tournament teams? Get it right and get it right.
I liked it.

Speaker 5 (01:05:14):
I like the way Ben spelled that too, because there's
an extra Oh, Mark, he's a two o sixer.

Speaker 3 (01:05:21):
Marcus writes, h.

Speaker 2 (01:05:22):
Yeah, Because we're talking about tickets, Marcus says, yeah, I
got secondary market tickets today. Thirty one dollars in fees
on forty dollars tickets. Oh jesus, so seventy one dollar ticket?

Speaker 3 (01:05:32):
Ouch?

Speaker 4 (01:05:32):
Well, I mean it depends on how many this person thirty.

Speaker 3 (01:05:35):
One dollars in fees, so he paid seventy.

Speaker 5 (01:05:38):
Dollars tickets though, so like if it was thirty one,
he could have bought five.

Speaker 3 (01:05:42):
Oh, I bet it's thirty one in fees on each
ticket ticket. I don't know secondary market.

Speaker 4 (01:05:48):
Yes, I know, it's terrible, terrible.

Speaker 5 (01:05:50):
I am not.

Speaker 3 (01:05:52):
Like tournament, horrible ornament. Just say it right, that's cool,
that's coming here. I super hyped. I've never been to
a game, and I'm going to my first one on Friday. So, oh,
you never been to a tournament? No, turn, you know
what I haven't.

Speaker 2 (01:06:08):
I have not been to a basketball game at Climate Pledge.

Speaker 4 (01:06:11):
You haven't.

Speaker 3 (01:06:12):
I haven't either, A well, there haven't been well women's games,
I guess. But yeah, and then the main City showcase.

Speaker 2 (01:06:18):
I like, you'll never see me there? Yeah, I know
you know, you know you're never going to see me.

Speaker 6 (01:06:22):
I do know that.

Speaker 3 (01:06:23):
I don't care. You bring the damn NBA preseas. God.

Speaker 2 (01:06:25):
I hope my other employer doesn't ever make me go
to one of those. I I will never ever, ever
ever watch an NBA game in Climate Pledge Arena unless
it's our team, period. And of story, that's fair love that.
I'm not going to support it. I'm not going to
promote it. I get in trouble because I won't do
the reads on it. I just hate every bit of it.
You're align with the NCAA tournament. Yes, about time we

(01:06:48):
got it? Here about timing got it? You know it's
worse this was funny.

Speaker 3 (01:06:52):
I now, listen.

Speaker 2 (01:06:53):
If you hate gun Zaga, which many of you do,
I get it. You gotta love the fact they got
to go to Wichita. Like, if you don't like Gonzaga,
you probably have to laugh a little bit that they
have to go to Wichita and they're an eight seed.
You know, I brought up are they a blue blood?
Blue Bloos change over the years?

Speaker 3 (01:07:12):
They do, change, they do.

Speaker 2 (01:07:13):
Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:07:14):
You have to win a championship can be a blue
play It's I don't know, Miller, I know, I saw you. Keith.
Here's the thing, Keith again.

Speaker 2 (01:07:21):
I look up in the dictionary blue blood basketball program.
I can't find a definition, so to me, it's somewhat subjective.
Twenty six straight NCAA appearances.

Speaker 3 (01:07:31):
How many straight Sweet sixteens? To nine? Yeah? Yeah, nine?

Speaker 4 (01:07:35):
They're in the national conversation on them.

Speaker 3 (01:07:37):
They've won.

Speaker 2 (01:07:38):
They've won at least one game in the tournament fifteen
straight years. The only other team close to that is
Kansas at seventeen. Both of those could come to an
end this year, by the way, those streaks. Oh yeah,
Kansas is a broken basketball team. But they're just the
picture model of consistency. I think they get bored during

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the season. I think they truly get bored. Thirty seven
and twenty all times a single digit seed, seventeen to two.

Speaker 3 (01:08:08):
Record in the first round games. It's gonna be fun.

Speaker 2 (01:08:12):
I mentioned this earlier, I think, and this is we'll
talk about this with Parrish on Wednesday, And he brought
this up last week. If you guys remember the show
last week, he brought this up last week. The team
that should be most pissed off about seeing Gonzaga as
an eight seed, because most people thought they were a seven,
maybe even a six. The team that should be most

(01:08:33):
pissed off is Houston, the number one seed. They probably
deserve a little bit better than that in the second round. Now,
I'm assuming they're gonna get by Georgia.

Speaker 3 (01:08:44):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:08:46):
Maybe that's a big assumption on my part. Maybe I'm
wrong in that regard. But tournament time, great time. Don't
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Speaker 3 (01:09:00):
And don't tell me that I can't do it again,
because there's a chance.

Speaker 4 (01:09:05):
There is a chance, Yes, there is.

Speaker 3 (01:09:09):
Did you find the number? Yeah, it's one in nine
point two quintrillion. That's the chances. That is the chances,
and we did we did the math outside. So there
have been about, on average about I think between sixty
and eighty million brackets per year people have been filling
out brackets since nineteen seventy seven. Okay, so if you

(01:09:29):
average that out, there have been about three point eight
billion brackets total. This is all math stuff. But if
you tell me I have like a one in five
hundred chance of doing something, if I do it five
hundred times, there's a good chance then I would have
done that at least once. Right, So in order to

(01:09:49):
get to nine point two quintrillion brackets total filled out
of all time, we'd have to continue to do this
at this at this same pace pace for another like
billion years, billionaires, billion years. Oh yeah, okay, yeah, okay,
And that's with like eighty million brackets per year being
filled out.

Speaker 5 (01:10:09):
Very dinosaurs to me, Yeah, I just uh, maybe I'm
feeling less less.

Speaker 3 (01:10:17):
One of our telling me there's a chance there's a chance.

Speaker 2 (01:10:19):
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Speaker 3 (01:10:23):
That's for softy as well. Join us next.

Speaker 2 (01:10:36):
Already, then, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, here we are.

Speaker 3 (01:10:41):
Hey, you're uh, your partner has a pull up? We're sure?
Do you have your do you have your thing? Definitely
on the poll talking to me, I'm talking to you
your partner.

Speaker 6 (01:10:49):
I don't want to hear about my partner's poll. Jeez, wow, god, man, I.

Speaker 2 (01:10:55):
Just my ears just burst up. All right, we have
a we have a pole from.

Speaker 6 (01:11:01):
Three to two one.

Speaker 2 (01:11:04):
He's asking what are you more interested and interested in
over the next three weeks, March madness or Mariners starting
their season.

Speaker 6 (01:11:11):
For me, it's the Mariners. But I don't know if
I'm in the majority, you're.

Speaker 3 (01:11:15):
In the minority right now.

Speaker 6 (01:11:17):
It's sixty to pretty close, you know.

Speaker 10 (01:11:21):
The fact for the Mariners to be as bad as
they've been over the last twenty whatever years, and to
be as cheap as they've been the last couple of years,
and screwing over their fan base the way they have
in a lot of ways, right, for them to be
even that close in the poll.

Speaker 3 (01:11:40):
They just took the lead.

Speaker 6 (01:11:42):
Oh they did.

Speaker 10 (01:11:43):
It's pretty impressive, man, I mean god, it's like I've
been saying for years. I mean, the Mariners should be
like near the bottom of attendance every year, and they're.

Speaker 2 (01:11:51):
Not because the ballpark's great. It's a fun experience, you
get it.

Speaker 10 (01:11:56):
But still there's a lot of great ballparks around the
country that don't drive fans. I mean, come on, I
threw a poll out myself, like we got dueling, all right,
what's you want to hear my poll? What is your
excitement level? I want you to vote on this live
on the air. I want to I want all three
to vote on the air. Okay, what's your excitement level
for the NCAA tournament?

Speaker 6 (01:12:18):
Four options?

Speaker 10 (01:12:18):
Extremely jacked up, excited but not drooling, small interest, and
d could.

Speaker 6 (01:12:24):
Not care less.

Speaker 3 (01:12:25):
I'm number one. I'm the first one.

Speaker 6 (01:12:27):
You're extremely jacked up because you get two days off.

Speaker 3 (01:12:30):
Well that's one reason.

Speaker 4 (01:12:33):
Reason.

Speaker 3 (01:12:33):
I think.

Speaker 2 (01:12:33):
The other reason is it's the greatest at least the
first weekend is the greatest gambling weekend of the year.

Speaker 6 (01:12:42):
Thursday Friday. So you're a degenerate, okay, got you good?

Speaker 3 (01:12:46):
So much action, so many different things?

Speaker 6 (01:12:48):
Yes, absolutely, just how would you vote?

Speaker 4 (01:12:51):
How would I vote? In your poll? I don't care
about you are.

Speaker 6 (01:12:56):
You're not paying attention.

Speaker 3 (01:12:58):
She was not paying attention.

Speaker 5 (01:13:00):
I was responding to a very important email.

Speaker 3 (01:13:02):
Okay, you just go sit hold on, No, I'm vote.
I did vote on your poll and I said, excited.

Speaker 6 (01:13:10):
But not not drooling. Okay, got you, got you.

Speaker 3 (01:13:13):
I will be going for the first time though, And
I'm I'm I'm there.

Speaker 5 (01:13:16):
You go that.

Speaker 6 (01:13:16):
Yeah, march in this Friday Sunday.

Speaker 3 (01:13:19):
I'm one hundred march this for liberty.

Speaker 2 (01:13:23):
So so are you extremely jacked up, Jess or are
you excited but not drooling or small interest couldn't care less?

Speaker 4 (01:13:30):
I am jacked up? Okay, yes, I am jacked up.

Speaker 6 (01:13:33):
How do you think the city would vote as a
whole in general terms?

Speaker 5 (01:13:39):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (01:13:39):
Without a team specifically in it?

Speaker 6 (01:13:43):
We got Gonzaga. Oh wait a minute, no we don't.
For three hundred miles away.

Speaker 3 (01:13:46):
It's Gonzaga. Actually, I.

Speaker 4 (01:13:51):
Say tournament.

Speaker 6 (01:13:52):
Whatever pishes them off is what I say. What's the
one that they don't like? I'll say that.

Speaker 10 (01:14:00):
I mean, look, you know fifty eight percent saying small
interest or could not care less. Some of that is,
obviously because the Husky has not been a factor for
a long time, because it was not been a factor
for a while.

Speaker 3 (01:14:10):
Well we were there last year.

Speaker 5 (01:14:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:14:12):
But outside of that, though, you know.

Speaker 3 (01:14:13):
It's a while little bit exactly what you guys were in.

Speaker 6 (01:14:16):
It was five six years ago. One time in fourteen, this.

Speaker 3 (01:14:20):
Was it the year one of Hopkins. Yes, you're one
with right.

Speaker 10 (01:14:26):
You're two, you're too a Hopkins the second year and
they haven't been back since. Okay, So yeah, I mean
it sucks, man. I mean it's brutal right, I mean
it's not it's not great to have this thing happen
and not be a part of it. It's sixty eight
teams and you can't even find yourself in. I'm sure
you just feel the same way as a Koog fan
selection Sunday. There's a big party going on and you're
not a party or a part of it.

Speaker 6 (01:14:45):
It sucks, man.

Speaker 2 (01:14:46):
Well, like last last year was a blast because you know,
it had been since two thousand and seven with Tony
Bennett and we were pretty sure we were in right, like,
but you never know, as a lot of teams like
West Virginia found out yesterday.

Speaker 5 (01:14:58):
Right.

Speaker 2 (01:14:58):
So yeah, it's it's like the best worst hour of
TV of the year, right, you know, But but the
worst part is what just happened. We're like you said,
like if you're a WAZZI were Washington fan this year,
you're like.

Speaker 6 (01:15:10):
Yeah, whatever else. I learn a lot of people.

Speaker 2 (01:15:13):
Unless you want to head to one of our casinos,
like you're the EQC or I'm in Smoklahoma Casino. Then then,
ladies and gentlemen, March Madness is a ton of fun.

Speaker 10 (01:15:22):
This place is gonna be hopping on Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday.
They're actually doing a big thing in the event center.
They're gonna bring in blackjack tables in the event center
so you can gamble and watch basketball on the big screen.

Speaker 6 (01:15:32):
How can you.

Speaker 10 (01:15:34):
And hang out with the MODELO models and shoot hoops
on the bucket they're setting up and take part in
the beer garden and the food court, and it's gonna
be awesome.

Speaker 6 (01:15:43):
I'll be in Arizona, but it's gonna be awesome.

Speaker 4 (01:15:46):
Oh yeah, we're flying together on Wednesday, we might be
might be. Yeah, We're gonna hang out in the lounge.

Speaker 3 (01:15:52):
The lounge that'll result in some stories.

Speaker 6 (01:15:56):
Are you excited for the opening day of Major League
Baseball tomorrow?

Speaker 2 (01:15:59):
By the way, I think is the dumbest thing in
the world Dodgers.

Speaker 10 (01:16:02):
And Cubs in Tokyo tomorrow three ten in the morning.
You wake up at three ten tomorrow morning and watch baseball.

Speaker 6 (01:16:09):
I might be up, What the hell?

Speaker 10 (01:16:11):
I might get up anyway when when he asked to
go pee, and I'll just stay up and watch baseball?

Speaker 3 (01:16:14):
Think is Dodger fan north of California?

Speaker 2 (01:16:16):
When you yell at your dogs, do you do that
like in the middle of the night like I heard
when I was on the phone with you today.

Speaker 6 (01:16:20):
No, that's wake up. Everybody is yelling at me to
take them out?

Speaker 3 (01:16:24):
Okay, all right?

Speaker 10 (01:16:25):
Just can I always ask my wife? I always asked,
you know why am I the one that's got to
get up and take him out?

Speaker 6 (01:16:29):
Because you're the man?

Speaker 3 (01:16:30):
Yeah? Okay, fine, you actually have that That.

Speaker 10 (01:16:33):
Literally applies to nothing else in the in our house
besides me having to take the dogs out to take
a piss.

Speaker 3 (01:16:38):
I can't believe you actually asked that question. I can't
believe you actually asked that question.

Speaker 10 (01:16:43):
Can you imagine if I told you that I'm the man,
I get to decide what we're doing for dinner.

Speaker 6 (01:16:46):
Oh it's smacked. Yeah, But if it comes to taking
the dogs, have to take a pee. Yeah, then it's my.

Speaker 3 (01:16:51):
Responsible I would be fearful that. Okay, what are you
doing today?

Speaker 10 (01:16:53):
Let's go on, let's see make the course a great
day to have him on. He'll join us at four
o'clock talk some college tubes. Michael Jennetti from spot Track
on Sam Darnold's contract and where the Hawks are Sam Donald,
where the Hawks are cap wise that's coming up at Well,
we should do it at like forty one after the hour,
but instead it's at five o'clock tonight. And then the
new guy, Mark James MJ in the midday. He's got

(01:17:15):
to swing by the Queen make some bets, so he's
gonna pop on with us and complain about Carolina making
the tournament at six o'clock.

Speaker 4 (01:17:21):
What Carolina, it's a tournament.

Speaker 3 (01:17:23):
Thank you, Sorry, see you. Bye.

Speaker 4 (01:17:25):
For the mild mannered and marginally objectionable Inverness, this is
paddle day, saying so long everyone,

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