October 20, 2025 • 11 mins
KJR’s Softy Joins The Show Before MNF Match Up & ALCS Game 7
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Our next guest is a great friend of the show.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
He is one of the most influential sports Personnalit is
not only in Seattle, but across the entire country. He's
been on KJR Radio, the Sports Leader forever. He is
a die hard Washington fan, a die hard all Seattle fan,
and softy. I'm going to walk very very softly on
this because we in Houston have been through your situation.
(00:23):
First of all, what is your current mental state?
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Petrified about tonight? Seahawk game is not even a fart
on my radar, to be fully honest with you, you know,
I mean, this is Game seven of the Alcs. First
time in their nearly fifty year history the Mariners have
played a Game seven, and it happens to be up
(00:47):
against the Seahawk Texan game tonight. You mentioned nine pm Central,
seven o'clock Pacific, And on top of that, we have
a cracking broadcast that is going to interrupt our show
that we will be off the air for at four
o'clock this afternoon, So we will be off the air
and not even discussing this thing, you know, within the
first hours or the final hours of the game. So
(01:09):
it's an unusual situation to be in Matt and Seattle
because a lot of us have kind of wondered what
whatever happen if the Mariners had a game like this
up against the Seahawk game, and we're kind of finding out,
and I think it's appropriate, it's appropriate for people to
be gravitating towards the Mariners tonight. You know, this is
again something that's never been done in Mariner history. You know,
(01:33):
you think about, you know, when this current regime in
Houston made that first run to the World Series and
how much it captivated your town. You know, I'm serious
where Texan fans were at with that. You know, how
many people were even paying attention to what was happening
with Texan football with the Astros made that first run
you know, a decade ago, you know whatever it was now.
So that's the situation that we are in today, and honestly,
(01:57):
ticket prices are kind of reflecting it, like you look
up it like a ticket resler, and we'd like to
use you know, a play it's venue Kings dot com
krick flick for them. By the way, thank you seventy bucks, Matt,
seventy bucks to get in the door for tonight's Seahawk game.
I mean, those are those are preseason prices for tonight's
Monday night game. If this game is close in the
(02:18):
bottom of the seven, bottom of the eighth, and the
Seahawks are kicking off at five, there's going to be
a lot of people that will either be on the
concourse watching the baseball game, or will stay at whatever
sports bar they're at, you know, before kickoff and not
going to the stadium. And we had that issue, you know,
nine days ago when the Mariners were in Game five
(02:38):
against the Tigers and we were at Husky Stadium doing
a freaking Rutgers broadcast. We literally go on the air
for a postgame show and seconds later, Hore Polanco delivers
the game winning RBI single and the Mariners win. This
is about forty five minutes technically after the Washington Rutgers
game had ended, but a thousand people stayed in the
stadium to watch the baseball game. Didn't want to get
(03:00):
in the car, and the Huskies, you know, their their
security staff and their ushers had no choice but to
stay at the stadium and work overtime so people could
stay there and watch the baseball game. So this thing
has really captivated the entire town. But after the way
they played last night and the way they just didn't
even show up, the lapses offensively, the lapses defensively, the
(03:21):
lapses on the bass pass. I think a lot of
people are just petrified that this is the last thing
anybody wanted anything to do with, which is a game
seven in Toronto.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Every time I would watch the game, and I had
some family things because I was watching football day long.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
The number of double plays last night had to be
just crushing.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
For you, brutal three in a row actually, and two
of them swinging at the first pitch. Kyle Rowley basses
juice one out, first pitch, splitter from you savage. Ground
ball double play, Julio Rodriguez, same thing, ground ball double played.
JP Crawford at minimum saw at least he saw three
pitches and then he grounds into double play in the
(04:01):
inning's over. I mean, it's like those opportunities where you've
got a rookie on the ropes. You've got to be
able to get some runs on the board right then
and there, and then they just the defensive lapses, you know,
third inning, second inning, now, whatever it is. Last night,
it's all running together. Now, Juvio Rodriguez can't corral a
base hint in center field, goes off as glove and
leads to a double. Euhano Flores has a hard time
(04:23):
you have picking up a ball and can't make a
play at at third base. Cal Rawley with an error
going down the line, and Black Guerrero scores from third
base and the player that should have stopped right there, Matt.
It was the first freaking time all year long that
they had three errors in one game, and it happened
last night in Game six of the ALCS. So it
was absolutely maddening.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
All Right, I want you to clear something up with me,
because it has obviously been a big bonus contention with
people in your great part of the world.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Will you in the stands when George Barry got hit?
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Yes, yes, I was sitting teen roads right behind home play.
All right?
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Would you describe the fan base as booing or was
it something else?
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Okay, So let me just explain something to you guys,
and I am I cannot believe that this is not
being talked about. What do people talk about when they
talk about how well Blue Jay fans travel, especially to.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Seattle all places.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
That's far because because Vancouver is two hours away from Seattle, Okay,
and there's a boatload of Blue Jay fans that live
in Vancouver, Canada, so they come down for the game
because Toronto is the only team Canada has, as you know,
and a lot of them are in Vancouver, and they
gravitate to Seattle. There must they're probably were in that
game that you're talking about, Matt, maybe seventy five hundred
(05:45):
blue Jay fans in the stands, and I'm telling you
they're not. This isn't just Maritra fans booing George Springer.
This is Blue Jay fans hammering Brian Wu for hitting
George Springer. So when John Schneider goes to the podium
after the game, the blue Jay manager and starts ripping
on Mariner fans for booing George Springer, I'm like, how
(06:07):
the hell do you know that you got? You got
five thousand blue Jay fans liter minimum, right there in
front of your face between first and third that are
hammering Brian Wu for hitting George Springer. He goes down
to first base, he can't even walk, He's limping all
over the place. So if you tell me that there
were Mariner fans that were booing George Springer. I could
(06:27):
buy that. You're also telling me that there were Blue
Jay fans that were booing Brian Wu. I could freaking
buy that too. But you know what, the George Springer
thing obviously goes back to the astro days. You know that,
You know that nonsense that happened between Seattle and Houston.
So a lot of that wasn't even George Springer getting
boot because he got hurt. It was George Springer getting
booed because he was an astro. Because George Springer has
(06:48):
been booed every at back this series, even before he
got hurt.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
All right, I got you for two more minutes here,
let me get some football in Jaguars huge win for
the Seahawks going across winning last Sunday. I watched that
game before that, a knockdown, dragout offensive firepower game between
the Hawks and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. First of all,
a thought or two about Sam Donald wearing the gear.
(07:13):
I don't think you missed Gino Smith frankly, after what
he did yesterday. No, generally speaking, how confident are you
about tonight's Seattle performance against the Texans.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
I mean here's the problem with Mike McDonald. Matt Pete
Carroll was known for winning games in prime time, especially
at home. Mike McDonald's four and eight at Loomenfield, and
he's ten and one on the road since he took
over as the Seahawks head coach. So Mike McDonald really
has to kind of figure it out at home because
it's been kind of a disaster in these home games
(07:43):
for him. So that's number one, and then number two.
I mean, look, I think the Seahawks are a way
better football team with Sam Donald than they would have
been with Geno Smith. I mean, like you said, the
numbers obviously bear that out, you know, and you give
John Schneider, who happens to be the name of the
Seahawks gam and not just the blue Jay manager. You
give John Schneider credit because this is the second consecutive
(08:04):
time where he has jumped off the quarterback wagon at
the exact right time, gets rid of Russell Wilson at
the exact right time, signs that massive deal with Denver,
and then he falls apart. Now he jumps off the
Gino wagon, he signs a big deal with the Raiders,
and he's falling apart, right, So they've really played this perfectly.
I think the last couple of go rounds with this
(08:26):
quarterback situation, Sam Darnold, I'm telling you, man, if not
for Baker Mayfield would probably be in the MVP conversation.
He's not gonna win it. But as he top five,
is he top seven? I think he is. His numbers
are marvelous. He's ridiculous right now. He's not making mistakes,
and you can argue that they're actually a fumble away
from being maybe five to one after that Niner loss
at home about a month ago. So look, man, they're
(08:47):
in a good spot. They got some guys coming back
tonight off the injury update. Tarik will in their corner
should play. Devin Witherspoon should play as well. Their best
backup offensive lineman Josh Jones, and their safety Julian Love
should also play in this game tonight. But I think
this is a football game. The Seahawks hit their health,
he should win.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Jackson Smith and Jake might have a chance be the
second greatest wide receiver ever in Seahawk history.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Yes or no, Yes he does, he does. He's got
a chance to be maybe the greatest single season Seahawk
wide receiver year ever in history. I mean, he's there's
nobody else getting the ball, right, I mean, nobody else
is getting the ball besides Jackson Smith and Jigma. You know,
Cooper Cupp is an old man. Yeah, not as old
as us, but he's an old man and he's doing
what he can. But there's really no other option. And
(09:32):
even if they do have Cooper Cump, it's the rookie
Tory Orton from Nevada who's their third option. So Jackson
Smith and Jigba is averaging about seventeen yards at catch
right now, and he has really been the absolute security
blanket for Sam Darnold. And it's amazing to see because
every single week teams try and take him away and
they can't do it. For whatever reason, they can't do it.
(09:54):
And we're not just talking about, you know, a slot receiver.
We're talking about a guy who lines up on the
outside as the next receiver. He'll go downtown, he'll been
to the post. They'll run drag routes, they'll run he'll
he'll run slants. He's all over the field, this guy.
So it's amazing to me how little they have behind
him at wide receiver. This guy is able to put
up the numbers, just putting up all right?
Speaker 1 (10:16):
How are you taking the edge off between now and
the first pitch?
Speaker 2 (10:18):
What are you doing?
Speaker 3 (10:20):
A bottle of Pendleton whiskey is already halfway gone, and
that started at five am this morning.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Yeah, it feels fair.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
We'll talk down the road.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
You tell me what do you do? Never been in
this position? Okay?
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Let me tell you what's going to happen. Okay, And
you don't want to hear this. The Seahawks are going
to beat the Texans. I don't even know who the
crack in our planks, I can't get to that. I
think Toronto's winning tonight. I think. I think when you
could not finish it off in Seattle, that was the
fate of complete But I could be wrong.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Before Actually, I actually would feel worse if you told
me the Mariners are going to win the game tonight.
So thank you for that, and they're can do for you.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Friend, talk to you soon.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Go one and only Softy k j R. Seattle, our hero,
our friend, you drik. If the Astros are playing at
Game seven on the road American League Championship, are you
are you a half bottle into whiskey, just throwing it
out there.
Our next guest is a great friend of the show.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
He is one of the most influential sports Personnalit is
not only in Seattle, but across the entire country. He's
been on KJR Radio, the Sports Leader forever. He is
a die hard Washington fan, a die hard all Seattle fan,
and softy. I'm going to walk very very softly on
this because we in Houston have been through your situation.
(00:23):
First of all, what is your current mental state?
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Petrified about tonight? Seahawk game is not even a fart
on my radar, to be fully honest with you, you know,
I mean, this is Game seven of the Alcs. First
time in their nearly fifty year history the Mariners have
played a Game seven, and it happens to be up
(00:47):
against the Seahawk Texan game tonight. You mentioned nine pm Central,
seven o'clock Pacific, And on top of that, we have
a cracking broadcast that is going to interrupt our show
that we will be off the air for at four
o'clock this afternoon, So we will be off the air
and not even discussing this thing, you know, within the
first hours or the final hours of the game. So
(01:09):
it's an unusual situation to be in Matt and Seattle
because a lot of us have kind of wondered what
whatever happen if the Mariners had a game like this
up against the Seahawk game, and we're kind of finding out,
and I think it's appropriate, it's appropriate for people to
be gravitating towards the Mariners tonight. You know, this is
again something that's never been done in Mariner history. You know,
(01:33):
you think about, you know, when this current regime in
Houston made that first run to the World Series and
how much it captivated your town. You know, I'm serious
where Texan fans were at with that. You know, how
many people were even paying attention to what was happening
with Texan football with the Astros made that first run
you know, a decade ago, you know whatever it was now.
So that's the situation that we are in today, and honestly,
(01:57):
ticket prices are kind of reflecting it, like you look
up it like a ticket resler, and we'd like to
use you know, a play it's venue Kings dot com
krick flick for them. By the way, thank you seventy bucks, Matt,
seventy bucks to get in the door for tonight's Seahawk game.
I mean, those are those are preseason prices for tonight's
Monday night game. If this game is close in the
(02:18):
bottom of the seven, bottom of the eighth, and the
Seahawks are kicking off at five, there's going to be
a lot of people that will either be on the
concourse watching the baseball game, or will stay at whatever
sports bar they're at, you know, before kickoff and not
going to the stadium. And we had that issue, you know,
nine days ago when the Mariners were in Game five
(02:38):
against the Tigers and we were at Husky Stadium doing
a freaking Rutgers broadcast. We literally go on the air
for a postgame show and seconds later, Hore Polanco delivers
the game winning RBI single and the Mariners win. This
is about forty five minutes technically after the Washington Rutgers
game had ended, but a thousand people stayed in the
stadium to watch the baseball game. Didn't want to get
(03:00):
in the car, and the Huskies, you know, their their
security staff and their ushers had no choice but to
stay at the stadium and work overtime so people could
stay there and watch the baseball game. So this thing
has really captivated the entire town. But after the way
they played last night and the way they just didn't
even show up, the lapses offensively, the lapses defensively, the
(03:21):
lapses on the bass pass. I think a lot of
people are just petrified that this is the last thing
anybody wanted anything to do with, which is a game
seven in Toronto.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Every time I would watch the game, and I had
some family things because I was watching football day long.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
The number of double plays last night had to be
just crushing.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
For you, brutal three in a row actually, and two
of them swinging at the first pitch. Kyle Rowley basses
juice one out, first pitch, splitter from you savage. Ground
ball double play, Julio Rodriguez, same thing, ground ball double played.
JP Crawford at minimum saw at least he saw three
pitches and then he grounds into double play in the
(04:01):
inning's over. I mean, it's like those opportunities where you've
got a rookie on the ropes. You've got to be
able to get some runs on the board right then
and there, and then they just the defensive lapses, you know,
third inning, second inning, now, whatever it is. Last night,
it's all running together. Now, Juvio Rodriguez can't corral a
base hint in center field, goes off as glove and
leads to a double. Euhano Flores has a hard time
(04:23):
you have picking up a ball and can't make a
play at at third base. Cal Rawley with an error
going down the line, and Black Guerrero scores from third
base and the player that should have stopped right there, Matt.
It was the first freaking time all year long that
they had three errors in one game, and it happened
last night in Game six of the ALCS. So it
was absolutely maddening.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
All Right, I want you to clear something up with me,
because it has obviously been a big bonus contention with
people in your great part of the world.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Will you in the stands when George Barry got hit?
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Yes, yes, I was sitting teen roads right behind home play.
All right?
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Would you describe the fan base as booing or was
it something else?
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Okay, So let me just explain something to you guys,
and I am I cannot believe that this is not
being talked about. What do people talk about when they
talk about how well Blue Jay fans travel, especially to.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Seattle all places.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
That's far because because Vancouver is two hours away from Seattle, Okay,
and there's a boatload of Blue Jay fans that live
in Vancouver, Canada, so they come down for the game
because Toronto is the only team Canada has, as you know,
and a lot of them are in Vancouver, and they
gravitate to Seattle. There must they're probably were in that
game that you're talking about, Matt, maybe seventy five hundred
(05:45):
blue Jay fans in the stands, and I'm telling you
they're not. This isn't just Maritra fans booing George Springer.
This is Blue Jay fans hammering Brian Wu for hitting
George Springer. So when John Schneider goes to the podium
after the game, the blue Jay manager and starts ripping
on Mariner fans for booing George Springer, I'm like, how
(06:07):
the hell do you know that you got? You got
five thousand blue Jay fans liter minimum, right there in
front of your face between first and third that are
hammering Brian Wu for hitting George Springer. He goes down
to first base, he can't even walk, He's limping all
over the place. So if you tell me that there
were Mariner fans that were booing George Springer. I could
(06:27):
buy that. You're also telling me that there were Blue
Jay fans that were booing Brian Wu. I could freaking
buy that too. But you know what, the George Springer
thing obviously goes back to the astro days. You know that,
You know that nonsense that happened between Seattle and Houston.
So a lot of that wasn't even George Springer getting
boot because he got hurt. It was George Springer getting
booed because he was an astro. Because George Springer has
(06:48):
been booed every at back this series, even before he
got hurt.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
All right, I got you for two more minutes here,
let me get some football in Jaguars huge win for
the Seahawks going across winning last Sunday. I watched that
game before that, a knockdown, dragout offensive firepower game between
the Hawks and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. First of all,
a thought or two about Sam Donald wearing the gear.
(07:13):
I don't think you missed Gino Smith frankly, after what
he did yesterday. No, generally speaking, how confident are you
about tonight's Seattle performance against the Texans.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
I mean here's the problem with Mike McDonald. Matt Pete
Carroll was known for winning games in prime time, especially
at home. Mike McDonald's four and eight at Loomenfield, and
he's ten and one on the road since he took
over as the Seahawks head coach. So Mike McDonald really
has to kind of figure it out at home because
it's been kind of a disaster in these home games
(07:43):
for him. So that's number one, and then number two.
I mean, look, I think the Seahawks are a way
better football team with Sam Donald than they would have
been with Geno Smith. I mean, like you said, the
numbers obviously bear that out, you know, and you give
John Schneider, who happens to be the name of the
Seahawks gam and not just the blue Jay manager. You
give John Schneider credit because this is the second consecutive
(08:04):
time where he has jumped off the quarterback wagon at
the exact right time, gets rid of Russell Wilson at
the exact right time, signs that massive deal with Denver,
and then he falls apart. Now he jumps off the
Gino wagon, he signs a big deal with the Raiders,
and he's falling apart, right, So they've really played this perfectly.
I think the last couple of go rounds with this
(08:26):
quarterback situation, Sam Darnold, I'm telling you, man, if not
for Baker Mayfield would probably be in the MVP conversation.
He's not gonna win it. But as he top five,
is he top seven? I think he is. His numbers
are marvelous. He's ridiculous right now. He's not making mistakes,
and you can argue that they're actually a fumble away
from being maybe five to one after that Niner loss
at home about a month ago. So look, man, they're
(08:47):
in a good spot. They got some guys coming back
tonight off the injury update. Tarik will in their corner
should play. Devin Witherspoon should play as well. Their best
backup offensive lineman Josh Jones, and their safety Julian Love
should also play in this game tonight. But I think
this is a football game. The Seahawks hit their health,
he should win.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Jackson Smith and Jake might have a chance be the
second greatest wide receiver ever in Seahawk history.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Yes or no, Yes he does, he does. He's got
a chance to be maybe the greatest single season Seahawk
wide receiver year ever in history. I mean, he's there's
nobody else getting the ball, right, I mean, nobody else
is getting the ball besides Jackson Smith and Jigma. You know,
Cooper Cupp is an old man. Yeah, not as old
as us, but he's an old man and he's doing
what he can. But there's really no other option. And
(09:32):
even if they do have Cooper Cump, it's the rookie
Tory Orton from Nevada who's their third option. So Jackson
Smith and Jigba is averaging about seventeen yards at catch
right now, and he has really been the absolute security
blanket for Sam Darnold. And it's amazing to see because
every single week teams try and take him away and
they can't do it. For whatever reason, they can't do it.
(09:54):
And we're not just talking about, you know, a slot receiver.
We're talking about a guy who lines up on the
outside as the next receiver. He'll go downtown, he'll been
to the post. They'll run drag routes, they'll run he'll
he'll run slants. He's all over the field, this guy.
So it's amazing to me how little they have behind
him at wide receiver. This guy is able to put
up the numbers, just putting up all right?
Speaker 1 (10:16):
How are you taking the edge off between now and
the first pitch?
Speaker 2 (10:18):
What are you doing?
Speaker 3 (10:20):
A bottle of Pendleton whiskey is already halfway gone, and
that started at five am this morning.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Yeah, it feels fair.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
We'll talk down the road.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
You tell me what do you do? Never been in
this position? Okay?
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Let me tell you what's going to happen. Okay, And
you don't want to hear this. The Seahawks are going
to beat the Texans. I don't even know who the
crack in our planks, I can't get to that. I
think Toronto's winning tonight. I think. I think when you
could not finish it off in Seattle, that was the
fate of complete But I could be wrong.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Before Actually, I actually would feel worse if you told
me the Mariners are going to win the game tonight.
So thank you for that, and they're can do for you.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Friend, talk to you soon.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Go one and only Softy k j R. Seattle, our hero,
our friend, you drik. If the Astros are playing at
Game seven on the road American League Championship, are you
are you a half bottle into whiskey, just throwing it
out there.
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