May 6, 2026 • 34 mins
In the second hour, Dave Softy Mahler chats with Petros Papadakis about their city’s mayors, Greek food, Ted Turner passing away, the state of college football’s Spring Games, UCLA’s program making a family addition, plus various people at the Met Gala, then Dick Fain rejoins the show as the guys listen and react to Dan Wilson’s comments.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's time for our weekly conversation with college football analysts
Petros Papadekas.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Not that I'm a smart guy, I'm stupid.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
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Right here on ninety three three KJRFM means one thing,
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(00:46):
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(01:07):
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Speaker 3 (01:15):
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Speaker 2 (01:25):
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Speaker 3 (01:26):
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Speaker 2 (01:33):
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Speaker 3 (01:34):
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Speaker 2 (01:39):
That's eight hundred and nine zero zero zero zero zero zero,
or Sweet James dot com? The hell was that? Sounds
like you got your headphones too close to the mic
or something. Then get your own balls too close to
the mic and say, you know what, you calm down,
all right, mister, Hey, don't make me come up there.
When was the last time you were up here? By
(01:59):
the way, Well, if I went up there and murdered you,
I'm quite certain the Seattle mayor wouldn't do anything. Oh,
she looks like she couldn't protect a warm cup of piss.
My god, what are you guys doing up there?
Speaker 3 (02:16):
I mean sure there may be a few photos of
our mayor here in La tongue kissing castro. But that's
even better than your weird shaped forehead.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Hick geez. She looks like the girl you take to
the prom for sympathy, you know, thank you?
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Oh god, okay, I'll be performing here at the Mercer Island.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Ha ha all we hey, don't disparente the ha man.
Oh god, that's funny. I don't know, dude, it's amateur
hour up here. You did you vote for her?
Speaker 4 (02:56):
No?
Speaker 2 (02:56):
I don't live in Seattle. Oh I can't, although what
happens in Seattle certainly impacts me. Yeah, impacts all of us. Right,
she seems pretty. I mean, do you vote for the
mayor of La No? Yeah, you can't, but it impacts you.
But I did. I did meet the Spencer Pratt guy. Yeah,
the guy who's running the reality show Guy's surging. Now
(03:17):
how that go?
Speaker 3 (03:18):
I said, Well, he's got this commercial where a cartoon
Spencer Pratt is pushing, Yeah, a trash.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
It's got the La mayor in it.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
I saw that on Twitter and it says socca la
basua because her name is bass okay, so soaka la Basuda.
In Spanish meetings throughout the trash and then he's got
like a Spanish song to it.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
They goes Soka la masula. He's smart, and I said,
I said, hey, dude, Saka la bauda. He was like
you like that. I was like, yeah, I really like that.
It's like a code. Yeah, fist pump, Yeah. Well, does
this guy have a shot of winning?
Speaker 3 (03:59):
You thing?
Speaker 2 (04:00):
I know? I mean apparently.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
I'm sure they'd fix the vote so he didn't know.
You know what's happened to anybody? It's Chinatown all over again.
Oh God, forget it, Jake, it's China.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Chinatown the movie you're talking about, Yes, Chinatown the movie.
I'm just checking. What do you think I'm talking about? No,
the restaurant in Spokane, Oh Jesus, all right, well, Petros
Papaaka is with us.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
I love how all the restaurants in the Northwest it
says American Chinese food, Like why do I need the
American part?
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Like we're in America. I know it's an American Chinese restaurant.
I've never noticed that. I just go to a Chinese
place because I want Chinese food, all right, whatever, I mean, Yeah,
I guess there's a difference, right, between Chinese food made
here and you've never seen like a Chinese Chinese food place,
like you know, just like they have it in China. Like,
who would go to that? I want to go to
a Greek Greek restaurant? Well, Greeks if they had that here,
(04:55):
believe me, authentic Greek restaurant. That's where I live. Well,
your dad's green Greek restaurants no longer a thing. It's
gone now right correct? Okay, So where do you go
for authentic Greek food? So now they cook at church
every once in a while. Really, yeah, I have the
big festival and the big church going guy. Yes every Sunday,
(05:15):
no member, once every two three weeks, once every two
three years, No two three weeks. You bring the kids,
the whole family. My son works on the altar realist
done that you go to church every two to three months?
Are tweaks every once in a while if I haven't
been in a while, Like the more church going, more bias.
Members of the family will be like, did you sign
(05:36):
the visitor's log? See that's funny. That is funny. That
deserves a rim shot. I mean, how often do you
really look up and feel like you have to go
to church and talk to God and cleanse your soul.
Why don't you cleanse you? This is going off the
rails early, What a were you talking about? The hell's
going on? Ted Turner passed away? You saw that? You
(05:58):
know he did a lot of stuff. Yeah, sure did, No,
he really did. I know that. That's why I agreed, Like.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Why we have a twenty four hour media, right is
Ted Turner?
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Yep? Right, twenty four hour programming? Yeah, that's true to noon. Okay,
he did that whole weird.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
I mean that's a big deal, though, softy, if you
think about the impact of that. He did the thing
where everything started at five after the hour, remember that,
just to be different.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Yep, yep, that was kind of cool. Somebody tweeted out
that Ted Turner's funeral will start at seven o five,
A pretty good He also had a wet T shirt
contest in a baseball game one year, a booby contest. God,
I missed those days, don't you. Just the chaos and
the promotions where he could go to like a Kylie
in Booms radio remote. God, a wet t shirt car
(06:53):
Kilian Booms. I haven't heard that name forever. Remember Richard
Blede Wow, you know who Richard Blind was. No, I
don't form rich and Blid is a DJ. He was
like a K rock DJ down here and he'd be
like Durrand du Rand lay If at the Palladium. Rich
(07:14):
and Blide one of those guys, and his his accent
got more and more like hardcore the longer he was
in the United States, and we had he wrote a book,
you know, because of course, I mean they were at
ground zero of Me.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
Wife music, Depeche Mode at the Rose Bowl, Dive gon one, you.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Know, And he wrote a book and we brought him
on and this was a few years back, and he was.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
Like, guys, pretty much everything we did now would be illegal.
It's everything was a wet t ship contest or a
g strenga.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
You sound like somebody from like Mad Max right now.
That's how he's Australian.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
I know.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
That's what's funny about rich and Blind. God, that's funny.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
He does weddings now, dude, I promise you that people
in your audience know Richard Black.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Yeah. Well you know what, I guarantee you. I've heard
the voice and seen the face. Uh just couldn't place
the name, but I think.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
He might have been in I forget the name of
that with the one where Sarah Jessica Parker's dancing around,
Remember that where she's dad dancer.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Anyway, Well, he's talking about a movie or a TV show. No,
I'm sorry about Ted Turner there. Yeah, no, man like me.
Later in life he got obsessed with the Civil War. Yeah,
I love talking about the Civil War. Did you ever
talk about the Civil War with Ted?
Speaker 4 (08:48):
No?
Speaker 2 (08:49):
But there was, uh, these two really rich guys who
used to go to my dad's restaurant, and they hung
out so much at my dance restaurant that they started
hanging out at the house. Okay, And they were really
weird guys, but they were both multi millionaires. Yeah. They
were the Morton brothers right from the Steakhouse. No, from
(09:11):
the Salt got it? Oh yeah yeah yeah Morton Salt,
Frank Morton and Steve Morton a lot of money man, right,
And they also owned Beatrice Foods. Okay, okay, and the
family was from Chicago. So they were really rich guys,
but very odd. You seem shady, well, very rich.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Well, they were Jewish, very rich, very very rich, very
aristocratic like Pebble Beach. Yeah, but they didn't like to
spend a lot of money, hance, you know why they
slept in our house even though they were worth like
two hundred million dollars. And I remember there was like
(09:51):
the America's Cup on or something, and we were sitting
in the living room and Frank Morton, who's there was
like probably had two popped callers, you know, and to
sweater around his neck. He said, you know, oh, I
sailed once with Ted Turner, And I was like, oh, yeah, Frank,
And then he went a.
Speaker 5 (10:08):
Bit of a.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
You ever get the feeling by the way that your
dad was up to no good? My dad, Well, listen
to what happened to poor Frank Morton characters. Frank Morton,
God rest his soul, used to like to sleep in
my room, you know, my bedroom. Geez, that's kind of creepy. Well,
I was in college.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
I wasn't there, but if I was in town, you know,
in San Pedro, I would sneak into my parents' house
and sleep in the bed late at night. And a
friend of mine who was playing at the time for
Colorado State, who played for the Pittsburgh Steelers and the
Cardinals and then the Niners played fourteen years he's now
(10:51):
passed away, called Clark Hagen's two hundred and sixty pound
black linebacker. He crept into my room once and saw
the body in bed and thought it was me and
shook Frank Morton, who was like, you know, seventy five
years old and two hundred million dollars. You know, this
is two hundred and sixty pound, six foot four black.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Guy shaking this. I'm gonna kill you.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
You know.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
We get up, you know, and Frank pete everywhere, Please
don't kill me.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Oh my god. And I was there.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
I had got home and I went downstairs and I
saw Frank in my bed. So I went to another
room and was asleep, and Clark found me. And it
was very much like part of the family, you know.
Clark found me.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
And he was like, I think I upset this old
man in your bed.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Frank never even went downstairs again, like he didn't not
I mean, he never even went down there again, Like
he avoided the room like somebody.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Died in there. Just imagine this dude just being all
over your room, oh everywhere. He got it. And my
dad was like, Frank got it accident. When Clark went
in the room and shook him.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Oh wow, that's my only connection to Ted terms Oh
that's funny. I never talked about the Civil War with him,
but I was once sitting in a room where Frank
Morton called him.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
An a hole. That's a fun you know what. That's
a hell of an angle, man. Not many people can
claim an angle like that to one of the biggest media,
if not the biggest medium. Moguls I sailed with that
guy once. Oh yeah, Frank, Yeah, a bit of an ale. Yeah,
Petros papadakas with us. Well. The spring game came and
went on Friday at U DUB. It was fine, you know,
(12:34):
not a great crowd. I mean, I just kind of
wondering Wilter twelve. I mean I maybe I don't know.
UCLA out attended you guys, that's all really Yeah, Well,
probably paid him fifty bucks each to show up or something.
I would take everybody and put him on one side
of the stadium so it looks better on TV. And
(12:56):
they didn't do that. I called a game like that
once really where they were in everybody to get on
one side of the stadium to make it look better
for him. Yea, it was UAB Legion Field. Birmingham, Alabama.
I've been to Legion Field. That's where they used to
have the East West Shrining game, right, correct, Right, it's
a real place. I may knowing stuff. Well, Jedfish came
(13:16):
out and said, there's a chance to Mont Williams might
play three more years here in Seattle. There's a chance
that you guys might win the championship too, because they
got a they got that five for five thing going
on now, right, Well, maybe you will. That's a good chance. Yeah, Well,
I don't know. I hope he's good. I hope he
gets better every year, and I hope you have a
great time with Jed the Fish. Wilner said on the
(13:38):
show yesterday he thinks there's a chance that in the
next couple of years that spring games just go away
all together.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
It's possible, but some people use him to promote the
new coach. You know, there's sometimes is there's a there's
an advantage to having one if you have a quarterback
competition and both guys are in the program at the time,
and you want to see something there is and and
and As a player, there really was a different field.
(14:07):
The spring game felt like a game. The clock's running
there's refs out there there you there's a crowd. The
crowd reacts to what's happening. You know, even if it's
not that big of a crowd, it's still different from
what you're used to, which is nothing, you know, just
practicing out there with people you already know, and and people.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Write about it.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
And if you perform well in the spring game, even
if no one, you're never heard of again or from again.
And we've all we've all seen that. But it's a
big deal. I mean, there there's an energy before it,
there's there's something to it. Not every team needs it.
Some teams are more veteran laden. Some teams don't want
to show anything of what they're doing because they're they're
(14:50):
trying to hide it until opening day. Maybe they're opener
as a real doozy. I mean, there's all kinds of
reasons that go into it, as you know, and Wilner
could be right, but but I like, for instance, UCLA
this year with Bob Chesney. Yeah, this is a guy
who's who's brand new. They are injecting life into the
UCLA program. They're recruiting very well. They want to have
(15:14):
a showcase, they want to get out there in front
of it and say this is our new look, this
is our new culture, so to speak. So I know,
I think Wilner is way ahead of himself. He should
shut up. I'll tell him that next time he's on,
tell him to shut his yapper. That true says, you
zip it, old man, you shut your pie hole. I
saw where Maurice Jones Drew's kid committed to UCLA. Yeah,
(15:38):
you know, I've had that Bob Chesney guy, and who
knows what he'll be like. I remember when everybody's freaking
out about Snoop Dogg's kid, But Deuce Jones Drew, Yeah,
and I bet he's great if he's anything like his dad,
who was a great back at every level. But a
lot of people don't realize and this is just me
talking sports, but Maurice Jones Drew was a great zoe
(16:00):
running back, physical between the tackles running back in the NFL.
He didn't do that as much with UCLA. They had
a different guy that did that, Chris Marquis, and he
was more I mean, I know he had let four
hundred yard game against you dub or something, but he
was more of like a screen game third down He
even returned punts what he was at UCLA. So it's
(16:22):
very interesting how many different things he could do he
ended up being able to do as a as a
running back and a football player. And he was a
great pass protector as well. So I wouldn't be surprised
if his son isn't a great player. But Bob Chesney's
got it. He's got a lot of momentum going in town.
He did something that took Lincoln Riley four years to do.
(16:43):
What's that make a bunch of connections with all the
local high schools. It's not like the local high schools
here in La produce any talent that plays right. No, No,
you might want to get to know those people. We're
not going to come and lick your calves. He got
to go, you know, so Chesney. Chesney's do a great
job already, and we've had him on the show a
few times. I've got he's got a great energy and
(17:05):
it doesn't come off as phony. I mean, even McVeigh is,
who's a great coach, his energy often comes off as
kind of phony or krit cringey, a little creepy, like
trying to act like John Gruden a little bit, you know,
and this guy themes seems very very authentic.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Did you happen to see Russell Wilson and Sierra at
the met gala over the weekend? And did I saw
all of the athlete took the gall Yeah? Thought I saw.
Joe Burrow looked like a gay doorman, the wide receiver,
Justin Jefferson, Sir Francis dra Hotel, Right, what what does
(17:43):
a gay doorman look like as opposed to Joe Burrow
at the Met balls strade doorman or the guy.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
You know, like the guy at the Best in Show,
the gay guy when he was showing the dog. That's
kind of how Joe Burrow looked.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
I got it. I got and then and then Justin
Jefferson the receiver had a bunch of holes in his suit,
like it was attacked by a wolf or something. Was
he making a statement with that? I don't know. I mean,
you know, Russell Wilson showed up looking like a fat
captain stubing Captain EO. I probably looked a little bit like, yeah,
well now he's talking about the Jets have apparently made
him an offer to backup Gino or am I getting
(18:16):
the TV? Yeah? Super cheese ball?
Speaker 3 (18:19):
Maybe he'd be great at it, but I could also
see him kind of going full Jason Witt as well.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Yeah, I don't know if he really would offer any
real insight though. I don't know if he'd really You
never know what, you know, I my happy place. You
never know if somebody is going to be good or
bad till the LEC goes on doing that job. That
is true. So yeah, there was a who else Venus Williams.
Yeah there who was the chick with the dollar bill
(18:44):
on her face? That was what a statement trying to
criticizah pulse whatever, Who's worth like twelve million dollars and
twenty two? Yeah, twenty two. Sorry, I don't know what
that was all about. Do you think she poked like
little holes in the dollar? I'm sure the.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Bet ball has always been like this, But it feels
a lot like the way the aristocracy looked and acted
in the Hunger Games, right Like, it feels a lot
like that.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
It feels kind of creepy. It is creepy. Everything's getting
you make a statement against the aristocracy as part of
the elite aristocracy. It's kind of irony. Doesn't even begin
to cover that. I saw. I saw that Voltaire wrote
about these things. I saw that you responded to my
tweet about ESPN this morning. Yeah, it's really bad.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
But you know, like sometimes you're watching like this time
of year when there's playoffs or whenever there's playoffs, or
even if you're watching like the tournament like TBS, right, if.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
You have it on TBS or attorney go. Yeah, the
next morning you wake up and like you're watching Charmed
on mute in your house.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
You didn't turn it off. It Charmed, and you're like,
oh my god, there she is Lissa Milano. And you know,
so sometimes that happens with ESPN. And the next morning
you get up and it's Kendrick Perkins big face or
Steven A.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Smith's big face, and they're just you know, and and
and it says on the Chiron or whatever what what
they're talking about, you can.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Lebron, you know, like what happens next for Lebron? You know,
it's just it's the same thing.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
What we're a game five lost? Yes, exactly, big go
and uh.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
And if it's not that, it's Pete Schrager's big ass face,
like really close up talking about Sean McVay and watches
his Sack. There's a lot of big faces on esp
I'm tired big big faces on the case.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
All right, well it's all terrible. Yeah, it's just good anymore.
I just said on Twitter this morning, I just said,
outside of a game, I just don't watch. No, there's nothing,
and I you know, i'd like to watch, you know,
I like highlight shows. And remember they had that the
NFL show Playmakers with the Gates. I was, what's what
the gay stuff today? Gay doorman? Gay tight end? What's
(21:06):
going on? All right? You know what? Fine, say good bye, shake,
good bye. I say one more thing. You're gonna be
like c C the Gate. Who's the gay tight end?
What Gate?
Speaker 6 (21:21):
What?
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Gay tight end?
Speaker 3 (21:22):
Playmakers? One of the subplots was the gay tight end.
I don't remember a gay tight end. The only gay
guy I remember was the dude that went to Missouri
that I have a whole show, Michael. They have a
whole show called He Did rather Way where it's two
gay hockey guys. Really yeah, the chicks love it.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Don't know that. It's like two.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
Hockey guys who like to compete so hard and then
when they get off the the the ice, they ravage
each other.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Rememb that all right, we gotta go. Oh Jesus, all right,
I'll talk to you next week. That's it. You done it?
All right? We love you.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
Make sure you call sweet James at eight hundred nine million,
eight hundred nine million.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Petros Papadaka is with us. Larry Stone joins at five
on ninety three to three KJRFM.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Now back to Softie and Dick on your home for
the Huskies Cracking and the twelfth Man Sports Radio ninety
three point three kjr FM.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
All right, we're back. Got a busy Wednesday right here
on ninety three three KJRF. Bick thanks to a Petros
Papaakka for joining us on the radio show. Larry Stone
coming up at five o'clock tonight. We're doing fun with
audio at six. That's the plan, bok an extended version
of fun with the audio coming up at six o'clock.
I was in favor of doing you make the call,
(22:59):
but you guys just decided to just take over their show.
That was you make the Call was on the show,
Shet Safty. This was a unirateral decision by one person. Really, Okay,
who's and whose call?
Speaker 1 (23:09):
Was that?
Speaker 2 (23:11):
Looking at me? I mean, we just have to do it.
It means if the segment sucks, we can blame you.
Speaker 5 (23:16):
I had a great five piece audio phone with audio
ready to go, so six through nine.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Better be worth it day, I think. I think we're
gonna find out. We're gonna find out at six o'clock
tonight if it was worth the change. All right, we
were all dialing in, We were prepared. We've put minutes
of preparation into it. Yeah, seconds of preparation. We are
good to go. So we'll do a little fun with
audio at six o'clock tonight. Larry Stone of five Dan
Wilson grilled by the media after today's win, are you
(23:42):
serious with that question against the Braves in which the
MS took two out of three against Atlanta?
Speaker 6 (23:47):
You know, excellent series, great way to end it today.
I thought it was just a great ball game, up
and down. Brian Wu really bounced back today. You know,
we talked about it before the game, but this was
a a great job by him. Uh And I thought,
you know, going out there in the sixth inning, you know,
eighty five pitches, I think he was at hoping he'd
(24:09):
get through it, and and uh boy did he. He
nailed it And and that was really big. It set
us up you know for the bullpen later and in
that ballgame, and and uh, Chriz and Zardo and then
and then Farrer uh you know, just continued to do
what they do, which was phenomenal. And uh, you know
Farrer today three in a row. Uh, but really wanted
to get in there get that save and and that's impressive.
(24:31):
He wanted the ball and and uh, just a great
job by him today and and all the guys on
the mount and you know, that's a great lineup, like
we talked about, and they they did a really nice
job this whole series offensively. You know, we loaded the bases,
we did get the one run and and uh it
was huge to get us on the board, get us
out out in front of the lead. Julia's homer was
(24:52):
a huge add on run, you know, and and uh
came at a great time. And then uh, you know,
being able to add one on there in the eighth
too was also huge. But I think you know the
pickoff that the challenge from Jake in the in the
video room, you know, that's a that's a huge play
right there, you know, do you know, uh, he's got
(25:14):
great speed at first, and Mateo doesn't and and you
want to shut him down, and uh, to be able
to pick him off right there and take him out
of the equation was was really big in that situation.
And you know, kudos to Jake Kirk in the in
the video room for doing that and and just a great,
great job all around, you know, a good way to
end this this homestand you know it wasn't how we
(25:35):
wanted it to start, uh, but you know, I think
we finished it up on a good note and and
time to take this on the road.
Speaker 4 (25:40):
With fair and the state of your bulvement coming in
as long.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
Did you have a sense that you.
Speaker 6 (25:45):
Were going to go to him for the third day
in a row, especially there against wolves, and was the communication.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
Like a pitching three days?
Speaker 6 (25:51):
Yeah, I mean I think, uh, you know, he wanted
the ball if it was a safe situation and and
that's what we were trying to get to. And and
since it was, you know, it was kind of right
in his wheelhouse too, with a couple of lefties to
start the eating and and it was just a great
matchup and uh, you know, you gotta love that, you know,
he wanted it and and uh he was able to
get it, and and he went out there and did
the job.
Speaker 5 (26:12):
Dan, you talked about before the game of Parada of
just how he had those last good at bats last time,
and how.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
Those hits were coming they came today. Just what do
you see from out there?
Speaker 6 (26:21):
Yeah, you know, being in his position where uh, you know,
you get a start. You know, I think it's his
second start with us. But you know, Brian Wu guy
he hasn't caught since spring training, you know, perhaps and
and uh, you know, a lot of unknowns for Johnny,
but what he did behind the play today was impressive
and and uh, you know, picking up right where our
(26:43):
guys left off, and and you know, being a just
a smooth transition to him with a guy like Brian
Wu is something. And and then with the bat got
us going, you know, the big base hit there to
to you know, kind of keep keeping in and going,
get get.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Us started, and and uh, you know, really good job.
Speaker 6 (27:00):
Added on another hit later on. But uh, you know,
that's a that's a difficult task and it's difficult to
do what he did today, and and got to give
him a lot of credit behind the plate and.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
With Brian getting you through the sixth How much does
that help you wind up? You know, you had Cooper
and I'm sure those were kind of the three guys
you've wanted to use with the lead. I mean, just
was that kind of how it played out for you
in the pockets?
Speaker 6 (27:22):
Yeah, And and you know that's we talk about that
a lot, you know, the starter, getting through that that
sixth inning, getting through that seventh inning kind of sets
up your bullpen, and it did today tremendously. You know,
we really wanted to get Chris in there in the
seventh and then we had Bizarto and for Rare you know,
in a safe situation, and it just worked out that way.
And but getting there through the sixth inning from from
(27:43):
Brian that was big. And like I said, he went
out there with eighty five pitches. It was going to
be a little dicey as to whether he was going
to finish that inning or not. But he did and
and uh he put an exclamation mark on on his
outing today.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
So Wilson mentioned Parada, Johnny Parada, who was a catcher
today with cal roly dhing for the third game in
a row. And you may remember January twenty seven, twenty
twenty six, a day that will live, I think in
all hearts of Mariner fans, the day that Johnny Parada
was sent to the Mariners from Minnesota for cash considerations.
(28:16):
And then he starts today and goes two for two
and ends up doing a pretty good job against or
excuse me, with Brian Will. He's played for now eight
different franchises, going back to twenty thirteen, thirty years old.
Obviously a journeyman, but he is now kind of your
backup catcher because they're still not ready yet for cal Raley.
The bad thing about Johnny Parade is at the minute
cal Rawley is set to start catching again, he'll be
(28:38):
back in Triple A or let go right one or
the others. So he's just a short term band aid.
But I'm more impressed man by Colt, excuse me, Cole Young,
the big RBI late in the game, another clutch hit
by him. There may not be a bigger clutch player
offensively on this baseball team right now besides Cold.
Speaker 5 (28:56):
I think I think you're exactly right, and he's probably
the guy I want up in a clutch situation even
more than cal Raley, Josh Naylor and Julio Rodriguez I mean,
he has been absolutely amazing.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
He's just bizarre.
Speaker 5 (29:09):
You're talking about, you know, trying to stack together some wins,
you know, as you go out on this road trip.
I don't think I've ever seen an American league that
looks like this. Only two teams in the American League
have more wins than Seattle. Only four teams have more
losses than Seattle. Teams three through fifteen in the American
League are separated by four and a half games, and
(29:31):
if Oakland loses the Philly today, it'll be four games
separating teams three through fifteen. So I have no idea
if the Mariners schedule is EASi or hard coming up
in the next three weeks, because.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Everybody's got about the same record. But we know the
White Sox aren't very good. They may be better than
they've been, and they better be because they were horrific.
I mean, it's not hard to be better than what
they've been because they were terrible. They're better. They got
the AL home run leader, right, they do. But they're
they're they're winning because they're pitching. Their offense is not
very good, I don't think. But the point is is
(30:04):
that they're not a very good baseball team. Houston we
know is banged up. They just lost Korea for the year,
We've seen them, we know what's going on with them
pitching wise, So they have to take advantage of this.
And guys, I just think again this league, man go
back to last year though, right, Like, could the Mariners
have lost the Tiger Series? Of course? Could they have
lost or won the Toronto Series? Of course? Right? I mean,
(30:28):
they could have easily made the World Series and hell
won the World Series or lost their first series they
played against Detroit. So all you're doing, like we've always
talked about, Dick, I think, is just giving yourself as
many spins at the rolette table as you can find,
as many hands of blackjack as you can find. Just
give me more cracks, more cracks, more cracks, the better
(30:49):
you get. They're not even close to being the best
version of themselves right now, first of all, because they
got too many guys banged up number one and then
number two. They got too many guys that are not
performed it to the back of their baseball card. So
this isn't just a performance issue, and it's not just
an injury issue. And to be sitting there at eighteen
and twenty. Look, I realized, you're four games off last
(31:09):
year's pace. But to be sitting there at eighteen and
twenty getting a little bit of a break because the
division's awful, The league may not be very good. The
Yankees might be, honestly, dick like the clear cut team
in the American League by a long way. They might
mind right, yeah, they might be the best team in
the American League by a large fricking margin. They may
run away with this thing and be the heavy heavy
(31:31):
favorite to make the World Series by the time that
October comes around. But I just think for this baseball team,
we can take some solace. And I was gonna ask you, guys,
are we more optimistic or are we more pessimistic right
now about where this thing's going? Right? Four nine four
five one hit us up? More optimism or more pessimism?
Much more optimistic.
Speaker 5 (31:51):
I just think with if everybody would have been healthy
right then I would have been a little I've been
a little less optimistic. But everybody has been banged up.
You got your two best, two of your best relievers
out right now. Your closer, who still has great stuff,
is gonna figure it out. You think so I just
don't think Andres Munos is gonna have a sixyra for
twenty twenty six. You know, pardon me for being a
(32:12):
Pollyanna with that. I just don't think he's going to
But you look, I.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
Mean, he's always being Pollyanna, Jane, You and I always
say behind his back, could you believe this guy?
Speaker 5 (32:23):
I'll bet the under on a six yr for Andres
Munos for the year. But you know, last year at
home they were fifty one and thirty, right, they were
nails at home, But after the first twenty four games
they were thirteen eleven. Where they right now twelve and eleven, well,
exactly where they were at home last year in April
and early Many.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
Let's go back to Munos though for a second, because
at some point he's gonna slip up, right, at some
point he's going to have a year where he takes
a step back. And there's nothing saying that that can't
happen this year. He's already allowed three bombs. He allowed
too all of last year. He allowed three bombs before
Memorial Day. He allowed three bombs in the first month
and a half of the year. So that's concerning, right,
(33:02):
what's going on with Andres Muno's and maybe Andress Munoz
needs to have his workload limited a little bit. Maybe
Dan Wilson needs to do a better job of when
he uses him. We've talked about that in non closing situations.
But what I like about this bullpen when they're healthy
is that they appear to have three guys that can
close games, Him, Brash and Freer. Right right now, one
of them's banged up in Brash and the other one
(33:24):
has pitched in four of the last six games. So
at some point he's going to get his workload up
again and be asked to do even more than he's
doing right now. But I just look, I believe in him,
I believe in this bullpen, and I do feel way
more optimistic than pessimistic about this baseball team. But I
also feel like, all right, you've been given kind of
(33:46):
a gift here with this division and this league. So
let's have a cushion. Let's let's make it, you know,
count on an unbelievable second half where they go balls
to the wall in August and July beating everybody's ass
to pull away. Right, how about we actually make this
thing slightly comfortable how's that sound. We're going to break
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Speaker 2 (01:39):
That's eight hundred and nine zero zero zero zero zero zero,
or Sweet James dot com? The hell was that? Sounds
like you got your headphones too close to the mic
or something. Then get your own balls too close to
the mic and say, you know what, you calm down,
all right, mister, Hey, don't make me come up there.
When was the last time you were up here? By
(01:59):
the way, Well, if I went up there and murdered you,
I'm quite certain the Seattle mayor wouldn't do anything. Oh,
she looks like she couldn't protect a warm cup of piss.
My god, what are you guys doing up there?
Speaker 3 (02:16):
I mean sure there may be a few photos of
our mayor here in La tongue kissing castro. But that's
even better than your weird shaped forehead.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Hick geez. She looks like the girl you take to
the prom for sympathy, you know, thank you?
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Oh god, okay, I'll be performing here at the Mercer Island.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Ha ha all we hey, don't disparente the ha man.
Oh god, that's funny. I don't know, dude, it's amateur
hour up here. You did you vote for her?
Speaker 4 (02:56):
No?
Speaker 2 (02:56):
I don't live in Seattle. Oh I can't, although what
happens in Seattle certainly impacts me. Yeah, impacts all of us. Right,
she seems pretty. I mean, do you vote for the
mayor of La No? Yeah, you can't, but it impacts you.
But I did. I did meet the Spencer Pratt guy. Yeah,
the guy who's running the reality show Guy's surging. Now
(03:17):
how that go?
Speaker 3 (03:18):
I said, Well, he's got this commercial where a cartoon
Spencer Pratt is pushing, Yeah, a trash.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
It's got the La mayor in it.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
I saw that on Twitter and it says socca la
basua because her name is bass okay, so soaka la Basuda.
In Spanish meetings throughout the trash and then he's got
like a Spanish song to it.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
They goes Soka la masula. He's smart, and I said,
I said, hey, dude, Saka la bauda. He was like
you like that. I was like, yeah, I really like that.
It's like a code. Yeah, fist pump, Yeah. Well, does
this guy have a shot of winning?
Speaker 3 (03:59):
You thing?
Speaker 2 (04:00):
I know? I mean apparently.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
I'm sure they'd fix the vote so he didn't know.
You know what's happened to anybody? It's Chinatown all over again.
Oh God, forget it, Jake, it's China.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Chinatown the movie you're talking about, Yes, Chinatown the movie.
I'm just checking. What do you think I'm talking about? No,
the restaurant in Spokane, Oh Jesus, all right, well, Petros
Papaaka is with us.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
I love how all the restaurants in the Northwest it
says American Chinese food, Like why do I need the
American part?
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Like we're in America. I know it's an American Chinese restaurant.
I've never noticed that. I just go to a Chinese
place because I want Chinese food, all right, whatever, I mean, Yeah,
I guess there's a difference, right, between Chinese food made
here and you've never seen like a Chinese Chinese food place,
like you know, just like they have it in China. Like,
who would go to that? I want to go to
a Greek Greek restaurant? Well, Greeks if they had that here,
(04:55):
believe me, authentic Greek restaurant. That's where I live. Well,
your dad's green Greek restaurants no longer a thing. It's
gone now right correct? Okay, So where do you go
for authentic Greek food? So now they cook at church
every once in a while. Really, yeah, I have the
big festival and the big church going guy. Yes every Sunday,
(05:15):
no member, once every two three weeks, once every two
three years, No two three weeks. You bring the kids,
the whole family. My son works on the altar realist
done that you go to church every two to three months?
Are tweaks every once in a while if I haven't
been in a while, Like the more church going, more bias.
Members of the family will be like, did you sign
(05:36):
the visitor's log? See that's funny. That is funny. That
deserves a rim shot. I mean, how often do you
really look up and feel like you have to go
to church and talk to God and cleanse your soul.
Why don't you cleanse you? This is going off the
rails early, What a were you talking about? The hell's
going on? Ted Turner passed away? You saw that? You
(05:58):
know he did a lot of stuff. Yeah, sure did, No,
he really did. I know that. That's why I agreed, Like.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Why we have a twenty four hour media, right is
Ted Turner?
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Yep? Right, twenty four hour programming? Yeah, that's true to noon. Okay,
he did that whole weird.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
I mean that's a big deal, though, softy, if you
think about the impact of that. He did the thing
where everything started at five after the hour, remember that,
just to be different.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Yep, yep, that was kind of cool. Somebody tweeted out
that Ted Turner's funeral will start at seven o five,
A pretty good He also had a wet T shirt
contest in a baseball game one year, a booby contest. God,
I missed those days, don't you. Just the chaos and
the promotions where he could go to like a Kylie
in Booms radio remote. God, a wet t shirt car
(06:53):
Kilian Booms. I haven't heard that name forever. Remember Richard
Blede Wow, you know who Richard Blind was. No, I
don't form rich and Blid is a DJ. He was
like a K rock DJ down here and he'd be
like Durrand du Rand lay If at the Palladium. Rich
(07:14):
and Blide one of those guys, and his his accent
got more and more like hardcore the longer he was
in the United States, and we had he wrote a book,
you know, because of course, I mean they were at
ground zero of Me.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
Wife music, Depeche Mode at the Rose Bowl, Dive gon one, you.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Know, And he wrote a book and we brought him
on and this was a few years back, and he was.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
Like, guys, pretty much everything we did now would be illegal.
It's everything was a wet t ship contest or a
g strenga.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
You sound like somebody from like Mad Max right now.
That's how he's Australian.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
I know.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
That's what's funny about rich and Blind. God, that's funny.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
He does weddings now, dude, I promise you that people
in your audience know Richard Black.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Yeah. Well you know what, I guarantee you. I've heard
the voice and seen the face. Uh just couldn't place
the name, but I think.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
He might have been in I forget the name of
that with the one where Sarah Jessica Parker's dancing around,
Remember that where she's dad dancer.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Anyway, Well, he's talking about a movie or a TV show. No,
I'm sorry about Ted Turner there. Yeah, no, man like me.
Later in life he got obsessed with the Civil War. Yeah,
I love talking about the Civil War. Did you ever
talk about the Civil War with Ted?
Speaker 4 (08:48):
No?
Speaker 2 (08:49):
But there was, uh, these two really rich guys who
used to go to my dad's restaurant, and they hung
out so much at my dance restaurant that they started
hanging out at the house. Okay, And they were really
weird guys, but they were both multi millionaires. Yeah. They
were the Morton brothers right from the Steakhouse. No, from
(09:11):
the Salt got it? Oh yeah yeah yeah Morton Salt,
Frank Morton and Steve Morton a lot of money man, right,
And they also owned Beatrice Foods. Okay, okay, and the
family was from Chicago. So they were really rich guys,
but very odd. You seem shady, well, very rich.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Well, they were Jewish, very rich, very very rich, very
aristocratic like Pebble Beach. Yeah, but they didn't like to
spend a lot of money, hance, you know why they
slept in our house even though they were worth like
two hundred million dollars. And I remember there was like
(09:51):
the America's Cup on or something, and we were sitting
in the living room and Frank Morton, who's there was
like probably had two popped callers, you know, and to
sweater around his neck. He said, you know, oh, I
sailed once with Ted Turner, And I was like, oh, yeah, Frank,
And then he went a.
Speaker 5 (10:08):
Bit of a.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
You ever get the feeling by the way that your
dad was up to no good? My dad, Well, listen
to what happened to poor Frank Morton characters. Frank Morton,
God rest his soul, used to like to sleep in
my room, you know, my bedroom. Geez, that's kind of creepy. Well,
I was in college.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
I wasn't there, but if I was in town, you know,
in San Pedro, I would sneak into my parents' house
and sleep in the bed late at night. And a
friend of mine who was playing at the time for
Colorado State, who played for the Pittsburgh Steelers and the
Cardinals and then the Niners played fourteen years he's now
(10:51):
passed away, called Clark Hagen's two hundred and sixty pound
black linebacker. He crept into my room once and saw
the body in bed and thought it was me and
shook Frank Morton, who was like, you know, seventy five
years old and two hundred million dollars. You know, this
is two hundred and sixty pound, six foot four black.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Guy shaking this. I'm gonna kill you.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
You know.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
We get up, you know, and Frank pete everywhere, Please
don't kill me.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Oh my god. And I was there.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
I had got home and I went downstairs and I
saw Frank in my bed. So I went to another
room and was asleep, and Clark found me. And it
was very much like part of the family, you know.
Clark found me.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
And he was like, I think I upset this old
man in your bed.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Frank never even went downstairs again, like he didn't not
I mean, he never even went down there again, Like
he avoided the room like somebody.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Died in there. Just imagine this dude just being all
over your room, oh everywhere. He got it. And my
dad was like, Frank got it accident. When Clark went
in the room and shook him.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Oh wow, that's my only connection to Ted terms Oh
that's funny. I never talked about the Civil War with him,
but I was once sitting in a room where Frank
Morton called him.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
An a hole. That's a fun you know what. That's
a hell of an angle, man. Not many people can
claim an angle like that to one of the biggest media,
if not the biggest medium. Moguls I sailed with that
guy once. Oh yeah, Frank, Yeah, a bit of an ale. Yeah,
Petros papadakas with us. Well. The spring game came and
went on Friday at U DUB. It was fine, you know,
(12:34):
not a great crowd. I mean, I just kind of
wondering Wilter twelve. I mean I maybe I don't know.
UCLA out attended you guys, that's all really Yeah, Well,
probably paid him fifty bucks each to show up or something.
I would take everybody and put him on one side
of the stadium so it looks better on TV. And
(12:56):
they didn't do that. I called a game like that
once really where they were in everybody to get on
one side of the stadium to make it look better
for him. Yea, it was UAB Legion Field. Birmingham, Alabama.
I've been to Legion Field. That's where they used to
have the East West Shrining game, right, correct, Right, it's
a real place. I may knowing stuff. Well, Jedfish came
(13:16):
out and said, there's a chance to Mont Williams might
play three more years here in Seattle. There's a chance
that you guys might win the championship too, because they
got a they got that five for five thing going
on now, right, Well, maybe you will. That's a good chance. Yeah, Well,
I don't know. I hope he's good. I hope he
gets better every year, and I hope you have a
great time with Jed the Fish. Wilner said on the
(13:38):
show yesterday he thinks there's a chance that in the
next couple of years that spring games just go away
all together.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
It's possible, but some people use him to promote the
new coach. You know, there's sometimes is there's a there's
an advantage to having one if you have a quarterback
competition and both guys are in the program at the time,
and you want to see something there is and and
and As a player, there really was a different field.
(14:07):
The spring game felt like a game. The clock's running
there's refs out there there you there's a crowd. The
crowd reacts to what's happening. You know, even if it's
not that big of a crowd, it's still different from
what you're used to, which is nothing, you know, just
practicing out there with people you already know, and and people.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Write about it.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
And if you perform well in the spring game, even
if no one, you're never heard of again or from again.
And we've all we've all seen that. But it's a
big deal. I mean, there there's an energy before it,
there's there's something to it. Not every team needs it.
Some teams are more veteran laden. Some teams don't want
to show anything of what they're doing because they're they're
(14:50):
trying to hide it until opening day. Maybe they're opener
as a real doozy. I mean, there's all kinds of
reasons that go into it, as you know, and Wilner
could be right, but but I like, for instance, UCLA
this year with Bob Chesney. Yeah, this is a guy
who's who's brand new. They are injecting life into the
UCLA program. They're recruiting very well. They want to have
(15:14):
a showcase, they want to get out there in front
of it and say this is our new look, this
is our new culture, so to speak. So I know,
I think Wilner is way ahead of himself. He should
shut up. I'll tell him that next time he's on,
tell him to shut his yapper. That true says, you
zip it, old man, you shut your pie hole. I
saw where Maurice Jones Drew's kid committed to UCLA. Yeah,
(15:38):
you know, I've had that Bob Chesney guy, and who
knows what he'll be like. I remember when everybody's freaking
out about Snoop Dogg's kid, But Deuce Jones Drew, Yeah,
and I bet he's great if he's anything like his dad,
who was a great back at every level. But a
lot of people don't realize and this is just me
talking sports, but Maurice Jones Drew was a great zoe
(16:00):
running back, physical between the tackles running back in the NFL.
He didn't do that as much with UCLA. They had
a different guy that did that, Chris Marquis, and he
was more I mean, I know he had let four
hundred yard game against you dub or something, but he
was more of like a screen game third down He
even returned punts what he was at UCLA. So it's
(16:22):
very interesting how many different things he could do he
ended up being able to do as a as a
running back and a football player. And he was a
great pass protector as well. So I wouldn't be surprised
if his son isn't a great player. But Bob Chesney's
got it. He's got a lot of momentum going in town.
He did something that took Lincoln Riley four years to do.
(16:43):
What's that make a bunch of connections with all the
local high schools. It's not like the local high schools
here in La produce any talent that plays right. No, No,
you might want to get to know those people. We're
not going to come and lick your calves. He got
to go, you know, so Chesney. Chesney's do a great
job already, and we've had him on the show a
few times. I've got he's got a great energy and
(17:05):
it doesn't come off as phony. I mean, even McVeigh is,
who's a great coach, his energy often comes off as
kind of phony or krit cringey, a little creepy, like
trying to act like John Gruden a little bit, you know,
and this guy themes seems very very authentic.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Did you happen to see Russell Wilson and Sierra at
the met gala over the weekend? And did I saw
all of the athlete took the gall Yeah? Thought I saw.
Joe Burrow looked like a gay doorman, the wide receiver,
Justin Jefferson, Sir Francis dra Hotel, Right, what what does
(17:43):
a gay doorman look like as opposed to Joe Burrow
at the Met balls strade doorman or the guy.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
You know, like the guy at the Best in Show,
the gay guy when he was showing the dog. That's
kind of how Joe Burrow looked.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
I got it. I got and then and then Justin
Jefferson the receiver had a bunch of holes in his suit,
like it was attacked by a wolf or something. Was
he making a statement with that? I don't know. I mean,
you know, Russell Wilson showed up looking like a fat
captain stubing Captain EO. I probably looked a little bit like, yeah,
well now he's talking about the Jets have apparently made
him an offer to backup Gino or am I getting
(18:16):
the TV? Yeah? Super cheese ball?
Speaker 3 (18:19):
Maybe he'd be great at it, but I could also
see him kind of going full Jason Witt as well.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Yeah, I don't know if he really would offer any
real insight though. I don't know if he'd really You
never know what, you know, I my happy place. You
never know if somebody is going to be good or
bad till the LEC goes on doing that job. That
is true. So yeah, there was a who else Venus Williams.
Yeah there who was the chick with the dollar bill
(18:44):
on her face? That was what a statement trying to
criticizah pulse whatever, Who's worth like twelve million dollars and
twenty two? Yeah, twenty two. Sorry, I don't know what
that was all about. Do you think she poked like
little holes in the dollar? I'm sure the.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Bet ball has always been like this, But it feels
a lot like the way the aristocracy looked and acted
in the Hunger Games, right Like, it feels a lot
like that.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
It feels kind of creepy. It is creepy. Everything's getting
you make a statement against the aristocracy as part of
the elite aristocracy. It's kind of irony. Doesn't even begin
to cover that. I saw. I saw that Voltaire wrote
about these things. I saw that you responded to my
tweet about ESPN this morning. Yeah, it's really bad.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
But you know, like sometimes you're watching like this time
of year when there's playoffs or whenever there's playoffs, or
even if you're watching like the tournament like TBS, right, if.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
You have it on TBS or attorney go. Yeah, the
next morning you wake up and like you're watching Charmed
on mute in your house.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
You didn't turn it off. It Charmed, and you're like,
oh my god, there she is Lissa Milano. And you know,
so sometimes that happens with ESPN. And the next morning
you get up and it's Kendrick Perkins big face or
Steven A.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Smith's big face, and they're just you know, and and
and it says on the Chiron or whatever what what
they're talking about, you can.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Lebron, you know, like what happens next for Lebron? You know,
it's just it's the same thing.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
What we're a game five lost? Yes, exactly, big go
and uh.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
And if it's not that, it's Pete Schrager's big ass face,
like really close up talking about Sean McVay and watches
his Sack. There's a lot of big faces on esp
I'm tired big big faces on the case.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
All right, well it's all terrible. Yeah, it's just good anymore.
I just said on Twitter this morning, I just said,
outside of a game, I just don't watch. No, there's nothing,
and I you know, i'd like to watch, you know,
I like highlight shows. And remember they had that the
NFL show Playmakers with the Gates. I was, what's what
the gay stuff today? Gay doorman? Gay tight end? What's
(21:06):
going on? All right? You know what? Fine, say good bye, shake,
good bye. I say one more thing. You're gonna be
like c C the Gate. Who's the gay tight end?
What Gate?
Speaker 6 (21:21):
What?
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Gay tight end?
Speaker 3 (21:22):
Playmakers? One of the subplots was the gay tight end.
I don't remember a gay tight end. The only gay
guy I remember was the dude that went to Missouri
that I have a whole show, Michael. They have a
whole show called He Did rather Way where it's two
gay hockey guys. Really yeah, the chicks love it.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Don't know that. It's like two.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
Hockey guys who like to compete so hard and then
when they get off the the the ice, they ravage
each other.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Rememb that all right, we gotta go. Oh Jesus, all right,
I'll talk to you next week. That's it. You done it?
All right? We love you.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
Make sure you call sweet James at eight hundred nine million,
eight hundred nine million.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Petros Papadaka is with us. Larry Stone joins at five
on ninety three to three KJRFM.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Now back to Softie and Dick on your home for
the Huskies Cracking and the twelfth Man Sports Radio ninety
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Speaker 2 (22:37):
All right, we're back. Got a busy Wednesday right here
on ninety three three KJRF. Bick thanks to a Petros
Papaakka for joining us on the radio show. Larry Stone
coming up at five o'clock tonight. We're doing fun with
audio at six. That's the plan, bok an extended version
of fun with the audio coming up at six o'clock.
I was in favor of doing you make the call,
(22:59):
but you guys just decided to just take over their show.
That was you make the Call was on the show,
Shet Safty. This was a unirateral decision by one person. Really, Okay,
who's and whose call?
Speaker 1 (23:09):
Was that?
Speaker 2 (23:11):
Looking at me? I mean, we just have to do it.
It means if the segment sucks, we can blame you.
Speaker 5 (23:16):
I had a great five piece audio phone with audio
ready to go, so six through nine.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Better be worth it day, I think. I think we're
gonna find out. We're gonna find out at six o'clock
tonight if it was worth the change. All right, we
were all dialing in, We were prepared. We've put minutes
of preparation into it. Yeah, seconds of preparation. We are
good to go. So we'll do a little fun with
audio at six o'clock tonight. Larry Stone of five Dan
Wilson grilled by the media after today's win, are you
(23:42):
serious with that question against the Braves in which the
MS took two out of three against Atlanta?
Speaker 6 (23:47):
You know, excellent series, great way to end it today.
I thought it was just a great ball game, up
and down. Brian Wu really bounced back today. You know,
we talked about it before the game, but this was
a a great job by him. Uh And I thought,
you know, going out there in the sixth inning, you know,
eighty five pitches, I think he was at hoping he'd
(24:09):
get through it, and and uh boy did he. He
nailed it And and that was really big. It set
us up you know for the bullpen later and in
that ballgame, and and uh, Chriz and Zardo and then
and then Farrer uh you know, just continued to do
what they do, which was phenomenal. And uh, you know
Farrer today three in a row. Uh, but really wanted
to get in there get that save and and that's impressive.
(24:31):
He wanted the ball and and uh, just a great
job by him today and and all the guys on
the mount and you know, that's a great lineup, like
we talked about, and they they did a really nice
job this whole series offensively. You know, we loaded the bases,
we did get the one run and and uh it
was huge to get us on the board, get us
out out in front of the lead. Julia's homer was
(24:52):
a huge add on run, you know, and and uh
came at a great time. And then uh, you know,
being able to add one on there in the eighth
too was also huge. But I think you know the
pickoff that the challenge from Jake in the in the
video room, you know, that's a that's a huge play
right there, you know, do you know, uh, he's got
(25:14):
great speed at first, and Mateo doesn't and and you
want to shut him down, and uh, to be able
to pick him off right there and take him out
of the equation was was really big in that situation.
And you know, kudos to Jake Kirk in the in
the video room for doing that and and just a great,
great job all around, you know, a good way to
end this this homestand you know it wasn't how we
(25:35):
wanted it to start, uh, but you know, I think
we finished it up on a good note and and
time to take this on the road.
Speaker 4 (25:40):
With fair and the state of your bulvement coming in
as long.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
Did you have a sense that you.
Speaker 6 (25:45):
Were going to go to him for the third day
in a row, especially there against wolves, and was the communication.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
Like a pitching three days?
Speaker 6 (25:51):
Yeah, I mean I think, uh, you know, he wanted
the ball if it was a safe situation and and
that's what we were trying to get to. And and
since it was, you know, it was kind of right
in his wheelhouse too, with a couple of lefties to
start the eating and and it was just a great
matchup and uh, you know, you gotta love that, you know,
he wanted it and and uh he was able to
get it, and and he went out there and did
the job.
Speaker 5 (26:12):
Dan, you talked about before the game of Parada of
just how he had those last good at bats last time,
and how.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
Those hits were coming they came today. Just what do
you see from out there?
Speaker 6 (26:21):
Yeah, you know, being in his position where uh, you know,
you get a start. You know, I think it's his
second start with us. But you know, Brian Wu guy
he hasn't caught since spring training, you know, perhaps and
and uh, you know, a lot of unknowns for Johnny,
but what he did behind the play today was impressive
and and uh, you know, picking up right where our
(26:43):
guys left off, and and you know, being a just
a smooth transition to him with a guy like Brian
Wu is something. And and then with the bat got
us going, you know, the big base hit there to
to you know, kind of keep keeping in and going,
get get.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Us started, and and uh, you know, really good job.
Speaker 6 (27:00):
Added on another hit later on. But uh, you know,
that's a that's a difficult task and it's difficult to
do what he did today, and and got to give
him a lot of credit behind the plate and.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
With Brian getting you through the sixth How much does
that help you wind up? You know, you had Cooper
and I'm sure those were kind of the three guys
you've wanted to use with the lead. I mean, just
was that kind of how it played out for you
in the pockets?
Speaker 6 (27:22):
Yeah, And and you know that's we talk about that
a lot, you know, the starter, getting through that that
sixth inning, getting through that seventh inning kind of sets
up your bullpen, and it did today tremendously. You know,
we really wanted to get Chris in there in the
seventh and then we had Bizarto and for Rare you know,
in a safe situation, and it just worked out that way.
And but getting there through the sixth inning from from
(27:43):
Brian that was big. And like I said, he went
out there with eighty five pitches. It was going to
be a little dicey as to whether he was going
to finish that inning or not. But he did and
and uh he put an exclamation mark on on his
outing today.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
So Wilson mentioned Parada, Johnny Parada, who was a catcher
today with cal roly dhing for the third game in
a row. And you may remember January twenty seven, twenty
twenty six, a day that will live, I think in
all hearts of Mariner fans, the day that Johnny Parada
was sent to the Mariners from Minnesota for cash considerations.
(28:16):
And then he starts today and goes two for two
and ends up doing a pretty good job against or
excuse me, with Brian Will. He's played for now eight
different franchises, going back to twenty thirteen, thirty years old.
Obviously a journeyman, but he is now kind of your
backup catcher because they're still not ready yet for cal Raley.
The bad thing about Johnny Parade is at the minute
cal Rawley is set to start catching again, he'll be
(28:38):
back in Triple A or let go right one or
the others. So he's just a short term band aid.
But I'm more impressed man by Colt, excuse me, Cole Young,
the big RBI late in the game, another clutch hit
by him. There may not be a bigger clutch player
offensively on this baseball team right now besides Cold.
Speaker 5 (28:56):
I think I think you're exactly right, and he's probably
the guy I want up in a clutch situation even
more than cal Raley, Josh Naylor and Julio Rodriguez I mean,
he has been absolutely amazing.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
He's just bizarre.
Speaker 5 (29:09):
You're talking about, you know, trying to stack together some wins,
you know, as you go out on this road trip.
I don't think I've ever seen an American league that
looks like this. Only two teams in the American League
have more wins than Seattle. Only four teams have more
losses than Seattle. Teams three through fifteen in the American
League are separated by four and a half games, and
(29:31):
if Oakland loses the Philly today, it'll be four games
separating teams three through fifteen. So I have no idea
if the Mariners schedule is EASi or hard coming up
in the next three weeks, because.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Everybody's got about the same record. But we know the
White Sox aren't very good. They may be better than
they've been, and they better be because they were horrific.
I mean, it's not hard to be better than what
they've been because they were terrible. They're better. They got
the AL home run leader, right, they do. But they're
they're they're winning because they're pitching. Their offense is not
very good, I don't think. But the point is is
(30:04):
that they're not a very good baseball team. Houston we
know is banged up. They just lost Korea for the year,
We've seen them, we know what's going on with them
pitching wise, So they have to take advantage of this.
And guys, I just think again this league, man go
back to last year though, right, Like, could the Mariners
have lost the Tiger Series? Of course? Could they have
lost or won the Toronto Series? Of course? Right? I mean,
(30:28):
they could have easily made the World Series and hell
won the World Series or lost their first series they
played against Detroit. So all you're doing, like we've always
talked about, Dick, I think, is just giving yourself as
many spins at the rolette table as you can find,
as many hands of blackjack as you can find. Just
give me more cracks, more cracks, more cracks, the better
(30:49):
you get. They're not even close to being the best
version of themselves right now, first of all, because they
got too many guys banged up number one and then
number two. They got too many guys that are not
performed it to the back of their baseball card. So
this isn't just a performance issue, and it's not just
an injury issue. And to be sitting there at eighteen
and twenty. Look, I realized, you're four games off last
(31:09):
year's pace. But to be sitting there at eighteen and
twenty getting a little bit of a break because the
division's awful, The league may not be very good. The
Yankees might be, honestly, dick like the clear cut team
in the American League by a long way. They might
mind right, yeah, they might be the best team in
the American League by a large fricking margin. They may
run away with this thing and be the heavy heavy
(31:31):
favorite to make the World Series by the time that
October comes around. But I just think for this baseball team,
we can take some solace. And I was gonna ask you, guys,
are we more optimistic or are we more pessimistic right
now about where this thing's going? Right? Four nine four
five one hit us up? More optimism or more pessimism?
Much more optimistic.
Speaker 5 (31:51):
I just think with if everybody would have been healthy
right then I would have been a little I've been
a little less optimistic. But everybody has been banged up.
You got your two best, two of your best relievers
out right now. Your closer, who still has great stuff,
is gonna figure it out. You think so I just
don't think Andres Munos is gonna have a sixyra for
twenty twenty six. You know, pardon me for being a
(32:12):
Pollyanna with that. I just don't think he's going to
But you look, I.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
Mean, he's always being Pollyanna, Jane, You and I always
say behind his back, could you believe this guy?
Speaker 5 (32:23):
I'll bet the under on a six yr for Andres
Munos for the year. But you know, last year at
home they were fifty one and thirty, right, they were
nails at home, But after the first twenty four games
they were thirteen eleven. Where they right now twelve and eleven, well,
exactly where they were at home last year in April
and early Many.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
Let's go back to Munos though for a second, because
at some point he's gonna slip up, right, at some
point he's going to have a year where he takes
a step back. And there's nothing saying that that can't
happen this year. He's already allowed three bombs. He allowed
too all of last year. He allowed three bombs before
Memorial Day. He allowed three bombs in the first month
and a half of the year. So that's concerning, right,
(33:02):
what's going on with Andres Muno's and maybe Andress Munoz
needs to have his workload limited a little bit. Maybe
Dan Wilson needs to do a better job of when
he uses him. We've talked about that in non closing situations.
But what I like about this bullpen when they're healthy
is that they appear to have three guys that can
close games, Him, Brash and Freer. Right right now, one
of them's banged up in Brash and the other one
(33:24):
has pitched in four of the last six games. So
at some point he's going to get his workload up
again and be asked to do even more than he's
doing right now. But I just look, I believe in him,
I believe in this bullpen, and I do feel way
more optimistic than pessimistic about this baseball team. But I
also feel like, all right, you've been given kind of
(33:46):
a gift here with this division and this league. So
let's have a cushion. Let's let's make it, you know,
count on an unbelievable second half where they go balls
to the wall in August and July beating everybody's ass
to pull away. Right, how about we actually make this
thing slightly comfortable how's that sound. We're going to break
(34:08):
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