Softy & Dick 5-6 Hour 3: Larry Stone, Russell Future, Fun w/ Audio

In the third hour, Dave Softy Mahler and Dick Fain chat with Larry Stone about the M’s series win today over the Braves, Dan Wilson’s usage of the bullpen, and his Twitter account getting hacked tonight, then the guys discuss Jackson’s birthday, the future of Russell Wilson in broadcasting, and the lack of World Cup hype before Fun with Audio.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 3 (00:18):
It's time for our weekly conversation with legendary sports writer
Larry Stone, brought to you by the Ram Restaurant and Brewery, Bigger,
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Sound locations from Marysville to Lacey and everywhere in between.
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here's Larry Stone.

Speaker 4 (00:38):
All right, we're back on a busy Wednesday.

Speaker 5 (00:40):
A little fun with audio coming up six pm tonight
right here on the radio program. But speaking of fun,
Larry Stone joins us right now in the radio program.

Speaker 4 (00:47):
Always fun to have him on the show.

Speaker 1 (00:49):
You know, every.

Speaker 5 (00:50):
Wednesday we say, God, what a great time to have
Larry Stone on the ear. I don't know if we've
said once in the last year and a half that
we've been talking here. What a terrible time to have
Larry on the ear. We should cancel that and let book.
He's got opinions on everything exactly. Well, he joins us
right now on the radio show, Larry, how are you man?

Speaker 6 (01:10):
I'm doing great. It's a great time to be on
with you.

Speaker 7 (01:12):
Gay.

Speaker 5 (01:12):
It's always a great time, my friend. Well, baseball is crazy.
You get swept by Kansas City and then just go
take two out of three against the best team in
baseball with a chance really to win all of them.
Obviously that didn't turn out yesterday. But how big was this?
You think how important was this for the Ems to
kind of stem the tide after that sweep by Kansas City.

Speaker 6 (01:35):
Well, I mean, this is getting to be a familiar story.
I mean, they were swept by the Rangers, they were
swept by the Padres, they were swept by the Royals,
and they've kind of bounced back each time. It's just
an inexplicable team that you can't just put your finger
on why they can't be more consistent. But I mean, theoretically,
you've got to think that winning a series against the

(01:56):
team as good as the Braves is going to be
a confidence boost and propel them. But how many times
this year we thought that they were ready to take off,
Like after the last road trip the last time we
did this show, when they came home five hundred and
we thought, well that's you know, now they're on their way,
and they proceed to get swept by the Royals. So
I'm not ready to make any pronouncements like they're on

(02:17):
their way or they're back or anything like that. But
it was a it was it was a I mean
it was it was a great accomplishment the Braves. That
lineup is incredible, But one thread after another.

Speaker 5 (02:29):
Well, if you're not ready to make any pronouncements, and
the hell with you, what's the point.

Speaker 4 (02:33):
That's why we have you on to make pronouncements. People
want pronouncements.

Speaker 8 (02:37):
Well, Larry, I mean, I think Dave and I are
both on the on the definitely on the optimistic side,
just because of all the injuries they have gone through
and just all kind of the bad luck they've gone
through thus far. And the one run loss is mainly
because the bullpen has banged up. You know, they've got
thirty three percent more one run losses than any team
in baseball. That's got to even out once their bullpen
comes back, don't you think.

Speaker 6 (02:59):
Yeah, you got to think that. It seems like they're
playing a win run game every night. I mean, I'm
with you guys in the optimism department. One huge reason
is because the division is so weak, and really the
American League is so weak. Would you would you believe
that they're a playoff team right now as we talk,
Right now, they're the final wildcard team with an eighteen

(03:20):
and twenty record pending the result the result of the
Royals game tonight, So they haven't been buried by any means.
As a matter of fact, they're still in a great
position at the one point when they do take off,
and there's so many things you've got to figure are
going to happen that will allow them to do that.
Cow is going to start to hit at some point,

(03:40):
you know, the bullpit ten is going to get healthy,
Munnos is going to figure things out.

Speaker 8 (03:45):
You know.

Speaker 6 (03:47):
I just feel like we have yet to see the
best of this team, and there's so much time ahead
that I will pronounce, make a pronouncement for you, Dave
that cable beach. That's fine, and I still think they're
going to a playoffs all.

Speaker 5 (04:00):
Right, Well, thank god, because if we're not getting pronouncements
from you, then we got to reevaluate this entire thing.
But Larry, you mentioned the American League versus the National League,
and look right now, there's three teams in the AL
above five hundred, there's nine in the NL. I mean,
is that anything besides just kind of dumb luck? Is
there anything tangible behind why that is?

Speaker 1 (04:19):
You think?

Speaker 6 (04:22):
I really don't know what you could attribute that to.
Maybe it's because they're they're more like not big market
teams in the American League. Who didn't you know, with
the with the wild card, now, teams aren't as motivated
to go out and spend big because you know, you

(04:42):
have a chance to make the playoffs with a five
hundred record basically. And you know, the National League has
the Cubs and the Braves and the Dodgers and the
Phillies who are and the Mets, who are all high
pay roll teams. Not all of them are doing great.
But I mean, that's the only thing I could think of,
is that the there's more teams that are actually trying

(05:03):
trying to a massive powerhouse team in the National League.

Speaker 8 (05:06):
Well, Larry, it's interesting how yesterday's game kind of ties
into today's game, especially surrounding Jose Ferrer, right, And you know,
Adam Jude tweeted after the eighth inning last night. Here's
where he tweeted. He said, Ferrer needed just ten pitches
to get through the eighth. He'll presumably be back out
to pitch to Olsen in the ninth. Well he wasn't,
and Olsen hit home run off of Munios. But then

(05:27):
if he pitches the ninth, he's not closing today's one
run game. So I mean, is it kind of fair
just assume Yeah, everything worked out. I mean, Atlanta probably
should have gotten one of those two and Seattle probably
should have gotten one of those two.

Speaker 6 (05:40):
Yeah, I was surprised that fer Air didn't go back
out there for the left one left. But the day
before that he had pitched, you know, a wrap around
inning as well, so it would have been two days
in a row where he was in two different innings.
So I understand why he did that, And I was
frankly surprised that he closed today on a third day

(06:00):
in a row. But it looked great. Yeah, you could
probably just say that they snuck one away, but they
should have. How many games this year, including the Saturday
game where Hancock looks so great, where they've just kind
of frittered away at the end, and they didn't do
that today. And I mean, you got to give Farreer

(06:21):
a lot of credit. He was facing the heart of
that order and he just mowed through them.

Speaker 5 (06:25):
Well, the Luis Castillo conundrum is still a conundrum. Maybe
he looked better with this stuff over the weekend, but
still not getting the results he wants. And we're here
in all kinds of different ideas from different people. Everybody's
got an opinion on this. Like everybody's got a belly button,
they all want to share their opinion. Bill Krueger says
that he would put Bryce Miller in the bullpen because

(06:47):
of the injuries. Chuck Powell says he'd go to a
six man rotation when Bryce Miller comes back. I think
we all agree that Emerson Hancock's not going anywhere. With
the fourteen strikeout game he had on Saturday, that part
of the equation is over. Well, we are probably a
week and a half, two weeks maybe from having to
answer that question. So what do you think the Mariners

(07:09):
will do when Bryce Miller is activated?

Speaker 6 (07:13):
Yeah, you're right. I mean the Hancock out of the
rotation is out of the equation now, I mean that
would be a dereliction of duty if they pulled him out.
He's been one of the best pitchers in the league,
not just on the team. There's three options you touched on.
Two of them, you move Miller to the bullpen, you
go to a six man rotation, and the other one
is you put Castillo in the bullpen. I think at

(07:34):
this point I'm leading with Kruper. With the bullpen down
the way it is, I think Bryce Miller is a
guy that could really be a dominant force at the
end of games. I mean he can also he's also
shown he could be a dominant force as a starter,
but that was two years ago. Last year was he
didn't really show that except for just flashes maybe in

(07:56):
the especially in the postseason. But I think that's what
I would lean towards, depending on what Casteele does in
his next start. He did give up those four runs,
I think it was four, but I was encouraged, but
I thought he looked really good except for that one inning.
You know, editing did happen. So you can't just say that.

(08:18):
You can't just write it off. But his stuff had
ticked up a little bit, and I'm really I want
to see what he does the next time out. If
he has a total clunker, then maybe you reevaluate. But
right now I think that would be Miller in the bullpen.

Speaker 8 (08:39):
Larry's son joining us on a weekly basis, brought to
you by the Ram. And Larry asked Chuck, not even
twenty four hours ago, if he was worried about Andre's munos,
and he said no. And then three hours after that,
Andre's munyos gave up the game, losing home run. I
ask you, now, are you worried about Andre's munos.

Speaker 6 (08:58):
I'm a little worried about Andre's munos. I'm not panicky
about him. I mean he's struck out. He's struck out
twenty five and fifteen innings. That's the numbers of a
dominant pitcher. I think the stuff is still there. He's
giving up home runs at an alarming rate with something
he's never done in his career. I think three already.

(09:20):
All his numbers look pretty all his metrics and stuff
looked pretty good, except for batting a fridge on balls
and play, which is sky high, which tends to even
out over time and home runs, and he has been
dominant at times too. He looked like the old Munnos,
but he's also struggled in big situation. We've all seen

(09:42):
it three or four times, so I'm not ready to
pull him out of the closer's role or anything, but
it was nice to see to tuck away in the
back of your head. The Farrer showed today that he
could close in a big time situation against the big
time team. I mean, he did have eleven saves last
year for the Nationals, so he's got some experience in

(10:02):
that role. So I think he's kind of tuck that
away as a potential fallback if Munios continues to struggle.
But right now, I don't think they're gonna I don't
think they're going to pull him from that role. I
think they're gonna give him a chance to work through it.

Speaker 5 (10:14):
You know, it hasn't been really phenomenal as you're supposed
number one guy, and logan Gilbert, what's going on with him?

Speaker 6 (10:20):
Yeah, yeah, Well it's just sort of the same story
as last year. He's having trouble putting putting uh guys away.
He gets to two strikes and then there's a four
foul balls and his pitch count is up. You know
that happens a lot. He did the four home runs. Yeah, yeah,

(10:40):
granted they were solos uh the other day, but four
home runs is four home runs. That's too many. I
don't know what's you know, mechanically or anything, what's going on.
I'm not too worried about him. I wasn't worried about
Wu because of just I just wrote it off as
the two You're going to have a couple of clunkers

(11:01):
during the season, and there they were. And today he
showed that he's just fine. Against a team that's probably
the best offensive team in baseball. He just mowed them down.
And I think Gilbert will be all right. But he
has not been the logan Gilbert. We thought, there's no
question about that this year.

Speaker 9 (11:20):
Does this defense Warria Larry, it does Dick.

Speaker 6 (11:24):
Yeah. I think that's a big concern with this team.
All the the metrics show that they're one of the
worst defensive teams in baseball. And I mean, we've talked
about the dilemma that they have with what they're going
to do with Miller and the dilemma that they have
a little bit with what they're going to do at
the closer position. But I think they also have a
little dilemma with what they're going to do with JP. Crawford,

(11:46):
no doubt at some point, at some point with you know,
Colt Emerson has not forced them to make this decision.
He's hitting two twenty three in the minor leagues and
triple A. You know, if he was hitting two ninety
right now, I think there'd be a clamor to bring
him up. But until you know, he gets hot, I
think they're just going to go status quote. But you know,
a lot of the metrics show that JP is just

(12:08):
not shortstop he used to be and is a liability
at short that's such a key position with a staff
that relies on the defense behind Ian Kirby is getting
ground balls at a huge rate and he needs a
strong defense behind him, and so does everybody else. And
you know, I don't know what they're going to do.
JP's also become an essential part of their batting order.

(12:32):
You know, it's hard to say that for a guy
hitting about two fifteen, but he's pulling like a three
sixty five on base percentage and as the leadoff hitter. Yeah,
he's getting on base at about a four to fifty rate,
and I mean he's been sensational lead up. I'd leave
him there even when Donovan gets back.

Speaker 5 (12:47):
I got one more for you, Larry forty four years ago. Today,
we're going to hear this in fun with Audio. Gaylord
Perry won his three hundred game with the Mariners, which
for us growing up as Mariner fans, was like the
biggest thing we ever had was gabl Berry winning that game,
although the.

Speaker 8 (13:03):
Guy was here for a year, right, like the first
time the nation actually saw the Mariners playing a game.

Speaker 5 (13:07):
It's unbelievable. But here's the thing about Gaylord. He admitted
the cheating. I mean, all these hitters don't make the
Hall of Fame because they're on steroids. But Gaylor Perry
put everything he could find out of baseball and admitted
it barbarasol vadja, sill snot whatever he could find it
just out of like the guy in Major League right,

(13:29):
and he admitted to doctoring the ball. But he's in
the Hall of I mean, should he be in the
Hall of Fame? And if he's in the Hall of Fame,
how come Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens can't be in the.

Speaker 1 (13:39):
Hall of Fame.

Speaker 6 (13:41):
Well, for the record, I've I've voted for for Bonds
and Clements. Yeah, but each time they were on the ballot.
That's a that's a powerful argument, it really is. I mean,
I do think he should be in the Hall of Fame.
I don't. I don't think he cheated his entire career.
You know, he was a cy young pitcher as a
kind of a conventional pitcher with the Giants early in

(14:03):
his career and also with Cleveland. But yeah, I mean
in the latter stages of his career, that's how he
got by, and that's how he hung on. Was was
through cheating and putting that idea even when he wasn't
doing anything that was part of his routine was to
run his hands. It was, you know, all over the

(14:23):
uniform and there just the fool hitters into thinking he
was loading up, even though he says he didn't do
it that much but only when he needed a big pitch.
But I don't know. I think there is a distinction
between that sort of thing and steroids. But but there
was also you know it with a wild wild West
with with steroids with no know, nothing on the books,

(14:43):
which is why I vote for those guys. That Baseball
allowed it to happen after they put the rules in.
That's why I don't vote for a rod or Manny,
because they they they were caught cheating after it was
codified with in the in the in the contract that
you were not allowed to use steroids, and it was
you know, it was laid out loud and clear, and
then they still did it. So and well, we'll see

(15:08):
if those guys ever get in. I doubt if they will,
but uh yeah.

Speaker 5 (15:14):
All right, well, uh we're gonna let you go a
little early. We got a little bit of an issue.
Let me ask you a quick question, Larry. Are you
currently selling a Chevy truck on your Twitter account?

Speaker 6 (15:26):
I am not. No.

Speaker 5 (15:27):
Are you telling people where they can go to learn
about crypto on your Twitter account?

Speaker 6 (15:33):
Oh no, yeah, you got hack.

Speaker 1 (15:35):
You tried.

Speaker 6 (15:35):
You're trying to tell me I've been hacked.

Speaker 1 (15:37):
You've been hacked? Oh no, no, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 5 (15:41):
But the good news is you're retired. You can spend
a lot of time on it. I tell you what
I'm gonna do. I'm gonna put you on hold. Jackson
may have an idea. By the way, anyway, because he's
the smart guy here.

Speaker 1 (15:52):
I have no idea.

Speaker 4 (15:53):
I've had to figure I.

Speaker 6 (15:55):
Need to talk to Ian for nest because well.

Speaker 5 (15:58):
No, don't talk to him because he has no idea
how to get his account back, by the way. But yeah,
he would, he would definitely give you some pointers I
want not to do. But we'll let you go and
you can work on that and and get that taken
care of, because you're you're currently talking about crypto and
selling a truck on your Twitter account.

Speaker 6 (16:15):
All right, Well that must be in the last five minutes, yes,
ten minutes, because it was not that. I looked at
my Twitter account when we started this interview and it.

Speaker 1 (16:23):
Was fine eleven minutes ago, exactly, by the way.

Speaker 6 (16:27):
So what I means that that takes you guys out
of the realm of suspects. That's clear it It may
have been.

Speaker 5 (16:35):
It may have been Chuck Powell, by the way, because
I know he's been gone here for a few hours
and he's home doing nothing.

Speaker 4 (16:40):
So all right, good luck with that man. Appreciate power.

Speaker 6 (16:42):
Larry.

Speaker 5 (16:44):
All right, all right, Larry Stone with us. We'll let
him go a few seconds early. It's it's almost time
to break anyway. But yeah, I mean it's I hate
that crap, man, you know. And the worst part about
it is there's no one to help you, right Like,
there's no there's no phone call. And I would even
pay like an extra five bucks a month to be
able to talk a human being on the other end
of the line. I don't care what country the guy's in.
Just let me talk to somebody. But Facebook, Twitter, Instagram,

(17:07):
if you ever, if there's ever a problem, you can't
pick up a phone and call the human being to
get help.

Speaker 4 (17:13):
And I think that stinks.

Speaker 8 (17:14):
Now, you convinced me to get the little Blue check
because it helps with secure security.

Speaker 4 (17:19):
It's the only reason to do it.

Speaker 8 (17:21):
So I got I have seen nothing good about having
the little Blue check, but at least knock on wood,
that hasn't happened to me.

Speaker 5 (17:28):
Well, that's the what do they call it, the two
step verification crap whatever it is. Or you get a
text to your phone or email and they have a
separate super secret code and a fingerprint and they scan
your eyeball all that stuff. That's why you do it, man,
for the freaking security, because any and any schmuck.

Speaker 4 (17:44):
Can get a blue check.

Speaker 5 (17:45):
Now you got people that are running parody accounts that
are getting blue checks all right on social media.

Speaker 10 (17:50):
So I'm just gonna say this right now, if any
of us get an email or an instant message or
a DM or anything asking us to log into our
Twitter account to do anything for them, right, don't don't
do it.

Speaker 4 (18:04):
Well, you know what's funny about that, Larry.

Speaker 5 (18:06):
So, you guys know Chip Brown, the Texas two four
seven guy, the Orange Bloods guy in Austin. He sent
a d M to me about six months ago, and
it said I have qualified for a podcasting contest. Will
you please vote for me? So that's exactly what this
turned out to be.

Speaker 1 (18:24):
A scam. That's that's voting for him.

Speaker 4 (18:26):
Could could hack clicking.

Speaker 1 (18:28):
On the link toffee? That's That's exactly what just.

Speaker 5 (18:31):
Happened with Larry. Oh wow, so he clicked on that
link on accident. Oh that sucks. The worst part of
my job, dude, social media, It's the worst part of humanity.

Speaker 1 (18:44):
That was one of the earliest.

Speaker 4 (18:47):
Promo to that.

Speaker 6 (18:48):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (18:50):
Let's see how it goes first.

Speaker 5 (18:52):
Yeah, okay, he gets it back, then we can have
some fun with it. But if not, then no, all right,
we're gonna break yellow fun with audio on six on
ninety three to JRFM.

Speaker 2 (19:03):
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Speaker 5 (19:18):
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on Sunday. Happy Mother's Day to all the mom's out there.

(19:39):
By the way, there's a father's Day. There's never a
son's Day. I feel like there should be a son's Day,
don't you.

Speaker 8 (19:45):
Well, I also think that father's Day is like a
tenth of the importance of some mother's day. That really
is well, whether it should be or not. But I'm
just saying that's a fact.

Speaker 5 (19:54):
You're a father. Jackson and I are not fathers. You're
hoping to be a father. My day is that ship
is still for me. I'm done, But I do believe
that there should be a Sunday, and I don't know
why there's not Sunday Week Sunday, we can have Sundays, right,
ice cream Sundays. I mean a day for the sun. Hey,
I get your stupid corny humor. I'm just not agreeing

(20:18):
to take part in your corny humor because I think
that suns need to be honored and the fact that
they're not is a sham.

Speaker 1 (20:24):
It's a joke.

Speaker 5 (20:25):
You get your Father's Day. He probably watched the US
Open on Father's Day. I want to watch the US
go to my mom and dad's house and I sit.
You're like, what do you want to do?

Speaker 8 (20:35):
I want to have burgers and watch golf and drink beer.
That's what I want to do for the next four hours.

Speaker 5 (20:41):
We're getting a lot of texts on the Ta Coverdots
text line about Jackson's birthday week thing. Most involved the
grow up. You're not six years old anymore. You don't
need a birthday week? What the hell is wrong with me?

Speaker 1 (20:52):
What I'm talking about.

Speaker 10 (20:54):
I'm talking about just if it's even around that time then.

Speaker 5 (21:00):
But that's the point, though, is that people are saying
that you should get to make the choices on one day,
not the three or four days before or after. It's
not my birthday plus or minus five days.

Speaker 10 (21:12):
It's not birth week. It's my birthday. So here's my
two cents.

Speaker 5 (21:16):
Nobody says, hey, Dick, what week were you born? I
mean birth week?

Speaker 1 (21:19):
Softy, here's my two cents.

Speaker 10 (21:21):
Is I very much like two things, apple pie and donuts? Okay,
And if I'm getting an apple buying donuts, I'm not
just gonna have that one day.

Speaker 1 (21:30):
I'm gonna right.

Speaker 10 (21:31):
We got a Costco apple pie last weekend, and I'm
spreading that thing out with a slice every single.

Speaker 6 (21:38):
Season.

Speaker 8 (21:40):
But you get it for your birth or say, put
a little candle and you blow it out and then
you get to enjoy it the next.

Speaker 5 (21:45):
Four It's like when you go to Trader Joe's. And
I love Trader Joe's. So you know, I got this
little thing on my heart a year ago. My doctor says,
no red meat, you know, wink wink, Maybe you know,
not five times a week. Maybe it's only twice a week.
But anyway, I'm eating a lot of turkey chicken seafood. Right,
So they have a turkey meat loaf at that I love. Well,

(22:06):
my wife's not a big fan, so I'll buy this thing.
It's like the size of a large brick, you know
what I'm talking about. It's like a small little cake,
huge made out of turkey and marinara sauce.

Speaker 1 (22:16):
And I'll spread that thing over like four or five days.

Speaker 5 (22:19):
Yeah, whatever, But I'm not asking her to eat the
same thing because it's my birthday week.

Speaker 10 (22:26):
The whole point of this conversation was me to ask
how many points did I get from spending back to
back night's watching the crap that is Devil Wears.

Speaker 1 (22:37):
Protal one time?

Speaker 4 (22:41):
I think that you.

Speaker 1 (22:43):
Like that.

Speaker 5 (22:43):
I just think you get your birthday. You're a grown
ass man. You're thirty freaking four. Grow up on your
birthday night. You should do whatever you want all right
before the day after your birthday points. You're a couple,
and you're a married couple, which means the wife always went.

Speaker 1 (22:59):
Here's here's what I just agree with that, Jackson.

Speaker 8 (23:02):
You get I mean, birthday's freebie, Like that's definitely your
day period.

Speaker 1 (23:06):
That's why that's why I bring this up. I should
get extra points, right.

Speaker 11 (23:09):
And that's what That's what I'm saying. You do your birthday,
you get whatever you.

Speaker 8 (23:11):
Want, and then because you suffered through Devil's Product one
and too, you should get two more movie nights free.

Speaker 5 (23:21):
Well that's a different story. That happened any day of
the week. That could happen any day of the year.
That could happen in July, and that could happen. That's
my point. Tember, if you're banking points because you had
to watch these stupid ass movies they are that your
wife is making you watch, then you should get, you know,
two movies in your column that you can watch when
you want to.

Speaker 10 (23:39):
My point is I should get. I should get It
doesn't matter if it's your birthday or not. That's what
I'm saying, all right, I just think I should get three.

Speaker 1 (23:44):
Yeah, okay, well you know what you do? You pass?
Devil was so bad at three? Movie was that bad day?
Don't question?

Speaker 5 (23:53):
So the original Devil Devil wears Product and Hathaway starts
off as kind of a dork and then turns in
something else in number two. Does she start at dork
or does she start where she ended up in Devil
Worst Products starts where she ended up?

Speaker 1 (24:09):
Okay, that's not bad.

Speaker 11 (24:10):
She turned back into a dark yes, yeah, nice.

Speaker 5 (24:12):
Okay, well not in a good way, all right, Okay,
I'm a big Anne Hathaway fan.

Speaker 1 (24:17):
Whatever. Oh yeah, I think whatever.

Speaker 5 (24:22):
You know, you keep having your wife tell you what
movies you're gonna watch. Okay on your birthday week.

Speaker 1 (24:27):
I get, I get. I think I get three in
the in the bank for this one.

Speaker 11 (24:31):
You know, here's an idea to try to have a daughter,
and then your wife will have somebody to watch Devil
Worths Product three with.

Speaker 4 (24:37):
Well, he's trying talked to.

Speaker 10 (24:40):
I really do commend he does not have a kid
during baseball season, but I really do.

Speaker 1 (24:48):
Or soccer.

Speaker 5 (24:50):
Can you imagine Brian Schmitzer, where's the broadcast? Or that
son of a bitch had a baby during the season.

Speaker 10 (24:57):
When we first started trying, we tried to avoid having
a kid around the playoff time, but obviously now it's
just take it when you can get. Yeah, I mean,
like the reality is like I'm thinking like Star Trek
and she likes Star Wars, but like I commend her
she has friends who don't like crap movies like this.

Speaker 1 (25:13):
It's just her time.

Speaker 4 (25:16):
What do we think about the idea of Russell Wilson
being a broadcaster?

Speaker 1 (25:19):
Is that gonna work?

Speaker 6 (25:20):
No?

Speaker 1 (25:20):
Honestly, no, God no, I mean, like, listen, it's just
gonna be.

Speaker 10 (25:24):
This is a great opportunity to be here, and it's
a great opportunity to talk about a great team. And
we really do have some great offenses out there, and
they can throw the football really great.

Speaker 1 (25:31):
Exactly, I don't know what do you think?

Speaker 11 (25:33):
Here's the deal though?

Speaker 1 (25:34):
It could be a great drinking game.

Speaker 5 (25:35):
Though every by halftime you're if you're dead.

Speaker 1 (25:40):
Where's your liver? It's gone?

Speaker 8 (25:42):
How many years did it take us to realize that
Russell was full of crap? Because off the bat, right
off the bat, we were like, dude, this is the
most unbelievable, just straightforward, nicest, no wool over the eyes.

Speaker 1 (25:57):
I mean crap.

Speaker 5 (26:00):
Do you mean by that, like this guy who puts
on this act that he's this really caring dude or
loves everybody secretly tried to stab a knife into Pete
Carroll's neck? Is that what you're talking about? I know
what you mean because I think he's authentic. I think
he's an authentic goober. I think he has no dick.

(26:20):
I'm not kidding you, like because people have mentioned that
before about how he's he's full of it. He's not
the person he appears to be. I think he is.
I think he has a massive inferiority complex. I've heard
that from people that played with him. I think he
has a massive amount of self doubt. I think he's
a huge goober. I think he's got a personality that

(26:41):
he doesn't even know what he is half the time.
I think that literally is who he is. And there's
a part of me that feels kind of bad for
the guy.

Speaker 8 (26:48):
So my question is is what was what was the
honeymoon period right where we saw Russell Wilson literally as
the most perfect quarterback and person and oh my god,
this is ex exactly what all my kids want. I mean,
it was like a good two three years before we
started to realize Russ is kind of a goober in

(27:08):
his authentic real.

Speaker 5 (27:10):
Like when he met Sierra, everything began to change because
when he met Sierra, he became about his brand. He
became about putting himself out there. You know, when he
was with Ashton, he was just he was Rkele, right,
he was Rkle. He was the lovable, geeky quarterback that
you know, had a bunch of different accents and all
that stuff and blah blah blah. But then when he
met Sierra, he started going to Hollywood and it got

(27:32):
kind of weird, and I, I just think he's he's
got a huge inferiority complex, man. And you know, it's
like when he got married to Sierra. Remember when he
got divorced from Ashton and he met Sierra, And I
think he came out if I have this wrong that
I apologized profusely. He came out and said something like,
I'm going to be celibate until the day I get
married again.

Speaker 1 (27:52):
Remember that I.

Speaker 11 (27:53):
Don't remember that.

Speaker 1 (27:55):
I'm gonna wait until I get married.

Speaker 5 (27:56):
Then he got married and they come back from like
their wedding, and he puts a video out on Instagram
reminding people that they were just at.

Speaker 1 (28:05):
Sex, like what about last night?

Speaker 4 (28:08):
Like who does that?

Speaker 8 (28:09):
So?

Speaker 5 (28:09):
Who does that?

Speaker 4 (28:10):
Man?

Speaker 1 (28:11):
A guy that's looking for affirmation does that?

Speaker 8 (28:13):
The point of that I was making was I think
maybe the fans watching him will fall in love with
Russell White. He did at the beginning and then realize, Okay,
this is just.

Speaker 5 (28:25):
How about he just plays that role up He just
plays the role of goober. I mean, look at Cam
Newton and what he's played up on media.

Speaker 10 (28:32):
So right, Sofia think you hit on something a few
minutes ago when you said that, I don't know what
russe if Russell Wilson knows who he is. And it
led me to thinking, what if this guy just simply
has a chameleon personality and that's an actual It's an
actual thing, Like this isn't just a word, it's an
actual chameleon personality. He's an actual thing where he surrounds
himself with types of people and he matches his personality

(28:54):
to those people. And I think you can kind of
trace it back to maybe even the sea Ok teams
that he's around a little bit, and as he acclimates
to the type of guys and the type of people
in his life in Ashton changing to Sierra and the
Seahawk teams themselves and teammates changing over time, he does
change that personality like a chameleon. Like the kind of

(29:16):
chameleon personality. It's not even a disorder, it's just specifically
how he is. Yeah, and you can now look ahead
to here. Does he then become a broadcaster and behave
more of like a natural broadcaster in that role around
other pros.

Speaker 5 (29:32):
I just think about that locker room guys that he
was in from twenty twelve to twenty twenty one whatever,
I mean, especially the first four or five years.

Speaker 1 (29:40):
All of the confidence that was in that locker room, right.

Speaker 5 (29:44):
Like everybody, big person out, a lot of confidence, a
lot of testosterone, a lot of confidences. The word I
keep Doug Baldwin, Cam Chancellor, Richard Sherman, Earl Thomas, Bobby Wagner,
kJ Wright, Michael Bennett, all these guls man, they all
knew who they were and what they were, and I
think Russell kind of tried to maybe fit in with

(30:04):
that a little bit when he was here. I mean
I've asked teammates before, and I mean I'll just say
his name. I asked kJ Wright when he was here, So,
how many times have you gone out for dinner or
a drink with Russell after practice? He said not one time? Never,
And nobody did that with him, Nobody.

Speaker 4 (30:21):
That just wasn't his mo. He just wouldn't mingle with
the guys.

Speaker 5 (30:24):
He wasn't a man's man, he wasn't a boy's boy,
he wasn't a dude's dude. He would go and do
his own thing, and I think he felt a little
bit uncomfortable in some ways when he was here. And
I got to be honest with you, I don't even
know if it was his idea to go call for
Pete Carroll's head. He may have been pressed to do
that by somebody else close to him. Honestly, I don't
know what the hell was going.

Speaker 11 (30:45):
On that have been influenced by.

Speaker 5 (30:46):
One hundred percent one hundred percent, And I think he
wants to stay relevant very badly, and I understand that.
I think all of us in our chosen profession have
a hard time when we understand that the light is
starting to fade a little bit.

Speaker 1 (30:59):
I mean, our life it's bright as hell.

Speaker 5 (31:01):
But I'm just saying that athletes, especially dick right, when
they have to make that transition from playing to no longer.

Speaker 11 (31:07):
Rather so many podcasts out there, that's right.

Speaker 5 (31:09):
I think it's hard, and I think Russell Wilson wants
to stay as relevant as possible. So when Mike Florio's
busted my balls, earlier about well, why would he lie
about an offer from the Jets or an offer from
a TV station? Like, I'm not saying he's lying per se,
but I can see him stretching the truth about that.
Maybe somebody approached him about his interest in being a
TV guy, and all of a sudden, that's an offer.
I'm getting an offer to be a TV guy. I'm

(31:30):
getting an offer from the Jets. I have no idea,
but I do think in the end that his time
here in Seattle should be looked a positively. He's the
greatest quarterback in Seahawk history. He's probably a borderline Hall
of Famer. I don't know if he's going to make
the Hall of Fame, Dick.

Speaker 1 (31:48):
But he's doing this because of my bumper right.

Speaker 4 (31:51):
It could help him, for sure.

Speaker 5 (31:52):
A lot of guys on the Hall of Famer in media,
there's no doubt about that. But I am curious to see.
I think all of us are what happens if he
does go to TV and what kind of personality he's got,
Which voice is he gonna use on TV? He's got
like seven options, Honestly, that one fish proud for that.

Speaker 1 (32:12):
One nice expensive chair too. That one welcome my happy place.

Speaker 5 (32:17):
I mean, there's just so many options, and maybe he
spins the wheel before every broug knows.

Speaker 1 (32:23):
Dan to do the picks of the games in one
of those bones.

Speaker 10 (32:26):
I think, I think what he does if he joins
the broadcast team, he will watch and he will try
to mimic and be like them and be proish like them.

Speaker 1 (32:35):
I think somebody would like to be a chameleon.

Speaker 5 (32:36):
Whoever works with him has got to push him to
you know, hey, look man, you played the game. There's
things that you know that other people don't know that
you can say that they can't. And if you're not
going to repeat those things, and what that was the
point of you being here?

Speaker 11 (32:48):
Tom, Dick and Harriet, I do us for.

Speaker 4 (32:50):
God's sake, I could have Softy do this.

Speaker 5 (32:52):
You're Tom, You're Harry, and I'm Gap. It's you because
you played the game. All right, We're gonna break a
little fun with lot of you. On six on ninety
three THREEFM.

Speaker 2 (33:03):
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Speaker 5 (33:18):
All right, we're back on a busy Wednesday. Bob wits it,
by the way, former Sonic general manager responsible for a
large majority of that finals team back in ninety six.
Sale join us tomorrow on the radio show at four
o'clock Brettboon tomorrow as well at five on the program
I saw where Mike Florio. We talked about this earlier,
about the new story that TMZ broke, where they've got

(33:40):
documents that say that Diana Rossini and Mike Rabel rented
a boat together, a private boat on a lake in Tennessee,
two months before her child was born. That's out there,
And now he claims Florio does cal she has the
odds of Mike Rabel becoming excuse me, not being the
head coach of the Patriot. It's in September, down to

(34:01):
sixty four percent, by the way, so they're going in
the wrong.

Speaker 4 (34:04):
Way, not.

Speaker 5 (34:07):
Being sixty five I believe being the coach, sorry, yes,
thank you, being the coach sixty.

Speaker 1 (34:12):
Four thirty six. The would I would vote he is
the coach.

Speaker 4 (34:17):
I vote he is too.

Speaker 11 (34:17):
I think I'm going to go on Kelsey right now.

Speaker 5 (34:19):
Now I'm moving in the wrong direction. That's the point.
And that so you think I should wait, you might.
I think Mike Florio is saying that there's more evidence
coming out, man, and they every single day there's photos
and all kinds of stuff being reported about this and
people stepping forward and YadA, YadA, YadA. I mean, it's
crazy how that we talked about this. Sort of the
shelf life on this thing is is nuts. So we'll see.

(34:42):
I mean, it's just a story that won't die. It
will not go away. By the way, speaking of that
of a story that won't die, the World Cup is
coming up in June and July here in Seattle. I
will tell you this that there was a story that
was written today about hotel rooms around the country. Oh god,
I can I including here in Seattle. But what do

(35:02):
you think we're gonna say, by the way, go ahead.

Speaker 8 (35:04):
That they're like two thousand dollars a night. Opposite, Really,
they're not being sold, not being sold. Nope, nobody's buying
a silver cloud.

Speaker 1 (35:13):
Not sold out.

Speaker 5 (35:14):
By the way, for the games coming to Lumen Wow,
rooms available because why Jackson.

Speaker 10 (35:21):
Because why the enthusiasm and the interest and the sales
for the World Cup are not there right now?

Speaker 1 (35:27):
Not up at all? Why why?

Speaker 10 (35:30):
I think that there's a combination between a few things.
The United States usually drives this World Cup interest, right
and it happens during the actual event here in the States.
It doesn't happen before the event. We all get into
it while it's happening.

Speaker 4 (35:44):
Two.

Speaker 10 (35:45):
I think that it's kind of multi faceted, but generally
the state of our country right now. Very few international people,
I think, want to come to the United States right now,
So that's driving all of the other I mean, this
is a forty eight country World Cup, and I think
for forty seven countries, they're like, do we.

Speaker 1 (36:01):
Really want to go to the United States to see games?

Speaker 10 (36:04):
And I think additionally into all of this is that
right now, the quality of the United States team does
not warrant being excited for the tournament.

Speaker 5 (36:13):
There just doesn't seem to be much buzz for the
World Cup. No, not in this city, not in this country.
I mean, guys, the World Cup is coming to Seattle
in white weeks, a month and a half, and there's
nothing going on.

Speaker 4 (36:26):
There's no buzz at all for this thing.

Speaker 8 (36:29):
I was much more juiced to buy tickets when they
first came out than I am.

Speaker 1 (36:34):
Now why is that?

Speaker 8 (36:37):
I just thought it was cool, like, Wow, the World
Cup's coming to Seattle.

Speaker 1 (36:40):
Now I didn't because I balked at the price.

Speaker 8 (36:43):
But maybe if the if that interest continues to decline,
maybe the price is gonna be something I'm willing to pay.

Speaker 4 (36:49):
To watch it.

Speaker 5 (36:50):
Well, we think Jackson and I both think the prices
are going to drop and drop dramatically. The Belgian Egypt
Belgium Egypt game, which was supposed to be Iran?

Speaker 4 (36:59):
Is that right?

Speaker 1 (36:59):
And now it's Belgium?

Speaker 4 (37:00):
Is that correct?

Speaker 1 (37:02):
I weren't still playing in Seattle, right?

Speaker 4 (37:04):
But what are they supposed to play Egypt?

Speaker 1 (37:06):
Are they not? Is that a did that get moved arond?
I might to get moved around?

Speaker 4 (37:09):
Are they coming here?

Speaker 1 (37:10):
Still? We know that they are okay.

Speaker 5 (37:11):
The Belgium Egypt game on June the fifteenth is five
hundred and twenty seven bucks to get in the door.
June nineteenth, USA Australia game is over one thousand, and
then there's the Round of sixteen game, which is a
one shot game. On the sixth of July that could
include the Americans. Is that correct? So that game, the
round of sixteen game, could pop big time, But I

(37:33):
think those first two games are gonna drop.

Speaker 10 (37:35):
And again, like I think, the tournament gets hype from
the United States people and from American sports fans while
it's happening. So if you can imagine your your mind
for a minute, the United States right now is favored
to win their group. And for those who don't know,
there's a group stage and then if you get through
the group stage and you're one of the top two teams,
you go into a knockout round. So imagine the United
States wins their group, which right now they're favored to

(37:57):
do over Paraguay and Australia. Then they win that next game,
they would then play the round of sixty and keep it.
The hype at that point would be through the roof.
Oh my gosh, we are having a chance to get
to the quarterfinals where that you know, one of our
best finishes is there and the team's playing well, we
won our group. They're playing in Seattle in that second

(38:17):
knockout round Round of sixteen game. Ticket prices could be
well in excess of two thousand to three thousand dollars.

Speaker 4 (38:25):
Well, the first game is in five weeks, guys, five
and a half weeks.

Speaker 8 (38:28):
So yeah, well, Jackson, I've got a little something for you.
Would you like to make fifty thousand dollars watching World
Cup games?

Speaker 1 (38:35):
Yes? Think about that. First second. I'm gonna go watch
what dey want to ask you to do?

Speaker 11 (38:41):
All right?

Speaker 8 (38:41):
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(39:03):
all one hundred and four matches of the FIFA World
Cup in four k on Fox one in their personal
custom built dream viewing glass cube in the middle of
Times Square.

Speaker 1 (39:16):
No locked, it would be locked in a box and.

Speaker 8 (39:21):
Watch one hundred and four games for for fifty thousand dollars.

Speaker 1 (39:24):
That's a pretty good summer gig.

Speaker 7 (39:25):
Man.

Speaker 8 (39:25):
I can't make fifty grand in a summer gig. You
stay in the box the whole time. Yeah, that's that's
the thing though, That's terrible. That's not my arm off.
I'm not going to do any glass.

Speaker 1 (39:33):
I think you get to like.

Speaker 8 (39:35):
To get the power and my box, well, I think
you only have to be in the box.

Speaker 10 (39:39):
But when the games are on, Hey, that's the problem
is that there are four four or five different days
where there are four games that go the entire day,
which means you have to spend those four or five
days in the.

Speaker 1 (39:52):
Box the entire stretch.

Speaker 10 (39:54):
About this and people looking at you like, Hanson's got
nothing on that.

Speaker 5 (39:57):
But you pay fifty grand to not have to watch
SoC How many folks would do that?

Speaker 12 (40:02):
There?

Speaker 10 (40:03):
I was waiting like, I was like, where's where's the
anti soccer soft guy?

Speaker 5 (40:08):
So I want to put a tweet out, Uh, what's
your enthusiasm level for the World Cup in Seattle? I'm
giving you three options? Jacked, somewhat interested, or zero interest?

Speaker 1 (40:17):
Is that fair?

Speaker 4 (40:18):
Those three?

Speaker 1 (40:19):
I think there might be the fourth? What's the fourth?

Speaker 5 (40:23):
Little little little interest?

Speaker 10 (40:26):
Or we could just do no weasel option and go
jacked or zero? Now that's it four options. It's it's
one hundred and seventy five twenty five.

Speaker 5 (40:33):
So jacked, somewhat interested, little interest or zero?

Speaker 4 (40:38):
Is that fair?

Speaker 10 (40:38):
And I think honestly I think little interest is gonna
win out because right now everyone's kind of just like
cool it's happening.

Speaker 11 (40:45):
And this is soccer study too.

Speaker 8 (40:47):
With a really good soccer team, you'd think it would
be more here than it would be in other places
that are hosting.

Speaker 10 (40:53):
The problem is that the right in the United States,
the program for the United States soccer program is a
freaking mess.

Speaker 11 (40:59):
Did happened because we've been circling this date for like.

Speaker 10 (41:02):
Four years because they switched coaches three times in a
few years leading up to the whole thing.

Speaker 1 (41:06):
So good, good job, Suffy. That was my fun.

Speaker 5 (41:11):
I'll send this thing out by the way, and we'll
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(41:43):
I'm looking at the scoreboard here Nick on spen dot
com and it says East semi Finals Game two, Nicks
lead one game to none, right, and then for the
hockey playoffs it's the West second round.

Speaker 11 (41:54):
The hell, that doesn't make any sense at all.

Speaker 1 (41:58):
There's got to be a reason for it.

Speaker 5 (42:00):
I unless they're just trying to be weird and be unique,
like sometimes in soccer, right they put the home team after,
or excuse me before the road team always, or the
scores are all messed up, right, like Daniel Kramer does
this and it drives me crazy. He always gives the
Mariners score first. Mariners lose zero five today.

Speaker 1 (42:21):
Why does he do that just because he knows what
pisses you off? All right?

Speaker 4 (42:25):
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Speaker 8 (42:27):
I had Bloom of tree's owner out KD today, not
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Speaker 11 (42:31):
Different different. KD was out of my house, and it'd be.

Speaker 1 (42:33):
Funny if Kevin Durant was working for a tree.

Speaker 8 (42:36):
This KD is about a foot shorter than Kevin Durant,
but a nice guy and UH happy to work with him.
And I'm going to be giving him a lot of
my money because I have a lot of trees and
taking down.

Speaker 5 (42:46):
I'd like some trees cut down across the street from me?
Do I need permission from my neighbors?

Speaker 1 (42:51):
To do that?

Speaker 5 (42:52):
A little copper spike? Okay, little copper spike at four
o'clock in the morning. Do they have copper spikes? I
don't think bloom a tree does the copper spike. But somebody, see, now,
what's gonna happen. If there's a tree across from me,
then somebody ends up killing with a copper spike, They're
gonna blame me?

Speaker 1 (43:07):
That's right? Is that why I heard you on the
radio talking about this fat mouth shut for guys?

Speaker 3 (43:13):
All right?

Speaker 5 (43:14):
A little fun with audio slash hated you hear that
normally at three forty five, but we we pivoted pevat
because of the Mariner win today that ended right around
three forty five this afternoon. Hey, Dick, did you happen
to hear that?

Speaker 1 (43:26):
What's that?

Speaker 5 (43:27):
Russell Wilson, mister unlimited, spoke with a New York Post
earlier today and talked about his decision between joining the
Jets are becoming an NFL broadcaster the Jets.

Speaker 1 (43:38):
How did that go behind?

Speaker 9 (43:39):
It's great and they offered me, you know, I'm trying
to figure out what's the next best thing to do
and all that, and just you know, I still know
I can play ball and did that at a high level.
But also, you know, I think that, you know, an
option to do TV two is great. So we'll just
see what happens.

Speaker 1 (43:55):
You mentioned the broadcasting, what would that be like? You'd
be great?

Speaker 9 (43:58):
You know this there's a lot of great and it
works a lot of things, and obviously, uh, that's a
great opportunity for me, and we'll see what happens.

Speaker 1 (44:05):
You know, I'm excited to I just love football. I
love ball, being in it.

Speaker 9 (44:09):
In every way, staying ready to play too, and just
you know, every day I'm training and getting ready. But
also to I think, you know, I have a lot
of great opportunities.

Speaker 1 (44:17):
There we go.

Speaker 5 (44:17):
That's a little sample of what you'd get if Russell
Wilson was doing TV. Give me the name of a
Fox broadcaster, Uh, Terry Bradchick. No, no, no, he played
by play guy Tom Brenneman. Whatever this is, Davis Russell,
What do you make of this drive we're seeing? You know, Joe,
I just love ball. I just love football, just love
being here, Joe. Don't you think it's kind of funny though? Dick,

(44:39):
and I realized the money in.

Speaker 1 (44:40):
TV is a lot. I get that.

Speaker 5 (44:42):
Don't you think it's kind of funny that a guy
is actually deciding whether or not to actually play for
the Jets or go to TV.

Speaker 4 (44:51):
You know, I'd rather, I think I just do TV.

Speaker 11 (44:53):
It is bizarre.

Speaker 8 (44:55):
One thing that just stuck in my head was how
drunk would I be if if I took a shot
for every time Russell said great in that thirty ninety
second Yeah, I'd be literally gone, like blood alcohol poisoning.

Speaker 1 (45:09):
I think he said it nine times.

Speaker 4 (45:11):
Russell played for the Jets. Are going TV?

Speaker 5 (45:13):
I don't know, Mann, I don't know that's a good
news opportunity. Rather be on TVV eight thoughts play football
for the Jets. That'd be a hell of a of
a pill for the Jet fans to swallow. Russell Wilson
would rather go on TV than play for you.

Speaker 8 (45:28):
You would even have to play for the Jets. You
just have to stand on the sideline.

Speaker 5 (45:32):
I don't know, man, Geno Smith, he's old too. He
gets banged up here he comes all right, Hey, Dick,
did you happen to hear that?

Speaker 1 (45:38):
What's that? Dick? All right?

Speaker 5 (45:39):
Skip Bayless we'll return to ESPN's first take on Friday,
and in promotion for the visit, stephen A sharing some
thoughts today on what he expects to see happen.

Speaker 13 (45:48):
A long time ago in to TV Studio in New
York and Epic Sports battlety Game.

Speaker 1 (45:52):
Did you get a hold of my diet Mountain dew
this morning?

Speaker 5 (45:55):
What is indo?

Speaker 14 (45:55):
You?

Speaker 6 (45:56):
Now?

Speaker 1 (45:56):
He's bad? It's unbelievable being in the position that I'm in.

Speaker 13 (46:00):
I went to him and I told him I want
him to come back to spend a day with me,
and obviously he happily agreed and he will be on
I hope he's ready. I hope he's ready because I'm
not gonna take any pity on him. I know he's
watching right now. You be ready my brother Friday. It's
gonna be epic. He got stuff that he wants to
get off his chest, so I'm going to let him
do that. But in the same breath, what he really

(46:22):
really wants to get off his chest is meant he
want to get at me. And obviously I'm looking forward
to the two hours that we're gonna have together Friday.

Speaker 5 (46:29):
It's just kind of like when my wife comes in
and does a show on Valentine's Day.

Speaker 1 (46:32):
Look, if somebody took your dad's bush, you get one
a year.

Speaker 4 (46:35):
I mean, I'm Jackson.

Speaker 1 (46:36):
Just promote ESPN for like forty five my kids suckered
into Washington.

Speaker 5 (46:41):
Yeah, absolutely, And I really hope what I really hope
is that Skip Baylor says to stephen A exactly what
we said about Steven a earlier today. You know, stephen A,
you're very well versed on the NBA, but you don't
know Jack squat about college football. Now, why this network
keeps you and your big mouth in the air during
football seasons beyond me?

Speaker 4 (47:01):
That's what he should do.

Speaker 10 (47:02):
And bring receipts to Hey, remember back on April X
when you said this instead of that, do you think
they really let's go?

Speaker 1 (47:09):
Do you think Steven Allow would allow that?

Speaker 11 (47:11):
I mean, he runs that station, what runs that company?

Speaker 5 (47:15):
Who cares if people are tuning in? I mean that's
the thing. If egos are getting in the way, then
what are you putting Baylis on.

Speaker 1 (47:20):
The air forach? What's the point that's.

Speaker 5 (47:23):
I mean, my god, I mean you're putting him on
the air. You just promoted this as almost like a
cage man uncomfortable on both sides. Yes, hell yeah, go
after him, Skippy. I'm rooting for Skips. Same all right, Dick,
I didn't like Ski. I still think I'm rooting for
Did you happen to hear that?

Speaker 11 (47:39):
What's that?

Speaker 1 (47:40):
Dick?

Speaker 5 (47:41):
Forty four years ago today, forty three year old Gaylord
Perry put vagasil, barbarasol, and snot on a baseball and
became the fifteenth pitcher in Major League history to join
the three hundred win club, where he tossed a complete
game for the Mariners.

Speaker 1 (47:56):
See if you recognize this.

Speaker 12 (47:57):
Voice, Gaylard Perry went out away from three hundred, the
two one pitch to Randolph swung on down ball the Cruz.

Speaker 4 (48:05):
They should done.

Speaker 1 (48:06):
He's got it it over Daylard has three hundred.

Speaker 12 (48:10):
Everybody mob and Gaylard Perry as he goes all the way.
His teammates come out but bulling and Gaylard Perry becomes
a fifteenth man in baseball history to win three hundred
games as the Mariners beat the Yankees seven to three.

Speaker 1 (48:27):
My oh my, the voice of Dave knee House.

Speaker 4 (48:31):
Guys, how about this?

Speaker 5 (48:32):
On that day, Dave nee House was forty seven years old,
five years younger than me?

Speaker 1 (48:36):
Now what he called that game?

Speaker 5 (48:38):
Because for me, growing up, Dave Knee House always felt
like he was one hundred.

Speaker 1 (48:42):
That's right, he felt that.

Speaker 4 (48:43):
He was forty seven years old.

Speaker 8 (48:46):
Imagine that forty seven when you're ten is really old.

Speaker 4 (48:52):
No, I agree with that.

Speaker 5 (48:52):
I'm just saying now that you and I are in
our early fifties, right, the fact that he's four or
five years younger than you and I are right. And look,
Daveney House looked the same from day one to the
day because.

Speaker 1 (49:05):
He went gray a little early like me.

Speaker 8 (49:07):
I'm hoping him to age gracefully because I went gray early.

Speaker 5 (49:12):
You look terrible, Thank you Jackson, never discussing that. That's
just Jackson actually stopped me in the hall. Can you
believe how bad looks?

Speaker 1 (49:24):
Say?

Speaker 5 (49:25):
What's a birthday week? By the way, all right, hey, Dick,
did you happen to hear that?

Speaker 1 (49:29):
What's that?

Speaker 6 (49:29):
Dick?

Speaker 4 (49:30):
Let's go to seven. Let's get seven in here, all right?

Speaker 1 (49:33):
What the hell?

Speaker 4 (49:33):
Seven?

Speaker 1 (49:34):
Oh boy?

Speaker 4 (49:34):
Nick right?

Speaker 5 (49:35):
Joining con Cow heard show this week to revel at
Lebron's success in the series against Houston, had had fun
at the flip flopping Bron haters in the process.

Speaker 14 (49:46):
It was really delightful watching the progression of folks who
have been let's call it Lebron skeptics. Most of their yeah,
I can thinkure a few starting the series when they
thought the Lakers had no chance. They were like, well,
if Lebron pulls this off, then fine, maybe he's the goat,

(50:09):
but they're getting swept. And then three days later they're like,
you know what, the Rockets are just.

Speaker 1 (50:16):
Off anybody could beat him.

Speaker 14 (50:19):
And then three days after that, when it looked like
the Rockets might come back, they were like, you know what,
I think this Rockets team can pull off the first
ever three to zero comeback.

Speaker 1 (50:29):
What a stain on Lebron.

Speaker 14 (50:31):
And then when they win, it just immediately goes to
we'll see him do it against OKC.

Speaker 11 (50:36):
Just a full tour de force of cope.

Speaker 14 (50:39):
Which I really enjoyed from Afar.

Speaker 1 (50:42):
Huh. I cannot add anything of that. That is just
so perfect.

Speaker 8 (50:46):
Because Lebron shade haters change their narrative daily based upon
what's going on in the series. I'll add something to it,
for sure. I think people like that make me hate
Lebron James even more. The whole thing is getting There's
never been a player with a legion of fans who
spend more time trying to justify him than Lebron James fans.

Speaker 1 (51:08):
It's ridiculous.

Speaker 5 (51:10):
I mean, instead of talking about how great the guy
is and just talking about how good he is and
how he's unbelievable at his age, all they do is
just bitch and moan about people that don't like Well,
that's because there's crazy.

Speaker 8 (51:21):
That's because there's never been a player in the history
of sports, an all time great in the history of
sports that has gotten criticized by more people than Lebron James.

Speaker 5 (51:32):
I'm telling you, for me, it's annoying as well. All
I can do is speak for that's on Lebron's fault.
Lebron doesn't step up and saying I'm the goat. I'm
the goat, I'm the goat. Everybody does it around.

Speaker 4 (51:39):
I'm not saying that at all. I'm just saying, you
know what, it makes you like him, It makes me like.

Speaker 5 (51:43):
Him less because it's annoying his piss but it's unbelievable, dick.

Speaker 8 (51:47):
But don't you think it's unfair with something that he's
not doing makes you like him less? Do you think
that that's the way sports works.

Speaker 5 (51:56):
There's a lot of people out there that don't like
teams or players because of narrative.

Speaker 1 (52:00):
Is that other people make up for them.

Speaker 5 (52:02):
I'm just saying this that I would really love to
just sit back and appreciate Lebron James for the player
that he is. Instead, all I hear from his legion
of supporters is people complaining about what other people think
about him.

Speaker 4 (52:17):
It's crazy, like enough for.

Speaker 8 (52:19):
Ready, and I don't think those that legion would even
exist if everybody were just to agree with what you're.

Speaker 1 (52:25):
Saying is that he.

Speaker 8 (52:27):
Is unbelievable greatest of this generation and can be considered
the greatest of all time. You don't have to believe
he's the greatest of all time, but he is great
enough to be considered the greatest.

Speaker 1 (52:38):
I will say this.

Speaker 5 (52:39):
I don't hate him per se, but the more and
more I hear about things like this, the more I'm
apped to just kind of have a negative perception of him.

Speaker 1 (52:48):
That's it.

Speaker 10 (52:48):
Let me let me put it this way. Maybe Dick,
you'll you'll pick up on what I'm putting down here,
and it's gonna connect to what we just talked about.
Because first take with Steven A and Skip Bayless, over
the years, did so much Cowboys, Yankees, Lakers, Cowboys, Yankees, Lakers, Cowboys, Yankees,

(53:09):
over and over did you not like?

Speaker 1 (53:11):
I for sure did had.

Speaker 10 (53:12):
An extra disdain for those three teams because of how
much they just endlessly talked about them.

Speaker 1 (53:20):
I I don't like those three teams.

Speaker 10 (53:21):
I hate those three teams more because of that discourse.

Speaker 11 (53:24):
I think the Cowboys definitely.

Speaker 8 (53:27):
I already hated the Yankees, so that was easy, okay,
and Lebron since I didn't like the Lakers until Lebron
played for.

Speaker 5 (53:33):
So okay, so same concepts here, your your your point
is well taken. That because ESPN has their heads so
far up the Cowboys backside, it makes you kind of
a little even more annoyed by their existence to begin with.
And so everything I hear about Lebron James isn't about
him and his play and his accomplishments. It's about what

(53:55):
other people think about him. It's it's crazy, So knock
it off, because I want to enjoy the guy. I
think I still preferred Jordan. I think Lebron, I think
hang on, I think Lebron's had a better career as
far as accomplishments, Jordan I think was a better player
in his prime. And I've used the example of Bo

(54:15):
Jackson versus Sean Alexander. Sean had a better career, no
doubt than Bo, but in his prime, at the tip
of the prime, Bow was a better player, Yeah than Sean.

Speaker 11 (54:25):
Sandy Koax ran Johnson exactly.

Speaker 5 (54:27):
Well, I mean you can argue, Randy, maybe both, but
you you're didn't Sandy win? Like you're understanding what I'm saying.
Randy went four straight, Saw. I think you're right, But
we just spent so much time bitching about it, right, God,
it's nuts.

Speaker 4 (54:44):
We got time for a few more.

Speaker 1 (54:46):
One more? Maybe?

Speaker 4 (54:46):
Which one you want?

Speaker 1 (54:47):
Which one? Pick five?

Speaker 4 (54:49):
Let's do five? Alrighty Dick, did you happen to hear that?

Speaker 1 (54:51):
What's that?

Speaker 5 (54:52):
Last week Barstool's Pardon My Take? Welcome to horse Racing
Analyst Randy Moss to preview the Kentucky Darbay. The show
hired a new producer, Zach, who was asked to prepare
some questions for the interview ahead of time. He, of course,
prepared questions for the wrong Randy Moss.

Speaker 11 (55:09):
We have a new addition to part of my take.

Speaker 1 (55:11):
And he's in the booth over here. His name is Zach.
He's our first round pick. He's a superstar.

Speaker 7 (55:16):
Zach saw that we had you on the show this morning,
and so he prepared some questions.

Speaker 1 (55:20):
But he might I'm hearing that he might not have.

Speaker 11 (55:22):
Prepared questions for the correct Randy Moss.

Speaker 1 (55:25):
That's happened before. Okay, go ahead, Zach, Hey, Rennie, how
are you doing with them?

Speaker 6 (55:30):
Man?

Speaker 1 (55:31):
Good?

Speaker 6 (55:31):
How you doc?

Speaker 1 (55:32):
I was I was curious, is a horse shocking?

Speaker 4 (55:34):
Is that like a family Lineageach?

Speaker 1 (55:40):
Hey?

Speaker 6 (55:41):
Going on?

Speaker 7 (55:44):
I was, Uh, I was curious if there was ever
a catch in your career that maybe that you came
down with and you were just like, I had no
business catching this ball and you got to the ground
and he was just in your hands.

Speaker 3 (55:55):
No, there was a tackle in my career when I
was in the sixth grade and a guy was running
back a kick a touchdown in the championship game and
I made the tackle and saved the game.

Speaker 1 (56:04):
And that's the only football highlight of my life. It's
well done, y.

Speaker 6 (56:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (56:08):
So we've been through this before, remember before the Super Bowl?

Speaker 1 (56:15):
Awesome?

Speaker 5 (56:16):
You want Randy Moss and you read the first line,
you're like, hell yeah, and then you read the second line,
the third line, the fourth line.

Speaker 4 (56:22):
Randy is an expert in the horse racing.

Speaker 1 (56:24):
What the heck is?

Speaker 4 (56:26):
Because who's gonna read that right?

Speaker 1 (56:28):
Exactly?

Speaker 8 (56:28):
Because you're trying to beat the other producers to get
them to book Randy Moss. You're just seeing Randy Moss
during super Bowl week.

Speaker 1 (56:34):
Awesome.

Speaker 5 (56:35):
It's unbelievable, man. And I think they do that on purpose.
The publicist does that on purpose, knowing their way up
to get more requests for him. If they hide it
underneath the lead that it's not the Randy Moss you're
thinking of, it's kind of sneaky,