May 8, 2025 • 34 mins
In the first hour, Dave Softy Mahler and Jackson Felts welcome back Dick Fain from vacation as the guys react to the Mariners winning a ninth straight series yesterday, including the offense staying on fire and how much credit Jerry Dipoto deserves for offensive numbers to start the year, then the guys react to some Fun with Audio clips.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Where now we got you back? You're here.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
And by the way, Jackson and I have both decided
it actually has been kind of a company mandate that
whoever sits in position B, which is right there, buys
lunch every Thursday for the radio show. So congratulations, you're
on the clock. It's all you you, Bucky Jessman. Whoever
sits in that chair is now buying lunch on Thursday.
So Jackson and I will both take al gaucho that
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works for us. Well, yesterday was actually his birthday, and
I had no idea until I didn't show.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Well, here's the funny thing.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
So and I told this to him on the area yesterday,
I'm literally standing in my kitchen and I had this
just random thought pop into my head. Man, I got
to put on my calendar when Jackson's birthday is so
I don't miss it. And then I come to work
and he says, my birthday's today. I'm like, what the
hell are you kidding?
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Men? I do think that I incepted the idea into
your head with a very subtle nod to a birthday
dinner I was going to in a text.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
At eight am.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
H I thought he was talking about somebody else's birthday,
he said, a birthday dinner. I don't assume it's your birthday, right,
because what kind of douche would text you and say, hey,
I'm going to my birthday dinner tonight.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Nobody does does that?
Speaker 2 (01:11):
So I felt bad, but I I did give him
a couple hundred bucks though, for dinner last night.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
By the way, all right in, I'll take the hundred bucks.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
So I didn't really want to start this with a
money conversation because boys, I am flat freaking okay, okay
with that five consecutive days at Disney Parks, I am flat.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Well, let me ask you this, do we need to
start to go fund me y replenish account?
Speaker 1 (01:42):
And here's what's funny. I sound somebody you think we
could raise? We did that? Should we do that? Giggles?
What happened?
Speaker 4 (01:48):
I always think that's bad karma, though, like it to
do a go fund me thing for something that's like
not like dead serious.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
I mean, if people want to give you money.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
Because at some point, who knows, maybe you all need
to do a go fund me account for something really
really serious. I'm not doing a cry wolf ahead of
time on that, but it's funny you brought that up
because I was talking to Purple Sheet the other day.
It's like, you, you know, I'm cheap, Softy, you know,
I'm cheap Jackson. That's just I'm very she you're just frugal,
thank you, thank you. That's a euphemism for cheap. My
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wife knows I'm frugal as well. And she said at
the beginning of the trip, she said, Honey, this is
the one and only time we're doing this. I want
you to not worry about the credit card. You said that.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
He said that, okaycause I was never to be totally
honest with you. I'm just being nice when I say
frugal the bottom line, and I'm the only one that
can say this. You're more Jewish than I am. All right,
okay when it comes to money.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
I mean, it's ridiculous.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
If that's just your parents are that way. I know,
an old soul, that way, an old soul. And my
father is you know, my father is an old, older man.
He grew up in the Depression. So my dad grew
up in the thirties with zero and so I was
I was learned. I learned from a very early age
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that you make your money and you put it away,
you invest it, and you let it grow. And you
don't not that you don't ever have nice things for yourself,
you just don't overdo it. And so we kind of
get it.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
We'll get it.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
Well, the old cac we're having Casey on today, flat
over did it. That's right, saying I flat over did
it this.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
I got a feeling though that you're overdoing it is
different than Jackson and I was overdoing it right, pretty
frugal too. Well, so can you actually, like, do you
mind sharing with us?
Speaker 5 (03:39):
Like?
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Okay, so you at the five parks in five days
with kids? Right, five days?
Speaker 2 (03:42):
How much money in just those five days do you
think you spent in just those five parks?
Speaker 1 (03:47):
You're gone for a week and a half, right, it's
gone for a week.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
After you got the park, Copper, did you park the
family truckster in the back so you could leave first
when the crowd empties out.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Oh that's what we got.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
We got it where we could take the monoail. We
don't have to take the family.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
To bring your gun and shoot the guy in the
end like chev No, it got the Vacasey got him
a great start because we went to see Jana's dad
for the first time in Florida.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
He moved to Florida like five years ago. We'd never
seen him before, and God blessed them. Like I mean,
I I had to find things to buy for them
because they were awesome. They just like took care of us.
But then once we left that, it was like, oh boy,
it's it's over now. But how much do we how
much did you spend? I just want to know. I
don't want the culture the five days at the park.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
So we're talking park tickets, we're talking parking, We're talking
about hotel.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
No.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Hotel no, no, because that's the hotels is a necessity.
Like you didn't have to go five days in five parks,
but you did it because you're a good dad and
your kids, you know, want you to keep thinking you're
a good guy. So you took him to five parks
and five days. So how much did you blow on
the five parks in five days? That's what I want
to know. I want to know how much money did
I save in the last five days because I have
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no kids.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
Five men minimum park minimum six and.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Jesus minimal at a theme park. Well, there was tive
days in a row. There was two.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
Dinners that my wife got us. You know, she was like,
I'm getting a couple of dent nice dinners, and don't
I mean those were like, I don't spend five hundred
dollars on dinner. I never ever ever do that. I
don't want to be nice twice.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Let's talk Let's talk about that.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Let's get some text on the things that Dick Fane
and the Feinne family could have done with that silk gram.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
Five day park Copper or is just single parks for
each day four day park Opper and Disney was so
nice that they threw in Typhoon Lagoon for free.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Why do I have this vision in my brain of
you guys walking down the main drag of a park
with Mickey Mouse ears on your head?
Speaker 6 (05:44):
Are you?
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Are you that kind of fun?
Speaker 4 (05:45):
We had Mickey Mouse's the whole time. She had Mini
Mouse heres the whole time.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
With her little birthday. It was her birthday, so she
had the little birthday.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
It's my birthday.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Did you at least use the Costco vacation package that.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Gives you all the details? Now, we used a package.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
I don't know if it was through Costco or not,
but it was a was a package.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Well, listen, we're glad that you survived. I don't know
how you did it. I did it for two days
five years ago, and I was freaking exhausted, Like I
I came home and slept for a day and a half.
And that was just two days, right with one like
eight year old kid that was beating the crap out
of me for forty eight hours. So I have no
idea how you did it. But a lot's been going
on since, a good stuff going on. Going to say this,
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if the Mariners start going down the toilet starting tomorrow,
we might do a go fundy to get your ass
back on vacation. By the way, we got a cruise,
by the way, because they're six and two in the
last eight games. They just won their ninth consecutive series.
They got the second best record in the AL. I
believe they have the third best run differential now in
the American League. They're three games up on the A's.
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It just continues. My oh my, it's incredible. These guys
won again yesterday down five nothing, and we can go
around the room and talk about like our favorite stats
or our favorite pieces of this twenty two and fourteen start.
But I think for me and I never would have
seen this coming because, look, I thought the offense would
be better. You know, I've been kind of hanging on
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to the offense is going to be better card for
the last you know, year and a half, going back
to last April, and I mean they've been playing good
for a month and a week, but there's a long
way to go.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
I mean, I never expected them to do this.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
Obviously, that's a longer stretch named ever do recation.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Well, there's a there's a couple of things that we've
talked about.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
By the way, behind your back when you were with
the family spending six thousand dollars on theme parks, is that,
first of all, Jerry Depoto is wrong about.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
This offensefensive team.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
They have a great offensive team, great offensive team. They
are not good, they are great. Okay, that's number one.
Number two. If you would have told me over the offseason, man,
George Kirby, Luis Castillo or excuse me, Logan Gilbert are
gonna miss nine starts combined in the first five weeks
of the year, and they're gonna be six and three
in those nine games, I wouldn't have bought that. I mean,
and it's not because of Luis f. Castillo, who got
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released yesterday. By the way, I think he may have
been traded to somebody. Actually, Hancock and then Logan Evans,
their offense is picking them up. I mean, Hancock's been
sensational since that first start when he got sent down
a triple A after he got two outs and they
pulled him out of the game. But this offense is
carrying this pitching staff right now.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
What the hell bizarro world, dick are we living at?
Speaker 4 (08:21):
Well, the number my favorite numbers are are twofold. One
is six and the other one is seven thirty two.
And if you would have told me that Julio Rodriguez
would have only a seven thirty two ops and you
would have a combined six starts from Kirby and Logan
Gilbert right through May the eighth, I would have told you,
and you would have said, what's their record, I'd be
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there they're seven or eight games under five, and instead
they're eight games over five. Right, I mean, it's it's
absolutely incredible, and it seems a little more sustainable because
I think last year we're like the pitching's gonna carry
the picture is gonna carry him. No matter how bad
their offense is, their pitching is at least gonna get
them to eighty five wins. Well, that's what it got
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them to and that wasn't enough exactly. Well this year,
you think, yes, the offense is going to probably regress
a bit from where they are now, from where they
are now, but the pitching should progress more than the
offense regresses, I would think, especially when you get everybody
back and healthy.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Yeah, I mean absolutely.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
You know here and I talked yesterday that, and I
don't know where they are now. Let's see, they are
on pace, I believe to score about eight hundred and
sixty runs so far this year. God, I had the
tweet from yesterday and I can't find the damn thing.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
But they're on.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Pace to score around let's just just call it eight
hundred and fifty runs. Eight hundred and sixty runs. That
would have been good enough last year, Dick, that would
have been good enough excuse me for second in baseball.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
That's what they're on pace to do now.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
And that would have been good enough last year to
finish right in the top two or three in the majors.
I don't expect them to be two or three and
runs scored in the year's over. But do I expect
them to be maybe top ten, maybe twelfth, thirteenth. Yeah,
they were twenty first a year ago. So just pull
back a little bit. And if I told you over
the offseason the Mariners are going to make a jump
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from twenty first to twelfth, a fifty percent jump, you
would have said, hell, yeah, yeah, I'll take it. So
they don't even need to be as hot as they
are now to make a significant jump from where they
were last year.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
You know what, guys, I think it's time to say
it is that the Mariners cannot waste this generational offense.
We have an offense that we only see once every
twenty two years.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
So I know I can't.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
According to the general manager, though, you got a perception, man, there.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Is the reality of our offense and the perception, Well
what's the perception.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
The perception is that they're really good, But the reality
is they're freaking awesome.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
So I mean, really, he's right, and you're right.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
And I said that exact same thing Dick to Hugh
yesterday that I think this is more sustainable than last
year because now you're relying on you know, twelve thirteen
guys every single day versus five every single week, and
if those five guys don't get the job done, you're
gonna sick. Well, now you don't need those five guys
to be as e lead as they were a year again.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
Well, and look at we've always talked about can you
just get us four runs?
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Please?
Speaker 4 (11:15):
Can you just get us Last year when they scored
four runs or more, they were forty eight and four.
But the problem is only did it fifty two times.
Right this year, they've already done it twenty four times
this year. They're on pace to doing what seventy five
eighty times this year. So if they can get that
pitching staff back to closer to where it was last
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year when they were winning at a ninety two percent
clip when they scored four or more, this could be,
I'm not gonna say it will be. This could be
a season where you pull away, not only pull away
and win by it like they did last year in May,
but pull away and stay pulled away. If they can
get that pitching staff solidified.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Let me just let me just give you the actual number.
They're unpaced for eight hundred and thirty three runs, which
last year would have been good enough for third in
Major League Baseball, right behind the Dodgers and in front
of the Yankees.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
That's how many runs they are on pace.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
To score, more than the Yankees did a year ago
with Aaron Judge and that great offense.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
But here's the thing. You know, Boonie's gone. He's now
the hitting coach of the Rangers.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
How about that?
Speaker 2 (12:22):
You leaving Boone quits for crying out loud. He's like,
if Dick Fane is not here, now, I'm done. And
they were great in the first game, okay, yesterday, But
I think the Rangers eventually will play better. The A's
are gonna take a step back. There just there's no
way they can sustain this. The Astros, I think, are
probably where they're going to be. I still think this
is going to be a race between Texas and Seattle
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for the American League West championship at the end of
the day. But I will say this that this is
not any time for these guys to rest on their laurels.
I mean, picking up Tavaris was great. Three and a
half million bucks on him. He paid immediate dividends. In
Game one, Williamson just you know, admitting that the Polanco
thing at third base as a disaster and it's not
gonna work.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Get him out of there. Let's get Ben Williamson up.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
And he's been fine so far as your everyday third basement. Eventually,
they got to figure out what Polanko's role is gonna be.
Is he gonna be a second basement, Is he gonna
be a DH's he gonna be trained to play first base?
And then Rowdy Telez starts popping off in the last
week and a half, right, I mean, just when the
talk started about getting rid of him and like enough
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is enough, he's like, okay, fine, watch this, and he's
got like an eight to fifty ops in the last
week and a half.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
Well, the reason they're getting consistent offense is they're they're
running the bases, they're putting bat on ball. They're not
just for wine.
Speaker 7 (13:39):
Now.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
They're hitting home runs, no question about it, but they're
not just relying on home runs to win. And I
think what's gonna be nice is I totally agree with you.
There's nobody like there is in the central that's just
gonna continually push you. Right now, the Guardians and the
Royals and the Tigers. All three of them are basically
as good as you are right now. In the West,
you just don't have that. And you know, you figure
in the East, the Red Side will probably be up
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there towards the Yankees by the end of by the.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
End of the day.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
But we've always said eighty eight Ish is gonna win
this division, and nothing indicates that eighty eight isn't going
to win the division through the first six weeks of
the year.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Sure. Well, look, I mean, here's the thing.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
They were really good to your point about walking and
getting on base, they're really good in the WAK category.
A year ago, I think they were fourth in baseball, yeah,
fourth and baseball in walks. But now they're on pace
for over seven hundred, which would have been the most
in baseball by thirty By the way, like the gap
between them and number two in the game would have
been pretty damn significant. So they've improved in that category.
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And the other thing, like all of us are sitting
around going how are they doing this? How are they
doing it?
Speaker 4 (14:44):
Well?
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Pulocko is a huge part of it, clearly, JP Crawford
bounced it back whatever. But the difference too though, and
It's not a gigantic sample, but it's you know, at
this point of the year when three or four games
either way can make a big difference in your win
loss record. They made the playoffs in two thousand twenty two.
We talked about this a lot, partially because of their
extra inning and one run record. Then they fell apart
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the next year, and they fell apart even more of
the following year. Now they're going back to where they
were in twenty twenty two. They're eight and four and
one run games and they're two and three and extra
inning game so they're plus three in that category. They
were minus nine two years ago, and they were plus
eighteen three years ago. Right again, plus three right now
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doesn't seem like a big number, but plus three every single.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
Month, Yeah, we're only quarter the way through the seat gets.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
You a plus eighteen when the year's over.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
And if you're not plus three, if you're minus three,
all of a sudden, the six game swing totally different.
So we'll get some thoughts on this on the text line.
Matt ense is the new head coach at Fresno State.
The reason why we're gonna have him on I had
a chance to talk to him yesterday, by the way,
Dig full disclosure, he was Gray's Abels coach for four years.
Brought him to Fargo, to North Dakota State. We're gonna
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talk to him about the newest Seahawks guard at four.
Kevin Collaboro is gonna join us and talk some NBA
playoffs at five o'clock tonight. There's a lot to go
over man a bit on a busy Thursday right here
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Speaker 2 (16:26):
Anybody find it coincidental that the day of the Vatican
released as a white smoke, Dick Fane returns to kjr's airwaves.
Speaker 4 (16:33):
Huh yeah, what would be the connection there? Out of I
rack runs right. Oh, that's the statsy. I was actually
not in Disney World. I was actually at Saint Peter you.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Were, Yeah, have you been there, by the way?
Speaker 4 (16:46):
I have?
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Have you been there? By the way. It's pretty amazing,
very it's very very cool.
Speaker 7 (16:49):
Cool.
Speaker 6 (16:50):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
The coolest part for me is the crypt below where
they bury all the popes. And Gina was like too
scared to go down there. I'm like, honey, they're dead.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
Like it's well the crypt keepers not down there, nobody
means coming alive and no one's going to reach for
you get there. But I do want to say, and
I'm ripping this off somebody's social media account and I
don't know who it is, and I apologize for not
giving proper credit on the air, but do you realize
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that the last two times that a new pope has
been elected, the Seahawks went to.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
The Super Bowl? Is that right?
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Pope Francis March of twenty thirteen, Pope Benedict April two
thousand and five.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Whoa way? Wow, here we go? Ah, Okay, who's with me?
Speaker 4 (17:38):
I'm with you, I believe, and I think you and
I have had this conversation that Vegas is massively under
selling this football tea seven and a half pras, are
you freaking like you got? You trade Geno Smith essentially
for Sam Darnold and you go you drop three games.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
It's almost like whoever wrote that number down thought they
were being asked, Okay, give us the over under for
the Browns, right or whatever, and they are the Falcons, right, whatever,
And they just got the wrong team because it makes
no sense. I mean, you and I were talking about
this a couple of days ago. The only thing you
can think of, like, what what makes the line move
more than anything else in the other back?
Speaker 1 (18:16):
The quarterback.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
So does Vegas really think that Sam Darnold is that
much worse than Geno Smith?
Speaker 1 (18:22):
They must they must, right, they have to.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
Well, I just think I think there's this perception that, oh, well,
you know, because what are the national national media and
national fans think of the Seahawks last year? The first
two names that come to mind, oh, Gino Smith and
DK metcalf Right. So when you get rid of the
two biggest names on your team, the initial reaction is, well,
they're they're selling the farm. I mean, they're they're rebuilding.
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But I would expect Vegas not to be that naive
and and I, hey, I'll take it. I took advantage
of it last year. I'm gonna take advantage of it
again this year. I'm betting the over. Last last year
covered the over. God's gonna cover again this year.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
I think I think the over on the Mariners and
the Seahawks. To me, it looks just like easy money.
I mean, unless the Mariners just completely fall apart.
Speaker 4 (19:09):
Well, it looks like a last year for the Mariners
in a year again making it But what are the
odds of that happening two years in a row? Right?
Speaker 1 (19:15):
I mean, first of all, the Mariners, well last year.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
And I realized the Knicks just came back from twenty
down two games in a row. So crazy things are
happening right now in a in a in this country.
But I mean, hell, we gotta we got a freaking
American pope. The Knicks have come back from twenty two
games in a row, the Mariners have a great offensive team.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Well, like, what the hell's going on here? Man?
Speaker 2 (19:37):
And by the way, does anybody find it funny that
an American pope gets elected before Oregon wins a national time.
Speaker 4 (19:46):
Well that, you know, the Knicks and the pope thing
got a little bit in common, right. The Knicks are
team Villanova's right, and you got a Villa Can you
imagine Villanova Wildcats right now? They are just pumping up
there just like we got Jalen Bruns and kicking the
Celtics ass and we got a pope.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
Well I think, I mean he goes back to me
to just the numbers playing out that finally some of
these guys are starting to hit a little bit. I mean,
Kyle Roley's a freaking star, right, no doubt. Polanco, you know, Okay,
no way, he keeps this up. But he's having a
hell of a year. He's an All Star. Crawford's probably
going to be. He's got a chance to be an
All Star. I think it's like third and the al
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and batting average and war amongst shortstops. Right now, that
kid and Oakland, Jack Wilson and then Bobby Witt Junr
Are right in front of him.
Speaker 4 (20:26):
But he they pitched Jack Wilson by did you talk
about that?
Speaker 1 (20:29):
Yeah, Wilson said he blew it so it was my bag.
He did, oh good for it, which was really cool. Wow,
Scott serious would have never done that.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
The texts exactly what we said in the air, the
same exact things.
Speaker 4 (20:41):
Just have been so snarky. Why are you asking Scott? No?
Speaker 1 (20:44):
You know what he would have said that question.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
The actual text was well, at least he didn't say,
go ask the players.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
That's right, Well, that would have been better because that
would have come from a guy who's got credibils.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
That would have been low Panela.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Yes, I mean Scott Services accomplished nothing in his career
as a manager, so I thought it was great.
Speaker 8 (20:59):
You know.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
He and I talked about that that Wilson came out
and just said, look, I blew it is I'm me.
I mean, he's a rookie manager, right, He's going to
make mistakes. And I mean I remember exactly where we were,
not that it was one hundred years ago, but we
were at the QFC and U Village doing that Sam
jue Celtz a remote when the thing came down that
Dan Wilson was the manager, and we're like, okay, fine,
you want to give Wilson the job, fine, but go
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through the process, right, And they never did that. Well,
guess what we're sitting here today, Dick, and it's only
May the eighth. I realized it's a long time to go.
Dan Wilson is the manager of the year in the
American League and it's not close. And guess what, Jerry
to Poto is the executive of the year in Major
League Baseball and it's not close.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
How insufferable?
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Is Jerry Depoto going to be if he wins the
Executive of the Year in Major League Baseball?
Speaker 5 (21:45):
Team?
Speaker 4 (21:45):
Does the executive the year have to make moves that
improve the team?
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Yeah? I might, I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
Why why can't he be the he deserves it? I mean,
standing Pat is a move, and he stood Pat.
Speaker 4 (22:01):
Look.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
I mean, if they win ninety five games and they
win the West. The Tigers were in the playoffs a
year ago, the Yankees were in the playoffs a year ago.
I'm trying to think of the teams that are leading
the other divisions in the American League.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
We all said two months ago, we said this on
the air, if the Mariners win this division and played
great this year, we're not giving Jerry to Poto credit
for that, Like we're not that two years from weird,
but we don't vote for the executive.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
That's a good point.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
It's such a major League Baseball thing to give Jerry
to Poto the award.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
It do nothing. Guys.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
If they win ninety five and Polanco ends up kicking
ass and Randy a Rose Arena and JP Krow, I mean,
we got to give the guy some credit, right, We
can't be that freaking arrogance and that difficult where we
can't give Jerry to Poto some credit if this thing
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comes down. I mean it's almost like he's kind of
falling into it. I get what you're saying that. It's
like when the Saints ended up with Drew Brees and
they somehow lucked their way into a title with that
idiot as their owner, a fat.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Guy that was yeah with the umbrella, right whatever. This
guy's a clown.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
And he just wins one because you just I mean,
Don Sterling made the conference finals, Like what one year
is the owner of the Clippers. You wake up, you
put your pants on enough times, and every now and
then something good's gonna happen to you. I think we
do need to give Jerry some credit for what's happening
right now because they've had injuries. Ro Bless Bliss, Gilbert Kirby,
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Dylan Moore, Luke Rayley have all spent time on the il,
all of them, and they're still in first place and
they're still on track to win ninety five games.
Speaker 4 (23:41):
Yeah. Well, I guess what you give him credit for,
And I would agree with you. You have to give
him modicum of credit. Well, you give him.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Credit for just a little bit.
Speaker 4 (23:49):
It's the fact that he did see something in guys
like Polongo, in guys like Dylan Moore, where we were
all like, we see nothing.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Well unless unless and this is I'm not speaking for you,
but I think I'm translating for you. Unless he just
had no choice, had no choice because John Stanton gave
him nothing to work with. It's like, hey, if this
is the piece of clay and the pot of cash
that I have to work with, and I'll spend it
on this because I think those guys give me the
best shot.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
And to that point, we saw the report yesterday or
another report, but there was who sent out.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
To Daniel Kramer was kind of just a theory that
pissed me off.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
But the thought was that by bringing in Ta Varies,
the three point five million dollars, playing some of that,
that's going to impact what they do with the trade deadline.
Three point five million dollars, ladies and gentlemen, Larry said,
what they do.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
With That's why I brought it up to Larry. Yeah, yeah,
I brought Kramer's thing up to him. I was like,
I mean, and again, who knows I had one guy
that was all mad him. It was a piss poor
time to have that attitude. And I get it right,
everyone's happier in a good mood. I'm just, you know,
kind of throwing rain in the parade here. But the
fact that we even have to Dick acknowledge that that
might be the case is disturbing.
Speaker 4 (25:00):
Well, I can commiserate with Jerry because I don't know
if I can feed my kids this week because I
spent all last weeks.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
I look, they're young, all right, they can go a
few days without eating. They'll be fine. A little fun
with audio slash hat did you hear that? Next on
ninety three to three kJ RFM, It's.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
Now time for Sufday and Digg's fun with Audio. Jimmy
g pawn Star, Jimmy mister garoppolo. Now let's have some
fun with audio.
Speaker 7 (25:28):
All right.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
We're back on a busy Thursday afternoon tomorrow from the Rainiers,
looking forward to getting down there to tea town.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
Nice day, beautiful day.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
Man, can't wait to get there, gonna have I think
I Harry Ford may swing by the show. By the way,
Mina chimes as well. So a lot going on from
Cheney Stadium, and to comer tomorrow at three. But right
now a little fun with audio slash hat did you
hear that?
Speaker 1 (25:49):
Hey, Dick? Did you happen to hear that? What's that? Dick?
Speaker 2 (25:53):
The nixt stunning the number two seed Celtics again last night,
taking a two oho series lead with a twenty point
comeback on the road. Here's how the game ceiling sequence
sounded on Boston radio with Sean Grandy on ninety eight
point five the Sports Hub in Boston.
Speaker 6 (26:13):
Free throw is good, Celtics trail, no time out, Holliday's
got it, twelve seconds to go back to Tatum.
Speaker 4 (26:19):
Cross half court, Tatum behind.
Speaker 6 (26:20):
The Horfords, green, Tatum, five seconds, Tatum at the free
throw live.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
Tatum falling away in the.
Speaker 6 (26:25):
Baseline is passed block by Bridges, and the Knicks have
done it again. The Celtics do not get us shot
away and the New York Knicks, written off as a
championship contender midway through this season, have just recorded three
extraordinary victories on the road to put.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
Themselves up two.
Speaker 6 (26:46):
Games to none in the Eastern Conference semifinals.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
So the Nuggets fired Mike Malone two years after winning
the NBA title that sounds right. I wonder if the
Celtics lose this series and they and two of them
will be blown twenty point leads.
Speaker 4 (26:59):
The fire missoue one year and he's out the door.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
You can't do that, man, you can't blow consecutive twenty
at home.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
That's the thing.
Speaker 4 (27:08):
Well, and they're at home, and how embarrassing it is,
and then both games and the game winning shot situation. Right,
the ball hasn't even gotten out of the shooter's hands, right,
either one. It's one thing to like miss a shot
to lose a game, but one was just ripped away
and the other one was blocked at the hand.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
Well, hey, Dick, did you happen to hear that? What's
that on the other side of that result? Here's how
that sequence sounded on New York Radio with Tyler Murray
and Monica McNutt on eight eighty ESPN Radio in New York.
Speaker 8 (27:38):
Knicks by one ninety one to ninety Celtics not using
the timeout. Tatum accross McCourt with ten top of the
cab with eight defended by Robinson was seven right wing
three cross over the foul line with four left block.
Speaker 4 (27:49):
Step back stole it by Bridges Bridges chucks it down fourth.
They've done it again. They've done it again.
Speaker 8 (27:55):
The New York Knicks take both and Buckton.
Speaker 4 (27:59):
And a two only heading back to the Becker.
Speaker 5 (28:01):
I know what the Vegas said, I know what the
odds said, I know what the conversation has been. But
when I tell you, I'll walk up today feeling a
little different. If you want to make it about three
point shooting, cool, the Celtic shots twenty five percent from
a three point line again, But how about you make
it about a team determined to defend when it matters
most and having the most clutched player in.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
The league on their side.
Speaker 4 (28:25):
Baby, It ain't.
Speaker 5 (28:26):
About who was the best doing of course, of the
regular season, is who stands up on any given night.
Speaker 8 (28:31):
With tonight's win, you gotta believe anything is possible for
the twenty twenty four to twenty five New York Knicks.
Speaker 4 (28:38):
Well, mcnut's right, I mean you got you got team
dog in the New York Knicks, and you got team
Finesse shoot threes, one hundred of them, by the way, guys,
one hundred threes, and they've made twenty five of the
one hundred. I even I can do that math.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
They missed seventy five threes in two games seventy five
and they lost by three points and one point. Right, oh,
they lost by four points combined. Okay, now they make
two of those threes and they might win the game.
Speaker 4 (29:03):
And that's what Boston is saying, because I think the
Celtics have only trailed for fourteen minutes in the series,
and four of those were in overtime, so in regulation
they've trailed for ten total minutes. They've shot twenty five
percent from three, and they're like, well, we're two shots
away from being up to nothing. So we're still okay
in the series. And I believe them.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
They're still okay. And here's the problem. Though.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
They scored sixteen points in the fourth quarter in Game
one and seventeen points in the fourth quarter in Game two,
and the next scored thirty in Game two. So they're
falling apart man in the clutch. I'm telling you they
lose this series. They're gonna fire that guy be We're
gonna whack him after one year. Hey, Dick, did you
happen to hear that? What's that?
Speaker 1 (29:39):
Dick? All right?
Speaker 2 (29:40):
So apparently we're gonna do one more on that sequence,
because as good as those two radio calls were, they
cannot hold a candle to the Korean TV call of
the final possession.
Speaker 6 (29:51):
Chit tak kay tok kay talk kay top hond on.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
Let me do speak so much.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
Talking.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
I am sending that to a buddy of mine and
I want him to translate that. Can you tell us
what the hell these guys just said?
Speaker 1 (30:13):
The first one is Tatum Tatum, Tatum Tatum.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
Everything is funnier when it's in a foreign language that
you don't understand, right, German, Korean? I mean, Spanish is
you kind of get a little bit of it, right,
But French maybe a little bit. I took French in
high school for some stupid ass reason. Totally irrelevant, no
need to do that whatsoever. But when it's in a
language like that that you have no clue what the
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guy is saying, it just lands funnier.
Speaker 4 (30:39):
It does not well and they always get so jacked up.
And it's not obviously it's not their team. They're from Korea,
like they've got their own teams, right man. NBA basketball
is kicking ass right now. Ratings are big.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
They're still going to solve their regular season problem though, Yes,
but the playoff ratings have been really, really big.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
All right, Hey, Dick, did you happen to hear that?
What's that, Dick? Yesterday? I'm the Pat McAfee.
Speaker 4 (31:01):
Sure.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
ESPN Cowage Football insider Heather Dinnich joined the show and
discuss the College Football Playoff Committee's resistance to changing their
current format and it has.
Speaker 4 (31:11):
To be unanimous in order to change it for this fall,
but they're not ready to vote on it because there's
the politics involved, right.
Speaker 7 (31:18):
They also have to figure out what's the cowards is
going to look like in twenty.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
Twenty six and beyond. Tell me how you really feel.
Speaker 9 (31:25):
Past That's how I feel this. I feel that there's
too many cowards in the world today, you know. I
feel like there's too many people that feel one thing,
say something differently behind closed doors, are on the right
side of things publicly.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
I don't want to take the heat for it. I
feel like you are the cowards.
Speaker 9 (31:40):
Whenever you know that something needs to be changed, you
have the power to make a change, and you refuse
to do so because you're scared of a little bit
of a blowback. That's why you are put in those
seats to make the tough decisions. That's your job, so
don't be cowards in there. So what's the concern about
what they won't change? Like the buy thing, the automatic
adject that's the I think.
Speaker 4 (31:59):
That's a and also they guaranteed and also guaranteeing a
certain amount of bids for the SEC and the Big ten.
But it is it does kind of seem like DC right.
It's just like, well, yeah, two sides are just deciding
not to do anything, and you know it's it's frustrating
because it obviously needs a change. What we saw last
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year in the playoffs was terrible.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
But who runs this thing? Who's running this thing? NA
is not running it.
Speaker 4 (32:26):
There is nobody there.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
The TV networks are running it. The TV networks want
the best teams possible. So I mean, like, what are
we who are we bitching about? Don't bitch at the
NC DOUBLEA.
Speaker 4 (32:36):
They're out.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
They got no control over this at all.
Speaker 4 (32:38):
They're just thinking about the College Football Playoff Committee.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
Right, who are run by the television networks who pay
gazillions of dollars a year and they want the best
games and the best teams possible. So you're yelling at
them if you're mcafear whoever to change their ways, Why
should they?
Speaker 1 (32:57):
As long as they're in charge, they'll never change.
Speaker 4 (33:00):
But don't think what the big, big product, right, But
they're running out like a business and the best product
is the best teams in So my point is this,
if we can have the conversation about seating, which I
think eventually will change, but the automatic bid thing that.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
You're talking about that's never gonna stop.
Speaker 6 (33:16):
Never.
Speaker 4 (33:17):
Well, I got a bigger issue with the seating than
I do in the automatic because I think the bids,
the bids are gonna shake out, I mean the SEC
and the Big ten. Eventually you're gonna get five of
these teams in peace. So we're not gonna worry about
that is the seating. Though. You just can't have Boise
and Arizona State getting buy.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
Well, look, if they deserve it, they deserve it. I
mean I have no problem re seeing it and letting
the top teams and the polls go off that number.
That's fine by me. But if people are complaining about
the automatic bids per conferences, the reason why the TV
networks even care in the first place is because of
those conferences and the teams that they have.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
If you take that away, You're not making as much money.
So what do you want?
Speaker 2 (33:56):
You can't have both, right, We're gonna break matt Ends
is the current head coach at Fresno. He was grays
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We'll talk to coach Jens about the new Hall of
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Where now we got you back? You're here.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
And by the way, Jackson and I have both decided
it actually has been kind of a company mandate that
whoever sits in position B, which is right there, buys
lunch every Thursday for the radio show. So congratulations, you're
on the clock. It's all you you, Bucky Jessman. Whoever
sits in that chair is now buying lunch on Thursday.
So Jackson and I will both take al gaucho that
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works for us. Well, yesterday was actually his birthday, and
I had no idea until I didn't show.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Well, here's the funny thing.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
So and I told this to him on the area yesterday,
I'm literally standing in my kitchen and I had this
just random thought pop into my head. Man, I got
to put on my calendar when Jackson's birthday is so
I don't miss it. And then I come to work
and he says, my birthday's today. I'm like, what the
hell are you kidding?
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Men? I do think that I incepted the idea into
your head with a very subtle nod to a birthday
dinner I was going to in a text.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
At eight am.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
H I thought he was talking about somebody else's birthday,
he said, a birthday dinner. I don't assume it's your birthday, right,
because what kind of douche would text you and say, hey,
I'm going to my birthday dinner tonight.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Nobody does does that?
Speaker 2 (01:11):
So I felt bad, but I I did give him
a couple hundred bucks though, for dinner last night.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
By the way, all right in, I'll take the hundred bucks.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
So I didn't really want to start this with a
money conversation because boys, I am flat freaking okay, okay
with that five consecutive days at Disney Parks, I am flat.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Well, let me ask you this, do we need to
start to go fund me y replenish account?
Speaker 1 (01:42):
And here's what's funny. I sound somebody you think we
could raise? We did that? Should we do that? Giggles?
What happened?
Speaker 4 (01:48):
I always think that's bad karma, though, like it to
do a go fund me thing for something that's like
not like dead serious.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
I mean, if people want to give you money.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
Because at some point, who knows, maybe you all need
to do a go fund me account for something really
really serious. I'm not doing a cry wolf ahead of
time on that, but it's funny you brought that up
because I was talking to Purple Sheet the other day.
It's like, you, you know, I'm cheap, Softy, you know,
I'm cheap Jackson. That's just I'm very she you're just frugal,
thank you, thank you. That's a euphemism for cheap. My
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wife knows I'm frugal as well. And she said at
the beginning of the trip, she said, Honey, this is
the one and only time we're doing this. I want
you to not worry about the credit card. You said that.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
He said that, okaycause I was never to be totally
honest with you. I'm just being nice when I say
frugal the bottom line, and I'm the only one that
can say this. You're more Jewish than I am. All right,
okay when it comes to money.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
I mean, it's ridiculous.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
If that's just your parents are that way. I know,
an old soul, that way, an old soul. And my
father is you know, my father is an old, older man.
He grew up in the Depression. So my dad grew
up in the thirties with zero and so I was
I was learned. I learned from a very early age
(03:10):
that you make your money and you put it away,
you invest it, and you let it grow. And you
don't not that you don't ever have nice things for yourself,
you just don't overdo it. And so we kind of
get it.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
We'll get it.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
Well, the old cac we're having Casey on today, flat
over did it. That's right, saying I flat over did
it this.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
I got a feeling though that you're overdoing it is
different than Jackson and I was overdoing it right, pretty
frugal too. Well, so can you actually, like, do you
mind sharing with us?
Speaker 5 (03:39):
Like?
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Okay, so you at the five parks in five days
with kids? Right, five days?
Speaker 2 (03:42):
How much money in just those five days do you
think you spent in just those five parks?
Speaker 1 (03:47):
You're gone for a week and a half, right, it's
gone for a week.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
After you got the park, Copper, did you park the
family truckster in the back so you could leave first
when the crowd empties out.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Oh that's what we got.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
We got it where we could take the monoail. We
don't have to take the family.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
To bring your gun and shoot the guy in the
end like chev No, it got the Vacasey got him
a great start because we went to see Jana's dad
for the first time in Florida.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
He moved to Florida like five years ago. We'd never
seen him before, and God blessed them. Like I mean,
I I had to find things to buy for them
because they were awesome. They just like took care of us.
But then once we left that, it was like, oh boy,
it's it's over now. But how much do we how
much did you spend? I just want to know. I
don't want the culture the five days at the park.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
So we're talking park tickets, we're talking parking, We're talking
about hotel.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
No.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Hotel no, no, because that's the hotels is a necessity.
Like you didn't have to go five days in five parks,
but you did it because you're a good dad and
your kids, you know, want you to keep thinking you're
a good guy. So you took him to five parks
and five days. So how much did you blow on
the five parks in five days? That's what I want
to know. I want to know how much money did
I save in the last five days because I have
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no kids.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
Five men minimum park minimum six and.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Jesus minimal at a theme park. Well, there was tive
days in a row. There was two.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
Dinners that my wife got us. You know, she was like,
I'm getting a couple of dent nice dinners, and don't
I mean those were like, I don't spend five hundred
dollars on dinner. I never ever ever do that. I
don't want to be nice twice.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Let's talk Let's talk about that.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Let's get some text on the things that Dick Fane
and the Feinne family could have done with that silk gram.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
Five day park Copper or is just single parks for
each day four day park Opper and Disney was so
nice that they threw in Typhoon Lagoon for free.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Why do I have this vision in my brain of
you guys walking down the main drag of a park
with Mickey Mouse ears on your head?
Speaker 6 (05:44):
Are you?
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Are you that kind of fun?
Speaker 4 (05:45):
We had Mickey Mouse's the whole time. She had Mini
Mouse heres the whole time.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
With her little birthday. It was her birthday, so she
had the little birthday.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
It's my birthday.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Did you at least use the Costco vacation package that.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Gives you all the details? Now, we used a package.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
I don't know if it was through Costco or not,
but it was a was a package.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Well, listen, we're glad that you survived. I don't know
how you did it. I did it for two days
five years ago, and I was freaking exhausted, Like I
I came home and slept for a day and a half.
And that was just two days, right with one like
eight year old kid that was beating the crap out
of me for forty eight hours. So I have no
idea how you did it. But a lot's been going
on since, a good stuff going on. Going to say this,
(06:25):
if the Mariners start going down the toilet starting tomorrow,
we might do a go fundy to get your ass
back on vacation. By the way, we got a cruise,
by the way, because they're six and two in the
last eight games. They just won their ninth consecutive series.
They got the second best record in the AL. I
believe they have the third best run differential now in
the American League. They're three games up on the A's.
(06:48):
It just continues. My oh my, it's incredible. These guys
won again yesterday down five nothing, and we can go
around the room and talk about like our favorite stats
or our favorite pieces of this twenty two and fourteen start.
But I think for me and I never would have
seen this coming because, look, I thought the offense would
be better. You know, I've been kind of hanging on
(07:10):
to the offense is going to be better card for
the last you know, year and a half, going back
to last April, and I mean they've been playing good
for a month and a week, but there's a long
way to go.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
I mean, I never expected them to do this.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
Obviously, that's a longer stretch named ever do recation.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Well, there's a there's a couple of things that we've
talked about.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
By the way, behind your back when you were with
the family spending six thousand dollars on theme parks, is that,
first of all, Jerry Depoto is wrong about.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
This offensefensive team.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
They have a great offensive team, great offensive team. They
are not good, they are great. Okay, that's number one.
Number two. If you would have told me over the offseason, man,
George Kirby, Luis Castillo or excuse me, Logan Gilbert are
gonna miss nine starts combined in the first five weeks
of the year, and they're gonna be six and three
in those nine games, I wouldn't have bought that. I mean,
and it's not because of Luis f. Castillo, who got
(08:01):
released yesterday. By the way, I think he may have
been traded to somebody. Actually, Hancock and then Logan Evans,
their offense is picking them up. I mean, Hancock's been
sensational since that first start when he got sent down
a triple A after he got two outs and they
pulled him out of the game. But this offense is
carrying this pitching staff right now.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
What the hell bizarro world, dick are we living at?
Speaker 4 (08:21):
Well, the number my favorite numbers are are twofold. One
is six and the other one is seven thirty two.
And if you would have told me that Julio Rodriguez
would have only a seven thirty two ops and you
would have a combined six starts from Kirby and Logan
Gilbert right through May the eighth, I would have told you,
and you would have said, what's their record, I'd be
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there they're seven or eight games under five, and instead
they're eight games over five. Right, I mean, it's it's
absolutely incredible, and it seems a little more sustainable because
I think last year we're like the pitching's gonna carry
the picture is gonna carry him. No matter how bad
their offense is, their pitching is at least gonna get
them to eighty five wins. Well, that's what it got
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them to and that wasn't enough exactly. Well this year,
you think, yes, the offense is going to probably regress
a bit from where they are now, from where they
are now, but the pitching should progress more than the
offense regresses, I would think, especially when you get everybody
back and healthy.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Yeah, I mean absolutely.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
You know here and I talked yesterday that, and I
don't know where they are now. Let's see, they are
on pace, I believe to score about eight hundred and
sixty runs so far this year. God, I had the
tweet from yesterday and I can't find the damn thing.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
But they're on.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Pace to score around let's just just call it eight
hundred and fifty runs. Eight hundred and sixty runs. That
would have been good enough last year, Dick, that would
have been good enough excuse me for second in baseball.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
That's what they're on pace to do now.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
And that would have been good enough last year to
finish right in the top two or three in the majors.
I don't expect them to be two or three and
runs scored in the year's over. But do I expect
them to be maybe top ten, maybe twelfth, thirteenth. Yeah,
they were twenty first a year ago. So just pull
back a little bit. And if I told you over
the offseason the Mariners are going to make a jump
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from twenty first to twelfth, a fifty percent jump, you
would have said, hell, yeah, yeah, I'll take it. So
they don't even need to be as hot as they
are now to make a significant jump from where they
were last year.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
You know what, guys, I think it's time to say
it is that the Mariners cannot waste this generational offense.
We have an offense that we only see once every
twenty two years.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
So I know I can't.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
According to the general manager, though, you got a perception, man, there.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Is the reality of our offense and the perception, Well
what's the perception.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
The perception is that they're really good, But the reality
is they're freaking awesome.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
So I mean, really, he's right, and you're right.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
And I said that exact same thing Dick to Hugh
yesterday that I think this is more sustainable than last
year because now you're relying on you know, twelve thirteen
guys every single day versus five every single week, and
if those five guys don't get the job done, you're
gonna sick. Well, now you don't need those five guys
to be as e lead as they were a year again.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
Well, and look at we've always talked about can you
just get us four runs?
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Please?
Speaker 4 (11:15):
Can you just get us Last year when they scored
four runs or more, they were forty eight and four.
But the problem is only did it fifty two times.
Right this year, they've already done it twenty four times
this year. They're on pace to doing what seventy five
eighty times this year. So if they can get that
pitching staff back to closer to where it was last
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year when they were winning at a ninety two percent
clip when they scored four or more, this could be,
I'm not gonna say it will be. This could be
a season where you pull away, not only pull away
and win by it like they did last year in May,
but pull away and stay pulled away. If they can
get that pitching staff solidified.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Let me just let me just give you the actual number.
They're unpaced for eight hundred and thirty three runs, which
last year would have been good enough for third in
Major League Baseball, right behind the Dodgers and in front
of the Yankees.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
That's how many runs they are on pace.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
To score, more than the Yankees did a year ago
with Aaron Judge and that great offense.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
But here's the thing. You know, Boonie's gone. He's now
the hitting coach of the Rangers.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
How about that?
Speaker 2 (12:22):
You leaving Boone quits for crying out loud. He's like,
if Dick Fane is not here, now, I'm done. And
they were great in the first game, okay, yesterday, But
I think the Rangers eventually will play better. The A's
are gonna take a step back. There just there's no
way they can sustain this. The Astros, I think, are
probably where they're going to be. I still think this
is going to be a race between Texas and Seattle
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for the American League West championship at the end of
the day. But I will say this that this is
not any time for these guys to rest on their laurels.
I mean, picking up Tavaris was great. Three and a
half million bucks on him. He paid immediate dividends. In
Game one, Williamson just you know, admitting that the Polanco
thing at third base as a disaster and it's not
gonna work.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Get him out of there. Let's get Ben Williamson up.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
And he's been fine so far as your everyday third basement. Eventually,
they got to figure out what Polanko's role is gonna be.
Is he gonna be a second basement, Is he gonna
be a DH's he gonna be trained to play first base?
And then Rowdy Telez starts popping off in the last
week and a half, right, I mean, just when the
talk started about getting rid of him and like enough
(13:26):
is enough, he's like, okay, fine, watch this, and he's
got like an eight to fifty ops in the last
week and a half.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
Well, the reason they're getting consistent offense is they're they're
running the bases, they're putting bat on ball. They're not
just for wine.
Speaker 7 (13:39):
Now.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
They're hitting home runs, no question about it, but they're
not just relying on home runs to win. And I
think what's gonna be nice is I totally agree with you.
There's nobody like there is in the central that's just
gonna continually push you. Right now, the Guardians and the
Royals and the Tigers. All three of them are basically
as good as you are right now. In the West,
you just don't have that. And you know, you figure
in the East, the Red Side will probably be up
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there towards the Yankees by the end of by the.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
End of the day.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
But we've always said eighty eight Ish is gonna win
this division, and nothing indicates that eighty eight isn't going
to win the division through the first six weeks of
the year.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Sure. Well, look, I mean, here's the thing.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
They were really good to your point about walking and
getting on base, they're really good in the WAK category.
A year ago, I think they were fourth in baseball, yeah,
fourth and baseball in walks. But now they're on pace
for over seven hundred, which would have been the most
in baseball by thirty By the way, like the gap
between them and number two in the game would have
been pretty damn significant. So they've improved in that category.
(14:39):
And the other thing, like all of us are sitting
around going how are they doing this? How are they
doing it?
Speaker 4 (14:44):
Well?
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Pulocko is a huge part of it, clearly, JP Crawford
bounced it back whatever. But the difference too though, and
It's not a gigantic sample, but it's you know, at
this point of the year when three or four games
either way can make a big difference in your win
loss record. They made the playoffs in two thousand twenty two.
We talked about this a lot, partially because of their
extra inning and one run record. Then they fell apart
(15:06):
the next year, and they fell apart even more of
the following year. Now they're going back to where they
were in twenty twenty two. They're eight and four and
one run games and they're two and three and extra
inning game so they're plus three in that category. They
were minus nine two years ago, and they were plus
eighteen three years ago. Right again, plus three right now
(15:27):
doesn't seem like a big number, but plus three every single.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
Month, Yeah, we're only quarter the way through the seat gets.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
You a plus eighteen when the year's over.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
And if you're not plus three, if you're minus three,
all of a sudden, the six game swing totally different.
So we'll get some thoughts on this on the text line.
Matt ense is the new head coach at Fresno State.
The reason why we're gonna have him on I had
a chance to talk to him yesterday, by the way,
Dig full disclosure, he was Gray's Abels coach for four years.
Brought him to Fargo, to North Dakota State. We're gonna
(15:57):
talk to him about the newest Seahawks guard at four.
Kevin Collaboro is gonna join us and talk some NBA
playoffs at five o'clock tonight. There's a lot to go
over man a bit on a busy Thursday right here
on ninety three three KJRFM.
Speaker 7 (16:11):
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Speaker 2 (16:26):
Anybody find it coincidental that the day of the Vatican
released as a white smoke, Dick Fane returns to kjr's airwaves.
Speaker 4 (16:33):
Huh yeah, what would be the connection there? Out of I
rack runs right. Oh, that's the statsy. I was actually
not in Disney World. I was actually at Saint Peter you.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Were, Yeah, have you been there, by the way?
Speaker 4 (16:46):
I have?
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Have you been there? By the way. It's pretty amazing,
very it's very very cool.
Speaker 7 (16:49):
Cool.
Speaker 6 (16:50):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
The coolest part for me is the crypt below where
they bury all the popes. And Gina was like too
scared to go down there. I'm like, honey, they're dead.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
Like it's well the crypt keepers not down there, nobody
means coming alive and no one's going to reach for
you get there. But I do want to say, and
I'm ripping this off somebody's social media account and I
don't know who it is, and I apologize for not
giving proper credit on the air, but do you realize
(17:19):
that the last two times that a new pope has
been elected, the Seahawks went to.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
The Super Bowl? Is that right?
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Pope Francis March of twenty thirteen, Pope Benedict April two
thousand and five.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Whoa way? Wow, here we go? Ah, Okay, who's with me?
Speaker 4 (17:38):
I'm with you, I believe, and I think you and
I have had this conversation that Vegas is massively under
selling this football tea seven and a half pras, are
you freaking like you got? You trade Geno Smith essentially
for Sam Darnold and you go you drop three games.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
It's almost like whoever wrote that number down thought they
were being asked, Okay, give us the over under for
the Browns, right or whatever, and they are the Falcons, right, whatever,
And they just got the wrong team because it makes
no sense. I mean, you and I were talking about
this a couple of days ago. The only thing you
can think of, like, what what makes the line move
more than anything else in the other back?
Speaker 1 (18:16):
The quarterback.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
So does Vegas really think that Sam Darnold is that
much worse than Geno Smith?
Speaker 1 (18:22):
They must they must, right, they have to.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
Well, I just think I think there's this perception that, oh, well,
you know, because what are the national national media and
national fans think of the Seahawks last year? The first
two names that come to mind, oh, Gino Smith and
DK metcalf Right. So when you get rid of the
two biggest names on your team, the initial reaction is, well,
they're they're selling the farm. I mean, they're they're rebuilding.
(18:47):
But I would expect Vegas not to be that naive
and and I, hey, I'll take it. I took advantage
of it last year. I'm gonna take advantage of it
again this year. I'm betting the over. Last last year
covered the over. God's gonna cover again this year.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
I think I think the over on the Mariners and
the Seahawks. To me, it looks just like easy money.
I mean, unless the Mariners just completely fall apart.
Speaker 4 (19:09):
Well, it looks like a last year for the Mariners
in a year again making it But what are the
odds of that happening two years in a row? Right?
Speaker 1 (19:15):
I mean, first of all, the Mariners, well last year.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
And I realized the Knicks just came back from twenty
down two games in a row. So crazy things are
happening right now in a in a in this country.
But I mean, hell, we gotta we got a freaking
American pope. The Knicks have come back from twenty two
games in a row, the Mariners have a great offensive team.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Well, like, what the hell's going on here? Man?
Speaker 2 (19:37):
And by the way, does anybody find it funny that
an American pope gets elected before Oregon wins a national time.
Speaker 4 (19:46):
Well that, you know, the Knicks and the pope thing
got a little bit in common, right. The Knicks are
team Villanova's right, and you got a Villa Can you
imagine Villanova Wildcats right now? They are just pumping up
there just like we got Jalen Bruns and kicking the
Celtics ass and we got a pope.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
Well I think, I mean he goes back to me
to just the numbers playing out that finally some of
these guys are starting to hit a little bit. I mean,
Kyle Roley's a freaking star, right, no doubt. Polanco, you know, Okay,
no way, he keeps this up. But he's having a
hell of a year. He's an All Star. Crawford's probably
going to be. He's got a chance to be an
All Star. I think it's like third and the al
(20:19):
and batting average and war amongst shortstops. Right now, that
kid and Oakland, Jack Wilson and then Bobby Witt Junr
Are right in front of him.
Speaker 4 (20:26):
But he they pitched Jack Wilson by did you talk
about that?
Speaker 1 (20:29):
Yeah, Wilson said he blew it so it was my bag.
He did, oh good for it, which was really cool. Wow,
Scott serious would have never done that.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
The texts exactly what we said in the air, the
same exact things.
Speaker 4 (20:41):
Just have been so snarky. Why are you asking Scott? No?
Speaker 1 (20:44):
You know what he would have said that question.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
The actual text was well, at least he didn't say,
go ask the players.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
That's right, Well, that would have been better because that
would have come from a guy who's got credibils.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
That would have been low Panela.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Yes, I mean Scott Services accomplished nothing in his career
as a manager, so I thought it was great.
Speaker 8 (20:59):
You know.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
He and I talked about that that Wilson came out
and just said, look, I blew it is I'm me.
I mean, he's a rookie manager, right, He's going to
make mistakes. And I mean I remember exactly where we were,
not that it was one hundred years ago, but we
were at the QFC and U Village doing that Sam
jue Celtz a remote when the thing came down that
Dan Wilson was the manager, and we're like, okay, fine,
you want to give Wilson the job, fine, but go
(21:20):
through the process, right, And they never did that. Well,
guess what we're sitting here today, Dick, and it's only
May the eighth. I realized it's a long time to go.
Dan Wilson is the manager of the year in the
American League and it's not close. And guess what, Jerry
to Poto is the executive of the year in Major
League Baseball and it's not close.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
How insufferable?
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Is Jerry Depoto going to be if he wins the
Executive of the Year in Major League Baseball?
Speaker 5 (21:45):
Team?
Speaker 4 (21:45):
Does the executive the year have to make moves that
improve the team?
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Yeah? I might, I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
Why why can't he be the he deserves it? I mean,
standing Pat is a move, and he stood Pat.
Speaker 4 (22:01):
Look.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
I mean, if they win ninety five games and they
win the West. The Tigers were in the playoffs a
year ago, the Yankees were in the playoffs a year ago.
I'm trying to think of the teams that are leading
the other divisions in the American League.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
We all said two months ago, we said this on
the air, if the Mariners win this division and played
great this year, we're not giving Jerry to Poto credit
for that, Like we're not that two years from weird,
but we don't vote for the executive.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
That's a good point.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
It's such a major League Baseball thing to give Jerry
to Poto the award.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
It do nothing. Guys.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
If they win ninety five and Polanco ends up kicking
ass and Randy a Rose Arena and JP Krow, I mean,
we got to give the guy some credit, right, We
can't be that freaking arrogance and that difficult where we
can't give Jerry to Poto some credit if this thing
(22:55):
comes down. I mean it's almost like he's kind of
falling into it. I get what you're saying that. It's
like when the Saints ended up with Drew Brees and
they somehow lucked their way into a title with that
idiot as their owner, a fat.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Guy that was yeah with the umbrella, right whatever. This
guy's a clown.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
And he just wins one because you just I mean,
Don Sterling made the conference finals, Like what one year
is the owner of the Clippers. You wake up, you
put your pants on enough times, and every now and
then something good's gonna happen to you. I think we
do need to give Jerry some credit for what's happening
right now because they've had injuries. Ro Bless Bliss, Gilbert Kirby,
(23:31):
Dylan Moore, Luke Rayley have all spent time on the il,
all of them, and they're still in first place and
they're still on track to win ninety five games.
Speaker 4 (23:41):
Yeah. Well, I guess what you give him credit for,
And I would agree with you. You have to give
him modicum of credit. Well, you give him.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Credit for just a little bit.
Speaker 4 (23:49):
It's the fact that he did see something in guys
like Polongo, in guys like Dylan Moore, where we were
all like, we see nothing.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Well unless unless and this is I'm not speaking for you,
but I think I'm translating for you. Unless he just
had no choice, had no choice because John Stanton gave
him nothing to work with. It's like, hey, if this
is the piece of clay and the pot of cash
that I have to work with, and I'll spend it
on this because I think those guys give me the
best shot.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
And to that point, we saw the report yesterday or
another report, but there was who sent out.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
To Daniel Kramer was kind of just a theory that
pissed me off.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
But the thought was that by bringing in Ta Varies,
the three point five million dollars, playing some of that,
that's going to impact what they do with the trade deadline.
Three point five million dollars, ladies and gentlemen, Larry said,
what they do.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
With That's why I brought it up to Larry. Yeah, yeah,
I brought Kramer's thing up to him. I was like,
I mean, and again, who knows I had one guy
that was all mad him. It was a piss poor
time to have that attitude. And I get it right,
everyone's happier in a good mood. I'm just, you know,
kind of throwing rain in the parade here. But the
fact that we even have to Dick acknowledge that that
might be the case is disturbing.
Speaker 4 (25:00):
Well, I can commiserate with Jerry because I don't know
if I can feed my kids this week because I
spent all last weeks.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
I look, they're young, all right, they can go a
few days without eating. They'll be fine. A little fun
with audio slash hat did you hear that? Next on
ninety three to three kJ RFM, It's.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
Now time for Sufday and Digg's fun with Audio. Jimmy
g pawn Star, Jimmy mister garoppolo. Now let's have some
fun with audio.
Speaker 7 (25:28):
All right.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
We're back on a busy Thursday afternoon tomorrow from the Rainiers,
looking forward to getting down there to tea town.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
Nice day, beautiful day.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
Man, can't wait to get there, gonna have I think
I Harry Ford may swing by the show. By the way,
Mina chimes as well. So a lot going on from
Cheney Stadium, and to comer tomorrow at three. But right
now a little fun with audio slash hat did you
hear that?
Speaker 1 (25:49):
Hey, Dick? Did you happen to hear that? What's that? Dick?
Speaker 2 (25:53):
The nixt stunning the number two seed Celtics again last night,
taking a two oho series lead with a twenty point
comeback on the road. Here's how the game ceiling sequence
sounded on Boston radio with Sean Grandy on ninety eight
point five the Sports Hub in Boston.
Speaker 6 (26:13):
Free throw is good, Celtics trail, no time out, Holliday's
got it, twelve seconds to go back to Tatum.
Speaker 4 (26:19):
Cross half court, Tatum behind.
Speaker 6 (26:20):
The Horfords, green, Tatum, five seconds, Tatum at the free
throw live.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
Tatum falling away in the.
Speaker 6 (26:25):
Baseline is passed block by Bridges, and the Knicks have
done it again. The Celtics do not get us shot
away and the New York Knicks, written off as a
championship contender midway through this season, have just recorded three
extraordinary victories on the road to put.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
Themselves up two.
Speaker 6 (26:46):
Games to none in the Eastern Conference semifinals.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
So the Nuggets fired Mike Malone two years after winning
the NBA title that sounds right. I wonder if the
Celtics lose this series and they and two of them
will be blown twenty point leads.
Speaker 4 (26:59):
The fire missoue one year and he's out the door.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
You can't do that, man, you can't blow consecutive twenty
at home.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
That's the thing.
Speaker 4 (27:08):
Well, and they're at home, and how embarrassing it is,
and then both games and the game winning shot situation. Right,
the ball hasn't even gotten out of the shooter's hands, right,
either one. It's one thing to like miss a shot
to lose a game, but one was just ripped away
and the other one was blocked at the hand.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
Well, hey, Dick, did you happen to hear that? What's
that on the other side of that result? Here's how
that sequence sounded on New York Radio with Tyler Murray
and Monica McNutt on eight eighty ESPN Radio in New York.
Speaker 8 (27:38):
Knicks by one ninety one to ninety Celtics not using
the timeout. Tatum accross McCourt with ten top of the
cab with eight defended by Robinson was seven right wing
three cross over the foul line with four left block.
Speaker 4 (27:49):
Step back stole it by Bridges Bridges chucks it down fourth.
They've done it again. They've done it again.
Speaker 8 (27:55):
The New York Knicks take both and Buckton.
Speaker 4 (27:59):
And a two only heading back to the Becker.
Speaker 5 (28:01):
I know what the Vegas said, I know what the
odds said, I know what the conversation has been. But
when I tell you, I'll walk up today feeling a
little different. If you want to make it about three
point shooting, cool, the Celtic shots twenty five percent from
a three point line again, But how about you make
it about a team determined to defend when it matters
most and having the most clutched player in.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
The league on their side.
Speaker 4 (28:25):
Baby, It ain't.
Speaker 5 (28:26):
About who was the best doing of course, of the
regular season, is who stands up on any given night.
Speaker 8 (28:31):
With tonight's win, you gotta believe anything is possible for
the twenty twenty four to twenty five New York Knicks.
Speaker 4 (28:38):
Well, mcnut's right, I mean you got you got team
dog in the New York Knicks, and you got team
Finesse shoot threes, one hundred of them, by the way, guys,
one hundred threes, and they've made twenty five of the
one hundred. I even I can do that math.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
They missed seventy five threes in two games seventy five
and they lost by three points and one point. Right, oh,
they lost by four points combined. Okay, now they make
two of those threes and they might win the game.
Speaker 4 (29:03):
And that's what Boston is saying, because I think the
Celtics have only trailed for fourteen minutes in the series,
and four of those were in overtime, so in regulation
they've trailed for ten total minutes. They've shot twenty five
percent from three, and they're like, well, we're two shots
away from being up to nothing. So we're still okay
in the series. And I believe them.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
They're still okay. And here's the problem. Though.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
They scored sixteen points in the fourth quarter in Game
one and seventeen points in the fourth quarter in Game two,
and the next scored thirty in Game two. So they're
falling apart man in the clutch. I'm telling you they
lose this series. They're gonna fire that guy be We're
gonna whack him after one year. Hey, Dick, did you
happen to hear that? What's that?
Speaker 1 (29:39):
Dick? All right?
Speaker 2 (29:40):
So apparently we're gonna do one more on that sequence,
because as good as those two radio calls were, they
cannot hold a candle to the Korean TV call of
the final possession.
Speaker 6 (29:51):
Chit tak kay tok kay talk kay top hond on.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
Let me do speak so much.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
Talking.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
I am sending that to a buddy of mine and
I want him to translate that. Can you tell us
what the hell these guys just said?
Speaker 1 (30:13):
The first one is Tatum Tatum, Tatum Tatum.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
Everything is funnier when it's in a foreign language that
you don't understand, right, German, Korean? I mean, Spanish is
you kind of get a little bit of it, right,
But French maybe a little bit. I took French in
high school for some stupid ass reason. Totally irrelevant, no
need to do that whatsoever. But when it's in a
language like that that you have no clue what the
(30:37):
guy is saying, it just lands funnier.
Speaker 4 (30:39):
It does not well and they always get so jacked up.
And it's not obviously it's not their team. They're from Korea,
like they've got their own teams, right man. NBA basketball
is kicking ass right now. Ratings are big.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
They're still going to solve their regular season problem though, Yes,
but the playoff ratings have been really, really big.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
All right, Hey, Dick, did you happen to hear that?
What's that, Dick? Yesterday? I'm the Pat McAfee.
Speaker 4 (31:01):
Sure.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
ESPN Cowage Football insider Heather Dinnich joined the show and
discuss the College Football Playoff Committee's resistance to changing their
current format and it has.
Speaker 4 (31:11):
To be unanimous in order to change it for this fall,
but they're not ready to vote on it because there's
the politics involved, right.
Speaker 7 (31:18):
They also have to figure out what's the cowards is
going to look like in twenty.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
Twenty six and beyond. Tell me how you really feel.
Speaker 9 (31:25):
Past That's how I feel this. I feel that there's
too many cowards in the world today, you know. I
feel like there's too many people that feel one thing,
say something differently behind closed doors, are on the right
side of things publicly.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
I don't want to take the heat for it. I
feel like you are the cowards.
Speaker 9 (31:40):
Whenever you know that something needs to be changed, you
have the power to make a change, and you refuse
to do so because you're scared of a little bit
of a blowback. That's why you are put in those
seats to make the tough decisions. That's your job, so
don't be cowards in there. So what's the concern about
what they won't change? Like the buy thing, the automatic
adject that's the I think.
Speaker 4 (31:59):
That's a and also they guaranteed and also guaranteeing a
certain amount of bids for the SEC and the Big ten.
But it is it does kind of seem like DC right.
It's just like, well, yeah, two sides are just deciding
not to do anything, and you know it's it's frustrating
because it obviously needs a change. What we saw last
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year in the playoffs was terrible.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
But who runs this thing? Who's running this thing? NA
is not running it.
Speaker 4 (32:26):
There is nobody there.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
The TV networks are running it. The TV networks want
the best teams possible. So I mean, like, what are
we who are we bitching about? Don't bitch at the
NC DOUBLEA.
Speaker 4 (32:36):
They're out.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
They got no control over this at all.
Speaker 4 (32:38):
They're just thinking about the College Football Playoff Committee.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
Right, who are run by the television networks who pay
gazillions of dollars a year and they want the best
games and the best teams possible. So you're yelling at
them if you're mcafear whoever to change their ways, Why
should they?
Speaker 1 (32:57):
As long as they're in charge, they'll never change.
Speaker 4 (33:00):
But don't think what the big, big product, right, But
they're running out like a business and the best product
is the best teams in So my point is this,
if we can have the conversation about seating, which I
think eventually will change, but the automatic bid thing that.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
You're talking about that's never gonna stop.
Speaker 6 (33:16):
Never.
Speaker 4 (33:17):
Well, I got a bigger issue with the seating than
I do in the automatic because I think the bids,
the bids are gonna shake out, I mean the SEC
and the Big ten. Eventually you're gonna get five of
these teams in peace. So we're not gonna worry about
that is the seating. Though. You just can't have Boise
and Arizona State getting buy.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
Well, look, if they deserve it, they deserve it. I
mean I have no problem re seeing it and letting
the top teams and the polls go off that number.
That's fine by me. But if people are complaining about
the automatic bids per conferences, the reason why the TV
networks even care in the first place is because of
those conferences and the teams that they have.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
If you take that away, You're not making as much money.
So what do you want?
Speaker 2 (33:56):
You can't have both, right, We're gonna break matt Ends
is the current head coach at Fresno. He was grays
Abel's coach for four years at North Dakota State. He
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