June 17, 2025 • 36 mins
In the first hour, Dave Softy Mahler and Jackson Felts react to the Pacers loss and big injury news plus the Mariners loss last night, then chat with Paul Silvi from King 5 about his barbeque sauce and various Seattle sports topics before listening to Fun with Audio.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Go in the United States of America. How do we
allow a team from Florida to claim back to back
Stanley Cup championships and a team from Oklahoma to claim
the NBA title. Both teams are one game away from
making that a reality in this country.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
I get that.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
I mean the element there being that Florida is a
warm weather state city and they shouldn't be winning a
cold sport.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
I guess is your point.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
I think they're just. But they both don't have the right.
That's my point, not onlet of them have the right. Florida,
where people don't even care about hockey, don't even know
about hockey, still hockey. You know who lives in Florida.
My grandparents lived in Florida. Eighty five year old Jewish
people live in Florida. You think eighty five year old
Jews give a damn about hockey. Here's the answer, No,
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they don't. Oklahoma in the NBA given college football, give
them college baseball, give them softball.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
NBA in Oklahoma.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
This is a freaking disgrace that, in two twenty twenty five,
in this country, the greatest country on our the United
States of America, that we have allowed a team from
Florida to be one win away from the Stanley Cup
Championship and back to back titles at that.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Jackson and a freaking team from that dirt.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Hole in Oklahoma, to be one win away from the
NBA champions.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
You have to go all Jeff Daniels from the newsroom, Really,
the United States might be we are. I'm just I'm
just super depressed about Oklahoma City now, and now we
have the news about Tyrese Haliburton that well suck like
now Like I don't know, man, Since I saw the
Halburton news this afternoon, I still had hope. Even down
three games, I still had hope maybe the Pacers can
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do it. But after this injury news, man, I'm just
so depressed. Well, you should be depressed, because it's over.
They'll probably win in Game six tomorrow. They'll probably wrap
it up tomorrow and it'll be done.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
So Jerry Brewer will join us at four o'clock today
and we will discuss the impending reality that Oklahoma City
is about to become the NBA champion.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Mariners.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Last night again a very twenty twenty four ish game
by the Mariners.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Logan Gilbert was great.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Five innings, ten K's in his first start and over
what five and a half weeks, six weeks, whatever, it was,
thirty six and thirty five. And here's the deal about
this baseball team, man, they just think they get no
breaks from anybody, right, I mean, they just got done
sweeping the Guardians, and people are just waiting for someone
to come along and kick your right in the crotch.
And that's what happened last night. But they could win
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the night, they could win tomorrow. Not gonna matter. And
I am convinced Jackson. I thought about this today when
I was walking on the treadmill, very slowly, by the way.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
I'm convinced that the.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Only way people will truly be fired up about this
baseball team and truly buy into what this baseball team
is doing is if they are fifteen twenty games up
like they were in two thousand and one in the
middle of September, because we saw again them do something that,
besides the Angels, no other team has done in thirty years,
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and that's blow a ten game lead and not make
the playoffs. I mean, you wear it out like a scar,
right when you do something like that. This is why
I've been saying things like what the Mariners did to
their fan base last year was the worst thing ever.
You teased this baseball team. You teased this baseball team
with maybe the best rotation they've ever had in franchise history,
certainly the best rotation in the American League. And you
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added a ten game lead in the middle of June
to that resume, and you blew all of it. I mean,
it's like walking up to a starving tiger and dangling
a forty eight ounce porterhouse right in front of his
face and then pulling it back at the last side.
What do you think the tiger's gonna do. Damn thing
hasn't eaten for years. I'm starving. Yeah, And the only
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reason why that tiger didn't bite your hand off, he's
stuck in a cage like us. We're stuck in this
cage in Seattle. We can't go anywhere. We got nowhere
else to root for it nobody else to root for.
We have to root for these guys. We're from Seattle.
It's in our blood. But like I said a year ago,
I think what they're doing with the way they've behaved,
you know, on and off the field, and I got
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some numbers to back it up and look, there is
a If you want me to be the positive PD
guy for a second, I will say that getting to
what's their record now was at thirty six and thirty five,
get into thirty six and thirty five and all these
pictures being hurt is actually pretty impressive in some ways.
But nobody is going to change the narrative after seventy
one games and forty nine years, right, you need, you
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know a lot more than that to change the narrative.
But what they're doing, and I think I think the
Husky football team, Dick and I talked about this, I
think yesterday was yesterday, Monday, Yeah, yesterday, that there were
kids that were very impressionable in two thousand and eight
when they went oh in twelve and they're twelve, thirteen
years old.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Like, I'm not rooting for them. They suck.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
I'm gonna be a Duck fan. I'm going to be,
you know, a Michigan fan, Ohio State whatever. I think
the Mariners are doing that. I think the Mariners have
got to be really careful for a franchise that seems
to be so concerned with what that's happening in ten
years from now. We can't sign that guy. Look at
the party he's making in ten years from now, I mean,
which is obviously ridiculous. Raphael Devers comes to mind, had
(05:09):
that conversation yesterday on the show about his contract, and
you know, we're all concerned about well two thirty he's
making no, no, no world concerns. Dick Thane is concerned.
I don't want to talk behind his back, but his
name rhymes with Dick Fank. Yeah, you know, I like, really,
the Mariners have like four guys signed for two thousand
and thirty. Now we're gonna worry about the payroll in
six years from now? Like, what are you talking about?
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Man? So that's number one.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
But I think what's happening is that they're opening the
door for young people nine, ten eleven year old kids
who were still very impressionable to just simply put root
for somebody else, yep, right, root for somebody else. Root
for the Astros, root for the Yankees, root for the Cubs,
root for the Giants, root for the Dodgers, right whatever.
I mean, if you're a young Japanese American kid growing
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up in Seattle, you might be a gigantic Dodger fank.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Of course, because the show.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Heyo Tani, obvious reasons, right, Okay, So I just think
that you got to be really careful if you are
looking to build something sustainable and you're looking to get
inside the DNA of a sports fan at a very
young age. When you do things like what you've been
doing and you don't deliver and you tease your fan base,
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I think you're in danger of giving young fans a
reason to grow up fans of somebody else.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Here's the problem is that even when you go and
sweep the Guardians and do what you did over last weekend,
that still doesn't necessarily know I talk to you guys
in the previous weeks about how I was so body
at the end of April and now I'm getting closer
to apathy. And I'm sorry Mariners, but it's like sweeping
the Guardians, it didn't really move the needle for me.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
They got to do that three or four times in
a row to go into fourteen straight.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
You have to go build that kind of a thing.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
And then moreover, I think you have to be just
consistently right there in it, whether leading the vision or
right around. But you drop those games in the few
weeks prior and the Astros went and had their own
great weekend, right, So you don't even get closer in
the West. So my needle, it doesn't even go back
up towards it. I'm still still inching after last night.
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I'm interesting even further to apathy because the baseball team
just isn't gaining ground. They aren't exciting the way I
need them to be. And I just I don't know.
One moment for JP on Sunday, great, but what does
that do larger picture?
Speaker 2 (07:25):
I don't know. I just say this.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Look, I mean sweeping the Guardian's fun great, whatever, awesome, Okay,
but it's three of one hundred and sixty two. It
registers nothing when it's all said and done. And when
I say go win fourteenth straight, I mean, obviously that's
an idiotic thing to ask for, because that's really hard
to do. My point is this, go do something that
nobody can deny, Go do something that will resonate with everyone,
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and you go do something like that, or we haven't.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Lost a game in two weeks, or look at this.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
You wake up and you're nine games up on the
Astros and you're kicking ass and Julio is hitting five
point fifty. The last fifteen were the twelve forty eight,
OHPA and ten Bombs and thirty five. Go do something
that nobody can deny. Go do something that everybody can
get behind. And they haven't done that. Instead, they're just
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teasing us. So we'll talk more about this with Jerry Brewer.
Paul Sovie's gonna jump on. He's gonna stop buy and
you know he's selling barbecue sauce. Now he's not just
a TV star really good. He is a barbecue sauce
salesman for biffs. So he's gonna join us and yack
it up. We'll get Paul's take on the MS, the
impending return of the NBA, the Finals, the whole thing.
Paul Sovie King FIVELL joined in studio next on ninety
three three KJRFM.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
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Speaker 1 (08:48):
All Right, boys and girls, what is this Tuesday? For
God's sakes, God, the days are all blending together. Man
Dick is out doing the storm. Game tonight in La
Jackson's hanging Out with Us a short show all this
to Ferness, a two hour show. Between now and five,
we got the Oilers in Florida, Game six Daily Cup
Final coming up at five pm tonight, obviously rooting for
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the Oilers. Who doesn't want to see a game seven
on Friday night. NBA Finals is in effect pretty much
over Thunder up three games to two, and now Halliburton's
banged up. But you may have heard us on the
air for the last couple of months or so promoting
a brand new client on the radio station. It's it's
technically a guy that we've known for a long time,
but I had no idea that he was even behind this.
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Apparently he's bored being a TV star and he's now
pushing barbecue sauce all over the city. Our friend from
King five, Paul Sylvie, is here in studio with us,
and he's brought some Biff's Blue Ribbon barbecue sauce with him,
which really is the only reason why we let you win.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Be man, you brought stuff with you. If not, you
can take a hike. How are you man? Good you doing?
I'm good man. It's good to see about it.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
See you, we don't do this too often, so I
appreciate you have me on here. Yeah, we used to
do this a lot more than we do now. I
don't know what happened, but there's this radio TV thing.
Everybody hates each other now in the city, but we're
still pals. But before we talk about what's happening on
the ice on the court return of the NBA. The
Mariners are pissing everybody off Seahawks. Still, I got a
month or so before training camp starts. I had no idea, honestly,
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that you were doing this. And I'm kicking myself for
not knowing it earlier because this stuff is incredible. And
my wife, actually, no kidding, loves this stuff. Like I
came home the other night and I caught her drinking
out of the bottle. She was drinking this stuff straight man,
out of the bottle. So Biff's blue ribbon barbecue sauce.
Your face is on the bottle, on the glass jar.
(10:39):
You're everywhere all over grocery stores, meat markets. How'd you
get involved in this?
Speaker 5 (10:44):
Man?
Speaker 1 (10:44):
You know, I have a longtime friend, a king, and
you know he had this. He developed this recipe he's
a he's a real good cook, and his girlfriend at
the time encouraged him to put it out there in
the market, and he says, too much work to do
all that, right, And so the years ago it went by,
and she finally convinced him and he went out there
and he put it out there, and then he just
couldn't keep up with it. He didn't have the passion
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to start it in the first place. It wasn't even
his idea to go out there and do this, but
he had this great sauce, and so I was a
huge believer in it. I said, you know, dude, you
gotta do something with this. So u it fell flat
and he's you know, And then I went in there
and kind of just you know, helped him out and said, look,
let me help you out a little bit.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
So we got it.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
We kind of partnered up, helped him out, got it
off the ground again, and then he didn't want to
do it. So now I took it, and I said,
I'm such a huge believer in it because it tastes
so good. I'm like, I gotta get this out there
and I'll give it a run. So we found a
cole packer and you know, we started just you know,
kind of just getting this thing manufactured and making it
just a click of a of a button away, and
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and now we get it made or I get it made,
and uh, you know, we just that's just where we
are right now. So we're definitely grassroots, man, we are.
We are losing money as we speak, but I like
it this sauce.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
So we're just gonna keep going. But you're having fun
doing that's right.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
How many years now have you been at King five,
by the way, thirty two, thirty two. So if I
would have told you thirty years ago, hey, in year
thirty two, you're gonna be on a sports talk radio show,
Hawking Barbecue sauce. I'm gonna be afternoon, No way, where
would you have thought your career went. I know exactly.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
When people ask me how long I've been there, too,
they're just they're stunned that I've been there for thirty
two years, because nobody stays anywhere for thirty But you've
been here a long time thirty one, yeah, yeah, came
in at the same time. Yeah, And uh, and you
know I remember seeing you at the Kingdome way back
in the day. I think you were, oh you started
out maybe as an intern or something, and you were
over there getting interviews and I was like, man, that's
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how long it's been, man, I've known you. Yeah, it's nuts.
Well the barbecue sauce honestly is awesome. I'm not just
saying this, man, it is really incredible stuff. A Fourth
of July coming up, obviously summer barbecues, So do yourself
a favor and get down to your local meet market
being e Golden Steer to call my boys Safeway Hagen
they're everywhere, by the way, and ask for Biffs and
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just look for Paul Silvie's face, all right, because that's
that's the original, not the knockoff. So check out some
Biff's Blue Ribbon barbecue sauce for Fourth of July. Great
on everything, chicken, burger, steaks, brisket, whatever. Man, this stuff
is awesome. So kudos to you for introducing us in
our audience to Biff's Blue Ribbon. But man, thirty one
years for me, thirty two for you, sixty three years
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combined in this city and we've seen some stuff. Man,
it is unbelievable. And now we're about to see the
former Sonics probably win the NBA title. It pisses me off,
It keeps me up at night, it makes me sick,
does it? Yes, Becaues, just because I'm a petty That's
why you're a professional.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
I'm not okay now, But I hear it all the time,
you know.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
I hear with people we work with and the fans
out there, and they're so bent about this since it
happened in two thousand and eight. You know, it's been
seventeen years where they just won't get over it. And
I understand it because I know people that are in
Minnesota that lost the North Stars of DAB and they
will not let it go.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
And there are people in this town that will not
let it go.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
So it's interesting to hear your take because I'm not
I'm from Detroit, so I'm not originally from here.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
If someone took my Red Wings, I'd be just as bent. Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Imagine honestly, Red Wings moved to I don't know, Kansas
City and they win the Stanley Cup Championship. Your pist
Oh yeah, right, absolutely, I can see where everybody's feeling
it for so But Paul, here's the thing, because I
was actually thinking, because I knew that you would say
something like that.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
You know, I'm from Detroit. I went to college in Ohio.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
But you know what, you've been here for thirty two years,
yours two oh six now as it gets and everybody
says things like, you know, I just want to see
a good game.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
I don't root for bull crap man.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
You can't stay in this town for that long and
not develop. I think some kind of affinity and loyalty
and passion for the teams that you cover.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Your job is better. My job's better when these teams win.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
But you're telling me, at the root of who you are,
at your soul, you don't want to see the Seahawks
win on a Sunday afternoon, or the Mariners win on
a Friday night, or the Huskies win on a Saturday.
Come on, and when they go out and play national
powers in college football and in college basketball, you want
those guys to win for sure. Yeah, you know, I
was a huge, huge fan of the rain Man and
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Gary Payton and Sean Camp and Peyton made me love
the NBA.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
So that's that's where it was.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
You know, when I came from from Michigan and came
out here, those guys were high flying, and George Carl
was the man that to me. To me because I
wasn't here for Lenny Wilkins and those guys, right, but
that to me was the golden ere of the Sonics.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Was that, George Carl?
Speaker 1 (15:29):
You you left Detroit kind of right after the Bad
Boys era?
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Yeah, exactly?
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Okay, Yeah, So you know the NBA now versus the
NBA then, and a lot of people like to criticize
the NBA today. It's a three point shooting league. Nobody's
playing defense versus Bill Lambier beating the crap out of
everybody every single night, choking people, Rodman going bananas. It
doesn't look as physical to me. I'll be honest with you.
I watch a little NBA, not as much as I
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will when they come back, and not as much as
I did. But for people that are down on the
product and say it's much weaker than it was during
that era, what would you say to somebody who's about
to jump back on the wagon when this when the
team comes back, Well.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
I think it was.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
It was, like you said, it was a different era,
and uh, you know, I was there when Lambert was
throwing punches and all those guys and uh and and
Rick Rick Mahorn and I mean, come on, that was
you know, they were just clobbering people down the lane.
And it's different now. But to me, you know, I
still like, I love watching Lebron James. I never want
the guy to retire because I like watching the Lakers.
I like watching the stars, and I want those stars
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to come through town so we can go watch them,
you know, at Climate Pledge. And so I am a
bigger NBA fan now and I will be a healing one, yes,
because man, I just I love sports. I mean, I
love the fact that we can go to our jobs,
you and me and the rest of us in this
business that are fortunate to do what we do.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
And I mean this last night, I'm over at Mobile Park.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
You know, it's just a it's just a day for
me to go to a Mariners game, you know, and
and it's a day for me to run over the
Climate Pledge and watch the crack And it's like, it's
so cool what we do. And so people look at me,
like why do you love the NBA. It's like, dude,
there's a lot of stars in that league and they're
fun to watch and I mean, you know, so, I
just I can't say that I don't like the NBA
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because there's a lot of bitter people I'm around with
that two thousand and eight thing, and they won't let
it go. Yeah, I'm sorry. I'm the guy who says
I still love the NBA. When they come back, I'm
gonna embrace them. Well, I mean, there's no doubt I'll
embrace it. I think you can be bitter and be
ready to embrace them. You know, I'm bitter as hell.
I was just having lunch with a client today, my
friend from Belvy Rare Coins, and I was telling Natana
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out there that I have not been to a Starbucks
in eighteen years. I just can't do it. It's my
own personal protests. Does it mean anything when it's all
said and dumb? But it makes me feel better, I know, man,
But there's nothing wrong with that. There really isn't. It
cracks me up when I hear people like you say
that I'm not going to Starbucks, Like yeah, Howard's like,
oh gee whiz exactly. Howard's like, don't miss you? Well,
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how do you think it'll be perceived here? I think
when they do come back, Oh, man, they're gonna they're
gonna love it. I cannot tell you, and I'm sure
you get the same in your business. How many people
ask us, uh, when do you think it's going to
go down? And and and when what's the year? When
are they gonna start playing again? People are dying for
this team to come back, this franchise to come back,
and what's your.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Gut tell you on that? But I think we do.
You tell people, well, I tell them.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
I used to tell them twenty eight, you know, uh,
twenty twenty eight, and then I started hearing they're more
concerned about NBA Europe than they are about about an expansion,
So then you're thinking twenty thirty. So but right now,
I think this summer, when they have those meetings in July,
I think that I think they'll steer it toward expansion
more than NBA Europe because I think but you know,
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a lot of those owners they don't want to share
their money, you know, a lot of you know, so uh,
once you get past that expansion fee, they're all get
a nice big hit that then they got to share
the pot once that that wears off. So I think
that I think it's gonna be announced. I really do
believe it'll be announced before this fall. I think they'll
come out of those meetings and say, but see, you know,
here's the other thing.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Soft.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
He's like, they're not gonna come out and say Seattle
Vegas you win. They're gonna come out and say it's
on the table. Now here's eighteen cities who want an
NBA team, and they're all gonna get a chance to bid.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
So this is gonna drag out a little bit.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Yeah, I know, doubt well. Paul Sylvie from King five
as well, I'm sorry. Paul Slovie from Biff's Blue Ribbon
Barbecue Sauce is with us on the radio show, Gets
your Lookal meet Marketer or grocery store and find some
Biff's Blue Ribbon for your barbecue tonight. That was hell
of a reid. By the way, it just hit me.
NBA on NBC is coming back. Yeah, I know, NBC. Yeah,
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fired up for people inside your office, man, We're we're
in the sports department. We're super fired up, and in
our sales department. You should see their sizzle reel. It's ridiculous.
It's got like NBA Olympics, super Bowl.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
You know, like you can't go anywhere else to watch sports,
that's right.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
So it's pretty funny, like you see their sizzle reel, Like,
we do have quite a few things coming up, don't we.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
I love it. Well, you guys got all that.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
We got Petros pop Onokas tomorrow by the way, at
four o'clock. I'm radio program, so get ready for that.
But Paul Sylvie again is with us in studio, and
Paul you mentioned being at T Mobile Park, and man,
it's just like last night's game was just so twenty
twenty four ish, Man, get this great performance by your starters.
Logan Gilbert hasn't pitched over a month and you can't
even get a damn run for the kid man.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
So where's this going?
Speaker 4 (20:20):
You know?
Speaker 1 (20:20):
I thought this was gonna be a year where the
numbers would maybe start to kind of balance out a
little bit, and for some guys like JP Crawford, they
are the guys that are not obviously, But where's this
whole thing going with the POTO, with Wilson, with this
Julio cow led offense, and this Logan Kirby, Bryce Miller
led pitching staff.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Where's this thing heading? Dude?
Speaker 1 (20:41):
You just mentioned all of the lot of the key
parts on this team, those players, And I'm a big
believer in, you know, getting these guys to play to
their potential. And I don't know who's gonna do that
for them, right, is it Loupanella that used to just,
you know, get these guys to play like he knows
they can play. And I know I'm dating myself out there.
But at the same time, I'm not sure that they
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have the right manager. I'm not sure they have the
right GM. I'm not sure they have the right president.
You know, Like, at some point somebody has to hold
their feet to the fire and say, you know, it's
enough already.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
But we do do that, we I mean, and I
get tired of it, and you do it. It's the
same thing.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
It's the same yelling, screaming monologue every year for three
or four times out of the year. I'm going on
the air. Everything sucks, I hate it, blah blah blah,
and then nothing changes. So when you say, because people
tell that to me, you better hold their feature the fire, Like,
what does that mean you put down there and start
banging on Stanton's wall.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Well, at some point it comes down to the owner.
He's gonna have to make the changes.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
And you know, I will say this, and I'm a
big guy on accountability. I mean, I swear there are
so many people on his planet who never take blame
for anything. And I think that these players that are
getting paid good dough and they're young, but I still
love to see Crawford just shot up out of nowhere
all of a sudden, He's hitting the crap out of
the ball. But it's like, you know, where are they?
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Where are these Where are these guys? And when are
they going to perform? At some point, some point, don't
you look at Julio and say, hey man, we gave
you two hundred and fifty million or whatever it's to
seventy and uhtize I'm just saying criticized consistence and to
get dragged on social media, I'm you're a Julio hater. No,
he's an example of what I'm saying. Don't throw me
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under the bus, though, he's an example of what I'm saying.
It's like, it's like anybody else in any professional sport
if you're writing the check for these guys at some
point And I asked Jerry this two years ago, at
some point don't you have to hold your players accountable
and quit going out shopping for guys? What's wrong with
the guys you have and the guys you're paying? Why
are we always shopping for guys? I mean, seriously, step up.
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We're paying you, and if you're not good enough, get out. Yeah,
that's what I'm talking about. You should see your face.
I know your face is more red than a bottle
of best blue Ribbon barbecue sauce. And I'm talking the
hot and spicy version. Get your today, your local Safeway Star.
I'm with you one thousand percent. But to Julio, the
thing is interesting. I don't know how much time he
spent on social media. Not a lot, smart man. By
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the way, I'm an idiot. I spend a lot of
time on social media, and so I see a lot
of people going after other people who are remotely critical
to Julio, and I think two truths can exist. Julio
can be a great guy. He can be a really
good player who's also maybe falling short slightly of whatever
expectations we had for him. So I put a poll
out last week on social media since he signed his contract, Julio,
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is he meeting expectations. Is he exceeding them or is
he falling short? What would you vote for Julio? I
think that number one, he's awful young, like you know,
and that's why I give Julio a pass right now.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Because he is so damn young.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Agreed, and and you know, and I throw at the
cracking players too real quick, like those guys are twenty one,
twenty two years old, Like let them season and let
them learn the game.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Julio is super young. We forget.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
He's built like a man, you know, but he's basically
he's got he's got to grow into this big league mentality.
And I think that I think he's right where I
would expect him to be. He's not going to be
a superstar at that age. Yeah, you're going with where
he's at now, I think I am. But I'm saying,
what about the other, you know, fifteen guys, what about
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the other guys on this team? They all have to
come along together. And I just think that that we're
paying Julio a ton of money, but that's more of
an investment. That's an investment in the years down the road.
You didn't pay the two seventy or whatever it is.
For him to come out and start busting the ball
right away. You're paying and you're investing in this guy
to carry this team for the next decade. Sure, so
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let's let him have that chance. That's what I'm saying.
Where do you Paul Selvey's in studio with us for
a few more minutes. We got to hockey coming up
five o'clock Tonight's till the Cup Finals Game six, Florida
and Edmonton from Florida, Panthers looking to wrap it up
for the second year in a row.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Where do you see the Seahawks heading?
Speaker 1 (24:52):
You know, it's been kind of a I mean, there's
enthusiasm for Darnold, I think Cooper Cup. Yeah, a lot
of changes. I mean, my god, it seems like had
every opportunity to put his stamp on this football team.
Jody Allen has let him blow this thing to Kingdom.
Come get rid of the quarterback, get rid of the
head coach, get rid of the highest paid wide receiver.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
You've got.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
Now the pressure's on him. What do you see for
twenty twenty five from the Hawks? Maybe I'm in the
minority here, but I like what they did. First of all,
I'm a huge, huge, believer in the head coach. I
think that this guy could sit in the film room
with a clicker in his hand for twenty four to
seven watching film. He does not want to be bothered
with anything else. He wants to study, study, study, and
do the best put the best team on the field
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as possible.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
I love Mike McDonald.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
I think the moves were necessary because if you do
you want another mediocre season of nine to eight, No,
if you want a better season, you got to make
some massive moves. So I like, maybe I'm in the minority.
I like what they did. I like the influx of talent.
I like the exodus of some of the other guys.
It was time for a change. I think the favorite.
(25:54):
The schedule's very favorable. Some would call it soft, but
the forty nine ers have a very favorable schedule too.
So I like the schedule for the Seahawks, and I
like what they've done, and I love their head coach
and their defense I think is going to be you know,
I don't want to swear too much on your show,
but it's gonna be awesome. Yeah, So I really do.
I think that defense is going to carry this team.
(26:16):
My only concern is running back. Somehow they got to
keep ken Walker and Sharbon a healthy Yeah, yeah, no doubt. Well, Paul,
tell you what you mentioned being in Detroit with the
Red Wings and the Pistons, and I'm with you on
the moves the Hawks have made. I mean, again the
same argument for Julio that hey, it doesn't have to
be black and white. It can be a gray area
for Gino, I think, and Gino was very good for
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what they asked him to do replacing Russell. I never
thought he would be as effective as he was. But
there's a reason why the Pistons fired Rick Carlisle after
he won fifty games, because they got Larry Brown and
they won the NBA title. Right, So you're looking to
even improve on what was a pretty good situation, but
real quick on the crack, and I mean, you grew
up in a hockey town. Maybe the big us one
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the country's got to offer in Detroit. What's keeping this
hockey team from taking that next tip? You think, Well,
they had to find the right coach, and we're all
hoping Lane Lambert is that guy. But I think that
the problem the thing with with with hockey and everybody
that follows the sport knows it you're bringing You're drafting
these guys as teenagers. It's an investment in time. They're
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not gonna start right away. They're gonna You got to
go out and get spend money on free agents. So
they got a couple of last free agency. Uh, this year,
they have the money to spend. They have draft capital.
But let's let's not fool ourselves. They're just gonna draft
high school guys right Uh, that are gonna play in
the juniors for a while. It's gonna take a while
from them to get up here and play well. So
they've got to go out and get the if. They've
got to spend the money correctly and get some guys
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in here. I think they did a nice job last year.
They got to double down and do that again this
summer because they have the cash to do it. Love
it and you and you got to find yourself. They've
got their goalie. So I like this team. I like
where they're headed. I like that they weren't going to
settle for Mediacer and they got a new coach. But
you got to go out and do some smart shop
and a free agency because you cannot wait forever for
these nineteen and twenty year olds to be twenty four
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and twenty five.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
No question.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
Well, speaking of smart shopping, you're out shopping for the
Fourth of July, that for a transition Biff's Blue Ribbon
barbecue sauce. You can find this stuff everywhere, right, Yeah,
most safeways have it, and then a lot of the
meat markets have it, as you mentioned, and listen if
they don't have it. Here's what I like to say.
This is what the grocery store guys would say. If
your store doesn't carry it, you go ask the manager
(28:28):
where is it? And you tell that manager you want
it on their shelves. You hear me, fred Meyer, Wow,
Fred Meyer? Get after what the hell you guys doing?
Speaker 2 (28:37):
For God's sakes? Well, we love it.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
It's awesome stuff, man, and I think you're making a
mistake if you don't have it on your table for
the Fourth of July and whatever you got planned this summer.
So again, if you're at a local Safeway, Hagan meat Market,
whatever to come a boys a golden steer be and E.
My favorites the Beingian des Moines because I live there
by the way, so I know they have it in
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stock to flavors, including the hot and spicey. Go check
out Biff's Blue Ribbon barbecue sauce, and if you're confused
as to which one it is, just look for the
bottle that's got Paul Sylvie's face on it.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
It's that one right there.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
Because nobody else would put that guy's face on barbecue
sauce besides himself.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
You're the man.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
Great stuff, buddy, Thank you for having a great summer,
and we'll talk soon, pala right, all right, Paul Sylvie.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
Hey, by the way, are you working the night? Are
you on the air tonight? You are? All right? What
time are you on tonight? By the way?
Speaker 4 (29:26):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Four five forty five? The rest of the night. There
you go.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
You want to see the proprietor, the proprietor and owner
of Biff's Blue Ribbon on TV, that's the time to
tune in.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
Forget the other stuff, just tune in for him. All right.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
We're gonna break fun with audio next baby on a
busy Tuesday, and then Jerry Brewer will joining four hockey
at five right here on ninety three three KJRFM.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
It's now time for Softy and Digg's Fun with Audio.
Jimmy g pawn Star, Jimmy mister garoppolo. Now let's have
some fun with audio.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
All right, I'm gonna give you a chance to accident
at four twenty eight to make some money on the
radio state.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Okay, this is legal or not, but we're gonna do
it anyway. What the hell? All right?
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Dick is out today? Uh down calling the storm and
LA for TV.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
Yes, it's true. Yeah, this man has no Dick.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
So me and Jackson with you until five o'clock tonight
Oilers Florida Game six Stenley Cup Final goal Oilers at
five pm. The sevening Jerry Brewer will join us next segment.
But right now a little fun with audio, slish hat
did you hear that? With Jackson stepping in for Dick,
Faye ed Jackson japper to hear that?
Speaker 2 (30:27):
What's that song? What's that? Dick?
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Yesterday, on First Take, stephen A said that Giannis has
underachieved if he does not win another championship. ESPN basketball
analyst Jay Williams then snapping back at stephen A over
his ridiculous take.
Speaker 6 (30:42):
That was one of your worst ticks I've heard in
a long time.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Man, That was horrible.
Speaker 6 (30:46):
I I I had to, you know, like I'm the
little brother that has filled with the venoms sometimes when
you and I go out each other and it's all
low because I always it's always love. But I think
we really need to do a better job of reframing
some of these conversations, right. And if you were to
say that the franchise, the Milwaukee Bucks, have underachieved or
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the biggest underachievers with the talent of Giannis fair to
call him an underachiever, I just think it's an as a
nine comment because then if we go through history, we're
calling a lot of these other great players who have
won one NBA championship, which, by the way, you know
how hard it is to win a championship. So you're
calling Alan Iverson an underachiever, You're calling Dirk an underachiever,
(31:38):
You're calling KG an underchiever. You just called Oscar Robinson
an underachiever because they've all got one championship.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
Oh, you never aiden mentioned some guys that never won,
like Karl Malone and Charles Barkley.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
By the way, I mean, I get it.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
You know when you win a championship in your fifth
year in the NBA and you've come nowhere near one
since then.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
I get it.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
The bar has been raised for Giannis certainly big time
since he won that first title. The guy's got two MVPs,
I believe as well. But I do think that if
you if you went to a Bucks fan at the
end of the twenty twenty one season, Jackson, and you
told a Milwaukee fan Yannis will never win another title
again in the NBA, I think they'd be disappointed in that.
Speaker 3 (32:22):
I think they'd be disappointed in their team for not
doing that. So that's why I think Jay Williams nailed it,
Because if you're gonna say that it's underachievement if the
Bucks don't win another title, that's fair to put it
all on Yannis and says he's their best player.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
He's their best player by far, sure, but he needs
help and them to build the team around him, no doubt.
And Basketball Reference does a win share generator metric kind
of like war in baseball, and that number for Yiannis
has gone down every single year. It's actually pretty low
right now. It was only eleven point five. He was
fourteen point four, twelve point four, twelve point nine, eleven
(33:00):
point nine. So according to the Geeks, that run Basketball
Reference dot Com. He's kind of tailing off a little bit.
Had a good year two years ago, but not necessarily
this season. But you know, look, I mean people look
at a lot of big time stars and say they
underachieved because they never won a championship, and Karl Malone,
Charles Barkley, Kangriffey Junior where they're fair unfair, Ernie Banks
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or a couple of them.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
Let's get one more here. We can't just do one right? Yeah? Hey, Jackson,
did you happen to hear that? What's that?
Speaker 3 (33:27):
Dick?
Speaker 2 (33:27):
Two? Three or four? Pick one? Gosh two three?
Speaker 4 (33:31):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
Right after his seven over performance at the US Open
last weekend, Rory McElroy talked at a press conference about
why he is skipping media appearances recently.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
He has when he was six, Major Craft kind of
stepped away.
Speaker 6 (33:47):
Is that Ben par Parcel to the frustration of the
golf course?
Speaker 2 (33:50):
What what do you ahould be?
Speaker 5 (33:51):
No, not really, it's more of a frustration with you guys.
I'm just yeah, I don't know. I mean, I have
been totally available for the last few years. And I'm
not saying maybe not you guys, but maybe more just
the whole, the whole thing. But it's not as if
flake An Augusta, I skipped you guys on Thursday. So
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it's it's not out of the ordinary. I've done it before.
I'm just doing it a little more often.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
He's as part of the kind of carried two words
for a tutor four years now and.
Speaker 4 (34:22):
You feel like you joined the break.
Speaker 5 (34:25):
I feel like I've earned the right to do whatever
I want to do.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
Yeah, I mean, he's kind of right. You know that
people obviously are going to kind of follow his lead.
Whatever he does, he's going to do. He's Rory McElroy.
He's a five time major champion. For god's sakes, won
the Masters this year, He's won the Open, He's won
the PGA, He's won the US Open. I mean, in
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some ways, if there's ever an athlete who accomplishes so
much that they've earned the right to kind of march
to the beat of their own drum in golf, Rory
is kind of accomplished that, there's no doubt. But I
also believe, for me, at least personally Jackson, that Rory
is becoming more un likable.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
As the ears go by.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
He really is this, this whole thing would live, comes
out slam and live and then changes his mind. He's
pissed off at this. He's angry about that. He's acting
like a clown on the golf course. You saw him
smashing the T box marker at Oka at the US
Open over the weekend.
Speaker 2 (35:24):
He was so angry blowing off the media.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
He just he's kind of he's kind of coming across
as a little bit of a bitch.
Speaker 2 (35:30):
To be honest with you, I would just starting to bug.
Speaker 3 (35:32):
Me to all athletes when you start saying the media,
I'm just tired of you all media, And you know
I'm not gonna names exactly right, and if you just
have the general maybe it's because of where we are
in my being here on sports radio, but like when
I hear athletes just attacking the media for frankly no
good reason, like attack the people specifically talk to those
(35:53):
specific reporters. When you generalize the media and attack the
general media, screw you, man. Well, he's got fourteen top
ten ft at the majors in the last six years
and the four major championships in the last six years.
He has fourteen top ten finishes, including a title. He's
a very, very good player. Obviously, he's one of the
best players in the world, no doubt, and talk to
the media, but he I think he should and I
(36:16):
don't think it's a problem if he does it every
now and then. But when you start making a habit
of it and people think you're arrogant and taking him,
you gotta live with that, man.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
You gotta live with that label. All right.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
We're gonna break the opposite of arrogant, very humble man.
Jerry Brewer gonna join courtesy of Northwest Handling Systems next
on ninety three three KJRFL
Go in the United States of America. How do we
allow a team from Florida to claim back to back
Stanley Cup championships and a team from Oklahoma to claim
the NBA title. Both teams are one game away from
making that a reality in this country.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
I get that.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
I mean the element there being that Florida is a
warm weather state city and they shouldn't be winning a
cold sport.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
I guess is your point.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
I think they're just. But they both don't have the right.
That's my point, not onlet of them have the right. Florida,
where people don't even care about hockey, don't even know
about hockey, still hockey. You know who lives in Florida.
My grandparents lived in Florida. Eighty five year old Jewish
people live in Florida. You think eighty five year old
Jews give a damn about hockey. Here's the answer, No,
(00:48):
they don't. Oklahoma in the NBA given college football, give
them college baseball, give them softball.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
NBA in Oklahoma.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
This is a freaking disgrace that, in two twenty twenty five,
in this country, the greatest country on our the United
States of America, that we have allowed a team from
Florida to be one win away from the Stanley Cup
Championship and back to back titles at that.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Jackson and a freaking team from that dirt.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Hole in Oklahoma, to be one win away from the
NBA champions.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
You have to go all Jeff Daniels from the newsroom, Really,
the United States might be we are. I'm just I'm
just super depressed about Oklahoma City now, and now we
have the news about Tyrese Haliburton that well suck like
now Like I don't know, man, Since I saw the
Halburton news this afternoon, I still had hope. Even down
three games, I still had hope maybe the Pacers can
(01:40):
do it. But after this injury news, man, I'm just
so depressed. Well, you should be depressed, because it's over.
They'll probably win in Game six tomorrow. They'll probably wrap
it up tomorrow and it'll be done.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
So Jerry Brewer will join us at four o'clock today
and we will discuss the impending reality that Oklahoma City
is about to become the NBA champion.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Mariners.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Last night again a very twenty twenty four ish game
by the Mariners.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Logan Gilbert was great.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Five innings, ten K's in his first start and over
what five and a half weeks, six weeks, whatever, it was,
thirty six and thirty five. And here's the deal about
this baseball team, man, they just think they get no
breaks from anybody, right, I mean, they just got done
sweeping the Guardians, and people are just waiting for someone
to come along and kick your right in the crotch.
And that's what happened last night. But they could win
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the night, they could win tomorrow. Not gonna matter. And
I am convinced Jackson. I thought about this today when
I was walking on the treadmill, very slowly, by the way.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
I'm convinced that the.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Only way people will truly be fired up about this
baseball team and truly buy into what this baseball team
is doing is if they are fifteen twenty games up
like they were in two thousand and one in the
middle of September, because we saw again them do something that,
besides the Angels, no other team has done in thirty years,
(02:56):
and that's blow a ten game lead and not make
the playoffs. I mean, you wear it out like a scar,
right when you do something like that. This is why
I've been saying things like what the Mariners did to
their fan base last year was the worst thing ever.
You teased this baseball team. You teased this baseball team
with maybe the best rotation they've ever had in franchise history,
certainly the best rotation in the American League. And you
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added a ten game lead in the middle of June
to that resume, and you blew all of it. I mean,
it's like walking up to a starving tiger and dangling
a forty eight ounce porterhouse right in front of his
face and then pulling it back at the last side.
What do you think the tiger's gonna do. Damn thing
hasn't eaten for years. I'm starving. Yeah, And the only
(03:42):
reason why that tiger didn't bite your hand off, he's
stuck in a cage like us. We're stuck in this
cage in Seattle. We can't go anywhere. We got nowhere
else to root for it nobody else to root for.
We have to root for these guys. We're from Seattle.
It's in our blood. But like I said a year ago,
I think what they're doing with the way they've behaved,
you know, on and off the field, and I got
(04:03):
some numbers to back it up and look, there is
a If you want me to be the positive PD
guy for a second, I will say that getting to
what's their record now was at thirty six and thirty five,
get into thirty six and thirty five and all these
pictures being hurt is actually pretty impressive in some ways.
But nobody is going to change the narrative after seventy
one games and forty nine years, right, you need, you
(04:26):
know a lot more than that to change the narrative.
But what they're doing, and I think I think the
Husky football team, Dick and I talked about this, I
think yesterday was yesterday, Monday, Yeah, yesterday, that there were
kids that were very impressionable in two thousand and eight
when they went oh in twelve and they're twelve, thirteen
years old.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Like, I'm not rooting for them. They suck.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
I'm gonna be a Duck fan. I'm going to be,
you know, a Michigan fan, Ohio State whatever. I think
the Mariners are doing that. I think the Mariners have
got to be really careful for a franchise that seems
to be so concerned with what that's happening in ten
years from now. We can't sign that guy. Look at
the party he's making in ten years from now, I mean,
which is obviously ridiculous. Raphael Devers comes to mind, had
(05:09):
that conversation yesterday on the show about his contract, and
you know, we're all concerned about well two thirty he's
making no, no, no world concerns. Dick Thane is concerned.
I don't want to talk behind his back, but his
name rhymes with Dick Fank. Yeah, you know, I like, really,
the Mariners have like four guys signed for two thousand
and thirty. Now we're gonna worry about the payroll in
six years from now? Like, what are you talking about?
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Man? So that's number one.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
But I think what's happening is that they're opening the
door for young people nine, ten eleven year old kids
who were still very impressionable to just simply put root
for somebody else, yep, right, root for somebody else. Root
for the Astros, root for the Yankees, root for the Cubs,
root for the Giants, root for the Dodgers, right whatever.
I mean, if you're a young Japanese American kid growing
(05:53):
up in Seattle, you might be a gigantic Dodger fank.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Of course, because the show.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Heyo Tani, obvious reasons, right, Okay, So I just think
that you got to be really careful if you are
looking to build something sustainable and you're looking to get
inside the DNA of a sports fan at a very
young age. When you do things like what you've been
doing and you don't deliver and you tease your fan base,
(06:18):
I think you're in danger of giving young fans a
reason to grow up fans of somebody else.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Here's the problem is that even when you go and
sweep the Guardians and do what you did over last weekend,
that still doesn't necessarily know I talk to you guys
in the previous weeks about how I was so body
at the end of April and now I'm getting closer
to apathy. And I'm sorry Mariners, but it's like sweeping
the Guardians, it didn't really move the needle for me.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
They got to do that three or four times in
a row to go into fourteen straight.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
You have to go build that kind of a thing.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
And then moreover, I think you have to be just
consistently right there in it, whether leading the vision or
right around. But you drop those games in the few
weeks prior and the Astros went and had their own
great weekend, right, So you don't even get closer in
the West. So my needle, it doesn't even go back
up towards it. I'm still still inching after last night.
(07:12):
I'm interesting even further to apathy because the baseball team
just isn't gaining ground. They aren't exciting the way I
need them to be. And I just I don't know.
One moment for JP on Sunday, great, but what does
that do larger picture?
Speaker 2 (07:25):
I don't know. I just say this.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Look, I mean sweeping the Guardian's fun great, whatever, awesome, Okay,
but it's three of one hundred and sixty two. It
registers nothing when it's all said and done. And when
I say go win fourteenth straight, I mean, obviously that's
an idiotic thing to ask for, because that's really hard
to do. My point is this, go do something that
nobody can deny, Go do something that will resonate with everyone,
(07:47):
and you go do something like that, or we haven't.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Lost a game in two weeks, or look at this.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
You wake up and you're nine games up on the
Astros and you're kicking ass and Julio is hitting five
point fifty. The last fifteen were the twelve forty eight,
OHPA and ten Bombs and thirty five. Go do something
that nobody can deny. Go do something that everybody can
get behind. And they haven't done that. Instead, they're just
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teasing us. So we'll talk more about this with Jerry Brewer.
Paul Sovie's gonna jump on. He's gonna stop buy and
you know he's selling barbecue sauce. Now he's not just
a TV star really good. He is a barbecue sauce
salesman for biffs. So he's gonna join us and yack
it up. We'll get Paul's take on the MS, the
impending return of the NBA, the Finals, the whole thing.
Paul Sovie King FIVELL joined in studio next on ninety
three three KJRFM.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
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Speaker 1 (08:48):
All Right, boys and girls, what is this Tuesday? For
God's sakes, God, the days are all blending together. Man
Dick is out doing the storm. Game tonight in La
Jackson's hanging Out with Us a short show all this
to Ferness, a two hour show. Between now and five,
we got the Oilers in Florida, Game six Daily Cup
Final coming up at five pm tonight, obviously rooting for
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the Oilers. Who doesn't want to see a game seven
on Friday night. NBA Finals is in effect pretty much
over Thunder up three games to two, and now Halliburton's
banged up. But you may have heard us on the
air for the last couple of months or so promoting
a brand new client on the radio station. It's it's
technically a guy that we've known for a long time,
but I had no idea that he was even behind this.
(09:32):
Apparently he's bored being a TV star and he's now
pushing barbecue sauce all over the city. Our friend from
King five, Paul Sylvie, is here in studio with us,
and he's brought some Biff's Blue Ribbon barbecue sauce with him,
which really is the only reason why we let you win.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Be man, you brought stuff with you. If not, you
can take a hike. How are you man? Good you doing?
I'm good man. It's good to see about it.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
See you, we don't do this too often, so I
appreciate you have me on here. Yeah, we used to
do this a lot more than we do now. I
don't know what happened, but there's this radio TV thing.
Everybody hates each other now in the city, but we're
still pals. But before we talk about what's happening on
the ice on the court return of the NBA. The
Mariners are pissing everybody off Seahawks. Still, I got a
month or so before training camp starts. I had no idea, honestly,
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that you were doing this. And I'm kicking myself for
not knowing it earlier because this stuff is incredible. And
my wife, actually, no kidding, loves this stuff. Like I
came home the other night and I caught her drinking
out of the bottle. She was drinking this stuff straight man,
out of the bottle. So Biff's blue ribbon barbecue sauce.
Your face is on the bottle, on the glass jar.
(10:39):
You're everywhere all over grocery stores, meat markets. How'd you
get involved in this?
Speaker 5 (10:44):
Man?
Speaker 1 (10:44):
You know, I have a longtime friend, a king, and
you know he had this. He developed this recipe he's
a he's a real good cook, and his girlfriend at
the time encouraged him to put it out there in
the market, and he says, too much work to do
all that, right, And so the years ago it went by,
and she finally convinced him and he went out there
and he put it out there, and then he just
couldn't keep up with it. He didn't have the passion
(11:06):
to start it in the first place. It wasn't even
his idea to go out there and do this, but
he had this great sauce, and so I was a
huge believer in it. I said, you know, dude, you
gotta do something with this. So u it fell flat
and he's you know, And then I went in there
and kind of just you know, helped him out and said, look,
let me help you out a little bit.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
So we got it.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
We kind of partnered up, helped him out, got it
off the ground again, and then he didn't want to
do it. So now I took it, and I said,
I'm such a huge believer in it because it tastes
so good. I'm like, I gotta get this out there
and I'll give it a run. So we found a
cole packer and you know, we started just you know,
kind of just getting this thing manufactured and making it
just a click of a of a button away, and
(11:46):
and now we get it made or I get it made,
and uh, you know, we just that's just where we
are right now. So we're definitely grassroots, man, we are.
We are losing money as we speak, but I like
it this sauce.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
So we're just gonna keep going. But you're having fun
doing that's right.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
How many years now have you been at King five,
by the way, thirty two, thirty two. So if I
would have told you thirty years ago, hey, in year
thirty two, you're gonna be on a sports talk radio show,
Hawking Barbecue sauce. I'm gonna be afternoon, No way, where
would you have thought your career went. I know exactly.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
When people ask me how long I've been there, too,
they're just they're stunned that I've been there for thirty
two years, because nobody stays anywhere for thirty But you've
been here a long time thirty one, yeah, yeah, came
in at the same time. Yeah, And uh, and you
know I remember seeing you at the Kingdome way back
in the day. I think you were, oh you started
out maybe as an intern or something, and you were
over there getting interviews and I was like, man, that's
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how long it's been, man, I've known you. Yeah, it's nuts.
Well the barbecue sauce honestly is awesome. I'm not just
saying this, man, it is really incredible stuff. A Fourth
of July coming up, obviously summer barbecues, So do yourself
a favor and get down to your local meet market
being e Golden Steer to call my boys Safeway Hagen
they're everywhere, by the way, and ask for Biffs and
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just look for Paul Silvie's face, all right, because that's
that's the original, not the knockoff. So check out some
Biff's Blue Ribbon barbecue sauce for Fourth of July. Great
on everything, chicken, burger, steaks, brisket, whatever. Man, this stuff
is awesome. So kudos to you for introducing us in
our audience to Biff's Blue Ribbon. But man, thirty one
years for me, thirty two for you, sixty three years
(13:25):
combined in this city and we've seen some stuff. Man,
it is unbelievable. And now we're about to see the
former Sonics probably win the NBA title. It pisses me off,
It keeps me up at night, it makes me sick,
does it? Yes, Becaues, just because I'm a petty That's
why you're a professional.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
I'm not okay now, But I hear it all the time,
you know.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
I hear with people we work with and the fans
out there, and they're so bent about this since it
happened in two thousand and eight. You know, it's been
seventeen years where they just won't get over it. And
I understand it because I know people that are in
Minnesota that lost the North Stars of DAB and they
will not let it go.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
And there are people in this town that will not
let it go.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
So it's interesting to hear your take because I'm not
I'm from Detroit, so I'm not originally from here.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
If someone took my Red Wings, I'd be just as bent. Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Imagine honestly, Red Wings moved to I don't know, Kansas
City and they win the Stanley Cup Championship. Your pist
Oh yeah, right, absolutely, I can see where everybody's feeling
it for so But Paul, here's the thing, because I
was actually thinking, because I knew that you would say
something like that.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
You know, I'm from Detroit. I went to college in Ohio.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
But you know what, you've been here for thirty two years,
yours two oh six now as it gets and everybody
says things like, you know, I just want to see
a good game.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
I don't root for bull crap man.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
You can't stay in this town for that long and
not develop. I think some kind of affinity and loyalty
and passion for the teams that you cover.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Your job is better. My job's better when these teams win.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
But you're telling me, at the root of who you are,
at your soul, you don't want to see the Seahawks
win on a Sunday afternoon, or the Mariners win on
a Friday night, or the Huskies win on a Saturday.
Come on, and when they go out and play national
powers in college football and in college basketball, you want
those guys to win for sure. Yeah, you know, I
was a huge, huge fan of the rain Man and
(15:10):
Gary Payton and Sean Camp and Peyton made me love
the NBA.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
So that's that's where it was.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
You know, when I came from from Michigan and came
out here, those guys were high flying, and George Carl
was the man that to me. To me because I
wasn't here for Lenny Wilkins and those guys, right, but
that to me was the golden ere of the Sonics.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Was that, George Carl?
Speaker 1 (15:29):
You you left Detroit kind of right after the Bad
Boys era?
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Yeah, exactly?
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Okay, Yeah, So you know the NBA now versus the
NBA then, and a lot of people like to criticize
the NBA today. It's a three point shooting league. Nobody's
playing defense versus Bill Lambier beating the crap out of
everybody every single night, choking people, Rodman going bananas. It
doesn't look as physical to me. I'll be honest with you.
I watch a little NBA, not as much as I
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will when they come back, and not as much as
I did. But for people that are down on the
product and say it's much weaker than it was during
that era, what would you say to somebody who's about
to jump back on the wagon when this when the
team comes back, Well.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
I think it was.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
It was, like you said, it was a different era,
and uh, you know, I was there when Lambert was
throwing punches and all those guys and uh and and
Rick Rick Mahorn and I mean, come on, that was
you know, they were just clobbering people down the lane.
And it's different now. But to me, you know, I
still like, I love watching Lebron James. I never want
the guy to retire because I like watching the Lakers.
I like watching the stars, and I want those stars
(16:30):
to come through town so we can go watch them,
you know, at Climate Pledge. And so I am a
bigger NBA fan now and I will be a healing one, yes,
because man, I just I love sports. I mean, I
love the fact that we can go to our jobs,
you and me and the rest of us in this
business that are fortunate to do what we do.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
And I mean this last night, I'm over at Mobile Park.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
You know, it's just a it's just a day for
me to go to a Mariners game, you know, and
and it's a day for me to run over the
Climate Pledge and watch the crack And it's like, it's
so cool what we do. And so people look at me,
like why do you love the NBA. It's like, dude,
there's a lot of stars in that league and they're
fun to watch and I mean, you know, so, I
just I can't say that I don't like the NBA
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because there's a lot of bitter people I'm around with
that two thousand and eight thing, and they won't let
it go. Yeah, I'm sorry. I'm the guy who says
I still love the NBA. When they come back, I'm
gonna embrace them. Well, I mean, there's no doubt I'll
embrace it. I think you can be bitter and be
ready to embrace them. You know, I'm bitter as hell.
I was just having lunch with a client today, my
friend from Belvy Rare Coins, and I was telling Natana
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out there that I have not been to a Starbucks
in eighteen years. I just can't do it. It's my
own personal protests. Does it mean anything when it's all
said and dumb? But it makes me feel better, I know, man,
But there's nothing wrong with that. There really isn't. It
cracks me up when I hear people like you say
that I'm not going to Starbucks, Like yeah, Howard's like,
oh gee whiz exactly. Howard's like, don't miss you? Well,
(17:56):
how do you think it'll be perceived here? I think
when they do come back, Oh, man, they're gonna they're
gonna love it. I cannot tell you, and I'm sure
you get the same in your business. How many people
ask us, uh, when do you think it's going to
go down? And and and when what's the year? When
are they gonna start playing again? People are dying for
this team to come back, this franchise to come back,
and what's your.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Gut tell you on that? But I think we do.
You tell people, well, I tell them.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
I used to tell them twenty eight, you know, uh,
twenty twenty eight, and then I started hearing they're more
concerned about NBA Europe than they are about about an expansion,
So then you're thinking twenty thirty. So but right now,
I think this summer, when they have those meetings in July,
I think that I think they'll steer it toward expansion
more than NBA Europe because I think but you know,
(18:40):
a lot of those owners they don't want to share
their money, you know, a lot of you know, so uh,
once you get past that expansion fee, they're all get
a nice big hit that then they got to share
the pot once that that wears off. So I think
that I think it's gonna be announced. I really do
believe it'll be announced before this fall. I think they'll
come out of those meetings and say, but see, you know,
here's the other thing.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Soft.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
He's like, they're not gonna come out and say Seattle
Vegas you win. They're gonna come out and say it's
on the table. Now here's eighteen cities who want an
NBA team, and they're all gonna get a chance to bid.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
So this is gonna drag out a little bit.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Yeah, I know, doubt well. Paul Sylvie from King five
as well, I'm sorry. Paul Slovie from Biff's Blue Ribbon
Barbecue Sauce is with us on the radio show, Gets
your Lookal meet Marketer or grocery store and find some
Biff's Blue Ribbon for your barbecue tonight. That was hell
of a reid. By the way, it just hit me.
NBA on NBC is coming back. Yeah, I know, NBC. Yeah,
(19:33):
fired up for people inside your office, man, We're we're
in the sports department. We're super fired up, and in
our sales department. You should see their sizzle reel. It's ridiculous.
It's got like NBA Olympics, super Bowl.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
You know, like you can't go anywhere else to watch sports,
that's right.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
So it's pretty funny, like you see their sizzle reel, Like,
we do have quite a few things coming up, don't we.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
I love it. Well, you guys got all that.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
We got Petros pop Onokas tomorrow by the way, at
four o'clock. I'm radio program, so get ready for that.
But Paul Sylvie again is with us in studio, and
Paul you mentioned being at T Mobile Park, and man,
it's just like last night's game was just so twenty
twenty four ish, Man, get this great performance by your starters.
Logan Gilbert hasn't pitched over a month and you can't
even get a damn run for the kid man.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
So where's this going?
Speaker 4 (20:20):
You know?
Speaker 1 (20:20):
I thought this was gonna be a year where the
numbers would maybe start to kind of balance out a
little bit, and for some guys like JP Crawford, they
are the guys that are not obviously, But where's this
whole thing going with the POTO, with Wilson, with this
Julio cow led offense, and this Logan Kirby, Bryce Miller
led pitching staff.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Where's this thing heading? Dude?
Speaker 1 (20:41):
You just mentioned all of the lot of the key
parts on this team, those players, And I'm a big
believer in, you know, getting these guys to play to
their potential. And I don't know who's gonna do that
for them, right, is it Loupanella that used to just,
you know, get these guys to play like he knows
they can play. And I know I'm dating myself out there.
But at the same time, I'm not sure that they
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have the right manager. I'm not sure they have the
right GM. I'm not sure they have the right president.
You know, Like, at some point somebody has to hold
their feet to the fire and say, you know, it's
enough already.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
But we do do that, we I mean, and I
get tired of it, and you do it. It's the
same thing.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
It's the same yelling, screaming monologue every year for three
or four times out of the year. I'm going on
the air. Everything sucks, I hate it, blah blah blah,
and then nothing changes. So when you say, because people
tell that to me, you better hold their feature the fire, Like,
what does that mean you put down there and start
banging on Stanton's wall.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Well, at some point it comes down to the owner.
He's gonna have to make the changes.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
And you know, I will say this, and I'm a
big guy on accountability. I mean, I swear there are
so many people on his planet who never take blame
for anything. And I think that these players that are
getting paid good dough and they're young, but I still
love to see Crawford just shot up out of nowhere
all of a sudden, He's hitting the crap out of
the ball. But it's like, you know, where are they?
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Where are these Where are these guys? And when are
they going to perform? At some point, some point, don't
you look at Julio and say, hey man, we gave
you two hundred and fifty million or whatever it's to
seventy and uhtize I'm just saying criticized consistence and to
get dragged on social media, I'm you're a Julio hater. No,
he's an example of what I'm saying. Don't throw me
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under the bus, though, he's an example of what I'm saying.
It's like, it's like anybody else in any professional sport
if you're writing the check for these guys at some
point And I asked Jerry this two years ago, at
some point don't you have to hold your players accountable
and quit going out shopping for guys? What's wrong with
the guys you have and the guys you're paying? Why
are we always shopping for guys? I mean, seriously, step up.
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We're paying you, and if you're not good enough, get out. Yeah,
that's what I'm talking about. You should see your face.
I know your face is more red than a bottle
of best blue Ribbon barbecue sauce. And I'm talking the
hot and spicy version. Get your today, your local Safeway Star.
I'm with you one thousand percent. But to Julio, the
thing is interesting. I don't know how much time he
spent on social media. Not a lot, smart man. By
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the way, I'm an idiot. I spend a lot of
time on social media, and so I see a lot
of people going after other people who are remotely critical
to Julio, and I think two truths can exist. Julio
can be a great guy. He can be a really
good player who's also maybe falling short slightly of whatever
expectations we had for him. So I put a poll
out last week on social media since he signed his contract, Julio,
(23:28):
is he meeting expectations. Is he exceeding them or is
he falling short? What would you vote for Julio? I
think that number one, he's awful young, like you know,
and that's why I give Julio a pass right now.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Because he is so damn young.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Agreed, and and you know, and I throw at the
cracking players too real quick, like those guys are twenty one,
twenty two years old, Like let them season and let
them learn the game.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Julio is super young. We forget.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
He's built like a man, you know, but he's basically
he's got he's got to grow into this big league mentality.
And I think that I think he's right where I
would expect him to be. He's not going to be
a superstar at that age. Yeah, you're going with where
he's at now, I think I am. But I'm saying,
what about the other, you know, fifteen guys, what about
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the other guys on this team? They all have to
come along together. And I just think that that we're
paying Julio a ton of money, but that's more of
an investment. That's an investment in the years down the road.
You didn't pay the two seventy or whatever it is.
For him to come out and start busting the ball
right away. You're paying and you're investing in this guy
to carry this team for the next decade. Sure, so
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let's let him have that chance. That's what I'm saying.
Where do you Paul Selvey's in studio with us for
a few more minutes. We got to hockey coming up
five o'clock Tonight's till the Cup Finals Game six, Florida
and Edmonton from Florida, Panthers looking to wrap it up
for the second year in a row.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Where do you see the Seahawks heading?
Speaker 1 (24:52):
You know, it's been kind of a I mean, there's
enthusiasm for Darnold, I think Cooper Cup. Yeah, a lot
of changes. I mean, my god, it seems like had
every opportunity to put his stamp on this football team.
Jody Allen has let him blow this thing to Kingdom.
Come get rid of the quarterback, get rid of the
head coach, get rid of the highest paid wide receiver.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
You've got.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
Now the pressure's on him. What do you see for
twenty twenty five from the Hawks? Maybe I'm in the
minority here, but I like what they did. First of all,
I'm a huge, huge, believer in the head coach. I
think that this guy could sit in the film room
with a clicker in his hand for twenty four to
seven watching film. He does not want to be bothered
with anything else. He wants to study, study, study, and
do the best put the best team on the field
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as possible.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
I love Mike McDonald.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
I think the moves were necessary because if you do
you want another mediocre season of nine to eight, No,
if you want a better season, you got to make
some massive moves. So I like, maybe I'm in the minority.
I like what they did. I like the influx of talent.
I like the exodus of some of the other guys.
It was time for a change. I think the favorite.
(25:54):
The schedule's very favorable. Some would call it soft, but
the forty nine ers have a very favorable schedule too.
So I like the schedule for the Seahawks, and I
like what they've done, and I love their head coach
and their defense I think is going to be you know,
I don't want to swear too much on your show,
but it's gonna be awesome. Yeah, So I really do.
I think that defense is going to carry this team.
(26:16):
My only concern is running back. Somehow they got to
keep ken Walker and Sharbon a healthy Yeah, yeah, no doubt. Well, Paul,
tell you what you mentioned being in Detroit with the
Red Wings and the Pistons, and I'm with you on
the moves the Hawks have made. I mean, again the
same argument for Julio that hey, it doesn't have to
be black and white. It can be a gray area
for Gino, I think, and Gino was very good for
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what they asked him to do replacing Russell. I never
thought he would be as effective as he was. But
there's a reason why the Pistons fired Rick Carlisle after
he won fifty games, because they got Larry Brown and
they won the NBA title. Right, So you're looking to
even improve on what was a pretty good situation, but
real quick on the crack, and I mean, you grew
up in a hockey town. Maybe the big us one
(27:00):
the country's got to offer in Detroit. What's keeping this
hockey team from taking that next tip? You think, Well,
they had to find the right coach, and we're all
hoping Lane Lambert is that guy. But I think that
the problem the thing with with with hockey and everybody
that follows the sport knows it you're bringing You're drafting
these guys as teenagers. It's an investment in time. They're
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not gonna start right away. They're gonna You got to
go out and get spend money on free agents. So
they got a couple of last free agency. Uh, this year,
they have the money to spend. They have draft capital.
But let's let's not fool ourselves. They're just gonna draft
high school guys right Uh, that are gonna play in
the juniors for a while. It's gonna take a while
from them to get up here and play well. So
they've got to go out and get the if. They've
got to spend the money correctly and get some guys
(27:43):
in here. I think they did a nice job last year.
They got to double down and do that again this
summer because they have the cash to do it. Love
it and you and you got to find yourself. They've
got their goalie. So I like this team. I like
where they're headed. I like that they weren't going to
settle for Mediacer and they got a new coach. But
you got to go out and do some smart shop
and a free agency because you cannot wait forever for
these nineteen and twenty year olds to be twenty four
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and twenty five.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
No question.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
Well, speaking of smart shopping, you're out shopping for the
Fourth of July, that for a transition Biff's Blue Ribbon
barbecue sauce. You can find this stuff everywhere, right, Yeah,
most safeways have it, and then a lot of the
meat markets have it, as you mentioned, and listen if
they don't have it. Here's what I like to say.
This is what the grocery store guys would say. If
your store doesn't carry it, you go ask the manager
(28:28):
where is it? And you tell that manager you want
it on their shelves. You hear me, fred Meyer, Wow,
Fred Meyer? Get after what the hell you guys doing?
Speaker 2 (28:37):
For God's sakes? Well, we love it.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
It's awesome stuff, man, and I think you're making a
mistake if you don't have it on your table for
the Fourth of July and whatever you got planned this summer.
So again, if you're at a local Safeway, Hagan meat Market,
whatever to come a boys a golden steer be and E.
My favorites the Beingian des Moines because I live there
by the way, so I know they have it in
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stock to flavors, including the hot and spicey. Go check
out Biff's Blue Ribbon barbecue sauce, and if you're confused
as to which one it is, just look for the
bottle that's got Paul Sylvie's face on it.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
It's that one right there.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
Because nobody else would put that guy's face on barbecue
sauce besides himself.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
You're the man.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
Great stuff, buddy, Thank you for having a great summer,
and we'll talk soon, pala right, all right, Paul Sylvie.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
Hey, by the way, are you working the night? Are
you on the air tonight? You are? All right? What
time are you on tonight? By the way?
Speaker 4 (29:26):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Four five forty five? The rest of the night. There
you go.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
You want to see the proprietor, the proprietor and owner
of Biff's Blue Ribbon on TV, that's the time to
tune in.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
Forget the other stuff, just tune in for him. All right.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
We're gonna break fun with audio next baby on a
busy Tuesday, and then Jerry Brewer will joining four hockey
at five right here on ninety three three KJRFM.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
It's now time for Softy and Digg's Fun with Audio.
Jimmy g pawn Star, Jimmy mister garoppolo. Now let's have
some fun with audio.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
All right, I'm gonna give you a chance to accident
at four twenty eight to make some money on the
radio state.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Okay, this is legal or not, but we're gonna do
it anyway. What the hell? All right?
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Dick is out today? Uh down calling the storm and
LA for TV.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
Yes, it's true. Yeah, this man has no Dick.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
So me and Jackson with you until five o'clock tonight
Oilers Florida Game six Stenley Cup Final goal Oilers at
five pm. The sevening Jerry Brewer will join us next segment.
But right now a little fun with audio, slish hat
did you hear that? With Jackson stepping in for Dick,
Faye ed Jackson japper to hear that?
Speaker 2 (30:27):
What's that song? What's that? Dick?
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Yesterday, on First Take, stephen A said that Giannis has
underachieved if he does not win another championship. ESPN basketball
analyst Jay Williams then snapping back at stephen A over
his ridiculous take.
Speaker 6 (30:42):
That was one of your worst ticks I've heard in
a long time.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Man, That was horrible.
Speaker 6 (30:46):
I I I had to, you know, like I'm the
little brother that has filled with the venoms sometimes when
you and I go out each other and it's all
low because I always it's always love. But I think
we really need to do a better job of reframing
some of these conversations, right. And if you were to
say that the franchise, the Milwaukee Bucks, have underachieved or
(31:13):
the biggest underachievers with the talent of Giannis fair to
call him an underachiever, I just think it's an as a
nine comment because then if we go through history, we're
calling a lot of these other great players who have
won one NBA championship, which, by the way, you know
how hard it is to win a championship. So you're
calling Alan Iverson an underachiever, You're calling Dirk an underachiever,
(31:38):
You're calling KG an underchiever. You just called Oscar Robinson
an underachiever because they've all got one championship.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
Oh, you never aiden mentioned some guys that never won,
like Karl Malone and Charles Barkley.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
By the way, I mean, I get it.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
You know when you win a championship in your fifth
year in the NBA and you've come nowhere near one
since then.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
I get it.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
The bar has been raised for Giannis certainly big time
since he won that first title. The guy's got two MVPs,
I believe as well. But I do think that if
you if you went to a Bucks fan at the
end of the twenty twenty one season, Jackson, and you
told a Milwaukee fan Yannis will never win another title
again in the NBA, I think they'd be disappointed in that.
Speaker 3 (32:22):
I think they'd be disappointed in their team for not
doing that. So that's why I think Jay Williams nailed it,
Because if you're gonna say that it's underachievement if the
Bucks don't win another title, that's fair to put it
all on Yannis and says he's their best player.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
He's their best player by far, sure, but he needs
help and them to build the team around him, no doubt.
And Basketball Reference does a win share generator metric kind
of like war in baseball, and that number for Yiannis
has gone down every single year. It's actually pretty low
right now. It was only eleven point five. He was
fourteen point four, twelve point four, twelve point nine, eleven
(33:00):
point nine. So according to the Geeks, that run Basketball
Reference dot Com. He's kind of tailing off a little bit.
Had a good year two years ago, but not necessarily
this season. But you know, look, I mean people look
at a lot of big time stars and say they
underachieved because they never won a championship, and Karl Malone,
Charles Barkley, Kangriffey Junior where they're fair unfair, Ernie Banks
(33:20):
or a couple of them.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
Let's get one more here. We can't just do one right? Yeah? Hey, Jackson,
did you happen to hear that? What's that?
Speaker 3 (33:27):
Dick?
Speaker 2 (33:27):
Two? Three or four? Pick one? Gosh two three?
Speaker 4 (33:31):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
Right after his seven over performance at the US Open
last weekend, Rory McElroy talked at a press conference about
why he is skipping media appearances recently.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
He has when he was six, Major Craft kind of
stepped away.
Speaker 6 (33:47):
Is that Ben par Parcel to the frustration of the
golf course?
Speaker 2 (33:50):
What what do you ahould be?
Speaker 5 (33:51):
No, not really, it's more of a frustration with you guys.
I'm just yeah, I don't know. I mean, I have
been totally available for the last few years. And I'm
not saying maybe not you guys, but maybe more just
the whole, the whole thing. But it's not as if
flake An Augusta, I skipped you guys on Thursday. So
(34:12):
it's it's not out of the ordinary. I've done it before.
I'm just doing it a little more often.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
He's as part of the kind of carried two words
for a tutor four years now and.
Speaker 4 (34:22):
You feel like you joined the break.
Speaker 5 (34:25):
I feel like I've earned the right to do whatever
I want to do.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
Yeah, I mean, he's kind of right. You know that
people obviously are going to kind of follow his lead.
Whatever he does, he's going to do. He's Rory McElroy.
He's a five time major champion. For god's sakes, won
the Masters this year, He's won the Open, He's won
the PGA, He's won the US Open. I mean, in
(34:48):
some ways, if there's ever an athlete who accomplishes so
much that they've earned the right to kind of march
to the beat of their own drum in golf, Rory
is kind of accomplished that, there's no doubt. But I
also believe, for me, at least personally Jackson, that Rory
is becoming more un likable.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
As the ears go by.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
He really is this, this whole thing would live, comes
out slam and live and then changes his mind. He's
pissed off at this. He's angry about that. He's acting
like a clown on the golf course. You saw him
smashing the T box marker at Oka at the US
Open over the weekend.
Speaker 2 (35:24):
He was so angry blowing off the media.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
He just he's kind of he's kind of coming across
as a little bit of a bitch.
Speaker 2 (35:30):
To be honest with you, I would just starting to bug.
Speaker 3 (35:32):
Me to all athletes when you start saying the media,
I'm just tired of you all media, And you know
I'm not gonna names exactly right, and if you just
have the general maybe it's because of where we are
in my being here on sports radio, but like when
I hear athletes just attacking the media for frankly no
good reason, like attack the people specifically talk to those
(35:53):
specific reporters. When you generalize the media and attack the
general media, screw you, man. Well, he's got fourteen top
ten ft at the majors in the last six years
and the four major championships in the last six years.
He has fourteen top ten finishes, including a title. He's
a very, very good player. Obviously, he's one of the
best players in the world, no doubt, and talk to
the media, but he I think he should and I
(36:16):
don't think it's a problem if he does it every
now and then. But when you start making a habit
of it and people think you're arrogant and taking him,
you gotta live with that, man.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
You gotta live with that label. All right.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
We're gonna break the opposite of arrogant, very humble man.
Jerry Brewer gonna join courtesy of Northwest Handling Systems next
on ninety three three KJRFL
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