June 3, 2025 • 37 mins
In the first hour, Dave Softy Mahler and Dick Fain react to the Oklahoma City Thunder being close to an NBA Championship, discuss the feelings around the Mariners now compared to when Softy left for Greece, then listen and react to some Fun with Audio.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Bare go.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
I don't remember you sounding like this when we talked this.
Speaker 3 (00:04):
I didn't I did. I got back. I got back
to town actually on Friday.
Speaker 4 (00:08):
Night, late Friday night from London, and I spent the
weekend getting acclimated doing some stuff. At an event yesterday
I took part, and so I was always taking yesterday off. Anyway,
went to bed last night feeling terrible, and then woke
up this morning feeling much better.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
But my voice is gone. So I don't know what
to tell you. Man trying. I can hang if you
can hang, or you can just hang and I can
just take off. How many people? Four? Nine, four or five?
Speaker 5 (00:30):
One?
Speaker 3 (00:30):
What do you think? Jacksonine?
Speaker 4 (00:31):
Nick Saftie should take one more day off and go
home and have Dick and Jackson handle this.
Speaker 6 (00:36):
If you want me to be the executive producer, make
that executive decision. We have a lot of stuff on
the show, Safie. We can get by without you. If
you need to go rest your voice.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
God, you know what that sounds like a good I.
Speaker 6 (00:46):
I mean, honestly, Dick, this sounds this sounds horrific right now.
So I'm gonna I don't know, I don't know what happens,
gonna come in here, but.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
See what happens. You know what, why don't let the
audience decide.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
Let's let the not not that the not that we
would ever actually do that, or the boss whatever, let
us do that. But I think that you know, look,
people tune into this radio show, they support us. I
think they deserve to have a voice. They deserve to
have some kind of a say in the day to
day operations of this radio station. So four nine four
five one, stay on the air, go home, simply put
four nine four to four.
Speaker 7 (01:15):
Well, Jackson, I just got Softy's July schedule, and now
getting that, I want to make sure that he's here
as many days as possible between now and Midjely, Well, I.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
Feel like I feel like my voice is sounding a
little bit better as the seconds go by, but now
my throat fills worse by the.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Well that's okay, because we can't hear your throat.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
Okay, Well, the point is if my throat fills worse,
I might not be here tomorrow. So anyway, look, man,
you gotta what's what's Melon's favorite line? Don't tell me
about the pain, show me the baby. I'm trying to
show you that baby here for crying out loud because
I haven't been on the air for two weeks.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
I miss you guys.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
You know it really struck me, honestly, and I don't
mean to get all machin. I don't know, yeah, mushy,
I guess is the word romantic on the air. But
I'm sitting there at this beautiful spot in Santorini grease
in Ea went to feara just places were unbelievably beautiful.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
I mean strikingly beautiful.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
Like you know me, I'm I don't have a hard
time sometimes coming up with the words to describe things.
I was speechless with my wife and we sat there
in fear of Santa Reni having dinner last week. It
was the most unbelievable thing I've ever seen. And I'm
sitting there thinking, you know what, we got a pretty
damn good gig here on this radio station. As I
said to Ian Fernes a couple of months ago, what
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we do is what most people would consider to be
semi retirement for crying out loud. Okay, so I love
doing this. I got no plans to leave anytime soon.
As long as the station will have me, I'll plan
on hanging around. Maybe the rest of today's show. The
rest of today's show, I might have to take off
and get the hell out of here. But I came back.
(02:47):
I came back at this time for one simple reason
because I think all of us are going to need
some massive emotional support. Starting on Thursday nights, one of
the Oklahoma City Thunder played for the NBA title. And
I asked you, and I want to ask you as well, Jackson.
I asked you off the year, Hey, what's been the
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biggest topic, right? What are people talking about? You said, No,
nothing really obvious that sounds around. Seahawk related, Mariner related
to me, the biggest the absolute number one See now
I'm getting pissed off. Now the voice is gonna sound
even worse. The absolute number one freaking topic on this
radio station should be how do we do our part?
And I don't know if we can do anything. By
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the way, in fighting a way for the Indiana Pacers
to win the NBA Championship. And I thought, all right,
I'm gonna go on the air. I'm gonna get all
fired up. I'm gonna rip Howard Shows, Howard Schultz a.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
New a hole.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
I'm gonna bring up what a son of a bitch
he is and what he did to us and how
he did us dirty. And this is gonna be one
of the most painful things we've ever felt as sports
fans in Seattle. I was all jacked up, Go Pacers,
Rah rah Rah, shishkumba. And then I walked to the
board here at the Emerald Queens.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Seventh biggest one sided. Well, you bet the you bet
the thunder.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
No, hell no, it's minus seven hundred.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
No I thought thunder before I say right now, oh,
well you got great value, because didn't you get like
minus one hundred or something like that. I think I
got about like minus one forty or whatever whatever it was.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
But the odds right now are so stupid. Yeah, they're dumb.
I mean we may as well, the Pacers. I think
we may as well. Jackson.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
Your wife is a psychologist, so maybe she can help
us out. Like this is this is death row and
we've exhausted all options. Yep, Okay, I mean it's common like,
there's nothing we can do about this.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
They're gonna win the NBA title, but guarantee.
Speaker 6 (04:36):
And this is what Dick and I talked about yesterday
which is the element of we know this is happening,
and so how do we psychologically prepare ourselves point yes,
so so basically Dick actually has had something pretty perfect.
We just got to get in the October mindset. We
just got to put ourselves in our tower brains. And
so we know July the border governors are gonna meet,
and we think expansion is going to be discussed. And
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then ultimately the thought is that by the end of
the year, you know, hopefully by the start of the season,
we have news on expansion.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
So just try to put.
Speaker 6 (05:04):
Ourselves in the mindset of we have a team coming,
we have a team coming, we have a team coming.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Because the only way to be okay with what's about
to what.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
You're so, what you're saying, And again, I don't think
there's any right or wrong answer here.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
I mean, whatever your feeling is is what you're feeling.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
Is that if the Sonics come back, or because they're
on the way back, and all of us agreeed that
they are right on the way back, nothing's changed since
I haven't heard I regard that that somehow is going
to lessen the blow. And I guess for me is
I'm talking this through. It'll lessen the blow for me
a little bit.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Yep.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
But we're not going to see these guys play for
three or four years, right, I think, I think, I
think in the interim, I think this is going to
really suck. In the interim, well, I think here's the
thing about the thunder, Hang on second, suck. The thing
about the thunder for me is that not only are
they really good now and the heavy favorites to win
the NBA title, they've got the goods to win two
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or three of this we do, and that is probably
what's going to happen with these guys. And so I
just want to spend a second here, if you'll allow me.
And I know that this is nothing we haven't said before,
and it doesn't really do anybody any good, but it's
just cathartic for me. I think of what Howard Schultz
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did to this city, and I'm trying to come up
with adjectives Dick and Jackson in ways to say the
same thing fifteen different ways. I think he is the
biggest son of a bitch this city has ever seen
ever ever. Okay, because we're watching Durant and Harden and Westbrook,
Sam Presty might be the best GM in the NBA.
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What they're doing right now, and they're gonna win potentially
two or three titles. They could go on a Rockets
type run, a Golden State Warriors type run, and that
jackass is sitting there smiling his face off while we
are sitting here about to be a part of maybe
the most painful thing we've been a part of since
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the Super Bowl in Glendale in twenty fourteen. My hatred
for that man, it's impossible for me to express it, Dick,
the way I feel about the guy. I have not
been to a Starbucks since two thousand and eight. I'm
never going back. I don't give a damn if the
Sonics return and win ten straight NBA titles, I'm never
going back to that place. It's a little personal protest.
(07:26):
It means nothing. I get it. I'm sure there's people
out there that think it's dumb and silly, but it
makes me feel better about myself. So the only thing
that I can do to get through these next couple
of weeks is rip Howard Chiltz a new a hole
and remind him how he stabbed us all right in
the back. He's either a the world's biggest idiot when
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he sold the team to Clay Bennett or b even worse,
didn't give it damn about this city that made him
billions of dollars, by the way, when he launched his
first cop shop in Pipe Place Market. So again, you
guys handle it however you want.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
That's great.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
I'm just telling you from my perspective, this is another
reminder what's happening here, what's about to happen Thursday night
in Oklahoma City, about how Howard Schultz is to me,
without question, the biggest villain this town's ever seen, and
it's not even close.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Well, I agree with that.
Speaker 7 (08:21):
I mean, the only part that you said that I
disagree with is I don't think he's smiling his ass off,
because I certainly wouldn't smile my ass off. If I
sold a stock for three hundred dollars a share and
everybody hated me for it and ridiculed for me, Rick
tould me for it, and then eighteen years later that
stock I sold for three hundred dollars a share was
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worth three thousand dollars a share, I certainly wouldn't be
smiling my ass off. I'd be like, what the hell
did I do? That is the stupidest business decision. It's
the stupidest political decision that I have ever made in
my life. And I would be kicking myself, and honestly,
(09:02):
I think he is. That doesn't make me feel sorry
for him at all, right, but I think he's kicking
himself for what he is.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
No, Financially, you're exactly right, and that that can probably
be said about most sports franchises, right that if you
let him go, eventually, you're going to be ruining the
day that he did it, unless you're just willing just
to get out and just say, Okay, I need to
turn it over to somebody else and money doesn't matter whatever.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
But I don't know what kind of world Howard Schultz
runs in.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
I assume that the world Howard Schultz runs in, he's
not surrounded by sonic fans that hate his guts.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Right.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
I would think that Jordan Schultz is more likely to
see people like that because of what he does for
a living.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
He's in sports media.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
But you know, I think Howard, if he had any
balls whatsoever, come on the radio.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Station, you know, because he deserves it.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
Because he deserves it. Why would you apologize. Why would
you go on an apology tour? Why would you own
a mistake that you've made. Because it's the right thing
to do, That's why. And the last time I heard
from that guy, Look, he does these interviews every now
and then, at least busting his balls out of Costco
like ten years ago when he had that book tour
or whatever. But look, I'm not saying he would do it.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
He should do it.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
Be a man, okay, be a man, you know, Come
into the lions Den, talk to us, talk to sports fans.
Don't talk to the Puget Sound Business Journal or you know,
the in house Starbucks magazine. Come on this radio station
that you f'd in the back, Come on this radio
station and address your fans. So, look, I am so
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full of rage right now. You can probably tell I
am so vacation.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
In Greece for two weeks and you're coming back in
a rage.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
I am so full of rage towards Howard Schultz right now.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
It is unbelievable.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
And I just don't know what else to do besides
just continue to let the venom flow, and hopefully that
is a tool and an indication of how much passion
there still is in this town for Sonic basketball.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Well, I gotta be honest with you, I am proud as.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
Hell of Sonic fans and basketball fans in this town
and the way they've acted for the past seventeen years.
It is unbelievable that a guy like Jamie Munson could
build a business from scratch, literally on the backs of
Sonic fans. He literally built a business on the backs
of fans of a basketball team that doesn't exist anymore.
(11:23):
We've had more passion overall in general terms in the
last fifteen years, Dick and Jackson for a best basketball
team that we don't have versus a baseball team that
we do have.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
Right, it's been unbelievable.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
From there are some people that have absolutely yes, and
those people exist. I'm just saying that, I don't know
if there's a town in the country that lost a
basketball team, and maybe there's towns that lost the NFL potentially,
you know whatever I'm thinking about.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
They got a back, right, they got That's not my point.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
My point is the amount of passion, right, the amount
of emotion, the drive. Maybe it's more for the NFL
because the NFL is just a bigger animal than the NBA,
but to lose an NBA basketball team, Like, do you
think that seventeen years later, after the San Diego Clippers
went to LA they were this passionate? Or when the
Kentucky Colonels left Louisville, were they this passionate?
Speaker 3 (12:21):
Right?
Speaker 4 (12:22):
I mean, I know that New Orleans got a team back,
but when the Jazz went to Salt Lake City, were
they this passionate? So this is amazing. I love the
fact that Sonic fans are pissed. I never want you
to let Howard you know, live this down. Ever, I
want to hold it over his head until now in
the end of time. I think when you talk about
the biggest bastards that walk the city streets of Seattle
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and call Seattle home, or did call Seattle home.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
To me, the guy's number one.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
So this is gonna be freaking painful starting Thursday, and
they may sweep them, and they may just kick their
ass in four games.
Speaker 7 (12:53):
By the way, I don't think most Sonic fans Jackson
and I talked about this yesterday. I don't think most
Sonic fans are going to feel that much pain about it,
because I think they're gonna take a peek they're gonna
see if the pacers can hang. And the moment that
they feel like the pacers can't hang, they are flipping
it off and they are not turning it back on again.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
And that's how they're gonna, you know, that's how they're
gonna do.
Speaker 4 (13:11):
I'm not I'm not saying that you need to even
watch it to feel the pain.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
It's unavoidable. Guys, you're gonna flip on ESPN.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
We're gonna come here to the Emerald Queen next Monday
and have all these TVs on, and by then you'll
see Thunder go to three to zero lead on Indiana.
It's in your face. It's unavoidable. It's the NBA Finals.
It be we do this for a living. We go online,
we go on Twitter, we're on social media, we're on
ESPN dot com. There's no way you can avoid this.
So look, you guys feel that way, that's great.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
I don't.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
This is gonna be for me painful as hell. When
they win it, and even if they win it in
Oklahoma City and there's a parade and their fat faces
are all smiling their asses off and they're jumping up
and down, and then you're gonna come across something on
social media that says they've won their second title in
franchise history, and you'll be all passed off. You'll be
all pissed off all over again. So I would just say,
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if you've got a way of getting around it, whatever
that is, then do it. But to me, this is
the inevitable. All right, they're coming, They're coming for us.
They're gonna win the NBA title, and it's gonna friggin suck,
and there's no way around it.
Speaker 7 (14:18):
You're not giving Indian any chance at all. No, you
don't even think the value is good at plus five hundred?
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Uh no, no, what should it be?
Speaker 5 (14:24):
Then?
Speaker 4 (14:26):
If you don't think the thunder should be minus seven hundred,
what do you think you think you're wasting one hundred dollars?
If you bet the Pacers out of five to one,
you're you're wasting a hundred bucks. I mean, this would
be a massive, massive up set, one of the biggest
upsets in the history of the embas.
Speaker 7 (14:39):
Of the seven biggest bread and there's only been one
this size that has actually come through.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
Which one was that?
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Trying to remember but I heard it yesterday.
Speaker 4 (14:46):
Well, you remember the odds when the Sonics played the
Bulls in the NBA Finals in ninety six.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Yeah, it's worse than this.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
Yeah, I'm not saying this is like that, because that
was a seventy two win team. But I just think
the Western Conference is so much better than the East.
Number one and number two. The thunder have prove they
are head and shoulders the best team of the NBA.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
I hope I'm wrong. I hope I just threw the
softy jinks on him. And if they win.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
If the Pacers finish this off and win the NBA Finals,
they are going to be my favorite NBA basketball team
behind Seattle. This would be an unbelievable favor that the
city of Indianapolis and the state of Indiana would be
doing for us if they can pull it off. But
I don't see really any shot. I mean, how big
of a percentage would you give it? Ten percent? I'd
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give them twenty twenty percent of twenty a half, which
is not big, but it's not nothing. I don't think
it's gonna happen, and you would not bet any significant amount.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
Of money on it happening. There's no way you would,
I know you.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
But I think the value is there at five to.
Speaker 4 (15:39):
One, Well, then waste a hundred bucks.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
Go ahead, be my guest.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
I've just I've accepted the fact that these guys are
going to win, and it's just testing all of this
hate for Howard Schultz and those jerk politicians that laugh
their butts off on that podium that day is gene gotten,
even alive anymore. I have no idea Greg Nichols, all
those people, Frank Chop me rest in peace. Look I
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realized that Frank Chopp just died. But I'm sorry. My
memory is a Frank Chopper negative, absolutely negative with this guy.
So I've got I've got nothing nothing but hate in
my heart for everything around this process right now that
led to these guys playing for the NBA title.
Speaker 7 (16:23):
I think it might have been Dallas when they want it,
might have been the biggest odds up to that.
Speaker 4 (16:27):
Yeah, well again, I would I I would love to
see it happen.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
I just uh, there's no part of me thinks it'll
take place. So I don't know. You tell us, have you.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
Accepted the fact that they're gonna win the NBA title
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Speaker 4 (17:42):
You know, I gotta tell you out there in beautiful Grease,
lovely Athens, beautiful, gorgeous Santorini, not much Mariner news out there.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
We're actually.
Speaker 4 (17:52):
And the funny thing is is that and you guys
probably have noticed this because both of you have traveled
overseas before. Correct, When you're that far ahead on the
clock of what's going on back here in Seattle, you
log onto like Twitter or Facebook or Instagram, whatever, and
ten eleven o'clock in the morning, there's nothing going on
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because everybody hears a.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Sleep, right, there's no activity.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
So the entire day you're just getting caught up on
what people were saying the day before. And I mean,
it's just incredible. How still it just takes a little
bit of a bump on the road for a lot
of Mariner fans to just jump off the wagon and say,
all the hell with it. The bullpen stinks, George Kirby's
freaking awful, this is a joke, Julio's overrated, blah blah blah.
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And again not to just say that social media is
the end all be all, but there's a lot.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
Of negativity on social.
Speaker 4 (18:46):
Media, as you know obviously you know it's not very
often that you go online and start complimenting people on
social media as opposed to criticizing them on social media.
So I was even looking at some of your stuff
that you did, you know, with the Mariner losses they
had they.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
There back to three days row freaking up right.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
And so I'm watching your Twitter feed, I'm thinking, man,
these guys must be like three and nine since I
took off. But they were what they were about. They
were eight and seven. They were eight and seven since
I left.
Speaker 7 (19:17):
So they were basically exactly as good as when you
were here pro the first month right now.
Speaker 4 (19:21):
Eight and seven in the last fifteen games they were
got where were they twenty four and nineteen whatever? H
And now they're thirty two and twenty six. So they're
still on pace to win ninety games. They're on pace
to win ninety three or ninety four when I took off.
But here's the thing, obviously, this is gonna happen. To
kind of run the Mariners have had is going to happen.
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Eight and seven is going to happen. So I don't
think that we've seen anything really in the first My
feeling is Dick, and I want to get your take
on this YouTube, Jackson. I don't think we've seen anything
from the Mariners in the first couple of months of
the year that should change the way we felt about
this team over the offseason, meaning they still need help, right,
they still are an imperfect roster for whatever reason that
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needs help.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
I mean, Hora, Polonko is coming back down to earth.
Speaker 4 (20:08):
Cal Raley is on a maniacal run that at some
point has got to calm down. I mean, dude, the
guy's on pace for sixty five home runs at one
hundred and twenty six RBIs. He has a ten to
twelve ops the fifteen games that I missed when I
was gone, he was on a ninety seven home run
pace during that fifteen game span. So he's got to
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slow down at some point. My concern is getting him hurt.
He's catching a lot of games. He led the American
League and games caught two years ago, he led Major
League Baseball and games caught last year, and he's on
pace for another one hundred and twenty eight games caught
this year. So I do wonder, as this guy gets
a little bit older, if they start to.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
Back off and we can talk to Larry about that
coming up tonight.
Speaker 4 (20:50):
Obviously, the problem is if you've got Cal Rawley out
of the lineup, who takes his place, Nobody, nobody, nobody,
You've got to play him every single day.
Speaker 7 (20:59):
Yeah, you know, it's funny because the Mariners record wise,
they are who we thought.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
They were, to quote our good friend Dennis the head coach.
Speaker 7 (21:08):
But the way they are who we thought they were
is completely unlike what we thought they'd be.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Right, we thought Cal would not be this good.
Speaker 7 (21:18):
We thought that the bottom of the order would be
worse than it actually is.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
We thought the starting pitching would be.
Speaker 7 (21:24):
Much better than it actually has been, particularly the likes
of George Kirby. And there's been guys injured that we
didn't think they'd be injured. But you know, this team
of the last five days has been outscored by nineteen
runs and they're only one game under five hundred, so
even getting pounded. And it started at the end of
that Houston series. They lost the last two games again Houston.
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Then they went into Washington, got a nice win on
Tuesday against Washington nine to one, and then I was
at the game.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
Thank you for the tickets.
Speaker 7 (21:51):
It was the most brutal nine nothing loss, Like nothing
went on that day.
Speaker 4 (21:57):
I h end of the eighth, actually stayed to the
end of the eighth. I actually stayed in a good
chuck of the game. But it was George Kirby, it
was for He was absolutely terrible. And then they blow
two games.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
How do you.
Speaker 7 (22:11):
Lose back to back games by six runs in extra innings?
I mean, how many times in Major League history has
a game has a team lost two x training games
in a row by six runs.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
It was just awful.
Speaker 7 (22:25):
And then it looked like Saturday was going that way
as well. But they were able to squeeze it out
on Saturday by a run and Sunday by a run
with some nice small ball at the end of the game.
So that at least gives us a little bit of
optimism going into this series, and really two more series,
three more series in a row against teams you should
absolutely take two of three against Baltimore, LA and Arizona.
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You should go two and one, two and one, two
and one of those three series.
Speaker 4 (22:50):
Yeah, well you should, but that's not the way baseball works, right,
I Mean, you and I have talked about this many
many many times before, right that, you know, early in
the year, the names of the starting that they were
getting to some of these stars they were getting to,
versus the guys they were not getting to. So baseball,
it really doesn't matter who you play in a lot
of ways. It matters what your approach is, and it
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matters what kind of streak you're on. And right now,
I don't think Horay Polanco really cares who he's facing.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
He stinks no matter who he's facing.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
This guy couldn't hit water or a baseball if it
was on a t He couldn't hit water if he
fell off the Titanic for crying out loud, Okay, So
I just I worry that they relied way too much
on guys like Hora Polanco to be a difference maker
for them, and that they're going to continue to rely
on guys like Corey Polanco to be a difference maker
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for them. Overall, he's still doing very well considering what
the expectations were for him.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
But when seventeen games or fifteen games.
Speaker 4 (23:53):
Becomes twenty, or becomes thirty or becomes forty, I don't
know what their long term plans are for Cole Young.
I mean is Hori Polonko now just exclusively a DH.
Is that what he's been doing since I took off
has been second base. He's not playing first base obviously.
Is Rowdy's still here to they get rid of him.
He's still here. Rowdy's still being routed, and Williamson is
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doing his thing. Coleyong is gonna be doing his thing.
So I mean, look, if you're telling me that Horiy
Polanco is going to move into a full time designated
a hitter role, that's not good enough. That's a designated hitter, Okay,
that's the guy that needs to be a problem for
opposing offense is and Horay Polonko is not doing that.
So I just think again, you know that they're so
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reliant still on their pitching staff when it's all said
and done, that will not change as the year goes by.
Kyle Rowley's gonna cool off. Hopefully Julio gets a little
hot as the summer gets hotter and the days go by.
But I'm very concerned about this baseball team relying on
guys simply put Dick that they should not be.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
Relaing should he should be.
Speaker 7 (24:56):
What was interesting though, in Jeff Passens' article today on ESPN.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
I thought this was this was interesting.
Speaker 7 (25:01):
He had a list of sellers and a list of buyers,
and the number one list on his list of buyers
were the Seattle Mariners. And he didn't say the Mariners
should be aggressive at the deadline. His first line in
this article was, the Mariners are going to be good
aggressive at the deadline means like I think you only
if you're Jeff Passing. I think you only write that
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line if you know something sure right. That does not
sound like an opinion by Jeff Passon. That sounds like
a fact that he is told.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
The problem is, so will be aggressive or plan on
being aggressive?
Speaker 3 (25:35):
Like will be aggressive means what he said? He said
the Mariners aren't going to be.
Speaker 4 (25:38):
Aggressive, But that's not was aggressive Like, well, like we're
gonna try, We're gonna try to make them. But they've
been pretty aggressive deadline last year. I mean, Randy Rose, Arena,
Justin Turner, Grt but Steves guys. Yeah, but but but
the the the hitters that they've picked up, they're not
big difference makers. And again, if you this is the
problem I have with this, If you're waiting for the
deadline to find a different ference maker, you'd be waiting
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a long time. This roster needs to be constructed in
November and December, not in July.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
Well that's where they fail, okay, exactly. So that's the issue.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Isn't been fine with what they've done in July.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
Only so much they can do.
Speaker 4 (26:14):
I mean, they made the moves for a Rose Arena
and Justin Turner last year, and they missed the playoffs,
so obviously it wasn't effective because the rest of the
roster was substandards. So look, we want to give them
credit for going out and being aggressive of the deadline, great,
but what the hell good does that do you if
you still miss the postseason?
Speaker 3 (26:31):
Well, it doesn't.
Speaker 4 (26:32):
It doesn't excuse the lack of aggressiveness over the off season.
And I have no doubt that Jerry Depoto has told
Jeff Passon we plan on being aggressive.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
We're going to be aggressive. We've got a bunch of
guys we.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
Can move sure in hary Ford, in.
Speaker 4 (26:49):
The minor league system, whatever, blah blah blah. But then
I can see and I think all of us can
envision this. Or they come back and they've done nothing
and they say, well we tried. Oh that's right, But
trying to history indicating the price was too high? Would
history indicate that though that they've done not I'm trying
to think it, honestly. I'm trying to think of a
year that they have done nothing in this era that
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at the deadline, in this era, that in.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
This era of winning. Yeah, this ARAA just lasted three years.
Oh whoa, No, twenty three, twenty four. It has been
four seasons.
Speaker 7 (27:20):
What do you mean, oh one, twenty three, twenty.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
Five, they did nothing. Two thousand and one, they did nothing.
That was twenty five years ago.
Speaker 7 (27:27):
Dave, Dave, I meant when I said, oh one, I
meant twenty one, twenty one, twenty two, twenty three, twenty four.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Have they not made a deal every one of those
years at the deadline?
Speaker 4 (27:35):
I don't see any deals that were huge difference makers
besides lawisca steal.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
No, that's it.
Speaker 4 (27:42):
And again, what they do with the deadline is usually
not of a big concern for me unless it's gotta be,
and it's got to be a concern because where they
fell on their face over the offseason. There's a reason
why Jim Bowden gave us that clip right, makes you
we're gonna throw up, ye, because of what they were
doing over the off season. So now we're gonna be
sitting around battling half the league when everybody thinks they're
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in the race because of the wild card for the
scraps that are available at the trade market, and you're
gonna have to be asked to overpay. And so yes,
I could imagine a scenario where the Mariners don't do
much or don't do anything, and Jerry Depoto comes back
and says the price was just way too high. And
I think that was the case two years ago. Go
back to the twenty twenty three trade deadline. Okay, I
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think that's what he said two years ago, that the
price was just too high for these guys out there.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
So I don't know. I mean, it is what it is.
Speaker 4 (28:34):
You know, they're in a good spot right now, but
they're gonna have to rely on the guy. The only
way the way this baseball team makes the playoffs is
for the guys that are here now to start playing
better ball, period. And George Kirby tonight is number one.
This is a huge star for him. This evening, I'm
watching MLB Network over here and they're asking that this
is a must win for George.
Speaker 7 (28:52):
I'm worried about if he if he looks anywhere close
to what he's looked like the first two starts tonight
against this team.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
I'm worried about George c Alright, we'll get a break,
a little fun with audio.
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Speaker 3 (29:17):
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Speaker 4 (29:20):
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and a busy Tuesday night normally on Monday.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
From the Emeral Queen. You see the voice is sounding better,
it is.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
Yeah, Jackson was panicked.
Speaker 4 (29:29):
You know, Jackson has a tendency to do I do
really dramatic effect.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
We had a conversation about that.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
Really, So their off on the air.
Speaker 6 (29:37):
So the Marritor's game on Saturday, guys, so I'm not
sure if you saw this. They had a fire alarm
system go off in the ballpark. And that's fine here
about that, yes, but then it's then the message that
they put on the scoreboard about the incident investigation, saying,
please remain calm as we have value it a situation
we're experiencing and investigating an incident, and it's sort of like, God,
care to tell us anything more about an incident anytime?
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The states the team in the stadium says, please remain
calm right.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
I'm not gonna stay at all. There's an unmarked truck
behind the stadium. I get scared about those things.
Speaker 4 (30:11):
Engine running, Yeah, and was seen fleeing across the train tracks.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
But remain calm right, worried? I get it kind of stuff.
I get it.
Speaker 4 (30:18):
Yeah, Why do you just kind of let's let's let's
think about the message we're sending here is what you're saying. Yeah,
how about a little fun with audio slash?
Speaker 3 (30:24):
Haye, did you hear that? Hey, Dick, did you happen
to hear that? What's that?
Speaker 9 (30:27):
Dick?
Speaker 3 (30:28):
We start by the way in baseball.
Speaker 4 (30:31):
During the first inning of yesterday's Dodgers Mets game on
Spectrum Sports net LA, broadcaster Fox Football broadcaster Joe Davis
was talking about New York's winning streak when Francisco Lindor
hit a home run Lindor was at the plate again,
and you can guess what happened.
Speaker 10 (30:48):
The Mets won yesterday when he homered, as they always
do when he owners And that is not hyperbole. Twenty
six consecutive times where Francisco Lindor has homer, the Mets
have won, and he crushes this on.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
A right field. Not a good sign. Keep the TV on.
Speaker 11 (31:07):
It's the second longest streak in baseball history. Only Carl
for Willow with the Brooklyn Dodgers had a streak longer
than that.
Speaker 10 (31:18):
With his home run, I'm gonna win for his team.
Speaker 3 (31:21):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (31:23):
Oh, and I'm sure if fans are not giving this
guy any grief whatsoever? Right, No, none, Oh, I mean
if you do enough games, there's gonna be that's gonna happen.
Right Well, streak's bound to come to an end, of course.
I mean how often do you or at least find
yourself talking on TV. You know the storm has made
eighty seven.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
Straight clank right, Well, I try to do that for them.
Speaker 4 (31:42):
Was up there one last year on a three pointer
that you had Jewel Lloyd or somebody had like a
three point streak, and you talked about how great the
streak was.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
The team, right right.
Speaker 7 (31:52):
I usually try to do it with the opposing team
to just try to give him the wammie and if
it works a case.
Speaker 3 (31:58):
Yeah, absolutely, I'm all for it.
Speaker 4 (31:59):
But again, you know you you do enough games and
crap like that is good. I think Joe Davis is
really really good, by the way, very good. All right, Hey, Dick,
did you happen to hear that?
Speaker 3 (32:08):
What's that? Dick?
Speaker 4 (32:09):
The Oilers and Panthers are facing off in the Stanley
Cup Final again for a second straight year. Let's go
back to June of twenty fourth, when Florida was flying
up to Edmonton for Game one and Canadian air traffic
controllers thought about playing a prank on the plane mid flight.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
I've got about a two hour hold for you or
whatever it would take for you to be lowing up
appeel that you'll have to divert from Edmonton and mention
it to your passengers. Maybe they'll figure it out until
d eight nine to eight. They gave my better judgment
when riding to then level two nine or zero games
tomorrow's night. I didn't know it. Yeah, Actually the Panthers
(32:45):
that are just headed into Edmonton right now, Hey, maybe
you can divert them by threatened them with a hold
until they would have to diverse because they didn't see
me there.
Speaker 7 (32:56):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
So I'll tell you guys need a Perry Patman calling
the ACC.
Speaker 3 (33:02):
You know, the FAA. I'm all one for playing pranks
on people.
Speaker 4 (33:06):
I think there is a group of people that should
probably stay away from the pranks, and that's air traffic control.
Speaker 3 (33:12):
Yeah, what do you think just a little bit of
a hunch boy.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
Would the FAA do that or is that just a
Canadian wacky.
Speaker 4 (33:20):
I don't know, but if they were working here, I'd
fire both of them, you know. I mean, dude, we
had a flight to Newark Airport two weeks ago that
we canceled and fluid to Philadelphia instead because apparently Newark
is having.
Speaker 3 (33:30):
All kinds of air traffic control problems.
Speaker 4 (33:32):
You're supposed to have like fourteen people on the site
and they had four. We're like, we're not doing that,
and guess what, my original flight got delayed by three hours.
Speaker 3 (33:40):
We made the right call it.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (33:42):
Yeah, there's just there's certain groups of people out there
with certain authority, if you will, yes, that probably should
stay away from things like as funny as that ended
up being what it was all said and done, not
a good idea.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
All right, hey, Dick, did you happen to.
Speaker 8 (33:56):
Hear a lot?
Speaker 3 (33:57):
What's that? Dick?
Speaker 4 (33:58):
Charles Barkley joined The Dad Patrick's Show yesterday, talked about
doing a secondary basketball show on TNT next year and
how filming a pilot for the show went recently.
Speaker 5 (34:08):
Does the show look like the show? It's just it's
inside the NBA, but it's on ESPN. Is that how
you're uh like positioning this, Dad?
Speaker 3 (34:19):
We don't even know you see that? That That's the
one of the reason I was waiting.
Speaker 9 (34:24):
Like, yeah, I don't know what we're doing, and then
TNT is trying to do something stupid behind the scenes.
We taped the pilot about a month ago, and it
was the stupidest I've ever seen my life, you know,
because because because we're not going to be on ESPN
as much as people think.
Speaker 5 (34:45):
Wait, wait, what do you mean you taped a pilot?
Speaker 9 (34:47):
Well, because ESPN. Because we're only probably going to be
working for ESPN like half the time to one third
at a time. So I think TNT wants to do something.
And we taped the hollered about a month ago and
it was a stupid as ever.
Speaker 5 (35:04):
He's so, you're still going to do a show, an
NBA show on T n T, and you're gonna do
a show on ESPN.
Speaker 3 (35:12):
Yes, okay, so explain to me what's going on.
Speaker 4 (35:16):
So the the inside the NBA show that we have
come to know and love and is gonna is going
to be produced by Turner, but it's gonna air on ESPN.
Speaker 3 (35:27):
Is that correct?
Speaker 2 (35:28):
I don't know if it's gonna be produced. Is that
what he said, is gonna be produced.
Speaker 4 (35:30):
By No, he didn't say that. I I thought I
had heard that it will Ben.
Speaker 6 (35:34):
It's gonna be he said, it's they've talked about how
it's going to be in Atlanta.
Speaker 2 (35:38):
They're gonna be the same.
Speaker 3 (35:39):
It's just correct. It's gonna appear on the p right.
Speaker 4 (35:42):
So he's saying, on top of that show that they
normally do, they're gonna do another show that that's gonna
run on t n T like the Husky Hawks with
no Husky football broadcast.
Speaker 3 (35:53):
Correct when the rights run COO.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
Sounds like it's just an a show.
Speaker 3 (35:56):
We would do our thing, but we wouldn't carry the game.
Speaker 4 (35:59):
Okay, I got that's fine, I'm just rid of curious
how much ESPN sticks their fingers into that show editorially.
You know what I'm saying, how much they get involved.
You know, are they gonna let this thing be what
it's been, or are they gonna get their greasy, stupid
little hands in there and start changing things just for
the sake of change.
Speaker 7 (36:18):
The last thing I want to see on inside the
NBA is stephen A. Smith and Kendrick Perkins.
Speaker 3 (36:25):
The last thing.
Speaker 2 (36:25):
And I'm not saying I dislike either one of those.
I don't want him there.
Speaker 4 (36:31):
I agree with you, don't infect the best basketball show
the best sports studio show of the last generation. I
think a lot of executives and a lot of producers
and a lot of you know, program directors sometimes have
a hard time not leaving their stamp on things. And
I don't know who runs ESPN right now, but whoever
that man or woman is needs to leave that show alone.
I'm totally with you, and I can absolutely see what
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you're saying happening. I could see them arguing, hey, we're
paying a ton of money for this. It's our biggest
platform with the most exposure. We're paying Steven a twenty
million let's put him in a spot where we're gonna
get the most bang for our book.
Speaker 2 (37:07):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (37:07):
I could absolutely Dixie that happened. I think the ratings
will suffer because we're gotta break Jerry Brewer. Are gonna
join next on ninety three to three KJRFM
Bare go.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
I don't remember you sounding like this when we talked this.
Speaker 3 (00:04):
I didn't I did. I got back. I got back
to town actually on Friday.
Speaker 4 (00:08):
Night, late Friday night from London, and I spent the
weekend getting acclimated doing some stuff. At an event yesterday
I took part, and so I was always taking yesterday off. Anyway,
went to bed last night feeling terrible, and then woke
up this morning feeling much better.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
But my voice is gone. So I don't know what
to tell you. Man trying. I can hang if you
can hang, or you can just hang and I can
just take off. How many people? Four? Nine, four or five?
Speaker 5 (00:30):
One?
Speaker 3 (00:30):
What do you think? Jacksonine?
Speaker 4 (00:31):
Nick Saftie should take one more day off and go
home and have Dick and Jackson handle this.
Speaker 6 (00:36):
If you want me to be the executive producer, make
that executive decision. We have a lot of stuff on
the show, Safie. We can get by without you. If
you need to go rest your voice.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
God, you know what that sounds like a good I.
Speaker 6 (00:46):
I mean, honestly, Dick, this sounds this sounds horrific right now.
So I'm gonna I don't know, I don't know what happens,
gonna come in here, but.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
See what happens. You know what, why don't let the
audience decide.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
Let's let the not not that the not that we
would ever actually do that, or the boss whatever, let
us do that. But I think that you know, look,
people tune into this radio show, they support us. I
think they deserve to have a voice. They deserve to
have some kind of a say in the day to
day operations of this radio station. So four nine four
five one, stay on the air, go home, simply put
four nine four to four.
Speaker 7 (01:15):
Well, Jackson, I just got Softy's July schedule, and now
getting that, I want to make sure that he's here
as many days as possible between now and Midjely, Well, I.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
Feel like I feel like my voice is sounding a
little bit better as the seconds go by, but now
my throat fills worse by the.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Well that's okay, because we can't hear your throat.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
Okay, Well, the point is if my throat fills worse,
I might not be here tomorrow. So anyway, look, man,
you gotta what's what's Melon's favorite line? Don't tell me
about the pain, show me the baby. I'm trying to
show you that baby here for crying out loud because
I haven't been on the air for two weeks.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
I miss you guys.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
You know it really struck me, honestly, and I don't
mean to get all machin. I don't know, yeah, mushy,
I guess is the word romantic on the air. But
I'm sitting there at this beautiful spot in Santorini grease
in Ea went to feara just places were unbelievably beautiful.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
I mean strikingly beautiful.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
Like you know me, I'm I don't have a hard
time sometimes coming up with the words to describe things.
I was speechless with my wife and we sat there
in fear of Santa Reni having dinner last week. It
was the most unbelievable thing I've ever seen. And I'm
sitting there thinking, you know what, we got a pretty
damn good gig here on this radio station. As I
said to Ian Fernes a couple of months ago, what
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we do is what most people would consider to be
semi retirement for crying out loud. Okay, so I love
doing this. I got no plans to leave anytime soon.
As long as the station will have me, I'll plan
on hanging around. Maybe the rest of today's show. The
rest of today's show, I might have to take off
and get the hell out of here. But I came back.
(02:47):
I came back at this time for one simple reason
because I think all of us are going to need
some massive emotional support. Starting on Thursday nights, one of
the Oklahoma City Thunder played for the NBA title. And
I asked you, and I want to ask you as well, Jackson.
I asked you off the year, Hey, what's been the
(03:07):
biggest topic, right? What are people talking about? You said, No,
nothing really obvious that sounds around. Seahawk related, Mariner related
to me, the biggest the absolute number one See now
I'm getting pissed off. Now the voice is gonna sound
even worse. The absolute number one freaking topic on this
radio station should be how do we do our part?
And I don't know if we can do anything. By
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the way, in fighting a way for the Indiana Pacers
to win the NBA Championship. And I thought, all right,
I'm gonna go on the air. I'm gonna get all
fired up. I'm gonna rip Howard Shows, Howard Schultz a.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
New a hole.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
I'm gonna bring up what a son of a bitch
he is and what he did to us and how
he did us dirty. And this is gonna be one
of the most painful things we've ever felt as sports
fans in Seattle. I was all jacked up, Go Pacers,
Rah rah Rah, shishkumba. And then I walked to the
board here at the Emerald Queens.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Seventh biggest one sided. Well, you bet the you bet
the thunder.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
No, hell no, it's minus seven hundred.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
No I thought thunder before I say right now, oh,
well you got great value, because didn't you get like
minus one hundred or something like that. I think I
got about like minus one forty or whatever whatever it was.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
But the odds right now are so stupid. Yeah, they're dumb.
I mean we may as well, the Pacers. I think
we may as well. Jackson.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
Your wife is a psychologist, so maybe she can help
us out. Like this is this is death row and
we've exhausted all options. Yep, Okay, I mean it's common like,
there's nothing we can do about this.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
They're gonna win the NBA title, but guarantee.
Speaker 6 (04:36):
And this is what Dick and I talked about yesterday
which is the element of we know this is happening,
and so how do we psychologically prepare ourselves point yes,
so so basically Dick actually has had something pretty perfect.
We just got to get in the October mindset. We
just got to put ourselves in our tower brains. And
so we know July the border governors are gonna meet,
and we think expansion is going to be discussed. And
(04:57):
then ultimately the thought is that by the end of
the year, you know, hopefully by the start of the season,
we have news on expansion.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
So just try to put.
Speaker 6 (05:04):
Ourselves in the mindset of we have a team coming,
we have a team coming, we have a team coming.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Because the only way to be okay with what's about
to what.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
You're so, what you're saying, And again, I don't think
there's any right or wrong answer here.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
I mean, whatever your feeling is is what you're feeling.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
Is that if the Sonics come back, or because they're
on the way back, and all of us agreeed that
they are right on the way back, nothing's changed since
I haven't heard I regard that that somehow is going
to lessen the blow. And I guess for me is
I'm talking this through. It'll lessen the blow for me
a little bit.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Yep.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
But we're not going to see these guys play for
three or four years, right, I think, I think, I
think in the interim, I think this is going to
really suck. In the interim, well, I think here's the
thing about the thunder, Hang on second, suck. The thing
about the thunder for me is that not only are
they really good now and the heavy favorites to win
the NBA title, they've got the goods to win two
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or three of this we do, and that is probably
what's going to happen with these guys. And so I
just want to spend a second here, if you'll allow me.
And I know that this is nothing we haven't said before,
and it doesn't really do anybody any good, but it's
just cathartic for me. I think of what Howard Schultz
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did to this city, and I'm trying to come up
with adjectives Dick and Jackson in ways to say the
same thing fifteen different ways. I think he is the
biggest son of a bitch this city has ever seen
ever ever. Okay, because we're watching Durant and Harden and Westbrook,
Sam Presty might be the best GM in the NBA.
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What they're doing right now, and they're gonna win potentially
two or three titles. They could go on a Rockets
type run, a Golden State Warriors type run, and that
jackass is sitting there smiling his face off while we
are sitting here about to be a part of maybe
the most painful thing we've been a part of since
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the Super Bowl in Glendale in twenty fourteen. My hatred
for that man, it's impossible for me to express it, Dick,
the way I feel about the guy. I have not
been to a Starbucks since two thousand and eight. I'm
never going back. I don't give a damn if the
Sonics return and win ten straight NBA titles, I'm never
going back to that place. It's a little personal protest.
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It means nothing. I get it. I'm sure there's people
out there that think it's dumb and silly, but it
makes me feel better about myself. So the only thing
that I can do to get through these next couple
of weeks is rip Howard Chiltz a new a hole
and remind him how he stabbed us all right in
the back. He's either a the world's biggest idiot when
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he sold the team to Clay Bennett or b even worse,
didn't give it damn about this city that made him
billions of dollars, by the way, when he launched his
first cop shop in Pipe Place Market. So again, you
guys handle it however you want.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
That's great.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
I'm just telling you from my perspective, this is another
reminder what's happening here, what's about to happen Thursday night
in Oklahoma City, about how Howard Schultz is to me,
without question, the biggest villain this town's ever seen, and
it's not even close.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Well, I agree with that.
Speaker 7 (08:21):
I mean, the only part that you said that I
disagree with is I don't think he's smiling his ass off,
because I certainly wouldn't smile my ass off. If I
sold a stock for three hundred dollars a share and
everybody hated me for it and ridiculed for me, Rick
tould me for it, and then eighteen years later that
stock I sold for three hundred dollars a share was
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worth three thousand dollars a share, I certainly wouldn't be
smiling my ass off. I'd be like, what the hell
did I do? That is the stupidest business decision. It's
the stupidest political decision that I have ever made in
my life. And I would be kicking myself, and honestly,
(09:02):
I think he is. That doesn't make me feel sorry
for him at all, right, but I think he's kicking
himself for what he is.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
No, Financially, you're exactly right, and that that can probably
be said about most sports franchises, right that if you
let him go, eventually, you're going to be ruining the
day that he did it, unless you're just willing just
to get out and just say, Okay, I need to
turn it over to somebody else and money doesn't matter whatever.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
But I don't know what kind of world Howard Schultz
runs in.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
I assume that the world Howard Schultz runs in, he's
not surrounded by sonic fans that hate his guts.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Right.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
I would think that Jordan Schultz is more likely to
see people like that because of what he does for
a living.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
He's in sports media.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
But you know, I think Howard, if he had any
balls whatsoever, come on the radio.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Station, you know, because he deserves it.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
Because he deserves it. Why would you apologize. Why would
you go on an apology tour? Why would you own
a mistake that you've made. Because it's the right thing
to do, That's why. And the last time I heard
from that guy, Look, he does these interviews every now
and then, at least busting his balls out of Costco
like ten years ago when he had that book tour
or whatever. But look, I'm not saying he would do it.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
He should do it.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
Be a man, okay, be a man, you know, Come
into the lions Den, talk to us, talk to sports fans.
Don't talk to the Puget Sound Business Journal or you know,
the in house Starbucks magazine. Come on this radio station
that you f'd in the back, Come on this radio
station and address your fans. So, look, I am so
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full of rage right now. You can probably tell I
am so vacation.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
In Greece for two weeks and you're coming back in
a rage.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
I am so full of rage towards Howard Schultz right now.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
It is unbelievable.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
And I just don't know what else to do besides
just continue to let the venom flow, and hopefully that
is a tool and an indication of how much passion
there still is in this town for Sonic basketball.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Well, I gotta be honest with you, I am proud as.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
Hell of Sonic fans and basketball fans in this town
and the way they've acted for the past seventeen years.
It is unbelievable that a guy like Jamie Munson could
build a business from scratch, literally on the backs of
Sonic fans. He literally built a business on the backs
of fans of a basketball team that doesn't exist anymore.
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We've had more passion overall in general terms in the
last fifteen years, Dick and Jackson for a best basketball
team that we don't have versus a baseball team that
we do have.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
Right, it's been unbelievable.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
From there are some people that have absolutely yes, and
those people exist. I'm just saying that, I don't know
if there's a town in the country that lost a
basketball team, and maybe there's towns that lost the NFL potentially,
you know whatever I'm thinking about.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
They got a back, right, they got That's not my point.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
My point is the amount of passion, right, the amount
of emotion, the drive. Maybe it's more for the NFL
because the NFL is just a bigger animal than the NBA,
but to lose an NBA basketball team, Like, do you
think that seventeen years later, after the San Diego Clippers
went to LA they were this passionate? Or when the
Kentucky Colonels left Louisville, were they this passionate?
Speaker 3 (12:21):
Right?
Speaker 4 (12:22):
I mean, I know that New Orleans got a team back,
but when the Jazz went to Salt Lake City, were
they this passionate? So this is amazing. I love the
fact that Sonic fans are pissed. I never want you
to let Howard you know, live this down. Ever, I
want to hold it over his head until now in
the end of time. I think when you talk about
the biggest bastards that walk the city streets of Seattle
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and call Seattle home, or did call Seattle home.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
To me, the guy's number one.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
So this is gonna be freaking painful starting Thursday, and
they may sweep them, and they may just kick their
ass in four games.
Speaker 7 (12:53):
By the way, I don't think most Sonic fans Jackson
and I talked about this yesterday. I don't think most
Sonic fans are going to feel that much pain about it,
because I think they're gonna take a peek they're gonna
see if the pacers can hang. And the moment that
they feel like the pacers can't hang, they are flipping
it off and they are not turning it back on again.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
And that's how they're gonna, you know, that's how they're
gonna do.
Speaker 4 (13:11):
I'm not I'm not saying that you need to even
watch it to feel the pain.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
It's unavoidable. Guys, you're gonna flip on ESPN.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
We're gonna come here to the Emerald Queen next Monday
and have all these TVs on, and by then you'll
see Thunder go to three to zero lead on Indiana.
It's in your face. It's unavoidable. It's the NBA Finals.
It be we do this for a living. We go online,
we go on Twitter, we're on social media, we're on
ESPN dot com. There's no way you can avoid this.
So look, you guys feel that way, that's great.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
I don't.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
This is gonna be for me painful as hell. When
they win it, and even if they win it in
Oklahoma City and there's a parade and their fat faces
are all smiling their asses off and they're jumping up
and down, and then you're gonna come across something on
social media that says they've won their second title in
franchise history, and you'll be all passed off. You'll be
all pissed off all over again. So I would just say,
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if you've got a way of getting around it, whatever
that is, then do it. But to me, this is
the inevitable. All right, they're coming, They're coming for us.
They're gonna win the NBA title, and it's gonna friggin suck,
and there's no way around it.
Speaker 7 (14:18):
You're not giving Indian any chance at all. No, you
don't even think the value is good at plus five hundred?
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Uh no, no, what should it be?
Speaker 5 (14:24):
Then?
Speaker 4 (14:26):
If you don't think the thunder should be minus seven hundred,
what do you think you think you're wasting one hundred dollars?
If you bet the Pacers out of five to one,
you're you're wasting a hundred bucks. I mean, this would
be a massive, massive up set, one of the biggest
upsets in the history of the embas.
Speaker 7 (14:39):
Of the seven biggest bread and there's only been one
this size that has actually come through.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
Which one was that?
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Trying to remember but I heard it yesterday.
Speaker 4 (14:46):
Well, you remember the odds when the Sonics played the
Bulls in the NBA Finals in ninety six.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Yeah, it's worse than this.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
Yeah, I'm not saying this is like that, because that
was a seventy two win team. But I just think
the Western Conference is so much better than the East.
Number one and number two. The thunder have prove they
are head and shoulders the best team of the NBA.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
I hope I'm wrong. I hope I just threw the
softy jinks on him. And if they win.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
If the Pacers finish this off and win the NBA Finals,
they are going to be my favorite NBA basketball team
behind Seattle. This would be an unbelievable favor that the
city of Indianapolis and the state of Indiana would be
doing for us if they can pull it off. But
I don't see really any shot. I mean, how big
of a percentage would you give it? Ten percent? I'd
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give them twenty twenty percent of twenty a half, which
is not big, but it's not nothing. I don't think
it's gonna happen, and you would not bet any significant amount.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
Of money on it happening. There's no way you would,
I know you.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
But I think the value is there at five to.
Speaker 4 (15:39):
One, Well, then waste a hundred bucks.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
Go ahead, be my guest.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
I've just I've accepted the fact that these guys are
going to win, and it's just testing all of this
hate for Howard Schultz and those jerk politicians that laugh
their butts off on that podium that day is gene gotten,
even alive anymore. I have no idea Greg Nichols, all
those people, Frank Chop me rest in peace. Look I
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realized that Frank Chopp just died. But I'm sorry. My
memory is a Frank Chopper negative, absolutely negative with this guy.
So I've got I've got nothing nothing but hate in
my heart for everything around this process right now that
led to these guys playing for the NBA title.
Speaker 7 (16:23):
I think it might have been Dallas when they want it,
might have been the biggest odds up to that.
Speaker 4 (16:27):
Yeah, well again, I would I I would love to
see it happen.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
I just uh, there's no part of me thinks it'll
take place. So I don't know. You tell us, have you.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
Accepted the fact that they're gonna win the NBA title
or do you hang on to some hope we'll get
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Speaker 4 (17:42):
You know, I gotta tell you out there in beautiful Grease,
lovely Athens, beautiful, gorgeous Santorini, not much Mariner news out there.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
We're actually.
Speaker 4 (17:52):
And the funny thing is is that and you guys
probably have noticed this because both of you have traveled
overseas before. Correct, When you're that far ahead on the
clock of what's going on back here in Seattle, you
log onto like Twitter or Facebook or Instagram, whatever, and
ten eleven o'clock in the morning, there's nothing going on
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because everybody hears a.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Sleep, right, there's no activity.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
So the entire day you're just getting caught up on
what people were saying the day before. And I mean,
it's just incredible. How still it just takes a little
bit of a bump on the road for a lot
of Mariner fans to just jump off the wagon and say,
all the hell with it. The bullpen stinks, George Kirby's
freaking awful, this is a joke, Julio's overrated, blah blah blah.
(18:40):
And again not to just say that social media is
the end all be all, but there's a lot.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
Of negativity on social.
Speaker 4 (18:46):
Media, as you know obviously you know it's not very
often that you go online and start complimenting people on
social media as opposed to criticizing them on social media.
So I was even looking at some of your stuff
that you did, you know, with the Mariner losses they
had they.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
There back to three days row freaking up right.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
And so I'm watching your Twitter feed, I'm thinking, man,
these guys must be like three and nine since I
took off. But they were what they were about. They
were eight and seven. They were eight and seven since
I left.
Speaker 7 (19:17):
So they were basically exactly as good as when you
were here pro the first month right now.
Speaker 4 (19:21):
Eight and seven in the last fifteen games they were
got where were they twenty four and nineteen whatever? H
And now they're thirty two and twenty six. So they're
still on pace to win ninety games. They're on pace
to win ninety three or ninety four when I took off.
But here's the thing, obviously, this is gonna happen. To
kind of run the Mariners have had is going to happen.
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Eight and seven is going to happen. So I don't
think that we've seen anything really in the first My
feeling is Dick, and I want to get your take
on this YouTube, Jackson. I don't think we've seen anything
from the Mariners in the first couple of months of
the year that should change the way we felt about
this team over the offseason, meaning they still need help, right,
they still are an imperfect roster for whatever reason that
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needs help.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
I mean, Hora, Polonko is coming back down to earth.
Speaker 4 (20:08):
Cal Raley is on a maniacal run that at some
point has got to calm down. I mean, dude, the
guy's on pace for sixty five home runs at one
hundred and twenty six RBIs. He has a ten to
twelve ops the fifteen games that I missed when I
was gone, he was on a ninety seven home run
pace during that fifteen game span. So he's got to
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slow down at some point. My concern is getting him hurt.
He's catching a lot of games. He led the American
League and games caught two years ago, he led Major
League Baseball and games caught last year, and he's on
pace for another one hundred and twenty eight games caught
this year. So I do wonder, as this guy gets
a little bit older, if they start to.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
Back off and we can talk to Larry about that
coming up tonight.
Speaker 4 (20:50):
Obviously, the problem is if you've got Cal Rawley out
of the lineup, who takes his place, Nobody, nobody, nobody,
You've got to play him every single day.
Speaker 7 (20:59):
Yeah, you know, it's funny because the Mariners record wise,
they are who we thought.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
They were, to quote our good friend Dennis the head coach.
Speaker 7 (21:08):
But the way they are who we thought they were
is completely unlike what we thought they'd be.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Right, we thought Cal would not be this good.
Speaker 7 (21:18):
We thought that the bottom of the order would be
worse than it actually is.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
We thought the starting pitching would be.
Speaker 7 (21:24):
Much better than it actually has been, particularly the likes
of George Kirby. And there's been guys injured that we
didn't think they'd be injured. But you know, this team
of the last five days has been outscored by nineteen
runs and they're only one game under five hundred, so
even getting pounded. And it started at the end of
that Houston series. They lost the last two games again Houston.
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Then they went into Washington, got a nice win on
Tuesday against Washington nine to one, and then I was
at the game.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
Thank you for the tickets.
Speaker 7 (21:51):
It was the most brutal nine nothing loss, Like nothing
went on that day.
Speaker 4 (21:57):
I h end of the eighth, actually stayed to the
end of the eighth. I actually stayed in a good
chuck of the game. But it was George Kirby, it
was for He was absolutely terrible. And then they blow
two games.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
How do you.
Speaker 7 (22:11):
Lose back to back games by six runs in extra innings?
I mean, how many times in Major League history has
a game has a team lost two x training games
in a row by six runs.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
It was just awful.
Speaker 7 (22:25):
And then it looked like Saturday was going that way
as well. But they were able to squeeze it out
on Saturday by a run and Sunday by a run
with some nice small ball at the end of the game.
So that at least gives us a little bit of
optimism going into this series, and really two more series,
three more series in a row against teams you should
absolutely take two of three against Baltimore, LA and Arizona.
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You should go two and one, two and one, two
and one of those three series.
Speaker 4 (22:50):
Yeah, well you should, but that's not the way baseball works, right,
I Mean, you and I have talked about this many
many many times before, right that, you know, early in
the year, the names of the starting that they were
getting to some of these stars they were getting to,
versus the guys they were not getting to. So baseball,
it really doesn't matter who you play in a lot
of ways. It matters what your approach is, and it
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matters what kind of streak you're on. And right now,
I don't think Horay Polanco really cares who he's facing.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
He stinks no matter who he's facing.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
This guy couldn't hit water or a baseball if it
was on a t He couldn't hit water if he
fell off the Titanic for crying out loud, Okay, So
I just I worry that they relied way too much
on guys like Hora Polanco to be a difference maker
for them, and that they're going to continue to rely
on guys like Corey Polanco to be a difference maker
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for them. Overall, he's still doing very well considering what
the expectations were for him.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
But when seventeen games or fifteen games.
Speaker 4 (23:53):
Becomes twenty, or becomes thirty or becomes forty, I don't
know what their long term plans are for Cole Young.
I mean is Hori Polonko now just exclusively a DH.
Is that what he's been doing since I took off
has been second base. He's not playing first base obviously.
Is Rowdy's still here to they get rid of him.
He's still here. Rowdy's still being routed, and Williamson is
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doing his thing. Coleyong is gonna be doing his thing.
So I mean, look, if you're telling me that Horiy
Polanco is going to move into a full time designated
a hitter role, that's not good enough. That's a designated hitter, Okay,
that's the guy that needs to be a problem for
opposing offense is and Horay Polonko is not doing that.
So I just think again, you know that they're so
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reliant still on their pitching staff when it's all said
and done, that will not change as the year goes by.
Kyle Rowley's gonna cool off. Hopefully Julio gets a little
hot as the summer gets hotter and the days go by.
But I'm very concerned about this baseball team relying on
guys simply put Dick that they should not be.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
Relaing should he should be.
Speaker 7 (24:56):
What was interesting though, in Jeff Passens' article today on ESPN.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
I thought this was this was interesting.
Speaker 7 (25:01):
He had a list of sellers and a list of buyers,
and the number one list on his list of buyers
were the Seattle Mariners. And he didn't say the Mariners
should be aggressive at the deadline. His first line in
this article was, the Mariners are going to be good
aggressive at the deadline means like I think you only
if you're Jeff Passing. I think you only write that
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line if you know something sure right. That does not
sound like an opinion by Jeff Passon. That sounds like
a fact that he is told.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
The problem is, so will be aggressive or plan on
being aggressive?
Speaker 3 (25:35):
Like will be aggressive means what he said? He said
the Mariners aren't going to be.
Speaker 4 (25:38):
Aggressive, But that's not was aggressive Like, well, like we're
gonna try, We're gonna try to make them. But they've
been pretty aggressive deadline last year. I mean, Randy Rose, Arena,
Justin Turner, Grt but Steves guys. Yeah, but but but
the the the hitters that they've picked up, they're not
big difference makers. And again, if you this is the
problem I have with this, If you're waiting for the
deadline to find a different ference maker, you'd be waiting
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a long time. This roster needs to be constructed in
November and December, not in July.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
Well that's where they fail, okay, exactly. So that's the issue.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Isn't been fine with what they've done in July.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
Only so much they can do.
Speaker 4 (26:14):
I mean, they made the moves for a Rose Arena
and Justin Turner last year, and they missed the playoffs,
so obviously it wasn't effective because the rest of the
roster was substandards. So look, we want to give them
credit for going out and being aggressive of the deadline, great,
but what the hell good does that do you if
you still miss the postseason?
Speaker 3 (26:31):
Well, it doesn't.
Speaker 4 (26:32):
It doesn't excuse the lack of aggressiveness over the off season.
And I have no doubt that Jerry Depoto has told
Jeff Passon we plan on being aggressive.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
We're going to be aggressive. We've got a bunch of
guys we.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
Can move sure in hary Ford, in.
Speaker 4 (26:49):
The minor league system, whatever, blah blah blah. But then
I can see and I think all of us can
envision this. Or they come back and they've done nothing
and they say, well we tried. Oh that's right, But
trying to history indicating the price was too high? Would
history indicate that though that they've done not I'm trying
to think it, honestly. I'm trying to think of a
year that they have done nothing in this era that
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at the deadline, in this era, that in.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
This era of winning. Yeah, this ARAA just lasted three years.
Oh whoa, No, twenty three, twenty four. It has been
four seasons.
Speaker 7 (27:20):
What do you mean, oh one, twenty three, twenty.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
Five, they did nothing. Two thousand and one, they did nothing.
That was twenty five years ago.
Speaker 7 (27:27):
Dave, Dave, I meant when I said, oh one, I
meant twenty one, twenty one, twenty two, twenty three, twenty four.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Have they not made a deal every one of those
years at the deadline?
Speaker 4 (27:35):
I don't see any deals that were huge difference makers
besides lawisca steal.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
No, that's it.
Speaker 4 (27:42):
And again, what they do with the deadline is usually
not of a big concern for me unless it's gotta be,
and it's got to be a concern because where they
fell on their face over the offseason. There's a reason
why Jim Bowden gave us that clip right, makes you
we're gonna throw up, ye, because of what they were
doing over the off season. So now we're gonna be
sitting around battling half the league when everybody thinks they're
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in the race because of the wild card for the
scraps that are available at the trade market, and you're
gonna have to be asked to overpay. And so yes,
I could imagine a scenario where the Mariners don't do
much or don't do anything, and Jerry Depoto comes back
and says the price was just way too high. And
I think that was the case two years ago. Go
back to the twenty twenty three trade deadline. Okay, I
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think that's what he said two years ago, that the
price was just too high for these guys out there.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
So I don't know. I mean, it is what it is.
Speaker 4 (28:34):
You know, they're in a good spot right now, but
they're gonna have to rely on the guy. The only
way the way this baseball team makes the playoffs is
for the guys that are here now to start playing
better ball, period. And George Kirby tonight is number one.
This is a huge star for him. This evening, I'm
watching MLB Network over here and they're asking that this
is a must win for George.
Speaker 7 (28:52):
I'm worried about if he if he looks anywhere close
to what he's looked like the first two starts tonight
against this team.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
I'm worried about George c Alright, we'll get a break,
a little fun with audio.
Speaker 4 (29:02):
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Speaker 9 (29:13):
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Speaker 3 (29:17):
Now let's have some fun with audio.
Speaker 4 (29:20):
All Right, we're back here from the Emeral Queen Casino
and a busy Tuesday night normally on Monday.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
From the Emeral Queen. You see the voice is sounding better,
it is.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
Yeah, Jackson was panicked.
Speaker 4 (29:29):
You know, Jackson has a tendency to do I do
really dramatic effect.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
We had a conversation about that.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
Really, So their off on the air.
Speaker 6 (29:37):
So the Marritor's game on Saturday, guys, so I'm not
sure if you saw this. They had a fire alarm
system go off in the ballpark. And that's fine here
about that, yes, but then it's then the message that
they put on the scoreboard about the incident investigation, saying,
please remain calm as we have value it a situation
we're experiencing and investigating an incident, and it's sort of like, God,
care to tell us anything more about an incident anytime?
(30:01):
The states the team in the stadium says, please remain
calm right.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
I'm not gonna stay at all. There's an unmarked truck
behind the stadium. I get scared about those things.
Speaker 4 (30:11):
Engine running, Yeah, and was seen fleeing across the train tracks.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
But remain calm right, worried? I get it kind of stuff.
I get it.
Speaker 4 (30:18):
Yeah, Why do you just kind of let's let's let's
think about the message we're sending here is what you're saying. Yeah,
how about a little fun with audio slash?
Speaker 3 (30:24):
Haye, did you hear that? Hey, Dick, did you happen
to hear that? What's that?
Speaker 9 (30:27):
Dick?
Speaker 3 (30:28):
We start by the way in baseball.
Speaker 4 (30:31):
During the first inning of yesterday's Dodgers Mets game on
Spectrum Sports net LA, broadcaster Fox Football broadcaster Joe Davis
was talking about New York's winning streak when Francisco Lindor
hit a home run Lindor was at the plate again,
and you can guess what happened.
Speaker 10 (30:48):
The Mets won yesterday when he homered, as they always
do when he owners And that is not hyperbole. Twenty
six consecutive times where Francisco Lindor has homer, the Mets
have won, and he crushes this on.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
A right field. Not a good sign. Keep the TV on.
Speaker 11 (31:07):
It's the second longest streak in baseball history. Only Carl
for Willow with the Brooklyn Dodgers had a streak longer
than that.
Speaker 10 (31:18):
With his home run, I'm gonna win for his team.
Speaker 3 (31:21):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (31:23):
Oh, and I'm sure if fans are not giving this
guy any grief whatsoever? Right, No, none, Oh, I mean
if you do enough games, there's gonna be that's gonna happen.
Right Well, streak's bound to come to an end, of course.
I mean how often do you or at least find
yourself talking on TV. You know the storm has made
eighty seven.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
Straight clank right, Well, I try to do that for them.
Speaker 4 (31:42):
Was up there one last year on a three pointer
that you had Jewel Lloyd or somebody had like a
three point streak, and you talked about how great the
streak was.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
The team, right right.
Speaker 7 (31:52):
I usually try to do it with the opposing team
to just try to give him the wammie and if
it works a case.
Speaker 3 (31:58):
Yeah, absolutely, I'm all for it.
Speaker 4 (31:59):
But again, you know you you do enough games and
crap like that is good. I think Joe Davis is
really really good, by the way, very good. All right, Hey, Dick,
did you happen to hear that?
Speaker 3 (32:08):
What's that? Dick?
Speaker 4 (32:09):
The Oilers and Panthers are facing off in the Stanley
Cup Final again for a second straight year. Let's go
back to June of twenty fourth, when Florida was flying
up to Edmonton for Game one and Canadian air traffic
controllers thought about playing a prank on the plane mid flight.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
I've got about a two hour hold for you or
whatever it would take for you to be lowing up
appeel that you'll have to divert from Edmonton and mention
it to your passengers. Maybe they'll figure it out until
d eight nine to eight. They gave my better judgment
when riding to then level two nine or zero games
tomorrow's night. I didn't know it. Yeah, Actually the Panthers
(32:45):
that are just headed into Edmonton right now, Hey, maybe
you can divert them by threatened them with a hold
until they would have to diverse because they didn't see
me there.
Speaker 7 (32:56):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
So I'll tell you guys need a Perry Patman calling
the ACC.
Speaker 3 (33:02):
You know, the FAA. I'm all one for playing pranks
on people.
Speaker 4 (33:06):
I think there is a group of people that should
probably stay away from the pranks, and that's air traffic control.
Speaker 3 (33:12):
Yeah, what do you think just a little bit of
a hunch boy.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
Would the FAA do that or is that just a
Canadian wacky.
Speaker 4 (33:20):
I don't know, but if they were working here, I'd
fire both of them, you know. I mean, dude, we
had a flight to Newark Airport two weeks ago that
we canceled and fluid to Philadelphia instead because apparently Newark
is having.
Speaker 3 (33:30):
All kinds of air traffic control problems.
Speaker 4 (33:32):
You're supposed to have like fourteen people on the site
and they had four. We're like, we're not doing that,
and guess what, my original flight got delayed by three hours.
Speaker 3 (33:40):
We made the right call it.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (33:42):
Yeah, there's just there's certain groups of people out there
with certain authority, if you will, yes, that probably should
stay away from things like as funny as that ended
up being what it was all said and done, not
a good idea.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
All right, hey, Dick, did you happen to.
Speaker 8 (33:56):
Hear a lot?
Speaker 3 (33:57):
What's that? Dick?
Speaker 4 (33:58):
Charles Barkley joined The Dad Patrick's Show yesterday, talked about
doing a secondary basketball show on TNT next year and
how filming a pilot for the show went recently.
Speaker 5 (34:08):
Does the show look like the show? It's just it's
inside the NBA, but it's on ESPN. Is that how
you're uh like positioning this, Dad?
Speaker 3 (34:19):
We don't even know you see that? That That's the
one of the reason I was waiting.
Speaker 9 (34:24):
Like, yeah, I don't know what we're doing, and then
TNT is trying to do something stupid behind the scenes.
We taped the pilot about a month ago, and it
was the stupidest I've ever seen my life, you know,
because because because we're not going to be on ESPN
as much as people think.
Speaker 5 (34:45):
Wait, wait, what do you mean you taped a pilot?
Speaker 9 (34:47):
Well, because ESPN. Because we're only probably going to be
working for ESPN like half the time to one third
at a time. So I think TNT wants to do something.
And we taped the hollered about a month ago and
it was a stupid as ever.
Speaker 5 (35:04):
He's so, you're still going to do a show, an
NBA show on T n T, and you're gonna do
a show on ESPN.
Speaker 3 (35:12):
Yes, okay, so explain to me what's going on.
Speaker 4 (35:16):
So the the inside the NBA show that we have
come to know and love and is gonna is going
to be produced by Turner, but it's gonna air on ESPN.
Speaker 3 (35:27):
Is that correct?
Speaker 2 (35:28):
I don't know if it's gonna be produced. Is that
what he said, is gonna be produced.
Speaker 4 (35:30):
By No, he didn't say that. I I thought I
had heard that it will Ben.
Speaker 6 (35:34):
It's gonna be he said, it's they've talked about how
it's going to be in Atlanta.
Speaker 2 (35:38):
They're gonna be the same.
Speaker 3 (35:39):
It's just correct. It's gonna appear on the p right.
Speaker 4 (35:42):
So he's saying, on top of that show that they
normally do, they're gonna do another show that that's gonna
run on t n T like the Husky Hawks with
no Husky football broadcast.
Speaker 3 (35:53):
Correct when the rights run COO.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
Sounds like it's just an a show.
Speaker 3 (35:56):
We would do our thing, but we wouldn't carry the game.
Speaker 4 (35:59):
Okay, I got that's fine, I'm just rid of curious
how much ESPN sticks their fingers into that show editorially.
You know what I'm saying, how much they get involved.
You know, are they gonna let this thing be what
it's been, or are they gonna get their greasy, stupid
little hands in there and start changing things just for
the sake of change.
Speaker 7 (36:18):
The last thing I want to see on inside the
NBA is stephen A. Smith and Kendrick Perkins.
Speaker 3 (36:25):
The last thing.
Speaker 2 (36:25):
And I'm not saying I dislike either one of those.
I don't want him there.
Speaker 4 (36:31):
I agree with you, don't infect the best basketball show
the best sports studio show of the last generation. I
think a lot of executives and a lot of producers
and a lot of you know, program directors sometimes have
a hard time not leaving their stamp on things. And
I don't know who runs ESPN right now, but whoever
that man or woman is needs to leave that show alone.
I'm totally with you, and I can absolutely see what
(36:53):
you're saying happening. I could see them arguing, hey, we're
paying a ton of money for this. It's our biggest
platform with the most exposure. We're paying Steven a twenty
million let's put him in a spot where we're gonna
get the most bang for our book.
Speaker 2 (37:07):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (37:07):
I could absolutely Dixie that happened. I think the ratings
will suffer because we're gotta break Jerry Brewer. Are gonna
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