June 5, 2023 • 41 mins
Puck and Jim enter hour number two continuing their discussion regarding the Mariners and potentially signing free agents, but there lies a problem. As for whatever reason, the Mariners don't land the big fish all too often, if at all, so why, is the Mariners stadium not hitter friendly? We spin a bunch of audio messages from listeners, and we have a new tweet of the day from the NBA's commissioner Adam Silver regarding NBA expansion, when will Seattle get a team!
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Let it right. Yeah, andJamal Murray shot looked good last night,
and I thought he was gonna makethat that little step backer. Boy,
that was a good look. Huh, little short, a little and out,
highly entertaining and and we were worriedabout the ratings. The ratings have
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been through the through the roof great. I enjoyed the fourth quarter. I
watched the fourth quarter. Yeah,one game. The heat, the heat
moves the ball around. Yeah,they moved the ball around. This is
where I'm gonna agree with Chris,Like, there's one coach that's actually like
a good coach in the league.It's that guy. That dude's unbelievable.
There's more, but he gets themost out of that team. He still
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don't have Tyler Harrow because he mightbe back on Wednesday. But now the
question he played two on two,play him, Yes, of course you
do. We'll think about you.Just Duncans out. But he's playing well
though he just had he played well. He just played well. So you
messed that up. Hoy, thehero is better than him doing Yes,
But that guy hit a big threethough, didn't. You don't know if
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you start him Duncan whatever he cameit's all he's gotta play. He's gonna
play. But I don't know ifyou know what's his name? Who's the
guy to hit all the threes lastnight? Cape Vincent? Oh? Stress,
Oh he's okay, he was.He was terrible in game one,
so he's playing times out give meTyler Hero. You don't think that I'm
messing the kim and all my son'sfavorite player in the NBA is you're gonna
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laugh? Oh great player. Yeah, that's random, but it's random,
Like why him? Yeah, youcan name? What does he say?
I think it's the name. Okay, that's Bam And I think he likes
the name Bam And okay, worksout. Should be proud of my kid
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or a little worried about, youknow, worried his development when he said
after at the end of the thirdquarter, Hey, dad, get a
live bet down on the heat.Yeah, that's up, proud father moment
is what that is. And soI was like, Okay, he knows
more about the NBA than I do. And so I, yeah, I
got the heat in six and ahalf into the final quarter for ten bucks.
Yeah, oh, I owe youten bucks too, by the way,
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but I forgot my wallet at mydaughter's house last night, So I'll
bring it tomorrow. You can alwaysroll it over to something else. No,
No, I'm not tired of it. Tired of pain? Yeah,
I you know what though I scoredin golf. I had four bucks on
Hoblin at twenty two to one,but for eighty eight Victor. And then
going into the last round of theLPGA tournament, I took Rose Jang.
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Yeah, plus one fifty Oh.Just two weeks ago one the NC double
A women's title, and then twoweeks later wins on the PGA Tour.
Yeah, that's pretty good. Twentyyears old? Were you? Good play?
And speaking of Victor Hovlin, hewins the Memorial yesterday and then is
off this morning and we're it wasin Ohio. There's a sexual qualifier for
the US Open, and he's outthere catting for his buddy's college buddy.
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Thirty six holes. Pretty good Victor, howand the pretty pretty good player is
Bertie Putt there in seventeen thirty feetout, beating on Denny McCarthy, who
heartbreak from McCarthy still looking for hisfirst up PGA Tour win and does not
get it. Hey. Other headlinesbrought to by venue Kings dot Com got
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here on ninety three point three.Hey j R f M. Thanks to
an alert listener under text line onthe telemore do text line when it's game
time, it's total time. Whosaid, Hey, I think Paul Goldschman
has a no trade clause. Andas I'm reading this story, it does
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say in this story, which isI think out of Saint Louis, that
when he did sign that he doesindeed have a no trade clause in his
contract. Would do you think hewould wave his no trade clause to come
to a park in which people justthink it's a terrible park to hit it?
How did he do this year?Do you remember when they played here?
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Hold on, I'm gonna look athim. Yeah, they were here.
Let's see win win win. Uh? Yeah, I mean I guess
he could. He could wave it, but I don't know. It's that's
such a bad reputation. Let's seein game one he was over four uh
in a five two Mariners win.Let's see in game number two, Come
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on, I want him to havea big day. He was over four
Os win a Game three in whichthe Cardinals won seven to three. Come
on, Paulos made a big game, He had a hit, score two
runs there yet go Paul remember thegood times. Well, he's an option.
Yeah, I think he would wavehis no trade clause, wouldn't he
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maybe if he brought the fences in. I don't think he would do it.
No way, because he's playing fora contract. So why would he
wave his no trade clause to goto a park in which hitters don't like
going to and then struggle and thenhis market value goes down, wouldn't I
mean, if you were his agent, would you advise him to wave the
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no trade clause to not to goto a park that is considered not a
hitter friendly park? And I know, I know what the Yankees did here,
I know what other teams have donehere. And we joke about the
marine layer. I agree with you. I think it's probably it's made out
to be a bigger deal than itreally is here. But the perception is
that it's not a hitter friendly park, that it's bad to play here as
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an offensive player, which at leastthat's the narrator. No, No,
I know you're right, I mean, but the metrics are at such a
point now, aren't they. They'reso advanced that can't you like factor that
in if you're another team and you'reanalyzing, you know what so and so
did at T Mobile? I wouldthink so. I even thought I saw
somebody on Twitter talking about moving thefences in. They've already done that once.
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A little league wouldn't be more entertaining, You're gonna be hell of entertaining.
How do they should pick one game, very homestand where they bring it
into little league size feet and you'relike bad, just ball after balls flying
out of the ball scores of fortytwo to forty. Well, could you
do something like have a happy mediumwhere you I mean you've already brought I
can't remember how much they brought itin before. You want it permanently or
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just for like one idea of onegame where like like we have a retractable
Roman, then you would attract morehitters here. Why can't we have a
retractable fence? Yeah, you havewhat I'm in. If you're starting pitchers
era is under three, then youmove them what in and then if it's
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over five, you move them backyeah, retractable fence. Retractable fence is
going to be the thing, youknow when Manford comes here in July for
the press conference. Yes, JasonPuckett Kjr. Rob, there has been
a lot of talk about retractable roofs, especially you know, you have a
new organization, The A is goingto Las Vegas and no doubt we'll have
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a roof. Have you talking aboutpiece of play and increased scoring? Ever
thought about retractable fences? Thank you, we'll take your commings. Please come
on, you can do that.How much would you give me if I
went to the press conference? Youknow, I am, and I'll dress
up like look like a real likeserious like news reporter with the you know,
with the little news the notebook outmister Manford and a Jason Puckett get
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joh thought about retractable fence where youcan move it in and out depending on
the starting pitcher. Do you thinkthat would be a good idea for baseball?
I don't. I don't think it'sthat bad at an idea. I
think it'd be entertaining for the fan, wouldn't it. They'd be like,
you know, you get the roofreport. You know, hey, tonight
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the roof is open and or it'sclosed or whatever, and then you'd have
the retractable fence report. Yeah,the retractable fence. You know, Shannon
comes on the pregame, We havea retractable fence up day, brought to
you by Yeah wherever tonight, theright field foul pole will be at two
hundred and sixty eight feet, Sookay, I'm gonna come out of it.
Marco's on the mountain tonight, sowe put the retractable fence back to
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four hundred and ninety eight feet.I don't know why I find that so
amusing, but I mean, whatthe hell at this point? But I
want to to hell, but Iwant to go to the press count and
I want to sit like right betweenlike Rosenthal and like all these you know,
hard hitting Verducci, and then asked, but you can't do that,
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though, Why would you would youdo that? Could you bring yourself to
do that? Of course I could? Okay, well then do it like
he'll it's he's gonna be here.There will be a press conference special Manford
and you know star game, andI'm gonna do right after like a goofy
question, serious question retractable fences.It's been an idea that's been float around
the Independent League, which is alie, thoughts he may not know.
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No, no, not the IndependentLeague, the West Coast League. Do
we have the West Coast tagure,there's been an idea on the wood College
of league here and say to washthem moving the fences in, you know,
retractable fences. Would you and considerthat idea Major League Baseball? Yeah,
well, okay, you're trying tofigure out how to get better hitters
here and they don't want to comehere. If you could find a happy
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medium where it wouldn't detract too muchfrom what the pitchers like about this ballpark,
yeah, i'd be And they've alreadydone it once, so let's let's
bring it in a little more.Can they close the fence and then just
close like out in like left fieldcenter field? Can they Can they put
like a you know, a wallout there, maybe the wind or something
like and then and then and thenfrom home plate there's a something that blows
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it out only when we hit.Or how about not bringing the fences in,
but you could just build them upand then not sell as many seats
in right field and left field thatkind of have like a makeshift green monster
of your about a retractable fence thatdoesn't come in but goes up when the
other team hits, but then whenwe hit, goes like all the way
down to the ground, and youhave like a situation like Aaron did you
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see the highlight Aaron Judge running throughthe bullpen fence? Oh yeah, yeah,
what a catch. Yeah, butthen we lower it so down like
when he's running back that he wouldtrip over and fall out and get injured
himself. Do that? No,yeah, but I'm not no fences at
all and be like Little League justgets running around, get that ball in.
I what are you supposed to doat this point? At least make
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it more entertaining. More entertaining laughteris the key. Uh so, yeah,
Paul Goldschman, I know, um, you know, Chuck flow to
that idea. Dude, he maywave it, but you know, no
trade clause. I would think thathe would not waive it. Or I
would think that any hitter that wouldbe available would not wave it, especially
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if they are entering the last year. We'll see he's twenty twenty four,
twenty five, he's a free agent, but twenty what's twenty four that must
be an option? Um he,I would just I don't know. I
just don't think anybody would do ithere. Well, it's bad enough because
the Mariners don't want to spend money, and then you have to overpay to
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get these guys to come here.So it's just a double edged sword that
you know. So I'm not surewe've talked about it. If there's just
not any true solution other than whatyou talked about with you know, the
players that you have just performing betterthan they have to this point, and
we all know that, and hopefullythough that there there'll be some tweaks that
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they can make, and they gotto be more than tweaks, honestly,
because this lineup just is it's awful. Hey, can the big suggestion on
the telemore do text line is canyou write another article that they're over?
That seemed to kind of spurn themlast year? Yeah, at twenty nine
on fire everyone as if some storyI write in the news tribute and your
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kids have son, is what's gonnalike actually cause something to happen. Didn't
work last year it seemed too Yeah, it made me look really stupid.
But but you don't care about that, Like, how can you? Yeah,
at this point now, um sowe should we do it as this
how but just as a show?Should we determine at some point the season's
over. Yeah, we're pretty closeright now, aren't we? And then
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we can just be They're twenty nineand thirty. It's not like it.
It's terrible you saying it's early.But it's early, but it could get
worshed. It did this weekend.Oh that steak. I was out pressure
washing yesterday and Mikey comes out.Dad. You hear the Mariners scoring.
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I'm like, let's see Rangers threeto two? He goes No. Seven
zip because they're just banging it allover the place. Yeah, they are.
They're on offense, man, theyare just they are brutally good.
Yeah. My kids are down onthe Mariners and they usually they're up on
him. I mean, oh,one can't be loving this at all.
I mean he's got to be bummedout. Uh yeah, I mean,
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you know, the only thing getshim through it is that Robbie Ray's not
pitching anymore. Not a Robbie Rayfan, been a Robbie Ray fan for
a long time, Ever since thealva Is home run just not just does
not like them. Uh yeah,I mean, yeah, it's just it's
you know, they have a lotof games left, but there's just not
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it doesn't appear to be anything onthe horizon or any nothing to really grab
onto this year that you can sayto yourself that, oh, it's it's
gonna get better, because they reallyhave when she has said that last year
when they were twenty nine, thirtynine, yeah I did probably probably did.
Yeah, but for this team towin fourteen in a row, but
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it's forging about fourteen in a row, which is not going to happen again.
It's it's that now the entire AmericanLeague is better. Last year,
the Rangers weren't good, the Oriolesweren't good. There you're not playing better
than you and you're not playing theage nineteen times. This year, you're
playing up thirteen times. That's this, I mean, that's the single biggest,
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you know, number that has comeout of this weekends. Just when
you look at what they're I meanthere's a couple of things, but when
you look at their record, they'reagainst teams over five hundred, I mean
they are ten games under five hundred, and you know they and then on
the flip side, there's seven andoh against Oakland. Well, I mean,
just imagine I mentioned not playing Oakland. Yeah, I'm what three and
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o against the Rockies. Ye,throw those ten games out and now they
just got pummeled in this series.But now that their run differential is only
three, I mean their plus three, I mean that you start looking at
teams that are around that mark.I mean, it does indicate what type
of team you are because you don'twin easy games, and that just that
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shows that's just just stat and ametric that will that tells you that you
are just better than the average teamsbecause you you know, you can win
eight three games or ninety three gamesand what have you. Now, it's
not to the extreme of like TampaBay's that plus one twenty two, I
mean even the Twins or two gamesover five hundred, but they're plus forty
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five in that mark. Um,So it's yeah, last year, winning
all those one run games, youknow, led us to believe that they
were a little better than what theyactually were. And then this year it's
kind of come down on that.It's like the Brewers, like I think
it's for the Brewers. I thinkit's fools gold where they're in right now,
they lead the NL Central. They'refive games over five hundred, they're
minus nineteen a run different like they'rewinning close like the Mariners two years ago,
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two years ago, exactly right.And then on the flip side,
the Pirates are plus ten, butthey are just what a half game back
of them. Pirates was a teamI was hoping would crumble and fall apart.
Then maybe then they would think aboutReynolds, but they just ended up,
you know, signing him. Idon't think he's going to be an
option. I don't know if youknew this, but the man the Mariners
in nine run games now are onone and then ten run games, So
they need to stand need to improvethat. Maybe maybe we hope, pray
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that the Padres fall apart. Yeah, and then they have to make a
decision what they want to do.I have so many high price guys on
there. Maybe they just start selling. Maybe they start selling. Well,
that's They're an example of a teamthat anybody's like, oh, you know,
you get the free agents, youget the high price guys. Well,
what are they doing in San Diego? What are they twenty four and
twenty nine or I mean they're fivegames and they lost seven to one to
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the Cubs yesterday, and you lookat their I mean Tatis had a couple
of home runs I think in onegame over the weekend. He's at two
sixty three, so okay, andI think he was he was out because
of the suspension. Machado two twentytwo, Soto two fifty three, Soto.
Everybody wanted Soto here, absolutely yeah, and he still wants Soto here.
But there's I don't know, isthere a right or wrong way to
build the franchise. I think itshould be a combination of everything, shouldn't
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it. I mean, it justseems like, you know, this trade
to develop all this. I meanit's working with the pitchers, but I
mean you gotta do something to supplementwhat you have while you're building your team,
and free agency seems to and thenyou know there's these free agents shortstops.
I mean, some of them aren'tdoing that well, and you know
others are, and you can secondguess, third guess all of it.
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But the cautionary tale what would bebecause you see people do it, they
did it last year and they're doingit again this year. Well, who
did you want look at these guys. Trey Turner, he's been terrible.
Well, it's the same that's thesame group of people that told you that
Corey Seeger was terrible last year.The same group I told your Marcus Simeon
was terrible last year. Why wouldyou have gone out and give those guys
money? I don't know. Overtime, it's probably gonna work out.
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Maybe for really good players, ittakes them a little bit to get going
who are in their prime, andboth those guys were in their prime.
Trey Turner is going to be justfine, just fine. It's just new
settings, new environment, hasn't gotit going yet. But Trey Turner is
not going to fall apart. He'san MVP candidate, and he was.
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He was the best player on TeamUSA in the World Baseball Classic, all
right. He didn't forget how toplay baseball. The Korea thing might be
a little bit different because I justthink that's probably injuries. Santa Bogart has
been fine, Nancy Sponson's been fine. So yeah, and when you think
about one of those two guys,and with JP moving to second, now
now you're really talking you've got somethinggoing there. I mean, JP has
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been good this year. But Idon't think there's one, you know,
true way to build an organization,whether it's the combination of all of it,
because there are extremes and you're seeingit now you've brought up the Padres
aren't extreme. Okay, they've goneout there and they've made big trades.
I mean that was a trade bythe way. First. Now they went
and paid Soto, but they swungfor the fences on a big trade and
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they got them, you know,a lot of their damage. Actually,
when you think about has been trades, aren't you more hopeful though, if
you're a San Diego fan than youare a Mariner fan right now? Well,
of course, but those are superstarswith superstar pedigree, Yeah, superstars,
And in fact, like when theylook at their record right now and
go over five hundred five games inor five hundred, that's still such an
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uber talented roster that you would thinkthat they will get it turned around and
will be just fine. Certainly moreof a track record being able to do
it than the Mariners will do it. But you know, the Mets are
an example. Where did they go? They spend spend spent, And now
if you look at the New YorkMets right now, they're five hundred.
They didn't. I don't think aMet fan thought they'd be five hundred this
year. I think they just gotswept by the Blue Jays. Well,
the owners certainly didn't. And thenTampa Bay would be a team that doesn't
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spend, develops, develops, develops, but does does Tampa Bay give you
a great regular season team? Butthen when they get in the postseason do
they miss not having you know,these high priced, you know, bona
fide superstars. Now they've reached theWorld Series, so it's not like they
can't happen. And then for Texas, I mean, they've developed, but
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they have hit. The credit tothe Rangers is they have just hit on
every one of these free agents buta home run. And they're doing it
without what de Graham as he pitched, he's pitched a couple of times,
has a couple times this year andhe'll be back. Yeah. Their best
pitchers not even there yet. Yeah, And they did this. The whole
thing is they did this at thebeginning of season about Corey Seeger, and
now the Seeger's back and looks likehe's picked up right where he's left off
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when he was with the Dodgers don'twell, I mean they can win in
a variety of ways now and whenthey're down five not then you don't give
up hope when you're a Rangers fan, because that that team can come back
from that and they've got one holethat they will they will no doubt address
and they'll be there, will be. It always feels like you can find
relievers and guys in the bullpen,and they'll add guys and they're gonna probably
add a couple of them and ifthey can, they can write their bullpen
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just a little bit. I mean, they'll be unstoppable. Well, the
turnaround they've made this year, Imean to be in the Mariners nine and
a half behind that team, Yeah, it was. It was impressive over
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Dick feinted? iHeartMedia dot com.Well, pup, go to wish I
had longer than thirty seconds. Talkabout that dumpster fire every weekend. Geez
still can't hit the damn ball.I don't know where Texas came from,
but they boat raced us, andwe're not going to face teams like Oakland
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in the playoffs. Help we evenmake it there. Jerry going to politics
because all you've done is giving Marinerfans just a bunch of bs go cougs.
Oh hey, he didn't get thelast part. He does his go
cougs and suck it months. Ohyeah, Well, he probably had the
timer going. He got the gocougs in, though I do appreciate the
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sucking months. That's it. Yeah, that's his A nice way to the
nice way to end it. Okay, there we go. Hey, guys,
just want to say thanks for callingthe Mariners out and hold them accountable.
Unlike Jim's former boss across the street, who's Jerry and John's little puppet
and can't say anything where the Marinerscontrol the narrative with all their media partners.
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The Mariners belong to the fans.They're not called the John Stanton Mariners
ownership owes it to us to winnow and line their pockets later. Okay,
direct line the old pockets. Iffair or unfair, would you you
You've been here long enough. Theyhave been They've That's the narrative about this
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organization, is it not? Trynot to believe it. But I did
say it's fair or unfair. Butthat's the narrative, right, Yeah,
yeah, that's fair. I wastrying not to believe it, but kind
of come come over to your wayof thinking. There they just they just
haven't done enough in the off season. They just haven't spent. But the
halfback girls nice it is. Letme ask Baroner fans when you go to
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the game, even you twenty somethings, that that's all that place is.
Anyways, let me ask us somethingabout that halfback. You've been over there?
You know the beer garden they have? Yeah? It? Can kids
go in there or not? Idon't know. I don't think so they
can't. So why wife can't kidsgoing there? I don't know. Well,
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Jason, kids can't go in therebecause you think it's kind of I
don't even know what that area is. It's just kind of a big sprea
it out. It's not a wholelot in their area. I like it.
Let me ask, would you ratherhave the half back rill or a
DH? A DH? I'm justcurious. Good morning Buck, Good morning
Jim. No voices today. It'sjust me disgusted with where my Mariners are
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just gladden on down to fourth.I think I know in this division it
is because of platoon after platoon afterplatoon, and guess what happens when half
of that platoon at second or rightor whatever gets hurt. Then you're just
so ol for anything else. Okay, I think I know who that is.
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Chris. Do you know because yousee the numbers. So do you
do you? Do you know whothat guy is? I do not know.
I think it. Do you callyeah again? I think it's Peak
Carroll us in the beginning. Itmight be right. I think it's beat
you play him again? This ismaybe the any morning Buck, Morning Jim
no voices today. It's just me. You think that sounds like morning Buck,
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Morning Jim, no voices today?It's just me? No cath Nick's
God, do you lock? Idon't want to know what these people look
like? Don't you the Pete Carrollguy? Not really? Hey, Mariners
ownership this weekend should show that ifyou spend your money wisely on the right
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players, you're gonna get good results. If you guys don't win the division,
you should all be fired. Canthe cracking ownership please buy you?
Uh what? We can try,Sam Holloway and the group wants to get
together and then maybe we'll finally getdown to where the hell is Davy Jones.
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I know where Tucker is is outthere chasing water each other. David
Jones and Rye. We know whereRye is out there to be mac somebody
said, then the text line TOPAfor him? Who says no, Hey,
Bucky Jimbo. Black Community wanted tospeak real quick on the Denver Nuggies
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since it's baseball season and y'all won'tspeak on them. Michael Malone was right.
Game one, Game two, lackof effort. Game three on Wednesday
against the Heat spread minus three forthe Nuggies still to win it. Hammer
them boys, they will take itwith a gentleman's sweep. That boy,
yokit, he's a bad man withjim a gentleman's sweep? Is that what
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you call a five gamer? Yes, yeah, I didn't know that.
That's I like that. I havenot I've not heard that before. You
let the other team have one agentle gentleman. It learned something new every
day. I'd love. I enjoythe new character he's changing. It was
Black Caucus, now it's Black Community. But I'm in for all you like
his pick Nuggets given three hip gameon the road, that's fair. You've
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seen the stat on the Nuggets lastnight. Are we going three four five
at Miami? No? No,no, they went back different schedule.
Now, Denver was up by fifteenlast night in the game. They weren't
when they had a double digit lead. In the playoffs, they were eleven
and oh. And when they hada double digit lead at any time in
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the regular season, they were thirtyseven and one. And when leading by
eight going into the fourth quarter,which they were last night, Uh one,
did I screw that up? Man? If they were really good when
thinking by eight, I can't rememberwhen I wrote down most teams are yeah,
there you go? That was youknow what? That that that warranted
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this that that whole last five seconds. I'll play myself a longer route,
a long way to say that therehe's good going to the fourth quarter,
he dared Dick Faine at iHeartMedia dotcom. We'll sell babies, Jamal Adams,
I would like to file a formalcomplaint against the ten to one show
(29:11):
for not playing my voicemail on Thursdaydue to it being sexually suggested, even
though they tell Jim Moore to bea spokesperson for ED Medicine, which suggests,
well, you know, I couldhave chosen my words more carefully by
saying I hang two inches off theplate, yet I still shove it middle
middle, thank you. He satthat one was okay, oh yeah,
(29:41):
oh yeah, like maybe yeah,I think, oh yeah, Now we
could probably say the other one stillget it middleman middle middle There's a lot
of Brian Woo middle Middal and BryceMiller. Jamal Adams. I can't wait
to see Jamal bounce around the practicefield tomorrow. God Press is back.
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He's not gonna be bouncing. Youdon't on the sideline. Maybe he's recovering,
all ready to go? Was thatthe last one? Oh? It
was or one. I'm saying,thumbs up, you're all right? That
was a good batch. Today alot more anger. I think the pulse
of the Mariners team is very,very angry right now. But haven't we
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learned last year they were angry?What happened? They got hot? That's
very I'm saying it's early, butI'm saying they're still opted. You are
you just said it? Okay,let me stop. It's early, but
how about could get worse? Ilike that. Now they're done, aren't
they? They're not gonna make whenyou're gonna write your call this season?
Is they're done. It's fun livinglife, is you know, glass half
(30:49):
empty? It's it's just I mean, do you think they're gonna come back?
I mean, seriously, we're theonly four games under five hundred.
Is it just a game one?Not that bad? But okay, oh,
look you're trying to be positive.Oh I really can't bring yourself to
I don't think so, I don'tthink, but I hope I'm wrong.
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I think it's I think it's moreabout the teams that are that are now
in front of them. They're playingbetter. I mean, this Rangers team
is a different beast now, whichthey didn't have to contend with last year.
This Orioles team is good too,which they didn't have to factor in.
And I do believe even though thatthey have a scuffle, they just
I think got off a sweep.And I just still a big fan.
And I think Alec Manoah will figureit out eventually for Toronto and I think
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they'll be fine. But I meanthey're six games over five hundred. I
just still did believe in the BlueJason, and once the Yankees get all
their guys back healthy and ready togo, I mean, look at that
East they all over five hundred,every one of them. Well what there's
six or seven teams that you justlook at you go, well, there's
no way the Marriors can be asgood as those teams. Well, the
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wild card standings right now are thisBaltimore, Houston, New York, Okay,
Then it's Toronto, then it's theRed Sox. Then the Angels are
up on you, and then it'syou. Well the angels you gotta leap
frog all that. Yeah, wellthey did it last year. There you
go, same, there's the attitude. That's what we like to hear.
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All right. Tweet of the daycoming up next and and and oh nine
er nights all upset right now?Why because ESPN has said that somebody from
ESPN said he thinks the Seahawks havea better roster than the forty nine ers.
(32:45):
Now nine er nights on the attack. Kind of idiots thinks that he
knows the truth. Though it'll bepainfully clear. A lot of people think
it's gonna be a neck and neckrace this year. Uh, I don't
think. See do you think Seattleis that far behind him? I don't
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know. I don't either. Iwould still probably take the forty nine ers
like most people, But I justwant to see year two of old Purdy.
You made the point, Hey,we thought that he'd be rattled here,
thought to be rattle the other games. But I don't know, we'll
see. I just want to seehow he reacts when he is like the
guy like and he's clearly like theguy coming into this season. I think
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Shanahan just said it that he willbe the starting quarterback, and I don't
know what that means for I'd assumethat means that they swung and missed on
Trey Lands and they really screwed themselvesover by moving up and trading, trading
so much draft capital to go aheadand get that guy. So who do
you feel more confident about? Purdyin San Francisco or Smith here and Seattle?
I'm gonna say, Gino, areyou? I am am I being
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a homer, Probably no. Ithink that's fair. Although I love brock
Purty. I loved him. Weloved him in college because we saw him
first thing in of the Alimable.Yeah, we beat him when he was
a freshman. But he was damngood. He was damn good though it
was, it was, he wasgreat, great in college. And so
it's a great story down there.I mean, the last pick in the
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draft. All right, your yourtweet of the day. We scour Twitter
for just positive news. Did youfind any that's what that's usually what it
comes to on that platform, nothingbut positive news. I do love though
the people can time out here realquickly. Who who loathe Twitter and like
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it's usually in the media like radioor TV or anymore. I just I
hate. I just wish this platformwould go away. Yet they're on it
all the time. And so whatI don't understand about why you hate the
platform so much. No one's requiringyou to be on it our station or
(34:57):
are They don't say you have tobe on it. It's probably encouraged to
promote the show, but you don't. You could have it and just promote
the show and then turn away allthe other other times and not be on
it. But if you so,are you talking about Ian or who are
you talking about? I'm just talkingI'm not talking about anybody. I'm just
talking about in general. People hateWell, he's not on Twitter because he
get ACKed. I'm just saying thatthey don't. You hear a lot of
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people complain about, especially in ourindustry, about Twitter just a cesspool.
It's just awful, And I'm like, well, then get off of it.
I go to it every day forshow prep because you following different people
that are covering the Seahawks and theirnoise, and you get stories and links
and helps with the job. Ienjoy my Twitter experience and I'm not gonna
(35:42):
lie, and I like, lookat all the comments. So the comments
are it's my best part. It'slike when I just read you the comments
about the new the poll question byKomo News. Yeah, it's complete,
dude, women, what's the oneactivity of women pick up after the age
of forty? Just go read thecomments on it, especially the last one
(36:02):
that makes me laugh. I don't. I don't, Chris, what about
you? If you're laughing on thatone? That's funny. What that person
said is funny. No, Ithought so too. That's not sick.
Well, Twitter is for me islaughs. That's entertainment for me, all
right. But these people that geton there, I just I mean,
(36:22):
so great, just goes away.Well then just cancel it, don't go
on there. Although Elon has donea great job at ruining it. But
I still sure sure sure now thatpeople, Yeah, yeah, I don't
need the thing for you or you'resuggesting thing. I don't need that.
We can get rid of that,all right, long winded point. I'm
stalling on this one. I don'tknow why. If you're watching the NBA.
(36:45):
Yes, I think this was pregame. I believe. Adam Silver,
the Commissioner of the NBA on NBATV with Shack O'Neill, also Grant Hill
and Charles Barklin, Adam this questionand they want us to go. But
I've done, and they do.This question answers if everything going so well,
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do you see in the near futuremore expansion teams like you're here Seattle,
you're here in Las Vegas. Isthat a possibility? It is a
possibility. And I think what we'vesaid in the last few years. Number
one, we wanted to get ourcollective bargaining agreement done, so we've done
that. Now any other thing,we wanted to understand what our new media
rights packages are. And you know, as Matt said, those negotiations will
begin, you know, in earnest, probably in the mutin next spring.
(37:29):
Once that's done, we'll turn toexpansion. You know, we don't have
anything specific in mind right now,but I think it makes sense over time.
You know, if you're a success, if you're a successful organization,
to continue to grow, there's nodoubt. There's a lot of great cities
we're interested in having the NBA.So just a few things on you.
So there you go. I meanAdam silver painting, I think because I
remember in the past, but maybeit was the All Star Game where he
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kind of want really tempered it.Hey, really, let's really kind of
tempered it, and this one hecertainly didn't temper it at all. And
I think the riding has always beenon the wall with this, and they
wanted to get through the CBA.Now they get through the media rights deal,
and so what he says spring Iknow people there's always been a lot
of people that have targeted twenty twentyfive. So we go through another season
and then maybe it's twenty five isthe year. Now. I don't know
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what it means for Vegas because thenI know Ian has said, well,
they gotta wait for Vegas to comein. I don't know why, see
how it couldn't start before Vegas.This league has gone unbalanced before. It's
not like it's never been an unbalancedseason, But I just I hear these
comments and everyone gets fired up,and I see it all over Twitter,
and I just get I'm like,I'm so I'm anxious for it, and
then I'm over the story, likejust give him the damn team, Please
(38:37):
just give it to us now.Yeah. Well, yeah, he was
at least addressing it, and itsounded positive, and it sounds like maybe
next summer will get word of twentyfive twenty sixth season. I would say
if he starts talking about it inthe spring and they wrap it up by
the summer, maybe they that probablypushes it. Was just gonna think so
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maybe it's not twenty five, butthey could bring in Vegas before their eighteenth
arena is built down there. Imean, there's a bunch of temporary sites
they could play. They could Theycertainly could do that if whoever owns that
team is willing to do it.Or they could start without They could start
without without them. I mean,listen, the NHL didn't want to do
You think the NHL wanted to gowith twenty nine teams. They would have
(39:20):
liked Seattle to start off right away, but they did that. Yeah,
and the NBA has done it aswell. They did it black with the
hornets and stuff, So I thinkit will happen. I was encouraging here
in that because I think we're alljust I just want it before my kids,
especially my daughters out of high school. That's what I would prefer,
which I think will happen. Sobased on what Silver said, though you
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think twenty six twenty seven, I'mcrossing my fingers for twenty five, but
now it kind of feels like twentysix is probably it would be more realistic,
more realistic, and maybe that linesup with Vegas. Maybe they want
them to both come in together,so Vegas, which I don't still I
don't think it's broken ground on thatarena. By the way, Yeah,
twenty six twenty seven, but boy, the guy that means what eighteen years
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without his hand, we're gonna justsee the landscape of I mean, the
media rights are gonna change in theway that we devour media is gonna change,
and they're probably waiting to see.I mean, the certainly the big
biggest domino is gonna be ESPN becauseESPN in about two years, they think,
well about a year or two years, is gonna go to an all
streaming platform, so everything will bestreamed and that's how you're gonna have to
(40:28):
watch ESPN. I think we'll getit all figured out. I mean,
even people like me, I'll haveit figured out. And then I think
the local stream here, whether it'sthrough an ESPN platform or through an Apple
platform. If Apple wants to getinto it, I think would probably be
prime prime. Do they throw theirthey're you know, they're hat in the
ring about getting involved in it andoffering it via that way. But yeah,
(40:50):
certainly good news. But you don'tlike me and wearing a Sonic shirt
today. I just get very impatient. Would like it to happen sooner rather
than later. Yeah, you're gonnawell, yeah, I mean, it's
just ridiculous in the first place,and it's gonna get done. But I
think twenty six, twenty seven,you're right about that. Twenty six though
hopefully Hey, Bill Krueger is gonnajoin us coming up next second, and
(41:12):
we're gonna ask about the struggles ofthe starting pitchers, especially the young guys.
What he saw from Brian wou onSaturday, what he's seen out of
Bryce Miller the last couple starts.Are they just bumps in the road or
are there maybe some concerns maybe goingup there with Bryce Miller, we'll get
the very latest with the crafty leftyBill Krueger from Root Sports. Next
Let it right. Yeah, andJamal Murray shot looked good last night,
and I thought he was gonna makethat that little step backer. Boy,
that was a good look. Huh, little short, a little and out,
highly entertaining and and we were worriedabout the ratings. The ratings have
(00:25):
been through the through the roof great. I enjoyed the fourth quarter. I
watched the fourth quarter. Yeah,one game. The heat, the heat
moves the ball around. Yeah,they moved the ball around. This is
where I'm gonna agree with Chris,Like, there's one coach that's actually like
a good coach in the league.It's that guy. That dude's unbelievable.
There's more, but he gets themost out of that team. He still
(00:47):
don't have Tyler Harrow because he mightbe back on Wednesday. But now the
question he played two on two,play him, Yes, of course you
do. We'll think about you.Just Duncans out. But he's playing well
though he just had he played well. He just played well. So you
messed that up. Hoy, thehero is better than him doing Yes,
But that guy hit a big threethough, didn't. You don't know if
(01:07):
you start him Duncan whatever he cameit's all he's gotta play. He's gonna
play. But I don't know ifyou know what's his name? Who's the
guy to hit all the threes lastnight? Cape Vincent? Oh? Stress,
Oh he's okay, he was.He was terrible in game one,
so he's playing times out give meTyler Hero. You don't think that I'm
messing the kim and all my son'sfavorite player in the NBA is you're gonna
(01:30):
laugh? Oh great player. Yeah, that's random, but it's random,
Like why him? Yeah, youcan name? What does he say?
I think it's the name. Okay, that's Bam And I think he likes
the name Bam And okay, worksout. Should be proud of my kid
(01:51):
or a little worried about, youknow, worried his development when he said
after at the end of the thirdquarter, Hey, dad, get a
live bet down on the heat.Yeah, that's up, proud father moment
is what that is. And soI was like, Okay, he knows
more about the NBA than I do. And so I, yeah, I
got the heat in six and ahalf into the final quarter for ten bucks.
Yeah, oh, I owe youten bucks too, by the way,
(02:12):
but I forgot my wallet at mydaughter's house last night, So I'll
bring it tomorrow. You can alwaysroll it over to something else. No,
No, I'm not tired of it. Tired of pain? Yeah,
I you know what though I scoredin golf. I had four bucks on
Hoblin at twenty two to one,but for eighty eight Victor. And then
going into the last round of theLPGA tournament, I took Rose Jang.
(02:36):
Yeah, plus one fifty Oh.Just two weeks ago one the NC double
A women's title, and then twoweeks later wins on the PGA Tour.
Yeah, that's pretty good. Twentyyears old? Were you? Good play?
And speaking of Victor Hovlin, hewins the Memorial yesterday and then is
off this morning and we're it wasin Ohio. There's a sexual qualifier for
the US Open, and he's outthere catting for his buddy's college buddy.
(02:58):
Thirty six holes. Pretty good Victor, howand the pretty pretty good player is
Bertie Putt there in seventeen thirty feetout, beating on Denny McCarthy, who
heartbreak from McCarthy still looking for hisfirst up PGA Tour win and does not
get it. Hey. Other headlinesbrought to by venue Kings dot Com got
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here on ninety three point three.Hey j R f M. Thanks to
an alert listener under text line onthe telemore do text line when it's game
time, it's total time. Whosaid, Hey, I think Paul Goldschman
has a no trade clause. Andas I'm reading this story, it does
(03:40):
say in this story, which isI think out of Saint Louis, that
when he did sign that he doesindeed have a no trade clause in his
contract. Would do you think hewould wave his no trade clause to come
to a park in which people justthink it's a terrible park to hit it?
How did he do this year?Do you remember when they played here?
(04:00):
Hold on, I'm gonna look athim. Yeah, they were here.
Let's see win win win. Uh? Yeah, I mean I guess
he could. He could wave it, but I don't know. It's that's
such a bad reputation. Let's seein game one he was over four uh
in a five two Mariners win.Let's see in game number two, Come
(04:20):
on, I want him to havea big day. He was over four
Os win a Game three in whichthe Cardinals won seven to three. Come
on, Paulos made a big game, He had a hit, score two
runs there yet go Paul remember thegood times. Well, he's an option.
Yeah, I think he would wavehis no trade clause, wouldn't he
(04:44):
maybe if he brought the fences in. I don't think he would do it.
No way, because he's playing fora contract. So why would he
wave his no trade clause to goto a park in which hitters don't like
going to and then struggle and thenhis market value goes down, wouldn't I
mean, if you were his agent, would you advise him to wave the
(05:08):
no trade clause to not to goto a park that is considered not a
hitter friendly park? And I know, I know what the Yankees did here,
I know what other teams have donehere. And we joke about the
marine layer. I agree with you. I think it's probably it's made out
to be a bigger deal than itreally is here. But the perception is
that it's not a hitter friendly park, that it's bad to play here as
(05:30):
an offensive player, which at leastthat's the narrator. No, No,
I know you're right, I mean, but the metrics are at such a
point now, aren't they. They'reso advanced that can't you like factor that
in if you're another team and you'reanalyzing, you know what so and so
did at T Mobile? I wouldthink so. I even thought I saw
somebody on Twitter talking about moving thefences in. They've already done that once.
(05:54):
A little league wouldn't be more entertaining, You're gonna be hell of entertaining.
How do they should pick one game, very homestand where they bring it
into little league size feet and you'relike bad, just ball after balls flying
out of the ball scores of fortytwo to forty. Well, could you
do something like have a happy mediumwhere you I mean you've already brought I
can't remember how much they brought itin before. You want it permanently or
(06:15):
just for like one idea of onegame where like like we have a retractable
Roman, then you would attract morehitters here. Why can't we have a
retractable fence? Yeah, you havewhat I'm in. If you're starting pitchers
era is under three, then youmove them what in and then if it's
(06:35):
over five, you move them backyeah, retractable fence. Retractable fence is
going to be the thing, youknow when Manford comes here in July for
the press conference. Yes, JasonPuckett Kjr. Rob, there has been
a lot of talk about retractable roofs, especially you know, you have a
new organization, The A is goingto Las Vegas and no doubt we'll have
(06:56):
a roof. Have you talking aboutpiece of play and increased scoring? Ever
thought about retractable fences? Thank you, we'll take your commings. Please come
on, you can do that.How much would you give me if I
went to the press conference? Youknow, I am, and I'll dress
up like look like a real likeserious like news reporter with the you know,
with the little news the notebook outmister Manford and a Jason Puckett get
(07:20):
joh thought about retractable fence where youcan move it in and out depending on
the starting pitcher. Do you thinkthat would be a good idea for baseball?
I don't. I don't think it'sthat bad at an idea. I
think it'd be entertaining for the fan, wouldn't it. They'd be like,
you know, you get the roofreport. You know, hey, tonight
(07:41):
the roof is open and or it'sclosed or whatever, and then you'd have
the retractable fence report. Yeah,the retractable fence. You know, Shannon
comes on the pregame, We havea retractable fence up day, brought to
you by Yeah wherever tonight, theright field foul pole will be at two
hundred and sixty eight feet, Sookay, I'm gonna come out of it.
Marco's on the mountain tonight, sowe put the retractable fence back to
(08:03):
four hundred and ninety eight feet.I don't know why I find that so
amusing, but I mean, whatthe hell at this point? But I
want to to hell, but Iwant to go to the press count and
I want to sit like right betweenlike Rosenthal and like all these you know,
hard hitting Verducci, and then asked, but you can't do that,
(08:24):
though, Why would you would youdo that? Could you bring yourself to
do that? Of course I could? Okay, well then do it like
he'll it's he's gonna be here.There will be a press conference special Manford
and you know star game, andI'm gonna do right after like a goofy
question, serious question retractable fences.It's been an idea that's been float around
the Independent League, which is alie, thoughts he may not know.
(08:48):
No, no, not the IndependentLeague, the West Coast League. Do
we have the West Coast tagure,there's been an idea on the wood College
of league here and say to washthem moving the fences in, you know,
retractable fences. Would you and considerthat idea Major League Baseball? Yeah,
well, okay, you're trying tofigure out how to get better hitters
here and they don't want to comehere. If you could find a happy
(09:11):
medium where it wouldn't detract too muchfrom what the pitchers like about this ballpark,
yeah, i'd be And they've alreadydone it once, so let's let's
bring it in a little more.Can they close the fence and then just
close like out in like left fieldcenter field? Can they Can they put
like a you know, a wallout there, maybe the wind or something
like and then and then and thenfrom home plate there's a something that blows
(09:35):
it out only when we hit.Or how about not bringing the fences in,
but you could just build them upand then not sell as many seats
in right field and left field thatkind of have like a makeshift green monster
of your about a retractable fence thatdoesn't come in but goes up when the
other team hits, but then whenwe hit, goes like all the way
down to the ground, and youhave like a situation like Aaron did you
(09:58):
see the highlight Aaron Judge running throughthe bullpen fence? Oh yeah, yeah,
what a catch. Yeah, butthen we lower it so down like
when he's running back that he wouldtrip over and fall out and get injured
himself. Do that? No,yeah, but I'm not no fences at
all and be like Little League justgets running around, get that ball in.
I what are you supposed to doat this point? At least make
(10:22):
it more entertaining. More entertaining laughteris the key. Uh so, yeah,
Paul Goldschman, I know, um, you know, Chuck flow to
that idea. Dude, he maywave it, but you know, no
trade clause. I would think thathe would not waive it. Or I
would think that any hitter that wouldbe available would not wave it, especially
(10:43):
if they are entering the last year. We'll see he's twenty twenty four,
twenty five, he's a free agent, but twenty what's twenty four that must
be an option? Um he,I would just I don't know. I
just don't think anybody would do ithere. Well, it's bad enough because
the Mariners don't want to spend money, and then you have to overpay to
(11:03):
get these guys to come here.So it's just a double edged sword that
you know. So I'm not surewe've talked about it. If there's just
not any true solution other than whatyou talked about with you know, the
players that you have just performing betterthan they have to this point, and
we all know that, and hopefullythough that there there'll be some tweaks that
(11:24):
they can make, and they gotto be more than tweaks, honestly,
because this lineup just is it's awful. Hey, can the big suggestion on
the telemore do text line is canyou write another article that they're over?
That seemed to kind of spurn themlast year? Yeah, at twenty nine
on fire everyone as if some storyI write in the news tribute and your
(11:46):
kids have son, is what's gonnalike actually cause something to happen. Didn't
work last year it seemed too Yeah, it made me look really stupid.
But but you don't care about that, Like, how can you? Yeah,
at this point now, um sowe should we do it as this
how but just as a show?Should we determine at some point the season's
over. Yeah, we're pretty closeright now, aren't we? And then
(12:07):
we can just be They're twenty nineand thirty. It's not like it.
It's terrible you saying it's early.But it's early, but it could get
worshed. It did this weekend.Oh that steak. I was out pressure
washing yesterday and Mikey comes out.Dad. You hear the Mariners scoring.
(12:28):
I'm like, let's see Rangers threeto two? He goes No. Seven
zip because they're just banging it allover the place. Yeah, they are.
They're on offense, man, theyare just they are brutally good.
Yeah. My kids are down onthe Mariners and they usually they're up on
him. I mean, oh,one can't be loving this at all.
I mean he's got to be bummedout. Uh yeah, I mean,
(12:52):
you know, the only thing getshim through it is that Robbie Ray's not
pitching anymore. Not a Robbie Rayfan, been a Robbie Ray fan for
a long time, Ever since thealva Is home run just not just does
not like them. Uh yeah,I mean, yeah, it's just it's
you know, they have a lotof games left, but there's just not
(13:18):
it doesn't appear to be anything onthe horizon or any nothing to really grab
onto this year that you can sayto yourself that, oh, it's it's
gonna get better, because they reallyhave when she has said that last year
when they were twenty nine, thirtynine, yeah I did probably probably did.
Yeah, but for this team towin fourteen in a row, but
(13:39):
it's forging about fourteen in a row, which is not going to happen again.
It's it's that now the entire AmericanLeague is better. Last year,
the Rangers weren't good, the Oriolesweren't good. There you're not playing better
than you and you're not playing theage nineteen times. This year, you're
playing up thirteen times. That's this, I mean, that's the single biggest,
(14:01):
you know, number that has comeout of this weekends. Just when
you look at what they're I meanthere's a couple of things, but when
you look at their record, they'reagainst teams over five hundred, I mean
they are ten games under five hundred, and you know they and then on
the flip side, there's seven andoh against Oakland. Well, I mean,
just imagine I mentioned not playing Oakland. Yeah, I'm what three and
(14:22):
o against the Rockies. Ye,throw those ten games out and now they
just got pummeled in this series.But now that their run differential is only
three, I mean their plus three, I mean that you start looking at
teams that are around that mark.I mean, it does indicate what type
of team you are because you don'twin easy games, and that just that
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shows that's just just stat and ametric that will that tells you that you
are just better than the average teamsbecause you you know, you can win
eight three games or ninety three gamesand what have you. Now, it's
not to the extreme of like TampaBay's that plus one twenty two, I
mean even the Twins or two gamesover five hundred, but they're plus forty
(15:03):
five in that mark. Um,So it's yeah, last year, winning
all those one run games, youknow, led us to believe that they
were a little better than what theyactually were. And then this year it's
kind of come down on that.It's like the Brewers, like I think
it's for the Brewers. I thinkit's fools gold where they're in right now,
they lead the NL Central. They'refive games over five hundred, they're
minus nineteen a run different like they'rewinning close like the Mariners two years ago,
(15:28):
two years ago, exactly right.And then on the flip side,
the Pirates are plus ten, butthey are just what a half game back
of them. Pirates was a teamI was hoping would crumble and fall apart.
Then maybe then they would think aboutReynolds, but they just ended up,
you know, signing him. Idon't think he's going to be an
option. I don't know if youknew this, but the man the Mariners
in nine run games now are onone and then ten run games, So
they need to stand need to improvethat. Maybe maybe we hope, pray
(15:52):
that the Padres fall apart. Yeah, and then they have to make a
decision what they want to do.I have so many high price guys on
there. Maybe they just start selling. Maybe they start selling. Well,
that's They're an example of a teamthat anybody's like, oh, you know,
you get the free agents, youget the high price guys. Well,
what are they doing in San Diego? What are they twenty four and
twenty nine or I mean they're fivegames and they lost seven to one to
(16:14):
the Cubs yesterday, and you lookat their I mean Tatis had a couple
of home runs I think in onegame over the weekend. He's at two
sixty three, so okay, andI think he was he was out because
of the suspension. Machado two twentytwo, Soto two fifty three, Soto.
Everybody wanted Soto here, absolutely yeah, and he still wants Soto here.
But there's I don't know, isthere a right or wrong way to
build the franchise. I think itshould be a combination of everything, shouldn't
(16:38):
it. I mean, it justseems like, you know, this trade
to develop all this. I meanit's working with the pitchers, but I
mean you gotta do something to supplementwhat you have while you're building your team,
and free agency seems to and thenyou know there's these free agents shortstops.
I mean, some of them aren'tdoing that well, and you know
others are, and you can secondguess, third guess all of it.
(17:00):
But the cautionary tale what would bebecause you see people do it, they
did it last year and they're doingit again this year. Well, who
did you want look at these guys. Trey Turner, he's been terrible.
Well, it's the same that's thesame group of people that told you that
Corey Seeger was terrible last year.The same group I told your Marcus Simeon
was terrible last year. Why wouldyou have gone out and give those guys
money? I don't know. Overtime, it's probably gonna work out.
(17:23):
Maybe for really good players, ittakes them a little bit to get going
who are in their prime, andboth those guys were in their prime.
Trey Turner is going to be justfine, just fine. It's just new
settings, new environment, hasn't gotit going yet. But Trey Turner is
not going to fall apart. He'san MVP candidate, and he was.
(17:45):
He was the best player on TeamUSA in the World Baseball Classic, all
right. He didn't forget how toplay baseball. The Korea thing might be
a little bit different because I justthink that's probably injuries. Santa Bogart has
been fine, Nancy Sponson's been fine. So yeah, and when you think
about one of those two guys,and with JP moving to second, now
now you're really talking you've got somethinggoing there. I mean, JP has
(18:07):
been good this year. But Idon't think there's one, you know,
true way to build an organization,whether it's the combination of all of it,
because there are extremes and you're seeingit now you've brought up the Padres
aren't extreme. Okay, they've goneout there and they've made big trades.
I mean that was a trade bythe way. First. Now they went
and paid Soto, but they swungfor the fences on a big trade and
(18:27):
they got them, you know,a lot of their damage. Actually,
when you think about has been trades, aren't you more hopeful though, if
you're a San Diego fan than youare a Mariner fan right now? Well,
of course, but those are superstarswith superstar pedigree, Yeah, superstars,
And in fact, like when theylook at their record right now and
go over five hundred five games inor five hundred, that's still such an
(18:48):
uber talented roster that you would thinkthat they will get it turned around and
will be just fine. Certainly moreof a track record being able to do
it than the Mariners will do it. But you know, the Mets are
an example. Where did they go? They spend spend spent, And now
if you look at the New YorkMets right now, they're five hundred.
They didn't. I don't think aMet fan thought they'd be five hundred this
year. I think they just gotswept by the Blue Jays. Well,
the owners certainly didn't. And thenTampa Bay would be a team that doesn't
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spend, develops, develops, develops, but does does Tampa Bay give you
a great regular season team? Butthen when they get in the postseason do
they miss not having you know,these high priced, you know, bona
fide superstars. Now they've reached theWorld Series, so it's not like they
can't happen. And then for Texas, I mean, they've developed, but
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they have hit. The credit tothe Rangers is they have just hit on
every one of these free agents buta home run. And they're doing it
without what de Graham as he pitched, he's pitched a couple of times,
has a couple times this year andhe'll be back. Yeah. Their best
pitchers not even there yet. Yeah, And they did this. The whole
thing is they did this at thebeginning of season about Corey Seeger, and
now the Seeger's back and looks likehe's picked up right where he's left off
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when he was with the Dodgers don'twell, I mean they can win in
a variety of ways now and whenthey're down five not then you don't give
up hope when you're a Rangers fan, because that that team can come back
from that and they've got one holethat they will they will no doubt address
and they'll be there, will be. It always feels like you can find
relievers and guys in the bullpen,and they'll add guys and they're gonna probably
add a couple of them and ifthey can, they can write their bullpen
(20:18):
just a little bit. I mean, they'll be unstoppable. Well, the
turnaround they've made this year, Imean to be in the Mariners nine and
a half behind that team, Yeah, it was. It was impressive over
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about voicemails or anything else in yourlife personal professional? What have you?
Dick feinted? iHeartMedia dot com.Well, pup, go to wish I
had longer than thirty seconds. Talkabout that dumpster fire every weekend. Geez
still can't hit the damn ball.I don't know where Texas came from,
but they boat raced us, andwe're not going to face teams like Oakland
(22:57):
in the playoffs. Help we evenmake it there. Jerry going to politics
because all you've done is giving Marinerfans just a bunch of bs go cougs.
Oh hey, he didn't get thelast part. He does his go
cougs and suck it months. Ohyeah, Well, he probably had the
timer going. He got the gocougs in, though I do appreciate the
(23:19):
sucking months. That's it. Yeah, that's his A nice way to the
nice way to end it. Okay, there we go. Hey, guys,
just want to say thanks for callingthe Mariners out and hold them accountable.
Unlike Jim's former boss across the street, who's Jerry and John's little puppet
and can't say anything where the Marinerscontrol the narrative with all their media partners.
(23:42):
The Mariners belong to the fans.They're not called the John Stanton Mariners
ownership owes it to us to winnow and line their pockets later. Okay,
direct line the old pockets. Iffair or unfair, would you you
You've been here long enough. Theyhave been They've That's the narrative about this
(24:04):
organization, is it not? Trynot to believe it. But I did
say it's fair or unfair. Butthat's the narrative, right, Yeah,
yeah, that's fair. I wastrying not to believe it, but kind
of come come over to your wayof thinking. There they just they just
haven't done enough in the off season. They just haven't spent. But the
halfback girls nice it is. Letme ask Baroner fans when you go to
(24:26):
the game, even you twenty somethings, that that's all that place is.
Anyways, let me ask us somethingabout that halfback. You've been over there?
You know the beer garden they have? Yeah? It? Can kids
go in there or not? Idon't know. I don't think so they
can't. So why wife can't kidsgoing there? I don't know. Well,
(24:52):
Jason, kids can't go in therebecause you think it's kind of I
don't even know what that area is. It's just kind of a big sprea
it out. It's not a wholelot in their area. I like it.
Let me ask, would you ratherhave the half back rill or a
DH? A DH? I'm justcurious. Good morning Buck, Good morning
Jim. No voices today. It'sjust me disgusted with where my Mariners are
(25:18):
just gladden on down to fourth.I think I know in this division it
is because of platoon after platoon afterplatoon, and guess what happens when half
of that platoon at second or rightor whatever gets hurt. Then you're just
so ol for anything else. Okay, I think I know who that is.
(25:41):
Chris. Do you know because yousee the numbers. So do you
do you? Do you know whothat guy is? I do not know.
I think it. Do you callyeah again? I think it's Peak
Carroll us in the beginning. Itmight be right. I think it's beat
you play him again? This ismaybe the any morning Buck, Morning Jim
no voices today. It's just me. You think that sounds like morning Buck,
(26:06):
Morning Jim, no voices today?It's just me? No cath Nick's
God, do you lock? Idon't want to know what these people look
like? Don't you the Pete Carrollguy? Not really? Hey, Mariners
ownership this weekend should show that ifyou spend your money wisely on the right
(26:30):
players, you're gonna get good results. If you guys don't win the division,
you should all be fired. Canthe cracking ownership please buy you?
Uh what? We can try,Sam Holloway and the group wants to get
together and then maybe we'll finally getdown to where the hell is Davy Jones.
(26:55):
I know where Tucker is is outthere chasing water each other. David
Jones and Rye. We know whereRye is out there to be mac somebody
said, then the text line TOPAfor him? Who says no, Hey,
Bucky Jimbo. Black Community wanted tospeak real quick on the Denver Nuggies
(27:15):
since it's baseball season and y'all won'tspeak on them. Michael Malone was right.
Game one, Game two, lackof effort. Game three on Wednesday
against the Heat spread minus three forthe Nuggies still to win it. Hammer
them boys, they will take itwith a gentleman's sweep. That boy,
yokit, he's a bad man withjim a gentleman's sweep? Is that what
(27:38):
you call a five gamer? Yes, yeah, I didn't know that.
That's I like that. I havenot I've not heard that before. You
let the other team have one agentle gentleman. It learned something new every
day. I'd love. I enjoythe new character he's changing. It was
Black Caucus, now it's Black Community. But I'm in for all you like
his pick Nuggets given three hip gameon the road, that's fair. You've
(28:03):
seen the stat on the Nuggets lastnight. Are we going three four five
at Miami? No? No,no, they went back different schedule.
Now, Denver was up by fifteenlast night in the game. They weren't
when they had a double digit lead. In the playoffs, they were eleven
and oh. And when they hada double digit lead at any time in
(28:25):
the regular season, they were thirtyseven and one. And when leading by
eight going into the fourth quarter,which they were last night, Uh one,
did I screw that up? Man? If they were really good when
thinking by eight, I can't rememberwhen I wrote down most teams are yeah,
there you go? That was youknow what? That that that warranted
(28:47):
this that that whole last five seconds. I'll play myself a longer route,
a long way to say that therehe's good going to the fourth quarter,
he dared Dick Faine at iHeartMedia dotcom. We'll sell babies, Jamal Adams,
I would like to file a formalcomplaint against the ten to one show
(29:11):
for not playing my voicemail on Thursdaydue to it being sexually suggested, even
though they tell Jim Moore to bea spokesperson for ED Medicine, which suggests,
well, you know, I couldhave chosen my words more carefully by
saying I hang two inches off theplate, yet I still shove it middle
middle, thank you. He satthat one was okay, oh yeah,
(29:41):
oh yeah, like maybe yeah,I think, oh yeah, Now we
could probably say the other one stillget it middleman middle middle There's a lot
of Brian Woo middle Middal and BryceMiller. Jamal Adams. I can't wait
to see Jamal bounce around the practicefield tomorrow. God Press is back.
(30:03):
He's not gonna be bouncing. Youdon't on the sideline. Maybe he's recovering,
all ready to go? Was thatthe last one? Oh? It
was or one. I'm saying,thumbs up, you're all right? That
was a good batch. Today alot more anger. I think the pulse
of the Mariners team is very,very angry right now. But haven't we
(30:25):
learned last year they were angry?What happened? They got hot? That's
very I'm saying it's early, butI'm saying they're still opted. You are
you just said it? Okay,let me stop. It's early, but
how about could get worse? Ilike that. Now they're done, aren't
they? They're not gonna make whenyou're gonna write your call this season?
Is they're done. It's fun livinglife, is you know, glass half
(30:49):
empty? It's it's just I mean, do you think they're gonna come back?
I mean, seriously, we're theonly four games under five hundred.
Is it just a game one?Not that bad? But okay, oh,
look you're trying to be positive.Oh I really can't bring yourself to
I don't think so, I don'tthink, but I hope I'm wrong.
(31:15):
I think it's I think it's moreabout the teams that are that are now
in front of them. They're playingbetter. I mean, this Rangers team
is a different beast now, whichthey didn't have to contend with last year.
This Orioles team is good too,which they didn't have to factor in.
And I do believe even though thatthey have a scuffle, they just
I think got off a sweep.And I just still a big fan.
And I think Alec Manoah will figureit out eventually for Toronto and I think
(31:40):
they'll be fine. But I meanthey're six games over five hundred. I
just still did believe in the BlueJason, and once the Yankees get all
their guys back healthy and ready togo, I mean, look at that
East they all over five hundred,every one of them. Well what there's
six or seven teams that you justlook at you go, well, there's
no way the Marriors can be asgood as those teams. Well, the
(32:00):
wild card standings right now are thisBaltimore, Houston, New York, Okay,
Then it's Toronto, then it's theRed Sox. Then the Angels are
up on you, and then it'syou. Well the angels you gotta leap
frog all that. Yeah, wellthey did it last year. There you
go, same, there's the attitude. That's what we like to hear.
(32:23):
All right. Tweet of the daycoming up next and and and oh nine
er nights all upset right now?Why because ESPN has said that somebody from
ESPN said he thinks the Seahawks havea better roster than the forty nine ers.
(32:45):
Now nine er nights on the attack. Kind of idiots thinks that he
knows the truth. Though it'll bepainfully clear. A lot of people think
it's gonna be a neck and neckrace this year. Uh, I don't
think. See do you think Seattleis that far behind him? I don't
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know. I don't either. Iwould still probably take the forty nine ers
like most people, But I justwant to see year two of old Purdy.
You made the point, Hey,we thought that he'd be rattled here,
thought to be rattle the other games. But I don't know, we'll
see. I just want to seehow he reacts when he is like the
guy like and he's clearly like theguy coming into this season. I think
(33:28):
Shanahan just said it that he willbe the starting quarterback, and I don't
know what that means for I'd assumethat means that they swung and missed on
Trey Lands and they really screwed themselvesover by moving up and trading, trading
so much draft capital to go aheadand get that guy. So who do
you feel more confident about? Purdyin San Francisco or Smith here and Seattle?
I'm gonna say, Gino, areyou? I am am I being
(33:50):
a homer, Probably no. Ithink that's fair. Although I love brock
Purty. I loved him. Weloved him in college because we saw him
first thing in of the Alimable.Yeah, we beat him when he was
a freshman. But he was damngood. He was damn good though it
was, it was, he wasgreat, great in college. And so
it's a great story down there.I mean, the last pick in the
(34:13):
draft. All right, your yourtweet of the day. We scour Twitter
for just positive news. Did youfind any that's what that's usually what it
comes to on that platform, nothingbut positive news. I do love though
the people can time out here realquickly. Who who loathe Twitter and like
(34:37):
it's usually in the media like radioor TV or anymore. I just I
hate. I just wish this platformwould go away. Yet they're on it
all the time. And so whatI don't understand about why you hate the
platform so much. No one's requiringyou to be on it our station or
(34:57):
are They don't say you have tobe on it. It's probably encouraged to
promote the show, but you don't. You could have it and just promote
the show and then turn away allthe other other times and not be on
it. But if you so,are you talking about Ian or who are
you talking about? I'm just talkingI'm not talking about anybody. I'm just
talking about in general. People hateWell, he's not on Twitter because he
get ACKed. I'm just saying thatthey don't. You hear a lot of
(35:21):
people complain about, especially in ourindustry, about Twitter just a cesspool.
It's just awful, And I'm like, well, then get off of it.
I go to it every day forshow prep because you following different people
that are covering the Seahawks and theirnoise, and you get stories and links
and helps with the job. Ienjoy my Twitter experience and I'm not gonna
(35:42):
lie, and I like, lookat all the comments. So the comments
are it's my best part. It'slike when I just read you the comments
about the new the poll question byKomo News. Yeah, it's complete,
dude, women, what's the oneactivity of women pick up after the age
of forty? Just go read thecomments on it, especially the last one
(36:02):
that makes me laugh. I don't. I don't, Chris, what about
you? If you're laughing on thatone? That's funny. What that person
said is funny. No, Ithought so too. That's not sick.
Well, Twitter is for me islaughs. That's entertainment for me, all
right. But these people that geton there, I just I mean,
(36:22):
so great, just goes away.Well then just cancel it, don't go
on there. Although Elon has donea great job at ruining it. But
I still sure sure sure now thatpeople, Yeah, yeah, I don't
need the thing for you or you'resuggesting thing. I don't need that.
We can get rid of that,all right, long winded point. I'm
stalling on this one. I don'tknow why. If you're watching the NBA.
(36:45):
Yes, I think this was pregame. I believe. Adam Silver,
the Commissioner of the NBA on NBATV with Shack O'Neill, also Grant Hill
and Charles Barklin, Adam this questionand they want us to go. But
I've done, and they do.This question answers if everything going so well,
(37:06):
do you see in the near futuremore expansion teams like you're here Seattle,
you're here in Las Vegas. Isthat a possibility? It is a
possibility. And I think what we'vesaid in the last few years. Number
one, we wanted to get ourcollective bargaining agreement done, so we've done
that. Now any other thing,we wanted to understand what our new media
rights packages are. And you know, as Matt said, those negotiations will
begin, you know, in earnest, probably in the mutin next spring.
(37:29):
Once that's done, we'll turn toexpansion. You know, we don't have
anything specific in mind right now,but I think it makes sense over time.
You know, if you're a success, if you're a successful organization,
to continue to grow, there's nodoubt. There's a lot of great cities
we're interested in having the NBA.So just a few things on you.
So there you go. I meanAdam silver painting, I think because I
remember in the past, but maybeit was the All Star Game where he
(37:51):
kind of want really tempered it.Hey, really, let's really kind of
tempered it, and this one hecertainly didn't temper it at all. And
I think the riding has always beenon the wall with this, and they
wanted to get through the CBA.Now they get through the media rights deal,
and so what he says spring Iknow people there's always been a lot
of people that have targeted twenty twentyfive. So we go through another season
and then maybe it's twenty five isthe year. Now. I don't know
(38:14):
what it means for Vegas because thenI know Ian has said, well,
they gotta wait for Vegas to comein. I don't know why, see
how it couldn't start before Vegas.This league has gone unbalanced before. It's
not like it's never been an unbalancedseason, But I just I hear these
comments and everyone gets fired up,and I see it all over Twitter,
and I just get I'm like,I'm so I'm anxious for it, and
then I'm over the story, likejust give him the damn team, Please
(38:37):
just give it to us now.Yeah. Well, yeah, he was
at least addressing it, and itsounded positive, and it sounds like maybe
next summer will get word of twentyfive twenty sixth season. I would say
if he starts talking about it inthe spring and they wrap it up by
the summer, maybe they that probablypushes it. Was just gonna think so
(38:58):
maybe it's not twenty five, butthey could bring in Vegas before their eighteenth
arena is built down there. Imean, there's a bunch of temporary sites
they could play. They could Theycertainly could do that if whoever owns that
team is willing to do it.Or they could start without They could start
without without them. I mean,listen, the NHL didn't want to do
You think the NHL wanted to gowith twenty nine teams. They would have
(39:20):
liked Seattle to start off right away, but they did that. Yeah,
and the NBA has done it aswell. They did it black with the
hornets and stuff, So I thinkit will happen. I was encouraging here
in that because I think we're alljust I just want it before my kids,
especially my daughters out of high school. That's what I would prefer,
which I think will happen. Sobased on what Silver said, though you
(39:42):
think twenty six twenty seven, I'mcrossing my fingers for twenty five, but
now it kind of feels like twentysix is probably it would be more realistic,
more realistic, and maybe that linesup with Vegas. Maybe they want
them to both come in together,so Vegas, which I don't still I
don't think it's broken ground on thatarena. By the way, Yeah,
twenty six twenty seven, but boy, the guy that means what eighteen years
(40:07):
without his hand, we're gonna justsee the landscape of I mean, the
media rights are gonna change in theway that we devour media is gonna change,
and they're probably waiting to see.I mean, the certainly the big
biggest domino is gonna be ESPN becauseESPN in about two years, they think,
well about a year or two years, is gonna go to an all
streaming platform, so everything will bestreamed and that's how you're gonna have to
(40:28):
watch ESPN. I think we'll getit all figured out. I mean,
even people like me, I'll haveit figured out. And then I think
the local stream here, whether it'sthrough an ESPN platform or through an Apple
platform. If Apple wants to getinto it, I think would probably be
prime prime. Do they throw theirthey're you know, they're hat in the
ring about getting involved in it andoffering it via that way. But yeah,
(40:50):
certainly good news. But you don'tlike me and wearing a Sonic shirt
today. I just get very impatient. Would like it to happen sooner rather
than later. Yeah, you're gonnawell, yeah, I mean, it's
just ridiculous in the first place,and it's gonna get done. But I
think twenty six, twenty seven,you're right about that. Twenty six though
hopefully Hey, Bill Krueger is gonnajoin us coming up next second, and
(41:12):
we're gonna ask about the struggles ofthe starting pitchers, especially the young guys.
What he saw from Brian wou onSaturday, what he's seen out of
Bryce Miller the last couple starts.Are they just bumps in the road or
are there maybe some concerns maybe goingup there with Bryce Miller, we'll get
the very latest with the crafty leftyBill Krueger from Root Sports. Next
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