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back out it tonight as they starta brief two game series with the Whales
Vagiants. The standing yeah, lookingforward to the game tonight? Well,
of course you are. We'll getto the ms with yeah. Are we
really? I am looking forward toit? Yeah? Damn right. We're
gonna win. They're not gonna giveup double digits tonight, are they?
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With Gilbert on the mound and SanDiego can hit, I'd hope not.
Their team batting average is worse thanthe Mariners, all right, Johnny us
right now, John Kanzano, theball face Truth. Hey, hey,
congratulations the new deal down there inradio. So unfortunately for people in Portland,
they're stuck with you for a fewmore years. Huh. Yeah,
they're they're saddled with me, anduh it's good. I mean, look,
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I when I first started radio,I thought it would be like a
one year thing, and it justhas continued for I'm on seventeen years now.
I'm having fun. I love theshow. And you know, you
guys know in radio and Jim youknow this because you're on the Prince side.
You're on radio. There's a differentkind of conversation you have when you
are speaking to people and they toknow you and they get to know your
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families and your stories and you know, Puck camping with his kids and Jim
with the baseball circuit that everybody canrelate to. I think it makes you
much more relatable and more in thecommunity. Yeah. Absolutely, Well,
congratulations, you've swung at you.You've taken things solo. You've I mean
that's not solo, but um butyou're you're you're endeavor there with your website
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and all that, and it's beena it's been a great couple of years
for you, So congratulations all things. Hey, before we get into like
college football news and all that,you must have a take because again,
one of the tournaments I can't rememberdid it take place in Portland or not?
Yeah, Pumpkin that's right, itdid. It did, Pumpkin Ridge,
right in the suburbs of Portland.So what don't we think Today's news
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Live European Tour, PGA Tour allcoming together? Well, I mean,
what drives every sports decision, it'smoney, And I think LIV Golf was
having a hard time getting a TVdeal. I know that their deal with
CW. You know, CW doesn'thave a sports department. So CW,
I believe, brought in Bob Thompson, the former Fox Sports president, to
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negotiate their LIV deal and wasn't agreat deal for liv Golf. They just
were basically buying airtime. Meanwhile,the PGA Tour was facing the Department of
Justice and people probing and poking aroundasking, you know, are they engaging
in anti competitive behavior? And soI think they eventually kind of ended up
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in the middle where you know,PGA does not want to open the books
and LIV goes, Hey, thisisn't sustainable. They're bleeding money. They're
just buying airtime. So I think, you know, both sides gave concessions
and you know, the PGA cansave a little face and avoid opening their
books, and liv Golf gets alittle bit of legitimacy. And now they're
all they're getting married. It's justlike the Red Sox and the Yankees getting
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married. What do you think thatmeeting's going to be like with Jay Monahan
today when he meets with the playersin Canada, There's gonna be some pushback
because you can't you can't ignore thehypocrisy of him coming out and going we
are against this, we are not. You know, the Saudi money that
being involved in golf, it's notgreat for the game. And then all
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of a sudden, hey, theSaudis are coming to the party. I
mean, there is a problem thereand there's some potential that the players.
I don't know if the players aredriven by other things than money, but
we'll find out today because if theyif they are, then there's going to
be some pushback here. And youknow, the players ultimately could cause a
problem here. It's gonna be interestingto see what I'm curious about is what
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is the other impact here for thispublic investment group, which is again the
financial arm of the Saudi Arabian government. They have bought every professional soccer team
in Saudi Arabia they are going tooffer and it's been reported that Messi is
going to earn four hundred million dollarsa year. That's on top of the
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two hundred million dollars he's already beingpaid to be a spokesperson for the government.
They're trying to secure the World Cupin twenty thirty six hundred million dollars
year. Ronaldo is around the figuresof four hundred million dollars a year.
Why would they stop here? Whendo they invest in the NBA? When
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do they invest in Major League Baseball? When do they invest in the NFL.
They're already pushing into American companies andyou know, there's airlines that they
own stakes in. There are inreal estate that they're into, and yeah,
that Sovereign Wealth Fund. They're seekingdiversification and they know that they can
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cleanse some of the you know,the human rights issues by getting involved in
sports because everybody sort of accepts thesports forum as a acceptable place to do
business. I don't know. Idon't know how desperate the NBA will get,
or the NFL or Major League Baseball. But if they do get desperate,
that money is out there, andI think you'll see the entities that
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first get to that point of desperationpivot towards that Saudi money. But to
this point, you know, theyhave been a little allergic to it because
not because they have a moral stanceon it, but because they're worried about
sponsors and fans. So does thisnormalize the Saudi Sovereign Wealth Fund being involved
in American sports? We will findout, because if it does, I
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think you'll see the NFL, MajorLeague Baseball, in the NBA test that.
I'll just ask you one more question, then, do you what do
you think sponsorships will do? Whatdo you think companies will do? Advertisers
They'll they'll lick a finger and stickinto the air and try to see if
fans are upset enough to vote atat the register. You know that we
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all know that. Like, I'muncomfortable with it, but I don't begrudge
anybody. Everybody has to make uptheir own mind. I didn't go to
the LIV event in the suburbs here. I didn't want the perception that I
was supporting it, and so Iwrote about it, wrote about the run
up to it, wrote about thediscomfort that members at the club have.
But I did not personally decide togo. And it was just kind of
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a choice where I said, youknow, to me, it's I just
don't feel good about it. Andit wasn't the Roman numerals, it was
just the involvement of the Saudi government. How do you think it's going to
look? I mean, once thisall comes together, are we going to
have players from LIV coming over playingon the PGA tour? I mean,
well, do you think there's alot of moving parts that we still are
trying to figure out. Yeah,And I think the timing of it is
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interesting and the way that it cametogether. And the only thing that I
can draw from the timing is thatI don't think the PGA was feeling good
about the Department of Justice poking aroundtheir them being an onprofit and the antitrust
stuff, and so I think thePGA finally went to LIV Golf and said,
look, let's work together here.Let's put our differences behind us.
We can find some common ground.Everybody wants to make money. The players
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want to make money, they wantthe tour, they want to protect the
sponsors on the tour. But man, I really want to see the fine
print here. And I think it'sinteresting when you get an announcement of a
deal and then you say the detailsof the deal are forthcoming, because those
details are really important when it comesto this deal. John Ganzano with us.
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Listen to him the bad faced Truthdown there in Portland, Oregon, and
a course fall him on Twitter atJohn Kanzano bfts. Let's move over to
the conference in you want to doconference or let me let me sneak in
the Jody Allen one real quick?What's going on? What's going to Jody
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Allen and the Phil Knights story downthere with the Blazers. Yeah. Wall
Street Journal had a great piece overthe weekend where they laid out kind of
why it is that a billionaire PhilKnight and Allen Smolinsky, the Cohn or
the Dodgers, why can't they buythis team. Basically, why can't Billions
buy this team? And it essentiallyrelates to Jody Allen's the trustee of the
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Paul Allen of state, not wantingto even have a conversation with them about
the team being available, not havingthat courtesy to even call them back or
return an email. And you know, I did some poking around when it
comes to the trust and there's someinteresting things here that I think listeners in
your region will be into. Becauseof the Seahawks being involved in this,
everybody knows that the twenty twenty fourdate where the Seahawks could should not be
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sold before otherwise the city gets tenpercent. But I talked to several attorneys
who handle large trusts, large estates, and they presented an idea. In
a concept in the state of Washington, a trustee is allowed to take a
reasonable annual see it is supposed tobe fee is supposed to be correlated to
the size of the estate. Andin Paul Allen's case, let's just use
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the Blazers for the sake of thisargument. Blazers are worth about three billion
dollars. Jody Allen can reasonably takebetween three percent or five percent of the
value of the Blazers as an annualfee to manage the Blazers. Now,
she doesn't get a piece of theBlazers when they're sold, but if she
can collect ninety million dollars to onehundred and fifty million dollars a year as
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a trustee fee, there's not alot of incentive for Jody to move this
team. And I think it mayhelp explain why she's saying ten to twenty
years, because the estate attorneys areall laughing at ten to twenty years.
They're going, you would have tointentionally drag out the sale to get ten
to twenty years. You'd have tointentionally drag out the estate to have it
drag out that long. But Ithink it helps explain she gets nothing when
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the Seahawks are sold. She doesn'tget any any commission, she doesn't get
a piece of the team. Shegets nothing. But she is currently collecting
on the Blazers alone, somewhere inthe neighborhood of ninety million to one hundred
and fifty million dollars in annual fees. I'm wondering, you know, with
the Seahawks involved with other parts ofhis estate, how much is Jody as
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the trustee, collecting on an annualbasis. And at what point does Zach
become a problem for a guy likeBurt Cold who has been assigned, you
know, he is supposed to theperson when they're the team is eventually sold,
he will handle it. I amtold by a source at Bulcan that
Burt will get a commission on thesale of the Blazers. Now, it
may be in his best interest towait a little bit, because we've seen
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the valuations of the team's skyrocket.It's a franchise. It was worth two
billion maybe two years ago. It'snow worth three billion. There's a TV
deal coming in the NBA. MaybeBurt wants to wait until the TV deal
gets done. But at some pointI think Burt and Jody are gonna have
competing agendas. And I don't thinkit's that far off, because Bert's gonna
want to get his commission at somepoint, and I don't know if Jody's
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going to be in a hurry todo it. What year do you think
greed will kill this country, inthis society? What do you think that
isn't the next two years year?I think it's about like four minutes ago,
you know, it was, Yeah, she needs more money for the
tusks and the all that type ofstuff that she's been taking out about it.
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I don't think she got. Idon't think you remember he signed that
packed that Bill Gates had proposed about, you know, the bulk of his
wealth going to passion projects in charity. He became part of that. So
let's just play hypothetical here for thesake of not getting anybody in trouble on
the show. You know, ifyou're Jody Allen and you really were going,
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hey, my brother was worth twentybillion dollars, I didn't get what
I thought I was going to get. Collecting two hundred and fifty to five
hundred million a year as in ayou know, as the trustee over ten
to twenty years is not a badway to feel better about that. And
I kind of wonder if that isgoing on in the background here. And
I think she does love the Seahawks. She's been much more visible. You
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can tell she's passionate about him,But I don't think she loves the Blazers
that way. And former Blazers executiveshave told me that she sort of made
fun of Paul owning the NBA teamand saw it as a money drain.
Let's let's transition over college football.A Peacock on the Michigan State Washington game
streaming only decision there by the BigTen and by NBC. How do you
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how do you read this? Isthis good for the conference, good for
Washington or bad? It's good.I think it's good for the big picture
in the conference because I am leaningmore towards a chunk of the PAC twelve
content being with a streamer, andI think the criticism of that was long
going to be, hey, noteveryone's streaming. But I looked at the
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first three weeks at the PAC twelveschedule and the Big Ten and the SEC
in the Big twelve, and thePAC twelve's got a smaller percentage of its
games streaming than anybody else. Thisjust normalizes streaming. And you know,
the NFL having a game on Peacock, the college football games on Peacock,
the Big Ten, the Big Twelve, everybody being involved with streaming, I
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think helps. It brings new mediapartners to the table in a negotiation.
And you know, I'm kind ofwondering if NBC Universal do they do they
get in on this PAC twelve dealat some point. So I think it's
good, you know, I thinkfor fans who are struggling going you know,
I had like a seventy five yearold guy reach out to me and
he said, I don't know howto stream, and I felt like I
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was in my parents' living room atage twelve helping him set the clock on
the VCR, like trying to talkhim through it. That was hard,
Let's be honest. With the VCR, that was difficult. Yeah, it
was. I had to help myparents with that. I might have to
fly down to help my parents streamif all the sports go there, I
might have to fly down, buya ticket, set up the streaming,
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and then fly back, like Ican't do it on the phone, but
come to my house too, John. Yeah, but I think, you
know, I think we're gonna havesome of those uncomfortable moments. But I
think three to five years we're allgonna go what was the big deal?
Yeah, Well, on three tofive years, will we have a media
rights deal in place? I mean, it's June, John, it's June.
We're still discussing. Is it goingto be July? August? It
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won't be September? Will it well, look at the look at the Big
ten. I keep using them theBig ten sign and announced their deal with
eleven months to go on their theirold deal. They did it last July.
There was eleven months left on theirdeal. The Pac twelve will hit
eleven months on August first, soI think we're right in that window.
I am still being told by multiplePack twelve sources who are in the room
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for those negotiations they feel good aboutit, la la la, feel good
about it. I want to seea deal too, but they're telling me
late spring, early summer. AndI really drilled down on that with one
source. I said, summer isJune twenty first, and the source said,
I just don't want to move thetimeline and get everybody riled up if
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this does bleed into like late Juneor early July. That that was interesting
to me because we're all looking atSan Diego State's deadline and we're going June
thirtieth. They have to inform theMountain West that they're out or it costs
them an additional seventeen million dollars,So what are they going to do there?
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And I'm being told that San DiegoState's timeline will not dictate the Pac
Twelves Meteorites timeline. But I kindof feel like I'm being managed when I'm
told that. So I'm still sayinglike I'm waking up every day going is
today the day? It's you know, I'm like a kid check in the
mailbox. I mean, I'm readyfor this to be done so we can
talk to football. Hey, whatdid you make a Rick George's comments recently
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to several outlets, including a buffZone about Hey, you know ultimate,
I'm paraphrasing it. You know,we're we're sticking with him. We're committed
to Pack twelve, but we alsohave to look out what's best for us.
It seemed like that he'd kind ofreverse course here a little bit and
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kind of now has opened the doorfor looking elsewhere. I think there's at
Colorado more than anywhere else. Maybethere's some conflicting agendas in the fan base
with prominent boosters. I think certainlycoach Prime wants to recruit the state of
Texas, but Colorado cannot make thisdecision based on a coach that may not
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be there three years from now.It won't do that. And these media
rights deals are no brainer deals whenthey happen and teams leave conferences. Just
look at the history. Texas andOklahoma go to the SEC. It's not
a lateral move. It's a nobrainer. Ucla USC to the Big Ten,
no brainer. Rutgers Maryland to theBig ten, no brainer. You
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don't see. This isn't like youknow, middling free agents jumping teams in
the NBA. This is these areThese are earthquake moves. Colorado to the
Big twelve is not an earthquake move. But I think Rick George is trying
to play kate the faction of fanswho want to stay in the back twelve.
And I think he's trying to playkate the ones that are going we
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need to be in the Big twelve, including Coach Prime. It would not
surprise me if Coach Prime is inhis ear and Rick George is going,
how do I make him happy?We need to say we're gonna do it's
best for Colorado. We prefer tobe in the PAC twelve. Did you
read his comments through that prism.I think they make sense. I still
think Colorado ends up in the Pactwelve. I think it's not a game
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changing it's not an earthquake move.Remember they left the Big twelve when Texas
and Oklahoma were part of it.It's not a better conference now. I
cannot see them going back to itin this form. Hey, John,
I appreciate all the columns you writeat John kanzano dot com, the Newsy
ones, but the human interest onesusually get to me a little more than
the Newsy ones. And last weekyou had something about your daughter on a
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bicycle with training wheels and how itwas bittersweet for you when you took those
training wheels off, and I thinkwe could all relate to that. She's
now seven years old. She wassix when this happened, and it was
one of those moments, Jim,and you get it. You have a
heart, man. That's what Ihear from you, and I've read from
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you over the years. You know, you know like I do. I've
got three daughters. She's the youngest. I've done this bicycle training wheel thing
twice before. I feel like I'velearned it. You know, you're running
around behind the kid holding the backof the seat and you have that moment
where you let go and they're actuallyriding the bike, and it was I
had glassy eyes. I took thetraining wheels off her bike and I was
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like, this is the last timeI'm gonna get to do this. And
it took her like five minutes.She's riding the bike. You know.
A day later, she's learning howto turn around in the cul de sac.
You know, she gets her firstskin knee. These are landmark moments
and you know we're all talking mediarides, liv golf. Fuck you asked
about greed if it weren't for thisstuff, Like, I don't know how
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how the rest of us get throughall this other sports stuff, because you
know, those bonding moments with yourkids, Yeah, you don't get them
back and it goes fast. Yeah, well said, Hey, I want
to circle back to just a quickly, Arizona in Colorado. I know there
was a report of this weekend froma I think he's a talk show host.
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Forgive me if I'm gonna bring uphis name here in just a quick
second. Not Conveno and Rich.Hey, but hey, Conveno and Rich.
I don't know if they've had ityet, guys, but there still
is the virtual bachelor party Conveno andRich if anyone wants to get on that.
Sorry, sorry John, that's justan inside joke here the Swain show.
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Um he is he, I don'tknow he's I don't know if he
does a radio show, a podcast. I think it's in Oklahoma. He's
got sixty nine thousand followers. Anyway, apparently he's plugged into the Big twelve
and it's been picked up now thathe is reporting as a radio host who
says nothing becomes official until the PACtwelve gets their TV deal finalized. But
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now multiple sources telling us tonight tothe Buffs and Arizona will move to the
Big twelve. No word on theUtes and sun Devils. I don't know
if you've seen that. Have youhad any recent conversations. We talked about
Rick George, but anybody at Arizonaabout where maybe they stand. Arizona's hasn't
waffled, and Robert Roberts, thepresident of Arizona, I think, would
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scoff at that. I just thinkit's ridiculous that, you know, I
guess he's hedging. Whoever this guyis hedging, trying to say that nothing
becomes official till the PAC twelve getsa deal, Like why would that be?
Incumbent? Did UCLA and USC waitfor the PAC twelve to get a
deal. It doesn't make any sense. And I think I know the guy
you're talking about if you read histimeline, he's got a lot of predictions.
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He's throwing a lot of things againstthe wall. But look he's got
his sources. I just they're notthe same ones I have. I'm talking
to the people in the room.I believe Arizona and Colorado are on board.
I continue to be told by Oregonand Washington sources that they're on board,
and they don't think anybody's leaving.You know, these are presidents that
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these are not moves that some podcasterand living in Oklahoma and his mom's basement
are gonna know about. Like Ijust I but I'm with you. I
mean, there's just a lot ofnoise, and I think a lot of
people are gaining followers and clicks byjust throwing crap out there. We could
do that, but I'm glad wedon't. Can I reference something from a
I think competitor but also colleague,and well it's the colleague. You do
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a podcast with them, so whatever. What do you think A Wilner's idea
of the ten game conference schedule?I hate it. I don't like it.
I love Wilner, why, buthe's in left field on this one.
I mean, I already think youare cannibalizing your best teams by making
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them play nine games while the SECplays eight conference games. It's apples to
oranges, and shame on the playoffcommittee for not penalizing the SEC a little
bit on this front. But Ithink that what we're gonna see with the
expanded playoff is there's gonna be areal emphasis on, Okay, how many
at large teams can you get in? Because these births could be worth twenty
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million dollars of the conference. They'recurrently worth six million. But new TV
deal, I think it's gonna beexponential. So if you're an SEC team
and you're only playing eight conference gamesand fifty percent of your conference has one
fewer loss than the Big twelve,PAC twelve, Big ten, you are
an inherit advantage to getting a nineand three team and at large berth.
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You know you're gonna have ten andtwo and nine and three teams that stack
up against the PAC twelve, Bigtwelve, Big ten, ECC. It's
not a fair comparison, all right, Have you guys done a recorded podcast
since then? We haven't. We'regonna record one tomorrow. A kid is
graduating elementary school today, so weare hunting to tomorrow. I got an
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argument with my I got an argumentwith my wife about this one. I
just yeah, I don't understand it. This elementary graduation. Then apparently next
week we've got a middle school graduation. Like there're two graduations. There's two
high school and college, and that'sit. Yeah, I went to a
k one. I think the firstday at kindergarten is a big moment,
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but I think this is the sameas like people going, hey, the
first day at fourth grade is asbig as kindergarten. It's not. Yeah,
it's yeah, Okay, I'm gladwe all agree on that one.
You're the best it is, That'swhat it is. It's just like,
all right, because what are they? Are they? Some parent was fearful
that little Johnny wasn't going to graduatefrom high school, right, so let's
make sure we get a thing hegraduated from middle school. That's probably it
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back and get my middle school graduates. A yeah, I'm gonna put it
up on my wall. All Right, we'll talk you next week, thanks
sir. All right, but let'stake care John Canzano. I'll brought to
you by Zeke's Pizza. Zeke's Pizzadot com voice spells next. All right,
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tell I going to go to guywith your voicemails every single day here
at this time, uh, thebig news of the day live, the
PGA Tour, the European Tour,all getting together and the under the common
ownership, and they'll all be runby the same guy. And that guy
I don't want to attempt to sayhis name, but I will murder it.
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Yes here all rumion anyways, he'sthe guy that's gonna be running all
of golf now. He's the governorof Saudis. Would you want to know
how much investment fund? You know, I keep referencing the public the p
IF investment Fund. Do you knowhow much it's worth? You just take
a guess. Just just six hundredand twenty billion dollars this runs. He's
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the chairman also of the oil giantSaudi arm Armco. He's also the chairman
of the epl's Newcastle United. He'sa board member at Uber and SoftBank,
and of course he's the right handman. He's the financial arm of the
Prince Crown. Prince of Saudi Arabia. Who do you think's running golf?
Now, I'm just curious. Doyou think Jay Monahan and s and his
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salary of let's say it's a milliondollars you think he's running golf? Or
the guy that is the governor ofa fund that is worth six hundred and
twenty billion dollars. Wow, that'suh. Rather, he is sizeable amount.
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So yeah, I think all decisionsare made by him. He is.
If you think like there's gonna bea decision where Jay Monahan or this
PGA player counts like, yeah,we shouldn't do this, this guy's gonna
be like, uh no, you'reyou're gonna do it because I just bought
all of you, so you'll dowhat I say. We're gonna see him
every week with Jim nance and probablyHey Jim, good to see. I
remember when you were trashing us onon the cwmic. You're fired incomes Arlow
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White? Is Arlow White still doingit? It might be? It might
be how many voicemails city Chris?All Right, you can always leave us
a voice on the I Heart radioapp. There's a your download it to
your smartphone and away you go onthe I Heart Radio app five of them.
Let's hear it, Startwood. Iwas hoping to get Jerry to Poto's
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agents telephone number. I was justlooking at his resume. He was hired
in September twenty eight, twenty fifteen. Let's take a look. One playoff
appearance and a current team that ison pace to win eighty one games,
and he's already been extended once andapparently he's a genius. I need his
agent. I want to be likeJerry. Can I be like Jerry?
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Yeah? Well, not a Jerryfan. Well, I've been kind of
rough here for Jerry. Ryan's alittle rough for old to podo. Yeah,
but he ended the drought last year, the players into the brow.
Yeah, but he Ralli did assemblethose players though. Yeah, he doesn't
play there. I'm not a Jerryfan, but I'm just trying to bes
advocate. Doesn't play. Yeah,I think it's time for Jerry to go.
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No? Is it getting closer totime to go? Did they end
the drought because they expanded the playoffs? That could be argued? Yes?
Uh do I think No? Idon't think it's time for him to go.
I don't either, but I dothink that he and Hollander and the
rest of the ownership group needs tohave a hard sit down abow they they
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want to go about augmenting their rosterin the future. I'm good afternoon.
Jim did John Puck yesterday? Guess? And one of the voices that I
do, I'll bring the early twoguys in to have them give you their
thoughts. Ah, yeah, Ididn't guess me did? Yeah? Well,
yeah, I could have. Youwould have been in an upper quartile
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of the upper quartile love doesn't seeit, lawful pottle that had just charming
And I'm letting you know so whyfrom up in him? Okay, wait,
cut off there. Okay, Icould have sworn he used Pete Carroll,
but he wasn't he espe Carroll.What do you say at the beginning?
There is Mother of all Holy Didyou hear the first Jim did John
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Puck yesterday? Guessing? One ofthe voices that I do, I'll bring
the other two guys in to havethem give you don't hear it? No,
I hear it that he's Pete Carroll. Yeah, but he's also Okay,
I didn't realize he was doing allthree of those didn't tell now,
okay, but I want Pete.I don't. Here's the thing. I
appreciate the voicemail. I don't wantto know the other ones. I kind
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of wanted it to be a mystery. You think what you wanted to be
three different people? Oh, Ididn't wanted to be three different people.
But I think he does a goodursay though. He does it right.
Oh god, I we've got that'smy tweet of the day. Well,
we'll have that for you. Igotta send it to you, all right,
go ahead, voice Geno from Genos. You know the real reason for
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many camp Ginos back at Tinos checkingeverything out? Come up with the name
from my three receivers. Kind ofdig it for us and the three amigos.
I've got the three. Hey,Genos, as I throw them all
out, is happy that he's backso he can go across the street.
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There he is, Geno. Thebest quarterback in the FC westc Yeah,
he is. He's the best quarterbackin the NFC West. Yes, best
quarterback to the NFCU West. He'sright there. I think him and Matt
Stafford I would take to You know, though, what time do you think
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Matt Stafford after last season, beforelast Come on, what a time to
be alive? Stafford? You diddid you? Did? You did it?
In Oh, I got ten bucksfor you too. Yeah what was
that for? Hey guys? GQJerry here with the update on the Mariners.
Scott service Will will out his fortythird different lineup of the season.
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While everybody else thinks that's a terriblemove and trash formula to manage with with
no consistency, that's great by ouranalytics and metrics. Also, we'll continue
to shove Colton Long in the lineupbecause we're patting him ten million dollars and
it's not about winning, it's aboutwhat we spent on that terrible offseason acquisition.
Also, get ready for more platooningas this season goes. Shove that
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ms oh, I love that,God, I love them. You know
what I was thinking about yesterday.I'm gonna give you this number. Okay,
let me come up with it realquick in my brain. I got
to write it down because I alwayshave to write math down because I'm not
good with doing it. Okay,thirty one. What does thirty one represent
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to you? I have a checkI haven't cashed in my wallet that's good.
Thirty one Uh maybe that was thatwas written back on April twenty fourth.
Sure, how much nice I shouldprobably cash that thirty one? What
is thirty one millions? Anything offhand? That is the combined money that
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this team this year spent on Colton, the Wong, aj Pollock and taoscar
Hernandez. Let's see, do youthink they fourteen ten and seven? Do
you think they've gotten the return ontheir investment? No? No, not
even close. Thirty one nine.Hello friends, Jim Nancy here for the
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the studio boys. That is goodwork there. Background, well gone,
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all right, Tweet of the day. We gotta get right into a
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tweet of the day. You canalways stopping. None of that can be
repeated. Tweet of the day.Jason Pucket twenty at COUZG. He was
real sick. Kay, what Imiss Jim hurt saying Chris Ballard. This
is our tweet of the day fromcomedian Joey Mullinara. Okay, he's done
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these impressions all the time, right, we played him a bunch. Okay,
we we love, we love JimHursay. I love to see I
think we don't build rockets to goto March. So you've seen this story
Cults player in trouble. He's beenbetting on Colts games. They found multiple
bets that he has made, likelike a lot of bets for the Colts.
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Okay, not against not against wellpe Rose. Oh, I don't
know. Maybe well let me I'lldig in a little. Maybe he did
bet one time against him. Anyways, Joey Mollinard, comedian, He does
an impression of both Chris Ballard,who is the GM of the team,
and Colts owner Jim Urson. Ican't believe we have to have this conversation.
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I mean, well, what we'redoing. You can't bet on games,
all right, I mean it's it'sfriggin's shample. Especially can't beat on
us. I mean, look,man, I get it, man,
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sometimes you have to gamble. Look, at me. I gambled uncutting Peyton
Manning, Man, I mean freakingPeyton Manning. Miss say you know I
gambled on hiring Jeff Saturday out ofa TV studio to be our head coach.
(36:45):
I mean talk about hitting when you'reon eighteen man, Maybe we table
this mist I'm probably h not thebest to take gambling advice from, now
(37:06):
that I think about it. Right, So, so I think what mister
Ersay is trying to say is youGod. You know we hold no way
to fold them, no way tobuy you win to run. You've never
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count your money. Well, yousee at the table Gerrold, Joey Mullin
oar comedian doing Chris ballad, theGM of the Colts, and owner Jim
Erstay. The player in question isIsaiah rogers As being investigated for possible violations
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the league gambling UH policy. Uh. He addressed the situation and tweet Monday
night and saying he takes full responsibility. I know I've made mistakes, and
I'm willing to do whatever it takesto repair the situations. The last thing
I ever wanted to do was tobe a distraction to the Colts organization.
I made an error in judgment.I'm going to work hard to make sure
those mistakes are rectified through this process. He was a six round pick entering
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the final year of a four year, three point four million dollar contract.
A sports book account was opened underthe name of an associate of Rogers,
and approximately one hundred bets were placedon the account over an undisclosed amount of
time, including on Colts games.Most of the bets were in the ranges
of twenty five to fifty bucks,although there was at least one low four
figure bet. He was started ninegames in twenty twenty two was seen as
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a likely started this season following thetrade of Stefan Gilmour to the Cowboys.
It's gonna be suspended, isn't he? For how long? A year?
At least full year? Like Ridley? Yeah, yeah, he's got the
eyes down. There might be myfavorite part. Along with the quartile,
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man, man, you want thequarte and the upper quartile of winners were
in the top quartile of that upperquartile. We're better than most all I
understand. I do the same thing. I was a broadcast journalism major two.
I think that that it's time.I think that that it's time We
don't build rockets to go to Mars. I love to see it, man,
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I don't. It's for Gardner's playing. Yea, let's go Gardner,
all right? Coming up at noon. You know I've done a piss poor
job or promoting this. That's Idon't think you promoted it once. That's
why I called it a piss poorJim duket from the Major League Baseball Network
MMLB Network MLB Network Radio can fallhim on Twitter at Jim underscored you kept
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I. He's joining the show next, talk all things baseball. Where we're
at with the Mariners, where we'reat with other teams, trade partners,
scenarios, What can the ms doto boost their offense? We'll find out
next with Jim Dukette of the MLBNeware
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Seahawks have announced today they are bringingback their throw We knew they were gonna
bring back to throwback uniforms of thenineties, the great uniforms of royal blue
with the silver helmets and the colorthat's actual green, it's Kelly green.
They are coming back week eight againstthe Cleveland Browns. The Browns will also
wear back or their original I thinkBernie Kosar those are uniforms. Ernest Biner,
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Kevin Matt, I remember that gameat Denver, that playoff game.
O jesus By fumbled inside the tenand then of course always drive Yeah,
y remarkable. So those are thebig news of the day. Mariners are
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back out it tonight as they starta brief two game series with the Whales
Vagiants. The standing yeah, lookingforward to the game tonight? Well,
of course you are. We'll getto the ms with yeah. Are we
really? I am looking forward toit? Yeah? Damn right. We're
gonna win. They're not gonna giveup double digits tonight, are they?
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With Gilbert on the mound and SanDiego can hit, I'd hope not.
Their team batting average is worse thanthe Mariners, all right, Johnny us
right now, John Kanzano, theball face Truth. Hey, hey,
congratulations the new deal down there inradio. So unfortunately for people in Portland,
they're stuck with you for a fewmore years. Huh. Yeah,
they're they're saddled with me, anduh it's good. I mean, look,
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I when I first started radio,I thought it would be like a
one year thing, and it justhas continued for I'm on seventeen years now.
I'm having fun. I love theshow. And you know, you
guys know in radio and Jim youknow this because you're on the Prince side.
You're on radio. There's a differentkind of conversation you have when you
are speaking to people and they toknow you and they get to know your
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families and your stories and you know, Puck camping with his kids and Jim
with the baseball circuit that everybody canrelate to. I think it makes you
much more relatable and more in thecommunity. Yeah. Absolutely, Well,
congratulations, you've swung at you.You've taken things solo. You've I mean
that's not solo, but um butyou're you're you're endeavor there with your website
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and all that, and it's beena it's been a great couple of years
for you, So congratulations all things. Hey, before we get into like
college football news and all that,you must have a take because again,
one of the tournaments I can't rememberdid it take place in Portland or not?
Yeah, Pumpkin that's right, itdid. It did, Pumpkin Ridge,
right in the suburbs of Portland.So what don't we think Today's news
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Live European Tour, PGA Tour allcoming together? Well, I mean,
what drives every sports decision, it'smoney, And I think LIV Golf was
having a hard time getting a TVdeal. I know that their deal with
CW. You know, CW doesn'thave a sports department. So CW,
I believe, brought in Bob Thompson, the former Fox Sports president, to
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negotiate their LIV deal and wasn't agreat deal for liv Golf. They just
were basically buying airtime. Meanwhile,the PGA Tour was facing the Department of
Justice and people probing and poking aroundasking, you know, are they engaging
in anti competitive behavior? And soI think they eventually kind of ended up
(04:27):
in the middle where you know,PGA does not want to open the books
and LIV goes, Hey, thisisn't sustainable. They're bleeding money. They're
just buying airtime. So I think, you know, both sides gave concessions
and you know, the PGA cansave a little face and avoid opening their
books, and liv Golf gets alittle bit of legitimacy. And now they're
all they're getting married. It's justlike the Red Sox and the Yankees getting
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married. What do you think thatmeeting's going to be like with Jay Monahan
today when he meets with the playersin Canada, There's gonna be some pushback
because you can't you can't ignore thehypocrisy of him coming out and going we
are against this, we are not. You know, the Saudi money that
being involved in golf, it's notgreat for the game. And then all
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of a sudden, hey, theSaudis are coming to the party. I
mean, there is a problem thereand there's some potential that the players.
I don't know if the players aredriven by other things than money, but
we'll find out today because if theyif they are, then there's going to
be some pushback here. And youknow, the players ultimately could cause a
problem here. It's gonna be interestingto see what I'm curious about is what
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is the other impact here for thispublic investment group, which is again the
financial arm of the Saudi Arabian government. They have bought every professional soccer team
in Saudi Arabia they are going tooffer and it's been reported that Messi is
going to earn four hundred million dollarsa year. That's on top of the
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two hundred million dollars he's already beingpaid to be a spokesperson for the government.
They're trying to secure the World Cupin twenty thirty six hundred million dollars
year. Ronaldo is around the figuresof four hundred million dollars a year.
Why would they stop here? Whendo they invest in the NBA? When
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do they invest in Major League Baseball? When do they invest in the NFL.
They're already pushing into American companies andyou know, there's airlines that they
own stakes in. There are inreal estate that they're into, and yeah,
that Sovereign Wealth Fund. They're seekingdiversification and they know that they can
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cleanse some of the you know,the human rights issues by getting involved in
sports because everybody sort of accepts thesports forum as a acceptable place to do
business. I don't know. Idon't know how desperate the NBA will get,
or the NFL or Major League Baseball. But if they do get desperate,
that money is out there, andI think you'll see the entities that
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first get to that point of desperationpivot towards that Saudi money. But to
this point, you know, theyhave been a little allergic to it because
not because they have a moral stanceon it, but because they're worried about
sponsors and fans. So does thisnormalize the Saudi Sovereign Wealth Fund being involved
in American sports? We will findout, because if it does, I
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think you'll see the NFL, MajorLeague Baseball, in the NBA test that.
I'll just ask you one more question, then, do you what do
you think sponsorships will do? Whatdo you think companies will do? Advertisers
They'll they'll lick a finger and stickinto the air and try to see if
fans are upset enough to vote atat the register. You know that we
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all know that. Like, I'muncomfortable with it, but I don't begrudge
anybody. Everybody has to make uptheir own mind. I didn't go to
the LIV event in the suburbs here. I didn't want the perception that I
was supporting it, and so Iwrote about it, wrote about the run
up to it, wrote about thediscomfort that members at the club have.
But I did not personally decide togo. And it was just kind of
(08:03):
a choice where I said, youknow, to me, it's I just
don't feel good about it. Andit wasn't the Roman numerals, it was
just the involvement of the Saudi government. How do you think it's going to
look? I mean, once thisall comes together, are we going to
have players from LIV coming over playingon the PGA tour? I mean,
well, do you think there's alot of moving parts that we still are
trying to figure out. Yeah,And I think the timing of it is
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interesting and the way that it cametogether. And the only thing that I
can draw from the timing is thatI don't think the PGA was feeling good
about the Department of Justice poking aroundtheir them being an onprofit and the antitrust
stuff, and so I think thePGA finally went to LIV Golf and said,
look, let's work together here.Let's put our differences behind us.
We can find some common ground.Everybody wants to make money. The players
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want to make money, they wantthe tour, they want to protect the
sponsors on the tour. But man, I really want to see the fine
print here. And I think it'sinteresting when you get an announcement of a
deal and then you say the detailsof the deal are forthcoming, because those
details are really important when it comesto this deal. John Ganzano with us.
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He joins us at every single Tuesdayat eleven o'clock, brought to you
by Zeke's Pizza. Read all ofhis work at John Kenzano dot com.
Listen to him the bad faced Truthdown there in Portland, Oregon, and
a course fall him on Twitter atJohn Kanzano bfts. Let's move over to
the conference in you want to doconference or let me let me sneak in
the Jody Allen one real quick?What's going on? What's going to Jody
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Allen and the Phil Knights story downthere with the Blazers. Yeah. Wall
Street Journal had a great piece overthe weekend where they laid out kind of
why it is that a billionaire PhilKnight and Allen Smolinsky, the Cohn or
the Dodgers, why can't they buythis team. Basically, why can't Billions
buy this team? And it essentiallyrelates to Jody Allen's the trustee of the
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Paul Allen of state, not wantingto even have a conversation with them about
the team being available, not havingthat courtesy to even call them back or
return an email. And you know, I did some poking around when it
comes to the trust and there's someinteresting things here that I think listeners in
your region will be into. Becauseof the Seahawks being involved in this,
everybody knows that the twenty twenty fourdate where the Seahawks could should not be
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sold before otherwise the city gets tenpercent. But I talked to several attorneys
who handle large trusts, large estates, and they presented an idea. In
a concept in the state of Washington, a trustee is allowed to take a
reasonable annual see it is supposed tobe fee is supposed to be correlated to
the size of the estate. Andin Paul Allen's case, let's just use
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the Blazers for the sake of thisargument. Blazers are worth about three billion
dollars. Jody Allen can reasonably takebetween three percent or five percent of the
value of the Blazers as an annualfee to manage the Blazers. Now,
she doesn't get a piece of theBlazers when they're sold, but if she
can collect ninety million dollars to onehundred and fifty million dollars a year as
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a trustee fee, there's not alot of incentive for Jody to move this
team. And I think it mayhelp explain why she's saying ten to twenty
years, because the estate attorneys areall laughing at ten to twenty years.
They're going, you would have tointentionally drag out the sale to get ten
to twenty years. You'd have tointentionally drag out the estate to have it
drag out that long. But Ithink it helps explain she gets nothing when
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the Seahawks are sold. She doesn'tget any any commission, she doesn't get
a piece of the team. Shegets nothing. But she is currently collecting
on the Blazers alone, somewhere inthe neighborhood of ninety million to one hundred
and fifty million dollars in annual fees. I'm wondering, you know, with
the Seahawks involved with other parts ofhis estate, how much is Jody as
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the trustee, collecting on an annualbasis. And at what point does Zach
become a problem for a guy likeBurt Cold who has been assigned, you
know, he is supposed to theperson when they're the team is eventually sold,
he will handle it. I amtold by a source at Bulcan that
Burt will get a commission on thesale of the Blazers. Now, it
may be in his best interest towait a little bit, because we've seen
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the valuations of the team's skyrocket.It's a franchise. It was worth two
billion maybe two years ago. It'snow worth three billion. There's a TV
deal coming in the NBA. MaybeBurt wants to wait until the TV deal
gets done. But at some pointI think Burt and Jody are gonna have
competing agendas. And I don't thinkit's that far off, because Bert's gonna
want to get his commission at somepoint, and I don't know if Jody's
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going to be in a hurry todo it. What year do you think
greed will kill this country, inthis society? What do you think that
isn't the next two years year?I think it's about like four minutes ago,
you know, it was, Yeah, she needs more money for the
tusks and the all that type ofstuff that she's been taking out about it.
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I don't think she got. Idon't think you remember he signed that
packed that Bill Gates had proposed about, you know, the bulk of his
wealth going to passion projects in charity. He became part of that. So
let's just play hypothetical here for thesake of not getting anybody in trouble on
the show. You know, ifyou're Jody Allen and you really were going,
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hey, my brother was worth twentybillion dollars, I didn't get what
I thought I was going to get. Collecting two hundred and fifty to five
hundred million a year as in ayou know, as the trustee over ten
to twenty years is not a badway to feel better about that. And
I kind of wonder if that isgoing on in the background here. And
I think she does love the Seahawks. She's been much more visible. You
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can tell she's passionate about him,But I don't think she loves the Blazers
that way. And former Blazers executiveshave told me that she sort of made
fun of Paul owning the NBA teamand saw it as a money drain.
Let's let's transition over college football.A Peacock on the Michigan State Washington game
streaming only decision there by the BigTen and by NBC. How do you
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how do you read this? Isthis good for the conference, good for
Washington or bad? It's good.I think it's good for the big picture
in the conference because I am leaningmore towards a chunk of the PAC twelve
content being with a streamer, andI think the criticism of that was long
going to be, hey, noteveryone's streaming. But I looked at the
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first three weeks at the PAC twelveschedule and the Big Ten and the SEC
in the Big twelve, and thePAC twelve's got a smaller percentage of its
games streaming than anybody else. Thisjust normalizes streaming. And you know,
the NFL having a game on Peacock, the college football games on Peacock,
the Big Ten, the Big Twelve, everybody being involved with streaming, I
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think helps. It brings new mediapartners to the table in a negotiation.
And you know, I'm kind ofwondering if NBC Universal do they do they
get in on this PAC twelve dealat some point. So I think it's
good, you know, I thinkfor fans who are struggling going you know,
I had like a seventy five yearold guy reach out to me and
he said, I don't know howto stream, and I felt like I
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was in my parents' living room atage twelve helping him set the clock on
the VCR, like trying to talkhim through it. That was hard,
Let's be honest. With the VCR, that was difficult. Yeah, it
was. I had to help myparents with that. I might have to
fly down to help my parents streamif all the sports go there, I
might have to fly down, buya ticket, set up the streaming,
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and then fly back, like Ican't do it on the phone, but
come to my house too, John. Yeah, but I think, you
know, I think we're gonna havesome of those uncomfortable moments. But I
think three to five years we're allgonna go what was the big deal?
Yeah, Well, on three tofive years, will we have a media
rights deal in place? I mean, it's June, John, it's June.
We're still discussing. Is it goingto be July? August? It
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won't be September? Will it well, look at the look at the Big
ten. I keep using them theBig ten sign and announced their deal with
eleven months to go on their theirold deal. They did it last July.
There was eleven months left on theirdeal. The Pac twelve will hit
eleven months on August first, soI think we're right in that window.
I am still being told by multiplePack twelve sources who are in the room
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for those negotiations they feel good aboutit, la la la, feel good
about it. I want to seea deal too, but they're telling me
late spring, early summer. AndI really drilled down on that with one
source. I said, summer isJune twenty first, and the source said,
I just don't want to move thetimeline and get everybody riled up if
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this does bleed into like late Juneor early July. That that was interesting
to me because we're all looking atSan Diego State's deadline and we're going June
thirtieth. They have to inform theMountain West that they're out or it costs
them an additional seventeen million dollars,So what are they going to do there?
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And I'm being told that San DiegoState's timeline will not dictate the Pac
Twelves Meteorites timeline. But I kindof feel like I'm being managed when I'm
told that. So I'm still sayinglike I'm waking up every day going is
today the day? It's you know, I'm like a kid check in the
mailbox. I mean, I'm readyfor this to be done so we can
talk to football. Hey, whatdid you make a Rick George's comments recently
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to several outlets, including a buffZone about Hey, you know ultimate,
I'm paraphrasing it. You know,we're we're sticking with him. We're committed
to Pack twelve, but we alsohave to look out what's best for us.
It seemed like that he'd kind ofreverse course here a little bit and
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kind of now has opened the doorfor looking elsewhere. I think there's at
Colorado more than anywhere else. Maybethere's some conflicting agendas in the fan base
with prominent boosters. I think certainlycoach Prime wants to recruit the state of
Texas, but Colorado cannot make thisdecision based on a coach that may not
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be there three years from now.It won't do that. And these media
rights deals are no brainer deals whenthey happen and teams leave conferences. Just
look at the history. Texas andOklahoma go to the SEC. It's not
a lateral move. It's a nobrainer. Ucla USC to the Big Ten,
no brainer. Rutgers Maryland to theBig ten, no brainer. You
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don't see. This isn't like youknow, middling free agents jumping teams in
the NBA. This is these areThese are earthquake moves. Colorado to the
Big twelve is not an earthquake move. But I think Rick George is trying
to play kate the faction of fanswho want to stay in the back twelve.
And I think he's trying to playkate the ones that are going we
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need to be in the Big twelve, including Coach Prime. It would not
surprise me if Coach Prime is inhis ear and Rick George is going,
how do I make him happy?We need to say we're gonna do it's
best for Colorado. We prefer tobe in the PAC twelve. Did you
read his comments through that prism.I think they make sense. I still
think Colorado ends up in the Pactwelve. I think it's not a game
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changing it's not an earthquake move.Remember they left the Big twelve when Texas
and Oklahoma were part of it.It's not a better conference now. I
cannot see them going back to itin this form. Hey, John,
I appreciate all the columns you writeat John kanzano dot com, the Newsy
ones, but the human interest onesusually get to me a little more than
the Newsy ones. And last weekyou had something about your daughter on a
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bicycle with training wheels and how itwas bittersweet for you when you took those
training wheels off, and I thinkwe could all relate to that. She's
now seven years old. She wassix when this happened, and it was
one of those moments, Jim,and you get it. You have a
heart, man. That's what Ihear from you, and I've read from
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you over the years. You know, you know like I do. I've
got three daughters. She's the youngest. I've done this bicycle training wheel thing
twice before. I feel like I'velearned it. You know, you're running
around behind the kid holding the backof the seat and you have that moment
where you let go and they're actuallyriding the bike, and it was I
had glassy eyes. I took thetraining wheels off her bike and I was
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like, this is the last timeI'm gonna get to do this. And
it took her like five minutes.She's riding the bike. You know.
A day later, she's learning howto turn around in the cul de sac.
You know, she gets her firstskin knee. These are landmark moments
and you know we're all talking mediarides, liv golf. Fuck you asked
about greed if it weren't for thisstuff, Like, I don't know how
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how the rest of us get throughall this other sports stuff, because you
know, those bonding moments with yourkids, Yeah, you don't get them
back and it goes fast. Yeah, well said, Hey, I want
to circle back to just a quickly, Arizona in Colorado. I know there
was a report of this weekend froma I think he's a talk show host.
(21:06):
Forgive me if I'm gonna bring uphis name here in just a quick
second. Not Conveno and Rich.Hey, but hey, Conveno and Rich.
I don't know if they've had ityet, guys, but there still
is the virtual bachelor party Conveno andRich if anyone wants to get on that.
Sorry, sorry John, that's justan inside joke here the Swain show.
(21:26):
Um he is he, I don'tknow he's I don't know if he
does a radio show, a podcast. I think it's in Oklahoma. He's
got sixty nine thousand followers. Anyway, apparently he's plugged into the Big twelve
and it's been picked up now thathe is reporting as a radio host who
says nothing becomes official until the PACtwelve gets their TV deal finalized. But
(21:48):
now multiple sources telling us tonight tothe Buffs and Arizona will move to the
Big twelve. No word on theUtes and sun Devils. I don't know
if you've seen that. Have youhad any recent conversations. We talked about
Rick George, but anybody at Arizonaabout where maybe they stand. Arizona's hasn't
waffled, and Robert Roberts, thepresident of Arizona, I think, would
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scoff at that. I just thinkit's ridiculous that, you know, I
guess he's hedging. Whoever this guyis hedging, trying to say that nothing
becomes official till the PAC twelve getsa deal, Like why would that be?
Incumbent? Did UCLA and USC waitfor the PAC twelve to get a
deal. It doesn't make any sense. And I think I know the guy
you're talking about if you read histimeline, he's got a lot of predictions.
(22:30):
He's throwing a lot of things againstthe wall. But look he's got
his sources. I just they're notthe same ones I have. I'm talking
to the people in the room.I believe Arizona and Colorado are on board.
I continue to be told by Oregonand Washington sources that they're on board,
and they don't think anybody's leaving.You know, these are presidents that
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these are not moves that some podcasterand living in Oklahoma and his mom's basement
are gonna know about. Like Ijust I but I'm with you. I
mean, there's just a lot ofnoise, and I think a lot of
people are gaining followers and clicks byjust throwing crap out there. We could
do that, but I'm glad wedon't. Can I reference something from a
I think competitor but also colleague,and well it's the colleague. You do
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a podcast with them, so whatever. What do you think A Wilner's idea
of the ten game conference schedule?I hate it. I don't like it.
I love Wilner, why, buthe's in left field on this one.
I mean, I already think youare cannibalizing your best teams by making
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them play nine games while the SECplays eight conference games. It's apples to
oranges, and shame on the playoffcommittee for not penalizing the SEC a little
bit on this front. But Ithink that what we're gonna see with the
expanded playoff is there's gonna be areal emphasis on, Okay, how many
at large teams can you get in? Because these births could be worth twenty
(23:59):
million dollars of the conference. They'recurrently worth six million. But new TV
deal, I think it's gonna beexponential. So if you're an SEC team
and you're only playing eight conference gamesand fifty percent of your conference has one
fewer loss than the Big twelve,PAC twelve, Big ten, you are
an inherit advantage to getting a nineand three team and at large berth.
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You know you're gonna have ten andtwo and nine and three teams that stack
up against the PAC twelve, Bigtwelve, Big ten, ECC. It's
not a fair comparison, all right, Have you guys done a recorded podcast
since then? We haven't. We'regonna record one tomorrow. A kid is
graduating elementary school today, so weare hunting to tomorrow. I got an
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argument with my I got an argumentwith my wife about this one. I
just yeah, I don't understand it. This elementary graduation. Then apparently next
week we've got a middle school graduation. Like there're two graduations. There's two
high school and college, and that'sit. Yeah, I went to a
k one. I think the firstday at kindergarten is a big moment,
(25:03):
but I think this is the sameas like people going, hey, the
first day at fourth grade is asbig as kindergarten. It's not. Yeah,
it's yeah, Okay, I'm gladwe all agree on that one.
You're the best it is, That'swhat it is. It's just like,
all right, because what are they? Are they? Some parent was fearful
that little Johnny wasn't going to graduatefrom high school, right, so let's
make sure we get a thing hegraduated from middle school. That's probably it
(25:29):
back and get my middle school graduates. A yeah, I'm gonna put it
up on my wall. All Right, we'll talk you next week, thanks
sir. All right, but let'stake care John Canzano. I'll brought to
you by Zeke's Pizza. Zeke's Pizzadot com voice spells next. All right,
(26:10):
tell I going to go to guywith your voicemails every single day here
at this time, uh, thebig news of the day live, the
PGA Tour, the European Tour,all getting together and the under the common
ownership, and they'll all be runby the same guy. And that guy
I don't want to attempt to sayhis name, but I will murder it.
(26:30):
Yes here all rumion anyways, he'sthe guy that's gonna be running all
of golf now. He's the governorof Saudis. Would you want to know
how much investment fund? You know, I keep referencing the public the p
IF investment Fund. Do you knowhow much it's worth? You just take
a guess. Just just six hundredand twenty billion dollars this runs. He's
(27:02):
the chairman also of the oil giantSaudi arm Armco. He's also the chairman
of the epl's Newcastle United. He'sa board member at Uber and SoftBank,
and of course he's the right handman. He's the financial arm of the
Prince Crown. Prince of Saudi Arabia. Who do you think's running golf?
Now, I'm just curious. Doyou think Jay Monahan and s and his
(27:26):
salary of let's say it's a milliondollars you think he's running golf? Or
the guy that is the governor ofa fund that is worth six hundred and
twenty billion dollars. Wow, that'suh. Rather, he is sizeable amount.
(27:48):
So yeah, I think all decisionsare made by him. He is.
If you think like there's gonna bea decision where Jay Monahan or this
PGA player counts like, yeah,we shouldn't do this, this guy's gonna
be like, uh no, you'reyou're gonna do it because I just bought
all of you, so you'll dowhat I say. We're gonna see him
every week with Jim nance and probablyHey Jim, good to see. I
remember when you were trashing us onon the cwmic. You're fired incomes Arlow
(28:15):
White? Is Arlow White still doingit? It might be? It might
be how many voicemails city Chris?All Right, you can always leave us
a voice on the I Heart radioapp. There's a your download it to
your smartphone and away you go onthe I Heart Radio app five of them.
Let's hear it, Startwood. Iwas hoping to get Jerry to Poto's
(28:37):
agents telephone number. I was justlooking at his resume. He was hired
in September twenty eight, twenty fifteen. Let's take a look. One playoff
appearance and a current team that ison pace to win eighty one games,
and he's already been extended once andapparently he's a genius. I need his
agent. I want to be likeJerry. Can I be like Jerry?
(29:00):
Yeah? Well, not a Jerryfan. Well, I've been kind of
rough here for Jerry. Ryan's alittle rough for old to podo. Yeah,
but he ended the drought last year, the players into the brow.
Yeah, but he Ralli did assemblethose players though. Yeah, he doesn't
play there. I'm not a Jerryfan, but I'm just trying to bes
advocate. Doesn't play. Yeah,I think it's time for Jerry to go.
(29:22):
No? Is it getting closer totime to go? Did they end
the drought because they expanded the playoffs? That could be argued? Yes?
Uh do I think No? Idon't think it's time for him to go.
I don't either, but I dothink that he and Hollander and the
rest of the ownership group needs tohave a hard sit down abow they they
(29:44):
want to go about augmenting their rosterin the future. I'm good afternoon.
Jim did John Puck yesterday? Guess? And one of the voices that I
do, I'll bring the early twoguys in to have them give you their
thoughts. Ah, yeah, Ididn't guess me did? Yeah? Well,
yeah, I could have. Youwould have been in an upper quartile
(30:07):
of the upper quartile love doesn't seeit, lawful pottle that had just charming
And I'm letting you know so whyfrom up in him? Okay, wait,
cut off there. Okay, Icould have sworn he used Pete Carroll,
but he wasn't he espe Carroll.What do you say at the beginning?
There is Mother of all Holy Didyou hear the first Jim did John
(30:33):
Puck yesterday? Guessing? One ofthe voices that I do, I'll bring
the other two guys in to havethem give you don't hear it? No,
I hear it that he's Pete Carroll. Yeah, but he's also Okay,
I didn't realize he was doing allthree of those didn't tell now,
okay, but I want Pete.I don't. Here's the thing. I
appreciate the voicemail. I don't wantto know the other ones. I kind
(30:55):
of wanted it to be a mystery. You think what you wanted to be
three different people? Oh, Ididn't wanted to be three different people.
But I think he does a goodursay though. He does it right.
Oh god, I we've got that'smy tweet of the day. Well,
we'll have that for you. Igotta send it to you, all right,
go ahead, voice Geno from Genos. You know the real reason for
(31:17):
many camp Ginos back at Tinos checkingeverything out? Come up with the name
from my three receivers. Kind ofdig it for us and the three amigos.
I've got the three. Hey,Genos, as I throw them all
out, is happy that he's backso he can go across the street.
(31:48):
There he is, Geno. Thebest quarterback in the FC westc Yeah,
he is. He's the best quarterbackin the NFC West. Yes, best
quarterback to the NFCU West. He'sright there. I think him and Matt
Stafford I would take to You know, though, what time do you think
(32:13):
Matt Stafford after last season, beforelast Come on, what a time to
be alive? Stafford? You diddid you? Did? You did it?
In Oh, I got ten bucksfor you too. Yeah what was
that for? Hey guys? GQJerry here with the update on the Mariners.
Scott service Will will out his fortythird different lineup of the season.
(32:35):
While everybody else thinks that's a terriblemove and trash formula to manage with with
no consistency, that's great by ouranalytics and metrics. Also, we'll continue
to shove Colton Long in the lineupbecause we're patting him ten million dollars and
it's not about winning, it's aboutwhat we spent on that terrible offseason acquisition.
Also, get ready for more platooningas this season goes. Shove that
(32:57):
ms oh, I love that,God, I love them. You know
what I was thinking about yesterday.I'm gonna give you this number. Okay,
let me come up with it realquick in my brain. I got
to write it down because I alwayshave to write math down because I'm not
good with doing it. Okay,thirty one. What does thirty one represent
(33:21):
to you? I have a checkI haven't cashed in my wallet that's good.
Thirty one Uh maybe that was thatwas written back on April twenty fourth.
Sure, how much nice I shouldprobably cash that thirty one? What
is thirty one millions? Anything offhand? That is the combined money that
(33:45):
this team this year spent on Colton, the Wong, aj Pollock and taoscar
Hernandez. Let's see, do youthink they fourteen ten and seven? Do
you think they've gotten the return ontheir investment? No? No, not
even close. Thirty one nine.Hello friends, Jim Nancy here for the
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PGA tour. Due to a recentownership change, we have been forced to
change the music. When this allbrought to you by Travel Saudi. Travel
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made possible thanks to j Monahan.You fine less sellout. Now back to
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the studio boys. That is goodwork there. Background, well gone,
sir God, that's beautiful. Allright. Tweet of the day, next,
all right, Tweet of the day. We gotta get right into a
(34:52):
tweet of the day. You canalways stopping. None of that can be
repeated. Tweet of the day.Jason Pucket twenty at COUZG. He was
real sick. Kay, what Imiss Jim hurt saying Chris Ballard. This
is our tweet of the day fromcomedian Joey Mullinara. Okay, he's done
(35:13):
these impressions all the time, right, we played him a bunch. Okay,
we we love, we love JimHursay. I love to see I
think we don't build rockets to goto March. So you've seen this story
Cults player in trouble. He's beenbetting on Colts games. They found multiple
bets that he has made, likelike a lot of bets for the Colts.
(35:35):
Okay, not against not against wellpe Rose. Oh, I don't
know. Maybe well let me I'lldig in a little. Maybe he did
bet one time against him. Anyways, Joey Mollinard, comedian, He does
an impression of both Chris Ballard,who is the GM of the team,
and Colts owner Jim Urson. Ican't believe we have to have this conversation.
(35:57):
I mean, well, what we'redoing. You can't bet on games,
all right, I mean it's it'sfriggin's shample. Especially can't beat on
us. I mean, look,man, I get it, man,
(36:19):
sometimes you have to gamble. Look, at me. I gambled uncutting Peyton
Manning, Man, I mean freakingPeyton Manning. Miss say you know I
gambled on hiring Jeff Saturday out ofa TV studio to be our head coach.
(36:45):
I mean talk about hitting when you'reon eighteen man, Maybe we table
this mist I'm probably h not thebest to take gambling advice from, now
(37:06):
that I think about it. Right, So, so I think what mister
Ersay is trying to say is youGod. You know we hold no way
to fold them, no way tobuy you win to run. You've never
(37:30):
count your money. Well, yousee at the table Gerrold, Joey Mullin
oar comedian doing Chris ballad, theGM of the Colts, and owner Jim
Erstay. The player in question isIsaiah rogers As being investigated for possible violations
(37:50):
the league gambling UH policy. Uh. He addressed the situation and tweet Monday
night and saying he takes full responsibility. I know I've made mistakes, and
I'm willing to do whatever it takesto repair the situations. The last thing
I ever wanted to do was tobe a distraction to the Colts organization.
I made an error in judgment.I'm going to work hard to make sure
those mistakes are rectified through this process. He was a six round pick entering
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the final year of a four year, three point four million dollar contract.
A sports book account was opened underthe name of an associate of Rogers,
and approximately one hundred bets were placedon the account over an undisclosed amount of
time, including on Colts games.Most of the bets were in the ranges
of twenty five to fifty bucks,although there was at least one low four
figure bet. He was started ninegames in twenty twenty two was seen as
(38:37):
a likely started this season following thetrade of Stefan Gilmour to the Cowboys.
It's gonna be suspended, isn't he? For how long? A year?
At least full year? Like Ridley? Yeah, yeah, he's got the
eyes down. There might be myfavorite part. Along with the quartile,
(39:01):
man, man, you want thequarte and the upper quartile of winners were
in the top quartile of that upperquartile. We're better than most all I
understand. I do the same thing. I was a broadcast journalism major two.
I think that that it's time.I think that that it's time We
don't build rockets to go to Mars. I love to see it, man,
(39:25):
I don't. It's for Gardner's playing. Yea, let's go Gardner,
all right? Coming up at noon. You know I've done a piss poor
job or promoting this. That's Idon't think you promoted it once. That's
why I called it a piss poorJim duket from the Major League Baseball Network
MMLB Network MLB Network Radio can fallhim on Twitter at Jim underscored you kept
(39:50):
I. He's joining the show next, talk all things baseball. Where we're
at with the Mariners, where we'reat with other teams, trade partners,
scenarios, What can the ms doto boost their offense? We'll find out
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