November 18, 2025 • 33 mins
We hear from Josh Naylor after he and the Mariners agreed to a 5-year contract extension. Ian says this is the biggest win of the year for the team moving forward. Talking Cougs with Alex Brink! Brink gives us some insight on the Cougar win over Louisiana Tech this weekend, a preview of what's to come in the final two games of the season and where the Cougs stand in their search for a new Athletic Director. The Daily Power Play!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We have, Like I said, just a wind sprint today.
We'll get to Josh Nayale in a second. Alex Spring's
going to join us pot on the hour. The Coog's
going to try to upset James Madison on Saturday. Jess
is going back east for a long trip, and hopefully
the Cougs can do that and then ruin their hopes
and make it easy for the College Football Playoff Committee.
We want it to be easy for them, but they
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want so. James Madison's in the Sun Belt. Nobody thinks
that they deserve to be in the College Football Playoff,
but their record may say otherwise. If they beat Wazoo,
and if they beat Wazoo handily, which Ole mist did
and Virginia didn't, that might look good on the resume.
We'll talk to Brink about a little bit about that,
mostly about the change. Well, there's a lot of stuff
out there, man, a lot of stuff out there, the
whole the world of college football again just as evolving.
(00:43):
We'll have Mandela on tomorrow for a full segment. I
can't wait to talk to him because the whole private
equity stuff out of the Big ten. I don't know
if you guys saw any of that stuff. They basically
there were tears to the whole, to the whole system.
That the reports where there were tears and like there
was there's a a first tier, a second tier, and
a third tier. And you know, the first tier was
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Ohio State, Michigan, Penn State. They're gonna get the most
amount of money of private equity. The second tier was
just Oregon and USC. The third tier was everybody else.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Everybody else, which includes Washington.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Uh like crazy, like I Washington Rutgers, Well, here's in
the same tier.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Here. Here's the thing.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Listen, I'll be the first guy to want to bash them,
like a hundred percent, like I'm in the I'm in
the front of the line if if there's a shot
to be taken, I'm there. Much of the chagrin of
our PD and other people since were the flagship, I
get that this is the Seattle market. Man, Like I don't.
I'll talk to Vandell about tomorrow. I think this really,
(01:45):
Like so wait a second, help me out here. The
number twelve television market that's that is in the same
tier as Rutgers. What like that.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Makes a seventy six thousand seat stadium. Look at the
TV ratings.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
That makes no sense. But you know what, that's not
my fight, it's their fight. But we're gonna talk. I
bring that up because I'm talking to bring at the
butt on the hour was who's got his own problems,
no doubt about it. New athletic director. At some point
we'll talk to him about what they what they need
to do there. Uh, Jimmy Rodgers really key on retention
this off season, but they need money and maybe the
new ad, whoever that person is, can figure that out
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along the way. We'll get to that coming up, and
then a quick daily power playbe for turned over to
Softy and again Wilner is going to join them at three.
I'm sure he'll hit on that private equity stuff with
the Big ten. By the way, I'd give you that keyword.
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Speaker 4 (02:50):
It is Tuesday.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
I got I got that. I got that, Jess.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
I'm I know you were back there hunting for that
other read for me. I already got they. I'm all
over this. I am so far ahead of the game.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
It's scary. I'm frightened.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Terrifying should be because it never happens.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Okay, let's get to this. I wanted.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
We don't played press conferences here a lot. We're only
going to play a few minutes here today. But I
think it bears mentioning and we'll react on the other side.
Josh Naylor's news conference today at ten thirty this morning
down at T Mobile Park to announce officially announce the
five year contract extension for him, just a big step
in every bit the right direction for this baseball team. Jess,
(03:33):
you were down there today. Do you want to intro
the sound? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (03:36):
I would love it.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
And this starts at the beginning, because you know, I've
talked to Josh Naylor a lot this year. I got
heavily involved with the Mariners throw out the latter part
of the season and got to know him after he
joined the team. And you know how I am. I'm
like you don't have to do anything for me, man,
Let's just chat. And he doesn't like doing phone interviews.
For him to be so open in the public, it
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was so lovely to just see the gratitude that he
showed to the team, the city, the fans, his agent
who is kind of off the grid, nobody really, you know,
like it's not even mortulable. Yeah, and that and his family,
his new baby were there. They had two rows saved
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for his family to be there. The Mariners took care
of him, and he wants to be here. So let's
listen to it, and you can hear it from the
horse's mouth.
Speaker 6 (04:29):
I'm super excited, super thankful, super blessed right now, very humbled.
I can't thank you know, my family not forgetting me
to this point. Without them, I'm nothing. I don't get
to this position. I mean now, you know, God is
good and he's good all the time. So I I
just can't thank my people enough. They are super influential
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to me, super positive towards everything I do. Ever since
I was a little kids had been like a goal
for all three of us as brothers and then and
my parents, my aunt, my grandma, everyone, like the support
is just It was incredible from the beginning of our
time playing baseball to now and it continues to be great.
And they just want us to succeed as much as
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we can and whatever we decide to do. And I
gotta give them all the things that I'm God, because
without them and I'm I'm nothing, and I would not
be in the sea right.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Now as started.
Speaker 7 (05:24):
I don't know here, gosh, congrats, Okay, last year has
been pretty adventurous, momentous for you often given traded a
couple of times, arriving here, becoming your father, reaching free agency.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Just what were the emotions yesterday when you.
Speaker 7 (05:40):
Sat down and on gunsurances to sign that contract.
Speaker 6 (05:43):
I mean, brought back a lot of memories as a kid,
my dad kach us when they were younger. So brought
back those memories of playing on a field in our
hometown and you know, trying to win a ball game
with your little ten year old friends around the corner.
And then I brought back some memories of playing amateur
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baseball with the an Terry Blue Jays, who I was
fortunate to play with in the national team. I got
to travel around the world with them before you know,
I entered pro Bowl, So just a lot of nostalgia,
kind of a lot of those little young memories and
to get me to this point today. I always tell
players or even like little kids I work with in
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the offseason sometimes like play for the kid inside, you know,
play for that little ten, twelve, eleven year old whoever like,
however old you want to set that number up, but
play for that kid, and always remind that kid that
you know, it's just a game and you're here to
have fun. You're here to play hard and here to compete, but.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
It's just a game.
Speaker 6 (06:45):
It's that little kids game at the end of the day.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
So I always try to talk to.
Speaker 6 (06:48):
Like my inner kid in me and remind myself that
it is just a game and I'm here to have fun,
work hard, be a great teammate, god willing win the
game at the end of the day, you knowing sometimes
you're going to lose, but it's all about the little
kid inside you. So sign of that contract really brought
me back to those days where my dad coached me,
where me and my brothers would train at you know,
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facility together and then playing with some friends I had
back in the day. Uh, who are still my friends now?
And it's just yeah, brought back a lot of cool.
Speaker 8 (07:18):
Memories and free agency has only been open for such
a short amount of time.
Speaker 7 (07:25):
Me the first made the pre agents to sign this
off sea and the cow much of those seeds if
you desire to come back, through the front office desire
to bring you back.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
And just how quickly that all came together.
Speaker 6 (07:34):
This you, I mean, I really enjoyed every single moment
I was here, from the players to the head office
of the coaching staff, to the rest of the you know,
the staff, the kitchen crew and they the clubhouse managers
and they they was just everything was so awesome. I
had such a blast being a part of everything, getting
to know players on and off the field, and uh
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just competing with them. Obviously we fell a little bit short,
but you know, I can't wait to run it back
with them because they deserve this, the city deserves it,
each of the each player's family deserves it. I can't
express how much fun I had on this team. It
was unbelievable, like tears of joy kind of unbelievable. And yeah,
(08:18):
I just I love competing and competing with this organization
was probably one of my favorites I've ever had in
my career. So I'm very very blessed. I played with
some really, really great teams. I was fortunate enough to
play with my brother. That was probably the best thing ever,
you know, being able to play with your brother and
then coming here it was uh kind of a WorldWind
of a year so other in Arizona and then ended
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up getting traded, and getting traded is not easy at
time to you're gonna move stuff around. I gotta worry
about family and stuff. But they just accepted me right
away to help me in every single way they they could.
Teammates embraced me right away, fans embraced me right away,
and you know, at the end of the day, they
deserve that that world series that we're shooting for here,
and I I can't thanks to the fans and not
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first recording me as much as they do. I love
them and I hope they love me, and I just
go out there and compete for them every single night,
and you know, God will and bring a world series
this city.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Well, there's such a thing as winning a press conference,
and then there's such a thing as just Mike drop
walk away.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
It's like a Grand Slam.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
That's what that was, And that's only four and a
half minutes of Josh Naylor from the conversation of you know,
enjoying playing the game of baseball like you're a kid
again to talking about the city, the community, the clubhouse,
the teammates, and I think, you know, the thing with
Naylor is, you know, we've talked about this on the
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show a lot where there's Molly what mondays are just
on our show that with the three of us, like,
he quickly became a fan favorite because of the compete
level and a sport that, frankly, at times you wonder
is there really I mean, is everyone playing hard?
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Is it? You know, the NBA is the worst for that.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Obviously, guys taking days off, But baseball it's always kind
of had a reputation dudes, you know, sometimes a little
soft and this and that this dude would like get
I mean, how many times they run into a guy
and ers at first base like he didn't care, like
and he just played.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
With this this attitude.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
I think he became my favorite player when I heard
him say, you know, somebody asked him, hey, why aren't
you talking to guys at first base like every other
first basement and playing grab ass.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
He goes, I'm competing.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
I don't care, like I'm not there to make friends, Like,
are you kidding me?
Speaker 2 (10:28):
This guy is such a throwback it's unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Like he is an absolute how he wears his uniform,
he's a massive throwback.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
You know.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Mark asked me earlier in the cross sock, you know, like,
is it a win? And I said yeah, I said,
I still want to see more from this. I'm not
going to give a pass one hundred percent to the
ownership until we see what the rest of the.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Offseason looks like.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Yes, but this is a massive win. Part of the
reason it's the massive win is because he wanted to
come back, Like and so you created something here. Whether
it's Dan Wilson, Depoto Hollander whatever. I think it's the clubhouse.
I think it's the guys in that clubhouse. I think
it's you know, obviously they accepted him. He talked about that.
He came in right away, felt accepted. And you know,
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whoever setting the tone, whether it's Cal Julio combination thereof JP,
whatever it might be, they set a tone and the
guy went and they brought him in and he fit
from the second like a perfectly fitting glove.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
The guy fit.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
And I heard somebody on the text line earlier say
something about the dropoffer. His numbers between Arizona and Seattle
last year were almost identical. Nine batting average, opp on
base percentage three sixty three forty one, slugging four forty
seven ninety ops eight oh seven eight thirty one ops
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plus one twenty three one thirty eight.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
They were I mean, like.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
There's a drop off. He came here and flourished and
did what he did. And I think Shehan said it
a little bit. Crawford said it yesterday that he's not
gonna be a thirty five to forty home run guy,
but he is gonna be a guy that's gonna give
you get on base. He's not gonna strike out. He's
gonna hit the ball in the gaps, he's gonna get
on the break, he's gonna do He does good things
on the base, one notable exception in the playoffs, and
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he plays at least a decent first base.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
He's everything you want.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
And oh, by the way, he's great in the clubhouse,
is a great teammate, and he wants to be here. Okay,
one hundred percent, we're all in on this guy. We
are all in on this guy for an organization that's
had a lot of stumbles along the way and a
lot of missteps. In terms of the eyes of the public.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
This is a win. This is a big, big win.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
And then you listen to a guy and how refreshing
is it to hear a guy that's not worried about
the stupid marine layer or the weather or what have you.
He just wants he's happy to be here. And yeah,
there's ninety two point five million reasons he would have
got that anywhere, Like he would have got that elsewhere.
He wants to be here, and he wants to win
a title. If you're a matter of fan, you gotta
be thrilled. Andrews and then Jess real quick, some quick
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thoughts before we wrap things up here.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Yeah, I mean, it's there's so many reasons why taking
a kind of a couple steps back where I can just
be like, this makes too much sense for this for
this to happen. Because the Marriagers have no other options
at first base. Yea, they traded away what would have
been their one option for Gino Suarez last year. I mean,
he's twenty eight he's not like incredibly on the aging
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side of things. He came in and was successful here,
he had the big moments in the playoffs. He wants
to be here. He says, he likes hitting in T
Mobile Park. He's an important clubhouse pit figure, and the
money is doable. It doesn't there's just too many reasons
for this not to happen. But me and the Mariner
cynic that I am, I had almost this expectation in
my head, like, Oh, they're going to fumble this, aren't
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they It almost felt like they were going to. And
the fact that they were able to kind of exercise
those thoughts as early in the off season as they
did tells me almost as much about actually signing Josh Naylor.
It's more about the timing of it that tells me, Oh,
this actually was a priority to them. They could have
easily tried to squeeze out every cent, every dollar that
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they possibly could to try and get the best deal,
but they were like, no, we feel like the value
that you think you are matches with the value that
we think you are, and we don't want you to
go anywhere else and have any sort of thought that
we don't want you here. So I'm happy they did it,
and I hope it's not the end, all right, jess.
Speaker 5 (14:05):
Well, one of the things that we couldn't hear in
that clip that we've played because the press conference was
kind of long, It was Justin Hollander saying that he
and Jerry, by the way they described in detail when
they went to visit Josh and his family and got
to meet with all of them, is that they almost
missed their plane because they were talking ball for so
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long and what they see as the future of this
Mariners organization. And I just love to hear it like
they had to scramble, but he said, we could have
talked for this is Justin Hollander said, we could have
talked for another twelve hours. That means that not only
does Josh Naylor believe in this team and have so
many things to contribute, that those guys were so enthralled
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that they literally almost missed their plane because they were
so excited to.
Speaker 4 (14:50):
Be talking to him.
Speaker 5 (14:51):
So that, in my mind, speaks to the leadership role
that he can have in that clubhouse and also the
relationship he has with the front office. He is like
a five tool player when it comes to assets. He
provides the organization. So I just loved it. And he
was so happy, just purely gracious.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
And almost like a different energy that I was watching
some clips it like it almost felt like last year.
He was so focused and zoned in, and I saw
more smiles and like kind of almost like a weight.
Speaker 4 (15:19):
Had been like a relief. Yes, yeah, well.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
He was literally.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
Baseball is the worst for players to get to free agency. Yes,
takes forever to get there. And energy mentioned he's twenty eight.
Like any other sport, you're a free agent, you know,
if you come into the league, get twenty one or
so you're you're a.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Free agent twenty five.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Yeah, you know, like like or if nothing else, your
first round pick in the NFL and you get your
option rolled over and you're still making you know, well
into eight figures.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
If you're a hockey.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
If you're a hockey player, after your first three years,
you know, your entry level contract boom, then all of
a sudden you can send that right that second sign,
that second contract. Baseball you have to wait forever. So
this dude was playing for a for life changing generation
money this year too, and with a new family, and
he got it and and and he got it in
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a place he wants to be. I'm I mean, I
just think this is in a year in which there
were a lot of wins for the baseball team on
the field.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
There were wins.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Obviously, what Cal did, moments that were wins, you know,
whether it was Gina when the playoffs, Cal's sixty if
home run, all the all the wins that we saw
this season, this is right up there. This is right
up there because it's a bigger picture, longer term thing.
This is right up there with the wins. This is
this is a big as big a win as they've
had all season long. And now we're the offseason, so
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I'm listening to him. Is pretty damn cool. It was.
I was really like I said, we don't play a
lot of news conferences, and Jess's like, we got to
play this.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
I'm like, okay, yeah, thank you. He got it.
Speaker 4 (16:47):
Just so happy.
Speaker 5 (16:49):
I was just sitting in the front because you know,
I have to record it. So I was sitting in
the front row and just he was beaming. He was beaming,
And I don't know how many fans out there we'll.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
Get because you're sitting in the front because you are
that person, You're the nerd. You sat in the front
of your every class you had too, and we love
you for that.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
God bless you. Someone's got to sit in the front wall.
Speaker 5 (17:08):
And I got some of the best audio out there
because I did so well.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (17:14):
I will take my golden sticker.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Now you should do exactly that. All right, we'll take
a break. Don't forget.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
It's cracking ticket Tuesday tenth, Collar two six two eight
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we'll win tickets. In addition to that, we'll talk to
Alex Brink when we come back. We'll daily power play
to wrap things up before it tops. It off to
Softy and Fain at three o'clock right here. Oh, by
the way, Jerry to Poto tomorrow morning.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Nine am? Is that right time? Right nine?
Speaker 4 (17:36):
That's correct?
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Jerry Depoto on at nine am tomorrow morning with Chuck
and Bucky.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
All right, stick around Alex Sprink next.
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Speaker 2 (18:01):
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Cooper segment.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
We were without it last week we had all the bye
week and stuff going on, and now today we're gonna
be a little shorter because no, MK, he's out flying
somewhere doing whatever MK does. We got an hour show
today with the hockey game coming up a little bit
later and the Josh Naylor signing. But I said, I
can't go two weeks without talking to my guy, Alex Brink,
and that's why he's here. That's why he's here. He
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felt bad for old Mandy and saying, I gotta I
can't miss you two weeks in a row.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
How are you, buddy.
Speaker 8 (18:32):
I'm doing fantastic, man, you know, week after week after could.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
Win absolutely one away from Bowl eligibility. But it's kind
of nice like the old days, isn't it just you
and me?
Speaker 2 (18:42):
You know? Yeah, we can just talk offense all day.
I love go hear this later? Lose his mind?
Speaker 1 (18:53):
All right, MK, unable to join us name, That's okay,
we'll get We'll get with him next week. I want
to get and Alex. We've been this a little bit
this year because of the kind of the strange nature
of this season and this schedule and kind of the
little gap year, so to speak, in the old PAC
twelve and the new PAC twelve next year, and some
bigger picture stuff. I'll get to football in a second.
I do want to quickly get a thought, probably a
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little bit strange last weekend. A lot of news, obviously
off the field. Anne McCoy no longer the athletic director
at Washington State. New president President Cantwell's come in and
frankly has shaken think things up, not just in the
athletic department but up in upper campus as well. There's
been a number of people that have been let go,
and frankly, nobody likes to see anybody lose a job.
(19:37):
I don't know the people up top. I know Anne
a little bit, but I understand why the decisions were made.
That's a different job these days, and you're around it
every week. It's a different job. It's a fundraising job.
It's a job that has a lot to it. And
first of all, tip of the cap to Anne. I
think you would agree she navigated some really tough times
and waters. But onward and upward, as they say, Just
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some thoughts from you on where we're at right now.
Speaker 8 (20:03):
Well, you know, I an Anne joined Washington State in
two thousand and one, which is right before I got
to Washington State, and so I got to spend a
lot of time with her in the athletic department and
in her role working with athletes, and then obviously subsequently
over the years just in various capacities, and you know,
and and and is all that is good about college athletics,
and she's all that you know, it's right about Washington State,
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and and you know the way she cares about people
and the way she works, and you know, honestly, it's
you know, it is on a personal level, really sad
to you know, to see her go. And I mean,
Washington State should be very thankful for the role she
took on after Pat Chuen left to go to Washington
because washingt State was in a bad spot, right and
she studied the ship, she hired a football coach, a
(20:45):
darn good one at that, you know, And I think
those all those things are very important to remember. I
think your point about college athletics being different and the
role being different is very true. Uh, you know the
reality for Washington State, and President Cantwell said this, and
anytime you have new leadership that kind of has their
own an idea of the way they want things. You know,
you're going to see these types of things happen. But
you know, she said maybe what two weeks ago or
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a week before, you know, letting Anne go was she
very clearly said we are the least funded in terms
of NIL school in the New pac twelve.
Speaker 4 (21:15):
And I think that was a shock to a lot
of people.
Speaker 8 (21:16):
And I was like, where's everybody been for the last
you know, four years, Like that should not be a
shock to anybody, but I think it was very you know,
I think when people start thinking, like, wait, worse than
Utah State, worse than Fresno State, worse than Texas State,
you know that, Like I think everybody could kind of
rationalize maybe Boise in Oregon state. But when they heard
that it was you know, literally twelve out of twelve,
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you know, as far as where the coups were, you know,
I think that shook a lot of people into reality.
And so part of this conversation is who is the
next person that can kind of drive that initiative forward?
And look, we've had this conversation Lotti in right. You know,
you're kind of always like, well, how how can people
ask for money when you know when you're losing football
games orhere there's instability, or where there's no vision. Well,
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the hope now is that with President can Well, starting
with Upper Campus, I've been very outspoken on this right,
starting with Upper Campus, they align with what it takes
to be successful at at this level of collegiate athletics,
through the athletic department and ultimately down through all the
teams and then ultimately to the fans that can help support.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Yeah, and I think the Alex Prank joining us.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
Listen, every president in the country has used the same
line that I've first actually heard from Elson Floyd, and
that is, you know, the universe of the athletics or
the front door of the university and especially college football.
The reality is this year, the game I went to
and what I hear from people every week is not
the on field product, not what Jimmy's doing, but everything
(22:37):
surrounding the.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
Game, by experience, has been an absolute disaster.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Concessions getting into the building just I mean, it's been
and you can't have that.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
I love the fact, I'm sorry it comes to the
expensive it.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
I love the fact that we have a president that's
come in and said, listen, our admissions aren't good enough
and we can't just take the hey man, it's a
tough time to get kids to go to school.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
We can't take that approach.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Nope, new admissions director, the communications in the upper campus
and marketing and all that. Longtime employee gone. Well, it's good.
He's never answered a phone call in his life. This guy,
this this this president is no nonsense. He's also in
FLOYDA in a lot of ways. It's the you know,
I don't want if you say we can't do it,
then we'll find somebody that can. Athletic director has to
(23:18):
do the same thing. On the football field, Alex, Listen,
big game this week with James Madison. Uh, they're trying
to get to the college football playoff. I this is
what she'd probably pissed off Cougar fans when you hear
that we're an underdog and trying to be an upset
thing to to that school. We were on college game
day just a few years ago. We were competing for
Pac twelve championships just a few years ago. This is
(23:40):
to me, this is kind of a big game, a
kind of a statement game, not just for them, But
I think for the Kuks very much so.
Speaker 8 (23:46):
And you know, I look, Washington State, I would say,
in the last four or five years, has been surviving
off the recognition of the logo, right of the cougar head. Right,
everybody knows the cougar head logo. Athletes, you know, fan
base is all that, they kind of know that, right,
and they know obviously the recent history of Mike Leach
and so, you know, but there's gonna become there's gonna
come a tipping point right where that's not gonna be enough. Right,
(24:08):
You're gonna have to win football games, and you're gonna
have to be in the forefront of these conversations kind
of like James Madison is, right, James Madison is forcing
the issue, right, North Texas is forcing the issue of
being in the national conversation. And you know, uh, this game,
these types of games are the games that you know,
Washington State, this is how Boise statement a name for
themselves coming out of you know, the Mountain West and
(24:29):
the old whack, Right, they won games like this on
a national stage. And I think that's the approach for
you know, the Koobs here is you know, how can
you do that you had a couple opportunities versus ol
Miss and Virginia, and by all rights should have won
one out of two of those games for sure and
put your best foot forward, I think, in both of those.
But you know, imagine now a win versus James Madison
on this stage, backed up by the performances you had previously, right,
(24:51):
And I think everybody can say, hey, like, this is
a product we can get behind, and this is a
team and a coaching staff that we can believe in.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Yeah, I agree with it, Box for a couple of moments.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
I'll ask this question again next week with you and MK,
and I'm hoping I'm asking it about the following. What
does it mean now that we are Bowl eligible but
you have two chances to get to six wins? And
not every Bowl eligibility season is the same. There were
times in the past where Wazoo got in during the
heyday of the Mike Leap chera, Hey, we're six and six.
(25:21):
Who cares like it doesn't matter? Like six and six
is that's fine because the year before we were eight
and four whatever it might have been, six and six
this year would be good, seven and five would be
even better. How important is it for for this coaching
staff to get to a bowl game.
Speaker 4 (25:36):
I think it's vital.
Speaker 8 (25:37):
I mean there's you know, there's a there's a few
different layers. I mean the most obvious one is that
you know, you go to a bowl game, you get
extra time right to you know, you get extra time
to practice. With the way they adjusted the transfer portal
to kind of early January, you basically keep your athletes
in the building for something meaningful for an extra what
six weeks or so. I mean, so when it comes
to kind of re recruiting your players, I think it matters.
(26:00):
And then just being on the nation, you know, being
able to be again in the national conversation, Like even
if it's a six win Bowl appearance, at the same time,
you're still being talked about, right, and so that matters
in the recruiting element, you know, with signing day early
December and then another one in February. So I think
that and then just all the change, seventy five new players,
new staff, new new coordinators, you know, new head coach,
(26:22):
all the things. You know, whether that storm and get
to six wins would be incredible. Imagine they get to seven.
I mean, like we I think Koog fans would feel fantastic.
So there's a lot of work to do, you know,
but this team's shown when they put it together, and
this is at times probably frustrating it for fans, when
they put it together, they're a really good football team
in all three phases. It's just a magic matter of
getting all three phases going in.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
The right direction.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
Yeah, would agree, and I think that that's why it
is important to get there. The other thing is too,
Alex And I'll leave you with this, you know, listening
to Jimmy yesterday in his news conference talking about retention,
you know, one of the hard things of this team
for a while when the nil era started is what
you make. You have really good players, you develop those players,
and then they leave this year, doesn't There's not that.
(27:03):
There's not a John Mattier, there's not a Cam War,
there's not a Strippling, there's not these types of guys. Necessarily,
there's good, good football players. But he talked about retention.
You're around it. It feels like this staff has done
a decent job or we'll do a decent job of
retention as well. And I think that's why that Bowl
game becomes even more important very much.
Speaker 8 (27:22):
So, I mean they do a really nice job, you know,
I think building relationships with players right through kind of
honest conversations and very clear direction of hey, we you know,
we want the best for you, so we need you
to do X, Y and Z, right, and then it's
kind of up to the player to meet that standard.
And I think when the players meet that standard, then
they build a lot of trust with the staff, right.
And you know in this day and this day and
any college football and you're starting to see it right
(27:43):
Like the first few years, it was kind of like
everybody chasing the money because they wanted to go. They
wanted to get the payday, and they thought going to
the big logos with the paydays would matter in the end.
The same thing matters today as it did before NIO,
which is the biggest payday is getting to the NFL,
right and the biggest and then below that, the next
biggest pay day is showing that you can be productive
(28:05):
on the field throughout the duration of your career. And
what a lot of guys chasing the money or running
into is they end up in worse situations and are
less successful than they were at their previous stop and
it either hinders their NFL opportunity or it takes away
just from their general college experience because they're not getting
the same you know, not getting the same thing they
got at say, Washington State. And so I think you
can sell against that to some degree. You definitely need
(28:27):
to match it with some NIL help. But to your
point about retention, I think Jimmy Rodgers and staff have
a good model for this because they've had to do
it for the last ten years at South Dakota State.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
Right, yeah, exactly, All right, let's we'll get it a
final thought next week before the Oregon State game.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
Quick thought on the new shoe company. Man, you got
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Speaker 8 (28:45):
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you know, and they were the shoe brand that didn't
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but it was My brother and I have since revived
the brand. Uh, you can purchase original when we've revived
some original colorways and styles.
Speaker 5 (29:07):
Uh.
Speaker 8 (29:07):
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Speaker 1 (29:21):
Thanks a lot to have a safe travels back there.
We'll talk to next Tuesday, buddy. Thanks An Alex Brink
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and a half for the pregame show Crack and taking
on Detroit first, the four straight on the road before
they head home for one prior to the Thanksgiving break.
That's a week from tomorrow against Dallas. But in the meantime,
Detroit tonight, good team Andrews. You know this. They play
close games anytime, they play a lot of overtime, yes,
the teams.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
So we'll see what happens tonight.
Speaker 4 (30:35):
Lots of two one games.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Yeah, this is you know, it's weird.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
It's a Detroit's Detroit kind of like Seattle having a
surprisingly good year.
Speaker 4 (30:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
People are like, I don't believe it.
Speaker 3 (30:46):
It's the Todd McClellan effect though, because he comes in
like the structure guy.
Speaker 4 (30:50):
You know, structure guy.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
This might be a two to.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
One games I'm saying, manh Yeah, five of the eight
all time.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
Meetings between these two teams have gone to overtime or shootout,
and we're shooting.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
Yeah, we'll see if that.
Speaker 4 (31:02):
Detroit's a cool place to play too.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
So yeah, it's I think Little Caesars Arena, you know,
brand new building there downtown.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
Kind of cool.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
It's hockeytown, man, Yeah, called hockey town for a reason.
Good opportun join the quarters back. He'll uh, he'll be
a goal tonight. He's back off the injured list, so
Matt Murray goes on the injured list. Jared mccannon will
not play, but he's on the trip, so hopefully we'll
see him at some point or the next three.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
Games after this. All right, that's your daily power play.
Bent will get you going with.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
Everything else coming up at three thirty before we get
to Softy and Fagne for their quick little hour and
a half show. They do have John Wilner coming up
at three. See if he uh see if he talks
about the uh what his buddy John Canzano has been
saying about how Washington is a half not Tier three.
Speaker 4 (31:40):
I can't wait for Dick Fane's response to that.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
I know, I really yeah, okay tier three? Yeah see,
you Coopers are Tier five whatever. I just remember Scott
Woodward said we were have not Okay, Okay, we are
right now honestly after that last night with Drink, we
are have not.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
You have the Stove up? Is that right? Tell us
what you got?
Speaker 3 (31:59):
Yes? Our first couple episodes of Stove with Chuck pollin
Andershurst is up on the podcast page. You can find
that anywhere. We had our original episode last week kind
of laying out the plan for the off season and
now kind of reacting to Josh Naylor's signing. Today, we
recorded It's up. It's ready to listen to. It's about
an hour long. Chuck gives his crystal Ball predictions too
(32:22):
for the rest of this offseason, and we throw some
trade ideas in there. So there's a lot of cool stuff.
Chuck does a great job of kind of mapping it out,
not just you know, picking all the top free agents,
but doing it in a way that's realistic to what
the Mariners could do.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
Okay, so if you're a mentor fan, go download that
Against the Stove. It's on the iHeartRadio podcast pages right,
just go search it and you'll find it and away
you go download it and subscribe all that fun stuff.
Then go check it out. Those guys both have a
passion for baseball. U end and thanks, so be good listen.
I'm sure if you're a baseball fan needs a little
off season baseball news. Okay, that's it for us. Turn
it over Softy and Faine or moments away. They've got
(32:53):
an hour and a half. They've got one more pair
of tickets to give away for Krack in Hockey Cracking
Ticket Tuesday, All so I need to get a text
on this. We are not doing obviously a Factor fiction
pick today. Yes, those guys, I.
Speaker 5 (33:06):
Think it's good for us because it would have been
my pick.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
That's just good for us as a show. It's not
just shoot.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
But yeah, so they have they'll have a pick for
you coming up, one of their own picks coming up
at two thirty five.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
Until then, we'll talk tomorrow.
Speaker 9 (33:18):
I'll see it for the mild mannered and marginally objectionable Inverness.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
This is Paddled Day saying so long everyone,
We have, Like I said, just a wind sprint today.
We'll get to Josh Nayale in a second. Alex Spring's
going to join us pot on the hour. The Coog's
going to try to upset James Madison on Saturday. Jess
is going back east for a long trip, and hopefully
the Cougs can do that and then ruin their hopes
and make it easy for the College Football Playoff Committee.
We want it to be easy for them, but they
(00:20):
want so. James Madison's in the Sun Belt. Nobody thinks
that they deserve to be in the College Football Playoff,
but their record may say otherwise. If they beat Wazoo,
and if they beat Wazoo handily, which Ole mist did
and Virginia didn't, that might look good on the resume.
We'll talk to Brink about a little bit about that,
mostly about the change. Well, there's a lot of stuff
out there, man, a lot of stuff out there, the
whole the world of college football again just as evolving.
(00:43):
We'll have Mandela on tomorrow for a full segment. I
can't wait to talk to him because the whole private
equity stuff out of the Big ten. I don't know
if you guys saw any of that stuff. They basically
there were tears to the whole, to the whole system.
That the reports where there were tears and like there
was there's a a first tier, a second tier, and
a third tier. And you know, the first tier was
(01:05):
Ohio State, Michigan, Penn State. They're gonna get the most
amount of money of private equity. The second tier was
just Oregon and USC. The third tier was everybody else.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Everybody else, which includes Washington.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Uh like crazy, like I Washington Rutgers, Well, here's in
the same tier.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Here. Here's the thing.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Listen, I'll be the first guy to want to bash them,
like a hundred percent, like I'm in the I'm in
the front of the line if if there's a shot
to be taken, I'm there. Much of the chagrin of
our PD and other people since were the flagship, I
get that this is the Seattle market. Man, Like I don't.
I'll talk to Vandell about tomorrow. I think this really,
(01:45):
Like so wait a second, help me out here. The
number twelve television market that's that is in the same
tier as Rutgers. What like that.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Makes a seventy six thousand seat stadium. Look at the
TV ratings.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
That makes no sense. But you know what, that's not
my fight, it's their fight. But we're gonna talk. I
bring that up because I'm talking to bring at the
butt on the hour was who's got his own problems,
no doubt about it. New athletic director. At some point
we'll talk to him about what they what they need
to do there. Uh, Jimmy Rodgers really key on retention
this off season, but they need money and maybe the
new ad, whoever that person is, can figure that out
(02:20):
along the way. We'll get to that coming up, and
then a quick daily power playbe for turned over to
Softy and again Wilner is going to join them at three.
I'm sure he'll hit on that private equity stuff with
the Big ten. By the way, I'd give you that keyword.
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(02:42):
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we got hockey.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
It is Tuesday.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
I got I got that. I got that, Jess.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
I'm I know you were back there hunting for that
other read for me. I already got they. I'm all
over this. I am so far ahead of the game.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
It's scary. I'm frightened.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Terrifying should be because it never happens.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Okay, let's get to this. I wanted.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
We don't played press conferences here a lot. We're only
going to play a few minutes here today. But I
think it bears mentioning and we'll react on the other side.
Josh Naylor's news conference today at ten thirty this morning
down at T Mobile Park to announce officially announce the
five year contract extension for him, just a big step
in every bit the right direction for this baseball team. Jess,
(03:33):
you were down there today. Do you want to intro
the sound? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (03:36):
I would love it.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
And this starts at the beginning, because you know, I've
talked to Josh Naylor a lot this year. I got
heavily involved with the Mariners throw out the latter part
of the season and got to know him after he
joined the team. And you know how I am. I'm
like you don't have to do anything for me, man,
Let's just chat. And he doesn't like doing phone interviews.
For him to be so open in the public, it
(03:59):
was so lovely to just see the gratitude that he
showed to the team, the city, the fans, his agent
who is kind of off the grid, nobody really, you know,
like it's not even mortulable. Yeah, and that and his family,
his new baby were there. They had two rows saved
(04:21):
for his family to be there. The Mariners took care
of him, and he wants to be here. So let's
listen to it, and you can hear it from the
horse's mouth.
Speaker 6 (04:29):
I'm super excited, super thankful, super blessed right now, very humbled.
I can't thank you know, my family not forgetting me
to this point. Without them, I'm nothing. I don't get
to this position. I mean now, you know, God is
good and he's good all the time. So I I
just can't thank my people enough. They are super influential
(04:52):
to me, super positive towards everything I do. Ever since
I was a little kids had been like a goal
for all three of us as brothers and then and
my parents, my aunt, my grandma, everyone, like the support
is just It was incredible from the beginning of our
time playing baseball to now and it continues to be great.
And they just want us to succeed as much as
(05:12):
we can and whatever we decide to do. And I
gotta give them all the things that I'm God, because
without them and I'm I'm nothing, and I would not
be in the sea right.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Now as started.
Speaker 7 (05:24):
I don't know here, gosh, congrats, Okay, last year has
been pretty adventurous, momentous for you often given traded a
couple of times, arriving here, becoming your father, reaching free agency.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Just what were the emotions yesterday when you.
Speaker 7 (05:40):
Sat down and on gunsurances to sign that contract.
Speaker 6 (05:43):
I mean, brought back a lot of memories as a kid,
my dad kach us when they were younger. So brought
back those memories of playing on a field in our
hometown and you know, trying to win a ball game
with your little ten year old friends around the corner.
And then I brought back some memories of playing amateur
(06:04):
baseball with the an Terry Blue Jays, who I was
fortunate to play with in the national team. I got
to travel around the world with them before you know,
I entered pro Bowl, So just a lot of nostalgia,
kind of a lot of those little young memories and
to get me to this point today. I always tell
players or even like little kids I work with in
(06:25):
the offseason sometimes like play for the kid inside, you know,
play for that little ten, twelve, eleven year old whoever like,
however old you want to set that number up, but
play for that kid, and always remind that kid that
you know, it's just a game and you're here to
have fun. You're here to play hard and here to compete, but.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
It's just a game.
Speaker 6 (06:45):
It's that little kids game at the end of the day.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
So I always try to talk to.
Speaker 6 (06:48):
Like my inner kid in me and remind myself that
it is just a game and I'm here to have fun,
work hard, be a great teammate, god willing win the
game at the end of the day, you knowing sometimes
you're going to lose, but it's all about the little
kid inside you. So sign of that contract really brought
me back to those days where my dad coached me,
where me and my brothers would train at you know,
(07:09):
facility together and then playing with some friends I had
back in the day. Uh, who are still my friends now?
And it's just yeah, brought back a lot of cool.
Speaker 8 (07:18):
Memories and free agency has only been open for such
a short amount of time.
Speaker 7 (07:25):
Me the first made the pre agents to sign this
off sea and the cow much of those seeds if
you desire to come back, through the front office desire
to bring you back.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
And just how quickly that all came together.
Speaker 6 (07:34):
This you, I mean, I really enjoyed every single moment
I was here, from the players to the head office
of the coaching staff, to the rest of the you know,
the staff, the kitchen crew and they the clubhouse managers
and they they was just everything was so awesome. I
had such a blast being a part of everything, getting
to know players on and off the field, and uh
(07:55):
just competing with them. Obviously we fell a little bit short,
but you know, I can't wait to run it back
with them because they deserve this, the city deserves it,
each of the each player's family deserves it. I can't
express how much fun I had on this team. It
was unbelievable, like tears of joy kind of unbelievable. And yeah,
(08:18):
I just I love competing and competing with this organization
was probably one of my favorites I've ever had in
my career. So I'm very very blessed. I played with
some really, really great teams. I was fortunate enough to
play with my brother. That was probably the best thing ever,
you know, being able to play with your brother and
then coming here it was uh kind of a WorldWind
of a year so other in Arizona and then ended
(08:39):
up getting traded, and getting traded is not easy at
time to you're gonna move stuff around. I gotta worry
about family and stuff. But they just accepted me right
away to help me in every single way they they could.
Teammates embraced me right away, fans embraced me right away,
and you know, at the end of the day, they
deserve that that world series that we're shooting for here,
and I I can't thanks to the fans and not
(09:00):
first recording me as much as they do. I love
them and I hope they love me, and I just
go out there and compete for them every single night,
and you know, God will and bring a world series
this city.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Well, there's such a thing as winning a press conference,
and then there's such a thing as just Mike drop
walk away.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
It's like a Grand Slam.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
That's what that was, And that's only four and a
half minutes of Josh Naylor from the conversation of you know,
enjoying playing the game of baseball like you're a kid
again to talking about the city, the community, the clubhouse,
the teammates, and I think, you know, the thing with
Naylor is, you know, we've talked about this on the
(09:42):
show a lot where there's Molly what mondays are just
on our show that with the three of us, like,
he quickly became a fan favorite because of the compete
level and a sport that, frankly, at times you wonder
is there really I mean, is everyone playing hard?
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Is it? You know, the NBA is the worst for that.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Obviously, guys taking days off, But baseball it's always kind
of had a reputation dudes, you know, sometimes a little
soft and this and that this dude would like get
I mean, how many times they run into a guy
and ers at first base like he didn't care, like
and he just played.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
With this this attitude.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
I think he became my favorite player when I heard
him say, you know, somebody asked him, hey, why aren't
you talking to guys at first base like every other
first basement and playing grab ass.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
He goes, I'm competing.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
I don't care, like I'm not there to make friends, Like,
are you kidding me?
Speaker 2 (10:28):
This guy is such a throwback it's unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Like he is an absolute how he wears his uniform,
he's a massive throwback.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
You know.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Mark asked me earlier in the cross sock, you know, like,
is it a win? And I said yeah, I said,
I still want to see more from this. I'm not
going to give a pass one hundred percent to the
ownership until we see what the rest of the.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Offseason looks like.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Yes, but this is a massive win. Part of the
reason it's the massive win is because he wanted to
come back, Like and so you created something here. Whether
it's Dan Wilson, Depoto Hollander whatever. I think it's the clubhouse.
I think it's the guys in that clubhouse. I think
it's you know, obviously they accepted him. He talked about that.
He came in right away, felt accepted. And you know,
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whoever setting the tone, whether it's Cal Julio combination thereof JP,
whatever it might be, they set a tone and the
guy went and they brought him in and he fit
from the second like a perfectly fitting glove.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
The guy fit.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
And I heard somebody on the text line earlier say
something about the dropoffer. His numbers between Arizona and Seattle
last year were almost identical. Nine batting average, opp on
base percentage three sixty three forty one, slugging four forty
seven ninety ops eight oh seven eight thirty one ops
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plus one twenty three one thirty eight.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
They were I mean, like.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
There's a drop off. He came here and flourished and
did what he did. And I think Shehan said it
a little bit. Crawford said it yesterday that he's not
gonna be a thirty five to forty home run guy,
but he is gonna be a guy that's gonna give
you get on base. He's not gonna strike out. He's
gonna hit the ball in the gaps, he's gonna get
on the break, he's gonna do He does good things
on the base, one notable exception in the playoffs, and
(12:03):
he plays at least a decent first base.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
He's everything you want.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
And oh, by the way, he's great in the clubhouse,
is a great teammate, and he wants to be here. Okay,
one hundred percent, we're all in on this guy. We
are all in on this guy for an organization that's
had a lot of stumbles along the way and a
lot of missteps. In terms of the eyes of the public.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
This is a win. This is a big, big win.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
And then you listen to a guy and how refreshing
is it to hear a guy that's not worried about
the stupid marine layer or the weather or what have you.
He just wants he's happy to be here. And yeah,
there's ninety two point five million reasons he would have
got that anywhere, Like he would have got that elsewhere.
He wants to be here, and he wants to win
a title. If you're a matter of fan, you gotta
be thrilled. Andrews and then Jess real quick, some quick
(12:46):
thoughts before we wrap things up here.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Yeah, I mean, it's there's so many reasons why taking
a kind of a couple steps back where I can just
be like, this makes too much sense for this for
this to happen. Because the Marriagers have no other options
at first base. Yea, they traded away what would have
been their one option for Gino Suarez last year. I mean,
he's twenty eight he's not like incredibly on the aging
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side of things. He came in and was successful here,
he had the big moments in the playoffs. He wants
to be here. He says, he likes hitting in T
Mobile Park. He's an important clubhouse pit figure, and the
money is doable. It doesn't there's just too many reasons
for this not to happen. But me and the Mariner
cynic that I am, I had almost this expectation in
my head, like, Oh, they're going to fumble this, aren't
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they It almost felt like they were going to. And
the fact that they were able to kind of exercise
those thoughts as early in the off season as they
did tells me almost as much about actually signing Josh Naylor.
It's more about the timing of it that tells me, Oh,
this actually was a priority to them. They could have
easily tried to squeeze out every cent, every dollar that
(13:49):
they possibly could to try and get the best deal,
but they were like, no, we feel like the value
that you think you are matches with the value that
we think you are, and we don't want you to
go anywhere else and have any sort of thought that
we don't want you here. So I'm happy they did it,
and I hope it's not the end, all right, jess.
Speaker 5 (14:05):
Well, one of the things that we couldn't hear in
that clip that we've played because the press conference was
kind of long, It was Justin Hollander saying that he
and Jerry, by the way they described in detail when
they went to visit Josh and his family and got
to meet with all of them, is that they almost
missed their plane because they were talking ball for so
(14:25):
long and what they see as the future of this
Mariners organization. And I just love to hear it like
they had to scramble, but he said, we could have
talked for this is Justin Hollander said, we could have
talked for another twelve hours. That means that not only
does Josh Naylor believe in this team and have so
many things to contribute, that those guys were so enthralled
(14:46):
that they literally almost missed their plane because they were
so excited to.
Speaker 4 (14:50):
Be talking to him.
Speaker 5 (14:51):
So that, in my mind, speaks to the leadership role
that he can have in that clubhouse and also the
relationship he has with the front office. He is like
a five tool player when it comes to assets. He
provides the organization. So I just loved it. And he
was so happy, just purely gracious.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
And almost like a different energy that I was watching
some clips it like it almost felt like last year.
He was so focused and zoned in, and I saw
more smiles and like kind of almost like a weight.
Speaker 4 (15:19):
Had been like a relief. Yes, yeah, well.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
He was literally.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
Baseball is the worst for players to get to free agency. Yes,
takes forever to get there. And energy mentioned he's twenty eight.
Like any other sport, you're a free agent, you know,
if you come into the league, get twenty one or
so you're you're a.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Free agent twenty five.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Yeah, you know, like like or if nothing else, your
first round pick in the NFL and you get your
option rolled over and you're still making you know, well
into eight figures.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
If you're a hockey.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
If you're a hockey player, after your first three years,
you know, your entry level contract boom, then all of
a sudden you can send that right that second sign,
that second contract. Baseball you have to wait forever. So
this dude was playing for a for life changing generation
money this year too, and with a new family, and
he got it and and and he got it in
(16:06):
a place he wants to be. I'm I mean, I
just think this is in a year in which there
were a lot of wins for the baseball team on
the field.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
There were wins.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Obviously, what Cal did, moments that were wins, you know,
whether it was Gina when the playoffs, Cal's sixty if
home run, all the all the wins that we saw
this season, this is right up there. This is right
up there because it's a bigger picture, longer term thing.
This is right up there with the wins. This is
this is a big as big a win as they've
had all season long. And now we're the offseason, so
(16:36):
I'm listening to him. Is pretty damn cool. It was.
I was really like I said, we don't play a
lot of news conferences, and Jess's like, we got to
play this.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
I'm like, okay, yeah, thank you. He got it.
Speaker 4 (16:47):
Just so happy.
Speaker 5 (16:49):
I was just sitting in the front because you know,
I have to record it. So I was sitting in
the front row and just he was beaming. He was beaming,
And I don't know how many fans out there we'll.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
Get because you're sitting in the front because you are
that person, You're the nerd. You sat in the front
of your every class you had too, and we love
you for that.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
God bless you. Someone's got to sit in the front wall.
Speaker 5 (17:08):
And I got some of the best audio out there
because I did so well.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (17:14):
I will take my golden sticker.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Now you should do exactly that. All right, we'll take
a break. Don't forget.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
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Softy and Fain at three o'clock right here. Oh, by
the way, Jerry to Poto tomorrow morning.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Nine am? Is that right time? Right nine?
Speaker 4 (17:36):
That's correct?
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Jerry Depoto on at nine am tomorrow morning with Chuck
and Bucky.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
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Speaker 2 (18:01):
K j R M all right, here we go our
Cooper segment.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
We were without it last week we had all the bye
week and stuff going on, and now today we're gonna
be a little shorter because no, MK, he's out flying
somewhere doing whatever MK does. We got an hour show
today with the hockey game coming up a little bit
later and the Josh Naylor signing. But I said, I
can't go two weeks without talking to my guy, Alex Brink,
and that's why he's here. That's why he's here. He
(18:28):
felt bad for old Mandy and saying, I gotta I
can't miss you two weeks in a row.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
How are you, buddy.
Speaker 8 (18:32):
I'm doing fantastic, man, you know, week after week after could.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
Win absolutely one away from Bowl eligibility. But it's kind
of nice like the old days, isn't it just you
and me?
Speaker 2 (18:42):
You know? Yeah, we can just talk offense all day.
I love go hear this later? Lose his mind?
Speaker 1 (18:53):
All right, MK, unable to join us name, That's okay,
we'll get We'll get with him next week. I want
to get and Alex. We've been this a little bit
this year because of the kind of the strange nature
of this season and this schedule and kind of the
little gap year, so to speak, in the old PAC
twelve and the new PAC twelve next year, and some
bigger picture stuff. I'll get to football in a second.
I do want to quickly get a thought, probably a
(19:15):
little bit strange last weekend. A lot of news, obviously
off the field. Anne McCoy no longer the athletic director
at Washington State. New president President Cantwell's come in and
frankly has shaken think things up, not just in the
athletic department but up in upper campus as well. There's
been a number of people that have been let go,
and frankly, nobody likes to see anybody lose a job.
(19:37):
I don't know the people up top. I know Anne
a little bit, but I understand why the decisions were made.
That's a different job these days, and you're around it
every week. It's a different job. It's a fundraising job.
It's a job that has a lot to it. And
first of all, tip of the cap to Anne. I
think you would agree she navigated some really tough times
and waters. But onward and upward, as they say, Just
(20:00):
some thoughts from you on where we're at right now.
Speaker 8 (20:03):
Well, you know, I an Anne joined Washington State in
two thousand and one, which is right before I got
to Washington State, and so I got to spend a
lot of time with her in the athletic department and
in her role working with athletes, and then obviously subsequently
over the years just in various capacities, and you know,
and and and is all that is good about college athletics,
and she's all that you know, it's right about Washington State,
(20:23):
and and you know the way she cares about people
and the way she works, and you know, honestly, it's
you know, it is on a personal level, really sad
to you know, to see her go. And I mean,
Washington State should be very thankful for the role she
took on after Pat Chuen left to go to Washington
because washingt State was in a bad spot, right and
she studied the ship, she hired a football coach, a
(20:45):
darn good one at that, you know, And I think
those all those things are very important to remember. I
think your point about college athletics being different and the
role being different is very true. Uh, you know the
reality for Washington State, and President Cantwell said this, and
anytime you have new leadership that kind of has their
own an idea of the way they want things. You know,
you're going to see these types of things happen. But
you know, she said maybe what two weeks ago or
(21:06):
a week before, you know, letting Anne go was she
very clearly said we are the least funded in terms
of NIL school in the New pac twelve.
Speaker 4 (21:15):
And I think that was a shock to a lot
of people.
Speaker 8 (21:16):
And I was like, where's everybody been for the last
you know, four years, Like that should not be a
shock to anybody, but I think it was very you know,
I think when people start thinking, like, wait, worse than
Utah State, worse than Fresno State, worse than Texas State,
you know that, Like I think everybody could kind of
rationalize maybe Boise in Oregon state. But when they heard
that it was you know, literally twelve out of twelve,
(21:38):
you know, as far as where the coups were, you know,
I think that shook a lot of people into reality.
And so part of this conversation is who is the
next person that can kind of drive that initiative forward?
And look, we've had this conversation Lotti in right. You know,
you're kind of always like, well, how how can people
ask for money when you know when you're losing football
games orhere there's instability, or where there's no vision. Well,
(21:58):
the hope now is that with President can Well, starting
with Upper Campus, I've been very outspoken on this right,
starting with Upper Campus, they align with what it takes
to be successful at at this level of collegiate athletics,
through the athletic department and ultimately down through all the
teams and then ultimately to the fans that can help support.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Yeah, and I think the Alex Prank joining us.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
Listen, every president in the country has used the same
line that I've first actually heard from Elson Floyd, and
that is, you know, the universe of the athletics or
the front door of the university and especially college football.
The reality is this year, the game I went to
and what I hear from people every week is not
the on field product, not what Jimmy's doing, but everything
(22:37):
surrounding the.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
Game, by experience, has been an absolute disaster.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Concessions getting into the building just I mean, it's been
and you can't have that.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
I love the fact, I'm sorry it comes to the
expensive it.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
I love the fact that we have a president that's
come in and said, listen, our admissions aren't good enough
and we can't just take the hey man, it's a
tough time to get kids to go to school.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
We can't take that approach.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Nope, new admissions director, the communications in the upper campus
and marketing and all that. Longtime employee gone. Well, it's good.
He's never answered a phone call in his life. This guy,
this this this president is no nonsense. He's also in
FLOYDA in a lot of ways. It's the you know,
I don't want if you say we can't do it,
then we'll find somebody that can. Athletic director has to
(23:18):
do the same thing. On the football field, Alex, Listen,
big game this week with James Madison. Uh, they're trying
to get to the college football playoff. I this is
what she'd probably pissed off Cougar fans when you hear
that we're an underdog and trying to be an upset
thing to to that school. We were on college game
day just a few years ago. We were competing for
Pac twelve championships just a few years ago. This is
(23:40):
to me, this is kind of a big game, a
kind of a statement game, not just for them, But
I think for the Kuks very much so.
Speaker 8 (23:46):
And you know, I look, Washington State, I would say,
in the last four or five years, has been surviving
off the recognition of the logo, right of the cougar head. Right,
everybody knows the cougar head logo. Athletes, you know, fan
base is all that, they kind of know that, right,
and they know obviously the recent history of Mike Leach
and so, you know, but there's gonna become there's gonna
come a tipping point right where that's not gonna be enough. Right,
(24:08):
You're gonna have to win football games, and you're gonna
have to be in the forefront of these conversations kind
of like James Madison is, right, James Madison is forcing
the issue, right, North Texas is forcing the issue of
being in the national conversation. And you know, uh, this game,
these types of games are the games that you know,
Washington State, this is how Boise statement a name for
themselves coming out of you know, the Mountain West and
(24:29):
the old whack, Right, they won games like this on
a national stage. And I think that's the approach for
you know, the Koobs here is you know, how can
you do that you had a couple opportunities versus ol
Miss and Virginia, and by all rights should have won
one out of two of those games for sure and
put your best foot forward, I think, in both of those.
But you know, imagine now a win versus James Madison
on this stage, backed up by the performances you had previously, right,
(24:51):
And I think everybody can say, hey, like, this is
a product we can get behind, and this is a
team and a coaching staff that we can believe in.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Yeah, I agree with it, Box for a couple of moments.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
I'll ask this question again next week with you and MK,
and I'm hoping I'm asking it about the following. What
does it mean now that we are Bowl eligible but
you have two chances to get to six wins? And
not every Bowl eligibility season is the same. There were
times in the past where Wazoo got in during the
heyday of the Mike Leap chera, Hey, we're six and six.
(25:21):
Who cares like it doesn't matter? Like six and six
is that's fine because the year before we were eight
and four whatever it might have been, six and six
this year would be good, seven and five would be
even better. How important is it for for this coaching
staff to get to a bowl game.
Speaker 4 (25:36):
I think it's vital.
Speaker 8 (25:37):
I mean there's you know, there's a there's a few
different layers. I mean the most obvious one is that
you know, you go to a bowl game, you get
extra time right to you know, you get extra time
to practice. With the way they adjusted the transfer portal
to kind of early January, you basically keep your athletes
in the building for something meaningful for an extra what
six weeks or so. I mean, so when it comes
to kind of re recruiting your players, I think it matters.
(26:00):
And then just being on the nation, you know, being
able to be again in the national conversation, Like even
if it's a six win Bowl appearance, at the same time,
you're still being talked about, right, and so that matters
in the recruiting element, you know, with signing day early
December and then another one in February. So I think
that and then just all the change, seventy five new players,
new staff, new new coordinators, you know, new head coach,
(26:22):
all the things. You know, whether that storm and get
to six wins would be incredible. Imagine they get to seven.
I mean, like we I think Koog fans would feel fantastic.
So there's a lot of work to do, you know,
but this team's shown when they put it together, and
this is at times probably frustrating it for fans, when
they put it together, they're a really good football team
in all three phases. It's just a magic matter of
getting all three phases going in.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
The right direction.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
Yeah, would agree, and I think that that's why it
is important to get there. The other thing is too,
Alex And I'll leave you with this, you know, listening
to Jimmy yesterday in his news conference talking about retention,
you know, one of the hard things of this team
for a while when the nil era started is what
you make. You have really good players, you develop those players,
and then they leave this year, doesn't There's not that.
(27:03):
There's not a John Mattier, there's not a Cam War,
there's not a Strippling, there's not these types of guys. Necessarily,
there's good, good football players. But he talked about retention.
You're around it. It feels like this staff has done
a decent job or we'll do a decent job of
retention as well. And I think that's why that Bowl
game becomes even more important very much.
Speaker 8 (27:22):
So, I mean they do a really nice job, you know,
I think building relationships with players right through kind of
honest conversations and very clear direction of hey, we you know,
we want the best for you, so we need you
to do X, Y and Z, right, and then it's
kind of up to the player to meet that standard.
And I think when the players meet that standard, then
they build a lot of trust with the staff, right.
And you know in this day and this day and
any college football and you're starting to see it right
(27:43):
Like the first few years, it was kind of like
everybody chasing the money because they wanted to go. They
wanted to get the payday, and they thought going to
the big logos with the paydays would matter in the end.
The same thing matters today as it did before NIO,
which is the biggest payday is getting to the NFL,
right and the biggest and then below that, the next
biggest pay day is showing that you can be productive
(28:05):
on the field throughout the duration of your career. And
what a lot of guys chasing the money or running
into is they end up in worse situations and are
less successful than they were at their previous stop and
it either hinders their NFL opportunity or it takes away
just from their general college experience because they're not getting
the same you know, not getting the same thing they
got at say, Washington State. And so I think you
can sell against that to some degree. You definitely need
(28:27):
to match it with some NIL help. But to your
point about retention, I think Jimmy Rodgers and staff have
a good model for this because they've had to do
it for the last ten years at South Dakota State.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
Right, yeah, exactly, All right, let's we'll get it a
final thought next week before the Oregon State game.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
Quick thought on the new shoe company. Man, you got
going on right now?
Speaker 8 (28:45):
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you know, and they were the shoe brand that didn't
make it, which is which is pretty wild to say,
but it was My brother and I have since revived
the brand. Uh, you can purchase original when we've revived
some original colorways and styles.
Speaker 5 (29:07):
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Speaker 8 (29:07):
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Speaker 1 (29:21):
Thanks a lot to have a safe travels back there.
We'll talk to next Tuesday, buddy. Thanks An Alex Brink
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cracking tonight Bent will have you here about an hour
and a half for the pregame show Crack and taking
on Detroit first, the four straight on the road before
they head home for one prior to the Thanksgiving break.
That's a week from tomorrow against Dallas. But in the meantime,
Detroit tonight, good team Andrews. You know this. They play
close games anytime, they play a lot of overtime, yes,
the teams.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
So we'll see what happens tonight.
Speaker 4 (30:35):
Lots of two one games.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Yeah, this is you know, it's weird.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
It's a Detroit's Detroit kind of like Seattle having a
surprisingly good year.
Speaker 4 (30:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
People are like, I don't believe it.
Speaker 3 (30:46):
It's the Todd McClellan effect though, because he comes in
like the structure guy.
Speaker 4 (30:50):
You know, structure guy.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
This might be a two to.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
One games I'm saying, manh Yeah, five of the eight
all time.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
Meetings between these two teams have gone to overtime or shootout,
and we're shooting.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
Yeah, we'll see if that.
Speaker 4 (31:02):
Detroit's a cool place to play too.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
So yeah, it's I think Little Caesars Arena, you know,
brand new building there downtown.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
Kind of cool.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
It's hockeytown, man, Yeah, called hockey town for a reason.
Good opportun join the quarters back. He'll uh, he'll be
a goal tonight. He's back off the injured list, so
Matt Murray goes on the injured list. Jared mccannon will
not play, but he's on the trip, so hopefully we'll
see him at some point or the next three.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
Games after this. All right, that's your daily power play.
Bent will get you going with.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
Everything else coming up at three thirty before we get
to Softy and Fagne for their quick little hour and
a half show. They do have John Wilner coming up
at three. See if he uh see if he talks
about the uh what his buddy John Canzano has been
saying about how Washington is a half not Tier three.
Speaker 4 (31:40):
I can't wait for Dick Fane's response to that.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
I know, I really yeah, okay tier three? Yeah see,
you Coopers are Tier five whatever. I just remember Scott
Woodward said we were have not Okay, Okay, we are
right now honestly after that last night with Drink, we
are have not.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
You have the Stove up? Is that right? Tell us
what you got?
Speaker 3 (31:59):
Yes? Our first couple episodes of Stove with Chuck pollin
Andershurst is up on the podcast page. You can find
that anywhere. We had our original episode last week kind
of laying out the plan for the off season and
now kind of reacting to Josh Naylor's signing. Today, we
recorded It's up. It's ready to listen to. It's about
an hour long. Chuck gives his crystal Ball predictions too
(32:22):
for the rest of this offseason, and we throw some
trade ideas in there. So there's a lot of cool stuff.
Chuck does a great job of kind of mapping it out,
not just you know, picking all the top free agents,
but doing it in a way that's realistic to what
the Mariners could do.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
Okay, so if you're a mentor fan, go download that
Against the Stove. It's on the iHeartRadio podcast pages right,
just go search it and you'll find it and away
you go download it and subscribe all that fun stuff.
Then go check it out. Those guys both have a
passion for baseball. U end and thanks, so be good listen.
I'm sure if you're a baseball fan needs a little
off season baseball news. Okay, that's it for us. Turn
it over Softy and Faine or moments away. They've got
(32:53):
an hour and a half. They've got one more pair
of tickets to give away for Krack in Hockey Cracking
Ticket Tuesday, All so I need to get a text
on this. We are not doing obviously a Factor fiction
pick today. Yes, those guys, I.
Speaker 5 (33:06):
Think it's good for us because it would have been
my pick.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
That's just good for us as a show. It's not
just shoot.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
But yeah, so they have they'll have a pick for
you coming up, one of their own picks coming up
at two thirty five.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
Until then, we'll talk tomorrow.
Speaker 9 (33:18):
I'll see it for the mild mannered and marginally objectionable Inverness.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
This is Paddled Day saying so long everyone,
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