Furness Show 3-16: NBA Expansion News, Mollywhop Monday, Daily Power Play

Ian gives his thoughts on the most recent update regarding NBA expansion to Seattle.  Mollywhop Monday with Nathan Bishop and Chris Crawford: they give their thoughts on the NBA news, the WBC, and more!  Daily Power Play after a massive Kraken back-to-back W.  Gary Parrish gives his thoughts as someone who is plugged in to the NBA in Memphis, and what the NBA product is like now.  We hear your talkbacks and read your texts regarding the NBA news, does this newest update mean anything to you?  Softy joins for cross talk.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, I want to get into this.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
We're gonna get right into it today and then two
o'clock we're gonna check in with Gary Parrish. And you're say,
wait a second, I thought you're doing bracketology tomorrow.

Speaker 3 (00:09):
I am.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
We are from still call me Casino, Hotel and Casino.
Tomorrow we're doing one to three. We'll have our bracketology
show from one to two tomorrow. It'll be if you
are filling out a bracket, And as I told Mark
a moment ago, you can.

Speaker 1 (00:22):
Everybody's allowed to.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
In fact, we want you to go to nine three
three KJR dot com and film one out there on
our site for free, along with whatever else you may do.
I think I made my point to MJ. Can't be
a sports elitist. I don't know stop gatekeeping people. I fall.
I follow the college basketball probably for ranking the station
Mark one, Dick and me are probably tied for two,

(00:46):
and then there's a pretty significant drop off. Oh yeah,
and I watch a lot of college basketball. I can't
tell you every coach and every player. I can tell
you what teams do. Ask me what a team does.
I can tell you what they do? Well, maybe, but
not all set sixty eight of them fill it out.
We'll do that tomorrow with Parish, and he's great. I
heard eron Tory's on earlier with Mark, you did a

(01:07):
nice job. I'll point out one thing with with erin
torries the whole thing with god ZAGAZUK is missing their
second best player. Like I know, we want to kill
the Zags. And trust me, I'm at the top of
the list and wanting to kill the Zags. I have
no problem doing that. I think they grid defensive team
hard to kind of smash these guys right now with
the fact they're missing Huff still so, but we'll get
to that with with Parish tomorrow. I did talk to

(01:28):
Perish today. We taped something earlier real quick with him
because he lives in Memphis, works in Memphis as Sports Radom.
About seventy five percent of his daily show that he
does there, not just the network stuff he does for CBS,
is on the NBA, right, So I I asked him
today about the state of the NBA, what we should

(01:50):
expect in two years.

Speaker 1 (01:51):
Why uh Shams.

Speaker 2 (01:54):
Sharania Sharania, I guess I better get to know this
guy's name. He's the end that took over for WOJ
when Woj went back to the college ranks to run
a basketball program in is alma Mater Shams This morning
on Get Up on ESPN.

Speaker 4 (02:10):
The NBA will hold a vote next week at the
Board of Governor's meetings on March twenty fourth and twenty
five to allow the league to go explore two new
expansion teams exclusively in Las Vegas and Seattle. And so
these two teams would be targeted for the twenty twenty
eight twenty nine season. And there is momentum within stakeholders

(02:30):
here to try to go out there and see what
is the market here and what could those proposals look like,
because industry executives tell me that you're looking at somewhere
between seven to ten billion dollars per team for Seattle
and Las Vegas. And so this first step right now,
this first vote is looked at as a formality. There

(02:52):
is momentum for the owners around the NBA to approve
this vote to go allow the league to go see
what those bids.

Speaker 3 (02:59):
Could look like.

Speaker 4 (03:00):
This is just the first of a multi step process.
So you go out there, you give permission the league
to go explore, You get the bids, and then depending
on if it reaches the threshold, then you have a
final vote later in twenty twenty six to approve the
move to thirty two NBA teams. And so there is
a growing majority of owners right now, I'm told that
our supportive expansion. You think about Seattle in Las Vegas,

(03:22):
those are two big markets in the NHL in your
world in the NFL, and so could those two teams
immediately emerge as top revenue generators. So that's what we're
going to see play out over twenty twenty six.

Speaker 2 (03:35):
And he wrote a story at ESPN dot com. Did
Shams how you say it again? I think it's actually
Shams Shams hew S.

Speaker 5 (03:42):
I'm Shirania.

Speaker 2 (03:43):
Okay, that guy wrote a wrote a store at ESPN
dot com that I read, and then the dates coming
out as twenty twenty eight starting in follow twenty twenty eight,
so two and a half years from now, So not
a surprise. We've been here rumblings behind the scenes for
a long time. He said something in there. He actually

(04:05):
talked out of both sides of his mouth a little
bit in there to gauge the interest. Okay, shut up
this and that we know what the price is. We
do know that it would be lucrative. Sure, you're adding
two markets that help you, you know, like markets like
Gary's in Memphis, markets like Salt Lake, small market teams
New Orleans, they don't help you. Now, Media Market twelve

(04:28):
helps you. And that's what we are. God, I wish
we had had ownership in place and they could have
gone and fought Idiot and Olympia over the state income
tax thing going on, because that's not going to be
good for us. John Shauder talked about that at the
Sports Star Awards thing on Friday. It's not going to
help us get good players here for any sport anyway.
That aside seven, we've been heard in seven to eight million.

(04:50):
That's fine. That's the billion. I should billion billion with
a B. It feels very much like a formality. We're
going to have a vote to have a vote. We're
having a meeting to set up another meeting. That's what
we're doing. Anybody in the corporate world, you guys are
probably sitting and going, God, yeah, I had three of
those today, Like really, we had a meeting to set
up another meeting to have a meeting. We had a

(05:10):
meeting for a meeting. I know, I gotta be really
careful what I say. But I've Yes, there's a lot
of places that I know well that have meetings to
set up meetings.

Speaker 1 (05:20):
Not here, actually not here.

Speaker 3 (05:22):
I like it.

Speaker 2 (05:22):
We don't have a lot of meetings. Yeah, purple sheet,
we all like no meeting. Yes, please don't take that. Yes,
they're having a meeting to set up a meeting. They're
having a vote to set up another vote. Yeah, they
got to convince a couple owners because they needed twenty
three votes, as he said in the story, twenty three
out of thirty two to go ahead with expansion again
in two and a half years time. Follow twenty twenty eight,

(05:43):
I heard Chris Kidd and I think just my quick
question to everybody is this, and we'll get text four
nine four or five one. That's on the Takoma Dodge
text line shop Takoma Dodge Chrysler gep Ram at the
corner of thirty eighth and south to come away intersection
of Savings four on the text line. Also you can
send a talk back in go to the red microphone
iHeartRadio app Red Micron nine three point three KTERFM and

(06:05):
you can speak in there. I think Chris kids spoke
for a lot of people when I heard him say
this today on i MV in the midday, and he
basically to paraphrase what Chris said. And this is I'm
telling you right now. If I just talked about the
rankings of college basketball fans here in our station, if
I'm ranking NBA fans, it's Chris Kidd and everyone else comes.
Everyone else is a distant second, Yes, like a distant second.

(06:27):
This dude loves the NBA. Yeah, it's like my kid
same keepers a little younger than Chris, but like that demo. Yeah,
loves the NBA. And Chris like, yeah, just let me
know when it happens. The exhaustion level of people in
this market, rightfully so, about being teased for the NBA

(06:47):
is to the point now where a lot of folks
are just like whatever, I'm gonna tell you this. Super
Bowl Championships one and two were massive, the NHL getting
awarded here, actually not before the NHL got a word here.
The could drive on that March day. It was March sixteenth, right,
something like that. Two thousand and nineteen twenty eighteen was incredible.

(07:10):
Thirty two thousand tickets the day the NBA announcements are
coming back to Seattle. Will be the biggest thing that
we've seen probably in the last maybe ever in sports
here in this market. Number two, unfortunately, is probably when
they left. Yeah, it will be a massive, massive thing,
and I'm with a lot of people it's going to happen.
I don't have any doubt it's going to happen in

(07:31):
twenty twenty eight. I believe that. But I want to
know how you guys feel about this. There's a lot
of people that are still turned off by it now.
I also think it's like I've always called it sports porn.
You say you hate the NBA, you still watch it. Yeah,
I was that guy for a long time. I stopped.

Speaker 1 (07:47):
Don't care about don't care about it. Just don't care.

Speaker 2 (07:50):
We've been joking about refuse to talk on this for
a while. That's where I'm at. But I want to
get your thoughts on that. We'll get a lot more
into it coming up a two o'clock today, four nine
four or five to one, more than aything. I want to
hear you guys, your thoughts when you heard that story
today four nine four five one on the Tama dotch
text line or on the iHeartRadio app the red microphone.
Let's get your voices on the air. Coming up to the
two o'clock hour. Coming up next, we will molliwop ladies
and gentlemen.

Speaker 1 (08:11):
It is time.

Speaker 2 (08:11):
We are a week and a half away from the
start of baseball season. The WBC's got a problem with
umpires and that's next.

Speaker 6 (08:20):
It's Monday, then that means one thing. It's time to
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(08:44):
my oh why here's Ian forer NEETs.

Speaker 2 (08:47):
All right, it is a molliwap Monday. We're gonna get
to the guys in a second. We're just getting some
connection issues ironed out. So once Andrews has that rocking
and rolling, we will do that. In the meantime, let
me tell you about our good friends at Simply Seattle,
Simply Seattle. We started the show today talking about what's
going on with our good friends the National Basketball Association,

(09:08):
the NBA. If you missed the story, ESPN reporting there's
a vote to have another vote. First vote coming up
on Sunday, second vote sometime later this year, probably in
the summer, to move ahead with expansion exclusively to Seattle
in Vegas. Well, what better time, ladies and gentlemen to
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If you need to know what it looks like. NBA
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(10:38):
good care of us. They take good care of all
of us. We love them and we appreciate all that
they do. All right, we're getting everybody popping up here.
I see one Nathan Bishop. We'll get to him here
in just a couple of seconds. Waiting on Chris Crawford.
We had to redo our little link. Normally we like
to see each other. Yeah, with the Mollywap mondays, we
like to have a communication face to face and see
each other. Think, what are you wearing today? Bishop? Put

(11:01):
your head down, just for a second, put your head.

Speaker 7 (11:03):
Oh, that's the twenty twenty four Seattle marin Is All
Star Baseball cap, brought to you by the fine people
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Speaker 2 (11:11):
I like it. I like it, And yes, Chris, you're
right streamyard is way better because it doesn't work on
my computer anymore.

Speaker 3 (11:16):
Well, I think I think it's a computer issue.

Speaker 1 (11:18):
I think we have a.

Speaker 3 (11:20):
Operator issue and a lot smarter than all of us.
Let's be honest.

Speaker 2 (11:26):
Something I'm gonna just say it has to do with
my heart software. Who said that out loud? Did somebody
say that? Who said that? I think that was MJ
just said that.

Speaker 1 (11:37):
I think J just threw the company ut of the bus.

Speaker 2 (11:41):
It couldn't have been and there's no way it was
being all right, boy, hey, listen before we get to baseball,
you guys are too what. I love talking you guys
have you're here. Your guys are from here, Chris and Nate.
You guys are Seattle guys. It's kind of why we
started this whole thing. I mean, your Mariner fans through
and through, but you're Seattle guys. News coming out today
about the Sonics. There's a couple trains of the schools

(12:01):
of thought. One is the Chris kid who loves the NBA.
He's like, yeah, man, whenever, let me know when they
come Like he's just kind of I think worn out
with stories that they're coming back. Those others are like cool,
I think we finally see some tangible progress. Chris, what
do you think? What's your thoughts? And to hear the
ESPN story, they're having to vote to have another vote,
but it looks like twenty twenty eight might be the
target date.

Speaker 8 (12:22):
I mean, you and I have had similar thoughts on this,
where we've kind of thought Seattle has just been used
for a long time, waiting for the ultimate punishment for
teams that don't vote for a new stadium is like, hey,
we'll threaten to move to Seattle.

Speaker 3 (12:39):
It feels real.

Speaker 8 (12:39):
It finally feels a little bit real, and I am
I can't say that I've paid as much attention to
the NBA as I used to, but the Sonics were
my favorite team and it wasn't even close Like Vincent,
ask you and Michael Cage.

Speaker 3 (12:52):
And those guys were who I grew up watching.

Speaker 8 (12:54):
And it's a wonderful thing to get closer. I'm still
going to be skeptical until it happens, but I need
the NBA back in my life. The fact that there
are so many unbelievable players that I have not got
to watch play in Seattle Washington breaks my heart and
I need the NBA I understand everybody who's like I
don't pay attention to it. We've had our heartbroken and

(13:14):
all that stuff. You're justified in your opinion. But I
need the NBA. I need it. I need us to
be a for sport Town. And today's a step closer.
And that's really cool.

Speaker 2 (13:22):
I you know, the cool thing about the being a
Sonic fan before I get to date is that every
one of us has a different generation of players that
we will just reference. You just do a Vincent ask
you and for that, you and the gold Star today, Sir.

Speaker 1 (13:40):
Nathan.

Speaker 7 (13:41):
Yeah, I guess if we're throwing out at references. I
am the guy that Chris gave permission to exist, So Chris,
I appreciate it. I've got more of the bulldog Frank
Prakowski mindset going on here, where I'm stubborn and said
in my ways, you know what, man like I, The
last thing that I would want to do is try
to I leave my joy thieving for the Seattle Marriers.

(14:04):
When it comes to other things, I like to let
people have fun and have a great time.

Speaker 3 (14:08):
And if you're thrilled.

Speaker 7 (14:09):
About the idea of the NBA coming back, I'll be
thrilled for the region for people I care about. The
Sonics were also my favorite team growing up in the nineties.
Child Core childhood memories is listening to Kevin Collaboro call
games while I'm in my driveway, while I'm shooting buckets,
skipping out on baseball practice so that I can watch
the nineteen ninety six Western Conference Finals against the Utah Jazz.

(14:30):
Those are foundational experiences for me. I am over them.
I'm over being used as a pond by the NBA.
Twenty years is way too long. This is one of
the crown jewel cities in the entire league, and they
ripped us away for no good reason. Because David's turn
got his feelings hurt, and because Clay Bennett is a
piece of trash and they should have been back the

(14:51):
second that they left, and the fact that they let
it drag on for it, I think exactly the reasons
you guys talked about that we were being used as
a pond. These are really bad taste in my mouth,
so I would never say that, like, I'm not going
to be a son Ex fan. If they come back,
I'll be very happy to have basketball back in the city.
But it's gonna I'm not just gonna throw myself back
in it like they were never there, like they never left.

(15:13):
My kids grew up without the NBA, and I'm never
going to get that back. That's gone forever, that experience
is dead. So I'm not quite ready to forgive yet.
And and maybe when it's actually real and they actually
do it, I'll change And I'm like, that's the thing.
I would never say, I'm never going to do something again.
But right now I'm still just kind of pissed off man,

(15:35):
and I'm tired of being used as their leverage play.

Speaker 2 (15:37):
I think you, I think you speak for a lot
of people. I think you speak for a lot of
people in this market, and there's a lot of hurt feelings,
and there's a lot of people that I have a
same feelings.

Speaker 1 (15:47):
By the way, about like the fact that you know,
I've got a kid.

Speaker 2 (15:50):
Who's a huge basketball fan, huge and was really good
high school an AU basketball player, and loves a sport
and still watches it today, but they watch it in
a different way. They're not watching Kevin Claverero listening on
the radio. They're watching you know, YouTube clips and stuff
like that. But I'll be happy for him if it
comes back, even if he's you know, well passed growing

(16:10):
the growing up stages. I think Chris, you, I think
we're right though. I think this does feel real. I
think this does feel little different than some of the
other stuff we've heard. So we'll get to that later.
By the way, with all of you guys on two
o'clock hour, we'll listen to your talkbacks as well on
the iHeartRadio app in the red microphone. All right, Lely,
in total transparency, I'm not going to be the sports
radio guy that says, and I told these guys this earlier,

(16:30):
that says, man, what a game last night?

Speaker 1 (16:32):
That was unreal.

Speaker 2 (16:33):
You know you said the Dominican rule. Could you believe
what happened? I didn't see it. We had a hockey game,
go crack, and we'll get to them later. Get a
nice win over Florida. I did watch the last pitch
with some of the off ice officials. They were holding
the phone in the press box hallway. We're looking at it.
Let me let me start just with that, Chris. That

(16:53):
wasn't just one bad strike call. It was too Did it?
Did it take anything away from the win the tournament?
I know some people, this is find a good thing.
Some people say yes, some people say no, what was
your read on that?

Speaker 8 (17:04):
A lot of people were really mad. Now I will
say this because of how I do social media. Now
I'm with a lot of like minded folks, so I
don't have a lot of you know, a wide variety
of people talking to me. But I will say this,
it's pathetic, and it's been pathetic all tournament.

Speaker 3 (17:22):
They have been just awful, and it's just a reminder.

Speaker 8 (17:26):
Of how silly it is that we rely on these
guys to call balls and strikes right now.

Speaker 3 (17:30):
It's too hard. It's just too hard.

Speaker 8 (17:32):
And you know, my buddy Mike Petrellio pointed out they
probably would have ran out of challenges because of how
bad the strike zone was over those nine innings, so
maybe they wouldn't have challenges.

Speaker 3 (17:44):
Well, that's a pretty freaking stupid.

Speaker 8 (17:46):
System if you can run out of challenges simply because
the umpire is so bad that they have to keep
using these challenges.

Speaker 3 (17:53):
Right.

Speaker 8 (17:53):
No, it definitely hurt because the strike call on Soto
it wasn't a clear strike, but the strike colling Prodomo
to end the game is one of the worst balls
and strikes I have seen in a long time, even
when you don't consider how high leverage that situation was.

Speaker 3 (18:09):
With a runner on second base who just happened to
be Julio.

Speaker 8 (18:11):
Roy Driganz by the way, draws a really nice walk
against Mason Miller. It did it dampered it. It dampered
it too, just because it was a fairly boring game
outside of it. Two solo home runs for the US,
one solo homer for the Dominican Republic, some really good pitching,
you know, and that's fun to watch. But yeah, it
definitely left a sour note that that game ended instead
of a great play. By the way, Julio's catch was

(18:33):
just absolutely phenomenal. I assume everyone saw the replay of that. Yeah,
he might be a center fielder, Nathan. It is just
crazy to see a game like that end. Knowing we
have the technology, knowing we have the ability to be better,
and if I hear another word about the human element,
I might show you really how human I am.

Speaker 2 (18:56):
We'll get off the zoom.

Speaker 1 (18:57):
Let's know, all right, Yeah, I agree with all of that.

Speaker 7 (19:03):
I've been a slow adopter of the ABS concept and
feel like I've been one of the more died in
the wold Umpire defenders. But games like last night really
illustrate if they do this system the way that they're
going to do it, where it takes so little time
for the review, just like in a tennis review, it's
such an improvement for the sport. It would have helped
last night. We're talking about the human element I do
think lost in the controversy there. We'd be remiss if

(19:26):
we didn't at least acknowledge the human element of Fernando
Tatisse getting thrown out running to third for absolutely no reason,
not going from first to third on a play where
he clearly could have made it. Austin Wells running the
bases slower than a tortoise with a piano on his back,
and Brando Toutis and could tell Marte both striking out
with runners on second and third and one out. So
it's unfortunate that it ended on such an egregiously blown strike.

(19:49):
But I think Albert Pooles was right in his postgame
comments that you cannot dwell on that the dr had
so many opportunities to make that happen and to blow
that game open, and they didn't capitalize, And that's baseball.

Speaker 3 (20:02):
I think it is.

Speaker 2 (20:02):
I think the bigger picture is that it does hammer
home that we're going to see an improvement in Major
League Baseball this year, right, like, and it's and there's
there's it's like just a and I think the tennis
analogy is actually got in front of that, like get
it right and get it right quick, Like, here's the problem.
We're heading into March madness. And I love March madness.
I love I love especially the first four days. I

(20:24):
just love it. But my god, guys, you know what's
going to happen the final two minutes of right, Chris, Yeah,
the last two minutes of every basketball game that's close.

Speaker 1 (20:33):
We'll take thirty minutes. It just was at least it's right.

Speaker 2 (20:38):
And it's gonna we're gonna review the out of bounds call, uh,
I mean, and we're gonna see the same Charles Barkley
what's his face we do the commercial with. We'll see
the same ones over and over again, the same eight commercials.
And it's like in over reviews. Reviews don't need to
take that long. And baseball seems to have it right
at least what we've seen so far in spring trending, Right, guys,

(20:59):
It feels like they've got it right. It's quick.

Speaker 3 (21:02):
Yeah, it's super fast.

Speaker 8 (21:03):
By the way, I believe Northern Iowa the most for this,
because they blew that like thirteen point lead with like
a minute and a half. So every team now thinks
they can foul and get into position to win those games.
Thanks a lot, you stupid Mountain for whatever conference you're in. Yeah,
it's gone quick, it's fast. It's it doesn't take nearly
as much time as I think people thought it would,

(21:24):
and it it doesn't break up the pace of play,
like it's a quick tap on the head to show
the pitch move on, so on and so forth, Like
it really doesn't break up the pace of baseball at all.
I think it should just be fully automated. But I'll
take this over what we have or what we had
like every day of the week.

Speaker 2 (21:43):
It probably takes less time than it did for before
they change the rules three or two or three years ago,
when guys would step out of the box and readjust
every piece of armor they had on their body. Right,
So mar Garcia, yeah, exactly, Nathan. Do you think just
that the WBS overall, has it been good for baseball? WBC,
I should say.

Speaker 7 (22:00):
Yeah, I think it's been fantastic. I mean, we had
my son and I had appointment viewing for a baseball
game on March fifteenth last night, which you're never gonna
get that. I think spring training is fun for exactly
seventy two hours and then it's time for the regular
season to go. So we talked in a previous show
that there's probably a better time for competitive purposes for

(22:22):
this tournament to be played. But man, I don't know
if if you're able to watch this tournament regularly, especially
especially and this is not an anti American statement, but
if you're able to watch the non American games, the
atmosphere and the juice in these games is so real
and it's so unlike anything that you get that you

(22:42):
can't have in a one hundred and sixty two game schedule.
This is not a shot at Major League Baseball. Just
the nature of a knockout tournament, a short form tournament
like this leads to drama like we experienced in the
playoffs last years. As Mariner fans, you cannot replicate that
with regular season baseball. I have it in a national sense,
with national pride on the line. It's so fun, man,

(23:05):
it's just such a fun experience. I think it's such
a cool thing. It's got quirks, it needs to be refined.
We saw they need to put in abs and maybe
they could find a better time, But I just think
it's a frickin awesome experienced.

Speaker 8 (23:20):
You agree, yeah, totally. It's this is fun and you
see how much you know. I'm not saying that the
United States doesn't care about this. They would have been
eliminated a long time ago if they just flat out
didn't care about this, And you wouldn't see Aaron Judge
and Big Dumper and these guys playing in this if
they didn't care.

Speaker 3 (23:36):
But it does mean more to some of these countries.
You saw it like that crowd was.

Speaker 8 (23:40):
A thousand percent behind uh, the Dominican Republic in Miami,
and you will see the same thing for Venezuela against Italy.

Speaker 3 (23:47):
Those crowds are just going to be absolutely bonkers.

Speaker 8 (23:50):
I brought it up a few times now, but the
most fun I've ever had in a baseball game is
Dominican Republic versus Puerto Rico in twenty seventeen, just because
that passion cannot be Replica and Nathan hit the nail
on the head.

Speaker 3 (24:02):
You can't replicate this in the regular season.

Speaker 8 (24:03):
It's it has to be in this type of tournament
format and it has to be spread out because it
would lose a little bit of its luster. But it's
beyond a good thing for baseball to see all of
this happening.

Speaker 2 (24:13):
Yeah, I think it's a simple thing. It's just to
do it. Like, you know, hockey's got a decent model
for it. I don't know about soccer, but I know
hockey's got a decent model. It's it's like World Junior
Championships and so forth, like there's an X number of
teams to get in, Like you don't need to have
everybody in, like it it needs four nations.

Speaker 1 (24:30):
Last year hockey was perfect. There were best four teams.

Speaker 2 (24:32):
Simple. I mean number four was actually should have been Russia,
but we all know there's issues there. But that's what
it is. Like, give me four teams, give me the
four fast four or five. Maybe maybe in baseball it's six.
Maybe it's just six, whatever it would be. And you
could do that over the court. I saw I think
who was it Rosenthal or somebody had had a deal. Oh,
you could just you know, play the do the home

(24:53):
run derby, play the All Star Game, and then have
the no no, get rid of the stupid home run derby,
get rid of the damn All Star Game, and just
do it the course of a week. Give these give
everybody else two weeks off, like it, take the break,
got the schedule down, one hundred and fifty four games,
whatever it is, it's very doable because what it just did,
what you guys just said, and it's what has it
has accomplished the goal people are into baseball in the

(25:13):
middle of March, like that's a good thing. Like that's
a really really good thing.

Speaker 1 (25:18):
Real quick.

Speaker 2 (25:19):
To wrap up my quick thoughts on the ABS, I
was kind of like Nathan like, kind of slow to change.

Speaker 5 (25:23):
I'm old.

Speaker 1 (25:24):
I like I like stuff.

Speaker 2 (25:25):
Wha it used to be, sure, But talking to you
guys over the years, Chris especially like just the way
guys throw a ball now, the spin, the leverage, the ball,
ball movement. The human eye cannot as an umpire dick.
You know, It's not like Nolan Ryan throwing a fastball
straight down the middle.

Speaker 1 (25:42):
It just isn't the same, exactly right.

Speaker 2 (25:43):
And to have these guys expect them to make you know,
I think it's unfair to them to make to expect
them to call a perfect ball and strike. That's not
It's just it's not like umpires have gotten worse. You know,
they probably have better training than they ever had before.
But the ball, the game has changed. It's the NBA
is the same way. NBA has got a bunch of
guys that you know, look like like you like us

(26:05):
refereeing games. You know, you need to have played college
basketball that are six nine, that can run and see
the floor, and I'll remember how to play before I
let you guys go real quick, because of course next
week we'll have opening days coming up and all that,
and that's that's when we really kind of sink our
teeth into things. Chris, what are you looking for in
the final week of Peoria?

Speaker 3 (26:22):
Just stay healthy, Please just stay healthy.

Speaker 8 (26:24):
Let everybody play in bubble wrap and throw underhand if
they have to. That's the most important thing, is just
just let everybody.

Speaker 3 (26:33):
Come out of Peoria as healthy as possible, so you get.

Speaker 8 (26:36):
The very best roster for what I think is a
pretty big we'll talk about it next week, a pretty
big homestand to be open the year against two teams
that made the playoffs last year.

Speaker 1 (26:44):
So just not a soft landing, thanks MLB. Not a
soft landing.

Speaker 3 (26:48):
Yeah, yeah it's nice, Yeah it'll be fun. But yeah,
absolutely Nathan.

Speaker 7 (26:52):
Playing that first place schedule, Thank you very much, MLB.

Speaker 6 (26:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (26:56):
I want Bryce Miller to get healthy and get closer,
Like I don't think at this point he's going to
be a healthy for opening Day, but I want that
to be limited. I really don't like the fact that
he's now kind of zooming in on his second straight unhealthy,
injury riddled season. So the Mariners are fairly well situated
to handle something like that, but gosh, I just I

(27:18):
hope for the best for him. Otherwise, everything Chris said,
bubble wrap all that stuff. Maybe sign like a fringe swingman,
reliever guy that you can stash in Triple A just
in case bribably Brice Miller is not okay. But other
than that, I just want to push fast forward for
ten days, ten days, guy's all I want.

Speaker 1 (27:33):
I know, let's go.

Speaker 7 (27:34):
I want it to be ten days from now.

Speaker 2 (27:35):
Then what I'll be doing in ten days, I'll be
actually have a hockey game that night, but so early,
which is nice. After the hockey game, watch a little baseball,
and then I'll be flipping on the old YouTube channel
and the postcast because the boys are back in town.
My favorite thing. I gave you about a thousand pump
ups on the Tide Dame Gonzalez podcast, the Locked On.

(27:56):
They invited me to do Locked on Mariners. Chris.

Speaker 1 (27:58):
I was stunned. I don't know why, lets go, but
I did it and it.

Speaker 2 (28:02):
Felt like I's probably not too happy with it.

Speaker 1 (28:05):
Yeah, as I heard on the postcast last year.

Speaker 2 (28:07):
Oh yeah, a lot of Chris Crawford and uh and
Andy and Andrews references.

Speaker 1 (28:14):
But it's my favorite.

Speaker 2 (28:15):
Now. You guys do a great job with it. It
makes it fun. I want, especially now with the scale
back television version of Mariner Baseball. I'm a big I'm
a big no matter what. I'm biased because I do
a post game show, but I want to hear what
happened and why it happened. I think that's good. You
guys did a great job at that. So Uh, all right, boys,
that's it, mile Wi go subscribe on YouTube. Uh and

(28:38):
we will talk. We will set this up for next week,
but it's how we get there. We'll have had all
kinds of March madness and games that have gone you know,
two and a half three hours because of Northern Iowa
challenging out of Alice call. I gotta get back on
Blue Sky and see Chris Crawford raving about that on
the old Blue Sky. So I think that's where he's
hanging out these days. So well, which it out, guys,

(29:00):
great stuff. I appreciate all the insight. That's Nathan Bishop,
that's Chris Crawford. Streamyard is indeed way better Chris. Yes,
I see your not note down there. Well done. We'll
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(31:36):
it's just one guy, right. McCann can't keep up. He's
Kay Thompson. He's catching shoot guy, catch and shoot. That's
nobody Steve Vich you it's Steve. If you're listening, that's you.
I don't want to that's his And so he's right though, Yeah,
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I think he's a little banged depth still. I don't
think he's ever written healthy this year. He can shoot,
he can rip it. Yeah, Bobby and McMahon finally makes

(31:58):
his debut, the guy that got the trade dead line
from Toronto.

Speaker 1 (32:00):
He didn't do much this weekend.

Speaker 2 (32:02):
Nah, three goals to assist five points in two games. Yeah,
my god. There's guys who's been playing in the top
six all year. That haven't done that. Over the course
of a month, he made a difference. Here's Lane Lambert
after the game last night.

Speaker 6 (32:15):
That Bobby releases a puck. Well and you know that's
a that's a goal scorers goal right.

Speaker 2 (32:21):
There, Lane, big offensive night. That's what it's simple, dude,
rips it man, just absolutely rips it.

Speaker 9 (32:31):
Yeah, that power play goal. Two power play goals. By
the way, two of his three goals are on the
power play.

Speaker 1 (32:35):
Oh and by the way, the penalty kill is perfect.

Speaker 9 (32:38):
Asked Lane last night, like special teams matters, especially on
this team. They asked Lane last night, what did you
like about the penalty kill? And he jokingly laughed and
was like he didn't give up any goals.

Speaker 2 (32:50):
That was great.

Speaker 1 (32:50):
He's got a little bit of a dry sense of hum.
I mean, I'm in on. Lane, got massive red ass
and just his that's.

Speaker 2 (32:57):
When you're winning, right, Yeah, he's now, he's good. Listen.
Those are two big wins. They're back in the playoff
position right now, but only by one point. Tomorrow's kind
of hard. Tampa Bay rolls in here. They're good.

Speaker 1 (33:13):
Forty twenty one and four this.

Speaker 5 (33:14):
Year, probably at the Vesna winner on their team.

Speaker 2 (33:17):
Yeah, yeah, you're not going to score five against this dude.

Speaker 1 (33:20):
No, they're not going to score five against vessel.

Speaker 2 (33:22):
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(34:19):
Las Vegas and Seattle. They're having a meeting. They're having
a vote to hot they're holding a vote to have
another vote. I'm meeting the schedule another meeting. There is
tangible progress. We'll get to that in a second. Kraken
went back to back games. Saturday in the Cove. That's
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bought back Bobby McMahon difference maker. Sign him right bleeping
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Five points in two games, one point ahead of San Jose,
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Speaker 1 (35:06):
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Speaker 2 (35:08):
WBC TM USA beat the Dominican Republic on Sunday in
a controversial finish. They'll play either in Venezuela or Italy.
They played tonight. Right, that is correct, Thank you NFL
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him on a different topic today. I'll explain in a
moment for an hour tomorrow. We do this every year
with Parish. Just listen, absorb. We're not gonna go by
the way, We're not going game by game. No, we're
not kicking the whole bracket, not picking the whole bracket.
He does that on his podcast he does We met Orlander. Yeah,

(36:39):
and he's doing it today to be honest. Yeah, if
you listen, if you are the Eye in college basketball
podcast with him in Norlander, those guys break down every
region and it's great. Yeah, it's fantastic. We don't do that.
We go through the brackets kind of in a general sense.
What do you think of the one in the two seeds?
Can they get both get through? Who are the biggest threats.
It's kind of a ton of fun place. He just

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Speaker 5 (38:17):
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Speaker 2 (38:18):
Also on the iHeartRadio app, So just enjoy. So this
news came out today, We played the early the sounder
earlier from Shams Did I get right? Shams Sharania, thank you, Yes,
Insider ESPN. The longleat short of it is this, we
have been dancing around and getting teased in so many
ways by the NBA. Honestly, since I can give you

(38:41):
the exact date since July third, two thousand and eight,
that was the day after they left. In fact, that
probably even include July second, two thousand and eight. Why
because that was the day they said, this is your
best chance to get the team back. Okay, by selling
us out, by not waiting for Judge Marsha Peckman water
to the bridge. It doesn't matter now, But we've been teased.

(39:03):
We thought the Sacramento Kings were going to come here
waiting to see what happens. Chris Hansen's trying to build
a building down in Soto, which frankly was never going
to happen for a variety of reasons, not just zoning,
but frankly so and Steve Baumber decided to build the
building and buy the Clippers down in La that that
was his money. Guy Chris Hansen doesn't have the money.
He really doesn't have the money. You see that's going

(39:24):
to cost it. Now, then Kirina gets or then Kierana
gets renovated, demolished actually and rebuilt, and it's called climate plageria.
We got the NHL team here. The crack can have
been a massive success off the ice. Hopefully on the
ice will keep getting better and better and improving. But
off the ice has been a massive success in a

(39:44):
business venture, as a business ventures, innovative television and broadcast deal,
great second largest radio network, great host, pretty good host
on the radio side, TV side. It leaves a lot
to be desired. But no, they've been a great success
off the ice, and on the ice are getting better
and better. The building state of the art. We saw
that last year. If you went to the tournament games,

(40:05):
the March Madness games, they were sending sational it's a
great basketball arena.

Speaker 5 (40:10):
Just feels like a basketball arena, it doesn't it.

Speaker 2 (40:13):
I think it's really hard to get a building that's
great for both sports.

Speaker 1 (40:20):
I've said this for a long.

Speaker 2 (40:21):
Time when I went, when I got to Portland and
was working or at the Modus Center forty one times
a year covering the Blazers, and and I actually was
doing that.

Speaker 1 (40:31):
It was part of what we had to do evern game.
We were at every home.

Speaker 2 (40:34):
Game, and then worked there for years afterwards with Comcast
Sports Net, the Moda Center, and they're going through their
own thing down there with renovation and money and public
money and all.

Speaker 1 (40:43):
This other stuff.

Speaker 2 (40:44):
The Motor Center is a really good building, you know,
especially compared to how Key because it built the same
time as Key Arena was renovated. The Motas Center is
a better building. It was at least for hockey when
the Winterhawks played there, than it was for basketball. Basketball's
got some weird seating, like some flat seats behind the
baskets and stuff like that, just some weird seating. When

(41:05):
I went last year, and I had not been to
a storm game or a basketball game at Climate Plays,
but I went there last year for the tournament. I
think it was a first day whatever it was Thursday
or Friday. God, it was awesome. I mean it was
I was like, in fact, I sat in the press box,
which is like at the roof level.

Speaker 1 (41:24):
You know you're down That was a great view.

Speaker 2 (41:29):
It was, and where we do our games and our
pre and post game for the Crack and Hockey Network
in the corner that are spacing a lounge. I always
kind of look down there and think about it because
its kind of between the blue lines where the court
would be roughly actually kind of a high slot. Be
great there, see you try down below, they'd be fine,
no problem at all. Right, great basketball arena. But we've

(41:49):
been teased for a long time. The news today that
they're going to have a vote to go ahead and
have another vote in the summer.

Speaker 1 (41:56):
Let's get through this. I don't even care about that.

Speaker 2 (41:59):
This feel real, This feels like it's moving forward. The
date is twenty twenty eight. The date is twenty twenty eight.
Follow twenty eight that we're probably gonna get the NBA
back more than likely. They're talking about I'm not gonna
worry about the ownership stuff. Trust me, they know who
the owners are. They wouldn't be getting there's a lot

(42:19):
of stuff done just for optics. They know who the
owners are. They know the owners have money, blah blah blah.
My bigger thing is and we're asking you. We've got
a ton of text.

Speaker 1 (42:29):
We'll get to it.

Speaker 2 (42:29):
Two thirty talkbacks. Want to hear your thoughts on this.
I heard Chris Kids say something to Day had just
jumped out at me during MG and the Midday, and
Chris said, yeah, man, just let me know when it
comes back. I'm done with being teased, I'm done with all.
I just don't care until it comes back. I don't
care about the process. Okay, I'm paraphrasing with Chris said,
but I think a lot of people feel that way.
How do you feel about the NBA coming back?

Speaker 1 (42:50):
Excited? Are you?

Speaker 3 (42:52):
Well?

Speaker 2 (42:53):
Tell me in twenty twenty eight, I'll let you know.
Or maybe I'm just still pissed off all those things.

Speaker 9 (42:58):
And is it going to stay that way? And until
it's announced? Is it going to stay that way, until
the ball goes out on the air, until you see
a training camp? What's it gonna be?

Speaker 3 (43:07):
Right?

Speaker 2 (43:07):
Four nine four five one. We want to get some
talkbacks as well. I want to hear your voice. Just basically,
I'm just gonna say this, react to today's story, You
react to today's story.

Speaker 5 (43:19):
Or a non story, depending on how you feel.

Speaker 2 (43:21):
Exactly four nine four five one or the talkback. I'm
gonna assume the NBA is coming back. I'm just gonna
I think it is. I think it's coming back in
twenty twenty eight. After that story today, I've I've I've
felt like twenty twenty eight, we've talked about it before.

Speaker 1 (43:33):
It was a data all along. Oh that's nice.

Speaker 2 (43:35):
Twenty years later, nice little neat, little easy thing. Gary
Parrish covers the NBA. He'll be with us tomorrow for
the Bracketology Show, but we call them up today and say, hey,
we need a couple minutes of your time. Works in Memphis.
About eighty percent of his radio show there is NBA
Memphis Grizzlies, but just NBA as a whole. The other
nineteen percent is probably college basketball, and one percent's everything. Hell,

(43:57):
that's that's how they work down in Memphis. Here's Gary Parrish.
We called him up earlier today. Well, Gary Parrish, I
can't wait to talk to you tomorrow when we do
our annual Bracketology show, brought to you by our good
friends at Nolai Brewing. But we wanted to get you
on real quick today before we get up to the
casino and ask you you cover. Listen, everyone knows Gary
Parrish as our college basketball guy. They saw you last

(44:20):
night for a three quality three hours on television, another
hour plus of one of the eighteen podcasts you'll do
this week on I in College Basketball. But you also
in Memphis, based in Memphis, and you cover the NBA
for your radio show on a daily basis. News coming
out today, the NBA is looking at having a vote
next week about this is just sot NBA about exploring

(44:42):
the possibility of Vegas and Seattle as the two exclusive
teams for expansion.

Speaker 1 (44:48):
A vote.

Speaker 2 (44:49):
If it is pasted next week, a final vote would
come later on, probably this summer. My question to you,
Gary is what can Seattle fans expect in two years plus?
Look in your crystal ball, what is the state of
today's NBA? Because I hear good and I hear bad,
and I'm just kind of wondering what to expect. We're
gonna be excited, but what is the state from a

(45:11):
basketball standpoint of today's NBA.

Speaker 10 (45:13):
First, I'm just happy for you guys. You are in
a great NBA city forever Like the SuperSonics, still matter,
like Sean Kemp is a thing, and the idea that
you guys have been operating without that, when in theory,
in a different universe you could have had the best
years of Kevin Durant stinks. And so it's awesome that

(45:34):
you guys are getting back to where you always belong.
And I know that there's a process to this, and
the vote will just be to you know, do another
vote someday. But when this becomes this public and this detailed,
it's happening. So you're gonna have an NBA franchise once again. Congratulations.
As for the state of the NBA, it's an interesting

(45:55):
place right now because the television contracts are record setting,
like everybody's making a lot of money. But you don't
even have to follow it closely to know that the
regular season product is not great right now.

Speaker 11 (46:09):
And it's for a lot of different reasons.

Speaker 10 (46:11):
One is, I think Steve Kerr, the Golden State Warriors coach,
is right when he says that they've got to shorten
the season. You know I And for a while I
sort of fell victim to this a little bit too,
because it's very easy, particularly for somebody my age, to
say things like I remember in the nineties when Michael
Jordan would play eighty two games in thirty four minutes

(46:32):
a game. And if Michael Jordan could do it then
while also drinking and smoking and gambling every night, then
I don't know why you know, Anthony Edwards can't do
it today.

Speaker 11 (46:41):
And like, if you just keep it that simple, you'll.

Speaker 10 (46:44):
Win over some people, but not trainers, not people who
actually understand how the body works, because what they'll tell
you is that, yeah, basketball players are still playing the
same number of games or being asked to play the
same number of games, but basketball is a different sport now.
I mean that number of miles a player, a point guard,
say in the nineties, would run move during a basketball

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game does not even compare to the amount of steps
a basketball player takes in a basketball game in the
year twenty twenty six. Because shooting is so emphasized now,
the space in which you play basketball is bigger.

Speaker 6 (47:24):
Now.

Speaker 10 (47:24):
You still always play, you know, within twenty feet of
the basket or whatever. Now it could stretch out to
twenty seven feet twenty nine feet because there's Steph Curry
and Damian Lillard, so there's bigger space to play in
constantly moving in ways that didn't happen in the nineties
and our bodies. What we're learning is they're just not
equipped to handle this. I mean, these athletes take way

(47:48):
better care of themselves than any athlete who is currently
my age did when they were playing, Like even the
ones who you think are you know, out and you know,
having a good time. The way they eat, the way
they train, the way they are on a bike, everything
is just so different than where it was once upon
a time. But we're still having injuries, soft tissue stuff

(48:10):
way too often, and you don't have a good product
if you're asking people to buy season ticket packages, but
you can't promise that the stars of the show are
going to be on the court consistently. Imagine trying to
run a Broadway play sell tickets every night, but your
customers don't know whether you know Denzel Washington starring tonight
or somebody you've never heard of a starring tonight.

Speaker 11 (48:33):
It wouldn't work.

Speaker 10 (48:34):
And that's a real problem with the NBA right now
that they'll have to address. The tanking thing is another problem.
About a third of the league is just trying to
get aj debontser Darren Peterson or Darius Acuff because it's
incentivized for them to actually lose games to try to
increase their lottery eyds. Like one general manager reportedly told
Brian Windhorst at ESPN that his franchise would be willing

(48:56):
if you just would let them pick first. Don't even
have to promise them that they're gonna get the Hall
of Famer. They just want the chance to pick first.
They would literally pay one hundred million dollars for the
right to do that. So if you try to figure
out why, I mean even the Grizzlies today, they've got
another important player having an injection that's gonna sideline him.
Like we're not even doing surgeries anymore. It's like, hey,

(49:17):
you need a shot, so you can miss three games,
go miss. So you've got too many injuries, not enough
reason for enough franchises to try to win in the
regular season. And then the biggest thing is, I think
it's a messaging problem. Whether it's players or coaches, they
both tell us and show us that the regular season
doesn't matter. Like Mike Malone when he was the coach

(49:38):
in Denver after winning a championship, actually said publicly one time,
our goal is not to win our division. Can you
imagine like an NFL coach saying that, like, we're not
Our goal is not to win our conference.

Speaker 11 (49:51):
It's just to be ready for the playoffs.

Speaker 10 (49:53):
Like NFL coaches don't talk that way, Baseball managers don't
talk that way.

Speaker 11 (49:57):
But it's a real thing in the NBA, and when
you can.

Speaker 10 (49:59):
Trust it with every night in college basketball, it's like,
and they're at Michigan State, they're at Perdue, they're at Arizona,
they're at Duke.

Speaker 11 (50:08):
It looks big.

Speaker 10 (50:10):
And people are diving on the floor and everybody cares
winning is the most important thing. Then you turn on
an NBA game and the players have told us they
don't really care about the regular season and they're just
going through the motions out there on the court until
there's three minutes to go in the game. None of
this is a secret, but it's all a problem. It's
not stuff that can't be fixed. But I'll just to

(50:30):
compare it to something we're all watching right now, or
at least that's all available to us. World Baseball Classic
looks amazing, Like the players care, the crowds are great.
The NBA can't get their basketball players to care about
the regular season. As much as these baseball players are
caring about what amounts to an exhibition just before the
start of the season, they do it with the All
Star Game. So think about all the big products of the

(50:52):
NBA has regular season, All Star Game, postseason. The players
tell us they don't care about the regular season, and
they tell us they don't care about the All Star Game.
So what's left. That's what they've got to address. Adam
Silver is smart enough to do it, but he does
need to do it or else. You guys will see
this up close when you get your franchise.

Speaker 2 (51:07):
Yeah, and I think we're gonna get that franchise in
two years. I also agree with Gary, I think the
I think the the product isn't great right now in
the regular season, right.

Speaker 1 (51:16):
I would agree with him.

Speaker 9 (51:17):
There that's the guy that's plugged in that like covers everything.

Speaker 2 (51:20):
Yeah, that isn't That isn't like people that are here
that are bitter saying, right, you know, we hate the
NBA and all that stuff.

Speaker 1 (51:26):
I think the NBA had.

Speaker 2 (51:27):
I also don't think that it's going to matter to
people here initially that the product the product of the NBA. Yeah,
I don't I just don't. I don't think that that's
gonna matter. I was just gonna look here if I
can find it. Here we are, okay. So I'm want
to compare something because as he's saying that, I wanted
to look at this. Okay, So the worst teams in

(51:48):
the NHL right now, and I think the NHL, just
in terms of schedule is a comp Uh. There is
one team in the West and no teams in the East.
There's really one umpster fire in Vancouver. But this so
one team in the West, and you just meant it. Vancouver, Yeah,

(52:09):
has a winning percentage under forty four percent. The lowest
winning percentage in the East is forty eight percent. Two
games under five hundred. That's the Rangers. Yeah, Vancouver is
twenty and thirty eight. Calgary is seven games under five
hundred with a four to forty seven. Let's take a

(52:30):
quick look at the NBA, shall we. I'd venture to
say there's a couple of teams under forty percent one
two three under thirty percent under thirty in the East.
Brooklyn is, my god, Brooklyn has a two fifty four
winning percentage. Washington to forty two, Indiana to twenty one.

(52:53):
In the Western Conference one, two, three, four, five have
under forty percent winning percentage Memphis, Dallas, New Orleans, Utah,
and Sacramento. And out of those teams Anders, two of
them under thirty percent wo, Utah and Sacramento.

Speaker 1 (53:10):
Wow, So let's just go by that.

Speaker 2 (53:13):
So I would say one, two, three, four, five, six, seven,
eight nine, I'm gonnaet Chicago's right at forty percent their
thirteen hunder. So nine teams out of thirty in the
NBA are worse than the worst team are worse than
the worst team in the NHL. In terms of just
competitive can you do? You go to a game thinking

(53:34):
your team has a chance to win? Right, that's a
broken product. Now, I'm not a huge fan of parody
like the NFL wants, but you've got to be competitive.
That's a broken model. All right, More on that as
day's come by. We got a zillion tax I'm sure
we got some time. We'll get to those coming up next.

Speaker 6 (53:54):
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Speaker 12 (54:15):
Stop. Please stop, for God's sake, stop reporting on NBA
speculation about the possibility of maybe getting a team somewhere
in the near or distant future. Call me when they're
ready to tip off. Other than that, stop reporting this speculation.

Speaker 3 (54:35):
Hey, Ian Aaron from Vancouver, Washington.

Speaker 1 (54:38):
I'm a lifelong Blazers fan.

Speaker 13 (54:41):
Always uh yeah, sure, I like the Sonics, but you
know I always hated the Sonics too, if you know
what I mean. You know, there's that love hate relationship there,
and I really want you guys to get the team back.
I'm with him, though, like I'll believe it when I
see it. I feel like you guys are getting to
be just drug around and drug around and drug around.
But at the same time, I feel like the NBA

(55:02):
isn't it the same product? In Aaron from the cub again,
when I was saying that the NBA isn't the same
product anymore, Like I mean that, like since you guys
have been out of the league, like I don't know,
ever since my Blazers were in the Western Conference finals,
I haven't, you know, really liked the NBA as much.

(55:23):
I just don't find like the star factor to be
like Super not entertaining, but like, like, I just don't
like them as much the people that are in the
NBA nowadays.

Speaker 2 (55:37):
Yeah, I think there's a lot of that. Man, I
think there's a lot of that. Uh, let's far away,
We've got a ton of let's keep going.

Speaker 1 (55:44):
Hey, Bro, don't fill out a bracket.

Speaker 12 (55:46):
Bro, don't pick those games if you don't know the
names of the players.

Speaker 1 (55:50):
Bro, I know everybody, Bro, Hey.

Speaker 5 (55:55):
To coming back of the tournaments? Go to gick up.

Speaker 8 (55:58):
I want to come still college tournament.

Speaker 12 (56:02):
I know all granted.

Speaker 5 (56:04):
I only talk about my winners, but don't pick.

Speaker 14 (56:07):
Games if you don't know the team.

Speaker 2 (56:10):
Thank me later, Bro.

Speaker 15 (56:16):
I honestly couldn't care less. I'm still probably not gonna
watch off. Stick to college basketball. If I'm gonna watch basketball,
you know, the sport where there's rules like you can't
travel and they like to play defense. I'm happy for
the people who are excited. I just hope it doesn't
mean every day I have to hear segments about this

(56:40):
sort of non story.

Speaker 2 (56:47):
How mean do we have left by the way too?

Speaker 1 (56:49):
Hit those?

Speaker 12 (56:51):
What?

Speaker 6 (56:52):
I mean?

Speaker 14 (56:52):
The news today doesn't really move the needle too much.
I mean twenty twenty eight that's great. I was a
Songics fan back in the day, just because really they
were in Seattle. The NBA has gotten dramatically worse since
they left, so it doesn't really move the needle for me.
So I wouldn't say I'm excited for twenty twenty eight.
But depending on what we put on the court, what
type of products out there, I don't know. Give me

(57:14):
calling twenty twenty nine, maybe I'll be excited then.

Speaker 16 (57:18):
Okay, Gary Parrish, I love you, but brother, your argument
doesn't hold. A lot of the game is different today. Yeah,
they just trot up and down the court. They don't
even play freaking defense. There's no effort to just run
up the floor a couple of picking rolls and then
hit a three. There's no real effort on both ends
of the floor. It's just kind of like the boring

(57:40):
ass game.

Speaker 12 (57:40):
Man.

Speaker 16 (57:40):
I've been watching this NBA my entire life. I'm fifty
six years old, and I'm telling you it's crap.

Speaker 2 (57:47):
So, and as we went through every talk back outside
of MJ and the Midday who called in it was
a nice one, there wasn't one that was excited, not
like overly excited. Yeah, like, oh my God, yes, let's
go two year old ten or was let me know
what it happens until then, I don't care. Yeah, that
was basically what we just am. I right, Yes, that

(58:08):
is correct. Like uh Nick writes on the text lines,
come a Dodge text line sonics. We'll believe it when
I see it. More than that, the NBA will have
to rear my interest. Cold Turkey treatment has cleared the system.
I don't love the game, don't hate it, just to
be honest, I find the WNBA and more interesting game
to watch this point. A collaboral call invoking the magic
carpet gets me going. But that isn't coming back. This

(58:30):
is from the two oh six. I get Christopher kids take.
I'm exhausted over the past eighteen years being Charlie Brown
in the NBA, being Lucy holding the football.

Speaker 5 (58:37):
It's true, very true.

Speaker 9 (58:40):
Oh god see I I I get it because you're
the most recent thing in most people's heads regarding the
NBA in Seattle is having it taken away.

Speaker 2 (58:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (58:52):
I wonder how much that will change when it's back,
You know what I mean?

Speaker 2 (58:57):
Yeah? I agree two oh six eight to ten billion
per the team, hundreds of millions and salaries of players
that won't play all day two fallibating or flopping at
an all time high ticket prices, who knows how much,
no team for eighteen years, just don't care anymore. Four
to five The product just sucks. Uh this is three
six so honestly, I don't know the songs fam but
stopped fall in the NBA. Watch a few games with
my son. Recently wondered why is it? Why was I

(59:19):
so into it? The product doesn't impress me. I might
pay a little attention between the super Bowl and Opening Day,
but while the Hawks and M's are playing, that's where
my attention will be.

Speaker 1 (59:27):
I'm looking. We have guys.

Speaker 2 (59:28):
I'm just telling you right now, I'm not gonna be
able to get to all of them. We have a
zillion texts, like as many texts as I can. This
is like this NFL free agency level text Yeah. Uh,
four five too late for me. Derek says, still don't
believe it two five three. When Chris k made those comments,

(59:49):
I completely and one hundred percent agree with him. I'm
excited for the NBA, but wake me up when it
gets here.

Speaker 5 (59:52):
Like Marcus and the two six, once the over unders
are below two hundred.

Speaker 2 (59:55):
I might watch two o six em sorry to be
that guy the left Engel last second of two thousand
and eight. I was interning Akjr. At the time. We'll
never forget you asking the question to the stupid city
Council July second, two thousand and eight. Well for me,
the last the day U as the sonics. Yeah, I
was more calm than some at that press conference. What
do he almost killed somebody? I like literally felt like

(01:00:15):
I had to hold her back.

Speaker 5 (01:00:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:00:17):
I was sitting with Steve Kelly at last. Woodward and
me were sitting there. I wasn't I was still I
was just in shock. I was I'm like, this isn't.

Speaker 5 (01:00:25):
Really yet to process everything.

Speaker 2 (01:00:27):
I just couldn't believe it was happening. Yeah, and then
I saw the smirks and the smug faces. Then the
anger creeped in. I remember jumping on the phone with Gas.
I was both emotional and also stunned. I'm eighteen years later,
I still can't believe it that we lost it. I
mean we were sitting there, we went down there. I'm like, WHOA,

(01:00:48):
I could give two craps about songs coming back. I
hate every part of today's Ambas. It was like, listen,
I'm just gonna and Andrews are looking the same ones. Yeah,
the gen consensus, not even general consensus. I'm gonna say
about ninety nine percent of what I see here is
of the following and includes some of the following. You
tell me if I'm right or wrong here, this is

(01:01:10):
what it is. Whatever, let me know when they come back.
Don't really care. This doesn't move the needle for me today.
Just move on to something else. I'm tired of being teased.

Speaker 9 (01:01:22):
And this is different than I don't believe it's happening,
because there was a point up until recently where it
was like, yeah, I don't believe that anything's actually happening.
I think what Gary said it's real. You're getting a team.

Speaker 1 (01:01:35):
I believe that too.

Speaker 5 (01:01:37):
Now it's just like, are you that excited for that?

Speaker 2 (01:01:40):
I believe that too, And I think most people are
coming with the thought process of whatever, Yeah, if it comes,
I'll be excited. I'm gonna tell you, I just I
truly believe this, no matter what everyone is telling me
on the text line, whatever, no matter what we just heard.

Speaker 1 (01:01:56):
On me on the talkbacks. I feel everyone.

Speaker 2 (01:02:02):
I feel a frustration level from our listeners and I
e the fans in this town, sports fans. I'm just
going to generalize say sports fans of this town. I
think there's just a massive amount of fatigue, and that
fatigue has also it's fatigue, and also I think it's

(01:02:23):
hurt and there's also a little bit of disdain towards
the league because how they've treated this city. Listen, I'm
gonna be very honest with you. I'm very torn. I
heard the story today. I'm like, and I've been following,
and I kind of got away from it because I
got a little bit of a conflict of interest. But

(01:02:46):
I'm kind of like, whatever kind of I'm on, probably
on Cristis side when it happens great. I also and
there's a part of me deep down that even though
I feel like this is truly real, there is that
part of me that also is thinking that we could
also have Well, we're gonna we're gonna have the discussion

(01:03:09):
in July, We're gonna table it until the fall. That's
gonna push it out to twenty twenty nine.

Speaker 12 (01:03:16):
I just.

Speaker 2 (01:03:18):
I have zero faith in Adam Silver. I think he's
an absolute moron. No, that's wrong, that's not because that
implies he stupid. I think he is just a pawn
for powers. Yeah, I don't think he has the same
just the same juice that David Stern had. And we

(01:03:41):
all hate David Stern, the late David Stern.

Speaker 1 (01:03:43):
I get it.

Speaker 2 (01:03:44):
I'm with you one thousand percent in that regard. I
think David Stern. In our City's history of villains, David
Stern is in the top five. He's in the top five.
Howard obviously number one. David Stern's right there as well.
Ken Baring's in that list as well. I put them
all together. But Stern had juice. This guy doesn't. It's

(01:04:09):
really that's something. Thanks for all the texts, Thanks for
all the talkbacks, softies. Next, all right, he's here, by
the way, I've got a brand new favorite show. Take
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(01:04:30):
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Speaker 17 (01:04:37):
All right, A couple of thoughts on the Sonic story
that came out today. First, I want to blame any
Sonic fan for feeling skeptical whatsoever.

Speaker 2 (01:04:45):
I get it.

Speaker 17 (01:04:45):
I don't think there's been a bigger tease in Seattle
sports for us, well, outside of the Mariners for fifty years.
Outside of them, there has not been a bigger tease
in regards to us being satisfied as sports fans than
what this basketball team with the league, the NBA has
done to us for the past almost twenty years. So
I get it. But here's the deal, guys. It's happening

(01:05:09):
like it is happening, all right. We're talking two years
from this fall, we are going to see the Sonics
at NBA basketball back on the court at Climate Pledge Arena.
You want to be skeptical, I get it, and I'm
kind of there with you a little bit. But you
know what, guys, I'm telling you, it's time. It's time
to make preparations. Time to start saving money for tickets,

(01:05:29):
time to start talking to your pals about who's going
to take what games, start getting some merchandise from simply
Seattle going down.

Speaker 2 (01:05:37):
They're coming back, boys and girls, They're coming back.

Speaker 18 (01:05:41):
Well that's a new Instagram segment called Driving with Dave
hashtag Driving Day that I've already been yelled at for
that by the wife By the way.

Speaker 1 (01:05:49):
How do you how do you videotape that while you're driving?

Speaker 17 (01:05:51):
I have a little place for my phone where it
just sits there. You know they sell those on you
know Amazon?

Speaker 1 (01:05:56):
Okay?

Speaker 2 (01:05:57):
Really, so you feel it's safe? Very safe?

Speaker 1 (01:06:00):
Doesn't though?

Speaker 2 (01:06:00):
No, I got yelled at for it.

Speaker 1 (01:06:01):
I don't drive and talk at the same time. Are
you gonna keep doing?

Speaker 7 (01:06:06):
Yes?

Speaker 17 (01:06:06):
My wife sounds like my Jewish grandma.

Speaker 1 (01:06:10):
And for those who don't know Gina, she doesn't.

Speaker 2 (01:06:12):
Oh my god, so believable.

Speaker 1 (01:06:14):
Like driving with Dave? Right, are you do that every day?

Speaker 2 (01:06:17):
I might. I might be a new thing. I like it.
Probably a new thing.

Speaker 17 (01:06:20):
Ask ask my wife if it's okay, because I I
don't want to get yelled at by her.

Speaker 2 (01:06:24):
I get yelled at enough already.

Speaker 1 (01:06:26):
He just block her?

Speaker 2 (01:06:27):
Well, I could do that.

Speaker 12 (01:06:28):
You know.

Speaker 17 (01:06:29):
I'm trying to get a holdie all day long. I
blocked you, honey. Just block her on the Just block
her on my phone? What the hell? Then she can't
get a hold of me until I get home?

Speaker 2 (01:06:38):
Why not?

Speaker 5 (01:06:39):
Real smart?

Speaker 17 (01:06:39):
Just shove all the abuse into one small little window
between the hours of seven pm and probably eleven pm before.

Speaker 2 (01:06:46):
I'm in bed. How many times do you drive home
and you say every night, oh no and say, boy,
this is I like, knowing full well that your ass
is in trouble.

Speaker 17 (01:06:56):
Yeah, it happens. I'd probably say thirty five forty percent.

Speaker 2 (01:06:59):
Of the time. I mean, you know, I'm a guy,
so it's not happen. I'm about twenty to twenty five. Yeah,
mostly she's meloed out over there.

Speaker 17 (01:07:07):
What's the most common complaint that you get from Tam?
From from uh? From from Tammy?

Speaker 1 (01:07:12):
Where were you? What did you spend all that money being.

Speaker 2 (01:07:16):
Being out with the just yeah, out with the guys. Yeah,
I didn't do something I was supposed to do. Like
now I blame it on Keifer. This guy blame it
on Keifer, and then that's that's a bad thing because
he's the baby.

Speaker 18 (01:07:28):
I don't have any kids, so I can't blame kids,
and I can't really blame dogs unless you know.

Speaker 2 (01:07:32):
Look, I mean, if if a.

Speaker 17 (01:07:34):
Dog like peas in the hallway or whatever, I could
say that was me.

Speaker 2 (01:07:37):
I'm honest.

Speaker 17 (01:07:38):
Actually half the time I don't know what I'm doing
totally did just hit me with it?

Speaker 2 (01:07:43):
Just hit me with it, kidding me. That's like like
you come in and you see the look like what
I do.

Speaker 19 (01:07:48):
Like you're going through your head like I normally leave
the house and I'll know within five or six blocks
that I've forgotten to do something, and I have to
make a decision.

Speaker 18 (01:07:58):
Yeah, do I go back home and correct it or
just take the beating? And nine times out of ten,
that's right.

Speaker 17 (01:08:07):
I know for a fact there's wet clothes in the
laundry that will sit there all day long.

Speaker 18 (01:08:13):
I know for a fact I have not turned the
light on in the hallway. I know for a fact
I haven't locked this, I haven't done that.

Speaker 17 (01:08:20):
I haven't given the dogs that I'm just gonna take
the beating.

Speaker 2 (01:08:23):
Man, what the hell it's worth it. We call we
call her the little General, and we usually we do
it behind her back and call her the little General,
call her behind her back. All good for you. But
that dipstick said it to her fight one time. But
he referred to it kind of like I made it,
made it up, which maybe I sold you out, man,

(01:08:43):
And then now now I'm in trouble for that. Wrong,
no wrong, no wrong. I used the baby, that little
chubby bastard to watch his mouth. Send it right exactly,
oh god, wow, let's see, we're going to be all
over the place today. You mailing at four, Chris Daniels
at five, Mike the course, he will spend the final

(01:09:06):
half hour of the show with him by the way,
doing bracket picks, the whole thing for the NCAA tournament.

Speaker 18 (01:09:10):
And Uh, look, I mean they're they're coming. I mean
to me, it's it's done. We're watching NBA basketball in
two and a half years, two and a half years,
September of October of twenty twenty eight, that team that
you wear proudly on your chest right there, simply returning
today is the most significant day in this saga, I think,

(01:09:31):
at least since the NBA denied the Kings move, and
maybe the most significant day since they left for Oklahoma
City in two thousand and eight.

Speaker 2 (01:09:38):
I think we're going to talk about it. Key, Yeah, right,
it's up there.

Speaker 12 (01:09:44):
Man.

Speaker 18 (01:09:44):
So I'm I'm ready. It's uh, it's done. I'm I'm
tired of being skeptical. I'm tired of telling people just
you know, hold on now, it's uh it's going down.

Speaker 17 (01:09:55):
Yeah, what do you want from me? You want to
I want to want to know what do you want?
I want to know driving with David tomorrow, You give
me the topic. Sons who sell out their fathers Tomorrow.

Speaker 1 (01:10:08):
For the mild mannered and marginally objectionable Inverness.

Speaker 2 (01:10:12):
This is paddle Day, saying so long everyone,