Furness Show 3-18: Greg Cosell, Lack of NBA Excitement, Cal WBC Struggles

As we inch closer to a possible expansion announcement in the NBA, why does it feel like the excitement level is tame?  Greg Cosell from NFL Films joins the show to talk about the upcoming RB class in the NFL Draft.  Daily Power Play.  Is there a chance Cal Raleigh takes his WBC struggles to the MLB regular season?  Checking the talkbacks and texts on the Tacoma Dodge textline.  Softy joins for cross talk.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Great conversation today. I was like nine thirty this morning
and I heard them talking about you know, they kind
were they're kind of putting a bow on the on
the World Baseball Classic. But more than anything, what happened
last night with Team USA and the manager the tm USA,
Mark Delarossa, got a lot of grief throughout the tournament, right,

(00:20):
Andrews's kind of wasn't just like one day.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
There was a lot of things that he didn't really
show that great side of himself on.

Speaker 1 (00:27):
No, No, somewhat clueless on lots of things such as rules, tiebreakers,
tournament brackets.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
And even in game decision making.

Speaker 1 (00:39):
In game decision making. And then the lineup last night.
And I'll table this for now because we'll get to
it at two o'clock. But I know Cal wasn't hitting
in the World Baseball Classic. But I'll just point to
just look at the stats. A lot of them dudes
weren't hitting. A lot of guys were. There were a

(01:00):
lot of I mean, they went how many it was
an eighteen inning nice civico. However, many innings they went
without scoring a run and their runs all came via
the long ball. In the last couple of games. I
mean it was TUSA was they were scuffling at the plate.

Speaker 2 (01:15):
And the last thirteen innings they were three for forty
one or seventeen k's.

Speaker 1 (01:21):
And the three two of the three were home runs, correct,
I think? So? Yes, which great, you ran into one. Okay,
here's the.

Speaker 2 (01:29):
Thing, So you're saying it wasn't a cow problem, mean, right, guy?

Speaker 1 (01:36):
That in any other year besides a historic year by
Aaron Judge, all right, any other year he's your MVP
right in the American League and he's on the bench
for the final two games of the tournament, like I
and I know, listen, I'm the furthest thing from objective
here that I'm just not. I'm just not going to

(01:58):
be objective. But really, and you know, Bucky brought up
a great point, we'll get to this at two o'clock.
I thought their conversation was terrific. Yeah, and also kind
of bleeds over what's gonna happen in season. They they
discussed that we'll get to that and discuss at more
two o'clock. But also, Cal's a better defensive catcher, calls
a better game, as Mucky pointed out, than Will Smith.

(02:19):
I would just ask the question if will Smith wasn't
Dodger hero, let me emphasize Los Angeles Dodgers hero. If
he was playing for the I don't want to use
Kansas City because Perez is a he's a he's a winner. Yeah,
he was behind the plate. And by the way, was
that not the template? They didn't have him into the semis,

(02:39):
but they went with the veteran behind the plate. There
they went. They went with Salvador Perez behind the plate
they'd been and it worked out. Okay. The Yeah, if
if will Smith was the Pittsburgh Pirates catcher, Yeah, do
we think we'd still go down that same road?

Speaker 2 (02:55):
Probably not. And even if you are gonna bench col
like you're you're not hitting, you're late in the game,
bring him off the bench like what you're just.

Speaker 1 (03:06):
You're when you got to the ninth inning knowing you
can't string together an inning because you haven't been able
to yet. Uh, then yes, because I think they were
near the bottom of the order.

Speaker 2 (03:16):
Where's the urgency?

Speaker 1 (03:17):
Man that said it was cool? That was the first
really game. I watched a lot of great game by
the way, Yeah, I was. I mean just that the
atmosphere was good. I don't know how great a game
it was. It was a pitcher's battle and teams that
can't hit, but it was but to one thing. Good job, Geno,
good job.

Speaker 2 (03:35):
How great was that?

Speaker 3 (03:36):
Man?

Speaker 1 (03:36):
That's like, if someone's gonna win it for them, I'll
let it just be him. Huh seriously, god so good
vibes only totally well. And you see the whole atmosphere
if you watch, like like the crowd shots, how crazy
they were going, like I love that for baseball man,
And it just and it just meant more to Venezuela. Yeah,
just be honest. It just meant more to them than
it did to anybody here. It just did. Uh and

(03:58):
so cool good for Okay, listen, we didn't get to
this really much at all yesterday because of we were
doing our March Madness show, a Black Ectology show up
Its still call me Casino. They'll be open by the
way early tomorrow at Hawk's Peak and Friday and Saturday
and Sunday, so hit on up there. The the sonic
stuff continues. I just before, uh, before my car issues today,

(04:21):
I was on the phone making some calls and getting
some stuff out there and trying to figure out where
we're at. I know Chris Daniels has been on the
station a couple of times with Sophie and MJ. Look,
this thing's happening. I want to revisit though something on
Monday when we first kind of approached this, did the
show asked for opinions, asked for texts and talkbacks, and

(04:44):
and andrews, I don't you know? You get the talkbacks,
You go through all those and edit those as need
be and put them in the system. You glance at
the at the at the at the text line too,
the takumadage text line. I've been thinking about this the
last two days. I was, and I still am a
little bit surprised by the overwhelmingly negative reaction to this

(05:05):
thing happening. And I do believe it's, like a lot
of things, people will warm up to it. And I
do think too when the real next next Wednesday's win.
So we're seven days away, one week away, yeah, from
the vote to have the vote? Okay?

Speaker 2 (05:20):
Like so wait, can I actually ask you something? Ian?

Speaker 1 (05:23):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (05:23):
Or if it is voted on on next Wednesday, Like
you're saying, well, we get an announcement on Wednesday.

Speaker 1 (05:30):
So I know that there are local media outlets that
are staffing said owners meetings. I believe in New York.
I think that's where they're at. Doesn't matter wherever they're at.
I know that there are there are media outlets staffing
said said thing. And there is an Adam Silver availability.
I'm hearing it's around noon our time, Okay, eleven thirty

(05:51):
to twelve thirty our time. Next week, they'll he'll come
out and say, yeah, we voted, and here's the way
it's been handled. And this is probably takes this is
this may be are The issue for us here is
there's just absolutely no sense of excitement. It feels like
I could be wrong. You tell me, and there telling
me if I'm wrong, four one tell me any Any

(06:12):
talk about expansion from Adam Silver in the league has
been almost afterthought, sidebar. We're doing like all this other
business and oh yeah, by the way, expansion, yeah right,
it it And so it's they've got other stuff they're
talking about next week. That's not just that's not the
reason for the meeting. So but he will have a

(06:32):
media availability afterwards and that will be brought up and
I'm sure they'll say, yeah, they'll be voted. So and
what the vote will be is we voted to move
forward to explore expansion exclusively in Seattle and Las Vegas.
That's what they will say. That that's that's effectively what
it will be.

Speaker 2 (06:46):
So clarifying. That doesn't mean that they are announcing that
they're they're not awarding They're.

Speaker 1 (06:52):
Not awarding a franchise next Wednesday. That will come, that's
expected to come in the summer, and so maybe people's
will warm up to the summer. But I'm just when
we do texts and we do talkbacks, oftentimes we don't
get a chance to really revisit them and kind of
discuss them because we do them at the end of
our show. I correct me if I'm wrong here, sir.
It was overwhelmingly like, uh, yeah, I don't really care.

Speaker 2 (07:15):
Yeah, and not not in the I don't think it's
gonna happen way, but in I don't really care that
it is right right. It's not that they don't believe
what the stories are coming out, that the songs are
coming back, most likely, it's more that it's like, oh, okay, great,
Like I'm just not as excited for it anymore, you know.

Speaker 1 (07:32):
And then we have parishon and lundon the last two days,
two guys that covered the NBA daily, and they both
just tell us how what a crap product it is. Yeah,
you know, and so you go from people here, and
you know, I think it probably just depends on the
on the the age group, right. I think people that
are a little bit older maybe are going to be

(07:53):
a little bit more excited because the sonics meant so
much to them. Maybe not. It's just it's a really
different thing that I was surprise. I thought we got
a ton of feedback. It wasn't like it was one
of those topics we bring up and it's a you know,
it's it's it's crickets. No, to the contrary, it was
the weirdest thing ever, because it was more we had

(08:14):
more feedback and response from that particular story than normal.
But it was that response was really kind of apathy based.
It was there was a tone of apathy or whatever,
man or screw the NBA. Still some disdain, I understand.
I think we all understand that that that and I

(08:36):
think that there's gonna it's gonna take a lot to
win people back. I think it's gonna take something to
win people back. Listen, there's people you know on our station, Uh,
you know Softy and and you know I was Softy
in faint top of the list because they were here
and they're they're natives. I mean, I really the only
the Native Sons. The guys that were here for Sonics
basketball are Softy, Fain and I right in terms of

(09:00):
the on our host because Chuck came after they left.
Bucky is a Blazer fan at heart because he's from Oregon,
and MJ's from Parts Unknown. So yeah, I mean those
two guys and I guess me, I'd put myself. Yeah,
this is a big deal. This this is our team
that left us eighteen years ago. But there's a lot
of people our age, you know, that are in their forties, fifties,

(09:21):
maybe early sixties that are like, yeah, man, I'm done.
I'm just done. I remember this when the announcement we
were in of all things, Andrews. We were in a staff.

Speaker 2 (09:32):
Meeting, oh A, meaning to have a meeting in we.

Speaker 1 (09:35):
Were in It wasn't a vote to have a vote,
but we were in a staff meeting of some sort
and I was doing the show with my former co
host Buck and were we were in there and I'm
trying to think what was on at the time. I
think we had something tapes because it was like a
significant meeting, so like we had something tape that was playing,

(09:56):
and the story broke that it was like, hey, the
Sacramento Kings that Chris Hansen is looking at it had
made an offer to buy the Sacramento Kings. And it
was man, all hands on deck were out there running
in there like it was we jumped on the air.
It was crazy and the excitement level was through the roof.

(10:17):
But that was only a few years after the team left.
And I think because we were told when the team
left that the best course to get it back was
just to you know, kiss David Stearns's backside and drop
the lawsuit. As a city that we all thought, okay,
cool man, we're good, right, We're good. And then when
obviously that didn't come to fruition and now we've been
waiting for another fourteen years or fifteen sixteen years since then,

(10:41):
I think that's where the apathy and then just really
kind of some true vento towards the league is creeped in.
I'll just kind of ask this two days later, as
your tone changed at all four nine four or five one,
has your tone changed? It all about the NBA coming back,
because it is coming back, people. It's coming back in
the fall of twenty twenty eight. Barring something completely foreseen,
twenty twenty eight, we'll have the NBA basketball here at

(11:03):
Climate Pledgerina. I want to get to more of that
in two o'clock out along with the WBC two because
there's some stuff I want touch in on about the
building out her Chris Daniels talking about today. We'll get
into all that coming up when we come back, though,
our guy Great co Sale. Seahawks need a running back?
Who can they draft? That's next.

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Speaker 1 (11:37):
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(12:20):
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do the draft. Our guy Greg Cosell joins us. Hello, sir,
how are you boy?

Speaker 5 (12:31):
There's too much going on ee? And there's the draft,
there's now we're in March madness, you mean, Baseball starts
in eight.

Speaker 1 (12:38):
Days and then we've got NHL and NBA playoffs soon thereafter. Sir.
It's a glorious time of the year. You know, it's
a good time of the year. It's a good time
of the year.

Speaker 5 (12:46):
I'll tell you that my simple mind can't handle all
this stuffy and it's too much.

Speaker 1 (12:49):
No, but you know what, your your mind is more
than just simple sir, it's it's diving into tape and
going through tape. And I was listening with great interest
to our show that is on after Me with two
gentlemen by the name of David Mahler and Richard L.
Faine On. I believe it was it was Monday, because
yesterday I was watching fresh four games. That's a whole
different story. Anders. By the way, anyway, we will as

(13:12):
let's see those guys. And I'm not gonna say quote
there was panic in the streets, but there was rather
large concern for the Seahawks heading into the next season
in its one position group. And that's where we're gonna
start a pre draft coverage with today with Greg Cosel,
and that would be the running back position. And rightfully so,
the Super Bowl MVP Ken Walker has gone to Kansas

(13:34):
City Zach Charboney, who is the backup although they just
split carries last season. We're going to assume he's going
to be at the best ready for maybe sometime in
September after turning the ACL and then after that the
drop off is pretty significant. Kenny McIntosh coming off in ACLA, CARDI,
you're Wright coming off in ACL. I mean, so's a
lot of guys banged up. We know what George Hallani
is kind of seems to be just a dude. So Greg,

(13:56):
let's start with our draft coverage with the running back
pos I don't want to spend a lot of time
on Jeremiah Love because he's going to be long gone
before Seattle's even thinking about drafting, if they even do
draft in the first round at thirty two. Just a
quick thought though on Jeremiah Love and how much there's
a separation between him and the rest of the running
back class. Oh.

Speaker 5 (14:14):
I think Jeremiah Love based on tape and I did
him last summer with his twenty twenty four tape. In
this year, of course, I think he's truly one of
those special backs. I kind of put him in the
Jon Robinson category. For me, He's a significantly better prospect
than Ashtroon genty was a year ago. So to me,
Love is truly a special back. He's an explosive home

(14:39):
run hitter. He's big, he's physical. He's also a grinder
who can get the hard yards, so you can split
him out. I mean, look at someone like Bijon, which
you can do with Love. Bejon Robinson twenty percent of
his snaps a year ago he was detached from the formation.
So you know, offensive coaches are looking for explosive plays.

(15:00):
I think Love is one of those guys you know
that gets into that whole discussion about where you.

Speaker 1 (15:04):
Draft a back.

Speaker 5 (15:05):
To me, you draft players that can line up anywhere
in your formation and create explosive plays. And to me,
Jeremiah Love is that guy.

Speaker 1 (15:13):
So he'll be long gone for Seattle. So let's talk
about guys. It could be there whenever they decide to pick.
It could be thirty two. They could trade out of
that first round, and it could be It feels like
most of the other guys were seeing it seems like
a consensus is probably our Day two guys, Day three guys.
But let me start. We'll just stay in Notre Dame
because his teammate is a guy that people are talking about,

(15:35):
Jadarian Price. Five to eleven, over two hundred pounds. Doesn't look
like he's the fastest guy in the world. What do
we see with the Jendarian Price?

Speaker 5 (15:44):
Yeah, Judarian Price, I mean, he's clearly a good prospect.
I mean, let's understand that. You know, he's obviously he
spent two years being a quote unquote backup, you know,
but he's a solid prospect. I think he's got a
strong traits profile. He's got size, he's decisive, he's got burst,
he's got toughness. I think some NFL teams will believe

(16:08):
that he can be a feature back, although that term
is very team and scheme specific. I mean, I almost
go back a number of years to when Kyron Williams
came out of Notre Dame. Again, we're in the Notre
Dame mode here apparently, and no one saw him as
a true feature back. And obviously you know him well
being in your division. But two years ago he had
over three hundred carries. This year he was close. So

(16:31):
I think it always comes down to team and scheme.
Price is not, you know, a loose hip guy. He's
probably a little stiff, but he's got very quick feed.
He can make those kind of sharp, controlled cuts. I
wouldn't call him a true home run hitter, but he
does have enough accelerating speed at times to run away
from second and third level defenders. I think he's a

(16:54):
strong prospect. He's certainly competitively tough, and I think that
that's what really stands out. And I think that's what
would stand out to the Seahawks welle thing.

Speaker 1 (17:03):
I saw a note on Greg and this will be
a general question just it's jendarium price. But everybody you
know when I said the combine didn't do him a
lot in terms of help. When you're looking at tape,
you're watching game tape, I'm assuming you're not watching guys
running around in shorts in Indianapolis much. No, Okay, no.

Speaker 5 (17:22):
I was at the combine, so I saw the guys
running around in shorts. But I don't spend a lot
of time after that. To be honest, I really don't
spend any time after that watching guys running around in shorts.

Speaker 1 (17:34):
I'll get to some of the other names elsewhere in
the country, but I'm not going to bury the lead.
I'll just stay with our guy here because I think
I'll tell you what, as a guy that had to
watch what my team play against him a couple of times,
I hated it because I thought he was really good.
I thought there had to be some injuries that cost
him a little bit this year because I felt like
at times he carried that Washington football team. And that's

(17:54):
Jonah Coleman. I mean, he's every bit of two twenty.
He's not the tallest guy in the world five eight twenty. Yeah,
powersome speed. What do you see from Jonah Coleman when
you watch his tape?

Speaker 5 (18:06):
Yeah, you know, he's one of those guys. He's he's
he's got that compact body. As you mentioned, He's a
highly competitive, tough downhill runner. He's got a very low
center of gravity because he's not tall, and I think
he's got a physical presence to him. I think he
ultimately did have the traits of a professional runner. And again,

(18:26):
now you have to decide what that means in your system.
But I thought he had patients. I thought he understood,
you know, and this is innate, had to set up
and manipulate both first and second level defenders with his
path and his stick steps, and then he was really
explosive and sudden with a short area burst. You know,
he's not a home run hitter, But again you have

(18:49):
to decide what that means to you if you you know,
obviously we know Love is a home run hitter, but
Coleman has much more of a darting slashing dial. He
has really good contact balance. He can absorb hits and
maintain and that that kind of results in gaining more tough,
hard yards. So you know, he's a good prospect. You know,

(19:12):
I've heard some things about his weight. Who knows, but
just if you watch the tape, you see a back
that that is pretty intriguing.

Speaker 1 (19:20):
Yeah, I mean, that's that's That's why I want to
get your thoughts on the tape, because when every time
I watched him play, I thought, Wow, this guy's pretty
damn good. Like he is. He is a guy that
could take over a high level college football game. And
at times did I think he was a little banged
up last season. I think that took its. It's a
little bit off of what maybe his production last season.

(19:40):
Didn't have the best offensive line at times, either, But yeah,
I mean I if I think not just because he's
a Husky, I think if if the Seahawks take took
Jonah Coleman, I think people here would be pretty excited.
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(20:03):
and I'm really curious to hear what you think about
about Evitt Johnson out in Nebraska. I've heard a lot
of conversations about him. I can't wait to hear what
you have to say. Five ten, two hundred pounds or so.
What do you see with him?

Speaker 5 (20:15):
Yeah, he almost again now you get into team in scheme,
but he almost runs like a scatback. He was fun
to watch. He was downhill, he was decisive. He's kind
of has kind of an electric and twitchy lower half.
I mean, he can make really sharp, decisive cuts at
the first and second levels of the defense, really good
balance and body control. He can re accelerate into the

(20:37):
third level of the defense. His bill, his frame gives
him a low center of gravity and that allowed him
to run with outstanding balance and he could drive through
arm tackles without losing any burst in speed. You know,
he's more of a scatback type runner to me, I
don't know if he'll be seen as a feature back,
but again, you know, I refer to what Kyron Williams know.

(21:00):
How teams see him, but he was a fun guy
to watch.

Speaker 1 (21:03):
Is Emma Johnson is is he?

Speaker 5 (21:06):
Is?

Speaker 6 (21:06):
He?

Speaker 1 (21:06):
Kyron Williams, like in a sense, is that who you
comp him to maybe?

Speaker 5 (21:09):
I mean, you know, when I watched him, I thought
to myself to you know, if he was playing for
the Rams, they would probably see him as a feature back.
I don't think they run the same way at all.
I think Johnson is a much more electric runner with
his lower half. I mean, Williams is to me kind
of a and I want to you know, short, be
short with him, but he's kind of a grinder, a sustainer.

(21:32):
He's not a guy that you know, I don't view
him as a guy that's that's shifty, Whereas Johnson is real,
he got that twitchy lower half.

Speaker 1 (21:41):
You know, I was thinking too greg with with you know,
we've now watched John Schneider draft since twenty ten, and
he's taking a lot of running backs over the years.
He's take us the fullbacks over the years as well.
There and there's no there's no rhyme or reason to
you know, in terms of the style, because I think
there's so many guys that were different, right, I mean
it's you know, Kristen Michael was different than than Rashad Penny,

(22:03):
that was different than Ken Walker, different than than Chris Carson,
different than Zach Scharboney. Right, He's he's kind of it
feels like with with John Schneider drafting running backs over
the years, and again we've they've gone through a lot
of different offensive coordinators, right, you know, it doesn't matter
whether it was Bevel or Shoddy or you know, now
they've you know, in the Shanahan system type of thing

(22:24):
they've they've it feels like he's filled out the entire
Bengal card has John Schneider, it's hard to kind of
probably get a read on what kind of back he's
looking for.

Speaker 5 (22:31):
Yeah, I mean, you're one hundred percent right, And and
we we still haven't mentioned in back that I me
could well be the number two back in this draft class.

Speaker 1 (22:40):
And Mike is that Mike Washington?

Speaker 5 (22:42):
That would be Mike Washington.

Speaker 1 (22:43):
Yes, let's let's talk about Mike Washington from Arkansas.

Speaker 5 (22:48):
I I really, you know, I didn't know much about
him because he's had a kind of an interesting journey
to get to Arkansas. I mean, he's began his college
career at Buffalo in upstate New York. He stayed there
for three years, he only started six games. Then he
transferred to New Mexico State and then finished his college
career at Arkansas and in the SEC, where he had
an outstanding season. He is a big, fast back, and

(23:12):
normally speed and power are traits that work in the
National Football League. I mean, this guy has a desirable
combination of size and speed and natural power. It's generated
from a strong lower half. He can run through arm
tackles and pour angle attempts and maintain his balance and speed.
I think he's patient yet decisive when he needs to be.

(23:35):
I think he's both a physical runner who can get
hard yards inside and a home run hitter who can
burst beyond the first and second levels of the defense.
So you know, he's a back that I think he's
just scratching the surface. And because of his size and
his speed, I think he's a true foundation kind of runner,

(23:55):
and I'd be very interesting. Obviously, I don't know what
John Schneider and that whole group thinks, but I found
him to be one of the most fascinating running back
prospects in this tract.

Speaker 1 (24:06):
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(24:27):
or so, he's bigger. He's slightly faster, but taller, taller
and bigger than Jeremiah Love. What how much separation is
there between Love and Mike Washington.

Speaker 5 (24:38):
Well, Love is a much looser athlete. I mean Love,
Love is just his hitter, looser, he's shiftier. He's Love
is even more purely explosive. Washington is probably a little
straight line, and I'm sure there'll be some people who
view him as you know, too much like that. But
you know, he also weighs more than Love, so uh,

(24:59):
you know, I just think he's a really intriguing prospect.
I mean, you know, like I said, you could you
could look at him and think he's straight line, linear,
with some tightness in his hips, in his core. You
wouldn't say he's shifty and elusive. Love is a much
looser athlete.

Speaker 1 (25:15):
I think a year ago we would have talked to him.
We would have gone to Penn State and asked you
about Nicholas Singleton and would have said, Wow, that's a
that's a guy. That's a that's a that's a big
time running back. And then this year happened with a
lot of stuff at Penn State. But let's talk about
Penn stat Nicholas Singleton.

Speaker 5 (25:29):
Yeah, Singleton is. I think a lot of people are
going to be unsure how to deal with him because
Singleton he's a big back as well, and I think
a lot of people forget how big he is now.
He's another guy that's more straight line, linear than loose.
Nipton naturally fluid. The guy he kind of reminded me
of and I don't and I think people listening will

(25:50):
remember this back because it wasn't that long ago. He
reminded me of Darren mcfatten, you know, sort of that
one cut downhill explosive speed, because this guy is really
fast and he's downhill. You know, he's not loose and shifty.
But if you can get him in one of those
zone systems where it's one cut and he goes downhill

(26:12):
because he actually runs really hard too. I mean, there's
a physical nature to his running. He will lower his
pads and he will attack tacklers. But you know he's
to me, that's kind of who he reminded me of.
You know, he's he can, you know, stick that foot
in the ground and then get downhill. And he still
has those traits. I know this year didn't work out

(26:33):
well for him. Obviously the other back had worked out
a lot better. But something's there with Nick Singleton. I'll
be very curious to see where he's drafted easier.

Speaker 1 (26:43):
You talk about every now and then when we do this, Greg,
you talk touching on a guy and it just says, oh,
that's a John Schneider guy. Like that's it. Like like
you know, two years ago, great, last year, some stuff
happened and again Penn State had all kinds of issues,
and it's like maybe falls down on a board here
or there, and then all of a sudden, that justis
John Schneider. Like for a pick. But you mentioned the
other guy. Psley has two guys. Kate trod Allen's the

(27:04):
other one. What's what's he all about? Yeah?

Speaker 5 (27:06):
Now he's a totally different back. He's a sustaining grinder
and I like him. I think he has professional running traits.
The question is how will he be seen, because again
you're dealing with a guy that's not really going to
take it to the house. You know, he could be
the foundation of an offense, and John Schneider could certainly
see him this way. I mean, he's got size, he's
got natural power. He can grind out hard earned yards,

(27:29):
and you know that's something that you know, a lot
of people don't really look at that, but it's a
big deal. When it's blocked for three and your back
gets six, that's a big deal ian And you know
a lot of those don't look like fun runs. You know,
nobody goes, oh wow, what a great run. You know,
but that's the stains offense. It allows offensive coordinators to
be expansive in their play calling because you stay in

(27:51):
normal down in distant situations. And I'm not sure a
lot of people think about it that way. But this
kid Alan, he's tough, he's competitive, he's determined, he's got vision.
As a lot of those kinds of backs do. He
has that sort of really desirable combination of both patients
and decisiveness. He can work both effectively in his own

(28:12):
schemes gap schemes, you know, the more he's the kind
of back you have to watch a lot of because
you're not going to come away from the first watch going, wow,
that guy's really really good. But the more you watch
him just because he just grinds out yards and you know,
on a certain level. Look again, I think of Chris
Carson for the Seahawks. I mean, Chris Carson was not

(28:33):
a home run hitter, but he would grind out yards.

Speaker 1 (28:37):
Oh he and I mean he was special like it was.
That was That's one of the best draft picks John
Snider's ever had. Obviously, the injuries took in a toll,
and I maybe the way he ran took its toll
because it was basically a neck injury that that ended
his career. One more guy I want to ask you about.
And this will be a really familiar name to people
out here, and they may have said be saying themselves.
Whatever happened to jayde Nott, the former Calary burst burst

(29:01):
on the scene as a freshman, was great at cal
transfers to Oklahoma. I kind of feel like he fell
off the radar a little bit, but obviously draft nobody
falls off a radar when it comes to draft time.
We'll wrap things up with your thoughts on Jayde Not.

Speaker 5 (29:14):
Well, Jade, not because I actually watched him that year
at Stanford and then obviously things have not worked out
but for him. But I thought after that year at Stanford,
I thought that this kid was, you know, potentially a
big time feature back prospect in the NFL. And you know,
he certainly has traits. I mean, I don't think you
lose your traits. I mean, I know he's had some injuries,

(29:35):
so you know that's hard for me to know. You'd
have to work them out, which obviously I'm not the
one who's going to be doing that, but teams will
be doing that. And you know, based on what he
did on tape in that I guess it was the
twenty twenty three season. You know, he really looked like
an up and coming back and it's just for whatever reason,
it hasn't happened. But if he can get back to that,

(29:56):
and he won't be a high draft choice because of it,
and you know, he could well be a fifth or
sixth or seventh round pick. But if he can get
back to that, somebody is going to get a really
good back. I mean, he was he was really one
of those guys. When I finished watching him, I thought, Wow,
this guy is this guy's going to be a really
good player.

Speaker 1 (30:15):
You know, just to quick wrap up, Greg, as you're
going through these guys, it does feel like if there's
a little stress or consternation out there right now about
what's going to happen with the Seahawks and running back position,
there will be guys to find. There will be there
are two there are day two guys that you can
and really for Seattle that's in need, like and and
you know, I know it's always best best player available,

(30:37):
but you know, Seattle doesn't need to draft an offensive
tackle early. They don't need to draft a wide receiver,
they don't need to draft, you know, a linebacker. And
you know, I think they're probably well you know.

Speaker 5 (30:48):
You and and it very often comes down to the
best player available at a position of need exactly.

Speaker 3 (30:54):
Back to that exactly.

Speaker 1 (30:56):
Yeah, And that's and that's what it is, Greg, And
you're in this this position of need is running back
probably number one Numero luno. And after listening to you today,
I feel like if you're a Seawk fans should feel
a lot better. There are there will be guys.

Speaker 5 (31:07):
There, There are backs I mean, Love is clearly special
and there's no one that can touch him in this draft.
But there are backs, and we've seen what John Schneider
and the Seahawks have done over the years with different
kinds of backs who were not necessarily high draft choices,
you know, and thought of in that way. And you know, look,
I love I really love Mike Washington and I and

(31:28):
when I say I love him, I think for Seattle.
And again, I have no idea what John Schneider thinks,
but you know, I think he's the kind of back
that they would look at and think, wow, guy who's
two hundred and twenty five pounds or so. You know,
he's tough, he's physical, he can take it to the house.
You know, I look like I look at it back
like that and think that he would fit their offense.

(31:48):
But again, that's that's my point of view based on
tape and what I ye know, I'm not in John
Schneider's head. Maybe they don't like him at all. I
don't know the answer to that.

Speaker 1 (31:56):
Andrews clipped that, so when they draft him, we'll make
we'll make pressures. It seems even smarter than normal. How's that?

Speaker 3 (32:03):
Well, you know, that's the thing.

Speaker 5 (32:05):
I mean, you know, and and if I talk to GMS,
and I don't know John Schneider, but I certainly never
ask them. You know, my conversations are just about the
evaluation process, and you know how they go about evaluating players.
I never ask anybody you know what your board look like,
because you know that. To me, that's I don't want
to do that. You know, I'm not looking for a scoop.
That's not who I am.

Speaker 1 (32:25):
No, But we're gonna make you sound smart when they
pick one of those guys. I'll tell you that right now.
All right, buddy, listen, next week we do it all
over again. We will check in with you and we'll
figure you and I could talk off the year. We'll
figure out what position, figured it out, We'll figure it out.

Speaker 5 (32:37):
I'm just grinding away, you know, every day watching tape.

Speaker 1 (32:39):
You keep grinding away. The rest of us would be
watching March Madisa starting tomorrow. So Greg, thank you watching
some of that too. I'll love some of that too.
Take care, I'll see you later. That's that, Greg Gozell,
Greg go Sell love having them on. Every week. We'll
take a break, come back quick daily power play, some
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first game of a six game roadie that will probably
determine where this team is when it's all said and done.
I don't know what the number is, no one of
I mean, we could guess probably and say they probably

(34:06):
need to go.

Speaker 2 (34:08):
They go five hundred, get six points on this.

Speaker 1 (34:10):
They get six points, they get six points on this trip,
puts him at seventy seven.

Speaker 2 (34:14):
I'd be happy of that.

Speaker 1 (34:15):
With nine games left to go, they're in it. I
it's a tough one, man. It is a tough trip.
Some injury news. As I mentioned, Janny Newman was called
up today from Coachella Valley. He was with the team
at the start of the season, went down there. He's
been playing well. Ellie Tolman that did not play last night.
He got hurt in the previous game on Sunday against Colorado.

(34:39):
Did not return to the game after he took a
heavy hit, kind of blindside hit, and didn't play last night.
Janny Newman had been recalled from Coachella Valley on an
emergency basis. No other move in terms of putting Elly
on an injured list or anything like that, but he
is out for now and Janny Newman coming up. Good
for Yanny. I honestly, I would have liked to see

(34:59):
him here while ago. You know why, Anders because he
can do one thing, shoot shoot the buck and score.
And guess what, they just added a guy they can
shoot the buck and score. And that guy's been pretty good.
Bobby McMahon six points in three games with the Crackling.
He's okay, yeah, pretty good, doing well so far. He's
done all right. That trades worked out pretty well by

(35:20):
Botson Company. I think so, and I say that listen
Jannie Newman does not skate like Bobby McMahon.

Speaker 2 (35:25):
No, he does not.

Speaker 1 (35:26):
That's if Yanni Newman could skate ten percent better, he
would never be back in the minors again. No, he's
just not the most fleet of foot. But he can
shoot and he could score yea, and that's what they
need right now as a hit on this road trip.
All right, that's your daily power played home with the
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We got a lot to get to get some World
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Speaker 2 (37:13):
That was about as animated as I've ever seen a
heneosaz like. He was pretty chill.

Speaker 1 (37:18):
Yeah, he was jacked he was jacked up little double
and afterwards said good vibes only Yeah, damn it. Cal
Rolly by the way, not playing that game. We'll talk
about that coming up in just a couple of them.
I still, what the hell are we doing there in
that game? Let's see what else we've got going on.
March Madness continues today for the play in games. Round

(37:39):
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All right, don't forget March. Mada starts tomorrow. H you're
probably doing office pool or a friends pool, or a
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You're in on that with us. I am I drug
you down the depths of debauchery into that world of

(38:54):
the Survivor. My buddy tr Survivor pool, sons in it,
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like it's a that's a Survivor one one. We got
a draft that we did on Monday, my buddy Kenny
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teams big, I'm having a I'm having a root on

(39:17):
MJ in the mid days. Arkansas Razor Box. Well, we
had this. We had the seventh pick and so we
took Yukon with our first pick and we come it
was eight teams came back and we got Arkansas with two.
So yeah, I mean then one seeds were gone. Yeah,
obviously all but one two seeds were gone. Right, yeah,
I mean you have pick seven, so.

Speaker 2 (39:37):
So is it is it winner take all sort of thing?
And you get Okay, you get a point, a point
for every round, every win you get. Yeah, we did
get a play in games, so we're already want to know,
so that helps. But yeah, so it's fun. That's a
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(40:13):
Of course, our friends still call me. Casino and hotel
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We were up there yesterday. They'll be up open early
eight am both Thursday and Friday for those first four games.
Are those first round games starting at nine am, So
get up there, get your action in. We were there
last night. Did not treat us well. I don't know

(40:33):
why we I'm not sure why we were all over
umbc or you know you university Marylyn, Baltimore County. Yeah,
U NBC where all over those guys, they were awful.
Our first to forty bet, first to twenty bet, first
to thirty bets, none of those worked out nice. It
looks like my buddy mentioned it was a good point,
my buddy Darren say, it looks like a bad NPSL
game right now, which is North pug Down League high

(40:53):
school basketball.

Speaker 2 (40:55):
That's fantastic.

Speaker 1 (40:56):
It wasn't even a good NPSL game. It was like
it would have been like Kent Lake and Kent Meridians.
That's what we're looking at. Yesterday it was awful, well,
not good.

Speaker 2 (41:06):
Yeah, it's always bad when the action that you make
does not come through.

Speaker 1 (41:10):
Yeah, you want a little early action. You want to
get up like on top early with your action for
March Madness. That didn't happen. No, that did not happen.
But you know what's the fun annual tradition we go
up there. We always like it's those that first first
game of the first four is always fun just to
mess around with with some little minor things to have
some fun with. And yeah, so it's a good time.
Okay again nine o'clock tomorrow morning, we'll have the games

(41:32):
for you right here, nine three point three k ter FM.
The first four games tonight on nine fifty on the AMD,
all starting at three forty with game number one. I'll
get to the WBC in a second. We'll get to
that in a heartbeat, because a really good conversation this
morning with Chuck and Buck on the col part of it.
I just we'll get to that a second. The I

(41:54):
brought up earlier in the show today the sonic situation
with again the voter a week from today, So in
one week we could have a pretty special day in
one week. Like, it's not the awarding of the franchise.
That's not expected to happen. What is expected to happen
is a vote to take place to move ahead with
the expansion process. And my god, how many times have

(42:15):
you heard Adam Silver You know, we got to look
at it. At what time we're gonna when will we
actually move ahead without expansion franchise? This will be the
meeting to have the next meeting, the vote to have
the next vote. Right, But it when you start getting
to this point, it just feels as if it's formality
from everything we're being told it. Wait for it is
a formality. So we're going down a really good road
right now. And a week from today they'll be the

(42:38):
Adam Silver news conference and he'll talk about europe basketball
and all this. Oh and by the way, yes, we
have voted to move forward with you know, exploring exclusively
Seattle in Las Vegas. That's the significance of it. This
isn't a we're moving ahead with looking at expansion and
then we're going to look at like eighteen different cities
right this, I think the most significant part of this

(43:01):
is we're moving ahead and it's exclusively looking at two markets,
Vegas and Seattle. So that tells you how far down
the road they already are. It also tells you how
full of it they've been over the last couple of years. Well,
we're not even really looking at expansion right now. I'm
not talking about expansion. We haven't talked about expansion, why Okay,
And now all of a sudden, we're looking exclusively at
Seattle in Vegas, right Really, so you haven't looked at

(43:21):
it all, Adam, like you can tell look be square
in the eye. You have never you have not talked
behind closed doors, not publicly, not in the press, conference.
You haven't talked to potential ownership groups and cities about
and I'm not talking about cities like you know, uh,
mayor what's her face? And uh and uh and and
and uh Robert Ferguson, No talking to people that matter.

(43:43):
You haven't really done that, right because I know you have,
so stop it. But next week will be a big
day and it'll be another step forward. And then sometime
this summer we're probably gonna have the real party and
that'll be cool, I think. And I bring this up
because we brought it up on Monday, and it was
a very tepid response. To say the very least. People
were not fired up like I thought they would be. Yeah,

(44:03):
and Andrews, you correct me if I'm wrong. The talkbacks
we got and you can send a talk back in
now on the Red iHeartRadio red microphone on the iHeart
Radio app. Just go there speaking to it thirty seconds
or less. You can fire away. Let me know what
you think. I did not get the impression in any way,
shape or form. People were excited. In fact, to the
contracy I thought it was. I would say it was

(44:23):
on our show at least it was probably ninety ten
either eh, tepid, Yeah, I don't care, what have you
to the ten percent that were fired up?

Speaker 3 (44:32):
Yeah, am I right.

Speaker 2 (44:34):
I think that's a fair assessment of where people are at.
And I wonder how much of that would change as
we get closer and then the announcement actually comes and
it becomes very tangible because even now, like Gary Parrish
came on right after and basically said, yeah, it's happening,
you're getting a team, So congratulations. Before we talked about
the rest of the NBA off right, So someone who's

(44:55):
plugged in the NBA knows how this process works. He's
around it every day. Memphis Griveley is obviously, so he's
someone who knows kind of how this stuff goes, goes
and works. So it's it's good to see, you know,
someone who's around it all the time kind of basically
say it's it's happening. It's it's for sure happening. Congratulations
that you guys are getting a team. But I wonder

(45:16):
in terms of the response, how much of that changes
when the announcement actually comes, and then as we get closer.
You know, you have to put deposits down for season
tickets and all that, and it's like, oh wow, we
actually like it's we're still the last thing we remember
about the Sonics is it being taken away from us
instead of like actually looking ahead and seeing that, hey
it's coming back in a year and a half or

(45:38):
two years.

Speaker 1 (45:39):
Right, what's your what's your level? To me?

Speaker 2 (45:43):
I don't have a ton of excitement, But I'm not
like as jaded as a lot of people are. I
just think in terms of the NBA in general, I've
lost a lot of interest. If this had happened, you know, ten, eight, six,
even years ago, I feel like I would be way
more hyped, just because I was much more of an
NBA fan during that time. But now it's just I

(46:05):
haven't followed the league as closely. You know. Similarly for
a lot of you know, the talk stuff we talked
about with John Lund and with Gary Parrish as well,
it's more of like, do is it really that much?
It's a league thing less than a Seattle thing for me. Yeah,
And and that's why I think it's it's tough to
get that excited about it. But again, I think as
we inch closer, it'll become much bigger.

Speaker 1 (46:27):
We're two full years away from seeing two full seasons.
I should say we're two full seasons away before they
throw a ball up in the air. Climate plagerina. But
they will and and again it's climate plagerina. That's why
this thing's coming back. Right. It's interesting, all the all
the teases we had Sacramento and others over the years,
we didn't have a building. You know, we didn't have
a building. And the reason the team left in the

(46:48):
first place was because of the arena. Yeah, and soda
was never gonna get off the ground. That was readily
apparent because of politics in the city. That's fine, whatever,
It just it's that's water to the bridge. But that's
why it didn't come. All right, I want to switch
gears a little bit. The World Baseball Classic finished yesterday
and I watched a good chunk of it. My wife

(47:08):
and I actually watched it during dinner last night, the
last couple of innings, and it was fun. I mean
that the you know, it's been a while since we
had baseball on and early baseball and no, listen, I
don't count spring training. I'll back to you guys that
love yourself some some Cactus League play. I couldn't.

Speaker 2 (47:23):
I'm a huge baseball fan. I hate training, Like.

Speaker 1 (47:26):
There you go. It was on the game yesterday was
on at Stokawama Casino and the Hawk's Peak, and I'm
watching it and I'm like, God, why should I know why? Well, like,
you know, Muno's and Castillo gave up bombs, I mean
balls that were hit like harder than anything they've given
up in their life, you know, and they're like, oh
my god, is this reason to be concerned? What were
they doing? They're probably doing something right, working on.

Speaker 2 (47:47):
Something, trying to figure out a certain page or whatever.

Speaker 1 (47:49):
Yeah, right, So I don't care. And then, you know,
the first part of the season outside of opening opening
days cool because it's full, the house is full. Right
after that, you have, you know, half full stadiums. Our
last venture into baseball for US in Seattle was the
excitement of the ALCS. I turned on last night. I
felt like we hadn't even we hadn't left anything off.

(48:11):
It's like, oh, this is where we picked up right
when we left off last year. The enthusiasm, though, was
a different level. It was crazy that is way will
wins US loses. They finished second in the tournament and
cal Rawley sits on the bench for the last two games.
I'm shaking my head at this. I don't care what
he was doing in the WBC because if you look

(48:33):
a lot of guys weren't doing anything in the WBC
for Team USA. A lot of guys, including the guys
started ahead of him. I had a couple of hits
and then that was it. Let's listen. This is Chuck
and Buck this morning, and they brought up this topic
because it goes from the WBC to how it might
affect cal this year.

Speaker 8 (48:48):
Dro went on the shows or went on some show
beforehand and was kind of asked about some of his
decisions with the lineup and how basically he's playing Bregman
instead of Gunner Henderson. That's not right in the hot hand,
that's a righty lefty thing, right, And he ends up saying, well,
the guys, we've seen what he's done at the highest level,
the biggest games, talking about all the World Series, and yeah,

(49:11):
that's true. He's been really good. He's not as good
as Dunner Henderson is right now, right period.

Speaker 9 (49:16):
And not as hot, which was his reason for not
playing yes.

Speaker 8 (49:19):
Buxton versus Crow, Like, I don't understand how you're going
there either. I mean, if you're going based on hot
Buxton hadn't had a hit either. Now he was only
zero for six, but he basically says, oh, he's been hitting.
You know, he's been swinging it well, having good abs,
which you know how I am. I'm not caught up
on the on the outcome as much as I am
the actual approach, because if you have a good approach,

(49:42):
everything's going to work out. So if you want to
say that he okay, you can go there and you're
not missing anything. But he quickly made a change with Buxton.
I mean he pinched hit and made a swap there,
and then you went with what I think is this,
without a doubt, a lesser catcher all the way around
offensively Offensively, I think that there's calling pitches wise. I

(50:04):
think that there's I think you left your best, your
best catcher on the bench in cal Rawly, and you
didn't even bring him off when you could have brought
him up, when it looked like you were just looking
for one big swing here and there. Had a couple
of different times you had opportunities to do that, and
he didn't do it. So yeah, if I'm sitting around
having a beer or whiskey with Dero. I'm gonna be
I'm gonna I'm not gonna do it right now because
it wound's still fresh. But next time I see him,

(50:24):
it's going to be like, hey, I would say, put
the m v P in the game in the semifinals,
in the finals, but he didn't lose a game when
he was playing. He lost to Italy. That was Will
Smith was catching that game. And so yeah, was shame.

Speaker 3 (50:45):
Are we to be worried at all?

Speaker 9 (50:47):
I mean, okay, let me just say this, I'm not,
but just for conversational purposes, I think cal gets back
to Peori, gets around to the guys and hits the
ground running eight days from now, and you know this
is not going to impact him whatsoever. But he's not
exactly used to being benched, like never. Yeah, and and

(51:10):
I know how excited he was to be a part
of this. He was one of the first guys that
said yep, I'm going And he gets there and he
really was told, all right, we're gonna alternate catchers, okay,
and then for the championship game, we're not gonna go
with our starter. We're gonna go with the backup. Because

(51:31):
he's got three more singles. Yeah than what Cal asked.
I mean, this was not a great experience for him.
I mean, he might tell me differently. It doesn't matter.
The result doesn't matter. I got to wear a Team
USA across my chest. I had a great time with
the guys. But for somebody that doesn't even like to
sit one inning, much less the two biggest games of

(51:51):
the entire USA's WBC tournament experience, he didn't even get
to feel the joy of getting a hit. He had
an uncharacteristic pass all in the game at a really
bad time too. In the game they ended up not
paying for that, but a really bad time there. He
had the handshake gait. I mean internationally, nationally, people that

(52:12):
don't know Cal, don't follow Cal, and yet are experts
about Cal Rawley just killed him, killed him in social media.
He even had to have a press conference where at
one time he had to stop and say, I'm not
taking any questions, like, I mean, that's stuff that's usually
saved for senators who got caught with their underage secretary.

Speaker 1 (52:32):
Yeah, and here's Cal.

Speaker 9 (52:33):
Having to say, I'm not taking any questions about a
silly handshake misunderstanding. It wasn't a great experience for Cal.
Does he just brush it right under the rug? Or
is this something that maybe delays a good start for
him this year?

Speaker 8 (52:49):
Well, I mean, I'm not going to try to like
put myself into his mindset because I mean, playing and
simple what he did last year, right, and I'm in
sixty home runs. There's a thing between the years that
is a toughness that very few have, right, because you're
still going to struggle, You're still gonna have times where
you're not feeling great, and yet you can still summon

(53:11):
a good swing here and there. You can still find
a way to run into sixty of them bad boys.
So to me, I think mental toughness is obviously something
that he brings. We know about his physical toughness, but
I think mental toughness. But this is something my wife case,
she asks, she goes, you think this is something that
could affect him like upstairs, like the fact that he's
not playing after she found out he wasn't playing in

(53:32):
the finals, and that's after not playing in the semifinals.
And I immediately no, And then as I started thinking
about it, I started saying, when was the last time
that Cal Rawly wasn't playing? In any sort of meaningful game.
And I have to think that it's the first time
was the game against Dominican in his life that he
was not playing, and so that's not fun. I can

(53:54):
tell you from experience I've played. And then there's a
time when I went back to Double A and I
was on the bench, was an All star there the
year before. I go back the next year the same
league and I'm starting on the bench, and it was
there was a part of me that was just inside.
I was humiliated. There's a part of me that just
felt like, what in the hell is going on here?
And you know, obviously it didn't end up lingering and

(54:15):
sticking around for a long time, but it's a feeling.
There's no doubt that he didn't have a great feeling
coming out of this World Baseball Classic.

Speaker 1 (54:22):
There was a lot there. A great conversation with Chuck
and Bucky this morning on the morning show. I just
I really was.

Speaker 3 (54:27):
I was.

Speaker 1 (54:27):
Actually I got home from the gym and I was
sat in the car for like seven or eight minutes
listening to that entire second Radio. Yeah, it was good.
It was just I thought the insight was really good.
The Bucky's stuff was. I mean, I don't care if
it's minor leagues or not. It means baseball. And it's like,
how does it affect your confidence? I think there is.
I think there could be a concern, like you're riding high,

(54:48):
Like there would be no more confident player in baseball
at the end of twenty twenty five than cal Rawley.
You go to the World Baseball Classic, You're the man,
You're the dude. It's like, you know, you're sitting there
with Aaron Judge. You're looking at like I could have
been the MVP as much as you could have been,
and you look around you Also, you're in a dugout
full of all stars. None of those guys are used
to sitting. We all get that, but it doesn't matter.
We just saw the Olympic hockey anders. There's all like

(55:11):
studs that are healthy scratches for games, but you know
you're part of the team. There is no way you
can tell me that cal Rawley should be a scratch
for two straight games now, Like there is no reason,
but this dipstick manager did that. And that's where we are.
I like, like Chuck said, and Bucky said, you know,

(55:34):
probably won't be any kind of residual effect, but we
don't know that there's no more cerebral. I have confidence,
I'm feeling good. I'm seeing things at the plate. I'm
seeing you know, the baseball, baseball and golfer that way,
good swing thoughts, good vibes. Only you have to have that.
And and you know, there's two things here that I

(55:54):
think are true. One, the US lost in part because
of their manager. On wait a second, have we heard
that anyway? The US? Oh boy, oh my, Monday coming
up on Monday. The US lost in part because of
their manager. And number two, you know, there could be

(56:15):
there could be some lasting effect. Nobody expects him to
hit sixty one home runs again, No, but for this
team to be successful based on last year, and you
know what the roster looks like, they probably need him
to hit forty plus.

Speaker 2 (56:28):
It can't be an outlier season, so to speak, right,
that can't be.

Speaker 1 (56:31):
Yeah, it's and I'm not saying this because I'm not insinuator.
There's anything in terms of performance annancing here, but it
can't be Brady Anderson, right, You can't have fifty one
year and ten the next, right.

Speaker 2 (56:41):
Right, which he won't like. Let's be honest, I think
the jail run out, he'll run into a bunch. Yeah,
that's just the way it is. Yeah. And like the
general thought is he's going to have regression. I think
most people understand that anyone who hits sixty home runs
is bound to have some regression. Yeah, but it's how
much is it? Is he still a fifty home run guy?
Is is he go down to maybe the thirties to

(57:01):
forties and then you're gonna have to find out a
lot more runs because that's that's a lot of runs
that are not on the board anymore.

Speaker 1 (57:07):
So no, I know, that's that's what it is. All Right,
we'll take a break, come back. We'll check the text
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Speaker 10 (57:39):
I think people aren't very exciting because it's been so long.
Those of us that we're young kids in the nineties
and early two thousands, are now adults with kids of
our own, and our kids have fallen in love with
other sports like we did with basketball back in the day.
It's unfortunate, but hopefully happens.

Speaker 7 (58:01):
Hey and local sports guy here with the quick update
on the Mariners in the WBC. No, Mark de Rosso
wasn't wearing a dirty blindfold when he sat cal rawly for.

Speaker 1 (58:09):
Two days in a row.

Speaker 7 (58:10):
Rumor has it he thought it was indifferent. Will Smith
from the City of Los Angeles playing catcher.

Speaker 4 (58:16):
Also, Jerry Depoto was.

Speaker 7 (58:17):
Seen running through the streets of Seattle wearing a Venezuelan flag.

Speaker 1 (58:21):
Kind of ironic because he lets more Z go.

Speaker 7 (58:23):
But don't worry, he'll bring him back for the third
time in a row with.

Speaker 1 (58:26):
The trade deadline this year.

Speaker 9 (58:28):
We'll catch up with you soon.

Speaker 7 (58:29):
Thanks being.

Speaker 1 (58:33):
Hey Mizaro pitch huh right, Yeah, I kind of thought
they used him too early, to be honest with you. Yeah,
I did too, because they start run out of leverage
arms and they didn't.

Speaker 2 (58:46):
They didn't have to worry about that.

Speaker 1 (58:48):
Yeah. No, that's a good point. They're playing the JV
team apparently. Yeah, there's a lot of people chiming in
on that. We'll get to that in a second. Let
me get to the uh let's get it killed text
on the Sonics for a second. Let's see let's see sonics.
This is from Nick. This is an interesting one. The
Morning Show detailed how teams are hamstrung from the get

(59:10):
go eighty percent of salary cap, first couple of years,
exclusion from first picking drafts, et cetera. Two years to
get the team, four years til we get a full
fledged team. I find the idea that to have to
eat two years of crap annoying. So we're not exactly
sure what the what the what the rules will be
for expansion. The last time there was an expansion in
the NBA of two thousand and four is that it

(59:30):
was a Charlotte Bobcats. They were given the number four
pick as part of their expansion agreement. They traded up
to get number two. But according to that premise, which
is still in the new collective bargaining agreement. But again,
this was with one team. There's two now. The expansion
teams must, according to the current Collective Bardiy agreement, have

(59:51):
a salary cap that is sixty six and two thirds
percent of the cap level. Their salary floor is ninety
percent of that that climbs to eighty percent of salary
cap in the franchise and second year and ninety percent
of that is the floor. So you're working at sixty
six percent cap level first year, eighty percent the second year.

Speaker 2 (01:00:08):
Yee, yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:00:13):
Let me just say this. Yeah, that's also based on Charlotte,
and that was twenty two years.

Speaker 3 (01:00:19):
Ago, right.

Speaker 1 (01:00:22):
The challenge is I didn't even think about it until
I started people started texting in about it today. Four nine,
four to five one. You know. The challenges is actually
is the challenge is the fact that there's two teams
doing an expansion, right, Like there's competition who gets the
higher pick well, and and like there's like teams can

(01:00:42):
protect Again, this is according to what happened twenty two
years ago. Eight players. So most of the time I
think you have ten to twelve on one way contracts.

Speaker 2 (01:00:53):
Yeah, a lot of men, roster players or.

Speaker 1 (01:00:56):
Guys with really bad contracts that you don't want those
as much. Because we just talked about I'm sure there's
gonna be saying if there's if they're truly are salary
carapt restrictions again, then that's hard.

Speaker 2 (01:01:06):
Yeah, I mean, we're seeing it firsthand with the crack
and now how long it's taken them to kind of
really get an NHL ready roster. I mean it's a
little different.

Speaker 1 (01:01:15):
Obviously, it's a little different because the NBA draft, you
can draft a guy that changes your franchise with one
draft pick, right NHL you can sort.

Speaker 2 (01:01:25):
Of it's rare.

Speaker 1 (01:01:27):
It's more rare, really rare, like celebrating it's like the
first pick on Schaeffer, but Dard. But that list is
pretty damn short. Yes, and you still need five o
four other guys on the ice at one time in
seventeen others on the roster, so yeah, it's a little
bit different.

Speaker 2 (01:01:43):
And the best players only play a third of the game, so.

Speaker 1 (01:01:45):
Right right now, well, best players in the NBA played
about a third and.

Speaker 2 (01:01:48):
Season that's all another conversation. Yeah, regarding what Nick was
saying there, I don't know. Maybe maybe maybe it's just
me not being a huge NBA fan, But I don't
know if the lack of you know, full on excite
is a lot to do with the success level that
the team will have in the first couple of years,
because I think most people are resigned to the fact
that this team is not going to be a championship

(01:02:08):
contender out of the game. Like it's just not and
that's that's just how it goes in the NBA. I
just think it's just interest in the NBA as a whole.
It has died a lot in this in this region and.

Speaker 1 (01:02:19):
In this region. Yeah yeah, yeah, because nationwide's still pretty good,
yeah it is, absolutely, but but in this region, all right,
four nine four five one. Cal didn't play in the
semifinal five because they won, but not to have at
least pinch hit in the later innings that final. Durosa
should never wear a U s A on his jersey ever.

Speaker 6 (01:02:34):
Again, a lot of people.

Speaker 2 (01:02:36):
Crushing he's gonna get crushed for I mean he's getting
crushed everywhere, even people. I mean you heard from Bucky,
but like they have him on in their show every
couple times a year, so like it's he's not safe
anyway right now.

Speaker 1 (01:02:50):
So this is a really this is a really good
text from the two oh six. I was in my
twenties when the Howard Schultz, the NBA and local government
screwed us over to create a team with the dumbest,
dam and least colors in the league since then, broken promises,
moving goal post a noticeably worsening product on the court
of damping my enthusiasm for a team coming back. However,
I'm now forty three, have three small boys, and my

(01:03:12):
oldest was extremely excited to hear that we're likly to
get a team. Wow. So for that I'm really happy.
Hopefully we can afford tickets. Occasionally, I'll just have to
ignore the bad taste in my mouth for the sake
of the next generation of Sonic fans. Yeah, I think
he just nailed it. I've been a lot of it
will feel that way. Yeah, Yeah, I've been a lot
of people.

Speaker 2 (01:03:31):
I'm excited for my son to be able to enjoy
NBA basketball for his entire life.

Speaker 1 (01:03:35):
That's pretty I mean, I'll never forgive the NBA for
not allowing my son to enjoy it here as well. Yeah,
but you know, now we move on. Time to move on.
Fifty two y here's different. One fifty two years old
was still passing the NBA. Not having a team player's
root four helped me lose interest, adding to my apathy.
It's from the four two five, two six. I'm fifty
three years old, lived and died with the songs. Haven't
watched the NBA game since they left. Middle finger word,

(01:04:00):
I'll never go back.

Speaker 2 (01:04:01):
Yeah. See, I maybe I wasn't as close to it
as I was a little younger when it happened. I
was still a pretty big NBA fan for a pretty
significant amount of time, even after the Sonics left. I
think during the twenty tens, like the Steph Lebron Spurs
KD like that's that was really good NBA. I watched
it all the time, especially during the playoffs, and it
just feels like the last five or six years has

(01:04:23):
been like, Eh, it's not the same. I don't know,
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:04:28):
There's a lot of people here. I guess I'm gonna
generalize this. There's a lot of people texting in about people,
you know, hosting people in our station, telling people, you know,
how they should feel, and all that kind of stuff
and all that. Everyone's gonna feel how they want to feel, right,
and everyone has their own feelings towards the NBA and
what happened. I do believe though, when it comes back,

(01:04:48):
when we have that official announcement, that some of those
there will be some forgiving going on. Yeah, And I
think people will be able to move on, I think
until it actually happens and it's tangible. Understand that. But
if there are people that just are like, man, I'm
out and it's gonna take a while to win me back.
Two things. One, you'll have two years. Right, You're gonna

(01:05:11):
have two years to get one back in the sense
because for two years we'll watch the NBA knowing that
we have a team coming. And I mean because there's
gonna be two full seasons before the NBA comes back
to Seattle. So maybe you'll warm up to it. For
those of you that won't be excited or say you're
not going to be excited, Hey, man, that's your prerogative.
You'll have two years to warm up to it, and

(01:05:33):
maybe that's when the healing truly begins. Maybe this summer
when they say it's coming back, that's when the healing
truly truly begins. I think. Was it our boy Bento
did the thing that he sent us the other day?
Is there eleven cities in the NBA or that have NBA, NHL,
Major League Baseball in the NFL.

Speaker 2 (01:05:50):
Right, I think that's what it was.

Speaker 1 (01:05:51):
Eleven.

Speaker 2 (01:05:51):
Yes, the has the hall for the big, big major
for it.

Speaker 1 (01:05:55):
That we need to be that. Yes, right, I mean don't.

Speaker 2 (01:05:58):
We media market twelve? So you would think we're the
next team, you know.

Speaker 1 (01:06:03):
I think I was just going through that text chain
has a lot.

Speaker 2 (01:06:07):
I'm looking. I'm looking New York.

Speaker 1 (01:06:10):
LA, Chicago, Dallas, Philadelphia, Washington, d C, the Bay Area, Minnesota.
We will be we will jump in there. What does
Detroit not have? Detroit has it? No, I think he's
talking to Big four. Oh he's talking you know. Is
he talking to WNBA two? Yeah, yeah, because good Boston

(01:06:34):
has it. So there's five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.

Speaker 11 (01:06:42):
Eleven, twelve, twelve that would have everything. Yeah, we would
be number twelve, would have everything all four major sports.

Speaker 1 (01:06:55):
That's who we are, boys and girls. That's who we
need to be. And then add in in addition to
the Big Four, add in the MLS, the w n
b A, the NWSL, and the p WHL. Right, that's
who we need to be a major league sports parking
and this is the only thing missing right now? All right,
Softy Joints is coming up next.

Speaker 12 (01:07:22):
There he is ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls.

Speaker 3 (01:07:28):
Would they be annoying?

Speaker 12 (01:07:29):
By the way, if I did a whole show like this,
you get tired of doing it. For I don't think
I would, but the audience would for sure.

Speaker 1 (01:07:38):
I heard a rumor today that you've got Gonzaga going
all the way in your bracket.

Speaker 2 (01:07:41):
Is that true?

Speaker 3 (01:07:41):
I heard a.

Speaker 12 (01:07:42):
Rumor Banana rama, fana, Okay, I got you ah, Gonzaga
going all over. That is called the softy reverse jinks,
my friend. Because I don't think I've ever correctly picked.

Speaker 3 (01:07:55):
A national champion in the bracket. No, I'm sure I
have somewhere somehow down the road.

Speaker 1 (01:08:00):
But I feel like I see in the one that
we all do together, the gas Man Memorial one.

Speaker 3 (01:08:05):
I gotta fill that out tonight.

Speaker 1 (01:08:07):
Gas Man is still alive, his wife pointed out.

Speaker 12 (01:08:10):
Correct, Yeah, we call it the gas Man memorial Pool.
We want him to know what it feels like, what
people will say about him.

Speaker 3 (01:08:17):
When he's gone.

Speaker 12 (01:08:19):
Everybody should have a little bit of a preview of
what their legacy will be like, right.

Speaker 1 (01:08:22):
And now we now gas knows what we say.

Speaker 3 (01:08:25):
It's a bunch of nothing.

Speaker 1 (01:08:29):
He's memorialized in a pool with KJR alums and all stars,
is what I got.

Speaker 3 (01:08:35):
I am in six brackets right now.

Speaker 12 (01:08:37):
Yes, but I will tell you this that five of
them are with the same betting pool, if you will,
all right, I just did the auto generate your pick thing.
I was too lazy to go game by game, so
I just clicked on the auto generate button, put in
my total for the championship game, and I was done.

Speaker 1 (01:08:54):
I'm out. The question is will you beat your wife
this year? Will she be ahead or below you in
the standings?

Speaker 3 (01:09:01):
She's usually way way way behind, way by.

Speaker 1 (01:09:04):
Okay, but she doesn't for some reason. I feel like
I see an early maybe it's an early GENA surge,
and then it drops off. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:09:12):
Usually, Well, you know what her new You know what
her new nickname is?

Speaker 1 (01:09:14):
By the way, right, my wife, I don't want to know, buddy.

Speaker 12 (01:09:17):
Well, I'm not gonna tell you about that nickname. Okay,
what is it that stays between us?

Speaker 1 (01:09:22):
Pal?

Speaker 3 (01:09:23):
We call her postseason Gina?

Speaker 1 (01:09:25):
Now you know why, because she.

Speaker 3 (01:09:29):
Only shows up from the place.

Speaker 12 (01:09:32):
You in her regular season games she went to last
year zero none wow, went almost every playoff game. You
know how many Seahawks regular season games she went to
zeros none zero until the Niners and Rams and the
playoffs and the Super Bowl. You know how many Husky
football games. She's been doing that at Husky Stadium in
the last three or four years. None you know how

(01:09:53):
many Husky games she's seen to you know where they were,
New Orleans and Houston.

Speaker 1 (01:09:58):
Wow. You know what, her man, whatever, the rest of
it's beneath her, the rest of it, the rest of
it is beneath her. Just you know, well, she'll probably
be going to some playoff games for baseball this fall.

Speaker 3 (01:10:13):
That's right.

Speaker 12 (01:10:13):
I hope, so, I hope, so yeah, I do, I
think so yeah. I think Kyle Rawley's all pissed off now.
He's going to carry that World Baseball Classic disappointment with
him throughout the entire season. Everyone keeps saying, Kyle Rowley,
no way, he's gonna hit sixty.

Speaker 3 (01:10:27):
That's right.

Speaker 12 (01:10:27):
He's gonna hit seventy now this year, even to the
Venezuela's gonna.

Speaker 3 (01:10:32):
Five him up.

Speaker 1 (01:10:32):
Man, I feel like I need to get the casino
over under seventy will take seventy. Uh. What do you
got coming up on your final show before March, Madiser, Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:10:41):
Well, by Florida will be with us. That Devon Chien
news came out today.

Speaker 12 (01:10:44):
We've been pushing that hard on this show for the
Hawks to go get him and the Dolphins I guess,
saying he's not available, so we'll talk to Mike about that.
Petros Papadaka're gonna join us at four uh, and then
Kevin Kugler, you know he's the voice of the Final
Four for Westwood One, does join us at five o'clock,
and then Brian Schmetzer will join us, so you gonna
hop on actually just a couple hours before their game

(01:11:06):
with Vancouver tonight at five point forty five in Spokane
or six ten or so, sorry in Spokane. So we
had a pretty good show. Normally it's kind of a
big nothing burger, but today's actually not.

Speaker 1 (01:11:15):
Going that sounds like a big, big show. Felt pretty good,
pretty big show. Yeah, ye Schmetz isn't Spokane spoke often?
Right now? I like it. Hopefully he'll yell at Jackson again.

Speaker 3 (01:11:23):
He will guarantee all right, see it.

Speaker 9 (01:11:26):
I see you by for the mild mannered and marginally
objectionable the Inverness this is paddle day, saying so long everyone,