Furness Show 3-23: Mollywhop Monday, NBA Expansion Update, JSN Extension

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's quite a bit different because when they go over
there and play in Finland, the teams they picked have
wait for it, players who are from Finland who just
won bronze medals at the Olympics. I think Sebastianaha had
a couple others, right well, sorrow No, who am I
thinking of Caroline?

Speaker 2 (00:18):
They have yes, Sperry Cook and Yami too and.

Speaker 1 (00:20):
And and uh yeah and aho and then Seattle's got
of course Coppocco and assuming Elliot Tobin's back next season,
maybe they know something we don't. Yeah he is. Anyway,
They've got their guys. When the NFL travels to play
in whatever place they're going to play in, there is
never has never been a player from sed country playing

(00:41):
in the NFL game returning home to play before his fans, right, correct,
So I think it is a little bit different. I
think the NBA and the NHL can do this and whatever,
and really globalizing the game makes sense because again, both
those games are global. The NFL is a lot of things.
It ain't global, and it ain't global, try as they might,
it ain't global. Every year they bring the European guy
in to play for training camp, and every year he's

(01:03):
the worst player in the field. Like that's just the
way it is.

Speaker 3 (01:06):
It's it's always a Cinderella story with the guys that
actually make it.

Speaker 1 (01:09):
Well but made it what he has made it.

Speaker 2 (01:13):
Being on the practice squad is not making punters well punters.

Speaker 4 (01:17):
And also there are linemen from the island.

Speaker 1 (01:19):
But they've never No, but we're talking Europe.

Speaker 4 (01:21):
But you're just talking Europe.

Speaker 1 (01:22):
Yeah, I'm all the islands are different some o and
all that. Yeah, I know those guys I'm talking about,
Like I thought.

Speaker 4 (01:27):
You were talking international in general.

Speaker 1 (01:29):
No, no, no, no, no, no, Hey, they're gonna go
play a game in Sama. Absolutely have at it. Yeah,
you're going home. There's probably a lot of guys there.

Speaker 5 (01:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:37):
A lot of Polynesian influence in the NFL good, absolutely,
not a lot of Eastern European influence, not a lot
of not a lot of you know, great Britain players
make it. I know I underday. Okay, he's a coach. Okay,
we move on.

Speaker 2 (01:50):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (01:51):
So do I like the European games in general? No,
But for hockey and basketball it makes sense.

Speaker 2 (01:55):
It makes sense.

Speaker 1 (01:56):
It makes sense for the NBA, makes sense for the
for the national Hockey League. I guess it makes sense
for baseball to play games in Japan. Yeah right, Yeah,
the NFL does not make sense. Does that make sense?

Speaker 4 (02:06):
It does make sense, but I think they operate on
dollars and cents. They see that.

Speaker 1 (02:11):
It can make just I know why they're doing it.
We all know why they're doing it. We also know
why they're playing on a Wednesday this year, when the
CX are opening up on a Wednesday night, we all
know why. It's all about the ours. You can chime
in to come a dodge text line, show a shop
to come a Dodgechrist with Geepram the corner of thirty
eighth and South to come away, intersection of savings, real quick,
March madness, great weekend, fun weekend. I'm with Mark. I mean,

(02:32):
those four days are just a blast. It's I learned
this year, more so than ever before, having adult kids
is the best kids to have. Because we just the
two of us watched so much hoops. I had so
much fun grinding, you know, like probably everybody listening, grinding
through whether it be a bracket, a survivor pool, a draft,
whatever you might do. Maybe you just went up to
Socaoma because you know the sportsbook and got yourself some

(02:53):
juice on some things. Hopefully you have better. Hopefully you
had better luck than I did. Big shout out to
Texas Tech at the end, crushing me anyway, great stuff
for In fact, we went up to the casino yesterdays.
Don't call me casino cruise around. It was very busy,
a lot of people watching, which is cool. Andergy survived
Survivor by and through had a boy.

Speaker 6 (03:11):
That's stressful, isn't It's very stressful and it starts to
get hard now.

Speaker 1 (03:15):
I had Virginia in the Survivor pool on day one
or day two, sorry, on Friday, and we were driving down,
uh Keith and I were driving down. We went to
have lunch at Twin Peaks. My wife was like, works
from home. She's like, can you guys leave? I don't
need you guys. Yelling at a television is not conducive
to the work environment. And I said, well, you know what, fella,

(03:38):
let's go down and check out Brad's place, our buddy
Brad who supports the Mayor Maple Value open. And it
was all of the above. But we're driving down during
the Virginia game and it was massively stressful. Yeah, like
game and keep you like it's a gamer runs fellow.
I'm like, I know you have no juice on this.
Shut up. It's so much fun. We saw some great basketball.

(03:59):
I'm I don't know if I have time today. I
wrote down something I wanted to get into. Man, you
can pay a lot of money to have, like to
be one and done in the NCAA tournament. And are
these schools are you know? It's a cautionary tale, like, hey,
write a check. We want to have a guy to
the level de bonstet great or Darren Peterson super. I'm

(04:21):
looking here. Let me double check guy checks his March
Madness bracket. This isn't mine. This is just the live
bracket to see who's there, because mine's got a lot
of red note notes in it.

Speaker 2 (04:30):
Uh, let's see.

Speaker 1 (04:32):
I think b Yu not there in the Sweet sixteen
Texas to I know you're not there, right like. And
they spent a ton of money. I know Topping got hurt,
but that hurt him Kansas. Darren Peterson not there right like.
It's I'm telling you, man, I don't know what you do.
I don't know what the answer is. But writing huge

(04:54):
checks for guys that may or may not get you.
I mean, last year we made a ton of I
mean I loved having fun at the expense of great
Osabor last year who reportedly made a million dollars and
then they backtracked later. No, he wasn't making a million,
but he was still making a lot. And they finished
eighteenth in the Big Ten this year. Washington had a
roster that costs them some money. And I'm not just

(05:16):
picking on them because they're Washington. There are a lot
of schools like that. Mary Let's use Maryland instead. Okay,
let's use Maryland instead, although I like to have one
with Washington, but we'll use Maryland. In said, because we
are your Husky flagship. But they spend a ton of
money Maryland did. I had a great year last year.
Then they bring in just two guys, I know, Rice
and Isaiah. How'd that work out? Not good? But then

(05:40):
you have the Dylan Darlings story scores hasn't scored all game,
gets a game winner for Saint John's. If you didn't
see that. Crazy's from Central Valley High School in Spokane.
Played one year at Wazoo, but when I say played,
didn't play much. Went to Idaho State and somehow ends
up at Saint John's and ends up being a hero
that will go down and lord of Saint John's lore.
And they've got a lot of great players to play there.
Great player. He just made a great moment. And that's

(06:01):
what March maadis is all about, which is really a ton
of fun. Okay, So we'll get in this mor at
two o'clock. We've got Molliwop guys coming up in about
ten minutes time. And this is because normally on opening
Day the last few years we've done like a live
in person Molliwop at Jimmy's on first. Can't do that
this year because there's a hockey game and all this
other stuff. So we're going today's kind of our our

(06:23):
Molliwop preview, and we'll go through a ton of stuff
with Nathan and Chris that's coming up in a minute,
in addition to the Kraken playing in Finland and JSN
signing the massive contract and just a quick thing on
that good. I don't think it's I don't think we
expect anything else. Uh the fact, I think the only
surprise with Jasn's contract is it happened so quick.

Speaker 6 (06:42):
Yeah, I love they did it before. Puka's just thank god,
just get it.

Speaker 1 (06:46):
And you know what, it says something too that both
sides were able to come together because we heard him
on you know, the radio or wherever it was down TV,
down in Texas. So I'm gonna be the highest paid guy.
I mean, he made no bones about it. He's had
he had that year where he could probably dictate that
in a sense. And the longest short of it is
they got it done. And that's just a testament to

(07:07):
the Seahawks as an organization, to JSN and his representation.
Just no drama, no drama needed for the Super Bowl champions.
We just move on. It's awesome, it's a great story.
The Jake Bobo thing surprises me a little bit.

Speaker 4 (07:20):
I love it.

Speaker 1 (07:21):
We all love Jake Bobo. Okay, we all love Jake
Bobel maybe the best interview on the team. Let me
just let's just go through this, JSN, Cooper Cup, Tory Horton,
Rashi Hi Heat. Right now we get to Jake Bobole.
That's five, Drake Young six, that's right, he's gone. Yeah,
so five those five guys, you're good.

Speaker 6 (07:44):
You don't need a receiver you can find maybe an
undrafted guy, you know, try and make a practice squad
or whatever.

Speaker 2 (07:49):
Stuff like that. But yeah, but you're good.

Speaker 3 (07:50):
That just tells me that they have some forecasting in
the draft where they want to go.

Speaker 1 (07:54):
Well, I think it's it's obvious. We'll talk to Rob
on Friday. Where they gonn go. They have to go
running back. It's just periods corner. Yeah, I mean the
running back, running back, running back house to be your
number one priority period of a story. It just it
has to be unless with all these receivers making money,
maybe you're just just gonna air rate it or something.
There's no chance Mike McDonald to do that because against

(08:15):
every five of his DNA as a defensive coordinator. The
other news coming out today and this came out this
morning that the Kraken and I'm just going to read
the first paragraph. We'll try to explain in a second.
Spend more time at two o'clock because it's a big
week coming up, I think. Here in Seattle, ownership group
of the Sale Cracking, led by Samantha Hallway, today announced
the launch of One Roof Sports and Entertainment to oversee

(08:37):
a growing portfolio of properties and fuel new opportunities. In addition,
Halloway announced that One Roof Sports Entertainment and Oakview Group
have entered an agreement on a pre planned ownership transition
designed to enable the pursuit a future opportunities future opportunities.
One Roofsports Entertainment become the majority owner Climate Pledgery and

(09:00):
OVG still maintaining a significant minority stake. And OVG, still
maintaining a significant minority stake, will continue its role in
booking and operating the award winning venue under a long
term agreement. What does this mean? In short, they were
already in bed together Oakview Group and the ownership of
the Kraken, et cetera. They're just kind of more. There's

(09:21):
more synergy. They bring it all under one umbrella. They're
also building the new Memorial Stadium there the Cracking Community,
ice plexes, theirs. But know this, Samantha Halloway and the
Kraken effectively group basically oversee all things Climate Pledge Arena.
That's their portfolio. Wednesday, by the way, just is it

(09:45):
related or not? Who knows? Wednesday, there's a vote by
the NBA owners to move ahead with expansion. We'll get
into more of that we'll get in all this two
o'clock because I want to ask you guys a question
regards to this group. I'm very biased, but I think
Sam Holloway has done, especially since the passing of her father,
David bonham In the original majority owner of the Kraken

(10:06):
last year, what she has done with Todd BLYWICKI has done,
what that entire group has done is nothing short of amazing.
They have come through on everything they've promised. They've come
through on We all wish the hockey team was better,
which the hockey team had stars, Which the hockey team
wasn't fighting for a playoff spot and was in the playoffs.
I wish that would happen. It's also pro sports. Maybe

(10:29):
what's more important that we've all learned over the years,
especially with the Sonics leaving in two thousand and eight.
Do you have a venue, do you have strong ownership,
do you have financial stability? Do you have all those things?
The answers are yes, yes, and yes. I mean climb
Pledgerina is just such a gift that we got to
this city. It's crazy because as we all know, ky

(10:50):
Aria wasn't cutting all right. We'll get more of that
two o'clock. We come back, Nathan, Chris. We are molly wopping.
It's opening week Thursday, that's next.

Speaker 7 (11:02):
It's Monday. Then that means one thing. It's time to
mollywop uncensored, unscripted and filled with the passion that all
Mariners fans can relate to, and brought to you by
the company that's all about Seattle Sports, Simply Seattle. Visit
simply Seattle dot com for the best Mariners gear. Now
with the Mollywop boys, Nathan Bishop and Chris Crawford with

(11:26):
my oh, why, here's Ian Fernett's.

Speaker 1 (11:30):
All right, Mile Why Yes, indeed, our good friend Chris
Crawford of course, Nathan Bishop, you know him, you love him.
They're the Mollywop guys. Often requested. People want to hear
from them, they want to talk to them. Guys. I
was going through something the other day and I'm trying
to find back it was I was looking for. I
was looking for. I was doing an email search and

(11:52):
I stumbled across the very first link, I believe it
was for a Mollywop show back in twenty twenty one,
and I was like, WHOA, that's wild, Like I just
I stumbled across. Now, first of all, this says something
about me. I probably need to clean out my email better.

(12:12):
But it was it literally was an email from Shocky
to you two guys. Me, here's a link. Let's do
them all. We're gonna call it. And I don't think
we can call it molliwop yet. It was just a
reaction to Kevin Mather. I say that because here we are,
fast forward, all these years later and we're still doing it.
I still love it. I still get great feedback. People
love this segment. Every week they want to hear from you, guys,

(12:33):
and probably no more so than this year. Maybe, And
we'll get into this one of the most, if not
the most anticipated Mariner seasons ever. Ladies and gentlemen, Mollywop guys,
Nathan Chris, Happy opening week. We are right there on
the horizon. Opening day, Chris is just four days away.
I'll let you start just this week. You know, I know,

(12:54):
for you, Grandma and everybody else, it's always special.

Speaker 5 (12:58):
It's super special special. I feel very special. Trying to
find out what the heck channel my Grandma's going to
watch the Mariner game.

Speaker 1 (13:05):
We'll get into that, trust me, we'll get into that
in a minute.

Speaker 5 (13:07):
Yeah, yeah, very frustrating because if she has to watch
them online, well, God help us all. No, it's it's fun,
you know. The the landscape is changing. A game on Netflix,
a game on the channel that pays me on Sunday.
It's fun that the Mariners are going to be the
first Sunday night baseball game of the year. Well, I
can't remember the last time that happened. I'm excited. I'm

(13:30):
excited mainly because I don't have to watch any more
exhibition baseball. It's just not as good. It's not as good.

Speaker 8 (13:36):
And I.

Speaker 5 (13:38):
Admire everyone who goes to spring training and has a
good time and goes to play golf, which what most
people are actually doing is they're going to play golf
rather than to go play baseball. Hey, good for you, man,
But I am ready for real baseball. I'm ready for
this to matter. And I'm super excited that it's a
home series against two playoff teams to open the year

(13:58):
with a couple of games on Nash TV. What could
be better.

Speaker 1 (14:02):
It's a great time of the year. Nathan, go ahead.

Speaker 9 (14:04):
Yeah, I feel like we've been through a lot just
in the short time that we've done this show. That
was crazy and surreal to hear you say twenty twenty
one ian, because it both feels like it's been less
time than that. And I also can't really remember a
time when I didn't do this show, So that's probably
that's kind of just how time works and how these
things happen. And I think back in twenty twenty two

(14:27):
and how excited this town and this region and the
fan base was when they broke the playoffless streak to
just dump all over that offseason and to go into
twenty twenty three with bad vibes. This feels now today
like how that should have felt now, Like this is
that redone we've built. We've won the first division title

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since two thousand and one, and rather than going backwards,
you can argue how much they've gone forwards, if at all,
but they have sustained their talent level. They have at
least held regression at Bay talent. Why is going into
opening day today and allowed us all, even you know,
curmudgeonly jerks like me to dream the impossible dream that

(15:09):
the Seattle Mariners could make the World Series in twenty
twenty six. It is a very realistic possibility. Analytically speaking,
media people all agree. I will not be labor the
point that the last analytics I did together about the
Mariners twenty fifteen, we just don't need to talk about

(15:31):
that because that season didn't happen, and that was eleven
years ago. This is a time, like we always talk
about the dream every time we do the show, we
let ourselves dream. That's what Opening Day is, It's the dream.
But this time the dream feels a lot closer to
reality than it has since we've started this show. And
that's just it's really exciting. Man, there's no other way
to feel about it.

Speaker 1 (15:51):
Yeah. I agree with everything you're saying, and it's uh.
And we'll get into the TV thing in a second,
because I just did a little test on something and
so now I'm I'm you think Grandma is confused? I
work in the big I'm confused. So we'll get to
that in a second. All right, let me let me
just ask this, and I think it is. But Nathan
did bring up a few years ago as well. But
I think because this team got to the ALCS Game seven,

(16:14):
is this the most anticipated Mariner season we've ever had?

Speaker 5 (16:17):
Chris, It's up there it's certainly the most anticipated for
me since two thousand and two. And I'm you know,
I'm trying to think of just not me, because for me,
two thousand and two was the most anticipated because I
had just graduated from high school and I didn't have
to worry about you know, I could go up to
Seattle all the as much as I wanted. I think

(16:38):
I ended up going to like three games that year,
But that's just how those things end up working. But
this is certainly the most anticipated season in twenty years. Like,
you were eight ounce away from getting to the World Series,
then you brought the whole team back. What is stopping
you from getting making that next step? What's stopping you
from having another MVP season from cal Rawly, What's stopped

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you from seeing Julio Rodriguez at the age of twenty five,
developing into one of the very best players in baseball.
What's stopping this rotation from staying healthy. What's stopping this rotation,
which was the best in baseball in twenty twenty three
and twenty twenty four, from pitching like that again? And oh,
by the way, you have one of the best pitching
prospects in baseball ready to go if one of those

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guys isn't ready to be a productive member of that rotation. No,
this is as good as it gets. This is the
most excited I've been for Seattle Mariner baseball in over
half of my long ish life. It's pretty exciting and
people have every right to be pretty excited about this.

Speaker 1 (17:38):
Yeah, I feel that same way. The TV thing's a
weird little monkey wrench into it. I think a lot
of people are like, are we can't how? I mean,
there's just the story that dimmished in the Times yesterday.
I'm more confused than ever before. But I've had the
same conversations with them. I'll get to that in a second, Nathan,
Most anticipated season for you or right up there at least?

Speaker 9 (17:59):
Yeah, I think so. I feel less angry coming into
this season than I can recall feeling in any time,
and that's usually a good sign, because that's being angry
at this team is kind of my resting state for
reasons that I think are as at least as much
their fault as.

Speaker 10 (18:15):
It is mine. But I don't feel that at this point.

Speaker 9 (18:18):
What I feel is, you know, regardless of how this
season plays out, and we're going to have so many conversations.
As the season goes, there will be times when we're
really excited about them. There's going to be times when
I get to do my thing and piss off all
the callers and the text ers, and that's gonna be
fun too.

Speaker 10 (18:33):
But more than.

Speaker 9 (18:34):
Anything, I feel like, at least as much as they
have in my memory, the franchise has given us a
chance to experience the things that we deserve to experience
as fans, and that's Baseball is a weird game, man.
Weird stuff happens. I have seen like the twenty twenty
one Mariners were a garbage baseball team talent wise, and

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they won ninety games. I already mentioned the twenty fifteen team,
which was a very talented team. I think they won
like seventy six games and didn't make the playoffs. Weird
stuff happens. What I'm not going to do is sit
here on opening day and say that they have failed.

Speaker 10 (19:11):
To do their job in the off season.

Speaker 9 (19:13):
They have given us the chance to feel how we
all feel today, and in more, yes, in more of
a way than I have experienced, at least as an adult.
Because Chris and I are about the same age two
thousand and two is the year that I always think
of because we were going to live forever and we
were just gonna win one hundred and ten games every
single year, and we weren't going to have nine to eleven.
That was gonna put the sour note in the team

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and stop us, and we were going to do it.
And I watched them play in April and they demolished
the Angels and then we don't need to talk about
the rest of that season ever again. But yeah, since
that time, this is as excited as I've ever been.

Speaker 1 (19:44):
Molly Lot Monday brought to buy a Simply Sales Simply
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great minds sink alike. That's a great looking sweatshirt you
got there today, Chris Crawford, you too. And the Kingdome
stuff is just it's so good at Simply Seattle. Uh.
And yet it's so funny because with a very couple,

(20:07):
very few exceptions, remember, baseball inside the Kingdom was really
not a pleasant experience. But but we love to look
back on our little favorite play. We can make fun
of the Kingdome and those teams you cannot. It's like
a sibling it's.

Speaker 5 (20:22):
Our three dollars. It's our ice cream with the wooden spoons, all.

Speaker 1 (20:27):
The malt thing that the spoon would break, and then
what do you do? It's oh yeah, all good time.

Speaker 5 (20:33):
It was just the worst, but it was also just
the best.

Speaker 1 (20:35):
It was a beer, a red a beer in a
in a paper cup with wax that would melt right
through and oh yeah, the whole nine yards. Ah, those
glory days. Okay, Chris, we'll start with you. Opening day
roster this season. We've got a pretty good idea who
in what is on. It looks really similar to last year,
with an addition of Donovan and just a couple of

(20:57):
little ones along the way. Opening day roster this year
compared to what they finished with last season in the ALCS,
better or worse about the same?

Speaker 5 (21:08):
I think about the same. I think there is a
noticeable downgrade potentially with no Jorge Polanco here. I do
think that people are forgetting how good Hojrge Polonka was
for the Seattle Mariners, not just with a couple of
huge postseason hits, but like a stabilizing force outside of
a one month in that lineup. And look, Cole Young

(21:30):
has looked great in spring training. I refuse to take
those spring training stats too seriously. I'm just being one
hundred percent honest with you. I'll also note this is
Cole Young's a top fifty prospect not that long ago.
Who is I believe, twenty two years old, So it
won't shock me at all if he develops into an
above average regular. But I think there's a bit of
a downgrade there here. Here's what I'll say. It's it

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may be about the same from the roster that ended
twenty twenty five. It's a massive upgrade from the roster
that they have to begin twenty twenty five. And one
of the reasons the Seattle Mariners ended up not having
home field advantage was they got off to another terrible start,
and in part because they were playing guys like Rowney
to Lez and Donovan Solano and starting people like Luis

(22:15):
f Castilla. If you guys remember Louise at the beginning
of the year. This roster is a lot better than
the one that began began twenty twenty five, and I
think that's just as important because the Mariners need to
get off to a good start if their goal is
to get to the World Series and like I've said,
I don't have expectations. I have demands of this team

(22:36):
going to the World Series. Home field advantage is going
to play a massive part in that, and getting off
to a better start is going to help along those ways.
So yeah, it's about the same from where it ended
in twenty twenty five, but it's a huge upgrade having
put someone like Josh Naylor, having Jose Ferrer, having Brandon
Donovan from the roster that they had to begin twenty

(22:58):
twenty five.

Speaker 1 (22:59):
So I'm gonna play everybody's strengths here. That's and and
that's well said. And Nathan you mentioned earlier that they
did their job. They you come into this season feeling
good about the roster, so I won't even ask you
about the roster and said, I'm gonna play your strength
and then Chris you can jump in as well.

Speaker 10 (23:15):
I appreciate that.

Speaker 1 (23:16):
What what's the thing that concerns you most about the
twenty twenty five Mariners. What's the kryptonite? What is it?
What is it that you're gonna say? This is this
is the old softy asking Steve Sarkisian the night before
a Husky football game, what keeps you up at night.
Sark loved that question much like I'm sure you do.

Speaker 9 (23:35):
Yeah, I appreciate you not tossing me the ball when
I'm like in the paint with the big guys and
just let me hang out beyond the three point line
and bomb away. I'm gonna be out there by the logo,
just let me shoot, don't make me cross out of
the three point line on offense or defense. What's what
concerns me about this team? I think overall, if I
were going to look at a part of this team,
if we're just bringing it down into the three groups
of you know, positional, starting, pitching, relief pitching, I have

(23:57):
some concerns in the positional group, and it's really helped
out by the fact that they have probably the best
catcher and centerfielder in the sport. That really gives you
a pretty high floor with your positional group. But I
think that we as a fan base probably don't have
a real understanding of what normal Josh Naylor looks like,
because Josh Naylor in Seattle was nothing like what Josh

(24:20):
Naylor the normal player has been. That was a supercharged
version of him. I think, to Chris's point, we're under
playing the loss of Horrorgee Polanco coming into the season
and the potential for Cole Young to flame out and
create a hole at second base. I think we are
again in almost the opposite fashion that we were with

(24:40):
Horrorgete Polanco. I think we're overstating Gino Suarez's struggles at
third and assuming that Brendan Donovan is just going to
be a Gino Suarez type player. I like Brendan Donovan
a lot. I think he's a solid player. I think
he's played eight games at third base in the last
couple of years. He hasn't played a ton over there.
I don't see a lot that I love in right field.
Even though they have eighteen guys that are going to

(25:01):
play out there, I don't think any of them are
particularly good. I'm pretty sure I saw like I may
have just had too many beers while I was golfing yesterday.
But I think Mitch Garverer is here again this year.

Speaker 10 (25:11):
Is that correct?

Speaker 1 (25:12):
That is correct?

Speaker 10 (25:12):
That's the thing that's still happening. Randy A.

Speaker 9 (25:15):
Rose Arena really struggled down the stretch of last year
and in the playoffs, and it is a time in
his career with where that kind of skill set could
be starting to erode JP Crawford. Yeah, that could get
really bad very quickly. So those are all of the
things on that side. It's going to be buoyed by
the fact that cal Raley is going to hit forty

(25:35):
home runs and be the best catcher in baseball and
Julio very well could be the American League MVP this year.
But that positional group has a lot of areas for
me that are either not as good as the looked
last year or potential for severe decline or moderate decline.

Speaker 1 (25:52):
Yeah, I mean Ryan Bliss, Luis Reevos, guys like that.
With Crawford being banged up and so forth, that infield
group was an interesting one. Chris, same question, what's the
thing that would concern you kryptonite for this team? Because
most experts when you start seeing all that this is
prediction week. Everyone writes to their prediction stories right out there,
and a lot of people are saying most talented team
in the American League. But there's always a flaw. So

(26:14):
what would be the flaw?

Speaker 5 (26:16):
I would say everything Nathan Head and then just everything
Nathan said, excuse me, I combine nail on the head
and said there that's fun history, the history of the
Seattle Mariners. Man, like you until it it happens, you
can't ignore the history of the Seattle Mariners.

Speaker 1 (26:34):
Like so true.

Speaker 5 (26:35):
I always get mad at people who overuse stuff like
they've never done this, they've never done that, because like
in general, that stuff isn't very It doesn't help a
hell of a lot. But forty nine years or whatever
the heck it is of this, Yeah, I'm That's what
my biggest worry is. And until I see this team

(26:55):
actually do what it's supposed to do, I'm going to
be worried about and a lot of it for the
reasons like if Luke Rayley's playing a significant role on
the Seattle Mariners, I'm concerned. I'm concerned about Luke Rayley
playing right field for the Seattle Mariners against Ryan and pitching.
If Rob Revschneider is the everyday DH I really like
Rob Revschneider, I have concerns there too. I have some

(27:17):
concerns about Victor Roebliz. I have some concerns about Boy.
If there was an injured injury to either Julio or cow,
this team's ceiling just collapses. But more than anything else.
It's just being a forty three year old who has
watched the Seattle Mariners his entire life. Screw the pooch,
and until I see them not screw the pooch, I'm

(27:38):
gonna worry about it.

Speaker 1 (27:40):
The uh, well said, uh well, just real quick on
TV for a second.

Speaker 10 (27:45):
The okay, the.

Speaker 1 (27:49):
Whole thing of where you can you watched them last year,
you watch them again? This These wereally vague statements they
keep making. I don't know what games they're playing. I'm
just tell us now. Part of it is, I know
this as a couple weeks ago they were still working
on carriage deals like I can do so, and so
as this guy. You know, is this because now it
used to be you're on the cable, you're on direct TV,

(28:11):
you're on dish. Well, now there's cable, there's direct TV,
there's dish, there's YouTube, there's Fubo, there's the illegal streams,
there's all these, I mean, all the different ways you
can get stuff, right, So where are you? I read
this story in the Times. I was more confused than
ever before. And then the fact, well, we'll let you
know on opening day morning, I guess when you go
to the alcs. You can kind of get away with that.

(28:33):
To me, it's it's a little frustrating. Now. One thing
I did notice, because we have Comcast in the studio
here and I also have it at home. Six twenty
seven was root that doesn't exist anymore. You go to
the channel guide, it doesn't. It goes from six twenty
five to six twenty eight or something. Yeah, but if
you typed in manually six twenty seven, All Drink Spring Training,

(28:55):
there was always a Spring training game on from MLB TV.
It was most of the time Mariners or Padres, we're
on there. I just typed it in now and it
goes right to like the channel up, So that's not there.
So I don't know if they've got the deal done
with Comcast yet or not. I don't know if they've
got a deal done with I think YouTube's an issue

(29:15):
and all those things. The fact that you's like saying, hey,
let us we'll let you know on Thursday morning, it
was readily apparent last year you weren't able to get
the app done on time and there were major glitches
in it, and that's just not good business. So whatever
you're doing, get it figured out before WEDNESA or Thursday morning,
telling people that they can figure it out and then

(29:36):
they have to probably dip into their pocketbook and spend
more money. I just get it done. There's just I'll
just that's my rant for the day. I just don't
think it's television. The fact that you're waiting till the
eleventh hour is ridiculous in today's world. Okay, let's come back.
I wrote down expectations and predictions. I'm going to ask

(29:56):
that to Chris because I just want to hear it again.
We'll do that next segment. I three point three KJFM.

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Speaker 1 (30:25):
Opening week in baseball, Mollywop guys are here big thanks
to Simply Seattle. Simply sale dot com. Molliwap fifteen to
check out for your discount. Let me start with this.
I'll get to Chris in a second. Nathan, I'll start
with you. Last season, the Seattle Mariners were ninety and
seventy two. They won the American League West by a

(30:47):
whopping three games. When it was all said and done,
they had the third best record in the American League,
behind only Toronto and the Yankees with those ninety wins.
So ninety and seventy two last seasons for Nathan Bishop
this year, and we could even start with higher or
lower than ninety wins, or just look at division or bust.

Speaker 9 (31:08):
Sure we can go lower I was saying earlier. I
said eighty nine and seventy three, so I'll be slightly
below ninety. The big thing that I am expecting this
year is, for the first time in franchise history, I'm
expecting the Seattle Mariners to win back to back division titles,
which would be honestly one of the greatest accomplishments in
franchise history because with a one hundred and sixty two

(31:29):
game schedule, what you do in the regular season is
deeply meaningful in baseball. It's one of the things I
love about it. So I expect them to triumph in
the American League West again this year. I'm also expecting
it to not feel quite as thrilling and overwhelmingly exciting
as it did last year, because I don't think that
they're going to be significantly better than they were last year.

(31:51):
And I think right now there's this feeling of like
we expect the team to take kind of the next step.
Whether they take the next step or not, in my
opinionion is going to be determined by what they end
up doing in the postseason, which is much more of
a crapshoot. But it also leads very nicely into us
throwing an ALLEYU towards Chris where he can now Sean

(32:12):
kempet down flying chickens in the barnyard and.

Speaker 1 (32:16):
Such well set up. Well set up, Chris, you don't
have expectations for people who missed it before.

Speaker 5 (32:24):
Nope, Nope. I have demands, and my demand is that
the Seattle Mariners go to the World Series. And I
have to be just completely honest with you, and this
is going to be a little bit Debbie Downer, and
I apologize here. My demands aren't just based on the
fact that I think this roster is good enough to
do it. My demands are not just based on the
fact that the Seattle Mariners said, run it back with

(32:46):
the team that was eight outs away from going to
the World Series. My demands also are based on the
fact that I have a ninety six year old grandmother
and I have cirrhosis and a tumor in my brain.
That has a lot to do with my demands for
the Seattle Mariners. I need to see this. My grandma
needs to see this as much as I understand sustainability,

(33:07):
as much as I understand that they should not make
decisions for me and my grandmother. Uh yeah, yeah, I
need to see it. And if I don't see it,
I'm gonna be either looking up or looking down at
the Seattle Mariners with disdain in a few years. And
I just need it. I need it, and we've never
done it. And you saw what the town did. You

(33:30):
saw this excitement from the Seattle Seahawks winning that Super Bowl.

Speaker 1 (33:34):
I was there.

Speaker 5 (33:35):
It was one of the greatest moments of my life,
the Seattle Mariners winning the World Series. I love you,
Seattle Seahawks. Congratulations Jackson Smith and Jig But can I
borrow forty dollars? I this will claborate the Seattle Mariners.
Winning the World Series will clabber the Seattle Seahawks. I'm sorry, man,

(33:55):
This town, when baseball is at its best, is one
of the best baby baseball towns in the world. I
need to see it.

Speaker 1 (34:03):
You know why the one of the best baseball towns
in the world is because they suffer for fifty years
and they still keep coming back and they're still interest
And that's why when we do this show, it's still
one of the most downloaded things on the radio station
and people go back and listen to it because they
they're manner fans people are. That's a great Chris. I
think it's well said, great and everyone has their reasons.
Yours or are those? I think we all have those reasons.

(34:26):
I mean, I want to enjoy it with my kids
and all those things I want that. Let me wrap
it up with this. We always do this. We're not
gonna be able to do it in person on Thursday
just because of our schedule with hockey and stuff stuff
like that, but we always do this, Chris Crawford, Why
is Opening Day special?

Speaker 5 (34:42):
It's the eternal optimism, right like it is the everybody's
got a shot, everybody's got a chance, and it's just
it's one of those days where you just kind of
ignore your troubles and you just focus on the fact.
And the thing about Opening Day two is that at
one hundred and sixty two game scenes and so many
things can happen, right like even the Colorado Flip and

(35:04):
rock Okay, maybe not them. Even the Pittsburgh Pirates can
look at their situation and say what if. And you
can do that with baseball more than any other sport.
You can't do that with the NFL, like Fernando Mendoza
might be the greatest quarterback prospect ever. You can't say
what if with the Las Vegas Raiders winning the Super Bowl.
You can't say what if with the the New Orleans

(35:29):
Pelicans winning the World Series or winning the NBA Championship.
You can't do that with these teams. You can't do
that with the Vancouver Canucks, sorry guys for winning the
Stanley Cup right now. You can kind of do it
in baseball because there's so much that can happen. You
can't help but dream. I did it every year as
a kid. I knew the Seattle Mariners were flawed as hell.
I knew that there were so many better teams in

(35:51):
the ALS back when there were seven teams in there.
Still treamed about it, and you had one hundred and
sixty two games opening Day is so special because it
gives you a chance to dream like a kid again.

Speaker 10 (36:03):
Nathan, I don't remember what I've said.

Speaker 9 (36:07):
I probably have focused on my kid in the years
past here, and that's still very real. He's home for
a few more months before he's off to college in
the fall, and I think we're going to have a
really great time this year. His level of excitement for
baseball this year is unlike anything I've ever seen it personally.
I don't want to drift too far afield here, but

(36:28):
I'm finding things to be really challenging in a day
by day way in the world. And I don't think
that I'm really alone in that. I'm pretty confident that
I'm not alone in that. And there is something about
baseball that provides for people who are struggling with anxiety,
who people are just having a hard time with their

(36:49):
day to day. I think one of the things that
makes the game so special is that it's daily, is
that it is a daily respite from whatever other thing
is going on. And yeah, it's the Seattle Marrier's and
there's rim shots, and there's you know, Dylan Moore throwing
to an empty home plate. There's losing seventeen games in
a row in twenty twelve when it looked like they
were finally going to turn their corner. There's forty nine

(37:10):
years of not being in the World Series, and you
know what, I would take forty nine more without a
World Series, Chris, no affront to you and your demands.
I'm not trying to besmirch them, but I would take
forty nine more seasons without a World Series if I
just get one hundred and sixty two more games of baseball.
I get a summer where I can turn on the radio,

(37:30):
or I can turn on whatever streaming app. I get
to find out Thursday morning that they're being streamed on,
and I get to pay however much I have to pay,
because that makes daily life easier for me. I'm just
gonnaquo really quick. Just a line from Paul Giamonti, who
was the former Commissioner of Baseball, and he just said

(37:51):
that what he liked to do is he was offloading
more and more of the heavy lifting of his day
to the game of baseball. And that's how I feel
when base ball season happens. I want the Mariners to
win the freaking World Series, man, I want it every
single year. But I don't need them to win the
World Series because I have baseball for the next six months,
and I have this show every single Monday, and honestly,

(38:14):
in the midst of all the stuff that I'm finding
so difficult to navigate on a day by day basis,
those little things stack up and they give you a
life worth holding on to. It's without being too like
over hyperbolic about it, but like this stuff matters. These
are the things that we are assigning meaning to. The
Seattle Mariners are a center point of the rhythm of

(38:35):
my life.

Speaker 10 (38:36):
And then they're back in three days, and I'm just
very grateful for it, and I'm grateful for this show.

Speaker 1 (38:41):
I think both of what you guys said, I think
everyone listening can relate to in a different way, not
exactly the same what have you, but I think we
all can relate. Opening Day Special and it's it's it
for this will be fIF your number fifty right, fiftieth
Opening Day It's special and we will reconvene on Monday
and we will discuss God I hope is to con

(39:03):
start Chris Bensen. It not like they're playing an easy team.
By the way, they were eighty eight and seventy four
last year won the AL Central. So fun way to start. Actually,
to be honest with you, like a fun way to start.
Let's get after it. Let's have some fun. Let's have
some fun. We talk real baseball, real results next Monday,
and I can't wait. You guys are the best. Thank
you so much. Have a great week. That's Chris Crawford,

(39:26):
That's Nathan Bishop. We'll take a break. Come back from
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He came in here flaming hot over that game yesterday.
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Speaker 1 (41:20):
First of all, thanks to good friends of Simply Sales
Simply sell dot com, malliwop fifteen at check out for
your discount, for providing us the malliwap Monday Show every Monday,
and we are providing a couple of tiers for me. Geez, yeah,
I mean it was it was a listen. I'm not
sure if there's a sport that gets that same level
of motion as baseball, not for me, and I think

(41:43):
I don't know, nor do I really care about the
thought that a World Series will be bigger than a
Super Bowl. I don't even know how you compare those
two things. I know Softy has said that for a while.
Chris said that as well, and opinions are great, that
that's what we do on sports radio. I don't even
know if that's true. I don't know if I care

(42:03):
if it's true. I really don't. I think it would
be massive. Titles are cool, they're huge. I'm not sure
if this past super Bowl is as big as the
first one, right, so the history it's just yeah, I mean,
this one to me felt different than twenty thirteen.

Speaker 2 (42:19):
But comparison is a thievery of joy.

Speaker 1 (42:21):
In good well set sir, But baseball does give us
I think what they both kind of said, and I agree.
It's one hundred and sixty two games, and I don't
want to diminish what anybody's doing, especially in the broadcast.
But it's the best background noise in sports, you know.
I know for us come home games on, it's on

(42:42):
the background, eating dinner, watching it, and so something's going on.
Settle in part of your routine. It's part of your routine,
the fact that every day is great. We will find
out someday how you can watch the games. We're waiting
with beta breath for that. Can't wait. We know they'll
be on TV.

Speaker 6 (42:58):
I think there will be a like pay per season
stream option, which I'm already all in on.

Speaker 1 (43:05):
Yeah, I think well, I think people are waiting to
see if they need to do that or if it's
included because when the package, yeah and stuff, and we'll
find out. But we'll be all watch baseball and that's okay.
And it just there's something about opening data that lists
a different set of emotions. I think part of the
two is at spring, like in every market. Every city

(43:25):
is different. I think for us here we live in
this the doom and gloom, the gray of Seattle from
basically October through whenever now now, but we know also
now we also know like tomorrow it's gonna be awful, right,
so we also know that, you know, we can have
a sunny day like yesterday and go oh or tease

(43:46):
by spring and then it's awful again. There's something about
Opening Day and baseball. It's like, oh, spring's here, summers
around the car, just the weather, just to feel better.
Just give me a little sunshine, little vitamin D, and
and then just the enthusiasm this year for this team,
because there's no doubt. I think maybe maybe two thousand

(44:08):
and two, maybe three years ago, I don't know. This
feels just so different than any other season. You get
to with any eight out's of the World Series really
deeper than you've ever been, because you got to Game
seven of the Alcs, you had it. I mean, you
could reach out and touch the World Series. And you're

(44:29):
running at a back of this year and that's not
a bad thing to run it back. Now you've got
you know, arguably if healthy one through five, we'll just
say one through four right now is as good at
pitching staff as there is. You've got a back end
of the bullpen that is really good. You've got up
the middle, catcher, center fielder that are the best in

(44:49):
the game. Perhaps. Yeah, there's a lot of reasons to
be excited. So we'll get more to that a little
bit more on Thursday too, on the first day, opening
day of the year. I want to get your thoughts
four nine, four to five one to Commadadge text line
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(45:12):
going to kind of bundle this up there and get
and get some thoughts. The story that came out today
that the ownership group of the Kraken, led by Samantha Hallway,
has announced the launch of One Roof Sports Entertainment, which
now has a growing portfolio of properties. I'm reading from
their release and quote fuel new opportunities second paragraph enable

(45:37):
the pursuit of future opportunities. One Roof will serve as
the umbrella brand for the Seattle Kraken. Cimon Plage Arena
one Roof Foundation, Kracking Community ice Plex partnership of the
City of Seattle, Seattle Public Schools to re develop Moral
Stateium at Seattle Center, which is our underway. It's weird
driving by that place like that was, especially for a

(46:00):
lot of us that played there, Like yeah, to not
see those two overhangs, it's very strange. But they're gonna
do a phenomenal job with that. Uh and and also
represent the inner enterprise interest in the hl's Coachella Valley
Firebirds and the arena down there. But again, the key
is pursuit of future opportunities, and that's in the press release.

(46:23):
So what does this all mean and and where does
this Where does this get us to my question? Before?
We hear a little bit today from toddlight Wiki at
a news conference, UH talking about Sam Hollwikes. I think
she is a name that you need to know. She's
a name you need to know. She is one of
the most powerful people in our region. Because of what

(46:46):
I just said. You run not just the NHL team,
but also the arena all for all intents and purposes,
own and operate the arena and all the revenue stream attached.
We all know what's going on Wednesday. If I need
to refresh your memory quickly, I will vote by NBA

(47:07):
owners will take place, which would give the green light
to the NBA and Adam Silver to formally pursue and
explore exclusively the Seattle in Vegas markets for NBA expansion
in twenty twenty eight. It's not handing us an expansion

(47:28):
franchise in Seattle on Wednesday, but it's a necessary step
and it's probably a significant one as well. Then we
start talking about ownership groups and all those other things.
I just read you exactly from the press release. You
can connect the dots. What I'm asking you is this
this group and like we're we're on a text thread

(47:50):
with some we call it the hockey Boys text thread.
Benton anders me, Chris, I understand, and I'm on another
one with some other buddies. I understand the frustration with
the hockey team not being better on the ice. They're
in a playoff race, but they're probably not a Stanley
Cup contender this year. I say that's weird because most

(48:12):
of the time, if you get in the Stanley Cup playoffs,
you're a contender. There just happen to be the two
best teams, maybe three best teams are in this conference,
so it's a little bit different. But take that aside.
They're in a playoff race. We all wish they were better.
I sure were sitting in top of the division. But
how comfortable are you with this group four nine four
five one. I don't know if they're the group, but

(48:35):
sure it sounds like they're putting themselves in a position
to be And with Sam specifically, I think they've done
a hell of a job. In full disclosure, I work
for them. No company's perfect, but I like what she
has done. I like what Todd has done. Victor, but

(48:55):
Bonus has done, Rob Latman, the rest of them. I think,
if nothing else, here's why I would be. If I
was just sitting on the outside looking in, I would
be comfortable with the following. This is a group that
and everyone makes mistakes in sports. If they make a
mistake with a higher the money doesn't stand in the way.

(49:16):
If we had to pay three coaches, We're going to
pay three coaches until we find the right guy. I
one hundred percent feel like they found the right guy
in Lane and Chris and Aaron. They've done a great job. Hey,
we're hearing from our fans. It stuff's too expensive. Tickets
are too expensive, concessions are too expensive. You find another
team in major sports that has lower prices. Find that team.

(49:38):
For me, I think they do care within the constraints
of still running a business where it's a expensive business
to run. I like what they've done, but again I'm biased.
How comfortable are you with this group? I think they're sensational,
but that's just me. Get your thoughts on that four nine,
four to five.

Speaker 6 (49:54):
One question for you, Ian, Yes, how would you respond
to some one who maybe has second thoughts about how
the krack and on the ice are run and then
comparing that to still feeling comfortable about where the ownership
group stands and having them running the NBA team supposedly
if it comes.

Speaker 1 (50:14):
I think it's I think the simple answer is they
care about the product on the ice. The ownership does
and management like the upper levels and upper reaches of
this organization care. Does that mean like, but if you
go through all sports and thirty teams in NBA, thirty
teams in baseball were at sixty thirty two ninety two,

(50:35):
one hundred and twenty eight whatever it is in the
four major sports. I think they all care to a
certain level, but are they willing to put their money
behind it because everyone's going to make mistakes. I think
they do. I think they check all those boxes and
then some. I'm sure if you had Sam and the

(50:56):
old Humil in line, the true serum was injected. Are
you happy with how things have gone on the Icy
answers no, one hundred percent.

Speaker 4 (51:02):
Not.

Speaker 1 (51:03):
I'm sure she'd like to have a Stanley Cup by now.
That's also someone on realistic. We've gone through the draft
real quick. We don't have to revisit again. I did
that exercise again on Saturday. They haven't made they haven't missed. No,
they I mean maybe a couple arguments, coach a large
a couple misses that everyone else missed. When you're drafting
a seventeen year old kid, they didn't have a Connor cell,

(51:23):
they didn't have a Macklin celebrain or connorbidery to draft.

Speaker 6 (51:26):
The only reason I asked that is because I'm sure
there's going to be the conclusion drawn about where the
Kraken are at, and you know, not wanting that for
the NBA.

Speaker 1 (51:36):
Right, Yeah, you want them to be good. Yeah, they Also,
it's not for a lack of trying. It's not for
a lack of want to. I'll just I say it again.
They're paying three coaches, right that, that's all you need
to know. Hackstall had to go, Bilesman wasn't the right choice.
We're going to pay a third coach. We're going to

(51:57):
do it till we get it right. Yeah, big off season,
but we'll get to them in the off season. This
is Todd Liwiki earlier today, meeting with some members of
the media. I think you'll hear the voice of one Christianiels.

Speaker 10 (52:10):
Why is this significant news day? Well, beans the ampiguity
trolling interesting in the organization.

Speaker 11 (52:16):
Well, it's the right thing to do. It's the right
thing to do by way of our fans, it's the
right thing to do by way of our dreams and
going forward what we hope and there could be a
big moment forthcoming and we're going to be ready.

Speaker 2 (52:32):
Doesn't fundamentally change anything.

Speaker 11 (52:34):
Happy read it doesn't. We've had a phenomenal partnership with OBG.
You know, we set out shoulder to shoulder to do
something that was unprecedented on so many levels, unprecedented and
being one hundred percent privately financed, unprecedented and saving a
historic landmark recognized nationally but also locally by landmarks. And

(53:00):
we did it together and we did it well. Today,
well it seemed like the good day and I was
I was actually supposed to go play paddle ball, but
the game canceled. So here, I said, all right, and
I had time today. All right, I'm being facetious. Why today,
Because if you look at the stars, maybe they're aligning.

(53:22):
And this is the right thing because there are other
things we have done here that merit a parent company
all by itself, regardless of what might be announced, you know,
things like Memorial Stadium, and so the parent name represents
who we are today and the ambition going forward, and

(53:44):
Sam's taking majority stake in the arena is the exact
same thing. It's going to make us better today and
it's going to position us going forward.

Speaker 1 (53:54):
That group is called one roof Sports and Entertainment. Let's
get one more from Tyler Wiki talking about Samantha Hallway.

Speaker 11 (54:01):
Well, she's meant a lot, and I think that I
always speak in very expressive terms when it comes to her.
But I've had the privilege of working for her. Now
I've worked for her as long as I work for
her dad, and she has moved here, she moved her
family here. I think she knew that for this organization

(54:24):
to be chartered properly, having the owner live in the
town and care about the town. She's here every day
and she's the one that green lit other things that
we were dreaming about in Memorial Stadium. I talked about
it a lot because it was improbable for us to say,
we're not going to respond to a commercial RFPA. We're

(54:44):
in fact going to respond through the spirit of our foundation,
and we're going to take on something that since nineteen
forty seven, since the day was open, nothing had really
happened there besides games and memories and all sorts of things,
but there was no physical change, and it was a challenge.
You had to tear it down building it back up.

(55:06):
And it's going to be better than I could have
even imagined the first day on that journey. It's going
to be quite spectacular, and it's going to have community impact,
and that's really what she's about. She definitely is a
business person, but she is a community activist. She loves
the city and she loves what we're doing.

Speaker 1 (55:27):
That's Toddler Wicky talking about Samantha Haway. I can tell
you for a fact that it's not lips her. She
is in the office every day. It's really it's rather
amazing that the owner of the team, and you know,
I mean you're an owner, you're at a certain level that's
different than any of us can even fathom. Yeah, she'll
just go I mean, I'll be doing a show there
at the thirty two bar. Girl, she just walk away.
How you doing, well, that's the owner of the ground.

Speaker 4 (55:47):
I don't think I've been in any facility without seeing her.

Speaker 1 (55:50):
She's there. I mean, she's there president.

Speaker 4 (55:53):
She moved her whole family here.

Speaker 1 (55:54):
Well. I think the thing too that Todd said this,
this is why I have great confidence in her. Because
you're there every day, and you're in the office every day,
and you're not sitting in a penthouse high above looking down.
You are seeing how things operate and cultures and all
those things. I think she's got a great handle on.
It goes back to what Anders asked. Yeah, there's things

(56:17):
you can't sugarcoat. Every team wants to be at least
good within in salary cap league, every team can be good.
Is your scouting good enough, Is your personal decisions good enough,
your coaching good enough? All those things. Here's the other thing.
Are your facilities good enough? Are your players taking care
of well? And that's where ownership comes. That's where the

(56:37):
ownership matters. And I mean CASEI is state of the art.
Players are taken care of, they're fed, they're everything you need.
All the things that you need are there taken care of.
On the personnel decisions, whether it's an NBA team down
the road or whether it's the hockey team presently, don't
get them all right.

Speaker 6 (56:58):
Right, And that's like a right. It's important to separate
what where ownership has a stake in it versus if
it's hockey operations and that's their decision.

Speaker 1 (57:07):
Yeah, I think this is Yeah, I think there's hockey operations.
We could have that conversation into the year. They don't
make the playoffs, right. I should point out because this
is this is great misnomer. Ron France is not running
the hockey team like that is Jason bot Rolls running
the hockey team. Ron Francis kind of got the I
know people thought it was the promotion. The title's good.

(57:28):
He's working with young guys doing some behind the scenes
got the day to day. Hey, this is what we've
got to figure this out with this player we're calling
that's all bots, trades all that, it's all bots.

Speaker 4 (57:40):
It reminds me of Pete Carroll when he was offered
the position.

Speaker 1 (57:43):
Well it's different.

Speaker 4 (57:44):
Pete was fired, right, but he was offered an advisory role.

Speaker 1 (57:48):
But he was never gonna be in the office, correct. Yeah.
They weren't letting him go and scout players. So that
was that was that was firing. I mean Ron got
Ron got bumped out of out of power for.

Speaker 2 (58:04):
Sure, right, but it was worded as a promotion.

Speaker 1 (58:07):
Yeah, I think that's that's I think they probably if
you'd retrospect, you'd probably look at it maybe differently or
what have you. But whatever, it's a different role. But
it goes back to the Anderseid like, So you're putting
an NBA team. If this is the group and they're
putting an NBA team together, do you feel confident in them?
I think if what you just said in terms of
do you think they'll have a nice practice facility, I

(58:29):
think the answer will be I don't know. I'm look
at the what they've got for the hockey team, right,
do you think that they'll be taking care of his players?
Look what the hockey team has.

Speaker 6 (58:36):
Well, they spend the money when it's necessary to fire
a coach, sign a player, all that stuff.

Speaker 1 (58:40):
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Speaker 2 (59:22):
Yeah, it is.

Speaker 1 (59:24):
Uh two six. It's a monopoly. I want different people involved, Okay,
I want to know why.

Speaker 6 (59:30):
But there's plenty of ownership situations that have business from
a business.

Speaker 2 (59:38):
Yeah yeah, several Yeah.

Speaker 1 (59:40):
Nuggets and Avalanche. Same guy, Cronkie and Arsenal were thinking.
We think about that for a second. Yeah, they seem
to be.

Speaker 4 (59:51):
Okay, Allen did also owning an NBA.

Speaker 2 (59:57):
Team's about to win the Premier.

Speaker 1 (59:58):
League too, So yeah, there are right two six. No,
their pockets aren't deep enough. I'm gonna just call I'm
just gonna just you do you as a fan? I
don't think anybody here should give a rip or care
one bit about how much a franchise is gonna cost
and who's paying for Like in terms of do you

(01:00:21):
have the money? Do you think the NBA is not
going through that process? And first of all it don't matter,
don't you don't. First of all, you don't know whose
pockets we're talking.

Speaker 4 (01:00:30):
About exactly exactly.

Speaker 1 (01:00:34):
Okay, let's see. Would there be a chance the One
Roof group has interest in the Seahawks. I don't believe
so much.

Speaker 4 (01:00:41):
I think their focus is.

Speaker 1 (01:00:42):
On unless the Seahawks gonna move in to climb plays arena?
Can they move in to climate? Is that possible? Can
they play football and climb and play arena?

Speaker 4 (01:00:50):
Think a really fun game to watch it.

Speaker 1 (01:00:52):
Let's see you lose the entire Lore Bowl? Yeah, both ends. No,
I don't think so.

Speaker 6 (01:00:59):
I got a good one to six regarding the Kraken,
I know they haven't quite hit a bullseye yet, but
it feels like they're legitimately trying to if that makes sense.
Multiple coaches in the first few years is not ideal,
and I know they haven't quite had the on ice
success the way they want them to yet, but I
believe they're legitimately trying to get this thing right and
very much want to win.

Speaker 4 (01:01:28):
Going back to the tournament, which is what I want
to go down there.

Speaker 1 (01:01:33):
Yet you simply have to ask the two six, how
far away do you compre the X organization and cracking
and they miss on a blank slate. They had a
choice of players and they chose wrong.

Speaker 5 (01:01:42):
Period.

Speaker 1 (01:01:44):
I'm going to challenge you to go back to that
expansion draft and read draft for me, because I don't
think they I mean.

Speaker 2 (01:01:51):
That's not where they went wrong. That's in my opinion.

Speaker 1 (01:01:54):
I think the criticism comes in the off seasons, yes,
and whether you're not able to complete a trade or
not able to lure a free agent here, that's where
the Yeah, that's the blank slate and the expand let's
remember they didn't have the Vegas advantage.

Speaker 2 (01:02:12):
It's a different situation.

Speaker 1 (01:02:13):
I hate to be that guy if I want it,
if if I'm gonna criticize this what anders I just
talked about, Like last year I thought was a disappointing offseason.
You had all those draft picks and you didn't really
add you had Mason March and they trade Mason March.
This is a big off season for them. We can
We'll have that criticism if it gets there, but not
right now.

Speaker 6 (01:02:30):
And again this is it's so important to know that
this is this is hockey operations, not the ownership. Hockey
operations goes to ownership being like, hey, we need this
amount of money to sign this player and they.

Speaker 1 (01:02:41):
Twol six weight. This organization stinks. Are clueless. They care
about everything but a product on the ice. Complete joke
and very disappointing. I cannot emphasize this enough. They care
about the product on the ice.

Speaker 2 (01:02:52):
He was possibly too much. To be honest, I think
they do too much.

Speaker 1 (01:02:56):
Yeah, I don't know. I as I read through these,
As I read through these and kind of look at
these these texts, I my my thing I would point
out to to Sam all the way, Pidlight Wiki, Victor
de Bonus, Rob Latman. I cannot emphasize enough to you

(01:03:21):
as I'm looking through all these texts, how important this
off season is for you, especially if something special happens
in the next couple of days and you're also involved
in another organization coming in here. Yes, because right now,
as I look through this, it's a little sad, little
depressing in terms of the lack of trust they have
and how things are going on the ice. Yeah, I

(01:03:41):
also love that in a perverted way because people care.

Speaker 2 (01:03:46):
Yes, they care about this hockey team, man, and there passion.

Speaker 1 (01:03:50):
They care, and they're pissed and I like that. Now
I hear see somebody say, oh, you know, I see
the ticket folder different day one.

Speaker 8 (01:03:56):
I'm not.

Speaker 1 (01:03:56):
I have no interest right now. That's a problem. That
that is a problem. But when you're pissed off about
the product, that's good.

Speaker 4 (01:04:04):
The opposite of love is apathy.

Speaker 6 (01:04:07):
This is a different situation for what. However, many years
we talked about the Mariners that you know, didn't care
about winning. They just wanted to sell bibble heads all
that stuff. Right, Yeah, this is not that. I almost
think they cared too much about the products right now
on the ice. There's a lot of people in the
hockey world that wanted the crack in the tank and
get you know, one of those top picks.

Speaker 2 (01:04:23):
But this ownership group wouldn't do that.

Speaker 6 (01:04:25):
They said, no, we want to go for a playoff
spot this year, and the way to do that is to,
you know, resign your veterans, kind of try and make
the most out of your situation right now. And you know,
we'll see if that was the right move in the
long run. But I think saying that they care about
the product on the ice and winning right now as
a Seattle Cracking team is fair to say.

Speaker 1 (01:04:47):
Jess, I took it away from you. You had a
couple that you wanted to get to.

Speaker 3 (01:04:50):
Oh yeah, I was just coming back to the tournament
because we had discussed it earlier in the show, and
I alludes to our next show, it's stopping gonna take
it easy. This from the two oh six is stopting
gonna take it easy with Fain. I mean Faint's beloved
gone Zaga. We will get to that got food from
the tournament. We will get to that with Softy in

(01:05:12):
a second. My answer, my my initial thought is no.

Speaker 4 (01:05:16):
He's not going What does he ever take it easy
on anyone?

Speaker 1 (01:05:20):
I don't. Let's see one roof future Sonics owner maybe
Storm and Torrent to one roof Sports Network. I don't
think the Storm are involved in a sale right now.
I don't believe, but yeah, they're all under one umbrella
on one roof.

Speaker 3 (01:05:33):
What I like the most that I heard from this morning,
by the way, when I was at Toddie Wickie's pressler,
which you know, you only can hear a little bit
of it, but the like the preparedness of this team
for any potential good news that could come out, which
they did not talk about at all because they the

(01:05:58):
respect they have for the league and the commit of
the NBA is well noted. But I think that they
are as prepared as they possibly could be for a
potential good news on Wednesday.

Speaker 4 (01:06:11):
And I just wanted to give you.

Speaker 1 (01:06:13):
That they've done it all right. They've done it right,
They've handled it correctly. There's probably a zillion times over
the last five years since they open up the building
that they'd want to say something like, hey, we're doing this,
this is what we did. Sam met with the Commissioner,
which he has all these things have gone on, but
they haven't. They kept that. They've kept todd always says

(01:06:34):
it out of respect for the process and the commissioner.
We're not going to say anything. I mentioned this to
somebody today. In the five years, two years before right
the eight years or so that we've been doing this
dance with since li Wiki got hired and as a
franchise was getting awarded, I bet he could count on

(01:06:57):
one hand how many times that Todd Lightwikie has been
interview about something involved with Climent Plagerina, the Seattle Kraken,
the Torrent coming to town, whatever it is, Memorial Stadium.
How many times Todd have you been interviewed and somebody
hasn't asked about the NBA. Every single interview he has
done was very few exceptions, and they've they've handled the

(01:07:20):
right way. Wednesday could be a fun day.

Speaker 3 (01:07:23):
And we've all seen that he's got the Mitus touched
with everything.

Speaker 4 (01:07:27):
So I think that's why he gets asked about it.

Speaker 1 (01:07:29):
He's in charge, so he's gonna get he will. But
I think I think he's handled it well. I think
I think that's that's the thing is like every I
mean extremely respect. I'm trying to think back when we
were down in Daniels and me and a couple other
people down.

Speaker 2 (01:07:43):
In uh what you call it?

Speaker 1 (01:07:47):
No, no, no, no Georgia Seattle and Georgia or the franchise.
I'm the NBA came up on that conversation too, and
the NHL is awarding a franchise. We're talking about the
NBA outside.

Speaker 2 (01:07:56):
That is it fair to say it's never been closer?

Speaker 5 (01:07:58):
Ian?

Speaker 8 (01:08:00):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:08:00):
The only time was closer is when they were going
to move to the Sacramento Kings Here. That was closer.
The difference was we didn't have a building that was
I mean, the building issue still.

Speaker 2 (01:08:10):
Existed, right, that is no longer an issue.

Speaker 1 (01:08:13):
That is no longer an issue. Softy joins us. Next,
all right, they have tomorrows here. Yes, I am here,

(01:08:35):
js N signs of contract extension, the Todd Light Wiki
and Samantha Hallway announced that there's everything's going under one
roof foundation out at uh right, which and in the
line here, Dave is great, the line here in the
press release did it to oversee a growing portfolio properties

(01:08:55):
and fuel new opportunities?

Speaker 12 (01:08:57):
Why not just come out and just go NBA basketball.

Speaker 8 (01:09:04):
Gary.

Speaker 12 (01:09:06):
That'd be hilarious, right if they actually put that like
a quotation marks cough cough, n being.

Speaker 10 (01:09:12):
I don't know man.

Speaker 12 (01:09:13):
I mean, I'm just trying to figure out what I
should be more fired up for right now? Like, am
I more fired up for the opening day on Thursday,
the baseball season starting? Am I more fired up for
the vote and the announcement on Wednesday?

Speaker 7 (01:09:28):
You know?

Speaker 12 (01:09:28):
Like what what really should be at top of mine
for sports fans right now? Because the Mariner season starts Thursday.
You're gonna go to the game, We're gonna be all, hey, yeah,
look at this, and then we gotta he won more
to go. We have banners, we do well. We have
a banner American West Championship banner for the first time
in twenty four freaking years, So that's fun. Would have

(01:09:50):
been better to have a World Series banner or an
American League Championship banner, but I'll take the West.

Speaker 2 (01:09:56):
That would have been great.

Speaker 12 (01:09:57):
And then we got one hundred and sixty one more
to go starting on Friday. So I mean, for me,
I will just answer my own question. I feel like
I'm kind of way more dialed in and motivated and
consumed by what's happening Wednesday than I am with what's
happening on Thursday. Right if this were October, different deal.
But Wednesday, to me, is that's the day where they
can kind of almost rubber stamp this whole thing. If

(01:10:20):
they say, hey, we are ready to start asking you
what you will pay for an expansion team. That is
them opening up shop, and that's a huge step.

Speaker 1 (01:10:28):
Andrews asked softly the same question you asked me.

Speaker 6 (01:10:31):
So for those who might be concerned regarding what's going
on with the kraken on the ice, yes, how would
that be different or what would you say to those.

Speaker 2 (01:10:41):
People that that wasn't the question? That wasn't the question
which one Okay, fuck you guys.

Speaker 1 (01:10:47):
Need to show four questions question?

Speaker 2 (01:10:50):
Are you talking about?

Speaker 1 (01:10:51):
Can you have that credit card number?

Speaker 11 (01:10:53):
Now?

Speaker 1 (01:10:53):
This is as close as we've been since two thousand
and eighty?

Speaker 8 (01:10:56):
Right?

Speaker 10 (01:10:56):
Yes?

Speaker 12 (01:10:57):
Yeah, I mean I said that when the thing came
out two weeks ago, when they said we're going to
have this vote on Wednesday.

Speaker 1 (01:11:03):
The other thing I said was Sacramento felt like they
were coming here for about what eight hours? But the
difference is, and this we covered this on the air.
Would you would you listen for I can't listen.

Speaker 12 (01:11:14):
I mean, how do you get in your car? You
got your little podcast? You listen to you got your
Canadian buddies, you got to call your hockey people. All
those things are true, right, all your insiders. But the
difference now is that that was Chris Hansen just kind
of going rogue with the maloof brothers. This is all
the NBA's timeline, the NBA structure, This is the way
they want this done. This feels way more closer than

(01:11:36):
it did in twenty eleven.

Speaker 1 (01:11:38):
I told Andrews, I said, the biggest difference to me
is simply this. Well, what you said is perfect, but
also the place up there on Queen Anne, absolutely, because
if the Kings would have come here, it would not
have corrected the issue that we have.

Speaker 12 (01:11:49):
Well, and there's no question about that, if you had
the arena already done, which they never would have left anyway.

Speaker 1 (01:11:54):
But let's just for giggles.

Speaker 12 (01:11:56):
They we'd be talking about rooting for the Kings right
now for shiggles and gets hey, chickles and okay.

Speaker 4 (01:12:02):
That may be nervous.

Speaker 2 (01:12:03):
Yeah, that was ready, get ready.

Speaker 12 (01:12:05):
That's why I asked him to do it, because I
can't literally said that on the air probably ten thousand times.

Speaker 1 (01:12:11):
I haven't messed up one.

Speaker 4 (01:12:12):
Time, Okay, not once, still makes me nervous and gets
you always do.

Speaker 1 (01:12:17):
He'll mess up, He'll mess up some other things, get
some chickens, lots of things, mess uptos. Alright, well before
we play shitty hockey and go down that road and
higgles and gets Okay, alright, that's.

Speaker 12 (01:12:32):
Because you got another problem. You want to know what's
on the show today. I assume I do you milling
at four? But okay, Mike the course, he had six
twenty on the program talking to college basketball, him and
a couple of fun with audio segments. We have so
much great audio from the weekend, guys like Mick Cronin
opening up their pie holes.

Speaker 1 (01:12:49):
Oh god, things like that. Did you hear the.

Speaker 12 (01:12:53):
Final call the Nebraska game to win and round one
the announcer going bananas?

Speaker 10 (01:12:57):
Man, So we got a.

Speaker 12 (01:12:58):
Lot of stuff. Okay, well, so you know what I
will listen today, you know what, just don't bother, all right,
don't bother?

Speaker 1 (01:13:04):
All right?

Speaker 12 (01:13:05):
You're kind if I don't have to. I'm like the
guy that on the bar in episode four. We're not
going to serve you. We don't need your kind. We
don't have to wait outside. You know what, I'll do
your podcast.

Speaker 1 (01:13:14):
We really want Americans here on this show. Wow, I'm American.

Speaker 12 (01:13:18):
Chelsan gets it for the mild mannered and marginally objectionably
in forness.

Speaker 1 (01:13:24):
This is paddle Day saying so long everyone,

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