March 26, 2026 • 35 mins
Mariners Opening Day is here and we have a lineup! We go back to hear from the Mollywhop Boys on this Opening Day to get their expectations on the season and they talk about what makes baseball and Opening Day special. Seahawks star wide receiver Jaxon Smith-Njigba joins the show to talk about his extension, what made him want to stay in Seattle, and more. We get to your reaction on the Tacoma Dodge textline about Mariners opening day.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We've got Major League Baseball tonight with two playoff teams
from a year ago. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to season fifty.
Can you feel the excitement in the air. I would
normally say yes, because on a normal day I would
be down at Jimmy's on first off. You'll be there
at two with John Stanton, by the way, But we're
here at the KRACK and Hockey Network studios, the former
Root Sports.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Studios, and it is lonely out here, Anders. It is lowly.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Really. Yeah, it's sad ghost town.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Yeah, yeah, I.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Don't want to start on a downer, but I mean
there's so much talk to the last couple of days
about TV and working to watch the Mariners and all this,
and I know one place you can't watch them as
Root Sports, and they got their own little thing, MLB TV.
I think Major League Baseball is going down a very
very dangerous MLS type of road in a different way,
but trying to find a way for people not to
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watch their games. And there's only one league that can
afford to do that, and that's the NFL. And because
guess what, you'll always find the end at some point
in April May June. If you're MLB at some point,
if you're the NHL, at some point, you're the MLS,
people will just say, it's not worth my time to
try to figure out where the hell I'm at, how
(01:12):
much I gotta pay. Marors have four games this weekend
on three different places to watch. Two of those are
pay per view, Peacock and Apple.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Whatever. We move on, let's get to the baseball team.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
By the way, we were just talking about this, baseball
is a weird sport. Just when you like, if you
were sitting in the our sponsors Stokoma Casino sportsbook this morning, enders, Yeah,
if you were sitting there this morning and you were
looking at the sports book and it said, man, I
think Paul Schemes innings pitched over under four and a half,
(01:52):
would you not have taken the over all day long?
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (01:55):
I probably absolutely would have taken the over Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Considering he just always doesn't go short stints correct, and
he's Paul Skeins right, probably.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
The second or saw Bill. Lot of people think he's
the best pitcher in baseball.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Well, how do you do today? Anders? Not well?
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Ian, not well at all. He got pulled in the
first inning.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Yeah, Apparently playing a shortstop in center field isn't a
good idea for the UH for the Pittsburgh Pirates. I
bring that up only for this reason. It's opening Day.
It's one of one sixty two. Whatever happens tonight, fine,
you move on, you got another game tomorrow. But it's
nice to get off to a good start. It's nice
to get things going. It's nice to have that great
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start to the season. And really the crazy thing for
the Mariners is they've done that, like they have done
that all time. Thirty and nineteen on opening Day. That's
the second best record in MLB history, only trailing the
New York Mets, which I don't know if you always want.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
To be in the same conversation with them.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Yeah, But nevertheless, good opening days four and one of
the last five opening days as well, six and two
were the last eight fifteen and four of the last
nineteen open So this is a team that gets off
to at least game one good start normally. So if
you're going to game tonight, or if you're looking around
to find out where you can watch it and hopefully
you find your answer, good chance that Logan Gilbert and
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the Mariner's gonna get a.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Win on opening Day. I like that.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
It's like that, all joking aside, most anticipated season in
a long long time, probably ever for this baseball team.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
We did a little thing with Chris and Nathan the
other day.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
We're gonna give you that coming up in a minute,
just kind of an expectations for the season. Chris is
more of a demand our molly Wop guys by two
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Speaker 3 (03:36):
Yeah, the players are working yesterday.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Yeah, Mariner players wearing them. So go check those out
at simply sale dot com. But here's the thing. We'll
take some texts and maybe even a talkback or two
on the iHeartRadio after the microphone in the last segment
four nine four to five one is takomadadje text line
Opening Day. I'm gonna ask you a very simple question,
is it special? And if so, why is this a
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special day for you? And simple as that, four nine
four or five to one. We'll get your thoughts coming
up in a little bit. Anders for you, Yes, I'm
sure it is. You're a baseball nerd.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Absolutely Opening is very special. I may not have as
much of a sentimental take on it as what Chris
and Nate did on Monday, and we'll hear some of
that as well a little bit later. They articulated much
better than I can. But for me, it's just what
a perfect day for it too. It's a nice and
sunny out, feels like we're kind of getting out of
the winter, the depths of the winter here a little bit.
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But it's just to start a baseball season. For me,
it's simple as that, and that's a great thing. And
I like watching baseball games every day. I'm lucky enough
to get to do a postgame show on YouTube with
Chris Crawford. That'll kind of start the routine for me.
And I now have a son that I get to
experience this with, and obviously he's still only just over
a month old, so you won't really know what's going
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on just yet. But I hope by the end of
this year the baseball season, like in October ish and
hopefully maybe in November a little bit, I'm sitting him
on my lap showing him how baseball works during a
Mariners World Series run. So that's kind of all I
can hope for here in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Do you think he'll pull a Chris or a Nate
and question Dan Wilson's every movement.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Yeah, I mean if he's talking about then that'd be great.
He'll learn how to, you know, yell at managers before
he figures out how to say dad Dad.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
I like that. I like that.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Yeah, I would tend to agree. I think, just for me,
it's special. I think it's special for a couple of reasons. One,
you know, especially in our world out here in the Northwest,
and it's not like we're not going to see rain,
gracekuis and cold weather in the next couple months.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
That's just part of the world. Hello Marine Layer.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
But it does kind of feel like, Okay, we've gotten through.
We've made it through the winter months for the most part,
we've made it through the dark days. We're into daylight
savings time. There's there's an eternal optimism with most teams
around baseball, more so this year than any with this
baseball team, which is cool. But I think for us, yeah,
I think that it's just kind of the signal of
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a good time of the year. It's to me, it's
signal of the good time the year because baseball starts baseball.
We got playoffs for both NBA if you're into that,
or NHL coming up, Masters is coming up, et cetera.
All those fun things that kind of make this time
of the year great. NFL Draft, it's all right there
around the corner. We've made it through really the dark
days of January, February and early March. And on top
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of that, we got a baseball team that has the
highest expectations they've ever had, to be honest with you,
because they went deeper than they ever have, Game seven,
eight outs away of getting to the World Series. All
those things kind of translate into yes Opening Day is special,
special for me too. You mentioned your kid. My daughter
goes tonight, her and her boyfriend. They've gone for the
last like five or six years. I think it is
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much of the chagrin of my son, tough, you know,
you'll live, and I know, like she said, it's like
send me a text day, it's like Christmas Day. And
so to see my daughter have that same love for
a sport and a day that you know many of
us have is pretty cool too. So it's a special
day for all of us. Manners year number fifty. We
know what the Seahawks did in the fiftieth year. You
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got next. There, we got now, you got next. It's
up to you guys, now Mariners, who to hold up
your end of the barket?
Speaker 2 (07:08):
All right? So what does it mean all those things?
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Molly Wap Monday, Just a quick catchup from from the
last segment we did the other day, because I thought
it was we did it Monday, go. We're gonna replay
this on opening days. I think it's We've always had
Chris and Nate down to Jimmy's the last few years.
I can't be there today because we're on early with
the hockey today. But Nathan and Chris Mollywap Monday from
Monday talking about expectations. The last season, the Seattle Mariners
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were ninety and seventy two. They won the American League
West by a whopping three games. When it was all
said and done, they have the third best record in
the American League, behind only Toronto and the Yankees with
those ninety wins, So ninety and seventy two last season,
expectations for Nathan Bishop this year and we could even
(07:57):
start with higher or lower than ninety wins or just
look at division or bust.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
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
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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,
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and I think right now there's this feeling of like
we expect the team to take kind of the next step.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Well, whether they take the next step.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
Or not, in my opinion, is going to be determined
by what they end up doing in the postseason, which
is much more of a crap shoot, but it also
leads very nicely into us throwing an alley towards Chris
where he can now Sean kempet down, flying chickens in
the barnyard and.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Such well set up, Well set up, Chris, you don't
have expectations for people who missed it before.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Nope, Nope.
Speaker 5 (09:19):
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 the team that
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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 am understand sustainability, as much as
(10:02):
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
(10:22):
saw what the town did. You saw this excitement from
the Seattle Seahawks winning that Super Bowl.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
I was there.
Speaker 5 (10:29):
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 Bick. 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,
(10:49):
This town, when baseball is at its best, is one
of the best baseball towns in the world. I need
to see it.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
You know why the one of the best baseball towns
in the world is because as 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 that's well said. Great and everyone has their reasons.
Yours or are those? I think we all have those reasons.
(11:20):
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 (11:36):
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 season, so many things
can happen, right Like even the Colorado flip and rock Okay,
(11:59):
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 Pelicans
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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 the ALS,
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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 2 (12:57):
Nathan, I don't remember what I've said.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
I probably have focused on my kid in the year's
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
(13:22):
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
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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 Mariners and
there's rim shots, and there's you know, Dylan Moore throwing
to an empty home plate. There's losing seven teen games
in a row in twenty twelve and it looked like
they were finally going to turn their corner. There's forty
(14:04):
nine 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,
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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
going to call really quick, just a line from Paul Giamonti,
who was the former Commissioner of Baseball, and he just
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said 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 Baseball season happens. I want the marriage to
win the freaking World Series, man, I want it every
single year. But I don't 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,
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and honestly, 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
(15:29):
of my life. 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 (15:35):
That was Chris and Nathan Molli WOP on Monday, brought
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Speaker 2 (15:40):
Anders, can you have that same music again for a second?
Can you that? Do you have that music available? Sure,
we have a lineup for the first time we have
a lineup. Be you ready? I need so ready? Forty
I can't. I can't do. Tom Butler. By the way,
shout out to Tom Butler.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
I worked with him a zillion years ago Katie in
Seattle on a morn doing morning news at kV I
with him in morning and afternoon drive, actually the sports
and he was doing the news. Tom's one of the
great dudes in this world, and his voice at T
Mobile is magical. I think he's entering his fortieth season tonight.
He'll be telling you about Brendan Donovan third base leading off,
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Let's go batting second behind the plate, cal Raley, call
on the tool, all right, batting third in center field,
number forty four.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
Yo ries.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Batting clean up, big acquisition, reacquisition. Signed in the offseason,
playing first base. The angry Canadian Josh Naylor.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
Let's go.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
You get on first base, any Cleveland Guardians.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
He ain't talking to you. He doesn't like you. He
doesn't like you at all. He used to play for them,
didn't like him. I don't want to talk to the opponent.
Maybe it was his brother.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
His brother's still there, Yeah it is, yeah he is.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Yeah, his brother's still there.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
Right, yeah, all right?
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Uh batting fifth in left field. We got to keep
him as far away from call as possible.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Randy Rosina.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
No handshakes here, No hand jakes.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Watch what happens if they win.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
They won't even look each other up when they're doing
the line at the end, and there's a lot of
acrimony there. Don't let anybody fool you. They hate each other.
This is where the lineup gets really fun. Uh think
seventh or it was a sixth, six sixth, batting sixth
in right field.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
He's still here. He's like a cockroach. You can't get
rid of him.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
Luke Rayley, jeez, new Craley. You mean let's go.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Wow, next up batting seventh because that's where you always
have your designated hit or him seventh because what is he?
Speaker 2 (17:57):
What's his job?
Speaker 3 (17:57):
He designated wait for it, hit her.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Dominic. Don't call me cal Zone canzone. Oh yes, batting
eighth at second base. You loved him for about three
weeks last summer. Yea, yeah, he is ya Cole young
and I think all seriousness. I think the cool story,
(18:23):
really cool story. For some reason, they call him like
gramps or something or papa.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
He's only twenty eight.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Yeah, but he's on the opening day roster for the
first time and forever. Uh, your shortstop is not Chris's
kid instead because he's on the injured list.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
Correct.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Luis Vos, Leo Rivas, Leo Rios, I was called wise
Leo Revas and on the mound.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
Walter Walter, Yeah, let's go.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
We have a lineup, ladies and gentlemen. I like you
think of the lineup? What do you think of lineup?
I like it.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
I'm surprised I would have I mean maybe flipped Julio
and Calex. I'm like cal with people on on base.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
But don't you want the MVP this year number forty four?
Don't you want the MVP hitting in that three or
four hole?
Speaker 2 (19:09):
I think you want the MVP.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
I want him in the two hole. I want him
in the two hole.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
All right, Nicole, uh super long time KJR listeners remember
that dropping me?
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Probably long gone. I'm sure. All right, that's it. That's
your lineuple comeback.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Jackson Smith in JIGBA signed a contract with your Seattle Seahawks,
and he was introduced reintroduced to the media yesterday. I
got a chance to catch up with him one on
one on the radio show. Didn't get a chance to
play it yesterday. So we'll hear from JSN. How about
on this opening day the best receiver in the NFL?
Coming up next.
Speaker 6 (19:43):
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Speaker 1 (20:01):
All right, this is the introduction for this next guest,
AP Offensive Player of the Year AP All Pro First
Team Unanimous selection Pull Bowl. Yeah that seems like an afterthought,
but yeah, he's a Pro Bowl. Of course you are
at that point. NFC Offensive Player of the Month for
October set a franchise record for most receptions in the season.
I can read these accolades for days on end. But
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joining us right now on the Beacon Plumbing hotline number
eleven for your Seattle Seahawks, and maybe more importantly, because
I think I know how he operates. Not just the
highest paid wide receiver in the National Football League as
of now, but more importantly, Super Bowl champion.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Jackson Smith and Jigba joins us. How does that sound?
Speaker 7 (20:43):
That sounds great. I appreciate the introduction. Thanks for having
me on.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
I appreciate you coming on. Listen. There's a lot to
get to. We have a few minutes with you.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Let me start first and foremost with the contract and
more importantly, the commitment. It's a commitment from two sides,
from your side and from the Seahawks side. Financially, it
has to work. You have put yourself in that position.
But let me just ask you simply this. You could
have waited, shopped around, played out the extra year option,
be staying in Seattle.
Speaker 7 (21:12):
Why you know I've prayed on it, and I know
what's best for me. You know, I love being here.
I I'm just proud to be working with John and
Mike and just what they're building here. You know it
fits me and this is my home and you know
I don't want to be anywhere else. So you know,
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with that they sent over a great contract, like you said,
so said, why not and you know I'll be here.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Jackson, How important was it to be? And we know
these change, things change, They could change tomorrow with somebody
else signing. But at the time, I know you had
sent some stuff down in Texas about wanting to be
paid as the best receiver in the game, which last
year you were the best receiver in the game, and
there wasn't any question. I'm talking to you guys down
in LA. So like, how important was how important was
that to you?
Speaker 7 (22:05):
It was important? I mean, you know, just just want
to do good business. And you know, I know I
know where I stand and you know what I deserve
and you know what makes sense for not only myself
but this organization as well. So you know it meant
it meant a lot to do good business and to
make sure you know, all sides are happy and you know,
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we move forward.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Jackson Smith and Jigba joined us. All right, So the
fact that it's over is that also a positive? No distractions.
They got this done. Really, I say they your side,
their side, It got done early. There was no drama.
I mean, none of that stuff happened. That that's man,
that's unheard of in this league. How important was that
to you to have that distraction?
Speaker 7 (22:51):
No, it speaks volumes and you know, just gives me
some insurance if if I might say, some insurance to
just go out there and just you know, play. You
know I'm covered, and you know, I'm just ready to
take it to the next level. I mean, I feel
like this that's what allows me to do. And for
them to have the trust and the respect for me,
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you know, means a lot and definitely just wants me
to be here even more so I appreciate that coming
from you know, both ends to.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Be able to play somewhere. You want to play, get
compensated like you want to, like you deserve to get compensated.
That's that's sometimes a challenge. You've seen, You've seen guys
leave the locker room. It's just I think Ernest Jones
said it best after the Super Bowl. The hard thing
here is knowing that we're gonna look in this room.
Not everyone's going to be here. It's the old Super
Bowl tax. They say, uh that you lose guys along
the way, but there's all these guys left over when
(23:43):
you look in that room. Maybe it starts with Mike McDonald,
but maybe look in that room and tell me why
this organization is where it's at right now.
Speaker 7 (23:53):
Yeah, I think really just the people that they have
in the building. You know, talent is one thing, but
you know it's bigger than that, and you know we
I feel like they bring in some really great dudes.
I have some great teammates that you know are not
just special football players, but special people. And you know
that makes you want to come into work every day
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and give it your all, you know, from the top
to the bottom. And you know it's a special place.
So you know, that's what I would contribute.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
To a couple more moments with Jackson Smith and Jig.
But Brian Fleur is a new offensive coordinator. Have you
met him? Talk to him?
Speaker 2 (24:28):
What? What what's your sense of what the new OC
is going to be about?
Speaker 7 (24:33):
Yeah, we said hello, shake hands, talked a little bit,
you know, I'm excited just for new opportunities and you know,
to see the game plan and you know, just to
learn you know, who he is and what he's about.
You know, this is you know, my fourth OC you know.
But we're excited to we're excited to you know, evolve
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as players and as a team. And you know he's
going to contribute to that. So we're just we're just excited.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
I totally forgot about that. That is it is you've had.
This will be four oh season, four years in the
league for you. That's that's crazy. I mean And what
I mean, first all, I gotta be happy for Clint, right,
I mean, what a great job he did and.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
To get a head coaching job. Yeah, that's a transition.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Uh the quarterback and you had some incredible chemistry, which
is amazing because he rolls in. It's year one and
it was instant. What is it about Sam that that
you and him click?
Speaker 6 (25:29):
So? Well?
Speaker 2 (25:29):
What what what jumped out at you with him? This year?
Speaker 7 (25:33):
Man? He's just a baller, you know, just making things,
making things right. And his attitude and approach, you know,
to to this team and to the sport itself is
something that's inspiring and you know, it's my job to
make his life and make his job easier. And and
I think the connection, you know, just grown since day one.
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And you know, his energy and what he brings to
the other thing, like I said, is something special and
something we can all follow. So he's a special player,
special guy.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
And you know.
Speaker 7 (26:08):
There's he's a He's he's our quarterback. There's no one
else that you know, I'd rather play with. And you know,
he's just a baller. Like I said, you know, he
makes things right, you know, even when it's ugly. And
you know he's always continuing to grow, you know, as
a player, there's always something you know he says that
he's working on and wants to get better at, you know,
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between the two of us, and you know that's awesome
to hear and awesome to have that in your leader.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
I'll wrap it up with this Jackson Smith and Jig,
but I'll turn the floor to you.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
You know, you know the history in this town.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
You know what happened they win a Super Bowl back
in the twenty thirteen season, and whatever happened the next
year we like to forget about. But the opportunity to
go back to back is it's a special one. What
do you want to tell Seahawk fans about that opportunity?
How focused you guys are to take that next step?
Because one one's awful. Nice, I know that two is
the goal right now. What would you tell the Seahawks fans?
Speaker 7 (27:07):
Man, we know the mission. We're gonna get here and
gun gun out for another one. You know, that's that's
all we want to do, and winnings all that matters,
and we're gonna get it done. You know, at the
end of the day. That's our mindset. And we're excited.
We know we have a special group, a special city,
is the best fan base, so we got all we
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need to go shoot for another one. So we're excited
and we're going to do our best to make it happen.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Congratulations on the contract, Congratulations on being a Seahawk for
the next six plus years to come. I know all
the fans are excited, and it sounds like you are
as well. And Jackson Smith and Jig But thanks for
popping on with us today here on KJR.
Speaker 7 (27:49):
Thank you so much. Thanks for having me.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
Great to have JSN on yesterday.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
We taped it yesterday and didn't get a play it
yesterday because I don't know if you guys know this.
There's a little thing going on with the NBA yesterday, And.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
Are you really aware of that? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (28:00):
We I don't know if you were aware of that or not. Hey,
shout out to my friends at the Queen Am Beer Hall,
Justin and Gary Juice. We call Justin Juice and Gary yesterday.
Had a great time. Had an awesome time there. Softy as
well afterwards. God he was he was on one yesterday.
Holy smokes. That does not I know, does not surprise anybody.
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All right, Well, take a quick break, come back. We'll
check the text line and get you ready. So we
got to get off the year on time because two o'clock,
Softy has John Stanton coming on live from Jimmy's On First,
we'll check your text next.
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Speaker 1 (28:50):
Alright, four nine four one. That is the Tacoma Dodge
text line. Oh wait we go, Marcus says, talking about
opening V opening V very special. It's my favorite day
of the year. It starts the best six months of
the year. Marcus revisit me in six months confirm that
it was the best six months.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
Of the year for me.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
I really hope it is too.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
Two six Opening Day the most wonderful time of the year,
then Christmas, especially because I do public address from the
high school. Boys play memories of their success with state titles.
Now my grandson grandson's play. They're six and seven, so
I guess see their development. Baseball is freaking awesome. Yeah,
baseball should still be the sport that everyone does play
at some point.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
Yes, and I'm gonna I'm say something that.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
Olmnian is gonna say this, and people might get upset.
I think every kid needs to learn how to throw.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
A baseball and catch a baseball.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
Okay, I just.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
Think you need to.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
I think playing catch is a very simple but necessary thing.
You never know when later in life you're gonna be Okay,
guess what you gotta do. You're gonna play a co
ed softball game if your work or with your wife
or whatever, or your kid wants to play baseball and
play catch and you've never picked up a glove or
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thrown it.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
Everyone should know how to play catch, throw.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
Catch, even if it's just like you know, a couple
of times kid doesn't like it. It can't move on, right,
you know.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
Just learn how to play cach. Yes, exactly, a little
you know what, play a little t ball. I'll tell
you this, anders you're gonna go through it.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
I knew you were going here.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
Yeah, and every parent gets excited when it's kid number
one and it's T ball season. Yes, and then you're
gonna want to poke your eyes out until the end
of t ball season.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
Well, there's a there's a comic element to it.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
There's a comedic element to it, like kid hitting the
you know, the rubber thing that the balls are, and
the ball just drops down and the kid runs to
third base.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
There's that.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
Then the kid that throws at the other kid instead
of throwing to the base, it takes forever. It's like,
remember baseball used to have that issue. They think they've
kind of resolved it right with long games. Yep, nothing's
longer than a T ball game. Nothing, nothing in U
sports is longer than a.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
T ball game. It just goes old. It's yeah, or
it's hot.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
One of the other it's never seventy it's raining and cold,
or it's.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
Just Africa hot. Like, get me out of here.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
I'm hanging out with the jaguars and the and the
lions and the elephants in the middle of Africa.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
It's just like that.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
Yeah, it's one of the two buddyd All right, four,
I went Let's see what see do do? Let's see
Thank you Nathan, what a wow? An actual human?
Speaker 2 (31:46):
What an oh? I guess you talking about today's work. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
We live in a tough time. That's why sports are great. Yeah,
great deviation away from things. Let's see, here's someone that's
just we have to have some bitterness. We'll get the bitterness.
Eight four to three lo OL World Series hopes. How
many years has this poverty franchise existed without a pennant? Well,
the answer that's forty nine, So like we're going to
the year fifty. I should have to tell you how
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many years?
Speaker 2 (32:09):
This is the year? Right, this is the year.
Speaker 3 (32:12):
This to me maybe besides two thousand and two. After
the two thousand and one season, it's like it's the
highest expectations the Mariners have probably ever had compared to
like yes year before.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
Two oh seven. Mawat Boys really brought it today. Chris
and Nate really summed up how I feel about the
MS and opening day. Thanks scene and go Marriners.
Speaker 3 (32:30):
Yeah they were good.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
They were actually Monday that we had that but wanted
to get it to it again. Yeah, James says Naylor
is the big grumper.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
Love it.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
Kind of like that.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
Love it a lot of references year with Russell brand
into the two hole.
Speaker 3 (32:44):
You know what, it's a common baseball term.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
It's when Nicholes the Loomis threw it out there.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
Though.
Speaker 3 (32:53):
That's so true.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
It was a golden moment. Like I it's a golden
moment in root sports history. May root sports rest in peace.
That was one of the top five moments in root
sports history. How do you like the two hole?
Speaker 2 (33:07):
Huh? Did you just say that to me? Yes? I did, Yes,
I did. Let's see.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
You got some sonic stuff on here as well. Actually,
I'm gonna read that. Help you know the answer for
I buy MLB TV? Would I get all the Seattle
games off to pay nine?
Speaker 2 (33:20):
Now? Listen, man, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
I did. Okay, what is it if you have MLB TV? Yeah,
that just gives you all of the out of market
games you have to pay. Then you have to buy
the ninety nine dollars Mariners package every Mariner game.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
Yes, it's actually on hundred ninety nine. Isn't it for
the whole season?
Speaker 3 (33:37):
Yeah? Hundred bucks nineteen a month.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
Yeah, but that makes sense. You have twenty bucks a
month five months. Yeah, yep, okay, yep, yeah.
Speaker 3 (33:44):
Six months. So you get a better deal if you
buy the whole season.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
If you just buy the whole season. Yeah, yeah, let's see.
Thanks more. Kevin Claudos is the two six?
Speaker 3 (33:53):
Damn right, damn right.
Speaker 2 (33:55):
Let's see. I'll read most of this two oh six.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
I know it's the station's playing various Kevin Collaboro Sonics
calls on a mission in transition, Get up on the Downstroke,
get on the Magic Carpenter Ride, but not as most famous.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
One. Uh yeah, the the cake and the pudding. We
don't have that. Can you do me a favorite? After
the show? Go down and stay?
Speaker 1 (34:20):
Hey, where is Collaboro's call? There's something about cake and
some pudding.
Speaker 3 (34:23):
Or something you want to response?
Speaker 2 (34:26):
Can we get that into promo?
Speaker 3 (34:27):
Yeah, that'd be great.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
Let me just send a note to Vicky Vick. Can
we get a new one.
Speaker 3 (34:31):
I'll play dumb there and be like people were asking
about something about cake and pudding or for collabor Can we.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
Just say this though, how awesome is it to hear
him calling those games.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
Here on Kjaron.
Speaker 3 (34:42):
Oh, it's just it's.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
I think we've been blessed with so many great play
by play announcers over the years. Yes, I mean Rondo
and Robertson for the two college teams, everybody else, Casey Forsland,
knee House, bringing back Casey. All right, we're heading down
to Jimmy's on First.
Speaker 2 (35:01):
We're moments away.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
John Stanton is going to be on the hot seat,
Dave Softy Maller firing questions at him left, right, center down.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
Go Stanton john
Speaker 1 (35:14):
Ston on opening Day with Dave Softie Maller at Jimmy's
on First next year
We've got Major League Baseball tonight with two playoff teams
from a year ago. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to season fifty.
Can you feel the excitement in the air. I would
normally say yes, because on a normal day I would
be down at Jimmy's on first off. You'll be there
at two with John Stanton, by the way, But we're
here at the KRACK and Hockey Network studios, the former
Root Sports.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Studios, and it is lonely out here, Anders. It is lowly.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Really. Yeah, it's sad ghost town.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Yeah, yeah, I.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Don't want to start on a downer, but I mean
there's so much talk to the last couple of days
about TV and working to watch the Mariners and all this,
and I know one place you can't watch them as
Root Sports, and they got their own little thing, MLB TV.
I think Major League Baseball is going down a very
very dangerous MLS type of road in a different way,
but trying to find a way for people not to
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watch their games. And there's only one league that can
afford to do that, and that's the NFL. And because
guess what, you'll always find the end at some point
in April May June. If you're MLB at some point,
if you're the NHL, at some point, you're the MLS,
people will just say, it's not worth my time to
try to figure out where the hell I'm at, how
(01:12):
much I gotta pay. Marors have four games this weekend
on three different places to watch. Two of those are
pay per view, Peacock and Apple.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Whatever. We move on, let's get to the baseball team.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
By the way, we were just talking about this, baseball
is a weird sport. Just when you like, if you
were sitting in the our sponsors Stokoma Casino sportsbook this morning, enders, Yeah,
if you were sitting there this morning and you were
looking at the sports book and it said, man, I
think Paul Schemes innings pitched over under four and a half,
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would you not have taken the over all day long?
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (01:55):
I probably absolutely would have taken the over Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Considering he just always doesn't go short stints correct, and
he's Paul Skeins right, probably.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
The second or saw Bill. Lot of people think he's
the best pitcher in baseball.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Well, how do you do today? Anders? Not well?
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Ian, not well at all. He got pulled in the
first inning.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Yeah, Apparently playing a shortstop in center field isn't a
good idea for the UH for the Pittsburgh Pirates. I
bring that up only for this reason. It's opening Day.
It's one of one sixty two. Whatever happens tonight, fine,
you move on, you got another game tomorrow. But it's
nice to get off to a good start. It's nice
to get things going. It's nice to have that great
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start to the season. And really the crazy thing for
the Mariners is they've done that, like they have done
that all time. Thirty and nineteen on opening Day. That's
the second best record in MLB history, only trailing the
New York Mets, which I don't know if you always want.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
To be in the same conversation with them.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Yeah, But nevertheless, good opening days four and one of
the last five opening days as well, six and two
were the last eight fifteen and four of the last
nineteen open So this is a team that gets off
to at least game one good start normally. So if
you're going to game tonight, or if you're looking around
to find out where you can watch it and hopefully
you find your answer, good chance that Logan Gilbert and
(03:13):
the Mariner's gonna get a.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Win on opening Day. I like that.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
It's like that, all joking aside, most anticipated season in
a long long time, probably ever for this baseball team.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
We did a little thing with Chris and Nathan the
other day.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
We're gonna give you that coming up in a minute,
just kind of an expectations for the season. Chris is
more of a demand our molly Wop guys by two
I simply Seattle simply sail dot com. By the way,
cool looking shirts we got now, the Sonic shirts are awesome.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Yeah, the players are working yesterday.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Yeah, Mariner players wearing them. So go check those out
at simply sale dot com. But here's the thing. We'll
take some texts and maybe even a talkback or two
on the iHeartRadio after the microphone in the last segment
four nine four to five one is takomadadje text line
Opening Day. I'm gonna ask you a very simple question,
is it special? And if so, why is this a
(03:58):
special day for you? And simple as that, four nine
four or five to one. We'll get your thoughts coming
up in a little bit. Anders for you, Yes, I'm
sure it is. You're a baseball nerd.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Absolutely Opening is very special. I may not have as
much of a sentimental take on it as what Chris
and Nate did on Monday, and we'll hear some of
that as well a little bit later. They articulated much
better than I can. But for me, it's just what
a perfect day for it too. It's a nice and
sunny out, feels like we're kind of getting out of
the winter, the depths of the winter here a little bit.
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But it's just to start a baseball season. For me,
it's simple as that, and that's a great thing. And
I like watching baseball games every day. I'm lucky enough
to get to do a postgame show on YouTube with
Chris Crawford. That'll kind of start the routine for me.
And I now have a son that I get to
experience this with, and obviously he's still only just over
a month old, so you won't really know what's going
(04:49):
on just yet. But I hope by the end of
this year the baseball season, like in October ish and
hopefully maybe in November a little bit, I'm sitting him
on my lap showing him how baseball works during a
Mariners World Series run. So that's kind of all I
can hope for here in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Do you think he'll pull a Chris or a Nate
and question Dan Wilson's every movement.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Yeah, I mean if he's talking about then that'd be great.
He'll learn how to, you know, yell at managers before
he figures out how to say dad Dad.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
I like that. I like that.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Yeah, I would tend to agree. I think, just for me,
it's special. I think it's special for a couple of reasons. One,
you know, especially in our world out here in the Northwest,
and it's not like we're not going to see rain,
gracekuis and cold weather in the next couple months.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
That's just part of the world. Hello Marine Layer.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
But it does kind of feel like, Okay, we've gotten through.
We've made it through the winter months for the most part,
we've made it through the dark days. We're into daylight
savings time. There's there's an eternal optimism with most teams
around baseball, more so this year than any with this
baseball team, which is cool. But I think for us, yeah,
I think that it's just kind of the signal of
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a good time of the year. It's to me, it's
signal of the good time the year because baseball starts baseball.
We got playoffs for both NBA if you're into that,
or NHL coming up, Masters is coming up, et cetera.
All those fun things that kind of make this time
of the year great. NFL Draft, it's all right there
around the corner. We've made it through really the dark
days of January, February and early March. And on top
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of that, we got a baseball team that has the
highest expectations they've ever had, to be honest with you,
because they went deeper than they ever have, Game seven,
eight outs away of getting to the World Series. All
those things kind of translate into yes Opening Day is special,
special for me too. You mentioned your kid. My daughter
goes tonight, her and her boyfriend. They've gone for the
last like five or six years. I think it is
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much of the chagrin of my son, tough, you know,
you'll live, and I know, like she said, it's like
send me a text day, it's like Christmas Day. And
so to see my daughter have that same love for
a sport and a day that you know many of
us have is pretty cool too. So it's a special
day for all of us. Manners year number fifty. We
know what the Seahawks did in the fiftieth year. You
(07:02):
got next. There, we got now, you got next. It's
up to you guys, now Mariners, who to hold up
your end of the barket?
Speaker 2 (07:08):
All right? So what does it mean all those things?
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Molly Wap Monday, Just a quick catchup from from the
last segment we did the other day, because I thought
it was we did it Monday, go. We're gonna replay
this on opening days. I think it's We've always had
Chris and Nate down to Jimmy's the last few years.
I can't be there today because we're on early with
the hockey today. But Nathan and Chris Mollywap Monday from
Monday talking about expectations. The last season, the Seattle Mariners
(07:37):
were ninety and seventy two. They won the American League
West by a whopping three games. When it was all
said and done, they have the third best record in
the American League, behind only Toronto and the Yankees with
those ninety wins, So ninety and seventy two last season,
expectations for Nathan Bishop this year and we could even
(07:57):
start with higher or lower than ninety wins or just
look at division or bust.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
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
(08:23):
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,
(08:45):
and I think right now there's this feeling of like
we expect the team to take kind of the next step.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Well, whether they take the next step.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
Or not, in my opinion, is going to be determined
by what they end up doing in the postseason, which
is much more of a crap shoot, but it also
leads very nicely into us throwing an alley towards Chris
where he can now Sean kempet down, flying chickens in
the barnyard and.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Such well set up, Well set up, Chris, you don't
have expectations for people who missed it before.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Nope, Nope.
Speaker 5 (09:19):
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 the team that
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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 am understand sustainability, as much as
(10:02):
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
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saw what the town did. You saw this excitement from
the Seattle Seahawks winning that Super Bowl.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
I was there.
Speaker 5 (10:29):
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 Bick. 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,
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This town, when baseball is at its best, is one
of the best baseball towns in the world. I need
to see it.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
You know why the one of the best baseball towns
in the world is because as 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 that's well said. Great and everyone has their reasons.
Yours or are those? I think we all have those reasons.
(11:20):
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 (11:36):
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 season, so many things
can happen, right Like even the Colorado flip and rock Okay,
(11:59):
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 Pelicans
(12:24):
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 the ALS,
(12:46):
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 2 (12:57):
Nathan, I don't remember what I've said.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
I probably have focused on my kid in the year's
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
(13:22):
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
(13:43):
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 Mariners and
there's rim shots, and there's you know, Dylan Moore throwing
to an empty home plate. There's losing seven teen games
in a row in twenty twelve and it looked like
they were finally going to turn their corner. There's forty
(14:04):
nine 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,
(14:24):
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
going to call really quick, just a line from Paul Giamonti,
who was the former Commissioner of Baseball, and he just
(14:45):
said 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 Baseball season happens. I want the marriage to
win the freaking World Series, man, I want it every
single year. But I don't 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,
(15:07):
and honestly, 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
(15:29):
of my life. 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 (15:35):
That was Chris and Nathan Molli WOP on Monday, brought
to by simply Sales Sippy sale dot com.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Anders, can you have that same music again for a second?
Can you that? Do you have that music available? Sure,
we have a lineup for the first time we have
a lineup. Be you ready? I need so ready? Forty
I can't. I can't do. Tom Butler. By the way,
shout out to Tom Butler.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
I worked with him a zillion years ago Katie in
Seattle on a morn doing morning news at kV I
with him in morning and afternoon drive, actually the sports
and he was doing the news. Tom's one of the
great dudes in this world, and his voice at T
Mobile is magical. I think he's entering his fortieth season tonight.
He'll be telling you about Brendan Donovan third base leading off,
(16:18):
Let's go batting second behind the plate, cal Raley, call
on the tool, all right, batting third in center field,
number forty four.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
Yo ries.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Batting clean up, big acquisition, reacquisition. Signed in the offseason,
playing first base. The angry Canadian Josh Naylor.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
Let's go.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
You get on first base, any Cleveland Guardians.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
He ain't talking to you. He doesn't like you. He
doesn't like you at all. He used to play for them,
didn't like him. I don't want to talk to the opponent.
Maybe it was his brother.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
His brother's still there, Yeah it is, yeah he is.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Yeah, his brother's still there.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
Right, yeah, all right?
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Uh batting fifth in left field. We got to keep
him as far away from call as possible.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Randy Rosina.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
No handshakes here, No hand jakes.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Watch what happens if they win.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
They won't even look each other up when they're doing
the line at the end, and there's a lot of
acrimony there. Don't let anybody fool you. They hate each other.
This is where the lineup gets really fun. Uh think
seventh or it was a sixth, six sixth, batting sixth
in right field.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
He's still here. He's like a cockroach. You can't get
rid of him.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
Luke Rayley, jeez, new Craley. You mean let's go.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Wow, next up batting seventh because that's where you always
have your designated hit or him seventh because what is he?
Speaker 2 (17:57):
What's his job?
Speaker 3 (17:57):
He designated wait for it, hit her.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Dominic. Don't call me cal Zone canzone. Oh yes, batting
eighth at second base. You loved him for about three
weeks last summer. Yea, yeah, he is ya Cole young
and I think all seriousness. I think the cool story,
(18:23):
really cool story. For some reason, they call him like
gramps or something or papa.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
He's only twenty eight.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Yeah, but he's on the opening day roster for the
first time and forever. Uh, your shortstop is not Chris's
kid instead because he's on the injured list.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
Correct.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Luis Vos, Leo Rivas, Leo Rios, I was called wise
Leo Revas and on the mound.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
Walter Walter, Yeah, let's go.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
We have a lineup, ladies and gentlemen. I like you
think of the lineup? What do you think of lineup?
I like it.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
I'm surprised I would have I mean maybe flipped Julio
and Calex. I'm like cal with people on on base.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
But don't you want the MVP this year number forty four?
Don't you want the MVP hitting in that three or
four hole?
Speaker 2 (19:09):
I think you want the MVP.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
I want him in the two hole. I want him
in the two hole.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
All right, Nicole, uh super long time KJR listeners remember
that dropping me?
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Probably long gone. I'm sure. All right, that's it. That's
your lineuple comeback.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Jackson Smith in JIGBA signed a contract with your Seattle Seahawks,
and he was introduced reintroduced to the media yesterday. I
got a chance to catch up with him one on
one on the radio show. Didn't get a chance to
play it yesterday. So we'll hear from JSN. How about
on this opening day the best receiver in the NFL?
Coming up next.
Speaker 6 (19:43):
From the R and R Foundation Specialist broadcast studio. Now
back to Ian Fornesz powered by Seattle Closest Sports book
Snow call me Casino and Hotel on Sports Radio ninety
three point three kJ R FM.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
All right, this is the introduction for this next guest,
AP Offensive Player of the Year AP All Pro First
Team Unanimous selection Pull Bowl. Yeah that seems like an afterthought,
but yeah, he's a Pro Bowl. Of course you are
at that point. NFC Offensive Player of the Month for
October set a franchise record for most receptions in the season.
I can read these accolades for days on end. But
(20:23):
joining us right now on the Beacon Plumbing hotline number
eleven for your Seattle Seahawks, and maybe more importantly, because
I think I know how he operates. Not just the
highest paid wide receiver in the National Football League as
of now, but more importantly, Super Bowl champion.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Jackson Smith and Jigba joins us. How does that sound?
Speaker 7 (20:43):
That sounds great. I appreciate the introduction. Thanks for having
me on.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
I appreciate you coming on. Listen. There's a lot to
get to. We have a few minutes with you.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Let me start first and foremost with the contract and
more importantly, the commitment. It's a commitment from two sides,
from your side and from the Seahawks side. Financially, it
has to work. You have put yourself in that position.
But let me just ask you simply this. You could
have waited, shopped around, played out the extra year option,
be staying in Seattle.
Speaker 7 (21:12):
Why you know I've prayed on it, and I know
what's best for me. You know, I love being here.
I I'm just proud to be working with John and
Mike and just what they're building here. You know it
fits me and this is my home and you know
I don't want to be anywhere else. So you know,
(21:33):
with that they sent over a great contract, like you said,
so said, why not and you know I'll be here.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Jackson, How important was it to be? And we know
these change, things change, They could change tomorrow with somebody
else signing. But at the time, I know you had
sent some stuff down in Texas about wanting to be
paid as the best receiver in the game, which last
year you were the best receiver in the game, and
there wasn't any question. I'm talking to you guys down
in LA. So like, how important was how important was
that to you?
Speaker 7 (22:05):
It was important? I mean, you know, just just want
to do good business. And you know, I know I
know where I stand and you know what I deserve
and you know what makes sense for not only myself
but this organization as well. So you know it meant
it meant a lot to do good business and to
make sure you know, all sides are happy and you know,
(22:28):
we move forward.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Jackson Smith and Jigba joined us. All right, So the
fact that it's over is that also a positive? No distractions.
They got this done. Really, I say they your side,
their side, It got done early. There was no drama.
I mean, none of that stuff happened. That that's man,
that's unheard of in this league. How important was that
to you to have that distraction?
Speaker 7 (22:51):
No, it speaks volumes and you know, just gives me
some insurance if if I might say, some insurance to
just go out there and just you know, play. You
know I'm covered, and you know, I'm just ready to
take it to the next level. I mean, I feel
like this that's what allows me to do. And for
them to have the trust and the respect for me,
(23:14):
you know, means a lot and definitely just wants me
to be here even more so I appreciate that coming
from you know, both ends to.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Be able to play somewhere. You want to play, get
compensated like you want to, like you deserve to get compensated.
That's that's sometimes a challenge. You've seen, You've seen guys
leave the locker room. It's just I think Ernest Jones
said it best after the Super Bowl. The hard thing
here is knowing that we're gonna look in this room.
Not everyone's going to be here. It's the old Super
Bowl tax. They say, uh that you lose guys along
the way, but there's all these guys left over when
(23:43):
you look in that room. Maybe it starts with Mike McDonald,
but maybe look in that room and tell me why
this organization is where it's at right now.
Speaker 7 (23:53):
Yeah, I think really just the people that they have
in the building. You know, talent is one thing, but
you know it's bigger than that, and you know we
I feel like they bring in some really great dudes.
I have some great teammates that you know are not
just special football players, but special people. And you know
that makes you want to come into work every day
(24:13):
and give it your all, you know, from the top
to the bottom. And you know it's a special place.
So you know, that's what I would contribute.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
To a couple more moments with Jackson Smith and Jig.
But Brian Fleur is a new offensive coordinator. Have you
met him? Talk to him?
Speaker 2 (24:28):
What? What what's your sense of what the new OC
is going to be about?
Speaker 7 (24:33):
Yeah, we said hello, shake hands, talked a little bit,
you know, I'm excited just for new opportunities and you know,
to see the game plan and you know, just to
learn you know, who he is and what he's about.
You know, this is you know, my fourth OC you know.
But we're excited to we're excited to you know, evolve
(24:55):
as players and as a team. And you know he's
going to contribute to that. So we're just we're just excited.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
I totally forgot about that. That is it is you've had.
This will be four oh season, four years in the
league for you. That's that's crazy. I mean And what
I mean, first all, I gotta be happy for Clint, right,
I mean, what a great job he did and.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
To get a head coaching job. Yeah, that's a transition.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Uh the quarterback and you had some incredible chemistry, which
is amazing because he rolls in. It's year one and
it was instant. What is it about Sam that that
you and him click?
Speaker 6 (25:29):
So? Well?
Speaker 2 (25:29):
What what what jumped out at you with him? This year?
Speaker 7 (25:33):
Man? He's just a baller, you know, just making things,
making things right. And his attitude and approach, you know,
to to this team and to the sport itself is
something that's inspiring and you know, it's my job to
make his life and make his job easier. And and
I think the connection, you know, just grown since day one.
(25:57):
And you know, his energy and what he brings to
the other thing, like I said, is something special and
something we can all follow. So he's a special player,
special guy.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
And you know.
Speaker 7 (26:08):
There's he's a He's he's our quarterback. There's no one
else that you know, I'd rather play with. And you know,
he's just a baller. Like I said, you know, he
makes things right, you know, even when it's ugly. And
you know he's always continuing to grow, you know, as
a player, there's always something you know he says that
he's working on and wants to get better at, you know,
(26:30):
between the two of us, and you know that's awesome
to hear and awesome to have that in your leader.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
I'll wrap it up with this Jackson Smith and Jig,
but I'll turn the floor to you.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
You know, you know the history in this town.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
You know what happened they win a Super Bowl back
in the twenty thirteen season, and whatever happened the next
year we like to forget about. But the opportunity to
go back to back is it's a special one. What
do you want to tell Seahawk fans about that opportunity?
How focused you guys are to take that next step?
Because one one's awful. Nice, I know that two is
the goal right now. What would you tell the Seahawks fans?
Speaker 7 (27:07):
Man, we know the mission. We're gonna get here and
gun gun out for another one. You know, that's that's
all we want to do, and winnings all that matters,
and we're gonna get it done. You know, at the
end of the day. That's our mindset. And we're excited.
We know we have a special group, a special city,
is the best fan base, so we got all we
(27:28):
need to go shoot for another one. So we're excited
and we're going to do our best to make it happen.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Congratulations on the contract, Congratulations on being a Seahawk for
the next six plus years to come. I know all
the fans are excited, and it sounds like you are
as well. And Jackson Smith and Jig But thanks for
popping on with us today here on KJR.
Speaker 7 (27:49):
Thank you so much. Thanks for having me.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
Great to have JSN on yesterday.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
We taped it yesterday and didn't get a play it
yesterday because I don't know if you guys know this.
There's a little thing going on with the NBA yesterday, And.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
Are you really aware of that? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (28:00):
We I don't know if you were aware of that or not. Hey,
shout out to my friends at the Queen Am Beer Hall,
Justin and Gary Juice. We call Justin Juice and Gary yesterday.
Had a great time. Had an awesome time there. Softy as
well afterwards. God he was he was on one yesterday.
Holy smokes. That does not I know, does not surprise anybody.
(28:20):
All right, Well, take a quick break, come back. We'll
check the text line and get you ready. So we
got to get off the year on time because two o'clock,
Softy has John Stanton coming on live from Jimmy's On First,
we'll check your text next.
Speaker 6 (28:33):
From the R and R Foundation Specialist Broadcast Studio. Now
back to He and Furnez powered by Seapple. Was closest
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Radio ninety three point three kJ R FM.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
Alright, four nine four one. That is the Tacoma Dodge
text line. Oh wait we go, Marcus says, talking about
opening V opening V very special. It's my favorite day
of the year. It starts the best six months of
the year. Marcus revisit me in six months confirm that
it was the best six months.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
Of the year for me.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
I really hope it is too.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
Two six Opening Day the most wonderful time of the year,
then Christmas, especially because I do public address from the
high school. Boys play memories of their success with state titles.
Now my grandson grandson's play. They're six and seven, so
I guess see their development. Baseball is freaking awesome. Yeah,
baseball should still be the sport that everyone does play
at some point.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
Yes, and I'm gonna I'm say something that.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
Olmnian is gonna say this, and people might get upset.
I think every kid needs to learn how to throw.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
A baseball and catch a baseball.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
Okay, I just.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
Think you need to.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
I think playing catch is a very simple but necessary thing.
You never know when later in life you're gonna be Okay,
guess what you gotta do. You're gonna play a co
ed softball game if your work or with your wife
or whatever, or your kid wants to play baseball and
play catch and you've never picked up a glove or
(30:07):
thrown it.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
Everyone should know how to play catch, throw.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
Catch, even if it's just like you know, a couple
of times kid doesn't like it. It can't move on, right,
you know.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
Just learn how to play cach. Yes, exactly, a little
you know what, play a little t ball. I'll tell
you this, anders you're gonna go through it.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
I knew you were going here.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
Yeah, and every parent gets excited when it's kid number
one and it's T ball season. Yes, and then you're
gonna want to poke your eyes out until the end
of t ball season.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
Well, there's a there's a comic element to it.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
There's a comedic element to it, like kid hitting the
you know, the rubber thing that the balls are, and
the ball just drops down and the kid runs to
third base.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
There's that.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
Then the kid that throws at the other kid instead
of throwing to the base, it takes forever. It's like,
remember baseball used to have that issue. They think they've
kind of resolved it right with long games. Yep, nothing's
longer than a T ball game. Nothing, nothing in U
sports is longer than a.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
T ball game. It just goes old. It's yeah, or
it's hot.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
One of the other it's never seventy it's raining and cold,
or it's.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
Just Africa hot. Like, get me out of here.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
I'm hanging out with the jaguars and the and the
lions and the elephants in the middle of Africa.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
It's just like that.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
Yeah, it's one of the two buddyd All right, four,
I went Let's see what see do do? Let's see
Thank you Nathan, what a wow? An actual human?
Speaker 2 (31:46):
What an oh? I guess you talking about today's work. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
We live in a tough time. That's why sports are great. Yeah,
great deviation away from things. Let's see, here's someone that's
just we have to have some bitterness. We'll get the bitterness.
Eight four to three lo OL World Series hopes. How
many years has this poverty franchise existed without a pennant? Well,
the answer that's forty nine, So like we're going to
the year fifty. I should have to tell you how
(32:08):
many years?
Speaker 2 (32:09):
This is the year? Right, this is the year.
Speaker 3 (32:12):
This to me maybe besides two thousand and two. After
the two thousand and one season, it's like it's the
highest expectations the Mariners have probably ever had compared to
like yes year before.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
Two oh seven. Mawat Boys really brought it today. Chris
and Nate really summed up how I feel about the
MS and opening day. Thanks scene and go Marriners.
Speaker 3 (32:30):
Yeah they were good.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
They were actually Monday that we had that but wanted
to get it to it again. Yeah, James says Naylor
is the big grumper.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
Love it.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
Kind of like that.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
Love it a lot of references year with Russell brand
into the two hole.
Speaker 3 (32:44):
You know what, it's a common baseball term.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
It's when Nicholes the Loomis threw it out there.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
Though.
Speaker 3 (32:53):
That's so true.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
It was a golden moment. Like I it's a golden
moment in root sports history. May root sports rest in peace.
That was one of the top five moments in root
sports history. How do you like the two hole?
Speaker 2 (33:07):
Huh? Did you just say that to me? Yes? I did, Yes,
I did. Let's see.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
You got some sonic stuff on here as well. Actually,
I'm gonna read that. Help you know the answer for
I buy MLB TV? Would I get all the Seattle
games off to pay nine?
Speaker 2 (33:20):
Now? Listen, man, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
I did. Okay, what is it if you have MLB TV? Yeah,
that just gives you all of the out of market
games you have to pay. Then you have to buy
the ninety nine dollars Mariners package every Mariner game.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
Yes, it's actually on hundred ninety nine. Isn't it for
the whole season?
Speaker 3 (33:37):
Yeah? Hundred bucks nineteen a month.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
Yeah, but that makes sense. You have twenty bucks a
month five months. Yeah, yep, okay, yep, yeah.
Speaker 3 (33:44):
Six months. So you get a better deal if you
buy the whole season.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
If you just buy the whole season. Yeah, yeah, let's see.
Thanks more. Kevin Claudos is the two six?
Speaker 3 (33:53):
Damn right, damn right.
Speaker 2 (33:55):
Let's see. I'll read most of this two oh six.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
I know it's the station's playing various Kevin Collaboro Sonics
calls on a mission in transition, Get up on the Downstroke,
get on the Magic Carpenter Ride, but not as most famous.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
One. Uh yeah, the the cake and the pudding. We
don't have that. Can you do me a favorite? After
the show? Go down and stay?
Speaker 1 (34:20):
Hey, where is Collaboro's call? There's something about cake and
some pudding.
Speaker 3 (34:23):
Or something you want to response?
Speaker 2 (34:26):
Can we get that into promo?
Speaker 3 (34:27):
Yeah, that'd be great.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
Let me just send a note to Vicky Vick. Can
we get a new one.
Speaker 3 (34:31):
I'll play dumb there and be like people were asking
about something about cake and pudding or for collabor Can we.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
Just say this though, how awesome is it to hear
him calling those games.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
Here on Kjaron.
Speaker 3 (34:42):
Oh, it's just it's.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
I think we've been blessed with so many great play
by play announcers over the years. Yes, I mean Rondo
and Robertson for the two college teams, everybody else, Casey Forsland,
knee House, bringing back Casey. All right, we're heading down
to Jimmy's on First.
Speaker 2 (35:01):
We're moments away.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
John Stanton is going to be on the hot seat,
Dave Softy Maller firing questions at him left, right, center down.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
Go Stanton john
Speaker 1 (35:14):
Ston on opening Day with Dave Softie Maller at Jimmy's
on First next year
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