Furness Show 3-31: Joe Sheehan, John Lund

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, you got illness running through the locker room right now.
Apparently Jessamin McIntyre's out today. She's not feeling good, so
she's out. Moger is in our guy Trav. What's happening?
How we doing? Doing great? Good? I appreciate it coming
in earlier. Else got a hockey game to run later tonight.
I'm gonna be here all night. You and I have
that in common, though I won't be here. I'll be
elsewhere for the KRACK and Hockey Network. But good to

(00:20):
have you in with a day. Andrews is running the
afternoon show, but we got a big show. It's Tuesday. Joe,
she and will join us. Joshian newsletter coming up here
in about fifteen minutes or so. Checking with Joe about
all things baseball. After I'd say week one, it's not
even week one yet, right, it's we're five days into
the season. But we'll get Joe's thoughts. Mariners and Yankees
continue their series tonight. I didn't even mention this. I

(00:41):
forgot about this, and I had it written down. I apologize.
Cole Emerson has now signed a ninety five million dollar
deal and he hasn't played a game in the major
leagues yet and it's it's we'll talk to Joe a
little bit about that coming up. Could be one of
those great great contracts when it's all said and done,
where it we're works out really well for the player,
life changing guaranteed money. He probably could have made more

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on they decide if he's really good or he has
life changing money and turns into Evan White. Meanwhile, if
he turns out to be what they think he's going
to turn out to be, then the Mariner's probably got
a deal, so probably win win for both sides. And
just I think everyone just wants to see this kid
in the biggs and see what he can do in
major league in the major leagues. But good for him.
So we'll talk about all the things baseball was she

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and coming up Joshian Newsletter at one twenty John Lund
will join us at two and I was looking back
and I'm gonna get into this in just a second.
Twenty nineteen Oakland Raiders were was the final season in
Oakland before the Raiders moved to Vegas, and I believe
Lund was doing the pre and post game for the

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Raiders then on their network. I believe, So I think
he's lived through a hard knocks And I bring that
up because Mark and I were just talking about this
a moment ago. This is a good fun thing. We
can talk about it today. On the text line four nine,
four to five one that's to come a Dodge text
line shop Komba Dodge Chrysler g Bram at the corner
of thirty eighth and South to come away. The intersection
is savings. Mark asked me, you know, hey, what do

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you think of of hard It'd be fine, kind of cool,
I know, like for for And I'm gonna say this,
this is this is a quick little disclaimer. There are
those who do what we do, whether it's sports radio,
sports television, sports writing, newspapers, whatever it might be, they

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cover the team that are gonna hate it because it's
gonna be restrictive and there's gonna be stuff going on.
They're gonna take over space and rooms and all that
kind of stuff, and so it's gonna be for the
But the fan doesn't care about that. Nobody listening right
now cares about our inconveniences. So I'm gonna shove that
to the side. And I would just say, if you're
a Seahawk fan, I think you got to be elated

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or are you four nine four five one? And now
here's why I ask so I mentioned to Mark the
last two, the last two teams that did it Buffalo
last year, Chicago two years ago, hell, the Jets three
years ago all fired their coaches. Now then I started

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living a little deeper, diving to this thing, like who's
had success? Buffalo did go to the postseason last year, right,
but the Bills did. But then they didn't like the
results and Victormo was out. Thanks for coming, You're gone, Bears.
They fired Matt Eberfluss in season. The twenty twenty four
hard Knocks Jets were just an absolute dumpster fire and
end of the story there. Aaron Rodgers was the focal

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point of that Hard knocks, right, he took three snaps
or whatever it was, and snapped his achilles tenant out
for the year. Hard knocks jinks, you tell me that's
the last three Detroit Lions twenty twenty two they were
nine to eight. But but how about this. They were

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one and six to start the season. They torpedoed their
season in the first seven games they were one and six.
They finished strong, just missed the playoffs, but they were
nin nay missed the playoffs. Cowboys are the team I
can kind of find. That's the outlier. Mike McCarthy's twenty
twenty one Dallas Cowboys there were twelve and five, won
the NFC East, but they lost in the wildcard ground. Okay,

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charging the Rams he did in twenty twenty, I'm not
even gonna count that because it was COVID like, it
just doesn't matter. Raiders. I just told you about John Gruden,
Mike Mayock, and yeah, they had Antonio Brown horror show
going on. If you remember that that year, that was good.
They were seven to nine. I guess by Raiders standards,
seven to nine is pretty good. Cleveland Brown's twenty eighteen

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firedhead coach Hugh Jackson midway through the season. Tamiby Buccaneers
twenty seventeen. They were hoping to get things going. They
finished last in the NFC South. Twenty sixteen La Rams.
This was one of my favorites, the Rams. None of
the amous line. In the twenty sixteen Hard Knocks from
Jeff Fisher, we are not going seven and nine because

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they were always the seven and nine tem when they
were in Saint Louis. They just moved to LA. They
didn't go seven to nine, they went four and twelve.
Twenty fifteen Houston Texans they went nine to seven wildcard
team got shut out in the wildcard round, thirty to nothing.
Twenty fourteen Atlanta, fl Because this is one that Mark
I think was down therefore he was working in Atlanta.
Then they were five and twelve. We keep going. Twenty

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thirteen Bengals, they were good, eleven and five, won their division.
But guess what they did lost in the wildcard round.
I could go on. I was more excited initially, and
then I looked at it and there is a hard
knocks jinks going on here that is unavoidable. It's there,
right there in front of you. It's right there. Now,

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do we believe in Jenks's Are we superstitious in sports?

Speaker 2 (05:53):
Hell?

Speaker 1 (05:53):
Yes we are. That's what sports are all about, one
hundred percent. I don't think, like eber Flus and a
couple other guys, you're gonna see a coach fired in
the middle of year. I think Mike McDonald's okay coming
off a Super Bowl, but it brings up even just
expectations for this team. The best we've seen for a

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hard knocks team is winning a division but getting knocked
out in the wildcard round. The last couple of times
that's in the last two decades is wildcard round loss.
That won't be acceptable here. No one here is gonna
be happy if this team doesn't at least get to
the NFC Championship game, right. I mean that you're coming
off with Super Bowl. Your your expectations are not to
just be a wildcard team or getting knocked out in

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the wildcard round if you don't have a buy in
the first round. If you're at division champion, you have
to play a game.

Speaker 3 (06:39):
No.

Speaker 1 (06:41):
But the other thing is, if you're a Seahawk fan,
you're gonna see stuff behind the scenes that you've never
seen before. You're gonna get a chance to see inside
the vMac, which most people don't get a see. We
kind of do with the draft and coverage and everything
we get to do out there, but there's parts of
the vMac we don't see. You know, I couldn't tell
you what Schnyder's office looks like or McDonald's office looks like.

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I know what meetings rooms look like, because that's what
we are for covering the draft upstairs like a cafeteria
and all that stuff. But yeah, you're gonna see you're
gonna get as a Seahawk fan. I think it's a
really cool deal because you've never had this chance. Now
you could make a little bit of an argument like, hey,
you know what would have been kind of cool if

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this would have happened back in the day with all
those personalities, although I don't know how that would have
worked out. There was almost too much personality. You're gonna
put a mic on Earl, good luck, You're gonna put
a mic on Sherm. God help us. Marshall's not going
to talk to you, so that would have been worthless.
He'll just look at you and he'll pop in, throw
a couple f bombs out and that's it. Move along.

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The other thing is you're gonna see some guys that
become stars out of this, and I think that's the
one positive for Seattle. They're the super Bowl champions. Do
they have a superstar? Well, JSN I guess would kind
of fit that role. But he's had He's had one
superstar season. Devin Witherspoon's gonna be a superstar, been a
pro bowler. I'm gonna predict right now at the top

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of the list of guys that are gonna come out
and people are gonna go man that I like that guy.
Devin Witherspoon. He never stops talking. It's funny because his
interviews are kind of eh so so, like when you
put him on a podium or even just do an
interview with him, he's yeah, he's okay. But when we
go out especially that so much training camp because it's
loud and there's fans and all that. When we're out

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there like for mini camps and on the sideline up close,
I'm telling you, Witherspoon is shrm like he never In fact,
he might be worse. He's always talking. That guy has
a bravado. He's got a personality, he's got a swagger.
I love it. That's what you want from a dB.
I think he's gonna be a star of this. Jsn's
gonna come across as exactly who he is. One of

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the nicest guys. I'm just polite, mellow, nice, unassuming superstars
are gonna find. I'm sure they'll focus in on Darnold,
who's pretty cool, nice, but he's mellow, big personality wise,
outside of spoon. I mean, they'll probably be around Julian
Love a little bit. I would think some of the
D Line Ernest Jones is a guy you want to

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have a mic on. I think Ernest Jones for sure,
D Line Shenna or DeMarcus Lawrence. Yeah, Murphy probably want.
I don't know if you'll go down the Murphy road.
I think Gray Zabel could be a candidate to be
a star in this thing. I think, just the redneck
offensive lineman from North Dakota that's just sitting there smashing

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bush lights and doing his thing, he could be a
massive personality in this Yeah, it'll be it'll be interesting
to see. Like I think it'll be fun. It'll be fun.
But there is a cause for concern because the track
record tells you that teams are on hard knocks don't
do well.

Speaker 4 (09:52):
I mean, up until last season, the NFL didn't allow
playoff teams.

Speaker 1 (09:56):
Right, they just switched the rules. I don't know if
you were probably coming doing the little transition. MJ had
an interesting theory. I'm buying into it, even if it's
not true. I like I like the theory. I like
the theory a lot, he says. I wonder if this
was a compromise. If the NFL wanted the Seahawks to
open the season in Australia and they said, we're the champs,

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you guys can pound sand compromises, you'll do hard knocks instead.
Like I wonder if that's because no team's ever come
off a Super Bowl and done this. I know they
changed the rules, but it was just playoffs before that.
So to have your Super Bowl champion doing it is interesting.
Schneider could be a star in this thing. Schneider could
be an absolute flat out star. If he's Schneider, if

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he's who he normally is, people, he's going to be
the Dan Campbell of executives because where Dan Campbell's public
persona and help people love Dan Campbell now because he
just you know, I brought this kick some ass off
like and just football guy and then can coach like
Dan Campbell can flat out coach. Schneider is just everyday dude,

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like gonna have a pine of Mannies and just kick
back and do my thing and all that. That's who
Schneider is and very relatable for the average person. And
if he if they portray him like who and what
he is everyday man who will, by the way, is
the best GM in the NFL. Well, it's pretty good.

Speaker 4 (11:19):
We kind of got a taste of that at the parade.

Speaker 1 (11:23):
More than a taste, more than a taste. Hey, King TV,
FCC's online one. All right, we'll take a break, we'll
come back. Joshi and Joshian Newsletter joined us. Coming up next.

Speaker 3 (11:34):
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Now here's Ian with our weekly baseball fix from Joshi.

Speaker 1 (12:00):
Josh and Josian Newsletter Joe Shean dot com. Go check
it out. If you're a baseball fan. If you're listening
right now, you probably are. Our baseball team now is
played five games out of one hundred and sixty two,
so we can make some sweeping judgments of what's going
on right now in baseball. Hi, Joe, how are you goody?

Speaker 5 (12:17):
And what's going on? Man?

Speaker 1 (12:18):
Well, what kind of sweeping judgments can we make after
five games? What can we How can we overreact, Joe?
How can we overreact today?

Speaker 6 (12:24):
Let me give you one stat. Fifty seven strikeouts eleven walks.
That's the pitching staff. That's what the pitching staff is
done this year. Five to one strikeouts to walk rt year.
One of the reasons I had the Narritors being so
successful this year is because I did love the pitching staff.
They've showed out. You know, you get a few runs
here and there, but that baseline number fifty seven to
eleven strike outs a walk, that's the thing you want
to look at earlier.

Speaker 7 (12:45):
This is I.

Speaker 1 (12:47):
Don't know if we I don't think we got a
chance last week to talk about it, and I wanted
to get to this with you and for those who
don't know, Joe started doing this type of work in
Joshian newsletter. But just the baseball perspectus and all that,
like just years ago, at the kind of the at
the forefront, Joe, I say, this is all due respect
and endearing qualities that I can baseball. Joe is one

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of the original baseball nerds, and that's why we love them,
but you have a bigger perspective than some are. Your
writing's fantastic. That's why we have you on. I use
that for this reason. I love your opinions on bigger
picture things in baseball. Let me start with ABS and
the challenge system and what we've seen so far. I
know C. B. Buckner probably doesn't like it, but what
do you think?

Speaker 6 (13:31):
Yeah, I don't got to say. I really don't care
what the empires think. Do better or to be more pippy.
That's what the money is for. But these guys kind
of throwing tantrums all the fact that their calls are
getting overturned. You know that's not a strike. What matters
is whether the pictures in the strike zone not what
you thought about it, and just kind of see change
in how we evaluate and what we call a strike

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at a ball. I think is one of the best
things going for baseball. So the fact that the umpires
are getting embarrassed.

Speaker 5 (13:58):
Do better, it's really how I feel out it.

Speaker 6 (14:00):
The fact of the matter is ABS, and I prefer
pull abs. But the challenge system is at least a
half measure. It's going to make the game better because
it's going to even out the fat the fight between
pitchers and hitters, and you know, catchers are getting a
lot of overturnings.

Speaker 5 (14:13):
But I want to take a step back.

Speaker 6 (14:14):
And just think about what it means when a pitcher
and a catcher can't say we're going to throw this
pitch two and a half inches outside and either the
empire is going to call it a strike or the
hitters is gonna have to flail at it because it
thinks the umpire is going to call it a strike.
For all of the focus on the pitches that are
and I don't know how much baseball you watch this weekend,
but every time the ABS comes up, we'll see this
graphic that shows whether the pitch was, you know, a

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quarter inch inside or a quarter inch outside of the
strike zone. But the more important pitches are the ones
two to two and a half inches outside of the
strike zone that are definitely going to be called balls.

Speaker 1 (14:44):
Now I agree with yeah, No, I'm quite a bit
and I agree with you. I think one of the
things that and I think we've talked about this before,
I don't know if there's a harder thing to officiate
in sports than balls and strikes at times, especially as
you mentioned you know, like we're talking inchest sometimes an
inch or two, and the balls moving and you know,
coming into a velocity that we, you know, consist of

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velocity we haven't seen before. I'm a hockey guy. I
think off sides in hockey, where's the plot, there's the
blue line, where's the skate? I mean instant? And I'm
always amazed. I think NHL line has been get it
right about ninety five percent. It's amazing how often they're
They're right. Hard to do umpires aren't nearly that accurate.
I'm not sure what else in sports is even comparable
to those two things that are kind of so in

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a sense black and white. Do you think that this
year will pave the way for ABS because full time ABS,
I should say, because it kind of feels like we're
leading that way.

Speaker 6 (15:39):
I don't, and we're we're a week ind of this experiment.
But I do think there are a couple of motivations.
One is that the players don't want full ABS. Some
of that is pictures. You still want to be able
to exploit the system. Some of that is this idea
that framing is something you want to keep in the game,
and you don't want me to go into that discussion today.
But there are a lot of catchers who have their
jobs because they can move their gloves from here to

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here and get a strike called. So there's a lot
of invest in people invested in not having full abs.
There's also an idea through testing in the minor leagues
over the last few years that fans really preferred this
this way. There's that moment of looking at the scoreboard
because what we all want to do is a ballpark
is look at more screams and looking at the scoreboard
and go, oh, it's a strike or oh it's a ball.
So I think there's going to be a lot of

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inertia once the system is in place, to keep it
in place rather than going to full abs. Now we
don't know what's ahead of us. You know, the two
challenge women, I think eventually will become a problem. You're
going to have a big game decided when a team
doesn't have challenges, and the empire will I forget what
the gentleman was to call the pitch in the WBC,

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you will call, you know, end the game on a
third strike that has no business being a third strike,
and the team will have a recourse. I think that's
going to move the needle. I'm certain that happened in
the minor league. But here's the thing, nobody cares or
league games are basically there to develop players and have
a good time at a ballpark. Nobody's sitting there caring
about whether in the next day do you ever remember.

Speaker 5 (17:08):
Who won the game? If you went, no, you remember
I had a good time.

Speaker 6 (17:10):
But the score of the game was a very small
part of that. In the majors, that's much different. And
when games get decided because of a bad call and
a team being out of challenges, I think that's going
to be We're going to see some change to the system.
And there it's increasing challenges.

Speaker 5 (17:24):
Whether it's a.

Speaker 6 (17:25):
Free one in the ninth then they don't know what
to look like. But I think that's more likely to
change as opposed to just saying, oh, we're going to
go full adas.

Speaker 1 (17:31):
Yeah. I think our afternoon guys were talking about it yesterday.
That's why I brought it up with you, because you know,
they brought up the you know where it was it
to now if you're successfully you keep it and all
that type of thing.

Speaker 2 (17:41):
You know.

Speaker 1 (17:42):
Hell, the Yankees use it a bunch of times in
a role last night. It's funny because every time they
use it, they never get a hit afterwards, Like it
was like you got you got a couple of extra pitches,
but that was it. But I get, you know, but
they were using it to their advantage, which is good.
You know, if you're wrong, you're wrong, I'm with you.
I don't know. Maybe it's like timeouts in basketball or something.
You get to extra innings, you get another challenge, or
you get to the ninth didning and getnother change. There's
got to be a better way because two doesn't seem

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like enough, especially Joe. Honestly, it doesn't take time at all,
Like it's not like it's like now we have changed
this a little bit with the pitch clock, but you know,
it wasn't too long ago, what three four years ago, Joe,
we'd be talking about the fact that, you know, every pitch,
a guy's out of the box, he's readjusting all seventeen
things of protective gear, and it's thirty five forty fifty

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seconds between pitches. The abs happens in what ten to
fifteen seconds max.

Speaker 5 (18:28):
Yeah, I don't.

Speaker 6 (18:28):
Appreciate that because when I'm sitting down and writing a call,
and I'm scratching and get out there and adjusting. Come on,
that's just me.

Speaker 1 (18:34):
That is me, Not after every sentence, Not after every sentence, Joe.

Speaker 6 (18:38):
No, there are days no I will say that. You know,
the system, I think one of the big benefits off them.
And I got a lot of this over the winter.
Oh it's going to slow the game down, and it
really doesn't.

Speaker 5 (18:49):
You know, if you have.

Speaker 6 (18:50):
Ten challenges in a game, which is not an unreasonable number,
you might be adding two minutes. You know, you're just
not adding a whole lot of time. But it is quick,
it is seamless. I think that's the least of the objection.
And if baseball games were to go from two thirty
five to two forty, but we've eliminated those two strikes
two which is off the zone.

Speaker 5 (19:08):
I am more than happy to make that trade off.
I have no issues with that at all.

Speaker 6 (19:12):
Time is the least of the problems.

Speaker 1 (19:13):
Here, Yeah, no, I would I definitely agree. Joe Shean
joining us Joshian Newsletter Joshian dot com. Let's kind of
look around baseball a little bit, and you mentioned Seattle
with the pitching staff has done so far, Yeah, it's
been outstanding all They got through the first rotation for
the first time, all five guys, including Emerson Hancock. I
think they had four out of the five guys had
what we would call the quality starts. I don't know

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if Joe likes that stat or not, but those were there.
I think the one guy that didn't was Gilbert opening day.
He went five and a third and probably could have
gone longer, but they did take him out, but he
still was good. That's Seattle rotation, Joe. We've talked about
rotations a lot, especially when guys aren't hitting, and we'll
get to those guys in a second. Does that rotation

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look as good as it has for you in the
last couple of years?

Speaker 6 (19:56):
Hey, my bay is the shallow I mean ever, say, hey,
talk was great the other day, but we've got a
couple of years of exposure to him now and he's
might be like more of a six or seven. They've
got to get Bryce Miller, who has apparently the oblique
injury some help. Got to get him back on the
now because he looked so good at the end of
the last year in the playoffs. You'd like to see
that guy show up. You know Logan Evans out of
the year. You look at the seventh starter, maybe like

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a Cooper Chris Well. I think Mark le Gonzalez. I mean,
it gets really ugly in a heart. There's a prospect
in double A and will say Morales.

Speaker 5 (20:26):
He might be.

Speaker 6 (20:27):
He's really the only prospect that has any chance or
the reach of the majors this year. So I think
he gets to July, you get to August, you go
into the trade market.

Speaker 5 (20:34):
Maybe Phil a dead.

Speaker 6 (20:35):
But I would say that the one thing I'm most
worried about with this team is an injury stack in
the rotation that they're just not equipped to deal with.
They have plenty of hitters to go around, but the injury,
but the pitching staffer is a little bit. The starters
anywhere a little bit.

Speaker 1 (20:48):
Then he I know, it's the quote unquote, it's early.
Sean Fagins told us that years ago. It's early. Shut up,
leave me alone. It's early. But I got to be
honest with you, old for nine team for Josh Naylor
has my attention, and I'm sure he'll get it going
at some point. But instead of like, okay, I won't
look at the on nineteen because I don't want you
to yell at me, Joe, but can I ask you this,

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what is a reasonable expectation for Josh Naylor this year
for an entire season?

Speaker 6 (21:14):
This is two seventy five to two eighty hitter, not
a huge walk sky, but enough to you know, three
thirty three forty obp. The home run power is coming
gone with him. He's really more of a doubles type
pinner and obviously that park isn't going to help with that.
I think you're looking at to use the statistical term
w RC plus Wayne runs created plus.

Speaker 5 (21:30):
You can find it in fanagraphs.

Speaker 6 (21:32):
I think he's a one to ten one fifteen hitter,
ten to fifteen percent above league average.

Speaker 5 (21:38):
It's a decent first station. But they're not paying a
ton of money for that.

Speaker 6 (21:41):
That deal was five years, but only was eighteen million
a year. So as long as he's a two win player,
he's basically breaking even and a on a team that
doesn't need him to be Freddy Freedman, that doesn't need
him to be Matt Olsen. He's, you know, the third
best hitter on the team, maybe the fourth one that
comes to the end of the year. I think that's
a really good player for them.

Speaker 1 (22:03):
Yeah, and I like he'll get going. You know, he'll
get going. We're off to another Julio slow start one
for nineteen to start the year with eight strikeouts. That's
death taxes and Julio in April, Jie.

Speaker 6 (22:14):
I meant to ask Jess to just pull up some
of the old clips, some of the old tape, so
I would have to just push a button and you
can just run it back from twenty twenty three and
twenty four and twenty five.

Speaker 1 (22:27):
Imagine what he would do over one hundred and sixty
two games sometime. But listen, he did have a big
hit the the name.

Speaker 6 (22:32):
One of these years, one of the years will have
a big first half and.

Speaker 5 (22:34):
He'll go on to win the MVP.

Speaker 6 (22:36):
But for right now, Hulorrigaz is going to be fine.
It's better than cats.

Speaker 5 (22:41):
I want to see it again and again.

Speaker 1 (22:42):
Yeah, tell me about the team they're seeing this week,
the New York Yankees. They just go and just absolutely
annihilate the Giants in three games. They come here and
they only muster the one run last night. But what
are the Yankees all about this year? Yeah?

Speaker 6 (22:55):
I think it's fascinating because I don't know that I've
seen a team other than maybe some recent Philly teams
that's brought back so much of last year's team. Everybody
who played for them in the playoffs last year is
still in the organization now. Anthony voted on the Il
Jackson Jason Vimingez is back in the runners. But they're
running it back completely. They retained Grisham, they resigned Bellinger,

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they went out and resigned Paul Goldschmid. It's a crazy
thing now that they did win ninety four games last year.
They had the best trick of the American League. So
you argue, Okay, this is not the.

Speaker 5 (23:24):
Worst thing in the world to running back this roster.

Speaker 6 (23:25):
It's a very strange approach to things. It's still a
very good team. Certainly some age concerns. You know, Aaron
Judge thirty four and still going strong. Yeah, maybe he's
that guy. Maybe he's Hank Ammon and he's just not
going to decline until his late thirties. But John Corlis
Stanton will play ninety games and he'll slug a lot
in those ninety games. I worried about Grisham and center.
He definitely lost his step last year. I think defensive

(23:47):
Bret this team back. It was a step.

Speaker 5 (23:48):
We'll see if they get voting back.

Speaker 6 (23:50):
They've got the old Mariner Jose Cavierra currently playing shortstop
to them, They're going to get better if the year
goes on. Colos rendonand should be back in the day
Garrett Cole right around there, June. That rotation is incredibly deep.
You know, they Louise heel Is in the minors start
the year, they've got camp shoulder. It probably gets pumped
eventually when those guys come back. So I think that's
the real strength of this team. Whereas other teams are

(24:11):
going to be looking around for starting pitching. You can
already go about seven or eight.

Speaker 1 (24:15):
Pet Joshi and join us Joshian Newsler. You guys rankings
up at Jochian dot com. At no surprise, you get
the Dodgers at number one, and you know, through the
first four games at three and one. But just there's
so much talk about the Dodgers and baseball and can
anybody even hang with them? Joe, you've got them one,
But I know you look at a lot deeper differently
than a lot of people. How good are the Dodgers?

(24:37):
Are they historically good on paper? What is this team?
I mean, are they really true? Like if you're just
setting odds, are they such an overwhelming favorite anybody else
would be a surprise if they were to win the
World Series this year?

Speaker 6 (24:48):
No, just because that's how the way baseball is. Because
when you've got to play three best of series against
comparably good teams, you're just.

Speaker 5 (24:55):
Never going to be that large a favorite.

Speaker 6 (24:57):
If you make the Dodgers a seventy five percent favorite
all their postseason series, they do a little math there
that would make them about a three to one, about
a two to one underdog to actually the World Series.
Just the nature of baseball, and we've see it through
years and years under this format.

Speaker 5 (25:11):
The point I want to make about the Dodgers is
that you know they their goal is not to win
one hundred.

Speaker 6 (25:16):
And twenty games, because you don't have to anymore. I
would love to see a scenario, you know, he's the
career league, and the championship went to the team with
the best record, and you said to win.

Speaker 5 (25:25):
More games than everybody else.

Speaker 6 (25:26):
I would love to see what this Dodgers team could
do in that context. But they don't have to, right,
so they're gonna make sure everybody's healthy and arrested and
ready to go on October first, because that's all they
have to do. If that means winning ninety seven games
because the Diamondbacks went ninety six, that means winning ninety
three because the Diamondbacks win ninety two, They're gonna win
just enough games to make sure that they're set to

(25:47):
the playoffs.

Speaker 5 (25:47):
And you know, how can you argue with this? The
Dodgers would always go out.

Speaker 6 (25:50):
And win one hundred and five games and lose in
the playoffs. Not that those things are connected, but they
would win one hundred and five games and nobody would
care because they lost in the playoffs. But the last
couple of years, this is how they've done it, and
they've won the World Series, and people are a lot
happier with that. So I don't think you can argue
with the approach that they're taking given the Successify.

Speaker 1 (26:07):
That, Josh and Jonas before I let you go last
year's ALCS opponent for the Mariners that wins the American
League and goes and plays the Dodgers in the World Series,
the Toronto Blue Jays. You've got him ranked as the
fourteenth team in your team rankings. Whether it be the
Baschette departure or whatever. Walk me through why you think
there's a little slippage in Toronto this year.

Speaker 5 (26:29):
A lot of their.

Speaker 6 (26:29):
Success last year was Predicatlin guys, particularly the bench, who
had years they've never had before and are unlikely to repeat.
Miles Straw was a two win player, Tyler Hyneman was
a two win player, Ernie Clement was a four win player.
They just had a lot of performances I don't expect
to repeat. George Springer had kind of a dead cat
bout season and I just don't think he can do
another five win season. So kind of just go through

(26:51):
the roster saying who's actually going to be better this year?
And I'm just not seeing it. I love the Dylanc signing.
I think it helps him a lot, but even at that,
it's a relatively thin taking. Cody Poncek got hurt last night.
That was awful to see. The kid they brought back
from the KBO to talk him out in the rotation.
I don't like the bullpen at all, and that Bothen
nearly killed them last year, but I think that's gonna.

Speaker 5 (27:10):
Be a problem for them too. So you throw it
all in the mix.

Speaker 6 (27:13):
The fact that they play an A league schedule, which
is the most difficult schedule in baseball, and I've got
them missing the playoffs, but in that range where you
know you win some extra to you the one run gage.
Last year they were ten and four in extra endings
and that's why they won the division.

Speaker 5 (27:27):
So in regulation they were actually the third best team
in that division.

Speaker 6 (27:31):
That matters a lot when I go into I do
my numbers.

Speaker 1 (27:34):
I'll wrap it up with this. Manners signed Colt Emerson,
their young shortstop who's not playing the major leagues yet,
but they signed him today to an eight year, ninety
five million dollar extension. Feels like one of those things
that it could be great, maybe a win win for
both sides. The player gets, you know, guaranteed life changing
money the team if he's if the guy ends up

(27:56):
being seventy five percent of what they think he's going
to be, probably a steal in a couple of years.
You saw that today, I'm sure what do you think
when you saw that number?

Speaker 6 (28:04):
It is extremely hard for the team to lose on
these deals. And he had the possibility that Colt Emerson
goes to zero. Scott Keenery did John Singleton did. Some
of the early players assigned deals like this, But you know,
even then, the team's only out a fairly small amount
of money all the time, and it's obviously the player
walks up like pretty much a lifetime of security.

Speaker 5 (28:23):
You get ninety million dollars at.

Speaker 6 (28:24):
Age twenty, and it's very hard to blow that.

Speaker 5 (28:27):
So I think it's a good deal for col Emerson.

Speaker 6 (28:30):
I think it's a good deal for the Mariners, and
I think it underlined some of the problems we have
in baseball with young players not able to get paid
for their performance until they're five six years into their career.
So that's a larger issue. But as far as I
think for the marriage is a good deal. My thing me,
I was telling you three weeks ago, My problem isn't
paying Colt Emerson. My PLoP problem is playing Colt Emerson. Yeah,

(28:52):
get him up and get him onto the field.

Speaker 7 (28:54):
Now.

Speaker 1 (28:55):
Yeah, Well, I mean we're watching Donovan struggle at third base,
for example, and I mean there's a lot of the infield.
Is what it is. I would say, as as you
mentioned that, good for Seattle in a sense and good
for the for the young man in a sense. To
get this deal done, because you're right if in baseball
you're waiting till you're twenty eight years old most of
the time to actually get paid, like like you're worth right,

(29:15):
like you get maybe that one contract, and it's just
it's the hardest, it's the hardest of sports to become
a free agent and make free agent money and life
changing money. And so it's good. Hopefully I don't think
it'll turn out Evan White like, but even Evan White
was only twenty four million, and that obviously I forgot
about that one. Yeah, yeah, well, gotta go glove though,
had a go glove during a COVID year, had a

(29:36):
gold glove. Joe tell people that Joe shean newsletter for
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Speaker 1 (30:09):
Joshan dot com, you are a stat head. But the writing,
I will just tell people if you haven't checked it
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the fun thing is with what Joe does. It's not
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(30:29):
So he covers all thirty teams, which is kind of
nice in this day and age. Great stuff is always
my friend. We'll talk to you next week.

Speaker 5 (30:37):
Thanks well, Joe.

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You probably produced a lot of games involving the Edvonton
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Actually this's my first year. Oh then this is the
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This is a team the Kraken have not had success against.
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(33:29):
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Edmonton Tonight. They're on their way for their seventh straight
playoff appearance. Along the way, but rest a shirt. It's
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(33:50):
You guys will do it on the radio. Mikey'll be
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I'll be doing the same thing on TV. But if
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(34:34):
in just a couple of minutes. We'll check in with
him about all things football. I brought this up earlier.
I know we'll get some good texts in four nine,
four to five to one. In regards to the Hard
Knocks situation and what you want to see, I asked
you first of all, you good with it. I think
every fan is gonna be excited about this, except for
the Hard Knocks jinks. We went through all the teams,
and the fact that at the end of the day,

(34:54):
this has not been a good success story for teams
that participate in hard knocks. In fact, it's been the
opposite of a success story. It's been kind of a
nightmare along the way. A couple teams have won division
titles in the last two decades doing hard knocks Dallas
in Cincinnati. No one has got out of the first round.
Multiple teams have fired their coach midseason. That won't happen

(35:15):
here with Mike McDonald. But you get the point. But
you get the point. It's a little bit of a
risk and I'm kind of going down the road again
of what MJ was saying. I'm not so sure there
was a little give and take. I know there have
been a push for them to do it at some
point during the Pete Carroll era, and there's some reports
out there that the Seahawks turned it down. I don't

(35:36):
know if you can actually turn it down, I don't
I'm not sure none of us really know the inner
workings of the league that well. I don't know if
you can say no. MJ's theory is that the Seahawks
were told they wanted them to play in Australia, and
they said that's not going to happen. We're the champs.
We're going to do what we want to do, and
instead the compromise of Hard Knocks. I like that conspiracy

(35:56):
theory probably not true, but I like it. I think
it's fun to discuss. This team will have some stars
come out. So I don't we asked the question earlier,
We'll ask it again. We'll get the text coming up
bottom of the hour at two thirty. Who or what
do you want to see in Hard Knocks? Who do
you think is going to be the star? What do
you want to see? Who do you think is going

(36:17):
to just jump off the page? I gave you a couple.
I think Zabel, I think Witherspoon like those two guys.
If they focus in on those guys, I think Ernest
Jones could come across as a re likable guy, really
good talker. He's got a great story. It's a great story.

Speaker 2 (36:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (36:31):
I mean there's a lot of those guys. Rashid Shiheed's
got the million dollar smile. You know he could do it.
I think JSN is just such a mellow dude. I'm
they have to focus in on him. Because of the
year he had last season. You would think highest paid
receiver in the game right now, and All Pro and
all the things he did last year. He's just he's

(36:51):
kind of he's kind of a humble, just mellow dude.
Like doesn't always translate to TV. You kind of want
big and you want loud. I mean the old Seahawks
you could have there would have been a zillion of
those guys to do that with. This team has enough guys.
This teams I would say, probably more likable in a
lot of ways, kind of top to bottom. DeMarcus Lawrence
is a likable guy. Jared Reid a guy I didn't

(37:12):
mention earlier. I think, I think you want to you
want the alpha dog. You want the alpha dog, you
want the dude. Jared reads that guy like Jared reads
that dude. We've we've heard him on I've had him
on my show four or five times in the last year.
And and that guy runs the show. He runs the
locker room. In a lot of ways, you getting, especially

(37:33):
in the hard knocks, where it doesn't matter if you
swear a little bit. That's okay, because Jaren is about
as raw as it gets. We're always nervous sometimes we
have him on live radio. But but I think he'd
be out there too. Actually the other guy was thinking
about too. I mean there's a couple of guys that
Zabel would Zabel would be there. Like Zabel for sure,
I think would be there. But anybody that jumps out

(37:54):
at you that you kind of just want to see.

Speaker 4 (37:56):
These guys, I mean you you named all the ones
I think that are going to be real good on
on the on the screen. Yeah, but do you think
that are are Is there a coach in the league
or a GM in the league that's like, yes, we're
gonna be.

Speaker 1 (38:10):
On hard Knocks. I don't think anybody wants part. I
think I don't. I don't think anybody wants a part
of it. I mean, it's it's great television. It's fun TV.

Speaker 2 (38:18):
A J.

Speaker 1 (38:18):
Barn Is another guy by the way, Uh yeah, aj
aj as a treat I think No, I don't think so.
I don't. Just going through the if you missed the
first segment, we went through the list of the last
two decades, and it's largely a disaster for teams to
do hard knocks, like a big time disaster. Coaches like

(38:40):
three times in the last what six years, coaches got
fired mid season or after the season. So yeah, it's
it's I think there's a lot of guys probably want
no part of it, and you don't want the distractions.
I think that's the other thing I don't think. I
think this is the distraction having to deal with it
from an organization standpoint, how we're big that and I think,
like I said, we'll talk to Undo the minut I'm

(39:00):
pretty sure he was around with Atlanta or when the
Raiders did it the last year in Oakland, so we'll
talk to him about that. That plus the great comments
from Kyle Shanahan about not wanting to go to Australia.
God bless you, Kyle Shanahan. We love you for that.
Four nine, four to five one. That is the Tamadage
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A win last night against New York cal Ralei walk
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(39:48):
in game two of their series against the Yankees two nights.
Speaking of the Mariners, Colt Emerson has yet to take
a Major League Baseball at bat, but he just got
a massive extension and a big commitment from the organization
to stay with the team eight years, ninety five million dollars.
Let's go. They must believe in him, he must believe
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(40:30):
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There's also some kickoff rule changes. Are just little tweaks
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Speaker 3 (41:10):
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Speaker 1 (41:28):
So let's unleash it now with John Lund. Here's Ian Moga.
Are you gonna find out the joys of John Lund
on a Tuesday at two pm? Let me see what
time did I talk to him earlier?

Speaker 2 (41:40):
Today?

Speaker 7 (41:41):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (41:42):
Eleven fourteen am? Just confirming today? Yeah, for sure. Got
a funny story about a call from a Seattle Sunday
got a call from Seattle Sunday doing his national show
from a Mariner security guy. Great, we'll talk to you then. Okay,
calling about six minutes. Got a great guy filling in
today for Jessmon. Don't screw up, don't make it hard
on him, please answer. Three minute warning. Still nothing. He's

(42:06):
also got the red receipts on his messages. Do you
have those? Like I got rid of those cause you know,
you know you got these? So he hasn't he like,
So you know what we're gonna do. This is what
we're gonna do. We're gonna call him on the air. Here,
I'll turn them my mic over here, I'll put them
on speaker phone. See if what happens here, See if
he actually answers. He probably won't because he's just a moron,
but we'll try anyway. Okay, I think I think the

(42:29):
guy literally takes a nap.

Speaker 6 (42:30):
Let's see.

Speaker 1 (42:31):
Here we go, let's see. Now, get the dump button
ready just in case I'm ready. He won't answer two.
So he hasn't hit He hasn't sent it right to voicemail.
That's a good thing. Like he doesn't have a life,

(42:52):
So I'm not sure what he's doing. This is great radio.

Speaker 5 (42:57):
By themail, the person you're trying to reach is not available.

Speaker 1 (43:02):
I figured that. I figured that part out. When you
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(43:25):
What an idiot, just a moron. You know we all
have those friends, right we've known for a zillionaires. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
he's my guy. I don't know how he gets through life.
I'm not sure how he ties his shoes. I'm not
sure what he does along the way. But there we
are with John Linn. Okay, we can pivot a little bit.
We'll wait for him to call back, or maybe just
give another shout here in a second mogan and see

(43:46):
if he's there. I did mention this early with Joe Shean,
And this is where baseball guy gets very upset. Sometimes
we start going down these different precarious roads, and those
roads would include the following. It's early. You can't make
too much of a judgment things like that. Josh Naylor
is over nineteen. Uh, he does have three walks and

(44:10):
only four strikeouts. But the struggle is real. Julio also
a slow start. Those are bad. That's the bad news.
The good news is good news is you're three and two.
That's the good news. Do you have them?

Speaker 5 (44:22):
Is he called?

Speaker 7 (44:22):
No?

Speaker 1 (44:22):
Okay? Yeah, I thought you were talking to somebody there.
Still try Okay, that's fine.

Speaker 5 (44:26):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (44:27):
Is there a concern?

Speaker 3 (44:28):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (44:28):
I think the Naylor concern could be legit. I think
that the Julio concern every year. I think Joe Shean
nailed it when he said, imagine if this guy did this,
you know, like, actually had a full season and cranked
it up and actually played in April. It's I think
someone said the other day, and I don't know if
this is true, that the pressure he puts on himself

(44:49):
is overwhelming. Wholio that is. But yet you look at
some of the times he's come through clutch later in
the year and you ask yourself, why why is that
slow start there? Why isather? I don't it can't be
Weather because look at okay, not snap on you, but like,
look at what happened already, Ryan Heal or what's his face?
Luke Rayley. Luke Rayley's already hitting bombs. Cole Young's hitting bombs.

(45:14):
Other guys are hitting bombs? Like how are these guys
doing it? And I'm nitpicking here because I think what
Joe said hit me a little bit cause I hadn't
thought of it. The pitching depth is a little bit scary.
You're probably not going to get through all the whole
year with those four plus five guys with Emerson Hancock.
If you do, great, awesome, fantastic, but it might be

(45:37):
hard to do. It might be hard to do. So
you've got to get your offense going at some point.
Cal coming through last night was a I think that's
like one of those nice little signs to be okay,
all right, I see you, Cal, You've been struggling early,
but you get that hit, You get that big base hit,
and there was no question about it. Ripped it down
the first baseline. But you need more because you can't

(45:58):
rely on Cole Young Young necessarily all season. Brendan Donovan
has been a revelation in terms of hitting amazing. The
defense has been suspect at best. At best, the defense
has been suspect. But seeing kl get that hit, maybe
that gets him going and maybe that was the right move.
A lot of people were criticizing Wilson last night. It's like,

(46:20):
why did he sit out Sunday? Why didn't play him
the first game of the Yankee series? And at the
end of the day he ends up playing. Anyway, comes
in and it has a big hits and hits the
clutch hits at the end. It was fantastic. So I
think all those things come in. But yeah, what Joe
said earlier, this is still a division you can probably
almost run away with. It's the next step with as
good as the AL East is, especially if last years
a LCS team in Toronto isn't going to be nearly

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as good as they were. If that's a team that's
going to struggle, if that's a team that's going to
find a way, you know that's not going to be
the same team. You still have the other teams in
the East, Yankees top of the list that are going
to be a problem. Boston could be a problem in
your division. Maybe Texas doesn't feel like Houston will be

(47:03):
a problem along the way. All those things kind of
cruise along, all right, So four nine four five one,
that is to coma dodge text line four nine four
to five one to commadautche text line, don't forget you
can shop to coma dodge. Chrysl gee Rahm at the
corner of thirty eighth in south to come away the
intersection of savings. All right, No Lund, still, no Lund.

(47:23):
We're still waiting on him. Still, no Lend still no.
Andrews came in before I. What did Andrews tell you?
He said he might be a little flaky, probably understatement.
Probably it's probably a good way to look at It's
probably good way to look at one thing I didn't
get to. And I can touch it on this because
I got some friends that are losing their minds over
this one right now. Mark Few was named the Naysmith

(47:46):
College Hall of Fame today, and I don't know if
it was actually official yet, but it's it's out there.
Our guys, nor Lander and Parish have got that story.
One of six inductees and in the Naysmith College Basketball
Hall of Fame, or call in the A. Smith Hall
of Fame, and the Naysmith Hall of Fame, by the way,
isn't just college basketball. It's all basketball. And it's weird

(48:07):
with basketball in the sense that guys get they get
knocked in before they're retired, before they're done. As far
as coaches are concerned, I know some people are already
pissed off about this. How is he in there? Listen.
I am not a fan of the guy at all,
but you have to respect what he has done. The

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other class members include Amri Stodommeyer, doc rivers Kandas Parker,
and Alana Della don. But he has been there over
three decades. They have made the basketball. They have made
the tournament every single season he has been there. It's
one of the biggest brands in all of sports. Is
Gonzaga basketball. Forty four league titles, seven to seventy three

(48:48):
and one fifty six record in his career. He's a
Hall of Famer, to final four, our two state national
championship games. I don't think you have to win a
championship to get in. I am a little surprised that
Kelvin Samson isn't in yet. I think that's the one
that That's the only thing I would push back on
with Few, who's younger by a little bit, I think,

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like ten years or so, then Kelvin Samson, I would
push back that. I think Kelvin should be there. His
accomplishments are very comparable. He's done it with other programs.
Kelvin also had the blemish on his record of getting
in CUAA reprimands as well along the way, so maybe
that's part of it too. But Mark Few getting into
the Hall of Fame not surprised and painful as this

(49:31):
is to admit, probably well deserved as well for Mark
Fiume in there. And I don't know, does a Mario
Stodamyer scream hall of Fame? I don't. I don't think so.
But that's the easiest of the hall of Fame to
get into. All right, here'll do. We'll take a break.
We'll come back if we can see if we can
track down lined. If not, when we come back, we'll

(49:53):
check into some text and hit on some other topics
of the day. At four nine, four or five one
on the coma Dodge text line asking talking a lot
today about the Hard Knocks situation and what you got
going on there? If you like it, what are you
looking forward to what are your thoughts? Are you worried
about it? Because the Hard Knocks jinks We went through
that earlier four nine four or five one, So we'll
get those texts. We'll check in hopefully with the lines
coming up next nine three point three KFM, some good text.

(50:20):
London is probably already on his way to Australia. Yeah,
maybe could be. Maybe I wanted our buddy Nick Allen
shout out to Nick, huge listener, sent a text and
I like this text from me because I think there
is a little something here you could do with with

(50:45):
this opportunity to be front and center and at the
focal point of the football and sports you know, in
August when really, I mean hard Knocks can be a
big deal. Nick writes, as follows in and I wouldn't
mind learning some more about the new version of the Seahawks,
and hard Knock should be fun. But I want to
see is a massive All Caps push devote Mike Holmgan

(51:05):
into the Hall of Fame from the vMac practice, shirts, hats, conversations, whatever. Thanks.
That's Nick Allen the Hall of Fame, And I hadn't
thought of it for a while. With Mike, I think
with the way that Belichick got handled this season, that
we're still two years. I mean, I assume Belichick's got
to get in next year, has to despite all the

(51:27):
craziness he's got going on in his personal life and
everything else. You would assume he's in next season or
next this next go round, a year from now. But
with Mike, yeah, you probably could see something like that.
And then I'm thinking to myself as I see the
pushback on Mark feu getting to the Hall of Fame
when I brought that story up from people out here.

(51:49):
Every hall of Fame is different, like every one of
the Hall of Fames is different in terms of how
hard it is to get into. I think we all believe.
I think it's pretty safe to say that the Natesmith
Hall of Fame is the easiest of all of them
to get into. Now it also includes not just pros
but college and not just men but women. As seeing
this year there's two women going in, and obviously college

(52:11):
coach and few and everything else. College, Nay Smith feels easy.
NFL feels maybe the most difficult and challenging to get into,
especially with the rules for coaches and builders and administrators
and owners of the non player side, hockey is I
would say hockey is right in the middle. I think,

(52:34):
for the most part, the guys that get into the
Hockey Hall of Fame and women men and women, because
women get in out too as well. I saw that
this year with Jason Bottrell, the GM for the Crack
and his sister Jennifer got in and well deserved. One
of the most decorated international players ever. But basketball is
the easiest. Football is so hard, Yeah, lun says, give

(52:55):
him a call, by the way, we'll throw them on there. Yeah,
we'll get him along. So I do want to talk
about hard knocks. But yeah, I think, yeah, the home
run push would be cool. The home run push would
be cool. Let's see, we're talking about Hulio this year.
Curious what Edgar would say about the temperature issue. Yeah, Jim,
I don't think it bothered Edgar. Nothing new here for Julio.

(53:17):
This is your five or six. I wouldn't pay him
until June for several year. Softy Away says, I shouldn't
talk about this. We shouldn't talk about the season until
like two or three months in. Maybe we shouldn't talk
about Hulio or just he shouldn't play until two or
three months in. Just send him to Tacoma, Nashville wherever,
maybe find some warm weather for him, whatever that might be,
so we can we can do that as well. So
is he answering? He just said, call, I'm sorry, we apologize.

(53:40):
I'm apologizing on be half a onne because he's an idiot. Anyway,
let's see he's ready, he's ready, let's get to him.
Pop him up there. Listen, what are you doing?

Speaker 5 (53:50):
Like?

Speaker 1 (53:50):
What are you doing? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (53:52):
This is on me.

Speaker 1 (53:53):
I mean there's just well that's apparent of the.

Speaker 2 (53:57):
Something happened, and it's just there's no excuse.

Speaker 1 (54:00):
There's no feartimes, there's no fear, there is none whatsoever.
I want to get to a couple of things I
want to get to and I normally I would have
just said screwed. I don't want to have them on today,
like I'm pissed on, but I'm not. There's two things
I want to hit on. One your phone call from
on your show from a guy from Seattle. Before I
get to that, Yeah, before I get to that. Yeah,
were you doing Raiders radio when they were on Hard Knocks?

Speaker 3 (54:21):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (54:22):
I was, okay, So what can people here expect with
the Seahawks being on hard knocks.

Speaker 2 (54:29):
Well, you got to go back. Remember that was Gruden's
first year and it was it was a dumpster fire.

Speaker 7 (54:35):
It was Antonio Brown and they just had so many
problems on that team and Gruden was, you know, knock
if you're with me and.

Speaker 2 (54:42):
All that kind of like they just he was trying
to re establish things.

Speaker 7 (54:45):
Antonio Brown came in in a hot air balloon. Like
it was such a dumpster fire. The Seahawks won't be
like that, you know what I mean, Like when it
was the Raiders and they have camp and NAPA and
guys all over the place, and and Mark Davis is
the worst owner in sports. I mean, he's the His
haircut is the equivalent of the type of owner he is.

(55:05):
I mean, it's just it's the worst. He's the worst
in sports. And so they just had this dumpster fire
going on, and you know, was enjoyable because everything was
about Gruden because everything about the team kind of stunk.

Speaker 2 (55:15):
And then Antonio Brown had that whole situation.

Speaker 1 (55:18):
My son was actually on.

Speaker 7 (55:19):
Hard knocks because Antonio Brown showed up at a d
La Salle High school game, which Delasal.

Speaker 1 (55:23):
You know a Momi Tumor and tons.

Speaker 2 (55:26):
Of guys who have gone to that. Murray Jones drew
like it's.

Speaker 7 (55:28):
This huge school and he just shows up out of
nowhere and the HBO crew is with them. I mean,
he just made the whole thing a spectacle. Mike McDonald's
just too smart for that. It's that's not gonna happen
with the CX.

Speaker 2 (55:40):
To be honest with you, I've talked to a number
of coaches I.

Speaker 1 (55:42):
Know you have too, that have done it, and.

Speaker 7 (55:44):
It's really that not that big of a distraction because
you know what a lot of teams are doing, well,
not a lot of teams. All teams are doing now.
They have they have a TV crew all the time,
they have stammers in there all the time.

Speaker 2 (55:53):
Yeah, So it's not it's not like it once was
where it's this big distraction.

Speaker 7 (55:57):
In the age of social media and the age of information,
there's maybe not to this extent, but they're used to
having all that stuff around.

Speaker 2 (56:04):
It's not that big of a distraction, honestly. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (56:06):
But seahawks dot Com and my friend, our former colleague
at Fox thirteen Erica running around with the camera during
camp or practices. It's that's so like you know, the
team websites, that stuff's massively watered down. This isn't watered
down like this. This will not be water I just
went through. Like the problem is the history, Like if

(56:26):
you go back, Bill's are on it.

Speaker 2 (56:28):
This year.

Speaker 1 (56:28):
They fired McDermott at the end of the year, Bears
twenty twenty four, midway through the season, Ibra Flues fired
Jets in twenty twenty three, four snaps into the season.
The focal point of Hard Knocks was Aaron Rodgers Achilles
thanks for coming. Detroit starts one in seven. In twenty
twenty two, they missed the playoffs by game, but they
started one and six, Cowboys twelve and five and twenty

(56:50):
twenty one John but ended up losing in the wild
card round to your friends the forty nine ers. Yeah,
I remember Raiders are seven and nine. That was a
dumb fire. I mean, there's a hard Knocks jinks, buddy,
don't lie. There's a hard hard knocks jinks here.

Speaker 2 (57:04):
Okay, here's here's if if if you go down that road,
I think what you what you do is because this
is how they do that. You're in TV.

Speaker 1 (57:11):
You know all this stuff. I'm not telling you anything.
You don't know.

Speaker 7 (57:14):
What they're gonna do is they're going to focus on
particular players who are who supposedly I mean, Mike McDonald
is obviously gonna be guys that they're going to focus on.
Sam Donold is going to be a guy that they
focus on. JSN is going to be a guy they
focus on. Defensively, you would know better than me what
DeMarcus Lawrence or Ernest Jones or somebody gonna be.

Speaker 1 (57:30):
Witherspoon will be the guys who.

Speaker 7 (57:34):
Have the best personalities. What they tend to do is
they'll go like four or five different guys and it's
their show. So the guys that you know, Gray's Zabel
is not going to be really distracted by hard knocks
because they're just not you know, not that he doesn't
have a personality. I know that he does, But I'm
just making a point of what they tend to do
is it's like it's like any.

Speaker 1 (57:52):
Show, they find the four or five.

Speaker 2 (57:54):
Or one or two people that are the most interesting
and they just.

Speaker 7 (57:56):
Hammer them over and over and over again. So as
long as that handful of players can handle that kind.

Speaker 2 (58:03):
Of stuff, and then you just hit Weatherspoon.

Speaker 7 (58:05):
Like in Witherspoon's case, I'm sure that he'll.

Speaker 2 (58:07):
Actually eat it up. Then I that I think it
can be good.

Speaker 7 (58:10):
But I mean what you just said, it's kind of
just indisputable to say. But I just my experience at
the Raiders, and again it wasn't a good one. It
was grood in Antonio Brown until Brown, you know, got
kicked out of camp.

Speaker 1 (58:20):
But it's generally those guys.

Speaker 2 (58:22):
I mean, Derek Carr was boring.

Speaker 7 (58:23):
He's a Bible he's a sorry, don't mean to off anybody,
but he's a Bible.

Speaker 1 (58:27):
Banger, and he's not going out.

Speaker 2 (58:28):
He's not having fun and he's not you know, he's
not he's not fun to fall around. So you know
it's not necessary.

Speaker 7 (58:34):
I mean, if Darnald's boring, we're gonna move right out Darnold,
even if he's a quarterback.

Speaker 1 (58:38):
I uh, I forgot guys. Yeah, you guys were at NAPA, right,
so it wasn't even in oh yeah, So that's.

Speaker 7 (58:43):
Which made it more fun.

Speaker 2 (58:45):
Actually, you know, they went out to places and they.

Speaker 7 (58:48):
You know, and they had those personalities on that team.
I mean I'd covered that team in NAPA for a
long time and and you know, they got a lot
of personalities on that team, but it's you know, they
went out to NAPA and they went to Wineries, and
you know, so was part of it, but it was
Antonio Brand and John Gruden that was That was the
thrust of the whole thing.

Speaker 1 (59:05):
I love your guy, Kyle Shanahan. For people who didn't
see the quote, I'll read the quote here. Kyle shan
He's like, honestly, he's the first guy to be honest
about this stuff. Like he really like everyone else, everyone
else is trying to play this NFL company line and
protect the shield and all this stuff. He finally said
what a lot of people have been thinking. For people

(59:25):
who missed it at the NFL meetings, Kyle Shanahan says,
in regards to the forty nine ers taking on the
Rams week one in Melbourne, Australia, quote, I don't see
any pro It's cool for the league to play global lee.
I think that's awesome, but as far as the team's
doing it, no, there's not much benefit to it. Sometimes
it's nice to get a bye week after, but it
doesn't happen in week one. Wow.

Speaker 7 (59:46):
Well, and here's good for the issue. First of all,
I've been telling you that for years. The first interview
he ever did in San Francisco, we did it on
our show. And the first thing he said to us
because I asked him about the super Bowl because he.

Speaker 2 (59:58):
Had lost the prior week obviously, Yeah, and he said, he.

Speaker 7 (01:00:03):
Kind of looked at me and gave me a grin,
and he goes, I don't.

Speaker 2 (01:00:05):
Know how to be anything but honest.

Speaker 1 (01:00:07):
So here's the deal.

Speaker 2 (01:00:07):
And he talked about Devonte Freeman missing a block. I mean,
he's just totally.

Speaker 7 (01:00:11):
Throwing under the bus and like, well, if Devonte Freeman
makes the block, Matt Ryan gets the pass off and
we win the super Bowl. I mean, he's just that's
just the only way he knows how to be. He's
very straightforward and honest. He tells everybody you can tell
flat out when he's lying. He's the worst liar ever.
So he just decided John Lynch is gonna be the
good cup. He's going to be the bad cop, and
he really doesn't care. I mean, do you realize this

(01:00:32):
is gonna be Kyle Shanaan's tenth year with the forty
nine ers. I mean, he's been around for a long.

Speaker 2 (01:00:37):
Time and Jeduar's not firing him.

Speaker 1 (01:00:39):
He's a great coach.

Speaker 7 (01:00:39):
By the time he hung up the phone, if he
did get fired, he'd have another job.

Speaker 2 (01:00:42):
So he doesn't care. And so he's just gonna say
what it is.

Speaker 7 (01:00:45):
And here's the worst party in is that Now they're
talking about I know you know this, but they're talking
about Game eighteen.

Speaker 2 (01:00:51):
They're talking about two buys. But they're also saying every
team is gonna have to play an international game.

Speaker 7 (01:00:56):
Can you imagine like every year forty nine ers this
year are going from Australia to Mexico City.

Speaker 1 (01:01:02):
Oh they're playing two and wait, they're playing two this year?
Oh my god.

Speaker 6 (01:01:06):
Yeah, they're playing in Australia and Mexico City.

Speaker 2 (01:01:08):
And we know this being on the West Coast, we
have the worst schedule ever. Yes, ogo Midwest East ten
am starts like the West Coast has it that anyway?

Speaker 7 (01:01:19):
And now they're playing not again. No one's crying in Seattle,
I understand that, but yeah, they have two international games.

Speaker 1 (01:01:24):
Are they think in Mexico City is that far?

Speaker 2 (01:01:26):
But it's it is. It is pretty ridiculous.

Speaker 1 (01:01:28):
So they're losing one home game then, and I guess
the Rams will be, So would Melbourne be a Rams?

Speaker 7 (01:01:34):
I guess those eight yea, I guessco City one is
a is a Niners one and the Rams.

Speaker 2 (01:01:38):
Is the Melbourne.

Speaker 1 (01:01:39):
Yeah, who are they playing in Mexico City? I don't
even know yet.

Speaker 2 (01:01:43):
I don't think they have said yet. But yeah, he
hates it.

Speaker 7 (01:01:47):
I mean he flied out says that all the time,
like he understands. I mean, they're trying to make it
a global game. It's never going to be the NBA
or or baseball or anything because those those sports are
playing in other countries. Football is not playing.

Speaker 1 (01:01:59):
And I know you no, I've talked about that.

Speaker 2 (01:02:01):
You covered the international stuff.

Speaker 1 (01:02:02):
Right, No, I didn't go. I didn't go to the
two that we sent Aaron both times.

Speaker 2 (01:02:07):
Okay to Germany or something.

Speaker 7 (01:02:09):
But yeah, what happens is I told you the story,
and I'll just do it really really quick. I was
at one of the London games and I walked into
a Nike store where there was tons of fans and.

Speaker 2 (01:02:18):
They're buying up all the jerseys and everything, and I
was going, do you know.

Speaker 7 (01:02:20):
That is do you like American football? And they're like no,
I'm like, do you know that there's a game this weekend. No,
like the NFL is completely over selling the fact that
everybody just loves American football. And I remember pulling up
to in a you know, on a media bus to
UH to Wembley Stadium, and it was this was.

Speaker 2 (01:02:40):
The coolest part. It was like a Pope pourri.

Speaker 7 (01:02:41):
It was like a rainbow shirt butt of all these
different jerseys of every team. The Dolphins are playing the Raiders.

Speaker 2 (01:02:47):
You wouldn't have known it. I mean it was Joe NAMA's.

Speaker 1 (01:02:48):
Jersey and it was a you know what I mean,
it was a larger jersey like all.

Speaker 7 (01:02:52):
These They just there's there's a hardcore handful of fans
who like the NFL and they go to the games
and some of them have favorite teams everything like that.

Speaker 2 (01:03:01):
I mean, there is.

Speaker 7 (01:03:02):
I'm not saying it's not and it hasn't helped or
anything like that, but it hasn't. It's not to the
level that the NFL is trying to sell us.

Speaker 1 (01:03:09):
It's well, we found out last week that the krack
And are opening not opening, actually they're doing it in November.
So the crack And are playing two games next year
in Finland against Caroline. I believe it is is a
Carolina or Nashville Carolina and subastional Ahill. Anyway, they're playing there.
They're playing in Finland. But it makes sense because combined

(01:03:30):
the two teams have like four or five guys from
Finland right on their teams. Like hockey's international, like the
NBA could play or seas because it's international, like the
NFL for some reason, thinks it's international. You're the five
hundred pound guerilla in our country, there's no doubt about that.
But you're not, you know, I mean, the international thing
is just kind of a it's not even to the

(01:03:50):
level of of I would say, it's not the level
of what like Premier League soccer or all those things
are over here in our country where there's a ton
of fans. But I would be more upset too. And
I think this is where it was kind of stupid.
If you are going to play the games, then don't
do it against arrival, like like, don't take because we
don't have a lot of rivalries on the West Coast.
We just don't. Like it's not like the old day.

(01:04:13):
I mean, like it's not like the NFC AFC North
or or things like that, or the NFC East. We
just don't have those, but we do. Like, I think
it's safe to say that the three top teams in
this division are pretty good rivals with each other, San
Francisco and Seattle and the Rams, right, Like those are
those are games that you should not take away from
one of the home fan bases, period, end of story.

(01:04:34):
In fact, taken away from the home drives.

Speaker 7 (01:04:37):
Yeah, well, I buy season tickets, right, and I spend
all this money and then you know, again we're not
crying for the Rams that held.

Speaker 2 (01:04:43):
Sean McVay, but you know, you buy season tickets and
you don't get a forty nine Ers game this year? Like,
what are you kidding me? So, I mean I got
to sit through the Colts or I gotta sit through
the you know whatever, you know, the Browns game. But
you're going to take the I mean, come on, I'm
with you.

Speaker 1 (01:05:00):
They do a lot of things right. Obviously, they do
a lot of things right.

Speaker 7 (01:05:03):
But man, what they're in this situation and if they
go to eighteen games and they're gonna give two boys
you got to have, but every team's gonna have to.

Speaker 2 (01:05:10):
Play an international game. Yeah, that's insane.

Speaker 1 (01:05:12):
It's not insane, all right, tell me the story about
the settle. So you're doing Westwood one National Show one
Sunday Saturday. What were you doing?

Speaker 2 (01:05:20):
Yeah, this one was.

Speaker 7 (01:05:23):
This was a Sunday And here's what's crazy about it.
So we're getting a good amount of calls from Seattle
to Coma, all these places there really really cool.

Speaker 2 (01:05:33):
And so when I see those calls, I make sure
I get to them because first thing out of their
mouth is I listened to you on on kJ R,
A team for down. I'm like, really cool. So they're
making the correlation.

Speaker 1 (01:05:42):
It's really cool.

Speaker 7 (01:05:43):
But this guy calls up and he's a security guard
at Mariner Games, right, and he's like, I don't remember
what we were even talking about.

Speaker 1 (01:05:51):
You know me, I got a d D. I can't
remember how that's pretty obvious today.

Speaker 7 (01:05:57):
This guy calls up and he says they're doing in
some giveaway or something.

Speaker 2 (01:06:01):
And this guy come There was a couple of weird things.

Speaker 7 (01:06:03):
Number one, there was a guy who came through with
the stroller and he had the stroller like covered up,
and he said, we have to see what's in the stroller.

Speaker 2 (01:06:11):
And because the lights are.

Speaker 7 (01:06:13):
Going on, you know, the the alarms are going off, right,
this guy.

Speaker 2 (01:06:18):
There was no baby in the stroller.

Speaker 7 (01:06:20):
The guy had a gun in the stroller and it
was covered up, and he thought he could get it
through if he put it in a stroller.

Speaker 2 (01:06:28):
I'm not even can you this.

Speaker 1 (01:06:30):
This happened like I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:06:31):
I think it was a second game of the year
or something. A gun.

Speaker 7 (01:06:34):
A guy had a gun in a stroller and was
covered and then he argued with the guy and said,
it's my right.

Speaker 2 (01:06:41):
I have a concealed weapon permit.

Speaker 7 (01:06:42):
And the guy was saying to him, no, you cannot
come into a Major League Baseball game.

Speaker 2 (01:06:47):
Read your ticket. You cannot come into a Midge League
Baseball game a gun in a stroller. You can't have
a gun at the game. And the guy just would
not have that, and he had to end up kicking.
They had to get the carry and kick the guy
out of the.

Speaker 1 (01:07:01):
Arrest him. What was he going to do with the
gun in the Manner game?

Speaker 7 (01:07:05):
I don't know, but he had This guy said he
was he was a security guy at a Mariner game.
And I got another story for you too from the
same guy. But he said they said, yeah, the guy
would cooperate and everything, and so they had to get
police over and they had to boot the guy to
the game. He tried to walk in with a stroller
with a blanket over.

Speaker 1 (01:07:25):
That's that's kind of scary like that that could have
been like it, you know what, whoever that security guy
is to give that dude a raise, right, like good.

Speaker 7 (01:07:33):
Jobs, Like we got to see that, you know, because well,
the thing was going off, like it was beeping, and
he's like, is I gotta know something on the baby
or something.

Speaker 2 (01:07:40):
He's like, well, let me see the baby and the
guy he slipped the blanket. He's like, dude, there's a
gun under this blanket. What do you do?

Speaker 1 (01:07:48):
Idiot? And that's and that's why we all, you know,
we all complained. When we all complain about going through
the metal detector, right, there's a good reason why because
I don't know about I don't know about you. I
don't need some dude that is out the pan pounding
beers and he's got a gun on him in a
game and he gets pissed off of somebody like we
don't need.

Speaker 2 (01:08:05):
That, right thing.

Speaker 5 (01:08:07):
It's crazy.

Speaker 1 (01:08:07):
He shout out to the guy, security guy, get that
guy a raise, man, Martin.

Speaker 2 (01:08:13):
I'm not kiddyet. And then here's the second one. So
then he said the same thing.

Speaker 7 (01:08:16):
You know, he's at the security He says, this happens
all the time. This woman walks through and larger gal
which is fine, you know whatever, And she comes through
and she's beeping too, and he's like, you know, they
have female comes over and gives them out, and she's
trying to tell the guy that it's her metal bar
bra straps. He's like, look, that's not going to set
the alarm off. It's not metal bar straps. The woman

(01:08:38):
pulls out the you know, they bring the woman security
guard over. She has two gigantic flasks in her bra,
like flask in her bra, and the guy said, hey,
i'll give you a tip for next time. They're metal,
like you're going through a metal detector. And the guy's like,
you could buy plastic ones, you know, and we probably

(01:08:59):
wouldn't even know, but you got two metal ones in there.

Speaker 2 (01:09:02):
And the female security guard pulls out two giant metal
flasks out of this woman's bra.

Speaker 1 (01:09:08):
So that's what you got going, I mean, just absolute dipsticks.
Oh my god.

Speaker 2 (01:09:17):
I was like, oh, I can't wait to talk to you.
This is unbelievable.

Speaker 1 (01:09:20):
Trying to think what my flat I don't. I think
I have one metal flask and a couple that maybe
I don't know if they're metal.

Speaker 7 (01:09:26):
I got boot flasks, so the plastic ones. Yeah, the
metal flask is nice. If like, you know, you're going out,
I don't know, hunting, ski and whatever. But if you're
going to a ball game, golf, yeah, golf being perfect,
but you're going you know you're going any kind of
a ball game.

Speaker 2 (01:09:40):
I got news for you, Seattle. Metal is not going
to go through the metal detector.

Speaker 1 (01:09:45):
You just reminded me something I gotta get. I start, well,
it's going to rain, so I don't know if we're
going to play tomorrow. We start a weekly or weekly
golf league tomorrow, a little nine hole after work golf league. Oh,
I gotta I gotta fill out. I got a great
new flask. I gotta fill that thing up with birdie juice.
The rare event that I get a birdie at some point,
maybe it'll happen next month, who knows. But you won't
need that.

Speaker 7 (01:10:05):
I feel bad, Yeah, you won't need that. I'm going
to send you a new flask. I'm gonna send you here.
I'm gonna send you a nice flash that you could
bring in and you don't need.

Speaker 1 (01:10:14):
It to get into a game. John, what do I say,
John London leashed on it or something?

Speaker 3 (01:10:20):
Yeah, I got a few extra.

Speaker 1 (01:10:25):
Lord god.

Speaker 2 (01:10:29):
A sorry, I'm sorry.

Speaker 1 (01:10:31):
You're lucky.

Speaker 2 (01:10:33):
Had a good conversation anyway.

Speaker 1 (01:10:34):
But you're you're lucky because Jess wasn't here today. She
would be yelling at you right now.

Speaker 7 (01:10:38):
I know well, and I do have about ninety two
mess calls, but Jess would would like to slide to
my ouse.

Speaker 1 (01:10:43):
She'd be like on the way here. And and Andrews
is doing our and is doing our afternoon show. He's
got to deal with softy and so he I think
he might have called a texted you as well, but
he's got to deal with that action. So that's yeah,
that's a ton of fun. So and so, my my
guy Travis is here and he's got like you'll love this.
I'm gonna take you behind the curtain for a second,
all right. So Travis is Travis. Travis is a man

(01:11:05):
of many talents. One of those talents is that he
understands video because he used to be the guy that
ran We used to have I don't know if you
know Softy used to be on Comcast Sports Net here
in Seattle.

Speaker 2 (01:11:16):
I remember that.

Speaker 1 (01:11:18):
Yeah, that's where Diana Russini got her start, is on
the Softy Show doing updates. But anyway, Travis used to
run all that stuff when he did it with when
Comcast Sports Net was still in business. He's setting up
we may at kJ R at some point in some
day we may be on video as well as radio.

Speaker 2 (01:11:35):
Like, I know you're not on YouTube.

Speaker 7 (01:11:37):
We can't see your pretty face and you're and your
nice beard and your your aging graying hair and sut.

Speaker 1 (01:11:42):
We can't see that, not yet, but someday we will tomorrow.
So so, so that's Travis is working on all that
stuff right now. And so he's got enough, and he's
got to do the cracking game tonight. He's got to
produce that. And you're and you on this is where
I'm gonna make you feel guilty. You're the guy stressing
him out with all he's got. He's got purple sheet.
Rich Morre's coming in his office into the controllers at

(01:12:03):
least four times a day. They're looking at video. And
by the way, nobody wants to see that video of me.
I'm like, it's it's I.

Speaker 2 (01:12:10):
Oh, yes, they do. You know you're crazy? Can I
tell you something?

Speaker 7 (01:12:14):
I know we're probably running late. So all the guys
on Westwood One, they they're all doing video and I
was like, if you want me to do it, I'll
do it. But I haven't really pressed the point. And
it got to the point where people were requesting it.
And you know, me, I look like the elephant man.

Speaker 2 (01:12:27):
It's like, you know, are you a human big?

Speaker 1 (01:12:30):
I'm not attractive.

Speaker 7 (01:12:31):
No, I know, I am literally the definition of radio
face like no, and people like so they made me
do it, so I'm I'm even doing that.

Speaker 2 (01:12:40):
I did a YouTube, you know, I've done the YouTube show.
We had video at KMDR, like you have to and
I don't.

Speaker 5 (01:12:44):
I don't.

Speaker 2 (01:12:45):
Honestly, I'm not ripping anybody. Why I say this. I
don't get it. Like I wouldn't sit there, but people do.
They sit in these shap rooms and they love talk
and they they love it.

Speaker 1 (01:12:53):
They love the YouTube. Yeah, they love the youtubees. I
don't know. It's a to me, it's a it's an
audio medium. But listen, I I don't have a say.
So they're going to put us on TV at some
point well on YouTube at some point. So once Travis
figures that out and no hurry, Trav, trust me, no hurry.

Speaker 7 (01:13:08):
By the way, you know who's going to be really
popular because this is how it works. I have a
female producer on the weekends, and when they show her
like it pops through the room justin.

Speaker 1 (01:13:17):
Ashley will be popular. And then and they'll say, why
are the rest of you guys on any kind of video?
That's what's going to happen. So they're going to see
how goofy Softy actually looks like, which is really funny,
Like it's that part that's all of us. I'm more
concerned with. Is it going to be like can they
see us in breaks? Travel't? I think we talked about that. Okay,

(01:13:39):
that can't help.

Speaker 2 (01:13:41):
But here's the problem. Here becomes the problem. We have it.

Speaker 7 (01:13:43):
So we have engineers and they'll tell you they put
a little green dot where you're supposed to sit, and
if you deviate from that, they'll say in your ear, yeah,
the engineer is saying that you need to It's just
like TV, like you can't lean back, you can't.

Speaker 2 (01:13:55):
Do this, you can't do that, like all this now
it's like, you know, and then they tell you. Every
Ones like because I wear hats and stuff.

Speaker 1 (01:14:01):
All the time, I'm trust me.

Speaker 7 (01:14:03):
I'm like some days it's like you maybe you know,
I know this sounds funny, but I might go to
the gym once twice a year, and so you know,
it's like, you know, I'm throwing a hat or something
and they'll be like, oh, come on, you know you
got a shower, you gotta look good.

Speaker 2 (01:14:16):
I'm like, come on, this is radio. The whole point
of radio is just come casually walking in, you know.

Speaker 1 (01:14:21):
That's the whole thing. Like the video, that's the joke here.
Like the guy before me, MJ gives me a hard time,
it's all you got. You got cracking game? Must be
a game tonight because I like, today, I've got I'm
TV ready. So today we fine, Yeah, tomorrow not so much.
Got golf hack, That's what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (01:14:37):
And you got at least look decent, Like even if.

Speaker 1 (01:14:40):
You wear a hat, you gotta look decent. No, I
don't know if that's truck because we have we have
a couple of music stations here, and those guys dressed
like crap, Like those guys look like yeah, they look
and I don't even know what they're wearing half the time.
But I will say this, like on the other stations,
like who's most popular? Like everyone loves Nina, right, Like
everyone loves Nina. Oh yeah, everyone loves Victoria right. So like, yeah,

(01:15:00):
it's I think it's a bad idea.

Speaker 2 (01:15:02):
Because women don't sit around and watch radio shows.

Speaker 1 (01:15:05):
They don't know what A woman doesn't go out of
the house unless they're they you know, Oh that's shower,
makeup and all that stuff, right, yeah, what they do
after something. It's stylish. Good. Yeah, we look like slots.
All right?

Speaker 7 (01:15:20):
Are you on?

Speaker 1 (01:15:21):
Are you on WESTOO one this weekend?

Speaker 2 (01:15:23):
Yeah? Saturday and Sunday as always, And I've been someone
in on the morning show too, But that's way too early.

Speaker 1 (01:15:28):
That's three to six. That must be why you're napping
and you missed our original calls Z.

Speaker 7 (01:15:32):
Yeah all right, I know that was stupid, but yeah,
what am my own this weekend? Uh five the five
to nine pm Pacific time on Saturday and Sunday Serious
x three seventy five west ruin sports dot com. It's
also and as I say, hundreds of radio stations across the.

Speaker 1 (01:15:48):
Country, including nine, nine fifty on the am dial for
people want to bother him this weekend.

Speaker 2 (01:15:53):
Yeah, seriously, we're getting lots of calls from.

Speaker 1 (01:15:55):
Seattle security guards.

Speaker 2 (01:15:57):
Perspective like this show. Yeah, well yeah, I need him
to call it again.

Speaker 1 (01:16:00):
Well i'll see that. How about if how would your gun.

Speaker 2 (01:16:03):
Into a marriner's game? What would happen to a woman
trying to bring your giant class?

Speaker 1 (01:16:06):
What would happen if you showed up twenty minutes late
for your Westwood one show?

Speaker 5 (01:16:10):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (01:16:10):
I need lots of trouble. Okay, trying to treat us
with that. Never happened again. Never gonna have one o'clock
next or two o'clock next to Tuesday. We'll try to
talk to you again. In the meantime, I might tune
in on Sunday just to give you a hard time.

Speaker 2 (01:16:22):
All right, I need to have you on just for
the act of it. I don't even know what we
would talk about.

Speaker 1 (01:16:25):
You know what I'm doing Sunday? Why you know what
I'm doing Sunday When you call me, guess we're all drinking, drinking,
just a golf course. Call me there, talk to about
see by? That's John Lone'll come back. Well, uh no, no,
Crosstalks offt he's busy, so we're gonna do check a
couple of texts, a ton of them. We'll do that
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