Furness Show 4-14: Diana Russini situation, Joe Sheehan, John Lund

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Just good heavy back and Andrews. You survived the final
post game crack and talk last night with the captain?

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Yeah, yes, I did. It was it was a good
time kind of closing out. I think that's their third
or fourth straight or Fanas Appreciation Night where they lost.

Speaker 1 (00:15):
Fourth straight, four straight fan Appreciation Night losses. The only
time they won, which is crazy, was year one when
they were really I mean really bad. Yeah, so that's odd.
Fact they the time that the year they went to
the playoffs, they didn't win their last game. But because
they already we already know that they won the playoff
series and went to seven in the second round. But yeah,

(00:36):
so if we're being honest, you don't want to win
that game. No, Like I just I know of anybody's
listening over there, they might get upset. Although actually the
people I everyone knows don't win. There's times you don't
want to win. It's yeah, you don't want to win.

Speaker 3 (00:50):
I mean it's fair to say that.

Speaker 1 (00:52):
Yeah, I mean it does you no good. Yeah, it
doesn't do you any good? Does you know good whatsoever?

Speaker 4 (00:58):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (00:58):
If yeah, go ahead, y, we'll get to we'll get
to some crack and stuff at one forty five. Interesting
thing coming out of Canada sportsnet dot Ca. Do you
read it yet, Andrews? I have kind of skimmed through it.
Get to the crack and part kind of juicy. We'll
get to that. I like it. Mariners win again, four
straight wins over the Houston Astros. Joe Shean's going to
join us at one twenty. I'm excited to talk to

(01:19):
Joe because one of the things we'll talk all things baseball.
I'm just I'm fascinated by the Astros in this. From
this standpoint, I wonder is the demise premature, thinking that
they're done the pitching staff? Is it so bad that

(01:40):
they can't rebound? Are they going to get some guys
back this year? I think we all enjoy watching the
Astros lose. Yeah, I think that's a fun thing to see.
So we'll talk to because I think it's as important
we always do this in the NFL. It's's important to
understand what the rest of your division is like as
opposed to just you and looking in a mirror. Mayer's
the best started heat up. Okay, I hate radio guy

(02:03):
that does that, that does the following, But I'm going
to do the following do it are they back?

Speaker 5 (02:09):
No?

Speaker 1 (02:09):
No? Oh, okay, no, there's two things that have happened
on this particular show Friday and yesterday that have directly
resulted in an increased offense by the local baseball team.
I know exactly where you're going. Friday, Danny O'Neill and
I talked. He expressed concern over the broken EA thiro

(02:34):
statue bat. I told him it's like a slumpbuster. It's
the best omen you could ever have. What happened four
straight wins and seventeen runs the next two nights.

Speaker 3 (02:42):
Yeah, undefeated.

Speaker 1 (02:44):
So so my omen there about the offense coming alive
with a broken EA thro bat to Danny O'Neill, which he,
by the way, wrote about yesterday. Although if we went
back to the tape, I think he initially scoffed at
my premise.

Speaker 6 (02:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:58):
It's funny how that works, where he takes your idea
and then makes it in an article.

Speaker 1 (03:01):
And he scoffed at it. Oh, Neil, No, he didn't,
he was. He He kind of danced with me after
I sold him on it. Fair enough. So we'll talk
about that with him on Friday, because that was Friday. Yesterday,
we did something we don't normally do. We did a
maulliwop Monday. Although I say that we don't normally do this.
It's not normal to have a Monday Day game. That

(03:21):
just isn't. It's baseball doesn't do that. They did to
us yesterday for whatever reason, or game Homestown four game,
four games against his knuckleheads, and then you're on the
just weird scheduling Mayway Day game yesterday. Normally we don't
go ahead to head with talking Mariners when the Marriers
are playing because we assume that some of you may
not be here that are Mariner fans, and we want

(03:43):
to do the show for as many people as possible
and find like usually we would just count. They call
it counter programming in the business, which we did. We
did football too, But in the process of having those
guys on, before he even had an app bat, we
went to a tease to a first break and I said,
we'll talk about Josh Naylor and his struggles. His two

(04:06):
RBIs on the season, nothing going power wise. We come back,
Chris is talking about the bat speed is diminished dramatically.
He hits a home run.

Speaker 2 (04:16):
Yeah, it's funny. Literally during the break right after you
teased it, he hits his home run.

Speaker 1 (04:20):
And by the time we were done with Molly Watt Monday,
he hit a second home run. Did Josh Naylor? I
don't know. I'm getting my chops are getting busted on
social media and on the text line yesterday. I think
we should just get some credit here on this radio
show again. I hate when radio guy does that. I'm
the guy. It's a jinx. No, no, no, here's the thing.

(04:42):
It's a coincidence. We have nothing to do with it.
I'm not taking any credit whatsoever. We move on. I'm
a humble man. I'm not going to do that.

Speaker 3 (04:50):
Is the most superstitious sport that exists.

Speaker 1 (04:52):
Okay, I'm taking all the credit. Yes, I would do it.
I'm taking all the credit, one hundred percent of the credit.
We're taking it all right, now, here we go. I
mean it was I'll tell you what it was. It
was actually kind of scary, disturbing, is what happened. Because
Friday's one thing, Like, Okay, they bust out the whooping
sticks on Houston those first two games. It was funny
because they had the huge output on Friday. Okay, let's one.

(05:12):
Then they're down seven to two on Saturday, and I
come back and we were actually were at queen a
beer hall, was our TV crew was out there kind
of a final home game, little postgame session, and we're
watching at seven to two, and then all of a sudden,
it's seven to three, and then before we got up
to leave, it was seven to seven. Who hits the
home run? I'm like, okay, well they score at least seven,
so now they've got fifteen runs in the last two games.

(05:34):
Don't make it sixteen because they scored later and they
won the game. So it was crazy. The coincidence not
lost on us. And then of course what happens yesterday
is we talked. I mean, the Nailor thing was almost
scary disturbing.

Speaker 3 (05:47):
Was it was, are you scared to be your own power?

Speaker 7 (05:50):
No?

Speaker 1 (05:50):
I wasn't even mean. I think it's Chris and me
and everybody. I think it's the power of molliwap. To
be honest with you, it's all power. It's the power
of molliwah. But yeah, we were literally talking about this
is what's going on, this is what's happening. We're going
to talk about Naylor, why we should be concerned. Chris
had the numbers to back it up. The bat speed,
specifically that kind of stuff, and then lo and behold,

(06:12):
home run, home run, Thanks for coming. Josh Naylor coming
around the bases on the second one, I think I
saw him giving us the middle finger.

Speaker 4 (06:18):
Yeah, and and good, he's that guy, he needs them.

Speaker 1 (06:21):
We'll honestly take it for the team. Yeah, we will.
We will take you right to be wrong. Right this
we root to be wrong. We weren't even wrong. We
were just going to talk about his struggles and then
his struggles ended with Now we'll see how you know
they're in San Diego tonight, Padres are okay, so we'll
pretty dang good. Yeah, they just happened to be playing
in a division with a team that's okay, Yeah, Dodgers,

(06:44):
so so yeah, so yeah, that starts tonight. I don't
know when we're gonna get more to this. We all
try to find some time. Maybe we'll look through it.
The little bit news coming out today, Uh, And I
take no joy in saying this because our time with
her here was great. Diana Russin resigned today from the

(07:07):
athletic We'll get into the whole thing later. One of
the closest was not because I accept the narrative that
has been constructed around this episode, because I refused to
let it further oxygenive, but let it define my career. Well,
here's the problem. It will define your career, and that's unfortunate.

(07:28):
You know, a lot of people make decisions in life
that end up being massively damaging, costly to your career,
to your reputation, to a lot of different things. And
sometimes there are things that are very easy to see,
you know, driving drunk or intoxicated under the influence, abusing

(07:52):
a woman. If you're a guy, you know, what have you?
In this case, If we want to give benefit of
the doubt in this case, maybe it was innocent. Maybe
there's nothing going on there. Maybe all of her reporting
over all those years was fine, and I was on
the up and up, and it wasn't. It wasn't gained

(08:15):
through whatever salacious ways you may want to think. There
was the accusation from Scott mccluan's wife, who was the
gem at the time of the Washington at the time
Redskins years ago about her and how she got information,
and the wife later took the post down, which I

(08:35):
thought was odd. If why would you write that in
the first place, and then years later this was what
happens with Mike Vrabel. Vrabel's not going to meet with
the media pre draft. That'll God, I'm just I can't
even tell you how glad I am that it's not
us like and oh, I imagine having I'm not at that,
And I didn't want to say, I'm not gonna say
our coach is I'm glad it wasn't a Seahawk coach,

(08:57):
just blindly Seahawk coach, because I couldn't even fathom how
uncomfortable that would be for draft weekend because it's the
elephant in the room. And if he doesn't address it beforehand,
which I think is a mistake, He's going to meet
with the media at some point during the draft.

Speaker 3 (09:12):
And he will be asked about it.

Speaker 1 (09:13):
Now it should be asked about it. And for him,
it doesn't matter. That's the unfortunate part of this. It
doesn't matter if you're the dude no, I mean you
can look at him, Yeah, it doesn't matter. Like for him,
he's a football coach. If and this is all caps,
if if the football coach stepped out on his wife,

(09:37):
if he did that and was messing around with a
reporter and and all of if that happened, who cares.
Everything he did was with an agenda, probably to help
his own team, right, you know, planting the AJ Brown
story whatever it might be, if that's all the case.
But for it, for him, the ramifications are uncomfortable. It's

(10:00):
not fun. You want to deal with it, end of
the day. Whatever football coach do my thing coach ex linebacker.
For her, I don't know how you come back from it.
And I'll just say with Diana this she started here
with Softy and updates on his show when he was

(10:21):
on Comcast Sports and we were doing radio on TV
back in the day, and her rise to stardom was remarkable.
She didn't know how to hold a microphone. And I'm
not kidding you when I say that. She was doing
an interview. We did an Oregon State Washington baseball game
down at T Mobile. I was doing play by play.
Jeff Nelson and Softy were in the booth with me.
We hat three man booth. She was on the field

(10:43):
interviewing the coaches and didn't know like she'd ask a
question with the microphone pointed at the guy at the
coach and then bring it back to her when he
that's how that's how green she was as a TV personality.
She got better doing the stuff with Softy. Comcast sports
Net brought her down to some Blazer stuff with us
down there when I was doing that, and then boo them.

(11:04):
All of a sudden, she gets hired as a weekend
anchor in DC big market, top ten market. Next thing,
you know, after being a sports director and the main
person there. I remember seeing her back when I was
covering some games back there Starr twice. I'm like, damn,
good for you, Like you went from I mean, you
went from zero to one hundred. And then from there
it went to ESPN where they put her in the
ESPN boot camp. Same thing they did with Linda Cone

(11:26):
when she couldn't read a teleprompter when she worked here
in Seattle. Next thing, you know, Diana is a star,
a star, and she's probably thrown it all away, which
is unfortunate and probably by and honestly her own fault.
It's her own fault and his anyway. That's it, uh
four nine four five one to come on to utch
text line, Joe.

Speaker 8 (11:46):
She it.

Speaker 1 (11:48):
Is the demise of the Houston Astros greatly exaggerated. We'll
find out next.

Speaker 7 (11:57):
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(12:18):
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Speaker 1 (12:24):
Josh and Joshian Newsletter. Joshian dot com joins us he
does every Wednesday. We appreciate that. Thank you so much, sir.
How are you good?

Speaker 8 (12:32):
Nan?

Speaker 5 (12:33):
Can I hit you with something to start?

Speaker 1 (12:35):
You know what? Fire away.

Speaker 5 (12:38):
Yesterday?

Speaker 8 (12:38):
Uh?

Speaker 5 (12:39):
First and second inning, toughly, guys. Topley hit is in
a lot of cal rally, Uh whois? And Josh naler
all it was just the second the first time all
year and all three had gotten a hit in the
same inning. It was the second time all year that
all got to hit the same Dame damn. Well, that's right,
I just been it's looking up, hope, that's right.

Speaker 1 (13:01):
They're heating up. That's a good sign, right, Joe, that's
a good sign. We're heating up here we go. Things
are going better right now. You'll you'll love this, You'll
love this. We're doing our Molliwatt Monday thing. Nathan Chris
and I yesterday and we said, well, usually as baseball
games going on, we don't like to do it right
head to head, right you do the old counterprogramming thing
we do in radio, and we would have talked NFL
draft or the crack in or something like that. We said, now,

(13:24):
you know what, I want to have these guys on
wet us to talk about. They won the first three
games of the weekend, and you know, honestly, I was
thinking too, probably half the city doesn't even know they're
playing a one o'clock game on a Monday because it's
such an odd time. We get ready to go. Anders
was the first break, first break we got break.

Speaker 2 (13:38):
You tease that we're going to talk about the struggles
of Josh Naylor and going into the break.

Speaker 1 (13:42):
And Crawford goes, I've got Crawford and Crawford says, I've
got numbers to talk about because his bat speed is
down significantly. We'll talk about the struggles of Naylor in
that commercial break, and I will readily admit, as our
listeners know, our commercial breaks are fairly long. In our break,
Josh Dailor hits a home run. Before we were done
with the Molliwatt Monday, he hit home run number two.

(14:04):
I don't know if we should take credit for that
or not. It's just baseball is weird, Joe, but boe
and behold. Just like that, Josh Naylor's out of his slump.

Speaker 5 (14:12):
There's a lot of luck involved in this gig, and
there are days where you know, you write something and
something like that out, Oh this guy's terribiley, it's too
home runs, or you get lucky, you profile a player
and he goes off. I will say that I would
have gone the other way with Christo because if you
look at look at a lot of these numbers on
different waves, Naylor has one of the largest gaps between

(14:33):
his projected batted ball slumming and his actual plugging. And
it's obviously closed up yesterday a little bit. But I mean,
he's somebody who was hitting the ball better than the
results people was getting. We talked about it. I think
last week. In that context. Some of the other bad
involve numbers aren't that great, like they usually prop up
le up where he gives that asmall numbers and his
actually aren't very good. That she was got ball on
the gravelot. But Naylor was a guy when you could

(14:55):
see the breakout.

Speaker 1 (14:56):
Coming when you mentioned the statu the three guys, the
big three basically with Julio o'call and Naylor getting all
hits at one time. What do you look for like
when you you know, and back in the days when
you were doing the analytics world, you know, day to
day and grinding on these things. What are we looking
for to say, hey, they're truly kind of breaking out

(15:17):
of the early season slumps? Are there? What are the
big indicators for you?

Speaker 5 (15:22):
So we didn't have the kind of information that I
was starting out that we have today in terms of
fat speed, being able to track exactly where a guy
is a stands and what angle is. So you know,
I look at a guy like Matt true Blood over
at Perspectives doing this great work breaking that stuff down
by Petriello over at MLB. I'm kind of learning from
them where that stuff is me, I'm looking at swing
decisions and you can quantify that using Robert Olla's work

(15:45):
at sea during Puss that at perspectives are at his
own site. I want to know, are you taking balls?
Are you swinging at strikes? Are you swinging at good strikes?
Are you attacking in good counts? I see a lot
of guys taking that old fastball down the middle because
they have a lot of big don't want to jump
on it. That's often the best picture is going to
see on two to oh, on three one? Are you zoning?

(16:06):
Are you saying I want to get a pitch in
this area? On you know, when you're behind in the count,
are you just jumping in everything? Or are you're showing
some patients. We talked about this in the Contextabilio sometimes
gets behind and you just can't lay off that breaking
ball that's not a strike. Swing decisions are very very
big for me. So when I'm looking at guys, are
they doing well? They do not doing well? I want
to know, are they swinging at good strikes? Are they

(16:28):
taking pitches of the well?

Speaker 1 (16:30):
And I mean, hopefully that's that's all happening right now,
and we'll see I mean they go to Tay, we'll
get to the team. They're going to see here in
just a couple of seconds San Diego, Padres one of
the things I wanted to get. I said, Hey, I
can't wait to have Joe on because we're gonna I
want to touch in on something that we've just touched
on yesterday. That is kind of I guess, I don't
know if it's the right word, but I'll just use anyway.

(16:51):
Almost the parody we're seeing in the American League right now, Joe, like, it's,
you know, a bunch of teams hovering around five hundred.
You know, Minnesota is three games above five hundred, that's
the big that's the best in Cleveland, the best records
in the league, you know, the worst records in the league,
Houston six and eleven, Boston six and ten, I mean,
just four games under five hundred as well. Is is

(17:13):
this the norm early in the season or is there
some true kind of I don't know if it's parody.
I don't know if it's just a middle class lack
of really good baseball teams. What are what are you
seeing overall in the American League right now?

Speaker 8 (17:25):
Well, there are.

Speaker 5 (17:26):
Usually some team that gets out to a fourteen and
three start, and that's the one we're talking about. Conversely
three and fourteen, that hasn't happened this year. I think
the first time we talked this year, by the time
we talked on Tuesday afternoon, every team had both a
win and a loss. Nobody even gotten off to like
a four to oh five in oh start, so that
was unusual. And it's not just the Ale. If you
stack everybody, twenty nine thirty teams are separated by six

(17:47):
and a half games, twenty nine take out the Dodgers
are separated by four and a half, So it's not
just the Ale, it's across the league. I don't know
there's any one reason I could take. We'll focus because
this is all we have, and if I were to say,
carve out May seven teenth to June two, the standings
might look like this interesting we were focused as at
the start of the year. I do think there are
specific issues this year that the baseball wasn't flying very

(18:09):
well until last night when they put the twenty seventeen
balls into play. So I think you've got a lot
of low story engage, got a lot of hitters that
are struggling hit the ball over the fence because the
ball did so many pictures are out. I mean, I
think this is the rest of the segment on the
injured pitchers. You're the pirate of the pajet Is actually
without Taveta coming into see you guys, or actually you

(18:31):
got no doubt to see them like they're And I
think it's hard to evaluate some of these teams, like
the Astros, like the Cubs, like the Blue Jays, because
they're missing to three projected starting pitchers. That to me
is a big story early in the years. How many
pictures around even the breaks the Bridgeton in six ten seven,
they're down Spencer shrugging box and they're down A J.
Smith Shauburn, They're down Hirston and Waldron. Injured pitchers are

(18:54):
are really a big story.

Speaker 1 (18:57):
We the last two outings or uh, Louis Castile three
and a third, three and two thirds, ten hits, six hits,
seven earned runs in the last outing, three earned runs
in the last and the outing before that hasn't locked
a lot of guys. Is there any concerns? Do we
have any concern here about Louis Castill.

Speaker 5 (19:19):
So I'm gonna be honest here, I have not seen
either one of them. Some scoutline have been here. I
think We've seen this with Castilla before, and it usually
comes later in the year. There's a dead on period.
He gets knocked around. It's not I can't find the
strike zone. It's I'm just not missing. That's it. He
is the picture who has less stuff than he did
when he came over in the trade was twenty one

(19:39):
at the deadline. He is a lesser start of this one.
He is if everybody's healthy. You know, he's a four.
We were talking last year about him not even being
in the playoff rotation before for the injury of the group.
So I think you've got to recognize him that he's
gonna fall him back. He's going to be a number four,
number five, and except that some of these outings are
going to happen now, I think he has an upside

(20:00):
that places him above a typical number five. I don't
want to write him off completely, but the baseline case
for him is probably more like a four one, four
to two e RA, which will make you a very
good number five. But there's going to be some blow
ups because you can't just beat people in the zone.

Speaker 1 (20:15):
Any Joshi and joining us brought to my Northwest Handling
Systems Joshian dot com is the website? All right? What's
the old? You know, the reports of my demise are
greatly exaggerated, are those? Can I? Can I say that
about the Houston Astros?

Speaker 6 (20:29):
Are is?

Speaker 1 (20:29):
I know they've got pitching injury issues and that seemed
to be the biggest problem in this four game series
with Seattle. But are we are we seeing the demise
of what has been the perennial contender in the ale
West at all? Give us give us some feel good
out here in Seattle, Joe, I don't.

Speaker 5 (20:44):
Think there's any question that's the case. If you actually
look at this team and say, what did you expect
coming into the year, say five Orge, the team without
a lot of upper level deaths. That death is immediately
be tested with the injuries to Hater in the bullpen,
with the injuries to am I Brown and Hobbyer in
the rotation, and now you know Jeremy Canyon and James
Myers and had nothing to back that. I remember last

(21:08):
year they missed the playoffs because of injuries to too
Vy mid season, Alvaree for much of the season, Hater
at the end of the season. So this is a
repeatd last year with a year a year older, they're
a year center. I don't think they're six and eleven team.
I do think that they don't get brown hobbyer in
my back. They are possibly one of those peas in
America legecause they just, like I said, call me a

(21:29):
Cody bolt Cody Bolton, and there are Gaty's back. I
like him well enough, but you're talking about kind of
blanking and even number five is going to be at
this point for them. So it's ugly. And the guys
who are pitching have been bad. Lanson callers got off
to that really good start. He's been terrible since Mike
Burrows got knocked around by you guys last night the booth.
It's just been terrible. I hated Bryan a Breda, who's

(21:50):
been their closer in lieu of hater before, and she's
gotten blown to pieces early in the season and they
don't really have anything behind him. So, you know, is
this finally the year that gets them to say we
have to start over any hard because you know, they've
got the older guys in Walker and Paritas, they've got
a star and Pain, they've got a star in Alvarez.

(22:10):
I think it's a difficult team to tear down partially
if you have to put Alvarez on the market. If
you want to do this, I'll two big ten and
five guy. Doubt he'll ever be traded. You've let so
much talent go in recent years and not really replenished it.
Maybe you have finally gotten to the point. Look, I
think the win in twenty two was a Polish win,
like they were great and twenty two I didn't expect

(22:30):
them to have that in them, but they've just taken
a step back in each of the last three years
and now it could be a deep backwards iss.

Speaker 1 (22:36):
Yeah, I mean, that's it's aged. You know, father time
doesn't lie, right, you know. And al Tuvey kind of
fallen asleep on the base pass the end of the
day was I don't know, in some ways kind of emblematics.
I'm a symbolic of where they are. It's just kind
of a little bit lost team which has not been
that way. One and nine on the road, which is
funny because the other team that's had just I mean,

(22:56):
look at the worst road records, and I know it
means not much in your stat world, Joe, but I
find it interesting they're one and nine on the road,
the other team with just one road win so far
this season. The Seattle manors at one and five and
they go to San Diego tonight to take on the Podres.
Who's this dude that pitches for them? Is he Good Miller?
I think is his name.

Speaker 5 (23:14):
It's the first time I considered the possibility that a
reliever could bring me signing one sometime. Absolutely. I wrote
about him last Monday, and I think he struck out
like eleven to twelve batter since I wrote about him,
just absolutely dominated, great velocity of the unhittable slide. And
you go back to when he first got to San
Diego at the trade deadline, and I thought they'd overpaid
for him. We did leands degrees and a number of

(23:36):
pitching process is what they traded for him to bring
is the top five prospects in the game, to be
a very good shortstop for the age. But to the
extent that you can validate trading for a relief pitcher,
Miller has basically validated that's training was graty in the
last year. Obviously they made the playoffs for him. I
got to an incredible start this year. I think we
want to appreciate him while he's doing this. Relievers burn

(23:58):
hot and fast. You know, we think about Marianna Rovera,
he was the exception to the rules. That's like Joe Nathan,
Trevor Hoffan ha had long careers. I think max strikeout
guys tend to burn hot and fast. And you know,
mill is really in his third year being this guy.
You think about a guy Craig Kimbrel who who was
able to do it for that, you know that length
of time with all pictures who throw like this every

(24:20):
pitch kind of sweated. But in this moment, we're seeing
one of the most dominant short stretches of any picture ever.
It's just let's appreciate it. Walman's here and Willy's healthy,
because we just don't see a whole lot of guys
strike out seventy five percent of the batters their face.
I mean not since I was pitching in Litleague.

Speaker 1 (24:38):
Seven and a third innings, nineteen strikeouts, one hit, and
one walk. And I think what you wrote about last
week was it is it like a third of his
pitches or over one hundred miles an hour, Like yep, that's.

Speaker 5 (24:53):
And it's not just exactly he's got this really nasty
slider as well. It's just you're sitting up there, Okay,
do I do Do I prep for one oh two
or do I prep for the ninety four that's going
to break away? It's an impossible decision. So yeah, kind
of so bad for hitters. Walking back to the yeah
mentioned seven to the third inning, So twenty nineteen of
the twenty two outs they've gotten and been on strikeout.

(25:14):
I believe when I and these are going to be
slightly out of day, and I know at one point
just one guy hit the ball out of the out
out of the interview.

Speaker 1 (25:21):
God, I mean, that's just it's I mean, so here's
the moral of the stories. Don't don't go down and
play the San Diego Padres and find yourself trailing or
in a one run game when you go to the
ninth inning, because it's not going to be pretty for
you along the way. It just I want to go
back to something you mentioned Rivera. How different it was.
I don't know, I you know what we all like

(25:41):
to hate the Yankees and everything like that and all that.
When Mariotto Rivera was throwing though, it was what was
the slider? What was his pitch or change up. What
was his pitch that was the ghost Yeah, the Cup fastball,
and if I remember, I don't know what he threw
velocity wise, but it just it was the movement and
the placement in the location right that that's what made
him great.

Speaker 5 (26:02):
Yes, I mean good velocity for his era, but it
was the movement and his commanded it that it was
one of the you know, one of the toughest right
handers on left handed hitters in baseball history. And you know,
he was at an athlete, and you know, it was
a little bit of luck involved. You know, I've come
around the idea that you know, we don't know whose
elbow is necessarily going to pop, and to some extent
it's just luck. You know, is your ucl four millimeters

(26:24):
versus the other guy that's three millimeters. So there was
some luck in vombment. The one year that Mariano Rivera missed,
it was because he blew out of leave shaggy flies
and the city the arm the arm held up all
the way. So you know, a lot of luck involved
in that. But that one unhittable pitch and also the
post season track record of being able to go two
winnings for a month that was a big part of
the league. But I just he was the perfect relief

(26:47):
pitcher for fifteen years.

Speaker 1 (26:49):
What are we going to see from this Padres team?
They're ten and six and anywhere else they'd be just
rolling along. They got a team that's twelve and four
in their division we might have heard of. What what
else we need to know about the San Diego Padres.

Speaker 5 (27:00):
I mean the Padres to me, the talent base is
a little bit less than has been with Gavacado and
Bogart's both getting old. The thirty three now it's not
a young team even even you know for now that
such he's junius when someone else, so they see that
as peaking hasn't really been the same guy. They went out,
They tried to back up the bench at Pasiano and
Tigh friends not that impressive. The team they want to
be up three to one in the seven. I mean,

(27:21):
that's their whole model right now. And actually be talking
about Miller. They're going to be down Jeremiah Strada, who
is absolutely dominant for them last year. You're gonna be
out for a little bit. They did just get Jason
the domback, so you know their model is, let's be
up three to two, and you're not gonna be able
to beat us. They're a little thin right now to
pull that off. But as you said earlier, if you're
not leading in the eth and in it's gonna be

(27:42):
very hard to beat them. It's it's a model that
can absolutely work. But you know, they're not a team
that's going to go out and score six one tonight.
They just don't have that kind of offense anymore. They're
really we're going to play a lot of the story games.

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(28:50):
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Now your daily look at the National Hockey League and
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Speaker 1 (30:23):
Daily power Player Home for the Krack and I have
three point three k FM. Two games left to go
in the season. They will play the cracking that is
tomorrow in Vegas against the Golden Knights and then wrap
up the season on Thursday against the Colorado Avalanche. A
couple of things. One, you don't want to point any

(30:45):
of these games. It's as simple as that, Yes, I
know it's it's just I know rooting against your team
is not what you people want. I get all that.
I understand that. It just don't want to point.

Speaker 2 (31:01):
Yeah, and I think there's a difference between trying to
lose and just not making it a priority.

Speaker 1 (31:06):
You know what I mean. And that's the problem in
the National Hockey League. Not the problem, it's the difference
between the NHL and the NBA. Yes, these teams will
not that's not what they're going to do, right. Sales
got two games left, They're one point ahead of Toronto.
Toronto's got one game left in the game they're playing.

(31:27):
I play Ottawa maybe, and I think that still matters Toronto.
So chances are seat one, two, three, four, or five
the Sales going to finish sixth more than likely. I
would say this, I guess if Toronto loses its last game,
I think they play before Seattle plays on Thursday. Then
go ahead and win in Thursday. With the hell, it
doesn't matter at that point, right, why not win one game?

Speaker 3 (31:50):
Go for it.

Speaker 1 (31:51):
I just top five a lot better chance to get
yourself a yeah. Yeah, right. Toronto wants to lose more
than Seattle. And here's why they have a top five
protected draft pick, so they slipped a six that's not
protected anymore. Now the lottery could come into play in
almost there's a lot going on here. So yeah, okay,

(32:11):
Vegas and then Colorado coming up now the next two days.
They lost last night to La La clinch the playoff
spot in the process, thanks as well to the lost
by Nashville earlier in the day. So I say, I
we'll miss the playoffs again. We'll get in all that
later on Deeper Dive and all those fun things. They
did make a move today. They called up Yannie Newman
did the Kraken from Coachella Valley and sent Jacob Malanson

(32:34):
an Oscar Fisker mulgard back down to Coachella Valley.

Speaker 2 (32:38):
I think this is in that same category that we
were just talking about, right.

Speaker 1 (32:41):
No, it's roster gymnastics for HL playoffs. Oh that too, Okay, gotcha.
I'm believe that's. I think that they had to I
think that they had to get I'm not sure there's
because Jacob's been up for a long time. The Oscars
moliguard has been up for a long time, so I
believe that would be roster gymnastics to make sure those

(33:02):
guys can play down in the in the HL playoffs. Fisker,
Molgard and Malanson. I don't know what Malanson has to
do down there necessarily, but maybe they want to get
an offense going a little bit.

Speaker 2 (33:14):
I like bringing Yanni up too, just just kind of
He's had a good offensive last couple.

Speaker 1 (33:19):
Of months in Coachella line, yeah, and I want to
see him up here. Can's out for the rest of
the season, So where you go anyway, We'll let We'll
let Crack in this morning deal with that. Mike Bett
the there's a story that that came out and I
want to touch it on this real fast because in
our Daily Power played back to by Issaquahana Cabota. Nick

(33:39):
Kiprios is former NHL player. He's on sports Net, which
is one of the two sports networks in Canada. Does
national stuff, pretty dialed in, did a wrote something, talked
about it on the air as well. Says many eyebrows
were raised when Ron Francis stepped down as president of Seattle.
Crack and Elliott Friedman of sports Net spoke on his
thirty two Thoughts show about the split between Francis and

(34:01):
others in the organization over the hiring of Dan Bilsma
as head coach in twenty twenty four. Francis was leaning
towards other candidates, such as Todd McClellan or Dean Evison.
He even preferred Joel Quinnville. Ownership had no interest. I
know that Quinnville was a guy he was looking at.
He's now coaching Anaheim and the ownership and they're like,
no champion. Kebash on that one for people to know.

(34:23):
He's coaching the Ducks got to the playoffs. Quinnville did,
but was part of the Chicago Blackhawks organization when they
had all kinds of issues with abuse, just some bad
things going on. It was on his watch the guy
can coach. I don't blame the cracking at all. Sometimes
you know what it is better to pass and for
everything that they have done and what they stand for

(34:45):
as an organization, I think bringing that person in is
counter intuitive to what you're doing and who what you're basically,
what your mission statement is, yeah, and what you're building. Yeah.
I don't think that would be a Sam Hall theway higher. Ever,
the other ones are interesting. McClellan, yeah, Dean Evison m HM,
who knows they got the right guy, Lambert. Last year
was a wasted year.

Speaker 2 (35:04):
Files But but it does say here that the organization
subsequently went with Bottrell's recommendation of biles Man right last year, right,
So that was a botterroll this year.

Speaker 1 (35:13):
That was it was. It was a Bot's decision. Anyway,
you can read the article. I'll retweet it out. I
think it's interesting just because it's what we have been
talking about. What I've been talking about all year, that
Francis really didn't have much power. Kipriols confirmed here last week.
You might have heard some things that, oh you know

(35:33):
now now Bots can do his own thing. Well, he's
been doing his own thing for two years.

Speaker 8 (35:37):
So.

Speaker 1 (35:40):
The audit can't wait for the audit to happen. I
hope they don't audit the broadcast. That's all because Betan
will be in big trouble, not even for I had
a contract Withdy.

Speaker 3 (35:53):
That piece of paper saves folks.

Speaker 1 (35:55):
You know what it says day to day, decent chance.
I'll be doing games for the ECHL affiliate in Kansas
City next year. Rich. I need to be remote. Why
I got sent down to the coach. I am now
doing pre and postgame on YouTube for the Kansas City
mem nice bringing Scott Malon, my producer with me. Allison

(36:17):
gets to stay here. She's fine. Brett, he's doing games
of coache God, send me to Coachella. Yeah, you know what,
now that I think of it, you guys think I
need some seasoning. I'm ready to go down to Coachella.
I am ready to go and the thundercook Chicken now
the only guy that would be upset with that to
be benting. What have I done? I don't know what

(36:38):
did I do wrong? Nothing? Mike, you're going to Coachella.
It's sunny, it's eighty five degrees. Take it. Go work
on your craft, which would be for me on the
golf course. Anyway. We will talk more about that as
days go on. I think we're gonna be out there,
coming up later this week and maybe next week as well,
or put a wrap on the season. In the meantime,
our guy John lund Is moments away. We asked the question,

(37:03):
when will he show up? When will he show up?
I'll give him a call.

Speaker 2 (37:08):
Right his headlines are going, so that's his that's his
time to be on time.

Speaker 3 (37:11):
I gave him all the mornings.

Speaker 1 (37:13):
Apparently he's on it on Twitter today. Have we looked
at his twitter?

Speaker 8 (37:18):
Was?

Speaker 3 (37:18):
My first reaction was.

Speaker 1 (37:22):
John Lees, Oh, he retweeted a Keith Miller saying earlier,
I see what he did. Oh, oh my goodness, that
is fantastic. All right, I'll retweet that from the station account.
We'll check it out.

Speaker 3 (37:38):
Pretty funny. They're gummies, Yeah.

Speaker 8 (37:40):
One.

Speaker 3 (37:43):
Gummy.

Speaker 1 (37:44):
It's an AI generating thing.

Speaker 3 (37:45):
The funny thing is because Keith Miller does that, right,
that is how he looks.

Speaker 1 (37:48):
Except for he doesn't answer. He didn't think. He's just
got a cross eyes, so it's a little bit different. Yeah,
you don't know if he's looking at you or not.
All right, Londell, join us next.

Speaker 7 (38:00):
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Speaker 1 (38:14):
They are now eight to nine on the season. Next
up San Diego tonight. Don't get to the ninth inning
and see Mason Miller. Try not to do that. You'll
be okay. Krack and lost yesterday the King's four to
two final of final home game of the season next
up tomorrow in Vegas. Then they take on car Colorado
on Thursday, and away we go. Storm selected a bunch
of players in the WNBA Draft. We'll talk about that tomorrow,
I think on the show. Also, Diana Ruscini has resigned

(38:38):
from the Athletic.

Speaker 7 (38:43):
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He's Bay Area media icon who's known Ian for over
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Speaker 4 (39:07):
Man.

Speaker 1 (39:09):
Well, all of you guys that have you over are wrong.
On the text line four nine four five one. I'll
raise my hand knows me.

Speaker 6 (39:15):
He's right on.

Speaker 10 (39:18):
Time, right on time. This is two weeks in a row.

Speaker 8 (39:21):
Next week probably not, but two weeks in a row.
Just saying if your bet nods next week, your bet
nods next week.

Speaker 1 (39:33):
Last, just as last week. His his time is on time.
It's lon time. That's what people are saying, lun time,
but today lun time is right the money, you know.

Speaker 8 (39:40):
Okay, I gotta I gotta break in for a minute.

Speaker 10 (39:43):
I know you got a lot of good stuff. I
have an amazing story.

Speaker 1 (39:46):
For you, guys.

Speaker 8 (39:46):
I have an amazing story for you guys.

Speaker 10 (39:48):
Okay, so get this. For Valentine's Day this year.

Speaker 8 (39:53):
I stayed in the same Wait a minute, I ate
at the same resort that Diana Rossini and Mike Ye
we're at. I could not afford the place. It's a
about five thousand dollars a night. This place it's called Ambiente.
It's in Sedona, Arizona. And here's the amazing party told
this story the other day. There was no girls weekend.

(40:14):
There was no any There was nothing like that because
this place, it's not a hotel. You drive up there,
especially with me and I was in a suit, look
really nice. They take your car.

Speaker 1 (40:24):
Right away valet.

Speaker 8 (40:26):
Then when you when you're on premise, because it's it's
all this hills and it's way back against these red rocks.

Speaker 10 (40:32):
It's absolutely beautiful.

Speaker 8 (40:33):
Every room it's not a hotel, it's like a cabin
and it's glass windows from ceiling to floor because you're
looking out at these it's a real spiritual place. But
it's it's very very romantic. It's just it's it's incredible.
It's that's what people go there for. You know, I
was down the street, but we go to this restaurant
and they take you in a cart straight from there.

(40:54):
There's no parking lot, and then there's security everywhere. So
my point is is that like you can't walk that place.
You can't, like you go to your room, they take
in a golf cart and then like the next room
isn't even near you, like look it up online. This
place is amazing. So first of all, they were on
a romantic rendezvous. And the second part is this was

(41:15):
a hit job because you can't like you couldn't walk
around there with a camera anything.

Speaker 10 (41:19):
There's these hills and mountains, Like I.

Speaker 8 (41:21):
Said, they're all like red rock, like if you're in
the Grand Canyon. That's what this is like, it's unreal.
And so somebody had to have like perched themselves on
one of these rocks way up and away with a big,
big camera lens, which is that's what those pictures look like,
and somebody had to have tipped them off and this
so this was like a pro hit job. We're gonna
sell the photos. Like I was amazed by it because

(41:41):
I was like, I was just there. Here's the other part.
I've never paid more for a meal in my life.
It was like the seven course thing was overly fancy
and you're still hungry afterwards. So the guy hands me
the bill. It's fifteen hundred bucks, and I thought, I
swear to you, I'm not kidd ya. I thought that
he had like there was like I thought, because I'm

(42:03):
older and i'm you know, like thirty five, and like
there like one on that Like I'd like they put
an extra one up.

Speaker 10 (42:11):
I asked the guy.

Speaker 1 (42:12):
I go, wait a minute.

Speaker 8 (42:13):
I goes, this is supposed to be five one hundred
or fifteen, and he goes suh, Like he was so
embarrassed for me that I even had to ask him
it was fifteen hundred bucks. I almost fell on the floor.
I was like, can I wash them dishes? So my
point is is that this isn't a place where you
like happen stance or it's a girls weekend, or this
is a romantic place that like the riff raft like

(42:35):
me should be nowhere near that's where they were. Well,
this place, yeah, it was portrayed as like and there was.
It was funny because that, you know, the first pictures
came out, and then the next pictures came out, well
not the next pictures came out. Then then there's like
this for a while, people trying that, Like an AI

(42:55):
think came out where people put a bunch of photoshops,
a bunch of friends in.

Speaker 1 (42:58):
You know, I saw that. They're like, oh see, it's
all garbage. It made it look like it was like
a pool party. Actually, the ones with the friends when
they said, oh see, they cut them all out, which
was fake. Actually, the funny thing is that was the
fake one that made it look like a kind of
like a pool in Vegas, like oh yeah, we're here
at Caesar's Palace at the pool or wherever, and a
bunch of people hanging out Like that's how it was.

(43:20):
And even really, if we're being honest, all the Arizona
it was kind of portrayed as they're at a resort,
it's a pool, everyone's kind of hanging out whatever. After
the meetings, that's how it's portrayed. What you're telling us
is a that's not the kind of place. This is
b not even close. See that's the other thing. Like
so someone's here to get.

Speaker 8 (43:40):
Like like what you're what you're describing as Scottsdale, right,
that's a resort place. There's lots of people, lots of
you know, lots of stuff going on like that, people
are partying. This is a place for like people with
a lot of money.

Speaker 1 (43:50):
They don't want to be.

Speaker 8 (43:51):
Bothered their security. Everywhere you literally have to and there's
not a parking lot. Like your car comes up, they
take it from you. Then they put you in a
golf cart and they drive you down and like I said,
it's like this spiritual place. And they drive you down
to one of these cabins that's a glass cabin.

Speaker 1 (44:05):
That's incredible. And then that's it.

Speaker 10 (44:07):
Like and then if you want something, you've got it.

Speaker 8 (44:09):
You know, they'll come back, they'll come get you, they'll
pick you up, they'll take you to the restaurant. There's
a couple of small pools. But I mean it's just
like I said, I was in a really nice suit,
as good as I could do, and it was dark out,
so they let me in if I was on like
a T shirt and like just the hotel, they're like, yeah,
they'd just would like get out of here. They'd give
me like order and be on your way, like there's
no way.

Speaker 1 (44:29):
Well, you know, so when.

Speaker 8 (44:30):
I saw the pictures, I was when I saw this store,
I'm like, oh, they're busted, Like they're they're totally busted.

Speaker 1 (44:35):
And this was a hit job.

Speaker 8 (44:36):
I mean that's what it was.

Speaker 1 (44:37):
Yeah, the two things that We'll get to the hit
job in a second. I think the other thing is
it's interesting is that like I I you know, you're
you're at the Athletic. You're probably doing okay financially, But
I mean I I'll have to ask we have to
ask Brewer, you know, or or funston Er what we've got,
you know, Sando we got we have a bunch of guys,
a whole trio of dudes that we have on our
station all the time that work at the Athletic. I

(44:58):
don't like, I don't think Yeah, I mean, I think
Athletic does well. Like if you're up with them, check
with do Guar, check with do Guar. See what he's making.
Can he afford that place covering the Seahawks every day?
That's so, then what tells me is he's obviously he's
obviously paying for it right, Like that's right right.

Speaker 8 (45:15):
And dude, I pay fifteen hundred for a meal and
we had a couple of drinks. They brought it. It was
like a seven course thing, but like it's one of
those places where like I had lobster bisk but but
it came on a fancy spoon like that was it.
And they and they brought it. They brought like a
wag you filet. But it was like one bite with
some fancy sauce and the little carrot by it like that.

(45:37):
I mean that's the kind of place it is. And
they charged me fifteen hundred all right.

Speaker 1 (45:42):
So what it all in all seriousness just for a second,
because like I I'm sure you've talked to people in
the like I texted a friend of mine last night.
Female not just by the way that's in the business.
I am a female. You are a female that's well established.

Speaker 8 (45:59):
Do you know any other females decide your wife and
Jess that no other woman will.

Speaker 3 (46:05):
He's got some allies, believe I've been around.

Speaker 1 (46:09):
Quote was must have changed? The whole thing pisses me
the blank off. And it's not like I hadn't heard
stuff about her already. Sets us all back and makes
all of our jobs harder. That's what I got from
somebody done.

Speaker 10 (46:21):
Yeah, she she she's done.

Speaker 8 (46:23):
Like she can't go I mean unless she's gonna go
to barstool.

Speaker 10 (46:25):
Or something like that. Like she can't, she no credibility.

Speaker 1 (46:29):
But see if she goes to barstool, then she's got
to She's got to. She's got to go all in, right,
Like she's got to go all in. And the fact
that she's running around or doing whatever, and and and
that's how I just there's a part of me just
because we know her. I don't know if you know this.
Like she worked here for a while, she was she
did Like her first job on air was doing updates
on Comcast Sports at Northwest Rink Softy Show of all

(46:51):
Things back in like twenty ten, twenty eight, two thousand
and eight, something like that, oh eight o nine and
uh and and like her raw was her eyes from
that to weekend and then Maine Anchor and DC and
then ESPN was something I've never seen it in the business.
I've never seen anything like that.

Speaker 8 (47:11):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (47:11):
And I thought always, hey, good for her. She works hard.
I've always liked her, got along with her. She's fine.
But there's always been rumors. I mean, the Scott McLuhan's
wife through the stuff out there, right and I think
what it does, You're right, she's not. I don't know
how she comes back from this. I think her better
option would have been to fight it, to be honest
with you, but if you know, if you're not fighting
it probably means you're guilty. To be honest with you

(47:32):
because because if you don't fight it and you don't
prove it to be wrong, more than likely it's true.
And again there were other rumors before. She also makes
other people's jobs harder. Now Listen, people will say, well,
guys do it all the time. If I'm watching, We've
got espn R right now, Sham's is on there right now.
Like relationships are everything, as far as breaking sports and
news and all those things. Rap has it, Schefter has it,

(47:53):
Shams has it, and you know guys in the NHL,
Seavelli and those guys have it. But it's a little
different if you're female and you're using other shall we
say assets? Correct?

Speaker 8 (48:05):
Yeah, Look, I'm not saying it's fair because it's not.
I mean, the worst thing that's going to happen to
Mike grabel Is. It's going to be like a cold
Play deal. Right, He's gonna get divorced. She's gonna get divorced.
That's too bad. And Mike rabel is still going to
coach the Patriots and behind the scenes, guys are going
to be high five in him. I mean, that's it's
not fair. I'm just telling you the facts. And she's
going to have a really hard time getting a job
in this industry ever again because she's lost her credibility.

(48:26):
It's not fair. But she's got to know that before.
And again, look, this is just my opinion because like
I said, I've been to this place and I know
what it is, and I know what it.

Speaker 10 (48:34):
Isn't and it just screams that.

Speaker 8 (48:37):
And believe me, by the way, it's not like you
just jump up there like you're mentioning what Scottsdale is.
You know, that's that's within Phoenix, where they're where they
well they were there, that's that's where they were. Is
really scott Stale. But Sedona's two and a half hours
from Phoenix. Like they had to make a concerted effort
to say, let's go to this romantic, spiritual land together
in this way high end place and so that you know,

(48:57):
it just looks really bad and it's not fair because yeah,
it's going to cost Mike Grabel a lot of money,
but it's not going to cost him his career.

Speaker 1 (49:04):
This is going to cost her her career. Yeah, I don't.

Speaker 6 (49:06):
I don't.

Speaker 1 (49:07):
I don't know how you bounce back for it. And
also I'll listen. I think it's a fascinating conversation on
a lot of levels. You can even just take Diana
out of it and put others in. And I you know,
I've told the story before when when you know, covering
the Seahawks and you know, back when you and I
first started running into each other again after a few years,
when you were in the Bay Area and I was
doing Seahawks and you I guarantee you saw the same

(49:29):
stuff I did. I thought it was crazy what I saw,
Like Josina Anderson and Britt McHenry, like I we all
kind of looking around, going, come on, man, what are
we doing here?

Speaker 4 (49:40):
Like like Josina was routinely unprofessional and inappropriate and also mean.

Speaker 1 (49:47):
Yeah, she was all those.

Speaker 3 (49:48):
I am all for women in this industry, but I
can admit when someone's a jerk.

Speaker 1 (49:51):
Yeah, and so you always gott to wonder what's going on.
But it's it's uh, it's unfortunate, man, because like you said,
I I said. The funny thing is I said the
same thing last segment, Raybel it'll cost him money, maybe
it cost him his marriage. Who knows, won't cost him
his career, Like it definitely won't cut because that's the
that's the that's the standard we live with. For a female,
it's going to cost her career. I just have to
go back. Like McLuhan's wife who was told to take

(50:13):
down the tweets, right, you know about about Diana, what
is she thinking right now? Like uh, okay, really okay, Scott,
why'd you make me take those down?

Speaker 10 (50:23):
Exactly?

Speaker 1 (50:23):
But he was also think about it. He was working
for what's his face, the old owner of the Washington
Redskins slash commanders, Dan Steiner. Yeah, and why was he
ousted from the league's right ironic right?

Speaker 6 (50:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (50:37):
And McLuhan's wife is accusing someone of doing that and
then she's told to take the text down. So yeah,
it's uh, it makes it hard. I mean, Carl Silver,
your buddies with Mike Silver, ask him if he makes
that kind of money where he can afford a room
with the glass windows and all that. Working for the
out line, I.

Speaker 10 (50:50):
Know for a fact.

Speaker 8 (50:51):
I know for and I know Silver really well.

Speaker 1 (50:53):
And he's been everybody knows him.

Speaker 8 (50:54):
I mean like he's been with the NFL Network, in
Sports Illustrated. I mean he's he's running the gamut and
and he does well for himself, thank you very much.
He ain't going there. Look I couldn't stay there, and
look it's not like i'd make any money. But I
mean I stayed down the street and tried to fool
my wife on Valentine's. They're like, huh, what do you think?
And then, like I said, when I got the bill,
and she looked at my face and I turned even

(51:15):
wider and more pale than I normally do and look
and looked very ill. She was like, are you okay?
And I'm like, no, I'm not okay, but you know,
but you know, it is what it is. But anyway,
I know we have other things to discuss. But when
I said that she's resigned, I was like, I literally
had been there for Valentine's the exact place, and like
I said, when I tried to walk out of the
restaurant like who wha, wha, whoa, whoa, and they have

(51:36):
a cart right there, And like I said, you can't
go anywhere without having accountability in that place. And so
to think and the reason I say that is to
think that you know, they either had a girl's weekend
or that you know, this photographer just happened to walking
around and get these pictures.

Speaker 10 (51:50):
It's not like that. It wasn't like that at all.

Speaker 1 (51:52):
And like I said, somebody had.

Speaker 8 (51:53):
To know something to say, hey, go, you know, follow
them up there, get these pictures. We're going to sell
these pictures. I mean, like I said, this is a
professional deal.

Speaker 1 (52:02):
You know what. I'll wrap it up with this one
of the funniest things I ever saw. I think we
were in god, we're in Carolyn know, Minnesota? Maybe I
think we're in Minnesota. And remember Britt McCanny who works
I think she works like Fox News now or something, yeah, yeah, something, Yeah,
she's a neapology Britt mccannery. And from me old ESPN
person who who got Alica because of her? Do you

(52:22):
not know who I am? Thing to the parking a
lot attendant, which.

Speaker 8 (52:25):
Was just a clean I used that a lot.

Speaker 1 (52:29):
I use that a lot.

Speaker 10 (52:30):
It gets me.

Speaker 8 (52:30):
It gets me a lots of places when you're when
you're a D lister and you say, don't you know
who I am?

Speaker 10 (52:35):
That that kind of usually works in reverse.

Speaker 1 (52:37):
Yeah, if I were to say that, people just ask
me to leave, like I don't know who you are
and you can just leave right now. But no, she uh,
Britt McKenny came up and it was the best, like
we all knew, like and it wasn't just her. I
will say other I'm gonna really I'm gonna stereotype here.
I'm sorry. There are other female reporters that did this
when we traveled, not so much in Seattle because everyone
saying new rules, but we travel, we go out and

(53:00):
and whatever road game we're on. When Marshawn was here,
we knew that Marshawan was not talking to the media,
and Marshawn's give a blank meter about anybody media related
was zero. In fact, it was negative. It was in
the negative numbers. Yeah, right, And so Josina Britt mchennery
and that they come up after a game and we
would just like, like, no one's saw going to marshan
because you know why, I'm there's fifty two other guys

(53:21):
that would talk in that room like you didn't need
we knew the rules, Like he just wasn't gonna talk.
Where you go, you respect it, you move on. They
go up to him. I saw Josee her one time,
go up, try to get my hugs. He's going on.
He's like like Marshawn's like what Marshawn?

Speaker 3 (53:35):
Everyone was on the level.

Speaker 1 (53:36):
A couple couple f bombs came out and that was it.
Like there was no interview, Like you could try. You
could try to cuddle up, you know. I mean, I
don't know, John, You're cuddle up to anybody, try to
get a hug and say, hey man, let's give me
an interview.

Speaker 10 (53:46):
Hey yeah, I tried. That was kind of my That's
why I did.

Speaker 1 (53:49):
I went a lot of.

Speaker 10 (53:49):
Times in dood locker rooms and I hugged a lot
of guys.

Speaker 1 (53:51):
I saw you Malone once he saw Lake. That was
pretty funny. Look, lots of guys like.

Speaker 5 (54:00):
That.

Speaker 10 (54:01):
It didn't matter, It didn't matter, you know what.

Speaker 1 (54:04):
I remembering that? Right, isn't the jail blazer thing out? Yeah?

Speaker 8 (54:08):
Oh I gotta watch that.

Speaker 10 (54:09):
I think it's tonight.

Speaker 8 (54:09):
Actually, one time he wouldn't talk to I mean, look,
he wasn't racist, he wasn't sexist. He was there was
just he didn't talk to anybody. But I do remember
one time. I'll give Shelley Smith, the old ESPN reporter,
a ton of credit. She actually came up to him
and she was pregnant. I know this is totally off
the wall, but she was pregnant and Rashid had said
come to It was during the playoffs and he said, hey,

(54:31):
come up to.

Speaker 1 (54:31):
Portland, I'll give you an interview. I was standing right there.

Speaker 8 (54:33):
She comes up and says, hey, you know I'm ready
to do our interview. You promised if I came up here,
and he said, nah, tomorrow, and she went off. I
give her so much credit. She was like seven months pregnant,
eight months pregnant, she was big.

Speaker 1 (54:46):
And she goes and she starts.

Speaker 10 (54:47):
Laid into him.

Speaker 8 (54:48):
Sheid, you told me we were in Minnesota, you said
to come here when the Wolves are playing the Blazers
and playoff series, you told me to come here. You
told me during the interview, I got a baby on
the way. I made the She went off, and you
know what she the interview, Well, Shelley Smith was a
bulldog man like.

Speaker 1 (55:04):
She was one of the she broke she broke to
Kobe Bryant story, you know, she broke to Kobe story
for you know John, I I basically took John spot
when he where'd you go to Pittsburgh? Detroit? When did
you leave Portland? You went Portland to wear who knows?
I can't even remember in Dallas, I don't know.

Speaker 8 (55:20):
Yeah, I don't even unpacked box. No, I don't even
unpacked boxes. Well, I just keep him there. We're like,
let's just make it easy on ourselves. We'll take we
use plastic forkbelievable.

Speaker 1 (55:30):
Move on your part. Yeah, one one left. I took
his job in Portland, and so I got there. Your
last Blazers thing that you covered was Rashid throwing the
talents the bonus's face, right, because then because I was,
I was there the next year with the just the
Bonzie Rashid horror show that went on Woods, the whole
nine yards. Yeah, so I the jail Blazer thing is out,

(55:52):
I think, Yeah, I gotta watch tonight. I just looked
it up. Is it okay? Is a multiple?

Speaker 8 (55:59):
You and I might be the thing I was around
him so much, that whole team and that thing where
Damian got busted for the weed and like the whole
like that's it, like day after day. I got grabbed
by the neck by Sean Kemp one time, and I
mean it just they I don't even know the stuff
they know. But you know how Portland is. It's the
It's the strip, highest per capita strip club in the place,
in the whole nation. And he wasn't supposed to be

(56:21):
at a strip club. The NBA had just told him
no drinking, no strip clubs. And I remember we I
don't know why I must have stumbled into one.

Speaker 10 (56:28):
I'm mostly gotten lost.

Speaker 8 (56:29):
I don't know what happened. I would never go into
a place like that, but I did at looking for
directions or something, and I go in there because everybody
knew Damon's car and on the on the license plate
it literally said Damon and I forgot to know where
we were.

Speaker 1 (56:41):
In Portland three I think it's three.

Speaker 8 (56:43):
So we go walking in there and there's Sean Kemp
making it rain.

Speaker 1 (56:46):
And so the next day on my show, what.

Speaker 10 (56:47):
Do you Think I Do?

Speaker 8 (56:48):
I talk about Sean Kemp making it rain and how
he's not supposed to be in there and all.

Speaker 10 (56:52):
This kind of stuff.

Speaker 8 (56:52):
And then I go to cover the game that night
and I'm walking down a hallway and I grabbed by
the neck from behind. I'm like, oh hey, buddy, and
he's like, I heard what you did. And honestly, I
just went, Sean, if you want me to be able
to quit my career and you want to punch me
in the face right ahead, And he didn't want to
do that. He just wanted to intimidate me and said,

(57:14):
you know, stay out of my business. And I'm like, Sean,
you're in a public place, in a strip club, like, dude,
I'm sorry, man, you think there.

Speaker 1 (57:23):
Was no big deal from there.

Speaker 8 (57:24):
I mean, I'm not trying to say he like, you know,
grab me and like threw me against a wall or something.

Speaker 1 (57:28):
That's not what happened.

Speaker 8 (57:29):
But he he did try to like intimidate me, which
come on, man, at that point, he wasn't he wasn't
rain man like in Seattle. No, he was like dope, man,
I mean he was dude. He had a different dude.
I mean he was over three hundreds gone.

Speaker 1 (57:42):
He was gone. The next year when I got there,
I had, Yeah, I I well, I didn't see a trailer.
I did have to chuckle. I saw Colin Coward, who
never went inside that locker room in his life, never never.
He we worked with him. He's at the same station
as us. He did the morning show with John and I.
He never went in that lock so I don't know
what he's going to be giving you insight on Canzano

(58:03):
got there. Canzono got there the exact same week I
got there in November of two, so he only covered
one year of the True jail Blazers because really it
was over after that next year they lost in that
playoff series to Dallas and Rashid got traded halfway through
the next season. So it was about a year and
a half later is when Sheid got trade because he
got traded. I told the story, Rashid. I was with

(58:24):
your old co host to Michael co host Mark Amazon
and I were at we were at I know, I
know you're a big fan.

Speaker 8 (58:31):
Anyway, anyway, and anyway, that's another.

Speaker 1 (58:35):
That's a whole different story. Amazon and I were at
w at the Monday night Raw and we got tickets
from your buddies Faccini and Wood. You have the guys
the pr guys for the Blazers. They got his ticket.
We were in the probably four rows back of the
ring at Monday night Raw first row of that night
was Rashid, Zach Bonzie and Damon Well and Ruben. Ruben

(58:58):
was there too, and then Nanny and the Nanny Man. Anyway,
so they're there and and this was a classic. About
halfway through the show, I see Faccini, who was the
PR guy, good buddy of ours. We're the Colts now,
by the way, and are the Lions? You go work
some lines. Anyway, I see the Blazer PR guys come up,

(59:19):
and they walk up and they grab those guys and
they start walking out. And now this is this is
before Twitter or social media. We all had cell phones,
but like if you're texting it, you know, you had
to go to a and then to be like three
letters three letters, right. It was a pain, right, and
let's go. So we're like, okay, what's going on? These
guys all walk out, like and like before the main event,

(59:39):
Stone Cold was out throwing beer on people. You know,
later on it was awesome. We're like, what's going on?
Those guys come back and they go, hey, uh, it's
like eight o'clock at night on a Monday. We just
traded Rashid Wallace to Detroit, like what, like, what are
you doing? They had a press conference lund not in
the Rose Garden because of Monday night raw they which
it had a press conference or it wasn't WS it
was Steve Patterson had a press conference next door in

(01:00:00):
the old building like at ten thirty at night. But
they traded him in the middle, like in the middle
of a w w E event. They traded Rashid. Yeah, yeah,
we're like we're out, Well we're gone, thanks thanks for coming.
So yeah, Kenzono like yeah, because I don't know what
Canzano's going to add that you and I couldn't add.
We would have had a lot better stories, for sure.

Speaker 10 (01:00:18):
Well.

Speaker 8 (01:00:19):
The only person, I mean, the number one when you're
watching that thing, the number one guy he knew everything
was Jason Quick Quick. The guy was like he was quick,
was just dialed into everything.

Speaker 1 (01:00:29):
One quick note a side Jason Quick is Ryan Divish
is our Ryan Divish? Basically yeah, he's awesome.

Speaker 8 (01:00:35):
Yeah, I mean and he and he would say stuff
and it would piss off the Blazer.

Speaker 10 (01:00:38):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 8 (01:00:39):
One one side and a side note to this thing
because I can't remember where I go because I've been to.

Speaker 10 (01:00:44):
So many places.

Speaker 8 (01:00:45):
I I was, I was, that was, I was going
to Detroit because guess who got traded to the Pistons
and guess who walked.

Speaker 1 (01:00:49):
In the locker room?

Speaker 10 (01:00:50):
Remember me orceived he went?

Speaker 8 (01:00:52):
I got no, I don't know anything.

Speaker 10 (01:00:54):
I've covered you for years.

Speaker 8 (01:00:56):
But he was a nicer guy there because he didn't
have to talk yet Auntie Billups, he had Rip Hamilton,
you had Ben Wallach. Rashid was a totally different person
in Detroit because he was like the fourth or fifth option.
Nobody thought he was gonna score twenty and grab ten
and he didn't care. So he was actually cool in Detroit.

Speaker 1 (01:01:10):
But anyway, did they Yeah, you've got to I did see.
I see. But there's one I'll tell the story next.
I'll tease this ahead. There was a night we're standing
there in post game and Rashid was standing there and
you know, not talking any He wouldn't do post game interviews.
He was he was Marshawan, but he was a jerk
like Marshawn you just knew, and Marshall would kind of
give you a look and stuff like like kind of
chuckle like knew he's messing with you. Rahid just was angry.

(01:01:32):
And one time Canzono, probably a month after Canzano got there,
like again, I don't live been there a month too,
we got the same time. Canzono said he's gonna I'm
I'm talking to him like and he's like he's like,
I'm gonna go talk to him. I don't care good look,
and he sat there and talked like try to ask
him all these questions where she just was gonna a stare.
And to his credit, Zach Randolph came over of all
people and told kenzon goes, hey, you know what, it's

(01:01:55):
just better you walk away, like just kind of like
kind of like a little warning like this could get bad,
like could get bad.

Speaker 10 (01:02:01):
So that ye I'll give you.

Speaker 8 (01:02:04):
I'll give you one really cool thing that he's done. Though,
you're exactly right, he is that guy. But there was
a guy and some people might remember he was an
old co host of mine, and you know who he is.
When I was up in Portland, his name was Kenny
Van and Kenny covered the Blazers forever and people liked
Kenny because I'm not saying Kenny was big but Kenny
was really, really, really big.

Speaker 10 (01:02:22):
And for some reason, Rashid took a shine to him.

Speaker 8 (01:02:24):
And really liked him. And we were out one night
at a place. You know, this place and a lot
of people do, and I don't even know it's still
around called Hubers and the guys. It's in downtown Portland,
and all the guys liked to go their post game
and it was a really good time. They make those
Spanish coffees there and stuff table tied.

Speaker 1 (01:02:38):
But anyway, long.

Speaker 8 (01:02:39):
Story short, Kenny might have had three or five or
ten too many of those, and to his credit, he
passed out and nobody could move Kenny. I mean we're talking,
you know, easy four hundred bills, And Rashid Wallace picked
Kenny up, put him over his shoulder, dragged him out
to his car, wow.

Speaker 10 (01:02:55):
And and called a cab for him.

Speaker 8 (01:02:57):
And it was like, yeah, I mean, that's that's the
only good Samaritan thing I ever saw him do. But
because I don't know what, you know, Kenny was just
kind of this jolly guy that people liked. But Rashid
like was in Hubers with his boys and picked Kenny
up and got him into a cab. I was like, Wow,
that's pretty impressive.

Speaker 1 (01:03:12):
It's also he's a feat of strength. It's pretty remarkable too,
because I know, you know, dude.

Speaker 8 (01:03:17):
He is like easy four hundred and I'm probably shorten
it by behind.

Speaker 1 (01:03:21):
Rashid did that. Rashid did do the Coad Drive every
year or two, which was pretty cool, which I did.
I saw that. But yeah, I can't wait to watch this.
We'll talk about it next week because you and I
could share some stories. The time Bonzie almost beat up
a big red the ap writer that was fun too,
So all right, we'll talk about all that.

Speaker 8 (01:03:38):
Damon Stodemeyer left two pounds of weed on a counter.

Speaker 1 (01:03:42):
I hope they talk about this.

Speaker 8 (01:03:43):
Two pounds of weed on a counter when they were
going to Seattle to Paul Allen's house because they're playing
the Sonics and they had he had the gym in
his house, and I don't know what happened, but the
alarm was going off on his house. His door was
cracked open, and the cops walked into the place and
saw a big brick of two pounds of weed on
his counter. What would happen in today's world was social media?
If that happened, I mean un be believable stuff that's

(01:04:07):
in this thing.

Speaker 1 (01:04:07):
I'm gonna watch that tonight. I'm gonna watch that tonight.
All right, are you still doing Westwood one stuff? Yeah?
Westwood One.

Speaker 8 (01:04:13):
I was actually on all morning long, three.

Speaker 10 (01:04:15):
To six am, by the way, Pacific time.

Speaker 8 (01:04:17):
I'm not asking you to cry, but get up at
one thirty in the morning and trying to be confident
from three to six am in the morning.

Speaker 1 (01:04:21):
Not so easy.

Speaker 8 (01:04:22):
But Saturdays and Sundays, tune in Saturdays and Sundays late night.
And I know we're on in Seattle because I get
tons of calls every week and people actually referencing your show,
so people are putting it together.

Speaker 1 (01:04:33):
Amazing. Call me any time I'll come on your show.
I'd love to be a guest on it something. You're
the best.

Speaker 8 (01:04:37):
Only if you're drinking though, That's that's the rule. Because
we've had you on I think three times every single
time you've been in. I'm not gonna say bomb, but
one time you were, and then the other two times
I'm not as sure, but you were in various states
of drunkenness.

Speaker 1 (01:04:50):
Is it a Sunday, of course? Okay, call me Sunday.

Speaker 10 (01:04:53):
You've been golfing.

Speaker 1 (01:04:54):
Yeah, I'll talk to you that to see you. That's
so much. Yeah, see all right four we'll check it
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Speaker 1 (01:05:23):
Oh yeah, I was Atlanta. Somebody to text in. Rashid
went from Portland to Detroit. It was Atlanta, then he
went to Detroit. After that, I think it is what
it was. He think Detroit he Atlanta traded it before
the deadline. I'm not mistaken. Twenty two years ago, twenty
two years ago, twenty four years ago, twenty one years ago,
because it was fall, it was fall of three, I

(01:05:46):
think is when it was. I don't know. Maybe you
guys telling me four nine four or five one London.
I could literally tell Blazer Jail Blazer stories for hours.
And I know it's not our team, but it was
at the time kind of a rival.

Speaker 6 (01:06:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:06:01):
I mean, the Sonics were very much there and it.

Speaker 3 (01:06:06):
Was only geographical arrival you had.

Speaker 1 (01:06:09):
Man, if you guys remember that there was the playoff
series they had witch it's last year because which it
stepped down after the two thousand and two two thousand
and three season, Bob stepped down. And when he stepped down,
it was after the series they played Dallas in the
first round. Don Nelson was the coach of the Dallas Mavericks.

(01:06:30):
Old school dude came to every press conference postgame with
a beer in his hand. And it was a memorable
series because Portland fell behind down three to nothing. They
came back to tie the series three to three. No
team in the NBA at that point had ever been
down three to zero and won a series. And I

(01:06:51):
believe it was like a one, like a two seven
or a three six, something like that. Yeah, Portland was
a decided underdog. Scottie Pippens last year there and they're
down three other fours Game seven in that series. It
was a series in which Mo Cheeks sang the anthem
with the girl Natalie Gilbert, which she forgot the name,
she forgot the words of the anthem. It's a famous video. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

(01:07:14):
And I'll give Canzono credit. Man, he's this is where
he was a great columnist. We're sitting there and he
does that. She does that, and Mo does that, and
Moe was a really good dude. Man, I Mauricy's cheeks
is a really fun guy. I liked him a lot.
He's over his skis with that team, but he was
a really good human being. He does that canzono. His
credit runs downstairs like before the first opening tip off

(01:07:36):
and I sitting next where are you going? I gotta
do something. He wrote the most incredible column about it,
found Natalie fought to her father kept him touched in
some follow up columns. Jsually good, but.

Speaker 3 (01:07:45):
He's a good uh. I would just say, like he
connects with his sources.

Speaker 1 (01:07:53):
Seeing Colin in that thing will be hilarious because he
literally never stepped foot inside that locker room. I can
tell you that.

Speaker 3 (01:07:58):
No, he was too big for it. Before he was
even big.

Speaker 1 (01:08:00):
It was a big deal. I mean, just asking him,
that's his big deal. Anyway, Let's see what do we got.

Speaker 5 (01:08:09):
To?

Speaker 1 (01:08:09):
Yeah, she played one game to the lane before I
go to Detroit. Somebody said, yeah, I think so, how
much history do you and Lound have between the two
of you? Guys almost qualify for a thirty thirty. So
we were we worked together when I went to Salt
Lake City from Tri City's Washington Kennewick, went to Salt
Lake City, got hired by David Well, got hired to
do minor league hockey play by play. We were on
the Jazz station as well. It's like here like there's

(01:08:31):
two two. Yeah, Jazz didn't play. We were on the
big station. Jazz did play in the small station and
we went down there. So I got down there and
I Locke was running thirteen to twenty k fan, which
is the sports station in Jazz station. And that was
in the time when they went back to back finals
and into the hockey season. David Goeshavier done other sports

(01:08:52):
besides hockey. Well, yeah, I've worked with a sports producer, Comobia.
So I was hosting late night radio on the same
station Lound was and then London ended up doing mid
days a year later, and I was doing mid days
when I was doing hockey as well as kind of
doing like I am here cool things. And he did
the show before me. He had one was called the
Shooting Gallery, which yeah, it's just like because he's hot,

(01:09:13):
take guy. Yeah, they like they have machine guns in
the open, which you can't do now obviously, but that
was that was one show the shooting Gallery. Yeah, we've
known each other for a long time. Man, But he's
a vagabond, that guy. That guy has worked in salt Lake, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Dallas,
Portland again, salt Lake, six markets like that, seven markets

(01:09:40):
to his credit, never been fired. Oh well he was fired. Actually,
the funny thing he was that was the last one. Yeah,
and that's the only time he's ever He's always just
been chasing the next job. Yeah, good for him. A
psychopaths should have been fired many times, should have been
fired many times.

Speaker 3 (01:09:57):
I'm lucky enough that I have stayed here.

Speaker 1 (01:10:00):
Spanish coffee, Huberts will put you on your backs. I
remember having one or two of those things. Yeah that Yeah,
what is that? It's Spanish coffee. It's like an Irish coffee,
but it's what does it have? It's different. It's got
you bescal. I forget.

Speaker 3 (01:10:12):
I can't call it a Spanish coffee.

Speaker 1 (01:10:16):
Somebody google search staff for me. Spanish coffee. That's a
great late night so I don't it's still open down
there in Portland or not.

Speaker 3 (01:10:23):
It sounds like something that sounds like a good idea
late at night.

Speaker 1 (01:10:26):
And then you go a guy Ryan and Scottsdale one
is exactly right. I been there's Rumantic, extremely expensive getaway resort.
That's Ryan and Scottsdale. I guess you talked about it
on the air as well. You were right.

Speaker 4 (01:10:37):
It is rum the coffee rum liqueur like Kalua and
like a triple seck or something like that.

Speaker 1 (01:10:46):
Whipped cream that's bad for you guys. Has never been
a bartender. I know my boozo. Uh you do? I
have Hubers? Is still open there? That was a massive
late night haunt back in the day.

Speaker 3 (01:10:57):
Is it in in like Portland proper?

Speaker 1 (01:11:01):
Yeah? He works downtown Bentown. Yeah. Would Gary Peyton be
involved in the side when they return as a coach
in front office person. He thinks he's gonna be I
don't think he will be there. I would doubt it.

Speaker 4 (01:11:13):
It is open, okay, uh four point six on yelp
mm hmmmm hmm.

Speaker 1 (01:11:19):
Yeah, let's see what else That was the best segment.
More of that with Vanessa Lunn. Yeah, we'll we'll bull
screen episode one of the jail Blazers and report back. Yeah,
we get a couple of long If you guys are
in it, that'd be fun. I don't the guy saw
in an interview with Canzano on in the trailer. An

(01:11:41):
interview with Colin in the in the trailer, He's right,
the guy that needs to be in his Jason Jason Quick,
Dwight James, and Carrie Ager's are the people that should
be in it. Yeah, because those guys covered it longer
than anybody. Quicks basically the Ryan Divish and Portland with
the Blazers Athletics.

Speaker 3 (01:11:56):
I used to have him on the ear earlier.

Speaker 1 (01:11:57):
He's a good dude. All right, we'll take a break,
so offt he joins us.

Speaker 10 (01:11:59):
Next.

Speaker 1 (01:12:10):
Okay, shut up that he is a genuine butthole. Hello,
my Florio's on with us.

Speaker 6 (01:12:17):
It's too I'm just making sure this whole thing works again.

Speaker 1 (01:12:21):
Play something else. I love those you really do holes. O, God,
grab your DUTs.

Speaker 6 (01:12:31):
I know how dick for you.

Speaker 1 (01:12:33):
He's here.

Speaker 6 (01:12:34):
I know that, I know.

Speaker 10 (01:12:36):
I know.

Speaker 1 (01:12:36):
Not that I'm a smart guy.

Speaker 5 (01:12:38):
I'm stupid.

Speaker 1 (01:12:39):
That's part of the open. But this I'm on my period. Wow,
Oh my goodness, play the Mike Leach one will a
ton of numbers?

Speaker 6 (01:12:50):
What we get if we just played this all day long?

Speaker 10 (01:12:52):
Really well?

Speaker 11 (01:12:53):
I mean I miss playing the Mike Leach drops you can.
You can still play those right, Yes.

Speaker 1 (01:12:57):
Some sanctimonious troll. They're happy and entitled. I don't care
what he thinks.

Speaker 6 (01:13:06):
This is my favorite.

Speaker 1 (01:13:10):
Well, you know what gets played every year every year
the anniversary of uh I don't know what it was.
Do you remember when he did the whole press conference
on the mascots fighting. Yeah, five minutes like on the
and it was just the thing was so natural, so
well thought out. You're just like, you're just enamored with it.

Speaker 11 (01:13:28):
You know where we really missed him, by the way,
what we were really robbed of when it was all
said and done, is him as a color analyst on
TV for his coaching career.

Speaker 6 (01:13:37):
Great works would have been on their knees.

Speaker 1 (01:13:40):
Yes for this guy, because he would have been They
would have been Barkley like, would like nothing to do
with the game, and the game could be boring, and
it's like you would tune in and if it was
you know, Wyoming and New Mexico State.

Speaker 11 (01:13:56):
Three fourth quarter just telling stories about had some waitress
from some cafe and Omaha became friendly with yeah whatever.

Speaker 1 (01:14:06):
And she wrote a book, and she wrote a book
on the history of something civilization and he was enamored
with this, and.

Speaker 4 (01:14:13):
I definitely got some lectures on bean production when it
comes to coffee.

Speaker 8 (01:14:17):
Really.

Speaker 1 (01:14:18):
Oh wow, Oh that was his big thing, right walking
walking to work every day, he stopped at one coffee
shop downtown. I think it was like a freek.

Speaker 3 (01:14:24):
He got a coffee maker in his office. And yeah,
and then he stopped that guy.

Speaker 4 (01:14:29):
He was forty five minutes late to a team meeting
because he stopped the guy to ask about the source
of the beans.

Speaker 6 (01:14:35):
Oh yeah, that's.

Speaker 11 (01:14:36):
Remember one year we uh Washington kicked the crap out
of Wazoo in the Apple Cup. Yeah, must have been
seventeen eighteen whatever, and Mike Leach had the guy.

Speaker 6 (01:14:46):
We've uh, we've beaten better teams than you dubbed before.

Speaker 3 (01:14:50):
Was that the Snow Game twenty eighteen?

Speaker 6 (01:14:52):
Oh it was in Seattle. Oh, I was in Seattle.
I liked how stressed people off. I like to take
your medicine, you shut up.

Speaker 1 (01:15:00):
I liked how stressed out. He made Bill Stevens the
s I.

Speaker 6 (01:15:02):
D oh, my god, in the in the in the industry,
just one of.

Speaker 1 (01:15:07):
The nicest human beings, and it just probably took years
off his life just working with with we did a
thing over there. We went to the spring practice. It
was well, it was kind of the tragic here is
when Tyler died. They're looking for a quarterback. Went to
spring practice, Shranmack and I went over there to do
a story for Fox thirteen. I did my show there
on the Friday, and we said, and we told Stevens, hey,

(01:15:28):
we're coming all the way over here from sat can
we do We need to sit down with Mike And
initially he's going to come on the radio, and then he,
you know, something happened. So we had other guys on Abe,
Lucas being one of them. Funny enough, but we go
in those office because ye just come in, set up
in his office, set the lights. We set all these
lights up and do all this. His office was what
you see with the shrine with the pirate back there.

Speaker 6 (01:15:47):
And all this.

Speaker 3 (01:15:48):
Sharon the Cougar, yeah, all that.

Speaker 1 (01:15:49):
He was never in his office. He had a side
conference room and you go in there, there's like four
tins of Copenhagen, crumpled up notes. Everything's hand written. So
we sit down to do the interview and Stevens goes, look,
he's got up, he's got an event. He's got to
be out at five forty five and we sat down
like at five o'clock. We started the interview at five
forty five and Steven's just like stressing out and we

(01:16:13):
ended up and it went to like six and he
just talked. I think I might ask two questions, and
he just talked and talked and talked, and it was
just mess. Yes, very Bill Walton like, yeah, the guys
like that Herd of Hunt.

Speaker 11 (01:16:24):
Yeah, we go to the final four, we'd ask Bill Walton,
how you doing it? We'd come back thirty minutes later
and the guy's still talking. I mean honestly. Interview with
Bill Walton where we asked more than two questions. Yeah,
the over under on the questions was usually one and
a half with Bill. Yeah, he would take it whatever
direction he wanted to take it. But yeah, we were
we were robbed of him doing color commentary on.

Speaker 1 (01:16:45):
Both those guys Gone too soon, man, both those two guys.
Both those guys gone too soon.

Speaker 6 (01:16:50):
I don't know, how are you? What's going on?

Speaker 8 (01:16:51):
No?

Speaker 1 (01:16:52):
You know, hanging in there, hanging in there, no fire
alarms today, you know, which is nice for us?

Speaker 6 (01:16:55):
Here I see the gigantic generator trucks.

Speaker 1 (01:16:58):
Still there, still there out still there, Yeah, it's still there.

Speaker 11 (01:17:02):
Just impressive, by the way, man, jeez, that's like the
kind of generator truck that like powers like I don't know,
the Fun Forest at Seattle Center back in the day ride, Yeah,
the Enterprise Enterprise mission to Mars miss awesome.

Speaker 1 (01:17:17):
It was always fun Zipper was the best? Do you
like did you like to yo?

Speaker 8 (01:17:21):
Yoll?

Speaker 11 (01:17:22):
No, it wasn't really a big fan of the yo yo.
What was the one with the ship that just went
back and forth and back and got higher and higher
and higher?

Speaker 7 (01:17:34):
Right?

Speaker 6 (01:17:35):
Yeah? I like, where do you go for a nice
steam park? Now?

Speaker 2 (01:17:39):
Right here?

Speaker 11 (01:17:40):
Well, they're shutting down wild Waves. You know that wa
A Village is probably gonna be right behind him at
some point.

Speaker 7 (01:17:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:17:46):
Where do you go for a good theme park?

Speaker 1 (01:17:48):
Yeah? I don't know, there's nothing around here. I guess
you wait for the fair.

Speaker 6 (01:17:52):
Well, yeah, but that's once a year.

Speaker 1 (01:17:53):
Finally, I'm telling you, we don't have we need that.

Speaker 11 (01:17:55):
We need a consistent Hey, you know what weather's getting
every year, there's more days of sunshine.

Speaker 1 (01:18:02):
Come on, man, well next time, next time one of
us talks to light Wiki, he's all into you know,
rebuilding the Seattle Center. They're doing it. Let's get let's
get the let's get mission to Mars and the zipperback.

Speaker 6 (01:18:13):
Well, I just want. What I want is like a
theme park for dudes.

Speaker 1 (01:18:16):
Man, What would be in it?

Speaker 6 (01:18:17):
Dynamite, wrecking balls, demolition.

Speaker 1 (01:18:21):
Derbys, cocktails that cocktails which mix well with all those things.

Speaker 11 (01:18:24):
Shooting range, all the stuff that you've always wanted to
do that you don't get to do.

Speaker 6 (01:18:30):
I want to be able to do.

Speaker 1 (01:18:31):
Let's talk to light wiki, Let's talk to light wicky.

Speaker 6 (01:18:33):
Sledgehammers, all kinds of stuff.

Speaker 1 (01:18:35):
Man, All right, what's on? What's on the Big show today? Wow?

Speaker 11 (01:18:40):
This Diana Racini Mike Rabel story won't go away. We
actually had yesterday. We had Chris Price from the Boston
Globe book today anyway, okay, to come on and talk
patriots and to get their side of the story from
a Rabel perspective. So that's even more topical now. I'm
curious how they're handling it out there. And then John
Wilner is going to join us at at I have
o'clock tonight. Brian Schmitzer has been ducking us for weeks.

(01:19:03):
He's finally back on the air tonight and.

Speaker 6 (01:19:05):
Dick is back.

Speaker 1 (01:19:06):
Okay, we have our Dick back. What today?

Speaker 6 (01:19:08):
What on the radios?

Speaker 1 (01:19:09):
Really?

Speaker 8 (01:19:10):
Yes?

Speaker 11 (01:19:10):
Okay, we've been dickless the last week and now he's back. Okay,
well I look forward to all of that, So we're
excited for that. Okay, I'll see you.

Speaker 1 (01:19:17):
For the mild mannered and marginally objectionable Inverness.

Speaker 6 (01:19:21):
This is paddle day, saying so long everyone,

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