Furness Show 5-13: Bobby Casper, Stewart Mandel, John Lund

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We on this station, and I will hear in a
second spend a lot of time on the schedule, NFL schedule,
does he do you? Guys the twelve So the people
that matter, we don't matter. We're just a bunch of
talking heads. They tell us to speak in fill time
for three hours. That's that's what week do. That's what
we do. It's really not doing much. We spend a

(00:20):
lot of time on it. Greg spends every show for
the last week on it. Softy and Fame spent like
an hour and a half on it the other day.
We all spend a lot of time. If you're a
Seahawk fan, are you waiting with baited breath to really
find out tomorrow what it looks like? We know who
the opponents are. Do you really care that much? I'm
just I am curious, And I said, I'm gonna spend
time on it here in a second, on one particular
aspect of it. But four nine and four or five one,

(00:44):
I do care? Yeah? I is it something you just
get jacked up about? The NFL's made it a damn
a national holiday, right, so true, But then they leak
everything out beforehand.

Speaker 2 (00:55):
Right, there's another one that just came out. There's a
Thanksgiving Eve game?

Speaker 1 (00:58):
Who was at hers? So stupid?

Speaker 3 (01:01):
Those are like the one present you get to open
on Christmas Eve before Christmas.

Speaker 4 (01:05):
It's like the teaser.

Speaker 1 (01:06):
Yeah, the Thanksgiving Eve game I got a problem with too. Yeah,
I got a massive problem with that. That's a big
night for NBA and nhlah. Right, It's like, why do
you need that?

Speaker 5 (01:17):
Wait? Did I just I said?

Speaker 6 (01:19):
NBA? Yes?

Speaker 1 (01:20):
Okay? Really, well, like, why are we stepping on everyone's toes? NFL?
Why do you need that day?

Speaker 4 (01:27):
Because they want everything?

Speaker 1 (01:28):
Why do we need three on Christmas?

Speaker 6 (01:30):
God?

Speaker 1 (01:30):
I know the Seahawks are destined for a Christmas game.
They are they are you know. I just that's one
hundred percent going to happen, and which I'm torn on that.
I listen to what Chris said. Now, this is a
very selfish thing for us because we kind of do
we have to fill three hours. I just told you
what our job is.

Speaker 5 (01:50):
Why we like this to be honest, we are human call.

Speaker 1 (01:54):
But we have to do that. So like it's something
we got to pay attention to. You can't, like Chris
Kid had a great point this, I love you. Christmas
Day games are fine. You know, Thanksgiving great because you
just kind of part of your melting into the couch
after you open or eat or do whatever you're going
to do that day. I'd rather not have to worry
about it. We've we had a couple. We've had a
couple over the years, Christmas Eves, one famously in Dallas,

(02:16):
the Earld Thomas Come get Me game, and then we've
had a couple other home over the years here in Seattle.
I feel bad for the people that work the stadiums,
to be honest with you, I think that's where it's
kind of a joke, like it's the rest of us
are paid. Okay, okay being a keyword. Yeah, but like
if that's most of the folks at work at T Mobile, Luminfield,

(02:36):
Climate Plagerine, a lot of them work all three buildings.
Like my buddy Fred upstairs does security in the press
box at the Climate Pledgerina. He also does it on
field at Seahawk Games and he's over Atlumen as well.
A lot of those guys are men and women were
that's that's their livelihood. Give them a bloody holiday off. Yeah. Anyway,
that said, the other thing, you guys know where I

(02:56):
stand at International Games. I hate him, absolutely hate him,
hate him with the passion. Think it's the dumbest thing
we deal again. I find this to be very disturbing.
It's two days in a row. I agree with Softy.
He had a tweet out earlier says, I'm not concerned
with growing the game. I'm concerned with winning another Lombardy.
I I would, Yes, now mine's a little bit different,

(03:17):
but I would the first part of what he said
one hundred percent, Like I don't care about it. The
NFL is not trying to grow the game. The NFL
is trying to grow its footprint. The NFL is trying
to get more people. What did Shehan call it yesterday?
The NFL It's like a television studio, is what it is.

Speaker 3 (03:34):
Like.

Speaker 1 (03:34):
All the stadiums are television studios. They're not. It's the
whole thing. Varell wrote the story in The Times today about,
you know, maybe new owners because of the Wickersham story
last week, would want a new, a new stadium, a new,
a new you know stadium for the Seahawks to play.
Why would be my question? And I say why for
this reason. It's because people say, well, we knew new

(03:57):
Kiirina did not provide the adequate revenue streams that you
needed for a professional sports franchise. The suites were outdated
and small. They were not something that people wanted to have.
A part of the club level never did work at
Key Arena, and it was a revenue stream situation. Also
because of the way the building was built, it made
big concerts, big shows, things like that really challenging. You

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could get one semi truck in at a time to
load and unload, and just from a building standpoint, that's unacceptable,
like absolutely unacceptable. It makes it really challenging. It's a
nightmare logistically, and it get to the point where you know,
concerts didn't want to come there, whether it be wrestling
or whatever. They didn't want to go there anything because

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it was just a massive challenge. The load in and
load out was really hard. And then again, the revenue
streams didn't exist, and the fact that you could never
have anything besides basketball in there made it unnecessary evil.
The Key Arena was outdated the second they opened it up.
People said that from the nineteen ninety four on it
was like this thing is not going to work, and
it didn't. So I can see that. That's it's a

(05:04):
different thing, lumen Field. You don't need a new building, Okay,
like that's and they're doing that. Yeah, they and they
have done that. They've done a lot of updates to
that building. They it's listen. Because of what we just
talked about. In the NBA, in the NHL and Major
League Baseball, you need revenue streams that are not just

(05:27):
the ticket buyer. You need a club's level. You need
you know, premium seating, you need signage opportunities, you need
the ability to do whatever you want to do outside
of the actual tenant of the game. I mean climate
pledge arena has I want to stay close to two
hundred plus dates a year. That are one of the
busier buildings in the country. It's been a massive The
building has been a massive success. T Mobile Park. You

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have obviously eighty one baseball games, and they have high
school games, they have high school graduations there, they have
other shows there. All that stuff works. Lumenfield can do that,
But Lumenfeld is not a source of income primarily for
the seahauction. You know what the Seahawks income is. It's
from the television deals, the mega media rights packages that
the NFL gives you. NFL teams are not worried about

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the bottom line ever, and that lumin field situation is
First of all, the stadium itself provides an unheard of
home field advantage for the home.

Speaker 5 (06:23):
Team, literally unheard of.

Speaker 1 (06:25):
It's it's I mean, we can debate all we want.
I'll go to my grave saying that I think it's
louder than whatever we're calling it in Kansas City, Arrowhead
these days, whatever the court. But yeah, it's I've been
to both. I've been to both at its peak, and
I can tell you if it's not louder, it's as
loud as I think the Super Dome honestly, when the

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Saints or Humming is probably the one. Like, it's crazy
loud there. We've been there a few times and it's
crazy loud there. But all that said, it's outdoor stadium
with sixty percent of the seats covered for inclement weather,
so you're fine there. And oh, by the way, the
way Paul Allen had it built, just the reverse sound
reverberates off the top of the ceiling comes down, it's
crazy loud. And that you know, the locker room facilities

(07:07):
are fine. Postgame facilities are fine. Club level. They've redone
a bunch of times. It's fine.

Speaker 5 (07:12):
Yeah, I wouldn't classify as state of the art, but
it's by no means outdated.

Speaker 1 (07:16):
I listen, by no means of my an expert on
every NFL stadium, right, but I've been to all but Buffalo,
and Buffalo wouldn't matter now because it's gonna be gone.
I've been to every one of them, and like, I
can see Jacksonville needing something. I can see Nissan Stadium
and Tennessee needing something. I can see those places. I
can see why, you know, the Hubert R. Jones Dome

(07:38):
whatever it was in Saint Louis, I could see. I
could see why they moved from there, almost in the
move because it was LA, right. But no one's gonna
buy where you gonna build a six million dollar billion
sorry with a B, where you gonna build even if
it's small, We're gonna build a four billion dollar building
in this area for the NFL. That makes sense. You're
not so that stuff to say this area. And I

(08:01):
kind of got off in tangent a little bit, but
I did see that column to them, like, yeah, maybe
somebody wants a new one and maybe this someone's got
stupid money. They they come in and say let's do it.
Seems odd to me.

Speaker 5 (08:09):
That they are not publicly funded.

Speaker 1 (08:11):
It's on well, I don't think it would be like
you'd have to There's there's no chance there. Listen, this
isn't a case of we need to publicly we're gonna
hold the city in the state, in the county hostage
because we need something funded because otherwise our Super Bowl
champion team's gonna leave. That's that's not gonna happen.

Speaker 2 (08:26):
About the Buffalo situation, Buffalo, the Buffalo News Stadium and
how much public funding isn't it.

Speaker 1 (08:33):
But they had they needed one. Yeah, Like that thing
was a from my understanding of again, one of the two,
the ones, the only one I need to go to.
It just didn't. It was not up to snuff, right right.
Loom is fine. Looman's absolutely fine. But the NFL go
back to the European games. It's growing the game. You're
not growing the game, just growing your footprint. You're trying
to get more money and you're doing games overseas and

(08:54):
you know, like we'll talk to lend about this at too.
Like he tells the stories going over there. You know
I did laugh because Greg was and disagree with Greg.
Greg goes god, Bengals, Falcons, poor Spain. Why does Madrid
get that? Well, who cares, doesn't matter.

Speaker 3 (09:07):
The stadium will pack out, It'll pack out anywhere NFL state, right,
you could you?

Speaker 1 (09:12):
I mean, what's the worst matchup you? Here's here's what's
the worst matchup of the that's.

Speaker 4 (09:17):
Bengals Jaguars was my worst one on my.

Speaker 1 (09:20):
You have but Texans are a super Bowl contender and
Jags were playoff team last year.

Speaker 4 (09:24):
I don't know, I just don't like it.

Speaker 1 (09:25):
Well because part of it is Jess. I'll be honest,
I can see what you're saying because we all have
to get past the fact that Jacksonville is better now
good and the Texans are feeling like they're the most
irrelevant team in the NFL. And yeah they're good. Yeah right,
so and if they had as if they had a
running back last year, they might have they might have

(09:46):
been they might have been the team sattles on the
Super Bowl they had a running back.

Speaker 5 (09:49):
Yeah, you know, the anti Jets and Giants who are
always relevant but suck all the time.

Speaker 1 (09:53):
I mean, Rams forty nine Ers Australia. Great game, Ravens,
Cowboys Brazil. On paper from the against the Cowboys, the
brand of the Cowboys is great. Colts Commanders. That's kind
of a nothing burger for London.

Speaker 5 (10:05):
Yeah, Commanders suck and the Colts. Yeah, it's because we
don't want to play our fourth overall pick.

Speaker 6 (10:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (10:14):
I mean they're not good. That's not that's probably the
worst matchup.

Speaker 5 (10:16):
Yeah, I think so too.

Speaker 1 (10:17):
Eagles Jags. Okay, two playoff teams, Texas Jags, two playoff teams,
Steelers Saints. That's not very good unless Aaron Rodgers is
playing and then he can sell that. That's in France. Yeah, Bengals, Falcons, Spain.
We talked about that. Patriots Lions. Good matchup, Germany, really
good matchup. Vikings forty nine ers, I mean forty nine ers,
good football team. So, and that's in Mexico. Forty nine ers, California.

(10:39):
That makes sense. I get all that. I'm just not
about growing the game. I don't care about growing the game,
and not just because I'm concerned about Seattle winning another Lombardi.
I just don't think it matters, and I don't think
you should be taking home games away ever from local fans, right,
I just and especially places that do support it. Seattle
at the top of the list. You could take forty

(11:01):
nine or games away. They don't support it. Is a
great down there sometimes. Ever since they moved from Candlestick,
that's while that whole thing's changed. The Chargers should be
the one losing home games because the Chargers don't have
any fans at home. The Raiders would be number two
on that list because they play every game as a
neutral site game too.

Speaker 5 (11:14):
Are the Patriots on there?

Speaker 1 (11:16):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (11:18):
I was gonna say that there would have been some
sort of crossover if the two teams that were on
hard knocks weren't on the international games, Like, hey, you
won't you won't get the international games, but we'll give
you hard knocks.

Speaker 1 (11:28):
Well, And I think maybe that's part of it too,
is I think I think with Seattle, I'm sure there
was there had to be some give and take. Well
you're not going to go international, that's fine, but but
you're gonna do hard knocks, and that's probably taking the
hard knocks too. I don't think that we'll ever hear
like official conference. I'm just that's a guess. It is
it's just the conversation. But if you're looking at kind
of connecting the dots and what makes sense the fact

(11:50):
that you're not going international and e've only then twice,
but you are doing hard knocks coming off a Super
Bowl title. That does tell you there was a compromise,
doesn't you know? Would would you rather deal with these
guys running around or would you rather fly, you know,
across the country and then across the water. And that's
because that's it takes a lot. Yeah, I mean I

(12:12):
feel bad for ek and the equipment guys. I mean
that's just a that's just a Niners have two of them, right, Yeah,
Niners Mexico probably won't be that bad. The Niners in
Australia would be hard the forty nine ers in Mexico.
That's that's a road game. I mean, it's actually probably
a far shorter trip for them than it would be

(12:33):
going across the country. Yeah, so for them, it's fine.
But yeah, so after you're right, buddy, we don't we
don't need to grow the game. Let's just do it
here all the way you go. Uh, And the International
Games are coming out as far as the rest of
the schedules, concern four nine four five one. I I'm
assuming if we don't see Christmas, will seek Thanksgiving. It's
gonna be one of the two. And we know one
of the Thanksgiving games is already, right, Which do you prefer?

(12:55):
I'd rather have Thanksgiving? Yeah, I think so too Christmas.
It depends on the time, you know.

Speaker 5 (13:02):
But it's been a few years. Is the Hawks had
a Thanksgiving game? Was it those?

Speaker 1 (13:06):
The last one? The one they ate on they legs? Yeah? No, no, no, no.

Speaker 5 (13:09):
No, they didn't have one after that. The Cowboys, I want.

Speaker 1 (13:11):
To say they they played down there. Yeah, that's what
I thought. I feel like I've missed Thanksgiving a handful
of times. Yeah games for when was the last here,
there's a thing called google.

Speaker 5 (13:22):
Okay, let's get some interaction ian.

Speaker 1 (13:26):
First they played, okay, first Thanksgiving game, nineteen eighty Cowboys.
They lost fifty one to seven. That was nineteen eighty.

Speaker 5 (13:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (13:35):
Last, Oh I should know this last time they played Thanksgiving? Yeah,
November twenty twenty three against the forty nine ers.

Speaker 3 (13:42):
Oh okay, Oh right, because we were talking about the
potential rehash of the turkey leg thing.

Speaker 1 (13:48):
The Seahawks played the Cowboys three times on Thanksgiving, which
is mostly played. They're one and two in those games.
So yeah they Oh they they played Thanksgiving last year?

Speaker 7 (14:01):
Right?

Speaker 1 (14:01):
No?

Speaker 5 (14:02):
No, no, no think so why did I think that?

Speaker 7 (14:04):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (14:05):
So anyway, that's what it is.

Speaker 4 (14:07):
I was at your house on Thanksgiving.

Speaker 1 (14:09):
We did not watch that.

Speaker 4 (14:11):
I was like, where's my point of reference?

Speaker 1 (14:13):
Yes, yes, yeah, it was. Yeah. So they're two and three.
So yeah, because the forty nine ers game, I want
to say they played. They've played the forty nine ers twice.
They played them down there on Thanksgiving because I remember
what we had we fighting a place to eat the
night before was night This is your twenty twenty three
you're talking about. This is no, this is like the
first year when they opened up Levi. That's the one

(14:36):
that was the one you're talking about. That was a turcula. Yeah, yeah,
that wasula. Yeah that was crazy.

Speaker 6 (14:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (14:41):
Was that the year after the Super Bowl? A couple
of years, it was a year or two. It was
like Niners sucked like that years. Yeah, it was like
twenty fifteen, fifteen or sixteen.

Speaker 1 (14:52):
Yeah, it was in there because it was it was
right when they whenever they opened up. It was the
first year of Levi stadium. Yeah, because I remember we're
out there doing stuff on like Thanksgiving Eve and doing
stories and it's like nobody's around. Is there a place
open to eat? Like things like that. Yeah, the important things.
But but it was but yeah, that was That was
when they had the Reducan on the field and those
guys Sherman, those guys played it out. That was glorious.

Speaker 5 (15:14):
That was fine.

Speaker 3 (15:15):
I was always on an Apple Cup duty, so I
was usually having friendsgiving, yeah, or here we'd have people
come out, like my crew would be coming out here too,
So even if I didn't have to travel, we still
had friends giving together everything.

Speaker 1 (15:30):
Now, lucky you you get the opportunity to have Apple
Cup on the first week of the year.

Speaker 3 (15:36):
Yeah, I guess I get my Thanksgiving backs.

Speaker 1 (15:38):
You do get your thanks gring back as well. All right,
So do you care about the actual schedule and what
and what what do you want to see happened? Four nine,
four or five one. I know a lot of people.
Greg brought this up earlier. A lot of people are
looking and I get this, A lot of people are
looking at Vegas and like when the Vegas Game is
because it's in Vegas, people.

Speaker 4 (15:58):
Want to go to Vegas. You're going to travel for
one game of a year.

Speaker 3 (16:03):
I mean that's the same with Kooks band. So like
I always look at it's like, oh, San Diego, that's
the game that a ton of people are going.

Speaker 1 (16:09):
To go to this Yeah, yeah, I mean La I
don't think is a destination for Seahawks fans. You play
that every year and Sofi is not even in La.
It's in Englewood.

Speaker 5 (16:15):
It's out in the middle of the cool stadium, really
cool stadium.

Speaker 1 (16:20):
I tell people all the time. I think, if you're
going to go to a game underrated, top of the list,
you gotta go to Lambo. Oh god, I love I think.
I think for me number two to go to a
game after Lambeau would be Jerry's world. I think it's
just a wild cool stadium. Yeah, I think it's awesome,
and I think so Far is worth going and looking
and checking out. It's just such an amazing structure.

Speaker 3 (16:41):
It's it's so unbelievable, like from the outside and then
the inside it's built down.

Speaker 1 (16:45):
It's like it's like CPA, yes exactly. Walk in and
you're like, how does this work? Like I'm walking in
Oh wait a second, I'm on the three hundred level
and I walk into a football stadium. It's crazy.

Speaker 4 (16:54):
It is exactly like CPA, just a gigantic.

Speaker 1 (16:57):
That it's fun. The rams are better now. If you
go to a game there and it's a Chargers game,
pretty good chance it's a neutral site or home game
like so that's good. So but yeah, I mean that Vegas.
I get people want to go to Vegas. It's an
excuse to go to Vegas. Yeah, go to the game,
and I want to see that studio and the Raiders suck.
Also you get a win.

Speaker 4 (17:15):
Yeah, Rana Mendoza, let's go.

Speaker 1 (17:18):
Let's go, let's go.

Speaker 8 (17:19):
All right.

Speaker 1 (17:20):
Coming up on the show today, Bobby Casper is going
to join us Real Golf Radio. We'll do that at
twelve thirty. Coming up in the next segment, he'll join
us for a few minutes talking about the PGA Championship.
They moved that of course, so it's now earlier as
opposed to the last major, the first major or second
major of the year. Coming up at one twenty, Stuart
Mandel's gonna join us the Athletic in a while since
we talked to our college football guru. But we'll check

(17:42):
in with Stu and find out what's up with him,
find out what's going on with college football. There's a
lot of stories out there, expansion of the playoff tournament
and so in playoff and all that kind of stuff
with CFP. So we'll check in with Stuart Mendel and
then lun Does tell us he's coming on at two o'clock. Take, well,
we we did.

Speaker 5 (17:58):
Have you heard from him today? Lund oh?

Speaker 3 (18:01):
Lund Uh No, yesterday, I conferred to God. Hey, I
give it till one hour before he's supposed to be.

Speaker 5 (18:07):
On, close to the time is passed.

Speaker 3 (18:09):
He has that attention deficit, and I'm not calling him
add but there is a deficit there if.

Speaker 1 (18:14):
He does evil deficit's a good way to put it,
all right, So Lundel join us coming up at two
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Speaker 7 (18:35):
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Speaker 1 (18:50):
Hright, we're back rolled along on a Wednesday afternoon, he
internests with you, and we're going to head down and
check in with our good friends Real Golf Radio Bobby Casper.
It's Championship week, major week in the golf world, and
that means we check in with my guy, Bobby Casper,
Real Golf Radio co host with his buddy Brian Taylor.
Been doing so for two plus decades now. You can

(19:11):
hear it on the iHeartRadio app as well. Hello, sir,
how are.

Speaker 5 (19:14):
You Ian Well?

Speaker 9 (19:17):
How you doing, buddy?

Speaker 1 (19:18):
I'm good, I'm good. You're ready for some major golf
this week in the PGA Championship.

Speaker 9 (19:23):
Sir, Oh yeah, oh yeah, And I'm ready to see
how they tackle this golf course. So it should be
a fun week.

Speaker 1 (19:32):
The I'm just we're just talking about this in the last segment.
So they moved the PGA Championship from August to this
date in May back in twenty nineteen. I know there
was a conversation yesterday at one of the press conferences
about maybe they would move it back to August. What
do you hear from players? Do they like having the major,
the PGA Championship here in May or would they rather

(19:53):
have it later in the year.

Speaker 9 (19:55):
You know, there's a couple of different thoughts on it.
Ian first of it was moved because of the Olympics
and golf becoming part of the Olympics. So they moved
it to May so that it could be a part
of July when when they had the summer Olympics and
not condense everything too much when you're getting close to

(20:20):
the Tour Championship in the playoffs and that kind of thing.
So that's one of the reasons they moved it now.
As far as players are concerned, some like it earlier
in the season. A lot of the elite players like
it later in the season in August because they feel
like there's too many signature events and too much jammed
in to that one month prior to the next major championship.

(20:45):
Case in point, Rory McElroy said, I was always going
to take two or three weeks off and then play
at Charlotte before I went to the PGA Championship. He
missed two signature events, one at the or one at
Hilton Head and then also the one at Durrell. So

(21:05):
you know, all of them, their schedules are different. They
decide where they want to play and where they don't
want to play, but they would like to have maybe
a little bit more room in between the Masters and
the US Open.

Speaker 1 (21:20):
Bobby Casper joining us, probably how much of the conversation
before we get to the tournament itself as we how
much of the conversation this week is on what appears
to be the demise of live golf. We already saw
Koepka come back to the tour this year. John Rahm's
going to go back and play a handful events in
the DP European Tour, trying to keep his Ryder Cup
stuff going, but kind of feels like he's aiming that
way as well. D Schambeau the outlier, he's just going

(21:42):
to play YouTube at golf or whatever. But how much
of the conversation, Yeah, so he says, how much how
much of the conversation is what's going on and live
and maybe the demise of the rival the rival tour.

Speaker 8 (21:56):
You know.

Speaker 9 (21:57):
Rory McElroy in his press conference yesterday said that He's
got a really good friend that caddies out on live
for one of the players out there, and as these
things kind of started to unfold, he said to he
texted his friend, he said, are you hearing anything? He says,
Everything's normal as usual. So then now, you know, a

(22:18):
couple of weeks ago, we get this that the PITH
is now going to only add more money in till
the end of the year. So it's putting Live Golf
in the position of having to go out and find
billions of dollars to be able to keep this thing going.

(22:39):
In their expenses per month with their golf tournaments and
everything is one hundred million dollars. One hundred million dollars
per month. That's one point two billion a year. Okay,
So that's why the CEO said it's going to take
eight to ten years to start to see a profit
or for it to become profitable. Now they're having to

(23:02):
go out and create a whole new business plan, and
there's a lot of people around that they're pitching it
to that have said, hey, this is this is a
losing proposition and there's no way I'm going to invest
my or our funds money into this. Type of thing.
So yes, I think they're in my feeling, my personal opinion,
I think they're in death throws right now going into

(23:25):
the end of the year. Patrick Reid has already already
jumped back out also, and he's won two of the
first three events on the European Tour, so he'll be
on the PGA Tour next year, Brooks, as you said,
and you know, the guys that they're looking at are
John Rahm and Bryson de Chambeau. Bryson feels like he

(23:45):
has a little bit more leverage, but that leverage is
going away more and more because he says, well, I'll
just do YouTube golf and then and then play the majors. Well,
that is Maser's exemptions are going to run out at
some point, probably in about for years. He's going to
have to have more competition to be able to do something. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (24:04):
It has one of the masters, right, and that's the
one that gives you the lifetime exemption. Outside of that,
you better go, yeah, you better get going.

Speaker 6 (24:09):
Along the way championship pretty too.

Speaker 1 (24:11):
Yeah, yeah, so he's got to go get that going.
All right, let's get to it. The golf course. If
I saw this right, just for those of us who
love the game a little different than what we've seen
some of these guys have to play, whether it be
a signature event or some of the other majors. Par
seventy seventy three hundred yards that's by now for me
Andrews out about you, that feels like it's daunting, yes,
but for them that's not the case. How different is

(24:33):
this golf course? What challenges does it have?

Speaker 9 (24:36):
Well, it only has two par fives, of course, and
part five's are statistically by these guys kind of makeup shots.
The greens are really big and they have a lot
of undulation in them, very similar to what you would
see it at Custon National. So they're going to be
petting across ridgets and all kinds of interesting things trying

(24:58):
to get their balls close to the whole. That promotes
a couple of things off the tee. First of all,
guys will have an opportunity to pick clubs to get
themselves into position off the tee to be able to
hit it on the greens. Then those second shots are
going to be need to be a little bit on

(25:18):
the shorter side so that they can take advantage of
some of the little pockets and areas that are tucked
away that they're going to put the flags in. Now,
Rory said, I'm just going to bash it down there
and hit and do what needs to be done with
my second shot. Other guys don't have that luxury. But
this golf course is really going to bode well for

(25:41):
the long hitters like Rory and Bryson and Am Young
and Scottie Scheffler and those guys that can consistently carry
the ball over three hundred yards.

Speaker 1 (25:52):
Scotty Scheffer trying to go back to back right hasn't
been the same Scottie Scheffler at times that we've seen
over the years. This year, had a set, a second
baby and all that. Do you think he's running into
form and how does this course fit up for him?

Speaker 3 (26:05):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (26:05):
I do.

Speaker 9 (26:05):
I think he's running in form, and I think the
thing that bodes well for him is the second shots
into the greens. He's gonna He's got ted Scott on
the bag and there they have done all of their
homework to get themselves into a position to be able
to contend in this major. He shows up, he's ready
to play, and that's why he took last week off.

(26:27):
He played at Ralph finished second to Cam Young. He
has had three second place finishes the last three events
he's played, and that hasn't been done since twenty fourteen.
So I think he's fully aware and ready. He's won
already once this week. His worst finish on tour this
year is a tied for twenty fourth, and I think

(26:49):
he will be right in the mix. Rory of course
will be there, Cam Young will be there, Matthew Fitzpatrick
will be there, JJ Spawn, on and on and on.
These guys that hit a lot of ways really have
a good chance.

Speaker 1 (27:07):
Give me a couple other names. Well, we're sponsored by
our show, bought to you by so call me Casino,
Hotel and Sportsbook. So if if maybe somebody else is
out there, Kopka is is he It feels like he's
not back to where he needs to be. Guys like Marikawa, Kopka, Fleetwood,
that type of player. I mean, listen, Jordan SP's trying
to get the career Grand Slam, right, all those those

(27:28):
guys all kind of come into play. Give me a
couple other names that that maybe would be the guys
you're going to keep an eye on that could kind
of find their way into those final groupings on Sunday.

Speaker 9 (27:38):
Well, I think Fleetwood would be a good one. He's
just a great tactician on the golf course and a
great ball striker. I don't know that he hits it
consistently over three hundred yards, but his second shots into
the green will, even though coming into the greens a
little further back there, they're going to be spot on. Kepka,

(27:58):
you can always count on him in a PGA Championship.
He's got three of them, and he played well last
week and the opposite field event had a third round
what was it a sixty four or something like that,
and he said, that's the funds he's have playing the
game of golf in quite a long time. So I

(28:19):
think he would be a great one. Also. Colin Morricala,
you know, he's been hurt all year long with with
some back stuff. You know, hopefully he will be able
to feel better and be able to get get in
the mix this next week. You know another guy that
kind of is flying under the radar. He's won already

(28:39):
twice this year. He faced Rory McElroy last year in
the Scottish Open and beat him and then went on
to finish fourth the next week, and that's Chris godder Up.
You got to watch out for him because he bombs
it as well.

Speaker 1 (28:54):
So perfect. Well, there we go. You got you know
all you need to know, folks, Just to head up
a lot of casino. Thanks bobcast. Tell me about Real
Golf Radio. What you guys got going on?

Speaker 6 (29:02):
Again?

Speaker 1 (29:02):
I mentioned as part of the iHeartRadio podcast networks with
people that have the iHeart app, which many of our
listeners are listening on right now. They can check out
what you guys are doing with iHeart Radio on the
Real Golf Radio. What do you got going on?

Speaker 9 (29:15):
Yeah, eight to ten eight to ten Mountain Time AM
on Saturday mornings. The full show will air and then
you can find it on your podcaster sites, iHeartRadio, that
kind of thing. But we've been doing the show now
for twenty seven years and we broadcast from the majors,
and we'll be at the PGA this week and also

(29:39):
the US Open next week. We won't be going across
the pond for the British Open, but yeah, it's been
something that we've enjoyed and with the legacy of my
dad and playing in the PGA and winning you know
the Masters in the US Open. It's great to be
involved in the game of golf.

Speaker 1 (29:58):
Yeah, Billy, Billy up your late father. Unbelievable and you
and you and Brian have built something up. You guys
built this thing up from nothing when that didn't happen
in the world of podcasting and independent shows. I'm so
happy to see it in your success. You guys have had.
I saw it from the start and I'm just thrilled
to see it still going twenty seven years later. Man,
So congratulations. We'll talk to you before the Yeah, we'll

(30:19):
talk to you before the US Open and the Bridge Open
as well. My friend, Thank you, you got it. Bud there,
there you go. Bobby Casper, Real Golf Radio joining us
here on the Beacon Plumbing Hotline. I'll come back. Let's
see what we'll not correct, but we'll give you the
information we were missing earlier on NFL scheduling. We'll do
that next.

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Speaker 5 (31:48):
It's not don't set a precedent.

Speaker 1 (31:50):
This is not what we're known for.

Speaker 4 (31:51):
Our business, not our practice.

Speaker 1 (31:52):
Yes, so all time Seahawk games played on Thanksgiving, Andrews,
you were right, it was coming off the Super Bowl win.
That November twenty seven, twenty fourteen game they beat the
forty nine Ers nineteen to three. That was the first
game the Seahawks played, not the first game, but the
first game the Seahawks played in Levi Stadium. And they
went in there, kicked their ass and then ate their food.
That's what they did. It was fun, good times. Then

(32:12):
the one I forgot of and I always forget this
two years ago, three years ago, I guess now, But
two and a half years ago they played November twenty
Pete Carroll's final season November twenty third, Thanksgiving against the
forty nine ers. They got boat raced thirty one to thirteen.
Remember that game, Yeah, that was kind of but yeah, well,
and I think the significance of that game is that's

(32:35):
when it really.

Speaker 3 (32:37):
Was.

Speaker 1 (32:38):
If it wasn't the beginning of the end, it was
the middle of the end for that previous regime. Yes,
because that was a team that started out four and
two on the season. Then they were five and one,
two three four or five, six and three. They were
six and three after a win November twelfth at home

(32:58):
against the Commanders, barely but they beat them twenty nine
to twenty six. That was the Sam Howell is his name? Yep,
god Lord game and there that's a playoff team, like
they're a playoff team, lose by one in LA. I
think that's when Myers missed a field goal seventeen sixteen.
And then they come home and get boat raced by

(33:20):
the Niners on Thanksgiving and just let remember, and that
was also a game forty nine er fans literally this
was a big topic of conversation the next week, took
over the stadium. That was one of the two games
that it was all opposing fans that year. The other
one was the final home game when they lost to

(33:41):
Pittsburgh thirty to twenty three. You remember that one, and
it was all but that game on Thanksgiving. I don't
know where the hell all these morons came from, but
they are forty nine er fans infiltrated the stadium, beat
the wheels off, he just beat the brakes off the Seahawks,
and then the Seahawks in the middle, so that they
ended up losing four straight games, and it was it

(34:04):
was like, Okay, something's wrong here, like something is really
really wrong with this football team. And uh, and then
of course what happened, even though they won the final
game of the year by twenty one twenty with the Cardinals,
they were by then it was over, the die was cast,
Pete was out, and in the end they end up
getting Mike McDonald out of it. But yeah, that was
That was the other Thanksgiving game that we were trying
to figure out. And I just remembered it because I

(34:24):
was there, and I remember just thinking, this is miserable.
Can I think of a worse way to spend Thanksgiving? No,
the answer would have been no, your team getting boat race,
having to deal with that afterwards.

Speaker 5 (34:32):
Good times all the way.

Speaker 1 (34:36):
And that was, by the way, a LA game is
a five to twenty game here, so yeah, it was.
It was a late game that night. So yeah, they're
going to get a Thanksgiving game or they're going to
get a Christmas Day game. For sure. The Seahawks are
They have played on Christmas Eve a few times, but
I think it's they've never played on Christmas, So Christmas
Day or Thanksgiving. God, I hope they don't get both.
How about with that? But what we think if they

(34:56):
got bad? Has anyone played both?

Speaker 3 (34:59):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (34:59):
I'm sure Dallas probably has. That'd be kind of rude,
but probably not the same venue like one would be
home one.

Speaker 4 (35:07):
One way, Yeah, but still wouldn't they try to.

Speaker 1 (35:10):
I don't think.

Speaker 5 (35:11):
I don't.

Speaker 1 (35:12):
I think sports people that are not the people that
are working the stadiums, but I think like the internal,
like the football operations guys. I say this with the
hockey people all the time. Hockey people are the most
blindly naive. Live in a bubble, live in a cave,
have no idea. They have no idea there's things go
on outside of the world of the National Hockey League

(35:32):
it they don't. And I think football is the same way.
You know, I do, And I mean hockey is the
best example. You watch. They'll have these games and somehow,
some way, the crack will end up scheduling games on
a day when the Seahawks are playing a Thursday night
game or a or a Monday night game at home. Right,
You're like, Okay, why are we doing that? It happened
all the time last year because they just don't think of, Hey,

(35:55):
let's counter schedule that. Let's tell the NHL that we
don't have that data available.

Speaker 6 (35:59):
Right.

Speaker 1 (36:00):
And I think football is even worse because football is
the behemoth man. They just do whatever the hell want
to do. They do it. Yeah, they're the first pick.
Whatever they do, whatever they do. Everyone else following shoot,
but not everybody a year or two.

Speaker 4 (36:13):
So it's like we get.

Speaker 1 (36:15):
Yeah, I mean the big think about this. I mean,
they're just running the Mariners out of town in a sense.
Marriers have a game that Wednesday. The Marriers have a game.
I think it's and I.

Speaker 4 (36:25):
Think but they have flexed in the past.

Speaker 1 (36:27):
Right, well, we had sometimes it's unavoidable, like the playoffs
and last year, I'll say that playoff game last year. Now,
the Seahawks lose to Tampa at home in a football
game at one, but then but then the Mayors played
a five. Yeah, I did the double dip. I did both.
I did both.

Speaker 5 (36:40):
And that that area was wild wild. It was awesome, awesome,
it was so cool, and I mean all day. I'm
sure if I talk to my guys at the Occidental Hall,
they probably had one of their best days and ever
in the history.

Speaker 4 (36:55):
Oh yeah, pre post and pre post.

Speaker 1 (36:57):
Yeah yeah yeah, pre post, prest post Yeah, I mean,
it was. It was insane down there. But the good
thing is the games weren't going head to head, right,
That's the only thing you don't.

Speaker 3 (37:09):
I think a lot of people I remember talking about
that last year about okay, like who's doing both?

Speaker 4 (37:14):
Who is?

Speaker 1 (37:15):
So I think I don't know if they've already done this. Yeah,
the Mariners are playing the Rangers at Team Will on Wednesday,
September ninth, and that's at one o'clock game. Yeah, you
know what, they've already moved it because it was supposed
to be a later game. Moved Yeah, because they updated
in my calendar automatically says one ten.

Speaker 4 (37:29):
Now, interesting because.

Speaker 1 (37:31):
Remember that was supposed to be games, so it was
it was not the it was not the getaway game
for the series because the getaway games the next day
is a Thursday, right, So they've already changed that. So
the Mariners are kind enough to change. Well, I mean
it just makes sense, just smart. How wild is that
Ka day going to be down there? Because I mean
you're talking early September. Manner is going to be right
in the thick of it, leading the division hopefully. If

(37:53):
you're not leading the division, well we're having a lot
of different conversations if they're not. If they're not leading
the division or in a playoff spot. On September ninth
Seahawks opening day. We're having a lot of different conversations,
but that should be a fun day. We'll be down
to Jimmy's I'm sure on first all day and haveing time.

Speaker 4 (38:11):
We'll get all of our stations down there.

Speaker 1 (38:12):
Yeah, yeah, well we don't care about the rest of
the people. Do we care about the other stations? Who does?

Speaker 4 (38:18):
Because I like I like people. I don't know I
care about I'm like, who.

Speaker 1 (38:22):
Do you want to see that?

Speaker 4 (38:22):
I like warm hugs?

Speaker 1 (38:23):
Who do you want to see that?

Speaker 4 (38:24):
A Nina Kelsey?

Speaker 1 (38:26):
Okay, I Likenena Kelsey.

Speaker 4 (38:28):
So there are some you.

Speaker 1 (38:29):
Want to throw a bender in there?

Speaker 9 (38:30):
Sure?

Speaker 1 (38:31):
Yeah, Joure. Do we have anybody else on the air?

Speaker 4 (38:36):
Kind of like on our stations? His name is Jubil.

Speaker 1 (38:41):
That's not his real name.

Speaker 4 (38:43):
I don't know his real name.

Speaker 1 (38:44):
What's his real name? Is that a stage name?

Speaker 4 (38:47):
It would be kind of cool first like a madonna?

Speaker 1 (38:51):
Is that? Is it his first name or his last name?

Speaker 5 (38:56):
Probably last name because we have Softy, but if it's
day Softy mall.

Speaker 3 (39:00):
Everyone knows his real name. Oh it is googleble Google. Yes,
I'm not going to say it, just it's on Google.

Speaker 4 (39:09):
His name is.

Speaker 5 (39:10):
Jeremy Jeremy, Jeremy Jeubell or Jubile Jeremy.

Speaker 3 (39:13):
No, I don't know how to pronounce his last name,
but his middle name is akin to one of our salespeople.

Speaker 1 (39:21):
Okay, let's leave it that he used to.

Speaker 4 (39:23):
Be Jubile Flag, but now he's Jeuble fresh.

Speaker 1 (39:25):
Wait, jubal flag like Cooper flag. Yeah, well, he's about
half the size of Cooper Flags.

Speaker 3 (39:31):
No, I'm just saying so he Yes, he does have
a government name that has nothing to do with jubil
or fresh.

Speaker 1 (39:37):
What's your real name? Andres Anderson Hurst, Anderson McLean, Edwin Hurst,
different action.

Speaker 4 (39:43):
That's cool?

Speaker 1 (39:43):
Is that a name? And is actually Anderson is actually
an alias? But that's just what I oh, okay from him,
But Clark's signed for the Seahawks, by the way, so
it only down to one guy. We'll take a break,
come back.

Speaker 7 (39:57):
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(41:07):
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Yay?

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Speaker 1 (41:27):
I didn't mention this, Seahawks just announce a moment ago
they have signed second round draft pick Bud Clark, the
seventh of eight to sign their rookie contracts. The only
one left is Judarian Price, So Bud Clark has signed
as well. So everyone's officially in the fold except for Price,
and I wouldn't expect that to take much longer as well.

(41:48):
So good signed there. Everyone's ready to rock and roll,
coming up on some OTAs and some mini camps and
all that fun stuff over the next few weeks. So
Bud Clark in the fold and signed, ready to rock
and roll. So tonight taken on the Houston Astros Bryce
Miller his season debut, and who would have thought that'd
be a soft landing.

Speaker 5 (42:07):
By the way, it's extremely soft.

Speaker 1 (42:09):
Nine straight wins against the Astros. Yeah, they have, I
mean just dominated them lately. During the streak. Seattle's outscored
Houston fifty nine to twenty six. They are thirty one
and fourteen over the last three years against Houston.

Speaker 5 (42:29):
And that since the playoff series.

Speaker 1 (42:30):
Correct, correct, Yeah, yes, ever since they lost the play
twenty twenty two playoffs, since twenty twenty three season thirty
one and fourteen against the Houston Astros against venge Vengeance. Yes,
cheaters don't prosper, as it turns out. Nope, right sides
getting two titles, but no, besides the two titles, cheating

(42:52):
doesn't prosper. But yeah, so the runers getting going tonight,
cal Rowley finally gets going. Oh, thank goodness. So cal
Rawley gets going last night, ends up getting on base
three times at a walk in two singles, snapped the
O for thirty eight streak as well, which was good.
It has been we all. We've been chronicling it, we've
been talking about it. It's just it's by the way,

(43:15):
there was a great story. Where is this I gotta
find this is a terrific story MLB dot com Mike Petrello.
Have you heard of him? And Petriello? Yepkay stats animals
from MLB dot com. He wrote a great story on
MLB dot com today and it combined a couple things
that we had heard from both Joshian and Enosaras about

(43:36):
what the struggles are for cal Rawley. Both these guys
have talked about it. One of those struggles is it
was interesting because I thought that the hard hit rate
is really bad. It's bad, really bad. One of the
things that Eno told us last week. And this is
what's interesting with Cal Like in a day and age
in which all this information, if it's in, if it's
at MLB dot com, you know that the Mariners have

(43:58):
at their fingertips and there were on it. It just
hasn't gotten He just hasn't worked it out yet. But
cal Rawley, one of the things he's been doing, and
as chronicled in this story, is what he is. What
he told us six days ago. He's hitting the ball
very late in the zone. Yes, guy that loves to
pull it and everything else, but that's getting out in
front of it right. Instead of getting out in front

(44:19):
of it, he's way behind. His bat speed is not
that much different, No, it's zero point four difference. So
it's basically effectively the same. But this is what Joe
told us yesterday, and then I see it today. Raleigh
is hitting it almost impossible. Sixty nine batting average, one
fifty six on base percentage one seventy two OPS on

(44:44):
pitches over ninety five miles an hour.

Speaker 5 (44:47):
Period, not even just in the zone, because Joe's saying
fastballs in the zone.

Speaker 1 (44:51):
Yep, he is not able to catch up to velocity
right now.

Speaker 5 (44:55):
It's just late. That tells you that's timing for me,
it's a timing thing for Cal Rawley.

Speaker 1 (44:59):
Harold Reynolds broke down on the NBLB network. His stance
has changed. I mean, there's a lot of things broken
with Cal that maybe two singles fixes it. I kind
of doubt it. I think we're Yeah, maybe he gets
on a little bit of a heater and gets going again.
But all these things that are wrong that you can
see or wrong have come to fruition. One thing, though

(45:20):
that baseball is great at would be superstitions and trying
to make sure things. You know, how do you fix
something well? I don't think, especially in today's climate. Diana
Rusi and Mic Rable, I don't think slump busting is
the is the is the answer in the traditional sense
of the word. Now, Cal's not married, but I think
he has a girlfriend, right so, but I think they're gauge.
Actually they engaged now be yeah, so, but this is

(45:43):
probably not the time to pump up stuff like that.
I'm just and maybe we've all kind of evolved past
that anyway. Yeah, but there's other ways to do it.
So last two nights ago, at the request of or
insistence of Logan Gilbert, after the game, he shouted his
uniform clean everything off. I like it and maybe it worked.

(46:05):
Anything there is a precedent for something similar, is there not?
Oh yeah, Charles Barkley, this is during the ends. Reason
this is during the n C doua a tournament. Charles
Barkley on CBS.

Speaker 10 (46:16):
One of the things we take for granted is all
the people who work at arenas, especially in a situation
like this where you got multiple, multiple, multiple games, multiple
multiple multile practice. I mean, it's so much stuff that
goes into this, and you shout out to all the
trainers also to have and the guys who do all
the uniforms, to get these uniforms cleaned up and everything,

(46:37):
because I mean, I'm so old. We used to take
a shower in our uniforms because you know, because we
flew commercial my first three time, there's no era where
you get yesterday you're making this. There's no way that
you were supposed to watch it when I am making
this up.

Speaker 1 (46:54):
I'm not making this up.

Speaker 10 (46:56):
I've never heard No one in the right mind is
never done that infinished. Please when I so, they give
you something. When I first got to the NBA, we
flew commercial. Yes exactly, I'm not disagreeing with So when
you were late the night before and flew the next morning,
when was you exactly gonna get your uniform cleaned? You
had to wash your uniform yourself. So after the game,

(47:19):
when you got to your room, you took a shower
in your uniform and dried and dropped on from the
commercial outline.

Speaker 1 (47:24):
The next four clamp it. That's why you have to
let him if you ever heard this in.

Speaker 10 (47:32):
Your life, Well, how are y'all cleaning y'all uniform?

Speaker 6 (47:35):
Y'all planning in universe?

Speaker 10 (47:37):
No, somebody lost in the dry or when you're when
you're flying the next morning, you can clean your uniform
without showering in it? Well that is that is that
is possible after nationally clean it with without showering, and
you don't have to have it. Oh yeah, no no,
but it's easier to do it that way.

Speaker 1 (47:58):
You do it that way.

Speaker 11 (48:02):
Let's let's say let's just say that that people people
have to count us as educational. Now you take it off,
it's just easy to clean. On that note, On that note,
let's get your.

Speaker 1 (48:22):
Oh my gosh, yeah, it was in the n b
A too. Cal didn't do it to save the trainers
of the equipment staff. We're going to be there for
three more days. That he did it just to wash
out the stink of whatever is going on in terms
of his team but or his his hitting lately. But yeah,
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (48:40):
Barkley is a guy that would totally would like I
don't doubt of what he says it.

Speaker 4 (48:44):
Yeah, this is easier.

Speaker 1 (48:45):
Yeah, but the thing is when you're gonna try it,
like like you hang in the shower.

Speaker 3 (48:51):
He apparently didn't. He showered at the hotel after a game.
He rode the bus.

Speaker 6 (48:57):
But he took it.

Speaker 1 (48:57):
I'm assuming you took it with him.

Speaker 3 (49:00):
But what then he'd have to put back on if
he showered and changed and then got back into his
swuddy uniform.

Speaker 4 (49:07):
Now he waited until he got to the hotel.

Speaker 1 (49:09):
I like Cal's policy better. I think Cal. I think
Cal's got it in.

Speaker 5 (49:13):
Is It's funny how it came out because it was
apparently like you said, requested by Logan Gilbert. But the
way this story got out was Brian Wu told it
post game last night to the media. Yeah, and so
like the two pitchers are like kind of giving him
crap and like, hey, you need.

Speaker 1 (49:25):
To wash it. I mean it was. It was funny
because he was, you know during during that whole situation
last night. Uh, Like he gets he gets the base hit.
You can see him kind of looking the dugout doing
the thing. He's like, oh, kept him ball. They kept
the ball, tried to give it to him, You're like
waving give it to him.

Speaker 6 (49:43):
He kept it.

Speaker 2 (49:44):
He might not be one of his things that they
were saying on the broadcast. There's three giant hits that
Cal's had in his career. The twenty twenty two breaking
of the drought, home run, the walk off, the the
number sixty last year was home run, and then that
single right there to break the op for thirty eight.

Speaker 1 (50:00):
Oh my god. So I think I think what I
liked about it best is the fact that he was
able to kind of laugh about it and he was
able to kind of kind of shut shrug it off
a little.

Speaker 3 (50:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (50:12):
I think that was.

Speaker 3 (50:12):
Big because super mentality because the pressure isn't.

Speaker 1 (50:15):
Because you can see I mean, you know, baseball, Baseball's
got some guys with red ass and you can see
guys going, leave me alone, I just want to hit whatever. Yeah,
he actually exactly, no doubt, man.

Speaker 3 (50:28):
Just approach, approach. It's like a black bear. But that
but by the witness you admire and.

Speaker 1 (50:34):
I think all that, I think all that is good though,
because he was able to kind of look at himself
and kind of chuckle a little bit and laugh on it,
laugh about it, and move on. And that's honestly what
needed to happen. Probably, Let's hope he gets on a
little bit eater here and and it just I've I
know people I saw the text line and some others
even on that that we posted something stuff on social media,
and I'm very adamant about Hey, like they're going to

(50:57):
get to the playoffs. And look, if you look at
just how this season's gone. Your superstar catcher, runner up
for the MVP has been awful this year.

Speaker 5 (51:07):
Like one of the worst players in baseball.

Speaker 1 (51:10):
You're right, your defensive metrics and please do not come
at us with fielding percentage. Don't it your fielding metrics
are bottom five, bottom six in baseball across the board,
you cannot field. Muno's seems to maybe getting beginning it back,
but he's scuffled by his standards a few times as well.

(51:31):
You've had your two high leverage setup guys on the
injured list. You know, all these seas going on, your
game out of first place.

Speaker 5 (51:37):
And Luis Castillo's played awful.

Speaker 1 (51:39):
And Castillo doesn't have a win. You're two and six
in games that he's pitched, two and six, and you're
and your one game out of first place. This team
is going to be just fine. Yes, this team is
going to be just fine. And if this guy gets
going number twenty nine, look out, all right, we'll take
a break. Come back. Man, there's a lot going on
in college football. Are they going to expand to twenty
four or stay it's twelve or go to sixteen? In

(52:01):
terms of college football playoff and Oleski fans are probably
ansy to hear the answer to that. There's a lot
of news on that. There's news on the nil world
and so much more. Good time to catch up with
a good friend Stuart Mandel to talk college football.

Speaker 7 (52:12):
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Speaker 5 (52:52):
Yeah. I mentioned to Jess if you go, I've been
reading a lot, I mean, big athletic reader, and Mandel's
got a lot of stuff going on, off season mail
back cranking up every week, it seems like, and other
news going on.

Speaker 1 (53:02):
I said, I wonder Stuart Mandel would be kind enough
to carve out some time to come and talk to
us here in Seattle. And you know what he is.
He's right here with us right now. Stuart Mandel joins
us on the Beacon Plumbing Hotline. Stuart, how are you
it's been a while, Yes, it has you guys. We're
good man. Good to have you on there. Yeah, there's
no off season in covering college football.

Speaker 12 (53:21):
Is there no, And this week in particular has been
kind of NonStop.

Speaker 1 (53:26):
It's been it's been wild. I want to get this
I don't want to say out of the way, but
I want to get this story there and then we'll
get to some of the other news that maybe is
more interesting in terms of the on field products and
things like that, but off field news. I've read the
story and then I read your mail bag story, and
I'm still a little bit confused. Can you tell me,
as I'm the village idiot here or our listeners, what

(53:49):
went on with nil Nebraska and players getting told no,
they can't have those nil deals.

Speaker 12 (53:56):
Ever since Jeff told me you wanted to do this yesterday,
I've been trying and trying in my head to figure
out how you distill that into like a one minute radio.

Speaker 5 (54:04):
You can go too, doesn't matter, Yeah, all right?

Speaker 12 (54:09):
So the College Sports Commission is what the Power four
Conference is set up, coming out of the House Settlement
to basically act as a clearinghouse for all nil deals
that athletes get that aren't direct revenue sharing from the schools. Right, So,
what we come to know over the last few years
is collectives, Right, was the main the main thing they

(54:32):
had in their sites of like, well, this is going
to be the end of pay for play and guys
getting all this money to do nothing, And of course
that hasn't happened. Of course, the deals in the portal
cycle and football doubled from last year, and part of
that is these schools are just finding any way they
can't to go around that twenty point five million dollars

(54:52):
cap in Nebraska's case, And they're not the only ones
that did this, but they're the first ones to kind
of go to trial, if you will. All these athletic
departments have these multimedia companies they partner with. Lear Field's
a really popular one. This one is in this case
is Playfly. They basically said, hey, Playfly, I know you
were going to pay us, as a made up number,

(55:12):
fifteen million dollars this year for our sponsorships. Why don't
you take ten of that and just give it straight
to the players, right so we can add to our payroll.
And the CSC said, no, you can't take that. The
full report came out, they went to arbitration because these players,
these eighteen players, had seven twenty five million dollars worth

(55:33):
of deal denied by CSC. That's a lot of money.
And so in this process you can go to arbitration.
The arbitrator agreed with CSC that Playfly in this case
is basically recruiting on behalf of the school. It's not
doing this for legit business. It's basically buying these guys
nil rights and storing them away for later. And so

(55:56):
that makes them basically no different than a collective. So
why is that's significant? Because again, like schools everywhere are
doing this kind of stuff. I've heard of all kinds
of creative things, and I think naively they thought, well,
you know, if this isn't the same as a a
bunch of boosters, like this is a legit company. Yeah,
and they like, no, you can't do They're still doing

(56:18):
the same exact thing the collective is, which is helping
you buy recruits and retain your players. So now that
that has come in, that decision has been upheld, that
obviously has ramifications for other schools that might be doing
the same thing. Also, if you were somebody like me
who was skeptical that this CSC thing would even hold up,
like here was your first independent person saying no, actually

(56:40):
I agree with them there. They did the right thing.

Speaker 1 (56:44):
So do you think there's going to be more fall
out other schools going to have this come up.

Speaker 12 (56:51):
Well, there's definitely other schools that were doing the exact
same thing, they just might not have had the players
taken to arbitration. Yet, I do think there's been enough.
I mean, this thing took about three months I think
to go through the system, and in that time, I
mean I think Nebraska, the head of the CSC himself
said they probably haven't just gone ahead and done different
deals for them that would pass through the system. The

(57:11):
big question is, and the reason Nebraska was the first
test case why they went forward is their own state
has a law that you cannot penalize college athletes for
taking an IL model, And so everybody's waiting to see
are they going to act on that now now that
the decision has been unfavorable. Are they going to try
to sue CFC on behalf of these athletes? And I

(57:33):
don't know if they're going through or not, but at
some point somebody, at some point, somebody is going to
see these guys says it's hurting their favorite football team,
and that's when we'll find out whether that thing can
stand up.

Speaker 1 (57:44):
Suer Mandel joining us from the Athletic The Athletic dot
com college football writer. As we look at the off
season a little bit, one of the things that we
have seen today kind of creep up. Is it interesting?
Jim Phillips, the ACC Commissioner, talking about the desire to
have a twenty four team college football playoff. Of course,

(58:04):
we're just on the heels of finding out that the
NCAA basketball tournament, although nobody seemed to want it except
for depending on who you want to talk to, our
guy Gary Parrish from CBS, that it was a Sankey
and nobody else or that was kind of it. But
that expanded to seventy six twenty four team college football
playoff that the ACC is pushing for. It feels like

(58:27):
they might be. And Jim Phillips and the ACC are
on a little bit of an island here, or are
they with that twenty fourteen playoff? Thought?

Speaker 12 (58:35):
Well, the twenty fourteen playoff game started with the Big
Ten last year.

Speaker 9 (58:38):
This was there.

Speaker 12 (58:40):
Once they got their original sixteen team proposal shotdown, they
went straight to twenty four and for a while there
they were on an island. But we have seen in
quick succession, the ACC, the Big twelve, Notre Dame all
go on the record saying yeah, we support that, we
want that too. So it's really the SEC Greg Sankee ESPN,

(59:03):
which is a significant part of this, who don't want it.
And I'm actually writing a column about this as we speak.
I don't want a seventy six in Sate tournament. Nobody does.
But at the end of the day, if you think
about it, like, what are the actual implicator our consequences
of that A few more mediocre teams to get in
and the bracket is a little plunkier to fill out.

(59:23):
I'm of the opinion and I think ninety percent of
the public is too, that if you do this in football,
you are going to destroy the regular season. Kyle shootball
has the best regular season in sports. Nobody can argue
that the stakes are really high.

Speaker 9 (59:35):
Each week.

Speaker 12 (59:36):
You might be able to lose one game and make
the playoff. You can't lose two if you're Notre Dame
last year or Miami the year before. If you look
at what a twenty four team field would have looked
like last year, eight and four Iowa would have been
in it, and there would have been other teams like
that right on the cusp. Certainly all the nine to

(59:56):
three Power conference teams get into it.

Speaker 9 (01:00:00):
I don't.

Speaker 12 (01:00:01):
That's not college football, that's the NFL. That's you know,
the NBA playoffs, where I mean they literally sick guys
out of games in those sports because they don't they're
in or they're not in, and they're not worried about it.
I think it would be just a I'll use the
word a catastrophe if this goes.

Speaker 1 (01:00:21):
Through the Yeah, because if you're going to twenty four,
then is a three team, three lost team ever made
it to the college football Playoff? I don't think so
in the current and the crew setup.

Speaker 12 (01:00:33):
Right not to this point. Now. The coaches of you know,
link Iff And had a three lost team last year
and was furious that they didn't get in the Sarkisian
last year in a twelve team playoff. It's probably gonna
happen at some point because those teams have been close, right,
But most of the time that's I mean, it's going
to happen pretty rarely. And again like even ten and

(01:00:55):
two that you know, even a ten and two Vanderbilt
team in the SEC last year got let doubt they
weren't particularly close to it. I don't think you heard
a lot of you know, people feeling sorry for them
so And that's the thing I don't, you know, Notre
Dame was obviously the big controversy last year, right, I
didn't hear a lot of people outside of Notre Dame

(01:01:16):
fans like, oh, they got job, you know, they were
so great, Like we're not. This isn't twenty twenty three
Florida Stake goes undefeated and doesn't make the playoff. Right
at this point, I think most people feel like twelves enough.

Speaker 1 (01:01:30):
I think so too, And I you know, listen, you
know you and I old enough to remember when it
was they just voted on a champion via the polls.
Husky fans are yelling and screaming steel about what happened
with b Yu years ago in nineteen eighty fourist or
whatever it was with Robbie Bosco and the and the
Cougars getting it, getting that win and this win national

(01:01:51):
championship with Miami and all those things that didn't that
wasn't right. A two team playoff just felt like too little,
right with just two teams and a fourteen playoff, too
little like a BCS and then the fourteen playoff. It
feels now like I think what you said. The regular
season matters, but there's also a little bit of leeway. Right,
you can lose a game or two. Your season doesn't end.

(01:02:12):
If you lose in September, you can still get going.
It just it dilutes, it, does it not? It waters
it down so much. If all of a sudden you
have that team that's sneaking in there, what'd you say,
Iowa last year at eight and four would have got in.

Speaker 12 (01:02:26):
Iowa was eight and four and didn't really have any
big wins, but somebody would have to go twenty four teams.
I think that obviously the stakes aren't quite as high
as they were in the VCS. I always think of
the kick six. Alabama was und feed going to that game,

(01:02:46):
lose on that crazy play to Auburn, They're out. So
that wasn't always the case. Steven had some one loss
teams that made it to the DCS title game. I
didn't feel like we lost any of that in four teams.
I thought we might lose some of that with twelve.
But if you look at people are watching those games,
I mean, people are watching those big games, and look,
if they go to twenty four, I don't think it

(01:03:08):
means nobody's gonna watch the Ohio State Texas game. Like
there's there's certain games and some certain matchups that people
are always going to watch, But I don't know about
the other games. I mean, I mean, and maybe even
like the Ohio State Texas game, Like, basically Ohio State
is never going to miss the playoff ever. Again, you know,
I don't even they don't even need to play the season.

(01:03:30):
When does Ohio State ever finish outside of the top
twenty four? When does Georgia or Alabama ever finish outside
of the top twenty four. Now the footside of that
is we saw Indiana get in and basically redefine their
whole program, And so I mean it's not a secret
why coaches and ads want this thing. Oh my team

(01:03:50):
could get into and do that, right, or maybe if
my team it's in, I don't get fired as quickly,
like it's all about south but nobody is looking out
for the good of the sport.

Speaker 1 (01:04:03):
Yes, dude, I think I just go back. Notre Dame
is a probably a good example. Last year, right, you lose
to Miami twenty seven to twenty four to open up
the season. Then you lose forty one forty in an
incredible game at home against Texas A and M. You're
zero to two and people were saying, well, they're out,
they're done. Then they run the table. They went ten
straight and they're in the conversation again. But just miss
to me, there is a penalty. I mean, because it

(01:04:25):
probably came down to Miami and right, Miami and Notre Dame.
Last season, Miami gets in and it gets all the
way to the National Championship game at the expense of
Notre Dame. You still have to win games in the
regular season, like you said, you still have to do that.
And oh, by the way, who owns the rights to
a lot of these games? It's ESPN. This also feels
like an ESPN versus Fox battle, right because some of
the conferences you've met, the Big Ten is a Fox conference,

(01:04:48):
like they're basically run by Fox. The Big Ten is
we saw that with realignment, so yeah big so Fox
is like whatever, and ESPN's like, no, keep it at
twelve or maybe go to sixteen? Does sixteen field like
the compromise that's going to happen eventually?

Speaker 12 (01:05:03):
Well, that's Greg, thank you would sign off on it
tomorrow if they decided sixteen is enough. I think you
know last year, the reason that the Big ten sixteen
team proposal didn't get off the ground last year was
it was going to guarantee more bids. It's basically gonna
most of the bids were gonna be AQ bids, and

(01:05:25):
they were going to be four to the eight SEC
and Big Ten and only two to the eighteen seen
Big twelve. Nobody decides the Big Ten wanted that. But
if it's a wide open hey, whoever, the best twenty
four are regardless of conference. I'm sorry, the best sixteen, right.
I think the SEC would would sign up for that tomorrow,
and I don't know that it would feel that different.
For one thing, you wouldn't be adding an extra round.

(01:05:48):
I mean, one of the things that's that's mind boggling
about this to me is that the College Football Playoff
would now go more rounds than the NFL Playoffs. And
in order to fit that in, they would just get
rid of conference championship games. Yeah, we're going to get
rid of the one versus two Ohio State Indiana game
last year so that we can watch number sixteen play

(01:06:10):
number twenty four in a playing game to the sixteen
team practice.

Speaker 1 (01:06:16):
Yeah, I mean I think that's the trade off, which
doesn't sound all that enticing it does. I don't like
the buys necessarily though, like Texas Tech getting a buye
and then they get shut out in the set, and
the buys haven't treated teams well right outside of Indiana.
Last year, it gets all the way through, but Georgia
loses after a buye. Ohio State loses after a buye.
We know what happened the year before. Do you if

(01:06:38):
it goes to sixteen? Last year we had an unprecedented
in some ways, right, two teams from group of what
is it now, group of six, group of five, whatever
the conferences are, James Madison and Tulane both get in.
If it went to sixteen, would we see two of
those teams in every year? Or do you think it
just benefits again the big.

Speaker 12 (01:06:57):
Boys, they've already they already responded to that. They immediately
changed their rule to the power four champs are guaranteed
of birth, so that those four and in one group
of six teams last year, a second one guy in
because Duke won the ACC. No, there's only going to

(01:07:19):
be one group of four team or group of six
teams who is going to benefit the middle of the
pack Big ten and SEC teams. Not that there won't
be other teams that get in from the Big twelve
and ACC but clearly the sport as it is now,
you have two conferences that have separated themselves from the
other two and are considered to play the tougher schedules. Remember,

(01:07:40):
the SEC is going to a nine game conference schedule
this year, which they're uh which is I think part
of the reason why they wouldn't mind a bigger playoff
is because some of their and then two teams are
going to become nine to three teams.

Speaker 6 (01:07:51):
Now.

Speaker 12 (01:07:53):
So again, like I said before, I mean, everybody's looking
out for themselves every you know, they all claim and
they can't afford to pay the players. So now if
you can get some Fox or somebody to pay for
some extra playoff games, make a little bit more money
that way. And I just think it's a mistake.

Speaker 1 (01:08:11):
Just know that Jim Phillips, these guys pushing for these
bigger playoffs, that's fine, But I think what you just
said is true. The Big ten and the SEC are
going to benefit. The ACC is not going to benefit,
The Big twelve is not going to benefit. Certainly the
non Power five conference at four conferences aren't going to benefit.
And it's going to be whatever ESPN probably wants when
it's all said and done, and maybe trending towards sixteen.

Speaker 12 (01:08:30):
The UESPN doesn't want this because they want to continue
to show the games exclusively or at the very least
maybe give up one or two. And you know, you
go to twenty four, you're adding what eleven more games
than you have? Now, did I do the mass right
on that? They're not going to get all those games.
Some of them are going to go to Fox, maybe NBC, CBS.

(01:08:53):
So also, if I'm ESPN not loving that you're going
to take the SEC Championship away like I might be like, well,
then what am I paying all this money to the
SEC for.

Speaker 1 (01:09:03):
Yeah, you're paying for LSU and Old Miss in September. No,
you're paying it for what you just said, that game
in Atlanta in December that has two top five teams
playing every year. That's what you're paying for.

Speaker 12 (01:09:14):
Uh on for an LSU Ole Miss game in September
that has a direct effect on the playoff bring it
does loses that game is you know, doesn't have a
lot of wiggle room.

Speaker 1 (01:09:23):
What's what's the school that you can get a degree
in basket weaving at these days?

Speaker 6 (01:09:27):
Is it?

Speaker 5 (01:09:28):
Is it all Miss? Is it Ole Miss?

Speaker 12 (01:09:29):
Who is it? According to uh? According to Yeah, according
to Sark, Uh it's all Miss because first Lane Kiffin
and then Stuckisian decided is tee off on Ole Miss
this week?

Speaker 6 (01:09:41):
Sure? Why?

Speaker 1 (01:09:42):
I'm not sure If I'm Sark I'm living in a
glasshouse and I'm probably careful. Just you've got enough things
going on in your life in the day. I just
i'd kind of I'd keep that one in myself. But
you know what, it makes it for some spicy stuff
that Stewart can write. Go check out the athletic u
NCAA football page there. He's got a lot of great
stuff going on there. H Again, no off season for Stu,
like there is absolutely, in fact not even for us

(01:10:03):
when we call Stu and say Stu, we need you
to come on, there is no off season. We appreciate
you coming on to you. Hopefully you get a little
down time. It should quiet down a little bit here
coming up right.

Speaker 12 (01:10:13):
Absolutely, I hope but I got to say, you know,
I'm also I'm also covering softball for US and.

Speaker 1 (01:10:19):
The whoa hey, hey, all right, all right, well he's
and I didn't even get into the fact that you
got a C or SEC schools dropping, you know, non
revenue sports, so, uh, softball should be fun. We were
big softball out here with the UW and all that.
By the way, Stu's uh, they do have episodes coming
out in the audible. You can check that out. So, uh,
he's still working hard with everybody. And we will call

(01:10:39):
you again this off season. That's a guarantee, and we
hope that you answer the phone. Usually people and just
calls answer the phone, so we'll talk to you again
before we get to September, my friend. Thanks Stewart. All right,
thanks sir Mendel joining us here from the athletic great stuff.
Audible is a great podcast, and of course what they
wrote on the on the website's fun too. I don't know, man,
I the just opening it up and everyone gets a

(01:11:03):
ribbon sixteen. I'm all for sixteen. You give me sixteen.
I'm fine.

Speaker 5 (01:11:07):
It just seems balanced, like sixteen's balance.

Speaker 2 (01:11:10):
You could make an argument even though it's probably not
a great one that sixteen teams have a shot to
win the national.

Speaker 1 (01:11:16):
Champions Well, and it eliminates the buys, yes, and you
know you get another on campus game.

Speaker 5 (01:11:23):
You know.

Speaker 1 (01:11:23):
So like last year, Texas Tech would have played somebody,
Indiana would have played somebody, Georgia would have played somebody
in Ohio State would have played somebody. It's a true
because those yeah, those four teams all got first round buys,
and three of those four teams then lost in the
next round. Like there's something to be said about, you know, momentum.
Now there's fatigue and all those and I believe if

(01:11:43):
I'm not mistaken, let me just check this real fast,
because this is the second year we just had that
twelve team to playoff. Arizona State by lost in the
in the second round, Oregon by lost in the second round,
Boise State by lost in the second round. Georgia. So
I want to say there was one team that Georgia
that won. Yeah, Georgia. So in the two years we've

(01:12:05):
had the twelve team playoff.

Speaker 5 (01:12:06):
One team, we are two, right, I think I think
they were over at two years ago.

Speaker 1 (01:12:12):
No, last year, Georgia two years ago Georgia one in
Ohio State won. Last year no Ohio State lost, So
it's one and one in five. Yeah, I don't know,
one in one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight,
one and seven teams with buyser one and seven.

Speaker 2 (01:12:26):
Yeah, So if you eliminate that altogether, everyone kind of
I don't want to say even playing fields.

Speaker 5 (01:12:30):
You still have home games, but yeah, I.

Speaker 1 (01:12:32):
Listen, I understand, I understand, and then we all understand
what ESPN paid for in terms of like the SEC
championship game and stuff like that. Conference championship games are worthless.
They just they're just at this point, and even last
year it was a seating game. Is a seating game
in the Big Ten? Right?

Speaker 6 (01:12:47):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:12:47):
It was a seating game. Yeah, that's that's what happened. Uh,
Georgia in essence, I guess it wasn't a seating game.
They got in and Alabama didn't, but Georgia was probably
gonna get in anyway. So you can get rid of.

Speaker 5 (01:12:58):
The conference championship games.

Speaker 1 (01:12:59):
I think that to some of the awful conference championship
games we had in the pack before it went away.
Oh my god.

Speaker 4 (01:13:04):
But they used to be.

Speaker 1 (01:13:05):
Because when it was North and South when it was
North and South. I like it felt like for many years,
like the South had like the worst team U c
l A gets a conference championship game and they're six
and six. You know, like what.

Speaker 4 (01:13:17):
Utah wasn't amazing when Utah was awful.

Speaker 1 (01:13:19):
Yeah, Colorado had one where they snuck in somehow because
it's pretty dionn and they got I think Washington boat
raced them, didn't let him score. Yeah, so it's yeah, no,
we don't need those conference championship games, all right, but
take a break, come back. Uh, Daily power Play coming up,
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That didn't happen. They go overtime. Vegas wins three to
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team in the NHL this year. Yeah, and they're gonna
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They'll end up playing two series. Thanks for coming so
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cracking fan. Playoff hockey tonight in the American Hockey League
Colorado Firebirds of Coachella Valley, Seattle's farm team Pacific Division
Finals Game one, seven o'clock Pacific time. That game is
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you've probably seen it. Uh they've got so anyway, they
got that tonight, so you can watch for free. Uh
I told you yesterday. Oscar Fisker Molgardle in the American
Hockey League in scoring in the playoffs, which is cool. Great,
love seeing that. Jannie Newman's having a great playoff. Nikkoco
the goaltender having a great playoff, and you want to
see that because you want to see your crack and

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get better, make some moves. Maybe you move a veteran
goaltender in the offseason. The only way you do that
is you got somebody waiting in the wings. Kind of
appears that they do.

Speaker 5 (01:16:43):
So there you go.

Speaker 1 (01:16:44):
You watch that game tonight. Ever tonight, Silver Tips taken
on Prince Aalbert WHL Championships game. For that series, they
lead two games and one after win last night. I'm
trying to take a commanding three games to one lead.
Julius Mantnan continues to be maybe the best player on
the ice that series. I know, butder Bear, I know
DuPont DuPont I'm going with the guy that is a

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cl cracking player. Yeah, but he's he looks really good.

Speaker 5 (01:17:10):
Who's who's DuPont A?

Speaker 1 (01:17:13):
He's a he's a year away from being drafted out.
He might be number one next year.

Speaker 5 (01:17:19):
Okay, crack?

Speaker 1 (01:17:21):
Well, sorry, if you want to you want him to tank,
don't you know, not.

Speaker 5 (01:17:28):
Necessarily, but if you're not going to be good.

Speaker 4 (01:17:32):
So you're rooting for the fail for.

Speaker 5 (01:17:34):
The future, it's you gotta be a one of two ends, right,
Being in the middle not great? Well, what do you
call it? The mushy middle, murky middle middle?

Speaker 4 (01:17:43):
Yeah, you don't want to ever be in the middle. Yeah,
you're right. No, it's the same with the NFL Vancouver.

Speaker 1 (01:17:48):
Vancouver's basically tanked. Yeah, get the third overall pick, and
really this is not the year to have that.

Speaker 5 (01:17:55):
True.

Speaker 1 (01:17:56):
There's two and then a drop off we thought there
was three or four more where we hear about it.
There was two. Now it is kind of funny that
it happened to Vancouver. It's okay, that is okay, It's
kind of okay in that regard. Anyway, there you go.
That's your daily power player home for the Cracking nine
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(01:18:16):
o'clock hour, LUN's gonna join us. We're gonn talk about
NFL schedule. Got some good text by the way on
how much it means to you? Interesting couple of things
interesting along the way. H Nick Allen says, ian, what
are the calshy prediction odds that lund will watch crocodile
Dundee on the wait Australian decides to go on a
walk about, never to be seen again. I don't know.

(01:18:37):
I'll ask him about that. I could see him doing that.
Lends a strange fella.

Speaker 5 (01:18:43):
You just think, yeah, he's a he's a strange fella.
He's a strange fella. Anyone in this businesses, let's be honest.

Speaker 4 (01:18:52):
Yeah, radio folk, we are all radio folk.

Speaker 5 (01:18:56):
H oh.

Speaker 1 (01:18:58):
I do I think we did miss what Indiana did
win last year? Did they have a buyer.

Speaker 5 (01:19:01):
I don't think so, I know they did. So there's
two times, two wins, two wins. Yes, thank you for the.

Speaker 1 (01:19:08):
We're here to be correct, we root to be wrong
and if we're wrong, please correct U. Yes, John lind
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Speaker 1 (01:19:27):
Mars won the second game of the series against the Astros.
Nine straight against Houston dating back to last season. Randy
Rose ran a four for four to two doubles at
a home run. Cal Raley breaks his own for thirty
eight slump with two singles. Bryce Miller makes his season
debut tonight against Lance mccullor's junior. You'd say, wow, that's
going to be a hard pitching matchup for Sattle. Then
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and it's not much.

Speaker 5 (01:19:49):
He's not been good at all, as has and.

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He's still probably the best Astros pitcher.

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I'll tell you.

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Something, boy, that kid last night again is just eighteen
wasted million.

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Do a lot of wasted dollars.

Speaker 1 (01:20:02):
Yeah, Seahawks have signed second round draft pick Bud Clark.
Seven of eight twenty twenty six draft picks are now signed,
everyone except for first round pick Jadarian Price. Sounders take
on San Jose tonight, six o'clock pre game with Action
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for their first win. Meanwhile, Silver Tips take on Prince
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game slate. No Seahawks games this year, two for the
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and Colorado.

Speaker 7 (01:20:49):
Welcome Dan's weekly visit with John Lund Unleashed. He's a
Bay Area media icon who's known Ian for over twenty
five years.

Speaker 1 (01:20:57):
But don't let their age, Jane Europig, you know them.

Speaker 7 (01:21:00):
John takes you through the Bay Area and the NFC
West and dupes it out with the in Over, the Niners.

Speaker 1 (01:21:06):
And the Hawks.

Speaker 7 (01:21:07):
So let's unleash it now with John Lund.

Speaker 1 (01:21:10):
Here's Ian Man well, the Calshy odds for LUNs. If
you had the over, you you lose today. You have
you lost.

Speaker 5 (01:21:21):
See since we've bet on it yesterday, this is way over.

Speaker 6 (01:21:25):
Well no, I'm twenty four hour are twenty four hours over?

Speaker 1 (01:21:29):
Kind of myself?

Speaker 6 (01:21:30):
I talked to myself. I was being far too reliable,
so I talked to myself, let's be.

Speaker 1 (01:21:34):
Twenty four hours late, because.

Speaker 6 (01:21:36):
If you're going to do it, just do it. Don't
be five minutes late, No, ten minutes late. Be twenty
four hours late.

Speaker 1 (01:21:41):
Well, frankly and the idea, Bidy, you had a meeting
like you did.

Speaker 6 (01:21:47):
Yeah, I'm very hey man, you know I'm very important
right now. I'm like, not right now, just all the
time and eight things, man, I you know a lot
of I'm in demand demand.

Speaker 1 (01:21:57):
Our guy Nick Allen, one of our loyal listeners. I
think he thinks you're still working for the forty nine ers.
You're not, because he says we're of The Calshy prediction
odds that lond will watch Crocodile Dundee on the way
to Australia that game, decide to go to walk About
never to be seen again. I'm going to that going to.

Speaker 6 (01:22:11):
That they be they're begging me to Yeah, they're begging
me to go and Mexico City. I'm gonna be a
world traveler this year.

Speaker 1 (01:22:16):
Wait wait wait wait, wait wait wait, are you really
going to those two games?

Speaker 6 (01:22:19):
Wait?

Speaker 1 (01:22:20):
Yeah, I thought you were done. I thought you were
done with them.

Speaker 6 (01:22:24):
I told you I know certain people and and and
and it's happening. So I'll be able to call you
from down Under. I don't know what the time difference is,
but whatever it is, I'll only be like, like, can
you imagine I'm I can't even be on time now,
can you imagine what it's could be like in Australia
and in Mexico City. Look, man, the cuisine is so good,
you know. I basically have marguerite is coming out of
my foscet at home. So I don't know about Mexico City,

(01:22:46):
but I.

Speaker 1 (01:22:47):
Don't know about if I going to figure out. I
don't think you're gonna get lost in Australia for sure.
Right seven in the morning, right now, seven in the morning,
So you'll difference something. Yeah, seven in the morning tomorrow.
By the way, Oh yeah, I was I was on time.
It was day later, but it was on time. Whatever.

Speaker 4 (01:23:09):
Well, that's that's in the Capitol seven.

Speaker 1 (01:23:11):
Yeah, at Mexico City, you're gonna you're gona get taken
in by the cartel. Like I say, Hey, that's John Lone.
He's a big deal. Let's go grab Himlet's see what
kind of ransom we can get.

Speaker 6 (01:23:21):
So you know, you know what my meeting was yesterday.
You'll get a big kick out of this.

Speaker 1 (01:23:25):
David Lock.

Speaker 6 (01:23:27):
Some people say, I remember that get named.

Speaker 1 (01:23:29):
Everyone does, everyone does? Yeah, David Lock.

Speaker 6 (01:23:32):
Wow, it was just a look at my beautiful house
and a golf course, Look at me, look at this
I sold the podcast network. Oh oh, I have three houses.
Oh man, it's such a it's it's so hard to
to maintain three houses. I was like, yeah, I really
feel for you, dude. Anyway, uh my god, I gotta go.
I'm a loser. I'm gonna go stick together in my mouth.
I mean that was the whole conver and you know him.

(01:23:52):
I mean I told and I took my son down
to meet him, and I said, look, you're not gonna
get into word edge wise. It's you know, the base
in it. That's exactly what happened. I don't even think
I got a chance to put in one word. I'm like, yeah,
you said I to him, and then that was it.

Speaker 1 (01:24:05):
That was on. No, he's He's the thing that's amazing
to me about David is he still has that same
energy he had twenty five years ago when we first met.

Speaker 6 (01:24:13):
Him, exactly like I don't, I don't, I.

Speaker 1 (01:24:15):
Don't know about you. I don't have that energy. I'm like,
I'm done, Like I'm running on empty right now. This
guy's he's. I called him the other day and it
was about something, actually something I had to ask him
business wise, are just a question or some advice And
it was like an hour later and I've got nothing accomplished,
which is fine. I love talking to Davis. Went listen,
all joking aside. A lot of us owe our careers.

Speaker 5 (01:24:37):
Dam like he gave me for yourself, well for yourself.
He puts you on the air and nobody understood why
and salt Lake trust me, Like everyone's like, why is
this guy?

Speaker 1 (01:24:47):
Why is Lund on the air? Who is Lund?

Speaker 5 (01:24:51):
I knew you were a beauty.

Speaker 1 (01:24:53):
I knew you were a beauty when you were doing
updates in the morning for a morning show. At one point,
I think you were out of filling in or something,
and this was this is what Lund would say every day. Now,
keeping in mind, Salt Lake is like nice weather like
and it's either it's always sunny, like he can have
a blizzard and an hour later it's sunny. Right, you
can have a thunderstorm an hour later it's Sunday. Yeah,
it's it's really nice. Yeah, every morning. The seven o'clock

(01:25:15):
weather update on thirteen twenty, key Fan the Sports Leader
with John lynd U. Currently forty eight degrees and partly
cloudy outside. That's you said that every single time. Yeah,
you never want weather? What a buy the Weather Channel.

Speaker 6 (01:25:30):
I felt the same way about traffic, Like they'd say,
they say, you got to do wiver on your sports updates,
you gotta have weather in traffic, and I'd be like,
no one cares about weather, and no one cares about
traffic because if they wanted that, they'd go to the
news station. Like I just I didn't find that to
be important.

Speaker 1 (01:25:43):
The traffic traffic under two fifteen slow right now around
the West Valley East Center outside of that pretty good.

Speaker 6 (01:25:49):
Same thing. Yeah, god yeah, I said the same thing
every day, and the same thing in San Francisco, they'd
make us do do traffic, Like what's traffic? It's like
it's traffic. Key back to you, Bob, But saff Francisco
Man track would home from forty nine er games at midnight,
and it would be I'd be bumper to bumper at midnight,
Like I got news for it. It's gonna be traffic

(01:26:09):
heat and there's bridges all over the place, so there's
nowhere for you to go. There is no alternative route
back to you.

Speaker 1 (01:26:15):
Like good listening thing you're listing, well, nothing screams information
like a John lenn broadcast. That's for damn Well. See
now you're doing the Westwood One. You don't have to
worry about that stuff because you're doing national radio. You're
a big national guy now, so that's right. I don't
have to worry about that kind of stuff. Yeah, big money,
forty nine ers get two, not one, but two International Games. Wow,
who'd you guys piss off?

Speaker 6 (01:26:37):
Yeah? You know. And the whole thing they're mad about
is the Rams chose the forty nine ers because when
the forty nine ers go down to the Rams, all
forty nine ers just like the Seahawks. Just like the Seahawks,
they dominate. So they thought to themselves, well, we'll lose
that home game because that's a road game for us anyway,
and so that's why they did that. And the forty

(01:26:58):
nine ers actually got mad. And you know what the
forty nine ers tried to do. They because they have
an amazing footprint in Mexico City, like the Niners are that,
and so what they tried to do is they tried
to do it back to the Rams and say, hey,
then we want the Rams in Mexico City in the NFL.

Speaker 1 (01:27:14):
Like, no, we're not doing that.

Speaker 6 (01:27:16):
So wow. But yeah, so the Rams actually picked the
Niners and to lose that home game because they knew
that that was basically a road game for them, so
if they were going to lose the game, they did
that for competitive purposes. And then the Niners tried it
back at them and they're like, uh no, we're not
doing that.

Speaker 1 (01:27:32):
So so that continues. So that is a Rams home game,
that first one in Australia. Yeah, what's the Rams home game?
And they picked the Niners. That just says a lot,
does it not. I can't imagine any team wanting to
play a divisional rival that you know that you have
to win. If you're going to win the division, you like,
those are the games you have to win, and not

(01:27:53):
wanting to play it in your own building like that
just says, Wow, that's that's insane.

Speaker 5 (01:27:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:27:59):
Well, and you and I talked about this all the time.
I mean, they can do that whole dumb Rams House
thing and have the girl with the guitar and if
people haven't been down there, it's obviously there's a you've
been to all the stadiums and it's honestly the dumbest
thing ever in that whole bit that they do Rams
House like they do it during the draft. They call
it Rams House where they're drafting from and everything. It's
like they don't have any fans and the ones.

Speaker 1 (01:28:20):
That they do have.

Speaker 6 (01:28:21):
Are just because they're front running. Oh the Rams are good,
let's jump on up on.

Speaker 1 (01:28:24):
Jump off, you know. Anyway, they're all wearing Lakers gear
when they show up a Dodgers gear to it to
a Rams game. No, it's it's that that's crazy.

Speaker 8 (01:28:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:28:32):
Well, you know, we talked about just how forty nine
er fans do travel travel really well, we saw that
was kind of the big is maybe kind of the
beginning of the end in twenty twenty three when they
came to Seattle for that Thanksgiving game on November twenty third,
and in twenty twenty three and Bolt Race Seattle thirty
one to thirteen. It was like a Rams home game
that day and it was like kind of became a
theme and next thing, you know, piece out at the
end of the year, vikings forty nine ers in Mexico,

(01:28:54):
So that'll be Is that a home game for San
Francisco then that you guys gave up?

Speaker 6 (01:28:58):
Yeah, so they lose that one, and I I think
it's you know, there's all these trades constantly going on.
If you do this, then we'll do that for you.
So I think that's part of They just got Super
Bowl sixty. Obviously the one that Seattle one.

Speaker 5 (01:29:11):
You might remember that we do very well.

Speaker 1 (01:29:13):
That was the trade off.

Speaker 6 (01:29:14):
The trade off was, Okay, we'll get you a super Bowl,
but you you know, you've got to go abroad, which
most people, you know, more and more teams are gonna
have to do this. I mean they're they're obviously, as
you all know, and everybody knows, they're expanding this all out.
So whether you want to go, whether you don't want
to go, is really immaterial, but they're you know, you're
trying to do from a business standpoint, leverage it. So
it's like, Okay, we lose a home game, but we

(01:29:35):
get a super Bowl. That's kind of a good trade off. Well,
and that's what we were talking about that earlier with Seattle.
Seattle is not going to get a doesn't have the
defending Super Bowl champions, do not have an international game
uh this year. And but they are opening on a
Wednesday as opposed to Thursday because of that Australia game
with the Rams and the forty nine ers. That's a
little bit if it's trade off, I think they just
told that's what's going to happen. But I would say

(01:29:57):
my uh, as far as that's concerned, John, I got
I think that Seattle probably cut a deal. I mean,
I don't know if they'll ever say this, and maybe
I'm wrong, but dance with me on this. How does
this sound Listen? We don't want to travel, We travel
too much anyway. We played into February last season. We
don't want to do it.

Speaker 1 (01:30:13):
And they said, okay, that's cool, you're gonna play on Christmas,
which we don't know yet. But it kind of feels
like it's gonna be You're gonna play on Christmas and
you're and you're gonna have deal deal with hard knocks.
Does that seem to make sense, that has a trade off.

Speaker 6 (01:30:23):
Yeah, no, that's that's exactly what they do. And so yeah,
they're gonna they're gonna leverage you somehow. And look, I
think it's a great deal for the Seahawks because you
are the champs and that's what they want, and so
they're gonna take those situations. I know a couple of
years ago, I don't know, might have led to my divorce.
I can't remember which divorce I'm on right now. Anyway,

(01:30:44):
my accountant takes care of that stuff.

Speaker 1 (01:30:46):
I think you're only one, and I think you're only
one in I.

Speaker 6 (01:30:48):
Hope I'm getting close to number two. I know she's
not listening, but it's not going good. That's my fault.
But anyway, long I'm not easy to be around. I
don't know if you know that, but no.

Speaker 1 (01:30:58):
Idea stunned by that.

Speaker 6 (01:31:02):
But yeah, look, a couple of years ago, the Niners
played on I think it was Christmas Eve, New Year's Day,
like they Thanksgiving, like they were pissed and they played
in all of them, and so you know, it can
be frustrating because the players don't get to be with
their families on any of those events. But I think
from a standpoint of a business standpoint, you know, that's
look the Seahawks right now, they're the biggest entity going

(01:31:24):
in the league. I get it that the Giants and
the this and the Cowboys and there's all these ones.
But believe me, there's gonna be a lot of people
jumping on the bagwagon. And I think from a standpoint
of how the league looks at it from a non
international standpoint is you want to put the champs on
as much as you can. And between what you guys
already know, which is it's a great home atmosphere, it's entertaining,
even though you know people out to defense whatever, they

(01:31:45):
play an.

Speaker 1 (01:31:46):
Entertaining brand of ball, and they're the Champs.

Speaker 6 (01:31:48):
And so if you're not going to go international, like
you said, then you're going to have to be on
the market events and we've got to be able to
sell you.

Speaker 1 (01:31:54):
I thought John Lone joining us, one of our guy
on before me, Greg Bell was the Sea beat Rin
for the News Tribune was talking yesterday.

Speaker 5 (01:32:00):
He was so good.

Speaker 1 (01:32:01):
Yeah, he's a good dude.

Speaker 5 (01:32:02):
He says, so good, because I can't believe Spain that's
still after you is really good too.

Speaker 1 (01:32:05):
No, it's it really isn't he says.

Speaker 6 (01:32:10):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:32:10):
He says Bengals Falcon Spain Madrid, Like that's brutal. They
get that game. And I said, well, it doesn't really matter.
You've talked about this, doesn't matter what the game is
right overseas you've been there. They're wearing jerseys from all
all thirty two teams. They don't care.

Speaker 6 (01:32:25):
Yeah, you know, it's one of the weirdest things I've
ever seen. And like I said, we pulled up the
Wembley Stadium the first year I went there, and it
was the weirdest thing because it was it was and
they're all throwbacks and everything, and it's just kind of
a niche thing. And I wouldn't even call it soccer.
It's not you know, people would think, well, maybe it's
a put on a soccer and it's just not. It's
just there's a niche and they're trying to grow it

(01:32:45):
and they've tried to grow it in London forever. And
I know Jacksonville's got a couple like back to back
weeks and they're going to these different countries. I get
what they're doing, but the misconception, I think with what
the NFL tries to sell you. And I told you
this too when I went into a Nike store and
I literally interviewed people in there, and they were they
had every jersey you could possibly have, and not only
the new ones but the throwbacks, and people were buying them.

Speaker 1 (01:33:04):
Left and right.

Speaker 6 (01:33:05):
And I said, do you know what you're buying? Do
you like? Do you know who what player that is?
Do you know what? I think? It was like Andrew
Luck was you know, somebody had a Luck jersey or
something was back in those days, and they didn't even know,
but they just knew that it was a cool event,
it was coming to town. A lot of them weren't going.
But a lot of the people that I in a
big Nike store right in the middle of London with
the jerseys right there and they were promoting the whole thing,
they didn't know who was playing that weekend. They couldn't name,

(01:33:28):
you know. I was like, can you name three NFL players?
They couldn't do that. We broadcast from what is the
equivalent of ESPN over there in London. It's called Talk Sport,
and we were in their studios and I was explaining
football to him, and those guys were making fun of me,
like that's fall too complicated, you know. They were just
they were like, that's preposterous. Yeah, their football, I mean,

(01:33:49):
they're just yeah, they were just like what you call
a play and then you get tackled and you go
back into a huddle. They're like, this is so stupid. Yeah,
they're just they were just they could not grasp it.
And they're like, look, we're just never gonna do that.
We kick a ball that goes into a goal, we
drink a bunch. You know, that's like very simplistic game.
We're not going to go that's far too complicated what
you're doing and calling plays and this and that and

(01:34:09):
time outs and you know, I'm trying to explain to
them the basics and you know.

Speaker 1 (01:34:12):
Punt returns and extra points.

Speaker 6 (01:34:14):
And there's like this that's stupid, Like you your game
is stupid.

Speaker 3 (01:34:18):
The rugby players I worked with refused to call the
uprights the uprights because I.

Speaker 4 (01:34:22):
Did TV with them.

Speaker 3 (01:34:23):
They called it the h which is an h but
they called it a h and I'm like, no, dude,
and why is that all different? I'm like, rugby is
different too, but then soccer You're like, that's one and
maybe you're lucky if you get one.

Speaker 5 (01:34:36):
The whole game.

Speaker 1 (01:34:37):
Well, soccer is a very simple game. And I'm not
saying that in derogatory fashion. It's a very simple game.
It's it's beautiful, it's yeah, it's it's you know, very
simple to forget football for simple but I just, yeah,
it isn What I'm wondering about that is this with
with this European stuff, because listening to what you say
and and and going through it in in our country,

(01:34:58):
like people are passionate out Premier League soccer. Andrews is
watching a match right now. Yeah, but you guys all
have teams, Like everyone I know that watches Premier League
soccer in our country has a team. You're an MU
guy or a Manchester City guy or Arsenal whatever it
might be. Right, you're a guy, you're telling me, really, John,
In overseas, they really they're just like there for the experience,

(01:35:19):
right most I mean.

Speaker 6 (01:35:21):
Again, that was my experience and that was most people
having said that though, I mean again, it was really
cool because you're at Wembley Stadium and even the play
by play you're an open air, so you're able to
talk to people. You're with the people, and so yeah,
for some people to get there, Yeah, I'm a Niner
fanom of this, but it's this small fan bases that
they have a bunch of them, and like I know

(01:35:42):
a lot of the European guys just through going to
a lot of Super Bowls and the international guys that
come over and look, there's pockets of fans everywhere and
it's cool, but it's just very small. And so people
ask me like, well, what would you compare it to?
And I don't know what I would compare it to
here because it's not because a lot of people just
make the comparison of well, it's the equivalent of what

(01:36:02):
soccer is here, and it's not because the NFL is
not that big over there. There's again, there are pockets
in certain places, and obviously that's why they keep bringing
games over there, because if it was already, if we
had world supremacy like we have national supremacy of the NFL,
then they wouldn't have to push it so hard over there,
but they don't, and it seems like they're saying, oh,
we're making all this progress. And again I'm not raining

(01:36:24):
on any of these parade here. It's just it's not
going to replay soccer. And not only is it not
going to replay soccer or whatever the country is. It's
just a blip on the radar and it's almost like,
you know, you're kind of looking at it like, what's
this weird phenomenon that's going on? Because from the very
same we started with talking about this, it's seven o'clock
in Australia and the Niners are going to be playing.
Like It's just it's not conducive to the time difference.

(01:36:46):
You really have to have to try to be an
NFL fan.

Speaker 1 (01:36:48):
It's not easy. The schedule these is like turning this
thing in its own too. Like we've been talking about
that a lot. I want to throw this at you
because as I look through this, like everyone's antip pitting,
what's going to happen. Biggest thing is like, are you
playing an international game? Okay? No, the next biggest thing
are you playing a holiday? We'll find that stuff out
probably tomorrow. Outside of we already know Dallas. Dallas already

(01:37:11):
has a game on Thanksgiving in Detroit, Play one two.
But John, I'm more curious, and I think this people
here want to know when they're playing Vegas because Seattle
plays at Vegas this year. I get that that makes
sense just from a football standpoint. I'm curious when your
division games are against the teams that matter, And frankly,

(01:37:32):
it's this the two teams. It's the Rams on the
forty nine ers. Now, Seattle finished last season as we
all know what, the forty nine ers, and then the
final game the year before, and twenty twenty four they
finished the season with the Rams game ended up not mattering,
although they had a tiebreaker going in and then it
was over before the game kicked off. Twenty twenty three,
it was Arizona game didn't matter either. But they'll always
finish with a divisional game. I think that's what's important.

(01:37:55):
I want to see when do you play the Rams,
when do you play the forty nine ers? And I'm
assuming that fan bases from those two say the same, Oh,
there's no doubt.

Speaker 6 (01:38:03):
And you know, in years ago and you remember this,
I think maybe it was the Colt or whatever the
team was they want to prevent, you know, tanking or
anything like that in the NFL. And so what they
do is they put those games at the end so
that hopefully they mean something within division. So I would
think that the Niners or Rams will be at the
end of their schedule again. And then you have the
other thing you look at, and this is what's unique
to the NFL is seventeen and probably soon to be

(01:38:24):
eighteen games. You can't do this anywhere else. You can't
do this over one sixty two. You can't do this
for eighty two for hockey or the NBA or anything
like that. Everybody, every sports show does the same thing,
which is you play the win lost game, right, win
lost one lost one loss. But you're also looking at
as what's a short week and who do we.

Speaker 1 (01:38:40):
Play on that week?

Speaker 6 (01:38:42):
So the Seahawks, as much as people may say, oh,
we're playing on a Wednesday, Yeah, but then you probably
don't play till they following Sunday or Monday. So now
you're getting a two week break. But are you playing
the Niners or the Rams on a short week because
the league doesn't care. I mean they act like they
do player safety. Yeah, okay, if you play those teams
on a short week. If you're going Sunday to Thursday
to play the Rams of the Niners, if you're the Seahawks,

(01:39:03):
that's a disadvantage to everybody. Hopefully the league can you know,
and they can't be perfect, but hopefully the league can
make sure that these bigger games are played with the
proper amount of rest and hope, so that guys aren't injured.
And so, I mean that's the kind of things you
look for. You also look for like a three You know,
you're not gonna have three home or road games in
a row, but what is your key stretch of the season.
You know, there's a there's always like a four or
five game stretch where you go, whoa, I look like,

(01:39:25):
hell right there, what are we gonna do here?

Speaker 1 (01:39:26):
So you know, and you try to project out.

Speaker 6 (01:39:28):
What things are gonna do. The difference in the NFL
versus the other sports is simple. It's not if you're
gonna have injuries, it's to who, how long and when? Yep,
And so when you go into those games, how how
injured is your team? How you know? Because at the
end of the year, like you said, the Seahawks are
going to be playing the Niners of the Rams, on
that last game of the year, it is guaranteed.

Speaker 1 (01:39:46):
How healthy is your team at that point. That's why
of stunned to see the Chiefs and the Broncos playing
that first was a Monday night game, Like they must
be really confident that Mahomes is back, like really really
cost to be right.

Speaker 6 (01:39:57):
You're not putting them out there with who's their back
in Kansasy?

Speaker 1 (01:40:00):
Oh uh.

Speaker 3 (01:40:03):
Bear?

Speaker 6 (01:40:03):
Justin field?

Speaker 5 (01:40:04):
Justin field, that's right, justin field. Yeah, yeah, where Garoppolo
go where I think he might retire.

Speaker 1 (01:40:12):
That's right, he's still with.

Speaker 6 (01:40:12):
The Rams, right, yeah, but he contracts up, his contracts up,
and so he's talking because they just drafted Simpson. I
don't know where Jimmy would go. I mean, really, the
only logical place for Jimmy and if there's an injury,
he'll probably come back at that point. But Mike Laflur
is in Arizona, and there was talk about maybe Jimmy
would follow him because he knows that offense and he
might be the backup. But damn, they've got your guy
Gardner Minshew, They've.

Speaker 1 (01:40:34):
Got you know, Arizona minshe's Arizona guy.

Speaker 6 (01:40:38):
Now he's in Arizona. A lot with Brissett yea, and
continued Jacob stopping Carson Beck.

Speaker 1 (01:40:44):
I mean it's like.

Speaker 6 (01:40:47):
Tanking without telling me. You're tanking for arch Manning next year.

Speaker 1 (01:40:50):
Our guys, the best of the bunch in that one
All Gardener, by the way. A couple of texts here
Lund name dropping lock? Come on, man, is that is
that it named?

Speaker 6 (01:41:01):
That's not well. If you want me to name drop,
I can name drop with the best of them.

Speaker 1 (01:41:05):
That ain't a name drop. Let me double Let me
double check this text because maybe it's from Locke.

Speaker 6 (01:41:10):
Probably do you consider that a name draw? No?

Speaker 1 (01:41:15):
I don't.

Speaker 3 (01:41:15):
I do not.

Speaker 6 (01:41:16):
I do not.

Speaker 7 (01:41:17):
I do not.

Speaker 1 (01:41:18):
He's busy breaking down as only he can.

Speaker 6 (01:41:21):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:41:21):
The first couple of picks in the NBA draft? Is
it Darren Peterson? Is it a j A Demonsta?

Speaker 5 (01:41:26):
What are we doing?

Speaker 6 (01:41:26):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:41:26):
He called blame me. He's that's all he's doing.

Speaker 6 (01:41:28):
And they got the second pick in.

Speaker 1 (01:41:29):
The draft and Deboons is from Buyu.

Speaker 6 (01:41:31):
He's just talking to Bons and Peterson out of.

Speaker 1 (01:41:33):
I mean, with so many stats that'll make your your
head spin. Right now, Final one, four, two five one
will be early if it's seven am, but it's Thursday, already. Yeah,
so that's that's an interesting thing. You'll you'll say, it's Thursday.
We'll see, man, we'll see how I'm gonna screw that
one up right now. We want to appreciate that one.
I'm not hungover hungover.

Speaker 3 (01:41:54):
Hey, I'll do a preface trip. I'll do a little
sight seeing trip for you. I'm going to be in
Australia next month.

Speaker 1 (01:42:02):
You are.

Speaker 3 (01:42:03):
I told you that my contract with all the vacation
days I had to negotiate with because they don't pay
me enough.

Speaker 1 (01:42:09):
Okay, wow, ready for you? Waiting all day for you
to that answers that quote for you. I just need
to know where the good bars are, you know, literally ever.

Speaker 4 (01:42:24):
I went to school there for a semester and uh,
they're everywhere I did. Yes, they have a thing called
I just did.

Speaker 1 (01:42:32):
I went there for a I did a semester traveling. Yes,
I am.

Speaker 3 (01:42:40):
What you would really appreciate, though, is that the I
had a really good GP. I had another name drop
if you want, and I didn't want to mess it
up and they only.

Speaker 4 (01:42:48):
Did pass fail over there. I'm like se student for
the first time ever. It was so awesome.

Speaker 1 (01:42:57):
Yeah, is it still a c to get boss, fail
to go to see that's what I considered it.

Speaker 6 (01:43:02):
Yeah, I think it is.

Speaker 1 (01:43:04):
My son graduated.

Speaker 6 (01:43:05):
Uh, my son graduated on Monday night from Arizona State.
And I held a big sign that said cs get
degrees and he was like put that down.

Speaker 1 (01:43:11):
I'm like, wait to go man, degrees?

Speaker 6 (01:43:14):
Yeah, Like, where's your kid?

Speaker 1 (01:43:15):
My kid right there?

Speaker 6 (01:43:16):
Very average, average looking kid, average looking grades right there,
that's my guy.

Speaker 1 (01:43:21):
That's uh that I got. I got that thrown at
me the last couple of years too, before my youngest graduates.

Speaker 5 (01:43:27):
Who's she used?

Speaker 1 (01:43:28):
Good degrees? I'm like, all right, fella, that's that doesn't
like check where writing doesn't feel like it should be
for a sea? But you tell me that should Yeah,
now that was my philosophy. But I mean, listen, you
want better.

Speaker 5 (01:43:43):
You want kid though, you want better for your kids? Yeah,
you want way better for your kids along the way.

Speaker 8 (01:43:48):
All right?

Speaker 1 (01:43:48):
Uh you still doing national radio or are we still
calling in? People still calling you from our next war?

Speaker 8 (01:43:53):
It's been amazing, man.

Speaker 6 (01:43:54):
Every time I monic grows, I do Saturday and Sunday
nights on Westland Sports. Uh here sex M three five
and and every week man, we open it up, and
I do a segment called we should be talking about blank,
you know, like the old Jean Rayburn from the Next
Game is a big long microphone, we should be talking
about blank. And then Seattle Tacoma Bellevue like it's just dominating, dominating,

(01:44:18):
lots of mariners calls, by the way, lots of marriage.

Speaker 3 (01:44:21):
What do you? What do you?

Speaker 1 (01:44:24):
I don't know anything.

Speaker 6 (01:44:25):
I go to chat GBT real quick because they're asking
the question, and and then I sound smart like I
don't know about marry You want to ask you a
struggling he should call just here.

Speaker 1 (01:44:35):
Yeah, that's what I said, cal struggling.

Speaker 6 (01:44:37):
I said, Oh my god, what is wrong with cal Rawley? Man?

Speaker 1 (01:44:40):
Do you sell his soul to the devil?

Speaker 6 (01:44:42):
Oh? God?

Speaker 1 (01:44:44):
It's uh, you know, I think it's he's he can't
hit the fastball right now?

Speaker 7 (01:44:47):
Is that it?

Speaker 1 (01:44:48):
Or it can't hit pictures over ninety five miles an hour?

Speaker 5 (01:44:50):
It's a fastball.

Speaker 6 (01:44:51):
Yeah, wait a minute, it wasn't that the opposite of
the dude from like Major League where he did the
thing and had joke because he could hit no, could
hit curveball.

Speaker 1 (01:44:59):
Yeah he is the office. No, No, apparently that's the thing.

Speaker 6 (01:45:02):
Okay, that's what I used this week.

Speaker 1 (01:45:03):
Then they given one of your uh, Andre's getting one
of your nerd baseball things that you use like one
of your friends. Like when someone somebody calls it and says,
cal struggling, what's the problem. What would you say, Andrews?
I mean, yeah, give me that put me on the
spot here. I mean, well, you host a postcast on
the aforementioned locked on network every day for the baseball team.

Speaker 5 (01:45:27):
Well, I mean, isn't this your job? His swing decisions
aren't very good. He's chasing.

Speaker 1 (01:45:33):
What's what's the thing with being late or whatever? Where
he doesn't get the ball? That's like if back to
barrel or his he's what is it? What is the
thing he's laid on? Like he just late to the basement?

Speaker 8 (01:45:44):
No, like what the thing?

Speaker 1 (01:45:45):
We talked about it earlier, Like he's supposed to instead
of being out front, he's behind. Yeah, he's hitting the
ball further back on the zone. Then the further back
in the zone. That's all I need. Further back in
the zone. You know my whole thing, You know my
whole bit.

Speaker 6 (01:45:58):
It's say things confidently, whether you're are true or not.
Don't confuse me the fact I just say things confidently
and people believe him. So what you just gave me,
that's all you eat.

Speaker 1 (01:46:06):
I'll just say it very confidently. Squared percentage is the
lowest in baseball.

Speaker 5 (01:46:10):
So there there you go.

Speaker 1 (01:46:11):
Oh God, that's such gold right there.

Speaker 5 (01:46:13):
There, it is, there, it is.

Speaker 6 (01:46:14):
That's all I got to say. Hey, let me tell
you call James calling from Tacoma.

Speaker 1 (01:46:19):
His what did you just say? His barrel rate?

Speaker 5 (01:46:20):
I don't know what's squared up percentage?

Speaker 1 (01:46:22):
Squared squared up?

Speaker 6 (01:46:24):
His squared up percentage. It's just it's it's terrible.

Speaker 1 (01:46:28):
Yeah, I'll tell you, but you know, hey, tell next
time he talked to Locke, tell him that his lockedown
Mariners postcast guy couldn't answer a simple ques.

Speaker 6 (01:46:35):
Come on, I'm gonna call you know what I'm gonna do.
I just I'm gonna text him right now because you know,
my kid's a big baseball guy and he needs a job.
That anything, I'll get that job right now.

Speaker 5 (01:46:45):
Yeah, one hundred bucks an episode.

Speaker 1 (01:46:46):
There you go a lot of money, cash money. You
can almost live on.

Speaker 6 (01:46:49):
That.

Speaker 1 (01:46:49):
That is that's righteous, all right, righteous, we'll talk to
We'll talk to you next week. That's the plan. All right,
I'll see you from Australia. Okay, bye on time. That's
John Long joining us away. You got a word for
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Speaker 13 (01:47:30):
Oh under, here's your Calshy update. What happens first the
Keeahawks reaching another Super Bowl or the Mariners reaching their
first World Series? Go Mariners, Go Seahawks.

Speaker 5 (01:47:49):
Who odds would tell you the Seahawks because one has
happened and one has never happened. I think they're gonna
do it again this year. I'm gonna be completely honest.

Speaker 1 (01:47:58):
The Seahawks.

Speaker 3 (01:47:59):
Yeah, I think the division is going to be difficult
for them. But and that's the only thing about having
a division that is difficult, you have good teams in it.

Speaker 4 (01:48:12):
I mean Arizona, I don't count them right now, but.

Speaker 1 (01:48:15):
Yeah, the hardest each other. The hardest battle you have
is your own division and trying to win the divisions.
He get home games because if you don't like, I
think three teams make it out of the division again,
and I think two of the three are gonna be
playing road games. Well, I know that two of the
three would be playing, right. I think everyone's drinking the
Rams kool aid. Yeah, I just think the better. I
like your take on that.

Speaker 4 (01:48:34):
It makes me feel better.

Speaker 1 (01:48:35):
I'd be worried about Stafford, like he's one hit away,
one bad back away, one whatever away.

Speaker 5 (01:48:43):
If you were an LA RAMS fan'd be worried about Stafford.

Speaker 1 (01:48:45):
I mean, I know he's coming off an MVP season,
but it feels like he's.

Speaker 5 (01:48:49):
You're one something away from going to ty Simpson. Yes,
all right, next up?

Speaker 1 (01:48:56):
Hello again.

Speaker 13 (01:48:57):
I am thirty nine years old and I love the
international games. I love getting up at six and watching
some football. I think it's awesome. No one bugs me,
everyone's still sleeping, it's just me, the house quiet. I
absolutely love it. But I'd rather get hard knocks as well.

(01:49:17):
But I wonder if it's just an age then talking
Ian hate it.

Speaker 1 (01:49:21):
I like it anders honors. I'm more willing to do it.
I'm used to it.

Speaker 5 (01:49:28):
I wake up early, watched Premier League games.

Speaker 1 (01:49:30):
We the child, You're not sleeping anymore.

Speaker 5 (01:49:32):
No, he does make a good point about, you know,
waking up and have no one bothering you.

Speaker 2 (01:49:37):
That's one of the things I love about watching the
Premier League every Saturday and Sunday morning. It's like, you know,
seven A games and you're like, all right, let's go.
I got my cup of coffee, any something else thrown
in there where you go before everyone's waking up.

Speaker 3 (01:49:50):
When the Mariners were in Japan, I had had knee
surgery for one of their trips to Japan, so I
was home, you know, I had a week off just
hip to ankle, you know, brace and I was on
copious amounts of whatever drugs they gave me so I
couldn't work. And it was I had never done whatever,
you know, whatever opioid they put you on. I had

(01:50:12):
never I was scared of them, and then I realized
how content I was. I woke up at three o'clock
in the morning.

Speaker 1 (01:50:18):
Those games like literally two, three, four in the morning.
I was obscene, but.

Speaker 4 (01:50:24):
I I was in the place where I could enjoy it.
I didn't have to go to work later that day.

Speaker 14 (01:50:29):
I do have one more yep, hey there, Patress Papadacus.
You know, I don't know what's going on up there
in the radio station world. But you know down here
at USC you know, we we don't do things like that.
I might give out my number, you know, for the
text line what have you. But I got little Davy
Maler up there calling me talking about his friend's dad's

(01:50:49):
playboys and some jewfro thing you guys were talking about yesterday.

Speaker 5 (01:50:54):
And I have no idea what he's talking about, so
just and I'm not going to be doing a.

Speaker 1 (01:50:58):
Show for a while.

Speaker 5 (01:51:00):
He will be on today. I think he's on at
four o'clock and we'll find out that's a great one.
By the way, I've heard some snippets. That's what Furious
Felts is coming in and showing me.

Speaker 1 (01:51:11):
Furious Felts I missed, not having Furious felt. Did he
ever hear it yesterday?

Speaker 5 (01:51:18):
I didn't. I didn't play it for him.

Speaker 2 (01:51:19):
Okay, you can if today if you want, or I'll
play for him when he gets in here.

Speaker 1 (01:51:24):
Yeah, I want to hear his reaction.

Speaker 5 (01:51:26):
We play it in a few minutes.

Speaker 4 (01:51:27):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, we had more furious felts tomorrow.

Speaker 1 (01:51:31):
We've got a lot of quote. I asked about the
schedule release. Uh, mildly interested in the Seahawks schedule release.
But I enjoy soapoxy and yelling at clouds More. It's
a great one. That's a great text yelling. I love
that definitely not Jack Depps as a two O six.
I didn't know what first opponent is. I feel like

(01:51:51):
that definitely matters. I want to know. Also if we
have two international trade trash games, you don't know international games.
Already know that, but first first opponent's going to be
the Bears. It's it's going to be the Bears. It
has to be the Bear.

Speaker 7 (01:52:02):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:52:02):
They want a decent matchup. They're not going to give
you the Cardinals. That'd be too easy. It's going to
be the Bears. NFL schedules since the four two five,
the hype is garbage. Just want the schedule to plan
my life. I'm with you two six. Don't really care
about the schedule. And man, I'm a big Seahawks NFL fan,
but I do get tired of talking football. Year while
football means fall and winners.

Speaker 9 (01:52:21):
Here.

Speaker 1 (01:52:21):
Let's enjoy our spring summer in baseball. Love it, Love
that two five to three. Anxiously await the schedule every
year for the NFL drives my wife crazy. But we
can't plan our fall travel plans so we know what
weekends there Home and away is not going to be
home our way for home games. Twenty year season ticket holder,
I think the thing that is kind of odd college

(01:52:42):
football is really screwed up. We all agree, right, yeah, yeah,
why does it take college football? Is our schedules already
out and then they tweak it a little bit and
they give you the Friday games like they did last
week with UDUB and so forth. Shouldn't be that hard
people want to plan. It used to be when we
went to the draft. Wasn't that long ago. We went
to the draft the end of April, yep, And in
the pre draft notes and stuff that they gave us

(01:53:06):
and all our pre it was right on there. The
schedule is there we already dow yep. But that that's
obviously changed because they want to make it a made
for TV events.

Speaker 6 (01:53:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:53:13):
I mean we have the opponents and everything, we just
don't have.

Speaker 1 (01:53:15):
The well and people want to play, like if you
want to travel like Vegas, people want to travel to Vegas.
People want to do different things, they want to travel.

Speaker 6 (01:53:21):
I get that.

Speaker 2 (01:53:22):
So it's main not enough time to get the travel schedule.
Uh made it like September, August, May and later. Yeah,
it's not it's not terrible.

Speaker 1 (01:53:34):
Well here's well, no, here's the problem. This is kind
of an interesting thing. This year we got a second stop.
It's gonna be a little late for across town. Okay.

Speaker 8 (01:53:39):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:53:41):
One of the things that that you that you see
the second that the schedule drops, at least here in Seattle,
and we used to do that. We used to do
this because we would have to book travel. Greig can
probably tell you the same thing. Schedule drops and you
start trying to book travel and a flight to Phoenix,
for example, that the day before was you know, two

(01:54:02):
seventy five each way, five hundred and fifty dollars flight
whatever would be. Yeah, all of a sudden that flight
is six hundred dollars each way. Fwove hundred dollars. Because
all the airlines love to do the following. The second
they see a demand, it's supplying demand. Jack's it up
the way prices work, so like, you better be on
if you're going to go somewhere. What I would tell

(01:54:22):
you is this if you're gonna if you want to travel.
And we never was there a Saturday morning, seventeen years,
sixteen years of doing that. Never was there a Saturday
morning that we didn't get on an airplane to go somewhere. Well, direct,
if it was indirect, it was different, but direct flight
that it wasn't packed with Seahawks fans. We're doing the
same thing, like why do you guys all going to
Detroit because Seahawks are planning? And then you get on

(01:54:45):
there at six am and then some guy who's already
had three cocktails. Fuck, we're taking over to the plane
right when you doze it off like you've just fallen asleep.

Speaker 5 (01:55:03):
You're shit.

Speaker 1 (01:55:03):
And then all of a sudden, guy gets his like
you know, he got like his airline bottles, he's stashed
I know exactly Scott is. You know he's got his
Seahawk calf tattoo, going on nice wearing his twelve jersey.

Speaker 4 (01:55:17):
There's a twelve Hawks.

Speaker 1 (01:55:20):
The only good part of that, my old grumpy photographer Shramik.
He would get so pissed, like he would just get
so mad.

Speaker 4 (01:55:27):
I'm a grumpy person in those situations too.

Speaker 1 (01:55:30):
Hate the twelve.

Speaker 5 (01:55:33):
We're not saying that twelves, We're not he said that.

Speaker 3 (01:55:36):
Oh no, just that, especially like it would happen when
you were waiting online to board too.

Speaker 1 (01:55:40):
Oh yeah. But if you're one of those guys and
you want to travel and settle, I would have your
whatever app or whatever website. If you want to go
Delta Alaska, I would have that at five pm, open
and ready to go. Yep, and and see if you
can beat him to the punch. And now, especially with
the way like fuel costs are everything flying anyways expensive?

(01:56:01):
Do you everybody take us for Australia hopefully?

Speaker 6 (01:56:03):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (01:56:03):
Thank god? Oh gosh, yeah, no, that'd be like a
house payment.

Speaker 4 (01:56:07):
Uh well, the.

Speaker 3 (01:56:08):
Beauty of it is I'm gonna lask Airline, baby, and
I miles to use, had.

Speaker 4 (01:56:13):
A ton of miles to use.

Speaker 3 (01:56:15):
And if you did the depth differential, you saved so
much money by using miles. We ended up buying more
miles because it was cheaper, uh, instead of doing it cash.

Speaker 1 (01:56:26):
It's a difference, Jess.

Speaker 5 (01:56:27):
Given her just giving out the secret, that's gonna go away.

Speaker 3 (01:56:29):
I'm telling you, if you know, if you are a
loyal Alaska Airlines member, they actually the international flights are
insanely cheaper to do it with miles.

Speaker 1 (01:56:38):
There you go, all right, we'll take a break, come back.
Softy may Or may not join us as he's getting
ready to do a show it. Jimmy's on first. Next,
Jimmy's on first free sounders matches hover down there tonight
for sir.

Speaker 8 (01:56:56):
No, I'm just hanging out, okay, just hanging out. Okay,
I feel ad because there's a meeting going on. You're
a big staff meeting, and Jimmy's in the bar. My
friend kJ is trying to, you know, do some serious
business here where the staff, and some loud mouth is,
you know, flapping his gums here.

Speaker 1 (01:57:11):
On the air. Geez, you're listen. You're a man of
the people. You don't give it. Damn. You're a man
of the one that's got to deal with it. You
don't care. I don't care. Listen, you're a man of
the people. They probably want to see you down there.
What's kJ talking about?

Speaker 8 (01:57:25):
Face? I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:57:27):
It seems kind of serious. This is serious. Who's in
trouble someone's in trouble. Oh, let's let's listen and live.

Speaker 8 (01:57:34):
No, we're not doing.

Speaker 6 (01:57:37):
That.

Speaker 8 (01:57:37):
What's going on?

Speaker 1 (01:57:38):
Oh you know where I would talk a little schedule?
I I find myself now, this has happened a couple
of times lately, agreeing with things that you're saying.

Speaker 8 (01:57:48):
That's because it's genius. By the way, that's about time.
I don't realize. I think that's a stretch.

Speaker 1 (01:57:53):
I think that's your.

Speaker 8 (01:57:54):
Stupid, ridiculous, dumb takes.

Speaker 1 (01:57:56):
I think that's a stretch.

Speaker 8 (01:57:58):
Listen to us.

Speaker 1 (01:57:59):
I just I'm taking everything you say now on social
media and just running with it on a showtime. No,
I what did you say about I don't care about
growing the game. I just wanted to know. I'm with you, man,
who care about growing the game?

Speaker 8 (01:58:11):
Well, first of all, the last thing I want to
do is lose a home game to Germany or Paris. Yeah,
you know, I'd rather see nine home games than eight,
number one, and then number two. I'd rather watch the
Seahawks at one, five or whatever the hell has opposed
to six, six o'clock in the morning. I'm with you
on that, of course.

Speaker 6 (01:58:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:58:29):
Yeah. Making your guys fly across the world they already
fly enough as it is.

Speaker 8 (01:58:34):
No lesser teams do that. Let the downtrodden teams like
the Niners play international game.

Speaker 1 (01:58:39):
Two of them for the Niners this year Australia. And
although one was telling us that Mexico, I guess it
was a massive forty nine or like, that's that's big
for them.

Speaker 8 (01:58:48):
Yeah, and apparently Kyle Shanahan cares about that too, by
the way.

Speaker 1 (01:58:51):
No, no, like, well here was a deal, but he
what he's telling us is that with the forty nine
the Rams, Oh that's a home game for them. The
Rams wanted to play the forty nine or there because
they don't like hosting the forty nine ers because when
they do so, it's a home game for San Francisco.

Speaker 8 (01:59:05):
Well remember the NFC Championship game. Yeah, the Niner fans
just showed up. So that that part I agree with.
But the idea that you know, Kyle Shanahan and even
to some extent John Lynch should really give a damn
how big the Niner fan base is in Mexico City.

Speaker 1 (01:59:19):
I mean, that does nothing for those Well, no, what
they said they wanted to play, They wanted to play
the Rams. They said they're going to play the Rams
in an international game. And what he told us is
that they said, okay, let's play that one in Mexico City,
and the Rams says, not a chance. So that's why
they heard that.

Speaker 8 (01:59:32):
I heard that entire conversation as I was stuck waiting
for the first time. How was that today?

Speaker 1 (01:59:36):
Bridges off down, bridges off?

Speaker 8 (01:59:37):
I just don't get it, man, There's no rhyme or reason.
It drives me nuts. And if anybody can point me
in the right direction, because it really has become my
new commute in the last six years, trust me, I'm
not complaining because I see a lot less of I
five living where I live now, it's actually fabulous. But
the one thing that drives you nuts, you gotta you
gotta time the bridge and when it goes up, it
stays up for like twenty minutes for like what for

(01:59:58):
one boat?

Speaker 1 (01:59:59):
One a little I I have sat there many times
and look to see as you go. You know, when
you go across finally and you look around and look right,
look left, and go I don't even see a boat,
like I think. I think the guy gets bored and
he just says, you know what, I'm gonna put the
thing up, just wants to push them. I'm just gonna
push the buttons and put it is there. He's driving
in right now, I'm gonna put it up.

Speaker 8 (02:00:17):
There's no schedule right for the first Avenue south Bridge
now like there's no Hey, you can only open it
between the hours of mont lake Bridge does okay, Well,
then why can't the first Avenue south Bridge?

Speaker 1 (02:00:29):
I told you the guy knows that you're driving in.
He goes, I'm I'm bored. I'm gonna put it up
and mind.

Speaker 9 (02:00:34):
You know what it is.

Speaker 8 (02:00:35):
It's all those mucky MUCKs that Laurel Hurst.

Speaker 5 (02:00:38):
All those guys. That's a whole different that's a whole
different worldt.

Speaker 8 (02:00:41):
Lake Bridge schedule, allos in the South End like me,
you know, the little people.

Speaker 1 (02:00:47):
Don't want about of the man. Don't worry Laurelhurst, don't
worry about the kid. Don't worry about the kid and
the ambulance on the helicopter. Don't worry about the hospital.

Speaker 8 (02:00:55):
You might.

Speaker 1 (02:00:58):
They got a lot of pressure. Yes, yeah, I don't
think it's relenting because they wanted to. I think they
in the end said, is that where you grew up?
By the way, No, God, no, means, so you went
to a private house, well sort of oday it's borderline private.
Totally kidding me, Chris kids thought that Bellevue High School
was private. Today it should be.

Speaker 5 (02:01:21):
Yeah, you guys are kind of pretty pretty selective on
who gets in there.

Speaker 8 (02:01:25):
I know that that's more elitist oday or Belvie.

Speaker 1 (02:01:27):
Not even close, not a change, not even closest.

Speaker 8 (02:01:30):
We accept people of all religions on Like Odey who's Catholic,
going like, you don't see the Jewish kids day you got?

Speaker 1 (02:01:37):
You got a forty in vertical and run a four
to forty. Your jew fro is welcome there, buddy.

Speaker 8 (02:01:46):
Well, unfortunately I don't have a forty invert that or
did I ever?

Speaker 5 (02:01:50):
That's why you weren't.

Speaker 8 (02:01:51):
Little I got excited the day that I could grab
the net and pull myself up to touch the rim.

Speaker 1 (02:01:55):
That was a big day for me. Oh God, would
has got going on today? Buddy?

Speaker 8 (02:02:01):
What's today? Tuesday?

Speaker 1 (02:02:02):
Wednesday? Wednesday, Petro today.

Speaker 8 (02:02:05):
Petro Son today, Mike Florio will join, Larry Stone will join,
and Hugh Millin's in for Dick Fane who's doing a
storm game today.

Speaker 1 (02:02:13):
So we got Hugh this afternoon, Big storm big, big
matchup at four o'clock.

Speaker 8 (02:02:18):
I think, really, I don't even know who they're playing.

Speaker 1 (02:02:21):
I don't either, Toronto Toronto, Toronto, Toronto, the Maple Leafe. Yeah,
there you go, Jay, the argonautsaut Toronto FC. All right,
have a good sholse see you for the mild mannered
and marginally objectionable e in forness. This is paddle Day
saying so long everyone,

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