Furness Show 5-20: Gregg Bell in, Joe Sheehan and new Olympic games

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
No from the Starrunnles Sports Tests.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
Your ninety three point three KJRFM sports headlines.

Speaker 3 (00:06):
Good afternoon headlines are brought to you by Frostbrewed Corps
like choose Chill. The Mariners still in first place, still
doing it. Took down the White Sox last night, as
they should have. You're right, Jessaman, as they should have
five to one over the White Sox last night. I
think the Julio Rodriguez he got to hit there. A
lot of years. The Mariners don't get right. One nothing game,
tight game, a grand slam, to blow a game open,

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least Castillo. It's shut out seven innings, just three hits
while striking out five four straight, Mariners winning all four.
They've only allowed one run in each of those four games.
And last night the one run was in the ninth
inning when the ball went out of Julio's glove when
he almost made a diving catch in center field. Yep
or else said, White Sox might not have scored at all.
And the way they're hitting and then giving one run

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a game.

Speaker 4 (00:50):
So yesterday they were up twenty to three and fifteen
to three, so now they're up twenty to four in
a four game series, four game stretch.

Speaker 3 (00:58):
They've won six in a row on the row. All
of a sudden, everyone forgot about that after how they
went against Toronto and the Yankees here at home. But
first place Mariners two and a half games up on
the trash Cans in the AO West. Trash Cans Mariners
in Houston, four game series starting Thursday night. Everyone wants
to say it's huge. It's only May. I've covered ball
for a bit, I've been a beat writer. It's only May.

Speaker 5 (01:19):
Yeah, it is. But we like what we see over
Oh of course.

Speaker 3 (01:23):
Of course, of course we select what we saw last
June too. Seattle Storm, Sorry, Seattle Storm rebounded nicely on
the road following their season opening loss to the Mercury.
They took down Pagebreckers and the Dallas Swings seventy nine
to seventy one. That's twenty more points than the Storm
scored in their first game, when they only managed fifty
nine at Phoenix and Mecca and Googate led the way

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twenty three points, eighteen rebounds and three assists for the Storm.
Skylar Diggins twenty one points and nine assists. Seattle home
opener against the Mercury, Climate pledge Friday night at Seattle
Centers seven pm. Seahawks announced their preseason schedule the home
against the Raiders on our October seventh, in the first
preseason game against Pete Carroll's boys, No, Pete Carroll has
already said publicly he is not having joint practices heading

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into that game. He doesn't do joint practices, neither does
Andy Reid in Kansas City. The second opponent for the
Seahawks is the Kansas City Chiefs at the Yard in
Soto August fifteenth at seven pm. Mike McDonald wants a
home joint practice, but only you get it unless the
Pete Carroll do something different.

Speaker 5 (02:27):
I don't think they're doing it for the young in Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:30):
That's like eighty years of coaching experience who have never
done joint practices. So the joint practice for the Seahawks
is likely to be in Wisconsin heading into the third
and final preseason game for the Seahawks at Green Bay
on August twenty third, So expect the Seahawks to have
two or three practices the week of August seventeenth eighteenth
in Wisconsin. NBA playoffs resumed tonight with the conference finals

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five point thirty in the West Minnesota. We hope they
just take down to thunder and Oksee in game one, two, three,
and four, and that'll be a four game sweep. And
that worked out pretty well. NHL Conference Finals the Stanley
Cup Playoffs, and tonight Game one in the East, the
defending Cup champion Panthers, after eliminating the Leafs on Sunday night,

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play at the Carolina Hurricanes in Game one five o'clock.
As always disclaimer, if you're gonna watch the Stanley Cup Playoffs,
watch it on CBC sports Net and not on the
American channels. You'll thank me later. Let's go to the show,
Greg Bell, the Newstribute is in with Jessamin McIntyre from
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Speaker 4 (04:45):
If we'll be playing them all day on Friday in
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who has served our country.

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Fort Lewis, Washington, South Korea, West Point, New York. Thank you.

Speaker 5 (05:02):
There, you go, perfect example.

Speaker 4 (05:04):
I know you're being humble about it and everything, but
having done now three Army Navy games with you, I
know how much it means to you and how much
you have given me.

Speaker 3 (05:14):
Thanks.

Speaker 5 (05:14):
I appreciate, thank you.

Speaker 3 (05:15):
Just let me say publicly, I've gone to the Army
Navy game maybe twenty five times, four of them when
I was at West Point, three of them. Will only
three with you? It seems like more than that.

Speaker 5 (05:25):
Yeah, only three.

Speaker 3 (05:26):
Your appreciation for what we are doing and what we
have there and the brotherhood we have and hanging out
with my buds, and it's special. And I appreciate that
because not everyone gets it. If you're not in the military,
I understand the civilian world, the military word are so different,
and if you haven't have a military background, it's tough
to understand. But you you really do appreciate that, and

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you know, I do. I ask you all the time.
I know, planning, When are we doing it? Where we're
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Maybe a thousand, Yeah, yeah, it's it's definitely in the
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It's not just a segment because let's say Softy in
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Speaker 5 (06:34):
We do our two thirty segment, but.

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Whatever it costs of advertise, you're going to get it
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to join us at Joshian Newsletter at one twenty, as

(07:06):
he does every Tuesday. At this time. Thanks to the
Northwest Handling System, we're gonna talk about Hulio Rodriguez, which
we'll get to in a second. At First Place, Mayns
Julia Rodriguez warming up a little earlier than he has
in recent seasons. One forty five, our daily power player,
we talked to Mike Benton, our captain of the Pucks
and crack and pre and postgame host. What's up with
the crack and coaching search? I mean, it's crickets. From
what I can gather, I don't heard a thing. The

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Rangers have hired Mike Sullivan, the neighbors up north, the
Canucks have hired Adam Foot, Penguins are hiring nothing from
the crack.

Speaker 4 (07:37):
Tackett was one that was widely discussed. This yep has
gone to Philly, so we used to play.

Speaker 3 (07:44):
Yeah, so we're gonna ask you about that. I'm mosto
gonna ask Mike Benton at one forty five about Mitch Marner.
He will be the highest paid and most coveted free agent.
There's no sign he's going to get re signed with
Toronto with his contract ending. The Leafs just got knocked
out of the playoffs, as we all know. And Game
seven another Game seven failure for Toronto and Marner was
boot off the ice and he's yelling at his player,

(08:05):
his teammates, and it was not a good scene. There's
no sign he's going to return to Toronto. But he's
a hundred point player, and that's the one guy that
Krack and haven't had yet in their existence, is a
top line scorer that other teams have to plan for
and take out. I want to ask Mike Betting if
Mitch Marner might be in the plans for the Seattle
Krack and at two o'clock, we're going to talk about

(08:26):
the NFL's owners meetings next week and what's on the table.
You probably have heard about the Tush push and whether
the Green Bay Packers proposal to to the amended proposal,
which I talked about yesterday filling in at three to
seven about you know about that, and you may know
about the playoff seating and reseating, the proposal by the
Detroit Lions to change the NFL seating from one to
eight and one to seven in each conference much like

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the NBA and NHL. Well, NHL used to but many
of you don't know. I don't think about the flag
football proposal the NBA is putting, the NFL is putting
toward the twenty twenty eight Olympics in Los Angeles. Talk
about that. And there is a proposal by the league
that the owners will vote on next week that would
allow NFL players to be in the Olympics in twenty

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twenty eight based on certain conditions, and we'll talk about
that at two o'clock. Well, also you're hear from John Rom,
the professional golfer who wasn't happy with how he played
in the PGA Championship, especially in the final round when
Scott Scheffler just voat race the rest of the field. Yeah,
but he John Rom had great perspective. I want you

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to hear. I wish more athletes that I cover in
sports had the perspective of John Ron. You'll hear that
at two o'clock as well, and then the text line
is Jessman mentioned two thirty. We'll check in on the
text line heading into two forty five cross talk with
Dick Famee for his show Tom three to seven. But
the Mariners, jess I mean, boy, I shuddered. I keep

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saying it's only May, and last year there were ten
games up in June. But this to me is more
sustainable because of how they're playing on often their top
ten and most every offensive category.

Speaker 4 (10:01):
On offense, right, because we were just making sure that
we were depending on this pitching staff, and they have
been beleaguered by injuries, right, three of.

Speaker 3 (10:10):
Their five guys have been hurting. They're still in first
place exactly their top ten and all the major guys
are second in the American League, behind only the Yankees.
Were playing a shoe box and home runs. They're eighth
in Major League Baseball stolen bases, and their strikeouts are
way down. I mean, there's still top ten in strikeouts
in the league, but last year they were striking on
a dozen times a game. Going into last night's game,

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they had four hundred and nine strikeouts. If I remembering
off the top of my head, four or nine strikeouts
in forty five games, so few of the nine game
that is, that's still a lot. That's not exactly a
low bar. But if you're striking out three fewer times
a game, that means three fewer chances to have non
productive outs. Non productive outs meaning base runners don't run

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when you strike out. Base hunters can't go anywhere. Fielders
can't make choices, fielders can't make airs. Theaters can't miss
a ground ball, a line drive, can't miss somebody's glove
if you're striking out. And how many times do we
see that in the last three or four Mariner seasons
with them leading the free world in strikeouts. Now, at
least when they are making some of those three outs

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of game that actually produced runners moving up, advancing runners,
the possibility for airs, and oh, by the way, some
of those become hits too, that's a whole different. I
know it's not nine strikeouts, the game ain't great, but
it's sure better than twelve. And I'm gonna talk to
Joel Sheen about that as well. In this era of
launch angles and exit velocities, the Mariners have seemed to

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have gone back to the old school way of contact
with two strikes. I actually have watched they look like
they're choking up on the back.

Speaker 5 (11:45):
The Edgar effects.

Speaker 4 (11:46):
Can we say it loudly enough, It is the Edgar effect.

Speaker 5 (11:50):
Thank goodness, he is in that clubhouse.

Speaker 4 (11:53):
And I've said it so many times when we've been
having these discussions. It's not that they're going away from metrics.
They're just I think that a guy like Dan Wilson
and a guy like ed Edgar Martinez, and also let's
put Perry Hill in that category as well. You've got
some old school guys who have played it in different
eras who know exactly how to use that information, distill

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it for them and still help them out like they
know what they're doing. So they use that and they're
coaching instead of these guys having to do saber metrics
in their head every time they step to the plate.

Speaker 5 (12:28):
And that's what I think.

Speaker 3 (12:28):
Is Yeah, and it's Kevin Seitzer. How much credit does
he get as a new hitting coach?

Speaker 5 (12:34):
Also that?

Speaker 3 (12:34):
And is there just an obvious cause and effect of
the new gene you mentioned Edgar Martinez coming in the
last six weeks or so, of last season, and now
he's the overall zar of hitting for lack of a
better term, where he's not in the uniform every day,
but he is influencing what they're doing. But when I
see JP Crawford going the opposite field with two strikes,

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where has this been up the middle opposite? I used
to tell my it's at high school baseball and coach A,
you prep up the middle opposite, Up to the middle.
They got so much to the parents were mocking me.
I would say it so much. Of course, they mocked
me for a ton of other things, but up the
middle opposite. Anyway, We're gonna talk to Joe Shean about that.
We're gonna talk to Joe Shean about what's wrong with
the Baltimore Oriols, the Darlings in the East and now

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they're in last place and they just fired their manager.
Jos Okay with it spoken like a true in New
Yorker Joe Shannon Newsletter joins his next the ninety three
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Now here's Ian with our weekly baseball fix from Joshian.

Speaker 3 (14:00):
Welcome back. I hate to disappoint. It's not Ian, it's
Greg Bell.

Speaker 5 (14:03):
Nobody's disappointed.

Speaker 7 (14:04):
Greg.

Speaker 3 (14:04):
I appreciate that. Thank you, Jo and Josian newsletter joins
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(14:26):
How are you, sir?

Speaker 7 (14:27):
Jes Jesseman. We talked about this.

Speaker 8 (14:29):
I don't deal with the substitutes in my contract.

Speaker 7 (14:33):
Wow, Bell, guy, what what college radio station? Did you? Wait?
A week on the year, Joe?

Speaker 3 (14:40):
Joe, I think I was covering baseball before you were born.
I'm fifty five years old. I don't know.

Speaker 5 (14:47):
Yeah, yeah, I brought in a cut above the rest
just for you, Joe.

Speaker 3 (14:52):
Thank you, Joe, I appreciate that. No, I know you
have been around the block a few days. Jia Rodriguez, Joh,
I'm gonna hit you with some numbers for the listener.
I know you already know. The seven game hitting streak
for Julio Rodriguez. Sixteen hits in his last twelve games.
His average since May second has gone from two sixteen
to two thirty five. His slugging for the month of
May is forty five, and his ops is eight h four.

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Of everything that the Mariners offense is doing right now,
is this what the league expects from Julio Rodriguez? And
how much can you attribute the Mariners first place and
offense be in this way because Julio Rodriguez is warmer
than he usually is this time of year.

Speaker 7 (15:28):
Yeah, certainly a big part of it.

Speaker 8 (15:29):
He also had that long stretch with I believe it
was a of a thirty played appearance without a strikeout.

Speaker 3 (15:34):
Right.

Speaker 8 (15:34):
This is somebody who's let me chase it a little
bit more this year. But the power has always been there.
You know, I talk a lot about you look at
the expected stats, the quality of his batted balls, and
they always looked even in April like that was going
to catch up, but that was eventually going to show
up in his output stats.

Speaker 7 (15:50):
And even now there's some room to grow.

Speaker 8 (15:52):
You look online, you see that, you know, for what
he for the quality of his batted balls, he's still
not all the way there as far as the production numbers,
lugging the home runs.

Speaker 7 (16:01):
So it's really great to see him getting back on track.

Speaker 8 (16:04):
They say, with a little bit more aggressiveness, a little
bit more chase, And I wonder how much of that is,
you know, kind of you get off to that bad start,
maybe you want to put a little additional pressure on yourself.
This is somebody who coming into the league at twenty
one had some really good plate discipline.

Speaker 7 (16:16):
I think we're going to.

Speaker 8 (16:17):
See some of that come back in his game as well.
So still some room to improve on these main numbers.
And as we've talked about before, you know, the thing
about Rodriguez is that he's a complete player, so that
even if the offensive numbers aren't there, and they're starting
to get there, he's still bringing new value in the field.

Speaker 7 (16:33):
He's still bringing you.

Speaker 8 (16:34):
Value on the basis we all saw the great home
run robbery the other day. But even when he's not
making this spectacular play, he's getting to everything in the
outfitre you're talking about a plus plus center field.

Speaker 7 (16:44):
They're in a plus plus base runner.

Speaker 8 (16:45):
So if he did nothing but hit for average, be
an average hitter, he'd be a four win player. He'd
be an above average player, almost a star. But now
when he's starting to get the back back together, this
is the MVP caliber player that we can spect.

Speaker 3 (17:00):
Point about the strikeouts because even if he's going to
make out, some of them are more productive already this
year than they were last year. Joshian joining us Joshian newsletter.
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when you look at the American League West as a whole, now,
the Athletics seem to be coming back to where everyone
thought the A's would be six games back last state
of the last ten. But here come the trash Cans again.
They're only two and a half back. They got the
trash Cans and Mariners play four in Houston this weekend.
They never go away, and that brought up a point
yesterday on the show. You can always count on Houston

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to make a move at the trade deadline, whether it's
Verlander or it's a bat or what do you see
them needing to surpass Seattle in the American League West?
Who do you expect them to focus on it? When
you look around the league at guys that might be available,
bats are arms in July? Who are the trash Gans
gonna be targeting?

Speaker 8 (18:01):
You think it's tough because they've locked up Christian Walker
at first base. He's not hitting for them, but it's
gonna be very hard to move him.

Speaker 7 (18:09):
So you really can't go.

Speaker 8 (18:10):
Out and get a first baseman, you know, an outfielder
perhaps and you move out two bay back to second,
or you go out and get a second baseman to
replace Brendan Rodgers. But you know it's gonna have to
be a hitter. And there's an issue right now where
the teams that you would expect to sell, think about
the Angels, the Rockies, the White Sox, they've been pretty
much picked clean. Those teams don't have a lot of

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talent to trade with the deadline. It's one of the
things that's locked up recent trade deadlines is that the
bad teams are so bad they don't have much in
the way to sell. I mean, these some of the
worst offenses in the game, and even the better players on.

Speaker 7 (18:41):
Some of these teams. Think about the Angels with Zach.

Speaker 8 (18:43):
Meadow, you know they're not gonna be moving that they
expect to be their shortstop for the next four years.
Nolan Shanwell, guys like that, So there's a tail award.
You look at the Rockies, maybe with Ryan McMahon, I'm
not sure if these guys are necessarily fits in Houston.
They said they could add an outfielder, but less so
than a position greg It's about getting on base percentage.
It's a team that just really could use somebody to

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get on base a little bit more fill the top
of that lineup, especially with.

Speaker 7 (19:07):
You know young and Alphas will be back soon.

Speaker 8 (19:09):
From his hand injury, but you always worry about the
knees with him, about possibly losing him again. And the
other thing is they just have no left handed hitters.
There are Knights that they've start nine right handed hitters,
so they've got.

Speaker 7 (19:19):
To go into the market for a left.

Speaker 3 (19:21):
As he prayed as a new third basement there that
Alex Brigman's down at the Fenway Park. How's that working
out for Houston? You think they they've got their guy
in the future.

Speaker 8 (19:29):
Now he's got off to a slow start, but you
know he's up to now three seventy five OVP four
thirty five slugging. There's an expectation that because he's pulls
so many fly balls, he'd be a great fit in
that park. Crawford boxes exactly, and he's only get seven
home runs so far, but I mean the style of
hitter he is, you expect that number to go up.
But you know, for a team, as I say, it

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struggled to get.

Speaker 7 (19:50):
Guy's on base.

Speaker 8 (19:51):
He's brought to the walks the high relatively high average
today's gate and he plays a decent third base, so
you know he's there for another I want to say
he's lo up through twenty twenty seven, so you know
they can count on him for a few years to come.
That was one of the attractive parts of the deal. Look,
you trade Kyle Tucker, you've got to get multi year
solutions in a number of places. Kardas has been very
good for them. Cam Smith, who was a first round

(20:13):
pick last year, came over in that trade. They moved
him to right field in park because of Kartas after
a terrible start. He's actually hit at above average hitter
at this point down so that trade. I don't think
you could ever win a trade where you trade away
a player like Tucker, but to the extent that you
could possibly, the Astros have done so so far.

Speaker 3 (20:31):
Interesting point about al Tuove and Left. They're getting away
with it more or less right now, and we'll see
if they go back through putting him at second base.
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two five zero five hundred. Joe, what's up with the Orioles?
They fire their manager. This team looked like they were
knocking on the door to World Series contention. They get
swept out of the playoffs two ars in row, and
now they're at the bottom of the competitive American League East.
What's gone wrong in Baltimore.

Speaker 8 (21:09):
Seeing some of the mistakes in recent years come home
to roost. Michael Olias did tray for Corbyn Burns a
year ago. That worked out well for them. We've got
a high priced shortstop, Joey or Tiz, left handed Deal Hall,
and a high pick in the draft. But they got
a good year out of Burns, but they haven't backed
that up with any moves. They didn't spend money this
winter year and they signed Charlie Morton who's been terrible,

(21:30):
Tomo Yuki Sigano from MPV who has been okay, But
they didn't get the front of the rotation guys they needed.

Speaker 7 (21:36):
The guy they projected to be top starter for them.

Speaker 8 (21:39):
Grayson Rodriguez, who was a top prospect for years now,
hasn't been able to stay on the mound. He's out
with an albow issue. Actually they had a lot issue.
So they just don't have the starting pitching. It's been
the worst starting rotation in baseball so far, and even
at that, I'm not sure that's been their biggest problem.
This is a team that, okay, the starting pishing isn't
going to be very good. Maybe they'll win game seven

(22:00):
to five. You think about Gunner Henderson, Adlee Rutchman, Cedric Mullins,
Kobe Made, all of the young hitters they've brought through, well,
those guys haven't hit.

Speaker 7 (22:08):
They actually have a.

Speaker 8 (22:09):
Bottom ten offense so far this year, and that's been
the problem. Mean again, starting pitching. They've been blown out
of a lot of games, but they're not winning the
game seven to five and eighty six the way you
might have projected them to with this offense.

Speaker 7 (22:21):
The offense has been a really big.

Speaker 8 (22:23):
Problem for them, so I don't expect the pitching to
get much better. They've got some arms. Kate Povich has
been okay, called up Chase McDermott for a start. Actually
I think they're calling him up for another thing. Sent
him down, brought him back. They don't have a ton
of pitching in the miners, but what they have is
basically like number four, number five types.

Speaker 7 (22:40):
You know, they made a trade last year the deadline.
They gave away two guys and Kyle Stowers and Connor
Norby got nothing for it.

Speaker 8 (22:47):
Michael Lias has just had a really bad eighteen months,
so I'm not sure. I'm not sure they can fix
this rotation on the fly, which is going to just
to increase the pressure on this on this offense to score.
There's a chance on a great one, but there's a
chance this team is it being sellers at the deadline,
but yetti Cano the reliever, It puts Mullins on the block,

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It puts Montcastle on the box.

Speaker 7 (23:09):
I mean, they have a lot to sell it.

Speaker 8 (23:10):
They went that way, but it would be an enormous
disappointment to this ranchise.

Speaker 3 (23:14):
There's sixteen games under five hundred already, we're not even
the Memorial Day twelve games back in the American League East,
they've lost eight of They've only won eight of twenty
three home games to Baltimore Oriols. That's how much right.
I'll tell you.

Speaker 7 (23:25):
I went on a podcast.

Speaker 8 (23:26):
I went on a podcast a week ago and we're
talking about, you know what team that's below five hundred
is going to make the playoffs? And I said the
Oriols because I still.

Speaker 7 (23:34):
Believed in them.

Speaker 8 (23:35):
They haven't won since then they win again.

Speaker 3 (23:40):
They are having troubles before you said that, Joe, and
then you jinxed them on top of that, zactly staying
in the American League. The Twins right off twelve in
a row. It's they're like the first team in a
century or something to win twelve straight wins and back
to back seasons. Yet there's still four and a half
pack in the American League Central. People aren't even talking
about the Tigers. I mean, first of all, what have

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the Twins done to win twelve and what have they
gotten back above ground? And yet there's still only five
games over five hundred and what's Detroit?

Speaker 4 (24:07):
Who?

Speaker 3 (24:07):
What is going to take to overtake Detroit in that division?

Speaker 7 (24:10):
Well, they played the Oriols a lot.

Speaker 8 (24:12):
Six of those twelve wins came against them, a sweeps
at home and on the road. Against the Oriols, they've
only allowed during the streak. They allowed twenty nine runs
a twelve games. Remember, the Twins last year were leading
that division, They were in control of their faith for
a playoff spot.

Speaker 7 (24:28):
Joe Ryan got hurt in early.

Speaker 8 (24:30):
August and everything kind of fell apart from there. This
is the team they were for four months of last
season with Pablo Lopez Joe Ryan badly over up top
of the rotation.

Speaker 7 (24:40):
Then has got a little more depth.

Speaker 8 (24:41):
Chris Paddock, who's been injured, forever, ineffective last year, finally
healthy and looking good for them. They've got some young
arms and Zebbie Matthews and David Festa. The bullpen though
in May one point seventy four ERA sixty three to
ten strike out to walk ratio. The bullpen is basically
pitched like Jacob de Gram for three weeks. It's just
a phenomenal job by the penn Joan Duran one of

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the most unhittable pitchers in baseball. You've got Griffin Jacks
back there. You've got Louis Barland, a lot of no
names greg but really effective pitchers. They've been very good
at crafting this bullpen. I had them winning the division
at the start of the year. Obviously, for three weeks
that didn't look very good. But right now I think
this is as good at pitching staff as there is
in the league, and they need it because everybody's hurt.

Speaker 4 (25:24):
You know.

Speaker 8 (25:24):
I saw the play last week, Carlos Correa and Byron
Buxton running into each other, two players who hurt a
lot to begin with, docking themselves both onto the concussion.
I l will see if they come back, you know,
the next couple of days you've got Matt Wallner out,
You've got I'm sorry, there's one more injury I have.
They have that Rosse Lewis where Lewis is always out,

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So they've got to get some of these younger hitters,
brooks Lee, Trevor Laurnat, guys like that. Even they called
the kid Luke Kishell played a week, had a one
thousand ops and got hit by a pitch.

Speaker 7 (25:56):
He's on the ion.

Speaker 8 (25:57):
Just a lot of bad injury luck offensively, but the
pitch has absolutely carried them.

Speaker 3 (26:01):
Can they catch the tag and the Twins catch the Tigers?
They're four and a half back tied with the Royals
four and a half back. The Guardians are looking there
at five back with troubles in their bullpen. But can
the Twins catch the Tigers?

Speaker 8 (26:11):
You think, yeah, four and a half back with one
hundred and fourteen play, I'm going to say that they've
got a pretty good shot. I don't know. It's really
hard to be out of the race, even the Oriels,
you know, we're talking about their early It's hard to
really be that right to be completely out of a
race in the baseball season. So I think the Twins
actually will catch the Tigers and the Tigers who played
some really good baseball. Under the hood, there's some stuff
going on. I worry about their depth. They worry about

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their bullpen, you know, but they've done it with a
lot of injuries. They get a lot of guys back
here over the next couple of weeks who you know,
weren't even part of this great start of theirs. But
I think this could end up being Central hasn't given
us very entertaining races. The air Central could give us
a really good racist.

Speaker 3 (26:46):
Speaking of bullpens and closers, the Chicago Cubs are still
in first place. About all kinds of trouble with their closers,
the back of their bullpen injuries. They're talking about swapping
out perhaps give another guys a chance. Can the Cubs
stay in first place with the way the bullpen as
it's constructed, They're gonna have to make a move, Duly,
I think I fully.

Speaker 7 (27:07):
Expect them to make a move.

Speaker 8 (27:09):
The Cubs had kind of set themselves up as this
is their year. The trade for Kyle Tucker commits them.
The believers are always the thing you can find at
the deadline. I mean, we've seen teams now trade for
three even four relief pictures those last couple of hours
before the trade deadline. So I don't think this is
a problem that can't be solved. I mean, he'll spend
the next couple of months, you know, Hodges gonna spit
the bit. Ryan Pressley, they tried that.

Speaker 7 (27:30):
He doesn't. He looks like he might be done at
this point.

Speaker 3 (27:32):
Yeah, he might be.

Speaker 7 (27:33):
Breg Keller. Breug Keller is now throwing ninety nine.

Speaker 8 (27:37):
He was a ground ball, I don't want to say
a soft tosser, but you look at him with the Royals.

Speaker 7 (27:40):
He wasn't nearly this guy. He moved to the bullpen.

Speaker 8 (27:42):
He picks up all that velocity Daniel Palenskia blue last
night's game. But I still think there's some talent there.
You know, this is the thing Craig Council was very
good at in Milwaukee, taking skills, no name pitchers who
had certain skills and building a good bullpen out of him.
Now he hasn't found his Josh Hater, he hasn't found
his Devin Williams, and maybe that guy isn't there in
this bullpen. But I do trust him and Tommy Hottevey

(28:06):
to build a good bullpen eventually, and like I said,
you can find options later in the year. I mean,
I'm not that concerned about the comps. I think on talent,
get probably five games clear of that entire division and they.

Speaker 7 (28:18):
Will win it.

Speaker 3 (28:19):
Next time we talk to you, Joe, next Tuesday, the
Mariners and Trashcans will played their four games, and we
may know where the American League West of the Top sits. Anyway,
thanks for joining us as always. Can you tell listeners
how we can get your newsletter, how we can sign
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Speaker 7 (28:33):
Check out Joe Shean dot com.

Speaker 8 (28:35):
There are excerpts, there's a bunch of free material and
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Speaker 7 (28:39):
Two thousand people read it and enjoy it. I hope
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Thank you, Joe. Appreciate it. Man, you nailed everything. I
didn't even give you a cliff notes. You just off
the top of your head. Appreciate that. Thanks a lot. No,
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They just, I mean, they've proven that that is kind
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Speaker 3 (29:24):
They do. They're not afraid to spend, They're not afraid
to go out prospects. Expect them to go for it
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next pox not just the Stanley Cup playoffs. Free agency,
can the Kracking actually get a top line score? There's
one available out of Toronto. It looks like he's gonna
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still happening, my colo O, good day. How are you?

Speaker 9 (31:02):
Hi?

Speaker 3 (31:02):
Greg?

Speaker 10 (31:03):
Hi? Greg? Just when you thought that you could just
leave forever, we just suck your right back here.

Speaker 3 (31:08):
You can't resist chance. It was the chance to talk
to you, Mike. That's what brought me back.

Speaker 10 (31:14):
I've been looking forward to it on the calendar. I
have been counting down the minutes with anticipation it's finally here.

Speaker 3 (31:21):
More than your kids being off for summer. I'm sure
you have. Look, we've all been consumed by the Stanley
Cup playoffs, which had been unbelievable again and incredible, and
they're done in the final four, down the conference finals,
which maybe the Cracking will get to someday. And the
Rangers have hired Mike Sullivan, the Flyers have hired Rich Talckett.

(31:41):
Adam Foote is the new coach in Vancouver. What is
up with the crack and coaching search?

Speaker 10 (31:47):
Well, I mentioned this on these air waves the other day. Greg, Again,
you know what, nothing says NHL coaching starts like a
whole lot of lock and key and a whole lot
of speculation and crickets beyond that. Is not like the NFL,
where you're going to be getting people, you know, in
organizations deliberately filtering out news for entertainment value. Is it's

(32:08):
a different league and just how it works. I mean
that being said, I think we're getting close to finally
discovering who is going to be the head coach of
this team, and it kind of fits within the timeline
for numerous reasons. I mean, I mean, I think, first
and foremost, number one, we're going to be getting pretty
close here after the draft has done him about a month,

(32:29):
then free agency, and then you know, the hostel season
being open, and by that point you need to have
a head coach and as part of your recruiting pitch
and be able to tell new players that this is.

Speaker 3 (32:39):
Our guy, this is going to be our vision.

Speaker 10 (32:42):
You know, we heard names in the past. Jeff Blasher
reportedly got a huge kick at the can UH. There
was talk that Rick Hockett was involved, was not involved,
of course, he went to Philadelphia, and there have been
dispute if he even really even legitimately interviewed. I've got
on pretty good authority the crack and we're talking to

(33:02):
him and that there was money in the conversation. But
beyond that, as far as how deep they went, that's
up for debate. I mentioned this the other day. The
name I am very very interested in is Mitch Love
and for this reason, he is an unproven coach at
the NHL level. He has proven in just about every

(33:25):
other capacity that you could think of. Greg just this
last season, last two seasons was on the bench for
the Washington Capitols. He ran their entire defensive corps. This
last season with a team that even had Alex Ovechkin
and broke, you know, Wayne Gretzky's all time goal scoring record,
they were still a top ten team defensively as far
as goals allowed. They had great seasons as far as

(33:47):
production from their entire blue line, and these last two
years with him on their bench Spencer Carberry as well,
they didn't miss the playoffs period. And this is a
team that had a huge roster turnover from their previous
regime when they won the Cup. I mean, it just
feels like, you know, just yesterday, but it was seven
years ago. Players age in and out. But he was
a big part of that. Previously, only spent two years

(34:09):
in the American Hockey League with the Calgary farm System
forty five wins season over fifty wins the next one
deep playoff run. Both times AHL Coach of the Year
was a winner in Saskatoon in the Western Hockey League,
a league that is a lynch pin for development. And
then before that, here's the kicker, the Everett Silver Tips,

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where he began his coaching career, was also a defenseman,
was their captain and also has his number hanging in
the raptors of Angel of the Wins Arena. He still
has family out here in the area. So for this
team that still has a very formidable roster, it's well built.
The defensive corps is up there with the upper echelon

(34:54):
teams right as far as I'm concerned. Of many as well.
It takes a coach with experience to get a team
back into the playoffs. And this team wants to win,
they said so repeatedly. But if you can't get a
coach to say fifteen twenty years of tread, there's one
coach if you find them, who needs a shot and
checks all boxes. I mean, this to me is as

(35:16):
good as Canada as ever. And should the cranking get him,
they are very closer to the next big thing.

Speaker 3 (35:21):
Greg, Well, let's talk about Mitchelle. What's the risk of
bringing in someone without NHL experience, head coaching experience, I
should say, not any NHL experience. And is that counter
to what the conventional wisdom is here of bringing in
someone that was even different than Dan Bousman, who had
been out of the NHL for a couple of years
and bringing someone in.

Speaker 10 (35:42):
Yeah, and I think it's it's a very fair question.
But I mean you you go back here to the
list of coaches who put their time into develop as
assistant coaches on the bench. I mean, the NFL works
the same way you know, Greg as you know, but
a lot of coaches the one thing that they have
in common is that they have mastered the ability to

(36:03):
develop with the krack and want to really lean into
here with their young players and then find the ability
to also get winning results. I mean, coaching in the
American Hockey League is a very volatile atmosphere, and you're
getting players called up, sent down, called up, sent down
every day. The Western Hockey League is a bit different.
It's more of a mainstay league. It's very you know,
it's the top of its level as far as you know,

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the the amateur players kind of like the college game
for football, basketball, et cetera. But there's there's one thing
in common is that players and coaches like him. It's
just say coaches like him have a way to understand
and then develop and adapt to what they have. John
Cooper was the exact same way. Came from the American
Hockey League. Spencer Carberry was the same way, came from

(36:47):
the American Hockey League. And they're also coaches that were
very very close but need yet their first shot. So
I mean with the crack and benefit from a coach,
he's got a lot of cashet. Absolutely. The problem is
that Rick Tocket's off the market. The problem is that
Sullivant's off the market. Here we'll see where Peter Laveolette
winds up. We haven't heard of gerardgo lots name recently,
so you really have to dig deep and do your

(37:09):
homework and see who's got his or his or her
core values lined up appropriately to match what this organization wants.
And there's two things they want to win. But they
also want to give a longer pathway and a longer
leash for players like Shane Wright, for players who are
still just tapping into their potential, like Matt Eveniers, for
players like Berkeley Catton who will be here, players like

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Yonnie Newman, et cetera. And there's a feel for a
coach like him and others, there's only one thing left,
and it's for him to just basically get his first shot.

Speaker 3 (37:40):
I think they had a coach in Dan Bousman, who
was pretty good at developing anyway. Four on the techt
s Ligne says, sounds like the Penguins love Mitch Love though,
and he had reportedly a very impressive interview with Pittsburgh
last week or at least four days ago or so.
We'll see what Mitch love. Now, let's go on the
ice of the players and the roster. Mitch Marner is
going to be available. I don't see any There's no
signs anywhere in Canada the Toronto is going to resign him.

(38:02):
One hundred point player, Mike. I don't need to tell
you or Crack and fans listening that the one thing
of many that the Kraken have lacked here in the
first four years of existence is a top line score
the teams have to defend and plan and game plan against.
Is Mitch Marner someone that the Kraken would spend on,
would be interested in? And would Mitch Marner? Was there
any hope that he would want to come here?

Speaker 10 (38:25):
I think you post two very compelling questions, Greg. I
think number one, absolutely yes, the Kraken would do well
for a player like him in the lineup it and
I firmly believe that there is a point in time where,
no matter your situation, if it doesn't work out, players
need a change of scenery. And Mitch Marner is a
homegrown Toronto guy, grew up rooting for the Leafs, but

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it has been anything but a fairy tale in his
most recent stretch, especially here for the season when you
know fault or not. His fault was still bud when
he was on the ice at the end of Game seven.
And I think we I think I think we can
all understand here this based on where they're headed with
their cap situation. They got to get Napthew nine signed.
It might be the end here for Mitch Marner in Toronto.

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Mitch Marner is a proven score. He's a guy who
can elevate a team's offense and maybe even for a
team like the Kraken, and what they have right now
helped elevate others around him in that lineup.

Speaker 3 (39:23):
I mean, but at this.

Speaker 10 (39:24):
Point in twenty eight years of age, he's in his prime.
One hundred and two points this last season, that's proven.
Thirty five goals four years ago, that's proven. Thirty after that,
that's proven. It was more of a playmaker last couple
of years. But I mean, look at this point total
ninety seven ninety nine eight, five hundred and two that
was in each of his last four years. This season

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is well despite all the narratives with where this wh
where the maple leafs, we're at with producing in the
playoffs and rising here to the occasion yet fair, but
also thirteen points in thirteen games. He was a point
per game guy in the Stanley Cup playoffs two years ago.
Over a point per game guy in the Stanley Cup playoffs.
He can produce in the regular season. He can produce

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as well in the postseason. But the question is will
he fit. He's going to command a lot of money.
He's making ten million already. I mean some projections happening
about roughly thirteen to fourteen million, and where a crack
and a rat right now? With twenty million in cap space,
they've got to find a way to get Compo Conco paid.
They got to find room for other players coming into

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the system here into the full line up for the NHL.
They got to get Ryker Evans paid. Will Philip Grubauer
move out, buy out or not? That may free have
some money. But if they were to take on potentially
a contract like that, and even in fendoff those who
are going to be competing for him potentially, like say
Philadelphia and Chicago. They got to get to work very
very quickly here to clear that kind of cap space.

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Good news CAP's going to go up as well.

Speaker 3 (40:52):
Good news.

Speaker 10 (40:52):
Jason Botter will be a very very aggressive guy, and
he has said before this team will be aggressive in
the offseason. But you want to go like Minch Marner,
There's going to be a big price to pay here
for that.

Speaker 3 (41:03):
So they're going to have to clear some space. They
got to run. It's great to talk to you again,
Mike and Joy the kids in the summer. Great talking
to you. Let's talk to you soon.

Speaker 10 (41:11):
Aytime, my friend.

Speaker 3 (41:12):
Thank you Greg, Thank you Mike Benton. Thanks to this
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spoke at the press conference and I caught this and
I thought, man, this would really be nice if a
lot of athletes had this perspective in sports.

Speaker 11 (45:55):
Well, I think it's the first time I've had to
I've been in position to win a major doc law
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Speaker 8 (46:23):
Maybe on time to.

Speaker 11 (46:23):
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And to them, whatever I did to they win or lose,
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It's like it's not the end of the world. Like
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There is somebody where if they have a bad day,
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Speaker 3 (47:10):
Good for him. Yeah, we get all wrapped up, especially
at sports radio and sports journalism. My job at the
News tribute about sports, and it's really the toy store
of life. And my wife works at Children's hospital as
patients every day and I sometimes go in and pick
her up from her office, and the stuff I see
there and reminds me of a man. It's crazy what

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I do for a living, what we talk about for
a living, what we were fans of for a living,
compared to what is really out there in life. And
when you're a parent, you really get that perspective as well,
as John Bram was talking about. But yeah, it's good
to hear that every once in a while. I think,
even on a sports radio show that yeah, your kids
don't care how the day went, whether you missed that putt,

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or whether the Seahawks lost or the Mariners lost, or yeah,
and that's kind of how life should be. I guess
maybe that's a taboo thing to talk about here on
the show. I just struck me as something that I
wanted people.

Speaker 4 (48:02):
Here, and I think that's good because regardless of your
in if you're in sports or not, just that thinking
about family or who around you is truly important. It
puts everything into perspective. Where you know, you stub your toe,
I don't know, I'm just going to a microcosm, you
break your favorite mug, and you know, just like, there

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are so many little things that get us worked up,
or you're in a tip with someone, or you're at work.
That's John Rohm's work, right, He's at work, and sure
he could be frustrated, but hey, let's look at the
bigger picture on life.

Speaker 3 (48:36):
And I like that, and he's making millions of dollars golf.
Professional golfers are not known for their perspective. Let's face it,
there are in country clubs catered to all the time,
playing on some of the world's greatest courses. And yeah,
so good for John rom the NFL, they're having their
owners meetings in Minneapolis this week. The Seahawks, by the way,

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if you're wondering what's up with them next on May
twenty seventh, a week from today, they will begin their OTAs.
They're going to have three OTA practices on the field.
It'll be the first OTAs that they're going to have
Sam Darnold with new offensive corner Klint Kubiak and Cooper
Cup and all of them on the field. That starts
next Tuesday in Renton on the field team headquarters. They
have three OTA practices each of the next three weeks,

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starting next week. One of those three each week is
open to the media for us to go watch. We'll
get to see where Cooper Cup is lined up. Is
he in the slot or is it Jackson Smith and
Jig Beel.

Speaker 4 (49:29):
Yeah, that is a fun one to watch just because
of the other editions that they made. You know, bring
in Cooper Cup and I mean I have to give
a shout out to River Craycraft too, and hopefully he'll
have a shot at making this boat with JSN and.

Speaker 5 (49:43):
Then you have marks. Yeah, I was gonna say MBS.
There's so many JSN mvs.

Speaker 4 (49:50):
There's a lot of acronyms going on with this team,
so I didn't want to mess that one up. But
there's a lot going on there and I'm excited to
see it. And usually I'm just kind of looking in
the trenches, right like, Okay, who's with the ones, who's
with the two? As we know the position players for
the most part, we don't with the wide receivers, so
that'll be exciting.

Speaker 3 (50:06):
And even the offensive line is starting over in some spots.
Grade is able to number one pick new left guard
who appears the right guard and is still up for grabs. Center,
I think Jalen Sindell is going to challenge a little
Timmy for that wild scantling. I think is going to
be an AX. He's not going to be an X
like DK Metcalf was, but he's going to be on
the line of scrimmage and their deeper threat. It'd be
interesting to see how much Smith and Jigba and Cooper

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Cupp are in the slot. They won't do a ton
of their own playbook, but there is install going on
in the meetings. They've been going on for the last
month or so. Anyway, three weeks of that, three OTA
practices each week, and then June sixteen, seventeen, and eighteen
is the only mandatory mini camp. Everything else is involuntary,
is voluntary, but the mandatory mini camp, the lone mandatory
mini camp is three days June sixteen, seventeen, and eighteen,

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and then they're off all of a sudden. It's five
weeks and training camp begins at the end of July.
As I said, do the math from an August seventh
preseason first game against the Raiders minus fifteen days. The
CBC CBA says, can't be any earlier. Training camp starting
fifteen days before the first preseason game, and that's when
the Seahawks will be on the field and renting for
the second training camp of Mike McDonald. In the meantime,

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the NFL Owners meetings in Minneapolis are starting today. They
voted on the proposal that the NFL put forth last
week about participation in the twenty twenty eight Olympics in
Los Angeles and flag football. Flag football is going to
be a metal sport in twenty twenty eight in Los
Angeles for the first time. What was passed today was

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the proposal that the NFL put forth The owners approved
by saying that they are giving permission for NFL players
under contract to participate in tryouts that USA Football a
different endity will choose the flag football team. A limit
of one player per NFL team is going to be
on the national team. That's the NFL's rule. They are

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going to allow a designated international player. Some teams have
international players from Germany and you're whatnot. The sex don't
have one this year, but they have in recent years.
Those international players would also get to play in this
on their hosts their native country as well. They're going
to purchase league wide insurance policies to provide injury protection
for any player injured while participating in an authorized flag

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football activity related to the Olympics. There's going to be
salary cap credit for any player who is injured. This
is what the league is proposing. And then there is
an expectation, this is a very nebulous part of this proposal.
An expectation quote that Olympic flag football teams will establish
medical staffs and field surfaces that comply with NFL minimum standards.

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And that's a nod toward player safety. The field standards
bit just makes me laugh. It is hypocritical of the
NFL owners.

Speaker 5 (52:43):
It's going to say San Diego, yeah, that they play
there anymore, but the.

Speaker 3 (52:48):
Fact that they play on turf. Players don't want to
play on turf. They want to play on natural grass
every time, all the time. You know the reason they
don't because owners want to be able to profit on
their state beyond the ten dates that NFL games are
there every year. They do artificial turf so they can
have tractor pools and concerts and things that can trample

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artificial turf, laying down things over top of it without
ruining the grass. And they don't want to have grass
to cost to maintain the grass or have concerts and
then have to rest and regrass the field. That is
why Seattle has artificial turf. You can talk about the
rain all you want. It rains a lot of play.
It snows and rains and freezes in Cleveland and Baltimore
and Pittsburgh, and they have grass. The NFL owners that

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have artificial turf do it for profit, so they don't
have a lot of high costs for maintaining their field
so they don't have to replace the field, and then
they can have more higher revenue events outside of football period.
End of story. It's about money anyway. All of this
is supposed to be subject to Players Association re approval.
So what will happen now is that the owners have
approved the players playing in limited number of players one

(53:55):
per team max. Playing in the twenty twenty eight Olympics
and flag football. The propose goes to the Players Association
and they will vote on it four nine, four to
five one on the still to be named text line,
what do you think? Are you four it? You want
to see NFL players in the Olympics in flag football?

Speaker 5 (54:11):
In flag football, Let's let's emphasize that too. So you
said only one, I just want to team.

Speaker 9 (54:16):
One per team, so per nation, anybody can try about
no one per NFL team can go to whoh okay,
I see one per NFL team NFL team.

Speaker 3 (54:26):
That would say a max of thirty two NFL players
would be able to participate. Also in the text line
four nine four five to one, what Seahawks would you
like to see in the Olympics in flag football? If
there is one? Now any player can try out according
to this proposal, but only one per team NFL team
can make the US Olympic team in flag football. Who

(54:47):
would you like to see on the US Olympic team
in flag football? I have a couple in mind that
I would think of. What do you think?

Speaker 4 (54:54):
Yeah, well, I have to take into account that it's
flag right, So I'm thinking about forty times quick to
twitch guys like this isn't like, you know, I'm not
thinking edge rusher in.

Speaker 5 (55:05):
This situation, So I'm thinking like skill guys.

Speaker 4 (55:08):
Yeah, I mean, I'd have fun watching DK And I'm
not talking about the Seahawks right now, but he's the
first one that came to mind.

Speaker 5 (55:16):
H And let's see who was yours.

Speaker 3 (55:19):
Devin Witherspoon. I think he would be fabulous. He would
him trash talking some German. I think it would be hilarious.
You know, he would you know, he would not miss
the opportunity to trash talk for a gold medal. I
think that would be highly entertaining to have Devin Witherspoon
in the Olympics.

Speaker 4 (55:37):
Yeah, that would be fun. That would absolutely be fun.
I love how quiet he is on the mic and
how loud he is on the field. It's it's such
a fun just juxtaposition. I'd probably I'd probably like to
see JSN to be honest, just knowing his athleticism, I
think he would probably do really well there.

Speaker 5 (55:53):
I'm trying to think, Yeah, okay, can.

Speaker 3 (55:55):
You imagine Devin witherspin ripping off a flag in the
open field and then stuffing it down the guy's throat
or stumpy, Yeah, dropping it on his head or something.

Speaker 5 (56:06):
I really could.

Speaker 4 (56:06):
Yeah, I think that those would be my top two.
Definitely on the defensive side of the ball. You can't
talk me out of Witherspoon being my number one draft pick.
On that one, I think, yeah, JSM would be probably
the number one.

Speaker 3 (56:20):
I've said this before and I still believe it. Devin
Witherspoon is the best Seahawks player for what he does,
for how many different positions he can play at the
elite level he can, and how smart he is of
football and anticipating plays. I think Devin Witherstoon's the best
player on the team. I thought he was this time
last year. I thought that during his rookie season he
was the best player on their team, and nothing has
happened to change my mind since then. Certainly on defense.

(56:44):
But I think he's the team's best player, Devin Witherspoon,
So put the team's best player in the Olympics sounds
good to me. And yeah, I see on the tax
line four nine, four to five, But I know River
Craycraft was released. It briefly had been signed and then
was released a couple of weeks ago. The former Washington
State players currently, I.

Speaker 4 (56:59):
Thought, back and forth, back and forth. That's my bad. Yeah,
he did that a lot when he was with Denver too,
so I do know last year with Miami and with
he did that in Miami as well. But I also
know that a lot of these guys who get released,
re signed, released don't necessarily leave town right away. So
that's my hope that he would have a shot. But yes,

(57:21):
I'm aware that he's not currently with the team.

Speaker 3 (57:24):
Sorry, Okay, we'll give it to more on the text
line coming up next, and that two forty five. Dick
Fane is back off of the storms impressive wind calling
the broadcast last night with Elise Woodward. He'll join us
at two forty five heading into his show from three
until seven. The text line is up next still to
me named text line put in your bids for that
as well. All that coming up on ninety three point
three KJRFM.

Speaker 2 (57:45):
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Speaker 1 (57:56):
On Sports Radio ninety three point three kjr.

Speaker 3 (57:59):
FM quarter back Craig Belden newst be just some McIntyre
with you and for Ian Furness. Where we've been today
Joshian Joshian News let her talk to us about Julio
Rodriguez warming up and he made a good point about
how his strikeouts are down and how that's helping his
overall game and thus helping the Mariners offense. Mariners two

(58:22):
and a half games up over the trash Cans heading
into Seattle's game tonight. A commission part that going the trash,
I just do it every single time. For Yeah, it's
my old stick with Chris Kid and I had when
we did the show.

Speaker 5 (58:33):
But I know they got away with it. I just
do it thet away with it.

Speaker 3 (58:38):
They got away with it with no sanction. In a
World Series Championship, can you drag trash cans into T
Mobile Park and bang on them.

Speaker 4 (58:45):
I think the first Mariners series after that whole debacle
came to light. I believe people came dressed as them,
and because they weren't carrying a trash can and they
were actually wearing it, they were allowed in.

Speaker 5 (58:58):
I think they just had to be scamed.

Speaker 4 (59:00):
I saw some people in the crowd, and if I
were Mariners, when it came to the people I was
discussing who work in security, I might have been like,
let's let a little slide hang on.

Speaker 3 (59:09):
Trash cans all you want when Houston comes to town exactly.
We also talked to Mike Benton, who said the name
that he's quote very very interested in in the krack
and coaching searches. Mitch Love last two years has been
in the charge of the Washington Capital's defense as an
assistant could. Before that he was with Calgary's AHL team
AHL Coach of the Year and before that the star
player with the average silver Tips whose jersey sweater is

(59:30):
hanging in the rafters up and Everett at the arena.
There beautiful, interesting name to think about, but I was
Pittsburgh Penguins in my hometown are also interested in Mitch Love.
He also said that he thinks the search is quote
getting really close for a new coach. And when I
asked him about Mitch Marner therit in the crack and
perhaps going after him as a top free agent scorer,
he didn't really say sounded like they would. He said,

(59:52):
they got twenty million dollars in cap space. He's going
to cost at least ten to fifteen million for Marners.
They'd have to do a lot of cap clearing to
do that. Time to go to the text line is
still to be named text line four nine four five one.

Speaker 5 (01:00:03):
Yes, here we go. We have quite a lot coming in.

Speaker 4 (01:00:07):
And uh, let's talk about we're talking about turf and
grass just a moment ago when we talk about all
the stadiums and why they actually have the turf rather
than the grass two five three says the grass they
have other places. It doesn't grow in the winter time
when they're playing football on it. The moths of football
are not grass growing moths other than in the tropics.

Speaker 5 (01:00:30):
All true, but that's true.

Speaker 4 (01:00:31):
But we're not talking about the tropics. We're talking about
stadiums here. And also that they want other events to
be able to be played in their stadiums.

Speaker 3 (01:00:41):
The grand total of player football players of all levels,
especially the NFL that I cover, that I know prefers
turf over grass is zero. None. They all want to
play on grass, all of them, high school players want
player I played, I've played on grass, and I played
in Ohio Stadium, the old Higho Stadium, the Horseshoe, Ohio

(01:01:01):
States for the state championship. And they had a crown
that you couldn't even see from one side to the
other because of drainage. And it was the old turf
that was like cement. Oh And I was seventeen, eighteen
years old and I couldn't walk for like a week
and a half. My joints were sore from playing on
that stuff. I know the turf has gotten a lot better,
but I can just tell you anecdotally and scientifically, I

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know no players who want to play on turf.

Speaker 5 (01:01:27):
Unbelievable, unbelievable. I've seen it.

Speaker 4 (01:01:30):
And I've seen really bad grass too in my time
covering college football.

Speaker 3 (01:01:33):
I mean they play on sand in San Diego.

Speaker 4 (01:01:35):
Yeah, San Diego's bad. I mean to the point where
also a soccer pitch too well. At the Holiday Bowl
last year. You know, the Koop's equipment staff had eighty
pairs of extra cleats that had the screw on tips
to bring.

Speaker 3 (01:01:51):
Back the murph man. Why did they ever level that place?
Why did the Chargers ever leave? We going on about
that San Diego should have an NFL team.

Speaker 4 (01:01:59):
All right, let's see, Well, as we're taking military shout outs,
let's get a few that came in on the text
line and please definitely text in or go to the
iHeartRadio app and leave us some voice text so we
can hear your voices as well. We'll be playing those
all day throughout the day. On Friday, shout out to
my dad and this one is coming from the two
O six shout out to my dad. First in the

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Army Vietnam Veteran Black Lions Recomplatoon commander. Both my wife
and I US Marine Corps vets here from Army guys
consistently that even the Marines have heroes.

Speaker 5 (01:02:38):
You would know that back and forth.

Speaker 4 (01:02:40):
The only time that is true has when speaking about
my father, Go howks co dogs go in that's awesome?
Well two S six you got me to say, oh, dog,
so you win the day?

Speaker 3 (01:02:49):
I thought you were that part? No, yeah, that's awesome.
I won't I might have you've heard my what I
think Marines are?

Speaker 12 (01:02:56):
Right?

Speaker 5 (01:02:57):
I think you've said it.

Speaker 3 (01:02:58):
There are Navy guys who wanted to be in the army.

Speaker 5 (01:03:00):
Yes, you have said that.

Speaker 4 (01:03:02):
And you know, it took me a really long time
to actually realize that the Marines were.

Speaker 5 (01:03:08):
Obviously marine.

Speaker 4 (01:03:09):
It makes sense, but I hadn't thought about it like
that because I don't know the association me not having
a military background, the association of what they do is
not on the water.

Speaker 3 (01:03:19):
Yeah, they do everything army, but they're in the Navy, Yes, exactly.
Navy Roots two six, Casey and ken Moore Draft Lottery
number six US Regular Armies seventy one to seventy four,
respect for aviation mechanics, basic training in Fort Lewis, ait
at Fort Gordon, Georgia, worked as an ops clerk in
the Huey Kobra that's a helicopter company at Fort Sill, Oklahoma,

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then thirteen months in the three oh six Camp page
Over and Vietnam. I'll tell you what, if you're drafted
and served in war and just thrown in there, it
hats off to you, obviously, And thank you, yes, thank you, sir.
Korea Chi Chun Korea actually is where he served. He'd
as an air traffic controller. Call sign was rocket Tower.

Speaker 5 (01:04:06):
Very very creative with those names.

Speaker 4 (01:04:08):
This one coming in from the four two five Jonathan Carlisle,
United States Marine Corps twenty three to twenty fifteen sergeants
stationed in Okinawa, North Carolina, California, IRAQ, and USA USS
Macon Island.

Speaker 3 (01:04:23):
Thank you Marine. I don't think Carlisle appreciate that. Yes,
go maybe bea Army eighty eight to ninety two US
Navy served in nes.

Speaker 2 (01:04:33):
Well.

Speaker 3 (01:04:35):
I just said that free co opportunity. There you go
all times. But yeah, please go to the iHeartRadio app
downloaded for free, hit the red microphone button and you
can leave a voicemail message that will we play all
day Friday appreciation of Military Appreciation Month.

Speaker 4 (01:04:50):
Yes, and I still I do want more people to
text in which Seahawk they would like to see in
the flag football.

Speaker 3 (01:04:55):
A lot of people said Wollan, who's a great pick. Yeah,
Rake Wollan is a that's a good I like that.

Speaker 5 (01:05:01):
Jalen Milroe a popular one as well. I saw that too, Yep,
I like that.

Speaker 3 (01:05:06):
That's someone. I don't think not that the Seahawks would
mind anyone particularly playing, but they wouldn't mind their backup
quarterback playing.

Speaker 8 (01:05:13):
No.

Speaker 3 (01:05:14):
But in two three years it's still gonna be their
backup quarterback in twenty twenty eight.

Speaker 5 (01:05:17):
It's a good point.

Speaker 3 (01:05:18):
That is a good Sam Donald's contract I've mentioned this
and written this basically is two years. I know it's
three years, one hundred million, but it's basically two years
because it's so ballooned at the end, just like Gino
Smith was, where they're going to have a decision point
to make before that third year. So twenty twenty seven
season is when they decide whether Donald's their guy going forward.
Remember he's only in his late twenties, still not even

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thirty years old, or whether Jalen Milroe, only the third
quarterback that John Schneider's drafted in sixteen years, would be
the quarterback of the future for twenty twenty seven and beyond.
But look for that. Basically Sam Donald's proving is now
in next year to decide if he's going to earn
three or four years with see.

Speaker 5 (01:05:55):
Right, they're not going to let him enter that free agency.
Prove it year is what.

Speaker 3 (01:05:59):
You're saying, Yeah, and they make the contract that way.
Mis John Snyder does this all the time that they
make it that way, so there is a decision point
before that third year. They make it an artificially high
cap number that you're going to have to renegotiate, and
instead of renegotiating for one year, they usually kicked that
can down the road and spread the signing bonus over
multiple years, which is why they give an extension rather
than just a one year redo. It's what makes brock

(01:06:22):
Perties new deal with the forty nine ers interesting. One
hundred and eighty one million dollars. A lot of that
two fifty six total value is in the first three
or four years of the deal. Yeah, instead of in
the fifth year. He didn't want a backloaded, inflated number
that made his whole contract look bigger. He wanted up
front money and he got it from the forty nine ers.
And that's somewhat different than the NFL norm, which is
what we talked about yesterday on the show.

Speaker 5 (01:06:42):
Yeah, that was an interesting one.

Speaker 4 (01:06:44):
Two five three says when it comes to flag football
in the Olympics, no, get those college kids in there,
that would be interesting.

Speaker 3 (01:06:57):
Yeah, there are no college kids playing organized flag football
right now. There are no other school players across the
country in many states, now Washington, making it an interscholastic
sport in high school for girls. But there are no
college in schools intercollegiate flag football.

Speaker 5 (01:07:14):
No, I mean there are. I think there are women's.
There's club, and there's club.

Speaker 4 (01:07:17):
Yes, But you know, I think the thing is because
professional players aren't exactly the NFL players aren't exactly playing
flag football either, So I wonder if it would be
if the point of that texter was to put college
athletes over the pro athletes into the Olympics for that sport.

Speaker 3 (01:07:35):
Two five you've shout out to my dad, retired US
Army excuse the US Air Force lieutenant colonel and former
Total Traffic employee. Yes, sir, thank you for that. Two
of six all right, for equal airing. I'll say this,
growing up in a marine household, we were taught at
a young age the difference between Army and Marines is
first in, last out. Hello, hellol, thank you for your service. Great,

(01:07:57):
thank you, thank you.

Speaker 5 (01:07:59):
Yeah, there's a lot that we're getting in here.

Speaker 4 (01:08:01):
Please leave us more voice texts on the app because
I really want to hear the voices.

Speaker 5 (01:08:06):
On Friday, all right, I think I think we got
to get across talk.

Speaker 3 (01:08:11):
I was going to read a couple more.

Speaker 5 (01:08:12):
You can read a couple more. We have a minute.

Speaker 3 (01:08:15):
That's okay, two five, three. I just I'm reading this line.
What they do at the Mariners Stadium when they have
concerts and stuff. Don't they put covers over the grass? Yes?
It seems of survival. Yes, although at times they do
have to resaw parts of the outfield where they have
like growing lamps. People in Northwest know all about that
and other things that would regenerate the grass. It's not

(01:08:36):
just let's have Bruce Spinstein or whoever play for two
or three days and then everything's back to normal. They
do have some restoration to do. I'm telling you I
know this first hand. The NFL owners just don't want
to put the money into it. They became billionaires by
hoarding their money, and they don't want to spend money
on re sotting and re surfacing their grass their playing surface.

(01:08:56):
Just put an all purpose turf field in and you
can put them whatever you whatever you want in their
concerts and everything else. That's why the NFL has turf fields.
It's money. Whenever you think about the NFL money Olympics money.

Speaker 5 (01:09:12):
Literally, every single Olympics.

Speaker 3 (01:09:14):
Is money they want to open. They have not been
able to crack the China market. They thought they were
gonna have preseason games in China. Seawks and Patriots are
going to play a preseason game about a half dozen
years ago in China. NFL through So, now, what's another
way to circumvent that and try to get people interested
in football? Play something that everyone can play, flag football
and put some NFL players in it. You don't think
that's the motivation beyond the NFL want to put players

(01:09:36):
in the Olympics. Hell, yeah, it is.

Speaker 6 (01:09:40):
Money.

Speaker 3 (01:09:41):
It's absolutely for money. That's a patriotism or it's money.
They want to expose other international markets to NFL players,
much like the NBA did through the Olympics, much like
the NHL has done through the Olympics. They want to
expose international players, international fans to the game through flag football.
That's about that. Dick Vane back from a storm victory

(01:10:03):
last night. I'll join us next heading into his show
from three until seven on ninety three point three KJRFM,
Welcome back, Greg build the News Tribute just been McIntyre
with you. I'm in for Ian Furness, who's off celebrating

(01:10:26):
his son's graduation from college. Oh is that where he is?
Oh cool? Dick Fane has run up from lazy from
his son being in the high school state golf championship. Yeah.

Speaker 13 (01:10:37):
Yeah, I just got a text from my wife. She
says it's dumping now, which.

Speaker 12 (01:10:41):
Is always great for This is really the only time
of the year where I hate Seattle weather.

Speaker 13 (01:10:47):
Yeah, Summer's awesome.

Speaker 3 (01:10:49):
We know that.

Speaker 13 (01:10:50):
I love fall here.

Speaker 12 (01:10:51):
I absolutely love September October here in September month and winter,
I don't mind because it's like, Okay, do you want
forty five and rain or would you rather have ten
below and snow.

Speaker 13 (01:11:01):
I'll take the forty five and rain.

Speaker 12 (01:11:03):
It's now when it's fifty three in raining here and
it's seventy five eighty everywhere else, this is the time
of year.

Speaker 3 (01:11:12):
I'm like, God, it.

Speaker 13 (01:11:14):
Stinks, but yeah, so you don't get through. You gotta
you gotta play in all you gotta play in all weather.

Speaker 3 (01:11:19):
Right, you don't stop it.

Speaker 12 (01:11:21):
No, they'd stop it for lightning that they wouldn't stop it.
It's it's Seattle, man. You don't stop you if you
stop the golf tournament for rain, you'd never get.

Speaker 3 (01:11:28):
Through, you would never play. Well, good luck to him.

Speaker 13 (01:11:32):
Thanks, Yeah, you start all right.

Speaker 3 (01:11:33):
Yeah he started. Now he's through thirteen. He's doing all right.
So that's great. In the state high school golf championships
going on in Lacy this weekend. The state high school
track and tennis and baseball all going on.

Speaker 13 (01:11:44):
That's next next week, yeah, next week where it's supposed.

Speaker 3 (01:11:47):
To be seventy so perfect So great storm game you
called last night compared to the opul.

Speaker 12 (01:11:54):
Well, I knew for sure that it wasn't gonna be
worse because that game I called on Saturda was the
worst storm.

Speaker 13 (01:12:01):
Game in probably about three years. So I knew it
wasn't gonna be worse.

Speaker 12 (01:12:05):
And they played really what they busted out even just
for people that didn't see it. They scored fifty nine
on Saturday total, they scored fifty six at halftime.

Speaker 3 (01:12:13):
Yesterday they rode down the second half. They did, they did.

Speaker 12 (01:12:16):
Yeah, they got you know, they have some you know,
they have some offensive issues where they you know, they
go six seven minutes without without putting many points on
the board. But they're so good defensively that that should
be able to they should be able to weather that.
You know, most teams, you know, if most teams don't
score in you know, six minute period, Yeah, the other
team goes on a fifteen oh run. Well, the storm
is so good defensive the other team usually goes on
about seven or eight oh run.

Speaker 3 (01:12:37):
So you can withstand. The NFL this morning and announced
that they have approved NFL players playing in the Olympics
and Flag Football twenty twenty eight in Los Angeles. The
proposal is one team, one player per team for the
thirty two teams. The NFL Players Association has to still
vote to approve this. First of all, what do you
think of that? We talked about the impetus and the

(01:13:00):
reasons and motivations behind it, and also who would you
like to see from the Seahawks if they were one.

Speaker 12 (01:13:04):
Well, I was listening as I was making my long
drive north avoiding an accident on northbound I five, you know,
going through Away and Des Moines. I'm like, taking all
these back roads to get to get here in time.
But I Devin Witherspoon was my first thought, just like
it was your first thought. I was like, oh my god, lockdown,
you know, absolute lockdown. Absolutely, he would make it a

(01:13:25):
show that would that that would be my number one
JS I think just brought up Jason.

Speaker 5 (01:13:29):
I mean, if I had to choose someone beside Spoon, Yeah,
I am.

Speaker 3 (01:13:33):
I think so.

Speaker 12 (01:13:34):
I mean, I'm all for I'm all for experimental. You know,
Olympic teams. You know, we've had, we have We've had
lots of them. You know, we had softball for a while,
and then it was out and it was back in.
You know, my dad was actually invited to play in
the nineteen fifty six Melbourne Olympics and baseball wowing.

Speaker 13 (01:13:54):
When it was an an experimental thing.

Speaker 3 (01:13:57):
But that it was. It was not even Olympic sport anymore.

Speaker 12 (01:14:01):
But you know a little thing called the US Navy
and he would have had to serve, you know, more
active duty and he couldn't get off it.

Speaker 3 (01:14:08):
So but but it was experimental for a while, and
so break dancing for that. No, yeah, it was not.
What was the Australian Ladies name?

Speaker 12 (01:14:20):
I tried to forget it. Oh god, I don't even
remember what she was a disaster. But obviously the talent
is there. My question is where's the talent anywhere else?
I mean, is this gonna just be you know, us
A gonna win seventy two to three every single seventy
two to six every single game.

Speaker 13 (01:14:37):
And I mean, is there so?

Speaker 12 (01:14:38):
I like competition, and I also like the best players
on Olympic teams. I don't like, you know, I didn't
like the college players playing in the Olympics. I want
the I want the best of the best. Are you
going to get the best of the best if you
can only have one.

Speaker 13 (01:14:52):
Player per team?

Speaker 3 (01:14:54):
What if a player has two stars?

Speaker 12 (01:14:56):
What if what if Joe Burrow and Jamar Chase want
to play for the for the Cincinnati Bengals, you can
only pick one.

Speaker 13 (01:15:02):
So I don't love that. And you're right about the
irony of the field surface.

Speaker 12 (01:15:06):
Right, you gotta play on grass to John Wilner will
join us at four o'clock. Today is weekly conversation A
lot to get to UH with John Wilner. The name
is the name Monte Cohler ring himself. Monty Cohler is
going to join us at six o'clock. He has tied
Sid Aten as the winningest high school football coach of

(01:15:28):
all time.

Speaker 3 (01:15:29):
Number one more victory called that game with Christopher Kidds
championship up good?

Speaker 12 (01:15:35):
Can you just can you pull that can you pull
Chris Kidd and it'll be on the varsity folder in there.
Chris Kidd and Greg Belling the doing the championship.

Speaker 3 (01:15:44):
From the field. That night, they sent Chris downstairs and
he was like it was like he was King of
the Bill because everyone knew him down there. And he
interviewed Monty Cola alive after he that's awesome.

Speaker 12 (01:15:55):
Well, the reason we're having on today is that the
Seahawks are tied in with the Washington State Coaches Association
and they're doing this awesome mentorship program the vMac earlier. Yeah,
and and also they're trying to mentor young coaches and
bring them in because we're seeing we're seeing high school
coaches come in and coach for like three or four
years and be like, wow, this is too much work

(01:16:16):
for not enough money. And then there's not enough Montekhlers
and sid Otens out there that do it for for
forty plus.

Speaker 3 (01:16:22):
That's right, you know, good on him. I told him
that night. I thanked him if you could find that,
but I thanked him for his continued coaching for as
many years as he has to generations and generations the best.
There is nothing.

Speaker 12 (01:16:34):
There is nothing in the world that I do that
I enjoy more than high school basketball coaching. Not why, man,
I love this job. I love Colling Storm games. But
I mean I go to bed after games just like
can't sleep. Win or lose, you can't sleep. You're just
thinking about every play, you know.

Speaker 3 (01:16:51):
It's just it's a passion a lot. It was high
School Baseball Deco Beyond from three until seven with Jackson
Feldts because Dave Softimaal were in Greece somewhere right now.

Speaker 13 (01:17:01):
Yes he is, and it's not fifty three degrees in raining.

Speaker 3 (01:17:04):
I'm not imagined. He'll let you know all about it
when he gets back. I'm sure Dix's on the next
three hours, four hours in fact, Greg Bell, it's great
to be back. Thanks jesssemen as always, Thank you, Greg,
have a great way, Happy Memorial Day. Thank you all
of those who serve our country in any force in fashion,
dex have next on ninety three point three kJ or
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