Furness Show 9-3: Seahawks Sale finalized, Eno Sarris, Brandon Funston, Todd Milles

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The official transaction has closed, so they are the official owners.
The Seahawks officially have the new ownership group in place
six days before the first game as they defend their
NFL championship, the Super Bowl title. Here is the quote,
and this is from the Koslow family. Statement. Quote, we

(00:24):
are honored and excited to begin this next chapter. The
Seahawks are known for championship culture, winning football, and a
deep connection to the 12s in the Pacific Northwest. We
look forward to engaging with the Seattle community and building
upon the legacy and traditions that make this franchise so special.
We'd like to extend our gratitude to the investors joining
our ownership group and to everyone who has supported us
throughout the sale process. Vinod Khosla, founder of Khosla Ventures,

(00:46):
will hold the title of chair. His wife, Neera, will
be the controlling owner and president of the Seahawks Charitable Foundation.
And Neil Koslet is the vice chair. I'm just trying
to read that again. Controlling owner and president of the
Seahawks Charitable Foundation.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
There's also a list of co-owners that are joining.

Speaker 1 (01:05):
And I went through that list. I don't recognize any
of the names. So I'm not going to go through
all of them. And some of the names, frankly, I
would have a really hard time pronouncing. Yeah, it's fair.
There are two at the end that are interesting. Carlisle
and Dynasty Equity. And Sixth Street. Why does Sixth Street

(01:26):
sound familiar? I've got to Google that. Can you Google
that for me real quick? Sixth Street.

Speaker 2 (01:30):
It's an infrastructure company.

Speaker 1 (01:32):
Is that what it is? Yeah. Okay. Yeah, so that's.

Speaker 2 (01:38):
It's an investment firm.

Speaker 1 (01:39):
Seahawks will formally introduce the Coastal family via press conference
on Wednesday, September 9th at 9 a.m. at Lumen Field.
So that's the opening game. And they're going to have
a press conference at Lumen Field.

Speaker 2 (01:51):
On By the way, I did see a tweet from
Vinod Khosla himself, Vinod, sorry if I mispronounced that, but
that there was actually fans asking for Jody to raise
the 12 flag or raise the banner one last time
in their opener versus Jody. New England, and he was like,

(02:12):
we would love Jody.

Speaker 3 (02:13):
To do that.

Speaker 1 (02:13):
Yeah, I think that's what's going to happen. I'd be
stunned if it didn't.

Speaker 2 (02:16):
And it's a great way to kind of pass the torch.

Speaker 1 (02:18):
It's kind of a nice little capper because she did it.
Didn't she do it at the NFC Championship game too?
I think so, yeah. Paul had done it previously at
NFC Championship games, and one last time for people to
thank her. And again, it's such a weird dynamic here
in Seattle. That with her and Paul versus the Blazers
ownership down there.

Speaker 2 (02:36):
It's just completely different.

Speaker 1 (02:37):
Now, we don't know what the Coastal family is all about.
I'm going to trust that they're– here's the good news.
There's no chance they're going to be the Dundon ownership
down there.

Speaker 2 (02:50):
Thank God.

Speaker 1 (02:51):
First of all, they have the financial wherewithal to own
the team, even though they have some minority investors. But
they're not going to be him. I think they understand.
The other part of it, too, is this. There's the
dynamics here that are in play. We can debate stadiums
and grass and grass in stadiums or building a new
stadium or whatever all day long. The reality is they're

(03:15):
not moving. The NFL... Listen, the NFL didn't allow it
to happen the last time, and they were playing in
the damn kingdom. What he wants to do down the road,
does he want to build? I always like people want
to build a stadium, because when people talk, well, they
can build another basketball arena instead of CPA for the
Sonics coming.

Speaker 4 (03:35):
Where?

Speaker 5 (03:35):
Where?

Speaker 1 (03:38):
Like, tell me where. Yeah, it's true.

Speaker 6 (03:41):
Like, where?

Speaker 1 (03:43):
You're not building a football. Now, a football stadium might
be easier in a sense. Yeah, you can go a
little more outside. Could you build a football stadium in,
you know, next to Emerald Downs in Auburn? Sure, 167
would be a treat, right? Could you build one?

Speaker 2 (03:56):
Is that where the Sounders facility is, though? Longacres?

Speaker 1 (04:00):
No, Emerald Downs is Auburn.

Speaker 3 (04:02):
Oh, okay.

Speaker 1 (04:02):
I get those two mixed up. Yeah, you're like my wife.
My wife still thinks Longacres and the King don't exist.
But yeah, you maybe build one off. Because NFL stadiums,
like Foxboro, for example, is out in the middle. It's
in Foxboro.

Speaker 2 (04:14):
It's true. Honestly, most NFL stadiums are now. Not in
the actual city that they are representing.

Speaker 1 (04:19):
I don't know if most. I'm trying to think.

Speaker 2 (04:21):
San Francisco is in Santa Clara.

Speaker 1 (04:23):
Yeah, LA is in Englewood.

Speaker 2 (04:25):
In Englewood.

Speaker 1 (04:27):
Arizona's in Glendale.

Speaker 2 (04:28):
Not in Phoenix.

Speaker 1 (04:29):
I was just thinking Cincinnati and Cleveland are both in
the city.

Speaker 2 (04:31):
KC's going to move.

Speaker 1 (04:32):
KC's going to move into the city. Or actually, KC's
off the beaten path.

Speaker 2 (04:37):
Yeah. Chicago's going to move.

Speaker 1 (04:38):
Chicago's in the city, though, right now. But it's going
to move.

Speaker 7 (04:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (04:41):
Meadowlands, obviously, New York. Pittsburgh's in the city.

Speaker 2 (04:44):
Pittsburgh is, yeah.

Speaker 1 (04:45):
Pittsburgh's very much like Seattle. It's right next to the
baseball park.

Speaker 3 (04:47):
Good, good.

Speaker 2 (04:48):
But there's few. There's not very many.

Speaker 1 (04:50):
Houston's a little bit out of town. Yeah, going through
the list. Yeah, a lot of them are. That part
of it, I'm not worried about. The part of them moving,
I'm not worried about. I'm curious to see. I think
that the only thing that you do touch if you're them,
and I don't think they should either, would be the
front office on the business side. But I think Chuck
and his staff have done a hell of a job.

(05:12):
Very biased, but I think they've done just a terrific job.

Speaker 2 (05:14):
And when you say that you do touch, that's the
only thing you could see happening that they make changes with.

Speaker 1 (05:19):
Well, he's been pretty upfront about winning Super Bowls. I
understand John Schneider and Mike McDonald. God, you'd have to
be an absolute moron, Ken Baring, to see that what
you have isn't working. It's working. It's very much working.
You get the best GM in the NFL. It's been proven.

Speaker 2 (05:35):
Arguably the best coach.

Speaker 1 (05:36):
And if he's not the best, he's one of the top. Well,
he's in the conversation.

Speaker 8 (05:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (05:39):
Right?

Speaker 7 (05:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (05:41):
But they officially become it. Again, looking through the list of,
there's no co-owners on here named Lynch or Sherman or
anything like that. No former players. NFL's not like, you
can mess around with the MLS sometimes and do that,
but the NFL's, we're talking $ 9 billion, man.

Speaker 6 (05:58):
It ain't happening.

Speaker 1 (05:59):
So they own the team. How about that?

Speaker 6 (06:01):
There it is.

Speaker 2 (06:01):
It's official. Does that mean they start operations now?

Speaker 7 (06:04):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (06:05):
They officially closed. It's right now. Is now the controlling
owner of the team. Coastal Family is now the controlling
owner of the team. Glad they got it done before
the season started.

Speaker 3 (06:13):
I agree.

Speaker 1 (06:13):
Uh, you know, and, and, uh, that's yeah. Good deal.
It feels weird. I'm, I'm trying, I'm trying to wrap
my arms around this four, nine, four, five. Well, I'm
going to have so many texts on fantasy day, but four, nine, four, five, one.
It's the end of an era. Officially we knew it
was coming and it's kind of felt like that for
a bit. Once this, this group came forward. Um, I

(06:36):
do think one of the corners is one of the
people that were bound, uh, I don't know how you
pronounce the names, but it's the one family that was
also bidding on it. I think they're a co-owner, too.

Speaker 6 (06:44):
Got it.

Speaker 1 (06:44):
Or a minority owner, I'd say. Well, they call them co-owners.
But they have a controlling interest in the coal site.
But yeah, pretty wild. I'm just thinking on the fly,
so bear with me. It's just pretty wild. It's kind
of hitting home. It's hitting home that that's it for
the Allen family. And I think we all really do
owe them a lot of gratitude and a lot of thanks.

Speaker 2 (07:06):
There is an element of unknown as well.

Speaker 1 (07:08):
There's an element of unknown. But what we do know
is what Paul Allen did to save football in Seattle,
to get the stadium built. And I want to give
a shout-out, too, because when that stuff was going on,
I'll see if I can get Softee to focus at 245.
I doubt it, but I'll try. You know, I wasn't here,

(07:29):
but I do believe there was a lot of push
from guys like Gass and Graz. trying to rally people
on the vote and all those things. This radio station
was at the forefront of that. Way back then, before
any of us were here, Softy might have been. I'll
ask him. But, you know, the Allens saved football. He
didn't make every decision wasn't perfect by any means. The

(07:52):
decision to keep Ruskell over Holmgren as the GM and
the subsequent decision to get rid of Mike in favor
of Jim Mora, which Paul Allen had to sign off on,
was wrong. The good news is Paul Allen didn't care,
and he signed off, and then he signed off on
paying more to leave and hiring Pete Carroll and John Schneider. Well,

(08:13):
the rest is history. You've done all you need to
do right there. And then Jody takes over in 2018
and has to make the difficult decision, A, to tell
Russell Wilson to leave my office. I'm not firing people. B,
sign off on a trade that was one of the
greatest trades in the NFL ever to get rid of
Russ and bring in what they did. And then on
top of that, when you look at what happened later,

(08:35):
it's like we got to make the difficult decision to
say goodbye to Pete Carroll.

Speaker 2 (08:38):
A couple years later, yeah.

Speaker 1 (08:39):
And trust that John Schneider is going to be, is
the guy and is going to make the right decision
to coach. And last I checked, he made the right decision.

Speaker 2 (08:46):
I think so.

Speaker 1 (08:47):
End of the day, they do things first class. The
Allen family did. They got two Super Bowl titles here.
If you look around our city, Storm Sounders fans, take
a breath for a second. We have three major titles.
79 NBA championship and two Super Bowls. And two of
the three belong to the Allen family. So I just
say thank you, man. I say thank you to Paul,

(09:07):
the late Paul Allen, and to Jody Allen as well,
because we have a premier NFL franchise in our city.
And we complain all the time about everything else. Mariners related,
Kraken aren't good enough, haven't been good enough to start.
Sounders don't want to spend money this year. Stormer, allegedly rebuilding,
but basically everyone left them last year. They got, I mean,

(09:28):
all these programs that have had Varying degrees of success,
the gold standard in our city period and a story
in terms of how they run things on the field
and off the field, the gold standard period would be
the Seattle Seahawks. And that's because of the Allen family.
And you can look up if you're at the game
on Wednesday next week and you'll see a banner being raised.
At least if you're, unless you're underneath the banner on
the west side, then you won't see it. You'll just

(09:48):
see it on the screen, but they're going to raise
that banner and it's going to be pretty damn awesome.
So thank you to the Allen family as they officially
hand over the keys to the house. to the Coastal
family who are now, as of right now, the controlling
owners of the NFL Seattle Seahawks. We'll take a break.
Eno Saris joins us next.

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Speaker 1 (10:47):
Eno Saris Athletic Rates and Barrels podcast. If you're a
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How are you?

Speaker 11 (11:00):
It's going well. It's getting late early for the.

Speaker 3 (11:05):
Mariners, though.

Speaker 6 (11:06):
Oh, it is.

Speaker 1 (11:07):
We're going to get to them in a heartbeat. I
want to touch in on something. We didn't spend enough
time on it when it happened. We had something else
going on. I forget what it was because the announcement
comes and we're running around doing stuff. But it's very
relevant to our local team and others, especially in the
American League West. I know you guys talked about it
on your podcast. The sale of the Angels by Artie

(11:29):
Moreno to Stan Kroenke, our friend that owns the favorite
football team of our friends here in Seattle, the LA Rams,
among others, Avalanche. also the Nuggets. Arsenal, Anders tells me,
is really good. All the teams above I just mentioned
have all won titles. What does that mean for the Angels?
What are the ramifications potentially for an owner that has

(11:52):
a tradition of winning owning a team in Anaheim?

Speaker 11 (11:56):
I think one of the most important things with Kroenke
versus Artie Moreno is that he has a tradition, or
at least a people have said this about him, that
he will let the people that work for him do
their jobs. And, you know, there's been a lot of
speculation that Arnie Moreno was the driving force behind the

(12:20):
Abra Pujols deal, which was, you know, one of the
worst deals of recent history in terms of production per cost. And,
you know, there's been also this prevailing feature of the Angels,
which is We're going to buy these overpriced free agents,
and we're going to not invest at all in our youth,

(12:43):
in data and tech, in player development. And so the
joke around baseball is if you get drafted by the Angels,
you're going to be in the big leagues tomorrow. because
they don't really value player development. They don't really invest
in coaches on the minor league level. So why spend
too much time down there, get them up to the

(13:04):
big leagues? And that's been what they've done. I mean,
Christian Moore, I mean, all these guys, they've almost gone
directly to the major leagues. And it worked out for
Zach Netto, and it's worked out for some guys, but
their pitchers in particular have taken a longer time to develop.
Reed Detmer has took forever to develop to where he
is now. So I think just generally, you could see

(13:26):
it in the COVID year. In 2020, you could see
which teams valued their player development, their coaches, and their
minor leaguers by who paid them. And the Los Angeles Angels,
during the COVID shutdown, fired all their coaches and did
not pay any of their minor leaguers and basically broadcast

(13:47):
to the world that they didn't really care about minor
league development in the same way that the teams did.

Speaker 1 (13:55):
My question was going to be a follow-up, but I
don't think it needed it. How are the LA Angels
sitting at 53-87, and you just explained it. It sounds like,
under Moreno, two things. One, an owner that meddled. Two,
an ownership that didn't value what today's baseball, you know,
is all about. We have you on for that reason.

(14:17):
We talk about it here all the time. I know
Mariner fans get pissed. Too much stuff with the iPad. Well, like,
you need those things. Anders and I were talking this yesterday,
you know, real quick, is that we're watching Bryce Miller pitch.
And one of the things, concerns with Miller has been
he starts out 97, high 90s, and all of a
sudden his VLO drops and all these things. But that's
not at all. You talk about it all the time.

(14:37):
What's the spin rate? What's, you know, how's all those?
And it sounds like the Angels were operating in 1975,
is what you're kind of telling me right now. And
that would be bad news for everyone in the AL
West and the AL moving ahead if they change their philosophy.

Speaker 11 (14:52):
Well, in fact, it's why Jerry DiPoto is with Seattle.
Because Jerry DiPoto was the general manager of the Angels
under Artie Moreno. And he left basically because he wasn't
being listened to on certain things, because Artie Moreno was overreaching,
you know, and because they didn't value the same things
he did in terms of numbers and analytics and player development.

(15:15):
And it doesn't have to be analytics. It's just valuing
young players because if you tried to build an entire
team out of free agency that was like a 90-win team,
it would have to be a $ 700, $ 800 million payroll.
That's just the reality of free agency. And anybody who's
looked at a major league roster and kind of thought

(15:36):
it through knows it becomes really obviously really quickly how
important young players are because they're on the league minimum.
And if they can be a star, that's amazing. But
even just a couple of relievers that are on league
minimum and, you know, like maybe Cole Young's not a star.
He's not the next A-Rod. He's amazingly valuable to the Mariners, right?

(15:57):
Because he's, a league minimum guy that's playing at like a,
you know, a better, if you don't want us to talk,
he's better than a normal regular. He's an above average regular. So,
you know, that's, that's, that is something that's worrisome because
the merit, the, the angels farm system has clawed its
way to about league average. And I think that either

(16:18):
John was Iliac, whoever they bring in next, we'll trade away.
The rest of the guys that are there, the Ben
Joyce's read that mercy. and get that farm system somewhere good,
and then try to build something that's sustainable, which is
to have the farm system continue to turn out guys
while you're spending at the major league level. The good
thing for Angels fans is they've proven that they can

(16:39):
spend a little bit. So if you can add that
spending with minor league, with some good youth, then there
might be trouble.

Speaker 1 (16:47):
Well, and a guy that also owns a team, another
team that won a Super Bowl and is a Super
Bowl favorite this year, and obviously spends whatever they want.
They've Much like we always joke about, much like the
Vegas Golden Knights in the NHL, we don't know if
there's a salary cap for the Rams, but they spend.
And his team, I don't know, have the Rapids, Andrews,
ever won a title? I don't believe so. They may
have in the final a couple times.

Speaker 2 (17:07):
But Arsenal in England just won their Premier League title
for the first time in 20 plus years.

Speaker 1 (17:11):
Nuggets have an NBA title. Avs have a couple Stanley Cups.
Rams have won a title. Yeah, I just think it's
bad news for everybody else. Because like you just said,
this is a guy that's going to... just on a
side note, you know, you know, seriously, athletic rates and
barrels podcast. I do like, I'm an old soul. I'm
kind of a dipstick, but I bristle when I hear

(17:32):
people complain about quote unquote analytics, like analytics has turned
into this like all encompassing excuse. If things aren't going
well for their team that I don't know, I don't
know where, how we got here, but it just feels
like that's an excuse. Oftentimes.

Speaker 11 (17:45):
I think I know how we got here because it,
I will admit that it may not be the, I, I,
I love baseball and I think it's in a pretty
decent space. I mean, we have these amazing athletes that
are hitting the ball super hard and throwing the ball
super hard, but I will admit that strikeout is, strikeout
rates are up and batting averages are down. And if
you compare them to like the, you know, our all-star

(18:07):
teams to the all-star teams of the mid nineties, which
was problematic for its own reasons. We all remember people
like share, like, you know, the 1997, you know, all-star game.
I'm like, well, what else were they doing? But anyway,
you know, I, I do, I do remember I grew
up in that time and I remember three 30 batting

(18:29):
averages and three forties and three fifties and, and, and,
you know, and so, and balls in play are fun.

Speaker 3 (18:35):
I get it.

Speaker 11 (18:35):
So I can see how someone might say, I, I,
I preferred it when there were more balls in play
and I preferred it when analytics didn't have this influence
because I, You know, the strikeout rate is up. There's
fewer balls in play. I get that. And so then
you turn to analytics as something to blame. But analytics
is just a catch word for studying the game and

(18:56):
trying to win it. You know, you know, just trying
to study the game and win it. And you cannot
blame any of the teams or the players for trying
to do that. The players are trying to, they're training
in these facilities with the best data and tech in
order to make the most money. You can't blame them
for that. That's their job. And then the teams, they're

(19:17):
just trying to win games. You can't blame them. That's
their job. So it's our jobs with the stewards of
the game and Manfred's job and baseball MLB with the
capital letters. It's their job to kind of figure out
how to incentivize each of those things to how to
twist the dials so that we, they get what the
game they want. And I, you know, I think that

(19:39):
some of the stuff they've done is good. You know, I,
I like the, the pace of the game with the
pitch clock.

Speaker 7 (19:43):
Yes.

Speaker 12 (19:44):
Yes.

Speaker 11 (19:45):
You know, there's, there's different things we can do. We
can move the mound back. You know, I like this idea.
We could just draw the infields smaller. You know, like
the infield cutout can be further in, you know, because
we already have a rule that they can't be on
the outfield. But just bring that in. Then they can't
stand as far back. Another idea that I've had is

(20:07):
paint dots on the ball. so that hitters can see
spin better.

Speaker 1 (20:13):
I like that. Well, what you said, too, for the
pitch clock, I remember when that first came up, and
it was like this weird, like, oh, my God, what
are we thinking? Like, how are we doing this? I
find it so much more pleasurable to watch a game
when I don't see a batter going out of the box,
taking shots, 45, 50 seconds to reset every piece of

(20:35):
armor he has on him, and then the pitcher will
step off, and it's like, it just was great.

Speaker 11 (20:40):
They used to have times where they would do those
in succession. The hitter would do it, and as soon
as the hitter comes set, the pitcher would do it.
You're like, come on. Somebody throw a pitch.

Speaker 1 (20:49):
Just anybody. Throw a pitch. Throw a pitch.

Speaker 2 (20:52):
First inning's a half hour long with 15 pitches.

Speaker 1 (20:55):
Ito Serra's joining us. You mentioned it. Mariners, all right,
here we are. A week ago, you pushed back. I said,
if somebody gets swept... In Toronto or Seattle, in Toronto
next weekend, I think their chances of the wild card
are pretty slim. It's going to knock them out. You said, ah,
not so fast. It happened. And really now when it's
all said and done, Seattle only lost a couple games
because they won the last two. They're four and a
half out of the wild card. They are five, probably

(21:17):
what seemed to be five and a half, it looks like.
Astros up big right now. against the Chicago White Sox.
You can give us something we can't have here in Seattle, Eno.
That is an objective perspective of where our baseball team
is as we head down the home stretch.

Speaker 11 (21:34):
And that is usually my job, you know, because I
do a lot of fancy stuff. And, you know, it's
usually my job to say, don't drop this guy. He's
going to, you know, eventually get there. And, you know,
keep calm and carry on is, you know, one of
my caring things. I will switch it up on you.

Speaker 1 (21:50):
Okay.

Speaker 11 (21:51):
You know, now, now is the time. And especially the
seven games against the A's out of the next 10. Like,
I think they have to go five and two in
those seven games. Maybe, you know, six and one. Because
it's now. The schedule's getting shorter. They're five games back.
They need to put together like a five-game win streak.

(22:12):
They need to put together like a seven-game win streak.

Speaker 7 (22:14):
So.

Speaker 11 (22:15):
This is the time. The offense woke up a little
bit in Boston with those last two games, and they
got four games against the A's. Their pitching staff is
in shambles right now. This is the time to make
it six in a row and go into Texas with
a six-game win streak. I'm putting that on them. I
wasn't as worried about it before, but now it's getting tighter.

(22:39):
They're five games back, and these are the games they're.

Speaker 1 (22:41):
Supposed to 70 and 74 is what the record would
be if they get those games coming up. You know,
Sarah's joining us. We've talked about him all year. He
looks better. It's a funny thing with Cal Raleigh. He's
jacked up his OPS. everything looks better in the last
couple weeks. It feels though there's like a lot of
one for four, one for five games, but there's a
home run mixed in there. I don't know if we're

(23:03):
being teased. I don't know what we see with Cal.
I don't know what to think with Cal. Then, of course,
he doesn't play yesterday, and we're all bashing these guys
for not playing him and Montes, and then they go
out and drop eight runs, and they make us all
look like idiots. So good for Merritt. Chaka went up
for Dan and Jerry yesterday. But what are you seeing
from Cal? I ask you this every week. What are
you seeing now from him?

Speaker 11 (23:24):
Well, the slugging is back, and the one thing that
I wanted for him was being aggressive in the zone
and being more aggressive in the zone. And that is
going to lead to strikeouts, and there was always going
to be some discomfort, I think, in getting back into
being aggressive. But I think that's the better version of Cal.
He has a great sense of where the box is,

(23:45):
and if he's aggressive in that box, he's going to
have that 30% strikeout rate he always has. Then he'll
turn that one hit out of those four into a homer.
And that's more important for him because he's never, I
don't think he's ever going to be a guy who
hits 300. I mean, that's pretty obvious. And so, you know,
if you're going to hit 220, 230, 240, slug, slug, baby, slug.

(24:07):
So I think in particular, I've seen him being more
aggressive on things he can get his arms extended on.
That's where he's traditionally been his best. And I think
just finding a place in the zone that you're super
aggressive on, you know, makes everything else look a little
bit worse. That's something Adrian Belcher told me. He said,
people try to throw me high fastballs. And I said,

(24:29):
why do you throw me high fastballs? I can hit those.
I love them. But he also said, I started targeting
high fastballs, and that made all of the low breaking
balls look crappier. So really, that's the idea we've been
talking about, about being aggressive in the zone and not hitting,
not swinging at balls. Really, the thing is to find

(24:52):
the thing that you can do best and be super
aggressive there. And that will make everything else look much worse.

Speaker 1 (24:57):
You know, Sarah, just a couple more things real quick.
Last month, I made his debut the other day. It
wasn't bad. I had a couple of hits, including a
home run. Not bad for a kid coming up to
the major leagues for the first time at Fenway Park.
I don't know how much you followed him in the
minors or watched him coming up, but Mariner fans, you know,
you can rest assured are pretty excited about what they
saw in that first game.

Speaker 11 (25:18):
Yeah, I think in the long term, he's going to
have some similarities to Cal where he's going to be
aggressive in the zone. He's probably got more chase than Cal,
so there's a little bit of risk there with the
batting average and the strikeout rate. But he's got elite
bat speed, you know, 77, 76 and a half mile
an hour bat speed. That is up there with the
best of them. And, you know, I don't think that

(25:40):
he has the same issues of like a Jordan Walker
in terms of bad path or anything. Like this is a,
this is a guy who is your traditional slugger. And
the more he hits the ball super hard, the more
pitchers are going to be afraid of him. And, you know,
he'll get his walks.

Speaker 8 (25:55):
So.

Speaker 11 (25:56):
I hope that they don't think that he'll put up
a great batting average. But even if he hits 240,
this is the kind of bat that can hit 40
or 50 homers in a year.

Speaker 1 (26:05):
You'll be watching tonight. We've got the kids on the
mound again. Kate Anderson gets his third start tonight.

Speaker 11 (26:12):
Yeah, his fastball shape got better in his next start.
And I think the one disconnect between his minor league
numbers and his major league numbers is his fastball is
not his best pitch. He has great command. He has
a great changeup. He commands his breaking ball as well.
That's going to dominate in the minor leagues. You know,
I don't know that he has necessarily the ceiling of

(26:34):
people's thought given those minor league numbers because that fastball
isn't the best. But I think right now he's already
sort of a good number three. And, you know, there's
always a chance that either improves the fastball or becomes
so dominant with his secondary stuff that the fastball weakness
is not that big a deal. So this is still

(26:56):
a really exciting arm, even if it's not going to
strike out 40% and walk 5% like it did in
the minus.

Speaker 1 (27:03):
Yeah, he's walked 5% and struck out 8% in his
10 innings. I was just going to ask you, I
know it's command and everything, but how much does Velo
really still have to matter? If he's topping out at 94-95%,
Can you still be an elite pitcher in baseball with
that velocity at that point as a starter?

Speaker 11 (27:26):
I think it puts more pressure on everything. So he's
going to have to be finer with everything. And I
think that really what it puts the most pressure on
are those breaking balls. Because he's got a great changeup,
but he's got to set them up somehow. And if
you can't set them up with a dominant fastball... then
you've got to set them up somehow else. And I
don't know, you know, other ways of solving this have
been to have three fastballs, you know, to start throwing

(27:49):
a cutter and a sinker. Another way that he could
do it is to throw that slider as a cutter,
throw it as a pitch they have to honor in
the zone. So there are ways forward for him, yes,
but the– The 94-mile-an-hour fastball is league average now, even
for a lefty starter. And, you know, it is in

(28:10):
the greatest shape in the world. So there's some work
for him to do.

Speaker 1 (28:13):
Tell folks about the Rates and Barrels podcast, my friend.

Speaker 11 (28:18):
Today we talked about how arm angle predicts injury and
particularly how guys with high arm slots who throw sweepers,
there's been some research that just came out that shows
that they have higher injury risk. This is interesting for
the Mariners because at some point they all threw sweepers

(28:40):
in the minor league. They've all pretty much put them away.
But Gilbert and Miller had the highest arm slots and
were throwing high arm slot sweepers for a little bit.
I don't know. Miller's had some injury issues, so it's
an interesting thing to think about. You don't really want
to throw a sideways frisbee sweeper slider from a high

(29:02):
arm slot. It almost doesn't even make sense if you
think about it.

Speaker 1 (29:06):
That's great to know. Anders, are you pretty happy about that?

Speaker 6 (29:10):
Not really.

Speaker 2 (29:10):
He's really kind of poo-pooing on all of our pitchers here.
What the hell?

Speaker 11 (29:14):
No, they mostly dropped it. They mostly dropped it. Nobody
really throws a ton of sweepers in that rotation.

Speaker 1 (29:22):
I like it. All right. We will check in with
you next week. Thanks, my friend.

Speaker 11 (29:26):
All right, thanks.

Speaker 1 (29:27):
That is Ido Saris from The Athletic, theathletic.com, also the
Rates and Barrels podcast. We'll wrap up our number one
coming up next.

Speaker 10 (29:36):
Now back to Ian Furness on your home for the Huskies, Kraken.

Speaker 3 (29:40):
And the 12th man.

Speaker 10 (29:41):
Brought to you by Seattle's closest Snoqualmie Casino and Hotel
on Sports Radio 93.3 KJR FM.

Speaker 1 (29:50):
Good conversation there with Ian Osiris, Mariners tonight. Kate Anderson
goes to the mound. We haven't seen the lineup yet,
I don't believe, but we'll see you once soon. We'll
Hopefully Montez is in it. I would assume he is.
We were just talking about the analytics. And, you know,
I laugh when I hear it because, you know, Greg's
kind of old school a little bit. Greg always, put
the iPad down, make a decision. And there is some

(30:12):
of that. And listen, all sports have some of that.

Speaker 10 (30:15):
Yes.

Speaker 12 (30:16):
Right?

Speaker 1 (30:16):
All sports have some of that.

Speaker 2 (30:17):
Some more than others.

Speaker 5 (30:18):
Right.

Speaker 1 (30:19):
I hear that from Kraken fans all the time. They
care more about the analytics and, you know, this and
that and all those things. And I always just kind
of counter with, yeah, I get that. But if you
have all this information at your fingertips, aren't you doing
your organization a disservice if you're not taking advantage of everything,
whether it be the eye test, an ex-player's eye test,

(30:41):
or the numbers that are as detailed and well-researched and
thought out as humanly possible? And then I have Eno
come on and tell me, Yeah, that's the problem with
the 53 and 87 LA Angels.

Speaker 2 (30:54):
Who have all the money in the world, but have
made the playoffs once since 2010.

Speaker 1 (30:58):
And they have basically said, we don't care about player development,
which goes into the analytics world and everything else. I just,
it's mind-boggling. But now, now you've got an owner that
all he does is win. And what Eno said is
the most terrifying part.

Speaker 2 (31:15):
He steps out and lets people do their job.

Speaker 9 (31:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (31:19):
That's what the Allen family most of the time here did.

Speaker 2 (31:23):
Except when it was needed, right?

Speaker 1 (31:25):
And the one major flub when they somehow Rusko won
a power battle.

Speaker 12 (31:29):
Right.

Speaker 1 (31:30):
But outside of that, Paul, he had a little more
hands-on with the Blazers. I can tell you that from
being down there. But not day-to-day draft. Not Jerry Jones. No,
he kind of fancied himself a draft guy. I mean, famously,
the Martell-Webster draft was an awful draft pick, but he
fell in love with Martell. He's from here and everything.

(31:53):
He was at the workout.

Speaker 6 (31:53):
It was crazy.

Speaker 1 (31:54):
But by and large, hey, Mike, go do your thing. Pete, John,
do your thing, right? And Moreno wanted to get involved.
It's almost like an owner hiring a manager. But I
think the end result, though, I think is good for

(32:14):
the Angels, bad for the rest of the AL West. Especially,
he's got an NFL team in town, so his name
means something there. I would assume those guys have a
big ass offseason. And a total change of culture in there, too.

Speaker 2 (32:26):
Absolutely. And it's been an issue for a while. and
what Eno was talking about with the analytics I think
is very poignant because it's one thing to say you
missed the era of baseball and you liked it better
when they weren't so prominent and it was a more
watchable product. I actually most often agree with that. Like
Eno was mentioning, you had more balls in play, higher

(32:50):
batting averages, more offense, all of that stuff. Because I
think analytics more than anything else helps pitching.

Speaker 1 (32:55):
Sure, absolutely.

Speaker 2 (32:56):
So, but to say that you think that it would
help your team win more if you use less analytics
is just flat out ignorant.

Speaker 3 (33:06):
And naive.

Speaker 1 (33:06):
Well, it's irresponsible.

Speaker 9 (33:07):
Yes.

Speaker 1 (33:08):
It's irresponsible. As management or ownership, it's irresponsible.

Speaker 2 (33:11):
Now, you can use them in different ways.

Speaker 5 (33:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (33:13):
And you could still mix in some gut feel sort
of managerial stuff or roster construction stuff with the analytics.
But just to say, use less of it. Don't rely
on it as much.

Speaker 1 (33:26):
It's ridiculous.

Speaker 2 (33:27):
It's... No. I... You'll be the angels if that's what
you want. Now, here's where I draw the line. I
do have a line in the set.

Speaker 3 (33:34):
All right.

Speaker 2 (33:34):
What's your line? I.

Speaker 1 (33:36):
I am, and you know this, I don't care how
hard a ball is hit to a second baseman for
a 4-3 out.

Speaker 2 (33:43):
It's true.

Speaker 1 (33:44):
You can hit a ball a zillion miles an hour.
I look down at my scorecard. It says 4-3.

Speaker 6 (33:50):
Right.

Speaker 1 (33:52):
Great, you hit it hard.

Speaker 2 (33:54):
This is where the analytics side of things kind of
gets a bad rap, and I think they don't do
a good enough job of explaining this a lot of
the time. They're not saying that, oh, that was a
good outcome because he hit the ball hard. It's trying
to be predictive.

Speaker 1 (34:11):
The picture that they paint, the picture with a PIC,
the picture that is painted oftentimes on broadcast across baseball is.

Speaker 2 (34:19):
Oh, he had a line out. Good job, Cal.

Speaker 1 (34:20):
Yeah, you're trying... The only ball that I've seen hit
hard that, to me, was I wanted to know and
I cared about and I thought anything about it was
the one in Boston that ran. Was it Boston or Toronto?

Speaker 6 (34:35):
Toronto.

Speaker 2 (34:35):
Bly Grower Jr. hit to Randy.

Speaker 1 (34:37):
Hit like a slap shot from the blue line that
was humming at about 250 miles an hour.

Speaker 5 (34:44):
That's true.

Speaker 1 (34:45):
I think it was smacked. The thing is, if Randy
doesn't catch that, it's probably still a single because it
rockets off the wall so hard.

Speaker 12 (34:51):
Right.

Speaker 3 (34:52):
It's true.

Speaker 2 (34:52):
And he's not a fast runner. He's not a fast runner.

Speaker 1 (34:57):
Good stuff there from Eno.

Speaker 2 (34:58):
Really good stuff.

Speaker 1 (34:59):
When we come back, we're going to do something a
little different. We're pivoting here just a little bit. The
sale of Seahawks is official if you're just joining us.
The transaction, the financial transaction is done. The Coastal family
officially has taken over. They got the keys to the
house today. They handed them over. They got a key
to the VMAC.

Speaker 3 (35:14):
Just one.

Speaker 1 (35:15):
That's all they needed.

Speaker 2 (35:15):
Key card.

Speaker 1 (35:16):
Key card to the VMAC. And they've alerted security. They're
now allowed into the back gates. Much like the media.
You can come in.

Speaker 6 (35:24):
Who are you?

Speaker 1 (35:24):
Coastal family. Okay. Give me your keys. We'll park your
car over here.

Speaker 2 (35:28):
Park it spot right in front.

Speaker 7 (35:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (35:29):
We'll get you right over here. You'll park next to
Greg Bell and Maz.

Speaker 2 (35:32):
Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 (35:34):
But they took over. Mike Gaston is going to jump on,
the gas man, for a few minutes, top of the hour.
I just talked to him a minute ago. He was
here through the bearing. Are they going to move the
team era? And Paul Allen, we're going to just kind
of reflect back on what Paul and Jody Allen meant
to this town and reminisce a little bit. And I
think it's important to get Mike's perspective since he's kind

(35:56):
of the godfather of Seattle sports media and sports talk
radio for sure. So we'll do that. Pay a little
tribute to the Allen family. We'll talk a little high
school football. First games are tonight. And it feels like fall,
by the way, does it not?

Speaker 9 (36:10):
100%.

Speaker 2 (36:10):
Yesterday was the pouring rain. Just snapped a finger. It's like, hey,
football here.

Speaker 1 (36:14):
Let's go.

Speaker 2 (36:15):
We'll do that at 120. 2 o'clock. Funston.

Speaker 3 (36:20):
49451.

Speaker 1 (36:21):
We'll get your thoughts, comments, questions for Brandon Funston. Brought
to you by Georgetown Brewing. All coming up.

Speaker 10 (36:30):
Now, from the Star Reynolds Sports Desk, your 93.3 KKRFM
Sports Headlines.

Speaker 1 (36:36):
Headlines brought to you by Frostbrook Coors Light. Cold as
the Rockies. Seahawks sale is official. Coastal family transaction financially
is complete. They have got the keys to the kingdom.
They now own the Seattle Seahawks. The Allen family tenure
has come to an end. More on that in a second.
See Mariners win the series against the Boston Red Sox.

(36:57):
8-3 win yesterday. Four-game series. Back home starts against the
Athletics tonight. Jack Perkins, Cade Anderson on the mound for Seattle.
NCAA is still a mess. SEC sued LSU in the U.S.
District Court in Alabama. That'll go well. LSU suing LSU.
LSU getting sued by the SEC. Court is in Alabama. God,

(37:18):
I wonder if the Soqualmi Casino's got odds on that
one because I don't like LSU's chances to win a
court battle in Alabama.

Speaker 2 (37:25):
No thanks.

Speaker 1 (37:25):
Against the SEC.

Speaker 3 (37:27):
Could be wrong.

Speaker 5 (37:29):
All right.

Speaker 1 (37:30):
Let's get to hour number two.

Speaker 10 (37:32):
Now back to Ian Furness on your home for the Huskies, Kraken,
and the 12th man. Brought to you by Seattle's closest
Snoqualmie Casino and Hotel on Sports Radio 93.3 KJR FM.

Speaker 1 (37:49):
Hour number two. We mentioned the headlines. In fact, right,
we went on the air today at noon. It's the
sales official. We knew it was coming. Approved unanimously by
the league last week, 32-0. The Coastal family taking control
of the Seahawks. They had to go through the financial process,
got to sign the papers, like buying a house. But,
I don't know, billions of dollars more. But it's official.

Speaker 2 (38:09):
It's over.

Speaker 1 (38:09):
I wanted to mention this last segment. I wanted to
pivot a little bit, and I want to check in
with Mike Gastineau, who joins us right now. The gas man,
the legend that is Mike Gastineau. He's on the Beacon
Plumbing Hotline, kind enough to jump on. Enjoying retirement, but
first gas, how are you, my friend?

Speaker 9 (38:26):
Ian, I'm great. It's always good to talk to you.
And what a day. You know, I hadn't thought about
this from the perspective that you're thinking about it until
we talked a.

Speaker 13 (38:35):
Little while ago.

Speaker 9 (38:35):
And like, just, you know, this really, we joke, we
use the phrase end of an era, or we joke it.
We use it so much, it loses its meaning. Today
is the end of an era. You know, officially, the
Allen family now no longer owns the team. And it
doesn't necessarily mean bad things are coming, but it is
the end of an unbelievably... robust and successful era for

(38:57):
this city and that team and that family.

Speaker 1 (39:02):
Before Paul Allen bought the team in 97, from 76
until 97, the team had four playoff appearances. After that,
since he bought it in 97, 17 times they've been
to the postseason, they've won two Super Bowls and lost
two Super Bowls. Which doesn't need to be mentioned, but

(39:22):
they had this unprecedented run of success over that tenure.

Speaker 2 (39:26):
Mike, you've been, you got here, what, 92, 93? 91. 91.

Speaker 1 (39:34):
You've seen God knows how many Mariner ownership changes for,
for a few years, right?

Speaker 9 (39:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (39:41):
I got, I saw a few of those, this ownership,
a couple of Sonic ownership changes as well along the way.
Kraken haven't really changed owners, but, but, but, but what
the other teams have over the years, give me some perspective,
give our listeners some perspective on what we should be
thinking about when we look back on the Paul Allen
and Jody Allen, the Allen trust tenure as owners of

(40:02):
the Seahawks.

Speaker 9 (40:04):
Well, without question, the most successful ownership group in Seattle
sports history. And it's not even close. And I'm not
slagging on the other owner groups. You know, I think
we've had, by and large, good ownership groups up here.
And it's primarily local now, although the Seahawks owners now
are not. But they'll become local, hopefully. But it's not

(40:25):
even close as to what they accomplished. I mean, don't
forget some of the ancillary stuff. You know, I mean,
Paul Allen owned 25% of the Sounders when they were
just getting started. I mean, now that's been reworked. But
he was a silent partner. He just said, yeah, of course,
I'll help with this. The team, the thing to remember,

(40:47):
and I think fans obviously do, fans of a certain age,
the Seahawks were at such a low point. It's hard
to describe how– I wouldn't say they were off the radar.
It's the NFL after all. But, I mean, in the
mid-' 90s in this town, it was Sonics number one, Mariners

(41:09):
number two, if not number 1A. The Huskies had had
their national championship a couple years earlier, but they were
still running on the fumes and the joy of that.
I mean, the Hawks just were not a team you
thought about. when you thought about Seattle sports and again,
it's a little crazy. It's the NFL, but you get
my point. Paul Allen came in at a time, you know,

(41:30):
they were, they were just as low as they could
be so low that Ken Bering was able to, for
a couple of weeks, move them to Anaheim, California, which
remember Ken Bering's great excuse was, well, it makes me
nervous to own the team up there because the stadium
sits in an earthquake zone. So I'm going to move
them to Southern California. Yeah. I mean, he was a

(41:54):
special kind of dumb. And, you know, from the beginning,
people didn't take that seriously. And all the back channels
that you could get at the time were like, yeah,
they're set up in an elementary school, an old elementary
school that had been abandoned in Anaheim. The NFL isn't
going to let this happen. I mean, almost from the start,
that was kind of, but by the same token, they

(42:16):
had moved, you know, so you had to be a
little nervous. And they were at such a low point.
I don't know. Thinking back, I don't think there was
anybody else. There was not a line of people saying,
I want to buy the Hawks and save this team.
There was really one guy said, I'll do it. and
I'll do a contingent on the region voting to pay

(42:38):
for half of the stadium. I'll pay for the other half.
And he was so matter-of-fact about it. It was an
interesting campaign. He just says, I will do this. I
will buy the team, and I will pay for half
the stadium if you vote to pay for the other half.
And if you vote no, that's fine, and I'm not
going to do the deal. He was in a position
where he didn't really have to threaten. They weren't his.

(43:00):
They were still Barron's. But he stepped in. at a
time when, and I mean, it's a little bit similar
to the Mariner ownership, but I mean, you know, the
Hawks actually had moved. Paul Allen was a hero to
step in when he did and to get it done.
And it was right after he had been rebuked twice,

(43:22):
trying to build a park that would have stretched from
Lake Union to downtown. It was called the Seattle Commons.
And voters on back-to-back years voted that down. And so,
you know, Paul was still in a mood where I
want to give to this city. I mean, that whole
area that's kind of Amazonville now, the tech hub, you know,
could have been a park. I'm not saying which is better,
but I mean, you know, that might've been a park

(43:43):
that connected Lake Union to downtown if Paul Allen had
had his vision. Instead, he had all the land, so
he started selling it off to tech companies. But he
had been knocked down twice by voters. So it was,
and this was close. What was it? 51 to 48
and a half percent. I mean, like every election in
this country, there's never a huge clear majority. I'm really

(44:08):
amazed as I look back on it. And then to
step in and have the amount of success he had
and doing it without, I want to be careful how
I put this. He just, he wasn't, I think he
was involved day to day in terms of checking in
and all, but he wasn't, you know what I mean?
He was not a hands-on owner. He wasn't sending play
ideas over or telling guys do this or do that.

(44:28):
he was in, and there's two different ways to look
at owning a team. If an owner's involved, sometimes that's good.
Some of the most successful teams have owners that are
really involved in day-to-day things and others have owners that
are involved financially and then hire the right people and say, look, we're,
you know, we're going to meet once a year. And
if you've hit the objectives we discussed, you're fine. And
that was more how Paul was. And it was, it's

(44:51):
a stretch that I don't know that we'll ever see
anything like that again. Local ownership that had, you know,
four Super Bowls in 20 years.

Speaker 1 (44:58):
It's amazing.

Speaker 9 (44:59):
I know they only won two of them, but four
Super Bowls. It's incredible what they accomplished.

Speaker 1 (45:04):
Just looking at the resume, I mean, they went to
the playoffs more often than not during his tenure. I thought, too,
Mike Asno joining us, Gasman, just looking back at the
Allen family as it's official, the Coastal family takes over today. Mike,
give our listeners, and even me, I was in Salt
Lake at the time, a little perspective on how that
vote went down. This radio station I know was involved.

(45:25):
You guys are heavily involved with the Mariner station with
T-Mobile slash Safeco. But also with this as well, you
guys are kind of... part of the leadership group to
try to rally fan support. And you mentioned it's not
like the Seahawks were what they are right now, right?
It was, it would have been easier to get support
for somebody else than it would have been for the Seahawks,
especially the Mariners coming off the 95 season. So what
was it like from the radio station standpoint?

Speaker 9 (45:48):
You hit it right on the head. The Mariners were
walking the park. Now the campaign wasn't, there was a
lot of bumps and bruises and problems along the way,
but building momentum for them was easy because they were
so hot and so good and everybody, they were good
for the first time ever. The Hawks, it was hard
to build momentum. And I'll throw a bouquet to my
good friend Mark Collins, who ran Save Our Seahawks. You know,

(46:08):
Mark was kind of the head of the grassroots organization,
and he was doing it again at a time where
the Hawks weren't all that popular. And it would have
been easy to kind of look the other way. But
we were involved. You know, I remember, you know, somebody
called the show one time and said, well, the only
reason you're in favor of this is because of your job.
And I'm like, did you think that up on your own?

Speaker 7 (46:27):
Did you have somebody else?

Speaker 9 (46:30):
No kidding and yeah yeah now look there was more
to it i think all of us believed that these
things were good for a community and good for seattle
and years later i think that's correct but yeah if
you're trying to do a sports talk show without the
nfl without baseball you know you're gonna you're gonna struggle
to keep people interested um it was harder with the

(46:52):
hawks which seems ridiculous now as you look back on
it but again part of why there's such a a
sexy team now, and part of why they commanded the
kind of money they command, part of why there's always
excitement about it, hard noxious and everything, is because Paul
Allen ran a good ship for many, many years and
successful and had the best people there and wasn't afraid

(47:13):
to make changes when they need to be made. And
it was really an amazing time. And I remember we
got done with the Mariners thing and the Seahawks thing happened.
And by the end of that, it was like, you know,
it was, it was, we were all kind of exhausted.
We all had a little bit of stadium fatigue, which
I think everybody, I think everybody in town understood stadium fatigue,

(47:33):
except the guy who owned the Sonics at the time.

Speaker 1 (47:35):
I was just going to tell you that I was
just going to say like seven, seven or eight years later,
you went through it again and weren't as successful.

Speaker 12 (47:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (47:43):
I mean, the last thing anybody needs, like, come on, man,
read the room. Um, Paul, Paul, and look, do not
forget Jody.

Speaker 1 (47:51):
No, I agree.

Speaker 9 (47:52):
She just stepped in. You've got to give her credit
for what she did. And the new ownership group, it'll
be interesting to see where they go with this. They're
taking over, I'll use the word robust again, a much
more robust franchise than Paul Allen took over.

Speaker 1 (48:08):
Very much so.

Speaker 9 (48:10):
They've got it. And you never know with new owners.
You never know what's going to happen. Remember, about 15,
16 years ago, there was a baseball team that changed hands.
down in Southern California and a guy named Marty Moreno
came in and he had a ton of money and
he started buying up contracts and everybody's like, the angels
are going to dominate the major leagues for the next
20 years. And they didn't. You gotta have a, you

(48:32):
gotta have a lot of stuff fall into place for
it all to work. But Paul Allen gave this town
a local owner who was connected to the Seahawks. I mean,
he was just, you know, it was almost like a
return to the, to when the Nordstrom family owned the team, except,
And the Nordstrom family, very, very successful, but not in
the neighborhood of Paul Allen in terms of success. And

(48:52):
suddenly you had this Seattle guy who'd gone to games
and was a fan and could make stuff happen. He's
a civic treasure. It was a sad day. He left
us far too early. And, you know, in addition to that, oh,
by the way, out doing all kinds of things with
tech around the world. And, you know, just a fascinating

(49:12):
guy when you look at all the stuff that he did.

Speaker 1 (49:15):
Well, I think, too, you asked to wrap it up.
You you kind of, you, you mentioned this real quick.
It's worth revisiting. I thought the strength of him as
an owner was what you just said. You, you hire
good people. You let them do your job, do their job.
If they're not doing the job, then you also have
to have the wherewithal to let them go. And, you know,
which it running anything having to do with the NFL
was not good. I, I, I know maybe I'm in

(49:38):
the minority. I think Bob, was a good NBA executive
for the most part. He's not an NFL executive. So
we make that move. You bring in guys like a
guy by the name of Mike Holmgren, you bring in
a guy by the name of Pete Carroll, after having
to pay Jim Moore to leave town, Tim Ruskell to
leave town. So when there were mistakes made, he went
out and corrected those and, and would write the check
to make it right. Laiwiki was a great hire. I mean,

(49:59):
you go through the list and Todd Laiwiki and company
go out and get Pete Carroll and John Schneider. Like I,
I think that's the legacy if nothing else. And then
at the end, you mentioned Jody and, Jody had to
sign off on saying goodbye to a Super Bowl winning
coach in this town, which, God, if I would have
told you that, Mike, hey, gas up in 1990, 1998,
the Seahawks are going to win a Super Bowl down
the road, but they're going to fire that coach a

(50:20):
few years later. You would have said you're crazy. First
of all, we're going to win a Super Bowl. Second
of all, they're going to fire the guy. But she
did that. I thought that was the strength of the
Allen ownership group.

Speaker 9 (50:29):
I agree. You know, again, that's what leaders do. They
have the courage to make decisions. They're presented with the
evidence and they have the courage to make decisions. And,
you know, this again, this just seems like another great decision.
I mean, you know, if McDonald is here for hopefully
as many years as he wants to be and continues
to have success, that's the Allen family's going away present

(50:51):
to the city. As if they hadn't done enough, they
went out and found this guy and look at how
he just seems to have it together. And again, you
never know. You can become silly pretty quick trying to
speculate too far down the road. But just... So kudos
all the way around on an incredible job. Well done. And,

(51:13):
you know, and again, I mean, getting a stadium built,
not a small thing, not a small thing to do.
And a stadium that, you know, you hear rumbles about, well,
they need to do some things to it. I'll tell
you what, 25 years later, that stadium holds up pretty well.
You don't walk in there and feel like it's a dump.
You don't walk in there and feel like stuff's broken
and done to work. I'll give the Mariners credit to
the two primary tenants of these two stadiums that we

(51:35):
spent a lot of money on as taxpayers. have done
a nice job of taking care of them. I know
everybody wants more wins with the Mariners.

Speaker 11 (51:41):
I get that.

Speaker 9 (51:41):
I do too. But when you look at just the
facility and not letting it run down and being willing
to keep it up, and the Hawks have done the
same thing, that is an important part of the process.

Speaker 1 (51:52):
Gas, I appreciate popping on. I appreciate the looking back
from your vantage point as well. It's important to do
so as we say thank you to the Allens and
move on to the next ownership group. Your reward, you're retired.
Go take a nap. It's early afternoon. Maybe relax a
little bit.

Speaker 9 (52:07):
I may get a second nap in today before the marriage.
It'll be a big time up here. Thanks a lot, Ian.

Speaker 1 (52:13):
Take care, Gaston. I'll talk to you soon. That's Mike Gaston,
the great Mike Gaston, a Gastman joining us here. on
the Beacon Plumbing Hotline. Great stuff to have him on today.
Love that as well. We'll take a break, come back.
How about this? A little high school football conversation for you.
It's starting. It's starting. High school football starts tonight. We've
got a lot going on with it, including the return.

(52:34):
Varsity football live as well. Nobody does high school sports
like us here on KJR. I'm proud as hell to
say that, honestly. Dick Fain and company will bring stuff
to you starting next Friday night. We'll talk about that
and preview the state. Some good college prospects here as well.
On 93.3 KJR FM.

Speaker 10 (52:52):

Speaker 1 (53:07):
All right, welcome back in. Sports Radio 9, 3.3 KJFM.
Ian Furness with you. And man, oh man, it's football season.
And here's what football season means. Everything football, including the NFL, college,
and you know this radio station. We like to talk
ourselves a little bit of high school football. Maybe a
lot of high school football as well. And joining me

(53:30):
right now, on the line, my good friend Todd Millis,
varsity basketball. Washington News. He is our guy. We love
this dude. He is best high school reporter in the state.
What's going on, my friend? How are you?

Speaker 5 (53:44):
It's good. It's a busy time of year.

Speaker 4 (53:49):
Two weeks.

Speaker 5 (53:50):
I don't know if preseason camp's long enough. You used
to be a football dad. I don't know what it's
like for you waiting for the first game of the season,
but I could use another few days to get all
this walk-up stuff out.

Speaker 3 (54:01):
Here we are.

Speaker 5 (54:02):
We have We have games this week, and it's going
to be the 12th to the 14th weeks that it
takes for a football season to end. It goes by
pretty quickly. So I'm looking forward to getting started.

Speaker 1 (54:16):
Yeah, you guys are doing a top 25 trip around
the state. Is it the top 25 teams in the state,
no matter classification? Is that right?

Speaker 9 (54:24):
Correct.

Speaker 11 (54:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (54:25):
So Lauren and I started the first day of camp
in the Tri-Cities, and we went to Kennewick, Richland, Prosser,
Moses Lake, and ended up with Royal. So it wasn't
exactly five schools located right down the street from one another.
So it was 20 hours in eastern Washington to and from.

(54:46):
We didn't spend the night. And, man, it kind of
set the tone for getting to a lot of these.
these preseason camps of schools in 2A and 1A, 3A
and 4A. So it's been a blast. It's been tiring,
but I'm glad we did it.

Speaker 1 (54:58):
What's the overriding theme with high school football in Washington
this year?

Speaker 5 (55:01):
I think it's going to be a little more top-heavy
than we're used to. If you look at most of
the classifications, like let's take 4A, for example, I think
there's a clear top three. Camas and Sumner are kind
of looming, but You have Lake Stevens and Puyallup and
Graham Kapowsin. All three of them return their starting quarterbacks.

(55:23):
All three of them have dynamic running backs. And then,
to me, the biggest separators, all three of them are
huge and nasty on their offensive and defensive lines. So
I think those three teams, for example, are the clear co-favorites.
Kind of the same thing with 3A. It's O'Day and Bellevue. 1A,
it's kind of Royal and everybody else, and 2A, I

(55:46):
think you look at it, and it's Archbishop and Tumwater.
But obviously, those teams in the second tier have a
chance to grow and join that top tier. But that
top tier seems to be thinning out here in 2025.

Speaker 1 (55:57):
And Tom Mill is joining us right now. All those
teams you mentioned, and we can kind of go through
the whole list, whether it's the 3A schools, like you said, O'Day, Bellevue,
4A schools, Lake Stevens, Graham Capalson, You know, it doesn't
feel like it changes much year to year. Is there
any balance of power shift at all in this state?

(56:17):
Because Puyallup is good. I mean, I look through here
and what you guys have ranked and what other people
are talking about, it feels as if it's the same
teams every year that are kind of the powerhouses. Mount
Tahoma may be the exception. They kind of came out
of nowhere a little bit and built that program up.
But outside of that, it feels like this state, it's
the same schools every single year. O'Day, Archbishop Murphy, if

(56:38):
you want to go to the 3A and 2A ranks.
Sumner is always good with Keith down there. I mean,
it just feels like it never really changes or evolves.
Why is that?

Speaker 5 (56:46):
Because I think there's an arms war, especially on the
west side. Lake Stevenson, Like Lake Stevens knows what Puyallup
and Graham Capazan is getting in the so-called transfer portal.
So they've got to keep up. Same thing with Camas.
Keith got Lance McGee last year, who now is at

(57:09):
Washington State University. He was a big momentum shifter, kind
of swung the pendulum in their favor. So these schools
know that they have to get two or three impact
newcomers to stay in the arms race, to stay playing
in late November and early December. I do think, though,

(57:30):
it's a little different in eastern Washington because kind of
like mouth-to-home, like you said, in 3A, Moses Lake is
a team that I think has sort of come out
of nowhere. Five years ago, that district was in financial peril.
Their coaches were coaching for free, the CBBN. didn't have

(57:50):
a great reputation. And as soon as Brett and Brady
J kind of, kind of hit their stride. And last
year they got to the state corner finals and played
fairly competitively against Lake Stevens. Now the shift of Eastern
Washington powers kind of swung in the 4A CBBN with
Moses Lake. I think they might be the best team

(58:11):
in 4A in Eastern Washington. And that includes Gonzaga Prep, Chihuahua, Kamiakin, Richland,
some of those traditional powers. So, There's a little bit
of change going on in eastern Washington, but like you said,
in western Washington, it's kind of the same cast of characters.
You know, just kind of stand up with one another
in the arms race.

Speaker 1 (58:30):
Let's talk about this opening weekend. It's Todd Millis joining us,
talking high school football. A little quick preview, and we'll
check back in with Todd throughout the year. I'll also
tell you how you can follow high school football with
He and Lauren do this incredible website that you need
to subscribe to along the way. What's the marquee game
this weekend? I see Skyline, Kentwood. I don't know if
that's it. What's going on? What's the marquee game this weekend?

Speaker 5 (58:52):
Well, I think it's sort of the rematch of GK,
Graham Tiphausen at Lake Stevens. These two might as well
be in the same league together because they play each
other so often. They played in the state semifinals last year.
They played twice in the state championship game you know,
over the last five or six years. So, uh, Graham Kapowsin, uh, gets,

(59:13):
gets its crack going up to Lake Stevens and, and
earned some big RPI points. I have Lake Stevens one
in our preseason rankings. I have Graham Kapowsin three. And
then in a couple of weeks, uh, you know, Puyallup
will get its crack going to Lake Stevens and playing
them up there. So, So that's kind of the game
of the week on the west side. And then, like
I mentioned, Moses Lake gets to host Richland, which is

(59:35):
the favorite in the Mid-Columbia Conference. If they can beat
the Bombers at home, I think they take a huge
leg up in what I just said, kind of being
the team to beat over in eastern Washington.

Speaker 1 (59:46):
I see Puyallup's taking on Rocky Mountain out of Meridian, Idaho.
Is that a threat at all to Puyallup, the No.

Speaker 6 (59:53):
1 team?

Speaker 1 (59:54):
Well, it doesn't matter. Some of them have No. 1,
some of them have 2, 3, 4, 5. I'm not
sure where you have them at, but is Puyallup, Rocky Mountain, Meridian, Idaho,
is that a game?

Speaker 5 (01:00:04):
Yeah, Rocky Mountain and Rigby are kind of the two powerhouses.
Rocky Mountain probably has the biggest collection of talent in Idaho.
They're sort of the premier program in the Boise area.
So they do a thing called the Rocky Mountain Rumble
every year. Sumner went over there, I think, last year.

(01:00:25):
And Chiawana went over there a couple years ago and
played Rocky Mountain and kind of got drilled. And that
was a big turning point for them to kind of
get their season turned around and go all the way
to the state semifinals. So that's a good out-of-state test
for Puyallup. I think Sumner's also going over to Idaho
and playing, I think, Eagle. So those are... That 6A SCIC,

(01:00:51):
that Boise conference has really grown up a lot and
kind of headlined by Rocky Mountains. So that's a nice–
if y'all can go over there and get a win
on the road against Rocky Mountains, that's a pretty good
out-of-state feather in their cap to kind of get things
going here in 2026.

Speaker 1 (01:01:07):
Todd, you kind of mentioned the arms race and– I
guess transfer for lack of a better term. How does
it work in our state? We are living in this
world of college football where it's the Wild West and
unlimited free agency. Guys can go anywhere. I mean, I
think back to the days of Tony Roten trying to
say he was living in Seattle when he was living

(01:01:27):
in Renton and going to Garfield. Hell, we all know
what's going on. I mean, Garfield's got all kinds of
stuff with Brandon and who knows what's going on up
there with hoops. But for football, how much of that
is there existing right now where guys will try to
pick and choose where they play?

Speaker 5 (01:01:42):
So I think it's happened a lot, especially if you're
playing in, you know, one of the three or four
big clubs in the state of Washington. That's kind of
how Lance McGee ended up at Sumner. He played in
one of the big clubs over here on the west
side with, you know, six or seven Sumner kids. They
kind of talked to him about the experience and said, hey,

(01:02:05):
you need to come play for us. You know, we
run football. You're not going anywhere over there in Davis.

Speaker 3 (01:02:10):
Yeah, come on.

Speaker 5 (01:02:11):
They kind of worked it out. You know, he, you know, he,
his family, his family moved, his, his family moved over.
They had, they did it the right way. And, um,
and he was, he was ready to go, um, week
one and, and had a great year. Um, but I mean,
there's a number of ways you can do it now.
Now with the WI saying you have the one-time transfer,
you kind of have that period in the summer, um,

(01:02:34):
that you can go anywhere you want one time. Uh,
no questions asked. Um, if you do it more than once, um, then, um,
you hire a really good lawyer, man. Uh, that, that
seems to be, there are four or five law firms
in the state of Washington. If, if you really want
your kid to go to a powerhouse and the avenues
or the, the transfer periods are closed, you just, you

(01:02:56):
just hire one of those lawyers.

Speaker 11 (01:02:58):
And, uh, you know, more.

Speaker 5 (01:02:59):
Often than not, uh, they'll, they'll find, they'll find a
loophole and your kid will be playing wherever he wants.

Speaker 1 (01:03:05):
You know, the, the, The downside is that. The upside
is I think high school football is great. I love it.
I think our state is somewhat underrated. You go around
the state. You mentioned Lake Stevens. My kid played up
there years ago in a playoff game. It was one
of the coolest atmospheres I've ever been around in any

(01:03:25):
kind of football. I mean, yeah, smaller scale, smaller stadium,
but whether it be there, Graham-Capalison, Sumner, Puyallup, A couple
of the Eastside stadiums are phenomenal. There's nothing like Popkini,
especially if they're playing two teams from that same area.
I would always say I think high school football in
this state is a little bit underrated. I'll wrap it
up with this. How is the overall talent this year

(01:03:48):
in our state?

Speaker 5 (01:03:51):
Good, but it's largely in the big men. it's a
really good time to be a lineman, offensive or defensive
lineman in the state of Washington. And they're at O'Day,
they're at Eastside Catholic, they're at Graham Capozin, they're at Puyallup,
they're at Lake Stevens, they're at Sumner. And those guys,
whether they're seniors, sophomores and freshmen, it's a really, across

(01:04:15):
the board, these four or five classes right now, it's
primarily been dominated by big men and guys that, quite
frankly are going to, you know, are being recruited by
the big schools. We're talking Alabama, Texas, and have a
chance to go to the NFL skill position wise. I
think the receiver position has been, you know, has been plentiful.

(01:04:36):
And right now it's a, it's a, it's a good
stretch for quarterbacks, especially this year. We have, we have three,
we have three division one quarterbacks or division one bound quarterbacks.
Now one is going to play wide receiver at Iowa state, but,
You know, you don't see that very often. But, you know,
in the skilled positions and the big men, it's pretty good.

(01:04:57):
I mean, we've had better classes in the past. You know,
the Emeka Egbuka and JT classes were, you know, those
were historic. Those were generational. But there hasn't been that
bad of a drop off in those classes the last
four or five years. And there's some really, really good talent.
in the 2029, 2030, and 2031 classes coming up. So

(01:05:20):
we're in for a long haul of really, really good
stretches of talent in the state of Washington.

Speaker 1 (01:05:27):
That's great to hear. And I think part of that
is there's a little bit of a downturn. The pandemic
kind of cut some people out. Kids weren't around. Kids
didn't play. Kids quit. But it sounds like it's coming back,
which is awesome. Tell folks about the website. You mentioned
me being a former high school football parent. Uh, for parents, fans, kids,

(01:05:48):
whoever it is, tell us about the website that you
and Lauren got going. Cause it's a, it's great stuff
for high school football and high school fans of all
sports as well. You guys do basketball and everything else.
So tell people about it.

Speaker 5 (01:05:59):
Yeah, we're starting year two of, uh, varsity law news.com.
It's a subscription based website, but Lauren and I are
all over the state. She's, she's doing great videos and
photos and editing a lot. And, uh, my ugly mug
shows up at a lot of games and, you know, uh,
Radio shows and podcasts. We're promoting the product, but we're

(01:06:19):
also getting a lot of balanced coverage of football, flag
football in the winter, basketball, and obviously baseball and softball
in the spring. It's a different rodeo. Each time you
change media companies, whether it's at the Tacoma News Tribune
or Scorebook Live, And now Varsity Law, but each in

(01:06:40):
his own is a rewarding experience. And Lauren and I
are having a blast. And I hope our readers and
our subscribers, it's worth it to them because I know
it's been worth it to us.

Speaker 1 (01:06:49):
Well, hopefully we'll hear you too with Dick Fane. I
know we're starting bringing back Varsity Football Live 10 to
11 every Friday, starting a week from Friday. on September
11th with Final Score TV and KJR, trip around the state,
full scoreboard, all the guys are back. I hosted that
show when I first got here 20 years ago a
handful of times. If Dick couldn't do it, I think

(01:07:10):
it's a ton of fun. You're driving around, you can
listen on the app, get all caught up. You're in
the SPSL, you want to know what's going on, right?
You want to know, hey, you're a Puyallup, you want
to know what GK's doing and that type of thing.
You're in the over on the east side, and you're
at Mount Sai. You want to know what Eastlake's doing.
You want to know all those things, and I think
that's what's cool. So I'm glad we're back in it,

(01:07:30):
back in the game. You're back in the game. I'm
sure we'll hear you throughout the year, and we'll talk again, man. Thanks, Todd.
I appreciate it.

Speaker 5 (01:07:38):
No worries, Ian. We'll talk soon.

Speaker 1 (01:07:39):
That's many hats, Millis. Todd Millis, we'll take a break.
Come back with more 93.3 KJFM.

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Speaker 1 (01:07:58):
I'm going to take everybody behind the scenes right now.
This is an interesting dynamic we're in. I think probably
the last time I used the X screen from Broadcast Bionics,
which would be the call screener.

Speaker 9 (01:08:16):
Yes, it is.

Speaker 1 (01:08:18):
The last time I used that would have been at
the end of last fantasy football season. Yes, it was.
Funston's coming up at 2 p.m.

Speaker 5 (01:08:23):
Today.

Speaker 1 (01:08:25):
So if I were to click on this, that just
wants to dial it. I don't want to do dial.
How do I click on? Maybe I need to be producer.
Am I producer?

Speaker 2 (01:08:36):
No.

Speaker 3 (01:08:37):
Talent?

Speaker 1 (01:08:38):
Definitely not.

Speaker 2 (01:08:40):
Should we test it really quick?

Speaker 1 (01:08:42):
That's what I was trying to do.

Speaker 2 (01:08:42):
All right, all right.

Speaker 1 (01:08:44):
My screener or producer?

Speaker 2 (01:08:45):
Let me give you a call. I think you're talent.

Speaker 1 (01:08:47):
All right, so you're calling. This is big stuff, guys,
because we've got Brandon Funston coming up at 2 o'clock today.
We've got to make sure this thing works. God, it's
like we haven't started the car in seven months. How
does this work? How in the world does this work?

Speaker 12 (01:09:00):
Work?

Speaker 2 (01:09:00):
Oh, it's so true.

Speaker 6 (01:09:01):
Lordy, lordy.

Speaker 1 (01:09:02):
Are you calling yourself? Are you calling the station? Yeah,
I'm calling the station right now. My God, that's hilarious.
Anders in Seattle.

Speaker 6 (01:09:09):
I see. All right.

Speaker 1 (01:09:10):
So put it on hold.

Speaker 6 (01:09:11):
All right.

Speaker 14 (01:09:12):
Ready?

Speaker 1 (01:09:12):
I'm going to try to see if this works. Can
you hear me?

Speaker 3 (01:09:17):
What happened?

Speaker 2 (01:09:17):
It says in use elsewhere. So you probably have to
change studios. Go to the.

Speaker 1 (01:09:22):
My Zoom just popped up. Okay, hang on.

Speaker 7 (01:09:28):
Hang on.

Speaker 1 (01:09:28):
I don't know how I do that.

Speaker 2 (01:09:29):
I wish we could show our screen. You know how
you did Studio E instead of Studio H?

Speaker 1 (01:09:34):
I'm Studio H right now, fella.

Speaker 2 (01:09:36):
Go to E.

Speaker 6 (01:09:36):
Go to E? Okay.

Speaker 1 (01:09:38):
You guys want this to work. Trust me.

Speaker 3 (01:09:40):
Yeah, we do. We do.

Speaker 1 (01:09:41):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (01:09:41):
All right.

Speaker 1 (01:09:42):
So I'm on Studio E. Is this going to work again?
It says in use elsewhere.

Speaker 3 (01:09:46):
Yep. All right.

Speaker 1 (01:09:46):
You may just have to pop them up.

Speaker 13 (01:09:48):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (01:09:48):
For today.

Speaker 2 (01:09:49):
All right.

Speaker 7 (01:09:49):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:09:50):
All right. So if we get calls, we'll do that.

Speaker 2 (01:09:51):
We'll work through it.

Speaker 6 (01:09:52):
My gosh.

Speaker 1 (01:09:54):
This used to be the easiest thing in sports radio
is phone calls. I mean, now we also had, wait
for it, phones. Oh God, I just did that. I
just said wait for it.

Speaker 2 (01:10:04):
You're going to notice it every time now. It's great.

Speaker 3 (01:10:07):
It's great.

Speaker 2 (01:10:10):
Oh, my gosh. I can't believe I did that.

Speaker 1 (01:10:14):
He didn't even realize it, guys.

Speaker 2 (01:10:16):
For those of you who weren't listening yesterday, we had
a caller that imitated Ian, and he basically said, wait
for it. Here's the deal. Over and over and over again.

Speaker 1 (01:10:23):
Like a hundred times.

Speaker 2 (01:10:24):
However many times he could do it in 30 seconds.
And Ian was like, okay, I know I say here's
the deal, but do I actually say wait for it?
And I'm like, yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:10:31):
Yeah, you do.

Speaker 1 (01:10:32):
Just flat out did. What an idiot.

Speaker 2 (01:10:35):
Oh, what a gong show of a segment, huh?

Speaker 1 (01:10:37):
That was awesome.

Speaker 12 (01:10:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (01:10:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:10:39):
I don't know what I did here. I've got something wrong.

Speaker 2 (01:10:42):
I'll come and help you out.

Speaker 3 (01:10:42):
Well, you know what?

Speaker 6 (01:10:43):
Or you just.

Speaker 2 (01:10:43):
I'll just pop it up.

Speaker 1 (01:10:45):
You'll just pop it up.

Speaker 3 (01:10:46):
All right.

Speaker 2 (01:10:46):
You can see it though.

Speaker 1 (01:10:47):
I can see it. That's all that matters. That's all
that matters right now. Wait for it. Here's the deal.

Speaker 2 (01:10:53):
We used to have, wait for it, phones.

Speaker 1 (01:10:55):
Oh my gosh, you guys. What is going on?

Speaker 2 (01:10:58):
What is going to go on?

Speaker 1 (01:11:03):
49451. 49451. That is the Tacoma Dodge text line. It's
that time. It's that time for fantasy football. We're going
to get Funston on here in about 10 minutes. We'll
get your questions answered. So stand by for that. God,
I'm just a clown.

Speaker 2 (01:11:16):
We just got a text from Softie. This is the
worst radio I've ever heard.

Speaker 1 (01:11:19):
Well, I see here. You know what?

Speaker 2 (01:11:21):
And I know bad radio, he says.

Speaker 6 (01:11:23):
I know.

Speaker 1 (01:11:23):
Wait till 3 o'clock. He's got something to shoot for.

Speaker 2 (01:11:27):
The thing is, we agree. We agree, Softie.

Speaker 1 (01:11:28):
Yeah, we agree.

Speaker 2 (01:11:30):
We're not pushing it back on that.

Speaker 1 (01:11:31):
We were in the middle of trying to do this
damn thing, and I was like, I couldn't figure it out.
It's a big deal, guys. It's a very big deal.
It's a very big deal. Okay. I want to wrap
up the Todd Millis conversation real fast, because we just
had Todd on, and I love what this radio station does.
I was talking to Purple Sheet in the break. We're
bringing back Varsity Football Live Fane on Friday nights.

Speaker 2 (01:11:50):
Love that.

Speaker 1 (01:11:50):
And I used to– so 20 years ago when I
first got here in mid-late September of 06, I would–
on Fridays, it took us a year to sell our house.
And so on Fridays, I would get off the air
with Elise, the new voice of the Huskies, Elise Woodward,
and I would jump on the freeway and head back
down to Vancouver. It took us a while to sell

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our house. So I was kind of commuting for a while,
coming up here during the week and leaving on Friday.
And I loved that show. I loved Varsity Football Live,
and I loved the trip around the state. Let's go
to Hoquiam. Let's go to Burlington Edison. The Tigers are
playing right now, and they're taking on Sehome High School
or Linden Christian or whatever it was. And it was

(01:12:32):
just fun. It was what sports radio used to be,
and big markets isn't anymore, but there's still a place
for it. If you just look around on a Friday night, Thursday,
actually Thursday night, Friday night, Saturday, and that's the way
it is now. There's a lot more Thursday games because, frankly,
there's a lack of officials. A lot of the guys
do high school officiating in the state. The top guys, actually,
the senior guys, they all work Seahawks training camp. And

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they also do the Cleats for Cancer deal, which I've
known them for years. And I was talking to a
bunch of those guys and they're just desperately trying to
find guys to officiate high school football games. So because
of the lack of officials, and now this year in
Seattle with the lack of Memorial Stadium until it gets rebuilt,
they're playing a lot more games on Thursdays and Saturdays.
So we have a lot of games around the area tonight.
It starts tonight and then tomorrow. So thanks for most
coming on. But yeah, next week it starts and we'll

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have that. going on as well. Kudos to Greg Bell
refereeing a high school football game in the region. That's
from the 206. Yeah, I didn't know Greg was an official.

Speaker 7 (01:13:20):
He is?

Speaker 6 (01:13:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:13:21):
That's awesome.

Speaker 1 (01:13:22):
Yeah, he just told me that.

Speaker 2 (01:13:23):
Are there a lot of, because I knew this used
to be a thing, are there a lot of football
officials that also do basketball as well?

Speaker 1 (01:13:29):
There's a crossover.

Speaker 9 (01:13:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:13:31):
Yeah, there's a crossover. There's guys, I know one guy
that is the lead official for the cleats versus cancer
all-star game every year. He does football, basketball, and either
baseball or fast pitch. One of the two.

Speaker 5 (01:13:42):
Awesome.

Speaker 1 (01:13:42):
So he's doing it all the time. Yeah. So yeah,
get out there and, uh, we got to get one
of those guys on the referee association because they need
more people.

Speaker 3 (01:13:48):
They do.

Speaker 1 (01:13:49):
And, uh, but it's fun. There's some great, there's some
great places around the area, great stadiums around the area.
Lake Stevens is playing as Mila said this weekend, hosting
as a GK, I guess it is.

Speaker 6 (01:13:57):
Right.

Speaker 1 (01:13:58):
And I mean that Lake Stevens high school football stadium
is unbelievable on a Friday night. Enumclaw, unreal. The old, uh,
What do they call that? Pete's Pool. Phenomenal. Mount Si,
great atmosphere.

Speaker 3 (01:14:09):
Bellevue.

Speaker 1 (01:14:11):
Everything in the South Sound. Spark Stadium in Puyallup is great. So, yeah,
get on out there and support your guys.

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

Speaker 1 (01:14:17):
Here's what's coming up.

Speaker 2 (01:14:21):
49451.

Speaker 1 (01:14:22):
49451. Your questions for Brandon Funston. Fantasy football drafts are
taking place as we speak. Maybe they've already taken place.
Maybe you're having buyer's remorse. Maybe you have a keeper question,
a trade question. Whatever it might be, 49451. And just
for giggles, we'll do this this week. We will take
some phone calls as well.

Speaker 8 (01:14:42):
206-286-9595.

Speaker 5 (01:14:42):
206-286-9595.

Speaker 8 (01:14:43):
800-829-0950.

Speaker 3 (01:14:43):
But 206-286-9595.

Speaker 1 (01:14:43):
And your phone calls get answered before the text messages
do as well.

Speaker 3 (01:14:46):
All right.

Speaker 1 (01:14:46):
So the unofficial start of the weekend is coming up next.

Speaker 10 (01:15:04):
Now, from the Star Runnels Sports Desk, your 93.3 KJR
FM Sports Headlines.

Speaker 1 (01:15:10):
Headlines brought to you by Frostbrood Coors Light. Choose chill. Oh,
I'm sorry. Three, two, one. Frostbrood Coors Light. Cold as
the Rockies.

Speaker 2 (01:15:19):
Can't blame me. It's on your sheet.

Speaker 1 (01:15:20):
It's on my sheet. Seahawks sale is official. The Coastal family,
the transaction financially took place this afternoon. Greg Bell's got
a great story up at the Tacoma News Tribune. If
you want to check it out, gbell.com. I went through
all the minority owners, the co-owners, so to speak, with
the Coastal family. There's only one that he could find
that is local. Somebody that owns some sort of medical

(01:15:41):
something or else, but I don't know. Anyway, it's all
up there at the Tacoma News Tribune. Check it out there.
Mariners win a series in Boston yesterday, 8-3 over the
Red Sox in a matinee affair. They start a four-game
series back home tonight at T-Mobile Park against the Athletics
from Sacramento via Oakland on the way to Vegas. Jack
Perkins versus Kate Anderson is your pitching matchup. Let's see.

(01:16:03):
Former athletic reporter Diana Roussini's relationship with Mike Vrabel violated
newsroom standards but showed no clear bias toward the New
England Patriots head coach. That's according to the findings of
an internal investigation into her work published by The Athletic
on Thursday. I blame Funston. 49451 is the Tacoma Dodge

(01:16:24):
text line. He's very uncomfortable right now. Ladies and gentlemen,
this is Thursday, September 3rd. And it's the start, the
unofficial start of the weekend.

Speaker 10 (01:16:36):
He's the leading face of fantasy sports. Even though you
can't see him, trust us. It's time for Ian's weekly
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Speaker 1 (01:17:06):
On your home for the NFL. Sports Radio 93.3, KJR-FM.

Speaker 6 (01:17:09):
He's got a touchdown!

Speaker 3 (01:17:17):
High-enders?

Speaker 8 (01:17:18):
Huh?

Speaker 1 (01:17:19):
Let's go. Let's go. Fantasy football time. Funston's on the air.
Been doing this for well over a decade now. Love
it every Thursday. We've got just this crazy group of
loyal people that call in every week. Texts are filling
up at 49451 as well. We've got them all there
for you. Couple lines are open.

Speaker 6 (01:17:41):
206-286-9595.

Speaker 2 (01:17:42):
Couple of regulars aren't here yet. Maybe they don't think
it starts this week.

Speaker 1 (01:17:47):
Well, they may be all. A couple of those guys
called last week. A couple of them called last week
and they were all dialed in.

Speaker 2 (01:17:52):
They got their answers.

Speaker 1 (01:17:53):
They got their answers. Funston, how are you, my friend?

Speaker 3 (01:17:55):
Oh, man.

Speaker 6 (01:17:55):
This is gauntlet time. I got Three in-person live drafts
between now and when the Seahawks kick it off on Wednesday.

Speaker 1 (01:18:03):
Oh, my gosh.

Speaker 6 (01:18:04):
So this is rubber meets the road time for me.

Speaker 1 (01:18:06):
It's a great time.

Speaker 2 (01:18:07):
I love it.

Speaker 1 (01:18:08):
Great time of the year. Great time of the year.
Before I go to the phones, do you recommend doing
mock drafts?

Speaker 7 (01:18:17):
You know, I.

Speaker 6 (01:18:18):
I think it's, I think it's fine. I think at
a certain point, like, you know, you're, it's, but I, I,
I think if you can go through some exercise, every
time I do a draft, I always feel a little
bit better about, uh, you know, what I can expect
from other people in drafts. So, but if you're just doing,
you know, mock drafts that are sort of AI driven,
you know, um, I don't know if you're learning a
whole lot, but if you're doing, if you're doing public

(01:18:40):
mock drafts, I think there's something to it or, you know,
getting out there and doing some leagues that you don't
care about too much, but you're kind of using them
as some, Gotcha. Some exercise.

Speaker 2 (01:18:49):
See for me it's almost like i almost find out
more about what i want to do as a game
plan it's not even like what possibilities that other people
will do it's like okay like different types of game
plans that i can do during my draft that i
find out when i mock draft.

Speaker 6 (01:19:03):
Right and uh you know i always they always say
like good, you know, plans are great until you get
punched in the mouth and like, you can like have
a plan and then, You know, someone just burns your
plan in front of you, and then you have to
kind of, like, scramble.

Speaker 3 (01:19:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:19:16):
No, I agree.

Speaker 6 (01:19:17):
All right.

Speaker 15 (01:19:17):
49451.

Speaker 1 (01:19:17):
We'll get to those in a second. 206-286-9595 as well.
Those are the phone numbers for you to call in.
Did you see my picture before I get to the
phones of the Gong Show? Yeah, did you guys work
some things out? We got a lot. We got a
lot done. Yeah, we got a lot done.

Speaker 8 (01:19:32):
Really?

Speaker 5 (01:19:32):
Did you?

Speaker 1 (01:19:33):
Yeah, we killed a six-barrel keg of mayor IPA.

Speaker 3 (01:19:36):
That's a lot.

Speaker 1 (01:19:37):
We had smash burgers. We yelled at each other. A
couple people didn't pay attention. Two guys that have won
multiple titles wore their gold jackets and somehow didn't get
beat up. Yeah, it was good. It was all good.
I tell you, I highly recommend it.

Speaker 2 (01:19:52):
Some Seahawks Patriots trash talk?

Speaker 1 (01:19:54):
Yeah, well, Mac Daddy, he's got hearing aids, can't really
hear that well, so we all say stuff to him
and he can't hear us, so that worked too. Yeah,
I would just say I would highly recommend a Board
of Governors meeting if you're doing it with some friends.

Speaker 6 (01:20:04):
Let me ask you, though, does the Board of Governors–
Is that everybody in the league or is that a select?

Speaker 10 (01:20:10):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (01:20:10):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:20:10):
Just like the board of governors in the NFL just
voted 32 out. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:20:14):
It's all.

Speaker 1 (01:20:14):
Yeah. We had 10 of 12 there. We had two
that were out of town, 10 of 12 there, but
we did, we passed actually a lot of stuff. We,
you know, we did, which I like, we still have
super flex. We cut down our roster. You can only
have three quarterbacks on your roster in a super flex league.
So that leaves some waiver pickups and we cut down
our backups. I think we had 14. Now we only
have 13 on the roster or something like that.

Speaker 5 (01:20:33):
So.

Speaker 6 (01:20:34):
Because like you can't, we're going to have to do
something similar. We have the same kind of a league
in one of my local leagues where it's three quarterbacks
and a super flex. But if you get a quarterback
that gets injured. Yes. Like it's tough because then you
aren't allowed to like just add a guy. No. Like
if you could, if you have like a designated injury
spot that you, if a guy goes there, you could

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still pick up another quarterback.

Speaker 8 (01:20:56):
Like.

Speaker 6 (01:20:57):
I kind of almost feel like that maybe is a
way to go.

Speaker 7 (01:21:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (01:21:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:21:01):
But yeah, we had guys stashed. We had guys stashed
in four quarterbacks on our roster and that just, that
was no good.

Speaker 2 (01:21:06):
So, all right.

Speaker 1 (01:21:07):
Uh, Anders, you ready to push the button since I
haven't figured out how the call screener works yet. Beautiful. Uh,
let's get, uh, a regular on, uh, on the phone.
It's Chris in Burien is first up. Chris, you're on with, uh, Funston.

Speaker 3 (01:21:19):
How are you?

Speaker 1 (01:21:23):
There he is.

Speaker 11 (01:21:23):
Hey guys.

Speaker 6 (01:21:24):
Hey Chris.

Speaker 13 (01:21:25):
So not sure how to do this. We haven't done the, uh,
draft yet, but this is my traditional option, full-point PPR
as my second pick. Jeremiah Love, Dennis Walker, or Amarian
Hampton as a first or second team running.

Speaker 11 (01:21:41):
Back for me.

Speaker 6 (01:21:42):
Okay, so this is your second choice. This is kind
of a keeper league draft or something?

Speaker 13 (01:21:51):
No, just standard 10-person draft. Full point PPR.

Speaker 1 (01:21:53):
Those are guys you think might be available? Is that
what you think? Those are guys that might be available?

Speaker 6 (01:21:57):
This is not the second pick overall. Yeah, no.

Speaker 7 (01:22:00):
No, no.

Speaker 13 (01:22:00):
Second round.

Speaker 5 (01:22:01):
Sorry.

Speaker 6 (01:22:02):
Second round.

Speaker 9 (01:22:03):
Okay.

Speaker 7 (01:22:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:22:04):
You know what?

Speaker 6 (01:22:04):
A lot of people think of Martin Hampton as this
big breakout guy, but I have a feeling the coaches
have been saying that they're going to plan on working
in Keaton Mitchell and Kimani Vidal.

Speaker 9 (01:22:16):
I don't see.

Speaker 6 (01:22:17):
They have Emmett Johnson backing up Kenneth Walker right now
in Kansas City. I think this is legitimately Kenneth Walker's
year to get bell cow work. I'm going to lean
on Kenneth Walker here.

Speaker 1 (01:22:27):
Oh, I like it. I like it. All right, Chris,
thank you very much. That's Chris Imburian. Anders, let's next head, shockingly,
to Sultan Washington. Stephen in Sultan is up next.

Speaker 3 (01:22:39):
Hey, Stephen.

Speaker 11 (01:22:41):
Hey, how's it going, guys?

Speaker 1 (01:22:42):
Good, buddy.

Speaker 4 (01:22:43):
Good, buddy.

Speaker 1 (01:22:43):
What do you got?

Speaker 7 (01:22:44):
Hello.

Speaker 16 (01:22:45):
Well, besides NFL deciding to want to play a game
on Wednesday, which throws off our fantasy football Thursdays, I
need a super flex two quarterbacks, Burrow, Darnold, Shuck, and Stafford.

Speaker 6 (01:22:58):
Oh, you're asking a week one question already?

Speaker 2 (01:23:00):
Well, I mean, just to kind of– Well, there's games
on Wednesday. There's games on Wednesday.

Speaker 11 (01:23:04):
We've got to figure it out.

Speaker 7 (01:23:06):
Yeah. No.

Speaker 6 (01:23:07):
Oh, you're right.

Speaker 12 (01:23:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:23:07):
Stupid Wednesday game. Burrow for sure. So it's Shuck. And
who's the other one? And Darnold.

Speaker 11 (01:23:15):
Darnold and Stafford.

Speaker 6 (01:23:17):
I'm doing a quick. You know what? Man.

Speaker 16 (01:23:20):
By the time you're on next week, we'll have two
games already done.

Speaker 6 (01:23:23):
Yeah, I think you want Stafford. I really like Shuck
at Detroit, but I'm going to still lean with Joe Burrow.
So give me Stafford and Burrow.

Speaker 1 (01:23:33):
There you go.

Speaker 6 (01:23:33):
All right.

Speaker 1 (01:23:33):
How about that? That's our first question of the year.
But he's right.

Speaker 8 (01:23:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:23:37):
Because that game is.

Speaker 2 (01:23:38):
Are we going to. Do like a– No, we'll.

Speaker 1 (01:23:42):
Just do it on Thursday.

Speaker 6 (01:23:43):
I mean, we're still going to have every game except
for the Seattle game.

Speaker 7 (01:23:46):
Yeah, that's true.

Speaker 3 (01:23:46):
Every other game.

Speaker 1 (01:23:47):
Yeah, because even the– even whatchamacallit, the 49er game, 49er-Ram
game is not until like 5 o'clock.

Speaker 9 (01:23:53):
True.

Speaker 10 (01:23:54):
Right?

Speaker 1 (01:23:54):
I mean, that's a 5 o'clock game. So I don't
think that's going to be– I know what he's saying.
But there's some leagues that might, and if he has, yeah,
535 on Netflix, by the way. 535 on Netflix next week.

Speaker 2 (01:24:04):
We're going to have this conversation again.

Speaker 6 (01:24:07):
What time is that in Australia? Oh, God. Yeah, what
is that?

Speaker 9 (01:24:10):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:24:10):
It's got to be like maybe noon or 1.

Speaker 1 (01:24:13):
Yeah, it can't be that crazy along the ways.

Speaker 2 (01:24:16):
The next day.

Speaker 1 (01:24:17):
Anders, let's stay in Salton and get Derek on next
before I get to some text messages, all right? What's up, Derek?

Speaker 7 (01:24:23):
What's up, guys?

Speaker 11 (01:24:24):
We're back, baby.

Speaker 1 (01:24:25):
Hey, Derek, I need you to do me a favor,
all right? I don't know how we can make this work.

Speaker 3 (01:24:29):
I need you.

Speaker 1 (01:24:29):
I need our Salton guys, you and Steven, I need
you guys to get together, get a picture, send it
to us, somehow hook up. Salton can't be that big.
You guys got to be able to find a way
to hook up and have a beer or something, all right?

Speaker 11 (01:24:40):
Good brew. We can definitely meet at good brew.

Speaker 6 (01:24:43):
All right.

Speaker 1 (01:24:43):
Good brew. We'll set that up. We'll set up a
little meet and greet. Steven, if you're listening, meet at
good brew. Yeah, we'll figure that out next week somehow.
All right, what do you got, Derek? What do you
got going.

Speaker 7 (01:24:53):
On?

Speaker 4 (01:24:53):
All right, so I found myself with Trayvon Henderson this year,
and yes, I've already drafted. So, of course, I have
his handcuff, but I'm wondering if he sits this coming game,
am I rolling with Marshawn Lloyd or R.J.

Speaker 6 (01:25:06):
Harvey?

Speaker 11 (01:25:07):
Marshawn Lloyd, I picked him up, but sniped him.

Speaker 6 (01:25:10):
Yeah, I would, I'm, I want to, I want to
see Marshawn Lloyd for a week. I mean, he's literally
played like one game in his career in two years.

Speaker 1 (01:25:18):
And he's green Bay starter now.

Speaker 5 (01:25:20):
Right.

Speaker 1 (01:25:20):
With, uh, with, with Jacobs.

Speaker 6 (01:25:21):
I mean, they do have Caleb Johnson. It's funny. Like
suddenly people are trying to make Caleb Johnson something, even
though the Pittsburgh Steelers didn't really have a deep running
back room and they didn't want anything to do with him. And, and,
you know, he couldn't find his way on the field there,
but now they're, now they're talking that he might be
in the mix and Chris Brooks as well. Um, I
don't know if they're just going to give a featured

(01:25:42):
role to Marshawn Lloyd right out of the gate. So
I would tend to go with R.J.

Speaker 3 (01:25:46):
Harvey.

Speaker 6 (01:25:46):
They like him in the red zone, so he's always
a decent bet. He scored, what, 12 touchdowns as a rookie.
I mean, some of that's luck. There's some regression, but
it also has a lot to do with they fed
him the ball around the end zone.

Speaker 1 (01:25:58):
Interesting. Okay, there you go. All right, thank you. So
is R.J. Harvey running back one in Denver?

Speaker 6 (01:26:04):
No.

Speaker 12 (01:26:04):
J.K.

Speaker 6 (01:26:05):
Dobbins is.

Speaker 1 (01:26:05):
That's what I thought. But Harvey gets red zone.

Speaker 5 (01:26:08):
But R.J.

Speaker 6 (01:26:08):
Harvey is the receiving back and the guy that I
think will be in packages that include being in the
red zone.

Speaker 1 (01:26:13):
All right. Let's get Kyle and Enum Klaue on next,
if we could, Anders. And we get a couple more calls, 206-286-95.
I see some people calling in.

Speaker 6 (01:26:21):
All right.

Speaker 1 (01:26:22):
What's going on down the Klaue there, Kyle?

Speaker 7 (01:26:25):
What's up, boys? What's up? Let's go.

Speaker 1 (01:26:27):
Let's go.

Speaker 9 (01:26:28):
Let's go.

Speaker 7 (01:26:31):
Four-point PPR. I got 10 teams in my draft. I
draft five. Okay. I know I'm probably going to get
a wide receiver at five, but I just– is it
Detroit or what's.

Speaker 1 (01:26:50):
Amon Ross St.

Speaker 9 (01:26:51):
Brown?

Speaker 7 (01:26:52):
Amon Ross St. Brown, yeah. I'm kind of nervous about
him this year.

Speaker 6 (01:26:59):
Okay. I mean, he's probably, you could argue that he's
maybe the person in a draft. You could be the
least nervous about. He's like five straight seasons of a
hundred plus catches in thousand yards and like eight to
10 touchdowns. Like he's the most safe. He's the most
safe pick in the draft, but I mean, you're going
to probably get your choice of, um, Jackson Smith and

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Jigba or Amon Ross St.

Speaker 9 (01:27:20):
Brown.

Speaker 6 (01:27:21):
Um, unless the local flavor people decided on JSN a
little bit earlier, but, um, It's Nakua, it's Jamar Chase,
it's JSN, it's Amon Rossi-Brown, and the PPR League at
number five, like any of those are great options. So
I wouldn't sweat it if you're down– if you're– You
don't have to choose Amon Ross St. Brown because that

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means that one of those other three receivers could be there,
or if a running back like Gibbs or Robinson slips,
then you're obviously wanting to go that way.

Speaker 1 (01:27:49):
Yeah, there you go. I love my guy down in Enumclaw,
in the claw, we call it, man. He's always getting
after it early in the afternoon. I swear. Maybe that's
just him normally, but I like it. All right, one
more phone call before I go to text. Jim in
Montlake Terrace. You're next up with Funston. Last phone call.

Speaker 8 (01:28:03):
Hey, good afternoon, boys. By the way, thanks for helping
me out last week with getting me Drake London over
at Jalen Hurts for a keeper pick.

Speaker 1 (01:28:10):
Love it.

Speaker 8 (01:28:11):
Hey, so I've got 10-team PPR super flex. I've obviously
got Allen for my first round, and I've got London
for my fourth. Do I even contemplate getting a tight
end ahead of a second wide receiver or a second
running back, assuming the big couple three go before round five?

Speaker 6 (01:28:35):
If those tight ends are not available to you, and
you're talking... oh you're talking like before round five um
i'm probably i'm probably gonna if if if i'm not
looking at mcbride bowers or even loveland You can think
about it as inside the round five of a super flex.
If I'm not looking at those guys, then I'm not
looking at the tight end for a little while longer.

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I would go with the other positions. Beautiful. Far away.

Speaker 2 (01:28:59):
Maybe hoping for Colston at five?

Speaker 15 (01:29:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:29:01):
I mean, fifth round for Colston Leblon, I think, is
a good pick because you're getting potential tight end one
a little bit later than Bryden and Brock Bowers are going. So, yeah,
I think it's not bad value.

Speaker 1 (01:29:14):
Brock Bowers just pulled his hamstring. I think he just
pulled his hamstring again.

Speaker 2 (01:29:19):
Ian speaks like it's from experience.

Speaker 1 (01:29:21):
Pure bitterness. 100% bitterness.

Speaker 3 (01:29:25):
100% bitterness.

Speaker 1 (01:29:25):
All right, here we go.

Speaker 6 (01:29:26):
Hit the music.

Speaker 1 (01:29:26):
Let's get some text in.

Speaker 6 (01:29:28):
49451.

Speaker 1 (01:29:28):
Exactly. Exactly 12 noon.

Speaker 2 (01:29:32):
Wow. Exactly 12 noon. Third pick, full PPR, 12-team league.

Speaker 1 (01:29:40):
Chase or JSN, that's assuming Gibbs and Robinson are gone.

Speaker 6 (01:29:45):
Yeah, I mean, I have Chase ahead of JSN. He's
been the most targeted receiver the last two years, so
you like that in the PPR. But listen, they're so
close that if you'd rather just go with the local guy,
I wouldn't have an issue with it.

Speaker 3 (01:30:01):
So there you go.

Speaker 1 (01:30:02):
We have two that came in one second after noon.
We haven't started games yet, by the way.

Speaker 2 (01:30:09):
I see another second one at noon.

Speaker 1 (01:30:12):
We'll get to that one. That's the last one.

Speaker 2 (01:30:14):
That's the last one.

Speaker 1 (01:30:16):
If Nakua doesn't play, who would you substitute for him?
Michael Wilson, Harrison Jr., Mike Evans, Diggs, or Denzel Boston?
We're still waiting on the Nakua thing. There's a chance
he could get suspended for a game or two, right?

Speaker 6 (01:30:28):
There is a chance. There is a chance. I haven't
heard much about it recently, but these things can tend
to come out of the blue. But there is that
hanging over him. If Mike Evans is going, it's been
a bit of a mash unit. Mike Evans would clearly
be the go-to guy in that offense. I would lean

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that direction, but If you're not feeling good about his health,
Marvin Harrison would be the guy over Michael Wilson because
when those two played together with Jacoby Brissett last year,
actually Harrison was clearly the go-to guy.

Speaker 2 (01:31:00):
Yeah, and I'm going to follow up on that. Is
this the year that Marvin Harrison Jr. finally breaks out
that he has a quarterback that can throw up the middle?

Speaker 9 (01:31:07):
Yeah, I mean.

Speaker 6 (01:31:08):
I think that's going to help. Like I said, when
he was with Brissette, he played pretty decently. So there
is some breakout love.

Speaker 1 (01:31:16):
Kyler is still short. He's still short.

Speaker 2 (01:31:19):
Breaking news.

Speaker 6 (01:31:21):
He has not grown over the offseason.

Speaker 1 (01:31:23):
Anders, wait for it.

Speaker 6 (01:31:24):
Kyler's short. All right.

Speaker 1 (01:31:26):
Here's the deal. Here's the deal. Anders, you get ready
for some ones that just came in. I've got a
couple more that came. This is one second after as well.
Need one for a flex full PPR. Judkins, Jay Price,
Devontae Smith. I'm going to go Jenkins. I think he's
going to be one of the most heavily used running
backs in the league. If he doesn't get suspended for
fighting his teammate, I guess. That's not a good thing.

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Start Lamar Jackson or Matt Stafford?

Speaker 6 (01:31:51):
Ooh. Yeah, you guys throw me off with these. I'm
going to go Lamar Jackson. You drafted it ahead. It's
at Indianapolis. It's on the fast track turf. Give me Lamar.

Speaker 1 (01:32:02):
Final one that came in. This was three seconds after
12 noon. You guys are just absolutely sick and nuts,
and I love every second of it. PPR, Drake May
or Baker Mayfield? I don't know if that's draft or start,
so maybe answer it both ways.

Speaker 6 (01:32:15):
Yeah, I mean, let's see.

Speaker 1 (01:32:17):
You draft Drake May high, right?

Speaker 6 (01:32:20):
You drafted Drake May High. He is on the road
against Seattle. Last time he played Seattle, I mean, we
don't know what happened. But he also didn't have A.J. Brown,
so that makes a little bit of a difference.

Speaker 2 (01:32:30):
Does it, though?

Speaker 6 (01:32:31):
You know what? I'm still going to go Drake May.
He does run the ball. I think he'll do a
little better than he did last time. Hopefully not too good.

Speaker 1 (01:32:38):
You're a Baker Mayfield hater.

Speaker 6 (01:32:40):
And I like it.

Speaker 1 (01:32:41):
And I like it. I'm here for that all day.

Speaker 6 (01:32:43):
It's a good matchup. That's Cincinnati. They're improved defensively, but
who knows how much.

Speaker 1 (01:32:47):
They were terrible last year. Anders, I see a ton
coming in right now, so fire away.

Speaker 2 (01:32:51):
Yeah, 2-5-3. Yo, got the number one pick straight up.
Who do I go with? We don't have league details
from the 2-5-3 here, so I'm just going to assume
standard full-point PPR.

Speaker 6 (01:33:00):
I mean, you've got to go Jameer Gibbs. I mean,
especially now, Isaiah Pacheco's out for the first time. At
least for four games, he's on IR.

Speaker 2 (01:33:08):
Is he separating himself from Bijan, do you think?

Speaker 6 (01:33:12):
I think so. I mean, he's been a better point-per-touch guy,
and he's been better actually just straight up, despite a
lot less touches than Bijan last year. So now you're
actually putting him on a level volume-wise. I just think
he's going to have a huge year.

Speaker 2 (01:33:27):
Okay, third overall pick coming up, Gibbs, Bijan, Cook, or Taylor?

Speaker 3 (01:33:32):
Gibbs?

Speaker 6 (01:33:33):
Gibbs and Bichon, we're just going to have to assume
are going to be gone. I'm going to go Jonathan
Taylor over James Cook. I think both are good picks,
but give me Taylor slightly.

Speaker 2 (01:33:43):
Okay. Kyler Murley or Kirk Cousins? I'm assuming this is
for starting week one. Not drafting.

Speaker 6 (01:33:51):
Do the quick.

Speaker 1 (01:33:52):
Do the quick.

Speaker 6 (01:33:53):
Minnesota's going against Green Bay and.
Who was it? Was that Kyler Murray? And who was
the other one?

Speaker 2 (01:33:58):
Kirk Cousins.

Speaker 6 (01:33:59):
Kirk Cousins. Yeah, give me Kyler. You know, if he's
going to run, he'll do it in the first half
of the year. He'll stop down the stretch. But he's
generally been a good first half of the year player.

Speaker 1 (01:34:08):
He hasn't pulled anything yet, right?

Speaker 3 (01:34:10):
Right, exactly.

Speaker 1 (01:34:11):
Okay, so he should be fine. He's playing Call of Duty, though.
He's still short. Yeah, he's playing Call of Duty. You
know what's funny is just before Anders gets you a
couple more, I didn't even think about it. Yeah, there's
probably teams. Every league is different. There's probably leagues that
lock it in for the entire week on Went before
the CX play.

Speaker 9 (01:34:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:34:26):
That's why people are asking. Ours keeps it open until
Sunday morning. Yeah, as long as you don't have one
of those players. But one of those, yeah, one of
those leagues.

Speaker 2 (01:34:32):
You still could screw over the rest of your roster, though,
if you have one of those players.

Speaker 6 (01:34:35):
Right.

Speaker 1 (01:34:36):
So, yeah, that's why the questions are coming in.

Speaker 2 (01:34:37):
Good thing we did this today. 253, need one, full PPR,
Ted McMillan, Bay Shultz, Hooten, Quinshawn, Judkins, or Luther Burden?

Speaker 6 (01:34:44):
For week one?

Speaker 1 (01:34:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:34:46):
Yeah, I'm going to go back to Quinshawn Judkins. I
think he's going to have the ball in his hands
a lot.

Speaker 1 (01:34:50):
Is he? How high do you draft him?

Speaker 6 (01:34:53):
He's my RB17, RB16. Okay. All right.

Speaker 1 (01:34:58):
Matthew Golden.

Speaker 6 (01:35:01):
He's right there with DeAndre Swift and Javante Williams for me. Okay.

Speaker 2 (01:35:06):
253, Matthew Golden, Rashid Shahid, or Casey Concepcion for my flex?

Speaker 6 (01:35:11):
Yeah, I always preach just watch and see on some
of these rookies, especially a rookie on the Cleveland Browns,
a wide receiver tied to this quarterback. So just wait
on that one. But he's conceivably going to be the
best fit for that offense with those quarterbacks, but I'll
go Ted McMillan.

Speaker 1 (01:35:26):
Give me two more, Anders.

Speaker 2 (01:35:28):
So, that one actually was Matthew Golden, Rasheed Shaheed, or
Casey Concepcion.

Speaker 6 (01:35:33):
Oh, let's go with Matthew Golden.

Speaker 2 (01:35:35):
Okay. No worries. I have pick six. Either Jonathan Taylor
or Christian McCaffrey will be available to draft. Which one
and why?

Speaker 6 (01:35:46):
Well, McCaffrey is the one who, you know, he just
gets to hold your breath more, but he's got the
higher upside. He's got He had massive volume last year.
He was the number one running back because he touched
the ball like 450 times. So, I mean, they don't
have a clear help there. So, I think it's just
business as usual until he breaks again. And, you know,
we'll see if he can make it through. But I

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have him one spot ahead of Taylor. So, by my
rankings and by most of the industry's rankings, that's the
way it goes.

Speaker 12 (01:36:15):
All right.

Speaker 2 (01:36:15):
From the 360, last one. And it's because he needs
an answer. It's the game on Wednesday. Drake Mayer, Sam Donald,
who do you start?

Speaker 6 (01:36:21):
I'm going to go... drake may just for the just for.

Speaker 2 (01:36:25):
Wow hater over here geez.

Speaker 6 (01:36:29):
You know sam's gonna sam's gonna ride that defense you're
gonna you know jadarian price is gonna have a great
debut you get that lead they're gonna gonna go conservative
you know all right all right all right it's okay
all right i can justify it some way you sure
could that's that's what you do that's what you do we.

Speaker 2 (01:36:47):
Heard about rashid shaheed do you think he becomes more
fantasy relevant this year.

Speaker 6 (01:36:52):
I still see him as just a peak and valley player.
I like to see the guys. There's this whole thing.
It's like average depth of target. You love the receivers
that are in the 9 to 12-yard range because it
means that they're the target hogs and the guys that
move the chains. And you get Rasheed Shaheed, and he's
up in that 15, 20 range. It's tough to be

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consistent in that level.

Speaker 1 (01:37:14):
Especially in PPR. Home run or bust, just like my
guy Weston Wilson. That's right.

Speaker 2 (01:37:21):
I thought you were going to pick up Gabe Davis.

Speaker 1 (01:37:24):
Or even... Remember when Taylor Ward hit home runs back
in the day?

Speaker 2 (01:37:28):
Or walked?

Speaker 1 (01:37:30):
I got two more here for you real quick. One,
fantasy football question. My league is buying me an iPhone
if I finish dead last. Which kicker or defensive special
team should I draft number one overall? If you finish last,
it's got to be Miami, right? Get somebody from Miami.
That's our friend Cliff Clavin. He's the only guy in
our league. This is how much stuff we got done.

(01:37:51):
I don't even know if that was a real– I
know somebody brought it up that they're going to buy–
I think he has to buy an iPhone if he
finishes last.

Speaker 3 (01:37:58):
Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:37:58):
That makes a lot more sense. He's the only guy
that has an Android.

Speaker 2 (01:38:01):
That's fair.

Speaker 1 (01:38:01):
I don't know if it passed because I think by
the time we got to that vote, I was three
or four major IPAs deep.

Speaker 6 (01:38:07):
That's the benefits of hosting, right?

Speaker 2 (01:38:10):
Exactly.

Speaker 1 (01:38:10):
It's a small backyard, whatever. Are we done yet? What
are we doing here?

Speaker 9 (01:38:14):
All right.

Speaker 1 (01:38:14):
And then the last one that came in right at
12 o'clock. We had two that came in exactly at
12 o'clock. So I've got to read this one for
fun because you'll like it. It's our friend Keith Miller.
Full PPR. Patty Melt or Ruben?

Speaker 2 (01:38:30):
There's a clear answer here. Oh, is there? Yeah, there is.

Speaker 6 (01:38:33):
Okay. I'm going to go Patty Melt because I feel
like it's just a hamburger by another name. Right answer.

Speaker 12 (01:38:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:38:40):
Not a Reuben fan.

Speaker 6 (01:38:42):
I'm okay with a Reuben, but like.

Speaker 3 (01:38:44):
Here's the issue.

Speaker 1 (01:38:44):
There's an issue here. There's an issue.

Speaker 2 (01:38:46):
There's an issue.

Speaker 1 (01:38:48):
Some Rubens are just elite. Ten out of ten. It's rare.
A bad Ruben is probably more likely to happen than
a bad patty melt.

Speaker 6 (01:38:58):
100%.

Speaker 1 (01:38:58):
Would you go with that, Funston?

Speaker 6 (01:38:59):
Yeah, I would agree with that. A bad Ruben could
turn you off on Rubens altogether for a while.

Speaker 9 (01:39:03):
Bingo.

Speaker 6 (01:39:04):
Hand raised.

Speaker 1 (01:39:05):
Yeah, if that happens and you're done, right? Now that
I think about it, they have a good Ruben up
at Snoqualmie Casino when I'm going to be up there tomorrow.
I think I might have one of those. That sounds
damn good now.

Speaker 2 (01:39:15):
For PPR, I have to choose one. Statue of John
Stanton or statue of Jerry DePoto? Oh, God. They'd both
be defaced. You'd have to have security around them 24-7.

Speaker 6 (01:39:29):
Crowd just tipping the thing over in the middle of
the street.

Speaker 1 (01:39:34):
For people that want to get more info on fantasy football,
how do they do so?

Speaker 6 (01:39:37):
We've got lots of stuff going on at The Athletic
right now. Come and check it out. Actually, we'll have
Jake Seeley, our BiggestRankerGuy will have his week one rankings
up tomorrow morning. So you can start diving into those
if you want to get ready for week one. But
there's a ton of stuff that we have out there. And, yeah,
we're starting to turn the page from the preseason and

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start looking ahead to week one like everybody else is.

Speaker 1 (01:40:00):
All you sickos out there doing that, go have some fun,
all right? We will talk to you next Thursday. There
will be a game in the bag, but we'll have
the rest of the weekend to look forward to. Brandon,
thank you so much.

Speaker 3 (01:40:09):
Love it.

Speaker 6 (01:40:10):
Sounds good.

Speaker 1 (01:40:10):
Brad and Funston brought to you by Georgetown Brewing. By
the way, Georgetown, a little announcement to make coming up
in a second on Georgetown. We got our final keg
date for the mayor IPA set to go. We'll tell
you about that next.

Speaker 10 (01:40:24):
Snoqualmie Casino and Hotel on Sports Radio 93.3, KJR-FM.

Speaker 14 (01:40:42):
Hey, Ian, Anders, love the show. I want to push
back at a little something earlier you said when you
were talking to Gas. You mentioned that the Seahawks have
two Super Bowl wins, but I think it's important to
also mention that they do have two Super Bowl losses.
The Seahawks have been to the Super Bowl four times

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in that 17-year span. I think that is super, super impressive.
I think we should talk about how the Seahawks have
been to four.

Speaker 3 (01:41:12):
Point taken.

Speaker 1 (01:41:13):
Ran out of time.

Speaker 2 (01:41:15):
I'm pretty sure Gas mentioned the two. I know I
did earlier in the show. You did, but I think
it was kind of, you did it in a very, oh,
two Super Bowl losses. Yeah, kind of glossed it over.

Speaker 3 (01:41:23):
Yeah, he's right.

Speaker 1 (01:41:23):
I mean, listen, you just, you look at the franchise history,
and before Paul Allen bought the team, there were four
playoff appearances from 76 until 97. They go in 99
with Holmgren's first year. And then they missed it for
the next three. Remember, there was pressure on Mike. Then one, two, three.

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What did Mike have? Mike had one, two, three, four,
five straight postseason appearances, including the Super Bowl loss.

Speaker 2 (01:41:54):
If my math is correct, the Seahawks had four playoff
appearances in the first 25 years of their existence. And
then four Super Bowl appearances in the next 25 years
of their existence.

Speaker 1 (01:42:06):
Good math. And 17 since John Schneider took over. Pretty
damn good. Both Pete Carroll and Mike Holmgren had five
straight playoff appearances, too. I think back to the 2017-18 season. 17,
they didn't make the playoffs. 18, they did. People were like, oh,
just blow it all up. Well, it was in the process.
The NFL doesn't blow things up.

Speaker 8 (01:42:28):
No.

Speaker 1 (01:42:28):
The NFL has attrition.

Speaker 2 (01:42:29):
Guess who's tried to blow themselves up recently and had
no success? The Cleveland Broncos.

Speaker 1 (01:42:33):
Yeah, and Miami's doing it right now. Natural attrition takes over.

Speaker 2 (01:42:38):
Yes.

Speaker 1 (01:42:39):
But, yeah, it's a hell of a run under the
Allen family. Continue.

Speaker 14 (01:42:44):
I feel like the Seahawks are in their mini dynasty
mode right now. The last three long-term head coaches have
all been to or won a Super Bowl. Mike Holmgren,
Pete Carroll, Mike McDonald. We are just on a roll,
and it kind of makes having such a good franchise,
kind of makes it easier to stomach the puke franchises

(01:43:06):
that we also have in our market. Like, I'm more
excited for Seahawks than I ever have been in my life.

Speaker 1 (01:43:12):
Good deal. I like it.

Speaker 3 (01:43:13):
Next question.

Speaker 7 (01:43:16):
This is the Ancient Mariner.

Speaker 6 (01:43:17):
Uh-oh.

Speaker 15 (01:43:18):
I just wanted to thank you for having gas on.
It was great to hear his voice. I thought the
segment on high school football was really informative. The segment
just before Funston, though, like Softie said, wait for it.

Speaker 11 (01:43:35):
Here it comes.

Speaker 6 (01:43:36):
Wait for it.

Speaker 9 (01:43:36):
That was bad radio.

Speaker 6 (01:43:39):
Bad, bad radio.

Speaker 15 (01:43:40):
I was expecting someone to go first-time caller, long-time listener.

Speaker 1 (01:43:45):
We were going to start a new thing called Four Downs,
and we were going to play a little sounder that
says first down, then I was going to react, second down,
then I was going to react. I was going to
do that, but we decided just to do the bad
radio statement instead. Ian trying to figure out the call screener.
All right, do we have a couple more?

Speaker 2 (01:43:57):
One more.

Speaker 1 (01:43:58):
One more.

Speaker 7 (01:44:00):
Seattle.

Speaker 12 (01:44:01):
Russ here.

Speaker 1 (01:44:03):
Three-man brand. Good man brand. Sierra's house.

Speaker 3 (01:44:07):
Three.

Speaker 1 (01:44:07):
All that.

Speaker 12 (01:44:08):
Russ Foundation. Guess what, Seattle? Vinod Khosla.

Speaker 1 (01:44:13):
Let's ride.

Speaker 12 (01:44:15):
Vinod Khosla, let's ride. Bring Russ home. We have a deal.
Angel of the Winds, church speaking. Let's ride.

Speaker 1 (01:44:26):
That's the new slogan for this year. Bring Russ home.

Speaker 2 (01:44:29):
Not the let Russ cook stuff.

Speaker 1 (01:44:31):
No, bring Russ home. Bring Russ home, huh?

Speaker 2 (01:44:35):
Please don't bring Russ home.

Speaker 1 (01:44:36):
Bring Russ home. Can we bring Russ home?

Speaker 8 (01:44:38):
No?

Speaker 1 (01:44:39):
You don't want to bring Russ home?

Speaker 6 (01:44:39):
Not yet, at least. No.

Speaker 2 (01:44:42):
Do your CBS thing.

Speaker 6 (01:44:42):
We're good.

Speaker 1 (01:44:44):
Just stay there.

Speaker 2 (01:44:45):
They're going to need you anyway with Tony Romo. He
might have to start calling games.

Speaker 1 (01:44:52):
We have a couple people asking about now that the
sale's gone through, who should raise the 12th man flag
for the second game? It sounds like Jody's going to
do the first one.

Speaker 5 (01:45:03):
253.

Speaker 1 (01:45:03):
Any truth to the rumor that Diana Rossini, former KJR employee,
is raising the 12th flag?

Speaker 3 (01:45:07):
Nope.

Speaker 1 (01:45:07):
No truth to that yet. She kind of got cleared
today by the athletics, sort of. Even though she had
to quit and got fired or whatever.

Speaker 2 (01:45:14):
I think it's more the Athletics saving their own skin
more than anything else.

Speaker 1 (01:45:17):
4-2-5. Is the new Pittsburgh owner fan going to have
Franco Harris raise the flag in the second home game?
Seahawks and Steelers legend. I'm not sure.

Speaker 2 (01:45:27):
I have to make a quick response. 206, Ian AAA
Anders owes me an apology. I called out Julio's base
running gaffe yesterday and he admonished me over text that no,
he had to run. Both Chuck and ex-captain Greg Bell
plus the Mariners on-air announcers said that was an egregious

(01:45:49):
base running mistake.

Speaker 1 (01:45:51):
I didn't see the mistake yesterday. We were on the
air when it happened. They won 8-2, did they not?

Speaker 2 (01:45:57):
They did. First and second, ground ball to the shortstop.
It's a force at third base. Julio's on second base.
He runs and gets tagged out by the shortstop, and
then they throw to first place for the double play.
So what most, it looks like, if this texter is correct,
are arguing is that he should have waited so he

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wasn't as easy to tag. But it's a force out
at third base. You kind of have to run. Like,
they could just step on the bag at third. Or
they could do the easy double play, too, where they
just throw it to second and throw it to first.

Speaker 3 (01:46:29):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:46:30):
But in response to that, I don't know if I
owe you an apology. Everyone can have their own opinion.

Speaker 1 (01:46:35):
I think you owe an apology.

Speaker 2 (01:46:37):
Okay. All right.

Speaker 1 (01:46:37):
Just apologize and we'll move on. They won 8-2, fella.

Speaker 9 (01:46:43):
Relax.

Speaker 1 (01:46:44):
They won 8-2, fella. What do you want?

Speaker 6 (01:46:47):
Oh, man.

Speaker 1 (01:46:47):
8-2, is that right? They scored eight runs.

Speaker 3 (01:46:50):
Yeah, they did.

Speaker 1 (01:46:50):
I mean, we owe them an apology because you and
I blasted them the first half out of the show yesterday.

Speaker 2 (01:46:56):
I read the text from earlier. He texted in again.
Anders still owes me an apology.

Speaker 5 (01:47:01):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (01:47:02):
This guy's on it, man. He is all over you
right now. He is all over you.

Speaker 2 (01:47:06):
He wants that apology.

Speaker 1 (01:47:07):
He does want that apology. We should apologize. We were
crushing them for their lineup yesterday. They scored eight runs.

Speaker 2 (01:47:13):
I will apologize for that. Except not. I wanted to
see Las Montes play. Imagine what they could have done
with him.

Speaker 1 (01:47:18):
He might have just hit a home run or two
and just been more fun. Home runs by the rookie
are kind of fun, I guess, I would think. Does
Ross have a fifth year of eligibility as for a
concerned Coug fan?

Speaker 2 (01:47:31):
That's right. That's right.

Speaker 1 (01:47:32):
He's heading back to Wisconsin as we speak. Five and five.
That's right. God, this is the same guy just all
over you. I guess.

Speaker 6 (01:47:43):
I love it.

Speaker 1 (01:47:44):
Just keep him coming. You know what?

Speaker 2 (01:47:45):
Hey, I'm not even going to say you're wrong, but like... Wait,
I've just checked that number. That's Softie's number. Is it?

Speaker 1 (01:47:50):
No, I'm just kidding.

Speaker 2 (01:47:52):
Wow, wouldn't surprise me. Would not surprise me.

Speaker 1 (01:47:54):
Do you think he's got the... He's at Jimmy's. Do
you think he's got the interest or capacity right now
to sit there and go, I'm going to send a
text to mess with Anders?

Speaker 6 (01:48:03):
Maybe.

Speaker 1 (01:48:03):
No chance. He's ordering a drink or food or something
right now.

Speaker 2 (01:48:06):
That's true. That's too much effort for him.

Speaker 1 (01:48:09):
Okay. Let's see. I think we're good. We good for now?

Speaker 2 (01:48:12):
We're good.

Speaker 6 (01:48:12):
We're all good?

Speaker 1 (01:48:13):
Okay. Softie will join us from Jimmy's on first as
the Mariners get ready to open up the homestand. Coming
up next. All right, Anders, remember this earlier? I said,
can I get him to focus on something?

Speaker 2 (01:48:33):
Yeah, that's not happening.

Speaker 1 (01:48:34):
Probably not going to happen. How are you?

Speaker 3 (01:48:36):
Talking to me?

Speaker 1 (01:48:37):
I'm talking to you.

Speaker 3 (01:48:38):
By the way, that segment you did trying to figure
out the phone software?

Speaker 1 (01:48:41):
I'm still trying to figure it out.

Speaker 3 (01:48:43):
That was the worst thing I've ever heard on this
radio station.

Speaker 1 (01:48:45):
First of all, you and I both know that's not true.

Speaker 9 (01:48:48):
Ever.

Speaker 3 (01:48:49):
And I hear my show every day.

Speaker 1 (01:48:51):
You and I both know that that's not the worst
thing you've heard on this radio station.

Speaker 10 (01:48:54):
My God.

Speaker 3 (01:48:55):
I swear to God, I wanted to pull over, get
out of my car, and bang my head against the
hood of my car.

Speaker 1 (01:48:59):
I'm still trying to figure it out. Andrew, does that work?
Is that working right now? All right.

Speaker 2 (01:49:05):
I want to keep you focused on one thing if
I can.

Speaker 3 (01:49:07):
All right.

Speaker 1 (01:49:08):
I'm going to give it a go. So we had
gas on earlier.

Speaker 10 (01:49:11):
Yes.

Speaker 1 (01:49:11):
When did you start working here?

Speaker 3 (01:49:14):
1994, November.

Speaker 1 (01:49:14):
Okay. So that's perfect. That actually works well. With the
Coastal sale becoming official, they got their key cards today.

Speaker 6 (01:49:20):
They're in the building.

Speaker 1 (01:49:21):
They're kicking ass, taking names, getting written. No, I'm just kidding.
But it's over. You look back on the Allen era,
but more importantly, 96, 97 with the stadium thing. What
do you remember from that as far as the radio
station was concerned, the fans? What do you remember from
that time?

Speaker 3 (01:49:39):
I'm sorry. What were you saying?

Speaker 1 (01:49:40):
I lost focus. I knew you'd lose focus.

Speaker 3 (01:49:44):
What I remember is Paul Allen saying, hey, if we're
doing this, then you guys are helping me out.

Speaker 1 (01:49:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:49:49):
And he put it to a statewide vote. He said,
I want to make sure people want this. I mean,
you know, I could afford to write a check for
the entire thing myself, but I want this to be
an investment. I want everybody to be on board. I
want everybody across the state to feel like they're invested
in this thing. And it was a genius move by
Paul Allen because, I mean, Ian, you remember growing up
back in the Kingdom days, and this is way before

(01:50:11):
your time. We'd go to the Kingdom, and they'd have
all the Seahawker Club, which are the booster clubs.

Speaker 12 (01:50:16):
Yep.

Speaker 3 (01:50:17):
And their banners would hang all over the inside of
the kingdom on the facade, and they'd be from all
over the state, right? Walla Walla, Yakima, Roslyn, Pullman, everywhere.
And so I think we all knew growing up that
the Seahawks were way more about the state than maybe
the Sonics or the Mariners were growing up.

Speaker 1 (01:50:38):
The region, I would say, all the way down through Portland.

Speaker 12 (01:50:41):
100%.

Speaker 3 (01:50:41):
So I think it was a stroke of genius by
Paul to say, we're not doing a King County thing here.
We're not doing a city of Seattle thing. We're doing
a statewide thing. And it passed, and they got the
money for the stadium, and here we are 30 years later.

Speaker 1 (01:50:53):
Gas brought this up, and I was in Salt Lake
when that was going on. But the thing that's weird,
I think a lot of people would have a hard
time realizing today with the success they've had since, well,
really since John Schneider in 2010, but really since Paul
Allen bought the team and the Allen family bought the team.
As Gas pointed out, he goes, at that point in time, 96, 97,
The Seahawks were not the thing in town. It was

(01:51:14):
the Mariners and the 95 and, you know, Husky football.
It didn't matter. Sonics were, you know, going to the title,
you know, to the NBA.

Speaker 3 (01:51:21):
Well, you had the bearing thing. The bearing thing was just,
that was like Clay Bennett. I mean, everybody knew they
were gone. There was a point in time, I think
it was 91 or 92, whatever year it was, where
they were getting like 35,000 people a game for Seahawks games,
which is unheard of.

Speaker 1 (01:51:34):
Crazy they burned through that season ticket list that was
like almost what 80 000 at one point and they
burned through that like in two years just like that
which is which is nuts but i yeah i just
it's i just a thank you to the allen family
man it's uh What a run as an ownership group.
From Paul to Jody, what a run for them.

Speaker 3 (01:51:51):
Unbelievable.

Speaker 1 (01:51:52):
The bar's set pretty high for the Coastal family. There's
no doubt about that. Just stay the hell away from stuff,
and you'll be fine.

Speaker 3 (01:51:57):
Yeah, I don't have my... I mean, for now, for sure.
I mean, at some point, you're going to have to
replace John Schneider. At some point, you'll have to replace
Mike McDonald, right? I mean, at some point, you're going
to have to get new people in there. But I
think for them.
Just let it be, right? Just shut your mouth and
open your wallet, as Hugh Millen has said. I think
the sun, my gut is that Neil down the road

(01:52:20):
is going to be the face of this thing. I
think it'll be his deal at the end of the day.
How long will that be? 5, 10, whatever? I got
no idea. But I think the fact that they had
three pictures of people that were featured in the press
release today and it was... The dad, the mom, and
the son, right? We're all three featured.

Speaker 1 (01:52:37):
Where'd the daughter go? Where was she at?

Speaker 3 (01:52:38):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:52:39):
She was there for the press conference.

Speaker 3 (01:52:40):
The big coat? The big coat at the presser?

Speaker 12 (01:52:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:52:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:52:43):
Allie Sheen from Breakfast Club?

Speaker 3 (01:52:45):
Yeah, right. Neil Kosla is going to be eventually the
face of the franchise. So he's the guy that we
probably should get to know. And they're going to have
a press conference next Wednesday before the Patriot game at
11 over at Lumen. Get to hear from them for
the first time. But, I mean, you know, for right now, there's,
I don't think, much to be concerned about. But, you know,
you never know.

Speaker 1 (01:53:03):
I think that's my first ever movie reference I gave you.
Usually it's the other way around.

Speaker 3 (01:53:08):
That was pretty good.

Speaker 1 (01:53:08):
Did you like that?

Speaker 3 (01:53:09):
Is he going to make a sandwich made out of
Captain Crunch for her? Remember that? With pixie sticks?

Speaker 1 (01:53:15):
That's what a... See, if you go down that road,
like that era, I might remember more stuff with the
movie references.

Speaker 3 (01:53:21):
Anthony Michael Hall. Anthony Michael Hall played the dork in
The Breakfast Club, and he played the stud quarterback in
Johnny B.

Speaker 1 (01:53:27):
Goode.

Speaker 3 (01:53:28):
Two polar opposite roles.

Speaker 1 (01:53:29):
I was flipping over last night to watch the nightly
news at 10 o'clock, and it was like five minutes
left in some show on Fox 13, and it was
Anthony Michael Hall with JoJo somebody, and then somebody, they
were doing like a game show, who's the dumbest person
in America?

Speaker 2 (01:53:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:53:46):
We should do that on this radio station. Who's the
dumbest talent on the air? Well, the problem is it
would go on forever. Let me ask you a question.
Would you ever be up for taking, like, a test
on the air?

Speaker 10 (01:54:00):
No.

Speaker 3 (01:54:00):
All of us? No. IQ test?

Speaker 7 (01:54:02):
No.

Speaker 3 (01:54:03):
You know why? I wouldn't either.

Speaker 1 (01:54:06):
I went to my daughter's classroom last year, two years ago.

Speaker 3 (01:54:09):
Oh, my God.

Speaker 8 (01:54:10):
Oh, yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:54:10):
Forget it.

Speaker 9 (01:54:10):
And.

Speaker 1 (01:54:11):
Fifth grade. And they're like, oh, give your dad a
quiz like that we would do. So she gave me
like five questions.

Speaker 3 (01:54:18):
Right.

Speaker 1 (01:54:18):
I looked at her, looked at the questions. I said,
I'm disowning you. Kiefer's my favorite. Like, I just couldn't
answer one.

Speaker 3 (01:54:26):
No way. What's that TV show where you were smart
as a five-year-old or whatever?

Speaker 1 (01:54:30):
The answer is no. The answer is no. I did
like the title, though. Who's the dumbest person in America?

Speaker 3 (01:54:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:54:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:54:37):
I think we should do it for this radio station.
Do a bracket.

Speaker 1 (01:54:39):
Yeah, well.

Speaker 3 (01:54:40):
Do a bracket in the summer.

Speaker 9 (01:54:41):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (01:54:42):
No thanks.

Speaker 3 (01:54:43):
Did I focus enough for you?

Speaker 1 (01:54:44):
No, you and I would not do well in that.
So let's just table that one for a while, will we?

Speaker 9 (01:54:47):
I agree.

Speaker 2 (01:54:48):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (01:54:48):
What do you got coming up today?

Speaker 3 (01:54:49):
What's today? Thursday?

Speaker 1 (01:54:50):
Friday? What the hell's today?

Speaker 3 (01:54:52):
Jerry Brewer's on today. Brett Boone is on today.

Speaker 1 (01:54:54):
Rick Neuheisel is on today.

Speaker 3 (01:54:57):
We're going to keep the Mariners Believe bus going, pal.
It's starting to slow down after the Astros win today,
but we're going to keep it going.

Speaker 2 (01:55:05):
Thanks, Luis Castillo, by the way.

Speaker 3 (01:55:06):
I'll tell you how it's going to take place today,
by the way.

Speaker 1 (01:55:09):
Not good news from our boy The Rock did not
help us out today.

Speaker 3 (01:55:12):
Did he get lit up today?

Speaker 1 (01:55:14):
Yes, he did. Yes, he did.

Speaker 3 (01:55:15):
Way to go, loser.

Speaker 6 (01:55:17):
I always thought it was.

Speaker 3 (01:55:17):
The best thing to get rid of that bum.

Speaker 9 (01:55:21):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (01:55:21):
Top 50 Mariner. My ass.

Speaker 1 (01:55:23):
Softy is down at Jimmy's, and he says that Dick
Fane's buying drinks for everybody. So head on down there.

Speaker 6 (01:55:27):
He is, actually.

Speaker 3 (01:55:28):
Yes, he is. All right. See you.

Speaker 8 (01:55:29):
Bye.

Speaker 11 (01:55:30):
For the mild-mannered and marginally objectionable Ian Furness, this is
Paddle Day saying so long, everyone.

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