June 11, 2025 • 35 mins
MJ gets the show rolling discussing how thankful he is after a life changing event. The Mariners are not doing so hot at the moment, is it time to pack them up? We also have some interesting news regarding a veteran QB as we hit to all fields.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
All right, everyone, it's MJ in the midday on a Wednesday.
We're glad you are here with us. Christopher Kidd, executive producer,
extraordinator on the other side of the glass, my name
is Mark James. You call me MJ. Though it's yeah,
you don't what it's a call it. We don't have
to be all formal here and everything, right, just call
me MJ. And it's wow. It is uh June eleventh.
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And I will tell you that nearly eighteen years ago
last night I almost died. So June tenth, every year
into June eleventh is a very appreciable time for me
to kind of just step back, be grateful for being
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above ground. And we often and I'm not trying to
preach heer or lecture or anything. I'm just saying today
I'm grateful. I'm grateful for Christopher Kid. I'm grateful for
Purple Sheet, rich More. I'm grateful for Chuck Ash and Bucky.
I'm grateful for Ian Ferness. I'm grateful for Softy Dick
and everybody here and and all the fine folks here
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at iHeart Seattle who worked so hard each and every
day because I'll tell you what happened eighteen years.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Ago last night.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
So I was living in Miami at the time, and
I had a long day and uh, you know, I
had a Receid Wallace a moment, kid, not gonna lie.
I was on a flight, not gonna say what airline,
and uh.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
You know, I'm kid. You see him, six four and
a half.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
I'm pretty tall guy, and I like to sit in
emergency exit row seats because I'm tall. And this flight
attendant told me I couldn't sit there, and I said
why not, said well you you came in and I
said no, no, no, no, I was in the first group.
I wasn't with the pre boards. I had group A. Okay,
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So I said, you know what, and I looked at
her name tag and I don't remember what her name
tag was. I said, okay, I said, you know what, Brittany,
and I held up my cell phone, which at the
time was a Motorola Razor phone.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
This is how long we're going back? Razor phone? Kid?
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Yeah, I had the Samsung eighties at the time.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Yes, continue, so.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
There is her phone and I don't know, I don't
remember her first name, and probably said, oh.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Well, you see this number.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
I'm gonna call them on Monday, Britney and report you.
I didn't swear I didn't. I didn't say any said
I'm report you. She pulled a you know, Scott Foster,
Tim Dies. She had me kicked off the flight, so
I was out of there. I was like, for what
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what did I do? And then Broward County's finest down
in four law'll come to the gate like I'm you know,
like I you know it was some sort of terrorism,
like whoa, whoa, whoa. I said that I'm going to
contact corporate on Monday because she would not allow me
to sit in the emergency exit row.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
She kicks me off a flight.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
I got in a flight, which is actually they had
a recurring flight back up to New England like about
an hour later, so it wasn't too bad.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
My dad had to wait up at the airport.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
God rest in peace, bless his soul, an extra hour
for me because of let's just call her, you know
what her name was, Let's just say her name was Karen.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
She was flight attendant Karen.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
So Karen, I'm going to contact corporate in Dallas on Monday, Karen,
and she had me kicked out of there anyway, suffice
to say, I get home that night, I just didn't
sleep well. I drove up to Vermont the next day
to see a young lady and we watched Spider Man
three at the movie theater. And then that night, June ten,
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two thousand and seven, I remember, for a myriad of
reasons besides the fact that I almost died, was the
night of the final ever episode of the greatest TV
show of all time, The Sopranos.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
So on my way out of I think it.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Was Burlington, Vermont, Brattleborough, Vermont. It was one of those
Vermonts that begins with a bee. On my way out
of Ben and Jerry's country, I basically stopped at a
days in and I said, listen, I can't miss the
final episode Sopranos Live. I gotta watch it. You mind
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if I watch it in the lobby? So I did
by myself. They were so cool, and then afterwards, kid
started to feel really tired. Now you know me, I'm
like you, I don't drink, So I didn't drink. I
wasn't drinking. And I gotta tell you, at that time,
I was one of those people. Man, I didn't like
to wear my seatbelt straight up I used to do this.
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I used to put the seat heeat belt. I used
to click it and put it on back of the
seat so the beeping beeping wouldn't go on.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
But I wasn't.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
I felt it, felt it felt like it was very restrictive.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
I hated wearing a seatbelt.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Well, I'm driving down this and there's these roads, it's
winding roads in Vermont, and I'm getting really tired. So
I start And by the way, before that end of
the Sopranos episode, I wasn't happy when they faded to black.
And one of the last songs I would have heard
before I would have died would have been Journeys, Don't
Stop Believing. So that also has a very special place
near and dear to my heart. We'll actually do a
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little thing coming up next hour, honoring that last episode
and rest in peace. James Gandolfini aka Tony Soprano. I
starting to fall asleep at the wheel, so I start
blasting music, blast in music, the Killers and Oasis and
Public Enemy and rage against the Machine whatever this day awake.
I'm blasting it and I'm fading off. I'm fading off
and I'm fading away, and then I catch myself. I
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do it again, and I catch myself finally. I guess
the third time was not a charm. Fell asleep at
the wheel, car goes down a hill, flips over, not once,
but twice.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Whatever reason.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Maybe at the time it was my grandmother and heaven,
I was wearing a seatbelt that night.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
I felt it goes.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
You know what, if you're ever gonna wear a seatbelt,
tonight's tonight, you better wear it tonight because I'm not
really feeling so good. And I the car flipped over twice.
I didn't know, and before I knew it, there I
was at the bottom of a hill. There were houses there,
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and my car was crashed and that was it.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
And I was like, uh oh, what just happened. I
woke up and a.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Glass had gone through my eye. I was able to
get out of the car. God bless. And there was
these trees. I don't know if they have them up
here in Washington State, there is these trees called saplings.
And saplings, kid are good because if you're in a
car and you're coming down at any velocity, the saplings
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will you know you hit them. But it's not like
hitting oak tree where you hit that oak tree, and
that oak tree has no give your doa. You're dead
on arrivals. It's over, it's done. There's no way you're
ever surviving if you hit an oak tree. God bless
these saplings, and God bless my seatbelt saved my life.
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I got out of the car and a bunch of
people heard it. There were people neighbors in around, ambulances come.
I got to call my parents at like two o'clock,
three o'clock in the morning and say, hey, Mom and Dad,
I'm in a hospital.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Car crashed, come get me.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
And I actually think I called my grandfather who's still
alive at ninety six, and I told them because I
was too embarrassed to call my parents, and he called
them and so they come up to Vermont to get me.
So anyway, long story short, I almost died that night.
So you know what I used to I grew up religious.
I'm not really that religious anymore, even though I'm spiritual
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and I believe in you know things. But I'm very
grateful to be alive. Every June tenth that goes into
June eleventh, because I know I almost died eighteen years ago,
and so today's one of those days where it's like,
you know what, I don't care if you know whatever,
if I get a score wrong on these sports headlines,
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which I didn't, they were all right, you can double
check that. I'm just grateful to be here in Seattle,
to be a Washington State resident now for the first
time in nearly four plus months. And I'm just grateful
to be here, and I'm grateful to be alive. And
tell the people, and you know, I'm not trying to
be Larry Lecturer here. Tell the people that you know
closest to you that you love them, and you know whatever,
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because you never know. And that night, as they say
in Bristol, Connecticut at ESPN, at the end of a highlight,
for me, it was almost wipe score at the end
of a highlight.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
That was it for me. Kid, if i'd have my
seatbelt on that night. And you know, the weird thing,
like people ask me, did you have a broken leg?
What happened.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Other than a cut from the glass in my eye,
not even a stinger nothing. I walked away unscathed by
the grace of the big Man above. So grateful to
be here, Grateful.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
To be here.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Text line callers, haters, lovers, Hey, I'm grateful for all
of you, because if that night went a different route,
I'm not here today. So I look at June tenth
and eleven every time that like, just you know what,
I don't even look at my I don't even acknowledge
my birthday kid November two, scorpio. I don't even care
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about my birthday. I like to celebrate other people's birthdays,
but I do celebrate when.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
You almost die.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
And the guy when my father went back the next
day to collect the stuff out of the car, the
guy with the towing company and everything, said, you know what,
I just want to let you know. I've pride people
out of cars with the jaws of life that have
gotten in a much less damage than this car. Your
son's lucky to be alive. So here I am there.
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It is so the Sopranos. I love the show anyway,
but that final episode, man, wow, it as we say now,
it just hits different. So I love your journeys, don't
stop believing and all that stuff, because man, I almost
stopped breathing that night. So wanted to kind of, you know,
just humanize myself a little bit. I know you guys
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here the cantankerous, very polarizing, incendiary and a cerbic MJ
on a lot of days, especially after Mariner's loss, which
I'll get to. Believe me, I'm not pulling punches today.
But I'm just grateful to be here and I'll leave
it at that. So I'm grateful for you, Christopher Kidd.
I'm grateful for the audience and just grateful to be here.
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We have a wonderful show planned in store. We're gonna
talk to a gentleman about the NBA Finals coming up
Tony East at the top of the hour. Then we're
gonna have you've heard a first take. We're gonna have
worst Take. Yeah, it's gonna be screaming a versus Skip
a reunion on this show.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
It'll be called Worst Take. At noon.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
So and I hear that the head coach of the
University of Washington football Huskies will be here today to
speak to our stations here in our sales department. So
I'm looking forward to seeing Jed Fish for the first
time in about thirteen fourteen years since we first met
when he was the offensive coordinator at the University of
Miami and he was the one who called the game
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that helped the Hurricanes upset Ohio State, which is something
I hope that he will do in September when the
Buck guys come a call in tomat Lake in Husky.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Stadium, the national champs. They beat the national champs, defending
national champs last year in Michigan.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Maybe they can do it this year in September against
the Buckeyes the suck Eyes, because I hate them, so
Jed Fish, we'd love to get him on the show.
Coach Fish always has a green light to come on.
We got you know, guestbook. But I look forward to
seeing him again today and wishing him a great year.
Two And let the Demand Williams era officially begin here
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in Seattle in the PNW. Let it officially begin. It's
his team now, so LFG, let's go to Mont Williams.
I think he's going to be one of the most
underrated players in college football this year. All right, all right,
enough for that, you know, humanizing and you know, gratefulness
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and gratitude and all that stuff. No, no, no, now it's
time to get to the Mariners. What can I say?
What do you want me to say? Ten to three
last night, They've lost seven out of eight games twelve
on their last sixteen. It's what happened in this team. Man,
what happened is team this team would won nine consecutive series.
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What's what's going on here? And I gotta tell you,
you know what I thought about this long and hard.
And I want to also tell you this. This isn't
just me being alive. I called, by the way, I
called June tenth my life day because it happened kind
of June tenth, June eleventh. But that's what I celebrate more.
But I was thinking about this the other day. The
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Meritis have been here for forty eight years. Nineteen seventy
seven was their first season. The Seattle Mariners fan base
might be the most loyal, die hard fan base in baseball,
if not sports. And I'll explain why, because you die
hard fans of them. You've been involved in a really
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bad relationship with this organization. For the first seventeen years
of the franchise. They don't even make the playoffs. They
make the playoffs in ninety five. Randy Johnson threw a
no hitter that year. I believe he won the cy
Young that year. They make the playoffs. They beat the Yankees,
losing to the Indians in the Yes, they were called
the Indians back then, in nineteen ninety five, Albert Bell
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and Company and the Alcs. You've only made the playoffs
a few more times thereafter, and went a stretch from
two thousand and one until twenty twenty two, so twenty
one years without making the playoffs in between a long time.
You've got to be the most diehard fans in sports.
And on top of it, your franchise has never been
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to a World Series ever. The Marlins came into the league,
the Florida Marlins. You'd known them as the Miami Marlins
the last eight years. The Florida Marlins came into Major
League Baseball inten ninety three. They've won two World Series
in the first decade of their franchise, ninety seven and three.
Josh Beckett, Brad Penny, Dontrelle Willis that team, jan Pierre,
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Derek Lee that team. The Arizona Diamondbacks. What was the
first year the Diamondbacks came into Major League Baseball?
Speaker 2 (15:25):
I believe it was after.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
The Marlins, if I'm not mistaken, nineteen ninety eight. Yep,
they came in in ninety eight and they won the
World Series three years later with Randy Johnson, former Mariner,
and I just said, MS fans, you deserve better. You've
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been involved in a one way toxic relationship with his team.
They don't want to put money back into the on
the field product. And at the end of the day,
the people who paid their hard money, each and every
one of you, you are my bosses. You are my masters.
I know you are. Even the ones that hate me,
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You're my masters. And I'm here to serve you the audience.
I know this, I know this.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Not for you.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
I'm not here. You guys deserve better, you really do.
And I will tell you right now. You want a statistic,
how about this in terms of making the playoffs right
now for the Mariners. According to FanGraph today, to win
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the division, the Mariners have a thirty percent chance to
win the division to make the playoffs. This is decent.
Fifty and a half percent. To win the World Series
is three point two percent. I don't know what happened
to this team. I just don't know last night, and
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you know what I've talked about the lob. This hurts
me more than it hurts the team. In the last
twelve games, twelve losses. To be exact, the Mariners have
left eighty seven runners on base in those twelve losses.
That equates to seven point twenty five runners per game.
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I did the math before the show. You'll be proud
of me. After that error on the host the other
day last night, you might ask what were the Mariners
with runners in scoring position?
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Last night?
Speaker 1 (17:35):
They were one for twelve in their last twelve losses.
You ready for this stat? With runners in scoring position,
the Mariners are nineteen for one ten for a one
fifty eight average. Let me repeat that. And the Mariners'
last twelve losses, which came in the last sixteen games,
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they are one for twelve with runners in scoring position. Well,
excuse me, no, let me repeat that. In their last
twelve losses. In the last sixteen games, they are nineteen
for one to ten with runners in scoring position for
a one fifty eight average.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
That's me.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Just do you hear that? Hear that noise right there?
That's me dropping my cell phone. I'm not dropping the mic,
I'm dropping the cell phone. Nineteen for one ten with
runners in scoring position. And you think you're gonna make
the playoffs with this team? Hey, Girard, you better be
putting together some sort of trade right now, and it
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might have to include Harry Ford. It might include hate
to say it, Logan Evans, and it might include somebody
in the everyday lineup that you're not gonna want to
part with to get a batter in he and I
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look no further than the team that the MS are
playing in this series, the Arizona Diamondbacks, and one guy
in particular in Josh Naylor, Josh Naylor, who was an
All Star last season, and the the d Backs sign
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Josh Naylor for eleven just under eleven million dollars.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Instead you go the cheap route, and you paid.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
Donovan Solano three and a half million dollars, and you
pay Rowdy Telez who looks like the guy that should
He looks like, you know, the a plumber with plumbers
crack and a guy that should be playing in a
Sunday Recreation YMCA slow pitch softball league with the number
sixty nine on the back of his jersey.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
If you know what I mean, what's going on here?
What's going on? Last night?
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Rodriguez on the mound chance and it was a close
game at this point, it was four to two in
the bottom of the six runners on first and second.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
I'll let Aaron Goldsmith from Root Sports do the call.
Two on Oway leaving parents.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
There we go, Julio, we need you man down four
to two runners on first and second, strikeout swinging At
least he was swinging on like Mitch Garver who just
sits there with a bat on his shoulders. Absolutely, But
all I can tell you Mariners fans, you deserve better.
You deserve better. This franchise is just I don't get it.
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And you know that that over under eighty six and
a half wins. So I was looking at that ticket
last night that I made at a Muckleshoe casino. They
have to go fifty four and forty two the rest
of the way. They're at the sixty six game mark
right now. In order for me to hit the over,
they have to go fifty four and forty two. Now,
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Is that is that insurmountable?
Speaker 2 (21:13):
No? No, it's not. Logan Gilbert's coming back. We hope
next week.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
He made a start for Triple A Ta Coma, and
it looks like the Ace will be coming back. Last
night actually for Triple A TOA Coma in Sacramento, his
third rehab start. He went five innings, one hit, six strikeouts,
one walk, seventy two pitches. So the ace is coming back.
Daddy's coming home. Daddy's coming home, he is. So that's
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the good news. But I mean, seven out of eight
and you weren't even playing good teams. The Angels and
Diamondbacks are trash. You're at the best. If you win today,
you're two and four on this road trip against two
garbage teams. I don't know what's going on, man, I
don't know what's going on. But you better and I
appreciate you, all of you, and I'm letting you know
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you deserve better. But now they're at five hundred right now,
they lose today, they're under five hundred, coming home for
a six game homestand against the Guardians in a red Sox.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
So there's that.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
But unbelievable, Well, well, well we know what happened. A
huge verdict came down. But could this put an end
to the wild wild West? That is the transfer portal.
We'll get to that next on MJ in the midday
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on a Wednesday, on an audience appreciation every Day on
Sports Radio ninety three to three KJRFM is celebrating a
judge's approval of a two point eight billion dollar antitrust
lawsuits settlement. So that's going on right now, which they
hope will eliminate much of the uncertainty that has kind
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of really done the Nil name image and likeness issue.
ESPN college basketball analyst Jabillis who I spoke to this morning.
He's running his camp and he's going to be coming
on here very soon. Not this week, but when I
I'm on off next week, the week after, he says.
And J Billis always does what he if. He says
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he's gonna come on, He's gonna come on. I love Jbillis,
So he's been he's been the guy to me who
has been the pioneer that has brought down what could
have been known as the Berlin Wall of the NCAA.
And he has come out and he said the new
deal will allow players to get their money in schools
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to lock them down. An article in NJ dot Com
not MJ for Mark James, NJ dot Com as in
New Jersey by Kevin Manahan does a great job.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Now this is what Kevin Manahan writes.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
Quote to start, colleges will be able to spend up
to twenty and a half million dollars on players, with
the amount likely rising each year as revenues increase. It's
a cap. The schools are not forced to spend that amount,
and players still can learn fair market additional money from
endorsements and other endeavors. But with the new arrangements come
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contracts with buyout clauses that will probably lock them down.
Billis is quoted here as saying, the biggest thing I
think for me now is schools can sign players to contracts.
So when you sign a player to a multi year
contract with twenty and a half million dollar amount annually,
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that going to keep up because revenues keep going up.
In those arm lengths negotiations, you can also put buyouts
in those contracts. And when you put a buyout in,
these players aren't going to go anywhere.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
End quote.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
Bills go on to talk about revenue streams for players
that will be policed from now on. Quote by Jay
billis any contract for your name, image and likeness in
the market place is going to be subject to review
by an accounting and auditing firm called Deloitte for fair
market value. If there's a local car dealership in ann
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arbor that wants to pay the third string quarterback four
million dollars a year to do commercials for a dealership
that gross is only a million dollars per year. Deloitte's
likely going to say that's not a fair market value deal.
Billis goes on to address the concerns that allotting big
money to revenue sports like football and basketball will squeeze
out athletes who compete in Olympic sports, which normally lose money,
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and he's quoted on that saying, I've heard administrators over
the year say, boy, if we start paying athletes, it's
going to really hurt the United States Olympic movement because
college sports is the breeding ground for our Olympic athletes
in Olympic move movement. And I'm going, oh, so now
college athletes must pay for our Olympic movement too. They
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have to remain unpaid so we can win medals. That's
what he He asked it in a form of a question.
They have to remain unpaid so we can win medals.
If we really care about our Olympic movement, the government
should deal with that, not college athletes. I don't see
coaches anywhere taking a discount so we can win more medals,
or facilities not being built so we can win more medals.
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We've got to get out of this idea that the
players have to take a discount so we can do
all these other things. Those days are over end quote
strong strong. Now, what does this mean for the transfer portal?
Because it's been crazy. Dylan Gabriel leaves UCF, he transfers
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to UCLA for two weeks, and then he decides that
he doesn't want to go there and are and then
he goes to Oklahoma. Well, then he transfers from Oklahoma
after that and he goes to Oregon. So now if
schools signed players, players have to have buyouts, just like coaches.
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So now even though the coaches will make the most
money for the most part, other than arch Manning and
you know, Cooper Flag, some of the guys of that stature,
what will this mean a lot less activity in the portal? Possibly,
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but I think the portal is still going to be active.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
I do.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
But there's a lot of interesting things here now that
Jay Billis says in this article and that basically right
now that players won't be transferring as much as they
used to, which is you know that they're not going
to be going anywhere. I wouldn't be saying that. I
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think if someone wants to go, but it's gonna be tougher.
Now you've got a contract. You can't just leave whenever
you feel like it. So you've got that contract. You
wanted that contract, you gotta buy it out. One text
that I didn't get to the text line yesterday, and
I wanted to read this. I was talking about something
yesterday about the new documentary it's out now on Netflix
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called Becoming led Zeppelin, and a guy from the two
h six said quote, I was a little late to
see led Zeppelin, but in the eighties I saw the
firm which featured Jimmy Page on guitar. It was still
long ago enough where they had festival seatings, so a
buddy and I waited all nights so we would be
up against the barricade in front the stage. I got
to see Jimmy Page from thirty feet away playing his
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guitar with a bottle violin bow the whole while the
trademark cigarette stuck in the frets, smoke drifting up into
the laser lights. Lifetime memory, There you go, excellent four nine,
four five one on the text line there was a shocker.
Uh oh, somebody's no longer on the free agent market.
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He is all locked in. Who is it? We'll get
to that next on Hitting to All Fields MJ and
the midday Sports Radio Naughty three to three kJ R FM. Alright,
Hitting all Fields, We'll talk to Tony East, who's live
in Indianapolis getting ready for Game three of the NBA
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Finals tonight between the Oklahoma City Thunder and Pacers. Looking
forward to lunch? Getting here, kid, getting hungry? Man?
Speaker 2 (29:42):
You hungry? You good? Are you hungry? Starving? Okay? Good
because I'm hungry too. Man. Looking forward.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
I know that's gonna be that Spread's gonna be like
you know, five Star resorts spread. You know what I'm
talking about. That's gonna be the good stuff. When the
coach comes in, you get the good stuff. So hitting
the all Fields, I don't know. Maybe Aaron Rodgers is
turning over new leaf. He's walking down that aisle. I
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think was he at one time? May like I know
he and Olivia Munn were together. Were they were they
married or were they just boyfriend and girlfriend? They weren't married.
They weren't married, Okay, I thought they might have been married. Well,
Aaron Rodgers was on, Like every big athlete right now
(30:38):
and every superstar who's anywhere, the epicenter of the sports
media world seems to be the Pat McAfee show. And
he was on this week and he dropped a bombshell.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
You a lot.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
Sname about the frame on your flat, ran here, is
that an or ring or anything else?
Speaker 2 (30:59):
That weldding ring? It's a wedding ring. Congratulation. I love you.
It's been a couple of months. You more here you were.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
By the way, that was not the Pat McAfee show,
but he got a free plug anyway. Anyway, he's always
on the Pat McAfee show. That was at the press
conferences for OTAs yesterday.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
I wonder who was asking that question. It looked like
it was our girl that was al with a rough
Brooke pryor all right, Brooke, I.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
Like it, bro Get Brooke getting the scoop that everybody
wanted to know.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
So Aaron Rodgers got married.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
He walked the aisle and put a ring on not
only his finger but his uh new spouse whose name
is Brittney Britney something. I don't know exactly her name,
but kudos to Aaron Rodgers and Britney and he's like,
how about how just sort of yeah, we got married
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two months ago. It's kind of like, yeah, you know what,
I got that grill two months ago? Like oh, like yeah,
all right, but he just you know, but he he
you could tell that he had that ring on because
he knew someone was gonna ask about it, which good
for Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
Let me just you know how, and I'm being nice.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
By using this word complex, Aaron Rodgers is, that's an understatement.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
Could you imagine, Brittany.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
I hope that you have a psychiatrist or psychologist, a
shrink on standby, because how you are going to be
married to this enigmatic complex guy who is just could
wake up tomorrow and he's just different.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
He's just I thought Kyrie Irving kid.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
Doug Gottlieb told the story one time of Kyrie Irving,
and I thought it was awesome. Kyrie Irvings's former coach
when I covered him with the Celtics was Brad Stevens
in Boston, and I didn't know the story until Doug
Gottlieb told it. Kyrie Irvings, all right, Brad Stevens walks
into the office the Celtics facility one day and Kyrie
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irvings in a room and it's all the lights are
all off and and allegedly here's how the conversation went.
It goes, oh, Ki, hey, how are you. I didn't
see you there. Good morning, And he and Kyrie Irving
asked Brad Stevens, what does government mean to you?
Speaker 2 (33:45):
Now?
Speaker 1 (33:45):
This guy's the current president of basketball operations for the
team who won the NBA title last year. He's one
of the best in the business, along with Sam Presty.
Brad Stevens was a great coach in college at Butler
and was a really good coach in the NBA. But
players started to tune them out because Kyrie Irving was
the head of locker room and guys like Jason Tatum
and Jaylen Brown followed his lead and they started to
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tune him out. He asked Brad Stephens, kid, what does
government mean to you? And Brad Stephens just sat there
and he said, you know, I haven't really given a
lot of thought.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
What does it mean to you? And you know what
Kyrie said.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
To him control and Brad Stevens just walked out of
the room.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
I'm like, yeah, At that point, you just you walk
out of the room, say.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
I'll see you later. Kai, I'll see you later, Pal
Kyrie Irving, what does government mean to you? Control? He's
not wrong, he's not wrong.
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All right, everyone, it's MJ in the midday on a Wednesday.
We're glad you are here with us. Christopher Kidd, executive producer,
extraordinator on the other side of the glass, my name
is Mark James. You call me MJ. Though it's yeah,
you don't what it's a call it. We don't have
to be all formal here and everything, right, just call
me MJ. And it's wow. It is uh June eleventh.
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And I will tell you that nearly eighteen years ago
last night I almost died. So June tenth, every year
into June eleventh is a very appreciable time for me
to kind of just step back, be grateful for being
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above ground. And we often and I'm not trying to
preach heer or lecture or anything. I'm just saying today
I'm grateful. I'm grateful for Christopher Kid. I'm grateful for
Purple Sheet, rich More. I'm grateful for Chuck Ash and Bucky.
I'm grateful for Ian Ferness. I'm grateful for Softy Dick
and everybody here and and all the fine folks here
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at iHeart Seattle who worked so hard each and every
day because I'll tell you what happened eighteen years.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Ago last night.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
So I was living in Miami at the time, and
I had a long day and uh, you know, I
had a Receid Wallace a moment, kid, not gonna lie.
I was on a flight, not gonna say what airline,
and uh.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
You know, I'm kid. You see him, six four and
a half.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
I'm pretty tall guy, and I like to sit in
emergency exit row seats because I'm tall. And this flight
attendant told me I couldn't sit there, and I said
why not, said well you you came in and I
said no, no, no, no, I was in the first group.
I wasn't with the pre boards. I had group A. Okay,
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So I said, you know what, and I looked at
her name tag and I don't remember what her name
tag was. I said, okay, I said, you know what, Brittany,
and I held up my cell phone, which at the
time was a Motorola Razor phone.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
This is how long we're going back? Razor phone? Kid?
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Yeah, I had the Samsung eighties at the time.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Yes, continue, so.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
There is her phone and I don't know, I don't
remember her first name, and probably said, oh.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Well, you see this number.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
I'm gonna call them on Monday, Britney and report you.
I didn't swear I didn't. I didn't say any said
I'm report you. She pulled a you know, Scott Foster,
Tim Dies. She had me kicked off the flight, so
I was out of there. I was like, for what
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what did I do? And then Broward County's finest down
in four law'll come to the gate like I'm you know,
like I you know it was some sort of terrorism,
like whoa, whoa, whoa. I said that I'm going to
contact corporate on Monday because she would not allow me
to sit in the emergency exit row.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
She kicks me off a flight.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
I got in a flight, which is actually they had
a recurring flight back up to New England like about
an hour later, so it wasn't too bad.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
My dad had to wait up at the airport.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
God rest in peace, bless his soul, an extra hour
for me because of let's just call her, you know
what her name was, Let's just say her name was Karen.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
She was flight attendant Karen.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
So Karen, I'm going to contact corporate in Dallas on Monday, Karen,
and she had me kicked out of there anyway, suffice
to say, I get home that night, I just didn't
sleep well. I drove up to Vermont the next day
to see a young lady and we watched Spider Man
three at the movie theater. And then that night, June ten,
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two thousand and seven, I remember, for a myriad of
reasons besides the fact that I almost died, was the
night of the final ever episode of the greatest TV
show of all time, The Sopranos.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
So on my way out of I think it.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Was Burlington, Vermont, Brattleborough, Vermont. It was one of those
Vermonts that begins with a bee. On my way out
of Ben and Jerry's country, I basically stopped at a
days in and I said, listen, I can't miss the
final episode Sopranos Live. I gotta watch it. You mind
(04:38):
if I watch it in the lobby? So I did
by myself. They were so cool, and then afterwards, kid
started to feel really tired. Now you know me, I'm
like you, I don't drink, So I didn't drink. I
wasn't drinking. And I gotta tell you, at that time,
I was one of those people. Man, I didn't like
to wear my seatbelt straight up I used to do this.
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I used to put the seat heeat belt. I used
to click it and put it on back of the
seat so the beeping beeping wouldn't go on.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
But I wasn't.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
I felt it, felt it felt like it was very restrictive.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
I hated wearing a seatbelt.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Well, I'm driving down this and there's these roads, it's
winding roads in Vermont, and I'm getting really tired. So
I start And by the way, before that end of
the Sopranos episode, I wasn't happy when they faded to black.
And one of the last songs I would have heard
before I would have died would have been Journeys, Don't
Stop Believing. So that also has a very special place
near and dear to my heart. We'll actually do a
(05:41):
little thing coming up next hour, honoring that last episode
and rest in peace. James Gandolfini aka Tony Soprano. I
starting to fall asleep at the wheel, so I start
blasting music, blast in music, the Killers and Oasis and
Public Enemy and rage against the Machine whatever this day awake.
I'm blasting it and I'm fading off. I'm fading off
and I'm fading away, and then I catch myself. I
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do it again, and I catch myself finally. I guess
the third time was not a charm. Fell asleep at
the wheel, car goes down a hill, flips over, not once,
but twice.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Whatever reason.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Maybe at the time it was my grandmother and heaven,
I was wearing a seatbelt that night.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
I felt it goes.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
You know what, if you're ever gonna wear a seatbelt,
tonight's tonight, you better wear it tonight because I'm not
really feeling so good. And I the car flipped over twice.
I didn't know, and before I knew it, there I
was at the bottom of a hill. There were houses there,
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and my car was crashed and that was it.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
And I was like, uh oh, what just happened. I
woke up and a.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Glass had gone through my eye. I was able to
get out of the car. God bless. And there was
these trees. I don't know if they have them up
here in Washington State, there is these trees called saplings.
And saplings, kid are good because if you're in a
car and you're coming down at any velocity, the saplings
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will you know you hit them. But it's not like
hitting oak tree where you hit that oak tree, and
that oak tree has no give your doa. You're dead
on arrivals. It's over, it's done. There's no way you're
ever surviving if you hit an oak tree. God bless
these saplings, and God bless my seatbelt saved my life.
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I got out of the car and a bunch of
people heard it. There were people neighbors in around, ambulances come.
I got to call my parents at like two o'clock,
three o'clock in the morning and say, hey, Mom and Dad,
I'm in a hospital.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Car crashed, come get me.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
And I actually think I called my grandfather who's still
alive at ninety six, and I told them because I
was too embarrassed to call my parents, and he called
them and so they come up to Vermont to get me.
So anyway, long story short, I almost died that night.
So you know what I used to I grew up religious.
I'm not really that religious anymore, even though I'm spiritual
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and I believe in you know things. But I'm very
grateful to be alive. Every June tenth that goes into
June eleventh, because I know I almost died eighteen years ago,
and so today's one of those days where it's like,
you know what, I don't care if you know whatever,
if I get a score wrong on these sports headlines,
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which I didn't, they were all right, you can double
check that. I'm just grateful to be here in Seattle,
to be a Washington State resident now for the first
time in nearly four plus months. And I'm just grateful
to be here, and I'm grateful to be alive. And
tell the people, and you know, I'm not trying to
be Larry Lecturer here. Tell the people that you know
closest to you that you love them, and you know whatever,
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because you never know. And that night, as they say
in Bristol, Connecticut at ESPN, at the end of a highlight,
for me, it was almost wipe score at the end
of a highlight.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
That was it for me. Kid, if i'd have my
seatbelt on that night. And you know, the weird thing,
like people ask me, did you have a broken leg?
What happened.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Other than a cut from the glass in my eye,
not even a stinger nothing. I walked away unscathed by
the grace of the big Man above. So grateful to
be here, Grateful.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
To be here.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Text line callers, haters, lovers, Hey, I'm grateful for all
of you, because if that night went a different route,
I'm not here today. So I look at June tenth
and eleven every time that like, just you know what,
I don't even look at my I don't even acknowledge
my birthday kid November two, scorpio. I don't even care
(09:53):
about my birthday. I like to celebrate other people's birthdays,
but I do celebrate when.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
You almost die.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
And the guy when my father went back the next
day to collect the stuff out of the car, the
guy with the towing company and everything, said, you know what,
I just want to let you know. I've pride people
out of cars with the jaws of life that have
gotten in a much less damage than this car. Your
son's lucky to be alive. So here I am there.
(10:23):
It is so the Sopranos. I love the show anyway,
but that final episode, man, wow, it as we say now,
it just hits different. So I love your journeys, don't
stop believing and all that stuff, because man, I almost
stopped breathing that night. So wanted to kind of, you know,
just humanize myself a little bit. I know you guys
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here the cantankerous, very polarizing, incendiary and a cerbic MJ
on a lot of days, especially after Mariner's loss, which
I'll get to. Believe me, I'm not pulling punches today.
But I'm just grateful to be here and I'll leave
it at that. So I'm grateful for you, Christopher Kidd.
I'm grateful for the audience and just grateful to be here.
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We have a wonderful show planned in store. We're gonna
talk to a gentleman about the NBA Finals coming up
Tony East at the top of the hour. Then we're
gonna have you've heard a first take. We're gonna have
worst Take. Yeah, it's gonna be screaming a versus Skip
a reunion on this show.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
It'll be called Worst Take. At noon.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
So and I hear that the head coach of the
University of Washington football Huskies will be here today to
speak to our stations here in our sales department. So
I'm looking forward to seeing Jed Fish for the first
time in about thirteen fourteen years since we first met
when he was the offensive coordinator at the University of
Miami and he was the one who called the game
(11:49):
that helped the Hurricanes upset Ohio State, which is something
I hope that he will do in September when the
Buck guys come a call in tomat Lake in Husky.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Stadium, the national champs. They beat the national champs, defending
national champs last year in Michigan.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Maybe they can do it this year in September against
the Buckeyes the suck Eyes, because I hate them, so
Jed Fish, we'd love to get him on the show.
Coach Fish always has a green light to come on.
We got you know, guestbook. But I look forward to
seeing him again today and wishing him a great year.
Two And let the Demand Williams era officially begin here
(12:35):
in Seattle in the PNW. Let it officially begin. It's
his team now, so LFG, let's go to Mont Williams.
I think he's going to be one of the most
underrated players in college football this year. All right, all right,
enough for that, you know, humanizing and you know, gratefulness
(12:55):
and gratitude and all that stuff. No, no, no, now it's
time to get to the Mariners. What can I say?
What do you want me to say? Ten to three
last night, They've lost seven out of eight games twelve
on their last sixteen. It's what happened in this team. Man,
what happened is team this team would won nine consecutive series.
(13:17):
What's what's going on here? And I gotta tell you,
you know what I thought about this long and hard.
And I want to also tell you this. This isn't
just me being alive. I called, by the way, I
called June tenth my life day because it happened kind
of June tenth, June eleventh. But that's what I celebrate more.
But I was thinking about this the other day. The
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Meritis have been here for forty eight years. Nineteen seventy
seven was their first season. The Seattle Mariners fan base
might be the most loyal, die hard fan base in baseball,
if not sports. And I'll explain why, because you die
hard fans of them. You've been involved in a really
(14:04):
bad relationship with this organization. For the first seventeen years
of the franchise. They don't even make the playoffs. They
make the playoffs in ninety five. Randy Johnson threw a
no hitter that year. I believe he won the cy
Young that year. They make the playoffs. They beat the Yankees,
losing to the Indians in the Yes, they were called
the Indians back then, in nineteen ninety five, Albert Bell
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and Company and the Alcs. You've only made the playoffs
a few more times thereafter, and went a stretch from
two thousand and one until twenty twenty two, so twenty
one years without making the playoffs in between a long time.
You've got to be the most diehard fans in sports.
And on top of it, your franchise has never been
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to a World Series ever. The Marlins came into the league,
the Florida Marlins. You'd known them as the Miami Marlins
the last eight years. The Florida Marlins came into Major
League Baseball inten ninety three. They've won two World Series
in the first decade of their franchise, ninety seven and three.
Josh Beckett, Brad Penny, Dontrelle Willis that team, jan Pierre,
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Derek Lee that team. The Arizona Diamondbacks. What was the
first year the Diamondbacks came into Major League Baseball?
Speaker 2 (15:25):
I believe it was after.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
The Marlins, if I'm not mistaken, nineteen ninety eight. Yep,
they came in in ninety eight and they won the
World Series three years later with Randy Johnson, former Mariner,
and I just said, MS fans, you deserve better. You've
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been involved in a one way toxic relationship with his team.
They don't want to put money back into the on
the field product. And at the end of the day,
the people who paid their hard money, each and every
one of you, you are my bosses. You are my masters.
I know you are. Even the ones that hate me,
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You're my masters. And I'm here to serve you the audience.
I know this, I know this.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Not for you.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
I'm not here. You guys deserve better, you really do.
And I will tell you right now. You want a statistic,
how about this in terms of making the playoffs right
now for the Mariners. According to FanGraph today, to win
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the division, the Mariners have a thirty percent chance to
win the division to make the playoffs. This is decent.
Fifty and a half percent. To win the World Series
is three point two percent. I don't know what happened
to this team. I just don't know last night, and
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you know what I've talked about the lob. This hurts
me more than it hurts the team. In the last
twelve games, twelve losses. To be exact, the Mariners have
left eighty seven runners on base in those twelve losses.
That equates to seven point twenty five runners per game.
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I did the math before the show. You'll be proud
of me. After that error on the host the other
day last night, you might ask what were the Mariners
with runners in scoring position?
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Last night?
Speaker 1 (17:35):
They were one for twelve in their last twelve losses.
You ready for this stat? With runners in scoring position,
the Mariners are nineteen for one ten for a one
fifty eight average. Let me repeat that. And the Mariners'
last twelve losses, which came in the last sixteen games,
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they are one for twelve with runners in scoring position. Well,
excuse me, no, let me repeat that. In their last
twelve losses. In the last sixteen games, they are nineteen
for one to ten with runners in scoring position for
a one fifty eight average.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
That's me.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Just do you hear that? Hear that noise right there?
That's me dropping my cell phone. I'm not dropping the mic,
I'm dropping the cell phone. Nineteen for one ten with
runners in scoring position. And you think you're gonna make
the playoffs with this team? Hey, Girard, you better be
putting together some sort of trade right now, and it
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might have to include Harry Ford. It might include hate
to say it, Logan Evans, and it might include somebody
in the everyday lineup that you're not gonna want to
part with to get a batter in he and I
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look no further than the team that the MS are
playing in this series, the Arizona Diamondbacks, and one guy
in particular in Josh Naylor, Josh Naylor, who was an
All Star last season, and the the d Backs sign
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Josh Naylor for eleven just under eleven million dollars.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Instead you go the cheap route, and you paid.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
Donovan Solano three and a half million dollars, and you
pay Rowdy Telez who looks like the guy that should
He looks like, you know, the a plumber with plumbers
crack and a guy that should be playing in a
Sunday Recreation YMCA slow pitch softball league with the number
sixty nine on the back of his jersey.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
If you know what I mean, what's going on here?
What's going on? Last night?
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Rodriguez on the mound chance and it was a close
game at this point, it was four to two in
the bottom of the six runners on first and second.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
I'll let Aaron Goldsmith from Root Sports do the call.
Two on Oway leaving parents.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
There we go, Julio, we need you man down four
to two runners on first and second, strikeout swinging At
least he was swinging on like Mitch Garver who just
sits there with a bat on his shoulders. Absolutely, But
all I can tell you Mariners fans, you deserve better.
You deserve better. This franchise is just I don't get it.
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And you know that that over under eighty six and
a half wins. So I was looking at that ticket
last night that I made at a Muckleshoe casino. They
have to go fifty four and forty two the rest
of the way. They're at the sixty six game mark
right now. In order for me to hit the over,
they have to go fifty four and forty two. Now,
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Is that is that insurmountable?
Speaker 2 (21:13):
No? No, it's not. Logan Gilbert's coming back. We hope
next week.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
He made a start for Triple A Ta Coma, and
it looks like the Ace will be coming back. Last
night actually for Triple A TOA Coma in Sacramento, his
third rehab start. He went five innings, one hit, six strikeouts,
one walk, seventy two pitches. So the ace is coming back.
Daddy's coming home. Daddy's coming home, he is. So that's
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the good news. But I mean, seven out of eight
and you weren't even playing good teams. The Angels and
Diamondbacks are trash. You're at the best. If you win today,
you're two and four on this road trip against two
garbage teams. I don't know what's going on, man, I
don't know what's going on. But you better and I
appreciate you, all of you, and I'm letting you know
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you deserve better. But now they're at five hundred right now,
they lose today, they're under five hundred, coming home for
a six game homestand against the Guardians in a red Sox.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
So there's that.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
But unbelievable, Well, well, well we know what happened. A
huge verdict came down. But could this put an end
to the wild wild West? That is the transfer portal.
We'll get to that next on MJ in the midday
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ESPN college basketball analyst Jabillis who I spoke to this morning.
He's running his camp and he's going to be coming
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I'm on off next week, the week after, he says.
And J Billis always does what he if. He says
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And he has come out and he said the new
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Speaker 2 (23:54):
Now this is what Kevin Manahan writes.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
Quote to start, colleges will be able to spend up
to twenty and a half million dollars on players, with
the amount likely rising each year as revenues increase. It's
a cap. The schools are not forced to spend that amount,
and players still can learn fair market additional money from
endorsements and other endeavors. But with the new arrangements come
(24:18):
contracts with buyout clauses that will probably lock them down.
Billis is quoted here as saying, the biggest thing I
think for me now is schools can sign players to contracts.
So when you sign a player to a multi year
contract with twenty and a half million dollar amount annually,
(24:39):
that going to keep up because revenues keep going up.
In those arm lengths negotiations, you can also put buyouts
in those contracts. And when you put a buyout in,
these players aren't going to go anywhere.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
End quote.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
Bills go on to talk about revenue streams for players
that will be policed from now on. Quote by Jay
billis any contract for your name, image and likeness in
the market place is going to be subject to review
by an accounting and auditing firm called Deloitte for fair
market value. If there's a local car dealership in ann
(25:21):
arbor that wants to pay the third string quarterback four
million dollars a year to do commercials for a dealership
that gross is only a million dollars per year. Deloitte's
likely going to say that's not a fair market value deal.
Billis goes on to address the concerns that allotting big
money to revenue sports like football and basketball will squeeze
out athletes who compete in Olympic sports, which normally lose money,
(25:46):
and he's quoted on that saying, I've heard administrators over
the year say, boy, if we start paying athletes, it's
going to really hurt the United States Olympic movement because
college sports is the breeding ground for our Olympic athletes
in Olympic move movement. And I'm going, oh, so now
college athletes must pay for our Olympic movement too. They
(26:06):
have to remain unpaid so we can win medals. That's
what he He asked it in a form of a question.
They have to remain unpaid so we can win medals.
If we really care about our Olympic movement, the government
should deal with that, not college athletes. I don't see
coaches anywhere taking a discount so we can win more medals,
or facilities not being built so we can win more medals.
(26:28):
We've got to get out of this idea that the
players have to take a discount so we can do
all these other things. Those days are over end quote
strong strong. Now, what does this mean for the transfer portal?
Because it's been crazy. Dylan Gabriel leaves UCF, he transfers
(26:53):
to UCLA for two weeks, and then he decides that
he doesn't want to go there and are and then
he goes to Oklahoma. Well, then he transfers from Oklahoma
after that and he goes to Oregon. So now if
schools signed players, players have to have buyouts, just like coaches.
(27:15):
So now even though the coaches will make the most
money for the most part, other than arch Manning and
you know, Cooper Flag, some of the guys of that stature,
what will this mean a lot less activity in the portal? Possibly,
(27:35):
but I think the portal is still going to be active.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
I do.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
But there's a lot of interesting things here now that
Jay Billis says in this article and that basically right
now that players won't be transferring as much as they
used to, which is you know that they're not going
to be going anywhere. I wouldn't be saying that. I
(28:00):
think if someone wants to go, but it's gonna be tougher.
Now you've got a contract. You can't just leave whenever
you feel like it. So you've got that contract. You
wanted that contract, you gotta buy it out. One text
that I didn't get to the text line yesterday, and
I wanted to read this. I was talking about something
yesterday about the new documentary it's out now on Netflix
(28:23):
called Becoming led Zeppelin, and a guy from the two
h six said quote, I was a little late to
see led Zeppelin, but in the eighties I saw the
firm which featured Jimmy Page on guitar. It was still
long ago enough where they had festival seatings, so a
buddy and I waited all nights so we would be
up against the barricade in front the stage. I got
to see Jimmy Page from thirty feet away playing his
(28:46):
guitar with a bottle violin bow the whole while the
trademark cigarette stuck in the frets, smoke drifting up into
the laser lights. Lifetime memory, There you go, excellent four nine,
four five one on the text line there was a shocker.
Uh oh, somebody's no longer on the free agent market.
(29:09):
He is all locked in. Who is it? We'll get
to that next on Hitting to All Fields MJ and
the midday Sports Radio Naughty three to three kJ R FM. Alright,
Hitting all Fields, We'll talk to Tony East, who's live
in Indianapolis getting ready for Game three of the NBA
(29:32):
Finals tonight between the Oklahoma City Thunder and Pacers. Looking
forward to lunch? Getting here, kid, getting hungry? Man?
Speaker 2 (29:42):
You hungry? You good? Are you hungry? Starving? Okay? Good
because I'm hungry too. Man. Looking forward.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
I know that's gonna be that Spread's gonna be like
you know, five Star resorts spread. You know what I'm
talking about. That's gonna be the good stuff. When the
coach comes in, you get the good stuff. So hitting
the all Fields, I don't know. Maybe Aaron Rodgers is
turning over new leaf. He's walking down that aisle. I
(30:13):
think was he at one time? May like I know
he and Olivia Munn were together. Were they were they
married or were they just boyfriend and girlfriend? They weren't married.
They weren't married, Okay, I thought they might have been married. Well,
Aaron Rodgers was on, Like every big athlete right now
(30:38):
and every superstar who's anywhere, the epicenter of the sports
media world seems to be the Pat McAfee show. And
he was on this week and he dropped a bombshell.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
You a lot.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
Sname about the frame on your flat, ran here, is
that an or ring or anything else?
Speaker 2 (30:59):
That weldding ring? It's a wedding ring. Congratulation. I love you.
It's been a couple of months. You more here you were.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
By the way, that was not the Pat McAfee show,
but he got a free plug anyway. Anyway, he's always
on the Pat McAfee show. That was at the press
conferences for OTAs yesterday.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
I wonder who was asking that question. It looked like
it was our girl that was al with a rough
Brooke pryor all right, Brooke, I.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
Like it, bro Get Brooke getting the scoop that everybody
wanted to know.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
So Aaron Rodgers got married.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
He walked the aisle and put a ring on not
only his finger but his uh new spouse whose name
is Brittney Britney something. I don't know exactly her name,
but kudos to Aaron Rodgers and Britney and he's like,
how about how just sort of yeah, we got married
(32:03):
two months ago. It's kind of like, yeah, you know what,
I got that grill two months ago? Like oh, like yeah,
all right, but he just you know, but he he
you could tell that he had that ring on because
he knew someone was gonna ask about it, which good
for Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
Let me just you know how, and I'm being nice.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
By using this word complex, Aaron Rodgers is, that's an understatement.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
Could you imagine, Brittany.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
I hope that you have a psychiatrist or psychologist, a
shrink on standby, because how you are going to be
married to this enigmatic complex guy who is just could
wake up tomorrow and he's just different.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
He's just I thought Kyrie Irving kid.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
Doug Gottlieb told the story one time of Kyrie Irving,
and I thought it was awesome. Kyrie Irvings's former coach
when I covered him with the Celtics was Brad Stevens
in Boston, and I didn't know the story until Doug
Gottlieb told it. Kyrie Irvings, all right, Brad Stevens walks
into the office the Celtics facility one day and Kyrie
(33:24):
irvings in a room and it's all the lights are
all off and and allegedly here's how the conversation went.
It goes, oh, Ki, hey, how are you. I didn't
see you there. Good morning, And he and Kyrie Irving
asked Brad Stevens, what does government mean to you?
Speaker 2 (33:45):
Now?
Speaker 1 (33:45):
This guy's the current president of basketball operations for the
team who won the NBA title last year. He's one
of the best in the business, along with Sam Presty.
Brad Stevens was a great coach in college at Butler
and was a really good coach in the NBA. But
players started to tune them out because Kyrie Irving was
the head of locker room and guys like Jason Tatum
and Jaylen Brown followed his lead and they started to
(34:05):
tune him out. He asked Brad Stephens, kid, what does
government mean to you? And Brad Stephens just sat there
and he said, you know, I haven't really given a
lot of thought.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
What does it mean to you? And you know what
Kyrie said.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
To him control and Brad Stevens just walked out of
the room.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
I'm like, yeah, At that point, you just you walk
out of the room, say.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
I'll see you later. Kai, I'll see you later, Pal
Kyrie Irving, what does government mean to you? Control? He's
not wrong, he's not wrong.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
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