Furness Show 6-6: NBA Expansion, Danny O'Neil, Eddie Olczyk.

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for nest with you, Hi Andres. How are you?

Speaker 3 (02:02):
I am great Ian? How are you?

Speaker 2 (02:04):
It's a Friday, so we're all good, Yes we are.

Speaker 3 (02:06):
The Indiana Pacers helped salvage what would have been a
pretty bad week sports wise because of los Mary Narrow.

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I don't want to I don't want to give it away,
but I can just tell you if you enjoyed that
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Feltz thinking furiously right now on what will be a
really entertaining look back at what happened in that game
for with Softy and Fame today at three o'clock. I
didn't watch it until the end.

Speaker 3 (02:32):
I didn't need it, but I didn't.

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But luckily I did watch it at the end live
last couple of minutes. Wow, m, that looks good on
you guys. Go ahead and wear it just absolutely.

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I'm wearing it.

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I love it.

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Daniel Neil's going to enjoy at one twenty. I know
he loved it too. He wrote about today, so we'll
get to him two o'clock. Eddy Old check is. He's
got some stuff happening. Man, He's gonna say some stuff today.
I think coaching changes up finals. He's on the call
tonight for TND, gracious enough with his time on a
game day to come on with us. I really appreciate

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as though doing that. So he's gonna join us at
two pm. We'll get to the Kraken moves and stuff
at the Daily power Play. At one forty five, after Danny,
I thought long and hard. Do I want to even
go down the road to the Mariners? No, no, you don't.
I listen. I listened to the postcast with you and
my boyfriend. Check out the postcast listen to last night.

(03:28):
I looked at the numbers today. As I told you
guys in the text, a team that was plus twenty
seven run differential less than a month ago is now
plus two. They had a three and a half game lead,
they are now game and a half back. They're not
good at home. They've got one really good offensive player
that's MVP caliber. They've got another guy that's just okay.

(03:49):
And JP Crawford, and I think, as Chris said yesterday,
and we'll talk about it on Mullywop on Monday. As
Chris mentioned, he's it's fine. He can pop a single
or two here. He does nothing on the base pas
so it's he's limited. And that's JP. But you know what,
I'm not gonna rip on JP. He's having a good
dude is yeah, Like if you take one or both
of those guys out of the lineup right now. Well

(04:09):
obviously cal yes, But if you take JP out of
the lineup two, who hits No.

Speaker 6 (04:13):
One?

Speaker 2 (04:14):
Because it ain't Polanco and it ain't Randy. Rayley's hopefully
back soon. But we're talking about not coming off the
injured list, bullpen and starting pitching statistically not good. I
said I wasn't gonna talk about him, so I'm not
gonna talk about him. That's it.

Speaker 3 (04:27):
Okay, We're done, that's it.

Speaker 2 (04:29):
I just doubt was you can't get swept by the
Baltimore flipping Orioles man, You just can't. You can't get
swept by them. Help me out with the name is
it tie or Tyne for what Gonzalez? Oh, ty Dan Gonzalez, Yes,
Tye Dane Gonzalez. Yes. Story in Emerald City Spectrum today was,

(04:51):
I mean an incredible breakdown.

Speaker 3 (04:52):
He does a great work or he does great work.
I should say.

Speaker 2 (04:54):
Last thing I'm gonna do is rip on other media individuals.
But I will say media outlets. It's the limits that
you have with the Seattle Time, with the newspaper, you
just have a limit. Like the TNT doesn't have a
beat writer for the Mariners. The Seattle Times is severely
limited in terms of space. Apparently like a true breakdown

(05:14):
like like he did and on Emerald City spectrum is
really good, great insight. Yep, it just goes back to
the offseason. It's as simple as that. Let's move on.
You want to talk NBA expansion, Sure.

Speaker 3 (05:25):
Let's do it. Hold on, let me pull up the audio.

Speaker 2 (05:27):
You look okay, we are going to hear in a
second to Adam Silver, this is like commissioners do this.
Betman did it on Wednesday before Game one of the
Sandy Cup Finals. Adam Silver and meeting with the media
yesterday before game one of the NBA Finals. Can a
semi state of the Union addrass type of thing and
let's we'll comment on the other side. But as Anders
wears his Sonic jerseys at ray Allen, what is.

Speaker 3 (05:49):
It ray Allen six seven or sorry five six? When
they went to the playoffs?

Speaker 2 (05:54):
As Anders wears that from that jersey today and Sonic
fans are rejoicing about what happened last It's not in
Oklahoma City. Here is the Commissioner of the NBA, Adam Silver,
on expansion.

Speaker 7 (06:05):
What is the current temperature among the board of governors
to expand the NBA and you know, whether it's Seattle
or another American city. Just what have you guys found
in your committees so far?

Speaker 8 (06:20):
Yeah, sure, so let Joe, let me answer expansion two ways.
One there, of course our expansion of current you know,
NBA teams, and there I'd say the current sense is
we should be exploring it. I don't think it's automatic
because it depends on your perspective on the future of

(06:41):
the league. You know, as I've said before, expansion in
a way is selling equity in the league, and if
you believe in the league, you don't necessarily want to
add partners. On the other hand, that we recognize there
are underserved markets in the United States and elsewhere, and
I think Mark it's that deserve to have NBA teams,

(07:02):
probably even if we were to expand more than we
can serve. But we have a owner's meeting in July
in Las Vegas, and it's will be on the agenda
to take the temperature of the room. We have committees
that are already talking about it. But my sense is
at that meeting they're going to give direction to me
and my colleagues at the League office that we should

(07:23):
continue to explore it. Just the second part of my question,
what also comes to mind in terms of expansion is
the opportunity potentially to create other competition around the world.

Speaker 5 (07:35):
I think, as you know, five years ago or so,
we created a.

Speaker 8 (07:40):
League and as it's a competition of existing clubs in Africa,
and so Mark Tatum is here the Deputy Commissioner, chief
operating officer. He's hard at work on that along with
several of my colleagues, and we have been discussing potentially
creating a league in Europe, and I view that as
a form of expansion as well. And I'd say again,
just as I'm saying in some America and cities, we

(08:00):
think there's an opportunity to serve fans in Europe who
are no knock on European basketball because most of those
international MVPs I just talked about are coming from Europe,
so there's really high level basketball being played there. But
we think there is an opportunity to better serve fans there.
So I view that as a form of expansion as well,

(08:21):
and that's something we're also thinking hard about.

Speaker 2 (08:24):
Okay, lots of chew on there, Just let me kind
of go in like what he said at the end,
which I think is important what he said at the end.
My only concern, we'll actually the start of the top.
The current situation is we should be exploring it.

Speaker 3 (08:42):
That's the main quote I got.

Speaker 2 (08:43):
Yeah, there are underserved markets in the US and other places.
Mexico City is what he's referring to. But then he
goes to the owners meeting in July on the agenda
is to take the temperature to see if we should
start committees and all those things. Okay, let's just go
through all that just real fast. There's nothing new here, guys,
There just isn't. There's absolutely nothing new. He is not

(09:08):
telling us the entire truth. I'm not calling him a
liar by any means. No, he's just not telling us
the truth. Can't They have been exploring this for some time.

Speaker 5 (09:16):
Now.

Speaker 2 (09:17):
When it gets to the nuts and the bolts of it, Yes,
we have to put a formal expansion committee together. That's
called a rubber stamp, and the Commissioner will dictate and
direct where they're going to go along with that committee.
But we all know where they're going to go. The
only question would be the second market. Would they really
truly look at going in Mexico City. I cannot fathom

(09:37):
that being the case. I know that they throw that
out there all the time, and I know the international
part of it element is a big part of it,
and they heard him say it at the end. My
only just and I'm going to just say, like a
slight concern from what I heard yesterday. And the only
thing I thought was a little newsy and maybe red flaggish,
maybe even red flag, maybe a yellow flag coming up.

(09:59):
The caution is how he went on and on about
creating something in Europe. My yellow flag concern would be
do they do that before they expand here? Let me
repeat that, Here's where you would be concerned. Do they
because he talks about the underserved markets, including Europe and

(10:21):
overseas in Africa or wherever it might be, do they
go down that road first before they go to expansion
in North America? That would be And my other concern
would be just the timeline and the timing. Do we
have to wait longer? The NBA is coming to Seattle,
make no mistake, It is coming here. The question is

(10:44):
when when will it be here? When will we get
to that point? It will be here soon, I think
there's a sentiment and a thought that they, hey, they
maybe they'll announce it in July. I do think listening
to him now, there's no chance you're going to just go,
hey that we check the temperature in the room expansions,
so we're just announced Seattle in Vegas right now today,
it just doesn't seem feasible or likely. I guess anything's possible,

(11:09):
doesn't seem likely. Maybe by the fall and then you're
two years out, twenty twenty seven ish. The whole thing
about the committee as a formality. Anytime you hear the
commissioner say that we haven't you know, done much yet
or just expect, it's just that's just not right, not true.
He's talked to people deep down and not the knucklehead mayor.

(11:32):
He I'm gonna just caution you again because anytime something
like especially a guy that is in dire need of
good pr right now the mayor of Seattle, don't listen
to anything he says. He has nothing to do with it.
This is one hundred percent ownership, one hundred percent, and
it's the process and the protocol and the people behind
the scenes here and see how they're going to bring
the team here are very cautious and very respectful of

(11:55):
the process itself. I also think that the people behind
the scenes that are going to bring the team here
are cautious and respectful and also wary of what the
best timing for them is as well. So we're going
to get the NBA. It's a great headline grabber. It's
a great thing in the newspaper. Commissioner, you know, talks

(12:18):
about expansion, et cetera, et cetera. Like I said, it's
going to be here. I still if I was, if
I was to lay some odds down Andrews, I would
say the betting favorite, the leader in the clubhouse right
now is probably fall of twenty twenty seven, not before then,
maybe twenty eight in terms of announcement or first year

(12:39):
in terms of throwing a ball up in the air
on Lower Queen Anne seeing a Green and Gold team
not named the Storm actually named the Sonics running up
and down the floor, that's twenty twenty seven. Fallow twenty
twenty seven would be the early odds on favorite. Twenty
twenty eight would probably be number two on the list
of favorite twenty twenty eight, I should say, yeah, it's

(13:00):
going to happen. I didn't. The only thing I just
didn't like is this nonsense about the European and screw
you NBA, Like, well, put your footprint the European leagues.
Do they really want you there? I can't fathom the
because the NHL and the NBA are very similar in
that that the globalization, especially in Europe is a big deal.

Speaker 3 (13:22):
And you'll hear it today at three o'clock.

Speaker 2 (13:24):
Yeah, but with the end, I can't see. I can't
see Batman going. You know, we're going to expand and
and you know, screw the the swed Swedish First Division
and the KHL and you know all those the leagues,
and you know they don't do that. No, the NBA's
ego is unreal, it really is.

Speaker 3 (13:42):
I know we're late, but I want to just kind
of throw this idea out there. How much of that
is him just kind of tossing a bone to those
European markets in Mexico City. But he also you could
say the same thing about him doing that, but at
Seattle in Vegas as well.

Speaker 2 (13:56):
I think he just is spinning it and they're just
putting it off until it comes I I guess the
concern would be the European stuff. Yeah, I'm just trying to.
When I heard that, I'm like, Uh, Danny O'Neil joins us.
Coming up next.

Speaker 1 (14:11):
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(14:32):
two five five zero five hundreds. Now here's the in
with Danny o'neo.

Speaker 2 (14:39):
Always love this uh segment every week checking in with
my good friend Danny O'Neill. Hello, sir, how are you?

Speaker 6 (14:46):
I'm doing fantastic ian On Wednesday, I went up to
the Bronx and I watched the Yankees get shut out
by Cleveland.

Speaker 9 (14:53):
Last night, I passed in the sheer joy of watching
Tyrese Halliburton rip out Oklahoma City's heart, grind his heel
into it, and say let's go again.

Speaker 5 (15:03):
On Saturday.

Speaker 6 (15:04):
It's it's been enough to wipe out the fact that
whoever the mirror.

Speaker 9 (15:07):
Is this this tavarskuys the Marriers have got playing in
right field is terrible offense.

Speaker 2 (15:14):
Andres we can go home now because that just summed
up the week.

Speaker 5 (15:17):
Yeah it really.

Speaker 2 (15:19):
Oh wait, wait no, Dandy, you forgot one important aspect.
Your former co worker decided to stir a pot and
ask about a quarterback competition or controversy in Seattle, and
what what has to go down is probably the dumbest
question of the off season to anybody involved with the
National Football League, which anybody who actually covers the team

(15:43):
was rolling their eyes, going, really, we're worried about interceptions
in OTAs in June. Okay, here we are. That's the
only thing he miss, buddy, that's the only thing he
miss outside that you nailed it for the week in Seattle,
and you did all the way from New York City, buddy.

Speaker 6 (15:59):
Yeah, Sam Donald's going to be your starting quarterback.

Speaker 5 (16:02):
He's got a year.

Speaker 6 (16:03):
He gets a year to show the Seahawks that that
he can be the long term guy. And in fact,
it's so far from a quarterback controversy they went and
signed Drew Locke just in case Donald to get injured
this year that they don't have to. They don't have
to play the rookie. The rookie is going to get
a year to cool his heels and develop on the
back burner.

Speaker 2 (16:22):
Yeah, and he might even get a couple of years.
He's gonna play like he'll play in certain packages, packages
that we will never ever see in the open OTAs
or open mini camp. We'll never see that. We might
see a little bit glimpse of it in training camp,
but we all that stuff when they do their walkthroughs
in the indoor facility in the morning and training camp
and when they do the you know, all the stuff

(16:43):
that that's where they're doing that. There's it's Anybody who's
covered the team knows how it works. We're not gonna
work because I mean, you were there, wasn't were you covering?
Were you the beat guy for the Hawks when in
five for the Super Bowl run with home run?

Speaker 6 (16:56):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (16:57):
I wasn't here, but I heard the story that he
when the Seneca Wallace play, didn't he ask everybody hey,
like because practice was open then? Like practice was open
pre Twitter, thank god, but it was open. Didn't he
kind of ask you guys, hey, like out of respect?
You're going to see some things and don't report on it,
like the play with with with Seneca.

Speaker 3 (17:17):
Correct.

Speaker 6 (17:18):
Yes, the fact that Seneca was out there running around
a little bit was not to be we were we
were told that, and it was generally true that you
couldn't you couldn't report on any sort of formations or
personnel groupings once you got to the regular season. But
we were reminded that there was to be no mention

(17:38):
that there they had a quarterback who was put had
the potential to run around and catch passes as well.

Speaker 2 (17:45):
And and there's a respect factor. I you know, Mike
big if big Man asked you guys to do something,
it was probably pretty okay, Mike, you got whatever. Whatever
you say, it's one of us.

Speaker 6 (17:55):
It's It was helpful to be able to watch them practice.
I know, as a young reporter covering the NFL, I
learned an awful lot. It's totally fair to set the
criteria of what you are and aren't going to say,
and if you don't agree to the criteria.

Speaker 2 (18:09):
Then don't go watch practice.

Speaker 6 (18:11):
I mean, that's that's how I've always viewed those sort
of things as if they offer you access, you have
to abide by the rules and conditions.

Speaker 3 (18:18):
They said.

Speaker 2 (18:19):
I found it helpful when I was doing it for
our postgame shows on TV. The context of what you
could see and then you see something come to fruition
in a game, and then you interview a player afterwards
and go, you know, I know this is something you
guys worked on all week. Just the context and all that.
I found that very helpful as well, you know, the
stuff throwing in an interception at OTA practice, where your

(18:43):
buddy Hugh Millan articulated it perfectly the last couple of days, saying,
I'm sure Sam Darnold wasn't expecting the safety who's not
supposed to make a play on the ball make a
play on the ball. He's probably working on timing. And
if we're worried about that, I mean, it's just hilarious, buddy,
It says, oh God, all right, let's get to it.
I don't want to bury the lead. Did you wake

(19:06):
up all your neighbors at eleven o'clock last night walk
us through Daddy O'Neill's reaction to Haliburton putting the little
the final nail in that game? One coffin.

Speaker 6 (19:17):
I don't know if I woke up my neighbors. It
was definitely loud, and it was a very It was
eleven PM here when it happened.

Speaker 5 (19:24):
I was watching in my living room.

Speaker 6 (19:27):
My wife was in the bedroom with the door closed
because we have it's gotten hot out here, so air
conditioning joining so we're mindful of that.

Speaker 5 (19:35):
And as his shot went in, I just shouted deaths
and then that was immediately.

Speaker 2 (19:43):
By fuck it.

Speaker 10 (19:49):
Not the classiest thing to say no.

Speaker 6 (19:53):
And then my wife, about ten minutes later, came out
and walked by and didn't say anything, so I was
kind of like she might be a little upset at
the volume that happened. And then when she asked later,
she's like, who won the basketball game?

Speaker 5 (20:07):
And I said, I thought you.

Speaker 6 (20:08):
Would have would have understood that by the shouting.

Speaker 5 (20:10):
You're in the living room, and she said no, I
was listening to a meditation and.

Speaker 6 (20:14):
App God, apparently I did not interrupt her zen with
with my reaction. But yeah, that was I think pro wrestling,
it's referred to as a pop when everybody just an
explosion of sound.

Speaker 5 (20:30):
That's exactly what happened. Of my enthusiasm for that shot.

Speaker 2 (20:34):
It was glorious, Danny, I was, I told our guy,
our mid day guy, before this, and I was talking
with Andrews and Jackson before. I couldn't watch the game.
I just couldn't, and I just I don't want to.
And I really it's funny because I don't watch a
part of it's the hockey job now. I'm just not
in the winter times. I'm kind of busy with that,

(20:55):
and so I just this is this this last year
or two of the last two years, I haven't watched
a lot this much NBA as I have in the past.
I've never boycotted it like some say they do and
all that kind of stuff. I still enjoy basketball. I'm
a basketball fan. I've come to enjoy college maybe a
little bit more than the NBA these days, but I
enjoy I'm from Seattle, I'm a basketball guy.

Speaker 5 (21:13):
We all are.

Speaker 2 (21:14):
But yeah, and I really, honestly, no matter who's playing. Normally,
I really enjoy the NBA Finals, like I'll watch that.
There's two things that make it unwatchable. The stress is one.
I just can't.

Speaker 5 (21:27):
I just can't.

Speaker 2 (21:27):
I couldn't pull myself through it. I watched the final
minute and a half one forty five or so with
my son and we were going bananas when they hit
the shot and it was just glorious. I mean, I
thought when they got them they weren't gonna get the
ball in that little controverse not contra on the out
of bounds play. But then they missed the Yeah, they
missed the ensuing shot, get the rebound. I'm like, okay,
So I watched that. It was glorious, it was awesome.

(21:49):
I just can't watch it because I stress out so much.
Now that being said, I forgot how bad like I
wanted a postgame show here locally our ABC. I feel like,
goes right into some pre taped interview, and I love you,
Nico if you're listening, but like your your pre taped
interview I've seen a hundred times with Gary Payton. I
don't need to see that. I want to get some breakdown.
I want to see some people crying. I want to

(22:10):
see some some sourness in the Oklahoma City fan base. No,
I get a Como News special report instead, what the
hell we're doing here? But that would have been a
perfect night for T and T Man. God, it would
have been a perfect night to listen to those guys.
Just rip on this thunder for blowing that lead.

Speaker 5 (22:25):
Yes and I did.

Speaker 6 (22:26):
I did continue to watch ESPN.

Speaker 2 (22:28):
And all crap is that where they do that bost
game shows on ESPN.

Speaker 6 (22:33):
Yeah, but it wasn't because it's Stephen and Smith. And
I think Stephen a is really great when it's the
Knicks because he gets into it. Yeah, he didn't summon
any I needed someone to talk about the Thunder.

Speaker 2 (22:47):
Choking, Yes, and exactly not exactly That's what I.

Speaker 5 (22:51):
Wanted him to do of like, how do you lose that?

Speaker 6 (22:53):
They they held the lead for the entire game. I
know for the entire game, they trailed for zero point
three seconds and it just happened to be the most
important zero points.

Speaker 5 (23:05):
I wanted a breakdown of what does this do to
their confidence?

Speaker 11 (23:08):
Yes?

Speaker 5 (23:09):
I wanted to did.

Speaker 6 (23:10):
Rick Carlisle uh box up Dagna the Thunder coach and
put him in the microwave with what he did late?

Speaker 5 (23:18):
I wanted to hold and I.

Speaker 6 (23:20):
Was left wanting. I was left wanting, there's big Perk
who's got some Thunder affiliation, so I can't count on
him to be neutral. And then Bob Myers the former
Warriors GM, so I would have liked Yeah, I would
have liked to hear Chuck explain, Yo, Oklahoma City, you
can't you blew this game? Man.

Speaker 2 (23:41):
Yes, I wanted that, I needed that. I needed all
of that last night. You know, from a basketball standpoint,
a guy that covered the NBA for a long time
like he did. Let's just talk real quick about the conface.
Now they could come back and this feels like how
the NBA works. A game like that happens the next
game the team that is favorable. I mean, you take
a step back. If you're in the you got you
wanted to split when you went down there, you got

(24:02):
the split. Wouldn't stun me at all. If Oklahoma City
wins by twenty five or you know, or more on
Monday or Sunday, I guess is the next game Sunday,
that wouldn't surprise me at all. But in the back
of the mind of the Oklahoma City Thunder, as you mentioned, Danny,
you lead the game by double digits a good chunk
of the game. You lead the game all the way
up until three tenths of a second left, and the

(24:22):
Indiana Pacers, Danny, they beat you with their best player,
who up until three tenths of a second left, had
twelve points. He finished was with fourteen. That has to
jar you a little bit.

Speaker 6 (24:35):
Yeah, there are from from the way the game went.
If you're the Thunder, you're most concerned because the number
of turnovers Indiana committed, especially in the first half. Yeah,
they were over twenty turnovers for the game and they
still won. And then just what you mentioned, their best player, Halliburton,
really wasn't involved. And some of that is because they

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could trust Nemhard to bring the ball up against the press,
which is going to change how the Thunder have to
defend him because they basically said, Okay, put your best
defender on Halliburton, and we're not going to let that
guy pressure the ball because we're not gonna have Haliburton
bring it up.

Speaker 5 (25:11):
We've got another guy that can't.

Speaker 6 (25:13):
That's something that the Thunder haven't really had to deal with,
which is against against Minnesota, it was clear they the
Templewolves needed a point guard, so Aunt didn't have to
bring the ball up against Dort's pressure. Indiana got the
depth to match them and the tempo that's there. You're
absolutely sga Gilgess. Alexander is an incredible scorer and he

(25:38):
was last night, and it's very possible that, Yeah, the Thunder.
The Thunder or a talented team, and they are deep too,
But overall the Pacers were considered five to one underdogs
coming into the series. This is much closer to a
coin flip series in terms of their talent than people thought.

Speaker 5 (25:59):
So it it will, it would not.

Speaker 6 (26:01):
I would expect the Thunder to win Game two, but
I think the Pacers. The Pacers, I've always believed that
they have a good shot at it. I wouldn't have
said that they were I expect them to win, but
now I very much feel like it is much closer
to a coin flip or a head up battle between
the two.

Speaker 2 (26:20):
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Let's let's get two. Let's get to the other thing
you wrote about this week. So in a day and
age in which people will have a gun by the
side of their bed, we can harken back to the
guy who's going to get his number retired next year

(26:41):
by the Mariner's number fifty one, Randy Johnson tell people
what he kept next to his bed in case of
an intruder.

Speaker 10 (26:48):
There was a quote in which he said, I don't
own a gun, but I do keep a bucket of
baseball's next to my bed. And if anybody's gonna try
to rob us, they better wear a batting helmet, because
I'm going to throwing at their head, which has to
be one of the most insane quotes that I've ever
seen from a professional athlete, to the point that it did.

Speaker 11 (27:07):
Inspire me, like in what context did did was this said?

Speaker 6 (27:12):
And it turned out that it was a really the
story might have been crazier than the quote, but that
is an all time quote, and it came from a
story about athletes and gun violence, which is not a
joke it was.

Speaker 5 (27:25):
But man, I couldn't get over just how how hilarious
it looks.

Speaker 6 (27:29):
Into one of the papers that ran, there was a
normal paragraph about the NBA's policy on handguns. There was
a normal paragraph about the NFL saying that we tell
tell all of our players they have to abide by
state rules and regulations regarding gun ownership, and then very
next paragraph, totally insane quote from Radie jocksman, like, I

(27:50):
don't know how this saw saw the light today, but
it did.

Speaker 2 (27:54):
I mean, who needs a gun when you can throw
a baseball at a guy's temple, We kill him if
nothing else.

Speaker 5 (28:04):
Yeah, that bird exploded.

Speaker 2 (28:06):
The bird knows John Cruck knows a lot of people know. Like,
that's no joke, man, Big Units. You wake the Big
Unit up in the middle of the night, You're gonna
take one right off the melon. It's just gonna happen.
It's just gonna happen.

Speaker 6 (28:17):
I didn't I didn't realize this until the other day.
Dave Valley was talking about it with Aaron Goldsmith on
the broadcast that Valley was among the league leaders and
getting hit by pitches, yes, when Johnson was was pitching
because they the opposing team would plunk him because Randy
just gotted other guys, which I didn't realize, and that

(28:39):
is it's it's kind of a different level of friction.
But like Valley was talking about how I talked to
Randy about it, and you could tell Valley wasn't joking
about that.

Speaker 5 (28:49):
He's like, hey, buddy, you'd have to pay the piper.

Speaker 11 (28:52):
Run as I do.

Speaker 2 (28:54):
You know what's wild Danny's I like, I probably can't
remember what I had for dinner last night, and but
there's certain things I remember. When they were telling that
store and val was telling that story, I was working
at the TV station at the time, and I remember that.
I remember that being a thing because you know, before
there was Ty France. Valley got hit a lot, like
he got hit which was really odd because you know what,

(29:14):
Ty France gets hit ready, Rose Raina gets hit a lot.
Now he's not hitting this year at all. France obviously
last year, that's why they let him go. But at
any given time, Ty France and Randy and Rose rain
are pretty good baseball hitters. Like they're pretty good. I
love you, Dave Valley. You weren't a very good baseball
hitter like this, You weren't. So for them to waste
one on a guy that nine times out of ten

(29:36):
was going to get out anyway, they must have been
awful pissed at all the bit at the big unit
at the time in Port Vale, man valvesre the nicest
guy in the world. He's getting plunked. Is the big
units out there crushing other people.

Speaker 5 (29:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (29:46):
One of my favorite facts about baseball is the etiquette
of throwing at guys, and I know, I know that
there's a lot of people that will talk about how
barbaric it is and it's dangerous, and yes, all of
that's true. It's also part of how the game has
been played for so long, and there is an element

(30:06):
of that's how the game is regulated, that's how you
prevent how do you prevent guys from just going out
and plunking people at will? Well, if you hit one
of our guys, we're going to hit one of your guys.
And usually it's I think the general code is it's
either someone who bats in the same spot in the
order or plays the same position to make sure you're
not taking out one of their best players to get

(30:27):
back at them for doing that. I saw a video
it was earlier this week that I found it the
guy that Secret Base, which is a YouTube channel, and
they kind of go through Sportspiece. They were going through
a rivalry that Mark to share a had with a pitcher.
I don't know if you'll remember him. His name was
Vicente Padilla and they were teammates in Texas and Padilla

(30:48):
had a reputation and ultimately got cut because he wouldn't
stop hitting opposing players, and to share A kept getting
dotted in retribution. Padilla would hit somebody and then to
Shera would get plunked. He got mad at Padia. At
one point there was a report that he threatened him
with bat telling him to stop hitting dude. He ends

(31:10):
up later in his career to share A hits a
couple home runs and if you remember to Share it,
to Share was an incredible hitter, like one of the
better college baseball players of all time, very very understated player.
He was kind of a robot. And he hit a
home run off of Padilla, just crushed it out to
right center and he just stands there and watches it.

Speaker 3 (31:32):
And afterwards they ask him.

Speaker 6 (31:33):
About it and he goes, I just wanted to make
sure it didn't go foul. And then they both talked
about this rivalry they had and it was entirely they
were teammates, but to Share was furious at him because
he wouldn't stop hitting dudes. And finally there was after
Padilla had plunked someone, then they hit the opponing. Opposing

(31:55):
team hit Michael Young, and after that the Rangers are like,
we're done with Tadia. They designated him for a sign.

Speaker 2 (32:01):
Thanks thanks for coming Fella. That story you've pulled from
the Seattle PI Archives courtesy the Seattle Public Library, by
the way, which is great stuff. And the quoteing that
Bobby Iela telling the story, well, my wife bought a
gun because she got followed home by somebody and the
guy kept knocking on the door at bell w So
the wife decides to not call nine to one one immediately,
and since she calls another player's wife and I guess

(32:23):
asked what to do. By the time she got around
to call in the cops, the guy was gone. But
Bobby then goes with Goose Gossage and buys a gun
in Texas and brings it and brings it back to Seattle,
which I found interesting because one of the last things
I covered in Portland before I moved up here was
the great Sebastian Telfair who brought a gun onto the

(32:44):
Portland Trailblazer's charter plane that was apparently not okay, and
he got busted for that, and a gun that he
wasn't registered to have, by the way, and then he
got suspended by the NBA, and all this other stuff happened,
and all that, So I'm trying to figure out how
ay Ala got it back here in the first place.

(33:04):
Second of all, maybe down one one one next time,
hunt like that might be a good call, Like it's
calling the neighbor isn't probably the best thing if you
know you're a little scared. But that's Bobby Eel at
a nutshell.

Speaker 6 (33:17):
I'm not sure I won't Goosecott Sage advising me on
home security either. I think I think all things, I
can see him, I can see him charged in.

Speaker 11 (33:26):
And relief situations.

Speaker 6 (33:27):
But I don't know if I'm gonna I'm going to
consult the guy with the Colonel Mustafa mustache when it
comes to how to best protect my family.

Speaker 2 (33:35):
I think you're correct in that regard. I think you're
one hundred percent correct. All right, sir? Great stuff. Tell people.

Speaker 12 (33:42):
The dang Apostrophe is a newsletter which, for the next
week or so is going to be focused on the
pain and suffering that's experienced in Oklahoma City among their
fan base.

Speaker 6 (33:53):
You can go to Danny O'Neil dot com.

Speaker 11 (33:56):
Today I had a dissection.

Speaker 6 (33:57):
Of one specific fan who went through four stage of
agony as Tyrese Halliburton pulled up, made the shot and
then reacted to the successful shot. And if you'd like
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can go to Danny O'Neil dot com and put your
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Speaker 5 (34:13):
Go do it.

Speaker 2 (34:14):
Danny does a great job, great writing, always entered. It's
always entertaining as hell, buddy, great stuff. We'll talk to
you next week.

Speaker 5 (34:19):
Thank you.

Speaker 6 (34:20):
Sounds good, Have a great weekend.

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Speaker 2 (35:37):
The krack An announced day Dave Lowry assistant coach and
golten and coach Steve Brier out. Not a surprise. I
think Lowry's contract had expired anyway, I believe no word
on Bob Woods, the other assistant coach. We know Jessica
Campbell staying on Lane Lambert staff or having a role
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(35:58):
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We'll see Pete Damoor out for the Dallas Stars. Goes
the way this is not, by the way, it's shocking.
Is Tom Thibodeau for the New York next Yeah? No,
let me explain the big difference. Tom Thibodau did not

(36:21):
come out and absolutely just run over with a freight train.
One of his best players, Oh was so weird man.
And if you missed what happened. Jake Cottinger, who's the
goaltender for Dallas and consists it's like top five goaltender
in the league, top five without a without a like
he's getting it's the top two of the top five
guys in the league are Americans. Yes, Connor Hallibeck won

(36:41):
the is gonna win the VESDA this year the second
straight year. And the other guys, Jay Ottinger for Dallas,
they're both Americans. One of them will get the net
for the US and the Olympics in next next February,
and you won't go wrong with either one. No, Ore
is great, really good. He also signed an eight year
extension that can in next year. So when the coach

(37:02):
comes out and says, yeah, you know, I'm not putting
all on Jake, but you know the reality is, you
know he's been awful, is what he said. He gave
like what he called a timeout after the second goal
in the last game. Calls a timeout, team comes with
the bench after the timeout, is on your skating back
to the goal. He yells at him, says, no, you're out.
He wanted to make it public, want to make everyone
saw that he's yanking him out. Just embarrass him and

(37:25):
embarrass him the press conference. There's a reason dudes like
that have to go through so many jobs. So if
you're cracking fan going, oh god, we should have Pete
de Boris and a Lane Lambert, I don't know if
you want I don't know if you want that. I
don't know if you want that. Tom Thibodaux got fired
by the Knicks. That's inexplicable. This one I can explain. Yes,
this one, I can explain. Eddie Oldch's gonna join us,

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Speaker 3 (38:25):
That sounds good.

Speaker 2 (38:25):
Our buddy Matt Connolly's coming by from Georgetown. We're gonna
talk a little bit about the golf tournament the mayor
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Listen to this show probably well I would ask you
to listen to the show every day.

Speaker 3 (39:13):
Please do.

Speaker 2 (39:15):
But if you're on, if you're only concerned about the
golf tournament registration probably mid to late next week, I
make sure you're listening to the show. Okay, we'll have
a more firm announcement, but we'll talk more about that
with Matt coming up at two thirty this afternoon. Lots
going on in crack and Land. I'm gonna go down
the road to Stanley Cup Finals, coaching changes and so

(39:36):
much more. Get a preview of tonight's game. Adi Old
Check's gonna join us coming up in a second. I'll
be honest with you, I'd rather do that than just
beat up the baseball team.

Speaker 3 (39:44):
Yeah, I would.

Speaker 2 (39:45):
I just I real quick with them.

Speaker 3 (39:47):
It's getting tiring.

Speaker 6 (39:48):
Man.

Speaker 3 (39:48):
If you listen to our postcast, it's like, what else
do we say?

Speaker 2 (39:51):
Well, and we're not quite to the point of refuse
to talk because we're only a game in a half out. No,
but just beating them up on a daily basis is
fun for anybody.

Speaker 11 (40:01):
I have to do it.

Speaker 2 (40:01):
And I think what they're gonna do is they're gonna
go on this road trip and win probably five or
six I hope. So they're playing two bad teams and
they're a better team on the road. It's really kind
of weird, and I don't want to hear anything about
anything about marine layers are hard to hitting that ballpark
at team because last I saw the other team came
in and hit back to back home run yesterday.

Speaker 3 (40:18):
Don't show the win numbers on this would have been
a home run. Calm conditions.

Speaker 2 (40:22):
That's come on, Thomas thing in the world. I know
it didn't hurt. Adley Rutchman did it.

Speaker 5 (40:28):
No, and it didn't hurt.

Speaker 2 (40:29):
And it didn't hurt Big Dumper. No, Big Dumper's not. Hey,
you know what, if you want to bring up the ballpark,
see now we're gonna go Downstrom. Listen. It's not affecting
number twenty nine.

Speaker 3 (40:41):
He's literally leading the league at home run.

Speaker 2 (40:42):
He has no problem hitting home runs anywhere you could
put that dude down in You could put them anywhere,
you could put them down in Antarctica. He's going to
hit a home run. That's the Big Dumper is a
magical dude. The problem is there's one of him. Yes,
there's eight other spots in the lineup that are not good, right, now,
and there's one Brian wu who if he makes one mistake,

(41:04):
he loses a game, and that's just not right. We're
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Speaker 2 (42:52):
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Here he is Eddie old Check. How are you sir?

Speaker 5 (43:08):
Hey?

Speaker 3 (43:08):
What's up?

Speaker 11 (43:09):
B How you doing buddy?

Speaker 5 (43:10):
Hey?

Speaker 2 (43:10):
Game day? You're on the national call on T n
T and you're joining us here in Seattle. We're honored.
We thank you so much. I know your time is precious,
so no problem. Thanks for doing that, buddy, I appreciate it.

Speaker 11 (43:20):
Are you doing all right?

Speaker 2 (43:22):
I'm all right, Yeah, yeah, it'd be fun to work.
It'd be fun to work the playoffs on the old
Crack and Hockey Network. In time, it's gonna happen. It's
gonna happen. I told my wife, I think him at
that point, after my first year and having so much fun,
I toltally the other night, I got I kind of
miss you know, I'm watching studio shows. I'm kind of
missing it right now. But what a game one we had, Like,

(43:43):
like we were talking about this ed Zoe game one
of the NBA Finals had an incredible finish. The game
itself wasn't very good, but that game won down at Edmonton,
up in Edmonton, start to finish. Can they keep up
that pace for seven or six or five games?

Speaker 5 (43:58):
Yeah?

Speaker 11 (43:59):
I think they can because you got you know what's
going to take place here and let everybody back in
Seattle know, I mean, you get two days that's travels
for Game three in Sunrise Florida on Monday, and then
there's two days off in between games three and four,
So you know, like you're I mean, look at every

(44:21):
game is important, don't get me wrong, but you're in
a situation here where, depending on the score, depending on
the situation, you could really empty out the tank here,
especially in this game two, and especially in a game three. Now,
where are we going to be at that particular time.
I would imagine that Floridas, We'll have one a game
in between now and getting to game four, So it's yeah,

(44:44):
they can't. I think they can here short term, Now,
what's going to happen after game four? They're gonna play
next Thursday, Game four. There's only one travel day in
between four and five. So then you know, maybe you
get a game where maybe the travel catches up with
it everybody e and then you have two days off travel,
two days off, and then that'll be game seven. So

(45:06):
I think that they can because I think both these
teams want to play that way. I think both these
teams have the ability to play that way, and both
these teams have the depth, they feel they have the
depth be able to play that type of style in
those games. Now, one caveat would be and we have
to call on TNTE and we have every single game,
you might get one of those marathon games where all

(45:27):
of a sudden, you know, guys are empty. You know
it's going to happen like at some point, And I
think that what I took out Game one Ian was
and it's I think it's playoff hockey. But in particular
seeing this series and knowing these teams very well, is
you're going to be up against the ropes at some points,

(45:49):
and that's what happened in Game one. Both teams were
up against the up against the ropes. Their head was
down and they were taking body shots. It's okay to
do that, but as long as you don't give up
a crooked number up on the board. Because I thought
the second period Florida, yes, I mean they came out
at gamebusters. They could easily put up two or three.
They didn't, and that's the key. They put up only

(46:09):
one goal and they had a three to one lead.
In the second Skinner made a couple three four unbelievable
stops and in Arbitson scores makes to three to two,
and then all of a sudden, the game kind of
turned a little bit. So what I'm saying is is
you got to be willing to take some shots, and
as long as you don't, you know, buckle or cave,
then you still have a chance because I think both
these teams have the firepower to keep them in games offensively.

Speaker 2 (46:32):
So we always look for things that happened to many
signs this series, and again all reference the NBA were
talking with this earlier. I mean, the Pacers beat Oklahoma City,
a heavy favorite in Game one with their best player,
Tyrese Haliburton, only having twelve points until the game winner
he hit fourteen. I go to Edmonton for a second.
If I'm Florida. One of the things you did last year,
you kept the Big two kind of off the score.
She dry settled, didn't score a goal. McDavid kind of

(46:54):
held in check for a while. Well, all of a
sudden Game one, look at number twenty nine drive Title's
got a couple of goals, including the game winner, and
then McDavid is the best player in the world and
he just showed you four or five times. Why that
would be a little worries time, I would.

Speaker 11 (47:07):
Think, well it would, but I would say this for
the majority of the game. I mean, look at, those
guys are going to get chances.

Speaker 2 (47:16):
We know that.

Speaker 11 (47:16):
I mean crack and fan Noels, crack and fans no
I mean when you see the Edmonton Oilers, these guys
are going to get their looks. He just can't give
them any freebies. I actually didn't mind how Florida played
against those guys. Look at if, let me say this
the right way, if Dry Settle McDavid are cashing in
on just say you're willing to live with two goals.

(47:39):
I think that that's fair to say you like to
take one if you're Florida or if we're playing against them.
But once they start hitting into three and four, like,
that's where you maybe sit there and go, holy jeez.
They don't like this has got to be a seven
six or a six five game, which you know Florida
can win. They don't mind playing that way. But what
I'm getting at is I think they actually did a
pretty decent job on them for the majority of the game.

(48:02):
But these guys, I mean, they just need one or
two chances, and right Dry Style scored what sixty six
seconds in and then he gets you know, he ends
up getting the OTGWG on the power play. So uh
that that to me you got to live with and
you know that they're going to get them, just don't
get I mean we talk about on our broadcast for
the cracket, right like, don't give them any freebiest like
just don't know, no piece of deliveries right in the

(48:24):
high slot area and say thanks for coming. You don't
have to tip me, right like, you just don't give
them any free opportunities in the high slot or when
you get that, you get Puck's got to get out
of the zone. You just can't give them any extra time.
They're going to get their chances. You know that you
need your goaltender to make a safe. But for me,
that's that's the I think that's the that would be
the mindset I would have to say, look at they're

(48:46):
going to give a couple we know that, but just
don't give them three.

Speaker 2 (48:49):
And four Andy old check joining us. One of the
things you talked about a lot of the broadcast the
last couple of years and even when I was watching
at home last year, but even even as much this year.
The pushback, the team's response, and you know in response
is a lot of things. It doesn't mean necessarily dropping
the gloves. But you know, sometimes there is a point,
but there's a response, And if we're being honest, we
didn't see that a lot from our local team here

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on a lot of occasions, we didn't see it all.
We didn't see it all from Carolina in the series
against Florida. But what I like about Edmonton he can
play fast, but they can play heavy. Evander Kaine, Trent Frederick,
guys like that. How important are they in this series?
Because Florida is not going to bully these guys.

Speaker 11 (49:25):
No, no, they're they're going to stand up and when
the line is drawn in the sand, they're going to say, Okay,
well here's the new line and it's going to be
on your side of the ice. Like that's just how
they're going to play. I mean, Vander Kaine had nine hits.
It was instrumental in the game. Time goalie went right
to the net, he drove the center of the ice,
plaintings inside the dots, and four Florida Panthers were all
within probably we've got five feet of them, and the
puck went right by and ended up on that Colme stick.

(49:47):
It is an important part of it. It's uh that's
the Florida loves to play that way. I love how
they play. I mean, that's they can play any way
you want. You want to play six, five, great? Two one?

Speaker 2 (49:56):
Great?

Speaker 11 (49:57):
You want to you want to drop the gloves, and
we're going to do that too. And you know what,
if we're up five to one, we're going to make
sure you know it and we're going to take an
arm and a leg and maybe your helmet and your
mouth guard with us. I mean, that's that's their mindset.
But if you do push back, and that's where discipline
becomes so important, you don't want to be the guy
e right, Like, you don't want to be the guy
that tries to get back, even in a situation where,

(50:20):
let alone, the game could change. But I mean, I'm
not trying to be dramatic here, but like history could
change if you do something selfish and they score on
a power play or you know, the momentum changes because
you're on a power play and you took your team
off the power play and now you're not. And so
I just think discipline, you know, not only penalty wise

(50:41):
and being smart that way, but also the way you play.
Discipline is such an important part of winning and playing
Stanley Cup hockey.

Speaker 2 (50:50):
Since all the change has happened in Crack and land
Otterol moving up, Ron getting the bigger office actually didn't
have a bigger office, Bottle took it, but the other
title of president Lambert Lane, Lambert getting hired, Steve Brere
and Dave Lowry out, and all the things that have happened.
I tell you, I've get a lot of people ian
when are you getting your buddy Edze one? When is

(51:11):
when is your friend from the cage and coming on?
I'm sure ed Zo has a thought or two, so
I'm just going to open it up for you. Eddie
is And a lot just happened since we last changed
talked thoughts on your team here that you call games for.

Speaker 11 (51:23):
Yeah, I mean, look, first off, I mean with with
Davy and and uh in Stevie there, I mean I'm
obviously disappointed. I mean, there are two good guys and
always enjoyed being around them, and I wish them well.
And you know, I think both guys did a really
good job. I mean Stevie in particular with the goaltending,
and I think the help and the development of a
guy like Joey Decord and you know in the relationship

(51:47):
with the goaltenders. But look at it is a business,
and you know, coaches when they come in they want
to have their own people, and I'm sure for coach
Lambert that's that's going to be the mindset. I don't
know Coach Lambert very well. I mean, obviously I know
him enough. He has worked with some of the finer
people and finer hockey people that we have had in

(52:07):
a long long time. And Barry Trots a long time
wingman of his with the days in Nashville and then
in the Island, and also last year working with with
Craig Barrubi, both guys by the way winning Stanley Cups,
and obviously Lane being a big part of that with
with with with Trotsey. So I mean, look, I think
the stability part is certainly as a player, you know

(52:29):
you want and you know now this is what this
is three and three now as far as head coaches,
you know for the krack and so hopefully the stability
is there and in place. He's been around a long time,
he was a long time player. He was a solid
up and down winger when he played.

Speaker 2 (52:46):
And looking forward to.

Speaker 11 (52:47):
Seeing what you know, what the philosophy is going to
be and getting to know the team and getting to
know the style and and try to figure this thing
out because I look at I said it often last year.
I thought the team assembled was good enough to make
the playoffs, and I stayed with that and I still
believe that it was. Now things did not work out
for coach Dan Bousman in his staff. They got to

(53:09):
get the power play fixed. The power play costs the
team probably I'll say twelve I'll say twelve points over
the course of the regular season, and that has to
get corrected without a doubt how that takes place. That's
for coach Lambert in the new staff to be able
to figure that out, because I think that they have
some really really good pieces. They got a couple of

(53:32):
kids that we got a taste of last year e
but I think they got some kids coming and I
know the taste of the playoffs a couple of years
ago in Seattle. I mean, it was unbelievable, and that's
what the fan base should want. I think that's what
the fan based demands. I know that's what ownership is expecting.
I know what Hockey Operations is expecting. But last year

(53:55):
was a disappointment, and when you underachieve, changes happened. But again,
I think the team that has been assembled by Ronnie
and now obviously Bots taking over, they I think they're
in a very I think they like they got to
make some you know, you got to make some decisions
and the type of players that they're going to bring
in and free agency or whatever. But I think with

(54:17):
some of the young players and the players that they
have in place, you have to get them to be
able to play at their at their optimal. You got
to get them to be able to uh all have
really really good years. Because let's just call it what
it was. When the Kracken made the playoffs a couple
of years ago and made the deep run and got
to within one game of the conference finals, pretty much

(54:39):
the whole roster had career years. Uh. I think he
got some game breakers on this team. And I start
off with Brandon Montour because Monty has that ability to
be that type of guy from the back end and
just let the reins go and just go, hey, man,
if you've got to be a fourth forward on that
line out there, go ahead and do what you do
best and put teams on their heels instead of letting
them play on their toe. So I know there's a

(55:01):
lot there, but you know, my expectations for you know,
for this team will get a clearer look at rookie
camp and obviously a training camp. But obviously a disappointment.
But I still believe that the team was good enough assembled.
But unfortunately, just things didn't come together. And when that happens,
unfortunately in our game and a lot of businesses, changes happen.

Speaker 2 (55:24):
And I got to let you know, but I just
I would add to that, and I tell fans this
all the time. We asked me. They ask the questions
other media when I do, when I do shows like
this for other folks and around the country, there's a
lot of teams that fire a coach or get rid
of a coach and make a move that are far away,
and this team, as you said, is not. When you
can start with three centers, uh and a really solid

(55:45):
defensive court, a number one netminder, you're not that far away,
Like you're not that far away, and structure something Ronnie
Francis talked about a lot last year that was missing.
I think this guy will bring it. I think if
you're a crack and fan, you should be excited. It
could be a fun year.

Speaker 11 (55:58):
You are, Yeah, you should be look at Absolutely, you
have to be you have to think, you have to
think that way. And again I think figuring out he
and I can just speak to you know, I mean,
I coached a long time ago in this league and
it's just it's it's as an art organization. But then
also most importantly as a staff is figuring out who

(56:22):
and what your guys are before the rest of the
league does. So if you can be able to do
that and then be able to get that and be
able to poke in prod and hug and and and
caress your players and to get them to, you know,
find out exactly what type of look at some guys
aren't going to Jaden Schwartz is not changing. We understand that.

(56:43):
But but my point is is that you've got to
be able to get the best out of him. I'm
just using him as an example because he's been around
a long long time. He's not going to change, but
you got to get him feeling really good about himself.
Maddy Vanier's like they need like, look at Matt, look
at Maddy's got to He's got to step up like
he's gotta at times, we've seen it. We saw what

(57:03):
he was the rookie year, you know. I mean, he's
got to get to that game that he can be
a difference maker. And I think you saw it at
times last year, but it wasn't but that seemed to
be up and down, the up and down, the you know,
the lineup, just the inconsistencies. And like I said, I
keep going. I go back to the power play, and
if it's if those guys for offensive players e when

(57:26):
they're not getting those cookies on the power play, when
they are not getting those chances on the power play,
it affects their five on five play. So to me,
that might be the facilitator or igniter for this team
moving forward, is to figure out who's going to run
the power play. The units are out there and you
go with your top five guys. I don't care every

(57:48):
I don't care if they just come off the ice
or whatever. You always got to plan be but you
got to figure out if my five top guys are
and I don't care if they're making seven or eight
million or they're making eight or nine hundred. You've got
to put your five best guys on your power play
and say, you know what, if I'm going to go
down and we're going to be twenty seventh in the NHL,
I'm going to go down with the five best guys
I got. I don't care if a guy's got a

(58:09):
thousand games or eighteen games. And I think that that
would help turn this situation around because the power play
can make a difference. I mean, think about it overall,
and you look at the top teams in the league.
They have stars, they have difference makers, and power plays
can make or break a game, let alone make or
break a season. And then at the confidence level of

(58:31):
your offensive players, e will go to another level because
they are getting their touches and they are getting points
on the power play. Now you feel good about yourself,
you have a lot more confidence. You go out and
play and you don't you know, you don't think about it.
So I'm hoping that that can be the case. But
they got to get that six for sure, and I
think that that would be, you know, one of a

(58:52):
couple of things that would be a priority. As far
as from the chair, I sit next to the great
John Forslin each and every night, or I should I
call him John Bond four Zy.

Speaker 5 (59:00):
I love that.

Speaker 2 (59:01):
That was one of my favorite moments of the year.
Alice and I had a good laugh over that. Listen
Kenny Albert's call and he says, I'm waiting for it,
and the uber is waiting, So I got to get
you there. Uh, and just I want I want to
hear a couple of front NetFront presence this night, Okay?
Can I get that from you? A couple of times
to night NetFront presence? I want these teams will.

Speaker 11 (59:17):
Have a promise.

Speaker 2 (59:19):
Hey, how about you?

Speaker 11 (59:19):
How about if you make a wager with some people
you're watching a game with and know I got a
sense that Ed Zell is going to drop a NetFront
presence tonight within the first six minutes of the game.

Speaker 3 (59:28):
How's that.

Speaker 2 (59:29):
No one's going to take that back? Because I know
you and they know you as well, and I love
every minute of it. My friend, have a great call tonight.
We'll talk to you next week sometime.

Speaker 5 (59:36):
Right all right?

Speaker 2 (59:38):
Man, that's great, I said, so the gradia of the
old check God, is he a treat? An absolute treat? Andrew,
did you like that at all?

Speaker 5 (59:46):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (59:46):
I think I liked it a lot. Actually, what was
your favorite part because I saw you smiling at where
you just set him up with an open ended, cracking
question and then he went through the entire roster talking
about what needs to change.

Speaker 2 (59:57):
I think I think he wants to see guys at
score twenty plus goals on the power play.

Speaker 3 (01:00:01):
I love the Brandon montur part. Just let him be
a fourth forward.

Speaker 2 (01:00:03):
Love that just and they did at times last year,
but the structure was so bad it costs them at
the other end. I like, I'll tell you what he wants,
and this is I agree with him, and you know
he's he's friends with those guys he works, travels with.
Like Kelly told it, not in the power plays just ridiculous. YEA,
their second leading goal scorer and he had two power

(01:00:25):
play goals all year. What are we doing?

Speaker 5 (01:00:28):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:00:28):
And I can kind of think of what he was
saying when he says, doesn't matter how much.

Speaker 2 (01:00:32):
They're making, yeah, or how many games they've played, there's
a certain well we all know what yuh. Eddie's a great,
he's awesome. Eddie olcheck ed Zoe. I think he's gonna
be Try to get him on the afternoon show next
week and let him go with the I'll see if
he wants to do with those guys. Jackson, it's softy
off one day next week. I'm sure he'll do with Dick.
But we'll find out. I mean, we love to have

(01:00:55):
him Thursday. Okay, we'll try to. We'll try to make
that happen for you. All right, We'll take a break,
come back. We got fun show coming up next. This
is our and I mentioned this early at the top
of the after're just joining us because I had mentioned, Hey,
we're getting closer and closer to Mayor of Maple Valley
Open sign ups and what's going on with all that.
I'll try to clarify some of that. We're still ways away,
probably about a week away, but we'll kind of give

(01:01:15):
you some numbers and some things of what's going on
with that, talk about the golf tournament, hopefully talk a
little bit about the Mayor Ipa this fall as well.
I do believe there's a date on the books. We're
going to try to confirm that for you. It's pretty tasty, Ale,
Gotta tell you what that beer would be good this weekend.
Oh you're telling me, h, that beer would be good
this weekend. But there's some other options with our friends
at Georgetown Browin. We will tell you about all that

(01:01:36):
coming up next.

Speaker 13 (01:01:41):
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Speaker 2 (01:01:59):
Hi, welcome back. I'm not even look at the text
line today, Anderson. It's unsponsored right now, so I'm just
gonna leave it at that. And you know, either it's
gonna be yay Pacers or what the hell's wrong with
the Mariners. It's a Friday, sound about right. I'm gonna
be in a good mood, so let me do that.

Speaker 5 (01:02:15):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:02:15):
My show is sponsored by a Snowcomb Casinosno Casino dot
Com also a big support of the show, and everything
we do would be George sown Brewing. You hear me
talk about those guys all the time. Uh, they help
them with the golf tournament. Speaking of the golf tournament
July eleventh, Drewids Glenn, if you're listening, and actually Andrews
will post this separately, this segment all right, sounds care

(01:02:37):
of the podcast page and that way I can direct
people to it. Because a I'll be like, what's going
on with the golf tournament? When can we sign up?
What's happening and all of that. Here's what you need
to know. July eleventh, four thirty shotgun start, two man
nine hole scramble. As we've always done, sign ups soon,

(01:02:57):
I'm going to say a week to ten days, probably
maybe less. Listen to the show next week, probably middle
late next week. We'll have a definitive time and a
place where you can sign up, and where you can
and when it's gonna happen and all of that. We're
just kind of working through some logistical details. One of
them simply is this my good friend Luke Holson, who's
the pro out there, works his ass off. He actually

(01:03:20):
went a little vacation with his baby daughter and his wife,
so they he's back and we're.

Speaker 3 (01:03:23):
Gonna get logistics.

Speaker 2 (01:03:25):
Yeah, so we're gonna work on all that this weekend
and get it's I don't worry about it because it
seems to always sell pretty good. I think we don't
have a hard time selling it out. But I know
a lot of people are anxious about it. So sometime
just listen to the show. I'll update you guys probably
on Wednesday next week, just Andrews. Hold me to that. Please,
well do Wednesday next week? Well today week and we
should have signed ups coming up real soon. And make

(01:03:46):
sure you have a partner. You got to sign up
as a two sum. I am not the golf tender.
I do not help you find a partner when you
show up at the golf course. My partner bailed on me.
That's a you problem, not Ian problem. Okay, I'm just
gonna tell you that right now. Is it happens every year? Oh,
I don't have anybody to play with. If you don't
have a friend, that's that's not my fault. Like swipe left,
find somebody. All right, I'm not golf tender, but it's

(01:04:08):
going to be a blast. Huge shout out to Prime
Electric and Lone River ranchwater Back on Board as our
two title sponsors. That help really a ton of what
we do. But no way I could do this, and
the Mayor IPA and then the whole reason we started
this sing in twenty twelve was my relationship with the
guys at Georgetown Beer and Georgetown Brewing and what they

(01:04:30):
do down there with Manny Roger, Crystal Dave Peter, Who
am I missing?

Speaker 6 (01:04:36):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:04:36):
Matt Conley, who's here as well? Hey buddy, I'll get
your mic turned on there?

Speaker 5 (01:04:40):
All right?

Speaker 2 (01:04:40):
How's that? That's good?

Speaker 5 (01:04:41):
How right?

Speaker 2 (01:04:42):
Very good? Very good? Who We started this sing as
a little tournament years ago, and we we said, hey,
like I need to have I'm not sure if people
are going to sign up for it, so let's get
a hook. And the hook was if they beat us,
myself and my co host and they get a gift
card at Georgetown Beer and couldn't go down there and
get a couple of growlers. Some years we gave a

(01:05:04):
lot away, a lot of gift cards. When year Banny
sat in the front row and says, you're going to
bankrupt me? What's wrong with you? Play better golf? Other
years we didn't. But but we're still doing that.

Speaker 14 (01:05:13):
Yeah, right, We're still getting away gift cards working, people
keep showing up, people.

Speaker 2 (01:05:17):
Keep showing up. Money goes to Helenski's Hope, Jordan Morris
Foundation and Avery Huffman dippg Foundation, really good causes. And
the money that we raised does a ton of good
between the golf tournament and the beer. So we're gonna
give away gift cards again, right, yes, yeah, yes, we'll
figure out who the mark is this year. Maybe it's
Softy if he plays again, Yeah, something like that.

Speaker 14 (01:05:38):
You know, you want that guy who's gonna hit a
good shot occasionally, but so that we're not giving them
all away.

Speaker 2 (01:05:43):
Yeah, but you want to you want to have some
people beat him. There's one hundred and forty four golfers.
I'd never have you bring out one hundred and forty
four gift cards. Yes, true, true, We've reached triple digits
once or twice. Really, there was one year that my
buddy Pucket Eye, we might have been overserved. Possible that

(01:06:05):
might have been. Remember we got to remember I think
we were playing with you the uh we got to
number ten, which would have been our last hole. I'm sorry,
number eighteen. It was our last hole. We played the
front we played the back nine, and I remember thinking, like, damn,
we're like four over scramble. I wonder how many gift
cards they brought and it's already beer left.

Speaker 14 (01:06:24):
I think it was the next year when we lowered
the amount on the gift card from twenty five to twenty.
I think it was Maddy and Roger had of being
like just anticipate giving away more of us.

Speaker 2 (01:06:33):
We like supporting Egan and all and the great charities
are awesome, but God the luckily I don't play anymore.
There's too much stuff to do. So it's saved you
guys a little bit.

Speaker 14 (01:06:41):
Okay, listen, listen, I will say real quick, sorry, I
know it's your show, but none of us would ever
be able to do all of this to help you
without the name mean forness, the work you do on
that thing, and the money you have been able to
continually raise year over year for these wonderful charities.

Speaker 2 (01:06:55):
That is all you, my friend. I appreciate thank you
for letting us be a part of it. I'd like
to say my wife and I'll volunteers in our neighborhood,
Tammy and all all of the ladies in our neighborhood
are so like I have this team of people that
they're incredible, Magio Family, Elliott family, Any Family, Jones family,
Wing and I'm missing some my kids. They all help out.

(01:07:17):
It's it's become a team effort and it's become a
labor of love and we love it. Lynsky's come out
every year and speak Brandon comes out most years. He
didn't make it last year he had a tournament, but
he's here this year's speak. It feels like every year
we think maybe we'll see Jordan and then there's a
last second tournament call up or something. But I think
Leslie and his dad will be here. This year's mom
and dad. So it's a ton of fun and it's

(01:07:38):
for great causes and you guys are awesome. I want
to get a couple of things out one So that's
the golf tournament stuff that's coming up. Maybe it's July eleven.
It's just the biggest party of the year. It's just
so absolute blast. Guys at Chambers Bay Distillery, your back excellent.
Then the Whiskey Wagon which is an absolute huge hit.
So thanks to those guys, True Links, Cutter and Box.
Some local companies Seattle Cider supports the snowcall me Casino,

(01:08:01):
simply Seattle Mariner, Seahawks, Crack and all support us. It's
I mean if Raffle Prizes are through the roof part
and our buddiess at Columbi Distributing. I love them. They
are the best. Yes they are. Mikey, Mikey, Chris and
the crew out there. Can't say enough good things about them,
and you're wondering who Columby distributing is. If you want
to buy a beer this weekend, support those guys Georgetown, Yeah,

(01:08:21):
Miller Cores, Yeah, Guinness, some good ones. They got some
other ones out there, and a few Mexican beers. You
think heard that?

Speaker 5 (01:08:29):
There you go?

Speaker 2 (01:08:30):
It good? Okay?

Speaker 4 (01:08:31):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:08:32):
The other thing is the beer. The Mayor I p
A award winning, award winning. Yes, yeah, I don't win
a lot of awards. I'm not gonna win win tomorrow
either at the I mean, is.

Speaker 3 (01:08:43):
It technically your award?

Speaker 2 (01:08:44):
Well no, but they gave it to me because when
they win all the awards, I don't got enough of these.
Just give you them, the mayor. The Mayor I p A.
Everyone asks all the time, when is it coming out?
And there's a date?

Speaker 14 (01:08:56):
Yes, there is August twenty second. August twenty second should
be a Friday. I don't have my calen on Friday
it is, then it's August twenty second.

Speaker 2 (01:09:03):
We will be doing a radio show there that Friday.
That is my maybe second funnest day of the year.

Speaker 3 (01:09:09):
Can I request that I get to be on site
for that one? That's listen I'm all in on that
with you proved by the beer guys. I prove it
the beer guys.

Speaker 2 (01:09:17):
You've got to go down to Purple sheeting or you
got to talk to Jackson or trade with Ashley or
Chris or somebody.

Speaker 3 (01:09:22):
So you know, maybe Chris Day, let's get Mitchell in here.

Speaker 2 (01:09:25):
Listen, you do.

Speaker 3 (01:09:26):
We'd love to have you there. Yeah, we'd love to
have you there for the show. Someone I'll put in
a good word and appreciate, appreciate you.

Speaker 2 (01:09:34):
We'll bribe Purple Sheet with some beer or something, right,
I love to do that, but no, Yeah, August twenty second,
the Mayor I p A is coming out. And the
cool thing about that, much like what you guys do
with Bob's yeah, is you brew it, you sell it,
and you don't take a seven.

Speaker 14 (01:09:46):
We give away every every penny that someone's I should
say this, every penny that someone spends at the brewery, growler,
all that money goes to these charities that you've picked.

Speaker 2 (01:09:57):
And we've already mentioned.

Speaker 14 (01:09:59):
If that beer it's out to an account that you
love and they're pointed on tap, we then strong arm
the account into putting some money towards the charities but
not necessarily. If you buy an eight dollar pint, there
is all eight bucks going. But at the Tamperom.

Speaker 2 (01:10:14):
And what we did last year, the last two years
we went to and buy about in Maple Valley had
the kind of the final keg. I know, my buddy
justin Juice is listening and Gary are listening right now
from not one, not two, but now three hauls Occidentals
opening up soon along with the Queen Anne and Moss Bay,
and I know they really want to get a keg
out there, So we'll probably find a way to make
work for those guys too. Can sell some beer, they
sell a few pints, they get through a little bit.

(01:10:37):
Wait till you see the new Have you seen the
new place? Oh yeah, oh buddy, it's it's yeah, it's
they do it right. So I can only imagine. My
guess is you'll be shipping some bodies off of kegs
there on a very regular basis at a very rapid rate.
So especially to me, especially when the World Cup comes here. Yeah, yeah,
that's gonna be good for the beer business. Where it
will be good for beer business. We had a little
dry run with the Club World Cup coming up here

(01:10:58):
in a couple of weeks. Yeah, boat Zappa will be
in the stadium. All it will.

Speaker 14 (01:11:06):
Float for the Club World Cup and listen, if that's
a dry run for later, that's it. But but for me,
I'm a soccer fan first, Yes you are, and uh man.

Speaker 2 (01:11:13):
To have that here next time. Why didn't I know this? Oh,
he's a huge soccer guy. Talk ye listen, I'll say
this too because I was.

Speaker 14 (01:11:20):
I was listening to you guys right kind of when
the show started coming in and talking about NBA and expansion.
For anyone out there who is not familiar with the
soccer format of relegation, get familiar. It is the most
wonderful way of playing sports. Yes, you don't cut the mustard.
You're the bottom feeders.

Speaker 2 (01:11:38):
Demoted Colin Route, Rocky, you should be demoted right now
the White Sox. It shows you to the White Sox. Hey,
I'm gonna ask you just quick business questions. I think
it's before we get to a break. I think it's
an interesting point here with with how it works with
the NBA talk of coming back. It we hear all
the time. Point counterpoint about you know what kind of
an impact sports sporting events, big events have on the

(01:12:01):
local economy, you know, hotels and restaurants and Sodo or
Queen Anne, so to speak, wherever they can have things
just for you guys, and whether it's you, whether it's
your friends at Rubens or wherever else. Right that sell beer,
like something like the World Cup coming here? What do
you think that'll do for sales? People come, I want
to try the local Seattle beers and things like that.

(01:12:21):
It's massive. It's massive.

Speaker 14 (01:12:23):
I mean I can I can quantify it in small
numbers if you if I told one anecdotal story, but
just the people get here and they say, well, what
do people here do? Give me the local beer, right,
or food, best restaurants, best everything. We know it because
we're tourists as well, we go do it. And I
mean when the Seahawks were in the Super Bowl the

(01:12:43):
second time and it was still before we sold cans,
I could say here with a guessing game, how many
growlars we sold that week?

Speaker 2 (01:12:50):
Four thousand, four thousand.

Speaker 14 (01:12:53):
Now that it's a massive number, and we had you
saw our system, you know, our system fail.

Speaker 2 (01:12:57):
I don't know how you change you I can make
you how you did?

Speaker 14 (01:12:59):
It was amazing the people that were there, My coworkers
who were filling those things and getting them ready and
getting them out the door. Like now, our numbers they're
still massive numbers, but we sell cans and we do
we drink pints in the tap room, so they've come
way down. That'll never happen again. But that week, like
a normal week for them, which was huge, twenty five hundred,
twenty eight hundred, and we went over four.

Speaker 2 (01:13:19):
Thousand grallars the week the Seahawks run in the Super Bowl.

Speaker 14 (01:13:22):
So if you move that number around every business we
just talked about, and you want to say, they're going
to see a thirty percent jump, even if it's for
three weeks, it's huge.

Speaker 2 (01:13:30):
I have the World Cups can be massive, even if
the Sonics come back and you add forty one plus prey.
Just say, for argument's sake, fifty NBA games on top
of the NHL games and WNB and everything else that
climbate plage. How I mean, how many more kegs go
from you guys or the other breweries to queen Ane
Beer Hall, to Dukes, to.

Speaker 14 (01:13:50):
All those places around there, right everywhere, And not to
mention the people that go into all of those tap
rooms because they want to try local beers and restaurants,
and then you get places like you know, Rube and
all the others locally, Fremont, Silver City, they're gonna pop.

Speaker 2 (01:14:03):
Yeah, it's great.

Speaker 5 (01:14:03):
Be good for it.

Speaker 2 (01:14:04):
It'd be good for it. It is funny because your
business is very you guys compete, but you're also mostly friendly,
aren't you very friendly? It's crazy very friendly.

Speaker 5 (01:14:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 14 (01:14:13):
I mean, none of us are gonna lie if there's
an opportunity to get our beer on. Ultimately it's the
bar's decision. But if they're gonna look at me, you go,
who should I flip? Let's find somebody who isn't local
and isn't a friend of ours, you know, ahead, guys, yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:14:26):
Yeah, yeah, So there's a certain there's a certain beer
company doesn't local anymore. And I know my friends at
Druids took them off the top. You know, you get
bought by a big company called a b and you're
not local anymore.

Speaker 14 (01:14:36):
And and and I'll say this too, and I don't
want to make it all about the beer, but we
still have friends that work at those places. They still
make good beer. But ultimately that you know, the person
sitting here raided by a pint will look and go, well,
you know, they're not thinking about our friends who work
at a lesion and still have jobs and need to
get paid. They're thinking about anheyser Busch. So I'm really
caught between the two. As brewery folks, we're caught between

(01:14:58):
the two because you want to go support your friends.

Speaker 2 (01:15:00):
Still, Yeah by local, drink local this week and it's
gonna be hot. Tell us about the beers you brought
in today.

Speaker 14 (01:15:05):
Yes, yeah, brought to Dalton Ipa, which has just come
out as a seasonal. It's taking the place of a
beer you might have heard of called Meaoza, So it'll
be on the shelves on grocery store shelves now for
about the next five or six months.

Speaker 2 (01:15:17):
It's an Ipa.

Speaker 14 (01:15:18):
It's body esque, It's got a little bit of a
fruit note to it, but it's more dank. It's a
little bit more in your face, a little bit harder edge.
But it's only six and a half percent. It's also
going to be available at the brewery that whole time
and on draft. I also brought Tavern Tavern beer. I mean,
come on, like four point two percent. It is our
version of a domestic Logger. If you're thinking about those

(01:15:40):
old yellow beers that everybody loves to drink, and you
want to drink one that's made locally again, now we're
making one and other folks are too, So we're just
hoping that ours kind of finds that niche and.

Speaker 2 (01:15:51):
It's a great beer. Looks at tavern beer. Asked for
it in your local establishment like we have, and it's
going to be on tap. It's awesome. Matt, thanks for
coming by, Thanks for supporting the golf tournament. Absolutely thanks
for having us. Softy joins us next, I said earlier'na
check tet'm I'm gonna read one text on the air
for cross Talk from the two o six. It says, Softy,

(01:16:14):
is he gonna do the show in sign language today?
Or does he have a voice back? Let's hear it.

Speaker 14 (01:16:18):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:16:19):
Okay, there you sure?

Speaker 13 (01:16:21):
There you go?

Speaker 2 (01:16:22):
There you?

Speaker 5 (01:16:24):
I mean, it sounds better, it feels better.

Speaker 2 (01:16:26):
What do you think it's it's tell me better.

Speaker 15 (01:16:29):
What I've noticed is that the first of all, I'm
working on a hot toddy myself right now. Okay, so
you know, but the the hot water and honey combination. Uh,
just check this out for a second hand. A shot
gives me like an extra forty seconds.

Speaker 5 (01:16:45):
I got you, Yeah, I got you.

Speaker 15 (01:16:47):
I got I have consumed more hot water and honey
and you know English breakfast team we have in the.

Speaker 5 (01:16:54):
House than I had. I didn't realize how big my
bladder was until about to say, you have to ye.

Speaker 2 (01:17:01):
Just pounding tea and hot liquids.

Speaker 15 (01:17:03):
And you know what, I just made the call yesterday.
I said, I'm just gonna start wearing diapers. I mean,
forget it.

Speaker 5 (01:17:08):
It's just not worth getting up and go into the
bathroom maybe.

Speaker 2 (01:17:11):
Thirty seconds, So that makes sense.

Speaker 5 (01:17:13):
We're going down that road anyway.

Speaker 2 (01:17:14):
Sounds better.

Speaker 5 (01:17:14):
Why not do it?

Speaker 2 (01:17:15):
It sounds better, So.

Speaker 15 (01:17:16):
We'll see if I can. It's it's a short show.
It's a couple of hours. We got hockey tonight. Go
Oilers game two, Yes, go on. I'm rooting for the.

Speaker 5 (01:17:25):
Oilers big time.

Speaker 2 (01:17:26):
Why probably?

Speaker 5 (01:17:27):
Why wouldn't I root for the Oilers? You think the
Florida freaking Panthers fans deserve anything.

Speaker 2 (01:17:32):
Thank you very much.

Speaker 5 (01:17:33):
I mean, Johnny, come lately, that's right. Do you tell them?

Speaker 2 (01:17:38):
You tell them, buddy, No, Panthers.

Speaker 15 (01:17:41):
Weren't even a team the last time the Oilers won
a Stanley Cup exactly.

Speaker 3 (01:17:44):
Let's keep the streak going the team since ninety three.

Speaker 15 (01:17:47):
Come on, you like okay, well I kind of see
where and talking now now we're supposed to hate.

Speaker 2 (01:17:54):
Canadians exact and the lead of sixteen?

Speaker 15 (01:17:59):
Is that still a thing? By the way, the hating
Canada thing? Is that still a thing? Or we on
to somebody else?

Speaker 2 (01:18:04):
I think we've moved on a little bit, haven't we.
I mean it seems I think we have to go
on now, don't we?

Speaker 15 (01:18:09):
I get confused. Do we like Tesla or do we
not like Tesla? I think back to liking test.

Speaker 2 (01:18:14):
I think we're back to liking it. I think we're
back to liking Tesla. And Canada we're iffy on right now.

Speaker 3 (01:18:21):
I love Canada except when it comes to hockey.

Speaker 5 (01:18:24):
How about Russia? Were Russia?

Speaker 2 (01:18:27):
Now we're buddies with them? Apparently?

Speaker 5 (01:18:30):
Ukraine? About Ukraine? Africa? We can't be.

Speaker 2 (01:18:33):
Buddies with both Russia and Ukraine.

Speaker 5 (01:18:34):
So it's true, we gotta pick one.

Speaker 2 (01:18:36):
We gotta pick one. You can only have one Russia
Sati that year. You can only have one today Russia
or Ukraine.

Speaker 5 (01:18:41):
Russia, Ukraine or Oklahoma City pick one.

Speaker 2 (01:18:45):
So you're like me, you didn't want you couldn't watch
the game for the most part.

Speaker 15 (01:18:48):
I you know what I I was watching it on
my phone and I saw for the majority of the game, okay, see,
was taking care of business. And then I happened to
pick it up and I saw the Pacers I'd come
back and they were down two or three points, and
I just said, you know what, I've been writing it
like this the entire night.

Speaker 5 (01:19:07):
Why turn it on now and mess it up?

Speaker 2 (01:19:09):
Good call?

Speaker 5 (01:19:10):
So you guys, you people tell me if they pulled
it off.

Speaker 3 (01:19:13):
I said thank you. I say thank you because the
reason they won is because you didn't.

Speaker 5 (01:19:16):
It because of me. Correct.

Speaker 2 (01:19:17):
Yes, well see that's good.

Speaker 11 (01:19:18):
That's good of you. Right.

Speaker 2 (01:19:19):
I was just I couldn't watch it because I would
be just getting more bitter by the second. And I
was like you, I glanced at a score a few times. Yeah,
Keifer comes down and goes, oh this sucks, or just turn.

Speaker 5 (01:19:30):
It would have lost the game.

Speaker 4 (01:19:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:19:32):
Well.

Speaker 5 (01:19:32):
I turned it on over my Pacers T shirt last night,
and I'll be here tomorrow.

Speaker 13 (01:19:35):
I love it.

Speaker 2 (01:19:36):
I turned it on with Keith and I watched the
last about two minutes or so, and you wanted thought
like our team must have won a title the way
we're jumping around, and my wife is like, what do
you guys so excited? Like who's what's going on?

Speaker 5 (01:19:48):
Jilie parlor and balance?

Speaker 2 (01:19:49):
I saw that.

Speaker 5 (01:19:50):
Yeah, I would go out there and do something like that.
But with a thunder win, I'm like, what am I
doing here? Right?

Speaker 2 (01:19:56):
That's the thing is like I I'd have to sit
there and watch the whole game, and the fact they
were down by double digits the entire night until the
last few seconds is hard stomach, buddy.

Speaker 15 (01:20:05):
But you know, I kind of feel like, though you
ever see the movie as good as it gets? With
Jack Nicholson and yelling hunt, Yeah, I mean, Andrews knows
what I'm talking about.

Speaker 2 (01:20:13):
He's a movie.

Speaker 5 (01:20:13):
When when we had the movie, guy, you got the
Laker fan?

Speaker 15 (01:20:17):
You mean, well, Jack Nicholson walks into the doctor's office
or the therapist's office and just says.

Speaker 5 (01:20:23):
What if this is as good as it gets? What
if last night is as good as it gets in
this series?

Speaker 15 (01:20:29):
And Oklahoma City just wakes up starting on Sunday and
then just puts a whopping on their ass for four
games in a row.

Speaker 2 (01:20:35):
Well, you know that there's you know, Indiana did one thing.
They wanted to get the split. This is how it
happens in that league. You get the split. They're gonna
get blown out in game two. The pivotal game is
Game three.

Speaker 5 (01:20:44):
Well that's what Vegas thinks.

Speaker 15 (01:20:45):
Vegas has Oklahoma City giving eleven points in game number
two and I can't even find a money line for
crying out one of the game.

Speaker 2 (01:20:52):
So it's they're gonna win big, and then you can
just hope, like hell that they go home and retain
that home court advantage and yeah, ruined.

Speaker 15 (01:20:58):
Everyone's got home court and out of what going back
to Indiana for game three, and that's what they've they've
they've secured.

Speaker 5 (01:21:04):
Minimum is just a raucous atmosphere for game three. Right?
Is it still Market Square Arena by the way, or.

Speaker 2 (01:21:10):
I think I'm sure they something different?

Speaker 5 (01:21:12):
What do they call it?

Speaker 13 (01:21:12):
Now?

Speaker 5 (01:21:13):
What's the what's the pace?

Speaker 2 (01:21:14):
Something? Field house? I think I think.

Speaker 5 (01:21:17):
Butler, Kansas.

Speaker 2 (01:21:21):
I don't know, but I think I think it's I
think it's a field house of some sort. But whatever,
All right, we go, what's your show coming up? What
are you doing today?

Speaker 5 (01:21:29):
Game Bridge field House is the I was half right.

Speaker 2 (01:21:31):
I got the field House part.

Speaker 15 (01:21:33):
We've got like fifteen different versions of that call last
night from the pacer winner for the Thunder. We're going
to do that, including apparently a Korean call coming up
for the next segment.

Speaker 2 (01:21:44):
For all of our I think there's one from Mistaken.

Speaker 5 (01:21:48):
It might be one from Israel. I think there's a
there's a Braille version as well.

Speaker 15 (01:21:51):
We're gonna get to that in the sand language version too,
coming up next segment, so we'll do that. Hugh Millon
will join us as well at four a little funell
oft and then Game two Oilers and the Panthers at
five o'clock.

Speaker 2 (01:22:03):
I heard Jackson editing the calls of the game winning
shot last night. You do not want to miss it.
You do not want to miss that coming out. Have
a great weekend, ship.

Speaker 15 (01:22:11):
All right by Chap for the mild mannered and marginally
objectionable the Inverness.

Speaker 5 (01:22:16):
This is paddle Day, saying so long everyone

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