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We all good doing? Okay? Welcome home from Maui. Yes, which

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is like the vacation spot of Seattle Radio's choice. I suppose I think it's

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a vacation spot of most of the Pacific Northwest's choice. Right. Well,

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it's the most visited island in the world, So is that right, I

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believe it is. Wow. Yeah, we got one in Greece that's pretty

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popular, Santorini. Yes, pretty darn popular, because you know, most

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every picture you see of a Greek island is this one small little town in

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Santorini called Ea, but it's spelled o i A. And that is like

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the one that's built up in the side of the hill that everything's white,

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right, all the buildings go white. That's not uncommon for Greek villages.

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But that one is the one that's on the cliff with with the weird u

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with the church, blue tops and all that. And that one is often

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very much, very lot of tread on those tires, A lot of cruise

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ships roll up. Oh yes, I have cruised over there. We did

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not go to Santorini. We went to Corfu. Oh well that's on the

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other side on the Adriatic. Yes, we went to Corfu and then we

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went to katak Alone, which got us to Olympia and the ancient grounds of

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the Olympics, which I thought was fascinating. Although it was like ninety eight

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degrees in one and twelve percent humidity, but other than that, it was

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a fun time. So rough summertime in Greece. That about it. You

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really start to feel like one of the three hundred Spartan soldiers. But you

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know, a lot of people don't go to that side. You know,

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that's very interesting that you that you visited that side. You're you're truly a

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man of the road less travel. That's right now. A lot of fun.

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So while I was in Maui, I was sitting there, I made

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it a point Petros on Sunday, I guess it would have been Sunday morning,

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Maui. Time to find myself an outdoor TV at a bar that actually

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opened early so that Caitlin Clark could be watched by the masses. And this

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pool side bar was surrounded with people watching the women's NCAA Championship game eighteen point

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seven million viewers on average, the biggest audience for any basketball game, pro

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or college, met or women in five years. Were you captivated on Sunday?

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Yes, until the I was started to lose, and then I turned

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out much like when produced started to lose. Yeah, I turned it off.

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But uh yeah, I was really surprised at my interest in the women's

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tournament. Maybe it happened because I was in My kids were in spring break,

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and I was in the desert, another vacation resort spot that you're quite

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familiar with, Dick. I was out in the Coachella Valley and did you

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go to Boomers? Did you go to Boomers? Wife took the kids to

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Boomers? Thank god I missed. I missed out. I was still here

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doing I had Dodgers Opening Day to take care of, which was interesting in

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the light of the Otani stuff, and a much different kind of opening day,

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a lot of tight sphincters. And and then the next day we had

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an event at Santa Nita, which is a famous race turn down here.

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So and so then I wasn't able to get out. I got out to

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the desert, and you know, I don't have my normal accout mom my

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office that I can hide in and watch pornography. So I was just sitting

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there with the kids watching I watched a lot of games, you know,

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because I had a vested interest. You know, UCLA was interesting to me.

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Then, you know, every time LSU played it was a Twitter event

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and like a racial war. And then you had South Carolina who was really

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good. And then the Caitlin Clark stuff was just phenomenal. I mean she

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was she just delivered on all the hype. Game in and game out.

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There was just so much excitement and she was doing stuff that you just haven't

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seen from a player in that at that level, and it was pretty wild

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to watch. And I've watched USC of course, I watch the Beeves.

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You know, they were they were involved for a while. So I watch

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a lot of those teams and then was really gratified by all of it until

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Iowa lost in the end, and then then I got Then it was just

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all about all the faces that Danny Hurley makes and all that. But it

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was a good tournament. And look, it was great, you know,

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like they say, everybody's been saying, and I think it's something JFK said

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that, you know, a rising tide lifts all the boats, and certainly

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she's done that. Now. I'm no marketing genius, and the WNBA has

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not really got a foothold ever as far as nationally goes, and they've got

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to really find a way to keep this going and market it. Pretty hard

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on her though, to start all over again in May. Yes, you

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know that schedule. And I respect these athletes. I'm not one of those

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guys that sits there and poop poos women's basketball. It's just a matter of

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interest, you know. And and whatever moves the needle is what's gonna generate

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the money. I mean, you see it now with the NFL and how

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powerful it is. And you know this better than me. This is a

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This is the biggest opportunity the WNBA has had since it starts. Absolutely and

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without question, they got to get Beaker going well. And they that's what

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head looks like to me, Beaker Baker. Oh that's her head. Okay,

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I got you. I didn't get there. Didn't get you. She's

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great, She's got her boyfriend in Indiana. She's gonna go there. You

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know, you know the Indiana fever. He works there. No, I

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did not know that. McCaffrey. Did you see that so WNBA plays forty

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games? Did you see how many Indiana Fever games are gonna be a national

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television out of forty very few, only thirty five of them, thirty six

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games. Ninety percent of their games are going to be on on national television.

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But I'm wondering what you meant. You said, rising tides lift all

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boats, and I'm wondering if that's going to Are we going to see a

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sustainability in women's college basketball because of this, similar to what we saw bird

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Magic. I was looking at the numbers. The four or five years after

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Bird Magic were higher viewership numbers than the four five years before Bird Magic.

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So there was a little bit of lyft for men's college basketball after seventy nine.

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I'm wondering if we're going to see that after twenty twenty four for women's

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basketball. We might, And you know, some of the kind of crab

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apple or nastiness kind of feeling, especially from the Yukon people toward Caitlin Clark,

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you know that, and to LSU people. My god, that drives

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this too, yeah, you know, and the more people like super Bird

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or Tarasi or whatever talk about her in not the most glowing way, which

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is how everybody talks about her. Because everybody's talking about her. We never

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talked about Shamikua Holdt's claw like this, or I mean, I know,

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Cheryl Miller, She's supposed to be the best player that ever lived. She

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came from USC you know, Myers from UCLA. I mean, you can

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really argue, Dick. And I'm not one that really gets deep into these

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conversations. But and I'm not like a guy that likes to talk about who's

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the goat and all that. It's quite simple. It's Michael Jordan. But

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it's true that this woman, Caitlin Clark, in the last three months,

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three weeks, has done more for women's basketball than Ann Myers, Cheryl Miller

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and Rebecca Lobo or whoever you want to throw in there combine. Yeah.

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I mean, and that's no disrespect to them. They're all great athletes.

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I mean, you can't you can't gauge what the public interest is going to

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be. It's the brightest super nova the sport has ever seen. Right,

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and this happened with Red Grange. You know, when college football got popular

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one hundred years ago, you know, when you say somebody's great and people

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show up and in fact they are great in that moment that people show up

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for it, then that you've got exactly what you just described, a super

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nova. So I hope it garners more interest and gets that league a little

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bit better of a foothold that they've been trying to so desperately get for so

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long. Well, and I was disappointed to hear Brianna Stewart, who you

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know, won titles here in Seattle. She's a she's a great Seattle athlete,

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now back east, but she said that Clark needed a title to be

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considered one of the greatest of all time. I could, I could.

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I could understand the argument that you need a title to be considered the greatest

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of all time, but one of the greats I thought that was that was

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ludicrous because she's obviously one of the greats of all time in college basketball.

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It all comes off as as sourness toward toward because it's so clear how how

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fabulous she was and all you I mean, and I'm not a basketball expert,

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and let alone a women's basketball expert. You know, I don't watch

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sports. I was watching a lot of these games and I was like,

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wow, that girl fouled out and just burst into tears. You know, you don't see that. You know, there's a lot of crying in foot

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bath. You know, there's a lot of emotion out there. So it's kind of getting used to what the sport is like and all that. And

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she's the leading scorer of all time and third all time and assists. Yeah,

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I mean that that just right there. I mean that alone is is

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so remarkable that it's hard to believe that people would be kind of I think

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people there's a little bit of jealousy because of the interest. Yeah, that's

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fine, I got it. And you know, and then the men just

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it took second stage. There were some entertaining games, but there just wasn't

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the captivating nature to the men's tournament that there was the women's tournament. And

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you know, it all gets you come together with Hurley doing an unbelievable job

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leading you gone to the second straight championship. Likable, but yeah, what's

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that time? You know, it's funny because at times he can be likable.

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You hear him in interviews and stuff like that. He is kind of and then on the court, my got he looks like the biggest ass of

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all time. But you know he kind of has this this uh double sided

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face to him. But why doesn't Yukon get the respect of Duke Kentucky,

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North Carolina, Kansas when they have been by far the best college program of

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the last twenty five years. Have you ever been to stores? Well?

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Have you? No? I have me neither? Is that why? I

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don't know? I guess there, I mean Iowa, Iowa doesn't have any

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I've been to Iowe either, and neither has many people, and they get more headlines than Yukon does. I've been there. It's God's country, though

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nobody says stores is God's country. You know what I'm saying. They don't

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do the wave at Kinnick. You know, I don't know they all see

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Honestly, if I had to really answer it as a West Coast person like

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you are, I'd say it's because they're all chowderhead a holes. Okay,

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annoying. You know, the same reason nobody likes Red Sox fans. Okay,

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I think it's I think it's that simple. They certainly are great.

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They've bounced to a few different conferences that might have something to do with it.

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I don't know, you know. All I know is the biggest a

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hole every year, and coaching is either Bobby Hurley, Danny Hurley or the

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dad that coached high school and was a probation officer. It's a tough it's

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a wrestling match between the three every year. But look the reason nobody likes

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the men's tournament. All the players leave early, so you never get a

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chance to really fall in love with a player or a team like you would

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if guys play together for two or three years like they used to quote unquote.

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And that's one part of it. The other part of it is Yukon

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has won every game they've played in the tournament the last two years by double

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digits and is covered. You know, so there's been a lot of intrigue

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down to Stratch, so that hasn't That hasn't helped either, But I'm sure

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they did good numbers and everybody made money. It was great that that the

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women took center stage this year. It was fun and it was kind of

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a bresh of a breath of fresh air. Speaking of going to pro early,

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how about your guy, Bronnie, He's headed to the NBA Draft.

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How is he going how are we going to orchestrate this ww Eastye, well,

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so that Bronny plays with Lebron before Lebron calls it quits. It's starting

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to kind of feel like that, right, Yes, it's starting to.

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But uh, he's still in the transfer portal and in the draft without an

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agent, gotcha, So he's sort of in uh limbo the ozone. I

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guess I don't know the ether of of basketball. Uh, it's kind of

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interesting. I mean, I I look at it as one side of it, as a meritocracy, right, I mean, how do you get drafted

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as an as an NBA player. Gotta be good enough, there's no other

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criteria. Yeah, I mean, I mean I guess you can't be a

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murderer or well, I don't know. Well, I mean, you know

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what I'm saying, like that, you have to be really special, like

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you you can't just pass the eyeball test and hey, he's tall, you

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know, right, I mean it's the ultimate meritocracy. And then you think,

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what's the other side of it. Well, it's another word that starts

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with M. It's meglomania, it's Lebron. Yeah, it's and you know,

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there's a big struggle here in Los Angeles, because it feels like Lebron's

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just pushing around a week ownership group and gets whatever he wants, And it

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would be hard to believe that they wouldn't do this for him. And it's

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confounding to watch the tentacles of the giant octopus of clutch sports move and get

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people that are supposed to be credible to say things about a kid who's a

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great kid by all accounts, but certainly is not what they're saying he is.

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If you're six foot two, it doesn't matter how good of a defender

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you are. If you can't shoot, you're not going to the NBA.

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And I'm not an expert, and I can tell you that, and you

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can to get Sham Sherania. They must have bought him a truckload a Dracarna

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warm to say that he's an elite defender. I mean, at one point,

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does you have a heart problem? Not become an excuse and become a

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hindrance. Right like mid season when he was just very mediocre and everybody was

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showing up to all the games and they were trying to like he'd have two

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points and they would lead the highlight with it. Mid season they would say,

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well, you know, you're criticizing him, but he has a you

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know, he's coming off a heart procedure. Right, It's like, okay,

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well you're going to draft a guy coming off a heart procedure, Like

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what whose minutes dwindled as the year went on? Like, just explain this

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to me, you know, But it's never been explainable. There were five

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kids in his league. He was not first team All League in his league.

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Now, there were five kids in his league that should have played in

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the McDonald's All American before he did. It was a crime what they did

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with him in high school and how they've overhyped this, And it's unfortunate because

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it's a big topic. You know, it's like whenever LeVar Ball would open

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his mouth, but it's worse LaVar's balls. Two out of three those kids

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could play. Yeah, you know, and this guy it's not like he's a kid or a bad player. But I mean, what are we doing,

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uh to get people to say, like Chris Mannix all these people to

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say these things. Yeah, it kills everybody's credibility and shows how susceptible we

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are to be star efforts. I'm tired of the lies tired of it.

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Petros Papadagas joining us. Brought to you by Sweet James. Uh, we've

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got the Husky camp going on. Bill Belichick is walking around with his sleeves

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cut off of his Washington Husky uh sweatshirt. Kind of cool to see.

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Uh. Maybe the goat in NFL coaching helping out at U practice and obviously

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you know then he practice has been soured the last couple of days with the

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the Tybo Rogers news and we had a a I will call over zealous reporter

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going after Jedfish, who was not the coach of the Washington Huskies when this

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when this thing went down, that was Did you did you see that that

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video? I did? Yeah, you know, I mean, you know,

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these are sensitive topic and very difficult. I mean, ask anybody who

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was in the media that was around the whole Baylor thing back in the day.

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I'm not saying this is what that is, but this was obviously a

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bad situation and it's going to chase the ad. It's gonna chase Kaylin,

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and it's going to chase Grub right there in town, and people are gonna

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have to answer for it. And it's not going to be comfortable and it's

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unfortunate, but I don't, you know, as far as affecting this team,

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I think they did everything they could. I mean, I guess in

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this regard all that turnover is a good thing, but obviously something that needs

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to be taken seriously. And sadly these things weren't handled as sensitively even back

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in my day, you know, where somebody would get into some kind of

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trouble and everybody would just look at each other and be like, well,

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when's he going to come back to the team, right? And you know, maybe not with something as serious as this, but pretty serious stuff,

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so very unfortunate and sobering, and I think I'm interested to see what what

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all the actors involved kind of have to say about it. Absolutely final thing

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for you. You're a Master's fan, you gotta you have a pick for

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us this week. No, you're not a Master's fan. No, No,

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I mean I watch it and I'm involved, but I don't, like, I'm not enough. I'm not I don't understand golf enough to be like

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I really like this guy on this course. You know I can't, but

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I will say this, like I heard Tiger the other day say, like

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I Begor, wasn't it, you know, which was kind of like as sincere as Pete Carroll when he was crying after he got fired, and he

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was like a really jugged you know, it's like, yeah, sure you

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can win it. It's like, I mean, you know, and I do just I hate to say it, but I just have a vision of

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Tiger being carted off, crying in his hands, you know, holding onto

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his back. Again. Well, that's the last time we saw him was going, was being wheeled off a golf course. So we certainly don't hope

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but not to see that in the next forty eight hours. He's got to

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go out there and drag himself around to uh, to make everybody money.

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And at this point, I think it's kind of sad. Yeah, you're

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not sad at all. Well, it's kind of a sad ending, you know, rape, rape, and Tiger warts being wheeled off a golf tusk

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reaping into his hands. Have a great Wednesday, everybody, enjoyce Seattle,

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