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Speaker 3: It's time for our weekly conversation with legendary sports writer Larry Stone, brought to you by the Ram Restaurant and Brewery, Bigger, better and fresher since nineteen seventy one, with eight fugit sound locations from Marysville to Lacey and everywhere in between. There's a Ram there you now with Softy and Dick. Here's Larry Stone.
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Speaker 4: All right, We're back at Jimmy's humuling in for Dick Jackson, back in the studio, Larry Stone joining us right now, courtesy of our friends at the Ram and Larry. We got the Mariners winning last night against the Astros. We got all kinds of stuff happening in the NFL. NCAA football looking to go to a potentially twenty four team tournament NCAA two heard him an expanding but never.
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Speaker 5: Mind all that nonsense.
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Speaker 4: What we want to know, what we need to know, did you or did you not get control of your Twitter account since you were hacked a week ago.
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Speaker 6: Hacked during your show Softy.
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Speaker 1: I did not, I have not.
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Speaker 6: I am a prisoner of the hacker. It is so it is so frustrating. I can't even begin to tell you. Uh it's uh. You remember in in Naked Gun when Enrico Plazzo is is tied up on the on that table and he has to watch the Frank Drebinson the national anthem with yes with his with his name under it. That that's the way I feel. I'm watching somebody else tweet out stuff under my name that's uh, you know, crypto crypto and uh.
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Speaker 1: Selling a Chevy.
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Speaker 6: And then they're also d ming all my contacts and and inducing them to click on a on a scam link that which is how I got a mess in the first place.
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Speaker 1: I fell. I stupidly fell for for a for a scam.
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Speaker 6: It clicked on a bad link and they they ended up stealing my account.
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Speaker 1: And Twitter has been no help whatsoever. You know. I've sent out.
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Speaker 6: Four forms to their support people, and keep getting just an automated, automated response. So I'm kind of at WIT's end to recom my account, and it does.
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Speaker 5: It does suck, and it does suck.
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Speaker 4: How these social media companies offer no customer support whatsoever.
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Speaker 5: But here's what we're gonna do. We're gonna take advantage of our massive, massive.
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Speaker 4: Audience right now, somebody out there, somebody and maybe Hugh you know somebody as well. With all your buddies that you know and your guys you run with, somebody out there listening right now has to know somebody over at Twitter. You know Elon Musk. Maybe somebody knows Elon directly. Somebody listening. Shoot me an email, SOFTYKJR at gmail dot com and let us know how the hell Larry can get his freaking Twitter account back right. All the all the problems we have in the world, homelessness, traffic, the budget deficit in Seattle, child's play compared to getting Larry Stone's Twitter account reinstated, all right, So shoot us an email if you know anybody who can help out our power Larry Stone, because he needs it big time.
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Speaker 1: I appreciate that. I will say that I did.
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Speaker 6: I did, A friend did give me a name of a contact there that is that has me semi hopeful of him being able to to get me through this. And I have made contact with him so far. It hasn't advanced too far, but he at least did acknowledge me, which is more than I got from anybody else. Right, So so that's my most optimistic path right now.
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Speaker 7: And Larry, by way of PSA to help everybody. The one thing, it's the old just don't just be suspicious of all links.
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Speaker 5: Yes, don't know?
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Speaker 8: Is that basically it? Yeah?
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 6: And if you get DM by me somebody purporting to me asking you to vote in a yes poll for yes, do not do not, do not click on it, which is what happened to me. Somebody said, hey, I need your vote. It's a racial contest to host a podcast. Yes, and it was a name I had with a name I knew, and.
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Speaker 4: Well, Larry, Larry, here's the thing, here's the thing. When you got hacked, Jackson can can confirm this. The minute you got hacked, I went on the air and told Jackson and Dick I had a guy, Chip Brown, who works for two four seven that covers the the Texas Longhorns and he sent me a message saying he was a part of this like podcast contest, and then Jackson told me it was the same freaking scam.
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Speaker 5: So I I called him.
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Speaker 4: I said, damn, that got me. Did you just send me a link to vote in some podcasts?
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Speaker 5: He says no. I said, okay, thank god I called you for God's sake.
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Speaker 4: So exactly, just just like Hugh said, you see a link from somebody, don't even just don't click on it, call the guy first. But hey, before we run out of time here, Uh, Mariners get to win last night. Cal Roley takes a shower in full uniform after Monday's game at the urging of Logan Gilbert.
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Speaker 5: And it worked and it worked?
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Speaker 4: Man, Uh, do you remember anybody doing something like that in all the baseball that you've covered in your life.
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Speaker 1: I don't remember anything like that.
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Speaker 6: I've I've I've heard of people like burning their bats in a slump or even one guy I wrote a whole story on superstitions once, and the guy once burned his glove after he made three airs, But uh, I've never heard.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, but it worked. I guess it works. You know, we'll see.
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Speaker 6: But I thought it's the game before where he lined out in his last dead bat. I thought that was kind of a turning point for him. It was the first time he made solid contact in a while. And then yesterday he get once line drive out and then the two hits, and we'll see if that propels him. But I mean, he looked for for two weeks he lost at the plate, and you know, I don't know if it was a physical or a mental thing. I've got to think that it's it's a physical thing rather. You know, I think he was hurting more than he let on and maybe they should have put him on the I l. But when you have an oblique as a hitter, that's a tough injury. And he just got completely off kilter and uh uh, and I mean it got it got diary there.
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Speaker 1: For a while.
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Speaker 8: Well from the left side of the plate.
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Speaker 7: He just reached out and pulled a ball on the outside, uh frame of the home plate, and and so that that probably was a difficult hit. But let me ask you in those in those situations, I would imagine that when you've got a guy as popular as col and you know, people kind of know about it in a way. You know, the guy is such a good dude that the aggregate, the collective, like you know, Paul over the team is probably felt more when you've got a guy likable as Calm. I'm making an assumption there that Cal's at that lead elite level of likability, that all signs point to that. But what about that idea of just you know, the guys, the guys in the clubhouse love him so much that they're hurting even more.
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Speaker 1: I think there's a lot to that. You.
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Speaker 6: I mean, in the postgame interviews yesterday, will refer to him as the team captain, you know, as as our captain. And it's not a it's not a post that's been it's not like Derek Jeter with the sea on his uniform.
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Speaker 1: It's it's informal.
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Speaker 6: But I think most people would would regard him as kind of the leader of that team. And I think you could see in the outpouring of joy when he got that hit and the reception he got when he got back to the to the dugout what he means to that team.
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Speaker 1: And I think, yeah, I think everyone was feeling feeling the pain along with him.
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Speaker 6: And I mean not only that, but the team was feeling beyond the emotional part.
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Speaker 1: They need him, and you know, he was.
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Speaker 6: Coming up in situations where it was the game was on the line and he wasn't coming through. You look back at last year and he came through time and time again. So when you when you when you lose that. I think that's a huge reason why this team is, you know right at five hundred, is that they their superstar hasn't been performed like like a superstar right right now?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, Well, Larry Stone's with us, and yeah, you're right. That hug by Jp Crawford that he gave him outside the dugout that was like the guy just found out him and his wife are having a baby. Come over and give you a big hug, Big fella, get in here for the real thing, right it was. It was unbelievable how emotional they were. But Larry Stone with us, and Larry they're gonna go to a six man rotation for now. Bryce Miller's pitching tonight. What do you make of this approach by the Mariners, at least temporarily.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think they're just kicking the can down the road.
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Speaker 6: Really, you know, there's a tough decision that's gonna have to be made and they just kind of delayed it, and they were able to do that because there's not a day off. So you know, pitching on five days rest, which you do in a six man rotation, is not unusual. You do that when there's a day off, But when you have a day also have a day off, and you're pitching on six days rest once a week, that's you just can't do that. So at the point when they start to have days off, which is next week, they're going to have to decide.
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Speaker 1: And you know, the Poto's on.
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Speaker 6: Record with division Jude is saying that no one's going to the miners, so you don't have to worry about Hancock being sent down, and no one's going to the bullpen, which I'd put.
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Speaker 1: An asterisk on that one because.
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Speaker 6: If the solution seems to be to piggyback two guys piggyback Miller and Castillo, you know, one pitches, one starts and goes three innings, four innings, the other one goes the next three innings.
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Speaker 1: To me, that's a recipe for disaster.
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Speaker 6: You know, it could work, but you know there's also it's also rife with potential complications, so you know, I think a lot will depend on what Castillo does to Borrow. Uh, if he has another clunker, I don't know how you can't do something with him. As you know, A lot will depend also on how Miller does tonight. So if if one is great and one isn't, that that could lead to, you know, a different solution. But I don't like the idea of the piggyback. I think I think it would be better served for the team to have one of them go to the Bullpenker.
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Speaker 7: Okay, Uh, so you've you've described the situation well accurately. Now feet to your fire or Larry, you're making the decision.
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Speaker 8: How do you how do you play this out? Who's going to the bullpen?
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Speaker 1: Well?
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Speaker 8: I want to see how Miller handles.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I want to see how Miller looks.
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Speaker 6: I mean, you know, he pitched to a five sixty eight e r A last year.
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Speaker 1: He was not good last year.
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Speaker 6: He was great in the postseason in three in three games against you know, against the Tigers and the Blue Chains, and he looked good in spring training. But he's coming off a down year, an injury.
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Speaker 1: Late in the year, and already he's had an injury this year. So but if he pitches well and Castillo doesn't.
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Speaker 6: I mean, I think Castillo's got to be the one to go to the bullpen to try and figure things out, or you know, the phantom il we've talked about in the past, and maybe it's not phantom Maybe there is something wrong with him that explains his issues, but I don't I don't think that's the case.
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Speaker 1: And it's hard. You know, phantom Il sounds.
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Speaker 6: Good, but as we discussed a couple of weeks ago, you know, there's rules governing.
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Speaker 1: Putting someone on the IL. You can't just make something up. So that's what I mean. I would lean towards Castillo Castile.
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Speaker 7: Okay, all right, Well, if you had to make the decision now, because we're not going to hear from you for another week and see, so not knowing how Miller's going to pitch tonight, if you have to make the decision now, put it into semi permanent inc. What's your decision based on what you know right now?
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Speaker 6: Well, probably Castillo because he's putting him in too deep a hole. Start after start, you know, down three nothing, down four nothing, and you know you can't have that every five days, every six days. You know, I don't think I'm not writing off his whole season, but right now he's just not good. And I think Miller has more potential to be the kind of starter that he was two years ago, when for the last six weeks of the season he was maybe the best pitcher in the American League.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: Well, for the record, Bill Kruger agrees with you, Not that you need Bill Krueger's affirmation, but he agrees with you that one of those guys should be in the bullpen. And they got injuries right now, right and there's certainly a need for one of those two guys, So it makes sense. But Larry Stones with us. Larry, let me shift topics from baseball to football. There's reports out the Seahawks are going to open up against the Patriots in Week one of the NFL season, be the first Super Bowl rematch we've had in Week one since twenty sixteen, when, by the way, the Denver Carolina game was also in San Francisco at Levi Stadium and Super Bowl fifty and they had a rematch in a Week one. But what do you make of the idea of seeing the Patriots in Week one?
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Speaker 6: Well, I'm surprised I don't know what you guys think. Everybody thought that because of the Rabel situation, that the NFL wouldn't want the focus to be on which it will be. There'll be a lot of talk about that, And I thought that was a reasonable theory, and I thought it was going to be the Bears, but apparently they don't care.
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Speaker 1: Enough about that.
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Speaker 6: The juiciness of a Super Bowl rematch kind of superseded that. So, I mean, it's probably the best matchup if you take the Rabels situation out of it. I mean, a super Bowl rematch to start the season is very enticing, so and I don't think there was that much intrigue with the Bears. You know, they're they're a rising up and coming team, but they're not you know, they're not a must see team team at this point of the.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, their rise. So I think it's a better matchup for sure.
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Speaker 7: Larry weigh in on this. I'm curious your long story credentials reporting. Something tells me you don't strike me as a guy that ever got a story by playing foot season a hot.
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Speaker 8: Tub with a with a coach. So uh so.
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Speaker 5: I don't know you had to have had getting after it.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, but uh, like you know, here here you have this issue.
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Speaker 7: It's like van diagrams, like like women in the workplace, you know, how are they getting their stories?
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Speaker 8: How do we feel about this?
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Speaker 1: Uh?
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Speaker 8: Is there a.
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Speaker 7: Difference for uh on a moral level or a professional level for the head coach.
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Speaker 8: And the reporter.
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Speaker 7: You know, I'm sure women women, Uh, you know, nobody hates a dishonorable woman in this situation more than an honorable woman, right, I mean, who's trying to do the job professionally. I mean there's a lot of layers to this story. What's an old journalist like you, uh say when you weigh in on this?
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Speaker 6: Well, first of all, I feel bad for for the vast majority of hard working women reporters with integrity who do the job the right way.
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Speaker 1: And this just feeds into the narrative that you.
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Speaker 6: Know, they're just there to meet a guy or whatever, which is just not true. You know, they just want to they just want to be reporters and cover the team in the vast majority of cases. So I think it's very unfortunate in that regard, and I think it's going to set back the cause a little bit.
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Speaker 1: Uh. You know, I think Dave and I talked about this a few weeks ago.
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Speaker 6: It's a it's a murky the the the insider reporter position. You know, you you've you've gotta to be good at it. You've you've got to make relationships. I mean, you know Schefter and Jake Blazer with his you know his Uh. I didn't know about this, but apparently at the at the meetings they have each year, he holds a party with all you know, all the coaches that he sponsors, and you know, he's an insider, and he has cozy relationships with all the with a lot of the.
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Speaker 1: Players and the coaches. Uh. You know, Racini went over a line.
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Speaker 6: But there's definitely give and take with with the insider position when you're you know, trying to get scoops and things, and you know, you know Adam Schefter, uh sending the question or sending a copy of his story to the to the commanders, and you know, allowing him an advance read. You know, that's that goes over a line too. So I mean, you know, it's it's a it's a really murky thing. And uh, but you know there's no question that Receie what Rascini did was was untenable, and and she had, and she'll probably never work again in the and and as at least singing the reporting.
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Speaker 5: Position, Larry Stone again with us, Larry before you go.
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Speaker 8: Uh.
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Speaker 4: News in the college basketball world, the NCAA Tournament expanding to seventy six teams for next year. I think we all remember when it was thirty two, right, Hell, you may remember when he was sixteen.
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Speaker 5: For God's sake, I don't know.
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Speaker 4: But uh, And now the college football playoffs they're taught, they're talking about going to twenty four. What's your thought on all this about just continually adding seemingly every decade or so, more and more teams to the party.
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Speaker 6: Well, first of all, I remember when they cut the bottom out of the Peach basket, a big advancement for the sport, but instead of having to get the ball out after every May basket.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 6: Uh, you know, the sixty fourteen tournament was as close to perfection as I think there was in college sports on every level. And you know, sixty eight so you know, we learned to live with it, and we'll learn to live with this too. But I just if the old, if it ain't broke, don't fix it, it's it's a money grab. I'm not the first person to say that, but there's no question about it. It's a chance for more revenue, more teams in coaches. Coaches love it because their job security is based on making the tournament, and now there's going to be more teams making the tournament. But will it enhance the anything for the viewer other than the fans of those few teams that the extra teams, I don't think so.
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Speaker 1: I think everybody loved the way.
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Speaker 6: It was, and you know, I would have liked to have seen it stay stay where it was.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, got hey, Larry, great stuff. We'll let you go appreciate this as always, and if I hear anything from anybody willing to help with the Twitter account recovery, we'll pass it along asap.
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Speaker 1: All right, that's awesome. I had nothing new happened during the course of this interview, did it like a Yeah?
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Speaker 4: I can think that I got a tweet from you about some hotel in Cairo.
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Speaker 5: That you're looking to promote. What the hell's going on here?
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Speaker 8: Man?
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Speaker 4: Jeez, Larry, the crypto stuff was weird enough. This is getting crazy. No, nothing nothing since we started talking. But we will definitely. We're going to track somebody down that can fix this for you because it's maddening. Man, I get it, buddy, We're on it.
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Speaker 1: Okay, all right, all right, thanks.
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Speaker 6: All right?
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Speaker 5: You bet Larry Stone with us on the air.
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Speaker 4: You know what's funny, Hugh is he's talking about the peach basket thing, kind of having.
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Speaker 5: Some fun there.
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Speaker 4: It's like, well, dull, right, Like when they first did the whole peach basket thing in the eighteen nineties, how long did it take them to figure out?
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Speaker 5: You know what, guys, why don't we just cut the bottom out?
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Speaker 4: I mean really, like seriously, I mean people back then, I know we're not as advanced as we are now, but how smart you gotta be to just dull just cut the freaking bottom out?
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Speaker 7: I think it was you know, it's like one to nothing or something, you know. I mean they were just just pee kids, right and and there's no backboard.
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Speaker 5: Right right right.
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Speaker 7: But here's something you know, at Roosevelt High School they had an upper gym, so I kind of you. I think the built in nineteen twent there's an upper track around the gym. Yeah, and from my understanding with Naysmith that happened to be right at ten feet right. Imagine if they had if that track was twelve feet right or eleven and a half?
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Speaker 8: What have you?
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Speaker 7: I mean, think of what ten feet is to our game. The ability that you can dunk on us now on a pretty regular basis, but not every possession, Like the dunk frequency is exactly the way it is. Because that peach basket was nailed originally at ten feet.
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Speaker 8: That just blows my mind.
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Speaker 5: Well, it could have been nine or it could have been twelve.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, you brought up the track around the gym, by the way at Roosevelt. We had the same thing at the JCC on Mercer Island. When they put it in, I thought it was the greatest frickin thing of all time. You can play basketball and go upstairs and run around a track. This is great, And I'm looking up right now on Google. According to Google AI, the game of basketball was invented at eighteen nine, and the standard practice of cutting the bottom out of the pach basket did not take place for fifteen years nineteen ohs. It took these idiots fifteen years to figure out, let's cut the bottom out. Well, I want to come back here and ask you your thoughts as well on expanding the college Football Tournament, because this is picking up some steam, this whole twenty four team idea.
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Speaker 5: Get to that next on ninety three three KJRFM
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Speaker 3: It's time for our weekly conversation with legendary sports writer Larry Stone, brought to you by the Ram Restaurant and Brewery, Bigger, better and fresher since nineteen seventy one, with eight fugit sound locations from Marysville to Lacey and everywhere in between. There's a Ram there you now with Softy and Dick. Here's Larry Stone.
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Speaker 4: All right, We're back at Jimmy's humuling in for Dick Jackson, back in the studio, Larry Stone joining us right now, courtesy of our friends at the Ram and Larry. We got the Mariners winning last night against the Astros. We got all kinds of stuff happening in the NFL. NCAA football looking to go to a potentially twenty four team tournament NCAA two heard him an expanding but never.
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Speaker 5: Mind all that nonsense.
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Speaker 4: What we want to know, what we need to know, did you or did you not get control of your Twitter account since you were hacked a week ago.
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Speaker 6: Hacked during your show Softy.
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Speaker 1: I did not, I have not.
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Speaker 6: I am a prisoner of the hacker. It is so it is so frustrating. I can't even begin to tell you. Uh it's uh. You remember in in Naked Gun when Enrico Plazzo is is tied up on the on that table and he has to watch the Frank Drebinson the national anthem with yes with his with his name under it. That that's the way I feel. I'm watching somebody else tweet out stuff under my name that's uh, you know, crypto crypto and uh.
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Speaker 1: Selling a Chevy.
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Speaker 6: And then they're also d ming all my contacts and and inducing them to click on a on a scam link that which is how I got a mess in the first place.
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Speaker 1: I fell. I stupidly fell for for a for a scam.
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Speaker 6: It clicked on a bad link and they they ended up stealing my account.
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Speaker 1: And Twitter has been no help whatsoever. You know. I've sent out.
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Speaker 6: Four forms to their support people, and keep getting just an automated, automated response. So I'm kind of at WIT's end to recom my account, and it does.
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Speaker 5: It does suck, and it does suck.
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Speaker 4: How these social media companies offer no customer support whatsoever.
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Speaker 5: But here's what we're gonna do. We're gonna take advantage of our massive, massive.
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Speaker 4: Audience right now, somebody out there, somebody and maybe Hugh you know somebody as well. With all your buddies that you know and your guys you run with, somebody out there listening right now has to know somebody over at Twitter. You know Elon Musk. Maybe somebody knows Elon directly. Somebody listening. Shoot me an email, SOFTYKJR at gmail dot com and let us know how the hell Larry can get his freaking Twitter account back right. All the all the problems we have in the world, homelessness, traffic, the budget deficit in Seattle, child's play compared to getting Larry Stone's Twitter account reinstated, all right, So shoot us an email if you know anybody who can help out our power Larry Stone, because he needs it big time.
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Speaker 1: I appreciate that. I will say that I did.
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Speaker 6: I did, A friend did give me a name of a contact there that is that has me semi hopeful of him being able to to get me through this. And I have made contact with him so far. It hasn't advanced too far, but he at least did acknowledge me, which is more than I got from anybody else. Right, So so that's my most optimistic path right now.
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Speaker 7: And Larry, by way of PSA to help everybody. The one thing, it's the old just don't just be suspicious of all links.
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Speaker 5: Yes, don't know?
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Speaker 8: Is that basically it? Yeah?
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 6: And if you get DM by me somebody purporting to me asking you to vote in a yes poll for yes, do not do not, do not click on it, which is what happened to me. Somebody said, hey, I need your vote. It's a racial contest to host a podcast. Yes, and it was a name I had with a name I knew, and.
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Speaker 4: Well, Larry, Larry, here's the thing, here's the thing. When you got hacked, Jackson can can confirm this. The minute you got hacked, I went on the air and told Jackson and Dick I had a guy, Chip Brown, who works for two four seven that covers the the Texas Longhorns and he sent me a message saying he was a part of this like podcast contest, and then Jackson told me it was the same freaking scam.
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Speaker 5: So I I called him.
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Speaker 4: I said, damn, that got me. Did you just send me a link to vote in some podcasts?
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Speaker 5: He says no. I said, okay, thank god I called you for God's sake.
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Speaker 4: So exactly, just just like Hugh said, you see a link from somebody, don't even just don't click on it, call the guy first. But hey, before we run out of time here, Uh, Mariners get to win last night. Cal Roley takes a shower in full uniform after Monday's game at the urging of Logan Gilbert.
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Speaker 5: And it worked and it worked?
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Speaker 4: Man, Uh, do you remember anybody doing something like that in all the baseball that you've covered in your life.
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Speaker 1: I don't remember anything like that.
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Speaker 6: I've I've I've heard of people like burning their bats in a slump or even one guy I wrote a whole story on superstitions once, and the guy once burned his glove after he made three airs, But uh, I've never heard.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, but it worked. I guess it works. You know, we'll see.
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Speaker 6: But I thought it's the game before where he lined out in his last dead bat. I thought that was kind of a turning point for him. It was the first time he made solid contact in a while. And then yesterday he get once line drive out and then the two hits, and we'll see if that propels him. But I mean, he looked for for two weeks he lost at the plate, and you know, I don't know if it was a physical or a mental thing. I've got to think that it's it's a physical thing rather. You know, I think he was hurting more than he let on and maybe they should have put him on the I l. But when you have an oblique as a hitter, that's a tough injury. And he just got completely off kilter and uh uh, and I mean it got it got diary there.
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Speaker 1: For a while.
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Speaker 8: Well from the left side of the plate.
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Speaker 7: He just reached out and pulled a ball on the outside, uh frame of the home plate, and and so that that probably was a difficult hit. But let me ask you in those in those situations, I would imagine that when you've got a guy as popular as col and you know, people kind of know about it in a way. You know, the guy is such a good dude that the aggregate, the collective, like you know, Paul over the team is probably felt more when you've got a guy likable as Calm. I'm making an assumption there that Cal's at that lead elite level of likability, that all signs point to that. But what about that idea of just you know, the guys, the guys in the clubhouse love him so much that they're hurting even more.
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Speaker 1: I think there's a lot to that. You.
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Speaker 6: I mean, in the postgame interviews yesterday, will refer to him as the team captain, you know, as as our captain. And it's not a it's not a post that's been it's not like Derek Jeter with the sea on his uniform.
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Speaker 1: It's it's informal.
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Speaker 6: But I think most people would would regard him as kind of the leader of that team. And I think you could see in the outpouring of joy when he got that hit and the reception he got when he got back to the to the dugout what he means to that team.
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Speaker 1: And I think, yeah, I think everyone was feeling feeling the pain along with him.
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Speaker 6: And I mean not only that, but the team was feeling beyond the emotional part.
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Speaker 1: They need him, and you know, he was.
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Speaker 6: Coming up in situations where it was the game was on the line and he wasn't coming through. You look back at last year and he came through time and time again. So when you when you when you lose that. I think that's a huge reason why this team is, you know right at five hundred, is that they their superstar hasn't been performed like like a superstar right right now?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, Well, Larry Stone's with us, and yeah, you're right. That hug by Jp Crawford that he gave him outside the dugout that was like the guy just found out him and his wife are having a baby. Come over and give you a big hug, Big fella, get in here for the real thing, right it was. It was unbelievable how emotional they were. But Larry Stone with us, and Larry they're gonna go to a six man rotation for now. Bryce Miller's pitching tonight. What do you make of this approach by the Mariners, at least temporarily.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think they're just kicking the can down the road.
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Speaker 6: Really, you know, there's a tough decision that's gonna have to be made and they just kind of delayed it, and they were able to do that because there's not a day off. So you know, pitching on five days rest, which you do in a six man rotation, is not unusual. You do that when there's a day off, But when you have a day also have a day off, and you're pitching on six days rest once a week, that's you just can't do that. So at the point when they start to have days off, which is next week, they're going to have to decide.
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Speaker 1: And you know, the Poto's on.
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Speaker 6: Record with division Jude is saying that no one's going to the miners, so you don't have to worry about Hancock being sent down, and no one's going to the bullpen, which I'd put.
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Speaker 1: An asterisk on that one because.
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Speaker 6: If the solution seems to be to piggyback two guys piggyback Miller and Castillo, you know, one pitches, one starts and goes three innings, four innings, the other one goes the next three innings.
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Speaker 1: To me, that's a recipe for disaster.
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Speaker 6: You know, it could work, but you know there's also it's also rife with potential complications, so you know, I think a lot will depend on what Castillo does to Borrow. Uh, if he has another clunker, I don't know how you can't do something with him. As you know, A lot will depend also on how Miller does tonight. So if if one is great and one isn't, that that could lead to, you know, a different solution. But I don't like the idea of the piggyback. I think I think it would be better served for the team to have one of them go to the Bullpenker.
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Speaker 7: Okay, Uh, so you've you've described the situation well accurately. Now feet to your fire or Larry, you're making the decision.
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Speaker 8: How do you how do you play this out? Who's going to the bullpen?
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Speaker 1: Well?
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Speaker 8: I want to see how Miller handles.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I want to see how Miller looks.
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Speaker 6: I mean, you know, he pitched to a five sixty eight e r A last year.
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Speaker 1: He was not good last year.
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Speaker 6: He was great in the postseason in three in three games against you know, against the Tigers and the Blue Chains, and he looked good in spring training. But he's coming off a down year, an injury.
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Speaker 1: Late in the year, and already he's had an injury this year. So but if he pitches well and Castillo doesn't.
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Speaker 6: I mean, I think Castillo's got to be the one to go to the bullpen to try and figure things out, or you know, the phantom il we've talked about in the past, and maybe it's not phantom Maybe there is something wrong with him that explains his issues, but I don't I don't think that's the case.
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Speaker 1: And it's hard. You know, phantom Il sounds.
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Speaker 6: Good, but as we discussed a couple of weeks ago, you know, there's rules governing.
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Speaker 1: Putting someone on the IL. You can't just make something up. So that's what I mean. I would lean towards Castillo Castile.
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Speaker 7: Okay, all right, Well, if you had to make the decision now, because we're not going to hear from you for another week and see, so not knowing how Miller's going to pitch tonight, if you have to make the decision now, put it into semi permanent inc. What's your decision based on what you know right now?
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Speaker 6: Well, probably Castillo because he's putting him in too deep a hole. Start after start, you know, down three nothing, down four nothing, and you know you can't have that every five days, every six days. You know, I don't think I'm not writing off his whole season, but right now he's just not good. And I think Miller has more potential to be the kind of starter that he was two years ago, when for the last six weeks of the season he was maybe the best pitcher in the American League.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: Well, for the record, Bill Kruger agrees with you, Not that you need Bill Krueger's affirmation, but he agrees with you that one of those guys should be in the bullpen. And they got injuries right now, right and there's certainly a need for one of those two guys, So it makes sense. But Larry Stones with us. Larry, let me shift topics from baseball to football. There's reports out the Seahawks are going to open up against the Patriots in Week one of the NFL season, be the first Super Bowl rematch we've had in Week one since twenty sixteen, when, by the way, the Denver Carolina game was also in San Francisco at Levi Stadium and Super Bowl fifty and they had a rematch in a Week one. But what do you make of the idea of seeing the Patriots in Week one?
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Speaker 6: Well, I'm surprised I don't know what you guys think. Everybody thought that because of the Rabel situation, that the NFL wouldn't want the focus to be on which it will be. There'll be a lot of talk about that, And I thought that was a reasonable theory, and I thought it was going to be the Bears, but apparently they don't care.
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Speaker 1: Enough about that.
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Speaker 6: The juiciness of a Super Bowl rematch kind of superseded that. So, I mean, it's probably the best matchup if you take the Rabels situation out of it. I mean, a super Bowl rematch to start the season is very enticing, so and I don't think there was that much intrigue with the Bears. You know, they're they're a rising up and coming team, but they're not you know, they're not a must see team team at this point of the.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, their rise. So I think it's a better matchup for sure.
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Speaker 7: Larry weigh in on this. I'm curious your long story credentials reporting. Something tells me you don't strike me as a guy that ever got a story by playing foot season a hot.
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Speaker 8: Tub with a with a coach. So uh so.
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Speaker 5: I don't know you had to have had getting after it.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, but uh, like you know, here here you have this issue.
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Speaker 7: It's like van diagrams, like like women in the workplace, you know, how are they getting their stories?
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Speaker 8: How do we feel about this?
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Speaker 1: Uh?
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Speaker 8: Is there a.
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Speaker 7: Difference for uh on a moral level or a professional level for the head coach.
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Speaker 8: And the reporter.
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Speaker 7: You know, I'm sure women women, Uh, you know, nobody hates a dishonorable woman in this situation more than an honorable woman, right, I mean, who's trying to do the job professionally. I mean there's a lot of layers to this story. What's an old journalist like you, uh say when you weigh in on this?
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Speaker 6: Well, first of all, I feel bad for for the vast majority of hard working women reporters with integrity who do the job the right way.
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Speaker 1: And this just feeds into the narrative that you.
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Speaker 6: Know, they're just there to meet a guy or whatever, which is just not true. You know, they just want to they just want to be reporters and cover the team in the vast majority of cases. So I think it's very unfortunate in that regard, and I think it's going to set back the cause a little bit.
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Speaker 1: Uh. You know, I think Dave and I talked about this a few weeks ago.
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Speaker 6: It's a it's a murky the the the insider reporter position. You know, you you've you've gotta to be good at it. You've you've got to make relationships. I mean, you know Schefter and Jake Blazer with his you know his Uh. I didn't know about this, but apparently at the at the meetings they have each year, he holds a party with all you know, all the coaches that he sponsors, and you know, he's an insider, and he has cozy relationships with all the with a lot of the.
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Speaker 1: Players and the coaches. Uh. You know, Racini went over a line.
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Speaker 6: But there's definitely give and take with with the insider position when you're you know, trying to get scoops and things, and you know, you know Adam Schefter, uh sending the question or sending a copy of his story to the to the commanders, and you know, allowing him an advance read. You know, that's that goes over a line too. So I mean, you know, it's it's a it's a really murky thing. And uh, but you know there's no question that Receie what Rascini did was was untenable, and and she had, and she'll probably never work again in the and and as at least singing the reporting.
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Speaker 5: Position, Larry Stone again with us, Larry before you go.
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Speaker 8: Uh.
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Speaker 4: News in the college basketball world, the NCAA Tournament expanding to seventy six teams for next year. I think we all remember when it was thirty two, right, Hell, you may remember when he was sixteen.
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Speaker 5: For God's sake, I don't know.
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Speaker 4: But uh, And now the college football playoffs they're taught, they're talking about going to twenty four. What's your thought on all this about just continually adding seemingly every decade or so, more and more teams to the party.
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Speaker 6: Well, first of all, I remember when they cut the bottom out of the Peach basket, a big advancement for the sport, but instead of having to get the ball out after every May basket.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 6: Uh, you know, the sixty fourteen tournament was as close to perfection as I think there was in college sports on every level. And you know, sixty eight so you know, we learned to live with it, and we'll learn to live with this too. But I just if the old, if it ain't broke, don't fix it, it's it's a money grab. I'm not the first person to say that, but there's no question about it. It's a chance for more revenue, more teams in coaches. Coaches love it because their job security is based on making the tournament, and now there's going to be more teams making the tournament. But will it enhance the anything for the viewer other than the fans of those few teams that the extra teams, I don't think so.
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Speaker 1: I think everybody loved the way.
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Speaker 6: It was, and you know, I would have liked to have seen it stay stay where it was.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, got hey, Larry, great stuff. We'll let you go appreciate this as always, and if I hear anything from anybody willing to help with the Twitter account recovery, we'll pass it along asap.
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Speaker 1: All right, that's awesome. I had nothing new happened during the course of this interview, did it like a Yeah?
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Speaker 4: I can think that I got a tweet from you about some hotel in Cairo.
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Speaker 5: That you're looking to promote. What the hell's going on here?
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Speaker 8: Man?
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Speaker 4: Jeez, Larry, the crypto stuff was weird enough. This is getting crazy. No, nothing nothing since we started talking. But we will definitely. We're going to track somebody down that can fix this for you because it's maddening. Man, I get it, buddy, We're on it.
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Speaker 1: Okay, all right, all right, thanks.
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Speaker 6: All right?
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Speaker 5: You bet Larry Stone with us on the air.
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Speaker 4: You know what's funny, Hugh is he's talking about the peach basket thing, kind of having.
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Speaker 5: Some fun there.
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Speaker 4: It's like, well, dull, right, Like when they first did the whole peach basket thing in the eighteen nineties, how long did it take them to figure out?
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Speaker 5: You know what, guys, why don't we just cut the bottom out?
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Speaker 4: I mean really, like seriously, I mean people back then, I know we're not as advanced as we are now, but how smart you gotta be to just dull just cut the freaking bottom out?
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Speaker 7: I think it was you know, it's like one to nothing or something, you know. I mean they were just just pee kids, right and and there's no backboard.
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Speaker 5: Right right right.
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Speaker 7: But here's something you know, at Roosevelt High School they had an upper gym, so I kind of you. I think the built in nineteen twent there's an upper track around the gym. Yeah, and from my understanding with Naysmith that happened to be right at ten feet right. Imagine if they had if that track was twelve feet right or eleven and a half?
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Speaker 8: What have you?
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Speaker 7: I mean, think of what ten feet is to our game. The ability that you can dunk on us now on a pretty regular basis, but not every possession, Like the dunk frequency is exactly the way it is. Because that peach basket was nailed originally at ten feet.
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Speaker 8: That just blows my mind.
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Speaker 5: Well, it could have been nine or it could have been twelve.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, you brought up the track around the gym, by the way at Roosevelt. We had the same thing at the JCC on Mercer Island. When they put it in, I thought it was the greatest frickin thing of all time. You can play basketball and go upstairs and run around a track. This is great, And I'm looking up right now on Google. According to Google AI, the game of basketball was invented at eighteen nine, and the standard practice of cutting the bottom out of the pach basket did not take place for fifteen years nineteen ohs. It took these idiots fifteen years to figure out, let's cut the bottom out. Well, I want to come back here and ask you your thoughts as well on expanding the college Football Tournament, because this is picking up some steam, this whole twenty four team idea.
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Speaker 5: Get to that next on ninety three three KJRFM
