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Shohei Ohtani Valuation discussion begins at the 24:30 mark

Current Events
Seahawks: Witherspoon signed; Wayne Taulapapa signed

Storm: won 2 in a row! And then they lost. Jewel Lloyd had 31 points in their loss and she still leads the league in scoring.

Team USA advanced to the knockout stage of the World Cup. They were runners-up in their Group to Netherlands. US had a win and 2 draws, netherlands had 2 wins and a draw.   
  They will face Sweden in the knockout stage at 2:00am PDT on Saturday. Have an espresso martini after dinner and a vodka redbull when you go out; it's gonna be a long night. 
| If they win they will face the winner of Japan/Norway in the quarterfinals at 12:30am PST next Friday

Main Event
-ACQUISITIONS! 
-At the trade deadline the Mariners were 4 games over .500 and 3.5 GB of Toronto for the third WC spot.
-As of 3:05pm on deadline day, only 1 of the M's "Big 4" offseason acquisitions remained on the team.: 
- AJ Pollock traded to Giants for PTBNL and cash
- Tommy La Stella DFA'd earlier in the year
- Kolten Wong DFA'd on deadline day 
- Cooper Hummel remains on the 40 man roster, in Tacoma right now.
- ONE PLAYER IN THE AL WEST STAYED PUT: SHOHEI!

Find out why we believe Shohei Ohtani is valued at over $100M per year for the Seattle Mariners. Strictly from a profitibility standpoint.




Lightning Round
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Current Events:
 Seahawks
1) Witherspoon
2) Nwosu Signing 3 years 59 $Mil
3) Ben Bur Kurvin gets another shot?
4) Geno ranked 77th best player in the NFL (DK left off list) 

Storm Basketball Update

Team USA, Beat Vietnam 3-0 |

Main Event - Mariners
High Scoring Games against the Twins.
Over .500!!
Are we going to make the playoffs?


Lightning Round
1) which Seahawks is most likely to see the Barbie Movie
2) Who do you think will start at cornerback for the Seahawks in week 1? 

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Current Events
MLB: draft...a couple of HS position players in the first round. One of our picks was because Julio was ROTY though. 

OL Reign: Robby called it a few weeks ago: Megan Rapinoe announced she's hanging em up at the end of the year. OL Reign just became the hottest ticket in town this summer 

Storm: Jewell Lloyd is on the Storm. Jewell Llloyd might be the best offensive player in the WNBA this year (set the record for 3's in a game this week with 9). That's all we have to say about that.

Crawsover kicks off this weekend. Who's gonna be the next Zane Foster? Did you guys all go to tryouts?

Main Event | All Star recap | Futures game was fun, Softball game was funner | 
HR Derby was funnest. Julio vs. Alonso; Julio vs. Vladito; Julio vs. Julio | 
ASG....Where's Waldo errr I mean where's Castillo? | 
Kirby pitched though and did pretty well | 
Julio got two AB's, one with 2 outs in bottom 9th down by one with a man on base, the biggest AB of his career to this point | 
"Come to Se-a-ttle" | 
few guys raved about seattle | 
Mariners: STILL SO .500 |  | 
 

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Current Events
Kraken Draft
OL Reign and Sounders Update
Seattle storm Update W/ Jewell Loyd leading the WNBA
All Star Game in seattle

Main Event
-Seattle Mariners 1 year anniversary since the 14 game win streak!
-Update on the latest series
-What is causing the Mariners Struggles?
-Any hopes for All-Stars?

Robby's Hot Take

Lightning Round!

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Current Events
Coachella Valley Fire Birds 
Sounders and OL Reign 
The Storm...yikes 
Crawsover Tryouts this Sunday, for anyone (like solid WAC players) |
Mariners try to take on the Yankees
 
Main Event | UW Huskies, Larry Brown, and NCAA Allegations
-Larry Brown + Dawgs. How would this help this year and what would it mean for the future? |
-Larry Brown is prolific. he's coached at the collegiate and professional levels globally for the last 40 years. Played in the NBA
-Only head coach to win a NCAA national championship and NBA championship. 
-But... He has a history of NCAA violations

V Robby's Hot Take (5 second intro music... 30 seconds w/ 2 mins of discussion and banter) 

Lightning Round |  |  | 
1) Do you know anyone who should tryout for the Crawsover? 

Current Events
-So hockey is finally, actually over...SIKE! The Kraken's AHL affiliate, Coachella Valley Fire Birds are in the AHL final (Calder Cup). Led by familiar names like Shane Wright, Ty Kartye and Joey Daccord, they're up (3-0 or 2-1) and trophy hunting! | Thunderbirds won the WHL and went to Quebec to play in a sort of North American Champions League. They lost up there but all in all it was a phenomenal year for hockey in the PNW. |

The Storm continue to lose but they honored Sue Bird in a post-game ceremony last Sunday. She spoke for *literally* longer than any episode of this show has ever gone (1 hour 32 minutes), but she deserves it. Many of Sue's former teammates |
 -were in attendance, including Lauren Jackson. |
- The Storm are 2-6 but still have 2 league leaders. Jewel Lloyd still leads the league in scoring average and Ezi Magbegor leads in blocks. Still an uphill climb for a team in the shadow of greatness. |

 
Main Event | Mariners news: | They're the most .500 team of all-time.
Ty France has broken out
Is Mike Ford our new DH?
Jarred Kelenic has slowed down at the plate but not by much
Why do they strikeout so much?
Andres Munoz is BACK in a big way
Preview upcoming home series
 
V Robby's Hot Take (5 second intro music... 30 seconds w/ 2 mins of discussion and banter) 
 
Lightning Round 
1) Who is your Mariners All-Star this year? |  | 
2) Would you want to see Julio in the Home Run Derby? |  | 
3) What about Kelenic? |  | 

Current Events
What's Kraken? Nothin Kraken, so let's Sound off | Kraken season is over, Stanley Cup finals are set. What're the Sounders up to? 
 -Grubauer has played like a totally different goalie this postseason. 2.97 GAA and .909 save%, right in line with his career average prior to joining the Kraken. |

Seahawks Tariq Woolen has arthoscopic surgery on his knee: Any concern? |  |

Storm: Breana Stewart and the Liberty came to town on Tuesday night and it w a star-studded affair (as in, Sue Bird was also there) |  |
| The Storm are 0-3 to start the year and seem to have trouble at both ends of the court after losing their 3 best players in the last offseason

Main Event | Mariners news: | They've begun winning! |
-Julio can hit again! Breakdown opening day to April 30 and then May 1 to today
-Yankees series has been rough but the young guys are still producing. |
-Teo has also bounced back at the plate, has shown he can field a little bit too |
-What will the M's record be at the allstar break July 9 |
-DH fixed? Not so fast. |


V Robby's Hot Take

Lightning Round
1) Would you rather have Brenna Stewart Prime or Sue Bird Prime? 
2) Which Mariners will make the All-Star Team? 

Current Events
What's Kraken!?:  The Kraken play WON their first ever playoff series! They Beat the Avalanche in 7 games. They now face the Dallas Stars, tied 2-2 having alternated wins and losses in the first 4 games.
| Grubauer has played like a totally different goalie this postseason. 2.97 GAA and .909 save%, right in line with his career average prior to joining the Kraken.

Seahawks draft review! The draft happened and people are mostly happy with what the Seahawks did! |
To recap: 1/5 was Devon Witherspoon (CB Illinois); 1/20 (WR tOSU, best WR in the draft);  |
We were both right! Robby predicted a wide receiver with 20 and Adam predicted a 3rd round trade down. Hawks traded some picks back to the Broncos, fleecing them once more. 

Main Event
Mariners news: | Well...they are top 10 in SP ERA and RP ERA. They're hovering around .500 despite being totally unable to score a run.
| Munoz's return keeps getting pushed back. It's been 3 weeks since Divish reported he would start throwing again and yesterday we found out he had shoulder inflammation and got an injection for that.
| Tommy La Stella and the Mariners have conscously uncoupled, praise be. 
| Some high notes: Logan Gilbert threw 6 perfect innings against the best offense in the league (excl. Rays); Kirby is doing Kirby things; JP Crawford's bat has come alive, France is hitting the way he should.
| Bryce Miller, Gabe Speier, Jose Caballero
| I can finally stop complaining about our DH
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Current Events
-Sounders and TBirds both flying high. THe T Birds are 8-0 in the playoffs and the Sounders are near the top of their conference about 6 weeks into the season; Megan Rapinoe and OL Reign start of the NWSL at 3 wins and 1 loss.. 2nd in the league
-Huskies get 4 star transfer from Kentucky!
-what's Kraken!?
-Mariners news: They got swept by the former Seattle Pilots and the offense looked abysmal. The Cardinals came into town and we bounced back taking 2 out of 3. Highs were Kelenic continuing his hot streak with a couple more dingers, Castillo pitched great again, Kirby has returned to form

 
Main Event | Seahawks draft preview! We're going to mock the Seahawks first and second round picks. 
| Seahawks have 1:5; 1:20; 2:37 and 2:52. They have 26 players signed to the 2023 roster (fewest in NFL) and only
| 26 million dollars in cap space. It is imperative that they draft impact players at the top and bottom of the draft.
| Glaring holes in the lineup: interior and edge d linemen; Strong Safety (Jamal Adams is the only SS on the roster with Ryan Neal getting signed away; WR3 (Dareke Young is de facto WR3 right now but he's totally unproven heading into his second year); Guard (Phil Haynes and Damian Lewis will return as starters but we have no other guards on the roster.
| (***NFL Draft music***) with the 5th overall selection in the 2023 NFL Draft, the Seattle Seahawks select: 
| Adam -- Will Anderson Jr
| Robby -- 3 QBs will be gone, leaving only Will Levis. Levis looks fine but is not the gamechanger thant Young, Stroud or possibly Richardson could be at the position. Needing help on the interior D Line and having a decent track record with "character issue" guys in the past, PCJS will select Jalen Carter, DT, Georgia
| With the 20th pick in the 2023 NFL Draft, the Seattle Seahawks select: 
| Adam -- We will trade this pick along with our 52nd Pick to the Flacons; and select Bijan Robinson
| Robby -- This pick will almost certainly get traded to a team at the bottom of the first round who needs an offensive playmaker. If they don't trade it, they take a wide receiver! Jaxson Smith Njigba will be the first WR selected in the NFL draft. He has solid athleticism and very strong route running. He is considered the most pro-ready WR in the class ready to slot into nearly any spot in an NFL offense. If he's available, the Hawks take him. Some mocks have Houston taking him at 12, in which case the Hawks take Zay Flowers out of Boston College. He's short, 5'9" but another great route runner. He would fill into No-E's old slot roll nicely.
| With the 37th pick in the NFL draft, the Seattle Seahawks select:
| Adam -- Joey Porter Jr
 
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V Robby's Hot Take (5 second intro music... 30 seconds w/ 2 mins of discussion and banter) | 
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lightning Round | 
Two listener questions!

Current Events
Seahawks: The NFL draft is looming and mock drafts are carrying more and more weight.
 
Huskies corner! Sav'ell Smalls announced he's entering the transfer portal. He was a standout two-way player at Garfield HS and a highly sought after 5-star recruit. His freshman year was truncated by COVID 19 and then ZTF and Jeremiah Martin emerged.
 He didn't see a lot of playing time. Sav'ell is a beast of an athlete and chose UW over his pick of blue chip programs. Montlake owes him a lot of gratitude and we hope he fluorishes in his next destination. He ends his Dawgs career with 32 tackles, 1 TFL, 0 sacks and 1 fumble recovery.
 
What's Kraken!?

 
Main Event |
-The Seattle Mariners can't hit and sometimes they can't pitch.
- No extra innings games in the past week, thank goodness.
- M's came home and swept the sorry ass Rockies, outscorign them 15-5 in a 3 game set.
- JK continues to be hot, he's 8th in the AL in WAR ahead of Trout and Rafael Devers.
- In his last 7 games, Kelenic is batting 391/462/1000 with 4 HR and 6 RBI. He's a machine.
- On the flipside, Julio is slumping. In that same time frame he's hitting 172/250/379 with a 2b a 3b and a HR. Funny how that's a slump.
- His BABIP is abysmal over this time probably due to a slight uptick in flyballs. He's hitting the ball hard, they're just dying before the warning track.
- NOW FOR THE PITCHING: First things first. Luis Castillo should be the AL CY favorite right now. He spun another gem last sunday going 18 up, 18 down through 6. He wound up going 7, 2H 9K no walks. We won 1-0.
- Kirby and Tommy Milone (who was filling in for new father Marco Gonzales, both pitched well agianst the rockies too. Chris flexen's turn came up against the Brewers last night and aside from an early inning meltdown, he pitched well enough for us to win. Unfortunately it was Penn Murfee's turn to let the team down when he relieved Flex in the 7th
- The Brewers are one of the hottest teams in baseball and have the best run differential for any team that didn't start the season on a 13 game win streak. It's okay to falter a little against a former CY winner, but we can't get swept.
- Adam let's keep track of the performance of this offseason's "big acquisitions" i.e. Wong, La Stella, Hernandez and Pollock. I've done some excel wizardry and created a table I can update and it'll spit out their combine slash line.

Robby's Hot Take (5 second intro music... 30 seconds w/ 2 mins of discussion and banter) |
They have 45 road points but only 33 home points. 21 road wins is 2nd only to the New Jersey Devils, who have 23. It might be in the team's best on-ice interest to wind up a 6 seed than 3 or 4 in the west, but is it in the franchise's? |


Lightning Round 
2 Listener Questions!