On today’s Daily Puck Drop, Jason “Puck” Puckett debuts his new podcast with Steve Sandmeyer and Matt “Stretch” Johnson called The Sports Pit. The three worked together at KJR with Sandy and Stretch spending many years on the morning show with Mitch Levy. The three friends cover everything from Stretch getting a new hip, degenerate gambling, our love for baseball, made up sports debate, love for Climate Pledge, Sonics return, cost of an expansion team, Sandy’s disdain for podcasts and “ball know it alls.” Puck wraps up the show with “Hey, What the Puck!?” On the eve of the baseball season, Puck says tomorrow is one of the best days in the sports calendar.
(0:00) Puck opens up the show and promotes his new podcast, The Sports Pit
(7:27 ) Stretch is rubbing some type of cream over his body and details his upcoming hip surgery. Puck and Sandy have questions
(15:00) Rock bottom in sports gambling
(18:11 ) Climate Pledge and the NCAA
(25:41 ) Sandy…What’s a podcast? And, Sandy is back on a mic for the first time in 10 years. Sandy and Stretch bust Puck’s balls about him calling them to do the show. Stretch details his living quarters in Shoreline. And, do Stretch and Sandy miss radio? Plus, the changes in radio since they left. What is Reno? Sandy explains his outside man cave.
(56:00 ) Why is Stretch not an “Opening Day” guy. Sandy romanticizes about baseball and the three share their frustrations with the Mariners. They also talk about the potential return of the Sonics and what it would mean to the city and will the fans come back? When the NBA comes back, will they price out the fans and what is the cost of an expansion team?
(1:21:06 ) Mariners wasting their young pitching. Mariners win total predictions. Stretch peeing in a bottle.
(1:29:32) “Hey, What the Puck!?” One more day until one of the best days in the sports calendar