Speaker 1: All right, our good friend, the most successful member of
the Seattle powerhouse radio station, Kay Jay, are they? Sports
leader Softie's with us here to smack talk his beloved
Seattle Mariners, who are about to drop two out of
three at home to get a second half of the
season off to a disappointing start. Softy, how the hell
are you?
Speaker 2: This is just so dumb.
Speaker 3: This whole thing that we do is just so dumb,
you know, because I only hear from you when things
are going well. Astros are five games up. You know,
where were you last year when the ms were ten
games up and you guys were fading away?
Speaker 2: And then I got a.
Speaker 3: Phone call from you. Oh, the Mariners have blown their
divisional lead. Let's get Softy on again. So once again,
our relationship just proves it to be what it's always been,
which is one side and it's always about you.
Speaker 1: Bet you better call me when the Texans play the
Seattle Seahawks on ESPN The O Show on the Monday night, Kay.
Speaker 2: Night, Yes, are you coming up for that?
Speaker 3: Bad boy?
Speaker 1: No chance?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 1: All right, No, No, I cannot.
Speaker 2: Dark's got that scare, doesn't he? No? Boot?
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's fine, I don't care all right, first and foremost,
we're going to get to some other stuff before we
just before we get to the Maritors Astros Adam Silver
is just Ponyall's chain, And I'm sorry for you because
your city deserves an NBA team. What's going on with that?
Speaker 3: When you say pulling our chain? What do you mean
by that? Like he's using us as a pawn now
to get Portland and Arena, like David Stern did thirteen
years ago with Sacramento. Because there's a lot of people
that think you might be right. I mean, there's just
a lot of skepticism man in Seattle, right, Like this
has been seventeen years now since they played their last
game against the Mavericks, eighteen years and toward Schultz became
a Benedict Arnold and the most hated sports figure in
the history of Seattle sports. I have not been to
Starbucks in eighteen years because of that bastard. That's my
own little personal protest. I know it doesn't mean Jack
squat to him, but it makes me feel better and
I'm doing it. So there's a lot of skepticism in Seattle.
But the NBA is using us as a pawn again,
and He brought out the Portland thing kind of out
of the blue the other night, and people were like,
whoa is this happening again? Where he's gonna threaten Portland
with relocation maybe to Seattle unless they get off their
ass them build a brand new arena for the Blazers,
you know, down there in Portland. And then the conversation
turns to, well, what if they can't get an arena
and what if Phil Knight doesn't step up to save
the day, which he's already said he has no interest
in buying the team from Paul Allen's sister Jody Allen,
would they possibly move? And would Sonics fans want them
to move? And then you get all the high and
mighty sports fans. Oh, I don't want to do to
them what was done to us, and I want nothing
to do with the Blazers. Hey, look, all of us
would love to have an expansion team one hundred times
out of one hundred. But if the only option, Mattie
is the Blazers, give me the damn Blazers. I'm not
feeling bad about it either.
Speaker 1: Get some T shirts, mane, give me the dam Blazers.
Bring Kevin Collabal.
Speaker 3: Backlazer Baby, give me, give me thirty five year old
Damian Lillard, give me, give me Clyde Drexler. Give me
room Kerzy, give me the ghost of Bill Walton with
a headband back in the day in the seventies. Come on,
give me, Jack Ramsey, give me all of the baby.
Speaker 2: I want it all.
Speaker 1: The jail Blazers you want, you want?
Speaker 3: You don't want that group, David Sodomyer, I want it all, baby.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 1: I want you to root for the Rockets this year
because former Seattle Sonic great Kevin Durant is come back
to Houston, Texas or never.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a love hate relationship with him up here
as well in Seattle. I love the guy. You know,
he was only here for a year. But I don't
know if you remember or not. You probably don't because
there really would be no reason for you guys to
remember it at all. Two thousand and eight, they're playing
their last game ever against the Mavericks. Clay Bennetts and
the crowd sitting courtside. Crowd's yelling save our Sonics, Save
our Sonics, and Kevin Durant, as a rookie, is egging
the crowd on waving his hands in the air, keep going,
keep going, right in front of the guy that just
drafted him number two overall less than a year prior.
So for me, just for doing that, he's kind of
a hero, you know. He he's been a little bit
sensitive about stuff since he's left Seattle. I think he's
gotta stop worrying about what people say about him on
social media. But let's face it, the guy who's in
his he's in his mid thirties at this point in
his life.
Speaker 2: He is what he is.
Speaker 3: But I think we've always kind of appreciated him for
the guy he was when he was here when he
was nineteen years old. But Maddie, that was a long
damn time ago, my friend.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and don't forget Jeff Green, former Sonic great as well.
We can't forget Jeff Green.
Speaker 2: JG. Yeah, Jeff Green out of Georgetown.
Speaker 3: Boy is in the house. Baby.
Speaker 1: All right, there we go, man, something, let me take you.
It's nine oh seven. There he wakes up that excited. Yeah,
if it's not Starbucks, it's some.
Speaker 3: Kind of My wife actually asked me, why are you
up so early? I said, because I can't sleep. I'm
fired up to go on the air with Matt Thommins
and Houston. That's exactly right, Jason, around the house all
night long.
Speaker 2: I got all kinds of energy.
Speaker 3: I took a bunch of melatonin, tried to pass out,
bunch of benadrill, nothing work man, and I just couldn't sleep.
I was so fired up. But I was just living
with so much anticipation. So come on this radio, Joe.
So I've been ready to go for five hours.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm talking about, Softy k j R. Seattle
V sports leader up there in the Pacific Northwest. All right,
So the Ams go to Detroit and sweep the Tigers.
Meanwhile the Astros go one and five on their homestand
before the break. Look, we haven't heard from anybody from
the Astros or the Mariners all week long leading up
to this. But how is how your local nine feeling
with a chance here to cut into the Astro lead
even more this weekend?
Speaker 3: Well, I'll tell you what. I actually am shocked at
how optimistic I am about the second half of the year. Normally,
I'm just the big negative bastard right that just thinks
everything's going to fall apart, the pitching is going to
go down the drain. Julio had a great series against
the Tigers, but then had the All Star Break and
it was a terrible time for the All Our break
for him, and Kyle Roley's gonna cool off and this
thing's gonna fall apart. So that normally would be my attitude.
But I just think the major difference between the second
half Mariners and the first half Mariners is that at
some point, very soon, probably in the next couple of weeks,
when Bryce Miller comes back, they're going to have a full,
healthy rotation. And they're almost there. They've got Castillo, they've
got Kirby, they've got Gilbert, and they've got the All
Star in Brian Wu. So they've got a dynamite rotation.
And guys, here's the deal. They really haven't had that
the entire season because for the first time since this
foursome got together, if you want to call it a fivesome,
that's fine, they've been relatively healthy. That's why so many
people like me were pissed off about what happened a
year ago when they blew that ten game lead and
missed the playoffs. They had great pitching, they led the
American League of ra and they became the first team
to not make the playoffs since the Blue Jays in
two thousand and eight. When you led the League of
ra you leave the league in eer you make the playoffs,
damn it, especially when it's easier now than ever to
get into the playoffs in baseball. So last year was
an embarrassment for this franchise, absolute embarrassment.
Speaker 2: But here's the deal.
Speaker 3: First half of the year, Kirby, Gilbert, and Miller only
made thirty two starts combined first half of the year.
Last year they made fifty nine, that's twenty seven games,
Matt twenty seven games in the first half of the
year where they did not have Logan Gilbert, George Kirby
or Bryce Millers. Yet their only five games out and
they got the number three wild card. Right now, look out, baby,
when those horses get healthy. Look out.
Speaker 1: Wait a minute, what the hell are you talking about?
Have you seen our squad out? We got Zach Short
playing short? Do you even know who's Zach show? We
had Taylor Trammell playing. For the love of god, what
are you talking about?
Speaker 2: Former Mariner right there? Don't you disparent. That's my boy,
that's my guy.
Speaker 1: He's a sweetheart. Can't hit, but he's a sweetheart. Ross
with you as well as Ross.
Speaker 3: Well, honestly, and look, I realize that your rotation has
been banged up as well, right you guys.
Speaker 1: I got no centerfielder, I got no shortstop, I've got
no left field hands falling off.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm not comparing the Mariners to Houston. Hey, you
know what you guys may think, honestly, God, you're so
arrogant it is unbelievable.
Speaker 2: You.
Speaker 3: You may think that the baseball world revolves you know what,
You're worse than a Yankee fans.
Speaker 2: Terrible. You may think the baseball.
Speaker 3: World revolves around you and everybody compares themselves to you. Nu. No,
you got six teams that make the damn playoffs. Man,
all I'm talking about Matt honestly, and I'm being serious
about this. We've been because we've been saying this for
years now. With this, with this rotation, get your ass in,
just get into the playoffs, right. I mean, you know
as well as I that anything can happen come playoff
time in baseball. This is not like the NBA, It's
not like the NFL. You know, maybe there's more parody
and hockey in the postseason. But baseball, anything can happen, right,
but get your ass in, And I just think it
would be it would be such a downer for the
second consecutive year for the Mariners to have this kind
of talent, and now they're complimenting it with cal Rawley,
Randio Rose arenas an All Star JP Crawford's having a
much better season than they had a year ago. Deadlines
two weeks away. They're gonna make a move. They have
to make a move. They have a ton of ammunition,
butt loads of ammunition in the minor league system to
go out and acquire some talent. So I'm fired up, man,
And it's not all about the Astros or beating them. Frankly,
I don't even give a damn if you guys win
the division, take the division?
Speaker 2: Who cares?
Speaker 3: Who really cares anymore about division titles in baseball? Honestly,
just get your ass in the playoffs.
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 4: You mentioned trade deadline? Ross do as well? Hereaw do
you mentioned the trade deadline? How and Seattle being hot
and cold on people? How are you feeling about Jerry
Depoto And you said you think there's going to be
a couple of moves made.
Speaker 3: They just have too much talent and they have too
many holes to go out and fill those holes to
not make it happen. I mean, you got four guys
I think in the top ninety five guys in the
top one hundred whatever and Baseball America's prospect list. I mean,
they got a young catcher named Harry Ford who really
is kind of blocked by cal Rolly. There's nowhere for
him to go, and he's in Triple A crushing the ball.
He's a candidate, you know. Colin Emerson infielder is another candidate.
Las Montet is another guy that people are high on
right now in double A. But he's a candidate to
be moved. They've just got too many bullets to fire
at the deadline to not go out and make a move.
They need a third baseman, they need a first baseman,
they might need a second baseman, and they probably need
a reliever. So that's the thing with all those holes
that we're talking about. Uh, they're managing to kind of
hang in there with an earshot of the west and
you know, right there on the wildcard race.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 3: So I'm telling you this, if they don't significantly improve,
and that might mean going out and getting to Jared
Duran or maybe au Haitio Suarez bringing his ass back
from the Diamondbacks along with Josh Naylor. Maybe go grab
McMahon from the Rockies, whatever, something like that. Uh, if
they don't significantly improve with the deadline, Jerry Depoto is
going to get barbecued barbecued in this town, and.
Speaker 1: You will barbecue on Twitter because you're not afraid to
do that, and for that, we love you.
Speaker 2: I am not. I don't hold back, man.
Speaker 1: I don't care to craps about Seattle to follow you.
I don't even mute you. I actually follow your stuff.
That's the crazy part about things is that I don't
even know what you're talking about half the time. It's
you w crap all over the place.
Speaker 4: But I still follow you.
Speaker 1: I still read it and still love it because you
have passion. I appreciate that.
Speaker 3: I got to be honest with you. I haven't seen
a thing that you've tweeted.
Speaker 1: Time ago. When Caroly appears on V Sports Leader, do
you call him cow mister Rawleigh or do you call
him the dumper?
Speaker 2: What do you?
Speaker 1: How do you ever call him?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: We just call him, we call him, just call him
the man. He is the freaking man, dude, I mean
he is. First of all, did you hear about the
latest endorsement he's got. Have you guys heard about that?
Speaker 1: Oh my soil diapers? It depends or what what do
we got?
Speaker 2: Honey bucket?
Speaker 3: He's doing a deal with honeybucket, the outhouse honeybucket. Yeah,
so if you ever find yourself out and about and
you gotta go look for a honeybucket because cal Rowley
endorses honeybucket. Now do you guys have those down there
in Houston or is at a northwest?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: We have plumbing here, yeah, we you know we now
we take showers inside, we take showers inside.
Speaker 3: Well, you know what it's not it's not five thousand
degrees in Sattle, So we can allOur outside and go
to that and relieve ourselves in our on our lawns.
But he's doing an endorsement for an outhouse company. Now,
I mean, look, the guy is, uh, he's on pace
to have a historic here, as you know, and you know,
going after bonds is probably gonna be a little bit
too much. He would have to average a home run
every two games the rest of the way to tid
Barry Bonds. But can he get to Judges record? Can
he be the first Mariner home Mariner player ever to
get to sixty? But here's the deal with him, he
really just strikeing out home run walk guy right now.
I mean, you know, I took some time off in
the last few weeks. In the last three weeks, Kyle
Rawley's got nine hits, Matt, and six of them are homers. Okay,
So he's kind of starting to remind me of maguire
back in the day when he would have, you know,
forty five home runs, but seventy RBIs you know, So.
Speaker 1: We'll just know that he's gonna have a bet. He's
gonna have a worse second half. He's only gonna get
your probably seven or eight home runs, and you guys
are gonna peter out and maybe slip into the third
World car We'll lose in two straight games to call
in a season, can you focus on the Seahawks?
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, you know what, listen, man, I see, I
know what you're doing, and I don't like it. I'm
not really nice to be honest with you. You've invited
me on this radio guest, your guests better totally, all right.
Speaker 1: I will look forward to talking with you when the
Mariners come to Houston or when the Texans play the
Seahawks on Esbing where you have to have Fubu to
watch the game.
Speaker 2: It's Fubo, by the way, whatever, I don't.
Speaker 1: Care what it is. It doesn't even really count.
Speaker 3: This guy a thing or two about Matt. This isn't
nineteen seventy five. Now, we're not home playing our atari
with rabbit ears to get TV. Have things like the
internet now, by the way, you can stream shows.
Speaker 1: Hey, what time is a fabulous sports maybe on KGr.
That's all I want to know.
Speaker 3: The fabulous sports babe, Nancy dan Ellen. You know what,
I never got a chance to work with her. I've
been here for thirty two years, and just as she
was going out, I was coming in, which probably would
have been a good thing, because I'm not sure if
two of us would have gotten along. All right, but
I'll tell you that you said alone when I do
talk to her again. She lives in Florida.
Speaker 1: Now nice the legend Softy KJR listening to him five
to nine pm Central, three to seven Pacific on the
iHeartRadio app. How about that. That's what I do. That's
what I do, all
Speaker 3: Right, he Ron Burgundy, screw you, Houston,