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Hey, everybody.

It's Brian M. Hauser, and you've made it to episode 51 of Real Hawk Talk.

We have a pretty special episode today.

Not only the Seahawks clinched the playoffs last week, Bob Pete Carroll was signed to an extension, some pretty big news to talk about. And here to

help us talk about it is an old friend, old friend of Seahawks Twitter, or CX Twitter existed,

really. One of the preeminent bloggers, first bloggers before bloggers was really a thing, especially on the sports side.

And now, what is your title for ESPN, Mike?

It's very fancy now. Instead of blogger for the News Tribune, I think it's senior writers, so I don't know what that means. I think I'm a writer, you know, but they want to call me senior, that's fine. Do you get Dominion over junior writers? Is that? I would think so. I don't know of anyone who goes by junior writer, you know, so I don't know.

Senior writer, I had to look it up because somebody asked me, I didn't know.

I saw it.

It's actually, I think it says that now, like on ESPN.com, you know, under the name.

I think it might say it.

Well, congratulations on reaching that status.

We got a lot to cover with you.

Before we get to stuff that's specific to you, I introduce Jeff and some general pod news.

So Jeff, good having you, dude.

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