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Yesterday we have Dave "Softy" Mahler on his radio show interviewing Jon Wilner. Towards the end of the interview, the topic turns to Payton Pritchard and the great season he is having. In response to the praise Wilner gives Pritchard, Softy unleashes the following....."I'd love to see the Huskies bury his fat West Linn lovin' face the next time they see him."

This is coming from a grown man on public airwaves. A "professional" with over two decades experience on the radio. What in the hell does "bury his fat West Linn lovin' face" mean anyway? Is he advocating violence?

Making the rantings of this deranged clown all the more comical is that, earlier in the show, he and his sidekick were criticizing the local newspaper for writing the Huskies choked the game away against the Ducks. How dare a newspaper write something as disparaging as college kids choking in a game......let's talk about burying the fat face of a college kid instead!

The fact the Ducks have dominated the Huskies over the past couple of the years is so in the head of these clowns up north that it is driving them crazy. The past several days have been nothing but one embarrassing misstep after another for everything UW.

https://www.iheart.com/podcast/139-soft ... -56147280/

While I lived in Seattle, I found the local sports media to be quite a 180 from the Portland scene. Down here, your Canzanos and Fentresses and so forth have made their money by being critical of the institutions (Trail Blazers, Oregon AD), generating interest in the same way that you can't look away from a car crash. However, in Seattle, it was incessant homerism. with every sports writer and commentator just heaping perpetual praise on the local teams despite their obvious lack of performance, morals, or what-have-you. It seems that the Seattle Times has moved a little bit more toward being a neutral observer, but that's just one outlet of many.

They need to post that in the locker room before the next game with UW. I don't guess they really need to. They won't need OT. Game won't be close.

And It doesn't matter how much experience he has; he should be fired if his employer has any values. I would say the same for anyone supporting UO, if they were to make those kind of statements towards an opposing player.

Something wrong against loving West Linn? I'm from West Linn. We must stink of wood pulp I guess.

Note to Softy:

"Win a (game in Seattle), THEN pop off!

In Softy speak, this is a high complement to Prichard.

mattc94 wrote:Something wrong against loving West Linn? I'm from West Linn. We must stink of wood pulp I guess.

My grandson played FB at West Linn. Can't figure out what being from there has to do with anything.

GrandpaDuck wrote:In Softy speak, this is a high complement to Prichard.

Never thought of it that way.

StevensTechU wrote:While I lived in Seattle, I found the local sports media to be quite a 180 from the Portland scene. Down here, your Canzanos and Fentresses and so forth have made their money by being critical of the institutions (Trail Blazers, Oregon AD), generating interest in the same way that you can't look away from a car crash. However, in Seattle, it was incessant homerism. with every sports writer and commentator just heaping perpetual praise on the local teams despite their obvious lack of performance, morals, or what-have-you. It seems that the Seattle Times has moved a little bit more toward being a neutral observer, but that's just one outlet of many.

I was there 2005-2007, the beginning of the 12-0, and I couldn't agree more with your take on the media. KJR, KIRO, 24 hours of Huskies can do no wrong radio, for some reason they needed to title one weekly show, "Husky Honks" featuring Hugh Millen, who compared anything Oregon to a fatal disease. There was also former Husky OL, Ed Cunningham, who would extend his homerism to the game's he was the analyst on for a few years on TV. But nobody was/is worse than Softy.

Most of the time I enjoy Softy. He's an unabashed homer but he's kind of what you want to hear from a rival team. When he's pissed off after losing to Oregon he's great. On occasion I think he's an asshole to his colleagues, but as an on-air personality he's pretty fun.

He also crosses the line doing things like cheering when LaMichael James was injured and whatnot. That's pretty scummy.

In this particular instance, I think he's just speaking like a fan who's pissed off, lol. Like I might say something along the lines of that about Jake Browning after he did the point.

I imagine a number of Husky fans were looking up where Pritchard is actually from after he ran around the court saying 'This is my city'. It seems like there was a lot of chatter after the game about how lacking in class he was for doing this.

Or maybe, as some have guessed, Softy just doesn't like West Linn. Maybe he is from Oregon City. There used to be quite a rivalry there, especially back when the high schools were within easy walking distance of each other.

What PP did sort of reminded me of Nate (Antman) Robinson, stuffing the ball with an IN Your Face move at the end of a fusty blowout of the Ducks a few seasons ago.

Meh.

Phalanx wrote:I imagine a number of Husky fans were looking up where Pritchard is actually from after he ran around the court saying 'This is my city'. It seems like there was a lot of chatter after the game about how lacking in class he was for doing this.

Or maybe, as some have guessed, Softy just doesn't like West Linn. Maybe he is from Oregon City. There used to be quite a rivalry there, especially back when the high schools were within easy walking distance of each other.

From what I gleaned listening to him, he's a lifelong Seattle native; the Oregon hate is strong in this one. I guess Softy is a case of the most obnoxious Husky fan we can imagine with access to a microphone. I can't say, but I'm fairly sure that he barely noted Oregon's existence prior to "The Pick".
Since then, the fact that Oregon has been the hammer to Washington's nail doesn't track with Softy; so he's left to bring up the silly offense,(he'll have to drop that now) Nike, Seattle is bigger than Eugene, to keep from flipping out completely. Like Lake and his nonsense, he plays to his base.

Shock jock, period! It’s how he tries to live....