PuckSports

PuckSports is home to the Daily Puck Drop, a sports talk show hosted by Jason Puckett, who answers to Puck. It runs loose. Cold open after cold open begins with the same 'we'll do it live' refrain, and the host calls the audience 'kiddos' and 'folks'. Sports anchor the show, but the host's own week keeps pushing into frame. Several episodes were made in Maui. He tallies the rainy days, greets the first dry one on day five with real relief, and concedes that the weather in Seattle is probably better than what he is getting. He also heads off to reapply SPF 70, noting that he burns. One of those shows came from a conference room at a Residence Marriott, with the host asking how things looked and sounded and joking that someone would soon walk in and ask him to leave. Wondering aloud why he is doing a show that day, he settles on two reasons: he would be up for the Masters anyway, and the show is for the people. Another cold open is two voices trading lines over yogurt, chia seeds and a 'three months away from the doctor' diet, with the maple bars set down for now. The sponsor reads run in the same voice as the banter. The set is billed as the Limbeck Lumber Studios, a name the host says can go on the road, and in one episode the lumber pitch is broken up by nerves over a special co-host and a note that the dogs are barking. Episode titles cover a lot of ground: 'Mariners Lost And Masters Begins', 'Youth Sports Crisis', 'Bad News Bears', and one that reads 'I stayed with Wayne Gretzky at a Red Lion in Wentachee'. Bill Krueger is the regular baseball voice. The host introduces him as a onetime star in both baseball and basketball, works in a couple of basketball puns, and asks him to put a week of baseball in perspective, good and bad alike. Other names come up as plans are announced: Danny Kelly and Rob Staten for an NFL draft preview pod, and Ryan Devis for a spot billed as Inside Pitch. One episode is simply a schedule note from Hawaii, with the regular shows set to return on the 20th and the draft pod due sooner. The host closes with a promise to be better, a line he frames as habit, and in one case the audio rolls straight into a jingle about biscuits, butter and honey sauce. The language turns salty in places. For the baseball, the episode carrying Bill Krueger's name is the direct route; for the host's company, any of the Maui shows will do. It is sports talk with the door left open.