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Chuck & Buck 6-29 Hour 3: Al Kinisky, Baseball Brunch and something great happened! · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: The seventh selection in the twenty twenty sixth NHL Draft,
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  Speaker 1: the Seattle Kracking select from the sus Saint Marie Greyhounds.
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  Speaker 2: Chase Freed, no way Seattle Pond.
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  Speaker 3: Chase Reid was going to be there at seven.
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  Speaker 2: I think he's the privately, Hey, great morning to you.
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  Speaker 2: We roll into our eight o'clock hour here on this
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  Speaker 2: on Monday, Ashley Ryan, Chuck Powell with you, and yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we're gonna talk a little hockey today. Draft was held
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  Speaker 2: on Friday and Saturday. The Kraken ended up not trading
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  Speaker 2: away the seventh overall selection, using it to take defenceman
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  Speaker 2: Chase Reid. We'll find out in a moment if he's
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  Speaker 2: an offensive defenceman like I wish for him to be.
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  Speaker 2: Al Koniski now joins us here. He was part of
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  Speaker 2: our draft coverage, an excellent part of our draft coverage
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  Speaker 2: right here on KJAR, home of the seat, Attle Cracking
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  Speaker 2: and the Crack and Color analyst joins us here on
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  Speaker 2: a Monday morning.
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  Speaker 3: I al, how you doing, Chuck?
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  Speaker 2: I'm good? How are you?
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  Speaker 3: Oh? You know, talking about things that nobody cares and
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  Speaker 3: wearing things that nobody wears.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, well, we care we care. We care, a whole
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  Speaker 2: heck of a lot.
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  Speaker 3: Good.
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  Speaker 2: We're actually giving away a grill today, and you're the
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  Speaker 2: grill master of the cracking organization. So yeah, you might
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  Speaker 2: want to change your name and try to get in
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  Speaker 2: on this. If you want a green mountain grill, green
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  Speaker 2: mountain pellet grill, Oh, a.
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  Speaker 3: Pellet, that's exactly the kind of grill you need to smoke,
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  Speaker 3: a brisket, smoke, a pulled pork, smoke anything. Really?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, have you been doing a lot of that since
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  Speaker 2: last we spoke to you?
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  Speaker 3: I sure have you know? This weather is perfect for it.
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  Speaker 3: I get up early sometimes throw something on for the day.
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  Speaker 3: I'll be doing some ribs for the fourth of July,
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  Speaker 3: honey Saracha ribs.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Actually, and I can't wait to get it over there.
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  Speaker 2: I'll be there. Wait, no, the invitation got lost. There's
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  Speaker 2: no other reason why I asked for sure.
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  Speaker 3: Have your emails?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? Well, did you have fun Friday? I mean, did
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  Speaker 2: Benton or Furness or fits you drive you nuts? Did
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  Speaker 2: you pull have to pull somebody sweater over their head
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  Speaker 2: at any point during the course of the evening.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I'll tell you. As slow as the draft was
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  Speaker 3: and it took a long time to get through the draft,
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  Speaker 3: especially that that first day. The time went by quickly,
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  Speaker 3: and I think it was because the guys around me
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  Speaker 3: and the conversations we had in the last we had
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  Speaker 3: along the way. So yeah, it was a good day.
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  Speaker 2: That was a good crew, good crew, all right. So
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  Speaker 2: what did you think of the pick? Chase Red?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, listen, uh, it's got a little surprised to get
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  Speaker 3: him at number seven. I looked up his rankings prior
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  Speaker 3: to the draft, as we did our research and after
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  Speaker 3: the pick, and there wasn't a single analyst that had
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  Speaker 3: him at seventh. I think the highest I saw was sixth,
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  Speaker 3: and most of them were in the two to four range.
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  Speaker 3: So it was a real surprise to see him come
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  Speaker 3: up at seventh. And you know, like Jason Borel said,
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  Speaker 3: every GM is gonna say we were surprised to be
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  Speaker 3: able to get him at our pick, because obviously that
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  Speaker 3: makes them look good. But I think in this case
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  Speaker 3: they were ecstatic to get that opportunity. He's he's an
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  Speaker 3: elite skater, he's a right shot defenseman. His hockey IQ
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  Speaker 3: is excellent. I had him as probably the highest hockey
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  Speaker 3: IQ player of the top ten and probably the second
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  Speaker 3: best skater. So you're gonna see a guy that can
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  Speaker 3: move on the ice. He's eighteen, turning nineteen in December,
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  Speaker 3: really end of the year birthday, so you know he's
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  Speaker 3: he's a little bit older as far as draft picks go.
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  Speaker 3: And you could see him, you know, sooner rather than
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  Speaker 3: later wearing a crack in Jersey.
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  Speaker 2: Very interesting. Would you go as far as calling him
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  Speaker 2: an offensive defenseman?
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  Speaker 3: Now, oh, absolutely, I mean this kid's gonna he will
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  Speaker 3: be a number one, number two defenseman. He'll he'll quarterback
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  Speaker 3: the power play. You know. He he finds scoring chances
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  Speaker 3: all over the icy. He's one of these guys that
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  Speaker 3: you know, he sees the ice very well, sees guys
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  Speaker 3: around him. He you know, he can he can bust
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  Speaker 3: down the middle of the ice like Santa coming down
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  Speaker 3: the chimney.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, I liked what I saw that Jordan Stall
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  Speaker 2: character and the Stanley Cup playoffs and and Cale mccar.
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  Speaker 2: I know we have our reasons to not like Cale
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  Speaker 2: mccarr here in Seattle, but in terms of what he
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  Speaker 2: brings to a hockey team, I want one of those guys.
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  Speaker 2: I want one of those guys out I hope Chase
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  Speaker 2: Reid becomes one of those kind of guys.
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  Speaker 3: Well Everett said he's he's kill mccar a light, And
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  Speaker 3: I always think to myself, Listen, these guys are used
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  Speaker 3: to pressure, they're playing in big games, et cetera, and
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  Speaker 3: all that stuff. But you know, I don't love comparing
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  Speaker 3: him to another player because ultimately, you you know, you
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  Speaker 3: want to be compared. You want others to compare themselves
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  Speaker 3: to you. But that Everett did say that Cale mccar
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  Speaker 3: and cal McCart is absolutely that kind of player that
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  Speaker 3: you know thrives in the offensive end of the ice,
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  Speaker 3: and you know he's gonna listen. No, there's there's no
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  Speaker 3: surprise that that Seattle's had a difficult time putting pucks
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  Speaker 3: in then over the last couple of seasons. So when
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  Speaker 3: you see a guy like this come along, that's a
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  Speaker 3: very offensive minded defenseman that can quarterback your power play,
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  Speaker 3: you get a little bit excited and you think, you know,
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  Speaker 3: what could this kid do? Playing with other young prospects,
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  Speaker 3: starting with guys like Maddie Beneers, who's no longer young
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  Speaker 3: anymore but youngish, and going down the list, Berkeley Cotton
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  Speaker 3: Jacobrien coming up. So it's it's it's gonna be interesting
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  Speaker 3: to see how he fits into the future, and that
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  Speaker 3: future is not too far away.
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  Speaker 2: Al Kiniski is with this color analyst for your Seattle
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  Speaker 2: Cracking right here on the flagship Sports Radio ninety three
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  Speaker 2: point three kJ RFM, part of our draft coverage Friday
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  Speaker 2: here on KJR and so we're tapping into his knowledge
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  Speaker 2: here this morning, as I do want to get into
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  Speaker 2: some other subject with you Crack and related here. Al
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  Speaker 2: but one last thing on Chase Reid. I noticed that
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  Speaker 2: you tweeted out that you heard the first conversation that
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  Speaker 2: he had as a member of the Kraken and you
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  Speaker 2: were impressed, energy, resiliency, goal and so why is that important?
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  Speaker 2: Why was that important to your ears to hear the
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  Speaker 2: type of character that you want from a hockey player.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I think it shows leadership. He was an alternate
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  Speaker 3: captain on his team. It shows a confidence, a little
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  Speaker 3: bit of swagger. You want a little bit of that
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  Speaker 3: to you know, coming to the NHL level. Very well
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  Speaker 3: spoken kids. So I think all of those, you know,
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  Speaker 3: they craft the player that ultimately is on the ice,
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  Speaker 3: and I think those are good signs so I was
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  Speaker 3: really glad to hear that from him, that that he's
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  Speaker 3: got that kind of leadership mentality that will play well
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  Speaker 3: into the locker room, not only initially but down the
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  Speaker 3: road as well. And you know, let's not forget too
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  Speaker 3: that the second round was also a good pick up
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  Speaker 3: for the Crack and they picked up Casey Mutrin. Also, you,
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  Speaker 3: by the way, both the first and the second round
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  Speaker 3: pick for the Krack and US players born in the
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  Speaker 3: US Chesterfield my favorite word is a Canadian Michigan for
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  Speaker 3: Chase Reid and uh, the Casey Merchant is from Norwell,
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  Speaker 3: mass So you know, both these kids have grown up
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  Speaker 3: in the US and and draft in the first and
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  Speaker 3: second round, and I think that's a real indicator of
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  Speaker 3: how these draft picks are starting to change. But Casey
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  Speaker 3: Mutran is a big six foot three and three pounds forward,
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  Speaker 3: like so you got a top puck moving defense to
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  Speaker 3: them with your first pick and a in a big,
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  Speaker 3: physical forward, a shooting forward as your second pick that
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  Speaker 3: that likes physical play, that brushes off opponents like Dandriffs.
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  Speaker 3: So you know you got one and two for your
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  Speaker 3: your picks. Very exciting players. And I think that I'm
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  Speaker 3: looking forward to seeing what they look like here at
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  Speaker 3: the Eltpman camp this week, which by the way, is
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  Speaker 3: open to the public.
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  Speaker 2: For the kracking fan who wanted to use that pick
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  Speaker 2: to trade for a big proven player, big time name,
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  Speaker 2: big proven player, and then we got teased by it.
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  Speaker 3: Robertson for instance, Yes, Robertson for instance.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we got teased by it last week and then
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  Speaker 2: found out now he doesn't want to play for the
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  Speaker 2: Seattle Cracking And so then you go into draft night wondering,
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  Speaker 2: you know, okay, well there are other guys out there
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  Speaker 2: worthy of the seventh overall pick. Maybe we're still going
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  Speaker 2: to make a move for a big name player. What
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  Speaker 2: would you say to that fan that, even though you
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  Speaker 2: get Chase Reid and that sounds like a good value
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  Speaker 2: at number seven, that fan that's disappointed that we didn't
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  Speaker 2: get a star player with that pick.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I think that was always in the mix. And
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  Speaker 3: you know, Jason Robertson's name was thrown out there, and
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  Speaker 3: for whatever reason, we'll never know that someone knows him personally.
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  Speaker 3: He didn't want to come to Seattle. And you know,
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  Speaker 3: like Everett always says, I don't want a guy that
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  Speaker 3: doesn't want to be in Seattle. I want players that
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  Speaker 3: want to be there. And you know, yes, that was
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  Speaker 3: something that could have played into the offseason, and it
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  Speaker 3: certainly was in play, But when it didn't happen, I
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  Speaker 3: think the next best thing happened, which was getting a
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  Speaker 3: player that was not expected to be available at seventh
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  Speaker 3: pick by the crack. And again, the fact that he's
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  Speaker 3: an older player. The second round pick is seventeen turning eighteen,
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  Speaker 3: whereas Chase Reid is eighteen. He'll be nineteen December just
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  Speaker 3: means he's a little further along from from a development standpoint,
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  Speaker 3: So that's a good sign. But yeah, you know, you
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  Speaker 3: would have liked to have seen that big you know,
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  Speaker 3: one Sea centerman winger get picked up with that, with
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  Speaker 3: that trading that pick, but it didn't happen, and now
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  Speaker 3: you're looking at Chase Reid in that spot, So I
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  Speaker 3: like that.
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  Speaker 2: What was your take on Robertson choosing to be here?
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  Speaker 2: Kind of take us through the ark where you started
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  Speaker 2: hearing about the possibility and then finding out that it
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  Speaker 2: wasn't going to happen. What was Al's reaction to the
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  Speaker 2: Jason Robertson ordeal if you will.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I can only tell you from a player standpoint,
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  Speaker 3: my personal view as a player, And when I look
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  Speaker 3: at the city as a player, I'm looking at it
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  Speaker 3: not just for you know, how much money is going
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  Speaker 3: to end up in my pocket once I've paid my taxes,
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  Speaker 3: et cetera, but also what's it going to be like
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  Speaker 3: playing for that team? Do they have a chance to win?
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  Speaker 3: What's it going to be like playing with those players?
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  Speaker 3: Do I knowing them? What's it going to be like
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  Speaker 3: with the coach, with the management, with the ownership, what
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  Speaker 3: are the facilities like, what's the climate like, what's the
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  Speaker 3: travel going to be like? And you know, I'll go
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  Speaker 3: down this list and I might wait them differently. I've
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  Speaker 3: got to believe that, you know, income from the team
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  Speaker 3: and chance to win are very near the top, maybe
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  Speaker 3: one and two, but certainly in the top three or four.
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  Speaker 3: I look at those things, and if I think I
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  Speaker 3: can get something better somewhere else again, a better chance
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  Speaker 3: to win, more money in my pocket, I'm going to
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  Speaker 3: say no and go seek that out. Whether Jason Robertson
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  Speaker 3: or anybody else that maybe the crack when we're talking
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  Speaker 3: to get that remains to be seen. But as a player,
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  Speaker 3: That's what I'm looking at. And you know, I have
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  Speaker 3: to believe this possibility of this millionaire's tax might have
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  Speaker 3: spooked to him a little bit. I don't know that,
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  Speaker 3: but that could have been that could have played into it.
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  Speaker 2: Now, since you took read and the organization seems to
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  Speaker 2: feel grateful for that he slipped to them at number seven,
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  Speaker 2: I gotta imagine they're not done wheeling and dealing. Does that,
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  Speaker 2: in your opinion, make Shane Wright even more so on
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  Speaker 2: the block to try to pull off something of significance.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think there are a lot of names that
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  Speaker 3: are on the block. Shain Wrights names have been tossed
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  Speaker 3: around quite a bit. I think that free agency isn't
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  Speaker 3: as prolific as maybe we thought it might be at
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  Speaker 3: the end of the season. So I almost would be
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  Speaker 3: surprised if something happened with Shane's name or anybody else
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  Speaker 3: for that matter, during free agency. But I think the
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  Speaker 3: Kraken are going to continue to be aggressive. I give
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  Speaker 3: Jason Vottol full marks based on you know, what was
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  Speaker 3: leaked about Jason Robertson and and what has happened with
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  Speaker 3: Bobby McMahon. The signing of Bobby McMahon, which was huge
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  Speaker 3: prior to the draft as well. Thirty four point five
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  Speaker 3: million over six years. He gets to be in Seattle
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  Speaker 3: for the next six years. And you know, he had
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  Speaker 3: twenty nine goals and seventeen assists in forty six games
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  Speaker 3: last season, so he could be a thirty thirty five
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  Speaker 3: goal guy. And I think going into the offseason that
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  Speaker 3: was one of the boxes that I had on my
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  Speaker 3: chart to say, will the crack can be aggressive in
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  Speaker 3: the offseason and signing Bobby McMahon was one of them,
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  Speaker 3: so that they get that check mark. They added Mackie
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  Speaker 3: Samiskevitch given up the twenty fifth overall picked from the
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  Speaker 3: Florida Panthers, a young twenty three year old that's going
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  Speaker 3: to have offensive contributions. See he's a shoot first mentality
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  Speaker 3: kind of guy that's going to have a good impact.
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  Speaker 3: That that was an aggressive move by Jason Bottrell. And
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  Speaker 3: then you throw in that that Robertson discussion along with
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  Speaker 3: getting a kid that wasn't expected to be available at
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  Speaker 3: seventh added to the team. I give him full marks
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  Speaker 3: for being aggressive in the offseason.
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  Speaker 2: So what do you make of our young nucleus A
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  Speaker 2: nucleus like Caton and Wright. If he's here and Neieman
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  Speaker 2: and read Now and Beneers, how does that compare to
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  Speaker 2: other organizations, you know, foundation of top young talent.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I mean every organization's got it. And all I
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  Speaker 3: can do is look at Seattle. Maybe you see some
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  Speaker 3: some charts out there coming out of the draft about
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  Speaker 3: how each of the teams did. I saw I saw
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  Speaker 3: A next to Seattle by a lot of analysts. But
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  Speaker 3: there were others that had a's. There were probably four
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  Speaker 3: or five that had a's next to them. Seno was
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  Speaker 3: a B and one of them. But Seattle was very
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  Speaker 3: near the top of the top maybe three, three to
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  Speaker 3: five teams in terms of how they did come out
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  Speaker 3: of the draft. But the broader youngster youth picture, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I like it a lot. I'm not I'm not sold
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  Speaker 3: that Shane Wright cannot find his game here in Seattle.
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  Speaker 3: I think that the right combination just needs to be
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  Speaker 3: put together with him being a part of it. But
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  Speaker 3: if he is here, he along with Caton O'Brien and
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  Speaker 3: now Chase Chase Reid and obviously not even years leaving
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  Speaker 3: that charge, there's there's a lot of youth coming up
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  Speaker 3: that is really exciting to see here coming in the
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  Speaker 3: in the future seasons.
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  Speaker 2: All right, we covered a lot of ground. Al I mean,
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  Speaker 2: did it work your appetite up? You're going to open
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  Speaker 2: up the grill now throw some you know, pork ribs
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  Speaker 2: on there or something.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it might be a tender one night night poor
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  Speaker 3: tend one sounds good.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I love it when the conversations I have stimulate
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  Speaker 2: tender loin thoughts.
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  Speaker 3: You can never go wrong with a tender loin.
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  Speaker 2: Well, well, great to have you on, thanks for joining us,
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  Speaker 2: so we appreciate it. And yeah, it's been pretty interesting
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  Speaker 2: already this off season. And something tells me they're not done.
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  Speaker 2: Don't you agree, No.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think they're done. And like I said, development
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  Speaker 3: camp this week. Go see some of these youngsters and
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  Speaker 3: what's coming. And then things get a little quiet after
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  Speaker 3: the month of July before we get going with training
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  Speaker 3: camp and the first preseason game Chuck is September nineteenth,
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  Speaker 3: So two more games in the season this year, going
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  Speaker 3: for maybe two to eighty four and fewer preseason games.
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  Speaker 3: We're going to be going quick starting in September.
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  Speaker 2: All right, great to have you on. Have a great summer,
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  Speaker 2: all right.
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  Speaker 3: YouTube Chuck.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Al Koniski joining us right here on Chucking
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  Speaker 2: back in the morning color analysts for your Seattle Crack
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  Speaker 2: and part of our draft coverage over the weekend as well.
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  Speaker 2: He seems to be pretty positive, pretty optimistic about way
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  Speaker 2: things are going right now. And I don't know about you, Ashley,
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  Speaker 2: but I think about the off season and you can't
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  Speaker 2: help it, you know, you talk to and you've talked
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  Speaker 2: to Al, and I just picture them like vacationing together,
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  Speaker 2: like just you know, riding a tandem bike down a
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  Speaker 2: beach somewhere, wearing linens, soft linens, yes, yeah, and then
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  Speaker 2: baskets on the front of the bikes, yeah exactly, and
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  Speaker 2: Benton's in one of the baskets, yeah, obviously. And then
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  Speaker 2: they parked their bikes and they just have like a
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  Speaker 2: you know, a soda water or maybe like a soft serve,
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  Speaker 2: and Everett puts it on in the tip of Owl's
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  Speaker 2: nose and they just laugh, they laugh and laugh. That's
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  Speaker 2: how I picture them.
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  Speaker 4: I think that's what they're going to be doing this
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  Speaker 4: weekend when they're grilling, because obviously I'm sure that Everett
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  Speaker 4: got the invite that we didn't or ours got lost.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure he did as well. I'm I'm sure I'll
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  Speaker 2: turn over every stone to make sure Everett shows up
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  Speaker 2: at his barbecue.
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  Speaker 4: I bet that Everett was like, oh man, I don't
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  Speaker 4: know if I can do it on the fourth of July,
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  Speaker 4: and I was like, hold on, I'll see if we
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  Speaker 2: You'll move mountains for fits you. What will you do
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  Speaker 2: I just tell us about what a great pitmaster you are.
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  Speaker 2: I'll want proof in the form of lots of food. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: meats all right? Coming up next on our little radio program. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: we do have to kind of revisit that game yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I don't do baseball brunch every day on
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  Speaker 2: the show, as you've probably been able to tell, but
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  Speaker 2: there are some games, whether they're good or bad, that
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  Speaker 2: you kind of have to recap. This one was significantly bad.
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  Speaker 2: Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM thing that we
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  Speaker 2: especially games that are either particularly enjoyable or particularly under
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  Speaker 2: our skin. We do have to provide more than one
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  Speaker 2: recap during the course of a four hour show. And
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  Speaker 2: so that's what the Baseball Brunch is, just a little
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  Speaker 2: variation of Mariners Morning After from six thirty every single
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  Speaker 2: day here on the show. And my friend Steve so
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  Speaker 4: It's a great question, a great question.
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  Speaker 2: He is smart. He's a smart one. Uh so, yes, yes,
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  Speaker 2: it is baseball bunch, but we're just having some fun
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  Speaker 2: with the words. So it's brunch. So Baseball Brunch today
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  Speaker 2: is unfortunately starring the Cleveland Guardians.
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  Speaker 4: Hammered down the line and.
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  Speaker 5: Fair Hotskins has given the Guardians the league quot scores.
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  Speaker 5: The latter's charge it home. He is turned hard, tanned,
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  Speaker 2: What happened there?
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  Speaker 5: It's a six to four Guardians lead, and this has
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  Speaker 5: an unraveled fast five runs across in the eighth inning
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  Speaker 5: for Cleveland.
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  Speaker 2: Aaron with the call tricky play two call. That's another thing,
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  Speaker 2: by the way, that we haven't even hit on. And
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  Speaker 2: we've hit this game hard here during the course of
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  Speaker 2: our show. Primarily I've gone off on the bullpen decisions
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  Speaker 2: by Dan Wilson, And if you've listened at all to
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  Speaker 2: our show here recently, you know I've had a big
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  Speaker 2: problem all season long, even dating back to last year,
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  Speaker 2: and that doesn't seem to be getting any veteran. It
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: may have come to a head yesterday with those poor
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  Speaker 2: bullpen decisions down the stretch that our manager made, But
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  Speaker 2: there's another aspect of this team is okay, you are,
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  Speaker 2: You've painted yourself into a corner with your bullpen. You're
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  Speaker 2: trying to get through the eighth with guys who've never
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  Speaker 2: been in this position before, and it's not going well.
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  Speaker 2: Where's that stiffened spine, that stiffen you know, backbone where
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  Speaker 2: you're just like, well, if this thing goes wrong, it's
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  Speaker 2: not going to be on me. But when things start
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  Speaker 2: to go sideways, does the just not turn into a circus?
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  Speaker 2: Almost every single time we're dropping balls and kicking balls
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  Speaker 2: and throwing the wrong bases and everything else they could
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  Speaker 2: go wrong, you would think that there would be some
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  Speaker 2: element of, hey, you got to raise our game. Dan's
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  Speaker 2: decided to pitch Mike Rucker in the eighth inning. Everybody
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  Speaker 2: else has got to be sharper, and instead we get
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  Speaker 2: sloppier as the game starts to slip away. Have you
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  Speaker 2: noticed that, Yeah, it does.
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  Speaker 4: It's it. It almost starts to seem like a comedy
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  Speaker 4: of errors as as the games.
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  Speaker 2: Get out of I mean it.
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  Speaker 4: And that's why I wonder if we'd talk or joke
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  Speaker 4: and not really joke about the fact that when the
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  Speaker 4: Mariners are down to it's like, oh, well, we're down too,
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  Speaker 4: so this game's over. But sometimes it does feel like
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  Speaker 4: that because it goes from okay to.
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  Speaker 2: Real quick. Well. I don't know if you can put
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  Speaker 2: that in the headline, but maybe that's what it just
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  Speaker 2: should say across the cover of the local newspaper. Here
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  Speaker 2: they were up four to one in the sixth inning.
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  Speaker 2: They removed Emerson Hancock for Edward Bizardo. He got one
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  Speaker 2: out and they took him out, and then eventually they
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  Speaker 2: ran out of high leverage pitchers because they only had
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  Speaker 2: three to use. Andre's Munos is warming up for the ninth,
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  Speaker 2: but you have to get through the eighth. And in
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  Speaker 2: that eighth inning with Michael Rucker and Josh Simpson, they
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  Speaker 2: yield and poor defense, sloppy defense. They end up yielding
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  Speaker 2: five runs. So the Guardians come all the way back
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  Speaker 2: from four to one to tie at for take the
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  Speaker 2: lead at six to four, and then held on for
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  Speaker 2: a six five victory. There have been a lot of
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  Speaker 2: times where Ashley and I have kind of wondered aloud
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  Speaker 2: this year about you know that very thing, that focus thing. Well,
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  Speaker 2: it was kind of nice to hear Cal sort of
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  Speaker 2: point out, yeah, I'm seeing the exact same thing. Our
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  Speaker 2: featured guest on the Baseball Brunch today is Cal Rawley.
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  Speaker 1: Let me did a good job early, you know, don't
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  Speaker 1: come out a game plan. Some really good ats, but
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  Speaker 1: you know, we gotta keep it filling the gas. I
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  Speaker 1: think that's the story of the game there. You know,
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  Speaker 1: can't can't let off. I think, uh, you know, we
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  Speaker 1: gotta play full nine. You know, come to the field
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  Speaker 1: ready to pete for two three hours a day and
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  Speaker 1: not an hour and a half. So uh, I think
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  Speaker 1: that's kind of what I saw. How do you guys
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  Speaker 1: turn the.
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  Speaker 6: Pitache after this one one of the tougher lunch guys.
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  Speaker 2: That have this season.
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  Speaker 1: You move on, you know, once you leave this locker room,
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: it's over. But you know, we gotta learn from it.
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  Speaker 1: We gotta, you know, we gotta, we gotta put.
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  Speaker 6: Together better nines than we're doing right now.
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  Speaker 1: You know, like I said, I think we're doing a
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  Speaker 1: good job of getting guys on base of you know,
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  Speaker 1: starting starting out pretty relatively good or you know, vice
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  Speaker 1: versa on the back half.
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  Speaker 6: But you know, those are full nines to me.
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  Speaker 1: You gotta play on nine innings as sorr as you can,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of energy.
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  Speaker 6: Uh and then.
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  Speaker 1: Finally scrapping call because you know, you never know when
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  Speaker 1: you might need that extra one or that's kind of
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  Speaker 1: the extra insurance is gonna help. And that's kind of
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  Speaker 1: what I'm saying, is that the frustrating part of the
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  Speaker 1: past couple of weeks just it seems like you've created
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  Speaker 1: a ton of traffic.
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  Speaker 6: But again two for fourteen with runners in scoring position today.
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  Speaker 6: Uh yeah, frustrating, But you know, we we just got better.
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: I mean, myself included, we all got to do a
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  Speaker 1: better job of just executing with people on base and
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  Speaker 1: and being you know, mentally discipline, mentally tough enough to
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: be able to come through in those in those moments.
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  Speaker 6: So it's so long we handed to you. But you know,
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  Speaker 6: if it's easy, everybody would do it.
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: So listen, this is definitely there's twine of teams out
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  Speaker 1: there that are wanted to beat us every day. So
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: we got to bring it every day. And and now
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: he's gonna feel sorry for us. You know, we can't
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: keep you know, getting head down or feeling bad for ourselves.
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  Speaker 1: We have to make that adjustment. And it's a tough league,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's it requires a lot out of you,
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  Speaker 1: and you know it's gonna test your timers and I
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  Speaker 1: think right now is one of those times, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: how we respond to it's gonna be a big indicator of,
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  Speaker 1: you know what the rest of the season looks like.
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  Speaker 2: Kyle Raley after the game our featured guest here on
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  Speaker 2: the Baseball Brunch of six y five loss to the
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  Speaker 2: Cleveland Guardians, in which the team was up for to
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  Speaker 2: one in the eighth inning. So it's kind of nice
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  Speaker 2: to hear that the leader of the team. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: if you were going to hand out a captain's c
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: it would go on his jersey. He hasn't quite been
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: given that honor. Maybe he never will, but here him
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: say that. He's saying the same things that frustrated fans
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: are saying about this baseball team, and yeah, it does
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: feel like not every game they are locked in for
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: nine innings. And that's the least that we should expect
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  Speaker 2: out of you. That's the least that you should give us,
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  Speaker 2: is that we're not going to have any periods of
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: lax baseball. Even if you don't execute. I don't want
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: it to be chalked up to lax baseball, lack of focus,
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: lack of energy, lack of effort, None of no lacks
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: should come up in a conversation about a baseball team.
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  Speaker 2: And I think that you can say that about this
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  Speaker 2: baseball team so far, eighty five games into the year.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and you never want to question the professional athletes efforts, right,
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: I mean that's a crappy feeling to have to say, like, well,
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: I don't know if they were out there working as
• 25:45
  Speaker 4: hard as they could be, because they're doing something that
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: I can't do, right. But if we're watching the game
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: and thinking like, well they just yeah, they seem to
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: have these moments where it's like a lapse and a
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: lack of something, that's a frustrating place to be And it.
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: Does feel not good.
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: That's not the right word, but it feels kind of
• 26:06
  Speaker 4: cathartic to hear Cal say that, to see to hear
• 26:09
  Speaker 4: him say the things that we kind of think, but
• 26:12
  Speaker 4: then don't really want to bring it up because you
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: don't want to be the one that's questioning the effort, right,
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: and so when you're like, oh, okay, so what we saw, Yeah,
• 26:20
  Speaker 4: our eyes didn't deceive us.
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: And I'm gonna add one more thing. I was gonna
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: mention this in ABC's later, but I'll go ahead and
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: mention it now because I think it's appropriate to mention now.
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: I have had it with laughing off failure with this team.
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: You know, how many months was the celebration save me
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  Speaker 2: the Ball? Like when does that stop being cute or funny?
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: I mean, I get when it first happened, like we're
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: breaking out of our slump, we're gonna laugh it off,
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: but when you're still doing it three and a half months,
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: three months into the season, or you know, you finally
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: score four runs in a game, and then the reaction is,
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: oh my gosh, look we've laugh it off, Like I
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: can't believe we did it. We achieved four runs in
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: a game. I'm a little tired of seeing like stuff
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: being laughed off. It should be embarrassed that you went
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: thirteen games without scoring more than three runs, not use
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: it as another reason to like, oh baseball's hard. Uh,
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: we're done with it. You know that was supposed to
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: be what it was with this, I'm doing this on
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: YouTube where you were shaking the ball. Oh give me,
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: save me the ball. I got a hit. I found
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: some offense that was supposed to be funny that moment.
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: It's stopped being funny when you were still doing it
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: two three months later.
• 27:42
  Speaker 4: Well, I think they were doing it last year too,
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: Like they've done it. They've they've done that on and off,
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: or maybe just maybe they've done it for the last
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: year and a half.
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 27:53
  Speaker 4: I remember seeing like cal will do it when he's
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: out on second.
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: Well, every once in a while, somebody does it. But
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: they were doing it as a team. They were doing
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: it as a collect everybody in baseball does that every
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: once in a while, Like I broke out of my
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: over fifteen slump, I need the ball as a joke.
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: But they were doing it as a team, and they've
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: been doing it for months. Yeah, and it's not funny anymore. Yeah,
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: perform and if you've got people on your team saying
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: you're not performing innings one through nine because of lack
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: of focus. Maybe we just stop laughing, right, Maybe we
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: stopped getting such a kick out of our failures. I mean,
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: maybe that's maybe that's a suggestion that we could take
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: to heart on our drive to the ballpark tonight.
• 28:35
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, Cal said it. You know, we have
• 28:37
  Speaker 4: to play more than an hour and a half. We've
• 28:39
  Speaker 4: got two to three hours of a game every every day.
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: Is that that much to ask?
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: You know?
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: Game face? And I know that's been joked about over
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: time as well, But can we not just lock in?
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: It would be nice? Three hours? That so hard? So
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: what did we learn here today? Number one, Cal seeing
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: what we're seeing. Number two, four runs is not unachievable.
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: And number three Dan is not getting better at bullpen decisions.
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: It's just not So. If I sound like I'm in
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: a sour state.
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: I am.
• 29:14
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that lesson.
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: I don't like today, very sour, very sour about it all.
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  Speaker 2: All right, coming up next, I'm going to tell you
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  Speaker 2: We're doing movies this year. We're gonna play a movie
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  Speaker 2: little bit of the soccer over the weekend. But myself,
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: just like everybody else, no matter where you are on
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: the scale of your enjoyment of soccer, I'm pretty low.
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: You know, you're looking forward to the knockout stage which
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: started yesterday. But I got to tell you something, Ashley.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, there was just one of those moments that
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  Speaker 2: I hope everybody was able to appreciate it because it
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  Speaker 2: was one of the cool things like here in America,
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  Speaker 2: like our interest in soccer. You have a lot of
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: people that are heavily invested in soccer and want soccer
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  Speaker 2: to be as popular as football and basketball and baseball,
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: and they want to be able to go to the
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: bar and it's filled up and everybody's sitting there to
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  Speaker 2: watch the match and it can be an experience for
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: them like Seahawks football is for the football fan. I
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: know that that's kind of the feeling. And then there's
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: also this we're Americans. We need to be the best
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  Speaker 2: at everything. There's that little element as well. We are
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  Speaker 2: the best at baseball, arguably, we are the best at
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  Speaker 2: basketball now arguably, And nobody can match us in football,
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  Speaker 2: track and field, Like we want to be the best.
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  Speaker 2: If we're gonna love something, we want to be able
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  Speaker 2: to dominate it because we're so good. Yeah, that's kind
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  Speaker 2: of the mentality. And obviously we're not there as a country,
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  Speaker 2: and so there certainly are different reasons for or you know,
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  Speaker 2: rooting for the US, wanting the US to advance, maybe
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: having a shot at winning the World Cup, but we're
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: never going to be able to experience what Cape Verde
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  Speaker 2: did over the weekend. Yeah, the fact that they qualified
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  Speaker 2: as the smallest country to ever qualify for the knockout stage,
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: and I know they've expanded it, but let's not get
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: tiki tacky about this. They qualified, did not win a
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  Speaker 2: single match in the group stage, think they had three draws,
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  Speaker 2: but they qualified in that country. The images that they
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  Speaker 2: showed of that country, Oh, that meant something that wasn't sports.
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  Speaker 2: That was something so much deeper that we as Americans,
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  Speaker 2: even though we complained about our country, I don't know
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  Speaker 2: we can necessarily reach that deep down and feel that.
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  Speaker 2: It's as if they felt like we were put on
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: the map over the weekend by their soccer team making
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  Speaker 2: it just to the knockout stage, and they might have been, well,
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  Speaker 2: there are a lot of us. I didn't know it
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  Speaker 2: was a country Cape Verdet had no clue. Yeah, And
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: for them, I mean, that was something deep, that was
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  Speaker 2: something that they felt in their bones. And I don't
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  Speaker 2: know we'll ever be able to do that as a country,
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: and for a lot of very good reasons. You know, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we got it pretty easy compared to a lot of
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: other countries. I mean, Venezuela's going through the horrible times
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  Speaker 2: right now, so we got it pretty easy. So we
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  Speaker 2: really love sports. We might be as passionate as anybody
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  Speaker 2: out there. We might make it a bigger deal than
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: anyone else in the entire world our sports, and I'm
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: not embarrassed about that. But we're able to do that
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  Speaker 2: because other aspects of our life are a lot easier
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  Speaker 2: than some countries out there. And I don't know what
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: the socioeconomic background of Cape Verde is. I don't I
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  Speaker 2: didn't read up their history. You could just see it
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  Speaker 2: in their faces.
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  Speaker 3: Though.
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  Speaker 2: That was a moment of national pride, that was a
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  Speaker 2: moment of recognition, that was a moment of accomplishment and
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: an achievement that just reached down to generations before them,
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: great grandpas who passed away things of that nature. Oh
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  Speaker 2: that meant something. That meant something to Cape Verde. And
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: I would say the same thing about the pain that
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: Uruguay showed on the field, where players had to be
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  Speaker 2: like lifted off the field because they were so devastated
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: by not making it into the knockout stage. So I
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: got a little taste of it, got a little taste
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  Speaker 2: of it World Cup. What does make you magical? And
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: it's special? Yeah, that's special. That is the thing.
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  Speaker 4: I hate that when somebody is eliminated. And it's same
• 38:59
  Speaker 4: with basketball. Whenever you see players cry, I always feel bad.
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  Speaker 4: I'm like, that's what makes sports so great, right, is
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  Speaker 4: the jubilation of one side and the sadness or devastation
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  Speaker 4: on the other side, and that whole thing. But I
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  Speaker 4: always hate seeing them be so sad.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well this was just the extremes of both. It
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  Speaker 2: was yeah, it was like devastation. Yeah, yeah, you're sad
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  Speaker 2: that you didn't reach your goal. And then there's devastation
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  Speaker 2: and that was what we saw from Uruguay. And then
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: there is joy and elation, and then there is what
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: Cape Verde experienced. Like, that's something else, that's something beyond sports,
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  Speaker 2: that's something that touches you where it tingles. Yeah, that's
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  Speaker 2: what we experienced, and we wouldn't. We didn't get that
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  Speaker 2: from any other sport. We got that from soccer because
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: of what the World Cup means to so many nations globally.
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