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Chuck in the Morning 9/14 H4: Jedd Fisch Postgame, ABC's of the Mariners & One Last Thing · Chuck in the Morning

• 0:14
  Speaker 1: Happy Monday to you all. Lovely weekend. Very laid back
• 0:20
  Speaker 1: for me. Travis Moger is here. Always great to see
• 0:23
  Speaker 1: Travis Moger. And Anders Hurst is here, the new official
• 0:27
  Speaker 1: member of the morning show. Yes, we will have to
• 0:30
  Speaker 1: make this announcement repeatedly.
• 0:32
  Speaker 2: Of course.
• 0:33
  Speaker 1: So you better not get bored with it.
• 0:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, eventually it will, but it's part of
• 0:38
  Speaker 3: the business.
• 0:40
  Speaker 1: But yes, we did make a change. We are now
• 0:44
  Speaker 1: going to have Anders Hurst on the morning show going forward.
• 0:48
  Speaker 1: And Ashley Ryan is perfectly fine and excited to start
• 0:54
  Speaker 1: her new adventure with Ian Furness. Give me a good
• 0:57
  Speaker 1: scouting report on just, you know, here's Ashley... She and
• 1:02
  Speaker 1: Ian are very close, but she's never worked with him
• 1:05
  Speaker 1: on a daily basis. Give me a good analysis of
• 1:09
  Speaker 1: how much she's going to hate it. Well, he's Canadian.
• 1:12
  Speaker 3: That should tell you all you need to know. Thing
• 1:15
  Speaker 3: number one that you need to know.
• 1:17
  Speaker 1: That'll drive her up a wall. Yeah.
• 1:20
  Speaker 3: He says tomorrow a lot. Yeah, get ready for that, Ashley.
• 1:27
  Speaker 3: Better brace yourself.
• 1:28
  Speaker 1: You better pack a lunch because you're going to get
• 1:31
  Speaker 1: a lot of tomorrows coming your way. Yeah, what else?
• 1:34
  Speaker 1: What else?
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  Speaker 3: Every Monday, Molly Watt Monday. Have fun with that, especially
• 1:38
  Speaker 3: this weekend. Jeez, that'll be a fun one. If I
• 1:41
  Speaker 3: were her, I'd quit before noon.
• 1:45
  Speaker 1: Before they even hit the air? Right. Yeah. Maybe you
• 1:49
  Speaker 1: just tap out of that segment, Ashley. Take some advice
• 1:53
  Speaker 1: from your old co-worker, from your old show worker. Yeah.
• 1:57
  Speaker 1: Just tap out of that segment. Yeah. Say, hey, Ian,
• 2:00
  Speaker 1: if you don't mind, I'm going to let Jessamyn run this.
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  Speaker 3: He's also way too nice. He seems like the guy...
• 2:08
  Speaker 3: That does a bunch of charity work. And it makes
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  Speaker 3: me look bad because I'm like, well, I'm not doing
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  Speaker 3: any of that stuff.
• 2:15
  Speaker 1: Ashley, get ready for a guy that's way nicer than me.
• 2:20
  Speaker 1: Good luck. Have a good time with that. Thought the
• 2:26
  Speaker 1: grass was going to be greener. Well, brace yourself for
• 2:30
  Speaker 1: a bunch of niceness. Won't be used to it. Yeah. Kindness.
• 2:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 2:40
  Speaker 1: Let's see what else. A lot of hockey. A lot
• 2:42
  Speaker 1: of hockey. She'll like that. Yeah. She'll like that. She's
• 2:45
  Speaker 1: a Kraken lover. Crackhead. All right. All right. Hey, and
• 2:50
  Speaker 1: by the way, no fair doing this to me later
• 2:52
  Speaker 1: in the afternoon. I do not want a scouting report.
• 2:56
  Speaker 1: On me from Ashley for the pleasure of Ian to
• 3:00
  Speaker 1: pick apart. I came up with the idea. You don't
• 3:04
  Speaker 1: get to follow up. This is a one-way street. That's right.
• 3:06
  Speaker 1: This is about making fun of Ian and Ashley. And
• 3:10
  Speaker 1: that's why we did it on our show. Don't think
• 3:13
  Speaker 1: that this is some sort of two-way street. What's Ian
• 3:16
  Speaker 1: getting with Ashley then? I would like nothing but respect
• 3:19
  Speaker 1: shown to this show and these two people.
• 3:22
  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I like that. I'm on board with that. All right. Well, anyway,
• 3:27
  Speaker 1: so a little bit of a shakeup here at KJR,
• 3:30
  Speaker 1: but everybody has landed safely. It's a win-win trade. Happily. And, yeah,
• 3:36
  Speaker 1: we're all good. And so that's what we're going to
• 3:38
  Speaker 1: do going forward. There's a potential for a little more
• 3:41
  Speaker 1: change coming forward on the program, but you will know
• 3:46
  Speaker 1: that when we know that. And so we welcome you
• 3:48
  Speaker 1: into the show. We welcome Anders Hurst to the program.
• 3:51
  Speaker 1: Thank you. We wish Ashley and Ian nothing but the best.
• 3:54
  Speaker 1: Can't wait to hear them together. a little bit later
• 3:56
  Speaker 1: on today. And here we go into our fourth and
• 4:00
  Speaker 1: final hour. Anders has to get used to four-hour radio shows. Yeah,
• 4:03
  Speaker 1: I know. They'll age you. It's weird.
• 4:05
  Speaker 3: I go from two hours, which Ian's show used to be,
• 4:08
  Speaker 3: and then it was three hours. So that already felt
• 4:11
  Speaker 3: like a jump, and then we're getting to four. We're
• 4:12
  Speaker 3: getting to double the length of radio show than I
• 4:16
  Speaker 3: used to work when I first came in.
• 4:17
  Speaker 1: Chuck used to have a full head of hair when
• 4:19
  Speaker 1: he started this. Oh, yeah, yeah. I'm only 30. I
• 4:22
  Speaker 1: don't know if I ever told you that.
• 4:23
  Speaker 3: Really?
• 4:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just the morning shows really aged me. Really
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  Speaker 1: done a number on.
• 4:28
  Speaker 3: Does that mean I'm going to age the same speed
• 4:30
  Speaker 3: because I'm almost 30 myself?
• 4:31
  Speaker 1: Yes. Okay. By this time next year, you're going to
• 4:34
  Speaker 1: look like me.
• 4:35
  Speaker 3: So it won't be my son or, you know, family stuff.
• 4:38
  Speaker 1: No, no, no. It'll keep you young. It'll keep you young.
• 4:40
  Speaker 1: It's the show and me that's going to age you.
• 4:43
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 4:43
  Speaker 1: Sounds good. I can promise. All right. All right. Well,
• 4:46
  Speaker 1: great to have you with us. We're going to talk
• 4:48
  Speaker 1: some Huskies football, and certainly we've got a problem with
• 4:51
  Speaker 1: the Huskies offense, even though they are 2-0 to start
• 4:54
  Speaker 1: the year. We'll get into that. here in a little bit,
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  Speaker 1: but I think the main topic of conversation, there are
• 4:59
  Speaker 1: two main topics of conversation, the Husky offense, and then
• 5:03
  Speaker 1: the inability to find the Huskies game, which we haven't
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  Speaker 1: even discussed yet. Obviously, with the Big Ten Network starting,
• 5:11
  Speaker 1: I went into the weekend assuming that the Big Ten
• 5:14
  Speaker 1: Network game was going to be the Huskies. I double-checked it,
• 5:18
  Speaker 1: triple-checked it. I looked at it 14 times in the
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  Speaker 1: morning as I'm watching Michigan State play on the Big
• 5:23
  Speaker 1: Ten Network, and I'm like, Where are the Huskies? How
• 5:27
  Speaker 1: are they showing Michigan State when the Huskies are playing
• 5:31
  Speaker 1: right now? Utah State, I don't care. It's not like
• 5:33
  Speaker 1: Michigan State's playing anybody of any great import. So where
• 5:38
  Speaker 1: is the game? And so a lot of people had
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  Speaker 1: a hard time finding it. I did eventually find it.
• 5:43
  Speaker 1: I did have the secondary Big Ten channel, even though
• 5:48
  Speaker 1: it wasn't in the main... If you click on your remote,
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  Speaker 1: you can just... washington uskies football right i it didn't
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  Speaker 1: say that the gate on my television and i have
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  Speaker 1: comcast there was no mention that it was anywhere to
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  Speaker 1: be found or watched anywhere.
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  Speaker 3: Can't search for it can't search for it can't.
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  Speaker 1: Find it but if you did know or you read
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  Speaker 1: the proper story or maybe we were broadcasting it on
• 6:13
  Speaker 1: the air and i didn't even hear about it maybe
• 6:16
  Speaker 1: maybe softy and fane told us maybe it was in
• 6:18
  Speaker 1: an email i don't usually check those um Then I
• 6:23
  Speaker 1: missed that. I just assumed it said Big Ten Network,
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  Speaker 1: so I was going to watch it on Big Ten Network,
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  Speaker 1: and it was not there. And there was no evidence
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  Speaker 1: to suggest where I could find it. So I missed
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  Speaker 1: most of the game until I started looking at people's
• 6:40
  Speaker 1: angered responses to them not having it. And I was
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  Speaker 1: one of the people that did have the extra channel
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  Speaker 1: because some people are like, you got to look at
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  Speaker 1: 1315 or something like that. So I did have the
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  Speaker 1: extra channel, but a lot of people didn't and didn't
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  Speaker 1: get to watch the game. And so a little bit
• 6:56
  Speaker 1: of anger, a little bit of fury over the weekend. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And I have Hulu plus live TV. So that's my
• 7:02
  Speaker 3: kind of package. I mean, they have Big Ten Network,
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  Speaker 3: but like I said, they didn't have the second one.
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  Speaker 3: So it was... I don't know why they don't do
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  Speaker 3: this regionally.
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  Speaker 1: Like.
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  Speaker 3: certain regions they have this game and certain regions they have, like,
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  Speaker 3: it just makes way too much.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: But I thought in my big takeaway from all that
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  Speaker 3: is I thought we got past all this weird, uh,
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  Speaker 3: conference network crap. When we got out of the PAC 12,
• 7:26
  Speaker 3: that was one of the reasons quoted for leaving it. Uh,
• 7:30
  Speaker 3: and we're still experiencing the same issues. Um, in the
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  Speaker 3: new conference and i mean i get it this will
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  Speaker 3: be one of the only few opportunities that this happens
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  Speaker 3: once the big 10 games happen it'll be on bigger
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  Speaker 3: national televised stuff but it's still really frustrating well i mean.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know did they give an explanation i probably
• 7:52
  Speaker 1: should have looked this up i just did like ai
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  Speaker 1: overviewed it so and ai by the way for a
• 8:00
  Speaker 1: really smart breakthrough technologically, like the smartest of our entire lives,
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  Speaker 1: AI is pretty stupid. It is stupid. They are wrong
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  Speaker 1: a lot.
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  Speaker 3: Thank God.
• 8:09
  Speaker 1: AI is wrong a lot. Oh, yeah. Make a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of mistakes. I don't think you know your head from
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  Speaker 1: your ass, AI. It's going to kill us all soon.
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  Speaker 1: It's true.
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  Speaker 3: But until then, it's stupid. That is a fact, by
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  Speaker 3: the way.
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  Speaker 1: If you're going to kill us eventually, at least get
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  Speaker 1: your facts straight in the meantime.
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  Speaker 3: Help us a little bit before you obsolete humanity. You're
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  Speaker 3: going to terminate all human beings. At least educate us.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. In the meantime. But according to them, according
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  Speaker 1: to AI, that it was put on by mistake. That
• 8:43
  Speaker 1: they mis... Comcast... mistakenly aired the Michigan State feed instead
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  Speaker 1: of the Huskies feed. And I guess once the game started,
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  Speaker 1: they didn't want to change it. They didn't want to
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  Speaker 1: move it.
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  Speaker 3: How easy is it to just switch?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I probably should have this explanation. I
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  Speaker 1: probably should know what this, as a sports talk show host,
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  Speaker 1: if I was going to bring this conversation up. But
• 9:04
  Speaker 1: that's what stupid AI says. Yeah. Stupid AI. Yeah. So
• 9:09
  Speaker 1: that alone was a big issue. A lot of people
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  Speaker 1: were without the game. And then.
• 9:15
  Speaker 3: maybe were relieved that they didn't watch it. Yeah, that's
• 9:17
  Speaker 3: probably a good thing. I ended up listening to Cam
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  Speaker 3: and Elise. Well, it gave you the perfect opportunity to
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  Speaker 3: listen to them.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly.
• 9:23
  Speaker 3: With Softie on the sideline, growing increasingly more frustrated every
• 9:27
  Speaker 3: time they tossed down to him.
• 9:28
  Speaker 1: It was fantastic, by the way. So great. And exactly.
• 9:32
  Speaker 1: And I love it. And I would like the Mariners
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  Speaker 1: broadcast team to learn something from that. I mean... I
• 9:38
  Speaker 1: don't know, maybe the Huskies will put a muzzle on
• 9:40
  Speaker 1: their dog before the season comes to a close. But
• 9:43
  Speaker 1: it was so refreshing to just have somebody tell us
• 9:48
  Speaker 1: on the air what they were thinking in the moment.
• 9:51
  Speaker 1: Just saying, this team's got a really big problem running
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  Speaker 1: the ball. We already knew it, Cam. We already knew
• 9:55
  Speaker 1: it going into the game. At least, they're going to
• 9:58
  Speaker 1: have trouble running the ball. down to their third running back,
• 10:01
  Speaker 1: but they've got a really major problem. I love hearing that.
• 10:05
  Speaker 1: Love it. I mean, you can stop short of like
• 10:09
  Speaker 1: ripping them. Ripping them or Trey Cooley's terrible. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 10:13
  Speaker 1: I mean, I don't want to hear that on the broadcast.
• 10:15
  Speaker 1: Call it like it is. But to point out in
• 10:18
  Speaker 1: the middle of a game when you're already worried about
• 10:20
  Speaker 1: not being able to run the football that you aren't
• 10:23
  Speaker 1: running the football? Yeah. Man, I'm glad somebody said it because,
• 10:27
  Speaker 1: to me, those little snippets were making the broadcast. 100%.
• 10:31
  Speaker 3: 100% agree. You could say the same thing about, like
• 10:33
  Speaker 3: you said, the Mariners. They need to kind of take
• 10:36
  Speaker 3: a page out of that book, right?
• 10:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 10:37
  Speaker 3: It's like, hey, this team can't play defensively. They're 30th
• 10:40
  Speaker 3: in all these statistics that suggest that they're terrible defensively
• 10:44
  Speaker 3: and it's not helping their pitchers. Like, that's pretty easy.
• 10:48
  Speaker 3: You're not ripping a single player. You're not saying that,
• 10:50
  Speaker 3: you know, all these things are wrong. You're not saying
• 10:52
  Speaker 3: to fire this guy or anything like that. You're just
• 10:54
  Speaker 3: calling it like it is. And it's what everyone has
• 10:56
  Speaker 3: been seeing for the entire year.
• 10:57
  Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, the broadcast should never go to cruel.
• 11:01
  Speaker 4: No.
• 11:03
  Speaker 1: Whatever the case may be. But it has to be
• 11:05
  Speaker 1: critical at times when it's appropriate. And so to me,
• 11:10
  Speaker 1: to add that layer in there, and I'm not saying
• 11:13
  Speaker 1: that Elise would never offer that in the past, but
• 11:16
  Speaker 1: certainly Softee's not going to be able to have a
• 11:19
  Speaker 1: microphone on the sidelines and watch the Huskies fail at
• 11:24
  Speaker 1: offense and not be able to tell us what he's
• 11:28
  Speaker 1: seeing and what he's thinking. And so that's what the
• 11:32
  Speaker 1: Huskies signed up for with him as the sideline reporter.
• 11:35
  Speaker 1: And I loved it. Just before you get your undies
• 11:38
  Speaker 1: in a bunch over there on Montlake, I just want
• 11:41
  Speaker 1: you to know as a listener. It's awesome. I really
• 11:44
  Speaker 1: enjoyed that. Yeah, I totally agree.
• 11:46
  Speaker 3: And like Safi's made his, you know, kind of spot
• 11:51
  Speaker 3: here in Seattle sports media, the king that he is
• 11:54
  Speaker 3: in Seattle sports media as like kind of the voice
• 11:56
  Speaker 3: of the fan. And that's the reason why everyone loves him.
• 11:59
  Speaker 3: So I think that's a great position for him to
• 12:01
  Speaker 3: be in during the game.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. And you can't run the football right now. Right.
• 12:05
  Speaker 1: Not against Washington state, not against Utah state. And in
• 12:09
  Speaker 1: a couple of weeks, you're going to have to take
• 12:11
  Speaker 1: on Big Ten defenses. And you better figure this out.
• 12:15
  Speaker 1: Jed Fish, after the game, spoke about his team's lack
• 12:19
  Speaker 1: of execution.
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  Speaker 4: Glad that we're sitting here 2-0.
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  Speaker 1: Congratulations.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I thought that Utah State did a really
• 12:27
  Speaker 4: good job in playing extremely well. I think Coach Mendenhall
• 12:31
  Speaker 4: did a great job of getting his team ready to go.
• 12:34
  Speaker 4: And clearly, they did a great job of competing till
• 12:39
  Speaker 4: the very end. So hats off to Utah State and
• 12:43
  Speaker 4: what they were able to get done. Thought that we
• 12:46
  Speaker 4: are glad that we have a victory and we have
• 12:49
  Speaker 4: a lot to learn. And that's two weeks in a
• 12:51
  Speaker 4: row that we're sitting here, out here to learn a lot,
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  Speaker 4: and I think we will. But there's also things that
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  Speaker 4: we just need to execute better. So we're 2-0, which
• 13:03
  Speaker 4: we're happy about. We need to do some things better.
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  Speaker 4: We need to find points. We need to not pass
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  Speaker 4: up opportunities for touchdowns when they're there. We need to, um,
• 13:17
  Speaker 4: you know, put the team in a better position, uh,
• 13:20
  Speaker 4: from a coaching staff, uh, starting with me.
• 13:23
  Speaker 1: And then, uh, we need to finish games.
• 13:26
  Speaker 4: We're up 16, seven, you know, opportunity to get a
• 13:30
  Speaker 4: sack there and finish the game off and, um, opportunity
• 13:34
  Speaker 4: to make a play here or there and, they were
• 13:37
  Speaker 4: able to get down there and score and make it
• 13:38
  Speaker 4: a two point game. So altogether, um, all three phases, um,
• 13:43
  Speaker 4: did some, uh, some good, um, but, uh, a lot
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  Speaker 4: to work and learn from, uh.
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  Speaker 1: Jet fish after the game. And there were times in
• 13:52
  Speaker 1: it where he did seem irritated.
• 13:54
  Speaker 2: Yep.
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  Speaker 1: But I don't think that had anything to do with him.
• 13:59
  Speaker 1: I don't want to answer it. Not him saying you
• 14:01
  Speaker 1: shouldn't have asked that question. Just him saying, I don't
• 14:04
  Speaker 1: really want to answer that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Um, But it all stems from, I mean, look, he's
• 14:10
  Speaker 1: an offensive head coach. That is his bread and butter.
• 14:15
  Speaker 1: If Mike McDonald's defense is what's getting in the way
• 14:19
  Speaker 1: of the Seahawks having success this year, he's going to
• 14:22
  Speaker 1: take that a little more personally. Mike Holmgren will tell
• 14:26
  Speaker 1: you that he kind of just learned to hand the
• 14:29
  Speaker 1: defense over, and if his offense was the reason they lost,
• 14:34
  Speaker 1: he took that home with him. I mean, even more so...
• 14:37
  Speaker 1: And he always took a loss home with him. But
• 14:38
  Speaker 1: if the offense wasn't performing, couldn't sleep at night. And
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: so this is his bread and butter. And he's decided
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: not to have an offensive coordinator. So he's taken on
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: the responsibilities of CEO of the program, running the program.
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  Speaker 1: But I also, this is what I do. I can
• 14:58
  Speaker 1: handle the offense. I can handle the play call. I
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: can handle it all. And when the team doesn't perform
• 15:04
  Speaker 1: two weeks in a row against less than competition, you
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: do have a lot to answer for. And so if
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: he was a little defensive, it's probably a little embarrassed
• 15:14
  Speaker 1: that his bread and butter has not shown up. And
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: he knows there's a lot on him. You got to
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: get this figured out now. You don't have time to
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: figure this out because Big Ten competition is starting in
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: a couple of weeks. You schedule these cupcakes. And I
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: don't know if Jed Fish wants cupcakes scheduled, but it's
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: a good thing he did this year because you need
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: to iron out the wrinkles. And right now, the Huskies
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: have an awfully wrinkled dress.
• 15:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and I don't love the kind of optics of
• 15:47
  Speaker 3: one of the reasons he used in that game was,
• 15:49
  Speaker 3: you know, you have touchdowns, you got to take it, right?
• 15:52
  Speaker 3: That kind of suggests that he's doing his job, but
• 15:54
  Speaker 3: the players aren't, right?
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: I think that's fair.
• 15:57
  Speaker 3: As well as we got to close out games. The
• 15:59
  Speaker 3: defense needs to get a stop, which they were playing
• 16:02
  Speaker 3: extremely well almost the entire game. Yes, it's against a
• 16:05
  Speaker 3: team that lost to an FCS opponent the week before
• 16:07
  Speaker 3: in Utah State. That's another kind of aspect to this
• 16:10
  Speaker 3: that people are starting to get worrying signs with the dogs.
• 16:13
  Speaker 3: But at the same time, he's not wrong in all
• 16:16
  Speaker 3: those aspects. You need all these things to be going
• 16:18
  Speaker 3: right for a team. But I would have liked to
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: see a little bit more, I don't want to say
• 16:23
  Speaker 3: accountability because he's not you know, releasing accountability to somewhere else. He,
• 16:28
  Speaker 3: he took accountability, but especially as, like you said, that's his,
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: that's his baby. The offense is his baby. That's his job.
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: And you would think with an offensive head coach, that's
• 16:37
  Speaker 3: calling the plays with a guy that you're paying $ 4
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: million to and Demond Williams, that they would be further
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: along than they are right now.
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Um, and I don't think that Demond's played poorly
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: where I think other guys have.
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: Um, but he can't, he, he's going to have to
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: play better.
• 16:53
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: And, and yet you're going to play better defenses and
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: what's been the rub against demand, the better the competition.
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: I mean, the performance drops completely off.
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: So you can't feel good two games into the season.
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: where the offense is, knowing that your best player on offense,
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: your quarterback, has struggled mightily against great defenses. You haven't
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: come close to facing them. Cougs actually played pretty good
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: defense again this week. Yeah, they did. I'm not saying
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: that you've played terrible defenses, but they are the type
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: of defenses that you've got to put more points up
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: on the board than what they have so far this season,
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: because the Big Ten is going to be a nightmare
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: for you if you don't get this fixed in the
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: next Weak. You got a week to get this thing fixed.
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: Well, and we thought that the talent disparity was very
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: large between the Huskies and their first two opponents. And
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: there were times where that showcased itself to be true.
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: But at the same time, you have to have the
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: results show that. But I still would also rather, all
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: that being said, I'd rather be 2-0 and thinking about
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: these things than having a shocking loss. like Oregon had, right?
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: Well, sure. Yeah.
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: So like Jed said at the beginning there, it's good
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: to know that you have these things to fix and
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: there's almost a feeling of, man, it feels like a loss,
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: but in our record, it's still 2-0. So that's, I guess,
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: a positive spin you can have on it.
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: Well, yeah, certainly. Like we won the two, we're 2-0,
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: so it didn't cost us in the standings, but my goodness,
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: do we have a lot to work on. They can't
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: run the football. They can't execute in the red zone.
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: and as well as the defense has played, and we
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: think they've played well. Yes, they have. Then again, it
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: could be the competition that has made it look, I mean,
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: you've got an advantage physically pretty much per man on
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: the football field, so you should have some level of
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: success on the defensive side of the ball, but you've
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: also played kind of stupid at times, and you are
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: extending drives with dumb penalties now two weeks in a row.
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: So those are three really major areas in football. to
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: clean up. You've got to get points when you're in
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: the red zone, especially inside the 10. And you also
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: have to stop extending drives on defense with stupid plays.
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: And at some point, you've got to run the football.
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: And I think that's going to be the hardest one
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: to get fixed because you're already on your third string
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: running back and this offensive line has not come together
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: the way that they had hoped.
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah, there was an element. Think about the 2024 Husky
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: team that went to the national championship. There was an
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: element of they played down to their opponent at times,
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: but they ended up squeaking out victories. You're thinking about
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: the Arizona State game, you know, a couple other games
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: that year. But then in the big games, they stepped up.
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: So maybe there can be wishful thinking that there's that
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: sort of element in this team this year, too. But
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: in the last couple iterations of Jed Fish and DeMond Williams,
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: that hasn't necessarily been the case. So we'll see what
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: ends up happening as they kind of step up their opponents.
• 19:54
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• 20:31
  Speaker 3: I thought you were handing me something.
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: So you were holding up.
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: Your papers, and it was in my eyesight here as
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: I'm looking at my computer.
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: And then I was like, wait, no you're not. I'm
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: an idiot. No, I was just making sure that we
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: didn't miss anything.
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: And we didn't.
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: We covered everything. Excellent. Yeah, we made every point. Sorry
• 20:52
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• 20:54
  Speaker 1: other shows today. No leftovers. Great morning to you all.
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: Time for the ABCs of the M's, our daily Mariner segment.
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: And certainly a lot to be frustrated about. There's no
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: question about it. And sure enough, the alphabet reminds us.
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: We left off with the letter I. I is for irritating. Very,
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: very irritating. And, you know, we've kind of turned it
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: in because you have to laugh or you'll cry. But
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: the tough ones thing. Very irritating. Yeah. It's very, and
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: I realize it's just like a crutch at this point
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: for Dan to call every loss a tough one. And
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: I know he can't help it. And I do believe,
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: I don't know this for a fact, I do believe
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: he's been coached because lately you've been seeing him like,
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: like pause afterwards, like, ah, I did it again. So
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: I think people have told him to, can we not
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: use tough one? Cause people are making fun of it. Right.
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: And yet he can't stop himself. And, and this though,
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: just beyond like, To me, this isn't even nitpicky, Anders, Travis,
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: correct me if I'm wrong. Like if you went to
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: a therapist and you laid on the couch and you
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: were like, yeah, like, I don't know if I ever
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: felt my mom loved me. And my dad was never around. Um,
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: when I grew up, he was a traveling salesman. And
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: there was even some time where I thought maybe he
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: had another family somewhere. And it was just, I don't know.
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: I don't know if I've got the love. In my
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: house that I thought a kid should get. That's a
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: tough one. If that's the response you got. Yeah. Yeah.
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: My wife's sleeping with my brother. Tough one. That was
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: a tough one. The point is, we don't know how
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: he is with the players behind the scenes, but I've
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: heard it's not that dissimilar. It is always just like, hey,
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: we had a rough night out there there, champy. It's okay.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: We'll be back at him tomorrow. If you can't be
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: critical in your analysis, if you can't, as a professional,
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: cite for us a feeling that that loss gave you
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: or an element of the loss that you felt could
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: have been fixed. Had this been different versus just tough one.
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: Let me recap for you everything that happened. Yeah. And
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: then I'll repeat that it was a tough one and
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: I'll take questions. Yeah. Like to me, I think that's
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: a failure beyond just giving us something to be comedic about.
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: if that's, that's not leadership, that's not leadership to get
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: to the end of every game and just give it
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: the same. Yeah, that was a tough one sort of
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: treatment and then move on from it without saying anything
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: critical about your team to us. And my guess is
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: you don't say anything critical to your team about them.
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: Well, and that's the biggest question for me is if,
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: if it is different behind the scenes and I, I
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: have a hard time believing that it is, to be
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: completely honest.
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: I don't know for sure.
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: We never will because it won't be revealed to that
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: unless there's a podcast 10 years from now and Julio
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: Rodriguez comes out and it's like, hey, this is what
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: Dan Wilson was like behind the scenes or whatever. But yeah,
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: I think it's a representation of his shortcomings as a manager.
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: We can complain about all the in-game decisions that we want.
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: I think when things are going great, he's a great
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: guy to kind of keep guys level, keep the vibes high,
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: avoid anything from really derailing a really good team. But
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: when things aren't going great, it doesn't seem like there's
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: any sort of, and we've seen this with the team
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: this year. There's no coaching. Like there's no change to
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: their approach. There's no, Oh, I don't think that's true.
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: I mean, I think they're always trying to adjust. They
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: may try to over adjust. I think coaching is done.
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: Uh, I guess, yes.
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: But I mean from a more general perspective. Like you said,
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: the day-to-day stuff. I don't mean like the how you
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: attack a fastball on this count or anything like that.
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: It's more like, okay, where do I put my player's
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: mindset after each of this stuff?
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: Oh, I don't think there's much of an adjustment there. Exactly.
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: And then it's because of that. Yeah. Imagine if you
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: went to a restaurant. Dan Wilson's a professional baseball manager.
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: Imagine if you went to a professional chef's restaurant and
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: hey how was the meal today well i had a
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: fly in my soup my chicken wasn't even cooked and
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: my asparagus was rubbery oh that's a tough one that's
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: it is there going to be any improvement of that
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: restaurant is there going to be any improvement of that
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: restaurant no will you ever go back there again is
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: anybody on your Is your sous chef or your waitstaff,
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: are they going to work any harder for you if
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: you just chalk up every bad meal you served? Tough one.
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: And there's a way to do it without... Without being cruel.
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: Exactly.
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: It's just like we said in the last segment. Nobody's
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: asking you to throw people under the bus. No. But
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: can we not just get an honest assessment of how
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: crappy things went and why they went crappy?
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: Like, we're not even asking. Like, there are some people
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: that are saying bench Julio after he throws the ball
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: in the stands. No, I'm not even asking for that.
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: Just be like, hey, dude, get your head in the game.
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: Let's go.
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: Like, even in these sort of situations, we got to
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: wake up.
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: That's all it takes. Jay is for Julio.
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: Somebody on our text line made a pretty good... Good
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: comparison here today.
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm going to read this out. This is from
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: the 425, by the way. Do you see the same
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: similarities that I see between DK Metcalf and Julio? Both
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: of them were beloved when they were drafted, had a
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: great statistical start to their careers, and became fan favorites,
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: and then haven't reached their potential productivity on the field
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: while becoming more of a headache to the fans with
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: their antics.
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: I don't. Well, I mean, the fans do get pretty
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: annoyed with Julio. You think it's deserved? Yeah, for certain things.
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: I don't think he takes the game seriously enough. I
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: don't think he takes competition seriously enough. And it's been
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: beat into his head, I'm going to go out there
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: and have fun. And yes, you should have fun. But
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: there are moments where you need to lock in. And
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: a locked-in Julio is a dangerous Julio. I think it's
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: a pretty good comparison from the standpoint of, How much
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: ability there is, how much we feel it is still untapped,
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: and then a number of years go by where you're like, well,
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: you know what? I got to stop blaming the offensive
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: coordinator for not getting DK the ball and wonder why
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: DK's not taking that next step. And I think from
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: that standpoint, it's a pretty apt comparison. I don't think
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: Julio is nearly as I'll say it. Selfish as DK? Like,
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: DK was selfish.
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: He doesn't actively hurt the team as much.
• 28:03
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: When DK was not getting the football and then he
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: would get frustrated and he'd commit 15-yard penalties or some
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: cornerback challenged him that, hey, I could beat you up.
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: I'm going to try to right now. And I don't
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: care if I have teammates that don't want me to
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: do that right now. I'm going to do it anyway
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: because I'm a man. I don't think that that's Julio.
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: But with Julio, I mean, just the examples of, remember
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: the time that he almost got hit with the bat
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: at third base and then he just wandered off and
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: was laughing with the Yankees bench and was like, I
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: almost got hit by a bat. Did you see me
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: jump it? It was a live ball. That was funny. Oh,
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: live ball. I just got tagged out at third. That stuff.
• 28:51
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: I don't think he's locked in on, I mean, I've
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: said it all the time. Greatness is having great ability,
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: which he has, great opportunity, which he's been given, and
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: then pursuing greatness greatly. He doesn't do that. Yeah, I
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: agree with that.
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: And I really agree with the untapped potential part, because
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: we see all the tools with DK and with Julio. Like,
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: these guys could be special. And for whatever reason, there's
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: something that hasn't locked in or clicked mentally with them.
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: And I think And DK was.
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: Really good here.
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: And Julio has been really good here.
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: This isn't saying that they're terrible players. They did trade DK,
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: but they don't need to trade Julio. They don't need
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: to do anything like that. But for him to hit the...
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: superstar status that we thought he could do after that
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: rookie year he needs to be better well.
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: That's just pure longevity if baseball players had the lifespan
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: career lifespan of football players i think you would be
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: thinking about trading julio yeah good point you know um
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: you know, DK was getting ready to enter a contract
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: and they knew they weren't going to pay him. So
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: they traded him in the, at the right time. Julio's
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: locked up for a while and he's young enough that
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: we could still, we can still hold out hope that
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: he's going to reach that potential, but it is frustrating
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: to keep waiting on it year after year. And after
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: a while, you do have to start blaming the coaches
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: and wonder why Julio hasn't taken the next step. What
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: is he doing? That's keeping him from getting to the
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: next step. Final thing is chaos for kids. I want
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: Laz Montes to play more. Yes. I want Michael. I
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: like that Michael Arroyo is playing and I get the
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: argument right now because most people think that they're done
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: and I understand that. And you want to see, hey,
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: let's see Arroyo and Montes at least for these last
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: 12 games. But Anders, for the life of me, I
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: don't know when you are in must-win situation. Cole Young
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: was the best player on the field Friday and then
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: he knocked in five runs on Saturday and you benched
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: him on Sunday. For Michael Arroyo. Yeah, and... What on
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: earth are we... If you want to try to get
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: Michael Arroyo at bats against the lefty, find it somewhere else. Exactly.
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: You don't take out the hottest hitter of the weekend.
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: What kind of is he's played almost every game this year.
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: And when he's locked back in.
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: Now we're going to, it's getting hot again. We're going
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: to bench him. I mean, he's been facing lefties all
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: season long and now you're going to sit Cole young.
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: That doesn't make any sense to me at all.
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: It doesn't make any sense to me either. I was
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: advocating for a Royal to play more going into Saturday's game.
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: He had went like a week without playing. And like,
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: at that point we were like, why are we calling
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: this guy up? He needs to, if we're, trying to
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: think about his development, if he's not going to help
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: this team here, trying to get to the playoffs, and
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: needs to be getting at bats, period, no matter where
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: it is. But then he comes in Saturday, gets his
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: first hit, first home run, all that stuff, and then
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: you want to kind of reward the guy. Weird how
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: you didn't do that with Laz Montez after his. But
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: at the same time, yeah.
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: But what about Cole Young at short then? Something. If
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: he can only play second... Cole Young can play short
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: and a pinch and he can play it as well
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: as JP. Then sit JP for goodness sake.
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: And that's, that's the issue with me. If you're thinking about, okay,
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: I want to play the young guys to see what
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: we have for 2027. If that's really where you're at.
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: Great. Isn't Cole Young part of 2027? Yes.
• 32:22
  Speaker 5: So.
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: JP's not. No, exactly. That's my point. So like the,
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: the thing is. JP can play third too, by the way,
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: he's already played third base this year. Exactly. Yeah. So
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: I don't, You want to get him into the lineup.
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: There's other ways to do it. It's been all season
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: with questionable decisions like this. All season. Who to start,
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: when to bench, guys.
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: It's weird times, too, man. I just don't understand the
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: thought process.
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: We'll close out with one last thing next on Sports
• 32:50
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• 33:08
  Speaker 1: out our first show of this new era of Chuck
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: in the Mornings with Anders Hurst. Don't forget Ashley and
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: Ian today at noon. Greg's still out of town, right?
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: He's still in Hawaii. Who's filling in next? Benton. Is
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: it Benton again?
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: Oh, man.
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: Bento. He better not rub it in that he whip
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: me in fantasy football because I will slash his tires.
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: You know his car? I'll figure it out. It's the
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: one that's got Kraken stickers all over it. It's true.
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: Kraken stickers, Dodgers stickers.
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. For every comment he makes, I will slash
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: a tire. Okay. Mike, you listening? Watch out. Better not
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: rub it in. All right, let's go ahead and do
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: our one last thing. You guys know how this is done.
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: That's not changing in the new era of the show. So, Anders,
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: get us started.
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  Speaker 3: Well, this is your obligatory two minutes of soccer content here.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, boy. I thought of you yesterday. I'm like, am
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: I going to have to talk about soccer tomorrow? Because
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: I saw Manchester United was playing. Manchester City. Manchester City.
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  Speaker 3: That's exactly where I'm going with this. Because if you
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: thought the Michigan one-second debacle was bad, This is even worse.
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  Speaker 1: Way worse.
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  Speaker 3: In one of the biggest games of the year, it
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: was 0-0 going into, I think it was the 60-something
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: minute or whatever. And Manchester City scores a goal to
• 34:38
  Speaker 3: take the lead in what should have been the most
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: obvious offsides call of all time. First, they call it
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: offsides on the field. They then take it to VAR
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  Speaker 3: and overturn the decision to say good goal And there's
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: just zero reason it should have been included. There's a
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: bunch of rules and stuff. I won't bore you with
• 34:59
  Speaker 3: all of that. I'll make the equivalent in football terms.
• 35:03
  Speaker 3: It would be like if a game-winning play for a
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: touchdown ended up... They originally said it was a penalty
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: for offensive pass interference with either the pick play.
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  Speaker 1: And then.
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  Speaker 3: It was the most obvious, yeah, that's a pick play.
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  Speaker 3: You can't do that. And then they go to video
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  Speaker 3: review and overturn it. And there's just no reason to
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: overturn it.
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  Speaker 1: Do they have a reputation in that league of doing
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: screwy things like this?
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  Speaker 3: More so probably than other sports. Just because the laws
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: and everything is very subjective. You can interpret like handballs
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: and fouls like it's... It's a sliding scale, right? It's
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: not just yes or no. But with something like offsides,
• 35:50
  Speaker 3: it's very, very easily yes or no. And they have
• 35:54
  Speaker 3: the semi-automated thing that you guys saw during the World
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: Cup that shows him and puts him offsides. The big
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: issue is there's a guy that, before the guy that
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: scored the goal, Erling Haaland, one of the players for
• 36:08
  Speaker 3: Manchester City goes to head the ball and he misses it.
• 36:12
  Speaker 3: And the Manchester United defender comes in, defends the guy.
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  Speaker 3: But because the guy... So the guy that was going
• 36:19
  Speaker 3: to head the ball but missed it was clearly off sides.
• 36:23
  Speaker 3: But the rule is if you go and play the ball,
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: you force someone to defend you, then you're part of
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: the play. It's off sides. But they just overlooked that rule,
• 36:32
  Speaker 3: called the goal on sides. Manchester City wins 1-0. That's
• 36:36
  Speaker 3: the only goal in the game. Obviously just... And it
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: should never have happened. Did cities burn? Did cities burn
• 36:42
  Speaker 3: over this? I mean, literally the referees said the on-field
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: decision was a poor decision-making. In this occasion, VAR did
• 36:52
  Speaker 3: not recognize and made a bad judgment call. And, you know,
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: they've been communicated that it was just an incorrect call
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: in the moment. And just how you missed this obvious
• 37:03
  Speaker 3: call in a big game like this is beyond me.
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: Travis, who's your team in the Premier League? You love it.
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: I do love. I just love the league in general.
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: I never really had a team. I kind of like Chelsea.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, okay.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. Really? But I know. Sorry. Really?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: Like all my buddies are Liverpool fans. Oh, that's even grosser. Jeez.
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: What's your one last thing? Okay. My one last thing.
• 37:28
  Speaker 5: I'm going to talk about fantasy football because everyone likes
• 37:30
  Speaker 5: to hear about your fantasy football team.
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: I really do want to hear about it. So I
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: am three points up on Christopher Kidd. Whoa. And he's done.
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: He's done for the week. Okay. I still have my
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: defense to play. Bench it. I have to bench it, right? Yes.
• 37:46
  Speaker 5: Absolutely no way I should play my defense here.
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: Oh, I never even thought of that.
• 37:51
  Speaker 5: You can get negative if they just run up. I
• 37:54
  Speaker 5: have the Denver defense. If Kansas City runs the score up,
• 37:57
  Speaker 5: there's a potential of me getting negative points.
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: Is there a rule against that? No, not at all.
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: You have to bench it. So I have to bench it.
• 38:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 38:04
  Speaker 4: Okay. Okay.
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: That's what I'm going to do. Why would you not then?
• 38:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: I guess there's no reason not to.
• 38:11
  Speaker 5: Maybe just to run up the scoreboard just for, you know,
• 38:14
  Speaker 5: bragging rights.
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: The only thing that I would think of is just like, oh,
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: come on. That's not even, that's dirty.
• 38:20
  Speaker 3: No, that's how you play the game.
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 38:22
  Speaker 3: That's how I feel about it. When I play fantasy
• 38:24
  Speaker 3: hockey and I'm up and I have a goalie, I
• 38:26
  Speaker 3: bench him.
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: Okay. Yeah. that's how it goes. Yeah. I think you
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: got to get the win.
• 38:30
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: Trust me. I would like to have a win right now.
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: Final thing. I'm just going to mention this quickly. Uh, my, uh,
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: one last thing is, uh, did you see the play
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: by Tyler Owens? There are football people saying this is
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: maybe the greatest football play I've ever seen. Really? It
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: happened on special teams. Uh, he plays for the commanders
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: and he beat, you should see the run that he
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: goes on. It's like that, um, He can't be stopped.
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: They were calling it Hulk smash, and he's not even
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: that big of a guy. So he's the gunner. He
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: beats the two guys, splits the double team, and then
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: just proceeds to run over five, six guys on his
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: way down, and you think that the video's going to
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: end there, and then no. The punt returner, he absolutely
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: is the guy that makes the tackle, too, and hits
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: him and lifts him off his feet and drives him
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: onto the back of another one of his teammates. It
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: was one of the... I mean, for a special teams play,
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: it was... something to behold, but there are actual football
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: analysts that are like, that might be the best football
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: play I've ever seen in my life.
• 39:36
  Speaker 3: I didn't see the play.
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: I have to go check it out. Worth checking out.
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: I just watched it, and that is incredible. It's incredible!
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: I thought it was like AI. He injected himself with
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: something and just went off.
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: Right. You got to go see it. We'll talk about
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: it tomorrow. Coming up next, Benson, Jess, Sports Radio 93.3, KJRFM.