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Best of Chuck & Buck 3-18 · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 2: here on this Wednesday home day. It is chucking back
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  Speaker 2: We welcome you in. We've got you for the next
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  Speaker 2: four hours in all sorts of things to discuss. My goodness,
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  Speaker 2: do we have a lot of topics to break down
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  Speaker 2: this morning, and so we'll get right to it. Ashley
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  Speaker 2: Ryan is here, former Mariner Bucky Jacobson. My name is
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  Speaker 2: Chuck Powell, and we welcome you to Chuck and Buck
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  Speaker 2: in the mornings. We will find out what's on tap
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  Speaker 2: for the bulk of our show here in a matter
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  Speaker 2: of minutes, I should say that we have some breaking
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  Speaker 2: news to start the morning. The WNBA has come to terms.
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  Speaker 2: They have reached a collective bargaining agreement that looks like
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  Speaker 2: verbally and so it looks like the season will go
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  Speaker 2: on as planned. I guess they haven't signed the dotted
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  Speaker 2: line yet, but obviously that was a contentious situation here
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  Speaker 2: in the off season, and there was some doubt whether
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  Speaker 2: or not they were going to be able to satisfy
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  Speaker 2: both sides before their proposed deadline, and that maybe the
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  Speaker 2: season was at risk. Well, it looks like pay raises
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  Speaker 2: for everybody across the board. Collective bargaining or geriment has
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  Speaker 2: been reached. I won't get into any details. I'm not
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  Speaker 2: sure if I really know any, but did want to
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  Speaker 2: pass that along that overnight I think at two o'clock
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  Speaker 2: in the morning, they reached a settlement, at least verbally,
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  Speaker 2: and so it looks like the WNBA will not slow
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  Speaker 2: its progress here as they will continue to play hoops.
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  Speaker 7: That's usually when I make my best deals.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, two am, Yeah, two o'clock in the morning.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, lots of negotiating skills at two am.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, two o'clock in the morning usually when I'm my sharpest.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, right, have solved most of the world's problems. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: somewhere between two and four am.
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  Speaker 2: That is very funny now that you bring it up,
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  Speaker 2: because you know, I always say that worry is a
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  Speaker 2: weed that grow is the only weed that grows in
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  Speaker 2: the dark. And when you sit there in the dark
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  Speaker 2: at two o'clock and you can't sleep, you just think,
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  Speaker 2: you imagine in your head something far worse, yeah, than
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  Speaker 2: what it really is. So I'm sure they didn't fall
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  Speaker 2: asleep and then couldn't sleep while they were negotiating. I'm
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  Speaker 2: sure they tried to stay as sharp as possible. But
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  Speaker 2: you're right, two o'clock doesn't seem like the best time
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  Speaker 2: to be making your best decisions.
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  Speaker 7: I usually.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Well, good morning to you. We've got a
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  Speaker 2: lot to discuss, including the WBC, which ended last night
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  Speaker 2: in thrilling fashion, Venezuela knocking off the US by a
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  Speaker 2: final score of three to two. Geno swore as the
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  Speaker 2: lovable hero, gets the RBI double to win the game,
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  Speaker 2: and Venezuela closes out the US, which had a hard
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  Speaker 2: time hitting the baseball last night. Without Bryce Harper, I'm
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  Speaker 2: not even sure they had a hard hit ball. He
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  Speaker 2: had a single and a home run in the game,
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  Speaker 2: a huge home run, felt monster at the time. But
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  Speaker 2: Venezuela answered the very next half inning and it was
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  Speaker 2: all that they would need for a three to two win.
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  Speaker 2: And so they are WBC champions and certainly the most
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  Speaker 2: discussed WBC event that we have had todate. It has
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  Speaker 2: certainly inspired Rob Manfred. You could just see the wheels
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  Speaker 2: turning in his head about how much bigger he could
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  Speaker 2: make this in future years, which are some things that
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  Speaker 2: we can talk about later in the show. But as
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  Speaker 2: for the event itself, great tournament, great championship game last night,
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  Speaker 2: and congratulations to Venezuela. They earned it and they out
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  Speaker 2: pitched us, They out hit us. I think they outplayed
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  Speaker 2: us last night. I don't know why the US couldn't
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  Speaker 2: square up a single fastball, but I will say that
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  Speaker 2: the pitchers for Venezuela did a phenomenal job of staying
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  Speaker 2: on the corners, staying on the outer perimeter of the zone.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think they gave a fat pitch to the
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  Speaker 2: US all night long. I'm not sure the US squared
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  Speaker 2: anything up other than Bryce Harper all night long. And
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  Speaker 2: so congrats to Venezuela certainly well earned.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean they came to play. It wasn't ay,
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  Speaker 3: you didn't give it away. They they kind of went
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  Speaker 3: out there and took it. I think Rodriguez, the starting
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  Speaker 3: pitcher for Venezuela, was looked like he was in mid
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  Speaker 3: mid season form. I mean he was dotting corners and
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  Speaker 3: pitching better than he typically would.
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  Speaker 6: I guess you know you got rough pitch that well
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  Speaker 6: in five years.
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  Speaker 2: Well, he did it last night. Last night.
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  Speaker 6: He was he was fantastic. He found away last night.
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  Speaker 3: He you know, he said afterwards that that his first
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  Speaker 3: outing in WBC was trying to overthrow everything. And then
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  Speaker 3: Johan Santana, a Venezuelan guy that's coaching on the team,
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  Speaker 3: just said, dude, relax, go have fun, enjoy it, and
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  Speaker 3: stay calm. And he looked about as calm as you
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  Speaker 3: could possibly look, considering you're going against I mean a
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  Speaker 3: murderers row, which is that that American offense is a
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  Speaker 3: murder's row. And yet if he's dotting his pitches, then
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  Speaker 3: he's getting ahead, and then when he would make a mistake,
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  Speaker 3: when he would throw some pitches that were decent pitches
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  Speaker 3: to hit, they were swinging through them or fouling them off,
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  Speaker 3: and you're just not going to be able to get
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  Speaker 3: away with that. You're not going to It kind of
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  Speaker 3: felt like that the entire tournament. To me, it felt
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  Speaker 3: like America was just like this, Like they kind of
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  Speaker 3: felt like, we are so stacked, it's just a matter
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  Speaker 3: of time until two or three guys run into one
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  Speaker 3: in a row. Well, that's just not the way that
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  Speaker 3: baseball works. You might but when it's a one and
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  Speaker 3: go home type thing, not a series or you know,
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  Speaker 3: anything like that, where you're you know, best out of
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  Speaker 3: five or best out of seven, you kind of have
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  Speaker 3: to show up and make all twenty seven outs counting.
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  Speaker 3: And I don't think they necessarily did. It was it
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  Speaker 3: was something, You're right. The home run by Bryce Miller
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  Speaker 3: was fun. It was It was cool when that happened.
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  Speaker 3: And yeah, I loved Bryce Miller home.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, Christ Harper, Yeah, I like, oh he's healthy, Oh
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  Speaker 8: my gosh, offensive firepower.
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  Speaker 2: I knew we could hit.
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  Speaker 3: I was just watching a video right throw yesterday that's
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  Speaker 3: why that popped in my head and the same name.
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  Speaker 3: But I it was cool when he when he hit that,
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  Speaker 3: I thought, Okay, there you go. And yet there was
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  Speaker 3: not a whole heck of a lot of I don't know,
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  Speaker 3: opportunities necessarily, they had a couple, and I'm not really
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  Speaker 3: sure if I'm real happy about Calciton on the bench
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  Speaker 3: for one of them in particular.
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  Speaker 8: It is fun though, because you you know, just talking
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  Speaker 8: about the US firepower and the fact that you you know,
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  Speaker 8: at any moment, the possibility that they could have run
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  Speaker 8: into a couple in a row, and that game is
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  Speaker 8: totally different that it was such a suspenseful, exciting game
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  Speaker 8: because you're only down to nothing, you have multiple times
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  Speaker 8: where with two outs you've got one person on base
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  Speaker 8: and anybody that could have changed the game in that moment,
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  Speaker 8: and then with it continuing to not happen and not
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  Speaker 8: happen until Harper steps up. I mean, I was on
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  Speaker 8: the edge of my seat for that game.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: It was great.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean several games, several games have been that way.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it was a great event. It was a
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  Speaker 2: great game last night, and congratulations to Venezuela. And it
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  Speaker 2: was awesome to see how emotional all those guys were.
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  Speaker 2: But the one thing that I do want to push
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  Speaker 2: back on here this morning, and I don't know if
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  Speaker 2: we'll be able to even tackle this in just one conversation,
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  Speaker 2: but the one thing that I didn't want to hear
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  Speaker 2: when I woke up this morning or read when I
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  Speaker 2: went to social media, unfortunately, is the narrative that is
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  Speaker 2: being expressed apparently both on social media and apparently national broadcasts,
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  Speaker 2: and they're chalking it up to the US just doesn't
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  Speaker 2: care enough. And I think that that is so unfair.
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  Speaker 2: That's not the reason why the US lost the game
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  Speaker 2: last night. Can we live in a world is it
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  Speaker 2: reasonable to live in a world where Venezuela did care more?
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  Speaker 2: And there are reasons why they care more because they've
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  Speaker 2: never won the WBC, because they've their country right now
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  Speaker 2: is in turmoil and has been for a long time.
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  Speaker 2: And those players wore that onto the field. That was
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  Speaker 2: very clear that they were wearing that onto the field.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, Daniel Polinci is trying to close out the
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  Speaker 2: game and he's crying while he's doing it. Ronald Acunya
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  Speaker 2: couldn't soak the tears up while he was playing the
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  Speaker 2: outfield in the last inning, because they could taste how
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  Speaker 2: close that they were. Several of the Venezuelan players collapsed
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  Speaker 2: to their knees, including Gino, and immediately just praised God
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  Speaker 2: in that moment.
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  Speaker 7: And Lopez as their manager.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it did mean more to them. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: and I think that that is understandable why it did
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  Speaker 2: mean more to them. And yet the US did not
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  Speaker 2: lose the baseball game because they didn't care enough, because
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  Speaker 2: they didn't you know, they didn't show up at the ballpark,
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  Speaker 2: as you know, with more passion than what Venezuela did.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, baseball is a tricky game. Baseball. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: that's an All Star team that you're facing last night.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, the US wasn't the only team with an
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  Speaker 2: All Star team. Jackson Churio was hitting ninth for that team,
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  Speaker 2: for goodness. He's one of the best young players in
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  Speaker 2: the game. So it's a game though that if you
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  Speaker 2: play one time, one time, really anything can happen, more
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  Speaker 2: so than any other sport that is out there. And
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  Speaker 2: the Venezuela outplayed the US last night, They outpitched them
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  Speaker 2: last night in the game. They had more quality at
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  Speaker 2: bats than what the US did, and they won the
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  Speaker 2: game outright, But I just get tired of everybody playing
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  Speaker 2: the team I wanted to win, or maybe the team
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  Speaker 2: you didn't even want to win, but you couldn't wait
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  Speaker 2: to criticize. It's probably the better way to put it.
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  Speaker 2: As soon as they lose the game, there's got to
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  Speaker 2: be somebody at fault, some heads have got to roll,
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  Speaker 2: and all that reaction to events like this. Look, I
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  Speaker 2: don't again, I don't doubt for a second that Venezuela
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  Speaker 2: wanted it more. They wanted it more, but US bucket
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  Speaker 2: last night did not lose because they didn't care enough.
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  Speaker 2: They wanted it badly themselves. They didn't show, they didn't
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  Speaker 2: have bad at bats because they were just going through
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  Speaker 2: the paces. Mark DeRosa didn't make pitching changes based off
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  Speaker 2: he thought he had it in hand. And yet everybody
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  Speaker 2: went to bed last night point and fingers, and then
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  Speaker 2: I have to wake up and have to listen to
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  Speaker 2: three morons talk about it this morning on my drive in,
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  Speaker 2: and all they wanted to do is point fingers that
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  Speaker 2: the US doesn't care enough and that's the reason that
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  Speaker 2: we don't win WBCs.
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  Speaker 3: Well, yeah, it drives me nuts. Yeah, it's silly. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: just it's silly because of what you said at the beginning.
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  Speaker 3: There where any game of baseball you could literally have
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  Speaker 3: this year's Dodgers, which is about a stacked as you've
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  Speaker 3: ever seen a regular team, right Not not an all
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  Speaker 3: Star team or a WBC team like this, just a
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  Speaker 3: regular team in the MLB is about as stacked as possible.
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  Speaker 3: Put them against whichever roster you want, the worst one,
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  Speaker 3: and on any given day that that team can win.
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  Speaker 3: That's not even close to the discrepancy of US. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: if you want to say US has maybe more stars, okay,
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  Speaker 3: but that doesn't mean that the Venezuela is not jam
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  Speaker 3: packed like you said. I mean they have guys up
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  Speaker 3: and down that lineup that are big time players in
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  Speaker 3: big time you know, for multiple different organizations around baseball
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  Speaker 3: right now. So I mean, I think it is a
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  Speaker 3: fact that Venezuela cared more about winning this, yes, because
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  Speaker 3: of multiple reasons.
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  Speaker 6: It's there. This is not just their national pastime. This
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  Speaker 6: is it.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, baseball is it for them and for them
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  Speaker 3: to be able to wear you know, their country across
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  Speaker 3: their chest and be able to take something home to
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  Speaker 3: a country that's going through some stuff and has been
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  Speaker 3: for quite some time. Yeah, it means something. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: you could see it in the emotion that was pouring
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  Speaker 3: out of them. I don't think you would have seen
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  Speaker 3: the same emotion had just one thing flipped. If they,
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  Speaker 3: you know, in the eighth inning or ninth inning, there
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  Speaker 3: was a home run in America won, they would have
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  Speaker 3: been very happy. Those that think that America doesn't care,
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  Speaker 3: you would have seen them that they would have cared.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if it would have been to the
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  Speaker 3: point of tears. I don't know if d Ro would
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  Speaker 3: have been sobbing. You know, I don't think that it
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  Speaker 3: would have been the same. And yet that's that's okay,
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  Speaker 3: that's just that's kind of the beauty. If there is
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  Speaker 3: one thing that I really like about it, it's the
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  Speaker 3: fact that all of these different countries kind of come
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  Speaker 3: together and they play the game the way they want,
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  Speaker 3: the fans fan the way that they do. And I
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  Speaker 3: mean that's the first couple well, the first year that
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  Speaker 3: I went to Venezuela, first Winter ball that I played
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  Speaker 3: was in Venezuela, and it was the only way I
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  Speaker 3: could explain it was like what I've heard European soccer
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  Speaker 3: fans are like.
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  Speaker 2: That's what Venezuela.
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  Speaker 3: And Dominican Latin American fans are like when it comes
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  Speaker 3: to baseball. It's just it's the fervor around the how
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  Speaker 3: intense it is in the stands is way different than
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  Speaker 3: Americans are just playing as simple. It's that is so
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  Speaker 3: big for them, and so they kind of played like
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  Speaker 3: there was all of that, like the entire country is watching.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if the entire country of America of
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  Speaker 3: US was watching the WBC like I know for a
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  Speaker 3: fact Venezuela was.
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  Speaker 2: And I need to wedge this in because this is
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  Speaker 2: very important. We started this entire tournament talking about But
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  Speaker 2: in the US we root for our local team more.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think that that's a bad thing. It's just
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  Speaker 2: what we grew up on. We grew up on, you know,
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  Speaker 2: you rooted for the that's what you had. We didn't
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  Speaker 2: even have the WBC. The Olympics sometimes they have baseball,
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  Speaker 2: sometimes they don't. And so here in this country, we
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  Speaker 2: treat the World Series as a bigger deal than a
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  Speaker 2: relatively new exhibition tournament that takes place in the spring.
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  Speaker 2: And if our players play that way as well, if
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  Speaker 2: they take their major league teams and major league careers
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  Speaker 2: more seriously than the WBC, we can't criticize them on
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  Speaker 2: both ends. I mean, we said on this show, when
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  Speaker 2: Julio said the WBC is more important and people had
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  Speaker 2: a problem with that, we said, I don't have a
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  Speaker 2: problem with that. We don't have a problem with Julio
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  Speaker 2: caring more about winning the WBC. Different upbringing, different culture,
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  Speaker 2: different background there, and obviously Venezue it was more important
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  Speaker 2: for them to win the WBC than individually it is
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  Speaker 2: for them to win a World Series. But that's not
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  Speaker 2: the way that we treat it here in America. And
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  Speaker 2: so why are we now holding it against our players
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  Speaker 2: that maybe they do treat the world Derek Jeter said
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  Speaker 2: it last night. No World Series way more important, right,
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  Speaker 2: Why are we then angry that our American team doesn't
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  Speaker 2: treat the WBC as big a deal as the World
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  Speaker 2: Series when we treat it that way, I don't get
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  Speaker 2: the argument, I don't get the criticism, and it frankly
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  Speaker 2: just rubs me the wrong way.
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  Speaker 8: Well, and I would just say to the people that
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  Speaker 8: say our players don't care, if they didn't care, they
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  Speaker 8: wouldn't be there first of all, because they do care
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  Speaker 8: more about their major league baseball careers and their major
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  Speaker 8: league baseball teams, and that is the priority.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 8: They're not just signing up to play in the WBC
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  Speaker 8: so that they can skip spring training. Baseball players, baseball
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  Speaker 8: players are regimented, right. There is a routine, There is
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  Speaker 8: a process to get you ready for the whole season.
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  Speaker 8: Does spring training become a grind?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 7: Are you ready for it to be over? Yeah? Are
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  Speaker 7: you signing up for something just so you can skip
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  Speaker 7: three weeks of it?
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  Speaker 8: No, because that's your profession, that's your process, and that's
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  Speaker 8: how you feel like you get your success for the years.
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  Speaker 8: So in a lot of cases, it's it's taking away
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  Speaker 8: from their regular routine and their regular preparation for the season,
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  Speaker 8: and they're doing something out of their comfort zone to
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  Speaker 8: support their country, to represent their country, and that's a
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  Speaker 8: big deal. You heard a lot of them say I'm
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  Speaker 8: really excited wear USA across my chest.
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  Speaker 7: It is a big deal.
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  Speaker 8: They did care, it is just a different type of
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  Speaker 8: caring or maybe a little Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: As you said, they they just don't show it the same.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: And Venezuela, it was awesome to watch their tears streaming
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  Speaker 8: down their faces, and I sat there and watched that
• 16:47
  Speaker 8: entire party, the.
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: First time I've ever done that, watch the entire.
• 16:53
  Speaker 8: Yeah, and especially when the team I'm supporting loses. But
• 16:57
  Speaker 8: I didn't feel like my team really lost. I just
• 17:00
  Speaker 8: felt like that was an awesome game. And look at
• 17:02
  Speaker 8: how happy Venezuelan is. That's that is just that's what
• 17:06
  Speaker 8: this should be about. Like look at the pride that
• 17:09
  Speaker 8: is on their faces.
• 17:09
  Speaker 7: I loved it.
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Well, I mean the play and simple bottom line
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: truth of it is is I mean the emotion that
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: you see out of the Latin American players is that's
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: how they play the game, that's how they live. I mean,
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: if you walk into a family dinner in Venezuela, it's
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: the emotion around it is far different than just a
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: family dinner here. And that's not right or wrong, it's
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: just the way that it is. And so they play
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: the game with a different type of passion like it
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: it comes out. That doesn't mean that there's not the
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: same intensity going on inside of the minds and inside
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: of the hearts of the guys that had USA across
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: their chest. And so it's a very lazy narrative. It's
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: a very well because I couldn't see them hooping and
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: hollering to the same level.
• 17:55
  Speaker 6: They didn't care as much. Well, okay, don't.
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: They probably don't care the same, but it doesn't mean
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: they don't care.
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: And so today doesn't mean they didn't lose because they
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: don't care.
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: And it most certainly doesn't mean that they lost because
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: they didn't care. There's no, that's not a correlation or causation.
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: There's nothing about that that is the same in baseball,
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: sometimes caring too much, it gets in the way, gets
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: in the way of you performing. That's the part of Yes,
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: that's part of the reason where you will see the
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: highs and lows, and in baseball you want to kind
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: of stay even keel and you want to stay kind
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: of on the same level. Most of the Latin American
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: players that I played with, that's one of the hard
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: things for them to get to kind of rein in
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: is to not get too high when things are going good,
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: because it's really hard to not fall off a cliff
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: when it starts to go bad.
• 18:41
  Speaker 6: And so I mean, it's it's not a fault. I
• 18:43
  Speaker 6: don't I'm with you.
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: I woke up to basically even last night, you know,
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: just everybody wanted to start pointing fingers. And that's what
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: social media does. It gives everybody an opportunity to just
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: start calling somebody an idiot or somebody doesn't care, or
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: I can say I can call somebody out and criticize them.
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: Go ahead if you want.
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: I can just promise issue that there's nobody on Team
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: USA that isn't disappointed that they didn't bring home the
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: championship for themselves and for the country. Do they care
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: to the point of it's going to affect their season
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: and now all of a sudden, they don't really even
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: care as much about the World Series that is what
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: they're really going to be striving for. No, that's not
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: the case, and it's not the case Venezuelan guys, even
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: if they care more, because this is something they get
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: to take home to their country, whereas a World Series
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: championship individually, they can go home with it, but they
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: don't take it home with Venezuela across the chest. They're
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: still going to be fighting their butts off all season
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: long because they want to win another championship.
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: This is just one that's different and for those emotional. Yeah.
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: For those that don't can't get that, then that's just
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: that's on them, not on me.
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: All Right, we're gonna talk a lot more about this.
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: They got a lot of other angles, including the Cal angle,
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: to discuss about WBC game last night.
• 19:49
  Speaker 6: But let's find out what's on tap for the rest
• 19:51
  Speaker 6: of the show.
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: What's on TEP, what's on TEP? All right, Venezuela three
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: US two. It's a venuze that wins the WBC for
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: the first time in their nation's history. As for the
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: Major League Baseball season, kind of feels good to know
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: that all the Mariners are heading back to Peoria, Bizardo
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: and Cal and Spire. Everybody's going to be back here
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: within the next twenty four to forty eight hours and
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: the team will get started for the season, which begins
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: in eight days. Might begin without JP Crawford. He has
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: a lingering shoulder issue. They are behaving as if it's
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: not a big deal, but it's a big enough deal
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: that they're not sure he's going to start the season
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: as the opening day shortstop. Another thing that we'll discuss
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: later on in the show. NCAA tournament got started last night. Boy,
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: I really love that you've gone to this sixty eight
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: team field. It's not like these games were played on
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: the back burner or anything. Texas sixty eight sixty six
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: over North Carolina State and Howard eighty six eighty three
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: over Baltimore County last night, so they're in the field
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: of sixty four. Two more games tonight Prairie View A
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: and m versus Lehigh and Miami of Ohio versus SMU.
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: Then the field of sixty four. The real madness begins
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: on Thursday right here at Sports Radio ninety three point
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: three KHRFM.
• 21:14
  Speaker 6: Make sure you fill out your bracket.
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: You have until nine o'clock tomorrow morning to do so
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: to get into our annual contest NCAA Women's Tournament U
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: dubbed South Dakota State. They'll play Friday at eleven thirty.
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: NBA expansion continues to be a hot topic here in Seattle.
• 21:29
  Speaker 6: We will discuss it a little bit more today.
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: Krack and loss last night to the Tampa Bay Lightning
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: and lopsided fashion. Six to two was the final score there.
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: And the Seahawks are going to open the National Football
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: League season not just as world champs, but for the
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: first time ever in NFL history on a Wednesday. They
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: will play on a Wednesday and not the traditional Thursday
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: opener in the National Football League. That is to accommodate
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: a global game that will be played on Thursday night.
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: And speaking of the we have a lot of topics
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: to discuss Seahawks wise. Today, we're going to discuss the
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: secondary next Sports Radio ninety three point three KHRFM. Another
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: segment here on Chuck a back in the mornings. We've
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: got al Kiniski joining us a little bit later on.
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: We're going to green jack a draft today and much
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: much more. But I got to talk to some Seahawks
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: football today. I'll tell you, you hear that expression where
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: there's smoke, there's fire, and it usually does lend itself
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: quite well to sports talk radio. When you start hearing
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: rumors of dissatisfaction or a person could be on the
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: trading block. I mean, there's a reason for it, because
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: more often than not, it does mean there's something going
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: on behind the scenes. We had a lot of leaks,
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: got a lot of leaks, you people out there, and
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: so usually where there's smoke with something, you find out
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: eventually where what the fire is all about. And yet
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: this offseason in the National Football League, smoke equals fire. Like,
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: if there's a rumor that somebody's gonna get moved, we're
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: gonna get it traded. That dude's getting traded. Yeah, now
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: it might be mixed by a poor you know, medical evaluation,
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: but a J. Brown's getting traded. Jalen Waddle got traded yesterday.
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: If there's smoke, there's been fired. Kyner Murray was not kept.
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: Who a tongue of Iiloa was not kept? Uh, it's
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: that's kind of the off season that we've had so
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: far in the National Football League. So when I hear
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: that the Miami Dolphins a lot of smoke rolling out
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: of Miami these days, are shopping devon eight chan or
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: is it a chain?
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: Now?
• 23:37
  Speaker 7: I think it's eight chan still.
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: Well, now that Trevor at t N has cleared up
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: that his name is actually pronounced a chan, yes, then
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: maybe a chan becomes a chain so we can know
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: the difference. That's a tough one is they're not spelled
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: the same.
• 23:51
  Speaker 7: It's true.
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: Uh, but Devin A Chan of the Miami Dolphins, I
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: mean they're rebuilding. He's on one more, one more on
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: his deal. I think they're going to move him. I
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: don't know why you would keep him if you're gonna
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: rebuild things, get a nice draft pick for him here
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: this offseason, and I saw a lot of stuff from
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: Seahawks fans like, all right, here you go, this is
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: our answer for losing ken Walker. And I read a
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: lot more stuff from people across the NFL. Don't let
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: him go to the Seahawks, please. I mean, you're already
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: world champs, and if you can add this playmaker who's
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: a little bit more consistent than ken Walker man and
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: maybe a little faster than ken Walker, it sort of
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: makes sense to me. I don't know if John's gonna
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: let ken Walker walk and then go trade and use
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: one of his few precious draft picks in this draft
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: to go get Devin h Chan. I don't know if
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: that's what he's planning. He's probably not going to do that,
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: but certainly there are a lot Seahawk fans excited about
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: the idea, and there are a lot of people that
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: are fans of other teams that don't.
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: Want to see these two come together. If there was yeah,
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: I don't know for sure, if there's another move that
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: you could make that would make it more frightening for
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: the rest of the NFC West, or just the NFC
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: or the NFL for that matter. I mean, I think
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: this guy is better than ken Walker. I think he's
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: I think he's faster. I think he's definitely more consistent.
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: Not that ken Walker isn't good and couldn't doesn't have
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: the potential to be actually great we saw towards the
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: end of the season. But this guy, I mean, this
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: guy has the potential, you know, being like a two
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: thousand yards from you know, from the line of scrimmage
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: type of a guy. How he catches the ball to
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: the backfield, He's obviously home run threat, just like ken
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: Walker was. Yeah, that would be one that if I'm
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: if I'm like the Niners and I'm thinking we're still
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: sticking around, We're still going to be competitive in this thing,
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: and I'm hearing that, I'm like, Okay, maybe we have
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: Maybe we need to get Christian McCaffrey a one bee
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: maybe something like that.
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: I wouldn't let him go to Seattle.
• 26:03
  Speaker 8: I think the thing that makes you think that it's
• 26:05
  Speaker 8: even more of a possibility, too, is the fact that
• 26:08
  Speaker 8: Schefter tweeted out this morning that the Dolphins have been
• 26:11
  Speaker 8: at whenever they've been asked about trading him, they have
• 26:15
  Speaker 8: said he's not available. Well, clearly, Schefter's putting that out
• 26:18
  Speaker 8: there because the Dolphins want better offers for him and
• 26:20
  Speaker 8: they haven't been impressed with what they're getting, because that
• 26:23
  Speaker 8: would just I mean, that's the way Schefter works.
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: I mean, I guess they could sign a contract extension
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: to him right now if they identify him at twenty
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: four years old, Like, no, that's a building block. I mean,
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: I know we're rebuilding, but that's a building block where
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: maybe they didn't feel the same way about Waddle, who
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: is a little more inconsistent. But it's really hard for
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: me to believe that if you're going full scale rebuild
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: and that's what they're doing, that you're going to identify
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: a running back.
• 26:51
  Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, that's what you're going to lifespan, right, Yeah.
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: That that's going to be a building block for the
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: team going forward. I think they'll move him, whether they
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: move him to the Seahawks, I don't know. I would too,
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: And it's probably gonna cost you a second round that
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: you're second rounder, and maybe a pick again another pick
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: next year, not a first rounder. I don't think he'll
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: go for a first rounder. Maybe maybe that's the last
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: pick of the first round, but you only have control
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: over him for one more year. But this is somebody
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: that thirteen hundred yards this past season. Ken Walker just
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: never gave us one of those seasons five point seven
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: yards per carry, caught sixty seven passes this past year,
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: seventy eight the year before. And think about it also
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: this way. The Dolphins were so broken this past season
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: at times. I mean, people knew who was getting the
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: ball most of the time. I think he was the key,
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: and people still couldn't figure out a way to stop him.
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: Let's put it this way. I don't think he's going
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: I don't think John Schnider's gonna pull the trigger on this.
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: I don't think that he'll let Walker walk just to
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: give a draft pick to a guy with one year
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: left on his contract. Don't think that's John Schneider's mode
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: of operation. But if he did pull off the trade,
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: I'd be really excited about this.
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: If you can get him for one draft pick, I
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: don't even care if it's you're the thirty second overall.
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: You get him for one draft pick, I mean, I
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: saw a tweet from Softy Go get him. I don't
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: care if he only has one year in his contract,
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: Go get him. Get me another super Bowl.
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: You are.
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: It is such a huge step in that direction for
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: what Because it's super cheap. It falls in line with
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, a draft pick, but you only get
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: it for one year. You're renting a player, but you're
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: renting a player for an entire season. He's been you know,
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: fairly healthy majority of his career, and it is.
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: And you don't have to run him between the guards
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: like Mike McDaniel for whatever reason did. You can actually
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: use him when he's where he's most effective on the
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: edge well and you know, in the in the run
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: zone blocking scheme.
• 28:51
  Speaker 8: And players do like to win too, so you never know,
• 28:54
  Speaker 8: if he comes here, wins the Super Bowl, he might
• 28:55
  Speaker 8: want to stay here.
• 28:56
  Speaker 7: I mean worked for Rashichi.
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: Well, then you're gonna have to pay him twelve to
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: fifteen million dollars a year, which they didn't want to
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: do that this year, right with the guy they had. Right,
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: So this is where you get. You get to sign JSN,
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: you get to sign Devin Witherspoon, and you get to
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: run it back with a very similar type of a
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: running back that you had last year that won year
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: the Super Bowl. It's almost like you're renting him. Yeah,
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: you're renting them, but you're written him for a year.
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: And I mean to me, the thirty second overall pick, Yeah,
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: you could get a building blocker. You could get a
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: piece for the future, or you could get a piece
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: for this year coming up that is almost certainly going
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: to be better than whoever you get at thirty two.
• 29:34
  Speaker 8: Well, yeah, and you don't know when Charbonne is going
• 29:36
  Speaker 8: to be healthy and Charboney I think his contracts up
• 29:38
  Speaker 8: after next year, right, so you never know what your
• 29:41
  Speaker 8: plan moving forward would be.
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well they're going I'm sure their plan is that
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: they're going to draft somebody at running back this year,
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: one way or the other, even if you did trade
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: for a Chan at this point, but it will be
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: an exciting addition. I don't think I'm going to bank
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: on it. I don't think I'm going to bet on
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: it either. But and I know they're saying he's not
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: for sale, but you know, where there's smoke, there's fire.
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: Smoke equals fire this offseason, and it doesn't really make
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: sense for the Dolphins to keep this guy. No, no,
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: this is the one we're keeping. Get rid of everybody else,
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: but this is the one we're keeping. All Right, We're
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: gonna get reckless at breakfast next Chucking Buck Sports Radio
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: ninety three point three kh A RFM. It's the thing
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: about computers, that's the thing about a smarty pants ai.
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: All right, it's Chuck Buck and Ashley with your time
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: to get a little reckless at breakfast right here on
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: the program. And look, I know it would be a
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: fool's errand to sit here and take this week's NBA
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: expansion news and just assume that the Sonics were returning
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: to Seattle. You just can't assume it. I think it's
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: gonna happen, but I probably can't assume it. And it's
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: probably even crazier to start hand stitching an Afghan saying
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: Sonics returned a twenty twenty eight their season opener. Now
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: probably getting a little ahead of your eighty. And it
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: would be just foolish to talk about who could be
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: on the roster for the first Sonics team in twenty
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: twenty eight and twenty twenty nine.
• 31:20
  Speaker 7: Only a grateful would do that.
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: Even a jackass would do that. But then again, this
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: segment is called Reckless at Breakfast.
• 31:30
  Speaker 9: And so let us speculate what this team could look
• 31:35
  Speaker 9: like in an expansion season in twenty twenty eight, and
• 31:38
  Speaker 9: today's Reckless at Breakfast, Let's start with the last Sonic great.
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: Okay, Kevin Durant. Turns out, Kevin Durant signed a two
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: year extension with his new team, the Houston Rockets, through
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: the year twenty seven twenty eight. So, in other words,
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: at age thirty nine, a guy that wore the Sonics
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: uniform has that he would love to return to Seattle
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: if they ever got a team back. Would be thirty
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: nine years old and would be becoming a free agent
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: at that point in his career. Kevin Durant, you can
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: lock on the twenty twenty eight to twenty nine roster.
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: Lock it up. I mean, he's still averaging twenty five
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: and a half points per game. He's still one of
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: the best basketball players in the world. How great would
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: it be to have KD in a Sonics uniform the
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: first year that they're back in existed. It'd be amazing.
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: I was when we went to that Seattle Sports Commission thing.
• 32:37
  Speaker 3: Spencer Haywood was there, you know, longtime great. He's hilarious,
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: by the way, And yet he went on beforehand with
• 32:45
  Speaker 3: Aaron Levine and ended up saying every time Spencer Awad said,
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: every time he sees Kevin Durant, Kevin Durant says, I'm
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: finishing my career in Seattle.
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: There you go, lock it in, yeah, lock it in.
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: All right, here's another one. He made The Rounds Bucket
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: brought this guy up briefly yesterday. Gary Payton Junior has
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: made it very clear that wherever he is, if the
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: Sonics get a team back, that he's going to demand
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: a trade to go to Seattle. Now maybe that's tongue
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: in cheek, but the thing is, Gary Payton Junior can
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: control his own destiny. I don't know what kind of
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: player he's going to be three years from now, but
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: right now he's on a one year contract. I mean,
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: there's no reason he's not going to sign one year
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: contracts for the next couple of years as long as
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: he's still viable, as long as he's still in the league.
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: By the time twenty twenty eight twenty twenty nine rolls around,
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: who wouldn't want Gary Peyton Junior on the first Sonics
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: team that returned to the Pacific Northwest.
• 33:38
  Speaker 7: I mean both Katie and Gary Payton juniors like they're
• 33:41
  Speaker 7: meant to.
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: Be, meant to be.
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and ultimately, if they have to play under some
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: weird rules of expansion where you're not paying, then those
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: two guys would probably be like, well, I know GP
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: Junior would would be thinking, Okay, I'll do it for whatever.
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: I just want to be in a Sonics uniform again
• 33:56
  Speaker 3: or for once. And I think that Kevin Durant would
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: do the same thing. I think you'd be like, yep,
• 34:02
  Speaker 3: I'll come back and play for a little bit less
• 34:04
  Speaker 3: than I've already made my bajillion dollars and you can
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: all of a sudden have a couple of older veteran leaders.
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: Now your payroll is going to be lower. They do
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: this to expansion franchises their first couple of years because
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: they just don't want you to be able to walk
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: in with a complete you don't have any bad contracts
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: because you don't have any contracts, so they don't allow
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: you to just go out there and sign a free
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: agent all star team. That said, if KD were to return,
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: maybe because he desperately wants to play here, and probably
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: don't want to play on a loser, maybe plays for
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: a low salary. Gary Paige Junior certainly would play for
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: pay for a low salary. You're going to have a
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: lot of young players, so there's going to be cap space,
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: whether or not the rules suggests you're not gonna have
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: as much as everybody else to begin with. And it
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: just so happens that the free agents that are going
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: to be available the Miami Heat have already planned on
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: making sure they're in a position to have money for
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: the twenty twenty eight off season, because Jannis, Jokic and
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: Doncic are all free agents in the year twenty twenty eight,
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: and so I'm not going to call them a lock
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: like I did our first two participants on the roster
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: that I've already put on the roster. But if you
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: did want to get aggressive, and Katie could sweet talk
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: somebody to joining him, that's not a bad nucleus to
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: start with one of those three guys. And Kevin Durant,
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: even if he is thirty nine years old, the joker,
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: the joker Asanic.
• 35:27
  Speaker 7: I do love jokes, Yeah, jokes, I love to laugh.
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: And he can lose a step and still be great
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: because he doesn't have a step.
• 35:34
  Speaker 6: Yeah, exactly, he's need steps.
• 35:37
  Speaker 7: He has moves, yeah, and arms.
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: Of course, they are going to protect eight players in
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: the expansion draft process. That's been the rule in the past.
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: I think they're not going to have that same rule
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: this year. I think it's going to be fewer than that.
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: I think that they're going to learn something from the NHL.
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: We're going to have to throw them a bone. We
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: don't want the two new teams to wait ten years
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: in a league where it's very hard to get from
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: the bottom at the top. But I don't want to
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: wait ten years for them to be successful. So I
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: think they are gonna lessen that a little bit. And
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: you know what, you know whose pocket we're gonna pick
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: right off the bat Oklahoma City If they are so
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: stacked with their roster, if their path for the next
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: ten years is so paved in gold, I mean, who
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: knows who might be available off of that roster in
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: a couple of years that you could just steal away
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: from them to add to this roster. So we've got
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: to go get a thunder, right, We got to get
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: a member of the thunder. And that makes sense and that.
• 36:33
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I think they should have to get them here
• 36:37
  Speaker 6: to him to us. They might protect him.
• 36:39
  Speaker 8: Might be a rule though, Yeah, because they they basically
• 36:41
  Speaker 8: helped us our team get stolen, So it should be
• 36:44
  Speaker 8: like a pay a payment.
• 36:46
  Speaker 6: Yeah for a down. Yeah, you can protect two guys.
• 36:50
  Speaker 7: Just not SGA.
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we will get the third best guy off the
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: thunder roster.
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: Uh.
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: And then of course there's the draft that you.
• 36:57
  Speaker 6: Have to work out.
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: And yes, I did look for to twenty twenty eight
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: and I pulled up a website and you know who
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: comes up as they're not going to allow us to
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: have the number one overall pick. They've never done that
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: in the past. The Charlotte Bobcats were the last expansion
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: franchise and they were given the fourth. If you go
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: back even further to nineteen ninety five, Vancouver got the
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: sixth and Toronto got the seventh. So the random draft lottery, yeah,
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: well yeah, no, that wouldn't be a random It wouldn't
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: be a lot You wouldn't You don't get to be
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: in the law, I got it. Yeah, you don't get
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: to be in the law. They just slot you.
• 37:28
  Speaker 7: They just put you out.
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: So we would be slotted probably in that fourth spot.
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: I would assume that's where that they would slot fourth
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: or fifth, because you're going in with another team, so
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: fourth or fifth. The fourth best prospect, according to this
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: one website I looked at, is actually a familiar name.
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: Marcus Spears Junior. Oh, it's Marcus Spears Kid from ESPN,
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: the NFL former NFL player. Well, his son is apparently
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: one of the five best high school sophomores in the country,
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: and in twenty twenty eight, they're already projecting that he
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: could be a top five draft pick. So there's some
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: name recognition. We've just added Marcus Spears Kid to the
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: Sonics first ever roster in their new life here in
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: the NBA. And then the following year, of course we're
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: gonna take JJ Crawford. I mean, there's no way that
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: we couldn't, right, you know, So there you go. We've
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: already got the roster wet, we got a starting lineup.
• 38:21
  Speaker 7: Built as already warming my heart, Joker.
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: Durant, Peyton, Marcus Spears Junior and SGA.
• 38:28
  Speaker 7: Yeah and SGA.
• 38:30
  Speaker 3: I like where you're going with this. Sometimes it's reckless.
• 38:33
  Speaker 3: That's not reckless at all. That's wonderful. That's called wonderful
• 38:36
  Speaker 3: at breakfast all right?
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: Coming up next WBC. How much blame needs to go
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: around for the American team not to win the WBC
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: title and how much of it does fall at Mark
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: de Rosa, we'll discuss the next Sports Radio ninety three
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: point three kJ.
• 38:51
  Speaker 4: R f M.
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: Get back on track here, Chuck buck Ashley with you.
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: We roll into the eight o'clock hour on a hum day.
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: We do have a Green Jacket draft coming up. We're
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: gonna preview March Madness for you at nine o'clock. Also,
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: al Kiniski joins us later this hour, cracking coming off
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: a tough loss, and now I have to go on
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: the road for six days. Al Kaniski, on the road,
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: whatever it fits you for six days. What kind of
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: trouble will those two youngsters get into the best kind?
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: Probably In the meantime, you can get into a little
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: trouble yourself, if that's something that tickles your own fancy.
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: We're gonna be out the Tulala Prasort Casino watching some
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: college basketball tomorrow from eleven to one. That's right, our
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: friends at Tulala Presort Casino, we're hosting us out there
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: at the Draft Kings Sportsbook. It'll be Bucky and myself
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: if you want to swing on by watch some games. Yeah,
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: have some fun out there, and then yeah, we're gonna
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: have some prizes to give away as well. We're gonna
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: have a little bracket contest of our own. We're gonna
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: ask you to fill out the Thursday slate of games
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: bracket and just the third day games. As long as
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: you get your bracket filled out before one o'clock tomorrow,
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: then you will compete against Bucky and I on that
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: particular day's games. So you can just sit there and
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: just revel in your victories or cry over your losses
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: right there at the DraftKings Sports Book all day long.
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: And if you beat either one of this, we'll put
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: your name into a drawing. One person will win the drawing.
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: That's how it's gonna work. We'll explain everything if you
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: didn't catch it all once you come down there and
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: join us from eleven to one at Tulaleup Resort, Casino
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: and Hotel.
• 40:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yep, And I would say just be ready to
• 40:39
  Speaker 3: drown your sorrows in beer, because I got a perfect bracket,
• 40:44
  Speaker 3: and I think, Chuck, you know, I don't know if
• 40:46
  Speaker 3: yours gonna be perfect, but you might give them a chance.
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: Well, I'm gonna be a lot chalkier this year than normal,
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: So we probably have very similar brackets because my guess
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: as you're going Chalky, Yeah, probably your chance. You are
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: Chalky White. Boardwalk Empire, that is that character. It's a
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: character and Boardwalk Empire very good show that you should watch.
• 41:04
  Speaker 7: Maybe not, Yeah, I've never seen it.
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: Chalk White. That's his name, Chalky White, Yeah, that's his name. Okay,
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: all right, Uh, let's uh, let's talk to some w
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: b C here because I woke up this morning to
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: everybody just playing the blame game. We've already had this
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: conversation once today. I'm just going to get this out
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: of the way. I'm not going to listen to you know,
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: they didn't we lost because we don't care. I'm not
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: going to listen to that now. I will say that
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: there can be two truths that Venezuela did want it more.
• 41:39
  Speaker 4: Uh.
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: They've got a country that has been war torn, They've
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: got a country that has fallen on some hard times.
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: There's some difficult things going back there in their homeland,
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: and they spend most of their year here in America, uh,
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: you know, living wealthy. Meanwhile, a lot of people that
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: they know and love are in danger, and so there
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: was a lot of emotion that flooded out last night.
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: And they're an emotional, you know, emotional group to begin with.
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: And yeah, I think that they did want it more.
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: But I think they might have wanted it more than
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: anybody on the planet to win that game last night.
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: But I don't think the US lost because they didn't
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: want it badly enough. That's not the reason that they lost.
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: And so that's one finger pointing that I'm just not
• 42:27
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna not only not gonna buy it, I'm gonna
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: bring it up on my radio show and shoot it
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: down because I think that's very unfair. And we do
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: this to our American athletes. I mean, we make it impossible.
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: If they win, they were supposed to and if they lose,
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: they didn't try hard enough. And I think that that's
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: just so grossly unfair. And then you wonder why they
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: we don't have more Americans participating on a global scale.
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: There's no reward in it. Yeah, you just get criticized
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: and chastised one way or the other.
• 42:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah, to some degree. I mean I don't understand the
• 42:58
  Speaker 3: need necessarily to throw a blank. I mean, it's just
• 43:01
  Speaker 3: the game of baseball is you can have a lesser team.
• 43:04
  Speaker 3: And I'm not saying that, well, I am saying that
• 43:07
  Speaker 3: the Venezuela's team maybe is not as good as the
• 43:10
  Speaker 3: US but really good. They're very good. Yes, it's not
• 43:14
  Speaker 3: a huge discrepancy. It's not a huge difference between the
• 43:17
  Speaker 3: two rosters in my opinion. And so I mean, you're
• 43:21
  Speaker 3: not going to put a high school team up against
• 43:23
  Speaker 3: that US team and ever win.
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: That's just not going to happen.
• 43:26
  Speaker 3: But another team full of Major League Baseball starters and
• 43:32
  Speaker 3: some of a lot of them superstars. You were talking
• 43:34
  Speaker 3: about Jackson Cheerio being down in the nine to zero,
• 43:36
  Speaker 3: and he's like the best hitter on the team that
• 43:38
  Speaker 3: he plays on during the regular season. So I think
• 43:41
  Speaker 3: that there is a lot of praise that can be
• 43:44
  Speaker 3: given to Venezuela, sure, without having to also criticize. Now
• 43:49
  Speaker 3: it's not that there isn't things to criticize, but to
• 43:52
  Speaker 3: say that basically go to they didn't have the heart
• 43:55
  Speaker 3: or their heart wasn't in.
• 43:56
  Speaker 2: It type of thing.
• 43:57
  Speaker 6: No, that's just not the fact.
• 43:59
  Speaker 3: Why because that they weren't as flamboyant or over the
• 44:02
  Speaker 3: top with their emotions. It doesn't mean they didn't have emotions.
• 44:05
  Speaker 3: I think you can have a difference in how much
• 44:08
  Speaker 3: it means to you based on your culture and the
• 44:11
  Speaker 3: plain and simple fact that Venezuelans love baseball more than
• 44:16
  Speaker 3: just about anything on the planet. And so if you're
• 44:18
  Speaker 3: a Venezuelan baseball player and get to you get to
• 44:22
  Speaker 3: bring back a WBC championship that your country has never
• 44:27
  Speaker 3: won up to this point. And yet they are the
• 44:29
  Speaker 3: Caribbean World Series, which is the winner of Venezuela versus
• 44:33
  Speaker 3: the winner of the Dominican Winter League versus Puerto Rico
• 44:36
  Speaker 3: and Mexico. That's a big deal for them, right, I mean,
• 44:39
  Speaker 3: it is a huge deal. So for them, this is
• 44:41
  Speaker 3: another one of those tournaments. But it's the World Baseball Classic,
• 44:45
  Speaker 3: not the Caribbean World Series. And so I can see
• 44:49
  Speaker 3: why it means so much to them, And yet it
• 44:51
  Speaker 3: doesn't mean that it doesn't mean enough to our guys.
• 44:54
  Speaker 3: I guess that's where the discrepancy is. It means it's
• 44:57
  Speaker 3: not as important to the American players to win the WB.
• 45:00
  Speaker 3: See a game one that basically is three or four
• 45:03
  Speaker 3: pool play games and then a one and done or
• 45:07
  Speaker 3: knockout tournament for three games. That is not as important
• 45:11
  Speaker 3: to most of the guys in the American team as
• 45:13
  Speaker 3: winning the World Series.
• 45:14
  Speaker 2: Is not as important to me. And I'm an American
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: baseball fan, and I think most people feel we started
• 45:21
  Speaker 2: the tournament having a conversation about how, yeah, I'd rather
• 45:25
  Speaker 2: my local team won the World Series than the team
• 45:28
  Speaker 2: America win the WBC. So why would you think American
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: rape baseball players raised that way would feel differently this
• 45:36
  Speaker 2: time of the year. It's like they get criticized for
• 45:38
  Speaker 2: not wanting it badly enough, and then get also criticized
• 45:42
  Speaker 2: for caring too much about it and not caring about
• 45:44
  Speaker 2: their own team's World Series chances. I mean, they can't win.
• 45:48
  Speaker 2: This is kind of my point. I mean, I can
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: promise you. I can promise you this. Last night, Arizona
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: Diamondback fans were sitting there watching Eduardo Rodriguez paint the
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: corners and saying, to themselves, where's that precision been for
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: our twenty five million dollar pitcher for US? I guarantee
• 46:06
  Speaker 2: you that way through the mind of an Arizona Diamondback fan,
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: I guarantee you went through the mind of an Atlanta
• 46:10
  Speaker 2: Braves fan. It's watching Ronald Acunya bust his ass on
• 46:13
  Speaker 2: every single play, Like, why do you half asset with
• 46:16
  Speaker 2: us half the time?
• 46:19
  Speaker 4: You know?
• 46:19
  Speaker 2: So, we in America we put more emphasis on I mean,
• 46:24
  Speaker 2: this is a young tournament. We put more emphasis on
• 46:27
  Speaker 2: the local team winning the World Series because that's the
• 46:31
  Speaker 2: way we grew up on it. Then we do the
• 46:34
  Speaker 2: national team winning whatever tournament that the sports world puts
• 46:39
  Speaker 2: in front of it. So why would our players act
• 46:42
  Speaker 2: any differently that were raised the exact same way.
• 46:45
  Speaker 7: Well, and that's the thing I was going to say
• 46:46
  Speaker 7: about the emotions.
• 46:47
  Speaker 8: I mean, when you grow up in America, especially as
• 46:50
  Speaker 8: a male, right you're told, oh, stiff upper lip, you
• 46:53
  Speaker 8: know you've got this tough enough, it's not your Most
• 46:56
  Speaker 8: people aren't praised for showing their emotions. It's more keep it,
• 47:02
  Speaker 8: you know, Tampa down, keep calm, don't don't show your emotions.
• 47:06
  Speaker 8: I mean, those are the things that are all put
• 47:07
  Speaker 8: into people, into people's minds.
• 47:09
  Speaker 7: Throughout their lives.
• 47:11
  Speaker 8: So how are you How on earth would you then
• 47:14
  Speaker 8: turn around and then show all these emotions that you
• 47:17
  Speaker 8: were never raised with In the first place to show
• 47:19
  Speaker 8: in a baseball game, because first off, I guarantee you
• 47:22
  Speaker 8: if the Americans had won and had been crying and
• 47:25
  Speaker 8: had been doing all those things, then people would have
• 47:27
  Speaker 8: been criticizing them for that.
• 47:29
  Speaker 2: Why are you crying?
• 47:30
  Speaker 7: It's baseball? I mean, yeah, probably, Yeah, you're right, they
• 47:35
  Speaker 7: can't win.
• 47:35
  Speaker 3: Well, we brought up the topic of Julio Rodriguez when
• 47:38
  Speaker 3: he was asked before this, would this mean more to
• 47:41
  Speaker 3: you to win the WBC than the World Series?
• 47:43
  Speaker 7: Yeah?
• 47:43
  Speaker 3: And he said yeah, it would. That's and he's like,
• 47:47
  Speaker 3: I love playing for Seattle and I want to bring back,
• 47:49
  Speaker 3: but this is something about this because of how much
• 47:52
  Speaker 3: it means in the Dominican no Latin American countries, and
• 47:55
  Speaker 3: and you win something with that, it's it's it's a
• 47:58
  Speaker 3: different thing. It's it's literally it's the same sport, but
• 48:01
  Speaker 3: it's completely different the way in which this whole thing's
• 48:04
  Speaker 3: set up and who you're playing for and what it
• 48:07
  Speaker 3: means to you internally. And yet there was a lot
• 48:09
  Speaker 3: of people that were like, I can't believe you would
• 48:11
  Speaker 3: say that, I know, like because they're like, well, I
• 48:14
  Speaker 3: want you, I mean, you're not making you know, twenty
• 48:18
  Speaker 3: million dollars a year for Team Dominican. They're not the
• 48:22
  Speaker 3: ones paying you. You should mean, this should mean more.
• 48:25
  Speaker 3: And yet so people would criticize that, and then on
• 48:27
  Speaker 3: the flip side of it, criticize Americans for essentially believe
• 48:31
  Speaker 3: in the same way that you think Julio should think, yeah,
• 48:35
  Speaker 3: should think, but doesn't think. It doesn't that's it's just
• 48:39
  Speaker 3: a bitching and moaning part of it. And hopefully it's.
• 48:41
  Speaker 2: Two pools of people. Hopefully it's not crossover. Hopefully it's
• 48:45
  Speaker 2: not just hypocrisy, because that's what I cannot stand. I
• 48:48
  Speaker 2: just you know, I had to wake up this morning
• 48:51
  Speaker 2: to the US team didn't care enough, and that's our problem.
• 48:55
  Speaker 2: I will I think it's I think everybody could admit, no,
• 48:58
  Speaker 2: they didn't care as much as what Venus Wela cared
• 49:00
  Speaker 2: about winning the WBC. They didn't. But it's not the
• 49:06
  Speaker 2: reason that they lost the game either or the turn.
• 49:09
  Speaker 2: And they did get to the finals. Two of the
• 49:12
  Speaker 2: last two events they've gotten to the finals and lost
• 49:14
  Speaker 2: by a run each time. It's not like they went
• 49:17
  Speaker 2: out there and fielded. They used to feel the team
• 49:20
  Speaker 2: of two stars and then whoever else would be willing
• 49:24
  Speaker 2: to play that was we put an all Star team
• 49:26
  Speaker 2: on the field this year, and those are all guys
• 49:29
  Speaker 2: that I thought represented America well in the entire tournament.
• 49:34
  Speaker 2: And even last night, they just got out played. They
• 49:37
  Speaker 2: got out played by a team and maybe they did
• 49:39
  Speaker 2: won a little bit more and maybe that was the edge.
• 49:42
  Speaker 2: But I don't think that we lost because we don't care.
• 49:46
  Speaker 2: American players don't care.
• 49:47
  Speaker 8: Well, and again, the American players, if they didn't care,
• 49:50
  Speaker 8: wouldn't have agreed to play in the WBC. As we
• 49:53
  Speaker 8: talked about the world or the World Series is the priority, right,
• 49:56
  Speaker 8: That is what most American born Major League Baseball players
• 50:00
  Speaker 8: ultimate goal is.
• 50:01
  Speaker 7: That is what they are playing in the backyard. That
• 50:03
  Speaker 7: is what they are excited about. So that's the priority.
• 50:06
  Speaker 8: Why would you, if you didn't care, do anything to
• 50:09
  Speaker 8: take away from your preparation for a season where you're
• 50:12
  Speaker 8: hopefully gonna ue for a World Series. You have to
• 50:14
  Speaker 8: care in order to give that time and make that effort.
• 50:18
  Speaker 8: And it says Bucky said earlier, just because you didn't
• 50:21
  Speaker 8: care as much as Venezuela doesn't mean they didn't care.
• 50:25
  Speaker 2: Now, we can't do some finger pointing. A lot of
• 50:28
  Speaker 2: people pointing at Mark Durosa, friend of Bucky, friend of
• 50:31
  Speaker 2: the program, who go as far as saying but didn't
• 50:35
  Speaker 2: exactly have a sterling tournament. How much does he get
• 50:40
  Speaker 2: blamed for managerial decisions.
• 50:43
  Speaker 3: Well, I don't think that. I think it's ridiculous. I
• 50:45
  Speaker 3: saw some tweet that was like, Mark de Rosa has
• 50:47
  Speaker 3: gotta go, you know, bring Dusty Baker or something. I mean,
• 50:51
  Speaker 3: how dare you you you after you tie the game
• 50:54
  Speaker 3: up or you end up having a leadoff walk to
• 50:57
  Speaker 3: Luis Shiraz who's high school pop.
• 51:02
  Speaker 2: Now, there was a base open and they walked him
• 51:04
  Speaker 2: because they wanted the righty to face. Alrighty, that's what
• 51:07
  Speaker 2: it was.
• 51:08
  Speaker 3: Well, okay, okay, that's after the stolen base you're talking about, right, Yeah,
• 51:12
  Speaker 3: I was talking about there was a leadoff walk that
• 51:14
  Speaker 3: came back to haunt them at one point. Anyways, it
• 51:18
  Speaker 3: doesn't matter. The point I was that this tweet was
• 51:21
  Speaker 3: about you walk in a batter and it wasn't the
• 51:24
  Speaker 3: intentional walk. When I know what you're talking about there,
• 51:26
  Speaker 3: I'm like that, But there's nobody's intention or nobody is
• 51:29
  Speaker 3: trying to walk, So that's not a dero. Dero didn't
• 51:32
  Speaker 3: have a good tournament. I mean when he stepped in
• 51:34
  Speaker 3: it by saying we punched our ticket or whatever, it
• 51:36
  Speaker 3: didn't have a good tournament. Now everything else is going
• 51:38
  Speaker 3: to be looked at under a microscope, and I think
• 51:41
  Speaker 3: that some of the things can be questioned. He I typically,
• 51:45
  Speaker 3: you know me, I'll typically give the benefit of the
• 51:47
  Speaker 3: doubt to the guy that's in the clubhouse and understands
• 51:49
  Speaker 3: what the feel is in there. I don't know for
• 51:52
  Speaker 3: sure if I agree with all of I don't think
• 51:55
  Speaker 3: I'm playing Bregmant at third over Gunner Henderson. If you're
• 51:59
  Speaker 3: riding the hot hand. That's where I'm now, lefty starter
• 52:03
  Speaker 3: versus you know, Bregman being a riety Okay, I get it.
• 52:06
  Speaker 3: But on the flip side of it, with Cal Rawley
• 52:09
  Speaker 3: as probably the one that but this one, I have
• 52:11
  Speaker 3: a hard time distinguishing whether or not it's my homer.
• 52:14
  Speaker 3: How much I like Cal and how much I can't
• 52:16
  Speaker 3: believe that you wouldn't play him in the semifinals or
• 52:18
  Speaker 3: the finals because I don't think that Will Smith was
• 52:22
  Speaker 3: that hot. I don't think he was doing anything exceptionally hot.
• 52:25
  Speaker 3: He wasn't doing anything great defensively. He wasn't doing anything
• 52:28
  Speaker 3: great offensively, I get it. He had a big hit
• 52:32
  Speaker 3: in the World Series last year. He has some clutch
• 52:34
  Speaker 3: gene in him too. I think he's a really good
• 52:36
  Speaker 3: player on a great team, and I think you have
• 52:40
  Speaker 3: a great player on a really great team in Seattle,
• 52:43
  Speaker 3: And I think that leaving him on the bench I
• 52:45
  Speaker 3: think was a mistake too.
• 52:47
  Speaker 8: Cal Yeah, I mean I didn't understand why he wasn't playing.
• 52:52
  Speaker 8: But also at the same time, I'm never going to
• 52:54
  Speaker 8: think that I am going to know more than Mark
• 52:56
  Speaker 8: de Rosa on his decisions. So I would always defer
• 52:58
  Speaker 8: to what you two would think of that in this case,
• 53:01
  Speaker 8: because I think in my case it probably is pure homersm.
• 53:05
  Speaker 2: I think cal Raley's the best catcher on the team
• 53:07
  Speaker 2: and he should have played in the biggest game. And
• 53:10
  Speaker 2: Bucky's right. I don't think Will Smith was so hot
• 53:12
  Speaker 2: that you're like, oh, we can't I loved. I mean,
• 53:15
  Speaker 2: if your argument is I love to play Cal, but
• 53:18
  Speaker 2: how can I ignore what Will Smith's doing? But he wasn't.
• 53:20
  Speaker 2: He wasn't that kind of hot. Bucky's right, And so
• 53:24
  Speaker 2: you defer, I think, to the better player in that situation.
• 53:29
  Speaker 2: I mean, I'm not going to lay a lot at
• 53:32
  Speaker 2: d Ro's feet for losing last night no game, even
• 53:37
  Speaker 2: though I would have started cal Raley as well, and
• 53:39
  Speaker 2: I would have started Gunner Henderson over Alex Spregnant. He's
• 53:42
  Speaker 2: just a better player at this stage in their careers.
• 53:45
  Speaker 2: But I don't think we're going to see DeRosa be
• 53:48
  Speaker 2: asked back. I think what happened earlier in the tournament
• 53:53
  Speaker 2: that I don't know if there's any defense for that,
• 53:55
  Speaker 2: and so, and I think that there was this element
• 53:58
  Speaker 2: of him trying to like create these magical memories versus
• 54:04
  Speaker 2: what's it take to win the damn tournament? And so
• 54:07
  Speaker 2: I think you could get a better tactician, a more
• 54:10
  Speaker 2: seasoned tactician. Mark de Ros has never managed before, and
• 54:13
  Speaker 2: yet we're throwing them into the fire on an event
• 54:16
  Speaker 2: that obviously is being taken very seriously. And so I
• 54:20
  Speaker 2: mean a Terry Francona or a Steven Vote or somebody
• 54:24
  Speaker 2: like that that has made those decisions over and over
• 54:27
  Speaker 2: and over and over again, and more often than not
• 54:30
  Speaker 2: they are they turn out to be good. I think
• 54:33
  Speaker 2: maybe that's your better choice. It's going to be.
• 54:36
  Speaker 7: Busy, yeah, team, Yeah, but you could get.
• 54:40
  Speaker 3: A retired yeah, you could get an older retired guy,
• 54:43
  Speaker 3: but you're not going to get somebody better. De Ro's
• 54:45
  Speaker 3: invested in this, doing this now. Yeah, he's a he's
• 54:48
  Speaker 3: a talking head on TV. But the dude played for
• 54:52
  Speaker 3: a long time in the big leagues. He's capable of managing. Yeah,
• 54:54
  Speaker 3: did he stepped in it with the one mistake that
• 54:56
  Speaker 3: he had. Other than that, he's the he's kind of
• 55:00
  Speaker 3: rallied the troops. He got these guys, got judged to
• 55:02
  Speaker 3: sign up, got cal to sign up for this whole
• 55:04
  Speaker 3: thing because it wasn't that long ago that you were
• 55:06
  Speaker 3: having a hard time getting superstars playing.
• 55:08
  Speaker 2: Terry Francona will not be managing three years from now.
• 55:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah he might not be. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Yeah, you're
• 55:15
  Speaker 3: gonna have already currents. Yeah, you're gonna have to get somebody.
• 55:18
  Speaker 3: It's not a current, Is all I was saying is
• 55:20
  Speaker 3: somebody is not a current man. They're not gonna step
• 55:22
  Speaker 3: away from managing their team during spring training to manage
• 55:24
  Speaker 3: the WBC.
• 55:25
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 55:26
  Speaker 2: Al Kiniski's next Sports Radio ninety three point three kJ r.
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• 55:39
  Speaker 2: Normally it's Alcinski nine thirty with us here on the
• 55:42
  Speaker 2: Chuck and Buck on Wednesdays. But he's got to get
• 55:44
  Speaker 2: on a plane. He's got a road trip to call
• 55:47
  Speaker 2: six games of four Sports Radio ninety three point three
• 55:50
  Speaker 2: kJ R FM and the Crack and Audio Network. Alciniski
• 55:53
  Speaker 2: joins us right now on the radio program, Good.
• 55:56
  Speaker 4: Morning Out, Good morning, Chuck, Hurry, are.
• 55:59
  Speaker 2: You good good? Sure would be nice if you were
• 56:01
  Speaker 2: taking a three game winning streak with you and put
• 56:04
  Speaker 2: it in the overhead compartment or safely under the seat,
• 56:07
  Speaker 2: but in front of you on this flight you're getting
• 56:09
  Speaker 2: ready to take, yeah, or in my cup with a
• 56:12
  Speaker 2: little bit of ice.
• 56:14
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I'd like that feeling.
• 56:18
  Speaker 2: So what went wrong last night? What was the you know,
• 56:21
  Speaker 2: you blow out two teams in a row. The Bobby
• 56:23
  Speaker 2: McMahon train seems to be rolling along and then all
• 56:27
  Speaker 2: of a sudden, the lightning turned the tables. A six
• 56:29
  Speaker 2: to two victory over the Kraken last night.
• 56:33
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean the Krack of have faced some of
• 56:35
  Speaker 4: the top teams in the league over the last week
• 56:37
  Speaker 4: or so, and you know, Carolina was the first one
• 56:39
  Speaker 4: that was a tight two to one win for the Crack,
• 56:41
  Speaker 4: and they faced Colorado lost to them, And now they
• 56:44
  Speaker 4: faced Tampa Bay and lost to them, But arguably those
• 56:47
  Speaker 4: are three of the top teams in the league, and I,
• 56:50
  Speaker 4: you know, I would say that last night the team
• 56:52
  Speaker 4: looked the best even though it was a six to
• 56:54
  Speaker 4: two finish. At one point it was three two. Tampa
• 56:57
  Speaker 4: Bay and Seattle had made a comeback to bring it
• 57:00
  Speaker 4: back to three to two, so they were in the
• 57:02
  Speaker 4: game for a good portion of it. Unfortunately, Tampa just
• 57:05
  Speaker 4: you know, it's so talented upfront with their forwards like
• 57:09
  Speaker 4: Nikita kutrav one of the best players in the league,
• 57:12
  Speaker 4: put on a show last night with a five point game.
• 57:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah, obviously not the way that they wanted it to go. So,
• 57:19
  Speaker 3: I mean, this road trip coming up, what do they
• 57:22
  Speaker 3: have to do? It's not going to be an easy one,
• 57:24
  Speaker 3: but it does feel like there's gonna be a lot
• 57:26
  Speaker 3: of a lot that goes into the postseason potential based
• 57:30
  Speaker 3: on this whole thing.
• 57:31
  Speaker 2: So how many points do they got to get?
• 57:34
  Speaker 4: Well, I'd like to see them, Buckie get get above
• 57:37
  Speaker 4: five hundred. So there's a six game road trip twelve
• 57:40
  Speaker 4: twelve points on the line. I'd like to see them
• 57:43
  Speaker 4: come back with at least six of those, but gosh,
• 57:45
  Speaker 4: they really need seven or eight. So you know it
• 57:49
  Speaker 4: would be good. Uh, six would be okay, and I
• 57:53
  Speaker 4: think anything better than eight is exceptional. So it's gonna
• 57:57
  Speaker 4: be a tough road trip. The boys start Nationale night,
• 58:01
  Speaker 4: go on to Columbus, after that, both teams in Florida,
• 58:04
  Speaker 4: and then finish in Buffalo before we stop back in
• 58:07
  Speaker 4: Seattle for a day and a half to do some laundry,
• 58:09
  Speaker 4: and then go back to end for that six games.
• 58:12
  Speaker 4: So it's gonna be a tough run.
• 58:14
  Speaker 2: Al Koniski is with us on his way to the airport,
• 58:16
  Speaker 2: getting ready to head out on a six game road
• 58:19
  Speaker 2: trip with the Seattle Krack and there'll be in Nashville
• 58:21
  Speaker 2: tomorrow night to take on the Predators. But of course
• 58:26
  Speaker 2: the team has gone too and one in their last
• 58:29
  Speaker 2: three games, all three games that Bobby McMahon has played
• 58:32
  Speaker 2: in a Crack and uniform. What are your first impressions
• 58:34
  Speaker 2: of our newcomer.
• 58:36
  Speaker 4: I mean, I want to put a ton of pressure
• 58:38
  Speaker 4: on him, but jeez, six points three games. I'll take
• 58:41
  Speaker 4: that by anybody that wants to join the Crack. And
• 58:44
  Speaker 4: he has looked good so far. He's the real deal.
• 58:48
  Speaker 4: He's not only putting points up on the board, but
• 58:51
  Speaker 4: he's playing physical as well. He's been a good ad
• 58:54
  Speaker 4: to that top line with Matty Veniers in the middle
• 58:56
  Speaker 4: and Jordan Beverley on the right side. I think that
• 58:59
  Speaker 4: if this team, you know I'm now having sliding Jared
• 59:02
  Speaker 4: McCann down to the second line, can get a real
• 59:04
  Speaker 4: one to two punch from their two top lines, they're
• 59:07
  Speaker 4: gonna start to see a lot more scoring and if
• 59:09
  Speaker 4: they can take care of their own end first, they'll
• 59:12
  Speaker 4: start winning a lot more of these games.
• 59:14
  Speaker 3: When you start getting into the idea of okay, wow,
• 59:16
  Speaker 3: there's a little boost to our offense. Is it difficult
• 59:20
  Speaker 3: to also then stay focused on making sure of taking
• 59:23
  Speaker 3: care of your own end like you're talking about or No, No, I.
• 59:26
  Speaker 4: Don't think so, Bucky. I think that this lane Lampert
• 59:29
  Speaker 4: system is talked about constantly. You're held account accountable constantly,
• 59:34
  Speaker 4: and you know, if you take your eye off that
• 59:36
  Speaker 4: defensive ball, you know they're gonna let you know right away, Hey,
• 59:40
  Speaker 4: you didn't, you didn't complete your task. You didn't, you
• 59:42
  Speaker 4: didn't do your job out there, and you'll be reminded
• 59:45
  Speaker 4: of that real quick. So I don't think that will happen,
• 59:48
  Speaker 4: even though they're putting more pucks in the that and
• 59:50
  Speaker 4: I'm hoping that that that is the outcome, is that
• 59:54
  Speaker 4: they're they're scoring differential starts to go up. And I
• 59:57
  Speaker 4: think that, you know, as of the Olympic break, it's
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 4: shown that, uh, especially in the first period, they've got
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 4: a they were coming to the game last night with
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 4: a plus two scoring differential just on the first period.
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 4: So their starts have been a lot better. But I
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 4: think overall you're starting to see a lot more tucks
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 4: going to net.
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 2: It's a sport where there are a lot of one
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 2: goal differences, a lot of games that go into extra time.
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 2: And yet uh, since that Olympic break, I mean it's
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 2: you know six two, six, two, five, two, five to one,
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 2: four to two, seven four. What do you chalk that
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 2: up to? That either the Kraken or on that night
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 2: or they're not on that night? Is it just that simple?
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 4: Wow? Everright? And I have this conversation all the time
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 4: about from a fans perspective, with a fan rather see
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 4: a two to one, you know, a win, or or
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 4: a six to four loss. And you know, from from
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 4: my perspective, a win is a win, but it's a
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 4: lot more exciting when there's lots of goals going up
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 4: on the board and you'd like to be on the
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 4: winning side of that. Why that's happening, I don't know.
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 4: I think as we head towards playoffs, I think the
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 4: game's actually tend to get a lot more you know, tight,
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 4: and then they become a lot more one goal games
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 4: and a lot of game a lot of the games
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 4: go to overtime. So I'm just as surprised as you
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 4: are of these big goals goal square differentials.
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 2: All right, So Nashville then tomorrow night, they're a little
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 2: bit over five hundred, still got a shot at the
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 2: playoffs themselves. But you tell me, because I'm tired of
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 2: trying to figure this team out, how important is it
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 2: to get off to a good start on this road
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 2: trip tomorrow night.
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 4: Well, first of all, Nashville beat beat the cracket last
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 4: time they were in town here in Seattle, so I
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 4: think that they have to start with that mindset of
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 4: getting that game back that they gave up to Nashville
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 4: a week or so ago. So that's that's number one
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 4: on the on the road trip. I think, like I said,
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 4: a good start against them will set them up well
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 4: for for getting two points and Nashville is a team
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 4: that's still in the hunt. There are a few there
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 4: are a few spots below the cracket. It's La and
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 4: Santose dipping at their heels right now, but Nashville's right
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 4: below them. So they've got to keep them down there,
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 4: and the only way you do that is by beating
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 4: them in regulation.
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 2: All right, al well, thank you for taking out some
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 2: time here early this morning for us. We appreciate it.
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 2: Have a safe flight, have a great road trip, and
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 2: we'll talk to you next week.
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 4: All right, boys, you'd be good?
• 1:02:16
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• 1:03:34
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• 1:03:39
  Speaker 2: Jacket to award to someone. And trust me, you haven't
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 2: heard this song a lot lately. Players. We counted total bases.
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 2: I went into last night's game up one base, one
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 2: entire base on Bucky. I had Schwarber and Akunya, he
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 2: had Judge and Arise, and there was only one base
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 2: tally by all all four combined, and that was my
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 2: guy Accunya junior and so I did win the Green
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 2: Jacket in our WBC preview fifty three bases to Bucky's
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 2: fifty one, but I don't know if that's gonna save
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 2: us all from Bucky. Dang it. There are two outstanding
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 2: Green Jacket drafts that are going on our Cracking fantasy team,
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 2: and since Bucky added Bobby McCann, he has surpassed Chris
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 2: Kidd and has a nine point lead right now over Chris. Wow,
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 2: let's do that, hockey Kid. Yeah, let's not so. Jared McCann,
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 2: Jordan Eberley, Capocaco, and now Bobby McMahon being added to
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 2: Bucky's team might make him too dangerous for a Kid's
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 2: team of Chandler Stevenson, Matty Veneer's Goodrow and Larson. So
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 2: you're nine down. Okay, I'm not done. I'm not done.
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 2: Bucky also leads our NBA regular season wins Ashley. He's
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 2: been closing the gap, but Kid and I have drifted
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 2: further away. Bucky, with the Nick Celtics, Clippers, and Pistons,
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 2: has a nine game lead over Ashley, a sixteen game
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 2: lead over Kid, and a twenty game lead over me.
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 3: Well, you guys, shouldn't be surprised with all my NBA knowledge.
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 2: So I think this is our unless I'm wrong. I
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 2: think this is our last draft of the Green Jacket season.
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 2: It always starts anew at the Masters.
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 8: I think we should probably just come up with some
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 8: so we have a chance to not let Bucky win this.
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 2: We'll have some drafts, but those are going to be
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 2: baseball drafts, and those are going to be for these seasons,
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 2: so they're not going to count toward these totals. So
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 2: for the season, Bucky has six Green jackets, Kid has
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 2: five Green jackets, Ashley has four Green jackets. Bucky's leading
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 2: the two that are going on right now, and we
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 2: have this last one to do for our March Madness previews.
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 2: So Bucky's looking good. Kid, you gotta win two of
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 2: the three. You got to come back in hockey, and
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 2: you gotta win this one, this March Madness one. Yeah. Yeah,
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 2: thanks a lot, guys.
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 2: And Ashley, you gotta win them all. Yeah, And it's
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 2: not looking to good. You got a couple of big
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 2: holes there, Yeah, a couple of big eye holes.
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 7: A couple of big eye holes. That's what I've always
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 7: been told.
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 6: I'm not going to say I punched my ticket yet,
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 6: because I haven't.
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 7: That's smart. Take that yet, you buddy.
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 2: I'm glad we got one more in. As a matter
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 2: of fact, we're going to give him more a few
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 2: morey too. All right, So here we go in CAA
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 2: tournament gets started tomorrow night. We're not going to over
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 2: complicate this thing. We thought of a lot of different
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 2: ways of doing this. So you're just going to draft
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 2: teams and then whoever has the most total wins will
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 2: take home the green jacket. Uh, we are going to
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 2: force you into taking a double digit seed, so you
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 2: do have to pick one Cinderella with one of your
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 2: four picks. Otherwise, pick your pick from the field whoever
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 2: you'd like, of course, in draft order. So we need
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 2: that draft order. Ashley, what do we got?
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 7: Oh, I'm so excited to give it to you, guys.
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 2: Oh, Ashley's fourth.
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 8: Yep, Chuck your first, okay, Bucky your second, kid your third,
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 8: and look about surprise, surprise, and fourth.
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 7: Again.
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 3: This is a good one to get fourth, I think. Okay,
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 3: well you can get You're gonna get a number one
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 3: seed for sure if you want, and the best number
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 3: two seed probably, But then again, who knows, because his
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 3: bracket doesn't always work out there.
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 2: I mean, there are a lot of times where the
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 2: ones happen. The number one pick really isn't advantageous.
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 7: As really have somebody you want.
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 2: It might be a disadvantage to have the one pick
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 2: a lot of times. But yeah, it does get old
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 2: to dip the fourth pick, It really does. And Ashley's
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 2: gotten the fourth pick a lot this past year. So
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 2: I don't know, maybe we even changed that for next season.
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 2: I mean, the new season's just right around the corner.
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 2: Masters is coming up.
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 7: Yeah, we'll discuss Yeah.
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 2: We'll discuss it, all right. So I have the number
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 2: one pick, don't I think I was going to get
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 2: this team no matter what. The team that I'm picking
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 2: to win the national championship this year, the team that
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 2: I think was the most complete that I saw this season.
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna go with the Michigan Wolverines with the number
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 2: one overall selection.
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 7: She would have gotten them no matter what. I will
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 7: say that in the first round in the first round.
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 6: Yeah, okay, okay, all right.
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 2: I think I think Arizona's the hot pick right now,
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 2: and Duke's the number one overall seed right now. But
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 2: through my eyes, I think they're just the most complete team.
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 2: I think they're the team that has the least chance
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 2: of having a bad game. They're just They're big, they're long,
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 2: they're solid, good starting lineup, good bench play, a good coach.
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 2: So I'm gonna take the Michigan Wolverines. To me, they
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 2: were the best team I saw play college basketball this year.
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 2: Just ask the Zags. They beat them by forty. All right,
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 2: Bucky got the next selection. Then who are you gonna
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 2: take the seventh seed, A good promising seventh seed.
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 6: I could, I guess I could go ahead and high point.
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 2: It's a real high point for you.
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 3: Actually had a high point advancing in the first round. Oh,
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 3: I'm not gonna take that. I'm not gonna take that
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 3: with my first round pick. I'm actually gonna go And
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 3: this is simply based on my boy Ken. He's been
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 3: to a bunch of Arizona Wildcat games this year, and
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 3: earlier in the season he had said I don't think
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 3: there's a better team in the country. Now some things
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 3: have been happening, you know, since he mentioned that, But
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna stick with that. That's who I have winning.
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 3: The whole thing is Arizona Wildcats.
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 2: Give me them. Well, that's that's the in vogue pick
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 2: right now. I think most of the experts out there
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 2: are going with Arizona right now. They've been good all
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 2: season long. They had a nice undefeated stretch there for
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 2: a while. Uh they got there. They're again led by freshmen.
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 2: They got a terrific guard and a terrific big man
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 2: that are freshmen. They're deep, they can shoot the three,
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 2: they're long too. I mean, why people are picking Oh yeah,
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 2: they're a really good team.
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 8: That's why I would have taken with my first pick
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 8: I had if I had the number your second. Well,
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 8: I'm saying in this in this round now, would Michigan
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 8: be in my top four? Yes, that's what I'm saying.
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 8: Michigan will still got picked in this round. That's what
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 8: I was saying, Not that I would have taken them
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 8: with my first pick.
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 2: Okay, Well, I'm saying I think I would have gotten
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 2: Michigan no matter where, because I think other people would
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 2: have stayed away from them. Yeah, all right, kid, you
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 2: got the next selection here. Who are you going to
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 2: take in our March Madness Preview Green Jacket Draft? I
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 2: will take u Khan Wow, Wow, you're not going with
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 2: a one seed for what? Why not? Now? U Khan
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 2: is the pick? Some faith and Dan Hurley there Well, look,
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 2: I mean no coach in the game right now has
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 2: had more success recently in the tournament than Yukon. They're
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 2: coming off all loss in their last game to Louisville
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 2: where they kind of got smoked. Maybe they got it
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 2: out of their system. I don't know, but they're really
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 2: balanced team. They always are. I don't know if they've
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 2: got that next great NBA player on their roster, but
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 2: five guys average and double figures on the Yukon Huskies.
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 2: And Dan Hurley, whether you like him or not, you
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 2: know he can coach. But I am surprised at two
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 2: seed out of kid at the third pick overall.
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 3: He pulls some some singers out every Yeah, I'll tell you,
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 3: but then I'm not gonna doubt it. You've watched way
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 3: more Yukon basketball than I have this year. I know
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 3: that they've won a bunch. I mean there's like you said,
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 3: there's nobody there's one more recently than they have, so
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 3: a little bit championship pedigree.
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 1: You need a little luck to do this right, you know,
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 1: championship championship pedigree would help.
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 2: So they'll get to the first round and then after that.
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 1: I just keep my fingers crossed because it's a crapshoot
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 1: at this point.
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 2: All right, Ashley, you get back to back picks. You
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 2: can get two one seeds here. Oh, it doesn't sound
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 2: like she's going to.
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 7: Wow, I'm not gonna. Oh, I'm gonna take Houston.
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 2: Houston, as I hope you.
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 7: Oh, so it's finally happening. Any u kid?
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 2: Oh? Can someone can someone?
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 3: I don't know, you guys can just if you want,
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 3: you guys, just go ahead and take all those number
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 3: two seeds.
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 1: I was gonna get Houston going back, but this is
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 1: not happening now. So thanks a lot. It's cool though, continue.
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 7: You are welcome, and I'm also I see what you doing.
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 2: You wanted to get your two favorite two seeds.
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 7: I'm also going to take Iowa State. Please, you're not.
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 2: Gonna take any of the wow wow? How about that? Well,
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 2: Iowa State? Can they beat Arizona? That is that's kind
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 2: of the question. A lot of people seem to like
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 2: them white a bit.
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 7: And again, yeah, you know you've got to.
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 2: Michigan Michigan, Michigan question. Yeah, I saw That's why I'm like,
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 2: wait a minute. Didn't all the experts that I was
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 2: watching pick Arizona and a few of them picked Iowa Stable.
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 2: They're picking him to knock off Michigan. So two number
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 2: two's for Ashley with the fourth and fifth picks of
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 2: the draft. So Bucky's gonna get two number ones. Yes,
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 2: looks like, so, kid, you've got the next selection. Are
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 2: you going to go three seed?
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 4: Here?
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 2: See, I'll take I'll take Duke. I'll take Duke. Sure, absolutely,
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 2: mah yeah, Cam Boozer is so good, so good, He's
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 2: gonna probably, they keep saying to Bonsa, but I think
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 2: Boozer is the number one pick is late.
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 1: His last name holds a little weight. I don't know
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 1: if Carlos is gonna. I think the last name Boozer
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 1: does help a little bit. So yeah, I would take it,
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 1: just a small edge. I think he is better player
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 1: than de Bonsa.
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 2: But I mean it's six ten and they they basically
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 2: run the offense through that guy and he'll be out
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 2: at the top of the key. Yeah, he's he's terrific,
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 2: and uh so, I mean there are a lot of
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 2: great players, and most of them are freshmen in this tournament.
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 2: But Duke is the is the number one overall seed
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 2: in this tournament, and Kid just got him with the
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 2: sixth pick. All right, Bucky, you have your second round selection.
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 2: You can be the only person with two one seeds.
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 3: Well yeah, and Kid, You Yukon and Duke are in
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 3: the same brackets. Anyway, I'm glad you. Maybe you'll for
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 3: sure get somebody into the final four. Then with that,
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 3: I am going to take Florida. I'll go ahead and
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 3: take two number ones.
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 2: Why not? All right? Two number ones going to Bucky.
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 2: He's got Florida and Arizona. They are the defending champs.
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 2: They will run into Houston at some point. I have
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 2: them winning. I think that they've got a very good
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 2: front court. But you know what they say about the tournament,
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 2: it's the backcourt that wins, and that seems to be
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 2: a weakness for the Gators. It seems to be the
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 2: one area that people question. You remember, Clayton last year
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 2: kind of carried them to a few wins. He's not
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 2: there anymore, and so they're terrific on the front line.
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 2: If they have a questionable backcourt, Houston's a team that
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 2: can expose it. Vanderbilt is a team that did expose
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 2: it just a week ago. And Vanderbilt's in the same
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 2: block with Florida, I mean, and Vanderbilt's got two outstanding
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 2: guards and Duke Miles and Tyler Tanner. So I mean,
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 2: we'll see, but I can't really fault Bucky with the
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 2: seventh overall pick to end up with two one seeds
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 2: here in our March Madness Green Jacket preview. All right,
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 2: I got back to back selections here? Is that what
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 2: you're telling me? What you're getting at there? I don't
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 2: like the Eggs to even get past by us, but
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 2: I am going to take what I got those Wait
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 2: a minute, what are you're looking at? Oh we got three?
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 2: Two seeds are off the board. Oh boy, so I
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 2: can go Purdue. I do like Purdue, but I like
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 2: Michigan State better. So I'm going to have both the
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 2: Michigan schools. It looks like I'm gonna go Michigan State
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 2: and then I just got to take them.
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 6: Give me Illinois, So I'll take two three.
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 2: Oh you know what I see, WSU. Let me go
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 2: ahead and get knocked State in Illinois Illinois. I mean,
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 2: that's just where I'm from. So if I'm going to
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 2: be on the fence, I'm gonna side. Yeah.
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 7: I had both of those as my next one.
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 2: Oh okay, If if I'm gonna be on the fence,
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna side toward the team that I actually root
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 2: for a little bit. And Michigan State I think is
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 2: very dangerous. They've got they got a very athletic team.
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 2: I don't know. When I think about Michigan State, I
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 2: think about like people that will bloody your nose. That's
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 2: what I think about under Tom Izzo. But they have
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 2: got a very athletic team.
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 4: Uh.
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 2: And so I think they're pretty dangerous in this tournament.
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 2: I think they're gonna beat you Kon kid, I really do. Uh.
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 2: And I think they're at least going to make it
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 2: to the Elite eight. And I have them going all
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 2: the way to the final four. So I don't mind
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 2: at all taking two three seeds right here.
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 3: I had Michigan State beating Yukon as well, but then
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 3: losing to Duke.
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 7: I have them beating Duke.
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 6: Wow, I'm beating Look at that.
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 2: You know, I got you. Something's gonna happen for me
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 2: against you, kid. Yeh, that's the bottom line. Not sure. Yeah, Bucky,
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 2: you've got your third pick. Who are you going with?
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 6: I'm gonna go against what I have in my bracket.
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 3: I have b Why you knocking Purdue off to face
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 3: Arizona in the eleait eight, But I'm gonna go ahead and
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 3: take Purdue right here because it's very chalky and I
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 3: like that.
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 2: You can't resist chalk. No, you're the chalkiest person. You
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 2: are chalky white.
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 7: Now you're rooting against your bracket.
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 2: I don't care. Okay, Yeah he wants charging not rooting
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 2: against his bracket. He's rooting for chalk.
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 7: Yeah, clearly it seems like.
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 6: That either way. They meet up in the sweet sixteen.
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 2: Alright, Perdue is the last two seed. All right, so kid,
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 2: are you gonna go off the board and get a four,
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 2: a five, or a six. I will take a four.
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 2: I'll take four. I'll take Akansas. You know, I think
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 2: that's a great pick. Arkansas.
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 7: Man.
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 2: Are they show too much?
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 7: Yeah?
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 1: Or I just you know, watch a little bit of
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 1: college bout just a little bit of that.
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 2: I know that I'm just a little bit. But they're good.
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 6: They are good, and they're playing great right now.
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 2: Don't tell Bucky that. I mean, they are so long
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 2: and athletic, and and then they've got the point guard.
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 2: Everybody wants a good point guard this time of the year.
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 2: They might have the best in the country right now
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 2: in a cuff. So for a four seed, I mean,
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 2: that's I think that's a really good pick. I think
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 2: they're very dangerous here in the tournament. But they face
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 2: Wisconsin in that very second round. Same thing. Really good
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 2: guards with Wisconsin, and they're playing or high paying. Yeah,
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 2: all right, Ashley, you got the last pick a round
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 2: number three.
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 8: All Right, I'm gonna I don't know what to do here,
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 8: but I'm gonna just take a leap and I'm going
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 8: to take Texas Tech.
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 2: Oh, a five seed without their best player. Yep, Oh,
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 2: that is a leap. Yeah, dumb one.
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 6: Okay, whoa singer?
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 2: They are playing well, they've not really missed much of
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 2: a beat without him, but it's just hard for me
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 2: to believe without him that they're going to get very
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 2: deep into this thing.
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 8: But I'm just trying to look at possibilities that I
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 8: have with who I you know, who people are matching
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 8: up against, and who people are playing and where I've
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 8: already picked.
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 2: Well, Alabama just lost a guy to about ten pounds
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 2: a weed. Yeah, so that would be the second round match. Yeah,
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 2: there you go. Oh and your boy here, you are
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 2: going after my Michigan team. Yeah twice again? All right,
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 2: all right, and you get the first pick of Cinderella's
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 2: So take Missouri.
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 7: Please.
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 2: That's a good choice. That's probably the number one choice.
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 2: You got to take a double digit to seed here
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 2: a true Cinderella. Missouri Tigers are going to be playing.
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 2: Not only are they at ten versus a seven in
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 2: the first round, they're playing that game in Saint Louis
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 2: against the Hurricanes, Miami Hurricanes, and it will I mean,
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 2: I know it's Columbia Missouri, but believe me, having grown
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 2: up there, Saint Louis In's loved themselves, the Missouri Tigers.
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 2: So they're going to have a home court advantage in
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 2: that game. There's no going to be no doubt about it.
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 2: They might have it. I mean they're gonna have it
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 2: for a couple of rounds. They'll face Perdue in the
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 2: second round. But any advantage that you could get, you know,
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 2: to have Saint Louis, Missouri rooting for you. I think
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 2: that's the smartest pick to make there with the all right, kid,
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 2: you are up next.
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 1: That's funny because I was actually gonna take Missouri, but
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 1: that is off the board. So wow, I don't know
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 1: what to do. I'm panicking. Give me kennessas State. You
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 1: know that sounds great and all, but I guess.
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  Speaker 2: We'll go BCU b oh Man for just I don't
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 2: have a pick. You still mine? Well, Chuck, I'm sorry,
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 2: I had to do something. Levin ceed they're taking on
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 2: North Carolina in the first round. I'm not here to
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 2: I don't think I'm picking anybody any Cinderella's to make
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 2: it past the second round, but.
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 7: Take to get a cup of win or two.
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, but I am picking them to get past
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 2: the first round. Uh. In North Carolina. I think North
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 2: Carolina of all the losses, I mean, Caleb Wilson was
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 2: the North Carolina tar Heels this year. So I think
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 2: Virginia Commonwealth is gonna pull off an upset in that
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 2: round one and then they better lose the Illinois round two.
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 2: All right, Bucky, your pick Cinderella, Uh give me Santa Clara. Yeah, okay,
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 2: you guys just took one two and three on my
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 2: board right there, all right, Santa Clara. A lot of
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 2: people I hear, a lot of experts really like the
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 2: WCC this year. A lot of people picking Saint Mary's
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 2: to do some damage. A lot of people picking Santa
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 2: Clara to do some damage some I think part of
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 2: it too is everybody hates Kentucky.
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 7: Well I shouldn't they?
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, probably except people from Kentucky. Everybody hates Kentucky. All right,
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 2: Santa Clara is the pick there, the ten seed UH
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 2: in the Midwest region, and so I got the last selection.
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 2: So again, I don't think any of these teams are
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 2: gonna win multiple games. Maybe Texas A and M is
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 2: a good matchup against Saint Mary's. But I'm going to
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 2: just take a team that I think is going to
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 2: pull an upset in the first round. Louisville's got a
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 2: really good freshman guard, but South Florida hasn't lost in
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 2: a long time. So I'm going to take USF the
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 2: eleven seed in the East region, to at least pull
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 2: off an upset UH, and then of course they have
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 2: to lose to Michigan State otherwise I've blown my second
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 2: round pick. But I think you're just trying to find
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 2: a win with the Cinderella pick this year. And I'm
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 2: going to say the Bulls are going to take out
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 2: the Louisville Cardinals.
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 7: Those are four, all right, there you go.
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 2: Those are our teams for March Madness. You got Arizona
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 2: winning the national championship, Ashley, who did you have.
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 7: One in Arizona winning the national championship?
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 2: Did you gotta win in the national championship? Yukon?
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 7: Oh, thus the pick?
• 1:22:40
  Speaker 2: There you go, and I'm gonna take I'm gonna take Michigan.
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 2: So Chucksteam Michigan, Michigan State, Illinois. Boy, I really loaded
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 2: up on the big ten and USF. Bucky's got Arizona, Florida, Purdue,
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 2: and Santa Clara. Nice work, Chalky kids got Yukon, Duke
• 1:22:59
  Speaker 2: Arkansas in Virginia. I think you ended up with a
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 2: good group, even though you were all over the board
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 2: with your weirdness. But I think that's a really good group.
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 2: And then Ashley with Houston, Iowa State, Texas Tech, and Missouri.
• 1:23:13
  Speaker 2: Very big twelve of you.
• 1:23:15
  Speaker 8: Yeah, all right, all right, there you go.
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 2: We're set. Now your set, let's go. Bring on the
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 2: madness coming up next on the radio program, we got
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 2: time to make fun of Mark de Rosa a little
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 2: more right, Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM. All right,
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 2: the US loses to the Venezuela team last night WBC Championship.
• 1:23:46
  Speaker 2: Didn't make it to the championship, oh, by the way,
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 2: but do not get it done the last night. And
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 2: of course the finger pointing started the next morning and
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 2: toward the American team. And for a lot of reasons,
• 1:24:01
  Speaker 2: we've discussed it a few times here today, but maybe
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 2: not all of it. I should start by saying I
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 2: threw Bucky off about an hour and a half ago. Yeah,
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 2: I was thinking that guy on the Twitter machine was
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 2: talking about the intentional walk to a brave and calling
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 2: that cowardly baseball at the time. But no, the inning
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 2: started with a walk the eighth inning that or excuse me,
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 2: the ninth inning that produced the game winning run to
• 1:24:28
  Speaker 2: Luis a Rise, and somebody was accusing them of pitching
• 1:24:31
  Speaker 2: around him or whatever the case may be. So the
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 2: point Bucky was trying to make is that you can't
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 2: blame Durosa for a pitcher Garrett Whitlock walking Luise A Rise,
• 1:24:41
  Speaker 2: a good eyed hitter to lead off an inning. Yeah,
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 2: you can blame Whitlock, but you can't blame Mark de Rosa.
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 2: But we can blame him for a lot of other things. Right, Well, yeah,
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 2: he was not perfect by any stretch. That's darn sure.
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 3: I mean I don't I questioned some of the starting
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 3: lineup things. Now, it's difficult the whole How do you
• 1:25:02
  Speaker 3: write a lineup when no one deserves to be on
• 1:25:05
  Speaker 3: the bench. There's nobody, there's not one person on that
• 1:25:09
  Speaker 3: maybe Ernie Clement, Yeah, playoffs? Yeah, ok yeah, you know what,
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 3: you you sit on the bench. And he's like, okay,
• 1:25:18
  Speaker 3: that's fine, as long as I can just be like
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 3: a hero and win World Series?
• 1:25:21
  Speaker 2: Is that okay? No?
• 1:25:23
  Speaker 6: Almost though to hell buddy.
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 7: There quickly.
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 3: So, I mean it was I I don't understand the
• 1:25:34
  Speaker 3: there's he went on before uh the d Row went
• 1:25:39
  Speaker 3: on the shows or went on some show beforehand and
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 3: was kind of asked about some of his decisions with
• 1:25:45
  Speaker 3: the lineup and how basically he's playing Bregman instead of
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 3: Gunner Henderson. Well that's not right in the hot hand,
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 3: that's a right, he lefty thing. And he ends up saying, well,
• 1:25:54
  Speaker 3: the guys We've seen what he's done at the highest level,
• 1:25:57
  Speaker 3: the biggest games, talking about all the World Series, and yeah,
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 3: that's true. He's been really good. He's not as good
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 3: as Gunnar Henderson is right now, right period.
• 1:26:06
  Speaker 2: And not as hot, which was his reason for not playing.
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Buxton versus Crow like, I don't understand how you're
• 1:26:14
  Speaker 3: going there either. I mean, if you're going based on
• 1:26:16
  Speaker 3: hot Buxton hadn't had a hit either. Now he was
• 1:26:18
  Speaker 3: only zero for six, but he basically says, oh, he's
• 1:26:21
  Speaker 3: been hitting. You know, he's been swinging it well, having
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 3: good abs, which you know how I am. I'm not
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 3: caught up on the on the outcome as much as
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 3: I am the actual approach, because if you have a
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 3: good approach, everything's going to work out. So if you
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 3: want to say that he okay, you can go there
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 3: and you're not missing anything. But he quickly made a
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 3: change with Buxton, I mean he pinched hit and made
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 3: a swap there, and then you went with what I
• 1:26:44
  Speaker 3: think is this, without a doubt, a lesser catcher all
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 3: the way around Offensively, defensively, I think that there's calling
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 3: pitches wise, I think that there's I think you left
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 3: you bet your best catcher on the bench in cal Rawly,
• 1:26:58
  Speaker 3: and you didn't even bring him off when you could
• 1:26:59
  Speaker 3: have brought him up when it looked like you were
• 1:27:01
  Speaker 3: just looking for one big swing here and there. Had
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 3: a couple different times you had opportunities to do that,
• 1:27:05
  Speaker 3: and he didn't do it. So yeah, if I'm sitting
• 1:27:07
  Speaker 3: around having a beer whiskey with Dero, I'm gonna be
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna I'm not gonna do it right now because
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 3: the wound's still fresh. But next time I see him,
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 3: it's gonna be like, hey, I would say, put the
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 3: MVP in the game in the semifinals. In the finals,
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 3: he didn't lose a game when he was playing. He
• 1:27:22
  Speaker 3: lost to Italy. That was Will Smith was catching that game.
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 3: And so yeah, to me, it was shame.
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 2: Are we to be worried at all? I mean, okay,
• 1:27:38
  Speaker 2: let me just say this. I'm not, but just for
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 2: conversational purposes, I think Cal gets back to Peori, gets
• 1:27:45
  Speaker 2: around to the skies and hits the ground running eight
• 1:27:48
  Speaker 2: days from now, and you know this is not going
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 2: to impact him whatsoever. But he's not exactly used to
• 1:27:56
  Speaker 2: being benched like never. Yeah, and and I know how
• 1:28:01
  Speaker 2: excited he was to be a part of this. He
• 1:28:03
  Speaker 2: was one of the first guys that said yep, I'm going.
• 1:28:06
  Speaker 2: And he gets there and he really was told, all right,
• 1:28:10
  Speaker 2: we're gonna alternate catchers, okay, and then for the championship game,
• 1:28:16
  Speaker 2: we're not gonna go with our starter, We're gonna go
• 1:28:19
  Speaker 2: with the backup because he's got three more singles. Yeah,
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 2: than what Cal asked. I mean, this was not a
• 1:28:26
  Speaker 2: great experience for him. I mean, he might tell me differently.
• 1:28:29
  Speaker 2: It doesn't matter. The result doesn't matter. I got to
• 1:28:31
  Speaker 2: wear Team USA across my chest. I had a great
• 1:28:33
  Speaker 2: time with the guys. But for somebody that doesn't even
• 1:28:36
  Speaker 2: like to sit one inning, much less the two biggest
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 2: games of the entire USA's WBC tournament experience, he didn't
• 1:28:45
  Speaker 2: even get to feel the joy of getting a hit.
• 1:28:47
  Speaker 2: He had an uncharacteristic pass ball in the game at
• 1:28:50
  Speaker 2: a really bad time too. In the game they ended
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 2: up not paying for that, but a really bad time there.
• 1:28:56
  Speaker 2: He had the handshake gait. I mean international Nationally, people
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 2: that don't know Cal, don't follow Cal, and yet are
• 1:29:04
  Speaker 2: experts about Cal. Rawley just killed him, killed him in
• 1:29:08
  Speaker 2: social media. He even had to have a press conference
• 1:29:11
  Speaker 2: where at one time he had to stop and say,
• 1:29:13
  Speaker 2: I'm not taking any questions, Like I mean, that's stuff
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 2: that's usually saved for senators who got caught with their
• 1:29:20
  Speaker 2: underage secretary. Yeah, and here's Cal having to say, I'm
• 1:29:24
  Speaker 2: not taking any questions about a silly handshake misunderstanding. It
• 1:29:29
  Speaker 2: wasn't a great experience for Cal. Does he just brush
• 1:29:31
  Speaker 2: it right under the rug? Or is this something that
• 1:29:34
  Speaker 2: maybe delays a good start for him this year?
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 3: Well, I mean I'm not going to try to like
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 3: put myself into his mindset because I mean, plain and simple,
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 3: what he did last year, right, and to sixty home runs.
• 1:29:48
  Speaker 3: There's a thing between the years that is a toughness
• 1:29:51
  Speaker 3: that very few have, right because you you're still going
• 1:29:55
  Speaker 3: to struggle, You're still going to have times where you're
• 1:29:56
  Speaker 3: not feeling great, and yet you can still I'm in
• 1:30:00
  Speaker 3: a good swing here and there, you still find a
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 3: way to run into sixty of them bad boys. So
• 1:30:05
  Speaker 3: to me, I think mental toughness is obviously something that
• 1:30:07
  Speaker 3: he brings. We know about his physical toughness, but I
• 1:30:09
  Speaker 3: think mental toughness. But this is something my wife case,
• 1:30:13
  Speaker 3: she asks, she goes, you think this is something that
• 1:30:15
  Speaker 3: could affect him like upstairs, like the fact that he's
• 1:30:19
  Speaker 3: not playing after she found out he wasn't playing in
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 3: the finals, and that's after not playing in the semifinals,
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 3: and I immediately now and then as I started thinking
• 1:30:28
  Speaker 3: about it, I started saying, when was the last time
• 1:30:30
  Speaker 3: that cal Rawly wasn't playing in any sort of meaningful game?
• 1:30:35
  Speaker 3: And I have to think that it's the first time
• 1:30:37
  Speaker 3: was the game against Dominican in his life that he
• 1:30:41
  Speaker 3: was not playing? And so that's not fun. I can
• 1:30:44
  Speaker 3: tell you from experience I've played. And then there's a
• 1:30:47
  Speaker 3: time when I went back to Double A and I
• 1:30:48
  Speaker 3: was on the bench. I was an All Star there
• 1:30:50
  Speaker 3: the year before. I go back the next year the
• 1:30:52
  Speaker 3: same league and I'm starting on the bench, and it
• 1:30:54
  Speaker 3: was there was a part of me that was just
• 1:30:56
  Speaker 3: inside I was humiliated. There's a part of me that
• 1:30:58
  Speaker 3: just felt like, what in the hell is going on here?
• 1:31:01
  Speaker 3: And you know, obviously it didn't end up lingering and
• 1:31:04
  Speaker 3: sticking around for a long time, but it's a feeling.
• 1:31:06
  Speaker 3: There's no doubt that he didn't have a great feeling
• 1:31:09
  Speaker 3: coming out of this World Baseball Classic.
• 1:31:11
  Speaker 8: I also do think though with his mental toughness and
• 1:31:14
  Speaker 8: the kind of person he is, that he's gonna look
• 1:31:17
  Speaker 8: at it and say, all right, well that's never gonna
• 1:31:19
  Speaker 8: happen again.
• 1:31:20
  Speaker 7: And what am I going to do now to make
• 1:31:22
  Speaker 7: myself even better?
• 1:31:25
  Speaker 2: I I don't know. I think you got to kind
• 1:31:29
  Speaker 2: of chalk it up to short sample size tournament play.
• 1:31:34
  Speaker 2: I get the alternating catchers thing, and I got overlooked
• 1:31:37
  Speaker 2: for one big start and that didn't set well with me.
• 1:31:41
  Speaker 2: I hate sitting on the bench. I think it just
• 1:31:44
  Speaker 2: kind of have to just brush it off, and I'm
• 1:31:47
  Speaker 2: sure that he will. It's just, man, You're coming off
• 1:31:50
  Speaker 2: a year in which it felt like everything fell in
• 1:31:53
  Speaker 2: place for cal Raley, and then you've started the new
• 1:31:55
  Speaker 2: year nothing fell in place. Yeah, for two eight weeks
• 1:32:00
  Speaker 2: for cal Raley, I mean nothing went. I mean think
• 1:32:04
  Speaker 2: about what cal Raley envisioned that experience was gonna be
• 1:32:08
  Speaker 2: like getting it, you know, being a household name, coming
• 1:32:12
  Speaker 2: off a sixty homer season, teaming with Aaron Judge and
• 1:32:15
  Speaker 2: not being you know, compared against him, maybe hitting behind
• 1:32:20
  Speaker 2: him in the order, having a moment where I get
• 1:32:23
  Speaker 2: to round the bases with Team USA across maybe I'll
• 1:32:27
  Speaker 2: be the hero like I was for the Mariners in
• 1:32:29
  Speaker 2: the playoff drap you got to entertain. I mean, if
• 1:32:32
  Speaker 2: you'd have been in that situation, you're not on the
• 1:32:34
  Speaker 2: bus thinking, you know, here's how I think it's gonna go.
• 1:32:37
  Speaker 2: I think I'm gonna struggle to get a hit, probably
• 1:32:41
  Speaker 2: gonna lose my starting job before the end of the tournament,
• 1:32:44
  Speaker 2: and I'm probably gonna piss off a teammate. Yeah. Yeah,
• 1:32:47
  Speaker 2: you're not envisioning that.
• 1:32:48
  Speaker 7: I think that'll be success.
• 1:32:49
  Speaker 2: You're thinking that, Hey, I got things are going Col's
• 1:32:52
  Speaker 2: way right now. Man, is this gonna be a memorable
• 1:32:55
  Speaker 2: experience and all of his memories have to be crappy? Yeah,
• 1:32:59
  Speaker 2: well yeah, I did. By far.
• 1:33:01
  Speaker 3: It's a ton less than what it was going to be,
• 1:33:03
  Speaker 3: what he thought it was going to be, and yet
• 1:33:05
  Speaker 3: it's still I'm sure just the mindset, the glass half
• 1:33:09
  Speaker 3: full mindset that just about any good baseball player is
• 1:33:11
  Speaker 3: gonna have. He's already spun it into I was a
• 1:33:14
  Speaker 3: good experience. Glad I got to play with those guys.
• 1:33:17
  Speaker 3: We fell short. I'm ready to get back with my
• 1:33:20
  Speaker 3: boys and go in a world series. Yeah, I guarantee
• 1:33:22
  Speaker 3: he's already flipped the page now if it lingers, you
• 1:33:25
  Speaker 3: start out, he's over his last nine in the WBC,
• 1:33:30
  Speaker 3: in his last week, he goes over. Yeah, there's a
• 1:33:33
  Speaker 3: part of it that this could contribute to. I don't
• 1:33:35
  Speaker 3: see it happening, but there's a part where you could
• 1:33:38
  Speaker 3: be a little bit concerned as an outsider, like we
• 1:33:40
  Speaker 3: are watching, we know one of our favorite players.
• 1:33:42
  Speaker 2: Well, well, I want this story to in this way
• 1:33:44
  Speaker 2: that in the World Series against the Dodgers, Cayle Rawley
• 1:33:49
  Speaker 2: goes eleven for twenty two with eight home runs and
• 1:33:53
  Speaker 2: Will Smith goes one for twenty five with a walk. Okay, yeah,
• 1:33:57
  Speaker 2: that's all I want to I'm down with that.
• 1:34:00
  Speaker 6: You win the World Series, right, Hey, I'm down one
• 1:34:02
  Speaker 6: hundred percent.
• 1:34:03
  Speaker 2: You can have that start and sign me up. You
• 1:34:05
  Speaker 2: have that start, Will, Alright, one last thing next Sports
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