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Chuck & Buck 5-13 Hour 1: Is Cal fixed? Mariners Morning After and the LeBron hate. · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: here on this Wednesday edition of Chuck and Buck in
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  Speaker 1: a little bit. And so we welcome you to the
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  Speaker 1: show here. And when I say we, I mean Ashley
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  Speaker 1: Ryan and myself, Chuck Powell, no Bucky Jacobson here today again,
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  Speaker 1: but we got you covered here until ten o'clock this
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  Speaker 1: morning before we hand things off to Greg Bell and
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  Speaker 1: also Christopher Kid. You know, it just dawned on me.
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  Speaker 1: The promo that Softy and Dick and Hugh thinks it's
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  Speaker 1: so funny too air right now is about me. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: I got it. What is it? It's about the lottery
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  Speaker 1: and anybody that thinks it's rigged as an idiot? Oh,
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  Speaker 1: I see see. Yeah, you and I have had a
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  Speaker 1: couple of rounds about this, and he ambushed me on
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  Speaker 1: the air with this one time, and so yeah, so
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  Speaker 1: I thought it was in good fun. But apparently we're
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  Speaker 1: going to take a little pot shots. Yeah, not so
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  Speaker 1: good because I just realized it right before on the
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  Speaker 1: air that they've been because I heard him calling people
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  Speaker 1: idiots yesterday I heard the promo. I didn't realize it
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  Speaker 1: was me.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't realize it was you either. I heard them
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  Speaker 2: laughing really hard, and I was like, what are those
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  Speaker 2: bus comes up to?
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  Speaker 1: That's what I heard, and I just wasn't even paying attention.
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  Speaker 1: Then I realized it's about people who think the NBA
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  Speaker 1: lottery is rigged. Well, two can play at that game. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: they can you know. I think if you don't think
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  Speaker 1: it's rigged, your head is completely up your butt. Agreed,
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  Speaker 1: That's what I think.
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  Speaker 3: Denial.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and and and you know what, that's actually funny
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  Speaker 1: because his take on it is that how on earth
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  Speaker 1: would a multi billion dollar corporation ever leave itself open
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  Speaker 1: to that sort of penalty, that sort of litigation that
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  Speaker 1: if it got out. And my argument to that is
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  Speaker 1: there are politicians, Fortune five hundred companies all over the
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  Speaker 1: world that support illegal drug deals, all sorts of illegalities
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  Speaker 1: out there that create money for themselves, but they are
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  Speaker 1: smart enough to put enough separation in between themselves and
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  Speaker 1: the actual crimes so that they will never get caught.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, how often do we ever hear of these
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  Speaker 1: entities actually getting called out? I mean we do know, right,
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  Speaker 1: politicians and Fortune five hundred companies have been in bed
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  Speaker 1: with the mafia and that's not legal. So the separation
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  Speaker 1: that you can provide when you are a billion dollar
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  Speaker 1: corporation from any wrongdoing, I don't know. I think you're
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  Speaker 1: pretty naive if you don't think it's possible that the
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  Speaker 1: NBA lottery is fixed. Now I do it somewhat tongue
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  Speaker 1: in cheek. I kind of go over the top like
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  Speaker 1: I do in draftmas. But I also do believe that
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  Speaker 1: there's some shenanigans going on. So do most players in
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  Speaker 1: the NBA, and I gotta be honest. If they're being honest,
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  Speaker 1: I think a lot of exit executives wonder it as well.
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  Speaker 1: So No, I don't think I'm an idiot for thinking that.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think there's no limit to my idiocy for
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  Speaker 1: thinking that. I actually think I'm ahead of the curve
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  Speaker 1: on this one. And I think you're being awfully gullible
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  Speaker 1: and naive of a human being if you don't think
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  Speaker 1: it's possible that you don't think it's possible that this
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  Speaker 1: has been having on. There's just way too much strange evidence.
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  Speaker 1: You believe an awful lot in circumstances and dumb luck
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  Speaker 1: if that's the case. But I think that I think
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  Speaker 1: your head's up your butt if you don't think that
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  Speaker 1: there's a possibility that there's actually a rigging going on
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  Speaker 1: with the NBA lottery. I mean, how much evidence do
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  Speaker 1: you need. It's a mountain of evidence that is out there.
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  Speaker 1: It happens every year, some not every year. That's a lie.
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  Speaker 1: It happens almost every year. Some you got to be
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  Speaker 1: kidding me, you're trying to pull this off this year.
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  Speaker 1: There there's no way that was going to happen without
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  Speaker 1: this happening first, and yet it's gone on time and
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  Speaker 1: time again. I don't know how many thorough explanations on
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  Speaker 1: this show that I have to give in order for
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  Speaker 1: smart people to say, yeah, that looks pretty suspicious, and
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  Speaker 1: I will at least open up my mind to think
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  Speaker 1: that that could possibly happen. So you can call me
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  Speaker 1: an idiot, I suppose for having that opinion. I will
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  Speaker 1: call you naive for having your opinion.
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  Speaker 2: I will say, you know, I've taken into the consideration
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  Speaker 2: all the things you've said, and I do.
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  Speaker 3: I do understand how the lottery could be rigged.
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  Speaker 2: But now that they're bringing up the point that billionaires
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  Speaker 2: would never be able to hide things right exactly, I
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  Speaker 2: think maybe they're onto something because there's no way people
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  Speaker 2: with a lot of money can get away with stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Nope, Nope, that's hard, never happens. They're really the more
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  Speaker 1: money you make, the more transparent. All of your actions are.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, correct, So there's no way this billion dollar entity
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  Speaker 2: could ever hide something like this.
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  Speaker 1: All billion dollar, multi billion dollar corporations are honest.
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  Speaker 3: Yes they are, and they always have been, never a doubt.
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  Speaker 1: The people that run them are always above board because
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  Speaker 1: there's too much to risk, that's correct. Yeah, yeah, So
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  Speaker 1: why would I ever do something strange or illegal because
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  Speaker 1: if I got caught, I could get in trouble.
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  Speaker 2: So sorry, Chuck, I was on to what you were
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  Speaker 2: saying before, But now this billionaire argument, they might really
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  Speaker 2: have brought something to the table.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. So let's make a promo of me calling my
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  Speaker 1: coworkers who supposedly respect me names, and then let's go
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  Speaker 1: ahead and wrap this into a promo and let it
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  Speaker 1: air over and over and over again. How about that?
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  Speaker 3: So exciting.
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  Speaker 1: Uh huh. I know. Also, well, start today with our
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  Speaker 1: hero finally showing that maybe, just maybe he's out of
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  Speaker 1: his funk class. Now, yes, we got a win, and
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot to cover with a Mariners win. Last night.
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  Speaker 1: It was actually an easy win, which doesn't happen a
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  Speaker 1: lot with this baseball team. But we'll cover that and
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  Speaker 1: dom Canzone and everybody else that contributed to that last
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  Speaker 1: night with Mariners morning after coming up at six thirty.
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  Speaker 1: But let's just start with what has turned out to
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  Speaker 1: be the topic of conversation since we cracked the MIC's
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  Speaker 1: Monday morning at six o'clock, and that is why Seattle's superhero,
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  Speaker 1: maybe the face of the entire Seattle sports scene, is
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  Speaker 1: off to such a terrible start. Cal Raley last night
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  Speaker 1: got a couple of hits, snapping an er for thirty
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  Speaker 1: seven drought, which I mean, that's that's that's bad for
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  Speaker 1: I mean half of that you're doing soul searching for
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  Speaker 1: it to double up. Now. I know he had an
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  Speaker 1: injury in there which contributed to that as well, but
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  Speaker 1: at one point he'd gone thirty seven official at bat's
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  Speaker 1: without a base hit. My goodness. But last night he
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  Speaker 1: got a couple of them, and the relief on his
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  Speaker 1: face was magic. And then the players and they're over
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  Speaker 1: the top celebration of it in the dugout, even the coaches,
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  Speaker 1: I mean meeting him at the top step like he
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  Speaker 1: was a anchoring hero for getting a base hit to
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  Speaker 1: snap that skid. It was good to see. It was
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  Speaker 1: a relief to see. It was fun to see, and
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  Speaker 1: it also hopefully is a harbinger of what's to come. Well.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and the fact that then he got not one,
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  Speaker 3: but two, you were like.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so we even were getting two in one game,
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  Speaker 2: so now we're feeling something. When the way that they
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  Speaker 2: reacted though to him getting that base hit reminded me
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  Speaker 2: of when I was in high school playing basketball. I
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  Speaker 2: was post player and we were about twelve games into
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  Speaker 2: the season by the time I finally scored a point,
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  Speaker 2: like made a basket.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and my.
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  Speaker 2: Whole team like rushed the floor because I finally made
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  Speaker 2: one basket. And that was basically I should have done
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  Speaker 2: that a lot. I should have scored more than that,
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  Speaker 2: but I was not good.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, and this is so much fun. Friends, you really
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  Speaker 1: love me. Yeah, I got an idea, we should do
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  Speaker 1: this again. This was fun.
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  Speaker 3: I should do this more often, And I think that's
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  Speaker 3: what Cal thought. Oh this is fun.
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  Speaker 2: Look at how my teammates reacted. I should do this
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  Speaker 2: more often. No, it was great to see and I
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  Speaker 2: had to laugh a little bit because of all our
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  Speaker 2: conversations about Cal's struggles and all our thoughts of like,
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  Speaker 2: what could we do to help Cal? And and then
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  Speaker 2: here we are here he's you know, he's Cal. We
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  Speaker 2: knew he was going to fix it. Hopefully this is
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  Speaker 2: the way. Hopefully this is not just a one time game.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and yes, I mean you had to know that
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  Speaker 1: he was going to fix it. I mean, even if
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  Speaker 1: he never does reach the heights that he reached a
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  Speaker 1: year ago again, if that was an outlier season, I
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  Speaker 1: mean it was historic. So if he never reaches that again,
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  Speaker 1: I think we spent an entire off season preparing ourselves
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  Speaker 1: for it. That that, no, we can't expect that. I
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  Speaker 1: mean even if we got forty home runs, that's a
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  Speaker 1: great season for any player, much less a catcher and
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  Speaker 1: a guy that contributes to this team in as many
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  Speaker 1: ways as what he does. I mean, that standing ovation
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  Speaker 1: at the dugout shows you how much they love him.
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  Speaker 1: The fact that they can give him crap shows you
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  Speaker 1: why he's why he's so easily loved. So that entire
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  Speaker 1: exchange kind of highlighted how important he is to this team.
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  Speaker 1: And so, yes, they made light of it last night,
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  Speaker 1: but he has to get going, and last night was
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  Speaker 1: the indication of that very thing. And so this isn't
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  Speaker 1: expecting him to now go on a run and hit
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  Speaker 1: a home run every night and eventually compete for a
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  Speaker 1: Nation American League MVP Award and hit sixty one home
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  Speaker 1: runs this year. But I think that we can expect
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  Speaker 1: him to be cause there were two three years of
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  Speaker 1: build up to that sixty homer season that he's a
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  Speaker 1: thirty plus homer guy. And so the way he's been
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  Speaker 1: hitting so far this season, even though he does have
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  Speaker 1: seven home runs, which puts him on pace for about
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  Speaker 1: twenty seven home runs, obviously we can't have a guy
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  Speaker 1: in the heart of our order batting one sixty for
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  Speaker 1: the rest of the year. And so just hitting him
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  Speaker 1: on track to the degree that he's an all star
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  Speaker 1: performer at the plate, even if he doesn't recapture this
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  Speaker 1: season that superstar kind of run that he was on,
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  Speaker 1: we at least got to get him there, and last
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  Speaker 1: night was a couple of steps in that direction. I
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  Speaker 1: say a couple because you're right. He had two hits
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  Speaker 1: last night. He also had a walk last night. So
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  Speaker 1: there are ways to come out of a slump, and
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  Speaker 1: I think the way he came out of his slump
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  Speaker 1: last night might have been the ideal way for him
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  Speaker 1: to come out of the slump. Number One. Part of
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  Speaker 1: his problem has been he's not taking enough pitches. So
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  Speaker 1: on his first at bat last night, he worked a walk,
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  Speaker 1: and that alone sort of gave you the indication, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: he's not over aggressive. He's starting the day not over aggressive.
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  Speaker 1: And he got to get the feeling of seeing a
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  Speaker 1: few pitches against a pitcher that he hasn't faced hardly
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  Speaker 1: at all in his life. And so he got to
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  Speaker 1: see a few pitches. He got to I didn't make
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  Speaker 1: an out, so he got to feel that as well.
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  Speaker 1: And then when he did later in the game get
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  Speaker 1: that first hit, it was a line drive to right
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  Speaker 1: center field, clean hit, wasn't anything bloopy about it. It
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  Speaker 1: was a good approach, it was goodwood on the ball,
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  Speaker 1: and it was a clean base hit single. And then
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  Speaker 1: that felt good because now the streak is over. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the players are and the coaches are on their feet,
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  Speaker 1: and Cayl Raley's coming back to the dugout now to
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  Speaker 1: get all the glad hands and the pats on the
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  Speaker 1: back and all the jokes that go along with it.
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  Speaker 1: So that was good. So that I think relaxed him
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  Speaker 1: certainly to be done with the streak and to have
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  Speaker 1: a laugh about it and put it behind you. It
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  Speaker 1: was the next it pat though, the next at bat
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  Speaker 1: that gives us hope that that is over, because to
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  Speaker 1: go the other way with another clean hit single to
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  Speaker 1: left center field, I mean every hitter will tell you
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  Speaker 1: you want to go right back up the middle, you know,
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  Speaker 1: that's what gets you back on track. For him to
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  Speaker 1: have a walk, a hit to right center field, and
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  Speaker 1: then a hit the other way, all both line drives
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  Speaker 1: sort of, I mean, I think that's about as good
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  Speaker 1: a way as you can come out of a slump
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  Speaker 1: as possible. That really means that you are on that fastball,
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  Speaker 1: you are in that count, you are on your swing.
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  Speaker 1: And so I thought that was the best indication of
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  Speaker 1: not only is cal Raley and the streak over and
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  Speaker 1: he can breathe a sigh of relief. The skid, not
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  Speaker 1: the streak. The skid is over, but the way he
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  Speaker 1: came out of it sort of said to me that
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  Speaker 1: he's on it, like and one it can happen in
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  Speaker 1: one night, it can happen and one at bat. It's
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  Speaker 1: crazy how baseball works. And I just kind of went
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  Speaker 1: to bed last night thinking cal Raley's getting ready to
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  Speaker 1: go on a heater right now. I know how cold
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  Speaker 1: he was, but he could match that with a hot
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  Speaker 1: streak here going forward.
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  Speaker 2: Which would be so very Mariners, wouldn't it, Because I mean,
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  Speaker 2: the team can go ice and then go on a
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  Speaker 2: hot streak, so why couldn't their star player do the
• 15:04
  Speaker 2: exact same thing and kind of mimic what we see
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  Speaker 2: from the Mariners frequently. So that walk though, especially for
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  Speaker 2: him to have walked, and then for a Rose Reina
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  Speaker 2: to have hit the home run and cal to have scored,
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  Speaker 2: I feel like that also, just walking or running across,
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  Speaker 2: jogging across home plate, thinking like, okay, I contributed, I
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  Speaker 2: got on base, and now we're up to nothing. It's
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  Speaker 2: not if I would have done my normal thing. This
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  Speaker 2: isn't happening. So I think all of it just I mean,
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  Speaker 2: apparently you got a shower with your clothes on.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that was a couple of other That was
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  Speaker 1: the other story from last night. Because when you are
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  Speaker 1: in one of these slumps and you don't know what
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  Speaker 1: you're going to it just feels like you're never going
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  Speaker 1: to come out of it, and you just feel like,
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  Speaker 1: oh man. I mean, I'm sure a major leaguer feels differently.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure that they know it, they're coming out of it.
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  Speaker 1: Cal knew he was coming out of it, otherwise it
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't have been so funny last night.
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  Speaker 3: But it's still frustrating.
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  Speaker 1: But you don't know it. Yeah, you know you're going
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  Speaker 1: to come out of it. You don't know how you're
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  Speaker 1: going to come out of it. Because, believe me, we
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  Speaker 1: talked about this with Ryan yesterday. Heale, you've done all
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  Speaker 1: the things. You've listened the same people have been whispering
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  Speaker 1: in Cal's ear that led him to a sixty home
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  Speaker 1: run season a year ago. I'm sure they went back
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  Speaker 1: to some of the same drills over and over. He
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  Speaker 1: was arriving early at the park, he was taking more
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  Speaker 1: batting practice, then he was taken less batting practice. There
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  Speaker 1: wasn't any lack of effort by Cal Raley to come
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  Speaker 1: out of this, and yet you still, you know, you're
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  Speaker 1: thinking about everything that you want to do, and sometimes
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  Speaker 1: you become mechanical in that and you need this some
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  Speaker 1: success to relax you a little bit. And then all
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  Speaker 1: of a sudden, it's the strangest thing. I'm not sure
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  Speaker 1: it happens in other sports. You're just like, oh, yeah, okay,
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  Speaker 1: you're a bubble off, You're an eyelash off. And then
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  Speaker 1: all of a sudden he gets the couple of hits
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  Speaker 1: and it relaxes him. But you do go to extreme measures,
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  Speaker 1: You go to weird things. You know, you start wondering
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  Speaker 1: if it's what I'm eating is causing the problem, or
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: how I'm wearing my socks. He wore his socks differently
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  Speaker 1: last night. I mean, he said last night, I was
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  Speaker 1: willing to try anything, including Logan Gilbert's suggestion that he
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: doesn't take his uniform off the night before the night
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  Speaker 1: before his game, just go straight into the shower and
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  Speaker 1: take a shower in full uniform everything. And so Cal
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  Speaker 1: does that last night, and actually gave Logan credit last
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  Speaker 1: night for the advice.
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  Speaker 2: As he should have, because again, do you come up
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  Speaker 2: with that on your own? Partly night.
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  Speaker 3: You need your teammates to sit there and be like, well,
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  Speaker 3: what could work? What could work?
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: You got to wash it off your uniform too, and
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: you got to wash it off your uniform while your
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: uniform still on. You get rid of all that negative
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: strikeout crap.
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: But now you don't know if it's the socks or
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: the shower or what.
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: So does he have to keep Do you think he
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: had a show again last night in his uniform?
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: No?
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: I guess it's such a good clever cure that the
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: idea behind it is you got to wash all the
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: stink off, so he's washed all the skinks. That's what
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: I was hoping the uniform and now he can just
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: go forward. But just in case it was the socks, Yeah,
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: keep the socks going. You gotta wear the socks the
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: exact same. You might have to even do your warm
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: up routine the exact same. You might have to eat
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: the same meal. I mean each you ate the same
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: meal every day. Wade Bogs ate chicken before every game.
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: I mean the things they convinced themselves of. So whatever
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: col did yesterday, he's going to probably do today, with
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: the exception of showering with his uniform on because he
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: wants to keep that stink on him, Keep.
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: That stink on, lock it in.
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was a relief, and we we have plans
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: today to try to fix col. And now maybe he's
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: already fixed.
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: I will say though, on that note, the.
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: Fixing of Cal was done before he ever got a hit.
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: Oh, all of the girls had spoken prior to Cal
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: even stepping up to the plate.
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: Okay for even the walk. Yeah, our audience doesn't know
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: what we're but they're gonna find Yeah, you are going
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: to find out. We will will tell you some of
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: the remedies, some of the cures for Cal that that
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: some people were floating around, including all the players on
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: Palmer the Greats Softball team. So that's going to be
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: revealed a little bit later on in the show. What
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: else is gonna happen on the show? Let's find out
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: what's on tap? What's on tep? What's on tap? All right?
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: So Mariners do win ten to two over the Astros
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: last night, Mariners Morning After comes your way at six thirty.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: It will be Bryce Miller getting the start for the
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: Mariners and Lance McCullers Junior getting the start for the Astros.
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: Let me repeat that. Bryce Miller is getting the start
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: for the Seattle Mariners, so his first start of the season.
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: This has been a big story all year long. It's
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: still it's an ongoing story as they try to figure
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: out what they're going to do. They've got six avery
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: seven starting pitchers for a five man rotation. For now,
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: they're going with a six man rotation because they don't
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: have a day off this week. And so Bryce Miller
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: makes his debut. And yes, the entire organization was expecting
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: big things out of Bryce this year. He seems healthy,
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: ready to go. Can't wait to see him pitch. On
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: the flip side. Lance mccullors Junior used to own the Mariners,
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: but he has not the same pitcher. He's had way
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: too many injuries over the years, and this season he's
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: got about a seven and a half ERA at this
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: point in the year. So five to ten first pitch.
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: The Mariners trying to make it three in a row
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: against the Astros tonight, and they can climb back to
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: the five hundred mark. I know that's not a great accomplishment,
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: but you got to get there before you can move
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: beyond it. So they can get back to the five
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: hundred mark again on the season tonight with another win
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: over the Astros. NBA Playoffs, the San Antonio Spurs were
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: winners last night over the Minnesota Timberwolves, and it was
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: a game in which wimbin Yama kind of established himself
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: early and then the Timberwolves rallied in the third quarter
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: to tie it, and then the Spurs ended up pulling away.
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: It looked very lopsided, but at one point the score
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: was tied midway through the third quarter. But San Antonio
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: wins one twenty six to ninety seven over the Timberwolves,
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: so they are up three games to two in the series,
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: and it's looking very much like it will be San
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: Antonio versus OKC in the Western Conference Finals. And then
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: tonight you're gonna have Cleveland and Detroit back on the hardwood.
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: In Detroit. That series is even at two apiece and
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: they'll start that at five o'clock. And the National Hockey League,
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: the Sabers won over the Canadians three to two to
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: tie that series at two games a piece. The Golden
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: Knights won over the Ducks three to two last night,
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: so the Knights are back up three to two in
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: the series. Now over Anaheim. Tonight, you will have just
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: one game, Colorado hosting the Wild and Colorado can knock
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: them out of the playoffs with a victory. In his
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: NFL schedule release week this week, so we will discuss
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: that a little bit later on. We are on the
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: eve of finding out the entire schedule. Also, this is
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: preaked this week, so this Saturday, the second running of
• 22:26
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• 22:30
  Speaker 1: place on Saturday, and of course it's PGA Championship week
• 22:34
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• 22:37
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• 22:40
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• 22:43
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  Speaker 1: eight o'clock, as he always does before every major and
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: as we do before every major sporting event. We're gonna
• 22:52
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• 22:55
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• 23:00
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• 23:04
  Speaker 1: Morning After comes your way. Next Sports Radio ninety three
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: point three KJRFM. He's like a twelve year old on riddling.
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: I mean he's just hyper and he bounces off the
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: walls and he's always like trying to like dry hump
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: things and the dugout and everything else humping. The Giants
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: win a game against the Dodgers, and you know how
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: the Mariners do the outfield celebration? Are they used to
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: with the swaying back and forth. I don't think they're
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: doing it anymore.
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: I think they think they get together, but they don't
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: do the swaying, and then the infield still does yes, and.
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: Then Julio jackknives out of there and does the half spin.
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: I don't think they'd go as far with it anymore. Well,
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: the Giants come came together two days ago and this
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: Gilbert kid just started like dry humping both the other
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: outfielders as a celebration. And one of the outfielders was
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: Jung Ho Lee, who's Korean, and the Asian culture, they're like, oh,
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: that's not cool, don't ever do that again.
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: It was very aggressive.
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, So then it made its rounds and then it
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: got knocked out. Last night, they did a bow after
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: beating the Dodgers to find the most respectful thing. So anyway,
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: the point is, don't hip thrust in a crowd just
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: because you want a baseball game, right, and.
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: You especially can't like yeah, if you're connected to other
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: people when you do it, and then you're kind of
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: because now you're forcing the thrust.
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: Uh huh. You're forcing your thrust on me.
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you are.
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: And that's not something you should be thrusting on or
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: forcing on people or thrusting on them.
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: Your thrusts aren't a part of us. Yeah, it's time
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: for Mariners Morning After. It's our daily nearly daily segment
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: where we recap the previous day's Mariner's game, a highlight,
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: a SoundBite, a preview of what's going on tonight, all
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: on Mariner's Morning After at six thirty. So let's get
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: to the highlight. And there were a lot of them
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: last night, There's no doubt about it. And the biggest
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: one certainly came with a two two tie and the
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: top of the fourth, the bases are loaded and our
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: muscle bound Italian friend dom can Zone steps to the plate.
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: Can Zone Sam, you gotta let the aggressiveness of time
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: at Canzone Emi with his back to the wall, comes
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: right in with a fastball and can Zone just as
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: you said, Jay looking dead red, he gets it and
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: does not miss that pitch. I want to if they
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: set the bullpen down now. That's Jay Buhner, Dave Valley,
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: and Aaron Goldsmith an inverse order of having heard them speak,
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: and that was Dom Canzone's grand slam that blew open
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: the game at that point it was two to two.
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: That made it six to two. Brian Wu settled in.
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: From that point forward, Mariners just kept tacking on runs.
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: We don't get a lot lot of these breezy easy games,
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: but we got one last night. Ten to the final
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: score over the Houston Astros. We own you.
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: You are are pitches.
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: I did get a text with during the right after
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: the donkins own grand slant grand slam.
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: That's a spicy meatball. It was like, yeah, it was
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: a spicy meatball.
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: I love it. Meanwhile, his Spanish moms at home going,
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: I wish you would embrace Spain's going audios meal, but
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: tend to the final score. It was very important earlier
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: in that at bat. So tatsua Emi is a really
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: talented pitcher, comings over from Japan and it's his first year,
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: and you've heard me talk about Japanese players. I want
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: all the phenoms I wanted. I would have taken Okamoto
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: and Munataka Morikami this offseason. You know how much I
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: wanted show Hey to be a Seattle Mariner. So I
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: want them all. But obviously there's a little bit to shift,
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: not only in the culture, but also in the way
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: that the American game is played, the Major League game
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: is played, and he's having a tough time adjusting. We
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: saw Roki Sasaki have a tough time adjusting to it.
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: Roki Sasaki was reduced to tears because he wasn't having
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: the success on the mound. He was crying because he
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: wasn't having this success that he's accustomed to. And now
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: here's Emi who we knocked out of a game in
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: the first inning. Was it back?
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: I remember if it was first or second first time that.
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: We faced him. And then he went on the IL
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: with fatigue. He comes off the IL to pitch last
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: night and he was not great, but he was okay.
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: It was two to two at that point, and I'm
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: telling you, when he didn't get that challenge call against
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: Randy or Rose Arena and then Josh Naylor and everybody
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: started barking at him because he was balking. And I'm
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: sure Emi didn't know what he was doing that would
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: constitute a balk, but the Mariners were convinced he was balking,
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, all that chatter, and then
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: he got a couple guys on base, and then he
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: couldn't find the strike zone, and now all of a sudden,
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: the bases are loaded and the pitching coach comes out
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: there and says, hey, I need you to throw a
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: strike here. We can't walk anybody home. Very first pitch,
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: can zone sees a laser beam.
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: He threw a strike.
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: He threw a strike. Yeah, and he hit a laser
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: beam out and the game was over. He was over,
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: And I thought they were going to make him suffer
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: for it for a long time, which I'm not sure
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: is the greatest remedy for Emi and his shaking confidence
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: to just let him linger out there and take a beating.
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: He took a little bit of a beating, four innings pitch,
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: six earned runs. Meanwhile, Wu settled in and got his
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: third win of the year, and that's back to back
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: wins for Brian Wu. Dan Wilson had a lot to
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: talk about after the game.
• 28:52
  Speaker 4: He did, you know, but after we kind of grabbed
• 28:55
  Speaker 4: the lead there, he just really slammed the door shut.
• 28:57
  Speaker 4: And and I give him a lot of credit there
• 29:00
  Speaker 4: through the ball well, and I thought his sweeper, particularly tonight,
• 29:04
  Speaker 4: and the slider we're pretty sharp. And and uh, you know,
• 29:08
  Speaker 4: I thought he did exactly what we needed him to
• 29:10
  Speaker 4: do to gets through six there, to set up the
• 29:13
  Speaker 4: bullpen late bullpen. An incredible job tonight, Alex Hoppy given
• 29:17
  Speaker 4: us two strong innings I thought was huge. You know,
• 29:21
  Speaker 4: he just went out there and and and and through
• 29:23
  Speaker 4: the ball. I think what we've seeing from Babela last night,
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: from Hoppy in his couple of times, even even Domingo
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: tonight in his debut, just you know, going out there,
• 29:32
  Speaker 4: feeling in control and letting it rip.
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: And uh, you got to love to see that.
• 29:36
  Speaker 4: A great job on their part. Awesome to see a
• 29:40
  Speaker 4: debut and and have it be a good one like that.
• 29:42
  Speaker 4: I mean, we were all screaming for him and and
• 29:45
  Speaker 4: it was a it was a lot of relief for sure,
• 29:47
  Speaker 4: and and I know it felt good for cal and
• 29:49
  Speaker 4: and he smoked it. I mean, he smoked up all right,
• 29:51
  Speaker 4: and then he smoked the ball left and you know,
• 29:54
  Speaker 4: just what we've seen from his at vast lately have
• 29:56
  Speaker 4: been very good and just you know, that's just seeing
• 30:00
  Speaker 4: everybody's reaction.
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: To it was was pretty special.
• 30:02
  Speaker 4: Of course, I mean, you know, but it's baseball and
• 30:04
  Speaker 4: we get back after it tomorrow. But yeah, I think
• 30:07
  Speaker 4: a chance for him to kind of, you know, definitely
• 30:11
  Speaker 4: take a breath and and but I think you know
• 30:13
  Speaker 4: what we saw, it wasn't like it was a blooper.
• 30:16
  Speaker 4: I mean those were both really well hit, really well struck,
• 30:18
  Speaker 4: and the bats have been good, so you know, I
• 30:21
  Speaker 4: think he's really found something and built on it and
• 30:24
  Speaker 4: look forward to seeing that as we go.
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I love that Kevin Sitzers on the first guys
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: there to greet him at the top step. That was awesome.
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: Dan Wilson afterwards, talking about Kyl, talking about Brian, we
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: were talking about the relievers, just a subtle thing just
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: quickly about Dan and this is why they love him,
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: because he's terrible in press conferences. I mean he's just
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: really bad. I mean, he just is just it's not
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: even a vanilla wafer. It's like a wafer that doesn't
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: have flavoring, you get no emotion in the He's like
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: a rice cake. Yeah, he's a post game rice cake
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: with no peanut butter. It's just straight out rice cake.
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: But why the players love him? Alex Hopy in Domingo Gonzales,
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: it was eight to two. They didn't do anything special
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: last night, but he saw that as an opportunity to
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: build those guys up. I'm gonna mention them. This is
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: my first time to be able to mention them. I
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: want to build them up so when we need him
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: the next time, they can carry that. Hey, the skipper
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: acknowledged the good job that they did. Those are the
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: kind of things that is why they do think he's
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: the right guy for the job, even though a lot
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: of people question it, including myself. I don't love his
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: ex'es and o's. I don't like a lot of his
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: pitching decisions. But I've always tried to remind you that
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: behind the scenes, the idea of a manager is to
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: get the most out of every individual player. And it's
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: little stuff like that, Little subtle stuff like that that
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: Dan Wilson is great at Randy Rose Arena, seems to
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: be great at hitting a baseball. This season man his
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: ability to go the other way. He's just a completely
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: different hitter now at the plate. And then when the
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: team thinks the pitcher thinks, oh, you're just going to
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: try to take me ouither way. I'm going to come
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: inside on you. Then you get to turn on a
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: ball and hit a two run homer to get the
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: scoring started. He was four for four last night. The
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: batting average is up over three hundred, the on base
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: is closing in on four hundred. I mean, he still
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: has his defensive issues and I don't know what he
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: thinks about when he runs bases, but hitting the baseball,
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: Randy rose Arena is doing it better than anybody on
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: this team so far this year. Ten to two the
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: final score last night. Tonight huge night in the season.
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: Bryce Miller makes his return, his long awaited return. This
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: is the guy that closed the year out as our
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: best starting pitcher a year ago, even though during the
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: season he was our worst of the five starting pitchers.
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: By the end of the year, when he was healthy,
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: he was his best. They have really high hopes for
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: this young man. They were crushed when he got the
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: injury in spring training that delayed his season. But he
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: is healthy he's ready to go. I know the entire
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: team is excited about seeing Bryce pitch tonight, and I
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: know that Bryce is excited about pitching tonight. So it
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: will be Miller versus mccullor's first pitch from Houston at
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: five ten, the Mariners have a chance to make it
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: three in a row and get back to the five
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: hundred mark. Not a huge accomplishment to get back to
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: a five hundred mark, but it will be an indicator
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: maybe of better things to come.
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: I think we should make sure that they know just
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: because you get to five hundred doesn't mean you have
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: any sort of momentum at all, So don't be afraid
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: of it.
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, all right. Coming up next on the radio program,
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: now that we are asking the questions about whether or
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: not we've watched Lebron James play as last basketball game,
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: I've got a question that's just not being discussed enough.
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM headlines at seven o'clock. Also, yeah,
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: we had a plan to fix cal today and now
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: maybe he's fixed. And yet I think it's worth going
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: through some of the conversation we were going to have anyway,
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: some of it anyway, So we're gonna do that coming
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: up at seven five today, Let's talk about a real
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: bona fide year after year superstar in Lebron James. He
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: may have played his last NBA game. I don't think
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: that he has, but there are a lot of people
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: putting it in perspective. I even heard Brady Quinn again
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: this morning bringing up Lebron versus Michael, but being angry
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: that people keep talking about it.
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: People who are angry about it are the ones that
• 34:45
  Speaker 3: keep bringing it up.
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: Like you pointed out last week, I don't just if
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: you're going to talk about Lebron, it is possible to
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: just talk about Lebron without bringing up MJ.
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: It's fully possible, totally possible.
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, especially considering that Lebron is the one right now
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: who might be at the end of his career.
• 35:02
  Speaker 3: Mjy's career ended a decade and a half ago.
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: How long ago? I don't even Yeah, And I brought
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: it up yesterday. But then again, I'm not complaining about
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: people keep bringing it up. Correct And I think that
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: maybe it is a good week for comparing the two
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: because we may now have the full resume of Lebron
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: James and yet that's not what I'm going to do here.
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: I get that lebron James rubs people the wrong way,
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: and I get that he's quite polarizing and that some
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: people can't stand him. I mean, he makes me cringe
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: as somebody that has supported him his entire career. I'm
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: a fan. I've supported him, and I don't agree with
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: everything that he's done. Obviously, it's impossible to agree with
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: everything that an athlete does. And he's made a few
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: cringey things, and I think he's made more cringey moments
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: in the golden years of his career than he did
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: earlier in his career. The Bronny thing is crenchy, super cringey.
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: His general manager skills being terrible, They're cringey. There's some
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: cringey things I will give you that still has not
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: knock me off of my fandom for him and my
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: appreciation of the unbelievable career that he put together. I mean,
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: do you realize that he has played in the NBA
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: more than he's not played in the NBA.
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: That's crazy to me. I remember when he was when
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: they were showing his high school games. I was in
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: Miami for the us the Orange Bowl USC and Oklahoma.
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: I think it was that year, and we were at
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: a bar and they were showing Lebron James high school
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: game on TV.
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: Well, I can tell you a specific moment where I
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: was home. My brother was working for the New Jersey
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: Nets as an NBA scout at the time, and I
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: got a phone call. I was sitting just at home.
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: I think I was working on I think I just
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: started working on, like writing, and he gives me a
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: call and I answer it. He goes and all I heard.
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: I didn't even hear a hello. I just heard I
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: just saw the best basketball player I've ever seen in
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: my life life and he's fourteen years old. Oh my gosh,
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: it was Lebron James.
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: That is crazy.
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: It was Lebron James. And so from that point forward,
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: I've been interested. And it's hard not to appreciate that
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: from fourteen he was called the next Michael Jordan and
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: he's still playing at a really high level at forty one.
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: That's twenty seven years of, you know, of excellent basketball
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: that we've been entertained by. And I think he's just
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: a highly entertaining player to watch. And for those that
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: don't like him. I feel bad for you that you
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: can't get out of your own way about some of
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: the things that he does that rub you the wrong
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: way personally to at least appreciate what a beautiful professional
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: athlete we've got to watch over the course of the
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: last twenty three years, because he's about as fun a
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: basketball player to watch as there is if you can
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: overlook all the facial gestures and the whining and everything else.
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: But I would also point out Tom Brady did that
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: his entire career. Michael Jordan did that as in higher career.
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: So I don't know why you're holding it against Lebron
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: so greatly. I get holding it against him, But if
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: you're going to say, Michael Jordan is here and Lebron
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: James is here, then you acknowledge that he also did
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: cringey stuff. Yeah, and Tom Brady also complained constantly to
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: the officials about not getting calls. And then one last
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: thing I do want to bring up this morning, because
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: I've been hearing this a lot too. Nobody counts his
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: COVID championship that it was in a bubble, and so
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: of course we can't count that. The anti Lebron people,
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: we can't count the COVID championship because that was how
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: come it's only Lebron that we do this too, We
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: don't do it to Tom Brady and they want a
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: COVID championship his last one with the Buccaneers. That was
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: one of the more amazing things we've ever seen. Right,
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: tom Brady goes to another team leads them to the
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: Super Bowl?
• 38:57
  Speaker 3: Was that not amazing because we found out it wasn't
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: just that it was Tom Brady.
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I loved it, Yeah, loved it, And it really
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: did exclamation point his career, like, oh my gosh, this
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: guy is undoubtedly the goat. And yet that happened in
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: the COVID year. That championship was in the COVID year.
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: The Dodgers won their first championship. In the COVID year.
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: Nick Saban won one of his championships. And you want
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: to talk about a broken year that season of college football,
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: there were some teams that played four games that year
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: and yet Nick Saban. But we don't put an asterisk
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: by Nick Saban. But because of the polarizing figure that
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: Lebron is, we do put an asterisk by his championship.
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: And some people will say well, the whole thing was
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: played in the Dome, and I might argue that was
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: the most legitimate of all of the COVID championships. Everybody
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: was on the same level. They were all playing inside
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: the same gymnasium. You couldn't blame it on travel. You
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: couldn't blame it on the rain, couldn't blame it on
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: the rain, couldn't blame it on home court advantage, couldn't
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: blame it on the officials being swayed by fans. That
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not saying that's the purest championship ever.
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: It should still count, but it still counts. If Tom's
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: counts and Knicks count and the Dodgers counts, then why
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: doesn't the Lakers and Lebron's count. I don't understand that,
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: And well, actually I do. You don't want to count
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: it because you don't like Lebron and you want to
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: take his legs out from underneath him. That's why, that's
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: why that continues to come up.
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: It is interesting because yeah, to think that all seasons,
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: all those seasons were shortened, so it wasn't just the
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: NBA season was affected by COVID and they were the
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: only ones, And so then let's talk about it that
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: there's an asterisk by the Lakers winning that championship because.
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: Shortened in front of no fans right until the playoffs
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: for the NFL.
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, so the same, so a similar everyone should
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: have an asterisk. Then if that's what we're doing, If
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: that's what we're doing, yeah, let's decide one way or
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: the other. Either we're going to just pick one to
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: give a special Yeah.
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: Yes, that's my only point. I get that, I mean,
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: I get that it's different, But so was Tom Brady's last.
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: But that never comes up in talking about his career
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: and his accomplishments. It only comes up with Lebron because
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: Lebron's far more polarizing.
• 41:22
  Speaker 3: He does seem to be.
• 41:23
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