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Best of Chuck and Buck Day 3 at Spring Training 2-18 · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: Your home for Spring training presents Chuckin' Bucks Daily Recap podcast,
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  Speaker 1: brought to you by Tulela Frasort Casino and by Delta Airlines.
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  Speaker 2: Well, good morning and welcome. We are live in Peoria, Arizona.
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  Speaker 2: Spring training coverage enters day number three here on Chucking
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  Speaker 2: Box Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM. And I
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  Speaker 2: don't have to tell you listening, I'm sure you didn't
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  Speaker 2: get a wink of sleep overnight waiting to see what
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  Speaker 2: was awaiting you in the morning downstairs. Maybe a big
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  Speaker 2: buffet brunch breakfast. I have no idea, but let me
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  Speaker 2: just tell you. Happy Pitchers Day to everyone listening out there,
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  Speaker 2: and to our first guest as well, Pete Woodworth, the
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  Speaker 2: pitching coach of the Mariners.
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  Speaker 3: How else would we celebrate this glorious day?
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  Speaker 2: Yesterday it rain to start our day because hitters were involved. Today,
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  Speaker 2: nothing but glorious sunrise to welcome pictures Day. Happy pictures Day,
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  Speaker 2: mister Woodworth.
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  Speaker 4: It's like Christmas in February.
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  Speaker 3: Do you feel properly fluffed at this point?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, this is the greatest day of the year.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, thank you. It's just I mean you guys. Yeah, ridiculous.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, did you guys do your gift exchange?
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  Speaker 4: We have like three days where people care about the pictures,
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  Speaker 4: and then Julio and Cal show up and exactly we
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  Speaker 4: go down the field twelve. So this is this is
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  Speaker 4: our time, time of shine, right now, give us our day,
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  Speaker 4: watch us throw our bullpens and field our bunts.
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  Speaker 3: And enjoy it with agility. Yeah, and austerity and skill.
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  Speaker 4: There's some athletes.
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  Speaker 3: Because of you and what you've done. I do actually
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  Speaker 3: like pictures. Oh look at that.
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  Speaker 4: Well, it's only to change him.
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  Speaker 3: Only the life blood of the team, that.
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  Speaker 4: Pitching and defense. We championship. He got a score and
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  Speaker 4: three run homers.
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  Speaker 3: You can never hold someone to negative one.
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  Speaker 2: Uh speaking of lifeblood that you gave blood today, Huh,
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  Speaker 2: what's the matter if you're on steroids?
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  Speaker 3: Who cares?
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  Speaker 4: I mean, his mound visit is way too aggressive. We
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  Speaker 4: got to test him.
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  Speaker 3: Are they're gonna be?
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  Speaker 4: Like?
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  Speaker 3: I know what the thing is. I know why the
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  Speaker 3: Mariners have a two point two to three e R.
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  Speaker 3: Their pitching coach is on juice.
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  Speaker 4: Coaches are juicing. It's a new era of baseball.
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  Speaker 3: It really is. I guess all right, I don't want
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  Speaker 3: to forget it.
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  Speaker 2: So as we were sitting down to talk to Pete
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  Speaker 2: Woodworth Award winning pitching coach of York Seattle Mariners, Logan Gilbert,
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  Speaker 2: one of his prince his students, was walking into the
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  Speaker 2: building and I asked, what should I ask him? And
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  Speaker 2: he said, ask him about catching me in the off season.
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  Speaker 2: So how was it.
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  Speaker 3: Like catching Logan in the off season?
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  Speaker 4: The thumb is still attached. Fortunately, Logan lives a couple
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  Speaker 4: hours away in Florida, so I'm fortunate to be able
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  Speaker 4: to see him a little bit more than the rest
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  Speaker 4: of the guys. But yeah, I went to go watch
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  Speaker 4: him throw a bullpen early in January, and I get
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  Speaker 4: to this facility and there's no catcher and he's like,
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  Speaker 4: I'm just gonna throw it to the nine pocket a
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  Speaker 4: little the little net. And I was like, no, you're
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  Speaker 4: a professional. I'll I'll catch your bullpen. You know, knowing Logan,
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  Speaker 4: he's he's not gonna hold back. It was it was
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  Speaker 4: ninety five, ninety six. He wanted to show off his
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  Speaker 4: new toys that that he got for Christmas.
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  Speaker 3: Nice enough to warn you, but nice enough, but not
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  Speaker 3: nice enough to hold back.
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  Speaker 4: Luckily, I had a a cal Rawley mit in my track.
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  Speaker 4: So I was able to survive.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, so he did survive. I did. Will Adam Jude
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  Speaker 3: of the Seattle Times survived catching andres munos this week.
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  Speaker 4: We are already h looking for a new writer because
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  Speaker 4: I'm not here with us next week.
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  Speaker 3: Serious signing up for what is he doing? This guy?
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  Speaker 3: Of all guys?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, Gilbert's one thing, but munyos, it's it's a different
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  Speaker 4: gear that's not gonna be fun for him. I mean
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  Speaker 4: it'll be if you put a was a GoPro on
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  Speaker 4: his mask, it would probably be entertaining. Yeah, but we
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  Speaker 4: definitely need the paramedics here, justin base emptively.
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  Speaker 3: I can't believe he's How was your off season good?
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  Speaker 4: That was awesome?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: My my kids are six and three now, so they're
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  Speaker 4: at a at a great age. They're starting to to
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  Speaker 4: get cool hobbies. My oldest is in the I guess
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  Speaker 4: he's just into whatever I want to do. So like
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  Speaker 4: nice skimboarding, skateboarding, Nintendo sixty four we got for Christmas, so.
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  Speaker 3: Putting ships and bottles.
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  Speaker 4: I finally have a friend, you know, finally have someone
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  Speaker 4: to hang out with.
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  Speaker 3: I have the best friend a dad could ever want
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  Speaker 3: a lot like me. That's great. You love all the
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  Speaker 3: things that I love.
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  Speaker 4: Oh you want to go throw a bullpen and hit
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  Speaker 4: with the balls?
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  Speaker 2: Sure, you never yelled me to take out the trash.
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  Speaker 3: You are awesome.
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  Speaker 2: Pete Woodworth, our guest here on chalking back in the morning. Well,
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  Speaker 2: let's talk about some of the things that we're working on.
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  Speaker 2: First of all, I mean, we arrived Sunday here to
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  Speaker 2: camp and the place was already buzzing about Anderson and Sloan.
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  Speaker 2: So tell us about the buzz around these two guys.
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  Speaker 4: There's always buzz at the beginning of camp, whether it's
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  Speaker 4: guys we've acquired in the off season or or minor
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  Speaker 4: leaguers who we've of them that are coming up through
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  Speaker 4: our system. But these two are impressive of how far
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  Speaker 4: along they are, how mature they are, you know, and
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  Speaker 4: Kate has never even thrown a pitch in a in
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  Speaker 4: a Mariner's uniform in a real game. Yet Yeah, they're
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  Speaker 4: they're maturity. It's not just it's not just the stuff.
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  Speaker 4: Like We've had guys come up through the system with
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  Speaker 4: really big stuff and it's fun to watch them, you know,
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  Speaker 4: let it eat in the pen. These guys can pitch.
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  Speaker 4: These guys. Uh, It's kind of like when when George
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  Speaker 4: was coming up and you were just blown away by
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  Speaker 4: the by the command and the strike throwing. They have
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  Speaker 4: that on top of really good stuff. So extremely mature
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  Speaker 4: for for where they at and where they're at in
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  Speaker 4: their career, which is a huge piece of it. You
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  Speaker 4: can't really prepare guys for the big leagues. You just
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  Speaker 4: kind of got to throw them into the deep end.
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  Speaker 4: But seeing where they're at, you know, between their ears,
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  Speaker 4: gives you a lot of confidence that these guys are
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  Speaker 4: are one step ahead.
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  Speaker 3: You guys were joking a little bit, or you weren't
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  Speaker 3: joking that you were talking about the lifeblood of the team.
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  Speaker 3: I mean there's pitching staff. You know, you're starting rotation
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  Speaker 3: and in particular has just been so amazing the last
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  Speaker 3: few years. I mean, when you go into the off season,
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  Speaker 3: did you was there a bunch of tinkering. I mean
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  Speaker 3: it seems like these guys all come back with a
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  Speaker 3: new pitch every single year. But then again, there's got
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  Speaker 3: to come a point in time when you're like you
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  Speaker 3: kind of got it just doing what you're doing right.
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  Speaker 4: You have all the pitches we have to we have
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  Speaker 4: to invent new ones, Yes, Spelunker, Yeah, this this was
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  Speaker 4: kind of the the first off season where we just
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  Speaker 4: looked at at where all our guys are at, and
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  Speaker 4: even our guys said the same thing. I talked with
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  Speaker 4: with Wu in the off season, and he's like, it's
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  Speaker 4: not about developing new pitches or finding new tricks and tools,
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  Speaker 4: like how can we get one percent better what we're
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  Speaker 4: already really good at. We we've figured out who we
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  Speaker 4: are and what our identity is as a staff and individually,
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  Speaker 4: it's not about taking this huge jump and doing something
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  Speaker 4: completely different and new. It's how can we just get
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  Speaker 4: better at what we're already elite at? And that's kind
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  Speaker 4: of been the theme of the offseason and the theme
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  Speaker 4: of spring.
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  Speaker 2: We've almost taken for granted until last year that these guys,
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  Speaker 2: you know, they take the ball every five days, they've
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  Speaker 2: had a good run of health. And then last year
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  Speaker 2: for the five the old man was the only one
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  Speaker 2: that that stayed healthy the rock all season long. So
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  Speaker 2: what did that do to you? What did that do
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  Speaker 2: to the organization? You just chalk it up to baseball
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  Speaker 2: or were their measures taken to to maybe prevent that
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  Speaker 2: even more so?
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  Speaker 3: This year.
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  Speaker 4: I think the positive part was we didn't we didn't
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  Speaker 4: miss them for the entirety of the season. They all
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  Speaker 4: came back and were successful when they did, especially Bryce
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  Speaker 4: in the postseason. What we saw was Emerson, Hancock and
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  Speaker 4: Logan Evans gave us, you know, thirty three thirty five
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  Speaker 4: starts between the two of them and kept us where
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  Speaker 4: we needed to be. Those guys got a ton of opportunities.
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  Speaker 4: They got a lot of opportunity to grow, They got
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  Speaker 4: a lot of opportunity to to learn, which they you know,
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  Speaker 4: they might not have gotten if the five horses are healthy.
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  Speaker 4: So you know it. You think it's tough, but it's baseball,
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  Speaker 4: and we got a game at seven oh five. If
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  Speaker 4: that guy can't, someone else has to. And I think
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  Speaker 4: it was it was huge for both of their growth
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  Speaker 4: to get those opportunities last year.
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  Speaker 3: Last year, Gabe had a great year and yet he
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  Speaker 3: kind of was your your loan lefty out there majority
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  Speaker 3: of the season. So you guys go out and get
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  Speaker 3: Jose Ferrer and what are you seeing out of that guy?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, Jerry got a Ferrari for Christmas, and that is
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  Speaker 4: exactly what he is. It is one hundred, it is
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  Speaker 4: it's one hundred miles sinker from the left side. Please
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  Speaker 4: find me a lefty that wants to stand in and
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  Speaker 4: take a hack off of that. I mean, I haven't
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  Speaker 4: really talked to Gabe about it, but I imagine he's
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  Speaker 4: gonna enjoy not having to get hot every single night
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  Speaker 4: to prepare for those that lefty pocket.
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  Speaker 2: Why for are the strikeout numbers are down? Is he
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  Speaker 2: a ground ball pitcher at one hundred miles per hour
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  Speaker 2: or do you think that we'll see an uptake in that.
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  Speaker 4: I hope we will. Yeah, that's why I'm here. It's
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  Speaker 4: similar to Too Far Awards. You know, it's it's one
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  Speaker 4: hundred dollars sinker. It's not really a swing and miss fastball,
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  Speaker 4: so they're gonna put it on the ground. But he
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  Speaker 4: doesn't walk anybody, so that's how he suppresses runs. But yet,
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  Speaker 4: the the goal is definitely to keep him improving and
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  Speaker 4: and find a little bit more swing and missing his
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  Speaker 4: game with the secondaries and and you know, have him
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  Speaker 4: take the next step.
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  Speaker 2: Spire is uh pitching for Team America. You're going to
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  Speaker 2: lose a lot of pictures to the WBC. What does
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  Speaker 2: that do to a pitching coach? I mean, this is
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  Speaker 2: supposed to be the opportunity to get them ready on
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  Speaker 2: your plan and I'll senden your handing them over to
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  Speaker 2: foreign lands to try to continue their preparation for the season.
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  Speaker 4: Honestly, I'm really excited for those guys, I know, Spire
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  Speaker 4: Mooney and Bizardo. The steps that Bizarto has taken to
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  Speaker 4: get this opportunity. You know, you couldn't bet anything, but
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  Speaker 4: but extremely excited for him to represent his country and
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  Speaker 4: moon he's done this before. I actually I dig it
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  Speaker 4: like they they kind of they have a different carrot
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  Speaker 4: in front of him in the off season. They're I'm
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  Speaker 4: not saying they're more motivated, but they yeah, they just
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  Speaker 4: have a different goal that they're preparing for, and they're
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  Speaker 4: kind of preparing eer than most guys. So they come
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  Speaker 4: into camp ready to rock and roll, and really by
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  Speaker 4: like the fourth or fifth, sixth outing of relievers like
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  Speaker 4: all right, can can we go to Seattle? Now? I'm ready.
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  Speaker 4: I don't need five more of these, like let's go
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  Speaker 4: where starters need they need to build up relievers are.
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  Speaker 4: I feel like they're just they're ready sooner.
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  Speaker 2: Pete Woodworth is with us here on Chuck and Buck
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  Speaker 2: I know you got to get going here in a
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  Speaker 2: little bit. So I gotta ask though, in terms of
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  Speaker 2: the challenge system this year is the rule, just don't
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  Speaker 2: ever challenge. Let Cal do it all. How are how
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  Speaker 2: are you approaching that philosophic?
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  Speaker 4: Well, we saw last year Cal's elite ability to tap
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  Speaker 4: the helmet in spring when they tested it. I think
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  Speaker 4: he was like sixteen or sixteen. I imagine Cal's gonna say, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: pictures aren't allowed to challenge. I'll challenge if we need to,
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  Speaker 4: and you are all right with that. I think our
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  Speaker 4: pitchers are fine with that too. There's not many guys
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  Speaker 4: who throw the pitch and are looking at the zone
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  Speaker 4: in a controlled manner, like like a Greg Maddox did
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  Speaker 4: back in the day in a fielding position. I think
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  Speaker 4: like Logan's looking at center field when the ball is released.
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  Speaker 4: So I imagine we're going to rely more on the
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  Speaker 4: guy who's back there in catching.
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  Speaker 3: Well, it's about time he pulled his weight around here.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, do something, Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I gotta do anything but hit sixty challenger to
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  Speaker 3: right right. Finally we found something that fits your.
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  Speaker 4: Limited value back there?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, all right, Well, I know you got to run
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  Speaker 2: always great to see you and have a great year.
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  Speaker 4: All right, thank you.
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  Speaker 2: All right, there is the one, the only woodworth pitching
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  Speaker 2: coach for your Seattle Mariners. And man, he's won awards.
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  Speaker 2: That's how good he's won awards. Got his blood work
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  Speaker 2: done just to make sure that he's not AI.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, so he's he's that good at his job
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  Speaker 2: that he spend it soon baseball suspicious of his skills.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, very suspicious. Yeah, I should test this guy.
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  Speaker 3: That staff has been really, really good for a long time.
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  Speaker 3: They're all clean. Must be the coach.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I told him because he's got to go meet
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  Speaker 2: with Dan Wilson. Otherwise I think that we could have
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  Speaker 2: kept him for a couple more minutes anyway, but he's
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  Speaker 2: got to go meet with Dan Wilson. And I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: don't you have a good enough relationship just to flip
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  Speaker 2: Dan the finger at this point and tell him Chuck
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  Speaker 2: and Buck want to talk to me on the radio.
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  Speaker 3: Gosh, yeah, grow up, Pete, be your own man a
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  Speaker 3: little bit, you know what I mean? Yeah, you put
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  Speaker 3: your foot down everything. While Yeah, I mean, Dan is
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  Speaker 3: one of the nicest people on the planet. He probably Okay, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: we can meet at seven twenty. Right, that's what I'm thinking.
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  Speaker 2: But I guess when your nickname is the man, people
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  Speaker 2: have to do what you say.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Well apparently, although it was kind of a funny
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  Speaker 3: story where he just said that standing in line to
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  Speaker 3: do blood work, the skipper is like, man, the line
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  Speaker 3: is long, and what he doesn't just go to the front.
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  Speaker 3: You're you're the skipper, you're the guy, you're the captain. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: you can go to the front. Right, you can say
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  Speaker 3: I have things to do, I'm not waiting in line.
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  Speaker 4: Ah.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Dan, the nice man didn't have quite the ring
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  Speaker 2: to it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it doesn't.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we are underway. The sun is broken through here
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  Speaker 2: on the Picture's Day. Cole Young has already been on
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  Speaker 2: the show this week. As he walks by us, he's like, hey,
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  Speaker 2: I got to get in before Picture's Day. I'm not
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  Speaker 2: gonna mess around with that nonsense.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you want to get good things on there before
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  Speaker 3: you just have it, you know, kind of a low
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  Speaker 3: old day if you will. Yeah, So let's find out
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  Speaker 3: what is on tap on this what is it? Second annual,
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  Speaker 3: third annual Picture's Day.
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  Speaker 4: Let's let's take a look.
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  Speaker 3: What's on tap? What's on tap?
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  Speaker 2: It's really the second annual, isn't it, Ashley, now that
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  Speaker 2: we've turned it.
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  Speaker 3: Into an annual.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, we decided last year this is going to be
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  Speaker 4: an annual thing.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and so we're gonna try to pull it off now,
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  Speaker 2: to pull this off today, and the idea is to
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  Speaker 2: get all five of the starting pitchers on our radio
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  Speaker 2: station here before ten o'clock today in order to pull
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  Speaker 2: this sucker off. Man, I'm gonna need starting pitchers to
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  Speaker 2: be really honest about their schedules and they're wanting to
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  Speaker 2: come on with us because Bryce, Logan and George all
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  Speaker 2: week long like ah yeah, I can't wait to come on,
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  Speaker 2: and then they just keep kicking the can down the road.
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  Speaker 2: So we have them scheduled live here today all at
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  Speaker 2: about the same time.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm not sure how this is gonna shake out.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not sure. I can't Christine.
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  Speaker 2: I can't speak to their punctuality. You know, they've never
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  Speaker 2: picked me up to take me anywhere. You know, they've
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  Speaker 2: never taken me to the airport, so I don't know
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  Speaker 2: if they would get.
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  Speaker 3: Me there on time or not. But they all have said, eh, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: seven o'clock hours. It's gonna work. For me.
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  Speaker 2: So we're gonna see. We might have them, two of
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  Speaker 2: them on at the same time. We might stagger them.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. But our seven o'clock hour usually on
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  Speaker 2: Wednesdays we have Reckless at Breakfast at seven forty five,
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  Speaker 2: the entire hour, Reckless at breakfast.
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  Speaker 3: Here seven o'clock on Pitcher's day. Well, I am hopeful
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  Speaker 3: that they are punctual. Yeah, they are men of their word.
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  Speaker 3: They seem to have been such up to this point.
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  Speaker 3: And yet we will find out. We will find out
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  Speaker 3: ifs that those that you love so much are actually
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  Speaker 3: worthy of such love.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, I you know, they all have new
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  Speaker 2: things in their life. George and Bryce both got engaged
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  Speaker 2: this offseason, and Logan had a new baby this offseason,
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: so they've got more distractions. This is why they can't commit. Yeah,
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: they can't tell me definitively when they're going.
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: To stop by the set.
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: Meanwhile, Brian Wu, who's kept thaing, who's focused on baseball
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: and not love and nonsense like that nonsense, he's like
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: eight o'clock. So we got Brian Wu locked in at
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: eight o'clock today. And then Luis Castillo, he is the mystery.
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: He is a mystery. Uh huh, we'll see when the
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: rock will appear on this year's program. Hopeful for you
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: because I can only imagine the amount of disappointment if
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: you were to be stood up, if he were to
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: be stood up by those that you love so much,
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: but I wouldn't. I will be shocked. Actually, if they
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: do not come through.
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: You know, Christmas became such a big deal because it
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: happens every year.
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, they didn't just skip it.
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: Jesus didn't just skip his birthday parties, right, Yeah, he's
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: got to show up, you know, he's got to enjoy,
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: he's got to take part in the festival.
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: Otherwise it would have never soared. Yeah, I would have
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: never become as big of a deal if he was
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: just like, I don't want anything for my birthday. I
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: don't want you guys to celebrate my birthday.
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: If Thanksgiving was like the Olympics every four years, maybe
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: it wouldn't have become a big deal. I mean this,
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: this thing's got to happen every day, and the primary
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: every year, and the primary participants have to participate.
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: To show up.
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: There you go, yes, thank you Luise?
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, happy pay of the Is that what it is.
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: Oh I didn't even know that, Lenora. Oh oh ah,
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: I love that.
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: All right, Uh, let's check out what else is on
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: tap here today.
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: Tony Clark. What a story from Major League Baseball.
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: They're getting ready for contract negotiations and new CBA and
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: Tony Clark will not be part of it. And for
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: one reason and one reason only, Uh, he couldn't resist
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: his brother's wife.
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: Uh.
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: And so he's out and the brother's wife apparently has
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: a job within the organization, and so it was conn ducked, undetrimental,
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: and so Tony Clark is out as president of the
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: MLB p A.
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah, not a good off season for him, because there's
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: another thing going on where there's some some lost money
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: to the union and another charity thing that basically was
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: putting on camps but not really putting on camps, and
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: money was going places where it wasn't supposed to be going.
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: So we already was under kind of suspicion of some
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: other stuff going on, and then he decides to, uh, yeah,
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: I guess do something with his step his sister in law. Yeah, okay, yeah,
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: not a good look there, Move it moving along.
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: You can't trust.
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: Tall people with giant beards. That's what I figured out.
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: Whoa whoa, whoa, whoa whoa. That's what I got gathered.
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: You can't trust position players, but then you went position
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: players basically with that are.
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: Tall, bald power position players.
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: Trust right. Yeah. I have never, and I honestly say
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: I never will sleep with a sister in law. I
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: just mark my words on that one. Okay, going to release.
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: I'm writing it down right. That'll hold you to that. Yeah,
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: I say that now and I will say that again. Yeah, first,
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: come back, Yeah yeah, move it along, Yeah, move it
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: to the head of our union.
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: All right, Well, we are just getting underway here on
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: this beautiful Wednesday morning from Peoria, Arizona. All the Pictures
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: Day fireworks are coming your way starting in the seven
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: o'clock hour, but certainly a lot more to discuss, and
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: you never know what kind of surprises we'll have in
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: store for you right here on today's broadcast. So settle
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: in four hours. Chucking Box Sports Radio ninety three point
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: three kJ r f M. Happy Picture's Day to everybody
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: out there. And you're not gonna go anywhere, are you,
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: because we do want to talk to you. Come on,
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: he's blinking it's nice to be here. Come on, you
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: know you can talk to us. I don't ask, We
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: don't ask crazy stuff. Good people, we're baseball fans. We
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: like what you're doing. Yeah, you're not.
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: Gonna pear pressure me into anything, youngster.
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: Right, all right, okay, well, at least throw the headsets
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: on for two minutes.
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: Will you do that for us? Will you joine right now? Okay,
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: all right, we're gonna put them on right now while
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: we wait for Bryce. All right, yeah, John Stanton out
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: joins us here at ours. We're waiting just for pictures,
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: since it's a holiday nowadays that we have to celebrate.
• 22:26
  Speaker 5: Pictures determine the pace of the game. Yeah, so it's
• 22:29
  Speaker 5: appropriate you would wait for them to determine the pace
• 22:32
  Speaker 5: of your broadcast.
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: Okay, okay, Stan, you know what you're onto something there.
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: They are determining the pace of this one. And you
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: know what, if you didn't want to put the headsets on,
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: you can blame it on your pictures, because if they
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: were out here on a punctual manner, then you wouldn't
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: have to be on here. That's right.
• 22:48
  Speaker 5: I think we've got the best pitching staff in the
• 22:51
  Speaker 5: Major League Baseball and I'm excited about it. And if
• 22:54
  Speaker 5: if Bryce decides he's gonna show up now, that's great.
• 22:57
  Speaker 5: If he shows up at nine o'clock, that's fine with
• 22:59
  Speaker 5: me too.
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: Okay, he shows up when it's just turned to step
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: on the bump? Is every five days? That's right?
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: Now, When you had to play ball when you were
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: a kid, were you a pitcher.
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: Or you were a hitter?
• 23:09
  Speaker 5: I was the first baseman. Speed was not my tool.
• 23:17
  Speaker 5: I was when I was playing, but I got cut
• 23:20
  Speaker 5: from my team when I was in junior high school?
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: Is that right? And look, it motivated you to become
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: a financial success.
• 23:28
  Speaker 5: I don't know if that's what motivated me to do
• 23:31
  Speaker 5: other things, but certainly I found other ways to fill
• 23:35
  Speaker 5: the time.
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: Well, how excited are you about this team this year?
• 23:39
  Speaker 5: I'm incredibly excited. I think that the energy that we
• 23:43
  Speaker 5: had coming in from last season just ignited the city
• 23:49
  Speaker 5: put us in a position where we could do some
• 23:51
  Speaker 5: important things in the offseason. Incredibly happy to see the
• 23:55
  Speaker 5: Seahawks do so well. Further evidence as to what a
• 23:58
  Speaker 5: great sports town Seattle is and the idea of having
• 24:01
  Speaker 5: a World Series champion and a Super Bowl champion in
• 24:04
  Speaker 5: the same year as pretty special.
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah that might be a little intimidating, but it doesn't
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: feel that way. It feels motivating to everyone around here,
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: almost inspirational to see them go on that run. I
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: mean a lot of the Mariners players went to the
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: Super Bowl for goodness sake, to watch it, to see
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: the parade, to see the city get so electrified. It
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: feels like it is a source, not that you guys
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: needed it, but a source for inspiration for the roster
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: and the organization and to support our friends across the street.
• 24:33
  Speaker 5: You know, the job that the Seahawks have done has
• 24:38
  Speaker 5: been fantastic, and they embraced our players. We let them
• 24:42
  Speaker 5: know that some of our guys were gonna come down,
• 24:44
  Speaker 5: and they included our players and some of their Super
• 24:47
  Speaker 5: Bowl events.
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: That's great.
• 24:49
  Speaker 5: I do want to make sure we don't forget to
• 24:51
  Speaker 5: talk about the kracking. They've they've been doing well after
• 24:56
  Speaker 5: a slow start, and hopeful that they're going to be
• 24:58
  Speaker 5: in the playoffs this year. World Cup's going to be exciting.
• 25:01
  Speaker 5: This is it's gonna be such a great sports year
• 25:03
  Speaker 5: in Seattle.
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: I can't even believe it. Yeah, yeah, you just nail
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: I mean the World Cup and then yeah, cracking or
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: looking like they could make a run. They start the
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: second half off, or after this Olympic break with a
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: tough schedule, they can wade through that, they get into
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: the playoffs and then Yeah, I think this is a
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: year after the World Series and could be the best
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: sports year that we've had in forever. And wouldn't that
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: be nice if it falls on the fiftieth season of
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: the Mariners.
• 25:25
  Speaker 5: Right after the fiftieth season for the Seahawks.
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I kind of seen.
• 25:29
  Speaker 5: It's just there's poetry there, I think.
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, John Stanton with us here at our set, as
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: you never know what's gonna happen during spring training coverage.
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: The owner stops by, I think he wants to talk
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: about curling, but I'm gonna punt that a little bit
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: down the interview here and ask you for a few
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: more baseball questions. So when John Stanton sees what the
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: Dodgers financially and Mets are doing out there, I mean,
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: what is your reaction to seeing how much their spending
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: compared to everybody else in the sport.
• 26:02
  Speaker 5: I think Dodgers have done a great job. I mean,
• 26:04
  Speaker 5: they've created a two time champion team and we're going
• 26:09
  Speaker 5: to defeat him this year, which is exciting for me.
• 26:11
  Speaker 5: I think that the dynamic is that, you know, different
• 26:15
  Speaker 5: teams have rises and falls in the in the standings
• 26:19
  Speaker 5: over time. Dodgers are doing a great job.
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: Right now, how about I just want to ask something
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: about Cal Rawley since he's sitting over there, I mean
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: MVP or I mean, should he have stepped it up
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: a little bit? I mean sixty homers? I'm thinking, you know,
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: if he would have gotten sixty five, I think if
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: he would have got sixty five homers, if you'd have
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: thrown out every base dealer and if you'd have hit
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: three fifty.
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: Should have stole maybe one hundred bases.
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: That's true. Yeah, I mean he didn't even beat Naylor
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: and stolen basis. Right last year, he didn't get to
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: thirty sixty sixty season, I'm almost certain they'll get him
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: in there. What do you think I am the MVP.
• 26:58
  Speaker 5: I think Cal has as a leader not only within
• 27:03
  Speaker 5: the on the field, but in the clubhouse for the team.
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: Uh.
• 27:07
  Speaker 5: He was one of that gang that went down to
• 27:09
  Speaker 5: the Super Bowl, and I think he he's recognized his
• 27:14
  Speaker 5: role as a leader and doing terrific things for us
• 27:17
  Speaker 5: and I think, uh, you know, it's hard to it's
• 27:21
  Speaker 5: hard to duplicate a season like he had last year.
• 27:23
  Speaker 5: But by the way, if he only had forty home runs, he'll, uh,
• 27:27
  Speaker 5: he'll still probably lead all of the American League, maybe
• 27:30
  Speaker 5: all of baseball catchers in home runs. So you know,
• 27:34
  Speaker 5: he's he's done a terrific job and I'm excited about it.
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Uh, explain your your ride through. Josh Naylor arrives
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: fan base, instantly falls in love. He seemed to instantly
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: fall in love with Seattle. And then you know the
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: brief the conversations that you had with Jerry and Justin
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: about his importance going forward, and then how quick he
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: agreed to terms with you. I mean that was the
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: first move of the off season. So just explain it
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: from John Stanton's point of view, the Josh Naylor experience thus.
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: Far here in Seattle.
• 28:11
  Speaker 5: I think it starts with the role he played on
• 28:14
  Speaker 5: the field. You know that when he showed up, which
• 28:17
  Speaker 5: was I think around the twenty fifth of July. You know,
• 28:20
  Speaker 5: we were we were dragging just a little bit, and
• 28:24
  Speaker 5: he came in and really lit a fire. Remember those
• 28:27
  Speaker 5: stolen bases. You know, you look at the guy. All
• 28:30
  Speaker 5: due respect, I love the guy, but you look at
• 28:33
  Speaker 5: the guy and you know, it's kind of like thinking,
• 28:35
  Speaker 5: Bucky's going to steal a base whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa,
• 28:38
  Speaker 5: It's not going to happen. And then he does it.
• 28:44
  Speaker 5: You know, he's steals second. Then he still stole third.
• 28:47
  Speaker 5: I think in the first game that he that he played,
• 28:50
  Speaker 5: you know, he came up with clutch hits. You know,
• 28:52
  Speaker 5: I give him a hard time sometimes because he's kind
• 28:56
  Speaker 5: of got that grumpy look on his face most of
• 28:58
  Speaker 5: the time when he's down there. I I went up
• 29:02
  Speaker 5: to him with some trepidation, uh, I think the day
• 29:04
  Speaker 5: after he arrived and uh introduced myself to him, and
• 29:08
  Speaker 5: he had a big smile on his face. I mean
• 29:10
  Speaker 5: we we we talked his uh his wife was pregnant
• 29:13
  Speaker 5: with their first child, and we talked about that a
• 29:15
  Speaker 5: little bit. And you know what it's like to play
• 29:18
  Speaker 5: baseball with your brother, and you know, to the kinds
• 29:22
  Speaker 5: of and Frankie his love for hockey, right, I mean
• 29:25
  Speaker 5: he and he and Depoto I think like hockey better
• 29:29
  Speaker 5: than like baseball. They just happened to be talented in baseball.
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: Uh.
• 29:34
  Speaker 5: And you know, so so in the off season it
• 29:36
  Speaker 5: was important for us to uh uh continue to strengthen
• 29:40
  Speaker 5: the team.
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: UH.
• 29:41
  Speaker 5: First base was obviously ah a hole for us, and
• 29:45
  Speaker 5: uh getting Josh to uh to sign was important. I
• 29:51
  Speaker 5: Jerry probably told you the story, but I'll tell you
• 29:53
  Speaker 5: what he told me.
• 29:55
  Speaker 4: Uh.
• 29:55
  Speaker 5: He and Justin flew down to have lunch with Jerry first,
• 30:00
  Speaker 5: ecuse me, with Josh, Josh's wife and the new baby
• 30:04
  Speaker 5: all came to the lunch. They looked up and it
• 30:07
  Speaker 5: was like four o'clock and they were still sitting there.
• 30:10
  Speaker 5: Almost missed their plane on the way back because the
• 30:13
  Speaker 5: conversation was so thorough. Josh had done all kinds of research,
• 30:16
  Speaker 5: particularly on some of our prospects.
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: You know.
• 30:19
  Speaker 5: He talked about what he could do to help our
• 30:23
  Speaker 5: players get better, the kinds of things you want, asked
• 30:26
  Speaker 5: Jerry and Justin some tough questions about what our plans were.
• 30:31
  Speaker 5: And he brought an insight and an intellect to the
• 30:36
  Speaker 5: game that I think to the conversation that mirrors what
• 30:40
  Speaker 5: he does in the game.
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean, he's been a great addition, the guy
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: that I wanted for a couple of years, and I
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: didn't even realize the grit that he brings, and yet
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: I think you have to have that. I mean, you
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: have to be feeling better about Kyl brings it. Even
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: when Cal was young, he was kind of he was gritty,
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: and yet he would do it in kind of a
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: quiet way. I lead through a little bit quiet. Now
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: he gets to kind of you can kind of say
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: what he wants to say a little bit more. But
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: I think you've you've added that with Josh Nail. I
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: think you've added some of that with Brendan Dottoman as well.
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: He seems got that same type of grit and gamer.
• 31:14
  Speaker 5: You guys did a terrific interview with him. I think
• 31:17
  Speaker 5: you actually did it on Monday, but it broadcasts yesterday,
• 31:21
  Speaker 5: and I was really impressed. I haven't had a chance
• 31:23
  Speaker 5: to talk to him yet, but I'm excited. And I
• 31:26
  Speaker 5: think that some of the things you've brought out in
• 31:28
  Speaker 5: the interview that you know, growing up in a military
• 31:31
  Speaker 5: family and a certain amount of discipline the you know,
• 31:34
  Speaker 5: but with the long hair and a certain amount of
• 31:39
  Speaker 5: creativity that's implied by that, I think he he brings
• 31:43
  Speaker 5: an accountability that I think is also common to a
• 31:49
  Speaker 5: lot of our players. You and we talked about Josh
• 31:52
  Speaker 5: and and and Cal. It's common to others, but holding
• 31:55
  Speaker 5: each other accountable, whether you're in business or in baseball
• 32:00
  Speaker 5: around the radio, you know, that's the that's the key
• 32:03
  Speaker 5: to success.
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: John Stanton joining us here, very happy that he sat
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: down put on the headsets with us here at the
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: spring training. And I won't keep you for too much longer,
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: but I do have to ask you about this curling
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: fandom that I hear that you have. How much curling
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: have you watched at the Olympics and you would you
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: like to start a curling fantasy league with me.
• 32:27
  Speaker 5: Well, my one one of my one of my close
• 32:31
  Speaker 5: friends and I went to the twenty ten Olympics up
• 32:34
  Speaker 5: in Vancouver and we had a package of tickets. He
• 32:39
  Speaker 5: was a sponsor of one of the Canadian freestyle teams,
• 32:45
  Speaker 5: and he he had tickets to a bunch of different events,
• 32:49
  Speaker 5: one of which was curling, and he and his wife
• 32:53
  Speaker 5: and my wife and I went to the curling venue
• 32:57
  Speaker 5: and and just both of us just fell in love
• 32:59
  Speaker 5: with it. And the next day I said to Tim, hey,
• 33:04
  Speaker 5: what if we get some more tickets to curling. He said, well,
• 33:07
  Speaker 5: I don't have any more. I've went and scalped some
• 33:09
  Speaker 5: tickets for uh uh and bought some tickets off the
• 33:12
  Speaker 5: street back when there were paper tickets, and we went
• 33:16
  Speaker 5: to curling a couple more times. And the fun part
• 33:19
  Speaker 5: of the story is my friend has a clothing company
• 33:22
  Speaker 5: and he sponsors curling.
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: Now. He went to the to the.
• 33:25
  Speaker 5: US curling team and he said, you know, he'd be
• 33:28
  Speaker 5: happy to to to sponsor him, and they said, could
• 33:31
  Speaker 5: we get free clothing out of that? So you know,
• 33:33
  Speaker 5: it's not It's not like Nike showing up with tens
• 33:37
  Speaker 5: of millions of dollars for the track team. So I've
• 33:41
  Speaker 5: watched most every match. It's been a little tough being
• 33:44
  Speaker 5: down here uh to uh to to see the matches,
• 33:50
  Speaker 5: but we're we're close. The women are I think five
• 33:53
  Speaker 5: and three now, one match left, and in the round
• 33:58
  Speaker 5: robin tournament men are four and four. That doesn't look
• 34:01
  Speaker 5: so good for us, but both would be great performances.
• 34:05
  Speaker 5: And after mixed deuvils, you know, I got to silver metal.
• 34:08
  Speaker 5: It's curling is on the rise.
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: Will I was watching it. I pulled a hip flexer
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: just watching them slide down the ice yesterday. Have you
• 34:18
  Speaker 3: participated in it? Have you ever done it?
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: I am not okay, would you be a sweeper or
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: a hip flexer person.
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: Coach?
• 34:27
  Speaker 5: I think that's the role that I would play. Never
• 34:30
  Speaker 5: never get the slick shoes on. No, I think it'd
• 34:34
  Speaker 5: be a lot of fun. But I when I saw,
• 34:37
  Speaker 5: you know, the I think all of the men on
• 34:40
  Speaker 5: the men's team for the US are under thirty. And
• 34:43
  Speaker 5: I saw one of them do one of those way
• 34:45
  Speaker 5: up in the air and then fall right on his
• 34:47
  Speaker 5: hip falls yesterday, and I thought, you know, I wouldn't
• 34:51
  Speaker 5: get up as easily as he would. I'd probably need
• 34:53
  Speaker 5: a new hip as a result of that. So I
• 34:55
  Speaker 5: think it's best that I maintained my status as a fan.
• 35:00
  Speaker 5: You have to say, I'm excited about the fact that
• 35:03
  Speaker 5: the alternate got into one of the matches for the men.
• 35:07
  Speaker 5: So we have a fifty seven year old curler, oldest
• 35:12
  Speaker 5: American Olympian.
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: Well, thank you for hosting us. It's always great coming
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: down here. Excited about this season. And what do you
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: say we host a World Series this year?
• 35:24
  Speaker 5: I think that looks sounds like a lot of fun. Hey,
• 35:26
  Speaker 5: thank you guys for being here. You guys help us
• 35:30
  Speaker 5: get people focused on baseball season. It's funny you're sitting
• 35:35
  Speaker 5: here in puffy jackets and.
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: Little chili.
• 35:40
  Speaker 5: But baseball is just around the corner, and I'm hoping
• 35:44
  Speaker 5: all the fans in Seattle are going to enjoy the
• 35:46
  Speaker 5: season that we're going to have on the field.
• 35:48
  Speaker 3: I think we are. Thank you, John.
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: Thanks John Stanton, owner of your Seattle Mariners. Will continue.
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: We're going to round up some pictures here. We gotta
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: find out what in the wild wild West is going
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: on sports right ninety three point three kJ r F M.
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: Logan's here on time.
• 36:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right. I blame the blood test would meet.
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: He was taking his time in excu chat it up.
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: Bryce Miller and Logan Gilbert with us here at our
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: set at spring training.
• 36:16
  Speaker 3: Good to see you.
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: Guys, Thanks for having us. Good to see again. Happy
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: pictures day. Did you get each other something? Did you
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: buy a gift for each other?
• 36:24
  Speaker 6: We're celebrating privately. I'm expecting a gift later. We'll see
• 36:29
  Speaker 6: the young guys. The young guys usually get something for
• 36:31
  Speaker 6: the older guys. That's how it works.
• 36:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah, sure, some respect Miller's something nice. You get him
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: some You can get them some wet wipes. That's all
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: you have to get for new parents, diapers or wet wipes. True,
• 36:42
  Speaker 3: that'd be a big deal right now.
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: Well, I do want to talk about your personal lives
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: a little bit. Uh, scale from one to ten? How
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: good of a poopy diaper changer?
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: Are you? Logan?
• 36:52
  Speaker 7: You don't know.
• 36:53
  Speaker 3: I don't know what you're talking about.
• 36:55
  Speaker 6: I probably started about a two, and I think I'm
• 36:58
  Speaker 6: up to a five or six.
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: Uh, you know we're not improving. Yeah, it's about the
• 37:03
  Speaker 3: daily grind. You don't believe it, right, I don't believe
• 37:05
  Speaker 3: it. It's all practice. I'm getting mirrored it all over the place.
• 37:08
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: You don't know.
• 37:09
  Speaker 8: What's the what's the the diaper changing ratio?
• 37:12
  Speaker 3: You and Aveley? Who does more? Yeah?
• 37:17
  Speaker 6: I do all the ones that I see, So I
• 37:20
  Speaker 6: don't know how many she does. You know, Like sometimes
• 37:22
  Speaker 6: I'm asleep, so I don't know.
• 37:24
  Speaker 3: Did you change one? Did you change five? I don't know.
• 37:27
  Speaker 3: You think your son's only pooping when you're awake? Is
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: that it? I'm like, I'm really helping out here. She
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: probably did like fifteen behind the scenes.
• 37:35
  Speaker 5: Uh.
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: And what about you Smiley over there? You got engaged
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: this ship I did. How romantic did you make it?
• 37:42
  Speaker 3: Ah? Pretty good?
• 37:43
  Speaker 8: I think, yeah, yeah, I did it on a hike.
• 37:48
  Speaker 3: About two weeks ago.
• 37:49
  Speaker 8: Now a week and a half took care of it,
• 37:52
  Speaker 8: so I got that over with.
• 37:54
  Speaker 4: Now she's got some she's got a job.
• 37:55
  Speaker 3: To do, like it's a chore. Yeah, got down and
• 38:01
  Speaker 3: check playing the rest of it. When's that happening? This
• 38:05
  Speaker 3: next offseason should be yeah?
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: All right, then you can come to UH spring training
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: next year with your own baby.
• 38:12
  Speaker 3: I thought Logan had a new workout toy. It had
• 38:14
  Speaker 3: legs and arms, and it turns out it was your son.
• 38:18
  Speaker 3: It's good for the arms. Yeah, it was out. I'd
• 38:21
  Speaker 3: be you next year. I don't know about that.
• 38:23
  Speaker 8: I think he might have to hold off a little bit,
• 38:25
  Speaker 8: but I'll just watch him take notes.
• 38:27
  Speaker 3: He's the babysitter for.
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: Now, is it, Uncle Bryce? I asked Brian? Is it
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: Uncle Bryce? And Uncle Brian and Uncle Cal? Is that
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: what it is right now?
• 38:36
  Speaker 3: I'm the baby holder.
• 38:37
  Speaker 6: Some of them have been trying to push it. I
• 38:39
  Speaker 6: saw a picture of him holding him the other day.
• 38:41
  Speaker 6: I didn't feel very good about it. It was like
• 38:43
  Speaker 6: he was hugging a.
• 38:44
  Speaker 3: Football or No.
• 38:45
  Speaker 8: I got the good five minutes of holding in past
• 38:48
  Speaker 8: them on.
• 38:51
  Speaker 3: You smell. You smell something funky. He's like, all right,
• 38:53
  Speaker 3: there you go. Yeah, I've had enough. That's when you
• 38:56
  Speaker 3: hand it to missus, Gilbert, that's when that happens. Lower
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: him says, if you see it, they'll do it.
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: Well, good Gilbert. Bryce Miller with us here on the
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: pitcher's Day. Well, let's talk some pitching. I'm gonna start
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: with you Bryce. Obviously you had a little bit of
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: injuries so last year. But by the end of the year,
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: I mean, my goodness, what a postseason performance by you.
• 39:17
  Speaker 3: Uh sir?
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: So how are you feeling as we get started? What
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: did you do differently to maybe change things a.
• 39:22
  Speaker 3: Little bit for yourself?
• 39:24
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I didn't know going into the off season if
• 39:27
  Speaker 8: I was gonna need to, you know, get this stuff
• 39:29
  Speaker 8: taken care of, or what our what our plan was.
• 39:32
  Speaker 8: And the way the year ended, that was the best
• 39:36
  Speaker 8: I felt, you know, all season and talking with the team,
• 39:41
  Speaker 8: talking with doctor meister down in Texas, we just he
• 39:45
  Speaker 8: told me to leave it alone, and I don't touch
• 39:48
  Speaker 8: anything that you don't that doesn't have any any symptoms
• 39:52
  Speaker 8: or whatever. So if it's not bothering, you don't touch it.
• 39:54
  Speaker 8: And so yeah, I had a normal off season. It
• 39:58
  Speaker 8: spelt one hundred percent, put a couple of pounds.
• 40:02
  Speaker 3: On a little muscle. Yeah, I worked on.
• 40:06
  Speaker 8: Worked on getting getting the cutter, working on some sliders
• 40:12
  Speaker 8: and stuff, getting everything tuned back up. Now that I
• 40:14
  Speaker 8: had a it was kind of weird having an off
• 40:17
  Speaker 8: season where I wasn't coming off of like a career
• 40:20
  Speaker 8: high in innings.
• 40:21
  Speaker 3: I wasn't coming.
• 40:22
  Speaker 8: Off of feeling completely beat up, just with how my
• 40:27
  Speaker 8: season went. So I had a healthy off season for
• 40:30
  Speaker 8: the first time in a couple of years.
• 40:31
  Speaker 3: So that was cool.
• 40:33
  Speaker 8: But no, everything, everything feels really good right now. I'm
• 40:36
  Speaker 8: ready to ready to get on the mount good.
• 40:38
  Speaker 6: How about you, Logan, which part the off season?
• 40:42
  Speaker 3: Yeah? Just you.
• 40:42
  Speaker 6: How are you feeling? Yeah, feeling good? Yeah, honest, feeling good.
• 40:49
  Speaker 6: Kind of had a good reset, take some time off,
• 40:51
  Speaker 6: and the off season just ran back up. It was
• 40:53
  Speaker 6: pretty normal off season for me. Nothing crazy, just kind
• 40:56
  Speaker 6: of fine tuning things, trying to get back to whatever
• 41:00
  Speaker 6: the very best is.
• 41:01
  Speaker 3: So neither one of you like invented new pitches, because
• 41:03
  Speaker 3: I mean usually you come in like, well now I
• 41:05
  Speaker 3: throw a knuckle up, shoot, uh watch this one. But
• 41:10
  Speaker 3: gyro pretty good, this really cool one. Now it's it's
• 41:14
  Speaker 3: kind of an alley oop I call it. No, you don't.
• 41:17
  Speaker 3: You guys didn't come back with any new pitches, not really.
• 41:22
  Speaker 6: I mean we're always messing around, probably with a couple
• 41:24
  Speaker 6: of things here or there, but I feel like to
• 41:28
  Speaker 6: actually make it to the game would be like I'm
• 41:31
  Speaker 6: working on something and I think there's a pretty low
• 41:33
  Speaker 6: chance that Cal gives the okay. So it's just kind
• 41:37
  Speaker 6: of side projects.
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, speaking of okaying things, So how is it gonna
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: work the ABS challenge system this year?
• 41:45
  Speaker 3: Does Cal get to do everything Logan?
• 41:47
  Speaker 6: Or I feel like he's gonna challenge every pitch?
• 41:50
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 41:51
  Speaker 8: I attempted one last year in spring training. I was like,
• 41:54
  Speaker 8: all right, let me try this through a fastball away.
• 41:57
  Speaker 8: I was like, that had to be a strike challenge it.
• 42:00
  Speaker 8: I turned around, it was like six inches off the plate.
• 42:03
  Speaker 8: I was like, all right, maybe I'll leave that for Cal.
• 42:07
  Speaker 3: How about you, Logan?
• 42:09
  Speaker 7: Do you?
• 42:09
  Speaker 3: I mean? I think Woody might have mentioned something today
• 42:11
  Speaker 3: that you might be staring at center field when the
• 42:13
  Speaker 3: ball cross his home plate. So yeah, maybe wouldn't be
• 42:15
  Speaker 3: the best thing.
• 42:15
  Speaker 6: It's usually tough for me to get a good look
• 42:17
  Speaker 6: at it. They're so good at framing too. They fooled
• 42:19
  Speaker 6: me every time out there, and pictures are pretty greedy.
• 42:22
  Speaker 6: We think everything's a strike, yeah, and then they frame
• 42:24
  Speaker 6: it and take it to the middle of the zone
• 42:26
  Speaker 6: and you're like, that had to at least catch the edge,
• 42:28
  Speaker 6: and then like he's had it six inches off. So
• 42:30
  Speaker 6: I probably won't be challenging small chance. I do every
• 42:34
  Speaker 6: once in a while, but I think Cal for the
• 42:35
  Speaker 6: most part, will handle that wood.
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: He also you had me ask him about his full
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: pin session. He ragged that he did pretty well. Would
• 42:44
  Speaker 2: you tell us the truth?
• 42:45
  Speaker 4: He did?
• 42:46
  Speaker 6: Yeah, Okay, it was pretty funny at times, but he
• 42:49
  Speaker 6: did pretty well.
• 42:50
  Speaker 3: He still has it.
• 42:51
  Speaker 6: And I think he was joking too, because Cal gave
• 42:55
  Speaker 6: him one of his gloves that has the platinum patch.
• 42:58
  Speaker 6: Like there's not many of those the world. He said
• 43:00
  Speaker 6: he left it at the Little league fields one day
• 43:02
  Speaker 6: when his son was up there, and then when we
• 43:05
  Speaker 6: didn't have a catcher and he showed up to watch me,
• 43:07
  Speaker 6: so he ended up catching, and he like ran to
• 43:09
  Speaker 6: the car real quick and all of a sudden brings
• 43:11
  Speaker 6: back his platinum catcher's glove. It's like acting like it's
• 43:14
  Speaker 6: no big deal. But he lived up to the patch
• 43:16
  Speaker 6: for sure.
• 43:18
  Speaker 3: I'm that's good. I mean, coming off the last year's
• 43:22
  Speaker 3: deep use you guys got, and yet I'm sure that
• 43:24
  Speaker 3: you know, at the end of it, you weren't feeling
• 43:26
  Speaker 3: as good as you were expecting the fields that fuel
• 43:29
  Speaker 3: you guys into the off season. I mean just thinking
• 43:31
  Speaker 3: about you know, I mean for a little bit at least,
• 43:33
  Speaker 3: just thinking all right, we're we're getting back there. We
• 43:35
  Speaker 3: know that what we're capable of. One of you.
• 43:40
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I think so it was good and bad, Like
• 43:43
  Speaker 6: obviously you want to win it all, but you can
• 43:45
  Speaker 6: turn it all for good for motivation. It was really
• 43:48
  Speaker 6: great the experience we had and being so close to
• 43:50
  Speaker 6: the top, but also the closer you get, the harder
• 43:53
  Speaker 6: it hits when you fall. And so I think there
• 43:55
  Speaker 6: needs to be a period of reset and like sit
• 44:00
  Speaker 6: in that for a little bit and then you get
• 44:01
  Speaker 6: back to camping. Now it's like it's a new page
• 44:03
  Speaker 6: ready to go.
• 44:04
  Speaker 8: Yeah, for sure, I mean, we were, like he said,
• 44:08
  Speaker 8: so close, and we didn't make any of the series easy,
• 44:11
  Speaker 8: you know, game five, Game seven, but you know, just
• 44:15
  Speaker 8: knowing the whole clubhouse felt like, you know, if if
• 44:20
  Speaker 8: we should have been in the World Series and we
• 44:22
  Speaker 8: would have had a chance also and uh to take
• 44:24
  Speaker 8: down the Dodgers. And I think it's going into this
• 44:26
  Speaker 8: year just gives us a little a little more, you know.
• 44:30
  Speaker 8: The last couple of years, it was all over one
• 44:32
  Speaker 8: game short of just making it. Yeah, and now it's
• 44:34
  Speaker 8: like we're two innings away from, you know, being being
• 44:39
  Speaker 8: in the World Series and giving us a chance.
• 44:41
  Speaker 4: So yeah, I think we're all ready to go.
• 44:45
  Speaker 2: Is Raleigh gonna pull his own weight this year? You
• 44:47
  Speaker 2: think as a teammate Bryce, what do you think?
• 44:50
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 44:51
  Speaker 8: He's he's getting big time on us.
• 44:53
  Speaker 3: So yeah, oh that's terrible news. Yeah, sixty homers, I
• 44:58
  Speaker 3: guess we'll do that to you.
• 44:59
  Speaker 6: Yeah, he actually he's done something. It's crazy.
• 45:02
  Speaker 3: He didn't get to sixty sixty club.
• 45:04
  Speaker 8: I know, right, that's when we're sixty ten barely barely,
• 45:13
  Speaker 8: all right.
• 45:13
  Speaker 2: So I mean, here we embark on this long road again.
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: I'll ask you, Logan. I mean, I know a lot
• 45:20
  Speaker 2: of you were doing some Seahawks watching. Was it a
• 45:24
  Speaker 2: was it an opportunity? Was it inspirational for you? Is
• 45:27
  Speaker 2: it a little intimidating that, Hey, this was supposed to
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: be our year. You guys weren't supposed to be this early.
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: But what did you What did that do to you
• 45:36
  Speaker 2: guys to see them win a championship?
• 45:38
  Speaker 3: Was there some motivation that was attached to that?
• 45:41
  Speaker 6: Yeah, for sure, feeding off them and what we did
• 45:44
  Speaker 6: last year, not that we won it all, but it's
• 45:46
  Speaker 6: pretty cool that then they follow that up with actually
• 45:48
  Speaker 6: winning it all. And now I feel like the balls
• 45:50
  Speaker 6: back in our court that we have to step up
• 45:52
  Speaker 6: and follow that. And you know, the fans are buzzing.
• 45:54
  Speaker 6: They're going crazy, especially waiting for baseball, but huge football
• 45:59
  Speaker 6: fans up there, so I like the whole town is
• 46:00
  Speaker 6: just waiting for it.
• 46:02
  Speaker 8: Yeah, good time to be a Seattle sports Yeah, no doubt, Yeah,
• 46:06
  Speaker 8: no doubt cracking or playing well yeah?
• 46:09
  Speaker 3: Uh Bryce? Uh So WBC interrupt spring training and everything else.
• 46:15
  Speaker 3: But it's not going to affect either of the two
• 46:18
  Speaker 3: of you.
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: So so what how does it affect you? You're not
• 46:22
  Speaker 2: gonna be in the game, But does it affect you
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: at all this spring getting ready for the season.
• 46:26
  Speaker 3: I don't think so.
• 46:27
  Speaker 8: I mean, I'll be tuning in seeing our guys, watching
• 46:31
  Speaker 8: them compete, but other than that, just cheering them on.
• 46:37
  Speaker 8: I mean everything else should be pretty normal.
• 46:39
  Speaker 3: Any trash talk iset like master bony tone, you know,
• 46:43
  Speaker 3: like I don't cow like bring it meat tan can
• 46:48
  Speaker 3: zone talking trash anything.
• 46:49
  Speaker 8: I told Dom he needs to he needs to slip
• 46:52
  Speaker 8: cal something in his locker, give him a fastball or something.
• 46:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Now with America Pride on the line, no chance.
• 47:02
  Speaker 8: Yeah, but I mean he's like, what he's gonna tell
• 47:04
  Speaker 8: me that schoobls one o one oh one fastballs coming.
• 47:08
  Speaker 3: I still got to hit it. Uh.
• 47:11
  Speaker 2: You know we were talking about that yesterday too. Man,
• 47:14
  Speaker 2: what a series that that was that you guys did
• 47:17
  Speaker 2: You guys always when you do things well, you don't
• 47:19
  Speaker 2: make it easy on us.
• 47:20
  Speaker 3: I mean fifteen innings, what was that like?
• 47:24
  Speaker 2: Just that excruciating process of being there, Logan and watching
• 47:28
  Speaker 2: that game go like pitch after pitch, out after out,
• 47:31
  Speaker 2: inning after inning with your season.
• 47:34
  Speaker 3: On the line.
• 47:34
  Speaker 6: Yeah, we like to be dramatic. I think fans have
• 47:37
  Speaker 6: been able to tell that for a while now. Yeah,
• 47:39
  Speaker 6: Game five to again, the whole thing's crazy, just a
• 47:42
  Speaker 6: do or die right there. But then you go fifteen innings,
• 47:45
  Speaker 6: it's like an emotional high every five seconds.
• 47:47
  Speaker 3: And I mean being able to be a part of
• 47:50
  Speaker 3: the game was.
• 47:50
  Speaker 6: Really really cool selfishly for me, but just watching it
• 47:53
  Speaker 6: from the dugout like I was going crazy and then
• 47:55
  Speaker 6: Plonco gets the hit and it was it was really cool.
• 47:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, So I don't know if I know
• 48:01
  Speaker 2: the name of your son.
• 48:02
  Speaker 3: Is it Bryce, Brian Louis Gilbert? What is it?
• 48:06
  Speaker 6: Those got vetoed right away that okay, Yeah, it's Henry
• 48:10
  Speaker 6: Henry Henry Gilbert.
• 48:12
  Speaker 3: Heink Gilbert. There's a future. No, you know, I Hank Heinrich.
• 48:18
  Speaker 6: He calls him Heinrich, and Dal calls him Hank.
• 48:21
  Speaker 3: Of course. So because you don't.
• 48:25
  Speaker 2: Well, we got to let you go. So thank you
• 48:27
  Speaker 2: very much for joining us here on Pitcher's Day. I
• 48:30
  Speaker 2: call you Clint Eastwood. So I wasn't surprised that you would,
• 48:33
  Speaker 2: Alan Jackson. Yeah, that you rode into a canyon to
• 48:36
  Speaker 2: propose to your fiance. So that's that's on brand. Have
• 48:41
  Speaker 2: a great year, both of you. Thank you very much
• 48:42
  Speaker 2: for joining us. Appreciate it, all right, Bryce Miller and
• 48:45
  Speaker 2: Logan Gilbert joining us right here on Chuck and Buck
• 48:48
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• 48:51
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• 49:05
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• 49:07
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• 49:10
  Speaker 2: out there. I mean, uh, I know you've exchanged your
• 49:13
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• 49:18
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• 49:20
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• 49:23
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• 49:24
  Speaker 2: And it would not be complete if we didn't talk
• 49:27
  Speaker 2: to the guy that had the most outstanding season of
• 49:31
  Speaker 2: our starting pitchers last year. Brian wu is with us
• 49:34
  Speaker 2: right here on Chuck and Buck. How are you, sir?
• 49:37
  Speaker 3: We're doing great. Good to see Yeah, how are you
• 49:41
  Speaker 3: feeling good?
• 49:42
  Speaker 9: Great?
• 49:42
  Speaker 3: How was the off season?
• 49:45
  Speaker 2: Did he have a baby? Did you get married, did
• 49:47
  Speaker 2: you get engaged?
• 49:48
  Speaker 3: Anything? It seems like there's a lot of that going
• 49:51
  Speaker 3: around here.
• 49:54
  Speaker 7: We're taking that time. No, that was good.
• 49:57
  Speaker 10: Short obviously, but that's kind of that's how we like
• 50:00
  Speaker 10: it to be around here now.
• 50:01
  Speaker 3: Short off seasons, I might need you to be the
• 50:04
  Speaker 3: evaluator of what happened this offseason to your pitching staff.
• 50:08
  Speaker 2: So help me break it just so we get a
• 50:10
  Speaker 2: better idea. Bryce Miller and George Kirby proposed right to
• 50:16
  Speaker 2: their correct Who would you think was the more romantic proposal,
• 50:20
  Speaker 2: knowing them the way that you know them.
• 50:23
  Speaker 3: Yeah, let's get in it.
• 50:25
  Speaker 10: Oh, boy, George easily, I'd say George, George, George puts
• 50:34
  Speaker 10: some thought into it. Okay, it's he probably he probably
• 50:38
  Speaker 10: planned it out romantic, you know, make it intimate, hang
• 50:43
  Speaker 10: out with the family or whatever.
• 50:45
  Speaker 7: After.
• 50:46
  Speaker 10: I'm sure Bryce had something going through his head. I
• 50:49
  Speaker 10: couldn't tell you what it was.
• 50:50
  Speaker 3: But yeah, yeah, I don't know. I don't know if
• 50:56
  Speaker 3: been able to figure that guy out.
• 50:57
  Speaker 4: I don't.
• 50:57
  Speaker 10: I think we're over complicated. I don't think there's a
• 50:59
  Speaker 10: lot going on up there anyway.
• 51:03
  Speaker 2: All right, So who do you think is better at
• 51:06
  Speaker 2: changing a poopy diaper? Logan, Gilbert or imaged in Handcoff.
• 51:12
  Speaker 10: That's also an easy answer. I'm taking Emerson all day. Yeah, yeah,
• 51:16
  Speaker 10: Logan's Logan's great and a lot of high pressure situations.
• 51:20
  Speaker 7: I don't think changing a diaper is one of them.
• 51:22
  Speaker 2: I think Logan would pick up like the heavy diaper
• 51:24
  Speaker 2: and then to start doing a workout with it, like
• 51:26
  Speaker 2: help can get some jobs out.
• 51:28
  Speaker 7: Of the yea.
• 51:33
  Speaker 10: No, I bet Emerson hasn't missed a beat, and I
• 51:36
  Speaker 10: bet Logan's fallen away behind. I'm sure. I mean, I'm
• 51:41
  Speaker 10: sure I'll figure it out with time. The thing that
• 51:42
  Speaker 10: I was more worried about Logan was the sleep schedule.
• 51:45
  Speaker 10: He's a he's a big sleeper, so one two year
• 51:49
  Speaker 10: old newborns. Yeah, I haven't I haven't exactly asked him,
• 51:52
  Speaker 10: but I'm sure that I'm sure his wife is doing
• 51:55
  Speaker 10: a lot of the heavy lifting there too.
• 51:57
  Speaker 3: Well.
• 51:58
  Speaker 2: In all seriousness, I am curious, just I mean, you
• 52:02
  Speaker 2: guys have been just swimming along as this foursome along
• 52:05
  Speaker 2: with you know, Luis Castillo, the big brother figure, obviously
• 52:10
  Speaker 2: off to tremendous starts in your career with a long
• 52:12
  Speaker 2: way to go. Uh, and all of a sudden you
• 52:16
  Speaker 2: start adding significant changes in your personal life to this.
• 52:22
  Speaker 2: Are they reacting any differently? Do they look any differently
• 52:25
  Speaker 2: out there? I mean, how are they handling all of
• 52:27
  Speaker 2: this added to their plate?
• 52:29
  Speaker 3: So far?
• 52:29
  Speaker 7: Looks pretty good.
• 52:30
  Speaker 10: I mean, I think we got a lot of newborns,
• 52:33
  Speaker 10: a lot of young families on the team as well,
• 52:36
  Speaker 10: So I think it's something that it's a you know,
• 52:39
  Speaker 10: it's a little bit of a collaborative effort. I think
• 52:41
  Speaker 10: with the guys and the wives, and you know, everybody
• 52:46
  Speaker 10: is kind of helping each other out. I think everyone's
• 52:48
  Speaker 10: a lot of people are in the same situation, right,
• 52:49
  Speaker 10: know so, But all I know is hopefully we got
• 52:55
  Speaker 10: some dad strength coming and yeah, maybe wiser with the
• 52:58
  Speaker 10: with the years and in the newborns.
• 53:00
  Speaker 7: And I'm thinking all the positive stuff.
• 53:03
  Speaker 3: Good that drink. It is real. It's a real thing,
• 53:05
  Speaker 3: for sure. I mean it's ever tangled with their old
• 53:08
  Speaker 3: man knows that's real. Dad could still kick my ass
• 53:10
  Speaker 3: and he's five and six and eighty years old. Yeah,
• 53:13
  Speaker 3: well they cheat too, I know that for a fact.
• 53:15
  Speaker 3: Oh man, the first time I tried blowing up on him,
• 53:17
  Speaker 3: he grabbed an area that is sensitive and squeezed and
• 53:22
  Speaker 3: I went down to my knees. He said, if you
• 53:24
  Speaker 3: ever feel froggy, go ahead and joke. You know that
• 53:26
  Speaker 3: works out for you.
• 53:28
  Speaker 2: Okay, Uh well, let's uh, let's talk some pitching here
• 53:33
  Speaker 2: on Pitcher's Day with Brian Wu. I want to bring
• 53:37
  Speaker 2: up a source subject just to get it out of
• 53:38
  Speaker 2: the way, because obviously you're swimming along having the just
• 53:42
  Speaker 2: an outstanding year, All Star everything else, you know, being
• 53:45
  Speaker 2: mentioned in Cy Young voting and everything else, and then
• 53:48
  Speaker 2: all of a sudden, here you are for the biggest
• 53:50
  Speaker 2: games of the year, getting ready for the playoffs. And
• 53:52
  Speaker 2: I remember the look on your face out there on
• 53:55
  Speaker 2: the mound when you threw that pitch, and you're like,
• 53:58
  Speaker 2: that wasn't right. So how how difficult was it for
• 54:01
  Speaker 2: the timing of that getting ready for the playoffs and
• 54:04
  Speaker 2: here you were not sure if you were ever going
• 54:08
  Speaker 2: to be healthy enough to be able to contribute to
• 54:10
  Speaker 2: the team.
• 54:12
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean it's frustrating.
• 54:13
  Speaker 10: Obviously, injuries never fun, and then to come at a
• 54:17
  Speaker 10: time like that, it was super unfortunate. But you know,
• 54:22
  Speaker 10: you work with the hand that you're dealt, and you know,
• 54:26
  Speaker 10: I put a lot of trust and and faith and
• 54:30
  Speaker 10: our and our training staff, and you know, it was unfortunate.
• 54:36
  Speaker 10: Obviously wouldn't have wanted to go that way, but yeah,
• 54:39
  Speaker 10: you got a deal to hand, your dealt and did
• 54:42
  Speaker 10: our best to get back And.
• 54:44
  Speaker 7: It was definitely.
• 54:47
  Speaker 10: A motivational point going into the off season of you know,
• 54:51
  Speaker 10: one you want to get back into that spot, but
• 54:53
  Speaker 10: two you want to you know, contribute the way that
• 54:55
  Speaker 10: that you know how so, yeah, you learn from it.
• 55:00
  Speaker 10: It stinks, but luckily we've got a bunch of other
• 55:05
  Speaker 10: guys that are pretty good at at the same thing,
• 55:08
  Speaker 10: so makes that part a little bit easier.
• 55:10
  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, frustrating for everybody, including us, you know, just
• 55:14
  Speaker 3: as fans getting to watch it, especially after the year
• 55:17
  Speaker 3: that you had. But I mean that was a spectacular year.
• 55:19
  Speaker 3: I mean that was I mean, yeah, I mean it
• 55:22
  Speaker 3: was it was. I mean, was there something different? Did
• 55:25
  Speaker 3: something click last year? I mean, it's not like you
• 55:27
  Speaker 3: worked good before that, but last year was way more
• 55:30
  Speaker 3: of a just kind of every single time you went
• 55:32
  Speaker 3: out there, you're going six innings and absolutely shoving. Was
• 55:35
  Speaker 3: there anything that clicked for you last year?
• 55:38
  Speaker 2: No?
• 55:38
  Speaker 10: I think it's just like I always talk about it,
• 55:40
  Speaker 10: it's just a you know, cumulative day by day, just
• 55:43
  Speaker 10: trying to be as consistent as I can be, trying
• 55:47
  Speaker 10: to learn and get better using the time that we
• 55:50
  Speaker 10: have with each other, with you know, with the pitchers,
• 55:54
  Speaker 10: of the catchers, whoever it is. It's building relationships with
• 55:57
  Speaker 10: the guys in the locker room, and you know, it's
• 56:00
  Speaker 10: a it's a holistic approach of how can I just
• 56:03
  Speaker 10: get a little bit better each day? I think you
• 56:07
  Speaker 10: try to take it in huge chunks. It, you know,
• 56:10
  Speaker 10: it's it's not gonna it's not gonna pin out the
• 56:13
  Speaker 10: way that you wanted it to. So for me, I've
• 56:15
  Speaker 10: just learned that little steps, consistency, getting a little bit
• 56:18
  Speaker 10: better every day, that's all it really is. So if
• 56:22
  Speaker 10: I can, you know, bring that approach into every day
• 56:24
  Speaker 10: and try to get a little bit better every day,
• 56:27
  Speaker 10: and then when it's time for me to go take
• 56:29
  Speaker 10: the ball, it's just you know, compete the best way
• 56:31
  Speaker 10: that I know how. That's all you can really do.
• 56:33
  Speaker 10: So I think, yeah, last year was just a kind
• 56:36
  Speaker 10: of a culmination of that of just consistency and you know,
• 56:42
  Speaker 10: doing my job every fifth day.
• 56:43
  Speaker 2: Brian WUIs with this ready around Chuck A Buck Sports
• 56:46
  Speaker 2: Radio ninety three point three kJ R f M, And uh,
• 56:49
  Speaker 2: I know in talking to you in the past, you
• 56:52
  Speaker 2: just said that message just just you know, sharpening things
• 56:56
  Speaker 2: always in the offseason. Bryce probably came back with a
• 56:59
  Speaker 2: gyro ballish here, and you know Logan probably has a
• 57:03
  Speaker 2: you know, some sort of an aquarium that he's carrying
• 57:05
  Speaker 2: around to try to help his arm flexibility. But you
• 57:09
  Speaker 2: kind of you just kind of fine tune always in
• 57:12
  Speaker 2: the offseason. So I'm assuming that's what you stayed with
• 57:16
  Speaker 2: you just rode that horse again this year.
• 57:18
  Speaker 7: Yep, pretty much.
• 57:19
  Speaker 10: Yeah, No, no new toys, just kind of just raising
• 57:23
  Speaker 10: the floor of everything. I think, just you know, if
• 57:26
  Speaker 10: everything can be just a little bit better every day.
• 57:28
  Speaker 10: And yeah, yeah, same same five pitches for me, same stuff. Obviously,
• 57:33
  Speaker 10: you're always always looking for ways to get better, but
• 57:36
  Speaker 10: not not really reinventing the wheel.
• 57:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah, motivating wise or motivation wise, I mean getting to
• 57:43
  Speaker 3: where you guys got and ultimately we already went over
• 57:46
  Speaker 3: the kind of the frustrating part of not being able
• 57:47
  Speaker 3: to be a big part of the postseason, but you
• 57:50
  Speaker 3: still know how much you contributed to get to that point.
• 57:53
  Speaker 3: I mean with this the regular season that you had,
• 57:55
  Speaker 3: so you still as a squad come up short where
• 57:58
  Speaker 3: you want to be. So how how motivated was that
• 58:01
  Speaker 3: as it were one of those all right, that's the
• 58:03
  Speaker 3: next step and then we just build on that for
• 58:05
  Speaker 3: this year.
• 58:06
  Speaker 7: Yeah exactly.
• 58:07
  Speaker 10: I think you know everybody in that locker room felt
• 58:13
  Speaker 10: how how Game seven felt in Toronto, being uh in
• 58:20
  Speaker 10: that clubhouse and on the bus ride, on the on
• 58:22
  Speaker 10: the plane home, like you could feel obviously how much
• 58:26
  Speaker 10: it meant to those guys And yeah, you kind of
• 58:29
  Speaker 10: just try to bottle that up and take that into
• 58:32
  Speaker 10: the off season, take to the next season. Obviously, it's
• 58:35
  Speaker 10: it's not really a situation of like, all right, we're
• 58:39
  Speaker 10: just gonna get back to that point and and win,
• 58:42
  Speaker 10: like you gotta re you know, you got to earn
• 58:44
  Speaker 10: that again starting in camp, and we we know what
• 58:49
  Speaker 10: it takes now we know, you know a little bit
• 58:51
  Speaker 10: more about our group as a whole, and you know
• 58:56
  Speaker 10: what it takes to get through a whole season and
• 58:58
  Speaker 10: then what it takes to you know, I'll climb your
• 59:00
  Speaker 10: way through the postseason. And it was it was definitely
• 59:04
  Speaker 10: good experience for everybody, especially just having a pretty young group.
• 59:08
  Speaker 10: But isn't super experience in terms of, you know, playoff experience.
• 59:12
  Speaker 7: But yeah, it was.
• 59:15
  Speaker 10: You know, you try to take that as a positive
• 59:18
  Speaker 10: in terms of the learning experience, but you also you
• 59:20
  Speaker 10: bottle up that that motivation of of how much that
• 59:23
  Speaker 10: game seven stung.
• 59:25
  Speaker 2: Speaking of motivation and inspiration, I'm curious you guys as
• 59:29
  Speaker 2: a group, I don't know, I think like six or
• 59:30
  Speaker 2: seven of you I saw in the photo, maybe more
• 59:32
  Speaker 2: of you went to the Super Bowl to watch the Seahawks.
• 59:36
  Speaker 2: How how much did that add to the motivation and
• 59:39
  Speaker 2: inspiration to see how Seattle reacts to a championship run
• 59:43
  Speaker 2: like that.
• 59:45
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean it's it's pretty cool.
• 59:47
  Speaker 10: I think we we've had the you know the privilege
• 59:52
  Speaker 10: of talking to a few guys. We got to talk
• 59:54
  Speaker 10: to McDonald a little bit about you know, just the
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 10: the winning and you know, building something special, but also
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 10: the culture and the process of which you know that requires.
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 10: And I think that's the stuff that I try to
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 10: take more from. Obviously, an incredibly talented team and you know,
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 10: they they looked pretty strong all season and then just
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 10: kind of got better as a year went on.
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 7: But talking more about you know, how.
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 10: He approaches every single day and you know, the commitment
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 10: and the thought process, and you know, the culture within
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 10: the building and how you get people to kind of
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 10: change the way that they think about each other and
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 10: winning and you know, all those little things. That was
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 10: the stuff that impressed me a lot more. And then,
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 10: like you said, obviously that to see how the city
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 10: of Seattle, you know, receives and supports and each game
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 10: you know at lumen Is it's unbelievable obviously, but you know,
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 10: we get to experience something pretty similar at t mobile
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 10: and yeah, we know how you know how special that is,
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 10: and we're we're incredibly grateful for the support that we get.
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 2: I mean that that clincher in Detroit, I mean the
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 2: way that that crowd, Oh my god.
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 10: So yeah, once you see it, man, it's like you
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 10: never wanna, never want to see it.
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 7: It's like, yeah, yeah, exactly.
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 3: Every every position player likes playing behind a kind of
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 3: the bulldog or whatever term you want to use for.
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 3: I mean, pictures that kind of go out there and
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 3: compete and have that kind of grit, so to speak.
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 3: What is it like on the other side of it?
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 3: I mean, I think Naylor is a guy that brings
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 3: a calm, most certainly brings it. I think Brendan Donovan
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 3: is a guy that's going to bring that same type
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 3: of thing. What is it like when it's when you're
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 3: you're watching guys start to flourish and and turn into
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 3: guys that kind of are the reciprocal of that same
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 3: exact thing that you guys bring every single day.
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 7: Yeah, No, it's it's incredible.
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 10: It's you know, it's something that as you get a
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 10: little bit more experience, how much you know, you appreciate
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 10: it more and more of the guys that you know,
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 10: like Donovan said, like playing with their hair on fire,
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 10: really coming into each game with the mentality that like,
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 10: we're gonna go take this game from you. It's not
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 10: just we're gonna play, you know, nine innings and kind
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 10: of see who comes out on top. Like I'm gonna
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 10: go find a way to win each game. And so
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 10: going out to pitch and knowing that those guys are
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 10: behind you, it makes your job, you know, that much
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 10: easier that I know that I don't have to be
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 10: perfect because I know that I've got, you know, seven
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 10: guys behind me that are have that mentality that you know,
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 10: we're all we're all in it together, and you know,
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 10: carry that through one hundred and sixty two games and
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 10: then carry that through a couple series in the postseason,
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 10: and you know, that's what it takes is a number
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 10: of those guys and a group of those guys that
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 10: share that that same mentality.
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 2: Kal gonna have an even better year.
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 10: I mean, yeah, it's obviously gonna be pretty tough to
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 10: top that, but I think no one's expectations are higher
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 10: than than his, you know, than his own. But I
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 10: think the beauty of it is. You know, our team
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 10: and the strength of our lineup and pitching wise, and
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 10: you know, everything top to bottom is We're not going
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 10: to ask him, you know, to do the same thing.
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 10: It's just he just needs to go out and be
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 10: cal and be the leader that he is. And you know,
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 10: duty does behind the plate, duty does at the plate.
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 10: You know, it doesn't need to be anymore. Whatever he gives,
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 10: and we know that he's gonna, you know, come prepared
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 10: every day. We know that he's gonna put the work in,
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 10: like the results will show if you know, he stays
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 10: consistent with the process. And that's exactly you know what
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 10: you saw last year. But the beauty of it, I
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 10: think this year is just we've got dogs and dogs
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 10: behind him. That doesn't need to be you know, doesn't
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 10: need to be that if it is great, and if not,
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 10: then I think we'll still be just fun.
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 3: Well I'm expecting eighty, but on take sixty or sixty one,
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 3: if he just wants to come up.
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 2: He's not about getting better. I mean I think sports
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 2: is all about getting better, right, Yeah.
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 3: No, Ultimately, I mean this is a it's a hill
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 3: that I'm willing to die on the the MVP Hill
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 3: and it's no slight Darren Judge, Aaron Judge is is stupid.
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 3: I mean, you make him look stupid pretty often, but
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 3: we actually do have a lot of success against them.
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 3: You're knock on wood, Yeah, yeah, yeah, it is what
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 3: it is like. Yeah, you're good against most people. But
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 3: I mean his seasons was unbelievable offensively. But to me,
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 3: it's not a contest because of what I know it
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 3: takes to be behind the dish and all of the
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 3: things between the years, what Cow does. To me, it's
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 3: an undeniable MVP. I was excited out asking all of
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 3: you pitchers, I mean, was that something that you guys?
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 3: Are you on team cal and VP? Obviously? And then
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 3: how big of a contest would you even consider that
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 3: that was?
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean obviously we're all we're all biased, but
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 10: it's hard to explain to even just not even if
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 10: you know, you know baseball, even if you're just not
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 10: a catcher, Like very few people see the hours that
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 10: are put in being you know, the team's leading catcher
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 10: and not just you know, if you're here during spring training,
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 10: you see it. He shows up at five, he leaves
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 10: at three. Whatever it is like they're long days. And
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 10: during the season it's no different. We have seven o'clock game,
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 10: he gets to the field at like eleven, he leaves
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 10: by whatever it is, ten or eleven. Like they're they're long,
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 10: long days that you don't get the appreciation for. You
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 10: run the pitching staff, you lead the team, you know,
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 10: communicating with each and every person in the building, and
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 10: then you put all that stuff that I just said
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 10: and I haven't even mentioned, you know, the production at
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 10: the plate and the platinum glove defense and whatever. You
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 10: can go on and on and on, but yeah, I mean,
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 10: it's it's it's just one of those things. I think
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 10: if you if you know, you understand, you appreciate, you
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 10: really see it, and then you know that you know,
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 10: that was a one of a kind season.
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, so is it?
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 2: Uncle Cal and Uncle Brian? Now are those your new
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 2: nicknames with all the babies around here bringing it full sir?
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 10: Yes, I don't know, whatever they want it to be.
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 10: I don't know if I still don't feel like I'm
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 10: at quite uncle status. Cal Cal definitely gives off uncle vibes.
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 10: You can hand them back with, Oh yeah, the fun Yeah, yeah,
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 10: the Funkel, the Funkel role is a great role to
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 10: be and you put all the good stuff, good vibes,
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 10: you want to give them gifts or whatever, and it's
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 10: as they start crying, you just hand them right back.
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 2: Well, man, I can't wait to see a pitch again
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 2: this year. I mean, what a great couple few years
• 1:07:08
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, who knows, Maybe we'll put all three of
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  Speaker 2: put enough of a spotlight on this bullpen coming into
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 2: this year because really it's shaping up to be special
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 2: heading into twenty twenty six. And the newcomer jose A Farrer,
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 2: who was acquired in the off season by Jerry and
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  Speaker 2: Justin from the Washington Nationals. I mean they had two
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 2: guys circled this offseason that they were going after. They
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 2: were Brendan Donovan and jose A Farrer. Those were the
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  Speaker 2: two guys that they had circled. They ended up getting
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 2: them both, and in Ferrara's case, it ended up costing
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 2: them Harry Ford. It was a prospect that, of course
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 2: they've drafted in the first round, they've developed.
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  Speaker 3: We've all liked Harry Ford. We were looking forward to
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 3: seeing him in a Mariner uniform.
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  Speaker 2: But when you're blocked by someone named cal Raley, suddenly
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 2: you become valuable to that organization as trade bait. And
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 2: so Harry Ford for Farrer was the trade in the
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 2: off season. And Farrer's numbers weren't fantastic last year with
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  Speaker 2: the Washington Nationals, but they've had their eye on him
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 2: for years and there are some certain things about Jose
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 2: Ferrer that have this organization just in a tizzy. Pete
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  Speaker 2: Woodworth was on with us at the beginning of the show,
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  Speaker 2: the pitching Coach, and we asked him about the addition.
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  Speaker 4: Jerry got a Ferrari for Christmas, and that is exactly
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 4: what he is. It is one hundred it is it's
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  Speaker 4: one hundred miles sinker from the left side. Please find
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  Speaker 4: me a lefty that wants to stand in and take
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  Speaker 4: a hack off of that. I mean, I haven't really
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  Speaker 4: talked to Gabe about it, but I imagine he's gonna
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  Speaker 4: enjoy not having to get hot every single night to
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  Speaker 4: prepare for those that lefty pocket.
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  Speaker 2: Why Farrere the strikeout numbers are down. Is he a
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 2: ground ball pitcher at one hundred miles per hour or
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 2: do you think that we'll see an uptick in back?
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 4: I hope we will. Yeah, that's why I'm here. It's
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 4: similar to one Awards. You know, it's one hundred millar
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 4: a sinker. It's not really a swing and miss fastball,
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 4: so they're gonna put it on the ground. But he
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 4: doesn't walk anybody, so that's how he suppresses runs. But yeah,
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 4: the goal is definitely to keep him improving and find
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 4: a little bit more swing and missing his game with
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 4: the secondaries, and you know, have him take the next step.
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 2: As p Woodworth pitching coach talking about the newcomer to
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 2: the bullpen, Jose Ferrer. So no, it wasn't just about
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 2: re signing Josh Naylor or adding Brendan Donovan on a
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 2: trade that apparently took thirteen and a.
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  Speaker 3: Half months to secure. Also, this they consider a major
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 3: piece Bucky to the additions to this roster for Rare,
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 3: a left handed reliever that's probably gonna work in mostly
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 3: high leverage situations this year. Well, I mean, last year
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 3: Game Spider had a great ye right yet he was
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 3: the only lefty. I mean, you know, when you know
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 3: cab Ferguson came over, he just didn't perform the way
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 3: that he had performed majority of his career. And he's
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 3: not a power guy to begin with. He's a guy
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 3: that you just kind of hopefully can use in the
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 3: sixth inning to get out of an inning against a
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  Speaker 3: lefty and get a ground ball and hopefully it goes
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  Speaker 3: to somebody. So for most of the high leverage situations
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  Speaker 3: that you were facing a lefty or you're gonna have
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 3: a couple lefties in that inning, and they were going
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  Speaker 3: to Gabe, And ultimately, I mean he was used far
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 3: more than anybody else was used. He was he was
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 3: kind of your go to guy because he was your
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  Speaker 3: only lefty. So now you have two guys that you
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 3: feel comfortable with that you can bring in against the
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  Speaker 3: big dogs that another team's going to throw up there
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 3: against you late in the game. And I think it's
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 3: I think it's big. I think that you talk about,
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 3: you know, running backs and keeping him healthy for the
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  Speaker 3: end of the season. I mean, you want to awe
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  Speaker 3: your bullpen. You don't want to over use it to
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  Speaker 3: where at the end of the season anybody is feeling,
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 3: you know, fatigued and more tired than they need to.
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  Speaker 3: This is most certainly going to be able to keep
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  Speaker 3: both those guys fresh, hopefully for the full year, because
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  Speaker 3: you won't have just one guy that has to get
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  Speaker 3: up every single time that there's a lefty do up
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  Speaker 3: every single night.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, I mean there are a lot of
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I think Jerry and Justin have a lot
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 2: of skills, I really do. And they have guys that
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 2: they've hired beneath them that know how to polish up players.
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 2: So they are obviously very good in this organization at
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 2: identifying pitching talent, drafting the right guys, developing them, keeping
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 2: them healthy.
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  Speaker 3: But in the bullpen, I mean it might be their
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 3: best attribute.
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 2: I mean what they've done since they got here to
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 2: always seem to have a at least a good bullpen.
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 2: It hasn't been great every year. I'm not even sure
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 2: last year's bullpen was great. But when they find stecond
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 2: Riders and Sea Wolves and you know, guys that have
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 2: been cast off by other organizations, and yet they see
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 2: some talent and then they sharpen that talent topa of
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 2: few years ago who they ended up being able to
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 2: move for a significant piece and Polonko, I mean they're
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 2: always doing that, and yet this offseason it doesn't feel
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 2: like they're just I mean, they've used sifting through those
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 2: thrift stores and finding gems that the thrift store owner
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 2: didn't realize was a gym. And now it's kind of
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 2: all come together for twenty twenty six. And I'm not
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 2: sure on paper that they've ever looked stronger heading into
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 2: a season in their bullpen than what they look this year.
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 2: Andre's Munnos obviously as your closure and arguably coming off
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 2: the best year of his entire career, and I think
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 2: he looks a little fit and more fit heading into
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 2: this camp. And of course he is just about as
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 2: nasty as they come. So just start there with the
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 2: closer and Andre's Munos, who if he stays healthy, I mean,
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 2: he's as good as anybody out there.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, it was an All Star last year
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 3: and understandably so. I mean, it's the game has changed
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 3: from back in the day when I played, where if
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 3: you threw a hundred, they expect you to throw that
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 3: and then sometimes use your breaking ball. Like I don't
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 3: know why it was such a big deal. You have
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 3: to pitch off your fastball. You can't rely on your
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 3: off speed. That's not the case anymore. He throws a
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 3: hundred and you might go up there and face six
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 3: straight sliders because they're that dirty. And one hundred and
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 3: two and you might face six. And so I mean
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  Speaker 3: the fact that he can throw that when he wants
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 3: to throw that. Last year was the year it felt
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 3: to me like that the game calmed down to him
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 3: since to some extent where he felt more confident in it.
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 3: I mean, he's such a nice dude, like he's not
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 3: unbelievably nice, and I think that there's a it might
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 3: be somewhat difficult for him to switch into you know,
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 3: I'm attacking you mode. It's like, well, I'm going to
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 3: I'm going to throw this up there, and I hope
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 3: you don't hit this thing, you know what I mean,
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 3: Whereas you gotta have a little bit more of you're
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 3: not touching this mother, you know, here here it comes,
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 3: try to hit that one. And yet I think last
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 3: year it looked like he had kind of found how
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 3: that he could flip that switch and evolve into the
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 3: guy that was gonna go out there and absolutely shove
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 3: on you. Not that he didn't show signs of it
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 3: before that, but last year we saw it far more consistently,
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 3: and that's what led him to have a sub two
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 3: era and and pretty much be unhittable most of the
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 3: time when you went out there. So yeah, I mean, you,
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 3: if you're gonna win the World Series, you gotta have
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 3: a closer, and we got a closer. There's no doubt.
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 3: He's so nice. He makes Logan Gilbert look like Eric Badard.
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 3: Oh wow, that's rough but true, very accurate. And Logan
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 3: is the second nicest person I've ever met, right, but
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 3: that just shows you the gap. Yeah, he's just that
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 3: much nicer. Sorry about it, Logan.
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  Speaker 2: And we have not discussed this because you know, we're
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 2: not really supposed to mention his name on the air,
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 2: but we are both very good, very big fans of
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 2: Adam Jude from the newspaper in town.
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 2: Uh, And Adam Jude is going to catch him today.
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 3: I think that's going down today.
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 2: So he's going to put on the tools of ignorance,
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 2: and a beat writer for the local newspaper is going
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 2: to catch a bullpen session or as long as he
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 2: lasts in a bullpen session of Andre's munios.
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 3: It's happening.
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah, the bet be mad personnel on hand.
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  Speaker 3: Everybody thinks that. For what it's worth, this is not
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 3: me trying to be different. I think he's gonna be okay,
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 3: to be honest, because I don't this is another situation.
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 3: Do you think Andres Munos is gonna snap off the
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 3: nastiest slider or is he gonna spend I don't think
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 3: it is. That's the idea. It's the whole point of it.
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 3: You can say it's the idea. I don't think Andres
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 3: Munos has it in him to be like watch this,
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 3: watch what how I'm going to like If he snaps
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 3: off the nastiest one, it might break his thumb, or
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 3: he might miss it and hit him right in the
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 3: face mask and he's concussed and we are literally having
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 3: an ambulance coming up here. I just have a feeling
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 3: he's gonna be okay because I think Munos is gonna
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 3: bear back. He's just throw him some good, hard, firm fastballs.
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 3: I just don't think he's gonna like dice him up
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 3: with the nastiest slider he's got. I think that's the
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 3: whole point of it.
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 2: He wants to catch his nasty The only thing Jude
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 2: told me was he's not throwing two seamers because he's
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 2: afraid the run. He wouldn't be able to handle the run. Yeah,
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 2: but other than that.
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 3: The idea is to catch the slider.
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 2: He wants the perspective of seeing what is one of
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 2: the most unhittable pitches in Major League Baseball. So no,
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 2: you can't go half ass Mooney as nice as he can,
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 2: he's got to go.
• 1:21:35
  Speaker 3: Just wrap him in bubble wrap. He'll be fine. Yeah,
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 3: he's got to.
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 2: He's got to try to snap it on. He's got
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 2: to try to send Jude to the hospital. I bet
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 2: the whole fun of it.
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 3: I'm betting Jude last survives and is okay. He's gonna
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 3: miss him more than a handful of them.
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think he's gonna go off on a stretcher
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 2: right in front of his son.
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 3: So wow, that's Camid here today.
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 2: All right, let's move down the list because we got
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 2: a lot of other guys to discuss.
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 3: Matt Brash.
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 2: I mean, he was good last year, but he wasn't
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 2: nobody wants to face him, Matt Brash.
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 3: I mean, he's coming.
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 2: Off major injury last year, and I don't think anybody
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 2: coming off that injury is at their best the moment
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 2: they come off that injury or in the first year.
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 3: Now he's a year removed from that.
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 2: Surgery, a year two and a half years actually removed
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 2: from that surgery. So I think we're gonna see a
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 2: better version. And Matt Bash was very good last year,
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 2: but I think we get back to seeing the great
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 2: version of Matt Brash here in twenty twenty six.
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it was very good, but it wasn't
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 3: unbelievably dominant, which we saw yeah, the majority of the
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 3: time prior to the injury. I mean, you have an
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 3: injury like that, there's multiple things you got to overcome.
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 3: One just the surgery in it himself, and then the rehab,
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 3: and then when you get to where you're throwing, and
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 3: then you throw, you stretch it out, then you get
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 3: on the mound, and then all of a sudden you
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 3: can start pitching some games, some rehab games, and then
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 3: you get into the big league games. It's still there's
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 3: something between the years of being able to let it
• 1:22:59
  Speaker 3: rip and trusting right, trusting that it's going to be fine,
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 3: trusting that everything's going to work. I think it typically
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 3: takes more than a year before everything comes together, lastly
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 3: being the between the years and the belief part of it.
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 3: I'm with you one hundred percent. I mean, his stuff
• 1:23:13
  Speaker 3: is still absolutely devastating. They didn't take out the nasty
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 3: spin rate on that slider that makes that thing look
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 3: more like a video game slider than something that a
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 3: real person could throw in real life. I think that
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 3: he's Yeah, I think he's going to be another guy
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 3: that is one of the more dominant set up guys
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 3: in all of baseball.
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 2: So Munio sprash Farrer, I mean, those are certainly high leverage.
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 3: Plus the high leverage of Gabe Spire.
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 2: Coming off his best season, America's left hander is getting
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 2: ready to participate in the WBC, and I think could
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 2: be sharper, as would he pointed out, if he's not
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 2: expected every night to be that guy. And now it's
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 2: he and Ferrer together, And then you've got Bizardo, the
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 2: interesting case of Edward Bizardo, who boy, I mean two
• 1:24:01
  Speaker 2: years ago, I mean I just sort of held my
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 2: breath when he took the mound last year. He earned
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 2: that respect, He earned that trust, that faith. He had
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 2: a hell of a year last year, even in the playoffs.
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 2: I mean there was a playoff game where we spent
• 1:24:18
  Speaker 2: the postgame saying, Edward Bizarda won us this game. He
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 2: was the MVP of this game. But of course his
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 2: season ends with the pitch to Springer, and so he
• 1:24:31
  Speaker 2: had to live with that in the offseason. So here
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 2: you have this breakthrough year in twenty twenty five as
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 2: a reliever. You've won the trust of your coaching staff,
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 2: of all your teammates, and yet you had to live
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 2: with you or the guy that served up the dinger
• 1:24:46
  Speaker 2: to George Springer that in essence kept you from the
• 1:24:50
  Speaker 2: World Series.
• 1:24:51
  Speaker 3: How do you think a guy handles that well? I
• 1:24:54
  Speaker 3: hope he hn was it okay? I'm sure that you know,
• 1:24:57
  Speaker 3: we've talked to everybody that we've talked to. They've talked
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 3: about out how that you know that clubhouse afterwards was down,
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 3: that the flight home was down. I'm sure that it
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 3: took days, weeks, possibly even months for everybody to fully
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 3: turn the page on that and just get to all right,
• 1:25:14
  Speaker 3: let's let's reboot and get back to this thing and
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 3: do it again next year. I would think if there's
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 3: one person that it probably stuck with longer, it's probably
• 1:25:23
  Speaker 3: bizarrero simply because of the whirlwind of the season. I mean,
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 3: it wasn't like it was his rookie season or that
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 3: he is just now breaking in the league. But it
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 3: was definitely the best season that he's ever had, and
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 3: all of a sudden relievers. Typically you pitch yourself into
• 1:25:38
  Speaker 3: higher leverage situations and you pitch yourself out of higher
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 3: leverage situations. For the majority of last year, he just
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 3: pitched himself into high level just more and more and
• 1:25:47
  Speaker 3: more and more high leverage situations. He wasn't a guy
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 3: that fumbled and got moved to the back of the
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 3: pack and had to earn his way back up. He
• 1:25:54
  Speaker 3: just kind of was a consistent guy in that bullpen
• 1:25:57
  Speaker 3: the entire season. And unfortunately, yeah, his his last outing
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 3: was not good and it wasn't the best that he
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 3: had done. And yet that's just kind of the way
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 3: in which it goes sometimes. I mean, it could have
• 1:26:07
  Speaker 3: been Munnos for crying out, It could have been somebody,
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 3: And it doesn't mean you need to hang your head
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 3: longer or you need to lose confidence. I don't think
• 1:26:14
  Speaker 3: that when he goes out there and throws what seventy
• 1:26:17
  Speaker 3: three times last season, seventy three games he came into
• 1:26:21
  Speaker 3: and unfortunately has a big loss at the end of
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 3: that thing with that George Springer Ome run, it shouldn't
• 1:26:26
  Speaker 3: take away the other seventy two outings that he had,
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 3: or more than that when you count the postseason. So
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 3: I think that he probably took him a second to
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 3: get over it, but he should get over it because
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 3: he had a damn good year and he needs to
• 1:26:35
  Speaker 3: do it again. Great year, and they're gonna be leaning
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 3: on him heavily. But you can already see.
• 1:26:39
  Speaker 2: I mean, that's the guy that, by the times during
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 2: the course of the year after Munnos was you know
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 2: you could argue was your most reliable reliever. And now
• 1:26:48
  Speaker 2: I'm fifth down this depth chart on this and this
• 1:26:52
  Speaker 2: pecking order of this Mariner's bullpen. A guy coming off
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 2: that good of a season that looks right now like
• 1:26:58
  Speaker 2: your fifth best.
• 1:26:59
  Speaker 3: Option come out of the pen. That's pretty exciting.
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 2: Carlos Vargas was effective at times, and I know that
• 1:27:05
  Speaker 2: an effective season, and I know that there's a little
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 2: bit of a frustration with his location, but.
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 3: It speaks to his talent that he.
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 2: Has difficulties with location to the point that cal drives
• 1:27:18
  Speaker 2: him up a wall, from what I understand. And yet
• 1:27:21
  Speaker 2: he's still got guys out consistently because he throws a
• 1:27:24
  Speaker 2: hundred and he's got movement and he's not scared when
• 1:27:26
  Speaker 2: he's out there on the mound. Vargas was a nice
• 1:27:29
  Speaker 2: contributor to this team despite some of the frustrations that
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 2: he caused.
• 1:27:33
  Speaker 3: And now he's sixth on the depth chart. I mean,
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 3: this is I think about it. You're really putting together
• 1:27:39
  Speaker 3: a bullpen. Yeah yeah, and you need you need a
• 1:27:42
  Speaker 3: bunch of arms down there. You can't. You're not gonna
• 1:27:44
  Speaker 3: go through an entire season without guys getting either you know,
• 1:27:46
  Speaker 3: hit around a couple times and confidence shaken to some degree,
• 1:27:51
  Speaker 3: or you know, guy's arms feel a little dead or
• 1:27:53
  Speaker 3: possible injuries. You're gonna need more than just your Okay, well,
• 1:27:57
  Speaker 3: we got a closer. We got an eathenning guy and
• 1:27:59
  Speaker 3: a seventh inning guy. And just think that that's going
• 1:28:00
  Speaker 3: to be enough, You're gonna need to call upon some
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 3: other guys. So the other guys aren't aren't having to
• 1:28:04
  Speaker 3: get up every single time that you're winning. And this
• 1:28:06
  Speaker 3: team's gonna win a bunch of ball games, so you're
• 1:28:08
  Speaker 3: gonna need guys to go out there and close that
• 1:28:10
  Speaker 3: thing out in the final couple innings. I think that
• 1:28:12
  Speaker 3: he's a guy that last year was his welcome to
• 1:28:16
  Speaker 3: the show type of a year, like, Okay, this isn't
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 3: just an opportunity, this is we need you to show
• 1:28:21
  Speaker 3: out and show up and be a dude for us.
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 3: He was a dude more often than not, but consistency
• 1:28:27
  Speaker 3: was probably the name of his game. And he's got
• 1:28:29
  Speaker 3: to get better at that. And if he does, yeah,
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 3: he's still gonna be a guy that's going to be
• 1:28:32
  Speaker 3: used in some leverage situations when they don't want to
• 1:28:35
  Speaker 3: have to use Brash on a third day in a
• 1:28:37
  Speaker 3: row or something along those lines.
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 2: All right, So then what closes it out at the
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 2: for the other couple spots. I mean, there's just a
• 1:28:43
  Speaker 2: lot of interesting names that this team has compiled here
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 2: in this off season to go along with some of
• 1:28:51
  Speaker 2: the faces that you do remember you are talking about
• 1:28:56
  Speaker 2: leg you Meana is still with the club. You've got
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 2: some additions that they made this year Cooper Criswell over
• 1:29:04
  Speaker 2: from Boston. Be interesting to see if he possibly fits
• 1:29:08
  Speaker 2: into this bullpen. Robinson or Tees was a left hander
• 1:29:13
  Speaker 2: that they got in a minor deal that they believe
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 2: sky's the limit on his talent. They got yaz Vzuletta
• 1:29:20
  Speaker 2: from the Cincinnati Reds. This officer, and you know how
• 1:29:23
  Speaker 2: good this team is at identifying treasure from other people's
• 1:29:26
  Speaker 2: trash heaps, and so they've they've kind of done it again.
• 1:29:30
  Speaker 2: Josh Simpson they just acquired yesterday or two days ago
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 2: from the Marlins. Troy Taylor is back and healthy in camp.
• 1:29:37
  Speaker 2: And then the mystery of Emerson Hancock. Is he the
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 2: number six starter or they've toyed around a little bit
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 2: with him out of the bullpen. He changed his armslot
• 1:29:47
  Speaker 2: a little bit and started having some success as a
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 2: reliever at the end of the season. What's his future?
• 1:29:52
  Speaker 2: Is he out of the bullpen or is he just
• 1:29:54
  Speaker 2: going to be your sixth man coming off the bench.
• 1:29:57
  Speaker 3: For the starting rotation.
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 2: So anyway, the point is that this is I think
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 2: maybe the longest list of sure things, if there is
• 1:30:07
  Speaker 2: such a thing that they've had going into a season
• 1:30:09
  Speaker 2: in a while, and yet they still have a considerable
• 1:30:13
  Speaker 2: list of guys that man this organization has been really
• 1:30:17
  Speaker 2: good at identifying at cheap rates talented arms that they
• 1:30:21
  Speaker 2: develop and they give to Pete Woodworth and they end
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 2: up contributing right away and sometimes for seasons on end.
• 1:30:28
  Speaker 2: So I think they are we haven't talked about it
• 1:30:31
  Speaker 2: a lot, but I think they are in phenomenal position
• 1:30:33
  Speaker 2: with their bullpen this year.
• 1:30:35
  Speaker 3: I do too, And it's great to be able to say,
• 1:30:37
  Speaker 3: you know a half dozen or more guys that could
• 1:30:39
  Speaker 3: possibly be your Carlos Vargas or your Bizardo, if you will.
• 1:30:43
  Speaker 3: Guys that maybe you don't know about at this point
• 1:30:46
  Speaker 3: in the year. You don't know how much you can
• 1:30:48
  Speaker 3: trust them. And that's just typical with relief pitchers in
• 1:30:52
  Speaker 3: general usually. And yet, yeah, I think I mean Troy
• 1:30:55
  Speaker 3: Taylor two years ago was a guy I'm like, Wow,
• 1:30:58
  Speaker 3: this guy's gonna be unbelievable. And last year he could
• 1:31:00
  Speaker 3: he couldn't miss a barrel. So hopefully he can rebound
• 1:31:03
  Speaker 3: and be the dude that he was a couple years
• 1:31:05
  Speaker 3: ago when he burst on the scene for that short
• 1:31:07
  Speaker 3: period of time at the end of that twenty what
• 1:31:09
  Speaker 3: was it, twenty twenty four season. So yeah, you got
• 1:31:12
  Speaker 3: him along with another half dozen guys like you're talking
• 1:31:14
  Speaker 3: about that are maybe castaways from somewhere else. But if
• 1:31:18
  Speaker 3: there's like you said to start the segment, if there's
• 1:31:20
  Speaker 3: one thing that you almost could feel rest assured of,
• 1:31:23
  Speaker 3: they're gonna find somebody from somewhere else that's gonna come
• 1:31:26
  Speaker 3: in and they're gonna be a piece for the Seattle Man.
• 1:31:28
  Speaker 2: Oh yes, we do make a big deal out of
• 1:31:30
  Speaker 2: trying to get all five starting pitchers on our show
• 1:31:33
  Speaker 2: on Pitcher's Day.
• 1:31:34
  Speaker 3: But happy Pitcher's Day to the bullpen.
• 1:31:37
  Speaker 2: I think this is gonna be a phenomenal year out
• 1:31:40
  Speaker 2: of the pen for the Seattle Mariners. All right, we
• 1:31:44
  Speaker 2: still are up against the clock with Castillo and Kirby,
• 1:31:48
  Speaker 2: but that doesn't mean we won't check in with our guy,
• 1:31:51
  Speaker 2: Al Kaniski.
• 1:31:52
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