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Chuck & Buck 7-9 Hour 1: Use your damn challenges! Mariners Morning After and · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: So much to do here today from now until ten o'clock,
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  Speaker 1: and it is wonderful to have you with us.
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  Speaker 3: Ashley Ryan just turned on her light in her studio.
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  Speaker 5: I'm sitting in the dark.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, what are you sitting in the dark for?
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  Speaker 5: Sometimes it's really kind of nice.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you gotta have a better positive attitude about yourself.
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  Speaker 3: You just don't go sitting in the day, right, I shouldn't.
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  Speaker 4: But the problem is I've got four massive screens in here,
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  Speaker 4: so it feels bright to me. I'm like, I don't
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  Speaker 4: remember that there's no light overhead.
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  Speaker 5: So if you see me, I'm just a glowy croucher.
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  Speaker 1: Is that I kind of think that's kind of a
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  Speaker 1: guy thing, or at least the women that I've lived
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  Speaker 1: with over my life, they're always complaining like why are
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  Speaker 1: you sitting in the dark? Oh yeah, and I'm sitting
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  Speaker 1: there like what do you mean?
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  Speaker 3: The TV's on? I can see my drink.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, so I'm good to go. Yeah, five Iron does
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  Speaker 5: it all the time.
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  Speaker 3: I do it all the time.
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  Speaker 5: I don't.
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  Speaker 1: I don't mind it.
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  Speaker 4: If we're just watching TV. I don't want to sit
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  Speaker 4: an eat dinner with I'm gonna sneeze and the.
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  Speaker 5: I just was about to sneeze. I don't want to.
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  Speaker 4: Like, if we sit, if we're watching the Mariners game
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  Speaker 4: and eating dinner at.
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  Speaker 3: The by the way, I'm like, what are you doing?
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  Speaker 3: Back then?
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  Speaker 5: I thought it was gonna have and I was like,
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  Speaker 5: oh that does this never happened in my entire radio career.
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  Speaker 5: And I'm gonna sneeze right now.
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  Speaker 4: And so if we dinner, like if we're watching the
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  Speaker 4: Mariners game or something we're reading in the living room.
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  Speaker 4: We've got a little table in there, and he would
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  Speaker 4: be fine to eat dinner in the dark.
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  Speaker 5: I am not fine with that. Yell me, don't play that.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not saying that we're right about it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but apparently it is in all of this. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if this goes back to cave mandays, where you know,
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  Speaker 1: we're just used to eating in a cave. I don't
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  Speaker 1: have to build the fire, right exactly.
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  Speaker 3: That's a lot of work.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, like I'm fine without it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Thag just wants to sit down and eat.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, Fag will eat cold cruel mammoth.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, I don't need warm up, right, you know, so
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Fag will read how many chalk marks are on wall
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  Speaker 1: in morning?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, exactly, don't need you feel with fingers.
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  Speaker 5: If have to be right.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, and our caveman is spot on.
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  Speaker 1: Fag perfectly comfortable letting sunset, sit in dark, eat cold mammoth,
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  Speaker 1: and watch.
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  Speaker 3: Children wrestle. Okay, I like.
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  Speaker 5: What's that gonna watch after dinner?
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  Speaker 1: I can Yeah, Well, I was trying to think of
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  Speaker 1: a sporting event that would be on back in caveman days,
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  Speaker 1: and nothing really came to mind.
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  Speaker 3: I guess soccer.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, probably.
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  Speaker 1: Easiest one. I mean I think they just used like
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  Speaker 1: another caveman's head. Oh they did, I just kicked it around.
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  Speaker 5: They did have baseball bats or clubs back in the day,
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  Speaker 5: I guess.
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  Speaker 1: I guess don't think they'd quite put together the rules.
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  Speaker 1: But I'll say this, if cavemen had put together some
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  Speaker 1: form of baseball before we ever invented baseball, and they
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  Speaker 1: did have a challenge system, I guarantee you they would
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  Speaker 1: have used it last night.
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  Speaker 4: You mean, like on the last strike of the game
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  Speaker 4: with a runner on base.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I guarantee you even a caveman would have
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  Speaker 1: thought in that moment, Hey, I can challenge that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm gonna do it.
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  Speaker 4: So if I take these two challenges out of this game,
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  Speaker 4: it doesn't carry over to the next one.
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  Speaker 5: So I might as well.
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  Speaker 1: Try, right, Okay, especially on what call? That was five
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  Speaker 1: inches outside?
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  Speaker 7: So far outside, you don't I don't have to accept
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  Speaker 7: this kick in the balls.
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  Speaker 3: I can actually reverse this kick in the ball.
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  Speaker 5: Who knew?
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  Speaker 3: Oh okay, fag will challenge.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, fag will tap head, Fag tapad.
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  Speaker 1: Fag checked chalk marks on wall, and that was ball.
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  Speaker 3: Fag get another pitch?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, we fag live to see another day.
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  Speaker 1: Fag have chance to still win game of ball? Who
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  Speaker 1: knew in cave?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah but no not the Mariners.
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  Speaker 1: Well, good morning to you. Let's dive in since we're here.
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  Speaker 1: And I loved how we got here. Yeah, that was
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  Speaker 1: that was poetic. It was that was not planned, that
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  Speaker 1: was not rehearsed.
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  Speaker 5: Just a little bit of magic.
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  Speaker 1: That was beautiful work there. That's that's theater of the mind.
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  Speaker 1: That is radio right there.
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  Speaker 4: People, if you asked us how we did it, I
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  Speaker 4: don't have a hard time start to finish put it
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  Speaker 4: all together.
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  Speaker 1: I don't ever talk to Ashley or Bucky before the
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  Speaker 1: show starts, so we never know what's going to be
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  Speaker 1: talked about first, and sometimes it falls the incredibly flat.
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  Speaker 3: That was magical. That was though. That was really well.
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  Speaker 4: Done, considering it all came about because I forgot to
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  Speaker 4: turn my light on before the show started.
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  Speaker 3: Exactly quirky things like that.
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  Speaker 1: Tomorrow come in with like a parasol or something, and
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  Speaker 1: I'll look up and I'll see you for the first time.
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, why do we have a parasol?
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  Speaker 1: And then the next thing, you know, will be like
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  Speaker 1: Mary Poppins and it will tie it into the Mariners game.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, exactly, or mine face.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that'd be great.
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  Speaker 1: If you were just acting like you were trapped in
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  Speaker 1: a last box when the show started, somehow we would
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  Speaker 1: go from mime to mimammy.
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  Speaker 3: There you go. Yeah, that would be great.
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  Speaker 5: You're putting all the pieces together.
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  Speaker 1: Well, the Mariners failed to win a baseball game again
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  Speaker 1: last night, failed to score a run last night, And
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  Speaker 1: certainly the thing that you walked away from if you
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  Speaker 1: didn't throw your remote at the television, was the ninth inning,
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  Speaker 1: and certainly we still had to have somebody come through
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  Speaker 1: in that moment. But for our last batter, and it's
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  Speaker 1: Cole Young. It's lovable Cole Young. It's been arguably our
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  Speaker 1: most consistent ballplayer this entire season, and a guy that's
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  Speaker 1: had very little, you know, bad press during the course
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  Speaker 1: of this year, probably less bad press than anyone at
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  Speaker 1: least on the offense, maybe on the entire roster. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: we've all liked what we've seen out of Cole Young,
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  Speaker 1: and frankly, I mean it's not like he's hitting three
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  Speaker 1: ten with a nine hundred ohps. But when he comes
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  Speaker 1: to the plate. I'm like, oh, good, at least we're
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  Speaker 1: going to get a good at bat here. And Cole
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  Speaker 1: Young comes to the plate. We do have a runner
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  Speaker 1: on base, we're down two. He does have home run potential.
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  Speaker 1: He's already hit ten this season. And I'm feeling good
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  Speaker 1: like I mean, I'm not feeling good because it's another flack,
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  Speaker 1: horsecrap performance from our offense. And I had already lived
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  Speaker 1: through two and a half hours of some of the
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  Speaker 1: most pathetic feeble approaches. I mean, Buggy Bee going out
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  Speaker 1: of his mind right now about approaches. I mean, it
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  Speaker 1: was a it was not exactly one for the time capsule,
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  Speaker 1: if you're trying to teach approach at the plate in
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  Speaker 1: a major league at the major league baseball level. But
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  Speaker 1: I'm thinking to myself, well, hey, maybe the clouds have lifted.
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  Speaker 1: Naylor got on base after Cal's horrible approach, and after
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  Speaker 1: Rayley's horrible approach, Josh got on base. And here's Cole Young.
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  Speaker 1: I know we're at least going to get a good,
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  Speaker 1: heetitive at bat, and instead he takes three cold strikes
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  Speaker 1: and the same at bat. I mean, that's kangaroo court stuff.
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  Speaker 1: He's gonna get.
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  Speaker 3: Fined for that by his teammates.
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  Speaker 7: By the way, Yeah, three called strikes on the final
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  Speaker 7: at bat of the game. Gotta do something, including the
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  Speaker 7: last pitch of the game, which was five inches outside.
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  Speaker 7: We have both challenges remaining.
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  Speaker 1: I had just gotten done yelling at Luke Rayley for
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  Speaker 1: not using one and that was one batter ago. It
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  Speaker 1: was twelve pitches ago, and I had just gotten the
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  Speaker 1: blood back in in the rest of my body because
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  Speaker 1: it had all rushed to my face.
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  Speaker 3: And here is.
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  Speaker 1: Young Cole Young, who I've said very little difficult I've
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  Speaker 1: offered very little criticism about this entire season. And he
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  Speaker 1: takes one strike, two strikes, and then takes a third
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  Speaker 1: strike and then just walks away with two challenges on
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  Speaker 1: the board that went untouched and does not challenge the
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  Speaker 1: last pitch of the game. I mean, they could have
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  Speaker 1: been right down the middle.
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  Speaker 3: And you challenge that. Yeah, and it was five inches
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  Speaker 3: outside with Las Diaz behind the plate. A guy that.
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  Speaker 1: Earlier this week retired from the sport announced I'm ending
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  Speaker 1: my career. I'm taking a buy out because I'm not
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  Speaker 1: good at this yep. And instead Cole Young went ahead
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  Speaker 1: and accepted that's a ball.
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  Speaker 3: I'm out, let's go home.
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  Speaker 5: It's I don't understand.
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  Speaker 4: You would have thought going into it there would be
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  Speaker 4: a reminder when before every batter's going up. Hey, guys,
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  Speaker 4: just just remember we got both our challenges. So if
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  Speaker 4: there's something close, if you're if it's a difference between
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  Speaker 4: striking out or getting another pitch, and you think that's close,
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  Speaker 4: you better challenge it. We don't want I don't want
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  Speaker 4: these challenges coming back with us at the end of
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  Speaker 4: this game.
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  Speaker 5: We can't do anything with them at that point.
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  Speaker 1: I think that is a fantastic point, and I was
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  Speaker 1: getting ready to make it myself. And I know that
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people will push back on it. I
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  Speaker 1: know a lot of people will say, come on, these
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  Speaker 1: are professional baseball players. Be responsible. You don't have to
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  Speaker 1: have your handheld. We just went through this with Poachattino.
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  Speaker 1: You don't need to be reminded before a World Cup
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  Speaker 1: match that we can't let Balagan be a distraction and
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  Speaker 1: this is what we have to focus on. I understand that,
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  Speaker 1: and you're a you're right, But anybody listening to this,
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  Speaker 1: you and I, you know, conducting this conversation, has watched
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  Speaker 1: a basketball A few basketball games in your life, college
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  Speaker 1: or pro When is the last time that they went
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  Speaker 1: into a huddle with you know, within inside two minutes
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  Speaker 1: thirty seconds to go games on the line. One point difference.
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  Speaker 1: When is the last time that you ever went inside
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  Speaker 1: a basketball huddle, whether it was live or replayed, And
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  Speaker 1: somebody on the coachings didn't say to college basketball players,
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  Speaker 1: all five star recruits, well not all or NBA players
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  Speaker 1: with twenty five years of competitive experience, when is the
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  Speaker 1: last time somebody on the coaching staff, and usually the
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  Speaker 1: head coach didn't look around and say, guys, we don't
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  Speaker 1: have any timeouts left, or guys, we have a timeout
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  Speaker 1: left if you need to use it, use it. It's
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  Speaker 1: always provided, always provided. Maybe the DAN and the coaching
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  Speaker 1: staff did provide it, but it doesn't feel.
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  Speaker 3: Like they did.
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  Speaker 5: No, it doesn't feel like they did.
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  Speaker 1: And when you are a major league baseball manager or
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  Speaker 1: a major league baseball coach, you get.
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  Speaker 3: A time out between every inning.
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  Speaker 1: And you get the opportunity every time the batter that's
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  Speaker 1: going to the ondeck circle passes the manager, the bench coach,
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  Speaker 1: and the hitting instructor, all three of them on their
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  Speaker 1: way to the ondeck circle.
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  Speaker 3: How on Earth.
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  Speaker 1: Even after Rayley was Cole Young natramant, Hey, we've got
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  Speaker 1: two challenges.
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  Speaker 3: I would have yelled it out loud.
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  Speaker 1: It's like you wanted to keep it a secret, right,
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  Speaker 1: we have two challenges. Don't be afraid to use them.
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  Speaker 1: Here it's the ninth inning, guys, and you have that,
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  Speaker 1: you have twelve coaches, you've apparently got five leaders on
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  Speaker 1: that team, and you go into the ninth How it
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  Speaker 1: isn't reminded to everybody that's in the dugout? Hey, guys,
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  Speaker 1: we've got two challenges. If you got to use them,
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  Speaker 1: use them. No reason to save them. Now Luke Rayley
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  Speaker 1: doesn't challenge on a pitch way outside. That puts them
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  Speaker 1: in a hole zero to one, and Luke's not seeing
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  Speaker 1: the ball right now. And then even after that, obviously
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  Speaker 1: the yell was not out. Hey, hey, we've got two challenges, guys,
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  Speaker 1: we got to use those. We can't use them for
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  Speaker 1: you. You're the only one that can use it. Tap your helmet?
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  Speaker 1: Are we really going to just sit on these? And
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  Speaker 1: then Cole Young goes up to the plate takes three
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  Speaker 1: cold strikes, including the last one of the game, and
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe he was reminded and then he
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  Speaker 1: just forgot and he just froze. Maybe they both were
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  Speaker 1: reminded and they just froze. But how on earth? I mean,
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  Speaker 1: we're not two games into this new rule. We are
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  Speaker 1: nearly one hundred games into this new rule.
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  Speaker 5: Yep.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm with you.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm putting eighty five to ninety five percent
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  Speaker 1: of the responsibility on Luke and Cole. Yeah, absolutely, But
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  Speaker 1: you're right, don't you as manager?
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  Speaker 3: Don't you think that's your responsibility? What else do you
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  Speaker 3: have to do?
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  Speaker 1: Chomp your gum and tap your foot nervously while your
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  Speaker 1: hands are in your back pockets?
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  Speaker 3: Is that what you're supposed to do in the ninth inning?
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  Speaker 1: No, be a step ahead of everything as guys are
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  Speaker 1: going to the plate, or just yell it to the doug. Hey, guys,
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  Speaker 1: two challenges remaining, you know, use them, be smart, but
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  Speaker 1: use them, use them. Let's not let's not waste them.
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  Speaker 1: And if you if you walk away with one challenge
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  Speaker 1: in your pocket, okay, you saved it for an emergency,
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  Speaker 1: but there's no excuse in today's game to go home
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  Speaker 1: with both challenges in your pocket. Any game, much less
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  Speaker 1: a game where you are one hit away from tying
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  Speaker 1: it up and maybe pulling off a win that you
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  Speaker 1: probably didn't deserve. But I don't think there are those
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  Speaker 1: reminders exist. I don't think a single coach thinks it's
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  Speaker 1: their responsibility.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's.
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  Speaker 1: Always just well, if we've got to hold their hands, well,
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  Speaker 1: then we don't have a good group here. No basketball
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  Speaker 1: coaches want to make sure you know the score. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: we don't want you in a position where you're out
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  Speaker 1: on the court and you're tied up and you're not
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  Speaker 1: sure if we have a timeout or not. That's why
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  Speaker 1: we remind you. We remind you seconds before you go
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  Speaker 1: back on the court. We don't have any child timeouts left.
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  Speaker 1: We do, we have two timeouts left. Feel free to
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  Speaker 1: use them, feel free to burn one.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, right.
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  Speaker 1: What we can't have is to get tied up on
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  Speaker 1: a held ball here, let's use use the timeout and
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  Speaker 1: in this case, and I know it's new to the sport,
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  Speaker 1: but we are almost one hundred games into this. I
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  Speaker 1: do think it is the responsibility of somebody on your
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  Speaker 1: coaching staff to make sure that whoever's batting in the
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  Speaker 1: ninth inning knows how many challenges we have remaining, and
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  Speaker 1: that obviously was not the case.
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  Speaker 5: No, and it didn't.
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  Speaker 4: And you even have the opportunity between batters, right, if
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  Speaker 4: Luke Rayley's walking away and it's like, oh, I could
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  Speaker 4: have used a challenge, tell Cole Young, don't forget you've
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  Speaker 4: got a challenge. If Luke Rayley remembers, I mean you
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  Speaker 4: have time to give cal had time to give Cole Young.
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  Speaker 5: You know, little intel between hitting the other day. So
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  Speaker 5: I just I don't well.
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  Speaker 1: After Rayley didn't challenge, like, hey, guys, yeah, just yell
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  Speaker 1: it again.
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  Speaker 3: We got two challenges.
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  Speaker 5: I bet Naylor knew. He was probably yelling it from
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  Speaker 5: third base. I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, is everybody just passing the buck on that? Like,
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  Speaker 1: maybe let's communicate.
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  Speaker 5: Everyone should have been yelling.
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  Speaker 1: There are there are twenty six players on the roster.
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  Speaker 1: I mean five guys are in the bullpen. I understand
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  Speaker 1: that there are seven coaches on the bench. Hell, there's
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  Speaker 1: a strength coach there. Let the strength coach be the Hey,
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  Speaker 1: two challenges, Let's not burn him like somebody needs to
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  Speaker 1: be responsible by that. How you could not challenge in
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  Speaker 1: that ninth inning on two really important calls that were
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  Speaker 1: clearly outside of the strike zone with one of the
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  Speaker 1: worst home plate umpires in the history of the game
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  Speaker 1: behind home plate, and you're not thinking, hey, I've got
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  Speaker 1: a challenge, I should use it.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it's unacceptable.
• 16:47
  Speaker 4: Well, and especially for Cole Young after that first strike
• 16:49
  Speaker 4: it was close. That's that should have been yelled right
• 16:52
  Speaker 4: then because he didn't use it, I mean, which she
• 16:54
  Speaker 4: shouldn't have. But I'm just saying, like it was a
• 16:56
  Speaker 4: close strike call. So on that one, you just remind him, Hey,
• 17:00
  Speaker 4: you got two of those you know you can use.
• 17:02
  Speaker 4: You can use them if you need to.
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: And if the remind and look, maybe the reminders were
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: given and Cole and Luke just froze. I don't know
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: if that's I mean, I guess that's possible, but I
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: don't know you would think. My guess is that nobody
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: said a word. My guess is Cole J. Young had no
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: idea how many challenges they yet and and and let's
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: just not rest on that. That's not what costs us
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: a game. It was two and a half hours, it
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: was nine nine innings. It was what thirty five batters
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: of lazy approaches at the plate, not every single one
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: of them, but there were way too many, way too many,
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: and I'll throw Cal under the bus. I mean, you
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: are down to your home run just cuts it to one, right,
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: we need a guy on base. You got a two
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: to zero count. Everybody's been trying to throw you up
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: and end because you cannot catch up to it. And
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: if you want to swing because you got your pitch,
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: then swing at your pitch. Don't swing it their pitch
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: up two and zero and we need a base runner,
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: Like I know you're the power hitter, but we need
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: a guy on bass for somebody else to knock you in.
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: So he had a lazy approach JP and you people
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: that keep defending JP because he's hit ten home runs.
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: His ten home runs have turned him in to a
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: useless player at the plate because he just continues to
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: swing for the fences. We are down two. Why are you,
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: of all people, our leadoff hitter, the guy known for
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: having the best eye on the team, Why are you
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: swinging for the fences every time? Why?
• 18:47
  Speaker 5: I don't I wish I had an answer.
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: Because the ten home runs makes your ops look better. Well,
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: you thinking you're a home run hitter has turned you
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: into a two to twenty hitter and his on base
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: is not all that special anymore. It's a three point
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: thirty one. And since he hit his tenth home run
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: is his batting average has dropped ten points. Is on
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: base has dropped twenty points, his slugging has dropped fifty points,
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: and his ops has dropped seventy points. Only crap since
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: he hit his tenth home run, Because everybody, you just
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: keep doing what you're doing. JP, block out the critics. No,
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: be what you are. Be what makes you effective as
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: a baseball player. Get on base, So guys that can
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: hit home runs will drive you in. I don't care
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: if you've run into ten balls in the first half
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: of the season. You're not a home run hitter. And
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: I have watched you try to swing for the ft
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: we were down two.
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: What does it even.
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: Matter if you hit a home run, Get on base
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: for somebody that actually is a home run hitter. Stop
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: acting like you're the home run hitter. So the entire
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: night was just mount frustration.
• 19:55
  Speaker 6: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, with an eruption at the end. Yeah,
• 20:00
  Speaker 6: lack of challenge. We'll talk more about this later. I
• 20:02
  Speaker 6: think the blood is rushed on my face again. Yeah, yeah,
• 20:05
  Speaker 6: just happened again.
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: Fag don't like. All right, let's find out what's on tap?
• 20:13
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• 20:32
  Speaker 3: Miami over the Mariners.
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: The ms still in first place forty seven and forty
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: six record. So the Rangers lost last night and that
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: keeps them in first place. They'll be at Miami again
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: this afternoon, trying to salvage there's that word again, that
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: we a trying to salvage a game out of this
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: three game series at South Beach three forty first pitch again.
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: So it's not a day game for them. They've all
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: been day games for US.
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: Three forty first pitch and it'll be Bryce Miller versus
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: Jamison ju that's your pitching matchup. More on that with
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: Mariners morning after at six point thirty, Brendan Donovan apparently
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: had a setback. Of course, the Mariners never reveal any
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: details about their injuries, but the way they were speaking
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: Dan was speaking about it yesterday, it doesn't sound like
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: his return is imminent, which kind of flies in the
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: face to what we thought was happening with Brendan Donovan,
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: so who knows when we're going to get him back.
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: Major League Baseball Draft is in two days, and Jonathan Mayo,
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: who's one of the busiest people on planet Earth, has
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: carved out twenty minutes for us today at eight o'clock.
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: So we will chat with the MLB pipelines draft expert
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: Jonathan Mayo today at eight o'clock. He's also a prospects
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: guy as well as many of you know, so we'll
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: ask him about Las Montes and many other things as well.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: So Jonathan Mayo today at eight o'clock. World Cup resumes
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: today the quarterfinal round begins. We're down to the final eight.
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: This should be the best soccer we've watched all tournament long.
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: Or listen to right here on KJAR one pm. Start
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: today France versus with France obviously being the big heavy favorite.
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: Lebron watch continues. The report this morning is that he
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: has decided. He just hasn't decided when he's going to
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: announce that. Many people are speculating it's Cleveland or Philly,
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: but who knows what Lebron is thinking. At this point,
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: We're actually going to talk about it at some length
• 22:19
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• 22:23
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• 22:27
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• 22:30
  Speaker 1: and so that's happening this weekend. All right, coming up next,
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: Mariner's Morning After comes your way. We are going to
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: have a highlight, a SoundBite, a preview of what's to
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: night right here on Chuck and Bucks Sports Radio ninety
• 22:42
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• 22:44
  Speaker 3: Too.
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: You know, I didn't really turn off the lights, hardasses.
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: Good morning, It is Chuck and Ashley with you. It
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: is time for Mariners Morning After. And yeah, we were
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: just as upset with as you were with last night's
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: impotent offense of approach and attack and results last night
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: in a loss to the Miami Marlins, so two in
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: a row that we've lost on South Beach, and I
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: certainly don't think that there was anything like effort lacking,
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: which usually a game like that. It kind of looks
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: like your guys aren't trying. I know that's not the case,
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: but the approaches were terrible last night, and we were
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: very passive at the plate and what makes it even
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: worse is those were the pitchers that you looked forward
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: to facing. Miami's got a good pitching staff. Tyler Phillips
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: is not on the list of guys that you were
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: worried about facing. Cad Gibson is at his name, the
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: left hander who obviously we would never get a hit
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: off of. He could pitch one hundred innings and we
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: wouldn't get a hit off of that guy. I mean,
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: that's Randy Johnson reincarnate.
• 23:52
  Speaker 5: Right birds look out.
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, So that's just not the combination that you
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: fear and thought that we would struggle with. And yet
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: I thought maybe the most pathetic night of it bats
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: that we've seen from this team all season long, which
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: is saying something because they've I think I read Dick
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: Fane put out a tweet, we've been shut out eight
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: times already this year. Yeah, and so we've had some
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: rough nights at the Old Ballyard trying to put runs
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: across the board once again this season. But last night,
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: I just I couldn't stand the approaches that we were
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: taking at the plate throughout the course of the game
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: and it results in getting shut out. There was a
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: chance to win the game late. Josh Naylor did get
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: on base in the ninth inning. We were down just
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: two runs. Pete Fairbanks is a good pitcher, but he's
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: not elite, so he makes a mistake. Maybe we tie
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: things up and end up stealing a game that we
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: didn't really seem all that effective at for two and
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: a half hours. But Cole Young comes to the plate,
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: two outs, man on third, and a home run ties it.
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: I mean, anything just keeps the game going. And instead
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: there was no challenge?
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: Did he shut out went to the barlence, Yeah, fireworks
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: accompanying the where's the challenge call?
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: And I'm glad Aaron did that. Yeah, at least he
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: was aware.
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, play by play guy was aware that we had
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: two challenges remaining. Apparently nobody on our team did.
• 25:37
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and I know that obviously the crowd drown out
• 25:40
  Speaker 4: most of that, but it was Yeah to hear him
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: yelling over it, like.
• 25:43
  Speaker 5: And there's no challenge, huh.
• 25:46
  Speaker 4: Just shows I feel like that encompasses what everyone was doing,
• 25:50
  Speaker 4: like what And as he's walking away from the plate too,
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: I felt like it was in slow motion.
• 25:54
  Speaker 5: I'm like.
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: Tap yea.
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: There was a pitch earlier in the bat where it
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: looked like he was thinking about challenging and it was
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: a strike and then two, so I think he even
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: was aware. I don't know what he was thinking at
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: that point. Luke Raley, I don't know what you're thinking, man,
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: I mean, your Luke Raley's just in a bad place.
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: He is taking strikes and swinging at balls. That's where
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: that's when you know you're in a bad place as
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: an offensive hitter.
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: But Cole has just been such a bright light on
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: this team.
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: Even though he's not killing the baseball, even though he's
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: not putting up huge numbers, it just feels like he
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: has given us a better at bat consistently than just
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: about anybody on the team.
• 26:45
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: And for him to take three called strikes with this
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: game on the line, including that third one which was
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: clearly outside, and you have two challenges remaining and you
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: eat them both, I mean that's unacceptable. Yeah, I mean
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: we took I look this up. How many called strikes
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: are there? And I don't know if I trust AI.
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: I mean for having AI, they're pretty stupid. It's pretty stupid.
• 27:12
  Speaker 5: I really thought some really dumb stuff.
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: I really thought that when we did develop like artificial intelligence,
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: it would be a reliable source.
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: It's not.
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: No, it's not. So take this for what it's worth.
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: But I typed in how many strikes looking are there
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: in the typical MLB game, and AI says thirty five
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: to forty five. We had twenty two last night. We
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: had twenty two taken strikes last night, so that's not
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: too far off the average. But we had twelve in
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: the last three innings. Now, there's part of that is
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: you were also trailing, so you tend to take more
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: pitches to try to get guys on base more frequently.
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: But we had several guys take multiple in the same
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: at that called strikes, including I think we had four
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: called third strikes in the last three innings the game
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: last night. That's a really passive approach to hitting, and
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: I didn't expect it out of Coal. I'm not gonna
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: lay this on him, this loss on him. Obviously he
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: still would have had had to come through. But I
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: think I do lay the just bad approach all night long.
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: That's what I'm going to call out for this loss,
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: and I think that the coaching staff bears some responsibility
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: for that. Here's Dan Wilson after the game.
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: Offensively, we had a lot of chances early on in
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: the ballgame, you know, a couple hits there in the
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: first kind of got some base runners on kind of
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: that first through fifth inning, we had some chances, we
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: were able to get some base runners, create the traffic
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: that we wanted, just not able to get anybody in
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: and you know, sometimes a combination of just not being
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: able to make solid contact and then sometimes making solid
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: contact and hitting right out somebody. So, you know, I
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: think a frustrating night offensively, for sure. And then you know,
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: on defensive side, George I thought through the ball extremely
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: well tonight, and uh, you know, I thought he and
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: Cal worked it very well. You know, made some pitches
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: when he had to. I thought the defense behind him
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: was excellent tonight. You know, the throw from Vic, you know,
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: right on the money, just a little bit to the
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: to the right hand side of an exceptional play by
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: Cal to pick it and and get the tag down.
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: I thought Rayley's playing right field was was another you know,
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: just outstanding gem, you know, and making all the plays
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: on the infield and doing what we needed to do
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: to stay in that game. And you know, he kept
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: fighting offensively, but but weren't able to get to their bullpen,
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: and and that was the difference in the game.
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: All right, thank you, Stuart Smalley.
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: I think we should point out a couple of the
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: positive things, because that was a phenomenal tag by Cal. Yes,
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: I mean that's that's a great play. I mean to
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: short hop a backhand and then make the sweeping tag.
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: And frankly, Otto Lopez did not think there was going
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: to be a play at the plate, and I think
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: he was caught off guard and he ended up having
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: a really awkward slide and if his hands would have
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: been out rather than got trapped underneath him, he still.
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: Would have been safe.
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: But Cal made a tremendous play. And the Luke Rayley
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: play in right.
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: Field is also a tremendous play.
• 30:14
  Speaker 4: I mean you could tell that they didn't think he
• 30:15
  Speaker 4: was going to catch that right, Yeah, got to double them, Yeah,
• 30:19
  Speaker 4: there's no chance.
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah at second base. So there was a couple of
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: excellent defensive plays. And George did pitch fine. I don't
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: think he pitched great, but he pitched fine, well enough
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: to have earned a win. Yeah, And yet offensively just
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: nothing and it was yeah, and it's frustrated frustrating is
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: the word, and frankly, we should be used to this
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: by now. This is every start of every this is
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: the first half of every season in the Jerry Depoto era.
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: II. I would just.
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: Say, if I'm going to look at any silver lining here,
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: that despite this, there's nobody that's running away with the
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: American League West. We're still on the lead, We're still
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: over five und and I know they're going to play
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: better baseball.
• 31:02
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: Not only do I know they're capable of playing it,
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: that's a given. I know they're going to play better
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: baseball and they probably will have a nice streak in
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: July and August that separates them from the pack.
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: But it is there's no doubt.
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: I mean, if your frustration's out of ten, Ashley's right
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: there with you. I'm right there with you. This team
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: just cannot get on a roll. And last night was
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: another reminder of how inconsistent they are from night to night.
• 31:33
  Speaker 4: And I will say I think it is promising to
• 31:35
  Speaker 4: use the word frustrating, because if this team, if I
• 31:38
  Speaker 4: thought this team just didn't have it, I wouldn't even
• 31:41
  Speaker 4: be frustrated. I'd be like, I don't even know if
• 31:43
  Speaker 4: I'm going to tune in it just I wouldn't have
• 31:46
  Speaker 4: any emotions about it. But I know this team is
• 31:48
  Speaker 4: better than what they're playing.
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: If you didn't have any expectations, you'd probably be like,
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: we're first place. Yeah, I'd be like, awesome, are we
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: really going to be able to pull this off?
• 31:55
  Speaker 4: But I just think, yeah, we think they're better than
• 31:57
  Speaker 4: what they're doing, and that's why it's frustrating to watch it,
• 32:00
  Speaker 4: and you know that they know they're better than what
• 32:02
  Speaker 4: they're doing, so that I think frustrating is a very
• 32:04
  Speaker 4: good word for it.
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: But I don't like the idea of having that lazy
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: of approach offensively. I mean, because you almost start thinking,
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: are they already looking forward to the All Star break?
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: Are you, like, really, are you going to mail this
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: in so that you can have a few days off.
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: On the beach?
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: I mean what, because that's what it kind of felt
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: last night. There was no focus. There was no razor
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: sharp focus, that's for sure. I'm not sure there was
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: any focus at all because it was just one bat
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: at bat after another last night.
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: Tonight three today.
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: Third game of the series, still a chance to take
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: one in Miami. It'll be Bryce Miller for us and
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: Jamison Junk for them. The guy last night was Jamison Junk,
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: so all he threw was junk all night long. Junk
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: it up, Yeah, and we couldn't hit him. So three
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: forty first pitch and we'll see if they can get
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: a game in Miami before heading to Tampa Bay over
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: the weekend. All right, more on this a little bit
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: later on in the show. Coming up next though, the
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: quarterfinals getting ready to start for the World Cup. Obviously
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: US not involved. Will US Soccer ever bridge this gap
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: a little bit on that next Sports Radio ninety three
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: point three KJRFM. Alright, headline's coming up at the top
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: of the hour, and I'm gonna do a little bit
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: on the decision part which is coming up at seven
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: o five here this morning, and of course, more on
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: the Mariners throughout the course of the show here today
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: on Chuck and Buck in the morning. US Soccer though
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: not gonna be participating in the next round of the
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: World Cup. They have been eliminated this just in by
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: Belgium Kings. Yes, and so the quarterfinals start today and
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: these are supposed to be the seven best soccer matches
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: of the last four years that we're gonna watch over
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: the course of the next week and a half and
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: it starts today one o'clock with France versus Morocco. How
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: how excited are you to continue watching? I'm guessing this
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: is probably the most fevered you've been about watching a
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: World Cup in your life.
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  Speaker 3: And now the US is out. Where's your fevered pitch
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  Speaker 3: right now?
• 34:19
  Speaker 4: I actually I used to wake up early and like
• 34:22
  Speaker 4: watch England matches, so I was probably more fever pitched
• 34:26
  Speaker 4: when I was younger. Still excited to watch England, yeah,
• 34:29
  Speaker 4: since that's the original home country for my family. Yeah,
• 34:34
  Speaker 4: but if they lose, then I don't think I will
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  Speaker 4: give a rats for two week really, yeah, I mean
• 34:39
  Speaker 4: I'll have it on TV three.
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: It's been good enough that I'm gonna keep and I
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: don't like soccer.
• 34:49
  Speaker 3: It's been so good though, the theater, the.
• 34:53
  Speaker 5: You know, Oh, it's been dramatic, yeah, all of it.
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  Speaker 1: The magnitude, that's the word I'm looking for, the magnetude
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: two of the whole thing in the theater. And then
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: the actual matches have really been great, they really have. Yeah,
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: a lot of drama involved in them.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm in.
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  Speaker 1: I'm in for the rest of the tournament, no question
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: about it. Might not getting away of it, might not
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: getting away of a nap today.
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  Speaker 4: No, I'm definitely not gonna stay up and miss sleep.
• 35:20
  Speaker 4: I'm not gonna wake up early, and I'm not gonna well,
• 35:22
  Speaker 4: I don't have to luckily thank you for being in
• 35:24
  Speaker 4: the in North America.
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  Speaker 5: And I'm not going to miss any naps.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, so yeah, maybe maybe I won't be just
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: on the edge of my seat since it's a one
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: o'clock match here today, But no, it's It's worked. It's
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: been effective on me, and I'm a tough nut to
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: crack for this sport.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm in.
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: And I'm looking forward to seeing how this thing unfolds,
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: even with the US having been eliminated from the process.
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: And that leads to the other conversation, And this is
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: a much bigger conversation that we've gotten the two and
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: a half minutes I have left here in this segment.
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: But obviously one you've been eliminated and you again haven't
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: reached the round that has eluded you. People will start
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: the conversation of how does the US ever bridge the gap?
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: I will I believe that from an outsider's perspective, outsider
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: from soccer's perspective that there was more hope and more
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: enthusiasm for this US run than I ever remember in
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: my lifetime as a sports don't show rose. Yeah, but
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: in terms of bridging the gap that Belgium match, I mean,
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: we weren't even We didn't even feel like we're in
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: the same league. Maybe at an off night, I don't know,
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: but I didn't even feel like we're in the same
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: league with that team that apparently is not even in
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: the same league as Spain, who they're going to play
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: in the next round. So I don't think we've bridged
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: any of the gap. I really don't. I think we
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: are better as a soccer country soccer program. There's more
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: interest in soccer than ever before. But it just doesn't change.
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: It's never gonna the variable doesn't change. Everybody's off on
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: these tangents about how our youth soccer programs. Have no
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: idea how our youth soccer programs run.
• 37:06
  Speaker 5: I couldn't tell you, but I'll tell you this.
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: I know it's even though we've got a lot more
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: kids playing it, iron sharpens iron. Our Floridians facing Floridians
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: is not going to sharpen Us like Spain and their
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: youth when they're thirteen years old, they send you to
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: a league to play against the best in Morocco.
• 37:27
  Speaker 3: You know that they are.
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: That's iron sharpening iron right there. Remember the big gap
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: between US basketball and the rest of the world, I
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: mean it was enormous. The Dream Team was there to
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: highlight that, right Like, you think you've caught us, You've
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: only your grown men, have only caught our college men.
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: Now we're going to remind you just how big a
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: gap we still have. Well, even that's shrunk. After the
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: Dream Team, European, I mean European starts saying, if you've
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: got a seven footer, you're going to school to play basketball.
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: In essence, I'm not saying they just shun their education,
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: but they started creating programs there where the entire if
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: you had basketball talent, they made sure that you were
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: playing as much basketball as you could against the best
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: competition from thirteen on. It's similar to what they do
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: in Canada with their hockey. And guess what Canada is
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: amazing at hockey. They have a system. So is that
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: what we is that what we're saying about our youth
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: program is that we need to do a better job
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: of getting our young soccer players facing great competition early
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: so that they can rapidly get better and we can
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: rapidly close the gap like Europe did with us in basketball.
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: I mean, that's how you have to do it, right,
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: That's how you're gonna have to do it. But that's
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: gonna that's a big change. I mean, got to talk
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: to mom and dad about that, because pretty much you're
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: gonna have other people raising your children right at that point.
• 38:59
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 39:00
  Speaker 5: It's going to also cost a lot of money.
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, so, yeah, there's a way to bridge it quickly,
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: but it's going to cost an awful lot of money.
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: And you still have to wrestle with the fact that
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: until being a soccer player is cooler than being a
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: basketball player, football player, or a baseball player. In this country,
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: kids don't want to play, right. The elite athletes are
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: going to choose the sports that are the ones that
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: could make them the most money and give them the
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: most popularity and give them the most acclaim.
• 39:26
  Speaker 5: Yeah, not one where they have to go overseas to
• 39:28
  Speaker 5: make money.
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: And I'm not going to trade our lust to be
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: great at basketball, football, and baseball to be better at soccer.
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: That is not a trade I want to make. Let
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: the other countries have their day. They can be great
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: at soccer. I want to be great at everything else. Yeah,
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: all right, headlines next on KJR