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10-22 H1: What's On Tap, Too Much, Not Enough & CFB QB Depth · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 2: Hey, great morning to you. Welcome into the radio show
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  Speaker 2: that many people call Chuck in the Mornings. Other people
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  Speaker 2: call it something else, but we need to have a talk. Oh. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's not fair. What are the other names out there?
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  Speaker 2: to the radio program here on this Thursday. Christopher Kidd
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  Speaker 2: is here. Anders Hurst is here. My name is Chuck Powell,
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  Speaker 2: and we've got you for the next four hours here
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  Speaker 2: with all sorts of good things planned for you on
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  Speaker 2: a Thursday. I'll tell you what's on tap coming up
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  Speaker 2: here in a little bit. But, yes, I mean, this
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  Speaker 2: week is flying by.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Flying by. I can't believe it's already Thursday.
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  Speaker 1: I know.
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  Speaker 2: I got to belly up at the bar tonight and
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  Speaker 2: have myself some bourbon and watch me some Thursday night football.
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  Speaker 2: And a good game, too. Oh, a really good game. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: looking forward to it. What is your Thursday tradition? How
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  Speaker 2: do you take in the Thursday night? Let's see.
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  Speaker 3: Usually Thursdays have about three and a half diaper changes
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  Speaker 3: per day.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to try to work that in tonight.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: That sounds nice.
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  Speaker 3: Adds to the tradition. Maybe over under one half spit up,
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  Speaker 3: so we'll see if he ends up doing that or not.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to take the over. Okay. Yeah, probably. Because
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  Speaker 2: I think you're going to shake him a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: We are. You're going to play with him, and he's
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  Speaker 2: going to get his tummy upset, so I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: go with the over.
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  Speaker 3: He is crawling around everywhere now, just finding ways to
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  Speaker 3: just move around the house. He's doing this thing where
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  Speaker 3: he crawls into the kitchen because he thinks his mom
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  Speaker 3: is there. And, of course, when I'm watching him, my
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  Speaker 3: wife and I have opposite schedules. So I work in
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  Speaker 3: the mornings, obviously, and my wife works in the afternoons.
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  Speaker 3: So we're hanging out, and he's always going in there
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  Speaker 3: to look for her, but she's not there.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, that's kind of sad. I'm going to take the under, though,
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  Speaker 2: on things he puts in his nose. I think he's
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  Speaker 2: going to be on his really best behavior tonight. I
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  Speaker 2: don't think he's quite at that age where he's very
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  Speaker 2: interested in putting things in his nose. So I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to take the under on that. I'm going to run
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  Speaker 2: a parlay. I'm going to go over on the spit-ups.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to go over on the tantrums. I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to go under on the things in his nose, and
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  Speaker 2: let's see what that pays out. I think I can
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  Speaker 2: get that at DraftKings Sportsbook. Yeah, you probably can.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I would assume they have some sort of odds
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  Speaker 3: makers for that.
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  Speaker 2: And three and a half dirty diapers? Push. Push? I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to go push on that. Okay. I think there's
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  Speaker 2: going to be exactly three and a half. Three and
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  Speaker 2: a half?
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: You're going to have a diaper at some point. Should
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  Speaker 2: I change it? Yeah, I don't have to. It looks
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  Speaker 2: that messy. It looks like he just dribbled. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You know?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I'm not a human diaper machine over here.
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  Speaker 2: Let's just see, you know, how this goes.
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  Speaker 1: That's awesome.
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  Speaker 2: If it gets the slight bit worse. Yeah. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I am alone. I mean, I know Augustine would want
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  Speaker 2: me to change it right now, but, you know, I
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  Speaker 2: got to pay these bills and whatnot. Exactly. I got
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  Speaker 2: this light bill to knock out, you know, so maybe
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  Speaker 2: I could save like a few cents right now here
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  Speaker 2: on a.
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  Speaker 3: Half wet diaper. Yeah, then go watch like. Four hours
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  Speaker 3: of hockey tonight. That definitely offsets it a little bit
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  Speaker 3: in terms of the electricity bill.
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  Speaker 2: So that's my parlay for you tonight. Yeah, I like it.
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  Speaker 2: That's what I'm going with. I mean, we'll play some
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  Speaker 2: Fact or Fiction at 735. We'll see if I put
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  Speaker 2: my money.
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  Speaker 1: Where my mouth is.
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  Speaker 2: Ooh, I like that. It is my pick today, though. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: it is your pick? Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I'd definitely go push on the Dirty Diaries. It's
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  Speaker 3: a little insider trading, though, if I do that.
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  Speaker 2: True. Yeah, yeah. Martha Stewart with me here hosting the
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  Speaker 2: show here today.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we've got a lot of football to discuss here today,
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  Speaker 2: and we will certainly get to it as the show
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  Speaker 2: goes along. But it's been a while, been a while
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  Speaker 2: since I've started with some baseball. with some baseball news.
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  Speaker 2: Here we go. And I think this is worth starting.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, this is certainly the topic that I want
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  Speaker 2: to discuss the most because there were a lot of
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  Speaker 2: rumors that came out yesterday that, I mean, they're even
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  Speaker 2: writing about it in Cleveland. So it's not just, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: these are national writers. This isn't just stuff you're hearing
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  Speaker 2: on local podcasts or Adam Jude putting together his wish
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  Speaker 2: list for the Mariners' managerial vacancy. These are national insiders,
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  Speaker 2: I should say, like Anthony Kastrovitz, who's always stirring up stuff,
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  Speaker 2: so he might be just going with gut feeling. But
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  Speaker 2: he's writing, along with a couple of others, that Seattle
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  Speaker 2: might be a possibility for Stephen Vogt And it has
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  Speaker 2: caused those in Cleveland to panic a little bit because
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  Speaker 2: they've written articles since that time overnight suggesting that maybe
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  Speaker 2: Stephen Vogt could get traded to the Seattle Mariners. And
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  Speaker 2: this is based on apparently Stephen Vogt's history here with
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  Speaker 2: the organization, the organization's Obvious, very important decision. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: they've got to get this right. Jerry and Justin have
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  Speaker 2: to get this right. There's no blame in anybody else.
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  Speaker 2: There's no serving up a piece of blame pie after
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  Speaker 2: this next season if they believe they've got the team
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  Speaker 2: to win a world championship and they want to pin
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  Speaker 2: it on culture and manager from a year ago, which
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  Speaker 2: they've clearly done, having rooted out every single coach not
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  Speaker 2: named Pete Woodworth, in the organization, then whoever they hire
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  Speaker 2: next has to win. Otherwise, the needle does fall on
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  Speaker 2: the rosters not good enough. And that's when Justin and
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  Speaker 2: Jerry are out. Not just the seat gets hot. The
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  Speaker 2: seat's already hot for them. But then they're out. There's
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  Speaker 2: no other person to push the blame to after this
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  Speaker 2: next season. with the roster that you have currently constructed.
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  Speaker 2: And so the need to get this right, Stephen Vogt's
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  Speaker 2: experience in the Seattle Mariners organization, and apparently most predominantly,
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  Speaker 2: Stephen Vogt lives in Seattle and wants to live in Seattle.
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  Speaker 2: This according to Anthony Kastrovitz. And so you would have
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  Speaker 2: to trade for him, Anders. because he is under contract,
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  Speaker 2: and it really does take a special manager to make
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  Speaker 2: a trade for. We've seen it before, though. It has happened,
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  Speaker 2: but it's been a while since a manager's been traded
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  Speaker 2: for a player. in an offseason, but it has happened.
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  Speaker 2: It's happened to the Mariners organization, for goodness sake. But
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  Speaker 2: there's all of a sudden an awful lot of traction,
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  Speaker 2: and this just so happens to come on the heels
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  Speaker 2: of the Cleveland Guardians being eliminated most recently in the
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  Speaker 2: Major League Baseball playoffs. There is some real fire for
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  Speaker 2: Steven Vogt to Seattle as the next manager.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you start putting the pieces together on the timing,
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  Speaker 3: as you just mentioned, and the willingness to at least
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  Speaker 3: entertain those conversations regarding a trade for a manager. You
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  Speaker 3: start to think maybe this guy is their first choice.
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  Speaker 3: And there at least is some, like, real... excitement with
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  Speaker 3: the idea of him becoming a manager for the Seattle Mariners. And,
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  Speaker 3: you know, there's a lot of things that Steven Vogt
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  Speaker 3: would like about here, too. You mentioned the family in
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  Speaker 3: the area, and many have mentioned this roster is a
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  Speaker 3: winning roster.
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  Speaker 2: It is a selling point. I know that there are
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  Speaker 2: a lot of Mariner fans that don't believe that. When
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  Speaker 2: Jerry said it in his postseason press conference, everybody rolled
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  Speaker 2: their eyes. I mean, teams, think about this. We have
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  Speaker 2: the World Series starting tomorrow, and the Tampa Bay Rays,
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  Speaker 2: very deserving AL champions, very deserving of being there, still
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  Speaker 2: are undecided who their starting pitcher is. They have like
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  Speaker 2: three starting pitchers, and there have been teams in the
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  Speaker 2: baseball playoffs who haven't had more than one. The Atlanta
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  Speaker 2: Braves didn't have more than Chris Sale. So this pitching
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  Speaker 2: depth is appealing to a lot of managerial types. Jim
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  Speaker 2: Bowden can't wait to be the general manager of the Mariners.
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  Speaker 2: It's true. Every, I mean, you could just tell it
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  Speaker 2: every time he'll come on Seattle radio whenever you want.
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  Speaker 2: And it's because, oh, that team's good. There is a
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  Speaker 2: reason why Buster Olney, you know, three weeks before the
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  Speaker 2: season came to a close was asked to list who
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  Speaker 2: he thinks is the favorite to win the American league.
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  Speaker 2: This became famous because he picked the Cleveland Guardians to
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  Speaker 2: be the team that would win the American League. He
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  Speaker 2: did this like three weeks before the season came to
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  Speaker 2: a close and he got made fun of on the
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  Speaker 2: set at ESPN for having said that. But he also
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  Speaker 2: had on his list of teams to watch the Mariners.
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  Speaker 2: He was still saying the Mariners are a team to
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  Speaker 2: watch and everybody's just waiting for them to catch fire
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  Speaker 2: and that they still should make the playoffs. And if
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  Speaker 2: they make the playoffs, watch out. Nobody wants to face them.
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  Speaker 2: So there is... legitimacy no matter how much you want
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  Speaker 2: to roll your eyes and dispute it to this roster
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  Speaker 2: is something that a lot of managerial types and general
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  Speaker 2: managerial types would love to get the hand their hands
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  Speaker 2: on they believe baseball believes that the cupboards are stocked
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  Speaker 2: here in Seattle and the right manager is The right
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  Speaker 2: couple of adjustments could put the thing over the top.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and obviously Jerry and Justin share those feelings. That's
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  Speaker 3: why they are, you know, trying to get this done
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  Speaker 3: as quickly as possible before there are more vacancies in baseball.
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  Speaker 3: It does feel like a really good fit. I think Vogt,
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  Speaker 3: who obviously has some familiarity with the organization, but he's
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  Speaker 3: also shown success at the managerial level elsewhere.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 3: And so having that be kind of a marriage of
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  Speaker 3: both of those thought processes, like you don't want just
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  Speaker 3: the guy that you know, that Christopher Negron kind of type.
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  Speaker 3: where it's like, yeah, we know he's good, but has
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  Speaker 3: he really shown a ton of success or any experience
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  Speaker 3: at all at the managerial level?
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 3: Or you just go get a known commodity that hasn't
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  Speaker 3: been in Seattle. You kind of have to coach up
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  Speaker 3: on like what this place is, what this means, what
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  Speaker 3: this roster is. you don't have to do that with
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  Speaker 3: vote either. So having a guy that's been here that
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  Speaker 3: you liked in the past, we've talked about this before.
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  Speaker 3: They were about to promote him to bench coach before
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  Speaker 3: he got sniped by Cleveland.
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  Speaker 2: They were the first to recognize and make a move to, to,
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  Speaker 2: Steven Vogt has managerial chops. Yes. And they got him started.
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  Speaker 2: And I mean, like 15 minutes after his playing days
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  Speaker 2: were over. Oh, yeah. They didn't wait at all. He
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  Speaker 2: went from making videos about Chris Farley to retiring to
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  Speaker 2: becoming a managerial candidate in the Mariners organization.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And then Cleveland just liked him a little bit more.
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  Speaker 2: Cleveland thought he was ready. Cleveland looked at Jerry DePoto
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  Speaker 2: and that decision and said, I'd like him to be
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  Speaker 2: manager now. If you're going to play around with this
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  Speaker 2: Dan Wilson thing, we're ready for Steven Vogt now. We
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  Speaker 2: think you were right. We had the same thought. You
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  Speaker 2: got to him first. And he wanted to be in Seattle.
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  Speaker 2: But now we'd like to give him the big job.
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  Speaker 2: We'd like to give him the big chair. And so
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  Speaker 2: they wooed him away. And he's been nothing but terrific
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  Speaker 2: since going to Cleveland. I think he absolutely is their
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  Speaker 2: number one choice. Not just because of their familiarity with
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  Speaker 2: him and their belief in him years ago. but his
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  Speaker 2: familiarity with them. Good point. And he knows this roster.
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  Speaker 2: He was here in the dugout for an entire season
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  Speaker 2: with most of these guys. And if he wants to
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  Speaker 2: get back here, and I know part of it is
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  Speaker 2: because his family lives here and he likes Pacific Northwest,
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  Speaker 2: and that's fantastic. What a great, we will take advantage
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  Speaker 2: of that. Yeah, finally. But he also sees the promise
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  Speaker 2: in the roster and I'm sure is licking his chops thinking,
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  Speaker 2: I get to the playoffs every year in Cleveland. I
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  Speaker 2: can't wait to get a hold of your talent. I
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  Speaker 2: can't wait to see what we can do. So, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: who knows how much of this is legitimate? Anthony Kastrovitz,
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  Speaker 2: who's the guy that kind of stirred this pot yesterday,
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  Speaker 2: and he usually writes like he's always trying to make
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  Speaker 2: trades and see the future. Yeah. I mean, what kind
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  Speaker 2: of person does that? Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Self-deprecating joke yep i could tell nobody caught it i.
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  Speaker 2: Did i did yeah no no you did no i'm
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  Speaker 2: just pausing for effect yeah okay so that the youtube
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  Speaker 2: people can see the look on my face uh but
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  Speaker 2: but he's always doing this but i don't think that
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  Speaker 2: he's reporting this without some sort of knowledge he was
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  Speaker 2: uh quoted as saying it kills the guy to be
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  Speaker 2: away from his family his family's in washington So from
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  Speaker 2: that point, it makes all the sense in the world.
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  Speaker 2: So it looks like that's the target. Cleveland probably is
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  Speaker 2: going to play hardball. You would have to trade for him.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, maybe there's a world where, you know, a
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  Speaker 2: lot of times, like, you'll have a head coach and
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  Speaker 2: they're just like, hey, if you want me to be
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  Speaker 2: here when I don't want to be here, then go
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  Speaker 2: ahead and keep me, you know? So maybe there's a
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  Speaker 2: world where they let him out of his contract. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know. But it's most likely you're going to have
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  Speaker 2: to give up something, whether that's prospects or whether it's
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  Speaker 2: the Lou Piniella, Randy Wynn trade from Once Upon a Time,
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  Speaker 2: that caliber of player. Maybe, I mean, considering the fact that,
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  Speaker 2: as I mentioned earlier this week, hey, I think there's
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  Speaker 2: a reason why the last three teams standing were managed
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  Speaker 2: by what I consider the three best managers in the sport.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's a really big deal to get the
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  Speaker 2: right guy at manager, and I don't think Steven votes
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  Speaker 2: the wrong guy. I'll say that. So to get the
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  Speaker 2: right guy, what kind of a player would you be
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  Speaker 2: willing to give up? What would it take? Could you
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  Speaker 2: convince him? I mean, is it a prospect? Is it
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  Speaker 2: a top prospect? Is it multiple prospects? It's been a
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  Speaker 2: long time. There's really nothing to compare it to. That
• 15:22
  Speaker 2: Piniella for Randy Wintrade was made in 2003. How old
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  Speaker 2: were you in 2003? Six? Yeah. Yeah. So it's been
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  Speaker 2: a while. We don't really have anything to compare it
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  Speaker 2: to because baseball's changed so much from 2003, the way
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  Speaker 2: managers think, general managers think, and the value of things
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  Speaker 2: have changed so much that I don't know. Maybe it's
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: a massive haul. Maybe it's a minor haul. We really
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  Speaker 2: don't know. Maybe it's a combination of the two. He
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: really wants to go there. We don't want a manager
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  Speaker 2: that wants to be somewhere else, so we will take
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  Speaker 2: something less. Or maybe they put the screws to them.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know how that's going to work. I honestly
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  Speaker 2: have no clue what it would cost, but I would
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  Speaker 2: give up something. I would give up a or a
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  Speaker 2: pool of prospects. I'm not saying which ones, but I
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  Speaker 2: would give something up of substance in order to get
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  Speaker 2: the right manager because I think that's how desperate this
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  Speaker 2: organization is to win next year.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I just looked up what the last time a
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  Speaker 3: player has been traded for a manager in Major League Baseball.
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  Speaker 2: 2012.
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  Speaker 3: It's been 14 years since that happened. John Farrell traded
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  Speaker 3: from the Blue Jays to the Red Sox for Micah
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  Speaker 3: Velas and David Carpenter.
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  Speaker 2: Why would Anybody be that interested in John? I have
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  Speaker 2: no idea.
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  Speaker 3: But then 2011, White Sox traded manager Ozzie Guillen to
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: the Marlins for John Marinas and Ozzie Martinez.
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  Speaker 2: So those are just two prospects.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: But then again, 2012, in 14 years, with analytics, how
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  Speaker 2: much has the evaluation of value changed?
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  Speaker 1: A lot.
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  Speaker 2: I don't... But to what degree? Does that mean that
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  Speaker 2: he's going to be... More value? More?
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  Speaker 1: Or less?
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  Speaker 2: Or is it less? Yeah, I don't know. If you're
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  Speaker 2: going to go after a guy that's won, what, back-to-back
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  Speaker 2: Manager of the Year awards and then guided his team
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  Speaker 2: to the ALDS again this year, my guess is it
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  Speaker 2: would be more than those packages. Probably. I would agree.
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: And maybe even more than Randy Wynn, going all the
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: way back to 2003. But I am interested to the
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: degree of, yes... We will part with pieces in order
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: to get the right manager. They have to. Yeah. And
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: they can kick around all these other things, but I
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: think they have to get someone with experience. And as
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: we've discussed before, that list is not very long and
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: it's not very impressive unless you go get somebody over
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: the age of 70. Yeah. And I don't think they're
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: going to want to do that. Yeah.
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: So.
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: Getting the right guy and not being able to use
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: it as an excuse. Well, we rolled the dice on
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: this Astros dude who I've never heard of, who was
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: also into the rumor mill yesterday. I mean, if he
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: plays out the string, if you bring in some unproven
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: guy and he fails, I mean, no one's going to
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: buy at the end of the season. Well, we didn't
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: have the right manager. Yeah, you can't say that excuse again.
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: You're pinning this on Dan. And I, from what I
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: saw from Dan, I think a lot needs to be
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: pinned on Dan. Yeah. Um, but if you now take
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: the risk on some unknown, Oh, it doesn't matter. I
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: don't care if you bring in your aunt Tilly, aunt
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: Tilly better win some fricking baseball games. Agreed. You have
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: to win next season, whether we play 40 games or
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: a full slate, you've got to win next year and
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: you've got to get the right manager in the hole immediately.
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: And of all the candidates being discussed, there's only one
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: that I feel is undoubtedly a win, and that's this guy.
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: I agree. We'll see what happens. All right, let's find
• 19:12
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• 19:14
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• 19:30
  Speaker 2: Alright, World Series game number one, by the way, is
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: tomorrow at 5 o'clock. The Miz will start film Milwaukee
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: at home. And yes, Tampa Bay is still undecided. I mean,
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: it would be great. Haven't we had like five days
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: off in between games? Shouldn't Drew Rasmussen be available? Yeah,
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: he pitched in the last game. Yeah, but like an inning.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: I would think he's available. I would think he's pitching.
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: You're probably right. M's managerial announcement probably won't be made
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: until post-World Series, so I think we've got a little
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: while longer to wait on that. And one other bit
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: of baseball news, Mitch Garver retired yesterday, and so That's it.
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: Mitch Garver is no longer ours to kick around or
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: anyone else's. Man, it just didn't work. Nope. It just
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: did not work. Great World Series. WNBA Finals. The Atlanta
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: Dream won over Golden State, and they blew them out
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: last night, 97-71. The Dream are now just one win
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: away from a WNBA championship, and Angel Reese, I tell
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: you what, like I said yesterday, I mean, I don't
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: know if I've ever seen a basketball player at any
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: level of any gender that I couldn't tell if they're
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: right-handed or left-handed, but she's the one. And yet, I'll
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: give her this. She produces, I mean, she's about ready
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: to close out a resume of... National champion, WNBA champion,
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: WNBA finals MVP, defensive player of the year. That's more
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: hardware than Kaitlyn Clark has gathered in her career. So,
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: you know, we got to take time to give Angel
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: her props. She is producing. There's no question about it.
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: NBA night number two, the new Wolves blasted the new heat. Giannis,
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: even after the game, already, we're not very good. No.
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: My heat pick is not looking great. The Kraken will
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: host the Mammoth tonight at 7 o'clock. The Sounders will
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: play San Diego on Saturday. The Huskies are on by,
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: but that won't stop us from chatting with Softee at 725. And,
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: of course, most of the show will be spent talking
• 21:36
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• 21:39
  Speaker 2: will join us at 930 to talk about it and
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: many other things at 930 today as the Patriots will
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: take on the Chicago Bears tonight. Of course, the big
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: game here is Sunday night, the Seahawks taking on the
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: undefeated Kansas City Chiefs, and we will celebrate that fact
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: with an hour-long conversation with our top two guys, Greg Bell,
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: Hugh Millman, from 8 to 9 today. the 12th man
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: round table coming your way. And I have a feeling
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: Ken Walker's going to come up.
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: No, really?
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: No, yes. No, I'm planning on it.
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: Okay. All right.
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: Coming up next though. Never done this before, but I
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: introduced you to a new, a new series that we'll
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: try out and maybe we'll do more of it in
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: the future. But it's a round of too much or
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: not enough. We'll talk about some of the hot topics
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: going on in, The football world and beyond next. Sports
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: Radio 93.3 KJR FM. allowing Jalen Hurts to play in
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: a football game when signs of blood clots were apparent.
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: The NFL says they welcome an investigation into their policies
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: or procedures when it comes to protecting player health. Is
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: the world coming down too hard on the NFL, Anders,
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: or not hard enough? I think a little bit too hard.
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: I realize the extent of the situation is far more
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: than just a football player being healthy to play a
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: football game. This is about his life at this point.
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: But from everything that I've heard, maybe there's something that
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: has yet to come out where the Eagles did not
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: enough due diligence whatsoever. And in that case, it would
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: be not enough. But for the information that I have
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: right now, for everything, all the information they had, I
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: don't think there was... Maybe there's a little bit of
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: pushing him when he didn't want to play, but there
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: wasn't anything absolutely egregious. They deserve criticism, but I think
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: it's going over the top.
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: Well, they're getting a lot of it. Yes, exactly. But maybe,
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: and that's the point of the question, are they getting
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: too much? What do you think, Kid? Too much or
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: not enough on the National Football League over the Jalen
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: Hurts incident? I would say it's not enough. Not enough?
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: Oh, I like this.
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: This is someone's life at hand, and I know I
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: think maybe you touched on the fact that traveling.
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: They're not very aware, it seems, of what travel can
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: do after a week of play, and they're just senseless.
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: I know it's about the money, but there's a guy
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: in Jalen Hurts whose life is at risk, and now
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: they're like, oh, well, we didn't know that. And it's like, yeah,
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: I know you're trying to get the money and NFL's king,
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: but at what point do you care about lives? So
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: I think they need more attention to this because this
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: is key. This could happen to anybody.
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: Okay, I think somebody needs to come down on a
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: lot harder, but I don't. think it's the national football
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: league i think it's the doctors who made the decisions
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: who have been hired i mean jeff saturday is not
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: only a former head coach he's also the former head
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: of the nfl players association or he's the rep player
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: representative and was for a number of years and he
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: he said earlier this week and i would think no
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: one knows better than him These decisions are out of
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: the coaches' hands and to a degree out of the
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: National Football League's hands. They hire these medical people to
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: weigh in and what the medical people say when it
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: comes to stuff like this goes. And they trust the
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: medical people. So if anybody deserves some heat, I think
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: it may be the medical people for being loose. But
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: then again, who am I to judge a doctor on
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: his evaluation? Because I have no idea. I'll say this.
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: The National Football League, I think, is reckless with players' health. Yeah.
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: I think that that's very obvious, but I don't think
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: they're ever going to be reckless with life or death situations. Because,
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: you know, even if you want to just chalk it
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: up to the National Football League's all about the money,
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: it's not good PR to have a player die on
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: the field because of neglect. So I don't think that
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: they do fall short in the life or death situation.
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: sort of circumstances. I think that they trusted the medical
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: people in Philadelphia. I think that they followed the policies
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: in Philadelphia, and they probably should not have let him play,
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: and they probably should not have let him fly. But
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: if that's true, then I think it's on the actual
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: doctors who made those evaluations more so than the NFL.
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: So I think you're coming down a little too hard
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: on the National Football League this week, where normally I'd
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: like to smack him around, too. Number two, the Los
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: Angeles Chargers are 0-6. The hiring of the, let's just say,
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: peculiar Mike McDaniel has not only not taken the Chargers
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: offense to the next level, it seems to have derailed it, Anders.
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: But what role has Justin Herbert played in all of this?
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: Has the sports world come down on Herbert enough or
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: maybe too much?
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: Maybe it is McDaniel's fault. Definitely not enough for Justin Herbert.
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: I think I just see way too much of. And
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: this was a famous, not famous, but infamous quote from
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: Dan Orlovsky earlier in the season. It was like, man,
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: there's just so much bad about this Chargers offense. Everyone
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: is to blame except Justin Herbert. And it's just like, no,
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: he is definitely part of the blame here. He is
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: playing poorly. I don't know what it is about. You know,
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: there's just a disconnect between him and Mike McDaniel. Like, yes,
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: Mike McDaniel deserves a lot of the blame. He's the
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: offensive coordinator and the offense looks bad. The thing that
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: he is coordinating looks bad. But a lot of that
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: has to do with the quarterback as well. They have
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: to like kind of meet halfway and figure something out
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: that ends up working. And for whatever reason, it's starting
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: to creep up a little bit more in the past
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: couple of weeks. But for whatever reason, it seems like
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: people are a little more unwilling to blame the quarterback
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: of the offense that is not playing well.
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: Kid, what do you think?
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: Too much on Herbert, not enough on Herbert. I'm with Anders,
• 27:28
  Speaker 4: not enough. I think it's more so the players, not
• 27:32
  Speaker 4: the plays. I mean, you could draw up a great play.
• 27:34
  Speaker 4: If your players are really ass, which I don't think
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: the Chargers are in that category. I think they have
• 27:39
  Speaker 4: some talented players. They're just not putting it together. So, yeah,
• 27:42
  Speaker 4: why Mike McDonald should be under fire?
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 27:45
  Speaker 4: I think Justin Herbert and the rest of the team
• 27:47
  Speaker 4: is also to blame because they're not executing, and they
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: are very capable of doing so. As you mentioned, Chuck,
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: their first two games, if I'm not mistaken, I think
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: A1 agreed they should have won. But they didn't go
• 27:56
  Speaker 4: out there and play their game. And they're now sitting
• 27:58
  Speaker 4: in a situation where they're 0-6.
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: Well, I think Mike McDaniel is getting just the right
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: amount of heat. But I think Justin Herbert, once again,
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: is getting a free pass from a lot of people.
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: And to me, I mean, this is the way I started.
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: I get it. I mean, if I'm a general manager,
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: I would be seeking to add Justin Herbert because I
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: would be convinced that, hey, if I get the right guy,
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: I might have a special quarterback. I'd still feel that way.
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: Would you feel that way over Sam Darnold right now?
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: To this day, no.
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: It's a good question.
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: Maybe.
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I was thinking about that.
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: The other day.
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: I mean, there really aren't any holes to his game. Yeah. Like, physically. Like,
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: he should be special. But I said that's the beginning
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: of the year. Justin Herbert has run out of excuses.
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: It's like Jerry DiPoto and Justin Hollander. You have run
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: out of excuses. You've blamed your offensive line. You've blamed
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: a no-running game. You've blamed a head coach before Jim
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: Harbaugh arrived on the scene. Brandon Staley was the one
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: that was ruining Justin Herbert. And now you've got Jim Harbaugh,
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: you add Mike McDaniel, and you still are not playing well.
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: You're supposed to be the smartest quarterback in the league.
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: You're supposed to be among the most gifted. There is
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: no excuse to be playing this poorly. I think Justin
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: Herbert's not getting enough criticism right now. All right, one more.
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: I had two more. We only have time for one more.
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: The biggest game in college football two weeks in a
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: row has been marred by a controversial no-call on obvious PIs.
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: And Miami is now the number one ranked team in America.
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: only because of two bad calls by refs in overtime.
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: Nearly everyone in college football has blasted the officials for this,
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: but have we still not gone far enough? Or have
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: we've gone has it been too.
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: Much what do you think i just i don't know
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: how much farther you can go besides like all right
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: we need to fire the officials that would make these
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: calls but they're it's not all the same officials making
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: all these calls so i would say It's gone far enough,
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: I guess, is the way to put it. But I
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: don't know if there's another step to reprimands for these
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: missed calls in huge situations where there's a lot on
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: the line.
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: The game is not far enough or too far. Sorry?
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: The game is not far enough or too far. Okay, gotcha.
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: You said they've gone far enough. It's gone far enough, yeah. Like,
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: it's the perfect amount. Perfect amount. There's no perfect amount
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: for this. It's the perfect amount of far.
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: I guess I'd say not far enough, then. Like, these
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: are just too big of calls to be messing up
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: in those moments.
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: What do you think, Kit? Too far. Too far. Too far.
• 30:34
  Speaker 4: Well, I look at it from the human aspect. You're
• 30:36
  Speaker 4: going to make mistakes. Now, back-to-back weeks and big games.
• 30:40
  Speaker 4: I understand that. You've got to get it right. That
• 30:42
  Speaker 4: goes on to training and all these other things that
• 30:44
  Speaker 4: can make you a better official. But I don't think
• 30:49
  Speaker 4: coming after them more is going to make it any better.
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: I mean, look at Scott Novak.
• 30:52
  Speaker 4: We've gone after him for the last few weeks, and
• 30:54
  Speaker 4: he has not... Not saying Anderson is like the voice
• 30:56
  Speaker 4: of Novak, but he hasn't gotten better.
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: I would love if Novak knew that Anders was killing him.
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: I would love that.
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: And he ain't getting better. Like, he's at home like,
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: that stupid Hurst. That son of a... That guy in Seattle, Mrs. Novak,
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: is like, could you just go to sleep already? No,
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: it's this Anders Herz. I'm going to throw 30 more
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: flags this weekend just for him. I just listened to
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: the podcast, and he's all over my ass. It's not me.
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: It's my crew. They're the ones that are flag happy.
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: I'm just announced. I would love if that was the case.
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: I think you both made good points. How much further
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: can you take it in season? But I'll say this,
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: and this kind of goes back to the Hugh Millen thought.
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: Urban Meyer threw out this idea of about we need
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: to have at least 10 crews that are full-time officials
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: so that they can handle the biggest games every single week.
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: And maybe that's where I think you haven't gone far enough.
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: We're constantly evaluating National Football League officials. Are we doing
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: the same with college? Are we as thorough with them?
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: Are we placing the importance on these games? Maybe there
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: are some policy things that you could change to make
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: sure that you have elite officials at the biggest games
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: where things like playoff spots are on the line. Maybe
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: there is some policy that could be changed that could
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: take it further. All right, coming up next on the
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: radio program, college football. Speaking of college football, another unforeseen
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: element of the modern college game that has kind of
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: reshaped this season. I didn't see it coming. I don't
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: think you did either. And we might have NIL to
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: thank for it. Sports Radio 93.3 KJRFM. Headlines coming up
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: at the top of the hour. Also softy in our
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: 7 o'clock hour. Keep in mind, Greg will not be
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: with us at the top of the hour because he'll
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: be with us for an entire hour from 8 to
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: 9 with the 12-man roundtable. And back for a third
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: consecutive week, we will play the age game today at
• 33:22
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• 33:24
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• 33:28
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• 33:34
  Speaker 2: But let's talk a little bit about some college football
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: here because, you know, one of the things about this
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: new NIL modern era where we sort of gave ourselves
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: to this martial law sort of aspect, like what on
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: earth is going to happen? What's it going to do
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: to the game? And one of the things that has
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: been just eyeopening is you keep getting surprised, like something
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: else happens that you didn't see coming. Like, Okay, I
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: knew it was going to be chaotic, but I didn't
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: see that coming. I didn't know that was going to occur.
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: And some of the things have been very negative, and
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: some of the things have been surprisingly positive that have
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: occurred with all of this. And certainly the game has
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: become more popular, and it might have even become better.
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: We've had a really good-looking product the last couple of years.
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: in college football, and the tournament certainly has helped that.
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: So there have been some elements of like, man, I
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: didn't think that we were going to do that because
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: we added NIL or transfer portals. But like I said,
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: there have also been some moments like, huh, that actually
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: worked out pretty well. And I don't think that was planned.
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  Speaker 2: And this is another one. Like quarterback depth in college
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  Speaker 2: football right now. Right now in the Big Ten, nearly
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  Speaker 2: every starting quarterback is hurt. Nearly every single one of them.
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  Speaker 2: Julian Sane looks like he's going to be out for
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  Speaker 2: the season. Ian Maliava is out for the season with UCLA. Um,
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  Speaker 2: you know, Dante Moore still don't know when he's going
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  Speaker 2: to be back for Oregon at this point. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: Illinois is getting ready to face Oregon this week and
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  Speaker 2: they're not starting Hauser. They're going with a freshman. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: and I get like half the league, Iowa's got a
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  Speaker 2: new quarterback, half the conference, their quarterbacks are out. And
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  Speaker 2: one of the things that That obviously got sacrificed with
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  Speaker 2: the transfer portal, which I hate more than NIL, which
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  Speaker 2: I don't hate. I have a bigger problem with than
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: even NIL because I don't hate NIL at all. But
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  Speaker 2: what I have a bigger problem with than NIL is
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  Speaker 2: the transfer portal, how easy it is to transfer. So
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  Speaker 2: what we have going on right now in college football
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  Speaker 2: is guys are like, oh, I'm going to be the
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  Speaker 2: backup while I'm leaving. Oh, I came here to be
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  Speaker 2: the starter, but if you're just going to be the backup,
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to go. I mean, they're at a conversation
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  Speaker 2: this morning on one of the networks saying, is Ohio
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  Speaker 2: State done? Always in the past, they'd have some Cardale Jones.
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  Speaker 2: They'd have some Terrell Pryor. They'd have some five-star quarterback
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  Speaker 2: recruit that was backing up the starter. We don't have
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: that anymore. And some might argue, that's not good. Why
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  Speaker 2: are you saying that's good? Well, it's not good from
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  Speaker 2: the standpoint of if you lose your starting quarterback and
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  Speaker 2: you're a powerhouse, you could be screwed. But it's good
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  Speaker 2: if you're the college football fan out there who roots
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: for a team that always loses to the powerhouses. And suddenly,
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  Speaker 2: because they don't have the quarterback depth anymore, Ohio State's
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: come back down to earth, and now we have a
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: chance to beat them if we're Northwestern. Maybe we knock
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: off Ohio State at the end of the year. Maybe
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: we're having a little bit of a magical run right now.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe we can punch our ticket to the college football
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  Speaker 2: playoff because Ohio State just got diminished because they don't
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  Speaker 2: have the same quarterback depth that they always have enjoyed
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  Speaker 2: over us. They've always had four quarterbacks better than our
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: best guy. And now because of the transfer portal, they
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  Speaker 2: only had one good guy and he's hurt and they're
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: vulnerable and we might be able to seize this opportunity.
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  Speaker 2: So I don't know if it's good, Anders. I don't
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  Speaker 2: know if it's bad, but I didn't see it coming.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: You, you add on the fact that now the talent
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  Speaker 3: is being spread around. So you don't have like one
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  Speaker 3: of the, if the, there's 24 play our 12 playoff
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  Speaker 3: teams for now um there would be like theoretically you
• 37:32
  Speaker 3: could have the 12 best quarterbacks playing against each other
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  Speaker 3: instead of two of them playing on the same team
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  Speaker 3: and only one of them playing right the talent is
• 37:38
  Speaker 3: being spread around throughout the country so that we're seeing
• 37:41
  Speaker 3: them play every single week right yes when you do
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  Speaker 3: get injuries that means the drop off is that big
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  Speaker 3: but i think it's better for them to be you
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  Speaker 3: know playing on a regular basis like getting the opportunities,
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  Speaker 3: whether that is.
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  Speaker 2: And that's why they're leaving.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly.
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  Speaker 2: And that's what's created this, this sort of, I don't
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: want to call it a phenomenon, but But this turn
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: of events that has taken place in college football. So
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  Speaker 2: you now are one injury away potentially from not being
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: your typical powerhouse self, which was not the case in
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: the past. Hell, Alabama went to a national championship game
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: and made headlines because they had a backup quarterback so
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: good that he was better than the starter and the
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: starter wasn't even injured. So they went to the backup
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: and Tua led them to a national championship. Do we
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: have that anymore in the sport? And is that a
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: bad thing or is that a good thing? I don't know.
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: But it was an unexpected thing. I did not see
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: that coming. And yet, because of it, it has evened
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: the playing field and given some other teams a chance
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  Speaker 2: to knock off other perceived powerhouses with all sorts of
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: NIL advantages. So just another little hidden aspect of this
• 38:53
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• 38:57
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