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Furness Show 5-6: Chris Crawford in for Ian, Mariners, NHL Draft Lottery, First Dates · The Ian Furness Show

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  Speaker 1: Let's start with another horrible, horrible, no good, smelly Mariner
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  Speaker 1: loss three to two, in which your offense once again
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  Speaker 1: doesn't show up and your star closer has another I
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  Speaker 1: won't say meltdown, but doesn't get the job done. And
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  Speaker 1: this is frustrating. And boy, you know, we talked about
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  Speaker 1: yesterday a whole bunch about how you know, it felt
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  Speaker 1: like a momentum change with the JP Crawford homer, and
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  Speaker 1: we felt like things were gonna start going on that swing.
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  Speaker 2: And that's why Joshian mentioned it yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: One of my favorite quotes from Earl Weaver that momentum
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  Speaker 1: is only as good as your next day starting pitcher,
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  Speaker 1: and it wasn't the pitcher's fault. Can't blame any of
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  Speaker 1: this on George Kirby. But the ultimate takeaway here is
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  Speaker 1: baseball is not a game where you can just say
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  Speaker 1: we got right from one moment. It can feel that way,
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  Speaker 1: it can feel awesome, it can feel, you know, the
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  Speaker 1: the highs that are so high, but the lows are
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  Speaker 1: so low, and Anders Andes the lows from last night's
• 1:02
  Speaker 1: lost stuck with me for a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I know, it's almost like you know, when you're
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  Speaker 3: playing a home game in a situation where you could
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  Speaker 3: close it out if you will, or at least to
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  Speaker 3: go back to extras. Yeah, that's stunk. And it was
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  Speaker 3: a walk off potential situation, and those obviously are huge
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  Speaker 3: momentum builders.
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  Speaker 4: Lights go off.
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  Speaker 3: We're getting good crowds down there at T Mobile Park,
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  Speaker 3: and I think, you know, I do feel bad for Munnos.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I'm a SAP, so when I say I
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  Speaker 3: feel bad, like, yeah, you didn't get the job done,
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  Speaker 3: but I also feel bad for him and that that
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  Speaker 3: really could have made a difference in the momentum. Especially,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, this is the best team in baseball we're
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  Speaker 3: talking about right now.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, they're in the National.
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  Speaker 3: League, so it's I don't know, one of one, one
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  Speaker 3: of the other, but sure, the momentum falls so fast,
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  Speaker 3: especially with this fan base too, and you're going into
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  Speaker 3: a day game where a lot of people won't be
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  Speaker 3: able to attend.
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  Speaker 4: They you know, did people work and stuff.
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  Speaker 3: But when that momentum hits, some people go, I'm playing
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  Speaker 3: hockey and I'm gonna get my butt down there.
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  Speaker 2: Anders you cover this team? I do you watch this team?
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  Speaker 5: I do?
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  Speaker 2: Would you have let Jose Ferrer pitch to Matt Olson.
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  Speaker 6: See, probably yes, But at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 6: I feel like, you know, you should be able to
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  Speaker 6: trust your closer in almost any situation. Yeah, so it's
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  Speaker 6: a little bit different than the previous day. I made
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  Speaker 6: the comparison last night on the Mariners postcast from the
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  Speaker 6: previous day where Jose Ferre pitched the entire seventh inning,
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  Speaker 6: they brought him out for the first out of the
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  Speaker 6: eighth inning, which was Matt Olsen. It would have been
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  Speaker 6: the entire eighth inning with Jose Ferrer bring him out
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  Speaker 6: for the first out of the ninth inning, which happened
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  Speaker 6: to me Matt Olsen. So it's not like direct comparisons
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  Speaker 6: apples to Apple's sort of situation. The other thing I
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  Speaker 6: would have done herby was at eighty eight pitches when
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  Speaker 6: they took him out after seven. Yeah, I would have
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  Speaker 6: tried to squeeze one more ending out of him. Now,
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  Speaker 6: this is the reasoning why is because a you have
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  Speaker 6: a really short bullpen, you have your minus Gabe Spier
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  Speaker 6: and minus Matt Brash. So in both the Ferreer and
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  Speaker 6: Kirby's situations, I'm trying to squeeze every out of the
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  Speaker 6: pitchers that I trust in every situation, you don't have
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  Speaker 6: the luxury to have a quick hook like and I
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  Speaker 6: know in some cases if both those guys were healthy,
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  Speaker 6: i'd feel differently. But knowing that you're so short in
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  Speaker 6: the bullpen, I would have let Kirby go one more inning.
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  Speaker 6: I would have had Farreer pitch the ninth and then
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  Speaker 6: Munos any time after that that you would need him,
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  Speaker 6: and then he kind of figured it out from there.
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  Speaker 6: But to me, I think either one of those you
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  Speaker 6: can make the argument for. But at the end of
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  Speaker 6: the day, I'm not full on blaming Dan Wilson because
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  Speaker 6: you should expect your closer to get guys out, period.
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  Speaker 1: So to Comadautch text line four nine four five, I
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  Speaker 1: want to ask you guys two questions. Number one, was
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  Speaker 1: it a mistake to not have Ferrer face matt Olsen
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  Speaker 1: as Farrer did face matt Olsen in the situation last
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  Speaker 1: night and it worked out pretty well. And as Greg
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  Speaker 1: Bell pointed out that the numbers for matt Olsen against
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  Speaker 1: Jose Ferrer are not good for Olsen, so that's some
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  Speaker 1: And also the concern with Andrece Munios because this is
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  Speaker 1: now a your all star closer who has an ERA
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  Speaker 1: of six who has had I believe, two blown saves
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  Speaker 1: and three losses. And my biggest concern right now is
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  Speaker 1: that he is just getting mollywopped against left handers. Left
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  Speaker 1: Handers are just clobbering this dude right now, and that's
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  Speaker 1: not good. You should be, as you said, anders, be
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  Speaker 1: able to trust Andres Munnos to pitch in any situation.
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  Speaker 1: And I want to get ahead of that real quick.
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  Speaker 1: There is always a talking point from the old school
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  Speaker 1: baseball guy that don't use closers in non saved situations.
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  Speaker 1: Closers are just built to work in save situations. Number one,
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  Speaker 1: nonsen number two, there are a number step back up
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  Speaker 1: the nonsense. Andres Munos has a fantastic track record in
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  Speaker 1: non save situations. I believe a three point one point
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  Speaker 1: one ERA compared to like the two point two whatever
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  Speaker 1: that he has in save situations. Andres Munios has gotten
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  Speaker 1: a job done until this year in non safe situations.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, of course, these numbers are skewed by
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  Speaker 1: that five run outing against San Diego, and I will
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  Speaker 1: still continue to say that's one of the flukiest five
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  Speaker 1: runs that I've ever seen a pitcher give up. But
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  Speaker 1: fifty five mile per hour double and an infield hit
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  Speaker 1: from ty Rickey Henderson, France do not make me concerned
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  Speaker 1: about Andre's Munos. But the results are the results. And
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  Speaker 1: you're talking about a guy that you're relying on heavily,
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  Speaker 1: especially with no Brash, right, especially with no Gabe Spire.
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  Speaker 1: You are relying on this guy to be dominant and
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  Speaker 1: he has not been dominant for the majority of the year.
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  Speaker 1: And I think it's worth even if it's not predictive,
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  Speaker 1: which is something I've been saying an awful lot of
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  Speaker 1: You have every right to be frustrated by the first
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  Speaker 1: quarter of the season for Andres Munya.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I think so, mainly because you have high expectations
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  Speaker 6: of him, and.
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  Speaker 4: I think he's at the bar pretty Highyah.
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  Speaker 6: Everyone wants to say, oh, you know, we need a
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  Speaker 6: new closer, Like it's it's crazy how many fans of
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  Speaker 6: MLB fan bases say that they think they need a
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  Speaker 6: new closer. Yeah, I'd say like twenty five out of
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  Speaker 6: the thirty teams.
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  Speaker 1: They're they're the offensive coordinator positions. Everybody blames the offensive
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  Speaker 1: coordinator and what and yeah, also the setup guy is
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  Speaker 1: the backup quarterback like let's see what he can do
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  Speaker 1: in this situation type of thing as well.
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  Speaker 2: That's true, it's crazy, but no police continue.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, no, I think that kind of just I don't think.
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  Speaker 6: I'm not worried long term about Andres Munios, but I
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  Speaker 6: am frustrated about what I've seen up until now. Is
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  Speaker 6: kind of how I'm compartmentalizing this, because like, I still
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  Speaker 6: trust him to be the best reliever on the Mariners.
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  Speaker 6: He's I think, still that guy until you know, we
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  Speaker 6: see Matt Brash has been good this year. He's not
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  Speaker 6: striking out as quite as many guys this year as
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  Speaker 6: he normally does, right, but he's still been really good.
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  Speaker 6: I'm not trying to take anything away from him. I've
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  Speaker 6: you and I are on the Ferrera hype train, and
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  Speaker 6: I really like him. Yeah, I you know, think he's
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  Speaker 6: on the level even when gave Spires healthy that they're
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  Speaker 6: about the same in terms of who I would trust
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  Speaker 6: in a situation. So having two really good lefties again,
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  Speaker 6: I'm not worried about the bullpen. We can kind of
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  Speaker 6: continue to beat that drum a little bit. Sure, you're
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  Speaker 6: gonna have days like you did yesterday, That's not why
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  Speaker 6: you lost the game. No, the bullpen is not why
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  Speaker 6: you lost the game.
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  Speaker 1: You lost the game because your offense outside of one
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  Speaker 1: home run from Anders, and I've apparently packed the necessary
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  Speaker 1: pot for him. While we were insulting his defense, by
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  Speaker 1: the way, defense all we did. We didn't say anything
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  Speaker 1: about the guy's plate skills.
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  Speaker 5: I said he should be a DH. That's a compliment to.
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  Speaker 1: His offense, literally designated hitter. You are designating him to hit.
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  Speaker 1: It's the ultimate compliment to his offense. But it is
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  Speaker 1: nice to see him driving the baseball. If you there's
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  Speaker 1: some positives to take from this game, I think number one.
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  Speaker 1: I thought George Kirby pitched well over his seven innings.
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  Speaker 1: You mentioned the efficiency that he probably could have gone
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  Speaker 1: another inning. Jose Ferrer looked great. By the way, go
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  Speaker 1: look up Harry Ford's numbers in Triple A and compare
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  Speaker 1: them to what Jose Ferrer is doing. The Mariners are
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  Speaker 1: winning that trade by a considerable march well, especially if
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  Speaker 1: you're looking at just this year exactly. And that's the
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  Speaker 1: easiest of easy things. If you're looking for who's helping
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  Speaker 1: the team most this year, it is obviously Jose Ferire,
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  Speaker 1: no question about it. And then I thought that JP
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  Speaker 1: Crawford driving the baseball. For JP Crawford is big because
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  Speaker 1: he's going to have those walks still, because he has
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  Speaker 1: such a keen eye, and because he's able to foul
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  Speaker 1: off pitches and he's gonna make guys work, and he's
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  Speaker 1: gonna have an high OBP. But you have a chance
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  Speaker 1: for any even higher OBP if you give pitchers a
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  Speaker 1: reason to not throw the ball in the middle part
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  Speaker 1: of the plate. If you're driving the baseball like JP
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  Speaker 1: Crawford has done over these last couple of games, that
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  Speaker 1: can really change things. And it'll be interesting to see
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  Speaker 1: when Brendan Donovan comes back where they put JP Crawford
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  Speaker 1: in the lineup, Because I gotta be honest, I'd probably
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  Speaker 1: leave Crawford at the top right now, and I would
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  Speaker 1: probably move Donovanto the two hole. Julio three, Cal four,
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  Speaker 1: Naylor five. That's probably what I would do. I'll be
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  Speaker 1: very curious to see what they end up doing. I
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  Speaker 1: haven't really heard anything on when they actually expect Donovan
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  Speaker 1: to be back, because number one, I wouldn't believe him anyway.
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  Speaker 6: Number two, he did have a rehab assignment in Arkansas
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  Speaker 6: last night. Okay, right, and he went one for four
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  Speaker 6: the double or five three the double.
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  Speaker 1: Nice, so he gets to play with Zara Montism jealousy,
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  Speaker 1: But I thought that he looked good. I thought Josh
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  Speaker 1: Naylor had a really nice day at the plate, and
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  Speaker 1: it was nice even though cal Rawly struggled. It was
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  Speaker 1: nice to see him back in the lineup. It was
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  Speaker 1: nice to see that he felt well enough to be
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  Speaker 1: that designated hitter. Now, oh for four with three strikeouts.
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  Speaker 1: Oof a goof, But at least you're seeing big Dumper
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  Speaker 1: back in the lineup. I want to see the that
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  Speaker 1: more often than not, even if there are some poor
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  Speaker 1: games from him. But sixteen strikeouts in seven innings and look,
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  Speaker 1: strikeouts are just outs. But what it shows you is
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  Speaker 1: that the Mariners weren't catching bad breaks yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: They got dominated.
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  Speaker 1: And it's worth pointing out too that outside of the
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  Speaker 1: top of the sixth inning on Monday, they were dominated
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  Speaker 1: by a rookie pitcher as well. So the offense is
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  Speaker 1: not clicking on all cylinders by any stretch of the imagination.
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  Speaker 6: No, and you're if we're looking at would I rather
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  Speaker 6: things the Mariners score six runs and strikeout fifteen times,
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  Speaker 6: or the Mariners score three runs and strikeout three times.
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  Speaker 6: I would rather them score six runs and strike out
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  Speaker 6: sixteen times. It's like like you're saying, sometimes there's occasions
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  Speaker 6: where a strikeout is better than a groundout. Oh by
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  Speaker 6: that multiple times? Actually, yeah, where that ends up being
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  Speaker 6: the case. So I don't look at the strikeouts. But
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  Speaker 6: it's more of what it shows the issues are at
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  Speaker 6: this point in time. And I'm someone who's a very
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  Speaker 6: process based view on the offense. Right, you're not always
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  Speaker 6: going to have the best results, especially in baseball. We
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  Speaker 6: talk about it all the time. I think when the
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  Speaker 6: Mariners are walking a large amount of the time, it's
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  Speaker 6: when their offense is playing well and it's not a
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  Speaker 6: one to one like, oh okay, we just need to
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  Speaker 6: get walks and will score runs. It's not like that.
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  Speaker 6: But it's more what it shows their processes at the plate.
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  Speaker 7: Right.
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  Speaker 6: They're a much better team when they're not ultra aggressive
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  Speaker 6: and they're not swinging at everything. And that's for whatever reason,
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  Speaker 6: that's what they do against the ninety two mile an
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  Speaker 6: hour sinkerballer pitchers that they face. That's why they don't
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  Speaker 6: have success against those guys. For whatever reason, I feel like, oh,
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  Speaker 6: this guy's gettable, let's swing at everything in the zone.
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  Speaker 6: He doesn't have the stuff to overpower us and the
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  Speaker 6: Bryce Elders of the world.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah seriously, Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Because that's kind of who he is versus like they've
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  Speaker 6: had a track record of success against the Trek Scoobles,
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  Speaker 6: the Paul Skeins, the Garrett Crochets, like the top, top,
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  Speaker 6: top bend starting pitchers. I think the reasoning is because
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  Speaker 6: they're way more patient. Yeah, and they zone in a
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  Speaker 6: little bit and just focus on hitting mistakes. I think
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  Speaker 6: that's what this approach needs to be for every starting pitcher.
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  Speaker 6: I don't know why it changes so much based off
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  Speaker 6: of who you're facing. I realize you need to kind
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  Speaker 6: of play the matchups a little bit, but that, in
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  Speaker 6: my opinion, is why they're so They struggle so much
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  Speaker 6: against those non like blow you away stuff guys.
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  Speaker 1: So, and the interesting thing about yesterday was, now, I
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  Speaker 1: have to admit I watched this game at three point
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  Speaker 1: thirty in the morning, so, and I was watching it
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  Speaker 1: on one and a half speed because you know, I
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  Speaker 1: can only watch the col Rawley commercials so many times. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's great, but I want to call up about eighteen
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  Speaker 1: times I can only watch that a couple of times
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  Speaker 1: before it gets a little old. But this was not
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  Speaker 1: so sometimes Anderws you mentioned process, sometimes strikeouts, of the
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  Speaker 1: process of being willing to take those pitches. Yes, in
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  Speaker 1: the fact that you have a three ball count. It
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  Speaker 1: felt like last night that it wasn't that. No, it
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  Speaker 1: wasn't a case of them like getting ahead three to one. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: and then they fouled the pitch off and they happened
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  Speaker 1: to swing and miss at the next one. They were
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  Speaker 1: down one two a lot, yeah, like two, one two,
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  Speaker 1: and then just got worked by a pitcher who was
• 13:21
  Speaker 1: having a great year in Bryce Elder, a great month
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  Speaker 1: by what I'll say, He's all strike out that often against.
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  Speaker 2: Dude like that.
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  Speaker 1: And then the bullpen just dominated them too. Dylan Lee
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  Speaker 1: struck him at I believe struck out the side. The
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  Speaker 1: bats outside of Josh Naylor's single in the ninth inning
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  Speaker 1: were pathetic, absolutely pathetic. And look, Robert Suarez maybe the
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  Speaker 1: best setup man in baseball. Now that Ray sel Iglesias
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  Speaker 1: is back and Ray sal Iglesias is a very good closer,
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  Speaker 1: they have Atlanta's really good, like really really good, even
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  Speaker 1: without Michael Harris and without Ronald Dacunia junior. You still
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  Speaker 1: see a lineup that has so many guys with UH
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  Speaker 1: slugging percentage is in the five hundred and in the
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  Speaker 1: case of Matt Olsen, six hundred.
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  Speaker 2: Like they can really hit.
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  Speaker 1: They've always been good at pitching, even with all of
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  Speaker 1: the injuries that they have. You know, I was looking
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  Speaker 1: at the schedule and I was like, Oh, they don't
• 14:13
  Speaker 1: face Chris Sale. That's awesome, There's that doesn't matter. It
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  Speaker 1: doesn't matter because and they're facing Martine Perez, who is
• 14:19
  Speaker 1: I believe that is Venezuelan for designated for assignment.
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  Speaker 6: I believe that's how that's the left handed Bryce Elder.
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  Speaker 1: It is the left It's very similar. It's the crafty lefty.
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  Speaker 1: It is the guy who right he was hung around
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  Speaker 1: for a very long time at a time was one
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  Speaker 1: of the best pitching prospects and had some success with
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  Speaker 1: the Rangers. But this is a guy who should be
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  Speaker 1: able to get and I have very little confidence that
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  Speaker 1: they actually will.
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  Speaker 2: And that's that's frustrating.
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  Speaker 6: It is frustrating, and just because, like I said, it's
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  Speaker 6: for whatever reason, they have this ultra aggressive approach at
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  Speaker 6: the plate against these types of guys and there's so
• 14:55
  Speaker 6: many like three pitch outs that they get and they
• 14:58
  Speaker 6: just make it so easy on the posing pictures. So
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  Speaker 6: I want to see some patience. I want to see
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  Speaker 6: some walks, and then I think the great example of
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  Speaker 6: when they're better is against JR.
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  Speaker 2: Richie. Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Now, in the first few innings, it took him a
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  Speaker 6: while to get to that point, but they let him
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  Speaker 6: be wild. And it wasn't like he was you know,
• 15:18
  Speaker 6: throwing you know, pass balls and wild pitches left and right. No,
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  Speaker 6: it was it was like barely misses on the sinkerballer stuff.
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  Speaker 6: And because he walked four straight guys, he was like,
• 15:29
  Speaker 6: all right, I need to get a get me over.
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  Speaker 5: And that's what look greatly. It's the Homer. That's a process. Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: right there.
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  Speaker 6: So that's how you get pictures to change how they
• 15:38
  Speaker 6: do things, and then you pounce on those mistakes. That's
• 15:41
  Speaker 6: where I think the Mariner's offense is at its best.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, one thousand percent.
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  Speaker 1: There's no doubt that this lineup is more talented than
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  Speaker 1: previous iterations.
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  Speaker 2: But the process has to happen.
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  Speaker 1: You have to be able to make pictures work, and
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  Speaker 1: that's what they were so good at in twenty twenty two.
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  Speaker 1: Yes was making pitchers work and then beating the crap
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  Speaker 1: out of bullpens. Well, now starters are getting them and
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  Speaker 1: against bullpens, I just don't have any faith against them
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  Speaker 1: because and the other thing here is and I will
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: admit Monday, I like the way Dan used the bench
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: I liked and Rob Refsnyder came up with a big
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: hit on Monday. Didn't score a run, but it should
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: have led to something. Unfortunately the guys behind him failed
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: and Connor Joe drew little a nice walk as well. Yesterday,
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: Rob ref Snyder comes up in a situation with a
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: chance to do damage and strikes out on three pitch.
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: And I gotta tell you, I wasn't.
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: Thinking all that much about the possibility of using fair
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: against Matt Olsen. But man, and maybe this is just
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: captain hindsight. The more I think about it, the more
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: it makes sense. Yeah, I mean, and ultimately I do
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: think that Andreas Munos is going to be fine. But
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: here's my one caveat about this. Every great reliever outside
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: of Mariano Rivera, you will find has one year. Yeah,
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: one year, or it's just not quite right. Billy Wagner
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: one of the probably the greatest left handed reliever of
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: all time. If there's someone I'm not thinking of, good
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: because I've made them not that old. He had a
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: year where he had an array above six. I don't
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: think my voice had to go that high for it.
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: But oh dude, I've got so much range I have.
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: I have more range in my voice than JP Crawford
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: does it short stuff.
• 17:24
  Speaker 4: But boom.
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: Wow. Ikes. Yeah, but maybe that's not Maybe this is
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: his one year. Maybe this is his one.
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: Things don't go right, some bad luck here and there,
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: and the problem is this is probably the one year
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: they can't afford it because of what the bullpen looks
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: right now. Andrew's at some point we're gonna probably have
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: to do a show. I will get in to take
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: some time, and we will do something where we talk
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: about potential trade candidates for the bullpen, because this is.
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: A year where there are some guys that I really like.
• 18:00
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I just I think you have other needs.
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: Sure you're gonna have to do other things too.
• 18:07
  Speaker 4: Yeah, but yeah, it's like the attainability to give up what.
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: You're willing to give up.
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: And so here's one I'll spoil for you right now
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: Riley O'Brien and Saint Louis.
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: I think he makes a ton of sense.
• 18:19
  Speaker 5: He's a local guy.
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: Uh No, honestly, I didn't even think about that, but
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: I like that portion of it too. But if you
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: take a look at that guy as Baseball savon page,
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: it is just chocked full of red and he's been fantastic,
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: really against everyone butt Seattle. Riley O'Brien's been great. But
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: that's not a guy who's going to cost you an
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: out rachelon prospect. That's not a guy who's going to
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: cost you any So you can still so, hey, what
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: would you what would be your number one thing that
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: you need to address Anders.
• 18:45
  Speaker 6: I mean infield, infield defense, yeah, outfield defense, outfield, corner, outfield.
• 18:52
  Speaker 6: I'd love for either Randy or JP to be your
• 18:55
  Speaker 6: full time DH, like whatever makes that happen. I don't
• 18:58
  Speaker 6: think they'll ever make Randy the full time DH. He's
• 19:00
  Speaker 6: going to be the left fielder for this year. I
• 19:01
  Speaker 6: understand that I'm still not convinced on Canzon or Rayley.
• 19:07
  Speaker 6: I get that you can kind of plug and play
• 19:08
  Speaker 6: them in certain positions, but having a right field that
• 19:11
  Speaker 6: you can play there every day, it would be nice.
• 19:15
  Speaker 6: I just depending on you know, where things go. Third base,
• 19:22
  Speaker 6: like an actual third baseman. We may not see Colt
• 19:26
  Speaker 6: t Emerson this year. There's a chance that we may
• 19:28
  Speaker 6: not see Colt Teperson. Everyone that's kind of relying on that.
• 19:32
  Speaker 6: He could, you know, come up and you know, be
• 19:35
  Speaker 6: good in Triple A enough to where he makes the jump. Sure,
• 19:37
  Speaker 6: but relying on that for a team that's trying to
• 19:40
  Speaker 6: win the World Series, I don't think is good enough.
• 19:42
  Speaker 6: So I'm leaving that option open as well. So third
• 19:46
  Speaker 6: base shortstop if again, if he doesn't, maybe a one
• 19:50
  Speaker 6: year plug because I still think that you could get
• 19:52
  Speaker 6: better there, sure, or even if you want, if you
• 19:54
  Speaker 6: feel okay about JP at shortstop, go get a DH
• 19:57
  Speaker 6: right DH corner outfeater type. There's there's other needs besides
• 20:01
  Speaker 6: bullpen for me.
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: So we're going to talk about that.
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: We're going to talk about the draft lottery, just not
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: going this the Krakens way whatsoever. We'll talk a little
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: bit of Seahawks, but coming up next there's a center
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: fielder who plays for the Seattle Mariners who's pretty good.
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: Who got to talk to two slightly above average radio hosts,
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: and we'll do that next Sports Radio ninety three point
• 20:23
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• 20:24
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• 20:32
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• 20:44
  Speaker 2: Chris Crawford in.
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: A lot of texts coming in about the frustrating loss,
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: some really good questions here two five to three. My
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: problem is, why are we pitching to Matt Olsen? He
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: beat the Mariners now two games in his bat, not
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: necessarily winning the game, but definitely putting a stamp on it.
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: Anders from the two five to three. You're asking for
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: too much like it's Christmas time. Unfortunately it's not realistic
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: for the Mariners. Just we've seen the Mariners make some
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: fun moves, haven't we.
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: I mean, I've enjoyed a lot of them. I mean
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: good vibes. Only last year was my favorite, I think,
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: But that's just me.
• 21:17
  Speaker 9: You know.
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: And there was that Joshua Naylor fella.
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: Who brought over and then signed and.
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: Resigned in Randy or Rose Arena. But I do get
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: it that we're still kind of waiting on them to
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: make that like the real big move, like the Yes,
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: the you know, a lot of people thought this move
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: was a mistake. I think the mistake was not making
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: more moves on top of it, but the Robinson Cano move,
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: that type of transactions. Yeah, we're still looking for something
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: like that. But you know, they've signed Julio Rodriguez to
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: a big extension. I will dump on the Mariners when
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: it is necessary to dump on them. I think they've
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: done a pretty good job with transactions, and I think
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: they're going to be really aggressive at the deadline this
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: year too. Yes, the American League is just so wide open.
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: It's such a great opportunity for you to add a
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: piece that can take you to something. You have never
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: ever been to the World Series. And I can't imagine
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: how many times I've said it. I'll say it one
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: more time, and I'll look at the YouTube camera and
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: say it. I demand that the Mariners go to the
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: World Series. It's not an expectation, it's not an ask.
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: I avoided a long flip in time. I'm forty three
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: years old. My grandma is going.
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: To be ninety. She just turned ninety six.
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: Excuse me, Happy birthday, Grandma, Happy birthday.
• 22:34
  Speaker 10: You know.
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: I love your grandma.
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: Oh, she's just the best.
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: The Mariners like her so much more than they like me.
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: It's crazy. If I ask for something, the Mariners would
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: ignore it. If I ask for anything for my grandma,
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: they respond like that, It's crazy. I love your grandma.
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: You're not watching YouTube, but you have no idea what
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: YouTube even is. But I demand they go to the
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: World Series, and I demand they make the type of
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: moves that get them there. One player who has a
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: shot to get them to the World Series is a
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: young man by the name of Julio Rodriguez. And Dick
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: Fine and Softy had a chance to talk to Julio,
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: and Dick asked Julio about how the beginning of the
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: year was on and then he has some really interesting
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: things to say about the career progression. So let's check
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: out that interview.
• 23:18
  Speaker 11: Now, well, let's just talk about your start to the season,
• 23:21
  Speaker 11: because I mean, it's no surprise you have been a
• 23:23
  Speaker 11: second half hitter usually and you're out to your best
• 23:27
  Speaker 11: first two months that you've ever had. What has been
• 23:29
  Speaker 11: the difference in twenty twenty six so early in the
• 23:32
  Speaker 11: season at the.
• 23:33
  Speaker 9: Dish, I mean, I just feel like you know, I
• 23:38
  Speaker 9: after some experience, you know, this is about my fifth year,
• 23:42
  Speaker 9: I feel like, you know, I know myself a little
• 23:44
  Speaker 9: bit better, and I'm being able to play better at
• 23:47
  Speaker 9: bats and you know, clean up some things that maybe
• 23:50
  Speaker 9: I used to do in the past, you know. So
• 23:52
  Speaker 9: I'm just thankful for that, and like you said, yeah,
• 23:54
  Speaker 9: this is like my best start and like hopefully we'll
• 23:57
  Speaker 9: continue to bill on and help the team win.
• 24:00
  Speaker 10: Of us, Julio some details if you can't, I'm always
• 24:02
  Speaker 10: curious when you say you wanted to clean some stuff up,
• 24:05
  Speaker 10: share with us if you don't mind, maybe a couple
• 24:07
  Speaker 10: of things that you wanted to work on this offseason
• 24:10
  Speaker 10: that you already felt like you're you're starting to clean up.
• 24:14
  Speaker 9: I just say, you like approach wise of the play
• 24:16
  Speaker 9: and like things like that, and that's that's probably like
• 24:18
  Speaker 9: the biggest one. It's just kind of understanding myself more
• 24:21
  Speaker 9: as a heater and understanding one of the other guys
• 24:24
  Speaker 9: on the on the other teams that go to do
• 24:27
  Speaker 9: to me, and it's kind of like build plans for that.
• 24:29
  Speaker 9: I feel like that's that's where you know, I've had
• 24:32
  Speaker 9: Sus says, well, you know, every every every every game
• 24:35
  Speaker 9: is a new game.
• 24:36
  Speaker 11: Every game.
• 24:37
  Speaker 9: You know, you always have to adjust. This is game
• 24:39
  Speaker 9: my adjustment. But I feel like, you know, understanding myself
• 24:42
  Speaker 9: better have definitely helped me out.
• 24:45
  Speaker 11: Julio, at what point did you go from young buck
• 24:49
  Speaker 11: on this team that kind of looks up to the
• 24:51
  Speaker 11: veterans to one of those veteran leaders that other others
• 24:55
  Speaker 11: look to.
• 24:57
  Speaker 9: I mean, I just I still feel young. You know,
• 24:59
  Speaker 9: I definitely have been around a little bit a little bit,
• 25:02
  Speaker 9: but I still feel young, and you know, I feel
• 25:04
  Speaker 9: like I'm transitioning still. Obviously we have the same younger
• 25:07
  Speaker 9: guys on the team, but we also have some older ones.
• 25:10
  Speaker 9: So I just got to continue to embrace the time
• 25:13
  Speaker 9: that I'm here and you're trying to support you know,
• 25:15
  Speaker 9: the younger, younger guys are coming in a little bit
• 25:18
  Speaker 9: more every time, and you know, I feel I'm in
• 25:21
  Speaker 9: that transitioning process still.
• 25:23
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 25:24
  Speaker 10: Well, I remember the last time, or maybe a couple
• 25:26
  Speaker 10: of times ago that we spoke, Julio and Julio Rodriguez
• 25:28
  Speaker 10: with us on the radio show that you you came
• 25:30
  Speaker 10: on the air with us and you said, look, guys,
• 25:32
  Speaker 10: I'm twenty three years old, right, I'm gonna twenty two
• 25:35
  Speaker 10: to twenty three years old.
• 25:36
  Speaker 7: I'm just kind of getting going in this game.
• 25:39
  Speaker 10: Do you still because you mentioned you still feel young,
• 25:42
  Speaker 10: do you still feel like there's a lot about this
• 25:45
  Speaker 10: game that you don't know yet that you have to
• 25:47
  Speaker 10: figure out how to do certain things and react in
• 25:51
  Speaker 10: certain situations or is that maybe now starting to be
• 25:53
  Speaker 10: behind you you think.
• 25:55
  Speaker 9: I mean, I feel like that's something that you never
• 25:58
  Speaker 9: lived behind. Obviously definitely know my way around a little
• 26:01
  Speaker 9: bit better and all that, But I feel like this
• 26:04
  Speaker 9: game is always teaching you something and you can never
• 26:06
  Speaker 9: like have it all figure out. So I just feel
• 26:09
  Speaker 9: like I always say learning and keeping my mind open
• 26:12
  Speaker 9: to to two new things because this game. This is
• 26:14
  Speaker 9: the beauty of this game. He I was gising something
• 26:17
  Speaker 9: something new to learn and too and to kind of
• 26:20
  Speaker 9: evolve into.
• 26:23
  Speaker 7: Julio Rodriguez joining us here on kJ R.
• 26:26
  Speaker 11: Julio, one thing that really helped you guys advance in
• 26:28
  Speaker 11: the playoffs, You guys were really really clean defensively. Do
• 26:32
  Speaker 11: you feel like you've been as clean defensively thus far
• 26:35
  Speaker 11: this year?
• 26:35
  Speaker 7: And if not, why do you think that?
• 26:37
  Speaker 8: Is?
• 26:37
  Speaker 9: I played the definitely that there's been like a lot
• 26:42
  Speaker 9: of players though maybe that we can have like done
• 26:44
  Speaker 9: better and things like that. But you know, I feel
• 26:47
  Speaker 9: as the team, you always go through two tough times.
• 26:49
  Speaker 9: You know, it could be like even I was like,
• 26:51
  Speaker 9: we're a really good offensive team too, and like sometimes
• 26:53
  Speaker 9: we go to some funds and you know, I feel
• 26:56
  Speaker 9: like I just got out side of baseball. But I
• 26:58
  Speaker 9: know that I know what this team is capable of,
• 27:00
  Speaker 9: and like I just know we're really good in both
• 27:02
  Speaker 9: ends of the of the play of the baseball game.
• 27:05
  Speaker 7: Well, I I think I know the answer, Julio.
• 27:08
  Speaker 10: I just want to hear you say it because it
• 27:10
  Speaker 10: gets me excited to hear you say it.
• 27:12
  Speaker 7: What do you think this team is capable of? Honestly
• 27:15
  Speaker 7: tell us?
• 27:15
  Speaker 9: I mean, I mean just definitely getting out of the way,
• 27:18
  Speaker 9: you know, I play. That's the quot that we all
• 27:20
  Speaker 9: have for these teams. Just kind of I feel like
• 27:23
  Speaker 9: last year we just one game out of the worst
• 27:26
  Speaker 9: series and they playing that you know, special game, and
• 27:30
  Speaker 9: just feel like that's what that's that's a mentality. For
• 27:33
  Speaker 9: this year, I feel like we were hungry and we
• 27:35
  Speaker 9: just want more for us.
• 27:36
  Speaker 10: Yeah, well, I'm right there with you. It's been fifty
• 27:38
  Speaker 10: years for us, so we're starving to death over here, man.
• 27:41
  Speaker 10: And I got to ask you because that was hard
• 27:43
  Speaker 10: for me to get over as a fan. It was
• 27:45
  Speaker 10: hard for Dick. I know, it's hard for Mariner fans
• 27:47
  Speaker 10: to get over. That's something that stays with you, stays
• 27:50
  Speaker 10: with you for a while, right. It impacts your mood
• 27:53
  Speaker 10: obviously when you're at work. I mean, hell, Julio, we're
• 27:55
  Speaker 10: sitting here at Jimmy's that night watching Game seven, the
• 27:58
  Speaker 10: damn Seahawks are playing across the street.
• 28:00
  Speaker 7: I had no desire to go in there. I mean,
• 28:02
  Speaker 7: I just went home.
• 28:03
  Speaker 10: I wanted nothing else to do besides go home and
• 28:07
  Speaker 10: literally freaking cry like a baby after that night.
• 28:10
  Speaker 7: How did you handle that? Man?
• 28:12
  Speaker 10: How did you handle that Game seven loss?
• 28:17
  Speaker 9: Just so like for me obviously, like it was tough.
• 28:21
  Speaker 9: It was tough to lose after you put so much
• 28:23
  Speaker 9: into it.
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: Like a whole year and all that.
• 28:26
  Speaker 9: But you know, I also understood that, you know, if
• 28:29
  Speaker 9: I actually want to want to continue to play in
• 28:32
  Speaker 9: the playoffs and you know, get to where I want
• 28:34
  Speaker 9: to get, like being part of this team, but I
• 28:37
  Speaker 9: just needed to get better, you know, And like I
• 28:39
  Speaker 9: started looking at things objectively and understood that you know
• 28:43
  Speaker 9: the year was over and that we got to you know,
• 28:45
  Speaker 9: get better and come back stronger this year to come
• 28:48
  Speaker 9: and receive these times. So that's kind of how I
• 28:50
  Speaker 9: took it and try to make the best out of
• 28:52
  Speaker 9: it and grow, because that's how that's how you can
• 28:55
  Speaker 9: do at that point after you lose, like that's all
• 28:57
  Speaker 9: you could really do. You learn from it and try
• 28:59
  Speaker 9: to get better for next year.
• 29:01
  Speaker 11: What did that run do for the confidence of your
• 29:04
  Speaker 11: baseball team? Because you always thought that you could get
• 29:07
  Speaker 11: that far in the playoffs.
• 29:08
  Speaker 7: You always thought you could be a World Series team.
• 29:10
  Speaker 11: But now you know, beyond.
• 29:11
  Speaker 5: A shadow of a doubt that you guys have.
• 29:13
  Speaker 11: What it takes to go to the World Series.
• 29:15
  Speaker 7: So what did that do for you last year?
• 29:18
  Speaker 9: Oh, there's a lot of confirmation, you know. I feel like,
• 29:20
  Speaker 9: you know, like a lot of affirmation too, like we
• 29:23
  Speaker 9: can actually do it. You know, it was a reality
• 29:25
  Speaker 9: like were then you're seeing the playoffs, so like I
• 29:27
  Speaker 9: feel like annoying that and I kind of see it
• 29:30
  Speaker 9: become real and like get it all was getting.
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: Closer and closer.
• 29:33
  Speaker 9: I just feel like just just gives the team hungry.
• 29:37
  Speaker 10: Julio Rodriguez always drake to hear your voice. We're across
• 29:41
  Speaker 10: the street at Jimmy's. Next time we're here, why don't
• 29:43
  Speaker 10: you come over and have a cocktail with us before
• 29:45
  Speaker 10: the game.
• 29:45
  Speaker 7: Yeah, and we're talking person.
• 29:47
  Speaker 10: All right, coffee done, but whatever you want, man, We
• 29:51
  Speaker 10: got some nice, nice new menu items here. Got a
• 29:54
  Speaker 10: nice new Ruben sandwich meatball sandwich for you. So we're
• 29:57
  Speaker 10: waiting for you. But hey, best of luck, thanks again
• 29:59
  Speaker 10: for doing and we'll talk to him.
• 30:02
  Speaker 9: Ah there you see you.
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: Thanks so much to Julio for joining Softy and Dick.
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: And you know, we've got a couple of minutes before break,
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: and I just got to react to one thing there.
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: How I got my introduction to Ian's show. I mentioned
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: with Greg the very first time I came on KJR
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: was I was working as a stringer for the News
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: Tribune and I covered the Lakes Bellerman football game. But
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: the first time I ever came on Ian show was
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: after the Kevin Mather incident. And if you remember, Jess,
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: one of the most famous things, infamous things really that
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: came out of that interview was Mather's comments about Julio
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: Rodriguez and how he's a great player, but he needs
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: to work on his English. And if you listen to
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: that interview, Kevin, I hope you stubbed your toe while
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: you did it, Bud, because.
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: Step on a step on a lego.
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: That's that's as mean as I can go on air
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: without getting a nice little Reprimand that is a guy
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: who is just so impressive to me. Listening to him
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: talk and listening to One of the things I like
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: to do when I got to when I get to
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: listen to these interviews is listening to whether players are
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: actually listening when the host is talking, like listening to
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: what the media member is saying, because there's a lot
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: of guys in the media who will listen but just
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: for the last part to know what exactly they're supposed
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: to answer the question.
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: But you could.
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: Tell that dude was paying super close attention to those
• 31:35
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• 31:41
  Speaker 1: And I just grow more and more impressed with how
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• 31:47
  Speaker 1: because sometimes it comes across as like, oh, Wow, a
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: Dominican guy can speak good English.
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: Wow, I'm so impressed. No, that's not what this is.
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: This is a young man who is growing not only
• 31:59
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• 32:03
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  Speaker 2: Apparently we apparently talked about him.
• 33:49
  Speaker 5: We did.
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: We had a little bit of a fun situation there.
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: We appreciate everyone being patient. That's what happens when you
• 33:55
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  Speaker 2: So that's that's that what you want.
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I may I I am Alan Iverson, and that
• 34:03
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• 34:06
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• 34:11
  Speaker 1: I am growing less patient with the Kraken's bad luck
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: in the draft lottery, and for the fourth year in
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: a row, third year in a row, the Kraken do
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: not have a heck of a lot of luck. They
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: will be picking seventh in this year's draft. The first
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: pick belongs to the Toronto Maple Leafs, and boy, oh boy,
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: if you are a draft conspiracy theorist, this is one
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: that you should be paying attention to, not just because
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: of the fact that, hey, Toronto, huge market, but also
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: the Maple Leafs would not have gotten their first round
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: pick if it was not top five, so why not
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: make sure it's number one to get there. Picking second
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: will be the Nashville excuse me, the San Jose sh Sharks,
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: which is also bad news for the Seattle Kraken because
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: a team that they are in the same division of
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: is going to get one of the top two players
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: in the draft, assuming that they don't trade the pick
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: third Vancouver. So the good news is Vancouver, you know,
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: a huge rival of the Kraken, are not going to
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: get Gavin McKenna. They'll probably end up with it. Sounds
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: like this is a range where a lot of defensemen
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: are going to go based on mock drafts and some
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: people that I've talked to. I'm not as scared about
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: the Canucks getting a good defenseman as I am about
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: them getting a scorer like Gavin McKenna would be. And
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: then I don't remember four through six, but I do
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: know that not the Kraken. Yeah, and Andrews. We talked
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: about this.
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: A little bit yesterday.
• 35:45
  Speaker 5: We did.
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: We did, Okay, we did and uh.
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: We just talked but not for very long Okay, But
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: and this was something I was thinking about on my
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: drive up here. Hockey and basketball have a draft lot
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: for a reason, and the reason is is it can
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: impact your team, I think more than any other draft can,
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: because you take a look at the best players in
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: the NHL, and quite often if they're not the first pick,
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: they are very very high up there. Yet the best
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: players in hockey right now, Nathan McKinnon first overall pick,
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: Connor McDavid, first overall pick, Sidney Crosby first overall pick
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: had the Penguins in a dynasty adjacent spot for a
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: very long time.
• 36:30
  Speaker 5: Now I'm curious.
• 36:31
  Speaker 6: I want to look at the points leaders from this
• 36:33
  Speaker 6: year and I'm going to look at how many of them.
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: Are those top picks. Yeah, there's got to be quite.
• 36:38
  Speaker 5: A few regular season.
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Macklin CELEBRINII. I don't remember, but he was certainly
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: up there. And a guy that was that very quickly
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: made an impact. But lots and lots of high impact
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: players that you get in with that first overall pick
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: or the potential to anyway, mcconnor, McDavid, it's Connor Big Guards,
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: Connor for real from pop Star.
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: No not. Kutrov is a second round pick, second round pick. Wow.
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: Well, and that shows you that it doesn't mean everything,
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: but you know, it certainly helps to get those up
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: erational on talents. And unfortunately, since getting the second overall
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: pick and what looks like anders a pretty weak overall
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: draft class with some guys who were taken after ben
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: years who, in hind and sight and a lot of hindsight,
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: maybe should have got ahead of them.
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: Maybe one guy in Dallas in particular that.
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: People talk about, but also a second round pick, by
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: the way, also a second round pick. It's not like
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: he went third or fourth or something like that. And
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: it's worth pointing out the first pick in that draft
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: is just an average hockey player. He's a good, okay defense,
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: he's an okay second pairing. It's not like he's this
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: is not Matthew Shaffer, but Matthew Shaeffer was another immediate
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: impact player for the Islanders.
• 37:55
  Speaker 6: Yeah, when you look at bad luck, I don't even
• 37:57
  Speaker 6: look at just the draft lottery. I look at the
• 38:00
  Speaker 6: years the Kracken have had a top five pick, the
• 38:03
  Speaker 6: right Been two years. Those are probably the two weakest
• 38:05
  Speaker 6: drafts in the last ten years. Maybe, Yeah, especially at
• 38:11
  Speaker 6: the top. When you look at the twenty twenty one draft,
• 38:15
  Speaker 6: which is the Kracken's first draft, that's when they have
• 38:16
  Speaker 6: drafted Matta Been. Here's second overall, the first overall pick,
• 38:19
  Speaker 6: the player you just mentioned, Owen Power, pretty average defenseman.
• 38:23
  Speaker 6: And then the year after that, Shane Wright picked fourth overall,
• 38:27
  Speaker 6: who was most likely the consensus number one overall pick.
• 38:31
  Speaker 6: So he kind of fell into the krakens Lap right
• 38:33
  Speaker 6: obviously hasn't turned into much your ice left coffee. He's
• 38:36
  Speaker 6: been pretty good. But other than that, it's it's guys
• 38:38
  Speaker 6: that haven't made like full on first overall pick impacts
• 38:42
  Speaker 6: like you've seen the last three years.
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: Was Kneeback in the same draft as Shane Wright.
• 38:48
  Speaker 6: Niemits I believe he was Simon Nimitz. Yes, anyway, Nemets, Yeah,
• 38:58
  Speaker 6: it was the same.
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: So you know that would be a guy that in
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: hindsight probably should have gone to get ahead of Shane Wright,
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: but he was and he did.
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: That's right.
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: So you know what I basically meant there but just
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: didn't put eloquently is like, you know, there have been
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: some guys who were drafted ahead of players that have
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: done well. But then I think your overall point about
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: having the high draft picks in those years where the
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: classes just haven't been all that great. And I will
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: point out this year it's bad luck to not have
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: the high pick because a lot of people think this
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: is a two person draft.
• 39:29
  Speaker 5: Ooh see, I've heard four person drafts.
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: Okay, four person so either way though, not how to
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: wear the cracking are picking. Yeah, And here's the other
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: thing that's worth pointing out. The Seattle Kraken are a
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: roster that is full of based on my eye sight,
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: based on the talks I've had with you and Ian
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: and Mike Benton and you know some other smart hockey folks,
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: this is a roster full of guys that you really
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: love on your third line role players, A lot of
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: really good role players that you would want on your
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: roster but don't want eating your roster.
• 40:01
  Speaker 5: The comparison that I make is the twenty twenty one s.
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: That I just I'm so glad that you brought that up,
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: because we talked about that a little bit off air yesterday.
• 40:10
  Speaker 12: Their best player was Mitch Hannigher Yeah yeah, and good
• 40:14
  Speaker 12: team sure, like that was their absolute ceiling and missing
• 40:18
  Speaker 12: the playoffs, right, but if they had kept that same
• 40:22
  Speaker 12: core together with I guess that was Kyle seekers last
• 40:25
  Speaker 12: year who had a good year that year, JP Crawford
• 40:27
  Speaker 12: when he was still good at shortstop and just a
• 40:31
  Speaker 12: bunch of kind of not much because that was before
• 40:33
  Speaker 12: Julio came up the next year that was and that
• 40:35
  Speaker 12: was Cal's first year before he was really that like
• 40:37
  Speaker 12: sure big time player, Mark Goo Gonzalez was one of your.
• 40:41
  Speaker 5: Best pitchers that year.
• 40:42
  Speaker 6: It was like, definitely like players that you like, but
• 40:46
  Speaker 6: no one that really elevates your ceiling.
• 40:48
  Speaker 5: And that's what the crack And have been for their
• 40:49
  Speaker 5: entire existence.
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: They really have.
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: And you know, the playoff run in that second season
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: was awesome. It's something that I will remember forever because
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: you know, not only getting past the Avalanche, who were
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: such a wagon in the regular season, but then taking
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: the Stars to seven games. That was a lot of fun,
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: but it was unsustainable fun, right because there were just
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: so many guys who scored twenty goals that we just
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: knew weren't going to do that again. And you know,
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: the roster is aged poorly. It is aged poorly. But
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: what I wanted to bring up is the Krack can
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: have the assets to either.
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: Look at move making a move.
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: So if you consider this a four person draft, I
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: want to point out the Krack can not only have
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: the seventh pick in this draft, they have the twenty
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: sixth pick in this draft because of the trade with
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: Tampa Bay that sat Yanni Gord and Olive bork Strand
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: to Tampa Bay. They also have an extra first round
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: pick in twenty twenty seven that is lottery protected but
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: still likely to be there. They have two extra second
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: round picks in twenty twenty seven because of the brand
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: Tanov Brandon Tanev trade and Mason marchmant. I'm not a
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: huge Brandon Tannev guy. I don't really mind not being
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: able to pronounce.
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: His name all that well.
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: But they have the assets to go move up if
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: they wanted to, or they have the assets. If people
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: do like this draft class more to go make that
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: move for a star player. So I want I do
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: a little exercise with you Anders. Obviously the number one
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: name that could be available in trade talks is Austin Matthews.
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: That could.
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: I wonder how much getting the first pick helps or
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: hurts the chances. Well, what do you think. Do you
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: think it's more likely that they would look at moving
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: at Austin Matthews knowing that you're going to get a
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: potential top star, or do you look at seeing getting
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: a guy like Gavin McKenna to be a top six
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: forward for you pretty dang soon and say, oh, we
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: don't maybe have as long of a rebuild as we think.
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: Which one is more likely?
• 42:58
  Speaker 6: If this was almost anyone else but Toronto, I would
• 43:01
  Speaker 6: say it's more likely because they just even when they
• 43:06
  Speaker 6: were in the playoffs, they you could tell they were
• 43:09
  Speaker 6: had a low ceiling. They had great players, but they
• 43:12
  Speaker 6: just never looked like a Cup contending team, and then
• 43:15
  Speaker 6: last year their bottom completely fell out with injuries. If
• 43:19
  Speaker 6: I'm the Toronto Maple Leafs, I'm thinking, Okay, let's take
• 43:23
  Speaker 6: a step back here, let's build this thing a little
• 43:26
  Speaker 6: bit from the ground up. If we're gonna trade Austin Matthews,
• 43:29
  Speaker 6: now's the time to do it. And you can get
• 43:32
  Speaker 6: some assets that kind of make us a more sustainable
• 43:36
  Speaker 6: contender for a long period of time. But I honestly
• 43:39
  Speaker 6: don't believe they're gonna do that. I think they're gonna
• 43:41
  Speaker 6: double down. And because they're the Toronto maple Leice and
• 43:44
  Speaker 6: they think they're God's gift to hockey, they they're like, oh,
• 43:48
  Speaker 6: we just lucked into a great player that we can
• 43:50
  Speaker 6: add to our star players. And even if it doesn't
• 43:54
  Speaker 6: make a ton of sense, you could absolutely shore up
• 43:56
  Speaker 6: your goaltending situation. You could show up your defense situation,
• 44:00
  Speaker 6: which is a big issue for them. Uh and and
• 44:03
  Speaker 6: trading Austin Matthews, I feel like that would be the
• 44:06
  Speaker 6: way to go. But I just don't think that that's
• 44:08
  Speaker 6: what they will do. So I honestly think it's more
• 44:11
  Speaker 6: likely that he stays, even though he says there's a
• 44:14
  Speaker 6: good chance that he gets traded, but big caveat. Even
• 44:18
  Speaker 6: if he does, I no chance he comes to Seattle.
• 44:23
  Speaker 6: I don't think even if the Kraken offered by far
• 44:25
  Speaker 6: the best deal. That's it's not something because I don't
• 44:29
  Speaker 6: know if he has a no move clause. I believe
• 44:31
  Speaker 6: he does.
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: I'm sure he does, it's and if not, that's the
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: type of guy who says, yeah, trade for me. Do
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: you remember what happens with Eric Lindross. Yeah, like watch
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: watch me destroy your organization really quick.
• 44:42
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: But that's the type of guy. It's not even worth
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: mentioning that you would move the seventh pick for that.
• 44:48
  Speaker 6: Absolutely, yes, absolutely, if he was open to trade and
• 44:51
  Speaker 6: wanted to come play here.
• 44:52
  Speaker 5: Correct, that's an easy, easy, easy yes.
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: That's also an easy yes for moving twenty six, for
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: moving the second move in a first round pick.
• 45:00
  Speaker 5: I literally moved the number one overall pick off the
• 45:01
  Speaker 5: crack and got it.
• 45:03
  Speaker 2: I think so as well. That's just that type of player. Okay.
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: So I have a list here from Bleacher Report of
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: the top NHL trade candidates, and I want to know
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: whether or not you'd be willing to move the number
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: seven pick for him. And I'm going to go in
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: reverse order. Okay, Okay, so number nine on that list,
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: usually you want this thing actually pulled up, Elias Peterson,
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: You moving the number seven pick for last Patterson, Elias Potterson,
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: are you moving the number seven pick for him?
• 45:33
  Speaker 5: See this is a hot take.
• 45:34
  Speaker 6: I would, Okay, that is a I don't know if
• 45:37
  Speaker 6: that's a hot take actually, but I know there's a
• 45:38
  Speaker 6: lot of people that are not fans of him, both
• 45:44
  Speaker 6: in Vancouver and in Seattle. But I still believe that
• 45:48
  Speaker 6: he is the type of player A that needs a
• 45:50
  Speaker 6: change of scenery and B it's something you do not have,
• 45:54
  Speaker 6: and that's high end scoring. And I would be willing
• 45:57
  Speaker 6: to take a chance on that, even if it means,
• 45:59
  Speaker 6: you know, it's very unlikely the number seven overall pick
• 46:04
  Speaker 6: comes and changes this franchise is like outlook, you know
• 46:08
  Speaker 6: what I mean. But there is a better chance that
• 46:10
  Speaker 6: Elias Petterson comes and changes this franchise's outlook than the
• 46:13
  Speaker 6: number seven pick.
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: I'm not even going to try to pronounce his name
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: because I know Anders Is going to give me crap
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: for it. But number eight on that list is Mika
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: Ze for the New York.
• 46:24
  Speaker 6: I absolutely would. Yes, that is a much easier yes.
• 46:26
  Speaker 6: And again probably he has a no move clause so
• 46:28
  Speaker 6: he would want to come here, But I absolutely would.
• 46:31
  Speaker 6: He had a fantastic here last year. A little on
• 46:33
  Speaker 6: the older side, So that's the only thing that really
• 46:35
  Speaker 6: gives me the minus. But I've always loved watching him
• 46:38
  Speaker 6: play hockey. He would be a great fit for this
• 46:42
  Speaker 6: team as well, because it's kind of the exact type
• 46:44
  Speaker 6: of player they need a one se that can go
• 46:47
  Speaker 6: both ways. He played on the penalty kill as well.
• 46:50
  Speaker 6: It kind of moves everyone down a spot to where
• 46:52
  Speaker 6: they should be. And he has the high end scoring
• 46:56
  Speaker 6: and he's he shoots the freaking tuck and you someone
• 47:00
  Speaker 6: like a Mitch Marner. While he would be by far
• 47:03
  Speaker 6: the best player in Seattle, that the fit doesn't really
• 47:06
  Speaker 6: fit because finishers exactly, and that's what Mika's avantage that is.
• 47:09
  Speaker 6: So I'm all I would be all in on that. Again,
• 47:11
  Speaker 6: he would want to come here.
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: He would only if he's willing to come here. He
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: would ultimately be maybe number one on my list because
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: of what you were just talking about. Yeah, but it
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: also having another two way center, I think is something
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: that Seattle really needs because it takes some of that
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: pressure off of Matty Bin years. I want to see
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: him spend less time focusing on defense and more time
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: focusing on offense. I think you're gonna get much more
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: production from him if he has more focus on that
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: and if he's not easily the best defensive center on
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: the roster as well. So that's a nice little two
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: way thing that you can get there about brock Boster.
• 47:47
  Speaker 5: Brock Besser.
• 47:48
  Speaker 2: No, it's brock Boster, That's what I said, And it's
• 47:51
  Speaker 2: brock Boster.
• 47:52
  Speaker 5: I'm just helping you out.
• 47:53
  Speaker 6: No, this one's questionable because he has struggled the last
• 47:58
  Speaker 6: couple of years. Yes, it was an almost fifty goal
• 48:01
  Speaker 6: scorer two seasons ago, but if we're talking fit, that's
• 48:07
  Speaker 6: the type of player that you need. He's a shoot
• 48:09
  Speaker 6: first guy, asked questions later, a winger, which I think
• 48:13
  Speaker 6: the can need more of. But I prove I probably
• 48:18
  Speaker 6: still would. But that's on the edge because uh, I
• 48:21
  Speaker 6: don't know. I still believe the upside is there, but
• 48:23
  Speaker 6: it's not as high as the other two guys.
• 48:25
  Speaker 2: I also wonder if the Canucks would ask for more
• 48:28
  Speaker 2: for a move between the two, just because of there's
• 48:32
  Speaker 2: some indivision stuff that still happens with Hotckey.
• 48:34
  Speaker 6: Sure, but so you think they'd ask for more for
• 48:36
  Speaker 6: Brockbaster than Elias Petterson.
• 48:38
  Speaker 5: Probably not, I think I don't.
• 48:40
  Speaker 6: I think you might be right in assuming that they would,
• 48:44
  Speaker 6: because Elias Petterson's contract is a kind of an albatross.
• 48:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a good point.
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: Number six Rasmus rist to lane line in Rasmus Ristelakian.
• 48:57
  Speaker 6: No defensive defenseman. It's notly not the type of player
• 49:01
  Speaker 6: they need, so I wouldn't do it.
• 49:02
  Speaker 2: Number five is Jordan Beddington moving on.
• 49:04
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: Number four is Matthew Nice. And to me, this is
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: an easyes for me because it also feels like something
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: somewhat realistic because I can see Toronto selling high on
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: this guy, yes, easier than I can see them moving.
• 49:18
  Speaker 7: Now.
• 49:18
  Speaker 2: I will tell you this.
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: Not on this list is William Nilander, who would be
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: very high on my list if they actually do the
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: rebuild here. But I could see them moving a guy
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: like Matthew Nies selling high on that type of player.
• 49:32
  Speaker 6: This falls into the Brock Besser category for me, okay,
• 49:35
  Speaker 6: because if you look at Besser's last two seasons production,
• 49:39
  Speaker 6: it's because he hasn't had a lot of great players
• 49:41
  Speaker 6: around and Vancouver's kind of started their rebuild now. Matthew
• 49:44
  Speaker 6: Nice has played with high end players the last couple
• 49:47
  Speaker 6: of years. That's why his numbers look a lot better
• 49:49
  Speaker 6: than Brock Besser's sure, so if you put if you
• 49:52
  Speaker 6: swap those two players, I think the production is about
• 49:55
  Speaker 6: the same. I think he would kind of have a
• 49:58
  Speaker 6: tough time being away from William Neelander, John Tavares, Austin Matthews.
• 50:03
  Speaker 6: Similar to Brock Besser took a downturn once all the
• 50:06
  Speaker 6: good players on his team left fair So I still
• 50:10
  Speaker 6: believe in the high end talent, but I have questions
• 50:13
  Speaker 6: whether he is the type of guy that changes everyone
• 50:16
  Speaker 6: else around him. Which is the type of player the
• 50:18
  Speaker 6: krack and need they would be, it would be I
• 50:21
  Speaker 6: think he's similar to Bobby McMahon in terms of what
• 50:23
  Speaker 6: he would bring to this one.
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: Well, and then I was going to say the Bobby
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: McMahon example is the hey getting out now. He was
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: good with Toronto, yeah before, and I think he was
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: very The numbers suggest tell you how productive he was
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: once you make that move, and I think there's still
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: more upside and nice because of the fact that he
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: hasn't had to be prior to the last couple of
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: years of twenty to twenty three minute type of guy.
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: So I think there's maybe a little bit more hockey
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: there to be played. Yep, maybe that makes more sense
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: with the twenty sixth pick than with the seventh pick.
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: I would, but then Toronto may not be interested in
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: that sort of thing, So it just really depends on
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: how much.
• 50:56
  Speaker 6: He probably would still do it, sure, but I don't
• 51:00
  Speaker 6: I'm not as high on him as a lot of
• 51:02
  Speaker 6: other people are.
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: Okay, Number three, Simone Nimic. We talked about a defenseman.
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: I just don't think that's a great fit. He's a
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: good player, good player, good player. Number two guy who's
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: been mentioned in Seattle a little bit more his teammate
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: Jordan Cairou, but Robert Thomas of the Saint Louis Blues probably.
• 51:20
  Speaker 5: I think it's an easy yes.
• 51:22
  Speaker 6: Now, the profile of player for talking Elias Petterson or Mikasavanajad,
• 51:28
  Speaker 6: those guys are sealing razors for sure, but it also
• 51:31
  Speaker 6: has a higher level of higher risk of flaming out
• 51:34
  Speaker 6: with those two guys, sure than it does with Jordan
• 51:36
  Speaker 6: Cairo and Robert Thomas.
• 51:37
  Speaker 2: I think that was a good point.
• 51:38
  Speaker 6: Those guys would come in and give you, like if
• 51:40
  Speaker 6: we're talking grades, like you have a chance of either
• 51:42
  Speaker 6: getting an A or A plus with Elias Peterson and
• 51:45
  Speaker 6: meek as Avantage that you also have the reality of
• 51:47
  Speaker 6: maybe being a c in terms of the return you get.
• 51:51
  Speaker 6: I think you're gonna get B B plus with Robert
• 51:54
  Speaker 6: Thomas Jordan Cairo easily. And what you said about needing
• 51:57
  Speaker 6: a two way center, I agree with Robert Thomas, would
• 51:59
  Speaker 6: absolutely do that. Jordan Kyrie is a little more on
• 52:01
  Speaker 6: the scoring side of things, so that's I probably lean
• 52:04
  Speaker 6: Jordan Kyrou if I'm choosing between those two guys, but
• 52:06
  Speaker 6: either one of them, I would do it.
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: And then number one on the list is a guy
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: that because of previous stuff, I don't think he's willing
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: to come here. Okay, but it is another New York
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: Ranger and it's Vincent Troichek. Ooh, you will want to
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: move number seven for Vincent Troicheck if he's willing to
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: come to Seattle.
• 52:22
  Speaker 5: Umm, I would be willing to do it.
• 52:25
  Speaker 6: But he's thirty two or thirty two, yeah, so I
• 52:29
  Speaker 6: guess he's very similar to Meeka's avantage At, but again
• 52:31
  Speaker 6: doesn't have the high end talent that Mika's Avantajead does.
• 52:36
  Speaker 6: I like him as a player, I really really do,
• 52:38
  Speaker 6: and I think his production is transferable to almost any team.
• 52:42
  Speaker 6: I just don't know if I probably would still move
• 52:47
  Speaker 6: the seven pick. Yes, my I would have other players
• 52:50
  Speaker 6: ahead of him for doing it, but I still would
• 52:52
  Speaker 6: move that if that was the best option.
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: So all those players good players. Yeah, guys who would
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: be on the first line for the Kraken, the guys
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: who would be expected. I think all of those guys
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: outside of the one defenseman that we actually talked about
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: to score the most points for them.
• 53:07
  Speaker 6: Right, and that's to be I'm so glad you brought
• 53:10
  Speaker 6: that up, would be on the Krakens first line. That
• 53:13
  Speaker 6: is the number one thing that I think they need
• 53:16
  Speaker 6: this year. And I'm not talking bringing back Bobby McMahon
• 53:19
  Speaker 6: because he would be on your first line.
• 53:20
  Speaker 5: Someone. You need to have a different top line than
• 53:22
  Speaker 5: you did last year.
• 53:23
  Speaker 2: I totally agree. Like whether it's at.
• 53:25
  Speaker 6: Right wing for Jordan every to move him down, whether
• 53:27
  Speaker 6: it's at center for Mattey Veneers to move him down,
• 53:29
  Speaker 6: or whether it's at left for Bobby McMahon to move
• 53:32
  Speaker 6: him down, right, I think you need to have a
• 53:34
  Speaker 6: different top line than you did last year. And that
• 53:36
  Speaker 6: kind of would be because I believe in the rest
• 53:38
  Speaker 6: of the rosters is in a decent place right and
• 53:41
  Speaker 6: I believe in the structure.
• 53:42
  Speaker 5: I believe in the goaltending.
• 53:43
  Speaker 6: I think the defenseman corps is good, but you need
• 53:46
  Speaker 6: someone else to kind of slott into that top line.
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: And ultimately that is great. Ultimately making a move like
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: that would I think put them in much stronger position
• 53:57
  Speaker 1: for the postseason. But it doesn't move the needle. We're
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: not talking about the crack and being Cup contenders. And
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: that's why yesterday is so disappointing, because sure, there's only
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: a seven point five percent chance, but there was the
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: seven point five percent chance of you getting into that
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: position to pick up the guy that puts you into
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: not Cup contention right away, but like Cup contention for
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: a while, like the Gavin McKenna or the Ivan Stenberg's.
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: Are those type of guys that could be difference makers
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: that sell jerseys to and let's be honest, that all
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: matters too. They're not gonna get a guy like that.
• 54:36
  Speaker 6: Let me push back a little bit, Please do, because
• 54:40
  Speaker 6: I think it's kind of a slippery slope with the Kraken.
• 54:42
  Speaker 6: They're in this place where I believe the foundations of
• 54:47
  Speaker 6: the roster are there and if they were to bring
• 54:50
  Speaker 6: in one or two of those guys that we just
• 54:53
  Speaker 6: listed off, I think it changes kind of the grand
• 54:56
  Speaker 6: scheme of their franchise even more so than a pick.
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: So one or two some of those guys. I agree
• 55:01
  Speaker 1: with you there, But can they do that? They could,
• 55:04
  Speaker 1: I don't know if they will.
• 55:05
  Speaker 2: Okay, that's fair.
• 55:07
  Speaker 6: They've been pretty gun shy in giving away first round picks,
• 55:13
  Speaker 6: especially in the top ten. Sure, and you know, kind
• 55:16
  Speaker 6: of going forward a little bit, but it's one of
• 55:18
  Speaker 6: those things where if you do that, have a successful season,
• 55:22
  Speaker 6: make the playoffs, kind of you know, show that there's
• 55:24
  Speaker 6: some juice in this franchise. Yeah, more guys will want
• 55:27
  Speaker 6: to come here. It's kind of going to generate more
• 55:29
  Speaker 6: name in the hockey sphere. Like Brandon Montors talked about
• 55:32
  Speaker 6: that before when he was choosing his free agent destination.
• 55:35
  Speaker 6: He didn't know anything about Seattle and he's like, why
• 55:37
  Speaker 6: does no one know about this place? It's true, they
• 55:40
  Speaker 6: do everything top class in the organization in terms of
• 55:42
  Speaker 6: the facilities and the travel and the you know, kind
• 55:45
  Speaker 6: of helping out the families and all that stuff that
• 55:48
  Speaker 6: matters to hockey players, but they just don't know about Seattle,
• 55:51
  Speaker 6: so that just having one, you know, of those bigger
• 55:57
  Speaker 6: and talent guys come in and show that this team
• 56:00
  Speaker 6: can be successful, which I think, honestly, that's why it's
• 56:03
  Speaker 6: so frustrating where they've been is because they're I think
• 56:06
  Speaker 6: they're one of those big time players away from being
• 56:09
  Speaker 6: in that category. It's not like this team is flaming out.
• 56:13
  Speaker 6: And I'll give you the Connor Berdard example. Everyone thought
• 56:16
  Speaker 6: he would be a franchise changing player. They still are
• 56:18
  Speaker 6: the one of the worst teams in the NHL, which
• 56:20
  Speaker 6: I still think they're going to be good next year,
• 56:21
  Speaker 6: of course, but it's not as easy as just hang
• 56:25
  Speaker 6: one overall pick and all of a sudden that things
• 56:26
  Speaker 6: are hunky dory.
• 56:27
  Speaker 2: Now that's a really good point.
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: We had an interesting conversation in the bullpen before the
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: show that has very little to do about hockey, but
• 56:36
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• 57:03
  Speaker 2: A lot of fun texts there.
• 57:04
  Speaker 1: And by the way, four nine, four or five to one,
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: what would you be willing to move the number seven
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: pick for? Would you would prefer to see it moved
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: up for that second or third pick? The number one
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: pick is not available, that ain't happening, but would you
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: prefer to see it move? For a veteran player, do
• 57:21
  Speaker 1: you want to see the Kraken in rebuild mode which
• 57:24
  Speaker 1: is a nice way of saying tanking, or do you
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: want to see them go get a guy and make
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: a playoff run. So we were having a pretty interesting
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: conversation before the show. We were talking about places to
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: go to brunch, places that can be you know, fun,
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: little places to go.
• 57:41
  Speaker 2: Anders, you're gonna be going to brunch and then going Sunday. Yes, yeah,
• 57:45
  Speaker 2: my wife's first Mother's Day. Oh that's the best.
• 57:47
  Speaker 6: It's gonna be fun. I have a lot of pressure
• 57:49
  Speaker 6: on me right now. I'm excited to see what happens.
• 57:53
  Speaker 2: A lot of pressure.
• 57:54
  Speaker 1: But I have faith in you, and I have faith
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: that the little guy is gonna be awesome and it's
• 58:00
  Speaker 1: going to be a wonderful little event. But I was
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: talking to Andrews about some nice restaurants around town, and
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: there are just so many nice restaurants.
• 58:10
  Speaker 5: In underrated restaurants in Seattle, way underrated.
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: And the thing that's underrated is like any type of
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: food you can go get in Seattle, there's wide range,
• 58:20
  Speaker 1: wide range, great Italian, great Mexican, great, great steakhouses, like
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: some of the very very best.
• 58:27
  Speaker 2: Ol goatcha, are you listening? Are you hearing me? The
• 58:30
  Speaker 2: sponsorship has to happen.
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: But I talked to Andrews about the best restaurant that
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: I've been into Ben TuS in Seattle is a place
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: called canleass And if you're not familiar with Canos, it
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: is a very hointy toity place. It is a place
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: that costs a lot of money. It was a one
• 58:49
  Speaker 1: cent a lifetime thing for me, for sure. But just
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: this beautiful view over Aurora Avenue of the Water, one
• 58:56
  Speaker 1: of the best wine lists in the country.
• 58:59
  Speaker 5: Nice.
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: Our friend JESSEVN McIntyre happened to chime in while we
• 59:03
  Speaker 1: were talking about it. I went on a first date
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: there and I was so shocked. First of all, Jessamine,
• 59:13
  Speaker 1: this speaks to the quality that jessse beIN provides You're
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: not just taking anybody to a freakin' a five star
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: restaurant for this type of thing.
• 59:24
  Speaker 2: But four nine four or five one Tacoma Dodge text line.
• 59:27
  Speaker 1: I got to know the best and worst first dates
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: that you guys have had because Jess and I wish
• 59:34
  Speaker 1: she was here to defend herself, but she's working on
• 59:36
  Speaker 1: about a billion other things right now. Said that it
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: was very awkward for that first date to be at
• 59:43
  Speaker 1: candless because it created created a lot of I mean,
• 59:48
  Speaker 1: that's a lot for a first date.
• 59:50
  Speaker 2: That is a lot.
• 59:51
  Speaker 5: And then anders, Yeah, you told me I might have
• 59:54
  Speaker 5: won up to her.
• 59:55
  Speaker 2: You one up to her. Where did you take your
• 59:57
  Speaker 2: wife on your third date? Third date?
• 59:58
  Speaker 6: Yeah, all right, I took her to a wedding, but
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 6: as a plus one.
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 1: Well sure it'd be weird if you wedding crash data. Yeah.
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 6: But like the thing about it was like, Okay, I'm thinking,
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 6: you know, I have this wedding coming up, I'm thinking
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 6: about things to do with uh, you know, to take
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 6: her out, you know, and have some fun. It's sure
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 6: trying to show that I have some versatility instead of
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 6: just you know, the casual dinner date. You know, I uh,
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 6: I have this wedding coming up, like, hey, that's perfect opportunity,
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 6: you know what I mean. And I kind of put
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 6: out in my head that are blocked out of my
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 6: head that this was involving my entire family. Entire family.
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 6: It's not just like one of my friend's weddings that
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 6: you know, we don't know one there and it's just
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 6: a pretty casual situation. No, it's it's my aunt getting married.
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 6: Uh and literally my entire mom's side of the family
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 6: was there. She and she's an Irish Catholic, so she
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 6: has five siblings, grandparents, a bunch of cousins. Everywhere you're
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 6: you're meeting the whole family. Augustina on our third date.
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 6: So I kind of threw into the fire a little
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 6: bit on that one, especially someone who had been in
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 6: America for let's I think about just six weeks at
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 6: that point. So but she handled herself very well. She
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 6: was the star of the show. Even the bride said
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 6: she was the star of the show. And obviously it
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 6: all worked out because you know, we're married now we
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 6: have our wonderful little Austin.
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 1: So so here's what I'll say, high risk Kyrieward, very
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 1: high risky reward because you know, and you know what
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 1: on a third day too, it's not like it's like,
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 1: you know, you couldn't Did you know you were going
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 1: to marry her?
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 5: Uh? I think so?
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 6: Yeah, by that point it wasn't a I mean it
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 6: was hard because well, we're going to get into my
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 6: relationship history here.
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 5: Yeah, why not?
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 6: She was visiting as an au pair, right, So she
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 6: had told me pretty quickly that hey, I'm only here
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 6: for a year, so don't get too attached.
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 2: Wow, funny how that works exactly.
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 6: So like in my head, I'm just like, let's take
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 6: her around town and do some stuff, you know.
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 1: So for every Ross and Emily, there is a Anders
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 1: and Augustina's true, that's true.
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 7: So I was.
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 1: I've been thinking about this too. The high reward part
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 1: is you get to see like every part of you
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 1: in that type of thing, Like you get you see
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 1: you how you handle social situations. Hopefully she saw you dancing,
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 1: she got a chance to see.
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 4: Well.
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 6: The reception was just in my aunt's house, so it's
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 6: pretty like I said, it basically was like a giant
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 6: family dinner, but.
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 1: More a little more intimate. Yeah, okay, yeah, well it
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 1: was bigger, sure, you know what I mean for more formal. Yeah,
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 1: that's a better word for it. Yeah, that's an interesting
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 1: one and third date though, that's that's taken bold, That's
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 1: that's bold.
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 2: Man.
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 6: She makes fun of me for every single time. She's like, oh, yeah,
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 6: that's nothing compared to me. When I had my third
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 6: day with Anders, he took me to meet his entire family, Like, yeah,
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 6: I know I always bad, but I also don't.
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 5: At the same time, we.
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 1: Have some great texts that I can't rate to read
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 1: already at two twenty for sure? Do you have a
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 1: most awkward first date?
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 13: Uh?
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 5: Oh, I don't think so. I have only strong game,
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 5: Chris Croffords, only strong game.
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 2: Strong game.
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 5: Yeah, even if it's awkward, I find a way to
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 5: make it fun.
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 1: Well that's good, right, like, and that's ultimately what it's
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 1: supposed to be. And I think you know, that's one
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 1: of these things these dating apps have kind of, I
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 1: don't want to say ruined, but have changed a little bit.
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 5: Funny because you know how me and Augustina met how
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 5: on the dating apps?
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 2: Well how about that exactly?
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 1: We won't say which one because they're not sponsoring the show,
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 1: but it is help us out you got to help
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  Speaker 1: us out. But you know, it is interesting though, because
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  Speaker 1: it is a way to get to know somebody a
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  Speaker 1: little bit, even though you just really never know them
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: until you get them in person, right, You just never
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 1: truly know. But I got to tell you here in
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 1: a first date at Canless is just absolutely insane.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I've never been there, but I've seen the pictures.
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  Speaker 2: Oh it's so gorgeous.
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  Speaker 5: It looks amazing.
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  Speaker 6: But also I feel like that's like I don't know
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 6: what the guy was thinking in that situation, like, wow,
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 6: first date. Yeah, I mean, did you know she was
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 6: the one without even knowing? Like what's going on there?
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  Speaker 1: It's interesting because we don't wasn't Mike, because we didn't
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  Speaker 1: hear about a second day?
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  Speaker 5: That's true, that's fair.
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  Speaker 2: Four nine four or five one is a wedding? A
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  Speaker 2: good date?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Number one okay, and number two. I want to hear
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 1: about those awkward first.
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  Speaker 5: Dates or your best first date, Like what's your go
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  Speaker 5: to first date spot?
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  Speaker 1: Oh boy, you know there's this place called the International
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  Speaker 2: A really good men. We'll talk a little bit more
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  Speaker 1: Why Chris Crawford in for I in Furness hockey game
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  Speaker 1: last night that I was really looking forward to that
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 1: kind of turned into a little bit of a dundy.
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 1: The colorad Avalanche S beat the Minnesota Wild five to
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 1: two to take a two game to nothing lead, and Anders,
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 1: you can vouch for this. I did predict that the
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 1: Wild would win this series.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think the Wild are going to win this
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 2: series anymore.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, they lost both games at Colorado, so they
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 6: easily win both games at home.
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 1: They say it's not a series until the road team wins, right, So,
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 1: but I will tell you this, they just looked like
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 1: so much better of a hockey team last night and
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 1: did and you know what, that's not even an insult
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 1: to Minnesota. It's a huge compliment to how deep Colorado is.
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 1: They just have Nathan McKinnon is just such a superstar,
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 1: it really is, because you have one of the two
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 1: or three best centers in hockey, maybe the best defenseman
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 1: in hockey, and a whole heck of a lot around
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  Speaker 1: those guys as well.
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  Speaker 5: And Minnesota's good.
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 2: Minnesota's good.
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 1: The big thing here, of course, And we talked about
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 1: it yesterday, the switch to gold, to the switch of
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 1: the goalies. And I don't think that guphisin was bad. No,
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 1: I think you probably got to stick with Gustafson in
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 1: Game three now probably yes, yeah, yes, yeah, And it
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 1: could work out. It could work out. And being in
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 1: Minnesota's really gonna help there.
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  Speaker 5: But Colorraade is such a hard team to be at home.
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 5: For whatever reason.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's altitude doesn't hurt at.
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  Speaker 6: No matter what sport it is, Colorado always has, or
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 6: Colorado or Denver or whatever always has such a big
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 6: home field advantager, home court advantager, like it's I don't
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 6: know what it is. In basketball, the Nuggets are always
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 6: known for being one of the best home teams. Same
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 6: thing with the Broncos. And football, and same thing for
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 6: whatever reason with Colorado Rockies, even though they suck, sure
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 6: they end up being much better at home than they
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 6: are on the road.
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  Speaker 1: And what they do too is those teams you pay
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 1: for that trip to Colorado for a while, right because
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 1: you just there's no adjusting to that altitude, right, There
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 1: just is no adjusting to that altitude. But man, oh man,
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 1: I just think Colorado right now looks. I mean, the
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 1: Kings were not a legitimate playoff team, so I don't
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 1: want to take too much out of that, no, but
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 1: what they've done over these like winning all three of
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 1: these are both of these games by three goals, you know, yeah,
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 1: it's that's really impressive. I hope Minnesota comes out fighting,
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 1: and I think they will. You know, even in the loss,
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 1: you got to see that Caprizovo was able to score
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 1: a goal. And there's some really good hockey players on Minnesota.
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 1: But I just think Colorado might be just a little
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 1: too good for these teams right now. And also it's
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 1: feasible Minnesota is like a year away. Like I could
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 1: see that Minnesota is maybe a team that I would
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 1: expect them to be better next year.
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  Speaker 2: Ye Like, if you're somebody who does the betting.
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 1: I would be in on the Wild, depending on what
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 1: the odds are, of course, but I can see the
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 1: Wild being one of the favorites next year, of course,
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 1: depending on how the roster looks too.
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 6: I have a question for you. Sure, I think the
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 6: Wild are a better team than the Stars, but I
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 6: think the Stars are a better matchup for the Avalanche.
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 2: You agree, totally agree, totally agree.
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 1: And some of that it's based on playoff experience too,
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 1: you know, just the fact that they have been there
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 1: for a very long time and that matters that ultimately.
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 1: I think that's the main reason why the Stars were
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 1: able to win that series against the Krack in a
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 1: couple of years ago, because there were so many guys
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 1: who had been there before, and the Kraken outside of
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 1: Groob Hour really hadn't. There was so little playoff experience.
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 1: But I don't want to spend too much time talking
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 1: about something that happened four years ago. But I loved it,
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 1: and I what's what I want to see the Krack
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 1: and do again Eastern Conference. I still feel like so
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 1: that series starts today, right, we got Buffalo against Montreal.
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 1: That's going to be a really interesting series to watch,
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 1: and one way or another, we're going to have a
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 1: surprise team in the Eastern Conference finals and that's always fun.
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 6: Yeah yeah, I mean, is Buffalo still surprises play so
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 6: coming into the year, okay, yeah, And you know what
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 6: every series Buffalo wins now is a little bit of
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 6: a surprise.
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 1: They hadn't done it since two thousand and seven, so like,
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 1: but you're right, the Sabers have easily been the best
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 1: team uh in the Eastern Conference to me, like for
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 1: the overwhelming majority of the year too. And you know,
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 1: if you're a Kraken fan, that's something that you can
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 1: take a look at and say, there's our building block,
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 1: there's our reason for hope. Buffalo Buffalo, I think, right,
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 1: Because would you say Buffalo has a traditional superstar.
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 6: I'd think they have two of them, two of them,
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 6: Tje Thompson and Rasmustolian.
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 1: But would you put them in the same skill level
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 1: as a Nathan McKinnon or no, No.
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 6: But it's miles ahead of what the Crack can have,
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 6: like not even close. They're not even close. There's no
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 6: one that touches those guys.
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 2: That's fair, that's fair.
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, yeah, but you know, maybe Berkeley Catton
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 1: can be that guy.
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 6: I mean, I'm tired of hoping that.
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 2: That's a great point.
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 6: We wanted mant e Veneers to be that guy. He
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 6: hasn't hasn't been replicated his rookie year. Nope, right, just
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 6: has never been good. No. And I know Berkerfatt just
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 6: had his first year, so I think he has the
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 6: best chance out of all three of those guys.
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't know. We'll see.
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 2: It's gonna be interesting to watch. Who are you rooting? Oh,
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 2: you're rooting for Buffalo.
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 6: For sure, Buffalo for sure, and then Minnesota on the
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 6: other side. I really hope they make it a series
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 6: at least.
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 1: That is a a TV rating, one that I don't
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 1: think Gary Bettman would enjoy all that much.
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 2: But at the same time.
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 5: Those two teams are fun.
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 2: They're fun to watch. They are fun to watch.
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 1: Like, while I have mentioned that I am kind of
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 1: rooting for the Hurricanes to have their success, and Andrews
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 1: has given a big thumbs up and a smiley face
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 1: and offering me fifty thousand.
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 6: For those of you who are looking, I'm gonna wait
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 6: for this camera to switch to me.
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 5: It is a thumbs down. Now, there you go.
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 1: It's better than the motion you were making the other
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 1: day when I was talking very true.
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 2: Carol had hurricanes.
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mooned you.
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 1: But I would have no. Yeah, you sure did, very
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 1: translucent attack.
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 2: I boy. I would love to see Buffalo make it
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 2: to the Stanley Cup finals.
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it'd be fun.
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 1: Just would be imagine if you got a Buffalo Sabers
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 1: Stanley Cup Final and then you've got a Buffalo Bills
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 1: playing the Seattle Seahawks in the Super Bowl, Like, just
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 1: what kind of crazy that'd be fun you could have
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 1: in there. I would root for them to lose said
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 1: Super Bowl very badly, but i'd like to see him back.
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 1: I would like to see him go for instead of
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 1: one for the thumb, one for the AFC Consolation Prize for.
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 2: The Buffalo Bills exactly.
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 5: That's a good point.
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, No, it would be because they went to four
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 1: straight and they lost all four, So it would be
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 1: that that pinky I suppose I think you go in
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 1: reverse order for the.
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 6: Well, if I'm losing, me put it this way. Yeah,
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 6: the Seahawks are gonna lose to anyone. Buffalo, it's Buffalo. Yeah,
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 6: I'd be the most okay with that.
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 1: I a thousand percent agree with that. Hey, that's a
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 1: perfect segue because you're going to be the most okay
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 1: with the Buffalo Bills losing to the Seahawks, or if
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 1: the Seahawks losing to the Buffalo Bills.
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 6: None, not like Okay, let me put I'm not okay
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 6: with it, but I'm the most okay.
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 1: It's the result that you would mind the most bearable, bearable.
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you the result i'd find the most
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 1: bearable for the Seahawks first opponent. Next on Sports Radio
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  Speaker 1: The Mariners dropped their second game of the series yesterday
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 1: against the Atlanta Braves three to two.
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 2: Final game of the series is today. MLB.
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  Speaker 1: The Houston Astros infielder Carlos Korea, Everyone's favorite Houston Astro,
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  Speaker 1: fortunately has suffered a torn tendon.
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 2: In his left ankle and will undergo season.
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  Speaker 1: And fortunately, if I said unfortunately, I was going to
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 1: make a joke that Anders has a candle that is
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 1: just light light for him, and he's just very, very
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 1: sad about this whole thing. In actual sad news, Ted Turner,
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  Speaker 1: the former owner of the Atlanta Braves and the Hawks,
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 1: who made his mark as a media mogul and a philanthropist,
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  Speaker 1: has died at the age of eighty seven. I cannot
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  Speaker 1: tell you how many games I got to watch on
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 1: TBS as a kid because of Ted Turner. He kind
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 1: of changed the entire television landscape and he was a
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  Speaker 1: Two time Major champion Bryson des Chambe said Tuesday that
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  Speaker 1: Chris Crawford in for Ian Furness. I love this song
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  Speaker 1: so much, such a huge part of my childhood. Seeing
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 1: these highlights from from Mike Jackson, Mike what the heck
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 1: was his name? Tom Jackson and Chris Berman getting old?
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 1: I'm getting old, but seeing these highlights and this music
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 1: behind it, back back back man really brings me back.
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 1: You know what, The puns that dude made were awesome.
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 5: He was fun.
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 2: He was fun.
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 1: There are some highlights that suggest that Chris Berman maybe
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 1: wasn't always the nicest human being in the whole world.
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 2: But you know what, none of us are.
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 1: I can show you highlights of every single person in
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 1: the world and show you their low moments. And Chris
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 1: Berman did a really nice job for a really nice
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 1: time or very long time. So, speaking of nice moments,
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 1: the Seattle Seahawks winning the super Bowl, that was a
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 1: pretty nice moment. Yes, I had a pretty good time
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 1: watching him out there. Still can't believe I got to
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 1: go to the game. Yeah, it's still one of the
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 1: coolest things that I've ever gotten to do. And yeah,
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 1: you know what, I'm jealous of most of the things
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 1: in your life, Anders, so you could be jealous of
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 1: the one thing in my life. I had a blast.
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 1: And the fun thing that comes with winning the Super
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 1: Bowl is that you get normally the first game of
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 1: the year on a Thursday. This year, it's gonna be
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 1: on a Wednesday because of Australia. And there's a couple
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 1: of things there. Number one, not only is the game
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 1: on a Wednesday, because it's between the San Francisco forty
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 1: nine ers in Los Angeles Rams.
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 7: Yep.
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 1: The two teams that I think would make the most
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 1: sense for them to play in the first game of
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 1: the season are completely off the board.
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 2: It's just gone. Are you disappointed by that?
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 5: No, I don't think. To be honest, I'm not a
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 5: huge fan of scheduled talk in general.
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 2: Oh well, this is gonna suck.
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 6: Great, But if I'm forced to play the game a
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 6: little bit, sure. I don't think you have to start
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 6: off the season against a division rival. I think you
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 6: can kind of save those for you know, a big,
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 6: big game in terms of the matchup can be a
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 6: different time of This doesn't have to be the first game.
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 6: The first game is going to be a big game anyway.
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 6: I haven't actually looked what divisions are they playing this
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 6: year besides obviously the NFC West.
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 2: So I'll read you what their home schedule is going
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 2: to be.
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 5: Okay, not in order, obviously, this is in order.
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  Speaker 2: Of the division.
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 1: Opponents we know will be the Arizona Cardinals, the Los
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 1: Angeles Rams in the San Francisco forty nine ers.
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 5: So what other divisions in football are we playing?
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 1: Let me just read the schedule part because this will
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 1: kind of tell you. Okay, okay, sorry, that's not a
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 1: way ruder than it was supposed to be. I hate
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 1: you Dallas, New York Giants, Kansas City Chiefs. So they
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 1: Los Angeles Chargers, Chicago Bears, New England Patriots are your
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 1: home opponents next year, Okay, okay, on the road Arizona,
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 1: Los Angeles and San Francisco, and then Philadelphia and Washington.
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 1: So they played the NFC East. The reason why I
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 1: want to do that is because I didn't know.
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 6: I think that was the case, but I didn't want
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 6: to toss you fully under the bus den.
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 1: We're in Los Angeles on the road as well, Carolina,
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 1: and that's it. So looking at that, I will rule
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 1: out right now they will not play the Arizona Cardinals
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 1: the first week of this t after how poor that
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 1: Super Bowl went, I don't think they're going to play
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 1: the Patriots in the first game of the season.
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 5: I could see it.
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 1: It's feasible because it will be huge television ratings anytime
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 1: you have the Patriots and you have the Super Bowl champion.
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 1: But I feel like they may have felt that game
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 1: wasn't competitive enough. And competitively, I just like to add
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 1: extra syllables to words. It's a lot of fun. I
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 1: get paid by syllable. That's how this works. It's a
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 1: lot of fun. So that really leaves and we know
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 1: it won't be San Francisco and Los Angeles because they're
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 1: going to be playing in Australia, like we talked about.
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 1: So your realistic options for the home game are the
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 1: Chicago Bears, the Patriots, I guess, the Chargers, the Dallas Cowboys,
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 1: the Kansas.
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 5: City Chiefs Chiefs.
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 1: So if the Chiefs have Patrick Mahomes healthy, I think
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 1: that's what the game is going to be.
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 5: Yep, Kenneth Walker against his former team.
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 1: And to be fair, we have one week until the
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 1: schedule comes out, so they don't know. But there I
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 1: guarantee you someone's talking to Kansas City right now about like, Hey,
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 1: what's going on?
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 2: What's going on?
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 1: I'm going to predict that the game is against the Bears.
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 1: I think that you have a team that went got
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 1: very close to going to the NFC Championship, that has
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 1: a star young quarterback who is becoming more and more
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 1: popular in the league in a massive market. So you
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 1: get the Super Bowl champion against number three Chicago Bears.
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 1: But that's not the game I want. I want the
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 1: game against the Chargers and Jim Harbaugh. I think that's
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 1: the most fascinating style matchup, and I think it's the
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 1: most fun to have a potential game against one of
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 1: the most hated Seattle people in Isn't.
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 4: That kind of gone with Pete going?
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 3: Though?
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 1: I don't know if it is or not. I know
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 1: there are a lot of people who still really don't
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 1: like that guy. I know there are now.
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 4: I thought he kind of became funny after a while.
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 2: Well, you know, it helps him.
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 1: Not being in your division, that certainly helps, and being
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 1: completely out of your sport helped, I think a little
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 1: bit too.
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 2: But I know a lot of Husky fans who don't
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 2: like Jim Harbai either.
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 5: Really.
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, well, the guy who coached.
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 3: The h the championship, that that little event, well that's fair, Yeah,
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 3: that's fair, But it was the team.
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 2: It's fair. It's fair.
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 1: And but I just think and it would be a
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 1: fun little I like the idea of a non conference
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 1: game to open the year. I like the idea of
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 1: playing against because I think it's more fun when the
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 1: division rivalry games are happening later in the year, when
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 1: teams are either at their best or at their worst,
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 1: and you kind of get the most realistic version. Some
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 1: text are saying they already announced that it's going it'd.
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 2: Be the Bears. They didn't. I didn't think so.
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 5: No, a lot of people.
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 4: It's one person is saying it over all.
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 5: Actually, okay, well, look they have not officially announced to you.
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 7: Now.
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 1: It is interesting that that text is coming from an
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 1: Adam shift shaft shifter area. Oh so you know it
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 1: could be No, but I think that that would be
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 1: the most fun. Man, if Patrick Mahomes is healthy, they
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 1: really would love to have that game.
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 1: And Kenneth Walker, like you mentioned, going up against his
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 1: one of the greatest tight ends to ever play the
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 1: game as well. I could also see Dallas. They love
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 1: to put Dallas in these types of games.
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 5: I could see it.
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 6: You have DeMarcus Lawrence and Dante Fowler former Dallas cow
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 6: I'm just thinking about revenge.
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 2: I love revenge stuff and is.
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 6: A former staffer on the Cowboys, so that that's another
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 6: kind of connection that you can draw there. Plus, everyone
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 6: is enamored for whatever reason with the Cowboys draft, and
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 6: it's like, Okay, let's put them up to the test
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 6: against the Super Bowl championship one. Yeah, see what it's like. Yeah, yeah,
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 6: I could see Dallas for sure.
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 1: For sure. But ultimately I do think it's going to
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 1: be the Bears. I just I think if they had
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 1: their druthers and if it wasn't for this Australia game,
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 1: Seahawks Rams, if I could bet on it would have
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 1: been that first game, like just because they have been
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 1: such a long term rivalry, you know, San Francisco I
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 1: think would be in that conversation as well.
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 2: For sure.
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 6: I'm sorry they did that last year, though I don't
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 6: know if they would do the same first game of
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 6: the season Tiers in a round.
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 2: Oh, that's a good point. That's a good point.
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, because the Seahawks did open against the forty nine ers.
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 2: And lost and lost.
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 6: By the way, who at that point in the season,
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 6: who thought the Seahwks would win the Super Bowl?
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 1: I will tell you we went Live un Lockdown after
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 1: that game, and we were not talking about, well, they're
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 1: still the Super Bowl favorites.
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 2: I guarantee we weren't having that conversa.
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 5: We were.
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 1: We were having a lot of conversations about the cornerback.
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 1: We were having a lot of conversations about if this
• 1:22:59
  Speaker 1: offense was gonna be able to score enough points and
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 1: everything worked out pretty okay. And ultimately I get why
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 1: people don't like schedule talk because you just don't know,
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 1: especially in the sport like the NFL. Just how many
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 1: times have we seen teams who look like they are
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 1: not going to be contenders that end up doing what
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 1: they do? Most people had the Seahawks finishing fourth into
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 1: division last year that I talked to so and we
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 1: have also seen those teams that I always think back to.
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 1: Do you guys remember when the Eagles signed like seven
• 1:23:33
  Speaker 1: marquee free agents and everybody was just talking about them
• 1:23:36
  Speaker 1: being like a potential fifteen to one team back then
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 1: and they sucked out loud. We see this in the NFL,
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 1: I think more than any other sport because injuries and
• 1:23:46
  Speaker 1: cohesion play as much of a factor as anything else.
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 1: But it's still kind of fun to see these schedules
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 1: that come out too.
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean also, which tickets are you gonna buy? Like,
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 3: if you're not a season ticket holder, which only a
• 1:23:59
  Speaker 3: select for you are in a market as big as Seattle,
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 3: you know, who do.
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 4: You want to see?
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 3: Maybe you have a favorite player who doesn't play for
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 3: your team. Maybe you know you want to experience seeing
• 1:24:11
  Speaker 3: greatness if there's X y Z player coming to your
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 3: city and there is no load management in the NFL,
• 1:24:18
  Speaker 3: so they will be playing if healthy. And so I
• 1:24:21
  Speaker 3: do like I like that aspect of people marking their
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 3: calendars for something.
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 4: And also there's a lot.
• 1:24:28
  Speaker 3: Of people might not be Seahawks fans in this town
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 3: because Seattle is a very transient city. There's a lot
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 3: of tracks I should say transplants here from other markets.
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 3: So I think it creates a lot of fun for
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 3: a lot of different reasons. And then we also get
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 3: to get our sharpies out and start, you know, deciding
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 3: which ones we go win lost when when you.
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 5: Now, that's when I like scheduled talk.
• 1:24:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we had fun doing that with Robs last year.
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 1: And you know what, shout out to Rob rang for
• 1:25:02
  Speaker 1: not only being an awesome scout, an awesome guest human everything.
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 10: Dude.
• 1:25:09
  Speaker 2: It's good at his work because.
• 1:25:10
  Speaker 1: That dude, I believe he predicted fourteen to three when
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 1: we were doing our schedules stuff. That's really impressive. He
• 1:25:18
  Speaker 1: didn't get every game right, but he's got it.
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 6: He thought they were Super Bowl like contenders, like from
• 1:25:23
  Speaker 6: the beginning of the season.
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 1: And that's not a case of Rob rang being a
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 1: homer the opposite. He will be as honest with you
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 1: about what's happening with that team as anybody. It is
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 1: interesting to looking at like it's very easy to predict
• 1:25:37
  Speaker 1: some of these games being Sunday night football, Monday night
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 1: football games. The Giants game at home, I will almost
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 1: guarantee is either Sunday night or Monday night, like just
• 1:25:46
  Speaker 1: because really they love putting those two teams from across
• 1:25:51
  Speaker 1: that have bigger markets like on that game, and we've
• 1:25:54
  Speaker 1: seen Seahawks Giants on a Monday night football game before.
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 1: That's when Devin Witherspoon made his really his announcement to
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 1: the league with that interception of if I believe it
• 1:26:04
  Speaker 1: was Eli Manning at that point, so you know, no,
• 1:26:07
  Speaker 1: it couldn't have been Eli Manning.
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 2: Who was that?
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 5: Daniel Jones Danny Dimes, Danny Dimes, same player.
• 1:26:12
  Speaker 6: But also I thought that was that was a Sunday game,
• 1:26:14
  Speaker 6: just a regular Sunday game a couple of years ago.
• 1:26:16
  Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure was Monday Night because I seem to
• 1:26:18
  Speaker 1: remember Joe Buck announced it that thing.
• 1:26:21
  Speaker 5: Was that before he moved to ESPN. I think so, No,
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 5: I don't know, Well.
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 2: There you go, there you go.
• 1:26:26
  Speaker 1: Anyway, you could definitely picture a game against the Eagles
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 1: on primetime. You can picture games the Patriots game.
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 2: Now.
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 1: The other thing is CBS will try to protect some
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 1: of these games and they'll say, hey, we want this
• 1:26:39
  Speaker 1: game to be protected at the four or five thing.
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 1: That's something just you know about this better than anybody.
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 1: They protect these games like the NBC and those guys
• 1:26:50
  Speaker 1: get their choices a little bit, but CBS and Fox
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 1: are where the money ultimately comes in. And if they
• 1:26:57
  Speaker 1: text them text them, I picture it like, hey you
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 1: up that type of thing. No, it's usually a pretty
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 1: nighe conversation that says, look, we need these Marquee games.
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 2: To be on at one oh five and four oh five.
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, so some of those games will get protected.
• 1:27:12
  Speaker 1: I will set the over under though, for Seahawks at
• 1:27:15
  Speaker 1: four and a half primetime games.
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, I think they're gonna max out this year.
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 3: I mean, why why wouldn't you, especially because I don't
• 1:27:24
  Speaker 3: think we had the same exodus as we did after
• 1:27:26
  Speaker 3: they won the twenty Well it was the twenty thirteen season,
• 1:27:30
  Speaker 3: but there's twenty fourteen Super Bowl.
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 4: Forty eight in New York.
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 3: There's a lot more retention here than I have seen
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 3: in the past. Plus I'm really excited to see what
• 1:27:43
  Speaker 3: Dante Fowler Junior still has left in the tank. And
• 1:27:46
  Speaker 3: so just because they're they're so young, what are they
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 3: the second youngest team in the league. I mean, obviously,
• 1:27:53
  Speaker 3: if we're talking about last year's team, they are one
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 3: of the youngest rosters in the league, which is why
• 1:27:58
  Speaker 3: they have the ability to keep all of them.
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 9: That.
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 3: I think it's going to be pretty high and and
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 3: they're fun.
• 1:28:06
  Speaker 4: They're fun.
• 1:28:06
  Speaker 3: That the Sam Darnold resurgence, going from Jets cast off
• 1:28:11
  Speaker 3: to Vikings reject which is ridiculous. I have Viking fan
• 1:28:15
  Speaker 3: friends who are not happy about watching this, and then
• 1:28:19
  Speaker 3: all of a sudden he comes here and goes, yeah,
• 1:28:20
  Speaker 3: I can play. Yeah, Like he's so chill too, He's
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 3: like the coolest dude.
• 1:28:27
  Speaker 4: Can you played for the Jets.
• 1:28:29
  Speaker 6: I have kind of a different view on the at
• 1:28:31
  Speaker 6: least the national narrative around the Sea. The reasoning why
• 1:28:35
  Speaker 6: is because everyone coming out of the draft, they're not
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 6: hyping the Seahawks, hyping the Rams like they think oh
• 1:28:41
  Speaker 6: Rams are the best team in the NFL.
• 1:28:43
  Speaker 4: I see that, though.
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 6: But a team that just won the Super Bowl, like
• 1:28:47
  Speaker 6: you said, yes, that is returning almost everyone by most evaluations,
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 6: had a very very good NFL draft, and it was
• 1:28:55
  Speaker 6: already a young team to begin with, why aren't you
• 1:28:57
  Speaker 6: hyping that team?
• 1:28:59
  Speaker 4: Sorry?
• 1:28:59
  Speaker 5: No, you again?
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 6: And I think the big reason is because they don't
• 1:29:02
  Speaker 6: really have the marquee names that everyone knows. They don't
• 1:29:06
  Speaker 6: have the Micah Parsons, they don't have the the Matthew Stafford's,
• 1:29:11
  Speaker 6: the Pukakuas, the Devonte Adams.
• 1:29:15
  Speaker 2: That's question.
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 6: But in general, yeah, no, I know what you're saying,
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 6: And a lot of it has to do with Alaska South.
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 6: We already know that, sure, But I think in general,
• 1:29:24
  Speaker 6: like the way the Seahawks have built their roster, it's
• 1:29:26
  Speaker 6: the reason that they've been successful is because they're built
• 1:29:29
  Speaker 6: on their depth and that they have very few actual holes.
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 6: But at the same time, you don't have like a
• 1:29:34
  Speaker 6: superstar MVP level quarterback. You don't have, you know, I
• 1:29:39
  Speaker 6: mean jays Ends the closest thing to that winning Offensive
• 1:29:43
  Speaker 6: Player of the Year last year, So I guess that's
• 1:29:45
  Speaker 6: like one example that kicks in that category. But even
• 1:29:47
  Speaker 6: on the defense, you don't have the Richard Shermans, the
• 1:29:50
  Speaker 6: the cam Chancellors, and the Earl Thomases. In terms of personality, right,
• 1:29:53
  Speaker 6: I know, Devin Witherspoon gets a lot of you know,
• 1:29:56
  Speaker 6: hype for who he is, but I don't think he's
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 6: become a national star yet.
• 1:30:01
  Speaker 3: He gets hype when you're paying attention to It's like
• 1:30:03
  Speaker 3: when the camera's on, then that broadcast will hype him out.
• 1:30:08
  Speaker 3: But I think you're right about not having that marquee name,
• 1:30:11
  Speaker 3: but probably helps him be successful.
• 1:30:13
  Speaker 6: I think it's great. I love kind of flying under
• 1:30:15
  Speaker 6: the radar. We did that all last year and not
• 1:30:18
  Speaker 6: all this long way to say, I think they have
• 1:30:20
  Speaker 6: less primetime games than what you said. I think maybe
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 6: having three, maybe four. Okay, so what kind of stuit
• 1:30:26
  Speaker 6: ends up happening?
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 1: So would you bet on the Rams having more primetime
• 1:30:29
  Speaker 1: games than would absolutely?
• 1:30:30
  Speaker 5: Yes, Yeah.
• 1:30:31
  Speaker 3: One of the other reasons that I think you have
• 1:30:33
  Speaker 3: a really good point is also because the Rams are
• 1:30:36
  Speaker 3: a couple of plays away. If I'm being in the
• 1:30:38
  Speaker 3: same as deck spot and they were, Yeah, I know,
• 1:30:44
  Speaker 3: but it's not just that they were so injured towards
• 1:30:48
  Speaker 3: the end of the season as well. And I mean,
• 1:30:49
  Speaker 3: if Zach Charbonney doesn't be polite and pick up a
• 1:30:52
  Speaker 3: ball with his foot in the end zone, it's we're
• 1:30:54
  Speaker 3: looking at a completely different playoffs and are as well. Yeah,
• 1:30:58
  Speaker 3: so I think that people look at them as maybe
• 1:31:01
  Speaker 3: they this is not me, this is people the you
• 1:31:05
  Speaker 3: figured with people out there might look at the Rams.
• 1:31:10
  Speaker 4: They're also in Los Angeles.
• 1:31:11
  Speaker 3: But the Rams as would have been the better team
• 1:31:14
  Speaker 3: had it not been for some key injuries, not just
• 1:31:17
  Speaker 3: at towards the end of the season, but well throughout
• 1:31:20
  Speaker 3: the season.
• 1:31:20
  Speaker 6: And I totally agree with That's how a lot of
• 1:31:23
  Speaker 6: people view last season. And it's so weird to me
• 1:31:25
  Speaker 6: because didn't the Rams lose a game in between the
• 1:31:28
  Speaker 6: Thursday night game and the last game of the season.
• 1:31:30
  Speaker 5: Yes, I believe they lost to like the Cardinals or something.
• 1:31:33
  Speaker 2: It might have been the Panthers.
• 1:31:34
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it was the Panthers.
• 1:31:35
  Speaker 6: You're right, yeah, and like guys beat the freaking Panthers.
• 1:31:39
  Speaker 5: Don't worry about us. A play that was the right
• 1:31:41
  Speaker 5: coal by.
• 1:31:42
  Speaker 2: The wayst.
• 1:31:44
  Speaker 7: They had.
• 1:31:44
  Speaker 2: They had lots of chances.
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 6: And the Seahawks would have kicked your ass in your
• 1:31:47
  Speaker 6: own place anyway. All right, You stop telling me that
• 1:31:50
  Speaker 6: there's a chance that the that the Rams were the
• 1:31:53
  Speaker 6: better team last year.
• 1:31:54
  Speaker 7: No, they were absolutely not.
• 1:31:56
  Speaker 1: Well, and it's crazy for those who believe in the Seahawks.
• 1:31:59
  Speaker 1: You've got for a defending champion that brings back as
• 1:32:02
  Speaker 1: much as they do. There are really strong betting odds
• 1:32:06
  Speaker 1: for the Seahawks. They are not the favorites to.
• 1:32:09
  Speaker 5: Win the season.
• 1:32:09
  Speaker 1: I mean, why well, because of everything just just laid
• 1:32:13
  Speaker 1: out right. And here's the other thing about the primetime thing,
• 1:32:16
  Speaker 1: because the Rams have a little bit of drama with
• 1:32:18
  Speaker 1: them because of the fact that they are the team
• 1:32:21
  Speaker 1: that plays in the second biggest market in the sport.
• 1:32:23
  Speaker 1: You wouldn't know it from their home games, but you
• 1:32:26
  Speaker 1: do have a very large market there. They probably do
• 1:32:31
  Speaker 1: end up getting more primetime games. And you know, one
• 1:32:34
  Speaker 1: of those games for sure between the Seahawks and Rams
• 1:32:36
  Speaker 1: will be in primetime. I hope one of those games
• 1:32:39
  Speaker 1: is in another Thursday night game. I hate Thursday night
• 1:32:41
  Speaker 1: football and I hate seeing good teams play on Thursday
• 1:32:44
  Speaker 1: night football. It's just is not for me. But four
• 1:32:47
  Speaker 1: nine four or five to one? Do you care who
• 1:32:50
  Speaker 1: the Seahawks play in the first game? And if you
• 1:32:51
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• 1:32:57
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  Speaker 1: Chris Crawford and for Ian Furness, joined by my good
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  Speaker 1: buddies Jessamin and Anderson. There's a little bit of a
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  Speaker 1: rhyme scheme to your guys's name that I did not
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  Speaker 1: think about until.
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  Speaker 2: I just said it.
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  Speaker 4: When you say it in full, yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Justin and Anderson, Yes, and then and Jess.
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  Speaker 4: Anderson, jess oh yeah, just Urs Mac Anders.
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  Speaker 3: That sounds like a plate at a restaurant, does Mac, Anders,
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  Speaker 3: what what's your heritage? Anders?
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  Speaker 1: Uh?
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  Speaker 5: Scandinavian?
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  Speaker 4: Scandinavian? What's the dish?
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  Speaker 5: I don't even know. I'm not I'm not good at
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  Speaker 5: honoring my haritage. I'm Scottish as well. What's a Scottish?
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  Speaker 4: Okay? Uh? So mac and whiskey.
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  Speaker 3: Here?
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  Speaker 4: It sounds about right.
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  Speaker 1: How could you look at that man? He's the most
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  Speaker 1: Scandinavian looking person I think I've.
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  Speaker 6: E I don't assume, I mean, I'm my Scottish is
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  Speaker 6: coming out recently.
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  Speaker 7: Okay.
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  Speaker 6: I used to look much more Scandinavian. I was like
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  Speaker 6: bleach blonde hair when I.
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  Speaker 9: Was a kid.
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  Speaker 1: So glad you said the word scott. I have to
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  Speaker 1: talk for the next hour and a half about Scotch
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  Speaker 1: broom and what we need to do to destroy it.
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  Speaker 1: Do you guys have bad Scotch broom here as we do?
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  Speaker 3: You're talking about on a Cracker text line four to
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  Speaker 3: come with Dodge.
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  Speaker 1: It's the most diabolical noxious weed that you see on
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  Speaker 1: the highway, that yellow plant that you see on the
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  Speaker 1: freeway if you're driving more closer to south.
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  Speaker 4: And like a yes, oh, I always thought that was
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  Speaker 4: forth scythia. That's what we had when I was growing
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  Speaker 4: up in New York.
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  Speaker 1: Scotch broom and so many of us are so allergic
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  Speaker 1: to this stupid weed. Guys, I'm gonna I will text
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  Speaker 1: out something where we're going to meet and get the
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  Speaker 1: pitchfork so that we can kill it and make sure
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  Speaker 1: it never comes back again.
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  Speaker 4: Is Itasi?
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  Speaker 1: It's super invasive, okay, and it just destroys my eyes.
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  Speaker 1: I just man, I look like I go to a
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  Speaker 1: Snoop Dogg concert after after dealing with a lot of the.
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  Speaker 2: Tocause.
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  Speaker 3: It's just go to a Snoop Dogg concert. We don't
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  Speaker 3: have your fun, and then you just go.
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  Speaker 2: Wrote the world doesn't test. I'll just tell you that much.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of texts talking about, uh, the scheduling, but
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  Speaker 1: of course we were talking about the date stuff. Somebody
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  Speaker 1: I almost don't want to give out the area code
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  Speaker 1: said that the first date showed up seven months pregnant
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  Speaker 1: and then ordered a beverage that you don't necessarily picture
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  Speaker 1: a seven months.
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  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, those are all the flags.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's every red flag.
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  Speaker 9: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: We talked a bunch about the Mariner's unfortunate loss yesterday
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  Speaker 1: two five three. Why are they even pitching to Matt Olsen.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not intentionally walking to go ahead run
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  Speaker 1: in that situation around him. I would definitely pitch around
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  Speaker 1: him the unintentional intentional walk. If Matt Olson wants to
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  Speaker 1: beat himself, I don't hate it.
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  Speaker 5: I think that's a lot easier said than done.
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  Speaker 1: Sure, Captain hindsight too, you know what I mean, because
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  Speaker 1: you just never know.
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  Speaker 5: Who's after him in the order. Oh boy, Michael Harris.
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  Speaker 2: I know, because I think Michael Harris is out right now.
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  Speaker 5: Didn't he play yesterday? But he did?
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  Speaker 2: I don't remember, okay very much.
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  Speaker 1: Four to five blind date that led to a girl
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  Speaker 1: taller than me and I'm six foot three.
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  Speaker 8: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: They had fun in the back of a camera and
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  Speaker 1: went to Red Robin and some other stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Four two five let's trade lives.
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  Speaker 4: I'm also like, how do you fit in the back.
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  Speaker 5: Of the people that are six three or taller? That's
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  Speaker 5: what I mean. Yeah, I'm like, you need a flatbed man.
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  Speaker 1: Text from the five three Oh, they want to know
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  Speaker 1: how they get dates for a first sena canlass Jess
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  Speaker 1: Like that's the cheese. That's not the easiest thing to
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  Speaker 1: do either, So like, did he have reservations already?
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  Speaker 2: Booked or how did.
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  Speaker 4: This all happen? I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't I had never been there before and so
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  Speaker 3: I didn't know of its posterity and everything. I it Also,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, if you know where Candless is, it's like
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  Speaker 3: right by the Aurora Bridge, so it doesn't necessarily scream.
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  Speaker 3: It's not on the top of Newcastle or something where,
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  Speaker 3: so it doesn't scream su Yeah. Well, and it's secluded,
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  Speaker 3: but it doesn't red flag you if that was a
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  Speaker 3: little too too much. But the guy was clearly clearly loaded,
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  Speaker 3: Like I saw his watch, I didn't see his car.
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  Speaker 3: I went on my own.
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  Speaker 5: Then what do you mean.
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  Speaker 7: Youn't say though you never specified?
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  Speaker 4: This sounds like ten It was over ten years ago.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, I was young. I had a little more bad
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  Speaker 3: but those days and maybe I could pull him a little.
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  Speaker 3: Uh not the worst first date. It was just too intimidated.
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  Speaker 3: Like if that's what you're leading with, what are you expecting.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I didn't mean that in terms of like, wow,
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  Speaker 6: what you described made it not Mike. It's because you
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  Speaker 6: hadn't specified if it was or not. That's no, no, no, no, okay, Mike.
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  Speaker 2: I actually think you're great.
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  Speaker 4: Mike is my people. He is on my type of guy.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, my type of guy is Keith Miller, and he
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  Speaker 1: says one word to guarantee a successful mother's day bronchanders.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, mimosas must be plural.
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  Speaker 6: Unfortunately, my wife is unable to still with the uh
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  Speaker 6: she is feeding my specific way that I didn't want to.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't know why.
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  Speaker 2: I'd probably I could say it too, Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: It just seems too personal.
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  Speaker 1: They say that when you're in that stage, you're eating
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  Speaker 1: for two.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Andrews, you could drink for two.
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  Speaker 5: I totally can't. A great excuse.
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  Speaker 3: Also, there's a little thing called a pumping' domes. Oh yeah. Also,
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  Speaker 3: actually beer is good for that.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, apparently she was suggested to have non alcoholic beer
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  Speaker 6: because like the way or the or something whatever, something
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  Speaker 6: is actually good for your flactation. Anyways, before we talk
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  Speaker 6: about more breast feeding, I do have two talkbacks for
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  Speaker 6: you great people. Please let's let's hear from them.
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  Speaker 7: Maller here baby checking in.
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  Speaker 13: Boy, didn't know my guy Crawford to be back on
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  Speaker 13: the after yesterday talking about Turban's biceps and dry SAPs.
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  Speaker 13: Then I'm talking about down here fricking motlag walking these dogs,
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  Speaker 13: baby and talking about dog poop and if.
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  Speaker 7: It catches on fire, I don't know, man, are you
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  Speaker 7: kidding me?
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  Speaker 13: We just need to do anything spark this Mariner's offense,
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  Speaker 13: whether it's drive, sap, dog poop or anything else.
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  Speaker 7: Baby, go dog may.
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  Speaker 1: I still don't believe that Softy picks up the dog poop.
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  Speaker 1: I just don't believe. Oh, I believe that he has
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  Speaker 1: three dogs. I also believe he has somebody hired to
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  Speaker 1: do it for him. He just doesn't want to mention
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  Speaker 1: it on the air. That he's so affluent that he
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  Speaker 1: can just do whatever the hell he wants, and he
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  Speaker 1: gets that stuff doing. There's no way that Softy is
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  Speaker 1: actually picking up the dog boop.
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  Speaker 3: I think I've actually been on the phone with him
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  Speaker 3: while he was on a walk with at least one
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  Speaker 3: of the dogs. I think he's just gonna send us video,
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  Speaker 3: and I think he had to do it while I
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  Speaker 3: was on the phone, so that is like actual proof
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  Speaker 3: that he picked it up.
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  Speaker 5: I have yet to receive such video.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah me either. Thank god text for the two six. First,
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  Speaker 1: thanks for talking hockey. I could talk hockey all day. Look,
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  Speaker 1: other players and the overall impression of this franchise is
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  Speaker 1: they don't want to pay and be part of the
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  Speaker 1: superstar level of commitment. It takes financially, and people don't
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  Speaker 1: think we are all in the feeling. They care more
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  Speaker 1: about booie and feel good anything inclusive night is more
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  Speaker 1: important to this organization. First of all, I don't agree
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  Speaker 1: with that. I will just say that right now. I
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  Speaker 1: think winning is important to this the prayer level mentality
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  Speaker 1: that's some seventeen year old one hundred and sixty eight
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  Speaker 1: pound is someone we're really excited about. He also mentions
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  Speaker 1: to ericson k not being available for Minnesota.
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  Speaker 2: Is a huge piece of it. I just don't know
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  Speaker 2: if that's very anders.
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  Speaker 1: I get the perception, but I just don't feel like
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  Speaker 1: that's an accurate description of Krackinghawkey.
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  Speaker 6: No, and a lot of people say this about the
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  Speaker 6: Mariners too. Sure they care more about bobbleheads. People don't
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  Speaker 6: realize that they separate those two things. There's the people
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  Speaker 6: who are in charge of the baseball operations, and then
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  Speaker 6: there's people that are in charge of the business operations. Right,
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  Speaker 6: it is the people in charge of the business operations
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  Speaker 6: to do everything they can, whether the team's good or
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  Speaker 6: not to try and get people in the ballpark. I
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  Speaker 6: think the Mariners are exceptional at that now on the
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  Speaker 6: outside looking in, if you look at it under one
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  Speaker 6: big umbrella, like you can see, oh, they're better at
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  Speaker 6: the business operations a lot of the time than they
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  Speaker 6: are at the baseball operations.
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  Speaker 5: So that's why it has that.
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  Speaker 6: But it just means those people are really good at
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  Speaker 6: their jobs, right, And baseball, when you're not successful, it
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  Speaker 6: looks it has that kind of uh. The same for hockey,
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  Speaker 6: it has that kind of perception that that's what you
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  Speaker 6: care about more. No, you're you're no matter what, if
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  Speaker 6: you're good or bad, you're trying to get people in
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  Speaker 6: the building.
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  Speaker 3: That's a really good distinction to make too, because when
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  Speaker 3: people say things like that, there you're more about this
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  Speaker 3: than you are about that.
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  Speaker 4: No, those are two separate things, very separate.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Hotalks from Heaven is not taking from Julio's retention.
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  Speaker 6: That's not Jerry Depoto being like, oh we suck right now,
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  Speaker 6: like we need to distract the people and from hot
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  Speaker 6: Talks from Heaven. But so they don't see that we
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  Speaker 6: are playing so poorly.
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  Speaker 4: Sure, question about that.
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  Speaker 3: Did you guys believe the the April Fool's joke because
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  Speaker 3: I did about canceling Hot Talks from heaven.
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  Speaker 4: They were going to make it.
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  Speaker 2: Like yes from something.
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  Speaker 3: They said it was like some sort of like FDA problem,
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  Speaker 3: and I was like, Oh, we're gonna yeah, crushed for
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  Speaker 3: this because that's the most seattle thing ever, and then
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  Speaker 3: it was fake.
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  Speaker 4: The sausages still fall from.
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  Speaker 1: The sausages still fall from the sky, as God intended.
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  Speaker 1: Two six Scotch Broom is the Bane of My Youth.
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  Speaker 1: Walked down a path on my way home that had
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  Speaker 1: those bushes on both sides, eyes water, it sneeze like crazy,
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  Speaker 1: and went home and really.
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  Speaker 2: Bad Shane needs to use Agent orange on that bush.
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  Speaker 1: You're gosh damn right. It is just the worst. And
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  Speaker 1: I have a couple that are growing right behind my
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  Speaker 1: house and I can't get too close to it because
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  Speaker 1: it's just destroying me. But if I don't take it out,
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  Speaker 1: it's going to destroy me. So I'm just it's about
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  Speaker 1: me taking that hit of whether or not I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to deal with.
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  Speaker 4: That gas mask and a bee keeper's costume.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, it's the absolute worst.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of people follow and anderstrain of thought from
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  Speaker 1: the four two five they say exactly that, following indistrative thought,
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  Speaker 1: Hawks are a big contender to be flexed to primetime.
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  Speaker 2: Late season if playing okay. That's another thing that you
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  Speaker 2: have to keep saying with this stuff. The flexing really
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  Speaker 2: does matter.
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  Speaker 1: That's way late and the Seahawks will be eleven and
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  Speaker 1: zero by the time. That is something that can happen.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of people praise in Julio Rodriguez from that,
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  Speaker 1: and uh, I gloss the text here, but it was
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  Speaker 1: from the two oh six that we are lucky to
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  Speaker 1: have somebody in this city like Julio Rodriguez, and I
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  Speaker 1: just can't agree with.
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  Speaker 6: Was there a special reasoning why didn't do something in
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  Speaker 6: the game that I didn't see.
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  Speaker 1: We got a chance to play the interview that he
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  Speaker 1: had with with Softy and Dick today.
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  Speaker 2: He's an awesome dude.
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  Speaker 1: And again I keep coming back to how I got
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  Speaker 1: started with this show is me and Nathan reacting to
• 1:44:40
  Speaker 1: Kevin Mathers' comments and listening to Kevin mather say those
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  Speaker 1: abhorrent things for no reason whatsoever.
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  Speaker 2: That's what's in your brain, and that's you.
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  Speaker 1: Know, Kevin mather was the mouthpiece there were other people
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  Speaker 1: thinking similar things, but I'm sure glad that Mariners the
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  Speaker 1: right thing and made sure that guy was.
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  Speaker 4: Going to be powered.
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  Speaker 6: I have one more talk back, please that we can
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  Speaker 6: end the segment with how about that, and then we
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  Speaker 6: can get out.
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  Speaker 2: Of Here's good.
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  Speaker 14: Hey guys, Seattle sports guy here with another update on
• 1:45:11
  Speaker 14: your Seattle sports logan Gilbert giving up three home runs
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  Speaker 14: in an INNY, which if this was hockey that would
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  Speaker 14: be a hat trick, which Dan Wilson thought was a
• 1:45:19
  Speaker 14: good thing in baseball that should have related to a
• 1:45:23
  Speaker 14: pitching change. Also, shout out to the molliwalk crew on Monday.
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  Speaker 14: It was kind of nice year in a segment without.
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  Speaker 2: An angry Canadian. Great job, Crawford.
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  Speaker 5: I'll check in later this week.
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  Speaker 7: Boys.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 4: That was crazy also very consistent, so yeah.
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  Speaker 2: We'll say more nice things about me next.
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  Speaker 8: From the R and R Foundation Specialist Broadcast Studio. Now
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  Speaker 8: back to Ian Forness powered My Seattle Closest sports book,
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  Speaker 1: Chris Crawford in for Ian Forness. This was fun and
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  Speaker 1: I got to do this three days in a row.
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  Speaker 1: And I just want to say every time I get
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  Speaker 1: to do this, and I will keep get saying it
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  Speaker 1: as long as they keep inviting.
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  Speaker 2: Me back, which who the heck knows, Like we'll see.
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  Speaker 1: But I have so much fun doing this, and I'm
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  Speaker 1: so appreciative to Ian for giving the blessing. I'm appreciative
• 1:46:29
  Speaker 1: for Jess and Anders being so good at their jobs.
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  Speaker 1: I'm appreciative that the show after this isn't very good,
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  Speaker 1: So I don't sound all that bad, like that's kind
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  Speaker 1: of nice. The show before is really good, that's problem.
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  Speaker 1: Like the lead in is maybe better than this one,
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  Speaker 1: and that's a problem, but not when he and his
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  Speaker 1: hosted though.
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  Speaker 2: There's nobody better than that guy.
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  Speaker 1: If I'm being honest, Well, you know what the thing
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  Speaker 1: is is that he's just not as angry as people
• 1:46:53
  Speaker 1: would like to believe. Just one of the nicest human
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  Speaker 1: beings really does Hey, speaking of in Julio Rodriguez just
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  Speaker 1: hit a four hundred and thirty six foot home.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah they did.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go.
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  Speaker 4: I would like to say, I'm good luck you are
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  Speaker 4: and give me a spark.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we had a little bit of an issue
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  Speaker 1: that may have prevented us talking about listening to us
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  Speaker 1: talk about this, but tell the story again about getting
• 1:47:18
  Speaker 1: to talk to Julio Rodriguez and just what a not
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  Speaker 1: only is this guy a superstar on the field, why
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  Speaker 1: he's a superstar off it too.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 3: And I actually did a lot of research on into
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  Speaker 3: his foundation this summer because I wanted to find out
• 1:47:34
  Speaker 3: or I'm sorry, this winter because he went home and
• 1:47:38
  Speaker 3: did a lot of work, you know, building fields where
• 1:47:44
  Speaker 3: you know, it's called the No Limits Foundation, okay, and
• 1:47:47
  Speaker 3: so you know, empowering underprivileged youth is what their their
• 1:47:52
  Speaker 3: their motto is.
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  Speaker 4: But he went home and.
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  Speaker 3: Built a whole, you know, a field for kids that
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  Speaker 3: don't have the funding in an area that is very
• 1:48:01
  Speaker 3: very short of funds. And I had been trying I
• 1:48:05
  Speaker 3: host Seattle Voice on the weekends, and I was like, oh, man,
• 1:48:08
  Speaker 3: I'd love to feature him on that, and they were like,
• 1:48:12
  Speaker 3: he is, that's where he is right now, that is
• 1:48:14
  Speaker 3: the only thing. He's focusing on his family and doing
• 1:48:18
  Speaker 3: all that, and so I just I wanted to say
• 1:48:20
  Speaker 3: that because I knew a lot about it. That's how
• 1:48:24
  Speaker 3: he spent his time in the off season. So one,
• 1:48:26
  Speaker 3: there's that, and two, I'm a faceless member of the media.
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  Speaker 3: And there's people that are in that clubhouse all the time,
• 1:48:34
  Speaker 3: and every year at some point he is able to
• 1:48:37
  Speaker 3: jump on the radio. And the way I try to
• 1:48:40
  Speaker 3: make it easy for the guys I show up, I
• 1:48:43
  Speaker 3: put them on my phone and they call into two
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  Speaker 3: people that they can't even see. You know, there's countless
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  Speaker 3: amounts of people trying to get, you know, a piece
• 1:48:50
  Speaker 3: of him every single day. Right, So if it's someone
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  Speaker 3: that he can't see, some guys would be like, no,
• 1:48:56
  Speaker 3: I don't know who that Like, I don't know you,
• 1:48:58
  Speaker 3: and you know you're not doing this in person. So
• 1:49:01
  Speaker 3: I had asked him on Friday if he I know
• 1:49:05
  Speaker 3: he likes the second day of the series to do
• 1:49:07
  Speaker 3: these interviews.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, if I show up, you know, like you've done
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  Speaker 4: in the.
• 1:49:11
  Speaker 3: Past, I could put you on my phone, you can call,
• 1:49:14
  Speaker 3: you know, just talk to the guys as Softy and
• 1:49:16
  Speaker 3: Dick who he joined yesterday. And you know he asked
• 1:49:19
  Speaker 3: for after batting practice. Batting practice was at three fifty five,
• 1:49:23
  Speaker 3: So I said, okay, I'll record Dan Wilson. I'll be
• 1:49:26
  Speaker 3: standing right in a dugout and for Julio, you'll wait
• 1:49:29
  Speaker 3: two hours like I don't care when he's taking VP.
• 1:49:32
  Speaker 3: If he could do it, then I'll wait. And so
• 1:49:35
  Speaker 3: I'm recording Dan Wilson, who spoke at three, and Julio
• 1:49:39
  Speaker 3: apparently took early VP in the indoor cages and just
• 1:49:42
  Speaker 3: came out and there's all of the media there too,
• 1:49:46
  Speaker 3: because everyone's listening to Dan Wilson. So he walked through everyone,
• 1:49:50
  Speaker 3: tapped me on the shoulder and said, can we do
• 1:49:52
  Speaker 3: it right now? And unbelievably, it was the best timing
• 1:49:56
  Speaker 3: ever because it got to be right in the beginning
• 1:50:00
  Speaker 3: of Softy and Dick's show and we got to hear
• 1:50:03
  Speaker 3: from him right away, and he gave a marvelous interview. Yeah,
• 1:50:05
  Speaker 3: and I thought the questions were great about the evolution
• 1:50:08
  Speaker 3: of his career too, and he was so honest about it.
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  Speaker 1: And I again, I just love so much how much
• 1:50:15
  Speaker 1: you can tell Julio is listening, not just during that interview,
• 1:50:19
  Speaker 1: but understanding how much that means to, you know, becoming
• 1:50:24
  Speaker 1: a bigger part of the Seattle culture. And man, I'm
• 1:50:28
  Speaker 1: telling you, baseball players are creatures of habit. They do
• 1:50:31
  Speaker 1: not like to break what they're doing, and if they
• 1:50:35
  Speaker 1: don't have to do a media thing, quite often they
• 1:50:37
  Speaker 1: just flat out don't do it. It's one hundred and
• 1:50:39
  Speaker 1: sixty two game season. If I don't have an actual
• 1:50:42
  Speaker 1: obligation here before the game or after the game, I'm
• 1:50:46
  Speaker 1: going to use my free time to work on staying healthy,
• 1:50:50
  Speaker 1: you know, sitting maybe go and get a hot dog
• 1:50:53
  Speaker 1: from heaven. You know, that's that's more important maybe to
• 1:50:56
  Speaker 1: a guy, some of these guys, but you just tell
• 1:50:58
  Speaker 1: it matters so much to a guy like Julio. And again,
• 1:51:01
  Speaker 1: it's why those callous comments from Kevin Mather will always
• 1:51:05
  Speaker 1: stick with me, because they were just so unnecessary, so
• 1:51:09
  Speaker 1: completely out of to use the baseball term left field,
• 1:51:13
  Speaker 1: and man, oh man, I am just so glad I
• 1:51:16
  Speaker 1: get to watch Julio Rodriguez played baseball here for another
• 1:51:20
  Speaker 1: decade or taste.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, of all the things that you could say
• 1:51:24
  Speaker 3: about a guy, it's still I think I'd like black
• 1:51:27
  Speaker 3: that out. I obviously remembered it when you brought it
• 1:51:30
  Speaker 3: up by those mother comments. I of all the things
• 1:51:34
  Speaker 3: that you could say about someone, Yeah, and you know,
• 1:51:37
  Speaker 3: obviously he doesn't even know him, and fortunately he didn't
• 1:51:41
  Speaker 3: get the chance to.
• 1:51:42
  Speaker 4: Get to know him that well.
• 1:51:43
  Speaker 3: Now, But yeah, I just I just watched the way
• 1:51:47
  Speaker 3: he brings joy to the field, and I mean, I
• 1:51:50
  Speaker 3: still remember his little hidden ball trick sure that he did,
• 1:51:53
  Speaker 3: which was just so funny, just big old smile, looked
• 1:51:57
  Speaker 3: like you know, he had let it go over the
• 1:51:59
  Speaker 3: fence to home run.
• 1:52:02
  Speaker 14: Yeah.
• 1:52:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah, he held it up afterwards like that is a superstar.
• 1:52:07
  Speaker 7: It is.
• 1:52:08
  Speaker 1: And honestly, his reaction to me, how he's reacted when
• 1:52:12
  Speaker 1: other dudes have robbed him of Homer's speaks to it.
• 1:52:14
  Speaker 1: Because I think some people get frustrated that he still
• 1:52:17
  Speaker 1: smiles when something like that happens, and they think, oh,
• 1:52:20
  Speaker 1: that means he's not competitive, that he doesn't really care. No,
• 1:52:23
  Speaker 1: it's somebody who appreciates the craft. It's somebody anybody who
• 1:52:27
  Speaker 1: heard the scream from Julio Rodriguez after Game seven that
• 1:52:31
  Speaker 1: doubts how competitive this dude is. That scream will live
• 1:52:34
  Speaker 1: in my head forever. Anders and I had to go
• 1:52:37
  Speaker 1: live about forty five seconds after that scream became public,
• 1:52:42
  Speaker 1: and boy, that was hard. That's still one of the
• 1:52:45
  Speaker 1: hardest things I've ever had to do, anders is going
• 1:52:47
  Speaker 1: live after that Game seven.
• 1:52:48
  Speaker 6: It was very hard because I had just finished hosting
• 1:52:52
  Speaker 6: a Kraken game and then I watched literally on the
• 1:52:55
  Speaker 6: TV that you're looking at now, the entirety of Game seven.
• 1:52:58
  Speaker 6: Oh yeah, the entirety of Game seven, and then popped
• 1:53:01
  Speaker 6: into a studio and went live afterwards, and I was
• 1:53:03
  Speaker 6: just I was exhausted, I was devastated, and.
• 1:53:07
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it wasn't very good. It was really I don't
• 1:53:10
  Speaker 5: know how he got to this point.
• 1:53:11
  Speaker 1: Well, no, it was just just the fact that you know,
• 1:53:15
  Speaker 1: how we reacted to that is people watching. Imagine how
• 1:53:18
  Speaker 1: a player we could react and imagine how a player
• 1:53:20
  Speaker 1: could shun away from that type of thing and just
• 1:53:24
  Speaker 1: want to be cold and calculated and stuff. But you
• 1:53:27
  Speaker 1: still get the fun version of Julio Rodriguez, and you
• 1:53:31
  Speaker 1: know the fact that he's having the best start to
• 1:53:33
  Speaker 1: a season. It's not the numbers we want, you know,
• 1:53:36
  Speaker 1: Julio Rodriguez, we want to be in closer to that
• 1:53:38
  Speaker 1: eight hundred and eight fifty ops at least. But this
• 1:53:42
  Speaker 1: sure beats what we've seen from him in the past. Yeah,
• 1:53:44
  Speaker 1: it certainly beats what we've seen from him in the past.
• 1:53:47
  Speaker 1: And I'm I'm just thrilled that we get somebody like
• 1:53:49
  Speaker 1: Julio Rodriguez.
• 1:53:50
  Speaker 6: Yeah, and for those who maybe are a little put
• 1:53:53
  Speaker 6: off by the joy that he plays with. I could
• 1:53:56
  Speaker 6: somewhat understand that if the type of player that you
• 1:53:59
  Speaker 6: are drawn to is more like the Josh Naylor type
• 1:54:02
  Speaker 6: that the grind, I'm just gonna look angry all the time.
• 1:54:04
  Speaker 5: I'm like, it's my job, sure, like cool.
• 1:54:06
  Speaker 6: I understand that. But also that doesn't mean that Julio
• 1:54:09
  Speaker 6: is any less competitive, none of those types of guys, right.
• 1:54:12
  Speaker 1: No, And it's weird how people pick and choose with
• 1:54:14
  Speaker 1: this stuff, because aging myself, one of the biggest complaints
• 1:54:18
  Speaker 1: about King Grify Junr was he never ran out a
• 1:54:21
  Speaker 1: ground ball ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, you know who,
• 1:54:25
  Speaker 1: I've never seen even kind of try to run out
• 1:54:27
  Speaker 1: of ground ball Josh Flipp and Naylor like he might
• 1:54:30
  Speaker 1: as well just walk and do like a pimp cane
• 1:54:34
  Speaker 1: and take it with him and like stretch to first
• 1:54:36
  Speaker 1: base because there's no chance he's gonna beat it out.
• 1:54:38
  Speaker 1: I totally agree. No, No, I totally agree with what
• 1:54:41
  Speaker 1: you're saying. Right now, there's somebody giving me not nice
• 1:54:44
  Speaker 1: things in the back, and I see, oh, okay, he's
• 1:54:49
  Speaker 1: just it's just weird how people pick and choose that stuff,
• 1:54:51
  Speaker 1: because it's you'd think it would bother people that Josh
• 1:54:54
  Speaker 1: Naylor doesn't run out ground balls.
• 1:54:56
  Speaker 2: If it bothers you, that can grify Jr.
• 1:54:58
  Speaker 5: Who always runs out ground balls.
• 1:55:00
  Speaker 1: Rodriguez, he sure does because he has a chance to
• 1:55:02
  Speaker 1: beat it out. Yeah that's fair, is fair. So once again,
• 1:55:06
  Speaker 1: thank you guys so much for listening over these three days.
• 1:55:08
  Speaker 1: I hope I get to do it again soon, but
• 1:55:11
  Speaker 1: never please.
• 1:55:12
  Speaker 3: And coming up next, don't forget softy, Yeah we have.
• 1:55:16
  Speaker 3: Let's see Mike Florio coming on at three ten, Petro
• 1:55:20
  Speaker 3: set four, which is always a who because it's like
• 1:55:22
  Speaker 3: two softies talking to each other, and then Larry Stone
• 1:55:26
  Speaker 3: at five.
• 1:55:26
  Speaker 4: So just letting you know what you have to look
• 1:55:30
  Speaker 4: forward to.
• 1:55:30
  Speaker 3: Also, by the way, from Donnie Roberts, Vinegar Kills, Scotch.
• 1:55:33
  Speaker 2: Broom, I'm gonna buy a lot of vinegar pretty soon.
• 1:55:36
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