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Chuck & Buck 7-6 Hour 2: Headlines and Matt Johnson, annoyed in victory and what's next for Wright? · Chuck in the Morning

• 0:09
  Speaker 1: Softly hit right center field, Roadblakes is there to make
• 0:13
  Speaker 1: the catch and the Mariners win. They take the series
• 0:17
  Speaker 1: two games to one, and this Mariner's pitching staff shuts
• 0:22
  Speaker 1: out the Toronto Blue Jays for the second straight game
• 0:26
  Speaker 1: and the final twenty four innings of this series. Remarkable
• 0:31
  Speaker 1: stuff up about by the Mariners.
• 0:45
  Speaker 2: Aaron Goldsmith on the call Mariners TV. As the Mariners
• 0:49
  Speaker 2: do win yesterday four to nothing, didn't stop Aaron from
• 0:51
  Speaker 2: making my You've annoyed Me list, which we'll go over
• 0:54
  Speaker 2: a little bit later on this hour. But yes, a
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  Speaker 2: four nothing victory two out of three against the r
• 1:00
  Speaker 2: on till Blue Jays after getting shut out by Dylan
• 1:03
  Speaker 2: season the Jays on Friday night two to nothing. The
• 1:07
  Speaker 2: Mariners rally. They've now won five of six. They're three
• 1:09
  Speaker 2: games over five hundred to game and a half in
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  Speaker 2: first place, and they have the day off today. They'll
• 1:15
  Speaker 2: be in Miami tomorrow to take on a believe it
• 1:18
  Speaker 2: or not really good Marlins team, and then in Tampa
• 1:21
  Speaker 2: to take on a very good Rays team before the
• 1:24
  Speaker 2: All Star break hits. And so let's finish this first
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  Speaker 2: half strong, fellas. What do you say those that's the
• 1:32
  Speaker 2: start of your headlines, I should say I'm brought to
• 1:35
  Speaker 2: you by Frost Brewed Corps, Light Shoes, Chill. But there
• 1:38
  Speaker 2: are other things going on. The Seahawks are gonna start
• 1:41
  Speaker 2: training camp in nineteen days. Can you believe it? We're
• 1:44
  Speaker 2: less than three weeks away.
• 1:45
  Speaker 3: I know, and Rich the other day was like, we
• 1:47
  Speaker 3: just need Team USA to keep going and that'll take
• 1:50
  Speaker 3: us right into training camp. That's crazy.
• 1:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's gonna happen. Lebron watch continues. He
• 1:57
  Speaker 2: was in Akron, Ohio apparently over the weekend, hanging out
• 2:01
  Speaker 2: with buddies. It's led to all sorts of speculation that
• 2:03
  Speaker 2: he might be returning to Cleveland, but several other teams
• 2:08
  Speaker 2: are vying for him to sign, including Philadelphia, who's had
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  Speaker 2: a really interesting offseason. Minnesota is also offered a pretty
• 2:18
  Speaker 2: interesting deal, and Denver is also after him as well.
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  Speaker 2: Sounds like there's no shortage of suitors for Lebron James.
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  Speaker 2: We'll see when he actually decides to sign. The dotted
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  Speaker 2: line Storm Sparks will play tonight in the WNBA. Wembledon
• 2:33
  Speaker 2: continues today. The tournament will wrap up this Sunday, and
• 2:38
  Speaker 2: of course, speaking of tournaments, the entire world wrapped up
• 2:42
  Speaker 2: in the World Cup. Man, what a match last night
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  Speaker 2: between Mexico and England. We've had a good run here
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  Speaker 2: of excellent matches. I've watched more soccer in the last
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  Speaker 2: seventy two hours than I have in the rest of
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  Speaker 2: my life combined. And I've been entertained. That match last
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  Speaker 2: night between Mexico and England was fantastic. England wins three
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  Speaker 2: to two, tremendous setting there at Azteca in Mexico, but
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  Speaker 2: the home team cannot get the job done. England advances,
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  Speaker 2: Norway pillaged Brazil yesterday and so Earling Holland advances he
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  Speaker 2: and his Vikings fellow Vikings to the next round as well.
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  Speaker 2: And speaking of that, that's where the US is going
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  Speaker 2: to try to get Tonight they'll be taking on Belgium
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  Speaker 2: at five o'clock and before that you're going to see
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  Speaker 2: Portugal versus Spain at noon and that should be epic.
• 3:36
  Speaker 2: So nothing but epic match after epic match. That's the
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  Speaker 2: stage that we're in in the World Cup. And joining
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  Speaker 2: us now on the radio program to make sense of
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  Speaker 2: all of it, it is our friend Matt Johnson, you
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  Speaker 2: know him as Stretch and now I know him as
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  Speaker 2: my World Cup buddy who I spent an entire morning
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  Speaker 2: with two weeks ago as we took down Australia together.
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  Speaker 2: It felt good too, I'll tell you that stretch, it
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  Speaker 2: was a great bonding experience.
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  Speaker 4: You know.
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  Speaker 5: For it was a bonding experience.
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  Speaker 4: But for this tournament, doesn't that feel does not feel
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  Speaker 4: like a month ago? I mean that really with everything
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  Speaker 4: that's gone on, and I've been traveling and having a blast,
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  Speaker 4: but the tournament has been so amazing. That match versus
• 4:21
  Speaker 4: Australia literally feels like in March Cape Verde and Cape
• 4:26
  Speaker 4: Verde's express against Argentina Brazil losing yesterday. The matches have
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  Speaker 4: been so good and this is really lived up to
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  Speaker 4: it for a soccer weirdos. But yesterday you just hit it. Yesterday,
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  Speaker 4: Yesterday's match Mexico and England was you couldn't ask for
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  Speaker 4: anything more.
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  Speaker 2: They were saying. They were saying in the broadcast, and
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  Speaker 2: I don't have a huge point of reference here for this,
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  Speaker 2: so I'm gonna have to take people like yourselves word
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  Speaker 2: for it. They were saying in the broadcast that that's
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  Speaker 2: maybe the best match that they'd ever seen. Where do
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  Speaker 2: you weigh in on that.
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  Speaker 5: I would.
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  Speaker 4: I would say for the ramification, for the location, for
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  Speaker 4: the teams involved.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know that I've seen much better, you know.
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  Speaker 4: I just I was thinking that the best game I've
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  Speaker 4: ever seen or in the top three was Belgium versus
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  Speaker 4: Senegal for and I was a total neutral. I didn't care.
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  Speaker 4: But it just seems like it keeps gets getting ratcheted up.
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  Speaker 4: Yesterday's match had everything. I mean, you're up two.
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  Speaker 5: Nil and then you know you're down a man and.
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  Speaker 4: The whole thing. But yeah, I couldn't argue with best
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  Speaker 4: match ever. You know, when we say those things, you know,
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  Speaker 4: our memory goes back maybe ten years, twelve years. I'm
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  Speaker 4: sure there's something where Johann Christ in the seventies did
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  Speaker 4: something for the Netherlands or Maridona or you know, but
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  Speaker 4: in recent history, that's got to be right in the
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  Speaker 4: top couple yesterday's.
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  Speaker 2: Am I a weirdo? I think Bellingham's the best player
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  Speaker 2: I've watched play soccer in this entire tournament, and yet
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  Speaker 2: he obviously does get the attention his own teammate gets Messy,
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  Speaker 2: gets holland gets I mean, he plays both ends of
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  Speaker 2: the pitch and I don't think the other ones do that.
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  Speaker 2: So to me, he's the best soccer player in the world.
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  Speaker 4: You can't you can't go wrong with that answer. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: nobody will argue with that. I think you just you
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  Speaker 4: just nailed it. That Harry Kane scores the goals. So
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  Speaker 4: Bellingham's overshadowed by Kane on his own team. You just
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  Speaker 4: named it.
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  Speaker 5: He did.
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  Speaker 4: You see him at the end of the game. He
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  Speaker 4: was bent over. He was absolutely spent. He was exhausted.
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  Speaker 4: What he does with his feet and that ball is
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  Speaker 4: glued to his foot, He's going around three different Mexican defenders.
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  Speaker 4: Was absolutely incredible. The the just pure talent he has. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: you're on, You're you're on a good subject there, because
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  Speaker 4: he's fun to watch.
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  Speaker 2: Scratches with us. Matt Johnson joining us here on Chuck
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  Speaker 2: and Buck getting his thoughts. Where have you been traveling
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  Speaker 2: around to before we start talking to us, where have
• 7:02
  Speaker 2: you watched some of these matches.
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  Speaker 5: We've stuck.
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  Speaker 4: We stuck to the West Coast just because of easier
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  Speaker 4: travel and the prices. But I've been up to Vancouver twice.
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  Speaker 4: I've been to all of the matches in Seattle and
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  Speaker 4: oh except For one, I didn't go to.
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  Speaker 5: The Friday match.
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  Speaker 4: I ran Egypt, but and then we were in LA
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  Speaker 4: for the third match US a Turkey, which didn't matter.
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  Speaker 4: It was very disappointing, but it was very entertaining. So
• 7:32
  Speaker 4: that was an easy one. And I didn't even realize
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  Speaker 4: until early last week that if we get past this game,
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  Speaker 4: my brother and I have tickets to the quarterfinals in
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  Speaker 4: La on Friday, so that could be the doozy. But
• 7:48
  Speaker 4: I'm going to I'm going today and I'm just I
• 7:51
  Speaker 4: didn't sleep well.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know, I don't have a i'm not playing,
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  Speaker 5: I'm not in the.
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  Speaker 4: Midfield, but I didn't sleep well, and so doing this
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  Speaker 4: at seven am was no problem.
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  Speaker 2: So well, how much of that had to do with
• 8:03
  Speaker 2: this Malligan controversy? Ashley and I started the show. I
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  Speaker 2: think justice has been served. So why do I feel
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  Speaker 2: so guilty about this?
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  Speaker 4: Because FIFA screwed it all up again. Only FIFA can
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  Speaker 4: make it make something like this wrong. The process was wrong.
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  Speaker 4: They didn't come out and say that the red card
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  Speaker 4: shouldn't have been given. They could have easily just said, hey, listen,
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  Speaker 4: it shouldn't have gone to var it shouldn't have gone.
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  Speaker 5: Into slow motion.
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  Speaker 4: This wasn't a play that deemed that category to be true.
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  Speaker 5: We screwed it up. They screwed it up. We are
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  Speaker 5: going to fix it.
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  Speaker 4: Instead, only FIFA can come up with article whatever it
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  Speaker 4: was twenty six that he should play, and only let's
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  Speaker 4: just say it, only our president can come out and
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  Speaker 4: say that, hey, we called FIFA. I mean, it just
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  Speaker 4: sounds bad all the way around. I mean I thought
• 9:01
  Speaker 4: I thought the I thought what he did the tackle itself.
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  Speaker 5: I'm in the minority. I thought it was a red
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  Speaker 5: card tackle.
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  Speaker 4: I thought, yes, it was an accident, Yes there was
• 9:12
  Speaker 4: bodies coming together, but if you are going to replay it,
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  Speaker 4: it was a complete ankle breaker, chuck. I mean it
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  Speaker 4: was violent conduct. Yes, there was no intent. So someone's
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  Speaker 4: listing saying, hold it, you're not filling the categories.
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  Speaker 5: You're not.
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  Speaker 4: You're not going down the right path of this being
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  Speaker 4: a red card. But I thought it was horrible. I
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  Speaker 4: thought they were gonna give the red card when I
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  Speaker 4: saw it live. But only FIFA can screw up the
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  Speaker 4: message of saying all right, instead of saying, hey, we
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  Speaker 4: went through the wrong process. He shouldn't have got the
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  Speaker 4: red card because of this shouldn't have gone to var
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  Speaker 4: but instead they come up with a whole nother KLUTSI
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  Speaker 4: set of you know, communication, and this is where we're at.
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  Speaker 5: It's it's not great, it's it's fantastic news.
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  Speaker 4: It's unbelievable news for USA fans, but the process they
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  Speaker 4: went through it is absolutely ridiculous.
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  Speaker 2: And yet I almost, I told Ashley this morning, I
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  Speaker 2: almost don't want him to play, even though he got approved.
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  Speaker 2: I don't want this to stain what has been a
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  Speaker 2: great tournament, not just for the US but for everybody.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's been fantastic. The US has come off
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  Speaker 2: so well in all of this. It feels like that
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  Speaker 2: we've mended a lot of fences that have been torn
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  Speaker 2: down over over the years. It feels like everybody was
• 10:33
  Speaker 2: reminded of how cool the US actually is now that
• 10:39
  Speaker 2: they're seeing us through a World Cup lens as host
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  Speaker 2: to all of this, And I don't want any of
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  Speaker 2: that tainted because the entire world thinks that we rigged,
• 10:51
  Speaker 2: whether whether it's unfounded or not, rigged a red card
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  Speaker 2: situation so that we could get one of our best
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  Speaker 2: players out on the pitch for Monday. I almost want
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  Speaker 2: him to sit tonight like the US to make that decision.
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  Speaker 2: Is that silly of me?
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  Speaker 4: No, that that opinion is understandable. I mean, all you've
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  Speaker 4: heard is great. Outside of the prices of some of
• 11:17
  Speaker 4: these tickets, you have Europeans coming over here and obviously
• 11:21
  Speaker 4: they're on vacation. They're having a blast. They're seeing these
• 11:24
  Speaker 4: cities generally with good weather, not one hundred percent, but
• 11:28
  Speaker 4: they're having an absolute blast. The hotels, you haven't heard
• 11:31
  Speaker 4: any horror stories. Really, they haven't got out there, and
• 11:34
  Speaker 4: Lord knows people like complaining, so they would be out
• 11:37
  Speaker 4: there if hotels were horrible or accommodations were limited, travel
• 11:43
  Speaker 4: was bad. Everything has gone off without a hitch, generally speaking,
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  Speaker 4: with this World Cup. Yeah, this just makes it dirty,
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  Speaker 4: This makes it it doesn't feel right.
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  Speaker 5: No, that opinion.
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  Speaker 4: I understand that opinion because again, the I believe the
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  Speaker 4: feet communication was so poor on why and then they
• 12:03
  Speaker 4: just let it sit out there and for the whole
• 12:05
  Speaker 4: world to speculate. We we like to know reasons why.
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  Speaker 4: Nowadays you know, with our communication and everything available.
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  Speaker 5: So no, that that is understandable.
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  Speaker 4: What if he scores two goals, Yeah, I mean then
• 12:19
  Speaker 4: this whole thing's got a big, big asterisk. I mean
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  Speaker 4: poor you think about Roger Marris, I mean, this is
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  Speaker 4: a whole different deal.
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  Speaker 2: Or what if he scores zero goals? What if he
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  Speaker 2: plays passive? What if? What if? What if he's worried about,
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  Speaker 2: you know, spiking someone else and doesn't play his same
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  Speaker 2: aggressive style.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, that's that's not gonna happen. It's not gonna happen.
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  Speaker 4: What he's he's our hottest player. He's he is a
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  Speaker 4: player that we call inform. He's the most dangerous guy.
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  Speaker 4: He's the guy that Belgium was going to worry about.
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  Speaker 4: He took him off the pitch and all of a
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  Speaker 4: sudden are probably just alight for like the coach. The
• 12:59
  Speaker 4: coach was just going to put in one player. He
• 13:01
  Speaker 4: wasn't going to change the system, but he was going
• 13:03
  Speaker 4: to put in one player. Now he's back, and and
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  Speaker 4: so Belgium now have have a massive worry. They have
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  Speaker 4: obviously polistic on the left and and uh and flow
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  Speaker 4: up top. But but it just it was just the direction.
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  Speaker 4: It was just you know, how come and then you
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  Speaker 4: found out. But yeah, your opinion is shared because you
• 13:26
  Speaker 4: wanted to win it fair and square. I mean this
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  Speaker 4: is you're right, this just taints everything on a great feel, right,
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  Speaker 4: everything felt really good. But here we are and but
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  Speaker 4: now you move on. I mean the other part to
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  Speaker 4: what you're talking about is everybody across the board has
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  Speaker 4: said this is sketchy, you know, I mean, you have
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  Speaker 4: you get it. The Belgian coach's pissed. They want to protest.
• 13:51
  Speaker 5: You know. You go down the list of of high.
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  Speaker 4: Falutant soccer folks and their opinion is all the same
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  Speaker 4: and it's just you know, but it's your team. So
• 14:01
  Speaker 4: you want your best eleven out there, and now we're
• 14:03
  Speaker 4: gonna have a best eleven out there.
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  Speaker 2: I think he should I mean, I think he should
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  Speaker 2: be out there. I think it's ridiculous that he got
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  Speaker 2: the red card. But obviously you've you've added a little
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  Speaker 2: bit of texture to that for me, for me to
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  Speaker 2: consider here this morning. So I think justice was served.
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  Speaker 2: I think he should rightfully be on the on the
• 14:20
  Speaker 2: on the pitch tonight. But then the way that it
• 14:23
  Speaker 2: went down and the fact that already, i mean Belgium's
• 14:27
  Speaker 2: already using it as an excuse as to why they're
• 14:30
  Speaker 2: they're not going to win in this match. A little
• 14:33
  Speaker 2: bit later on, and will they get their way? I
• 14:36
  Speaker 2: mean we are still ten hours away from this thing.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, is there a chance that their appeal will
• 14:42
  Speaker 2: be heard and uh that Ballagan will be told between
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  Speaker 2: now and five o'clock that he's not going to play.
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  Speaker 4: I would say no, but with FIFA, anything possible. And
• 14:54
  Speaker 4: I wish I wasn't joking, because no, I believe it's set.
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  Speaker 5: I believe this is the deal.
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  Speaker 4: Who knows how that decision got changed, but this is
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  Speaker 4: this is probably in stone and we moved forward. If
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  Speaker 4: if it was just handled properly, if FIFA just had said,
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  Speaker 4: now I'm repeating myself like my father, but if if
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  Speaker 4: they just had said, hey, listen, this red card shouldn't happen.
• 15:23
  Speaker 4: This is why it shouldn't happened. The process was not
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  Speaker 4: proper and they rescinded the red card. That's the word
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  Speaker 4: everyone was looking for. This isn't rescinded. This is a
• 15:32
  Speaker 4: probationary deal. And so it's so awkward and so crunchy.
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  Speaker 4: But but the best news for the US is you
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  Speaker 4: have a great opportunity to move past the soccer power
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  Speaker 4: to face the winner of Spain Portugal. But it is
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  Speaker 4: just everything around it was wrong everything around it, and
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  Speaker 4: and that's.
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  Speaker 5: That's the bummer.
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  Speaker 4: No, I did not lose sleep on it.
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  Speaker 5: I didn't. It didn't affect my day.
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  Speaker 4: It was great for American soccer and we caught a
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  Speaker 4: huge break.
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  Speaker 5: That's how I would say it.
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  Speaker 2: Mayah, all right, So do we win tonight? And would
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  Speaker 2: we have won without him?
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  Speaker 4: It would have been tough. I mean it would have
• 16:16
  Speaker 4: been very tough winning without him. He's again not only
• 16:20
  Speaker 4: the confidence but what it brought back to the team
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  Speaker 4: to have him announced as eligible.
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  Speaker 5: I mean it had to have given them a boost yesterday.
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  Speaker 5: That was incredible.
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  Speaker 2: I think we do.
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  Speaker 5: We do get by him.
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  Speaker 4: I don't think it's like this massive upset, not even close.
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  Speaker 4: They aren't the team of twenty fourteen, and in the
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  Speaker 4: mid two thousands, their stars are getting older. I thought
• 16:44
  Speaker 4: Senegal would have been more difficult for us.
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  Speaker 5: They had speed on the outside, they were dangerous.
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  Speaker 4: They were up to nothing, you know, in the mid
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  Speaker 4: in like the eighty second, eighty third minute, they were
• 16:56
  Speaker 4: up to nil on nice goals. And I just think,
• 17:01
  Speaker 4: you know, as weird as people like hold On, you
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  Speaker 4: wanted to place, you want to play Belgium instead of Senegal.
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  Speaker 4: I think we got easier opponent, but a more beatable
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  Speaker 4: opponent that fits us.
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  Speaker 5: It's going to be more of a grind than worrying
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  Speaker 5: about the speed of Senegal.
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  Speaker 2: All right, So when are you and brother going to
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: begin your day? Where are you going to begin your day?
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  Speaker 2: And how's this thing going to unfold?
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  Speaker 5: Well, the.
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  Speaker 4: Unimportant important to me. I think I'll be down there
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  Speaker 4: at noon to watch the first match. I don't want
• 17:32
  Speaker 4: to miss a second of Portugal Spain. So I think
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: I'll be down there because either I leave at eleven
• 17:39
  Speaker 4: thirty or I leave at two thirty, because I don't
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: you know, sucker junkies, that's a heck of a game
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  Speaker 4: at noon, So I think I'll be down there early.
• 17:48
  Speaker 4: I think today will be as special for a day
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  Speaker 4: for Seattle as there's been in sports history. I mean,
• 17:55
  Speaker 4: if there were two hundred thousand or more for USA Australia,
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  Speaker 4: I think that number can be that that number could
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  Speaker 4: be reached. I think there could be three hundred thousand
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: people downtown. I think the atmosphere will be something that
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: everybody should if they could experience. If you don't mind crowds,
• 18:13
  Speaker 4: that's kind of a big key.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I think this could be right up there in the
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  Speaker 4: top one or two things that ever happen here. I
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: think we win.
• 18:24
  Speaker 5: I think it's going to be a celebration.
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: Uh, it's it's it's yeah. Maybe that's why I didn't sleep.
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: I would say that'd be why I didn't. Probably. I
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: think it's going to be a very special sports day
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: in the heart of downtown, and it's just going to continue.
• 18:40
  Speaker 4: And you know, to sound cheesy, I hope everyone's safe
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: and they they uber home and take the light rail.
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: But I'm so excited for the experience and how noisy,
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: how loud. There's not gonna be an empty seat in
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: lumen Field, and I think it's gonna be unbelievable.
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: Don't eat a waffle. Whatever you do today, do not
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: eat a waffle.
• 18:59
  Speaker 5: Do nouck?
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, exactly, bad luck. Yeah. Yeah, it's a pancake brunch. Yep,
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: pancakes for the Johnson Boys, that's for sure. All right, man, Well,
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: great to have you with us here this morning. Have
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: an epic day and we'll check in with you soon
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: to see how it all went.
• 19:17
  Speaker 5: Appreciate it you guys, Thanks for having me on there.
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: He is stretch joining us right here, former voice of
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: the Sounders, former alum here at Sports Radio ninety three
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: point three KJRFM, and we had him co host before
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: the Aussie game a couple of weeks ago and it
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: was a blast. So I can't go like two minutes
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: into any soccer match without thinking, I wonder how stretches reacting.
• 19:44
  Speaker 5: Because you do.
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: It's like you do, like experience Christmas when you reach
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: a certain age through the eyes of children, Yeah, and
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: it helps the experience. And that's kind of the way
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: I am with World Cup. I'm enjoying it through the
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: eyes of a fifty eight year old child.
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: Yeah, similar to your child.
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he has his mother's eyes, he does. Yeah. Yeah.
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: He's a sweet one though.
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: So we appreciate him and some good insight there as well.
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: All right, coming up next and the on the radio program. Yeah,
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: we're talking a lot of soccer today. We'll be doing
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: that at the top of every hour and then in
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: the middle we're gonna throw some baseball stuff. And I
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: know I should be happy, and I am. It looks
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: like the team's starting to figure some stuff out. They've
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: won five out of six, so why am I annoyed?
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: With four things? We're gonna go through my annoyance checklist next.
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: On Sports Radio ninety three point three kJ R f M.
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: Was Adam Bourne in an igloo because you're like raised
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: and Greenland?
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: Perhaps, which Adam are we talking about?
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: Gurky? Oh, Gurky? Yes, that's why he thinks eighty one
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: is sweltering and that we should it possible sell the pets.
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: He's used to things covered in ice. Yes, yeah, that
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: makes sense.
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: I don't know what what happened in his PA. I mean,
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: there could be a perfectly good explanation for it, and
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: we should have sympathy rather than tease our friend Adam
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: Gurky about his weather report. But yeah, it might very
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: well be that I was, you know, I'm kept in
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: a freezer.
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: Or maybe he was just removed from a block of
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: ice like in Sino Man.
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: Right, Maybe that's what it was. Makes sense, and so
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: he's traumatized. Yeah, therefore he thinks eighty one might weltering.
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: It might make him melt.
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: Good morning to you, Ashley, Ryan Chuck Powell with you
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: here on this Monday morning. You know what we're just
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: we're just having fun with Adam. I'm not annoyed by him, no,
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: but I am annoyed by a few things. I canna
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: tell you another thing. I'm annoyed ifore I start talking
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: baseball soccer. Okay, I was made to feel guilty by
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: the American soccer community because every time I called it
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: a game, it's called a match. It's a match. We
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: don't play.
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: Games, it's a match day.
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: Well, didn't England like invent this damn sport. Yeah, And
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: I listen to the British host last night, and the
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: British analyst who was sitting next to her, and the
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: British play by play guy last night, and the British
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: sideline report, and they all were calling it a game.
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: Not a single one of them referred to it as
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: a match, not once. They all referred to it as
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: a game. So I don't know if it's game or match,
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: but I should never be made to feel guilty again.
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: If I slip and call it a.
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: Game, their soccer cards are going to be revoked.
• 22:53
  Speaker 5: Yeah you can't.
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm gonna trust the Brits on this one.
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: I would too if they call it a game or
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: a match either way. Yeah, So that means we're right either.
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: Way, all right, Jackson Anders, I'm talking to you too.
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: You two are part of that club making me feel guilty.
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: All right, let's get into a few things. I mean, hey,
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: we had a great weekend baseball wise. We had a
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: great homestand five out of six we'll take that. Rebounded
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: from a two to nothing shutout loss to Dylan Ceas
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: on Friday where we didn't hit. But he's a very
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: good pitcher. He's one of the better pitchers in the world.
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: And we rallied, thumped them on Saturday, pretty much thumped
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: them on Sunday, didn't let their offense get off the
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: mat the last couple of days. So it was a
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: terrific weekend. Regain the lead in the Division two excuse me,
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: one and a half games up right now, three games
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: over five hundred, and want to keep that role going
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: at least into the All Star break. We want to
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: be able to finish the first half strong. But for
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: the most part, just a really good week of Mariners baseball. Yes, yeah,
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: I would agree. That's why am I annoying?
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: Oh no, I don't know.
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: I want to go through four things that are annoying
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: me baseball. Number one, the All Star process, the voting process,
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: and I know what you're thinking, oh, yeah, they should
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: strip it from the fans. No, the fans are the
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: best ones at it. The fans actually are good compared
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: to the players and the league that apparently is there
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: to fix any wrongdoing, Like, are you kidding me that
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: the that the players, Well, let's just jump to let's
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: jump to the fact that Michael Waka and Logan web
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: are on the roster. Now, look, the Mariners don't exactly
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: have anybody that run away they should be All Stars.
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: It's we've been disappointing. I mean, it has been an
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: underachieving first half for the Mariners. There's an argument for
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: Cole Young, There's an argument for Emerson Hancock, there is
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: an argument for Logan Gilbert. There is an argument for
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: Randy Rosary, who did get named to the team. But
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: it's not some big giant slap in the face that
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: we only got one player named to the All Star roster. Well,
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: when the players screw up, because the players are responsible
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: for choosing the backup and then they screw that up
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: by usually one to four players every year, and then
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: the league has taken it away from the managers. And
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: I don't even know what they were thinking. They put
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: Logan Webb on the National League team. He's not even
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: having a good year on a last place team, and
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: they put Michael Waka, who is having a pretty good
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: year comparable to Emerson and Logan, but also on a
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: last place team like the White Sox. Are a great story.
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: Davis Martin has the second highest war in the entire
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: American League amongst pitchers, and we're putting the last place,
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: number three starter on the Royals over the ace of
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: the first place who's having a better year. I mean,
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: that's what your job is, to clean up any wrongdoing.
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: Even Emerson and Logan, the way Logan's finished this first half,
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: they are much better candidates than Michael Waka. So I
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: don't know how you screw that up. You've got three layers.
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: Everybody blames the fans every year. They do a far
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: better job than the players in the league on how
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: they end up filling out the roster. I'm annoyed by it.
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: I think that's a good thing to be annoyed by,
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: a fair thing to be annoyed by. I was quite
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: surprised that we didn't have any of our pitchers in there,
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: but I also understand that's not what's driving your annoyance,
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: so that's good.
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm also annoyed by the piggyback and forth.
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: Yes, it's driving me crazy.
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: And I'm glad that you abandoned it. I don't think
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: we really needed any more. I do believe that it
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: was more effective than the six man rotation was proving
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: to be, and is because Dan can't manage a bullpen.
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: But I don't mind that you went with Logan on
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: Saturday and then Emerson on Sunday. Worked out really well. Yeah,
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: it worked out just about as well as you could
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: want it to work out. No runs allowed. But what's
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: the deal with the piggy back and forth? Why are
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: you going to it and then stripping it? Why are
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: Bryce and Luis Castillo the only ones that apparently will
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: ever do the piggyback even though you keep threatening it
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: over and over. I mean, where's your piggyback bone? You know?
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: If you're gonna announce it, you know, why why not
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: stick with it? I'm glad you didn't. I don't need
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: I don't need it anymore. I don't even even need
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: to talk about it anymore. But to make a decision.
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: We're gonna do it on Saturday and with these two pitchers,
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: and then Saturday morning rolls around, we decided we're not
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: going to do that. This is now twice that they
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: take two weeks in a row.
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah, And that's the thing that drives me crazy, is
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: there's no way that you because I think they've decided
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: Thursday that they were going to go to the piggyback
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: on So so two days prior you thought the piggyback
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: was a good idea, and then the day of you
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: scrap it again. And last time we heard it was
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: so that Logan wasn't taken out of his rhythm. Well
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: what about Hancock who keeps thinking he's piggybacking on a
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: Saturday only to find out he's starting on a Sunday.
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: I mean, I don't think. I just think, just stop,
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: stop throwing it out there. I don't know what the
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: point is.
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: I wonder if we're going to get to the All
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: Star break and we're going to have a solution. Because
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: here's another thing about the six man rotation. You want
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: to preserve Logan starts because of how well he's doing well,
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: he's starting fewer times for you, he's having to wait longer.
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: Same with Emerson. So I think that we'll get to
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: the All Star break. I think they're going to have
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: a five man rotation, and I don't think it's going
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: to involve Luis Castill. I think that's how it's gonna
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: break down, which is what we thought should happen when
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: the entire process started. But the piggyback his piggyback me
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: into a corner on this and left me rather annoyed.
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: Another thing that's annoying me. I had it with Aaron
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: Goldsmith's agenda about I understand everybody gets it, Aaron, every
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: team's got a better chance if they hit more home runs.
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: But you've been on this ten year agenda about how
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: it's so hard to hit that you can't possibly try
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: to string together runs. So you just non stop talk about,
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: well we had a home run there, that's how we
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: win home run. This goes goes back to Babe Ruth.
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: Everybody understands and acknowledges the value of the home run,
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: particularly the three run homer. And yes, this team has
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: been built to hit home runs. That's how they're built
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: to pitch and to hit home runs. That's how they
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: have been structured to win baseball games. But you are
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: clearly annoyed by the idea from an analytics standpoint that
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: people are saying, Yes, I like home runs, but can
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: we not put the ball in play more? There will
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: be times where we need to score runs without the
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: home run, and we should be better at that. Yeah.
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: I don't want to just sit around and wait for
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: the home run. I don't want to hit fewer home runs,
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: but I would like for us to be better at
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: manufacturing runs. And before you think anyone thinks because he
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: has brainwashed you or he is trying to brainwash you
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: every single game, every single broadcast, all nine innings into
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: thinking that's the only way to win in Major League
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: Baseball today, I would just like to point out that
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: the team with the second best record in the entire
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: sport is in the bottom five in home runs this year.
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: So is the third best team in the entire sport,
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: and the Cleveland Guardians, who are a playoff team, those
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: are three of the bottom five home run hitters in
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: Major League Baseball. And sure they would like to hit
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: more home runs too, but you know what, they don't
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: sit around doing thinking to themselves that's the only way
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: we can win. I want us to be more versatile,
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: and so do a lot of people. But it apparently
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: offends your analytical agenda that you've been pushing on us
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: as Mariner fans for the last ten years. Nobody's denying
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: the power of the homer. We all want to see
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: home runs, but is it really that outlandish to want
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: us to score runs in other ways when we can't
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: hit the homer against a really good pitcher. I think
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: that just makes one hundred percent perfect sense.
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I was gonna say, I don't know why that
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: would be unreasonable at all.
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: I'm annoyed.
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: I can understand, yeah, the home run agenda, and I'm.
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: Just gonna say this just quickly. I'd like to go
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: further on this. I'm also annoyed by firing fans, and
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: you're not the only ones Mariner fans. I just over
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: the weekend. Yankee fans spent the entire weekend. We're the
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: worst team in baseball. Fire everybody. Do we have to
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: fire someone after every loss?
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: I don't think so.
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: Friday night it was Kevin Sitzer. I don't know if
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: people have noticed, but the offensive started to turn around,
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: and he was a big part of us making the
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: playoffs last year. And yeah, We've been disappointing again offensively
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: in the first half. Happens every year, apparently, no matter
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: who the hitting coach is. Yeah, yeah, well, I mean,
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: I'm not saying he's above suspicion, but it's just I
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: think there are a lot of fans, especially in baseball,
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: maybe only in baseball, after every loss, someone has to
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: be fired, someone has to be demote. Julio had to
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: be sent to the miners.
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: Oh god, I forgot about that.
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: I mean every I mean, do we have to fire
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: someone after every game?
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: Is that the we'll be left with one if that's
• 32:53
  Speaker 3: the route we take exactly.
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: I mean, players have bad games, teams have bad stretches.
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: The Yankees aren't as bad as they're playing right now,
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: they weren't as good as they were playing earlier in
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: the year, but they are playing without Aaron Judge. So
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: I don't think firing Aaron Boone is the solution for
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: Yankee fans. And I don't think because the Mariners got
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: shut out on Friday by a really good pitcher and
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: Dylan Ceese that firing our hitting coach is the right
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: move either.
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: I would agree that is not the right move. That's enough,
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: and it is annoying when people do that.
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: All right, coming out next? Can Shane Wright even play
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: for the crackt anymore? Sports Radio ninety three point three
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: kJ R at them?
• 33:38
  Speaker 5: What is this?
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: I don't want it being prepared for.
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: Slow build music?
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: Why do I recognize this but don't recognize this?
• 33:58
  Speaker 3: It's just a generic off of my heart? Ben?
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: Oh is that what it is? Yeah? Seriously? Yeah? I
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: was like, is this the beginning of twin peaks? Is
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: this be Nope? Yeah, I was like, is she getting
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: me ready for the right stuff? She likes to do
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: that sort of thing. Is this how the right stuff begins? Oh?
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: No, that would have been good. No, but I thought
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: the Shane Right thing. Oh it's a conundrum.
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that is true. That sounded like conundrum music.
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what I was going with.
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: It doesn't really feel like it's much of a conundrum,
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: more more of you know, we've been on this show
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: kind of speculating for a while, Like, you clearly don't
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: like Shane Wright. Somebody doesn't, Lane Lambert doesn't. So I
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: mean this doesn't come as a surprise to me. What's
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: kind of broken out over the last three or four days.
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: The agent wants him out. He wants out, the organization
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: doesn't not want to get rid of him, and yet
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: he's still a very talented young player and they want
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: to maximize trade value. Well there's a problem the words out.
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: Mm hmm. Well, now it's without without a without a doubt.
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: I mean, if I've picked up on it, you know,
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: then you know the rest of the National Hockey League
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: had picked up on it. And that's why you're not
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: getting the max offers that you think that you should
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: get for Shane Wright. And now the cat's completely out
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: of the bag because the agent has kind of called
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: you out, and so Shane Wright's going to be traded. Actually,
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: I don't even see a way that you could bring
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: him back at this stage. And yet there they are
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: insisting we're going to get value for him. We're going
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: to get the value we think he's worth, even though
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: they're kind of admitting we don't want him around anymore.
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: I mean it's hard.
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's kind of like that Jalen Brown Celtics situation.
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: I mean, you're gonna get what you're gonna get because
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: it's your own fault for putting it out there that
• 35:59
  Speaker 3: you didn't.
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: Want him Yeah, yeah, I agree, and I don't know why.
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: And even before you even put it out, I mean,
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: it was very obvious. I mean he was in the doghouse. Yeah,
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: and so you clearly went with Lambert's right, right is
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: wrong In this scenario, We're we're back in our head coach,
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: kept the head coach the offseason, which I'm relieved that
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: you kept the head coach in the off season. But
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: where does that leave Shane Wright. I mean, anyone can
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: read between the lines on that you don't like him,
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: you don't want him, you don't think he's got the
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: he's the guy that all the veterans or he's one
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: of the guys that all the veterans were referring to
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: during the season of that you know, maybe just doesn't
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: get it, all of that sort of hinting around. And
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: so the entire league is not going to give you
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: top market offers for him because they already know that
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: you've soured on him. And now wait longer and yeah,
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: and now all of a sudden, it's you know, the
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: agent's like, look, I want this process to be sped up.
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna go ahead and tell the world, right, we
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: want out. And so now you really are caught between
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: because there's no way you're going to get top offer.
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: And and at this point you tell me, is there
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: any way you could bring him back?
• 37:18
  Speaker 3: I don't think so.
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: I mean, I guess there's a way to bring him back,
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: But I'm I'm with you. I think that that cat's
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: out of the bag now.
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  Speaker 3: If it seems that it's like a fundamental difference between
• 37:28
  Speaker 3: him and Lambert. I don't know how you could bring
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: him back unless he's going to change his attitude, because
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: you're not going to have Lambert come, you know, change
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: the way he's coaching an entire team because one person
• 37:36
  Speaker 3: and him aren't getting along.
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: Well. I certainly don't want to give him away for
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: pennies on the dollar. No, he's too much of a talent.
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: But something would have to get fixed. I mean, they
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: would have to go off to a cabin together.
• 37:51
  Speaker 3: Maybe that'll work.
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: And getting this straight out. So don't give him away
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: for pennies on the dollar. But if you are, if
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: the market's spoken, then you better get down to making
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: him feel like he's a bigger part of this and
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: getting through to him on the things that you've struggled
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: to get through to him on. So it's kind of
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: a mess, and it's a little bit, I dare say,
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: a waste of a resource right now. You're not getting
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: maximum output from him talent wise, you aren't getting through
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: to him on the type of player that you want
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: him to be, and now you can't get rid of
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: him because the word is out on how you feel
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: about him, and you can't get proper trade value for him.
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: It's a wasted resource.
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, So.
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: Whatever whatever it takes to get value out of that resource,
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: you better pour all of your heart and attention into that,
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: whether that's getting him on the same page with Lambert
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: or getting him out of here one or the other.
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: All right, coming up next on the radio program, FIFA
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: seems caught between. I am also caught between right now.
• 38:58
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