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- 0:00Speaker 1: Game number three of the American League Championship Series, the
- 0:03Speaker 1: Mariners and the Blue Jays a chance to go up
- 0:05Speaker 1: three to zero and move that much closer to the
- 0:08Speaker 1: first ever World Series appearance and organization history. Dustin Nickerson's
- 0:14Speaker 1: going to join us a little bit later on this
- 0:16Speaker 1: hour at nine point thirty to discuss it. But we
- 0:18Speaker 1: got this big, fat segment here talk about all the
- 0:21Speaker 1: things that we want to discuss about tonight's big game.
- 0:25Speaker 1: And of course the most important thing about the game
- 0:28Speaker 1: tonight is whether or not you're doing the right superstition
- 0:32Speaker 1: to get it over the threshold. Oh that's it.
- 0:34Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, yes, okay, is just one thing, multiple things.
- 0:40Speaker 2: We did get a texture saying he has been watching
- 0:43Speaker 2: Brash and Muno's pitch from the deck, watching through the window.
- 0:47Speaker 2: It's worked so far the game thumbs up said thanks,
- 0:51Speaker 2: thanks for your contribution.
- 0:52Speaker 1: So every time that they take them ount he goes
- 0:55Speaker 1: outside on the deck rain or shine, yeah, watches through
- 0:58Speaker 1: the glass doors. Yes, and it works like a yeah, yep.
- 1:01Speaker 2: You don't mess with that.
- 1:03Speaker 1: I don't think, No, you don't.
- 1:05Speaker 3: And there are certain superstitions I will say that aren't
- 1:07Speaker 3: a game to game. Sometimes it happens during the game,
- 1:10Speaker 3: you realize, Okay, this thing's working.
- 1:12Speaker 4: I gotta keep this going through the game.
- 1:14Speaker 3: Like when we were at Game five, for instance, I
- 1:16Speaker 3: had my little rally towel. Well, I found that if
- 1:19Speaker 3: I wrapped it hard enough around my hand to the
- 1:21Speaker 3: point where I couldn't really feel my thumb, it was working.
- 1:25Speaker 3: Then that kind of stopped working after a while, so
- 1:27Speaker 3: then I had to wrap it my thumb. I could
- 1:29Speaker 3: feel my thumb a little bit, but then I had
- 1:30Speaker 3: to have my thumb on my chin and the towel
- 1:32Speaker 3: up on my nose.
- 1:34Speaker 4: That's how we won the game.
- 1:35Speaker 1: You're welcome, and you're passing this on to your daughter.
- 1:40Speaker 1: I didn't even know.
- 1:41Speaker 4: I was doing it. It is a sickness.
- 1:43Speaker 3: There are other things that happen from a game to
- 1:46Speaker 3: game basis.
- 1:48Speaker 4: Those things can't be talked about.
- 1:50Speaker 3: Oh oh jeez, well because you can't ruin it.
- 1:54Speaker 1: Oh, I see, like.
- 1:55Speaker 4: If I talk about what I'm doing.
- 1:57Speaker 1: Okay, I'm glad you clarified that.
- 1:59Speaker 3: Right, right, because right, yes, yes, yeah, yeah, it's notuffing dirty.
- 2:03Speaker 3: It's just there's certain things that I have found that
- 2:07Speaker 3: are working right now, and if I talk about them, oh,
- 2:10Speaker 3: I don't want them.
- 2:10Speaker 4: To stop working and then we lose and then it's
- 2:13Speaker 4: our fault.
- 2:13Speaker 2: How do you know which ones of these super duperstitions
- 2:17Speaker 2: that you have are okay to talk about and which
- 2:20Speaker 2: ones aren't?
- 2:21Speaker 3: Well, because the one like in game is fine because
- 2:23Speaker 3: that was that game that only worked for that game,
- 2:25Speaker 3: So I'm not it doesn't work again.
- 2:28Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 2:28Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 2:29Speaker 4: Sometimes it's like the way you sit during the game.
- 2:30Speaker 4: Like again.
- 2:31Speaker 3: For example, go back to nineteen ninety five, Mariners are
- 2:35Speaker 3: playing the Yankees. I'm sitting on the couch with my
- 2:38Speaker 3: hand bent like in front of me. I didn't realize
- 2:41Speaker 3: I was doing it till I went to move my
- 2:43Speaker 3: hand and my wrist hurt. Well when I did that,
- 2:45Speaker 3: the Yankees scored a run hand back to bent Mariners
- 2:49Speaker 3: win the game, and I sacrificed my own comfort and
- 2:53Speaker 3: pain for the Mariners to win.
- 2:55Speaker 1: And maybe long term ramifications to your wrist is right.
- 2:58Speaker 4: Oh, thank goodness, I ended up.
- 3:00Speaker 5: Could be end up arthritic. I mean, you're okay.
- 3:02Speaker 1: Now, I am, but maybe ten years from now, the
- 3:05Speaker 1: doctor's like, was there ever a time where you put
- 3:07Speaker 1: a lot of torque yep over a long period of
- 3:10Speaker 1: time on your wrist unnecessarily hours.
- 3:13Speaker 4: Yeah, four hours back in nineteen ninety five, Doc.
- 3:16Speaker 1: Well, your wrist is never going to work the same again.
- 3:18Speaker 1: It was worth one though.
- 3:19Speaker 4: It was worth it. The double lives on.
- 3:23Speaker 1: You know, our old colleague Jim Moore keeps posting videos
- 3:26Speaker 1: of like his wife won't set She just marches back
- 3:29Speaker 1: and forth during the game and she thinks if she
- 3:31Speaker 1: sits down, she'll ruin the mojo.
- 3:33Speaker 3: Yeah, my mom won't watch the games because when she watches,
- 3:36Speaker 3: she doesn't think we're doing well. I went to her
- 3:37Speaker 3: house the other day, though, I will say this. I
- 3:39Speaker 3: went to her house with a three nothing lead.
- 3:41Speaker 4: And what happened when I got to her house and
- 3:43Speaker 4: she sat down to watch it with me, they tied
- 3:45Speaker 4: the game up. So she might be onto something.
- 3:49Speaker 1: I want this to happen, I really do. I want
- 3:52Speaker 1: to get to the Pearly Gates, and I think I'll
- 3:54Speaker 1: get through barely, okay.
- 3:56Speaker 5: Narrowly, I'll get through that.
- 3:58Speaker 1: You think that, yeah, And I don't know if this happens,
- 4:03Speaker 1: but in my mind, you get a chance to sit
- 4:05Speaker 1: down with like one of the archangels, and then you
- 4:07Speaker 1: get to just like ask them questions, like all the
- 4:09Speaker 1: questions that you have, and then they tell you. They
- 4:12Speaker 1: make sure that you're prepared to handle the truth. But
- 4:16Speaker 1: at that point my thoughts are all angelic, so I
- 4:19Speaker 1: wouldn't get angry at anything. And one of the questions
- 4:22Speaker 1: I'm going to ask is do superstitions have anything to
- 4:26Speaker 1: do with the outcomes of sporting events? And I want
- 4:30Speaker 1: the answer to be yes.
- 4:32Speaker 4: Yeah, me too, because how it was, I'm going to
- 4:34Speaker 4: feel like a really big idiot.
- 4:35Speaker 1: I want the answer to be yes. God takes all
- 4:39Speaker 1: of the superstitions into play, and then he has this,
- 4:44Speaker 1: you know.
- 4:45Speaker 5: Like only he can do.
- 4:46Speaker 1: He can take all the math of all the different
- 4:48Speaker 1: weird superstitions, and whoever is the most superstitious and sticks
- 4:53Speaker 1: with their superstitions the most loyally wins the game.
- 4:58Speaker 4: Okay, I think that's fair. I think i'd be I
- 5:02Speaker 4: have probably contributed to a lot of wins.
- 5:04Speaker 1: Then I want to find that that's a I want
- 5:08Speaker 1: to ask that question, and then I want the answer
- 5:11Speaker 1: to be, to my surprise, yes it has everything to
- 5:14Speaker 1: do with it.
- 5:15Speaker 2: If I'm if I'm right behind you in line and
- 5:19Speaker 2: I hear that I'm going to be very distant.
- 5:21Speaker 1: You're going to go to hell. That's it. I'm going
- 5:23Speaker 1: to hell.
- 5:23Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't want to be here.
- 5:25Speaker 4: I will say this. First of all, we did get
- 5:28Speaker 4: a text.
- 5:28Speaker 3: The first rule of in game Superstition Club is don't
- 5:30Speaker 3: talk about in game Superstition Club.
- 5:31Speaker 4: See you can't talk about it while it's happening, but
- 5:34Speaker 4: you can talk about it when it's over.
- 5:35Speaker 3: So that's why if there's one for a specific game,
- 5:37Speaker 3: yeah chat it up because that one's that one's out
- 5:39Speaker 3: the door. But right now, yeah, you got to keep
- 5:43Speaker 3: the other, those other ones on the down low.
- 5:44Speaker 5: So there are even superstitions to your superstitions.
- 5:47Speaker 1: Oh yes, okay, all right, I.
- 5:50Speaker 2: Mean I'll do it a little bit like when we
- 5:52Speaker 2: were watching game five.
- 5:53Speaker 1: Well you won't let anybody talk about like predict victories.
- 5:58Speaker 5: You've got a little bit of a little more than
- 5:59Speaker 5: you think.
- 6:00Speaker 2: Yeah, well that just makes sense. Like when I hear
- 6:03Speaker 2: the Ian Parnessa's promo sayings in the team, I don't
- 6:08Speaker 2: think he's Jesus's just like, why would you say that
- 6:11Speaker 2: we're up to here? There's no way they're coming back
- 6:13Speaker 2: and winning for It's like.
- 6:14Speaker 6: What do you say?
- 6:14Speaker 7: You know?
- 6:15Speaker 4: I was like, oh my god, that made me there's
- 6:17Speaker 4: no way.
- 6:18Speaker 1: Certainly is a way.
- 6:21Speaker 2: There, because you just don't if it's premature, it's just premature.
- 6:28Speaker 2: I feel very good about where we're at right now.
- 6:30Speaker 2: I'm not gonna sit here and say it's over. It
- 6:33Speaker 2: doesn't make any sense, I know. But those game to
- 6:36Speaker 2: be played.
- 6:37Speaker 1: That's just his take, Like I don't think they match
- 6:40Speaker 1: up with us with this thing's over. We're gonna we're
- 6:43Speaker 1: gonna win. But it's it's not like it's going like
- 6:46Speaker 1: Julio's sitting there saying, hey, everybody Ian says that where
- 6:50Speaker 1: it's over, relaxed, we got it.
- 6:52Speaker 2: Well, of course they're not saying it, well.
- 6:54Speaker 1: Yeah, you're just superstitious. You're superstitious as actually.
- 6:57Speaker 2: Is no, no, no, I just simply worst thing you
- 7:00Speaker 2: could say that. I can't say. I can't take myself
- 7:03Speaker 2: out of the position of if I was still in
- 7:06Speaker 2: the locker room, like there's just no way I would
- 7:08Speaker 2: say that.
- 7:09Speaker 5: We would say that, Yeah, it's not in the locker room.
- 7:12Speaker 1: He's got a red hot talk show and he's got
- 7:14Speaker 1: a hot take.
- 7:15Speaker 2: Yeah I will.
- 7:16Speaker 3: I will say it's funny. I do sometimes try to
- 7:18Speaker 3: talk myself out of it. I'm I'll be getting ready
- 7:20Speaker 3: in the morning.
- 7:21Speaker 4: Okay, nothing I do today is going to determine whether
- 7:23Speaker 4: or not the Mariners win. I'll tell myself this, and
- 7:26Speaker 4: then I'm like, but I'm just gonna stick with these
- 7:28Speaker 4: certain things just in case. But I know that it
- 7:30Speaker 4: has nothing to do but just in case. And it
- 7:34Speaker 4: might also just be in my house.
- 7:36Speaker 3: Because when the Maritors played the Blue Jays in the
- 7:39Speaker 3: what three years ago in the playoffs, we were losing miserably.
- 7:42Speaker 3: Our friend went into the bathroom. We started winning. When
- 7:45Speaker 3: he came out, we weren't.
- 7:48Speaker 4: Doing as well.
- 7:48Speaker 3: We made him watch, well, listen to the last like
- 7:52Speaker 3: inning and a half. He had to be in the
- 7:53Speaker 3: bathroom and we had it. He had to just listen.
- 7:56Speaker 3: So you can thank Seth for that win.
- 7:59Speaker 5: Go Seth.
- 7:59Speaker 4: Yeah, he's in Malaysia right now, so he's watching from
- 8:02Speaker 4: the bathroom tonight.
- 8:03Speaker 1: Well, they don't even have bathrooms there, I don't think,
- 8:06Speaker 1: probably not. He's going to the series. Yeah, yeah, bathroom.
- 8:11Speaker 4: It's sorry. He's been in Malaysia this whole time now,
- 8:13Speaker 4: so it's all right.
- 8:15Speaker 1: Hey Malaysians, I have to find.
- 8:17Speaker 4: A bathroom, have to find a bathroom.
- 8:19Speaker 5: We're in the seven.
- 8:24Speaker 4: Oh see, we got this one.
- 8:25Speaker 3: Ted, myself and four buddies were in Horn Lake, Mississippi,
- 8:28Speaker 3: last weekend watching from the BWW. At middle of the
- 8:32Speaker 3: fifteenth I said, rotate seats A minute later, game.
- 8:35Speaker 1: Over, Thanks Ted. Yep, without your job, Ted, we would
- 8:39Speaker 1: not have won. That says just the bottom line.
- 8:42Speaker 4: And that's the thing is you have the whole fan base.
- 8:44Speaker 4: It's the combined fan base.
- 8:45Speaker 3: How did you all superstish together.
- 8:48Speaker 1: In comparison to the Tigers right and their fans?
- 8:52Speaker 4: And we clearly wanted it.
- 8:53Speaker 1: Yeah, And so God was like, yes, the Mariner shall win,
- 8:57Speaker 1: Polongko shall come through.
- 8:59Speaker 4: Yeah, because look at all the He's idiots.
- 9:02Speaker 1: It was even for six innings, but then in the
- 9:05Speaker 1: fifteenth the Mariners superstitions took the lead and Polonko I
- 9:10Speaker 1: ordained it to come through.
- 9:13Speaker 4: See that's the way it works. Chuck gets it.
- 9:16Speaker 1: Yeah, I do now.
- 9:17Speaker 2: I miss it now.
- 9:20Speaker 4: And you know what, one day I'll tell you guys this.
- 9:22Speaker 4: You're gonna really look forward to this. One day. I
- 9:24Speaker 4: will fill you in on the twenty twenty five superstitions.
- 9:28Speaker 1: Okay, you gotta wait for that. Remind me, remind me
- 9:31Speaker 1: that we will do it.
- 9:32Speaker 2: Intervention right after it.
- 9:35Speaker 4: It will never go.
- 9:35Speaker 1: Will you wear this jacket that you can't get your
- 9:38Speaker 1: arms out of? We're going to just slip that on
- 9:41Speaker 1: real fast.
- 9:42Speaker 2: Yeah, and put.
- 9:43Speaker 4: You' like what kind of jacket kit?
- 9:44Speaker 2: Really cool buckles on it.
- 9:46Speaker 5: You'll love it, and we're kind of be dazzled in
- 9:48Speaker 5: the back.
- 9:48Speaker 4: I fired would have put me in one of those
- 9:50Speaker 4: a long time ago as an option.
- 9:52Speaker 1: Decorate your studio in there with all rubber and soft.
- 9:57Speaker 2: We'll just pretend it's going to be warmer.
- 10:01Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, just give into a don't you well, look,
- 10:10Speaker 1: I feel really good about the team. I felt good
- 10:12Speaker 1: about this matchup coming into the series.
- 10:14Speaker 6: Uh.
- 10:15Speaker 1: I realized that mostly national people, but a lot of
- 10:18Speaker 1: local people as well, are surprised at this two and
- 10:21Speaker 1: oh start. I'm not so much. I also don't think
- 10:24Speaker 1: it's over, and we've got a lot of work left
- 10:26Speaker 1: to do. But I like the matchup, and I and
- 10:31Speaker 1: I you know, obviously love being up to Oh. I
- 10:34Speaker 1: just think we're the better team. I really do, and
- 10:37Speaker 1: so to me, that's what carries the day. Now we
- 10:40Speaker 1: get to add to this, because there was no denying
- 10:45Speaker 1: that we were certainly in a different situation than what
- 10:48Speaker 1: Toronto was because we went to five full games. I mean,
- 10:52Speaker 1: we both had first round byes, but they had the
- 10:54Speaker 1: tidy opportunity to start their best pitcher in game number one,
- 10:58Speaker 1: their hottest pitcher, and game number on to and really
- 11:01Speaker 1: go with what is their ideal rotation. It's been anything
- 11:04Speaker 1: but ideal for us to this stage. So going to
- 11:08Speaker 1: and oh on the road when you're still trying to
- 11:12Speaker 1: like patchwork things together until you can get back to
- 11:15Speaker 1: where the Blue Jays were at the start of the season,
- 11:18Speaker 1: and now we're here. Now we don't have that as
- 11:21Speaker 1: an excuse to use. For sure, it's not going to
- 11:24Speaker 1: be a narrative anymore. Kirby's going to be pitching on
- 11:27Speaker 1: full rest today, Castillo's going to be on full rest
- 11:30Speaker 1: and then some tomorrow, and Brian wu is coming back.
- 11:34Speaker 1: So yeah, I'm not gonna sit here and do any
- 11:37Speaker 1: he and forness, reckless guarantee victory kind of things. But
- 11:41Speaker 1: I'm feeling really damn good about where we are right now.
- 11:44Speaker 1: But then again, I felt good about where we were
- 11:47Speaker 1: before the series even started.
- 11:48Speaker 2: Mm hmm, yeah, well, I mean I felt good. I
- 11:51Speaker 2: still feel good. I feel slightly better than I did
- 11:56Speaker 2: before they won the first two games. But it none
- 11:59Speaker 2: of the stuff. I mean, I guess when I think
- 12:02Speaker 2: about matchups, I just think about this. Yeah, it looks
- 12:06Speaker 2: good where we're at. Like, if you just tell me
- 12:07Speaker 2: right now, just on paper, George Kirby or Shane Bieber,
- 12:10Speaker 2: which one would you like starting for your team? Well,
- 12:12Speaker 2: I'll take George Kirby. George still has to go out
- 12:15Speaker 2: pitch him. George still has to go out pitch that lineup,
- 12:19Speaker 2: and our lineup has to make it to where Seane
- 12:21Speaker 2: Bieber doesn't out pitch us pitch our side. To me,
- 12:24Speaker 2: it's the all of the Once you get down to
- 12:27Speaker 2: the final four teams, they're all capable of winning a
- 12:30Speaker 2: World Series. They all have enough talent offensively and pitching
- 12:34Speaker 2: that if they show up and they do what they're
- 12:36Speaker 2: capable of doing, they can win on any given night.
- 12:38Speaker 2: And if you can do that four out of seven
- 12:40Speaker 2: times twice, boom, next thing, you know, you're the champ.
- 12:42Speaker 2: So to me, it's just go play. I feel good.
- 12:45Speaker 2: I feel slightly better. I mean, but it's one of
- 12:47Speaker 2: those I don't get a whole heck of a lot
- 12:49Speaker 2: out of one individual win. Now you get two, and
- 12:52Speaker 2: it doubles obviously, but it still is one of those
- 12:55Speaker 2: we're only halfway to where we need to get and
- 12:58Speaker 2: you can end up losing one and I I will
- 13:01Speaker 2: feel less, I will take away some of my confidence
- 13:04Speaker 2: just one loss. Right where you can just go out
- 13:06Speaker 2: there today, kick a ball when you shouldn't have, or
- 13:09Speaker 2: or not play situational baseball when you need to, or
- 13:11Speaker 2: they do a really good job of something. Maybe it's
- 13:14Speaker 2: George Kirby throws really good pitches and vlad goes I
- 13:16Speaker 2: can hit that one up there, I can hit this
- 13:18Speaker 2: one off the bounce or whatever it is. It just is.
- 13:21Speaker 2: That's the beauty of the game, is how temperamental it is,
- 13:25Speaker 2: how how many little things can change the course of
- 13:28Speaker 2: momentum and shifts this way and that way over the
- 13:31Speaker 2: course of a game. And I love it. And at
- 13:33Speaker 2: the same time that's the part that makes me nervous
- 13:36Speaker 2: sitting and watching.
- 13:36Speaker 4: Yeah, I definitely feel good.
- 13:38Speaker 3: And I think Ian did put out something I think
- 13:40Speaker 3: on X yesterday that was like I feel eerily calm
- 13:43Speaker 3: or some yeah, And I think that's how I felt
- 13:47Speaker 3: yesterday because there was no game yesterday, But on every
- 13:49Speaker 3: game day, I'm like I wake up, and I'm like anxious,
- 13:52Speaker 3: but not in a fearful way, just in an exciting,
- 13:57Speaker 3: excited way.
- 13:58Speaker 4: So I'm feeling very good about where we're at right now.
- 14:00Speaker 1: But you're still going to do all of you I'm
- 14:02Speaker 1: still doing.
- 14:02Speaker 4: Oh, I'm not screwing it. I'm not going to screw
- 14:04Speaker 4: this team over.
- 14:05Speaker 1: Because it all comes down to that exactly.
- 14:07Speaker 4: Right, well, and also how they play on the field.
- 14:10Speaker 2: Right right, right, but mostly.
- 14:13Speaker 6: Matter.
- 14:13Speaker 1: I don't think. I don't, I don't want. I'm not
- 14:16Speaker 1: going to go as far as he in and like
- 14:18Speaker 1: I've booked or flight the LA. But I feel really good. Yeah,
- 14:23Speaker 1: and I and I felt good before the series starts,
- 14:25Speaker 1: so I clearly feel better now. Uh and uh.
- 14:28Speaker 5: And I just don't want to provide the analysis of well, whoever.
- 14:31Speaker 1: Scores the most runs is going to win. I think
- 14:34Speaker 1: we should score the most runs in this series and
- 14:38Speaker 1: tonight and I think that we will get this thing done.
- 14:42Speaker 1: But yeah, you do have to go execute, and you
- 14:44Speaker 1: do have to you do have to play ball. And
- 14:47Speaker 1: I guarantee none of them are taking it for granted,
- 14:49Speaker 1: They're none of them feeling that way. I think they're
- 14:51Speaker 1: just as focused now as they've been at any point
- 14:54Speaker 1: during the course of the season. To win tonight's game
- 14:57Speaker 1: and to move to three and zero. I think they're
- 14:58Speaker 1: in a really good head space. I feel like they've
- 15:01Speaker 1: been that way for a long long time.
- 15:03Speaker 2: Oh yeah, they have. They're all rolling in the same direction.
- 15:06Speaker 2: That's one thing that you can't always say about a team,
- 15:08Speaker 2: even when it gets to the playoffs. And then I
- 15:11Speaker 2: think that they are carrying the gravity, which isn't It's
- 15:14Speaker 2: getting lighter the further they go, the more they advance.
- 15:18Speaker 2: You know, you win the division, that gives you an
- 15:21Speaker 2: extra that weight off your shoulders. You get past that
- 15:23Speaker 2: first round. Now all of a sudden, you're like, hey,
- 15:26Speaker 2: we're up to zip in this bad boy. Let's just
- 15:28Speaker 2: go ball. Let's go have some fun out there and
- 15:30Speaker 2: see what's up. I think that this team is carrying
- 15:33Speaker 2: the history, but not as a weight. They're carrying it
- 15:36Speaker 2: almost as like a badge of honor, Like that's right,
- 15:38Speaker 2: We're going to be the team that breaks the never
- 15:40Speaker 2: getting there type of a thing. And yet they just
- 15:43Speaker 2: got to go out and prove it.
- 15:44Speaker 1: I bet you Dustin Nickerson has all sorts of superstitions,
- 15:47Speaker 1: doesn't he seem like the top.
- 15:48Speaker 4: Yeah for sure.
- 15:49Speaker 1: Yeah, our friend Dustin Nickerson, Seattle comedian, a big up
- 15:53Speaker 1: and comer on the national scene. I hear he's been
- 15:56Speaker 1: living and dying with every single pitch during these plays
- 16:00Speaker 1: and he's been a routine guest of ours throughout this
- 16:03Speaker 1: second half of the season. So we're excited to check
- 16:06Speaker 1: in with him next Sports Radio ninety three point three
- 16:08Speaker 1: kJ RFM. He's also a funny, stand up comedian type,
- 16:13Speaker 1: and like you, he's been living and dying with every
- 16:16Speaker 1: pitch of the American League playoffs. With your Seattle Mariners
- 16:20Speaker 1: joining us again is Dustin Nickerson. Good morning, sir, How
- 16:23Speaker 1: are you feeling.
- 16:25Speaker 6: Good?
- 16:26Speaker 7: I would I would certainly call Ashley a friend.
- 16:29Speaker 6: This group, you know success, that's cool.
- 16:32Speaker 5: So Bucky and I will be stranded.
- 16:35Speaker 7: Well, I mean, she's the only way that will talk
- 16:37Speaker 7: to me when we're not on air. I get texts
- 16:39Speaker 7: from her. She responds to me on Twitter. You know
- 16:43Speaker 7: it's uh, you know you guys. I would call some
- 16:48Speaker 7: of my preferred social acquaintances. I think we've reached that level.
- 16:53Speaker 2: I've replied to you on Twitter. I think Chuck has
- 16:56Speaker 2: as well.
- 16:57Speaker 1: I could pick that up. I could pick you know,
- 16:58Speaker 1: just you're just a big, select pretty type. It's like
- 17:00Speaker 1: the time you met Clooney, you know, and he didn't
- 17:03Speaker 1: know if are we friends or not? You know that
- 17:06Speaker 1: sort of thing.
- 17:06Speaker 6: Yeah, fair enough, fair enough dancer.
- 17:11Speaker 7: To answer your question, I'm feeling I'm feeling good, bad, miserable.
- 17:19Speaker 7: I don't know all of all of the above all
- 17:21Speaker 7: the time.
- 17:22Speaker 6: Does that make sense?
- 17:23Speaker 2: You're up two?
- 17:23Speaker 7: Oh?
- 17:23Speaker 2: Not really?
- 17:25Speaker 1: No, No, I mean I feel I.
- 17:29Speaker 7: Listen, I've been playing a game in my head called.
- 17:36Speaker 8: Uh.
- 17:36Speaker 7: If I were objective, this is This has been a
- 17:40Speaker 7: very helpful exercise for me. Like if I were objective
- 17:43Speaker 7: about the Seattle Mariners in Seattle sports in general, I'd
- 17:47Speaker 7: be like, this team is about to break every curse
- 17:50Speaker 7: that Seattle sports has ever ever had, all of them
- 17:54Speaker 7: in one season, the fifteen inning game up.
- 17:58Speaker 6: To on the road.
- 18:00Speaker 7: The vibes are immaculate, Our mascots are winning races they've
- 18:04Speaker 7: never won before. You know, Geno and a Rose Raina
- 18:10Speaker 7: still haven't even done anything really of a huge significance,
- 18:15Speaker 7: and they're still winning games. If I were objective in
- 18:18Speaker 7: my lasting images of being a Seattle sports fan, when
- 18:22Speaker 7: I close my eyes, aren't Joey Korra crying and kembe
- 18:26Speaker 7: Mtumble laughing. If those weren't the things I saw when
- 18:29Speaker 7: I closed my eyes as Seattle sports fan, then I'd
- 18:31Speaker 7: be like, yeah, yeah, this is this team's doing great.
- 18:35Speaker 7: So I'm all of the above all the time. But yeah,
- 18:38Speaker 7: I mean feeling as good as I can right now.
- 18:40Speaker 7: Consider I have forty years of trauma, that's good.
- 18:44Speaker 2: So it's just being therapeutic because there are moments that
- 18:46Speaker 2: you allow yourself to feel like more good, Like you
- 18:50Speaker 2: don't feel like, no, too dangerous, it's gonna hurt too
- 18:53Speaker 2: much if I let myself go there.
- 18:57Speaker 7: I'm I mean, Chuck, you said it. I mean I'm
- 19:01Speaker 7: living and dying on every pitch. So every great moment
- 19:05Speaker 7: I am celebrating as a high of level as you can.
- 19:10Speaker 7: But I just you know, baseball was not Baseball was
- 19:14Speaker 7: not meant to watch every pitch. It is not a
- 19:18Speaker 7: sport that you can sustain where you watch every pit
- 19:22Speaker 7: It's meant to be watched passively. You know, you can't
- 19:26Speaker 7: be I can't sustain this. You can't be sweating a
- 19:29Speaker 7: walk in the first inning. You just can't do that
- 19:32Speaker 7: for three hours. You can't see like a low and
- 19:36Speaker 7: outside ball to call and be like this ref needs
- 19:39Speaker 7: to get or needs to get fired.
- 19:40Speaker 6: This is like you just can't it, you know.
- 19:44Speaker 7: So the answer is to there are moments that I
- 19:50Speaker 7: feel as good as I've ever felt as a Mariners fan,
- 19:54Speaker 7: and and and just at any given point based on
- 19:56Speaker 7: the next result, not even the next hit or inning,
- 19:59Speaker 7: the next pitch.
- 20:00Speaker 6: It's the lowest low I've.
- 20:01Speaker 7: Ever felt as a Marritors fan as well.
- 20:03Speaker 6: So I'm living and dying and all of it.
- 20:06Speaker 1: Baby, Dustin Nickerson with us here on Chuck and Buck
- 20:09Speaker 1: in the morning, Seattle comedian, and he's been become a
- 20:14Speaker 1: friend of the show. We can at least go that far,
- 20:16Speaker 1: all right, So take me through the Friday Night because
- 20:19Speaker 1: I'm I don't fan the way you and Ashley fan,
- 20:22Speaker 1: and yet through fifteen innings of that, I was exhausted
- 20:28Speaker 1: at the end of the night. So based on the
- 20:31Speaker 1: description you just gave of what kind of fan you are,
- 20:34Speaker 1: plus you are on stage that night and couldn't even
- 20:37Speaker 1: get updates except periodically, what was Friday Night like for
- 20:42Speaker 1: Dustin Nickerson?
- 20:44Speaker 7: Friday was Friday was a gift because I got to
- 20:48Speaker 7: be on stage. Okay, truly like you know, ends up
- 20:54Speaker 7: my You know, the fans that I have in San
- 20:56Speaker 7: Francisco do.
- 20:58Speaker 6: Not care about the Mariners game. Stunning, I know, I when.
- 21:04Speaker 7: They're not checking their phones for updates, and so neither
- 21:08Speaker 7: should I. I need to be a consummate professional up there.
- 21:10Speaker 7: But we got on I got on stage, Reebus had
- 21:15Speaker 7: just tied the game, and so it was like the eighth, seventh, eighth,
- 21:19Speaker 7: and I figured it.
- 21:21Speaker 6: I knew this based on.
- 21:22Speaker 7: Show times that it was most likely going to end
- 21:25Speaker 7: while I was on stage. So I said, nobody tell
- 21:28Speaker 7: me now, but someone tell me the result when I
- 21:30Speaker 7: walk into.
- 21:30Speaker 6: The green room. And so I walk into the green
- 21:33Speaker 6: room right after the show before we.
- 21:34Speaker 7: Go doing the meet and greet, and the door guy
- 21:38Speaker 7: tells me it's tied. I'm like, it's tied. And then
- 21:41Speaker 7: I'm thinking, well, this is great. I can watch the
- 21:44Speaker 7: end of this between shows. Surely there's no way this
- 21:47Speaker 7: will still be going when I have to get on
- 21:50Speaker 7: stage for the nine thirty show.
- 21:52Speaker 6: And sure enough, somehow, on.
- 21:56Speaker 7: What I think it's the bottom of the or the
- 21:57Speaker 7: top of the thirteenth, I'm going on stage again. And frankly,
- 22:01Speaker 7: I think my heart was like my actual beating heart
- 22:06Speaker 7: was thankful for the breaks, because performing for two hundred
- 22:10Speaker 7: rowdy drunks in downtown San Francisco, as I make fun
- 22:14Speaker 7: of the forty nine ers, was less stressful than watching
- 22:18Speaker 7: that game. Give me rowdy drunks all day long over
- 22:22Speaker 7: watching yet another double play get knocked into in the
- 22:27Speaker 7: bottom of the extra and how.
- 22:29Speaker 1: Many of these things giving it into give me rowdy
- 22:32Speaker 1: drunks and Kyle Shanahan rat faced jokes any day compared
- 22:36Speaker 1: to the yeah.
- 22:37Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah. They were on board with them.
- 22:40Speaker 7: They I was, I just got out of a walking
- 22:44Speaker 7: boot and I told them, you know, I know it's
- 22:46Speaker 7: weird for a Seahawks fan to be wearing you know,
- 22:49Speaker 7: forty nine or paraphernalia, and by that.
- 22:51Speaker 6: I mean a walking boot, and they enjoyed that there
- 22:55Speaker 6: was some kind of good little things in there.
- 22:59Speaker 7: And then you know, so anyway, there's always a few
- 23:01Speaker 7: sports jokes in every town I go, but ends up,
- 23:04Speaker 7: for the most part, most people don't care. They're like,
- 23:06Speaker 7: just complain about having teenage daughters.
- 23:09Speaker 6: That's really the bulk of my act.
- 23:10Speaker 2: Anyways, what's the deal. By the way, you just getting
- 23:14Speaker 2: all kinds of uh swag sent to you right, bats
- 23:18Speaker 2: and gear, and I mean, what's going on? What's what's
- 23:22Speaker 2: your next bag of goodie is going to be? Yes,
- 23:26Speaker 2: that's a great question.
- 23:28Speaker 6: I don't know. This is new to me, the sending
- 23:32Speaker 6: free stuff I did.
- 23:34Speaker 7: That's right, you did, But you did respond that you
- 23:37Speaker 7: could teach me how to actually use these bats that
- 23:40Speaker 7: Victor Sports or Victor's Victis Sports.
- 23:42Speaker 2: I forgot the name.
- 23:43Speaker 7: Oh my god, they said Victory Victis uh as I said,
- 23:48Speaker 7: I held that bat, and I was remembering my glory
- 23:51Speaker 7: years down at Catur High School in Seduary, Washington on
- 23:54Speaker 7: the JV team, thinking, yeah, this looks like.
- 23:56Speaker 6: A at best.
- 23:58Speaker 7: At best's a week rounder to second, you know, if
- 24:01Speaker 7: I make contact in the first place.
- 24:03Speaker 6: So yeah, I might I.
- 24:05Speaker 7: Might have to bring one of those up next time
- 24:07Speaker 7: I'm in town and you can actually, you know, show
- 24:11Speaker 7: me how to keep my weight back.
- 24:12Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, I was just going to think more so
- 24:14Speaker 2: on like just go ahead and wrap your thumb around
- 24:16Speaker 2: the bat. You were holding that thumb going up the bat.
- 24:18Speaker 2: I'm like, all right, that's maybe that's why you're on JV.
- 24:23Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 24:24Speaker 7: Well, you know, how was your tonight show appearance, Bucky?
- 24:27Speaker 1: It was not near as.
- 24:28Speaker 8: Good as yours not not very good at all. Yeah,
- 24:32Speaker 8: you know I've found my way anyway. Second show added
- 24:35Speaker 8: at the Neptune Theater. But you know you keep telling.
- 24:38Speaker 6: Me how to do my job. No, I'm not telling you.
- 24:44Speaker 6: We both found our way.
- 24:45Speaker 7: We both found our way. Uh.
- 24:50Speaker 5: Do you have superstitions?
- 24:51Speaker 1: We talked about this in the last segment, and I
- 24:53Speaker 1: have determined that I want to get to the Pearly
- 24:55Speaker 1: Gate someday and ask God just what does determine in
- 25:00Speaker 1: the outcome of sporting events? And I want him to
- 25:02Speaker 1: tell me. I weigh all the superstitions that fans show
- 25:07Speaker 1: during the game, and whoever has the most I get
- 25:10Speaker 1: that I let that team win. So that's where I'm
- 25:13Speaker 1: at with it. Do you have any superstitions when you
- 25:16Speaker 1: watch games?
- 25:19Speaker 6: I yes, and no.
- 25:22Speaker 7: I don't know if I would call them full superstitions,
- 25:24Speaker 7: but there are.
- 25:25Speaker 6: I do have viewing patterns. Oh, I said, I won't Yeah.
- 25:31Speaker 4: See, he won't bring We're not going to talk about
- 25:33Speaker 4: him either, right, Yeah, you're not gonna You're gonna keep
- 25:35Speaker 4: those a secret because you can't ruin it.
- 25:37Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 25:38Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean everybody kind of in my household knows
- 25:41Speaker 7: that there are just certain things that you do when
- 25:44Speaker 7: you don't do during certain parts of the game, and
- 25:46Speaker 7: when certain you know, when your team's batting versus the
- 25:50Speaker 7: other team's batting. You know, I will say one thing
- 25:53Speaker 7: that I've predict for I've brought I've I've picked up
- 25:56Speaker 7: from my dad, who was also a very stressful sport
- 26:00Speaker 7: or watcher, is I'm very I'm very productive. Actually, I
- 26:07Speaker 7: like I I'll clean the house during games. I will
- 26:13Speaker 7: get a lot of work done. I will send like
- 26:16Speaker 7: I just it's I'm I'm moving quite a bit, especially
- 26:21Speaker 7: in the in the early parts of the game, once
- 26:23Speaker 7: you get to kind of like the sixth and before.
- 26:26Speaker 6: But I mean I'm.
- 26:26Speaker 7: Watching and or listening the entire time. But you know,
- 26:30Speaker 7: when you can carry the game around of your phone,
- 26:31Speaker 7: I'm like, well, I might as well do the dishes
- 26:33Speaker 7: while I'm doing this. You know, my wife's like, wow,
- 26:36Speaker 7: the house has never looked better. I who knew I
- 26:39Speaker 7: needed the Mariners to be going to the playoffs?
- 26:41Speaker 1: These these less you.
- 26:42Speaker 7: Know, twenty years of marriage for you to you know,
- 26:45Speaker 7: tidy up a bit around here.
- 26:48Speaker 1: I know when you're on the Tonight show, I just
- 26:49Speaker 1: kept my right leg crossed over my left leg just
- 26:52Speaker 1: to make sure that you wouldn't.
- 26:53Speaker 7: Be Yeah, I know, I know, you know, in my
- 26:57Speaker 7: better moments of not being a nervous wreck, I look
- 27:01Speaker 7: at the I look when they show the dugout. I'm like,
- 27:04Speaker 7: you guys look pretty relaxed. This team really seems to
- 27:08Speaker 7: believe in itself. Maybe I should believe in them a
- 27:10Speaker 7: little more, you know, But that's not my nature of
- 27:14Speaker 7: relationship as a fan, and that's okay.
- 27:17Speaker 6: I'd have it no other way.
- 27:18Speaker 1: All right, Well, why are you tonight to watch it?
- 27:20Speaker 1: I know you're going to be in Seattle on the
- 27:22Speaker 1: twenty fifth two shows, right.
- 27:25Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, I know, which is tragic.
- 27:29Speaker 6: It's such a bit.
- 27:30Speaker 7: It's you know, when it's a little I don't know how.
- 27:35Speaker 6: I feel about it entirely. My brain.
- 27:38Speaker 7: I've been a comedian for like fifteen years now, and
- 27:41Speaker 7: I've just not thought yet, nor have I ever had to. Hey,
- 27:46Speaker 7: I should think about my late October scheduling in the
- 27:50Speaker 7: Northwest in regards to potential World Series appearances, that my
- 27:55Speaker 7: brain hasn't ever had to go to that place.
- 27:58Speaker 6: So yeah, right now, I.
- 27:59Speaker 7: Do have two shows in Seattle on a day that
- 28:05Speaker 7: would be Game two of the World Series tally unfortunate.
- 28:10Speaker 7: Just when we booked this in December, my brain was
- 28:14Speaker 7: nowhere near that spot. But the late show was sold
- 28:17Speaker 7: out and we added a three thirty show. My I
- 28:20Speaker 7: don't I don't know how any of that works. I
- 28:22Speaker 7: don't know what time games would be, and I don't
- 28:25Speaker 7: know if they allow transmit of tickets. It might work
- 28:28Speaker 7: out that that three thirty show if we have a
- 28:30Speaker 7: night game and up might be everyone's trying to switch
- 28:32Speaker 7: to that. I don't know how any of that works.
- 28:34Speaker 7: But this weekend I'll be in Kansas City and tonight
- 28:37Speaker 7: I'll be watching the game from home. So okay, so
- 28:41Speaker 7: this this one I get to.
- 28:42Speaker 6: I get to Uh, I don't know.
- 28:43Speaker 7: I might. I might clean the floors today, who knows.
- 28:47Speaker 1: Yeah, we gotta get some dusting done. I've been putting
- 28:50Speaker 1: that off.
- 28:51Speaker 6: All right, exactly.
- 28:53Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, thanks man, we appreciate it. Good luck tonight,
- 28:57Speaker 1: and we'll talk to you again soon.
- 28:59Speaker 7: All right, thank you, good to talk to you.
- 29:01Speaker 1: All right. Dustin Nickerson our friend at joining us right
- 29:04Speaker 1: here on Chuck and Buck in the morning. If you
- 29:05Speaker 1: want to follow him, follow him at Dustin Nickerson and yeah,
- 29:08Speaker 1: he'll be in town for all of those that maybe
- 29:12Speaker 1: you're just a Diard Sounders fan, and that's it, our
- 29:14Speaker 1: Diard Seahawks fan, and that's it. Go see a show
- 29:16Speaker 1: on October twenty fifth, while we could be playing in
- 29:19Speaker 1: the World Series. All Right, one last thing. Next Sports
- 29:22Speaker 1: Radio ninety three point three kJ RFM. All Right, here
- 29:35Speaker 1: we go, getting ready for Game three of the American
- 29:38Speaker 1: League Championship Series, a chance to move one win closer
- 29:42Speaker 1: to the World Series. George Kirbys, Shane Bieber Tonight, first pitch,
- 29:49Speaker 1: five o'clock. We got one last thing. We are running
- 29:51Speaker 1: a little bit late, so we kind of got a
- 29:53Speaker 1: zip through this. What do you got Buggy?
- 29:55Speaker 2: Yesterday Brian Wu's blue press conference thing right where he says,
- 29:59Speaker 2: last box that needs to be checked is my name
- 30:02Speaker 2: being called. And I think it was Angie that actually
- 30:05Speaker 2: asked a question about what percentage would you say? So
- 30:08Speaker 2: she'd very nosy, uh, and she he says, I don't
- 30:12Speaker 2: know if i'd have a percentage. And this actually kind
- 30:15Speaker 2: of worried me, kind of led me down the path
- 30:16Speaker 2: where I haven't been. But I think you have been
- 30:18Speaker 2: of concerned about his first outing being the first time
- 30:22Speaker 2: he throws really and because he kind of said I
- 30:25Speaker 2: don't really have a percentage. I mean, at this point
- 30:27Speaker 2: in the year, nobody's one hundred percent. Everybody's kind of
- 30:29Speaker 2: feeling good, bad, whatever somewhere in between. That wasn't what
- 30:34Speaker 2: I wanted to hear. I wanted to I wanted to
- 30:36Speaker 2: hear one hundred percent or I wanted to hear like,
- 30:37Speaker 2: I'm as good as I could possibly be. I mean,
- 30:39Speaker 2: I've had two weeks off, But that little part of
- 30:42Speaker 2: the answer he still is ready to go and he's
- 30:45Speaker 2: gonna pitch. But it was just kind of one of
- 30:48Speaker 2: those like, eh so, now even more than before, won
- 30:52Speaker 2: a four game sweep, a little bit of time off boom,
- 30:56Speaker 2: start game one, if we have.
- 30:57Speaker 1: Another series, I thinks what I want, I'll take that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly, Ashley.
- 31:03Speaker 2: What you want?
- 31:03Speaker 3: Last thing, we've had a couple of people actually texting
- 31:06Speaker 3: and say, oh, I want to win tickets.
- 31:07Speaker 4: How do I win tickets?
- 31:08Speaker 3: Well, or somebody asked like, hey, can I just go
- 31:11Speaker 3: with you guys like I don't.
- 31:12Speaker 4: We don't have tickets to the game.
- 31:14Speaker 3: Yeah, but we are as a station giving away tickets
- 31:17Speaker 3: paired up with venue Kings. It's on x so you
- 31:19Speaker 3: can go to our X account and there's a little
- 31:22Speaker 3: thing that you got to do.
- 31:23Speaker 4: Follow along. You've got to quote retweet it.
- 31:26Speaker 3: You got to go to the Venue Kings site and
- 31:28Speaker 3: check out game three of the next round and that
- 31:31Speaker 3: get in price.
- 31:31Speaker 4: Anyway, you can follow the instructions on there.
- 31:33Speaker 3: So if you do want to try to win tickets,
- 31:35Speaker 3: we are giving away a pair of tickets for tomorrow
- 31:37Speaker 3: night's game four.
- 31:38Speaker 1: All right, yeah, make sure you go to the X account.
- 31:41Speaker 1: Don't go to the Triple X account, otherwise you might
- 31:43Speaker 1: see Softy writing a Brahma Bult.
- 31:46Speaker 4: Naked and nobody wants to see that. Twice.
- 31:48Speaker 1: I don't want to see that, so anyway, all right, So, yes,
- 31:52Speaker 1: you got opportunities to actually win tickets. And I've been
- 31:57Speaker 1: hearing a lot of Blue Jay fans walking around. It
- 31:59Speaker 1: sounds like down there by the old Ballyard. I mean,
- 32:01Speaker 1: they're going to be there, There's no getting around. They're
- 32:03Speaker 1: going to be there. I just hope it's not nearly
- 32:06Speaker 1: as dramatic of a percentage as we we get during
- 32:10Speaker 1: the regular season, and I'm fairly confident with that. I'll
- 32:13Speaker 1: close with this.
- 32:14Speaker 5: We talked about the gold Glove voting.
- 32:17Speaker 1: This is the process, and I didn't even know what
- 32:19Speaker 1: I had to end up looking up. It's the manager
- 32:23Speaker 1: of every team in Major League Baseball votes for it,
- 32:26Speaker 1: and then he gets to assign it to six different
- 32:30Speaker 1: coaches on every single team, and you can't vote for
- 32:32Speaker 1: your own guy. That's seventy five percent of the vote
- 32:35Speaker 1: right there. So it's managers and coaches who are determining
- 32:38Speaker 1: the finalists and the Gold Glove Award winners. And then
- 32:41Speaker 1: twenty five percent of it is pure analytics, pure advanced metrics.
- 32:47Speaker 1: What do the numbers say you are statistically, So it's
- 32:51Speaker 1: that combination that's who votes for the Gold Glove. If
- 32:54Speaker 1: you're wanting somebody to blame for cal Rawley not being a.
- 32:57Speaker 2: Finalist, yeah, I don't know. Then that gives me seventy
- 33:00Speaker 2: five five percent. Just still one hundred percent wrong.
- 33:04Speaker 5: Hey, I do think of this one hundred percent wrong?
- 33:06Speaker 4: I'm biased here. Yes, all right, we'll talk.
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