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Chuck & Buck 3-26 Hour 3: Pete Woodworth, Gasman and the opening day lineup. · Chuck in the Morning

• 0:12
  Speaker 1: Someone once said, you don't grip a baseball. A baseball
• 0:18
  Speaker 1: grips you.
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  Speaker 2: It fills our.
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  Speaker 1: Days and brightens our nights. Over the course of a season.
• 0:30
  Speaker 2: And the span of a lifetime, we.
• 0:35
  Speaker 1: Share a hope, drama, and joy.
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  Speaker 3: It brings us all closer together, nine innings at a time.
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  Speaker 1: It's the game we live.
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  Speaker 4: It's the game we'd love. Welcome back baseball, Welcome back.
• 1:00
  Speaker 4: Yep and bumps all the.
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  Speaker 3: Way, ankles, ankle nice.
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  Speaker 2: We had to do it. I had to do it.
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  Speaker 3: I have to do it every year. Yeah, well, I'm
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  Speaker 3: glad we did it. Necessarily need ankle goosebumps.
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  Speaker 4: Those are new.
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  Speaker 2: Well they go, they go with breakfast.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that's what it is exactlysa and ankle bumps.
• 1:20
  Speaker 2: That's right. Good morning. It's a special here at Jimmy's.
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  Speaker 2: We're live here at Jimmy's on First, right across the
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  Speaker 2: street from the ballpark. It is opening day and by
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  Speaker 2: the way, doors are open. They are serving breakfast. I
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  Speaker 2: know the game doesn't start till seven pm tonight, but
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  Speaker 2: if you want to make a day of it, make
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  Speaker 2: sure it starts right here at Jimmy's on First. They
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  Speaker 2: have outstanding breakfast here. You can get a little beverage, going,
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  Speaker 2: get a little ankle, goosebumps, going to start your opening day.
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  Speaker 2: This is the place for it. So we look forward
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  Speaker 2: to seeing you before we sign off at ten o'clock.
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  Speaker 2: Joining us now on the radio program is the pitching
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  Speaker 2: coach for the stars. He is the great Pete Woodworth,
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  Speaker 2: and he joins us right here on opening day.
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  Speaker 5: Good mone to you, sir, Good morning, Happy New Year
• 2:04
  Speaker 5: and New Year.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for inviting me to breakfast. Hey, come on down, Jimmy.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, come on down. Or some poached eggs and some
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  Speaker 2: muffins and table salt.
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  Speaker 1: All right, I'll see you guys in like twenty minutes.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Oh, seriously, you can come on down here. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you can come have an opening day breakfast. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: you've got to have some opening day traditions. For goodness sake.
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  Speaker 2: You start a new one by coming down and having
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  Speaker 2: breakfast with Chuck and Buck every opening day from now
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  Speaker 2: until the end of eternity.
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  Speaker 1: That's what we've been missing the last six years.
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  Speaker 3: Well, good another thing you've been missing. Apparently Chuck thought
• 2:41
  Speaker 3: everybody was getting on the bandwagon for bedazzled jock straps.
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  Speaker 4: Lucky jockstraps.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I send them to everybody. Did you are you
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  Speaker 2: wearing yours snail mail?
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  Speaker 1: I've been doing that since ninety seven.
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  Speaker 3: Ninety seven. Okay, good, yeah, good on you. I'm late
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  Speaker 3: to the party apparently.
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  Speaker 2: So what did you do this morning to greet the
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  Speaker 2: sun on opening day? I would imagine you give your
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  Speaker 2: eight minute app workout. You probably played with the kid
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  Speaker 2: a little bit. I mean, what else went into the
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  Speaker 2: morning for Pete Woodworth?
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  Speaker 1: Today? A different opening day than usual. My family did
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  Speaker 1: not make the trip out here this year. My oldest
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  Speaker 1: is in in kindergarten and my wife thinks that, you know,
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  Speaker 1: school isn't more important than than opening day baseball?
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  Speaker 2: No theory about your.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so a little different opening day than usual. No
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  Speaker 1: no little ones to wake you up in the morning.
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  Speaker 1: I instead and being woken up by you two.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, well you're welcome A lot better. Yeah, I'm sure
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  Speaker 2: it's a lot better than those children you love so much.
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  Speaker 4: Well? What what? What's the just the feel?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, does the day feel different outside of the
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  Speaker 3: fact that you're not getting any cuddles from the littles?
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  Speaker 2: Uh?
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  Speaker 4: Does the just feel any different?
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  Speaker 3: Considering where you guys got last year and what the
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  Speaker 3: end goal is for this season.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, this year does feel different, and camp spring training
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  Speaker 1: was a little bit different with the WBC and a
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  Speaker 1: lot of our position players being gone. But it just
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  Speaker 1: it has a different vibe to it. You know, everybody's
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  Speaker 1: kind of more excited, more ready to go than than
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  Speaker 1: ever before. You know, we kind of opened that door
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  Speaker 1: and kicked it down. Yeah, it's it's hard to explain,
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  Speaker 1: but it's it's really the entire group coming back. You know,
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  Speaker 1: insert insert a couple new guys, but but really it's
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  Speaker 1: ninety percent of that same team, and so it's it's
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  Speaker 1: familiar faces. It's it's one to pick up where we
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  Speaker 1: left off. But obviously with a with a whole new
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and sixty two games, it's tough to say, hey,
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  Speaker 1: let's pick up where we left off in October. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: you gotta start at the beginning. But yeah, yeah, it does.
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  Speaker 1: It has like a different edge to it this year.
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  Speaker 2: Pete, whatworth is with us pitching coach for the Seattle
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  Speaker 2: Mariners as they get ready for opening dates and that
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  Speaker 2: against the Cleveland Guardians. Tanner Biby versus Logan Gilbert. Why
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  Speaker 2: Logan Gilbert as the opening day starter again this.
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  Speaker 1: Year he's the tallest.
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  Speaker 4: Oh that's why makes sense?
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  Speaker 1: Well, here we did alphabetical order. One year we did wait, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we just lined him up and whoever was the tallest.
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  Speaker 1: We were just kind of going to order years tomorrow.
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  Speaker 2: Pretty sure. Two years ago most Hair got the first
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  Speaker 2: opening day start.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, three years ago, Harry's back, Robbie Ray got it.
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  Speaker 2: Pants And I mean, it's it's very funny, but is
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  Speaker 2: it is it a way of saying, there's really no
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  Speaker 2: wrong choice here? I mean, is it difficult at all
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  Speaker 2: for you guys to make that choice organizationally considering how
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  Speaker 2: many guys would warrant getting an opening day assignment? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: They they joke around like there's there's five ass Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's the same question of like, hey, who do
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  Speaker 1: you want to start game seven? Or who do you
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  Speaker 1: want to start game one? I give me any of them.
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  Speaker 1: I really, I don't really have a preference. They're all
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  Speaker 1: they're all elite.
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  Speaker 5: You know.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's a tough decision, but it's there. There's no
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  Speaker 1: wrong answer. Bok test, I guess yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a nice problem to have, but you just
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  Speaker 3: basically close your eyes in point and you're gonna land
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  Speaker 3: on somebody that can go out there and battle. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: coming into this season. Have you guys we talked to
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  Speaker 3: you in spring training a little bit about the ABS system,
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  Speaker 3: and have you guys figured anything out. I know it
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  Speaker 3: was a weird spring training, like you said, because some
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  Speaker 3: guys were gone as your catcher in particular during the
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  Speaker 3: World Baseball Classic, But have you guys rounded out what
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  Speaker 3: your game plan is or is it just gonna be
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  Speaker 3: one of those All right, logan, if you think it
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  Speaker 3: was in there, I'll go ahead and tap your helmet
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  Speaker 3: until we until you screwed it up a couple of times,
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  Speaker 3: and then we'll pull back on the reins.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think we're still sticking with the catcher is
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  Speaker 1: going to be okay, throwing the flag and making the challenges.
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  Speaker 1: I think George tried it twice, and I think he
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  Speaker 1: was wrong twice. It's hard to throw a ball almost
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  Speaker 1: one hundred miles an hour while spinning in a circle
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  Speaker 1: and see something sixty feet away as opposed to the
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  Speaker 1: guy who is happening a foot in front of his face.
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  Speaker 1: I think that guy's get a better advantage point.
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  Speaker 2: So what happens though that time where George is staring
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  Speaker 2: at cal too, are you going to challenge it? I mean,
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  Speaker 2: how is how is that communication going to work?
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  Speaker 1: We'll find out, Yeah, I mean George stares at all
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  Speaker 1: of us on game days. Don't don't look George in
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  Speaker 1: the eyes on game days. There's there's just there's more
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  Speaker 1: strategy than hey, I think that pitch was a ball
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  Speaker 1: or I think that pitch was a strike. There's there's counts,
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  Speaker 1: there's times of the games, there's situations, there's outs, there's
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  Speaker 1: you know, there's there's a lot more that goes into
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  Speaker 1: it other than hey, I thought that pitch was a strike.
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  Speaker 1: So that's that's where the catcher has a little bit
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  Speaker 1: more command over the game and over the kind of
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  Speaker 1: bigger picture.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Pete Woodworth is with us pitching coach for the Mariners. Man,
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  Speaker 2: he's going to be in real hot water. If Brian
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  Speaker 2: Wu grew five inches overnight, he's not gonna know who
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  Speaker 2: to start tonight. Bet you didn't think about that.
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  Speaker 1: You know, when he went back the spring training with
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  Speaker 1: heels on next year.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, he's six foot eight wearing high heels. Bet
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  Speaker 2: you didn't consider that Wu in his lifts everybody knows
• 9:29
  Speaker 2: about that around town. Pete Woodworth joining us here. Let's
• 9:33
  Speaker 2: talk about Emerson Hancock a little bit because he really
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  Speaker 2: started to get some love there in terms of some
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  Speaker 2: attention late in spring training. I mean, he's getting the start,
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  Speaker 2: I'm assuming because Bryce is on the injury list. But
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  Speaker 2: how good does he look so far in the spring.
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  Speaker 2: What might have changed about Emerson since last we saw him?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I've always been a huge Emerson fans,
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  Speaker 1: and every year he gets better and better. This past
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  Speaker 1: offseason and this this spring training, he was he was
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  Speaker 1: the talk of camp. You know, he made a couple
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  Speaker 1: of adjustments to his arsenal. But I know we've we've
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  Speaker 1: talked about it before, Like the big leagues is really difficult,
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  Speaker 1: and uh sometimes it takes guys uh a little bit
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  Speaker 1: longer than others to figure out that like they truly
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  Speaker 1: do belong who they really are, like understanding who they're
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  Speaker 1: what their identity is. And really that's where the confidence
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  Speaker 1: comes from. And it's not it's not always the guys
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  Speaker 1: with the best stuff, for the guys that are the toolsiest.
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  Speaker 1: It's the guys who have the most confidence. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: the past two three seasons. Emerson's you know, racked up
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  Speaker 1: a ton of innings and a ton of experience and
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  Speaker 1: is starting to come into understanding who he is in
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  Speaker 1: and that confidence really exploded in camp. Yeah he had.
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  Speaker 1: He had like one of the best spring trainings we've
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  Speaker 1: ever seen, like twenty four punch outs. One walks growing
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  Speaker 1: extremely hard. His breaking ball has got a lot better. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: he's just carrying himself with with confidence we haven't seen.
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  Speaker 1: So I am extremely excited for mister Emerson.
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  Speaker 3: I'm with you on that, and he just made me excited. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: well what he I mean? I'm staying on the.
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  Speaker 2: Well Bucky does.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, did you right there talking about pictures and let
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  Speaker 3: me new things? Give me a second, let me check. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: you had a ring in your pocket? Yep, yep, Okay, Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: he's got it. He's got the ankle. Goosebumps. By the way,
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  Speaker 3: those are special. Those are only opening.
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  Speaker 2: Day goosebumps, full bump over here.
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  Speaker 3: To me, I feel like, uh, to me, I feel
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  Speaker 3: like Hancock is this season could possibly be similar to Logan's.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe seconds he's because you're right, he's racked up some
• 12:01
  Speaker 3: innings over the last couple of years, but it's been
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  Speaker 3: very sporadic, and large part is because of how stacked
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  Speaker 3: your starting rotation is. He would have been getting starts
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  Speaker 3: every five days on about twenty eight other clubs, it seems.
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  Speaker 3: And so I am wondering, did you tweak something? I
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  Speaker 3: know last year when he was coming out of the
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  Speaker 3: bullpen at one time he kind of lowered his arm
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  Speaker 3: angle a little bit. It did look like he was
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  Speaker 3: getting more run, which I would also think he was
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  Speaker 3: getting maybe more horizontal brake on his breaking stuff. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: is there something in particular that you guys are working
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  Speaker 3: on that you're seeing that made the jump, because to me,
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  Speaker 3: it looks like Logan Gilbert's first year he was good,
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  Speaker 3: but he almost had He hadn't figured out how to
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  Speaker 3: maybe wipe guys out to get out of it bats
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  Speaker 3: as easily, and he obviously made that adjustment.
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  Speaker 4: Is that what Hancock's in that same mode right now?
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  Speaker 1: You are throwing all the pitching jargon out. I love it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's not all about punching ticket and swing and miss.
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  Speaker 1: But look at the best in the game, like that's
• 13:05
  Speaker 1: that's what they're good at. They get ahead extremely well,
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  Speaker 1: they throw a ton of strikes, They race to two
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  Speaker 1: strikes and then they have weapons and the execution the
• 13:17
  Speaker 1: strike guys out. You know, I've always said, like strikeouts
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  Speaker 1: are the coolest thing a pitcher can do. It's like
• 13:25
  Speaker 1: our our our home runs. And yeah, Emerson hasn't done
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  Speaker 1: that a ton in his career. So him kind of
• 13:35
  Speaker 1: adjusting is forcing to get a little bit more cut
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  Speaker 1: and ride and then improving his breaking balls to miss
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  Speaker 1: more bats can put him in a in a situation
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  Speaker 1: to make that jump.
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  Speaker 2: Plus he's so funny. He's like Nate Bargatzi. I think
• 13:52
  Speaker 2: I've told you that before. Yeah, I just like the guy.
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  Speaker 2: Just like the guy. I want to see him do well.
• 13:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah you want to root for Yeah.
• 14:00
  Speaker 2: For sure. Pete Woodworth is with us. Dan, lets you
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  Speaker 2: watch the offense, right, You don't have to go hide
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  Speaker 2: in another room, do you When the team's up.
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  Speaker 1: At the plate, I have to stand in the corner.
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  Speaker 2: Give me somebody that on the offense is hitting the
• 14:16
  Speaker 2: baseball this year that you're like, oh, that's different from
• 14:19
  Speaker 2: last year. The pitching coaches observation on that front.
• 14:26
  Speaker 1: As coaches offensive hot take, Yeah, old Young is turning
• 14:31
  Speaker 1: into a grown man. He had an incredible spring training,
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  Speaker 1: same thing like you kids hit since he came out
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  Speaker 1: of the womb. You get to the big leagues, it's
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: it's not easy. You're you're facing you know, top tier
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  Speaker 1: starters every single night, and you start questioning, like him,
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  Speaker 1: can I really do this? This is striking tough, just
• 14:59
  Speaker 1: sp extremely mature, Cole Young in camp, just carrying himself
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  Speaker 1: with a new level of confidence and uh smacking everything.
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  Speaker 1: Hot take number two, say Brandon Donovan fans, Oh yeah,
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  Speaker 1: yeah he was. Granted we didn't play the Cardinals a ton,
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: but that was a tough guy to try to get out.
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: So whenever, whenever Jerry and Justin acquire a hitter that
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: has given Trent blank and night nightmares for the past
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: couple of years, Roe was really excited, Like, did not
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: have to pitch to Josh Naylor anymore? I get eight
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: eight clean hours every night now, Brendan Donovan do also
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  Speaker 1: on that list?
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  Speaker 2: I love it. Look there's two hot takes from the
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  Speaker 2: pitching coach on the offense. I'm glad I asked bad.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so what pocket?
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  Speaker 2: Hot pocket? When will you get to the ballpark on
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  Speaker 2: opening day?
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  Speaker 1: I'm coming to Jimmy for breakfast? So okay, i'll probably
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  Speaker 1: I'll probably get there in the next thirty minutes.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, all right, I'll have your hot sauce and your
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  Speaker 2: table salt.
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  Speaker 4: Ready for you.
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  Speaker 2: All right, man, Well, thank you for joining us again
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  Speaker 2: here on opening day. It's become a wonderful tradition of
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  Speaker 2: ours to talk to you. Have a great year, what
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  Speaker 2: do you say? And we'll do this again soon.
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: Okay, thank you, thank you, thank you. Come out to
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: the bullpen before the game, say hi, all right.
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: We'll do all right. Pete Woodworth joining us right here
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  Speaker 2: on Chuck and Buck in the mornings. I do want
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  Speaker 2: and I don't know when we're gonna get another chance
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: to talk about it, but this ABS system is gonna
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: get ready to be put in place. I like the
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: philosophy we're just gonna leave it to col and then
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: on occasion, I'm sure the picture will get his way
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  Speaker 2: if he's really sure. But I do like the idea
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  Speaker 2: that no, we're just gonna trust cal to make that
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  Speaker 2: decision in the game. So I think they're on the
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: right track with that.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. Well, I mean it's very grown up of Woody
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  Speaker 4: too to recognize that an.
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  Speaker 2: Athlete should be He's saying that.
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  Speaker 3: No, he was saying that the guy that's not just
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: flopping off of the mound spinning around with his head
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: all over the place is not going to have a
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: better vantage point than the guy sitting there literally squatting there,
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: because well, he just got done doing the only thing
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: that he does. He's still in the recovery phase of
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: the only thing he does.
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: He plays a lot of golf.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yet that doesn't count for anything we care about.
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  Speaker 4: That's short sided exactly.
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  Speaker 3: And so it's yeah, leave it to the guy that knows,
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  Speaker 3: and don't let not the guy that's going to be
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: like no, I mean I love it that George is
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: like yeah, I'm pretty sure he challenged twice and I
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: think he was over too.
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  Speaker 4: If that isn't.
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  Speaker 2: Perfect a problem with this, Randy, they're gonna, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: They're gonna end up being where they'll have a look right, like,
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  Speaker 3: they'll have a look that they give to kind of like.
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  Speaker 2: And I hope they have like on their little pitch thing,
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  Speaker 2: their Pitchcolm, there's a challenge it a hole. Yeah, we
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: need to make up like the different things on. I
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: don't think the pitcher gets to communicate to the catcher
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  Speaker 2: with that thing. So otherwise some of.
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: Them can, some are gonna, some of them call their
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: own game. So but I don't think any of our
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: guys do like have that part of the PitchCom They
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: just have the earpiece or the thing that they can
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: hear the speaker. But it's gonna be interesting because it
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: definitely is something that you you don't want to waste
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: them early, and yet you have them, you don't want
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: to believe them in your pocket either.
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: I think you brought this up and I don't hear
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: anybody else bringing it up, and I think it is
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: a phenomenal point to make about this ABS. I just heard,
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: uh so, I'm not even gonna mention the name. I
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: just heard someone today that is a prominent baseball analyst
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: for whatever that's worth, and they said their comment was,
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: I'm so glad that it's here and we never have
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: to have another ending like we did in the WBC.
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: We never have to have a game end on a
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: bad call again. I'm like, you are out of your mind?
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: Where how far up your butt is your head? Because
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: Bucky pointed this out weeks ago. You know, you get
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: two of these things. We are not done having an
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: umpire determine the end of a game with a bad call,
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: because there's gonna be a lot of games where you're
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: out of challenges, and so we can't predict. We don't
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: have a we don't have a crystal ball to determine
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: if we're gonna need to keep that second challenge for
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: the very last pitch of the game. Yeah, I think
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: it's going to curb some of that, and thank goodness
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: for that. But if you think we're done having controversial
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: calls by the homeplate umpire, you are out of your
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: ever living mind.
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: Well, they've instituted an instant replay that you can challenge,
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: and yet you get that wrong, you lose your challenge,
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: and so now you're at the mercy of you better
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: hope they got the call right, or if they got
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: it wrong, hopefully it's in your favor.
• 20:09
  Speaker 4: It's the same exact thing. I think.
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: It gives you an opportunity to correct or wrong, but
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: it doesn't mean you're gonna do it perfectly like we've
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: seen so far. Kabrierro our guy for the Yankees yesterday,
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: ends up having one in the first game against the Giants,
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: and they were in the middle of an interview with
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: Tony the manager for the Giants, and yet they kind
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: of you see him going through it. The umpire called
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: it a strike. He thought it was a ball, sure enough,
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: comes back as a strike. Well, there's one of your
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: two strikes. The very next pitch, with six inches off
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: the inside corner, he calls it a strike again, and
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: Kabyerre's like, well, I can't call that. So right there,
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: burn both of them back to back pitches. Yeah, you
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: saw the umpire get it right. The hitter think he
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: was wrong. You were wrong. Take that strike and like it.
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: Then the next one the umpire did get it wrong
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: and the hitter didn't challenge it. So right there, we've
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: just saw it in two back to back pitches. The
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: umpire are still going to get pitches wrong. I don't
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: want to go full blown robot ups. I don't I
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: like the idea of sometimes a pitch being off the
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: plate and it can being called a strike if you
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: execute it perfectly and the guy doesn't protect But at
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: the same time, I like having the opportunity, and if
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: you screw that opportunity up twice early in the game,
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: you don't deserve.
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: To have it when it matters later on.
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: And I also want them to keep stats on all
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: of this. I want to see when a guy challenges
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: his success rate, Yes, as a hitter, I want to
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: see a catcher's success rate. I want to see a
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: pitcher's success rate, and I certainly want to see the
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: umpire's success rate. I want that to be a prominent
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: statistic with this ABS system, because I want to know
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: how often CB Buckner really is wrong at this A lot?
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: All right, coming up next, man, it's a day for legends, right,
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: we'll chat with one next Sports Radio ninety three point
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: three KJRFM. There are just so much going on, so
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: many exciting things happening on the Seattle sports scene. I thought,
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: who is somebody that we could put on a guess
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: here on opening day with the Sonics possibly returning, coming
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: off a Super Bowl, and the World Cup is getting
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: ready to come to Seattle that can encapsulate all the
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: amazing things that are happening at once. And I thought
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: of one man, our next guest, the gas man himself,
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: My gas too is with us right here on Chucking
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: buck Good morning, sir.
• 22:21
  Speaker 5: Good morning guys, and good morning Ashley, and great to
• 22:24
  Speaker 5: be back with you. So I heard the list there
• 22:27
  Speaker 5: We're not going to discuss Tyler Reddick's historic start on
• 22:30
  Speaker 5: the NASCAR Cup circuit. That's going to be for another time.
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah, if we have time, we'll get to it.
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: I mean I really was thinking about you because I
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: know how connected you've remained to the Sonics and the
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: pursuit of getting them back with podcasts and your all
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: your relationships out there. So certainly, but I just got
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: to start with I mean, it is opening day here,
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: your college football team won a national championship for goodness sake,
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: to add to the list that I just present it
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: to our audience. I mean, is this the greatest sports
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: here in gas Man's life?
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it really is.
• 23:06
  Speaker 5: I mean you could have just with that first note
• 23:08
  Speaker 5: and then factor in the Seahawks win the Super Bowl
• 23:12
  Speaker 5: in kind of an out of the blue fashion. You know,
• 23:14
  Speaker 5: from the middle of the season you saw that the
• 23:16
  Speaker 5: Hawks are pretty good. But if we're having this conversation
• 23:18
  Speaker 5: a year ago, I don't know if we're predicting the
• 23:20
  Speaker 5: Hawks are gonna win the Super Bowl. We had no
• 23:22
  Speaker 5: idea what the quarterback was going to be. With no idea,
• 23:25
  Speaker 5: you don't really want the new coaches. He's just a
• 23:27
  Speaker 5: year into it, so that coming so far out of
• 23:29
  Speaker 5: the blue made it really cool. And now you get to,
• 23:33
  Speaker 5: for my money, the most anticipated Mariners season certainly since
• 23:38
  Speaker 5: say two thousand and two. Coming off that two thousand
• 23:41
  Speaker 5: and one season, there was a lot of excitement and
• 23:44
  Speaker 5: a lot of hype. But it's back to a't a
• 23:46
  Speaker 5: quarter century at least that you've had this much hype
• 23:49
  Speaker 5: on opening day where you're like, hey, you know what,
• 23:51
  Speaker 5: it's not outlanders to say you could be watching a
• 23:54
  Speaker 5: team that could play in the World Series for the
• 23:55
  Speaker 5: first time in Seattle history.
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: So that makes it fun.
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that makes it really And yet I mean for
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: somebody that knows the history of this team or just
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: this city in general, but this team, I mean, when
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: you sit and think about measuring this team out, maybe
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: you want to compare it against that two thousand and
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: one or two thousand and two season. I mean, to me,
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: it feels like this is the most complete team we
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: know what the starting rotation looks like. I think they
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: could even take a step forward from where they were
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: at last year after they maybe took a little step
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: back and still had a good year. And I think
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: the offense is better. I think it's deeper than it's
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: ever been. What say you about how the overall feel is,
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: even though we know that we're all a little bit
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: more on the optimistic side than we have been most of.
• 24:37
  Speaker 5: The time, and that optimism is a part of opening
• 24:40
  Speaker 5: day for every team. That's just that's a disease we
• 24:43
  Speaker 5: all carry on opening Day. And of course we're going
• 24:45
  Speaker 5: to be great, Bucky. You know how much competence, how
• 24:49
  Speaker 5: much of a role competence place in this game. I
• 24:52
  Speaker 5: think that's the other thing the barriers had they eat
• 24:55
  Speaker 5: even more than a year ago when they were talking
• 24:59
  Speaker 5: pretty competent. Well, they now got they've got the they've gotten,
• 25:04
  Speaker 5: you know, evidence to back it up. They've got a
• 25:06
  Speaker 5: manager who now we know a lot more about it,
• 25:08
  Speaker 5: who's shown he can handle the day to day of
• 25:10
  Speaker 5: a one hundred and sixty two game season. They're all
• 25:13
  Speaker 5: a year better. They're they're all I think I may
• 25:16
  Speaker 5: be forgetting somebody. They're almost all in their prime still
• 25:20
  Speaker 5: of what you think of as a baseball player's prime.
• 25:23
  Speaker 5: I think not only I think the Mirror is gonna
• 25:25
  Speaker 5: be very good this year. I think Coolio is gonna,
• 25:29
  Speaker 5: you know, saying he's gonna take a step forward as
• 25:31
  Speaker 5: a little silly because he's been pretty dark good, but
• 25:33
  Speaker 5: we all know he's had these these these terrible starts.
• 25:37
  Speaker 5: I don't think that's gonna happen this year. And I'm
• 25:39
  Speaker 5: not saying he's gonna go four for four tonight, but
• 25:40
  Speaker 5: that'd be fun if you did. But I think Julio
• 25:42
  Speaker 5: is gonna get off to a good start and be
• 25:44
  Speaker 5: good all year. And because he's gonna be good all year,
• 25:47
  Speaker 5: you're gonna see a leak in his numbers and his
• 25:50
  Speaker 5: production and just in how we view him as a player.
• 25:53
  Speaker 5: I think we all viewer is pretty good, to put
• 25:56
  Speaker 5: it mildly, I think it's gonna be better. I think
• 25:59
  Speaker 5: that's part of the step they take this.
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: Year, gas Man with us here on chucking back so much,
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: so many cool things going on here on the Seattle
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: sports scenes. So we wanted to check in with Mike
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: Gastano here today, and primarily because of this sonic story.
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: I know Groz has kind of given up on the NBA,
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: but as you somebody that's kind of kept your toes
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: in those sonic waters here for the last eighteen years,
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: how are you approaching this news? Because I know a
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: lot of people have a wall built around their heart
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: when it comes to the NBA and are just carefully
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: trying to convince themselves that it's real this time. How
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: would you advise them?
• 26:38
  Speaker 5: I'm cautiously optimistic, But there's still another day. We still
• 26:42
  Speaker 5: got to get past the day where they say, yes,
• 26:44
  Speaker 5: in fact, this is happening. And there were you know,
• 26:46
  Speaker 5: there were enough things put out yesterday where they talked about,
• 26:51
  Speaker 5: you know, we've got to still talk about you know,
• 26:53
  Speaker 5: what it means and financially what it means is and
• 26:57
  Speaker 5: there's still some owners that are supposedly against it now
• 27:00
  Speaker 5: that being said, and people can laugh at this all
• 27:04
  Speaker 5: they want. I don't think the NBA would have moved
• 27:07
  Speaker 5: this to this level if they didn't feel like they've
• 27:09
  Speaker 5: got their ducks in a row, unless they just want
• 27:12
  Speaker 5: to get it off the table once and for all.
• 27:14
  Speaker 5: Either we both to expand or we don't. Because that's
• 27:17
  Speaker 5: been a real, honest, legitimate criticism the past few years
• 27:21
  Speaker 5: is like do something, man, just say you know what
• 27:24
  Speaker 5: you're thinking. So, I mean, yesterday certainly was exciting news.
• 27:28
  Speaker 5: I think it was expected. I think there's an ownership
• 27:31
  Speaker 5: group ready here. I know there's a building ready here,
• 27:34
  Speaker 5: and I think people can feel good. I never walled
• 27:37
  Speaker 5: the NBA off to use your face, but I'll be honest,
• 27:41
  Speaker 5: I did lose interest. I've lost a lot. And it's
• 27:44
  Speaker 5: not because I don't like the league or I'm mad
• 27:46
  Speaker 5: or whatever. I've gotten away past that. It's been twenty years.
• 27:50
  Speaker 5: I just don't get enough NBA influence in my life.
• 27:53
  Speaker 5: The teams aren't coming through here. There's no local reasons.
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: It's a route.
• 27:56
  Speaker 5: There's been nothing from the NBA about we're coming back
• 27:59
  Speaker 5: to Seattle and recently, so you know, I'm happy. I'm
• 28:04
  Speaker 5: happiest for the people right near the top and the
• 28:08
  Speaker 5: people I mean like George Carl and Debt Loo Shrimp
• 28:11
  Speaker 5: and Gary Payton and uh and Sean Kemp, you know,
• 28:15
  Speaker 5: people who need to be honored properly by this franchise
• 28:18
  Speaker 5: and who refused overtures from Oklahoma City to go down
• 28:21
  Speaker 5: and be honored by them. I said, nope, I'm honest,
• 28:24
  Speaker 5: Seattle Gem, I'm gonna be honored when it comes back
• 28:26
  Speaker 5: to Seattle. So so people like that the history inheriteds
• 28:30
  Speaker 5: and the franchise and get back up into.
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: The rafters and retired jerseys.
• 28:33
  Speaker 5: You all of that so it doesn't just disappear if
• 28:38
  Speaker 5: those people and then the fans, I'm super happy for
• 28:40
  Speaker 5: all the fans who are still way into this because
• 28:43
  Speaker 5: you know, I always said over the years, the fans
• 28:45
  Speaker 5: are the one group of people involved in the story
• 28:47
  Speaker 5: who did nothing wrong.
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 28:49
  Speaker 5: You can quote it the politicians and quote it the ownership,
• 28:52
  Speaker 5: you can point it at media, you can point it
• 28:54
  Speaker 5: a lot of people who maybe were either culpable or
• 28:56
  Speaker 5: didn't maybe ask the right questions. The fans didn't do
• 28:59
  Speaker 5: anything wrong, you know, And so it'd be exciting and
• 29:03
  Speaker 5: I think fun for the people who love the team,
• 29:05
  Speaker 5: and I'm certainly one of them. I mean, the radio
• 29:08
  Speaker 5: station we're on right now doesn't exist in this form
• 29:11
  Speaker 5: or in this format without the Sonics. Our marriage to
• 29:15
  Speaker 5: the Sonics, starting when we started in ninety one, was
• 29:18
  Speaker 5: an all sports station. The fact that the Sonics were
• 29:20
  Speaker 5: our property and the fact that miraculously they got hot,
• 29:24
  Speaker 5: super hot, both on the floor and in the community,
• 29:27
  Speaker 5: and that benefited my career and benefited everyone who worked
• 29:31
  Speaker 5: at KJR in the early nineties and gave us a
• 29:33
  Speaker 5: hook to kind of hang our jacket on and say
• 29:36
  Speaker 5: this is who we are with the Sonics station, and
• 29:39
  Speaker 5: that those are all the things that kind of flow
• 29:42
  Speaker 5: into my mind on a day like the day and
• 29:45
  Speaker 5: as we rate now a couple more months for the
• 29:47
  Speaker 5: officially deaths.
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Softie said something yesterday. You've heard of Softie, right,
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: you know you're aware he said something yesterday, And I
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: got to give it a lot of credit because he said,
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: you know, eighteen years without the NBA and yet simply
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: Seattle has a store. I mean they basically exist as
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: a merchandise store because of the Sonics. How much Sonics
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: gear that they have sold over the eighteen years that
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: they haven't even been here. And I'd liked you in
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: our last couple of minutes to kind of weigh in
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: on that, like just how much this community kept the
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: Sonics alive with in an eighteen year span, where a
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: lot of cities, I think, give up after a couple
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: of years on a team that might have left town.
• 30:38
  Speaker 5: Well, it's unlike anything I've ever seen in sports, just
• 30:41
  Speaker 5: from an observational standpoint. And you mentioned the podcast. I
• 30:45
  Speaker 5: was I'm not involved with Iconic Sonics anymore, except I
• 30:48
  Speaker 5: know all those guys and we're still talking. I'm a
• 30:50
  Speaker 5: big fan of what they're doing. I just stepped away
• 30:52
  Speaker 5: from it, but I did I think about three years
• 30:54
  Speaker 5: of shows for them. We did a show memorial Dave Friday,
• 30:58
  Speaker 5: which is dicey dangerous day to do a live event
• 31:01
  Speaker 5: because people are getting out of town and they're setting
• 31:03
  Speaker 5: up their big long weekend Memorial Day. Fight about I'm
• 31:06
  Speaker 5: going to say three years ago, maybe four years ago,
• 31:09
  Speaker 5: and it was a live show. We had George Carl there,
• 31:12
  Speaker 5: we had Kevin Collaboro, we had Gary and Sean, we
• 31:15
  Speaker 5: had the heavy hitters. We did the show in the
• 31:18
  Speaker 5: parking lot of Dix Restaurant in Queen Anne, you know,
• 31:22
  Speaker 5: so right across from the old building, and it was
• 31:25
  Speaker 5: the old building then climate plugs wasn't done it. Yeah,
• 31:28
  Speaker 5: well I'm sorry, client pledge wasn't done Anyway, I'm getting
• 31:30
  Speaker 5: lost in the weeds here. The point of it is,
• 31:33
  Speaker 5: we do this live show. We had five hundred people
• 31:36
  Speaker 5: show up for a live podcast in a parking lot
• 31:40
  Speaker 5: and a Dix restaurant. Not that Dix isn't a reason
• 31:43
  Speaker 5: to go to the show anyway, you get my point.
• 31:45
  Speaker 5: It was I looked out and I'm like, this just
• 31:48
  Speaker 5: couldn't happen anywhere else. You wouldn't get this in any
• 31:52
  Speaker 5: other city. At that point. It's like fifteen years after
• 31:55
  Speaker 5: the team has left, and at that point there's nothing
• 31:57
  Speaker 5: from the NBA to indicate they're coming back. But back
• 32:00
  Speaker 5: to heroes, and people came out and wanted to meet them,
• 32:02
  Speaker 5: and it was It was one of the absolute highlights
• 32:05
  Speaker 5: of my career. I don't say that lightly because I
• 32:07
  Speaker 5: did a lot of cool things. I got to be
• 32:09
  Speaker 5: a part of a lot of cool things in this city.
• 32:12
  Speaker 5: But sitting there that day and looking out from the
• 32:14
  Speaker 5: stage and seeing that crowd and enthusiasm, it was impossible
• 32:19
  Speaker 5: then to think they've got to come back. The NBA
• 32:22
  Speaker 5: has got to bring this franchise back, and that that
• 32:25
  Speaker 5: that day was really for me an idea and this this,
• 32:28
  Speaker 5: this is never going to end. You know, there's this
• 32:30
  Speaker 5: love of this team which was yanked away from us
• 32:34
  Speaker 5: is never going to end.
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: Great stuff. Thanks, thanks for joining us. We appreciate it.
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: Let's just ride this way for a little while. What
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: do you say, yeah?
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: You know why? Why?
• 32:43
  Speaker 5: I mean, look, it's you know, you think back to
• 32:46
  Speaker 5: everything that's happened and and and and everything that we
• 32:48
  Speaker 5: think it's happened with baseball everything. It's fun when things
• 32:51
  Speaker 5: are role and and really enjoy it because we know
• 32:53
  Speaker 5: it's all sicklical, so enjoy what's going on. Thanks for
• 32:56
  Speaker 5: having me on, guys.
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: All right, thanks gas my gas to know, joining us
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: right here on chalking about coming up next, we'll take
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: a look at that Mariner's lineup and update you on
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: the TV stuff going on with the sports Radio ninety
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: three point three kJ RFM. Jerry Depoto's still to join
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: us here on opening Day. Plus we green jacket again.
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: We've never done two in one show. We're doing it
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: today as we will certainly do our home run Derby.
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: We do that every stinking year, our Mariner's Home Run
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: Derby Draft. So that's coming your way at the top
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: of the hour. Bucky Jacob sits here. My name is
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: Chuck prou Happy Opening Day to every one. I'm just
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: jotting down the lineups over here. I'm like Brian Wilson
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: with my little scratch pad over here. So I'm gonna
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: throw the lineup at you and you tell me whether
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: you like it or don't like it, okay, and what
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: you don't like about it?
• 33:45
  Speaker 4: All right?
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: Leading on, Brendan Donovan, your new third baseman. Love this
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: mullody hair and his muscled forearms.
• 33:53
  Speaker 4: He's got all that. He's got a lot of flow
• 33:55
  Speaker 4: going on.
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: Hitting second, leading the league in dumper. Cayl Rawley at
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: your hitting third? Who Leo Rodriguez your clean up hitter
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: to start the season. Welcome Josh Naylor for a full
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: year in a Mariner uniform, hitting fifth, Randy A. Rose
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: Arena batting sixth, And this is what might get you.
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: Cole Young second basement. I believe in him hitting seventh,
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: dom Canzone hitting eighth, Luke Rayley and batting ninth. Is
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: Leo Revos your opening day starting shortstop until JP heels?
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: What do you think of my lineup?
• 34:30
  Speaker 4: I like it. I like it a lot. I like
• 34:33
  Speaker 4: a lot. I like it.
• 34:35
  Speaker 3: I think I probably would go dom Canzone. I would
• 34:38
  Speaker 3: flop Cole Young and domb But that's just because a
• 34:42
  Speaker 3: little bit more experience, right, I mean, I don't know,
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: they're not a ton more and yet I mean, while
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: Cole Young is jumping on the scene as one of
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: those Wow, what is that kind of power? Don Canzone's
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: got that same thing, and he hit the ball hard.
• 34:58
  Speaker 3: I mean basically last year he didn't he didn't get
• 35:01
  Speaker 3: a full blown opportunity to play every day and be
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: up here the entire season. But when he was up here,
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: even through the playoffs, when he got his opportunities, he
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: hit the ball hard. He didn't necessarily come through all
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: the time. But the objective has get a good pitching,
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: can it hard, and hit it hard. He did that
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: as well as anybody down the stretch last year, so
• 35:18
  Speaker 3: I'm expecting.
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  Speaker 4: Big things out of him.
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: I'm also hopeful and expecting some an uptick for Cole
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  Speaker 3: Young too, So really, either way it goes, I'll be
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: happy with it.
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: By the way, or the pitching coach did stop by
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: he banged on the glass, Yeah, Jimmy's on first. He
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: didn't have breakfast with us like he softly promised, But
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: we did see Pete woodwork on his way to work
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: this morning, So.
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: Now there you go, extra pep in his step because
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: he saw your faces.
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: I think he did.
• 35:42
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm sure it made his morning. I'm pretty sure
• 35:45
  Speaker 3: from this point it's all downhill from here.
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely.
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: Sure, you get to go over there and coach, you know,
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: a big league team and whatnot.
• 35:53
  Speaker 4: But I mean, is there really anywhere to go? But
• 35:56
  Speaker 4: down after you've seen us.
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: Good point, great point. I'm going to business with that guy.
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: What do you think of Woodchuck Communications LLC? What do
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: you think of that? I like it?
• 36:06
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, got a ring to it.
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I don't know what we're going to really.
• 36:09
  Speaker 4: Do yet, you're gonna communicate obviously, all right.
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: I do also need to mention that I know a
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: lot of people are worried you're not coming to the
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: game tonight. Certainly understandable. You want to watch it from
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: home to usher an opening day, and it's very confusing.
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: I'm just going to give you a thirty second breakdown
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: of what we know. Go to Mariners dot com slash watch,
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: and that will guide you theoretically to whatever service did
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: you use for trying to watch television or trying to
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: watch Major League Baseball Mariners baseball, specifically those of you
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: who like me have comcasts. Still, well, there is a channel.
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: Twelve sixty one is the channel. It had not existed yesterday.
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: It does now. They activated it overnight, so I woke
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: up to it this morning, and they will start with
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: the pregame tonight at six o'clock on that channel twelve
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: sixty one on Comcast, and of course the first pitch
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: is at seven ten. But Mariners dot Com slash Watch
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: is where you go, whether you're a streamer or you
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: still got the cable, or whatever the case may be.
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: Maybe you're a puppeteer. I don't know if I can
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: do to help you. I don't know who's putting on
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: a Mariner's puppet show tonight, but Mariners dot Com slash
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: Watch is what's going to guide you to being able
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: to watch the game tonight from the comfort of your home.
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: All right, coming up next, who's gonna hit the most
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: home runs for the Mariners this year? We're gonna draft
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: it up. Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM