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Chuck & Buck 6-12 Hour 2: 12th Man News with Gregg Bell, ABC's of the Mariners and yes. the "Rams got better." · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: Got jump at one time to pass, and even that
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  Speaker 1: one wasn't Solis contact spetch the cough again to God's
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  Speaker 1: despair systems, pressure touch the fat scores. Andre spreshed the
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  Speaker 1: top gone Carolina lead. I think it's so selfish of.
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  Speaker 2: Him to have not scored more early.
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  Speaker 1: Just trying to win the Stanley Cup. Meanwhile, he's a
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  Speaker 1: key member, my last remaining member of my green jacket
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  Speaker 1: fantasy team, and now he decides to show up and
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  Speaker 1: score goals.
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  Speaker 2: I think your whole team was selfish.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, think about others, Think about somebody other than yourself.
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  Speaker 2: Think about people trying to win stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Svetch a cough.
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  Speaker 2: If that is your real name.
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  Speaker 1: Probably isn't. Probably Andre Spencer. Uh, it's Chuck and it's
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  Speaker 1: Ashley with you as well into our seven o'clock hour
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  Speaker 1: here on this Friday morning. Greg Bell's going to join
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  Speaker 1: us there in a little bit as we wrap up
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  Speaker 1: the Seahawks offseason. Let me fire through your headlines. The
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  Speaker 1: Stanley Cup Final is down to just one more win
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  Speaker 1: needed from the Carolina Hurricanes after last night's four to
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  Speaker 1: two victory over the Las Vegas Golden Knights. They could
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  Speaker 1: celebrate with Lord Stanley come Sunday evening in Charlotte, North Carolina,
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  Speaker 1: we shall see Game six will be played in Las Vegas.
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  Speaker 1: NBA Finals Game five will be tomorrow and it could
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  Speaker 1: end in San Antonio, Texas. The Spurs are gonna have
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  Speaker 1: to win three straight games against the Knicks in order
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  Speaker 1: to win the NBA Championship. Spencer Hawsell join us today
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  Speaker 1: to discuss that at eight thirty. Storm in action tonight
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  Speaker 1: at seven o'clock against the Golden State Valkyries. College World
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  Speaker 1: Series starts today in Omho, West Virginia, taking on Troy
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  Speaker 1: as your first game of the College World Series at
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  Speaker 1: eleven o'clock. Two games today, two games, two to Baltimore
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  Speaker 1: wins over the Mariners seven to five last night. So
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  Speaker 1: after winning two wild, crazy games in Maryland the first
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  Speaker 1: two games of this four game series, Baltimore evens things
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  Speaker 1: up by the end of matters and so at thirty
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  Speaker 1: six and thirty four, the Ms pick up their wounded
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  Speaker 1: hearts and pride and head down the street to Washington,
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  Speaker 1: d C. To take on the Nationals starting tonight in
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  Speaker 1: a three game series. Meanwhile, calt Raleigh continues almost called
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  Speaker 1: him cal Tacoma. Cal Raley continues to it home runs
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  Speaker 1: in Tacoma. He's at three and two games. He looks ready,
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  Speaker 1: but sounds like they're gonna slope play this through the
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  Speaker 1: weekend and then activate him for Tuesday, when a homestand
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  Speaker 1: begins against the Baltimore Orioles. And of course the World
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  Speaker 1: Cup going on. It started yesterday with a two to
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  Speaker 1: nothing or two nil victory for Mexico over South Africa.
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  Speaker 1: A little more action gonna take place today with the
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  Speaker 1: US taking on Paraguay to start their World Cup experience
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  Speaker 1: this evening at six o'clock, and you can hear that
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  Speaker 1: action right here at Sports Radio ninety three point three KHRFM.
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  Speaker 1: But joining us now and for the final time of
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  Speaker 1: the Seahawks off season, it is Greg Bell that is
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  Speaker 1: going to join us. Of course we'll have him on
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  Speaker 1: all the time, but it is a commemorative day because
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  Speaker 1: a mandatory mini camp ended yesterday, and so we get
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  Speaker 1: caught up to date from our Seahawks insider Greg Bell.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning, sir, Good morning. Are you I'm all right?
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  Speaker 1: I'm all right. Did it feel like a finish line
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  Speaker 1: for you yesterday?
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  Speaker 3: No? No, it feels like summer is about to end.
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  Speaker 3: They got five six weeks left reminder as people smers
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  Speaker 3: just beginning minus a clock on it.
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  Speaker 1: Ashley and I were just discussing this. I really don't know,
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  Speaker 1: and maybe I should have looked into this before. I
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  Speaker 1: talked about it three times before seven fifteen today, But
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  Speaker 1: I don't really know how NFL teams have handed out
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  Speaker 1: their championship rings, or at least I cannot recollect. But
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  Speaker 1: I do love doing it this way. I love that
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  Speaker 1: Mike McDonald pretty much was making the gesture yesterday that
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  Speaker 1: last season is over as of right now, so when
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  Speaker 1: I see you again, it's all about twenty twenty six.
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  Speaker 1: We're not going to have any ceremonies celebrating twenty twenty five,
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  Speaker 1: obviously by design. What did you make of all of that?
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  Speaker 3: Well, yeah, Ian and I were talking about this yesterday
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  Speaker 3: on the air. We can't remember when we were covering
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  Speaker 3: those Seahawks that won Super Bowl forty eight. We can't
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  Speaker 3: remember when they got their rings, but it was later
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  Speaker 3: than this. It might have been in the preseason or
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  Speaker 3: during training camp at some point. There is a natural
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  Speaker 3: logic to this. This and the player Gray is Able
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  Speaker 3: talked about this yesterday. How this doing it yes last
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  Speaker 3: night is a natural break for Okay, we're putting everything
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  Speaker 3: behind us now in June so that when we go
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  Speaker 3: in July, it's for twenty twenty six and it's a
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  Speaker 3: fresh start and it's about a new team and new
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  Speaker 3: challenges and it's not some and they keep saying this
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  Speaker 3: and they're starting to parent Mike mcdond. It's not about
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  Speaker 3: repeating and doing it again. It's about doing it this
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  Speaker 3: year because it is its own entity. It's true, the
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  Speaker 3: Rams of forty nine ers and nobody on their schedule
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  Speaker 3: is going to play them and this year and say, oh,
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  Speaker 3: they won the Super Bowl last year, so this game
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  Speaker 3: is going to go different than it would have been otherwise.
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  Speaker 3: So that's what this represents. And that was the timing
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  Speaker 3: and they, I don't want to say rushed it through,
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  Speaker 3: but they made sure the players, coaches and football staff
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  Speaker 3: that will be intricately involved in training can't cut their
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  Speaker 3: rings last night. The rest of the organization, the marketing
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  Speaker 3: and the executives and the people in the third floor
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  Speaker 3: of the building didn't get them last night. So that's
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  Speaker 3: another indication that they were just trying to make sure
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  Speaker 3: these rings for the players, coaches and football staff got done.
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  Speaker 3: Last night to move on and Mike McDonald is nothing
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  Speaker 3: if he's not calculated in intent behind everything and messaging consistency.
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  Speaker 3: This is another example of that.
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  Speaker 1: I say they skimped on the rings this year. Real cheap,
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  Speaker 1: cheap things.
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  Speaker 3: Got him out of a bubblegum machine at Walmart. There
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  Speaker 3: are a ton of white diamonds, blue sapphires. They've got
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  Speaker 3: pieces of a football used in games last year that
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  Speaker 3: are embedded underneath a side of the ring that you
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  Speaker 3: pop up. And I don't know anything about the technology
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  Speaker 3: behind that. Wow, but there's actually pieces of weather inside
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  Speaker 3: the ring. My story at the Neews Tribune Newstribute dot
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  Speaker 3: Com has that and all the details and video and
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  Speaker 3: pictures from last night's ceremony. It was a very closely
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  Speaker 3: guarded secret. They were at a restaurant I'm guessing in
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  Speaker 3: Bellevue or somewhere on the East Side, and it was
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  Speaker 3: a gala. They had a big, big event, and the
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  Speaker 3: players are really looking forward to it, and Crazy Abel's
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  Speaker 3: looking forward to cracking over with some more bush lights
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  Speaker 3: and celebration for this doesn't happen very much. Yeah, this
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  Speaker 3: franchise has been in existence for fifty now fifty one
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  Speaker 3: years and then last night was only the second time Seattle.
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  Speaker 3: See how I got a Super Bowl ring. And I've
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  Speaker 3: been doing this for a quarter with twenty five years
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  Speaker 3: now this is the second time I've covered a Super
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  Speaker 3: Bowl champion. So as much as we optimistic and saying,
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  Speaker 3: oh can they run it back? Do it again, this
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  Speaker 3: doesn't happen very often. Last night was a really really
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  Speaker 3: special event.
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  Speaker 1: Greg Bell is with US our Seahawks Insider, and he
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  Speaker 1: like the RAN, like Mike takes a field trip with
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  Speaker 1: the group in essence as part of many camp sounds
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  Speaker 1: like Sean McVay shut things down for the Rams and
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  Speaker 1: just started the off started their vacation a little bit early.
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  Speaker 1: Is that just a matter of great teams can do
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  Speaker 1: that that don't have as much to work on, or
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  Speaker 1: are some head coaches out there Greg getting the idea of, man,
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  Speaker 1: we don't have to just go you know, full scale
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  Speaker 1: twelve months out of the year. These guys need some breaks,
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  Speaker 1: and we're going to give them longer breaks.
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  Speaker 3: It's an easy way to get on the good side
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  Speaker 3: of the players and to give them a cookie. As
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  Speaker 3: Mike Hongrin would say, the forty nine ers did the
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  Speaker 3: same thing. They canceled their entire mini camp. No, some
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  Speaker 3: of that. I was talking to my forty nine writer
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  Speaker 3: buddies down there, and some of that was because the
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  Speaker 3: World Cup has overtaken. Forty nine are headquarters and the
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  Speaker 3: practice facility which is attached to Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara,
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  Speaker 3: and the World Cup games are being played in that stadium.
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  Speaker 3: So logistically it was very hard for the forty nine
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  Speaker 3: ers to have mini camp in June for the World
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  Speaker 3: Cup taken over. But yeah, the trend is that let's
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  Speaker 3: give these guys these Honestly, these practices don't matter. They're
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  Speaker 3: T shirt shorts. You don't need your starters practice. And
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  Speaker 3: now it helps the younger players, the rookies accelerate and
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  Speaker 3: acclimate and get used to the NFL game and the playbook.
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  Speaker 3: But for the guys that are going to be playing
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  Speaker 3: this year, it doesn't matter whether Devin Witherspoon practices on
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  Speaker 3: June tenth, So they bag them and it looks like
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  Speaker 3: a reward and the players think that the coaches are
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  Speaker 3: on their side, and then it sends the players off
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  Speaker 3: into the six weeks until training camp starts with motivation
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  Speaker 3: to follow the training coach, the strengthened conditioning coach, and
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  Speaker 3: position coaches plan for them the next six months, six
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  Speaker 3: weeks when they take this break. Now, they don't just
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  Speaker 3: the coaches just don't say, hey, we'll see in six weeks.
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  Speaker 3: They have a detailed plan that the strength and conditioning
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  Speaker 3: staff gives each player on what to work on and
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  Speaker 3: how to keep their benchmarks for weight and speed and
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  Speaker 3: agility and flexibility and all the metrics that they use. Now,
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  Speaker 3: how to keep those consistent heading into camp. The days
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  Speaker 3: are gone where guys just show up the training camp
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  Speaker 3: and then the coach puts them on a mile run
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  Speaker 3: and there's a fitness test and whoever barson throws up
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  Speaker 3: gets fined or put on the side.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, if it works that they work, put your cigarette
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  Speaker 1: down and run the forty for me.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, exactly. It's not that. So this is another
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  Speaker 3: way to motivate players to stay in the program mentally
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  Speaker 3: and physically the next six weeks.
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  Speaker 1: Our sacks inside of Greg Bell is with us here
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  Speaker 1: this morning. All right, So you mentioned Devin Witherspoon. Get
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  Speaker 1: any indication as to when they are going to sit
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  Speaker 1: down at this bargaining table and try to get him
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  Speaker 1: his extension.
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  Speaker 3: Well, typically, as I just said, this is the gone
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  Speaker 3: fishing portion of the NFL calendar. From today until a
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  Speaker 3: day or two before three days before training camp, everyone's gone.
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  Speaker 3: Everyone in the building, everyone, I mean talking to lawns keepers,
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  Speaker 3: a dog. Everyone's gone because there's nothing going on, and
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  Speaker 3: they encourage people to take their vacations and all of that.
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  Speaker 3: So that typically isn't when this gets done. Typically, Mike
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  Speaker 3: John Schneider has gotten it done in the days around
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  Speaker 3: first few days of either right before or more likely
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  Speaker 3: a couple days into training camp. I'm thinking about Russell Wilson,
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  Speaker 3: Bobby Wagner, some other big extensions that have been done
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  Speaker 3: at around the start of training camp. So training camp
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  Speaker 3: starts July twenty fifth, it's logical that it would be
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  Speaker 3: honor about twenty fifth or a few days after that
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  Speaker 3: this gets done. It'll get done. There's nothing in Greg
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  Speaker 3: McDonald's plan that says Devin Withersmon's not on the team
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  Speaker 3: after this year. He's completely central to everything that McDonald
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  Speaker 3: wants to do on defense. I see him moving around
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  Speaker 3: at left corner, at right corner, even more than in
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  Speaker 3: previous years. So far in the offseason workouts. I see
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  Speaker 3: him at Nickel, I see him Blitzen, I see him everywhere.
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  Speaker 3: I hear him everywhere. So he's, yeah, this will get done.
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  Speaker 3: I think he's going to be more than thirty one
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  Speaker 3: million a year. I think he's going to eclipse Trent
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  Speaker 3: McDuffie as the highest paid cornerback in the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: Does Mike McDonald arrange it? Because I read where you
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  Speaker 1: wrote that the defense dominated the last bit of many camps.
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  Speaker 1: Does he arrange it? I mean, is that just the
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  Speaker 1: defense in him? He just makes sure he puts the
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  Speaker 1: defense in the best position possible so they get to
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  Speaker 1: walk off as he kind of you know, petty like that.
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  Speaker 3: It seems that way, It seems orchestrated. It felt that way.
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  Speaker 3: I will say, Sam Donald, the starters did not work
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  Speaker 3: eleven on eleven much as much ones versus one yesterday.
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  Speaker 3: So when I say the defensive dominated, was mostly the reserves.
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  Speaker 3: A couple of nights stand out plays from Julian and Neil.
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  Speaker 3: The rookie third round cornerback Bud Clark had a couple
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  Speaker 3: of great pass breaks up in the end zone off
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  Speaker 3: of Drew Locke passes a couple of interceptions, including one
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  Speaker 3: by Neil. The typical is that the defense runs it
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  Speaker 3: all the way to the other end zone to complete
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  Speaker 3: the play. Witherspoon was running with him one hundred yards
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  Speaker 3: to the other end zone by the building. Then they
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  Speaker 3: tossed the ball up in the air and they shot
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  Speaker 3: it like it was a duck or some clay pigeon
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  Speaker 3: and skeet shooting practice. They did that three or four times.
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  Speaker 3: Witherspoon gets an absolute kick out of yelling and screaming
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  Speaker 3: at the offense as he runs one hundred yards down
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  Speaker 3: the field to the other end. But at the end
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  Speaker 3: of practice there was a sack would have been a
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  Speaker 3: sack of Jalen Miller on a naked bootleg play, and
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  Speaker 3: McDonald pumped his fist and pumped his arm and he
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  Speaker 3: was pleased, and he made sure the practice and then
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  Speaker 3: the off season ended on that play, the defense dominating
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  Speaker 3: yet again. So it should be that way, this is
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  Speaker 3: the number one rank defense in the NFL, and they
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  Speaker 3: have a new offensive coordinator in Brian Flurry, and usually
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  Speaker 3: the defense is the head of the offense. Anyway, they're
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  Speaker 3: not in pad, so the offensive line is not being
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  Speaker 3: able to assert itself so on. But the tone was yes,
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  Speaker 3: very Mike McDonald defense first tone to and the off
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  Speaker 3: season practices.
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  Speaker 1: Are they ready for hard knocks? Has been a big
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  Speaker 1: conversation here in the last few weeks with these different
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  Speaker 1: various camps. Anybody actually looking forward to it? What's the
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  Speaker 1: pulse there with those cameras coming to training camp this year?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I only hear him talking about it when we
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  Speaker 3: ask them, which seems to be someone ask them every
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  Speaker 3: day about that. The NFL film's crews, they're already doing
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  Speaker 3: preliminary work and they've been out there this week shooting
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  Speaker 3: mini camp, and I've been watching over their shoulder, thinking,
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  Speaker 3: how are you going to use this? There's nothing really
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  Speaker 3: of value that it will apply by August, in late
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  Speaker 3: August when viewers will be watching. But they have tongue
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  Speaker 3: in cheek when they talk about it. They say, oh, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: we looking forward to it. This is a nuisance for
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  Speaker 3: the players and the coaches in their daily lives, but
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  Speaker 3: once it airs, they'll get a kick out of chatting
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  Speaker 3: each other and what dudes look like on film. And
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  Speaker 3: I can't believe you that. I can't believe they use
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  Speaker 3: that that kind of stuff. It adds a little bit
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  Speaker 3: to the front a vibe that sometimes goes on in camp.
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  Speaker 3: So I do think it is a challenge for Mike
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  Speaker 3: McDonald and John Schneider to keep their culture under wraps,
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  Speaker 3: to keep it proprietary, and only they know what they
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  Speaker 3: have here. They don't want any secret sauce recipes getting
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  Speaker 3: blasted out on HBO across national television. And so the
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  Speaker 3: challenge is to be accessible and cordial and cooperative and
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  Speaker 3: show and give nothing. Can they do that? Can they
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  Speaker 3: swing the doors open, have them in meetings and the
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  Speaker 3: cameras rolling, yet revealed nothing about the inner culture, because
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  Speaker 3: that honestly, Chuck and We've talked about this. They think
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  Speaker 3: that's the reason they won the Super Bowl. It's not
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  Speaker 3: the x's and o's that everyone can see and study.
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  Speaker 3: It's what they have inside the locker room, inside the building,
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  Speaker 3: the culture that no one else can see. And they're
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  Speaker 3: not really willing to share that that's what this threatens
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  Speaker 3: a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Well, normally, you know, the last couple of years,
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  Speaker 1: I would have told you enjoy the next few weeks off,
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  Speaker 1: but you were the fool that took the midday show
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  Speaker 1: at kJ R.
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  Speaker 3: So that's right. I've to covering a World Cup for
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  Speaker 3: the News Tribune and for KJR and doing shows from
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  Speaker 3: Jimmy's right across the street from the stadium, and yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I'm not going too far.
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  Speaker 1: Away, all right, man, Well, thank you, we appreciate it,
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  Speaker 1: and we'll.
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  Speaker 3: See us soon, all right. Thanks Hi Freda.
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  Speaker 1: season program ended yesterday, you know, we're going to have
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  Speaker 1: Sea Hawk news all the time and we're gonna lean
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  Speaker 1: on Greg Bell for that. Yeah, it will be a
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  Speaker 1: it'll be a quick five weeks. Still, training camp begins,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm excited to have Greg with a brand new sponsor,
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  Speaker 2: They're doing they're doing great things, all right.
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  Speaker 1: Coming up next, the ABC's of the M's on Sports
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  Speaker 1: Radio ninety three point three kJ R f M. They
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  Speaker 1: really warmed themselves by it on a cold, cold night. Yes, indeed,
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  Speaker 1: it is Chuck Pallin Ashley Ryan with you ABC's of
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  Speaker 1: the MS. A daily Mariner segment here on our radio program,
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  Speaker 1: a service that we provide. We go through the alphabet
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  Speaker 1: to lead us to various Mariner topics, not necessarily leaning
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  Speaker 1: on last night's game, which by the way, was a
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  Speaker 1: loss seven to five to the Baltimore Orioles. Is Brian
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  Speaker 1: Wu got a bit whacked around last night by the
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  Speaker 1: Baltimore Orioles really for just one inning, but it's sufficed
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  Speaker 1: that was enough. Yeah it was rough.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that was the worstening of his career.
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  Speaker 1: They said, yeah, yeah, seven five the final score. More
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  Speaker 1: on that coming up in the OA Show at eight o'clock.
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  Speaker 1: But we left off of the letter you yesterday, and
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  Speaker 1: you was for unnecessary. I realized Miles master Bony had
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  Speaker 1: a hit last night, Cold Emerson did not. But it
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  Speaker 1: is so unnecessary in today's day and age, especially that
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  Speaker 1: Cold Emerson is hitting behind Miles master Bony in our lineup.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah right, I mean, what are we really doing. We're
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  Speaker 1: trying to teach him a lesson that you got to
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  Speaker 1: earn things around here, young boy? Is that what this
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  Speaker 1: is all about? We know Emerson's a more dangerous hitter
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  Speaker 1: than what master Boney is. We've got enough evidence to
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  Speaker 1: support that. I mean, the Los Angeles Dodgers hit sho
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  Speaker 1: Hey Otani leadoff for a reason, and that reason is
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  Speaker 1: we don't want to lose one game where our best
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  Speaker 1: hitter is on deck because we could have hit him
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  Speaker 1: higher in the order, and yet because we hit him
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  Speaker 1: third or fourth, he ended up being in the on
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  Speaker 1: deck circle, and the guy in front of him got
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  Speaker 1: an out, yep and show it, and the game ended
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  Speaker 1: with our best hitters. That's why they hit the best
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  Speaker 1: hitter in the National League lead off for the Los
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  Speaker 1: Angeles Dodgers. Well, the same thing applies here. I was
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  Speaker 1: just so sure that that game was going to end
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  Speaker 1: with Miles master Bony at the plate because we're doing
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  Speaker 1: some sort of you know, you gotta earn it, kid,
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  Speaker 1: old school mantra, no play your better player higher in
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  Speaker 1: the order. I get we're not hitting him clean up.
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  Speaker 1: I get we're not gonna lead him off. We don't
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  Speaker 1: want to put that kind of presure on a twenty
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  Speaker 1: year old. But there's no reason for cold Emerson to
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  Speaker 1: be hitting behind Miles master Bony in our lineup.
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  Speaker 4: Ever, No, I don't think he's He doesn't seem like
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  Speaker 4: the type of player either that needs to be taught
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  Speaker 4: where he belongs.
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  Speaker 1: That's a great point too, because that's the reason that
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  Speaker 1: we've sped him to the majors is because he's different, right,
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  Speaker 1: Like like, if we hit him seventh, it's gonna go
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  Speaker 1: to his head.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think that's gonna happen.
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  Speaker 1: So enough enough, stop being cute about this. Yeah, you
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  Speaker 1: know again, I'm just gonna lean on this all year long.
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  Speaker 1: Our best our starting rotation should be five guys strong,
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  Speaker 1: and it should be the best five guys, and our
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  Speaker 1: starting lineup should be the best nine guys. And in
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  Speaker 1: that starting lineup, we're gonna hit our better guys in
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  Speaker 1: more advantageous positions in the order.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's how it's supposed to work.
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  Speaker 1: Is not that hard.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, stop playing chess, just play checkers.
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  Speaker 1: VA is for vaccinations. So I hope over the course
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  Speaker 1: of the last two days there in Baltimore, despite the
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  Speaker 1: fact that we seem to be on a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of roll, we clearly decided that we need to rest
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  Speaker 1: our entire bullpen for two days. That was obviously a goal. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not saying they weren't trying to win those games.
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  Speaker 1: I'm am saying this though, that once they fell behind,
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  Speaker 1: the priority was clearly not winning. The priority was our relief.
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  Speaker 1: Pitching core needed time off. They we needed to find
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  Speaker 1: a way in our schedule, our busy schedule to give
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  Speaker 1: our entire bullpen, our best five guys, some rest and relaxation.
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  Speaker 1: And so I hope you accomplished what you set out
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  Speaker 1: to accomplish, and I hope that there's a different approach
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  Speaker 1: to how you're going to use the bullpen going forward
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  Speaker 1: the rest of the year, because there actually there is
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  Speaker 1: no excuse for being this thin in your bullpen at
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  Speaker 1: this point in the season. We are in them. We're
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  Speaker 1: not even in the middle of June. Yet we are
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  Speaker 1: seventy games into a one hundred and sixty two game schedule.
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  Speaker 1: Our relief pitching corps has thrown fewer innings than any
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  Speaker 1: bullpen in the American League. And yet we get to
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  Speaker 1: June tenth and we've got to designate two days as
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  Speaker 1: a get well day for the entire bullpen. I mean,
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: say what you want. Maybe I've overreacted to some of
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  Speaker 1: the ways Dan Wilson has managed and made some decisions.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I've asked Ryan Heally. Ryan Heey doesn't see
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  Speaker 1: anything wrong with the way Dan Wilson has used as
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  Speaker 1: his pen. I know if Bucky were here, he wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: have a problem with the way Dan's used his pen.
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  Speaker 1: I have, But I will say this, I just don't
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  Speaker 1: see when you are using your relief pitchers less than
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  Speaker 1: anyone else in baseball, how you could end up in
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  Speaker 1: such a pick and mid June that you can barely
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  Speaker 1: get through a series because all of your relief pitchers
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: are tired. The two equations don't even add up together,
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  Speaker 1: do they.
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  Speaker 4: No, they don't, And it does seem like it it
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  Speaker 4: is more of It isn't a strategy.
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  Speaker 2: It is more of a oh, we're just gonna rest.
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  Speaker 4: It's not I mean, it's over the last two games
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  Speaker 4: because you did just let your or your starting pitcher
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  Speaker 4: how to blow up inning, you let them stay in
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  Speaker 4: the game for a little bit longer, and then you
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: used last night only two relief pitchers, the night before
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  Speaker 4: only one. So it does seem like you're trying to
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  Speaker 4: just openly say, Okay, we need rest.
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  Speaker 2: We're struggling.
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  Speaker 4: And I can't quite understand, Like, if that's the case,
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  Speaker 4: how are we gonna make it through an entire season?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I just said, I mean that does happen during
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: the course of the season where you're like, oh man,
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: whatever we can do, We'll even kick a game or
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  Speaker 1: two in order to get our bullpen back to where
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  Speaker 1: it's needs to be. But that typically happens after you've
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: had like one, maybe even two guys in your starfre
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  Speaker 1: arting rotation who couldn't get out of the third inning
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  Speaker 1: and it just blew the whole thing up. Now you're like,
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  Speaker 1: all right, we gotta strategize. We got a fan. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: we even used the phanom I L already on a guy.
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  Speaker 1: We've got to figure out we got somebody, some relief
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  Speaker 1: pitcher is gonna have to go five innings tonight. We're
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  Speaker 1: gonna have to throw a short stop where Johnny Parade
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  Speaker 1: is gonna have to pitch tonight. I mean, there there
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: are those hoops that you've got to jump through during
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: the course of one hundred and sixty two games. But
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: if we're already forced to jump through them in the
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: middle of June, when our bullpen has been used less
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: frequently than anyone else's bullpen, something's gotten mismanaged, right.
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: And I think in the end, yes, will we be
• 24:41
  Speaker 4: excited that or happy that our relief pitchers are fresher
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  Speaker 4: than other people, Probably?
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: But are they going to be that's my career.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to struggle.
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  Speaker 4: And then also yeah, with our six man rotation, this
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: is supposed to be helping the bullpen, right, they're supposed
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: to the starters are supposed.
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  Speaker 2: To go longer.
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  Speaker 1: Well, they're not necessarily right.
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  Speaker 2: But the bullpen is so.
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  Speaker 4: But I would look at that if I'm the Mariner's
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  Speaker 4: organization as a whole and say, well, clearly the six
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  Speaker 4: man rotation isn't working because our starters can't go long enough.
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  Speaker 2: To give our bullpen any relief.
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  Speaker 1: I agree, I agree. I think it needs to be scrapped. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, if the six man rotation is really creating
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  Speaker 1: this kind of havoc with your bullpen, that you can
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: win the first two games of a series and then
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: fall behind. The moment you fall behind just kind of
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: like the priority is not to come back here, the
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  Speaker 1: priority is to rest our bullpen. And we didn't score
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  Speaker 1: enough runs to come back anyway. So I'm not laying it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not blaming the last two losses Alex Happy, Nick Devila.
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  Speaker 1: They both did a good job, So I'm not trying
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  Speaker 1: to I'm not trying to say anything to suggest that.
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  Speaker 1: But what I am saying is that if you're already
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  Speaker 1: in this big of a pickle when you're using your
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  Speaker 1: bullpen less than anybody else. What is going to say
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: when things actually do get a little hairy.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it makes me nervous.
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  Speaker 1: At stages during the course of the season. Finally, WS
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  Speaker 1: four Wu and obviously Brian Wu is having some difficulty
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  Speaker 1: figuring things out on the road. I think he will
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  Speaker 1: be fine, But in light of a six man rotation
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  Speaker 1: or a five man rotation with a piggyback, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it's there's no question about it. The two guys that
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: are struggling right now are Brian Wu and George Kirby.
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: Those are the two guys that are struggling right now.
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: Logan's back on his game, Bryce has been dominant, Castillo's
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: found something, and Hancocks our all star. Of all the
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: people on our rotation, he's the guy that's going to
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: be in the All Star Game this year as long
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: as he keeps things going through July. So I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how they're going to handle that. I
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: don't think Brian Wu and George Kirby would handle being
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  Speaker 1: piggybacked very well at all.
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  Speaker 2: Probably not, but you might need to just deal with
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: it for the team.
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  Speaker 1: But right now, there's no doubt. The two starting pitchers
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: that are performing the worst are George Kirby and Brian
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: wu all Right, coming up next on the program, I
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: was gonna talk about something else, but I've got to
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: ask this question. When did Dick Thing become Matt Foley
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  Speaker 1: Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM.
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  Speaker 5: All Right, how's everybody good?
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: Good? Good?
• 27:29
  Speaker 5: Now, as your father probably told you, my name is
• 27:33
  Speaker 5: Matt Foley and I am a motivational speaker. Now let's
• 27:40
  Speaker 5: get started by letting me give you a little bit
• 27:43
  Speaker 5: of a scenario what my life is all about. First off,
• 27:49
  Speaker 5: I am thirty five years old, I am divorced, and
• 27:54
  Speaker 5: I live in a band down by the river.
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  Speaker 1: One of my favorite Saturday night lives. It might be
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: my favorite set.
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  Speaker 4: I wanted to instantly watch the whole thing when I
• 28:06
  Speaker 4: was recording that.
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: That might be my number one now that I think
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: back on it.
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: Just the physical comedy that he's doing during it, while
• 28:13
  Speaker 4: also just the timing of his comedy.
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: And plus that because Veronica Corningstone Christina Applegate was the
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: guest celebrity host. Yeah, and she couldn't She could not
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: stop laughing, and David Spade could not stop laughing, They're
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: the whole thing. It was just phenomenal, It really was.
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: But I was listening to Dick Fane's new promo and
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: I'm like, I was getting Matt Foley vibes from it,
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: because everybody remembers from that skit the fan down by
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: the river.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I am.
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  Speaker 1: Thrice Moores.
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  Speaker 3: Down by the river.
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  Speaker 1: That's what everybody remembers from that skit. But the funny
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: part of that skit was to me, the funniest I
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: should say part of that skit was when he was like.
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  Speaker 6: I guess I don't bathe regularly and I don't always
• 29:09
  Speaker 6: chew my food. And he's putting in quotes, and he's
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  Speaker 6: putting in quotes like some really important things that you
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  Speaker 6: should be doing to be taken.
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  Speaker 1: Seriously as a professional. And it may indicate why you're
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: living in a van down by the river.
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  Speaker 2: M Thrice divorce.
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  Speaker 1: And so the most recent promo from Dick, and I
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: appreciate how seahawk centric that he is and how confident
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: he is with the direction the program is heading in.
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: But Miles Garrett and Aaron Donald are some pretty worthy subjects.
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: They have changed the narrative heading into the next offseason,
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: and Dick Fane's on his radio program, like, I guess
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: the Rams they think.
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  Speaker 6: They're hot crap because they sign Miles Garrett and Aaron
• 30:02
  Speaker 6: Donald and that's supposed to make a difference.
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  Speaker 2: Actually, yes, Dick, it does. It does actually make a difference.
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: I guess they're going to be Vegas favorites.
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: Correct, Yep, they are.
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: I guess Charles Cross is going to have his work
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: cut out for him.
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: Nailed it, yep.
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: I guess Sean McVay thinks they're better he does.
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: You are correct? Yes, other people, that's so true.
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: It came off so Matt Poley to me, as I've
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: been listening to it all week long.
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: I want to hear it again.
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Look, look I'm with you, Dick, Okay, Like we're on
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: the same side. You know. My the problem we made
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: on my show is like, bring it on, chumps, right,
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: I'm kind of I'm kinda titillated that they've improved their
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: team by a mile Scarett, bring it on, let's see,
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: because I do think the Seahawks are going to be
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: better this year than they were a year ago. And yeah,
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: I think the Rams are gonna be better too. But
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: let's fight it out. And that's exciting to me, yeah,
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: as a as a football fan. But Dick's just flat
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: out just like Miles Garrett.
• 31:16
  Speaker 4: Actually Dick that is his real name, you don't mean,
• 31:18
  Speaker 4: and he's really really good, really really good.
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  Speaker 2: And it does make me a little nervous if you.
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: Want to believe in twenty three sacks.
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: Okay, well maybe that was a little inflated. I'll give
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: you that. I'll give you that, but that's it.
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: So Yes, that made me laugh out loud. Yeah, when
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: I was hearing that, I think those are some significant
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: movie Yep. I would agree, and I think that I
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: hope Mike McDonald's taking them seriously when they prep for
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: the Rams. Yeah, I think you may want to put
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: that telestrater on Miles Garrett.
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: The impressions really spot on.
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: Otherwise, I think we might be living in a van
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  Speaker 1: down by the river.
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  Speaker 4: I do think if we'd made that move, we'd think
• 32:07
  Speaker 4: it was pretty damn good.
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: I think we'd be celebrating quite a bit. Yep. But
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: maybe there would be in somebody in Los Angeles.
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  Speaker 6: All I guess we'll sea Hawks think they're hot crap yep,
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  Speaker 6: World Champs.
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  Speaker 1: Darn right, alright, o Cho's Next Sports Radio ninety three
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