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Chuck & Buck 5-18 Hour 2: Headlines and Scott Merkin, what a weekend at Aronimink and we're down with OPQ! · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: And here comes the biggest roar of the day. Cold
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  Speaker 1: Emerson walks up first.
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  Speaker 2: Takest to the young man is a check swing and
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  Speaker 2: strike wan.
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  Speaker 1: Two and two.
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  Speaker 2: He tags it for right field and Ramon Loreanto.
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  Speaker 1: For two down. Cold Emerson flies out in his first
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  Speaker 1: Major League at bath. Hey, good Monday morning to you.
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  Speaker 1: It is Chuck Poll and Ashley Ryan here at seven
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  Speaker 1: o'clock on the button on a Monday morning. Great to
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  Speaker 1: have you with us. Coming up a little later on
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  Speaker 1: in the show, Spencer Hawes is going to join us
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  Speaker 1: today at eight o'clock to talk about the conference finals
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  Speaker 1: being set in the NBA, and they start tonight in
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  Speaker 1: Oklahoma City, so he'll join us at eight. Also, PGA
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  Speaker 1: Championship participant Derek Berg local hero, will join us on
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  Speaker 1: the program in the nine o'clock hour today as well.
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  Speaker 1: And Scott Markins, speaking of guests, will join us in
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  Speaker 1: about five minutes from now to preview tonight's Mariners White
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  Speaker 1: Sox Theories, which starts at Tea Mobile, and that's where
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  Speaker 1: we'll start with our headlines. The Mariners, they're in a bad,
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  Speaker 1: bad way right now. You heard the highlight of Colt
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  Speaker 1: Emerson from last night's NBC broadcast of the Mariners of
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  Speaker 1: Padres four o'clock game last night, and that was really
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  Speaker 1: the lone highlight for the Mariners. We got to see
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  Speaker 1: Cold Emerson, the twenty year old number one prospect in
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  Speaker 1: the organization, make his major league debut, and he went
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  Speaker 1: oh for two, but he hit the ball hard twice
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  Speaker 1: and had a walk in the game. So not a
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  Speaker 1: bad debut personally. But the team got skunked again. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: they did, disappointing eight to three the final score. The
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  Speaker 1: Padres win over the Mariners. So the Padres not only
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  Speaker 1: sweep the series, but they sweep the Vetter Cup this year,
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  Speaker 1: six matchups all went to the San Diego Padres. So
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  Speaker 1: the Mariners in a bad way right now. Twenty two
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  Speaker 1: to twenty six, four games under five hundred, forty eight
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  Speaker 1: games into the year. Cal Raley on the IL, Brendan
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  Speaker 1: Donovan on the IL. Just not a lot going right
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  Speaker 1: right now for this baseball team.
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  Speaker 2: Sure doesn't seem like it.
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  Speaker 1: The Chicago White Sox actually are having a very good year.
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  Speaker 1: There are two games over five hundred, so they roll
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  Speaker 1: into town trying to continue their excellent play and also
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  Speaker 1: continue the Mariners floundering Ways first pitches at six forty.
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  Speaker 1: Brian wu will pitch for the MS Noah Schultz. It's
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  Speaker 1: a left hander. You've got the warning now seven o'clock,
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  Speaker 1: so you can prepare accordingly. It is a left hander,
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  Speaker 1: Noah Schultz getting the start for the White Sox. Cold
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  Speaker 1: Emerson did make his debut and Brenda de Donovan was
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  Speaker 1: placed officially on the injury list, and who knows when
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  Speaker 1: he's going to be back, but Justin Hollander did say
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  Speaker 1: yesterday Emerson's not just up here for ten to fifteen
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  Speaker 1: at bats. That kind of the suggestion that he is
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  Speaker 1: here to stay. However that unfolds going forward, we shall see.
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  Speaker 1: But cold Emerson, of course, has already locked up to
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  Speaker 1: a nine year contract at the major league level by
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  Speaker 1: the Mariners. Looks like his career is underway. PGA Championship
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  Speaker 1: held over the weekend, the second major of the year,
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  Speaker 1: and it's not one of the bigger names in the sport,
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  Speaker 1: but Aaron Raye has been kind of dancing around the
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  Speaker 1: leader board for a few years now, and he got
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  Speaker 1: it done yesterday and there were no nerves down the stretch.
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  Speaker 1: He just absolutely put the foot on the gas pedal
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  Speaker 1: pulled away from everybody in the last few holes, some
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  Speaker 1: brilliant shots, some of his best shots down the stretch.
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  Speaker 1: And Aaron Rye is your Peach champion this year. We'll
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  Speaker 1: talk more about that a little bit later on in
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  Speaker 1: this hour. The NBA Playoffs Cleveland Cavaliers won a Game
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  Speaker 1: seven over the Detroit Pistons last night, one twenty five
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  Speaker 1: to ninety four. So the Cavaliers with a slight upset
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  Speaker 1: over Detroit, four seed over a one seed there one
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  Speaker 1: twenty five to ninety four. They win it in seven games,
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  Speaker 1: and they'll take on the Knicks in the Eastern Conference
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  Speaker 1: Finals starting on Tuesday. Tonight, San Antonio and OKC start
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  Speaker 1: the Western Conference Finals in Oklahoma. Stanley Cup Playoffs. Another
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  Speaker 1: like a game seven in the Stanley Cup Playoffs Buffalo
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  Speaker 1: versus Montreal tonight and that game will be played in Buffalo.
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  Speaker 1: They will drop the puck at four thirty in that contest.
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  Speaker 1: Some other headlines, the Fever one over the Storm yesterday
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  Speaker 1: eighty nine to seventy eight. Caitlin Clark had twenty one points,
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  Speaker 1: seven rebounds, and ten assists in the contest, and so
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  Speaker 1: the Fever with the victory. Also from basketball SGA Shake Gilgess.
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  Speaker 1: Alexander won his second consecutive MVP award. Yes, had he
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  Speaker 1: averaged a triple crown, a triple crown, a triple double
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  Speaker 1: last year, but apparently the voters are bored with triple
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  Speaker 1: doubles for an entire season. So he didn't win last year,
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  Speaker 1: and then this year did it. Like even more impressively,
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  Speaker 1: he led the league in rebounds and assists as a
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  Speaker 1: center and yet didn't win the MVO. Didn't even finish
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  Speaker 1: in the top two. Aaron Rodgers over the weekend signed
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  Speaker 1: with the Pittsburgh Steelers, so that got done and the
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  Speaker 1: Preakness was run on Saturday. Eddie Olcik giving us the
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  Speaker 1: pick on Friday. Napoleon Solo is your winner, and so
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  Speaker 1: Eddie Olcik made a little bit of money over the weekend.
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  Speaker 2: Real good at those pucks and those ponies.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, he is one of the best combos you're going
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  Speaker 1: to find out there, all right, So there you go.
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  Speaker 1: Those are your headlines and they are brought to you
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  Speaker 1: by Oss Brewed Corp's Light Choose Chill. So do we
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  Speaker 1: have our gives?
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  Speaker 3: We will have him in about two minutes. Two minutes, okay,
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  Speaker 3: I know you said something in there trying to be fast,
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  Speaker 3: so I didn't interrupt, but.
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  Speaker 1: I did not hear it. But yeah, so we're going
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  Speaker 1: to talk to Scott Murkin here in two minutes. He
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  Speaker 1: covers the Chicago White Sox for his living. So we're
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  Speaker 1: getting ready to preview that series. And look, the Chicago
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  Speaker 1: White Sox needed some sort of boost, They needed some
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  Speaker 1: sort of face, and they got one in Munataka Morricami
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  Speaker 1: this offseason, seventeen home runs so far this year. And yes,
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  Speaker 1: he has some of those things that people worried about
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  Speaker 1: this offseason. He strikes out a ton and yet and
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  Speaker 1: he's not a great defender. And yet they needed something
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  Speaker 1: to give them an identity after three years of some
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  Speaker 1: of the worst baseball we've seen played in our lifetimes,
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  Speaker 1: the Chicago White Sox got that identity, and lo and
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  Speaker 1: behold that coupled with their young kind of all jelling
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  Speaker 1: at once, and they come into this game with a
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  Speaker 1: twenty four and twenty two record. I mean, I don't
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  Speaker 1: think there's a person on the planet that would have
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  Speaker 1: predicted the Whites if you'd have shown them. Mariner's White
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  Speaker 1: Sox are going to meet on May eighteenth, Monday Night.
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  Speaker 1: One of them's gonna have a twenty four and twenty
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  Speaker 1: two record, and one of them is going to be
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  Speaker 1: twenty two and twenty six. I don't think there's a
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  Speaker 1: person that would have said, I don't even think there's
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  Speaker 1: a Diard White Sox fan that would have said it's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be the White Sox that are twenty four and
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  Speaker 1: twenty two. And yet that's where we are heading into tonight.
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  Speaker 1: And joining us now on the program is Scott Murkan.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning, Scott, good morning.
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  Speaker 4: How you doing.
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  Speaker 1: Would you have guessed that when this game started, when
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  Speaker 1: you were at the beginning of the year and you
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  Speaker 1: were projecting Mariners, White Sox, that one of these teams
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  Speaker 1: will be twenty four and twenty two, the other twenty
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  Speaker 1: two and twenty six, and it would be the White
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  Speaker 1: Sox with the better record.
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  Speaker 4: No, but you know, like the old cliche goes, that's baseball.
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  Speaker 4: You never know what's going to happen. But yeah, I
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  Speaker 4: think this is one of those stories where the people
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  Speaker 4: who believed were the people in the White Sox clubhouse
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  Speaker 4: and in the White Sox front office, and it's showing
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  Speaker 4: on the field.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 4: I think the last two weekend series. One was against
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  Speaker 4: Seattle and then against the Cubs this past weekend. We're
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  Speaker 4: great examples of this what this team is about. You know,
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  Speaker 4: last Friday, Seattle beat them pretty solidly in the first game,
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  Speaker 4: Socks came back won the series. Cubs this weekend beat
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  Speaker 4: them pretty solidly in the first game. Socks came back
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  Speaker 4: and won the series. And that's that's what it's been
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  Speaker 4: about to them this year. You know, they've not lost
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  Speaker 4: more than three in a row this entire year. And
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  Speaker 4: you know, they're playing good baseball overam.
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  Speaker 1: And they're hitting home runs. Only the Yankees have hit
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  Speaker 1: more home runs than the White Sox so far this season.
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  Speaker 1: And Muna Takamurakami has given this organization this roster of face.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he's not the only guy that's stepping up
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  Speaker 1: this year for the White Sox, but what has he
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  Speaker 1: meant to this, you know forward momentum that White Sox
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  Speaker 1: fans are enjoying.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, I'll defer to you know, I've answered
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  Speaker 4: that so many times. I deferred to Davis Martin, who,
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  Speaker 4: you know, if the season were to end today, would
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  Speaker 4: be a cy young candidate in the American League for
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  Speaker 4: the White Sox and he's a star, you know, and
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  Speaker 4: I don't The Socks have a lot of guys who
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  Speaker 4: are approaching that level coach in Montgomery, Miguel Vargas, but
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  Speaker 4: Mr Kami is a star, you know. And I think
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  Speaker 4: he's just he's meant so much that lineup, He's meant
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  Speaker 4: so much to the organization, just adding kind of a
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  Speaker 4: face diffrance. Of people have talk to me about at
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  Speaker 4: the beginning of the year when the team was struggling
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  Speaker 4: a little bit. You know, they were six and thirteen
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  Speaker 4: to start the year, and there were a lot of
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  Speaker 4: one hundreds, you know, on the scoreboard, not one hundred
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  Speaker 4: and second, but a lot of ones in the front
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  Speaker 4: of the average scoreboard. And instead of people focusing on
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  Speaker 4: how those guys were, you know, it was talked about
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  Speaker 4: obviously about oh, it's going to be like the last
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  Speaker 4: three years, you know, what kind of step forward are
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  Speaker 4: they going to take? They were looking more at oh
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  Speaker 4: Murkkammie Homer in his first three games, he's homeward in
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  Speaker 4: three more great games, and he took a little pressure
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  Speaker 4: off that team, and I think guys have kind of
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  Speaker 4: found their role and he fits in great in that clubhouse.
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  Speaker 4: You know. I mean, that's one thing is he's I
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  Speaker 4: was talking to uh Azigi and yesterday, of course, you know,
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  Speaker 4: the great manager for the Socks and now equally great
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  Speaker 4: pre and post game hosts. And he managed both Kadahito
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  Speaker 4: and Gucci and Shingle Takatsu from Japan with the White Sox,
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  Speaker 4: and Gucci was a key factor, huge factor in that
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  Speaker 4: UH five World Series championship. And he said, murk Kami's
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  Speaker 4: a little different. Murk Comedy's more outgoing, He's more kind
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  Speaker 4: of you know, whereas he said he loved those other
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  Speaker 4: two guys, they were just a little quieter, you know,
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  Speaker 4: and Murkami is more just kind of one of the
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  Speaker 4: guys type of things. So I think he fits in great.
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  Speaker 4: And I think part of that fit is the Socks
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  Speaker 4: that helped him fit in great. They have made him
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  Speaker 4: feel a part since the first day he got there.
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  Speaker 1: I think back to the offseason, Scott and man I
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  Speaker 1: really expected a bidding war from Mura Kami, and it
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  Speaker 1: turned out to be the opposite. It turned out to
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  Speaker 1: be as value kept going down, and then the story
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  Speaker 1: just kept becoming that he strikes out too much, He's
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  Speaker 1: way too vulnerable, he's going to be dominated in the
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  Speaker 1: major leagues, and so the salaries and the overall contract
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  Speaker 1: just kept dropping and dropping. And I'm sitting here in
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  Speaker 1: Seattle and go get this guy. I mean, I don't
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  Speaker 1: have a scouting report on him, but man, guys that
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  Speaker 1: have been labeled Japanese phenoms have done pretty well in
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  Speaker 1: Major League Baseball. So now that you've seen him succeed,
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  Speaker 1: and he is striking out a lot, but you've seen
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  Speaker 1: him succeed, have you kicked the tires? Have you gone
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  Speaker 1: back to the off season and written anything about why
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  Speaker 1: on earth everybody was passing on this guy?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah? I focus more on how the Socks got him,
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  Speaker 4: you know how Okay, the Socks really didn't think they
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  Speaker 4: had a chance to get him until a week before
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  Speaker 4: his posting deadline, because, like you said, they liked him.
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  Speaker 4: He was on their radar. David Keller, who has done
• 12:00
  Speaker 4: a great job since taking over you know, international scouting
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  Speaker 4: for the White Sox, he was on his radar as
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  Speaker 4: soon as he came in. They hired a scout just
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  Speaker 4: dedicated to you know, the Pacific grim area, and he
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  Speaker 4: was on the radar. But they really as recently to
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  Speaker 4: the signing as the Winter meetings in Orlando, did not
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  Speaker 4: think that they were gonna be able to get him
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  Speaker 4: because you know, they were not going to go one
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  Speaker 4: hundred and fifty two hundred million dollars. And then when
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  Speaker 4: he became available, in my goodness, you know, they they
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  Speaker 4: went all out. And I mean Chris Gatz has told
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  Speaker 4: the story about they had the Zoom meeting at like
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  Speaker 4: eleven thirty on that Friday night with the posting deadline.
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  Speaker 4: I believe that Sunday or that Monday, and you know,
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  Speaker 4: the post deadline. You can't go past it. You can't
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  Speaker 4: call and say, you know, I need another hour or two,
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  Speaker 4: and when it hits, it's done. And Chris even had
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  Speaker 4: to get his you know, one of his friends who
• 12:47
  Speaker 4: was a doctor who was in the medical pression to
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  Speaker 4: help get that physical sped up on Saturday as opposed
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  Speaker 4: to the normal period. But I think myself included people
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  Speaker 4: just didn't realize what a star and how good he
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  Speaker 4: was over there, and how good, how great he was
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  Speaker 4: over there. I think he dealt with some injuries a
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  Speaker 4: little bit last year, but you know, he was a
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  Speaker 4: triple crown winner over there, and you talk to the
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  Speaker 4: Japanese media who were covering him, who'd do such a
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  Speaker 4: detailed job of covering him, And they'll tell you he
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  Speaker 4: was a sensation. You know, he was a force. He
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  Speaker 4: was a World Baseball Classic hero, and I think people
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  Speaker 4: might have underestimated a little bit on how how what
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  Speaker 4: kind of an impact he has Yet you know, he's
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  Speaker 4: been a little bit of a three true outcome guy
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  Speaker 4: in terms of results. You know, Homer, ye walk, strikeout.
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  Speaker 4: I think he just had his second double yesterday against
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  Speaker 4: the Cubs. But I mean has played very solid defense
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  Speaker 4: at first when he played a lot of third days
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  Speaker 4: in Japan, and like I said, it has been just
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  Speaker 4: a winning presence for the White Sox. So you know,
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  Speaker 4: teams I think have kind of said, yeah, we missed
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  Speaker 4: the vote. Gets Chris Got just talked about getting phone
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  Speaker 4: calls from GM saying, you know, you beat the league
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  Speaker 4: on this one. You got Now. The question is, you know,
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  Speaker 4: and it's not a question for now because they're enjoying
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  Speaker 4: now and you know there's time for this, but how
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  Speaker 4: long will he be with the siful He stayed past
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  Speaker 4: the two years, and that's something to be examined as
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  Speaker 4: they move on.
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  Speaker 1: Scott markin Is with US has been covering the White
• 14:06
  Speaker 1: Sox for twenty four years with MLB dot Com, and
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  Speaker 1: so he's joining us to preview the series Mariners and
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  Speaker 1: White Sox, which starts tonight at Tea Mobile. You know,
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  Speaker 1: when you have high expectations like we had in Seattle
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  Speaker 1: and still do have in Seattle for our baseball team,
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  Speaker 1: and you're off to a twenty two and twenty six start,
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  Speaker 1: certainly the manager, you know, the criticism begins and he's
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  Speaker 1: not getting the most out of this talent and h
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  Speaker 1: and and I think maybe some of it is very justifiable.
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  Speaker 1: On the flip side, how much credit are you and
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  Speaker 1: White Sox fans giving Will Venable four seemingly getting the
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  Speaker 1: most out of this roster.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think they've had a plan since last year,
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  Speaker 4: and you know, players have talked about that Will kind
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  Speaker 4: of set the culture for this team last year and
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  Speaker 4: then they've kind of run with it. They've kind of
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  Speaker 4: imprinted it and made it their own. And I think
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  Speaker 4: the biggest thing is, you know, focus on the day.
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  Speaker 4: It's it sounds cliche, and I think he would tell
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  Speaker 4: you it probably sounds a little ciche, but just folks
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  Speaker 4: on the day. And I asked him, I think like
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  Speaker 4: a day and a half before the Cubs series because
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  Speaker 4: he used to work with the Cubs, you know, and
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  Speaker 4: you know what it meant to have two good teams
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  Speaker 4: in the city again. And he's like, nope, you know,
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  Speaker 4: focus on Kansas City. That that's that's yeah, you know
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  Speaker 4: what I mean about the broute just like that. We'll
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  Speaker 4: worry about the Cubs and winning, you know when it
• 15:25
  Speaker 4: gets time to the cump server folks in Kansas City.
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  Speaker 4: And you know, he talked to me when I talked
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  Speaker 4: to him and Anna, I'm about just the energy this
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  Speaker 4: team brings, the extra level this team plays at, and
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  Speaker 4: he admits that maybe in a certain series, certain games,
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  Speaker 4: they're not the same talent level as a team they're
• 15:42
  Speaker 4: playing against, but that energy they play with, the intent
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  Speaker 4: they played with will get them some wins that other
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  Speaker 4: teams may not have. And that's shown this year. You
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  Speaker 4: know that they have that. They have really been a
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  Speaker 4: great story of baseball through the first forty six games
• 15:55
  Speaker 4: this year.
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  Speaker 1: Well, we've obviously met the Chicago White Sox once, but
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  Speaker 1: we did not face Noah Schultz in that series. Tell
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  Speaker 1: us about this six foot ten inch left hander, the
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: fact that he's a left hander already, we're already worried
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: because we can't hit lefties in Seattle apparently, So give
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  Speaker 1: us the lowdown on this Randy Johnson, Like Noah Schultz here.
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  Speaker 4: Tonight, I'm gonna say it's fitting that he's pitching in
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  Speaker 4: Seattle because he has already drawn comparisons to you know,
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  Speaker 4: one of the best pitches in baseball history and probably
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  Speaker 4: the best pitcher that pitcherd ever pitched for Seattle.
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  Speaker 1: Right, Yep.
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  Speaker 4: I don't think I'm stepping over the boundaries there. No
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  Speaker 4: and you know, very very lanky kid coming up two
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  Speaker 4: starts that weren't quite up to what his expectations. I
• 16:39
  Speaker 4: believe he walked five his last out there, but he's
• 16:42
  Speaker 4: been working very diligently behind the scenes to kind of
• 16:45
  Speaker 4: kind of fix that stuff and just telling the kid
• 16:47
  Speaker 4: with good stuff and doesn't throw one hundred, but has
• 16:50
  Speaker 4: good velocity, has good movement on stuff, you know, big
• 16:53
  Speaker 4: sweeper slider type of thing. So he's he's a talk kid.
• 16:57
  Speaker 4: So he comes to you with like, you know, kind
• 16:59
  Speaker 4: of a little bit of a weird slot angle, I
• 17:02
  Speaker 4: guess is what I'm looking for, and you know has
• 17:04
  Speaker 4: been there top pitching prospect probably for two years, three years,
• 17:09
  Speaker 4: maybe even at this Basically since he was drafted, he
• 17:12
  Speaker 4: has been their top pitching prospect and is going to
• 17:14
  Speaker 4: get a run now, as you know, a main part
• 17:16
  Speaker 4: of the rotation. So you know, and that's the thing
• 17:19
  Speaker 4: with the White Sox is they have a lot of
• 17:21
  Speaker 4: young guys on the roster. Now you'll see Sam Antonachi
• 17:24
  Speaker 4: in the leadout spot probably or you know, somewhere in
• 17:27
  Speaker 4: the lane up playing left field, and he's he's just
• 17:29
  Speaker 4: up this year. Edgar Tarot with the game winning home
• 17:32
  Speaker 4: run yesterday, is this is just his you know, he's
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: completing his first bull season. He played about two thirds
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: of last year and is completing it now. So close
• 17:40
  Speaker 4: to Montgomery, same deal, but there's more coming. They have
• 17:43
  Speaker 4: Braidon Montgomery, Hagan Smith, a left handed pitcher, so you know,
• 17:47
  Speaker 4: Noah is one of the young crew now kind of
• 17:50
  Speaker 4: inspiring that team.
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: Well, we have to trust that it's early and there's
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: a lot of baseball this year and that we're going
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: to get things going. But I would add, from your
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: perspective with the White Sox, is it real? Do you
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: think that this team can contend?
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: Well, I don't want to meet anyone who plays the
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: game with if you're in Major League Baseball, you're pretty
• 18:10
  Speaker 4: damn good. But let's be honest, there is no one
• 18:13
  Speaker 4: running away in the American League. Tampa Bay, right, and
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: Tampa Bay is always a good team, and Kevin Cash
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: maybe the best manager going. But aside from Tampa and
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: I guess the Yankees have been pretty decent, you know,
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: so far as well. There's really no one where you
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: look at the American League and say, oh, yeah, it's
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: got to run through there, or it's run through these
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: six teams. So I think for the White Sox, yeah,
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: you know, I mean, I think they're young enough and
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: they're having enough fun and they're playing that well that
• 18:40
  Speaker 4: they don't care if people think like, oh, you're two
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: years ahead of the plan. You know, it was supposed
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: to be twenty eight when this team contended for the division,
• 18:47
  Speaker 4: not twenty six. So now again, it's forty six games in.
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: There's going to be a stretch where they don't play well.
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: There's going to be a stretch where they lose eight
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: have ten games, and how do they handle that. Do
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: they limit it to that run or does it you know,
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: become more of a twenty game thing. So but yeah,
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: I think the al Centro's went about Detroit is struggling.
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: They were the clear favorite. And you know schoobl is,
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: you know, working his way back to the surgery. Kansas
• 19:12
  Speaker 4: City is struggling, and they were another one of the favorites.
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: Cleveland's always there, you know. Cleveland is just one of
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: those teams that every year they find a way to
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: stay it's hot, you know, near the top of the vision.
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: And I think it's those four teams. But I think
• 19:23
  Speaker 4: the Socks have a shot. Again. People may think, like, oh,
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: you're overestimating forty six games, but I've seen the way
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: they've played and I think they can hang in there.
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: All right, last thing, we'll let you go. Obviously you've
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: made a few trips to Seattle. Is there anything that
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: you make sure that you do when you come to
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: our town? No?
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: Really, there really isn't. I mean, I think there's so
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: many times I don't I don't have a specific favorite.
• 19:47
  Speaker 4: I just kind of enjoy the city. But there's nothing
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: that I like circle. I mean, recommendations are great.
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: Okay, Well, I saw just on your profile that you're
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: a big rock and roll fan. What's the ash what's
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: that that museum, the Jimmy Hendricks.
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: Oh the why did I just blink on it?
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: Now?
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah? Mo pop, mo pop, MoPOP MoPOP. If you like music,
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: you're not too far away. It's it's here in downtown Seattle,
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: so you can go to MoPOP and you can get
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: some Jimmy Hendricks kind of museum and all sorts of
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: cool stuff there.
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: Sure, big Eagles guy, but that probably isn't in that.
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: But love Jimmy Hendricks.
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: All right, Scott, Well, maybe I'll see you out there
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: at the ballpark. Thank you very much for some time
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: this morning.
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: Okay, take care. Thank you.
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: Scott Murkin joining us right here on Chuck and Buck
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: in the morning. Of course, if you want to follow him,
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: very easy, just look up his name at Scott Murkin
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: m E R K I N. He works for MLB
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: dot com and been covering the White Sox for a
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: quarter century. And boy, he's had some he's had some
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: really rough moments mark years, but this team's been one
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: of the better stories in Major League Baseball. Unataka Morikami,
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: I mean, I can't believe that teams didn't take his
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: profile more seriously, including us. He just I don't know why.
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: I mean, just for years, can't wait until Mourakami's a
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: free agent, can't wait until he makes himself available. And
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: then he makes himself available, and then everybody in Major
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: League Baseball, including the Mariners, started second guessing his value
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: and maybe he strikes out too much and does he
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: have a position. All I know is that he just
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: punishes baseballs. That's what he does. And he's twenty five
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: years old, and so he's turned that entire organization around.
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it would have been nice to.
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: Have him, would have been nice.
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: I'm not at all sad that we don't.
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: I mean, we got Brendan Donovan, and I like Brendan Donnan.
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: He just hasn't been healthy. I think Brendan Donovan would
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: have had a much bigger impact on this season had
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: he stayed healthy. But he and it was that moment,
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: that moment he hit that bag awkwardly and he just
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: hasn't recovered from it, and so completely different players. But
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: I can't be too angry that we have Donovan. But
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: I mean I beat the drum for Murakami all off season.
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: You wouldn't have had to trade away any of your prospects,
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: you know, he didn't end up making a very big salary.
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: And the theory, the idea of having two potential fifty
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: homer hitters right back to back and Cal and Mourakami,
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: well you can see how baseball works. I mean, Cal's
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: lost and injured right now, but Murakami does definitely look
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: like a guy who's going to hit fifty home runs.
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it would.
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: I am definitely not mad we have Brendan Donovan. Would
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: have been nice to have Murakami as well.
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah, not Greedy.
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: Well, we would have had to probably decide maybe not
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: Josh Naylor. Then you probably had to decide between two
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: of the three. I don't think we would have gotten
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: all that.
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: I'll I'll keep Donovan and I just want him to
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: be healthy.
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: All right? Coming up next on the radio program, we
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: had a major golf tournament over the weekend, and there
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: are a lot of interesting things about it. Before it
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: was all said and done, we'll recap the PGA Championship.
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: Haven't even gotten Ashley's thoughts on at Sports Radio ninety
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: three point three kJ R F m oh So, is
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: it a wonderful golf weekend at the Medley Household?
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah, there was a lot of golf played by five iron,
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: a lot of golf watched by us as well.
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: Okay, how did he manage to do that? How did
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: he balance the two?
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: Well?
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: I think he just decided Saturday, I'm just gonna watch golf,
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: and then Sunday or sorry, Saturday, I'm just gonna play golf,
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: and then Sunday I'm gonna watch the crap.
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: Out of golf.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: Okay, I got it.
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: And he'd watched, you know, he'd been in Philadelphia, so
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: he watched on Thursday, and then he followed on the
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: line on and watched on Friday. So he just took
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: Saturday off to play twenty seven hole, No, thirty two holes,
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: thirty two. Yeah, he went he played eighteen in a
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: tournament and then they went out.
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: Then they went out for a whiskey nine or emergency nine.
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: And then he was coming home from that and he
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: ran into our neighbor and another friend and they're like, hey,
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: we're going to play a couple more. So he's like,
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: can I go play a couple more? It's like, I
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: don't care.
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: They sore after thirty two holes? Yeah, No, just used
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: to it.
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: But I used to it. Okay, just put a club
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: in his hand, and he's a happy camper.
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: Okay, So I don't want to give away anything about
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: our conversation with Derek Berg later on the show, But
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: how I mean, did he When you get eliminated from
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: your first ever major, do you is there an element
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: of I want to watch the tournament because this is
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: I might not be in another one. This is the
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: tournament that I was a part of, and I want
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: to see how it all went from beginning to end
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: or after you get cut from Friday. Yeah, you're like,
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: I don't want to watch any golf I want, I
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: have anything to do with golf. Don't even say the
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: word golf to me.
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: No, you want to watch?
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: For him Saturday, he traveled home the whole day.
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: But then one of the things I thought was interesting,
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: He said, you know, I thought some of the pin
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: placement was so hard, like they you know, you knew
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: it was going to be challenging, but they'd put it
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: like you'd go out in your practice Johns and think, oh,
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: I bet they'll put a pin over here or over there,
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: But they would put it like on the very edge
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: of where it would have been the hardest, making it
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: even harder and He kind of was like, what is happening? Yeah,
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: he said afterwards he was watching the interviews with some
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: of the guys who were talking about how difficult the
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: pin placement was, and he said, oh, thank god, it
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: wasn't just me.
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: Well, I guess they had to do that because the
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: course they chose has no hazards on it, or very
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: few hazards on it by comparison, and it's a major
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: So how are we going to make it more difficult?
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: We're going to have to make the pin placements impossible? Yes,
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: And I guess they were for everyone but Aaron Rye apparently.
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, And I looked.
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: I watched videos because five Iron was very into it.
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: Once Derek qualified, we were watching videos of about the course,
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: about the construction of the course, about the layout of
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: the course. I mean, all I kept thinking was the
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: amount of bunkers on this course. I would go from
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: one bunker to the next bunker, to the next bunker
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: to the next bunker. But then you have to remember
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: these guys, bunkers don't worry them. They're not like, oh God,
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: I hope I get out of the bunker like I am. Yeah,
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: and so it's just not Yeah, it's just part of
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: well and they're really good at avoiding them if they
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: want to as well. So that was I think that
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: was the one thing that stood out to me before
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: the tournament was how many bunkers there were, but then
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: during the tournament, how unimportant the bunkers really were.
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: Well, it was one of the closest tournaments that I
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: can remember. I mean, however they wherever they put the
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: holes and however it was constructed, it led to I
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: mean there was a one point, like I think like
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: seven golfers that were tied for the lead on Sunday.
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was exactly how you want a Sunday to go.
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: And then and then throughout the course of the tournament,
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: I mean it was just bunched together, just groups of guys.
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: There was at one point on Sunday early where there
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: was a giggling done by one of the broadcasters. Couldn't
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: tell you which one it was. Over look at this
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: leader board because it was Rory and Shoftley and Scheffler,
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: and so the ones that they had on the leader board,
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: they were like six names and like five were five
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: of the biggest names in the sport. And about fifteen
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: minutes later, not even exaggerating, like fifteen minutes later, it
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: was it was people that unless you follow golf, you've
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: never even heard of. Yeah, and they were the they
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: were the six that were were leading, or at least
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: five of the six. I think Olberg was consistently near
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: the top throughout the course of the weekend. But I mean,
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: the Aaron Rise of the world even. I mean, I
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: know we know Nick Taylor here, right, but I don't
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: think most golf fans.
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: It's not like he's won a bunch on the tour, right,
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: And all.
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: Fifteen minutes later it went from oh, I know all
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: of these guys, what kind of finish are we going
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: to have? Which is what the broadcaster was insinuating, versus Oh,
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: we're not going to have a big name coming down
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: the stretch, are we. It's gonna be somebody winning this
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: for the first time. And as a matter of fact,
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: it turned out to be just that. But it just
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: kept shifting. That leaderboard just kept shifting, the names just
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: kept changing all Saturday and all Sunday.
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was.
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: It wasn't fun to watch it in especially having that happen.
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: It was interesting though, because with Smally and the lead
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: on Saturday. I remember, I was like having a conversation
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: with myself, Well, yeah, I'd be happy for Smally to
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: win it for the first time.
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: I mean, it would be his first PGA Tour win
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: and what a win to get.
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: And then I thought, do I really want Smally to win?
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: I mean, especially considering his first name is Alex. But
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: every time I hear it, I'm like, Stuart Smiley is
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: all I think of.
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: Stuart Smalley small exactly, and gosh darn it, he's gonna
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: win the PGA, win the PGA Championship.
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: But that's like, that's the only thing I think of
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: whenever I hear his name. So I was like, do
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: I do I want that? Yes, it would be happy
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: for him, but that's not what you want in a major.
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: Is for somebody that most, you know, fringe golf fans
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: have never heard of.
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah wow. I mean, typically it is set up where
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: you know you've you're chasing down one guy throughout the weekend,
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: or you know, maybe it's a different guy on Sunday,
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: but there's one guy that's kind of the tone setter,
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: and then there's chasing, whether it's the underdog and the
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: well known guys chasing him or whatever the case might be.
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: But it was just amoebic. It just kept the leaderboard
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: just kept floating and little changing, and then all of
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: a sudden, Aaron Raye, as I mentioned earlier, gets to
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: like the final six holes of the turn and had
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: never won a major before, and a lot of people,
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: I'm sure thought that he was going to smally it, yeah,
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: and that he was going to start shrinking in the
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: moments as he's never been before. And he's like, no,
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: I'm going to hit about five of the greatest shots
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: I've hit my entire career, and I'm going to win
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: this thing. And that's exactly what he did.
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah, And it was incredible and his story is really
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: cool too.
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: I Mean, most golfers don't put covers on their irons,
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: but he puts covers on all his irons because where
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: he grew up, they didn't have a lot of money.
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: So when he got a set of golf clubs, it
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: was a very special moment.
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: So his dad would clean his golf clubs after every
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: time he played with like a toothpick, hm, and you know,
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: just make them pristine every time. And so he appreciated,
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: you know, these are clubs to be appreciated. So now
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: he has covers on all his irons because those are
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: clubs to be appreciated. And growing up in England and
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: it was cold weather, so he wore two gloves because
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: it had to keep his hands warm.
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: And that's the only thing I knew. Really, I didn't
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: know the.
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: Thing about the irons before this weekend, but I knew
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: Aaron Rye wears two gloves and that was strange to me.
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: But now I know it's because he warmed to keep
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: his hands warm, and then he just got comfortable with
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: that feeling.
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: So now he wears two gloves.
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, like Kurt Warner, like Teddy Bridgewater. There you go. Yeah, well,
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: well he was. He was very impressive, there's no question
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: about it. And what did he win? Twenty and a
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: half million dollars?
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: He won three point six nine million dollars so.
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: Okay, the pot was twenty yes, twenty all.
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: Right, read and he got seven hundred and fifty fed
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: X points which will help him a lot.
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, now now you can just you just
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: have a bag warmer. You can afford just about it,
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: and you can have like this, like you know, like
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: paper towels. You know, you can just pull your irons
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: one after a time, you just throw it away, just disposable.
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, you can do that.
• 31:46
  Speaker 4: Now.
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: I was curious.
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: I was going to say, see how much he'd won
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: on the PGA Tour before this weekend.
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: Well, let's see.
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: Well, he was a name. I mean, he's I mean,
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: he's always, I mean, he's in the tournaments. Is a
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: name that I think a lot of golf and somebody
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: like me and I'm fringe. You know, I watched the
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: majors and that's just about it that I recognize the
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: name Aaron Rye now and recognize the face Aaron Rye,
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: not just the name, but now everybody knows him. And
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: that was just so impressive what he did down the stretch.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it really really was.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So it was his second win on the tour.
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: He was a good one second went on the tour,
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: first major. Yeah, and yes, And Rory McElroy said afterwards,
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: I guess they were all saying it. I guess he's
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: one of the most likable people on the tour. So yeah,
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: good for him.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, great life changing moment too.
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  Speaker 3: I mean he'd made like sixteen million or twelve ish
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: million before, but to make that much in one day
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: and to now be a major champion, that is a
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: life changing moment.
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: And I just said that after the last major that
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: it just seems like it's always a big name that
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: now wins all the golf tournaments, and so it's nice
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: that that theory got blown up a little bit. Maybe
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: Aaron Rye now becomes a big name, but certainly he's
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: was off the radar as the tournament began, so congratulations
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: to him. We will hear from Derek Berg, local boy
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: who participated in the PGA Championship on Thursday and Friday,
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: a very good friend of Ashley's and five irons and
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: so he's going to be on the radio show in
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: the nine o'clock hour today coming up next though, it's
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: time to check on because we're cheeky like this O
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  Speaker 1: p Q. That's right, Other People's Quarterbacks Sports Radio ninety
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  Speaker 1: three point three KJRFM. Every once in a while, we
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: just gotta medal, We gotta get in people's business. We
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: got a gossip. We gotta sit around like a bunch
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: of fishwives.
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: Talking trash fishwives.
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: Uh huh.
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: I like that what it is. But I'm fascinated.
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: It is time to talk about other people's quarterbacks. We
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: do gossip, don't we? People be gossiping.
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: That's what the world spins around on gossip.
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: Well, there's only one quarterback to discuss here on this Monday.
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers is returning to the Pittsburgh Steelers. He agreed
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: to the term over the weekend and it is another
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: one year contract and he will spend the entire year
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: telling us that will be his last. But Aaron Rodgers
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: will return to the Pittsburgh Steelers for one more season.
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: He really did have a good, solid year a year ago.
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: He really did prove that he had a little football
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: left in the tank. I mean, you remember we were
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: kicking around the idea before Sam Darnold became a Seahawk
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: and we won the Super Bowl?
• 34:40
  Speaker 4: Did we?
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah that, you know, Aaron Rodgers I floated out. Nobody
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: liked it.
• 34:47
  Speaker 3: Yes, I shut it down right away. I said, that
• 34:49
  Speaker 3: is awful. I don't like it.
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: Almost every Seahawk fan hated the idea. But and so
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: number one, thank goodness because we got Sam. But number two,
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: he did prove he can still play quarterback a little
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: bit last year, but he's very conservative. I mean, he
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: throw only through seven interceptions a year ago to twenty
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: four touchdowns. He is he loves throwing the ball away.
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: I'll give him that. He just really loves throwing the
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: ball away and not taking sacks or at least taking
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: the three yard gain versus trying to throw it down
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: the field. But he ended up fourteenth and quarterback rating
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: this past year in the National Football League. Steelers didn't
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: have a better option. They're bringing him back at age
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: forty two, and they're getting him cheap. I mean, he's
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: making nearly twice as much as what he made a
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: year ago, but it's still just twenty three million dollars
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: a year. I mean, he's making a third of what
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: Dak Prescott will make this upcoming season. And I don't
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: think he's a third of the quarterback Dak Prescott is.
• 35:51
  Speaker 3: No, I think, even at age forty no. And I'm
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: good for the Steelers for getting him. I think that
• 35:59
  Speaker 3: they didn't have doubt. I don't know how long he
• 36:02
  Speaker 3: ended up having to hang out in Pittsburgh at the
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: Ketchup factory before he actually met with them, but I
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: think for them he is their best option.
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: Well, yeah, certainly at this point, I mean, when you
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: get to May and you still haven't locked in your
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: QB one. Yeah, there wasn't really a better option.
• 36:19
  Speaker 3: There wasn't, so I mean, but I don't think they
• 36:21
  Speaker 3: stressed about it at all, even as it was kind
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: of fodder for everybody else to talk about.
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: Like, oh God, what is Aaron Rodgers doing now here?
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: He is just but and I think that's what Aaron
• 36:31
  Speaker 3: Rodgers loves is let the rumor mills start driving itself
• 36:34
  Speaker 3: crazy and all sorts of things circulating. And maybe there's
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: other teams telling them how much they love him, or
• 36:39
  Speaker 3: maybe the Steelers are telling them how much they love
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: them love him, But it didn't seem to me like
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: the Steelers were going out of their way to make
• 36:45
  Speaker 3: sure he knew how much they love him.
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: Well, I think that's part of the relationship. I think
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: that's part of the like, we're not going to sit
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: here in fawn all over you this entire offseason. We
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: want you back, We've told you we want you back.
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: The ball's really in your court. And he does everything
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: on his timeline. He went into Pittsburgh. I guess at
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: some point he did meet with Mike McCarthy and he's
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: going to show up at OTAs, and those are volunteer,
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: by the way, And so he's going to show up
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: at OTAs. He's not going to go to Egypt or
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: Malaysia or Nepaul. He's going to actually during OTAs, show
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: up with his football team. They also have a very
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: crowded quarterback room. Now, I mean there are a lot
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: of teams still to this day just have two quarterbacks
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: on their roster. Who are the Steelers going to cut
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: to get it down to three. We've heard this entire
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: time how much they love Will Howard and so I
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: would assume he's not going anywhere. And they just spent
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: a third round pick on Drew Aller and his you know, babyface,
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: So I got to assume he's not going to go anywhere.
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: So either Mason Rudolph's going to be out and they're
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: going to go with the forty two year old and
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: the two kids, or the Steelers are going to carry
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: four quarterbacks on their roster, which is just something that's
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: very few teams. I mean, the Browns did it last year.
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: But the Steelers are never going to compare themselves to
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: the Browns ineptitude? Are they?
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: I would hope not.
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: Well. The Browns didn't look how well that worked for them,
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: So I don't know. We shall see on that front.
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: But you know what, the thing that really does stand
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: out to me is, and I get I get it,
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: it's professional football. You really, I'm sure you really do
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: have to be, especially when you've got a lot of
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: years invested in this, you probably do need time in
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: the off season to try to figure out do I
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: want to do this again? The amount of energy and
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: effort and focus and you've got to be one hundred
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: percent in on this, And I don't want to do
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: myself a disservice. I don't want to do this Steelers
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: a disservice. I don't want to do my teammates a
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: disservice by just signing a contract when I'm not one
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: hundred percent. So maybe veterans like Aaron Rodgers do need
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: the entire offseason to try to figure that out. I'm
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: not going to underestimate how difficult that is to talk
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: yourselves into doing it. But man, there are just some guys.
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: I mean, I remember Barry Bonds, like ten years before
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: he actually retired, telling us, yeah, I'm not gonna do
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: this very long I'm not going to be an old man.
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: I'm not gonna be one of those guys. That's for sure.
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: I'm not gonna be it. And then ten years later,
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: forty four years old, coming off a drug scandal that
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: he played his way through, and he's still like, why
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: won't anybody sign me? He's still like, where was the
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: guy ten years ago that said I'm I'm not gonna
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: stick around much longer. I'm not going to get old
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: playing this game. And Aaron Rodgers was the same way.
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: I mean, we were hearing this from him seven eight
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: years ago. I'm not going to be that guy. I
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: got way too many interests out there to hold on
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: to play football.
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: You've still got it, You've still got it. We still
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: see your talent. Okay, one more here and.
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: Here he is forty two, and he's gonna tell everybody
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: this is it. This is going to be the last year,
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: but we shall see. The league seems to be more
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: interesting with Aaron Rodgers involved. I would agree with that,
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: and he certainly grabs headlines still to this day. And
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: he still is sort of a wizard mentally when he
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: plays football, and he even has to be even more
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: so today because he's lost a little bit off his
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: fastball as a football player. But I think the Steelers
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: are more interesting with Aaron Rodgers as their quarterback. So
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: I'm glad this has happened. Yeah, for the league's sake.
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: I would agree it does. I mean, you know me,
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: I love drama.
• 40:33
  Speaker 3: I love to potentially get out my popcorn and follow along,
• 40:36
  Speaker 3: and I think Aaron Rodgers hasn't been as much drama
• 40:39
  Speaker 3: as since going to the Steelers. There's always that opportunity,
• 40:43
  Speaker 3: which is why I keep paying attention.
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: M Yeah, well he went to the Jets, he went
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: as a savior. Yeah, and then now with the Steelers,
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: I think it's a little more palatable. It's like he's
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: our best option. Yes.
• 40:54
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they know what they're signing up for and they know.
• 40:58
  Speaker 3: They're like, we're not thinking we're going to stay super
• 41:00
  Speaker 3: Bowl with Aaron Rodgers, but we want to win some games,
• 41:03
  Speaker 3: all right.
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: Coming up next on this radio program, now that we've
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: delved into OPQ other people's quarterbacks, it's now time to
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: chat with one of our own. Spencer Halles will be
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: joining us. He's been joining us every week once per
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: week throughout the NBA playoffs, and it seems like the
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: right time to put him in the game on a Monday,
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: since we are starting the conference finals tonight. Sports Radio
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