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5-19 H2: Angie Mentink Joins, Reading Your Texts & Cross Talk · The Gregg Bell Show

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  Speaker 2: All right, it's time to catch up with a friend,
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  Speaker 2: Angie Mentink.
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  Speaker 1: She is one.
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  Speaker 2: Of the analysis experts, one of your analysts for the
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  Speaker 2: Mariners broadcast on Mariners TV, and we welcome her to
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  Speaker 2: the show this morning.
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  Speaker 1: Angie, Good morning.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning, Ashley.
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  Speaker 1: How are we great?
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  Speaker 2: I bet you're happy that I am asking you to
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  Speaker 2: join us at eleven o'clock and not eight o'clock like
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  Speaker 2: I usually do.
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  Speaker 4: Yep, I am.
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  Speaker 3: I'm really happy you. You guys should really should have
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  Speaker 3: opened you know, like with this with me, it's like, hey,
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  Speaker 3: how does eleven sound happy.
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  Speaker 4: To do it?
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  Speaker 5: I should have it?
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  Speaker 4: Versus can you.
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  Speaker 3: Join us tomorrow?
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  Speaker 4: Like what is she?
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  Speaker 2: Like?
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  Speaker 3: What time are we talking about?
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to leave it open for you. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know how busy you are these days.
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  Speaker 3: Today is a better day than tomorrow. The day games
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  Speaker 3: just absolutely rattle me. I mean like everything UH speeds
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  Speaker 3: up on me literally, like it's like second batter of
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  Speaker 3: the game and I'm still setting my defenses.
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  Speaker 2: When you said that, for some reason, of course, I know,
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  Speaker 2: I immediately my head went to game changer. You're trying
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  Speaker 2: to set the game changer lineup and you are on
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  Speaker 2: baseball you know what game changers?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, All of a sudden, I was like having game
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  Speaker 1: changer flashbacks.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know if anybody is going to make anybody.
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  Speaker 3: Feel better or worse, but my husband and and his
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  Speaker 3: UH is a professor at SPU, and they did like
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  Speaker 3: an analysis of game changer, just like random thousand games
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  Speaker 3: or something like that. And like, you know, because you
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  Speaker 3: have the home team and away team, and like they
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  Speaker 3: I think it was like they never match.
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  Speaker 1: I was gonna say, I doubt they did hit was it?
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  Speaker 3: And then they cross reference it with like if a kid,
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  Speaker 3: this is so bad. If a kid had the same
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  Speaker 3: name as the coach, then it was just like, oh god,
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  Speaker 3: that kid, like like what that kid got like hits
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  Speaker 3: and and everything else.
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  Speaker 4: It was just it was a So.
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  Speaker 3: What I'm saying is just take your game changer stats
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  Speaker 3: with the grain of salts.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, yes you know, and don't read the recap the
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  Speaker 2: AI recap it means nothing.
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  Speaker 3: I love it, though, Oh my god, I'm like, what
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  Speaker 3: you got three hits?
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  Speaker 1: Yet I know it is fun.
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  Speaker 2: You can you do feel a sense of pride, and
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  Speaker 2: then you ignore it though when it says when it
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  Speaker 2: doesn't give your kid the proper status, you're like.
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  Speaker 1: Game changer that.
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  Speaker 4: I was like, that's a bunch of crap.
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  Speaker 2: Oh gosh, see, it's nice to be able to talk
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  Speaker 2: about game changer something frustrating before we talk about other
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  Speaker 2: things that are frustrating. Although last night we did get
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  Speaker 2: a win, but how are you handling like this roller
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  Speaker 2: coaster we are on right now?
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  Speaker 1: To start this Mariner season. I mean, we get swept.
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  Speaker 2: By the Royals, we win against the Braves, we lose
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  Speaker 2: to the White Sox, we eat the Astros, we're swept
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  Speaker 2: by the Padres.
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  Speaker 1: I mean it is the epitome of a roller coaster.
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  Speaker 3: This is this is I go like, this is the
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  Speaker 3: mental equivalent of like pulling my hamstring stopping, yanking my quad,
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  Speaker 3: pulling my hamstring, like I'm like sprinting stopping, sprinting stopping.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I can't do this anymore at my age.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, this is sid but you know I just
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  Speaker 3: do I really and I think everybody would agree. Like
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  Speaker 3: when you look at the division. I said this last night,
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  Speaker 3: it's like, you know, this White Sox team's a good team.
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  Speaker 3: They played in the West, they'd be in first place. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: But at the same time, like the Mariners are the
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  Speaker 3: best team. Okay, maybe they haven't put it all together yet.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, I'm not We used to make jokes
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  Speaker 3: or like all right, you know, if you're in the
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  Speaker 3: it's early crowd, drink you know every time we say it.
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  Speaker 3: But there are some signs that things are starting to
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  Speaker 3: come together. And I'm liking, you know what, I'm starting
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  Speaker 3: to see I'm totally fascinated, like fascinated, like hands, you know,
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  Speaker 3: just catching my chin right now, like to see what
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  Speaker 3: happens tonight with the piggyback.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, it's I.
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  Speaker 3: Mean, you know, the marriage can tell you. They know
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  Speaker 3: that they have an idea of what they hope is
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  Speaker 3: going to happen. But like everybody is curious about how
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  Speaker 3: this is going to to play out, and I hope,
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  Speaker 3: I hope it goes well.
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  Speaker 4: I love stuff like this.
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  Speaker 3: I love it when the game kind of like tries
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  Speaker 3: different things, like when the Rays, like you know.
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  Speaker 4: Started with the openers and stuff, I'm like, yeah, do it.
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  Speaker 3: I love it. Spring it on, yeah, exactly, mix it up,
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  Speaker 3: you know, get spicy. So yeah, I'm really I'm really
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  Speaker 3: curious to see how this works. And I hope it
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  Speaker 3: can just be because that's.
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  Speaker 4: What it can do.
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  Speaker 3: It can be a win win.
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  Speaker 4: You know, you have the six starters.
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  Speaker 3: Whenever you have six starters, now you lose a bullpen arm,
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  Speaker 3: you know, so how's this gonna go?
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  Speaker 1: And then you have.
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  Speaker 3: Guys you know that are they're playing first starts and
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  Speaker 3: stats and you know, if you did six you know,
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  Speaker 3: starters throughout the year, they're gonna have more less everything,
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  Speaker 3: less strikeouts, less innings, you know, and you know you
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  Speaker 3: can have your agent point to well, they're on a
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  Speaker 3: six man starter, but you know, you get paid off
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  Speaker 3: of what you do, and so like you know, I
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  Speaker 3: knew from talking to the mirrors that was not going
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  Speaker 3: to be a long term solution. But it'll be interesting
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  Speaker 3: to see, like I said, how this how this whole
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  Speaker 3: thing plays out, It could be fantastic. And then you
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  Speaker 3: give the bullpen like if you could if this works
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  Speaker 3: out really well, an entire day off.
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  Speaker 1: Like hello, win win ding ding.
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  Speaker 3: I love it. You know, this is great, especially you
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  Speaker 3: know with with UH they've been taxed recently, so it'll
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  Speaker 3: be good. Totally, let's do it.
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  Speaker 6: And you where are you at with Dan Wilson and
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  Speaker 6: how things have gone for him so far this season?
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  Speaker 6: And a lot of fans are bringing out the pitchforks
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  Speaker 6: and they were being very critical where yes the trident?
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  Speaker 6: Where do you stand in that that Dan Wilson? Where
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  Speaker 6: this team is at and where they could be and
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  Speaker 6: should be going.
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  Speaker 4: This is it's.
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  Speaker 3: It's so unfortunate, you know, this is this is the
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  Speaker 3: life of a manager. I thought it was crazy. I
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  Speaker 3: was like are you kidding me? Dan, You're like the
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  Speaker 3: most beloved guy in the whole entire world. Like you
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  Speaker 3: want to go and manage you know, that stress and
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  Speaker 3: that chaos because even if you, you know, make all
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  Speaker 3: the right decisions, like people just don't even notice.
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  Speaker 1: Like he's had a few.
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  Speaker 3: Games and where were we and I was like everything
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  Speaker 3: he did worked out like it was it was like
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  Speaker 3: and nobody.
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  Speaker 1: Went like Dan Wilson won the game.
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  Speaker 4: You know, nobody said that.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, so every time something doesn't work out,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you know, God love Rob Revsneider, like he
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  Speaker 3: has you flip over the baseball card. He has been
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  Speaker 3: really good at this he this year it is.
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  Speaker 1: Not worked out.
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  Speaker 2: I'm the first player that is what happened to totally.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, baseball doesn't do anything I say this,
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  Speaker 3: you know often unless it pencils out. Like you know,
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  Speaker 3: people were whining about the shift and like at at
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  Speaker 3: one time.
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  Speaker 4: That the ball was hit where the shortstop should be.
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  Speaker 4: They're like, look, it doesn't work, and it's like, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: but did you see the Rover take away three?
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  Speaker 3: You know, extra base hits in the gap, Like you
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  Speaker 3: have to understand, like baseball is looking at the numbers.
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  Speaker 3: It's there's why they banned it because it was so good.
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  Speaker 3: You know, the knee down catching, like everything they do
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  Speaker 3: is because it works. And you know when you look
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  Speaker 3: at a platoon statistically, it does.
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  Speaker 5: You know work.
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  Speaker 3: It's like the Mariners in their first pitch strikes. I
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  Speaker 3: guess every once in a while, like the opponent's going to.
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  Speaker 1: Ambush a fact and you're like, oh my gosh, like
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  Speaker 1: why is he?
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  Speaker 4: You know, why is he in the zone?
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  Speaker 3: It's like, over the course of the season, that is
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  Speaker 3: going to be a successful approach towards the game. You know,
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  Speaker 3: you can't look at just one pitch and one outcome.
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  Speaker 3: And unfortunately, you know, because guys have and there's a
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  Speaker 3: lot of guys in this lineup that've gotten off to
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  Speaker 3: a slow start. But you know, we want to point well,
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  Speaker 3: those guys went to the WBC and so like, why
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  Speaker 3: isn't this happening? I mean, you don't pick up where
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  Speaker 3: you left off last year. You know, it's a process.
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  Speaker 3: And then at the end of one sixty two you
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  Speaker 3: look at where you are.
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  Speaker 4: And so Dan believes in these guys and he wants them.
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  Speaker 3: To know, you know, I believe in you and and
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  Speaker 3: this is what you're good at, and I'm going to
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  Speaker 3: continue to put you.
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  Speaker 4: In positions to succeed even if you don't.
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  Speaker 3: You know, he's looking at you know, what's your process, like,
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  Speaker 3: what what are your swings?
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  Speaker 1: Like?
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  Speaker 4: You know, I looked at at cold Emerson.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure you know, maybe probably.
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  Speaker 3: But like every single at bad to that home run
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  Speaker 3: was a good at that.
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  Speaker 4: Like it was, they were good swings.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, even though he got down O two in
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  Speaker 3: like nearly every one of them, in fact, that slapped him.
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  Speaker 4: In the shoulder. I was like, like, I love it.
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  Speaker 4: Stop getting down oh two.
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  Speaker 3: He was I know, right, Like.
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  Speaker 1: I mean even his first game he had great at bats.
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  Speaker 3: I do put like his first at bat, oh two, boom,
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  Speaker 3: and then he still lined out to right field.
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  Speaker 4: Then he walked. You know, yeah, he.
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  Speaker 3: Wasn't behind in that account that at that at any point.
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  Speaker 4: And then his next.
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  Speaker 3: Step bat O two again, and then he was oh
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  Speaker 3: two again yesterday. But like every single time, he's putting
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  Speaker 3: together a really good quality at bat. And that's what
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  Speaker 3: you have to look at.
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  Speaker 4: You can't get so caught up and you know this
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  Speaker 4: person didn't get a hit.
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  Speaker 7: It's about the quality of the at bat and and
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  Speaker 7: look a little bit, you know, deeper, And that's what
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  Speaker 7: they're doing because they know that eventually the success and
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  Speaker 7: the numbers will come.
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  Speaker 2: Well, and ANDREI, I think it's interesting because, uh, you know,
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  Speaker 2: when we get a win, you look at the whole
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  Speaker 2: the big moments, the excite moments, and you're like, oh that,
• 10:01
  Speaker 2: you know, look at that win.
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  Speaker 1: All of this came together and we got the win.
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  Speaker 2: Whereas versus a loss, it's you're gonna nitpick all of
• 10:06
  Speaker 2: these different little things. And I have no problem with
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  Speaker 2: a platoon at all. I do question at times, you know,
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  Speaker 2: pulling Luke Rayley earlier in the game just because of
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  Speaker 2: that lefty righty matchup that we're so obsessed with. And
• 10:21
  Speaker 2: so my question for I brought this up yesterday with Chuck.
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  Speaker 2: I think, you know, at times, we're everybody's playing checkers.
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  Speaker 2: Everyone in Major League Baseball is playing checkers, just simple
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  Speaker 2: moves here and there.
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  Speaker 1: You're just the feel of the game. You're playing the game.
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  Speaker 2: But it seems like at times the Mariners want to
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  Speaker 2: overcomplicate things. We want to react, we want to play chess,
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  Speaker 2: and we want to try to outsmart somebody else. But
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  Speaker 2: in reality, we're just ending up reacting to the moves
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  Speaker 2: they're making versus being proactive.
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  Speaker 1: Would you agree with that or disagree with that?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I'm I'm a big fan of Luke
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  Speaker 3: Railey and his numbers in the minor leagues against lefties,
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  Speaker 3: you know, they were pretty good. And I but I
• 11:01
  Speaker 3: asked him, I said, like, hey, are you like getting
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  Speaker 3: on the traject And remember the trajector is a machine
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  Speaker 3: that can mimic any pitcher, any armslot within like you know,
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  Speaker 3: a half of centimeter of what they really do. And
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  Speaker 3: I was like, are you getting on that trajecton just
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  Speaker 3: like grinding against lefties? And he goes no, because they're
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  Speaker 3: not going to put me in those positions. So like
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  Speaker 3: why would I kind of waste my time preparing for
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  Speaker 3: something that's not going to occur, you know. And that's
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  Speaker 3: the danger of like, you know, major League Baseball is
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  Speaker 3: like sort of once you know you are that guy
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  Speaker 3: that they say, like, you know, you, we haven't seen
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  Speaker 3: this success of you know, for you against left handed pitching,
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  Speaker 3: so we're going to you know, we're going to put
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  Speaker 3: a guy that's really good at that in those positions.
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  Speaker 3: And you see, like a guy like Cole Young. It's
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  Speaker 3: like what comes first, you know, the chicken or the egg.
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  Speaker 3: It's like he's a young player and even though like
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  Speaker 3: you can go well, the reason why is because he
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  Speaker 3: faced all these lefties in spring training and he grinded
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  Speaker 3: against him and he had some success, and so now
• 12:02
  Speaker 3: they're allowing him to see lefties, right, But it's also
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  Speaker 3: because he's young, Like you look at his age versus
• 12:08
  Speaker 3: you look at Luke Greeley's age, and it's just kind
• 12:10
  Speaker 3: of like the same thing with Luis Ketto.
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  Speaker 4: They don't gonna stick Louis quest to you in the bullpen.
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  Speaker 8: I mean, yes, he's in the bullpens next, but but
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  Speaker 8: you know he is He's he is not a spring chicken,
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  Speaker 8: you know, And so you know, you have these these
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  Speaker 8: situations and that was the big reason why.
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  Speaker 3: Like me, and you know, if you're an idiot right
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  Speaker 3: there with me on that bus, like cool where we
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  Speaker 3: can't wait to see cold Emerson, They're like be patient,
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  Speaker 3: Like no, bring up cold Emerson.
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  Speaker 4: They're like they really.
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  Speaker 3: Wanted him to face left handed pitching because they didn't
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  Speaker 3: want a situation where they you know, he came up
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  Speaker 3: here and then they had to hit you know, a
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  Speaker 3: right handed bat. You know, they wanted him to be
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  Speaker 3: able to succeed in those situations. So so yeah, I
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  Speaker 3: mean it is I hear you, and I don't disagree
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  Speaker 3: with what you're saying, but I feel like it's one
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  Speaker 3: of those things that if Dan doesn't go to Rob Refsteiner,
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  Speaker 3: because I think he's such a guy that believes in
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  Speaker 3: his players. It's not that he doesn't believe in Luke Rayley,
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  Speaker 3: but if he doesn't go to Rob Refsneinder, he's telling
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  Speaker 3: Rob Brethstneiner, I don't believe in you.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: I know this is what you're.
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  Speaker 3: Supposed to do, and if I don't put you in
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  Speaker 3: that situation, you don't believe in me, you know, and
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  Speaker 3: my ability to do that.
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  Speaker 1: So all right, I like that explanation makes sense to me.
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  Speaker 6: Angie. What does it say about the organization that veterans
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  Speaker 6: like JP Crawford and even Julio embraced Emmerson despite the
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  Speaker 6: pressure of roster implications surrounding his arrival.
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  Speaker 4: I love this question.
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  Speaker 3: I like and I didn't talk about it on the broadcast,
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  Speaker 3: but like, my heart exploded when I saw JP Crawford
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  Speaker 3: there to create Colt Emerson with the trident.
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  Speaker 4: Let's be real, this is a human being.
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  Speaker 1: He knows who that guy is.
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  Speaker 3: He knew who that guy was when they signed that contract.
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  Speaker 3: They told you play out your contract.
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  Speaker 4: We appreciate everything you've done for us and have at it.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I mean that, that's what that means. Like
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  Speaker 3: he's human, he's he is a guy that has been
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  Speaker 3: successful his entire career, and like stuff like that hurts.
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  Speaker 5: You know.
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  Speaker 3: I understand this is business and everything else, but for
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  Speaker 3: him to be there to celebrate Colt and be the
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  Speaker 3: guy the hands of his first tried and I thought
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  Speaker 3: was just like a really cool thing.
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  Speaker 1: And I know what is for for a just.
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  Speaker 3: A human what was going on in his head? And
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  Speaker 3: he was still there and he still did it? Good
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  Speaker 3: for you, JP loved it.
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  Speaker 2: It was a neat moment, and yeah, you just I
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  Speaker 2: think one of the things that keeps getting talked about
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  Speaker 2: with Luis Casillo with JP Crawford is you know, well,
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  Speaker 2: they don't want to hurt feelings. I don't think these
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  Speaker 2: guys are getting their feelings hurt. They recognize, you know,
• 15:01
  Speaker 2: we're all a part of a team and we all
• 15:02
  Speaker 2: have our role to play.
• 15:04
  Speaker 1: And I think too.
• 15:05
  Speaker 2: Much is getting put on the emotions of these players
• 15:08
  Speaker 2: who and I don't think it's giving them enough credit
• 15:11
  Speaker 2: for being the athletes that they are and the teammates
• 15:13
  Speaker 2: that they are.
• 15:15
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and this.
• 15:16
  Speaker 3: Starting rotation, you know, going back to Luis Castillo and
• 15:19
  Speaker 3: focusing on that part of it, it's like something I've
• 15:22
  Speaker 3: never seen in the whatever. I mean, I started when
• 15:25
  Speaker 3: I was twelve covering this team, so twenty six, twenty
• 15:28
  Speaker 3: seven years whatever that I've been doing it since then,
• 15:31
  Speaker 3: I've never seen anything like the sharing of information. You know.
• 15:39
  Speaker 3: Usually starting pitchers are like, I do this and it
• 15:42
  Speaker 3: makes me successful, and the last thing I'm going to
• 15:44
  Speaker 3: do is show you how I do it and explain
• 15:46
  Speaker 3: the intricacies of how I get it done. But that's
• 15:50
  Speaker 3: just not the case with this this starting staff. They're
• 15:53
  Speaker 3: just so open and they're so helpful to each other,
• 15:56
  Speaker 3: and they and it's just it's not something that you
• 16:00
  Speaker 3: often see around baseball. And again, like in all my
• 16:03
  Speaker 3: years covering this team and others, I just haven't seen
• 16:06
  Speaker 3: a group that's like this one, you know, and most
• 16:09
  Speaker 3: of it's because a lot of those guys came up together. Yeah,
• 16:12
  Speaker 3: But and obviously not with Castillo Casus, you know the vet,
• 16:15
  Speaker 3: but he certainly has has been like, you know, let
• 16:19
  Speaker 3: me show you the way.
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: I do feel like we're so lucky as Seattle fans
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: because we have this not only with the Mariners, but
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: with the Seahawks too. Right, you heard so much about
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: how close they all were together, So it's it's really
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: fun to watch and speaking of that closeness or how
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: things might shift or how things might change, I just
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: have one more question for you before we let you go.
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: How do you see all of this playing out once
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: Brendan Donovan comes back from the IL, Like, where do
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: you see Colt Emerson be staying?
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: Do you see it making a shift for JP? Where
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: do you see it going?
• 16:46
  Speaker 9: Yeah?
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: No, I think they're going to you know, whenever JP
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: gets the day off and he doesn't take very many
• 16:53
  Speaker 3: you know historically but also historically like that was my
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: demo was on this team for so long too, because
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: he was the only guy that could play shortstop. So
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: I think that whenever JP does get a day off,
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: that's when you'll see Colt slide over there.
• 17:11
  Speaker 4: And like there was a play last night.
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: I was wondering even you know, just again that the
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: little evil thing that sits on my shoulder. I was like,
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: you know, JP spun around and and through just sort
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: of up the line, and I was like, I wonder,
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: I wonder, I wonder if Colt would make that.
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, when it went just past Naylor towards the dugout, Yeah, yeah,
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: again I flicked a little devil off my shoulder.
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: But it was a great athletic. It was a great athletic.
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: He just contentis.
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: Yeah, And so I think Colt is going to stay
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: there at third.
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: It is way too much to ask. Colt does have the.
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: Versatility to play all over the infield, okay, but I
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: think they're going to ask Brendan Donovan to do that
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: because Brendan Donovan, you know, is a veteran player and
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: he can take that that mind mess of having to
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: to you know, bring all your gloves.
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: And and and process the game.
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: Okay, I'm over at second base, and what are my responsibilities?
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: And if he squares, where am I going? And you know,
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: just sort of all those things. That's just too much
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: to ask for Colt. Emerson's talented, and as mature as
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: this kid is, that guy just needs to sit at
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: third base make fantastic place that one to second base
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: where he used the ground and bounced it.
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: I mean, yes, like love it.
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: That's just that's just high baseball, IQ, you know what
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: I mean, like not trying to do too much, just
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: make the smart play.
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: Just did the smart thing.
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: So so yeah, I think he's just gonna sit there
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: at third and then if JP gets a day off,
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: you know, we're all gonna look sideways at each other
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: and raise our eyebro you know when when we see
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: him play some fun stuffy yeah it is, it'll be fun.
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: But yeah, so that's what I that's what I see happening.
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: And because you know, as good as Colt has been,
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: you know at second base, and don is a fantastic
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: second basement and he's it's kind of the the Mark Maclamore,
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: Stan Javier. You know, I'm bringing it back to.
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you are one.
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: Where you know exactly where Brendan Donnon can go everywhere
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: and give everybody a day off. And I think I
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: think that's going to be a system that works.
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: Well, I'm excited to see what happens tonight with this
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: piggybacking situation. I'm excited that cold Emerson is up and
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: we'll see how it all plays out. And I appreciate
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: you joining us this morning. Anything for you, esh oh,
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: thank you, thank you. That is Angie Mentink Mariner's TV
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: just one of the absolute best and I just love
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: getting to talk to her and pick her brain a
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: little bit. We are going to be picking the brain
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: of brains, multiple brains of our listeners. We asked you
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: a question earlier in the show. Have you ever had
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: an opportunity to live out your sports dream or even
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: live it vicariously through someone else. Have you ever seen
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: something in person that was kind of a dream come
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: true for you? You can text us on the Tacoma
• 19:55
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• 19:57
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• 19:59
  Speaker 2: We're gonna go over the though texts coming up at
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: Sports Radio ninety three three KJRFM.
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: Sports Radio ninety three three.
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: Kjr FM Ashley Ryan Christopher Kidd in for Greg Bell,
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: who was attending his daughter's graduation from the Coast Guard
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: Academy this week. He will be back on Friday, so
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: you'll have us today us tomorrow, Benton. Say it correctly, though,
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: Christopher Kid, Because I failed it, Mike Benton. There you go,
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: Mike Benton on Thursday, and then Greg back here on Friday.
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: So we have been asking the question, what is your
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: greatest sports achievement? What is the moment you got to
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: live out that was kind of your sports dream. I
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: suppose it didn't have to be just sports related, though,
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: because I love this one on the YouTube chat from
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: Tahoe Jeff, who said, not sports, but I lived down
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: a dream by winning Wheel of Fortune in May of
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: twenty sixteen.
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: That's pretty cool, very cool.
• 20:53
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: I feel like I would get so close to winning
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: Wheel of Fortune and then I'd land on bankrupt and
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: lose it all.
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: That would be my luck.
• 21:00
  Speaker 6: From the two six great stories on realizing big time moments.
• 21:04
  Speaker 6: Thanks for sharing this brings up My son shares both
• 21:08
  Speaker 6: of your stories. His first love is football, but realizing
• 21:11
  Speaker 6: track is his thing. Four hundred four bar four hundred
• 21:14
  Speaker 6: four bar one hundred. You would have gone to State
• 21:16
  Speaker 6: this year as a sophomore, but he got injured.
• 21:19
  Speaker 5: Oh sad?
• 21:20
  Speaker 6: Or is he saying that I was?
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: He's saying he would have? I think well maybe, Okay.
• 21:24
  Speaker 6: Nonetheless, we went to California over spring break to see
• 21:27
  Speaker 6: several campuses. When he saw the Colisseum, he said, right
• 21:31
  Speaker 6: then and there, he wants to go to USC and
• 21:33
  Speaker 6: maybe with focus on training for track, he becomes a dream.
• 21:37
  Speaker 6: That's a possibility. I will share your guys' stories tonight.
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: I mean, I fully get it.
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: As I said, I saw the Aquatic Center, but when
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: I walked to the Coliseum it was dark, like the
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: just the stadium itself was lit up, but there was
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: no one there, and I was standing outside the gates
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: and I was like, I'm coming here. Yeah, I'm coming here.
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: So I get that feeling when you see the coliseum.
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: It kind of gives you those goosebumps. We got this
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: one from the two o six attended Super Bowl? Is
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: that sixty Yeah, trip of a lifetime. So they just
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: went to see the Seahawks win the Super Bowl. Yeah,
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: that'd be pretty fun, sure would was Is that on.
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: Your bucket list to go see the Seahawks and the
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: Super Bowl?
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: Might either I.
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: Want to watch it at home?
• 22:16
  Speaker 5: I don't. Yeah, that's that's a lot. Yeah.
• 22:18
  Speaker 6: I can only imagine the headache of doing all that,
• 22:20
  Speaker 6: But once you get there, it's probably great and then
• 22:23
  Speaker 6: getting out is another headache. But don't be so yeah,
• 22:26
  Speaker 6: I'm done talking about that. How about this from the
• 22:28
  Speaker 6: cakes Fair final leg of the four times four forty
• 22:32
  Speaker 6: in junior high set the school record for the four
• 22:35
  Speaker 6: forty fifty four point five. It'll never be broken, all right, flex.
• 22:39
  Speaker 5: All oh wow that is Yeah.
• 22:41
  Speaker 6: I'm only top ten in long jump and some kid
• 22:44
  Speaker 6: just moved me out of top I was number six,
• 22:47
  Speaker 6: now number seven, so shout out to I have to
• 22:49
  Speaker 6: look his name, but yeah, he just moved me. I
• 22:51
  Speaker 6: was number six behind Joey Foguson and now number seven. Yeah,
• 22:55
  Speaker 6: because this kid jumped twenty one to eight and I'm
• 22:57
  Speaker 6: just like, great.
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: That is the That's some athleticism, That's what I'll say. Yeah.
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: From the four two five high school swimmer ten thousand
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: to fifteen thousand yards in two days during winter breaks, grinding,
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: and I got to swim in state at Federal Way.
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: I've that's where all the state championships happened in Federal Way.
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so very cool moment for that listener. I am
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: sure you got another one over there.
• 23:20
  Speaker 6: Yes from Lee out of the three six to oh.
• 23:23
  Speaker 6: I coached cross country and track for many years. There
• 23:26
  Speaker 6: are two moments that come to mind seeing one of
• 23:28
  Speaker 6: our runners go to Stanford on scholarship, become an NCAA
• 23:32
  Speaker 6: All American and eventually compete in Olympic marathon trials. And secondly,
• 23:37
  Speaker 6: seeing a different kid join the Navy and break all
• 23:40
  Speaker 6: training records in boot camp and eventually see him become
• 23:44
  Speaker 6: a medic embedded with sealed teams and earn the honor
• 23:47
  Speaker 6: of being named top medic in the country in one year.
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: That actually just gave me chills.
• 23:51
  Speaker 5: That one.
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: That is very cool.
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: I like that, and that's why I was saying, it
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: doesn't have to be something you achieved, because as a
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: coach or as a mentor, you know you can live
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: those moments when you see the people that you were
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: training and you were helping. I think as a parent
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: it can be the same way. We got this one
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: from the two five to three. I was a late bloomer,
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: didn't start playing sports until my junior year of high school.
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: But as a father, I've made sure to give all
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: of my children every opportunity I never had. My proudest
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: moment came when my oldest son joined the South Hill
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: Little League team in the seniors division two years ago.
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: We ended up winning districts and went on to play
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: in the state tournament. My son came in with two
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: runners on and no outs and ended up saving the
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: game with just.
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: A one run lead.
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: The real proud dad moment came though, in the state
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: championships game at Funco Field, tie ballgame bottom six. He
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: comes up to bat and absolutely smokes one to dead
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: center field and one hopped the fence to walk it
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: off and send our team to Oakland for the Little
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: League World Series.
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: Again, chills like these are all just awesome.
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: Like I feel like I'm getting to see I'm visualizing
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: what you're telling us, and it's so cool.
• 24:48
  Speaker 6: From the two six kid, the story was awesome. I
• 24:52
  Speaker 6: made it to state in the sixteen hundred and you
• 24:55
  Speaker 6: just brought back some fantastic memories. Congrats on that, even
• 24:58
  Speaker 6: though it happened way back in high school.
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: Still very cool.
• 25:02
  Speaker 5: You got darn right, man.
• 25:03
  Speaker 6: I always cherished that it was a good memory. I
• 25:05
  Speaker 6: learned a lot, so yeah, great memory.
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah, very cool, very cool. There was one where was
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: it that I saw earlier? Oh?
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: From the two O six scored the game winning penalty
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: kick for the soccer national U seventeen team.
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: That's pretty cool. Game winning penalty kick on the.
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: National team, the U seventeen national I mean there's different levels.
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: It's not like the one that's playing in the World Cup,
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: but that's.
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: Still very impressive. To be a U seventeen national team.
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: That's very cool.
• 25:29
  Speaker 6: From the two six, my proudest moment comes from mentoring
• 25:33
  Speaker 6: others who have gone on to great professional and collegiate
• 25:36
  Speaker 6: careers in basketball officiating. I repped great players, incredibly great games.
• 25:41
  Speaker 6: This is my legacy I'm most proud of.
• 25:44
  Speaker 5: Man.
• 25:45
  Speaker 6: I too was an official, but I only did innermurals
• 25:47
  Speaker 6: and that was fun.
• 25:48
  Speaker 5: It wasn't a dream.
• 25:49
  Speaker 6: But people were like, Chris, you know, you ever thought
• 25:51
  Speaker 6: about high school officiating?
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: Nah?
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: Man, you don't want to get yelled at.
• 25:54
  Speaker 5: No, it wasn't that.
• 25:55
  Speaker 6: It was more so I just saw I just that
• 25:58
  Speaker 6: wasn't the path I saw myself going on. But now
• 26:01
  Speaker 6: that I look back at it, yeah, maybe in an
• 26:02
  Speaker 6: alternate universe, I'm some high school legend and maybe even
• 26:06
  Speaker 6: got a chance to go do some collegiate ball. That
• 26:07
  Speaker 6: would be. That was fun. Getting paid a couple hundred dollars.
• 26:10
  Speaker 6: You just blow your whistle and yell at people. I
• 26:12
  Speaker 6: didn't mind that.
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: Now I don't blame you.
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: And we're gonna wrap up with this one because we've
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: got Ian Fornest coming in next. But I do want
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: to remind people with this text you can still achieve
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: your dreams if they're out there. Two oh six says,
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: to be honest, I've always wanted to play hockey, but
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: I didn't have super supportive parents. So now that I'm
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: forty two and I can afford it, I am with
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: the Krakens program. See there you go, never too late
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: to start chasing those dreams.
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: I love that.
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: Thank you everyone for sharing all of those awesome texts
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: and helping us get to celebrate your achievements.
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: We, as I said, do have Ian Fornest coming in next.
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: We'll be back with the Mayor Sports Radio ninety three
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: three KJRFM.
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: Sports Radio ninety three three kjr FM.
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: It is Ashley Ryan Christopher Kidd in for Greg Bell,
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: and we are now joined by you one and only,
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: the Mayor of Maple Valley Ian forness.
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: How's your morning going so far?
• 27:04
  Speaker 5: Actually it's going okay.
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: Tuesday, yeah, I got along week ahead.
• 27:09
  Speaker 5: What what's your least favorite day of the week Wednesdays? Really? Yes,
• 27:12
  Speaker 5: I hate Tuesdays.
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: Okay, Bucky hates Tuesdays as.
• 27:15
  Speaker 5: Well, absolutely despise Tuesdays. Like, if I'm ranking him in order,
• 27:18
  Speaker 5: Tuesday number one on the hate list, Okay, Monday two, Yeah,
• 27:23
  Speaker 5: maybe Wednesday three. Okay, Thursday Friday.
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: So I would go Wednesday for sure, because it's the
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: day that I'm the most tired, because.
• 27:31
  Speaker 5: It's the middle of the Okay, I see that.
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: But then it turns into the back like then, you know,
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: once you get over that hump, you're like, Okay, Thursday, Friday,
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: this is easy.
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: But it's just like I'm a zombie on a Wednesday.
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so it goes Wednesday, Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday.
• 27:44
  Speaker 5: Yeah. Yeah, I'm just Tuesdays for me, don't not into it.
• 27:47
  Speaker 5: Get through Tuesday, and then it's like okay, and I
• 27:50
  Speaker 5: a lot of times Wednesday have little Wednesday golf leagues.
• 27:52
  Speaker 5: So once I get to that, I feel like, okay,
• 27:53
  Speaker 5: I have the weekend chair. Yeah, well have two days left.
• 27:56
  Speaker 5: But I think I just revert back to college in Yeah,
• 27:58
  Speaker 5: it's like, oh well, Thursday, Thursday going out, Nights, Thursdays, Wednesdays,
• 28:02
  Speaker 5: function night. The fraternity went Thursdays like Wooden Nickels, the
• 28:05
  Speaker 5: coug or whatever. And then yeah, then Friday's that's a
• 28:08
  Speaker 5: day off.
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you might as well do nothing.
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: I think you could relate to this too, because obviously
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: you are a dad of two. I am just in
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: the middle of travel softball and little league. So it's
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: two to three games in the week for a little
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: league and then we have had travel softball tournament, travel
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: softball tournament, and we get another travel softball tournament to
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: go to Winnatchi this weekend.
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: All the Memorial Day weekend, Well.
• 28:33
  Speaker 5: That'd be fun. I'm sure getting hotels was fun for that.
• 28:35
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: Luckily we did it early enough, but I'm not looking
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: back forward to the drive back on Monday.
• 28:40
  Speaker 5: No, that's not good. I think we avoided I want
• 28:44
  Speaker 5: to say we kind of avoided the Memorial Day tournaments.
• 28:47
  Speaker 5: It felt like at least it.
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: Would be a good I feel like it's pretty easy
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: to avoid any holiday weekend tournament.
• 28:53
  Speaker 5: Yeah, we got Like, so my daughter played, she played soccer,
• 28:57
  Speaker 5: she played Select Premier whatever you call club soccer, and
• 29:00
  Speaker 5: so we did travel for her for that. But she
• 29:03
  Speaker 5: wanted to do everything. She did softball, fast pitched in
• 29:06
  Speaker 5: high school, soccer, across country. Her early travel stuff was
• 29:11
  Speaker 5: was soccer and and they were pretty good about that.
• 29:14
  Speaker 5: We didn't deal Keifer was We did a lot at
• 29:16
  Speaker 5: about AAU basketball. We did two years of travel baseball
• 29:19
  Speaker 5: and then AAU baseball or AU basketball. And so I
• 29:22
  Speaker 5: you get to know if you're in that world. Every
• 29:25
  Speaker 5: fair field in Courtyard by Marriott, Hilton Garden, in Hilton Garden,
• 29:30
  Speaker 5: across the state. Yeah, Tri Cities is your friend, Yakama
• 29:34
  Speaker 5: is your friend, when Atchi's your friend. I like Spokane,
• 29:37
  Speaker 5: even though it was a further drive, bigger city.
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah, better better quality hotels.
• 29:41
  Speaker 5: Better hotels, better choice, better food. Yeah, Lay was a
• 29:44
  Speaker 5: little rough. Last Lacy would suck. I would not want to.
• 29:47
  Speaker 5: Oh yeah, and you live so far away. Did you
• 29:50
  Speaker 5: have to stay down there?
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah we did.
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: And our hotel, I will say, very nice. The other hotel,
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: the pool was like a dungeon. And then the hotel
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: next to that. As we were trying, as Palmer and
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: I were walking out of the parking lot that the
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: two hotels shared, yeah, there was a unhoused man. We'll
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: say so I almost yeah, yeah, just kind of walking
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: around and then I think he saw someone was like,
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: oh I better just face the building. So they don't
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: think I'm up to anything. And then we noticed that
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: the roof like was partially carved in from some sort
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: of flooding damage or something. And then Palmer said, oh, mom,
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: look and there there you go. An animal pooped on
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: a rock. And I had to inform her that animals
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: don't usually do that on rocks. No, they don't need
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: to sit down on something.
• 30:36
  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's that. I got you.
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: I'm tracking the best quality there.
• 30:41
  Speaker 5: Yeah, no, I got you. I will also tell you this.
• 30:44
  Speaker 5: I every weekend, there's part of me that misses it.
• 30:48
  Speaker 5: Oh yeah, every weekend there's part of me that miss
• 30:50
  Speaker 5: is it because we you know, we you know, it's
• 30:52
  Speaker 5: like when my daughter was done, and because she's six
• 30:55
  Speaker 5: years older than my son, so when she was done,
• 30:58
  Speaker 5: we were kind of starting to rack and rack things
• 31:01
  Speaker 5: up a little bit harder with him. And yeah, there
• 31:05
  Speaker 5: were weekends We're like, I'd great to be home and
• 31:07
  Speaker 5: doing nothing, and then but then when it ends, you're like,
• 31:12
  Speaker 5: now what do we do? Like last year we were
• 31:14
  Speaker 5: was the first year that we were you know, my
• 31:17
  Speaker 5: wife was a sports widow. Yeah.
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: Uh.
• 31:19
  Speaker 5: And there's like a couple of good Instagram accounts with
• 31:22
  Speaker 5: that I sent her some stuff for a couple of
• 31:24
  Speaker 5: other moms for that were with the college football team
• 31:27
  Speaker 5: he's on, and they're just like, don't ever do that
• 31:28
  Speaker 5: to me again. Yeah. So, I mean we missed, we missed.
• 31:33
  Speaker 5: And you know, the funny thing is the kids when
• 31:35
  Speaker 5: they're done, they're done parents, aren't, you know, And I
• 31:38
  Speaker 5: think I look back, I think for me, the biggest
• 31:40
  Speaker 5: thing was the rides to practice were the biggest things.
• 31:44
  Speaker 5: And then when he started driving or she started driving,
• 31:47
  Speaker 5: he didn't have that yet. Yeah, I don't have to
• 31:50
  Speaker 5: deal with that every Tuesday night and Thursday night and
• 31:52
  Speaker 5: whatever night. Right, But then you're like, Okay, I kind
• 31:54
  Speaker 5: of missed that time with the kid.
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: And now I don't feel needed.
• 31:58
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I think the needed part, Yeah, I think it
• 32:00
  Speaker 5: was just more the time you get with them. Yeah,
• 32:02
  Speaker 5: you know, just like just the time you get with them,
• 32:05
  Speaker 5: and then watching your kids compete, especially if it's something
• 32:08
  Speaker 5: they love doing. And you know, we were always careful
• 32:11
  Speaker 5: and we're not perfect parents, nobody is, but we're always careful,
• 32:14
  Speaker 5: like do you want to do this or not?
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: Yes?
• 32:15
  Speaker 5: And if you don't, good, just tell us.
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah exactly, I'm here to support you. I'm not here
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: to make you do something you don't want to be.
• 32:21
  Speaker 5: Yeah, he was done with travel baseball after eighth grade.
• 32:24
  Speaker 5: So going into high school is like, I don't want
• 32:26
  Speaker 5: to play. I'm I'm done with baseball. I'm just boring.
• 32:29
  Speaker 5: I don't like playing it because I like playing games.
• 32:31
  Speaker 5: I just can't be in a gym in December hitting
• 32:34
  Speaker 5: tennis balls or whatever. I just can't do that. Yeah.
• 32:36
  Speaker 5: And he was such a basketball football kid that in
• 32:38
  Speaker 5: the basketball was his love. Yeah, even though he's football.
• 32:42
  Speaker 5: But uh yeah, so when when he when he's like
• 32:44
  Speaker 5: he's like I'm done with trial, I'm done with baseball,
• 32:46
  Speaker 5: I'm like, okay, well I'll put the red solo cups away.
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I know right, Like the amount of little different
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: drinking vessels, and you know, you've got the other moms
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: that will bring wine to different games, like we take our.
• 32:57
  Speaker 5: Turn and it's become a thing now, Like Benton sent
• 32:59
  Speaker 5: me a thing the other day, a big old controversy
• 33:01
  Speaker 5: up there in Snowhoe County up there with the Everett whatever.
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: But yeah, apparently I got to keep it. You got
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: to keep it on the d L.
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: It's ever, Yeah, would expect. I mean, I'm I'm I
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: think he's Marysville. Yeah, I'm part of Everett, but we
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: keep it very quiet.
• 33:14
  Speaker 5: I think he's ever. I think he's Marysville type thing.
• 33:16
  Speaker 5: I think that's when you get listen. You should you
• 33:19
  Speaker 5: should just be careful. I mean, yeah, thing is like
• 33:21
  Speaker 5: the other thing to do. You find yourself picking teams
• 33:24
  Speaker 5: based on parents.
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, And this.
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: Was our first year in Little League that we were
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: going to going to play with a team that we
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: hadn't played within like three years, and so we knew
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: some of the people because you obviously get to know
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: everybody but the parents.
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: And I'm like, oh gosh, how's this going to go?
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: And I'm already good friends with one of the moms, Christina.
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: She's great and she brought wine last week. I brought
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: wine the week before. So you know, we're we're fulfilling
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: that duty. They're also great.
• 33:49
  Speaker 5: Yeah, so we've got the hotel lobby is always your friends.
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: Yes, you know, yeah, pizza parties and wine.
• 33:55
  Speaker 5: We had four years at the Courtyard by Marriott in
• 33:58
  Speaker 5: downtown Spokane for for Whitworth University football, and they got
• 34:04
  Speaker 5: to know us. We're there. They had a great lobby.
• 34:06
  Speaker 5: We'd hang out there. It was just kind of and
• 34:08
  Speaker 5: you know, with other parents and tailgating and all those
• 34:11
  Speaker 5: it was so much fun. I just I look back
• 34:13
  Speaker 5: on those times, I'm like, god it I you know.
• 34:15
  Speaker 5: But when it's funny, like after his last game, I
• 34:18
  Speaker 5: was I was doing Seahawks and so he was in
• 34:21
  Speaker 5: Chicago and they lost in the in the playoffs, and
• 34:24
  Speaker 5: I said, how are you. He's like, I'm good. Oh,
• 34:27
  Speaker 5: I'm good.
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm done.
• 34:28
  Speaker 5: I'm done. Body's done. Did my time and all those things.
• 34:32
  Speaker 5: And I think back. Some of our best friends that
• 34:34
  Speaker 5: you know, we're still close with are people we met
• 34:36
  Speaker 5: through youth sports, which I think is one of them
• 34:38
  Speaker 5: better things, one of the cool things. In fact, even
• 34:40
  Speaker 5: for my daughter, a lot of her friends are people
• 34:44
  Speaker 5: she played soccer with.
• 34:45
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: Uh.
• 34:46
  Speaker 5: And for my son, you know, I think obviously college
• 34:50
  Speaker 5: football is different. He's really tight with the guys. He
• 34:52
  Speaker 5: lived in the house with offensive lineman and a couple
• 34:54
  Speaker 5: of the linemen, so he's tied with those guys because
• 34:57
  Speaker 5: it's college is a little different. But he played for
• 34:59
  Speaker 5: a AU program called ken Elite, And I always laugh
• 35:02
  Speaker 5: when people just rip on AU and I said, you
• 35:04
  Speaker 5: know what, the best thing that ever happened to my
• 35:05
  Speaker 5: son is he played for kenn eleat AU basketball. The
• 35:09
  Speaker 5: most is diverse. We come from Maple Valley, not the
• 35:11
  Speaker 5: most diverse place in the world. To whole high school,
• 35:13
  Speaker 5: not the most diverse place in the world. Ken Elite,
• 35:16
  Speaker 5: it's it's all the NPSL schools just put in a
• 35:18
  Speaker 5: blender and some of his really good friends to stay.
• 35:21
  Speaker 5: He still plays basketball with it the Covington or renting
• 35:24
  Speaker 5: La fitness. Our dudes he played basketball with, played with AU,
• 35:29
  Speaker 5: and played against in the NPSL, like Kentwood kids, kent
• 35:33
  Speaker 5: Rich kids, KM guys, all that stuff, Auburn, Kennedy and
• 35:36
  Speaker 5: all that. And I think that's what that's what the
• 35:38
  Speaker 5: kids benefit out of that stuff, you know. And god,
• 35:41
  Speaker 5: I see so many kids nowadays. You know. Do you
• 35:43
  Speaker 5: guys have the electric bike issue going on?
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: Oh my god, yes, I feel like old man yelling
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: at clouds, like get off my lawn.
• 35:49
  Speaker 5: I'm like casking myself.
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: So don't you need a license?
• 35:52
  Speaker 5: You do? Actually, Maple Valley cops sent out a thing
• 35:56
  Speaker 5: to like the Facebook page and all the schools that
• 35:59
  Speaker 5: most of those are illegal for kids under sixteen.
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: That's what I thought, and that they write them around
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: like idiots.
• 36:04
  Speaker 5: And they ride them on sidewalks and the are banging
• 36:06
  Speaker 5: through people.
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: Their parents bottom for them.
• 36:07
  Speaker 5: Because the parents don't want to do anything with it.
• 36:09
  Speaker 5: It's like, I'll just buy that. It's I think they
• 36:12
  Speaker 5: look at like it's is it better than putting them
• 36:14
  Speaker 5: on a video game all day?
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: No it isn't, but they think it is.
• 36:19
  Speaker 5: Oh yeah they're outside. Yeah, well yeah, they're outside terrorizing.
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: People and they're not getting an exercise. It's an electric.
• 36:24
  Speaker 5: Electric bike and just running around. Yeah, those are I
• 36:28
  Speaker 5: every day. O'h my god, it's one of these days
• 36:31
  Speaker 5: that tragedy in our neighborhood's going to happen. Yep, It's
• 36:33
  Speaker 5: one hundred percent going to happen. And I'm just like, God,
• 36:35
  Speaker 5: I don't want to be there for it. I don't
• 36:37
  Speaker 5: want to think about it, but it's going to happen.
• 36:38
  Speaker 5: So I'd rather the kid be playing a sport. I'd
• 36:41
  Speaker 5: rather people go, oh, the stupid select sports or this
• 36:43
  Speaker 5: and that and all that. It's too it is expensive,
• 36:46
  Speaker 5: but sometimes you pay a price for having the kids.
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah, sometimes you do, and supporting your.
• 36:51
  Speaker 5: Kids what they do, what they and what they'll get
• 36:52
  Speaker 5: out of it later in life. What do you have
• 36:56
  Speaker 5: coming up on the show today, Well, we're going to
• 36:58
  Speaker 5: replay about sick. There's seven minutes in the twelve o'clock
• 37:02
  Speaker 5: hour of our mollywat Monday yesterday with the Dan Wilson conversation.
• 37:09
  Speaker 5: It our our social media guru Mike Benton did put
• 37:12
  Speaker 5: it on some stuff on Instagram and it blew up
• 37:15
  Speaker 5: like I haven't seen in a long time.
• 37:16
  Speaker 3: Wow.
• 37:17
  Speaker 5: And so we're gonna revisit that a little bit. Yeah,
• 37:19
  Speaker 5: they won last night, Yeah, and which is great. But
• 37:21
  Speaker 5: I think Chuck said I saw the recap he wrote yesterday.
• 37:26
  Speaker 5: I don't want to misquote him Monday show, Chuck said,
• 37:28
  Speaker 5: bad team, bad manager. Yes, bad manager. That seems to
• 37:32
  Speaker 5: be being shared by a lot of people. And you know,
• 37:35
  Speaker 5: and so what what do we expect out of him?
• 37:37
  Speaker 5: So we'll talk a little bit about that and replace
• 37:39
  Speaker 5: some of that stuff with Nathan and Chris because I
• 37:41
  Speaker 5: thought it was really powerful. We'll revisit that a little bit.
• 37:45
  Speaker 5: I'm gonna Joe she enjoyed this weekly visit with him
• 37:47
  Speaker 5: coming up at one twenty. We're expecting John Lone at
• 37:49
  Speaker 5: two o'clock. He's never on time. We'll see if he's
• 37:51
  Speaker 5: on time today. Sure, that'd be great. That would be
• 37:55
  Speaker 5: the under. Oay, perfect, that would be the under. And
• 37:58
  Speaker 5: then I'm gonna I listened to Feine Softy yesterday. They
• 38:02
  Speaker 5: brought it up last Friday. Oklahoma City. Do we have
• 38:05
  Speaker 5: an Oklahoma City problem? Are they living rent free? In
• 38:08
  Speaker 5: everybody's head? Yeah, Dick Faine made the comment that sent
• 38:11
  Speaker 5: Sideway Softy sideways. This is how you should build a team.
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: Softie lost it.
• 38:15
  Speaker 5: And he's right. And also Dick's wrong because this is
• 38:19
  Speaker 5: not how you built you don't. It's so different what
• 38:21
  Speaker 5: you're going to have an expansion team as opposed to
• 38:23
  Speaker 5: with a team that was already as opposed to a
• 38:24
  Speaker 5: team stole and they tanked and they got Chet Holmgren. Yeah,
• 38:29
  Speaker 5: SGA was a great trade. But Jalen with an L
• 38:32
  Speaker 5: and Chet Holmgren, you tanked and you traded a bunch
• 38:35
  Speaker 5: of guys away and you finished second to last in
• 38:37
  Speaker 5: the league twice in two years. Do you want that
• 38:39
  Speaker 5: in Seattle? Well the songs come here now, Okay, we'll
• 38:42
  Speaker 5: talk about that.
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: Okay, all right, Well that is coming up with the
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