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Chuck & Buck 2-20 Hour 4: What did we learn this week? ICYMI Cal Raleigh and our annual Spring Training montage! · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: All right, final hour of our Mariners spring training coverage,
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  Speaker 1: Chuck and Box Sports Radio ninety three point three KJR FM. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: we'll take you all the way to our one last
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  Speaker 1: thing of the week. Bucky Jacobson is here, my name
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  Speaker 1: is Chuck Powell. Ashley Ryan with you as well as
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  Speaker 1: we enter the nine o'clock hour here on our program.
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  Speaker 1: And certainly we've got a lot more to do before we.
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  Speaker 2: Close things out.
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  Speaker 1: But I do want to start with headlines because we
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  Speaker 1: didn't use them at seven o'clock today we had Justin
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  Speaker 1: Hollander on, So our headlines segment brought to you by
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  Speaker 1: Frostbrewed Pores, Light, Choose Chill, and I do think there
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  Speaker 1: are some things that we can point out, and let's
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  Speaker 1: start with Justin Hollander.
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  Speaker 2: This is sort of I don't know if it's breaking.
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  Speaker 1: News, but it's a definitive update that he gave us
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  Speaker 1: a little bit earlier in the show. Second base camp
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  Speaker 1: battle is one that man, that's about as clear cut
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  Speaker 1: a camp battle as you can put together in this format,
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  Speaker 1: and yet he made it pretty clear that there's a
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  Speaker 1: clear front runner in this camp battle. Surely the job
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  Speaker 1: isn't going to be handed to Cole Young, But I
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  Speaker 1: was surprised with how definitive he was about Cole Young
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  Speaker 1: being the guy that they believe is the clear cut
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  Speaker 1: front runner for this job.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean maybe a little bit surprised. I mean
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  Speaker 3: I figured pole position front runners maybe stronger than I
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  Speaker 3: would have thought. But I mean, the guy's proven that
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  Speaker 3: he is capable of playing this game and playing this
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  Speaker 3: game at a high level. It's a matter of being consistent.
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  Speaker 3: That's what makes you stick in the big leagues and
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  Speaker 3: turn from a prospect to a guy that you just
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  Speaker 3: kind of feel confident that he can go out there
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  Speaker 3: and do it. I think the kid's going to grow
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  Speaker 3: a lot. You learn a lot in your first little
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  Speaker 3: bit in the big leagues, I can tell you that
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  Speaker 3: for sure. And yet to do it at the age
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  Speaker 3: that he was. I mean, what was he twenty years
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  Speaker 3: old when he was up there last year, twenty twenty one.
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  Speaker 3: I mean that's young to be able to get your
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  Speaker 3: first taste and to be going through all the stuff
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  Speaker 3: that they were going in a Pennant race and all
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  Speaker 3: the stuff down the stretch. He got a little bit
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  Speaker 3: heavy for him, maybe a little bit tired. All of
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  Speaker 3: the stuff. The circus that kind of surrounds going through
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  Speaker 3: the minor leagues, getting called up, all of that stuff
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  Speaker 3: in the midst of trying to chase down that division
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  Speaker 3: title and do what they did in the playoffs. That's
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  Speaker 3: a lot, but I can understand why they're envisioning him
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  Speaker 3: as the guy that should get the first opportunity to
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  Speaker 3: win that job.
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  Speaker 1: If you want to hear the entire conversation with Justin Hollander,
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  Speaker 1: and I urge you to do so, there was a
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  Speaker 1: lot of great information in that seven o'clock hour ninety
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  Speaker 1: three to three khr dot com. You can check out
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  Speaker 1: our podcast. Today's the first game. They're calling it opening
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  Speaker 1: day down here. That seems a little sacrilegious to me
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  Speaker 1: to call spring training's opening game opening day, but I
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  Speaker 1: guess for the Cactus League it is opening day. So
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  Speaker 1: Luke Rayley will be leading off for the team, cal
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  Speaker 1: Rawley hitting second, Julio Rodriguez third, Josh Naylor fourth, Randy A.
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  Speaker 1: Rose Arena fifth, So they've got the heart of the
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  Speaker 1: order intact there. JP Crawford will hit sixth. Dom Canzone
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  Speaker 1: gets the start in right field. He'll bat seventh, and
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  Speaker 1: then two of the top prospects. Michael o'royo will be
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  Speaker 1: starting at second base today, hitting eighth, and Colt Emerson,
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  Speaker 1: who's created a lot of buzz around here, will hit ninth,
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  Speaker 1: and he will be playing third base today, even though
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  Speaker 1: Justin told us he'll be playing second base, third base,
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  Speaker 1: and shortstop throughout spring training, so they're gonna get him
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  Speaker 1: work at all three of those positions. The starting pitcher
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  Speaker 1: will be Dane Dunning, former Texas Ranger, former Chicago White
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  Speaker 1: Sox who the Mariners picked up.
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  Speaker 2: In the offseason.
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  Speaker 1: None of the familiar names will be pitching today. Cooper
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  Speaker 1: Criswell was an acquisition from the Red Sox. He'll be
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  Speaker 1: throwing today as well, but the first pitch will be.
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  Speaker 2: At one ten this time, so.
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  Speaker 1: That's twelve o'clock. Twelve o'clock back home then for the Padres.
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  Speaker 1: Ty Frantz gonna be in the lineup for the Padres.
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  Speaker 1: And of course, Rick Riz starts his final year on
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  Speaker 1: the call, his first game that he'll.
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  Speaker 2: Be calling today.
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  Speaker 4: Ah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it'd be great to hear the Riz, and it'll
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  Speaker 3: be great to hear him this entire season. I am
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  Speaker 3: excited about this spring training, getting to watch some of
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  Speaker 3: the guys. I mean, the World Baseball Classic throws a
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  Speaker 3: little wrinkle in the mix. And yet to some degree,
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  Speaker 3: while your superstars are gonna be playing for Team USA
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  Speaker 3: and other countries, while they're gonna be getting their work in,
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  Speaker 3: you're gonna get to, as a Mariner fan, be able
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  Speaker 3: to see some of these young guys that are on
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  Speaker 3: the horizon that are the next wave of guys coming
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  Speaker 3: up to the big leagues. They're gonna be getting a
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  Speaker 3: lot more looks because of the fact that the Mariners
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  Speaker 3: are sending more people to the WBC than anybody else.
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  Speaker 1: Well, there was an explosion that came out of the
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  Speaker 1: facility here at Peoria yesterday and it was when the
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  Speaker 1: US women's hockey team tied the game with two minutes
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  Speaker 1: left regulation and then a second one when they won
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  Speaker 1: it in overtime. And so congratulations to the US women's
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  Speaker 1: hockey team with their two to one overtime win over
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  Speaker 1: Canada for the gold medal at the Olympics. And of course,
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  Speaker 1: the men's semifinals being played today Canada and Finland are underway.
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  Speaker 2: Man, it's too bright. I can't even see my scoreboard.
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  Speaker 2: They started. It might be over? Is it over?
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  Speaker 1: That?
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  Speaker 2: Might be over where I have it here somewheres, might
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  Speaker 2: have to get an update on that or peace one.
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  Speaker 5: In the second period, Finland leads Canada.
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  Speaker 2: Oh wow, look at that.
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  Speaker 1: Well, everybody's hoping for the US Canada gold medal match,
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  Speaker 1: but they barely survived both teams the last round. And
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  Speaker 1: here's Finland got Canada against the ropes here this morning.
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  Speaker 1: US will take on Slovakia today at noon, so the
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  Speaker 1: US will try to win its path and to earn
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  Speaker 1: its path into the gold medal round. And then college basketball,
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  Speaker 1: congratulations to Jason Hamilton, affectionately referred to as Jay ham
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  Speaker 1: and the Northwest. He has decided to end his career
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  Speaker 1: as color analysts for Huskies basketball and nothing but praise
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  Speaker 1: for a job well done throughout his tenure. So congratulations
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  Speaker 1: to him. You dub VERSUS Maryland tomorrow. And then finally,
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  Speaker 1: Sounders do open their season on Sunday against the Colorado
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  Speaker 1: Rapids at Loomenfield and they'll start that game at.
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  Speaker 2: Six point fifteen.
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  Speaker 1: All right, So those are your headlines. But we have
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  Speaker 1: a service to provide here because we have been the
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  Speaker 1: eyes and ears to all Mariner fans throughout the course
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  Speaker 1: of this week. We are the first people to put
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  Speaker 1: our eyeballs in the entire Seattle media market on your
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  Speaker 1: baseball team for this upcoming season. We haven't even had
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  Speaker 1: the television coverage people, I mean, Egan's up and out
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  Speaker 1: in Milan and you know, coming off the Seahawks Super
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  Speaker 1: Bowl run. We haven't even had the really many of
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  Speaker 1: the TV crews out here that we're used to seeing.
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  Speaker 1: There's been some TV coverage. I'm gonna say that they
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  Speaker 1: haven't been here, but just not the familiar faces that
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  Speaker 1: we're used to seeing out here. And so wear your
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  Speaker 1: eyes and ears, and we need to run through this.
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  Speaker 1: What have we learned since we've been here about this roster.
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  Speaker 1: I'll go ahead and say what we've learned, and then
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  Speaker 1: you just react to that because I'm gonna go pretty
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  Speaker 1: rapid fire.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, let's start with the catcher position.
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  Speaker 1: What we have learned is that Kyle Raley has not
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  Speaker 1: changed one bit. Certainly, he's not counting on hitting sixty
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  Speaker 1: or more home runs this year, but he is in
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  Speaker 1: no mindset to think that he has to expect less
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  Speaker 1: than sixty.
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  Speaker 2: I'll tell you that much.
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  Speaker 3: No. I mean, Cayle's cow and that's the beautiful things
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  Speaker 3: he doesn't seem to change. Regardless of how big his
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  Speaker 3: star becomes and how bright it is, he's still I
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  Speaker 3: think went in the offseason like unfinished business. Yeah, I
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  Speaker 3: had a great year. Great, Okay, let's move it on.
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  Speaker 3: It's time to get to the World Series. And I
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  Speaker 3: think winning's more important than personal achievements for that guy.
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  Speaker 3: And that's why such a leader. I don't see a
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  Speaker 3: whole heck of a lot of downturn to this guy. Now,
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  Speaker 3: sixty home runs is historic, so to get back there
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  Speaker 3: maybe not so much, but I wouldn't be so terribly
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  Speaker 3: surprised if he's close to it.
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  Speaker 1: As far as his backup news on that front, it
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  Speaker 1: happened earlier this week. Mitch Garver is in fact back.
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  Speaker 1: We've seen him in a Mariner uniform. He was signed
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  Speaker 1: to a minor league deal earlier this week and read
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  Speaker 1: into this what you want, but he showed up for
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  Speaker 1: his first day of actual.
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  Speaker 2: Practice here at spring training with Cal.
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  Speaker 1: Rawley, so Andrew Kissner's here. He was signed in the
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  Speaker 1: off season to possibly be a purer backup catcher than
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  Speaker 1: what Garver was last year, who spent a lot of
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  Speaker 1: time dhing and at times they were both in the
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  Speaker 1: lineup together at times. Well, Mitch Garver did not find
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  Speaker 1: a major league job out there, and so it sounds
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  Speaker 1: like the Mariners have talked him into coming in here
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  Speaker 1: on a minor league deal to try to win a job.
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  Speaker 1: And look cal and the pitchers already know him. It
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  Speaker 1: might give him a leg up to be back on
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  Speaker 1: this roster this year.
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  Speaker 3: I wouldn't be surprised one bit. As a matter of fact,
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  Speaker 3: we were talking about pole position earlier with Cole Young
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  Speaker 3: at second base. At this point, I think Mitch Garver
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  Speaker 3: is probably the pole position for your backup catcher. Now.
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  Speaker 3: It's going to be another demotion third year in a row.
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  Speaker 3: To some degree, he's not going to come in as
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  Speaker 3: your DH also as a backup catcher like he was
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  Speaker 3: his first year here. Last year, it was okay, you're
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  Speaker 3: the backup catcher. You're going to DH some I think
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  Speaker 3: as of right now, the fact that they have kind
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  Speaker 3: of a platoon set up with multiple guys left handed
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  Speaker 3: and right handed hitters that are going to play outfield
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  Speaker 3: and DH, I think you're a legitimate You're a backup
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  Speaker 3: catcher unless you all of a sudden hit the way
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  Speaker 3: that you did a couple of years in Texas. Maybe
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  Speaker 3: get some more AB's there.
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  Speaker 1: First base Josh Naylor, I mean he's made headlines all
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  Speaker 1: week long for non baseball things. His level of embracing
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  Speaker 1: being a full time Seattle athlete. I mean he's worn
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  Speaker 1: a different jersey out there every day. He's represented the Storm,
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  Speaker 1: he's represented the Sounders. He had a Cooper Cup jersey
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  Speaker 1: on at one point during the course of this this week.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he is all in about being a Seattle
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  Speaker 1: athlete and embracing our city, and he is all in
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  Speaker 1: on being Tucker the Dog's best friend.
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  Speaker 2: Those have been the Josh Naylor headlines this week.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I don't care as long as he plays
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  Speaker 3: the way he played when he came over here with
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  Speaker 3: us last year. You can wear whatever jersey you want,
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  Speaker 3: you can feed Tucker as many treats as you want.
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  Speaker 3: The dude just seems to be kind of on his
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  Speaker 3: own program. But I mean that within the constructs of
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  Speaker 3: he's still doing it for the team, and he's going
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  Speaker 3: out there and getting his job done. I'm excited to
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  Speaker 3: see what the season looks like for him. I'm glad
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  Speaker 3: we get to see him for a full year.
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  Speaker 1: I think maybe the most interesting thing I heard about
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  Speaker 1: Josh Naylor all week long is that Kevin Seitzer, the
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  Speaker 1: hitting instructor, told us when we talked to him, that
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  Speaker 1: Josh Naylor has the best court awareness of any player
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  Speaker 1: he's ever been around. And Kevin Sitzer has been in
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  Speaker 1: baseball for what forty years, thirty five years, something like that,
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  Speaker 1: and yet he made that bold statement of Josh Naylor.
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  Speaker 1: Earlier in the week when we chatted with the hitting
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  Speaker 1: instructor second base, we just discussed it. Cole Young is
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  Speaker 1: the clear front runner to win the second base position.
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  Speaker 1: That from Justin Hollander himself, but there still is a
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  Speaker 1: camp battle going on here. Ryan Bliss is in that conversation.
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  Speaker 1: Leo Revas is probably gonna be used as a utility player.
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  Speaker 1: That is from Leo Revas's mouth himself to us here
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  Speaker 1: throughout the course of this week, and Cold Emerson is
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  Speaker 1: in and Justin Hollander also told us today that they
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  Speaker 1: will not keep Colt Emerson from the opening day roster
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  Speaker 1: if he proves here at spring that he is one
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  Speaker 1: of the best nine players in this organization. Position wily player,
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  Speaker 1: position player wise.
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  Speaker 3: I love the fact that you know they're they're ready
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  Speaker 3: to not restrain guys. If a guy proves that he's
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  Speaker 3: ready to contribute at the big league level, they're not
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  Speaker 3: gonna be like, well, he's only had deal seven games
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  Speaker 3: at Triple A, so we're just no way could he
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  Speaker 3: come in now. I don't think he has come in
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  Speaker 3: to hit one thousand in spring training, but there's a
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  Speaker 3: chance that this kid is mature enough that he could
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  Speaker 3: break with the big league club. And I mean, just
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  Speaker 3: have a young stud like that. If he proves it
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  Speaker 3: in spring training, I'm all about rooting for him.
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  Speaker 1: Third base, Brendan Donovan is planning to be the everyday
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  Speaker 1: third baseman this year. He admitted to us that it's
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  Speaker 1: been a bit of a transition. He had always had
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  Speaker 1: to back up Nolan Aronado there in Saint Louis, so
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  Speaker 1: there never really was an avenue for him to play
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  Speaker 1: every day at third base, So there's been an adjustment
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  Speaker 1: that he's feel like he is undergoing. But he also,
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  Speaker 1: in our interview with him earlier this week, praised Perry
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  Speaker 1: hill Bone himself as the best infield instructor in the world,
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  Speaker 1: probably about five times. In our fifteen minute conversation with
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  Speaker 1: Brendan Donovan, so he is expecting by opening day to
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  Speaker 1: feel very confident defensively at third base. And then the
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  Speaker 1: other thing about Brendan Donovan is he has completely won
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  Speaker 1: everyone over in the organization with just this genuine personality
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  Speaker 1: that seems to care and be interested in every human
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  Speaker 1: being and whether or not they're having a good day.
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  Speaker 3: It just seems like a selfless individual. And I mean,
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  Speaker 3: this is a team sport made up of a bunch
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  Speaker 3: of individual performances, so it's really hard at times. I
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  Speaker 3: think for some people to not get caught up in
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  Speaker 3: their own success or their own failure. I don't think
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  Speaker 3: that's gonna be an issue for this guy one bit.
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  Speaker 3: I think this guy goes out basically with everybody should
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  Speaker 3: go out with the purpose off. I'm gonna prepare the
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  Speaker 3: right way. Then I'm gonna give it all my effort
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  Speaker 3: that I possibly can, and then let the chips fall
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  Speaker 3: where they may. You are going to fail, regardless of
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  Speaker 3: how you how hard you try, or how much you prepared.
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  Speaker 3: You're going to fail at times. But those that kind
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  Speaker 3: of stick to the process, they're gonna have more success.
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  Speaker 3: That's how you become a big league player. That's how
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  Speaker 3: you become a guy that can stick in the big leagues.
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  Speaker 3: I'm looking for big things out of that dude, because
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  Speaker 3: I think between the ears he's got it.
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  Speaker 1: Dial Yeah, and I would say it was one other
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  Speaker 1: thing because to me he looked pudgy in a Cardinal uniform,
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  Speaker 1: and I suggested as such in our stove podcast Anders
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  Speaker 1: and I throughout the offseason. He's not. He's chiseled. He's
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  Speaker 1: like thick. He got big hands and big four arms,
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  Speaker 1: and he looks the.
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  Speaker 2: Part shortstop JP Crawford.
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  Speaker 1: Really not any ripples on the water with JP Crawford,
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  Speaker 1: veteran in his last year on the job, He's going
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  Speaker 1: to be the starting shortstop at the beginning of the year.
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  Speaker 1: We didn't get in as far as if he struggles
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  Speaker 1: at all, could cold Emerson take his job? But I
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  Speaker 1: think that's a possibility late in the season, however, slight
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  Speaker 1: that that might be. But it does feel like JP
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  Speaker 1: Crawford's got this one last chance with this group, with
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  Speaker 1: him being on the last year of his contract, to.
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  Speaker 2: Win a World Series here in a Seattle Mariners uniform.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and he's I mean the fact that it is
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  Speaker 3: a contract year for him, I would imagine his off
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  Speaker 3: season was spent getting ready to show up and show out.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, so you go out and win this, but
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  Speaker 3: there's a business that's going on underlying, and that is
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  Speaker 3: always going on. So he knows there's some youngsters chomping
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  Speaker 3: at the bit that they play his position. He's gonna
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  Speaker 3: have to go out there and prove that they should
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  Speaker 3: re up him. But ultimately, I'm not one hundred percent
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  Speaker 3: sure that that's the way it's going to go down.
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  Speaker 3: So it's boiled down to go out there, win a
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  Speaker 3: World Series and see where you wind up after that.
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  Speaker 1: Left field Randy A Rose Arena, Well, I've sort of
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  Speaker 1: floated it out there to numerous people. Is there a
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  Speaker 1: chance he might DH this year? Is he the DH?
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  Speaker 1: And maybe you take better defenders and put them on
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  Speaker 1: the corners than what Randy is because sometimes he can
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  Speaker 1: be an adventure out there.
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  Speaker 3: I haven't had.
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  Speaker 1: Anybody bite on that. It kind of looks like Randy
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  Speaker 1: A Rose Arena, who looks terrific by the way, and
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  Speaker 1: is probably more advanced than any other hitter in the.
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  Speaker 3: Cage right now.
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  Speaker 1: He was hitting bombs yesterday and all of them to
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  Speaker 1: like right center field, like he was just like just
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  Speaker 1: hitting missiles out of the ballpark to right center field
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  Speaker 1: one after the other. He looks great, and it kind
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  Speaker 1: of looks like he's penned in at left field for
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  Speaker 1: this team.
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  Speaker 3: Well yeah, I mean, you're gonna have that bat in
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  Speaker 3: the land up no matter what. And he'll probably get
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  Speaker 3: some days where they want to get somebody else out
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  Speaker 3: there in the outfield for just to get them some AB's.
• 16:04
  Speaker 3: He'll get some days at DH. I wouldn't be surprised,
• 16:06
  Speaker 3: but the dude is capable of playing left field as
• 16:09
  Speaker 3: well as a lot of people out there. I mean,
• 16:10
  Speaker 3: he can catch the ballser to him. It's just at
• 16:13
  Speaker 3: times it just doesn't look like he's really zoned in,
• 16:16
  Speaker 3: like he's dialed in. There's some mental mistakes here and there,
• 16:18
  Speaker 3: so hopefully he's dialed in more than he's not.
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: Well, obviously, Julio Rodriguez is as locked into an everyday
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: center field position as anyone here, more so than anyone here,
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: even cal because he's not gonna catch every single game.
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: Julio might play every single game in centerfield one hundred
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: and sixty two hopefully so. And really it's a matter
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: of him getting off to a hot start for the
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: first time in his young major league baseball career. Could
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: this be the year that Julio Rodriguez puts together a
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: full six months of Julio ball and just kind of
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: takes his start to a whole new level.
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: I feel it. But then again, I've said that three
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: years in a row.
• 16:54
  Speaker 3: Well, I mean, he just needs to not get off
• 16:55
  Speaker 3: to a bad start. I mean he gets off to
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: slow starts, I mean exceptionally slow starts, and then still
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: somehow digs himself out and has a sixth war seat.
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: I mean, he's he's done some amazing things in his time,
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: and yet it's always on the heels of a horrible start.
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: If he just gets off to just a decent start,
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: I mean, I think we're talking about a guy that
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: might be in the mix for the MVP race.
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: Right field in d H pretty much at this point,
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: it's a rotation of four guys, Victor Roeblaze and Rob
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: Rethschneider the newcomer from the right side, Luke Raley dominant
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: canzone from the left side. I think that Raleigh and
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: roe Blaze is your best defensive combination there. But don't
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: sleep on ref Schneider's defensive abilities. So does that mean
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: can Zone spends a lot more time dhing. I have
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: no idea, but they don't sound like they're going to
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: leave camp without five outfielders on the roster. I don't
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: know if any of them, Like Canzone did not make the.
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: Roster out of spring last year.
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: It's kind of feeling to me like all five of
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: those guys are going to make the roster.
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: I think so. I think that's the that you play it,
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: and then depending on health and depending on productivity, you
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: start making other situations. I mean, when we talk to
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: Justin Hollander, he's saying, it's not gonna be some all right,
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: you get forty games, you get forty games, you get
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: forty games. No, it's gonna be we have a situation.
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: We're gonna be able to put these guys in positions
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: to be successful more often than not by hitting against
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: the pitchers that they're more successful against, and then we're
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: gonna ride the hot hand. So, I mean, it really
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: comes down to those guys. All know, Okay, good chance,
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna make the roster. When I get my opportunity,
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: I gotta take it and run with it.
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: Relief pitching, I think it's the best relief core that
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: this organization has put on paper in the entire Jerry
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: Depoto era.
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: And you are.
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: Talking about a relief a bullpen that's been pretty successful
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: the last four years, ranked eighth and tm era four
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: years ago, than third, then second, thirteenth last year, but
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: it was still a pretty good group. I think this
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: is the best bullpen on paper that they've had. And
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: of course they have a very unique skill in being
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: able to find some hidden talent out there, turning other
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: people's trash into treasure. And so I have a really
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: high hopes for the bullpen.
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so do I. I mean, obviously the back end
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: Brash and Munnos, that's just something you just hope that
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: they can come back, be healthy this entire season and
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: just keep doing what they're doing. You're not asking for
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: a whole ton of improvement there. You have a couple
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: of guys that maybe came out of the woodworks. Bizarto
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: be on top of that list that if he can repeat, repeat,
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: Gabe Spier, if he can repeat what he did last year,
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: and then for Rare adding that extra left he takes
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: a little pressure off Gabe and just gives you two
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: bullets to throw at good lefties when you're getting down
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: there in those high leverage situations late in the game.
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: I'm with you. I feel really confident in the bullpen this.
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: Year and finally starting pitching. Yeah, the constant here in
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: the Depoto era five guys that you know are going
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: to break camp in the starting rotation as long as
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: they stay healthy. That did not happen a year ago.
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: George did not leave amp healthy. I don't think Bryce
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: Miller left camp healthy. Right now by all accounts, one
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: hundred percent healthy. Everybody's feeling really good, really encouraged about
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: how they look, how their conditioning went in the off season,
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: how they overcame some of those injuries in the off season.
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: So certainly they are your five.
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: Emerson Hancock is your sixth man off the bench at
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: this point, but might have to start the season in Tacoma.
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: And then, of course, the talk of camp were the
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: two young guys Kate Anderson and Ryan Sloan, who could
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: be ready at some point in twenty twenty six if needed.
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: But certainly they are not a threat like Emerson and
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: others to crack camp in the starting rotation. That's not
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: going to happen. But this organization has been built on
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: starting pitching and it will again be a primary strength
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: this year.
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: If not the strength.
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: It's pretty nice to have Luis Castillo as your veteran
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: who you know through what thirty two made thirty two
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: starts made every art last year. That's your veteran guy.
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: And then you have four guys in Wu and Gilbert
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: and Kirby and Bryce Miller below if all those guys
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: are healthy, and then you have an Emerson Hancock that's
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: had some time waiting in the wings. He could be
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: starting in about you know, twenty five other markets as
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: far as the rotation goes. And then you got some
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: youngsters that are gonna be, you know, chomping at the
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: bit probably towards the end of the season to possibly
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: make an impact. Hopefully we don't have to use a
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: whole bunch of depth because everybody stays healthy. But this
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: team has unbelievable rotation and they got depth waiting in
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: the wings.
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and Anderson and Sloan not knocked. We're not knocked
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: off the top of the heap. As the buzz of camp,
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: we've been here a week. If you want that question answered,
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: They created the most buzz here at spring training this week.
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: Maybe that changes as they start to play games here
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: today cold Emerson goes three for four today with two
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: doubles and a triple, then maybe that changes. But right now,
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: I'd have to say as we conclude the week, that
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: the buzz of camp was most created by those two
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: young pitching prospects, Kate Anderson and Ryan Sloan and with
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: a consolation prize.
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: To Adam Jude for catching Andre's Munio's bullpen. All right,
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: so there you go. We were your eyes and ears.
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: That's what we learned.
• 22:16
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• 22:19
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• 22:20
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• 24:31
  Speaker 1: It was my stated goal to get Josh Naylor on.
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  Speaker 1: I just saw him, just went in during the break,
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: saw him there at his locker. He was the only
• 24:39
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• 24:41
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• 24:44
  Speaker 1: gonna get him on the air, and he had to
• 24:46
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• 24:50
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• 24:52
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• 24:55
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• 25:00
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• 25:12
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• 25:54
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• 25:57
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• 26:01
  Speaker 1: right now. So we're gonna replay some cal Rawley for
• 26:04
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• 26:06
  Speaker 1: in the interview where Bucky asked him about how close
• 26:10
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• 26:12
  Speaker 3: You know it was.
• 26:13
  Speaker 6: It was a fun year and we had a good time.
• 26:15
  Speaker 6: And and obviously you're disappointed, right, I mean, you don't.
• 26:18
  Speaker 6: No one wants to lose. No one wants coming second,
• 26:20
  Speaker 6: and you know, it is what it is, uh. I
• 26:23
  Speaker 6: think I think just turning the page and you know,
• 26:26
  Speaker 6: appreciate what the year, what it was, and you know,
• 26:30
  Speaker 6: I'm glad that it happened and got to do some
• 26:31
  Speaker 6: really awesome things and we had a great team season
• 26:34
  Speaker 6: as well, and and uh you know, go out there
• 26:37
  Speaker 6: and and try to just you know, do what I
• 26:39
  Speaker 6: did last year, try to repeat it and not try
• 26:41
  Speaker 6: to do too much and not try to do more.
• 26:43
  Speaker 6: I think that's the key is, you know. Uh, I
• 26:47
  Speaker 6: think the easy answer is to try to go out
• 26:49
  Speaker 6: there and hit more Homer or do more offensively, when
• 26:52
  Speaker 6: in reality it's just like no, just be consistent, do
• 26:55
  Speaker 6: the same things every day, help the team win and
• 26:57
  Speaker 6: take it one a bad a time and and from there,
• 27:00
  Speaker 6: you know you should be a good spot.
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: So cal rally with us here on chucking buck in
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: the morning here from spring training, as we chat with
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: the Mariners catcher here again at spring training, an annual tradition.
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: All right, So I got to get your two cents
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: on watching Adam Jude over there catch Ryan Divish right now.
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: Very similar picture to Andre's munos.
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: Ryan Divishuh and I'm I guess you've heard about this right,
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: that he's going to catch a full bullpen session of munos.
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: What what do you think that's going to end up looking.
• 27:37
  Speaker 6: Like broken thumb? Probably I got a good doctor. I
• 27:43
  Speaker 6: brought my thumb, so I'll send him his way.
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: So, I mean, of all guys to choose, I mean,
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: is munyos the most difficult one for you to catch?
• 27:55
  Speaker 5: Uh?
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: No, no, I would.
• 27:57
  Speaker 6: I mean he definitely does artists, Yeah, I mean, so
• 28:01
  Speaker 6: that makes it very difficult. So but munos can actually
• 28:04
  Speaker 6: locate pretty well, so he does have that going for him.
• 28:07
  Speaker 6: But I don't know. I mean, just watching a few
• 28:10
  Speaker 6: of those, it wasn't too bad. Like, yeah, there somebody
• 28:13
  Speaker 6: got a little field seventy sixty eight miles an hour. Yeah,
• 28:17
  Speaker 6: maybe not even I asked him earlier today, I said,
• 28:19
  Speaker 6: so have you been working?
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: Have you been working? I mean, get it on on,
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: turn the machine up. He's like, oh, yeah, we turned
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: it up yesterday and got in there and caught I said,
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: how fast ninety five? He's like, oh, that's probably eighty
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: eighty to eighty two. I'm like, that's not a hundred.
• 28:31
  Speaker 6: You know, I think the four seam. You know, he'll
• 28:33
  Speaker 6: be it'll it'll pop him pretty good. Be fine. But
• 28:37
  Speaker 6: if Munio's rips a two seamer sinker on him, I
• 28:40
  Speaker 6: think that might tear him up. That might be that
• 28:42
  Speaker 6: that might be the end of the day for him.
• 28:45
  Speaker 6: So that and maybe maybe a slider in the dirt,
• 28:48
  Speaker 6: you know, yeah, you know it's you know, the strake ball.
• 28:51
  Speaker 6: You know, eventually he could probably he's probably athletic enough
• 28:54
  Speaker 6: to catch up to it, but probably once you get
• 28:57
  Speaker 6: that thing diving and moving.
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. Good.
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: Well, what how the pitchers look this year? Anybody's standing
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: out to you at this point?
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: Or is it just business as usual?
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: You're so familiar with catching your especially your starters, that
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: I mean it's just like waking up and eating breakfast.
• 29:18
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, I've got to know these guys really well.
• 29:20
  Speaker 6: I mean, some of these guys have been catching for
• 29:22
  Speaker 6: the whole time I've been here. I mean, somebody mentions it.
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: I think it's like.
• 29:27
  Speaker 6: Eight six six to eight spring trainings I've been in
• 29:30
  Speaker 6: now and they've been catching. So it's kind of Crazy've
• 29:32
  Speaker 6: been catching some of these guys that long. So you know,
• 29:36
  Speaker 6: and I know these guys really well, they're they're doing
• 29:38
  Speaker 6: everything they need to do. Everybody looks good. I mean,
• 29:42
  Speaker 6: you know, we're just trying to get everybody healthy, you know,
• 29:44
  Speaker 6: healthy out of spring, get your reps in, do what
• 29:47
  Speaker 6: you need to do.
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: We already know.
• 29:49
  Speaker 6: What each of these guys are capable of, So it's
• 29:51
  Speaker 6: really just about going out there, you know, getting the
• 29:54
  Speaker 6: innings that they need, getting it under their belt, getting
• 29:57
  Speaker 6: acclimated to the season, getting that consistent, consistent reps in,
• 30:01
  Speaker 6: and taking that into a full full one sixty two.
• 30:04
  Speaker 6: And like I said, from there, I mean, uh, you know,
• 30:07
  Speaker 6: you're gonna see some small tweaks that they're probably adding.
• 30:09
  Speaker 6: You know, these picture says there's.
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: There is one.
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: There is one major difference. They're all producing offspring. So
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: I mean, how are you gonna.
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: Keep that strength?
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: How are you gonna keep Logan on task? When he's
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: thinking about you know, poopy diapers and what have you.
• 30:25
  Speaker 6: Someone tells me that he's not changing any divers.
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's price that too.
• 30:30
  Speaker 6: I said, I think I've changed more diapers in my
• 30:32
  Speaker 6: day than you have from my little brother when he
• 30:35
  Speaker 6: was growing up. So I think his wife is the same.
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: Last year you got to play what sixty games or
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: something probably with Naylor since he came over. Gritty ballplayer.
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: I mean, he's just like what you call a ballplayer,
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: the way that he goes about his business. How does
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: it feel to continue to see more and more guys?
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: I mean, that's what you want your squad to be,
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: is just guys that go out there, you know, up
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: and down the lineup, that you just feel like are
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: gonna go to battle. Yeah.
• 31:00
  Speaker 6: I mean I think in today's day and age, you know,
• 31:03
  Speaker 6: you see so many metrics, you see so many exit
• 31:07
  Speaker 6: villa velocity things like these, but you know things that
• 31:10
  Speaker 6: you can't quantify, you know, baseball. He plays talking about
• 31:15
  Speaker 6: savvy in the game, knowing how to run the bases,
• 31:18
  Speaker 6: how to hit with two strikes, do all these things.
• 31:20
  Speaker 6: That's what wins ball games. And that's why I look
• 31:23
  Speaker 6: at those two guys and what Naylor brought to the
• 31:25
  Speaker 6: team last year. You know, he's you know, it's not
• 31:28
  Speaker 6: the it's not the sexiest thing ever going on out there.
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: He's not hitting you know, for he hit for you
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: home runs.
• 31:33
  Speaker 6: He didn't have all these crazy, crazy long distances with
• 31:39
  Speaker 6: with exit vilos or homers. But the guy uses all
• 31:42
  Speaker 6: the field. He can hit the ball at park, he
• 31:44
  Speaker 6: can hit with two strikes, he can hit for average,
• 31:47
  Speaker 6: he can do all these things. He run bases and
• 31:48
  Speaker 6: like that's what that's what winning baseball is and and
• 31:51
  Speaker 6: implementing that to the rest of our team, you know,
• 31:53
  Speaker 6: that's that's a really big deal. And Donovan seems like
• 31:55
  Speaker 6: that same type of player can play multiple positions, run
• 31:58
  Speaker 6: the bases, do do winning things that are going to
• 32:01
  Speaker 6: help us, you know, win those few extra games a
• 32:03
  Speaker 6: year that we know are so important to put us
• 32:05
  Speaker 6: where we need to go and help us win a championship.
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  Speaker 1: So cal Raley with us earlier in the week, certainly
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  Speaker 1: when you talk about the superstar status that cal Rawley
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  Speaker 1: has reached, we certainly had a great time twenty minute
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  Speaker 1: our week from Peoria Next Sports Radio ninety three point
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• 33:05
  Speaker 1: spring training twenty twenty six. Boy time does fly, Bucky
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: Jacob said, Chuck Powell, with you, Bucky standing here with
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  Speaker 1: your family.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, for a week or so.
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  Speaker 3: Good. Yeah, I'll get some great wolf lodge in. But
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  Speaker 3: we're coming back. We're come watch some baseball. Kate was
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  Speaker 3: actually last night, She's like, I want to see that
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: babyfaced kid, the Ryan Sloan kid. I want to see him.
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: I don't know if she cares to watch him pitch necessary.
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  Speaker 3: She's just intrigued us to the cyborg's body with the
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  Speaker 3: baby face.
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  Speaker 2: He might be a perfect Brazilian jiu jitsu wrestler. Oh yeah, yeah, she.
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  Speaker 3: Might think that. Yeah, you're right.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Well, it's been great here all week long.
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  Speaker 1: We thank you for listening. I'm heading back to Seattle,
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: so I'll be back on the airwaves with you Monday morning. Uh,
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: but you know how we close out the Fridays normally
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: it is with Booze News, but when it comes to
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: spring training coverage, we always close out the week with
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: Ashley Ryan's famous montage. Jerry Depoto is with us here
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: from spring training. The challenge system this year? What's the
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: organizational philosophy on who gets to challenge? When you get
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: to challenge? How are you going to manage that as
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: the organization?
• 34:15
  Speaker 7: Everybody but Randy? Oh yeah, I say that, someone said
• 34:23
  Speaker 7: to me man the offseason Flew. I said, yeah, unless
• 34:25
  Speaker 7: you were sitting waiting for the Cardinals to train us Brandon.
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: Donovan for our audience's purpose, because I think even you
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: and Justin and others are struggling with this. How excited
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: should they be about Kate Anderson and Ryan Sloan And
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: how much do we need to limit our excitement for
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: these two players?
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: It's hard to limit the excitement.
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: Bryce Miller and Logan Gilbert with us here at our
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: set at spring training.
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: Is Raleigh going to pull his own weight this year?
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: You think, I don't know. He's he's getting big time
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: on us, so, oh that's terrible news.
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  Speaker 8: He acts like he's done something that's crazy that he
• 35:03
  Speaker 8: didn't get to sixty sixty club.
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: I know, right's sixty ten barely barely.
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: How is it gonna work the ABS challenge system this year?
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: Does KL get to do everything Logan or.
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: I feel like he's going to challenge every pitch? I
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: don't know.
• 35:21
  Speaker 9: I attempted one last year in spring training. I was like,
• 35:25
  Speaker 9: all right, let me try this through a fastball way.
• 35:27
  Speaker 9: I was like, that had to be a strike challenge it.
• 35:30
  Speaker 9: I turned around, it was like six inches off the plate.
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: I was like, all right, former Mariner center fielder, amateur losuer.
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: It is Mike Cameron.
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  Speaker 10: I've just embraced it, man, because I still not really
• 35:45
  Speaker 10: comfortable with that, because when you think of statues, you
• 35:47
  Speaker 10: think about the iconic guys that like Griffy and Ichiro
• 35:51
  Speaker 10: and Edgar and those guys like that. But to be
• 35:53
  Speaker 10: a part of this community downtown in that area, man,
• 35:56
  Speaker 10: and have someone come by when they're drunk and take
• 35:58
  Speaker 10: a piss on it.
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  Speaker 3: Is anybody trying to hook you up with, Hey, here's
• 36:03
  Speaker 3: a gift card. I don't know Applebee's or something so
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: that you give.
• 36:08
  Speaker 6: I'm more of a Chilies guy.
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: You chili, Okay, you want your baby back, baby back,
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: baby back.
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  Speaker 6: I love a good two for twenty the old you jog.
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  Speaker 2: That's the first time I've ever seen him jog.
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  Speaker 3: It's the first time I've jogged in like, oh, I
• 36:24
  Speaker 3: don't know ten years.
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you're a jogger.
• 36:27
  Speaker 3: Now look at you. Let's not get carried away.
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: Okay, Andre's Munjos is with us right here on the show.
• 36:32
  Speaker 3: Have you been talking to me trash to cow because
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: you guys are in the same pool, right, No?
• 36:37
  Speaker 8: No, oh, yes, we were in the same pool, but
• 36:38
  Speaker 8: I don't. I don't talk to him. You know about that?
• 36:42
  Speaker 8: Ohis he I would like to avoid facing? Yeah, actually
• 36:47
  Speaker 8: any of my pullpins, he hasn't catch you any of them.
• 36:50
  Speaker 8: Hopefully you forget about my stuff.
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: And you really do love your cat, don't you?
• 36:56
  Speaker 8: Yes, yes, yeah, yes, he's somethings we like what she
• 37:00
  Speaker 8: hate us.
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: Brendan Donovan with it's the newest Mariner And obviously on
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: the hitting side, we were talking about number thirty three sites.
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  Speaker 2: He gave me the number, so I mean such I
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: hooked him up with some wine. He's a red wine drinker,
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: so I had to get that number back.
• 37:17
  Speaker 3: And I'm gonna live up to your expectations.
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: Hitting's locked Ben in a row boat. You got to
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: keep your oar in the water otherwise you'll get off balance.
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: That's a little sights are for you. See what I
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: did there? Yeah, lit little Kevin Sitzer for you right there.
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: But I think you're just morphined him for a second.
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: Kustin Hollander is so whether it's general manager of the
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: Seattle Mariners tell us about Montett.
• 37:38
  Speaker 11: I think Las could push his way into the mix
• 37:40
  Speaker 11: at the end of the season. We anticipated a really
• 37:42
  Speaker 11: long break future for Las.
• 37:44
  Speaker 3: Just so you know where Laz's head is at. Yeah,
• 37:46
  Speaker 3: we just had a conversation. I said, what do you
• 37:48
  Speaker 3: think this year of forty forty dingers? And He's like,
• 37:53
  Speaker 3: I'm fifty.
• 37:54
  Speaker 11: So I'm confident that if he hits fifty, they won't
• 37:56
  Speaker 11: all be in the minor leagues, right, Pete would work.
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: Award winning pitching coach of York Seattle Mariners. Will Adam
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: Jude of the Seattle Times survived catching andres Munos this week.
• 38:08
  Speaker 5: We are already looking for a new writer because I'm
• 38:13
  Speaker 5: not he with us next week.
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  Speaker 2: This guy of all guys.
• 38:17
  Speaker 5: Yeah, Gilbert's one thing, but Munya's it's it's a different
• 38:20
  Speaker 5: gear that's not gonna be fun for him. We definitely
• 38:25
  Speaker 5: need the paramedics here.
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: Kevin Sitzer is with us a hitting instructor for the Mariners.
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: Can't let you get out of here without asking about Julio.
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: Last year, as good a job as you did, you
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: didn't have an answer for how you keep a guy
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: hot for six straight months?
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so did you solve that in the off season?
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: Do you now know how to get him started in
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: April so that he can have six months of All
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: Star play?
• 38:50
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna say yes, and I'll let you know for
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: sure in June. Rob Refsneider is with us on the program.
• 38:58
  Speaker 3: It's such incredible pitching staff. You know, you're they're doing
• 39:01
  Speaker 3: pitch design stuff a couple of weeks into the off
• 39:04
  Speaker 3: season and they're really getting after it. And the hitters
• 39:06
  Speaker 3: have to too, So it's it's just it's so different.
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: You don't face them anymore.
• 39:11
  Speaker 3: I got spots started against Brian Woo last year. It
• 39:13
  Speaker 3: didn't go well.
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: Just explain it from John Stanton's point of view, the
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: Josh Naylor experience.
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: Thus far here in Seattle.
• 39:22
  Speaker 4: I think it starts with the role he played on
• 39:25
  Speaker 4: the field. You know that when he showed up we
• 39:28
  Speaker 4: were dragging just a little bit and he came in
• 39:30
  Speaker 4: and really lit a fire. Remember those stolen bases. You know,
• 39:34
  Speaker 4: you look at the guy, all due respect, I love
• 39:37
  Speaker 4: the guy, but you look at the guy and you know,
• 39:39
  Speaker 4: it's kind of like thinking, Bucky's going to steal a base. Whoa,
• 39:44
  Speaker 4: It's not gonna happen.
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: It was a fun week.
• 39:51
  Speaker 3: Good laughs, yeah, laughing there, yeah, yeah stuff.
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: Good job guys. Yeah, whoa, whoa, well done everybody. All right,
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  Speaker 2: Well that'll do it. Thank us.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you very much for joining us throughout the week,
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: and certainly I will be talking to you on Monday
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: from back in Seattle. Thanks to Ashley, Thanks to Jesseman
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: who helped us a lot during the course of the
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: week and recording a few interviews, and all the fellas
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: back there in Seattle for having us on the show
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: and promoting our coverage.
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