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Chuck & Buck 2-24 Hour 2: 12th Man News with Gregg Bell, Eeli Tolvanen and Spring training education pt 3. · Chuck in the Morning

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Speaker 1: All right, seven o'clock hour here on this Tuesday, Good
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Speaker 1: morning to you. My name is Chuck Howe, Ashley Ryan
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Speaker 1: here as well. No Bucky Jacobson all week long. He
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Speaker 1: is vacationing and so he will miss our conversation with
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Speaker 1: Ellie Tolbinen, which is coming up later on this hour
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Speaker 1: as he's coming off an Olympic appearance and getting ready
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Speaker 1: for the Dallas Stars tomorrow night in Texas, and we'll
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Speaker 1: get you ready for that as well. Greg Bell's also
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Speaker 1: joining us here in a matter of moments as we
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Speaker 1: get our second hour started here on this second day
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Speaker 1: of the week. But first we start with your headlines.
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Speaker 1: The pajama party will get started on Thursday. Thursday. You
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Speaker 1: will have the linebackers and defensive linemen are going to
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Speaker 1: work out running backs, which might be the area most
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Speaker 1: of interest to the Seahawks this year and to Seahawk
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Speaker 1: fans this year. They will participate Saturday alongside wide receivers
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Speaker 1: and quarterbacks. So four days of pajama party workouts in
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Speaker 1: Indianapolis plus a lot of business that's going to get
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Speaker 1: conducted as well, and we'll cover some of that with
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Speaker 1: Greg Bell here in about two minutes from now. Looks
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Speaker 1: like Kyle Pitts is going to be tagged by the
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Speaker 1: Atlanta Falcons. We are still in the franchise tag window.
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Speaker 1: The Dallas Cowboys are threatening to do the same with
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Speaker 1: George Pickens, coming off a career year, his first year
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Speaker 1: with the Star on his helmet. Pickens doesn't seem to
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Speaker 1: like that idea. Meanwhile, Kyle Pitts hasn't been nearly as vocal,
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Speaker 1: but he probably doesn't like it either. Kracking will be
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Speaker 1: in action in Dallas tomorrow against the Stars. It is
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Speaker 1: a lot of hockey talk today, coming off the Olympics
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Speaker 1: and getting ready for the NHL season. To resume tomorrow night.
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Speaker 1: Let's see Mariner's spring training It, of course continues the
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Speaker 1: there two and two on the Young spring training schedule.
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Speaker 1: The Dodgers shut him out yesterday by a final score
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Speaker 1: of three to nothing. But the real story was that
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Speaker 1: Logan Gilbert took the mound for the first time and
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Speaker 1: an exhibition game. He went two innings, allowed one hit,
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Speaker 1: walked to struck out two and bragged about his dad's
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Speaker 1: strength after the game. And so Mariners shut out by
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Speaker 1: the Dodgers. But really hard to read into anything spring
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Speaker 1: training in a spring training game, and so they'll play
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Speaker 1: again today. All right, there you go. Those are your headlines,
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Speaker 1: Greg Bell.
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Speaker 2: These days with the bell tolls, it must be seven
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Speaker 1: All right, so yesterday we talked to Greg while he
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Speaker 1: was in Boston bracing for a snowstorm and was trapped
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Speaker 1: inside a snow globe to use his words, and today
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Speaker 1: he decided to get out of that situation. Why don't
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Speaker 1: you update us on what you've done in the last
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Speaker 1: twenty four hours?
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Speaker 3: Is anyone chareod eight?
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Speaker 1: Good morning?
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Speaker 4: Last Carolines told me I'd be in Boston until thursdays.
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Speaker 3: So well, instead of just sitting in the hotel.
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Speaker 4: Room for three days in my wife and I had
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Speaker 4: just trudged out in the Lizard and rented the car.
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Speaker 3: We had her pick of the entire lot of Boston.
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Speaker 5: Logan Airport rental furs with nobody.
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Speaker 4: Running them one and I'm in combus aisle driving an
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Speaker 4: Indianapolis in the tour of the Midwest, about sixteen hour
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Speaker 4: drive all told that time I get.
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Speaker 1: There, Wow, oh my gosh, how did you talk her
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Speaker 1: into that? Because I would have thought a hotel room
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Speaker 1: in the middle of a snowstorm would have been very cozy.
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Speaker 3: Well, I seen a big fan of John Candy and Steve.
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Speaker 4: Martin, so she really likes playing strains and automobiles. Since
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Speaker 4: she wanted to re enact that we were actually walking
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Speaker 4: down the street in Boston.
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Speaker 3: It's anyone who's been.
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Speaker 4: In Boston on a Monday afternoon who knows you can't
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Speaker 4: do that. There's a good lock and car punking horns,
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Speaker 4: and we were pulling our bags and walking straight down
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Speaker 4: at North Station of Boston, right down the.
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Speaker 3: Middle of the street. I mean, Daniel Hall was to
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Speaker 3: all right. It was just a really odd scene. They
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Speaker 3: got like twenty inches of snow chuck in about twelve hours.
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Speaker 3: It just dumped and the whole town shut down.
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Speaker 4: And my wife said, you know, I love you, and
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Speaker 4: it would be cool for maybe a night or two,
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Speaker 4: but three or four nights, I'm not sure.
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Speaker 3: I want to just sit at a hotel. Well, I'm
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Speaker 3: really supposed to be at work. You're supposed to be
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Speaker 3: in Indiana. Why don't we go see my mom and
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Speaker 3: brother and go to Iliroy, Ohio, where she grew up.
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Speaker 4: I said, okay, because that's on the way to Indianapolis.
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Speaker 3: Shirt and we drove through it. It was like driving
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Speaker 3: on the side of Mount Baker for the first hour
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Speaker 3: or so.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, then after that it was okay, Wow, you did
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Speaker 1: go through.
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Speaker 3: You went to Syracuse, New York. They have really good
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Speaker 3: burritos on a Monday night in Syracuse, New York.
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Speaker 4: And we also tried to get div Cocola Diamond.
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Speaker 3: Prosecco in Syracuse, and we failed to.
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Speaker 5: Find a place that is open on a Monday night.
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Speaker 3: So we wanted to be able to tell the story here.
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Speaker 1: On the show this morning. Well, you too are brave,
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Speaker 1: you are adventurers. I'm glad you're safe. That's all that
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Speaker 1: really matters. How far away then are you from Indianapolis
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Speaker 1: at this point?
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Speaker 3: How about three hours.
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Speaker 4: I'll get there right before John Snyder talks at the
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Speaker 4: India Convention Center. I'll probably roll into my sweat pants
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Speaker 4: and snow here and say, hey, what's up. Yeah, I'm
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Speaker 4: kind of a little post but wow, my wife's hardy,
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Speaker 4: she's a good stock.
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Speaker 3: So it's a little adventure. But yeah, that snow was
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Speaker 3: no joke.
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Speaker 4: My daughter's got three or four days off the school
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Speaker 4: in the Coast Guard Academy in Connecticut. When the military
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Speaker 4: starts canceling stuff, it's it's usually a decent deal.
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Speaker 1: Oh man, No, John Candy, Steve Martin got nothing on YouTube.
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Speaker 1: If Wendy ends up having to sell shower rings to
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Speaker 1: finish the trip out where let us know, because.
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Speaker 5: We were dreaming about accordy into.
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Speaker 4: The back of a rental van last night, but we didn't.
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Speaker 4: We didn't actually get tabs and experience that actually wasn't
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Speaker 4: so bad that it was an adventure.
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Speaker 1: Wow, yeah, we might if you end up late, that's me.
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Speaker 1: The only story you're gonna have to write is how
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Speaker 1: you almost got to Indianapolis.
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Speaker 4: That's right, I'll get there.
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Speaker 1: Greg Bell is with us, our Seahawks insider, doing everything
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Speaker 1: he can, going through a snowstorm to deliver you the
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Speaker 1: latest Sea Hawks information and news. All right, So when
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Speaker 1: you get to Indianapolis, what's the story? What's the topic? What?
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Speaker 1: What is it that you can't wait to ask? John
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Speaker 1: Schneider there in your sweatpants?
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Speaker 3: Well, what I want to.
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Speaker 4: Ask him in one he'll answer two different things. What
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Speaker 4: I probably i'll ask him is the status of Kenneth
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Speaker 4: Walker negotiations, because that, to me is gonna say what
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Speaker 4: the rest of their spring is like if they and
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Speaker 4: he's not going to answer very much detail. He'll say
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Speaker 4: they love to have Ken back. They're talking to his agents.
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Speaker 3: It's an ongoing process. He's earned the right for this opportunity. Blah,
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Speaker 3: blah blah.
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Speaker 4: But it will shait what they do the rest of
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Speaker 4: the spring, right, I mean chuck. If they don't have
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Speaker 4: a if their Super Bowl MVP running back goes into
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Speaker 4: free agency to has bidder.
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Speaker 3: They don't have a league running back.
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Speaker 4: Zach Sharperday is going to be out at least into
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Speaker 4: probably September October past at the beginning of the season,
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Speaker 4: touring ACL in January, that division floff.
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Speaker 3: Gaming in San Francisco.
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Speaker 4: That's typically an eight to twelve month injury for a
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Speaker 4: running back that has to touch Sharply.
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Speaker 3: You can't bring him back.
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Speaker 4: Seventy five percent like Dave Lucas did with the surgery
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Speaker 4: a couple of years ago. He's got to be one
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Speaker 4: hundred plus percent. So you're talking about going from the
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Speaker 4: Super Bowl MVP running back in the offense and is
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Speaker 4: among the most of the league running ball and plans
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Speaker 4: on being it again this year with their new offensive
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Speaker 4: corner of Brian Fleury straight out of the ship Tobiac Mold.
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Speaker 4: You're going from that to nothing if what Walker walks
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Speaker 4: out the door.
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Speaker 3: So to me, that's the story of the combine because
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Speaker 3: if they.
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Speaker 4: Don't recy Walker, they only have four picks, one of
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Speaker 4: them better be a running back, and even if they
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Speaker 4: do recy Walker, one of them probably should be a
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Speaker 4: running back. To Schoberty's Conjack ends after the coming season.
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Speaker 4: It's the most important position on the team. Yet because
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Speaker 4: of the finances that we've talked about check there, that
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Speaker 4: leads unwillingness to spend a lot of.
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Speaker 5: Guaranteed money as the second contract at that.
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Speaker 4: Position for how much they get heard the sea Ows
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Speaker 4: need them, they need more running backs. They're at a
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Speaker 4: place that will have more running backs this week at
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Speaker 4: the combine. But they got the best one in the
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Speaker 4: sport right now, the Super Bowl MVP that they have
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Speaker 4: a chance to offer before March ninth, when it's crazency begins.
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Speaker 1: And nobody in the league likes young free agents more
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Speaker 1: than John Schneider. I mean, he loves getting that guy
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Speaker 1: that he liked four years ago in the draft process
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Speaker 1: that is still twenty five years old and he thinks
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Speaker 1: he can still get the best football out of him. Well,
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Speaker 1: here you have a guy that fits that mold, that's
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Speaker 1: been in your system. It's your own guy. So where
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Speaker 1: would the hang up be? Where would the frustrations lie?
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Speaker 1: What would keep the Seahawks from making Ken Walker a
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Speaker 1: long term Seahawk.
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Speaker 3: Well, you're right, because he's still only twenty five years old, Chuck.
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Speaker 4: But if you look at him from cattle Walker's perspective,
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Speaker 4: they could have done this long time ago.
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Speaker 3: They could have done this.
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Speaker 4: Before this season. They could have done it during this season.
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Speaker 4: They could have done it when they did a Lucas
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Speaker 4: during the season, and Nougaty could have done it when
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Speaker 4: they did Charles Cross during the playoffs, and they didn't.
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Speaker 4: So if you're the new aged David Cancer is his
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Speaker 4: new agency, Jeff hired.
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Speaker 3: Him for the se title game.
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Speaker 4: If you're talking to your client, the first question would
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Speaker 4: be why we don't know that we should be shocked,
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Speaker 4: but he getting the most money we can give you
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Speaker 4: because you don't know when your next injury could be
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Speaker 4: at running back and you got to get all you
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Speaker 4: can't when you castro of any position, but.
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Speaker 3: Especially running back.
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Speaker 5: But because of the.
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Speaker 4: Seahawks having the opportunity for the last year plus and
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Speaker 4: we had we know the reasons why I didn't offer him,
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Speaker 4: And I asked, yeah, I asked Walker.
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Speaker 3: At the Super Bowl a couple of weeks ago.
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Speaker 4: Have they even come to you about an extension and
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Speaker 4: a new deal, and he said, not that I know of,
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Speaker 4: but those are the same words or made him and
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Speaker 4: he gave me in August when I ask him the
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Speaker 4: same question. So if they haven't even come to him yet,
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Speaker 4: and now they're going to come to him February twenty fifth,
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Speaker 4: or March second, or even marchi eighth, the night before
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Speaker 4: the free agency negotiating period starts, if you're him and
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Speaker 4: his agent we went, what would stop.
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Speaker 5: Them for saying, Ahi, you had your chance, I want to.
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Speaker 3: Go shop down and see what else.
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Speaker 5: People may offer me, and then if I don't like
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Speaker 5: the deal, or I'll.
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Speaker 3: Give you a chance the match after that.
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Speaker 4: Sure, but the price goes up, of course for the
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Speaker 4: Seahawks and doing it. What would keep the Seahawks from
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Speaker 4: signing him is if that price with multiple bidders got
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Speaker 4: so high that scared.
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Speaker 3: You know what.
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Speaker 4: Let's roll with a new Kenneth Parker like they did
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Speaker 4: after Chris Carson, like they did after Marshawn Lenz, like
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Speaker 4: they did after Thomas Rols. You go draft your next
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Speaker 4: guy and pay him a rookie deal with a ton
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Speaker 4: of guaranteed money, so you.
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Speaker 3: Can go spend that guaranteed money in cap space somewhere else.
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Speaker 4: That's obviously what's in the back of Schneyder's mind, or
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Speaker 4: else he would have offered.
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Speaker 3: And probably signed.
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Speaker 4: What they didn't plan on was for charbon Day to
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Speaker 4: get hurt and be out in the next season, and.
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Speaker 3: For Walker to blow up like he.
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Speaker 4: Did on the world stage and be the NBPA the
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Speaker 4: Super Bowl. They didn't would they tag Walker's market during
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Speaker 4: the season and before the season what it might take
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Speaker 4: to bring him back. They didn't count on him being
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Speaker 4: at a parade in Disneyland with Mickey Mouse the day
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Speaker 4: after the Super Bowl. That changed the money on them.
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Speaker 4: So now did that money change to the point where
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Speaker 4: it's to its physics. It's not about where they can.
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Speaker 5: Because they've got the cap space, they could do.
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Speaker 3: It if they want to. It's about where they will
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Speaker 3: because of the position.
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Speaker 1: To Walker play well. If they don't greg spend the money,
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Speaker 1: even if it's more than they were intending on Walker,
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Speaker 1: what do they spend their cap space on their own
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Speaker 1: guys extensions for guys that aren't quite free agents yet
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Speaker 1: JSN And whether Spoon or or is this gonna be
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Speaker 1: a frenzy that the Seahawks will be involved in here
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Speaker 1: in a couple of weeks when when the free agency
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Speaker 1: process begins.
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Speaker 4: Yes, yes, and no, Okay, you know Jo, you know
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Speaker 4: John Snead enough to know he's not gonna get in
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Speaker 4: a big war with anybody going to the first day
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Speaker 4: of free agency in.
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Speaker 3: Frenzy and all that. I mean, Draymond Jones is about
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Speaker 3: as much as he's gonna splash. And that splashed back
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Speaker 3: in his face and blew up, and then.
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Speaker 5: We got a season out of him before they got rid.
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Speaker 3: Of Raymont Jones.
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Speaker 4: With a ton of guaranteed money, they are gonna get
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Speaker 4: a new JSN deal done that could be clost of
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Speaker 4: two hundred million dollars to me. I think Devin is
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Speaker 4: as it has been consistently the best, most impactful player
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Speaker 4: for the last three years, three Pro Bowls. They typically
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Speaker 4: get those guys done before the rookie season. The rookie
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Speaker 4: contract ends the year of their final deal. And now
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Speaker 4: all of a sudden, that's where Winerspoon will be this
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Speaker 4: time next summer. I would expect that would be more
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Speaker 4: into the summer right around and start a training camp.
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Speaker 4: Nobody's talking about Kobe Bryant, but Mike McDonald loves him,
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Speaker 4: loves how smart he is, loves how solidified, how he
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Speaker 4: just solidified the.
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Speaker 3: Back end of the defense, how well he and Jolynn
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Speaker 3: Love worked together.
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Speaker 4: I'd be very surprised if Kobe Brandt is not starting
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Speaker 4: for that team with a new contract next year, which
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Speaker 4: means you gotta resign him before free agency begins to
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Speaker 4: March stint. He's talked a couple of times about Rasis
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Speaker 4: and how that's probably the most maybe the easiest or
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Speaker 4: most expeditious tending free agent to get done by the
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Speaker 4: nature of his position and worth to the team. And
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Speaker 4: then they still get deeper on the offensive and defensive lines.
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Speaker 4: Anthony Bradford has been something of a big.
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Speaker 5: Spot at times, and now he's coming to the end.
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Speaker 4: Of his rookie deal in a year, so they don't
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Speaker 4: have enough defensive line that especially now that their big studs.
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Speaker 3: Are getting into their thirties.
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Speaker 4: Jaron Reed'll be ering the twelfth season if he wants
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Speaker 4: to come back, and christ to say he does. Letter
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Speaker 4: Williams will turn thirty three, DeMarcus Lawrence in the second
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Speaker 4: year of a three year and near will turns thirty four.
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Speaker 5: They will draft and or sign a.
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Speaker 4: Free agent defensive lineman to be the future beyond twenty
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Speaker 4: six to twenty seven. And then I mentioned they got
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Speaker 4: four picks, chearn, I can really be shocked if they
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Speaker 4: walk out.
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Speaker 3: Of it into the draft at the beginning of May
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Speaker 3: with just four picks.
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Speaker 4: He's got the number thirty two and number sixty four
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Speaker 4: and the number ninety six. Picks all at the bottom
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Speaker 4: of the first three rounds are in Super Bowl champ
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Speaker 4: Those are historically spots that you trade down into the
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Speaker 4: next round to get entice the team that wants to
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Speaker 4: come up.
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Speaker 3: And grab a guy that they're afraid someone else will take.
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Speaker 4: He can easily get a pick or two extra out
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Speaker 4: of that thirty second pick at the end of the
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Speaker 4: first round because he doesn't have first round talent at
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Speaker 4: thirty two on his board. There's a lot of John
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Speaker 4: Schneider patterns that are setting up here.
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Speaker 3: Yep. Take carry up guys, trade down, get more picks.
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Speaker 3: Three load with depths in draft picks on the offense
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Speaker 3: and the defensive lines in draft.
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Speaker 1: Right, well, be safe. I'll let you focus on driving
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Speaker 1: here the rest of the way. I will just tell
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Speaker 1: you if you do smoke a cigarette, make sure, you
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Speaker 1: throw it completely outside of the car. You don't want
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Speaker 1: a John Candiate and have it land in the back seat.
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Speaker 1: I mean that caused a lot of trouble, Greg, So
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Speaker 1: you know, be careful, be careful out there.
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Speaker 3: It's a different movie, but Orange Whips for everyone.
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Speaker 1: Orange Orange Whip. Thanks, Greg be saying all right, great Tuesday, Greg,
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Speaker 1: our Seahawks insider and Windy Bell. They're making their way
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Speaker 1: across the American heartland to get to Indianapolis on time
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Speaker 1: to cover the combine. I don't know how fascinating a
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Speaker 1: movie that would make a couple leaves a romantic reunion
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Speaker 1: in Boston to go to the NFL Combine in Indianapolis.
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Speaker 1: But boy, you add a snowstorm and race against the clock.
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Speaker 1: It's a little bit of smoking the Bandit what we
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Speaker 1: got going on here? Except with weather? Yeah? Yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 6: It's just looking at all the videos that Greg posted
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Speaker 6: yesterday and then when he was like, yeah, we're walking,
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Speaker 6: and then yesterday I get I checked in.
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Speaker 7: I said, how's it going.
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Speaker 6: Well, we got a jeep, now we're driving and we
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Speaker 6: got eleven hours and I just.
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Speaker 1: Well, and then I will also just say this, like
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Speaker 1: if you do end up in a hotel together because
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Speaker 1: you can't get there in time. In this particular case,
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Speaker 1: if one of you wakes up with your hand between
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Speaker 1: two pillows, just go with it.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, embrace it. It's romance, that's right.
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Speaker 1: That's a different situation, yeah than the movies. Yeah, all right, Well, yes,
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Speaker 1: he's got a lot to do. He's gonna try to
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Speaker 1: get to Indianapolis on time to talk to John Schneider.
18:13
Speaker 1: It's very interesting, man. You become Super Bowl champs and
18:17
Speaker 1: suddenly people start paying attention to you. You know, it's weird. Yeah,
18:21
Speaker 1: I mean the Seahawks sort of snuck up on everyone
18:25
Speaker 1: outside of Seattle this year, outside of the Division. I
18:28
Speaker 1: think the forty nine Ers and Rams, it didn't take
18:30
Speaker 1: them very long into the season to respect the team
18:33
Speaker 1: that they were playing. I think the Seahawks. I think
18:35
Speaker 1: the division opponents knew. But in terms of those that
18:38
Speaker 1: write articles nationally, yeah, once you get to the Super Bowl,
18:42
Speaker 1: they're like, oh wait, this team's actually pretty good.
18:45
Speaker 7: Oh wait, yeah, yeah happened.
18:46
Speaker 1: So the NFL network NFL dot Com came up with
18:50
Speaker 1: it's one hundred and one top free agents for this offseason,
18:54
Speaker 1: and the Seahawks are all over it. I mean, Ken
18:57
Speaker 1: Walker's all the way up to number ten. Yeah, I
18:59
Speaker 1: saw that boy, Mafe's eleven, and Rashid Shahit is twelve.
19:04
Speaker 1: So they're saying the Seahawks have three of the top
19:06
Speaker 1: twelve free agents, and then you don't have to go
19:09
Speaker 1: too much further down the list to find more Seahawks,
19:12
Speaker 1: which they clustered in a strange way on the list
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Speaker 1: Kobe Bryant thirty eighth, Reek Wooland thirty ninth. So yeah,
19:21
Speaker 1: suddenly you know this does happen. It's not just because
19:24
Speaker 1: the NFL kind of was asleep at the wheel when
19:28
Speaker 1: it came to evaluating the Seahawks. This does happen. Happens
19:31
Speaker 1: every year. Even NFL teams do it. It's not just
19:33
Speaker 1: writers and talk show hosts. Even NFL teams. Oh wow,
19:39
Speaker 1: that guy won a Super Bowl. I'm gonna pay him
19:41
Speaker 1: a little bit more wor Yeah. And so that's kind
19:44
Speaker 1: of what John and Mike are up against a little
19:47
Speaker 1: bit here with free agency. I think they are going
19:49
Speaker 1: to fight to try to keep their guys. And the
19:51
Speaker 1: more I think about it, I mean, I do think
19:54
Speaker 1: they're gonna part Walker and the Seahawks. But the more
19:57
Speaker 1: I think about it, I think Bucker and Bryant are
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Speaker 1: the priorities. If I can only keep two of the
20:04
Speaker 1: six or seven free agents that we could leave, I
20:07
Speaker 1: think I'm gonna make those two the priorities. Okay, go
20:10
Speaker 1: ahead and keep Walker. Pay a little extra, make yourself uncomfortable.
20:15
Speaker 1: And I'd kind of like to see Kobe Bryant. I mean,
20:17
Speaker 1: you're not gonna be able to keep Bryant, Wooland and Job.
20:21
Speaker 1: But of the three, I think i'd like Bryant. I
20:24
Speaker 1: think so more than any of them. And not because
20:26
Speaker 1: he's the most talented. He's just the best football player
20:30
Speaker 1: of the group.
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Speaker 3: All right.
20:31
Speaker 1: Coming up next on the program, we will be joined
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Speaker 1: by Olympian Kraken Ellie Tolvenden Sports Radio ninety three point
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Speaker 1: three kh A r F M, PAMA. Good morning to you.
21:06
Speaker 1: It is a cracking ticket Tuesday. Be listening for your
21:08
Speaker 1: chance at a pair of cracking tickets all hour long,
21:11
Speaker 1: every hour throughout the course of the broadcast day. And
21:13
Speaker 1: finally we get back to cracking hockey tomorrow night in Dallas,
21:17
Speaker 1: they'll be taking on the stars, of course, coming off
21:20
Speaker 1: of the Olympic experience. That's the reason for the delay
21:24
Speaker 1: in the season. Three weeks off for every team in
21:27
Speaker 1: the National Hockey League. Some teams had a couple players
21:32
Speaker 1: in the Olympic process, some had several. The Krackings certainly
21:36
Speaker 1: were affected by that. But now they get ready to
21:40
Speaker 1: return to the ice resume the season on Wednesday, and
21:44
Speaker 1: I think everybody is pumped about that. I mean, this
21:46
Speaker 1: is an opportunity, certainly for the National Hockey League. I
21:50
Speaker 1: know it's not convenient to disrupt the season and to
21:54
Speaker 1: put it on hold for three weeks, and they forced
21:58
Speaker 1: the players into playing a lot more games in a
22:01
Speaker 1: shorter period of time in order to create this opportunity
22:05
Speaker 1: for the NHL players, the best in the world, to
22:08
Speaker 1: participate in the Olympics. But then I think you've figured
22:12
Speaker 1: out why it was worth it, because the buzz for
22:15
Speaker 1: hockey is certainly an electrifying one. As we get ready
22:18
Speaker 1: to resume play on Wednesday, Ashley and I just discussed
22:21
Speaker 1: it yesterday. I don't know we've been more excited to
22:24
Speaker 1: watch a cracking game than we are for tomorrow night
22:27
Speaker 1: as they get ready to take on the Dallas Stars.
22:30
Speaker 1: And joining us now on the program is Ellie Tolvenen,
22:33
Speaker 1: who won a bronze medal at the Olympics for his
22:37
Speaker 1: team Finland, his country Finland, and now gets ready to
22:41
Speaker 1: start and resume the season with the Crack and tomorrow night.
22:45
Speaker 1: Ellie joins us here on Chuck and Buck. Good morning, sir,
22:49
Speaker 1: Good morning, Hey doing I'm great. How are you doing?
22:52
Speaker 1: That's the most important thing. How are you feeling?
22:55
Speaker 8: I'm doing great, I'm doing great.
22:57
Speaker 1: Yeah. What was the Olympics experience like for are you
23:00
Speaker 1: this year?
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Speaker 8: Uh? No, it was cool, really cool. You know, your
23:05
Speaker 8: dream off playing the Olympics, your whole whole childhood and uh,
23:09
Speaker 8: you know, no being able to go there and you know,
23:11
Speaker 8: get a bronze medal and what could have been better?
23:13
Speaker 8: And uh you know, yeah, it's a sort of feeling,
23:16
Speaker 8: you know, be able to three percent of Finland.
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Speaker 3: Uh.
23:19
Speaker 1: Of course the gold medal game was between the US
23:22
Speaker 1: and Canada, and so obviously we were a little more
23:25
Speaker 1: focused on that. I think you can understand, uh, Ellie. Uh,
23:28
Speaker 1: but give us an idea of what the rivalry is
23:32
Speaker 1: like between Finland and Sweden, who met up in the
23:35
Speaker 1: in the bronze milt. Do you have a huge rivalry
23:38
Speaker 1: with that country, that team.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean, it's pretty much the same as US Canada. Okay,
23:45
Speaker 8: you know all the battles that we've had and uh,
23:48
Speaker 8: you know it's uh, yeah, it's one hundred percent of
23:51
Speaker 8: the same as US Canada. We hate each other and
23:53
Speaker 8: you know it shows on the ice to uh you
23:55
Speaker 8: always want to be beat Sweden and you know it
23:59
Speaker 8: was a pretty sick to be able to speak Sweden Olympics.
24:04
Speaker 1: What is definitively better about Finland than Sweden? Everything? Everything, everything,
24:15
Speaker 1: even the food, even the chocolate, even the pastries. Everything.
24:19
Speaker 1: Is that what you're telling everything?
24:21
Speaker 8: Hockey, people, food, everything, everything you can imagine.
24:26
Speaker 1: Uh, the women are prettier, the men are hands more handsome.
24:29
Speaker 1: Is that what you're telling me? Ellie Tolvin and joining
24:34
Speaker 1: us right here on Chucking Buck. Did you watch the
24:36
Speaker 1: gold medal game at all? Or is that uh? As
24:39
Speaker 1: somebody that didn't get there, you didn't want any part
24:41
Speaker 1: of it.
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Speaker 8: I saw the overtime. Actually we were just on a
24:46
Speaker 8: plane back to the US when the game was on,
24:48
Speaker 8: so uh, we were able to catch the overtime on
24:52
Speaker 8: the plane, So didn't see the whole game, but I
24:54
Speaker 8: saw the sad the game when you.
24:56
Speaker 1: Go, yeah, well your bronze medal game was a blowout.
24:59
Speaker 1: That is tight. I mean, man, what a what a
25:02
Speaker 1: game it ended up being, and uh, for it to
25:05
Speaker 1: end that way in overtime certainly a rush. How how
25:09
Speaker 1: much do you think that the NHL uh is going
25:12
Speaker 1: to benefit from the hype and the three weeks of
25:15
Speaker 1: build up that the Olympics gave us, because I can
25:19
Speaker 1: tell here in Seattle and throughout America that people are
25:21
Speaker 1: pretty jacked to get to watch their local hockey team
25:25
Speaker 1: play their next game.
25:28
Speaker 3: Yeah.
25:28
Speaker 8: I think it's it's gonna benefit a lot.
25:30
Speaker 1: Uh.
25:30
Speaker 8: You know, it's been twelve years since Best on Best
25:33
Speaker 8: hockey in the Olympics, and I think you showed too.
25:36
Speaker 4: Uh.
25:36
Speaker 8: You know all these games, Uh, how good, how physical,
25:40
Speaker 8: how how high temple the games were. So I think
25:44
Speaker 8: it was a big thing for hockey. You know, get
25:46
Speaker 8: the NHL players to the Olympics and play for their countries,
25:48
Speaker 8: and you know it's uh, you always have the little
25:51
Speaker 8: extra step and extra energy when you play for your country,
25:54
Speaker 8: and I think you showed them how good the hockey was,
25:56
Speaker 8: and especially I I've only heard good things about that
25:59
Speaker 8: final game, how how creative the hockey gaming was.
26:03
Speaker 1: Uh, crack and winger Ellie Tolbnan is with us right
26:07
Speaker 1: here on Chucking Buck in the mornings here today. So
26:10
Speaker 1: a lot of your teammates are well rested. I mean
26:13
Speaker 1: they've been off for three weeks. Are you tired from
26:16
Speaker 1: the Olympic experience as you get ready to rejoin your
26:19
Speaker 1: team there in Dallas.
26:22
Speaker 8: Well, yeah, there's a little bit of jet lack for
26:24
Speaker 8: sure right now. But you know, I think it was
26:27
Speaker 8: one of those experiences that you don't really get tired
26:29
Speaker 8: because you know, it's it's an once in a lifelove
26:33
Speaker 8: situation you can play in the Olympics.
26:34
Speaker 1: So I'm actually feeling pretty pretty good right now.
26:37
Speaker 8: And now, you know, just to get over to jet lack,
26:39
Speaker 8: and I.
26:39
Speaker 1: Think it will be good to go. If any of
26:41
Speaker 1: your teammates that weren't in the Olympics complain about being tired,
26:44
Speaker 1: what will you do to them?
26:49
Speaker 8: We'll see me and Kopple will figure something out as
26:51
Speaker 8: they if they got to say they're.
26:52
Speaker 1: Tired, yeah, three weeks. What do you think they did
26:56
Speaker 1: for three weeks?
26:58
Speaker 8: Probably had some fun.
26:59
Speaker 1: Yeah, down the beach.
27:01
Speaker 8: I got I got some clips them playing golf and
27:04
Speaker 8: you know, into and that's cool too, but I'll take
27:06
Speaker 8: the Olympics every day.
27:08
Speaker 1: There you go, there you go. Ellie Tolvenan is with us,
27:10
Speaker 1: all right. So the team at a pretty good is
27:13
Speaker 1: off to a pretty good start this season. More than
27:15
Speaker 1: a start. I mean, you're over halfway through the regular season.
27:18
Speaker 1: You're in playoff position right now. So as you get
27:21
Speaker 1: ready to play again tomorrow night, what's it gonna take,
27:25
Speaker 1: Ellie to get there, to be in the playoffs at
27:28
Speaker 1: the end of the year. What do the Kraken need
27:30
Speaker 1: to do?
27:33
Speaker 3: You know?
27:33
Speaker 8: Just play like we did before the break. You know,
27:36
Speaker 8: I think everybody was bought in the system. Everybody's playing
27:40
Speaker 8: their their asses off, so I think just to keep
27:43
Speaker 8: the same thing going.
27:44
Speaker 3: Uh.
27:44
Speaker 8: You know, we've been We've been doing pretty good job
27:46
Speaker 8: this year playing this a Ford line Ford line team,
27:48
Speaker 8: and I think that's what we have to keep keep
27:50
Speaker 8: building and doing the doing the rest of the twenty
27:52
Speaker 8: five games.
27:53
Speaker 3: So we have left.
27:54
Speaker 1: How do you explain the wild inconsistencies this year? You
27:57
Speaker 1: guys will go on a hot streak and then you'll
27:59
Speaker 1: go on a cold streak and then you get hot again.
28:02
Speaker 1: Why has that occurred? And why will you play more
28:04
Speaker 1: consistently the rest of the way.
28:07
Speaker 8: Yeah, I don't know. I think there's been parts parts
28:11
Speaker 8: of the season, Like you said, it's been inconsistent, but
28:13
Speaker 8: I feel like we always played well pretty well, so
28:16
Speaker 8: you know, the results hasn't been there. I think the
28:18
Speaker 8: our game has been actually pretty good through throughout the
28:21
Speaker 8: whole year, but just the results haven't been probably the best,
28:25
Speaker 8: you know, right before the Christmas. But I feel like
28:28
Speaker 8: right right now and since the Christmas, I feel like
28:32
Speaker 8: as a team, I felt like we took big steps
28:34
Speaker 8: forward and you know, everybody's feeling more comfortable, you know.
28:38
Speaker 1: With everything. Are the Americans a little arrogant as you
28:42
Speaker 1: rejoined them now? On the team?
28:46
Speaker 8: I haven't seen much of many been ears yet. I
28:48
Speaker 8: think he's the He's probably the biggest guy who's gonna
28:51
Speaker 8: say something. Right, We'll see, we'll see what he's gonna say.
28:56
Speaker 1: Yeah, you got something in store for him if he
28:58
Speaker 1: gets a little too fiery. Way, Yes, are there any
29:03
Speaker 1: more any of them Swedes on the Dallas Stars that
29:06
Speaker 1: you still have a bone to pick with? No, I
29:11
Speaker 1: don't think there's any At least you don't have to
29:14
Speaker 1: deal with them anymore. While yeah, exactly that inferior a lot. Yeah, exactly,
29:20
Speaker 1: all right, Well, Ellie, hey, thanks for joining us.
29:22
Speaker 3: Man.
29:23
Speaker 1: We appreciate it. Have a great rest of the season
29:26
Speaker 1: and hopefully we got a playoff year here with the
29:29
Speaker 1: Kraken perfect. Thanks for having me, all right, Ellie Tolvin
29:33
Speaker 1: and joining us right here on Chuck and Buck in
29:36
Speaker 1: the morning. So, yes, he's on the by the way
29:39
Speaker 1: team Tentacle, the Two Tentacles. He's on my fantasy team.
29:43
Speaker 1: I like him, and I do too. I'd like to
29:45
Speaker 1: see a few more goals out of you, because you
29:47
Speaker 1: might have to carry my team.
29:48
Speaker 7: His name is Ellie.
29:50
Speaker 1: Yeah, let's get that done, Bud. I like that, as
29:54
Speaker 1: I do too.
29:55
Speaker 7: The hockey players don't. They're usually very prim and proper.
29:58
Speaker 3: I like that.
29:59
Speaker 1: He admitted they he hates sweet.
30:01
Speaker 7: Everything is better in Finland. That was my favorite.
30:04
Speaker 1: What's better?
30:05
Speaker 7: What is definitively better about Finland than sweet everything?
30:08
Speaker 1: And I have not heard good things about Finnish food?
30:11
Speaker 1: Oh and yet everything everything? Yeah, I loved it.
30:15
Speaker 7: Men are more handsome, yep, women are prettier. Food is better,
30:19
Speaker 7: country is better.
30:20
Speaker 1: Well, we appreciate him coming on with us, Yes, and
30:24
Speaker 1: I think people are jacked. I think that, you know,
30:27
Speaker 1: you watch if you got up and watched that game
30:29
Speaker 1: on Sunday and you realized, you know, moments afterwards that Okay,
30:36
Speaker 1: NHL resumes after three weeks off on Wednesday. Certainly there
30:41
Speaker 1: was a little bit of fire in my gut for
30:44
Speaker 1: this game tomorrow, more so than there normally would be.
30:46
Speaker 7: Yeah, And I was trying to figure out how many
30:49
Speaker 7: games were left. When he said twenty five, I was like,
30:50
Speaker 7: oh gosh.
30:51
Speaker 4: Is that it.
30:52
Speaker 1: It's gonna fly by, for sure, But the NHL strategy
30:56
Speaker 1: worked out. I don't know if baseball, I don't know
31:00
Speaker 1: if I'm a big fan of baseball being in the
31:02
Speaker 1: Olympics again, but I think that's I mean, that's going
31:05
Speaker 1: to happen. I don't know. Maybe the nby the basketball
31:11
Speaker 1: thing has run its course. I'm not sure.
31:13
Speaker 7: I mean, I just I just can't get because we're
31:15
Speaker 7: so good. It's like you don't have the excitement.
31:18
Speaker 1: Yeah, and also the rival, and also not everybody wants
31:21
Speaker 1: to do it. And then I understand why they don't
31:24
Speaker 1: want to do it, because if they don't win, then
31:26
Speaker 1: they're losers. And if they do win, it was expected.
31:30
Speaker 1: I think the basketball players are really put in a
31:32
Speaker 1: tough position by the American sports fan, but it makes
31:36
Speaker 1: so much sense for hockey, yes, to do it and
31:39
Speaker 1: man introduce patriotism into this sport and just watch it
31:44
Speaker 1: go to a whole new level. That four Nations thing
31:47
Speaker 1: was not supposed to get as ugly as it got.
31:49
Speaker 1: It was not supposed to get as vicious and violent
31:52
Speaker 1: as it got. And don't make any mistake about it,
31:55
Speaker 1: the success of the four Nations and the and the
31:59
Speaker 1: the you know, the ill feelings that were created between
32:03
Speaker 1: Canada and the US at the end of that match
32:07
Speaker 1: has spilled over into making this Olympic thing. I mean,
32:10
Speaker 1: if it didn't end up being US Canada in the
32:13
Speaker 1: gold medal game, I don't think it was just US
32:15
Speaker 1: and Canadians that were going to be disappointed with that.
32:18
Speaker 1: I think everybody in the globe wanted to see this
32:20
Speaker 1: rematch again. And yes, Sweden and Finland have their own rivalry,
32:26
Speaker 1: but I think everybody was kind of looking forward to.
32:30
Speaker 1: If you weren't from Finland and Sweden, yeah, I think
32:33
Speaker 1: you were kind of looking forward to US Canada to
32:37
Speaker 1: decide it. You're absolutely right, and then we got treated
32:39
Speaker 1: to an outstanding game, all right. So tomorrow night, five o'clock.
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32:55
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Speaker 1: Radio ninety three point three kJ RF. It was from
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Speaker 1: Ashley and it was handmade at home, but we won
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Speaker 1: an award.
33:09
Speaker 7: Could hold it?
33:11
Speaker 1: People saw ai. Yeah, people commented on it regularly.
33:15
Speaker 7: It's actually a very large talking point.
33:17
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think we're gonna win that same award this year.
33:20
Speaker 7: I think you might be correct.
33:21
Speaker 1: Our coverage was fantastic last week, if I do say
33:24
Speaker 1: so myself, and so hopefully you got a lot out
33:28
Speaker 1: of it. So much out of it you don't need
33:29
Speaker 1: any more of it, that's my hope. Yeah, you don't
33:32
Speaker 1: need any more spring everything you need, Yeah, because it
33:35
Speaker 1: was just that thorough, just that good. And yet I
33:40
Speaker 1: did want to spend some time on it this week
33:43
Speaker 1: because we were your eyes and ears done in Peoria
33:46
Speaker 1: for your favorite baseball team. And so we've introduced this
33:50
Speaker 1: week without Bucky being here. What I learned personally at
33:54
Speaker 1: Spring Training we did parts one and parts two yesterday.
33:58
Speaker 1: Today we do part three and maybe even part four
34:01
Speaker 1: before the show comes to a close. So yes, for
34:03
Speaker 1: now it's a trilogy. People couldn't get another parts one
34:08
Speaker 1: in parts two of the story. So the Lord of
34:11
Speaker 1: the Rings a little bit, a little bit, accept a lot.
34:14
Speaker 7: More put into it, right, Yeah, a lot more effort.
34:17
Speaker 1: Bucky and I lived in New Zealand for two years,
34:20
Speaker 1: full years of our lives, to deliver these reports. Yes,
34:24
Speaker 1: So what I learned at Spring Training Part three, What
34:28
Speaker 1: I learned is how excited the organization is about Kate
34:32
Speaker 1: Anderson and Ryan Sloan. They were the talk of camp,
34:35
Speaker 1: They were the buzz of camp. How will they be
34:38
Speaker 1: used this upcoming year? What I learned is that there
34:42
Speaker 1: is a pecking order for if knock on wood, hopefully
34:46
Speaker 1: none of them do. Anybody gets injured in the starting rotation.
34:50
Speaker 1: I mean, we know the five guys. What order they're
34:52
Speaker 1: put in is pretty much irrelevant, but if one does
34:56
Speaker 1: get injured, the obvious is Emerson Hancock is your sixth
35:00
Speaker 1: off the bench. When I mentioned that to Justin Hollander.
35:03
Speaker 1: All he did was not his head, so verify Emerson.
35:06
Speaker 1: Hancock is the sixth starter. Now, from that standpoint with Emerson,
35:10
Speaker 1: it's a little disappointing. I mean, these are his best buds.
35:12
Speaker 1: This is a former first round pick, the highest pick
35:15
Speaker 1: of all of them in the draft and except for
35:17
Speaker 1: Kate Anderson now and yet he's just not one of
35:21
Speaker 1: the best five in one of the best rotations in
35:24
Speaker 1: Major League Baseball the last three years. And so he's
35:28
Speaker 1: either going to start the year in Tacoma and that's
35:31
Speaker 1: probably where he's going to be and fighting his way
35:35
Speaker 1: to get back, and they can't really turn him into
35:37
Speaker 1: a reliever like they did at the end of last
35:39
Speaker 1: season to a little bit of a success, because they
35:41
Speaker 1: need the starting pitching dep and he provides that for them.
35:45
Speaker 1: So it's tough. I mean, you can tell with Emerson
35:48
Speaker 1: he wants to be with his guys, he wants to
35:50
Speaker 1: be in this rotation. But who do you take out
35:52
Speaker 1: to make room for him? And the answer is nobody.
35:55
Speaker 1: So he is your sixth man and you don't have
35:57
Speaker 1: Logan Evans this year. So he's injured. He's going to
36:00
Speaker 1: be out for the entire season. So where does the
36:03
Speaker 1: pitching depth go from Their starting rotation wise, probably will
36:07
Speaker 1: be a Jonathan Diaz type who they brought back, because
36:11
Speaker 1: what Justin Hollander told us was that Kate Anderson and
36:14
Speaker 1: Ryan Sloan are not going to be slotted in as
36:18
Speaker 1: like the seventh option or eighth option, even though they
36:21
Speaker 1: were the talk of camp, and even though they might
36:24
Speaker 1: be major league ready sooner than what even they envisioned.
36:28
Speaker 1: And they had a pretty fast track on both of
36:31
Speaker 1: those guys, and so there will be a chance that
36:37
Speaker 1: both Anderson and Sloan are going to debut this year,
36:41
Speaker 1: this major League baseball season. And they do believe that
36:46
Speaker 1: if they were in another organization, they're good enough right
36:49
Speaker 1: now that they would be more seriously considered to make
36:53
Speaker 1: a starting rotation out of spring training if they weren't
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Speaker 1: within this organization, where obviously it's a pretty tough rotation
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Speaker 1: to crack. So that's how advanced that they are. Sloan's
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Speaker 1: only twenty years old, looks fourteen with a thirty eight
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Speaker 1: year old's body that may twenty eight year old's body
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Speaker 1: thirty eight years you know, starting to lose a little, yeah,
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Speaker 1: but he looks fantastic and he's gonna be better, he's
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Speaker 1: gonna be available sooner than or he's gonna be major
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Speaker 1: league ready sooner than what I think they forecasted even
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Speaker 1: a year ago. Kate Anderson was drafted with the idea
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Speaker 1: that he's the most polished college baseball pitcher in the class,
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Speaker 1: and maybe one of the most polished in the last
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Speaker 1: few years. Now one of the best that'd be Schemes,
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Speaker 1: that would be Strasbourg in the last few year. He's
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Speaker 1: not in that category. But they do believe, they did
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Speaker 1: believe when they drafted him and got lucky to win
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Speaker 1: in the lottery process, that he was going to be
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Speaker 1: major league ready pretty quickly, and that seems to be
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Speaker 1: the case. But that doesn't mean that they're the seventh
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Speaker 1: and eighth option to start the year. As a matter
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Speaker 1: of fact, Justin Hollander is pretty clear about that they're
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Speaker 1: not going to be the seventh and eight options to
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Speaker 1: start the year, But that doesn't mean that, depending on
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Speaker 1: how the season unfolds, that they wouldn't be ready at
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Speaker 1: some point to join this organization, join this rotation, which
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Speaker 1: is very interesting indeed, and speaks well to the future,
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Speaker 1: which is something we'll talk more about tomorrow, because what
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Speaker 1: I think I have figured out is how they're going
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Speaker 1: to make all of this work for the next few years.
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Speaker 1: If Anderson and Sloan are going to be ready earlier
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Speaker 1: then anticipated. Maybe they're not a huge factor in twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty six, but they certainly are going to be ready
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Speaker 1: by twenty twenty seven. And right now, you've got five
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Speaker 1: starting pitchers who are all under contracts for multiple years
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Speaker 1: going forward, and so something I think will change in
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Speaker 1: the off season to make room for at least one
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Speaker 1: of these guys next year on the opening day starting rotation.
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Speaker 1: What will that look like. Well, we're going to talk
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Speaker 1: more about that on tomorrow's show. Coming up next, though,
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Speaker 1: the Pajama Party is about ready to break out in Indianapolis.
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Speaker 1: We provide a little bit of a preview, including this
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Speaker 1: tiny breakdown of the position that maybe John Schneider suddenly
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Speaker 1: is most interested in investigating in Indianapolis. We'll do that
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Speaker 1: in next Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM