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Ian Furness 9/24 H2: Hear from Darnold, Eno Sarris & the Daily Power Play! · The Ian Furness Show

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  Speaker 1: From the Star Reynolds Sports Desk, your 93.3 KKRFM Sports Headlines.
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  Speaker 2: Headlines are brought to you by Frostbrook Coors Light Cold
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  Speaker 2: as the Rockies. Sam Darnold trending towards playing and starting
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  Speaker 2: on Sunday in Washington. We will hear from him in
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  Speaker 2: just a couple of seconds. Week 3 of the NFL
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  Speaker 2: season gets underway tonight. Falcons head to Green Bay. Former
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  Speaker 2: UW star Michael Penix Jr. will get his start for Atlanta.
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  Speaker 2: Back off his injury. We'll see how long he lasts.
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  Speaker 2: which might be the only reason to watch this game.
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  Speaker 2: Falcons looking for their first win. Packers barely beat the Jets. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: those are two.
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  Speaker 3: It's really ugly.
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  Speaker 2: I think I heard somewhere the Falcons are like, they
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  Speaker 2: have a bunch of national games coming up. Oh, God.
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  Speaker 2: Who thought that would be a good idea?
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  Speaker 3: Somebody who should be fired.
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  Speaker 2: They have to leave the league in empty seats doing
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  Speaker 2: it in this league. It's a bad sports town.
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  Speaker 3: It really is, and they are a bad team.
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  Speaker 2: KJR has that game, 93.3, KJR at 515. Tonight over
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  Speaker 2: on 950, we've got the Kraken in their second-to-last preseason game.
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  Speaker 2: There's only four, so this is game number three. A
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  Speaker 2: lot of regulars are playing in that game. 630 tonight.
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  Speaker 2: is our coverage on 950. Drop of the puck around 640.
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  Speaker 2: New start time this year. Make note of that, Kraken fans.
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  Speaker 2: M's hanging on by the tiniest of threads. Josh Naylor
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  Speaker 2: walked it off in the 10th last night to give
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  Speaker 2: the M's a 6-5 win. Keep their playoff hopes alive.
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  Speaker 2: Quick check of the scoreboard. We are in the top
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  Speaker 2: of the sixth inning. The Rangers leading the Mets 2-1.
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  Speaker 2: If that holds through... which I doubt it will since
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  Speaker 2: I think the Rangers' bullpen's blown a couple leads already
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  Speaker 2: this week.
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  Speaker 4: Yesterday it was what? I think they were up 2-1
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  Speaker 4: or something, and then in the ninth inning.
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  Speaker 3: They were up 7-7.
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  Speaker 2: They gave up five or something.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it was awesome.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so we'll see. We'll keep an eye on that
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  Speaker 2: score as well.
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  Speaker 5: Here we go.
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  Speaker 2: All right, let's move into hour number two. Don't forget,
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  Speaker 2: 2 o'clock, we've got our guy Brandon Funston joining us,
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  Speaker 2: the unofficial star of the weekend, 49451. Your questions, thoughts
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  Speaker 2: for him? For fantasy football. We'll take your calls as well. Now,
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  Speaker 2: I'll get to that later.
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  Speaker 5: Calls.
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  Speaker 2: Ashley doesn't want your calls before when?
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  Speaker 4: Before we go into at least the segment beforehand.
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  Speaker 5: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: Don't call me in the break before the 45.
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  Speaker 5: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: So right around 45, 50 is when you can start calling. Okay.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: But I can't answer once we're on the air. So
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  Speaker 4: you're not going to get answered until we're coming back
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  Speaker 4: off the air.
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  Speaker 2: And it worked out. All our regulars were there last week.
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Mike and Edmonds. Ricky and Tacoma.
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  Speaker 6: Yep.
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  Speaker 2: Rob and Burian. And all the rest of them. The
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  Speaker 2: Salton two-steppers were there. A guy, Kyle from Medium Claw.
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  Speaker 2: We had them all there.
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  Speaker 5: They were all there.
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  Speaker 3: Everyone was there. Everyone got in.
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  Speaker 2: Just so you know.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: New policy. She's in charge. Don't yell at me. I'm
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  Speaker 2: not in charge of this.
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  Speaker 5: She's in charge.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not leaving people on hold for 15 or 20 minutes.
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  Speaker 2: And that is your call. I leave that up to
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  Speaker 2: the discretion of said producer in that room. I don't
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  Speaker 2: know how to put those phone calls on hold. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know anything about it, so it's your call.
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  Speaker 4: Well, and here's why I won't do it, so people
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  Speaker 4: that are wondering why they're not going to be put
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  Speaker 4: on hold for 15 minutes, if your call drops, I'm
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  Speaker 4: not calling you back, and I'm going to put whoever
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  Speaker 4: else is on, and now you're all screwed up.
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  Speaker 2: So just make note of that, folks.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Sam Darnold, will he play or will he not? Shall
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  Speaker 2: we hear from the Seahawks quarterback? They usually bring the
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  Speaker 2: starting quarterback for the week out for the interview on Thursday.
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  Speaker 2: It was not Drew Locke. It was him last week.
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  Speaker 2: I think Jess had the best idea. They should have
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  Speaker 2: just brought Miller out there and really messed with people.
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  Speaker 2: Here's Sam Darnold just a few minutes ago.
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  Speaker 6: Feeling good, yeah. I think for me, especially during this week,
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  Speaker 6: just taking it day by day, continuing to balance the
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  Speaker 6: reps and do everything I need to get ready.
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  Speaker 5: When we saw you leave.
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  Speaker 2: The field in week one, we did not anticipate talking.
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  Speaker 5: To you so quickly after that.
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  Speaker 3: What was the wave of emotions you went through in
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  Speaker 3: trying to.
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  Speaker 5: Process what happened?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, a lot of different emotions, a lot
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  Speaker 6: of possibilities, like in terms of how long I would
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  Speaker 6: be out and possibilities of, like, different injuries. So just
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  Speaker 6: a lot of emotions and a lot of thoughts, but,
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  Speaker 6: you know, very, very happy to be here and standing
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  Speaker 6: in front of you guys today.
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  Speaker 5: How quickly did they give you the assurance that most
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  Speaker 5: of those worst-case scenarios weren't on the table?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, it was kind of after I got the CT scan.
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  Speaker 6: And you can take a better look at the anatomy
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  Speaker 6: of the bone, the hip bone. So that was kind
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  Speaker 6: of when the doc brought the good.
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  Speaker 5: News to me.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, do you think you'll be able to play Sunday?
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  Speaker 6: You know, I'm really striving for that. But, again, like
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  Speaker 6: I said, you know, I'm just taking it day by day.
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  Speaker 6: Also don't want to jinx anything.
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  Speaker 7: How did your body and the injury area react to
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  Speaker 7: practicing yesterday?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, it felt good. Just obviously a little
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  Speaker 6: bit of soreness, but it felt really good.
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  Speaker 5: Sam, if I remember correctly.
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  Speaker 7: You didn't go into the medical tent right away. It was,
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  Speaker 7: I think, a couple minutes. Did you think that you
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  Speaker 7: were okay at first?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, there's some things that happen on the
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  Speaker 6: field that, you know, you get banged up a little
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  Speaker 6: bit and something feels a little weird and you feel
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  Speaker 6: weird coming off to the sideline and then you're able
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  Speaker 6: to shake it off after a couple minutes on the sideline,
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  Speaker 6: but it wasn't that way. You know, the pain just
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  Speaker 6: kind of lingered and wasn't really able to throw. And
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  Speaker 6: that was the main concern.
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  Speaker 5: Sam, you've been in Drew's position in your career. What's
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  Speaker 5: it been like to see what he's been able to do?
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  Speaker 5: He's stepping up for you.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, it's unbelievable, man. Just, you know, and again, like
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  Speaker 6: none of us in this building are surprised at what happened.
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  Speaker 6: You know, he's a baller. Went out there, played really well.
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  Speaker 6: And yeah, just very happy for him. And just, it
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  Speaker 6: was cool. Just cool to see his process throughout the
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  Speaker 6: week and how he attacked it and to go out there.
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  Speaker 6: And like I said, perform the way that he did.
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  Speaker 5: It was no surprise. Have you had an injury like
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  Speaker 5: that before or in that area before?
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  Speaker 1: How close is it to the oblique injury you had
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  Speaker 1: last year?
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  Speaker 2: No, no, it's a little bit different.
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  Speaker 6: Um, a little bit different.
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  Speaker 7: What was the hospital experience like? Were you able to
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  Speaker 7: watch the game?
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  Speaker 6: I was able to watch the last like eight minutes
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  Speaker 6: on my phone. Um, but yeah, it was different, really
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  Speaker 6: different at Harborview. But, uh, It was, you know, just
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  Speaker 6: I will say this, like just the perspective on life
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  Speaker 6: that I got while going into the hospital, seeing some
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  Speaker 6: of the people and what they're dealing with, like that
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  Speaker 6: was eye-opening, especially in the position that I was in,
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  Speaker 6: worrying about the injury and how long I was going
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  Speaker 6: to be out. It was good to get that perspective,
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  Speaker 6: I guess.
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  Speaker 2: There were some people speculating that depending on what kind
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  Speaker 2: of injury, it might not.
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  Speaker 5: Just affect the season, it might affect your career. Was
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  Speaker 5: that in your mind at all?
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  Speaker 8: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I was.
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  Speaker 6: Again, like I said, there was so many different things
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  Speaker 6: that were running through my mind, and that was one
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  Speaker 6: of them.
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  Speaker 7: Do you expect to increase your reps today and tomorrow
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  Speaker 7: over what you did yesterday?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I think the plan is to just continually increase
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  Speaker 6: the reps. And, yeah, as long as I just keep
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  Speaker 6: feeling good and progressing the way that I have been,
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  Speaker 6: continue to up the reps throughout the week.
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  Speaker 7: This perspective you said you saw in the hospital, did
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  Speaker 7: you talk to anyone?
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  Speaker 5: No, no, just.
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  Speaker 6: Again, like I said, just seeing some of the people
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  Speaker 6: and the pain that they're in and what different people
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  Speaker 6: are dealing with when they're.
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  Speaker 2: In the hospital.
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  Speaker 6: It was just, you know, because it's a trauma hospital,
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  Speaker 6: so there's a lot of crazy stuff going on in there.
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  Speaker 5: Did you come in through the emergency room? No.
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  Speaker 6: No, I didn't come in through the emergency room. They
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  Speaker 6: took me in a little side alley.
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  Speaker 7: What was it like seeing the end of the game?
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  Speaker 7: I mean, you started a game, and then you're watching
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  Speaker 7: the end of it on your phone.
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  Speaker 5: What's that like?
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  Speaker 2: It's not fun.
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  Speaker 6: Um, I'll be straight up with you guys. Um, you know, it's,
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  Speaker 6: it's tough to, to get hurt, but to see the
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  Speaker 6: way that, again, like I said, Drew came in and, uh,
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  Speaker 6: you know, how well he played and really just protected
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  Speaker 6: the football.
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  Speaker 2: Um, I was very happy to see that.
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  Speaker 6: Mike said it really took a drastic turn kind of
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  Speaker 6: upward last week or, you know, the positive direction.
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  Speaker 2: Did you kind of feel that as last week went on?
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  Speaker 5: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Just, uh, yeah, throughout the week, really after the injury,
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  Speaker 6: like every single day, just the way that I've been
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  Speaker 6: improving and getting better. Um, has been great.
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  Speaker 7: What's that mindset been like when obviously, like you said,
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  Speaker 7: there's the perspective of going to the hospital and you're
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  Speaker 7: thinking all the worst thoughts and then to hear that
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  Speaker 7: it's not that, and you're going to be back.
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  Speaker 5: How has that kind of.
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  Speaker 7: Affected your mindset and your enthusiasm as you came back
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  Speaker 7: into the building?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: You know that.
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  Speaker 6: It obviously, you know, had a huge impact of like
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  Speaker 6: potentially being out for the year to, okay, it might
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  Speaker 6: be like, you know, it might only be a few
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  Speaker 6: weeks or a couple of weeks, you know, that changes
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  Speaker 6: your mindset drastically. So it was, uh, you know, good
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  Speaker 6: little boost, I guess that I needed while, while I
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  Speaker 6: was in there. How did it feel to be back
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  Speaker 6: out on the field after all that and just letting
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  Speaker 6: it loose? Yeah, it felt great just to, to get
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  Speaker 6: back out there with my teammates, man. That's like the
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  Speaker 6: greatest joy. I think, like I said, like getting that
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  Speaker 6: perspective and being able to actually like come back, go
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  Speaker 6: back on out on the field and be able to
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  Speaker 6: play football with my teammates, be able to play football
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  Speaker 6: in general. Like that's, you know, Being on the sideline
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  Speaker 6: against Arizona, like I said, it was great to see
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  Speaker 6: Drew have success and our team have success. But when
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  Speaker 6: I was out there on the sideline, missed playing a ton.
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  Speaker 6: So it's just good to get back out on the
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  Speaker 6: practice field this week and get out there.
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  Speaker 2: Sam Donald's news conference just about an hour ago. Good
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  Speaker 2: stuff from him. A couple things jump out. One, just
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  Speaker 2: the money question. Are you expecting to play? I'm really
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  Speaker 2: striving for that. So kind of noncommittal there. But if
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  Speaker 2: he's getting more reps in practice or trotting them out there,
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  Speaker 2: it feels like it's very much trending in that direction.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know about you. My body never bounces back
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  Speaker 2: from anything, so I can't relate to what he's saying there.
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  Speaker 3: I think we're in a different place.
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  Speaker 2: I think so, too. Let's see. How does your body
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  Speaker 2: respond after yesterday? Well, I mean, I played nine holes
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  Speaker 2: of golf, and I'm hurting today.
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  Speaker 3: I walked three miles. My hips are sore, actually.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not feeling great. How does it feel? Not good.
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  Speaker 2: A couple things. The chemistry, the camaraderie he has in
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  Speaker 2: that quarterback room. We heard it from Drew last week
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  Speaker 2: a little bit. In fact, postgame especially. We heard a
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  Speaker 2: lot from Drew Locke and then hearing him talking about Drew.
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  Speaker 2: That connection, it's They understand their roles. Drew understands his role.
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  Speaker 2: Stepped up in a big way when they needed him
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  Speaker 2: to step up. But they just, in a world of
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  Speaker 2: diva quarterbacks and diva personalities, those two dudes are just
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  Speaker 2: not that. Not even close. Just so likable. Like, just
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  Speaker 2: such a likable, like, what is wrong with you, New York? Like, really? Like, Jets, like,
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  Speaker 2: what is wrong with you? Like, how could you not
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  Speaker 2: take this guy, let him develop and embrace him? Like,
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  Speaker 2: you've really got to be some kind of messed up.
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  Speaker 4: Because they're a terrible organization who knows not a clue
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  Speaker 4: what they're doing.
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  Speaker 2: That's not a clue. That's a good point. Terrible organization.
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  Speaker 2: Cool city, although they play in New Jersey and practice there.
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  Speaker 2: But terrible organization. I don't know. I think we're lucky
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  Speaker 2: to have that guy here. I really do. And it's
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  Speaker 2: cool to see him have the success he's having after
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  Speaker 2: some early struggles. We'll see what they do coming up
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  Speaker 2: on Sunday.
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  Speaker 5: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Our guy, Eno Saris, will join us next. We'll talk
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  Speaker 2: a little baseball. I'm going to throw this at them.
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  Speaker 2: Are the Mariners the most disappointing team? Not just this year,
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  Speaker 2: but in recent memory, as Joe Sheehan said. We'll talk
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  Speaker 2: a little. You know what, Ashley? What kind of bums
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  Speaker 2: me out is, yes, our team's not going to be
• 11:30
  Speaker 2: in the playoffs more than likely. I love baseball playoffs.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not a guy that sits around and watches. If
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  Speaker 2: the Cardinals are playing the Dodgers right now in a
• 11:40
  Speaker 2: national game. Actually, the Cardinals are playing the Pirates, I think,
• 11:42
  Speaker 2: on a national game on MLB Network this afternoon. I'm
• 11:45
  Speaker 2: not going to really watch that.
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  Speaker 5: I'll watch.
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  Speaker 2: I'll watch a Mac attack college football game. I'll give
• 11:49
  Speaker 2: me Toledo and Kent state. I'll probably watch that more
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  Speaker 2: than I watched that until the baseball playoff start.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Then it's fun.
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  Speaker 2: So much fun. We won't be involved, but for a
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  Speaker 2: lot of people, it's really fun. So we'll talk to
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  Speaker 2: him about that as well with, you know, Sarah says
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  Speaker 2: coming up next.
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  Speaker 2: Now with Ian, here's Eno. All right, we're going to
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  Speaker 2: connect with Eno in a second. Just a couple little
• 12:44
  Speaker 2: phone things we're dealing with. I'm just looking here at
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  Speaker 2: the tap list, the fresh sheet, they call it, down
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  Speaker 2: at Georgetown Brewing. I'm looking to see if this is
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  Speaker 2: important stuff, Ash. Just relax here. Just relax.
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  Speaker 3: You're talking about beer. I find it very important.
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  Speaker 5: It's very important.
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  Speaker 3: And Georgetown beer, nonetheless.
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  Speaker 2: Nothing that I see yet says fresh hop.
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  Speaker 5: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: So I've got to text in to find out because
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  Speaker 5: Hello, sir.
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  Speaker 2: How are you?
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  Speaker 5: Doing great. I do love the Fresh Hop, so let
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  Speaker 5: me know when the Fresh Hop is there, and I'll
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  Speaker 5: jump on a plane.
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  Speaker 2: I was just going to ask you if you like that.
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  Speaker 2: For beer aficionados, Fresh Hop season out of the beautiful
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  Speaker 2: Yakima Valley, about three hours east of us, is massive.
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  Speaker 2: And I had one last night called Little Beast Brewing.
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  Speaker 2: It was fantastic. I'm sure Sean won't mind if I
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  Speaker 2: mention them. But, yeah, they do the Fresh Hop Bodhisattva,
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  Speaker 2: which has kind of turned into their most successful brewery.
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  Speaker 2: You know, when that fresh hot Bodhisattva comes on, it's
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  Speaker 2: on and off like within 24 hours. So I'm kind
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  Speaker 2: of on point. I'm kind of on point waiting for that.
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  Speaker 2: We'll keep you updated. In the meantime, my big thanks
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  Speaker 2: to our friends at Georgetown.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 5: All right. Yes, yes. It's fun because the beers that
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  Speaker 5: if the people think that beers are getting a little
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  Speaker 5: bit fruity or sweet, fresh hop is not that.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, no. It's a little closer to
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  Speaker 2: what you would find at Sean Kemp's store down the street, Ashley,
• 14:13
  Speaker 2: if you know what I mean.
• 14:15
  Speaker 3: I do know what's there.
• 14:17
  Speaker 2: Okay. Got that little stank to it, as they say,
• 14:22
  Speaker 2: along the way.
• 14:22
  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's right.
• 14:24
  Speaker 2: I've got a score update for everybody. We are in
• 14:28
  Speaker 2: the bottom of the sixth inning, two out, two on.
• 14:31
  Speaker 2: For the home team, Texas Rangers, who now lead the
• 14:34
  Speaker 2: New York Mets 3-1.
• 14:36
  Speaker 5: In that game.
• 14:36
  Speaker 2: And remember, a Rangers win will officially eliminate the Mariners
• 14:39
  Speaker 2: from the postseason. You know, there's still a hope, though.
• 14:42
  Speaker 2: If the Mets come back and the Rangers lose out
• 14:44
  Speaker 2: and the Astros lose out and the Mariners win out, hey,
• 14:46
  Speaker 2: they're in, baby. They're in. There's still hope here.
• 14:51
  Speaker 5: That would be extremely, well, I guess not backing in
• 14:54
  Speaker 5: for them, but I guess it would be an AL
• 14:59
  Speaker 5: West type of ending.
• 15:00
  Speaker 2: I was going to say, would that not just be
• 15:02
  Speaker 2: typical of how the AL West is this year along
• 15:04
  Speaker 2: the way?
• 15:04
  Speaker 8: Yeah, exactly.
• 15:06
  Speaker 2: So bad. Hey, let me get to a couple things.
• 15:09
  Speaker 2: You've done a few things on the Rates and Barrels podcast.
• 15:11
  Speaker 2: I don't think you've done one for Seattle yet, like
• 15:13
  Speaker 2: why Pittsburgh missed the playoffs or why these teams missed
• 15:15
  Speaker 2: the playoffs, but I'll just kind of ask you on
• 15:17
  Speaker 2: the surface. Whether it's this game that finishes off today
• 15:21
  Speaker 2: or whether it's later tonight, if the Athletics beat the Astros,
• 15:24
  Speaker 2: the M's lose, the Angels, whatever it ends up being,
• 15:27
  Speaker 2: when it's all said and done, why did the Mariners
• 15:29
  Speaker 2: miss the playoffs this year?
• 15:32
  Speaker 5: Well, we actually did do this. It was called Closing
• 15:34
  Speaker 5: the Tab. And what we found was that no other
• 15:39
  Speaker 5: team in baseball had three players that missed their preseason
• 15:43
  Speaker 5: projections by as large as the trio of Julio Rodriguez,
• 15:49
  Speaker 5: Cal Raleigh, and Colt Emerson. Now, Cole Emerson, that's a
• 15:54
  Speaker 5: whole different story. He's a young guy. You don't believe
• 15:56
  Speaker 5: those projections as tightly, and he had an injury, so
• 16:00
  Speaker 5: that's explained. But the other two, they shoulder this burden.
• 16:05
  Speaker 5: That is a big part of it. On top of that,
• 16:07
  Speaker 5: you've got just a team that underperformed their projections as
• 16:11
  Speaker 5: a whole on offenses. you know, came up short of
• 16:15
  Speaker 5: when you look at how every unique player did, you'd
• 16:19
  Speaker 5: expect them to have scored more runs. So a little
• 16:21
  Speaker 5: bit of luck there. The other part is the ongoing
• 16:25
  Speaker 5: conversation we've had about what's going on with the home
• 16:28
  Speaker 5: road splits on the pitching side and what's going on
• 16:31
  Speaker 5: in particular with like George Kirby, Brian Wu, you know,
• 16:35
  Speaker 5: what are we learning from about the Mariners coaching, about
• 16:41
  Speaker 5: how much their park has affected our ability to see
• 16:44
  Speaker 5: their staff clearly. So that's something that we talked about.
• 16:49
  Speaker 5: But one of the things that we didn't talk about
• 16:51
  Speaker 5: that we should have talked about that I think is
• 16:53
  Speaker 5: actually the hardest thing to fix is this. They pushed
• 16:59
  Speaker 5: defense to the side in order to increase the offense.
• 17:05
  Speaker 5: And they were one of the worst defensive teams in
• 17:07
  Speaker 5: the big leagues this year. So I don't know how
• 17:11
  Speaker 5: that gets fixed. I, you know, I think part of
• 17:15
  Speaker 5: it is a healthy Colt Emerson, you know, at shortstop
• 17:18
  Speaker 5: is better than what JP Crawford was giving us defensively
• 17:21
  Speaker 5: near the end of his tenure there. And, you know,
• 17:26
  Speaker 5: I think that you have to start talking about maybe
• 17:29
  Speaker 5: moving Julio off of center and Um, and then you're
• 17:34
  Speaker 5: talking about a bounce back here from Cal. If you
• 17:36
  Speaker 5: do that, at least you're good up the middle, you know,
• 17:39
  Speaker 5: by pushing Julio to a corner, then you'll actually, he'd
• 17:42
  Speaker 5: be good in a corner. He's just, he's just iffy
• 17:44
  Speaker 5: in the center, I think at least by the metrics. Um,
• 17:47
  Speaker 5: I think there are ways to improve it, but it
• 17:50
  Speaker 5: may cost you D it may cost you some offense
• 17:52
  Speaker 5: because now you're going to put Julio in a corner
• 17:54
  Speaker 5: and you're going to put Victor robots in center. Who
• 17:56
  Speaker 5: are you going to put in center? So it's not
• 17:59
  Speaker 5: going to be somebody who has a lot of offense.
• 18:01
  Speaker 5: You're also losing some offense in Randy Rosarito.
• 18:03
  Speaker 8: So, you know, it's a, it's an interesting.
• 18:07
  Speaker 5: Puzzle to try and put together. And I don't think
• 18:09
  Speaker 5: that anything here is like, Oh my God, fire everyone,
• 18:13
  Speaker 5: you know? But I do think that, you know, figuring
• 18:16
  Speaker 5: out how to retain the offense, maybe even improve the
• 18:19
  Speaker 5: offense while improving the defense and figuring out what's going
• 18:23
  Speaker 5: on with pitching staff. That's a, that's a fair amount
• 18:25
  Speaker 5: of questions to answer in one off season. Okay.
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: So one of the things that, And this is why
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: I'm trying to wrap my arms around how it makes sense.
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: Your strength of your baseball team should be, and it
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: wasn't necessarily this year, but it should be your starting staff,
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: your starting rotation. Yet you're taking one of your strengths
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: away or hurting that strength a little bit when you
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: made that decision to trade some offense for a lack
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: of defense, right? That part I'm trying to, because it
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: just feels like it's counterproductive. It's like, okay, maybe, and
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: by the way, we all know that the offense was
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: not good this season, and so that didn't work. But
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: the philosophy, explain how the philosophy even makes sense. Like, hey,
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: Logan and George and you guys, I know anybody who
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: wants to pitch to contact, that may not be a
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: good thing because all of a sudden we're deficient defensively.
• 19:19
  Speaker 5: It's a great point because you know how well your
• 19:21
  Speaker 5: pitching staff does and your defense are intertwined in such
• 19:25
  Speaker 5: a way that it becomes really hard sometimes to even
• 19:28
  Speaker 5: assign value to the pitcher, right? Like on a ball
• 19:33
  Speaker 5: and play, that's a team out, right? That's a, that's
• 19:36
  Speaker 5: what everybody came together and made that out. The pitcher
• 19:38
  Speaker 5: has something to do with it. The defender has something
• 19:40
  Speaker 5: to do with the two defenders. Probably the first baseman
• 19:41
  Speaker 5: had something to do with it. That's one of the
• 19:45
  Speaker 5: core difficult questions in analytics.
• 19:48
  Speaker 8: Is, and it upsets a lot of people, because.
• 19:51
  Speaker 5: You end up talking about fan graphs war based mostly
• 19:53
  Speaker 5: on strikeouts and walks and homers because that's what the
• 19:56
  Speaker 5: pitcher commands and you know people like that doesn't make
• 19:58
  Speaker 5: any sense you know pitchers have some control over balls
• 20:01
  Speaker 5: in play and they do but the defense is part
• 20:04
  Speaker 5: of it too so yeah but i would just say
• 20:06
  Speaker 5: that it's really hard to improve your defense and your
• 20:10
  Speaker 5: offense yeah and they they were forced with like well
• 20:15
  Speaker 5: we need to have a better offense so you're like
• 20:17
  Speaker 5: dominic canzone we love you oh my gosh you're so
• 20:20
  Speaker 5: good like you have all this power you're great against
• 20:22
  Speaker 5: righties we need you oh oh you're not you're not
• 20:26
  Speaker 5: good in the outfield And it sucks because he's like,
• 20:31
  Speaker 5: you know, he's young enough that.
• 20:33
  Speaker 8: You think, oh, no, we'll just put him in the outfield.
• 20:36
  Speaker 8: That didn't seem to be the case.
• 20:37
  Speaker 5: Cole Young, like you're so happy to have like a
• 20:40
  Speaker 5: league average player at second base, league average offense. Great year,
• 20:44
  Speaker 5: Cole Young. Is he good defensively? You know, open question.
• 20:49
  Speaker 5: I think also the signing of Naylor, everybody loved the
• 20:52
  Speaker 5: signing of Naylor, but, you know, and he's okay among
• 20:57
  Speaker 5: first baseman, but, you know, and then you have Randy
• 21:01
  Speaker 5: whose defense was just declining. So that's the other thing
• 21:04
  Speaker 5: that's so hard that that's, this is the thing. If
• 21:07
  Speaker 5: you want to improve your defense, the only way to
• 21:10
  Speaker 5: really do it is from within. Because when you sign
• 21:13
  Speaker 5: free agents, they're 26 and older, and defense peaks at 26.
• 21:17
  Speaker 5: So you're getting people who are going the wrong direction.
• 21:20
  Speaker 5: Think about how hard it is to sign a shortstop
• 21:24
  Speaker 5: and keep them at shortstop.
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 21:27
  Speaker 5: That's why they locked up Cole Emerson. That's why, you know,
• 21:30
  Speaker 5: you'll be happy with Cole Young, you know, with his
• 21:33
  Speaker 5: warts there. That's why I think the plan of sort
• 21:36
  Speaker 5: of moving Julio off and identifying maybe just Robles and
• 21:41
  Speaker 5: a backup type center fielder, who's like a good defensive guy.
• 21:44
  Speaker 5: Maybe that's a plan instead of spending the money on
• 21:48
  Speaker 5: trying to add offense back in and affecting the defense again.
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: You know, Sarah's joining us courtesy of Georgetown Brewing. You know, the,
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: You kind of alluded to at the start there what
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: they may do, and maybe it's not totally on roster construction,
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: but by the time we talk next week and kind
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: of wrap up our conversations this summer and spring and
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: summer and fall, we will probably have some definitive things
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: that have happened. Certainly Dan Wilson's going to be out.
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: How that happens, we're waiting to see. Is it mutual?
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: Is it the old, you know, mutually agreed upon decision
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: for a Mariner Hall of Famer? Is it something else?
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: Is it a firing, what have you? What kind of
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: job in your mind, and when you guys are, you know,
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: kind of doing the podcasts and talking about teams around
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: the league, what kind of job has Jerry and his
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: staff done? Like how much, how culpable are they for
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: not just this year, but just two playoff appearances in
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: 11 years?
• 22:50
  Speaker 5: I think the toughest question is, is T-Mobile a coarse field?
• 22:57
  Speaker 5: And obviously not the exact type. It's obviously not coarse field.
• 23:01
  Speaker 5: It's obviously not increasing offense. But the question is, is T-Mobile,
• 23:07
  Speaker 5: is that park, are the environmental conditions at that park
• 23:12
  Speaker 5: a detriment to the team? Do they make it harder
• 23:16
  Speaker 5: to win there? And what you see with a lot
• 23:21
  Speaker 5: of the extreme ballparks, Colorado, San Francisco, Seattle, what you
• 23:27
  Speaker 5: see with the extreme ballparks, what you see with a
• 23:29
  Speaker 5: lot of other extreme ballparks is a lot of changes
• 23:32
  Speaker 5: to the ballpark to make it play more fair. San
• 23:34
  Speaker 5: Diego changed all their walls. Baltimore changed all their walls.
• 23:38
  Speaker 5: There's a lot of places that have been more extreme
• 23:40
  Speaker 5: that have tried to become more middle of the pack.
• 23:43
  Speaker 5: to maybe stay out of this range. But what you
• 23:45
  Speaker 5: have seen with San Francisco and Colorado and Seattle is
• 23:49
  Speaker 5: maybe the park affects their ability to do certain things.
• 23:53
  Speaker 5: And that's what I see when I look at them
• 23:55
  Speaker 5: trying desperately to add more offense into this lineup every
• 23:58
  Speaker 5: year and eventually having to give up some defense and
• 24:02
  Speaker 5: give up this and give up that and sign, you know,
• 24:05
  Speaker 5: guys to maybe a little bit over what the market
• 24:07
  Speaker 5: would assign them to. And you know what I mean? Like, yeah. Yeah.
• 24:10
  Speaker 5: So I personally think he's done a pretty good job
• 24:13
  Speaker 5: and they got, you know, to within an out of
• 24:16
  Speaker 5: the world series. So yeah. I can't give him a D.
• 24:21
  Speaker 5: I don't think I'm giving him a C. I think
• 24:24
  Speaker 5: it's somewhere in the Bs, honestly. And I don't know
• 24:26
  Speaker 5: if I'm just... I like him. I'm pretty obsessed with
• 24:30
  Speaker 5: liking them because they seem to run on a lot
• 24:32
  Speaker 5: of the principles that I like in terms of how
• 24:34
  Speaker 5: I build a team analytically and that sort of thing.
• 24:38
  Speaker 6: But.
• 24:40
  Speaker 5: I think it's a fair question. I think it's a
• 24:41
  Speaker 5: fair question. Maybe, maybe I'll give them a B minus
• 24:44
  Speaker 5: because of this year, but I don't want to overvalue
• 24:46
  Speaker 5: this year too much with a team that seemed to
• 24:49
  Speaker 5: be heading the right direction.
• 24:50
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: And I, I tend to agree with you too, because I, I,
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: you know, I mean, this is a, and listen, we do,
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: I do this job for a living, sit in a
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: seat that, that a fan would sit in and try
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: to think in terms of how a fan thinks. And,
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: you know, fans want people's heads on a platter. They
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: want that to happen. And two playoff appearances in 11 years,
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: no matter how you get there, just doesn't seem to
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: be good enough, except for it's a franchise. It only
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: has six in its history, right? So you're like, okay, well,
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: and how does the roster look? Well, we like Laz Montez, right?
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: We like, we like Kate Anderson. We like these guys in,
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: in what they've, you know, what they've been able to
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: put together. I do worry. We keep going back to it,
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: needing more offense foregone conclusion. We all believe that Randy
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: Rose rain is not back next year. He's been your
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: best offensive player. That's, that's a big hole that you're
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: going to have to replace.
• 25:35
  Speaker 5: Yes, it is. Yes, it is. And how do you
• 25:37
  Speaker 5: replace it without, while also improving the defense? I mean,
• 25:40
  Speaker 5: that's the, that's the core question. And, and it's not
• 25:45
  Speaker 5: like the, the, the list of free agents is a
• 25:50
  Speaker 5: good one.
• 25:50
  Speaker 8: It's not a very good year for, for free agents.
• 25:53
  Speaker 5: And they're not going to be one of the ones that,
• 25:56
  Speaker 5: you know, that, that spends at the top, right? You
• 26:00
  Speaker 5: know that they're not going to get the top offensive
• 26:02
  Speaker 5: free agent. So, you know, maybe they have a trick
• 26:06
  Speaker 5: up their sleeve along the lines of Randy Rosarena, where
• 26:09
  Speaker 5: they give up some of the non-Colt Emerson, Cole Young
• 26:13
  Speaker 5: youth for a mid-career guy somewhere. But they got Randy
• 26:19
  Speaker 5: Rosarena at the trade deadline. And what gets harder in
• 26:22
  Speaker 5: the offseason is, in the offseason, everybody, every team... either
• 26:26
  Speaker 5: is pretending that they're going to, or is as high
• 26:30
  Speaker 5: on their own supply and.
• 26:31
  Speaker 8: Thinks they're going to contend.
• 26:32
  Speaker 5: Right. So there's, there's, there's no team that wants to
• 26:36
  Speaker 5: rebuild in the off season. There's no team that wants
• 26:39
  Speaker 5: to send you their mid-career, good offensive, mid-lineup guy in
• 26:46
  Speaker 5: the offseason because they're saying, no, we need that guy.
• 26:48
  Speaker 5: We're going to be good next year. So that's a
• 26:52
  Speaker 5: little bit of a tough thing for them. I do
• 26:55
  Speaker 5: want to throw one name out there for the management
• 26:57
  Speaker 5: position that may help them on some of this. I've
• 27:01
  Speaker 5: seen out there a couple of nibbles on a guy
• 27:05
  Speaker 5: named Kai Correa. And Kai Correa is the bench coach
• 27:09
  Speaker 5: for the Mets right now, and I can't speak on
• 27:12
  Speaker 5: his contractual situation or if he would even be available,
• 27:15
  Speaker 5: but he would be such a great fit if they
• 27:19
  Speaker 5: could get him because he is the preeminent defensive line
• 27:24
  Speaker 5: that I know in baseball. He was basically the creator
• 27:28
  Speaker 5: of the Guardians defensive model, and he took that model
• 27:33
  Speaker 5: to San Francisco, and the year that they won I
• 27:36
  Speaker 5: forget 107 games. It's the most games in San Francisco
• 27:39
  Speaker 5: giants history. Um, that year he took guys like, um,
• 27:45
  Speaker 5: JT Davis and, uh, a bunch of other bad defenders
• 27:49
  Speaker 5: and made that team and above average defensive team full
• 27:52
  Speaker 5: of veterans playing out of position, all that sort of stuff.
• 27:56
  Speaker 5: He is a great defensive line. And I think he
• 27:59
  Speaker 5: relates really well to players. He does have the disadvantage
• 28:03
  Speaker 5: of not having been a high level player himself. Um, but, uh,
• 28:09
  Speaker 5: he is so smart and, uh, I think he could
• 28:12
  Speaker 5: be a really good fit and he could maybe help
• 28:15
  Speaker 5: the defense as, as part of his job. You know,
• 28:17
  Speaker 5: I know, I know that's a weird thing to say
• 28:19
  Speaker 5: about a manager. Cause you think the manager wouldn't like
• 28:23
  Speaker 5: get down into the knee of something like defense like that.
• 28:26
  Speaker 5: But Hey, if I could hire a manager, I think
• 28:29
  Speaker 5: it would be a good manager of men, but also
• 28:31
  Speaker 5: help my defense. I would, and with the Mariners, I
• 28:33
  Speaker 5: might do it.
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: I'm just looking at this. I do believe there's a
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: local tie for him, too, if this is right.
• 28:41
  Speaker 5: Well, I know he's a Hawaii guy.
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: But he actually played baseball and I think worked at
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: University of Puget Sound, which is a small D3 school
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: down in Tacoma. Yeah, just, I mean, he could actually,
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: from where he played college baseball, you could walk to
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: Cheney Stadium where the Rainiers play, where the AAA team plays.
• 28:59
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: That's crazy. Yeah, that's awesome.
• 29:02
  Speaker 8: I did not know that about guys.
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: Well, we just figured it out, huh? Hey, listen, Jerry,
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: that's what we're here for. Jerry DiPoto, you guys listening?
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: We got Hino Saris on. Things are taken care of.
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: We're all dialed in and set to go. Final thing
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: for you real quick. What's the one compelling, what's the
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: most compelling thing outside of the, of course, the pillow fight,
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: the AL West? What's the most compelling final thing you're
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: watching this weekend in the final four days of the
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: regular season as we continue we get down the home stretch.
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: Most of the playoff spots have been not most, but
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: a lot of them have already been procured. What, uh, what's,
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: you know, Sarah's most curious about.
• 29:33
  Speaker 5: That's a bit of a dud actually myself. You know,
• 29:38
  Speaker 5: other than will we get a below 500 division winner?
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: Just a sicko thing you're thinking about right now? That's
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: a sicko thing, yeah.
• 29:50
  Speaker 5: I do think there's a little bit of intrigue in
• 29:52
  Speaker 5: the central where the White Sox pitching is not that good.
• 29:57
  Speaker 5: And amazingly, you know, they would be able to get
• 30:01
  Speaker 5: a bye if they won their division. And I kind
• 30:05
  Speaker 5: of feel like that would be super huge for them
• 30:08
  Speaker 5: because of the white socks go to a wild card series. Um,
• 30:11
  Speaker 5: they're going to have to use up all of their
• 30:14
  Speaker 5: pitching and they don't have that much of it and
• 30:15
  Speaker 5: they'll be tired and they'll have used their bullpen heavily.
• 30:18
  Speaker 5: And they already have used their bullpen more than any
• 30:21
  Speaker 5: other team in baseball. So this will be a tired
• 30:24
  Speaker 5: bullpen in the second round that they make it, but
• 30:27
  Speaker 5: if they get a buy, they get to rest up
• 30:29
  Speaker 5: that bullpen and, I'm not saying that they look like
• 30:32
  Speaker 5: a team that could go all the way, but they
• 30:34
  Speaker 5: would be in a much better position. So I think
• 30:36
  Speaker 5: that fight for the AL Central does have a little
• 30:40
  Speaker 5: bit of juice to it.
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: The White Sox only a game behind Cleveland right now
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: along the way. Wild card still to be decided perhaps
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: in the NL, although Arizona is the one team left
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: in there. three games or two games back. So a
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: little bit of injury clinch with a win tonight.
• 30:56
  Speaker 5: So yeah, I think, I think that that one's good.
• 30:59
  Speaker 5: That one's almost done too. I thought, I thought we
• 31:02
  Speaker 5: had an American league that was so smushed together and
• 31:05
  Speaker 5: it's one of the most smushed together American leagues of
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  Speaker 5: all time in terms of the difference between the best
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  Speaker 5: teams and the worst teams. And I thought that this
• 31:14
  Speaker 5: would lead to an amazing amount of chaos down the stretch.
• 31:17
  Speaker 5: And somehow the teams just sort of separated themselves early.
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: Rangers, by the way, up 3-1 bottom of the seventh,
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: trying to improve to a whopping 79-80, but also eliminate
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: Seattle in the process. God, so bad. We'll talk playoffs
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: next week and whatever changes the Mariners make, and I
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: appreciate your time. Tell folks about the podcast. It's fantastic.
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: Rates and barrels.
• 31:42
  Speaker 5: Yes, today we shut the door on the Marlins and
• 31:45
  Speaker 5: the Rockies, and we had some pretty interesting discussion about
• 31:48
  Speaker 5: not only the comments that Vladimir Guerrero Jr. made about
• 31:52
  Speaker 5: how his contract works and being paid for what he
• 31:55
  Speaker 5: did in the past, but we had some ideas for
• 31:58
  Speaker 5: fixing the Rockies and circled some things that the Marlins
• 32:02
  Speaker 5: are doing differently than the rest of the league right now. So,
• 32:06
  Speaker 5: you know, those are some terrible franchises right now, the
• 32:09
  Speaker 5: Marlins and Rockies. that might be sort of pulling themselves
• 32:14
  Speaker 5: out of the bottom.
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  Speaker 2: Great stuff, as always, Eno. We'll talk to you next week,
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: my friend. Thank you.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you.
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: That is Eno Saris brought to you by Georgetown Brewing.
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: We'll do a quick daily power play here, Ash. We'll
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: come back. We'll update you on the score from Arlington, Texas. God,
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: how about that local guy? Just threw out a name
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: for us, huh?
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: That was great.
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: Well, we'll send that soundbite to the morning show. I mean,
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: they're probably already handicapping all that stuff. I'm guessing they're... Probably.
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: Chuck's got it figured out.
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: He's got it figured out. UPS guy, though. That's pretty cool.
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: He doesn't work for UPS.
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: He's not driving the brown truck.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, if he was, even better, because he knows
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: the neighborhoods.
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: Not driving the brown truck, but he's from Hawaii and
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: played baseball at the University of Puget Sound, the Muddy Lockers.
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: We'll come back. We're up at hour number two. Don't forget, Funston,
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: top of the hour, 93.3 KDRFM.
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: Now, your daily look at the National Hockey League and
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: the Seattle Kraken with Ian Furness.
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: All right, quick little daily power play just because the
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: mighty Kraken are playing tonight.
• 33:15
  Speaker 5: That's right. That's right.
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: They got the Calgary Flames from Calgary, Alberta, rolling into
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: town for a preseason game. 6.40, early start weeknight. New
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: for the Kraken this year. If you go to the game, 6.40,
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: early start. for those games this season. We talked about
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: it earlier. We've got a few texts coming in. 49451,
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: do you like the early starts? What time is the
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: optimal time? Get your thoughts. We have a little fun
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: thing we're going to do at 2.30 today with that
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: little topic after we get to Brandon Funston. Looks like
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: the Kraken are playing pretty much regulars tonight. Looks like
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: the Flames are pretty much playing their American Hockey League team.
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: So I guess in a sense, if you're the Kraken,
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: you should probably... Better win. You should probably look really
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: good in this game, I would say. You should look
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: really good in this game. So we'll see how they
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: do look. We'll take a peek. Only number four preseason games.
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: This is preseason game number three. There's a fourth one
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: on Saturday. And then, Ashley, a week from tonight, season
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: opens up. I'm excited. A week from tonight, season opens
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: up in Calgary, too. So get ready for that. Season
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: number six. Hopefully better than season one. Three, four, and five.
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: I was like, everything but two, right?
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: Two was good. Two was great. Last year was good
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: until the final 15 games. And then it went.
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: We do have a score update. We have a score
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: update from Arlington, Texas. They are heading to the bottom
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: of the eighth inning. And the Texas Rangers, three. The
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: New York Mets, one. Three outs away are the Rangers
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: from securing their 79th win of the season. If you're
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: wondering what that does for Seattle, well, here's the math.
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: The Mariners have won 74 games. That's four less than Texas.
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: If Texas wins 79, that's five more, correct?
• 35:10
  Speaker 8: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Yep.
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: And the Mariners have just four games to go. That
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: would officially eliminate Seattle.
• 35:18
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 35:18
  Speaker 3: So it could be over. But the Mets.
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: The Metropolitans. You're putting.
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: Oh, it's still the bottom of the eighth. It's still
• 35:25
  Speaker 3: the bottom of the eighth.
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: We need them to stop it. You're putting your faith
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: in the Mets? You're liking the Mets?
• 35:33
  Speaker 4: I mean, they did it yesterday. So probably now when
• 35:35
  Speaker 4: we really need them to. Although we needed them to
• 35:37
  Speaker 4: do it just as much yesterday as we need them
• 35:39
  Speaker 4: to do it today.
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: By the way, I'm texting somebody in the baseball business.
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: How's that going? It's good.
• 35:45
  Speaker 5: Okay, good.
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: Interesting with old Kai, Kai Correa, never been a head coach.
• 35:54
  Speaker 5: Or manager.
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: He's Eno's guy that he just mentioned.
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: Oh, right, right, right.
• 35:56
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: That's all right. Neither were the last two guys.
• 35:58
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 35:59
  Speaker 4: I was going to say, that actually probably makes them
• 36:01
  Speaker 4: more of a candidate.
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: He's probably very much, that probably makes Jerry really happy
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: at that point in time, right?
• 36:06
  Speaker 7: Yes, indeed.
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Eno just threw that out there. Eno's not the
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: kind of guy just to throw stuff out there. So
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: I'm curious what that would be about. There we go. Yeah, we're...
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: you know, Monday, Tuesday, whenever it is next week that
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: they announce their changes. And I'll just say, I'm just,
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: I'm just going to definitively say it again. I just, I,
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: I think you keep Jerry, you know?
• 36:26
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: I think, I think you keep Jerry. I think it's
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: as simple as that.
• 36:28
  Speaker 4: Again, I would like to know who hired Dan and
• 36:31
  Speaker 4: who's hiring the next one.
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: Well, listen, all the stuff we've been doing, you know,
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: in the, the behind the scenes media world lately, right?
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: Like the Graham Bensinger nonsense and, and, You know, and
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: then we talk about even yesterday, we kind of briefly
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: mentioned it, but, you know, whatever they're going to do
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: with a news conference at the end of the year,
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: are they going to, you know, hide behind a Sunday
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: afternoon when no one's around and have two people ask
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: Jerry things? Are they going to actually have a news
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: conference if they make changes? I think they will. I
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: think every fan and every media member would be in agreement.
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: I think John Stanton needs to sit there with Jerry DiPoto.
• 37:05
  Speaker 5: Yep. Agreed.
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: I think you need true accountability.
• 37:07
  Speaker 5: I agree.
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: And you get that. I do believe, did they just,
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: do we, is that a replay? Okay. Still 3-1.
• 37:16
  Speaker 5: Still 3-1.
• 37:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I got it on the actual television over here.
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: I saw that, yeah. I just saw a guy from
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: the Rangers, it must have been Seager, walking around. Used
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: to be when a guy named Seager hit a home run,
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: that was good.
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I used to enjoy it a lot.
• 37:28
  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah.
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: It's been a while since I've enjoyed it.
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: Okay, let's take a break. Ash, are you ready for
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: the onslaught of phone calls? Always. Okay.
• 37:39
  Speaker 5: 206-286-9595.
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: It is time for our guy, Brandon Funston. He is
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: getting ready to take your calls. 206-286-9595. Your phone calls,
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: your text at 49451. We call it the unofficial start
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: of the weekend, and it's coming up next.