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Chuck & Buck 7-14 Hour 2: Husky One Series with Mario Bailey, ABC's of the Mariners and no more flopping! · Chuck in the Morning

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Speaker 1: What may or may not be the final swing of
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Speaker 1: the bat. Tonight, there we go. It's one number nine
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Speaker 1: for sure.
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Speaker 2: Hand here it's not.
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Speaker 3: It's number ten.
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Speaker 1: Wow. One more than talking for two to winning time,
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Speaker 1: short Walker can upend the whole thing.
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Speaker 3: We have a holy run.
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Speaker 1: Right here, short Walk.
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Speaker 3: It was it six in a row? He had did
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Speaker 3: six in a row. Yeah, to take it over like
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Speaker 3: and the way the format worked, you only had twenty
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Speaker 3: swings or fifteen in that round. Uh so, but if
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Speaker 3: you got to your last swing and you hit a
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Speaker 3: home run on your last wing, you got another pitch.
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Speaker 3: So they would just tack them on until you missed.
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Speaker 3: And so he had to basically with his last wing,
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Speaker 3: he had to hit it out for six swings in
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Speaker 3: a row in order to track down Kyle Schwarber.
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Speaker 2: And he did it.
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Speaker 3: It was pretty cool.
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Speaker 2: It was great.
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Speaker 3: It was great. Best home run derby maybe certainly in
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Speaker 3: a long time, but maybe ever in terms of just
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Speaker 3: the full scale competition. I mean, I remember the Josh
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Speaker 3: Hamilton performance. I remember the Mark McGuire performance. There have
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Speaker 3: been some like individual performances Ken Grivey Junior that might
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Speaker 3: have stood out, but in terms of how good it
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Speaker 3: was from beginning to end. I'm not sure I've seen
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Speaker 3: a better one. I would agree that was really good. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: good morning to you. We move into our number two
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Speaker 3: of the Chucking Buck on the Radio morning radio program,
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Speaker 3: and we've got a lot to do here today, a
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Speaker 3: number of great guests that we're gonna have on. Ryan
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Speaker 3: Healey will join us a little bit later on talking
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Speaker 3: about the home run derby and some other things. And
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Speaker 3: here in a matter of seconds, Mario Bailey will be
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Speaker 3: joining us. My favorite Husky player of all time. He's
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Speaker 3: coming up here in a matter of moments. But first,
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Speaker 3: let's rip through your headlines, brought to you by Frostbrewed
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Speaker 3: Corps Light. Jordan Walker of the Saint Louis Cardinals won
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Speaker 3: an epic home run derby last night, defeating the hometown
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Speaker 3: favorite Kyle Schwarber income from behind fashion. The All Star
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Speaker 3: Game will be played tonight. Billy Christopher Sanchez starts for
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Speaker 3: the National League squad. The American League will start Dylan Sees,
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Speaker 3: the right hander from Toronto. Randy A. Rose Arena will
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Speaker 3: represent the Mariners at Tonight's All Star Game. The Mariners
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Speaker 3: won't play again until Friday at home against San Francisco,
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Speaker 3: so an All Star break, a true all Star break
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Speaker 3: for practically the entire organization. World Cup resumes today at noon.
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Speaker 3: It'll be Spain versus France right here on KJAR. Tomorrow
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Speaker 3: Argentina versus England. Andersharst will join us to talk about
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Speaker 3: both matches. Today at nine thirty we are eleven days
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Speaker 3: and training camp begins for the Seahawks, and we are
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Speaker 3: just seconds away from our Huskies One series continuing right
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Speaker 3: here on Chuck and Buck in the morning. Well in July,
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Speaker 3: during the All Star break, we do our Huskies One series,
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Speaker 3: which is one of our top analysts in town, breaking
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Speaker 3: down one entire unit for the Huskies for one entire
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Speaker 3: interview and joining us here today. Husky legend, part of
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Speaker 3: the Hanks right here on KJAR. And as I say
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Speaker 3: every time he joins us, my favorite Husky football player
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Speaker 3: of all time, the great Mario Bailey, is with us
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Speaker 3: here on Chuck and Buck.
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Speaker 1: Hello, sir, what's up?
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Speaker 2: Man?
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Speaker 4: I gotta go check and listen to you to make
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Speaker 4: sure you don't call somebody Husky.
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Speaker 2: Nope.
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Speaker 3: And I'm really tight with Hugh Millen And it's always you,
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Speaker 3: It's always you, Mario.
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Speaker 2: All right, I'll take it.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, sure, why not? Why wouldn't you take it? Well, look,
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Speaker 3: we're having Mario on here today to talk about wide
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Speaker 3: receivers and running backs. So that's the group that we're
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Speaker 3: going to discuss. As you might have guessed, and what
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Speaker 3: a run. I mean, this is a great history that
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Speaker 3: this program has with wide receivers and you're in that group.
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Speaker 3: But here in the last ten years since I moved
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Speaker 3: to town. I mean, you think about Ross and a
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Speaker 3: dun Say and McMillan and now Denzel Boston can be
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Speaker 3: added to that list of excellent alums at this position
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Speaker 3: this university. This program's kind of known as defensive back university.
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Speaker 3: But Mario, the wide receivers that you've had historically in
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Speaker 3: the Huskies program cannot be slept on.
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Speaker 2: No, they cannot.
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Speaker 4: And I think the dB you just came with Coach
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Speaker 4: Lake's reign that he had with a bunch of dbs
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Speaker 4: going in the first round, and we just had a
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Speaker 4: bunch of DB's going period. But we've always had a
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Speaker 4: standout or two receivers. In the last few years, Coas
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Speaker 4: de Boor and now Coach have both brought in receivers
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Speaker 4: year we had Denzel go first round. The year before
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Speaker 4: it was Jalen Polk, Jaylen McMillan, and of course Rome.
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Speaker 4: So I just think the receivers have always been there,
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Speaker 4: but we just had a little stretch there where we
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Speaker 4: were DBU for a while.
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Speaker 3: Well, I want to talk about this year's receivers, but
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Speaker 3: let's talk about last year's receiver, the number one target,
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Speaker 3: Denzel Boston and how much he'll be missed. Is there
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Speaker 3: a guy that can step in this year that can
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Speaker 3: do what Denzel did a year ago.
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Speaker 4: I don't know if we can replace Denzel. I think
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Speaker 4: down when we got to the red zone, we had
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Speaker 4: this big, huge target and we would just go to
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Speaker 4: him and he would always make the play. He would
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Speaker 4: play bully ball, as I call it, and I just
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Speaker 4: think he was phenomenal at that It didn't matter that
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Speaker 4: you knew the ball was going to him. We were
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Speaker 4: still gonna throw it to him and he was still
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Speaker 4: gonna make the play. Now, I do think Desmond Robock
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Speaker 4: had a great end of the year and became our
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Speaker 4: second receiver last year, and I think it's know once
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Speaker 4: you do that. But this year it's a little different
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Speaker 4: because you don't have Denzel. People are gonna key on
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Speaker 4: you and it's going to be slightly different, but we
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Speaker 4: can move Desmond around.
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Speaker 2: So I plan on him having a great year.
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Speaker 4: But it's a little it's a little difficult when you're
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Speaker 4: the number one guy and you're not sneaking up on people.
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Speaker 2: When people have to plan for you, it changes it
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Speaker 2: a little bit.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and so he's the clear cut number one. I mean,
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Speaker 3: you still expect him to be the wide receiver one
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Speaker 3: of this group. Rollbuck, I do.
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Speaker 5: I do.
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Speaker 2: I like the Christen Moss that the transferred from.
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Speaker 4: I don't know if it's Kenwick State or something like that,
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Speaker 4: and I think he's gonna be good, probably because he
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Speaker 4: wears the number five, and I think that, but I
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Speaker 4: do have.
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Speaker 3: Man, why is anyone wearing number five in this program?
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Speaker 2: I'd like to know, man, That's.
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Speaker 4: What I keep asking, the same thing. But I understand
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Speaker 4: college we don't retire numbers. But I think Christian Moss
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Speaker 4: will do a great job of taking some pressure off.
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Speaker 4: And see Williams played pretty sparingly last year, but he's
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Speaker 4: pretty good and I saw him in spring and he
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Speaker 4: did a great job.
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Speaker 2: We're just looking for who's gonna step up.
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Speaker 4: You never know who's gonna step up, because once those
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Speaker 4: lights come shining, it doesn't matter what spring does and
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Speaker 4: what camp does this summer. It really matters on what
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Speaker 4: happens when those lights turn on, and guys turn into
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Speaker 4: different people once the light the lights come on.
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Speaker 3: What is it that you learned? Because I mean, I'm
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Speaker 3: sure Roebuck would like nothing more than to follow in
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Speaker 3: your footsteps in this program. But when you got your
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Speaker 3: first taste of collegiate football at such a high level,
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Speaker 3: and then your second year full year after that, what
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Speaker 3: is it that you picked up from the first year
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Speaker 3: and the trials and tribulations that go with tasting it
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Speaker 3: for the first time, and then we're able to apply
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Speaker 3: to take your game to a whole new level to
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Speaker 3: fallowing season.
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Speaker 2: The biggest word I would use is consistency.
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Speaker 4: You know, you have these ups and downs and you're
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Speaker 4: trying to figure it out, and you're learning things, and
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Speaker 4: you're starting all the time now, But it's consistency to
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Speaker 4: be consistent every game and be consistent every route, every play.
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Speaker 4: You have to learn that, and I don't think you
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Speaker 4: get that in your first year, and some people maybe
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Speaker 4: not even their second Honestly, I didn't get it till
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Speaker 4: my third year. My freshman year was a waste a year,
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Speaker 4: probably caught four catches the entire season, and my sophomore
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Speaker 4: year I had to learn consistent. Since consistency, I would
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Speaker 4: have these great games and in the next game I'd
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Speaker 4: be nowhere to be found. Now, part of that is
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Speaker 4: the coach not throwing me the ball, but I feel
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Speaker 4: like I wasn't doing my part, and it's being consistent.
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Speaker 4: So we're looking for robots to be consistent and show
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Speaker 4: it every every week, and we need them to have
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Speaker 4: a partner out there that's going to take some pressure
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Speaker 4: off of them.
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Speaker 3: You know that you brought up number five. You know,
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Speaker 3: Dana Hall is like one of my other favorite Washington
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Speaker 3: Huskies of all time? What is it about you?
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Speaker 2: Yeah?
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Speaker 4: And if I taught today and I call him number
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Speaker 4: five and he calls me number five, he had it
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Speaker 4: before I got there.
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Speaker 2: Actually, when I got there, Coach James, they gave me
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Speaker 2: number eighty.
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Speaker 4: My mom called and yelled at them because they promised
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Speaker 4: me number five. The next day, it was sitting in
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Speaker 4: my locker and I told him, no, I don't want it.
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Speaker 4: So my freshman year I wore number eighty and I
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Speaker 4: told him if I can earn number five, so I
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Speaker 4: had it my sophomore.
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Speaker 3: Year on after that, Yeah, yeah, well maybe five should
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Speaker 3: be retired. I think maybe we should make a new rule.
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Speaker 3: It is Mario Bailey with US Huskies one series right
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Speaker 3: here on Chucking Buck in the Morning's one analyst in
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Speaker 3: town breaking down one key Seahawk player for one entire interview. Well,
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Speaker 3: let's talk about the running back group because this truly
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Speaker 3: seems like a mystery on this roster. I mean, from
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Speaker 3: the pure standpoint of if you look at the depth chart,
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Speaker 3: the carry seem to be going to two transfers and
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Speaker 3: maybe a freshman is going to get some playing time
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Speaker 3: in the backfield, a considerable amount of playing time. So
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Speaker 3: I'm gonna need you to be our insider here. What's
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Speaker 3: happening inside those walls on Montlake. Who looks like the
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Speaker 3: guy that's going to be RB one on the depth
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Speaker 3: chart this year?
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Speaker 4: It looks like Jade Lamar. I think he's coming from Oregon,
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Speaker 4: and I think he will be our guy. But again,
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Speaker 4: it's what I said, It's like once those lights turn on,
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Speaker 4: you never know who's gonna show up. I know Trey
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Speaker 4: Cooley is behind him, but he's transferred like maybe two
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Speaker 4: or three times, so I'm always leary when a young
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Speaker 4: man transfers so many times. But Jade Lamar is our guy. Actually,
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Speaker 4: there's a freshman that's coming in from Oregon. He's last
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Speaker 4: on the depth chart. I think Ansu. I think he's
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Speaker 4: gonna be great if he gets in. I think he's
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Speaker 4: one of those guys is a playmaker and can make
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Speaker 4: some plays. We have another freshman, Brian Bonner, I believe,
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Speaker 4: but I think the enseer from Oregon can make some
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Speaker 4: plays if he gets the opportunity.
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Speaker 3: Tell me about Quaid Car what you're hearing about him?
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Speaker 3: Because he was creating quite the buzz during spring. I mean,
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Speaker 3: we had Jed Fish on and even he kind of
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Speaker 3: revealed a little bit of giddiness over what this guy
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Speaker 3: could be immediately for this team. So what should we
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Speaker 3: know about Quaid Car before the season gets underway.
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Speaker 4: Quaid is the only one I didn't mintion, and Quaid
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Speaker 4: was the only one that on there that was here
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Speaker 4: last year. I think Quaid has an opportunity because he
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Speaker 4: knows the system and because he's already comfortable. It goes
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Speaker 4: a long way to be comfortable, to know your coaches,
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Speaker 4: to know the plays, to know the system and know
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Speaker 4: how to get around. I think Quaid has a chance
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Speaker 4: to make some plays. I think he could easily be
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Speaker 4: our number two guy. I've heard all out there that
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Speaker 4: all during spring and going into camp that they love him.
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Speaker 4: But it's just a matter of if he's going to
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Speaker 4: take advantage of the opportunity, because I feel like last
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Speaker 4: year he had an opportunity early and he didn't. He
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Speaker 4: didn't didn't come to fruition.
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Speaker 3: Mario Bailey is with us for our Husky So one
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Speaker 3: series as we break down the running backs and wide
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Speaker 3: receivers for the twenty twenty six Washington Huskies, And I'll
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Speaker 3: cheat a little bit and draw the quarterback into the
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Speaker 3: conversation even though we're supposed to be this discussing running
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Speaker 3: back and wide receiver. But considering williams dual threat capabilities,
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Speaker 3: I mean, what will the offense look like? How much
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Speaker 3: of it's going to be built around Demon Williams. Is
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Speaker 3: he going to be the leading rusher on this team
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Speaker 3: and also throw the ball forty times per game?
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Speaker 2: It could easily be that he could easily be it.
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Speaker 4: Demon could be a thousand, two thousand guy easily, if
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Speaker 4: that's what he wants to do, or if that's what
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Speaker 4: Coach Fish wants him to be. We just don't know
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Speaker 4: what the year entails, but I do think he's gonna
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Speaker 4: have to run a little bit more this year, but
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Speaker 4: hopefully his little frame.
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Speaker 2: Can take that. And that's always been the question.
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Speaker 4: We don't want to get this young man hurt, but
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Speaker 4: we also want to win and we want to take
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Speaker 4: it to the next level. And if we're going to
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Speaker 4: take it to the next level, we probably need him
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Speaker 4: to have at least eight hundred yards rushing this year.
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Speaker 3: And how is the team reacting from what you're hearing
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Speaker 3: to his interesting offseason that he had.
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Speaker 4: Man, it's water under the bridge. He's still our team leader,
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Speaker 4: you know. And I think it's one of those things
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Speaker 4: is once that first game kicks off Apple Cup and
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Speaker 4: he throws for three hundred and runs four hundred, all
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Speaker 4: this forgotten. Now there is the other side of that,
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Speaker 4: if we're getting our butts kicked and something were to happen,
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Speaker 4: and people are going to point to that situation.
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Speaker 2: But for me personally too, it's water under the bridge.
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Speaker 2: He's a young man money talks around here. I get it.
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Speaker 4: I do believe in loyalty, but hey, I'm not in
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Speaker 4: his situation, so it's water under the bridge, and I
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Speaker 4: just hope he leads us to the next level.
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Speaker 3: How much would you have enjoyed throwing the ball forty
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Speaker 3: times a game back in your day?
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Speaker 2: Man?
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Speaker 4: I tell people all the time that I would have
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Speaker 4: records up there that would never be touched and I
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Speaker 4: would enjoy that.
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Speaker 2: But Coach James was definitely not having that.
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Speaker 4: We were lucky that he turned it up a notch
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Speaker 4: and hired Gilbertson and got to throw it twenty five
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Speaker 4: times a game.
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Speaker 3: If there would have been like some like Martian from
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Speaker 3: the future that would have landed back in your day
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Speaker 3: and told Coach James that the future of the sport
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Speaker 3: is throwing the ball forty forty five times a game,
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Speaker 3: what do you think would have happened?
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Speaker 4: He wouldn't have cared whatsoever. It wouldn't have There's no way,
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Speaker 4: I don't care what that Martian did. He would have
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Speaker 4: staffed that Martian aside. In no way any of that
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Speaker 4: was being listened to. Get out of my office.
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Speaker 3: Martian, Yeah right now, Uh, well, you're pumped. Are you
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Speaker 3: ready to go? Do you need a little more time
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Speaker 3: off this summer or are you counting the days till
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Speaker 3: Husky football?
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Speaker 2: At this point, I'm in between there.
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Speaker 4: Some days I'm pumped and others like, man, this has
15:20
Speaker 4: come back pretty quick, And it's still weird that the
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Speaker 4: Apple Cup is how we started off. But you know,
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Speaker 4: I'm looking forward to it, even talking to you right
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Speaker 4: now and looking at the difference and our.
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Speaker 2: Roster and seeing guys I like to see guys come on.
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Speaker 4: The scene and explode and some guys you didn't know,
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Speaker 4: we're gonna do as well as they And looking at
15:41
Speaker 4: Desmond Roadbox seeing if he can step it up another notch,
15:44
Speaker 4: and looking at demand. You know that situation is is
15:48
Speaker 4: haunting for some people. So I want to see him
15:51
Speaker 4: succeed and I want to see him do well well.
15:53
Speaker 3: I always buy a college basket or a college football
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Speaker 3: magazine every year, despite the fact that all this information
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Speaker 3: more up to date on the internet, I still do
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Speaker 3: the magazine purchase every year, and so I purchased it yesterday.
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Speaker 3: So it was you know, now I'm ready for college football,
16:11
Speaker 3: officially ready for college football, and I am on the
16:14
Speaker 3: countdown and look the magazine that I grabbed and I
16:17
Speaker 3: don't need to plug it, but ranked number nineteen in
16:21
Speaker 3: the country. I mean that's you're right, number nineteen in
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Speaker 3: the country. This magazine's predicting like a nine to three season.
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Speaker 3: Is it going to be that type of a year
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Speaker 3: for Washington? Maybe a little bit better? What's your outlook
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Speaker 3: right now?
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Speaker 4: My outlook is that right there as I have us
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Speaker 4: at a nine and three season, and anything past that
16:43
Speaker 4: is cake like, I would be happy. But I think
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Speaker 4: demand leads us easily to nine and three. The question
16:50
Speaker 4: is is his surrounding cast is who steps up? Can
16:54
Speaker 4: they step up? I love our defense. I think the
16:57
Speaker 4: defense is plug and play. I think coach has a
16:59
Speaker 4: great handle on it. So I'm looking forward to that.
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Speaker 4: But nine and three is about where I have us.
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Speaker 3: You can listen to every single second that I've ever
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Speaker 3: done at kJ R, and you were always my favorite
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Speaker 3: Husky football player of all time.
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Speaker 2: I can vouch for that. Yeah, okay it is I
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Speaker 2: was gonna check you out.
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Speaker 3: Yeah you trust Ashley. Yeah I thought I was a snake.
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Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, well, hey man, thank you very much. I
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Speaker 3: can't wait to hear the coverage this fall and always
17:31
Speaker 3: great catching up with you.
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Speaker 2: I really appreciate you. Thank you. Go dogs.
17:36
Speaker 3: Mario Bailey joining us right here, the one, the only
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Speaker 3: Mario Bailey. I've talked to Hugh about this too, and
17:42
Speaker 3: he's perfectly fine with Mario being my favorite husky player
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Speaker 3: of all time, perfectly good with it and as he
17:48
Speaker 3: should be. Yeah, yeah, he should be. I mean Mario
17:50
Speaker 3: was just he was electrifying. He was good. Yeah, not electrifying.
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Speaker 5: Well, I think he would also admit he's there's not
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Speaker 5: a lot of electrifying.
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Speaker 3: There's electrifying in his analysis though, and that's what we
18:05
Speaker 3: get every fall from Hugh Millin and Mario Bay Plus
18:10
Speaker 3: all right, coming up next to ABC's of Them. Sports
18:13
Speaker 3: Radio ninety three point three KJRFM. We left off yesterday
18:17
Speaker 3: with the letter d D is for Derby. Last night's
18:20
Speaker 3: home run derby fantastic. I mean, maybe the most complete
18:24
Speaker 3: best home run derby from the beginning to the end
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Speaker 3: that I've ever seen. Like the new rule changes, they
18:31
Speaker 3: did satisfy what I wanted them to change about the derby,
18:35
Speaker 3: and yet until you watch it unfold, you're liked. Is
18:38
Speaker 3: there something about this that I didn't see that this
18:40
Speaker 3: is going to end up being disastrous. I think Jeff
18:43
Speaker 3: Passen said it was going to end up being disastrous
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Speaker 3: and then midway through apologized and said this is awesome.
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Speaker 2: And it was.
18:51
Speaker 3: It was awesome. But I mean, the one thing, if
18:54
Speaker 3: there was one thing that took away from it last night,
18:58
Speaker 3: was I don't know about you, Ash, but my reminder
19:01
Speaker 3: of last year's Home Run Derby. Because last year was
19:04
Speaker 3: the Year of Cal, and like everything seemed to fall
19:07
Speaker 3: in place for Cal Raleigh a year ago, including that
19:10
Speaker 3: incredible derby turnaround that he ended up winning the Home
19:13
Speaker 3: Run Derby, but he's not there to defend his title,
19:17
Speaker 3: not that he would have anyway, because he's had such
19:19
Speaker 3: a rough season. I mean, last year, I don't know
19:21
Speaker 3: how many times I talked about the Year of Cal.
19:23
Speaker 3: Everything just seems to be falling into place, and then
19:26
Speaker 3: this year nothing has fallen into place. Going all the
19:28
Speaker 3: way back to the WBC, his first time on the
19:31
Speaker 3: injury list, the batting average of one seventy not even considered.
19:36
Speaker 3: I think he finished like ninth or tenth, and the
19:38
Speaker 3: voting for catchers in the American League, for goodness sake,
19:41
Speaker 3: So I think this is the way that we get
19:44
Speaker 3: tested as human beings. You know, how do you react
19:47
Speaker 3: when everything goes well for you, and how do you
19:49
Speaker 3: react when nothing goes well for you? And that's what
19:52
Speaker 3: we're experiencing for Dumper in twenty twenty six right now.
19:56
Speaker 2: I know.
19:56
Speaker 5: And it's sad because obviously everybody loves Cal so much
19:58
Speaker 5: and it was so fun last year.
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Speaker 3: That's what I thought too. That's why I was like,
20:02
Speaker 3: I just don't think one.
20:03
Speaker 5: I don't think I could have been as excited as
20:05
Speaker 5: I was for the Derby last year with Cal and it,
20:08
Speaker 5: or even when Julio was in it. It's just different
20:10
Speaker 5: when you don't have a dog in the fight and
20:12
Speaker 5: you're just kind of watching. But it's also enjoyable because
20:15
Speaker 5: you're watching with no expectations, right as I mentioned earlier,
20:18
Speaker 5: and it exceeded my expectations. But yeah, that it hangs there,
20:22
Speaker 5: that that Cal, the col fun, the Cal excitement. It's
20:27
Speaker 5: just missing this year and I want it back.
20:29
Speaker 3: Yeah, I do too. I do think we'll get it back,
20:32
Speaker 3: not to the degree of a year ago. But I
20:35
Speaker 3: think he's I mean, he has to, he just has to.
20:37
Speaker 3: He asked to have a good I'm not gonna go
20:40
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna say he goes from struggling offensively to
20:44
Speaker 3: great in the second half. But I think he can
20:46
Speaker 3: go from struggling to good here in the second half.
20:50
Speaker 3: And if you just get good Cal, which is what
20:52
Speaker 3: we've gotten for nearly all of his career until he
20:56
Speaker 3: was great Cal offensively, that is then and we'll pull
21:00
Speaker 3: away in the American League West and then we'll figure
21:04
Speaker 3: out what to do in the playoffs. But it's certainly,
21:06
Speaker 3: I mean, he's it. I mean, of all the factors,
21:09
Speaker 3: if you want to rank them, the biggest one is
21:11
Speaker 3: getting Cal back to being good Cal again. Yeah, no,
21:15
Speaker 3: it's the most important.
21:15
Speaker 5: I would agree he is.
21:17
Speaker 3: For Emerson's This is gonna be interesting as Brendan Donovan
21:21
Speaker 3: starts to come back, and obviously this organization is married
21:25
Speaker 3: to JP Crawford in some fashion. He's going through colet
21:28
Speaker 3: his first struggles. Offensively, I think he makes up the
21:33
Speaker 3: difference defensively over what you were getting from JP Crawford.
21:37
Speaker 3: But I'm going to be interested to see how they're
21:39
Speaker 3: going to handle Brendan Donovan being activated. Apparently he's going
21:44
Speaker 3: to be playing this week. Apparently Donovan's going to be
21:47
Speaker 3: in games this week. Well, we have five weeks or
21:51
Speaker 3: excuse me, five days, four days before we play another game,
21:55
Speaker 3: So how much can he get done on a reab assignment.
21:59
Speaker 3: How many more games will he actually miss? And then
22:02
Speaker 3: the big question is how does he fit on this
22:05
Speaker 3: roster again? Where is he playing? If he's starting every
22:09
Speaker 3: day again? I miss him hitting leadoff. I think he
22:13
Speaker 3: should be hitting leadoff, and I don't miss him playing
22:16
Speaker 3: third base defensively, but but we've since since he was
22:22
Speaker 3: last on this team, we have a different third baseman,
22:26
Speaker 3: and how are they going to manage it? I hate
22:29
Speaker 3: the idea that maybe JP takes his shortstops job back
22:33
Speaker 3: and cold Emerson in the midst of his struggles. I'm
22:35
Speaker 3: not saying they're going there thinking about doing this, but
22:39
Speaker 3: maybe it's on the table, sent back to Triple A
22:42
Speaker 3: to kind of oh reboot. I don't know. I don't
22:47
Speaker 3: know if that's on the table, but I don't like
22:49
Speaker 3: that idea. And then the other Emerson Emerson Hancock. I mean,
22:53
Speaker 3: there's an awful lot of talk right now about this
22:55
Speaker 3: team's looking to trade a pitcher for a piece that
22:58
Speaker 3: they're missing, and then the piece that continues to be
23:01
Speaker 3: brought up is a back of the end reliever. I
23:06
Speaker 3: brought up Mason Miller yesterday. The only way that I
23:09
Speaker 3: would consider moving one of our five young guys. It's
23:13
Speaker 3: gonna be hard to get anything for Castillo. Moving one
23:17
Speaker 3: of our five young pitchers starting pitchers for a reliever,
23:22
Speaker 3: it better be the best in the world, which is
23:24
Speaker 3: what Mason Miller is. He is apparently available, and I wonder.
23:28
Speaker 3: I wonder if this organization, this is just me wondering.
23:31
Speaker 3: I don't know any information would think. You know, Emerson
23:35
Speaker 3: Hancock took a long time to get here. Do we
23:38
Speaker 3: sell high, clear up our overcrowded starting rotation. If somebody
23:43
Speaker 3: gets hurt, we have Kate Anderson to lean on in
23:46
Speaker 3: the second half, and we bring in the best closer
23:49
Speaker 3: in the game who's under club control, to wipe out
23:53
Speaker 3: any doubts late in baseball games. I wonder if it's
23:57
Speaker 3: on the table, I just do.
23:58
Speaker 5: Yeah, I hadn't thought of that, but the fact that
24:03
Speaker 5: it's taken this long is a good point, and that
24:06
Speaker 5: they could get a lot for him.
24:09
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know.
24:10
Speaker 5: I would hate it, but I would hate to see
24:12
Speaker 5: him go. I would love getting Mason Miller. I would
24:14
Speaker 5: hate to see him go.
24:15
Speaker 3: Yeah, I hate the idea of both of those things
24:17
Speaker 3: that I brought up. Yeah, I don't want cold Emerson
24:20
Speaker 3: needing a reboot in Tacoma, and I don't need Emerson
24:23
Speaker 3: Hancock traded away because he's having a great season and
24:28
Speaker 3: you could sell high on him. I don't like the
24:30
Speaker 3: idea of either of those, but certainly has been That's
24:34
Speaker 3: been a couple of things I've been thinking about since
24:36
Speaker 3: yesterday's show. Finally, f is for the firing. Yes yesterday,
24:41
Speaker 3: on the show, I went as far as saying, I
24:44
Speaker 3: think it's time to move in a new direction with
24:46
Speaker 3: our manager. I had pushback on that from some most
24:51
Speaker 3: agreed with me on our text line and the various
24:54
Speaker 3: forms of communicating with us. But I certainly did have
24:57
Speaker 3: some pushback, and that's good. I wanted pushback. I asked
25:00
Speaker 3: for pushback, and one of the things I said that
25:03
Speaker 3: was pushed back on me was, well, why don't fire
25:06
Speaker 3: Sitzer and Perry Hill while you're at it, because the
25:10
Speaker 3: offense is struggling and the defense is struggling. And my
25:13
Speaker 3: answer to that is they've got better track records. Like
25:17
Speaker 3: Kevin Seitzer had a terrific season and he's had three
25:21
Speaker 3: months of the offense not performing as well Perry Hill.
25:25
Speaker 3: This isn't me saying it. This is everybody that comes
25:27
Speaker 3: to spring training that puts on a Mariner uniform for
25:31
Speaker 3: the first time telling me they can't wait to work
25:33
Speaker 3: with the best in the business. I think their track
25:36
Speaker 3: records are a little longer, deeper, more accomplished for their roles,
25:43
Speaker 3: specific roles within the organization. The manager, and it's a
25:48
Speaker 3: little larger scale, really is held responsible for how well
25:53
Speaker 3: his team is responding to his leadership and when you
25:57
Speaker 3: are grossly underachieving like this team is, and frankly, I
26:00
Speaker 3: thought they grossly underachieved for most of last season. I mean,
26:04
Speaker 3: the only time that Dan Rolson really made a big
26:08
Speaker 3: difference in my opinion was at the tail end of
26:11
Speaker 3: twenty twenty four. And let's look back at that historically,
26:16
Speaker 3: Scott Service and the team, they experienced an up and
26:20
Speaker 3: down season. If you remember just I mean, it's kind
26:22
Speaker 3: of very similar, like we thought we were going to
26:24
Speaker 3: get going and then all of a sudden we did
26:27
Speaker 3: a snag and lose seven of eight. Well, they had
26:29
Speaker 3: lost seven of eight coming off of a road trip,
26:33
Speaker 3: actually eight of nine coming off of a road trip.
26:36
Speaker 3: They had fallen all the way back to five hundred,
26:39
Speaker 3: were a game under five hundred right now, And on
26:42
Speaker 3: August twenty sixth, Jerry made the decision while Scott was
26:46
Speaker 3: flying back, that we're going to change managers and go
26:50
Speaker 3: to Dan Wilson. Kind of a similar situation, like there
26:55
Speaker 3: was this feeling of we think this team's better than
26:59
Speaker 3: the way that they're playing, and we feel like maybe
27:02
Speaker 3: Scott's not getting the most out of them. It's not
27:05
Speaker 3: going to be easy for us. He's been with us
27:07
Speaker 3: for a long time, but we feel like we need
27:09
Speaker 3: a new voice. And what happened. They won their very
27:12
Speaker 3: first game with Wilson. They ended up winning five of seven.
27:16
Speaker 3: They ended up winning twenty one out of thirty four
27:19
Speaker 3: to close out the year, and you finished eighty five
27:22
Speaker 3: and seventy seven, one game out of the playoffs, one
27:25
Speaker 3: game out of the playoffs. Do you think, maybe, just
27:30
Speaker 3: based purely on this team's not responding to that manager
27:34
Speaker 3: the way we want it to, let's make a change.
27:38
Speaker 3: Do you think maybe if they would have made that
27:40
Speaker 3: earlier then August twenty second, that this team would have
27:44
Speaker 3: had time to gel and make the playoffs that year? Yes,
27:49
Speaker 3: I don't want to wait too long. I don't want
27:50
Speaker 3: to wait too long. If he's the right guy, he's
27:52
Speaker 3: the right guy. If you're convinced he's the right guy,
27:54
Speaker 3: keep him. But if you're just standing on ceremony at
27:57
Speaker 3: this point, like I don't have the heart to do.
27:59
Speaker 5: It, well, that's a terrible reason to keep anyone.
28:01
Speaker 2: Right.
28:02
Speaker 3: Yeah, So I don't want to just keep waiting if
28:05
Speaker 3: he's if they're not responding to the message, and I
28:09
Speaker 3: know that they all like him, but they're not fighting
28:13
Speaker 3: for him. They're not playing the way you want to
28:17
Speaker 3: see them play under him, And so I don't want
28:22
Speaker 3: to get to August and then make this decision that's
28:24
Speaker 3: thirty games wasted where we could have started to pull
28:29
Speaker 3: away potentially. Do not underestimate a new voice and what
28:33
Speaker 3: it can do, because a lot of the times what
28:35
Speaker 3: it does to players, the players take it personally like
28:39
Speaker 3: we're responsible for that guy not being employed. He's the
28:42
Speaker 3: one that got fired, and yet it was our actions.
28:47
Speaker 3: It was our not playing well for him that caused
28:50
Speaker 3: him to get fired, because it wasn't anything he did.
28:53
Speaker 3: He's not like Dan's not problematic within the organization. He's
28:59
Speaker 3: not sleeping with the secretary. I mean, he's not going
29:01
Speaker 3: to do anything that's going to cause him to be
29:04
Speaker 3: fired other than are my players playing their best for me?
29:09
Speaker 2: Right? And they're not.
29:11
Speaker 3: And so sometimes it just takes that message. We see
29:15
Speaker 3: it all the time in sports, especially in baseball, where
29:19
Speaker 3: Dan Wilson the message got changed. Dan Wilson, I don't
29:22
Speaker 3: think was a better manager than Scott Service, but the
29:25
Speaker 3: message changed at a time where the team needed to
29:29
Speaker 3: be needed some smelling salts underneath their nose. And what happened.
29:35
Speaker 3: They play such good baseball the rest of the way
29:38
Speaker 3: that they nearly overcame the deficiencies that they put out
29:43
Speaker 3: on the baseball field for three and a half four months,
29:47
Speaker 3: and they almost had time to make up for it
29:49
Speaker 3: and missed by a game. I don't want to do
29:51
Speaker 3: the same thing there, No thank you, Yeah, all right?
29:53
Speaker 3: Coming up next, it is the World Cup today right
29:57
Speaker 3: here on KJAR. Now, as we get to the end
30:01
Speaker 3: of the tournament, can I ask, can we just end
30:05
Speaker 3: this flopping and crying stuff. Sports Radio ninety three point
30:08
Speaker 3: three KJRFM before we get too far away from the
30:15
Speaker 3: MLB draft. It's an annual tradition. Scott Hunter joins us
30:19
Speaker 3: either before or after, and sometimes both here on Chuck
30:23
Speaker 3: and Buck in the morning, where we didn't get to
30:25
Speaker 3: have him on before the draft, So this year we're
30:28
Speaker 3: gonna check that box and have him on after the draft.
30:30
Speaker 3: So he will join us at eight o'clock to talk
30:33
Speaker 3: about the Mariners' most recent drafts. We're looking forward to that,
30:37
Speaker 3: also looking forward to today at noon. World Cup Final
30:40
Speaker 3: four stage is here. It will be France versus Spain
30:44
Speaker 3: today at noon, and you can hear it right here
30:46
Speaker 3: at Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM. I feel
30:49
Speaker 3: like I've been the good shepherd. I'm trying real hard,
30:52
Speaker 3: Rico to be the shepherd throughout this entire tournament. I
30:57
Speaker 3: think it has been entertaining. I have been drawn to
30:59
Speaker 3: the magnet to the World Cup more so than the
31:02
Speaker 3: actual sport itself. But I have enjoyed the sport itself
31:05
Speaker 3: a lot more since I've given myself to it so
31:09
Speaker 3: frequently in the last month than I ever have in
31:12
Speaker 3: the past. I see certainly a lot of merits to
31:16
Speaker 3: its popularity, but one thing that I can't get over,
31:21
Speaker 3: A lot of you can't get over, and frankly, I
31:24
Speaker 3: think even Americans who love the sport can't get over.
31:27
Speaker 3: I don't know what's going on overseas with why you
31:31
Speaker 3: continue to cling to this aspect of the game, because
31:34
Speaker 3: it's got to go. I was just talking to somebody
31:37
Speaker 3: last night over at the kitchen there resident soccer you know,
31:42
Speaker 3: Nerd over there, and he doesn't like it either, And
31:47
Speaker 3: that is the flopping and the us w's the unnecessary
31:52
Speaker 3: writhing that takes place, unnecessary soccer rithing that takes place
31:57
Speaker 3: on the field.
31:58
Speaker 2: And he was.
32:01
Speaker 3: The World Cup and the use of the var to
32:03
Speaker 3: overturn that Switzerland fake flop. Yeah, give the guy a
32:08
Speaker 3: red card, and gave him a red card, and so
32:11
Speaker 3: he loved that. And yet Switzerland is still sitting there
32:16
Speaker 3: in their own Swiss juices, in their own Swiss cheese,
32:19
Speaker 3: thinking they got wronged because faking injuries and flopping is
32:24
Speaker 3: a part of this sport and it's part of the
32:28
Speaker 3: culture and it has to.
32:29
Speaker 1: Be allowed otherwise it's not sucker.
32:33
Speaker 3: Well, I'm just I've given myself to it a lot
32:37
Speaker 3: more and I'm telling you get rid of it all.
32:40
Speaker 3: Use the var, use as much replay as you possibly
32:44
Speaker 3: can to just erase this. It's disgusting how much time
32:49
Speaker 3: is wasted during a sporting event with players writhing on
32:53
Speaker 3: the field over exaggerating an injury that may or may
32:57
Speaker 3: not have even occurred, just to try to convince the
33:01
Speaker 3: official eventually to call a foul in that moment. Use
33:06
Speaker 3: the f out of replay to get rid of this
33:09
Speaker 3: once and for all, and you're going to pick up
33:11
Speaker 3: a lot more American fans doing it that way. No,
33:14
Speaker 3: I completely agree it is.
33:15
Speaker 5: It's annoying, and they've got they've been really good about
33:18
Speaker 5: it for the most part.
33:19
Speaker 3: In the World Cup.
33:19
Speaker 5: They've gotten faster at getting people up off the field.
33:21
Speaker 5: But you still see him. It's just rolling, rolling, rolling around,
33:25
Speaker 5: and then until the ref comes over and then they're like, okay,
33:27
Speaker 5: now you've seen me in my pain, Now I can
33:29
Speaker 5: get up.
33:30
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, and Bape does it. He'll do it ten
33:33
Speaker 3: times today. Ye, it'll be go and he'll he'll he
33:37
Speaker 3: might get a free kick out of it. That's why
33:39
Speaker 3: they're doing it. And they might block it, yeah, and
33:41
Speaker 3: I hope they do him block it, yeah, because I
33:44
Speaker 3: think it's a bunch of mbs. I would agree. Yeah,
33:48
Speaker 3: he acts like he has an broken bone all the time,
33:52
Speaker 3: and It's bewildering, is what it is.
33:56
Speaker 2: It is bewildering.
33:58
Speaker 3: Yeah, and so I I just I think maybe they're not.
34:03
Speaker 3: Maybe in other cultures, in other countries. Maybe in Mexico
34:08
Speaker 3: they love it. They love fake injuries and they're flopping
34:11
Speaker 3: and over exaggerating how injured I am. Maybe they love
34:15
Speaker 3: it in Germany. Maybe they love it in Luxembourg and Norway.
34:18
Speaker 3: Maybe that's one of their favorite parts about the sport.
34:21
Speaker 3: But I'm gonna tell you right now, it's our least
34:23
Speaker 3: favorite part, those of us that won't give ourselves to soccer.
34:26
Speaker 3: That's the thing that we even more so than the
34:30
Speaker 3: lack of scoring. It is the can't stand the flopping,
34:34
Speaker 3: can't stand the faking, and can't stand how much time
34:37
Speaker 3: that you spend doing both during the course of a match.
34:41
Speaker 3: And we have replay at our disposal right now, right
34:44
Speaker 3: at our fingertips, that can be used to, you know,
34:49
Speaker 3: to reveal exactly what happened on a given play. Start
34:54
Speaker 3: giving red cards every single time that happens, red cards
34:58
Speaker 3: immediately you're out of the game and out of the
34:59
Speaker 3: net game.
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Speaker 1: Do it.
35:00
Speaker 3: Don't fake any more. We're done with it. It won't change.
35:05
Speaker 3: But at least we tried, I tried, all right, Scott
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Speaker 3: Hunter's Next Sports Radio ninety three point three kJ RFM