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Chuck & Buck 2-16 Hour 3: Kade Anderson, Ryan Sloan & Mike Cameron all join us this hour! · Chuck in the Morning

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Speaker 2: It's Chucking Buck in the Morning. Sports Radio ninety three
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Speaker 2: point three kjr FM is our week from spring training continues,
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Speaker 2: and I was hoping to get both Kate Anderson on
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Speaker 2: at some point this week. And I was also open
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Speaker 2: to get Ryan Sloan on at some point this week. Bucky,
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Speaker 2: how about doing them both together here on Chuck and
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Speaker 2: Buck in the Morning. So that's right, the two star
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Speaker 2: pitching prospects firing up the ranks. Kate Anderson is with us,
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Speaker 2: and so is Ryan Sloan. Well, it's good to good
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Speaker 2: to see you both, good to meet you both. Really
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Speaker 2: excited about seeing you here at camps. Okaid, what's it like?
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Speaker 2: I mean a year ago You're on a college campus
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Speaker 2: and now you're here at big league camp. What's it
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Speaker 2: been like so far?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, really just trying to take it all in. Meet
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Speaker 3: and guys like Ryan and all the other guys within
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Speaker 3: the Marias Complex. Has been really really cool to just
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Speaker 3: kind of learn from them as well.
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Speaker 2: When you saw his thighs, where you're like, oh, are
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Speaker 2: my thighs supposed to look like that? If I'm in
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Speaker 2: the major leagues? You know, he's he's a pretty buff
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Speaker 2: dude over here, right right, he.
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Speaker 3: Uh, I'm not sure what's going on over there, but
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Speaker 3: something different than me.
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Speaker 2: And it's Illinois, right yeah, look at me. Look at
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Speaker 2: the two of us. We're practically physical twins, you and I.
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Speaker 4: Ryan.
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Speaker 2: You know it's at Illinois upbringing.
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Speaker 4: You got some different Illinois water chup.
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Speaker 2: Ryan. Describe your game for those listening that are like,
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Speaker 2: oh wait, I've heard of this guy, but I haven't
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Speaker 2: done a lot of research. Just debscribe for our audience.
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Speaker 2: Your game on the mound.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, my game on the mound pretty simple. Throw a
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Speaker 5: ton of strikes, that's pretty much it. You know, I
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Speaker 5: have full confidence in my stuff to throw all five
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Speaker 5: of my pitches in the zone when I need them
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Speaker 5: and then same thing. If I need to throw them
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Speaker 5: out of the zone, I have the confidence to do that.
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Speaker 5: So my game in a nutshell essentially is just I
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Speaker 5: can throw any pitch at anytime.
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Speaker 2: I think, when you watch kid throw, what are you like?
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Speaker 4: Oh boy, I wish I could do that.
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Speaker 2: Is there anything like that that happens for you?
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Speaker 4: I love the kids.
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Speaker 2: Just a little bulldog out there there. He's out here
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Speaker 2: grunting and catch play. You're an doesn't come easy to me?
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Speaker 2: All right, he's I'm all for it.
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Speaker 3: Like I said, the thighs are a little different here.
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Speaker 2: Are a little different, aren't they?
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Speaker 4: Everybody has effortless hond atle bit.
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Speaker 2: Describe your pitching approach, your your style, and then what
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Speaker 2: you've seen from Ryan.
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Speaker 3: I think, for for Ryan throws a lot of shrikes,
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Speaker 3: obviously crazy stuff, but yeah, I think what makes him
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Speaker 3: great is the fact that he throws four five pitches
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Speaker 3: for strikes whenever he wants. And when you throw ninety seven,
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Speaker 3: and obviously it makes it a lot easier.
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Speaker 6: I want to ask both of you guys when you
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Speaker 6: get to come in here. I mean, obviously there's not
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Speaker 6: another lefty in the starting rotation. It's spectacular starting rotation.
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Speaker 6: Not necessarily another lefty for you to model yourself after,
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Speaker 6: but when you just get to watch these guys that
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Speaker 6: are basically doing it where you guys want to be
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Speaker 6: doing it sooner than later.
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Speaker 4: What is it?
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Speaker 6: Is there any one thing out of any of these
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Speaker 6: pictures that each one of you guys are taking. Here's
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Speaker 6: like I love the way that he does that, or
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Speaker 6: I love the way that he does this.
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Speaker 3: I think each picture is unique. But when you look
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Speaker 3: at the starting rotation, they're just they go around, they
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Speaker 3: go about their business just so professionally, and you really
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Speaker 3: admire that. And when you just take things one step
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Speaker 3: at a time, just really being able to watch them
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Speaker 3: and understanding of what they do is special. It just
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Speaker 3: you kind of can just kind of take that for
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Speaker 3: a grain of salt and just continue to work the time.
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Speaker 4: Come.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I think there's just a common denominator between all
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Speaker 5: of them. Like Kate said, they all go about their
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Speaker 5: business extremely professionally, and then there's just tiny things that
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Speaker 5: separate them. Depending on what they need for their body,
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Speaker 5: they know their bodies extremely well, so just depending on
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Speaker 5: that they know what they need and they go about
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Speaker 5: their business.
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Speaker 2: Any of them been a jerk because we'll get on them.
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Speaker 2: We'll get on them, don't you worry.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, the pictures that are actually well. Mariners in
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Speaker 3: general are like just known for really good dudes.
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Speaker 4: Yeah they are.
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Speaker 3: I haven't had one bad experience about any of the
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Speaker 3: guys here.
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Speaker 4: It's it's great, It really is great.
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Speaker 2: We've got We've been fortunate enough to get to know
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Speaker 2: them a lot, and so how you guys are really
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Speaker 2: in a good position here. They'll take time with you,
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Speaker 2: take advantage of it, pick their brains and you know, uh,
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Speaker 2: it's not like you're asking some old fuddy duddy. They're
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Speaker 2: they're going after the same mission that you two are,
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Speaker 2: so take advantage of that.
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Speaker 3: They've gotten really lucky with yeah, being able to wear
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Speaker 3: a navy and teal every day.
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Speaker 2: Well, it is a big adjustment for you to go,
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Speaker 2: you know, LSU all the way up to the Pacific Northwest.
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Speaker 2: I don't know how much time have you had to
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Speaker 2: stomp around in.
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Speaker 3: The p and W if I've been there a couple
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Speaker 3: of times. Okay, it's beautiful during the summer. I got
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Speaker 3: to go, man, really early, beautiful weather and just excited
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Speaker 3: to learn about the city and see what it has
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Speaker 3: to offer.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and I know nothing can compare it to the
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Speaker 2: amazing state of Illinois. But how about you. Have you
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Speaker 2: got to the Pacific Northwest yet?
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Speaker 3: I have? I have.
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Speaker 5: I actually jumped at the opportunity to get out of
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Speaker 5: Chicago this this off season down here in January. But yeah,
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Speaker 5: I've been to cel a couple of times. I was
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Speaker 5: an Everett for the last three or so weeks. I
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Speaker 5: was able to go to a game, was able to
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Speaker 5: go see the city. So it was really great to
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Speaker 5: just be able to get up there and experience everything.
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Speaker 2: All right, So all right, what's the I know you
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Speaker 2: guys got to get running, But what's the mission this year?
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Speaker 1: Cad?
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Speaker 4: What is the what is the goal for you? Yeah?
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Speaker 3: I think what the Marriage are known for, dominating the
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Speaker 3: strike zone. I think when you when you have that mindset,
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Speaker 3: makes things a lot easier on yourself.
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Speaker 2: Brian, you got a mission statement here for us?
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: I think for me to just continue refining my routines,
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Speaker 5: continue to refine my mental state, just keep growing up
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Speaker 5: and maturing and just learning from everyone. Just be able
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Speaker 5: to learn, want to learn day in and day out.
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Speaker 5: Good things are gonna happen.
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Speaker 2: He's never gonna win a college World Series.
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Speaker 4: That's right, you know that he canna have those thoughts.
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Speaker 3: He got drafted on high school. Pretty cool as well.
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Speaker 2: Gentlemen, Great to meet you. Have a great camp, enjoy it,
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Speaker 2: soak it all up, and we will look forward to
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Speaker 2: watching you develop and grow and get to know you
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Speaker 2: a little better over the years. Great to meet you
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Speaker 2: here today. I appreciate having. Thank you Kate Anderson and
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Speaker 2: Ryan Sloan pitching prospects in this organization. Anderson, the first
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Speaker 2: round pick a year ago the Lucky Lottery draw to
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Speaker 2: get as high as they did in the draft to
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Speaker 2: land the best college pitcher in America. And then Ryan Sloan,
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Speaker 2: the high schooler out of the state of Illinois, round
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Speaker 2: pick a couple of years ago. He was destined for
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Speaker 2: Wake Forest, he'd already agreed to go there to be
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Speaker 2: a college pitcher, and just could not resist, first of all,
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Speaker 2: the money, but also the opportunity to be in this
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Speaker 2: organization which is obviously pitching rich. And so there are
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Speaker 2: a few blockades, Bucky in front of these two guys.
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Speaker 2: And yet, man, if I'm a young pitcher, I think
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Speaker 2: and I got to choose. We're taking everything else. I
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Speaker 2: don't care, well, you know what your affinity is for.
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Speaker 2: I don't care what your personal choices are. If it's
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Speaker 2: just like, where can I go to develop my pitching?
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Speaker 2: I would think the Seattle Mariners should be at the
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Speaker 2: top of every eighteen year old high schooler or twenty
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Speaker 2: two year old college pitcher in America. They have really
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Speaker 2: landed at a choice organization.
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Speaker 6: Well, I mean, you know Ryan Sloan, it looks like,
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Speaker 6: I mean a teenager, you know, not very far away
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Speaker 6: from one, actually, but he just looks like a kid
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Speaker 6: from the head up and a man down, like from
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Speaker 6: the neck down. And yet he most certainly understands he's
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Speaker 6: bought in one hundred percent too.
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Speaker 4: I'm just gonna throw strikes. I have good stuff.
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Speaker 6: I'm gonna just pound the zone so I can throw
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Speaker 6: any pitch for a strike whenever I want and just
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Speaker 6: basically keep hitters on their heels. That's not a real
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Speaker 6: fun guy to go against. On the flip side of it,
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Speaker 6: Kate Anderson is about as polished as you can be
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Speaker 6: coming out of college. I mean, he was probably the
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Speaker 6: most polished guy, and yet the Mariners end up getting
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Speaker 6: lucky getting to pick third and then him still being
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Speaker 6: there at third, and so yeah, I think he's probably
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Speaker 6: closest of any minor league pitcher of being ready to
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Speaker 6: be in the big leagues. And yet it's one of
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Speaker 6: those some somewhere along the lines, somebody asked on Twitter, like,
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Speaker 6: what are the odds of these guys being up there?
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Speaker 4: You know this season?
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Speaker 6: It's like, well, I mean, if the rotation's healthy, there's
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Speaker 6: nowhere for them. You can't perform. If you're Kate Anderson,
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Speaker 6: you can't perform well enough to where you're they're going
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Speaker 6: to pull George kirb Be from the rotation. Right You
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Speaker 6: basically kind of have to wait for an opening. Now,
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Speaker 6: typically you're going to have something happen. But I'm not
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Speaker 6: even really wanting to put that in the universe at
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Speaker 6: this point in time. It's like they still got to
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Speaker 6: figure out how to do it at the professional level.
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Speaker 6: And Kate Anderson hasn't thrown a pitch in professional baseball besides,
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Speaker 6: you know, now here at spring training, and so there's
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Speaker 6: a part of the game that is a little faster.
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Speaker 6: The hitter is going to be a little bit better,
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Speaker 6: everything's going to be a little bit better. I think
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Speaker 6: he's going to be able to adapt and roll through
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Speaker 6: the minor leagues pretty quickly. But I'm kind of hoping
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Speaker 6: that it's not necessarily this year because that would mean
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Speaker 6: that there had to be a no opportunity. But when
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Speaker 6: the opportunity arises, I think both of these guys are
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Speaker 6: going to be front of the rotation type stallion guys.
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Speaker 2: Well, I agree with you one hundred percent. I will
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Speaker 2: just say this. I was told off Mike yesterday by
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Speaker 2: someone who might know such things, will keep names out
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Speaker 2: of it. They could be major league ready this year,
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Speaker 2: both of them. Yeah, I mean Solongan just turned twenty,
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Speaker 2: like they all are, they are major league ready, and
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Speaker 2: yeah they're blocked by one to five arguably outside of
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Speaker 2: the one they bought in Los Angeles. The best starting
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Speaker 2: rotation in major League baseball, and so if not for that,
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Speaker 2: you know, you're right, maybe you'd see them sooner than
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Speaker 2: what we're going to see them. But just to be
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Speaker 2: described as they are pretty close to being major league
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Speaker 2: ready already. I mean, Kate Anderson got drafted fifteen minutes ago.
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Speaker 2: Ryan Sloan's six years old. You know I exaggerate for
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Speaker 2: emphasis obviously, but I mean I don't know if people
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Speaker 2: were thinking that at the time of the draft in
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Speaker 2: Seattle anyway, I think scouts were thinking Kate Anderson's just
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Speaker 2: that polished. And I'm not sure people when Ryan Sloane
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Speaker 2: made his little visit to Everett, we're thinking twenty twenty six, Yeah,
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Speaker 2: we could see. I mean there's a chance. I mean,
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Speaker 2: knock on wood. We don't want any injuries, you know,
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Speaker 2: to our starting pitching or anybody else for that matter.
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Speaker 2: But to hear that they're close, like they could pitch
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Speaker 2: this year at the major league level shows you what
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Speaker 2: a fast track they are on talent wise, and also
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Speaker 2: the work that they.
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Speaker 4: Put into it.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, I don't think that they're gonna either
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Speaker 6: one of them is going to have to put a
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Speaker 6: whole ton more time in to prove that they're ready.
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Speaker 6: It's just a matter of when is the opportunity going
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Speaker 6: to rise, right, And so you're hoping that it kind
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Speaker 6: of doesn't arise, because that means that something bad had
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Speaker 6: to happen, whether.
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Speaker 4: It's injury or a poor season. Nobody's wishing for that.
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Speaker 6: And yet that's just the nature of the game, right
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Speaker 6: It's most organizations don't have a starting five one hundred
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Speaker 6: percent locked in that they're feeling real confident about Right.
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Speaker 6: I mean you you look around the other thirty teams
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Speaker 6: in the league or whatever, and they're they're thinking, boy,
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Speaker 6: I can't wait for this. I hope our version of
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Speaker 6: Kate Anderson, hope he really has a great spring and
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Speaker 6: a good first four starts down in Double A, because
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Speaker 6: we're bringing him up because we don't really want our
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Speaker 6: number five starter going out there every five days. That's
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Speaker 6: not the case with the Mariners, and so they kind
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Speaker 6: of have a bit of a wealth when it comes
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Speaker 6: to the pitching department, kind of to the point you
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Speaker 6: were making before of if you're a young pitcher getting
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Speaker 6: ready to start your journey as a professional, there can't
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Speaker 6: be another organization that you feel better about getting drafted
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Speaker 6: by and coming up through the minor league system with Right.
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Speaker 6: I mean, if you want to be a skeptic and
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Speaker 6: you want to be a critic of the Mariners, go ahead,
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Speaker 6: you can do that. That's what we do as well.
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Speaker 6: But there's not a whole heck of a lot to
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Speaker 6: criticize negatively about the pitching. How they've recognized talent in
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Speaker 6: the draft, how they've managed that talent through the minor leagues,
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Speaker 6: and how they've got the guys to the big leagues
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Speaker 6: when it seems like it's the opportunity, it's the prime
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Speaker 6: time they don't.
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Speaker 4: Well, well, we're not going to rush them up here, but.
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Speaker 2: We're kept them healthy. Don't forget that as part of
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Speaker 2: the equation. And I know there were some more injuries
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Speaker 2: last year. I mean Bryce got hurt and Wiu got
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Speaker 2: hurt at the end of the year, and George missed
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Speaker 2: some time, even Logan missed some time. I know they
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Speaker 2: had some injuries a year ago. But for the most part,
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Speaker 2: I mean, they've gone two seasons in the last what
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Speaker 2: seven years that where they didn't have to use a
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Speaker 2: sixth starting pitcher. That's a herd of So even that
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Speaker 2: is a really viable aspect of why this is an
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Speaker 2: organization a young pitcher should want to pitch for.
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Speaker 6: Well, it's a feather in the cap because I mean,
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Speaker 6: whether Kate Anderson is the most polished guy in college baseball,
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Speaker 6: an amateur baseball player pitcher coming out in the draft,
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Speaker 6: he still has no idea what he needs to do
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Speaker 6: for his body to make it ready to go from
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Speaker 6: throwing one hundred and forty pitches to one hundred and
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Speaker 6: forty innings to one hundred and sixty to one hundred
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Speaker 6: and eighty and possibly two hundred innies. He doesn't know
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Speaker 6: what he needs to do for his body. His body's
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Speaker 6: going to change, and so no one really knows what
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Speaker 6: it is. You have to be able to go into
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Speaker 6: your organization and you're pitching coach and your strength and
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Speaker 6: conditioning guys and trust that they know what they're doing,
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Speaker 6: Trust that they know what they're talking about when they're
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Speaker 6: prodding you and leading you down different directions.
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Speaker 4: And that's where I think I mean it kind of
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Speaker 4: it seems like it was.
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Speaker 6: That was that the core of just about every answer
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Speaker 6: that Kate Anderson gave was, you know, we're we're proud
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Speaker 6: to wear the navy and teal. We're proud to wear
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Speaker 6: it because I think he has full trust in the
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Speaker 6: organization and what it is that they've proven they know
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Speaker 6: how to do. As far as we're going to lead
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Speaker 6: you in this direction. Now you got to do the work.
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Speaker 6: But they can lead you in the direction, and they're
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Speaker 6: going to protect you from yourself at times, which is
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Speaker 6: a thing that ultimately has to be done with professional athletes.
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Speaker 6: Sometimes you just want to go so hard, so fast
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Speaker 6: and try to impress so much that you end up,
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Speaker 6: you know, blowing out, you end up hurting yourself.
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Speaker 4: In the process.
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Speaker 6: So yeah, this organization definitely has, you know, that feather
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Speaker 6: in their cap of we can keep you healthy for
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Speaker 6: the most part. You can't keep everybody healthy, just not
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Speaker 6: the nature of the beast. But we're going to do
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Speaker 6: a good job.
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Speaker 2: Better job else, do a better job than the Dodgers. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: well they're just like, throw everything as hard as you can.
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Speaker 2: We don't care. We'll buy another one of you, you know,
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Speaker 2: So they do a better job than that. I also
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Speaker 2: think and this is the eyes and ears aspect of
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Speaker 2: being here at spring training, Like it's worth noting the
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Speaker 2: difference between the two. Anderson is just built like a
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Speaker 2: read like he's even thinner than I thought he was
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Speaker 2: watching him pitch last year for LSU. He's a very
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Speaker 2: like Max Freed type, you know, physique Ron Gidry for
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Speaker 2: those that remember Louisiana Lightning. And he's left handed, and
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Speaker 2: so that's a little bit more. But I will also
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Speaker 2: tell you, and this is where we are in the
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Speaker 2: state of baseball. I think it was divish that told
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Speaker 2: us couple of eyes, go, he doesn't throw as hard
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Speaker 2: as everybody else, just like ninety four to ninety seven. Yeah, right,
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Speaker 2: ninety four to ninety seven, with that sort of command
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Speaker 2: that he's kind of legendary for and pitching knowledge and
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Speaker 2: thirst and hunger and striving for perfection. I mean, that's
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Speaker 2: that's Kate Anderson for you. We're not talking about, you know,
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Speaker 2: Jamie Moyer here, We're talking about somebody that can bring
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Speaker 2: it even though velocity is not the best aspect of
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Speaker 2: his repertoire.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 6: Well, I mean, I'll just say, I mean, I know
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Speaker 6: the game has changed, how they measure velocity has changed,
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Speaker 6: but just typically ninety two and above, you better be ready,
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Speaker 6: ninety three, ninety four you you, you gotta be on time.
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Speaker 6: You gotta get your foot down. You better not take
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Speaker 6: a long swing. Ninety five and above they can. You
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Speaker 6: can get blown away. If you have anything mechanically wrong
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Speaker 6: or mentally wrong with your preparation or your your mental
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Speaker 6: your your kind of your approach, you're gonna get blown
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Speaker 6: away by ninety five plus. So the fact that he
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Speaker 6: can reach get up there in ninety seven, but he pitches,
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Speaker 6: he so he changes speeds and then he locates. I mean,
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Speaker 6: I think a lot of people want to go about
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Speaker 6: this debate what wins velocity or location?
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Speaker 4: Well both, what you want is both.
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Speaker 6: If you throw it down the middle, it doesn't matter
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Speaker 6: how hard it is, down the middle is gonna get
16:55
Speaker 6: hit from time to time. So I think that there's
16:58
Speaker 6: a huge part of what Kate Anderson brings the table
17:00
Speaker 6: where it's it's plus philosoity, even though it might not
17:03
Speaker 6: be plus plus, but it doesn't matter ninety four, ninety five,
17:06
Speaker 6: ninety seven. That'll work, especially if you're hitting corners and
17:09
Speaker 6: change speeds.
17:09
Speaker 2: And then Sloan's an even more interesting thing to describe
17:13
Speaker 2: for our listeners. I mean, you look out across the
17:16
Speaker 2: field and you're like, what is that, hey? I mean,
17:22
Speaker 2: just the you can see the muscled thighs like Cuaudzilla
17:26
Speaker 2: ripping through the pants. Practically, it's like a centaur. We've
17:31
Speaker 2: got like a you know, out there in the middle
17:33
Speaker 2: of the field. I mean, I made the comment with
17:37
Speaker 2: Jerry it's Master Blaster because from Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome,
17:42
Speaker 2: the big villain was Blaster and he you know, he
17:45
Speaker 2: beat everybody up in the Thunderdome and he was massive,
17:48
Speaker 2: looked like the mountain, and then he gets his helmet
17:51
Speaker 2: knocked off at the end of the movie and you
17:53
Speaker 2: find out.
17:54
Speaker 4: He's just a kid. Spoiler alert.
17:56
Speaker 2: Just so, Sloan starts walking over and I'm like, oh
17:58
Speaker 2: my gosh, here comes a centaur. And then you're like, oh,
18:00
Speaker 2: it's a baby. It's a baby centaur. He is massive,
18:06
Speaker 2: like especially waist down and then he's got this like
18:10
Speaker 2: childlike face. I'm not even sure they've dropped, you know.
18:14
Speaker 2: I mean, he he gets a little bit flustered and
18:17
Speaker 2: his cheeks get rosy pink. I mean, Bucky, he's six
18:21
Speaker 2: five two twenty five, made a muscle, and he might
18:25
Speaker 2: not be done growing and developing. Based on that cherubic
18:29
Speaker 2: face that I'm staring at across the table. Well, every
18:32
Speaker 2: minutes ago.
18:32
Speaker 6: Everything starts with the you know, from the ground up,
18:35
Speaker 6: and so I mean, if you got kind of a
18:37
Speaker 6: weak lower half, there's there's extra strets that's gonna be
18:39
Speaker 6: put on your arm. And so typically forever you've kind
18:42
Speaker 6: of looked for guys that have that strong from the
18:45
Speaker 6: footing up, strong lower half, and no one especially when
18:49
Speaker 6: it starts when you're a starting pitcher, where they're gonna
18:51
Speaker 6: ask you to go out there and go, you know,
18:53
Speaker 6: near max effort for one hundred plus times a game.
18:56
Speaker 4: I mean, that's the build that you're looking for. He's
18:58
Speaker 4: you know, he just said with us. I mean you
19:01
Speaker 4: you know.
19:02
Speaker 6: I started working out when I was a freshman high school,
19:04
Speaker 6: and then this is just what happened.
19:05
Speaker 2: Yeah, that wasn't Yeah, he's been working He's had that
19:08
Speaker 2: mindset since he was a freshman.
19:09
Speaker 6: I'm gonna do that. Yeah, I'm gonna lift weights. Yeah,
19:12
Speaker 6: I'm gonna lift weights and get strong and make sure
19:14
Speaker 6: that my lower half. I mean just bottom line, you
19:16
Speaker 6: think about if you can exert max effort from your
19:18
Speaker 6: lower half, it's less effort that you have to if
19:21
Speaker 6: all of a sudden, the ball's just flying out of
19:23
Speaker 6: your hands, you don't have to put that extra reef
19:26
Speaker 6: on it that all of a sudden starts, you know,
19:28
Speaker 6: putting twinge on your owner collateral ligament and other parts
19:31
Speaker 6: of your arm. So, I mean it makes sense. It
19:33
Speaker 6: makes sense, and he most certainly is put together the
19:35
Speaker 6: way that you want to start a pitcher to be
19:36
Speaker 6: put together.
19:37
Speaker 2: Just turn twenty, like like a couple of weeks ago.
19:41
Speaker 2: Turn twenty can't buy a beer, right, you know, and
19:46
Speaker 2: don't drink them. Yeah, and yet he's throwing easy in
19:50
Speaker 2: big league camp yesterday ninety seven to ninety nine, and
19:54
Speaker 2: we're a week into spring training at this point. I mean,
19:57
Speaker 2: the velocity's actually grown, like with every day that he's
20:02
Speaker 2: on planet Earth. I don't know where this is gonna stop.
20:06
Speaker 2: I really don't want to get too carried away with
20:08
Speaker 2: prospects have done anything at the major league level, But man,
20:13
Speaker 2: I'm telling you, these two they look special. They just
20:17
Speaker 2: look special. I mean, this is one of those things
20:20
Speaker 2: where they're gonna have the opportunity organizationally, probably gonna make
20:25
Speaker 2: a couple of unpopular decisions like trade wise here in
20:29
Speaker 2: the next couple of years, keep a couple of the
20:32
Speaker 2: guys that you young, guys that you currently have, probably
20:35
Speaker 2: trade a couple of the guys that you currently have
20:38
Speaker 2: to make room for these two in the rotation. Where
20:42
Speaker 2: then they I mean, we're not talking three four starters.
20:46
Speaker 2: They believe they are one or two, number two, number
20:49
Speaker 2: one or number two starters at the major league level.
20:52
Speaker 2: That's what we have and Anderson and Sloan. And so
20:55
Speaker 2: if it sounds if I sound enthusiastic, maybe more so
20:58
Speaker 2: than I should be two guys that have never cracked
21:01
Speaker 2: the major leagues at this point, one of which is
21:03
Speaker 2: four years old. I will just tell you that the
21:06
Speaker 2: buzz at the camp is real. I mean, it is
21:09
Speaker 2: what pretty much everybody's talking about right now.
21:12
Speaker 6: It would hurt to see any of these starting five
21:15
Speaker 6: go if they if they did end up making that move,
21:17
Speaker 6: But the only reason they would make that move is
21:19
Speaker 6: if they were one hundred percent positive that one of
21:21
Speaker 6: these guys, right if it's a if it's the next
21:23
Speaker 6: Max Freed and the next Garrett Cole. Yeah, and you
21:27
Speaker 6: end up having to say goodbye to one of the
21:28
Speaker 6: guys that we love that is in that starting rotation
21:31
Speaker 6: right now, then that's just the nature of the beat.
21:34
Speaker 4: That's the business. There's a business that goes on with baseball.
21:36
Speaker 6: And you know, as it's hard for me to remove
21:38
Speaker 6: myself from the players part of it, like the clubhouse.
21:41
Speaker 6: And yet there's was plenty of times where I had
21:43
Speaker 6: a friend end up getting promoted or promoted or or
21:47
Speaker 6: traded to somewhere else and you were like, all right,
21:49
Speaker 6: well who's coming in to replace them? If that person
21:52
Speaker 6: comes in to replace them, and they do their job.
21:54
Speaker 6: They're there to help you win ball games. It's not
21:58
Speaker 6: like you lose your friend. Well up, I don't. I'm
22:00
Speaker 6: not friends with them anymore. You just move on the
22:02
Speaker 6: business and baseball carries on. That's a machine that's gonna
22:04
Speaker 6: keep rolling. You just kind of have to go with it.
22:06
Speaker 2: Matt Well, it's something we've talked about in the past,
22:08
Speaker 2: like how they might approach the future with the five Starters.
22:12
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22:15
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22:49
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22:52
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22:56
Speaker 2: grab during the break, and so we brought over for
23:00
Speaker 2: Aerner center Fielder Amateur Loisure. It is Mike Cameron joins
23:05
Speaker 2: us right here on the program.
23:07
Speaker 4: Good to see.
23:08
Speaker 7: You, good, good to be here, guys. I appreciate it.
23:10
Speaker 2: Tell our audience about your winter sports skills.
23:14
Speaker 8: Uh, well, I did that probably. I don't even know
23:17
Speaker 8: if I was started watching the Winter Olympics, but I
23:22
Speaker 8: was going down hills on my skateboard front and laying
23:27
Speaker 8: down the loose and the skeleton. I did that and
23:32
Speaker 8: I didn't come out well, it works out a little
23:35
Speaker 8: bit worse when you're on concrete.
23:36
Speaker 6: So I could pictures on the short track speed skating,
23:41
Speaker 6: I was still I.
23:44
Speaker 7: Would love to do that one. I don't know. I
23:46
Speaker 7: don't know if my my.
23:47
Speaker 8: Right laborer would will allow me to do it at
23:49
Speaker 8: this point, but I would love to do I was
23:52
Speaker 8: just watching it right now. I love when they go
23:53
Speaker 8: around when they had the one arm behind their back
23:55
Speaker 8: and they're sliding and trying to stay really tight on
23:58
Speaker 8: the on the on the turns.
24:00
Speaker 7: But I could do that.
24:01
Speaker 2: I think I could do it all about the butt.
24:03
Speaker 7: It'd be like a little baby seal out there. Nice.
24:10
Speaker 2: Well, I want to congratulate you. The statue that you're
24:15
Speaker 2: gonna have made of your of your play. What your
24:18
Speaker 2: reaction to that?
24:20
Speaker 8: Well, first, I think I took about three seconds before
24:24
Speaker 8: I started crying.
24:27
Speaker 7: This is something that I didn't expect at all.
24:29
Speaker 8: Guys, when, uh, when John Stanton called me, I had
24:36
Speaker 8: no idea. Why the heck is John Stanton calling me?
24:38
Speaker 8: Is going to offer me a minority stake and ownership
24:41
Speaker 8: or something? Or did I do something wrong on Twitter? U?
24:45
Speaker 7: What is it?
24:46
Speaker 8: And obviously I thought he's gonna maybe wave a five
24:49
Speaker 8: year thing for a blue jacket. But then when you
24:51
Speaker 8: start talking about this seventy five year anniversary and some
24:55
Speaker 8: of the things that are commemorative of the team, and
25:00
Speaker 8: he said, oh, we're gonna give you guys. You know,
25:03
Speaker 8: you and maccamore a part of that one picture that
25:05
Speaker 8: you had, guys had after ninety eleven and we clinched.
25:08
Speaker 7: That that flag thing.
25:09
Speaker 8: I didn't notice, didn't know the symbol of symbolism of
25:13
Speaker 8: it to that magnitude. You know, I was cool with
25:17
Speaker 8: the little bubbleheads or whatever. But it has kind of,
25:21
Speaker 8: you know, reformed itself in a sense to the I
25:25
Speaker 8: get a chance, as I stated, you know, when we
25:27
Speaker 8: was out for FanFest. To be a little guy from
25:33
Speaker 8: a small town in Georgia to this magnitude five thousand
25:37
Speaker 8: miles away, four thousand miles away or whatever it is
25:39
Speaker 8: from Georgia, to have a symbol of this nature, to
25:44
Speaker 8: be you know, embedded and impacted in the community and
25:47
Speaker 8: along with the baseball club. I don't really have the
25:52
Speaker 8: words for it, because it's it was. It's such a
25:55
Speaker 8: team thing, you know. I was like, the first thing
25:56
Speaker 8: I asked him, like, well, how do the other guys
25:58
Speaker 8: feel about it?
25:59
Speaker 7: Because you know, Damn Wilson's in the picture. I think.
26:03
Speaker 8: Lose in the picture, so a couple other guys if
26:06
Speaker 8: I can remember it perfectly.
26:07
Speaker 7: But I've just embraced it.
26:10
Speaker 8: Man, because I'm still not really comfortable with that, because
26:14
Speaker 8: when you think of statues, you think about the iconic
26:16
Speaker 8: guys that are like Griffy and I Tiro and Edgar
26:20
Speaker 8: and those guys like that. But to be a part
26:22
Speaker 8: of this community downtown in that area, man, and have
26:25
Speaker 8: someone come by when they're drunk and take a piss
26:27
Speaker 8: on it, It'd be pretty cool to be able to
26:30
Speaker 8: see yourself, you know, fifty years from now. You know,
26:34
Speaker 8: my grandkids and they grew up and it's like, man,
26:36
Speaker 8: you know, you know Pops, he's uh, you know, very
26:41
Speaker 8: well liked.
26:42
Speaker 7: And very known, and this mortalized. I mean, I don't
26:45
Speaker 7: even you know.
26:46
Speaker 8: I kind of when they when they when they did
26:49
Speaker 8: the press release, I kind of snuck and.
26:50
Speaker 7: See what people are going to say, Well, they didn't
26:52
Speaker 7: win nothing, they didn't do nothing. And I'm just like.
26:56
Speaker 8: Hey, man, it's going to be there for life, if
26:58
Speaker 8: you know. If you don't like it, go on there
27:01
Speaker 8: and take a pice on it.
27:03
Speaker 2: Yeah, let that well. I mean, did you at any
27:07
Speaker 2: point say, well, John, I appreciate this, not to be greedy,
27:10
Speaker 2: but I did hit four homers in one game too.
27:13
Speaker 4: I don't know, maybe we could commemorate.
27:15
Speaker 8: Yeah, I think I think this is much bigger than
27:18
Speaker 8: the four home run thing. Man, to be, as you stated,
27:22
Speaker 8: be immortalized in this, this this type of moment, and
27:25
Speaker 8: to be able to hopefully be here to see it
27:28
Speaker 8: and have some of my people said my stepmom, my
27:32
Speaker 8: mom passed away here right before the New Year, and
27:37
Speaker 8: I was going to tell about it, and uh, I
27:39
Speaker 8: didn't get a chance to tell about it because we
27:41
Speaker 8: had to keep it under the wraps for a while.
27:43
Speaker 8: But man, I'm ecstatic, you know, to be a part
27:47
Speaker 8: of it, and you know, just to be able to
27:50
Speaker 8: celebrate it with some family and just to know about
27:53
Speaker 8: you know that I'm a part of this, you know,
27:57
Speaker 8: history in the franchise, be a part of this history,
28:00
Speaker 8: franchise history, and man, like I just I just have
28:06
Speaker 8: sincere gratitude in that space because you just don't get
28:11
Speaker 8: these type of things no anywhere. When you think about
28:14
Speaker 8: statues of people, you think about historic feats and different
28:17
Speaker 8: things that they've accomplished. And I just played baseball, you
28:20
Speaker 8: know what I'm saying. So this is pretty spectacular in
28:23
Speaker 8: their right. And I'm happy to be able to, like
28:28
Speaker 8: I said, be able to witness this happening in September.
28:31
Speaker 7: It's going to be really cool.
28:32
Speaker 3: Man.
28:32
Speaker 7: I'm really excited about seeing something like this.
28:35
Speaker 4: Yeah, well yeah, you're right, man.
28:36
Speaker 6: And ultimately that was that point in time and for
28:39
Speaker 6: our country was crazy and it was how it was nuts.
28:42
Speaker 6: How baseball I mean you were part of the sport. Yeah,
28:46
Speaker 6: that kind of brought everybody back together, you know, in
28:49
Speaker 6: a time after a time of tragedy like that. So
28:51
Speaker 6: I mean, as far as bringing everybody back together, everybody's
28:53
Speaker 6: back together here as free training and after last year
28:57
Speaker 6: great run and yet just barely coming up short of
29:01
Speaker 6: you know, getting to the Fall Classic. What's your overarching
29:05
Speaker 6: feel when you walk in this building. Is it a
29:07
Speaker 6: lot more confident than last year at this time?
29:09
Speaker 7: Yeah.
29:10
Speaker 8: I think there's a little bit also more of the
29:15
Speaker 8: expects expectancye of what after you.
29:19
Speaker 7: Experienced something and you fall so short.
29:21
Speaker 8: I've done it on a couple occasions here and understand
29:25
Speaker 8: it from that nature man, and to be literally maybe
29:30
Speaker 8: a pitch or two away from you know, having the
29:34
Speaker 8: Seattle Mariners in their first World Series and you know,
29:37
Speaker 8: in their lifetime, and obviously it's like now you're getting
29:40
Speaker 8: an open campus all over again.
29:42
Speaker 7: You got to start back building it up, you know,
29:44
Speaker 7: framing it.
29:45
Speaker 8: Up, pitching, uh, painting it up however you want to
29:48
Speaker 8: do it, the decorations of it over the course of
29:51
Speaker 8: a long season, and you know, the know some of
29:53
Speaker 8: the things that happen over the course of a long
29:55
Speaker 8: season and the expectancy. So I think guys are excited
29:59
Speaker 8: about that opportunity and some of the players they brought
30:02
Speaker 8: in to solidify some position. You have some young players
30:05
Speaker 8: that are going to probably get an opportunity to.
30:08
Speaker 7: Be a part of what it's to be expected. And
30:12
Speaker 7: not only that, you know, like as you get better,
30:14
Speaker 7: other teams get better too. So the.
30:19
Speaker 8: Mindset of that is like, Okay, let's see what we
30:22
Speaker 8: stack up at, and let's make a run at it
30:24
Speaker 8: again and see where we come out at. Because in
30:26
Speaker 8: the end of the day, man, like, it's really hard
30:29
Speaker 8: to win constantly on baseball and the game it seems
30:35
Speaker 8: to be getting a little bit more difficult with all
30:37
Speaker 8: of the analytics and everything else where they pinpoint all
30:42
Speaker 8: of the different things that you do as a player,
30:44
Speaker 8: and so it makes it more difficult to score.
30:48
Speaker 7: Runs and to get hits and everything else.
30:50
Speaker 8: So you know, guys are you know, coming up with
30:52
Speaker 8: ways to try to get an edge or an advantage
30:54
Speaker 8: in that situation as a player yourself, the growth of
30:58
Speaker 8: the player, that's just something different aspects that come across
31:02
Speaker 8: the season. You know, second year guys trying to prove
31:08
Speaker 8: that they still can they can do it again. You
31:11
Speaker 8: got veteran players still proving that I can do it.
31:14
Speaker 8: You got young young, younger guys coming in and just
31:18
Speaker 8: trying to find their way and trying to find their
31:20
Speaker 8: niche and they're fit amongst the team, and then it's
31:24
Speaker 8: just you know, just the expectation of the city, expectation
31:28
Speaker 8: of the ball club, expectation of the league in itself,
31:32
Speaker 8: that you start to put those things in place, and
31:35
Speaker 8: then you got to try to figure out where you
31:37
Speaker 8: are and just go play ball and see where you
31:40
Speaker 8: match up with with some of the best in the game.
31:42
Speaker 2: All right, all right, in our last minute here or two,
31:46
Speaker 2: give me somebody that's standing out to you at camp
31:48
Speaker 2: so far.
31:49
Speaker 8: Well, you know, so this is my first day, but
31:51
Speaker 8: you know, obviously I know a lot of the guys
31:55
Speaker 8: I'm very very interested in to see in a healthy
31:58
Speaker 8: Johnny Ferrari from Mellow, I mean, that's like one of
32:02
Speaker 8: my guys. I want to see, you know, how these
32:04
Speaker 8: guys are gonna get a lot of opportunities with the
32:06
Speaker 8: World Baseball Classic coming up and so many guys leaving,
32:09
Speaker 8: so they're gonna it's going to create a lot of
32:12
Speaker 8: opportunities in that light, and I think, you know, so
32:16
Speaker 8: it's gonna be interested to see how these guys start
32:19
Speaker 8: to formulate their careers approaching the major league level in
32:25
Speaker 8: that sense, and so, and I'm sure there's some other
32:28
Speaker 8: guys you know, still like learning a few other new
32:31
Speaker 8: names and everything. But you know, the eyes don't never lie,
32:34
Speaker 8: so you know, you get a chance to see it
32:36
Speaker 8: from that perspective myself.
32:37
Speaker 2: Pretty great that you're a World Series contender and at
32:41
Speaker 2: the same time you have so many exciting young players
32:44
Speaker 2: for the future. I mean, that is a hard thing
32:47
Speaker 2: in Major League Baseball to achieve, but this organization's done it, Yeah, no.
32:51
Speaker 7: Doubt about it.
32:52
Speaker 8: You know, it's been kind of knocking on the door
32:54
Speaker 8: here for the last few years and just kind of
32:57
Speaker 8: bridging the gap between the players and some of the
33:01
Speaker 8: younger guys in which I think, like, I mean, we're
33:04
Speaker 8: still talking about the oldest guys in the locker room
33:07
Speaker 8: or still like eight or nine year eight nine year
33:10
Speaker 8: veterans if anything, you know. So, uh, that is something
33:13
Speaker 8: that has been very bright here in Seattle to be
33:19
Speaker 8: able to see it, and it creates a lot of excitement.
33:22
Speaker 2: Uh.
33:22
Speaker 8: You know, the one thing that I think that people
33:26
Speaker 8: tend to forget. We put so much height in this
33:30
Speaker 8: perspective of prospects and there still is a lot of mature,
33:36
Speaker 8: a meturation process and growth in the person and the
33:39
Speaker 8: player itself.
33:40
Speaker 7: To be able to play this game.
33:43
Speaker 4: Man.
33:44
Speaker 8: So uh, you know, and we talk about this a lot,
33:47
Speaker 8: you know, just having some grace for some young guys,
33:49
Speaker 8: because sometimes this computer will hype a person up so
33:53
Speaker 8: much that that doesn't happen in a short short period.
33:58
Speaker 7: They are already labeled that, you.
34:00
Speaker 8: Know, they're not prospects or whatever it may be. And
34:03
Speaker 8: that's one of the biggest things. I can always contest
34:05
Speaker 8: to that because you know, I was one of them,
34:07
Speaker 8: wasn't one of the top prospects, and then all of
34:09
Speaker 8: a sudden, I hit a three year spurt where it's like, oh,
34:11
Speaker 8: he's a top prospect and he's this and he's that,
34:13
Speaker 8: and like, okay, he doing the big leagues and it's
34:14
Speaker 8: like can you do it over again? And it's there's
34:17
Speaker 8: just so much and that you know, I made it
34:19
Speaker 8: to the big leads at twenty two. A lot of
34:20
Speaker 8: these guys getting here at you know, twenty yeah, you know,
34:24
Speaker 8: twenty one, twenty two or some of some of the guys,
34:28
Speaker 8: and it's just like, man, like, man, I remember I
34:30
Speaker 8: was an a ball at twenty years old, and these
34:32
Speaker 8: guys are here in big lee camp. So you know,
34:34
Speaker 8: just to get that opportunity to go ahead and and
34:38
Speaker 8: get that experience is pretty immaculate.
34:41
Speaker 7: In that right.
34:41
Speaker 2: You're a guy from elegans to just operate under the radar,
34:44
Speaker 2: you know, because of all the other things of shiny
34:47
Speaker 2: objects around him. Hey, great to see your congratulations on
34:50
Speaker 2: the honor on the statue. I'm glad we got to
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Speaker 2: put you on the air here today. Have fun here
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Speaker 2: at spring training and we'll chat with you down the line.
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Speaker 7: Definitely, I appreciate it.
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Speaker 2: Guys. All right, Mike Cameron joining us right here on
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Speaker 2: Chucking Back in the morning. We'll continue next Sports Radio
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Speaker 2: ninety three point three KJRFM. All right to that nine
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Speaker 2: o'clock hour here from Chucking Buck Sports Radio ninety three
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Speaker 2: point three kjr FM. There is. We'll be joining us
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Speaker 2: at nine o'clock today. We also probably need to talk
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Speaker 2: a little bit of football at nine thirty. We did,
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Speaker 2: after all, Hire and o c over the weekend, so
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Speaker 2: we'll talk a little bit about Brian Floory coming up
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Speaker 2: here at nine thirty on the radio program. Of course,
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Speaker 2: we're here at Mariners' spring training. Our coverage just getting
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Speaker 2: underway here today. If you've just joined us because you thought,
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Speaker 2: oh I slept in today because I didn't have to work. Well,
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Speaker 2: you've missed Jerry Deploto, you've missed Gabe Spire, You've missed
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Speaker 2: Kate Anderson, Ryan Sloan, Mike Cameron. Pretty damn good show
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Speaker 2: for our first show for a Monday.
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Speaker 4: Not too shabby, Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Pretty hard, high bar, Yeah, I tell you that right now.
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Speaker 4: But it's not all downhill from here.
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Speaker 2: Oh no, no, no, no, not at all. We got
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Speaker 2: a lot of people to talk to before the week
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Speaker 2: comes to a close. And so yes, we are just
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Speaker 2: getting started. What's this doing for you? Former ballplayer? You know,
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Speaker 2: a little overcast day in Arizona. Are you getting a
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Speaker 2: little bit of the juice yourself? You know, getting down
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Speaker 2: to spring training day number one here?
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Speaker 4: Yea percent.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I've It's taken everything in me to not just
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Speaker 6: go get in the batting cage, and then I realized
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Speaker 6: there's nothing good gonna come out of that. I want to, like,
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Speaker 6: every every cell in my body wants to, and then
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Speaker 6: there's one brain cell that's like, probably not a good idea.
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Speaker 4: Now, they wouldn't let me.
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Speaker 2: What's your fear, what's your trepidation?
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Speaker 6: Well, I'm one hundred percent positive that it wouldn't. It
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Speaker 6: wouldn't feel the same as it once felt. I used
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Speaker 6: to step in there and it was like you know that,
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Speaker 6: you hear people say it just sounds different off his
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Speaker 6: bat it would sound different, or it would sound different.
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Speaker 6: Now would sound not very loud compared to the loud
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Speaker 6: contact that's going on in there right now. And then
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Speaker 6: probably more than anything, would be like ouch like that
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Speaker 6: was the other owl, Like something would hurt immediately, and
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Speaker 6: then there would be a lingering pain for probably days,
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Speaker 6: if not weeks afterwards.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, yeah, so I get it. I get it,
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Speaker 2: like that reminder of oh man, I remember I used
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Speaker 2: to be really good at this. Yeah, that whole remind
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Speaker 2: like last night. I met up with six buddies last
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Speaker 2: night in Phoenix because I lived here for fifteen years
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Speaker 2: and I didn't have one. You look good, oh that one? Yeah,
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Speaker 2: And it was just sort of like, yeah, I know,
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Speaker 2: yeah I don't.
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Speaker 6: I actually just thought one of those from Alvin Davis.
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Speaker 6: I just went to the bathroom last bread.
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Speaker 2: You have lost some weight.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, well I still don't know if I look good.
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Speaker 6: But Alvin Davis is just mister Mariner is nice like that, right,
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Speaker 6: I said that had I not lost any weight.
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Speaker 4: I think he says it every year. He's just kind
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Speaker 4: of his go to move.
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Speaker 2: He's just a nice guy.
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Speaker 4: False or not, and we all like to hear it.
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Speaker 2: One of the six could have said something, right, you know,
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Speaker 2: I told it to a couple of them.
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Speaker 4: They're your friends. Were you Did you mean it when
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Speaker 4: you said to that?
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Speaker 7: Yeah?
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Speaker 4: I did. Okay, Well, maybe they didn't want to blow
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Speaker 4: idea if they don't think it.
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Speaker 2: I do want my friends to be honest, and I
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Speaker 2: would have thought they were lying had they told me that, no,
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Speaker 2: I don't look terrible.
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Speaker 4: Almost look really bad.
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Speaker 2: They felt like they had to tell me I looked good.
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Speaker 2: They didn't even try to fake it.
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Speaker 4: They were just like, hey, you look you look old?
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Speaker 6: He here?
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Speaker 4: Has it been that long since I've seen each other?
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Speaker 7: Guy?
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Speaker 2: Look, did you go really embraced this aging process? You
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Speaker 2: made it?
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Speaker 4: You know what?
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Speaker 2: You don't look too thin?
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Speaker 4: You been eating? That might have been what Alvin Davis
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Speaker 4: was actually talking about.
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Speaker 6: Well that looked like you're starving there, big fella.
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Speaker 2: Well, I would imagine Lough. You get around all this
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Speaker 2: and uh, it just feels like home.
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Speaker 4: It does well it is.
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Speaker 6: I mean, you know you you get up and do
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Speaker 6: the show in the morning, and there's a lot of
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Speaker 6: times that it is fueled by strictly by Kathee right
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Speaker 6: at six o'clock in the morning when we start the show,
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Speaker 6: not the case when we get down here. Just something
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Speaker 6: about walking into the same doors that I walked into
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Speaker 6: twenty some years ago. Things look a little bit different,
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Speaker 6: but then you still you just get out here and
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Speaker 6: you can smell the grass and you just kind of
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Speaker 6: get the feel. There's just something in the air about
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Speaker 6: spring training time. And then all of a sudden, you
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Speaker 6: see these guys now that could be my kids, yea,
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Speaker 6: age wise, they could be my children, and yet they're
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Speaker 6: coming out here, getting ready to do the thing that
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Speaker 6: we all dreamt of doing as kids, and they're actually
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Speaker 6: doing it. And it's, uh, yeah, there's definitely an itch
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Speaker 6: that comes around. I don't know for sure if that'll
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Speaker 6: ever go with Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Well, and baseball's a little different. Like one of the
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Speaker 2: buddies from last night's former NFL player, and he used
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Speaker 2: to tell me stories and I won't mention his name,
40:17
Speaker 2: just to protect him a little bit. He would tell
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Speaker 2: the stories where there were times that I dreaded driving
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Speaker 2: to training camp so much that I thought it crossed
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Speaker 2: my mind to just wreck my truck in the ditch.
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Speaker 2: I would rather have done that than go to practice
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Speaker 2: one more time. Yeah, like, that's how much like football.
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Speaker 2: But I and I know that this process becomes a grind,
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Speaker 2: and by the end of March, you're like, well, please enough,
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Speaker 2: enough enough. But at the beginning, they're all in a
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Speaker 2: really good mood. It always feels like they were happy
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Speaker 2: to be here and and excited to be here and
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Speaker 2: excited to be around each other again.
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Speaker 4: And uh, we.
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Speaker 2: Usually this is why we come down here at this time.
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Speaker 2: We come down early in the process. We want to
40:59
Speaker 2: get him in the best mood possible.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 6: Well, everything runs its course and you end up kind
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Speaker 6: of can't wait for the end of it the end.
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Speaker 6: Once the end of the off season, you're like, I
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Speaker 6: am so tired of just lifting and just throwing and
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Speaker 6: just swinging in a batting cage.
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Speaker 4: I want to get out on the field.
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Speaker 6: And then you want to go see your buddies and
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Speaker 6: your your your home is that you're gonna get spend
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Speaker 6: the next seven, eight, nine months with And uh yeah,
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Speaker 6: there's just something about the beginning of anything, right, It's
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Speaker 6: a new dawn. It's a new day, this is a
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Speaker 6: new season, and everybody's rippering ready to go.
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Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, like the beginning of the week of spring
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Speaker 2: training covers by Friday, I won't be able to stand
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Speaker 2: you yeah, in the same time.
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Speaker 6: I get it right now, same way, Right now, I'm
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Speaker 6: enjoying the end of this segment.
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Speaker 4: Yeah all right.
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Speaker 2: Coming up next on the program, he's going to be
41:42
Speaker 2: a big story this Mariner's twenty twenty sixth season, the
41:46
Speaker 2: last year that Rick Riz will be on the call.
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Speaker 2: He's going to join us next. Sports Radio ninety three
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