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Chuck & Buck 7-13 Hour 4: Sorry Dan... ABC's of the Mariners and one last thing! · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: All right, Chuck and Ashley with you here on this
• 0:14
  Speaker 1: Monday morning. It's turned into a rather eventful one for
• 0:16
  Speaker 1: us here this morning. Yeah, in our seven o'clock hour
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  Speaker 1: we talked about our brand new ownership group here with
• 0:23
  Speaker 1: the football team.
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  Speaker 2: We started our Huskies one series. We got World Cup
• 0:28
  Speaker 2: Final four starting tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: We got Home run Derby tonight, we got All Star
• 0:32
  Speaker 1: Game tomorrow. But I just dropped in on this show.
• 0:37
  Speaker 2: I've had enough. I've had enough after Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think Dan Wilson's the right man to manage
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  Speaker 1: this team and manage the big expectations that go with
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  Speaker 1: this team. I am expecting this team to end up
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  Speaker 1: in the World Series still at this point, and maybe
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  Speaker 1: we don't have the right manager for the job. So
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  Speaker 1: I have said it today officially that I think we
• 1:01
  Speaker 1: should make a change at that position, and I've left
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  Speaker 1: it to you, the listening audience, to weigh in several
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  Speaker 1: different ways to do so.
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  Speaker 2: Talkback.
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  Speaker 1: We've got a couple of talkbacks, certainly from our website.
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  Speaker 1: We've got YouTube, so we've got some people communicating via YouTube.
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  Speaker 2: We've still got the old.
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  Speaker 1: Text line at four nine four five one, and I say,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we can just use old school radio phone
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  Speaker 1: lines as well two O six two eight six ninety
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  Speaker 1: five ninety five if you want to weigh in as well.
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  Speaker 1: I have been asking for people to defend him because
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  Speaker 1: I want to make sure that that avenue has opened
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  Speaker 1: up to have this conversation, an adult conversation about this.
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  Speaker 2: This isn't about nanny nanny boo boo, or.
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  Speaker 1: This isn't about uh, you know, we have to fire
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  Speaker 1: somebody after every single loss.
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  Speaker 2: That's not the kind of host that I am.
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  Speaker 1: I take this very seriously when I when I make
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  Speaker 1: these sort of declarations on my radio show, and so
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  Speaker 1: today making it, and I want feedback, and I'd really
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  Speaker 1: like to hear from people that don't want him to go.
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  Speaker 1: I really would, And there are various ways to do that.
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  Speaker 1: But there you go. Anyway you want to communicate with
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  Speaker 1: us this morning, I guess there are a thousand ways
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  Speaker 1: right now. You can even fly a drone over and.
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  Speaker 2: Drop a card to me. Here you go, All right,
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  Speaker 2: what do you got back there?
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  Speaker 3: All right, we're going to go back to the talk back.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, Dan Wilson should stay the Seattle Mariners manager for
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  Speaker 4: one reason, and one reason only. Our ownership cares about
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  Speaker 4: profit and that's it. They will keep him in his
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  Speaker 4: position because they can use him like a puppet, and
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  Speaker 4: as long as they keep making money, they don't care
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  Speaker 4: about anything else.
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  Speaker 1: Huh, Well, that's not a great reason for keeping You're
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  Speaker 1: saying they will keep it. It doesn't matter how much
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  Speaker 1: we complain about it.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I know it would be really hard for them.
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  Speaker 1: I know it would be really hard for them to
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  Speaker 1: move on because they do really treasure him as a Mariner. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: but that's kind of the risk that you run when
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  Speaker 1: you do hire a former player who's beloved in the
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  Speaker 1: eyes of not just the fan base, but within your organization,
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  Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden, you're two years into
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  Speaker 1: the project and you're like, is any good?
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  Speaker 2: Is any good at this? Right? I mean, we felt
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  Speaker 2: we had a World.
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  Speaker 1: Series team put together this year, and we're a game
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  Speaker 1: under five hundred right now. And like I said, I
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  Speaker 1: gave him a C minus a year ago, and that's
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  Speaker 1: making the playoffs and making it by a large margin.
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't that impressed with Dan Wilson the manager a
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  Speaker 1: year ago, so you can imagine where I am here today.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, I think there might be some truth to that.
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to just one hundred percent endorse that
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  Speaker 2: sentiment that ownership doesn't care enough about winning.
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  Speaker 1: I do believe they care about winning. I think they
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  Speaker 1: do go about it in a different way than you
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  Speaker 1: would prefer that they do because fans just want their
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  Speaker 1: team to spend money and spend money and spend money.
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  Speaker 1: I've never defended that argument that some Mariner fans have.
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  Speaker 1: I think that they've done a fine job of putting
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  Speaker 1: together a sustainably good winning product, and I think in
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  Speaker 1: the last year and a half they've made moves, including
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  Speaker 1: Lasher's trading deadline, that are championship caliber moves. And I
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  Speaker 1: think this offseason was a good off season that puts
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  Speaker 1: this team in position to win it all this year.
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  Speaker 1: But do you have the manager that presses the right buttons,
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  Speaker 1: pulls the right strings that I'm not sure.
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  Speaker 6: Two six says they can't fire him, but they can
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  Speaker 6: move him into a different role within the organization, couldn't they.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if he'd accept that. I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if he would like that. I think
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  Speaker 1: they could try, certainly, but no, I think there was
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  Speaker 1: a lot that went into hiring him in the first place.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I mean.
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  Speaker 1: Think about Scott's service was fired in August. I think
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  Speaker 1: it was August twenty second. I remember when Scott's service
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  Speaker 1: was fired. So think about how long into.
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  Speaker 2: That season.
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  Speaker 1: And then when they made the change we did start
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  Speaker 1: playing better and almost track the thing down. Didn't have
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  Speaker 1: enough time. Number one, there's a good, good example of
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  Speaker 1: don't wait too long, especially with this team. This team's
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  Speaker 1: much better than that team was in twenty twenty four,
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  Speaker 1: and so number one, don't wait too long to make
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  Speaker 1: that move, give yourself time to get things together. And
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  Speaker 1: then number two, obviously they do take it very seriously.
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  Speaker 1: You know we are we're committed to Scott's service and
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  Speaker 1: that at some point the writing was on the wall.
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  Speaker 1: I think maybe the writing has just gotten on the
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  Speaker 1: wall sooner than any of them expected to be here.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I hear what you're saying. Let's go back to
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  Speaker 3: the Talkbackay, you.
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  Speaker 7: Guys asked what Dan Wilson does well, and the answer
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  Speaker 7: is he might give excellent foot rubs to Jerry Depoto.
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  Speaker 7: Maybe he makes an excellent CHARCOOTERI board with some spicy
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  Speaker 7: hand and some good cheese selections. Maybe Dan is an
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  Speaker 7: excellent wine pairing with the cheese. But he's not good
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  Speaker 7: at managing baseball. He's not good at managing the locker room.
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  Speaker 7: He's not good at anything baseball wise.
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  Speaker 6: Wow, I won't go that far, No, but I did
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  Speaker 6: like that. Maybe he's really good at charcooterie boards.
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  Speaker 3: You know, that's a great talent.
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  Speaker 2: Let's not undersell that. That's a really important thing.
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  Speaker 6: When you bring a charcootery board to a party, everyone
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  Speaker 6: goes flocks towards it, and it's a good one.
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  Speaker 1: I just saw one yesterday as I was walking by,
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  Speaker 1: and I had swore I wasn't gonna drink yesterday, and
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  Speaker 1: I almost turned around and just started eating off the
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  Speaker 1: guy's board.
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  Speaker 2: So let's not let's not underestimate a good shot.
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  Speaker 3: That's what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: Here is what I have said about Dan in the past,
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  Speaker 1: and these are things that we aren't privy to. I
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  Speaker 1: think that Dan Wilson really does have the respect of
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  Speaker 1: the players on the team, Scott by the end, and
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  Speaker 1: really for the last few years he had a little
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  Speaker 1: bit of a divided locker room. I mean, he had
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  Speaker 1: his guys that he loved, Gino and Robbie Ray, and
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  Speaker 1: I mean he had his select group of guys that
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  Speaker 1: he loved, and then there were a bunch of guys
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  Speaker 1: in the middle, and then there were some guys he
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  Speaker 1: didn't like very much, and they didn't like him. I
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  Speaker 1: think almost everybody on this team likes Dan Wilson. And
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  Speaker 1: as I've said numerous times in the past, like I said,
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  Speaker 1: managers manage personalities, and Dan wins a lot of credit
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  Speaker 1: with the players by his horrible press conferences. He is
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  Speaker 1: never ever, ever addressing anything critical about his own team.
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  Speaker 1: He always has his players' backs, and I would imagine
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  Speaker 1: that's the way Dan wanted to be treated when he
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  Speaker 1: was a player, and he's never forgotten that. And so
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  Speaker 1: there is an element to Hey, when your players love you,
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  Speaker 1: that can go a long way when they believe, man,
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  Speaker 1: we really got a manager who has our backs and
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  Speaker 1: Dan Wilson. But has it slid too far the other way?
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  Speaker 1: Are they now taking him for granted? There are way
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  Speaker 1: too many episodes of a lack of focus sometimes it
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  Speaker 1: looks like lack of effort that have occurred. And certainly,
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  Speaker 1: and this is indisputable, we're not playing as well as
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  Speaker 1: our talent suggests that we should be playing, which is
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  Speaker 1: the ultimate judge of a manager. He's not getting the
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  Speaker 1: most out of his talent, there is no question about that.
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  Speaker 1: And so you do wonder if maybe that softness has
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  Speaker 1: caught up to him, because I do think players need
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  Speaker 1: to get called out. I think human beings need to
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  Speaker 1: get talk show hosts need to get called out. And
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  Speaker 1: sometimes when you get called out and you know, yep,
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  Speaker 1: I'm guilty of that, you got me, you will change
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  Speaker 1: the pattern of behavior that we can't we have no
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  Speaker 1: knowledge of. None of us can say it because we're
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  Speaker 1: not behind the scenes. Maybe there are several meetings, maybe
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  Speaker 1: he does call them out behind the scenes. Maybe, but
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't feel like his team plays all out for him.
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  Speaker 1: And if you're going to have that approach, if I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna point that out as one of the attributes to
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  Speaker 1: you as a baseball man and a baseball manager, then
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  Speaker 1: by god, if you're going to approach it that way,
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  Speaker 1: you better get maximum effort.
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  Speaker 2: They better ball out for you.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't I think we can all agree that's
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  Speaker 1: not happened first half of the season, and it has
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  Speaker 1: been particularly noticeable in the last month.
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  Speaker 6: Has it not, Actually absolutely yes, it has and I
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  Speaker 6: think you bringing up the point about what happened in
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  Speaker 6: Tampa on Saturday and them all sitting there staring out
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  Speaker 6: like they just lost, like their season had just ended,
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  Speaker 6: says a lot because clearly they the team themselves, the
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  Speaker 6: players themselves, they know.
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  Speaker 3: They're not performing. They know that.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, yeah, Dan is not the one on the
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  Speaker 6: field that is hitting and pitching and making defensive plays.
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  Speaker 3: We know that. The players know they're not performing.
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  Speaker 6: But it seems odd to me that at this point
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  Speaker 6: in the season they're looking so forlorn and lost and
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  Speaker 6: like they don't have any direction.
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  Speaker 2: Something happened after that. Yeah, there's no way that something
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  Speaker 2: didn't happen after that game. And I don't know if
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  Speaker 2: it was.
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  Speaker 1: Player led, manager led, coaches led, owner led, maybe the owner,
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  Speaker 1: but you're right, it was a group, and Cal is
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  Speaker 1: the one that stands out the most that were looking forlorn.
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  Speaker 1: And look, Cal's wearing a lot of this. Cal has
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  Speaker 1: to wear a lot of weight for this team's disappointing
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  Speaker 1: first half. He was our best player by one thousand
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  Speaker 1: miles a year ago, and he's been bad this year.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, there's really no other way around it. He's
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  Speaker 1: got a one sixty nine batting average at the All
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  Speaker 1: Star break, with fewer than ten home runs this season. Now,
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  Speaker 1: he's been very good defensively, that's for sure, and the
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  Speaker 1: pitchers swear by him and love him, and he's still
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  Speaker 1: a leader. But you could see it in his face.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he wore that loss as heavy as any
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  Speaker 1: regular season loss he's ever suffered. So something happened afterwards.
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  Speaker 1: Something I don't know if it's a closed door meeting.
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  Speaker 1: I don't even know if those things work or not.
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  Speaker 1: But some sort of we gotta wake up moment occurred Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: I don't have any doubt about it.
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  Speaker 2: Problem is, you win on Sunday and now you have
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  Speaker 2: five days to think about it.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, yeah, nice to end the season on
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  Speaker 6: a positive note with a win, but you can't that
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  Speaker 6: one doesn't erase the five losses in six games.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, So there's dissatisfaction, as there should be, and the
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  Speaker 1: entire roster. Now, whether or not they're pointing the fingers
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  Speaker 1: that Dan, that's probably not the case. I hope the
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  Speaker 1: players are pointing the fingers at themselves.
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  Speaker 6: I would hope so too, And I think that a
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  Speaker 6: lot of them. I mean, I think That's why Cal
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  Speaker 6: stood out to you in that moment, because he there's
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  Speaker 6: no way.
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  Speaker 3: Cal's like, oh, I know, my defense is enough. I'm
• 12:24
  Speaker 3: doing great, right.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, we know how competitive he is and how
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  Speaker 6: driven he is, and how much he wants to perform
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  Speaker 6: for his teammates, for the organization, for the city, for
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  Speaker 6: the fans. I mean, he wants that more than anyone
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  Speaker 6: on that team.
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  Speaker 1: But we are about one hundred games into this thing.
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  Speaker 1: It is no longer a short sample size. Fortunately, the
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  Speaker 1: rest of the American League has cooperated. The American League
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  Speaker 1: West is cooperated, and there's no big giant hill to climb.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you.
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  Speaker 1: Got sixty plus game, sixty five plus games to go
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  Speaker 1: and a game and a half deficit to overcome. If
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  Speaker 1: the season ended today, we're a wild card team. That's
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  Speaker 1: if the season ended today, we're still in the playoffs.
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  Speaker 1: That's how much the American League has cooperated for the
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  Speaker 1: Mariners this year. But obviously we think this is a
• 13:12
  Speaker 1: much better team. They cannot get on any extended kind
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  Speaker 1: of role. Just when you think they're in a groove,
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  Speaker 1: they'll show up the next day and then start playing
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  Speaker 1: the worst baseball that you could imagine them playing, and
• 13:23
  Speaker 1: then that spans an entire road trip like it did
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  Speaker 1: in Florida. And again, yes, it's on the players for
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  Speaker 1: not playing well. It's on the players, but it is
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  Speaker 1: the manager's job to maximize the talent on his team.
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  Speaker 1: And if the team looks lackluster for over a month,
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  Speaker 1: then there's something wrong with the leadership that they're being given.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I would agree absolutely.
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  Speaker 6: From the four two five they said, I really wanted
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  Speaker 6: Dan to work, but it's become very obvious that he
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  Speaker 6: needs to go.
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  Speaker 3: The team has been broken all season.
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  Speaker 6: I'm sick of seeing lifeless games, dumb errors, little league mistakes.
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  Speaker 6: The fact that they're under five hundred at the All
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  Speaker 6: Star break is completely unacceptable, you know.
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  Speaker 1: And I will say this too, And I think this
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  Speaker 1: is where thing. When a team's failing and not playing well,
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  Speaker 1: it automatically looks like they don't have any energy. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: when you're not excited or excitable, right, it automatically looks
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  Speaker 1: like you're you don't care. Yeah, and it probably is
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  Speaker 1: that you care a little bit too much and you're
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  Speaker 1: almost depressed by how poorly you're playing individually and how
• 14:31
  Speaker 1: you're wanting somebody else to pick you up and then
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  Speaker 1: they're incapable of doing it. So I do believe that
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  Speaker 1: some of that that a lot of people are pointing
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  Speaker 1: out about, like they don't even try hard, they don't play,
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  Speaker 1: or they don't care. That couldn't be further from the truth, right,
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  Speaker 1: They care, they want, they have desire, they want to win,
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  Speaker 1: They want to win for you, they want to win
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  Speaker 1: for each other. They've gotten close. There's no way they
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  Speaker 1: want to backslide from where they were at the end
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  Speaker 1: of last season.
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  Speaker 2: They do care, they do.
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  Speaker 1: Want this, but they clearly have not gotten to the
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  Speaker 1: point where they're playing well collectively for stretches of time,
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  Speaker 1: and I think that it has weighed on them. And
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  Speaker 1: so that's to me, it's a lot less about do
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  Speaker 1: they care, and it's a lot more about are they focused?
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  Speaker 2: And I was asked.
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: About this from Dick and Hugh the other day. And
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  Speaker 1: if this is just one time Josh Naylor bobbling the
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: ball and not getting it to call Emerson on time
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: to turn the double play, and then you don't think
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  Speaker 1: anything of it, Right, But there is a pattern of
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: behavior with Josh. I mean, sometimes he looks like he's
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: more interested in looking cool than making the right play. Obviously,
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: Randy a Rose Arena is obsessed with looking cool and
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  Speaker 1: not necessarily.
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  Speaker 2: About making the right play at the right time.
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  Speaker 1: And so we've had lackluster decisions on the bass pads,
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: we've had lackluster decisions in the count we've had all.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it looks it looks like it's a bad effort.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think effort is the problem, but I do
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  Speaker 1: think focus has been the problem, and that, guess sets
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  Speaker 1: back to what the conversation is about, and it's about
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  Speaker 1: Dan Wilson, and I don't want to see.
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  Speaker 2: My team not having focus.
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  Speaker 1: No, my team better be ready to play. Not every
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  Speaker 1: day over one hundred.
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  Speaker 2: And sixty two games six months.
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  Speaker 1: You're gonna have a stinker or five, but not for
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: five straight games on the road. I would agree that's unacceptable.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, from the five on nine, people are out of
• 16:45
  Speaker 6: their minds if they think the reason the Mariners are
• 16:47
  Speaker 6: performing the way they are performing is because of the manager.
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  Speaker 6: These are professional athletes that can't put the ball in play,
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  Speaker 6: that makes stupid but base running errors and continually leave
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  Speaker 6: runners stranded on base.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I don't think they're out of their minds. I
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  Speaker 1: don't think you're the only sane person listening right now.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm all for an argument, and I'm all
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: for somebody telling me it's on the players. Dan's fine,
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: that's a perfectly reasonable explanation. But I don't think that
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: anyone right now on this radio show, or anyone that's
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: responded to us, because not by the way, ninety percent
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: of the people responding are in agreement with my take
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: this morning and with Ashley's take this morning. I don't
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  Speaker 1: think that you can say that we are out of
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: our minds for feeling like the manager is not getting
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: the job done.
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  Speaker 3: We're not crazy for that.
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, you can perfectly have the opinion Dan's fine,
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: players just got to play better.
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: I can live with that. I can live with that.
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: But I also believe that this is a sport that
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: is all about trying to find out the angle that
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: gives us an advantage to win that pitch, to win
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: that at bat, to win that situation, to win that inning,
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: to win that game, yeah, and to win that season,
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: to win that series, to win the season. And I
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: have just gotten to the point, after watching this for
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: two years from him where I don't think he gives
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: you that edge, playing the percentages. I don't think he's
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: good enough at the few decisions a manager makes today.
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: And then obviously the motivation required to get the most
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: out of your players. Those are the three things, and
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: I think he's failing at all three of those things. Yeah,
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: this season, and he doesn't seem to be getting any better.
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: I don't think he gives you those edges. And that's
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: why we've come to this Monday morning here on KJR.
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: This is why I make my declaration. I've been thinking
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: about it for a while.
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you didn't come about this lately.
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: No.
• 18:55
  Speaker 6: Last one though, from the four to two to five, Well,
• 18:57
  Speaker 6: he did take us the furthest we've ever gone last year. Also,
• 19:00
  Speaker 6: you love Kevin Sitzer and Perry Hill so much, and
• 19:03
  Speaker 6: apparently they are the best of the best. Yet that's
• 19:05
  Speaker 6: where we're really struggling this year. So do you want
• 19:08
  Speaker 6: to get rid of them too or not?
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: No? No, I don't. No, I don't think Kevin sites
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: I don't think I've ever said he's the best of
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: the best. I do like him, I do like him
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: a lot, but I don't think I'm blowing up the
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: entire coaching staff. I said this this is what I
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: would do this, and this really is unfair to Danny
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: Farquhar and to Manny Acta, but I would get rid
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: of Wilson, Acta and Farquhar and I would replace them
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: with Alex Korra, Joey Korra, and Jason Veritek. They're all
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: available right now. They weren't earlier this year. They're all
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: off there given major league teams. That's what I would do. Yeah,
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: those are the changes that I would make. Alex the manager,
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: Joey's bench coach, and Jason Veritec to fill that void
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: that for the pitchers and for the catchers that Dan fills.
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: I don't think that's a bad idea.
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: That's that's my recipe. So I don't Again, I didn't
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: come across this just half assed here today. I gave
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: given this a lot of thought over the last few months.
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: All Right, thank you very much for the feedback. I
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: appreciate it.
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: I don't know we solved anything, but at least we
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: had a good, nice conversation there about it. Coming up next,
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: I'm not done with the Mariners. I just want to
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: talk about things other than Dan. ABC's of the ems.
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: Come your way on sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM.
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: I'm excited to find out, are you yeah?
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: Always? That's always good to hear.
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: And we get started at the beginning of the alphabet
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: today and this is this works out really well because
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: A is.
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: For a Rose Arena the All Star. He'll be the
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: only Mariner.
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: Even with all these changes, we still end up with
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: just one Mariner on the All Star roster. Maybe something
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: else about us, I don't know, Maybe something else happens today.
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: We'll see, but Randy Rose Arena will play the game.
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: On Tuesday. We'll have no participate participant in the home
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: run derby here tonight. We sort of dominated the headlines
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: with the futures game. I'll say that on Saturday, and
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: it sounds like we had a good draft. Excuse me, Sunday.
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: It sounds like we had a good draft on Saturday
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: as well. A lot of the analysts given pretty good
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: grades on that front. But let's talk about a Rose Arena.
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: From this standpoint, I realized that he was the guy firing.
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: Fan wanted to fire after Saturday's lackluster effort, and it
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: did look bad.
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: It did look really bad.
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: Can I offer a little bit of defense for him
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: and just a little bit, because believe me, if you've
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: been listening to this show at any consistency at all,
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: you know how much he frustrates the hell out of
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: me as a player.
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: Yes, I mean he is.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: About as frustrating a player to have on your roster
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: as you could have.
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: We know how good he is, but man, there are
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: some decisions and there are moments where it just does
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: not look like he he's invested in team Baseball whatsoever.
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: So I've had a mountain of problems with him, and
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: I had a mountain and I had a problem with
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: what he did on Saturday, not giving any effort down
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: the line, and obviously the Rock did as well. I
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: will just say this, he's coming off a hamstring. I
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: can promise you he has been given the orders by
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: coaches and staff. Hey, win in doubt, let it go.
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: We don't want you running into walls. We don't want
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: you sliding into stands, we don't want you jumping.
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: Let's make sure that that heals first.
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: As staph to tell Lenny Dykster that, because he would
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: just crash face first into walls all the time, Like, hey,
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: you've turned into a really important player for us. We
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: needed to see a little less of that going forward.
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: And so you tell Randy that, does anybody really think
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: he's going to understand how to play that properly? Do
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: you really think that he is on from pitch to
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: pitch gonna understand what he should go for and what
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: he shouldn't go for when somebody tells him, hey, let's
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: just not do anything crazy out there.
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: Maybe have to let a ball go every once in
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: a while.
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: And I bet you that was one of those, like, yeah,
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: there's a lot of obstacles over there, it looks tricky.
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: I'm just gonna let that one drop. I can's not
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: going to be fair. It's not gonna be fair.
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: It's going to be a fair ball, and he's going
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: to get a double out of.
• 23:23
  Speaker 6: It, right, And that is true. It's not a fair ball.
• 23:25
  Speaker 6: It would still but it would still be an out.
• 23:27
  Speaker 6: And I do think I would expect Randy to understand
• 23:32
  Speaker 6: what is something he should and shouldn't go after.
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: But he doesn't.
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: And I'm going to tell you, I'm going to give
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: you an example because last year with him stealing basis,
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: we had a catcher who was on pace to hit
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: sixty home runs, right, and he was running us out
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: of innings with cal at the plate, and they told
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: him like, hey, we got cal at the plate, like,
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: we can't be we can't be stealing. In that moment,
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: He's like, what are you talking about? He didn't understand.
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: He didn't understand that we don't want give up the
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: chance for two run homer from a guy that's hitting
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: a home run every tenant bats, just to move up
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: a base with his power, we're gonna hit And Randy
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: did not understand. He was flum mixed by it and
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: spent the old season when am I supposed to steal?
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: What am I not supposed to steal?
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: I don't think he is that player.
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: I think he struggles with a lot of that stuff
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: because I think he spent his entire life being a
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: showman and really doesn't understand team baseball. I one hundred
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: percent believe that, and I've been saying it for two years.
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: And I have a problem with what he did on Saturday, too,
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: But to me, it goes right in line with the
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: problems Randy or Rose Arena creates for his teammates all
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: the time, and that is he doesn't get it when
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: somebody says, hey, let's not crash into walls.
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: Sometimes we got to let one go.
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: I'm thinking I bet you he was thinking on that play,
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: not that I don't care if I don't get to it,
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: that he thought he was doing it a smart thing.
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: Letting that drop.
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: After all, he was in the lineup the very next day. Yeah,
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: it's not like they punished him though. They didn't then
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: send him down on the lineup. They didn't pull him
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: off the field. He was in the lineup the very
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: next day. So Castile looked at it like you should
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: have had that. We all looked at it like you
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: should have had that. But I'll bet you, I'll bet
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: you Randy's explanation was, you told me not to crash
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: into walls. I thought that was close to the wall.
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: That felt like to me one I should let go
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: because you want me to let those go. I'll bet
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: you that's what happened.
• 25:32
  Speaker 6: Well, maybe he just needs a better to be a
• 25:35
  Speaker 6: better judge then, because yeah, it looked like that was
• 25:37
  Speaker 6: a pretty routine thing.
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: I agree.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: I don't disagree with that. I understand why people were angry.
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: It's like I said, I'm not defending him, I'm just
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: providing maybe a different. That's fair perspective on it. B
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: as for battle, with all of the times in the
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: last five days that we've wondered, do these guys really
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: care about this? I would like to point out Jose
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: at bat against Junior Camonaro yesterday, because that game was
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: still in doubt, they had two guys on base.
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: Farrer was asked to go. He gads more than an inning.
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: He had to go a and a third.
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, I'm with Emerson leaving the game, and
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: so he was really like you could tell he was like.
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: Trying to struggle to get through it. And when you're
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: trying to struggle to get through that inning.
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: And you have to face the hottest power hitter in
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: the sport right now, who could easily erase all the
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: goodwill that you've done offensively to that point in the game,
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: and he's reaching back throwing one a one. I mean,
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: he's throwing the kitchen sink, and Camonaro just keeps fouling
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: him off and fouling him off and fouling him off
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: and staying alive, and you know, he's just waiting for
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: that one mistake that he's gonna drive into the seats
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: and the more he gets the look at Ferrara's pitches,
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: the more he's gonna feel good about getting that pitch.
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: And farrer just battled and battled and won the battle,
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: got him on a called third strike. I thought that
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: was awesome baseball right there, awesome theater. And so for
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: all of the finger pointing and this team doesn't care,
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: know this, Jose Ferrer cared. He cares in that moment,
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: and that was one hell of a battle in it.
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: You know, he loses that battle, and maybe we don't
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: win a game the entire road track. Yeah, maybe that
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: game goes in a completely different direction. So I wanted
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: to give him some credit there. See us for Castillo.
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: A lot of rumors right now about Luis Castillo and
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: whether or not he's the if he's being shopped here
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: at the trading deadline. I said this Friday, talked about this.
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: He's going to be really difficult to trade. He's thirty
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: three years old, he's got a five ERA, and he
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: makes twenty four million dollars a year, and he makes
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: another twenty four again next year. So he's not going
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: to be easy to trade.
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: And so.
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: If you don't want to take my word for it.
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: Just this morning, CBS Sports reported the disappointing Mariners their words,
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: not mine, are still trying to find their footing in
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: the lackluster Al West, and now this they may be
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: looking to trade from their rotation depth, specifically Luis Castillo,
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: the thirty three year old uh is ode more than
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: twenty four million dollars. Blah blah blah. I just told
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: you all that stuff Castillo. In other words, Castillo probably
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: isn't going to net much of a return on the market.
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: That's the point.
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: Like, if you were able to trade him, I went
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: through some scenarios last Friday. You're going to be saying
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: you're gonna pull like an NBA trade. You're gonna go
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: to the Giants and say, you take this contract and
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: we'll take one of you. We'll take a contract that's
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: even worse to make us a little bit better, like
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: a Matt Chapman type. But if you're just trading him
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: up at the deadline, you're gonna get nothing in return.
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: No, you're gonna trade him, You're gonna move. You're gonna
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: have to trade him as a seller to a buyer,
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: somebody that wants to be able to win this year
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: and maybe a veteran starting pitcher short also somebody that
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: has a huge payroll as well. So that's gonna limit
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: your market there. I suppose that the other option here,
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: and this is what I thought about just this morning,
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: is maybe it's not Luis Castillo.
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: Maybe it is one of the five guys, the five
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: younger guys, And maybe when we're talking about the Mariners
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: are interested in slipping a starter for a back of
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: the bullpen reliever. Nobody feels good, right, There's no way
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna trade George Kirby for a bullpen piece, unless
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: would you do it for Mason Miller? Would you do
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: it for the game's best closer, the unhittable young Mason Miller,
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: who's under contract for a few more years. Would you
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: move one of your five younger starting pitchers? Maybe it's
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: Emerson Hancock, I don't know, to the San Diego Padres.
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: If in fact.
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: Mason Miller is available, Does that change it for you?
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: At least it at least gets me off of no way,
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: It at least has me thinking, well, maybe maybe maybe
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: I would do that after all.
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: So something something to think about out there. All right,
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: we'll close out.
• 30:38
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• 31:29
  Speaker 1: Monday show.
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: What do you got? Ashley?
• 31:31
  Speaker 5: Well?
• 31:31
  Speaker 6: I talked quite a bit about the weird dreams I have,
• 31:34
  Speaker 6: but I think that I've figured out what.
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: The most annoying recurring dream is.
• 31:39
  Speaker 6: Do you ever have a dream that you are like
• 31:42
  Speaker 6: you feel like you're awake and that you're dreaming that
• 31:44
  Speaker 6: you're oversleeping or that's time to wake up?
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: Yep?
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: I had that.
• 31:48
  Speaker 6: Last night and it just kept going on and on
• 31:50
  Speaker 6: and on, and in my mind I was something them,
• 31:53
  Speaker 6: just open your eyes and look at your alarm clock
• 31:56
  Speaker 6: or just look at your phone, see what time it is.
• 31:57
  Speaker 6: Even in my dream a slime as them because in
• 32:00
  Speaker 6: my dream, I didn't want to look at the clock,
• 32:02
  Speaker 6: but I was convinced I was oversleeping, but I didn't
• 32:04
  Speaker 6: want to look at the clock, so I kept telling myself,
• 32:06
  Speaker 6: open your eyes, just open your eyes and look at
• 32:08
  Speaker 6: the clock. And instead I would just guess what time
• 32:10
  Speaker 6: it was. And so then it made me all stressed
• 32:13
  Speaker 6: out that I was really over sleeping, and I woke
• 32:15
  Speaker 6: up and it was two thirty.
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm stressed out just hearing it because I've experienced
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: that nearly every night.
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a no, that's.
• 32:23
  Speaker 6: The one thing that And I think it usually is
• 32:25
  Speaker 6: on a Monday because you've had a couple of days
• 32:27
  Speaker 6: where you maybe don't get to sleep in, but your
• 32:29
  Speaker 6: alarm is definitely not set for as early as it
• 32:31
  Speaker 6: is Monday through Friday. And I think it usually, like
• 32:34
  Speaker 6: a Sunday night is the most stressful night of.
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: Sleep for the whole week.
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you might be right, because you're like so so
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: important for you to get a good night sleep.
• 32:43
  Speaker 6: Yes, because you have to start that week off on
• 32:45
  Speaker 6: a good note.
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a good thing that whatever state that is,
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: that caught between sleep and awake, and you are thinking
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: about the craziest things possible and you have in your
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: head you have imagined them to be far worse than
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: they actually are.
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it is a good thing. We can't operate.
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: As human beings in that mindset, otherwise we would all
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: be in prison. Yeah, for sure, Like there is no
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: way we're making good decisions in that state of caught between.
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: It's like sleep purgatory. Yeah.
• 33:22
  Speaker 6: And I kept thinking like, oh, it's five am or
• 33:25
  Speaker 6: five point fifty two.
• 33:26
  Speaker 3: It kept five fifty two, Oh it's six thirty.
• 33:28
  Speaker 6: Oh it's seven thirty, And I why hasn't anyone called
• 33:32
  Speaker 6: me to see why I'm not at work?
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: But I just wouldn't open my eyes and look.
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, because we don't do anything reasonable in those realments.
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: I'm going to close with this.
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: And I intended to talk about this for a twenty
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: minute segment today and we just never got to it because.
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: We were talking about Dan. But Home Run Derby is
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: tonight and it's gonna be I don't know. This calm
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: was like a make or break.
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: It's on Netflix, so number one, you're if you don't
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: have the streaming service, you might not be able to
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: watch it because I don't think sports bars even have Netflix.
• 34:07
  Speaker 6: There are some apparently because of UFC fights, so now
• 34:10
  Speaker 6: they have it.
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: Okay, all right, Well that's good to know us know that. Okay,
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: that's good to know.
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: One of the complaints that I've had with the clock
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: in the past is I missed the hitter enjoying the
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: full arc of his home run, seeing how far it goes.
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: I think back to Josh Hamilton because we're hitting one
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: and then having to hit the next, even though it's
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: against the rules. It's supposed to drop, but they never
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: They just ignore the rules and then the angles on
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: that because of the way they're hitting them, you never
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: really do catch everything. So there were some problems that
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: I had with the clock, and they are getting rid
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: of it.
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: There isn't going to be no clock this year. Just swings, right,
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: just swings. But they're going back to no.
• 35:00
  Speaker 6: Oh.
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: The problem that they had. The players obviously complained, it's
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: too much. You're opening me up for injury. I'm getting tired.
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: I'm not right again for another week because they're getting
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: a maximum of twenty swings in the first round, so
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: four people are going to be eliminated tonight and only
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: took twenty swings. That's kind of crazy, and then only
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: fifteen in the second and the final round. So it's
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: no clock, completely condensed and reduced. And I'm not sure
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: how it's going to play out. I really don't, because
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: we can't get back to having people taking seven pitches
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: in between swings. Yeah, because that's why they brought the
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: clock in anyway, because David Ortiz kept swinging at every
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: eleventh pitch, right, and so they got rid of the clock,
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: or they introduced the clock in twenty fifteen. But now
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: they're getting rid of the clock. So we'll see, we'll
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: see how.
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: This thing goes.
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: I am intrigued. I mean, it could be a disaster.
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: But I'm a little worried.
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: I kind of want the clock with the limited number
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: of swings, Like you only get twenty swings, but you're
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: not going to be able to go up there and
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: you know, jerk around, like you're gonna have a certain
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: amount of time that you've got to get your twenty
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: swings in. There's no unlimited amount of time or unlimited
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: a number of pictures right that you're gonna be able
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: to see when you're in the batter's box. So I
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: kind of want like a clock, but you don't get
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: to hit up to the clock. You just got to
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: get your twenty swings in before the clock. Little wiggle
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: room for you. But that's kind of what I wish
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: that they would have done.
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: But we'll see. I have a feeling people aren't gonna
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: like it. I think it's gonna be over with and
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: no time.
• 36:40
  Speaker 6: Yeah, we'll definitely see complaints on social media.
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: I'm not sure Netflix. I mean, how long did ESPN
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: have the home run Derby and they never figured out
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: how to cover it the right way? So Netflix, it's
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: first time, is going to be able to cover this
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: the right way?
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: I doubt it.
• 36:56
  Speaker 3: We'll have to see on that one.
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, so we'll say.
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: But enjoy I'm taking. I think it's either Caminero or Murakami.
• 37:05
  Speaker 6: That's why's gonna winmon Arrow or Swarber because aren't they
• 37:08
  Speaker 6: in Philly.
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: I like those three. Yeah, they're in Philly. Harper's playing two,
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: so good on the baseball, players. I mean, I realize
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: it's not all eight are superstars that are participating, but
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: they always get a really interesting group, and this is
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: a really interesting group that are going to participate tonight.
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: So good on baseball. I wish basketball could get one
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: interesting dunker this decade, and they never do.
• 37:31
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