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Chuck & Buck 3-16 Hour 1: The WBC drama! Happy Bracket Monday and Coach Bucky is here! · Chuck in the Morning

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Speaker 1: Ashley Ryan's here. My name is Chuck Powell, former Mariner
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Speaker 1: Bucky Jacobson, as well as we get things cranked up
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Speaker 1: on a brand new week, a week of March Madness,
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Speaker 1: which is coming your way. More on that in a moment, Bucky,
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Speaker 1: how you doing doing great?
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Speaker 4: Yeah?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I've had an epic snowball fight on Saturday. Oh wow,
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Speaker 2: a baseball practice obviously canceled. Would have been pretty tough
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Speaker 2: to play in a ten inches of snow, and so
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Speaker 2: I said, you got the ten yeah, Oh my gosh.
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Speaker 1: Oh yeah.
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Speaker 2: It was a lot, a lot of snow out there,
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Speaker 2: and it still is. I mean it's our roads and
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Speaker 2: stuff are fine now, but the yard and the property
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Speaker 2: is still covered in snow. And so we went up
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Speaker 2: to Twin Falls Middle School. I had ended up saying,
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Speaker 2: all right, practice is canceled, but we can get some
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Speaker 2: throwing in, throwing of snowballs. And it worked out really,
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Speaker 2: really well because I know one I know one child
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Speaker 2: in particular, Baron came home, he's.
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Speaker 4: Like, my shoulder's tired.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, And we got some work in because it's heavy snow,
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Speaker 2: so like weighted balls or you know the water jugs
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Speaker 2: that Logan uses.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, got the next logan Gilbert on your hand.
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Speaker 1: Yeah right, Well, I love the idea that you like
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Speaker 1: catchers throwing balls down the second and you just have
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Speaker 1: like a pile of snowball, pile of snowballs up there,
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Speaker 1: like elf.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, trying to wrangle eight year olds is like
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Speaker 2: herding cats, and so I a couple of different times
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Speaker 2: was like, okay, I was trying to think of ways
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Speaker 2: in which I could get him to try to be accurate,
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Speaker 2: and that wasn't working. It basically was just the accuracy
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Speaker 2: was if you were hitting your buddy in the face
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Speaker 2: with a snowball.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, we could put a rock in there, weigh it
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Speaker 1: down a little bit, but then you hit your buddy
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Speaker 1: in the face.
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Speaker 4: That would that wouldn't be good.
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Speaker 3: That's probably frowned.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know if any of the moms and
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Speaker 2: dads that were there would enjoy that.
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Speaker 1: Well. Good, it's gonna be a great season. A little
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Speaker 1: update health wise, we lost a couple of eyes from
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Speaker 1: your teammates this week, and so there's that. Yeah, nobody
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Speaker 1: call any one of them patch. That's just insanie.
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Speaker 2: So you're you're probably gonna be a po sure, only
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Speaker 2: from moving forward that right eye.
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Speaker 4: I know you needed that one.
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Speaker 1: We're not gonna call Evan cyclops. That was right out. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: that is just tacky. That's right.
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Speaker 4: Be a little bit sensitive. He only has one of them, bad.
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Speaker 3: Boys, now, plenty of time to learn how to use it.
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Speaker 1: That's right anyway, Hell of a throw. Let's not forget that. Bryce, right,
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Speaker 1: nice job, buddy, very accurate. I did say, right, throw
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Speaker 1: right to their face. You nailed it. Perfect throw. You're
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Speaker 1: meaning to do that. You shouldn't have done it, but
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Speaker 1: I am.
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Speaker 2: There was a lot of times where I had to say,
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Speaker 2: all right, hey, boys, keep them fluffy because it was
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Speaker 2: a wet, heavy snow, so if you pack it down,
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Speaker 2: it's an ice ball quick. But it also makes giants.
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Speaker 2: I mean I was just making big I mean the
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Speaker 2: size of basketball. Yeah, and then just heaving them up there,
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Speaker 2: and then they would try to catch it, which means
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Speaker 2: it just breaks and just shrapnel, just drills like four
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Speaker 2: or five of them. It was wonderful. Yeah, it's really enjoyable.
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Speaker 3: Sounds like the best practice ever it was.
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Speaker 1: It does sound like a good practice, and yet I
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Speaker 1: couldn't help but think of if Woodworth tried that and
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Speaker 1: we got a report that George Kirby was out for
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Speaker 1: the season because of recklessly throwing snowballs too hard.
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Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, it's hard to get warmed up in that weather.
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Speaker 4: I know that. But they're young, they're resilient.
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Speaker 1: I think it'd be fun to try to practice blocking
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Speaker 1: pitches in the dirt with snowballs. That sounds pretty fun. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: that would have been fun. Yeah, will probably take that
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Speaker 1: as opposed to the real thing. Yeah.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm sure it doesn't hurt ears bad with a snowball.
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Speaker 2: I'll tell you. I don't know what it is, though.
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Speaker 2: They like to gang up on me. There was multiple
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Speaker 2: times that I had, you know, seven or eight eight
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Speaker 2: year olds just pelting me with snowballs. I'm like, you
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Speaker 2: guys are actually pretty decent. It made me feel better
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Speaker 2: about our team, is that right?
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Speaker 4: Yeah?
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Speaker 1: It was an aggressive worse about yourself.
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Speaker 2: Yes, Well, dodge and dive and duck dodge skills are
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Speaker 2: not as good as they once were.
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Speaker 1: They might not like me as much as I thought.
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Speaker 4: But boy, they're better than I.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, they can grow.
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Speaker 1: I can.
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Speaker 4: I can live with that. Yeah, I don't care.
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Speaker 1: I'll take that exchange. Well, good morning, welcome in. We
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Speaker 1: are ready to rock and roll here on a Monday.
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Speaker 1: It's going to be a very busy week as uh,
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Speaker 1: you know, we get ready for March Madness on Thursday.
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Speaker 1: But I'm gonna start with baseball. I mean, normally bracket Monday,
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Speaker 1: there's no way you're starting with baseball. But thanks to
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Speaker 1: the WBC, we certainly have a number one story, and
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Speaker 1: it was that game last night between the US and
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Speaker 1: the Dominican Republic. I'll be honest, I kind of you know,
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Speaker 1: I wouldn't say like counted down the seconds to the game,
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Speaker 1: but it certainly I built my Sunday around, you know,
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Speaker 1: making sure that nothing interfered with the first pitch at
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Speaker 1: five o'clock. And I wouldn't have felt that way with
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Speaker 1: just a regular old Mariners spring training game. That was special.
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Speaker 1: That was a special build up, that was a special matchup.
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Speaker 1: Mark de Rosa went as far as saying this might
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Speaker 1: be the greatest game ever played going into it, going
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Speaker 1: into the contest, and then it was outstanding. I mean
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Speaker 1: it was spectacular. The tension could be cut with a knife,
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Speaker 1: and forty thousand people at a stadium that usually even
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Speaker 1: though it holds forty five, usually has forty five people
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Speaker 1: in it period to watch the Marlins. You know, I
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Speaker 1: think it was kind of dominated by the Dominican fans,
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Speaker 1: and yet there was enough US support there that there
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Speaker 1: was back and forth with the crowd, which was special
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Speaker 1: in and of itself. The game was spectacularly played. Pitching
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Speaker 1: won the day versus hitting when both teams were expected
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Speaker 1: to put up fat numbers. Last night, it was the
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Speaker 1: pitchers who dominated the contest. And two to one the
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Speaker 1: US wins over the Dominican last night, and it went
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Speaker 1: all the way to the final controversial pitch to decide
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Speaker 1: that thing. And man, it was spectacular, just spectacular. What
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Speaker 1: a fun sporting event that was.
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Speaker 4: I'm with you.
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Speaker 2: There's rarely at this time of the year do you
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Speaker 2: get appointment baseball viewing.
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Speaker 4: And I was with you.
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Speaker 2: We went and did a little golf simulator early in
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Speaker 2: the day, Baron, I did, But it was it was
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Speaker 2: all timed around getting back in time for that, and
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Speaker 2: it was I mean, I had it turned on fifteen
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Speaker 2: to twenty minutes before.
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Speaker 4: I'm watching the pregame leading up to it.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Jeter and Poppy and a Rod and talking about
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Speaker 2: who they think's going to win and why, And I
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Speaker 2: mean I suppose there's probably All Star games maybe that
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Speaker 2: were more star studded, but not by much. I mean,
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Speaker 2: I don't know if there's if I can think of one,
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Speaker 2: I mean you would just figure that is about as
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Speaker 2: close to a legitimate Major League Baseball All Star game
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Speaker 2: as possible.
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Speaker 1: Even better because all Star games you play three innings. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I mean the best players played the entire game. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: it was even better. Yeah, it was amazing. It was amazing.
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Speaker 1: It was it was.
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Speaker 2: The hype to it was was something and yet understandably
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Speaker 2: so based on how stacked those teams are, and then
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Speaker 2: for the teams to go out and do it the
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Speaker 2: way they did it did it most certainly felt like
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Speaker 2: a home game. You know, Miami is very Latin contingent,
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Speaker 2: you know there, and so the Dominican Republic came out
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Speaker 2: and they come out in in droves for their foot
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Speaker 2: baseball period. I mean, it's you could kind of hear
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Speaker 2: the bands in the background, you know, the drums and
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Speaker 2: people playing, and there was a lot, I mean, there
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Speaker 2: was there's a lot riding on this. We we talked
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Speaker 2: about it earlier of Julio saying this would probably mean
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Speaker 2: more than a World Series win and I can understand
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Speaker 2: that to some degree, and you could tell that both
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Speaker 2: these teams they cared more. This was not just going
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Speaker 2: out there and playing some exhibition game, even though it
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Speaker 2: really doesn't amount to anything as far as the Major
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Speaker 2: League baseball season. It's zero, and yet these guys went
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Speaker 2: out there and you could tell there was a lot
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Speaker 2: on the line, and them jumping out to a lead
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Speaker 2: and getting that first home run and then the answer
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Speaker 2: back and a couple couple mishaps I think on the
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Speaker 2: base paths for the Dominican cost them a little bit,
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Speaker 2: and yet you still had to answer and kind of
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Speaker 2: close the door. Skeens did it that one time. There
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Speaker 2: was a couple other times that Dominican answered the bell
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Speaker 2: and got out of some jams. So it was a
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Speaker 2: well played game for this time of year when usually
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Speaker 2: you're not going to see a whole bunch of really
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Speaker 2: great baseball baseball games.
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Speaker 5: I was glued to it while I was at the
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Speaker 5: Cracking game because I was hosting our affiliates and so
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Speaker 5: there was a full suite, so I sat on the
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Speaker 5: couch and I watched this game, and then I had
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Speaker 5: the Cracking game on their big screen in the arena.
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Speaker 5: Watching that, so I had it was like a home
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Speaker 5: almost like my home set up. Hey yeah, third TV
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Speaker 5: did get the cheft last night?
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Speaker 1: Oh yeah yeah, well I think the crack can let
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Speaker 1: you down. Come on Wick, Yeah, you.
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Speaker 3: Had an extra one in.
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Speaker 4: There, bring your own TV.
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Speaker 1: She has an expectation to have a third TV everywhere.
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Speaker 1: I got right, and you know you have extras. I've
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Speaker 1: seen that. I've seen that building. It's pretty nice.
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Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 1: Don't tell me you don't have a third TV lying
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Speaker 1: around there.
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Speaker 3: For Ashley, that would have been great to a better spot.
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Speaker 2: Got like Terry Ryan there, like, hey, I need he
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Speaker 2: was upstairs and lazy.
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Speaker 3: I mean, what was he doing running the broadcast?
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Speaker 1: Okay, yeah yeah, that's just classic li Wiki being cheap
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Speaker 1: and Ryan being lazy.
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Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, I had a nickel for every time those
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Speaker 2: two things coincided.
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Speaker 4: Might have a nickel.
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Speaker 1: Well, let's talk about the final pitch of the game.
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Speaker 1: Of course, they use replay, but they did not adopt
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Speaker 1: for and I think I know the reason the ABS
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Speaker 1: system for this. They'll have it the next time the
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Speaker 1: WBC roles around, for sure, but they did not implement
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Speaker 1: the challenge system. When we were down at spring training,
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Speaker 1: there was a morning that was designated to players getting
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Speaker 1: measured for the ABS Challenge system. So you stand in
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Speaker 1: the box and your normal you know, stance, and they
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Speaker 1: basically create a personal box for you. Well, I guess
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Speaker 1: they didn't want to, or didn't have the time, or
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Speaker 1: didn't feel it was necessary to do that for all
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Speaker 1: the countries and players involved. They had all the major
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Speaker 1: leaguers you know, recordings down in measurements, but I'm not
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Speaker 1: sure that they well I know that they didn't do
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Speaker 1: it for all of the teams in the WBC, So
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Speaker 1: they didn't use it this year, and last night it
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Speaker 1: could have been used, certainly, I mean it could. You
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Speaker 1: know that was gonna happen one way or the other.
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Speaker 1: There was gonna there's gonna be a blown call here
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Speaker 1: and there, and if you don't have the system, it's
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Speaker 1: going to be exaggerated. But now in the back of
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Speaker 1: our heads we know we do have the system, So
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Speaker 1: it makes it even more aggravating that we have a system,
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Speaker 1: we're going to use it in Major League Baseball, and
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Speaker 1: yet last night it could not be used by the
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Speaker 1: Dominican Republic, which did have two crucial moments in the
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Speaker 1: game where a called third strike looked on the box.
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Speaker 1: And again they don't have the actual measurements, they're just
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Speaker 1: using what Fox provided. Yeah, and so there were a
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Speaker 1: couple of strikeout calls that were outside the zone, beneath
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Speaker 1: the zone, and they were huge, including the last pitch
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Speaker 1: of the game. Heraldo Perdomo did work a great at
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Speaker 1: bat against Mason Miller. He did earn the walk, and
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Speaker 1: yet the umpire punched him out for a called third strike.
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Speaker 1: And so that's the way that the game ended. Some
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Speaker 1: people foolishly have gone as far as saying that the
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Speaker 1: Dominican Republic lost the game because of that. I mean,
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Speaker 1: you still have to get a hit. I mean just
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Speaker 1: because he gets no one's gotten a hit off Mason
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Speaker 1: Miller this entire tournament. So you still had to get
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Speaker 1: a hit. The next guy still hasked to get a hit.
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Speaker 1: But the game should not have ended there. I will
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Speaker 1: give you that the game should not have ended. It
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Speaker 1: was ball four. We should have had first and third
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Speaker 1: Tatis coming to the plate with the game still in
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Speaker 1: the balance.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, it was great to be and you're right,
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Speaker 2: it's not the way anybody wants a end, even as
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Speaker 2: hard as I was rooting for America right there, and
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Speaker 2: you know, I was right on board with the dugout
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Speaker 2: there was like, yeah.
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Speaker 4: It might've been down.
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Speaker 2: I don't care, yes, because it was the tension, like
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Speaker 2: you said, was you could cut with a knife. And
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Speaker 2: and yet for all those reasons you just said, they
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Speaker 2: don't have the well, they didn't take the time to
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Speaker 2: measure everyone. And then I don't know for sure if
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Speaker 2: all of the venues have the technology or the capability
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Speaker 2: to what it was. I mean the Puerto Rico where
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Speaker 2: there were some of the games played.
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Speaker 1: They don't.
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Speaker 4: I don't.
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Speaker 2: I don't know if the Tokyo Dome or Tokyo I
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Speaker 2: mean Japan lives in twenty fifty six, so I imagine they do,
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Speaker 2: but they don't know anything about it.
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Speaker 4: Obviously.
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Speaker 2: Houston, Yeah, Houston and Miami have it. They're ready for it,
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Speaker 2: and yet I think it does. So there's also the part,
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Speaker 2: like you said, that you just got to measure these
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Speaker 2: guys when they come into where that box is legitimate.
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Speaker 2: You don't want to go out there and you don't
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Speaker 2: want to have an ABS system that's only halfway, because
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Speaker 2: that's even worse, in my opinion, to where an umpire
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Speaker 2: calls its something, you challenge it, and now that the replay,
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Speaker 2: if you will, gets it wrong, that would be even
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Speaker 2: worse in my opinion. So, uh, it sucks that that's
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Speaker 2: the way that it went down. And yet to think
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Speaker 2: that there's one pitch or one bad call is the
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Speaker 2: change of whether or not it would have it wasn't
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Speaker 2: bases loaded. If it was bases loaded, and that walk
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Speaker 2: pushes the time across, then you have more of an argument, right,
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Speaker 2: But there was you know, one hundred plus pitches that
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Speaker 2: you either missed or didn't take advantage of earlier in
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Speaker 2: the game, and it doesn't seem like it was. I
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Speaker 2: think it's a bit far fetched to think that is
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Speaker 2: definitely what cost you. It costs you the opportunity to
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Speaker 2: see another AB. And part of me would have liked
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Speaker 2: to have seen another AB as long as it worked
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Speaker 2: out where America.
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Speaker 5: Went well, And yeah, that was the thing at that point.
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Speaker 5: I mean, I don't know how, I don't know. Yeah,
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Speaker 5: without ABS, there was no I found myself sitting there wondering, gosh,
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Speaker 5: do I wish they had ABS in this? And I
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Speaker 5: think that I did, because I would have liked to
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Speaker 5: have seen what would have happened. But like what Bucky said, Yeah,
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Speaker 5: I'm fine with what.
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Speaker 1: Look, I mean, I'm never gonna just hinge something a
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Speaker 1: result on one bad call. And it was a bad call,
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Speaker 1: and I wish, I wish that there wouldn't have been
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Speaker 1: an American born umpire behind home point that day, just
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Speaker 1: in case something like this happens. I mean, there are
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Speaker 1: middle ground umpires in Major League Baseball that they are
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Speaker 1: not from the Dominican or the US, and maybe that
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Speaker 1: guy should have been behind the home plate in the game.
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Speaker 1: But look, it was a blown call, but it was close.
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Speaker 1: It was a nasty slider. Yeah, that just dipped out
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Speaker 1: of the zone. It's because it broke so sharply as
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Speaker 1: why it went out of the zone. And I mean
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Speaker 1: it so in the big picture, without abs, you understand
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Speaker 1: how an umpire might have missed that. And the other
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Speaker 1: one that he missed was also the same thing. It
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Speaker 1: was a slider that broke down below and he called
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Speaker 1: it a strike one inning before, and so for him,
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Speaker 1: he's seeing that pitch as a strike last night. So
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Speaker 1: I mean, it was a bad call to close out
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Speaker 1: a game, and you never want to see that. But
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Speaker 1: I just reiterate you still had to have gotten a
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Speaker 1: hit the very next and I'm not gonna, I'm not
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Speaker 1: going to, you know, give too much credence to, you know,
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Speaker 1: a blown call in that moment, costing the Dominican Republic
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Speaker 1: of the game. But it was a fantastic game, no
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Speaker 1: question about it. The US does advance in it. They
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Speaker 1: will play Tuesday for the championship, and we'll find out
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Speaker 1: who they're going to play tonight. There's a lot of
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Speaker 1: other things to discuss from that game, certainly, which we
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Speaker 1: will get to before our show comes to a close
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Speaker 1: here today, Let's find out what's on tap, what's on TEP,
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Speaker 1: what's on tap? All right? So Italy versus Venezuela tonight
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Speaker 1: at five o'clock and the winner will play the US
17:42
Speaker 1: on Tuesday. Handshake Gate took another turn over the weekend
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Speaker 1: when the US faced Canada on Friday. You might know this,
17:52
Speaker 1: maybe you don't. Of course, it was now Cayl Roley
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Speaker 1: versus Josh Naylor. Josh Naylor came to the plate and
17:59
Speaker 1: through through out the knuckles, give me a fist bump.
18:03
Speaker 1: Cal told him, don't not doing it, And it looked
18:09
Speaker 1: like Cal had snubbed another teammate in the process. Well,
18:14
Speaker 1: Josh Naylor in a postgame press conference set the record straight.
18:18
Speaker 1: He said, I text him beforehand. I told him I
18:21
Speaker 1: was going to do it. He text me back, please don't.
18:24
Speaker 1: I did it anyway because I thought it would be funny.
18:28
Speaker 1: And then he went on to explain what a great
18:31
Speaker 1: teammate cal Raley is, what a great leader he is,
18:34
Speaker 1: what a great human being he is, and he really
18:37
Speaker 1: was doing it just for a laugh. And so we
18:41
Speaker 1: will talk about that later on in the show. But yes,
18:45
Speaker 1: handshake gait hopefully can be buried. Now we shall see
18:49
Speaker 1: Randia rose Arena has returned to Peoria. He is back
18:53
Speaker 1: in a Mariner uniform. Julio will be joining him soon,
18:56
Speaker 1: I would imagine in Peoria, and we will discuss Handshake eight,
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Speaker 1: hopefully once and for all, a little bit later on
19:04
Speaker 1: in the program. The Seahawks announced their coaching staff over
19:08
Speaker 1: the weekend, so it's set for the upcoming year. They
19:11
Speaker 1: also made another signing of another defensive back, iganab I
19:16
Speaker 1: knew I was gonna miss it up. I had it
19:17
Speaker 1: down this morning in a in a Boganenny in a
19:22
Speaker 1: bogany sure ignabogany cornerback from the Washington Commanders. He has
19:29
Speaker 1: joined the Seahawks. Will ask for Greg Bell about him
19:33
Speaker 1: coming up at seven o five today. The Kracking six
19:35
Speaker 1: to two winners over the Florida Panthers last night. Turns
19:40
Speaker 1: out Bobby McMahon is exactly what the team needed. He
19:44
Speaker 1: was activated over the weekend finally, and the team played
19:48
Speaker 1: completely different hockey with him, and he was a big
19:51
Speaker 1: part of it, scoring three goals in his two games
19:53
Speaker 1: thus far as a member of the Kraken. They dominated
19:57
Speaker 1: last night six to two, and it was a McMahon man.
20:00
Speaker 1: The kids line, the kids Table is I'm going to
20:03
Speaker 1: start calling them. They dominated last night. Winterton and Myers
20:07
Speaker 1: and company were fantastic. We're going to talk to one
20:11
Speaker 1: of the kids from the kids Table, Ben Myers today
20:14
Speaker 1: at nine thirty. But the Cracking back on the right track.
20:17
Speaker 1: They now won back to back games and as of
20:19
Speaker 1: this morning, they're back in playoff position. It's funny how
20:22
Speaker 1: things change and how rapidly they change. In the NHL.
20:26
Speaker 1: The Sounders won over the Earthquakes, handing the Earthquakes of
20:29
Speaker 1: San Jose their first loss of the season yesterday one
20:32
Speaker 1: to nothing. Roth Rock scored another goal for the Sounders
20:35
Speaker 1: the only goal of the game. So both those teams
20:38
Speaker 1: three wins, one loss on the season and what is
20:42
Speaker 1: usually the biggest story, and without even question, on Monday
20:47
Speaker 1: morning after Selection Sunday is the NCAA tournament Selection Sunday.
20:53
Speaker 1: The brackets are out. We're filling them out over the
20:56
Speaker 1: course of the week, getting you ready for March Madness,
20:59
Speaker 1: which truly doesn't begin until Thursday, but we will start
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Speaker 1: talking brackets next. It's Chucking Buck in the Morning Sports
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Speaker 1: Radio ninety three point three KJRFM. Oh, it's here, the madness,
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Speaker 1: March madness. Yeah, you could say it already began, after all,
21:28
Speaker 1: it is March sixteenth. We did have conference championship weeks,
21:32
Speaker 1: and we had Selection Sunday yesterday. But man, it's something
21:35
Speaker 1: about getting that bracket, starting to fill it out, porn
21:38
Speaker 1: over it, using Monday and Tuesday in case you change
21:42
Speaker 1: your mind, and getting set for your buddy's bracket pool,
21:47
Speaker 1: or your office bracket pool, or maybe kjr's bracket pool. Yes,
21:52
Speaker 1: this is the week. We'll start breaking it down here
21:54
Speaker 1: in a matter of moments. And if you were wondering
21:57
Speaker 1: this morning, I wonder if that crazy KJR is doing
22:01
Speaker 1: their Bracket Challenge again this year. Well, of course we
22:05
Speaker 1: are gonna be stupid.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, what are we idiots?
22:09
Speaker 1: Yeah? Well you think we're just gonna stop doing it
22:11
Speaker 1: one year just randomly, I'm not gonna pay we're gonna
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22:18
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Speaker 1: your twenty twenty six bracket before nine am on Thursday,
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Speaker 1: March nineteenth. So there are games tomorrow and there are
22:44
Speaker 1: games on Wednesday. I think it's ridiculous, but we have them.
22:48
Speaker 1: We got to live in this world, and so we're
22:51
Speaker 1: not gonna hold them against you though. Apparently, as long
22:54
Speaker 1: as you got your bracket filled out the way you
22:56
Speaker 1: want it on Thursday at nine am, then and you're
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Speaker 1: good to go. A perfect bracket. One million dollars will
23:05
Speaker 1: be the reward, all right.
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Speaker 3: I can't wait to win that.
23:08
Speaker 1: I'm going to I.
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Speaker 4: Don't think either one of you guys can we're going
23:11
Speaker 4: it twice.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, oh man, you're going it twice. I was only
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Speaker 3: playing on one in it once. I should have set
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Speaker 3: my sights higher.
23:17
Speaker 4: Were in it.
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Speaker 1: I don't have two perfect brackets. I'm gonna fill out
23:19
Speaker 1: two different ones if they're both gonna be perfect. Yeah, yeah,
23:24
Speaker 1: it'd be amazing.
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Speaker 4: You should do. You will get a million dollars if you.
23:27
Speaker 3: Do that, I'll give you a million dollars.
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Speaker 1: First place content in the contest two tickets to a
23:33
Speaker 1: Cracking game, two tickets to a Mariners game, two tickets
23:36
Speaker 1: to a Sounders game, two tickets to a UDUB football game,
23:38
Speaker 1: and two tickets to a UDUB men's based basketball game.
23:42
Speaker 1: Second place will be two hundred dollars Twin Peaks gift
23:45
Speaker 1: card and third place is a one hundred dollars Twin
23:48
Speaker 1: Peaks gift card. So get that done. We also have
23:51
Speaker 1: a little thing ourselves that we're going to be doing
23:54
Speaker 1: for the Madness with Talala Prasort Casino. Will tell you
23:57
Speaker 1: more about that in a moment, but now it's about
24:00
Speaker 1: filling out the brackets. And yeah, I think number one,
24:04
Speaker 1: it's a pretty top heavy tournament this year. When I
24:07
Speaker 1: was we had Jerry palm On. I think Bucky was
24:10
Speaker 1: out of town at that time. We had Jerry palm
24:12
Speaker 1: On for our annual conversation. He agreed that it's top heavy,
24:18
Speaker 1: but he did enlighten us to the fact that it's
24:21
Speaker 1: not just the one in two seeds. He thinks it's
24:24
Speaker 1: top heavy through like the top four seeds. So he
24:26
Speaker 1: thinks that there could be a lot of shakeup by
24:28
Speaker 1: the end of the tournament. But by the beginning of
24:31
Speaker 1: the tournament. Usually on encourage upsets. I just think it's courageous,
24:35
Speaker 1: but maybe not this year. Maybe that's not the year
24:39
Speaker 1: to do that. It does seem like they're about fifteen
24:42
Speaker 1: to twenty teams that might just run roughshot through this thing.
24:46
Speaker 1: But I'll say this in terms of if you're looking
24:49
Speaker 1: to shake it up a little bit. For the first
24:52
Speaker 1: time ever, Jay Billis didn't take all one seeds to
24:55
Speaker 1: make it to the final four, So that's an upset
24:57
Speaker 1: in itself. So he's expecting something he's got like a
25:01
Speaker 1: two seed and a three seed. Oh gee, s did
25:03
Speaker 1: a final four. I mean, I think Billis has lost
25:06
Speaker 1: his bold mind.
25:07
Speaker 3: He's wild.
25:08
Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, that's that's unlike me. I usually am very
25:12
Speaker 2: Chalky like Billisys. Now, I will go back and make
25:15
Speaker 2: a couple of mistakes and pick some upsets that will
25:17
Speaker 2: inevitably not come true because others will.
25:21
Speaker 4: Mm hmm facts. Facts. I'm not very good at this.
25:24
Speaker 2: I think I won back in the day with a
25:26
Speaker 2: minor league one back, you know, I think it was
25:29
Speaker 2: with the Brewers at the time, and I won one
25:31
Speaker 2: had no idea what I was doing, and then whenever
25:34
Speaker 2: I thought that I had a better idea, watched a
25:36
Speaker 2: little bit more.
25:37
Speaker 4: I actually knew less. And I think that.
25:40
Speaker 2: So now I'm hoping that the knowing less pays off,
25:43
Speaker 2: but I'm not really feeling real good about it.
25:45
Speaker 5: My problem is that I'll always hear like tidbits from people,
25:48
Speaker 5: and then I'm like, oh, okay, well, I got to
25:50
Speaker 5: remember that even though I haven't paid enough attention to
25:53
Speaker 5: everything else, that those tidbits should really help me, and
25:56
Speaker 5: they don't.
25:57
Speaker 3: They usually screw me over or or.
26:02
Speaker 5: I use the tidbits and then I second guess everything,
26:05
Speaker 5: and then I go back and change it. I always
26:06
Speaker 5: tell myself, you're doing it once and you're never going
26:08
Speaker 5: to change it, and I still make a change.
26:10
Speaker 1: I mean, I fill it out while they're announcing it.
26:13
Speaker 1: I'm always done by the time that the last pick
26:16
Speaker 1: has been given with my bracket. So I'm really am
26:20
Speaker 1: one of those don't change it kind of people. But yeah,
26:24
Speaker 1: the tidbits can make you overthink, I suppose. But then again,
26:28
Speaker 1: I don't want to be the person that picks nothing
26:31
Speaker 1: but chalk either. That's boring too. It's got you gotta
26:34
Speaker 1: separate yourself a little bit. But maybe this year my
26:37
Speaker 1: advice to you, as somebody that loves picking upsets and
26:40
Speaker 1: it never works out, that maybe my advice is to
26:45
Speaker 1: be disciplined, uh and just stick to you know, more
26:49
Speaker 1: chalk than normal straight chalk, straight chalk. Yeah. Yeah, I
26:56
Speaker 1: don't even feel Comfortable'm not.
26:57
Speaker 3: Going to I didn't feel comfortable.
26:58
Speaker 5: That's why I wanted to change it, but I didn't
27:00
Speaker 5: know where to change it because I didn't pay enough
27:01
Speaker 5: attention to college basketball.
27:04
Speaker 1: Well I did pay attention a little bit, and I'll
27:06
Speaker 1: tell you that, man, this East region is just absolutely loaded,
27:11
Speaker 1: even if you didn't watch any college basketball this year.
27:15
Speaker 1: To have Duke in the in a region with Saint
27:18
Speaker 1: John's as the five and Kansas as the four and
27:22
Speaker 1: Louisville as the six, and Michigan State as the three,
27:25
Speaker 1: and UCLA's in it as a seven and Yukon is
27:29
Speaker 1: in it as a two. I mean, think about the
27:32
Speaker 1: blue bloods that you've got in that region alone, between UCLA,
27:36
Speaker 1: Michigan State, Yukon, Louisville, Kansas, Duke. So that alone, then
27:42
Speaker 1: you've got the coaches that are participating in that region.
27:46
Speaker 1: You've got Bill Self, you got Rick Patino maybe the
27:49
Speaker 1: still the best coach in America at this stage. You've
27:52
Speaker 1: got Tom Izzo, for goodness sake, who always has some
27:56
Speaker 1: modicum of success every single year. And then Dan Early
28:00
Speaker 1: you might not like him, but he knows how to
28:02
Speaker 1: win in the tournament. He does it better than anybody
28:04
Speaker 1: these days. So the coaches that are involved, and then
28:07
Speaker 1: I just think just the pure just talent is just
28:11
Speaker 1: thicker there. I mean Dukes that goes without saying, they're
28:14
Speaker 1: the number one seed in all of it. But Kansas
28:18
Speaker 1: might have the best player in the country when he
28:19
Speaker 1: decides to play, and they're a four seed. For goodness sake.
28:22
Speaker 1: Louisville's got one of those freshmen. We've talked about them
28:25
Speaker 1: all season long college basketball that there's like ten twelve
28:29
Speaker 1: freshmen that theF That's why we have such a big
28:33
Speaker 1: tanking problem right now in the NBA is because teams
28:37
Speaker 1: are falling all over themselves to lose to get one
28:40
Speaker 1: of these freshmen. One of them's Louisville's mckel brown junior
28:44
Speaker 1: kid can play, and yet a lot of people are
28:46
Speaker 1: picking South Florida to beat them. I saw two of
28:49
Speaker 1: the three experts last night in the ESPN's coverage both
28:52
Speaker 1: say that Michigan State was going to go all the
28:53
Speaker 1: way to the championship game. And then Yukon is a
28:57
Speaker 1: two seed, obviously pretty good regular season champs in their conference,
29:02
Speaker 1: and they know how to win this time of the year.
29:04
Speaker 1: Dan Hurley knows how to win this time of the year.
29:06
Speaker 1: So it wasn't very difficult to find the toughest region
29:10
Speaker 1: and it's the East, and so it feels like a
29:13
Speaker 1: lot more people are taking their upset out of this
29:17
Speaker 1: region because they just expect, with that kind of gauntlet
29:22
Speaker 1: that maybe we'll have a little bloodshed.
29:24
Speaker 2: Well, when I was watching it go down and then
29:27
Speaker 2: the analysts talk about it afterwards, yeah, a lot of
29:29
Speaker 2: folks were saying that this one is stacked, and it
29:31
Speaker 2: makes sense. You just kind of painted the picture as
29:33
Speaker 2: to why it's stacked. And yet they're like, well, do
29:36
Speaker 2: so Duke has the toughest as a number one to
29:39
Speaker 2: come out of that region and and so, yeah, you
29:41
Speaker 2: could pick a bunch of these other teams, and yet
29:44
Speaker 2: Duke is still the number one overall seed and the
29:46
Speaker 2: whole thing. And so, I mean, upsets happened, but this
29:49
Speaker 2: one does feel like one that there's a lot of
29:52
Speaker 2: Probably the first round games are going to be set,
29:54
Speaker 2: but boy, that second round in that division, that region
29:57
Speaker 2: is going to be mayhem.
29:58
Speaker 1: All right, Well, we've got to few segments set aside
30:01
Speaker 1: today to talk about brackets, maybe provide a few tips,
30:05
Speaker 1: and again not to muddle your brain, but maybe you're
30:08
Speaker 1: looking for one or two things that separate your bracket
30:12
Speaker 1: from you know, your buddy Kevin.
30:15
Speaker 3: Oh, he's the worst. You don't want him to win again, No.
30:17
Speaker 1: Not this year, not after a way he acted last year.
30:21
Speaker 4: Arrogant.
30:22
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's son of a all right, coming up next though,
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Speaker 1: Coach Bucky stops by Sports Radio ninety three point three
30:28
Speaker 1: kh A RFM.
30:29
Speaker 2: Sometimes I'll buck roll you on Sunday if there's something
30:32
Speaker 2: big going on.
30:33
Speaker 1: Coach Bucky is Hee here on his first Monday segment,
30:36
Speaker 1: and we are going to talk a lot about this
30:38
Speaker 1: coming up later on in the show. But I gotta
30:41
Speaker 1: get Coach Bucky's opinion on this. Of course. Randy rose
30:45
Speaker 1: Arena returns to spring training. Your Dan Wilson. What's your
30:49
Speaker 1: conversation with him?
30:51
Speaker 4: Hey, how you doing?
30:52
Speaker 1: Maeah?
30:53
Speaker 4: You say good? Good? Are we We're gonna be okay? Everything? Okay?
30:58
Speaker 4: You good? You can't give you handshake, hug, maybe pat
31:02
Speaker 4: on the butt? What do we need? What do you need? Well?
31:04
Speaker 2: I just didn't like it. Well that's fine, you cannot
31:06
Speaker 2: like it. But do you want to be traded? You
31:09
Speaker 2: can go right there. Yeah. Do you like the idea
31:14
Speaker 2: of I don't know, maybe playing in World Series this year?
31:16
Speaker 1: Yeah?
31:17
Speaker 4: That sounds really fun.
31:18
Speaker 2: Okay, So we're gonna have to get over this like
31:21
Speaker 2: Quicken in a hurry, like now, like gone cool?
31:24
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, you agree?
31:26
Speaker 1: Good?
31:26
Speaker 4: Okay.
31:27
Speaker 2: I need you to go out and say something to people.
31:29
Speaker 2: I don't care what you say, just something along the
31:31
Speaker 2: lines of I'm over it, I'm glad to be back,
31:34
Speaker 2: I'm looking forward to the season, and then it's over.
31:37
Speaker 2: And if he says no, then I say Okay, you
31:40
Speaker 2: want to go back to Tampa Bay. Where do you
31:41
Speaker 2: want to go? Where's your Do you have a destination?
31:44
Speaker 2: Because you're not gonna win this battle. And I think
31:49
Speaker 2: that he would oblige. I think that he did. Yeah, yeah, okay,
31:53
Speaker 2: all right. Next one is.
31:55
Speaker 1: Bobby McMahon coach Bucky exactly what the Kraken have needed
31:59
Speaker 1: all along. Yeah, well, I mean I figure, so far,
32:02
Speaker 1: so good.
32:03
Speaker 2: I mean, if he scores a goal or two every
32:05
Speaker 2: single game, then probably the best would yeah, probably the
32:09
Speaker 2: best move possible. I mean, it looks the part that
32:13
Speaker 2: there was one of the goals yesterday that I saw
32:15
Speaker 2: there because I'm just watching, you know, from through the
32:19
Speaker 2: lens of what FITSI and Al are telling us about
32:21
Speaker 2: how he's fast and yet he's big, and he kind
32:25
Speaker 2: of skated down there one time and he was moving
32:26
Speaker 2: faster and it almost was like that perfect shield and
32:29
Speaker 2: then there was a pass and then he went right
32:31
Speaker 2: to the front of the net. Everybody was saying, that's
32:33
Speaker 2: what he likes to do. It seems like the perfect fit,
32:35
Speaker 2: and so far, so good. So yeah, I'm hoping so
32:38
Speaker 2: just not for the cracking, but for me and my
32:40
Speaker 2: fantasy purposes as well, I think.
32:42
Speaker 1: You're gonna win because of this. I'll say this. I mean,
32:46
Speaker 1: Lane Lambert's been cooking stress and all year along. Shoot
32:49
Speaker 1: the puck? What the pucket the net? You never know
32:51
Speaker 1: what's gonna happen if you're shooting the pucket the net.
32:54
Speaker 1: Don't keep waiting for the perfect shot. Just get it
32:57
Speaker 1: in there, get some traffic. And you know who's real
33:00
Speaker 1: adopted it is that kid's table line. Those guys are
33:04
Speaker 1: last night were relentless at shooting the puck. And if
33:09
Speaker 1: Bobby McMahon fits that style, then yeah, if he's finally
33:15
Speaker 1: gotten through to a couple of the lines, this is
33:17
Speaker 1: how we want to play, and McMahon can play that way,
33:21
Speaker 1: then maybe it is the difference. They've looked like a
33:24
Speaker 1: completely different team the two last two games.
33:26
Speaker 5: Yeah, they were like an offensively dominant team yesterday what Yeah,
33:31
Speaker 5: it didn't.
33:32
Speaker 1: Make any sense, all right, last one? Then for you here,
33:36
Speaker 1: Coach Bucky, He's coached every sport at every level, by
33:40
Speaker 1: the way, including your Easter egg hunts. So you tell
33:45
Speaker 1: me bag of jelly beans or one chocolate bar. I know,
33:49
Speaker 1: Coach Bucky, you're a big chocolate fan, so I couldn't
33:51
Speaker 1: make it a bag of jelly beans and a or
33:54
Speaker 1: a bag of chocolate, so you get one chocolate bar
33:57
Speaker 1: or an entire bag.
33:58
Speaker 2: Of jelly beans. Boy, this is a rough one because
34:03
Speaker 2: I like me some jelly beans. But I'm getting to
34:05
Speaker 2: the point. I'm getting to the age now where I
34:07
Speaker 2: understand ten, twenty, maybe thirty jelly beans in.
34:11
Speaker 4: That was a lot. That's a lot of sugar. You
34:14
Speaker 4: just feel it dissolving.
34:15
Speaker 1: You don't have to eat them all at that month.
34:16
Speaker 1: You can stretch it out over time if you'd like.
34:19
Speaker 2: Okay, so it's not just in one moment of setting.
34:23
Speaker 1: No, No, you just have that bag.
34:25
Speaker 2: Okay, Well I don't take the bag, yes, because then
34:27
Speaker 2: it's more more times of enjoyment versus just one. Because
34:31
Speaker 2: one little east one little Reesea's egg is just a tease.
34:36
Speaker 2: But it's just a tease, Twicks egg. So I bought
34:39
Speaker 2: some of those when we were down in Arizona for
34:41
Speaker 2: our little vacation. I bought a bag of them, as like,
34:43
Speaker 2: that'll be dessert for the kids, right if we got tacos,
34:46
Speaker 2: brought it back to the hotel. Here's your dessert, so
34:48
Speaker 2: we don't have to go out and get dessert, and
34:52
Speaker 2: then I was like.
34:52
Speaker 4: Nope, you're not gonna have any. Nope, You're not gonna
34:54
Speaker 4: have any.
34:54
Speaker 2: We came back and there was only a couple left,
34:57
Speaker 2: and I'm like, I can have one, and I would
34:59
Speaker 2: have one, and I'm like, I want another one so bad,
35:01
Speaker 2: and so it was almost it was almost worse having
35:04
Speaker 2: just one because I wanted at least two. So you
35:08
Speaker 2: offering me one versus a bag of jelly beans that
35:11
Speaker 2: I could partake in for a week, Yeah or two.
35:14
Speaker 1: Yeah, it depends how big that bag is. Yeah, as
35:16
Speaker 1: long as you're yeah, I can have a handful, like
35:18
Speaker 1: ten times. Yeah, I'm taking the Baggagejelly's okay, shagga jelly beans.
35:21
Speaker 1: It is all right, Thank you, Coach Bucky. I really
35:23
Speaker 1: needed an answer to that, and finally we've got one.
35:26
Speaker 3: You feel better.
35:26
Speaker 1: I do. I do know how to approach this year's Easter.
35:29
Speaker 1: All right? Coming up next Headlines plus Greg Bell will
35:32
Speaker 1: join us, and we do have a kind of a
35:34
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