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Best of Chuck in the Morning 8-28 · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 4: Are you writing this down?
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 5: Something completely different this this is chuck in the morning.
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  Speaker 1: Why do you people are beyond let's go let's get
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  Speaker 1: the game on Hey, great morning to you all. Happy Friday.
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  Speaker 1: It is Chuck on the Morning Sports Radio, 93.3 KJR FM,
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  Speaker 1: and it is sensational to have you with us for
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  Speaker 1: the next four hours. So much to discuss on today's
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  Speaker 1: radio program. So much to discuss. I didn't really even
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  Speaker 1: have time to map it out here.
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  Speaker 6: Well, that means there's a lot. Yeah, I know.
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  Speaker 1: Did something happen? Like, did I lose 10 minutes this morning?
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  Speaker 1: I thought I'm sitting here with, like, a 20 minutes
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  Speaker 1: before the show, I look up, you're sitting in your seat.
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  Speaker 1: I got three minutes till showtime. I'm like, what the hell?
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  Speaker 1: Where did the time go?
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  Speaker 6: What happened?
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  Speaker 1: I lost 15 minutes. Did I hit my head on
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  Speaker 1: the sink in the bathroom? I mean, something happened.
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  Speaker 3: I hate to tell you, but that's Seattle time. If
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  Speaker 3: we were in Hawaii time, you'd have 15 extra minutes.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, probably have an hour and a half.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, night, your sleep lasts forever.
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  Speaker 3: In Hawaii, but in Seattle, you go to bed and
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  Speaker 3: you wake up 10 minutes later.
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  Speaker 6: It's morning.
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  Speaker 1: It wouldn't be something if you found out like when
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  Speaker 1: you go to heaven and you sit on the cloud
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  Speaker 1: and you talk to your archangel because all of this
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  Speaker 1: absolutely will happen.
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  Speaker 6: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: And you get to ask him or her all the
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  Speaker 1: questions you had about earth. And then you found out
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  Speaker 1: that your inclination, your perception of Hawaii is true. And
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  Speaker 1: that Hawaiians have known this all along, that the time
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  Speaker 1: goes by, like, for every one second that passes, they
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  Speaker 1: get to experience two seconds of life. Wouldn't that be something?
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  Speaker 3: It would be something, but I also would believe it.
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  Speaker 3: They talk about island time, like, oh, you're not ever
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  Speaker 3: really late.
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  Speaker 6: There's no rush. We're just on island time. Now I'm
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  Speaker 6: starting to think island time is a real freaking thing.
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  Speaker 5: Oh.
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  Speaker 6: There's some added time happening there.
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  Speaker 1: It's lost. There's somebody down there in Hawaii that just
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  Speaker 1: keeps entering a code.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but could it be lost before the weird, weird
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  Speaker 3: stuff starts happening? Like the first half season of Lost, great.
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  Speaker 1: Pretty much like when they started entering the code, that's
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  Speaker 1: when it started getting weird.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so can it be lost before that?
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  Speaker 1: It was great, but this is the little truth about
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  Speaker 1: television that we watch, is that really smart, creative people
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  Speaker 1: make a show, and the TV networks are like, that's
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  Speaker 1: a great idea.
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  Speaker 5: Yep.
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  Speaker 1: And then they shoot a pilot, and then you're off
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  Speaker 1: and running. So what television people, though, don't realize, what
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  Speaker 1: we the viewers don't realize is that that smart, creative
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  Speaker 1: person made a show for one season. They weren't thinking, oh, well,
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  Speaker 1: I need to make ten seasons of this. But then
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  Speaker 1: they start having success, and the network says, we want
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  Speaker 1: to pick you up, and now you actually get to
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  Speaker 1: make real money. And they're like, of course I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to sign. Where do I sign for three more seasons,
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  Speaker 1: even though they haven't come up with an idea for
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  Speaker 1: three more seasons? So then, in the middle of season one,
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  Speaker 1: they introduce something weird that forces them to change the
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  Speaker 1: way it was going to end and allows it to
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  Speaker 1: be extended into the next season. And the more seasons
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  Speaker 1: that you pick up right off the bat, the thinner
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  Speaker 1: the story gets. And so that's what happened to Lost.
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  Speaker 1: He had a great idea. Yeah. And I'm still convinced
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  Speaker 1: to this day it ended when they found out that Hurley,
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  Speaker 1: the big the big chunky guy, it was all something
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  Speaker 1: that he imagined in his head. I think that was
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  Speaker 1: the end of the show.
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  Speaker 6: And that would have been fine.
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  Speaker 1: Which they did put into an episode, but obviously they
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  Speaker 1: couldn't end it because now they were getting ready to
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  Speaker 1: make real money. So now we've got to add more characters.
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  Speaker 1: We got to add a second island. We got to
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  Speaker 1: add an evil guy. We got to add somebody that
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  Speaker 1: enters a code over there. And there's just no plan
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  Speaker 1: for how this is going to end. And guess how
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  Speaker 1: the show ended? like there was no plan for how
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  Speaker 1: it was going to end.
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  Speaker 6: Like an Adam Sandler movie.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 6: It's like, oh, um.
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  Speaker 1: We had an idea.
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  Speaker 6: It's ending.
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  Speaker 4: Done.
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  Speaker 1: Well, at least that's a comedy in most cases.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 1: But, yeah, that's what happened. Same thing with music. Like, Bush,
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  Speaker 1: that's a great first album. Yeah. And they poured their
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  Speaker 1: entire musical lifetimes into that album. And suddenly, they were
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  Speaker 1: a success. Suddenly, I'm dating Gwen Stefani. Everything is amazing.
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  Speaker 1: This is better than I ever dreamed it would be.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: But if you want to make real money, I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to need three more albums. We don't have a single
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  Speaker 1: song written. We put them all on the first album.
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  Speaker 1: And I hate to tell you, we're not the Beatles.
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  Speaker 1: So how much time do I have to write 10
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  Speaker 1: new songs for you? Because I have zero idea.
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  Speaker 3: And that's the thing too, is yeah, it's like 10 more.
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  Speaker 3: We need them in three months. It's like, they give
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  Speaker 3: you a timeline.
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  Speaker 6: You're like, well, there it goes. My creative process.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Now I'm just in the money-making process.
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  Speaker 1: By the counting crows just kept getting exponentially worse with
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  Speaker 1: every single album. It's why Nickelback, every song sounds the same.
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  Speaker 1: They came up with one really good song. Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: And they all sound just like that one.
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  Speaker 1: And then they just rinsed and repeated and changed the
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  Speaker 1: words around and. arrangements around, and it pretty much just
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  Speaker 1: sounds like the same song.
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  Speaker 6: Well, you know what?
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  Speaker 3: Luckily for our listeners, we haven't entered the money-making phase.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 6: So you're going to get good stuff all the time.
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  Speaker 1: And from what I've heard behind the scenes from our bosses,
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  Speaker 1: we never are going to.
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  Speaker 6: See? So we're good.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: You're going to get quality.
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  Speaker 1: Right. We will always just keep striving for creative reasons
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  Speaker 1: to keep you listening with no promise of it benefiting us.
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  Speaker 6: That's the truth.
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  Speaker 1: The key to success.
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  Speaker 6: That's right.
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  Speaker 1: You're welcome. Well, good morning to you all. I'm glad
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  Speaker 1: Ashley came up with an interesting idea for how I
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  Speaker 1: lost 15 minutes of time this morning, because I was
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  Speaker 1: just going to blame it on stupid drivers again. So
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  Speaker 1: that was far more fun.
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  Speaker 6: Could have blamed it on that, too.
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  Speaker 1: That was far more entertaining, and it saves me from
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  Speaker 1: complaining about drivers. Who might be the bane of my existence,
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  Speaker 1: by the way.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I was going to say, don't worry. We can
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  Speaker 3: save that for next week. There will be more drivers
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  Speaker 3: that suck again.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I can be angry. I can get angry.
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  Speaker 1: I can be in a foul mood at times. Ashley
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  Speaker 1: certainly has seen me be moody for sure at times.
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  Speaker 1: But I don't ever get truly angry except when I'm
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  Speaker 1: behind a wheel.
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  Speaker 6: No, I'm the same way.
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  Speaker 1: And I need to see somebody about it.
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  Speaker 3: And then I'm real pissed because people drive like they're a-holes.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, my gosh. It's so bad.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: They're either overly aggressive or overly scared.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, or they're like, oh, I'm in the fast lane.
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  Speaker 6: I better go 52.
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  Speaker 3: Yes. Well, no, that's actually what the surface streets are for.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Anyway, I've already ranted about television and music. I won't
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  Speaker 1: get into drivers.
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  Speaker 6: Not today.
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  Speaker 1: It was worth a mention.
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  Speaker 6: But tune in next week, folks.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Well, let's rant about something else because today marks the
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  Speaker 1: final preseason game for the Seattle Seahawks and Ith. I
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  Speaker 1: think there is a problem, Ashley, when the reaction from
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  Speaker 1: every single fan of a football team, of which there
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  Speaker 1: are hundreds of thousands of Seahawks fans out there, when
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  Speaker 1: the reaction is, thank God. Yeah. When you put on
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  Speaker 1: a game and you go to the trouble of sending
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  Speaker 1: 100 players to a destination, rolling them out on the
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  Speaker 1: football field, paying officials, paying people to put on the game,
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  Speaker 1: and nobody wants it played, you've got a problem.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, you do.
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  Speaker 1: And it just keeps getting worse every single year. We
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  Speaker 1: are going to go through three preseason games. And Mike
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  Speaker 1: McDonald has decided no starter is going to be risked.
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  Speaker 1: He is not going to play one single starter, with
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  Speaker 1: the exception of kicker and punter, one single starter for
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  Speaker 1: the entire preseason, not for a single snap of the preseason.
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  Speaker 1: And after last week, I think there's a good chance
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  Speaker 1: he's not even going to risk second stringers tonight against
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  Speaker 1: the Kansas City Chiefs. Now, can we just... logically deal
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  Speaker 1: with this once and for all. We've never really liked preseason.
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  Speaker 1: It has gotten to the point where clearly the coaches
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  Speaker 1: don't want to do it. They don't want to risk
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  Speaker 1: any players. And this, you know, this started years ago, like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, they're the new guards. Like, why are we
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  Speaker 1: playing them at all? The Sean McVeigh's and Kyle Shanahan's
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  Speaker 1: and others are from the Mike Holmgrens of the world
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  Speaker 1: that thought that there was merit to this. But if
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  Speaker 1: the other team's playing its second stringers and you're playing
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  Speaker 1: your first stringers, you're not really sharpening that edge iron
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  Speaker 1: is not sharpening iron tofu is sharpening iron at that
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  Speaker 1: point um and that's an insult to the second stringers
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  Speaker 1: i know there's not that large of a gap but
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  Speaker 1: i'm exaggerating for emphasis But you're not iron sharpening iron,
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  Speaker 1: even the joint practices. I mean, we have to have
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  Speaker 1: a joint practice and risk everybody getting into a fight
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  Speaker 1: just so we can sharpen iron, right? But it's just
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  Speaker 1: so absolutely unnecessary at this stage and trying to figure
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  Speaker 1: out the last two roster spots or giving Ty Simpson
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  Speaker 1: a few snaps during the year, even if it is
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  Speaker 1: against second and third stringers. it's not worth it. The
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  Speaker 1: juice is not worth the squeeze. And I know it'll
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  Speaker 1: be a while before they're allowed to huddle again and
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  Speaker 1: figure out the future, which I do earnestly believe will
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  Speaker 1: be without preseason games at all. But man, the writing
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  Speaker 1: is on the wall. Your coaches have made it very clear.
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  Speaker 1: We don't want to play these games. Like there is,
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  Speaker 1: there's no value to us playing these games right now.
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  Speaker 1: And so I would Hope that the message has gotten
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  Speaker 1: across to Roger Goodell and the owners. And I know
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  Speaker 1: they're going to use it as leverage to try to
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  Speaker 1: get another football game out of the players. Fine. I'm
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  Speaker 1: good with that. I'm okay with that. Maybe the players
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  Speaker 1: aren't okay with that, but I'm good with that. Um,
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  Speaker 1: as a football fan, 18 regular season games, two bi-weeks
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  Speaker 1: built into the week. I'm good with a 20 week
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  Speaker 1: NFL season. Let's sign up for it right now. And
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  Speaker 1: let's just please. Rid our lives of this nonsense that
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  Speaker 1: we are forced to watch to call ourselves real Seahawks
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  Speaker 1: fans or real football fans. It's garbage, and it needs
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  Speaker 1: to be off.
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  Speaker 3: Well, yeah, and that's the thing, too, is it would
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  Speaker 3: be one thing if you're making boatloads of money off
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  Speaker 3: preseason games, but it's not that the NFL is going
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  Speaker 3: to hurt if they take away preseason games, because they're not.
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  Speaker 1: Well, they are. I mean, they are making ticket money
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  Speaker 1: off of it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but if you add that extra game, you're going
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  Speaker 3: to make way more money off that actual extra regular
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  Speaker 3: season game than you are off these preseason games, because
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  Speaker 3: most of the preseason games are fans who have regular,
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  Speaker 3: or a lot of the preseason games are fans who
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  Speaker 3: have season tickets.
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  Speaker 6: Who don't want to go. So they give them to
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  Speaker 6: someone else to use them.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it's not like other fans are clamoring to
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  Speaker 3: go to a preseason game.
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  Speaker 6: And so I just think you could get every single.
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  Speaker 3: Piece of info you need on every single player through
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  Speaker 3: every practice you have. You do not need to see
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  Speaker 3: them in a game time situation to know if they're
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  Speaker 3: going to help your team or not help your team.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it's every level. Nobody else has preseason. Yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 1: You know, And look, it's not like spring training. You
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  Speaker 1: don't need spring training. You need the ramp up. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you have to, otherwise the product's going to be awful
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  Speaker 1: on opening day. Yeah. And in the NBA, they don't
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  Speaker 1: need preseason games in the NBA. Don't need them at all.
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  Speaker 1: There's zero need. I mean, we are, we are playing
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  Speaker 1: a season where we can't get NBA players to play
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  Speaker 1: every day. We're having to make rules about load management and,
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  Speaker 1: We're having to create reasons for why we're resting a guy,
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  Speaker 1: false reasons that every fan can see through. And yet
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  Speaker 1: we're going to march out preseason games. What the hell for?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It's needed in baseball and baseball and spring training is
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  Speaker 1: just different. Like nobody is making sure they watch all
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  Speaker 1: nine innings of a preseason game. If it's on in
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  Speaker 1: the background, it's on in the background. Maybe I get
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  Speaker 1: to see Julio get a couple of bats and then,
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  Speaker 1: you know, then I might check out of it. But
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  Speaker 1: it is more of just like spring training for baseball
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  Speaker 1: is just like a socializing, like it's sort of like
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  Speaker 1: a rite of passage into spring. And it's when you
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  Speaker 1: go to the games, it's just a reason to sit
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  Speaker 1: in the sun and, ah, there's my old friend baseball
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  Speaker 1: out there. There's nothing about it. And you also get
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  Speaker 1: to play the game at full speed without true risk
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  Speaker 1: of injury. I mean, sure, you could get hit by
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  Speaker 1: a pitch or slide wrong or pull a hamstring, but
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  Speaker 1: that could happen during baseball practice. That could happen during
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  Speaker 1: NFL practice. But here in these preseason games, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: whoever's going to be out on the field is probably
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  Speaker 1: vying for a job in the league. They're going to
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  Speaker 1: be going all out. There's no way. That you can,
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  Speaker 1: as a team, keep the Rudy Rudigers from Rudy Rudig-ing
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  Speaker 1: against your players just to keep them safe. So what
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  Speaker 1: do you do instead? You just sit everybody. I get it.
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  Speaker 1: Hugh's got a good argument about it. Like Hugh said
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  Speaker 1: just earlier this week, it's still the best football out there.
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  Speaker 1: Preseason NFL football is still a jump up from college
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  Speaker 1: when you think about the quality of the players on
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  Speaker 1: the football field. I understand that. But I never watch
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  Speaker 1: a college game thinking the offensive coordinator is using 10%
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  Speaker 1: of his playbook. He's just running bland, boring plays to
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  Speaker 1: keep people healthy. And I know that there aren't guys
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  Speaker 1: on the sidelines who aren't in pads, who are wearing hats,
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  Speaker 1: but are still wearing team colors that I know are
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  Speaker 1: better than the guys that I'm watching play in the
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  Speaker 1: preseason games. And now I know that there are two
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  Speaker 1: layers of those guys for tonight's game that are going
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  Speaker 1: to be sitting on the, standing on the sidelines cheering.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm asked to watch and let's face it, keep
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  Speaker 1: score of a third preseason game. It's just to the
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  Speaker 1: point where it's very obvious that nobody really wants this.
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  Speaker 1: And when the coaches make it obvious that they don't
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  Speaker 1: want to do it anymore and we're still doing it,
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  Speaker 1: it makes no sense other than you're just trying to
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  Speaker 1: squeeze another dollar out of an already loyal football fan.
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  Speaker 1: And I think that's tasteless.
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  Speaker 6: No, it is. And here's the difference, too.
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  Speaker 3: With college football, yeah, you're going to watch some games
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  Speaker 3: early on in the season that it's going to be
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  Speaker 3: a blowout. Georgia against... Insert small school here, right? That's
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  Speaker 3: going to be a blowout, but that game still counts.
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  Speaker 3: Whereas preseason, you're watching people who you might never see
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  Speaker 3: on a football field again this season, and that game
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  Speaker 3: doesn't count. So why are you watching it? Because there's
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  Speaker 3: two layers of that. One, they're not going to play. Two,
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  Speaker 3: the game doesn't count. Versus, well, you might be watching
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  Speaker 3: backups because it's a blowout in the second half of
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  Speaker 3: a game or even second quarter of a game, but
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  Speaker 3: at least that game counts towards the records.
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  Speaker 1: I think of Jalen Milrow, and he's going to play
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  Speaker 1: all four quarters tonight. And I actually feel bad about him.
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  Speaker 1: Excuse me, bad for him. He's going to be operating
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  Speaker 1: behind a third-string offensive line, running for his life against
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  Speaker 1: a band of 11 athletic, physical people who are desperate
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  Speaker 1: to impress the coaching staff to make a spot on
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  Speaker 1: the roster. I mean, they're going to be flying around
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  Speaker 1: with reckless abandon tonight. And the way to impress it
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  Speaker 1: is to just sack the quarterback. And he's going to
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: get to play four quarters tonight. He's going to get
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: abused for four quarters. I don't think it's going to
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: improve his game. probably not his abilities. I don't think
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: it's going to, Oh, he took the, he turned the corner.
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: He's going to take four quarters of abuse because we
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: don't want to risk anybody else. That's insult enough. And,
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: and it's going to, I mean, this weekend's games are
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: probably going to get pretty violent, maybe even dirty because
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: you're going to have everybody out there going the extra
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: mile to try to impress coaches. It's their last chance
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: to impress coaches. I don't, I wouldn't want a player
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: sent out to be risked that way, even if he
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: was my third-string quarterback. But that's what's going to happen.
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: That's what's happening tonight. That is the draw tonight. It's
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: the only draw tonight. Jalen Milrow is going to play
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: four quarters. I mean, I watched Jalen Milrow struggle to
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: play two quarters last week, and now we're going to
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: get it four quarters of that? So... I mean, I
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: know there's some merits. I know there are some things
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: that can be extracted. And I know that those last
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: couple spots on the roster, that is a valuable thing.
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: But I would think that you could figure that out
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: in practice. I think the days of NFL preseason should end.
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: I think NBA preseason should end.
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: Stop.
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: You're asking enough. of sports fans and their pocketbooks yeah
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: and they give very generously all the time every year
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: come on cut them a break seriously and cut your
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: players a break i don't i just don't i don't
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: even like the process by which we want to decide
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: the last two roster spots go out there and knock
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: somebody's head off in a meaningless game nah i'm done with.
• 19:26
  Speaker 6: It no i agree yeah i agree all right.
• 19:28
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• 19:47
  Speaker 1: Seahawks chiefs tonight at five o'clock yeah after all of
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: that what.
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: Tune in make sure you tune in it's gonna be
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: a great.
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: Game uh nfl cut day is going to be sunday
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: by the way and so there will not be any
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: games on sunday that most of the games playing tonight
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: there are a few last night there are two on
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: saturday And then on Sunday, it clears the way where
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: you have all of the preseason information that you were
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: going to get as an organization, and now you can
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: make your decisions. And then there's going to be a
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: wild frenzy. Certainly, every team will be participating in who
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: I can steal off of the waiver wire to fill
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: the holes on my roster. I'm expecting the Seahawks to
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: sign at least one running back, maybe two, by the
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: time that cut day occurs. And so that's happening on Sunday.
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: So we're going to get a little bit of a
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: frenzy um, afterwards, a mild version of the free agency frenzy, um,
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: coming after a Sunday's cut day. Uh, also discipline day
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: is on Sunday and we might find out for those
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: of you who decided that I've got to have my
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: fantasy draft now and not wait till the end of
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: the preseason. Um, if you drafted Josh Jacobs, sorry about it.
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: He might not play for a while. I don't think
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: he's going to miss a lot of the season. Sounds
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: like he's getting slapped with misdemeanor charges. But the NFL
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: has decided don't embarrass us in the offseason because we'll
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: hand out our own layer of justice. Even if you
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: get away with a slap on the wrist in the
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: court system, we might suspend you two, four games if
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: we think you've embarrassed us. Puka Nakua faces that too
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: on Sunday as well. So Discipline Day is coming in
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: the National Football League too.
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and I think that's a fair thing to say. Yeah,
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: don't embarrass us, as any job would. Hey, if you
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: embarrass us, you face, yeah, it might not be legal discipline,
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: but you face your own employer's discipline. And that's, I mean,
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: and the Pook and the Kua thing, it's not just
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: the bite marks.
• 21:42
  Speaker 6: I mean, he also went on and did some questionable
• 21:45
  Speaker 6: things on the podcast.
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: I mean, his offseason was a lot of embarrassment.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was weird. College football starts tomorrow.
• 21:54
  Speaker 6: That's so weird.
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: If that surprises you, do not feel bad. Yeah. Because
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: I am a sports talk show host, and I did
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: not know that until yesterday. I thought for sure that
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: Apple Cup was played on the opening week. But there
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: are a handful of games tomorrow, one starting at 9
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: o'clock between North Carolina and TCU. And USC will play
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: tomorrow at noon against San Jose State. We are nine
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: days till the Apple Cup. Sounders and Chicago tomorrow at 1.30.
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: Maybe you wouldn't be that fired up to watch this
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: the way the Sounders have played here in the last
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: couple of months since the World Cup. But tomorrow marks
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: the debut of Dejan, or Dejan, Dejan. Had it down earlier, too.
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: So the new acquisition the Sounders made that Jackson felt,
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: my goodness, was comparing to Aaron Judge yesterday.
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: Just a step below Aaron Judge, which is a step
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: I would like.
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. So he makes his debut tomorrow in Chicago.
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: And so 1.30 is your start time right here on KJR. And,
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: of course, the Mariners, they start a big series tonight
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: against the Toronto Blue Jays. Both of these teams in
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: the wild card race. Only one team is in its
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: divisional race. still alive, and that's the home team, the
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: Seattle Mariners. who are three back of the Houston Astros. Gosh, Yankees,
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: can you do nothing to help?
• 23:15
  Speaker 6: Seriously, and then you wonder why we hate you.
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. I mean, you're the person, while everybody's moving,
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: that is sitting there and eating chips on the couch
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: that we've got to move.
• 23:24
  Speaker 6: And then it's like, hey, let me know if you
• 23:26
  Speaker 6: need anything.
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: Well, we did, actually.
• 23:28
  Speaker 6: We told you what we needed ahead of time.
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: Right, and instead you lose to Hayden Wesneski with your
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: ace on the mound. So instead of being two back
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: going into this weekend, the Mariners are three games back.
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: But we need to do it ourselves anyway.
• 23:41
  Speaker 6: That's right.
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: So Mariners, Blue Jays tonight, Dylan Cease going for them,
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: Emerson Hancock going for us. That's not good for us.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: But coming up next on the program, I know we
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: talk baseball at 630 almost every day, but we don't
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: have a game to recap today. Instead, we have a
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: decision to recap today made by the Mariners, who decided
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: once again that Gino Suarez is not part of our plan.
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: We'll discuss next on KJR. Hey, great morning to you.
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: It is a Friday. Chuck and Ashley, Sports Radio 93.3
• 24:21
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• 24:25
  Speaker 1: Let's get to your Frostbrood Coors Light. Choose chill headlines.
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: We will start with the Mariners who are in Toronto
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: tonight taking on the Blue Jays. The Blue Jays actually
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: a half game up in the standings in the wild
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: card in the American League over the Mariners. But in
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: terms of the divisional race, the Blue Jays are 15 back.
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: of the Tampa Bay Rays, where the Mariners are just
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: three games back of the top of their division in
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: the American League West. Unfortunately, the New York Yankees can't
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: do anything right and lost to the Houston Astros last night.
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: Lost two out of three to the Astros. So instead
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: of being two back this morning, the Mariners sit three
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: games back of the Astros in the American League. West
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: pitching matchup tonight. Emerson Hancock starting for the Mariners and
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: Dylan Cease, who shut us out the last time we
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: faced him and might be your Cy Young Award winner
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: in the American League. is going for Toronto. So we
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: will not have the pitching advantage. For those people that
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: get bothered when I say we have the pitching advantage,
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: we will not have the pitching advantage.
• 25:26
  Speaker 6: There you go. See, look at that.
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: Look at that. See if we can balance out the universe.
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: Sounders are going to be in action tomorrow against Chicago.
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: Obviously very important for this team to start playing some
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: winning soccer again, but tomorrow's match has a completely different meaning.
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: It'll be the debut of Dayan, the new acquisition that
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: the Sounders made. Jackson Feltz says he's one of the
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: five best strikers in the MLS, and for some reason,
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: the Sounders, despite what, a 9-10 game? winless streak it's
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: long decided hey we're only a couple points out of
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: the playoff picture we add this guy and we might
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: be mls cup contenders that's how good this guy is
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: and we got him in the middle of the season
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: this week uh so um that's gonna that debut will
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: happen tomorrow at uh 1 30 we're nine days from
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: the apple cup believe it or not even more surprising
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: shocking even is that tomorrow the college football season begins
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: tomorrow real games are played North Carolina TCU kicking off
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: the season tomorrow at 9 a.m. NFL cut day will
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: be Sunday, which will come on the heels of the
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: final preseason week of 2026. Two games on Saturday will
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: wrap up the preseason, and so that will leave Sunday
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: for cut day. Seahawks in action tonight against the Kansas
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: City Chiefs. Kickoff at 5 o'clock. Joining us to talk
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: about it, our Seahawks insider Greg Bell.
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: As part of our continuing NFL coverage for the 12th man,
• 26:56
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• 27:00
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• 27:18
  Speaker 4: Good morning.
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: Are you in Kansas City, correct?
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: No, I'm in SeaTac Airport going to Kansas City.
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: Okay, okay. All right. I know you told me yesterday
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: when you were leaving. So, all right, we got you
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: at the airport before you got on the plane. So,
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: safe travels to you.
• 27:34
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: So, I guess it's official now. No starters are going
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: to play in the preseason, including Jadarian Price. Mike McDonald's
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: made his decision, correct?
• 27:47
  Speaker 4: Correct. I heard on my drive in how much you
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: like preseason football.
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: It is.
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: Am I right or wrong? Go ahead and tell me
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: if I'm wrong.
• 27:56
  Speaker 4: No, you're right from a fan's perspective. We've talked about this.
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: The reason preseason still exists is for money and the
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: fact that the owners can sell regular season ticket prices
• 28:06
  Speaker 4: to fake games. The biggest ripoff in sports is that
• 28:11
  Speaker 4: preseason games are part of a season ticket package. If
• 28:13
  Speaker 4: you want any NFL team's season ticket package, you have
• 28:17
  Speaker 4: to buy these games as part of them. Regular season
• 28:21
  Speaker 4: prices for fake football and that's what this is and
• 28:25
  Speaker 4: most i won't say most many coaches are doing what
• 28:28
  Speaker 4: mike mcdonald's doing just saying fine we'll do our evaluation
• 28:32
  Speaker 4: of the starters and getting them ready for the season
• 28:35
  Speaker 4: and practices and joint practices and we won't do it
• 28:37
  Speaker 4: in the games and yeah it is odd it's odd
• 28:41
  Speaker 4: to say the least i wrote the news tribune story
• 28:43
  Speaker 4: at the news tribune.com about Jadarian Price will not have
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: played from the final game of Notre Dame season, November
• 28:49
  Speaker 4: 29th at Stanford, when he had six carries for 15
• 28:52
  Speaker 4: yards until September 9th in the Seahawks NFL kickoff game
• 28:56
  Speaker 4: against New England. Remember, Notre Dame opted out of a
• 28:59
  Speaker 4: bowl game because they were mad they didn't get in
• 29:01
  Speaker 4: the playoff. So his play, his off from his last
• 29:05
  Speaker 4: college game is more than most. But that's the situation
• 29:09
  Speaker 4: they're in at running back. They just do not want
• 29:11
  Speaker 4: to risk anything remotely close to to an injury at
• 29:15
  Speaker 4: that position anymore. They're even putting George Helani under bubble wrap.
• 29:17
  Speaker 4: You're going to see a lot of Jadarian or Jakarta.
• 29:20
  Speaker 5: You're right.
• 29:21
  Speaker 4: As you did in Tennessee, you're going to see even
• 29:22
  Speaker 4: more than probably though. It's Jones jr. They brought back
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: Justin Jones who they had earlier in training camp. He'll
• 29:28
  Speaker 4: probably get 10 plus carries tonight. And everyone will say,
• 29:31
  Speaker 4: who's Justin. That's where they're at at running back. And,
• 29:35
  Speaker 4: but yes, Jadarian price will be the starting running back.
• 29:40
  Speaker 4: week one. That's why he's getting the bubble wrap treatment.
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 29:42
  Speaker 4: Jalen, Jalen Miller is going to play the whole pre
• 29:46
  Speaker 4: preseason game tonight. Just like he did the third preseason
• 29:48
  Speaker 4: game at green Bay last year. I heard you mentioning
• 29:52
  Speaker 4: how he's going to get bludgeoned behind guys who may
• 29:55
  Speaker 4: not even be in the NFL on the offensive line
• 29:58
  Speaker 4: a day later. And some of that's true, but some
• 30:00
  Speaker 4: of that, the coaches also want to see how he
• 30:02
  Speaker 4: reacts to that because that's been his problem is how
• 30:06
  Speaker 4: he throws and makes decisions under pressure in the league.
• 30:10
  Speaker 4: And he was not good at it again last week,
• 30:12
  Speaker 4: held the ball on a fourth down, a couple of
• 30:14
  Speaker 4: interceptions when the passes were thrown behind receivers. He doesn't
• 30:18
  Speaker 4: get a chance in practices when he looks good in practice.
• 30:21
  Speaker 4: He didn't get a chance to get hit and under
• 30:23
  Speaker 4: physical and mental strain of a guy coming at him
• 30:26
  Speaker 4: at 250 pounds. And that's what's going to be tonight
• 30:28
  Speaker 4: for him.
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: Do head coaches still value preseason? I mean, am I
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: being foolish when I say it feels like they don't anymore?
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: It feels like we're not going to ever play a starter,
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: and now it feels like they're not even going to
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: really play backups because they don't want to risk. It
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: feels to me like they don't even want to play
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: these games. Does Mike McDonald, how much does he truly
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: value these preseason games?
• 30:54
  Speaker 4: He values it for the things that are almost everything
• 30:56
  Speaker 4: but the performing on the field during a game. He
• 30:59
  Speaker 4: values it for them traveling to Tennessee and then staying
• 31:02
  Speaker 4: in a hotel and the process of going from the
• 31:05
  Speaker 4: hotel to the stadium and the warm-up procedure. The starters,
• 31:08
  Speaker 4: probably like they did in Tennessee tonight, will all be
• 31:10
  Speaker 4: in full pads pregame. They'll all be doing a normal
• 31:13
  Speaker 4: pregame routine. They'll get used to going out later than
• 31:16
  Speaker 4: they did in McDonald's first year. Last year, McDonald's changed
• 31:20
  Speaker 4: when they go out for preseason or pregame warm-ups. They
• 31:23
  Speaker 4: study NBA teams. And they found that NBA teams that
• 31:28
  Speaker 4: won more came out on the floor later and did
• 31:31
  Speaker 4: more intense workouts but a shorter period of time right
• 31:34
  Speaker 4: before tip-off. And they've studied this stuff. And they have
• 31:38
  Speaker 4: numbers to back it up. And so now the pregame
• 31:40
  Speaker 4: routine for the Seahawks is different than a lot of
• 31:42
  Speaker 4: NFL teams. They come out later. They practice shorter and
• 31:45
  Speaker 4: more intensely. They run ones versus ones a little bit.
• 31:50
  Speaker 4: It's different. And then McDonald wants players who've been at–
• 31:53
  Speaker 4: for Von Diggs, for instance, wants– He's been with Dallas
• 31:56
  Speaker 4: and Green Bay. He wants them used to Seattle's pregame routine.
• 31:59
  Speaker 4: So there are things like that. That's not what fans
• 32:02
  Speaker 4: watch when they tune in when the ball gets kicked off.
• 32:05
  Speaker 4: And that's why a lot of people don't see what
• 32:07
  Speaker 4: the other coaches see as the value of it. There's
• 32:09
  Speaker 4: a game planning component. They don't game plan in the
• 32:12
  Speaker 4: sense that they're going against their opponent, but they have
• 32:14
  Speaker 4: to put in a game plan of what plays they're
• 32:15
  Speaker 4: going to run. And they want that routine as well.
• 32:18
  Speaker 4: So there's some fringe value, I would call it, to
• 32:21
  Speaker 4: these games.
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: Greg Bell is with us, our Seahawks insider from the
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: airport here this morning on his way to Kansas City
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: for the final preseason tune-up against the Kansas City Chiefs.
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: So what is at stake? What's on the line? I mean,
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: as you can read the tea leaves, I mean, who's
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: battling for a final roster spot here? I mean, it
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: can't be 15 guys. It's probably a handful of two, three, four,
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: five guys that that can earn something tonight. As you
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: can read it, what are those battles?
• 32:57
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you're right. It's only about a half dozen at most.
• 33:00
  Speaker 4: McDonald's still trying to figure out the third quarterback situation.
• 33:03
  Speaker 4: And the fact that he's playing Trevon Diggs, a seventh-year veteran,
• 33:06
  Speaker 4: a former All-Pro in this game, tells you he wants
• 33:09
  Speaker 4: to see Diggs on the field in a game situation
• 33:12
  Speaker 4: and see if he's ready to jump right in as
• 33:14
  Speaker 4: the third corner week one on September 9th. So Diggs
• 33:18
  Speaker 4: will get a run tonight. It'll be with guys that
• 33:20
  Speaker 4: he probably wouldn't play with during the regular season. Matter
• 33:22
  Speaker 4: of fact, it will be with guys he won't play with.
• 33:24
  Speaker 4: But Diggs just signed last week. He's only had four
• 33:27
  Speaker 4: practices since January. So he's going to play. And if
• 33:32
  Speaker 4: they feel comfortable with him and they feel like he's
• 33:34
  Speaker 4: in football shape, the tea leaves are that he's going
• 33:37
  Speaker 4: to be in the third corner with Witherspoon and Joe
• 33:39
  Speaker 4: week one, Trevon Diggs. They have not been satisfied with
• 33:43
  Speaker 4: what they've seen with Nehemiah Pritchett. They've not been satisfied
• 33:46
  Speaker 4: with a scene with Noah and not me as the
• 33:49
  Speaker 4: third corner. If they did, they wouldn't have been going
• 33:52
  Speaker 4: after Tara and Arnold or would never have signed Trevon
• 33:55
  Speaker 4: Diggs to begin with. Who's going to be the running
• 33:57
  Speaker 4: backs behind Helani and price. It's obvious that they're going
• 34:01
  Speaker 4: to need at least two, three, probably four or five
• 34:04
  Speaker 4: by the time the season's over, but more running backs.
• 34:07
  Speaker 4: I'm with you. They're going to sign maybe even three
• 34:10
  Speaker 4: running backs off the waiver wire and from Sunday to Monday. Uh,
• 34:13
  Speaker 4: that just seems like experience that they don't have right
• 34:16
  Speaker 4: now that they can get off the waiver wire from
• 34:19
  Speaker 4: other teams. They need depth on the offensive defensive lines.
• 34:23
  Speaker 4: Brandon Peely looks like his one, the backup nose tackle spot.
• 34:27
  Speaker 4: If you still call Byron Murphy, a nose tackle, he
• 34:29
  Speaker 4: moves all up and down the line. Now I asked
• 34:32
  Speaker 4: the question about this. You say, Oh, so say I'm
• 34:34
  Speaker 4: all the undrafted rookie that's featured on hard knocks, playing
• 34:38
  Speaker 4: on the guitar and singing no woman, no cry. they
• 34:42
  Speaker 4: hard knocks have tried to calm onto him as a
• 34:45
  Speaker 4: long shot. And the answer that the coach gave me
• 34:48
  Speaker 4: suggests he's not going to make the team and he's
• 34:50
  Speaker 4: going to come back and try to be on the
• 34:52
  Speaker 4: practice squad. And then he went into this whole 70
• 34:55
  Speaker 4: man instead of 53 reps. So it doesn't look like
• 34:58
  Speaker 4: say a model is going to make it, which means
• 34:59
  Speaker 4: Peely's the backup nose tackle this special teams positions. Jay
• 35:05
  Speaker 4: Harbaugh is going to be watching the kicking game plays
• 35:07
  Speaker 4: to see who maybe the extra receiver is going to be.
• 35:10
  Speaker 4: Cody white didn't help himself. muffling a punt last week,
• 35:13
  Speaker 4: but they know he can perform and has scored NFL
• 35:15
  Speaker 4: touchdowns and real games for them. Whose spot does Montori
• 35:18
  Speaker 4: Foster take? Cause he's making the team. It's probably Jake
• 35:22
  Speaker 4: Bobo's injured reserve spot, but how many other receivers are
• 35:25
  Speaker 4: going to keep Emmanuel Henderson jr. Who they drafted to
• 35:28
  Speaker 4: be a gunner this year's draft out of Kansas. Is
• 35:32
  Speaker 4: he going to make the team straight out of the gunners?
• 35:34
  Speaker 4: They got to pass them through waivers and bring them
• 35:36
  Speaker 4: up from the practice squad to do that role. I
• 35:38
  Speaker 4: think Henderson's probably going to make the team as a
• 35:39
  Speaker 4: sixth wide receiver. So it's those type of not frontliners. No.
• 35:45
  Speaker 4: And that's why fans are like what this game is about.
• 35:47
  Speaker 4: But the coaches get paid to coach all 53, all
• 35:50
  Speaker 4: 70 guys. They don't just get paid to coach the starters.
• 35:53
  Speaker 7: Right.
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: Greg Bell, our Seahawks insider, with us here this morning.
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: Leonard Williams, big deal yesterday. I think you had hinted
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: that maybe he would be staring at the end of
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: his career, that maybe he's had enough of the National
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: Football League, he's accomplished enough, and that fatherhood... um might
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: send him to an earlier retirement with uh with plenty
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: of gas left in the tank but he's going to
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: play at least three more years uh so what do
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: you now read into this agreement between the hawks and
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: leonard williams yesterday.
• 36:28
  Speaker 4: That he loves the environment he loves what mike mcdonald's
• 36:31
  Speaker 4: doing that he's still very healthy but you're right i
• 36:34
  Speaker 4: thought maybe fatherhood changes people in all kinds of ways
• 36:37
  Speaker 4: and some guys are like this is completely different to
• 36:40
  Speaker 4: me now and i don't know if it's worth it
• 36:42
  Speaker 4: or i need to do this anymore But no doubt,
• 36:45
  Speaker 4: he sees himself as at least three more. I asked specifically,
• 36:48
  Speaker 4: because at one point yesterday, he said year to year.
• 36:50
  Speaker 4: I said, wait a minute, he signed a three-year deal.
• 36:52
  Speaker 4: Do you think it's going to really be three more years?
• 36:54
  Speaker 4: He goes, what I meant to say is contract to contract.
• 36:57
  Speaker 4: So he intends it to at least be this three-year deal.
• 37:00
  Speaker 4: He's going to be 35 years old when this contract ends.
• 37:04
  Speaker 4: I'm sure I haven't seen the exact contract details, but
• 37:07
  Speaker 4: 56 million guaranteed. Most of that guaranteed money is probably
• 37:10
  Speaker 4: up front the way John Schneider does it. A lot
• 37:13
  Speaker 4: of the contract's $ 90 million value is probably backloaded, not
• 37:17
  Speaker 4: guaranteed in the final year, so that if he or
• 37:19
  Speaker 4: the team see a decline or him not wanting to
• 37:22
  Speaker 4: play anymore, they can get out from under without a
• 37:24
  Speaker 4: lot of guaranteed money left to eat. That's how Snyder does.
• 37:27
  Speaker 4: That's how most teams do it. But no doubt, he
• 37:31
  Speaker 4: has been revived and reformed by coming to Seattle. He
• 37:33
  Speaker 4: talked about that. That's what my stories I wrote about
• 37:36
  Speaker 4: yesterday were. He was holding his baby boy during the
• 37:39
  Speaker 4: press conference. He's a different man than when he came
• 37:42
  Speaker 4: here in 2023. He wasn't married then. He wasn't a father.
• 37:44
  Speaker 4: And that's why I thought maybe he would give some
• 37:47
  Speaker 4: pause in thinking about this. But the fact that he's
• 37:49
  Speaker 4: so healthy, he says, and revived and loves the environment,
• 37:53
  Speaker 4: playing well in a prominent role and a Super Bowl champion.
• 37:56
  Speaker 4: That's why he resigned and that's why the Seahawks wanted him.
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: What a hole he would leave if he was gone
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: next year.
• 38:03
  Speaker 4: You know what's funny about Medchuk is that when he
• 38:05
  Speaker 4: arrived in the middle of the 2023 season, people were saying,
• 38:09
  Speaker 4: why did they get an extra defensive line? This isn't
• 38:11
  Speaker 4: a position of need. Why did we create top draft
• 38:13
  Speaker 4: picks for Leonard Williams? Leonard Williams was thinking of quitting
• 38:16
  Speaker 4: in New York. Why are we doing it? And you're right.
• 38:19
  Speaker 4: Now he would get a massive void if he left.
• 38:21
  Speaker 4: And yes, not to mention the fact that Marcus Lawrence
• 38:25
  Speaker 4: has already declared this is the final season for him. Yeah,
• 38:29
  Speaker 4: they now need Leonard Williams.
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: Do you and Vinod, are you going to just sit
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: around talking Steelers football all the time? What's the deal
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: with that little part of that story?
• 38:40
  Speaker 4: I think I'm the only one in Seattle that appreciated that.
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you're the only one.
• 38:47
  Speaker 4: His son, based on facial expressions, his son didn't appreciate
• 38:51
  Speaker 4: that either. I think his son, Neil, was realizing that
• 38:55
  Speaker 4: wasn't the time or place to reveal that. But he
• 38:57
  Speaker 4: was trying to say that he's been around, at least
• 39:00
  Speaker 4: cared about the NFL or paid attention to the NFL
• 39:03
  Speaker 4: since 1976. And let's face it, if you're coming to
• 39:05
  Speaker 4: this country in 1976 and you see this sport that
• 39:08
  Speaker 4: is so hugely popular, the team you're going to like,
• 39:11
  Speaker 4: if you don't have any other allegiance, they were the Steelers.
• 39:14
  Speaker 4: That was part of their four Super Bowl champions in
• 39:16
  Speaker 4: six years. They were always on Monday Night Football. They
• 39:19
  Speaker 4: were always in the playoff. If you didn't have any
• 39:22
  Speaker 4: other team to like and you come here from India,
• 39:24
  Speaker 4: of course you'd like to stay. That makes sense. Maybe
• 39:26
  Speaker 4: not describing that at the Seahawks introductory press conference. as
• 39:30
  Speaker 4: new owners, but yeah, hats off to him. He's got taste.
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, he's got taste. Yeah, well, I can speak
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: on that. I mean, I'm in Illinois, and we had
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: a football team, the St. Louis Cardinals back then. And
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: there weren't many Cardinal fans in my grade school classrooms.
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: It was all Steelers fans or Cowboys fans in the 70s.
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: In my neighborhood alone, there were like three Steelers fans,
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: two Cowboys fans amongst my friends in the neighborhood, and
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: no Cardinals fans. Right, right.
• 40:02
  Speaker 4: I get it. I don't think Jim Hart's dad was
• 40:04
  Speaker 4: a Cardinals fan back then. It was Steelers fans. Cowboys, Raiders,
• 40:11
  Speaker 4: and Dolphins, because those are the ones who've always been
• 40:13
  Speaker 4: winning the Super Bowls back then.
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: All right, so I take it you're not doing your
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: show today.
• 40:19
  Speaker 4: I am not. Mike Benton, the captain, is going to
• 40:21
  Speaker 4: be in it. Why not? We just announced an extension
• 40:23
  Speaker 4: of our multi-year agreement with the Kraken to be their
• 40:25
  Speaker 4: radio partner. Ryan Stilbros is going to be on the show.
• 40:29
  Speaker 4: He's going to be on Apple TV's broadcast. He's the
• 40:32
  Speaker 4: color analyst, former Major League player tonight on Blue Jays, Mariners.
• 40:35
  Speaker 4: So yes, Mariners fans, you can't watch Aaron Goldsmith and
• 40:39
  Speaker 4: the gang on Mariners TV tonight for the Mariners Blue Jays.
• 40:42
  Speaker 4: I'm sure that's good news for everybody.
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: Well, I don't know. What do you mean by that?
• 40:50
  Speaker 4: Well, you take that as however you want. It's on
• 40:53
  Speaker 4: Apple TV tonight.
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: Okay. All right, man. Well, safe travels. We'll talk to
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: you on Monday, hopefully. And then, yeah, well, have a
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: good time in KC.
• 41:05
  Speaker 4: Thank you. It'll be short. Yeah, we'll have a 53-man
• 41:07
  Speaker 4: roster and an opener to talk about Monday.
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: Perfect. All right. Greg Bell, our Seahawks insider, joining us
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: right here on Chuck in the Mornings, Sports Radio 93.3
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: KJR FM. And, of course, if you want to follow Greg,
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: do so at gbellseattle on X. The News Tribune's waiting
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: for you to get your subscription at thenewstribune.com. And then
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: every day, nearly every day, during the football season, 7-0-5,
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: Greg is our guest to tell us the latest news.
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: with the Seahawks. And so that's brought to you by
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: the Emerald Queen Casino. I'm not sure I heard that
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: the right way. I think I tuned out a little bit.
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: Did you just take a shot at Aaron Gold?
• 41:42
  Speaker 6: That's how I took.
• 41:45
  Speaker 4: It.
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: He really is a man that does not like analytics.
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: Not in his baseball, he doesn't. And then I followed
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: up like, did I hear that the right way? Take
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: it however you want.
• 41:59
  Speaker 3: And then he doubled down. You can watch it on
• 42:02
  Speaker 3: Apple TV. So I think we took it the way
• 42:03
  Speaker 3: it was intended to be taken.
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: I think so. I think so.
• 42:07
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: Coming up next, speaking of that series, I provide a
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: little bit of a service before every series, and that's
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: to take a look at the opponent. And usually I'll
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: throw it at a 45. We'll just do a good
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: four or five-minute breakdown. But this game, this series feels
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: pretty important, and this opponent... Well, they can bite our ass.
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: The Toronto Blue Jays will preview it next. Sports Radio
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: 93.3 KJRFM. You up for two breakfasts? You ever eat
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: two breakfasts in one day?
• 42:34
  Speaker 6: I mean, I haven't, but I wouldn't say no. I'm
• 42:36
  Speaker 6: sure I have at some point.
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah. And yeah.
• 42:39
  Speaker 6: I'll say heck yeah.
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: I think I've done it a lot lately now that
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: I think about it.
• 42:46
  Speaker 6: Okay.
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I'm like a hobbit, I guess. I think there
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: was a line in there. It was like, when's second breakfast? Yeah.
• 42:54
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: So I need a second breakfast. We might do a
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: second breakfast today. We shall see. So that's coming up
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: here at 645 or 745, I should say. But right now,
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: let's give you a little bit of a preview of
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: service that we provide here in the mornings as we
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: start a brand new series for the Mariners. And obviously,
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: all these series are important the rest of the way.
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: Jays this weekend, then we have the Red Sox, and
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: then the schedule actually gets light on paper. Anyway, so
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: the gauntlet has just these six games remaining. The gauntlet
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: that we've talked about with Boston coming up and Toronto
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: this weekend, just tough, tough, tough, tough competition here for
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: the last three, three and a half weeks solid that
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: the Mariners have had to face. And they've kept their
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: nose above water to this point. I mean, maybe not
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: record wise since they are still so far below 500,
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: but at least they've remained in the race for the
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: American League West. And the Blue Jays have actually had
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: very similar season to the Mariners. I mean, I say
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: this all the time. I know it makes people cringe,
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: but baseball is weird. And sometimes this just this crap happens.
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: I don't know why it happens more routinely to the Mariners,
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: but certainly it happens to a lot of teams. These
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: are the two teams that met in the American League
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: Championship Series. And it's not like the winner, Toronto, went
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: on and got embarrassed in the World Series. They came
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: within a cleat of winning the World Series over the
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: mighty Los Angeles Dodgers and Shohei Ohtani. That's how close
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: they came. The length of a cleat on the sole
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: of Isaiah Kiner-Falefa's shoe from winning the World Series over
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: the Los Angeles Dodgers. And this year, Much like the Mariners,
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: they haven't been able to find the formula for success.
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: This is crazy what I'm going to tell you. The
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: two worst offenses in baseball played in the American League
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: Championship Series last year. 11 months ago, Toronto and Seattle
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: were battling it out for the American League Championship. And
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: now here we sit. At the end of August 2026,
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: and the two lowest scoring teams in the sport are
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: the Toronto Blue Jays and the Seattle Mariners.
• 45:15
  Speaker 6: That's crazy.
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: Help me figure that out.
• 45:18
  Speaker 8: I can't.
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: They are also 28th and 30th in OPS. Toronto is
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: 30th in on-base percentage so far this season. And the
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: biggest reason, because you hear that and you're like, well, well, well,
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: if you haven't been paying attention, they must have had
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: just a bunch of injuries.
• 45:35
  Speaker 4: No. No.
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: No, they've got their own Cal Raleigh this year. Vladimir
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: Guerrero Jr. has not been the same player. He might
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: be even more mysterious than Cal because we've watched Cal.
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: We know kind of what he was failing at earlier
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: this year, but he's still closing in on 20 home
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: runs for the season. I mean, that's still his identity
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: as a hitter is to hit for power. Vladimir Guerrero Jr.
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: has seven home runs this year. Seven. Now, he missed
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: 10 games. He was on a 10-day IL once, and
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: he missed exactly 10 games. But he is at seven
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: home runs. And I quiz you. I don't expect you
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: to know.
• 46:18
  Speaker 6: Okay, good.
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: How many home runs do you think Vladimir Guerrero Jr.
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: has hit at home this year? The home ballpark. Rogers Center,
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: known for offense.
• 46:27
  Speaker 3: I was going to say, yeah, there's a lot of
• 46:28
  Speaker 3: home runs that get hit there, so I'd say all seven.
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: Zero.
• 46:31
  Speaker 5: What?
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: Vladimir Guerrero Jr. has had a healthy season this year
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: and has not hit a home run at home the
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: entire season.
• 46:40
  Speaker 6: I hope that continues.
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: Well, yeah, of course. But, I mean, if that is
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: just not gobsmacked, that can't possibly be true. I mean,
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: it's the same thing with Cal Raleigh. It's the same
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: way we feel about Cal Raleigh or somebody that, you know,
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: In another city that was sure Cal Raleigh had broken
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: into superstardom this past year and maybe tuned in to
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: watch a Mariner game and hadn't been paying all that
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: close attention, maybe knew that Cal wasn't having as good
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: a year, but was like, wait a minute, am I
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: seeing that right? Is he hitting 156? It's July. Somebody
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: would have gone through that experience with Cal. This is
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: the same kind of statistic where you're like, Vladimir Guerrero Jr.
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: has seven home runs. How much of the season has
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: he missed? No, he's just not hitting for power this
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: year for some inexplicable reason. And it's not like he's old.
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: He has just shown up this year and cannot figure
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: out how to hit a home run. Now we knock
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: on wood because we're facing him this weekend and we
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: don't want to see him have a revival weekend. Like
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: Cal had a revival series, um, against the Philadelphia Phillies.
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: We don't, We don't need that in our lives. But nonetheless,
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: I'm just stating it to illustrate baseball can be just bizarre.
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: Sometimes it just can make no sense. And this certainly
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: falls under that category. Vladimir Guerrero Jr. has not hit
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: a home run at home this year.
• 48:03
  Speaker 6: That is shocking, honestly.
• 48:05
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 48:06
  Speaker 6: Shocking.
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: 260 batting average, 351 slugging percentage.
• 48:11
  Speaker 7: Slug.
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: A 684... OPS, like 700's an okay player. You're having
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: an okay season at 700. He's a 684. Man, it's unreal.
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: Some other things about this team. Now, pitching-wise, similar statistically
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: as well in terms of runs allowed. But, man, you
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: lose 22-0 and 19-2. It sure does skew your pitching statistics.
• 48:37
  Speaker 6: Sure does.
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: We have to count Weston Wilson, Leo Rivas, and Johnny Pareda.
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: into our pitcher statistics here. Um, so we've plummeted. We were,
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: we've been top five starting pitching ERA practically the entire season.
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: We're 13th because of those two stupid games.
• 48:54
  Speaker 6: Oh gosh.
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah. And so we've fallen, uh, the blue Jays are
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: at 11 right now. So overall statistically, it's pretty even offensively,
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: both terrible, uh, and pretty even in terms of run prevention,
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: both according to the overall numbers, Midland, but we know better.
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: We do have better pitching, but we won't tonight. They're
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: going to throw Dylan Cease, who could win the American
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: League Cy Young. Award. They're going to throw Jose Soriano tomorrow.
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: I mean, we've had some pretty good luck avoiding some
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: of the best pitchers in series so far this season.
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: We're not going to this weekend. They're two best guys
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: right now because Yassavage is on the I.L., are Cease
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: and Soriano, and they're both going to pitch in the
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: first two games. And then we face Max Scherzer and
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: his weird eyes on Sunday.
• 49:43
  Speaker 6: He's got such strange eyes.
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: And he always does well against us, no matter what.
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: He could give up 11 runs the previous outing.
• 49:50
  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah.
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: And for whatever reason, he always seems to hang in
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: there with us. Maybe it's because we have the worst
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: offense in baseball.
• 49:58
  Speaker 6: It might have something to do with it.
• 50:00
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: And in terms of something to play for, both teams
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: will have something to play for. As painfully disappointing as
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: this season has been for both participants of the American
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: League Championship Series a year ago, they're 65-60, a half
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: game better right now than the M's. But they only
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: have one race that they're alive in, and that's the
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: wild card race, where the Mariners are alive, obviously, in
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: the divisional race, despite the Blue Jays having a half
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: game lead over Seattle in the wildcard standings. They trail
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: their division leader by 15 games, where the Mariners, as
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: you know, trail the Astros by only three. So they'll
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: both have stuff to play for, no question, this weekend.
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: But the Mariners, you know, hopefully bring a little bit
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: of a sharper edge. They're going to have to because,
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: you know, if we can get through this gauntlet, let's
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: say three and three for the next six games, stay
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: within three three games.
• 51:01
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: And then you've got the competition softens immensely because not
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: only does competition soften at the end of the year,
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: but those teams are even softer than they were earlier
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: in the year because they've already started kind of looking
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: forward to the following season. They've called up younger players
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: and things of that nature. And so you should be
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: in good position to make up whatever ground you trail
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: by and once you're through this series, but I certainly
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: don't want it to be more than three games. No,
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: thank you. I'll take four and two. I guess I'll
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: live with three and three, but if you can go
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: four and two for these next six games, I think
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: we'll probably be sitting there two, three games out of
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: the division with a really light schedule the rest of
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: the way, and I think you're feeling really good about
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: things by next Thursday, but we'll see.
• 51:52
  Speaker 6: I think especially after that last road trip.
• 51:54
  Speaker 3: Yeah, if you can win this road trip versus what
• 51:57
  Speaker 3: happened last time, yeah, I'd feel real good about it.
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah. All right, coming up next, it's Reckless at Breakfast.
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: First serving, anyway. Sports Radio 93.3 KJR FM.
• 52:07
  Speaker 5: It's time for the Ocho. The best 12 minutes of
• 52:12
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• 52:15
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• 52:18
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• 52:20
  Speaker 1: 8 o'clock hour here on this Friday morning. Great to
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: have you with us. I think we're going to get
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: like a little bit of rain. the next couple of days.
• 52:31
  Speaker 6: That's what I've seen.
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: Which I think is great.
• 52:33
  Speaker 4: Yep.
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: Been way overdue.
• 52:34
  Speaker 3: When we landed at SeaTac the other day, I looked
• 52:36
  Speaker 3: out the window, and I was like, I don't think
• 52:38
  Speaker 3: we're in Seattle.
• 52:39
  Speaker 6: That is the brownest grass I've ever seen.
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's brown. It's real brown. I go out to
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: the park, and you take a step near the baseball fields,
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: and dirt just flies up. Oh, yeah. We could use
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: a little bit of that, so hopefully we get a
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: little bit today. Not a lot. We don't need a lot. No,
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: I don't need it.
• 52:56
  Speaker 3: I don't want it to like take away. But I mean,
• 52:58
  Speaker 3: at the same time, I wouldn't mind like a rainy day.
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: I just don't want a rain delay tonight for the
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: Rainiers game.
• 53:06
  Speaker 6: No, not that. No, I don't think it's supposed to
• 53:09
  Speaker 6: rain until later tonight.
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 53:11
  Speaker 3: And then I don't want it to rain tomorrow because
• 53:13
  Speaker 3: I have to go to a beach party.
• 53:14
  Speaker 6: So that won't be fun.
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: So we can just schedule it.
• 53:17
  Speaker 6: Yeah, but Sunday, I could go for a rainy Sunday.
• 53:19
  Speaker 7: Oh, sure.
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: Let's do a rainy Sunday.
• 53:21
  Speaker 6: Yeah, we'll have some early Mariners baseball.
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, great morning to you all. Happy Friday to
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: you all. We've got your eight top stories of the day.
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: Recapping what turned out to be a pretty busy week
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: and getting you set for a busy weekend as well.
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: There is a lot to turn our attention to. And
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: we will begin the Ocho, your eight top stories of
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: the day, by talking about game day. Seahawks at Chiefs
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: tonight in Kansas City, 5 o'clock kickoff. And this will
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: close out the preseason, thanks goodness. Seahawks starters will not
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: have played a single snap of the preseason once it
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: comes to a close. Tonight, Jalen Milrow is really the
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: big story. He is going to be asked for a
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: second year in a row in the third and final
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: preseason game to play quarterback for all four quarters. And
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: you wonder how much of it he will spend being
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: chased down by all of the Rudy Rudigers left in
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: the National Football League. Here is Greg Bell with us
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: earlier today talking about Milrow playing the entire game.
• 54:23
  Speaker 4: Jalen Milrow is going to play the whole preseason game tonight,
• 54:25
  Speaker 4: just like he did the third preseason game at Green
• 54:27
  Speaker 4: Bay last year. I heard you mentioning how he's going
• 54:31
  Speaker 4: to get bludgeoned behind guys who may not even be
• 54:33
  Speaker 4: in the NFL on the offensive line a day later.
• 54:38
  Speaker 4: And some of that's true, but some of that, the
• 54:39
  Speaker 4: coaches also want to see how he reacts to that.
• 54:42
  Speaker 4: Because that's been his problem, is how he throws and
• 54:45
  Speaker 4: makes decisions under pressure in the league. And he was
• 54:49
  Speaker 4: not good at it again last week, held the ball
• 54:51
  Speaker 4: on a fourth down, a couple interceptions when the passes
• 54:54
  Speaker 4: were thrown behind receivers. He doesn't get a chance in
• 54:57
  Speaker 4: practices when he looks good in practice. He doesn't get
• 55:00
  Speaker 4: a chance to get hit. And under physical and mental
• 55:03
  Speaker 4: strain of a guy coming at him at 250 pounds,
• 55:05
  Speaker 4: that's what's going to be tonight for him.
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: So, yes, that's the key attraction, the marquee attraction, I suppose.
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: Also with Greg, we talked about just how many roster
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: spots are on the line tonight. And I think a
• 55:20
  Speaker 1: pretty safe estimate is maybe two to three with, you know,
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: four to six guys vying for the last couple roster
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: spots here. heading into the brand new season. And of course,
• 55:31
  Speaker 1: there are going to be some guys that are going
• 55:33
  Speaker 1: to be cut eventually. We'll talk about that more in
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: a moment. But you're also playing for practice squad spots
• 55:39
  Speaker 1: to keep that dream alive. So there'll be some stuff
• 55:43
  Speaker 1: on the line. But we're going to get to the
• 55:45
  Speaker 1: end of three preseason games. And not a single starter
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: will have taken a snap, including Jadarian Price, a rookie
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: that you know you're a little curious about. Not just
• 55:55
  Speaker 1: because he had the injury, but because you've not yet
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: seen him run behind your offensive line for a meaningful snap.
• 56:03
  Speaker 1: But Ashley? Mike McDonald is following the path of Sean
• 56:07
  Speaker 1: McVay and others, and we just are watering down the
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: amount starters are playing more and more and more every year.
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: And the Seahawks have gotten to the point where not
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: only are we not playing our starters, my guess is
• 56:18
  Speaker 1: they're not even going to expose backups tonight after what
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: happened to Jake Bobo, Bud Clark, and Mason Richmond last week. So...
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: I think that's where we're at right now. It's just
• 56:31
  Speaker 1: third stringers for four straight quarters charge full amount for
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: tickets to get into the game. And hello, NFL preseason 2026.
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: That's what it feels like.
• 56:41
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 56:41
  Speaker 3: And it's just what a showcase for guys who might
• 56:43
  Speaker 3: not make this team to hopefully get picked up by
• 56:45
  Speaker 3: another team or get, you know, land somewhere.
• 56:47
  Speaker 6: It, It's just, it's Lester.
• 56:50
  Speaker 3: I was thinking back how it used to be where
• 56:52
  Speaker 3: it was the third preseason game was the one where
• 56:54
  Speaker 3: you saw your starters play the most.
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: Right?
• 56:57
  Speaker 6: And that was the one you looked forward to.
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: And then you wouldn't play them in the fourth.
• 57:00
  Speaker 3: And then they wouldn't play in the fourth. Yeah, but
• 57:01
  Speaker 3: the third, it was the, it'd ramp up. You'd play
• 57:03
  Speaker 3: a little bit, a little bit. Then they played the
• 57:05
  Speaker 3: most in the third and that was the one you
• 57:06
  Speaker 3: cared about. And then you had a break right before
• 57:08
  Speaker 3: the season started. And then, and now it's like this,
• 57:12
  Speaker 3: I couldn't, I, this, I couldn't care less. I couldn't
• 57:17
  Speaker 3: care less.
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: Which you would think Would set off alarms for the
• 57:21
  Speaker 1: National Football League. I do think they will change it eventually.
• 57:24
  Speaker 1: We're going to get into that at 8.30. But for now,
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: we have a third preseason game to get through. And
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: I think that's the way we kind of feel about it.
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: And I don't blame Mike McDonald, by the way. I
• 57:38
  Speaker 1: think he's doing the right thing by not exposing anyone
• 57:42
  Speaker 1: at this stage. But it's a lot to put into
• 57:45
  Speaker 1: a game just to determine... the last couple roster spots.
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: That's a lot to pour in onto a football field.
• 57:54
  Speaker 1: That's a lot of preparation and all that sort of
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: thing just to figure out the last two roster spots,
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: which you've probably figured out anyway.
• 58:01
  Speaker 3: Well, and it's just interesting, too, because we were comparing
• 58:03
  Speaker 3: it a little bit to the college game, right, and
• 58:04
  Speaker 3: that they don't have any preseason. And, yeah, you get to,
• 58:07
  Speaker 3: as Greg mentioned, have the advantage of that you get
• 58:09
  Speaker 3: to go on the trip and you get to prepare
• 58:11
  Speaker 3: for that. But college teams manage to do that just
• 58:14
  Speaker 3: fine without having an extra two or three trips to prepare.
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I truly feel it's unnecessary. I do believe that
• 58:22
  Speaker 1: it won't be around. Any preseason at all won't be
• 58:24
  Speaker 1: around soon. We're going to talk about that at 8.30.
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: Kickoff from Kansas City tonight at 5 o'clock. Hugh Millen
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: with X's and O's at 9 o'clock today. And certainly
• 58:34
  Speaker 1: one of the things that we'll discuss with our QB1,
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: Leonard Williams' three-year $ 90 million extension that he received yesterday
• 58:41
  Speaker 1: as the Seahawks wrap up for the next three seasons.
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: Another member, core member of their foundation. for this championship
• 58:49
  Speaker 1: that they've already achieved. The NFL weekend is a really
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: interesting one, and yes, the preseason games are part of that.
• 58:57
  Speaker 1: For example, the Rams certainly wanted to see their first-round
• 59:01
  Speaker 1: draft pick, the much-criticized first-round draft pick, Ty Simpson, play
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: a little more football, and once again, he impressed. Chargers
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: bring the house. Simpson has to get away.
• 59:12
  Speaker 6: Across his body, end zone.
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: And it's caught. Brennan Presley on the run for the touchdown.
• 59:19
  Speaker 1: Rookie Ty Simpsons had a really good preseason. He was
• 59:22
  Speaker 1: 18 for 23 yesterday in a 2018 win over the Chargers. Now,
• 59:28
  Speaker 1: I didn't watch. I'm sure he was playing second and
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: third stringers, but nonetheless, so was Fernando Mendoza, the top
• 59:34
  Speaker 1: draft pick, and he struggled for a second game in
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: a row, completing just 50% of his passes, and he
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: threw another interception. However, new Raiders head coach Clint Kubiak,
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: we remember him. Hi, Clint. He isn't ruling out Mendoza
• 59:49
  Speaker 1: as the Week 1 starter. I don't know why he's
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: keeping this alive. I mean, you're sitting Kirk Cousins. I'm
• 59:55
  Speaker 1: pretty sure you know Kirk Cousins is going to start,
• 59:59
  Speaker 1: but Clint Kubiak, I think, likes to keep secrets from
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: the media. In all, there are 10 preseason games to
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: be played tonight, each with storylines packed into the thrilling
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 1: I-Sure-Hope-No-One-Gets-Hurt action that we're in store for for the next
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 1: couple of days. The preseason then ends Saturday with two
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 1: final games. And then on Sunday, like I said, this
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: is a pretty interesting NFL weekend. It's cut day on Sunday.
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 1: And that means a lot of players that don't make
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: cuts are going to be available to be grabbed by
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: other teams. So maybe there was too much depth there.
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 1: For the Tennessee Titans at running back, and of course
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 1: the Seahawks have too little depth at running back, and
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 1: so it doesn't mean that that player you pick up
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 1: off the waiver wire couldn't be an impact player for you.
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 1: He just may have suffered a numbers crunch in his
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 1: previous city. So every team is going to be ready
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 1: to pounce on waiver players after Sunday's cut, and we
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 1: could end up talking about a couple new players on
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 1: the Seahawks by Monday.
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 3: I will say that is one of the saddest parts, though,
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 3: is the people who make it through the waiver wire
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 3: and then get cut. cut later because somebody else ends
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 3: up available that you know a team didn't expect and
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 3: you think like oh i made it and.
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 6: Then the next day find out oh i didn't make
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 6: it okay cool.
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 1: Uh man i wish i wouldn't have eaten that cake
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 1: mom made me.
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 3: That happened to a friend of mine after college and
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 3: i felt so bad.
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 1: Uh also discipline day is coming as well um that
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 1: corresponds with cut day the national football league is going
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 1: to rule on these josh jacobs puka nakua and some
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 1: other offseason rashid rice Stuff that happened in the offseason.
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 6: Terry and Arnold, too, probably, right?
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 1: Probably not yet. I think they're going to let that
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 1: go through the court system first. But that type of player, certainly.
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: But Josh Jacobs was charged with misdemeanor, battery, and damage
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 1: to property. And though he'll avoid serious punishment, I'm sure,
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 1: in the court of law, doesn't mean the league's not
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: going to suspend him for a game or four. So
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 1: that's going to happen. So for those of you that
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 1: held your fantasy drafts already, that's a mistake. Because we
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 1: might find out Sunday into Monday that a few star players,
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 1: including Puka Nakua, might miss a game or two of
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 1: action because the NFL takes it seriously when you embarrass
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 1: the shield in the offseason more seriously than ever. And
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 1: they will weigh in and they will suspend guys, even
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 1: if the court of law does not punish them beyond
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 1: a slap on the wrist.
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 6: Yeah, just like any employer would.
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: Really?
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 3: I mean, if you embarrass your employer or you do
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 3: something illegal... You run the risk of getting punished at
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 3: your job.
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 1: And then the NFL season begins in 12 days with
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 1: a world champion. Seattle Seahawks hosting the New England Patriots
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 1: on the first ever Wednesday night opener in NFL history.
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 1: As for the college football season, it starts tomorrow. Sorry,
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 1: what did you just say? Yeah, it starts tomorrow. The
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 1: college football season gets going tomorrow. If that catches you
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 1: off guard, you are not alone, people. I was sure
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 1: that it started next week as of yesterday, and I
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 1: am a sports talk show host. I follow sports for
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 1: a living. Pretty much scour sports websites like eight hours
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 1: a day. And yet, Ashley and Anders told me yesterday...
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 1: that it starts tomorrow. Week zero, I think they're still
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 1: calling it?
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 3: I think on ESPN it's listed as week one, so
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 3: I think they maybe got rid of week zero, but.
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 1: I don't know. They were still referring to it as
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 1: such this morning on that same network. But nonetheless, it
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 1: gets going tomorrow. Bill Belichick's North Carolina Tar Heels are
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 1: going to kick off the season against TCU at 9 a.m.
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 1: So we will have real football that counts in the
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 1: standings starting at 9 o'clock tomorrow morning. If you want
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 1: to check out some Big Ten action, USC gets started tomorrow.
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 1: I think they're the only Big Ten team in action tomorrow.
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 6: I believe so.
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 1: Noon kickoff against San Jose State. And maybe the best
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 1: game of the weekend will be an ACC matchup between
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 1: NC State and Virginia. And that starts at 1230. So
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 1: what did you say? Eight, nine games?
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 6: Eight games tomorrow, yeah.
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 1: Eight games tomorrow. And then we are nine days away
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 1: from the Apple Cup. And yes, that's shocking to say.
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 1: Just on its face. It is. For the first time ever,
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 1: the Apple Cup will be played as a season opener.
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 1: For the first time ever, the Apple Cup will be
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 1: played on a Sunday. Jed Fish was with Softie and
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 1: Fane earlier this week and says there is no chance
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 1: the Huskies will be taking the Cougs lightly.
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 7: I don't know.
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 6: I mean, I think that there's something about rivalries, man.
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 7: I'm scared to death.
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 1: I'm with you.
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 3: I look at it as like we're one-on-one since I've
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 3: been here, so that's all I know.
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 6: Good answer, Coach.
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 1: I think that is a good answer. I think some
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 1: people were a little bothered by it, like took it
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 1: as scared to death as taking it out of context
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 1: like he's literally scared to death. But no, he's just
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 1: not going to one ounce take that game like that. No,
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 1: not after what happened in year one. Can you imagine
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 1: starting the season?
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 6: That's the only thing. I mean, people would be pissed.
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 3: You thought that people were mad when Huskies lost to
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 3: Montana or Montana State or whoever it was?
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 6: You lose the season opener to the Cougs, look out.
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, especially when you have high expectations, especially when this
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 1: gap between the programs is really supposed to take hold
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 1: this year since the Cougs are no longer, sadly, in
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 1: the conference anymore. But, yeah, that's the nine days we
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 1: are going to play the AP Cup. If you want
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 1: to hear that entire conversation, it was a great one
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 1: with Softy Dick and Coach Fish. It was earlier in
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 1: the week. I believe it was on Thursday.
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 3: Wednesday.
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 4: Wednesday.
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 1: Was it Wednesday's show? Wednesday's show. Yeah, that's right. That's right,
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 1: because I was driving home from the ballgame. Wednesday's show,
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 1: so you can check it out at 93.3 KJR.com. The
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 1: Mariners will be back in action after a day off yesterday.
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 1: They will be in Toronto taking on the Blue Jays.
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 1: You remember the Blue Jays, right? The American League Championship Series,
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 1: the one that we thought we had thanks to Gino Suarez.
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 1: Another 2-2. That's another fastball. It's driven the other way.
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 1: It's got a chance. It's a grand slam. It was, too.
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 1: Bucky and I embraced.
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 6: I think I hugged everyone.
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was a very... We're supposed to be unbiased
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 1: in the press box, but it was like a hug orgy.
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 3: Impossible not to be.
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 1: Boy, it really felt like we were going to the
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 1: World Series right then, too.
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 6: It really did.
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 3: And listening to that, because I kept all that crowd
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 3: noise for a reason, because I just wanted us to all.
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 6: Sit in it for a minute and remember that moment.
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 1: That was a pretty good call.
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 6: I really hope we get back to the playoffs.
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 1: From a national guy, that was a pretty good call
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 1: of that moment. Pretty good capturing it. A rematch of
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 1: the 2025 ALCS starts tonight, and these two teams are
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 1: so closely matched. They both together decided to grossly underachieve
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 1: this year i mean those are two tightly matched teams
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 1: are they not yeah they meet for the american league
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 1: title one year and then the very next year they're
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 1: like we're in this together right let's suck this season
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 1: for most of the year what do you say and
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 1: they were like.
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 3: You're on and i think they hopefully made an agreement
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 3: to both suck until like September 1st and then Seattle
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 3: was like keeping their fingers crossed behind their back.
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 4: Right, right.
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 6: We're going to stop sucking on the 28th, okay guys?
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 1: We had our fingers crossed the whole time.
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 6: We're only going to suck until the 28th and then
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 6: we're going to kick their asses.
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 1: The Jays actually hold a half-game lead over Seattle in
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 1: the wildcard standings, but we're not really thinking about the wildcard,
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 1: where Toronto has no choice. They trail their division by
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 1: 15 games. The M's trail ours by just three. And
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 1: it could have been two, but the Yankees won't do
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 1: anything to help.
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 6: And you wonder why we don't like you, New York.
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 1: Ah, jerks.
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 6: Don't ask very much of you.
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 1: Yankees had a chance to win two out of three
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 1: from the Astros last night. They had their best pitcher
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 1: on the mound, or at least their most well-known, Garrett Cole,
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 1: taking on the Astros, and the Astros worked them. 5-1
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 1: was the final score, so instead of a two-game deficit
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 1: heading to Canada... to start the series tonight. It's a
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 1: three-game deficit for the Mariners. So here we go. First
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 1: pitch at 4-15 from Toronto tonight. Emerson Hancock. Hey, that's good.
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 1: Feel good about Emerson Hancock starting for the Mariners. He's
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 1: been terrific all season long. Problem is, the Blue Jays
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 1: are starting not only their ace, but maybe the AL's
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 1: ace this year. Cy Young candidate Dylan Cease, who managed
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 1: to blank the Mariners for seven innings on just three
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 1: hits back on July 3rd.
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 4: So....
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 1: People don't like it when I say pitching advantage us,
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 1: pitching advantage them.
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 6: Okay, so let's go kick their butts.
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah, let's go kick their butts. Meanwhile, the Mariners decided
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 1: once again that they're just not in the Geno Suarez business. Yesterday,
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 1: they had an opportunity on the waiver wire to claim
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 1: Geno Suarez and bring this back to Seattle. We all
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 1: miss you. As a musician.
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 6: But also, is it bad that I love that song?
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 1: I think most people like that song. Love Strong.
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 3: I wouldn't mind turning that into our Mariners winning song,
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 3: even though we don't have Gino.
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 1: Maybe we will.
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 6: Because how excited would you be to hear that every day?
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 1: At this point, what do we have to lose?
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 6: We have nothing to lose, Chuck, and everything to gain.
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 1: The Reds made Suarez available on the waiver wire. Whoever
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 1: picked him up was going to have to eat $ 2. 5
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 1: million for the rest of the season for a guy
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 1: that struck out 35% of the time this year, has
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 1: actually been a liability defensively at third base, and unlike
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 1: the previous year, is on pace to like 25 home
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 1: runs instead of being on pace to more than 50
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 1: like he was a year ago. Everybody in the sport
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 1: passed on Geno Suarez yesterday. No one picked him up,
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 1: so he goes back to Cincinnati unless they just want
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 1: to wave him outright to give him a chance to
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 1: get on a playoff roster, and then maybe we go
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 1: through this entire process all over again. But the Mariners
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 1: certainly seemed like the team who should have gone after Geno,
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 1: considering the relationship that the fan base has with them,
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 1: the relationship that the players in the clubhouse have with him.
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 1: the coaching staff has with him, and his 7.05 OPS
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 1: would be the fourth best in our everyday lineup. So
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 1: it's not like he's just done nothing in a Cincinnati
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 1: Reds uniform, but the M's, like everyone else, decided, no,
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 1: we're good. We're good with Weston Wilson.
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. Exactly. So, no Gino Suarez, and I know
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 1: that was a hope of a lot of people yesterday. Finally,
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 1: Sounders are going to be in action against Chicago tomorrow
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 1: at 1.30. Now, this game should be big enough, big
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 1: enough of a deal that the Sounders have got to
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 1: fix things. if they're going to end up in the
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 1: playoffs this year. Well, so happens that they pulled off
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 1: a trade this year, this week, I should say, for
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 1: a player who might change the fortunes of their entire season.
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 1: Forget about just getting into the playoffs. Jackson Feltz was
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 1: telling us yesterday that this player, Deion Jones, Jovalich is
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 1: such a good player that he might instantly turn the
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 1: Sounders back into an MLS Cup champion this year. Here's Jackson.
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 7: He is a top five scorer each season in Major
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 7: League Soccer, whether it's been for Los Angeles. whether it's
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 7: been for Kansas City. This is a top-five offensive threat
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 7: in this league, where when he gets the ball anywhere
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 7: remotely near him, he can score with his right foot,
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 7: he can score with his left foot, he can score
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 7: with his head. He's 5'11, but he plays like he's 6'3.
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 7: He's extremely physical and has so many different dimensions to
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 7: his game. The thing with Jovovich is he instantly takes
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 7: the Sounders from being, I think, a weaker offensive team
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 7: to being an above-average offensive team. It's that dramatic. It's
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 7: one of those moves where kind of what our circles
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 7: of Sounder reporters are sort of saying right now is,
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 7: all right, if Seattle had gotten into the playoffs, if
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 7: they had come back from this long losing streak and
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 7: they had snuck in, yeah, they might be able to
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 7: win a series, but they just don't have the offensive
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 7: horse's to get you any further. And it's gone from
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 7: that to, oh, they could absolutely make MLS Cup. It's
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 7: that dramatic of a shift.
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 1: Wow, listen to that. Jackson Feltz will have the pregame
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 1: tomorrow at 1 o'clock. Match starts at 1.30. Let's get
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 1: a win. Come on now, let's do it for Dayon.
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 6: Yeah, let's do it. Do it for Jackson and Anders.
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 6: They need it, man.
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 1: They really do need it at this point. I mean,
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 1: right now, Anders is suffering through his son being blamed
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 1: for Cal Raleigh's woes.
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 3: Fairly.
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 1: That's hard for a father. Fairly blamed. Barely lame. First
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 1: time father. I heard that Austin Hurst has been pretty
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 1: adamant about this. He's not going to take that insult
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 1: lying down. And he said that while lying down.
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 6: And taking a nap. So he can't take anything he
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 6: says seriously if he can't even sit up.
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 1: I know. Six months old, already ruined in the baseball team.
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 1: All right, finally, I want to mention this as well.
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 1: KJR and the Kraken yesterday renewed their vows, so we
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 1: have extended... Our relationship with the local hockey franchise, that's
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 1: very exciting. I love being a part of the Kraken
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 1: here as a member of KJR. Such great people over
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 1: there and hopefully an improved hockey team this season. But
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 1: even if not, it's just great to be a part
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 1: of that. So I'm glad we were able to renew things.
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 1: I guess the magic's still there. I mean, you always
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 1: had a chance to break up, right? That's true. And
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 1: we just looked in the eyes of one another and
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 1: were like, we are still in love.
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 6: And really more than ever.
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 3: So in love, let's invite our friends to come and
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 3: do this whole thing all over again.
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 1: Mm-hmm.
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 6: Watch us express our love.
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 1: So, yes. Not only are we going to keep the
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 1: marriage going, we decided to have a ceremony and renew
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 1: our vows again. Yeah. Happy to announce it.
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 6: Congratulations.
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 1: All right. Coming up next, when will the NFL kill
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 1: the preseason? I think it's going to happen. Just a
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 1: matter of when. Sports Radio 93.3 KJR FM. Hey, it's
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 1: Chuck and Ashley with you here. We've got X's and
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 1: O's with QB1 Hugh Millen coming up here at 9
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 1: o'clock every Friday for the entire football season. We still
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 1: haven't got the ABCs or the M's either and some
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 1: pretty interesting things to discuss in that segment. And then
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 1: we'll wrap up the show with booze news coming up
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 1: as well. And then you just take four hours of
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 1: listening to Chuck and Ashley here this morning and you're like,
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 1: you know what? I'm going to go on a drive.
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 1: Now that I've sat home Flew off work so that
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 1: I could listen to four hours of the morning show.
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 1: Now I'll just listen to Mike Benton filling in for
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 1: Greg Bell on my drive to Tulalip Resort Casino and
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 1: get in on a little early weekend action. How fun
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 1: is that?
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 6: Sounds like a genius move.
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 1: You know, just get out there before it starts getting
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 1: weekend crazy.
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 6: Straight up genius.
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 1: Establish yourself. That's right. Pick your favorite chair at the
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 1: DraftKings Sportsbook.
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 6: And own it.
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, lock it in.
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 6: Put a name tag on it so no one steals
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 6: it when you get up to go to the bathroom.
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 1: Sit down there at third base at the old blackjack
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 1: table and don't move an inch. Get your party started
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 1: at Tulalip Resort Casino, but only if you want everything.
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 1: Because Tulalip Resort Casino, boy, it's there for those who
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 1: want everything.
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 6: If you're scared of everything.
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 6: Liven up a bit.
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 1: Everythingtulalip.com. All right. Let's talk about the college football season,
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 1: which gets started tomorrow. I know it's shocking, especially to
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 1: some of us.
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 1: But here it is. Here are my wishes. You want
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 1: my wishes? I'm ready for your wishes. For the college
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 1: football season since it starts tomorrow. Number one, UW. makes
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 1: a leap under Jed Fish. So we got to start
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 1: with the local product, right? The flagship station's got to
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 1: start with the local product. And I don't need, actually,
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 1: I don't need a tournament appearance. I don't need a
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 1: national championship. I don't need to operate in that high
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 1: of an exaggerated fantasy world. That would be a big leap. Yeah,
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 1: it'd be a huge leap. But I would like to
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 1: see this team and this program make its make a
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 1: significant leap this year. Because I don't really think operating
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 1: around 7-5 and 8-4, considering half your schedule is filled
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 1: with teams you absolutely should beat, as that big of
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 1: a jump. What I'd like to see is 9-3. Threatening
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 1: with the chance that if you upset the right team,
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 1: you're 10-2. You're 10-2 your playoff team in this conference. 9-3,
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 1: probably not. I mean, that is probably the cutoff. right there,
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 1: because let's face it, that committee really doesn't do its job.
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 1: They pretty much just look at record, and that's about it.
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 1: And so 9-3 probably won't get it done, but if
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 1: you finish 9-3 and you are competing with Oregon and
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 1: competing with Indiana and competing and making winning against USC,
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 1: the best teams on your schedule for this upcoming season,
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 1: to me that's progress because we haven't seen that out
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 1: of a Jed Fish team so far, and it's only
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 1: been two years. It's not like he's had a lot,
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 1: and he had to rebuild it from scratch. basically two
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 1: years ago. But that to me is significant improvement. And
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 1: that's number one. That's my number one wish. I'm not
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 1: going to have to say Jed's got to make the
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 1: playoff this year. But I think Jed, to feel great
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 1: about the program's development and growth, we need to be
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 1: knocking on the door of the playoffs this year. And
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 1: I think that can happen.
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 3: And I do think the schedule lines up in our
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 3: favor with the games that we have at home versus
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 3: the games that we have on the road. Obviously, Oregon
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 3: and USC being the two road games that are going
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 3: to be really difficult, but you're at Michigan state, you're
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 3: at Purdue, you're at Nebraska, you've got Iowa at home,
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 3: you've got Penn state at home, you've got Indiana at home.
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 3: So if you can win most of those games and
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 3: at least make it close with Indiana, I don't know
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 3: if Indiana is going to be as good as they
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 3: were last year.
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 6: I have no idea what to expect really from any
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 6: of these teams.
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 3: Um, but I do think that you're at least set
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 3: up in a way to have a pretty big jump
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 3: from where you were at last year.
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 1: Um, Next thing, speaking of Indiana, I want them to
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 1: win it all again.
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 1: Again, because I'm saying, UW winning a national championship, that's
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 1: too much to ask. I'm not expecting that, not predicting that,
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 1: not even fantasizing about that. So if we're not going
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 1: to include the team you root for, and I don't
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 1: think Illinois is going to get there either, then I'm
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 1: going to say that I want Indiana to do it again.
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 1: Because I am really enjoying... Because it's a... Kurt Cignetti
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 1: didn't win the national championship and become arrogant. He was
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 1: arrogant from the jump.
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 6: Yeah, he told people to Google him in his first
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 6: press conference.
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 1: And there's something now sort of very charming about how
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 1: sure he was of himself, and he was right. And
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 1: so I would love to see him do it again,
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 1: because I know in Ohio State they're like, they can't
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 1: do that again. I know in Oregon, I don't know, wherever.
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 1: We're going to overtake this conference. I know that Texas
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 1: and Notre Dame and Georgia and the SEC and their arrogance,
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 1: I just want Kurt Cignetti to slap them all down again.
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 1: I want Mike Gastineau to celebrate another national championship this year.
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 1: I mean, that couldn't happen to a nicer person. I
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 1: think that would be phenomenal if Indiana won it all.
• 1:21:22
  Speaker 1: All right, next thing that I'm rooting for, and this
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 1: actually might be the thing I'm rooting for the most.
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 1: Please, Ole Miss, beat LSU. Oh, yes, please.
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 6: Please, please, please. Lane Kiffin is such a turd.
• 1:21:35
  Speaker 1: And if you could beat that turd by 30. Why
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 1: stop there?
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 6: Beat him by 130.
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 1: I just want Lane Kiffin to fail at everything he does.
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 6: Yes, and somehow he doesn't, and that's what makes him
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 6: so aggravated.
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 1: And yet, even when he does, he gets another chance. Yeah.
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 1: So that's another reason why I want him to fail,
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 1: and I certainly want him to fail against Ole Miss. Please, please,
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 1: if there's a college football god out there, Please let
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 1: Ole Miss beat LSU by 44 points.
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 3: And then wouldn't it be great if Ole Miss made
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 3: it to the college football playoffs and LSU didn't?
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 1: You mean like last year?
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 3: Yeah, except this time he would be actually coaching the
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 3: team that missed it.
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 1: So, yes, that's a big wish of mine. I want
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 1: Arch Manning to be really good this year. I like
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 1: the Manning family. I take no joy in somebody that
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 1: didn't ask for all that hype, got all that hype,
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 1: Certainly disappointed to a degree a year ago. Did finish strong,
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 1: if you remember. And I would like to see Arch
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 1: have some success and then let the hype start all
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 1: over again in the NFL draft. But I don't think
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 1: it will be in the NFL draft, by the way,
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 1: just to make a prediction. I think he's going to
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 1: return to college again next year, which is going to
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 1: be laughable because it's what I said two years ago.
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 1: All of you that are already making him the number
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 1: one pick, he's not going to The draft until he's
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 1: done with his four or five years of eligibility in college.
• 1:22:59
  Speaker 3: Well, and that's the thing, too, is I don't know
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 3: why people were jumping to that, considering the fact that
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 3: you get paid and he's getting a lot of money
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 3: being at Texas.
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  Speaker 4: A lot.
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  Speaker 1: I want a defensive end to win the Heisman Trophy
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 1: this year.
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 4: Oh, wow.
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 1: I mean, most years I acknowledge that the quarterback should
• 1:23:15
  Speaker 1: win and then there's a running back and the occasional... receiver.
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 1: But I want somebody to go Bobby Boucher this college
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 1: football season. I want somebody to have like 35 sacks
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 1: this year and just dominate from the defensive side of
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 1: the ball and win the Heisman. And not because they
• 1:23:33
  Speaker 1: played defense part-time. They were just a sack artist like
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 1: we've never seen before. That kid from South Carolina is
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 1: somebody that they say is pretty special. So I want
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 1: the MVP to be a.
• 1:23:44
  Speaker 6: Pass rusher this year. Can't wait for you to Pick
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 6: that in our college football draft.
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 1: I'm not going to pick it, but I want it.
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 1: I want it to happen. And then finally, I would
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 1: like to see us avoid for the next nine months
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 1: or so another unnecessary monster controversy that we didn't see coming. Oh, okay.
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 6: Well, now you're just wishful thinking.
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 1: Can we avoid finding out that Michigan's defensive tackle is
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 1: really a thoroughbred?
• 1:24:18
  Speaker 6: I hope so.
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 1: That he's been a horse the whole time and that
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 1: he's been playing under the name, you know, Craig Jablonski
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 1: and has been dominating the Big Ten. And we find
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 1: out once he takes off his helmet, he's really just
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 1: a Clydesdale. Can we avoid something?
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 6: Doubtful.
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 1: Super controversial. Can we just watch some football this year?
• 1:24:41
  Speaker 6: I think you have a better chance of a defensive
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 6: player winning the Heisman.
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 1: Hugh Millen's next. Sports Radio 93.3 KJR FM. All right,
• 1:25:01
  Speaker 1: here we go. Rolling into the 9 o'clock hour here
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 1: on this Friday. How about this, Ashley? Try this on
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 1: for size. So Mike Benton's filling in for Greg Bell.
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 1: And he rolls into town and Mike's like one of
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 1: the nicest people on planet Earth.
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 6: Yeah, pretty much.
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 1: And so he does his pleasantries and his aloes and
• 1:25:19
  Speaker 1: everything else. And then he's got a coffee about the
• 1:25:23
  Speaker 1: size of this cleanser container. Yeah, it's large.
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 5: Right here.
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 1: It's a massive coffee. And he looked at me and
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 1: he goes, these early mornings, man, they'll get you. And
• 1:25:32
  Speaker 1: I said, the nerve on you. Early mornings.
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 6: It's nine o'clock.
• 1:25:37
  Speaker 1: You are doing a 10 o'clock show. I'm like, do
• 1:25:39
  Speaker 1: you know who you're talking to, mister?
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 6: This wouldn't have even been early in Hawaii at 6 a.m.
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 6: I would have been up for an hour.
• 1:25:46
  Speaker 1: So I pushed him down. Good. And poured his coffee
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 1: over his head.
• 1:25:49
  Speaker 6: Yeah, and then he laughed in his face.
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so he'll have to deal with that at 10.
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 6: Good.
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 1: Joining us now on the program is our QB1. It's
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 1: time for X's and O's, 9 o'clock Fridays. We've been
• 1:25:59
  Speaker 1: doing it for years, and we get ready for the
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 1: third and final preseason game. And I know Hugh Millen.
• 1:26:04
  Speaker 1: is a lot more fired up for tonight than what
• 1:26:06
  Speaker 1: Ashley and I have suggested, and Greg Bell here today.
• 1:26:10
  Speaker 1: And I'm glad that we do have you on so
• 1:26:14
  Speaker 1: that you can present the other side. I know I've
• 1:26:17
  Speaker 1: been pretty hard on preseason here this morning and for
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 1: the last couple of days, but I know there's some
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 1: stuff worth checking out here, and I'm glad that you
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 1: are here to.
• 1:26:27
  Speaker 8: Point them out to us. Yeah, let's not get carried
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 8: away now. This is not football porn for me.
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 1: This is, you know, this is like Josh Allen versus
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 1: like Parker. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 8: Parker catalog. So I mean, I have to get revved
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 8: up as much as I can. But, you know, I
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 8: do think it's interesting to put to contextualize this, to
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 8: put it into context. So I'm going to make a
• 1:26:52
  Speaker 8: couple of assumptions. OK, you're a football fan. You're getting
• 1:26:56
  Speaker 8: ready for the regular season in both college and the NFL.
• 1:26:59
  Speaker 8: And you assume that in September, between now and the
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 8: end of September, that the best football you're going to
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 8: see is the NFL. And the next best football you're
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 8: going to see is college football, really elite college football.
• 1:27:13
  Speaker 8: And in fact, on September 12th, Ohio State is going
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 8: down to play Texas. So you'd say, oh, that's probably
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 8: the second best. In that game, and by the way,
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 8: if you take the current standings of the AP, Ohio
• 1:27:26
  Speaker 8: State's one, Texas is five, add them together, that's six.
• 1:27:30
  Speaker 8: That is the best ranking by that methodology. The next
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 8: closest is Oklahoma, number 10 at Georgia, number three. But anyways,
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 8: let's get back to Ohio State at Texas. The average
• 1:27:43
  Speaker 8: starters in that game for both teams is 20 years
• 1:27:47
  Speaker 8: and 11 months. Tonight, The average second and third string
• 1:27:51
  Speaker 8: for the Seahawks is 25 years and two months. Here's
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 8: where I'm going with this. You're going to see some
• 1:27:58
  Speaker 8: sloppy football, but you're going to be seeing some guys
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 8: that are fighting for their career, their football life, existential
• 1:28:07
  Speaker 8: fighting tonight. And the talent that you're going to see
• 1:28:12
  Speaker 8: tonight in this sloppy, boring game, which I concede those points,
• 1:28:17
  Speaker 8: If you took tonight's Seahawks team and you lined them
• 1:28:20
  Speaker 8: up and you said, go play Ohio State, they'd be
• 1:28:24
  Speaker 8: at least a touchdown favorite in Vegas. They'd probably win
• 1:28:27
  Speaker 8: the game. And if you had just the twos, now
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 8: you'd be up 17 to 20 points a game. And
• 1:28:33
  Speaker 8: if you incentivize the starters against Ohio State, point for
• 1:28:37
  Speaker 8: point financial incentive, you could be up. in the close
• 1:28:41
  Speaker 8: to 60 points for the Seahawks over Ohio State. So
• 1:28:46
  Speaker 8: let's just kind of understand. You're going to see some
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 8: high level football, at least from a talent standpoint.
• 1:28:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree. And that's fair. And I'm glad that
• 1:28:54
  Speaker 1: you pointed that out. I would just say that, I mean,
• 1:28:57
  Speaker 1: it was hard enough for football fans to We know
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 1: that the games don't count in the standings. And year
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 1: by year, fewer starters play in the game. And now
• 1:29:09
  Speaker 1: we're to the point, Hugh, where literally we aren't going
• 1:29:12
  Speaker 1: to play a single starter in the three preseason games.
• 1:29:15
  Speaker 1: So it's hard for me, and I'm sure a lot
• 1:29:18
  Speaker 1: of fans out there of the National Football League, to
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 1: think that the coaches value the games anymore, so why
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 1: should I?
• 1:29:26
  Speaker 8: Oh, I couldn't agree more. It's... It's, you know, it's
• 1:29:30
  Speaker 8: a necessary, I don't say evil, but it's just a necessary,
• 1:29:36
  Speaker 8: you know, impediment to getting where you want to go.
• 1:29:39
  Speaker 8: And Mike McDonald's making it clear how he feels about this.
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 8: You know, I mean, hats off to the Seahawks a
• 1:29:47
  Speaker 8: week ago, by the way, that everybody's saying that the
• 1:29:50
  Speaker 8: number twos for Seattle beat the starters for Tennessee's to
• 1:29:55
  Speaker 8: 16 to three, but You know, in week one, Tyrese
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 8: Knight had his 10 tackles, and Patrick O'Connell, his running
• 1:30:03
  Speaker 8: mate at off-ball linebacker next to him, had a great game.
• 1:30:06
  Speaker 8: Those guys didn't play at all last week. The linebackers
• 1:30:10
  Speaker 8: were Chris Paul, not the point guard, but Chaz Surratt,
• 1:30:16
  Speaker 8: and Andre Fuller was the nickel guy. Those are all
• 1:30:19
  Speaker 8: third-string guys against the Tennessee starters. So you're seeing even
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 8: cases where Mike McDonald is going– Oh, my number two
• 1:30:29
  Speaker 8: guy looks so good. I don't need to see him anymore.
• 1:30:33
  Speaker 8: I don't want him hurt. We didn't see from anything
• 1:30:36
  Speaker 8: from Tyrese Knight last week. So, yeah, when you actually
• 1:30:43
  Speaker 8: peel a layer of the onion down to this thing,
• 1:30:45
  Speaker 8: you're seeing all the concepts changed. and ideas to the
• 1:30:49
  Speaker 8: nth degree with Mike McDonald.
• 1:30:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, if he puts Connor O'Toole in bubble wrap tonight,
• 1:30:53
  Speaker 1: now we've got to... Well, he had two sacks last week,
• 1:30:57
  Speaker 1: so we can't risk him. We'll see. Well, one guy
• 1:31:03
  Speaker 1: that is going to play, and for four full quarters,
• 1:31:05
  Speaker 1: I don't know what they're going to do if, God forbid,
• 1:31:08
  Speaker 1: an injury at some point during the game. I guess
• 1:31:10
  Speaker 1: you emergency run Drew Lockback out there, but... We're going
• 1:31:13
  Speaker 1: to see Jalen Milrow for four quarters, and he certainly
• 1:31:16
  Speaker 1: has a lot to prove to the coaching staffs to
• 1:31:18
  Speaker 1: show us that he's an improved quarterback that can handle
• 1:31:21
  Speaker 1: the flow of the game.
• 1:31:22
  Speaker 8: We haven't seen it yet. A couple of things there.
• 1:31:25
  Speaker 8: First of all, thus far in the preseason, no rushing
• 1:31:29
  Speaker 8: attempts on anything designed or even the read zone keeps.
• 1:31:37
  Speaker 8: The only rushing attempts he has, there was an abort
• 1:31:39
  Speaker 8: with that drop fumble early in the first game. And
• 1:31:43
  Speaker 8: then he had a rush on a naked boot, but
• 1:31:44
  Speaker 8: that's like a scramble. And then everything else is scrambles.
• 1:31:50
  Speaker 8: And so I think that's interesting. They have not schemed
• 1:31:54
  Speaker 8: him to try and take away his legs. They've encouraged him.
• 1:31:57
  Speaker 8: You saw it on hard knocks.
• 1:31:59
  Speaker 1: Hey, be a runner.
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 8: But that's in a scrambling situation on a cold pass play.
• 1:32:06
  Speaker 8: What Milrow wants, needs to show the coaches, here's just
• 1:32:09
  Speaker 8: a few things. Last week, just going back to last week,
• 1:32:12
  Speaker 8: some mistakes he made. First, very first pass, there's a
• 1:32:17
  Speaker 8: quarters coverage, ball's on the left hash. That's a four
• 1:32:20
  Speaker 8: deep three under. That means that the three under, you
• 1:32:24
  Speaker 8: can't spot drop to a zone. There's too few defenders.
• 1:32:26
  Speaker 8: So you have to play man concepts within a zone.
• 1:32:29
  Speaker 8: So with the ball in the left half and the
• 1:32:32
  Speaker 8: three receiver side going into the boundary on the left side,
• 1:32:35
  Speaker 8: there's a nice big hole to the right.
• 1:32:38
  Speaker 1: You had just a hook.
• 1:32:39
  Speaker 8: That's about as easy of an intermediate completion. You get
• 1:32:42
  Speaker 8: 12-yard button hook like you play in the playground. Montori Foster,
• 1:32:49
  Speaker 8: he wasn't even looking there. He has a naked bootleg
• 1:32:52
  Speaker 8: to his left. Now, it's a little more difficult because
• 1:32:55
  Speaker 8: it's to your left. But if you're an athlete, like,
• 1:32:58
  Speaker 8: Like Milrow, you have to make that play. That's like
• 1:33:01
  Speaker 8: saying an NBA player is a left-handed lay-in more difficult
• 1:33:06
  Speaker 8: than a right-handed lay-in for a right-hander. Yeah, sure, but
• 1:33:09
  Speaker 8: you still got to make it. He comes out and
• 1:33:11
  Speaker 8: he dirts that ball to Arroyo. He has a play,
• 1:33:15
  Speaker 8: most of the league calls it a swirl route where
• 1:33:17
  Speaker 8: you start to the corner, then stop. And again, that's
• 1:33:20
  Speaker 8: like a hook route, which is static accuracy because the
• 1:33:24
  Speaker 8: receiver's not going across your vision.
• 1:33:27
  Speaker 1: It's mirrored.
• 1:33:27
  Speaker 8: We got one on the left, Montori Foster, one on
• 1:33:32
  Speaker 8: the right, Cody White. You look at, and that was
• 1:33:35
  Speaker 8: a cover three defense. You look at the two hook defenders.
• 1:33:38
  Speaker 8: Those are the inside shallow defenders. Whoever squeezes the middle
• 1:33:42
  Speaker 8: to that side, throw to the other side. He turns
• 1:33:45
  Speaker 8: it down. He under throws a goal ball. You got
• 1:33:48
  Speaker 8: to get it out there. That was on third and five.
• 1:33:50
  Speaker 1: He had Arroyo.
• 1:33:51
  Speaker 8: This is at the 50 yard lane. He had Arroyo
• 1:33:53
  Speaker 8: on an out route to get the first down. He
• 1:33:55
  Speaker 8: elects to throw the fade. He's got Cody White open,
• 1:33:59
  Speaker 8: but he under throws it and to the inside. And
• 1:34:02
  Speaker 8: then the last one, The interception, it's a disguised coverage.
• 1:34:06
  Speaker 8: It starts looking like that four deep, that cover four
• 1:34:10
  Speaker 8: that I described in the first of this set that
• 1:34:12
  Speaker 8: I'm describing, but it's a disguise. Think of it like this,
• 1:34:17
  Speaker 8: an outfield in softball. You know how there's a left
• 1:34:19
  Speaker 8: center fielder and a right center fielder? So what the
• 1:34:22
  Speaker 8: quarterback is looking at, okay, there's four guys in the outfield.
• 1:34:27
  Speaker 8: Now the safety is going to, in football terms, we
• 1:34:30
  Speaker 8: call it, he's going to come down off the roof
• 1:34:32
  Speaker 8: and he's going to go from left center. He's going
• 1:34:34
  Speaker 8: to come play shortstop. And the guy who's lined up
• 1:34:37
  Speaker 8: at shortstop, he's going to go over and play second base.
• 1:34:40
  Speaker 1: Now it's football.
• 1:34:41
  Speaker 8: So he only went about, I'm estimating six, seven yards,
• 1:34:45
  Speaker 8: but That's the disguise he saw, but he didn't recognize it.
• 1:34:49
  Speaker 8: And then he stares down. And then the, the, the
• 1:34:52
  Speaker 8: guy who's at second base, who I said, as I said,
• 1:34:54
  Speaker 8: was started as a original line up at shortstop. He just,
• 1:34:59
  Speaker 8: he just tracks the eyes of the quarterback. It's an
• 1:35:01
  Speaker 8: easy interception. So there's five minuses right there and double
• 1:35:06
  Speaker 8: minuses on the last one. that are kind of emblematic
• 1:35:10
  Speaker 8: of the growth that he needs to show.
• 1:35:13
  Speaker 1: Uh, Hugh Mellon is with us. Our QB one with
• 1:35:15
  Speaker 1: a little X's and O's segment here on this Friday.
• 1:35:18
  Speaker 1: It is game day as the Seahawks get ready to
• 1:35:20
  Speaker 1: face the Kansas city chiefs to wrap up the preseason
• 1:35:22
  Speaker 1: tonight in Kansas city, five o'clock. Um, I want to
• 1:35:26
  Speaker 1: talk a little bit about the linebackers, but I want
• 1:35:29
  Speaker 1: to run it through the Nicky Manwari filter. I mean,
• 1:35:32
  Speaker 1: We're not getting a lot of updates on Eamon Worry's progress.
• 1:35:35
  Speaker 1: And as you warned, it's making me a little nervous.
• 1:35:38
  Speaker 1: I'm getting a little worried about Nick Eamon Worry and
• 1:35:41
  Speaker 1: whether or not when he's going to be ready to
• 1:35:43
  Speaker 1: play for this team. But you've also mentioned a lot
• 1:35:46
  Speaker 1: in the past. I mean, he's playing Sam Linebacker. That's
• 1:35:49
  Speaker 1: the position that he played last year so well. Just
• 1:35:52
  Speaker 1: a really wickedly versatile Sam Linebacker. So if he's not
• 1:35:58
  Speaker 1: ready to go on opening day, you mentioned Tyrese Knight.
• 1:36:01
  Speaker 1: I mean, is there a Tyrese Knight, Drake Thomas, Ernest Jones?
• 1:36:06
  Speaker 1: Will we see them, do you think, on the field
• 1:36:08
  Speaker 1: a lot more where you're not replacing with a safety
• 1:36:13
  Speaker 1: or a corner that you just go with the three
• 1:36:16
  Speaker 1: linebacker sets as your base defense at the start of
• 1:36:20
  Speaker 1: the season?
• 1:36:21
  Speaker 8: It's a great question, and they've had a lot of
• 1:36:24
  Speaker 8: people in that position. The first snap of of practice
• 1:36:33
  Speaker 8: in the first drill, you had Witherspoon dropped inside, and
• 1:36:40
  Speaker 8: Pritchett was a corner. We've seen DeAnthony Bell run with
• 1:36:45
  Speaker 8: the number ones in that regard. In the first preseason game,
• 1:36:48
  Speaker 8: you had Igbenogany, right?
• 1:36:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:36:58
  Speaker 8: And so they, they've had a number of guys, I
• 1:37:00
  Speaker 8: would say my it's, it's perhaps the question of the defense, right? Uh, it's,
• 1:37:08
  Speaker 8: it's just heartbreaking in a way. I mean, you know,
• 1:37:11
  Speaker 8: sports heartbreaking, not like real life heartbreaking, but, but it's
• 1:37:14
  Speaker 8: heartbreaking that a young, beautiful athlete like Nick Gammon Worry
• 1:37:20
  Speaker 8: is shelved in this regard. And, You just worry about
• 1:37:24
  Speaker 8: it lingering, and God forbid we ever use the word regarding.
• 1:37:29
  Speaker 1: His ankle, chronic.
• 1:37:32
  Speaker 8: But all of those concerns are at least something more
• 1:37:34
  Speaker 8: than nothing, right?
• 1:37:36
  Speaker 4: Yep.
• 1:37:37
  Speaker 8: Probability lives in a world greater than zero and less
• 1:37:39
  Speaker 8: than 100, so I'll accept anything other than zero and 100,
• 1:37:42
  Speaker 8: so it's more than zero. A year ago, the, the, uh,
• 1:37:50
  Speaker 8: the Seahawks, Mike McDonald was resolute. Hey, we're just Nick
• 1:37:54
  Speaker 8: him and worry. As we said, Sam linebacker, he finally
• 1:37:56
  Speaker 8: said it in the playoff game on prior to, uh,
• 1:37:59
  Speaker 8: leading up to the draft game against the 49ers. I said, Hey,
• 1:38:03
  Speaker 8: he's just our Sam linebacker. It's like we had discussed. Um,
• 1:38:07
  Speaker 8: and teams tried to drive them out of that. The
• 1:38:10
  Speaker 8: 49ers with their personnel tried to drive them out of that. Uh, the,
• 1:38:14
  Speaker 8: the hell, the Rams ago, 13 personnel and try and
• 1:38:17
  Speaker 8: drive them out. And, And Mike McConnell goes, sorry, I
• 1:38:20
  Speaker 8: got Superman as my Sam linebacker. You can, you can,
• 1:38:24
  Speaker 8: you can go as heavy as you want. You ain't
• 1:38:26
  Speaker 8: getting me to, um, to, uh, to take. will I
• 1:38:30
  Speaker 8: play that personnel, I won't even put a safety down
• 1:38:34
  Speaker 8: in the box to help stop the run. So you
• 1:38:36
  Speaker 8: can try and run, and we can still stop you
• 1:38:38
  Speaker 8: with a light box in a nickel. against your three
• 1:38:42
  Speaker 8: tight end set. Am I making sense about, about the, the,
• 1:38:47
  Speaker 8: the extremes that we're going to here because of what
• 1:38:51
  Speaker 8: M and worry could provide for you. And so what
• 1:38:55
  Speaker 8: I think is most likely to happen is that McDonald
• 1:38:59
  Speaker 8: will play it more conventionally where he will match personnel.
• 1:39:03
  Speaker 8: He said, okay, We can put DeAnthony Bell in there,
• 1:39:08
  Speaker 8: you know, against maybe a lighter personnel. You know, maybe
• 1:39:12
  Speaker 8: they do, you know, play the base. And now Tyrese
• 1:39:16
  Speaker 8: Knight has been a Will linebacker. And we haven't seen,
• 1:39:20
  Speaker 8: I don't want to say any, because then as soon
• 1:39:23
  Speaker 8: as somebody shows me one snap, then it proves me wrong.
• 1:39:26
  Speaker 8: But he's been a Will linebacker. And so, you know,
• 1:39:31
  Speaker 8: that's Drake Thomas. That's the position they've battled at. So
• 1:39:35
  Speaker 8: if you're talking about trying to play base with their
• 1:39:39
  Speaker 8: three best linebackers, that would be Ernest Jones, that'd be
• 1:39:43
  Speaker 8: Drake Thomas, and that would be Tyrese Knight. But we
• 1:39:45
  Speaker 8: haven't seen Knight play over there. So I think it's
• 1:39:49
  Speaker 8: a very interesting, unwanted question.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: You and I didn't want to be talking about this,
• 1:39:58
  Speaker 8: not if we're Seahawks fans, but we do. And, uh, and,
• 1:40:02
  Speaker 8: and I think it's going to be just kind of, uh,
• 1:40:04
  Speaker 8: you know, by committee type of thing in the way
• 1:40:06
  Speaker 8: I'm describing.
• 1:40:07
  Speaker 1: Well, I tell you what, those hard knocks people, they've never,
• 1:40:09
  Speaker 1: they put on a heck of a show so far,
• 1:40:10
  Speaker 1: but they need to get off their ass and give
• 1:40:12
  Speaker 1: us some updates, uh, on the Eman Worry. I mean,
• 1:40:15
  Speaker 1: you know, what's, what's, what's, what's the point? What good
• 1:40:18
  Speaker 1: are they? Yeah, exactly. I know Mike McDonald's going to
• 1:40:20
  Speaker 1: keep a tight lip, but their job is to dig
• 1:40:22
  Speaker 1: this stuff up for us. Let's go.
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  Speaker 6: Um, all right.
• 1:40:25
  Speaker 1: I want to close with Leonard Williams, uh, extension yesterday,
• 1:40:28
  Speaker 1: three years, $ 90 million, uh, I feel like a no-brainer
• 1:40:32
  Speaker 1: to you. I mean, we're starting to stack some of
• 1:40:34
  Speaker 1: these highest paid at their position guys, and I think
• 1:40:37
  Speaker 1: we're going to add another one next year in Murphy
• 1:40:39
  Speaker 1: and probably an extension for Sam. So, I mean, the
• 1:40:42
  Speaker 1: bill's getting pretty high for a few individual players, but
• 1:40:47
  Speaker 1: I can't imagine not wanting Leonard Williams for the next
• 1:40:50
  Speaker 1: three years.
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  Speaker 8: Well, it's kind of like the must-win talks that we
• 1:40:56
  Speaker 8: get into at some point in the various seasons in
• 1:40:59
  Speaker 8: the different sports, and they say, well, if we label
• 1:41:02
  Speaker 8: this a must-win, then what do we label real must-wins?
• 1:41:06
  Speaker 8: So I can't label this a no-brainer because where does
• 1:41:11
  Speaker 8: that leave me when I talk about JSN and Witherspoon
• 1:41:15
  Speaker 8: and those types, and Murphy next year? So I don't
• 1:41:19
  Speaker 8: think it was a no-brainer because of his age, obviously.
• 1:41:24
  Speaker 8: But what You're talking about a guy that was number
• 1:41:27
  Speaker 8: one in the NFL at the defensive tackle most snaps.
• 1:41:32
  Speaker 8: So he's a versatile guy. He's number four in the
• 1:41:36
  Speaker 8: league in terms of garnering a double team. So there's
• 1:41:41
  Speaker 8: numbers there to support it. But you just watch the tape.
• 1:41:44
  Speaker 8: I know the GMs on the ESPN poll, the GMs
• 1:41:49
  Speaker 8: rated him the number one defensive tackle in all of football.
• 1:41:52
  Speaker 8: So maybe the Sabre matricians don't put him at number one,
• 1:41:56
  Speaker 8: but the more subjective eyeball test kind of tells you
• 1:42:01
  Speaker 8: that in that regard. I think the further point that
• 1:42:04
  Speaker 8: I'm kind of realizing I had a fuzzy vision of this,
• 1:42:07
  Speaker 8: Hard Knocks has given us a little bit more clarity,
• 1:42:10
  Speaker 8: and it's just that his value, somewhat like Cooper Cup,
• 1:42:17
  Speaker 8: he's far more productive than Cooper Cup. But his value
• 1:42:21
  Speaker 8: as a veteran who buys in and makes sure that
• 1:42:28
  Speaker 8: the young guys are buying in, I think this guy
• 1:42:31
  Speaker 8: is an extraordinary human being who happens to be a
• 1:42:35
  Speaker 8: football player. And everybody that he's around, he touches them
• 1:42:40
  Speaker 8: in a positive way. And I think that the Seahawks,
• 1:42:44
  Speaker 8: at least some of this contract, I'm not going to
• 1:42:46
  Speaker 8: say obviously the majority or half or anything like that,
• 1:42:49
  Speaker 8: but there's more than $ 1 in that contract that can
• 1:42:55
  Speaker 8: be directly tied to who he is and the leadership.
• 1:43:00
  Speaker 8: So that part intrigues me. I don't know how the
• 1:43:03
  Speaker 8: ratios break down. We can all just kind of give
• 1:43:07
  Speaker 8: our gut hunch estimates about it. But there's no question
• 1:43:11
  Speaker 8: that he's being paid in part for what he brings
• 1:43:15
  Speaker 8: in these what we'll call less tangible ways.
• 1:43:18
  Speaker 1: Phenomenal. It might be the preseason, but Hugh Millen's in
• 1:43:22
  Speaker 1: regular season form, ladies and gentlemen. Maybe postseason.
• 1:43:25
  Speaker 4: I don't know.
• 1:43:25
  Speaker 1: Maybe postseason. We're not running our backups out there. We're
• 1:43:32
  Speaker 1: going first stringers every Friday, 9 o'clock. I don't know
• 1:43:35
  Speaker 1: about that. Yeah, that was kind of backup quality. I'm
• 1:43:39
  Speaker 1: used to being a backup. All right, man. Well, enjoy
• 1:43:42
  Speaker 1: the weekend. We'll break it down on Monday. Okay.
• 1:43:46
  Speaker 8: Enjoy.
• 1:43:46
  Speaker 1: All right. There he is. Our QB1 X is an
• 1:43:48
  Speaker 1: O segment here at 9 o'clock on this Friday. Coming
• 1:43:52
  Speaker 1: up next, we've yet to do it today. No, I'm
• 1:43:54
  Speaker 1: not going to let it slip. It's the ABCs of
• 1:43:58
  Speaker 1: the M's on Sports Radio 93.3 KJRFM. Toronto for a
• 1:44:02
  Speaker 1: three-game series against the Blue Jays and an opportunity to
• 1:44:06
  Speaker 1: make a little more ground. Every day is an opportunity
• 1:44:08
  Speaker 1: to make up a little more ground on the Houston Astros. Oh, man,
• 1:44:11
  Speaker 1: Blue Jays, Astros, just both of you.
• 1:44:15
  Speaker 6: Yeah, two of these.
• 1:44:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, take two of these and call me never.
• 1:44:18
  Speaker 6: I think they're out of the screen. Yep, they're good.
• 1:44:20
  Speaker 6: There you go.
• 1:44:22
  Speaker 4: Two of them.
• 1:44:23
  Speaker 6: Bring it down a little bit.
• 1:44:24
  Speaker 1: I think YouTube has seen this before. This isn't going
• 1:44:27
  Speaker 1: to be shocking to you.
• 1:44:28
  Speaker 6: I'll do this.
• 1:44:30
  Speaker 1: Right between the lines.
• 1:44:31
  Speaker 6: Yeah. I got to do that.
• 1:44:33
  Speaker 3: There you go. I almost just straight up did it.
• 1:44:36
  Speaker 3: I would have gotten in so much trouble.
• 1:44:38
  Speaker 1: And just to clarify, that's not to our YouTube viewers. No.
• 1:44:41
  Speaker 1: That is directly to the Astros and.
• 1:44:42
  Speaker 5: The Blue Jays.
• 1:44:43
  Speaker 6: Yep, and especially Jose Altuve.
• 1:44:45
  Speaker 1: Ah, and George Springer.
• 1:44:47
  Speaker 5: Yep.
• 1:44:48
  Speaker 1: So, three-game series starts tonight with Toronto Hancock versus Cease.
• 1:44:52
  Speaker 1: That'll be the trickiest one of them all this weekend.
• 1:44:56
  Speaker 1: First pitch is at 415. But the ABCs of the
• 1:44:58
  Speaker 1: M's don't necessarily cling to the day's news. And yet
• 1:45:02
  Speaker 1: sometimes it's amazing how the alphabet works. Where are we, right?
• 1:45:06
  Speaker 1: Where are we in the alphabet? We're at letter G.
• 1:45:08
  Speaker 6: Oh, yeah, G.
• 1:45:09
  Speaker 1: And who's the athlete that has been most prominently mentioned, Mariners-wise,
• 1:45:14
  Speaker 1: in the last 24, 48-hour news cycle? gino suarez that's
• 1:45:18
  Speaker 1: right see we don't you think i doctor this you
• 1:45:22
  Speaker 1: people some of you doubters cynics those people the alphabet
• 1:45:27
  Speaker 1: is magical.
• 1:45:27
  Speaker 6: Yeah the alphabet knows what it's doing so we've already talked.
• 1:45:31
  Speaker 1: About gino suarez a couple of times uh here this
• 1:45:34
  Speaker 1: morning but since the alphabet says talk about him again
• 1:45:36
  Speaker 1: we're going to talk about him again He was made
• 1:45:39
  Speaker 1: available on the waiver wire to every team in Major
• 1:45:42
  Speaker 1: League Baseball and every single team passed. I'm not surprised
• 1:45:46
  Speaker 1: by that, but I would have thought the Mariners were
• 1:45:49
  Speaker 1: the team that would have struggled the most with this decision.
• 1:45:52
  Speaker 1: And I suppose since the Mariners passed as well, the
• 1:45:56
  Speaker 1: decision was for two and a half million dollars. I mean, ideally,
• 1:46:01
  Speaker 1: we'd like Brendan Donovan to be our healthy third baseman.
• 1:46:04
  Speaker 1: JP plays shortstop because Emerson's gone for the year. And
• 1:46:09
  Speaker 1: so at third base, we'd rather have Donovan there. And
• 1:46:13
  Speaker 1: if that's the case, we had Gino Suarez. I mean,
• 1:46:16
  Speaker 1: I realize owners have a lot of money. But $ 2. 5
• 1:46:19
  Speaker 1: million just to come off the bench and maybe lift
• 1:46:22
  Speaker 1: the club's morale, which already seems to have been lifted
• 1:46:25
  Speaker 1: here as of late. Is that really money well spent?
• 1:46:30
  Speaker 1: I still would have done it if I were them. Um,
• 1:46:34
  Speaker 1: I think Gino Suarez does make an impact with this
• 1:46:38
  Speaker 1: team just by walking into the clubhouse. And I also
• 1:46:42
  Speaker 1: think that he does provide a better offensive source at
• 1:46:47
  Speaker 1: third base than what you have. And if Donovan comes back, great. Well, we,
• 1:46:52
  Speaker 1: we can, we can work things out that it's, you know,
• 1:46:56
  Speaker 1: Gino plays a little third. Brendan plays a little third.
• 1:46:58
  Speaker 1: Brendan does a little utility stuff.
• 1:47:00
  Speaker 6: We'll piggyback third base.
• 1:47:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I think that not adding somebody who
• 1:47:06
  Speaker 1: could improve your league's worst offense seems to me a mistake.
• 1:47:11
  Speaker 1: And I'm not worried about the defense that suggests... that
• 1:47:15
  Speaker 1: he's a liability this year. He very well may be,
• 1:47:17
  Speaker 1: but so has Donovan been, and so has Weston Wilson been.
• 1:47:22
  Speaker 1: So we're not really losing anything there either. His 7.05 OPS,
• 1:47:26
  Speaker 1: despite the low 200 batting average, which we grew accustomed
• 1:47:31
  Speaker 1: to here in Seattle, and despite the 35% strikeout rate,
• 1:47:35
  Speaker 1: which is gaudy and gross... And I don't want to
• 1:47:38
  Speaker 1: see him come here and strike out as much as
• 1:47:40
  Speaker 1: he did a year ago either. But at 7.05 OPS,
• 1:47:43
  Speaker 1: that threat that he provides to a team that struggled
• 1:47:46
  Speaker 1: offensively all year long, I mean, he immediately becomes your
• 1:47:49
  Speaker 1: fourth best OPS guy the moment that he steps on
• 1:47:52
  Speaker 1: the baseball field, which is sad in its own right.
• 1:47:54
  Speaker 1: but it also suggested perhaps a source that could lift you, Ashley,
• 1:47:59
  Speaker 1: in multiple ways. I'm not saying it's a huge mistake,
• 1:48:02
  Speaker 1: but I would put it in the category of, I
• 1:48:04
  Speaker 1: think that's a mistake. I think Gino Suarez should be
• 1:48:07
  Speaker 1: a Mariner right now.
• 1:48:07
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it was definitely disappointing to hear the news yesterday
• 1:48:10
  Speaker 3: that we didn't claim him. It was also, because I
• 1:48:12
  Speaker 3: like Gino so much, disappointing to hear that nobody claimed
• 1:48:14
  Speaker 3: him and nobody thought he could bring something to their team,
• 1:48:17
  Speaker 3: but especially disappointing.
• 1:48:18
  Speaker 6: For the Mariners because we know what he brings. We
• 1:48:20
  Speaker 6: know what he brings to the fans.
• 1:48:21
  Speaker 3: We played a home run from him earlier in his
• 1:48:24
  Speaker 3: first game back last year, and that place was erupted.
• 1:48:28
  Speaker 3: I mean, what he actually can do when he is...
• 1:48:34
  Speaker 3: When he's dialed in is incredible. And yes, he's been
• 1:48:36
  Speaker 3: playing worse, but it doesn't mean that I wouldn't like
• 1:48:38
  Speaker 3: to see him come up in a pinch hitting situation
• 1:48:41
  Speaker 3: and have a lot of faith that he can make
• 1:48:42
  Speaker 3: something happen.
• 1:48:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, why not? And we don't know behind the scenes.
• 1:48:46
  Speaker 1: Maybe there was a little bit of a falling out.
• 1:48:49
  Speaker 1: Maybe the second time he was told, we're not bringing
• 1:48:52
  Speaker 1: you back. Maybe that bothered him. Maybe, you know, and
• 1:48:56
  Speaker 1: maybe I wouldn't blame him.
• 1:48:57
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 1:48:57
  Speaker 1: And maybe, maybe he said something on the way out
• 1:49:01
  Speaker 1: to the wrong person. So maybe there's just, we're not
• 1:49:03
  Speaker 1: in the Geno Suarez business anymore. Uh, that's a possibility.
• 1:49:07
  Speaker 1: We don't know all the details of this, uh, but, um, yeah,
• 1:49:11
  Speaker 1: there was a, there was a chance to get him.
• 1:49:14
  Speaker 1: I think that he does improve your roster. I'm not
• 1:49:18
  Speaker 1: paying the bills. Maybe it's not worth $ 2. 5 million for
• 1:49:22
  Speaker 1: the rest of the season. But also, you should be
• 1:49:25
  Speaker 1: in desperation mode at this point to get into the
• 1:49:28
  Speaker 1: playoffs with this team. You have so much invested in
• 1:49:31
  Speaker 1: this team making it to the playoffs. I would have
• 1:49:33
  Speaker 1: thought a little $ 2. 5 million for Geno. Might have been
• 1:49:38
  Speaker 1: worth it.
• 1:49:38
  Speaker 6: Yeah, it doesn't seem like a lot.
• 1:49:39
  Speaker 1: H is for Hancock. I will say this. I mean,
• 1:49:43
  Speaker 1: a lot of times I say we got the pitching
• 1:49:45
  Speaker 1: advantage and people apparently cringe over that.
• 1:49:48
  Speaker 6: You just jinxed the team. Oh, dang it.
• 1:49:51
  Speaker 1: Well, I'll say we don't have the pitching advantage tonight.
• 1:49:53
  Speaker 1: But that is no shot at Emerson Hancock. Man, you
• 1:49:57
  Speaker 1: really do have to step back from this season. What
• 1:49:59
  Speaker 1: a year this guy has had this year. I think
• 1:50:02
  Speaker 1: he could have and maybe should have been in the
• 1:50:04
  Speaker 1: All-Star game. for goodness sake. And then he created the
• 1:50:08
  Speaker 1: piggyback because of how good that he had been after
• 1:50:12
  Speaker 1: having stepped in for Bryce Miller, who was supposed to
• 1:50:15
  Speaker 1: be in the best shape of his career in spring
• 1:50:17
  Speaker 1: training and yet got injured before we got the season underway.
• 1:50:21
  Speaker 1: And Emerson just performed. Then he performed. They created the
• 1:50:25
  Speaker 1: piggyback because of Emerson. It could have been really bad.
• 1:50:28
  Speaker 1: tough on Emerson to like, oh, this is my fault,
• 1:50:30
  Speaker 1: isn't it? This mess, and Bryce is angry, and Luis
• 1:50:33
  Speaker 1: is angry. Oh, jeez. But he just kept performing through that.
• 1:50:36
  Speaker 1: And then he gets to the All-Star game, he gets snubbed,
• 1:50:39
  Speaker 1: and he just kept performing through that. I mean, between
• 1:50:42
  Speaker 1: he and Randy Rosarino, I don't know who's been the
• 1:50:45
  Speaker 1: most consistently good player on this baseball team this year.
• 1:50:49
  Speaker 1: It might be Emerson Hancock. So yeah, he's facing Dylan Cease,
• 1:50:53
  Speaker 1: who's been fantastic this year and might win the Cy Young,
• 1:50:56
  Speaker 1: so we don't have the pitching advantage. But man... Emerson
• 1:50:59
  Speaker 1: Hancock has answered the bell all season long. Let's hope
• 1:51:02
  Speaker 1: he does it.
• 1:51:03
  Speaker 6: I hope he does it today.
• 1:51:04
  Speaker 3: And I hope that we don't have a rematch or
• 1:51:06
  Speaker 3: a redo of what Dylan Cease did to us last time.
• 1:51:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, let's not do that. Let's at least score a run.
• 1:51:11
  Speaker 4: Please.
• 1:51:11
  Speaker 1: Can we at least score a run? All hands in. Yeah.
• 1:51:14
  Speaker 3: A run.
• 1:51:14
  Speaker 1: Okay, ready? One, two, three.
• 1:51:15
  Speaker 4: Run.
• 1:51:15
  Speaker 1: Run. I is for insulted. Adam Jude reported yesterday that
• 1:51:23
  Speaker 1: Bryce Miller was approached by possibly moving to the bullpen.
• 1:51:27
  Speaker 1: And I would hope that Bryce is not insulted by that.
• 1:51:30
  Speaker 1: I don't think that he would be. Then again, he
• 1:51:33
  Speaker 1: was admittedly bothered that he was piggybacked and was admittedly
• 1:51:38
  Speaker 1: bothered that when they were going to go to other
• 1:51:42
  Speaker 1: guys getting piggybacked, It was just he and Luis that
• 1:51:45
  Speaker 1: just got piggybacked. Nobody else had to do it.
• 1:51:48
  Speaker 6: Yeah, they kept canceling it.
• 1:51:49
  Speaker 1: And I understand why you would be bothered by that.
• 1:51:53
  Speaker 1: And yet, I know Bryce enough. I don't know him personally,
• 1:51:57
  Speaker 1: but I've been around him enough that I know he's
• 1:51:59
  Speaker 1: a team-first guy through and through. So it's not going
• 1:52:03
  Speaker 1: to affect his attitude toward winning this year or toward
• 1:52:08
  Speaker 1: the team. And now he might get demoted to the bullpen.
• 1:52:12
  Speaker 1: And this is going to be an even tougher pill
• 1:52:14
  Speaker 1: for him to swallow. But I hope that he can acknowledge, hey, wait,
• 1:52:20
  Speaker 1: we might become a better baseball team by activating this
• 1:52:23
  Speaker 1: Kate Anderson right now. I have been pitching the worst
• 1:52:27
  Speaker 1: here as of late. And I also admitted to the media,
• 1:52:31
  Speaker 1: I'm not 100% right now. So I'm going to trust
• 1:52:36
  Speaker 1: that Bryce is not going to be insulted if the
• 1:52:39
  Speaker 1: decision is made that he moves to the bullpen for
• 1:52:41
  Speaker 1: the rest of the season, and that doesn't bury you.
• 1:52:44
  Speaker 1: Next year, you get back into good shape, and I
• 1:52:46
  Speaker 1: guarantee you you're in the starting rotation to start next year.
• 1:52:50
  Speaker 1: Nobody's saying, move Bryce Miller to the bullpen forever. If
• 1:52:52
  Speaker 1: you are, I think you're being silly. But right now,
• 1:52:56
  Speaker 1: he is the sixth most effective starting pitcher on the team.
• 1:53:00
  Speaker 1: I don't want Kate Anderson to be taken out of
• 1:53:02
  Speaker 1: the rotation. I really don't want the piggyback to be
• 1:53:07
  Speaker 1: structured from the standpoint of Kate goes five, Bryce goes four.
• 1:53:11
  Speaker 1: I don't want that. But because we know Kate Anderson's
• 1:53:16
  Speaker 1: only going to go five or six at the most,
• 1:53:19
  Speaker 1: you could have Bryce Miller not in a one-inning mode
• 1:53:24
  Speaker 1: or a piggyback, we're guarantee of four innings tonight, We
• 1:53:29
  Speaker 1: could have him, while he's nursing this injury, in a
• 1:53:32
  Speaker 1: good two, three inning role where he could be a
• 1:53:36
  Speaker 1: hell of a weapon coming out of the bullpen. So
• 1:53:39
  Speaker 1: not only do I not want him to be I
• 1:53:41
  Speaker 1: as for insulted, I want him to be I as
• 1:53:43
  Speaker 1: for invigorated. I want him to embrace this role because
• 1:53:47
  Speaker 1: it could be a really powerful, impactful role if, in fact,
• 1:53:51
  Speaker 1: they do this with Bryce down the stretch. He might
• 1:53:54
  Speaker 1: actually have a chance to have a greater impact on
• 1:53:56
  Speaker 1: the team in this kind of role than he would
• 1:53:59
  Speaker 1: as a starting pitcher, and I truly mean that.
• 1:54:01
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and if he is insulted, then use that and
• 1:54:03
  Speaker 3: be pissed and spit fire when you come out of
• 1:54:05
  Speaker 3: the bullpen. I mean, he played his best when he
• 1:54:08
  Speaker 3: was doing the piggyback.
• 1:54:09
  Speaker 1: He very well was.
• 1:54:10
  Speaker 6: So, I don't know why we wouldn't consider this.
• 1:54:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:54:14
  Speaker 6: It seems like a... Great possibility.
• 1:54:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. I think it could give us a weapon.
• 1:54:19
  Speaker 1: We don't have a long reliever, and I don't want
• 1:54:22
  Speaker 1: him to be a mop-up guy. I mean, maybe he
• 1:54:24
  Speaker 1: would have to be at some point, but I don't
• 1:54:26
  Speaker 1: want him to be a mop-up guy.
• 1:54:27
  Speaker 6: We've got Michael Rucker for that.
• 1:54:29
  Speaker 1: I want him to be available, not predetermined, but I
• 1:54:33
  Speaker 1: want him to be available when George or Logan has
• 1:54:36
  Speaker 1: one of those not very efficient four-inning outings, and yet
• 1:54:41
  Speaker 1: we're still in the ballgame, 1-0, 2-1. because the Walls
• 1:54:45
  Speaker 1: didn't cave in, but they're already at 95 pitches, and
• 1:54:50
  Speaker 1: now here's Bryce capable of going three, four innings for us.
• 1:54:54
  Speaker 6: That'd be great.
• 1:54:55
  Speaker 1: Out of the bullpen so that we don't have to
• 1:54:57
  Speaker 1: run through five, six relievers and then make Dan feel like,
• 1:55:01
  Speaker 1: I don't have anybody to pitch tomorrow.
• 1:55:02
  Speaker 6: It'd make Dan's job easier.
• 1:55:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so I like the role for him, and I
• 1:55:06
  Speaker 1: think we could use a guy in this role, and
• 1:55:10
  Speaker 1: I think he's the perfect guy for it. So don't
• 1:55:12
  Speaker 1: be insulted, Bryce. Please. Keep your chin up. All right,
• 1:55:15
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