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Chuck & Buck 4-2 Hour 3: Colt Emerson watch is on! Let's take a peak into Santa's Backsack and the final four matchups are fire! · Chuck in the Morning

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Speaker 1: Hey, good morning to you all. It is Chuck Poll
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Speaker 1: and Ashley Ryan with you. No Bucky Jacobson this week.
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Speaker 1: Happy Draftmas to you all as well, Day number two
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Speaker 1: of our Draftmas celebration. All sorts of Draftmas things going
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Speaker 1: to happen before the end of the show today, stocking
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Speaker 1: stuffers coming up at nine thirty our daily segment. Also,
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Speaker 1: we introduced a brand new Draftmas feature this hour. You know,
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Speaker 1: you try to keep it fresh most holidays, just I
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Speaker 1: guess for rust on their laurels, lazy, Yeah, you know,
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Speaker 1: things like Thanksgiving, just turkey every year. I guess we
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Speaker 1: try to keep it fresh though here during Draftmas season
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Speaker 1: as the inventors of the holiday, and so we will
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Speaker 1: have one of our brand new features that we will
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Speaker 1: do coming up a little bit later on this hour. Uh,
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Speaker 1: and a lot of other things to discuss, including our
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Speaker 1: camera usage. Day number two of our camera usage as well.
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Speaker 1: I'm glad that they got it to us just on
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Speaker 1: the day of Draft mess It was like a little
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Speaker 1: present for ourselves. But now you can see everything that
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Speaker 1: we do. And I am gonna forget Ashley, don't forget
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Speaker 1: a lot. Don't forget a lot that I am on camera,
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Speaker 1: and I am just hoping that I unknowingly don't have
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Speaker 1: a lot of bad habits that people will be able
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Speaker 1: to stare at now. But I'm not sure I will
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Speaker 1: sure about that. I really don't like things in or
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Speaker 1: around my nose, so I do a lot of this.
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Speaker 2: I've never noticed that really.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, oh good, because I'm awfully self conscious about it,
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Speaker 1: Like my nose gets really like is really sensitive like anything,
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Speaker 1: and so anyway, I'm low worried about that.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, don't worry about that. Also, your camera that's for
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Speaker 2: YouTube is on that side over there one. Yes, oh
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Speaker 2: it's this one. Yeah, okay, now you're looking right at it.
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Speaker 1: Oh.
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Speaker 2: But we did get a text on the YouTube chat
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Speaker 2: that was like, it's really weird to watch you guys talk,
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Speaker 2: and I was like, yeah, I bet it would be.
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Speaker 2: And you only listen and then all of a sudden
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Speaker 2: you're like, wow, they're like people with mouths.
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Speaker 1: Uh huh. Kind of like when you see a music
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Speaker 1: video but you know the song and then you see
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Speaker 1: the music video and it takes on a whole new Yeah,
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Speaker 1: you're like.
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Speaker 2: Oh, that's the interpretation they went.
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Speaker 1: Well, seeing the person sing, I do think changes it
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Speaker 1: a little whit it does sometimes for the worst. I mean,
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Speaker 1: I don't know which category we belong in, but who knows?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's I don't know which category we belong in either, Yeah.
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Speaker 1: But I just I don't, man. I hope I don't
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Speaker 1: have anything that gets caught on camera that I don't
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Speaker 1: want to, Like selling drugs, for example, Sometimes I do that.
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Speaker 1: I'll try to keep it off camera.
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Speaker 2: Right well, and obviously as as well documented on this
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Speaker 2: show My heroin Addiction.
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Speaker 1: Right yeah, yeah, yeah, I sell drugs too.
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Speaker 2: Yeah to me in the breaks, but that's why he
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Speaker 2: turned the cameras out.
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Speaker 1: Hopefully that doesn't get caught on camera as an.
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Speaker 2: Example, yes, of things we don't want can?
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Speaker 1: I asked though, before we dive into cold Emerson again, here,
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Speaker 1: what is it with the individual's fascination with spreading false stories?
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Speaker 1: What are they getting out of it?
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Speaker 2: In which sense?
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Speaker 1: In the last twenty four hours, I've seen someone out
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Speaker 1: there tweet out that cold Emerson's been activated. Okay. I
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Speaker 1: saw another story that chased the latter who he faced
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Speaker 1: a couple of days ago. He fouled the ball off
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Speaker 1: his foot in the Dodgers series, and he and I
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Speaker 1: saw he went on the sixty day I l and
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Speaker 1: I just saw yesterday the Detroit Tigers have signed Trek
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Speaker 1: school Bull to a ten year, four hundred and one
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Speaker 1: million dollar contract. Now might so it does cause you, like,
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Speaker 1: because I don't know all of these sorts. I don't
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Speaker 1: know all of the reputable sources and the disreputable sources,
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Speaker 1: and so it caused me for three different times yesterday
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Speaker 1: like is that true? And then I had to go
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Speaker 1: find out No, nobody else is of any substances reporting
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Speaker 1: that it's just not true. So obviously there are just
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Speaker 1: people out there that want to break stories. And I
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Speaker 1: get that they are going to get likes that way,
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Speaker 1: They're going to get views that way. But how much
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Speaker 1: do you need a like in a view? What career
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Speaker 1: are you trying to launch that you need a like
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Speaker 1: in a view? And so you make up a store?
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Speaker 1: What's the thrill that a person gets out of that?
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Speaker 1: I'm not sure I get that.
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Speaker 2: I think the thrill sadly is that they they get
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Speaker 2: the attention, they get people to believe something. And yesterday
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Speaker 2: was April Fool's Day, so maybe, oh yeah, maybe people
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Speaker 2: were just I just I just put that together too,
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Speaker 2: because I was like, I don't. I mean I see
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Speaker 2: it on other days. That aren't that right? People, there's
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Speaker 2: parody accounts when they want to seem like a sports reporter.
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Speaker 1: I'm not just bringing this back up based on yes esterday.
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Speaker 1: But maybe that's why I had so many.
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Speaker 2: That's probably why there were so many yesterday. Yeah, but no,
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Speaker 2: it happens all the time, and it's annoying because then
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Speaker 2: you have to go look to find out that. I
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Speaker 2: think they have to label themselves as a parody account,
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Speaker 2: but you have to go to the account and make
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Speaker 2: sure this is real or it's not real, Like that's
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Speaker 2: what happened with Hard Knocks the other day. I was like, Okay,
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Speaker 2: this is that really, Bob Candota, right.
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Speaker 1: I mean, it's one thing to try to be funny
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Speaker 1: with a fake story, but that's not what's happening. It's
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Speaker 1: just lie. I like lying to people and tricking them, yeah,
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Speaker 1: and then getting called out for it. I am now
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Speaker 1: snickering in my mom's basement over the chaos I created
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Speaker 1: in the world. Just now. Yeah, I'm so clever.
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Speaker 2: It seems like they're doing and that is a pathetic existence.
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Speaker 1: It truly is so cold. Emerson has not been activated
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Speaker 1: that was a lie fabricated by a liar. Yep. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: but it's coming soon. I don't think there's any doubt
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Speaker 1: that it's on the horizon. And I know a lot
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Speaker 1: of people are wondering, all right, he's under contract now,
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Speaker 1: so when's it going to happen and where is it
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Speaker 1: going to happen. Well, as they will tell you in
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Speaker 1: the baseball world, some of these things kind of take
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Speaker 1: care of themselves. And so my guess is, and frankly,
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Speaker 1: this is the thing to be most encouraged about with
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Speaker 1: Colt Emerson and his future is that Jerry Depoto can't
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Speaker 1: stop putting, can't stop talking about him, like, can't stop
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Speaker 1: praising him. I mean, just yesterday he was asked about it. Now,
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Speaker 1: maybe it was an April Fools joke maybe, but just
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Speaker 1: yesterday was asked about it, and he's like, he's checked
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Speaker 1: every box but one extended game views of major league
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Speaker 1: slash near major league caliber pitching. That's the only box
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Speaker 1: that we have to check. So we want to get
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Speaker 1: an extended look at that while he's in Tacoma, that
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Speaker 1: you know, jumping up to the next level and you're
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Speaker 1: either facing major league caliber talent or guys that are
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Speaker 1: right on the fringe of major league caliber talent that
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Speaker 1: know how to get hitters out. So we want to
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Speaker 1: expose him to that, and we don't know. There's not
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Speaker 1: a really designated amount of time that we need to
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Speaker 1: expose him before we will know it when we see it.
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Speaker 1: That's I mean, I'm paraphrasing. That was one of the
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Speaker 1: great efforts of paraphrasing everything.
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Speaker 2: And I thought, you, yeah, did a great job.
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Speaker 1: Word for word. You thought that was word for word. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: it was like, oh sorry, okay, yeah, But but I
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Speaker 1: mean they I mean just the fact, going back to
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Speaker 1: spring training. I mean, once upon a time, the rule
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Speaker 1: was that even if you thought he was ready, you
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Speaker 1: didn't say that publicly. We were in December and Jerry
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Speaker 1: and Justin were like, he might make the team out
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Speaker 1: of spring. No. So that's how much they think of him.
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Speaker 1: That's how much they think that he can handle the
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Speaker 1: pressure of being called up and signing an eight year,
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Speaker 1: ninety five million dollar contract without having played a single
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Speaker 1: game of major League baseball. That's how much faith that
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Speaker 1: they have in him that they can actually kind of
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Speaker 1: in a normal way, add to that pressure and he's
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Speaker 1: not gonna fold they can say in December, we've got
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Speaker 1: a twenty year old who's major league ready. It's just
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Speaker 1: a matter of time. You can get to spring training
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Speaker 1: and you've got veterans everywhere trying to make the club,
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Speaker 1: and you're saying, when this guy's ready, he's taking somebody's job. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: this year going to happen at some point this year.
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Speaker 1: Right before the season started, we asked Jerry about it.
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Speaker 1: Probably May, somewhere in May seems to be the area
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Speaker 1: in which that they are concentrating. And so they're, just
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Speaker 1: his own words, looking to check that last box before
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Speaker 1: they activate him. So there is a strong belief that
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Speaker 1: cold Emerson is major league ready and we just need
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Speaker 1: a little bit of fine tuning, a little bit of
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Speaker 1: exposure down in Tacoma before he's activated on to this team.
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Speaker 2: And that's really exciting. And you can tell, I mean
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Speaker 2: every time you guys have asked Jerry and Justin about him,
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Speaker 2: I mean, especially in spring training. Yeah, Justin was not
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Speaker 2: holding his excitement back at all. And I mean it
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Speaker 2: was even to the point where it was kind of
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Speaker 2: what he had said was breaking news, like he's coming,
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Speaker 2: He's going to play this year. It's just a matter
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Speaker 2: of win.
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Speaker 1: I'll tell you how close he is because the month
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Speaker 1: that they're saying they're going to give him, they're sort
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Speaker 1: of acting. They've loosely said it, but maybe around mid
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Speaker 1: May or so. So that sort of gives you. This
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Speaker 1: is what I'm talking about when you say sometimes these
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Speaker 1: things takes care of themselves. In six weeks time professional baseball,
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Speaker 1: you're probably gonna have an injury. Somebody's probably going to
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Speaker 1: get injured. I mean not calling what, I'm not trying
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Speaker 1: to jinx anything, but probably somebody's probably going to get
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Speaker 1: injured in that process. And so that's what I mean.
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Speaker 1: Like that kind of might take care of it. If
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Speaker 1: you're trying to figure out the roster crunch, whose job
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Speaker 1: does he take, because JP's going to take Reboss, Reboss
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Speaker 1: will go back to Tacoma, or he'll go into the
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Speaker 1: utility role at that point. But I mean, he's going
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Speaker 1: to take somebody's spot. It could very well be that
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Speaker 1: we'll wait five six weeks and see what roster spot
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Speaker 1: opens up in that span of time, and then if
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Speaker 1: no roster spot does open up, then we'll force the issue.
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Speaker 1: This is how close though, I think he is. If
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Speaker 1: like one of those roster spots opened up tomorrow. Like
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Speaker 1: if we add an injury and God forbid, yeah, knock on, yeah,
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Speaker 1: knock on my head, knock on your head. I think
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Speaker 1: they'd activate him. I think they'd activate him, like if
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Speaker 1: somebody went down, because it's not like it has to
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Speaker 1: be that specific position. That's what Brendan Donovan gives you.
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Speaker 1: If it doesn't have to be a third baseman, shortstop
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Speaker 1: or second basement. It could be anybody on the roster
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Speaker 1: because you can put Emerson at third base, shortstop, or
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Speaker 1: second and Donovan can play outfield for you. That's the
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Speaker 1: flexibility that Donovan gives you in that situation. So it
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Speaker 1: doesn't have to be somebody that plays infield that would
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Speaker 1: theoretically get hurt and clears the space for Emerson. No,
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Speaker 1: anybody offensively gets hurt and then Emerson it's activated, and
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Speaker 1: then Donovan turns into this jack of all trades, which
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Speaker 1: is where he's thrived, but a different type of jack
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Speaker 1: of all trades, more like a super utility. Dylan Moore
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Speaker 1: was a utility player, don't get it twisted. Superutility is
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Speaker 1: somebody that plays every single day, but you don't know
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Speaker 1: what position. They're going to go that day, and that's
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Speaker 1: what Donovan is going to thrive at. He's not going
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Speaker 1: to go into a polatoon role. Donovan's gonna play every day.
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Speaker 1: But it might be left field one game game, it
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Speaker 1: might be right field one game. It might be second
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Speaker 1: base one game, it might be first base one game.
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Speaker 1: I think they'll probably give him a first basement. It
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Speaker 1: might be DH most of the time, but that's not
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Speaker 1: going to get in the way of cold Emerson. So
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Speaker 1: that's how close I think Colt Emerson is to being
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Speaker 1: on the Mariners twenty twenty six. We're going to win
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Speaker 1: the World Series roster is that I think if there
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Speaker 1: was an injury now, they'd activate him. Wow, I really do.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, and I think, I mean, you don't offer
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Speaker 2: him an eight year, ninety five million dollar contract with
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Speaker 2: a ninth year option if you're not planning on having
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Speaker 2: him up here soon. So that wouldn't surprise me. I
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Speaker 2: mean I was thinking when they even when they did that,
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Speaker 2: I was like, well, I feel like he'll be up
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Speaker 2: here in the next two weeks maybe when that contract came.
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Speaker 1: Maybe I've said this the entire process. When they feel
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Speaker 1: these ready to be one of the starting nine because
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Speaker 1: you're not bringing him up and then put them in
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Speaker 1: a platoon role or a you know, a bench roll
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Speaker 1: or anything like that. Nope, when they feel he's one
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Speaker 1: of the nine best hitters everyday players in this organization,
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Speaker 1: because they don't want to rush it too much and
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Speaker 1: then he struggles because they don't want to have to
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Speaker 1: experience sending him back down. Right, They want him ready
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Speaker 1: because when he comes up, he's here for good, okay,
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Speaker 1: And so that's another reason why they're taking a little
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Speaker 1: bit more time to get there. But I think right
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Speaker 1: now they believe he's one of the nine best players
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Speaker 1: in this organization, like he is major league ready. But
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Speaker 1: let's make a little bit more sure, because we just
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Speaker 1: don't want that experience of him struggling so severely in
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Speaker 1: a championship or bust kind of year that we have
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Speaker 1: to then pull him off the team. And what is
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Speaker 1: that going to do to with Psyche and what is
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Speaker 1: that going to do pr wise, because we just signed
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Speaker 1: him to an eight year, ninety five.
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Speaker 2: Million Yeah, then you give all the Mariners fans reason
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Speaker 2: to be angry. Look at what they did. All it
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Speaker 2: is another Evan White situation. When it's not another Evan
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Speaker 2: White situation.
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Speaker 1: So they're buying some time with that, making sure putting
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Speaker 1: him in the best position to succeed for all of
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Speaker 1: the reasons that I just stated, But I think in
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Speaker 1: their hearts and minds they already feel he's one of
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Speaker 1: the nine best players in this organization and that's how
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Speaker 1: they're going to treat him when he comes up. And
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Speaker 1: they'll figure out the role based on other circumstances, other
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Speaker 1: issues that are whether that's injury, or whether that's a slump,
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Speaker 1: or whether that's just a guy that they're not altogether
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Speaker 1: married to for now and into the future, and there
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Speaker 1: might be I'm not going to speculate on who that
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Speaker 1: might be at this stage, but there's a guy they
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Speaker 1: have in mind that if he's just not a part
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Speaker 1: of their future like Emerson is, that they'll sacrifice that
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Speaker 1: guy for the opportunity to get Emerson's clock started. So
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Speaker 1: that's my broad brushstroke of this entire thing.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and I mean, as a Mariners fan, I'm very
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Speaker 2: excited just to see because it's an added element. Right
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Speaker 2: want You're watching your team, You're watching them play, hopefully
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Speaker 2: getting wins, but on top of it, you know, You've
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Speaker 2: now got this excitement of when is he coming up
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Speaker 2: and what's going to happen here? And and when he
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Speaker 2: comes up, like how big of an impact is he
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Speaker 2: going to make immediately? I mean, it's an entire new thing.
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Speaker 2: It's like you just are going to get this great
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Speaker 2: addition to your team early on.
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Speaker 1: Now, I had Peter Tweeter send me a nice interesting
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Speaker 1: texts like weren't they talking about this with Jared Kellnick two?
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Speaker 2: And got a couple of questions about that.
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Speaker 1: And how much would that look like it would have backfired.
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Speaker 1: I think it's a great point. I think it's a
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Speaker 1: fair point, and I think it belongs in the conversation.
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Speaker 1: The only pushback I would give on that is I
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Speaker 1: don't know how far down the road they had gotten
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Speaker 1: with Jared Kelnick. I think it was thrown out there
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Speaker 1: as a possibility and Kelnick kind of shot it down
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Speaker 1: himself publicly. I'm not sure that they were at the
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Speaker 1: point with him. I could be wrong, could be wrong.
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Speaker 1: I'm not saying that I know, but I'm not sure
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Speaker 1: they were at the point with him where they were sure.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I had a couple of conversations and back
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Speaker 1: to back springs with Scott Servis. I mean, the first
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Speaker 1: time I ever asked Goot Service about Jared Kelnick, he
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Speaker 1: just looked at me like, have you met him? That's
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Speaker 1: what he said, have you met him? And it wasn't
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Speaker 1: like it wasn't like ripping on him. It was this
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Speaker 1: cat's different. This dude has a different way that he walks, talks, acts,
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Speaker 1: conducts himself. And they already knew that. The Yeah, the
16:33
Speaker 1: talent is all there, but we got to get the
16:36
Speaker 1: mentals right, and so I'm not sure they ever got
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Speaker 1: to the point where they were ready to hand him
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Speaker 1: a contract. Evan White was as I mentioned yesterday, I
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Speaker 1: think that was an example of John Stanton wanted to
16:48
Speaker 1: sign those kinds of deals. That's the kind of stuff
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Speaker 1: that he wanted to do. And I do think they
16:53
Speaker 1: put the cart before the horse on him because they
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Speaker 1: thought clubhouse, Yes, first base, best defensive first base arguably
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Speaker 1: in the world already, so at least he's going to
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Speaker 1: give us that. And so I think that that was
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Speaker 1: John Stanton saying I want to establish and I think
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Speaker 1: they just got a little hasty with that sort of
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Speaker 1: approach to contracts. This one, I think is a lot
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Speaker 1: more thought out. I think Emerson checks way more boxes
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Speaker 1: than it either one of those guys, And so I'm
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Speaker 1: not trying to make excuses for them, but I do
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Speaker 1: think that that represents why this situation's a little bit
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Speaker 1: different than those other two.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, And I mean, you have to take risks, whether
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Speaker 2: we like it or not, right, and do they all
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Speaker 2: work out? No, That's why it's a risk. So they're
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Speaker 2: taking this risk. They think that they've calculated it very
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Speaker 2: well and that it's less risky. And there you go.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and I mentioned this yesterday and I'm just going
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Speaker 1: to go through it quickly. Here are the reasons why,
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Speaker 1: potentially that they are doing this now because I know
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Speaker 1: a lot of people are freaked out about it. Number One,
17:57
Speaker 1: there's a collective bargaining agreement change that's going to happen
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Speaker 1: here in the next year or so, and it might
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Speaker 1: lead to a lockout, it might lead to a strike.
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Speaker 1: We don't know how much baseball we could potentially miss
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Speaker 1: because of this new collective bargaining agreement. Rob Manfred is
18:15
Speaker 1: bound and determined to get a salary cap into the sport.
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Speaker 1: There is never anything that the Baseball Association players associations
18:24
Speaker 1: ever pushed back on more. So, he's got his work
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Speaker 1: cut out for him, and it means he's going to
18:30
Speaker 1: have to dangle a very juicy, delicious carrot in front
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Speaker 1: of the players. What if what if one of the
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Speaker 1: things that they might be willing to offer the players
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Speaker 1: is earlier free agency? Right right now, you have to
18:45
Speaker 1: wait six years. What if Rob Manfred is so determined
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Speaker 1: to get a salary cap he's like, I'll make it four.
18:51
Speaker 1: I'll cut two years off of that four years, and
18:55
Speaker 1: you can become free agents if you give me a
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Speaker 1: salary cap all of a sudden player socia. Oh oh,
19:03
Speaker 1: that's interesting.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you can't just dismiss that, right.
19:06
Speaker 1: And I'm not saying that's happening. But what if? What if? So?
19:09
Speaker 1: What if organizations know this? What if Jerry and Justin
19:13
Speaker 1: know this? Now? It makes a whole hell of a
19:16
Speaker 1: lot more sense. You just bought three years of his
19:19
Speaker 1: free agency from him already. What if it's really five? Yeah?
19:23
Speaker 2: What?
19:23
Speaker 1: Great?
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Speaker 3: Yeah?
19:24
Speaker 1: I mean what I mean? Want to talk about stealing.
19:27
Speaker 1: I think they've stolen. On the face on its face,
19:30
Speaker 1: I think they stolen with this contract. I think the
19:32
Speaker 1: agent did him as his service.
19:35
Speaker 2: Thank you.
19:35
Speaker 1: But if they're if maybe the baseball people know that
19:40
Speaker 1: what changes might be possible in the future, and that
19:44
Speaker 1: is encouraging organizations to sign deals like this, because I
19:48
Speaker 1: can promise you it's not the last one. Connor Griffin
19:52
Speaker 1: from Pittsburgh, JJ Weatherhold from Saint Louis, Kevin McGonagall from Detroit,
19:58
Speaker 1: they're all going to be off contract. They're all working
20:01
Speaker 1: on deals on those guys to get them signed. And
20:05
Speaker 1: Connor Griffin has not made his debut either, So other
20:08
Speaker 1: teams are lining up to do the exact same thing.
20:10
Speaker 1: In a couple of cases, they already have. I said
20:13
Speaker 1: it yesterday. Milwaukee already did it with Cooper Pratt, who's
20:16
Speaker 1: not near the prospect that Emerson is, and he did
20:19
Speaker 1: it in the same week. They just did it three
20:21
Speaker 1: days before the Mariners signed Emerson. So this is something
20:25
Speaker 1: that all organizations, at least the mid to small market
20:28
Speaker 1: organizations are considering right now and are doing at a
20:31
Speaker 1: more rapid pace. And I think they know something. I
20:35
Speaker 1: think they know something about the future, and it's why
20:38
Speaker 1: it's become such an impetus in the sport. And just
20:42
Speaker 1: the final thing that I will say, if this is
20:45
Speaker 1: happening you know, think about the JSN contract. What did
20:49
Speaker 1: we say about the JSN contract? Sign him. Now, The
20:52
Speaker 1: longer you wait, the more expensive that he gets, Well,
20:55
Speaker 1: just give him the next brick in the road. And
20:57
Speaker 1: he took it. He took the next high contract. He
21:01
Speaker 1: didn't try to break the mold. He just took the
21:03
Speaker 1: next highest contract. He just became the highest paid receiver
21:06
Speaker 1: in the National Football League. And he's going to be
21:09
Speaker 1: surpassed by the next superstar. We thought it was Nikuah,
21:13
Speaker 1: but he's on goofers and so we thought that maybe
21:19
Speaker 1: that was gonna be. But he just took the next
21:22
Speaker 1: brick in the road. Well, if you know that's how
21:25
Speaker 1: the cars are aligning, why wouldn't you be the first.
21:27
Speaker 1: Why wouldn't you want to get ouhead of Pittsburgh and
21:29
Speaker 1: the Connor Griffin contract and Saint Louis and the JJ
21:32
Speaker 1: Weatherholt contract and Detroit and the Kevin McGonagall contract, be
21:36
Speaker 1: the one that sets the tone rather than chase the money.
21:39
Speaker 1: And I think that's another splendid reason why the Mariners
21:43
Speaker 1: signed Emerson, even though it makes a lot of Mariner
21:46
Speaker 1: fans uncomfortable.
21:47
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it seems to be making a lot of
21:49
Speaker 2: them uncomfortable. But yeah, I just think in that case, yes,
21:52
Speaker 2: you're saving yourselves money if you have to now wait
21:55
Speaker 2: or if you wait for those contracts to come out. Now,
21:58
Speaker 2: you're allowing him to have the leverage to say, well,
22:02
Speaker 2: look at what Pittsburgh did, Look at what this team did,
22:04
Speaker 2: Look at what this team did. I want more.
22:06
Speaker 1: Yeah, speaking Connor Griffin, I just saw breaking news. He
22:09
Speaker 1: just got called up. He's gonna debut tomorrow for the Pirates.
22:13
Speaker 1: I think he's nineteen years old.
22:14
Speaker 2: Wow.
22:14
Speaker 1: Yeah, So there you go.
22:16
Speaker 2: Big moment.
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Speaker 1: All right, Uh, it is Draft miss. We have a
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Speaker 1: brand new feature that we will debut next. It's Santa's Backsack.
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Speaker 4: Let's not waste that pick this year.
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Speaker 1: Oh I hear you.
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Speaker 2: Thanks you want to play the piano.
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Speaker 1: Oh, I wish I could. I could have one way.
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Speaker 4: Fans will celebrate and others disapprove. Analysts look great each
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Speaker 3: Were on the magical time of the Yeah, the pick
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Speaker 1: Yeah ah, good morning, happy draft this everyone, chuck Unbox
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Speaker 1: I always wanted to play the piano. I wish I
23:42
Speaker 1: would have dedicated myself to it earlier in life. Or
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Speaker 1: always have to be like diseases, gros, stuff grows stuff.
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Speaker 1: Why couldn't I like sleep with hor amos and then
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Speaker 1: wake up the next morning? Oh my gosh, I think
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Speaker 1: I caught something from you.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that would have been a lot different.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: I can play like three songs on the piano, but
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Speaker 2: none of them fully through.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, anyway, that's our draft miss classic. We have
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Speaker 1: other DRAFTMAS songs we've yet to bring back up off
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Speaker 1: the album.
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Speaker 2: I just went and found them all.
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Speaker 1: Okay, good got we had more. Yeah, we've got more.
24:28
Speaker 1: We seem to add one every year, but I don't
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Speaker 1: know that that one's number one for years. Right there?
24:35
Speaker 1: Excellent song our draft, Miss Carol. And so yes here
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Speaker 1: we are day number two of the Draftmas season here
24:43
Speaker 1: on Chuckabuck in the morning. We'll get you ready for
24:45
Speaker 1: April twenty third, as only we do. And we have
24:49
Speaker 1: a brand new feature this year to introduce. It is
24:51
Speaker 1: called Santa's Backsack. And the reason is we're doing a
24:57
Speaker 1: little shorter. We only have three weeks. I mean, we're
24:59
Speaker 1: three weeks away from the NFL Draft. I don't know
25:01
Speaker 1: if we're going to be able to get to every
25:03
Speaker 1: position in the draft, miss Catalog, in three weeks time.
25:06
Speaker 1: And so I thought to myself, well, maybe I won't
25:10
Speaker 1: have Maybe we won't review the running back and cornerback
25:15
Speaker 1: positions because we need to talk about them so much
25:19
Speaker 1: between now and the twenty third. Maybe we just divide
25:23
Speaker 1: those up equally over the next three weeks, practically talk
25:27
Speaker 1: about running backs available in the draft and cornerbacks available
25:30
Speaker 1: in the draft on a daily basis, because those seem
25:34
Speaker 1: to be the two areas, along with edge rusher that
25:37
Speaker 1: are in most need for a Super Bowl champion. And
25:40
Speaker 1: so today we just take a look at backs. I mean,
25:43
Speaker 1: we can't look at edge rushers in a segment called
25:45
Speaker 1: Santa's backsack.
25:47
Speaker 2: Oh, that'd be weird.
25:47
Speaker 1: The only thing in the sacker backs Yeah, it's a
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Speaker 1: back sack full of backs. It's a sack full of backs.
25:53
Speaker 1: It's a backsack. Yeah. And so let's take a look
25:56
Speaker 1: at a running back from Santa's backsack, and that is
25:59
Speaker 1: jadar In Price. We just had Eric at home on
26:03
Speaker 1: in our last hour. He has Judarian Price mocked to
26:07
Speaker 1: the Seahawks, not in the first round, in the second round,
26:10
Speaker 1: sixty fourth overall. But most mocks don't have Jadarian Price
26:14
Speaker 1: out of Notre Dame lasting that long. I asked Greg
26:18
Speaker 1: Bell about the running back position and how far down
26:23
Speaker 1: might John Schneider trade and still get the running back
26:27
Speaker 1: of his choice.
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Speaker 5: The question will be, of course, will the player they
26:32
Speaker 5: still would have taken it thirty two be available down
26:35
Speaker 5: to the top of the second round that they trade
26:37
Speaker 5: down to. And there is a lot of smoke around
26:42
Speaker 5: a running back, a Notre Dame running back Jadarian Price.
26:48
Speaker 5: A lot of people have him rated as the fortieth
26:50
Speaker 5: so overall pick or talent in this draft. That doesn't
26:55
Speaker 5: mean he'll go forty some because of needs and teams
26:57
Speaker 5: that will you don't we all know that doesn't go
27:00
Speaker 5: down the list from one to forty or fifty or
27:03
Speaker 5: sixty of player's taking how they're ranked. It depends on
27:07
Speaker 5: what the needs are and where you draft a player,
27:09
Speaker 5: and a quarterback, especially who might only be the fifteenth
27:12
Speaker 5: or twentieth overall ranking, we'll get in the top three
27:15
Speaker 5: or four because of the position. Having said all that,
27:18
Speaker 5: a guy like Price could potentially go to the Seahawks
27:21
Speaker 5: at top around two. And if so, that's what the
27:25
Speaker 5: Seahawks would make that type of So that's the calculation
27:28
Speaker 5: they're doing. How far down can we move and still
27:30
Speaker 5: get the needs that we need?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think he's gonna make it all the
27:34
Speaker 1: way to sixty four. People really seem to be impressed
27:38
Speaker 1: by this young.
27:39
Speaker 2: Man, and that seems like it would be a big
27:41
Speaker 2: drop draft.
27:42
Speaker 1: Miss Catalog says, that's a three dollars Schneiderbuck player right now.
27:46
Speaker 2: That ain't at sixty four.
27:47
Speaker 1: No, that's not at sixty four. Five eleven, two hundred
27:50
Speaker 1: and three pounds four point four nine forty thirty five introverts,
27:54
Speaker 1: so he's an athlete backed up Jeremiah Love. I think
27:58
Speaker 1: that's more positive than negative because he didn't take the
28:02
Speaker 1: wear and tear most running backs do at the college level.
28:06
Speaker 1: I mean, Terrell Davis was like the third string running
28:08
Speaker 1: back at Georgia and he just yeah, I worked out
28:12
Speaker 1: tremendously for the Broncos. I mean, I'm sure that he
28:15
Speaker 1: just found a different gear as a professional, but he
28:19
Speaker 1: was just so fresh. He didn't take any damage while
28:22
Speaker 1: he was in collegees and never got to see the field,
28:24
Speaker 1: and he didn't have nil transfer portal stuff back then,
28:28
Speaker 1: so you know, guys didn't move on a whim to
28:32
Speaker 1: get more playing time. Here's a guy, and here's a
28:35
Speaker 1: guy Engendarian Price that obviously could have gone just about
28:39
Speaker 1: anywhere in the country. He's considered the second best running
28:41
Speaker 1: back in the draft and decided, no, I'm going to
28:43
Speaker 1: stay here in Notre Dame, get my degree at Notre Dame,
28:45
Speaker 1: and I'm just going to keep backing up Jeremiah Love.
28:47
Speaker 1: I think an agent would tell him that's a pretty
28:49
Speaker 1: smart strategy, because for a running back, to save the
28:53
Speaker 1: wear and tear on your body, you're probably hitting the
28:56
Speaker 1: NFL fresher than most running backs, So I think it's
28:58
Speaker 1: more positive than negative that he was a career backup
29:01
Speaker 1: at Notre Dame and the guy who was backing up
29:03
Speaker 1: is Adrian Peterson. For goodness sake, basically six point two
29:07
Speaker 1: yards per carry when he did get the ball at
29:09
Speaker 1: Notre Dame described as buttery smooth. I love my running
29:12
Speaker 1: backs to be described as buttery smooth. Yeah, I don't
29:15
Speaker 1: want that. Yeah, I don't want him to be described
29:18
Speaker 1: as chunky.
29:20
Speaker 2: No, he doesn't have the same appeal for sure.
29:24
Speaker 1: Eric Edolmo told us just last hour he's got him
29:27
Speaker 1: sixty fourth overall to the Seahawks, So he does like
29:31
Speaker 1: the pairing. He just thinks Price is going to fall
29:33
Speaker 1: a little further than what the other mockers are saying
29:36
Speaker 1: right now. I don't. I think Greg's got the right
29:40
Speaker 1: of it if that is your guy, and that's a
29:42
Speaker 1: big if. I think that you do move out of
29:45
Speaker 1: that first round, try to get somewhere in the upper
29:48
Speaker 1: third of the second round, and hope that you can
29:52
Speaker 1: grab Jadarian Price. But I know John and I don't
29:55
Speaker 1: think he's going to be sold on just one guy.
29:57
Speaker 1: It's not going to be Jadarian Price or bust. If
29:59
Speaker 1: it is, you take him. If he's available at thirty two.
30:02
Speaker 1: I'm sure he's got on his board a group of
30:05
Speaker 1: running backs that he'd be happy getting in the second
30:08
Speaker 1: to third round, and he'll grab one of those guys
30:11
Speaker 1: before day number two comes to a close. All right,
30:14
Speaker 1: What else is in Santa's backsack? It's not just running
30:18
Speaker 1: backs in there.
30:18
Speaker 2: Oh really, there's others in there.
30:20
Speaker 1: There's cornerbacks in there as well.
30:21
Speaker 2: It's quite strong.
30:22
Speaker 1: Oh I know, I know. He's got unreal strength.
30:26
Speaker 2: He really does.
30:27
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, it's like Aaron Judge had a baby with
30:31
Speaker 1: Miles Garrett.
30:33
Speaker 2: That's exactly how I was going to describe it.
30:36
Speaker 1: Amon Terrell was the other player that ed Hole mentioned
30:39
Speaker 1: in his two round mock draft going to the Seahawks.
30:42
Speaker 1: This one does fit. This seems to be on board
30:46
Speaker 1: with most of the mockers out there. The Clemson product
30:50
Speaker 1: that could fall as far as thirty two. I've seen
30:53
Speaker 1: him go higher than that, so go lower than that.
30:56
Speaker 1: But that seems about the right area. Five eleven six pounds.
31:01
Speaker 1: That's not a Pete Carroll cornerback, I'll tell you that much.
31:05
Speaker 1: What is a Mike McDonald cornerback. Mike McDonald. Cornerback, as
31:08
Speaker 1: Greg has told us and many others, is about versatility.
31:11
Speaker 1: I want a guy that I can move all around
31:14
Speaker 1: the football field. I want him to play inside. I
31:16
Speaker 1: want him to be able to play outside. I might
31:18
Speaker 1: even put him over the top if I have to. Well,
31:21
Speaker 1: that's basically the number one attribute used to describe Aban Terrell,
31:29
Speaker 1: who's considered one of the best cornerbacks in this draft,
31:32
Speaker 1: and that is the athleticism to play inside, outside, to
31:38
Speaker 1: be that versatile weapon in your secondary. That makes a
31:43
Speaker 1: lot of sense to me. Doesn't have the ideal size,
31:45
Speaker 1: but neither does Devin Witherspoon, Right, that's working out well,
31:48
Speaker 1: and that's worked out tremendously. I mean, he's not Devin Witherspoon.
31:52
Speaker 1: But when you're thinking about having to replace a Reek
31:55
Speaker 1: Woollen and you can never have enough cornerback depth and
31:58
Speaker 1: you also have a Kobe Bryant missing now from your secondary,
32:01
Speaker 1: I gotta believe they're going to go early in the
32:05
Speaker 1: secondary in this draft. Wouldn't be surprised if that is
32:08
Speaker 1: the pick in the first round, is to get a
32:11
Speaker 1: cornerback in the first round, and so Avian Terrell does
32:15
Speaker 1: make a lot of sense to me to go to
32:17
Speaker 1: the Seattle Seahawks. All right, three dollars play three dollars dollars, Yeah.
32:22
Speaker 2: That is almost half of my schneiderbucks.
32:24
Speaker 1: But well, that's the going rate for a late first
32:27
Speaker 1: round draft pay.
32:28
Speaker 2: It's not like we're making up the prices. So I mean,
32:31
Speaker 2: if that's the going rate, that's the going rate. Not
32:33
Speaker 2: much I can do about that.
32:34
Speaker 1: And I do think that he is a candidate to
32:36
Speaker 1: possibly fall out of the first round early in the
32:39
Speaker 1: second round, but probably no later than mid second round.
32:42
Speaker 1: So again, not just a candidate at thirty two, but
32:45
Speaker 1: also I think a candidate if the Seahawks know what
32:50
Speaker 1: other people are thinking, which I've heard that they do, Okay,
32:54
Speaker 1: then a candidate to also move back somewhere into the
32:58
Speaker 1: second round and you still might be able to get him.
33:00
Speaker 1: So that does seem like a very interesting couple of guys.
33:04
Speaker 1: And that's why we dealt with Jadarian Price and Avion
33:07
Speaker 1: Terrell is the first two people that we pulled out
33:10
Speaker 1: of Santa's backsack.
33:11
Speaker 2: And that was just coincidence, right, No, it was done.
33:14
Speaker 1: That was completely by design.
33:15
Speaker 2: Oh okay, you didn't just reach in and be like
33:18
Speaker 2: oh look what I found.
33:20
Speaker 1: No, but maybe we'll do that tomorrow.
33:22
Speaker 2: That's all right. I kind of liked this way. I
33:23
Speaker 2: mean no, I think you're right.
33:25
Speaker 1: I think that's cute. All right.
33:26
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've got to get you a Santa sack. Yeah,
33:29
Speaker 2: I've got one at home. I'll bring it.
33:31
Speaker 1: Santa's backsack could sound gross.
33:34
Speaker 2: It does, actually it does. Yeah, that's why I like it.
33:41
Speaker 1: But yeah, it's just a big, giant red sack filled
33:44
Speaker 1: with running backs and cornerback. So wherever anybody else's mind went,
33:47
Speaker 1: that's on you.
33:48
Speaker 2: Mine was straight in the gutter.
33:49
Speaker 1: All right. Coming up next major sporting event this Saturday,
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Speaker 1: I really think that a legitimate shot and almost did
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Speaker 1: win the national championship. That's phenomenal. There have been a
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Speaker 1: few over the years where I don't know if I've
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Speaker 1: ever bought the fourteen seed or the twelve seed getting
36:06
Speaker 1: in This to me is a perfect collection. You got
36:09
Speaker 1: a couple of ones, you got a two, you got
36:12
Speaker 1: a three. They're all playing probably their best basketball of
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Speaker 1: the entire season right now. This is quite the collision course.
36:20
Speaker 1: I mean, they were smoking, with the exception of Yukon,
36:22
Speaker 1: everybody's just smoking all of their opponents to get to
36:25
Speaker 1: this point. So I think it's an outstanding final four.
36:29
Speaker 1: And Michigan Arizona is going to be possibly one of
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Speaker 1: the great games that we've ever seen on paper, it
36:36
Speaker 1: seems to be shaping up that way. But Illinois and
36:38
Speaker 1: Yukon's fascinating itself, There's no question about it. And I
36:44
Speaker 1: think it's kind of good. I mean, I grew up
36:46
Speaker 1: in Illinois. I grew up an Illinois fan. It's kind
36:49
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36:51
Speaker 1: is rooting for because no one wants to see the
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36:54
Speaker 2: Ever again, yeah, exactly, everybody is anti Dan Hurley or
36:57
Speaker 2: most people, most sane people, and so I'm definitely cheering
37:02
Speaker 2: for Illinois. But I was trying to think, like, which
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Speaker 2: game am I more excited to see?
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Speaker 1: Good question?
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Speaker 2: And I don't know that I could choose. I'm really
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Speaker 2: excited to see him both.
37:11
Speaker 1: I gotta go Illinois Yukon. Yeah, but I've got some
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Speaker 1: personal rooting answer. Rice. Sure, the other game is better
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Speaker 1: on paper, but this one's just not bad. And this
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Speaker 1: one's fantastic. It's so good, even the coaching matchup. I mean,
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Speaker 1: I think Dan Hurley probably does coach circles around Brad Underwood,
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Speaker 1: but you want to see an angry off Oh my gosh,
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Speaker 1: there's nobody that gets angry or in a game than
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Speaker 1: Brad Underwood. You're gonna have two people with really bad
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Speaker 1: tempers on the sideline. So if you like that sort
37:38
Speaker 1: of thing, you're a Loop Panela type man. You got
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Speaker 1: two angry ELFs over on the sideline.
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Speaker 2: One of them kicks dirt on the other one.
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Speaker 1: That'd be great. I think they definitely got the advantage
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Speaker 1: coaching wise, and they've got the experience factor. I mean,
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Speaker 1: I'm a little surprised Illinois is a two and a
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Speaker 1: half point favorite in this game.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I didn't know that they were.
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Speaker 1: I think they're playing better basketball going into the game,
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Speaker 1: but that's just based on the fact that they've just
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Speaker 1: been steamrolling people here in the tournament, where Yukon's had
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Speaker 1: a couple close ones. But I'm still surprised. I mean
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Speaker 1: that Caravans won a national championships. The heck of a player.
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Speaker 1: There's no doubt that the freshman Mullins that hit the
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Speaker 1: game winning shot, it's going to come in riding high
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Speaker 1: Terras Reed Junior, their big man down low, has been
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Speaker 1: about as good as anybody in this tournament. He had
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Speaker 1: one of the great tournament games of all time at
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Speaker 1: the beginning of the tournament, so they do present some problems,
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Speaker 1: but obviously Illinois does as well, and Keithon Woggler is
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Speaker 1: one of the best young players in college basketball. And
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Speaker 1: then they've got all the Eastern Europeans that hit threes
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Speaker 1: and protect the rim. That's sort of their secret to success.
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Speaker 1: So just an outstanding, fun matchup for Saturday. And I
38:56
Speaker 1: can't wait for your coming around.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm excited. It's going to be must watch television.
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Speaker 2: You do have Illinois still on your brack, I do.
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Speaker 2: I have him going to the championship, but with no
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Speaker 2: chance to win, right, No, I don't think I can win.
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Speaker 2: I mean I suppose, I don't know. I don't think
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Speaker 2: I can. But good call, though, Yeah, I mean, I'm
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Speaker 2: pretty smart at times.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I'm an Illinois fan and I watched a
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Speaker 1: lot of Illinois basketball this year, and I really like
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Speaker 1: this team. But I couldn't even bring myself to take
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Speaker 1: him all the way to the championship game.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I wouldn't say. I'd say it was smart to
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Speaker 2: pick him to go to the championship to face Arizona
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Speaker 2: and lose to Arizona. But how we got there on
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Speaker 2: the rest of it.
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Speaker 1: So you got Illinois and Arizona. Yeah, and you don't
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Speaker 1: have a shot.
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Speaker 2: Nope, I don't. I don't know. I don't I have
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Speaker 2: a I don't know because I don't haven't done enough
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Speaker 2: to figure out what everybody. I think I might still
39:44
Speaker 2: have a small chance because there's nobody ahead of me
39:47
Speaker 2: that I could see that has those two, But I
39:49
Speaker 2: might be so far behind, right from how terrible the
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Speaker 2: rest of my bracket was.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, but you you bunch up the points at the end.
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Speaker 2: Right, h I just don't know how many there are.
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Speaker 1: I mean usually you get like one point in round one,
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Speaker 1: this is the typical one, and then you get two
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Speaker 1: if you get it, and then it just keeps doubling.
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Speaker 1: So by the time you get to the championship game,
40:08
Speaker 1: it's like sixteen into the championship and then if you
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Speaker 1: have the champion, it's like thirty two.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, but there's a lot of people ahead of me
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Speaker 2: that have Arizona winning. They just don't have who Arizona
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Speaker 2: was playing, And so I think I'm so far behind
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Speaker 2: that I don't know I can make up the ground.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, but who else has a chance to get sixty
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Speaker 1: four possible points, yet right on their bracket. Right, So
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Speaker 1: all right, well, good luck to you. I really want
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Speaker 1: you to win that. I want you to be right
40:33
Speaker 1: about that.
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Speaker 2: Okay, thanks, Yeah, me too.
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Speaker 1: For a lot of reasons. Yeah, and Dan Hurley not
40:38
Speaker 1: winning is only the second est reason.
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Speaker 2: I just want him get angry again and take one
40:42
Speaker 2: jacket sleeve off his shoulder.
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Speaker 1: Underwood might fight him. I mean, Underwood looks like he's
40:46
Speaker 1: ready to punch somebody all times. I'm in Yeah, now
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Speaker 1: that there's a final form memory for you.
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Speaker 2: Yep.
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Speaker 1: Remember that year Brad Underwood got Dan Hurley and a
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Speaker 1: headlock and pummeled them three times in the all My coach.
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Speaker 2: Almost fought the coach from UCLA once. Was pretty pretty exciting.
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Speaker 1: Remember when he went old Nolan Ryan on Robin Ventura
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Speaker 1: on Dan Hurley's skull.
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Speaker 2: Let's do it?
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Speaker 1: Remember that?
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Speaker 2: Yeah?
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Speaker 1: All right, Angie Menjink joins us next. Can't wait for
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Speaker 1: our first baseball conversation of the new year with Angie.
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