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- 0:12Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, what a day. I hate keep up.
- 0:16Speaker 1: I mean, we talked about this a lot.
- 0:17Speaker 2: Yeah, it is a lot, and I still haven't got
- 0:19Speaker 2: to another huge story yet on the show today. And
- 0:21Speaker 2: I don't even feel like I did service to the
- 0:23Speaker 2: three topics that we've discussed because I felt like we
- 0:26Speaker 2: had to rush through them.
- 0:29Speaker 3: I need a drink.
- 0:30Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm gonna get one tonight.
- 0:33Speaker 2: It is Chuck, Buck and Ashley. It is a hump day.
- 0:36Speaker 2: We roll into our number two. We are a minute
- 0:38Speaker 2: and a half away from Greg Bell joining us and
- 0:41Speaker 2: seeing if he's hearing anything about Max Crosby perhaps the
- 0:44Speaker 2: Seahawks diving into trade discussions with the Las Vegas Raiders.
- 0:48Speaker 1: You heard me correctly.
- 0:49Speaker 2: Max Crosby is back with the Las Vegas Raiders after
- 0:53Speaker 2: the Baltimore Ravens nixed their trade yesterday, and many people
- 0:58Speaker 2: in the National Football are saying they smell a rat.
- 1:02Speaker 2: So far, people haven't attached their names to it, but
- 1:05Speaker 2: executives around the league are saying that the Ravens are
- 1:09Speaker 2: not playing fairly right now this week, and that's to
- 1:13Speaker 2: put it mildly. So we'll talk to Greg about that here.
- 1:16Speaker 2: In a matter of seconds, the Ravens also signed Trey Hendrickson,
- 1:19Speaker 2: which is only adding to the suspicion over why they
- 1:23Speaker 2: nixed the trade. They claim it was over medicals, but
- 1:26Speaker 2: a lot of people in the NFL are not buying it.
- 1:29Speaker 2: Some other news from your headlines, brought to you by
- 1:32Speaker 2: Frostbrewed Corps, Light Shoes Chill. The US lost and the
- 1:36Speaker 2: WBC last night to Team Italy, comprised entirely Americans, but.
- 1:41Speaker 1: Eight to six was the final score.
- 1:43Speaker 2: And maybe maybe the manager Mark Durosa did not understand
- 1:48Speaker 2: the pool play rules for advancement until late in the
- 1:52Speaker 2: game last night, because right now the US is looking
- 1:56Speaker 2: at elimination based on what happens tonight between between Italy
- 2:00Speaker 2: and Mexico in pool play. Randy and Cal have a issue.
- 2:06Speaker 2: We got a handshake gate on our hands, which we'll
- 2:08Speaker 2: talk about. At seven thirty, we'll give you the latest
- 2:12Speaker 2: on that front. The Big Ten tournament got started yesterday
- 2:15Speaker 2: and College Hoops U double play USC today at eleven thirty.
- 2:19Speaker 2: Of course, that is an elimination game, and in more
- 2:22Speaker 2: ways than one, neither of those teams have a chance
- 2:25Speaker 2: to get into the NCAA tournament unless they win the
- 2:28Speaker 2: entire Big ten. However, unlikely that seems to be. Bam
- 2:32Speaker 2: ade Bio scored eighty three points in a game last
- 2:35Speaker 2: night and he only needed to shoot seventy nine times
- 2:39Speaker 2: to do it, and I am not exaggerating. In the NHL,
- 2:43Speaker 2: the Predators four to two over the Kraken, who have
- 2:46Speaker 2: now lost three straight games and have played two games
- 2:49Speaker 2: since the NHL trading deadline without their trade deadline.
- 2:53Speaker 1: Acquisition, mister McMahon.
- 2:56Speaker 2: And so we sit here and wait for him, and
- 3:00Speaker 2: we get nervous over the fact that the Kraken.
- 3:02Speaker 1: Are seemingly once again in a slump.
- 3:05Speaker 2: NFL first day a free agency is today, believe it
- 3:08Speaker 2: or not, after forty eight hours of some hardcore tampering
- 3:13Speaker 2: that took place in the National Football League, Let's discuss
- 3:15Speaker 2: it all with Greg Bell.
- 3:17Speaker 4: With the Bell tolls.
- 3:18Speaker 5: It must be seven o'clock and time for twelfth Man
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- 3:34Speaker 5: Now with twelfth Man News, here's Greg Bell with Chuck
- 3:38Speaker 5: and bunt.
- 3:39Speaker 4: Come on in, Greg, good waiting.
- 3:41Speaker 1: I'm already exhausted, Greg, about a.
- 3:45Speaker 4: Lot of ground to cover. Who ever shows us today,
- 3:49Speaker 4: I do it. I do it. Greg.
- 3:50Speaker 1: I won't volunteer Bucky and Ashley for it, but I
- 3:53Speaker 1: do it. Do you think I would? I'm I'll listen
- 3:56Speaker 1: to you on the way home.
- 4:00Speaker 2: All right, Well, let's start with Max Crosby, because I mean,
- 4:05Speaker 2: it is crazy, fascinating, this entire story. And I don't
- 4:09Speaker 2: know if the Seahawks are involved in anyway. I don't
- 4:11Speaker 2: know if they've ever been involved in any way in
- 4:14Speaker 2: trying to see what making Max Crosby would cost them.
- 4:19Speaker 1: But what are you hearing?
- 4:21Speaker 2: Is this going to open up a door for John
- 4:23Speaker 2: Schneider to swoop in and maybe get a coveted defensive
- 4:28Speaker 2: end on the cheap potentially.
- 4:30Speaker 1: What's your outlook on all of this?
- 4:33Speaker 4: I don't think so. I mean, the reason that all
- 4:37Speaker 4: of this blew up is that he's still in the
- 4:40Speaker 4: early stages of niscus repair on his knee in January,
- 4:45Speaker 4: and the price that the Ravens paid for that exceeded
- 4:50Speaker 4: the risk for the risk exceeded to cost. I guess
- 4:53Speaker 4: would say so. I don't think the Seahorks would want
- 4:56Speaker 4: to take on any risk that involves giving up anything,
- 5:00Speaker 4: and we've talked about they don't have a lot to
- 5:02Speaker 4: give up anyway. And this whole thing would not even
- 5:09Speaker 4: happen if there wasn't this quote legal tampering period. It
- 5:12Speaker 4: actually began at the combat in Indianapolis two weeks ago.
- 5:15Speaker 4: If the league just said free agency starts on March
- 5:20Speaker 4: first or whatever, then they would do a physical and
- 5:26Speaker 4: sign a contract, or do the trade and a league
- 5:30Speaker 4: would aprove it or whatever. But when you have this
- 5:33Speaker 4: legal tampering period and you're allowed to strike deals and
- 5:37Speaker 4: agreements that aren't official to they're signed on today one pm,
- 5:41Speaker 4: then you have this gray area of time where you
- 5:44Speaker 4: can back out of deals that you've agreed to. And if,
- 5:48Speaker 4: for instance, free agency started on Monday, the Ravens wouldn't
- 5:51Speaker 4: have had a deal to back out of it. Just
- 5:57Speaker 4: I don't it looks terrible. Obviously, the optics are really bad.
- 6:01Speaker 4: The Ravens apparently just did not want to give up
- 6:05Speaker 4: two first round picks for a guy who was not
- 6:08Speaker 4: near healthy full healthy. But they knew that when they
- 6:12Speaker 4: struck the deal to begin with. They knew that he
- 6:14Speaker 4: had surgery in January. This just would seem like something
- 6:18Speaker 4: that if I was John Schneider, I'd stay completely away
- 6:21Speaker 4: from until they knew more, which means until his knee
- 6:23Speaker 4: gets recovered and he's at a rehab program and gets
- 6:27Speaker 4: in closer to the season, his price will go down.
- 6:30Speaker 4: I would suspect the longer he stays there, of course,
- 6:34Speaker 4: his camp's going to say he wants to play for
- 6:36Speaker 4: the Raiders and he's all in, and that's the way
- 6:38Speaker 4: it goes. But if I was John Schneider, I would
- 6:42Speaker 4: just sit back and watch how this develops and whether
- 6:45Speaker 4: the Raiders would be still willing to move him as
- 6:48Speaker 4: the season as it gets to August September.
- 6:51Speaker 6: I mean, with all of the things that happened around
- 6:55Speaker 6: the league after this, that they had initially agreed to this,
- 6:59Speaker 6: the Ravens and Raiders, you would think that it pushes
- 7:01Speaker 6: some people out because they're, well, we already spent our
- 7:04Speaker 6: money or we already went.
- 7:05Speaker 1: And got our guy.
- 7:06Speaker 6: And yet because the Raiders still, somehow, even though they
- 7:10Speaker 6: spent like a billion dollars in free agency already, they
- 7:13Speaker 6: still have room for him. Does that make it to
- 7:16Speaker 6: where his price isn't going to have to come down.
- 7:18Speaker 6: I mean you would think that it would if they
- 7:20Speaker 6: still want to get rid of them, or if they
- 7:22Speaker 6: still want to get that, But I mean I would
- 7:24Speaker 6: have to think teams, including the Seahawks, if the price
- 7:27Speaker 6: was right, if it was one first rounder versus two maybe,
- 7:31Speaker 6: and there was room in the cap that there's a
- 7:34Speaker 6: lot of teams that would still be interested or their
- 7:36Speaker 6: ears would perk back up knowing that he's back out
- 7:38Speaker 6: there on the trading block.
- 7:41Speaker 4: Well, unless they can get the Raiders to pay money.
- 7:44Speaker 4: The contract is what it is, and if you trade
- 7:47Speaker 4: for him, then you're absorbing that money. Now, the Raiders
- 7:51Speaker 4: trading Geno Smith back to the Jets, which in itself
- 7:54Speaker 4: is his own weird story, is an example of the
- 7:58Speaker 4: only way the Raiders could get that done was to
- 7:59Speaker 4: pay almost all all but three million of eighteen million
- 8:03Speaker 4: to do it. So unless the Raiders would do that
- 8:06Speaker 4: for Max Crosby, it doesn't. I mean, you either have
- 8:10Speaker 4: the cap space that you don't to absorb Max Crosby's contract.
- 8:15Speaker 4: The Cowboys, for instance, is a perfect example of what
- 8:17Speaker 4: you just said. Okay, we're not in on Crosby. All
- 8:21Speaker 4: reports were the Cowboys offered a first and a second
- 8:24Speaker 4: round pick, and Raiders said no, And so they went
- 8:28Speaker 4: and got Gary from the Packers. And now there's their
- 8:31Speaker 4: pass rusher. Well, now the Cowboys aren't in the market
- 8:34Speaker 4: for Max Crosby because they've got their pass rusher. They
- 8:37Speaker 4: weren't seeking from another team. Yes, there's other examples of
- 8:42Speaker 4: other teams. Certainly, I'm sure that we're interested in Crosby.
- 8:47Speaker 4: And where the Seahawks. John Schneider calls. We always had
- 8:50Speaker 4: about this. He kicks the tires and calls and once
- 8:52Speaker 4: he takes pride actually in wanting to be involved in everything,
- 8:56Speaker 4: and so would I'm pretty so that he called the
- 9:01Speaker 4: Raiders and has called the Raiders since this all blew
- 9:04Speaker 4: up in Baltimore last night. I think the smart play here,
- 9:09Speaker 4: not for just John Snyder, but everybody in the league
- 9:11Speaker 4: is to wait. Wait to see if he truly wants
- 9:14Speaker 4: to play for the Raiders, whether the Raiders truly want
- 9:16Speaker 4: him to play, wait to see if he does recover
- 9:19Speaker 4: as they're saying he's going to, and waiting to see
- 9:23Speaker 4: if the Raiders would still want to trade him, and
- 9:25Speaker 4: if they want to trade him in the summer or
- 9:28Speaker 4: during or close to the season, the price would absolutely
- 9:31Speaker 4: be coming down from two first round picks. So I
- 9:35Speaker 4: don't know why there'd be any urgency on anybody's part
- 9:38Speaker 4: to try to trade for him right now after what
- 9:39Speaker 4: just happened.
- 9:40Speaker 2: I would imagine Max Crosby's tired of people telling him
- 9:43Speaker 2: he's hurt when he doesn't feel like he is. I mean,
- 9:46Speaker 2: this seems to be a situation with a Max at
- 9:49Speaker 2: this point. Greg Bell is with us.
- 9:51Speaker 4: He's had a surgery, right, yeah, I don't January.
- 9:54Speaker 1: But the point is got to recover from him.
- 9:56Speaker 2: The point is that he's made headlines by playing basketball
- 10:00Speaker 2: on game day because he was told he was too
- 10:02Speaker 2: injured to play, and now he's been traded to Baltimore.
- 10:05Speaker 2: He's celebrated it like mad and has been told, note,
- 10:08Speaker 2: you're too hurt to be traded for. So Max Crosby's
- 10:11Speaker 2: not buying the story. I'll say that, I don't know
- 10:13Speaker 2: if anybody else is buying it, but I know Max
- 10:15Speaker 2: Crosby isn't.
- 10:16Speaker 1: Greg Bell is with us, our Seahawks insider right here
- 10:19Speaker 1: on Chucking Buck in the morning. So let's talk about
- 10:21Speaker 1: Rerek Woolan.
- 10:22Speaker 2: He signs yesterday with the Philadelphia Eagles.
- 10:26Speaker 1: It feels like a pretty good fit.
- 10:28Speaker 2: Unfortunately, I you know, Philadelphia is pretty good at this
- 10:32Speaker 2: whole coaching thing and developing and taking raw talent and
- 10:36Speaker 2: turning it into special players. So unfortunately that seems like
- 10:40Speaker 2: a really good fit for Reek Wooland right now it is.
- 10:46Speaker 4: But it is also very interesting. You only got one year,
- 10:49Speaker 4: and it tells you that the Eagles are not even
- 10:51Speaker 4: convinced him as the long term option obviously, and that
- 10:55Speaker 4: they want to see what he's like in Okay, after
- 10:59Speaker 4: you played for us for you season, will decide what
- 11:01Speaker 4: your true value is worth over time. Now, twelve million's
- 11:05Speaker 4: not anything to sneeze at, and it's what is it
- 11:09Speaker 4: two and a half times what he made up to this.
- 11:11Speaker 4: It's more than he made in four years, and it's
- 11:13Speaker 4: two and a half times what he made last year.
- 11:16Speaker 4: The Seahawks decided on Josh Job. That was obvious when
- 11:19Speaker 4: Joe decided to come back at eight million dollars a
- 11:21Speaker 4: year the day before, and they made their choice. They
- 11:25Speaker 4: weren't going to pay Woolman and Job free agent money
- 11:30Speaker 4: to do that. Three starting quarterbacks in two spots again
- 11:33Speaker 4: with Witherspoon, that doesn't make any financial sense. You win
- 11:37Speaker 4: the Super Bowl doing that three with two, and then
- 11:40Speaker 4: you make your choice. You can't pay everyone, and not
- 11:42Speaker 4: everyone comes back and they chose Job, and they chose
- 11:46Speaker 4: them because they love his man demn cover skills. Julian
- 11:50Speaker 4: Love then locker clean out day two days after the
- 11:53Speaker 4: Super Bowl was talking to us about that and said that, look,
- 11:57Speaker 4: you can't Mike McDonald your way out of playing quarterback
- 11:59Speaker 4: for us. When we put you on an islandvice yourself
- 12:02Speaker 4: with receivers. You got a man up and defend the
- 12:05Speaker 4: ball and defend the receiver and knock passes down. We
- 12:07Speaker 4: can't scheme through that. We can scheme through safeties, over
- 12:11Speaker 4: the top and blitz disguises, but when we put you
- 12:14Speaker 4: one on one outside as the corner, you got to
- 12:16Speaker 4: perform in job. Does that? Does that better than woman does? Consistent,
- 12:21Speaker 4: more consistently. I should say. Woolan has some splashier plays, faster, taller,
- 12:26Speaker 4: but the steady and more consistent cover guy was Job
- 12:30Speaker 4: and that's what McDonald wanted and loved about him, and
- 12:34Speaker 4: that's why they chose Joe. And once they decided to
- 12:36Speaker 4: pay him, then it was up to Woolan to be
- 12:38Speaker 4: a free agent se up to the teams. It is
- 12:40Speaker 4: interesting that with all of his upside physical skills and
- 12:45Speaker 4: how he's still somewhat raw in a position he didn't
- 12:47Speaker 4: move to until halfway through his college career, that he
- 12:50Speaker 4: only commanded a one year deal ultimately, and he'll bet
- 12:53Speaker 4: on himself and see if he can get the bigger
- 12:55Speaker 4: pay day next year, and the Eagles will have the
- 12:57Speaker 4: front review of that.
- 13:01Speaker 6: Gino Smith ends up going back to New York. I
- 13:05Speaker 6: think there was like twenty quarterbacks between his first tenure
- 13:08Speaker 6: and now his second ten.
- 13:10Speaker 4: Year team total.
- 13:11Speaker 6: I mean it was an eighteen in between, something like
- 13:13Speaker 6: that eve in nine years. Yeah, pretty impressive. And yet
- 13:18Speaker 6: is it gonna work second time around in New York?
- 13:21Speaker 4: Man not until they get an offensive line. They got
- 13:23Speaker 4: skill players. Breist Hall is gonna come back now, and
- 13:28Speaker 4: they've got skill players Garrett Wilson, but their offensive line
- 13:32Speaker 4: has been a wreck for a long time. We complained
- 13:34Speaker 4: about offensive line player in Seattle the Jets. The Jets
- 13:39Speaker 4: and the Raiders have two of the worst offensive lines
- 13:41Speaker 4: ever assembled. And until they fix those, they're gonna be
- 13:45Speaker 4: bad teams. You can't win in the league with the
- 13:47Speaker 4: offensive lines they have and Smith in his career when
- 13:51Speaker 4: he has poor offensive line player makes mistakes. Led the
- 13:54Speaker 4: NFL with interceptions at seventeen this past season. We saw
- 13:58Speaker 4: in Seattle when he was pressured stakes crushing game and
- 14:02Speaker 4: losing mistakes. I wish the best for him. I hope
- 14:07Speaker 4: he gets offensive lineman. I keep him from getting killed.
- 14:11Speaker 2: I think as long as he doesn't get punched by
- 14:12Speaker 2: a teammate, it's a success.
- 14:14Speaker 4: Yeah. I wasn't even going to bring that up, but
- 14:16Speaker 4: I was there. Is that. I'm sure he'll be reminded
- 14:19Speaker 4: at one hundred thousand times.
- 14:20Speaker 2: I know that's yeah, But I mean that is going
- 14:24Speaker 2: to be the worst case scenario if he goes back
- 14:26Speaker 2: there and a teammate doesn't like something he says and
- 14:28Speaker 2: pops him. I mean, you want to talk about full circle.
- 14:31Speaker 4: What's interesting about that whole dale is again, he wouldn't
- 14:34Speaker 4: be a Jet if the Raiders didn't agree to pay
- 14:36Speaker 4: all but three million of eighteen million dollars this year.
- 14:39Speaker 4: So that'll tell you that there wasn't exactly a robust
- 14:44Speaker 4: market for him all right in wild right, three teams
- 14:47Speaker 4: in twelve months. Now, he was a two time Pro
- 14:49Speaker 4: Bowl quarter quarterback. This time last year before the Raiders
- 14:53Speaker 4: traded for him, and yeah, it's it's just wild how
- 14:57Speaker 4: he got at his peak in Seattle has just fallen
- 15:01Speaker 4: off a cliff in the last twelve months, all.
- 15:03Speaker 2: Right, in our last minute or so, anything cooking, anything
- 15:07Speaker 2: that the Seahawks might be, I mean, free agency does
- 15:10Speaker 2: start today.
- 15:10Speaker 1: Do you get the sense that they're on the lip
- 15:13Speaker 1: of anything.
- 15:14Speaker 4: Well, they've got a decision to make on their restricted
- 15:16Speaker 4: free agents. They would have tendered Jake Bobo, Cody White,
- 15:21Speaker 4: Brady Russell, chesserat by now if they were going to,
- 15:26Speaker 4: so they won't. Then they were hoped to bring most
- 15:28Speaker 4: of those guys back on new deals that would be
- 15:31Speaker 4: more cap friendly than the tender number would be. As
- 15:34Speaker 4: of one o'clock today, the start of a new league gear,
- 15:36Speaker 4: those guys will become unrestricted free agents, able to sign
- 15:39Speaker 4: with anyone, including the Seahawks. I would expect the next
- 15:42Speaker 4: moves to be Jake Bobo, Brady Russell coming back on
- 15:49Speaker 4: new deals that were outside of the restricted free agent
- 15:53Speaker 4: tenders offers. They still I think need depth on the
- 15:57Speaker 4: defensive line for sure, and the running back market. Shad White,
- 16:01Speaker 4: the former Tampa Bay buccaneer who ran wild against the
- 16:06Speaker 4: Seahawks at Munich a couple falls ago, when the Bucks
- 16:09Speaker 4: of the last in the league in rushing and Rashad
- 16:11Speaker 4: White had one hundred yard first half. He's available, he's young,
- 16:15Speaker 4: he's cheap. We're now already in the second wave of
- 16:18Speaker 4: free agency. I think the second wave started at four
- 16:20Speaker 4: o'clock on Monday. But that that is the type of
- 16:24Speaker 4: deals the Seahawks will be looking at, potentially doing it
- 16:26Speaker 4: running back. They can't. I can't imagine that they're not
- 16:30Speaker 4: going to add it running back and free agency at
- 16:33Speaker 4: some point, whether it's now or into the summer. And
- 16:35Speaker 4: the longer they wait, the cheaper it'll be.
- 16:37Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 16:37Speaker 2: Yeah, And Rashad White's an interesting names, no doubt about that.
- 16:41Speaker 2: All Right, Thank you, Greg, We appreciate it, man, and
- 16:44Speaker 2: we'll talk to you again tomorrow.
- 16:46Speaker 4: All right. Enjoyed talking about the USA manager not knowing
- 16:49Speaker 4: the USA. It's not in the That was crazy, I
- 16:52Speaker 4: would last in the afternoon. I heard him say, on
- 16:54Speaker 4: and I'll be network. We're already in the quarterfile. Yeah.
- 16:57Speaker 2: Not good, not a good look, all right, Greg Bell
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- 17:21Speaker 2: from Greg's standpoint, if Greg is buying the medical, and
- 17:26Speaker 2: if anybody's buying the medical, then yes, I think that
- 17:29Speaker 2: all of that what he's saying about Max Crosby and
- 17:33Speaker 2: the buyer beware and we're going to have to wait
- 17:36Speaker 2: and let's see you give him a couple of months
- 17:39Speaker 2: to heal and then maybe we revisit the trade and
- 17:42Speaker 2: all of that stuff. That's if you're buying the Ravens story.
- 17:46Speaker 2: But if you're buying the story that everybody else is
- 17:48Speaker 2: sharing right now about why this trade was mixed, then
- 17:51Speaker 2: I would think everybody that was in on Max Crosby,
- 17:55Speaker 2: and I don't know if the Seahawks ever were are
- 17:58Speaker 2: right back in offering the same package that they were
- 18:00Speaker 2: offering before. So yeah, I mean there's two different worlds
- 18:05Speaker 2: that we're living in with this Max Crosby story. But
- 18:08Speaker 2: if people if there are organizations that think the Ravens
- 18:11Speaker 2: are lying, and apparently there are, then if those organizations
- 18:14Speaker 2: were interested in Max Crosby before, I would think they
- 18:17Speaker 2: would just relight the fire on the offer that they
- 18:19Speaker 2: made previous to Baltimore outbidding them. So it just depends
- 18:23Speaker 2: on which story that you believe, Baltimore's or everybody else's.
- 18:27Speaker 2: Right now, all right, coming up next. We haven't talked
- 18:29Speaker 2: about this yet today. There are some developments, but we've
- 18:33Speaker 2: got a handshake gate going on here in Seattle. Have
- 18:36Speaker 2: Callen Ryandy smoothed it over or not? Sports Radio ninety
- 18:40Speaker 2: three point three kJ R F M.
- 18:56Speaker 1: Well, I guess don't leave me. Hanging gate is something
- 19:00Speaker 1: we're gonna have to deal with. Huh.
- 19:03Speaker 2: I finished yesterday's show thinking that Randy was just joking
- 19:07Speaker 2: and it didn't translate well. But apparently there's something to it.
- 19:12Speaker 2: Apparently we've got a situation on our hands. As Cal
- 19:18Speaker 2: Raleigh and Randy ROSEI Arena have not spoken since the
- 19:23Speaker 2: snubbing of the handshake gesture during the WBC game two
- 19:28Speaker 2: nights ago that we discussed quite a bit yesterday, and
- 19:31Speaker 2: we're still discussing it today, Kyle did feel compelled to
- 19:35Speaker 2: have a FaceTime conversation with some of the Seattle media
- 19:40Speaker 2: members that he knows and trusts, and had this to
- 19:43Speaker 2: say about the situation.
- 19:45Speaker 7: I mean, obviously regarding the thing yesterday with Randy, I mean,
- 19:48Speaker 7: I love Randy. I do you know, I.
- 19:51Speaker 1: Hate that this is a thing.
- 19:52Speaker 7: There's no beef when we get back to Seattle. He's
- 19:56Speaker 7: my brother or family. You know, I already reached out to.
- 20:01Speaker 1: Him, so uh, you know, it's just a.
- 20:04Speaker 7: Competitive environment, and you know, I know he would want
- 20:07Speaker 7: the same for me when we're on the team in
- 20:08Speaker 7: playoff baseball, and you know, I just have a responsibility
- 20:12Speaker 7: for my teammates here right now in my country, and
- 20:16Speaker 7: emotions are running high. So but like I said, I
- 20:19Speaker 7: love Randy. He's he's awesome. He's been great for our team.
- 20:23Speaker 7: And uh, like I said, we talked and this isn't
- 20:27Speaker 7: this isn't.
- 20:27Speaker 1: A big deal at all.
- 20:28Speaker 7: So we're, uh, we're good friends and we'll continue to
- 20:31Speaker 7: be good friends. And I think we're just enjoying competing
- 20:33Speaker 7: against each other right now. And uh, yeah, I mean
- 20:36Speaker 7: that's really all I have to say about it.
- 20:38Speaker 4: So you talk what's up?
- 20:41Speaker 1: When did you guys come. I'm probably not gonna take questions.
- 20:44Speaker 5: I'll just answer that.
- 20:44Speaker 7: I mean, I should shot him a message this morning
- 20:47Speaker 7: and reached out, and like I said, I don't I
- 20:51Speaker 7: don't anticipate this.
- 20:52Speaker 1: Being a being a thing going forward.
- 20:54Speaker 4: So for those of us who don't understand what responsibility
- 20:56Speaker 4: stops talking to.
- 20:58Speaker 7: You, I'm just I'm gonna just leave it that I
- 21:00Speaker 7: love Randy, I'm excited to play with him this year,
- 21:03Speaker 7: and like I said, we're having a fun time here
- 21:05Speaker 7: at the WC so I'm looking forward to I'm trying
- 21:08Speaker 7: to bring home the championship for our team.
- 21:10Speaker 1: So thanks guys.
- 21:11Speaker 2: KYL all right, Cal Raley, I guess that was actually
- 21:14Speaker 2: with some media at the WBC.
- 21:17Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, just a video of it.
- 21:18Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, all right, So that's Cal's response. I mean,
- 21:24Speaker 2: sounds to me like this is going to be fine
- 21:26Speaker 2: once we.
- 21:27Speaker 1: Get back together in Seattle. But it doesn't sound like
- 21:30Speaker 1: it's fine right now. I don't know.
- 21:32Speaker 6: Just my read to it. It doesn't sound like they
- 21:37Speaker 6: actually talked. It sounds like he reached out and said, hey, dude, sorry,
- 21:41Speaker 6: this is an issue. I was just being competitive, right,
- 21:44Speaker 6: we are not on the same team right now. Hopefully
- 21:47Speaker 6: it's really not a big deal, even though social media
- 21:50Speaker 6: and the media is blowing it up. But it doesn't
- 21:53Speaker 6: sound like I think you would have said Randy got
- 21:55Speaker 6: back to me and said, it's all good, brother. You
- 21:58Speaker 6: made me look like it, you know, you let me
- 22:00Speaker 6: hang in jerk what. It doesn't sound like Randy got
- 22:04Speaker 6: back to him again. Don't know, but I think he
- 22:07Speaker 6: would have said that in his little explanation there.
- 22:12Speaker 1: He obviously doesn't like that. It's laughed it off, like, yeah,
- 22:15Speaker 1: we talked last night.
- 22:17Speaker 2: I mean, I get how it looked, but trust me,
- 22:20Speaker 2: we laughed about it.
- 22:21Speaker 1: We're good, but sort of. I'm going to make a statement.
- 22:25Speaker 2: Don't ask me any questions, and my answers I'm giving
- 22:29Speaker 2: don't really add up.
- 22:31Speaker 1: There's something, there's something to it, there's something.
- 22:33Speaker 4: I mean.
- 22:35Speaker 8: It was interesting again that Randy chose to make his
- 22:38Speaker 8: statement in multiple languages to like prove his point to
- 22:41Speaker 8: cal and then from there you thought, Okay, well, maybe
- 22:44Speaker 8: he was joking, maybe he was laying it on extra thick,
- 22:47Speaker 8: but it struck me as odd when Dan Wilson had
- 22:50Speaker 8: to release something same. I'm going to reach out to
- 22:52Speaker 8: both of them like, if it's nothing, why does Dan Wilson,
- 22:55Speaker 8: who's in Peoria at spring training, have to reach out
- 22:58Speaker 8: to both guys to be like, hey.
- 23:00Speaker 3: We all good.
- 23:01Speaker 8: So clearly the Mariners thought we should probably check on
- 23:04Speaker 8: this because it seems like there might be something there.
- 23:06Speaker 6: Well, I think anytime something gets kind of blown up, right,
- 23:09Speaker 6: And I don't think Cal was doing this in hopes
- 23:12Speaker 6: that it blows me. No, it is just he's competitive
- 23:15Speaker 6: and he's not one that wants to, you know, do
- 23:18Speaker 6: the you know, handshaken. Regardless of whether it's this is
- 23:21Speaker 6: an unusual situation, right, it's a WBC right before you're
- 23:26Speaker 6: going to go to battle for one sixty two with
- 23:28Speaker 6: the guy.
- 23:29Speaker 1: It's different.
- 23:30Speaker 6: And yet it's like he says in that little clip
- 23:32Speaker 6: right there, I know Randy would want me to be
- 23:35Speaker 6: that competitor when we're battling together on the Mariners in
- 23:38Speaker 6: playoff baseball. So he's just saying, this is mean something.
- 23:42Speaker 6: My competitive juices are flowing. That's all I meant. I
- 23:45Speaker 6: didn't mean screw you. I don't like you. There's beef.
- 23:48Speaker 6: And yet that's where it goes, right, because of its
- 23:51Speaker 6: being caught on video, the media takes it. Ooh, is
- 23:54Speaker 6: there something about this? No, you're trying to make it something.
- 23:57Speaker 6: Randy might have been irritated by it, but I don't.
- 24:00Speaker 6: I still don't think it's going to turn into uh oh,
- 24:03Speaker 6: clubhouse is shattered.
- 24:04Speaker 1: You're not going to be able to correct this.
- 24:06Speaker 3: I don't think. I think that would be extreme.
- 24:07Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think it will be an issue going forward.
- 24:10Speaker 2: But I am a little surprised that it's still an
- 24:12Speaker 2: issue today, Like.
- 24:13Speaker 1: It is not resolved. No, that's for sure.
- 24:16Speaker 2: And so I kind of ended the show yesterday just
- 24:19Speaker 2: I was convinced, like he's.
- 24:20Speaker 1: Kidding, it didn't translate well.
- 24:23Speaker 2: And yet after twenty four hours of kind of flushing
- 24:26Speaker 2: this out, Cal's statement didn't really sound like there was
- 24:31Speaker 2: any resolution reached. Uh And then Randy didn't react in return.
- 24:36Speaker 2: So there's something. There's something here that's that's pretty evident.
- 24:40Speaker 2: And I do believe it'll get smoothed over once they're together,
- 24:43Speaker 2: but I don't think that's gonna happen before the WBC
- 24:45Speaker 2: comes to a close. And then Will Smith, who's never
- 24:48Speaker 2: shy when he's asked to share his thoughts, he said
- 24:52Speaker 2: yesterday Cal told Randy, I'm not going to shake your hands,
- 24:56Speaker 2: so don't even try. And then he did it and
- 24:59Speaker 2: then got it angry that Kyle didn't respond, So Will did.
- 25:04Speaker 2: Will Smith at least, I think that was a legit quote.
- 25:07Speaker 2: So I guess Will Smith the other catcher on the team.
- 25:10Speaker 2: I won't say backup he's had.
- 25:11Speaker 3: An issue with Randy or who didn't shake Randy's hand.
- 25:14Speaker 2: I won't say backup because he's playing just as much
- 25:16Speaker 2: as Cal. But he said he commented on it and
- 25:20Speaker 2: said that Cal had made it clear to Randy that
- 25:22Speaker 2: I wasn't going to shake hands, and he did it anyway, right,
- 25:26Speaker 2: So I don't know.
- 25:27Speaker 1: There you go.
- 25:28Speaker 2: It's something I wish it was nothing, but it's something
- 25:31Speaker 2: I wish there's something we were laughing about today, that
- 25:33Speaker 2: both of them were laughing about today. But obviously they're
- 25:37Speaker 2: not to the point where they're laughing about it yet.
- 25:39Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't.
- 25:39Speaker 6: I mean, if Randy's upset about it, then I don't
- 25:42Speaker 6: understand how you can be if that's true, If what
- 25:45Speaker 6: Will Smith said is true, If you tell me I'm
- 25:47Speaker 6: not giving a high five in between breaks, and then
- 25:49Speaker 6: I'd go look for a high five and you don't
- 25:51Speaker 6: give it. To me, I have no right to be irritated,
- 25:55Speaker 6: like zero, you told me what was up, So if
- 25:58Speaker 6: that's true, then it's just absolutely silly. Now it's obviously
- 26:01Speaker 6: something that he likes to do. Is there's a lot
- 26:04Speaker 6: of things that are different about the way people play
- 26:06Speaker 6: the game, or where where their competitiveness starts and stops,
- 26:10Speaker 6: and if they're not on the same page. I don't
- 26:12Speaker 6: think those two are on the same page. But that's fine.
- 26:14Speaker 6: You don't have to be clones of one another when
- 26:17Speaker 6: you're playing together. This is just something that on a
- 26:19Speaker 6: big stage it's been blown out of proportion. Cal doesn't
- 26:22Speaker 6: like it being blown out of proportion. But I don't
- 26:24Speaker 6: think he's sitting here saying I should have just shook hands.
- 26:27Speaker 6: I should have just done it. He's sticking to I
- 26:30Speaker 6: didn't mean anything disrespectfully you As a teammate, I will say,
- 26:33Speaker 6: I meant it as I'm competing. We're going against each other.
- 26:36Speaker 3: Right now, I will say too.
- 26:36Speaker 8: As far as it getting blown out of proportion, I mean,
- 26:39Speaker 8: when Randy made a same it's postgame, it wasn't because
- 26:41Speaker 8: he'd seen social media and video and people overreacting to
- 26:45Speaker 8: Cal not shaking his hand. I mean that was Randy's
- 26:47Speaker 8: reaction when asked about the situation, and then from there
- 26:51Speaker 8: people ran with it, and that's kind of where it
- 26:54Speaker 8: got blown out of proportion. And obviously now Cal, yeah,
- 26:56Speaker 8: definitely not happy about it. But I don't but I
- 26:59Speaker 8: just want to, I guess kind of say, like, I
- 27:02Speaker 8: don't think that Randy got mad because everything got blown
- 27:05Speaker 8: out of proportion. Randy got mad and had his reaction
- 27:07Speaker 8: because that was his reaction to the thing, and then
- 27:09Speaker 8: that has gotten, you know, caught on like wildfire.
- 27:12Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe he's still joking.
- 27:14Speaker 2: Do we know Randy or Rose Arena's sense of humor?
- 27:17Speaker 2: Maybe it's like right, Cal though, but that's just it.
- 27:19Speaker 2: You left me hanging in the batter's box, so I'm
- 27:21Speaker 2: going to leave you hanging on the text wor in
- 27:24Speaker 2: the text world.
- 27:24Speaker 1: And he did just text him.
- 27:25Speaker 2: It's not like he made a phone call, which I
- 27:28Speaker 2: think is a mistake on Col's part, and I think
- 27:31Speaker 2: Cal not acknowledging him is actually a mistake.
- 27:33Speaker 3: Yes, I mean, let's give him a little glove tap.
- 27:35Speaker 2: I like seeing that in competitions like this, I like
- 27:39Speaker 2: seeing like you're my guy, and you know, Yadier Molina
- 27:42Speaker 2: weighed in on it yesterday, and Yadier Molina is pretty
- 27:45Speaker 2: much the king.
- 27:46Speaker 1: Of this setting.
- 27:48Speaker 2: Like he is a god in Puerto Rico, he is
- 27:51Speaker 2: a god in Saint Louis, and he is a god
- 27:55Speaker 2: for everybody that's ever played Major League Baseball with him
- 27:59Speaker 2: and Yadi Molina. He weighed in on it yesterday and said,
- 28:03Speaker 2: I always if you acknowledged me, I acknowledged you, no
- 28:07Speaker 2: matter the setting, no matter the situation, and it doesn't
- 28:10Speaker 2: have to be anything grand, but just an acknowledgment.
- 28:12Speaker 1: That's the way I handled it.
- 28:14Speaker 2: And so from an international standpoint, I would just I
- 28:17Speaker 2: would wish Cal would have done it, But I don't
- 28:20Speaker 2: think his reasons were for doing it were because of
- 28:23Speaker 2: any beef, or because he wanted to start anything with
- 28:26Speaker 2: Randy rose Arena, or because they have an issue.
- 28:29Speaker 1: I just like seeing it.
- 28:30Speaker 2: I like being able to acknowledge your teammate, and I
- 28:33Speaker 2: wish he would have done it. But for those that
- 28:35Speaker 2: are labeling him an a hole and a jerk, you
- 28:38Speaker 2: clearly don't follow the Mariners. You clearly don't follow Cal
- 28:42Speaker 2: Raley because he is the purest superstar that has.
- 28:45Speaker 1: Ever existed in the history of sports. Yeah, period.
- 28:49Speaker 8: And he did acknowledge Randy. He did say nice to
- 28:51Speaker 8: see you. He just didn't physically acknowledge him.
- 28:55Speaker 1: Yeah, ma'am.
- 28:56Speaker 6: Yeah, he just was standing on it where he wants
- 28:58Speaker 6: to stand on it. He can draw his line. If
- 29:00Speaker 6: you want to come up and shake people's hands before
- 29:02Speaker 6: you go to bat, you can do that. The other
- 29:05Speaker 6: person doesn't have to do it. Teammates are not You
- 29:08Speaker 6: don't have to play the same game or play the
- 29:11Speaker 6: game the same way wherever it is. I mean, I
- 29:13Speaker 6: I'm way more old school. I wouldn't have been doing
- 29:15Speaker 6: any of that stuff. I wouldn't have been just and
- 29:18Speaker 6: especially when I'm doing it when it's for my country,
- 29:21Speaker 6: type of a thing I would do. We're standing on this,
- 29:24Speaker 6: I just that's how I would have been. I don't
- 29:26Speaker 6: I wouldn't have meant it as anything against my teammates.
- 29:29Speaker 2: Interesting, because that's going to lead right into reckless at Breakfast.
- 29:33Speaker 2: That very statement right there is going to lead into
- 29:35Speaker 2: breakfast at Breakfast Today Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM.
- 29:39Speaker 2: Usually you're getting ready and I almost automatically assume the
- 29:43Speaker 2: UDUB was playing in Vegas still two three years after
- 29:47Speaker 2: the fact, and yet No, they're playing their Big Ten
- 29:51Speaker 2: game in Chicago at the United Center because they're part
- 29:54Speaker 2: of the Big Ten Conference. That makes sense, which as
- 29:57Speaker 2: Maryland in the same conference, and that's not close, right you,
- 30:00Speaker 2: dub is in the same conference with Maryland.
- 30:03Speaker 1: Maryland's like on the other side of the country.
- 30:05Speaker 3: Right geographically, they're very friendly.
- 30:08Speaker 2: Okay, So there's already a college basketball game on an
- 30:12Speaker 2: ACC Conference basketball tournament on right now, started at seven
- 30:17Speaker 2: o'clock our time.
- 30:18Speaker 1: Featuring Stanford.
- 30:20Speaker 2: Wow, Stanford is playing a game on seven o'clock in
- 30:24Speaker 2: the morning on their time.
- 30:27Speaker 3: ACC rivals too.
- 30:29Speaker 1: Yeah, and they're the favorite. Yeah, they're the So yeah,
- 30:34Speaker 1: there you go. That's where we're at anywhere.
- 30:36Speaker 2: That's not what I was going to talk about with
- 30:38Speaker 2: Reckless at Breakfast. I want to talk about, uh, the WBC,
- 30:43Speaker 2: and I mentioned this a little bit earlier in the week.
- 30:46Speaker 1: I think we just got to reschedule the whole thing.
- 30:50Speaker 2: Like, I don't I don't know why we have such
- 30:53Speaker 2: popular sports here in America in the NBA and the MLB, uh,
- 30:59Speaker 2: and we want to go by soccer rules all the time,
- 31:03Speaker 2: which is not that popular here.
- 31:05Speaker 1: And so this.
- 31:05Speaker 2: Whole pool play thing, it's it has it's in danger.
- 31:10Speaker 2: Rob Manford set up these rules so that he could
- 31:17Speaker 2: maximize this big event and turn it bigger. And now
- 31:20Speaker 2: he's got he's running the risk of losing the US
- 31:23Speaker 2: before they even get to the next round. And part
- 31:27Speaker 2: of that is because he had to have pool play.
- 31:28Speaker 2: And we are talking about a sport where you can
- 31:31Speaker 2: lose to a lesser than team far more frequently than
- 31:35Speaker 2: you can in basketball. And frankly, Italy is not all
- 31:40Speaker 2: that lesser of a team. Eight of their nine starters
- 31:43Speaker 2: last night were major league caliber players. They are on
- 31:46Speaker 2: major league rosters, some of them are tabbed as stars
- 31:49Speaker 2: or future stars. As early as this year they had
- 31:53Speaker 2: an American Major.
- 31:54Speaker 1: League Baseball pitcher on the mound.
- 31:57Speaker 2: And so you can you could easily lose, just like
- 31:59Speaker 2: the Dodgers could lose a regular season series to the
- 32:02Speaker 2: Colorado Rockies, even though they'll probably finish sixty games apart
- 32:07Speaker 2: in the standings this year. If there was a tournament,
- 32:10Speaker 2: they could easily lose to the Colorado Rockies. So we're
- 32:13Speaker 2: already making vulnerable teams that we know we want to
- 32:17Speaker 2: see make it to the final eight. We're already doing that.
- 32:21Speaker 2: And then so that we can make the rest of
- 32:23Speaker 2: the world competitive. There's one Italian player on the entire
- 32:27Speaker 2: team that we lost to last night. Still shouldn't have
- 32:30Speaker 2: lost to them. But all of those players are American born, raised, trained,
- 32:37Speaker 2: most of them have never even been to Italy, and
- 32:40Speaker 2: yet we're losing to Italy that doesn't even care. I
- 32:43Speaker 2: googled it this morning. Does Italy care about the WBC?
- 32:47Speaker 2: The answer, pretty much profoundly from AI was no, They're
- 32:51Speaker 2: not even paying attention to it. And yet you brought
- 32:55Speaker 2: up something about how they all talk about like having
- 32:58Speaker 2: that Team USA across their chain.
- 33:00Speaker 1: Oh, I got Team US.
- 33:01Speaker 2: That makes a different when you got Team USA across
- 33:03Speaker 2: your chest. Well, what is your mindset when you have
- 33:07Speaker 2: Team Italy across your chest and you're trying to beat
- 33:10Speaker 2: Team USA, for which you would play first if you
- 33:14Speaker 2: were given the choice.
- 33:15Speaker 1: I don't even know if you can.
- 33:17Speaker 2: If it's so such a big deal, buggy to play
- 33:19Speaker 2: with Team USA across your chest, then can it even
- 33:23Speaker 2: feel good to beat Team USA, even in an upset role,
- 33:26Speaker 2: when you have another country splashed across your chest. I
- 33:30Speaker 2: just think that in this attempt to make things even
- 33:36Speaker 2: in a sport that is not internationally, even that we've
- 33:42Speaker 2: bolstered teams too much so, and we also have a
- 33:46Speaker 2: format that really is not what the desired result is
- 33:51Speaker 2: in this sport. We could have the same record as Italy,
- 33:54Speaker 2: Mexico and Mexico at the end of the day in
- 33:57Speaker 2: pool play and not make the tournament, even though everybody
- 34:00Speaker 2: Moody in the world knows who the best team is
- 34:02Speaker 2: in the pool. I mean, I don't think it works.
- 34:06Speaker 2: I think that it needs to be adjusted aggressively going forward.
- 34:10Speaker 6: I mean, I don't know for sure if I think
- 34:12Speaker 6: it's perfect, but I don't mind it.
- 34:14Speaker 4: I don't.
- 34:14Speaker 1: I really don't mind.
- 34:15Speaker 6: Okay, So the point of would you still feel good
- 34:19Speaker 6: about beating USA if you are born in the USA,
- 34:22Speaker 6: if you're really an American but you just didn't make
- 34:25Speaker 6: the team, Yeah, I mean it was the the idea
- 34:29Speaker 6: of you didn't. I'm not good enough to make that team,
- 34:32Speaker 6: but I'm good enough to be part of this team
- 34:34Speaker 6: that beat that team. Even in pool play. Now you
- 34:37Speaker 6: put these teams against each other in a seven game series,
- 34:39Speaker 6: there's zero chance that Italy wins just because even though
- 34:43Speaker 6: they have a chance to win an a game, Because
- 34:45Speaker 6: that's the beauty of baseball is any given team can
- 34:48Speaker 6: go out there and beat you. Who's going to make
- 34:50Speaker 6: their twenty seven outs tougher, who's going to make take
- 34:51Speaker 6: advantage of every mistake, Who's gonna make some mistakes that
- 34:55Speaker 6: you normally wouldn't see big league players make. That can happen.
- 34:59Speaker 6: But to me, the idea of if if it's like
- 35:02Speaker 6: when I mean, I know you got to go tea
- 35:05Speaker 6: at eleven, so maybe you never had to play JV.
- 35:07Speaker 6: I was JV guy that when we got to play varsity,
- 35:09Speaker 6: I wanted to beat the varsity badly because I wasn't.
- 35:14Speaker 1: I was told I was to be honest. Line, No,
- 35:19Speaker 1: that's true. You're American. I desperately want to be on
- 35:21Speaker 1: Team USA. But the moment they don't screw America, I'm
- 35:25Speaker 1: going to beat the crap out of them. Well, I'm
- 35:26Speaker 1: going to go play on where where will let me?
- 35:29Speaker 1: And there's somebody. You don't have to play in the WBC,
- 35:32Speaker 1: but there is.
- 35:32Speaker 8: I mean, it would be fun and there is a
- 35:34Speaker 8: connection between the players and the countries they're representing.
- 35:36Speaker 3: It's not like they just put a dart.
- 35:38Speaker 8: Well, you have to have your parent has to either
- 35:40Speaker 8: be a citizen or have been born like they either
- 35:44Speaker 8: have to have applied for citizenship or been born there
- 35:46Speaker 8: and then or there's you live there or you were
- 35:48Speaker 8: born there, things.
- 35:49Speaker 1: Like that, or you could be married into it. There
- 35:51Speaker 1: are a lot of.
- 35:51Speaker 3: Different not that I looked at it no longer.
- 35:56Speaker 6: That there is, and it's not just grand parents. It
- 36:00Speaker 6: is literally almostly your direct your your what do they
- 36:03Speaker 6: call that, your immediate family. Your parent had to have
- 36:06Speaker 6: been born there or be a citizen there, or you
- 36:08Speaker 6: have to have gotten a citizenship dual citizenship, you have
- 36:12Speaker 6: to have or be a permanent residence there, which is
- 36:14Speaker 6: I think there's one person on that entire Italian team
- 36:17Speaker 6: that is a permanent resident that's actually Italian. Yeah, I
- 36:20Speaker 6: mean there's more guys that were born in Venezuela on
- 36:23Speaker 6: Team Italy than born in Italy, and so I mean
- 36:27Speaker 6: it's there are.
- 36:27Speaker 1: More Japanese players on Team Persil.
- 36:29Speaker 6: But to me, that's this is a way in which
- 36:32Speaker 6: you get to actually have a tournament that has the
- 36:35Speaker 6: best possible talent on it where okay, you can find
- 36:38Speaker 6: some parameters there within parameters of getting it to where
- 36:41Speaker 6: it's now you have a chance of an upset where
- 36:44Speaker 6: it's otherwise it would be Dominican, Venezuela, Puerto Rico, US,
- 36:50Speaker 6: maybe Mexico would. Just if it was genuinely all Italian
- 36:55Speaker 6: players and all these other countries were all from there,
- 36:58Speaker 6: every game would be twenty zero or twenty to one.
- 37:02Speaker 4: They wouldn't.
- 37:02Speaker 1: The pool play would be nothing.
- 37:03Speaker 6: So this actually gives it a little bit of all right,
- 37:06Speaker 6: there's an upset possibility here. Now it's hopefully that you
- 37:09Speaker 6: didn't shoot yourself in the foot with giving up too
- 37:11Speaker 6: many runs to Brazil.
- 37:13Speaker 1: Well they very much well could have.
- 37:14Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a chance and not a maybe not a
- 37:17Speaker 2: great chance, there's a legitimate, decent chance that US doesn't
- 37:21Speaker 2: even get there, which you want to talk about blowing
- 37:23Speaker 2: up in Rob Manfred's face. This is going to singe
- 37:25Speaker 2: his eyebrows, all right, you Mellan's Next Sports Radio ninety
- 37:29Speaker 2: three point three kJ RFM