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6-10 H1: M's 3 Game Lead & Seahawks Minicamp · The Gregg Bell Show

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Speaker 1: On the show today the z Ax Charbonet Surprise and
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Speaker 1: all I saw and heard the first of three Seahawks
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Speaker 1: mandatory mini camp practices. You'll hear from Jackson Smith and
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Speaker 1: Jigba about why he got a new NFL Offensive Player
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Speaker 1: of the Year Award trophy, how life has changed for
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Speaker 1: him since he signed a record one hundred and sixty
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Speaker 1: eight million dollar contract extension for the Seahawks, and more
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Speaker 1: from Jackson Smith and Jigba on the show. How the
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Speaker 1: six man rotation the Mariners have gone to is limiting
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Speaker 1: their bullpen and it's options. Jose Ferrera found that out
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Speaker 1: last night and a marathon outing. He had to do it.
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Speaker 1: I mean, the only reason de Villa was even in
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Speaker 1: the game in a ten things, he was the last
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Speaker 1: guy in the bullpen available and no one left. That's
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Speaker 1: what the six man rotation has done to the Mariners' bullpen.
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Speaker 1: I in Finessel then join us before his show right out
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Speaker 1: here from Seahawks headquarters from twelve until three. I know
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Speaker 1: a Rose Arena had the home run late last night.
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Speaker 1: I mean that was the decisive blow, three run homer
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Speaker 1: for Garver earlier in the game for five of the Mariners'
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Speaker 1: six runs. But Ryan Bliss Man two games now, my guy,
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Speaker 1: Patrick Wisdom, Nick Davila again they won the game last night.
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Speaker 1: Three guys that are not in the plans for the
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Speaker 1: Mariners to defend their American League West title at the
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Speaker 1: start of this season. Ryan Blizz, Patrick Wisdom, Nick Davila.
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Speaker 1: Bliss got Jose Ferrera out of his forty two pitch
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Speaker 1: jam in the eighth inning with this play.
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Speaker 2: Here it comes crownd ball up the middle. Bliz had
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Speaker 2: it a butt Rice.
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Speaker 3: Hey out on second base.
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Speaker 1: The sprint was on speed kills. That's Aaron Goldsmith of course,
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Speaker 1: with Ryan Roland Smith exclaiming in the background on the
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Speaker 1: Mariners TV broadcast, that's the dimension Bliss brings his speed.
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Speaker 1: I mean you you either have it or don't. And
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Speaker 1: the plays he made last night were because of his speed.
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Speaker 1: He raced the second base if he doesn't get there
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Speaker 1: first before the runner coming from first to second, the
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Speaker 1: tying run scores in the eighth inning and then night
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Speaker 1: thenning he races over as a pop fly behind first
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Speaker 1: base that Josh Naylor wasn't gonna get and that could
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Speaker 1: have been the winning run and Bliss it was a
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Speaker 1: runner third and nobody out, and Bliss came flying in
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Speaker 1: from his second base position, caught the ball near the
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Speaker 1: right field line and got to his feet quickly before
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Speaker 1: the runner a third could even think about tagging up
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Speaker 1: and running home. And that saved a run. And then
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Speaker 1: Tovila got out of it play by Wisdom, a backhanded play,
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Speaker 1: a soft chop to the third baseline. Patrick Wisdom, a
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Speaker 1: big guy, moved to his right against the foul line
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Speaker 1: and in one motion through home and got the out
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Speaker 1: at home to cut down what would have been the
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Speaker 1: tying run. In the bottom of the tenth inning for
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Speaker 1: the Orioles. That's how David got its first career save.
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Speaker 1: He's been He's a starter in the minor leagues. He's
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Speaker 1: now been eight and a third innings pitching for the
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Speaker 1: Mariners this year. He's yet to allow an earned run.
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Speaker 1: Last night he was pitching after getting on a red eye.
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Speaker 1: He was in Tacoma, Chrits. The night before. He got
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Speaker 1: a clubhouse attendant to meet him at SeaTac airport to
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Speaker 1: get his stuff. He didn't have time to get all
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Speaker 1: his stuff, so a clubhouse guy for the Verniers met
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Speaker 1: him at SeaTac for red eye flight to Baltimore. He
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Speaker 1: gets in at like eight of ten nine am. By
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Speaker 1: the time we got to the hotel downtown Baltimore was
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Speaker 1: like ten am. Got a couple hours of sleep, took
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Speaker 1: the late bus for a six thirty start. About a
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Speaker 1: two to thirty bus from the telling Baltimore. Davida gets
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Speaker 1: on the bus thinking, when this is a whirlwind, I
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Speaker 1: don't even have my stuff. His clothes never made it.
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Speaker 1: So now they got two players in Baltimore, Ryan Bliss,
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Speaker 1: who got his luggage loss getting called up from Sacramento
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Speaker 1: last weekend, and now Dovila, who don't have their clothes.
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Speaker 1: They're both contributing mightily to the Mariner's latest win to
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Speaker 1: keep them two games up in first place in the
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Speaker 1: American League West. But Dovila didn't expect to pitch, and
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Speaker 1: he just said. He told the Seattle Times Adam Jude
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Speaker 1: after the game, I couldn't believe I was in the game.
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Speaker 1: I kind of blacked out. But he had to be
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Speaker 1: because there was nobody left in the bullpen between that
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Speaker 1: Wisdoms play at third base, Wisdom told MLB dot Com
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Speaker 1: beat writer Daniel Kramer, the friend of ours on the show,
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Speaker 1: you try to calm yourself because you don't want a
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Speaker 1: white knucklet out there, but just kind of be athletic,
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Speaker 1: and you're obviously aware that that's the tying run. By
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Speaker 1: the way, we may think of Wisdom as a first
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Speaker 1: basin because that's what he was playing when he first
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Speaker 1: came up from Tacoma, but last night was his two
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Speaker 1: hundred and eighty fifth career game at third base, former
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Speaker 1: Chicago Cubs starting third basement for a while, He's made
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Speaker 1: eighty six major league starts at first base, so he's
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Speaker 1: been three times as often the third basement in the
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Speaker 1: major leagues, and he looked like it last night with
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Speaker 1: the game on the line. That's a winning teams have
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Speaker 1: to get Chris right out of nowhere, dudes who aren't
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Speaker 1: expecting to contribute. That's how you win titles when you
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Speaker 1: get massive contributions from injury replacements and guys you didn't
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Speaker 1: have in your plans.
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Speaker 4: Absolutely, you can look at a team that just wanted
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Speaker 4: to were bowling the Seahawks and what they had with
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Speaker 4: Nicki Minwarri, guys stepping up, Gray's Abel a rookie. So
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Speaker 4: it's important to have these young pieces on your team
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Speaker 4: affecting the game on a positive note. So when you
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Speaker 4: look at it for the manners perspective, you can say, Okay, yeah,
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Speaker 4: a guy like Ryan Bliss stepping up. He might not
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Speaker 4: be hitting, he may not be doing all those other things,
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Speaker 4: but it's his hustle to get a guy out big moment.
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Speaker 4: It's all these other things that I think can make
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Speaker 4: this team a much more, much more of a contender
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Speaker 4: right now where there's still a good playoff team, but
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Speaker 4: we want to see I know fans want to see
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Speaker 4: this team evolve into that World Series, like, oh my goodness,
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Speaker 4: they're gonna match up well against I guess the Dodgers
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Speaker 4: in this scenario. So that's kind of how you want
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Speaker 4: to view this team, and I think they're they're they're
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Speaker 4: inching towards that. Obviously, when they get a few guys back, hint, hint,
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Speaker 4: I think they'll be even better. So we'll just have
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Speaker 4: to see how it all plays out. Right now, they're
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Speaker 4: in a good position, and I think they can build
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Speaker 4: from this, and I'm hoping that Ryan Bliss continues to
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Speaker 4: play well and even gets better in terms of hitting
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Speaker 4: and being on base and using his speed elsewhere on
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Speaker 4: the field, because he is we saw all the best
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Speaker 4: of them. I think in twenty twenty four when we
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Speaker 4: had the show, he was playing really good baseball. That's
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Speaker 4: how the phrase came up. More Bliss, please, because he
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Speaker 4: was just out there doing his thing night in and
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Speaker 4: night out.
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Speaker 2: And now he's been in a little of an up
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Speaker 2: and down.
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Speaker 4: But I think the more opportunities that he gets, I
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Speaker 4: think he will definitely improve from that, and perhaps maybe
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Speaker 4: he can be a cog later on in the season.
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Speaker 1: Who knows he needs to stick around because he gives
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Speaker 1: them a dibench and they don't have with that speed
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Speaker 1: I'm talking about, he can use him off the bench
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Speaker 1: to pinch run and steal a base if you need
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Speaker 1: him to. He can bind something that everybody on the
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Speaker 1: team can do. And the defense, This defense has been suspect, yeah,
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Speaker 1: and most of the season.
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Speaker 4: And now it's the defense is changing outcomes. Yeah, Ryan
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Speaker 4: Blizz making games, saving plays. You mentioned Patrick Wisdom throwing
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Speaker 4: out runners going home two times, Mitch Garver difficult tags,
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Speaker 4: and I think also Cole Young has had some stuff
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Speaker 4: as a shortstop. So I'm really liking what I'm seeing.
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Speaker 4: And then Randy rose Arena. He's becoming this engine for
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Speaker 4: this team emotionalwise, so the energy, patience and that clutch hitting.
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Speaker 4: I'm just excited just to see these other guys stepping
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Speaker 4: up and absence of two players that are like, man,
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Speaker 4: we could really use them, and.
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Speaker 2: Then the list can go on.
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Speaker 4: There's still still some concerns, but I don't want to
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Speaker 4: worry about that. They didn't win last night, So let's
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Speaker 4: let's not worry about the l's and look at what
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Speaker 4: they're doing now and hopefully they can stack those good
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Speaker 4: plays and make them into a long term thing instead
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Speaker 4: of Oh, they won three games in a row and
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Speaker 4: now they take two steps back four games.
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Speaker 1: Over five hundred. Correcting what I said for a moment ago,
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Speaker 1: They're now three games up in the American League West.
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Speaker 1: Because Texas lost last night, Texas now two games under
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Speaker 1: five hundred. The Mariner's four games on the plus side
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Speaker 1: of five hundred, So that's a three game lead in
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Speaker 1: the American League West. But let's talk about this six
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Speaker 1: man rotation. We talk about that piggybacking and between Castile
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Speaker 1: and Miller, and now it's six man because they're playing
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Speaker 1: sixteen games in seventeen days. What no one's really talking
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Speaker 1: about is what the effect of the six man rotation
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Speaker 1: has on the bullpen. You count the six starters, means
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Speaker 1: there's one fewer dude in the bullpen. Plus the Mariners
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Speaker 1: rules on how they use their relievers, how they won't
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Speaker 1: use relievers on some back the back days, limiting and
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Speaker 1: won't have him start new innings. By and large, most
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Speaker 1: of their guys, the M's are already a man short
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Speaker 1: with rules in the bullpen, and Jose Ferrer had to
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Speaker 1: wear that last night. Farrer has been awesome all season.
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Speaker 1: Of course, the left handed the Nationals closer last season
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Speaker 1: that they got in the offseason trade. He had to
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Speaker 1: throw forty two pitches last night, and manager Dan Wilson
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Speaker 1: had to leave him out there while he allowed three
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Speaker 1: hits and two runs and he ate inning and misplayed
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Speaker 1: a ground ball when all he do is get an
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Speaker 1: out with the lead. Yours ended up tying the game.
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Speaker 1: Excuse me. In the bottom of the ninth, took force
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Speaker 1: extra innings against Ferrer, but he was had to stay
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Speaker 1: out there for forty two pitches because they didn't have
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Speaker 1: anybody else. Last night was just a second time in
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Speaker 1: thirty three appearances this season that Farrer had allowed two
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Speaker 1: runs and as many as three hits in an outing.
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Speaker 1: Cooper Criswallis had to pitch multiple high leverage innings. Forty
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Speaker 1: two pitches last night for Farrer was thirteen more than
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Speaker 1: his previous season high. Now in his thirties, that's not
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Speaker 1: something you want to do with a guy late inning reliever.
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Speaker 1: They've been reluctant to use Gabe Spyer and Matt Brash
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Speaker 1: on consecutive nights coming off injuries. Brash couldn't hit the
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Speaker 1: side of a barn the other night coming in with
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Speaker 1: his slider orris fastball. We've talked about Andres Munhos's issues
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Speaker 1: as long as there's six starters, Because this is the
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Speaker 1: way it's gonna be in the bullpen. They're gonna be
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Speaker 1: a man down, and they're gonna be with all these
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Speaker 1: rules and restrictions and limitations they put on themselves. It's
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Speaker 1: why I think they got to get away from using
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Speaker 1: Munos only in safe situations and only in the ninth inning.
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Speaker 1: Use him to preserve the lead. Whenever in the late innings,
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Speaker 1: whenever the opponent's best bats are coming up. That's the
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Speaker 1: seventh inning, so be it. If it's the eighth and
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Speaker 1: they got the two three fourths coming up and you're
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Speaker 1: trying to protect the one running lead. Instead of having
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Speaker 1: to bridge a guy to get the munos in the night,
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Speaker 1: bring munos in the eighth. I know it's not a
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Speaker 1: safe situation, and that's not how he's getting his contract
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Speaker 1: in his pay. It the way this bullpen is now
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Speaker 1: rigidly saying, I'm only gonna use We're only gonna use
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Speaker 1: munios in a save situation, in a as the bat
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Speaker 1: is really hamstringing them and causing them all kinds of stuff.
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Speaker 1: I mean, Cooper Criswell should not be pitching a couple
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Speaker 1: of innings in high leverage, but he's had to now
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Speaker 1: he's injured, which is the whole reason Davila was in
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Speaker 1: there last night. And there's no expectation that Davila, off
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Speaker 1: a red eye flight, was going to be in the
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Speaker 1: tenth ending of the game trying to win it. And
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Speaker 1: that's what a first place team is doing right now
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Speaker 1: with this six man rotation, leaving them a guy short.
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Speaker 1: Four nine, four to five one on the Komododge tech line.
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Speaker 1: Your view of the six man rotation? Should they just
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Speaker 1: stay with it because the starters it's working, I mean,
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Speaker 1: Castile and Miller are playing great, but there is a
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Speaker 1: collateral cost, and it's the bullpen and the fact that
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Speaker 1: you're having one fewer guy in that bullpen and the
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Speaker 1: way this game is played today, major League Baseball's game.
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Speaker 1: There are no complete games. You're gonna use a bullpen
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Speaker 1: guy every night, multiple guys usually every night, and when
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Speaker 1: you have one fewer bullpen arm, the six man rotation
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Speaker 1: hurts you in that regard four nine, four to five one.
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Speaker 1: Your view of the six man rotation, whether they should
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Speaker 1: go back to five you steal in the bullpen perhaps,
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Speaker 1: or should they just go status quo and figure it
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Speaker 1: out with what they have with the relievers. And again
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Speaker 1: I submit that they put munios in other than in
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Speaker 1: save situations, so they give themselves some more flexibility. Up next, Seahawks.
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Speaker 1: I'm out here. The Seahawks had a team meeting. The
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Speaker 1: base was bumping off the walls here a few minutes ago,
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Speaker 1: right next to me inside the building. They'll be out
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Speaker 1: on the field for the second practice of Mini camp today.
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Speaker 1: I'll tell you what I saw in the first practice yesterday,
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Speaker 1: including what's up with Jadari and Price, the latest on
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Speaker 1: him and the rookie running back position change for a
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Speaker 1: defensive player that's showing a lot of promise. What Devin
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Speaker 1: Witherspoon is up to, Jackson Smith and Jigba. You'll hear
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Speaker 1: what I saw and wrote about in the News Tribune.
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Speaker 1: Next on ninety three point three kJ RFM, Hi, welcome back,
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Speaker 1: thanks for listening. Greg Belts Show with Christopher Kidd Live
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Speaker 1: on ninety three point three k j R f MM
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Speaker 1: at the Virginia Mason Center in Redmond in Renton of
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Speaker 1: Redmond for the second of three Mini camp days. Practice
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Speaker 1: today shorter one today than two and a half hour
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Speaker 1: one yesterday. The Seahawks just announced this morning that training
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Speaker 1: camp will begin July twenty fifth. I've been talking about
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Speaker 1: how it's been honor about the twenty fifth. The first
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Speaker 1: practice will be on July twenty fifth out here at
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Speaker 1: Seahawks headquarters. You can go to the teamwebsite seahawks dot
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Speaker 1: com to register if you want to come out and
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Speaker 1: watch practices. Those have never been out here. You sit
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Speaker 1: on the grass burm you're watching practice. You can go
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Speaker 1: down and get in autographs from the players after the practice,
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Speaker 1: and Mike McDonald really really stresses players going over to
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Speaker 1: the fans at the bottom of the burm to do
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Speaker 1: autographs and pictures after those practices. So the first practice
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Speaker 1: July twenty fifth, that'll be the start of training camp
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Speaker 1: for the Seahawks. The first preseason game August fifteenth. So
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Speaker 1: after tomorrow's practice, they're done. They're done for six weeks
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Speaker 1: and then off until training camp starts officially now on
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Speaker 1: July twenty fifth. What I see yesterday the start of
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Speaker 1: the first and only mandatory event of the off season.
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Speaker 1: First of all, everyone was there. Pretty much everyone was there.
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Speaker 1: I mean DeMarcus Lawrence at thirty four was there all
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Speaker 1: the veterans were there. Devin Witherspoon, waiting on his contract,
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Speaker 1: was there. He fully participated, more than he did in
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Speaker 1: OTAs that was noticeable to me in OTA practices, the
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Speaker 1: voluntary work. He was here Witherspoon, but the three time
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Speaker 1: Pro Bowl cornerback was sitting out and watching most of
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Speaker 1: the practice. The scrimmages eleven and eleven. It looked to
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Speaker 1: me at the time last week did it was his
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Speaker 1: agent telling him, Okay, eliminate all possibility you getting hurt
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Speaker 1: before you sign your deal. Don't do the eleven on eleven. Well,
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Speaker 1: yesterday he was full go. I mean we got the
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Speaker 1: full Devin Witherspoon. Yesterday he was at left corner, he
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Speaker 1: was at right corner. He was inside in the slot.
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Speaker 1: At one point, Jake Bowie, the Witherspoon and the starters
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Speaker 1: were off on the side watching twos versus twos, and
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Speaker 1: Jake Bobbo caught a bubble screen. Of course, it's in
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Speaker 1: shorts and T shirts and helmets and you're not hitting anybody.
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Speaker 1: So Bobo runs through everybody and runs around all the defenders.
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Speaker 1: For which should have been a two or three yard
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Speaker 1: game looked like a twenty yard game, and Witherspoon just
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Speaker 1: let him have it from the sidelines. O, hell no,
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Speaker 1: in a game that wouldn't have happened. You're not fast
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Speaker 1: enough to do that, and all day. So the full
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Speaker 1: Devin Witherspoon was there yesterday. But the most newsworthy thing
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Speaker 1: that I led my story at the News Tribune dot
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Speaker 1: com it's up right now you can go read it,
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Speaker 1: is that Zach Sharboney was on a field, not practicing,
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Speaker 1: but he was on a side field against the lake
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Speaker 1: with a trainer doing about fifteen minutes of high knees
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Speaker 1: of machine gun like leg cadence of really fast chopping
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Speaker 1: of Heinee hurdler type training drills, some lateral movement Chris.
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Speaker 1: He looked like anything but a guy who just had
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Speaker 1: reconstructive knee surgery in mid February. I mean, remember he
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Speaker 1: didn't get hurt till mid January. There's a playoff game
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Speaker 1: against the forty nine ers six months ago, but he
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Speaker 1: didn't have the surgery for another month because he had
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Speaker 1: to get the swelling to come down. So he's not
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Speaker 1: even four full months out from that reconstructive surgery, and
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Speaker 1: here he was yesterday out on the field in flat
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Speaker 1: tennis shoes, running shoes in a hoodie and sweatpants with
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Speaker 1: a trainer, looking very fluid. I have in my story
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Speaker 1: and on my Twitter account at g Beel Seattle the
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Speaker 1: video of him with the trainer and Chris. Frankly, it
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Speaker 1: surprised me. I didn't think i'd see him on the
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Speaker 1: field doing anything other than watching until August or something.
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Speaker 2: I right there with you. What did I say?
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Speaker 4: I don't think he'll be playing meaningful ball till maybe October,
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Speaker 4: and that's even if he is able to, because they're
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Speaker 4: not gonna give him a full workload.
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Speaker 2: You want to ease him in.
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Speaker 4: You don't want to just say, hey, October, here you're
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Speaker 4: time to run, go get the ball. You know that
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Speaker 4: that's not how the Seahawks do things. And to hear
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Speaker 4: that he's already on the field and reading your story
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Speaker 4: that he is probably a head of schedule, that's really
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Speaker 4: cool to see. But I'm sure there was stuff off
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Speaker 4: the screen that we didn't see. That he's worked his
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Speaker 4: tail off to get back to this moment. So it's
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Speaker 4: obviously a wait and see, but I'm guessing he would
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Speaker 4: definitely be an interesting name come training camp. So in
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Speaker 4: July July twenty five. That's what about thirty five days
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Speaker 4: from now. Could he actually be out there getting full reps.
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Speaker 4: Probably not, but the fact that he is working with
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Speaker 4: trainers on the side and working on the field, that's
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Speaker 4: definitely a good side.
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Speaker 2: So I would guess he could be ready by week one.
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Speaker 1: It looks more likely than it did before yesterday that
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Speaker 1: he might be able to week win. Remember it's eight
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Speaker 1: to twelve months is typically the recovery time for a
17:44
Speaker 1: football player from an ACL and reconstructive surgery. Eight months
17:49
Speaker 1: would be from the injury would be mid September. Eight
17:52
Speaker 1: months from the surgery would be mid October. Now you're
17:55
Speaker 1: four or five games into the season. That's part of
17:58
Speaker 1: the reason that drafted did Our Price. Let's face it
18:01
Speaker 1: also that Zack Charbonay coming off the injury, is entering
18:04
Speaker 1: the final year of his rookie contract is another reason
18:07
Speaker 1: that they drafted Jedari and Price the first round pick
18:10
Speaker 1: out a Notre Dame. But yeah, yesterday was a development
18:14
Speaker 1: that started to say, eh, maybe Mike McDonald wasn't blowing
18:17
Speaker 1: smoke at the combine in all off season when he
18:20
Speaker 1: was being very vague, if not coy, about when Sharbonay
18:23
Speaker 1: might come back. He said to us at the combine
18:26
Speaker 1: at the end of February and in Indianapolis. Quote, if
18:30
Speaker 1: you're betting on anybody, you're gonna bet on Zach. He's
18:33
Speaker 1: not gonna do anything in the spring. Well, then yesterday
18:35
Speaker 1: he did that. I mean, that's not football work, but
18:37
Speaker 1: it's sure it's more than any of us expected. That
18:40
Speaker 1: really surprised me yesterday. We'll see, we'll keep an eye
18:43
Speaker 1: on it. I still think he's most likely to be
18:45
Speaker 1: on the physically unable to perform list to begin training camp,
18:49
Speaker 1: which you can come off of at any time during
18:51
Speaker 1: training PAMP if that gives you the option to put
18:53
Speaker 1: him on the PUP list to begin the regular season,
18:55
Speaker 1: and missed the first four games or so. Yeah, but
18:58
Speaker 1: we'll see. That was an encouraging site for this yowks
19:00
Speaker 1: to see some press back Sharon. Four months. Yeah, that
19:04
Speaker 1: was less than foremat, I mean.
19:06
Speaker 2: And it usually takes what seven to eleven months?
19:09
Speaker 1: Yeah, eight to twelve twelve.
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Speaker 4: That's really good stuff. Unlikely for week one, but I'll
19:15
Speaker 4: tell you this, he's definitely trending up. Like my whole
19:17
Speaker 4: take of him not playing until week four, I think
19:20
Speaker 4: he could be getting good reps by week four.
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Speaker 2: If that's the case, we'll see it.
19:24
Speaker 1: But you're right, Chris, it's not that when he comes
19:26
Speaker 1: back he's gonna get the full load. They're going to
19:28
Speaker 1: definitely be ramping him back up and and have to
19:31
Speaker 1: gradually work him in. So what's up with jedaari In Price?
19:34
Speaker 1: The first round pick? Well, in OTAs, he was the
19:36
Speaker 1: definite number two running guy. George Hallani, the third year
19:40
Speaker 1: pro from the undrafted former undrafted free agent from Boise
19:43
Speaker 1: State returning back who they the coaches really were impressed
19:46
Speaker 1: with him filling in for Charbonay in the playoffs last year.
19:50
Speaker 1: He's been the number one back Heilane has and in OTAs,
19:55
Speaker 1: Price was mostly working with through lock in the number
19:57
Speaker 1: two offense. Yesterday, however, Price was getting entire series with
20:01
Speaker 1: the ones in Sam Darnold and I hadn't seen that
20:04
Speaker 1: in Ota, So there was a progress there for the rookie.
20:08
Speaker 1: He was getting far more ones just to the start
20:11
Speaker 1: of mini camp. Again, Chris, we've talked about this, but
20:14
Speaker 1: it would be a shock if Price isn't the number
20:16
Speaker 1: one running back September night. That's why you draft him
20:18
Speaker 1: in the first round.
20:19
Speaker 2: All right.
20:20
Speaker 4: Yeah, so it's good to see that someone else is
20:22
Speaker 4: stepping up, But again, this is a rookie coming in.
20:24
Speaker 2: He's learning a bunch.
20:26
Speaker 4: They're throwing everything at him right now, and I think
20:28
Speaker 4: it'll be it'll be. It'll take some time for him
20:32
Speaker 4: to understand and get rolling, and I think after that
20:34
Speaker 4: first preseason game he should definitely be the starter. So
20:38
Speaker 4: it's gonna be a challenge for Darian, but I think
20:41
Speaker 4: by week one you will see him as the starter
20:44
Speaker 4: and go from there. But that's good on Alani for
20:48
Speaker 4: stepping up and showcasing his veteran leadership skills and that
20:52
Speaker 4: could play a long way, right, That could allow him
20:54
Speaker 4: to get more snaps this season, assuming that Charbonnet is
20:57
Speaker 4: not available like week one, week two and that. So
21:00
Speaker 4: other guys stepping up, that's great to see. But I
21:03
Speaker 4: agree with you your first round pick. Yeah, they didn't draft
21:07
Speaker 4: him in the first round to sit behind anybody. He's
21:09
Speaker 4: going to be the star back unless they admit that
21:11
Speaker 4: they missed out on a pick there, which would not
21:13
Speaker 4: be good, but I don't see that being the issue.
21:15
Speaker 1: They signed Emmanuel Wilson, twenty seven year old free agent
21:18
Speaker 1: from Green Bay five hundred yard rushing back for the
21:20
Speaker 1: Packers last year. He's been the third running back, running
21:23
Speaker 1: mostly with Jalon Milroe in the third team offense. So far,
21:26
Speaker 1: He's got a contract that's one point six million, but
21:29
Speaker 1: only three hundred thousand of US guaranteed, so if he
21:31
Speaker 1: doesn't fit, they could release him. Although you always need
21:34
Speaker 1: running backs, they go through many of them. What else
21:37
Speaker 1: I see? Jared Ivy Last year he was the outside
21:39
Speaker 1: linebacker that they kept on the roster the entire season
21:42
Speaker 1: as an undrafted rookie free agent. We fairly peculiar how
21:45
Speaker 1: he never got a snap, yet he kept staying on
21:47
Speaker 1: the active roster because he didn't want to release him
21:49
Speaker 1: to the practice squad and have him have to clear
21:51
Speaker 1: waivers for fear someone would pick him up. Well, Ivy
21:55
Speaker 1: is now defensive end he was working with. He's six six,
21:58
Speaker 1: he's about two hundred and seventy pounds, and they're using
22:01
Speaker 1: him as a defensive and hand on the ground guy.
22:03
Speaker 1: He's been drilling with the defensive ends. He's been drilling
22:06
Speaker 1: with Leonard Williams and DeMarcus Lawrence on some hand on
22:10
Speaker 1: the ground stuff and then scrimmaging. He is definitely a
22:13
Speaker 1: defensive end, not his listed linebacker Josh Job, but was
22:15
Speaker 1: starting corner opposite of Witherspoon. The third cornerback has been
22:19
Speaker 1: neam I Pritchett. It looks like for now he's the
22:22
Speaker 1: third in the rotation with the starters, just like Tarik
22:24
Speaker 1: Woollen was last year. DeMarcus Lawrence has continued to be
22:28
Speaker 1: a teacher out here. He was teaching Nick Emun Worry
22:32
Speaker 1: on the nuances of past rush steps and lean and
22:35
Speaker 1: balance in the past Rush and Emon Worry talked about
22:37
Speaker 1: how what a great teacher that DeMarcus Lawrence in his
22:41
Speaker 1: thirteenth year, thirty four years old, is just I mean,
22:45
Speaker 1: Warry said quote, just how to win easy, not to
22:47
Speaker 1: make it too complicated. A guy like him, he's been
22:49
Speaker 1: doing it so long. Anything he says is like green,
22:51
Speaker 1: good to go. I'm just soaking up as much game
22:54
Speaker 1: as I can from him and learning from him. He's
22:56
Speaker 1: just given me what he's got. Nick even worry about
22:59
Speaker 1: DeMarcus Lawrence. The Bobby Hart the offensive tackle of the
23:03
Speaker 1: veteran offensive tackle the Seahawks signed on Monday. He was
23:06
Speaker 1: the number three right tackle I saw yesterday. Of course,
23:08
Speaker 1: Abe Lucas is the starter and opposite of Charles Cross.
23:13
Speaker 1: But Hart was the third team and I still didn't
23:16
Speaker 1: see Josh Jones on the field. He was injured during OTAs,
23:20
Speaker 1: apparently because he wasn't on the field end. He wasn't
23:22
Speaker 1: on the field the veteran again yesterday, Elijah Royo, the
23:25
Speaker 1: second year rookie tight end, didn't practice. I didn't see
23:28
Speaker 1: Devin Eastern, the rookie seventh round pick, the nose tackle.
23:31
Speaker 1: I didn't see him anywhere, not even watching Eric Soalbert
23:34
Speaker 1: practiced after the veteran tight end missed OTAs. Aj Barner
23:38
Speaker 1: was running straight line sprints the starting tight end with
23:40
Speaker 1: a trainer on a side field. He had ankle surgery
23:44
Speaker 1: and shoulder surgery during the offseason. That's everything I saw.
23:47
Speaker 1: If you want to read about it, it's at the
23:48
Speaker 1: News Tribune dot com. I'll have another story up today
23:51
Speaker 1: from the second practice. Up next, we're going to talk
23:54
Speaker 1: about Brandon Bussey for a second, the Hurricanes rookie goaltender
23:57
Speaker 1: and accidental Stanley Cup star. He has parents in the
24:00
Speaker 1: building in Las Vegas last night and he got emotional
24:02
Speaker 1: talking on CBC after the game about it. Plus a
24:06
Speaker 1: cool little fringe benefit for all those in this country
24:09
Speaker 1: who are wondering about hosting the World Cup. Well, there's
24:11
Speaker 1: a cool little fringe benefit online. If you're in social
24:14
Speaker 1: media that I would point to you. You could check
24:16
Speaker 1: out that's already starting up online. A phenomenon online before
24:20
Speaker 1: the games get going on Thursday. All that's coming up
24:22
Speaker 1: eleven o'clock. You're here from Jackson Smith and Jig But
24:24
Speaker 1: from the Seahawks facility here in the Virginia Mason Athletics
24:28
Speaker 1: Center in Renton on ninety three point three KJRFM. Welcome back,
24:40
Speaker 1: Greg Belt Show with Christoph k Alive from the Virginia
24:42
Speaker 1: Mason Athletics Center and renting day two of the Seahawks
24:45
Speaker 1: three day mandatory minicamp. They get their Super Bowl rings tomorrow.
24:49
Speaker 1: There's already a little bit of a buzz in the
24:50
Speaker 1: building about that. There was a buzz yesterday about about
24:54
Speaker 1: six black suburbans and GMCs and Cadillacs worked out front.
25:01
Speaker 1: Looked like secret service were out here, valts and suits
25:05
Speaker 1: and earpieces. A lot of self important looking people around
25:08
Speaker 1: the building. Of course, rumors and we were all talking
25:11
Speaker 1: about what who's is. Maybe it's a potential buyer, the
25:14
Speaker 1: team that's the stage this team is in. Nothing new
25:17
Speaker 1: to report other than multiple bidders are emerging reportedly that
25:22
Speaker 1: would drive up the price. I still a lot of
25:26
Speaker 1: a lot of large rumors, a lot of strong, strong
25:30
Speaker 1: talk that there is a whale buyer, I mean a
25:33
Speaker 1: whale with strong local ties to Seattle who's waiting in
25:37
Speaker 1: the wings. And to make a late bit on the Seahawks, well,
25:41
Speaker 1: I'm not quite ready to report the details on that
25:45
Speaker 1: because I haven't flushed it out yet. But mini camp
25:49
Speaker 1: practice today, Mandatory mini camp practice today coming up at
25:51
Speaker 1: about an hour and a half here at the Virginia
25:54
Speaker 1: Mason Athletics Center. Last night, Brandon Bussy and the Stanley
25:56
Speaker 1: Cup on Brandon Bussy is an accidental star. He was.
25:59
Speaker 1: He's the Hurricanes' rookie goaltender who was a backup to
26:03
Speaker 1: Frederick Anderson the entire postseason. He had zero minutes. He
26:06
Speaker 1: played as many minutes as you and I did in
26:09
Speaker 1: the Stanley Cup playoffs until the last game, Game three
26:13
Speaker 1: on Sunday night, when he came in when the Hurricanes
26:16
Speaker 1: were down four to nothing in Game three against Vegas
26:19
Speaker 1: and was standing on his head in the third period.
26:23
Speaker 1: In the meantime, his teammates scored four goals in the
26:25
Speaker 1: span of six minutes, three and thirty nine seconds get
26:27
Speaker 1: back in the game. They tied, they went to overtime.
26:30
Speaker 1: Then of course Bussy lost and won a puck carrimed
26:33
Speaker 1: off the backboards and went off the back of his
26:35
Speaker 1: skate and he never saw in an accidental goal that
26:37
Speaker 1: cost him the game in overtime. Well, the Hurricanes started
26:40
Speaker 1: Brandon Bussey last night. He became the first undrafted rookie
26:43
Speaker 1: goaltender to ever start a Stanley Cup final, And on
26:47
Speaker 1: CBC and Sportsnet, they kept showing that in the lower
26:49
Speaker 1: Bowl in Vegas, in the arena, his mom and dad,
26:52
Speaker 1: Brandon Bussey's mom and dad, twenty seven years old rookie
26:56
Speaker 1: was there in the stands and it was really cool
26:59
Speaker 1: to see their reaction. I mean, a g liife of
27:01
Speaker 1: the goaltender's parents or it is nerve wracking to say
27:04
Speaker 1: the least in hockey and and soccer. But when it
27:07
Speaker 1: was finally over and Brandon Bussey got to win in Carolina,
27:10
Speaker 1: even the series to two. Heading back to Carolina, they
27:13
Speaker 1: showed Brandon Bussey's parents in the stands on the Sportsnet
27:17
Speaker 1: CBC broadcast that I always watch here in Seattle, and
27:20
Speaker 1: they were ecstatic. They were hugging and kissing and crying.
27:25
Speaker 1: Kyle Bukoskis of Sports Net and CBC talked to Brandon
27:28
Speaker 1: Bussy after the game outside the Hurricanes locker room last night.
27:32
Speaker 3: Really neat to see both your parents, Robin, Lisa, your
27:34
Speaker 3: fiance Mary here as well. There's some great reactions and
27:37
Speaker 3: then as you can imagine, the crowd. So I just
27:38
Speaker 3: wanted to not see this.
27:39
Speaker 1: What do you think, Oh, that's that's pretty special.
27:43
Speaker 2: So the other reason why I'm able to do what
27:45
Speaker 2: I do right now.
27:46
Speaker 1: Their sacrifice means everything and they're the best.
27:49
Speaker 3: Just the fact that they're here watching this in person,
27:51
Speaker 3: I mean, what does that mean to you?
27:52
Speaker 1: Fine?
27:53
Speaker 3: East Coast Vegas in one day or this morning is
27:56
Speaker 3: a lot.
27:56
Speaker 1: It means a lot. I can't believe the guys just
27:58
Speaker 1: did that to me on TV. Yeah, it's special though.
28:01
Speaker 1: That'll be a memory a half forever. Really cool off.
28:05
Speaker 1: Kaya Picoska's the on ice intermission host and and postgame
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Speaker 1: hosts for Sportsnet cbced showing that clip and talking to
28:13
Speaker 1: Brandon Bussy and presenting it the way he did. Bussy's
28:16
Speaker 1: knees buckled. You couldn't see it there on the radio,
28:18
Speaker 1: but his knees buckled when they showed that clip of
28:21
Speaker 1: his mom and dad in the stands, and you can
28:23
Speaker 1: hear in his voice how emotional he was. And it
28:26
Speaker 1: was a really cool moment last night for Brandon Bussy
28:29
Speaker 1: getting to win as a rookie, and now they're gonna
28:31
Speaker 1: run with him. Now he won to two, it's his
28:34
Speaker 1: cup to win. And then that was the best of three.
28:38
Speaker 1: Now that the series is tied too too with Game
28:40
Speaker 1: five in Carolina on Thursday night, right here on kJ
28:42
Speaker 1: R at five o'clock. The other cool thing I wanted
28:45
Speaker 1: to point out to all you you know, the World Cup.
28:47
Speaker 1: It's coming here to Seattle on Monday. By the way,
28:50
Speaker 1: I pic Conea. The weather report just told us it's
28:52
Speaker 1: gonna be ninety two degrees here at a noon kickoff
28:56
Speaker 1: for Belgium and Egypt at Lumenfield on Monday. I'll be
28:59
Speaker 1: done at Jim He's on first right before kickoff of
29:01
Speaker 1: the World Cup match here on ninety three point three KJR.
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Speaker 1: But a really cool online phenomenon is emerging of first
29:09
Speaker 1: time visitors posting their videos of being in America for
29:12
Speaker 1: the first time online. Especially there's this dude from Germany.
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Speaker 1: He's Freddy from Germany. Twitter acts is at Freddie fr
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Speaker 1: d d y La seven at Freddie La seven. It's
29:26
Speaker 1: his first time in the US. He's been wowed by
29:30
Speaker 1: the road trips he's traveling across the Southeast. Last night
29:34
Speaker 1: he was at the Argentina Iceland Friendly World Cup tune
29:38
Speaker 1: up match at Auburn University at Jordan Hare Stadium, the
29:41
Speaker 1: college football stadium. There were eighty three thousand people there.
29:44
Speaker 1: Chris he was blown away by the size of the stadium,
29:48
Speaker 1: in the atmosphere at Auburn for Messi and Argentina being there.
29:53
Speaker 1: Then he went to a BUCkies. If any of you
29:56
Speaker 1: have been to the Southeast or to Texas, you know
29:59
Speaker 1: what a Bucki's is is buc Ees with apostrophe Bucky
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Speaker 1: the Beaver is as mascots. It's this giant superstore that
30:07
Speaker 1: doubles as a gas station. And Freddy from Germany went
30:11
Speaker 1: to BUCkies for the first time. He couldn't believe it.
30:14
Speaker 1: If you go to at Freddie La seven, look at
30:17
Speaker 1: his reaction to going to BUCkies for the first time.
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Speaker 1: It's a phenomenon. They have a whole four. I got
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Speaker 1: beef section and chopped beef and chicken and merchandise. You
30:31
Speaker 1: can buy Bucky merchandise, that's sweatpants. You can buy jewelry there.
30:36
Speaker 1: BUCkies is a phenomenon. We don't know it here on
30:38
Speaker 1: the West Coast, but I've been to a BUCkies. It's
30:41
Speaker 1: like an amusement park for a gas station. Well, anyway,
30:44
Speaker 1: it's funny to it's really cool. Actually, it gives you
30:46
Speaker 1: a little bit of pride in our country that these people,
30:48
Speaker 1: these visitors from Europe and other countries, are enjoying just
30:52
Speaker 1: everyday life of America. These merely mundane details about we
30:56
Speaker 1: take for granted in America. They're posting it online and
30:59
Speaker 1: just make it a phenomenon on about it. You can
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Speaker 1: go to at Freddie fr d d y LA seven.
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Speaker 1: He had like fifty thousand followers at the start of
31:06
Speaker 1: this week. Now he's got two hundred and fifty thousand
31:08
Speaker 1: because people are catching word to his exploits and he
31:11
Speaker 1: showed it. He showed him meeting BUCkies at one am
31:13
Speaker 1: last night for his dinner after the Argentina match at Auburn.
31:18
Speaker 1: Up next back here at the Virginia Mason Athletic Center
31:21
Speaker 1: at Seahawks Mini Camp. You'll hear from Jackson Smith and
31:23
Speaker 1: Jigba the reigning NFL Offensive Player of the Year, the
31:27
Speaker 1: richest NFL wide receiver in history with one hundred and
31:30
Speaker 1: sixty eight million dollar contract, why he got a new
31:34
Speaker 1: Offensive Player of the Year trophy because his last one
31:36
Speaker 1: had typos on it, and how life has changed since
31:39
Speaker 1: he signed his big deal. We'll hear from Jackson Smith
31:42
Speaker 1: and Jigbin next on ninety three point three KJRFM.