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Chuck in the Morning 8-25 H4: Ryon Healy, OPQ, One Last Thing · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: It's time for Chuck's weekly visit with Ryan Healy. Brought
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  Speaker 1: Pub and Renton.
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  Speaker 2: Get it, Anders. Good dance moves. Work it. Shake your
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  Speaker 2: money maker. Hey, great morning to you all. It is
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  Speaker 2: a Tuesday. It's 9 o'clock, and it is time to
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  Speaker 2: chat with former Mariner and, yes, starred Mariner's TV member
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  Speaker 2: here as of late. Featured, I should say, Mariner's TV
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  Speaker 2: analyst here in the last few games as this team
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  Speaker 2: seems like it's starting to put things together. And we
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  Speaker 2: have only Ryan Healy to credit for that. He joins
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  Speaker 2: us here on the show. Good morning, sir. Good morning.
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  Speaker 2: How's everyone doing today? We're doing great. We're doing great.
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  Speaker 2: Glad you're in town. I'm going to come see you tomorrow.
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  Speaker 2: So where will you be before the game that I
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  Speaker 2: can come knock on a door and say hello? Maybe
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  Speaker 2: bring you a bouquet of flowers.
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  Speaker 3: Wednesday's a day game, so I probably won't go down.
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  Speaker 2: To the field. I'll probably be up in the booth.
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  Speaker 3: The only other place I would be is the food
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  Speaker 3: room real quick, but you'll find me the TV booth.
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  Speaker 2: That's about it. Okay. And you'll act like we're longtime
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  Speaker 2: friends so that everybody around us will see how much
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  Speaker 2: You like me and admire and respect me? You won't
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  Speaker 2: blow me off?
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  Speaker 3: It depends who's around, to be honest with you. I'll
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  Speaker 3: just be blunt with you.
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  Speaker 2: It depends on who's around. Well, I'm going to tell you.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to be honest with you. I realize that
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  Speaker 2: you and Goldie got a really great chemistry going right now.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, everybody listening is like, it's not as good
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  Speaker 2: as Chuck and Ryan's. I know that's the case. And
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  Speaker 2: I would never, ever, because I care about you as
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  Speaker 2: a human being, Point out the fact that you've never
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  Speaker 2: stolen a base in your career. I would have never
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  Speaker 2: done that to you.
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  Speaker 3: How did you like my couple pitches or batter of
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  Speaker 3: play-by-play just trying to deflect the obvious?
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  Speaker 4: I loved it.
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  Speaker 2: I thought it was fantastic.
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  Speaker 3: I was hoping I was going to take the bait,
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  Speaker 3: and I'm like, well, say Suzuki's had three walks today,
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  Speaker 3: and there's strike one.
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  Speaker 2: Totally pivoted as fast as I could. It was a
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  Speaker 2: good pro-comedic transition on your part.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I was impressed. I knew exactly what you were doing,
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  Speaker 3: and I loved it. He was just staring at me,
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  Speaker 3: waiting for me to look at him, and I refused.
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  Speaker 2: All right, well, let's get into it. Let's talk about
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  Speaker 2: what you witnessed firsthand last night. Cal Raleigh's three-homer game
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  Speaker 2: last night. I mean, it's easy to just look at
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  Speaker 2: the results and say, oh, those went over the fences.
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  Speaker 2: Cal's fixed. You were sort of hinting at this before
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  Speaker 2: last night that maybe something was coming together. And then
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  Speaker 2: last night, man. I mean, I suppose he could have
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  Speaker 2: lined out three times to right field and we could
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  Speaker 2: have drawn a conclusion that he's close. It helps that
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  Speaker 2: it goes over the fence. But he looked like last
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  Speaker 2: year's Cal last night. What is it that you were seeing?
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  Speaker 2: And then what is it that you saw last night
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  Speaker 2: that led to that kind of result?
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  Speaker 3: I saw it the moment I showed up here, honestly.
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  Speaker 3: Every bat that I saw on Friday Night Live, Obviously
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  Speaker 3: the first at bat, like he jumped on a, an
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  Speaker 3: OO fastball for Matt Boyd with that three run home
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  Speaker 3: run that kickstarted things. It wasn't that at bat that
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  Speaker 3: validated it for me. Like, cause Cal's running into some
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  Speaker 3: homers this year. I think he came in with 14,
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  Speaker 3: maybe 13 on the weekend. So like he's hit homers
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  Speaker 3: and we know he can do it. He had 60
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  Speaker 3: last year. It was the second at bat of Friday
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  Speaker 3: that did it for me. Matt Boyd threw a really
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  Speaker 3: good change up low and away. And Cal was able
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  Speaker 3: to kind of adjust and release the barrel a tick later.
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  Speaker 3: But he released it through the baseball as opposed to
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  Speaker 3: across the baseball. Like that's a pitch that I've seen
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  Speaker 3: him end cap in like huge the first baseman or
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  Speaker 3: just swing and miss entirely at. And the fact that
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  Speaker 3: his eyes and body were synced up enough to adjust
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  Speaker 3: to the fastball and be on time first at bat
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  Speaker 3: and then barrel a ball. that Alex Bregman unfortunately just
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  Speaker 3: made a tremendous play at third base on, that was
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  Speaker 3: a sign for me. And then there was, you know,
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  Speaker 3: a couple balls that he just missed. Like there was
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  Speaker 3: a two-strike fastball that he hit a really high pop-up
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  Speaker 3: deep to the second base behind second that I said, wow,
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  Speaker 3: he was on that. And then last night, I just
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  Speaker 3: felt like things were trending in the right direction for
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  Speaker 3: him to be able to jump on a fastball to
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  Speaker 3: his first at-bat. That's been the pitch that's been eating
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  Speaker 3: him up all season long. And for me, as a hitter,
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  Speaker 3: there's a difference between thinking about my timing and feeling
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  Speaker 3: my timing. I related a lot to golf. Golf is
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  Speaker 3: a very rhythm-oriented, you know, athletic movement. And if something
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  Speaker 3: is out of sync, you don't always know what it is. Unfortunately, though,
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  Speaker 3: in baseball, you know your swing so much and well
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  Speaker 3: because you've taken, at this point, hundreds of thousands, maybe
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  Speaker 3: millions of swings. Like, you know your swing well enough
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  Speaker 3: that when something's off, you normally know the problem, but
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  Speaker 3: when you can't solve it, The frustration multiplies. I digress
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  Speaker 3: to say that Cal Raleigh got on time for the fastball,
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  Speaker 3: was able to adjust to the off-speed pitches, and has
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  Speaker 3: strung together consistent bats Monday through Sunday, where all of
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  Speaker 3: a sudden the opportunity Monday presented itself where he just
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  Speaker 3: went off. Everything just fell in order. The 3-2 count
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  Speaker 3: cutter he hit for a whole run, his second one
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  Speaker 3: of the game off of Zach Wheeler, he spit on
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  Speaker 3: a couple really tough two-strike pitches. And as a hitter,
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  Speaker 3: you have to earn the right to get a mistake
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  Speaker 3: from the pitcher. And he did that by taking those
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  Speaker 3: tough borderline pitches in a 1-2 and a 2-2 count.
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  Speaker 3: And then the 3-2 cutter shows that middle-middle.
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  Speaker 2: Whack, homer.
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  Speaker 3: And then at that point, the confidence is just overflowing.
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  Speaker 3: And I think it led to the third one where
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  Speaker 3: he hit another cutter for a home run off a
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  Speaker 3: bullpen arm that I can almost guarantee you Cal's never
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  Speaker 3: seen before in his life.
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  Speaker 2: But it didn't matter. Yeah. When you struggle for four
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  Speaker 2: and a half months and you are desperately trying to
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  Speaker 2: fix it and you're getting a little different piece of
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  Speaker 2: instruction every day and you're completely inside of your head,
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  Speaker 2: I think the natural reaction to that is I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to artificially try to speed up my bat. I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to consciously try to speed up my bat. What I
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  Speaker 2: saw last night was just somebody looked so natural at
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  Speaker 2: the plate, looked so balanced in the batter's box and
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  Speaker 2: And it didn't look like he was making a conscious
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  Speaker 2: effort to get to the fastball quicker. It just felt
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  Speaker 2: like it was happening again. Talk to me about the
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  Speaker 2: struggle of playing at that level. And when you are
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  Speaker 2: in a prolonged slump, I mean, it seems impossible that
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  Speaker 2: some days, someday you just show up at the park
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  Speaker 2: and it clicks, but it does occur, right? It does occur.
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  Speaker 2: Like something weird does happen that suddenly you are on
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  Speaker 2: time for the fastball that you haven't been able to
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  Speaker 2: catch up with for four and a half months.
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  Speaker 3: Chuck, do you ever, just to relate this back to
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  Speaker 3: something you do often, like just be in the radio,
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  Speaker 3: like do you ever wake up and just feel like
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  Speaker 3: you got marbles in your mouth or you're just tongue tied?
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  Speaker 2: Yep.
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  Speaker 3: Me I had that yesterday during the open of the
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  Speaker 3: game for the first time and kind of through the
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  Speaker 3: first three innings where I just felt tongue-tied and I
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  Speaker 3: couldn't say the right word at the right time and
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  Speaker 3: I couldn't find the right word at the right time
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  Speaker 3: something was just like neurologically disconnected I couldn't figure out
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  Speaker 3: why and then as the game progressed it started to
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  Speaker 3: click a little bit but like that's what Cal went
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  Speaker 3: through for a large part of the season something that
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  Speaker 3: is completely normal to the everyday human being is what
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  Speaker 3: an high-level athlete like Cal Raleigh will battle unfortunately for
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  Speaker 3: Cal like The baseball gods determine a lot of what
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  Speaker 3: happens on the field. And the baseball gods determine 2025.
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  Speaker 3: Cal Raleigh, you are him. You're going to hit 60
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  Speaker 3: this year, whether you like it or not. And you're
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  Speaker 3: going to have a ton of praise and potentially an
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  Speaker 3: MVP trophy. But your punishment is four and a half
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  Speaker 3: months of grind. And that's what the game will dish
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  Speaker 3: you sometimes, whether he deserved it or not. And it
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  Speaker 3: was never a lack of effort. When I see Cal today,
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  Speaker 3: the only thing that I'm going to tell him is
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  Speaker 3: how much I admire the way that he has conducted
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  Speaker 3: himself through this entire season. The leadership that he has
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  Speaker 3: still conducted, the way that he has still been able
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  Speaker 3: to show up for this team, the way that he's
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  Speaker 3: managed pitching staffs and helped some of these young players
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  Speaker 3: transition to the major leagues. There's so many positive things
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  Speaker 3: that Cal's been doing all season long. Offense wasn't high
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  Speaker 3: on that list. But to see someone like that who
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  Speaker 3: works as hard as he does, has managed the failure
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  Speaker 3: with such class, to have that type of game last night,
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  Speaker 3: the only thing everyone is hoping is this is what
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  Speaker 3: he's able to capture for the rest of the season.
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  Speaker 2: What do you think? Think he will? Think he can?
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  Speaker 3: I think we'd be really silly to sit here and
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  Speaker 3: predict otherwise, based off of what I'm seeing.
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  Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 3: But I also know baseball is a very fickle game,
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  Speaker 3: and there's a lot of really good pitchers out there
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  Speaker 3: whose job is to get Cal off balance, and now
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  Speaker 3: that he's on balance, now the fight can actually begin
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  Speaker 3: on Cal's side of the equation. I don't expect him
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  Speaker 3: to hit home runs every single night, but I expect
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  Speaker 3: him to continue to put together professional bats because I've
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  Speaker 3: seen him do it for four games in a row now.
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  Speaker 2: Former Mariner Ryan Haley joins us every Tuesday at 9
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  Speaker 2: o'clock to talk Mariners baseball. Of course, you can hear him.
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  Speaker 2: on Mariners TV. He's in town and doing the games
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  Speaker 2: with Aaron Goldsmith right now and doing an excellent job,
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  Speaker 2: by the way. Nice work. Really good. Really good stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Getting better. Getting better, too. You were good right off
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  Speaker 2: the bat and you just keep getting better every game.
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  Speaker 2: Let's talk about Randy Rosarino because I don't know if
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  Speaker 2: he is ever going to be mistaken as Now, there's
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  Speaker 2: a captain. There's a leader. I don't know if he's
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  Speaker 2: viewed that way in a locker room or has ever
• 9:46
  Speaker 2: been viewed that way in a locker room. But I
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  Speaker 2: tell you what, in terms of who showed up to
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  Speaker 2: play good baseball this season, he's probably number one on
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  Speaker 2: the list. He and Emerson Hancock, in terms of the
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  Speaker 2: most consistent producers, from the beginning of the year till now.
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  Speaker 2: And tell me about what you saw Saturday because that
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  Speaker 2: was one of the greatest games any individuals played this year.
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  Speaker 3: I'll give Randy a little bit of credit here on
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  Speaker 3: the leadership side because it takes a lot of huevos
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  Speaker 3: to be able to leave your home country and defect
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  Speaker 3: and come over here to better your your lineage and
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  Speaker 3: not just your, your family that raised you, but your,
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  Speaker 3: your future family and change the course of things. Like
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  Speaker 3: there's some, there's some adversity that Randy Roserain has overcome
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  Speaker 3: in his life that you and I will never understand
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  Speaker 3: and have to go through. Thank goodness. But I give
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  Speaker 3: that man a lot of respect and credit when it
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  Speaker 3: comes to the playing side, like when Randy's in it,
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  Speaker 3: he changes the course of the game on either side
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  Speaker 3: of the ball. And that was, you know, never displayed
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  Speaker 3: better than Saturday's game. When he had a lead off
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  Speaker 3: home run, robbed a home run, had a walk off
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  Speaker 3: home run. Like when Randy is in it, he is,
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  Speaker 3: one of the most infectious players in the major leagues
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  Speaker 3: and can change the course of a game so quickly.
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  Speaker 3: I haven't seen him hit many dead center home runs
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  Speaker 3: in his career. The power's there, but I've seen more
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  Speaker 3: fly out to the wall this year to dead center
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  Speaker 3: than balls that actually went over it. So that's why
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  Speaker 3: I was even more surprised when that ball left on
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  Speaker 3: the hanging slider. And not to mention like Jacob Weber
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  Speaker 3: from the Cubs, like that was the first runs he's
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  Speaker 3: given up. since June 26th, like that dude was on
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  Speaker 3: an all time heater and little Leo, Leo Rivas decided
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  Speaker 3: that I'm going to break the streak today. The fact
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  Speaker 3: that he came in at the walk-off on Friday and
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  Speaker 3: then extended the, the ending in the ninth inning, uh,
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  Speaker 3: to present the opportunity for Randy to end it.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, it's pretty incredible.
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  Speaker 3: Um, Randy does so many things well, and it's not
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  Speaker 3: surprising that he's a fan favorite because of how exciting
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  Speaker 3: of a player that he is, uh, no player, no
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  Speaker 3: person is perfect. And I know Randy has some of
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  Speaker 3: his downfalls, but When he's into it and he can
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  Speaker 3: change the course of the game like that, it is
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  Speaker 3: fun to watch.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, no doubt. I don't know where they'd be without
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  Speaker 2: Randy Rosarino this year.
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  Speaker 4: J.P.
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  Speaker 2: Crawford looks like he's getting ready to step on the
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  Speaker 2: field soon, maybe tonight. I don't know. Maybe you can
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  Speaker 2: share some insight into that. But I know you did
• 12:00
  Speaker 2: talk to him the other day. I mean, how big
• 12:05
  Speaker 2: is this for the team to have one of their
• 12:07
  Speaker 2: leaders back, especially with the Colt Emerson injury? um, and
• 12:12
  Speaker 2: a need perhaps at shortstop right now. And he gets
• 12:15
  Speaker 2: to return to his old position. I mean, if this
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  Speaker 2: is JP Swansong, Riley at Ryan, Riley, Ryan Healy, I
• 12:22
  Speaker 2: combined your first and your last name, uh, Ryan, then man,
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  Speaker 2: he's got this opportunity to put together quite a stretch
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  Speaker 2: run here for himself as a Mariner.
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  Speaker 3: I think he's primed to do it. I think he's
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  Speaker 3: always been primed to do it. JP is the same
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  Speaker 3: guy every day. And I had a, A lot of
• 12:37
  Speaker 3: fun catching up with JP yesterday on the field. Dee
• 12:40
  Speaker 3: Gordon was in town over the weekend as well. So
• 12:42
  Speaker 3: the three of us, all former teammates, had a chance
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  Speaker 3: to just catch up and talk. And I'm laughing because
• 12:46
  Speaker 3: Brad Adams trying to kind of probe JP. Like, hey,
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  Speaker 3: what do you think? You're going to come back and
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  Speaker 3: play shortstop? You're going to be the guy? And JP's like,
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  Speaker 3: I'm just happy to be here. Whatever they want me
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  Speaker 3: to do, I'll do. Like kind of being coy about it,
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  Speaker 3: but also understanding what this season has looked like, where
• 13:02
  Speaker 3: JP's at in his career, last year of his contract. Obviously,
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  Speaker 3: The world has already seen Colt Emerson. They know he's
• 13:08
  Speaker 3: here and he's staying. JP, I think, is just excited
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  Speaker 3: to be healthy, get out there. I know he was
• 13:14
  Speaker 3: excited to buy the AAA team some spread. He actually
• 13:17
  Speaker 3: bought them probably more In-N-Out burgers than you've ever seen
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  Speaker 3: in your entire life. Took care of the boys down there.
• 13:23
  Speaker 3: The SoCal boy was Trudeau's roots. I just think JP's
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  Speaker 3: excited to be back. That presence in that locker room,
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  Speaker 3: presence on the field, we know what JP does really
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  Speaker 3: well and other things that JP maybe isn't.
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  Speaker 2: As good at now.
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  Speaker 3: I take all the good, all the bad, and I
• 13:41
  Speaker 3: want to put that veteran at shortstop and anchor him
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  Speaker 3: there for the rest of the season, in my opinion.
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  Speaker 3: I think there's a chance he gets activated tonight. I'm
• 13:49
  Speaker 3: not positive on that, so don't quote me on it.
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  Speaker 3: But I know he went through a full day of
• 13:53
  Speaker 3: pregame work yesterday of on-field BP, ground balls, everything, and
• 13:57
  Speaker 3: was looking and feeling good. So what they decide to
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  Speaker 3: do tonight, we'll find out.
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  Speaker 2: But definitely shortstop. He's working at shortstop. I think even
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  Speaker 2: Angie reported that last night. Yeah, that's what I saw.
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  Speaker 2: As for Cole Emerson, we got a taste of him.
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  Speaker 2: I know that by the end of his first season
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  Speaker 2: in the major leagues, he wasn't hitting and he wasn't
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  Speaker 2: fielding well. But I watched Cole Young not put on
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  Speaker 2: the roster last year for the playoffs a year ago
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  Speaker 2: and look at the season that he's having today. This year,
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  Speaker 2: and he looks like our second baseman for the next
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  Speaker 2: 15 years, for goodness sake, here in Seattle. I'm expecting
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  Speaker 2: the same thing out of Colt. What was your first
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  Speaker 2: impression of Colt Emerson now that we're not going to
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  Speaker 2: get to see him play again this year?
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  Speaker 3: I understand the hype. I understand the contract extension. I
• 14:39
  Speaker 3: understand why he's climbed the minor league so quick, that
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  Speaker 3: being Colt Emerson.
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  Speaker 2: I get it.
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  Speaker 3: I also understand the injury side of things from the
• 14:48
  Speaker 3: player's perspective of not wanting to speak up and wanting
• 14:51
  Speaker 3: to play through things. The Mariners general manager, Justin Hollander,
• 14:54
  Speaker 3: was speaking yesterday on it and gave some great details
• 14:57
  Speaker 3: to the media. He was saying that Colt actually went
• 15:00
  Speaker 3: and saw Dr. Sheridan, which I believe is in Arizona,
• 15:03
  Speaker 3: who's the hand, wrist, forearm specialist when it comes to
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  Speaker 3: these type of surgeries, and told Colt, you're going to
• 15:09
  Speaker 3: need surgery on this at some point. And whether it's
• 15:12
  Speaker 3: right now, you don't have to, it's up to you,
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  Speaker 3: or we can try and do this in the offseason.
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  Speaker 3: So there's been a problem existing from jump. And that
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  Speaker 3: man still went out. banged in triple a came to
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  Speaker 3: the big leagues, had a splash, had some really big moments,
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  Speaker 3: but it makes sense why he wasn't able to make
• 15:30
  Speaker 3: the adjustment on the high fastball.
• 15:32
  Speaker 2: It was the left forearm, the left wrist.
• 15:34
  Speaker 3: And that is the exact movement that you need to
• 15:37
  Speaker 3: have to get on top and be direct to that
• 15:40
  Speaker 3: high fastball. If he doesn't have that strength and that
• 15:42
  Speaker 3: comfort with that, that top hand, then he's not able
• 15:46
  Speaker 3: to get really short to the baseball. the barrel's naturally
• 15:50
  Speaker 3: going to get longer and drop underneath. So he's swinging
• 15:53
  Speaker 3: at it, trying to get on time. And he had,
• 15:55
  Speaker 3: I mean, Colt had the same progression that every major
• 15:58
  Speaker 3: leader goes through when they first come up. They have
• 16:00
  Speaker 3: some success. The league figures out your holes. They expose
• 16:02
  Speaker 3: your holes. The big part is what are you going
• 16:05
  Speaker 3: to do about it? Colt didn't have the things healthy
• 16:08
  Speaker 3: that he needed to, to be able to make the adjustment.
• 16:11
  Speaker 3: So what I'm hoping is I believe he's having surgery tomorrow.
• 16:14
  Speaker 3: I hope, I don't know what the timeline is for,
• 16:16
  Speaker 3: for recovery, but, Um, so we'll find out what that
• 16:19
  Speaker 3: looks like of when he can start his swing and progression.
• 16:22
  Speaker 3: Once he's healthy, he's going to hammer fastballs in the top.
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: Of the zone all off season long.
• 16:27
  Speaker 3: And I would expect him to come back with that
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: same common poise that we saw for most of his
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: debut this season. There was a little bit at the
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: end in early August where I felt like things really
• 16:37
  Speaker 3: sped up on him. But I do believe he'll come
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: back more polished next season, 100% healthy, and be ready
• 16:43
  Speaker 3: to contribute to this team in a big way.
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: What was your first impression of the other prospect, Kate Anderson,
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: on Saturday? That doesn't look like a fun at-bat.
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: No, as advertised. Also, you know, the shadows that were
• 16:55
  Speaker 3: kind of working in his favor. There was things that
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: were helping.
• 16:59
  Speaker 4: He's awesome.
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: Not really a soft landing spot to come face a
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: Cubs team that leads the major leagues in OPS.
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: Like, hey, welcome to the show, kid. Here's the Chicago Cubs.
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: Good luck. He mixed and matched.
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: I think the most fascinating thing about Cade that I'll
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: continue to watch is how he uses the entire rubber.
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: Like for a left-handed pitcher, he's on the first base
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: side of the rubber. The right-handed pitcher's on the third
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: base side of the rubber. He's trying to create angles
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: to promote the movement on his pitches and also establishing
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: the inside part of the plate on both hitters. He
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: was attacking righties in with his fastball and his slider
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: to open up the changeup low and away off of it.
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: He was using both sides of the plate, using all
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: four pitches with confidence and conviction. And if you eliminate
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: a couple pitches that he had late in the game
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: in the sixth inning that kind of went quick on him,
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: that was.
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: A flawless start that he had.
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: I got some help from Randy Rosarena, but it's nice
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: to see a lefty in the rotation because it forces
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: the opposing team to use different players in their lineup
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: as opposed to three games set here's the same.
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: Lineup all the way through all right so how do
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: we use them going forward i mean there's talk of
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: piggyback coming back six man we're here we go again
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: having the same conversation now that he showed saturday that
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: yeah probably need to be in this rotation uh so
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: what do you what do you see it looking.
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: Like the rest of the way they didn't bring kate
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: anderson up to you know kind of be a hybrid
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: role where he's going to start some days going to
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: bullpen some days like you don't have the season that
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: kate had to be the prospect that you are in
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: baseball to come up here and be messed with like that.
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: And I, I say mess with facetiously, like they got
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: six really good big league starters. What decision they make.
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: I think that's the million dollar question right now. And
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: based off of the interview that I saw yesterday with Hollander, uh,
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: they're being pretty coy with it. They don't have an answer, uh,
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: which is how they kind of navigated this the last
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: time through the biggest difference Chuck right now is the
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: time of year.
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: Uh, it's not, you.
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: Know, early June or late May where they have a
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: runway in front of them.
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: Like it's sprint time.
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: You got about less than five weeks left of this
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: season and you don't have the luxury to mix and
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: match and tinker with how this is going to look.
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: They're going to have to make a really hard decision.
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: And whatever that hard decision looks like, I feel like
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: whoever is affected by the decision will have to respond
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: in the best way because this is a team first decision.
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: Whatever decisions made is to help this team win. And
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: they're starting to do a lot of it. And there's
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: a schedule that's friendly for them in September that allows
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: the opportunity for them to go on a run.
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: You know, you're right. You nailed me to the wall
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: that sometimes I do wake up marble-mouthed, even though I'm
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: supposed to be able to talk for a living. But,
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: you know, the one thing that's always pure is just
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: my dance game. Like, no matter what, no matter I
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: could be woken up out of a dead sleep, and
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: it's just perfect. Just my footwork, my execution. Yeah. I
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: don't know. if you knew that about me.
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: I mean, talk about just a comment from left field
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: right there. I'm not really sure where to go. Is
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: our time up now? Is that why you said that?
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, I'm wrapping it up, but I was just
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: trying to pull it full circle. I just didn't want
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: it to go undiscussed. Like, yes, sometimes it doesn't come
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: out the way I want. but not on the dance floor.
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but instead of owning the fact you make mistakes,
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: you're like, I'm the best dancer in all of Seattle.
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: Everyone look at me on the radio. Maybe not the
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: best in all of Seattle, but top three, certainly. When
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: do I get to see it? Hey, you pay attention
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: to me. That's a good point. You welcome me as
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: a friend tomorrow, no matter who's around, and I will
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: dance for inspiration. I need to get the song, Anders.
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: Is there like a song or something that?
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: I'll figure it out the rest of the show. Really
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: gets them going. When you find it, send me it
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: and I'll have it keyed up and ready to go.
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: Sounds good.
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: All right, man. Well, great to have you on. We
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: appreciate it. I hope to see you tomorrow and continued
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: good work. It's been fun. Appreciate it. Go Mariners. There
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: he is. Ryan Ailey joining us right here on the
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: radio program. I think he came across thinking that I
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: sounded weird for admitting that. I don't know. That was odd.
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: He didn't think that that was something that I should
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: bring up. Like that came out of left field?
• 21:04
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: Really?
• 21:04
  Speaker 4: That more came out of center field.
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. I mean, I think, I thought most people
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: knew my reputation as the Caucasian usher, caucusher. Caucusher. Yeah,
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: as a lot of people call me.
• 21:16
  Speaker 5: What song would it be now that I'm, because I
• 21:19
  Speaker 5: probably will be there tomorrow as well.
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: I don't know. I do know my karaoke song. Okay.
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: Like if I have to nail it, but I don't
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: know if I have a dancing song. Yeah, that's funny.
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: It's a different song.
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: Which does highlight that I'm full of crap.
• 21:33
  Speaker 5: Yeah. Yeah.
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: But everybody knew that. What would my go-to dance song?
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: That's a good question.
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: The baseball brunch song?
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: I know it's Wicked Game by Chris Isaac and karaoke.
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: That's what I go to. That'd be my first.
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: Good call.
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: But then when it comes to like the dance song,
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: oh boy.
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: You're a falsetto guy there, huh?
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: That's a good question. It might be something Michael Jackson-like.
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: Got to get the gyrating going.
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, I've got to get the moonwalk going.
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: Coming up next, I know you're down with it. I mean,
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: I'm a little bothered by it, frankly. I think that
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: maybe you should talk to their spouses and be a
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: little more honest about But if you're going to be
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: down with OPQ, well, we're going to deliver for you
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: next on KJR. Let's start in Atlanta, Georgia today with OPQ.
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: Michael Penix, apparently the Falcons organization under Kevin Stefanski, back
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: in love with Michael Penix Jr. Are we sure that
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: they ever fell out of love? Wasn't it really just
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: that he couldn't stay healthy?
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: I mean, I had to listen to a conversation this
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: morning by somebody who's apparently a journalist that covers the
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: National Football League that thought it was shocking that Tua
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: was brought in to Atlanta to improve the quarterback room
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: and might not be the starting quarterback because of Michael
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: Penix Jr. Wait, wait, wait. Are you on goofers? Like,
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: what are you talking about? They have far more invested
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: in Michael Penix Jr. They invested a 10 pick in
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: the guy. Yeah. When they already had Kirk Cousins and
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: they kicked him out of the..
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: And they paid Kirk Cousins.
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah. So we're going to say they are far more
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: invested in the Michael Penix company than they are the
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: Tua Tonga Vailoa company. So Tua was there to provide
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: depth and competition and to raise the game. That's why
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: he was there. And if he ended up being the
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: better quarterback or the healthier quarterback, let's face it, then
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: they would have gone with Tua. They feel good about
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: the backup. But you know for a fact that they
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: want Michael Penix Jr. to emerge from this competition. And
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: I guess as he's trying to recover from his injury,
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: he's really been blowing people away. He's still not even
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: really truly like actively getting ready for the season, like
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: full-scale practicing yet, but from what they've seen, and it's
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: a new regime, by the way, seeing Michael Pennix throw
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: for the first time, apparently he's building a lot of
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: hype behind the scenes, and it looks like he's getting
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: ready to reestablish himself as the Falcons quarterback.
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's just weird.
• 24:26
  Speaker 5: Every time people see him for the first time, it's like, wow,
• 24:29
  Speaker 5: this guy's pretty good.
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: It's like, yes, we've been trying to tell you guys
• 24:33
  Speaker 4: that for.
• 24:34
  Speaker 5: A long time now. It just sucks he can't stay healthy.
• 24:37
  Speaker 5: I still am really rooting for the guy. He might
• 24:39
  Speaker 5: be my favorite non-Seahawk in the NFL, to be honest.
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: Well, and why is that?
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: Because I watched him here.
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: Exactly. Yeah. Because he's your favorite Husky.
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: I'm not even a Husky, but I just love watching
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: him here.
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: But you like the Huskies, don't you? I do, yeah.
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: I didn't go there, though. Oh, okay. All right, Seattle, you.
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: I'm not bleeding purple and gold.
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: Go, Tarek Skubal. Yeah, it's true. All right, so yeah,
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: it looks like he's going to end up being the
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: starting quarterback, and that's the right move, Atlanta. Brown's quarterback position,
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: they've gone with Deshaun Watson, and that's another thing. I
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: can't believe it. I mean, it's everywhere. How on earth?
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: You do realize that they're tanking, right? Everybody understands. And
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: by the way, behind the scenes, their general manager's done
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: a really good job of building a pretty good roster.
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: He's getting a lot of credit for his last couple
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: of drafts. The Miles Garrett trade, they lost Miles Garrett,
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: but they also recouped quite a bit in that deal.
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: There are a lot of people that think that the
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: Cleveland Browns could be pretty good this year if they
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: have a quarterback, which they don't. But Jimmy Haslam has
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: already made it known, foolishly as it is, that he
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: wants Arch Manning, and he might have to have the
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: number one pick in order to get that. So this
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: is probably because that organization is stupid. They probably are
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: worried they're going to win too many games this year
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: because the plan is that this is the year to
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: get their quarterback of the future. They'll be out from
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: underneath the big, giant money of Deshaun Watson next season.
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: If they can get the rest of the team ready
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: and then add that final, crucial, most important piece in
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: the draft next year, by next season, they're going to
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: feel really good about where Cleveland Browns football is. So
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: is there a chance here? Anders, that they're like, we
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: need to play the worst quarterback that we have. Is
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: there a chance of that? Yeah. We don't want to
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: retard anybody else's progress on the roster, but if we
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: play a bad quarterback, and it sounds like they don't
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: have a choice, but if we can play a quarterback that...
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: is not good, and it may be losing optically the
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: quarterback battle, then does that not help us get a
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: higher draft pick next year? I don't think this season
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: in Cleveland is about shocking the world. I think this
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: season about Cleveland is getting everything ready. For the king
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: to arrive next year in the NFL draft. That's what
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: I think it's about.
• 27:24
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't think the choice in Deshaun Watson is
• 27:27
  Speaker 5: playing the best quarterback, but I also don't think the
• 27:29
  Speaker 5: choice in Deshaun Watson is playing the worst quarterback. I
• 27:31
  Speaker 5: think both of them haven't shown anything as of late.
• 27:36
  Speaker 5: You can't go wrong when you're choosing bad quarterbacks to
• 27:38
  Speaker 5: tank for Arch Manning between Shador Sanders and Deshaun Watson.
• 27:43
  Speaker 4: I think it's more just about..
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: Go with Gabriel! Right? That's probably the best one out
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: of all of them. Or the worst.
• 27:50
  Speaker 4: We don't know.
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: We don't know. But I don't think that's really their goal.
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: I wouldn't surprise me at all if they're like, we
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: sabotaged their record. You might win some games. We can't
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: have that. Trying to thread the needle of, let's get
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: better in every area, but let's still lose games. Think
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: about threading that needle. That's what I think they're doing.
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: And if we go out and got a better quarterback
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: or played the better quarterback and they win us four
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: games instead of three, that could cost us Arch Manning.
• 28:23
  Speaker 4: Totally.
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: I mean, maybe I sound stupid. I think I accused
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: others of sounding stupid. Maybe I sound stupid for saying this.
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: But I think the Browns are so stupid that they
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: would be that stupid. Only the Browns.
• 28:38
  Speaker 4: Only the Browns.
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: All right. While we're talking about OPQ, other people's quarterbacks,
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: I don't want to give away too much. Anders and
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: I are going to be in the same fantasy league
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: here at KJR. And I'm always in this because I
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: feel like I've got some good advice to impart. I
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: think I'm pretty good at fantasy football. But on the
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: other hand, I want to give away all of my
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: secrets before we actually draft. I mean, if nothing else,
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: Anders is going to hear them. It's true. Okay.
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: Uh, but I saw the fantasy, they're doing the big
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: fantasy football, like showcase like three hours a night on,
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: on ESPN right now. And I saw their list of quarterbacks. I, man,
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: I hope that's the way everybody thinks in my league.
• 29:22
  Speaker 5: It is pretty funny how I always look at the
• 29:25
  Speaker 5: lists that they come up with.
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: And it's like, yeah, please auto draft, please.
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Like Jaden Daniels, number two. Yeah. There's a world
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: where Jaden Daniels is the highest, second highest scoring. There's
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: also a world that that skinny guy gets broken in
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: half again. by week two and you don't have anything
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: for a third round pick because you rated Jaden Daniels
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: as your second rated quarterback. Jackson Dart in the top 12?
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: Can he get through a game without a concussion? You
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: have Jackson Dart rated ahead of Matt Stafford and Justin Herbert?
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: And Trevor Lawrence right now?
• 30:00
  Speaker 4: Because they can run, Chuck.
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: Well, I get that. Yeah, I get that. But you
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: know what else happens to running quarterbacks who are injury-plagued?
• 30:06
  Speaker 4: They get hurt.
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: They get injured again.
• 30:08
  Speaker 4: It's true.
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: I get Lamar Jackson. Lamar Jackson's got a big profile
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: of putting up big numbers and staying healthy. I get
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: putting Lamar Jackson, trusting a bounce back, putting him up there.
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: And yes, I get his running numbers and I get
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: his passing numbers and the offense should be better this year.
• 30:29
  Speaker 4: I get that one.
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: I get that one. But my goodness, Matt Stafford was
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: ranked 15th on their list. He threw 46 touchdown passes
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: last year.
• 30:38
  Speaker 4: I don't know how that happens.
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: Go ahead and let me get Matt Stafford in the
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: 15th round. Go ahead. I just want to tell everybody
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: at KJR, go ahead. Hate Matt Stafford. Let me wait
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: until the 12th round to pick a quarterback. I will
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: take Matt Stafford as my fantasy quarterback. And I'll take,
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: with my other 11 picks... a bunch of running backs
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: and wide receivers. I'll have tight end depth. I'll have
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: depth out my wazoo, and I'll have Matt Stafford at quarterback.
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: Go ahead and let me do that. You take Jackson
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: Dart in the fifth round. I'll take Matt Stafford in
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: the 12th. Come on, Anders, please.
• 31:14
  Speaker 4: I will not.
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: You're a really good competition in this league. Please, take
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: Jackson Dart. Listen to ESPN. Jackson Dart, he's going to
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: have a huge year. He's MVP candidate. Jackson Dart, that's
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: your guy. Jackson Dart.
• 31:24
  Speaker 4: <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> You're going
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  Speaker 4: to inception me into putting that into my head?
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  Speaker 2: One last thing is next on KJR. All right, final
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  Speaker 2: segment of the radio show. Time for one last thing
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: as we close things out. Hand it over to Greg Bell,
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  Speaker 2: who's back in town. Jessamyn McIntyre as well. They're coming
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  Speaker 2: your way at 10 o'clock. So what's the last thing
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  Speaker 2: on your mind, your very busy mind, Anders Hurst?
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  Speaker 5: I mean, we haven't touched on it today, but this
• 32:09
  Speaker 5: Jed York situation. My goodness.
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  Speaker 4: It's just been..
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  Speaker 5: Every little bit of detail that comes out about it
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  Speaker 5: keeps getting kind of crazier than the last uh it
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  Speaker 5: was in a trailer park where he ended up having
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  Speaker 5: it happen like what's going on man jeez i just
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  Speaker 5: i don't know but i have no strong feelings about
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  Speaker 5: it other than this is just one of the crazier
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  Speaker 5: stories that i've seen in a long time.
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  Speaker 2: What a dysfunctional organization that still seems to win football games.
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  Speaker 2: And I think that is going to catch up to them.
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  Speaker 2: I thought it was going to last year. But I
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: think that is going to catch up to them. These
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: fools that keep thinking that the 49ers are the clever
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: pick in the NFC West. Yeah, if you like 7
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: and 10. But think about what they've done. Think about
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: their offseason. First of all, they've got York, Shanahan... And
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: his driving thing.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Ayuk still on the roster. Somehow. At this point. They've
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: got the substation that they're blaming for their..
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  Speaker 4: Injuring all their players.
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  Speaker 2: Injuring all their players. And they have the highest rate
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: of injuries. Again, this already. Training camp.
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  Speaker 5: Boy.
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  Speaker 2: It feels like a mess. I said last year that
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: even with Mike McDonald in town, Kyle Shanahan should be
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: the coach of the year because he somehow got 12
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  Speaker 2: wins from the regular season. It's a regular season award.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Out of that banged up of a team. And yet
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  Speaker 2: I do believe it's going to catch up to them
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  Speaker 2: at some point, and I'm guessing it's going to be
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: this year. But when the owner, add the owner to
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: the list. Another log to the fire.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's just, I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: Where the Koshla family comes into all this, but maybe
• 34:02
  Speaker 5: they wanted to get out of that tire fire in
• 34:06
  Speaker 5: San Francisco.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, that's interesting. I didn't even think of that angle.
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  Speaker 5: But it's like, we don't want to deal with this anymore.
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  Speaker 4: Let's go to the rivals.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Now, it may be helpful. Their head coach can drive. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Their best wide receiver plays. Novel concept. They tell the.
• 34:29
  Speaker 5: Media when something happens and don't just try.
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  Speaker 4: And hide it until it comes out.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. We can be the owners there and we know
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  Speaker 2: we don't dabble in prostitution. That's got to be the
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  Speaker 2: better place to go. They don't have a substation anywhere
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  Speaker 2: near Renton.
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  Speaker 4: It's true. They do not.
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  Speaker 2: My one last thing. I'm also going to grab some
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: low-hanging fruit here today. Look. I'm not saying Ennis Cantor's right.
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: I'm not saying Ennis Cantor's wrong. I'm not saying anything
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  Speaker 2: politically about what's going on there. But I will say,
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: I want to see him suit up for a WNBA team.
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  Speaker 2: Do you know how long this conversation's been going on, Anders,
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  Speaker 2: where women's sports say this and then men's sports say, well,
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  Speaker 2: if you... WNBA team played a great high school basketball team.
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  Speaker 2: The boys team would win by 50, and then the
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  Speaker 2: people on the other side, you're out of your mind.
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  Speaker 2: That is so chauvinism. No, no, no, no. Honestly, they'd
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  Speaker 2: win by 50. I mean, the athleticism and the... This
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  Speaker 2: conversation has been going on since I was a baby.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, since the dawn of time.
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  Speaker 2: So... Maybe there's a loophole. Just put one guy. Let's
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: just see. One retired NBA player who's 6'11, was never
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: that good in the NBA. He was okay. He had
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: a long career. And just put him on a team.
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  Speaker 2: I want to see it. I'm not saying it should happen.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just saying I do want to see it.
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  Speaker 4: That'd be fun.
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  Speaker 2: I want to see it. I want to see him
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  Speaker 2: in the WNBA. And I want to see what would happen.
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  Speaker 2: I agree. I agree. I agree. I want that experiment
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  Speaker 2: to be conducted. It's not going to happen. No, it's not.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm not saying that it should happen. I'm just saying, selfishly,
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  Speaker 2: I want it to happen. I've heard this debate for
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: 50 years. I want a motivated former NBA player to
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: step on a field with the best female basketball players
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  Speaker 2: in the world, and let's see what happens.
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  Speaker 4: Who hasn't played since 2022.
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  Speaker 2: One guy. One guy. Let's see what happens. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I think it'd be interesting.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 36:47
  Speaker 4: I'd be all in. I'd watch.
• 36:49
  Speaker 5: Talk about ratings earlier with the Marshall Manning stuff. There's
• 36:53
  Speaker 5: a market for that. I'm telling you that right now.
• 36:55
  Speaker 5: I'd be tuning in. Just think if his name was Manning,
• 37:00
  Speaker 5: he could do whatever he wanted. If it was Ennis Manning,
• 37:03
  Speaker 5: he'd already be on a team.
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  Speaker 2: That's true. Televise every one.
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  Speaker 4: Of his games.
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  Speaker 2: He would be the center for the Chicago Sky. That's
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: what would happen.
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  Speaker 4: Screw Caitlin Clark. Ennis Manning's in here.
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  Speaker 2: All right, we'll talk to you tomorrow at 6 a.m.
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  Speaker 2: It's Jess and Greg Bell next on Sports Radio 93.3 KJRFM.