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  Speaker 1: Chuck and Buck in the Morning Sports Radio ninety three
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  Speaker 1: point three KJRFM. Great to have you with us on
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  Speaker 1: this special Thursday, historic Thursday, the start of a really
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  Speaker 1: special month here in Seattle, Washington and throughout the world.
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  Speaker 1: And we are going to dive into that and so
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  Speaker 1: many other subjects on today's radio show that will last
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  Speaker 1: today four hours, an entire four hours coming your way
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  Speaker 1: here on this Thursday. So great to have you with us.
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  Speaker 1: My name is Chuck Powell. Ashley Ryan is here as well.
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  Speaker 1: Beautiful morning. Undoubtedly. Driving in here today, I don't know why,
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  Speaker 1: but I took particularly particular note of the space Needle.
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  Speaker 1: You know, now that we're getting these earlier mornings that
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  Speaker 1: we get to drive in and we get pure daylight,
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  Speaker 1: It's like the space Needle was like beaming this morning.
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  Speaker 1: And I think that even the Space Needle knows I
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  Speaker 1: need to look my best today because the world's going
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  Speaker 1: to be watching certain cities in an Erica starting today.
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  Speaker 1: And I think it woke up with an attitude today. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I think.
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  Speaker 2: I think Mount Rainier was in on that. Oh she
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  Speaker 2: was out and shining. I was like, girl, you look good.
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  Speaker 1: You've been working out. I thought, have you been doing
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  Speaker 1: squats because your thighs look streamline?
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  Speaker 7: And I was like, I am picking up what you
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  Speaker 7: are putting down.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe that's it. Maybe it was. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: why I particularly looked around this morning, but it seemed
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  Speaker 1: like that it was like a golden sunrise was so.
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  Speaker 7: Much more orange today.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and so yeah, so I just spent a little
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  Speaker 1: more time looking around and kind of soaking in our
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  Speaker 1: city on the drive end today, and honestly, I wasn't
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  Speaker 1: thinking about soccer starting because I rarely think about soccer,
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  Speaker 1: so I wasn't really thinking about that. But then I'm
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  Speaker 1: like looking around and like, everything looks so beautiful today.
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  Speaker 1: And then I started putting the pieces together. I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: I think, I think maybe the space needle like had
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  Speaker 1: a little makeover last night or something like that, decided
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  Speaker 1: to wash its hair. I don't know, you know, it
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  Speaker 1: went down to the barber shop last night to make
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  Speaker 1: sure that it was looking tight, got a fresh cut, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and and ray near and everything else. So I think
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  Speaker 1: we're ready. I think we're ready for the world to
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  Speaker 1: evaluate us.
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  Speaker 2: I think we are too. And I had an interesting
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  Speaker 2: thing because so I use it. I always put my
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  Speaker 2: GPS on when I'm headed into work because since they've
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  Speaker 2: done the Revive I five thing, when the express lanes
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  Speaker 2: when I couldn't use the express lanes anymore. Sometimes if there
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  Speaker 2: was an accident or something, I needed to know if
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  Speaker 2: I needed to take an early detour to get around.
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  Speaker 7: So I just yeah, so I'm just in the habit
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  Speaker 7: now of I turn it on.
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  Speaker 2: Well today it said your route may be affected by
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  Speaker 2: World Cup traffic.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, And then when I got into town.
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  Speaker 2: All of a sudden, World Cup just appeared on the
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  Speaker 2: bottom of my and I didn't click on it because
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  Speaker 2: I was driving. I was like, but I'm curious, I
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  Speaker 2: will know what if I click on that.
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  Speaker 7: What happens?
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  Speaker 1: Do I start a World Cup party?
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  Speaker 3: Uh?
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  Speaker 1: Maybe?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 6: Maybe?
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  Speaker 1: I'm not sure. I've never been here either.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, So I was like, this is new.
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  Speaker 1: I don't really know how it turns out. World Cup
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  Speaker 1: never came to Brighton, Illinois.
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  Speaker 7: Oh really, I would have thought that would have been
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  Speaker 7: a hub.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, And there's no way they were ever gonna put
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  Speaker 1: it in Phoenix, in Vegas, the other two places that
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  Speaker 1: I love. One thousand degrees, that's true.
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  Speaker 7: Although it's gonna be warm here, but that not a
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  Speaker 7: thousand Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: He's going to be a thousand degrees in those two
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  Speaker 1: cities today. Everybody knows it warm. But it's here. It's here,
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  Speaker 1: And for a lot of you out there, you've been
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  Speaker 1: waiting for this for a really long period of time.
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  Speaker 1: I know we have more soccer fans in this country
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  Speaker 1: than ever before. I know that the younger generations at
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  Speaker 1: are love and have grown up liking and loving soccer
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  Speaker 1: more than past generation. Certainly my generation and even though
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  Speaker 1: it's not my cup of tea. I certainly, over the
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  Speaker 1: course of the next month don't want to spoil anything
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  Speaker 1: for those people, because you know, you wait for it.
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  Speaker 1: It's kind of Christmas for you, and I want you
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  Speaker 1: to have the best Christmas you can possibly have. I
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  Speaker 1: want you to get everything you want out of this experience.
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  Speaker 1: And I certainly don't want to be the grumpy guy
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  Speaker 1: in the corner going hard. Why aren't we wanting baseball?
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  Speaker 7: Well, that's the nice thing is we can watch both.
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  Speaker 2: And I think it's you know, obviously I have. I've
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  Speaker 2: always watched World Cup. I've always enjoyed that. That's pretty
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  Speaker 2: much the only soccer I watch.
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  Speaker 1: But it is different.
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  Speaker 7: Having going on in your own horse down for sure.
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  Speaker 2: It's like, okay, well yeah, I got to pay a
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  Speaker 2: little extra attention to it now.
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  Speaker 1: And like I said earlier this week, when we were
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  Speaker 1: openly discussing, how are we going to do this, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we're not going to sit here a whole
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  Speaker 1: time talking soccer. That's the disservice to everybody. That's even
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  Speaker 1: a disservice to soccer fans. You don't want me talking
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  Speaker 1: that much soccer. I don't know what I'm talking about.
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  Speaker 7: I'd be like, well, there's guys running around.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, on the pitch. But we will do our
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  Speaker 1: best to lend what kind of color we can to
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  Speaker 1: the experience without it distracting from the hunger that we
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  Speaker 1: all have still for the Mariners season, the Seahawks off season.
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  Speaker 1: We are world champs, you know, yeah, I heard that,
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  Speaker 1: and the NBA Finals, which really is where we start today.
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  Speaker 1: We've got to sink our teeth into this topic, our
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  Speaker 1: first big topic of the day. And look, I've been
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  Speaker 1: in this business a while, you know. I started in
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  Speaker 1: sports talk radio when I was nineteen years old, for
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  Speaker 1: goodness sake, and I just turned fifty five last week.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not sure what you and Fain said last week.
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  Speaker 2: He said happy birthday and that you were fifty five
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  Speaker 2: and that I'd never heard it called double Nichols before.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the old double Nickls.
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  Speaker 7: That's all.
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  Speaker 1: I gave you.
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  Speaker 7: Lots of birthday love.
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  Speaker 1: I heard that. I heard that. Yes, so I appreciate that.
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  Speaker 1: But so I mean, do the math. That's thirty six
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  Speaker 1: years in this in this business, and there are a
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  Speaker 1: lot of things that I think talk show hosts, sports
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  Speaker 1: talk show hosts particularly fall prey to I think they
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  Speaker 1: do fall or too often. I think they're always looking
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  Speaker 1: for that big, giant, bold take rather than having a
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  Speaker 1: reasonable response to what we watched the night before or
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  Speaker 1: what we experienced. The sports fans and so I think
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  Speaker 1: over time, and I think sports fans are guilty of
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  Speaker 1: this as well. We use the word choke way too frequently. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and I try to use it sparingly. I don't think
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  Speaker 1: that a lot of losses are because a team cracked
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  Speaker 1: under the pressure, because that's what a choke job is.
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  Speaker 1: You crack under the pressure of the moment and you
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  Speaker 1: are not rising to your abilities because you are feeling
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  Speaker 1: that pressure, the weight of that pressure, and it's keeping
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  Speaker 1: you from performing the way that you would normally perform.
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  Speaker 1: That is a choke job. Not blowing a lead, because
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  Speaker 1: sometimes the other team just outplays you. That's not choking.
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  Speaker 1: Most of the time it's not choking. The team didn't
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  Speaker 1: lose because they fell victim to the pressure of the
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  Speaker 1: moment and that's what threw them off their game. But
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  Speaker 1: obviously there have been cases over sports history where yes,
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  Speaker 1: that's a choke job. You choked that away, you had
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  Speaker 1: that in the bag and you choked it away. The
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  Speaker 1: biggest example of my entire lifetime. Now, I can't go
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  Speaker 1: back beyond that to tell you, because you know, you
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  Speaker 1: can read about something and you can see highlights of
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  Speaker 1: something that happened before your time, but if you didn't
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  Speaker 1: experience it blow for blow, then you really don't. You
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  Speaker 1: can't take into account just how much of a choke
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  Speaker 1: job that was. So in my lifetime, the biggest choke
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  Speaker 1: job that I've ever experienced, the standard, the one that
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  Speaker 1: you would have the picture in the in the dictionary
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  Speaker 1: of that person that face as Jean Vandervelt. That's nineteen
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  Speaker 1: ninety nine Carnousti. That was I've got my first major
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  Speaker 1: in my back pocket. I'm going in with a five
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  Speaker 1: stroke lead in to date number four of the tournament.
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  Speaker 1: I have a three stroke lead on the final hole
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  Speaker 1: of the tournament. The only thing that's going to keep
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  Speaker 1: me from that is a triple bogie on the last hole,
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  Speaker 1: and who would do that? And who would do that?
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  Speaker 1: And then a series of some of the worst golf
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  Speaker 1: shots you've ever seen on the eighteenth hole that ended
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  Speaker 1: up with Jean Vandervelt at one point with his pant
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  Speaker 1: legs pant legs rolled up to his kneecaps, trying to
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  Speaker 1: putt or trying to wedge out of water.
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  Speaker 7: Oh that's fun.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that was the picture. That was the embodiment of
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  Speaker 1: the greatest choke job I've ever seen. He succumbed to
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  Speaker 1: the pressure of the moment and could not finish the job.
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  Speaker 1: It ended up going into an extra hole and he
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  Speaker 1: ends up losing his one shot at a major in
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  Speaker 1: his career. That's choking away a big lead. That's choking
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  Speaker 1: away a big moment in your career. That to me
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  Speaker 1: was the signature choke job of my entire life being
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  Speaker 1: a sports fan and a sports talk show host.
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  Speaker 7: Until last night, I was like, is he gonna say
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  Speaker 7: last night was a show?
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  Speaker 1: Because I thought it was until last night that now
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  Speaker 1: is the standard. I am a thousand percent with Charles
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  Speaker 1: Barkley on this one. That that could. I mean, everybody
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  Speaker 1: keeps calling it a comeback last night for the next
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  Speaker 1: to comeback from twenty nine points, and certainly they played
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  Speaker 1: their part, but that had so much more to do
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  Speaker 1: with the Spurs collapsing. Yeah, they looked panicked, choking it away,
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  Speaker 1: playing the dumbest brand of basketball that you could play
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  Speaker 1: with a twenty nine point lead, or a fifteen point
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  Speaker 1: fourth quarter lead like they had, or a twelve point
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  Speaker 1: lead with four minutes to go like they had, or
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  Speaker 1: a nine point lead with you know, three and a
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  Speaker 1: half minutes to go like they had, or a even
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  Speaker 1: a one point lead with nine seconds to go, and
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  Speaker 1: dearon Fox is attacking the rim at that point rather
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  Speaker 1: than pulling the ball out with his speed and quickness,
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  Speaker 1: trying to take as much time off the clock and
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  Speaker 1: letting them foul you and send you to the free
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  Speaker 1: throw line and leaving having a three point lead at
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  Speaker 1: that point with maybe four seconds to go, three seconds
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  Speaker 1: to go, rather than getting your shot blocked by a
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  Speaker 1: guy who's a foot taller than you, and then they
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  Speaker 1: get the ball back and have a chance to take
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  Speaker 1: the lead, which they did on a miraculous kind of
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  Speaker 1: lucky tip that they got down the stretch. That was
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  Speaker 1: as bad as you can choke something away as I
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  Speaker 1: think I've ever seen in the history of watching professional sports.
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  Speaker 1: And I won't ever hang that on a college kid.
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  Speaker 1: But when you're in the pros, I don't care if
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  Speaker 1: you are young and untested at this level, on this stage,
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  Speaker 1: you defeated Oklahoma City. You didn't have much trouble with that,
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  Speaker 1: and here you are with a twenty nine point lead
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  Speaker 1: at Madison Square Garden. You've completely taken the crowd out
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  Speaker 1: of the game. It is theirs for the taking, and
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  Speaker 1: you just elect to play the laziest, sloppiest, scaredest version
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  Speaker 1: of basketball that a team can play. Ashley, make no
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  Speaker 1: mistake about it. This was not a comeback. This was
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  Speaker 1: a collapse by the San Antonio Spurs last night.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I completely agree. It was like watching a
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  Speaker 2: train wreck. Like I was just like in slow motion.
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  Speaker 2: How are they continuing to do this? And it's not
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  Speaker 2: like they didn't know that New York is capable of this.
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  Speaker 2: New York did this to the Cavaliers. They can come
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  Speaker 2: back from a big deficit. They're not going to give up.
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  Speaker 2: They're scrappy. So just keep playing the playing basketball the
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  Speaker 2: way you play basketball, and don't all of a sudden
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  Speaker 2: change everything.
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  Speaker 7: I had no idea.
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  Speaker 1: Well, actually I disagree with that part, because you do
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  Speaker 1: change something when you're up twenty nine, just as Charles
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  Speaker 1: was talking about last night, you do change the way
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  Speaker 1: you're playing. You do try to milk some clocks yet
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  Speaker 1: at some point, yes, you do try to work the interior.
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  Speaker 1: You do try to look for the best shots possible,
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  Speaker 1: because all you really need are two points at this point,
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  Speaker 1: need any points that you can. And then you need
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  Speaker 1: to milk away the clock and the combination of those
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  Speaker 1: two things. Don't play scared, but you do it just
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  Speaker 1: the way that you play. Not the Spurs last night.
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  Speaker 1: And this has to go on our guy Mitch Johnson
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  Speaker 1: as well, because I think he froze in the moment.
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  Speaker 1: He choked it away as much as any of the
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  Speaker 1: players last night. And that is you just keep throwing
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  Speaker 1: up threes. You're rushing to throw up threes. Why are
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  Speaker 1: you shooting any threes up twenty nine points in the
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  Speaker 1: second half if you don't have to unless it's a
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  Speaker 1: wide open look. And yet the entire team just decided
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  Speaker 1: that's all we have at our disposal. There's no other
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  Speaker 1: way to play basketball than to shoot a three. And
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  Speaker 1: they just shot themselves out of out of a huge lead.
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  Speaker 1: They made silly mistakes, silly turnovers. I mean, they just
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  Speaker 1: weren't playing like a team with the lead in the
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  Speaker 1: NBA Finals and it cost them.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, And when I was saying don't change any play.
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  Speaker 2: I meant, like, don't all of a sudden, it seemed
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  Speaker 2: like they were, like, I guess, just afraid they weren't
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  Speaker 2: playing with the confidence that he had had before. And
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  Speaker 2: as far as the threes, Yeah, I was yelling at
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  Speaker 2: the television. I mean, if you're going to throw up
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  Speaker 2: a three, at least wait for the shot clock to
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  Speaker 2: wind down. Don't throw it up when you've still got
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  Speaker 2: twenty seconds on a shot clock, Like that's just a
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  Speaker 2: waste of a possession.
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  Speaker 1: You have a seven foot five inch big man, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: get him the ball and the paint and they can
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  Speaker 1: foul him, yeah, exactly, or he can or he scores
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  Speaker 1: and you work it for a good field goal attempt.
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  Speaker 1: And that just I mean, if you were going to
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  Speaker 1: if you were to ride up a game plan for
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  Speaker 1: how could we blow a twenty nine point with our
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  Speaker 1: talent and our defensive capabilities, how could we do it?
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  Speaker 1: Let's let's talk about it. Let's brainstorm this. You don't
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  Speaker 1: get out the whiteboard. How could we blow a twenty
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  Speaker 1: nine point lead in the second half of Game four
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  Speaker 1: the NBA Finals? How would we go about doing that?
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  Speaker 1: And that's what you would draw up? I got an idea,
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  Speaker 1: what if we never used the clock and never went
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  Speaker 1: inside the three point line, and then what if we
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  Speaker 1: fumbled away a bunch of opportunities to score, and what
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  Speaker 1: if we stopped playing defense?
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  Speaker 2: And what if as we're collapsing, we don't call a
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  Speaker 2: time out and we just let things continue until we
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  Speaker 2: only have a four point lead, and then we decide, oh, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we should probably call a timeout now.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know what happened to the
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  Speaker 1: collective last night. Daron Fox seemed to be the only
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  Speaker 1: one that wasn't scared of the moment, and yet he
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  Speaker 1: was playing the dumbest brand of basketball. So everybody else
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  Speaker 1: looks scared, including Wemby, including Mitch Johnson, and then Daron
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  Speaker 1: Fox is like, well, I'm not scared. I'm just gonna
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  Speaker 1: be stupid down the stretch. And that combination that's the
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  Speaker 1: only way you blow that. Yes, you implement that combination
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  Speaker 1: of things, and that's what they ended up doing last night.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it is the new standard for me. It
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  Speaker 1: has past John Vandervelt and by the way, Glenbignyam and
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  Speaker 1: Vandevelt both French. So I don't know, does that tell
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  Speaker 1: you yeah, I don't know. I don't know. I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: have to look through your war history. I don't think
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  Speaker 1: it's all that sterling, but maybe you don't really know
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  Speaker 1: how to capitalize in the moment. I'm not sure.
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  Speaker 7: It was sure disappointing to watch too.
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  Speaker 1: It was terrible.
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  Speaker 7: I mean, you know it was it.
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  Speaker 2: Did it make it for an exciting game at the end, Yeah, sure,
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  Speaker 2: But I don't want to watch a team just completely
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  Speaker 2: fall apart. I don't want to watch a team blow
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  Speaker 2: somebody out, But I'd rather watch a blowout than watch
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  Speaker 2: a team just completely fall apart and poop themselves.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was. It was highly disappointing, and I get it.
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  Speaker 1: It made an incredible moment that people are never going
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  Speaker 1: to forget. Yeah, and certainly Knicks fans will think about it.
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  Speaker 1: And I talk about a statue of the Anonobe t
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  Speaker 1: Yeah for sure, Yeah, that's probably going to happen. And
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: Anonoby was great down the stretch for and Brunson's an assassin.
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: As we've talked about time and time again, he's just
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: unworldly in the fourth quarter, He's just so confident with
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: everything that he does when the game is on the line.
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: So there were a lot of elements where the Knicks
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: sees the opportunity, but they were still turning the ball over. Yeah,
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: Josh Hart missed a layup.
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, well, and then you found Okay, Now the Knicks,
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: or now the Spurs, have some reprieve for their stupidity.
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: It's not like they just seized every opportunity. It was
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: San Antonio just giving them an opportunity time and time
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: out to get back into a game they should have
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: never gotten back into. And I agree with Draymond when
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: he said, when Karl Anthony Towns sit that fallaway three
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: into the bench to cut it to twelve, I mean,
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: how many games have you watched? Basketball games? Have you
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: watched when the other team cut it to twelve, you
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: knew it was over. Yeah, the team down by twelve
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: was gonna win the game. And he said it, and
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: I thought the exact same thing. I'm like, cause it
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: was you'd already gutted seventeen points of that and you
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: had all the moment them and the place is going crazy,
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: and you could see the Spurs players gripping and stressing,
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: and you're right, Mitch Johnson wasn't doing anything to take
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: over the moment to try to you know, stunt the
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: momentum that was taking place at that time, and when
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: he hit that fallaway three, I'm like, oh, now they're
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: gonna start getting all the garbage to go their way
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: as well. It's like the basketball gods are on their
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: side at this point. They cut the lead to twelve
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: with like five minutes to go, and I'm like, this
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: game's over. The Knicks have won it. And it was
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: funny to hear Draymond Green say the same thing in
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: the postgame analsis.
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I was just watching thinking like, is there some
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: miracle that the Spurs can grab onto just to hang
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: on to this because I didn't think the Spurs were
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: going to do anything to to in the last minute
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: or two to all of a sudden, you know, take
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: make a run and dominate and get a you know,
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: eight point win. But I thought, is there just something
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: that they could hold on to so that the Knicks
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: don't complete the full comeback?
• 18:58
  Speaker 7: And sure enough, there was no well.
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: Plenty of opportunities for that to happen, and even like
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: I said, even all the way down into the last
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: few seconds, they just still were like no, no, no, no, no,
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: We're gonna choke this away. No no, I mean, I
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: know they gave us another opportunity to to cement this thing,
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: but no, no, no, no, no, we're gonna miss two free
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: throws from our best player, who's an eighty six percent
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: free throw shooter. We're gonna every opportunity that they give
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: us to cement this thing. We're we're just gonna add
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: water to it and just keep it loose so that
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: they have they have every chance to come back and
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: pull off history. And that's what we watched last night.
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: And so a lot of credit to the Knicks, don't
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: get me wrong, a lot of credit to the Knicks.
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: But I think it I'm with Charles, I'm with Raymond.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: I think it had a lot more to do with
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: San Antonio collapsing than it did the New York Knicks
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: coming back in that contest. All right, let's find out
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: what's on tap for the rest of the show. What's
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: on TEP?
• 19:58
  Speaker 6: What's on TEP? All right? What else? One?
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: Six? Nixt win it over these Spurs. They're up three
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: games to one in the series. They can clinch it
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: in San Antonio on Saturday. I do now think it's over.
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: I don't think you come back from this.
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: I don't know how you do, because just mentally, that's
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: hard to wrap your mind around.
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: Spencer Hawes is gonna join us. I don't think he's
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: even gonna want to at eight o'clock today, but we
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: have to get his thoughts on his buddy, Mitch Johnson
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: and the Spurs falling apart. Last night, Sanley Cup Final
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: reaches game number five. It will return to Carolina tonight.
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: The series is even at two games apiece. Many are
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: calling it the most evenly fought, best fought Stanley Cup
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: Final maybe ever. We'll see if that continues tonight, starting
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: at five o'clock. Of course, the World Cup is here,
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: and we're gonna spend the quite a bit of time
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: today discussing that, including a Green Jacket draft today. At
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: nine o'clock. We were like, all right, Doe, do we
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: want Anders or Jackson on the show today, and then
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: we decided both so like yeah, yeah, So they're both
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: going to be joining us for our World Cup preview,
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: our Green Jacket draft coming up today at nine o'clock.
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: Seahawks mandatory mini camp continues. We'll continue with our Seahawks
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: one series today and also Greg Bell's going to join
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: us at seven oh five to talk about the Hawks
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: College World Series starts tomorrow. It's an annual tradition. I
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: know there's a lot going on today, but we do
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: have to check in with Kyle Peterson, Bucky's buddy, even
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: though Bucky's not here. So Kyle Peterson will join us
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: today at seven thirty to talk about the College World Series,
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: which starts tomorrow. A lot of world things apparently are
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: going to be determined. And of course we have our
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: baseball team that just decided last night. You know we
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: don't need this one. Yeah, yeah, you know what, Yeah,
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: we might have stolen a couple of games here in
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: Baltimore's Let's see.
• 21:46
  Speaker 7: Some good pitching for a while and then let's just
• 21:48
  Speaker 7: see what happens after that.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah, let's just get our bullpen rested. That's the goal tonight.
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: And so they lost last night to the Baltimore Orioles
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: seven to two. They will finish the series tonight. Problem
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: with kicking game like that is, now you've got to
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: beat a really good pitcher in Kyle Bradish to win
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: the series, and that's not going to be easy. First
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: pitches at four o'clock Mariners put Matt Brash on the il.
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: They put Ryan Bliss back down to Tacoma. That was
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: odd timing to activate Miles Master Bony and of course
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: Cal is in Tacoma. He will play tonight after a
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: night off last night at seven five, So we'll talk
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: about all of this stuff. We've got Mariners Morning After
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: coming your way next.
• 22:27
  Speaker 8: On Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM.
• 22:40
  Speaker 9: Drilled out to right field, rarely turning Gone brand Slam
• 22:49
  Speaker 9: Jackson Holiday, the Orioles blow it open.
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: Into seven seven.
• 22:53
  Speaker 10: Tohn chuck about in the morning Sports Radio ninety three
• 23:04
  Speaker 10: point three KJRFN, we roll into the seven o'clock hour,
• 23:07
  Speaker 10: that drab highlight rather than an NBA Finals highlight.
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: I know, no, I know.
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: I thought about it was that hitting a bunch of
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: other audio, and I was like, oh, I gotta play
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: a highlight.
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: I better grab that one. The Mariners do lose seven
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: to two to the Baltimore Orioles tonight on a game
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: they kind of left to George Kirby to figure out,
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: and then once they fell behind three to nothing in
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: the sixth, it seemed to me like the goal was
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: to rest the bullpen and not really come back and
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: win the game last night, which I suppose is fine.
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: You got to do that every once in a while,
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: bigger picture kind of thing. And so the Mariners do
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: drop one to the Orioles last night, seven to two.
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: They are thirty six and thirty three on the season.
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: They've got one more in Baltimore tonight at four o'clock,
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: and it will be the best pitching matchup of the
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: entire series. Brian Wu for US. Kyle Bradish will go
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: for the Baltimore Orioles. Speaking of baseball, College World Series
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: will start tomorrow. The NBA Finals may have ended tonight
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: last night, as the New York Knicks came back from
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: a twenty nine point deficit a stunning second half at
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: Madison Square Garden one o seven, one oh six. The
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: Knicks win over the San Antonio Spurs to take a
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: three games to one lead. I can appreciate that everybody's
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: calling it one of the greatest comebacks in the history
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: of sports. Certainly it was, but kind of felt to
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: me like it was more of a collapse, a choke job.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: I hate using the word chokes choke job for sports,
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: but when it applies, it applies, and the Spurs choked
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: that game away last night and they now trail three
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: games to one in the series as they lose to
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: the Knicks. Game number five will be played Saturday back
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: in San Antonio. They will tip that at five point thirty.
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: Can't wait to hear Spencer Hawes's thoughts coming up at
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: eight o'clock here today, Seahawks, excuse me, And of course
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: the biggest story here today is the World Cup is here.
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: It is day number one of the twenty twenty six
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: World Cup, and of course Seattle has a slice of
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: that this year. So roll out the red carpet. Here
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: we go, beautiful day to get it started. Twenty twenty
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: six World Cup is here. We will have our World
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: Cup preview coming up today at nine o'clock on the show.
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: But right now, let's talk some Seahawks football. It is
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: a mandatory mini camp for the Seahawks this week, so
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: that means every day we chat with our Seahawks insider
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: Greg Bell is with us on the radio show. Hi Greg, Hi,
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: good morning, Good morning. How excited are you for World Cup?
• 25:37
  Speaker 4: By the way, I am, it's one of them, It
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: is not one of it's the world's biggest sporting event,
• 25:44
  Speaker 4: and most people in the world watch it. I'm kind
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: of a soccer guy. Both my kids played a decently
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: high level all the way into their college years. Some
• 25:55
  Speaker 4: play colled soccer, he's soccer official, He's still pretty involved
• 25:59
  Speaker 4: in it. So yeah, I an appreciation for the game
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: for sure. I'm not one of those as are I
• 26:07
  Speaker 4: think Spain's gonna win it all.
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: You already got you already got your pick in there.
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: How much do you think you will to watch? I
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: mean how much time? Will I mean that you're when
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: Greg Bell gets a chance, he goes and hikes a
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: mountain whenever he possibly can. So will it invade your weekends?
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: Will you make sure that you're watching World Cup action
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: every day? Is that the type of World Cup fan
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: you might be most days?
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: I'm going to be covering all the Seattle games for
• 26:32
  Speaker 4: the News Tribune and they'll be writing a lot of
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: it will be seen, but I'm writing a bona fide
• 26:38
  Speaker 4: game story. It's like I'm going to cover a Seahawk
• 26:40
  Speaker 4: game when the US and Australia play here in the
• 26:42
  Speaker 4: nineteenth a week from tomorrow, videos in the field and
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: the whole thing. And then yeah, if I'm not doing
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: anything else, I'll watch, but I don't. I don't think
• 26:53
  Speaker 4: I'll stop doing something or going out or join this
• 26:56
  Speaker 4: eighty five degree weather just to watch the soccer game.
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: But I haven't even seen the setup downtown of the barge.
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: And I hear people call it the bro barge, know
• 27:07
  Speaker 4: if it's a bar or what it is off the
• 27:09
  Speaker 4: Elliott Bay. I haven't seen the whole setup in Seattle.
• 27:12
  Speaker 4: I'm kind of curious to see that too.
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, pretty fascinating, no question about it. So all right,
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: well it gets started today and Greg Bell's ready, just
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: like the rest of you are ready. All right, let's
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: talk some Seahawks football. And so what was the headline
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: then as you start today? What's the headline at Seahawks
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: camp right now?
• 27:36
  Speaker 4: Well, from a football perspective, it was that Mike McDonald
• 27:39
  Speaker 4: gave updates on Zach Charboney and Kenny McIntosh and Tory
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: Horton's injuries. And from an overall perspective of what Mike
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: McDonald's trying to do, it's that he continues to keep
• 27:53
  Speaker 4: these guys bigger than themselves. He keeps the team bigger
• 27:58
  Speaker 4: than itself, and that's saying some for super Bowl champions
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: in the NFL at the height of their profession. But
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: he kept practice short. After just an hour, he changed
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: the plan and had him just in T shirts indoors.
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: He calls the act practice where it's basically just I mean,
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: it makes walk through his look like sprints.
• 28:17
  Speaker 6: There.
• 28:17
  Speaker 4: They don't do much at all, but just go through
• 28:19
  Speaker 4: the plays at walking pace. And then he packed everybody
• 28:24
  Speaker 4: up and spread him across Seattle to volunteer at Seattle
• 28:28
  Speaker 4: Children's Hospital. They showed up, but they showed up at
• 28:30
  Speaker 4: the VA Hospital on Beacon Hill. They showed up at
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: Doug Baldwin's Family First Community Center where the teams go
• 28:38
  Speaker 4: after school done and renting, and the Ronald McDonald House,
• 28:42
  Speaker 4: which is one of the most fascinatingly charitable and heartwarming
• 28:47
  Speaker 4: places in the city. And he just had the players
• 28:51
  Speaker 4: be with those kids and those people at those places
• 28:54
  Speaker 4: for the day. He just pretty much canceled and cut
• 28:58
  Speaker 4: short the mini camp practice. So they're going to have
• 29:00
  Speaker 4: what was supposed to be yesterday's practice this morning, and
• 29:04
  Speaker 4: then they're going to have what was supposed to be
• 29:06
  Speaker 4: today's practice this afternoon, and that'll be the end of
• 29:09
  Speaker 4: the offseason. He continues, Mike McDonald as a first time coach.
• 29:14
  Speaker 4: I've done this for twenty some years. I haven't really
• 29:17
  Speaker 4: seen a coach be this innovative, this mix of hard
• 29:21
  Speaker 4: ass and players first and just worldly and beyond just
• 29:27
  Speaker 4: the football, but to develop men and life, life skills
• 29:31
  Speaker 4: and remind these guys that they're bigger, that this whole
• 29:35
  Speaker 4: thing they're in is bigger than the sport they play it.
• 29:37
  Speaker 4: It's really fascinating for me. I mentioned before, I went
• 29:41
  Speaker 4: to a leadership academy West Point that studies this stuff,
• 29:45
  Speaker 4: and his combination of leadership in the sports realm is
• 29:48
  Speaker 4: really unique.
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I love it. And if the team goes
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: one in sixteen this year, I'm still going to love
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: Mike McDonald. But when he is trying to do things differently,
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: when it does stand out to somebody that has covered
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: the National Football League for as long as you have,
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: that it's different. And if there is a slide next year,
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: do you think that opens him up for criticism that
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: he tried to recreate the way you defend the title versus,
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: you know, leaning back on everything all past champions have done.
• 30:26
  Speaker 4: Sure it would, because that's our society. Everyone is going
• 30:31
  Speaker 4: to sit from some on chair up on high and
• 30:34
  Speaker 4: criticize somebody who doesn't succeed and why they didn't succeed,
• 30:37
  Speaker 4: and they'll tear him apart and say that he failed
• 30:40
  Speaker 4: and got too involved in everything but the football, and.
• 30:45
  Speaker 6: They don't know. I mean it is.
• 30:49
  Speaker 4: He's not about just the football, and that's what makes
• 30:53
  Speaker 4: him fascinating because he is so much football. He's a nerd.
• 30:56
  Speaker 4: He says that I'm a football nerd. He loves doing
• 30:59
  Speaker 4: the excess and o's and the iPad and the film
• 31:02
  Speaker 4: study and the schemes and talking about over and under fronts,
• 31:05
  Speaker 4: and he loves it. That's what he loves the most.
• 31:09
  Speaker 6: But it doesn't.
• 31:10
  Speaker 4: Define him, and it certainly doesn't define how he leads
• 31:12
  Speaker 4: and coaches the players. And that's what makes it such
• 31:15
  Speaker 4: a fascinating I've coached, I've covered a ton, and I've
• 31:18
  Speaker 4: been coached by and I've even coached some who are
• 31:22
  Speaker 4: so into the sport itself and our nerds too, or
• 31:26
  Speaker 4: are heart asses and very transactional leadership.
• 31:30
  Speaker 6: As we study leadership, there's.
• 31:31
  Speaker 4: Transactional leadership and the opposite, and that is just basically
• 31:35
  Speaker 4: Bill Belichick. Bence Lombardi barking screaming you do it my
• 31:40
  Speaker 4: way or you don't play and you don't see the field,
• 31:43
  Speaker 4: and complete compliance out of sheer force. The opposite of
• 31:47
  Speaker 4: that is transformational leadership, where you invest in those of
• 31:51
  Speaker 4: your leading and you get buy in because you include
• 31:54
  Speaker 4: them and the decision making and that you explain and
• 31:57
  Speaker 4: that you do this huge investment and everything on top
• 32:01
  Speaker 4: of the task you're supposed to do in your job.
• 32:04
  Speaker 4: That's what Mike McDonald is. And for instance, he does
• 32:08
  Speaker 4: walk and talks. He has in one of those he
• 32:12
  Speaker 4: has started as individual players and now it's groups of players,
• 32:15
  Speaker 4: and he explained to me yesterday that these tweaked this
• 32:18
  Speaker 4: different ways. But they spend time at the facility, usually
• 32:22
  Speaker 4: in the mornings between practices or after meetings, in groups
• 32:26
  Speaker 4: of small groups two or three players and assistant coach,
• 32:30
  Speaker 4: and they just walk around the facility and talk about
• 32:33
  Speaker 4: the players why and the coaches why or how they
• 32:36
  Speaker 4: got here, or motive, what's their favorite thing of life
• 32:40
  Speaker 4: or what makes them smile in the morning, or what
• 32:43
  Speaker 4: their kids are doing, anything and everything including football they
• 32:48
  Speaker 4: talk about. They invest a lot of their time. There
• 32:51
  Speaker 4: are a lot of coaches who would rather use that
• 32:53
  Speaker 4: time looking at what the latest offensive techniques of Sean
• 32:57
  Speaker 4: McVay are. McDonald has time for that too, but he
• 33:02
  Speaker 4: invests his time in the person. A lot of the
• 33:05
  Speaker 4: team meetings the Seahawks have had in the last month,
• 33:08
  Speaker 4: in or year, excuse me, in the last twelve months,
• 33:11
  Speaker 4: group meetings, position meetings, team entire team meetings have been
• 33:17
  Speaker 4: randomly pulling guys out of the seats and saying, tell
• 33:21
  Speaker 4: us your why, tell us how you got here. And
• 33:24
  Speaker 4: guys that bared their souls in front of their whole team,
• 33:26
  Speaker 4: or maybe they're just their defense or maybe just their position,
• 33:30
  Speaker 4: and guys love each other because of it, and they
• 33:33
  Speaker 4: can't believe some of the stories that they've heard of
• 33:36
  Speaker 4: guys who were homeless, or guys who lost a parent,
• 33:39
  Speaker 4: or guys who have overcome all kinds of things to
• 33:42
  Speaker 4: get here, because everyone's got a story, that everyone has
• 33:45
  Speaker 4: a something to this day, it's just I could go
• 33:49
  Speaker 4: on forever about how fascinating covering the entire aspect of
• 33:53
  Speaker 4: Mike McDonald is, And yesterday it was a piece of that.
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: Greg Bell as wethers Our Seahawks in sign or gonna,
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: of course, follow his coverage of many camp there at
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: the Newstribune dot com and follow him on x at
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: g Bell Seattle. Well, let's talk about something about that's
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: on the field, because yesterday we did our Seahawks one
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: series we did with Dick Fane and he chose Tory
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: Horton to break down and we ended up in a
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: conversation about where does Tory Horton kind of fit with
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: this group. I'm kind of expecting them to use more
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: double tight end this year. I'm expecting Robbie Oots to
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: play a role at fullback this year. Well, if you're
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: going to showcase that more frequently and maybe they're not,
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: you tell me, then that sounds like you're going to
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: go a lot more to receiver sets than maybe we've
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: traditionally seen over the course of the last decades. So
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: as you're trying to figure out the hierarchy at the
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: wide receiver JSNS number one, how does the rest of
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: it fit? And how often do you see Brian Florey
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: using three, four, five receiver sets?
• 35:00
  Speaker 4: I still think quite a lot because the sport, the league,
• 35:03
  Speaker 4: the game today is creating mismatches by use of multiple
• 35:09
  Speaker 4: receiver formations, and that offensive coaches think. The deeper you
• 35:13
  Speaker 4: get into someone's secondary. When you put three wide receivers
• 35:17
  Speaker 4: on the field, they're going to counter with four or
• 35:19
  Speaker 4: five defensive back. You put four or five wide receivers
• 35:21
  Speaker 4: on the field, they're going to counter with six, sometimes
• 35:24
  Speaker 4: even seven defensive back. Basically, the offensive coaches think, the
• 35:28
  Speaker 4: deeper we get into your pool of defensive backs, we're
• 35:30
  Speaker 4: going to find a mismatch amongst one of those six
• 35:33
  Speaker 4: or seven defensive backs, because your sixth or seventh defensive.
• 35:36
  Speaker 6: Back isn't nearly as good as your first. And we're
• 35:38
  Speaker 6: going to.
• 35:38
  Speaker 4: Say that your third or fourth wide, our third or
• 35:41
  Speaker 4: fourth wide receiver is going to beat your fifth or
• 35:42
  Speaker 4: sixth or seventh defensive back. That in a nutshell, they're
• 35:46
  Speaker 4: simplififying why the proliferation of spread offenses and a lot
• 35:50
  Speaker 4: of multiple wide receivers and Brian Fleury is still going
• 35:53
  Speaker 4: to do that, Kyle Shanahan still does that in San Francisco.
• 35:55
  Speaker 4: That Fleury was steeped in and why the Seahawks got
• 35:59
  Speaker 4: Fleur is doc. But your point's a good one about
• 36:02
  Speaker 4: multiple tight ends and use of two back. McDonald actually
• 36:06
  Speaker 4: alluded to this a little bit talking about Robbie Utz
• 36:09
  Speaker 4: in his second year the fullback and how they're going
• 36:11
  Speaker 4: to use him not just in eye formation, and that
• 36:14
  Speaker 4: they're going to use offset eyes and they're going to
• 36:17
  Speaker 4: use Oots as a wing but have a second fullback
• 36:20
  Speaker 4: on the field doing different things. Slip motion right before
• 36:22
  Speaker 4: the snap. I'm seeing a lot of slip motion in
• 36:24
  Speaker 4: these off season practices, meaning one or two or three
• 36:28
  Speaker 4: step motions right before the snap to create a leverage
• 36:31
  Speaker 4: advantage right at the snap and after it. That's what
• 36:33
  Speaker 4: Sean McVay does with the Rams a lot. Having said
• 36:37
  Speaker 4: all of that, it's Smith and Jagob number one. The
• 36:41
  Speaker 4: offensive player of the Year in the All Pro Cooper
• 36:44
  Speaker 4: Cup is still probably number two to me because of
• 36:46
  Speaker 4: the trust factor that the entire offense, the coaching staff
• 36:49
  Speaker 4: and Sam Donald has and a guy is steeped and
• 36:52
  Speaker 4: has accomplished as Cup is. And then you start getting
• 36:57
  Speaker 4: to the fact that they just spend fifty one million
• 36:59
  Speaker 4: dollars on.
• 36:59
  Speaker 6: Rashid sh Heat.
• 37:00
  Speaker 4: Yes, it's the kit return kicks, but also they won
• 37:03
  Speaker 4: him burning down the field, and Shaheed is much more
• 37:06
  Speaker 4: involved already and much smoother in the offense and sinking
• 37:09
  Speaker 4: with Darnold than he was anytime last year because he
• 37:12
  Speaker 4: came in midstream at the end of October. So where
• 37:14
  Speaker 4: does that leave Horton. Well, they envision Horton and Shahed
• 37:20
  Speaker 4: on the field at the same time to give defenses
• 37:22
  Speaker 4: a speed problem, thinking you're not going to have two
• 37:25
  Speaker 4: guys who can your defensive secondary who can run as
• 37:28
  Speaker 4: fast as Horton and Shahed can. So now you're talking
• 37:31
  Speaker 4: four wide receivers all of a sudden, which is why
• 37:33
  Speaker 4: I think they're going to go. They're not just going
• 37:36
  Speaker 4: to exclusively two back, two tight end, two wide receivers
• 37:39
  Speaker 4: because of the need to want to stretch defenses out.
• 37:43
  Speaker 6: So long way of saying they do have.
• 37:44
  Speaker 4: Big plans for Horton, they've barely seen any of them yet.
• 37:48
  Speaker 4: And when they got Shaheed after Horton started getting better,
• 37:53
  Speaker 4: Uh huh, we could actually have something with both of
• 37:55
  Speaker 4: these guys. Now instead of one Shahed replacing the other
• 37:58
  Speaker 4: as the same type of player, they are more multiple,
• 38:01
  Speaker 4: they are more varied, they're more weaponized now that Horton
• 38:06
  Speaker 4: is coming back. The latest yesterday that McDonald said was
• 38:10
  Speaker 4: they believe he could be back either at the start
• 38:13
  Speaker 4: of or the first days of training camp, so he
• 38:16
  Speaker 4: may start on the pup list but you can come
• 38:18
  Speaker 4: off the pup list any to physically able to perform
• 38:20
  Speaker 4: if you can come off of that anytime early in
• 38:23
  Speaker 4: training camp or any time during training camp, and that
• 38:25
  Speaker 4: might be Horton's situation.
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: Uh, and you know I'm gonna say that. I'm gonna
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: say that for tomorrow because that's that's probably going to
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: be like a five to six minute conversation with you. So, uh,
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: we'll we'll end it right there.
• 38:36
  Speaker 4: Well, let me let me, I buried the lead. Excuse me,
• 38:38
  Speaker 4: let me let me do say that. He did say
• 38:40
  Speaker 4: about Zach Charbonay that yes, he's ahead of schedule, which
• 38:44
  Speaker 4: is what everyone expected in the building, Zach Sharbonay to
• 38:47
  Speaker 4: be because of how hard he works. He I asked him,
• 38:50
  Speaker 4: is there a chance he plays week one? And he
• 38:52
  Speaker 4: kind of was coy and smiled and said, well, everything's possible.
• 38:56
  Speaker 4: I think that's still way outside the realm of possibility,
• 38:59
  Speaker 4: and I don't think they're expecting it. But Kenny McIntosh
• 39:03
  Speaker 4: is more of a mat answer. I wrote the story
• 39:05
  Speaker 4: of the News Tribune this morning with that description of it.
• 39:08
  Speaker 4: Maybe he comes back at the start of training camp,
• 39:10
  Speaker 4: he said, you'll see what we do with him, meaning
• 39:13
  Speaker 4: roster wise at the start of camp, but I think
• 39:15
  Speaker 4: he's going to start on an injured list.
• 39:18
  Speaker 6: It's still fuzzy on.
• 39:19
  Speaker 4: When he's going to come back. He's now eleven months
• 39:22
  Speaker 4: out from his knee injury and reconstruction, so those two
• 39:26
  Speaker 4: knee acl tears are not the same. And it seems
• 39:30
  Speaker 4: based on timeline and recovery and the fact I haven't
• 39:32
  Speaker 4: seen McIntosh on any field, that he's behind in some ways,
• 39:37
  Speaker 4: not in time, but in.
• 39:38
  Speaker 6: Progress and trajectory. He seems to be behind sharbon in
• 39:41
  Speaker 6: some ways.
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: So McIntosh is the mayor, Horton is the positive, and
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: sharbon A's the woe.
• 39:47
  Speaker 6: That's correct.
• 39:48
  Speaker 4: Thank you, Okay, all right, thank you for reading and perceiving.
• 39:51
  Speaker 6: Appreciate that jug.
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: Well, if you want to read the entire article, he
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: ard you to do so out there and you can
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: find it at the Newstribune dot com. All right, man, well,
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: we will see you here in a little bit, or
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: actually maybe we won't see you today. We'll hear you
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: at ten o'clock today.
• 40:07
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I'll be done. Sew Kickers, all right.
• 40:09
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• 40:32
  Speaker 1: It's an annual tradition. Of course, it's Bucky's buddy, but
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: that doesn't mean we're not going to use his phone
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: number this time of the year. The College World Series
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: is going to start on Friday, and we have to
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: talk to the face of the College World Series, Kyle Peterson,
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: our friend Sports Radio ninety three point three KHRFM. We're
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: in Seattle, obviously, and a big, big day starts in Omaha,
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: Nebraska tomorrow with the College World Series getting underway. Apparently
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: we're going to side a lot of world issues here
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: over the course of the next month in the sports world,
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: a World Cup, a World Series, a World Championship, in
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: the NBA Stanley Cup. I guess they're going to claim
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: to be on top of the world. So apparently a
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: lot of world issues are going to be resolved here
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: over the course of the next month. Or so. A
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: lot of bragging rights are going to be held worldwide,
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: no question about it. But in Omaha, tiny little Omaha, Nebraska,
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: you know, every face day wreck. You know what the
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: face they recognize everyone there, that's the face of Kyle Peterson.
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: It is the last person they think about before they
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: go to sleep at night. It's the first person they
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: think about in Omaha, Nebraska when they wake up in
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: the morning. They thank God every day for Kyle Peterson
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: and he joins us here on the program the face
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: of the College World Series, as he does every year.
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: It's an annual tradition. How are you, sir?
• 41:53
  Speaker 3: What a disaster this city must be if they're thinking
• 41:55
  Speaker 3: about me before they go to beth. But I'm just
• 42:00
  Speaker 3: pulling in a downtown Oh boy, it's overcast and feels
• 42:03
  Speaker 3: like a Seattle day. It's like seventy one degrees and
• 42:07
  Speaker 3: we don't get that feeling this time. You're very often,
• 42:09
  Speaker 3: Right's pretty good? Yeah?
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: Good? Good? Does Omaha are they even? Are they even
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: aware that the World Cup is going on? I mean,
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: their biggest party, annual party is getting ready to be
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: thrown starting tomorrow. So is there even any aware? Will
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: there be a soccer game anywhere in Omaha, Nebraska over
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: the course of the next couple of weeks.
• 42:31
  Speaker 3: There's probably a few bars that are aware of it
• 42:33
  Speaker 3: outside of that. Now, No, this is I mean, my
• 42:37
  Speaker 3: daughter played high school soccer, so I actually do like
• 42:40
  Speaker 3: the sport. But no, this if you're looking for if
• 42:47
  Speaker 3: you're looking for people to talk to you about the
• 42:48
  Speaker 3: World Cup, I wouldn't come here this week.
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: Okay, all right, good to know Kyle Peterson is with us.
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: It's our annual tradition. Usually Bucky's here. He's Kyle's buddy,
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: but yeah, he's out for a little while, but I'm
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: sure he'd liked to be here. Yeah, yeah, tell me buddy, Hi,
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: I will do.
• 43:05
  Speaker 6: Tell my buddy eye.
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: Lets hear it from all right, all right, good Kyle
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: Peterson to talk College World Series. So let's get into
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: the actual tournament itself. I mean, I think I think
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: it was a bit disappointing. I kind of wanted to
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: see Rock Chelaski and UCLA on this stage. I wanted
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: to see that Georgia Tech team with all of its
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: you know, major league talent that I heard discussed for
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: so long this season, and yet the top two teams
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: aren't there. The top couple players aren't there. So what
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: do we make of the World Series field? Do we
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: still feel like we have a great College World Series
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: field without some of the best, biggest names and teams
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: in it?
• 43:48
  Speaker 3: Oh? Yeah, yeah, because I mean we still do. We
• 43:51
  Speaker 3: still got some dudes. I mean, Daniel Jackson from from
• 43:55
  Speaker 3: Georgia should win the Golden Spikes, which is our heisman.
• 44:00
  Speaker 3: He is here, He's got a chance to be the
• 44:02
  Speaker 3: first player in the history at college baseball to go
• 44:04
  Speaker 3: thirty home runs thirty stolen bases.
• 44:06
  Speaker 6: That's a big deal.
• 44:07
  Speaker 3: I mean, any time you get a chance to do
• 44:09
  Speaker 3: something nobody else is down in the history of the sport,
• 44:12
  Speaker 3: that's pretty cool. And he's a catcher, which is crazy.
• 44:16
  Speaker 3: And how many Texas in the opening round and they'll
• 44:19
  Speaker 3: get Dylan Lanas the left hander that is a big leaguer.
• 44:22
  Speaker 3: He's just a sophomore, but two combined years in college baseball.
• 44:26
  Speaker 3: He's got an ERA below two, which is crazy. And
• 44:29
  Speaker 3: he's going to face the best offense in the country.
• 44:32
  Speaker 3: And it could be an it could be a week
• 44:34
  Speaker 3: to where it's The ballpark actually plays a little bit
• 44:37
  Speaker 3: smaller than we're used to usually wins howling in when
• 44:41
  Speaker 3: it's warm and it's actually opposite. I mean, I'm pulling
• 44:44
  Speaker 3: in next to the ballpark right now and the winds
• 44:46
  Speaker 3: blown out today, which doesn't happen, so it could set
• 44:49
  Speaker 3: up for the more offensive teams. So you're Georgia will
• 44:52
  Speaker 3: miss to maybe like the ballpark a little bit more.
• 44:56
  Speaker 3: But yet, I mean long answer your question, but we
• 44:58
  Speaker 3: got plenty of stars.
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: They also have a clear cut Cinderella as well in Troy.
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: And are they there to make noise? Do you think
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: do they have a chance to do you know, some
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: butler things like we did in college basketball a few
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: years ago, or is this just what a great ride
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: to the World Series for little Troy.
• 45:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think they got a chance won a couple
• 45:26
  Speaker 3: of games. It's it's you know, they open with West
• 45:30
  Speaker 3: Virginia and it's the first time in forty years that
• 45:33
  Speaker 3: we've had an opening round game with two teams that
• 45:36
  Speaker 3: have never been here, which is super cool. I mean,
• 45:39
  Speaker 3: I think that's that's just for the sport in general.
• 45:41
  Speaker 3: So for one of the teams that's never been here,
• 45:45
  Speaker 3: be at West Virginia or Troy, not only are they
• 45:48
  Speaker 3: gonna get here for the first time. But they're gonna
• 45:50
  Speaker 3: they're gonna win their first game at Oma. But yeah,
• 45:53
  Speaker 3: I mean Troy went. I mean, listen to beat Florida
• 45:57
  Speaker 3: twice at Florida, and I thought Florida had the the
• 46:00
  Speaker 3: fire Pirate actually win the whole thing and they had
• 46:03
  Speaker 3: to come out of loser's bracket beat Florida twice. They did,
• 46:07
  Speaker 3: so they're plenty good to win a game or two here.
• 46:10
  Speaker 3: It would shock me, if you know, if we're talking
• 46:13
  Speaker 3: in a week talking about the finals, if Troy is
• 46:16
  Speaker 3: one of those two teams there. But they got a
• 46:18
  Speaker 3: real chance. I think West Virginia does too. That opening
• 46:21
  Speaker 3: round game, which it'll be the first game tomorrow, it's
• 46:24
  Speaker 3: super cool. It's crazy. So it's the first time in
• 46:26
  Speaker 3: forty years two teams that haven't been here to meet
• 46:29
  Speaker 3: the first round. And the last time that happened, one
• 46:32
  Speaker 3: of those teams was LSU, and we know what LSU
• 46:36
  Speaker 3: did that sense, I mean, they've won eight national championships.
• 46:39
  Speaker 3: But still it's cool to see the game growing there
• 46:42
  Speaker 3: is The scenes in West Virginia were absurd. I mean,
• 46:47
  Speaker 3: that Country Roads thing took out all social media over
• 46:50
  Speaker 3: which is great for us as sports people could see
• 46:54
  Speaker 3: what it looks like on campus, and everybody was sitting
• 46:56
  Speaker 3: the tens records and I have a feeling that will
• 46:58
  Speaker 3: probably set some records again here this.
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: Week at Troy, West Virginia, ol Miss North Carolina tomorrow
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: and then Saturday Oklahoma, Alabama and Texas and Georgia. A
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: lot of SEC in there. And so maybe Kyle, the
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: SEC is not the king of college football any longer,
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: and yet they seem to be the definitive king of
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: college baseball.
• 47:22
  Speaker 3: Well, when you've had a team play for the national
• 47:25
  Speaker 3: championship being the finals sixteen to the last seventeen years,
• 47:28
  Speaker 3: that's pretty loud. Nobody's ever had five No conference has
• 47:32
  Speaker 3: ever had five teams here until this year in the
• 47:34
  Speaker 3: SEC has done that. So and one side of the
• 47:37
  Speaker 3: bracket is all SEC. Yeah, so are guarantee that another
• 47:41
  Speaker 3: team in the finals. It is the most complete league
• 47:44
  Speaker 3: in college baseball. And it's not debatable, and it wasn't
• 47:48
  Speaker 3: before this. Now is there somebody who can beat them?
• 47:50
  Speaker 6: Sure?
• 47:51
  Speaker 3: Absolutely, North Carolina's loaded, West Virginia I think can make
• 47:54
  Speaker 3: a real run.
• 47:56
  Speaker 6: Those are teams on.
• 47:56
  Speaker 3: The other side that I think could potentially get to
• 47:59
  Speaker 3: the finals that are not all US, but still there's
• 48:03
  Speaker 3: no there's no league that commits to the sport more.
• 48:06
  Speaker 3: There's no set of I would say, you know, collective
• 48:11
  Speaker 3: fan bases that cares about the sport more. And there's
• 48:13
  Speaker 3: a reason why, there's a reason why they lift the
• 48:17
  Speaker 3: trophy more than anybody else. They care mm hm.
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: And they travel as well. And I would imagine North
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: Carolina will and West Virginia will, and I would imagine
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: Troy will. I mean, is there a is there a
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: hotel room available? And in the state of Nebraska this weekend.
• 48:34
  Speaker 3: There ain't many, and if you can get one, it's
• 48:35
  Speaker 3: not free. But the McAfee's here is going to be here.
• 48:40
  Speaker 3: He's doing his show from here with with his ties
• 48:43
  Speaker 3: to West Virginia, and you know that just makes it
• 48:45
  Speaker 3: more of the madhouse. So yeah, I mean, if you're
• 48:48
  Speaker 3: looking to save money, this probably isn't the week to
• 48:50
  Speaker 3: come to town. But if you're looking to see stuff
• 48:54
  Speaker 3: that you know that you talk about for the rest
• 48:57
  Speaker 3: of your life. And we talk about this every year
• 48:59
  Speaker 3: like it always goes over Fathership and my dad can't
• 49:04
  Speaker 3: get to the ballpark anymore, he'll be watching. But the
• 49:06
  Speaker 3: number of fathers and sons that you see around the
• 49:09
  Speaker 3: ballpark at the ballpark that day that stop me and say, hey,
• 49:13
  Speaker 3: you know, this is something we've wanted to do our
• 49:14
  Speaker 3: whole life, and this is the year that we picked it.
• 49:17
  Speaker 3: It's just I mean, I'm way biased to admit it
• 49:20
  Speaker 3: every year, but I think it's one of the great
• 49:22
  Speaker 3: sporting events in the country.
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, with all that SEC and particularly West Virginia, there
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: won't be a beer in Omaha that won't be drunk
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: this weekend either. Well's Virginia knows how to tie it on.
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: All right, So do you have a favorite, not necessarily
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: like a personal favorite, but the team you think is
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: going to be the most difficult to defeat in this format.
• 49:45
  Speaker 3: I think I'd take Texas. Maybe I'd take the winner
• 49:48
  Speaker 3: of the Texas Georgia game to start it. But Texas
• 49:53
  Speaker 3: is playing as well as they have played all year.
• 49:58
  Speaker 3: They've got, for my money, the best arm in the
• 50:00
  Speaker 3: country that's still left throwing game one against the best offense.
• 50:04
  Speaker 3: I mean, it sets up Saturday night is going to
• 50:07
  Speaker 3: be but seemingly good, Uh, that Texas Georgia game. But
• 50:10
  Speaker 3: I think the winner of that one, for me, is
• 50:14
  Speaker 3: probably best suited to win the whole thing, but that
• 50:19
  Speaker 3: doesn't always happen here, and Bullpark effect is going to
• 50:22
  Speaker 3: make a difference. If the wind's blown out, that definitely
• 50:25
  Speaker 3: benefits Georgia and Ole Miss two teams that are I
• 50:27
  Speaker 3: would say the most offensive that are here, But I
• 50:32
  Speaker 3: don't I don't think we had a clear cut favor.
• 50:34
  Speaker 6: Even though U c l a.
• 50:35
  Speaker 3: Ran the table went you know, Coast to Coast is
• 50:38
  Speaker 3: number one team in the country, I still don't think
• 50:39
  Speaker 3: they were a favorite necessarily to come here and win it.
• 50:43
  Speaker 3: I don't know that we have an overwhelming favorite here.
• 50:46
  Speaker 3: But what I do know is is you're gonna You're
• 50:48
  Speaker 3: gonna see dudes over the next two weeks that you're
• 50:50
  Speaker 3: going to see in the big leagues in the next
• 50:51
  Speaker 3: two years. And it's it's a great way for the country, honestly,
• 50:58
  Speaker 3: to see the next group of guys are gonna playing
• 51:00
  Speaker 3: the thick Leaks Well.
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: Have a blast. I know you will, and we thank you.
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: I know you're very busy. I appreciate the time you
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: take for us every year to do this.
• 51:09
  Speaker 3: I look forward to it over here. Tell my buddy hi, please, man,
• 51:12
  Speaker 3: I'll hit him afterwards. But I always look forward to
• 51:14
  Speaker 3: hearing his voice too, so good talking in Chuck. I'll
• 51:16
  Speaker 3: talk any year, all right.
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: Kyle Peterson joining us right here on Chuck and Buck
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: in the morning. Coming up next though, pretty big day
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: around here. They might be deciding a World Series in
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: Omaha on Nebraska, but here in Seattle, we're going to
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  Speaker 1: help de side a World Cup. Sports Radio ninety three
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  Speaker 1: point three KJRFM. It's Chuck Powell, Ashley Ryan with you
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: here on the radio program. Yes, the ABC's of the
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: ms A daily Mariners segment where we allow the alphabet
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: to be our guide through a few different Mariner topics.
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: The team lost last night to the Baltimore Orioles seven
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: to two, and let's bottom line it for you. Yeah,
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: they went into the game trying to win the game
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: last night, but they put an awful lot of it
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: on George Kirby's shoulders, George Kirby, who's been struggling as
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: of late. And I think the game plan was, well,
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: hopefully we score runs and hopefully George dominates, because really
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: the objective tonight is to not use anyone in our bullpen.
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: I think that kind of was the objective. And so
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: George gets into some trouble in the sixth inning, finally
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: gives up some runs, and at three to nothing, they
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: went into plan B, and Plan B was, do not
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: use the bullpen tonight if we can avoid it. So
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: they brilliant in Domingo Gonzales, and he pitched the seventh
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: and the eighth, and so it was one of those
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: games where it's like, hey, three nothing deficit, we're just
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: going to use this to kind of make our team
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: healthier for tomorrow and beyond. I don't love that, but
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: I do think major League Baseball teams use that on occasion,
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: and that certainly was the case last night.
• 52:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I can understand them doing it. It's just frustrating
• 52:57
  Speaker 2: as a Mariners fan to have seen them move into
• 52:59
  Speaker 2: this six man rotation and then do something like that
• 53:02
  Speaker 2: when I.
• 53:04
  Speaker 7: Could have soorn that's what the piggyback was doing.
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  Speaker 6: Well.
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: I don't really see any reason why we should be
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: this then in our bullpen at this stage in the season,
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: but we are, and that's where they're at right now.
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: So that's what went down last night, seven two loss
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: to the Baltimore Orioles, and now you run the risk
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: of being split, having a split with Baltimore after stealing
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: those two crazy games at the start of the series.
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: You gotta face Kyle Bradish tonight and the Mariners will
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: pitch Brian wu. But let's get to the abcs of
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: the MS and r is for restructure are what are
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: we going to do when Brendan Donovan. If Brendan Donovan
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: it's been a long time since we've even had an
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: update on Brendan Donovan comes back. What is that going
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: to do to the infield that now features Colt Emerson?
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: And yet he's hurt and JP's on the injury list,
• 53:54
  Speaker 1: and JP announced I'm willing to move to third, and
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: yet they haven't moved him to third. Cole Young's has
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: played more baseball than anyone else in the world so
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: far this season. Might need a day off, but he's
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: obviously established himself as the starting second baseman for not
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: just now, but maybe the next ten twelve years here
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: with the Seattle Mariners, and so three infield positions, four
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: guys minimum. What are we going to do when Brendan
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: Donovan is healthy again? I asked Ryan Healy about this
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: on Tuesday.
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  Speaker 5: There'll be a rotation of those I think Brendan Donovan
• 54:30
  Speaker 5: will give Cole Young a blow once in a while.
• 54:32
  Speaker 5: I think Brendan Donovan can slot into And here's the issue.
• 54:35
  Speaker 5: You can't slot actually Brendan Donovan into one of the
• 54:38
  Speaker 5: outfield positions because you're not gonna you might give Randy
• 54:41
  Speaker 5: roserena a day, but also that to you posts every
• 54:44
  Speaker 5: single day, and you already got a platoon situation going
• 54:47
  Speaker 5: on the right field, So adding a left handed bat
• 54:49
  Speaker 5: to an already left handed heavy rotation will be tough.
• 54:52
  Speaker 5: I really think that it's gonna have to be a
• 54:54
  Speaker 5: consistent rotation between the three infield spots of second, short,
• 54:57
  Speaker 5: and third, where you see four infielders now playing three
• 55:00
  Speaker 5: spots and you just kind of move him in a cycle.
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: Boy, I love Ryan Healy that I do not like
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: that solution.
• 55:08
  Speaker 2: It seems like a non solution, like it's just, oh,
• 55:12
  Speaker 2: we've got all these let's just mess around like platoon.
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: It all everything that feels to me like we got
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: to try to keep everybody as happy as they can
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: without making anybody happy. Yeah, height there's no way that
• 55:26
  Speaker 1: I want to see Cole Young come out of the
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: lineup every four games. I you know, I think there's
• 55:33
  Speaker 1: a difficult decision that is coming, and it's either one
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: of two things. It's one of two things. Unless Cold
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: Emerson's game falls off. He's playing every day. Cole Young's
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: playing every day. So your decision comes down to whether
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: or not you're going to tell JP Crawford, hey, you're
• 55:55
  Speaker 1: a bench guy now, or if you're going to tell
• 55:58
  Speaker 1: Brendan Donovan you know what we did, really like you
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: in that super utility role. That's what you're going to play,
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: and that is spotting Cole Young on occasion, spotting Colt
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: Emerson on occasion, maybe really getting some playing time away
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: from JP Crawford, some DH time for Donovan, And yes,
• 56:20
  Speaker 1: I think he could also get some outfield time as well.
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: He's not gonna be any worse defensively than Randy rose
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: Arena in leftfield, I can promise you that. But a
• 56:27
  Speaker 1: rose Arena has been amazing offensively, so you keep his lineup,
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: his bat in the lineup every single day. So, I mean,
• 56:37
  Speaker 1: not a bad problem to have, but it's not gonna
• 56:41
  Speaker 1: be the easiest decision to make here again for the team. Plus,
• 56:45
  Speaker 1: I think they need to upgrade with another offensive piece
• 56:47
  Speaker 1: before the trading deadline, which is going to crowd things
• 56:50
  Speaker 1: even further. To me, I'm just gonna go back to
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: what I've been saying all year long. I'm just playing
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: the best guys. I'm not sure JP is the best
• 56:57
  Speaker 1: guy for this group anymore. Think Cold Emerson's a better shortstop.
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: I think Brendan Donovan's going to be a better third baseman,
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: Cole Young's going to be a better second baseman. And
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: I don't think JP hits well enough to justify him
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: being the everyday DH. So that's I think that my
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: solution is that JP's a bench guy. Now, I don't
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: know the intricacies of how that's going to play inside
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: a clubhouse, which will be part of this. Ryan Healy
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: seems to think that that will be a really negative
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: effect of if you bench JP Crawford, it could have
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: a negative effect on the entire clubhouse at this point.
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: But I don't like the idea of just a full
• 57:43
  Speaker 1: rotation between the four of them.
• 57:45
  Speaker 2: I just don't like that well, and it seems like
• 57:47
  Speaker 2: we keep having to say, well, that's not a bad
• 57:48
  Speaker 2: problem to have, but the bad problems, not bad problems
• 57:52
  Speaker 2: to have, are problems, clearly because it's something that keeps
• 57:56
  Speaker 2: getting talked about and yeah, it's nice to the idea
• 57:58
  Speaker 2: of having too many people to fill the positions, but
• 58:01
  Speaker 2: it is actually a problem.
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: I would rather have one person really dissatisfied than four
• 58:06
  Speaker 1: people dissatisfied. Yeah, yeah, that's how I would approach it.
• 58:10
  Speaker 1: But we'll see. I mean, we haven't gotten an update
• 58:12
  Speaker 1: on Donovan. Who knows when that's even going to Yeah,
• 58:14
  Speaker 1: I was gonna ask that S is for suboptimal. Well,
• 58:17
  Speaker 1: Matt Brash, maybe we now know there was more to
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: what was happening with him the other night than just
• 58:24
  Speaker 1: didn't have time to get loose or just had an
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: off night. Looks like Matt Brash is injured again, and
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: this time it's a lot. So who knows how long
• 58:34
  Speaker 1: we're going to be without Matt Brash. But he's been
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: as effective as anybody out of our bullpen. Well, I'm
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: not even going to softball it. He has been our
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: most effective piece this season out of the bullpen went healthy.
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: But now we're looking at another stint without him being available.
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: When you think about trading deadline, I will almost guarantee
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: you that Jerry and Justin are going to add a
• 58:57
  Speaker 1: bullpen piece, even though five really good piece and a
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: couple of other interesting pieces, and who knows what we're
• 59:03
  Speaker 1: gonna do with starting pitching, we could add another bullpen
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: piece that to me gives you more depth than everybody else.
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: I think it's one of those things like pass rushing
• 59:13
  Speaker 1: in the National Football League. I don't think Jerry and
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: Justin can have enough bullpen arms, and so I think
• 59:19
  Speaker 1: they will add a piece at the trading deadline, and
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: Matt Brash, his inability to stay healthy is certainly going
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: to emphasize that.
• 59:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, And I think, thank goodness they have the philosophy
• 59:29
  Speaker 2: of you can't have enough bullpen arms, because look at
• 59:31
  Speaker 2: what situation we're in right now when you'd think we
• 59:33
  Speaker 2: have enough, So add more, yes, please?
• 59:35
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 59:35
  Speaker 1: And finally, t is four Tacoma. Cal Raley in Tacoma.
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: We know that he did not play yesterday. No surprise there.
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: We kind of told you that was going to be
• 59:45
  Speaker 1: the approach. He hit and caught, So the next day,
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: let's give him a day off and then I would
• 59:53
  Speaker 1: assume what's coming tonight in Tacoma is cal Raley hits
• 59:59
  Speaker 1: and catches all nine innings. That would to me be
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: the next stage in the process. But I'll say this.
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 1: I think that there was a plan to take him
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 1: all the way through the weekend in Tacoma, building up
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 1: his endurance again. But if he hits another two home
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: runs tonight and reports that I didn't have any issues
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 1: with the side for nine innings, Ashley, I'm sending him
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 1: to Washington d C. For Friday. Yeah.
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 2: At that point, I feel like you have to because
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 2: he's showing that one he's clear. I mean, granted it's
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 2: against it's in Tacoma, it's not in the majors, but
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 2: he's clearly seeing the ball a bit better than he
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 2: was or having some better luck, and then not being
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 2: hampered by that injury, which who knows how long it
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 2: was really bothering him.
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 7: So yeah, take advantage of the fact that he's feeling good.
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: I'm not wasting home runs in Tacoma. Hechno from cal
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 1: Rawley if he's finally kind of like for whatever reason,
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 1: like the time away did him some good and cleared
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 1: his head and got his swing back, and the injury
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 1: may have helped from that standpoint that he had to
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 1: go back to like technically he had to kind of
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 1: start his swing completely over in his rehab process, and
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 1: this time he did it the right way. Yeah, you
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 1: know then I don't want to waste Kyle Roley home
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 1: runs in Tacoma. I'm ready to activate him by tomorrow
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 1: if I see what I need to see out of
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 1: him tonight. If not, he'll be there tomorrow. I'll look
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 1: forward to watching this game. I'm gonna be out there
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 1: with Riley pay calling the game tomorrow night. So that
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 1: certainly helped. That certainly makes my Friday night more enjoyable
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 1: to have Kyle play in the game last night. But
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 1: part of me is a big part of me is
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 1: rooting that he looks so good today that he's in
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 1: our lineup tomorrow in DC.
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's a win win situation. If he's there,
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 2: you get the bonus of getting to watch him. If
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 2: he's not, that means he's healthy enough to be back
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 2: with the big team.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I don't know, because you could probably
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  Speaker 2: bet on the halves. You could bet on players, you
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  Speaker 2: could bet on pool play. I mean you could bet
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  Speaker 2: on World Cup favorites.
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  Speaker 1: thoughts from Dick Fane on Sports Radio ninety three point
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  Speaker 1: three KJR. Just look out there, Jackson Telts, Look at
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 1: that beautiful see weather, Look at the gorgeous scene out there.
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 1: What a day, What a day? What a next week?
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  Speaker 1: We have? I was driving in today actually and I
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 1: both agreed, like the space needle look more space needly,
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 1: mount rainier more. Well, that's what happens, Chuck.
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  Speaker 11: When you paint a soccer ball in the space needl,
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 11: it does look more needly.
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  Speaker 2: Is it bad that I actually didn't even know there
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 2: was a soccer ball on the space needle?
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 1: It's like, it's like I said a little bit earlier. Look,
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: you know, I'm not even the biggest soccer fan in
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 1: the world. Everybody knows that, but it is. It is.
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 1: If God is, It's like He's like, hey, Soccer World
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 1: up starts in Seattle. Here you go, Seattle, have the
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  Speaker 1: most beautiful day you can imagine.
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  Speaker 11: When we got awarded one of the sites for the
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 11: World Cup, about was that about three years ago. There
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 11: was the hope of Okay, please don't be Juniuary for
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 11: the World Cup. Don't have the fifty five degrees that
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 11: we had last week. Please just let it be in
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 11: the seventies and eighties and beautiful weather, And my god,
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 11: do we have it.
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  Speaker 1: It delivered. It delivered. So Jackson Felts's here. He's never
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 1: done a green jacket draft before, so we're excited about
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 1: having him for that, And of course he has to
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 1: also not just be a drafter, he's got to be
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  Speaker 1: our analyst as well. He is our soccer star here
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 1: at Sports Radio ninety three point three kJ RFM, and
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  Speaker 1: he has come decked out in his US soccer merch.
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  Speaker 1: There we go. This is jersey.
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  Speaker 11: I've decided this morning when I woke up at five am,
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 11: I said to myself, you know what, every day of
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  Speaker 11: the World Cup, let's do a different jersey. Oh so
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 11: I'm gonna I'm gonna do jerseys through the whole World Cup.
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 1: How many of you have?
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  Speaker 3: Oh?
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  Speaker 11: I have one hundred and two jerseys in my closet.
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 11: They're not all soccer jerseys. Icy, but but I you
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 11: know what, I'll figure it out. I'll make it work
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  Speaker 11: and we're gonna have a good time with it. But
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  Speaker 11: I had day one. We're going the USA from twenty fifteen.
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  Speaker 11: And is that just you have a name on the
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  Speaker 11: back or is that this is a plain one. Some
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  Speaker 11: of them have names, but this one is just a
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  Speaker 11: it's just a it's so classy. I know Anders loves
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  Speaker 11: this one as well. It's just one of the white
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  Speaker 11: polo from was It twenty fourteen? Twenty fifteen? Classic? Classic?
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  Speaker 1: And I notice you got the beard done and the
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 1: hair You're all ready for it. I saw Andrews new
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 1: soccer haircut that he got in ready in anticipation. And
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 1: so we're also joined by our other soccer nerd here
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 1: at KJR as well, and that is Anders Hirst, who
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 1: joins us on the phone to also provide some analysts
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 1: analysis and our World Cup preview. Andrews, good morning, Happy
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 1: World Cup.
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  Speaker 6: To you morning.
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  Speaker 4: So I appreciate you have me on.
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  Speaker 12: You know what I'm most surprised about is Jackson actually
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 12: got some sleep last night. You said you woke up
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 12: at five am. That is much more than I expected
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 12: from him on the eve of these months and a
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 12: half long festival of football. So Jackson, congratulations.
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  Speaker 11: Help it helps with some I guess I can say pills, Yeah,
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 11: you know it. It was a melatonin I think my
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 11: wife had. I don't know what she had. She just
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 11: said she said this will help with your sleep. So
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  Speaker 11: I said great. I took it at ten pm. I
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  Speaker 11: was out at eleven. I got full six hours at
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  Speaker 1: Wow, I love it they're not. They're not bad pills.
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  Speaker 1: They're good pills. Yeah, it's legal. They're all good pills, Jackson,
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  Speaker 1: They're all good. All right. Well, it's time to provide
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  Speaker 1: our preview, like only we do if it's it's with
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 1: a green jacket draft. So here's what we're gonna do.
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 1: We're just gonna draft teams, countries, nations, and I don't
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 1: even know if we've explained the rules. But you get
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 1: a point for every win that you get in the tournament.
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  Speaker 1: You get a half for a tie, and then if
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 1: you make it out of group play, you get a point,
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  Speaker 1: and then if you make it to the finals, you
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 1: get a plus three. Okay, and if you win the
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 1: finals you get a plus five. You get a plus
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  Speaker 1: five with your team. Okay, okay, all right, is that
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 1: too much?
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  Speaker 7: I think that's fine.
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  Speaker 1: It was the first time.
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  Speaker 7: I think, you know what, it's fine.
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 1: I said. I think I said two and four yesterday.
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 2: We said two and three yesterday. But that's okay, let's
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 2: bump it up. You're excited too much.
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 11: And three if you sort of like the NCA tournament
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 11: where if you have the winner it boosts you. You
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 11: could be in tenth place in your office pool. But
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 11: if you have the winner, you might win the darn thing. Okay,
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 11: let's do two and three though, Okay, because.
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 1: I want the four teams. I want yeah to the
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 1: best foursome is what we're going for, not just to
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 1: pick a winner. All right, So there you go. We'll
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 1: do two and three at the backside. So now we
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 1: just need a draft order. What do we got at?
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 2: Well, I'll tell you what, Chuck, Nobody who listens to
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 2: our show is going to be surprised by this. You
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 2: are first, Jackson, your second, Anders your third, and guess
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 2: where I ended up fifth?
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 1: Yep, you get to turn though, you have to turn
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 1: there from four to five like that.
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  Speaker 7: I don't know if you know this. I'm not a
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 7: soccer analyst.
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 2: I was really hoping for one of those early picks
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 2: that everyone's talking about.
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we're gonna lean on you guys pretty heavily for this.
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 1: So that's why we needed two analysts to break down
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 1: our picks for us. And so here we go. I
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 1: got the first selection. I'll get it started. I am
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 1: going to uh, you know, I realized that France is
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 1: like the co favorite, but Wimby couldn't come through. In
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 1: the clutch last night, and Van Derveld's the other big
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 1: choker in history of sports. The French aren't gonna come through.
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 1: So I am going to take this little program out
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 1: of Spain. I'm gonna go with Spain. That's my pick
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 1: to win the whole thing. Tell me why.
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 11: Spain, for my money, has the best midfield in the world.
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 11: Padrian Rodriy the duo there, I think they're tremendous there.
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 11: They got attacking weapons on the wings. Laminium all for
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 11: my money, is the best player on planet Earth. He's
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 11: a young nineteen year old who is out of his mind.
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 1: Good.
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 11: Nico Williams on the other wing is coming back from
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 11: an injury. He's really good. They got good defect. They
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 11: have pretty much I think, not only good balance, but
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 11: I think the high level play at the right positions
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 11: to take the whole thing.
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 1: All right, I love it. I don't even need to
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 1: hear anything from Anders. That's good enough for me. I'll
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 1: take that unless you disagree. I guess we'll find out
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 1: in a moment. Jackson, who do you like with pick
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 1: number two in the draft? Now that I have stolen your.
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 11: Baby, yeah, you really have stolen my baby. That makes
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 11: things a little bit tougher. But I am gonna go
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 11: France for almost thinking about points in this and wanting
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 11: to win the Green Jacket draft, because I don't think
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 11: France is going to win it all. But I think
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 11: that based on the last two World Cups they have
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 11: gotten They won the final in eighteen, they got to
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 11: the final in twenty two. They have a tremendous head
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 11: coach and just Champs. They have Killian Embappe who's still
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 11: one of the top five players in the world. They
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 11: have outstanding balance across the team, and at the end
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 11: of the day, I'm looking at a team who's gonna
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 11: get me a bunch of points in this draft, and
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 11: I think France is, maybe alongside of Spain, has the
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 11: best chance of getting to the final.
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 1: You know you brought up the coach. All you ever
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 1: hear about are the individual players. Who's got the star
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 1: player andrews how much this coaching matter, and who's got
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 1: the best coach in the world.
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 12: Well, it's interesting because international soccer can be a lot
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 12: different than club soccer, right because you've only really see
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 12: your players every couple of months during these international windows,
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 12: So it's not like you're you have a preseason and
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 12: you're building up towards things throughout the entire years here.
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 12: So that's why I feel like coaching may kind of
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 12: get overlooked a little bit. But you have some big,
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 12: you know, big name coaches have been moved from club
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 12: soccer to international soccer for this tournament. I think England's
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 12: coach is really good. Spain's coach is definitely up there.
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 12: Francis coach. I mean he's this is his third World
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 12: Cup and he's gone to the final, as Jackson just
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 12: said in the first two, so you can't really argue
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 12: with his you know record there. I really like Argentina's
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 12: coach and that's why Argentina with the number three homer.
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 1: Oh he's going to Argentina. You had to otherwise you
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 1: were going to have an at youss the kitchen.
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  Speaker 4: The plate.
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  Speaker 12: I got my son next to me. He's he's gonna
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 12: start crying if I choose anything but Argentina.
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 1: He's going to make a pants if you.
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 12: Exactly exactly, so you know what, I got to make
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 12: the family happy. But also it kind of coincides with,
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 12: you know, right around who I think is the most
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 12: balanced team. They have the goat in Lionel Messi. He's
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 12: a little bit older. I don't think this team is
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 12: as good as the team that won in twenty twenty two,
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 12: but I I don't believe they're really that much worse either.
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 12: They have basically the same roster, a couple different guys
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 12: that actually kind of help improve in other parts of
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 12: the area, but just a little bit more aged at
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 12: this point, and they're gonna I think, just with the
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 12: chemistry that they have built up over these past four
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 12: plus years, because it really was the year leading up
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 12: to the World Cup in twenty twenty two that kind
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 12: of broke them out of their slump.
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  Speaker 4: They've just been.
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 12: Firing in all cylinders and won the Copa America in
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 12: twenty twenty four. They obviously won the World Cup in
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 12: twenty twenty two. They won the Copa America the year
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 12: before that as well, so they really know what it
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 12: takes in these big tournaments. And I believe it's like
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 12: I said, they're not as good as I expected them
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 12: to be in twenty twenty two, but I don't believe
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 12: there's enough of a drop off where and I just
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 12: believe them to be the most balanced team they're strong
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 12: in defense, they're strong in midfield, they're strong upfront, and
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 12: I really like their coach and their chemistry is really good.
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 12: So I'm going to Argentina.
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 1: All right, all right, who's Lasso coaching? By the way,
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 1: on that you know that is all cheer for his team.
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 11: I was trying to make I was trying to make
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 11: a joke and I couldn't really come up with it.
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 1: But I'm not the joke guys. I'm not the joke guy. Yeah,
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 1: exactly right. Yes, actually got back to back picks in
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 1: our World Cup preview Green jacket draft are you going with?
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 1: Get ready?
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 7: My soccer knowledge is coming through.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to pick the two teams that I am
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 2: going to cheer for, England and the United States.
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 1: The US comes off the board and round.
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 2: Hey you know what, we're the host country. Yeah, might
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 2: as well make a run at it, all right, honest, brutal, Yes, terrible.
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 1: Let's there's there's there's two sides.
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 3: This.
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  Speaker 11: England is a great pick. Andrews mentioned Chill is a
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 11: is a great head coach. They have Finally, they have
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 11: a joke. There's a joke around the world because England
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 11: always says the line, it's coming home, which means that
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 11: we're going to bring a trophy back to England in
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 11: a major soccer tournament, and it's become a running joke
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 11: because they never actually do it.
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 1: The thing is, this team is not athletics. This team
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 1: is the best team they've.
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 11: Had in a long long time. They have the roster,
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 11: they have the talent. They have so many good players
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 11: that they had to leave probably the best players home
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 11: of any team in the World Cup of talented guys
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 11: who aren't even act this tournament. So England is a
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 11: great pick the United States. Yes, there's a decent chance
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 11: they win their group. There's a decent chance they win
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 11: their round a thirty two game, and they if they
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 11: win their group, and if they win the round a
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 11: thirty two game, they're facing what could be Belgium here
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 11: at Seattle Stadium, not lumen Field on July six.
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 1: I think it's just called field. Actually, yeah, they cover
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 1: ups right exactly. That is the first big test.
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 11: I think if they can get through and listen Ashley,
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 11: if you can get a win over Belgium, which is
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 11: in entirely possible, then the United States is a big
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 11: points getter for you are they gonna get you those
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 11: two three points in the final and no, that's right,
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 11: but it'll stack you some.
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 7: One pointers and I'll have fun cheering for them.
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you will have some fun cheering for them unless
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 1: they lose. Well, all right, Andrews, you've got the next selection.
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 1: I mean, you only have one baby, and so I
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 1: don't know. You're out of countries. He's half American and
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 1: he's half Argentine. So I don't know where you go
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 1: from here. Actually, no, no, nobody knows.
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 12: Yeah, well I guess I have to actually, you know,
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 12: look through the numbers and pick with my brain and
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 12: start with my heart.
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 6: Time.
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 12: So I'm trying to decide between two countries. I'm trying
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 12: to think if either one of these would be available
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 12: on the turn. Probably not, so I'm gonna go with.
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  Speaker 3: I'm gonna go with Portugal, thank you.
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 12: I'm gonna go with Portugal in my second round.
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 1: Portugal.
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 12: Yeah, so they're probably the best team that hasn't won
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 12: the World Cup. So that's kind of something that's going
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 12: in their favor. They have the desperation more than anyone else.
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 12: I believe the jack and said Sane is the best field.
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 12: I believe Portugal is the best midfield in the entire
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 12: World Cup. You got Vitinia and jo Nevez, who both
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 12: anchor the PSG midfield that just won straight champions leagues.
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 13: Uh.
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 12: And then you have Bruno Frendez who plays for my
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 12: favorite club team, Manchester United. He just broke the Premier
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 12: League record for most assists in a single season with
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 12: twenty one. Those are three of the best midfielders in
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 12: the world, all dominating at the right time. Well, I
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 12: like defense is stress.
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I like to Portugal Spain final. Boy, could you
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 1: imagine you imagine that? Yeah, that's two countries.
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 11: Going after one st that midfield battle. I'm telling you
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 11: right now that because because I mean Andrews is right.
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 11: If if Spain has the best midfield, Portugal is the
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 11: second best midfield, that battle would be epic.
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 13: Jackson, you have the pick. I'm gonna go Brazil and
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 13: oh I won to Brazil. Yeah, I think I love waxing.
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 13: Brazil has the most World Cups of any country. You
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 13: know what's interesting?
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 1: I like that, and jump serves.
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 11: All I can think of is BBL Right, all right,
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 11: those two. So what's interesting is World Cup has been
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 11: happening since nineteen thirty. Only eight countries have won the
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 11: darn thing and Brazil has the most of five. And
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 11: I look at Brazil this tournament and are they the
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 11: most talented? No, but I think there are superstar level
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 11: players at Brazil. And I will say I mentioned Lamina
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 11: Mall playing for Spain, nineteen years old. He's kind of
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 11: already burst on the scene. He's already a kind of
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 11: a global superstar. I think that the Brazil has what's
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 11: going to be the breakout star of the tournament.
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 1: Endrick nineteen years old. He plays for.
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 11: Olympics and you look what he's done for for Lionna
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 11: just recently. He's absolutely on fire right now. He has
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 11: twelve goal contributions and in the last sixteen games for
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 11: them tremendously A talented striker for Brazil who I think
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 11: is going to lead Brazil very deep, at least to
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 11: a semi final in this tournament. I like the road
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 11: and again I think I think Endrick is the guy
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 11: where globally everybody's gonna know his name a month and
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 11: a half from now.
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 1: All right, well, we will have to speed through. We
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 1: got two more rounds to get you, so I'll need
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 1: hot Okay, hot quick analysis from Jackson and Anders here
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 1: on the rest of our draft. So I got back
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 1: to back picks here, I'm going with the freaky, sneaky
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 1: Dutch with my second round pick, so give me Netherlands,
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 1: and then with my next pick. I don't know why,
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 1: I just got a sneaky feeling, or maybe I just
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 1: am that much into Sophia of oark era and cocaine,
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 1: but I'm going with Columbia in the third round. Yeah,
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 1: and I think, uh yeah, I think they're make a
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 1: lot of drugs there. I think melatonin is one of them. Yeah, Jackson, Yeah, right,
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 1: pretty surely. The melatonin trade is huge coming out of
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 1: Columbia's ten pm lest year. You're the scarface of melatonin, Jackson.
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 11: So I'm gonna go with the Dutch and Columbia, all right,
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 11: I'll go quick here, and I'm gonna go Belgium.
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 1: I like their road.
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 11: I think they can win their group pretty handily, and
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 11: then once they get past that, they are looking at
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 11: I think a round a thirty two winnable game United States. Yes,
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 11: it could be in Seattle, but they are here. Belgium
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 11: is stationed down at the Sounders facility in retin. They
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 11: are playing very much home games, if you want to
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 11: call it that. For a long time, I love Belgium's road.
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 11: They're still very talented. Their golden generation couldn't do it,
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 11: but I think they rack me up a bunch of
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 11: one points in this in this tournament.
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 1: All right, Ashley or Anders you have the next selection?
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 1: Where are you going?
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 12: I'm gonna believe I'm taking the next one. I believe
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 12: to be the only powerhouse of soccer last and as Germany?
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 6: All right?
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 1: Pretty similar?
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 12: There's their baseline is pretty high for me. I don't
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 12: think they're gonna win the tournament, but they can rack
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 12: up some wins. We saw the US.
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, Germany it is Ashley. You got back
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 1: to back selections to close out your roster. Do you
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 1: have any other parents homes that you can draft from?
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 7: Don't? I don't because I don't think Finland is in right.
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 1: I don't think they made it.
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so I'm gonna go with someone who I saw
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 2: being called a Cinderella Morocco.
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 1: Morocco. I've dated a girl from Morocco. Oh did you? Yeah? Okay,
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 1: doctor Wahiba, Oh beautiful? Is that another melotone? No? No, no, no, no,
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 1: all right, Morocco it is.
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 7: And then who are the three? Who are the other
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 7: three in the US pool?
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 14: Play?
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 6: Right?
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 2: Who?
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 12: It's Usury and Australia and Paraguay.
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 1: Oh that's right, Paraguay. I was yeah, not not the
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 1: solo Uruguay.
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 7: H No, I'm gonna go with Senegal.
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 1: Please Senegal? How about that?
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 4: Yeah?
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 1: I know nothing, obviously, it just sounded like a month
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 1: thing to say. Yeah, all right to Andrews, you are
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 1: up next?
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 12: Ooh you left me playing two choices here. I'm kind
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 12: of leaning towards Norway. I believe they have one of
• 1:21:22
  Speaker 12: the best strikers, actually the best striker in the world,
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 12: so he can just rack up goals. They don't have
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 12: the strongest team all around him, but he can absolutely
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 12: carry them to a couple of victories. So I'm taking Norway, all.
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 1: Right, Jackson, your last team?
• 1:21:35
  Speaker 11: Yeah, I think what I'm gonna do is go Japan here. Oh,
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 11: a little bit off the board, but Japan came into
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 11: the twenty twenty two World Cup and they made kind
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 11: of an improbable run. They beat Germany in that World Cup,
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 11: they won their group inexplicably. They they even beat Spain
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 11: actually as well. And you know when it how much
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 11: the World Cup time? You want teams who recently have
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 11: gone on nice track records and they actually lost in
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 11: penalty kicks to a very very good Croatia team. Give
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 11: me Japan to maybe do something in this tournament.
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 1: All right, I've got the last selection and I'm torn
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 1: between two. Feel free to help me break the tai U.
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 1: Two experts Mexico, who seems to always play well. Uh,
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 1: and then I. I don't know a lot about soccer,
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 1: but when I've seen the Ivory Coast play in the
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 1: in the past, oh yeah, that's always the most athletic
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 1: team on the field.
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 11: Team Which one I would go to Mexico because they
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  Speaker 11: have a much better chance of winning their group and
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  Speaker 11: getting you those one points?
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  Speaker 7: And Andres Munios and Margarita, Yes, anders.
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  Speaker 1: Which one tell me Mexico, right, I think?
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  Speaker 12: See, I think Ivy Coast is a better team, but
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  Speaker 12: I think the edge goes to Mexico, host country. They
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  Speaker 12: love playing in front of their fans. It's notoriously difficult
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  Speaker 12: to play in Mexico versus Mexico, which I believed would
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  Speaker 12: be almost all of their games. I don't know, kind
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  Speaker 12: of looked at their specific schedule, but yeah, I think
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  Speaker 12: it's a good chance they, you know, at least get
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  Speaker 12: to the knockout stages versus Ivory Coast has a tough group,
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  Speaker 12: but I believe they have the better chance to kind
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  Speaker 12: of go on a deep run.
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  Speaker 1: I'm all right, well, I was gonna go Ivory Coast,
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  Speaker 1: but you guys have talked me into it. I'm going
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  Speaker 1: with the fighting. Andre's Munjos give me in Mexico. As
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  Speaker 1: for everyone, all right, awesome stuff you too, Thank you
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  Speaker 1: very much. This was perfect.
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  Speaker 11: We needed you, We really needed Call me anytime. I'm
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  Speaker 11: happy to join. It's gonna be a fun next five weeks.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Jackson felts Anders hearst You're gonna hear for all.
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  Speaker 1: Hear from them a lot over the course of the
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  Speaker 1: next month. Right here on KJAR. They are outstanding at
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  Speaker 1: names I've ever heard. The co host of Pot of
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  Speaker 1: Gold is with us now Here on the program. He's
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  Speaker 1: been following the Fighting Irish as a beat writer for
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  Speaker 1: the South Bend Tribune for years. Mike Bearardino is joining
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  Speaker 1: us now here on Chuck and Buck in the Morning
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  Speaker 1: to talk about Jadarian Price. Good morning, sir, how are
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  Speaker 1: you good morning, pot of Gold. That's good. That's really good.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 14: I can't take credit for that.
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  Speaker 1: I inherited that name, but we're not changing it, all right, good? Well,
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  Speaker 1: did the Seahawks strike gold with Jadarian Price with their
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  Speaker 1: first round draft pick?
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  Speaker 14: Sir, Well, it would see that they did give him
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  Speaker 14: credit for taking the second Notre Dame running back off
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  Speaker 14: the board and making some history there in the first round.
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  Speaker 14: This is you know, you're you're taking a guy who
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  Speaker 14: has been lightly used because he had he had the
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  Speaker 14: split time with with Love and Love was the focus,
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  Speaker 14: especially in the final year when he ended up being
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  Speaker 14: third in the Heisman. Jaedarian Price is a quality individual
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  Speaker 14: and and he's going to give you everything he has,
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  Speaker 14: and it seems like it's all in front of him.
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  Speaker 1: Was there a feeling, I mean in South Bend that
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  Speaker 1: if Love went down, which I know shut of the thought,
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  Speaker 1: but if he went down, that how good Jadarian Price
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  Speaker 1: would be just to step right in to that Notre
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  Speaker 1: Dame backfield.
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  Speaker 14: Well they would split series or some you know, maybe
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  Speaker 14: the final year was two series for Love and then
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  Speaker 14: Price would come in. But we saw it over and
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  Speaker 14: over the USC game in twenty four, Love was injured,
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  Speaker 14: Price came in, no drop off Notre Dame one Georgia.
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  Speaker 14: In the playoff, Love was hurt lightly used in that game,
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  Speaker 14: Price steps in Notre Dame wins, and you know, just about.
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  Speaker 15: Any other situation out there, he.
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  Speaker 14: Would have probably been tempted to go ahead and transfer
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  Speaker 14: and be the feature back. But you know, he's had
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  Speaker 14: every team asked him about it. He's asked about the combine.
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  Speaker 14: He had a perfect answer for that. It wasn't he
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  Speaker 14: was afraid of a spotlight. He knew what he could do,
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  Speaker 14: but he had other visions and Marcus Freeman has a
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  Speaker 14: great job of keeping people around here for the team goal,
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  Speaker 14: the team glory they talk about, and they thought they
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  Speaker 14: could win a national championship. As it turned out they
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  Speaker 14: they were kept out of the playoffs entirely with the
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  Speaker 14: two early losses.
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  Speaker 1: But this is this guy's all that. Mike Berodino is
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  Speaker 1: our guest year Notre Dame beat Rider talking about Jadarian
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  Speaker 1: Price in our Siahawks CEL one series today. Should we
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  Speaker 1: look here in Seattle as that lack of playing time
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  Speaker 1: reps carries as a positive or should we hold a
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  Speaker 1: little bit and reserve some concern because we have not
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  Speaker 1: seen him be the main ball carrier for a football team.
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  Speaker 1: Where should we land in Seattle as somebody that watched
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  Speaker 1: the Jadarian Price play throughout his career?
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  Speaker 14: Well, considering running backs have always had such a short
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  Speaker 14: career and because they take so many hits in the
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  Speaker 14: legs especially, And this is the guy who overcame an
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  Speaker 14: achilles tear before he ever got on the field at
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  Speaker 14: Notre Dame, played in the spring game as an early
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  Speaker 14: enroll league and then off season training twenty two, came back,
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  Speaker 14: missed his entire freshman year, came back for twenty three
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  Speaker 14: through twenty five. But I wouldn't view that as a concern.
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  Speaker 14: I think it's a positive and surely the Seahawks are
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  Speaker 14: viewing it that way because there's more life in the
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  Speaker 14: body going forward. He hasn't taken as many hits. He's
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  Speaker 14: had a clean path here physically since he came back
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  Speaker 14: from the Achilles tear. The two concerns I'd say, and
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  Speaker 14: it brought up, but you know he can work through
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  Speaker 14: it is the fact that you leave college with only
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  Speaker 14: fifteen receptions is one of them. It's not that he
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  Speaker 14: was dropping passes. He just wasn't really the third down
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  Speaker 14: back at any point. Part of that was blitz pickup.
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  Speaker 14: He's gonna have to really sharpen that. And Thomas Hammock
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  Speaker 14: of all people, the former Northern Illinois coach who came
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  Speaker 14: into Notre Dame and beat Notre Dame, it's his job
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  Speaker 14: to make sure that that part of his game is
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  Speaker 14: where it needs to be, is to be in every
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  Speaker 14: down back. I don't see why he couldn't become that,
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  Speaker 14: but he wasn't asked to do that very often here
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  Speaker 14: in blitz pick up and then the fumbling which nobody
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  Speaker 14: wants to be label to fumble. I think that's another
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  Speaker 14: place where they're just gonna have to sharpen the fundamentals
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  Speaker 14: of it whatever was happening, especially down.
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  Speaker 4: In the red zone.
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  Speaker 14: But there are four examples of the ball coming loose
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  Speaker 14: for Jadarian so so conscientious, so reliable in every other way,
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  Speaker 14: but they were you know, this happened at inopportune times,
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  Speaker 14: and three of those fumbles were lost. So those are
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  Speaker 14: the areas of improvement that now that he is going
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  Speaker 14: to have a chance to step in for a Super
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  Speaker 14: Bowl MVP and maybe be the guy from day one,
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  Speaker 14: that's those areas that need to improve.
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  Speaker 1: Why do you think he's stuck it out at Notre
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  Speaker 1: Dame behind Jeremiah Love all that time. Why do you
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  Speaker 1: think that he accepted life in the shadow?
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  Speaker 14: Well, for one thing, it's not that shadowy.
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  Speaker 15: He'd come in and talk to us as much as.
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  Speaker 14: Any other reserve. Notre Dame has depth, and that's across
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  Speaker 14: all position groups, and so you don't have to be
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  Speaker 14: the starter per se to come in and get a
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  Speaker 14: little bit of attention and get a chance to have
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  Speaker 14: some visit with the media. And the fact that there
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  Speaker 14: was enough to go around, they could all eat in that.
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  Speaker 14: They're blowing people out tremendously once the season schedule softened
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  Speaker 14: up last year, so he certainly you know, you look
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  Speaker 14: back every eleven point seven touches Tadarian Price scored a touchdown.
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  Speaker 14: Three of those were the kickoff return game. I don't
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  Speaker 14: know if you guys will need him to do that
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  Speaker 14: based on the roster what we see, but he can
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  Speaker 14: do that. He's explosive in every area. You know, Jeremiah
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  Speaker 14: Love as great as he was eight point four touches
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  Speaker 14: per touchdown.
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  Speaker 15: So it's not that different in terms of what they
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  Speaker 15: can do to take.
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  Speaker 14: It to the house. I don't think he's afraid of Spilight.
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  Speaker 14: Oh he wanted to graduate.
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  Speaker 15: Well, I definitely want to make.
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  Speaker 14: It get his Notre Dame degree, which he did complete
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  Speaker 14: in the spring going into his final year, so he
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  Speaker 14: had it by spring of twenty five.
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  Speaker 6: But you know, in the.
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  Speaker 14: Offseason portal leading up to that, he didn't want to
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  Speaker 14: hear about it, and you know, word gets to these
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  Speaker 14: guys these days through the intermediaries. He had an agent,
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  Speaker 14: as they all do now, but which is weird. But
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  Speaker 14: he was able to stay because, like I say, Marcus Freeman,
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  Speaker 14: his teammates the goal of trying to win a national championship.
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  Speaker 14: They felt they were that close. They were one game
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  Speaker 14: away against Ohio State the previous year. That team glory
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  Speaker 14: aspect of the bond with the teammates, he decided to stay.
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  Speaker 14: And the legacy here will live on because he was
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  Speaker 14: held up throughout. We wrote about it while it was happening.
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  Speaker 14: This is the guy, the ultimate teammate, willing not to
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  Speaker 14: sit behind but to share the spotlight with Love, and
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  Speaker 14: that made Love a better pick for the Cardinals. Has
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  Speaker 14: eventually turned out a better pro prospect because he wasn't
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  Speaker 14: asked to give every last bit of what he could
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  Speaker 14: in his college years.
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  Speaker 15: There were still some in the tank.
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  Speaker 1: That's excellent stuff. Well, thank you, Mike. We appreciate the
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  Speaker 1: insight into all of this. That's good stuff, man. And
• 1:32:07
  Speaker 1: continued success there with the pot of goldpos podcasts, and
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  Speaker 1: we will bug you at some point during the college
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  Speaker 1: football season next year. What do you say to that?
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  Speaker 14: Really good Indieinsider dot com is where you'll find our
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  Speaker 14: stuff here at Southend Tribune, and I appreciate the visit
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  Speaker 14: all right.
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  Speaker 1: There, he is Mike Brodino joining us here INDI I well,
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  Speaker 1: Indie Insider. Indie insider dot com is where you can
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  Speaker 1: find all of his information as he, of course a
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  Speaker 1: beat writer for the Fighting Irish. All right, we appreciate
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  Speaker 1: him joining us here for the Seahawks one series. Jadarian
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  Speaker 1: Price getting broken down here today, We'll do it again tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: Coming up next, we close out the show with one
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