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Chuck & Buck 2-16 Hour 1: We are live in Peoria! Gabe Speier joins the show and Coach Bucky is here too! · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: Your home for spring training. Proudly presents Chuck and Buck
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  Speaker 1: your next Delta Airlines adventure. It's baseball Season with Chuck
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  Speaker 1: and Buck on Sports Radio ninety three point three kJ
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  Speaker 1: R F m oh, such wonderful words.
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  Speaker 2: Hold me, hold you, I'm gonna.
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  Speaker 3: You're gonna stop running around the basis.
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  Speaker 2: Just for a second. Well, I'm gonna go this way
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  Speaker 2: this time, and you start down the third and we'll
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  Speaker 2: see who gets back first. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm tired of just thinking about it.
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  Speaker 2: That's oh my, that is really strange. Had the exact
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  Speaker 2: same thought. Good morning, and welcome it Pria, Arizona. Chuck
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  Speaker 2: Powell and Bucky Jacobson with you here live throughout the
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  Speaker 2: course of the week at the Mariners spring training facility.
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  Speaker 2: We've already been down here for a day and a
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  Speaker 2: half and got to soak it up a little bit
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  Speaker 2: here the last day and a half, so we are
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  Speaker 2: more than hitting the ground running here on a Monday morning,
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  Speaker 2: and it is a complete left turn. I mean, we've
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  Speaker 2: been in super Bowl Mania, understandably so for a little while,
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  Speaker 2: but I feel great about it. I feel great about
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  Speaker 2: this little left turn. I mean, you go all the
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  Speaker 2: way to the last football game of the year, and
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  Speaker 2: then all of a sudden you're like, hey, baseball season
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  Speaker 2: right now?
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  Speaker 3: Perfect? Perfect? I mean, I don't know the last time
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  Speaker 3: we had a baseball season. Take us that deep into
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  Speaker 3: a football season, like, I mean.
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  Speaker 2: Right right on the Vergin well never yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Making the World Series, and then to have that football
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  Speaker 3: season go all the way to the end, culminating the championship,
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  Speaker 3: and then all of a sudden you find yourself now
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  Speaker 3: literally a week later, you're like, well, it's the baseball season.
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  Speaker 3: It's time here, and now we're out here. Yeah cut grass.
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  Speaker 3: Uh huh, So we haven't heard the spikes on the
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  Speaker 3: on the cement yet. No, you're right.
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  Speaker 2: And the leaf blower guy who always haunts our every
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  Speaker 2: second here in the morning, has not even been here today.
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  Speaker 3: Oh he's coming.
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  Speaker 2: Stay beautiful like a normal looking morning. But man, when
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  Speaker 2: we were getting ready to come on the air, it
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  Speaker 2: was just the red sun was rising up over the
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  Speaker 2: horizon was gorgeous. And yeah, I think that was the
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  Speaker 2: baseball God's way of winking at you and I and saying,
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  Speaker 2: welcome to baseball season.
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  Speaker 3: Boys. Yeah, yes, you're right, it's exactly God does love
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  Speaker 3: us and uh and that was just a spectacle to see.
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  Speaker 3: I did take a little time lapse photo. Twitter is
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  Speaker 3: not letting me send it out, so I'll figure out
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  Speaker 3: a way to put it out somewhere. Yeah, so we
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  Speaker 3: can share it with folks back in Sea Town, because
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure the sun is not quite up back home
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  Speaker 3: just yet. And so it's beautiful, beautiful out here. I'm
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  Speaker 3: actually already hot.
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  Speaker 2: In how cold the mornings were going to be. So
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  Speaker 2: I have like four layers on, and here's Bucky in
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  Speaker 2: a short sleeve shirt and shorts and boat shoes shoes,
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  Speaker 2: So I'm gonna take my layers off soon. But I
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  Speaker 2: was told, like, you know, the mornings are going to
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  Speaker 2: be forty degrees. I'm like, forty degrees in the desert
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  Speaker 2: before the sun has risen is cold, Yeah, but I
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  Speaker 2: think it's already fifty five. Yeah, it's not for Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: So somebody lied to me. I think they were looking
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  Speaker 2: at the Woodenville.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And when I say somebody, I mean the unicorn.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, so watch out, it's gonna be really freezing
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  Speaker 3: down there. It'll just get cold before the sun comes
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  Speaker 3: up around here. Desert cold is a different kind of Yeah. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: he's not that right now. No, right now, it's beautiful.
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  Speaker 3: It's unifor and I could probably run down to first
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  Speaker 3: base and then I would be sweaty.
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  Speaker 2: So not around the whole bases job. We just have
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  Speaker 2: to be on the honor system. You just have to
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  Speaker 2: yell out. I got to third, I got the first
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  Speaker 2: ghost runner.
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  Speaker 3: I need a ghost runner. I bet we could find
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  Speaker 3: somebody around here to run for us.
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  Speaker 2: I need a hero, that's what I need. Yeah, uh huh.
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  Speaker 2: So good morning. Yeah, very exciting that we get to
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  Speaker 2: start spring training here on a Monday. This is always
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  Speaker 2: the week that we do it for those that are wondering.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, we have a WBC season this year, so
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  Speaker 2: baseball is kind of starting a little bit earlier. But
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  Speaker 2: we've done the President's Day start before here for our
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  Speaker 2: Mariner spring training coverage, and so we do it again today.
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  Speaker 2: I know a lot of people are off work today,
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  Speaker 2: but you better let them know that spring training coverage
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  Speaker 2: started today. Alert them so that they can go out
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  Speaker 2: in the garage and just in their cars and listen
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  Speaker 2: for four hours.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, I think you can do one of those
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  Speaker 3: Alexa things too. Just tell Alection you turn it on ninety.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure everybody's already done that. I think this was
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  Speaker 3: appointment people knew. Even last week when we were celebrating
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  Speaker 3: the Super Bowl, we still let people know that that
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  Speaker 3: left turn is coming, and now we're going to be
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  Speaker 3: down here from Peoria. And I think a lot of
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  Speaker 3: people probably were like, I don't have to wake up
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  Speaker 3: to go to work today, but I'm gonna because I
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  Speaker 3: want to hear how beautiful the sunrise right, how much
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  Speaker 3: God loves chucking Bob.
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  Speaker 2: I know Ashley woke up feeling that way.
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  Speaker 3: She's like, I wonder if it's sweaty hot out there already.
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  Speaker 3: I wonder if the sun rise.
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  Speaker 2: I thought to myself, Gosh, I just hope the guys
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  Speaker 2: are comfortable, that's all I want. I just want them
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  Speaker 2: to be really warm. Yeah, and I want it to
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  Speaker 2: be pleasant for them. Yeah, a perfect not really warm,
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  Speaker 2: but like a perfect. I don't want Bucky to have
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  Speaker 2: to put towels on his.
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  Speaker 3: Legs or I'll tell you that there's no towel pants
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  Speaker 3: on today. I am. I am pretty much out here
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  Speaker 3: in Arizona weather, Arizona clothes, rocking this bad.
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  Speaker 2: Boy Brandy Rose Arena, showing up for where he is? Oh, Randy,
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  Speaker 2: good morning.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, he's wearing muscle shirt.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he looks good. He looks good, he's good.
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  Speaker 4: How does he look in his pants though, because that's
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  Speaker 4: what Bucky was really excited for last That's.
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  Speaker 2: Right, he's wearing shorts, and you didn't mention that he's
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  Speaker 2: just wearing shorts.
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  Speaker 3: Uh huh, So I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: I have to Okay, you're gonna have to check on that.
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  Speaker 2: Fair fair, fair to the rock. Good morning. They're rolling
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  Speaker 2: in air, rolling in now.
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  Speaker 3: They it's President's date. They didn't want to miss the show.
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  Speaker 3: All these guys are rolling in right as we're going
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  Speaker 3: on the.
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  Speaker 2: That's right here to welcome us. We appreciate it. It
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  Speaker 2: really means a lot.
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  Speaker 3: Now you guys can go ahead and get better baseball
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  Speaker 3: and stuff, but we appreciate you showing up for hush.
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  Speaker 2: The only downside to the whole thing thus far is
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  Speaker 2: that Bucky and I have this stan tradition. When we
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  Speaker 2: arrive in Peoria, we go get the meat sweats, we
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  Speaker 2: go to the Brazilian steakhouse, and then we just load
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  Speaker 2: up on meat, you know, for the entire week. It's
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  Speaker 2: probably not a great idea, you know, you know, just
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  Speaker 2: to load up on salt and meat before you even
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  Speaker 2: after you get off a plane and before you even
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  Speaker 2: get the week started. But it's our tradition. And unfortunately
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  Speaker 2: we did not get to do it this year, and
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  Speaker 2: I blame love. Yeah, we went because we came in
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  Speaker 2: on a Saturday instead of a Sunday. And when we
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  Speaker 2: got in on a Saturday, it was Valentine's Day, and
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  Speaker 2: I really did think that. Okay, I realized we're going
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  Speaker 2: to run into some Valentine's Day stuff, but not at
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  Speaker 2: the Brazilian steakhouse who celebrates their love and all you
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  Speaker 2: can eat meat buffet. I mean, that just doesn't even
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  Speaker 2: sound romantic. I have a hard time that seeing men
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  Speaker 2: getting women on the same page. We then all you
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  Speaker 2: can eat meat buffet and then rolling home and trying
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  Speaker 2: to make sweet love by the fire. Like to me,
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, that doesn't even marry together. So I think
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  Speaker 2: we're gonna be fine. Ashley. You should have seen the
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  Speaker 2: line to the Meat Palace. It was down the street
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  Speaker 2: and everybody was dressed up like they were going to
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  Speaker 2: prom It was I mean, they were decked out. And
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  Speaker 2: I went inside and I'm like, well, let me see
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  Speaker 2: if we can at least keep the tradition going. We
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  Speaker 2: can just sit at the bar. And the girl looked
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  Speaker 2: at me and she was like, no, reverb ball whoa
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  Speaker 2: like demon fire and her demon fire in her eyes.
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  Speaker 2: Uh yeah, And so yeah, we pretty much got tossed out.
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  Speaker 2: And uh so we still haven't had the meat, so
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  Speaker 2: it's and I had something else planned for Sunday, so
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  Speaker 2: we haven't even done it yet. It feels a little
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  Speaker 2: off our traditions and our rituals for starting spring training.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well we didn't stick with the same time plan
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  Speaker 3: of getting the meat sweats the first night that I
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  Speaker 3: have already had three double doubles, so I'm still on track.
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  Speaker 2: Well maybe tonight, maybe it's a new Monday night tradition.
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  Speaker 2: But welcome in. We are excited to deliver to you
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  Speaker 2: our award winning and yes we have won on an
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  Speaker 2: award for this coverage of Mariners spring training and uh man,
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  Speaker 2: we come equipped with all sorts of knowledge, I can
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  Speaker 2: tell you that right now, just an opportunity to see
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  Speaker 2: the players and you know, go through the same questions
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  Speaker 2: that we always do about whose body looks different from
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  Speaker 2: the off season. We have the knowledge, we will be
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  Speaker 2: sharing that with you. The talk of camp, who's creating
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  Speaker 2: the most buzz, we have that knowledge. As a matter
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  Speaker 2: of fact, we're going to have those two gentlemen on
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  Speaker 2: the show today together. So yes, there's already some buzz
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  Speaker 2: here at camp that has been started. And really, I
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  Speaker 2: mean the players officially position players just I think yesterday
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  Speaker 2: was their first practice, so the whole squad is here.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody seems in a great mood. And before we start
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  Speaker 2: getting into that information and to those normal questions, I
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  Speaker 2: mean you mentioned a little bit earlier just this was
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  Speaker 2: the longest the Mariners baseball season had ever lasted, going
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  Speaker 2: back to last year, and now they get ready to begin.
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  Speaker 2: And to me, and maybe I'm reading into it, but
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  Speaker 2: to me, there just seems to be this air of confidence,
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  Speaker 2: almost like a lethal amount of like quiet confidence with
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  Speaker 2: this group, like they know they're good. This isn't gonna
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  Speaker 2: be one of those like can we chase down the
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  Speaker 2: Astros kind of approaches to the season. I don't know,
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  Speaker 2: I'm feeling this. We know we're good, let's go out
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  Speaker 2: and prove to everybody just how good that we are.
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  Speaker 2: It just feels like there's a little bit different way
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  Speaker 2: that guys are carrying themselves this year. It's not about
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  Speaker 2: you know, potential anymore. It's about we have arrived. We
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  Speaker 2: are in a window, and it is business time. Let's
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  Speaker 2: go get it done this year. That's what I'm reading
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  Speaker 2: from staff, from players. I don't know. It just seems
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  Speaker 2: to be have permeated the entire grounds here at the
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  Speaker 2: Peoria Sports Complex.
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  Speaker 3: I think that, you know, last year about this time,
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  Speaker 3: they were feeling good about themselves, but they didn't know
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  Speaker 3: what they didn't know. They didn't know for sure. You
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  Speaker 3: can be confident and still, you know, realize that certain
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  Speaker 3: things are unknown. And yet, on the heels of the
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  Speaker 3: season last year, where they were outs away from going
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  Speaker 3: to the World Series, the team that they very easily
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  Speaker 3: could have beaten and went to the World Series pushed
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  Speaker 3: the Dodgers, the vaunted, hated Dodgers to Game seven extra innings.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, right there on the cusp of winning it.
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  Speaker 3: They know that they are World Series champion caliber baseball team,
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  Speaker 3: and so now they get to come in with an
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  Speaker 3: off season of preparation, just trying to fine tune the
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  Speaker 3: things that they wanted to get a little bit better at,
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  Speaker 3: understanding that if they go out over one sixty uo
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  Speaker 3: take care of business, they should be able to get
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  Speaker 3: into the playoffs. And now they've been deeper than any
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  Speaker 3: of them had ever been before. I mean, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: maybe not every single one of them. I think we've
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  Speaker 3: got a couple guys that have been to a World Series,
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  Speaker 3: but for the most part, most of them, that's the
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  Speaker 3: furthest they've ever been and they understand. Oh, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: I can recognize it. It makes me think of the
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  Speaker 3: year that I ended up making the big leagues. I
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  Speaker 3: came into that spring training very confident, not that I
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  Speaker 3: was gonna make the team or anything like that, but
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  Speaker 3: I came in as confident as I had ever been,
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  Speaker 3: and yet I also knew that there was I was
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  Speaker 3: still uncertain about certain things because I had never experienced
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  Speaker 3: certain things. I think that that was probably one of
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  Speaker 3: the hills or the humps that they got over last
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  Speaker 3: year was Huh, what's that feel like to get to
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  Speaker 3: the playoffs, and advance in the playoffs, and advance again
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  Speaker 3: in the playoffs and play some high you know, high
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  Speaker 3: leverage type games. Now all of a sudden they get
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  Speaker 3: to have the off season of getting ready to do
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  Speaker 3: that thing again.
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  Speaker 2: Well, and I'll say this, I mean that there are
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  Speaker 2: people floating around here. I mean, Jerry Depote is just
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  Speaker 2: seems to be in a phenomenal mood. You can't take
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  Speaker 2: the smile off his face. Just in Hollander, same way,
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  Speaker 2: just seems to be like floating on a cloud right now.
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  Speaker 2: And this mostly young team and you are equally as
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  Speaker 2: excited about the future and what's coming up through the system.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, a lot of baseball teams have to kind
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  Speaker 2: of go all out when they're in that championship window,
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  Speaker 2: or they you know, are quick to rebuild like a
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  Speaker 2: Rais or A's Boy. We gave it a shot, but man,
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  Speaker 2: those guys are getting too long in the tooth. We
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  Speaker 2: got to move them and or before they become too
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  Speaker 2: expensive to us, you know, that sort of approach. So
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  Speaker 2: it's kind of difficult to be a mid market club.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm using that PARENTHESI now currently on the roster.
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  Speaker 2: It is a really wonderful position to be in Major
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  Speaker 2: League Baseball, and this organization has achieved it, and we're
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  Speaker 2: gonna be talking about it a lot here over the
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  Speaker 2: course of the next five days. Excited to deliver to
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  Speaker 2: you Mariners.
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  Speaker 3: What's one?
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  Speaker 2: What's untep All right, So this is what we got
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  Speaker 2: laid out for you here this morning. We're gonna have
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  Speaker 2: Gabe spire On coming up in our next segment. America's
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  Speaker 2: left hander is gonna be joining us. He was named
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  Speaker 2: the UH to the Team USA squad for the WBC.
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  Speaker 2: It is a WBC year UH and so Gabe Spier
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  Speaker 2: coming up in our next segment. We will also discuss
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  Speaker 2: that the hot topic that is at every spring training
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  Speaker 2: who is the talk of camp, Who's creating the buzz?
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  Speaker 2: It seems like there's a tie right now between pitching prospects.
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  Speaker 2: Kate Anderson, the left hander most recently drafted UH in
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  Speaker 2: the first round by the Mariners, and then Ryan Sloan,
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  Speaker 2: as Ryan Devish calls him, the man Child, is gonna
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  Speaker 2: also be in that conversation for who's creating the most buzz. Well,
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  Speaker 2: guess what we are going to have both of them
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  Speaker 2: on today together in the exact same segment. So they
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  Speaker 2: are the two guys creating the most buzz around here
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  Speaker 2: so far and spring training, and so why not put
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  Speaker 2: them on together. We're gonna do so at eight o'clock today,
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  Speaker 2: and Jerry Depoto is gonna be joining us today as
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  Speaker 2: well at seven o'clock, so the reigning Executive of the
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  Speaker 2: Year will join us to kick off our spring training
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  Speaker 2: coverage here on a Monday. And Rick Riz I do believe,
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  Speaker 2: also joining us. He's going to be quite the storyline
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  Speaker 2: this season as well. He's gonna join us at nine.
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  Speaker 2: And then the fun part about spring training coverage is
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  Speaker 2: you can put together a show that good on a Monday,
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  Speaker 2: that many star studded guests and still be left open
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  Speaker 2: to all sorts of surprises. You never know who we're
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  Speaker 2: gonna grab over our four hours together here. Also headlines
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  Speaker 2: just quickly, Seahawks did hire an OC yesterday, so Greg Belkin,
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  Speaker 2: forget about a day off. We're going to talk to
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  Speaker 2: him about Fleury, who is now the new OC of
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  Speaker 2: the world champion Seattle Seahawks. So we'll do that at
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  Speaker 2: some point later in the show, obviously not at seven,
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  Speaker 2: because we're gonna have Jerry Depoto on in Greg's spot,
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  Speaker 2: but it's kind of funny. No day offered Greg. NBA
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  Speaker 2: All Star weekend wrapped up, and boy, it's really a
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  Speaker 2: hard watch these days. I hear it was a little
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  Speaker 2: more competitive test. Yeah, it's just gross. It was not good.
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  Speaker 2: It's just gross. I mean, it's like anti entertaining. Adam Silver,
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  Speaker 2: also over the weekend, talked about expansion and dragged his
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  Speaker 2: feet again. I think that maybe I'm gonna just get mine,
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  Speaker 2: Ashley Ryan, who's been in the line for a long
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  Speaker 2: time on this topic. I'm not getting excited at all
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  Speaker 2: until we actually know something because this guy, this bald
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  Speaker 2: son of a gun, will not give us answers. He
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  Speaker 2: just keeps dragging it out and dragging it out and
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  Speaker 2: dragging it out, and it's pissiness all off. So we'll
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  Speaker 2: find some time talk about that a little bit later on,
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  Speaker 2: and of course the Olympics are on going as well.
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  Speaker 2: So four hours we're ready to go. Here day number
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  Speaker 2: one here on this Monday, this President's Day, from the
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  Speaker 2: Puria Sports Complex, and we're gonna get our interviews started
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  Speaker 2: with Gabe Spier, who joins US next America's left hander.
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  Speaker 2: On Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM Chucking Buck
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  Speaker 2: in the Morning, Sports Radio ninety three point three kJ
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  Speaker 2: r FM, Spring Training, twenty twenty six. It is here
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  Speaker 2: and joining us at our set is the left hander
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  Speaker 2: coming off an outstanding season for your Seattle Mariners. Gabe
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  Speaker 2: Spire joins us here on Chuck and Buck in the Morning,
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  Speaker 2: our first player to sit in the barber's chair.
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  Speaker 3: Here.
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  Speaker 2: Are you ready for your haircut? You're ready for your
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  Speaker 2: close up here, Gabe, Yeah, let's do it. Happy to
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  Speaker 2: be here. No haircuts, yeah, yeah, yeah, you got good
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  Speaker 2: lettuce going on. Thanks.
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  Speaker 4: I just actually did get a haircut, Oh you did,
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  Speaker 4: yeah yeah.
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  Speaker 2: But kept a little bit of a party there in
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  Speaker 2: the back.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: You know, my wife actually cuts my hair, so oh yeah,
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  Speaker 4: it's actually yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Is she trained at this or YouTube trained?
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  Speaker 3: Yeh.
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  Speaker 4: She's cut my hair for the last three or four years,
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  Speaker 4: so she's she's got it a science to it, you know.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly, be too.
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  Speaker 2: No, that's me, that's that's me. You can see it.
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  Speaker 2: You can see it's right there in front of you.
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  Speaker 2: So you can trim your own beard.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Bucky and I we we don't. We spare no
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  Speaker 2: expense with our hair cuts. Yeah, we only go to
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  Speaker 2: the finest. As you can tell. Very difficult to maintain
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  Speaker 2: these luscious locks on this.
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  Speaker 3: Side of the table. Yeah yeah, yeah, and fallically challenged
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  Speaker 3: have been for over apt my life now. But my
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  Speaker 3: wife doesn't cut my hair, so I don't know if
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  Speaker 3: that's a plus. I would love, actually if I had
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  Speaker 3: hair for my wife to cut. Yeah, maybe she could
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  Speaker 3: do my beard. I don't know if I wanted that
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  Speaker 3: close to my face with scissors.
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  Speaker 2: So how was the off season?
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  Speaker 3: It was good?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I lots of family time and you know, I
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  Speaker 4: was back home in Santa Barbara, California, just with my
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  Speaker 4: two year old and wife, and you know, my parents
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  Speaker 4: are there and my wife's family's there as well, So
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  Speaker 4: lots of family time. We took a trip to Hawaii
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  Speaker 4: and that was nice to kind of just relax on
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  Speaker 4: the beach there and but you know, other than that,
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  Speaker 4: just getting ready for this year and lots of you know,
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  Speaker 4: workouts and throwing and all that.
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  Speaker 2: So happy to be back for sure.
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  Speaker 3: How was How was the off season?
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  Speaker 2: Just?
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  Speaker 3: I mean it was one of the bigger years as
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  Speaker 3: far as usage you got last year's How I mean,
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  Speaker 3: did it feel like, Okay, I'm ready for this thing
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  Speaker 3: for a little bit of rest, and how did your
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  Speaker 3: arm bounce back?
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  Speaker 2: It was good.
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  Speaker 4: You know that first week I really didn't do anything,
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  Speaker 4: no no weight's, no throwing, just to give my body
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  Speaker 4: a little grace, you know. And you know there were
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  Speaker 4: some makes and pains from the season, no doubt. It
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  Speaker 4: was a long year. It was my biggest workload I've
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  Speaker 4: ever had. But you know, just just a week off
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  Speaker 4: that was it. And then you know, started throwing into
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  Speaker 4: the net. I started getting into the weight room and
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  Speaker 4: and yeah, I've been at it ever since. And arms
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  Speaker 4: feeling good, body's feeling good, and know getting ready for
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  Speaker 4: spring training in the WBC too, that's gonna be, you know,
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  Speaker 4: super exciting for me. But like I said, yeah, everything's
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  Speaker 4: feeling good, happy with where I'm at, and happy to
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  Speaker 4: be back to.
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  Speaker 2: You beat me to the punch. I was gonna ask
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  Speaker 2: you that congratulations. What was that call like that from
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  Speaker 2: Mark Deurosa to find out you were Team America?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know it was.
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  Speaker 4: It was crazy, you know, not going to say I
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  Speaker 4: was expecting it obviously. You know, that's such an elite group,
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  Speaker 4: elite team to be a part of. Just just to
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  Speaker 4: be considered to be on that team just such an
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  Speaker 4: honor and I feel blessed to you know that I'm
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  Speaker 4: gonna be able to wear a USA across my chest
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  Speaker 4: and play the game I love and and all that.
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  Speaker 4: But the phone call was good, you know. I I
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  Speaker 4: actually missed his first call. I was working out, so
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  Speaker 4: I after my workout, I went to my phone and
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  Speaker 4: saw that I had a voice mail from It said,
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  Speaker 4: I don't have Mark Deurosa's you know phone, Yeah, phone
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  Speaker 4: number saved in my phone. So it said maybe Mark DeRosa.
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  Speaker 4: And so, you know, I kind of knew what it
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  Speaker 4: what it might be, and I consider, you know, he's
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  Speaker 4: the manager and all that, and you know, listen to
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  Speaker 4: the voicemail and that it was exactly what I expected
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  Speaker 4: him asking me to play. And and for me, you know,
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  Speaker 4: I feeling as good as I did it, and it
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  Speaker 4: was a no brainer for me. I mean, obviously, if
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  Speaker 4: I had not been feeling good, it would have been
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  Speaker 4: a much harder decision. But I'm feeling good, like I said,
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  Speaker 4: so it was an easy decision for me.
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  Speaker 3: Well, if he starts telling you any stories about me,
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  Speaker 3: don't listen.
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  Speaker 2: Teammates, they're old teammates.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, you don't listen to a little bit when it
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  Speaker 3: comes to throwing with the Stars and stripes. I mean
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  Speaker 3: what you talk about it being a dream come true
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  Speaker 3: or is a no brainer if your arm's feeling good.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, just the idea of did you ever kind
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  Speaker 3: of envision that this would be something you'd be able
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  Speaker 3: to do?
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  Speaker 4: You know, no, not necessarily. I'd never really, this was
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  Speaker 4: never in my plans by any means.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 4: I had a conversation with my agent at the end
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  Speaker 4: of the year and he said it might happen. He
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  Speaker 4: was like, hey, man, I'm going through the list of
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  Speaker 4: American Lefty relievers and I think that they might they
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  Speaker 4: might you might be getting a call. So he kind
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  Speaker 4: of brought it to my attention, and and you know,
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  Speaker 4: I was thinking along, like if I do get that call,
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  Speaker 4: like I really want to do this. This is such
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  Speaker 4: a special thing, you know, such a cool event to
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  Speaker 4: represent your country, and I'm just really excited to participate
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  Speaker 4: in it. And I really am hoping to get to
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  Speaker 4: face some of my teammates here, you know, on the
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  Speaker 4: other side, that'd be that'd be cool to face you
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  Speaker 4: know where I know in our pool. Italy's in there,
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  Speaker 4: so Masrabony and can Zone are playing for Italy. It'd
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  Speaker 4: be really cool to kind of square off against those guys,
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  Speaker 4: and you know, obviously others as well. But I'm just
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  Speaker 4: really looking forward to it, and like I said, just
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  Speaker 4: super blessed and honored to be considered even just considered
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  Speaker 4: for this team.
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  Speaker 2: Awesome. Yeah, and you also have teammates that'll be on
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  Speaker 2: your team. I mean, I mean, you're already teammates with
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  Speaker 2: Cal Rawley, but now you're gonna be teammates on Team
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  Speaker 2: USA for goodness sake. I mean have you talked to
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  Speaker 2: him about that?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, of course he was my He was one of
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  Speaker 4: my first phone calls after I got off the phone
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  Speaker 4: with d Roh.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, that's gonna be awesome to have them.
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  Speaker 4: Gonna shake him off a lot on the world as
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  Speaker 4: you guys during season, I rarely shake you know, maybe
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  Speaker 4: only with two strikes when I really want to go
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  Speaker 4: to something. That's kind of the only time I really do.
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  Speaker 4: But it's gonna be nice to have, you know, Mike,
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  Speaker 4: I would selfishly say my catcher. But with col back there,
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  Speaker 4: you know, there's a lot of familiarity there and and
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  Speaker 4: we're comfortable with each other.
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  Speaker 2: We're on the same page.
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  Speaker 4: So it's gonna be nice to have him back there,
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  Speaker 4: and and you know, continue to get to watch him
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  Speaker 4: hit homers as well, and that's always fun sitting on
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  Speaker 4: the bullpen and seeing him smash baseball. So really excited
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  Speaker 4: I get to play with him.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I can understand why it would it
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  Speaker 3: would make sense being able to do that together. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: I'm coming off the heels of last year getting as
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  Speaker 3: far as you guys got. I mean, what's the feel
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  Speaker 3: early in camp here? I mean, is it just kind
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  Speaker 3: of a hunger of oh, we're getting back there and beyond.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, of course. I mean, you know, it's it
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  Speaker 2: was a tough, tough way to you know, being.
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  Speaker 4: That close you could almost taste it, you know, and
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  Speaker 4: then getting getting knocked out like that.
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  Speaker 3: It was tough.
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  Speaker 4: But like you said, everyone's hungry and and I think
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  Speaker 4: you know, last year everyone had, you know, we come
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  Speaker 4: in with more experience. Now everyone in this clubhouse has
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  Speaker 4: now played deep into the postseason. So you know, I
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  Speaker 4: think experience speaks a lot to have been there, and
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  Speaker 4: now we know what it takes to get there, We
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  Speaker 4: know what it's going to feel like when we are there,
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  Speaker 4: and I think that that's gonna be helpful to push
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  Speaker 4: pass and get to the top of the mountain.
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  Speaker 2: Gabe Spire is with us here on chalking back our
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  Speaker 2: coverage of twenty twenty six Mariners is spring training right
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  Speaker 2: here on Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM. We'll
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  Speaker 2: talk us then through an off season. So you know,
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  Speaker 2: you're coming off your best year of your career. I
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  Speaker 2: think that's safe to say. You're nodding right now, so
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  Speaker 2: you agree, I agree with you. You are also you
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  Speaker 2: played longer though into the season and probably pitched more
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  Speaker 2: than you have in any season or at least on par. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: you are adding WBC preparation to your spring training. So
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  Speaker 2: what did you do? I mean, I would think that
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  Speaker 2: I had such a good season, I'm just gonna do
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  Speaker 2: the exact same thing that I did a year ago.
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  Speaker 2: But maybe you can't do that because of the calendar.
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  Speaker 2: So how did you approach the off season? Was it
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  Speaker 2: similar different? What did you change up? If anything? Uh?
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  Speaker 4: You know, nothing, really, I just got ready like I
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  Speaker 4: always do. I mean, I think coming into this past
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  Speaker 4: season at twenty twenty five, I you know, had the
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  Speaker 4: Mariners kind of wrote me on a program to follow,
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  Speaker 4: and they did the same for me this past offseason,
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  Speaker 4: and it was essentially the same.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 4: Obviously, we we played about three weeks longer than we
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  Speaker 4: would than we did in years past. But so everything
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  Speaker 4: was just pushed back about three weeks and and the
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  Speaker 4: WBC hasn't changed meet my preparation in the in the
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  Speaker 4: off season or anything like that. I mean, I'm gonna,
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  Speaker 4: you know, spring training games start here pretty soon, and
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  Speaker 4: the WBC starts, you know, even later than spring training
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  Speaker 4: games do. So it's not like I had to ramp
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  Speaker 4: up any faster or quicker or anything like that. So
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  Speaker 4: my ramp up was the same as it has been
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  Speaker 4: in years past. Obviously, the games in the WBC are
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  Speaker 4: going to be a little bit more intense than a
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  Speaker 4: spring training game would be. But but no, nothing, nothing
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  Speaker 4: really changed.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, I don't know if I've changed anything either.
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  Speaker 3: No, Yeah, you don't need to change. Don't don't fix
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  Speaker 3: any broke. Yeah, who's your tattoo artist? I need some
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  Speaker 3: of that fine line work.
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  Speaker 2: I've got a couple.
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  Speaker 4: So the guy that has done my left arm, he's
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  Speaker 4: in Santa Barbara, back home. They're more kind of like
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  Speaker 4: traditional kind of just you know, big bold tattoos. And
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  Speaker 4: then this on my on my right arm is more
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  Speaker 4: like fine line work. And in this guy's in San Diego,
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  Speaker 4: I'll shout him out. My guy back home, his name
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  Speaker 4: is Ken Knox. And then my guy in San Diego
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  Speaker 4: is Chewy Espinoza. And Chewy, yeah, was in Masters. He
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  Speaker 4: he applied to be on Ink Masters and he actually
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  Speaker 4: he's a tattoo artist and he has no tattoos himself,
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  Speaker 4: and that's the only he told me. That's the only
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  Speaker 4: reason he didn get to go on the show. They
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  Speaker 4: didn't want an artists without any work done on them
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  Speaker 4: on them. Yeah, so yeah, it is unusual, right, But yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I haven't gotten any recently. It's actually been a couple
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  Speaker 4: of years since my last one. But I think, you know,
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  Speaker 4: having a kid has pushed that kind of to the
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  Speaker 4: side for for the time being. But I definitely want
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  Speaker 4: more and I'm gonna stick with my two guys. They
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  Speaker 4: do great work. So I'm looking forward to getting back
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  Speaker 4: on their table and getting more work done.
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  Speaker 2: But what is the motivation when you get one? I mean,
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  Speaker 2: what what what does the story behind them all?
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  Speaker 4: So it started, you know, my first one was for
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  Speaker 4: my grandfather who passed away, and and then my second
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  Speaker 4: one was for my uncle who passed away. So you know,
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  Speaker 4: they started off pretty meaningful, and as as I went,
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  Speaker 4: they got less and less meaningful. You know, like, oh
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  Speaker 4: I like that just cool. You know, as you get more,
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  Speaker 4: you know, it becomes less. You know, it's more just
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  Speaker 4: about getting it and getting what you want and what
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  Speaker 4: you like. And there, in my mind there doesn't need
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  Speaker 4: to be some sentimental value behind it, and just get
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  Speaker 4: what you want.
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  Speaker 2: Well do I mean, we don't need to stretch it
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  Speaker 2: out any further. Go ahead and show us the surprise
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  Speaker 2: that you got buck in my face on your back.
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  Speaker 2: Let's see it. Oh yeah, you don't don't.
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  Speaker 3: Have to.
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  Speaker 2: You don't have to stretch out the suspense any longer.
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  Speaker 2: Let's see it. Yeah maybe next year.
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  Speaker 6: Maybe next year if you jumped up, well, I wouldn't
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  Speaker 6: expect him to do that, but I would expect you
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  Speaker 6: to now get one now that I've planted that seed
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  Speaker 6: in your head.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, you talking about less and less meaningful, get
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  Speaker 3: less meaningful than that.
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  Speaker 4: My artists are pretty pretty handy. They might make be
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  Speaker 4: able to make it pretty cool. Yeah, you can find
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  Speaker 4: photos of us on the internet.
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  Speaker 2: It's fine whatever you need, or we can be there
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  Speaker 2: in person and model for you if you would like.
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  Speaker 2: Game Spire is with us right here on Chuck and
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  Speaker 2: Bucky in the mornings as we get you set for
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  Speaker 2: Mariner spring training here. So all right, you're the first
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  Speaker 2: player that we've actually talked to. I mean, we just
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  Speaker 2: kind of arrived here. So be our eyes and ears.
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  Speaker 2: Who's the guy that changed the most in the offseason.
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  Speaker 2: Who's the guy that you know looks like he you know,
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  Speaker 2: worked out this off season. Everyone looks good, you know.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I'm trying to think, you know, nothing's like
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  Speaker 4: jumping to the top of my mind. But I know
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  Speaker 4: Munos's first bullpen he was throwing ninety nine. I don't
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  Speaker 4: understand that guy. He's uh, that's just crazy to me.
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  Speaker 4: I for me, bullpens are so different than game speed.
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  Speaker 4: It's it's amazing to me that he's able to throw
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  Speaker 4: that hard in a bullpen. For me, I'm always like
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  Speaker 4: three four miles an hour slower than I am in
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  Speaker 4: game because I need adrenaline. I need a hitter standing
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  Speaker 4: in the box and yeah, a jersey on and fans
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  Speaker 4: in the stands to get to my you know peak,
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  Speaker 4: but that jumps to the top of my head, I guess.
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  Speaker 4: But yeah, everyone's looking good. Everyone is on the same
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  Speaker 4: page here, I think, you know, like we talked about earlier,
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  Speaker 4: just going as deep as we did last year. Everyone's
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  Speaker 4: hungry and ready to get after it and ready for
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  Speaker 4: the season to start. I know, spring just started, so
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  Speaker 4: we got a little bit of time and to get right,
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  Speaker 4: get to get you know, hitters get swing dialed in,
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  Speaker 4: pitchers get other things dialed in. So we got time.
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  Speaker 4: But everyone's ready and you can feel it and we're
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  Speaker 4: all excited.
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  Speaker 3: How often did you guys keep in touch? I mean,
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  Speaker 3: it seems like this team is pretty tight, Like everybody
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  Speaker 3: kind of gets along and everybody's rolling in the same direction.
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  Speaker 3: I remember when I played. I mean, you're tight with
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  Speaker 3: your boys. You spend more time with them than you
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  Speaker 3: do with your family during the season. And yet this
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  Speaker 3: off season comes and everybody kind of gets a break,
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  Speaker 3: everybody goes their separate direction. Did you guys still keep
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  Speaker 3: in touch and were you keep in touch with guys
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  Speaker 3: with what you were working on in the off season.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, we always have. We have a text
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  Speaker 4: thread going and guys jump on there. I mean, it's
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  Speaker 4: like pretty constant through the off season, the group text
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  Speaker 4: through with the team, but then individually, you know, you know,
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  Speaker 4: I talked to Cal and Brash and and a few
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  Speaker 4: others here and there. You know it, like you said,
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  Speaker 4: it's the off season, it's kind of everyone's time to
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  Speaker 4: wind down. But yeah, absolutely that that definitely takes place,
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  Speaker 4: you know, i'd say, mostly on the group text, and
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  Speaker 4: then you know, you also have coaches reaching out asking
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  Speaker 4: how things are going, and trainers asking if you have
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  Speaker 4: any issues with anything and all that. So, like you said,
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  Speaker 4: it is a very tight knit group and and that
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  Speaker 4: that sometimes I'll be away from my phone for a
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  Speaker 4: while and come back and see two hundred unread messages
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  Speaker 4: and I'm like, how the heck, And it's because of
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  Speaker 4: that group text is just it's always going. So so yeah,
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  Speaker 4: it just shows how I guess tight everyone is.
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: Who needs who needs your wife to give him a haircut?
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: Who's got bad hair starting spring training?
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  Speaker 4: Gosh, I don't want to throw anyone at you know,
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  Speaker 4: I'll throw someone all right, Bryce Miller. Bryce Miller needs
• 31:49
  Speaker 4: to shave it off. You know, I'm kidding. I'm kidding,
• 31:55
  Speaker 4: he's got good hair. I've just given him a hard time. Yeah, No,
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  Speaker 4: I mean who's there? Yeah, nobody.
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  Speaker 3: I can think of nobody.
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  Speaker 2: I can think of that, all right.
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  Speaker 3: Man.
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  Speaker 2: Well, hey, thank you very much for joining us. We
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  Speaker 2: appreciate it. Looking forward to this season obviously, and can't
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  Speaker 2: wait to see you pitch in the WBC as well.
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  Speaker 2: It's gonna be an exciting spring for you, no doubt. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: thank you. I appreciate you guys for having me. All Right,
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  Speaker 2: Gabe Spier, It's Chucking Buck Sports Radio ninety three point
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  Speaker 2: three KJRFM. Good morning everyone, live from Purity, Arizona. Chuck Powell,
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  Speaker 2: former marinder Bucky Jacobson with you. Chuck and Buck live
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  Speaker 2: on the road here for Mariners spring training. It's our
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  Speaker 2: first day of broadcasting down here, but we're still in
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  Speaker 2: our first hour. But that doesn't mean that coach Bucky
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  Speaker 2: did not make the trip. Thank you for enduring the travel.
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  Speaker 2: But I know you, who have coached every sport at
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  Speaker 2: every level, would not miss a spring training.
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  Speaker 3: No, no, I've actually even trained. I actually rode my
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  Speaker 3: ten speed down here from Seattle just to get a
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  Speaker 3: little extra work in. This showed up in the best
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  Speaker 3: shape of my life. And it's pretty It's pretty clear
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  Speaker 3: by the short bike shorts and the tube sox mcalvs
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  Speaker 3: are popping. I'm ready to get rocking.
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  Speaker 2: Remember when you coach the Tour de France to the
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  Speaker 2: America to the title.
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  Speaker 3: I was started the blood doping. Yeah? Is that scientist
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  Speaker 3: you started that? Yeah, yep, you're welcome. I mean you
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  Speaker 3: Lance Armstrong wasn't gonna win all those without me.
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  Speaker 2: Uh So that's Coach Bucky for you. If you ain't
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  Speaker 2: if you ain't cheat, you ain't trying.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. I build champions people, That's what I do.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, don't ask me what's in the sauce. No, just enjoyed.
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  Speaker 2: It's delicious the sauce.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly right.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Well, I got to ask you, Coach Bucky.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, how much do we read into this? I mean,
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  Speaker 2: the story around camp so far has been Kate Anderson
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  Speaker 2: and Ryan Sloan and their sessions. I mean they faced
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  Speaker 2: major league hitters and sort of mowed them down. Now,
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  Speaker 2: this is the first time you're seeing live pitching this year,
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  Speaker 2: So how much should we read into Ryan Sloan throwing
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  Speaker 2: ninety seven to ninety nine and making Randy a Rose
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  Speaker 2: Arena look so foolish that he launches his bat out
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  Speaker 2: into left field, an all star outfielder and Randy a
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  Speaker 2: Rose Arena. Reading too much into.
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  Speaker 3: It, I wouldn't. I wouldn't discount, you know, popping ninety
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  Speaker 3: nine your first time out in spring to live hitters.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, the stuff. You don't discount. That stuff is amazing,
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  Speaker 3: how it looks or how the hitters look off of it.
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  Speaker 3: I wouldn't give that a whole heck of a lot
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  Speaker 3: of credence because it is the first time that these
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  Speaker 3: guys are seeing live pitches. I've told you before that,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I remember when I was coaching guys back
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  Speaker 3: in the day. They'd talk about it was like trying
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  Speaker 3: to hit aspirin, you know, thrown at you when you
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  Speaker 3: first come back. It just everything takes a second to
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  Speaker 3: get back into the speed of the game, regardless of
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  Speaker 3: how much you've worked in the offseason. So I mean,
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  Speaker 3: I think there's there's credence to why they're the Taka
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  Speaker 3: camp because their stuff is good and they can pitch,
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  Speaker 3: and they're excited about where they're going to be at
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  Speaker 3: some point in time. But I w put too much
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  Speaker 3: against you know, Wow, you struck out down can zone. Wow,
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  Speaker 3: you made Randy Rose rein it look silly, Like, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: a lot of guys have make them look silly. At
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  Speaker 3: this point during spring training.
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  Speaker 2: Kate Anderson apparently came off and he was upset and
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  Speaker 2: they're like, you just struck out three out of four
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  Speaker 2: major league hitters in your first session of the year.
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  Speaker 2: And he's like, yeah, but I fell behind that one batter, Cal. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: behind Cal.
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  Speaker 5: And you told me to dominate the zone and I
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  Speaker 5: didn't do that. Yeah, oh my, got to get better
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  Speaker 5: at that. Divish said the first two pitches were close
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  Speaker 5: to Cal as well, so he was trying to paint
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  Speaker 5: be a little bit careful. Yeah, the guy he's facing
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  Speaker 5: actually hit sixty homers last year, but fell behind.
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  Speaker 3: Sorry, sorry, sorry about that. I gotta pound the zone.
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  Speaker 3: I gotta dominate the zone. Gotta get better, Coach Bucky.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody seems to be spreading the word that, speaking of
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  Speaker 2: Cal Rawleigh, that we need to, you know, lower our expectations,
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  Speaker 2: that hey, if he hits thirty five this year, forty,
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  Speaker 2: that's you know, obviously that's a really good year. That's
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  Speaker 2: a great year for a catcher. That we should not
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  Speaker 2: expect sixty again, So how do you what do you
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  Speaker 2: expect then seventy eighty five? I mean, maybe we shouldn't
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  Speaker 2: limit this guy. Maybe he's figured some things out. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know, you tell me, Coach Bucket.
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  Speaker 3: I hate to put limits on a guy like the dumper.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I don't really want to do that. But
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  Speaker 3: then again, there's only so many games. You're only going
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  Speaker 3: to play in so many games. I think Cal was
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  Speaker 3: tired at the end of last season, and so I
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  Speaker 3: think that if there's ever a time that you could
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  Speaker 3: possibly convince Cal Rawley, hey, a couple extra days off
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  Speaker 3: might be hoove. You might make it easier for you
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  Speaker 3: in the World Series, because that's where we're planning on going.
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  Speaker 3: Then possibly he gets to that he gets a little
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  Speaker 3: bit more rest. That said, whether he even if he
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  Speaker 3: plays the same amount of games. If sixty home runs,
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  Speaker 3: it's only been happened a handful of times. Yeah, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: you're just not certainly every boy A. Yeah, it's just
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  Speaker 3: not something so I'm not expecting that now. I wouldn't
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  Speaker 3: put it out of the realm of possibilities. I think
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  Speaker 3: that there still is room for improvement on putting the
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  Speaker 3: ball in play. He can do that better. I don't
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  Speaker 3: think that he would tell you, no, I put the
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  Speaker 3: ball in play exactly the amount that I could tip
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  Speaker 3: top couldn't hit. Put more balls in play, I couldn't
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  Speaker 3: strike out less. I don't think he would say that.
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  Speaker 3: I think that he would say no, I could put
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  Speaker 3: the ball in play. And if he was to cut
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  Speaker 3: down on the punch outs just a little bit, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I think a couple more could jump out of the yard.
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  Speaker 3: But I still am not going to predict sixty. I
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  Speaker 3: mean I wouldn't be I would hope that I would
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  Speaker 3: be happy if it was forty plus. And if he
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  Speaker 3: gets to forty plus, you know, fifties obviously still within
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  Speaker 3: I think fifty would be something that if I was him,
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  Speaker 3: I'd probably set my goal with fifty.
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: Coach Bucky with us here, you're getting buck rolled here
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  Speaker 2: live from spring training. Let me ask you a question
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  Speaker 2: outside of baseball. As the Olympics, apparently Canadian Tom Wilson
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  Speaker 2: decided to throw down last night, drop the gloves on
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  Speaker 2: Olympic ice, sacred ice, to fight somebody who went after
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  Speaker 2: Nathan McKinnon on the other team. I mean, of course,
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  Speaker 2: you were an assistant under Herb Brooks for the miracle
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  Speaker 2: on ice. So you've won a gold medal as an
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  Speaker 2: as a hockey coach at the Olympics. Uh and an
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  Speaker 2: impressive fashion. Nice job. Thanks for your contribution to America.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: So what do you think you are? Right with Tom Wilson,
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  Speaker 2: you know, disgracing sacred eyes, thrown down the gloves.
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  Speaker 3: At the Olympics. I don't know what you speak of.
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  Speaker 3: Fact the assistant that you speak of. When I was
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  Speaker 3: the assistant coach, actually we took two days off of
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  Speaker 3: skating altogether and just were fighting.
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  Speaker 2: We practiced.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we put all of us. I had all of
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  Speaker 3: the hockey players put on a Paulo creed red, white
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  Speaker 3: and blue. Uh you know, the shorts sorts. Oh yeah,
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  Speaker 3: and we played the rocky music and we just practiced
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  Speaker 3: dropping gloves and fighting. If there's ever a time to
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  Speaker 3: fight it if you fight for your country.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, Oh so you like it.
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  Speaker 3: It's Oh, it's hockey, It's Olympic hockey. No, No, we
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  Speaker 3: don't do that. No, it's it's the exact opposite. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: you come after one of my dudes, I'm punching you
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  Speaker 3: in the face because not only is he my teammate,
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  Speaker 3: he's my countryman.
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  Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure Coach Bucky's old school.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you don't wear these bike shorts would be new school.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Well, thank you coach for making the trip down here.
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  Speaker 2: Great to see you. Make sure you put on your sunscreen.
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  Speaker 2: I'd go like an SPF three thousand with that skin
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  Speaker 2: of yours.
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  Speaker 3: Until I get some son on these upper thighs.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Coming up next, Jerry Depoto joins us live
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  Speaker 2: from our set here at Mariners Spring Training. Sports Radio
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