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Chuck & Buck 10-2 Hour 1: We kicked off Cal-O-Ween last night... officially! ABCs of the Mariners and is something fishy in Baltimore? · Chuck in the Morning

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Speaker 1: Good morning folks, Good morning everyone, Good morning, it's some time.
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Speaker 2: Good morning class.
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Speaker 3: Pleasing gentlemen, ladies and gentlemen.
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Speaker 4: Beholding six one guard from Brighton, Illinois and former high
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Speaker 4: school basketball stand What in the hell does that mean?
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Speaker 1: Don't jumped any conclusions. No, not a god, You've got
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Speaker 1: to lower lower your expectations.
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Speaker 5: Hard to believe he could once send a fastball to
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Speaker 5: Pluto in back.
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Speaker 6: I'm getting some Bucky jacobs and vibes and former I'll just.
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Speaker 2: Openly admit I'm a fat, out of shape X athlete.
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Speaker 1: Now there's been a noticeable spike in your blood pressure.
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Speaker 1: Hey, good morning and welcome into this Thursday edition of
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Speaker 1: Chuck Them Back in the Morning. Sports Radio ninety three
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Speaker 1: point three kJ A r FM is we get you
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Speaker 1: started for four hours here today of sports talk radio Glory.
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Speaker 1: Ashley Ryan is here. Former Mariner Bucky Jacob said, my
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Speaker 1: name is Chuck Pole. Think I really did damage my voice.
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Speaker 1: I don't know how Axel Rose did it.
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Speaker 2: Let you go.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I just was yelling at a terrible driver this
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Speaker 1: morning and just did it right before I got here
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Speaker 1: and through my window. They didn't even hear me. I
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Speaker 1: didn't even get the satisfaction of them knowing how terrible
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Speaker 1: a driver they are. And yet I think I have
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Speaker 1: damaged you know, my money maker.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you didn't warm up. You weren't warming up on
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Speaker 2: the way here and stretched.
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Speaker 1: I wouldn't do my you know my there.
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Speaker 2: You didn't do that.
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Speaker 1: I didn't do any of that.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, he just went straight to Berserko zero to sixty.
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Speaker 7: If they would have heard you, they still probably wouldn't
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Speaker 7: have known they were a bad driver. They would have
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Speaker 7: been like, that guy's having a bad morning.
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Speaker 1: Boy, that guy's got a really loud voice at five
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Speaker 1: in the morning.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, what's he yelling? I'm going to keep driving because
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Speaker 3: I'm amazing.
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Speaker 1: I kind of want to tell you about it, but
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Speaker 1: I won't spend the time. I won't spend the time. Yeah, man,
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Speaker 1: maybe a little later, maybe I'll be recovered by then,
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Speaker 1: and maybe my voice will be completely gone, but welcome in.
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Speaker 1: We got to save this thing because I don't know,
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Speaker 1: maybe we'll have some yelling to do this weekend.
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Speaker 2: You know, our voice has.
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Speaker 7: Got to be yelling in a good way, hollering, not
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Speaker 7: yelling angrily.
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Speaker 1: No no, no, yelling celebratorily. If that's why I can't
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Speaker 1: wait for that, So welcome into the show here today.
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Speaker 1: We got a lot to discuss, but it's not just
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Speaker 1: Major League Baseball playoff time, and eventually we'll get around
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Speaker 1: to playing on our time, on our schedule whenever we
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Speaker 1: feel like, yeah, joining the playoffs. The Mariners will just
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Speaker 1: slide right into a real comfortable we're hosting. We've rested
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Speaker 1: for a week situation, and we really don't care who
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Speaker 1: we play kind of Saturday for us, But that's not
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Speaker 1: the case for eight teams in Major League Baseball who
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Speaker 1: are going to be slugging it out and we're gonna
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Speaker 1: have three, three deciding games today. This doesn't happen for
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Speaker 1: baseball a lot. They have great ideas about having that
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Speaker 1: third game out of three and back to back to
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Speaker 1: back days all meaning something, and it just kind of
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Speaker 1: feels like most of them are settled by now. But
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Speaker 1: that's not the case. Only one team advanced last night
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Speaker 1: in a sweep, and that was the Los Angelestadgiers. We're
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Speaker 1: gonna have three deciding games today starting at noon in
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Speaker 1: Major League Baseball, which is absolutely thrilling. And then it
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Speaker 1: coincides with the Calloween, which on October first, yesterday. It
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Speaker 1: officially launched. Yesterday Ashley got it started. The new holiday
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Speaker 1: is here.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, Calloween.
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Speaker 2: You even carved a dumpkin, right.
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Speaker 3: I did. It's a peach with a mustache.
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Speaker 2: Is that what it is? It?
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Speaker 1: Sure?
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Speaker 3: First tip I could tell, think.
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Speaker 2: I could tell.
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Speaker 1: I could see the crack that's.
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Speaker 2: The thing coming up from the bottom of the black
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Speaker 2: And then I.
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Speaker 3: Had to make the mustache.
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Speaker 1: I had to make.
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Speaker 7: I had palmer color the mustache because I was like,
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Speaker 7: we need to have that dark otherwise people are going
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Speaker 7: to just think this butt has a weird thing in it.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, well it does even with the musk.
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Speaker 3: That's still fine.
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Speaker 1: At least it differentiates a really weird place to have
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Speaker 1: a mustache. Yeah it is. It'd probably been. It's probably
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Speaker 1: weirder now. People are probably walking by, like, why does
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Speaker 1: that butt have a mustache?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's got a leaf at the top.
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Speaker 2: The leaf.
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Speaker 3: What's the leaf the peach leaf?
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Speaker 7: You know. Oh, we took the logo from the cow
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Speaker 7: peach t shirts and use.
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Speaker 3: That peach okay, and then added a mustache.
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Speaker 1: Okay, peach bottom. I'm not sure it's a peach. I
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Speaker 1: think it's more of a.
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Speaker 3: I'm just saying.
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Speaker 2: That's the double watermelon.
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Speaker 3: That's what they've used.
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Speaker 2: Smuggled double watermelon, that's.
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Speaker 7: What they've used. So we used that well for dumpkin
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Speaker 7: number one. Maybe we'll use a different fruit for the
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Speaker 7: second one.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Yes.
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Speaker 1: When we were over at Ashley House, bucket was too
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Speaker 1: good to go. We were over at Ashley Sause and
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Speaker 1: I ended up right before I was leaving, I'm like, hey,
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Speaker 1: could I just use your restroom one last time because
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Speaker 1: I pee like that? And so went in there and
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Speaker 1: I looked over and there said there was the extra
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Speaker 1: you know, the extra toilet paper roll in case you
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Speaker 1: needed toilet paper, the on deck circle for toilet paper rolls,
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Speaker 1: and it just handwritten happy Calloween on the toilet paper
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Speaker 1: roll and ghost at the end. And I got a
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Speaker 1: really good kick out of that, did you.
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Speaker 2: Yeah? Yep.
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Speaker 1: Oh, anyway, we've been laughing about that since And why
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Speaker 1: wouldn't it be Calloween? And now that we're starting the
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Speaker 1: Major League Baseball playoffs, we should start, uh, you know,
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Speaker 1: launching a few different tricks to Calloween, including not just
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Speaker 1: carving pumpkins, but carving dumpkins. And so Ashley made her
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Speaker 1: first ever dumpkin last night.
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Speaker 2: I did.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I like it, you challenged me. I accepted.
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Speaker 7: I came with a design again, not it's not the
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Speaker 7: perfect dumpkin, but that's part of what a dump What
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Speaker 7: makes a dumpkin?
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Speaker 3: Are they ever perfect?
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Speaker 1: Palmer looked very proud. She was in the photo that
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Speaker 1: you took.
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Speaker 2: She looked very.
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Speaker 3: Happy, very happy. She drew the peach and then I
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Speaker 3: had to copy.
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Speaker 6: Oh oh, look at that. Good for her and good
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Speaker 6: for Calvin. Cal heard that you were celebrating and decided
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Speaker 6: to hit a homer in the scrimmage for you, well,
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Speaker 6: you know you celebrating Calloween.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, as he should be. Yeah, everyone should.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: He went through the whole process too, grabbed the try dent,
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Speaker 1: all the flashes going off from the stadium and everything else.
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Speaker 6: Did he on his way to second base? Still did
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Speaker 6: the you know what's up? Like the no one out there?
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Speaker 1: Really nobody?
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Speaker 2: Yeah?
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Speaker 3: I love it?
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Speaker 2: Hey act like it's a real game, I don't know.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and there were there weren't a lot of fans
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Speaker 1: that showed up for it, but there were a few
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Speaker 1: that were there. And frankly, that's for a lot of people.
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Speaker 1: I mean, it was like ten dollars a pop. And
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Speaker 1: they're doing it again today at five. People want to
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Speaker 1: take advantage of it. I was thinking, like, that's probably
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Speaker 1: the closest a lot of you there are ever going
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Speaker 1: to get to see these players in a game, play
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Speaker 1: a game, scrimmage or not. So I think people that
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Speaker 1: took the time to do it, I think had a
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Speaker 1: good time yesterday with it. They split the teams up
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Speaker 1: in two each yuro played for goodness sake, I know.
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Speaker 1: It's a blast and and of course nobody got injured.
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Speaker 1: So that's that's the big thing. And I'm a worryward.
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Speaker 1: So the same today and two other teams in baseball,
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Speaker 1: as Bucky told me yesterday, they're doing the same thing.
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Speaker 1: But but yeah, it sounded like it was a successful
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Speaker 1: little venture out there.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 6: I mean, I guess there was competition with Mariners had
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Speaker 6: five thousand people that they were letting in or whatever,
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Speaker 6: and Philly was like way two. You see we have
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Speaker 6: a twenty five thousand, shut up whatever. I like the
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Speaker 6: fact that they got to get out there. I think
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Speaker 6: it was mostly bullpen. They're trying to get guys. Yeah,
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Speaker 6: I think it was all bullpen. Yeah yeah, I mean Emerson,
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Speaker 6: he's bullpen now he was throwing. I guess I think
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Speaker 6: it's get those guys, you know. I think Munos was
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Speaker 6: one of the guys because you don't know for sure
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Speaker 6: when they're going to throw again. It's not like you
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Speaker 6: can schedule them like your schedule starters. So getting them
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Speaker 6: getting keeping their arms loose and something that's somewhat live,
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Speaker 6: you know, somewhat game like, and then when you're doing that,
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Speaker 6: you might as well have guys in there trying to
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Speaker 6: hack it those things and trying to hit off of
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Speaker 6: I thought it was I think it's a great idea.
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Speaker 6: I mean, I don't know, there is no recipe, there's
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Speaker 6: no manual. Hey, if you get a first round by
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Speaker 6: do this, and that's for sure the best way that
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Speaker 6: you come out, you know, kind of clicking on all cylinders.
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Speaker 6: It's you're gonna play against a playoff team, you know,
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Speaker 6: come Saturday that just came off winning a three game series.
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Speaker 6: It came down to the third game that we're gonna
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Speaker 6: get to watch today. They're gonna be hyped up, They're
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Speaker 6: gonna be feeling themselves. You gotta be able to, you know,
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Speaker 6: I guess basically drink in what you feel from the
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Speaker 6: crowd and the city and then just go out there
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Speaker 6: and perform the way that you have the better part
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Speaker 6: of the last month.
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Speaker 1: For sure. Well, I don't think there's any risk of
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Speaker 1: them coming out emotionally flat. I think they're gonna be
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Speaker 1: completely charged. But I don't know if there's any way
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Speaker 1: to just step right back out onto the field and
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Speaker 1: play as well as you were playing like seventeen out
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Speaker 1: of eighteen games where everything was coming together. I mean,
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Speaker 1: maybe they played better, but that's a long gap. I
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Speaker 1: mean the three games over the weekend where you really
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Speaker 1: weren't playing for anything, I think that already kind of
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Speaker 1: threw you off of the momentum. And I'm not a
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Speaker 1: big believer in baseball momentum. I mean, we've watched it
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Speaker 1: here plenty of times, oh my gosh, this team can't lose,
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Speaker 1: and then oh my gosh, this team can't win for
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Speaker 1: a week and a half. So I'm not a huge
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Speaker 1: believer in baseball momentum. But I mean, there's no way
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Speaker 1: that we can just expect this team to go out
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Speaker 1: on Saturday and be playing as well as they were
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Speaker 1: for the eighteen games that pretty much allowed them to
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Speaker 1: run away with the West Division. And so it's a
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Speaker 1: different kind of fear of how will they come out flat?
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Speaker 1: I mean, what will have lost been lost in the transition?
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Speaker 1: You know, this is a week you've gone without really
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Speaker 1: trying to win a game, and now the games are
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Speaker 1: more important than ever. So I mean there's momentum lost.
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Speaker 1: I don't think there's any, but there wasn't any way
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Speaker 1: around it. How do you prepare for that? As Bucky said,
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Speaker 1: there's no recipe, there's no surefire recipe. Maybe the week
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Speaker 1: off Ashley they used it and maybe they come out
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Speaker 1: playing better than they were. I mean that's a possibility too.
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Speaker 1: It's just I don't know how you just kind of
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Speaker 1: re enter the atmosphere and play, you know, nine hundred
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Speaker 1: baseball like you were to clinch the division.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, and I don't I don't expect that we're gonna
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Speaker 7: see that when they come out, But I do think
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Speaker 7: that their emotions and their excitement and their.
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Speaker 3: Also their focus. I think that they're veterans.
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Speaker 7: I mean, you've got cal who knows what it's like
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Speaker 7: to be in the playoffs and be in a playoff atmosphere.
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Speaker 7: You've got Josh Naylor, who knows what it's like to
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Speaker 7: be in the playoffs and be in a playoff atmosphere.
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Speaker 3: You've got Randya Rose Arena. Most of them do, Yeah,
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Speaker 3: most of them do.
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Speaker 1: I mean people act like the Mariners have never been
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Speaker 1: here before, but most of our guys have been in
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Speaker 1: the playoffs and have won a series.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, exactly, And then they haven't been there for now.
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Speaker 7: I mean the guys that were there on that team
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Speaker 7: in twenty twenty three, was it twenty two?
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Speaker 3: I can't remember. It feels like forever ago, Yeah, twenty two.
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Speaker 3: Most of those guys were then mad that they weren't there.
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Speaker 7: I mean, they better be bad, right that they weren't
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Speaker 7: there for the next two years. So now it's like, Okay,
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Speaker 7: we had that feeling, man, do we miss that feeling?
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Speaker 7: And so they're chomping to be able to be back
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Speaker 7: on that field, I think, And so I don't.
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Speaker 2: I don't.
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Speaker 7: I do think there will be some level of flat
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Speaker 7: but I think that it'll get worked out throughout the game.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, well, I mean you just said it like they're
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Speaker 6: gonna be chomping right, because you're right, there's no chance
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Speaker 6: that emotion. They're gonna be like, eah, we'll just overlook
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Speaker 6: this one. We're we got bigger goals, right. Oh, Like
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Speaker 6: like they maybe went through that Dodger series was they
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Speaker 6: were resting guys that needed rest for sure, and they
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Speaker 6: knew that it was a long shot for them to
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Speaker 6: do anything besides find the number themselves in the number
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Speaker 6: two spot.
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Speaker 2: This is different.
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Speaker 6: So I think there's zero chance, Like you guys are
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Speaker 6: saying that they're gonna come out flat like that they
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Speaker 6: are gonna be chomping at the bit. And so basically
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Speaker 6: it's kind of like your caged animal or you know,
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Speaker 6: I mean, you're you're you're somebody's holding you back, pulling
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Speaker 6: at the reins. If Ranio Rosarina hits one in the
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Speaker 6: upper tank the first aba the game, look out, there's
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Speaker 6: no because that's the whole get. You got to get
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Speaker 6: the thing roll in a little bit before you can
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Speaker 6: actually build on any sort of momentum. And so if
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Speaker 6: you end up, you know, getting a kind of shoved
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Speaker 6: on you for the first inning or second and third
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Speaker 6: in and we're looking at the pitcher's dual zero zero through
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Speaker 6: five innings, then it's gonna look like it was.
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Speaker 2: Well, are they rusty or boy, they don't.
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Speaker 6: They don't have that same thing that we were watching
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Speaker 6: for the better part of that winning seventeen out eighteen
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Speaker 6: little stretch they had there that had them run away
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Speaker 6: with the West. But to me, I don't feel like
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Speaker 6: that's something that necessarily means it was rusty. It's like
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Speaker 6: you just got to kind of get off the schneid.
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Speaker 6: You got to you got to get the ball roll
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Speaker 6: in a little bit, and then and then the whole
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Speaker 6: the hitting is contagious and all that stuff that that
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Speaker 6: is the real thing, and yet you have to pretty
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Speaker 6: much institute that every single game. It's just it's more
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Speaker 6: important that you get it going earlier in this game
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Speaker 6: because the game is more important, and so you don't
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Speaker 6: want to have to be stuck in the starting blocks
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Speaker 6: for a long time. You hope that somebody early rakes
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Speaker 6: the ball in the gap, or a couple of guys
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Speaker 6: put a couple of good swings on balls, and next
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Speaker 6: thing you know, you're off and you get that zero
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Speaker 6: off the score board, because that's when you can all
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Speaker 6: of a sudden start to kind of building that momentum
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Speaker 6: you're talking about.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and all the pitchers are rested, which I think
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Speaker 1: it's going to be, especially the starter is going to
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Speaker 1: be a tremendous advance, well, both the starters and relievers. Meanwhile,
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Speaker 1: Cleveland is going to be pushed. Detroit's going to be
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Speaker 1: pushed here today to this is this is the beauty
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Speaker 1: of one of those you know, when it all costs
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Speaker 1: kind of games, no tomorrow kind of games. I mean,
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Speaker 1: they're not going to think about what they need to
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Speaker 1: save for Saturday to start a five game series with
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Speaker 1: the Mariners. The Tigers and the Guardians are going out
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Speaker 1: there and they're doing whatever it takes to win today.
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Speaker 1: And if that's you know, and if that's hey, Gavin
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Speaker 1: Williams felt really strong this morning, and I know he's
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Speaker 1: only on one day rest, but he's ready to go.
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Speaker 1: Randy Johnson on your ass, then they'll pitch Gavin Williams right,
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Speaker 1: if that's what takes to win the game. So they're
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Speaker 1: going to go all out today. And I really have
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Speaker 1: arrived at this point where I don't. I don't really
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Speaker 1: have a preference. I don't care who it is. I
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Speaker 1: think that the two teams are different. They bring different
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Speaker 1: challenges to the plate on Saturday. But nothing about either team,
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Speaker 1: with the exception of maybe Trek Scubele, who might start
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Speaker 1: two out of five games against you, is anything that's
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Speaker 1: is caused for concern. I think you can pitch around
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Speaker 1: Jose Ramirez, and even with him, that's the twenty eighth
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Speaker 1: ranked offense in baseball. They're going to try to They're
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Speaker 1: going to try to just small ball you to death,
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Speaker 1: which can come in handy, but you better be pitching well, Cleveland.
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Speaker 1: You better be able to handle our offense from top
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Speaker 1: to bottom in order to win a series that way.
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Speaker 1: So I mean, maybe the Schooble effect is the difference
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Speaker 1: that I'd rather face Cleveland, But I think we just
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Speaker 1: match up really well in a postseason series against either
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Speaker 1: of these teams, and they'll both be coming off a
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Speaker 1: three game, you know, battle where they're not thinking about
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Speaker 1: what we can save for the Mariners this week.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 6: No, I mean I can't wait to hope you get
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Speaker 6: to watch like an eighteen in and ainting marathon between
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Speaker 6: them and that I mean, the idea of it's kind
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Speaker 6: of a freeing thing. You know, we talked about it.
16:08
Speaker 6: It's a great sports talk radio topic of who would
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Speaker 6: you rather face, and you know, who do you want
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Speaker 6: to come to town? And there's arguments on both sides,
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Speaker 6: right and understandably so, but it's it's just the former
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Speaker 6: player in me, like I want, I just can't root
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Speaker 6: for something, and because sometimes then you get what you
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Speaker 6: want and it doesn't work out the way you want
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Speaker 6: and it feels worse because of it. It's just the
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Speaker 6: idea of whoever it is, bring it, let's go, let's
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Speaker 6: do this. You guys figure that out down there, Hey
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Speaker 6: Cleveland in Detroit, figure it out, and then fly on
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Speaker 6: over here and let's do this thing. It's it's just
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Speaker 6: kind of that. It's I don't want to say it's arrogant,
16:44
Speaker 6: but to some degree, there's a part of it that
16:46
Speaker 6: is kind of you know, I think Connor McGregor that
16:49
Speaker 6: little walk thing that he would do when he'd knock
16:51
Speaker 6: somebody out in the UFC, like come on, let's go.
16:54
Speaker 6: Just if they all walked out there like that. I
16:55
Speaker 6: don't want him to do that, but it's just that's
16:57
Speaker 6: the type of confidence they should have on all comers,
17:00
Speaker 6: because you're not thinking about, well, this is the one
17:03
Speaker 6: thing we have to do.
17:04
Speaker 2: It's this is the first thing we have to do.
17:06
Speaker 2: Let's take care of business.
17:07
Speaker 6: Whoever it is it shows up, and then we got
17:09
Speaker 6: another step after that and another step after that.
17:11
Speaker 1: All right, Well, let's find out what's on tap for
17:13
Speaker 1: today's radio program.
17:17
Speaker 2: What's on TEP? What's ontep? All right?
17:20
Speaker 1: So the Guardians, who beat to the Tigers six to
17:22
Speaker 1: one yesterday, force the third and decisive game in that
17:26
Speaker 1: wild card round, and they will start it at noon.
17:28
Speaker 1: Because there are only three games today, they can push
17:31
Speaker 1: it back a little bit, so they won't start until noon.
17:33
Speaker 1: They've been starting at ten. So at three pm today
17:36
Speaker 1: we should know our opponent in the divisional rounds. So
17:40
Speaker 1: in the meantime, come on down to Cleveland Town. Everyone
17:43
Speaker 1: take a look at both of our buildings. Our economy
17:47
Speaker 1: is based on Lebron James, but at least we're not Detroit.
17:52
Speaker 1: That's the Tranck.
17:53
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the truth.
17:54
Speaker 1: The San Diego Padres even things up with the Cubs
17:57
Speaker 1: yesterday with a three to nothing win. They're going to
18:00
Speaker 1: try to win with bullpen in the playoffs and all
18:03
Speaker 1: the way to the World Series. They got a chance
18:05
Speaker 1: to do it. Two PM is your start time there,
18:08
Speaker 1: and the Red Sox and Yankees thank you, I mean
18:10
Speaker 1: as much as we do. I mean most people hate
18:13
Speaker 1: both the Yankees and the Red Sox, it still is
18:16
Speaker 1: the best rivalry in the sport. And when they can
18:19
Speaker 1: meet in the divisional round of a playoff and go
18:22
Speaker 1: to a third and decisive game, there's not much better
18:26
Speaker 1: tension in the entire sport. It's awesome. I mean, it
18:30
Speaker 1: has been an awesome couple of games between those two.
18:32
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not saying the baseball's been the most
18:35
Speaker 1: awesome thing that I've ever seen in my life, but
18:37
Speaker 1: the tension, the atmosphere, the energy, it's almost uncomfortable, which
18:42
Speaker 1: is awesome.
18:43
Speaker 6: That is, it is uncomfortable. I mean being able to
18:46
Speaker 6: being able to be a part of something. I've never
18:48
Speaker 6: been in something that's as big and its tension filled
18:51
Speaker 6: as that. But just being in something and you get
18:53
Speaker 6: to be a part of it, you get to contribute
18:55
Speaker 6: to it is far less uncomfortable then standing on the
18:59
Speaker 6: sidelines and just hope, mean that somebody else does what
19:01
Speaker 6: you want them to do. And so yet now I'm
19:03
Speaker 6: a guy that's on the sidelines. All of us are,
19:05
Speaker 6: and we're sitting there watching this team's I mean, all
19:07
Speaker 6: the history that goes into it, and they're good teams.
19:09
Speaker 1: And now it's gonna come down to a Game three.
19:11
Speaker 1: It's going to be epic five PM start for that game.
19:15
Speaker 1: Mariners do have another scrimmage today at five o'clock. Brian
19:18
Speaker 1: Woo update yesterday. Kind of looks like he will start
19:20
Speaker 1: a game, but this is you know, Ryan Devish reading
19:24
Speaker 1: into it, I think a little bit, but he's pretty
19:25
Speaker 1: good at that kind of circled. Game three would be
19:29
Speaker 1: when he would start, but he's got a couple bullpen
19:32
Speaker 1: sessions that he'll have before they make that final decision,
19:35
Speaker 1: and we should have roster decisions and probably a game
19:38
Speaker 1: one starter decision. I would think this evening. I think
19:41
Speaker 1: they're just waiting to see who they play. They don't
19:43
Speaker 1: have to I don't think. I don't think they have
19:45
Speaker 1: to do it until Friday, but they won't do it
19:48
Speaker 1: before this series between Cleveland and Detroit's decided, and that
19:51
Speaker 1: should be decided by three pm. As I mentioned earlier,
19:55
Speaker 1: Thursday Night football tonight, the San Francisco forty nine ers
19:58
Speaker 1: are in Los Angeles to take on the Rams, who
20:00
Speaker 1: are eight and a half point favorites tonight. Wow, eight
20:06
Speaker 1: and a half point favorites. It opened at one and
20:08
Speaker 1: a half, it's now eight and a half. The Rams
20:11
Speaker 1: are favored over the forty nine ers. Brock Perty is
20:14
Speaker 1: not starting for San Francisco. He's out with an injury.
20:17
Speaker 1: Kind of feels like they pushed him a little bit,
20:19
Speaker 1: wasn't ready to come back. So Mac Jones will get
20:22
Speaker 1: the start tonight. On Thursday Night Football, Mike Sander will
20:24
Speaker 1: join us to talk about that at nine thirty today.
20:27
Speaker 1: Seahawks will hoast the Buccaneers and they're keeping the same
20:29
Speaker 1: start time, right yep, okay, one oh five start time.
20:32
Speaker 1: They'll loast the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. I think it's the
20:35
Speaker 1: best team they've played so far this season. So we'll
20:38
Speaker 1: talk about that at eight o'clock today and for an
20:40
Speaker 1: entire solid hour eight to nine. It's our twelfth Man Roundtable.
20:43
Speaker 1: We'll celebrate it with Hugh Millon and Greg Bell today.
20:46
Speaker 1: Seahawks kind of look like their healthiest this entire season
20:50
Speaker 1: coming into this game, which is a benefit of playing
20:53
Speaker 1: that Thursday night game on the wrapper round backside. Huskies
20:56
Speaker 1: will take on Meryland Saturday at twelve thirty. Softy on
21:00
Speaker 1: US today at seven oh five, as he always does
21:02
Speaker 1: on Thursdays. Something tells me we'll talk more Mariners baseball
21:05
Speaker 1: than Husky's football, because you just can't cage that animal.
21:09
Speaker 1: Seven days until the Kraken, we'll take the ice for
21:11
Speaker 1: the very first time for in an official capacity this season.
21:15
Speaker 1: We are two days away from the Sounders and the Timbers,
21:18
Speaker 1: and we are one day away from the w NBA Finals.
21:22
Speaker 1: We are just one commercial breakaway from the latest edition
21:25
Speaker 1: of ABC's of the MS. This is the particular audience
21:29
Speaker 1: never gets the ABCS of the MS because you usually
21:31
Speaker 1: get Mariners morning after. But you can check out our
21:34
Speaker 1: award winning daily Mariner bit next on KJR Daily Mariner Segment.
21:39
Speaker 1: And when I say daily, we have done it every
21:41
Speaker 1: day since the start of the Major League Baseball season.
21:44
Speaker 1: It's a segment where we allow the alphabet to guide
21:46
Speaker 1: us through various Mariner topics. We never know where the
21:49
Speaker 1: alphabet is going to lead us, and it doesn't necessarily
21:51
Speaker 1: have to be the headlines either that we go to.
21:54
Speaker 1: And so where do we go here on this day,
21:57
Speaker 1: two day shy of the Divisional round of the Major
22:01
Speaker 1: League Baseball Playoffs, where the Mariners will be hosting either
22:04
Speaker 1: the Guardians or Tigers on Saturday. B is where we
22:07
Speaker 1: left off. We only got one letter in yesterday. B
22:10
Speaker 1: is for bullpen, and this time of the year, many
22:14
Speaker 1: experts will tell you this is where the having a
22:17
Speaker 1: great bullpen really gets heightened. And I've seen teams win
22:21
Speaker 1: the World Series because of their bullpen. The Kansas City
22:24
Speaker 1: Royals come to mind when they had the Big three
22:27
Speaker 1: at the back of their bullpen, Herrera, Davis and Holland.
22:30
Speaker 1: Many people say that's the reason they won the World Series.
22:34
Speaker 1: So bullpen really comes in handy this time of the year.
22:37
Speaker 1: The Mariners finished the season with the ninth best ERA
22:41
Speaker 1: out of their bullpen, but I think that they finished
22:44
Speaker 1: the season stronger than that, feeling better about that. I
22:48
Speaker 1: think that top ten suggests that's a pretty good bullpen,
22:53
Speaker 1: that bullpen is doing its job. But I think we
22:56
Speaker 1: finished pretty strong. I think that we actually have a
23:00
Speaker 1: seven top five bullpen in Major League Baseball.
23:03
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, it feels you feel real good about
23:07
Speaker 6: the back of it, you know, even though each one
23:10
Speaker 6: of them had their hiccups. Munnos has blown you know,
23:12
Speaker 6: a few saves, and Brash has had his issues at times.
23:16
Speaker 2: But I think for the most part.
23:18
Speaker 1: You feel good.
23:19
Speaker 6: You got to feel good if you can, you know,
23:20
Speaker 6: have a couple of run lead going into the eighth inning,
23:23
Speaker 6: you gotta feel good about that.
23:24
Speaker 2: And then to me, you have you.
23:26
Speaker 6: Have a three or four guys that have at different
23:30
Speaker 6: points in times been absolutely dominant. You know, A Bizardo
23:33
Speaker 6: has been good majority of the year, Carls Vargas not
23:36
Speaker 6: necessarily so much the last little bit of the season,
23:39
Speaker 6: but he for the first two thirds of the season
23:42
Speaker 6: was one of your more consistent guys. Out of the
23:44
Speaker 6: bait bullpen, Gabe's been pretty much lights out the entire season.
23:48
Speaker 6: So yeah, I feel good about the bullpen, and yet
23:50
Speaker 6: it still is such a voll little thing that you
23:52
Speaker 6: don't know if you're going to have that bullpen that
23:54
Speaker 6: carries you all the way like we do tend to
23:57
Speaker 6: see whoever the World Series champion is there didn't have
24:01
Speaker 6: a crap postseason.
24:02
Speaker 2: Yeah, you are not gonna win at all of it.
24:04
Speaker 2: They do.
24:04
Speaker 1: Dodgers is a great example. I don't think the Dodgers
24:06
Speaker 1: had a great bullpen, but in the playoffs last year
24:09
Speaker 1: they were phenomenal and probably the reason why they won
24:12
Speaker 1: the World Series. Not Show Hey, not Freddie Freeman, even
24:15
Speaker 1: though Freddy was amazing. It was probably their bullpen, which
24:20
Speaker 1: going into the playoffs last year you would say was
24:22
Speaker 1: the weakness of their team, and yet it stepped up
24:24
Speaker 1: at the right time. So bullpen is hugely important in
24:28
Speaker 1: the postseason, and the only thing that we have as
24:31
Speaker 1: a guide is just how well did the bullpen perform
24:34
Speaker 1: during the regular season. Cleveland Guardians had the third best
24:37
Speaker 1: in all of Major League Baseball, by the way, and
24:39
Speaker 1: they're going to lean on it heavily in a five
24:41
Speaker 1: game series if they make it to us in the
24:44
Speaker 1: divisional round. But they are down in a manual class A.
24:47
Speaker 1: Turns out the guy loves to gamble. What do you
24:50
Speaker 1: want me to tell you? Yeah, But they've got it.
24:53
Speaker 1: That's a weapon for them. The Guardians bullpen is a
24:56
Speaker 1: weapon for them. Meanwhile, Toronto's got the sixteenth bet bullpen
25:00
Speaker 1: in the regular season, the Tigers the seventeenth, and they're slumping.
25:04
Speaker 1: It's one of the reasons why they tanked it at
25:06
Speaker 1: the end of the year. Like Will vest is not
25:08
Speaker 1: even pitching well, and he's the only guy they trust
25:10
Speaker 1: right now. And the New York Yankees have had bullpen
25:13
Speaker 1: issues all year long. Even acquiring five of them at
25:17
Speaker 1: the trading deadline has not necessarily fixed that. They had
25:20
Speaker 1: the twenty third best bullpenn era during the regular season.
25:24
Speaker 1: So we sit there at ninth. And it is important
25:26
Speaker 1: because at this time of the year, you got a
25:29
Speaker 1: starter that's going going strong, even if the pitch counts up,
25:32
Speaker 1: you say keep going. But if you've got a starter
25:36
Speaker 1: that you depend on that's struggling at all, you pull
25:39
Speaker 1: them early. And if you've got a bullpen, you a
25:42
Speaker 1: good deep bullpen like I believe the Mariners have, then
25:46
Speaker 1: you feel confident in making that move. See is for
25:50
Speaker 1: Cal and it's been the year of Cal. I mean,
25:53
Speaker 1: I mean, there have been other guys certainly that have
25:56
Speaker 1: contributed strongly to this season, but it just feels like
25:59
Speaker 1: Cal's had the golden touch, from getting the contract, to
26:02
Speaker 1: getting off to the great start, to the All Star
26:05
Speaker 1: Game appearance the starter and the All Star Game, to
26:07
Speaker 1: the home run derby champion, I mean pretty much like
26:10
Speaker 1: Cal's like if he wished it, it came true.
26:13
Speaker 2: This year.
26:14
Speaker 1: But make no mistake about it, Bucky, and you know
26:16
Speaker 1: this better than anybody. It's all about for cal Rawley
26:20
Speaker 1: what happens from this point forward. I mean, this has
26:23
Speaker 1: been a dream year for him and it will always
26:26
Speaker 1: register is probably the best year of his entire life.
26:30
Speaker 1: But if they don't get done as a team what
26:33
Speaker 1: they are planning to get done, cal Rawley's not going
26:36
Speaker 1: to look at this.
26:36
Speaker 6: Year as a success. That's just col Yeah, and that's
26:39
Speaker 6: the way that it should be. I mean, you can
26:41
Speaker 6: have your own personal accolades, and that's something that you
26:44
Speaker 6: get to have forever. You know, your own the home
26:47
Speaker 6: run Derby Trophy. He doesn't have to share that with
26:49
Speaker 6: a team. But the idea of those all fall flat
26:53
Speaker 6: to some degree. If you, you know, you go out
26:56
Speaker 6: here and just lay an egg in the Division Series
26:59
Speaker 6: and just don't even show up and don't even perform,
27:02
Speaker 6: then all of a sudden, it's like you look at
27:03
Speaker 6: it and there's always the man, what if we had
27:06
Speaker 6: have done better there? What if we'd have finished that
27:08
Speaker 6: thing off the way that we want. I don't think
27:09
Speaker 6: you have to win the World Series for it to
27:12
Speaker 6: feel successful, but you've got advance past this round. I
27:15
Speaker 6: would think for cow I would think anything less than
27:19
Speaker 6: getting to the World Series for the first time, he
27:21
Speaker 6: would feel like is less then and it will diminish
27:24
Speaker 6: how great this season's been, even though you can't really
27:27
Speaker 6: take away from how great it's been just on an
27:28
Speaker 6: individual level.
27:29
Speaker 1: And you never know how athletes going to respond to
27:32
Speaker 1: postseason baseball. I mean, we've seen guys thrive and elevate
27:37
Speaker 1: this time of the year, but Barry Bonds had a
27:41
Speaker 1: hell of a time until he started juicing, and that
27:43
Speaker 1: gave him, apparently some confidence, but he had a hell
27:47
Speaker 1: of a time being successful in the playoffs, and even
27:50
Speaker 1: juice or not juice, that's still one of the best
27:52
Speaker 1: players I've ever seen in my entire life, if not
27:54
Speaker 1: the best player I've ever seen in my entire life.
27:56
Speaker 1: Aaron Judge, I mean, he's trying to get this monkey
27:59
Speaker 1: off his back about what whether or not he's a
28:02
Speaker 1: postseason performer. Alex Rodriguez, Man, he was terrible in the playoffs. So,
28:08
Speaker 1: I mean, we got a little taste of cal a
28:10
Speaker 1: couple of years ago, but this is a different Cal Raley,
28:12
Speaker 1: and this is a different feel. I mean, we're not
28:15
Speaker 1: going in there as a wild card team playing on
28:17
Speaker 1: the road. We're going in there as a division champ
28:21
Speaker 1: with a bye, starting this playoffs in the second round
28:24
Speaker 1: at home, and so Cal Raley, how do you perform
28:28
Speaker 1: in this situation? It really does separate superstars from legends.
28:32
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think that the idea of saying this guy
28:35
Speaker 6: can't do it in the playoffs, I think that gets
28:36
Speaker 6: thrown around too quickly. I think somebody could have a
28:39
Speaker 6: really amazing season and then they go they go one
28:42
Speaker 6: for twelve in their twelve postseason at bats, I'm like, well,
28:46
Speaker 6: he had a crab. He's not very good in the postseasons.
28:48
Speaker 6: Like okay, now you get two three, four postseasons in
28:51
Speaker 6: a row and you scuffle like Clayton Kershaw did majority
28:54
Speaker 6: of his postseason. It taints what you've done during the
28:57
Speaker 6: regular season.
28:59
Speaker 2: He tainted it. He got yep.
29:01
Speaker 6: And yet I think that I think there's something about
29:04
Speaker 6: the way that you're wired that it makes you a
29:08
Speaker 6: little bit more predisposed to like you want that feel,
29:12
Speaker 6: you want the more pressure. And if there's one thing
29:15
Speaker 6: we've watched about Cal, it's different, the postseason different. So
29:18
Speaker 6: I'm not gonna say it's guaranteed that he's going to
29:20
Speaker 6: perform and put up crazy numbers. But if he doesn't,
29:23
Speaker 6: it's not gonna be because the moment's too big. It's
29:26
Speaker 6: not gonna be because he's withering and wilting and the
29:28
Speaker 6: pressure is too high. I can guarantee you he loves
29:32
Speaker 6: that idea. He handled it coming up in Julio's shadow
29:36
Speaker 6: to some extent, even Jared Kelnick's shadow to some extent.
29:39
Speaker 6: You were like the other guy that came up, the
29:42
Speaker 6: other young guy. For sure, he just handled it like
29:44
Speaker 6: that's fine.
29:46
Speaker 2: Just watch.
29:47
Speaker 6: I don't have to be loud about it. I don't
29:48
Speaker 6: have to come out and tell you how I lead.
29:50
Speaker 6: I just show you how I lead. And then when
29:52
Speaker 6: the moment called for him to you know, go big,
29:56
Speaker 6: dump or fly and put us in the playoffs, he
29:58
Speaker 6: answered that bell. And then he basically he has answered
30:00
Speaker 6: every bell since then. Not that these doesn't have his
30:02
Speaker 6: moments where he doesn't come through, but I just think
30:04
Speaker 6: he's wired for the This is what I this is
30:07
Speaker 6: what I meant to do.
30:09
Speaker 2: Is this situation.
30:10
Speaker 6: If you don't think that when you stand on deck,
30:13
Speaker 6: I mean I would never sit there and say I
30:14
Speaker 6: don't want a guy to hit a home run here
30:16
Speaker 6: because I want an opportunity. But there's a part of
30:18
Speaker 6: me it's like if he didn't hit a home run
30:20
Speaker 6: and I do get an opportunity, it's like, oh, yes, man,
30:23
Speaker 6: I get my turn.
30:24
Speaker 1: Well there is you know. It's why you got to
30:27
Speaker 1: admire Mike Trout. He's like, you're not gonna label me
30:29
Speaker 1: in the postseason. I'm just not gonna make it.
30:31
Speaker 2: Oh I'm sad, not really Trout. All right.
30:38
Speaker 1: Das for dumpkins, make sure that you get out there
30:41
Speaker 1: and get your dumpkins in time for Calloween. This year,
30:45
Speaker 1: the patches are probably already overrun.
30:48
Speaker 7: Yeah, and there was a rush at the grocery store yesterday,
30:50
Speaker 7: so I got there just in time.
30:51
Speaker 1: Yeah, dumpkin patches all over the Greater Pacific Northwest area.
30:56
Speaker 1: A couple out in Woodenville, you know, take the kids
30:58
Speaker 1: out there.
30:59
Speaker 3: Okay on the hay, pick out your perfect dumpkins.
31:02
Speaker 1: We got a perfect fat dumpkin.
31:03
Speaker 2: Yeah. Cup of hot cocoa.
31:05
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you gotta have some cold some cider, maybe
31:09
Speaker 1: some warm cider that that goes with a dumpkin picking
31:13
Speaker 1: all right. Coming up next on the program, we all
31:16
Speaker 1: are to talk a little NFL. There's some really interesting
31:19
Speaker 1: stories going on out there, and we're gonna have to
31:21
Speaker 1: cover them. Sports Radio ninety three point three kJ RFM,
31:28
Speaker 1: all right, headlines coming your way at seven o'clock, plus
31:31
Speaker 1: David Softy Maller will join us. It's Thursdays with Softie,
31:35
Speaker 1: where normally we just zero in on those Washington Huskies
31:39
Speaker 1: and we will talk some dogs with Softy today. But
31:42
Speaker 1: I have a feeling he can't help himself. He's like
31:45
Speaker 1: a rabid raccoon every day. Yeah, he's going to want
31:49
Speaker 1: to talk Mariners baseball. We're not gonna be able to
31:51
Speaker 1: stop him. No, we try to lead him away from it,
31:53
Speaker 1: probably chew our hands off. If we try to at him,
31:56
Speaker 1: he'll bite.
31:57
Speaker 3: Yeah, trains leaving the station. You're slowing it down.
31:59
Speaker 1: Uh huh. All right, So there's something weird going on
32:02
Speaker 1: with this Lamar Jackson thing. The Baltimore Ravens won't talk
32:05
Speaker 1: about his injury. I don't think he's injured. I mean,
32:09
Speaker 1: I don't have any evidence to back that up other
32:11
Speaker 1: than he left a game with an injury where he
32:13
Speaker 1: wasn't limping or favoring a leg. I do have that evidence,
32:17
Speaker 1: I think, and this is just a wild The sports
32:20
Speaker 1: talk show host theory. I think he was so frustrated
32:23
Speaker 1: after the way this team started this year that he
32:26
Speaker 1: pulled himself out of the game, and that John Harbaugh
32:28
Speaker 1: is spending this entire week and all his teammates who
32:31
Speaker 1: love and adore him are trying not to get let
32:35
Speaker 1: that story get out and hurt his legacy, because that
32:38
Speaker 1: will taint you for a long time. If you pull
32:40
Speaker 1: yourself out of a game because it's not going that way,
32:43
Speaker 1: that will that will that will stain you for the
32:46
Speaker 1: rest of your career, all the way up to your
32:48
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame candidacy. People will bring that up. It's
32:51
Speaker 1: not going to keep him from getting into the Hall
32:52
Speaker 1: of Fame, but it'll come up. And I think he's
32:55
Speaker 1: protecting him from that. I think Lamar Jackson pulled himself
32:58
Speaker 1: from the game. I don't even think he's hurt. They're
32:59
Speaker 1: even talking about him playing now. One day later after
33:03
Speaker 1: saying he was out for three to four weeks, now
33:05
Speaker 1: they're saying he might be available, and they were like,
33:07
Speaker 1: could you elaborate on that, and John says, I don't
33:09
Speaker 1: think I should talk about that right now. There's something
33:12
Speaker 1: weird going on in ball three.
33:14
Speaker 6: Yeah, Well, I mean I typically am going to just
33:17
Speaker 6: I'm going to just assume that that an athlete of
33:20
Speaker 6: his caliber will certainly just has too much competitive fire
33:24
Speaker 6: in him to quit, to quit in the middle of
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Speaker 6: a game, to quit on his team, to quit on himself.
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Speaker 1: Scotty Pippen did at once, and Scottie Pippen's great competitor him.
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Speaker 1: I mean, it does happen.
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Speaker 6: It has and yet my my default is going to
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Speaker 6: be like I just have to think that they that
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Speaker 6: he's hurt. And yet the fact that when I saw
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Speaker 6: he's going to be out for a few weeks with
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Speaker 6: his hamstring, I'm immediately like, well, then that's a bad hamstring,
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Speaker 6: and they don't. It's not just like back in the
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Speaker 6: day it was like how's it feel. It's like it
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Speaker 6: doesn't feel good, but you could didn't know it's grade one,
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Speaker 6: grade two, grade three hamstring. Poll Now they know that.
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Speaker 6: And so when I heard he was going to be
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Speaker 6: out first magnificant amount of time, I'm like, oh, that's
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Speaker 6: a bad hammy, that's a bad one. And because of
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Speaker 6: how he plays the game, you're going to be even
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Speaker 6: more cautious with a hamstring thing. Because of how much
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Speaker 6: he uses his legs, and yet if they did come back,
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Speaker 6: I didn't hear that that that they're saying he might
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Speaker 6: be back one day later, then that does raise some
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Speaker 6: red FIGX.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, I saw it on Twitter yesterday too, and yeah,
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Speaker 7: they'd originally said like, yeah, three to four weeks, so
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Speaker 7: that's a pretty It was like, okay, so whatever odd
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Speaker 7: things might have happened, obviously he has a serious injury,
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Speaker 7: because you're not sitting him out for three to four
34:31
Speaker 7: weeks just for fun. But to then see that yesterday
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Speaker 7: I even did a double take. I was like, wait
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Speaker 7: a minute, what how would he be available for Sunday?
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Speaker 3: That makes no sense to me.
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Speaker 1: And I don't want to come off like a loon.
34:43
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm gonna if you're telling me, what would
34:45
Speaker 1: you bet on that? I bet that he's hurt. I
34:47
Speaker 1: would bet that he's hurt. But there's just something about
34:50
Speaker 1: the story that doesn't add up to me. Also, Dan Orlovsky,
34:55
Speaker 1: since we're on the topic of the Ravens, did some
34:58
Speaker 1: research and found out that the Ravens have the fewest
35:02
Speaker 1: runs on first and second down and the entire National
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Speaker 1: Football League. I don't what happened to your identity, Like
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Speaker 1: Derrick Henry is not even being used by this team
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Speaker 1: right now, and so there's just something broken about the
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Speaker 1: Baltimore Ravens, who I picked to win the damn Super
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Speaker 1: Bowl this year. There's just something off about the organization
35:23
Speaker 1: that normally just runs like clockwork. He does always count
35:26
Speaker 1: on the Ravens being as good as they're supposed to be,
35:29
Speaker 1: if not better than they're supposed to be. But something's off.
35:32
Speaker 1: Something stinks at the Old Ballpark.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 6: I mean, I think that as a play caller, you
35:37
Speaker 6: can get into a slump. I think that sometimes it's okay,
35:41
Speaker 6: they expect us to run with Derek Henry on first
35:43
Speaker 6: and second down, and so let's trick them here. Let's
35:46
Speaker 6: let's do these things because Lamar Jackson is good enough
35:49
Speaker 6: quarterback that you can usually get away with that. But
35:51
Speaker 6: at some point you just got to go, Okay, you know,
35:53
Speaker 6: we're one and two going into a big game last week,
35:56
Speaker 6: and it's like, let's just go back to what works
35:58
Speaker 6: and it to the monster standing behind me.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, just because he fumbled a couple of times doesn't
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Speaker 7: mean that he's now going to fumble the ball every
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Speaker 7: time he holds it.
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Speaker 1: And he fumbled because great defensive players perfectly punched the
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Speaker 1: ball out of his arms. I mean, it's not like
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Speaker 1: he's got to fumble it.
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Speaker 3: You shouldn't lose your faith in him.
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Speaker 1: He was a victim of circumstance. He was a victim
36:18
Speaker 1: of timing. And by the way, I mean, Bucky had
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Speaker 1: plenty of at bats that I'm sure you feel like
36:24
Speaker 1: you gave away, but there were also some at bats
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Speaker 1: that you had like, I didn't have a chance against it. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: no matter how great approach I hadn't, I wasn't going
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Speaker 1: to I wasn't going to succeed. He made his pitches.
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Speaker 6: I couldn't hit that, Yeah, and those you don't those
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Speaker 6: don't weigh on your near as much as the ones
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Speaker 6: that you gave away or that you missed something that
36:39
Speaker 6: you should have hit.
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Speaker 2: So, yeah, I think that it's very much so.
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Speaker 6: I don't know how they hold onto the ball as
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Speaker 6: well as they do with big strong dudes going after
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Speaker 6: it and trying to punch it, and then sometimes if
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Speaker 6: they punch it perfect, it's coming out period.
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