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Chuck & Buck 6-26 Hour 2: Headlines and Mike Benton, ABC's of the Mariners and Seattle love. · Chuck in the Morning

• 0:10
  Speaker 1: The USA's big star gets nutmegs bowlers still trying to
• 0:14
  Speaker 1: get in.
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  Speaker 2: Chance for a cross comes back to the top of
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  Speaker 2: the box. Now it's clipped in at the backside.
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  Speaker 3: Turns to time.
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  Speaker 2: Turkey.
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  Speaker 1: I scored the.
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  Speaker 4: Winning goal in the ninety eighth minute.
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  Speaker 5: They might be going on tomorrow, but they're going wild now.
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  Speaker 2: Call last night on Fox Turkey A wins over the USA.
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  Speaker 2: That was their World Cup championship. Last night they beat
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  Speaker 2: the host team and they did it in spectacular fashion,
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  Speaker 2: a walk off goal literally with seconds a couple seconds
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  Speaker 2: remaining on the invisible clock. They win the match by
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  Speaker 2: final score of three to two. Doesn't help them, They
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  Speaker 2: can't advance, and it doesn't hurt the US because they
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  Speaker 2: already had their spot.
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  Speaker 3: In the next round cemented.
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  Speaker 2: They will play next Wednesday against Bosnia Herzegovina at five o'clock.
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  Speaker 2: And so we are done the US. That is with
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  Speaker 2: the group stage of the World Cup. And that is
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  Speaker 2: where our headlines begin this seven o'clock hour Chucking Buck
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  Speaker 2: with you Sports Radio ninety three point three KJARFM. And
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  Speaker 2: when I say Chuck and Buck, I mean Chuck and Ashley,
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  Speaker 2: of course.
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  Speaker 3: So let's talk about the rest of the World Cup.
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  Speaker 2: We've got Australia they advanced last night as well with
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  Speaker 2: a tie, a Paraguay tie, which I think are beautiful.
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  Speaker 2: I wish I could get my hands on one.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe I'll give my one for my dad for Christmas
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  Speaker 3: this year the old Paraguay tie. Germany lost yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: Norway and France play today at noon, and Egypt and
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  Speaker 2: Iran will face off here in Seattle tonight at eight o'clock.
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  Speaker 2: We'll talk more about this coming up later on in
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  Speaker 2: the show with Jackson Feltz at eight thirty. I'll just
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  Speaker 2: say in potch I trust he says, what are you
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  Speaker 2: worried about? We didn't need to win that game. We're fine.
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  Speaker 2: We did what we set out to do.
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  Speaker 3: We're great.
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  Speaker 5: We also have a guy on our team named Trusty.
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  Speaker 3: And Trustee I have.
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  Speaker 2: NHL Draft is tonight in Buffalo at four o'clock. The
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  Speaker 2: Toronto Maple Leafs will make the first selection and the
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  Speaker 2: draft of crack and are going to pick seventh in
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  Speaker 2: the draft if they hold on to that pick.
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  Speaker 3: Last night, they tried to trade it.
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  Speaker 2: For Jason robertson the High Fly and Score of the
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  Speaker 2: Dallas Stars.
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  Speaker 3: He turned us down.
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  Speaker 2: Including a fifteen million dollars per year, eight year contract.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to get into the nuts and bolts of
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  Speaker 2: that here in a matter of moments with Michael Benton
• 2:45
  Speaker 2: and the Mariners. Fell in Pittsburgh last night or yesterday afternoon,
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  Speaker 2: five to one, and so the Ms continue to struggle
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  Speaker 2: offensively and with their bullpen decisions. They're sitting here at
• 2:55
  Speaker 2: forty one and forty one on the year. They'll be
• 2:58
  Speaker 2: in Cleveland tonight taking on the Guardians. We'll talk more
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  Speaker 2: about that later on in the hour as well. And
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  Speaker 2: the Mets this morning breaking news fired Carlos Mendoza. I
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  Speaker 2: do not know what took so long, crazy that their
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  Speaker 2: owner would spend a trillion dollars on his roster. But
• 3:17
  Speaker 2: then when it comes to firing a manager that clearly
• 3:20
  Speaker 2: needed to be fired a year ago, his response is, well,
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  Speaker 2: I just can't waste that money.
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  Speaker 5: So what were you doing with the money spent on
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  Speaker 5: the roster?
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  Speaker 2: Then let's talk to Mike Benton here on the radio
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  Speaker 2: program because we have a lot of crack and stuff
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  Speaker 2: to discuss.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning, sir, how are.
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  Speaker 6: You good morning? Charles in charge? How are you, Bud?
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  Speaker 3: I'm good, I'm good. And thank you for recognizing that.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, of our days and our night.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know, Scott Baio was onto something and I
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  Speaker 2: really want to follow in his footsteps.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks CHAOUCHI.
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  Speaker 2: All right, let's go into We got a lot of
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  Speaker 2: things to discuss with you, my friend. What's your reaction
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  Speaker 2: to Jason Robertson, given the crack in the Heisman stiff
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  Speaker 2: arm last night, not taking an eight year, fifteen million
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  Speaker 2: dollars per year deal to come be on our hockey team.
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  Speaker 7: I've gotten many thoughts on this, all right, and crank
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  Speaker 7: it up. I think I think some of the reaction
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  Speaker 7: to this is warranted, and I think some of this
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  Speaker 7: is unfair. And we've seen the news cycle go absolutely
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  Speaker 7: wild on this. I mean, do I think it's unfair
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  Speaker 7: to pin this on a millionaire's tax Absolutely, give me
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  Speaker 7: a break, Give me a break. Number one, Look at
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  Speaker 7: who they just resigned back on Sunday, Bobby McMahon. He's
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  Speaker 7: going to earn six million dollars a year.
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  Speaker 6: Number two.
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  Speaker 7: California has some of the highest state taxes period here.
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  Speaker 7: So I mean, listen, I don't think the Dodgers or
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  Speaker 7: the Rams, or in the NHL sake, the King, the
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  Speaker 7: Ducks and the Sharks were on the com up here.
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  Speaker 7: Are really having problems getting talent in the door?
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  Speaker 4: Do?
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  Speaker 7: I think this is very fair to say every sign
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  Speaker 7: is pointing to maybe leaning into youth quite possibly, and
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  Speaker 7: time after timeshuck. I. I mean we've said this before.
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  Speaker 4: The only team who's.
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  Speaker 7: Had a shortcut here to a winning program is Vegas.
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  Speaker 7: It's a one of one situation. I personally don't care
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  Speaker 7: that Kelly McCrimmon said the Kraken had a longer period
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  Speaker 7: to get ready for the expansion Draft than he did.
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  Speaker 7: I mean, they yes, played by the same rules, but
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  Speaker 7: it had different opponents and different cards. To hell, we
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  Speaker 7: know it, he knows it, but he won't admit it here.
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  Speaker 7: But yet, outside Vegas, what do Edmonton, Colllorado, Tampa Bay, Carolina,
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  Speaker 7: even a team like Anaheim, what do they all have
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  Speaker 7: in coming here? When they were at their best, even
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  Speaker 7: Toronto as well, when they were you know, building what
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  Speaker 7: they had, they built solid to jog or not programs
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  Speaker 7: at a drafting and developing Florida in some.
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  Speaker 4: Cases here, but they took what.
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  Speaker 7: They had and then moved it as well for big
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  Speaker 7: pieces and look who they are. So I bristle at
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  Speaker 7: the notion that nobody wants to come to Seattle. It's preposterous.
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  Speaker 7: I mean again, I go back to McMahon. He controlled
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  Speaker 7: his own destiny. He had all the cards in this one,
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  Speaker 7: but he chose Seattle and the athletic random players pull
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  Speaker 7: about a year ago on the places that nobody wants
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  Speaker 7: to go play. Winnipeg won or lost in a landslide,
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  Speaker 7: and Seattle wasn't even in the first seven teams mentioned.
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  Speaker 7: But for a majority of this league, no trade and
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  Speaker 7: no movement closet shuck are handed out like candy. It
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  Speaker 7: far and away blows.
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  Speaker 4: Out leagues like the NBA, Major League.
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  Speaker 7: Baseball, the NFL. So the players in this league, for
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  Speaker 7: a majority, hold all the cards, and Jason Robertson use
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  Speaker 7: them here. Well, NHL players have one in common with
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  Speaker 7: where they want to go play. The established ones want
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  Speaker 7: an established winning program.
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  Speaker 6: So are the kracking there.
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  Speaker 7: It's still a big work in progress, obviously, But do
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  Speaker 7: I think they're closer to good times than some other teams. Absolutely.
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  Speaker 7: I mean, look at the Canucks and look at the
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  Speaker 7: Red Wings. So I think this is a reminder great qualities.
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  Speaker 7: Chuck exists to attract talent. There's a passionate fan based here,
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  Speaker 7: possibly the top practice rink.
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  Speaker 4: In the entire league.
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  Speaker 7: That matters where you live, work and play, top of
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  Speaker 7: the line, building luxurious city ownership. Who wants to win.
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  Speaker 7: But once you get there, that's the ultimate wildcard winning
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  Speaker 7: and the krack and have one of the best farm
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  Speaker 7: systems in the NHL. That's only going to get better
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  Speaker 7: with the right picks, and the right picks are out there,
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  Speaker 7: especially tonight. But you give Jason Bottom a credit here.
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  Speaker 7: I think they're taking a home run swing. Could there
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  Speaker 7: be another big home run swing out there?
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  Speaker 6: Maybe?
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  Speaker 7: Possibly, But again he's given a since that youth is
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  Speaker 7: the key, and you've got to plan a garden with
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  Speaker 7: the right seeds here, So you know, in all this
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  Speaker 7: running it out to me, I think this news is
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  Speaker 7: a bit of a hint that what they could grow
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  Speaker 7: in spectacular fashion to when repeatedly is in this draft
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  Speaker 7: today and with their youth, and it is right under
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  Speaker 7: their noses here.
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  Speaker 2: So give me a name or two that could be
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  Speaker 2: another Jason Robertson somebody that I mean. Obviously, they proved
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  Speaker 2: willing to move that seventh pick, and they proved willing
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  Speaker 2: to pay top dollar for someone. So I would think
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  Speaker 2: that anyone that's on the cusp of being available, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we wouldn't eliminate unless they eliminate themselves from becoming a
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  Speaker 2: crack and like Robertson did last night. So there's got
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  Speaker 2: to be another name or two that's in a similar
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  Speaker 2: position Robertson's in that could really improve this team offensively.
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  Speaker 3: Who are they?
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  Speaker 7: Well, I think number one the obvious answer is Dylan
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  Speaker 7: Larkin right now, who has been playing for the Red
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  Speaker 7: Wings Dollars live just on a gold medal. He comes
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  Speaker 7: off a thirty four goal season and he's making about
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  Speaker 7: eight million a year, which base under number one, the
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  Speaker 7: cap which is.
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  Speaker 4: Going up at number two. The space that they have
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  Speaker 4: is manageable.
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  Speaker 7: But again, he controls all the cards in this and
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  Speaker 7: he basically put out a three team listing.
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  Speaker 4: I will only go to a B or C and
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  Speaker 4: guess the two of the.
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  Speaker 7: Teams involved in that is Vegas in Florida. So you're
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  Speaker 7: gonna have to pivot here, obviously, unless he's got a
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  Speaker 7: massive change of heart, I think still for a guy
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  Speaker 7: who can play a premier position the kind of game
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  Speaker 7: they want to play in the familiarity with Lane Lambert.
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  Speaker 7: I love the addition to say of someone like Matthew
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  Speaker 7: Knys out of Toronto, about five foot six. This comes
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  Speaker 7: off a twenty three goal season, pustion seventy points. He's
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  Speaker 7: one of the premier power forwards right now in the NHL.
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  Speaker 7: Elias Petterson just north of the border here, wouldn't the
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  Speaker 7: Canucks to crack and trade be fun? Now?
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  Speaker 4: This this is.
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  Speaker 7: Going to be a very very delicate situation to work
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  Speaker 7: through for Jason botterol tray to within your division. But
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  Speaker 7: they've got Patrick Alvin on their side right now. And Peterson,
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  Speaker 7: you know, for the down year he had only fifteen
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  Speaker 7: goals fifty one points to still approven one hundred point
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  Speaker 7: kind of guy who's making a massive salary at about
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  Speaker 7: eleven million. But again, they were willing to, you know,
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  Speaker 7: pay Jason Robertson fifteen million out the door per season
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  Speaker 7: to get this done. I'm still curious what other names
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  Speaker 7: could be helping out here, you know, maybe on a
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  Speaker 7: less of a of an offensive scale. I throw out
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  Speaker 7: Owen Tippet's name, who has been dangling out there and
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  Speaker 7: reports recently in the last about couple of weeks from Philadelphia.
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  Speaker 7: It could take the right kind of trade to make
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  Speaker 7: this happen. You know, he's a guy who can push
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  Speaker 7: at thirty goals, and he may have to add somebody
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  Speaker 7: else to kind of equal that output that Robertson might do.
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  Speaker 6: But he's got a lethal.
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  Speaker 7: And accurate shot that it's had him knocking on the
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  Speaker 7: door for a thirty goal season recently. Contract this very manageable,
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  Speaker 7: so you know there are those situations plus effect where
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  Speaker 7: the crack and can deal with. You know, a few
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  Speaker 7: players who are on expiring contracts coming up here.
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  Speaker 6: For this season.
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  Speaker 4: Of course, we know there are farm system is.
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  Speaker 7: Stacked and Shane Wright's name is still out there, and
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  Speaker 7: Jason Bottle report Lee is looking to you know, use
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  Speaker 7: him maybe in a swap of The right trade is
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  Speaker 7: certainly there, so you know.
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  Speaker 4: The big swings that they want to take are.
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  Speaker 7: Still very very prevalent. But it's going to take i
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  Speaker 7: think the right price and again you're going to have
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  Speaker 7: to find a way.
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  Speaker 6: To cop it up.
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  Speaker 7: But also by the player who wants to obviously come
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  Speaker 7: here and be in the same kind of mindset as
• 11:37
  Speaker 7: Bobby McMahon or even Mackie Samuskevitch, who who they got
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  Speaker 7: in that trade was a player on Florida but not
• 11:43
  Speaker 7: getting the kind of ice time that he needed.
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  Speaker 2: Mike Metonis with us, of course, he's he's pretty much
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  Speaker 2: just Captain Cracking, Professor Cracking. He knows it all and
• 11:52
  Speaker 2: we needed to lean on him this morning for a
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  Speaker 2: lot of different cracking topics, including the draft tonight right now,
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  Speaker 2: the seventh overall pick. Let's say they don't move it,
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  Speaker 2: Let's say they do end up keeping it. Give us
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  Speaker 2: a name or two that might end up landing here
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  Speaker 2: in Seattle.
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  Speaker 7: Well, it's been a while since, you know, someone took
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  Speaker 7: a defenseman. I think maybe that high in their case
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  Speaker 7: and for the kracking and their sense, really haven't ever
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  Speaker 7: picked a defenseman who can be kind of a game
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  Speaker 7: changer for their franchise. It's been a lot of forwards here,
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  Speaker 7: So guys, I'm really curious about what a player like
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  Speaker 7: Keaton Verhoff could do if he is there at seventh overall.
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  Speaker 7: I mean, the rumor is that, you know, and the
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  Speaker 7: word is that there could be a few defensemen who
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  Speaker 7: can you know, be game changers for your franchise. Maybe
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  Speaker 7: not be NHL ready for this next season, but given
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  Speaker 7: about probably a couple of years or so, a proper development,
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  Speaker 7: you know, they might be in a position to start
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  Speaker 7: contributing and eventually a few years down the road be
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  Speaker 7: a top end guy, maybe as well an NHL All Star.
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  Speaker 7: They haf to me, I've heard as close to be
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  Speaker 7: NHL ready, and some people compared him to Drew Dowdy.
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  Speaker 7: I think he's got all the tools, kind of talking
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  Speaker 7: to folks and you know, listening to others. As far
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  Speaker 7: as what he could do and with his potential. He's
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  Speaker 7: a right shot defenseman, and right shot defenseman do not
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  Speaker 7: grow on trees. That's very, very important I think here
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  Speaker 7: to consider what he can do. So I think all
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  Speaker 7: in all, he's a very attractive pick. At one point
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  Speaker 7: he was the number two guy behind Gavin McKenna in
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  Speaker 7: this draft race. But it's so fluid right now behind
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  Speaker 7: McKenna at this point. But if you can find a
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  Speaker 7: guy who's about six foot four, right shot defenseman, you know,
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  Speaker 7: plays like Drew Dowdy. You know, he says, you know,
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  Speaker 7: Thomas Harley, who's been a great, great fine now as
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  Speaker 7: far as his development, that's a player he loves watching.
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  Speaker 7: If he is, he could be close to number one
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  Speaker 7: so there's a ton of potential.
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  Speaker 6: I think maybe in his case.
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  Speaker 7: Guy I also like as far as a defenseman is
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  Speaker 7: Albert Smith out of Europe. But he's been living on
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  Speaker 7: his own and playing again higher league and see was
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  Speaker 7: age thirteen. That's something to consider as far as his
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  Speaker 7: level of comfort and playing against you know, pretty stiff
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  Speaker 7: in top competition.
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  Speaker 6: I think the.
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  Speaker 7: Optimus case maybe is that he's very athletic, could be
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  Speaker 7: a top end guy, and he's got an absolute missile
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  Speaker 7: of a shot back on the point that can help
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  Speaker 7: out your power play.
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  Speaker 4: He's big as well.
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  Speaker 7: At six foot four, and he kind of plays with
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  Speaker 7: swagger with that Mike McDonald like, you know, we.
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  Speaker 6: Don't care type of things.
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  Speaker 7: So a couple of names that really kind of stick
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  Speaker 7: out to me. I think, you know, they've been lacking.
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  Speaker 4: Defenseman on the top end.
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  Speaker 7: They've been leaning into Fords here for the first five years.
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  Speaker 7: So a couple of names I think at seven, you know,
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  Speaker 7: on their blue line, should they use that pick that
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  Speaker 7: can be game changers or I'm gonna go on for
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  Speaker 7: their defensive cor Oh.
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  Speaker 2: I love the idea of an offensive defenseman at number seven.
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  Speaker 2: I like myself an offensive defenseman Mike Betton is with
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  Speaker 2: us in our last minute. What do you got planned
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  Speaker 2: for today? What's our coverage going to look like? And
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  Speaker 2: where are you going to be stationed?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, it's gonna be a lot of fun that the
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  Speaker 7: thirty two bar and grill once again. If you want
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  Speaker 7: to joke dim in for the food, Hey, go ahead.
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  Speaker 7: I love their food, but we're gonna have myself I
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  Speaker 7: Inverness also ever offits you Al Koniski, a panel of
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  Speaker 7: us going from three to seven. Thank you socker. He's
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  Speaker 7: taking the earlier shift here for today, so gonna be
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  Speaker 7: jam packed. Jason Botteroll is gonna be with us with
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  Speaker 7: the direction of this team right now heading into what's
• 15:21
  Speaker 7: gonna be I think a crazy week and it's gonna
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  Speaker 7: get even crazier about a couple of weeks down the road.
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  Speaker 7: Now we're looking at talking to crack and prospect Jacobrien
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  Speaker 7: as well by phone one year later. Where's his game
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  Speaker 7: mat And there's some big plans for him already, I believe.
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  Speaker 7: And also other.
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  Speaker 4: Insiders across the league Jason.
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  Speaker 7: Gregor up and be and Edmonton who's been.
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  Speaker 4: All over this, Jason robertson case.
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  Speaker 7: And also Gee Flaming who's been very very deep into
• 15:47
  Speaker 7: the trenches year with the prospects as well to kind
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  Speaker 7: of give us a better indication of who could be
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  Speaker 7: out there for seventh overall. So it's gonna be a
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  Speaker 7: fun show, gonna.
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  Speaker 4: Be a big show as well, and I think based
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  Speaker 4: on this news, it.
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  Speaker 7: Might be the easiest show that I've had to prep
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  Speaker 7: for because we've got.
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  Speaker 3: A lot to talk about. Guys, all right, you are
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  Speaker 3: the man. Thank you very much.
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  Speaker 2: We appreciate you getting up early for us this morning,
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  Speaker 2: and we will be listening to your award winning coverage
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  Speaker 2: later on today.
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  Speaker 7: Thanks Mike anytime, buddy, appreciate you.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks all right, Mike menton joining us right here on
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: chalking back if you want to follow him at Benton
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  Speaker 2: Underscore Mike, and Yeah, he's going to be at the
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  Speaker 2: heart of our coverage tonight.
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  Speaker 3: I would imagine we're bringing out all the stars.
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  Speaker 5: Oh yeah, it's gonna be a red carpet teal carpet.
• 16:30
  Speaker 3: That for nat Fella.
• 16:31
  Speaker 5: That fits you, fellah, yeah, yeah, those hooligans.
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: Will be there, that canisky Guyisky guy.
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: So we do draft coverage well at this radio station.
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know we do anything else well
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: by that we do really really well.
• 16:46
  Speaker 5: Yeah we can brag about that.
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: ABC's of the M's coming your way.
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  Speaker 6: Next.
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  Speaker 3: Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM, Good morning to
• 16:54
  Speaker 3: you all.
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: Happy Friday to you as well. We got the O
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: Choke coming up at eight o'clock. Jackson Felt to talk
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: a little beautiful game at eight thirty today. Our Seahawks
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: one series concludes today kind of at nine o'clock today.
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: One of your favorites, John Ryan's going to be joining
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: us today at nine o'clock, so you can imagine who
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: he's going to break down for us at nine a m.
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: Today on the final official day of Seahawks one Series
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: twenty twenty six. But ABC's at the MS something that
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: we do every single day during the Mariners baseball season.
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: We do allow the alphabet to be our guide through
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: a Mariner's segment, and we do not know where it's
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: going to take us. After yesterday's five to one loss
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: to the Pittsburgh Pirates that drops the team to forty
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: one and forty one on the season, Brandon Lowe getting
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: it started home run in the very first inning off
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: of Bryce Miller, and it set the tone for the
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: rest of the game, and the Mariners win it, excuse me,
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: lose it by a final score of five to one,
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: and that forty one and forty one record.
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: Well, i'll tell you what. It's got me feeling pretty
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: low right now.
• 18:00
  Speaker 5: Yeah, low down.
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's a loud dun shame that this is
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: where we're at right now, at forty one and forty one,
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: still first place team, but this isn't what we signed
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: up for.
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: Doesn't feel firsty, It is not thirsty.
• 18:15
  Speaker 5: It's like not a firsty celebratory type of feeling.
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: Oh no, it will not quench your first.
• 18:21
  Speaker 5: You know it won't.
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: You're right, It's more like, oh, well, I at least
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: we're still first.
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, well, I mean it is a silver lining
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: in it all though. Yeah, you could play this poorly.
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: You can't come up with any offense for over ten
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: games that your manager doesn't apparently know how to use
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: his bullpen, and you have had a lot of injuries
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: during the course of the season to a lot of
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: key players.
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: Kyle Rawley has just not.
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: Clicked yet this year, and still our first place team.
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's a silver lining, there's no question about it.
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: But certainly not what we expected. They and frankly, it's
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: not what we're going to get. We're gonna they'll fix it.
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: They'll fix it in July and August. They always do.
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: And I still think we'll win the American League West.
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: But what's the alphabet going to do for us today?
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: We're at the very end of the alphabet. We're at
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: the end of the Seahawks one series. We're at the
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: end of the alphabet here today? Why is for Young?
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: And I know he keeps popping up, but Cole Young's
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: obviously have been a big part of this team so
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: far this season. But I'm not bringing him up for
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: his exploits in Pittsburgh or his Gold Club defense at
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: second base. I'm bringing him up because we officially now
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: know he is not going to be a starter in
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: the All Star Game. I had suggested that, who knows,
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: maybe he slips in there at one point because the
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: competition at second base in the American League was not
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: all that rich.
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: But I did update that about a week ago. I said, hey, I.
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: Overlooked Ernie Clement and all of this, and it looks
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: like he's going to end up being the starting second
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: baseman and he deserves it in a group of American
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: League second base that's not all that great. He had
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: a very good year last year. He's having another very
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: good year this year. He's a really good player, and
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: he's a guy that I like watching play baseball. But
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: I never ever in a million years pictured that Ernie
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: Clement utility player until this season starting second baseman for
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: the Toronto Blue Jays, who I would imagine, even though
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: he played them last year in a really big series.
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: There are a few people listening right now that have
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: no idea who I'm talking about. He's not exactly a
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: household name. And yet in Phase one of Major League
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: Baseball's All Star voting, where they take all the votes
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: and then they whittle it down to just the top
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: two vote getters, and then they'll have Phase two, then
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: the entire all the world gets to vote on those
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: two choose one or the other to be the starter
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: in the All Star Game. There is this little caveat
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: to it, and that is, whoever gets the most votes
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: in each league, the most overall votes is exempt from
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: any sort of Phase two competition, and the National League
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: Shoheo Tani. Of course, why wouldn't he be the biggest
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: vote getter, right, We've never seen anything like him, So
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: he's exempt from Phase two. He's going to be the
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: starting DH in the All Star Game in the American League.
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: The exempt guy is Ernie Clement.
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: What on earth in a million years, I would have
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: never predicted that Ernie Clement would be the leading vote
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: getter in all of the American League. Over Judge, over Trout,
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: over everybody. Ernie Clement got more votes than anyone else
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: in Phase one of this process. Now, part of it is,
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: like I said, a little bit of the lackluster competition,
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: but the bigger part of it is all of Canada stuffed.
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: The ballot box.
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: Every single Phase two challenge features a blue Jay except
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: for Ernie Clement, who's already in. Every single blue Jay
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: that was on the ballot made it to Phase two. Well,
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: not everyone. There was an outfielder that didn't, but Jesu
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: Sanchez and Dalton var Show, Alejandro Kirk who's been out
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: longer than cow and he got more votes than Dylan Dingler,
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: who might be the MVP for goodness sake of the
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: American League right now from the Detroit Tigers. So Canada
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: has stuffed the ballot box for this process. So now
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: I really am I do really call upon you all
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: to help me out on this. If you vote, I'm
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: not saying you got to go out of your way
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: to vote, but if you vote, please vote against Canada.
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: I don't want to see one more Blue Jay starting
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: in the game because none of them deserve it, none
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: of them have earned it, none of them are having
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: good seasons. Ernie Clement's having a pretty good season, but
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: nobody else deserves to be a starter in the American
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: League All Star Game, including Flag Guerrero. So this okay.
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: Canada beat all of the individual Major League cities, but
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: there's no way they can beat America at this. So
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: all other cities need to rally together and make sure
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: that Blue Jays don't get voted in to the All
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: Star Game. I don't want eight Blue Jays starting in
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: the All Star Game.
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: I mean the Major League Baseball doesn't want eight Blue
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: Jays starting in the All Star Game.
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: It does show you Major League Baseball doesn't cook the
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: numbers on this, which a lot of people have accused
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: them of, because there's no way Major League Baseball wonted
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: all those Blue Jams. No in phase two. But I
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: do think they have cooked the numbers. I think they
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: will get in the way of six seven Blue.
• 23:40
  Speaker 5: Jays, I think, and I think they should.
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: I think they should too.
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: Frankly, if it was based on skill, okay, then that's it.
• 23:46
  Speaker 5: But you can't just yeah, go fluff in the ballots.
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: Don't fluff the ballots. That's right, don't.
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: Fluff your ballot Canada, Come on, man, bunch of ballot fluffers,
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: ballat fluffers. Finally, Zea's for zero and and I don't
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: have as much time. I'm glad I already did this
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: once here this morning. But apparently we have zero chance
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: to win a baseball game after the sixth inning down to.
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: That's what our organization, that's what our manager has decided
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: that we can't win when we're down to with only
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: three innings left to play. That's the way that he
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: manages his bullpen, and it is why Alex Hoppey, who
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: is struggling by the way mightily, has pitched seven times
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: more than Gabe Spire, our hottest reliever since June ninth.
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: Over the course of the last seven days, Gabe Spire
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: has pitched a grand total couldn't be hotter, by the way,
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: couldn't be better.
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: He's never been better in his entire life at pitching.
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: But over the span of the last sixteen days of
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: Mariner Baseball, Gabeespier has thrown a total of one and
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: one third innings. He has thrown, brace yourself, a total
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: of fifteen pitches and sixteen innings. Because our manager has determined,
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: when we're trailing, we don't put in one of our
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: best four relievers. And sometimes when we're winning, we don't
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: put him in because the starting pitcher just hands it
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: off to Moon Jos and that's the game. But when
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: you are sitting there crying about I don't have this
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: guy available and I don't have that guy available from
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: night tonight, and then you look back and he said, well,
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: you've completely wasted our best bullpen piece. The last two
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: and a half weeks, he's only pitched an inning and
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: a third. Meanwhile, Alex Hoppi has pitched seven and two
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: thirds innings.
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: There is no excuse, no excuse.
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: I don't care what the score. You don't even have
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: to tell me what the scores were. There is no
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: breaking it down to show me where I'm wrong on this.
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: There is zero.
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: Excuse to be in the middle of the year where
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: your worst relief pitcher that you have on the team
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: right now is pitching seven times more over the span
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: of two and a half weeks than your best relief pitcher.
• 26:12
  Speaker 5: I would agree with that zero explanation for it.
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: I don't think it's going to get fixed.
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: I don't know why it isn't fixed by now, but
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: I'm really worried it's not going to get fixed. I
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: just don't think. And Dan has a lot of great
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: qualities as a manager, this is not one of them.
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: I don't think he gets it. I don't think he
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: knows how to do it. I just don't.
• 26:34
  Speaker 5: He hasn't proven that he does yet, that's for sure.
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: He seems lost. Ocho is coming your way at eight o'clock.
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: We'll talk more about it coming up next. I know
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: we've already talked about this a couple times this morning,
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: but and this Jason Robertson thing, it can hurt you,
• 26:48
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• 27:29
  Speaker 2: I'd be curious from a Seattle perspective, because you don't
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: really read this a lot in sports. I mean, even
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: though it does, you know, happen behind the scenes, it
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: doesn't happen all that often where you find out, Hey,
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: a trade was made, a deal of significance was offered,
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: and the player just said, Nope, I don't want to
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: do that. I don't want to go there. I don't
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: want to play there.
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: And that's you know.
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: You read it about the Cleveland Browns and your reaction is, yeah,
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: it's silly Brownstans, You'll never be good. But when it
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: hits home, when it hits yourself, they are like, Hey,
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: what's the deal, What's wrong with me?
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: What's wrong with us?
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: And that's what Jason Robertson did last night, not just
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: to the Krack, and he did it apparently to Ottawa
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: and the Saint Louis Blues. During this process and to
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: the Dallas Stars with whom he's played for the last
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: several years and at a star level.
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: Now, this is where Ashley.
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: I gotta ask you this because I know this town
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: more so than any other town I've ever lived in,
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: been in, spent time in man. When you say you
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: want to be here, when you're Felix Hernandez and you
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: have a chance to go somewhere else, like, no, this
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: is where I want to be. I know how much
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: more loved that player becomes here. So does it on
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: the opposite end of the spectrum? Logically, does it hurt
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: a Seattle fan even more since the love shown to
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: you feels even more lovable?
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: On the other end, So on this end of the spectrum,
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: does it hurt even more when a player says, no,
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: I don't want to play there?
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it feels because we got We used to get
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: rejected a lot, like no one wanted to come here, right,
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: and so that's why it felt so special when somebody did.
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: You're like, oh, actually, like us, this is really neat
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: because we're up here in this corner of the country
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: and nobody has wanted to come here before, but you do,
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: and that's special. And then when someone someone says no,
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: I don't want to go there. Yeah, it's like, all right,
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: well we didn't want you anyway, man, even though we did.
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: But I do think in the Jason Robertson case, knowing
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: that it wasn't just us helps helps a lot, it's like, Okay,
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: it's not a Seattle thing. And it's clearly it's not
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: just a money thing because he was offered a lot
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: of money. He was offered more money by Seattle than
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: he was by Dallas. Yeah, he turned Dallas down, he
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: turned Autawa down, he turned Saint Louis down.
• 30:03
  Speaker 5: So he's probably got a place might.
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: Very specific police in mind. Or maybe it is like
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: Dylan Larkin. We just had Mike Benton tell us Dylan
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: Larkin has three place. He gave a wish lists three places.
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: These are the ones that I'll accept the trade here
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: mm hm. And so maybe that's the same thing Robertson
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: has going on. I mean, I sort of I kind
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: of respect it. I don't like that he didn't come here.
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: It would have been a nice piece to add to
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: this team, but I kind of respect that. I mean,
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: I am somebody that has ranted about baseball players under
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: Scott Boris, sacrificing all the principles, all the things that
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: they had on their wish lists for where they wanted
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: to play their baseball once they became a free agent,
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: and just taking the biggest offer. I still criticized C. C.
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: Sabathia to this day, even though he ended up loving
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: being a Yankee, went into the Hall of Fame as
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: a Yankee and does not regret his decision. I mean,
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: I just at the time, he said, I want to
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: go back to the West Coast and I want to
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: be in the National League because I like to hit,
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: and back then pitchers hit, and you know, years ago.
• 31:07
  Speaker 5: Back in the days of YR.
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: So those were like his wishes.
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: I want to be in the National League because I
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: want to hit, and I want to be on the
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: West Coast. And he chose the Yankees right because they
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: gave the biggest offer, and he let his agent talk
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: him into taking the biggest offer. If you've got a
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: professional athlete today that says this particular city is the
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: best for me my family, this is where we want
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: to live. That's the team I want to play for.
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: I kind of respect that. Unfortunately, though we ended up
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: getting run over in the Jason Robertson California Quest or
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: whatever he's on. He just kind of blew past us,
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: even though Jason Botchrel offered a huge offer. So you know,
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: it stinks, and it was alarming at first, but it
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: sounds like Jason Robertson has a specific location in mind.
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and we have to take the positive that Botrel
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: Winnan took a big swing.
• 32:06
  Speaker 5: So I like that.
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: As he pointed out earlier, he's got the permission to
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: do that, to go ahead to do that.
• 32:10
  Speaker 5: I like that. So let's see what they come up
• 32:12
  Speaker 5: with next.
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and it might happen today, might I mean say.
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: Please don't trade Shane, right, thanks, I gotta give a
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: jersey away tomorrow.
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: They offered the seventh overall pick, so we still have
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: that for now, but we won't at five o'clock today,
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: we won't have that pick anymore. So we'll see if
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: they pull off something of significance between now and that pick.
• 32:31
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