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Chuck & Buck 2-19 Hour 3: Cal Raleigh, Hugh Millen and Spring Training shenanigans. · Chuck in the Morning

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Speaker 1: It's talking about sports Radio ninety three point three k
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Speaker 1: j A r FM or Spring training coverage continues from Peoria,
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Speaker 1: Arizona and joining us now on the radio program A.
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Speaker 1: He is number twenty nine in the program, number one
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Speaker 1: in your hearts. It is how Raley joining us here
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Speaker 1: on Chuck and Buck.
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Speaker 2: How are you doing great?
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Speaker 1: Yeah?
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Speaker 2: Doing great? So Phil honor to be on here twice
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Speaker 2: and twice and what was it less of a month?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, you came on to talk about the Super Bowls.
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Speaker 3: Did you think you were going to get out of
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Speaker 3: this one?
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Speaker 2: Because yeah, I thought that was my one for the year.
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Speaker 1: Nope, no, No, I warned you. I warned you. I
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Speaker 1: tried not to harass you this week. I just kind
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Speaker 1: of figured you knew that we were going to want
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Speaker 1: to have you on, and so you'd come to us
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Speaker 1: when the time was right.
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Speaker 2: It was it was it was inevitable to be to
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Speaker 2: be to be honest.
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Speaker 3: It is so well, you know, there is a way
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Speaker 3: that you could have probably avoided this if you didn't
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Speaker 3: turn into a absolute superstar by hitting sixty dingers. Now,
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Speaker 3: I don't think you should go back and try to
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Speaker 3: redact that from history, because.
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Speaker 2: It's it's we'll make it. We're okay with that.
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Speaker 1: Good is your how long? Much longer? Though? Is your
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Speaker 1: to do list? I do want to know how much
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Speaker 1: we're inconveniencing you by having you on, because you seem
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Speaker 1: like a man in demand since we arrived here.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, no, Spring training is just honestly, it's a crapshoot.
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Speaker 2: For the first week or two, you got physicals, you
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Speaker 2: got everbody showing up different parts of the world, different schedules.
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Speaker 2: You know, you're saying, hey, everybody for first time, everybody
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Speaker 2: five minutes here or five minutes there. All I Meanwhile,
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Speaker 2: you're trying to get ready, you know, do stuff on
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Speaker 2: the field. You got media obligations, you got pictures, you
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Speaker 2: got brand stuff, you got all this stuff. You're trying
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Speaker 2: to get done. You want to get done super quilt,
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Speaker 2: but can't really do it until everybody gets in and
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Speaker 2: so it's just it's just a lot. But you know,
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Speaker 2: they do a good job here of getting us in
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Speaker 2: and out and you know, trying to get everything done
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Speaker 2: within the first couple of days, which is huge.
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Speaker 3: Just I mean, obviously jumping through the hoops that you're
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Speaker 3: talking about, all the stuff that you gotta do brand
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Speaker 3: stuff and taking pictures and photo shoots and all that
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Speaker 3: different kind of stuff. That's kind of the minutia that
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Speaker 3: you got to get done, and pretty soon that'll be over.
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Speaker 3: But when you are getting into getting out there catching
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Speaker 3: bullpens or taking some VP and whatnot, I mean, how
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Speaker 3: is everything feeling at this point, just kind of getting
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Speaker 3: back in with the groove with all the guys.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's good. My body feels good, strong. I feel
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Speaker 2: like I'm in a good spot. You know, same thing
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Speaker 2: every off season getting you know you're starting, and you
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Speaker 2: you know, you work your way slowly, lifting, running, conditioning, stretching,
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Speaker 2: doing the whole thing and just trying to get your
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Speaker 2: body ready incorporating baseball and and I feel good. Arm
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Speaker 2: feels good, swing feels good. I've gotten some live AB's in,
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Speaker 2: which is good.
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Speaker 1: You know.
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Speaker 2: I had to start obviously a little early for the WBC,
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Speaker 2: so started about a week or two earlier with everything
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Speaker 2: just to make sure that my body was gonna be
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Speaker 2: ready for that. And we're on a good, good ramp
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Speaker 2: process right now.
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Speaker 1: So how excited are you for that part of your
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty six to represent America and play for your
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Speaker 1: Team USA in this tournament coming up.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm very excited. I mean, anytime you get to
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Speaker 2: put you know, your country across your chess USA, you know,
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Speaker 2: you feel patriotic and get to do something that I've
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Speaker 2: never done before, and they'll be amazing. And it's something
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Speaker 2: bigger than just you know, yourself or or your team
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Speaker 2: or whatever it is. It's it's a whole country thing.
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Speaker 2: So it's and it's makes me very proud, and I'm
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Speaker 2: looking forward to trying to win the whole thing as
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Speaker 2: well as getting to be in a locker room with
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Speaker 2: so many great talented players.
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Speaker 1: What about facing Mariner pitchers as a hitter.
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Speaker 2: I know it's funny. Maybe Munos bizarre. No, yeah, Brash
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Speaker 2: wasn't it He did back out? Uh So, I mean,
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Speaker 2: you know, I feel like I would know him pretty well. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: you know, knowing him and then executing off of them
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Speaker 2: is a whole different animals. So they're pretty good, They're tough,
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Speaker 2: tough to hit.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Is there any part of you that's I mean, is
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Speaker 3: anybody trying to hook you up with Hey, here's a
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Speaker 3: gift card, I don't know, Applebee's or something so that
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Speaker 3: you give, Like, is Cam zon't asking like you're gonna
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Speaker 3: let me know what's coming.
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Speaker 2: I'm more of a Chilies guy over chili. Okay, there's
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Speaker 2: no chili's up in this area. No, I got the
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Speaker 2: people know though. You want your baby back, baby back,
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Speaker 2: baby back. I love a good two for twenty deals.
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Speaker 3: You'd be talking to him when you're in the when
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Speaker 3: they're in the box, like, oh here comes here. I
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Speaker 3: wouldn't trust me.
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Speaker 2: No, I love messing with guys, especially in spring training
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Speaker 2: because it's all your buddies and stuff. Right, You're like,
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Speaker 2: oh man, the fast has got to be coming here.
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Speaker 1: Right.
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Speaker 2: And where you doublecross him, You're like, there's no way,
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Speaker 2: why would he shake to that bitch? And you get them,
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Speaker 2: get him thinking in their head and that's great, and
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Speaker 2: they're just like shut up.
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Speaker 1: Like cal Raley is never going to act like a superstar.
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Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure. I don't think mom and dad are
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Speaker 1: gonna let him do that, even though he is one.
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Speaker 1: But you do have to upgrade your Applebee's Chilis game.
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Speaker 1: I mean, you're making enough cash now that you couldn't.
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Speaker 2: No, I don't know. I mean I stick at work,
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Speaker 2: that's right. I mean it's crazy, you know, sometimes the
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Speaker 2: simplest things are just the best. I mean that's a fact.
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Speaker 2: You know. You get the two for twenty, you get
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Speaker 2: the side salad, get the entre, maybe dessert for a
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Speaker 2: drink from it. I'm still cheap. I'm still cheap at heart,
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Speaker 2: and I can't take that away from that.
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Speaker 1: Oh that's good. How much has it felt, though, like
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Speaker 1: your life has changed here in the offseason, I mean,
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Speaker 1: coming off the year that you just had. I mean,
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Speaker 1: obviously things got to be a little bit different in
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Speaker 1: your world. And what ways have they adjusted?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, just you know, it's been a little more busy
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Speaker 2: in the sense of, you know, just more people asking
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Speaker 2: for time and and things. And it's important to uh, obviously,
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Speaker 2: you know, do the things that are going to help
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Speaker 2: others and do make sure you're helping out with you know, team,
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Speaker 2: community and yourself. But at the same time, you can't
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Speaker 2: spread yourself too thin and and do everything and say
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Speaker 2: yes to everything you gotta There's a fine line there
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Speaker 2: because you know, at the end of the day, you know,
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Speaker 2: they only like me because I play well, So you
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Speaker 2: know that means I gotta train and I gotta do
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Speaker 2: all the things that I've I've done to get here,
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Speaker 2: so that's always number one priority obviously, and then the
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Speaker 2: rest of it, you know, when it's when it's convenient,
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Speaker 2: you know, it's it's it's good in moderation.
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Speaker 3: So I don't really want to ask this. I don't
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Speaker 3: really want to bring this up just simply because I
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Speaker 3: know it puts you in a position where you maybe
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Speaker 3: feel like you got to give the diplomatic answer and whatnot.
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Speaker 3: But I just want to say, just flat out, I mean,
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Speaker 3: I don't think it was I think you were the MVP,
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Speaker 3: and I mean, playing and simple. I think it's you know,
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Speaker 3: the sixty homers. Yeah, awesome what you bring to the
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Speaker 3: table on that side. But it's just as a former player,
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Speaker 3: to imagine what you go through behind the dish and
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Speaker 3: then to hear from your peers, your your pitchers, all
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Speaker 3: the work you put in to prepare to go back
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Speaker 3: there and receive and call games and whatnot. To me,
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Speaker 3: is as awesome as Aaron Judges' season was. Offensively, it's
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Speaker 3: not even a contest in my opinion. So I just
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Speaker 3: wanted to put that out there, let you know that.
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Speaker 3: I mean, I don't think that there's a lot of
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Speaker 3: people in Seattle that feel that way. And unfortunately, or fortunately,
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Speaker 3: I guess when now you go to cracking games, everybody's
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Speaker 3: still gonna chante.
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Speaker 2: No, people are great, No, thank you. You know it
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Speaker 2: was it was a fun year and we had a
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Speaker 2: good time and and obviously you're disappointed, right, I mean
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Speaker 2: you don't. No one wants to lose, No one wants
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Speaker 2: to coming second. And you know, it is what it is, uh.
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Speaker 2: I think I think just turning the page, and you know,
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Speaker 2: I appreciate what the year, what it was, and you know,
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Speaker 2: I'm glad that it happened and got to do some
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Speaker 2: really awesome things and we had a great team season
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Speaker 2: as well. And you know, go out there and try
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Speaker 2: to just you know, do what I did last year,
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Speaker 2: try to repeat it and not try to do too
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Speaker 2: much and not try to do more. I think that's
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Speaker 2: the key is, you know, I think the easy answer
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Speaker 2: is to try to go out there and hit more
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Speaker 2: homer or do more offensively, when in reality it's just
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Speaker 2: like no, just be consistent, do the same things every day,
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Speaker 2: help the team win and take it one about of
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Speaker 2: time and from there, you know you should be a
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Speaker 2: good spot.
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Speaker 1: So cal rally with us here on Chuck and Buck
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Speaker 1: in the morning here from spring training as we chat
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Speaker 1: with the Mariners catcher here again at spring training, an
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Speaker 1: annual tradition. All right, so I got to get your
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Speaker 1: two cents on watching Adam Jude over there catch Ryan
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Speaker 1: Divish right now, very similar picture to Andre's Munos Ryan Divish,
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Speaker 1: And I'm I guess you've heard about this, right that
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Speaker 1: he's going to catch a full bullpen session of Munosh
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Speaker 1: What uh what do you think that's going to end
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Speaker 1: up looking.
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Speaker 2: Like broken thumb? Probably? Yeah, I got a good doctor.
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Speaker 2: I brought my thumb, so I'll send him his way.
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Speaker 1: So, I mean, of all guys to choose, I mean,
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Speaker 1: it's Muonyos the most difficult one.
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Speaker 4: For you to catch.
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Speaker 2: Uh No, no, I would. I mean he definitely does artists, Yeah,
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Speaker 2: I mean, so that makes it very difficult. So but
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Speaker 2: Munyos can actually locate pretty well, so he does have
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Speaker 2: that going for him. But I don't know, I mean,
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Speaker 2: just watching a few of those, it wasn't too bad.
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Speaker 3: Like, yeah, they're coming at field, We're coming seventy sixty
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Speaker 3: eight miles an hour.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe not even I.
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Speaker 3: Asked him earlier today, I said, so have you been working,
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Speaker 3: have you been working, I mean, get it on on
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Speaker 3: turning the machine up. He's like, oh, yeah, we turned
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Speaker 3: it up yesterday and got in there and caught I said,
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Speaker 3: how fast ninety five? He's like, oh, it's probably eighty
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Speaker 3: eighty to eighty two.
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Speaker 4: I'm like, that's not one hundred.
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Speaker 2: You know, I think the four seem you know, he'll
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Speaker 2: be it'll it'll pop them pretty good. Be fine. But
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Speaker 2: if Muno's rips a two seamer sinker on them, I
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Speaker 2: think that might tear them up. That might be that
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Speaker 2: that might be the end of the day for for him.
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Speaker 2: So that and maybe maybe a slider in the dirt,
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Speaker 2: you know, yeah, you know, it's you know, the straight ball.
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Speaker 2: You know, eventually he could probably he's probably athletic enough
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Speaker 2: to catch up to it, but probably once you get
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Speaker 2: that thing diving and moving, yeah.
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Speaker 1: Fun, yeah, yeah, exactly.
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Speaker 2: It's good.
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Speaker 1: Well, what how the pictures look this year? Anybody's standing
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Speaker 1: out to you at this point or is it just
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Speaker 1: business as usual? You're so familiar with catching your especially
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Speaker 1: your starters, that I mean it's just like waking up
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Speaker 1: and eating breakfast.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I've got to know these guys really well.
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Speaker 2: I mean some of these guys been catching for the
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Speaker 2: whole time I've been here. I mean, somebody mentions it.
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Speaker 2: I think it's like eight six six eight spring trainings
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Speaker 2: I've been in now and I've been catching, So it's
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Speaker 2: kind of crazy. I've been catching some of these guys
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Speaker 2: that long. So you know, and I know these guys
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Speaker 2: really well. They're they're doing everything they need to do.
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Speaker 2: Everybody looks good. I mean, you know, we're just trying
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Speaker 2: to get everybody healthy, you know, healthy out of spring,
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Speaker 2: get your reps in, do what you need to do.
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Speaker 2: We already know what each of these guys are capable of,
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Speaker 2: so it's really just about going out there, you know,
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Speaker 2: getting the innings that they need, getting it under their belt,
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Speaker 2: getting acclimated to the season, getting that consistent, those consistent
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Speaker 2: reps in, and taking that into a full full one
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Speaker 2: sixty two. And like I said, from there, I mean, uh,
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Speaker 2: you know, you're gonna see some small tweaks that they're
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Speaker 2: probably adding. You know, each picture says.
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Speaker 1: There's there is one there is one major difference. They're
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Speaker 1: all producing offspring. Uh So I mean, how are you
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Speaker 1: gonna keep how are you gonna keep logan on task
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Speaker 1: when he's thinking about, you know, poopy diapers and what
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Speaker 1: have you.
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Speaker 2: Someone tells me that he's not changing any diapers. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: I said, I think I've changed more diapers in my
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Speaker 2: day than you have from my little brother when he
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Speaker 2: was growing up. So I think his wife is the
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Speaker 2: Saint Aveley. And and you know, something tells me that
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Speaker 2: she is handling a lot of the loads.
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Speaker 1: Okay, all right, and that's good with you. That's probably
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Speaker 1: the wise choice.
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Speaker 2: Hey, if he's you know, if he's throwing the ball,
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Speaker 2: well then we won't argue with it. Yeah, but if
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Speaker 2: he's not, then we're definitely gonna put him on diaper duty.
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Speaker 1: So that's good.
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Speaker 3: I mean, the last year you got to play what
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Speaker 3: sixty games or something probably with Naylor since he came over.
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Speaker 3: Gritty ballplayer. I mean, he's just like what you call
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Speaker 3: a ballplayer, the way that he goes about his business.
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Speaker 3: I think Brendan Donovan seems to me like another dude
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Speaker 3: like that. You're a guy like that. You can't be
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Speaker 3: a catcher, I don't think, and without having some grit.
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Speaker 3: And yet there's just a way that you go about
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Speaker 3: playing the game that's the right way. I mean, how
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Speaker 3: does it feel to continue to see more and more guys.
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Speaker 3: I mean, that's what you want your squad to be,
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Speaker 3: is just guys that go out there, you know, up
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Speaker 3: and down the lineup, that you just feel like are
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Speaker 3: gonna go to battle.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, I think in today's day and age,
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Speaker 2: you know, you see so many metrics, you see so
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Speaker 2: many exit vila velocity things like these, but you know
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Speaker 2: things that you can't quantify, you know, baseball. He plays
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Speaker 2: talking about savvy in the game, knowing how to run
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Speaker 2: the bases, how to hit with two strikes, do all
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Speaker 2: these things. That's what wins ball games. And that's why
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Speaker 2: I look at those two guys and what Naylor brought
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Speaker 2: to the team last year. You know, he's you know,
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Speaker 2: it's not the it's not the sexiest thing ever going
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Speaker 2: on there. He's not hitting you know, forty hit for
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Speaker 2: you home runs. He didn't have all these crazy, crazy
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Speaker 2: long distances with with exit vilos or homers. But the
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Speaker 2: guy uses all the field. He can hit the ball
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Speaker 2: at park, he can hit two strikes, he can hit
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Speaker 2: for average, he can do all these things. He run bases,
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Speaker 2: and like that's what that's what winning baseball is. And
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Speaker 2: and implementing that to the rest of our team. You know,
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Speaker 2: that's that's a really big deal. And Donovan seems like
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Speaker 2: that same type of player can play multiple positions, run
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Speaker 2: the bases, do do winning things that are gonna help us,
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Speaker 2: you know, win those few extra games a year that
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Speaker 2: we know are so important to put us where we
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Speaker 2: need to go and and help us win a championship.
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Speaker 1: So, Naylor, giving you the desire to steal thirty bases.
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Speaker 2: I would love to steal thirty bases. I don't I
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Speaker 2: mean if I can't be that much lower than him, right,
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Speaker 2: I mean, I mean last year, so, but that's instinct.
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Speaker 2: You can't you can't measure instinct. Yea, though, soame thing.
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Speaker 2: You just got to go more. Yeah, So the legs
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Speaker 2: get a little heavy there in those last two months. Unfortunately.
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Speaker 1: I don't think you've stolen at the end of the year,
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Speaker 1: did you.
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Speaker 2: No? I I was, I was. I came out of
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Speaker 2: the gate hot, but then after that it was it
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Speaker 2: wasn't what it was. So let's catch your legs and
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Speaker 2: shure you know about that.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, the challenge system this year, how big of a
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Speaker 1: just your thoughts on it? I mean, how are you
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Speaker 1: gonna approach it, do you get to say, have all
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Speaker 1: the say with it or what?
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Speaker 2: You know, It's something that's gonna get talked about, probably
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Speaker 2: a little more when we get into camps. So to me,
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Speaker 2: my first initial thoughts coming off of last year, you know, no,
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Speaker 2: like making the obvious ones, like all right, that's definitely
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Speaker 2: a strike challenging, and then the thing you also just
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Speaker 2: gotta be smart, like you can't be taking risks and
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Speaker 2: the first inning with nobody on base and uh, you
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Speaker 2: know a one oh counts that's completely different than seventh
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Speaker 2: inning bases loaded, you know, three two count That's what
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Speaker 2: I'm saying. Yeah, it's completely different. So I think it's
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Speaker 2: all just context. It's game awareness, game situation understanding that
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Speaker 2: trying to save them towards the end.
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Speaker 1: I don't know.
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Speaker 2: I've heard other teams talk about, oh, you need it's
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Speaker 2: more valuable if you use it early on. You don't
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Speaker 2: want to be left with them. It's just that's the
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Speaker 2: analytics part of it, and I just don't know if
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Speaker 2: I agree with that. But you know, we'll see how
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Speaker 2: it plays out. You know, I trust our guys, you know,
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Speaker 2: I trust our guys in the box, and you know.
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Speaker 2: To me, it's just like if it's egregious, challenge it,
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Speaker 2: if it's borderline and it's not that important part of
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Speaker 2: the game, then you know it is what it is.
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Speaker 2: You gotta you gotta take one for the team. You
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Speaker 2: gotta be a good, good team player. So that's kind
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Speaker 2: of how I'm gonna approach it.
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Speaker 1: So yeah, off from the picture catcher standpoint, though.
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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I mean, you know, I don't know.
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Speaker 1: Some I've heard are you gonna get angry if WU
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Speaker 1: challenges and is wrong when you didn't want to challenge.
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Speaker 2: I don't know. I so I've heard, I've heard different things.
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Speaker 2: People are like, you know, we don't let our pictures challenge.
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Speaker 2: Other people are like, you know, you know, if you
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Speaker 2: want a challenge, you can. To me, it's just about
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Speaker 2: an emotion and ego. You can't let emotion. You can't
16:43
Speaker 2: let ego get in the way just because you want
16:45
Speaker 2: to strike out or just because you thought it was
16:48
Speaker 2: a strike. But in reality, you know you're challenging and
16:50
Speaker 2: it's the fourth inning. It's not an important moment. You
16:52
Speaker 2: just it's an ego because you want it to strike out.
16:55
Speaker 2: It's just like it's just an understanding situation and being
16:59
Speaker 2: very very certain to me, especially early on in the game,
17:01
Speaker 2: so you know, I won't say anything. They get it right.
17:05
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, it just makes sense.
17:08
Speaker 3: You're another one falling off the mound after just you know,
17:12
Speaker 3: unleashing the pitch.
17:13
Speaker 4: You're back there receiving it.
17:14
Speaker 2: It just makes more sense trying to be objective, and
17:16
Speaker 2: I'm trying to be you know, I'm trying to you know,
17:19
Speaker 2: I think everybody's thinking that way too. It's like it's
17:21
Speaker 2: such a team oriented facet at the game now and
17:25
Speaker 2: it's going to be interesting, so.
17:26
Speaker 3: I think it's smart to I mean, just okay, everybody
17:29
Speaker 3: has free reign. You can do it, but you're only
17:31
Speaker 3: going to have a couple of mess ups before it's
17:32
Speaker 3: gonna be like you just let cow. If he thinks
17:35
Speaker 3: it's one and he understands the situation, then he's going
17:39
Speaker 3: to do it. We're just trust that you're going to
17:41
Speaker 3: have it. Just another thing on your plate. By the way,
17:44
Speaker 3: add that to the time you weight around here.
17:47
Speaker 2: And you said pictures.
17:49
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, we had that yes on Wednesday yesterday.
17:54
Speaker 2: Then yeah, yesterday yesterday.
17:56
Speaker 1: I think they're going to leave it all to you
17:58
Speaker 1: based on the intel, the I received, and I think
18:01
Speaker 1: they're okay with that, and I think that's probably what
18:04
Speaker 1: should happen.
18:05
Speaker 2: Frankly, Yeah, I mean, I'm sure I'm gonna hear it.
18:08
Speaker 2: I'm gonna miss one or I'm not gonna challenge one
18:10
Speaker 2: and they're gonna come back and they're gonna say something,
18:12
Speaker 2: and oh so it'll be. You just gotta be locked in.
18:15
Speaker 2: You gotta be locked in for every pitch, you know,
18:17
Speaker 2: just like a catcher. You should be you know, you
18:19
Speaker 2: should be dialed in. And it's just more of a
18:21
Speaker 2: reason that you have to be on your game every
18:24
Speaker 2: single pitch and you can't take pitches off because you know, guys,
18:28
Speaker 2: guys obviously you know we need wins, we need strikeouts,
18:33
Speaker 2: we need walks. So yeah, it's just it's interesting.
18:37
Speaker 3: I just got well, I just gotta say one more
18:39
Speaker 3: thing because I don't, I know, we're getting closer.
18:42
Speaker 1: We gotta let them go.
18:42
Speaker 3: But I you know, when I was coming up, When
18:48
Speaker 3: I was coming up, I had times when I would
18:50
Speaker 3: see my mother be asked what she was proudest about,
18:54
Speaker 3: and she would say it was when I would go
18:56
Speaker 3: over and I'd sign autographs or when I would talk
18:58
Speaker 3: to people. Uh, when I was being me, when I
19:01
Speaker 3: was being the young man that she raised more than
19:05
Speaker 3: when she got to see me jog around the bases
19:07
Speaker 3: and whatnot. So you know, we're you're you're getting ready
19:10
Speaker 3: to start another season after just having a monstrous year
19:13
Speaker 3: and becoming a really big deal and understandably so. But
19:16
Speaker 3: I just want to give you kudos, dude, because it
19:18
Speaker 3: seems like you haven't changed. You haven't, and that's just
19:22
Speaker 3: something you know, you might hope that you're not changing,
19:24
Speaker 3: and yet the world's change and you're hearing way more
19:27
Speaker 3: cow cow cow cal than you've ever heard before, and
19:30
Speaker 3: so you maybe feel like you're having to turn things
19:32
Speaker 3: down that you maybe wouldn't have five years ago when
19:35
Speaker 3: you're in the minor leagues.
19:36
Speaker 1: But I just want to give you kudos.
19:38
Speaker 4: It's as a just from.
19:39
Speaker 3: One guy to another guy that you don't seem to
19:43
Speaker 3: be changing between the years, and that's that's commendable.
19:45
Speaker 2: Thank you. I appreciate it. Yeah, it's uh, yeah, I
19:48
Speaker 2: cancel a little different in these days. Yeah, yeah, you know,
19:51
Speaker 2: it wasn't that long ago, and uh, you know, nobody
19:55
Speaker 2: was saying my name back here, so uh, it wasn't.
19:58
Speaker 1: I was just telling Alex wasn't that long ago where
20:01
Speaker 1: well I pointed to Bucket, I go, that's our catching prospect, right,
20:05
Speaker 1: there's six foot four h for goodness sake. And we
20:09
Speaker 1: were like, you want to come on, and you're like
20:12
Speaker 1: you want to talk to me, and you're a little
20:14
Speaker 1: shyer back then. Uh, but uh, Bucky's right. I mean
20:18
Speaker 1: you haven't changed your approach to all of this, and
20:20
Speaker 1: it's commendable.
20:21
Speaker 2: I appreciate it.
20:22
Speaker 1: Yeah, so's that embarrass you now? We embarrass him just
20:26
Speaker 1: like we did what six seven, eight years ago? We're
20:28
Speaker 1: embarrassing them a little bit.
20:29
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's probably didn't know my name back then.
20:31
Speaker 4: We did, we did.
20:33
Speaker 1: We love cal before anybody else loved cal Is cow.
20:39
Speaker 2: Wich.
20:41
Speaker 1: We knew you were a big picture not going to
20:45
Speaker 1: make this bulletin board material. But what do you think
20:48
Speaker 1: twenty twenty six brings to the for the Seattle Mariners
20:51
Speaker 1: and Cal Rawley.
20:51
Speaker 2: Yeah, we've you know, I've been asked this question a
20:54
Speaker 2: few times, and you know, I don't think we're scared
20:58
Speaker 2: to say World Series. We're not. I think in the
21:00
Speaker 2: past there's been there's been this perception of you know,
21:04
Speaker 2: we're young, we're we're hungry. We want you know, we
21:07
Speaker 2: want to prove ourselves and and you know, not that
21:10
Speaker 2: we did per se last year, but you know, we
21:13
Speaker 2: we made it too close to the end. And you
21:16
Speaker 2: know it's it's uh, it's commendable, but obviously that's not
21:20
Speaker 2: what we want to do. And I think after leaving
21:23
Speaker 2: last year with a bad taste in our mouth, you know, guys,
21:26
Speaker 2: guys aren't afraid to say we want to win the
21:28
Speaker 2: World Series. We want to you know, get to the
21:30
Speaker 2: top of that mountain. And and you know it's something
21:33
Speaker 2: that you just gonna start putting out in the universe.
21:35
Speaker 2: It's one of those things where it's it's time. Its
21:37
Speaker 2: time to take that step forward and and to set
21:39
Speaker 2: those expectations high. And we know, we know stuff. We
21:43
Speaker 2: know it's it's gonna be a long season. There's gonna
21:45
Speaker 2: be a lot of ups and downs, but ultimately that's
21:47
Speaker 2: the goal we're trying to get to. And and uh,
21:50
Speaker 2: you know we have to we have to be able
21:51
Speaker 2: to accept that and and look at it in the
21:53
Speaker 2: eye and then and then go for it. So that's
21:55
Speaker 2: what we're trying to get to.
21:56
Speaker 1: We're not gonna drop an f ballright, No, No, no, that's.
21:58
Speaker 2: That's for the postseason.
22:01
Speaker 4: Win the whole mother fluffing thing.
22:04
Speaker 1: That's right, have a great year. Thank you so much appreciated.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, well, can you beat this? I mean they're not
24:39
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24:45
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24:47
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24:50
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24:52
Speaker 6: but my my bald ginger dome is in the shade.
24:55
Speaker 1: Yeah.
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24:58
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25:05
Speaker 6: great to see you here, no question about it. You
25:08
Speaker 6: decide to come out and watch a little ball today. Well,
25:11
Speaker 6: you know, I figure if if history is any indicator
25:15
Speaker 6: for the last several years, you know, softy or fatal
25:18
Speaker 6: leave and then in for vacation in June, you know,
25:23
Speaker 6: the slowest time of the year, and then they're gonna
25:25
Speaker 6: call me, hey, can you come fill in for a
25:27
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25:30
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Speaker 4: Obviously we're gonna be talking. Marriner. It's good to get
25:33
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Speaker 6: And you know, one of YouTube jokers may be on
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Speaker 6: a little piece.
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Speaker 1: In the morning.
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Speaker 6: So I just kind of know how this thing rolls
25:44
Speaker 6: from time to time. So uh and you know, with
25:47
Speaker 6: the young pictures, UH want to get my on them.
25:50
Speaker 6: I just love to to watch the you know, the
25:53
Speaker 6: kind of the kinetic chain. You know, Mari arn Rivera
25:57
Speaker 6: is the smoothest looking picture I've ever seen, and Brian
26:01
Speaker 6: wu ain't far behind, right, you know, and then there's
26:04
Speaker 6: you guys like Clayton Cursaw that you know, just make
26:06
Speaker 6: my eyeballs bleed when he throws us. It's like the
26:10
Speaker 6: Philip Rivers, Philip Rivers, the Dan Fouts of pitching. Yeah,
26:15
Speaker 6: it turns out it is hard to find band aids
26:17
Speaker 6: for your eyeballs, so you know, I try and avoid that,
26:19
Speaker 6: but you know, I just want.
26:20
Speaker 4: To see how these guys throw it around.
26:23
Speaker 1: Well, before long, I'll be assigning Leo Revos tape study.
26:27
Speaker 1: All right, all right, we're gonna take it to the
26:29
Speaker 1: next level for yuh. So, yes, our QB one is.
26:32
Speaker 5: Here, so why not take advantage?
26:34
Speaker 1: And I do want to kind of ask you a
26:35
Speaker 1: question because obviously NFL is king in American sports, and
26:40
Speaker 1: we treated as such. Bucky and I are bigger baseball
26:42
Speaker 1: fans than we are football fans, but it's certainly number
26:46
Speaker 1: two on our our list as well, and a pretty
26:49
Speaker 1: close number two for me. But you obviously are our
26:53
Speaker 1: football guy, and I would just ask you. I mean,
26:56
Speaker 1: we just had Cal Rawley on the airwaves, and despite
26:58
Speaker 1: the fact that NFL is I think i'd argue that
27:01
Speaker 1: the Seattle the Seattle Superstar is a baseball player, Cal Raley.
27:07
Speaker 1: That happened with Ken Griffy Junior once upon a time.
27:10
Speaker 1: But did you think that we'd ever see that again?
27:13
Speaker 1: Considering how big a deal the NFL is, and even
27:17
Speaker 1: though Major League Baseball is a huge deal too, it's
27:19
Speaker 1: certainly second on the pegging order.
27:21
Speaker 6: Well, you mentioned Griffy, and there was times there was
27:25
Speaker 6: other you know, Alvin Davis was big Ruper Jones I
27:27
Speaker 6: think was when I was a kid. He was kind
27:30
Speaker 6: of beloved, probably more for his name than anything else.
27:33
Speaker 6: You know, you just roop, you know, it's like you're
27:35
Speaker 6: booing out there with the roup haulers. But Griffy wasn't
27:40
Speaker 6: just the king of Seattle. Like, I think Griffy is
27:44
Speaker 6: the only player in the history of Seattle Professional Sports
27:50
Speaker 6: where you could say unequivocally that dude is the best
27:53
Speaker 6: in the sport. And there was a period of a
27:56
Speaker 6: couple of years in the mid nineties maybe, you know,
27:58
Speaker 6: I don't know, two, three, four, whatever the I don't
28:01
Speaker 6: know the exact number, but there's no question in my
28:03
Speaker 6: mind that that he was the premier not just player,
28:07
Speaker 6: but a track figure in in all of baseball. And
28:12
Speaker 6: to my there there's never been a Sea Hawk that
28:15
Speaker 6: you could argue that, right, Yeah, And and so okay,
28:19
Speaker 6: of the Seahawks, Now, who's the number who would be
28:21
Speaker 6: the number one contender? If you if if if it's
28:24
Speaker 6: not cal Rawley, if cal Rawly is not doesn't own
28:27
Speaker 6: Seattle Professional Sports right now, who would be the Sea Awk?
28:30
Speaker 4: I don't even know how to answer that.
28:32
Speaker 1: I'd probably say JSN, But I think the gap is huge. Yeah, Frankly,
28:36
Speaker 1: it is.
28:36
Speaker 6: I think the thing about cal Is is there's just
28:40
Speaker 6: so many aspects of of who he is and how
28:44
Speaker 6: he plays the game that are so damn likable, you know,
28:47
Speaker 6: I mean, he's a humble guy, hard work, you know,
28:50
Speaker 6: you know, there's a toughness back there. That great you
28:53
Speaker 6: know is is he logging as many Indians as any
28:55
Speaker 6: catcher in the league. I meany you know, you know,
28:59
Speaker 6: it's always accountable. He's stuck up for the team at
29:01
Speaker 6: the right time, you know when you know he got
29:04
Speaker 6: a gotten hot water service. So he's pushing the edge
29:06
Speaker 6: of trying to, uh to be the spokesman for the team.
29:11
Speaker 1: Uh.
29:12
Speaker 4: You know, he's just so dog unlikable and you know,
29:15
Speaker 4: and and you know he doesn't you know, he can't
29:17
Speaker 4: run great.
29:17
Speaker 6: You know, it's like his skill, it seems in an
29:20
Speaker 6: oddly of course it's not accessible to all of us,
29:23
Speaker 6: but we feel a relatable is probably a better way
29:26
Speaker 6: it's to describe it. You know, he's handsome, but not
29:31
Speaker 6: you know, not in a in a Brad Pitt kind
29:33
Speaker 6: of way that dudes get yell like he's like these guys,
29:36
Speaker 6: he's like perfect in every way, you know, for a
29:40
Speaker 6: guy to be able to for all of us men, women,
29:42
Speaker 6: all of us sports fans, to be able.
29:44
Speaker 3: To root for I mean you I know, you had
29:46
Speaker 3: one year when you were twelve that baseball was yeaumber
29:49
Speaker 3: one and ever and then football has taken over and
29:51
Speaker 3: rightfully so that's why you're a big deal. You're the
29:53
Speaker 3: guy that we bring on as much as we do
29:56
Speaker 3: for your football knowledge. But I mean, I think there's
29:58
Speaker 3: a cool uh correlation between the catcher and the quarterback.
30:03
Speaker 3: There's I mean there's different obviously completely different sports and whatnot,
30:08
Speaker 3: but there's there's nobody on a baseball field that touches
30:10
Speaker 3: the ball more than the catcher. It's not there's nobody
30:12
Speaker 3: that's involved more, yeah, than the catcher. There's nobody that
30:15
Speaker 3: sees the game the way that the catcher doesn't. That's
30:17
Speaker 3: very similar to a quarterback. Do you when you watch
30:19
Speaker 3: Cal Rawly, do you see him as the quarterback of
30:22
Speaker 3: this auto marriage?
30:23
Speaker 4: Yes, in that way.
30:24
Speaker 6: And and you know wide receivers sometimes you know, they'll
30:27
Speaker 6: bark about, hey, I know all three positions, you know,
30:30
Speaker 6: to the quarterback you kind of check. You go, dude,
30:34
Speaker 6: you know, will they make us get up on the
30:35
Speaker 6: white board and draw every person's assignment? You know, the
30:39
Speaker 6: lineman on an overfront, the lineman on an underfront, well
30:42
Speaker 6: you know, a baar front, like like stop it.
30:45
Speaker 4: But you know, obviously catchers need to know it.
30:47
Speaker 2: That.
30:47
Speaker 6: I think where I was drawn to col probably three
30:52
Speaker 6: Springs ago. I know it would be in a podcast.
30:56
Speaker 6: It was watching the bullpen session. So here at Puria
30:59
Speaker 6: for those and I'm sure you guys have described it,
31:02
Speaker 6: but but there's we got the beautiful baseball, the entire diamonds,
31:07
Speaker 6: the entire fields, and Field one and Field two are
31:10
Speaker 6: in proximity. But just then, right over our shoulder is
31:13
Speaker 6: a is a bullpen session? Now it's not it, And
31:17
Speaker 6: there's a roll of what about six pitches mountains, yeah, right,
31:21
Speaker 6: and and then there's a roof over that, and then
31:24
Speaker 6: there's obviously six home plates corresponding on the other.
31:27
Speaker 4: Side, and there's a roof over that. Well, right behind
31:30
Speaker 4: that you can go.
31:31
Speaker 6: There's a chain links fence about halfway up and you
31:37
Speaker 6: can stand right behind. You know, if you have a
31:40
Speaker 6: media access, you can stand right behind the catcher. So
31:44
Speaker 6: you're in a position that's damn near like the homeplate umpire.
31:48
Speaker 6: Now it's a it's a few feet further back, but
31:50
Speaker 6: it's not many feet further back. So we we can
31:54
Speaker 6: stand there and we can we can watch the pitchers.
31:57
Speaker 6: Well mostly we're watching the arm. But what I had realized,
32:02
Speaker 6: and I'd spent a lot of time watching, is how
32:05
Speaker 6: the catchers relate. And you know, I've made an observation. Man,
32:11
Speaker 6: Cal looks like a tight end that I used to
32:14
Speaker 6: throw to. This is a big freaking dude. And Ford
32:19
Speaker 6: the kid, he looked like a kicker that I used
32:22
Speaker 6: to hold for, you know, like like the difference between
32:25
Speaker 6: the size in Cal, like.
32:29
Speaker 4: Big freaking dude. I was like, whoa, who is this guy?
32:32
Speaker 6: And yet what I what I noticed before Obviously this
32:36
Speaker 6: is pertains to now when he you know, he hit
32:38
Speaker 6: sixty bombs. But even as he was coming in, there
32:41
Speaker 6: was a certain there was a there was a nature
32:45
Speaker 6: to him where everybody was just drawn to him without
32:50
Speaker 6: him trying. He is just back there being him. And
32:54
Speaker 6: and he's been a leader for us, you know, several
32:57
Speaker 6: years here at least you know, two call it at
33:00
Speaker 6: least a minimum three years. And the way the pictures
33:04
Speaker 6: interrolate with him, it's just so obvious, like this is
33:07
Speaker 6: the dude.
33:08
Speaker 1: Right, and and.
33:12
Speaker 6: So he commands this respect without trying to get it,
33:15
Speaker 6: which is this odd dichotomy about leadership right in all industries, right,
33:19
Speaker 6: you know, the people that are most admired and most
33:22
Speaker 6: revered and followed are often the guy that isn't even
33:25
Speaker 6: thinking about trying to be followed.
33:27
Speaker 4: He just doing what he does naturally. And that's what
33:30
Speaker 4: I see from Col.
33:31
Speaker 1: Hugh Mellan is with us our qb ones come out
33:33
Speaker 1: to spring training to take in a little Mariner's practice
33:37
Speaker 1: here today, and we couldn't resist bringing him over to
33:40
Speaker 1: our set and popping them on the air. I do
33:43
Speaker 1: want to take some time a little bit later on
33:45
Speaker 1: as it permits to, and it will permit. I'm going
33:48
Speaker 1: to make it permit for you to talk to some
33:50
Speaker 1: Seahawks items, including the Seahawks sale, and while I have
33:54
Speaker 1: you here in the next two minutes, Yeah, maybe we
33:57
Speaker 1: don't have enough time to discuss this in two minutes.
34:00
Speaker 1: We can do it again later on. Speaking of guys
34:03
Speaker 1: that sort of had at least super Bowl stardom, Ken Walker,
34:08
Speaker 1: he's getting ready to enter free agency coming off a
34:11
Speaker 1: Super Bowl MVP. Yeah. I don't think he's in the
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Speaker 1: conversation for face of the Seattle sports scene like cal
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Speaker 1: Raley is, but nonetheless he's He's added a little bit
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Speaker 1: to his resume and added a little bit of intrigue
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Speaker 1: to his free agency process.
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Speaker 6: How hard should the Seahawks fight to keep this guy,
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Speaker 6: do you think, I think relatively hard. I think there's
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Speaker 6: a point where you'd say, no, we'll go somewhere else.
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Speaker 6: But you know, there's nobody in the club that that
34:37
Speaker 6: is your starting halfback. And you know, and particularly even
34:40
Speaker 6: if you wanted to argue a healthy Zach Sarbonne, I
34:43
Speaker 6: would say, no, that's not a number one running back
34:45
Speaker 6: to me.
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Speaker 4: To my eyes.
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Speaker 6: Then obviously coming off the ACL you're not going to
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Speaker 6: have him at the beginning of the year.
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Speaker 4: Who knows what he's going to be like.
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Speaker 6: You know, maybe it takes him an extra year to
34:57
Speaker 6: get back, maybe he'll never get back. So there's nobody
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Speaker 6: in house, you know, Georgie a lot like no.
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Speaker 2: No.
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Speaker 6: So that would either be okay, are you gonna draft somebody?
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Speaker 6: Feel comfortable? Are you really are you gonna use the
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Speaker 6: first round draft pick on a running back? Okay, even
35:13
Speaker 6: if you use a first round draft pick on a
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Speaker 6: running back, I don't. I don't know that there's anything,
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Speaker 6: uh that that's guaranteed in that regard, right, And then okay,
35:21
Speaker 6: how are you acquiring that guy? I think that because
35:24
Speaker 6: the salary cap is jumping up to three hundred million,
35:27
Speaker 6: I think the percentage of the cap. I think they
35:31
Speaker 6: could probably get something done Shawn Alexander, you know that
35:36
Speaker 6: kind of bit us in the butt after the two
35:39
Speaker 6: thousand and five season, signed him to a big contract
35:42
Speaker 6: and and and he went down in a hurry. But
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Speaker 6: I think I think he was older. I should know
35:46
Speaker 6: this off the top of my head, but I think
35:47
Speaker 6: he was older, pretty sure. Yeah, yeah, I know he
35:51
Speaker 6: was older. I don't I got I don't know. Maybe
35:54
Speaker 6: you can look up his birthday somebody here while we're talking.
35:58
Speaker 5: But but it's so the sun is show so bright,
36:01
Speaker 5: I can't even see my screen right now.
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Speaker 1: So I'll tell you that, Seattle.
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Speaker 6: But yeah, yeah, but you know we got you know,
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Speaker 6: Walker is is twenty five. And you know it's crazy
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Speaker 6: how I mean? I played with three Hall of Fame
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Speaker 6: running backs. Emma Smith played forever right, and he had
36:23
Speaker 6: the worst body of all. Eric Dickerson played for a while,
36:26
Speaker 6: but but by the time he was twenty eight or
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Speaker 6: twenty nine, like it broke my heart to watch him
36:32
Speaker 6: with the Colts because he was just laying down. And
36:36
Speaker 6: and then Terrell Davis only played seven years, so you know,
36:40
Speaker 6: you know, they just have a different timeline.
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Speaker 1: Yep.
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Speaker 6: And but I think Keneth Walker at twenty five. You know,
36:46
Speaker 6: I think Schnyder more often than not has been able
36:49
Speaker 6: to get team friendly deals. The question is, you know,
36:52
Speaker 6: is what does Walker want to come back? You know,
36:55
Speaker 6: is there the threat of a transition tag, threat of
36:57
Speaker 6: a franchise tag that is all you almost never used
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Speaker 6: by John Snyder, but the threat of it can be
37:03
Speaker 6: a leverage piece for them.
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Speaker 4: And then how much does he want to come back?
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Speaker 1: Yeah? You know, yeah, so EGX decision one of the
37:10
Speaker 1: first big decision of the All yeah, but I'll be
37:12
Speaker 1: you know, there's enough change going on.
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Speaker 6: We'll talk about it evidently want uh And then nine
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Speaker 6: thirty there's there's enough change going on.
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Speaker 1: I don't want to change running backs. All right, Well,
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Speaker 1: great to see you go have a little fun, go expo.
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Speaker 1: I hav a grabulator on in the show to talk
37:29
Speaker 1: about the Seahawks.
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Speaker 4: Really bad, really lousy timing for me to have to
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Speaker 4: go on after Cal and Dan. But keep up the
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Speaker 4: great work. That's awesome. You guys are hitting it huge.
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Speaker 5: Hue belling down here at spring training.
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Speaker 5: Oh man, what a show we've had here today on
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Speaker 5: this Thursday.
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Speaker 1: We knew it was going to be a big one.
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Speaker 1: Our fourth day out of five. Chuck Powell, Bucky Jacobson,
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Speaker 1: Chucking Buck in the mornings from sprying training here in Peoria, Arizona,
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Speaker 1: dom canzone back at six thirty, Dan Wilson at seven
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Speaker 1: point fifteen ish with Dan and then Cal Raleigh at
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Speaker 1: eight o'clock today coming up at nine o'clock. We've never
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Speaker 1: had him on our spring training coverage Andres Munios. He's
38:29
Speaker 1: always slipped through our fingers, sneaky fella. But today we're
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Speaker 1: gonna pin him down. He's locked it in Andres Munos
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Speaker 1: coming up today at nine o'clock here on Chuck and
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Speaker 1: Buck in the morning. So looking forward to having the
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Speaker 1: closer on right here on the old radio station. And look,
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Speaker 1: the thing that he's doing with Adam Jude is happening today.
38:54
Speaker 1: So it was I thought it was going to happen yesterday,
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Speaker 1: but it is happening today, and so I think I
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Speaker 1: think Jude's getting ready for it. In the other room.
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Speaker 1: He looks a little more nervous today than he did yesterday.
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Speaker 3: He should be nervous. Yeah, he should be quite nervous.
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Speaker 3: I was giving him benefit of the doubt early in
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Speaker 3: the week, thinking he'll be fine. I mean, it's not
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Speaker 3: that hard to catch a ball, right, I mean a
39:15
Speaker 3: straight one. It's just right there, it's coming right there.
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Speaker 3: Just put your glove there and it goes in. Butt
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Speaker 3: me catch a ball. And then he starts talking to
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Speaker 3: me about first he's going to frame it, doing the
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Speaker 3: down up frame thing that people like to do.
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Speaker 1: I'm like, don't do that.
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Speaker 3: That's much harder, much much harder to do than just
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Speaker 3: putting your glove there and trying to put it in
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Speaker 3: the way of the ball, trying to frame it make
39:38
Speaker 3: it look you're not there's nobody calling balls and stripers.
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Speaker 1: Don't do that.
39:43
Speaker 3: And he's like, no, I got it, dude. I'm like,
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Speaker 3: all right, never mind. I was giving you the credit.
39:46
Speaker 3: And then when I talked to him further, he's like,
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Speaker 3: I've been working I've been working out. Turn the machine
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Speaker 3: up the other day. Got it going pretty good. I'm like,
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Speaker 3: how hard, like ninety five ninety eight what he's like, like,
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Speaker 3: eighty eighty two, that's not hard.
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Speaker 1: That's like you're getting ready to get a hundo thrown
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Speaker 1: at you.
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Speaker 4: Eighty to one hundred is a big difference.
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Speaker 1: Yes, not just because it's a bigger number. Ninety five
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Speaker 1: to one hundred is a big difference.
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Speaker 3: It's it's a big difference when you're talking about how quickly,
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Speaker 3: how much quicker it gets on you. So yeah, I
40:19
Speaker 3: I now I'm in. I'm on team Chuck. I think
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Speaker 3: he should. If you can find a way to be
40:23
Speaker 3: behind a brick wall is probably his best bet. But
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Speaker 3: he's not gonna be able to do that.
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Speaker 5: Uh well, yeah, so that's going to go down a
40:31
Speaker 5: little bit later on here today.
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Speaker 1: As Yes, Adam Jude from the local newspaper has decided
40:39
Speaker 1: that he is going to catch Andre's munnos today in
40:42
Speaker 1: a bullpen session and then write an article about it. Yeah,
40:46
Speaker 1: Pete Woodman told us yesterday just to get the paramedics ready. Yeah,
40:50
Speaker 1: I think he can handle any kind of velocity. It's
40:53
Speaker 1: just that I don't think people realize one hundred and
40:55
Speaker 1: two with movement, because almost every major league pitcher has movement,
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Speaker 1: even on their fat balls. That's just a completely different thing.
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Speaker 1: Plus it's considered like the most unhittable pitch in the sport,
41:06
Speaker 1: andres Munio slider and so he's got to throw some
41:11
Speaker 1: of those. So we'll find out in our next in
41:14
Speaker 1: our next segment, just just how filthy Andre's plans to
41:18
Speaker 1: be in this session, and we'll also find out if
41:22
Speaker 1: he'll take any mercy on a beat writer who's getting
41:26
Speaker 1: ready to catch a bullpen session. So part of the
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Speaker 1: conversation we're looking forward to having with Andres Munjo's Finally,
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Speaker 1: the Closer will join us right here on Chuck and
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