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Chuck & Buck 2-18 Hour 2: A surprise visit from John Stanton! a two-for-one with Logan Gilbert and Bryce Miller and more! · Chuck in the Morning

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Speaker 1: Speaking of life blood that you gave blood today. Huh,
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Speaker 1: what's the matter if you're on steroids?
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Speaker 2: Who cares?
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Speaker 3: I mean, his mound visit is way too aggressive. We're
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Speaker 3: gonna test him.
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Speaker 4: I know why the Mariners have a two point two
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Speaker 4: three e r A. Their picture. Coach is on juice.
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Speaker 2: Coaches are juicing.
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Speaker 4: It's a new era of baseball, it really is.
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Speaker 2: I guess he's the other.
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Speaker 1: The boy, says Pete Woodworth, our first guest here this morning,
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Speaker 1: the all father of the pictures here on Pitcher's Day,
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Speaker 1: getting us started today. Look, even cal Raleigh came out
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Speaker 1: to sit out here sign some baseball's celebrate Pictures Day.
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Speaker 1: You know, nobody loves Pictures Day like cal Raleigh. He's
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Speaker 1: just shaking his head. He loves Pictures Day. He's uh,
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Speaker 1: he's just here. He wants to be around George and
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Speaker 1: Bryce and Logan when they join.
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Speaker 4: Us at the set here this hour. That's how supportive
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Speaker 4: he is a Picture's Day.
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Speaker 2: I don't think that's it at all. No, I think
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Speaker 2: he tolerates pictures. Yeah, he doesn't love pictures, tolerates day.
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Speaker 2: He just said every day is Pitcher's Day. Oh boy,
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Speaker 2: so yeah, so Cal's he's I'm just going to assume
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Speaker 2: that he's in the spirit of things. Yeah here today,
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Speaker 2: that's my assumption of Cal Raleigh. So welcome into our
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Speaker 2: seven o'clock hour here. It is the day number three
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Speaker 2: two of day number three, and yes it is a
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Speaker 2: Pitcher's Day celebration.
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Speaker 4: Brian Woo's gonna be joining us today.
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Speaker 1: At eight o'clock and we are expecting to hear from
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Speaker 1: George Kirby, Bryce Miller, and Logan Gilbert, all three of
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Speaker 1: them this hour and at any second now here at
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Speaker 1: our set at Peoria Sports Complex. But we'll get the
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Speaker 1: hours started as we typically do with some headlines for you,
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Speaker 1: brought to you by Frostbrewed Corp's Light Choose Chill Mare.
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Speaker 1: In the spring training first full practice held yesterday, and
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Speaker 1: speaking of George Kirby, I went and watched him. I mean,
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Speaker 1: you want to talk about getting thrown into the fire,
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Speaker 1: throws twenty five pitches. The four guys that he has
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Speaker 1: to face yesterday are Cal Raley, Julio Rodriguez, Randio Rose Arena,
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Speaker 1: and Josh Naylor.
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Speaker 2: Not exactly baby steps. Yeah, here you go, go get
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Speaker 2: it kid, Yeah, bueno swear. And on the other end,
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Speaker 2: I mean it's like second day of live hitting for
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Speaker 2: these guys, and it's like, hey, go have fun. It's
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Speaker 2: Kirby out there.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, enjoy that. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: And again there is really no break, there's no rest
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Speaker 2: when you facing any of these pictures.
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Speaker 1: And the pitchers tend to have the advantage early on
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Speaker 1: in this process for goodness sake.
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Speaker 4: I mean it's.
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Speaker 2: Understandably so yeah, I mean it doesn't matter how hard
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Speaker 2: you've been working out. You haven't been facing George Kirby
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Speaker 2: throwing live babies at you all off season. You've been
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Speaker 2: working on your swing, and now all of a sudden,
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Speaker 2: it's boom, you're thrown right into the fire. A lot
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Speaker 2: of these guys are getting ready for the WBC, so
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Speaker 2: that's kind of what you have to do, so there's
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Speaker 2: no baby steps getting ready for this thing. They don't
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Speaker 2: have a couple of weeks until it's.
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Speaker 1: Go time, and fourteen Mariners, I think maybe even fifteen
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Speaker 1: are going to be in the WBC. Nobody else has
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Speaker 1: more in the entire sport, so that speaks to the
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Speaker 1: talent that is on this roster within this organization this year,
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Speaker 1: so they're going to be affected by that dramatically. It
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Speaker 1: was good to hear from Pete Woodworth that.
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Speaker 4: He actually likes it.
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Speaker 1: He actually likes the WBC. It's not disruptive. He's not
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Speaker 1: worried about it, terrified about it like I think some
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Speaker 1: organizations are. He actually supports it and is very excited
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Speaker 1: for all the players to be there at the WBC,
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Speaker 1: which of course happens this season and spring training games
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Speaker 1: begin on Friday, so we're not too far away. Speaking
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Speaker 1: of being thrown into the fire, they're going to be
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Speaker 1: in game situations everybody coming up on Friday, so I mean,
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Speaker 1: it doesn't take much. You better be ready, you better
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Speaker 1: be in shape and ready to go. You better work
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Speaker 1: some in the cage in the offseason. The way that
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Speaker 1: they set up the schedule these day.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, the old days of showing up, you know, after
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Speaker 2: four months of you know, sitting on a bar stool
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Speaker 2: and not getting ready, thinking that's gonna happen in the
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Speaker 2: six weeks getting up to the season that is over.
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Speaker 2: These guys all are pretty look like they're pretty well
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Speaker 2: prepared physically. Now it's just a matter of getting the
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Speaker 2: reps in at more of a live game speed, and
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Speaker 2: so once the games get going, you can actually get
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Speaker 2: out there and you don't feel like you're you know,
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Speaker 2: knocking the rust off as much as you are just
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Speaker 2: trying to fine tune.
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Speaker 1: Everything to Clark is out at MLB PA head and
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Speaker 1: so they're in search of a new leader, and they're
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Speaker 1: closing in on one of the biggest negotiations in the
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Speaker 1: history of the sport, and we need to go that
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Speaker 1: thing to go smoothly. So I hope they get the
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Speaker 1: right guy in there. I hope he's he's willing to,
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Speaker 1: you know, be reasonable whoever they hire, because I don't
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Speaker 1: want any sort of work stoppage whatsoever as a baseball fan,
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Speaker 1: and certainly from a Mariners point of view. I mean,
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Speaker 1: you're entering a window of championship, championship window here, you've
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Speaker 1: already entered it. We can we can't afford to lose
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Speaker 1: one season, one half season, one postseason. That risk just
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Speaker 1: cannot occur on our watch. And so whoever they hire,
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Speaker 1: I hope he's very reasonable.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, bringing Bonyes, I think Bonyes is the next guy.
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Speaker 2: I mean, he's a guy I would like. He's a
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Speaker 2: guy that obviously has the respect of the players, and
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Speaker 2: I think he also has respect of the owners. I
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Speaker 2: think that everybody understands that he's a thoughtful guy, doesn't
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Speaker 2: just kind of go off on a whim. Whatever his
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Speaker 2: opinion might be, it's usually pretty well thought out. That's
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Speaker 2: just the first guy that popped in my head, and
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Speaker 2: ultimately he's one of the nicest guys that I've ever
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Speaker 2: met in baseball. So I think you want somebody that
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Speaker 2: kind of has, you know, a heart to him, because yeah,
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Speaker 2: there's more to this than just the player's side and
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Speaker 2: just the owner side. There's the fans side of this thing.
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Speaker 2: So I don't as much as i'm you know, probably well,
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Speaker 2: I'm definitely on the player side of things. I still
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Speaker 2: am thinking now I'm a fan, I don't I just
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Speaker 2: don't want to workstoppage, and unfortunately it feels like that
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Speaker 2: might be where it's going.
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Speaker 1: The NBA is breaking news Kyrie Irving's going to miss
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Speaker 1: the season as he's going to heal up from the
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Speaker 1: acl that he suffered, so he's not going to try
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Speaker 1: to make his return this year. The Olympics, of course,
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Speaker 1: continue from Milan. The US team is going to be
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Speaker 1: an Action a little bit later on today, back in
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Speaker 1: Action a little bit later on today. Looks like they're
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Speaker 1: on a collision course to face Canada for the champion
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Speaker 1: ship this year. Cal Raley big cracking fan. Yep, big
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Speaker 1: cracking fan.
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Speaker 2: He and Mule head out to the cracking games on
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Speaker 2: a regular basis. I'd like to see the dumper out
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Speaker 2: there on skates. Imagine he probably did goalie wearing all
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Speaker 2: the gear, probably be able to take the cord in
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Speaker 2: them to school.
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Speaker 4: There maybe maybe a little bit.
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Speaker 1: And finally, dw OC Jimmy Doherty has left the program.
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Speaker 1: Really no explanation as to why, but he is leaving
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Speaker 1: the program. I mean, Jetfish is pretty much the OC anyway,
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Speaker 1: but so maybe it was a difference of opinions. Maybe
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Speaker 1: it was just Jimmy Doherty trying to get out from
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Speaker 1: underneath that, who knows, but it was kind of an
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Speaker 1: odd timing to announce that Jimmy Doherty is leaving the program.
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Speaker 1: So Jetfish is in search of a brand new OC.
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Speaker 4: So there you go.
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Speaker 1: Those are your headlines here, brought to you by Frost
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Speaker 1: Brewed Corp's Light. We do have Reckless at Breakfast coming
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Speaker 1: up a little bit later on this hour. Logan Gilbert
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Speaker 1: at the bottom of the hour. Bryce Miller expected to
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Speaker 1: join us at any moment, and we're just not so
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Speaker 1: sure about George Kirby's whereabouts at this point, but hopefully
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Speaker 1: we'll be chatting with him soon as well. And the owner,
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Speaker 1: John Stanton is now walking up to a big man
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Speaker 1: to say hello, are you sir?
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Speaker 4: You are the big man? I think I think John
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Speaker 4: wants to talk curling.
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Speaker 2: When we get on from curling right now.
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Speaker 4: He's very nervous, big curling fan.
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Speaker 2: I actually got into curly this Olympics. I didn't ever before,
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Speaker 2: but I'm actually kind of into it right now.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, sitting here just talking to the owner, waiting on
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Speaker 1: pictures we're waiting on Pictures, john I'd have you put
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Speaker 1: the headsets on, but we're waiting on your pictures to
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Speaker 1: join us.
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Speaker 4: They're going to be arriving here any minute. It's Picture Wednesday.
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Speaker 4: That's right, Pictures Johnston knows it's Pictures Day.
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Speaker 2: It's not a holiday.
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Speaker 4: We stop encouraging.
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Speaker 2: I mean, I like pictures kinda, but they don't deserve
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Speaker 2: a holiday. They played once every five days. Yeah, there're
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Speaker 2: non athletes. Everybody knows that.
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Speaker 4: Santa shows up once a year and we make such
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Speaker 4: a big deal out of him.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, he's a big deal. We're celebringing the Lord every
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Speaker 2: Pictures are not doing that.
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Speaker 1: Now every five days seems like a pretty tight schedule.
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Speaker 1: If you ask me, compare to Santa make a big
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Speaker 1: deal out of that the Olympic. I'll give you that
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Speaker 1: the Pictures show up more often than the Olympics.
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Speaker 4: When the owner flies in so that he's here for
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Speaker 4: Pictures Day, then you know that it is a big
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Speaker 4: deal period.
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Speaker 2: Okay, well you know what if I guess if Stanton
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Speaker 2: is calling it Picture's Day, then I'll go with today
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Speaker 2: and only today he's christened it. Yeah great, Yeah, thanks
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Speaker 2: a lot, Stanton. Yeah, I haven't seen one first Baseman day,
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Speaker 2: not one. How about a DH day that even rolls
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Speaker 2: off the tongue DH Day.
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Speaker 1: Edgar's here, Yeah, I saw Edgar Edgar. I saw him
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Speaker 1: for the first time here today.
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Speaker 2: G Edgar would think that we need a d H
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Speaker 2: Day over Picture's Day.
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Speaker 4: So the man is here.
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Speaker 1: Look so look look at all these dignitaries that have
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Speaker 1: shown up here, hall of famers, owners, everything else. And
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Speaker 1: uh and still we wait on Bryce Miller to appear
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Speaker 1: from around the corner. I mean, I got the owner
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Speaker 1: standing right here, John Stanton, and we're still just waiting on.
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Speaker 4: I think, yeah, we might have to do that.
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Speaker 1: Uh so, uh anyway, Happy Pitcher's Day to everybody out there.
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Speaker 4: And you're not gonna go anywhere, are you, because we
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Speaker 4: do want to talk to you.
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Speaker 2: Come on, he's blinking. It's nice to be here. Come on,
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Speaker 2: you know you can talk to us. I don't ask,
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Speaker 2: We don't ask crazy stuff. Good people were baseball fans.
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Speaker 2: We like what you're doing. Yeah, you're not gonna pear
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Speaker 2: pressured me into anything, youngster, right, all.
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Speaker 1: Right, okay, well at least throw the headsets on for
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Speaker 1: two minutes, Will you do that for us? Will you
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Speaker 1: joined right now? Okay, all right, we're gonna put him
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Speaker 1: on right now while we wait for Bryce. All right, yeah,
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Speaker 1: John Stanton out joins us here at ours.
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Speaker 2: We're waiting just for pictures since it's a holiday nowadays
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Speaker 2: that we have to celebrate.
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Speaker 3: Pictures determine the pace of the game.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, so it's appropriate you would wait.
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Speaker 3: For them to determine the pace of your broadcast.
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Speaker 2: Okay, okay, Stan you you know what you're onto something there.
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Speaker 2: They are determining the pace of this one. And you
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Speaker 2: know what, if you didn't want to put the headsets on,
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Speaker 2: you can blame it on your pictures because if they
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Speaker 2: were out here on a punctual manner, you wouldn't have
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Speaker 2: to be on here. That's right.
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Speaker 3: I think we've got the best pitching staff in the
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Speaker 3: Major League Baseball and I'm excited about it. And if
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Speaker 3: if Bryce decides he's going to show up now, that's great.
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Speaker 3: If he shows up at nine o'clock, that's fine with
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Speaker 3: me too.
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Speaker 2: Okay, as long as he shows up when it's just
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Speaker 2: turned to step on the bump?
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Speaker 3: Is over that five days?
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Speaker 4: That's right now.
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Speaker 1: When you had to play ball, when you were a kid,
11:53
Speaker 1: were you a pitcher, you were a hitter.
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Speaker 4: I was the first baseman, all right.
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Speaker 3: I speed was not my tool when I was playing,
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Speaker 3: But I got cut from my team when I was
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Speaker 3: in junior high school?
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Speaker 4: Is that right? And look, it motivated you to become
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Speaker 4: a financial success.
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Speaker 3: I don't know if that's what motivated me to do
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Speaker 3: other things, but certainly I found other ways to fill
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Speaker 3: the time.
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Speaker 4: Well, how excited are you about this team this year?
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Speaker 3: I'm incredibly excited. I think that the energy that we
12:29
Speaker 3: had coming in from last season just ignited the city
12:35
Speaker 3: put us in a position where we could do some
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Speaker 3: important things in the offseason. Incredibly happy to see the
12:41
Speaker 3: Seahawks do so well, further evidence as to what a
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Speaker 3: great sports town Seattle is. And the idea of having
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Speaker 3: a World Series champion and a Super Bowl champion in
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Speaker 3: the same year is pretty special.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that might be a little intimidating, but it doesn't
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Speaker 1: feel that way. It feels motivating to everyone around here,
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Speaker 1: almost inspira rational to see them go on that run.
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Speaker 1: I mean, a lot of the Mariners players went to
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Speaker 1: the Super Bowl for goodness sake, to watch it, to
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Speaker 1: see the parade, to see the city get so electrified.
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Speaker 1: It feels like it is a source, not that you
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Speaker 1: guys needed it, but a source for inspiration for the
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Speaker 1: roster and the organization.
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Speaker 3: And to support our friends across the street. You know,
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Speaker 3: the job that the Seahawks have done has been fantastic,
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Speaker 3: and they embraced our players. We let them know that
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Speaker 3: some of our guys were gonna come down and they
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Speaker 3: included our players and some of their Super Bowl events.
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Speaker 4: That's great.
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Speaker 3: I do want to make sure we don't forget to
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Speaker 3: talk about the Cracking they've been They've been doing well
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Speaker 3: after a slow start, and hopeful that they're going to
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Speaker 3: be in the playoffs this year and World Cup's going
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Speaker 3: to be exciting. This is it's going to be such
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Speaker 3: a great sports year in Seattle.
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Speaker 4: I can't even believe it.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you just nail. I mean the World Cup
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Speaker 2: and then yeah, Cracking are looking like they could make
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Speaker 2: a run. They start the second half off or after
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Speaker 2: this Olympic break with a tough schedule, they can wade
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Speaker 2: through that they get into the playoffs and then yeah,
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Speaker 2: I think this is year for the World Series and
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Speaker 2: could be the best sports year that we've had in forever,
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Speaker 2: and wouldn't that be nice if it falls on the
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Speaker 2: fiftieth season of the Mariners.
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Speaker 4: Right after the fiftieth season for the Seahawks.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I've kind of seen.
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Speaker 3: It's just there's poetry there, I think.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, John Stanton with us here at our set, as
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Speaker 1: you never know what's going to happen during spring training coverage.
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Speaker 1: The owner stops by, I think he wants to talk
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Speaker 1: about curling, but I'm gonna punt that a little bit
14:27
Speaker 1: down the interview here and ask you for a few
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Speaker 1: more baseball questions. So when John Stanton sees what the
14:36
Speaker 1: Dodgers financially and Mets are doing out there, I mean,
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Speaker 1: what is your reaction to seeing how much they're spending
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Speaker 1: compared to everybody else in the sport.
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Speaker 3: I think Dodgers have done a great job. I mean,
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Speaker 3: they've created a two time champion team and we're going
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Speaker 3: to defeat him this year, which is exciting for me.
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Speaker 3: I think that the dynamic is that, you know, different
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Speaker 3: teams have rises and falls in the in the standings
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Speaker 3: over time. Dodgers are doing a great job.
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Speaker 2: Right now, how about I just want to ask something
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Speaker 2: about cal Rawley since she's sitting over there. I mean,
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Speaker 2: MVP or I mean, should he have stepped it up
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Speaker 2: a little bit? I mean sixty homers. I'm thinking, you know,
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Speaker 2: if he would have gotten to sixty five, I think
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Speaker 2: if he would have got sixty five homers, if you'd
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Speaker 2: have thrown out every base dealer and if you'd have
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Speaker 2: hit three fifty.
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Speaker 3: Should have stole maybe one hundred bases.
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Speaker 4: That's true.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean he didn't even beat nailor and stolen
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Speaker 2: basis right last year, he didn't get to thirty sixty
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Speaker 2: sixty season, I'm almost certain they'll get him in there.
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Speaker 2: What do you think I am the MVP.
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Speaker 3: I think cal has emerged as a leader not only
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Speaker 3: within the on the field, but in the clubhouse for
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Speaker 3: the team. He was one of that gang that went
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Speaker 3: down to the Super Bowl, and I think he he's
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Speaker 3: recognized his role as a leader and doing terrific things
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Speaker 3: for us. And I think, uh, you know, it's hard
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Speaker 3: to it's hard to duplicate a season like he had
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Speaker 3: last year. But by the way, if he only hits
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Speaker 3: forty home runs, he'll he'll still probably lead all of
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Speaker 3: the American League, maybe all of baseball catchers in home runs,
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Speaker 3: So you know, he's he's done a terrific job, and
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Speaker 3: I'm excited about it.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, explain your your ride through.
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Speaker 1: Josh Naylor arrives fan base, instantly falls in love. He
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Speaker 1: seemed to instantly fall in love with Seattle, and then
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Speaker 1: you know the brief the conversations that you had with
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Speaker 1: Jerry and Justin about his importance going forward, and then
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Speaker 1: how quickly he agreed to terms with you. I mean
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Speaker 1: that was the first move of the off season. So
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Speaker 1: just explain it. From John Stanton's point of view, the
16:54
Speaker 1: Josh Naylor experience thus far here in Seattle.
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Speaker 3: I think it starts with the role he played on
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Speaker 3: the field. You know that when he showed up, which
17:03
Speaker 3: was I think around the twenty fifth of July. You know,
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Speaker 3: we were we were dragging just a little bit, and
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Speaker 3: he came in and really lit a fire. Remember those
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Speaker 3: stolen bases. You know, you look at the guy, all
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Speaker 3: due respect, I love the guy, but you look at
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Speaker 3: the guy and you know, it's kind of like thinking,
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Speaker 3: Bucky's going to steal a base. Whoa, it's not going
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Speaker 3: to happen, and he does it. You know, he's steals second.
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Speaker 3: Then he still stole third. I think in the first
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Speaker 3: game that he that he played. You know, he came
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Speaker 3: up with clutch hits. You know, I give him a
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Speaker 3: hard time sometimes because he's kind of got that grumpy
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Speaker 3: look on his face most of the time when he's
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Speaker 3: down there. I went up to him with some trepidation,
17:49
Speaker 3: I think the day after he arrived and introduced myself
17:53
Speaker 3: to him, and he had a big smile on his face.
17:56
Speaker 3: I mean we we talked. His wife was pregnant with
17:59
Speaker 3: their first child, and we talked about that a little bit.
18:01
Speaker 3: And you know what it's like to play baseball with
18:05
Speaker 3: your brother, and you know, to the kinds of and
18:09
Speaker 3: Frankie his love for hockey, right, I mean he and
18:12
Speaker 3: he and Depoto I think like hockey better than like baseball.
18:16
Speaker 3: They just happened to be talented in baseball. Uh and
18:20
Speaker 3: you know so, so in the off season it was
18:22
Speaker 3: important for us to uh uh continue to strengthen the team. Uh.
18:27
Speaker 3: First base was obviously a hole for us, and getting
18:32
Speaker 3: Josh to uh to sign was important. I Jerry probably
18:38
Speaker 3: told you the story, but I'll tell you what he
18:40
Speaker 3: told me.
18:41
Speaker 2: Uh.
18:41
Speaker 3: He and Justin flew down to have lunch with Jerry
18:45
Speaker 3: for excuse me, with Josh. Josh's wife and the new
18:49
Speaker 3: baby all came to the lunch. They looked up and
18:53
Speaker 3: it was like four o'clock and they were still sitting there.
18:56
Speaker 3: Almost missed their plane on the way back because the
18:59
Speaker 3: conversation was thorough. Josh had done all kinds of research,
19:02
Speaker 3: particularly on some of our prospects. You know, he talked
19:06
Speaker 3: about what he could do to help our players get better,
19:10
Speaker 3: the kinds of things you want, asked Jerry, and justin
19:13
Speaker 3: some tough questions about what our plans were. And uh,
19:18
Speaker 3: he he brought an insight and an intellect to the
19:22
Speaker 3: game that I think to the conversation that that mirrors
19:26
Speaker 3: what he does in the game.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, he's been a great addition, the guy
19:30
Speaker 2: that I've wanted for a couple of years, and I
19:32
Speaker 2: didn't even realize the grit that he brings. And and
19:35
Speaker 2: yet I think you got you have to have that.
19:37
Speaker 2: I mean, you have to be feeling better about Cayl
19:39
Speaker 2: brings it. Even when Cal was young, he was kind
19:42
Speaker 2: of he was gritty, and yet he would do it
19:45
Speaker 2: in kind of a quiet way. I lead through a
19:47
Speaker 2: little bit quiet. Now he gets to kind of he
19:49
Speaker 2: can kind of say what he wants to say. A
19:50
Speaker 2: little bit more, but I think you've you've added that
19:53
Speaker 2: with Josh Nail. I think you've added some of that
19:55
Speaker 2: with Brendan Dottoman as well. He seems like he's got
19:58
Speaker 2: that same type of grit.
19:59
Speaker 3: And you guys did a terrific interview with him. I
20:03
Speaker 3: think you actually did it on Monday, but it broadcasts yesterday,
20:07
Speaker 3: and I was really impressed. I haven't had a chance
20:09
Speaker 3: to talk to him yet, but I'm excited. And I
20:12
Speaker 3: think that some of the things you've brought out in
20:14
Speaker 3: the interview, the you know, growing up in a military family,
20:18
Speaker 3: and a certain amount of discipline, the you know, but
20:21
Speaker 3: with the long hair and a certain amount of creativity that's.
20:25
Speaker 2: Implied by that.
20:26
Speaker 3: I think he he brings an accountability that I think
20:34
Speaker 3: is also common to a lot of our players. You
20:37
Speaker 3: and we talked about Josh and and and Cal. It's
20:39
Speaker 3: for common to others, but holding each other accountable, whether
20:43
Speaker 3: you're in business or in baseball around the radio, you know,
20:47
Speaker 3: that's the that's the key to success.
20:50
Speaker 1: John Stanton joining us here, very happy that he sat
20:53
Speaker 1: down put on the headsets with us here at the
20:56
Speaker 1: spring training And I won't keep you for too much longer.
20:59
Speaker 1: But I do have to add ask you about this
21:01
Speaker 1: curling fandom that I hear that you have. How much
21:06
Speaker 1: curling have you watched at the Olympics and you would
21:09
Speaker 1: you like to start a curling fantasy league with me.
21:13
Speaker 3: Well, my one one of my one of my close
21:17
Speaker 3: friends and I went to the twenty ten Olympics up
21:20
Speaker 3: in Vancouver and we had a package of tickets. He
21:25
Speaker 3: was a sponsor of one of the Canadian freestyle teams
21:31
Speaker 3: and he he had tickets to a bunch of different events,
21:35
Speaker 3: one of which was curling, and he and his wife
21:39
Speaker 3: and my wife and I went to the curling venue
21:43
Speaker 3: and and just both of us just fell in love
21:45
Speaker 3: with it. And the next day I said to Tim, hey,
21:50
Speaker 3: what if we get some more tickets to curling so
21:53
Speaker 3: I don't have any more, I've went and scalped some
21:55
Speaker 3: tickets for and bought some tickets off the street back
21:59
Speaker 3: when there were paper tickets, And we went to curling
22:02
Speaker 3: a couple more times. And the fun part of the
22:05
Speaker 3: story is my friend has a clothing company and he
22:08
Speaker 3: sponsors curling. Now, he went to the to the US
22:11
Speaker 3: curling team and he said, you know, he'd be happy
22:14
Speaker 3: to to to sponsor him, and they said, could we
22:17
Speaker 3: get free clothing out of that? So you know, it's
22:19
Speaker 3: not It's not like Nike showing up with tens of
22:23
Speaker 3: millions of dollars for the track team. So I've watched
22:28
Speaker 3: most every match. It's been a little tough being down
22:31
Speaker 3: here uh uh to uh to to see the matches.
22:36
Speaker 4: But we're we're close.
22:37
Speaker 3: The women are I think five and three now one
22:41
Speaker 3: match left, and in the round robin tournament men are
22:45
Speaker 3: four and four. That doesn't look so good for us,
22:48
Speaker 3: but both would be great performances, and after mixed doubles,
22:52
Speaker 3: you know got to silver medal. It's curling is on
22:57
Speaker 3: the rise.
22:58
Speaker 2: Ill I was watching it, I pulled hip flexer just
23:01
Speaker 2: watching them slide down in the ice yesterday.
23:04
Speaker 4: Have you participated in it? Have you ever done it?
23:06
Speaker 4: I am not OK. Would you be a sweeper or
23:09
Speaker 4: a hip flexer person? Coach?
23:13
Speaker 3: I think that's the role that I would play. Never
23:17
Speaker 3: get the slick shoes on. No, I think it'd be
23:20
Speaker 3: a lot of fun. But when I saw the I
23:24
Speaker 3: think all of the men on the men's team for
23:27
Speaker 3: the US are under thirty, and I saw one of
23:29
Speaker 3: them do one of those way up in the air
23:32
Speaker 3: and then fall right on his hip falls yesterday, and
23:36
Speaker 3: I thought, you know, I wouldn't get up as easily
23:38
Speaker 3: as he would. I'd probably need a new hip as
23:40
Speaker 3: a result of that. So I think it's best that
23:42
Speaker 3: I maintained my status as a fan. I do have
23:46
Speaker 3: to say I'm excited about the fact that the alternate
23:51
Speaker 3: got into one of the matches for the men. So
23:53
Speaker 3: we have a fifty seven year old curler, oldest American Olympian.
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Speaker 1: Well, thank you for hosting us. It's always great coming
24:03
Speaker 1: down here, excited about this season.
24:05
Speaker 4: And what do you say we host a World Series
24:09
Speaker 4: this year.
24:10
Speaker 3: I think that looks sounds like a lot of fun. Hey,
24:12
Speaker 3: thank you guys for being here. You guys help us
24:16
Speaker 3: get people focused on baseball season. It's funny you're sitting
24:21
Speaker 3: here in puffy jackets and little chili, but baseball is
24:28
Speaker 3: just around the corner, and I'm hoping all the fans
24:31
Speaker 3: in Seattle are going to enjoy the season that we're
24:33
Speaker 3: going to have.
24:33
Speaker 4: On the field. I think we are. Thank you, John.
24:36
Speaker 1: Thanks John Stanton, owner of your Seattle Mariners.
24:40
Speaker 4: Will continue. We're gonna round up some pictures here.
24:42
Speaker 1: We gotta find out what in the wild wild West
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Speaker 1: is going On Sports Radio ninety three point three kJ RFM.
24:48
Speaker 4: Logan's here on time. Yeah, that's right. I blame the
24:51
Speaker 4: blood test would meet. He was taking his time in
24:54
Speaker 4: a lot. Chat it up. Bryce Miller and Logan Gilbert
24:59
Speaker 4: with us here at are set at spring training. Good
25:02
Speaker 4: to see you guys, Thanks for having us. Good to
25:04
Speaker 4: see again.
25:04
Speaker 1: Happy pictures day. Did you get each other something? Did
25:07
Speaker 1: you buy a gift for each other?
25:10
Speaker 5: We're celebrating privately. I'm expecting a gift later. We'll see
25:15
Speaker 5: the young guys. The young guys usually get something for
25:17
Speaker 5: the older guys. That's how it works.
25:18
Speaker 4: Yeah, some respect, Miller's something nice.
25:22
Speaker 2: You get them some you can get them some wet wipes.
25:24
Speaker 2: That's all you have to get for new parents, diapers
25:26
Speaker 2: or wet wipes.
25:27
Speaker 4: True, that'd be a big deal right now.
25:30
Speaker 1: Well, I do want to talk about your personal lives
25:31
Speaker 1: a little bit. Uh scale from one to ten. How
25:34
Speaker 1: good of a poopy diaper changer?
25:35
Speaker 2: Are you? Logan?
25:36
Speaker 4: Uh, you don't know. I know what you're talking about.
25:41
Speaker 5: I probably started about it two and I think I'm
25:44
Speaker 5: up to a five or six.
25:46
Speaker 4: You know, we're not improving. It's about the daily grind.
25:49
Speaker 2: You don't believe it, Bryce, I don't believe it.
25:51
Speaker 5: It's all practice. I'm getting all over the place, all right.
25:54
Speaker 5: You don't know what's.
25:55
Speaker 6: The what's the the diaper changing ratio?
25:58
Speaker 4: You and Aveley? Who does more?
26:03
Speaker 5: I do all the ones that I see, So I
26:05
Speaker 5: don't know how many she does? You know, Like sometimes
26:08
Speaker 5: I'm in sleep, so I don't know.
26:10
Speaker 4: Did you change one? Did you change five? I know
26:13
Speaker 4: you think your son's only pooping when you're awake.
26:15
Speaker 2: Is that it?
26:16
Speaker 4: Like, I'm really helping out here. She probably did like
26:18
Speaker 4: fifteen behind the scenes.
26:21
Speaker 3: Uh.
26:22
Speaker 1: And what about you Smiley over there? You got engaged
26:25
Speaker 1: this year I did. How romantic did you make it?
26:28
Speaker 4: Ah? Pretty good? I think? Yeah?
26:30
Speaker 6: Yeah, I did it on a hike about two weeks
26:35
Speaker 6: ago now a week and a half. Took care of it.
26:38
Speaker 6: So I got that over with. Now she's got some
26:41
Speaker 6: she's got a job.
26:41
Speaker 2: To do, like it's a chore. Yeah, down and check
26:47
Speaker 2: your playing the rest of it? When's that happening? This
26:51
Speaker 2: next offseason should be? Yeah? All right?
26:54
Speaker 1: Then you can come to uh spring training next year
26:57
Speaker 1: with your own baby.
26:58
Speaker 4: I thought Logan had a new workout toy.
27:00
Speaker 1: It had legs and arms, and then it turns out
27:03
Speaker 1: it was your son.
27:04
Speaker 4: It's good for the arms. Yeah, that was out. I'd
27:07
Speaker 4: be you next year.
27:08
Speaker 6: I don't know about that. I think might have to
27:10
Speaker 6: hold off a little bit. But I'll just watch him
27:12
Speaker 6: take notes.
27:13
Speaker 1: He's the babysitter for now, is it, Uncle Bryce? I
27:17
Speaker 1: asked Brian? Is it Uncle Bryce? And Uncle Brian and
27:20
Speaker 1: Uncle Cal?
27:20
Speaker 4: Is that what it is? Right now? I'm the baby holder.
27:23
Speaker 5: Some of them have been trying to push it. I
27:25
Speaker 5: saw a picture of him holding him the other day.
27:27
Speaker 5: I didn't feel very good about it. It was like
27:29
Speaker 5: he was hugging a football or No.
27:31
Speaker 6: I got to the good five minutes of holding in
27:34
Speaker 6: past them.
27:34
Speaker 2: One quality you smell, you smell something funky. He's like,
27:39
Speaker 2: all right, there you go. Yeah, I've had enough.
27:42
Speaker 4: That's when you handed to missus, Gilbert, That's when that happens.
27:45
Speaker 4: Lower him. He says, if you see it, they'll do it.
27:48
Speaker 4: We good, Gilbert.
27:49
Speaker 1: Bryce Miller with us here on the picture's day. Well
27:52
Speaker 1: let's talk some pitching. I'm gonna start with you.
27:54
Speaker 2: Bryce.
27:55
Speaker 1: Obviously you had a little bit of injuries so last year.
27:58
Speaker 1: But by the end of the year, I mean, my goodness,
28:00
Speaker 1: what a postseason performance by you, sir. So how are
28:04
Speaker 1: you feeling as we get started. What did you do
28:06
Speaker 1: differently to maybe change things.
28:08
Speaker 4: A little bit for yourself? Yeah?
28:10
Speaker 6: I didn't know going into the off season if I
28:13
Speaker 6: was gonna need to, you know, get this stuff taken
28:15
Speaker 6: care of, or what our what our plan was. And
28:20
Speaker 6: the way the year ended, that was the best I felt,
28:23
Speaker 6: you know, all season and talking with the team, talking
28:27
Speaker 6: with doctor Meister down in Texas.
28:30
Speaker 4: We just told me to leave it alone.
28:32
Speaker 6: And I don't touch anything that you don't that doesn't
28:36
Speaker 6: have any any symptoms or whatever. So if it's not bothering,
28:39
Speaker 6: you don't touch it. And so, yeah, I had a
28:43
Speaker 6: normal off season. It spelt one hundred percent. Put a
28:47
Speaker 6: couple of pounds on a little muscle.
28:50
Speaker 4: Yeah, worked on.
28:52
Speaker 6: Worked on getting getting the cutter, working on some sliders
28:58
Speaker 6: and stuff, getting everything tuned back up. Now that I
29:00
Speaker 6: had a it was kind of weird having an off
29:03
Speaker 6: season where I wasn't coming off of like a career
29:06
Speaker 6: high in innings, I wasn't coming off of feeling completely
29:10
Speaker 6: beat up. Just with how my season went so I
29:14
Speaker 6: had a healthy off season for the first time in
29:16
Speaker 6: a couple of years, So that was cool. But no, everything,
29:20
Speaker 6: everything feels really good right now. I'm ready to ready
29:22
Speaker 6: to get on the mount good.
29:24
Speaker 4: How about you, Logan, which part the off season? Yeah?
29:28
Speaker 2: Just you?
29:28
Speaker 4: How are you feeling? Yeah? Feeling good? Yeah, honest, feeling good.
29:35
Speaker 5: Kind of had a good reset, take some time off
29:37
Speaker 5: in the off season, just ran back up. It was
29:39
Speaker 5: a pretty normal off season for me. Nothing crazy, just
29:42
Speaker 5: kind of fine tuning things, trying to get back to
29:45
Speaker 5: whatever the very best is.
29:47
Speaker 2: So neither one of you like invented new pitches, because
29:49
Speaker 2: I mean usually you come in like, well, now I
29:51
Speaker 2: throw a knuckle up. Shoot, uh, watch this one, gyro good,
29:58
Speaker 2: this really cool one. Now it's it's kind of an
30:00
Speaker 2: alley Oope, I call it. No you don't. You guys
30:03
Speaker 2: didn't come back with any new pitches.
30:06
Speaker 4: Not really.
30:08
Speaker 5: I mean we're always messing around, probably with a couple
30:10
Speaker 5: of things here or there, but I feel like to
30:14
Speaker 5: actually make it to the game would be like I'm
30:17
Speaker 5: working on something and I think there's a pretty low
30:19
Speaker 5: chance that Cal gives the okay on So it was
30:23
Speaker 5: just kind of side projects.
30:25
Speaker 1: Yeah, speaking of okaying things, So, how is it gonna
30:28
Speaker 1: work the ABS challenge system this year?
30:31
Speaker 4: Does Cal get to do everything Logan or I feel
30:34
Speaker 4: like he's going to challenge every pitch? I don't know.
30:36
Speaker 6: I attempted one last year in spring training. I was like,
30:40
Speaker 6: all right, let me try this through a fastball away.
30:43
Speaker 6: I was like, that had to be a strike. Challenge it.
30:46
Speaker 6: I turned around, it was like six inches off the plate.
30:49
Speaker 4: I was like, all right, maybe I'll leave that for Cal.
30:53
Speaker 2: How about you, Logan? Do you? I mean? I think
30:56
Speaker 2: Woody might have mentioned something today that you might be
30:58
Speaker 2: staring at center field when the ball crosses home.
31:00
Speaker 5: So, yeah, it's usually tough for me to get a
31:02
Speaker 5: good look at it. They're so good at framing too.
31:04
Speaker 5: They fooled me every time out there, and pictures are
31:07
Speaker 5: pretty greedy. We think everything's a strike, yeah, and then
31:09
Speaker 5: they frame it and take it to the middle of
31:11
Speaker 5: the zone and you're like, that had to at least
31:13
Speaker 5: catch the edge, and then, like he said, it's six
31:15
Speaker 5: inches off. So I probably won't be challenging small chance.
31:19
Speaker 5: I do every once in a while, but I think
31:21
Speaker 5: Cal for the most part, will handle that.
31:23
Speaker 1: What he also, you had me ask him about his
31:26
Speaker 1: full pin session. He ragged that he did pretty well.
31:30
Speaker 1: Would you tell us the truth?
31:31
Speaker 4: He did?
31:32
Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, it was pretty funny at times, but he
31:35
Speaker 5: did pretty well.
31:36
Speaker 4: He still has it.
31:36
Speaker 5: And I think he was joking too, because Cal gave
31:41
Speaker 5: him one of his gloves that has the platinum patch.
31:44
Speaker 5: Like there's not many of those in the world. He
31:46
Speaker 5: said he left it at the Little league fields one
31:48
Speaker 5: day when his son was up there, and then when
31:51
Speaker 5: we didn't have a catcher and he showed up to
31:52
Speaker 5: watch me. So he ended up catching and he like
31:54
Speaker 5: ran to the car real quick and all of a
31:56
Speaker 5: sudden brings back his platinum catcher's glove. It's like acting
32:00
Speaker 5: like it's no big deal. But he lived up to
32:02
Speaker 5: the patch for sure.
32:04
Speaker 2: I'm good. That's good. I mean, coming off from last
32:07
Speaker 2: year's use you guys got, and yet I'm sure that
32:10
Speaker 2: you know at the end of it, you weren't feeling
32:12
Speaker 2: as good as you were expecting the field that fuel
32:15
Speaker 2: you guys into the offseason. I mean just thinking about
32:18
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, for a little bit at least,
32:19
Speaker 2: just thinking, all right, we're getting back there. We know
32:22
Speaker 2: that what we're capable of one of you.
32:26
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think so it was good and bad, Like
32:29
Speaker 5: obviously you want to win it all, but you can
32:31
Speaker 5: turn it all for good for motivation. It was really
32:34
Speaker 5: great the experience we had and being so close to
32:36
Speaker 5: the top, but also the closer you get, the harder
32:39
Speaker 5: it hits when you fall. And so I think there
32:41
Speaker 5: needs to be a period of reset and like sitting
32:46
Speaker 5: that for a little bit and then you get back
32:47
Speaker 5: to camping. Now it's like it's a new page.
32:49
Speaker 2: Right we go.
32:50
Speaker 4: Yeah, for sure.
32:51
Speaker 6: I mean we were, like he said, so close, and
32:54
Speaker 6: we didn't make any of the series easy, you know,
32:57
Speaker 6: game five, Game seven, but you know, just knowing the
33:02
Speaker 6: whole clubhouse felt like, you know, if we should have
33:07
Speaker 6: been in the World Series and we would have had
33:08
Speaker 6: a chance also and uh to take down Dodgers. And
33:10
Speaker 6: I think it's going into this year just gives us
33:14
Speaker 6: a little a little more, you know. The last couple
33:16
Speaker 6: of years it was all over one game short of
33:18
Speaker 6: just making it. Yeah, and now it's like we're two
33:22
Speaker 6: innings away from you know, being being in the World
33:25
Speaker 6: Series and giving us a chance.
33:27
Speaker 4: So yeah, I think we're all ready to go.
33:31
Speaker 1: Is Raleigh gonna pull his own weight this year. You
33:33
Speaker 1: think as a teammate Bryce, what do you think.
33:36
Speaker 2: I don't know.
33:37
Speaker 6: He's he's getting big time on us.
33:39
Speaker 4: So yeah, oh that's terrible news.
33:43
Speaker 2: Yeah, sixty homers, I guess we'll do that to you.
33:45
Speaker 5: Yeah, he actually he's done something. It's crazy that he
33:48
Speaker 5: didn't get to sixty sixty club.
33:50
Speaker 4: I know, right, that's that's what we're just sixty ten,
33:53
Speaker 4: barely barely all right.
33:59
Speaker 1: So I mean, here we embark on this long road again.
34:04
Speaker 1: I'll ask you, Logan, I mean, I know a lot
34:06
Speaker 1: of you were doing some Seahawks watching. Was it an opportunity?
34:11
Speaker 1: Was it inspirational for you? Is it a little intimidating that, Hey,
34:15
Speaker 1: this was supposed to be our year. You guys weren't
34:17
Speaker 1: supposed to be this early. But what did you What
34:21
Speaker 1: did that do to you guys to see them.
34:23
Speaker 4: Win a championship? Was there some motivation that was attached
34:26
Speaker 4: to that?
34:26
Speaker 5: Yeah, for sure, feeding off them and what we did
34:29
Speaker 5: last year, not that we won it all, but it's
34:32
Speaker 5: pretty cool that then they follow that up with actually
34:34
Speaker 5: winning it all. And now I feel like the balls
34:36
Speaker 5: back in our court that we have to step up
34:38
Speaker 5: and follow that. And you know the fans are buzzing,
34:40
Speaker 5: They're going crazy, especially waiting for baseball, but huge football
34:45
Speaker 5: fans up there, so I feel like the whole town
34:46
Speaker 5: is just waiting for it.
34:48
Speaker 6: Yeah, good time to be a Seattle sports Yeah, no doubt, yeah,
34:52
Speaker 6: no doubt cracking or playing well?
34:54
Speaker 1: Yeah, Bryce, So WBC interrupt spring rating and everything else,
35:01
Speaker 1: But it's not going to affect either of the two
35:04
Speaker 1: of you. So so what how does it affect you?
35:07
Speaker 1: You're not gonna be in the game, But does it
35:09
Speaker 1: affect you at all this spring getting ready for the season.
35:12
Speaker 4: I don't think so.
35:13
Speaker 6: I mean I'll be tuning in seeing our guys, watching
35:17
Speaker 6: them compete, but other than that, just cheering them on.
35:23
Speaker 6: I mean, everything else should be pretty normal.
35:25
Speaker 2: Any trash talk is like master bony tone, you know,
35:29
Speaker 2: like Gerald Cow like bring it met tan can Zone
35:34
Speaker 2: talking trash anything.
35:35
Speaker 6: I told Dom he needs to he needs to slip
35:38
Speaker 6: col something in his locker, give him a fastball or something.
35:41
Speaker 1: Yeah, now with America Pride on the line, no chance
35:45
Speaker 1: put that on Slider.
35:48
Speaker 6: But I mean he's like, what he's gonna tell me
35:51
Speaker 6: that schoobls one o one oh one fastballs coming.
35:54
Speaker 4: I still got to hit it.
35:57
Speaker 1: You know, we were talking about that yesterday too. Man,
36:00
Speaker 1: what a series that that was that you guys, You
36:03
Speaker 1: guys always when you do things well, you don't make
36:06
Speaker 1: it easy on us.
36:06
Speaker 4: I mean, fifteen innings, what was that like?
36:10
Speaker 1: Just that excruciating process of being there, Logan and watching
36:14
Speaker 1: that game go, like pitch after pitch, out after out,
36:17
Speaker 1: inning after inning.
36:19
Speaker 4: With your season on the line. Yeah, we like to
36:21
Speaker 4: be dramatic. I think fans have been able to tell
36:23
Speaker 4: that for a while now.
36:25
Speaker 5: Yeah, Game five to again, the whole thing's crazy, just
36:27
Speaker 5: a do or die right there, But then you go
36:30
Speaker 5: fifteen innings, it's like an emotional high every five seconds.
36:33
Speaker 5: And I mean being able to be a part of
36:35
Speaker 5: the game was really really cool selfishly for me, but
36:38
Speaker 5: just watching it from the dugout like I was going
36:41
Speaker 5: crazy and then Plonco gets the hit and it was
36:43
Speaker 5: it was really cool.
36:44
Speaker 4: Yeah.
36:44
Speaker 1: All right, So I don't know if I know the
36:47
Speaker 1: name of your son. Is it Bryce, Brian Luis Gilbert?
36:52
Speaker 4: What is it? Those got vetoed right away?
36:54
Speaker 2: Couldn't do that?
36:55
Speaker 4: Okay, Yeah, it's Henry Henry Henry Gilbert. Hey Gilbert, there's
36:59
Speaker 4: a future, you know, Hank. You know, I Hank Heinrich.
37:04
Speaker 5: He calls him Heinrich, and Kal calls him Hank. Of course,
37:08
Speaker 5: so because you don't like.
37:11
Speaker 1: Well, we got to let you go. So thank you
37:13
Speaker 1: very much for joining us here on Pitchers Day. I
37:16
Speaker 1: call you Clint Eastwood. So I wasn't surprised that you
37:19
Speaker 1: Alan Jackson. Yeah, that you rode into a canyon to
37:22
Speaker 1: propose to your fiance. So that's that's on brand. Have
37:26
Speaker 1: a great year, both of you. Thank you very much
37:28
Speaker 1: for joining us.
37:29
Speaker 4: I appreciate it.
37:30
Speaker 2: All right.
37:30
Speaker 1: Bryce Miller and Logan Gilbert joining us right here on
37:33
Speaker 1: Chuck and Buck in the morning, Reckless at Breakfast.
37:36
Speaker 4: Next Sports Radio ninety three.
37:37
Speaker 1: Point three kJ RFM, Brian Wu will be joining us
37:40
Speaker 1: at the top of the hour at eight o'clock. So
37:43
Speaker 1: excited to chat with the guy that really was last
37:45
Speaker 1: year's Ace.
37:47
Speaker 4: Of the Staff.
37:47
Speaker 1: So that's coming up at eight o'clock today, and of
37:50
Speaker 1: course still George Kirby Luis Castillo to come before the
37:53
Speaker 1: end of today's show.
37:55
Speaker 4: But right now we get a little Reckless at Breakfast.
37:57
Speaker 1: And it is Pitcher's Day, so no doubt that I'm
38:00
Speaker 1: going to have to talk about starting.
38:02
Speaker 4: Pitchers and reckless at breakfast. Why would I not? I mean,
38:05
Speaker 4: I don't have really a choice.
38:07
Speaker 1: And here's the thing, And I think that because we
38:10
Speaker 1: have been exposed to these guys for so long, and
38:13
Speaker 1: we know that they're good, and we expect them to
38:17
Speaker 1: be good again this year. And yet I think what
38:20
Speaker 1: is forgotten by a lot of people is how young
38:24
Speaker 1: they are. All four of these guys are the exception
38:27
Speaker 1: of the Rock. The four are still multiple years away
38:32
Speaker 1: from their free agency. They and all four of them
38:38
Speaker 1: are still you know, young players. They're in their mid
38:41
Speaker 1: to late twenties at this point. And I think that
38:45
Speaker 1: it gets lost in the shuffle. You've just kind of
38:47
Speaker 1: drawn conclusions, Well, they're really good, But I think that
38:52
Speaker 1: there's still an opportunity for all four of them to
38:56
Speaker 1: get even better, to become great.
38:59
Speaker 4: And consistently great.
39:01
Speaker 1: And I think that more than anything else, more than
39:04
Speaker 1: Josh Naylor being here for one hundred and sixty two games,
39:06
Speaker 1: more than the addition of Brendan Donovan, which looks like
39:09
Speaker 1: a perfect edition, I think that that, to me is
39:14
Speaker 1: why I feel as confident about this team this season
39:17
Speaker 1: as I do, and that is to be American League
39:21
Speaker 1: West champions again, and I think it's going to be
39:23
Speaker 1: a more comfortable season than we've ever had in pursuit
39:26
Speaker 1: of that. And so I think that what people kind
39:31
Speaker 1: of forget and their analysis of the Mariners because they're
39:34
Speaker 1: looking for something new, is that something old. These four
39:38
Speaker 1: young pitchers are just now entering their prime. We have
39:42
Speaker 1: still not seen the big breakout season from George Kirby
39:46
Speaker 1: that everybody is expecting. I think Brian wu can repeat
39:50
Speaker 1: what he did a year ago and hopefully be healthy
39:53
Speaker 1: at postseason time. Bryce Miller showed you how good he
39:56
Speaker 1: is at the end of the year and that it
39:58
Speaker 1: was an injury that was keeping him from being in
40:00
Speaker 1: Bryce Miller form. And then I think Logan Gilbert, with
40:04
Speaker 1: his tinkering and his hard work, still has a little
40:08
Speaker 1: bit of growth to reach his ceiling. So I think
40:10
Speaker 1: the reason that the Mariners are gonna win ninety four
40:13
Speaker 1: ninety five games this year maybe more, and win by
40:16
Speaker 1: six seven games more than anything else is that these
40:19
Speaker 1: four pitchers still have room to grow and become better
40:23
Speaker 1: than what they've been so far in their career.
40:25
Speaker 2: Well, the nice thing about this team is I don't
40:28
Speaker 2: feel like they've peaked and to your point, I don't
40:32
Speaker 2: think that your starting rotation has I don't think that
40:34
Speaker 2: your your bullpen. I don't think that your offense. I
40:37
Speaker 2: don't think your position players have peaked. I think that
40:40
Speaker 2: you've we've seen glimpses of these starting pitchers pitch at
40:44
Speaker 2: like a level that you would say greatness, like in
40:47
Speaker 2: individual performances or for spurts throughout the course of a season.
40:50
Speaker 2: And yet there is without a doubt, I think that
40:53
Speaker 2: that's when we talk to them and when we talk
40:55
Speaker 2: to their coaches. It's not some You don't go into
40:58
Speaker 2: the offseason thinking I need to overhaul something, I need
41:01
Speaker 2: to really make big changes. No, you just need to
41:04
Speaker 2: tinker to figure out how do you do what made
41:07
Speaker 2: you feel your best more often? And that's it's you're
41:10
Speaker 2: gonna go through ebbs and flows naturally. There's no secret
41:14
Speaker 2: sauce that you can just all of a sudden be
41:16
Speaker 2: like this offseason, I figured out how to feel perfect
41:18
Speaker 2: all year long. No, you still have to go out
41:21
Speaker 2: there and execute it. And then mentally, how do you
41:24
Speaker 2: deal with when you didn't feel all that good? But
41:26
Speaker 2: did you battle through it or maybe you had a
41:29
Speaker 2: rough outing, and so how do you bounce back the
41:30
Speaker 2: next time and not let that affected negatively the next
41:34
Speaker 2: time you go out there. So to me, I think
41:36
Speaker 2: this team is it's not that long ago that they
41:39
Speaker 2: were just breaking into the league, and yet they they
41:41
Speaker 2: broke into the league collectively in a way in which
41:45
Speaker 2: you were like, oh my gosh, you went from Okay,
41:47
Speaker 2: we got some we got a bunch of prospects and
41:49
Speaker 2: that they drafted out of college. Not that long ago,
41:52
Speaker 2: they're gonna be ready for the big leagues. And now
41:54
Speaker 2: fast forward like five years from back when we were
41:56
Speaker 2: saying that, and now we're talking about you've had the best,
41:59
Speaker 2: one of the best, if not the best, starting rotation
42:01
Speaker 2: for years. And it's like, well then you think, well
42:04
Speaker 2: that's who they are. It's like, well, yeah, that is
42:06
Speaker 2: who they are. At the floor. The floor, I would say,
42:10
Speaker 2: was last year where you had multiple guys go through
42:13
Speaker 2: some injuries. There was some guys that pitched through some injuries,
42:15
Speaker 2: there was some ups and some downs. To me, the
42:19
Speaker 2: ceiling is still a ways away from what these guys
42:21
Speaker 2: are capable of. And that's saying something because they've been
42:23
Speaker 2: pretty damn good.
42:23
Speaker 1: I mean, see Sam Darnold, I mean, you do have
42:27
Speaker 1: as a professional athlete the opportunity to get better in
42:30
Speaker 1: your late twenties, and you still can be on a
42:35
Speaker 1: track of improvement. Even if you've been very good into
42:38
Speaker 1: your mid twenties, you still can get better, oh, by
42:41
Speaker 1: the way, And I think there's a chance that all
42:43
Speaker 1: four of these guys are going to be still better
42:46
Speaker 1: than we've ever seen them before. Maybe not all in
42:49
Speaker 1: the same season, but I still think there's a lot
42:52
Speaker 1: of ceiling left for all four of these young starting pitchers.
42:56
Speaker 1: And then Emerson Hancock gets you some depth of as
42:59
Speaker 1: your sixth man, and then you've still got the Kate Anderson,
43:03
Speaker 1: Ryan Sloan. They're coming as well in time, and so
43:08
Speaker 1: certainly a lot to be excited about. But I still
43:10
Speaker 1: think that there's nothing to be more excited about than
43:14
Speaker 1: the starting pitching in this organization.
43:16
Speaker 4: And joining us next on the program is the guy
43:18
Speaker 4: who was the best.
43:20
Speaker 1: Starting pitcher in this rotation a year ago. From beginning
43:23
Speaker 1: of the year till nearly the end of the year.
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Speaker 1: Brian wu will join US Sports Radio ninety three point
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Speaker 1: three KHRFM