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10-2 H3: The Ocho, ABC's, BIG 10 Preview · Chuck in the Morning

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Speaker 1: Football Friday is brought to you by Washington's Beef Farmers
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Speaker 1: and Ranchers Beef. It is what's for dinner. We welcome
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Speaker 1: you into our third hour. We start the third hour
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Speaker 1: of every Friday show with your eight top stories of
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Speaker 1: the day. That's right. It's the Ocho. The Friday Ocho
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Speaker 1: survived the longstanding Ocho Wars. They lasted for two centuries.
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Speaker 1: And then finally, I got pared down to just one
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Speaker 1: Friday Ocho.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was there like a big apocalypse. post-apocalyptic reality
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Speaker 2: for a while after the Ochoa Wars.
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Speaker 1: Those were some bleak days, let me tell you something.
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Speaker 1: Mad Max sort of thing. Trying to find a sandwich. Oh,
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Speaker 1: and all of that ruin. Oh, it was rough. But
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Speaker 1: Friday Ocho is now the king of all Ochos. And
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Speaker 1: so we've kept it. We celebrate it. We recap the week.
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Speaker 1: We get you ready for the weekend with your eight
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Speaker 1: top stories of the day. Let us get started with
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Speaker 1: some hockey. The Kraken won their opening game of the
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Speaker 1: brand-new hockey season last night. Here's Jared McCann on the run.
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Speaker 1: Hands it off to Beneers. Scores! Matty Beneers! Off the
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Speaker 1: drop pass, left circle from Jared McCann, and the Seattle
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Speaker 1: Kraken have a 5-0 lead early here in the third. Ah,
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Speaker 1: good to hear that guy's voice. Love his calls. Everett Fitzhugh,
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Speaker 1: Al Kaniski on the call right here on your... Favorite
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Speaker 1: radio station, the Kraken flagship sports radio, 93.3 KJR FM.
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Speaker 1: You heard him right. Five to nothing at one point.
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Speaker 1: I appreciate Kidd. I mean, Kidd could have chosen any
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Speaker 1: of those six goals that were scored last night, and
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Speaker 1: he chose the one that my team benefited from.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, my bad.
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Speaker 1: He been ears draft pick yesterday. Jared McCann got a
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Speaker 1: point on that one, too. He got a point. He
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Speaker 1: got a point. That's not as good as two points.
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Speaker 1: He had three assists, though. We can all agree on that. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: that's fair. But six different players scored. Vince Dunn had
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Speaker 1: a goal and two assists. Jared McCann did dish out
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Speaker 1: three assists in the game. Joey Decord saved 24 of
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Speaker 1: 25 shots. And the Kraken, game one, roll to an
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Speaker 1: easy win over the Calgary Flames in Calgary. 6-1 was
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Speaker 1: the final score. Yeah, it was just an.
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Speaker 2: All-around great performance. Even Joy Decord got an assist. I
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Speaker 2: don't know if you saw that. There was a goalie
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Speaker 2: for the Rangers for a goal last night. Goalie goal
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Speaker 2: last night, yeah. Lots of stuff happening early in the
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Speaker 2: NHL season. But, yeah, I mean, it's everything you want
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Speaker 2: to see from the Kraken. A team that played with
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Speaker 2: a little bit of an edge. Showed some offensive upside
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Speaker 2: for sure. The line of, you know, Berkeley Cat and
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Speaker 2: Shane Wright and others looked really good together, even though
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Speaker 2: they didn't get a point. And then almost got the shutout,
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Speaker 2: but at the very end, Flames do end up scoring.
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Speaker 2: Just an all-around good performance in the Kraken, and it's
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Speaker 2: a good start to the season.
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Speaker 1: Now, there's a little bit of, Andrews was talking about
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Speaker 1: it earlier in the show, there's this little bit of
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Speaker 1: a feeling surrounding Kraken camp and the start of the
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Speaker 1: Kraken season. The Kraken are a little angry about perceived
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Speaker 1: disrespect or the lack of faith that maybe experts have,
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Speaker 1: maybe the fan base have. in them coming into this season.
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Speaker 3: Good.
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Speaker 1: Wear it.
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Speaker 4: Eat it.
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Speaker 1: Fortify your gut with it. Yeah, I hope you are.
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Speaker 1: I hope you did develop a chip on your shoulder
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Speaker 1: because you need it. Because, by the way, you've earned
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Speaker 1: all of that criticism. And we love the Kraken, but
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Speaker 1: you did not play good hockey last season. Last three years.
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Speaker 1: Last three seasons, yeah. You've not played good. Up to
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Speaker 1: your standard, the standard that you set forth for yourself.
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Speaker 1: So you've earned that disrespect, if you will, of not
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Speaker 1: predicting you're going to have a great year this year.
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Speaker 1: So I hope they use it. It's amazing to me,
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Speaker 1: like today's athlete that is more bothered when somebody says
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Speaker 1: you're not as good as you think you are rather
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Speaker 1: than being bothered by you not being good.
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Speaker 4: Right.
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Speaker 1: It's true. It's unbelievable. So whatever it takes, if you
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Speaker 1: want to use that as motivation, do it. I think
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Speaker 1: you've earned that lack of trust that you're going to
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Speaker 1: be a good team this year. But I think you've
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Speaker 1: also earned the opportunity to use that as fuel to
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Speaker 1: make yourselves better. Prove everybody wrong. I can't wait to
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Speaker 1: see it.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and I don't think, I don't want to get
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Speaker 2: it misconstrued that I think they're angry with the fan
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Speaker 2: base or anything for not, you know, thinking they're going
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Speaker 2: to be very good. I think they understand that it's deserved,
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Speaker 2: but they just realize, hey, we think we should be
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Speaker 2: a better hockey team than everyone thinks we are, even
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Speaker 2: if that's kind of where everyone should think we are
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Speaker 2: right now. But this year we're going to go out
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Speaker 2: and prove that that's not who we are.
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Speaker 1: I love it.
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Speaker 3: I do too.
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Speaker 1: That was a great performance last night. I mean, just
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Speaker 1: all around terrific. I mean, they just dominated the Calgary
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Speaker 1: Flames in Calgary. Jesus. And now the Kraken will play
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Speaker 1: game number two tomorrow at 4 o'clock. They will all
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Speaker 1: meet at the tree in Edmonton. Try to go 2-0
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Speaker 1: on the season. The Sounders were also in action last night,
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Speaker 1: a rare Thursday night match on the MLS schedule, and
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Speaker 1: it was a thriller, trying to make it three wins
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Speaker 1: in a row. The match was tied at one. You're
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Speaker 1: closing in on the end of regulation. We didn't know
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Speaker 1: how much extra time was going to be on the clock,
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Speaker 1: or at least I didn't. No one knows. No one
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Speaker 1: ever knows. So this is about as close to a
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Speaker 1: walk-off goal as you're going to find. Here come the
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Speaker 1: Sounders now, Roszak on the deck, here comes Morris, running
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Speaker 1: behind by Christian Roldan, there it is, oh no! What
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Speaker 1: a fantastic way to score! He didn't give it up,
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Speaker 1: Christian Roldan! It takes the deflection off Christian, and he's
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Speaker 1: in the right place at the right time, and the
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Speaker 1: ball finds itself in the back of the net. Was
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Speaker 1: there an oh-no in there from Danny's call? Yeah, I
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Speaker 1: think it was. Was he secretly a Sporting KC fan
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Speaker 1: or something? No, I do wonder, though, what he saw
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Speaker 1: when he was going to.
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Speaker 2: From the way he described it, and I remember watching
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Speaker 2: this last night during the game, is he may have
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Speaker 2: missed the initial chance. Like, oh, no, he missed a
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Speaker 2: huge chance to win, and then he... rebounded it in.
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Speaker 2: So I think the original oh no was him missing
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Speaker 2: the chance and then him rebounding it to go back
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Speaker 2: in was like, oh, okay, we got the goal.
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Speaker 1: Let's go. Well, Roldan gets the pass from Jordan Morris,
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Speaker 1: I think, on a breakaway that the two created beats
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Speaker 1: the goaltender. 2-1 victory. Three wins in a row for
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Speaker 1: a team that hadn't won an MLS match in four months.
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Speaker 1: Suddenly the Sounders are red hot. They currently sit with
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Speaker 1: a seven seed in the MLS playoffs. They won't play
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Speaker 1: again until next Saturday, but what a bizarre year this
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Speaker 1: team has had. My goodness.
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Speaker 2: You throw in just an almost two-month break for the
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Speaker 2: World Cup, and there's just been no rhythm whatsoever. Now
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Speaker 2: it finally feels like they're starting to get it, and
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Speaker 2: they'll get it even more so on Saturday when Jovalich
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Speaker 2: comes back after international break.
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Speaker 1: All right. Yeah, they've been winning without their big trade acquisition.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: And he is definitively their best player. I think so. Okay.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: All right, they won't play again until next Saturday, but
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Speaker 1: the Sounders getting it done again last night at home.
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Speaker 1: Big crowd on hand last night as well. Also last night,
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Speaker 1: Thursday night football as the fourth week of the National
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Speaker 1: Football League season got started in Cleveland. There was something
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Speaker 1: special about it. It's the first day of the best
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Speaker 1: month of the year, and of course that's associated with
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Speaker 1: the fun holiday of Halloween. I mean, Arden, our boss,
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Speaker 1: one of our bosses, she wore orange and black yesterday
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Speaker 1: to work to celebrate the start of the month, and
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Speaker 1: the NFL decided to put the orange and brown Cleveland
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Speaker 1: Browns on a football field to just, it felt like
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Speaker 1: an October celebration is what it felt like. And on
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Speaker 1: that October night in Cleveland, the Browns and Steelers renewed
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Speaker 1: their rivalry. 11 yards separated the two teams. They each
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Speaker 1: committed two turnovers. They were each penalized heavily. They each
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Speaker 1: had a time of possession that was just about equal.
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Speaker 1: But in the end, Cleveland gets the victory.
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Speaker 3: On first down.
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Speaker 1: Give it to him. Tries to get around the corner.
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Speaker 1: Cuts back inside. Picks up a first down. And McLaughlin
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Speaker 1: with the touchdown. Al Michaels. Prime video last night. Describing
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Speaker 1: the Jaleel McLaughlin touchdown run. But it was a 56-yard
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Speaker 1: field goal that looked like he could have made it
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Speaker 1: from like 76. Yeah. That lifted Cleveland to their 27th.
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Speaker 1: The 24 win. I mean, that's a game that the
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Speaker 1: Steelers traditionally win. I mean, this is a one-sided rivalry.
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Speaker 1: The Steelers have dominated the Cleveland Browns since we went
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Speaker 1: to color television. And they've played a lot of tight games.
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Speaker 1: And you just always expect Cleveland to make the mistake
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Speaker 1: or the Steelers to make the big play at the
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Speaker 1: right moment and pull out that game. But maybe these
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Speaker 1: Cleveland Browns are different. I certainly know the Pittsburgh Steelers
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Speaker 1: are different. They're certainly not some powerhouse out there, but
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Speaker 1: this rivalry, man, usually the Steelers pull out a game
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Speaker 1: like that, and they didn't this time.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and there's a lot of angst in Steeler land
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Speaker 2: with Aaron Rodgers and Mike McCarthy going at it on
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Speaker 2: the sideline, and then J.J. Watt taking the headset and
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Speaker 2: yelling at his defensive coordinator for the play calls.
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Speaker 3: T.J.
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Speaker 5: Watt.
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Speaker 2: Sorry, T.J., my fault, yeah. But yeah, it's there's I
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Speaker 2: don't know, man. To me, I tend to think this
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Speaker 2: is just two bad teams playing against each other. And
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Speaker 2: I know Cleveland's three and one now.
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Speaker 1: But, you know, you got to win those games. And
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Speaker 1: that's something they haven't done in the past.
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Speaker 5: I heard this.
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Speaker 1: Morning they're only favored in two more games despite being 3-1.
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Speaker 1: I mean, they're better. They're better. They're better and good
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Speaker 1: for Todd Munkin. Whatever he's done to inspire the troops,
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Speaker 1: they look like a better football team. I don't think
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Speaker 1: they're going to end up being a playoff team when
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Speaker 1: all is said and done. but good on them. They're
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Speaker 1: off to a good start, and Deshaun looks pretty good.
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Speaker 1: The two and two Steelers don't. They spent the evening,
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Speaker 1: as Anders pointed out, mom and dad arguing, which makes
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Speaker 1: everybody in the house uncomfortable. Could you guys stop? Stop it, please.
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Speaker 1: But those two hate each other.
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Speaker 3: They do.
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Speaker 1: They always have, too. For a long time, they have.
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Speaker 4: I know.
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Speaker 1: And why the Steelers thought time apart was going to
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Speaker 1: be different, they're both grumpier because they're older now. Both
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Speaker 1: have always been grumpy, too. They're not as good as
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Speaker 1: what they used to be.
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Speaker 3: No.
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Speaker 1: So, yeah, there's a problem in Pittsburgh. There's no question
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Speaker 1: about it. Seahawks, they are coming off their first loss
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Speaker 1: of the season. They'll be at home this Sunday against
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Speaker 1: another team that has big problems, far bigger than the
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Speaker 1: Pittsburgh Steelers. The 0-3 Los Angeles Chargers come to town
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Speaker 1: to try to get right against Seattle. Mike McDonald and
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Speaker 1: the world champions. Our Seahawks insider Greg Bell joined us
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Speaker 1: this morning at 7 o'clock and talked about the key
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Speaker 1: to victory.
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Speaker 4: If the offense, Darnold, doesn't throw interceptions, doesn't throw the
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Speaker 4: ball for the defensive lineman's helmet, and Price doesn't drop
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Speaker 4: the ball or Wilson doesn't drop the ball in place
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Speaker 4: of Price, they'll win. And it's a simplistic thing to say,
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Speaker 4: but the way the Seahawks defense is, I could think
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Speaker 4: pretty much every game except the 49ers and the Rams
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Speaker 4: on the Seahawks schedule, I think I could say that
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Speaker 4: same thing for them.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, certainly it does feel like one of those
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Speaker 1: type of games again. I didn't think the Commanders had
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Speaker 1: a chance last week against the Seahawks, and the Hawks lost. Now,
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Speaker 1: with the Chargers coming to town, there looks like there's
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Speaker 1: very little chance that the Chargers can pull this off,
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Speaker 1: but if ever a team was going to be desperate
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Speaker 1: to save its season, it's going to be the Chargers.
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Speaker 1: Problem for the Chargers is, that the Hawks are coming
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Speaker 1: off a loss as well, and Mike McDonald spent the
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Speaker 1: entire week coaching with red ass, and so there's no
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Speaker 1: way that you're going to catch them smug, fat, and happy.
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Speaker 1: So the Chargers are going to have their work cut
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Speaker 1: out for them, and then on top of it all,
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Speaker 1: a quarterback who looks confused in his new offense is
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Speaker 1: now going to face off against... The league's foremost agent
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Speaker 1: of chaos. Yes. And creating chaos in Mike McDonald. It
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Speaker 1: just doesn't look like a good formula for the road team.
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Speaker 2: No, and even though the Chargers will be coming in desperate,
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Speaker 2: as you mentioned earlier, and they eventually have to win
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Speaker 2: a game, right? I still don't think it's going to
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Speaker 2: be this one. I think the Seahawks will be ready,
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Speaker 2: and they're going to be at home for the first
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Speaker 2: time in three weeks.
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Speaker 1: So I... I don't see a lot of ways.
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Speaker 2: The Chargers can win this one, but we said the
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Speaker 2: same thing about Washington last week, so I don't know.
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Speaker 1: We'll see. It's sort of like, okay, Justin Herbert got
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Speaker 1: for the new football season his football birthday a Rubik's Cube.
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Speaker 1: And he can't figure it out. He's been playing with
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Speaker 1: it on the bus, and he's just like, I can't
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Speaker 1: get all these sides to match up. And then while
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Speaker 1: he's still on his way to Lumen Field with it
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Speaker 1: in his hands, he's like, maybe i'm getting closer maybe
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Speaker 1: i've almost got it solved and then mike mcdonald like
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Speaker 1: grabs it out of his hand and then gives him
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Speaker 1: one with like 12 sides yeah yeah and it's 40
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Speaker 1: instead of 3d try this.
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Speaker 5: One try this one that one's too easy try this
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Speaker 5: one this rubik's cube doesn't have six sides it's got
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Speaker 5: 12 sides and it's not just nine little pegs it's
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Speaker 5: like 18 pegs yeah so it's a 18 peg side
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Speaker 5: 12 sided Rubik's Cube that Justin Herbert's going to have
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Speaker 5: to solve on Sunday.
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Speaker 2: That is a good representation of what playing the Seahawks
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Speaker 2: defense feels like for a lot of quarterbacks.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I mean, quarterbacks are on top of their game.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Have a hard time. What's a pre-confused quarterback going to
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Speaker 1: do against Mike McDonald when he is angry and desperate
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Speaker 1: to try to confuse the quarterback? Yeah. Seahawks are a
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Speaker 1: seven-point favorite in this game. Kickoff's going to be at 125.
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Speaker 1: The NFL's week number four is an odd one. The
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Speaker 1: primetime games aren't that good. And the afternoon games are awesome.
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Speaker 1: They're good. Yeah. I mean, Denver-San Francisco is going to
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Speaker 1: be a terrific game. The early games are really good.
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Speaker 1: There are a lot of really good matchups, maybe highlighted
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Speaker 1: by Rams-Philadelphia, and I don't think I'm just saying that
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Speaker 1: because I'm in an NFC West City. So I think
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Speaker 1: your ideal lineup, if you're– Seahawks excluded. Mapping it out.
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Speaker 1: Rams at Philly, Denver at San Francisco, and then Detroit
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Speaker 1: and Carolina, which is a fun game. I'm looking forward
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Speaker 1: to that game, but the other ones sound more like
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Speaker 1: primetime matchups. Yeah, I like Jacksonville-Cincinnati, too. That should be
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Speaker 1: a fun game. Terrific. Terrific. Week five of the college
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Speaker 1: football season is here. As well, the Huskies and Trojans
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Speaker 1: are coming off their first losses of the season. Both
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Speaker 1: have been targets of harsh criticism from their fan bases
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Speaker 1: this week. USC far more so than the Huskies, I believe.
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Speaker 1: At least that's the way I'm interpreting things. Saturday should
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Speaker 1: tell a lot about both of these football teams. Cam
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Speaker 1: Cleland was on with us Wednesday, and he talked about
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Speaker 1: what he thinks this game's going to come down to.
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Speaker 6: I think that you're going to have to score to
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Speaker 6: keep up with SC. They're emotional, and I don't know
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Speaker 6: how much they've tanked or Lincoln Riley and the naysayers
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Speaker 6: down there and all that stuff about yada, yada, yada
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Speaker 6: and extracurricular garbage that goes on. They're going to come
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Speaker 6: out with a lot of fire. They're going to want
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Speaker 6: to win this game. They're going to want to score 50,
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Speaker 6: 60 points. That's their mindset. You're going to have to
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Speaker 6: score to keep up with them. This is going to
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Speaker 6: have to be the best offensive output this team can do,
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Speaker 6: and maybe they will.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe they will. I mean, they did finish offensively
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Speaker 1: on a pretty high note against the Golden Gophers.
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Speaker 6: Sure.
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Speaker 1: And finish fourth quarter. They were much better in the fourth.
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Speaker 1: What I mean by that, they were much better in
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Speaker 1: the fourth quarter than they were in the previous three quarters.
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Speaker 1: So maybe they got a little bit of rhythm going.
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Speaker 1: I don't know. Maybe that's just me trying to look
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Speaker 1: at a glass half full. I could be guilty of that.
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Speaker 1: But USC certainly is reeling right now, as Rick Neuheisel
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Speaker 1: put it. USC, though, will enter this game as an
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Speaker 1: 8.5-point favorite. Kickoff's going to be at 4.30. Honks will
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Speaker 1: get started at 12.30. And so there's a classic Big
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Speaker 1: Ten rivalry that we'll embrace tomorrow. In Los Angeles. Supposed
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Speaker 1: to be very warm. 100 degrees tomorrow in Los Angeles
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Speaker 1: as well. The SEC is kind of at the forefront
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Speaker 1: of the good games this weekend in college football. Alabama
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Speaker 1: at Mississippi State, 7 versus 16. They'll kick off at
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Speaker 1: 9 a.m. Florida, 8th ranked in the country, taking on No.
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Speaker 1: 25 Missouri at 1230. And Ohio State out of the
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Speaker 1: Big Ten. ranked fifth in the country. We'll be at
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Speaker 1: number 14, Iowa. That kickoff is at 1230. We'll have
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Speaker 1: a full Big Ten preview. We do that every week
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Speaker 1: at 845, so that's later on this hour. Major League Baseball,
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Speaker 1: the Atlanta Braves and the Philadelphia Phillies were the only
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Speaker 1: series in the wildcard realm to go to a third
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Speaker 1: and decisive game, and Atlanta jumped all over Philadelphia early
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Speaker 1: in this one. They're looking up, and that one's gone!
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Speaker 1: Michael Harris with a three-run home run in the first
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Speaker 1: inning set the tone for an easy 6-2 Braves win
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Speaker 1: over the Phillies. It kind of ended anticlimactically. Baseball only
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Speaker 1: got one of these games last night where they could
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Speaker 1: have had four, and then it was kind of over
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Speaker 1: early on. Philadelphia couldn't score against an unknown named Ray Kerr,
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Speaker 1: and Michael Harris jumped all over a veteran pitcher who
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Speaker 1: Don Mattingly didn't in a million years want to have
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Speaker 1: to start in that game, but Zach Wheeler was on
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Speaker 1: three days rest, and he didn't want to push his
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Speaker 1: veteran to pitch on three days rest.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and he ended up coming in later in the game,
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Speaker 2: Zach Wheeler did, and still ended up giving up a
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Speaker 2: big home run to Albies. Yeah, just a tough situation
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Speaker 2: for the Phillies to be in. They're in kind of
18:34
Speaker 2: a crossroads as well because they have a lot of
18:35
Speaker 2: older guys. But Atlanta, I think, is a good chance to.
18:39
Speaker 1: You're right. By the way, their window might have closed
18:41
Speaker 1: last night. I think so. That specific team, the heart
18:44
Speaker 1: of Turner, Schwarber, Harper, they might have closed last night.
18:48
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. Then they have to kind of do some
18:49
Speaker 2: soul searching there about what they want to do. New
18:51
Speaker 2: manager most likely as well.
18:53
Speaker 1: So, but.
18:54
Speaker 2: Moving forward for Atlanta, I think they have a good
18:56
Speaker 2: chance to upset the Dodgers. Maybe that's just wishful thinking
18:58
Speaker 2: on my part as a Dodger hater now that the
19:01
Speaker 2: Astros are out of the playoffs. They're the one team
19:03
Speaker 2: I'm rooting against. So we'll see what ends up happening there.
19:06
Speaker 1: Braves will meet the Dodgers tomorrow at 1. The day
19:09
Speaker 1: starts at 9 a.m. with the White Sox and the Guardians. Yankees,
19:13
Speaker 1: Tampa at 3.30. And then Padres, Brewers, which is going
19:16
Speaker 1: to be a really fun series. Awesome series. At 5.30.
19:19
Speaker 1: So four games. They're playing all four of them tomorrow.
19:23
Speaker 1: to start the divisional round of the playoffs. As for
19:27
Speaker 1: the Mariners, not in the playoffs.
19:30
Speaker 3: Really?
19:30
Speaker 1: Yeah, they didn't make it. Oh, okay. So this just in.
19:34
Speaker 1: And as they are on their managerial search, one name
19:38
Speaker 1: that had been mentioned most prominently was Tori Lovullo. I
19:43
Speaker 1: thought it sounded like a really good idea. That's why
19:47
Speaker 1: I've been spreading it. And so I thought this... was
19:50
Speaker 1: a good matchup. I thought this was a good idea
19:53
Speaker 1: that I came up with. And it's gone.
19:56
Speaker 5: What?
19:57
Speaker 1: It's gone. It's all gone.
19:58
Speaker 2: Yeah.
19:59
Speaker 1: It's all gone. Yeah. Whatever notion I had of Tori
20:03
Speaker 1: Lovallo being the next Mariners manager.
20:06
Speaker 3: Whoops.
20:06
Speaker 1: He signed a two-year extension with the Arizona Diamondbacks. That's
20:09
Speaker 1: very odd because I think whether it was Seattle or not,
20:12
Speaker 1: whether there was a connection or not, I have no idea.
20:15
Speaker 1: But he was, as Derek Hall, who runs the Diamondbacks,
20:20
Speaker 1: said in an interview just two days ago, that.
20:25
Speaker 1: If we don't sign him, he's not going to be
20:28
Speaker 1: unemployed for very long. In other words, there was going
20:30
Speaker 1: to be a long list. And then he only signs
20:32
Speaker 1: a two-year extension. Like, if he was wanted by the
20:35
Speaker 1: Mariners and others, I would have thought.
20:38
Speaker 1: Lock me up to five-year deal here. So it seems
20:41
Speaker 1: like a really small extension for a guy that had
20:45
Speaker 1: a market out there. It's like if Randy Rosarino just
20:47
Speaker 1: signs a two-year contract with somebody this offseason. Which would
20:50
Speaker 1: be really weird.
20:51
Speaker 2: But I feel like with Lovullo, I did see something
20:53
Speaker 2: that it matches up with their GM. So they want
20:57
Speaker 2: to make sure that both of their contracts expire at
20:59
Speaker 2: the same time. If they do hire a new GM,
21:01
Speaker 2: that gives a GM opportunity to hire their own manager,
21:03
Speaker 2: all that stuff.
21:04
Speaker 1: Interesting. Well, it's gone. That idea of Tori Lavello, it's gone.
21:09
Speaker 1: We'll talk about some other ideas coming up in our
21:11
Speaker 1: next segment, but we'll finish out the Ocho. Item number eight,
21:15
Speaker 1: the Indiana Fever and Kaitlyn Clark eliminated by a true champ,
21:19
Speaker 1: the Las Vegas Aces, saying, not yet, Kaitlyn, not your
21:23
Speaker 1: turn yet. Aja Wilson and the Aces took out the
21:27
Speaker 1: Fever last night and advanced in the WNBA playoffs. All right,
21:30
Speaker 1: coming up next. We are going to talk about that
21:32
Speaker 1: managerial search and a few other things. The ABCs of
21:36
Speaker 1: the M's on a football Friday. Sports Radio 93.3 KJR FM. Wiener. Yes.
21:41
Speaker 1: Shots in the movies because he would splice them together.
21:44
Speaker 1: Of course. Movie theater. That's what I'm doing with Dicker.
21:47
Speaker 1: I'm just putting slices in there. Yeah. So now people
21:50
Speaker 1: subliminally when he is kicking for the Chargers. Shut up, Dicker.
21:55
Speaker 5: Sunday.
21:57
Speaker 1: I like that. They won't even know why they're saying it.
21:59
Speaker 1: It's like a subconscious thing. Right, right. He's going to
22:01
Speaker 1: line up for a field goal and every 12 is
22:04
Speaker 1: going to be like, shut up, kicker. You soccer-loving weirdo.
22:11
Speaker 1: As a soccer-loving weirdo. Why did you tell him that, honey?
22:15
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't even know why I told
22:17
Speaker 1: him that. But I wanted to tell him to shut up.
22:21
Speaker 1: I don't know. Maybe it was something I heard before.
22:23
Speaker 1: All right, let's go to the ABCs of the M's.
22:27
Speaker 1: And yes, we are not done with our daily Mariner
22:29
Speaker 1: segment just yet. The alphabet insists that we continue. And
22:33
Speaker 1: there are a lot of things to discuss here today, Anders.
22:36
Speaker 1: Let's start with the letter K. That's where we left off.
22:38
Speaker 1: K is for canine. Randy Orozarena is going to leave
22:44
Speaker 1: free agency. It's a surer thing than even canine was
22:47
Speaker 1: going to leave free. Are we going to feel the
22:50
Speaker 1: same way about seeing him in another uniform next year
22:56
Speaker 1: as we kind of do about Ken Walker right now?
22:58
Speaker 2: Yeah, I do think there is a reality for next
23:04
Speaker 2: year specifically. that we would be like, dang, it would
23:07
Speaker 2: be nice to have that guy, especially for a team
23:10
Speaker 2: that's struggled to find right-handed bats that are.
23:15
Speaker 1: Effective.
23:16
Speaker 2: Then you end up not signing the one that has,
23:19
Speaker 2: or one of the few, I should say. But I
23:22
Speaker 2: think two things can be true about Randy's contract situation.
23:25
Speaker 2: Number one, I don't think most likely it will not
23:29
Speaker 2: be worth.
23:32
Speaker 2: The Mariners trying to sign what it would cost to
23:37
Speaker 2: keep Randy Rosarena. And I do think he's going to
23:39
Speaker 2: be a declining asset, not good defensively. He's already 31.
23:45
Speaker 2: It would just scream very much. He's, he had a,
23:49
Speaker 2: his best year of his career right before his contract.
23:51
Speaker 2: But that doesn't mean they necessarily would get better by
23:54
Speaker 2: not signing him. Those both of those things can be true.
23:56
Speaker 2: It can be smart not to make the long extension,
23:59
Speaker 2: but also it will kind of provide a hole that
24:02
Speaker 2: you now need to fill with some question marks.
24:04
Speaker 1: Not kind of. It's going to create a hole. Absolutely.
24:07
Speaker 1: But they are not going to sign him.
24:09
Speaker 4: Right.
24:10
Speaker 1: And people can be angry about that. I understand why
24:13
Speaker 1: you are. It's just not something that this organization is
24:17
Speaker 1: going to do under its current rules, which we'll get
24:20
Speaker 1: to that in a moment. But under its current financial structure,
24:24
Speaker 1: the Mariners have just decided as an ownership group, not
24:27
Speaker 1: just John Stanton, but John Stanton has this opinion that
24:32
Speaker 1: if I'm going to spend big money, I don't want
24:34
Speaker 1: to spend it on guys on the back end of
24:37
Speaker 1: their primes. And maybe Randy Orozarena... is in store for
24:43
Speaker 1: his new team three or four more really good years
24:46
Speaker 1: like he had this year. But it's just not an
24:50
Speaker 1: investment that John and the owners want to make. They
24:53
Speaker 1: don't want to sign veterans in their 30s coming off
24:59
Speaker 1: career years and pay them for that. They want to
25:03
Speaker 1: pay them for what they're going to do for you
25:05
Speaker 1: going forward. And their theory, and I don't think it's
25:08
Speaker 1: a bad one, frankly, is that, man, I don't want
25:12
Speaker 1: to be stuck with a washed up Randy or Rosarina
25:15
Speaker 1: at age 34. And yet, because of the market, in
25:19
Speaker 1: order to keep him, I had to pay $ 30 million
25:22
Speaker 1: a year for the guy, because that's probably what he's
25:25
Speaker 1: going to get. And I'm just going to brace everybody.
25:27
Speaker 1: It's probably going to be for the Yankees who really
25:30
Speaker 1: need a right-handed batter or the Boston Red Sox who
25:34
Speaker 1: see him as somebody that will destroy that green monster
25:38
Speaker 1: the way he's hitting right now. doubles homers galore for
25:41
Speaker 1: Randy Orozarena in that ballpark. So he's going to get
25:44
Speaker 1: paid more money than the Mariners are going to be
25:47
Speaker 1: willing to pay per year, and he's going to be
25:49
Speaker 1: given a larger long-term contract under the current rules, which
25:53
Speaker 1: could change. He's going to be given a larger long-term
25:56
Speaker 1: contract than they're ever going to feel comfortable giving him.
25:59
Speaker 1: So it's not that they didn't enjoy him or appreciate him.
26:02
Speaker 1: They're not going to chase him out of town because
26:04
Speaker 1: he doesn't hustle all the time. He's leaving because... That's
26:10
Speaker 1: just not, does it? I mean, they've already pretty much,
26:12
Speaker 1: Jerry DiPoto pretty much said it at his awkward, weird
26:15
Speaker 1: press conference the other day that we got a hole
26:18
Speaker 1: to fill in left field. They are not even going
26:20
Speaker 1: to try to re-sign him.
26:22
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would still give him the qualifying offer. Again,
26:24
Speaker 2: we don't know if these rules are going to change
26:28
Speaker 2: with the new CBA supposedly coming next year, but If
26:32
Speaker 2: you at least offer the qualifying offer, I think that's
26:34
Speaker 2: a perfect scenario for the Mariners. If he accepts it,
26:36
Speaker 2: you get one more year of him, which I think
26:38
Speaker 2: next year he still would be a good baseball player.
26:39
Speaker 2: It's the years past that. Yeah, I know he won't.
26:42
Speaker 2: But then if he doesn't accept it, you get a
26:45
Speaker 2: draft pick out of it. So you at least don't
26:46
Speaker 2: lose him for nothing.
26:47
Speaker 1: Yeah, they probably will do that. L is for lockout.
26:51
Speaker 1: And that is, I mean, that's something that I just
26:53
Speaker 1: haven't dived too deeply into, but... It's time. I mean,
26:58
Speaker 1: it's time to start discussing it a little bit. I
27:00
Speaker 1: brought it up with Ryan Healy yesterday. You know, he
27:03
Speaker 1: talks to all his Major League Baseball playing friends. They
27:07
Speaker 1: have the conversation ongoing. He's been around the Major League
27:10
Speaker 1: team all season long, and he's not that far removed
27:12
Speaker 1: from playing. And he said what we all kind of fear.
27:17
Speaker 1: It's going to get ugly. And we're going to miss
27:20
Speaker 1: some time next year. And I would rule it completely
27:24
Speaker 1: out that we are going to miss an entire season.
27:27
Speaker 1: That's sad.
27:27
Speaker 3: It is.
27:28
Speaker 1: And I think that Major League Baseball's point about a
27:32
Speaker 1: salary cap is a good one. And as Hugh Millen
27:35
Speaker 1: has come on and told us, because Hugh Millen was
27:37
Speaker 1: there in the negotiation for a salary cap for the
27:41
Speaker 1: National Football League, which was just wonderful news that I
27:45
Speaker 1: heard from him. I did not know that he was
27:47
Speaker 1: there for the signing of that. He's like one of
27:49
Speaker 1: our founding forefathers. But he was there and the NFL.
27:57
Speaker 1: Got bigger because of that, because of a more even
28:01
Speaker 1: playing field, a salary cap, revenue sharing, all that sort
28:06
Speaker 1: of thing. And so the league got bigger, and because
28:09
Speaker 1: the league got bigger, the money got bigger. So it
28:13
Speaker 1: did financially pay off for the National Football League, and
28:16
Speaker 1: I think it will pay off for Major League Baseball
28:19
Speaker 1: players as well. But they are just so stubborn in
28:23
Speaker 1: their ways and they're just so sure, they're so distrusting
28:27
Speaker 1: of owners that I don't think they're going to accept
28:32
Speaker 1: whatever it is that the owners and Rob Manfred try
28:36
Speaker 1: to push on them. I don't think they're going to
28:38
Speaker 1: do it. And you don't even have Anders as leverage anymore.
28:44
Speaker 1: The players make so much money now. What are you
28:48
Speaker 1: going to do? Take their paychecks away from them for
28:50
Speaker 1: three months? They all have a million dollars in the bank.
28:54
Speaker 1: At minimum. Even the worst guy on the roster makes
28:57
Speaker 1: a million dollars a year. So you don't have the
29:01
Speaker 1: leverage of 75% of the league needs that money. I've
29:05
Speaker 1: got children to feed. Unless you're an idiot. You've got
29:11
Speaker 1: money saved away and the union can remain strong. So
29:14
Speaker 1: it's going to be harder than ever to try to
29:17
Speaker 1: push this on them. And yet I do believe they're
29:20
Speaker 1: committed to pushing the salary cap on them. And I
29:23
Speaker 1: think it would benefit the sport if the players could
29:26
Speaker 1: see it that way.
29:27
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it would as well. I just don't
29:30
Speaker 2: know who has more of an incentive to get this done.
29:34
Speaker 2: I think you put it well that the players themselves
29:37
Speaker 2: don't really have a large incentive. They just want to
29:39
Speaker 2: keep it. the way it is as much as possible.
29:43
Speaker 2: And I think the owners have more of an urgency
29:45
Speaker 2: because if they have a lost season, where does the
29:49
Speaker 2: media rights deals and the TV contracts and all that
29:51
Speaker 2: stuff of a lost season, how does that come into play?
29:53
Speaker 2: They don't get their revenues that they want for the year.
29:56
Speaker 1: I don't know. I think it will get messy. There's
29:59
Speaker 1: a lot of layers to it. But I do think.
30:02
Speaker 2: At the end of the day at least some sort
30:04
Speaker 2: of given a take like my always proposition would be
30:08
Speaker 2: okay offered a salary cap and a floor by the
30:10
Speaker 2: way yes so that helps on that end but also
30:13
Speaker 2: I think you can get rid of service time altogether
30:16
Speaker 2: my proposition would be as soon as you're drafted, as
30:20
Speaker 2: long as you're not out of high school, the college players,
30:22
Speaker 2: you get six years after you're drafted, no matter what,
30:25
Speaker 2: after that six years, you hit free agency. Even if
30:27
Speaker 2: you stay in the minors for four of those years
30:29
Speaker 2: and just have two years in the majors, you hit
30:31
Speaker 2: free agency after six years of being drafted.
30:32
Speaker 1: I don't know how that's going to look. I don't
30:35
Speaker 1: know if it'll be that.
30:36
Speaker 3: Sure.
30:37
Speaker 1: But they are going to have to give on that.
30:39
Speaker 1: That is one of the things they're going to have
30:40
Speaker 1: to give. If they're going to get a salary cap,
30:41
Speaker 1: they're going to have to give in a lot of areas.
30:43
Speaker 1: And one of them is going to be you get
30:45
Speaker 1: to become a free agent faster. If you don't want
30:47
Speaker 1: to pay us at 32, because Randy Rosarino hits free
30:50
Speaker 1: agency at 32, if you don't want to pay us,
30:52
Speaker 1: then you need to pay us while we're in our prime. Exactly.
30:55
Speaker 1: So we need to get to free agent faster, and
30:58
Speaker 1: I think that will be one of the things they'll
31:00
Speaker 1: have to give on, and I think they should. They should.
31:02
Speaker 1: I think players should be getting paid earlier in their careers.
31:06
Speaker 1: If we're going to judge their prime now as 24
31:08
Speaker 1: to 29... then they should be able to take financial
31:12
Speaker 1: advantage of that. Finally, and quickly, we got to be quick.
31:14
Speaker 1: M is for manager. So I thought Tory Lovullo made
31:18
Speaker 1: a lot of sense. I had no inside information. I
31:20
Speaker 1: was surprised that he signed an extension with the Diamondbacks.
31:24
Speaker 1: I heard he was not exactly happy there. So I
31:28
Speaker 1: really thought that was going to be the guy, but
31:30
Speaker 1: now he's off the board. So who rises to the
31:32
Speaker 1: top of the board for you as manager candidate?
31:35
Speaker 2: I mean, there's a couple options. I'm still looking at
31:38
Speaker 2: Steven Vogt as kind of my main go-to, but you'd
31:42
Speaker 2: have to trade for him. And the other ones that
31:45
Speaker 2: make some sense, I guess Chris Negron, if you want
31:48
Speaker 2: someone that has familiarity. But Lovullo was kind of the
31:52
Speaker 2: guy that ticked all the boxes for me. So I'm
31:53
Speaker 2: trying to starting to think about, you know, where else
31:57
Speaker 2: they could kind of move in that direction.
31:58
Speaker 4: Yeah.
31:59
Speaker 1: Um, I think they have to get an experienced guy, uh,
32:03
Speaker 1: but also an experienced guy with a good resume, you.
32:08
Speaker 4: Know?
32:08
Speaker 1: And so, and, and has to be most of those
32:12
Speaker 1: experienced guys with good resumes are like over 65. Yep.
32:15
Speaker 1: So he's going to have to be a young experienced
32:20
Speaker 1: manager with a good resume. And when you start, combing
32:24
Speaker 1: through all the candidates, it's really hard to find that
32:27
Speaker 1: guy that isn't already employed somewhere. Stephen Vogt and Kevin Cash, yes,
32:33
Speaker 1: those are dream managers to replace Dan Wilson. But you're
32:38
Speaker 1: going to have to give up trade compensation because they're
32:40
Speaker 1: both under contract, and I don't know if they'll do that.
32:42
Speaker 1: All right, coming up next, we previewed the Big Ten
32:45
Speaker 1: weekend with our pickups and the schedule. Sports Radio 93.3 KJRFM.
32:59
Speaker 1: With Metallica. I love the way he says that. It's Chuck,
33:05
Speaker 1: it's Anders, it's Christopher Kidd, and it is a full
33:07
Speaker 1: week of Big Ten football coming your way. Starts tonight,
33:12
Speaker 1: Penn State at Northwestern, 5 o'clock kickoff. Northwestern, suddenly a
33:17
Speaker 1: team people are paying attention to. Rick Neuheisel's going to
33:20
Speaker 1: be there for this one at 5 o'clock tonight on Fox. So,
33:24
Speaker 1: pretty good game. Penn State might need this one, but
33:27
Speaker 1: Northwestern might be the better team in this one. Saturday,
33:30
Speaker 1: 9 o'clock kickoff between Michigan at Minnesota. The Golden Gophers
33:34
Speaker 1: trying to show that that win last week here in
33:37
Speaker 1: Seattle was no fluke. Michigan still can't get things going offensively.
33:41
Speaker 1: Michigan State will be at Wisconsin at 9.30. The 12.30
33:45
Speaker 1: kickoff is the game of the week in the Big Ten.
33:47
Speaker 1: That is Ohio State at Iowa. That's the fifth-ranked team
33:50
Speaker 1: in the country against the 14th-ranked team in the country.
33:53
Speaker 1: It'll be on CBS. Maryland at Nebraska is a 1
33:56
Speaker 1: o'clock kickoff. Purdue at Illinois at 1.15. It's the fighting
34:01
Speaker 1: Cliff Averills against the fighting Devin Witherspoon at 1.15. Also, 4.30,
34:07
Speaker 1: it will be Washington, of course, at USC. Honks at
34:11
Speaker 1: 12.30 to start our coverage. And then... Might not be
34:15
Speaker 1: the game of the week, but it feels awfully important
34:17
Speaker 1: to both of these programs. Not just to both of
34:19
Speaker 1: these teams, but both of these programs. This game at
34:23
Speaker 1: 4.30 tomorrow. And then Rutgers will host Indiana tomorrow night
34:27
Speaker 1: at 5 o'clock. So that means we are finally to
34:30
Speaker 1: bye weeks. We have a couple teams on bye this week.
34:33
Speaker 1: Oregon and UCLA are on bye for this week. And
34:37
Speaker 1: that could affect our Big Ten pickups. And so here
34:41
Speaker 1: we get to our portion of the show where we
34:44
Speaker 1: make our pickups in our Big Ten Fantasy League, which
34:47
Speaker 1: right now is being led by Ashley Ryan. with 344
34:51
Speaker 1: total points. She had 112. I had 103 points this
34:55
Speaker 1: week and didn't even have the high point total. That's
34:57
Speaker 1: very high for this. Yes. For those who don't know. Yeah.
35:01
Speaker 1: You had a 70-point week. That's a pretty good week.
35:03
Speaker 3: Third.
35:05
Speaker 1: Third by 50, 42 points.
35:07
Speaker 6: I know.
35:07
Speaker 1: She had Jeremiah Smith, who had 58.7 points by himself.
35:09
Speaker 1: That's insane. 12 catches, 250 yards, and four touchdowns. That's
35:20
Speaker 1: the biggest, best game ever played in our history of
35:23
Speaker 1: doing this. So, yes, so Ashley is in front by
35:27
Speaker 1: 34 over me. I am in second place. Anders is
35:31
Speaker 1: in third. And then our listener, Eric, who got off
35:35
Speaker 1: to a good start. He needs a bump. He needs
35:38
Speaker 1: to make a good pickup today. Joining us on our
35:40
Speaker 1: program is our listener, Eric, who is part of our
35:44
Speaker 1: Fantasy Football League this year. How are you doing, man?
35:47
Speaker 1: You handling this all right?
35:49
Speaker 3: They tried to kill Bucky's boy. And I take that personally.
35:59
Speaker 1: Well, I tell you what, you're going to be all right.
36:02
Speaker 1: You're going to be all right. You haven't been taking
36:03
Speaker 1: it out on the family, have you? Oh, God, no.
36:08
Speaker 1: It's a duck to me.
36:09
Speaker 3: It's more upset on Bucky's behalf.
36:11
Speaker 1: I like that.
36:13
Speaker 4: Yeah.
36:14
Speaker 1: Dante Moore goes out. I was wondering how you were
36:16
Speaker 1: reacting to that. Because that's your quarterback on your team.
36:20
Speaker 3: Well, I knew it was immediately going to be a
36:22
Speaker 3: very bad week with a bye week coming up. So
36:24
Speaker 3: basically a double zero on the QB position for two
36:28
Speaker 3: weeks there would have been as ugly. So I got
36:31
Speaker 3: to make a change, unfortunately.
36:32
Speaker 1: So I'm trusting you're going to remove Dante Moore from
36:35
Speaker 1: your team today.
36:37
Speaker 3: Yeah, with a bye week, and then they have a
36:41
Speaker 3: home game. He still hasn't even through the early concussion protocol, apparently.
36:46
Speaker 1: I think it's a smart move. And you've got a
36:48
Speaker 1: lot of good options out here. So who do you
36:50
Speaker 1: want to take with your pick? Can you remind me
36:53
Speaker 1: who is already taken? DeMond Williams is on my team. Anders'
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Speaker 1: quarterback is Jaden Maiava of USC. And Ashley's is Indiana's
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Speaker 1: Josh Hoover.
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Speaker 4: All right.
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Speaker 3: Then, so we're going to say adios to Moore, and
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Speaker 3: we're going to take Sayan.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I figured you were.
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Speaker 3: Good call.
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Speaker 1: That's a great call. I'm surprised he's not on a
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Speaker 1: team at this stage, but it's not like everybody's got
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Speaker 1: a good quarterback. It's true. And you had a good
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Speaker 1: quarterback until he got USC'd.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, until they decided to try and separate his head
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Speaker 3: from the rest of his team.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, not good. Not good at all. All right, man. Well,
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Speaker 1: good luck. Thank you very much. We appreciate it. Enjoy
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Speaker 1: the football this weekend, and we'll bug you again next week,
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Speaker 1: all right? All right. All right, guys. Talk to you later.
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Speaker 3: Thanks.
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Speaker 1: Eric has been fantastic in our league. He's just figured
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Speaker 1: out Anders playing with the big boys now. Yes, that's true.
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Speaker 1: And Ashley. Yeah. Ashley's in first place. That's a good pickup.
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Speaker 1: Julian Sane is on Eric's team. He drops Dante Moore.
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Speaker 1: All right, Anders, you have the second pick this week.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, unfortunately, I think I did the right move in
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Speaker 2: dropping Darius Taylor because even returning against UW didn't do
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Speaker 2: that much. But then in doing so, Cam Edwards, my pickup,
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Speaker 2: who I thought was going to be really good, ends
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Speaker 2: up getting a season-ending injury on the second play of
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Speaker 2: the game. So I have to find another running back
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Speaker 2: once again.
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Speaker 1: And I have a.
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Speaker 2: Clear option, except I have someone from that team already.
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Speaker 6: Oh.
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Speaker 2: So I can't really take him unless I want to
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Speaker 2: go zero points at the running back position this week,
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Speaker 2: which I can't do.
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Speaker 1: I'm already in third place.
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Speaker 4: So.
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Speaker 2: I'm going to take Khalil Valentine from Illinois. They're playing
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Speaker 2: Purdue this week, who has the worst rushing defense in
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Speaker 2: the Big Ten. So I'm expecting a big week from him.
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Speaker 2: He's kind of their 1A type of guy. So I'm
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Speaker 2: expecting that he gets a lot of the ball. And
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Speaker 2: I think they will be ahead for a lot of
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Speaker 2: the game. So a lot of running game for them.
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Speaker 2: And I hope that the guy I'm thinking of lasts
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Speaker 2: until next week. But I highly doubt that will.
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Speaker 1: Be the case. All right. So who are you dropping? Sorry,
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Speaker 1: I'm dropping Cam Edwards because he's out for the season.
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Speaker 3: Oh, okay.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's probably a good move. Guys that are out
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Speaker 1: for the season tend to not help fans.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I would say that's a smart decision there.
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Speaker 1: Just follow my lead. I've been doing this for a while. Okay,
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Speaker 1: sounds good. I've got a lot of sage advice for you.
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Speaker 1: I am going to get rid of somebody off my
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Speaker 1: team that I don't want to get rid of because
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Speaker 1: he is the leading rusher right now in the Big
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Speaker 1: 10 um if i've climbed back to second place after
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Speaker 1: being in last place for the first couple of weeks
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Speaker 1: because i have the top two running backs uh statistically
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Speaker 1: in the big 10 but i don't want a zero
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Speaker 1: from wayne knight from UCLA. So I'm going to go
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Speaker 1: ahead and move on from Wayne Knight. He becomes available
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Speaker 1: next week. And then with my pickup, I am going
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Speaker 1: to take Nebraska's Jamal Rule, or as I like to
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Speaker 1: call him, Ja Rule. Ja Rule.
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Speaker 3: Yes.
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Speaker 1: Nobody else has done that, I'm sure. Nobody else has
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Speaker 1: picked up on that. No one's made that. But yeah,
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Speaker 1: they're playing Maryland, and Maryland is horrible. And Jamal Rule
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Speaker 1: is the Emmett Johnson of this year for Nebraska. So
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Speaker 1: give me Ja Rule. I'll take him. Ashley, in her arrogance,
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Speaker 1: has decided to pass this week. She thinks her team is... infallible.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: There's no improving it, apparently.
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Speaker 3: Wow, geez.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, she's just on top of the mountain, I guess.
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Speaker 1: I guess so. Yeah, looking down at all of us peasants.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm going to give you guys a chance.
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Speaker 1: I won't pick anyone up, you know. I've got Jeremiah Smith.
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Speaker 1: What do I have to worry about? And KJ Duff.
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Speaker 1: All right, so those are our pickups for the week.
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