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Chuck & Buck 5-28 Hour 4: Christan Caple, ABC's of the Mariners and one last thing! · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: Nine o'clock hour here on this Thursday.
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  Speaker 2: That's right, magically, it's already Thursday. It's Chuck and Ashley
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  Speaker 2: with you here, Chuck and Buck in the Morning Sports
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  Speaker 2: Radio ninety three point three kJ R f M. I
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  Speaker 2: kind of like the fact that somebody's listening for the
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  Speaker 2: first time. Here's me introduced Chuck and Ashley, and then
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  Speaker 2: I say, it's Chuck and Buck in the morning.
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  Speaker 1: So people think your nickname is Buck.
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  Speaker 3: It's not rhymes though it starts with a different letter.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, yeah, that's what I get. Oh, Luck, Ryan.
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  Speaker 3: That's me. Yeah, as they come.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but yeah, somebody drive over the first time, like
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  Speaker 2: he just said, her name is Ashley.
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  Speaker 1: Is her nickname Buck?
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  Speaker 4: Yep, that's that's it. Yeah, No, No, my excellent shot.
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  Speaker 4: No newcomer Bucks just not here. So but uh, you know,
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  Speaker 4: we're going to find some information out about that here soon.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Joining us now on the radio program is Christian Caple,
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  Speaker 2: who has been covering with exceptional flair your Washington Huskies
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  Speaker 2: for years now, the co host of the Say Who
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  Speaker 2: Say pod. You can find them on YouTube, and of
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  Speaker 2: course he's still writing about the Huskies on Montlake dot Com.
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  Speaker 2: And it's been a while since he's joined our radio program.
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  Speaker 2: I think he had some babies and stuff that kept
• 1:38
  Speaker 2: him from joining us in the early morning hours. But
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  Speaker 2: perhaps he's capable again. Actually he is Christian capable, and
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  Speaker 2: he's joining us on the radio show.
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  Speaker 5: How are you, sir? I'm well, I'm better now after
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  Speaker 5: that introduction? Yeah, was that good? Was I thorough? That
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  Speaker 5: was great? Okay, very good?
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  Speaker 1: How are things? How's the family? How's life?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah? Good? Daughter's five years old now. Just got her
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  Speaker 5: off to preschool this morning. She's just finishing up going
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  Speaker 5: to kindergarten in the fall, So that's a whole other thing.
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  Speaker 5: I'm trying not to think about too much quite yet.
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  Speaker 5: But yeah, how are you guys doing?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, we're doing good. We're doing good.
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  Speaker 2: I was just Ashley and I were discussing this. I
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  Speaker 2: said he didn't want to miss one first thing in
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  Speaker 2: the mornings. I mean, what if his daughter was going to,
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  Speaker 2: you know, ride a tricycle for the first time, and
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  Speaker 2: he's stuck on a radio interview with Chuck Powell for
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  Speaker 2: goodness sake, and he misses that opportunity. But now she's
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  Speaker 2: gone off to school. Your mornings are free. You can
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  Speaker 2: join us all the time.
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  Speaker 5: Right, exactly. Yeah, the tricycles in the rear view mirror
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  Speaker 5: at this point.
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  Speaker 1: There's a little bit of a pause there that I didn't.
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  Speaker 3: Appreciate bigger than a little longer than I felt comfortable with.
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  Speaker 5: That's just that's just the that's just the connection.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, okay, all right, that makes sense. That made me
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  Speaker 2: feel better strangely. All right, Well, let's dive in and
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  Speaker 2: let's talk about the number one issue here first, and
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  Speaker 2: that is Apple Cup Sunday. What do you make of it?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I understand why in this era of traditions kind
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  Speaker 5: of fallen by the wayside. I mean, the Apple Cup's
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  Speaker 5: being played the first weekend in September as the season opener,
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  Speaker 5: first and foremost. That's weird, but it's been weird the
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  Speaker 5: last couple of years. I understand why any change, any
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  Speaker 5: further change to what you're used to college football being
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  Speaker 5: is irritating and why sort of the initial reaction is what,
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  Speaker 5: you know, what, who wants to watch the Apple Cup
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  Speaker 5: on a Sunday? I get it. I think if you
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  Speaker 5: take a step back and look at it, it's not
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  Speaker 5: that big of a deal. I mean, it's the first.
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  Speaker 5: It's opening weekend. It's Labor Day weekend, so you know,
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  Speaker 5: most people would imagine we'll still have the following day,
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  Speaker 5: Monday off from work. It's a one pm kickoff, right,
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  Speaker 5: I think given the choice between playing at eight pm
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  Speaker 5: on a Saturday or one pm on a Sunday, you
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  Speaker 5: know one of those is preferred, right, And it's a
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  Speaker 5: standalone primetime TV network TV window. There's no other college
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  Speaker 5: football game is being played at that time. If you
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  Speaker 5: want to watch college football, and that Sunday at that time,
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  Speaker 5: your only choice is Washington against Washington State. So I
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  Speaker 5: realize not everybody cares about those things. Some people just
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  Speaker 5: like knowing that they can show up to Husky Stadium
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  Speaker 5: on the first Saturday of September and there's going to
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  Speaker 5: be a Husky football game and they're not going to
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  Speaker 5: have to rearrange their weekend and all those sort of things.
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  Speaker 5: So I get how it's a little bit irritating. I
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  Speaker 5: think on the whole, if you're going to play a
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  Speaker 5: game on a non Saturday, this is kind of the
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  Speaker 5: weekend to do it, And I don't know that I
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  Speaker 5: think it's I think it can be a net positive
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  Speaker 5: for them.
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  Speaker 2: Do you feel like it's the start of a new tradition,
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  Speaker 2: that this will happen every Sunday, or do you feel
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  Speaker 2: like it's the next step in the de evolution of
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  Speaker 2: the game and maybe we're closer to not having the
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  Speaker 2: game at all.
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  Speaker 5: I don't think it's the start of a new tradition.
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  Speaker 5: I mean it only worked out this way because it's
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  Speaker 5: the first weekend of the season. The Big Ten typically
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  Speaker 5: tries to get creative and stretch that Labor Day weekend
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  Speaker 5: schedule out a little bit, and the Apple Cup, you know,
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  Speaker 5: assuming they continue to play, it won't necessarily always be
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  Speaker 5: the season opener. I don't have the twenty seven and
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  Speaker 5: twenty eight schedules in front of me right now. I
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  Speaker 5: don't think it's scheduled for the opening weekend again, but
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  Speaker 5: I could be wrong about that. This is the first
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  Speaker 5: time it's happened, so don't I don't think it's anything.
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  Speaker 5: You know, like in the old PAC twelve Days Friday,
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  Speaker 5: Black Friday, it kind of became a popular date for it,
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  Speaker 5: but you know, again, it was always the Thanksgiving weekend,
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  Speaker 5: right it was always the season finale, so you could
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  Speaker 5: kind of kind of plan around that, and that was
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  Speaker 5: similar to other rivalry games, So you know, as far
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  Speaker 5: as whether they'll keep playing it, I mean, I think
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  Speaker 5: we need to learn more about the college football Playoff
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  Speaker 5: expanding and what that's going to do to non conference scheduling,
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  Speaker 5: and is there going to be any sort of agreement
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  Speaker 5: between the Big Ten and SEC or the other two
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  Speaker 5: power conference leagues for those schools to play each other.
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  Speaker 5: And you know, they have a home and home on
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  Speaker 5: the schedule with Tennessee the years the first two years
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  Speaker 5: after the Apple Cup contract expires, and I wouldn't imagine
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  Speaker 5: you could play that and the Apple Cup. So something's
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  Speaker 5: going to have to give there, and we just don't
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  Speaker 5: have answers on that yet.
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  Speaker 2: Christian Caple is with us and you can follow Christian
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  Speaker 2: at Christian Caple c ap l E and he does
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  Speaker 2: have like a poll up. I was interested to see
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  Speaker 2: the results, so I did vote. It is Sunday Apple Cup,
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  Speaker 2: Love it, hate it, or it's fine. I clicked it's fine.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't expect the results. Forty seven percent think it's fine,
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  Speaker 2: thirty five percent hate, eighteen percent love. So far in
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  Speaker 2: your vot voting at this point, I think I'm surprised
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  Speaker 2: by all of those results, Christian, I didn't think eighteen
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  Speaker 2: percent would possibly love it. I thought more people would
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  Speaker 2: hate it than thirty five percent, and I thought it's fine,
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  Speaker 2: would be the lukewarm middle finisher there. And yet people
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  Speaker 2: seem to be, at least those who've taken the time
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  Speaker 2: to vote okay with it as a solution for twenty
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  Speaker 2: six What are your reactions to the results you got
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  Speaker 2: on your poll.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm not terribly surprised, And I also think it's
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  Speaker 5: the kind of thing where you know, those are the
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  Speaker 5: results here within twenty four hours of the move being
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  Speaker 5: now right. I think that as time goes on, people
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  Speaker 5: will come more and more to accept it. I think,
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  Speaker 5: you know, a byproduct of college football becoming what it
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  Speaker 5: has and being so unrecognizable from what it was ten
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  Speaker 5: fifteen years ago in so many ways, is that I
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  Speaker 5: do think it's conditioned fans to roll with the punches
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  Speaker 5: a little more and sort of be prepared for Yeah, Okay,
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  Speaker 5: the Apple Cup's going to be the season opener. Why not?
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  Speaker 5: Okay two years ago? The Apple Cup is going to
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  Speaker 5: air exclusively streaming on Peacock. Okay, why not? Oh, the
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  Speaker 5: Apple Cup's going to be on a Sunday. Now, yeah, sure,
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  Speaker 5: why not? You know one more thing? So two years
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  Speaker 5: ago they played it on Lumenfield and it's streamed on Peacock,
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  Speaker 5: So I think I think anything is an improvement from that.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's been a while since I've had Christian Caple
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  Speaker 2: on the show, since the Little Caple just came on
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  Speaker 2: into the world.
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  Speaker 1: I believe. And so let me just get your gauge
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  Speaker 1: what your temperature reading is.
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  Speaker 2: For the sport of college football in general, we've had
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  Speaker 2: a lot of change since last you and I talked
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  Speaker 2: on the air. So do you think that college football's
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  Speaker 2: heading in the right direction with all of these major
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  Speaker 2: changes or are you a little worried about the future
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  Speaker 2: of college football.
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  Speaker 5: I think they will be headed in the right direction
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  Speaker 5: once it's acknowledged that the players are inployees, because they
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  Speaker 5: are being treated as employees in just about every conceivable
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  Speaker 5: way at this point, and they form a collective bargaining unit,
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  Speaker 5: and a collective bargaining agreement is reached that establishes firm
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  Speaker 5: parameters around compensation and so many other items. But really
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  Speaker 5: that player pay and what are you going to spend
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  Speaker 5: on your roster? What can you spend on your roster.
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  Speaker 5: The House Settlement attempted to implement a cap, not a
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  Speaker 5: salary cap because it's not salary because they're insisting they're
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  Speaker 5: still not employees, but you know, an nil licensing cap
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  Speaker 5: that the school can pay, but everybody's exceeding that with
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  Speaker 5: third party dollars that may or may not be legitimate,
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  Speaker 5: and it's still just very patchwork. And so yeah, I
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  Speaker 5: know there's new federal legislation that was I guess not
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  Speaker 5: yet technically introduced, but sort of publicly unveiled yesterday involving
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  Speaker 5: a US Senator from Washington, Maria Cantwell, that sort of
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  Speaker 5: tries to codify a lot of what the House Settlement
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  Speaker 5: brought about and set some guidelines and you know, put
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  Speaker 5: it into federal law and give schools something real to
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  Speaker 5: work with. If that passes, it's a long ways away.
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  Speaker 5: It probably won't look the way that it does currently
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  Speaker 5: the way the bill is written, but it still stopped
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  Speaker 5: short of saying that, you know, players should be employees
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  Speaker 5: and that there's collective bargaining. So I just I think
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  Speaker 5: until you get to that, and obviously you know that's
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  Speaker 5: not some magic bullet that brings with it. It's its
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  Speaker 5: own flaws and consequences and everything. But I think anything
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  Speaker 5: short of that is still just a band aid and
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  Speaker 5: delaying the inevitable.
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  Speaker 2: Five years from now, how large will the college football
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  Speaker 2: playoff be?
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  Speaker 5: A gosh, talking about five year periods in college football
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  Speaker 5: just feels like eternity. Five years ago was twenty twenty
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  Speaker 5: one first season? Yeah, that's true. True, maybe a medical
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  Speaker 5: waiver or two. I tend to think it's more likely
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  Speaker 5: than not that it expands to twenty four, and I'll
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  Speaker 5: go out on a limb and say it'll stay there,
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  Speaker 5: But gosh, further expansion and further you know, consolidation around
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  Speaker 5: that the major leagues. If there's this, you know, some
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  Speaker 5: sort of super league forms between now and then, you
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  Speaker 5: can throw that out and I don't know, I twenty
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  Speaker 5: four feels like a probably a little bit too. I
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  Speaker 5: think that if that, I don't want to say it's
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  Speaker 5: too big or too much access. I do think that's
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  Speaker 5: the point at which you are inviting more teams than
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  Speaker 5: could conceivably compete for a championship. There's not necessarily anything
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  Speaker 5: wrong with that, you know. I think the player compensation
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  Speaker 5: piece is driving a lot of it, right, because I
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  Speaker 5: think that what the leagues are hearing from ads and
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  Speaker 5: from coaches is that, look, if you're gonna ask us
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  Speaker 5: to go to our boosters and ask and ask and
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  Speaker 5: ask for more and more and more money every year
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  Speaker 5: to pay players, you need to give more of us.
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  Speaker 5: Hope that like there's some sort of postseason tournament we're
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  Speaker 5: striving toward, and we have more than twelve of us
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  Speaker 5: have a chance to go compete for a championship at
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  Speaker 5: the end of the year. So it all kind of
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  Speaker 5: comes back to that player pay piece. But Yeah, to
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  Speaker 5: actually answer your question, I'll go at twenty four.
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  Speaker 2: Christian Caple is with us on moindlake dot com, also
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  Speaker 2: the host of co host of Say Who Say Pod,
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  Speaker 2: which you can check out on YouTube apparently as well,
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  Speaker 2: and we're talking some college football and we're catching up
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  Speaker 2: with Christian Caple because it's been a while since he's
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  Speaker 2: been on our radio program. So let me get your
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  Speaker 2: assessment of jedfish era and how healthy you think Washington
• 12:40
  Speaker 2: football is currently under his leadership.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I think it's at least on schedule, it can
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  Speaker 5: be easy to Yeah, I think when they go eight
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  Speaker 5: and four, nine and four with a bowl game in
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  Speaker 5: year two, it can be easy to sort of move
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  Speaker 5: past just how difficult the transition from kto Vor to
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  Speaker 5: Jedfish was. You know, at a time when college football is,
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  Speaker 5: you know, changing every day, you're turning over your whole roster.
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  Speaker 5: You're losing a bunch of guys from that twenty twenty
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  Speaker 5: three team that played for a national title anyway to
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  Speaker 5: the NFL Draft into graduation. But then you also lose
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  Speaker 5: a ton to the transfer portal when the coaching change
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  Speaker 5: happens and they're scrambling just to have enough offensive linemen
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  Speaker 5: to practice with. So that was that was a rough period.
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  Speaker 5: I thought six and six and year one was just
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  Speaker 5: fine considering the challenges. And but what that said, you know,
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  Speaker 5: there there is a certain expectation that they take another
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  Speaker 5: step forward this year and that they be even more competitive.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, you saw the gap close in terms of
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  Speaker 5: what it looked like when they played a team like
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  Speaker 5: Oregon or when they played a team like Ohio State
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  Speaker 5: that I think they had the talent and depth to
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  Speaker 5: hang in a little bit longer, but not for a
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  Speaker 5: full four quarters. And that's sort of what they've talked
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  Speaker 5: about this year, right is you know, being able to
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  Speaker 5: go actually go toe to toe with some of those
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  Speaker 5: teams that have managed to put him away by a
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  Speaker 5: couple of scores and getting demand Williams Junior to a
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  Speaker 5: point where he's making better decisions and better plays and
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  Speaker 5: more of an impact against some of the best defenses
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  Speaker 5: that they're going to face. And and then I think the
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  Speaker 5: schedule's harder this year too. I think, on average, you know,
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  Speaker 5: the Big Ten opponents that they faced week to week
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  Speaker 5: is going to be a higher caliber than what they
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  Speaker 5: saw weekend week out last year, even if they still
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  Speaker 5: did see some of the you know, the very best
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  Speaker 5: teams in the league. So I think recruiting is going
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  Speaker 5: about as well as you could expect. At Washington, I
• 14:32
  Speaker 5: think with some of the nil constraints they have, they've
• 14:35
  Speaker 5: put together, you know, a pretty talented roster from what
• 14:38
  Speaker 5: we saw this spring. But it's it's sort of TBD
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  Speaker 5: on Hey, when when Washington lines up against Indiana, when
• 14:44
  Speaker 5: they line up against the Oregon when they line up
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  Speaker 5: against some of the Big Ten's best, Like, is that
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  Speaker 5: a game that's going to go down to the final
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  Speaker 5: possession or not?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree with your assessment at all, And I
• 14:53
  Speaker 2: give Husky fans a lot of credit. I think I
• 14:55
  Speaker 2: think the entire fan base has been patient with the
• 15:00
  Speaker 2: process and understood what Jedfish was up against when he
• 15:04
  Speaker 2: took over this job. And I think that they were
• 15:06
  Speaker 2: okay with that first year. And I think they were okay.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody's overwhelmed, nobody's thrilled, but I think they were okay
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  Speaker 2: with that first year. Everybody's okay with nine and four.
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  Speaker 2: My concern, though, Christian, is do you have the team
• 15:22
  Speaker 2: that can improve on nine and four this upcoming year?
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  Speaker 2: I'm not sure I see it. I mean, I haven't
• 15:28
  Speaker 2: dove into it quite as thoroughly as you were Softi
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  Speaker 2: or Dick have on our radio show. But as I
• 15:36
  Speaker 2: sit here right now, I'm not sure I feel something
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  Speaker 2: better than nine and four this year? Do you.
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  Speaker 5: I think it's possible, but you know straight away, like
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  Speaker 5: you look at the last two games on the schedule.
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  Speaker 5: They're home against Indiana and they're out Oregon. So that
• 15:55
  Speaker 5: removes a lot of margin for error from that portion
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  Speaker 5: of the schedule where you could talk about, hey, these
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  Speaker 5: are the games that could sort of go either way,
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  Speaker 5: and I think they have more of those these games
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  Speaker 5: could go either way type of games this year than
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  Speaker 5: they did last year. The number that I kind of
• 16:10
  Speaker 5: come back to to illustrate like just how different this
• 16:12
  Speaker 5: schedule is is I think there were six Big Ten
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  Speaker 5: teams last year that did not make a Bowl game,
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  Speaker 5: and five of them were on Washington's schedule. Only two
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  Speaker 5: of those teams are on their schedule this year. So
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  Speaker 5: there are other seven Big Ten opponents, all at least
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  Speaker 5: won six games last year. One of them won the
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  Speaker 5: National Championship, by the way, didn't lose a game. We
• 16:32
  Speaker 5: know what Oregon is like US has high expectations. They
• 16:35
  Speaker 5: play them on the road. Iowa is always tough. They
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  Speaker 5: got them at home. They've got Penn State at home.
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  Speaker 5: So none of those are games, you know, the USC,
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  Speaker 5: the Iowa, the Penn State going to Nebraska, Like, none
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  Speaker 5: of those are games you'd look at and say, oh,
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  Speaker 5: there's just no way Washington can win that game. But
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  Speaker 5: they're all distinct challenges and so like I think that
• 16:53
  Speaker 5: tier of games, along with obviously like not kicking one
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  Speaker 5: where you're heavily favored like they did against Wisconsin last year,
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  Speaker 5: taking business against those teams, and then you know, really
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  Speaker 5: getting it done against that sort of middle to opper
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  Speaker 5: tier of the schedule, like that's going to determine is
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  Speaker 5: this Can this be a ten and two team or
• 17:10
  Speaker 5: is this another eight and four type of team? Right?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, why don't you Thanks for coming on with us,
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: by the way, first and foremost, and I know you've
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: got a lot more first with your daughter that are
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: coming up. Let us know the first time she says, Man.
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: I love that Chuck and Buck radio show.
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: Just give us a notification, like she just randomly because
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: you're listening to it in the car whe her, of course,
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: like you do every morning. She just randomly throws that
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: out there. That'd be nice to know. That'd be nice
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: to hear Christian.
• 17:40
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I'll call in, how about that?
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that'd be great. Yeah, yeah, you've got the green
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: light call in whenever you'd like. But I can't wait
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: until her first first time.
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: She realizes she loves our radio show. That's gonna be
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: a special moment for you.
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: And for your whole household.
• 18:00
  Speaker 5: Yeah it's that's you know, it's a special time in
• 18:02
  Speaker 5: every family's history.
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: I agree.
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: I agree. Yeah, yeah, so thanks for acknowledging that. Uh, well,
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: great to hear from you. Seriously, that was uh, it
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: was good to chat with you and hopefully we can
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: do this some more in the future.
• 18:14
  Speaker 5: All right, yeah, absolutely, anytime.
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: All right, Christian Caple joining us here on the show
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: of Getting You. You can follow him at Christian cape
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: Le c A P L e H. He's been covering
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: the Huskies ever since I got here, that's for sure,
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: and on Montlake dot com and then he's got the
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: podcast and he's on YouTube and everything else.
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: Oh, Christian, all mediums there he is spreading his knowledge.
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. So, yeah, we appreciate him jumping on here.
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: And yeah, I I guess I don't hate Apple cups Sunday.
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: I think you ought to give it a go as
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: a new tradition since you've obviously scrapped the old tradition.
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: I think you should try to make it every Sunday
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: Labor Day and try to have the entire college football
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: world watching you if they want to watch football at
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: that moment on that day. I think that's what you
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: should now strive for, because if you jerk it around anymore,
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: I have a feeling it's just going to.
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: Go away entirely.
• 19:16
  Speaker 6: I'll tell you what I like about it is that
• 19:17
  Speaker 6: it's the first game of the year. Okay, So if not,
• 19:20
  Speaker 6: I mean, I prefer it as the last game of
• 19:22
  Speaker 6: the year. But if it's going to be the first
• 19:23
  Speaker 6: game of the year, make it the first game of
• 19:25
  Speaker 6: the year. The problem is, I don't think they can
• 19:27
  Speaker 6: keep it as the first game of the year because
• 19:30
  Speaker 6: the schedule makers and all the things they do.
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: I mean, so.
• 19:33
  Speaker 6: Far, we've had it a different We've had it the
• 19:35
  Speaker 6: second week in September, we've had it the third week
• 19:37
  Speaker 6: in September, and now we're having it the first week
• 19:39
  Speaker 6: in September. So I would love, love, love it to
• 19:42
  Speaker 6: just be you know, every year you're going to get
• 19:45
  Speaker 6: the Apple Cup that week. I do think that would
• 19:47
  Speaker 6: be a way to start to bring back some of
• 19:50
  Speaker 6: the fun of the rivalry.
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: But right now, you never know when it's going to
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: be played.
• 19:54
  Speaker 6: So if you could make sure that you could keep
• 19:57
  Speaker 6: it concrete to one weekend like it used to.
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: Be, that's a great start.
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: It's weird. It's just weird.
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: It is weird.
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: It's been weird for years now. It's going to be
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: weird again this year.
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: But I think there's a chance, like I put on
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: his poll, hate it, love it in between or it's fine.
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: Was the other one I put it's fine, yeah, for
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: where it's at right now.
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's fine.
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: But I think if you want people to love it again,
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: which I don't know if that's possible.
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: It would be great.
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: This might be your opportunity. Put it at an.
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: Odd date, have the stage to yourself, make it a
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: new tradition, Make it a new tradition. It's Sunday afternoon
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: before the NFL season, which, by the way, I think
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: the NFL is going to expand its schedule and probably
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: renders this point moot for the funeral Saturday.
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and it would still be the first weekend.
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but but we'll give it a go. Yeah, that's
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: all we can do. Well, you're not going to watch it, right,
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: We'll give it a go, all right. Coming up next
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: on radio program, we do have the ABC's of the MS.
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: Do want to let you know that Talalap Resort Casino
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: on June fourth, Colin Ray will be performing at the
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: ORCA Ballroom. I always want to call it the Brawlroom
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: because I like that, But there should be no fighting
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: at the Colin Ray concert at least this time. Then again,
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: maybe that's what you're going there for.
• 21:21
  Speaker 6: You know what, try to try to just have fun
• 21:24
  Speaker 6: and listen to the music and let the music take
• 21:26
  Speaker 6: over instead of your fists.
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: Yes, and so June fourth, Colin Ray tickets are available
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: everything to lalup dot com. And of course we will
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: be choosing a winner from our ticket giveaway later on
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: in the day, so we'll do that again tomorrow as well.
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: ABC's are the Ems next on Sports Radio ninety three
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: point three KJRFM. Latest from the Mariners, but not necessarily
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: about last night's game. We don't know where the alphabet's
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: going to take us. I will tell you before we
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: get started, because I have kind of woken up to
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: the idea that we can't give people updates enough in
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: the morning about what has happened with the Mariners most recently,
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: because people wake up at various different times and join
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: us at various different times. So I will at least
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: start with telling you they won nine to one over
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: the A's yesterday afternoon.
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: That is a sweep of the A's.
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: And believe it or not, despite all the struggles this
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: team has gone through, they have not played well. They
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: have just not played well. It's been quite ugly, certainly
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: not up to their capabilities. I think This is far
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: and away the best roster in the American League West,
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: and yet they are twenty eight and twenty nine on
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: the year, a game away from five hundred, which they
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: could get accomplished Friday against the Arizona Diamondbacks. But yesterday
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: they surged in the first place in the American League
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: West because no other team in the division has a
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: record of.
• 22:49
  Speaker 5: Five hundred or better.
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: There you go, just like we drew it up. Oh yeah,
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: these first fifty seven games.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I do love it when a plan comes together. Yeah.
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: So first place team that we're discussing today in the
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: ABC's of the MS and we left off at the
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: letter you yesterday. So you was for unprecedented and I'm
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: going to do it. I'm gonna do it again. I'm
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: gonna talk about the piggyback, yeah, because it is an
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: unprecedented move. I don't remember anybody else at major league
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: level trying this. Ryan Healy says, they do it in
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: the minor leagues all the time, but I've never seen
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: anyone do it, and we don't. We didn't come up
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: with the name piggyback. We're only using the term piggyback
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: because that's what they used, and.
• 23:31
  Speaker 6: We're not gonna come up with a different name because
• 23:33
  Speaker 6: people don't like piggyback, because then no one will really
• 23:35
  Speaker 6: know what we're talking about, and then we really are
• 23:37
  Speaker 6: trying to be cute.
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: Right, Yes, thank you, thank you.
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: So yes, I do want to talk about the piggyback
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: because there is one way we have not discussed it
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: ended up not discussing at a second time on yesterday's show,
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: and I wanted to, and that is the way that
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: they have handled it themselves. And there is definitely criticism
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: that can be levied towards the Mariners for the fit
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: that Luis threw in the dugout and that Bryce and
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: I don't think Bryce threw a fit, but he was
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: obviously angry when he's removed from the game the first
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: time they tried it, and he has had comments in
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: his postgame you know, each game negatively toward it.
• 24:19
  Speaker 6: Yeah, he doesn't like it, right, or at least it's
• 24:21
  Speaker 6: uncomfortable for him, and he doesn't seem to I should
• 24:24
  Speaker 6: say I shouldn't speak for him.
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: He doesn't seem to like it.
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: And I want to tell you right now, for these
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: two guys to verbalize or make gestures or anything. I mean,
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: you're roffling some feathers here, because those are about the
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: two most easy going dudes on the entire team, in
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: the entire organization, like, regardless of job. I mean, I'm
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: sure there's an easy going you know, Cotton Candy vendor
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: at T Mobile, and he's not as easy going as
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: Bryce Miller is, okay. So to have angered those two
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: to the point that they're saying things in Prescott conferences
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: and they are at least in interviews postgame interviews and
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: making gestures and making a stand on the mound. Boy,
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: you've done something. Yeah, you've done something. And I don't
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: know where the blame goes, So.
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: I'll just throw a blanket over the entire organization. Who knows.
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: I mean, obviously this was the brainchild of the brain Trust,
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: and I think Dan was a part of that conversation,
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: but no doubt Jerry and Justin spearheaded this conversation on
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: how they wanted to use it, and I'm sure Pete
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: was involved in that. I'm sure a bunch of people
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: from the Nerdorama were involved in that. And so it
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: was an organizational decision spearheaded by Jerry and Justin who
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: I'm sure Jerry had the final say in all of it. Now,
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: this organization's not exactly been great at communicating things to
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: their players.
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: They do seem to have more people on board with
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: management than they've had in past years.
• 25:55
  Speaker 6: Yes, they seem to give have given other thoughts other
• 25:59
  Speaker 6: than just the numbers and things. They now care maybe
• 26:02
  Speaker 6: more about team chemistry.
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: They seem to really care about it. All of us
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: a sudden.
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: But I don't know where the break Maybe they're just
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: not good at it. But there, did Jerry think Justin
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: was going to explain it to Bryce and Louise better
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: than what they did? Did Justin then think Dan was
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: going to do it? Did Dan think Pete was.
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: Going to do it? I mean, who knows where the
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: breakdown was. But they're, in my opinion, all responsible, every
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: single one of them.
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: And you know how much I love Pete. From Pete
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: all the way up to Jerry, they're all responsible. Someone
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: had to make sure that Bryce and Louise knew what
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: you were doing, why you were doing it, how long
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: you might be doing it. All of those things should
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: have been covered with those two. They should not have
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: had looks.
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: Of why are we doing this again? During the game,
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: in the middle of the game.
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: So yes, I think blame absolutely gets thrown at the organization.
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: I throw it at the feet of all four of
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: those guys. I don't know who owns the lion's share
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: of it, but does that matter? Should we care about that?
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: Hopefully they have it corrected and the communication has.
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: Been opened up.
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: Yes, because it should be very black and white.
• 27:18
  Speaker 6: It should be either Okay, Bryce Miller or Luise you're starting,
• 27:22
  Speaker 6: You're going four innings.
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: It does not matter how well you pitch. We are
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: pulling you after that.
• 27:26
  Speaker 6: And then Bryce Miller is coming in, So that should
• 27:28
  Speaker 6: be either one way it's communicated, or Louis you're starting,
• 27:32
  Speaker 6: We're gonna have you go four innings.
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: If you're doing real well, we might keep you in.
• 27:37
  Speaker 6: And then Bryce, you just need to be more flexible
• 27:40
  Speaker 6: on when you're going to be ready.
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: It has to be one of those two things.
• 27:42
  Speaker 6: There shouldn't be anything any other explanation that was given
• 27:46
  Speaker 6: to them.
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and look, I appreciate I hope everybody else does.
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: Jerry's said publicly like this is not an ideal situation.
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: We're not sitting here thinking that we've come up with
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: the ideal solution to all of this, But we just
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: think this is the best thing for now, and for
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: now it's worked.
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: I mean it has.
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: They collectively, the two of them have a two point
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: one to two era over the two piggyback attempts. You
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: won one game going away, you saved.
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: Your bullpen entirely.
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: In one game, you practically did the in game number one.
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: But there are lessons to be learned from both of them.
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: So they're going to try it a third time, and
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: Bryce will be the starter the third time. Maybe it's
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: the last time. Maybe it's the last time they have
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: to do it. I don't know, but certainly it has
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: I think had more success than it has had failure
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: to it. But obviously there should have. You should have
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: been able to avoid Bryce and Luis not having a
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: better understanding of what you're doing, So shame on you,
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: and you should have known better than in a one
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: run game, We're not going to just commit to an experiment.
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: We're going to try to win that one run game
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: and do whatever it takes to win that one win game.
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: So hopefully those lessons have been learned will be applied
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: to experiment number three, which will happen on Sunday and
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: it will be Bryce Miller starting against the Arizona Diamondbacks.
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: Those are my feelings, all right, vas for vlow Bryce
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: Miller's velocity. Everybody keeps talking about how where did this
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: come from? You know?
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: And he's throwing ninety eight ninety nine, and I realized,
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: that's an uptick over the last couple of years. Why
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: am I not surprised? Am I the only one that
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: remembers when Bryce Miller came into our lives?
• 29:35
  Speaker 6: I don't think so spring training? Everybody does seem surprised.
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: Spring training, and I forget the year it was Bryce Miller.
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: He had not made his major league debut, so he
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: was a prospect at that time, and we were talking
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: about Bryce Miller as the talk of spring training before
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: we even got to spring training. Pete Woodworth came on
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: our show before we even win into spring training, and
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: I said, Who's going to be the talk of the camp?
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: And he says, well, isn't Bryce Miller already the guy?
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: I mean, there were already reports out that this prospect,
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: Bryce Miller was throwing one hundred and two miles per
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: hour and that he might end up making this team.
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: Either as a starter or out of the bullpen out
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: of spring training.
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: I mean that was going into that's before we even
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: knew what he looked like.
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: So I don't know why people are so caught off
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: card that he can hit. I mean, hitting ninety eight
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: ninety nine consistently, I think is representative of the strength
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: and the weight.
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: That he added in the offseason.
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: So he's worked on it so that he can he
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: can actually juice it up, like I can feel confident
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: to air it out at ninety eight ninety nine in
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: the first inning because I think I can sustain it
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: with my experience, my new strength, my new size, my
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: new durability. But he's always had the ability to touch
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: ninety eight ninety nine hundred miles per hour. He's just
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: been pacing himself to get through starts, to throw one
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: hundred pitches in a game potentially. So I don't think
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: people should be this caught off guard by Bryce Miller's velocity,
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: because an awful lot of you seem to be mystified
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: by it.
• 31:20
  Speaker 6: Yeah, it is weird that people are so baffled, especially
• 31:23
  Speaker 6: I mean, also, he's been injured on and off throughout season,
• 31:26
  Speaker 6: so you're not maybe you're not. You haven't gotten the
• 31:29
  Speaker 6: full or maybe it's been a while since you got
• 31:31
  Speaker 6: the full Bryce Miller effect.
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: But yeah, he's here. Yeah, I mean that's the first
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: time i'd ever heard of him. Somebody broke a story saying,
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: there's this kid Bryce Miller's throwing one hundred and two yeah,
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: this off season, and keep an eye on him for
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: spring training.
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: So crazy, right.
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: Finally, w is for waiting, and I hopefully I've covered
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: it up, but I've been waiting. And you know what,
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: Tom Petty, my friend Tom Petty used to tell me,
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: don't make the hardest part.
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: Waiting is the hardest part. Sometimes. No, it's Paul McCartney
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: told me never to name it.
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: Oh that's right.
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, it's just not cool. But yeah, Tom Petty
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: used to tell me. And little chit chats we used
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: to have it was like Chuck, you know, the waiting
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: is the hardest part.
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: I've heard that before.
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: You know, Thomas, You're right, you knows Petty, you know
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: TP as I called him TP sometimes. Yeah, And so
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: I've been waiting. I've been waiting to really unleash on
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: trade talk.
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: Okay, but you know they call June.
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: The start of trade season in Major League Baseball, even
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: though they really don't trade until the end of July. Right,
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: we make this mistake every year, but it's.
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: A fun mistake to make because instead of one month
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: of talking about trades, I get to do it for two.
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: So yeah, I'm already thinking about what the Mariners should add.
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: I've leaked a couple of things on the air here
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: and there, But.
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: I am waiting.
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: I am waiting for June to really dive in to
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: start figuring out what the market looks like and what
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: the Mariners might be able to add. But I heard
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: Bob Nightingale yesterday They've already jumped the gun with Greg
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: Greg Bell's already jumped the gun.
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: He's not even a baseball guy.
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: Greg Bells jumped the quarry.
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: He's jumped the shark. No, you did not jump the shark.
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: I cannot understand why that word was so hard for
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: me to come up with.
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: Greg Bell was talking about yesterday with Bob Nightingale about
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: the Trek scoobl being traded, And it looks like the
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: Tigers have already decided that they're going to move them.
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: They are off to a bad start. They're twenty two
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: and thirty four, which they did not see coming, and
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  Speaker 2: maybe they've already resigned themselves to we're out of this race.
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: They're ten games out of first place at this point.
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  Speaker 2: He would certainly be the number one trade commodity at
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: the trade deadline this year, and maybe that trade's going
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: to come sooner than later. So whoever does acquire or
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  Speaker 2: him has to add twenty three million dollars in payroll immediately,
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  Speaker 2: and probably has to give up two prospects, two really
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  Speaker 2: good prospects in order to get somebody with an expiring
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: contract who they may only be renting. They're gonna want
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: as many starts out of that dude as they can
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  Speaker 2: possibly get.
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  Speaker 1: Now.
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  Speaker 2: I would think that the Tigers. He's on the injury
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: list right now, but he's a head of schedule and
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: should be back mid June. So I would think that
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: whoever trades for him wants to see him pitch for
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: the Tigers a time or two to make sure that
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: what they're getting is vintage Trek Schooble. Yeah, but it
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: looks like he might not only be the biggest name
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  Speaker 2: to be traded, he might be the first name to
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: be traded in the trade deadline process. Maybe the Tigers
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: have already resigned themselves to do it. Of course, all
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: the experts are throwing out the typical names, the Yankees,
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: the Dodgers.
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: And well, please don't go to the Dodgers.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but those are the names that are going to
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: be popping up, no doubt. But I would I think
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: it's the Cubs. I mean, I can already predict that.
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  Speaker 2: I think that the Cubs are going to have the
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: biggest need for a starting pitcher. They're big payroll, They've
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: got prospects to move right now. I think the Cubs
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: are their best dancing partner. But I will say this,
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: teams like the Rays don't mind renting these guys. A
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: lot of people have a big problem with it. The
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: Rays don't. This is like, this is our one chance
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: to get Trek school. There's no chance that we can
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: get him in the offseason, so let's get him now.
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: We're a first place team. But teams like the Rays
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: might be interested. Some unsuspecting characters could be interested in
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: the Trek Schooble sweepstakes. So I don't think he's going
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: to go to one of the big names that just
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: immediately pop up. I think he's going to go to
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: one of the under radar teams that are going to
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: pay a little bit more in prospect value in order
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: to get him. So that's going to be fascinating and
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: I am waiting, but I can't wait for trade season,
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: which starts in June. One last thing is next Sports
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• 36:06
  Speaker 2: segment of this Thursday edition of Chuck and Buck in
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: the Mornings, Greg Belt, Chris Kid coming your way next
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  Speaker 2: here at ten o'clock, and so we have our final
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: thoughts of today's show to share with you.
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  Speaker 1: We call it one last thing, Ashley.
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  Speaker 5: What do you got?
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  Speaker 6: I don't know if you saw this the other day,
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  Speaker 6: but there was a tennis player during the French Open
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  Speaker 6: who really had.
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  Speaker 3: To go number two oh, and.
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  Speaker 6: So he went over to ask the official, Hey, we
• 36:37
  Speaker 6: take a break.
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  Speaker 3: I gotta go, and the.
• 36:39
  Speaker 6: Official didn't want to let him go, and he basically
• 36:42
  Speaker 6: had to say I have to.
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  Speaker 3: Go or I'm going to bleep all over the court.
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  Speaker 6: I was like, well, that that is a moment.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I just thought. I was like, it was funny.
• 36:54
  Speaker 6: I saw it randomly and then I didn't see anything
• 36:56
  Speaker 6: really about it again.
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: And then I was just thinking about it. I don't
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: know why today, and I thought.
• 37:01
  Speaker 6: That that was so weird that no one that it
• 37:04
  Speaker 6: wasn't really like it was just one little quick blurb.
• 37:06
  Speaker 6: Because you see these moments like we saw it with
• 37:09
  Speaker 6: Lamar Jackson when he had to leave the field and
• 37:12
  Speaker 6: it happens.
• 37:13
  Speaker 3: Squeeze his butt together to run the mathter.
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: It does happen.
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: There's no reason for us to think that it wouldn't happen. Yeah,
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: I mean every profession there's somebody that had a bad
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: shellfish dinner the night before or yeah, and uh, maybe
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: I had the wrong kind of crab with their omelet.
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  Speaker 3: But usually you can keep it quiet.
• 37:30
  Speaker 6: I just thought, gosh, how embarrassing to you to be
• 37:32
  Speaker 6: saying like, hey, I know you don't understand.
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: I gotta go, or this is gonna happen here.
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: I have a buddy of mine, uh, and he had
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: a lot of digestive issues. Okay, but in having those
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: digestive issues, he figured out that that's an excuse almost
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: everybody will buy. Yeah, so if he was speeding and
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: got pulled over, whether he because he'd used it before
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: legitimately and then he just started using it illegitimately. Yeah, like, hey, officer,
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: I'm really sorry, but if you don't let me go,
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: blah blah blah fill in the blank. Oh geez, it's
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: like more respected than usually more respected than like my
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: wife's water broke, she's about to have a baby.
• 38:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, there's I mean, it is a good one.
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  Speaker 3: How do they test it? Well?
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: Proven?
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: Right, No officer wants to see that, deal with it
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: and has all the respect in the world for it. Yeah,
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: so they let him go. Oh man, then he started
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: just being abusive with them.
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: Well yeah, and then you're yeah, then you're known as
• 38:39
  Speaker 3: the pooper.
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: Well just a small circuit and.
• 38:43
  Speaker 6: In a small circle of cops until they all talk
• 38:45
  Speaker 6: about it and they're like, wait a minute, that guy
• 38:47
  Speaker 6: had the problem with you, Yeah, that problem with me.
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: The point is it's usually like a universally accepted emergency. Yeah,
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: you use that in almost any situation, including on the
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: hard courts of Paris then or the.
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: Clay courts courts of Paris. It probably would blend in
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: better there.
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you probably would get away with it just about
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: in any area of life. And yet this judge was like,
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: I don't know what you're going to do. Back there,
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: you're going to shoot up some drugs. Yeah, what do
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: you want to do back?
• 39:17
  Speaker 3: I just don't want to poop on the court, please, sir.
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: You're gonna get some last minute key instructions from your coach.
• 39:22
  Speaker 3: Ye, no little practice. No, I'm just i gotta go.
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: Man, all right, My one last thing, Man, the the
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: balls on that SEC.
• 39:33
  Speaker 5: Is it?
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: Not something? Is the arrogance not just it is unbelievable.
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: They spent their week and they always have to be first,
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: and they always have to showcase all their.
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: Interviews and it's a big deal. And several people apparently
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: had said, you know what, things keep going this way,
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: we'll just secede. We're just being just playing each other.
• 40:02
  Speaker 6: Yeah, and then we'll just crown our own conference champion,
• 40:04
  Speaker 6: which will decide because we're the best conference that we're
• 40:07
  Speaker 6: the real champions, I mean.
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: And then nobody was nobody like picked up the pieces
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: like Greg Sankie didn't pick up like we don't mean that.
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I dare you to do that. SEC.
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: I realize you have huge fan bases there and maybe
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: they're just rooting for laundry. Maybe they are, and maybe
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: you will get their support. But in terms of getting recruits,
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: I mean, you're gonna have a foreig inferior product if
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: you do that, because recruits want to play for a
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: national champion.
• 40:35
  Speaker 6: Right not somebody who and whose conference can't win it.
• 40:38
  Speaker 6: So they want to seceede and you're not giving their
• 40:40
  Speaker 6: way and.
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: You're already losing the nil wars. The Big ten's beating
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: the crap out of you, and they're better than you
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: right now. And so if you want to go that
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: route and then chase off all of the four and
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: five star recruits that are going to choose places that
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: are going to acknowledge the national championship game, I mean,
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: I'm not saying it's gonna turn dry, but you're certainly
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: gonna lose somebody.
• 41:06
  Speaker 3: Yep.
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: You're gonna lose a lot of the talent.
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: Some of the talent, maybe not a lot, I don't know,
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: but you're gonna lose some talent.
• 41:13
  Speaker 6: And you just look like poor sports who are taking
• 41:16
  Speaker 6: your ball and going home because things aren't going your way.
• 41:18
  Speaker 6: Because you've been trying to run everything in college football
• 41:20
  Speaker 6: to go exactly how you want it, and suddenly it's
• 41:23
  Speaker 6: not going exactly how you want it.
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: Well, you really think you're special.
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: Wow, you're probably the tennis player that thinks they can
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: go on the court and it won't stink.
• 41:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right. You don't even need to ask the
• 41:35
  Speaker 3: official for a little time out.
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: Hey, oh, I'm.
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: Just gonna take a little dookie break right here in
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: the corner.
• 41:43
  Speaker 3: Yes, someone will come clean it up.
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: The big tent will clean it up. We'll talk to
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: you tomorrow.
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: Coming up next, it's Greg and Chris Sports Radio ninety
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