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Chuck & Buck 2-19 Hour 4: Rick Rizzs, 12th man news with Gregg Bell and one last thing! · Chuck in the Morning

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Speaker 1: We're here to talk about America's favorite pastime. It's time
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Speaker 1: to talk to Mariners baseball. And joining us here at
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Speaker 1: the set is the voice of summer around these.
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Speaker 2: Year parts in Seattle. It is Rick Riz.
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Speaker 3: Good to see you, sir, Chuck, great to see you,
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Speaker 3: and Buck. It's nice to be down here at spring training.
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Speaker 3: Got in yesterday afternoon and seeing the guys working out
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Speaker 3: and get on field one and field two and it's
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Speaker 3: a brand new season and it just continues. And I'll
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Speaker 3: tell you what, it's going to be a heck of
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Speaker 3: a year.
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Speaker 2: It's going to be a heck of a year.
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Speaker 1: But we're all going to know that it's going to
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Speaker 1: be your last year, as that has been made public.
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Speaker 1: Say it ain't so, Riz, it ain't so.
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Speaker 2: No, this is going to be it.
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Speaker 3: You know, fifty two years in baseball, eight years in
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Speaker 3: the minor leagues, forty three of the big leagues. And
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Speaker 3: this is something that I've been thinking about for the
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Speaker 3: last couple of years. And Greg Green and I said, down,
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Speaker 3: my boss and Kevin Martinez. Of course, I've worked for
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Speaker 3: the greatest bosses in the world. Then I thought, you know,
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Speaker 3: after you know, all this time, forty plus years with
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Speaker 3: the ball club. I need to spend more time at
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Speaker 3: home with my grandkids are getting older. They're twenty seventeen
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Speaker 3: and the little girls eleven. A little figure skater. She
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Speaker 3: wants to be an Olympics one day, and I think
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Speaker 3: she's going to. But I just need to slow down
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Speaker 3: a little bit. But I'm not going anywhere. I'm gonna
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Speaker 3: still stick around, still make my home in a Sequah,
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Speaker 3: and I've got a place down here, but I rented out.
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Speaker 3: I'll use it for six weeks. I'll come down here
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Speaker 3: during the spring. I still want to do things for
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Speaker 3: the organization if they'll have me, and you know, talk
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Speaker 3: with season ticket holders and the people up in the
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Speaker 3: suites and still be an ambassador for the ball club.
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Speaker 3: But I'm really looking forward to this season. It's going
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Speaker 3: to be a great year.
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Speaker 2: It is going to be a great year. But I mean, yeah,
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Speaker 2: I was when I found out that you were going
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Speaker 2: to decide to spend some more time at home with
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Speaker 2: your grandkids and step down from the position I've gotten
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Speaker 2: to watch. I started realizing, I don't know for sure
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Speaker 2: if there's anybody that has bridged the gap between my
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Speaker 2: youth as a Mariner fan through through. You know, my
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Speaker 2: days as short as they were playing as a Mariner
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Speaker 2: fan to now as a guy covering the team and
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Speaker 2: doing this, and so the end of an era is
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Speaker 2: an understatement in my opinion. So thanks for everything you've done,
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Speaker 2: and I'm glad you are. Thank you.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, over forty three years, you get a
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Speaker 3: chance to see kids get to the big leagues and
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Speaker 3: have a big league career like you did, and you know,
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Speaker 3: go on to other things. It's great to see, you know,
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Speaker 3: the different stories. And that's what's great about this game.
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Speaker 3: You get to know these kids. You know, you see
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Speaker 3: a young man come over from Japan in two thousand
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Speaker 3: and one and turn into one of the greatest players
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Speaker 3: in the history of the game of baseball. Here he is,
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Speaker 3: he's working out right now, each row, never stop stretching. No, no,
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Speaker 3: I mean he could get in the game here on
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Speaker 3: Friday and get himself a base at the left field
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Speaker 3: like there's no tomorrow. But that's what I love about
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Speaker 3: this game. It's the people, the stories. Here's Tucker the
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Speaker 3: team dog, and you know he's it's me and everybody
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Speaker 3: else at Breakfast died because we all, Hey, Tuck, how
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Speaker 3: you do it, buddy, because I got a piece of bacon.
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Speaker 3: He's your best buddy, but he's a great dog. But
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Speaker 3: I'm gonna miss it. I'm going to take in everything
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Speaker 3: is going to be heightened every I'm going to take
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Speaker 3: in every drop of this season to do it and
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Speaker 3: take a mental snapshot of the places I go, you know,
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Speaker 3: on the road only four road trip. Don't gonna really
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Speaker 3: kick back this year on the road.
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Speaker 2: But it's it's.
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Speaker 3: Gonna be a great season because I believe Danny Wilson,
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Speaker 3: the coaching staff, Jerry de Poto to Hi talk how
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Speaker 3: you doing, buddy, have put together a team that can
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Speaker 3: get this team to the postseason and well beyond.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, you called this guy's games too, did you? Did
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Speaker 1: you get to read the article that he wrote about.
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Speaker 3: Yes, and it was beautiful. Thank you, Thank you so much.
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Speaker 3: I really appreciate you know what you wrote to you
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Speaker 3: know about you know, our relationship and what we both mean,
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Speaker 3: what everybody means, you know, to the organization. So it
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Speaker 3: was beautiful.
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Speaker 2: You should have been a writer, buddy, Yeah, yeah, yeah
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Speaker 2: you did text me, But there's no I didn't want
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Speaker 2: I don't want to be right. It takes a whole
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Speaker 2: heck of a lot of time. And plus I can
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Speaker 2: only write about things that I actually care about, and
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Speaker 2: I do care about you. I care about what you
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Speaker 2: mean to this organization and to me personally as a
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Speaker 2: as a kid. I mean it just I can remember hating,
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Speaker 2: absolutely hating Saturday or Sunday mornings when I would wake
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Speaker 2: up and Mom had a certain set of clothes on
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Speaker 2: her work her lawn care clothes, because I knew that
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Speaker 2: meant before I could go ride my bikes or go
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Speaker 2: play with the ball, I had to go outside and
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Speaker 2: pull a whole bunch of weeds. But the nice thing
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Speaker 2: was is after I would procrastinate, I would basically procrastinate
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Speaker 2: until the Mariner game would start, and then I'd turn
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Speaker 2: it on and I'd listened to you and Dave paint
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Speaker 2: the picture of what was going on in the Mariner game.
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Speaker 2: And so it made what was essentially torture for me,
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Speaker 2: it made it somewhat enjoyable and good memory.
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Speaker 4: Now.
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Speaker 2: It's a great memory now. And yeah, there's there's Yeah,
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Speaker 2: you wouldn't take I wouldn't take it back for the world,
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Speaker 2: so I.
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Speaker 3: Could still see a little bucket Jacobson, The pride of Hermiston, Oregon,
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Speaker 3: watermelon capital of the world.
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Speaker 2: Right, yep, that's.
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Speaker 3: But yeah, that's that's the impact that we have, you know,
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Speaker 3: on communities and people that listened, because I remember as
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Speaker 3: a kid growing up in Chicago listening to Jack Brickhouse,
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Speaker 3: you know, six years old, nineteen fifty nine, I'm listening
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Speaker 3: to the Cubs and listening to the White Sox. White
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Speaker 3: Sox went to the World Series, you know, in nineteen
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Speaker 3: fifty nine, lost in the six games of the Dodgers.
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Speaker 3: But I remember how Jack brick House, Lloyd Pettitt, Lou Boudreau,
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Speaker 3: Bob Elson, you know, brought the game alive to me
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Speaker 3: and I could see Comiskey Park in Chicago or Wrigley
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Speaker 3: Field on the North side, you know, And we have
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Speaker 3: that impact in Daveney House. You know, without him, I
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Speaker 3: wouldn't be here. He was the greatest thing that ever
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Speaker 3: happened to me in my career, got me here in
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Speaker 3: nineteen eighty three. But he was the greatest storyteller of
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Speaker 3: all time, of all time, and he's in the Hall
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Speaker 3: of Fame. That that's all you need to know about,
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Speaker 3: mister Neehouse.
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Speaker 1: I went and Dave and you after the impact I mean,
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Speaker 1: I mean, you are you know that voice that I mean?
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Speaker 1: I had it growing up in Saint Louis. I had
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Speaker 1: Jack Buck and uh you know, hey kid, I got
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Speaker 1: to meet him one day, did an internship at cam
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Speaker 1: Ox and uh, all right, he thought I was his daughter,
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Speaker 1: Julie's boyfriend at the time, and he was so confused.
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Speaker 2: You dated my daughter? Are you eating my daughter?
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Speaker 1: G A you g h t E R.
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Speaker 2: Did do a good jack Bug buy.
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Speaker 4: Oh.
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Speaker 2: I had plenty of practice, you know.
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Speaker 1: I did make and curvy curving fair. Uh so that's
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Speaker 1: what I grew up with. But uh yeah, you're a
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Speaker 1: part of that. The people that you've impacted is just
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Speaker 1: a remarkable what a remarkable.
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Speaker 2: Career you've had.
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Speaker 1: So congratulations on it, and we do urge you to
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Speaker 1: soak up every drop This year it's gonna be uh
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Speaker 1: it's gonna be a fun year. And I know you
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Speaker 1: want to talk about this team, So let's talk about
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Speaker 1: this team.
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Speaker 2: I don't know, it feels to me like we're there.
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Speaker 1: There's an attitude of yeah, yeah, we're done chasing the Astros.
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Speaker 1: Yeah we're the team to beat, Now go get us.
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Speaker 2: Yeah that's the attitude.
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Speaker 4: You know.
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Speaker 3: I was talking to Danny Wilson earlier this morning when
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Speaker 3: he met with the media, which was Daniel Kramer and
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Speaker 3: Ryan Diffisson myself, and you know, there's there's a quite
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Speaker 3: confidence and the spladhouse, yes, knowing that they can get
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Speaker 3: back there. They got there last year eight outs away
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Speaker 3: from the World Series. I think they're better right now
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Speaker 3: than they were at the end of last season. You know,
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Speaker 3: Brian wo is healthy. They really missed him right at
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Speaker 3: the end of the year. And they didn't have Logan
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Speaker 3: Gilbert for two months early in the season, George Kirby
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Speaker 3: for two months, and Bryce Miller, you know, battled you know,
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Speaker 3: the LB issues, but he came back at.
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Speaker 2: The end of the year.
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Speaker 3: And and now you've got a team that's that's built
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Speaker 3: to go the whole way. They have a chance to
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Speaker 3: win this whole thing, and they believe that, and that
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Speaker 3: belief is so powerful in the game of baseball, and
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Speaker 3: getting as close as they did, they know that, Okay,
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Speaker 3: we know how to get here. Now, we know how
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Speaker 3: to get through you know, the American League Championship Series
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Speaker 3: and get the fan base, you know, to the World
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Speaker 3: Series for the first time in the US. Were our
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Speaker 3: ball club which is our fiftieth season. But there's abundance
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Speaker 3: of you know, confidence in that clubhouse, and this team
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Speaker 3: is just ready to go.
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Speaker 2: Well, I think it just makes sense. Fiftieth season, I'll
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Speaker 2: start making those little rubber wrist bands to win it
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Speaker 2: for Riza World Series, for riz the Yeah. Well, you're
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Speaker 2: a fan just as much as everybody else have too.
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Speaker 2: You've watched more games than any fans have. So I mean,
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Speaker 2: I just I think that there is something about the
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Speaker 2: where they went last year and almost an unsettled feeling
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Speaker 2: of Okay, we're going beyond that right now? There's how
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Speaker 2: much further that you can go beyond that besides getting
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Speaker 2: to the Fall Classic and then winning it. So to me,
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Speaker 2: what I feel like is the best thing. If you
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Speaker 2: were going to say this team for better, you got
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Speaker 2: Josh Naylor for the full seats. You know, obviously Cal
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Speaker 2: Rawley back majority of the nucleus of this team, back
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Speaker 2: the starting staff. But if you're just sitting there thinking about, Okay,
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Speaker 2: what is the thing you're gonna be watching the most
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Speaker 2: over the next six weeks before they break camp, what's
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Speaker 2: the thing that you're most interested in watching, It's the.
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Speaker 3: Same thing, Believe it or not Bucky and Chuck.
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Speaker 2: Every year.
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Speaker 3: I love watching the kids, you know, because you know
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Speaker 3: who's gonna be the short stop, Jape Crawford. Cal Raley's
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Speaker 3: coming off the greatest season in the history of Major
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Speaker 3: League Baseball for a catcher. How he didn't win the
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Speaker 3: MVP Award. I don't know. We could discuss that for
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Speaker 3: the next hour, and maybe we will. Yeah, sixty old runs,
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Speaker 3: you know, more than any catcher, more than any DH,
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Speaker 3: more than any Mariner in history. And I didn't have
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Speaker 3: a pass ball all year long. You should be in
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Speaker 3: the Hall of Fame right now for that, you know.
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Speaker 3: But the answer your question, I love doing the same
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Speaker 3: thing every year, watching the kids.
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Speaker 4: You know.
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Speaker 3: I'll go down to the lower fields. We're sitting outside
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Speaker 3: the clubhouse right now, and off to my leftters field
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Speaker 3: one and two. I go down to three fields, three, four,
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Speaker 3: five and six, and I'll go up to a coach
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Speaker 3: or a manager said, who should I look at?
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Speaker 2: Here?
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Speaker 3: Five years ago I went down there five and I
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Speaker 3: can't remember who the coach was. I said, who should
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Speaker 3: I look at? Harry said, look at that outfielder out there,
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Speaker 3: Julio Rodriguez. And then I watched him. I go, Wow,
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Speaker 3: you know, this kid is going to be something. He's
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Speaker 3: pretty good and he turned out to be the best
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Speaker 3: center fielder in the America League right now, and I
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Speaker 3: think he's going to win an MVP Award real soon.
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Speaker 3: But that's what I like to do in this organization.
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Speaker 3: Jerry Depoto, Justin Hollander, Scott Hunter. They've got one of
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Speaker 3: the best farm systems again in baseball. But think what
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Speaker 3: they did over the last seven or eight years, getting
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Speaker 3: Logan Gilbert in the first round in twenty eighteen, George
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Speaker 3: Kirby in the first round out of Elon University in
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Speaker 3: twenty nineteen, Emerson Hancock in the first round in twenty twenty,
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Speaker 3: Bryce Miller fourth round, Brian Wise sixth round in twenty
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Speaker 3: twenty one, and then Kate Anderson last year in the
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Speaker 3: first round, and the other guys that they've you know,
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Speaker 3: drafted out.
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Speaker 2: Of high school.
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Speaker 3: And I love watching Cole Emerson a first round pick
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Speaker 3: and Cole Young a first round pick, and how these
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Speaker 3: kids are battling for a job Ryan Bliss along with
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Speaker 3: Ryan at second base. So that's what I'd love to
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Speaker 3: do and tell those stories of the kids and how
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Speaker 3: they got here. I remember in nineteen eighty seven, we
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Speaker 3: drafted a seventeen year old kid out of high school
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Speaker 3: by named Ken Griffith Junior, and he made the ball
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Speaker 3: club in nineteen eighty nine as a nineteen year old kid.
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Speaker 3: And to me, those are still the greatest stories. You know,
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Speaker 3: here at spring training, you know, cal Rawley's going to
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Speaker 3: be the starting catcher, you know, the starting five, and
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Speaker 3: that rotation is maybe the best starting five in all
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Speaker 3: of baseball. But I love seeing the kids come through
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Speaker 3: and see them develop, and see how they get better,
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Speaker 3: and see when they're going to make the team, Because
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Speaker 3: they're going to make the team sometime in the near future.
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Speaker 3: It's just a matter of when.
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Speaker 1: How excited are you about Brendan Donovan adding.
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Speaker 2: Him to this team. What do you think he brings
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Speaker 2: to the table.
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Speaker 3: Chuck, I just talked to him about five minutes ago.
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Speaker 2: And it's very nice. We haven't met him yet. Great kid.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, And he had his backpack and he
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Speaker 3: had batsticking out and the glove and he was walking
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Speaker 3: towards field one and he stopped and we talked for
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Speaker 3: ten minutes, you know, and I said, welcome to the organization.
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Speaker 2: You're going to love it.
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Speaker 5: Here.
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Speaker 3: His family is a big thing for me. He's got
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Speaker 3: a two year old baby and now one on the
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Speaker 3: way do in August. He has made his home in Alabama.
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Speaker 3: His dad was in the military flu Blackhawk helicopters, and
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Speaker 3: you know, he's got that discipline, that military discipline.
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Speaker 2: He said.
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Speaker 3: He loves the game of baseball. Moved around a lot
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Speaker 3: as a kid. I go, okay, that's what you do
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Speaker 3: in baseball. But he's happy to be here, happy to
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Speaker 3: be you know, going to third base, you know, right now,
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Speaker 3: and gives the ball club an All Star and a
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Speaker 3: Gold Glove defensive player who hit for an average to
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Speaker 3: eighty seven. He says, I play like my hair's on fire,
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Speaker 3: and I love that. Bucky who did that too, with
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Speaker 3: your beard on fire? Yeah, with your beard on fire.
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Speaker 3: But what a great addition. But they were able to
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Speaker 3: do that to get a Josh Naylor and it swore
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Speaker 3: as last year, a Luis Castillo in twenty twenty two
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Speaker 3: and a Brendan Donovan this year because they had the
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Speaker 3: farm system to do it. They had the kids talent
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Speaker 3: enough with the other in Hiss to give up these
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Speaker 3: still talented veteran type players in order to make these deals.
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Speaker 3: They had the farm system to get a Brendan Donovan
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Speaker 3: from the Saint Louis Cardinals, So I can't wait to
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Speaker 3: see what he does for this ball club.
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Speaker 2: I can't wait to see somebody wear the number thirty
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Speaker 2: three they can actually hit it. Seems like it's been
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Speaker 2: a while since we've had anybody wear that number. They
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Speaker 2: can actually swing it. That was my number. Yeah, you
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Speaker 2: remember who we've had, Sabby Zavola. Was that one of
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Speaker 2: the I think maybe, yeah, back in we're thirty three.
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Speaker 2: So I'm just happy to see somebody that can swing
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Speaker 2: it wear my number again last year, I mean Josh
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Speaker 2: Naylor or this offseason they end up re signing Josh Naylor.
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Speaker 2: He obviously loves Seattle huge. Seattle loves him. Yes, I
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Speaker 2: mean in the half of a season that you got
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Speaker 2: to watch him and then a postseason. What is it
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Speaker 2: that you like most about this guy? Because to me,
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Speaker 2: the old school play their player that he seems to be.
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Speaker 3: I love the one thing that stands out. He loves
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Speaker 3: the game of baseball. You know, he loves putting on
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Speaker 3: a you know, a farming get out there and competing,
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Speaker 3: and he just he sees the game differently. You know,
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Speaker 3: he sees all the little things to get an edge
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Speaker 3: offensively on how to hit a pitcher. But you know,
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Speaker 3: we were talking during FanFest, and this is a guy
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Speaker 3: who isn't built like a base stealer, but he stole
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Speaker 3: thirty bases last year. He was nineteen for nineteen when
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Speaker 3: he came over, you know, in the deal from the
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Speaker 3: Arizona diamonbacks wasn't thrown out at all, you know, And
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Speaker 3: we were talking about one particular picture, and I said,
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Speaker 3: you know, I talked to Ricky Henderson, you know, the
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Speaker 3: greatest base steeler of all time, when he was here
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Speaker 3: for Glorious ninety two days back in two thousand and
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Speaker 3: I asked, Ricky, I said, what do you look for
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Speaker 3: when you know you can go on a picture right hand,
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Speaker 3: right handed pitcher. Rather if his elbow flared up a
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Speaker 3: little bit, he was going home plate. If it dipped
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Speaker 3: down aload bit, he was going back to first base.
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Speaker 3: I said, what do you look for? He said there
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Speaker 3: was one particular picture, and he didn't mention his name,
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Speaker 3: but he blew bubbles, not an actual bubble, but his
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Speaker 3: cheeks would blow out when he threw a fastball. So
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Speaker 3: as soon as I saw his cheeks start to flare
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Speaker 3: out a little bit, I go, that's brilliant intel, you know,
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Speaker 3: But that's the guy who wants to get better. What
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Speaker 3: am I looking at in the conversations that you have
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Speaker 3: in the dugout, during the game or before the ball game?
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Speaker 3: Certain you know you're going to face a certain picture.
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Speaker 3: It's information like that that you glean that makes you
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Speaker 3: a better ball player. Ninety feet is the difference between
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Speaker 3: winning and losing, you know, in a close ball game.
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Speaker 3: And this guy stole thirty bases last year as a
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Speaker 3: first baseman, and of course you can hit and drive
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Speaker 3: the ball out of the ballpark like you did in
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Speaker 3: the ALCS against the Toronto Blue Jays. What a great addition.
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Speaker 3: And very quickly they got him resigned, and that was huge.
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Speaker 2: I started calling him Picky Henderson last year. I like that.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, a little out of the thicker side than Ricky,
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Speaker 3: but he's still.
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Speaker 2: Last year.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, give you a few tips, Yeah, I like that.
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Speaker 3: Hey, you know, stealing a just form a flattery or
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Speaker 3: something like that.
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Speaker 2: That's right, that's right.
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Speaker 1: Did you get an opportunity to stand in front of
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Speaker 1: the team and say you better win the world Series.
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Speaker 2: This year, it's my last year.
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Speaker 1: Get it done.
16:10
Speaker 3: No, no, will that happen.
16:13
Speaker 1: But you know, have you allowed yourself to think about that?
16:17
Speaker 2: Like men, no doubt about it? What this happened?
16:21
Speaker 3: I thought about that one after the last out was made.
16:25
Speaker 3: You know, last year, in Game seven of the American
16:27
Speaker 3: League Championship Series, I said, this club is going to
16:29
Speaker 3: be back here. They're going to be back in the
16:31
Speaker 3: World Series. And I believe in my heart they have
16:34
Speaker 3: the team to win it. And you know, they believe
16:37
Speaker 3: that in that clubhouse. And that's the like I said earlier,
16:40
Speaker 3: that's the most powerful thing is is believing.
16:42
Speaker 2: They believe in.
16:43
Speaker 3: Each and every guy that's next to him in the clubhouse.
16:45
Speaker 3: And yeah, they it's like unfinished business. Okay, we got
16:50
Speaker 3: this far last year. Now foul that. Let's go. Let's
16:54
Speaker 3: get it done this year, and they're going to you.
16:57
Speaker 2: I don't think you've gotten to see a bunch of
17:00
Speaker 2: Emerson obviously. I mean, he just got a little bit
17:02
Speaker 2: of time at Triple A. But you've seen him in
17:05
Speaker 2: spring training. I mean, the dude looks, he looks the part. Yeah,
17:09
Speaker 2: you've got to watch Cole Young in his major league
17:11
Speaker 2: debut season last year. And so when you're watching those
17:15
Speaker 2: two young guys, I mean, having watched baseball for fifty
17:18
Speaker 2: plus years like you have, do they both look like
17:21
Speaker 2: guys that are going to be able to help this
17:22
Speaker 2: team this season at some point in time, whether it's
17:25
Speaker 2: at the beginning or midway or all the way.
17:27
Speaker 3: No doubt about it, Bucket. You know, both first round
17:30
Speaker 3: picks out of high school, you know, so talented. They
17:34
Speaker 3: can help out at second base, but they also can
17:36
Speaker 3: move around. Both can play shortstops as a kid, I'm
17:39
Speaker 3: sure there were short stops in little league and high school.
17:41
Speaker 3: You know, they definitely can help out this ball club.
17:44
Speaker 3: That's going to be I think the biggest battle on
17:46
Speaker 3: this team is second base. Pretty much rest the I'll
17:49
Speaker 3: feel the infield is all set, but who's going to
17:52
Speaker 3: play second base? And I was talking to Dan Wilson
17:54
Speaker 3: about that, you know this morning. Where are the battles
17:56
Speaker 3: if any on this ball club that's second base. Don't
17:59
Speaker 3: forget Ryan too, because he was our starting second basement
18:02
Speaker 3: last year. He got hurt bicep ten and his shoulder
18:04
Speaker 3: and everything. So you got Bliss, you got Cole Young,
18:07
Speaker 3: you got Colt Emerson, and eventually you know, all these
18:11
Speaker 3: guys are going to help out the ball club during
18:13
Speaker 3: the course of this season and for a long time
18:15
Speaker 3: after this year. But great love for the game of baseball.
18:19
Speaker 3: He's excited, and he said, and he's got a great
18:24
Speaker 3: sensibility about where he's at. He's only twenty, he said.
18:27
Speaker 3: Even if I go to Double A this year, which
18:29
Speaker 3: he's not going to. He finished up at Triple A
18:31
Speaker 3: and in the postseason last year. But he said, if
18:33
Speaker 3: I end up at Double A baseball, he said, I'm
18:36
Speaker 3: only twenty, I know I'm going to get there. I
18:38
Speaker 3: know I have the ability to get there. I know
18:40
Speaker 3: what I have to do to get better. And with
18:43
Speaker 3: that kind of attitude, you know this kid is going
18:45
Speaker 3: to be successful. Cole Young, I'm sure feels the same way.
18:48
Speaker 3: This kid came up in May of last year and
18:50
Speaker 3: did a heck of a job. So it's going to
18:52
Speaker 3: be fun watching that second base position this spring.
18:55
Speaker 1: Well, I know that I have given you the advice
18:58
Speaker 1: to soak it all up this year, So I'm gonna
19:02
Speaker 1: just say to close out our conversation, I think I'm
19:05
Speaker 1: gonna give that advice to all Mariner fans.
19:07
Speaker 2: Soak it all up.
19:08
Speaker 1: This year, Rick Riz, you know, the last chapter and
19:13
Speaker 1: is the legendary play by play broadcasting career.
19:17
Speaker 2: We're not gonna hear.
19:18
Speaker 1: It won't be the last that we hear from you.
19:20
Speaker 1: I know that we'll see year round, but you've made
19:22
Speaker 1: it official. This will be your last year calling game.
19:25
Speaker 1: So if you don't mind, we're gonna soak.
19:27
Speaker 2: It all up.
19:27
Speaker 3: Thanks right, Thank you, Buck. It's always a pleasure to
19:30
Speaker 3: visit with you guys. You do it's a tremendous job.
19:32
Speaker 3: And I'll tell you what, this is gonna be an
19:36
Speaker 3: outstanding season. I'm going to join every drop. I was
19:38
Speaker 3: just talking to somebody. I think it was Franklin goodieas
19:41
Speaker 3: I'm just everything's heightened already.
19:43
Speaker 2: It's my first day of the spring.
19:45
Speaker 3: You know, this year, I'm just gonna take everything in,
19:47
Speaker 3: take a mental snapshot and pictures as well. But this
19:51
Speaker 3: has been the greatest joy in my life is to
19:53
Speaker 3: be around the game of baseball all my life and
19:55
Speaker 3: to say I've been a Mariner for forty one years
19:57
Speaker 3: has been a complete blessing. It's gonna it's gonna be fun.
20:01
Speaker 3: Thank you, my friend, Thank you, Chuck. All right, ReLU
20:04
Speaker 3: did it rank you buddy, Yeah, thank you.
20:06
Speaker 2: Joining us right here.
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Speaker 1: Our spring training coverage continues next Sports Radio ninety three
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Speaker 1: point three kJ R F M. All right, we got
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Speaker 1: back a little early there, so our apologies, but we're
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Speaker 1: good to go. Training camp coverage continues. Joining us though
20:27
Speaker 1: now on the program. Well, we had football news, so
20:31
Speaker 1: we didn't last very long this week before we had
20:33
Speaker 1: to send out the bell signal. I apologize, Greg, but yeah,
20:38
Speaker 1: we need you, we needed you.
20:41
Speaker 4: But you're doing baseball.
20:44
Speaker 2: Well.
20:46
Speaker 1: We did hire an offensive coordinator though, so it's like,
20:49
Speaker 1: what do you do?
20:50
Speaker 2: What do you do?
20:50
Speaker 1: I mean, we really did have the best intentions to
20:54
Speaker 1: leave you alone all week long.
20:55
Speaker 4: Greg, I'm sure that was that was pretty sure you
20:59
Speaker 4: would call me on Monday.
21:00
Speaker 1: So all right, so what do we need to know
21:04
Speaker 1: about Brian Floury.
21:07
Speaker 4: Well, he's more continuity than meets c I. I was
21:13
Speaker 4: told an impression and everybody in the building thought it
21:15
Speaker 4: was going to be an internal hire. But it appears
21:19
Speaker 4: it came down to whether Angine Janoko would leave with
21:22
Speaker 4: the for the Raiders or be the Seahawks offensive coordinator.
21:27
Speaker 4: He ends up leaving for the Raiders. I haven't yet
21:30
Speaker 4: fully gotten to confirm whether it was which came first,
21:36
Speaker 4: whether Jenoko left to be Clint Kubek's offensive coordinator with
21:39
Speaker 4: the Raiders, or Mike McDonald decided not to have Janoko
21:44
Speaker 4: be the offensive coordinator and hire. If I'm outside that,
21:50
Speaker 4: I don't know. But Brian Fleury represents the Kyle Shanahan
21:54
Speaker 4: Mike Shanahan offense. He's the run game coordinator for the
21:58
Speaker 4: forty nine ers in addition to being the tight end coach.
22:00
Speaker 4: Everyone talks about tight ends coach. He was intimately involved
22:03
Speaker 4: in the run game in San Francisco, which is outside
22:07
Speaker 4: zone in the Shanahan offense that Clint Kubiak ran for Seattle,
22:12
Speaker 4: so there is continuity there. There's also continuity with the
22:16
Speaker 4: Seahawks starting quarterback Sam Donald was in San Francisco being
22:21
Speaker 4: coached by the Shanahan staff that includes now his new
22:26
Speaker 4: offensive coordinator, Brian Fleury. In twenty twenty three, Donald was
22:31
Speaker 4: back up to Brock Purty in San Francisco and Fleury
22:33
Speaker 4: was on that staff as an offensive assystem as well.
22:36
Speaker 4: He's been there for seven years in fact, so he
22:39
Speaker 4: represents a continuation of what's already been going on this
22:43
Speaker 4: season when the Seahawks scored the most points in team history.
22:47
Speaker 4: It is not intimately continuity inside the quarterback room from
22:52
Speaker 4: last year to this now that Janoko is leaving for
22:54
Speaker 4: his first offensive coordinator job. But it's not completely out
22:59
Speaker 4: of left field that he would bring in a Shanahan
23:01
Speaker 4: outside zone guy.
23:03
Speaker 2: Okay, so outside zone trying to keep it as close
23:07
Speaker 2: to what they just did. Is there anything else that
23:10
Speaker 2: we know about what he does or what kind of
23:13
Speaker 2: I mean, he's never called plays, right, so I mean,
23:16
Speaker 2: what is it that everybody's expecting beyond just outside zone.
23:20
Speaker 4: Well, he's been a consultant, a play calling consultant, and
23:24
Speaker 4: game viation might as well say he didn't call plays
23:27
Speaker 4: per se. But Kyle Shanahan told Barry Reporters forty nine
23:31
Speaker 4: Ers writers last month that Flurry was one of the
23:35
Speaker 4: guys he consulted during games on what plays to call.
23:38
Speaker 4: But you're right, Shanahan calls all of the plays. The
23:42
Speaker 4: other thing I'm pretty sure intrigues Mike McDonald here is
23:48
Speaker 4: that Flurry has a defensive coaching background, specifically in linebackers,
23:52
Speaker 4: which is of course how Mike McDonald came out. He
23:55
Speaker 4: was a linebacker's coach with the Ravens. And also, if
23:59
Speaker 4: you're going to be a run game architect and how
24:02
Speaker 4: to outside zone block, blocking the linebackers is central to them.
24:07
Speaker 4: So he likes the fact that his new offensive coordinator
24:12
Speaker 4: has coached offense and defense. And I think that was
24:15
Speaker 4: another star in the corner for hiring Brian Flurry. So
24:21
Speaker 4: there's some diversity here and there's some well roundedness. And
24:27
Speaker 4: put it this way, he didn't hire Brian Flurry to
24:29
Speaker 4: junk what they did this year and start over. It's
24:32
Speaker 4: the absolute opposite of that. It's a continuation of what
24:35
Speaker 4: happened this past season.
24:37
Speaker 1: How do you think the forty nine ers are feeling
24:38
Speaker 1: about this right now?
24:42
Speaker 4: Well, it's probably not thrilled. But this is what happens
24:46
Speaker 4: when you hire someone into a promoted position. The league
24:51
Speaker 4: rules are you can't block it if you hire someone
24:53
Speaker 4: into a lateral position. If the Seahawks asked him to
24:56
Speaker 4: be the run game coordinator and tight ends coach for
24:58
Speaker 4: forty nine Ers said, now, I want to go division
25:00
Speaker 4: rival do that. But once you give someone an offensive
25:04
Speaker 4: coordinator title and he's open to go. And in San Francisco,
25:09
Speaker 4: he wasn't going to be an offensive coordinator or a
25:11
Speaker 4: play caller as long as Kyle Sanahan was the head coach,
25:14
Speaker 4: much like Clint Kubiak who wasn't going to be the
25:18
Speaker 4: head coach and goes and gets a head coaching job
25:21
Speaker 4: and the Raiders. So it is unusual. It's not something
25:25
Speaker 4: that division rivals like to lose their one of their
25:29
Speaker 4: top offensive minds to arrival after play twice a year.
25:33
Speaker 2: So in the Janalko guy going a way, what was
25:37
Speaker 2: it that he was doing? I mean, I know what
25:39
Speaker 2: his title was, but I mean, how big of a
25:41
Speaker 2: loss is that him leaving?
25:44
Speaker 4: Well, Janoko really did have a lot of game planning
25:47
Speaker 4: in But I talked to him at the Super Bowl
25:49
Speaker 4: last week or whatever it to Panilla two week and
25:52
Speaker 4: a half ago, and he talked about the collaborative nature
25:55
Speaker 4: that Klint Kubiak had and his game planning and deciding
25:59
Speaker 4: on what plays to run against certain defenses, and much
26:03
Speaker 4: like it sounds like Kyle Shanahan was having Floory do
26:06
Speaker 4: down with Kyle Kubiak as well with Clint's brother in
26:11
Speaker 4: San Francisco, and there was definitely a meshing in a
26:16
Speaker 4: relationship building there with Sam Donald and his quarterback coach
26:19
Speaker 4: that worked for that matter, with Drew Locke and Jaylen Milroe.
26:22
Speaker 4: That worked, and so now they have to start over
26:25
Speaker 4: there and that will be different. Now. If they could
26:29
Speaker 4: make a lateral move of someone like a Jake Pets
26:31
Speaker 4: who was a past game assistant, make him a quarterbacks coach,
26:34
Speaker 4: if they wanted to keep that internal or promote from
26:37
Speaker 4: inside to the quarterback's position, that would just almost be
26:40
Speaker 4: a lateral move. But yes, there is going to be
26:45
Speaker 4: at least a little bit of unfamiliarity, and that Jinoko
26:48
Speaker 4: was working very closely with Sam Donald and with Kubiak,
26:52
Speaker 4: and to me it's a loss. He's thirty seven years old.
26:55
Speaker 4: I thought he was going to be that had the
26:56
Speaker 4: new play caller, and from what I've been told and
27:00
Speaker 4: looked like they were interviewing internal candidates, Tonoko to me
27:02
Speaker 4: made the most sense. And the fact that Kubiak got
27:06
Speaker 4: him to call his plays and the Raiders shows that
27:08
Speaker 4: Kubiak certain way thinks he's ready to do that. Now. Kubiak,
27:11
Speaker 4: of course, is going to call the plays in Las Vegas.
27:13
Speaker 4: It'll be much like on Dirty Is for the Seahawks
27:16
Speaker 4: and defensive coordinator with the head coach calling the plays.
27:19
Speaker 4: That's how it'll be with Kubiak and Junoko in Las Vegas.
27:23
Speaker 1: Will that be the end? Do you think of the
27:26
Speaker 1: rating or are there other coaches that might follow Kubiak.
27:32
Speaker 4: Well, the key question is the offensive line coach John Denton,
27:35
Speaker 4: and from all indications and signs are and they wrote
27:38
Speaker 4: it in the News Tribute a story I wrote last
27:40
Speaker 4: night on this hire and the offensive coordinator, is that
27:43
Speaker 4: all signs are Denton is staying and Benton would be
27:47
Speaker 4: the one with ties to Kubiak, both in New Orleans
27:50
Speaker 4: in this past season of course with the Seahawks. That
27:53
Speaker 4: if I'm the Seahawks, I'm saying, no, you're not taking him.
27:56
Speaker 4: And I'm pretty sure that's what the conversations are happened,
28:01
Speaker 4: because now that he's hired his offensive coordinator, Janoko, if
28:05
Speaker 4: he tried to get Benton, that would be a lateral move.
28:07
Speaker 4: Now he could give him an assistant head coach title,
28:10
Speaker 4: which is their some antics way around that, and he'd
28:13
Speaker 4: still be the offensive line coach. He'd be the assistant
28:15
Speaker 4: head coach offensive line coach. But those are shenanigans that
28:19
Speaker 4: I don't think kubiec is going to try to pool
28:21
Speaker 4: with McDonald. It looks like it looks like Benton's going
28:26
Speaker 4: to stay and that is music to the offensive lineman's
28:28
Speaker 4: Ears and I've talked about how much they thought that
28:31
Speaker 4: Benton was absolutely instrumental into everything they in the offensive
28:36
Speaker 4: line and the offense. Therefore the team did it. Bears
28:39
Speaker 4: repeating again, Benton might have been the most important position
28:43
Speaker 4: coach on the team and the one that got him
28:45
Speaker 4: to the Super Bowl. They had a Super Bowl defense,
28:48
Speaker 4: and we talked about that way back in the spring
28:50
Speaker 4: and summer. Benton is a key reason why they got
28:54
Speaker 4: the offense to get up to a championship level because
28:57
Speaker 4: of his clarity and teaching and how those guys mastered
29:00
Speaker 4: the outside zone and how Benton taught it. I talked
29:03
Speaker 4: at link with him about ten minute interviews. Sat down
29:05
Speaker 4: and explain to me how you teach the outside zone.
29:08
Speaker 4: He said, it's hard to do, but that the clarity
29:13
Speaker 4: and singular it was a singular mission rather than the
29:16
Speaker 4: many things that those cliemen had to do in twenty
29:18
Speaker 4: twenty four under Scott Huff and Ryan Grubb. The singular
29:22
Speaker 4: of the mission and the clarity of teaching a single
29:24
Speaker 4: thing and having those guys master a single thing outside
29:27
Speaker 4: zone and they start every game plan of eight twenty
29:30
Speaker 4: game plans off of it really worked and they cannot
29:34
Speaker 4: lose the architect of that. He's the one to watch
29:37
Speaker 4: and in all signs right now, at least so far,
29:40
Speaker 4: are that John benn is going to stay.
29:42
Speaker 1: At Flory, to probably Bucky's delight. I mean, he has
29:46
Speaker 1: got kind of like a Viking look about us.
29:48
Speaker 2: Yeah. He first of all I thought was looks like
29:52
Speaker 2: a football coach. Yeah, he teche without a helmet before. Well,
29:58
Speaker 2: you might not like to hear that. He he is
30:00
Speaker 2: a former quarterback. Yeah, he was a quarterback at.
30:03
Speaker 4: The University of Maryland and then transferred and played three
30:05
Speaker 4: years at thousand before he given into towsand as a
30:08
Speaker 4: graduate assistant. That's how he began his coaching career. But yeah,
30:11
Speaker 4: he's a former quarterback who's coach linebackers, which then itself
30:15
Speaker 4: is weird.
30:15
Speaker 2: Hm, that is weird.
30:17
Speaker 1: All right, now we're gonna leave you alone? Maybe, yeah,
30:20
Speaker 1: now we're gonna leave you. I mean, what else can they?
30:23
Speaker 4: Are?
30:23
Speaker 1: They gonna sign Tyreek Hill tomorrow?
30:26
Speaker 4: They might hire a landscaper or parking attendant. You're gonna
30:29
Speaker 4: call and ask for that. I get it. I don't
30:31
Speaker 4: know yeah, I'm gonna try to disagree. I'm going to
30:34
Speaker 4: see my daughter, my wife and I have this year
30:36
Speaker 4: daughter and rowing and in New London, Connecticut this weekend,
30:41
Speaker 4: So you wouldn't be able to get a hold of
30:42
Speaker 4: me Friday if you tried.
30:44
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, well enjoy the.
30:47
Speaker 4: I will be on for me and from one to
30:48
Speaker 4: three today and tomorrow.
30:50
Speaker 2: Oh okay, there you go.
30:51
Speaker 1: All right, Well we got to promote it then, all right, Greg, again,
30:54
Speaker 1: promise we don't even want.
30:56
Speaker 2: To talk to you the rest of the week. How
30:58
Speaker 2: about that takes that?
30:59
Speaker 4: Yeah, ceilings mutual. Thanks guys, having to enjoy down there.
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Speaker 2: I'm just excited at the end of the show. Here,
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Speaker 2: Gilbert throw a bullpen. Oh he's over there right now
33:40
Speaker 2: throwing weighted balls. He's got it. He already did his
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Speaker 2: water globe whatever that hell that is. Yeah, he had
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Speaker 2: a new one. This year that has seen. Maybe it's
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Speaker 2: whipping back and forth like kind of strengthen your wrist
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Speaker 2: a little bit and your fingers. New he's got all
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Speaker 1: Yeah, he's just one lanky Harry Potter is what he is.
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Speaker 2: What do you think I am looking on shaggy?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, so he's got he got trimmed up a little
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Speaker 1: bit too.
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Speaker 2: But he's look good. Yeah. Yeah, look I'm good. I'm excited.
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Speaker 2: I don't go over there. I might step in. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: see if he wants to brush me back a little bit. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: he's coming on Wednesday for Picture's Day.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: I can't believe we have a day specifically for non athletes.
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Speaker 2: But that's fine. I mean, I get it your form
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Speaker 2: picture and we got a lot of good ones, so
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Speaker 2: it's fine. I guess yeah.
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Speaker 1: It's pretty much the holiday that people look forward to
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Speaker 1: the most.
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Speaker 2: I don't think anyone that's ever looked forward to anything
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Speaker 2: called Pictrick.
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Speaker 6: Actually I was incorrect. We got a text from Jeff.
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Speaker 6: He said, do you remember remember what Thursday is?
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Speaker 7: And I said no. He said, it's Picture's Day. I said, actually,
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Speaker 7: it's Wednesday. He said, oh, I put it in my phone.
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Speaker 7: Is the nineteenth from last year? Because Wednesday was the nineteenth?
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Speaker 7: He is looking forward to Pictures Day?
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Speaker 2: Oh, maybe we do. Do we have it on the
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Speaker 2: wrong day?
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Speaker 6: No, it's on Wednesday. It was a Wednesday last year.
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Speaker 6: It was just the nineteenth, so when you put.
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Speaker 1: It, oh see, yeah, it was an anniversary.
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Speaker 2: Maybe we should do it just on I think I
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Speaker 2: think we just ignored Jeff. No.
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Speaker 1: I was at Walgreens the other day and they're selling
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Speaker 1: cards for it.
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Speaker 2: No.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, in the hall Mark section Happy Pictures Day.
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Speaker 1: They were practically sold out.
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Speaker 2: If there is such a thing, it's probably celebrating, you know,
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Speaker 2: the big thing that holds like lemonade, Like that's it's
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Speaker 2: that kind of pictures day, Happy pictures Day.
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Speaker 1: It's not, it's not for now ridiculous.
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Speaker 2: No, this is ridiculous having a pictures day.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, there was a big you know, you know, got
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Speaker 1: chocolate bunny on Easter. I'm pretty sure I saw a
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Speaker 1: chocolate wu the other day at the Walgreens.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, chocolate chocolate into it.
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Speaker 1: Ashley, what's your one last thing today?
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Speaker 6: Well, you know, obviously you guys have been down there
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Speaker 6: covering things wonderfully, and the Mariners are getting all excited
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Speaker 6: and posting videos as well. And I have to say, Bucky,
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Speaker 6: I like your logan Gilbert video, but the best video
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Speaker 6: I've seen so far is Tucker and Josh Naylor stretching together.
36:23
Speaker 6: While Josh Naylor stretches in every stretch, he leans forward
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Speaker 6: and gives Tucker a treat.
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Speaker 1: You know, Tucker is sweet, but Tucker, make no mistake
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Speaker 1: about it, he is a food slug.
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Speaker 7: Oh yeah, yeah, I'm just rised.
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Speaker 2: He's a dog absolute us.
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Speaker 1: I mean, now all these people think, oh, he likes
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Speaker 1: me more than they likes you.
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Speaker 2: No, no, we just haven't fed him yet.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Oh, and then we'll be right in his back pocket. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: he just comes. Yesterday, he was walking by and I said, hey, Tucky.
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Speaker 2: He looked at me, and then he gave me about
36:55
Speaker 2: five seconds until I didn't offer him food, and then
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Speaker 2: he just turned his nose up at me and walked away.
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Speaker 1: No interest, No interest. You can't do anything for me.
37:04
Speaker 7: Start putting sausage in your pockets.
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Speaker 1: I can't do anything for you, Bud Well, you need.
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Speaker 7: Sausage in your pockets. That's the way to swim over.
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Speaker 5: Well.
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Speaker 1: I'm a little worried though, like to contribute to this
37:15
Speaker 1: because everybody wants to be Tucker's friend, and so they're
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Speaker 1: all feeding him and I at some point we got
37:20
Speaker 1: to think about Tucker's health. So one of us has
37:22
Speaker 1: to decide not to be his source.
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Speaker 7: Feed him some celery. Then you can be the veggie friend.
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Speaker 2: Yeah he's not.
37:31
Speaker 7: Yeah, that's true.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, but at least, I mean I would rather him
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Speaker 1: just ignore us, keep us at pau's length. Uh, Then
37:39
Speaker 1: I would him hate us because we carry cellary.
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Speaker 2: Try to feed him celery.
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Speaker 7: That's fair, because then you'd think you were tricking him.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Uh, anyway, we'll see, we'll see how it goes.
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Speaker 1: I'm right, close with this. It is President's Day, and
37:53
Speaker 1: so for those that slept in today I missed most
37:55
Speaker 1: of the show, shame on you. But President's Day is
37:59
Speaker 1: also something that Softy and famed. Every year they roll
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Speaker 1: out the presidents on their show from all of our
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Speaker 1: local teams. I have a feeling the Sea Hawk President
38:10
Speaker 1: section will be pretty cocky, and I have a feeling
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Speaker 1: that you'll really enjoy the Kevin Martinez. I think Kevin.
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Speaker 1: We had Jerry on our show today. They're having Kevin
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Speaker 1: Martinez on their show today. But every year it's an
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Speaker 1: annual tradition President's Day, they put all the presidents on
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Speaker 1: from the local professional sports franchises. Really good show. So
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Speaker 1: make sure you tune in today to hear from Kevin
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Speaker 1: Martinez and all of his fellow presidents.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm I'm excited to see that. He always has
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Speaker 2: a really good time or a really good show with
38:43
Speaker 2: the on the on President's Day. It will be interesting
38:46
Speaker 2: to see how Chuck is. I don't know if he's
38:49
Speaker 2: gonna be overly cocky a little bit. He's earned it, Yeah,
38:54
Speaker 2: he's earned it. You know what, be cocky, arnold, because
38:57
Speaker 2: that's what you want to do. Just go ahead, throw
38:59
Speaker 2: it out there.
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Speaker 7: I think it'll be hard even if he didn't want
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Speaker 7: to do it, to not be a little.
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Speaker 2: Hockey with Softy who now has I think watched the
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Speaker 2: Super Bowl eighty seven times something like that. Like he
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Speaker 2: now is timestamping everything like this was the exact moment
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Speaker 2: nine days ago to the minute of this play. Guy's
39:21
Speaker 2: got a sickness.
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Speaker 1: All right, coming up next on the program, and it's
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