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Chuck & Buck 3-23 Hour 1: Do we need Cinderella? Whoah, breaking news and Coach Bucky with more breaking news! · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 2: Hey, good Monday morning. Welcome into the radio program called
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  Speaker 2: Chucking Back in the Morning Sports Radio ninety three point
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  Speaker 2: three k j R f M. Great to have you.
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  Speaker 2: Weather's from now until ten o'clock this morning. I hope
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  Speaker 2: you all had stellar weekends out there. Ashley Ryan is here,
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  Speaker 2: former Mariner Bucky Jacobson. My name is Chuck Powell, and
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  Speaker 2: we welcome you into our little radio show here on
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  Speaker 2: this Monday. How is everyone doing? How are your weekends?
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  Speaker 4: Mine was great, not a whole heck of a lot.
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  Speaker 4: Had a little m's baseball practice that was good. It
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  Speaker 4: kind of got it's been rained out most of them.
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  Speaker 4: I think we've missed four of our six possible. And
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  Speaker 4: so today's first game, and for sure.
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  Speaker 1: How prepared we are.
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  Speaker 2: First game is today Opening day, Opening day, Opening day.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and so we had practice at the little league
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  Speaker 4: field obviously, but the infield is closed because all the
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  Speaker 4: weather where the rain that we've had. So we just
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  Speaker 4: kind of set up a field out in left field,
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  Speaker 4: and Bear hit the ball over the fence. Now it's
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  Speaker 4: from what it's from, it's from left field. We're hitting
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  Speaker 4: in I say, like right behind third base, but it
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  Speaker 4: still was his first time hitting a ball and it
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  Speaker 4: went over the fence. And he's got a little pimp
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  Speaker 4: in him by the way he ran around the bases
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  Speaker 4: with both arms held.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, and then came around home.
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  Speaker 4: And I'm kind of thinking to myself, like part of
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  Speaker 4: me wants to be that dude, that's not really a
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  Speaker 4: home run, right, you're hitting from the field, for crying
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  Speaker 4: out loud. But I was also like, I can't take
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  Speaker 4: away from his joy at this moment. Confidence, So I
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  Speaker 4: walk over to home. He runs towards me, and he
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  Speaker 4: just forgets that he needs to touch home it's practice.
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  Speaker 4: It doesn't really matter. He just runs straight towards me,
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  Speaker 4: just jumps on my arm. So it was pretty pretty
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  Speaker 4: good weekend. As far as my son thinks he hit
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  Speaker 4: his first home run, that's awesome. He didn't, but he
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  Speaker 4: thinks he did.
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  Speaker 1: You know, your clear fence, your clear fence. It did
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  Speaker 1: clear offense.
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  Speaker 3: True.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: I got off heroin just in time to come to work.
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  Speaker 2: Oh.
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  Speaker 3: We were worried about you were about you glad to know. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: in time, just in time, right around four.
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  Speaker 1: Oh. Really, it's tough to kick.
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  Speaker 5: It was rough. It was rough, but you know what,
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  Speaker 5: I thought, you guys were worth it.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, Well it's very brave of you. Yeah, very brave.
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  Speaker 1: Ye rough. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 3: We spent the weekend up in Mount Vernon, oh for Palmer's,
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  Speaker 3: one of Palmer's tournaments. So we had three games on Saturday,
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  Speaker 3: and then we were up at five fifteen yesterday to
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  Speaker 3: be back there for two games in the morning.
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  Speaker 6: Then we had the whole afternoon to the lounge around
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  Speaker 6: the house.
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  Speaker 1: And how is Mount Vernon? You know, is it charming?
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  Speaker 1: Sounds charming?
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  Speaker 3: It has some charming areas. Okay, like any city, it's
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  Speaker 3: not all charming. Yeah, there's some that you're like, oh,
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  Speaker 3: that's a house I see, and that those are some
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  Speaker 3: interesting choices they've made.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's interesting because how many states share same city names.
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  Speaker 2: So I grew up in Illinois, and there's a town
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  Speaker 2: called Mount Vernon that's not far away and it is
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  Speaker 2: apparently very charming. So even though I've never seen, it's like,
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  Speaker 2: it's like an hour and a half away, but people
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  Speaker 2: always talk about how charming an old school they've kept
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  Speaker 2: Mount Vernon.
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  Speaker 1: So here I am in Washington, and I just assume
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  Speaker 1: that our Mount Vernon in Washington is charming. I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I just assumed that for ten years.
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  Speaker 3: I think the downtown area is charming. After that, there's
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  Speaker 3: some charming spots.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, all right, we.
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  Speaker 5: Got, as you said, great weather.
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  Speaker 3: So I mean we sat North Bend and pouring rain
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  Speaker 3: at our last tournament, and the tournament after that got
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  Speaker 3: rained and snowed out.
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  Speaker 5: So this one was dry as a button, Not.
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  Speaker 1: Really, but it works as a button. Buttons are dry.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, hopefully if you're wearing them.
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  Speaker 1: They have buttons on rain jackets. I got a button
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  Speaker 1: on my pants.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I hope it's dry.
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  Speaker 1: It's not wet.
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  Speaker 2: All right, there you go, so yeah, a button I
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  Speaker 2: can really relate. All right, well, great, well, good morning everybody.
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  Speaker 2: Here we get started. Man, we are close to a
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  Speaker 2: lot of awesome stuff in the sports world, which we
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  Speaker 2: will discuss throughout the course of our next four hours together.
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  Speaker 2: This weekend was a little bit about the college basketball.
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  Speaker 2: I think I may have watched more over four days
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  Speaker 2: than I have since I was a kid. I thought
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  Speaker 2: that was pretty good theater that unfolded over the course
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  Speaker 2: of the last four days.
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  Speaker 1: And here we sit now with.
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  Speaker 2: A Sweet sixteen, which they will resume on Thursday. How
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  Speaker 2: are your brackets doing all right?
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  Speaker 1: I think they're okay. I'm not leading in anything. I
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  Speaker 1: know that. I think that, you know the gas man,
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  Speaker 1: When I think I'm in eighth and still have my
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  Speaker 1: final four alive, that's pretty good. That's in good shape.
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  Speaker 5: That's pretty decent, is it.
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  Speaker 1: I don't eighth with all of your final four remaining? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I don't. You know.
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  Speaker 4: Obviously, the BYU pick hurts a little bit because they're
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  Speaker 4: not going to advance scene sow. They didn't advance out
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  Speaker 4: of the first round. So other than that, for the
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  Speaker 4: most part, still got it. I mean, I did lose Florida,
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  Speaker 4: but I didn't have them going to the final four. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: but I had I had them losing Houston, so lost
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  Speaker 4: him in our green jacket draft I did.
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  Speaker 1: I was dramatic. It was a dramatic turn of events. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that was the biggest, biggest loss in that whole thing.
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  Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure.
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  Speaker 5: Sorry, I don't think you are.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think one of you guys just really care. Maya.
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  Speaker 1: I don't really like Florida, so I was just very
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  Speaker 1: chalky on that pick, and now I lost it.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I had Florida winning this game.
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  Speaker 3: But so I have seven of my elite eight teams
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  Speaker 3: intact in my final four attacks still, so there's still
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  Speaker 3: a chance.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm not.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, I'm way down there.
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  Speaker 2: I am really crappy. I have five of my eight,
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  Speaker 2: I have all final fours, but I have five of
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  Speaker 2: my eight remaining.
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  Speaker 6: Who else did you lose?
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  Speaker 1: Uh, Kansas? Oh?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I had in an upset over Duke. Let's see,
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  Speaker 2: I had Virginia getting past Tennessee. No, not not in
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  Speaker 2: my eighth though not in my I had Vanderbilt, which
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  Speaker 2: was one of the things I changed.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, I did talk to five iron about that. I
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  Speaker 5: was like, oh my god.
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  Speaker 6: When they lost, I said, no, poor Chucker said he
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  Speaker 6: never changes this.
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  Speaker 1: Brattice changed it. They changed that NBYU, which I changed.
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  Speaker 5: I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, so yeah, don't change. No, never change a
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  Speaker 1: really good rule, and people should stick by the really
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  Speaker 1: good rules.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. But uh, but you know, I thought I thought
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  Speaker 2: it was a good weekend of college basketball. There are
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  Speaker 2: a lot of close games. They're not all going to
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  Speaker 2: be close.
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  Speaker 1: But it doesn't stop people from complaining. Uh, it just
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  Speaker 1: never will.
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  Speaker 2: I will say this, I'll give you one justifiable complaint.
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  Speaker 2: I think it is ridiculous on a Sunday for people
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  Speaker 2: who are on the East Coast like Yukon, on a
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  Speaker 2: Sunday night to have to watch their teams start at
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  Speaker 2: nine o'clock at night, ten o'clock at night. Yeah, like,
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  Speaker 2: what was done? I mean there's no reason for that.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you played single individual games in the morning
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  Speaker 2: in the morning.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah. I didn't understand that either.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, what happened to the overlapping. I think it's
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  Speaker 2: been the worst year of overlapping. Like, I don't want
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  Speaker 2: to see that studio show ever again.
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  Speaker 6: It's annoying when there's nothing happening.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, overlap the damn games jump from one to the next.
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  Speaker 2: We don't need to see them in their entirety. And
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  Speaker 2: then by doing that, you end up having Yukon fans
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  Speaker 2: having to start watch their team at ten o'clock last
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  Speaker 2: night and Alabama fans had to start watching their team
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  Speaker 2: at ten o'clock last night.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean then on a Sunday, Yeah, you.
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  Speaker 3: Had some of the best games overlapping, and then the
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  Speaker 3: other games within their entire I didn't.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, why not just in their entirety?
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  Speaker 2: But with time you put the strakes and I guess
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  Speaker 2: it was to put the studio show on. I guess
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  Speaker 2: that was the reason behind it, because they spent I'm
• 8:40
  Speaker 2: sure Capital One spent a lot of money on that
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  Speaker 2: studio show, but it if you're going to if you're
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  Speaker 2: going to highlight the studio show, then have a quality
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  Speaker 2: studio show. No offense to Nate Burleson. I think he's
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  Speaker 2: carved out a really nice career for himself. He's not
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  Speaker 2: ready for that.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: He was terrible at it, and nobody was there on
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  Speaker 2: the set to help him. Clark Kellogg, my goodness, study,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's.
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  Speaker 1: Your only job is to study college back. You don't
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  Speaker 1: have another job. Could you not be caught off guard
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  Speaker 1: by every roster? I mean it was. It's been a disaster.
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  Speaker 2: And Charles doesn't add anything either because he just started
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  Speaker 2: watching college basketball a week and a half ago, so
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  Speaker 2: it's just the one. So anyway, I think that's a
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  Speaker 2: legitimate complaint, a couple of legitimate complaints, actually, but I'm
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  Speaker 2: not buying the complaint about no Cinderella's. And I had
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  Speaker 2: to hear an argument this morning on the drive in
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  Speaker 2: from the same people that complained that we shouldn't have
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  Speaker 2: mid majors in the college football tournament are saying, where's
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  Speaker 2: the Cinderella?
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  Speaker 1: I missed the Cinderella in.
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  Speaker 2: The NCAA basketball Tournament. I mean, if we had one,
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  Speaker 2: if High Point would have pulled that off. I think
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  Speaker 2: that's a heck of a story. But I also think
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  Speaker 2: that Arkansas being in the tournament still is a heck
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  Speaker 2: of a story. That Acuff might be the best player
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  Speaker 2: in the country. So I mean, to me, Cinderellas are
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  Speaker 2: good when they happen on occasion.
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  Speaker 1: I don't need to have them every year. I just
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  Speaker 1: don't I mean to have I.
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  Speaker 2: Like the idea of I thought, actually all the Cinderellas
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  Speaker 2: were very competitive. I mean, they showed that they belong
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  Speaker 2: on the same court. Sienna showed that they belong on
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  Speaker 2: the same.
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  Speaker 1: Court as Duke.
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  Speaker 2: That's the lowest seeded team in the tournament versus the
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  Speaker 2: highest seeded team. It's not like they embarrassed themselves. There
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  Speaker 2: was a college basketball game on the women's side this
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  Speaker 2: weekend where the team lost by seventy one points.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not like they embarrass themselves. They hung in there.
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  Speaker 2: They made it very close on a few occasions. But
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  Speaker 2: usually the longer the tournament goes, I want to see
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  Speaker 2: the best teams advance. And that's the way we act
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  Speaker 2: most of the time until it doesn't happen, and then
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  Speaker 2: we want to complain that there aren't any Cinderella's. There's
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  Speaker 2: a nine sea left, there's an eleven seeds, there's an
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  Speaker 2: eleven seed left. And they're not your typical Cinderellas. They're
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  Speaker 2: not mid major clubs. But that Iowa story'd be a
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  Speaker 2: pretty good story.
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  Speaker 1: If they continue their role.
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  Speaker 2: They knocked off a number one last night, so I
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  Speaker 2: just I just number one. I don't really buy the
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  Speaker 2: argument that I have to have a Cinderella. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: there was one Cinderella movie. If they would have just
• 11:24
  Speaker 2: kept making sequels like Fast and Furious, I think we
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  Speaker 2: would have gotten sick of the story about the girl
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  Speaker 2: being poor and just every movie ends up poor again
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  Speaker 2: and then Mary's a.
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  Speaker 1: Rich guy, you know. I think we would have gotten
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  Speaker 1: board with that.
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  Speaker 2: I like Cinderella's to happen every once in a while,
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  Speaker 2: and that makes the Cinderella story feel all that much
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  Speaker 2: more epic, the kind of thing that you make a
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  Speaker 2: movie out of at some point. I don't need them
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  Speaker 2: every year, and so I don't have any complaints about
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  Speaker 2: this is kind of the.
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  Speaker 1: Way I want it.
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  Speaker 2: Have a few upsets in the first round, have the
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  Speaker 2: mid major teams be competitive throughout the first couple of rounds,
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  Speaker 2: but then deeper that you get into the tournament. I
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  Speaker 2: want to see the best team square and off. I
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  Speaker 2: want great matchups the rest of the way. Yeah, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I I would be fine if there was a Cinderella.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, if if, if you know, if a team
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  Speaker 2: like High Point had continued to win, I would be
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  Speaker 2: fine with it.
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  Speaker 1: But I'd be agreed.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, but to me, Iowa is yeah, being
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  Speaker 4: a nine seed, they're not a Cinderella. I mean, they're
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  Speaker 4: played in the Big ten. They're a good team, but
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  Speaker 4: this knockoff a number one is still a it's a
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  Speaker 4: it's a feat. It's not something that most people picked
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  Speaker 4: and or thought was going to happen. I mean, Texas.
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  Speaker 1: Happened in such dramatic, amazing fashion. Yeah. Yeah, and yet
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  Speaker 1: in Texas is far from a Cinderella. It's Texas for great.
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  Speaker 1: But they had to play in, they had to do
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  Speaker 1: the play in.
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  Speaker 4: They i mean, they were almost not even in the tournament,
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  Speaker 4: and now they're in the sweet sixteen. So it's there's
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  Speaker 4: teams that are rising to the occasion. And and and
• 12:51
  Speaker 4: yet I don't necessarily want I don't want a team
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  Speaker 4: that has no business, right. I mean, Siana when they
• 12:57
  Speaker 4: were playing Duke was it was amazing to watch how
• 13:00
  Speaker 4: they were, you know, clawing and scratch and trying to
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  Speaker 4: stay in that thing, and yet they ran.
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  Speaker 1: Out of gas.
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  Speaker 4: I mean they were playing all of their five starters
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  Speaker 4: for basically the entire game, right. It was It's like,
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  Speaker 4: you're you're probably not going to end up winning. You
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  Speaker 4: most certainly are not going to be able to carry
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  Speaker 4: or ride those five guys through the entirety of the
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  Speaker 4: tournament and go somewhere. So it was like your Cinderella
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  Speaker 4: moment is oh man, look how close we were, right,
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  Speaker 4: I mean that's that in and of itself is a
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  Speaker 4: victory to some extent. And so I mean, I don't
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  Speaker 4: I wouldn't want it if every single higher seed won
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  Speaker 4: every single game, if there was no upsets, right, But
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  Speaker 4: you don't need like the term Cinderella. You don't need
• 13:38
  Speaker 4: some fourteen seed to make it to the sweet sixteen
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  Speaker 4: or it's just too chalky, or now we gotta find
• 13:44
  Speaker 4: a reason behind that it's nil and then all of
• 13:47
  Speaker 4: these bad things and we got to make some crazy adjustments.
• 13:50
  Speaker 4: Do not think you need to change the bracket and
• 13:53
  Speaker 4: the March Madness Tournament. It's just find the way that
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  Speaker 4: it is.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, And I think you can have a higher seed
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  Speaker 3: and watch them advance further than maybe you thought they would,
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  Speaker 3: like a Texas or in Iowa. But they're definitely not
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  Speaker 3: Cinderella's And that's okay because yeah, as you say, having
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  Speaker 3: it every once in a while is what makes it
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  Speaker 3: more special and having that one team that you're like,
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  Speaker 3: oh my gosh, I gotta watch, you know, like Steph.
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  Speaker 5: Curry Davidson like something like that where you're surprised.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I think it's the hypocrisy of it all.
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  Speaker 2: It is the we don't want mid majors in the
• 14:26
  Speaker 2: college football tournament because look at the blowouts. And then
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  Speaker 2: yet you don't you get good games all weekend long
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  Speaker 2: for the most part. And then if and then we
• 14:37
  Speaker 2: want to complain, well, where's the little guy that I.
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  Speaker 1: Can root for? How could the same people be making
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: that argument? But that argument, yeah, I don't agree.
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  Speaker 2: That's what drives me nuts. It'd be nice to have
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  Speaker 2: one Cinderella team still alive and you know, and that
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  Speaker 2: maybe the little engine that could and could get there.
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  Speaker 2: But for the most part, we want to be entertained.
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  Speaker 2: And what's most entertaining is watching the big boys go
• 15:06
  Speaker 2: up against one another in the biggest games on the
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  Speaker 2: biggest stages. I mean, let's face it, anyone out there,
• 15:14
  Speaker 2: just off the top of your head, I'm sure there's
• 15:16
  Speaker 2: somebody listening out there that can do this. Tell me
• 15:19
  Speaker 2: the player off George Mason that you remember that made
• 15:22
  Speaker 2: it to the final four. Yep, that guy I can't
• 15:26
  Speaker 2: That same year, Virginia Commonwealth. Name me a player from
• 15:29
  Speaker 2: either team, you can probably name me the coach. I
• 15:32
  Speaker 2: think Shakra Smart was coaching that Virginia Commonwealth seeing I
• 15:35
  Speaker 2: think jim Lahrenega was coaching George Mason.
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: Think you're correct, but bet you can name me a player.
• 15:41
  Speaker 2: And yet the most hated team maybe in college basketball
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: history was Christian Latner's Duke Blue Devils. And we can
• 15:49
  Speaker 2: name the entire starting five most people listening, can you know,
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: if you're over the age of thirty, can name the
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: entire starting five of that basketball team. I mean, we
• 15:58
  Speaker 2: don't really want the We don't really want the underdog
• 16:05
  Speaker 2: there as much as we think that we do. We
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: want to see the teams that the great teams go
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: against one another. That's what we tend to want. Now,
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: Cinderella's can add spice to it all, but I just
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: don't want to. I mean, I want them to have
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: their place in the tournament. I never want that to change.
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: I want them to have the chance. This is why
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: I fight for the little guy in the college football tournament.
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: I want them to always have a spot where these
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: same people don't think they even deserve an invitation to
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: the dance.
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: Because they don't belong on the same field with Ohio State.
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: And yet, and so I always want to preserve that
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: Cinderella's story and give it the chance to happen, But
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: we don't need to have it. And the truth of
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: the matter is, you really don't even want it to happen.
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: I'm with you.
• 16:54
  Speaker 4: I mean, I being a small school guy, I mean,
• 16:56
  Speaker 4: the idea of getting to have the opportunity is where
• 17:01
  Speaker 4: the majority of it. Now, winning is the most important thing,
• 17:04
  Speaker 4: but you're not expected to win, right, I mean, you
• 17:07
  Speaker 4: weren't expecting Sienna to knockoff Duke. Most people weren't expecting
• 17:11
  Speaker 4: any of these upsets that have happened up to this
• 17:13
  Speaker 4: point to happen. And yet the given those small schools
• 17:16
  Speaker 4: an opportunity.
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: I'm with you.
• 17:17
  Speaker 4: I think it's the it's the coolest part of the brag.
• 17:21
  Speaker 4: Think about if this was just the final four. You
• 17:23
  Speaker 4: just started the tournament, the final four, like the college
• 17:25
  Speaker 4: football Playoff was that immediately people had to bitch and
• 17:29
  Speaker 4: moan about once they opened it up and allowed some
• 17:31
  Speaker 4: other people. I'm glad that they made the changes they
• 17:33
  Speaker 4: made to the college football Playoff and seeding and whatnot,
• 17:36
  Speaker 4: but still you gave these You give these teams that
• 17:39
  Speaker 4: earn it an opportunity. All right, go show what you're
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: made of. And if you don't show what you're made of, okay, fine,
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: it doesn't mean the next Cinderella or the next underdog
• 17:48
  Speaker 4: mid major team shouldn't have an opportunity. And in basketball,
• 17:51
  Speaker 4: most certainly you stick around and hang around, and then
• 17:53
  Speaker 4: all of a sudden you have somebody clutches up and
• 17:55
  Speaker 4: drills a three, and you would get to advance and
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: upset somebody. That is something that's a memory for that team,
• 18:01
  Speaker 4: for the fan base, and they will kind of live
• 18:03
  Speaker 4: on for a long time. Even if you don't advance
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: very far in the tournament, you get to.
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: Do that one time. I just shining moment.
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: Yeah, well, okay, there you go. I'm glad you guys
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: haven't brought up the other part of your jim Nance.
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: Yeah surement, yes, in.
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: That ruined the whole thing. I mean, I think you
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: remember one shining moment. Shining moment, missus NaNs and no, please.
• 18:30
  Speaker 5: She says, no, I'm sure, please, mister nance.
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: Oh oh geez, Well, nobody likes Cinderella in that moment.
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: For sure.
• 18:41
  Speaker 6: It is hard to love Cinderella in that moment.
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: You're right. All right, Well, anyway, we're off here on
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: this morning, this Monday morning, We've got a sweet sixteen set.
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: Let's find out what's on tap for the rest of
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: the show. What's on what's The Zags are out?
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: They are out in round number two. And look, they
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: just didn't have a very good team this year. I mean,
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: they were good, won thirty games for goodness sake, but
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: I think even Santangelo was making it pretty obvious that
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: this probably isn't the team that's gonna get it done.
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: Plus they're down their best player. I don't think there's
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: any reason to think that Mark Mark Fugh's jobs should
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: be in trouble because this year they didn't get close
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: to the national championship game.
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: I'm sure they'll regroup and be just fine next season.
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: NCAA Women's Tournament, you dub gave TCU all they could handle.
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: TCU features one of the biggest names in women's college basketball,
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: Olivia Miles. She didn't shoot very well last night, but
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: she had eighteen points, ten rebounds, and eight assists, and
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: TCU won it in overtime, sixty two to fifty nine.
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: But hell of an effort, hell of a showing from
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: the Huskies, and they almost got it done. Had a
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: chance to tie it with a three in overtime and
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: it looked good coming off the hand, but hit off
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: the back of the rim and the game over. So TCU,
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: who is expected to win, does advance. NBA expansion vote
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: is this week. The Board of Governors are going to
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: meet tomorrow. We probably won't have that vote, I'm assuming
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: until Wednesday, but nonetheless, this week we should find out
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: a lot about the future of the Seattle Supersonic Sounders
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: in Minnesota.
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: We'll call it a drool.
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: They played to a draw on Sunday. The Sounders admitted
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: to fatigue after the contest. After all, they had just
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: played a Conka Calf game on Wednesday and then had
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: to come back and play an MLS game yesterday.
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: We are one month.
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: Exactly from the National Football League Draft, But don't worry.
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: We do an excellent job around here, you know, filling
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: the time between now and the draft.
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: It's called draft mess and it starts in nine days. People.
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: We are three days away from the Mariners season opener
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: this Thursday at home against the Cleveland Guardians. The ms
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: will have their final spring training game today. They will
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: finish things off in Peoria against the San Diego Padres,
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: who they share the facility with, and then they'll come
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: to Seattle. Do you think with all those one hundred
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: degree days that they've ever been more excited about coming
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: to Seattle.
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: For opening up.
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: We will talk a lot about the Mariners today, the
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: Randy and cow makeup session. Also the roster, which seems
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: to be all but set. We'll discuss that next. It's
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: Chuck and Buck Good Morning Sports Radio ninety three point
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: three kJ RFM.
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: It sounds like baseball's almost air music.
• 21:45
  Speaker 6: They're walking onto the field, Mary, I want to offence
• 21:51
  Speaker 6: yesterday he did.
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: Hey, ya ya ya.
• 21:56
  Speaker 6: Let's focus on the main part of the story there.
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm glad he pumped. Yeah, he was pumped.
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: Ran Heally's going to join us today for the first
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: time this new season. We think we're gonna hear a
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: lot from Ryan Healey this season. After we had him on.
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: For our postseason coverage a year ago, we tended to
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: like him.
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: I guess he's enamored with us, So he's going to
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: join us starting today at nine o'clock. I don't know
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: exactly how often or when, but we'll get it to
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: launch today before the season could get underway. Also, Capo
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: Coco's going to join the show today. We've got a
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: big announcement to make coming up at six forty five
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: in regards to the Seattle Kraken, So we'll tell you
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: more about that in a moment, and much much more
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: coming your way, including a visit from Coach.
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: Bucky later this hour.
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: But we've got Mariner things to discuss, a lot of
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: Mariner things to discuss on today's radio show.
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: And we'll just start with the fact that, I mean,
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: this is it. This is the last spring training game
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: of the year.
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: Today, I know. I mean they've got be anxious. I mean,
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: it's already a grind to begin with. You can't wait,
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: like I've had enough spring training, But when they've had
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: two straight weeks of one hundred degree weather.
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: You know that they're looking forward to getting back. Yeah,
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: I mean, just to get going. I mean, at this
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: point it's fun.
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: But the newness of senior boys again after an offseason
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: and you know, showing up and showing out for your
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: coaches in the front office, like hey, look how much
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: how hard I worked in the off season. All that
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: is old Now, that's all old news. I mean, you're
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: just like, Okay, I'm one. I'm tired of waking up early.
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: Baseball players typically like to sleep in and play games
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: at night, and so they have. That's one of the
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: benefits they've had so far with the crazy heat is
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: they move some of the games back a little bit
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: to you know, played some night games because it was
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: so hot.
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: But I don't know for sure. I'm sure that wasn't
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: all right.
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: Guys still show up at the yard at two o'clock
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: like you do come regular season time.
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: I'm certain there's not a guy there that.
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: Isn't thinking to So let's get these last couple of
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: games over with, let's not have any injuries, and let's
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: get to Seattle and start playing real games.
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: All right, Well, I was going to dive right into
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: this roster, but it sounds like we talk about like
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: he wanted to not just do that. Yeah, but I
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: think maybe John and Mike sat him down, like do
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: you want to be on something special or not?
• 24:22
  Speaker 6: Do you want to make up still a lot of money?
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we are going to make you the highest paid
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: wide receiver in the National Football League, which you've deserved,
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: which you've earned.
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: Yep, it's your time. Uh, but uh, we're gonna jump
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: ahead of it a year. And why would you want
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: to make it fifty.
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: Million dollars a year when we need to surround you
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: with other great talents so you can win more than
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: one super Bowl?
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, de lock it up. Yeah. And good for him
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: to recognize that.
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: You know, I'm sure that if there was I know,
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: the reports you're talking about where there were people saying
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: he might want to go above and beyond the next
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: step in the road or next brick, the fact that
• 24:59
  Speaker 4: he all of a sudd and you know, listen to
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: reason and the idea of yeah, if I try to
• 25:04
  Speaker 4: get every single penny, then there's some player or two
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: that we're not gonna have and you're not gonna it's
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: gonna rahibit your chances of winning multiple.
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: It's twenty four years old. Still, yeah, man, that's exciting.
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: I mean, look, I knew they got a good player
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: coming out of the draft, but there was no way
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: to imagine how good this guy.
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: Was going to be.
• 25:25
  Speaker 6: I don't think anyone expected this.
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: How phenomenal was he this year? I mean just incredible.
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: I mean, go back to training camp coverage and you know,
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: and the little bit of hand ringing that was going
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: on over losing DK And is JSN just a slot receiver?
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: And is he going to be able to be as
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: effective wide receiver one if the defenses are going to,
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: you know, account for him as such? You know, is
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: he going to be able to play the outside? Is
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: he just a glorified slot receiver? And then he goes
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: out there this year as a record setting year, looked
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: to be unstoppable. At times the defense knew that the
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: offense was geared toward getting him the ball, and you
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: were still able to get him the ball at a
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: record setting pace. And then you close out the season
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: Travis Kelsey saying that might be the best wide receiver
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: I've ever seen. Yeah, right, I mean think about that statement, Well, yeah,
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: that might be the best wide receiver I have ever
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: seen in Jackson Smith and Jigba by seasons in at
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: age twenty.
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: Four, and just even the praise that he was getting
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: in the playoffs from Tom Brady, I mean, who couldn't
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: stop talking about his technique and the way he runs routes.
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: I mean everything he's amazing, Yeah, I mean, and his
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: shoulder level apparently was really impressive.
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: Well, he's such a smooth runner. I mean I always
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: talk about that. My dad used to hit fly balls
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: to me out in the yard, and.
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: It was always you're running on your heels. It's causing
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: your eyes to jump. You gotta run smooth so that
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: the ball looks like it's floating. Yeah, yeah, so you
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: run through it.
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: And Jackson Smith and Jig But I think got that
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: same advice. His brother's a professional baseball Yeah, that's right.
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: I bet your dad hit him fly ball. Stop running
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: on your I wonder if his dad's my dad.
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: I bet not.
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: Maybe I'm gonna guess no, But you guys can go
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: on more Kovich and find out for sure.
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: Maybe they went to the same flyball heading academy, that's
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: the dad flyball coaching.
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: Maybe he went to my dad's coaching camp. I wouldn't
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: doubt that. Yeah, I wouldn't doubt that. More likely than
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: you guys being brothers.
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: Because he's the smoothest receiver. I mean, maybe he's not
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: the best receiver I've ever seen.
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: That's Jerry Rice, but he might be as smooth, if
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: not smoother than Jerry Rice. He is a phenom.
• 27:46
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's pretty impressive, and I think that it's part
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: of what makes him great. I don't think it's just
• 27:50
  Speaker 4: a well he's smooth. It's then it all of a
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: sudden turns into football speed. If you don't have to,
• 27:56
  Speaker 4: you know, chop your feet to slow down more than
• 27:58
  Speaker 4: you're coming out of brakes, you're you know, more to
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: be able to kind of do something after the catch.
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: It's impressive. And now all of a sudden he's locked
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: up to a big one.
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: And yet you I think getting ahead of it before,
• 28:08
  Speaker 4: like the Rams signed pookin Nakua and the bar gets
• 28:11
  Speaker 4: raised above that. Now all of a sudden, it's you know,
• 28:14
  Speaker 4: you kind of sign them. When you sign him, they
• 28:16
  Speaker 4: still have to go out there and do probably the
• 28:17
  Speaker 4: same thing with Witherspoon, and so it's a great it's
• 28:21
  Speaker 4: a great move. I think that locks them up all
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: the way through like twenty thirty one or something at
• 28:25
  Speaker 4: this point.
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: And I love that they're doing it now. I mean,
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: when it's so obvious, why do some of these organizations
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: fiddle fart around with it? When I say other organizations,
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: I mean the Cowboys, I mean, when you know, hey,
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: it's time and we know the caliber of player that
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: we have. Let's just not mess around with this. Let's
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: give him the money.
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: You know, we're not going to blow it out of
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: the park.
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: If we're going to try to blow it out of
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: the park, then maybe we have a longer negotiation because
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: it's not like we have to do it now. I mean,
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: we've got you under contract for another full year, so
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: we don't have to actually for two years. You know,
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: you could do the They already agreed to the one
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: year option, so you have him under contract for two years.
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: You could do that.
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: You could just like but if he's willing to just
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: take the next brick in the road, if he's willing
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: to take the highest salary of any wide receiver right now, man,
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: just get it done.
• 29:23
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I know.
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: I don't pull it, don't put it off.
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: I'm glad we didn't have to wait in stress. I mean,
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: that wasn't really good to stress. I didn't think it
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: was going anywhere. I didn't think they'd allow him to
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: But this is good.
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, y'all honor him. You got to be happy. You
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: made him filthy rich.
• 29:36
  Speaker 6: He's got one hundred and twenty million guaranteed. Sign me up.
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: For that, you don't have to worry about doing this
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: over the next couple of years. You don't have to
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: worry about pizzing him off at any point. I mean,
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: you've made him happy.
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: Good job.
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: Now. I guess the focus will be on Witherspoon and
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: whether or not they're going to do the same thing.
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: With him here in the coming days.
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: But yes, Jackson Smith and jig Bet has received a
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: contract extension with the Seahawks four years, one hundred and
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: sixty eight point six million dollars, and extension makes him
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: the highest paid wide receiver in NFL history, And I
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: think that makes all Seahawk fans very happy to have
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: locked down, if not the best wide receiver in the
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: game right now, certainly one of the best, certainly in
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: the conversation for best wide receiver in the National Football League.
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: All right, Well, I was planning on talking about the
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: Mariners roster. I'll breeze through some details with coach Bucky next,
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: but we'll have to save that full conversation for later
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: on in the show. It's Chucking Buck in the Morning's
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: here on a Monday Sports Radio ninety three point three KHRFM.
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: We also have the baseball news that I had to
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: punt down the field that we'll get to roster wise,
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: Coach BUCkies and studio our pets heads are falling off.
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: There is a lot going on. And if that wasn't enough,
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: we've got more breaking news.
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: Hockey League and the National Hockey League Players Association, together
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: with Live Nation, today announced the twenty twenty six HL
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: Global Series Finland, a pair of regular season games matching
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: the Carolina Hurricanes and Seattle Kraken in Helsinki, Finland, on
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: November twelfth and November fourteenth. I just asked coach Bucky,
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: our boss, that he needs to put together a road
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: trip for us next year as a show to a
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: on a crack and road trip.
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: I think we've just found it. Would you Finland? Yes,
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: mister Norway, would you like to go? You know ye
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: war against your rival. I don't want to start a war.
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: I'll go there peacefully, okay.
• 31:39
  Speaker 5: George, Yeah, first, and then see what happens.
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: We'll see what happens.
• 31:43
  Speaker 4: I know the first time we got to talk to Coppocaco,
• 31:47
  Speaker 4: I think we were talking about some fish dish that
• 31:51
  Speaker 4: they're known for, and so I wouldn't be surprised if
• 31:53
  Speaker 4: I then you know, say that their food is not good,
• 31:56
  Speaker 4: and then a war starts.
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: But I'd love to go there in peace. At first
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: we gotta go. Yeah, this is where I want to go.
• 32:03
  Speaker 5: And it's November.
• 32:04
  Speaker 3: We've got time to plan this, and they are going
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: to have, like the Cracking two are planning a trip
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: that people can go on their website and get more
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: info about booking their own trip there. So why don't
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: we just take all of our I mean not take
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: all of our listeners there, but encourage them to sign
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: up and then we can just all go as one big, cracking,
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: happy family.
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: You know what, Travis Moger did an act of a
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: job Friday, filling in for Ash. No excuse for the
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: three of us not being sent on a trip. That's
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: true too, hell Sinky, he can hold it down here.
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I was gonna says the bummer as I'm talking
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: about this, but I'll be left here pushing the buttons
• 32:37
  Speaker 3: while you're in Finland.
• 32:38
  Speaker 5: But I love that you brought that up, because yeah.
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: That was that.
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: Let's go Finland, that's the trip, that's the trip. But
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: we want sales staff get.
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: Cracking, Yeah, get cracking on that cracking trip. Yeah, I'm
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: down with it.
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: Oh great, We're actually going to have cop Occo on
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: to talk about this this morning at seven thirty. But
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: we got coach Bucket and studio right now. Now, I
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: gotta at least talk about the Mariners roster. So cold
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: Emerson was sent down over the weekend, didn't make the team.
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: Looks like Emerson Hancock will be the number five starter.
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: Bryce Miller and JP are probably going to start the
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: year on the IL. It looks like that means Leo
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: Revos will be the starting shortstop at least for opening day.
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: For the start of the season. Ryan Bliss looks like
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: he's gonna make the team. None of this is official.
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: This is Ryan Divish sort of putting all the you know,
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: all the thoughts together here. That looks like what's going
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: to happen. But the thing I've got to ask Coach
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: Bucky about is our backup catcher. Oh, because Mitch Garver
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: has made the team. It sounds like Andrew Kisner. They're
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: gonna even eat one million dollars that they'd agreed to
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: pay to Andrew Kisner this year just so Mitch Garver
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: can be on the team.
• 33:51
  Speaker 4: Coach Bucky, Yeah, I don't. I can't believe I'm gonna
• 33:56
  Speaker 4: have to watch that again. I'll be cheering for you, Mitch,
• 34:00
  Speaker 4: I don't understand me. Read an article and Dan was
• 34:03
  Speaker 4: saying he's had a great spring. He had a homer yesterday,
• 34:07
  Speaker 4: his first homer the day before that or the game
• 34:11
  Speaker 4: before that. A couple of days before that, he got
• 34:13
  Speaker 4: a couple of knocks. Before that, he was hitting one hundred,
• 34:16
  Speaker 4: one hundred. He was slow to camp. Okay, okay, we're
• 34:19
  Speaker 4: slow to do everything. He had I think ten punchouts
• 34:23
  Speaker 4: in nineteen at bats. He's not even really walking a lot.
• 34:27
  Speaker 4: So I don't know exactly what made him have a
• 34:29
  Speaker 4: good camp. I'm guessing he was very kind in the clubhouse,
• 34:33
  Speaker 4: is basically what it was. That's what the good camp was,
• 34:36
  Speaker 4: because he wasn't that good up until he ran into
• 34:39
  Speaker 4: a couple of balls. The last couple of games that
• 34:41
  Speaker 4: he's played, he hasn't been all that good. But I
• 34:44
  Speaker 4: think that is a big part of what Mitch Garver,
• 34:46
  Speaker 4: what they like about him, is what he brings to
• 34:48
  Speaker 4: the table in the clubhouse, like what he is as
• 34:50
  Speaker 4: a teammate. Because I most certainly don't think it's because
• 34:53
  Speaker 4: of what he brings at the dish. Well, I think
• 34:55
  Speaker 4: Cal's the one that talked him into coming back.
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: I mean, because he signed for a minor league deal,
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: so he I mean, Kissner signed for a major league deal.
• 35:02
  Speaker 3: And he even thinks Cal I think saying like, I'm
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: glad that he wants me, yeah back here again.
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so for whatever is whatever value that he brings
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: that Cal identified according to Ryan's report, that it was
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: pretty much like we didn't really see that Kissner was
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: all that much better of a receiver. And Garver does
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: bring a little bit of thump he has throughout his career,
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: which Kissner has.
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: Never been a hitter.
• 35:29
  Speaker 4: H So yeah, I mean it's I think, thank god,
• 35:32
  Speaker 4: the experiment of him being a DH that's over. I
• 35:35
  Speaker 4: don't know, you're gonna have to watch him get consistent abs.
• 35:38
  Speaker 4: But yeah, he was a backup catcher, play once a
• 35:40
  Speaker 4: week and then just you know, hopefully he gets a
• 35:43
  Speaker 4: bunch of walks and you know, really helps us with that.
• 35:47
  Speaker 4: Go go get him, Tiger, and then yeah, catches and
• 35:50
  Speaker 4: throws and receives and does what a backup catcher needs
• 35:52
  Speaker 4: to do. I'm I'm cheering for him to make me
• 35:55
  Speaker 4: change my thought, I just I've watched it for a
• 35:57
  Speaker 4: couple of years. His approach I can't stand. And yet, Okay,
• 36:01
  Speaker 4: I'll watch it one hundred times this year.
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: I guess.
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: All right, Well, we'll talk more about those roster moves.
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: I promise I had dedicated some time to all of
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: those moves here in the six o'clock hour, but two
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: breaking news items kind of knocked us.
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: Off our path.
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: So we'll discuss one of those breaking news items with
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: Greg Bell next. We've sent out the Bells signal. We'll
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: ask him about jsn's new deal, Devin Witherspoon's possible new deal,
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: whether Jake Bobo is going to remain a Sea Hawk.
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: It turns out we got a lot to discuss with Greg,
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: so we woke him up. He'll be with us next.
• 36:33
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