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Best of Chuck & Buck 3-16 · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: For two two ground ball towards the middle, which their
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  Speaker 1: close play in time to out.
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  Speaker 2: So the time run is now ninety feet away and
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  Speaker 2: it's up to Herado perdomoljas the miller's eighth pitch to
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  Speaker 2: per Domoll Yes, Joe Davis. On FS one last night
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  Speaker 2: they hosted the WBC matchup between the Dominican Republic and
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  Speaker 2: the US, and the US wins a nail bider two
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  Speaker 2: to one. Excellent game, excellent theater, excellent drama for us
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  Speaker 2: to enjoy on a Sunday night, Little baseball in mid March,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, my goodness. And the US does win by
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  Speaker 2: a final score of two to one. They will play
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  Speaker 2: in Tuesday's WBC Championship game and they will face the
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  Speaker 2: winner of Team Italy or Venezuela, and that game will
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  Speaker 2: be played tonight at five o'clock. Good morning to you,
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  Speaker 2: It's Chuck and Bucks Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM,
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  Speaker 2: Ashley Ryan, Bucky Jacobson, Chuck Powell with you as we
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  Speaker 2: roll into our seven o'clock hour. Greg Bell is going
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  Speaker 2: to join us here in about three minutes to talk
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  Speaker 2: about Noah Igbinoghany. He will break down the Seahawks' latest
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  Speaker 2: addition to the roster, so we'll do that. At seven five,
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  Speaker 2: Igbanogany was signed to a deal from the Washington Commanders.
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  Speaker 2: Over the weekend, the Seahawks also announced their coaching staff,
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  Speaker 2: part of our frost brewed corps like choose Chill headlines
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  Speaker 2: to get us started here in this seven o'clock hour,
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  Speaker 2: Sounders one over the Earthquakes of San Jose one to nothing,
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  Speaker 2: handing the Earthquakes their first loss of the season. Scored
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  Speaker 2: another goal. Seems to be scoring all the goals for
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  Speaker 2: the Sounders so far this season. Randia Rose Arena returned
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  Speaker 2: to Peoria and Julio will be next as the Dominican
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  Speaker 2: was eliminated last night from the WBC. We will talk
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  Speaker 2: further about Handshakegate coming up a little bit later on
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  Speaker 2: in the show. And of course it is selection Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: At least, actually it's bracket Monday yesterday with selection Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: The sixty eight team NCAA tournament field was announced yesterday
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  Speaker 2: and to very little controversy, which was nice to hear.
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  Speaker 2: Didn't seem like too many people had too big of
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  Speaker 2: a problem with the sixty eight teams that did make
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  Speaker 2: the field. We'll talk more about that a little bit
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  Speaker 2: later on in the hour. Do you want to let
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  Speaker 2: you know that our March Madness Contest is back again
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  Speaker 2: six bracket before nine am on Thursday, March nineteenth, even
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  Speaker 2: though there are play in games tomorrow night and Wednesday
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  Speaker 2: night as well, and the NCAA women's field was announced
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  Speaker 2: yesterday as well. You dub will be taking on South
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  Speaker 2: Dakota State on Friday at eleven thirty, and so the
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  Speaker 2: Huskies get in the women's field and rather easily as
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  Speaker 2: a sixth seed, will be taking on South Dakota State
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  Speaker 2: on Friday, cracking six two winners over the Panthers. They're
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  Speaker 2: two and oh. Since Bobby McMahon has suited up for them.
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  Speaker 2: We'll talk to Ben Myers a little bit later on
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  Speaker 2: in the show. And so those are your headlines, brought
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  Speaker 2: to you by Frost Brewed Corse Light. All right, let's
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  Speaker 2: talk some Seahawks football with our own guy Greg Bell
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  Speaker 2: with the Bell Tolls.
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  Speaker 3: Now with tk Man News, here's Greg Bell with Chuck
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  Speaker 3: and Bud. Something was bugging me that entire time.
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  Speaker 2: It was like I was looking at a string on
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  Speaker 2: my finger and I'm like, what did I put that
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  Speaker 2: on there for? So I did want to mention as
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  Speaker 2: I teased going into the break the NBA News before
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  Speaker 2: we bring Greg aboard, and I don't want to put
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  Speaker 2: it off any further. So Greg probably has a thought
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  Speaker 2: on this anyway. The NBA, according to Sham Sharanya of ESPN,
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  Speaker 2: is going to hold a vote at the Board of
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  Speaker 2: Governors meeting next week to explore adding expansion teams exclusively
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  Speaker 2: in Las Vegas and Seattle, with the two new franchises
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  Speaker 2: being targeted to start play in the twenty twenty eight
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  Speaker 2: twenty nine season. According to Sharanya, there is momentum within
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  Speaker 2: the Board of Governors in league office to approve moving
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  Speaker 2: forward with taking bids for franchises in Las Vegas and
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  Speaker 2: Seattle industry executives project proposals and the seven to ten
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  Speaker 2: billion dollar range for each team and estimate that both
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  Speaker 2: markets would be among the NBA's top eight revenue generators.
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  Speaker 2: And so this is a huge step forward as we've
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  Speaker 2: waited obviously years for something like this and been teased
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  Speaker 2: here in the last couple of years. But this is
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  Speaker 2: the biggest sign that this is going to happen that
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  Speaker 2: arguably we have seen yet. So that will be taking place.
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  Speaker 2: I guess within a week or so, they're going to
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  Speaker 2: have that vote. Within a week they're going to have
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  Speaker 2: that vote. So we'll know a lot more than all right,
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  Speaker 2: let's talk to Greg. Good morning, Greg, Good morning. All right.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, do you have a reaction to the
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  Speaker 2: NBA news, Greg, So enough.
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  Speaker 4: Two Seattle franchises could fetch ten billion dollars a few
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  Speaker 4: months apart.
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  Speaker 2: How about that?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, there was a corporate money here. Yeah, people going
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  Speaker 4: to spend it it. Yeah, a long time timing. It
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  Speaker 4: will never happen to begin with, obviously it doesn't eight ago,
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  Speaker 4: but yeah, it's good. They finally have narrowed down the
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  Speaker 4: they quit playing. So Madam Silver kept saying well, we've
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  Speaker 4: got lots of bids and we're considering it. So now
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  Speaker 4: they're just getting to the correct of the matter, the
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  Speaker 4: two cities that are in play, and let's go.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. And it's funny though that I couldn't even pull
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  Speaker 2: enough money together to get Shan Sharanya to write a
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  Speaker 2: story about expansion, all right, you know, and yet there's
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  Speaker 2: probably there's somebody out there that could buy both of
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  Speaker 2: these ten billion dollar franchises without even breaking a sweat.
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  Speaker 2: M nice, Yeah, that'd be nice. I got five on it,
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  Speaker 2: five dollars. I'll put five dollars there. Let's pull our
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  Speaker 2: money together and see if we can't buy one of
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  Speaker 2: the two. All right, Greg, Well, let's dive into the
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  Speaker 2: Seahawk news from over the weekend. Uh noah ig monogony
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  Speaker 2: uh brought over from the Washington Commanders. What do we
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  Speaker 2: know about him?
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  Speaker 4: It's the first round pick a few years ago by
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  Speaker 4: the Miami Dolphins for thirtieth overall pick. And that means
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  Speaker 4: that they're not the only team that was intrigued by him.
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  Speaker 4: And first John talent means that everyone had an opinion
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  Speaker 4: and evaluated him. He traded to Dallas and for the Commanders.
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  Speaker 4: Two years ago twenty twenty four, he was a nickel
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  Speaker 4: defensive back and primarily nickelback for them and got a
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  Speaker 4: lot of snaps. With most of his career he was
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  Speaker 4: an injury replacement at that position, and then last year
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  Speaker 4: this past season twenty twenty five, he barely played. And
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  Speaker 4: he's known as a physical jam the receiver off the
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  Speaker 4: line corner, a little shorter, little stockier. He's had problems tackling,
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  Speaker 4: which Washington people highlighted quite a bit, which is usually
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  Speaker 4: a problem in Seattle. If he can't tackle outside. This
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  Speaker 4: is yet another John Schneider fringe. Second third wave signing
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  Speaker 4: won't count toward the COMPIC formula because he didn't plan,
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  Speaker 4: didn't have a big contract, probably adder just above the
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  Speaker 4: league minimum for veterans, so million dollars low risk if
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  Speaker 4: he doesn't work out. I've seen people saying, well, he
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  Speaker 4: must be now the new Woolen and that the rotation
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  Speaker 4: will probably be him with Joe and Witherspoon. No, I
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  Speaker 4: think it's clear that there will not be a three
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  Speaker 4: cornerback rotation for two spots this year, and that the
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  Speaker 4: money they're paying Joe of eight million dollars a year
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  Speaker 4: and the money they're about to pay Witherspoon thirty plus
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  Speaker 4: million dollars a year. I mean, those are the two guys,
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  Speaker 4: and they're going to have two starters at outside corner
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  Speaker 4: with Emon Worry as their hybrid nickel and four to
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  Speaker 4: three Sam linebacker. And they're going to roll with that
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  Speaker 4: with Emon Worry being a fifth defensive back on the field.
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  Speaker 4: Tyle Cotta right now being probably the starting safety next
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  Speaker 4: to Julian Love, although there's competition would be with that
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  Speaker 4: Robin Brodney Thomas from Indianapolis's safety they just signed. But
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  Speaker 4: they'll try the guys that are now signing for low
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  Speaker 4: risk deals and if they don't fit into depth pieces
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  Speaker 4: and special teams, they'll cut them and they'll roll it
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  Speaker 4: back with most of the guys they have from last season,
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  Speaker 4: and that worked out pretty well when they won the
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  Speaker 4: Super Bowl. So Josh Tiers staying consistent here. It's obviously
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  Speaker 4: he's bringing his guys back as many as he can.
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  Speaker 4: The ones he lost. He'll gladly take the comp picks
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  Speaker 4: for and we'll see a huge resigning from Smith and
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  Speaker 4: Jigba for Smith and jiga in Witherspoon this summer. It's
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  Speaker 4: all that every signing has happened is fitting that pattern?
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  Speaker 5: Gee, the I mean the idea of this team continuing
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  Speaker 5: to be top of the league in special teams. Does
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  Speaker 5: this guy I'm just gonn called them iggy because I'm
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  Speaker 5: not going to try to pronounce that whole last name.
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  Speaker 5: Is he good at special teams? Does he play special teams?
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  Speaker 5: Is that a possibility where that's what he fits into
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  Speaker 5: beyond just depth behind the actual starters.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, they've been not gonna If he wants to make
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  Speaker 4: the team, he's gonna have to make it on special
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  Speaker 4: teams because you have forty million dollar corners that's going
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  Speaker 4: to be starting outside and you better contribute on special
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  Speaker 4: teams or there's no place for you in Seattle. And
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  Speaker 4: that's true. Now probably have every cornerback on the roster.
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  Speaker 4: They've made their choice when they let Wooland go to
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  Speaker 4: Philadelphia for twelve million and one year and pay Joe
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  Speaker 4: eight million for three years, they've made their choice. Here
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  Speaker 4: are two guys, and Mike McDonald made it clear to
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  Speaker 4: the personnel staff here's who I want our two corners
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  Speaker 4: to be. And we don't have to pay and go
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  Speaker 4: into some kind of bidding for park wooland we're running
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  Speaker 4: with Josh Job and so all other corners, your snaps
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  Speaker 4: are coming on special teams or if one of those
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  Speaker 4: two dudes get hurt, and if you don't like that,
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  Speaker 4: don't sign here or be prepared to play somebody else
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  Speaker 4: somewhere else. It's pretty clear you don't give Josh Job
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  Speaker 4: back contract and then put him into a rotation with
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  Speaker 4: anybody else competing for his job. McDonald has made his
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  Speaker 4: choice and Josh Schneider has acted on it.
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  Speaker 2: Greg Bell is with us our Seahawks insider here on
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  Speaker 2: this on Monday morning. Of course, you can follow Greg's
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  Speaker 2: coverage of the Seahawks at the Newstribune dot com. He's
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  Speaker 2: got stuff every day there, and you can follow him
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  Speaker 2: on Twitter as well at g Bell Seattle. And he's
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  Speaker 2: with us here this morning to talk about a couple
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  Speaker 2: of signings that did occur here in the last seventy
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  Speaker 2: two hours, including one that we didn't even ask you about.
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  Speaker 2: On Friday. We had the Rodney Thomas information on Friday
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  Speaker 2: and just overlooked it talking about Emmanuel Wilson for most
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  Speaker 2: of that segment. So what do you know about Rodney
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  Speaker 2: Thomas and how he fits in with the Mike McDonald's plan.
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  Speaker 4: Well, he graduated from Yale. That's the first thing that
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  Speaker 4: sticks out. There aren't a lot of players in the
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  Speaker 4: NFL who graduated from Yale. So now they have a
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  Speaker 4: Yale graduate on the coaching staff, Daniel Stern be an analyst,
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  Speaker 4: and Rodney Thomas the safety. There's since they lost Kobe Bryant,
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  Speaker 4: it's clear that they're they've got it in house. Candidate.
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  Speaker 4: I mentioned Tayo Kata, but they will explore where Rodney
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  Speaker 4: Thomas fitz and he has been a starting safety in
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  Speaker 4: the league first two years with the Colts. His second
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  Speaker 4: season as a starter there second year in the league
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  Speaker 4: in twenty twenty three, he allowed nineteen yards of completion
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  Speaker 4: and a sixty three percent rate of completions against him,
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  Speaker 4: and since then he just played on nine and thirteen
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  Speaker 4: percent of the defensive snaps for the Colts the last
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  Speaker 4: two years, which is why he was available, which is
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  Speaker 4: why he's cheap, which is why it's probably a one year,
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  Speaker 4: just at minimum salary contract. He has played special teams
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  Speaker 4: and when I signed him, that to me was a
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  Speaker 4: special team signing, and you're right, special teams was a
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  Speaker 4: huge reason why they went to and won the Super
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  Speaker 4: Bowl last year, and we talked about it was very
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  Speaker 4: obvious to see that in Rashid Jaheed and his kick returns,
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  Speaker 4: and they wouldn't have won that second RAMS game, the
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  Speaker 4: home game and even got into the Division championship for
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  Speaker 4: home games without it. But it was more than that.
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  Speaker 4: It was put coverage kickoff, coverage kickoff returned to blocking
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  Speaker 4: on the returns for sh and it was good before
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  Speaker 4: she got here, and Jay Harbaugh is a big reason
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  Speaker 4: for that. But the players that Jay Harbaugh has coached
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  Speaker 4: and the players that Mike McDonald has gotten here and
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  Speaker 4: John Schneer has gotten here to play those positions. The
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  Speaker 4: Anthony Bell is another signing that happened, signing back. He
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  Speaker 4: had been with the team last year after they picked
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  Speaker 4: him from the waivers from Cleveland. They let him go
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  Speaker 4: at the end of the season in January, and the
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  Speaker 4: Panthers snatched him up and they looked like the Seahawks
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  Speaker 4: had lost the Anthony Bell. The Anthony Bell was a
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  Speaker 4: very good special teams tackler and blocker and he's back too,
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  Speaker 4: so they're restocking what was already the best special teams
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  Speaker 4: by all the metrics in the league last year, and
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  Speaker 4: that's what some of these signings are absolutely toward the
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  Speaker 4: Anthony Bell and Rodney Thomas seemed to be primarily for
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  Speaker 4: special teams. That was a big, big factor. I know
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  Speaker 4: a lot of people go to the refrigerator in the
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  Speaker 4: bathroom in the kicking game, and that phase of the
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  Speaker 4: game was a big reason the Seahawks went to the
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  Speaker 4: Super Bowl.
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  Speaker 5: Greg, do you expect that the John Schneider is going
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  Speaker 5: to do something to add at least a competition to
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  Speaker 5: the right guard position. I mean, Anthony Bradford got had
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  Speaker 5: some bad games, obviously, there were some things that I
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  Speaker 5: think they liked. He stayed out there and started every
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  Speaker 5: single game, I think. And so you've talked about O
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  Speaker 5: line and D line both being areas where they're going
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  Speaker 5: to try to provide some depth. Do you expect them
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  Speaker 5: to still do that in his right guard? Probably the
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  Speaker 5: spot that they would be looking at.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, And they're already looking and they've been shopping at
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  Speaker 4: veterans who might be available at that position, and they're
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  Speaker 4: already been in talks about who they may sign. And
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  Speaker 4: that could be another later and even into the summer
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  Speaker 4: and even in the training camp potentially The fourth and
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  Speaker 4: fifth wave of free agency is when teams cut players
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  Speaker 4: during training camp or at the end of training camp
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  Speaker 4: when they're setting them rosters. You also need money for that.
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  Speaker 4: We talked about salary camp management. Well, some of that
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  Speaker 4: cap management will also go toward the end of training
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  Speaker 4: camp in the summer. So it's not like the Seahawks
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  Speaker 4: are just holding all this money and then you get
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  Speaker 4: to keep it. That's not how the league works. There's
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  Speaker 4: a minimum amount of cash and a minimum amount of
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  Speaker 4: salary you have to put out each year by the
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  Speaker 4: league rule. Because we all know what the maximum is.
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  Speaker 4: But the money, the salary cap space, and the cash
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  Speaker 4: they haven't spent yet. He sees this as an ongoing
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  Speaker 4: all the way up to the trade deadline and November
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  Speaker 4: type of thing. You have to have a stash the
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  Speaker 4: money for injuries. You have to stash your money for
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  Speaker 4: your draft picks, which is only four of them right
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  Speaker 4: now for this year. We talked about why that is.
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  Speaker 4: And then you to make moves like signing a veteran
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  Speaker 4: if he's cut in the summer and for roster purposes.
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  Speaker 4: A veteran you sign after that is most likely to
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  Speaker 4: be a one year minimum salary deal, but you having
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  Speaker 4: some money for that. And then we've already mentioned the
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  Speaker 4: extensions coming for Smith and Jigua in Witherspoon, So this
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  Speaker 4: is not spend all your money in March and see
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  Speaker 4: how good your team can get. That's not at all
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  Speaker 4: which Nighter looks at. He looks at Okay, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 4: allocate this one's money for this. These extensions were given.
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  Speaker 4: Our two best players are going to happen in July.
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  Speaker 4: It's going to cost this. We need some money for
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  Speaker 4: August when veterans get cut. That's when I expect them
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  Speaker 4: to get defensive linemen, tackles primarily inside. They need death four,
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  Speaker 4: perhaps the right guard. Now you'd like to add offensive
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  Speaker 4: lineman at the beginning of training camp so they have
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  Speaker 4: the whole training camp to work with John Benton to
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  Speaker 4: know the offense. But it's not impossible that they won't
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  Speaker 4: make that kind of move then. And then, as we mentioned,
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  Speaker 4: have a stash of money and cap space in cash
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  Speaker 4: available to take on the trades in November at the
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  Speaker 4: end of the deadline, like the Rashid Sahi, like Leonard Williams,
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  Speaker 4: like they've done a lot. It's one of the most
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  Speaker 4: active trade teams. So this is an on ongoing process.
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  Speaker 4: I know we joke about this March and draft miss
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  Speaker 4: even and all of that is these are just steps
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  Speaker 4: toward building what they'd like to talk to as a
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  Speaker 4: seventy man team, and that thing goes all the way
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  Speaker 4: up into and pass the trade line deadline in November.
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  Speaker 2: In our last couple of minutes here, coaching staff set
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  Speaker 2: over the weekend as well, I think going all the
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  Speaker 2: way back to Friday, actually, but I mean your World champs,
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  Speaker 2: there's going to be shake up on your staff when
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  Speaker 2: that happens. You've lost the offensive coordinator, You've lost the
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  Speaker 2: quarterbacks coach coming off a season in which Sam Darnold
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  Speaker 2: had such a breakout year, and so would I would
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  Speaker 2: ask how comfortable they are with the decisions that they
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  Speaker 2: made to replace those two fellas well.
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  Speaker 4: Jessin Outen is going to be part of a little
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  Speaker 4: bit of everything of the offense. He was a former
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  Speaker 4: defensive their offense coordinator for the Denver Broncos few years ago.
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  Speaker 4: He's still on the team as a run game coordinator.
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  Speaker 4: Jake Pets, who's been a past game coordinator, is now
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  Speaker 4: also going to work with the quarterbacks. With Prince who
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  Speaker 4: they had he was an offensive young offensive assistant. He
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  Speaker 4: just graduated from college a few years ago. That Prince
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  Speaker 4: will now be the quarterbacks coach in name, but he's
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  Speaker 4: going to have help out in the help of Peetez
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  Speaker 4: has got a title of quarterbacks. So they're going with
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  Speaker 4: a CONSORTI there of guys that Darnold and the quarterbacks
• 18:20
  Speaker 4: are already familiar with. And we mentioned a long time
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: ago to Thomas Hammock, the Northern Illinois head coach that
• 18:28
  Speaker 4: has gone way back to the Ravens staffs with McDonald
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: the coach together for about five years. He's now the
• 18:33
  Speaker 4: dude running backs coach, replacing Kennedy Palamael who left the
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: team for personal reasons during last season. I mentioned this already,
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: but the biggest of all the guys. There's twenty plus
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: coaches on the staff and most of them on defense
• 18:47
  Speaker 4: return intact John Benton, the offensive line coach. And when
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: they announced John Benton and as part of the entire
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: staff for twenty twenty six, the line coach has a
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: new title of senior offensive assistants that meet That means
• 19:01
  Speaker 4: that's how they got him to stay. They gave him
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: a raise. They gave him an additional title to justify
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: that raise. John Benton's the most important of all, maybe
• 19:10
  Speaker 4: even including coordinators put certainly of the position coaches, an
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: offensive linemen of just swear by him for how he
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: taught and how clear he was in a singular purpose
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: lester and how that helped. I mean, you ever talked
• 19:23
  Speaker 4: to Abe Lucas he will spend He didn't. He kind
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: of has short answers. He has our long answers talking
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: about John Benton and what he did. John Benton's gigantic
• 19:32
  Speaker 4: to get him back. The Raiders try to get him,
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: and Clint Kubiak tried to bring him with him, and
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: they gave him a raise and a new title and
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: east staying that's a big big deal for them.
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: He didn't sprain an ACL or anything. Skiing this weekend,
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: did you No?
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: Everything told though, because of the Seahawks song season. That's
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: the first time I've skied all year. We usually skied
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: half dozen ten times a year of round. But my
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: wife and I zipped up there and had a great time.
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: Mount Baker For those who haven't gone the Mount Baker one,
• 20:03
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• 20:20
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• 20:36
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• 21:01
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• 21:34
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• 21:55
  Speaker 2: of stuff going on here on this Monday. It is
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: a Bracket Monday. More on that little little bit. Looks
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: like the Sonics are closer to returning than ever before.
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: We'll talk more about that coming up a little bit
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: later on in the hour. We've got a crack and
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: hockey team that apparently Bobby McMahon was just the ingredient
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: that they needed to suddenly become amazing. They've won two
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: straight with McMahon. He scored three goals since the league
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: finally got his paperwork done. And so we'll talk with
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: Ben Myers about that and other things coming up a
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: little bit later on in the show. And we watched
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: one of the best baseball games we've seen, and in
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: an exhibition tournament, the US winning over excuse me, just
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: choked on my own spit. They just won over the
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: Dominican Republic by a final score of two to one
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: last night. A fantastic game. We'll talk about that game
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: a little bit later on. And we even have football
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: moves today, as the Chiefs have just traded for Justin
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: Fields from the New York Jets in exchange for a
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: sixth round pick. There was actual little talk about Russell
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: Wilson going to Kansas City. Mahomes, of course, had the
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: injury late in the season. They don't know if he'll
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: be ready by the start of the season, and so
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: whoever is the backup is probably gonna play a little
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: bit at least at the beginning of the year. And
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: so there was talk that Russell Wilson might be that
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: guy for the Kansas City Chiefs, and instead they trade
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: for Justin Fields today, so it looks like he will
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: be that guy. So obviously a lot going on, I
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: mean a lot going on. Awesome, Yeah, yeah, I mean
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: it's cool, but it keeps us from really sinking our
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: teeth into one subject here this morning, because there are
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: so many subjects to discuss, but one thing that we
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: have to talk about today, and that is handshake Gate.
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: And I hope this is the last time that we
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: talk about it, because I want to put this thing
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: to bed, and hopefully the Mariners are putting this thing
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: to bed. And thank you Josh Naylor for what you
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: did Friday, because it looked like there was going to
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: be another nasty layer to this, possibly having started. Josh Naylor,
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: when Team USA took on Canada on Friday, went up
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: offered a fist bump to Col. Yeah, he looked like
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: he denied it, and then they went about play, and
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: everybody on that horrible mechanism known as social media was
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: destroying our beloved Catcher once again for being a jerk,
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: even though he's the nicest guy on the planet not
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: named Andre's Munnos. And so then it was another evening
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: of you know, crapping on col from coast to coast.
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: And then Josh Naylor was asked about it afterwards after
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: having lost by the way, and I would imagine disappointingly so,
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: and Josh Naylor explained, no, I was kidding, I was joking.
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: I actually sent him a text saying I'm gonna fist
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: bump him when I come to the plate, and he
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: told me, please no, And I did it anyway, just
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: because I thought it would be funny. And he's got
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: this smirk on his face, and then he went on
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: to say, Cal's one of my favorite people. He's one
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: of my favorite teammates I've ever had. He is a
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: great leader, he has a great guy Who's one of
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: the reasons why I re signed with this team because
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: I want to be teammates with him. And it's like, okay,
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: there you go. Can we just do that? Can we
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: just like, all right, Randy, you're upset, but Cal tried
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: to make things better the next day and you got
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: quieter and you shrunk from the spotlight and made things
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: seem worse than what they were. And then apparently trash
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: talked Cal to players on Team Mexico, which I wonder
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: how Andre's Munoz handled overhearing some of that, and then
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: has to go read a statement when he returns to
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: Peoria and to Mariners spring training facility, has to read
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: a statement. Can you just say? I didn't like it?
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: And I think I wish that he would have fist
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: bumped me because we're buddies, we're boys, we're pals, we're teammates.
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: I didn't like it at the time. I kind of
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: felt like I got stood up a little bit there.
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: But I love the guy. He's a great teammate, and
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: there is no problem here whatsoever. Could we not just
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: do that. Let's end this thing now, there is no controversy.
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: It's silliness. Let all of the haters on social media
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: say they're garbage. Who cares. Let's just make sure that
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: the Mariners bury this damn thing once and for all,
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: because I don't want this to linger one second more.
• 26:47
  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I mean the fact that it was anything,
• 26:51
  Speaker 5: it's kind of sucks, just because I don't think it
• 26:54
  Speaker 5: is intended the way in which it was perceived by him,
• 26:58
  Speaker 5: and to some degree because of the culture difference, because
• 27:02
  Speaker 5: of the language barrier. It's still not one hundred percent sure.
• 27:05
  Speaker 5: I mean, the fact that he didn't basically acknowledge Cows
• 27:11
  Speaker 5: reaching out to him and trying to just smooth it
• 27:14
  Speaker 5: over the next day leads you down the path of okay,
• 27:18
  Speaker 5: well then you weren't kidding for sure that you know,
• 27:21
  Speaker 5: you take it and stick it up. Is where the
• 27:23
  Speaker 5: sun don't shine. That you weren't kidding, you were you
• 27:25
  Speaker 5: were butt hurt a little bit by it, And okay, fine,
• 27:28
  Speaker 5: you you're entitled to be to feel bad because somebody
• 27:32
  Speaker 5: left you hanging. That said, it's not that big of
• 27:35
  Speaker 5: a deal in all actuality, and it's.
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: What we talked about with.
• 27:38
  Speaker 5: One of the cool things about the WBC is you
• 27:42
  Speaker 5: get to as a squad, you get to play the
• 27:44
  Speaker 5: game however you want to play it.
• 27:45
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 27:45
  Speaker 5: The Dominicans they hoop and hauler and SODA's, you know,
• 27:49
  Speaker 5: Venezuela's big into that. Mexico maybe not quite as much.
• 27:53
  Speaker 5: But I would like to think that there still is
• 27:56
  Speaker 5: a certain degree of respect for one another. And I
• 28:01
  Speaker 5: don't think col was intending disrespect by not shaking hands.
• 28:05
  Speaker 5: He took it as such, and so there's something to it.
• 28:08
  Speaker 5: But yeah, this is to me something that should be
• 28:10
  Speaker 5: kind of water under the bridge, but should have been
• 28:12
  Speaker 5: water under the bridge, like right after basically it happened,
• 28:16
  Speaker 5: like hey, what the heck? You know, he sent me
• 28:18
  Speaker 5: a text and then I say, well, I just didn't
• 28:20
  Speaker 5: like that you didn't do that, you didn't give me
• 28:22
  Speaker 5: a handshaker, fist Pump were teammates. I wasn't meaning it
• 28:25
  Speaker 5: personal to you. It's just my team against your team.
• 28:28
  Speaker 5: At that point in time, we weren't on the same squad. Yeah,
• 28:30
  Speaker 5: can we get over it. I'll just say this. I
• 28:33
  Speaker 5: think Randy is probably kind of an OFP guy, Like
• 28:36
  Speaker 5: that's a saying back in the day and own something
• 28:40
  Speaker 5: person like it's a program, my own FN program. Like
• 28:45
  Speaker 5: there's certain guys that that's what they are, and I
• 28:46
  Speaker 5: think Randy rose Rain is one of those. I think
• 28:48
  Speaker 5: he's kind of beats to, you know, his own drum,
• 28:51
  Speaker 5: and he does what he wants to do, how he
• 28:54
  Speaker 5: wants to do it, not going to be told otherwise.
• 28:56
  Speaker 5: He's talented enough that he can do that. Nowadays, he's good.
• 28:59
  Speaker 5: He's a bona fide Big leaguer, far more than I
• 29:02
  Speaker 5: can say about myself. And yet it they're they're not
• 29:06
  Speaker 5: the same type of player cal who and and Randy
• 29:09
  Speaker 5: are not, And so I don't think they actually are homies,
• 29:12
  Speaker 5: Like I don't think they're they're teammates.
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: He cheers for him.
• 29:14
  Speaker 5: I think they cheer for each other, But I don't
• 29:16
  Speaker 5: think they're going out to dinner after after games. I
• 29:19
  Speaker 5: don't think they're sitting next to each other on the
• 29:21
  Speaker 5: plane ride. I don't think they're like that, and that's fine.
• 29:23
  Speaker 5: You don't have to be. But we don't need to
• 29:25
  Speaker 5: turn this in to where your adversaries either that there's
• 29:28
  Speaker 5: something between it. Because you thought you think that before
• 29:32
  Speaker 5: the game high fives is good and Cal doesn't think
• 29:37
  Speaker 5: it's good. That's You're entitled to your opinion. You attempted
• 29:41
  Speaker 5: to do it. He kind of told you don't, and
• 29:43
  Speaker 5: you still attempted to do it because you're an ofp
• 29:46
  Speaker 5: sounds like him, yes, and yet you didn't. You you said,
• 29:50
  Speaker 5: now I'm gonna do it anyways. Well then you got
• 29:53
  Speaker 5: left hanging. Yeah, so you know, I guess you asked
• 29:57
  Speaker 5: for it to some degree and then you got what
• 29:59
  Speaker 5: jasked for. And so I think I'm with you. I
• 30:02
  Speaker 5: think it was a manufactured statement that he came out
• 30:05
  Speaker 5: with that we didn't get the results we wanted a
• 30:07
  Speaker 5: team Mexico, but I'm glad to be back in camp
• 30:09
  Speaker 5: with my teammates. I don't think that's necessarily his words,
• 30:12
  Speaker 5: but it's fine. He came out and said it. That is,
• 30:14
  Speaker 5: to some degree putting this thing to bed. And I
• 30:16
  Speaker 5: hope that it's to bed for good.
• 30:18
  Speaker 7: I see, and I actually feel like he had so
• 30:20
  Speaker 7: many opportunities to have shut it down. And even his
• 30:22
  Speaker 7: statement doesn't shut it down. He doesn't say it was
• 30:24
  Speaker 7: he doesn't address that situation at all. He just ignores
• 30:28
  Speaker 7: it pretty much and just says, you know, all that
• 30:31
  Speaker 7: stuff's behind me.
• 30:31
  Speaker 8: I'm focusing on this.
• 30:32
  Speaker 7: Well, what about the fact that you had plenty of
• 30:34
  Speaker 7: opportunities to put this all behind you earlier and you
• 30:37
  Speaker 7: chose not to. I mean, he went out there after
• 30:40
  Speaker 7: the game and made the statements, you know, angry at
• 30:44
  Speaker 7: Cal in four languages. He wanted to make sure that
• 30:46
  Speaker 7: ever you know, people could understand him. However, he wanted
• 30:50
  Speaker 7: everybody to know that he was not happy with what happened.
• 30:52
  Speaker 7: And then Cal reaches out to him. As far as
• 30:55
  Speaker 7: we know, they did not communicate. Randy did not reach
• 30:58
  Speaker 7: back out to him.
• 30:58
  Speaker 8: Again.
• 30:59
  Speaker 7: You had multiple opportunities to squash this whole thing and
• 31:02
  Speaker 7: put it to bed, and your statement from the Mariners
• 31:04
  Speaker 7: that yes, I don't think he wrote, doesn't do that.
• 31:08
  Speaker 8: It just says like, I'm moving on. Okay. Well, that's
• 31:12
  Speaker 8: great in theory.
• 31:13
  Speaker 7: That you're gonna move on, because you went on Instagram
• 31:15
  Speaker 7: and you posted photos about it and all of these
• 31:17
  Speaker 7: things and showing how irritated you were by posting videos
• 31:20
  Speaker 7: of other teams high fiving and hugging.
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: Mm hm.
• 31:24
  Speaker 8: So, I mean I think it should have been a
• 31:26
  Speaker 8: better statement.
• 31:27
  Speaker 7: I think he should have had to actually say something
• 31:31
  Speaker 7: about the issue, like I have put the issue that
• 31:34
  Speaker 7: specifically behind me. It was a misunderstanding. I'm looking forward
• 31:40
  Speaker 7: to the season. That's I mean, it didn't have to
• 31:42
  Speaker 7: be something specific.
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: Just I don't even think he has to do it
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: through the media. I don't think just as long as
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: there's no issue. Yeah, once Cal gets there, and hopefully
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: they will have a little brief conversation, but Randy's way
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: ahead of him, like I I'm we're good now. That
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: needs to occur whenever Cal does show up. It's just
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: the US keeps winning. But look, and speaking of the US,
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: they you know, they it was a team wide thing.
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: I mean even Aaron Judge acknowledged it. There was a
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: press conference where he was asked about his Yankee teammates
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: and he's like, they're my Yankee teammates, They're my brothers.
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: I love them and I can't wait to go uh,
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: see them again and try to win a World Series.
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: That's an essence what he said. But right now I'm
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: Team USA. The difference is that people don't have an
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: isolated moment standing in the same proximity as a right fielder.
• 32:39
  Speaker 8: Yeah you accurate.
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: So I mean, yeah, he comes to the plate, but
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: Cal's got a Cal's stationary and now has to And
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: that's why Naylor did. Naylor knew I'm going to come
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: across you, so I'm going to do something tongue in cheek,
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: and it infuriated people who are already angry all over again.
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: But then Tayler's explanation was so well done that I
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: think it diffused the entire situation, and thank God for that,
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: because this should be a nothing burger. It absolutely should
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: be nothing. And look before anybody that's pro Randy and
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: anti cow that's listening right now. I wish he would
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: have just shaken his hand.
• 33:22
  Speaker 7: Ye.
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: As a sports fan, I like seeing that when you
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: have the international competition and there's a recognition of you're special,
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: you're my guy. I like seeing that. But there was
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: a team wide decision not to do. Will Smith was
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: doing the same thing, but his teammates didn't come up
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: there and ask him for a handshake. Otherwise maybe that
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: would have been a bigger story. So this should be nothing.
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: I think it is nothing, and yet man, it turned
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: into a week and a half of cow bashing by
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: people across the country. F off all of you. And
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: if you were doing it here locally, you're stupid. And
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: I'm saying I wish he would have done it. But
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: if you went from Calasar Catcher to I can't believe
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: this guy. He's anti he is inhumane.
• 34:18
  Speaker 5: Yeah, well, I mean, to be honest, I'll just say,
• 34:22
  Speaker 5: I mean, because of the backlash from it, because of
• 34:25
  Speaker 5: the negative attention that it got, then I wish he
• 34:28
  Speaker 5: would have done it.
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: But I don't think he needed to do it.
• 34:32
  Speaker 5: I don't.
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: I don't, you don't. I just wish he would have. Yeah,
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: I don't have liked it, like, yeah don't.
• 34:37
  Speaker 5: Yeah, Well would have been That's what I mean. And
• 34:39
  Speaker 5: heindszin would have been a lot easier. Or what also
• 34:41
  Speaker 5: would have been easy is if Randy just listened to
• 34:44
  Speaker 5: his teammate that said, hey, dude, don't try to shake
• 34:46
  Speaker 5: my hand. I'm I'm about competition. At this point in time,
• 34:50
  Speaker 5: it doesn't mean that I don't want you to be
• 34:52
  Speaker 5: at my teammate doesn't mean I'm not going to be
• 34:54
  Speaker 5: rooting for you and ready to go to battle for
• 34:56
  Speaker 5: one sixty two plus this season against you, and and
• 35:00
  Speaker 5: to me, it's what Thank God for Josh Naylor and
• 35:03
  Speaker 5: the way that he did it. I'm glad that Josh
• 35:05
  Speaker 5: Naylor didn't heed Cal's advice when he said no, please
• 35:09
  Speaker 5: don't because if he didn't. Right, let's say Josh Naylor
• 35:11
  Speaker 5: goes up there and just doesn't offer a handshake, so
• 35:15
  Speaker 5: they do nothing.
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: Well, it's almost to.
• 35:17
  Speaker 5: Those that want to hate on Col or those that
• 35:20
  Speaker 5: just want to hate on the situation just can't wait
• 35:22
  Speaker 5: to blow something out of proportion, they would think that
• 35:25
  Speaker 5: it is something even if it was nothing, even if
• 35:26
  Speaker 5: it was just Josh Naylor, like, you know what, I'm
• 35:28
  Speaker 5: not going to bring I'm not even going to put
• 35:30
  Speaker 5: the attempt out there because if he doesn't then do it,
• 35:35
  Speaker 5: then it looks bad. But then if he hadn't went
• 35:38
  Speaker 5: up and offered something, even jokingly, then it people still
• 35:41
  Speaker 5: would have taken it rent low. Look at this right now,
• 35:43
  Speaker 5: Naylor and col aren't even getting along. He didn't even
• 35:47
  Speaker 5: do anything. He didn't even try anything. It's like, no,
• 35:49
  Speaker 5: he did to make fun of the whole thing. It
• 35:52
  Speaker 5: doesn't really matter. This is not a big deal.
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: We had to wait to the end of the game
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: though for that clarification. In the moment, people were going
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: nuts with anger over it in the moment, And when
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: I say people, I mean social media. And let's face it,
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: social media is dominated by young, angry people. That's what
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: it's that. They can't wait to call out somebody as
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: successful as cal Raley. They can't wait to stir the pot,
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: and so we tend to give it way more credit
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: than it actually deserves. I don't think Randy's as upset
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: as what we think. I don't think anybody was really upset.
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: Like I said, I think it's a big nothing burger.
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: But we had to acknowledge it because because of social media,
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: it looked like the world hated cal Raley all of
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: a sudden.
• 36:40
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, I'd say we had to really acknowledge
• 36:42
  Speaker 7: it because of Randy's postgame statement again, because it made
• 36:45
  Speaker 7: it like, oh wait a minute, this is a more
• 36:46
  Speaker 7: serious thing. Although even then we were like, maybe he's joking,
• 36:49
  Speaker 7: maybe he's not. Although it didn't seem like he was joking.
• 36:52
  Speaker 7: I mean when the and then yeah, when the nailor
• 36:55
  Speaker 7: thing happened, I was like, wait, why what was you know?
• 36:59
  Speaker 8: I didn't know what was going on.
• 37:00
  Speaker 7: And then afterwards when he released statement, I was like, oh,
• 37:02
  Speaker 7: thank goodness, because yeah, it just seemed like why does
• 37:05
  Speaker 7: this I was more like, why does this still have
• 37:07
  Speaker 7: to be a thing? Like I just wanted to not
• 37:09
  Speaker 7: be a thing when Mariners players are coming up to
• 37:11
  Speaker 7: the plate. And then somebody texted and asked, well, what
• 37:13
  Speaker 7: happened with Julio last night? Well Cal wasn't in the game,
• 37:16
  Speaker 7: so it didn't matter, but you know, people would have
• 37:20
  Speaker 7: been watching again when Julio came up to light if
• 37:22
  Speaker 7: Cal would have been catching.
• 37:23
  Speaker 8: For sure, And I just want it to be away.
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: Well it'll be away in ten days or probably shorter
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: than that. I think they just need to sit down
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: in a room. And I would imagine Randy's not nearly
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: as upset as what he's carrying on. But if you are, dude, seriously,
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: if you really are that upset, just what coach Bucky
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: told us earlier. You're gonna pick this fight, You're gonna lose.
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: Better get over it. You better get over it, you know.
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: And so I promise you what I know about cal
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: Rawley is that he will take the step to make
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: sure everything's okay. But you're not gonna sit there and
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: do it every day, no, until you know, until he
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: works his way toward Randy's forgiveness. They'll have a little
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: conversation face to face. I would imagine Dan will be
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: there as well, and they'll settle it and they'll bury it,
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: and that better be it. Yeah, And if it's not,
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: then we've got a Randy problem. And just to show
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: you history, reveal history, a lot of people have had
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: a Randy problem throughout his career. He got traded away
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: from the Saint Louis Cardinals for pretty much a song
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: that's not true. Matthew Liberatore is actually a pretty good talent,
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: but I mean he's got moved a couple of times
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: because he's rubbed people the wrong way in a clubhouse setting.
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: And so you're gonna you're gonna tackle the big dog.
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: You're gonna lose. So unless you've got information or evidence
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: to suggest that you don't realize how difficult cal Rowley
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: it makes all of our lives, then you better figure
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: out a way to accept an apology or at least
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: an explanation. Maybe it won't be an apology, but you
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: better figure out a way to accept an explanation, whether
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: you agree with it or not.
• 39:21
  Speaker 5: You just got to coexist and do what you need
• 39:24
  Speaker 5: to do as a teammate. You don't have to be
• 39:25
  Speaker 5: best friends. I can tell you right now. I didn't
• 39:27
  Speaker 5: have one team I played on and I got along
• 39:29
  Speaker 5: with pitchers, catchers. You don't position players everybody. I feel
• 39:34
  Speaker 5: like I was a good teammate, and yet there was
• 39:36
  Speaker 5: not one team I played on that I loved every
• 39:38
  Speaker 5: single player equally. There was some I really loved and
• 39:41
  Speaker 5: there was others I could do without. That's fine, but
• 39:44
  Speaker 5: I still would never like, not bring information back from
• 39:47
  Speaker 5: my bat and not tell a guy because I didn't
• 39:49
  Speaker 5: care for Eric all Monte was a dude that I
• 39:51
  Speaker 5: could not stand, absolutely could not stand it.
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: I love what Bucky calls him out by n.
• 39:55
  Speaker 5: And yet when I saw a nasty slider and I'm
• 39:59
  Speaker 5: like it sli or sharp today, I didn't go tell
• 40:02
  Speaker 5: everybody except for him because I didn't like him, and
• 40:05
  Speaker 5: I didn't like the way he played the game. It
• 40:06
  Speaker 5: just he played it his way. I played it my way.
• 40:09
  Speaker 5: We were different. We just basically had to realize we
• 40:12
  Speaker 5: were going to co exist on the same team, cheer
• 40:14
  Speaker 5: for one another. And that's where it ended. We didn't
• 40:16
  Speaker 5: go out to dinner, we don't text each other. Still,
• 40:20
  Speaker 5: it is what it is. You don't have to be
• 40:21
  Speaker 5: buddy buddy, but you got to be a good teammate.
• 40:24
  Speaker 5: And that doesn't mean I guarantee cow walks in, goes
• 40:26
  Speaker 5: what's up, dude. We good handshake bro hugs and if
• 40:30
  Speaker 5: it's not good there, then Randy, you are going to
• 40:33
  Speaker 5: find yourself on the on the on your way out.
• 40:35
  Speaker 5: And then I don't want that because I like what
• 40:37
  Speaker 5: Randy brings to the table when it comes to being
• 40:39
  Speaker 5: a baseball player.
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: And I love our clubhouse. I mean, that's a tight
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: group and how this handshake gate could potentially threaten it
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: would be a sad, sad turn of events. Yeah, So
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: I don't think it's going to it won't. I think
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: Bucky's got it. I think that's what's gonna happen. And
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: I think that they'll bury the hatchet and I don't
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: think there'll be issues, And I think, wait, we play
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: a game in ten days I think twelve eleven days
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: from now, Cal and Randy will be laughing in the
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: dugout together celebrating Trident home run celebrations. That's what I
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: think is going to happen. But in the meantime, because
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: of this WBC and because all of the coast to
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: coast experts out there on Cal Raleigh, we had to
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: deal with a story that just blew to a proportion
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: that it never needed to reach. A right coming up next,
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: the latest from the NBA. Pretty significant story broke this morning,
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: and it looks like we are closer to the Sonics
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: returning than ever before. We'll tell you about an next
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: Sports Radio ninety three point three KHRFM. Happy Monday, everybody.
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: Happy bracket Monday to everybody as well. More on that
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: in a moment, because my gosh, as if there weren't
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: enough things to talk about these days, hold on your butts,
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: you haven't heard this yet. This morning looks like we
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: are closer to the Sonics than ever returning as it
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: was announced just this morning. I mean all of this
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: like drag out and build up and no, not yet,
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: and oh we'll start thinking about that in the upcoming
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: calendar year. And you know, just sort of kicking the
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: can down the road on something that was supposed to
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: already be buttoned up and decided by now, and then
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: all of a sudden, we get this story this morning
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: from sham Sharanya, who is the new Woes at ESPN,
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: the new ESPN newsbreaker from the National Basketball Association, and
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: he drops this little nugget on us this morning that
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: not only are things looking good for the Sonics returning,
• 42:59
  Speaker 2: we might know within a little over a week that
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: it's done, that it is a done deal. Here's the story.
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: The NBA is going to hold a vote at the
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: Board of Governors meeting next week to explore adding expansion
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: teams exclusively. In other words, the only two cities they're
• 43:16
  Speaker 2: even discussing, Las Vegas and Seattle with the two new franchises.
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: This is really where it's just like feels real, because
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: this is the first time I've seen somebody write this
• 43:29
  Speaker 2: as a story, as an actual story, and not just
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: conjecture or predictions or anything like that. But he's writing
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: his sources are telling him that with the two new
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: franchises being targeted to start playing in twenty eight and
• 43:45
  Speaker 2: twenty nine, the twenty twenty eight, twenty twenty nine season,
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: So they have a lot of momentum building toward this moment.
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: They've kind of set a price. It sounds like they've
• 43:56
  Speaker 2: picked the two cities that they're going to expand to,
• 44:00
  Speaker 2: and so there will be a vote next week in
• 44:02
  Speaker 2: which you're going to need twenty three out of thirty
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: governors must vote in favor of the expansion and of
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: these two cities in order to proceed. But we've gone
• 44:14
  Speaker 2: from kicking the can down the road to Adam Silver
• 44:17
  Speaker 2: just picked up the can and we're just about ready
• 44:20
  Speaker 2: to find out it sounds like whether or not the
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: Sonics are going to be back soon.
• 44:25
  Speaker 5: Yeah, And I think it just boils down to I mean,
• 44:28
  Speaker 5: it's felt like it was just a matter of win,
• 44:30
  Speaker 5: not if it was going to happen. And yet because
• 44:33
  Speaker 5: the can's been kicked down the road so long, it
• 44:36
  Speaker 5: kind of starts to feel like, well, maybe I was
• 44:38
  Speaker 5: premature in thinking that it for sure was going to happen.
• 44:41
  Speaker 5: This makes it kind of revitalizes that feeling to me
• 44:44
  Speaker 5: of Okay, it's happening. It's definitely happening. It's just a
• 44:47
  Speaker 5: matter of win and how and how much money it's
• 44:49
  Speaker 5: going to cost you to get a team here. I mean,
• 44:52
  Speaker 5: you know the report of seven to ten billion dollars, Well,
• 44:55
  Speaker 5: that's you know, I'm sure that the Todd and you know,
• 44:59
  Speaker 5: his whole crew have been out there raising the money
• 45:02
  Speaker 5: to figure out how it's going to be, because that's
• 45:04
  Speaker 5: what it boils down to. They're going to be asking
• 45:06
  Speaker 5: these guys, are you down with us expanding by two
• 45:09
  Speaker 5: teams if they come in with this amount of money,
• 45:12
  Speaker 5: because to some degree it's deluding the overall product product,
• 45:16
  Speaker 5: But then you have to look at it as it's
• 45:18
  Speaker 5: also adding big markets to an already existing fan base
• 45:22
  Speaker 5: which the NBA already has. So I mean, I think
• 45:24
  Speaker 5: it's just a matter of when now right, and we're
• 45:27
  Speaker 5: thinking here a week, ten days, they're going to have
• 45:30
  Speaker 5: this little vote and then we'll find out if we're
• 45:32
  Speaker 5: going to be getting the Sonics back here in a
• 45:34
  Speaker 5: couple of years.
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: And that's just one more season, by the way, before
• 45:38
  Speaker 2: all of the expansion stuff happens. So it's this year
• 45:41
  Speaker 2: and then next year, and then as soon as next
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: year is over, now you're building tools, getting ready for
• 45:46
  Speaker 2: spansion draft.
• 45:48
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I think I might be the only one who's
• 45:50
  Speaker 7: not like taking it as something very exciting just because
• 45:53
  Speaker 7: there's this vote and then there's another vote later on
• 45:57
  Speaker 7: in the year and that's the vote that we'll decide
• 45:59
  Speaker 7: for or that it's happening, so until that vote happens
• 46:03
  Speaker 7: and it gets approved, because again, we've been burned so
• 46:05
  Speaker 7: many times by this thing and how long it has taken,
• 46:07
  Speaker 7: and I just I can't allow myself to get excited
• 46:12
  Speaker 7: about something that's still only a possibility until they actually say, Okay,
• 46:18
  Speaker 7: these two franchises are starting, You've got a team, you're
• 46:21
  Speaker 7: hiring staff, things like that. I'm staying in the same
• 46:25
  Speaker 7: place as I've that I've been, well, I.
• 46:27
  Speaker 2: Think this would already be done for whatever reason. When
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: I guess finished watching Succession, I did finish it awesome, Yeah,
• 46:36
  Speaker 2: very good show, but it's I think what ended up
• 46:40
  Speaker 2: happening was that they were counting on people in the
• 46:46
  Speaker 2: boardroom to be on board with the plan to expand,
• 46:49
  Speaker 2: and then all of a sudden they found out that
• 46:51
  Speaker 2: a couple there were a few people that were going
• 46:54
  Speaker 2: to vote against it. So now they're like, well, we
• 46:57
  Speaker 2: don't want the vote to fail, So that's why they
• 46:59
  Speaker 2: started kicking it down the road. Otherwise I think this
• 47:02
  Speaker 2: thing would already be done. I think Bucky's absolutely right,
• 47:05
  Speaker 2: and I get that the wall that you built up
• 47:07
  Speaker 2: around your heart, Ashley, but I think the reality is
• 47:11
  Speaker 2: that it is just a matter of when and not.
• 47:13
  Speaker 8: If, and even that's what we've been saying for years.
• 47:16
  Speaker 2: But that's what I'm saying, but I'm explaining to you.
• 47:18
  Speaker 2: But I think they were expected to have already had
• 47:21
  Speaker 2: I mean, we were having conversations behind the scenes talking
• 47:25
  Speaker 2: about getting ready to prepare for the announcement two years ago.
• 47:31
  Speaker 2: So I think what they had in mind was that
• 47:35
  Speaker 2: this was going to happen, I don't know, a year ago,
• 47:38
  Speaker 2: two years ago, whatever it was. And then they got
• 47:40
  Speaker 2: a vote count, they found out a few owners might
• 47:43
  Speaker 2: not be up for it, and so they didn't want
• 47:45
  Speaker 2: to vote for it at that point until they felt
• 47:48
  Speaker 2: that they had them in their pockets. So just like
• 47:50
  Speaker 2: in succession, where you think you've got the you have
• 47:52
  Speaker 2: to vote, and you're on the phones right then. And
• 47:55
  Speaker 2: so now I would imagine that this thing has got
• 47:59
  Speaker 2: kicked into high gear next week because of that, like
• 48:03
  Speaker 2: they've got the right vote count that they're going to
• 48:07
  Speaker 2: actually start moving forward with it and now moving forward
• 48:11
  Speaker 2: with it quickly. So I think this is the most
• 48:15
  Speaker 2: definitive sign that we've seen in a while. And if
• 48:17
  Speaker 2: there was a chance that you don't get the vote,
• 48:21
  Speaker 2: well I still think you're going to get the Sonics back.
• 48:24
  Speaker 2: I think that Seattle would like to get it an
• 48:26
  Speaker 2: expansion franchise, and if not, there are a couple of
• 48:30
  Speaker 2: lame duck organizations out there that are going to get
• 48:33
  Speaker 2: swooped up, swallowed up by somebody. Sorry Portland, Sorry Memphis,
• 48:37
  Speaker 2: but you're getting ready to lose your basketball teams. So
• 48:40
  Speaker 2: even if the Sonics didn't get this, get the information
• 48:44
  Speaker 2: out there, so are If we're not going to expand,
• 48:46
  Speaker 2: then those two cities who we are determined to be
• 48:50
  Speaker 2: in will just consume the two cities that we're determined
• 48:55
  Speaker 2: to get out of at this point.
• 48:56
  Speaker 5: Yeah, well, the I mean, you know, we talked about
• 48:59
  Speaker 5: a lot, right we have. Our part of our job
• 49:01
  Speaker 5: is kind of reading into speculation, and there's just too
• 49:04
  Speaker 5: much smoke to not know that there's fire. I mean,
• 49:07
  Speaker 5: I think that everybody here that had their hearts ripped
• 49:11
  Speaker 5: out when the Sonics left or were taken away basically
• 49:15
  Speaker 5: thought it never should have happened. We should never have
• 49:17
  Speaker 5: went a generation without having the NBA. Well, I think
• 49:20
  Speaker 5: the NBA recognizes it now. It's not like they're I mean,
• 49:24
  Speaker 5: think about how rude it would be to string along
• 49:26
  Speaker 5: some girlfriend for eighteen years that you're like, yeah, we
• 49:30
  Speaker 5: shouldn't have broke up, and you just keep doing it
• 49:32
  Speaker 5: with the inevitable that where you're thinking, we're never going
• 49:34
  Speaker 5: to get back together. This is the NBA wants to
• 49:37
  Speaker 5: get back together with Seattle. They're trying to figure out
• 49:40
  Speaker 5: how do we do this, and if there was a
• 49:42
  Speaker 5: couple turds in the punch bowl that we're going to
• 49:43
  Speaker 5: maybe ruin the vote, then they keep kind of pushing
• 49:47
  Speaker 5: out like, Okay, we've got to figure out what this is.
• 49:49
  Speaker 5: I think they go back to the light wiki group
• 49:52
  Speaker 5: and say, hey, you know, maybe we were talking five
• 49:55
  Speaker 5: six billion dollars before in order to get the votes
• 49:59
  Speaker 5: we're going to need, it's going to be closer to ten.
• 50:01
  Speaker 5: Oh what really? All right, well, let's go let's go,
• 50:06
  Speaker 5: you know, make some more phone calls and find out.
• 50:08
  Speaker 5: I think that's what it is. It's the bureaucratic part
• 50:11
  Speaker 5: of things that's happening behind the scenes before you can
• 50:14
  Speaker 5: actually do something and make it more public if you will.
• 50:18
  Speaker 5: You don't want to get shot down where instead of
• 50:21
  Speaker 5: twenty three, you get thirteen votes and you're like, man,
• 50:24
  Speaker 5: we're long ways away because now you've just drug it
• 50:27
  Speaker 5: out and got a lot of Seattle people excited and
• 50:30
  Speaker 5: then slammed it back in their face. To me, this
• 50:33
  Speaker 5: has been kind of a putting it off, putting it off,
• 50:34
  Speaker 5: and now of a sudden, we're going to get to
• 50:36
  Speaker 5: the point where I think you're gonna get we're gonna
• 50:38
  Speaker 5: get to hear that it's inevitable, that it's happening, and
• 50:40
  Speaker 5: it's happening sooner than later.
• 50:41
  Speaker 7: I just yeah, I think if it wasn't this vote
• 50:43
  Speaker 7: to then have another vote, then I would be allowing
• 50:46
  Speaker 7: myself to be more excited. But this vote is just
• 50:48
  Speaker 7: to allow them to explore the purchase processes. Then they
• 50:53
  Speaker 7: have another vote that that's where it would finalize and
• 50:57
  Speaker 7: if the bids reach the necessary thresholds, is what it says.
• 51:00
  Speaker 8: Well, that's that's what I'm like.
• 51:02
  Speaker 7: It's because it's a vote to vote later, So that's
• 51:06
  Speaker 7: you know they're going to vote first and then hopefully
• 51:09
  Speaker 7: have another vote.
• 51:10
  Speaker 2: Well, I think what it's what it symbolizes, is that
• 51:13
  Speaker 2: what Adam Silver said the last time when he spoke
• 51:16
  Speaker 2: about this in the off season, he he really made it.
• 51:20
  Speaker 2: He really tried to tamp down because he knows he's
• 51:23
  Speaker 2: been stringing the cities and the process along, so he
• 51:26
  Speaker 2: didn't want to just keep making promises that his ass
• 51:30
  Speaker 2: wasn't ready to, you know, cash those checks at this point,
• 51:33
  Speaker 2: and so he kind of took the all right, let
• 51:36
  Speaker 2: me let me take the foot off the gas here,
• 51:39
  Speaker 2: and then let's get it all in order, and then
• 51:42
  Speaker 2: when we do make an announcement on this, we're going
• 51:45
  Speaker 2: to go foot on the gas. I mean we're going
• 51:47
  Speaker 2: to press it all the way to the floor. And
• 51:49
  Speaker 2: I think that's why this is positive. You can continue
• 51:53
  Speaker 2: to you know, be doubtful.
• 51:56
  Speaker 8: I'm not doubtful. I'm just not getting right. I'm not
• 51:58
  Speaker 8: getting excited.
• 52:00
  Speaker 2: I would get why you and everybody else would do that.
• 52:02
  Speaker 2: But my read of it is that he's wanted to
• 52:06
  Speaker 2: do this for a while, it wasn't time. He's then stalled,
• 52:11
  Speaker 2: and then he got tired of stalling and putting the
• 52:13
  Speaker 2: cities that he wanted to expand to through the process,
• 52:17
  Speaker 2: and he was waiting to make some sort of announcement
• 52:21
  Speaker 2: when he knew it was all systems go. I read
• 52:24
  Speaker 2: into this that it's all systems go. He believes he
• 52:26
  Speaker 2: has the vote in eight days. You get to take
• 52:31
  Speaker 2: the next step. You got to get the money groups together.
• 52:35
  Speaker 2: And I think this is the most encouraging sign that
• 52:38
  Speaker 2: we've seen thus far. I don't think that they'd be
• 52:41
  Speaker 2: jumping eight days from now, we're going to get our
• 52:44
  Speaker 2: first vote if they didn't already know that that was
• 52:46
  Speaker 2: a done deal. Yeah, that's my guest.
• 52:48
  Speaker 5: This is the vote to find out do we want
• 52:50
  Speaker 5: to pursue this in these two cities. If two thirds
• 52:53
  Speaker 5: of them say or twenty three hundred and thirty say yes,
• 52:56
  Speaker 5: then they go the next vote is okay, well here's
• 52:59
  Speaker 5: our bid. How much money we do it? And then
• 53:01
  Speaker 5: they say yep. I mean then it would be like,
• 53:03
  Speaker 5: are you really going to change? Are those people those
• 53:05
  Speaker 5: voters that are like yes, if they come in with
• 53:08
  Speaker 5: enough money, are they going to say flip their votes
• 53:10
  Speaker 5: and say no to me? I think this is just
• 53:12
  Speaker 5: far more positive momentum than we've had in the last forever.
• 53:18
  Speaker 5: I mean, this is I feel like it just started
• 53:20
  Speaker 5: kind of ramping up and moving in that direction more
• 53:22
  Speaker 5: and yet we shall see.
• 53:24
  Speaker 2: Hopefully it's bracket Monday. I mean, can we not just
• 53:27
  Speaker 2: celebrate the holiday? We'll do it next. Sports Radio ninety
• 53:30
  Speaker 2: three point three KJRFM.
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: The two to two ground ball towards the middle, which
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: their close play in time.
• 53:43
  Speaker 2: Too out, So the time run is now ninety feet
• 53:48
  Speaker 2: away and it's up to Parraldo perdom All Jason Miller's
• 53:53
  Speaker 2: eighth pitch to Perdomo.
• 53:56
  Speaker 7: There is.
• 54:08
  Speaker 2: The United States takes Dolma Powerhouse, that is the Dominican
• 54:12
  Speaker 2: Republic TUTO on the final score, Perdomo Domo, Herdomo Domo,
• 54:25
  Speaker 2: Thank you very much, shoh arroldop per Doomo for taking
• 54:29
  Speaker 2: a pitch down below the striding zone.
• 54:32
  Speaker 5: Thank you too close to take, I'd say, I used
• 54:36
  Speaker 5: to be the call, right, yeah, yeah, yep yeah for
• 54:40
  Speaker 5: the first I don't one hundred and fifty years of baseball.
• 54:43
  Speaker 5: It's like, if it's close enough for them to call,
• 54:45
  Speaker 5: you might want to not leave it in the hands
• 54:47
  Speaker 5: of the umpire.
• 54:48
  Speaker 2: It's hard to do. Don't get me wrong.
• 54:50
  Speaker 5: When it throws one hundred and three and then snaps
• 54:52
  Speaker 5: off a slider three inches below the zone, I'm not
• 54:55
  Speaker 5: blaming him, But there is a way you could have
• 54:59
  Speaker 5: not been punched out out looking it wasn't the.
• 55:02
  Speaker 2: Most outlandish thing you've ever seen it, No fishing, No, nope,
• 55:07
  Speaker 2: not even close.
• 55:08
  Speaker 5: Right right, unfortunate, I mean, And I would be saying
• 55:11
  Speaker 5: that if it was the other way around too. I
• 55:13
  Speaker 5: wouldn't be sitting here. If it was America that got
• 55:16
  Speaker 5: punched out with a tie run on third base, I'd
• 55:19
  Speaker 5: like that sucks. It's a sucky way for it to end,
• 55:22
  Speaker 5: just like I think yesterday's was a sucky way for
• 55:24
  Speaker 5: it to end. I also would have been saying, well,
• 55:27
  Speaker 5: Judge or cal Or probably need to move the bat there. Yeah,
• 55:31
  Speaker 5: a little too close to take with Barber with the
• 55:33
  Speaker 5: season or the tournament on the line. Yeah, hey, Garver,
• 55:37
  Speaker 5: why are you on tmoss?
• 55:39
  Speaker 4: What?
• 55:39
  Speaker 8: I was quite the question, or quite the situation.
• 55:43
  Speaker 5: I don't know why you caught astray there, Garver, but
• 55:45
  Speaker 5: you deserve it.
• 55:45
  Speaker 4: Well.
• 55:45
  Speaker 2: I was just thinking about somebody who would be taking
• 55:47
  Speaker 2: a yeah, that situation.
• 55:48
  Speaker 5: Oh, he would have been for sure, hoping to pass
• 55:51
  Speaker 5: the baton for the next guy to come through.
• 55:54
  Speaker 2: Good morning, nine o'clock hour here on a Monday, All
• 55:57
  Speaker 2: sorts of things to discuss Ashley Bucky Chuck with you.
• 56:00
  Speaker 2: But the WBC game last night, I think you just
• 56:04
  Speaker 2: you know, I think you just start with, man, what
• 56:07
  Speaker 2: a great game. I mean, for a manufactured tournament in
• 56:11
  Speaker 2: the middle of spring training where you have to mant
• 56:14
  Speaker 2: your you know, you're actively managing workloads because all the participants,
• 56:20
  Speaker 2: especially in this game, are getting ready for one hundred
• 56:23
  Speaker 2: and sixty two game regular season and you don't want
• 56:26
  Speaker 2: to be the manager responsible for injuring that player. So
• 56:31
  Speaker 2: you are sort of managing it like a spring training game,
• 56:35
  Speaker 2: but with so much more on the frickin' line for
• 56:39
  Speaker 2: goodness sake. And I mean I've liked the WBC throughout
• 56:45
  Speaker 2: its entire history. As I said last week, I don't
• 56:48
  Speaker 2: want to see the Olympics on top of this. This
• 56:50
  Speaker 2: is enough. You know, we'll talk about Julio getting hit
• 56:53
  Speaker 2: by a pitch here in a moment, but I don't
• 56:55
  Speaker 2: need that anxiety at this time of the year, worrying
• 56:58
  Speaker 2: about stuff like that. But I don't think I've ever
• 57:02
  Speaker 2: been a bigger fan of the WBC than I was
• 57:04
  Speaker 2: watching that game last night. That was spectacular from beginning
• 57:08
  Speaker 2: to end. And yes, I wish the game wouldn't have
• 57:10
  Speaker 2: ended on a called third strike below the zone. That
• 57:14
  Speaker 2: was a great at bat by Perdomo. The game should
• 57:17
  Speaker 2: have kept going. And maybe I feel this way because
• 57:21
  Speaker 2: the team I was rooting for one, but that was
• 57:24
  Speaker 2: just fantastic. That was fantastic for the sport. That was
• 57:27
  Speaker 2: fantastic for the event. That was fantastic for Major League
• 57:30
  Speaker 2: Baseball because they'll carry some momentum from this outstanding WBC
• 57:33
  Speaker 2: into the season.
• 57:35
  Speaker 5: Yeah, there's a lot that goes into this tournament. I mean,
• 57:39
  Speaker 5: the win it's played, right, You're you're putting pitchers out
• 57:43
  Speaker 5: there for sure that are not stretched out ready to
• 57:44
  Speaker 5: go too terribly long. You're you're putting, you know, hitters
• 57:48
  Speaker 5: at risk of pitchers that aren't in mid season form,
• 57:51
  Speaker 5: and so you could have an errant pitch go and
• 57:53
  Speaker 5: hit somebody and mess up your regular season. That means
• 57:57
  Speaker 5: more than this tournament does. But then the flip side
• 58:00
  Speaker 5: of it's, this tournament's got its own little blood, It's
• 58:03
  Speaker 5: got its own little thing because of the the nationality
• 58:06
  Speaker 5: part of it, right, I mean we see I think
• 58:09
  Speaker 5: the American guys are all really proud when Roman Anthony
• 58:12
  Speaker 5: hit that home run and comes across home and does
• 58:15
  Speaker 5: the across his chest the USA, I'm like, yeah, right.
• 58:19
  Speaker 5: And on the flip side of it, when Italy and
• 58:22
  Speaker 5: his name's Roman for ye, exactly yeah. And yet on
• 58:25
  Speaker 5: the flip side of it, I mean the passion that
• 58:28
  Speaker 5: the Latin American players and Japanese players and Italian not
• 58:31
  Speaker 5: really Italian players are playing with I think is it's cool.
• 58:36
  Speaker 5: It's cool to see it. I mean, you just don't
• 58:38
  Speaker 5: typically think of baseball that way, even though when you
• 58:41
  Speaker 5: go play in another country like Venezuelan, you see the
• 58:44
  Speaker 5: passion of their sport. It's like European soccer fans in
• 58:49
  Speaker 5: Latin America when you're playing baseball down there. So it's
• 58:52
  Speaker 5: not surprising to me what it feels like when you're
• 58:55
  Speaker 5: watching these games. And yet it still is fun to
• 58:57
  Speaker 5: watch because at this point, typically you're watching games, you're
• 59:00
  Speaker 5: just like, all right, who's gonna make the roster? The
• 59:04
  Speaker 5: outcome doesn't matter at all. You're just waiting for spring
• 59:06
  Speaker 5: training to get over, you know, like everybody is at
• 59:09
  Speaker 5: this point.
• 59:09
  Speaker 2: As much as I love spring training, and I do,
• 59:12
  Speaker 2: and I will just sometimes just put MLB Network on
• 59:15
  Speaker 2: and I'll before you know it, I won't be like
• 59:18
  Speaker 2: focused in on it, but five games have gone by,
• 59:22
  Speaker 2: you know, because it's just on in the background, and
• 59:25
  Speaker 2: it's usually even on mute at times, but I might
• 59:27
  Speaker 2: catch a little bit here and there, so I just
• 59:29
  Speaker 2: keep it up and keep it going. So as much
• 59:32
  Speaker 2: as I do like spring training, which is probably more
• 59:34
  Speaker 2: than most, you really are just rooting for. You know,
• 59:39
  Speaker 2: if he fails, well, he's working on something, right, And
• 59:43
  Speaker 2: if he succeeds and hits like, well, the other pitcher's
• 59:46
  Speaker 2: working on something. You really can't enjoy any of the
• 59:49
  Speaker 2: results you get from spring training. Otherwise we'd be really
• 59:52
  Speaker 2: worried about the Mariners right now. Yeah, because they are
• 59:56
  Speaker 2: not one games during spring training at this point. So
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 2: it is nice to splash real baseball in there, there's
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 2: no question about it. But this game kind of took
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 2: it to a whole new level. Mark Rosa described to
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 2: going into the game as this might be the best
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 2: game ever played on paper. And when you think about it,
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 2: I mean all Star games. We've seen plenty of all
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 2: Star quality players on the field at one time. But
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 2: though in all Star games you're usually out by the
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 2: third or fourth inning. If you're the starter, you only
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 2: get one at bat during that. This was the best
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 2: hitters in the world. You know, fifteen of the twenty
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 2: five best hitters in the world were probably on the
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 2: field last night. Pitchers not so much, but fifteen at
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 2: the top twenty five hitters in the world were all
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 2: playing in the same game last night, and yet it
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 2: was a pitchers duel, and every single pitch meant something,
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 2: and it was two to one, which nobody expected. And man,
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 2: those last few innings, I mean, that was some tension
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 2: right there.
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 5: Now, WHOA yeah, I mean, I don't typically when you're
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 5: watching an All Star game, you'll have you'll have a
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 5: handful maybe you know, a Baker's dozen guys that are
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 5: on there because they just had a really good first half,
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 5: But they don't necessarily you wouldn't put them as that's
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 5: one of the top fifty players or top twenty five
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 5: players in baseball. They just had a really good first
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 5: half and you know, they burst on the scene or
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 5: they had a you know, breakout year or whatever it
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 5: might be. This was I mean, you're talking probably close
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 5: to twenty of the top twenty five best players. We're
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 5: somewhere on these two rosters.
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 2: Now.
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 5: Pitching wise, you're right you're you're getting a lot of
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 5: guys that are like, I don't know if I can
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 5: do it right. I don't know if I should go
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 5: out there and risk, you know, throwing a bullet at
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 5: live you know, one hundred percent before I'm really ready
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 5: to rock and roll. And yet yesterday, both these teams,
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 5: their bullpens went out there. I mean, the starters went
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 5: kind of blow for blow with each other. Schemes is
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 5: unbelievable by the way. I mean that stuff is absolutely disgusting.
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 5: But then both teams brought in relievers that you're like,
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 5: this is crazy because there's nowhere to breathe. And yet
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 5: the game was exactly the way that I thought the
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 5: game was going to go. I was thinking more three
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 5: to two, but I thought it was going to be two.
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 5: Which team is going to have somebody run into a
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 5: mistake because you're going to get a few mistakes. And
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 5: when I say mistakes, it might be one hundred and
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 5: two me on our fastball over the heart of the plate,
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 5: but who's gonna catch up to it? And that the
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 5: tension you're talking about. Even down in the ninth inning,
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 5: Mason Miller is rare and back and firing and he's
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 5: going against Camonio, and I'm like, if he runs into
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 5: one of these, it's gonna go seven hundred.
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 2: Fift And yet luckily he didn't. I love the three
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 2: pitches in a row went one hundred, one oh one,
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 2: one oh two.
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 2: Well, you know that's the fastest bat arguably in baseball,
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 2: cam and Arrow against the guy that throws the hardest
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 2: arguably in basis.
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 5: And then after he climbs a ladder on you like that,
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 5: then he snaps off a slider that bounces in front
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 5: of the plate.
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 2: You have no chance, I do.
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 5: I tip my cap to you, Camanio, because I have
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 5: done that many a time, my friend, I've looked absolutely stupid,
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 5: and then jogged down to first base like, wow, I
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 5: guess that's why he's as good as he is.
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 7: When Skein's early on in the game, I remember watching
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 7: and I was thinking, God, Skeins is dealing right now
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 7: I have and I pulled out my phone like I
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 7: might actually put out a tweet about it.
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 8: And then literally the next pitch he gave up the
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 8: home run to Gammon Arrow.
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 2: I'm like, total hanging ga, total mistake.
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 7: Yeah, but I was like, but I'm not going to
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 7: write that, but I just kept watching and just like
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 7: what Bucky said, thinking these pictures have to be thinking
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 7: there's literally no relief. I am just facing one amazing
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 7: hitter after another after another after another.
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 8: It was incredible to watch.
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 2: The one relief is that hitters are usually ahead of
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 2: pictures at this time of the year. They always say that,
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 2: And so I don't think that was a collection of
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 2: the best relief pitchers in the game on either side.
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 2: But they were all nasty enough, you know, to be
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 2: the lineup of superstars last night and keep it a
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 2: two to one ball game. Bed and aar wiggling out
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 2: of a jam. And let's give some credit to d
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 2: row By the way. Yeah, a rough week last week,
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 2: but that pitching decision when he took Skeens out and
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 2: he went to Rogers with Soto coming up, and Rogers,
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 2: I mean, he's got one one thing. He will throw
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 2: from a really weird angle. The ball sinks every single time,
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 2: and he induces pretty much ground ball after ground ball
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 2: after ground ball, first and second, one out against probably
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 2: their best hitter. He takes Skeens out, goes to Rogers
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 2: and gets the double play ball to get out of it. Now,
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 2: that's a good move. So little love for dro here today.
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 2: He had a rough week last week.
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 5: He did have a rough week, and you brought that
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 5: on yourself, buddy, you brought that one on yourself. But yeah,
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 5: that was a great call, especially, I mean, it's skeens
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 5: of stuff, is I mean, you could see these guys
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 5: are amped up. They were having good at bats against him.
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 5: You know, they had, you know, got a couple of
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 5: knocks off him, which is not an easy thing to do.
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 5: He wasn't punching guys out the way that he does
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 5: in a normal lineup. Right when a normal lineup, he's
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 5: gonna have half of that lineup for sure, just about
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 5: every single time he's going to overpower. Well, you're not
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 5: overpower in that Dominican lineup. You've got to go out
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 5: and pitch, and you got to hope that if you
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 5: make a mistake, it doesn't get deposited in the seats.
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 5: And the one big mistake he made with that big
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 5: hanging slider or sweep or whatever you want to call it,
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 5: got got absolutely smashed. And yet he's settled down. And
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 5: then for d Row to go to a guy that,
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 5: let's be real, is not and he's not in your
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 5: top thirteen American pitchers.
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 2: No, he wasn't even there the first. He might even
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 2: be the best picture in his family.
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 5: Yeah, he's got a twin. He's got a twin, but
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 5: his twin doesn't come from down throw it off the dirt.
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 5: He just does from the left. He's just a regular
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 5: Oh he doesn't.
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's just a left handed He's the exact same guy,
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 2: just from the left side.
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 5: Huh wow. Well yeah, then he might not be, but regardless,
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 5: he ends up getting the job done. And it was
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 5: one of those like, oh boy, here you go, because
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 5: that's when the tension started. The tension started happening, I
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 5: mean basically from the first get go, because you started
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 5: feeling like, wow, these two starting pitchers are on their
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 5: game and they're not making a mistakes. And then when
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 5: they were, the pitchers or the hitters were missing a
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 5: couple of them, and then all of a sudden, boomy
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 5: one popped out of the yard, and then another one,
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 5: and then even once you got to two to one,
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 5: you kind of felt like there was a lot hanging
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 5: in the balance on every single pitch, and yet all
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 5: the guys that went up there on both sides ended
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 5: up kind of carrying the torch and passing to the
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 5: next guy as far as pictures go.
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and we do need to spend more time speaking
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 2: on hanging on every pitch. It was a ball at
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 2: the end of the game. The game ended on a
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 2: bad call, and I don't think that the umpire had
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 2: a particularly good night. Might not have been a bad
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 2: idea to go with, you know, somebody that wasn't from
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 2: America behind the home plate or from the Dominican We
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 2: can find somebody, right, I know we've got Yeah, I
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 2: know we've got you know, I know we've got some
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 2: international flavor amongst the MLB umpiring ranks where you could
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 2: have avoided that. Now, I don't think that that was
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 2: an issue of bias on the home plate umpire's fault.
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 2: I think he was not having a great night behind
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 2: the plate, and unfortunately the game ended on a bad call.
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 2: And look, they still had to get a hit off
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 2: of Mason Miller, which no one has done in this tournament.
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 2: So I don't think that it costs the Dominican the game,
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 2: but it certainly kept them from seeing if they would
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 2: have won, and that's unfortunate. But we've lived in a
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 2: world all our lives where the umpire as you said,
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 2: that was the gold rule. Don't get called out on
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 2: a third strike. You better be a hacking, you better
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 2: swing at anything close. That's how we operated with baseball
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 2: for one hundred years. And then suddenly we've become a
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 2: little more. Now we've got the box when we watch
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 2: baseball games, and the players have a lot keener eye
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 2: for exactly their box and their zone. And now we
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 2: know in the back of our heads that we're gonna
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 2: have an ABS challenge system for the first time ever.
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 2: We have never played a meaningful game with an ABS
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 2: challenge system. Ever, we still haven't done it. And yet
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 2: people know that the technology exists. They know it's coming
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 2: to Major League Baseball this year, so they spent the
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 2: entire evening why don't we have an ABS challenge system
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 2: for that game last night? I wish we would have
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 2: had it. I wish that Perdomo would have been able
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 2: to challenge that because I don't like that the game
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 2: ended that way. I still think the US would have won,
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 2: but I don't like the way that it ended.
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 5: I don't know for sure if we would have gotten
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 5: to them having a challenge left because there was multiple
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 5: calls throughout the game on both sides, and I would
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 5: I will go out and again and say, I think
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 5: there was more bad calls against Dominican when we're talking
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 5: about just balls and strikes than against the US. I
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 5: think that.
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 2: It was not even.
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 5: It wasn't one for one for sure, and yet I
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 5: think there would have been some challenges along the way
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 5: that Dominican would have got right, and there would have
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 5: been something they got wrong too, because there was multiple pitches. Yes,
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 5: well yeah, call, Well they'll be out of the two
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 5: challenges in the first inning for sure. Well we're out
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 5: of challenges. Back to baseball the way it used to
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 5: be played. I'm excited about the abs because I would
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 5: rather have it get be done right, especially for something
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 5: like that that if you use them judiciously, if you
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 5: if you're smart with how you use them, you might
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 5: come down to the end with the game tying run
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 5: on third base and you have a great at bat
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 5: and the human misses it because it's not that easy.
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 5: It looked like a strike coming in there, ninety four
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 5: miles an hour the whole way, and then right when
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 5: it goes basically behind the catcher and dips below the zone.
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 5: You can't hardly see it there anyway. You're like, boom,
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 5: that's good. That's a nasty pitch. That is a pitch
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 5: that a pitcher wants to make and he hopes it
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 5: catches the bottom part of the zone. But if it doesn't,
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 5: maybe the umpire rings them up on it. You can
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 5: move the bat and spoil that thing and give yourself
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 5: another chance. But you basically did.
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 2: The right thing. You got screwed on the call.
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 5: If there was there's a way which ABS would have
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 5: allowed it, if you still had a challenge left at
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 5: that point, the point it's a great point, then you
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 5: could have possibly continued that thing and you'd have first
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 5: and third. Now a double in the gap, you know,
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 5: wins the ball game, and all of a sudden things
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 5: could have changed it. I'm excited about seeing it because
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 5: I think it's going to work more in the favor
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 5: of it being right, which is what I want. I
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 5: want it to be right more than I want it
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 5: to be consistent or or perfect. I think it's gonna help.
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 5: But at the same time, there's gonna be plenty of
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 5: times where you end up blowing your your challenges early
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 5: in the game and bases loaded full count down by one,
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 5: you get wrung up on strike three, and so and
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 5: so screwed you out of that one because he didn't
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 5: like his getting struck out earlier in the game, or
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 5: your pitcher tapped his helmet because he thought that was
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 5: strike three and it wasn't.
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 2: Boom.
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 5: You run through your challenges and it all of a
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 5: sudden doesn't.
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 2: Matter, abs challenge system or not. That is not the
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 2: last time that a Major League baseball game is going
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 2: to end on a bad ball strike call.
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 7: Yeah, and it'll be interesting too to see how many
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 7: how many challenges are left over after games because people
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 7: are saving one for the very end, just in case
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 7: they need it.
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 2: Probably not that often, you don't think so, Probably not,
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 2: you know. I mean, you get two, yeah, you know,
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 2: and so in a game that tight, you're probably going
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 2: to use them in the moment in case you think
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 2: that's the moment where the games on the line. I
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 2: would imagine a game that tight, there aren't going to
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 2: be a lot of last batter of the game challenges remaining.
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 7: You can listen to, so you yeah, So like in
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 7: last the game last night, they probably wouldn't have even
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 7: had a challenge.
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, that's Bucket's point. Yeah, and and so that's
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 2: another thing to factor in, especially with all of the
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 2: complaining about the officiating.
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 5: Yeah, last night that was going on. Well, it's sometimes
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 5: it's difficult. I mean you can say you know where
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 5: the strike zone is and you don't really know. No,
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 5: Like you just can't. You're up there trying to think
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 5: about hitting. Imagine trying to be the umpire and the
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 5: hitter at the same time. Well, you are kind of
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 5: in a split second, you're trying to be like is
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 5: that stright?
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 7: Go?
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 2: Is that both?
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 7: No?
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 5: I mean you're trying to, but you're not doing it
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 5: the same as the guy that that's his only job
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 5: back there. And so they're right more often than you
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 5: would be as a hitter. Otherwise you would have no
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 5: hitters that would take strikes and they would never swing
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 5: at balls. I'll do it.
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 2: The only thing I'll disagree with about that is that
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 2: I think people on social media can do it all. Okay,
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 2: I think they actually can do.
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 5: Well their jobs.
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 2: They do it all. Yeah, they can hit that situation
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 2: and they can.
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 5: It's a good PSA. By the way, those of us
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 5: watching with the box on TV. We obviously do it
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 5: a lot better than the guy actually seeing it live,
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 5: or the catcher trying to catch the hunter mounter fastball,
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 5: or most certainly the guy is trying to hit it
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 5: and decide if.
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 2: It's a ball or well.
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 8: It's a chuck's point too.
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 7: With social media, though, you have to go through a
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 7: lot to get verified.
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 5: Oh that's true exactly.
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 7: So it's not like just anybody can go and pay
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 7: money and be verified.
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 2: It's an unimpeachable source. There's no doubt about that. And
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 2: then Julio got hit last night. It looked terrible. You
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 2: get hitting the wrist by Paul Skeins, That's what it
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 2: looked like. I thought for sure he got hitting the wrist,
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 2: and I guess it was like the side of the
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 2: hand nodding.
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 5: He got hitting his back wrist. Yeah, got hit.
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and then part of the risk. But he had
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 2: that look on his face, like oh no, he had
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 2: that look on his face. And then he bent over
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 2: and I'm like, okay, well we'll see him in August. Yeah,
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 2: that's great.
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 7: At least we don't have to worry about him having
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 7: a cold start to the season.
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 2: But he Yeah, that's a really cold start in the season,
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 2: but he jogged down to first, made a play over
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 2: the wall to rob judge of a Homer, had a
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 2: nice at bat later in the ninth inning to get
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 2: on base and give the d R a chance. So
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 2: it looks like Julio's going to be okay. But that
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 2: was a gulp moment for all of us that we're
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 2: worried about that exact thing happening during the WBC. All right,
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 2: joining next on the program, I'm telling you, this guy's
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 2: energy has been about as fun a thing to watch
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 2: for the Seattle Kracking as anything that has happened this year.
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 2: Ben Myers joins us on Sports Radio ninety three point three. Kjarff.
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 9: Seattle holds the line here, gets road toward the goal
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 9: right side that one knocked out. He shoots again, top dead,
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 9: Ben Myers, wright circle shot and the Seattle Cracket strike first.
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 1: Evans with the blast.
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 9: Ben Myers the redirection home and the Seattle Cracket take
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 9: a one nothing lead with fourteen thirty two to play
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 9: in the first.
• 1:14:45
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• 1:15:01
  Speaker 2: mention this right after reading a McDonald's ad, but did
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 2: you see that Michael B. Jordan went to in and
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 2: out afterwards in his oscar. He's got his oscar with
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 2: him and he went to in and out. He's got
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 2: like two double doubles in this big basket of fries.
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 2: He's just got this big smile on his face and
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 2: he's got his oscar sitting on the table with him.
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 2: I don't know if that's AI.
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 5: It could be a I don't know.
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 8: Let's just think it's not.
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 2: I want to believe that that's what happened. Joining us
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 2: now on the program. Man, if you like your hockey
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 2: players to go one hundred miles per hour at all times,
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 2: punch anything that gets in your way, and crash the
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 2: net at all times to try to score a goal,
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 2: and you've fallen in love with Ben Myers of the
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 2: Seattle Cracking and his limited time in a cracking uniform,
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 2: and he joins us now on Chuck and Buck.
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 6: Good morning, Ben, morning guys. Thanks for having me.
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 2: Hey, thanks for being with us. So, if you win
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 2: the Stanley Cup at some point in your career, what's
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 2: the junk food you're going to pick up on the
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 2: way home.
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 6: Oh, that's a great question. I'm just a soccer for
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 6: a good burger, So yeah, that'd probably be pretty.
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 2: Simple, pretty simple. Anyone is specific, though, Do you have
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 2: a specific burger that you like out there?
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 6: Well, you brought up in and out, in and out.
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 6: It's hard to be so.
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 2: Okay, that's what a hamburger is all about out here. Yeah, yeah,
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 2: I'm a fan.
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 7: Uh.
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 2: Well, man, we love watching you play. I think your
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 2: energy out there on the ice is uh, it's infectious,
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 2: is what it is. And so you know, has that
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 2: just been the way you have to play in your
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 2: estimation or is that the way you've always played?
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 6: Yeah, no, I think it's been developed over time. But
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 6: you know, that's certainly uh kind of the identity I've
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 6: been trying to make, you know, since becoming a professional.
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 6: And I think our line specifically this year is just
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 6: our focus is bringing a good energy as the team
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 6: and you know that means you just do a lot
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 6: of skating and being hard to play against.
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 5: Sure, Ben, the I I mean the idea of this squad.
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 5: You guys go out there and and you know you
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 5: can play with anybody, and then you guys will sometimes
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 5: go kind of fall into a phunk a little bit
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 5: and drop a couple of games in a row. And
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 5: yet it doesn't seem like your guys's line. Not that
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 5: you guys are perfect behind stretch, but you guys just
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 5: do kind of skate with that same type of energy
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 5: and almost like you know, kind of being a pest
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 5: to your opponent when you're out there. I mean, is
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 5: that by design? Do you guys talk about that as
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 5: a line, like, let's outskate these guys every single time
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 5: and then we'll see how many pucks we put in
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 5: the back of the net.
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 6: Certainly the goal. Yeah, I know we talked about bringing
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 6: that energy, especially as a line, and you know that's
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 6: certainly the goal. I think that's when we're playing our
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 6: back as the team is when we're really skating and
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 6: and checking well, and you know, like you said, it's
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 6: it's hard to play against, and you know teams don't
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 6: like that.
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 2: So Ben Myers is with us right of your checking buck. Yeah,
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 2: I call your line the kids table because it's just
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 2: I mean you you craig me if I'm wrong, But
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 2: I've been here from lane Lambert. He just wants to
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 2: see more shots on goal. Wants to see this team
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 2: take more chances to try to solve some of its
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 2: offensive struggles at times.
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 4: Uh.
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 2: And it's to me your line takes that to heart.
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 2: I mean, you and Winterton and Goodreau, we're just attacking
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 2: the goal last night. So is that a conscious decision?
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 2: Are you like, yes, sir, coach will do whatever you want?
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 2: Or is that just the way Ben Meyers plays?
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 4: Yeah?
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 6: No, I think it's it's just the way all three
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 6: of us play. And then you know, we've had Jacob
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 6: Moreanson on our line quite a bit and he's he's
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 6: kind of the same way. And uh, you know, I
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 6: think Freddie does a lot for us. He brings just
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 6: a lot of versatility to our line. And you know,
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 6: me and me and Wins like the skate a lot.
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 6: And uh, you know, I think Freddie's really compliments that
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 6: pretty well. And you know that's just what we try to.
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 2: Bring new Bobby.
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 5: Is that I mean this guy, perfect fit for what
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 5: it is you guys needed there at the deadline.
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 6: Yeah. I mean he's just a really strong, strong player.
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 6: You see his strength on you. You can really skate,
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 6: and he's been shooting the puck really well and find
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 6: the backer net, which obviously will help any team. And yeah,
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 6: so I think it's a great pickup for us.
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, three goals in his first two games and you guys,
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 2: you know, had lost what four in a row? All
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 2: of a sudden McMahon joins the team and you've dominated
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 2: the last couple of games. I mean, come on, Ben,
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 2: does he make that big of a difference.
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean brought us a spark, no question, obviously,
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 6: you know, through three goals of your first two games.
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 6: So yeah, no, he's brought a spark for sure, and
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 6: you know we're happy to have him for sure.
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 2: Are you getting tired of confusing McMahon with McCann all
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 2: the time? You have to do they have name tags now?
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 2: Or do you just go Bobby and Jared and keep
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 2: it safe?
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 4: Oh?
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 6: Yeah, we keep it Bobby and Jared, I think for now. Okay,
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 6: it's been a fag this year.
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 2: Well it has been for me because I just keep
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 2: tripping up over it every time. I keep calling him
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 2: the can when I know better. Ben Myers is with
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 2: us right here on Chuck and Buck in the mornings
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 2: as the crack and win last night in easy fashion
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 2: over the Florida Panthers and the kids table line actually
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 2: probably played the best of anyone last night. So just
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 2: your overall impressions, I mean, this is your first year
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 2: in the NHL where you've seen this much action. How
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 2: do you feel that you are ingraining yourself into the
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 2: National Hockey League.
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 6: Yeah, No, I think it's been going well so far.
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 6: You know, I'm just trying to grow my role as
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 6: as things roll along here and you know, get trusted
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 6: in more situations and you know, just try to grow
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 6: my role and help the team in whatever way. And
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 6: you know, it's been going well so far. It's it's
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 6: a fun group to play with. You know, we we
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 6: come to the rink and you know, we enjoy each
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 6: other's company and I think that goes a long way
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 6: throughout the year. So it's it's been a really good
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 6: group to be a part of for sure.
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah. And look, I mean you're uh twenty seven years old.
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 2: I mean people still calling you like a young player.
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 2: I mean there are Berkeley Katon's like four.
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 9: Uh.
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 3: And so.
• 1:21:22
  Speaker 2: What did you learn from like the longer journey to
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 2: ice time in the NHL? What in what ways did
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 2: that benefit you?
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 6: Yeah? No, I think it did a lot. You know,
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 6: I've I've always kind of been a late bloomer. I
• 1:21:35
  Speaker 6: didn't I didn't go into college until I was twenty,
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 6: you know, pro until twenty three, my first full year
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 6: pro twenty four. So that's that's kind of always been
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 6: the path. And you know, I've always just enjoyed the
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 6: game and you know, just continue to try to get better.
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 6: And I think you know that was that was always
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 6: the focus. And you know, things kind of happen when
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 6: they do and I've kind to learn that over time.
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 2: So are you aware that you can drink alcohol? Are
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 2: you just gonna wait till you're thirty one before you
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 2: do that? No, I'm aware of that, Okay, he said,
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 2: Bloomer said everything I didn't know? All right? Well, just
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 2: in our list minute, Ben, other than the sirens going
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  Speaker 2: off in the background. Uh, you know you told us
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 2: you love burgers. We've seen the way you play hockey.
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 2: What el what else makes Ben Meyers tick?
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  Speaker 6: Uh, you know, I heard there's some good fishing out here,
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  Speaker 6: so you know, I do a lot of fishing back home,
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  Speaker 6: so uh you know, I might have to get into that,
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  Speaker 6: whether it's fly fishing or getting out on the sound
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  Speaker 6: or whatever. You know, I'm not really sure how the
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  Speaker 6: ocean fishing works. It's usually on a lake, but uh no,
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  Speaker 6: I love the outdoors and you know, it's a beautiful
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 6: place to live and love being on the water as well.
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  Speaker 6: And that's nice to look at in Seattle too.
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  Speaker 5: Well, bucket just perked up. Yeah, yeah, I got I
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  Speaker 5: got a boat. I got plenty of lakes or rivers.
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  Speaker 5: I can take your drift boat fish. Shouldn't do you
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  Speaker 5: know how to fly fish already?
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  Speaker 6: Or no, I've done it a few times, but I
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  Speaker 6: wouldn't say I know how.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, Well, I was the same way not that long ago.
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  Speaker 2: That an Oregon guy over here. He'll teach you how
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  Speaker 2: to find That's right.
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  Speaker 5: It's not a whole lot better days than floating down
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  Speaker 5: a river some fish.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Oh yeah, his house, His house is a river
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  Speaker 2: runs through it.
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  Speaker 5: It is right on the river right. Come in my
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 5: backyard and catch a little cutthroat bows all.
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  Speaker 2: Day, all right, Well, his people will contact your people
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 2: and we'll figure it out and go Ben, hey, keep playing. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: keep playing the way you're playing. Uh, we love it,
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  Speaker 2: and uh we'll talk to you another time.
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  Speaker 5: All right.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, thanks guys, appreciate you having me.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Ben Myers joining us right here on Chuck
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  Speaker 2: and Buck A nice young man.
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  Speaker 5: I know that i'd have picked him up before the
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 5: dead deadline. Somebody already did pick him up, didn't.
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  Speaker 2: They No, been a bad idea. I was thinking about it.
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  Speaker 5: He was the guy that I was thinking about. I think, yeah, well,
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  Speaker 5: I didn't know if one of you guys had picked
• 1:23:59
  Speaker 5: him up or like at the draft when we add that,
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 5: But I yeah, now that I know he's a Fisherman
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 5: boy man, I mean I'll go ahead and stick with
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  Speaker 5: the guy that I got.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, their their last home game Tampa tomorrow
• 1:24:11
  Speaker 2: for a while, seven o'clock tomorrow against the Lightning, and
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 2: then they go on that six game roadie, which is
• 1:24:18
  Speaker 2: not going to be easy when you're sitting there straddling
• 1:24:21
  Speaker 2: the playoff line. So tomorrow night feels kind of important
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 2: to keep this role going that they're suddenly back on again.
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  Speaker 2: All right, we close out the show with One Last
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