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Chuck in the Morning 8-26 H1: Mariners win series vs Phillies, Hard Knocks reaction · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 3: you with us. Great to have you with us here
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  Speaker 3: on this Wednesday. And when I say us, I mean Anders, Hurst,
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  Speaker 3: and Chuck Powell. One more day together, I think. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: More on that in a moment. We welcome you into
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  Speaker 3: things started on this Wednesday, so much ground to cover today.
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  Speaker 3: So many cool topics to discuss. We'll discuss them all
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  Speaker 3: and at great length for the next four hours right
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  Speaker 3: here on your favorite radio station in the galaxy. So, yes,
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  Speaker 3: Anders Hurst, want to thank you right off the bat. Um, he's, uh,
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  Speaker 3: been with us here for the last few days. Been
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  Speaker 3: fun working, uh, side-by-side with Anders. We do a podcast together.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we do.
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  Speaker 3: Mariner's podcast in the off season. So it's nice to
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  Speaker 3: do it a little long form today. Usually Anders leads
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  Speaker 3: that though. And then I'm the number two guy.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, on the podcast. Uh, but, uh, this is the,
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  Speaker 3: you know. You're on my ground now. Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I'm joining the, I don't want to say enemy territory,
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  Speaker 5: but unknown territory, I should say.
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  Speaker 3: I would hope not the enemy territory. No, no, no.
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  Speaker 5: But that's the term that most people use when they
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  Speaker 5: make that assessment. But no. I don't think they do, Anders.
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  Speaker 5: Not with a co-worker you do a podcast with.
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  Speaker 2: That's fair.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, no.
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  Speaker 2: You never know, though.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't know I had a rivalry with the Ian
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  Speaker 3: Furness show. But apparently I do. He's talked all of
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  Speaker 3: his minions into considering me a rivalry in the morning. Interesting.
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  Speaker 3: That's good fodder. Good information.
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  Speaker 5: You drew the exact conclusion that I was hoping that
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  Speaker 5: you would at that point.
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  Speaker 3: Well, welcome into the show. Here we go on this Wednesday.
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  Speaker 3: And we might hear more from Anders actually tomorrow, much
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  Speaker 3: to Ian's chagrin. He might be pressed back into duty
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  Speaker 3: because Ashley, who, of course, went on this paradise of
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  Speaker 3: a vacation to Hawaii and has continuously, and when I
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  Speaker 3: say continuously, once, rubbed it in our face with a
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  Speaker 3: photo of her drinking some sort of white Chablis, I believe,
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  Speaker 3: on her patio overlooking a Hawaiian paradise. um cheersing us
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  Speaker 3: but also let's face it rubbing it in it's like
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  Speaker 3: hey you're not here yeah exactly you're working you know
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  Speaker 3: battered up sleep schedules apparently working with enemies in the
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  Speaker 3: morning i didn't mean it that way i promise uh
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  Speaker 3: and so uh so that's that's what she did and
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  Speaker 3: maybe karma came back to get her because she went
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  Speaker 3: to the airport with this idea she was going to
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  Speaker 3: use the travel day and then another recovery day. So
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  Speaker 3: travel day, then another recovery day. So she strategized and
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  Speaker 3: mapped all this out that she'd be back. And when
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  Speaker 3: she came back on the airwaves on Thursday, that she
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  Speaker 3: would be back here and on the mainland for a
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  Speaker 3: good day and a half, two days. That was the
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  Speaker 3: plan and fully rested and ready to come back to work.
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  Speaker 3: She will have recovered from her vacation from her vacation,
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  Speaker 3: as so many people put it. And instead, she got
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  Speaker 3: to the airport yesterday. She had a five-hour delay at
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  Speaker 3: the airport and then found out at the end of
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  Speaker 3: her five-hour delay, not at the beginning, at the end
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  Speaker 3: of her five-hour delay that the flight had just been canceled.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I hate that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so she's, I don't know. Obviously, I haven't heard
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  Speaker 3: from her since late last night, but I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know what's going on. I think the Five
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  Speaker 3: Iron family- Mr. and Mrs. Five Iron probably found another
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  Speaker 3: little hotel stay last night. Hopefully they didn't sleep in
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  Speaker 3: the airport, but I don't know. Maybe she, she led
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  Speaker 3: me to believe she might not be back in time.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. That could be just caught in the
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  Speaker 3: moment and it sucks and it's horrible. And I might
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  Speaker 3: not get back until the year 2034. Sure. I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: But she was not feeling good about things and I
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  Speaker 3: get it. I think inconvenience is one of the worst
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  Speaker 3: crimes in America.
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  Speaker 5: Are you sure this has nothing to do with the
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  Speaker 5: fact that the Mariners seem to be fixed now and
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  Speaker 5: that she is one of the most superstitious people that
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  Speaker 5: I know?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I guess it could. What a conclusion that I,
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  Speaker 3: not a conclusion, an idea that I considered last night
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  Speaker 3: was that maybe Cal Raleigh's just as superstitious. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: he is the big dumper. He probably could reroute flights.
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  Speaker 2: I was going to say, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, once you finish second to Aaron Judge in
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  Speaker 3: the MVP voting by just a few votes.
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  Speaker 2: Air traffic control.
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  Speaker 3: You take on some power.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: You know, Biggern McCracken and Kingpin. Now I'm above the
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  Speaker 3: law when he finally won the tournament in Reno. Well,
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  Speaker 3: maybe Cal Raleigh, when you finish second, when you have
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  Speaker 3: a season like that, maybe you do get whispered. Like,
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  Speaker 3: you do know now that you're above the law in
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  Speaker 3: some ways. Yeah. And so he finally fixes his game.
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  Speaker 3: He listens to our show yesterday. He finds out that
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  Speaker 3: Ashley's out of town and she's the most superstitious person
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  Speaker 3: on the planet. Maybe Cal Raleigh called Hawaii and said,
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  Speaker 3: could you just keep her over there? Cause things are
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  Speaker 3: going pretty well for me. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: All of a sudden he looks like the same players
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  Speaker 2: last year.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. I'm back to being dumper and I'm really blaming
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  Speaker 3: her for everything. I don't know what I was for
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  Speaker 3: the last four and a half, five months, but it
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  Speaker 3: wasn't the dumper. The dumper is back and you got
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  Speaker 3: to keep that girl away from me.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I'd feel the same way if that were something that
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  Speaker 5: I believed in.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe not forever. Yeah. But until I cool off, I'll
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  Speaker 3: tell you that much. Yeah. At least until I cool off.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, Mr. President. Yeah. I'll wait. My people will
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  Speaker 3: be in contact with your people. And then he hangs
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  Speaker 3: up his red phone. Yeah. I think that that may
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  Speaker 3: be where Cal got last year. Now, This bad season,
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  Speaker 3: he probably doesn't have that privilege much longer. So he's
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  Speaker 3: trying to keep his phone privileges to the present.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, he's got to scramble to make sure that he
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  Speaker 5: gets some sort of decent outcome to this season in
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  Speaker 5: terms of his numbers in order to keep that privilege. But, yeah,
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  Speaker 5: I mean, it also feels better if you're doing that,
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  Speaker 5: keeping someone in Hawaii versus, you know, keeping someone at
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  Speaker 5: a connecting flight in, like, Wichita, Kansas or something like that.
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  Speaker 2: You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Cause they could get on a bus and surprise
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  Speaker 3: you and ruin your streak. Right. Like when they're in Hawaii,
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  Speaker 3: what's she going to do? Swim? Yeah. She's a swimmer.
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  Speaker 3: She's stuck into, well, she can float. Yeah. We don't
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  Speaker 3: know how well she can swim. We know she can
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  Speaker 3: tread water for a long time.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, but, uh, that's a pretty long swim.
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  Speaker 2: That is a long swim.
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  Speaker 4: Yep.
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  Speaker 1: Yep.
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  Speaker 3: Yep. Yep. Yep. Even if you're just going straight shot
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  Speaker 3: to Mexico, it's like, It's a long swim you got
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  Speaker 3: going there.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: But nonetheless, no Ashley here today. She's expected to be
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  Speaker 3: back tomorrow. And obviously, and I don't think I even
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  Speaker 3: have to say this after that conversation, we all hope
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  Speaker 3: she doesn't return.
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  Speaker 2: That's exactly.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: The feeling that we have.
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  Speaker 3: Not until Cal cools down.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's only fair. Yes. Yeah. And hopefully he
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  Speaker 3: never cools down. So you know what that means? Hopefully
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  Speaker 3: you never return. Yeah, I mean, if we're going... People
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  Speaker 3: have to have priorities. Yeah, of course. Mariners win again
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  Speaker 3: last night over the Philadelphia Phillies, 4-1. So, suddenly, against
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  Speaker 3: the best competition that they faced all year, the weird-ass
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  Speaker 3: Seattle Mariners, who've been weird-ass Seattle Mariners for the last
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  Speaker 3: five years, maybe the entire DePoto era, leave it to
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  Speaker 3: them to struggle for four and a half months, and
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  Speaker 3: when they face the toughest competition they have to face
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  Speaker 3: the entire season, backs against the wall, They finally start
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  Speaker 3: playing good baseball. And that's what they're playing right now.
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  Speaker 3: They're pitching. George Kirby was fantastic last night. They are hitting.
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  Speaker 3: Cal Raleigh has now hit four home runs in two days.
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  Speaker 3: He's been on base seven times in two games. This
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  Speaker 3: is a guy that had a 156 batting average at
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  Speaker 3: the beginning of this series. He's been on base seven
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  Speaker 3: times in two games. And so they're hitting in the clutch,
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  Speaker 3: which is something very foreign. Dom Canzone coming through to
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  Speaker 3: give you that cushion. You got the opportunity to rest
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  Speaker 3: your entire bullpen last night with a manager who really does.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it's like he's trying to solve time travel
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  Speaker 3: every time that he has to think about when should
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  Speaker 3: I go to the bullpen and who should I go to?
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  Speaker 3: And so last night we took that off his plate.
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  Speaker 3: George Kirby could have gone through eight, but I think
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  Speaker 3: it was wise to get him out when he did.
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  Speaker 3: I agree. And then Ferrer gets the out in the eighth.
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  Speaker 3: Munoz pitches the ninth. Again, I'm going to do this
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  Speaker 3: every day for the rest of the season. Everybody's available
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  Speaker 3: for you today, including Munoz.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and Ferrer.
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  Speaker 3: And Ferrer, for certain, Ferrer. everybody's available to you today
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  Speaker 3: to try to get the sweep. And you know what?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you have to get greedy in sports and
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  Speaker 3: this is, it's nice. You've won now back-to-back series against
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  Speaker 3: two really good teams. Um, and so it does suggest
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  Speaker 3: that you are playing well, you're playing your best that
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  Speaker 3: you have all of a sudden, uh, here in the
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  Speaker 3: midst at a time where you've been beaten 19 to
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  Speaker 3: two and 22 to nothing, uh, Those games are included
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  Speaker 3: in a stretch that can only be described as the
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  Speaker 3: best baseball you've played.
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  Speaker 2: Somehow.
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  Speaker 3: This entire year. This is how weird the season has been.
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  Speaker 3: It's so true. And yet, here you go. You got
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  Speaker 3: something going. But now it's time to get greedy. Now
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  Speaker 3: is not the time to sit there, oh, we won
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  Speaker 3: two out of three against the Phillies. That's not the mindset.
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  Speaker 3: You dug a hole for yourself. You're still five games under.
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  Speaker 3: 500 at this point. That's gross. And so you got
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  Speaker 3: a chance to sweep and really catapult yourselves into this
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  Speaker 3: sort of zone of we can beat anybody now.
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  Speaker 1: We're on.
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  Speaker 3: We're back. Cal's back. We're back. Everybody's feeding off of
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  Speaker 3: this momentum. Thank you, Randy, for what you did on Saturday.
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  Speaker 3: And JP's back in the lineup right now. So we
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  Speaker 3: got our leader back. We feel like he's part of
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  Speaker 3: the party. And so... All systems go at this point,
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  Speaker 3: and you wake up. I hope that the last thing
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  Speaker 3: on your mind was not, oh, wow, can't believe we
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  Speaker 3: won a series against the Phillies. I hope it was,
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  Speaker 3: can't wait to sweep the Phillies tomorrow. And that's the
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  Speaker 3: mindset that you have to have. You've dug yourself this hole.
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  Speaker 3: You're filling in this hole. don't put away your shovels.
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  Speaker 3: We got more dirt to pile into this hole.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: And I know it's natural, uh, especially in a long
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  Speaker 5: baseball season to take it series by series.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 2: And then that's how you're kind of evaluating.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, game by game.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, exactly. And that's what I was going to say.
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  Speaker 5: That's in, especially when you're, um, you're two and a
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  Speaker 5: half back now, instead of waking up, like you said, thinking, oh,
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  Speaker 5: we just want a series against the Phillies. Uh, You've
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  Speaker 5: got to think, okay, let's get another game on the Astros.
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  Speaker 5: Let's get another game on Texas. Let's go do that,
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  Speaker 5: because they're now tied at first place in the AL
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  Speaker 5: West after their wins yesterday.
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  Speaker 3: Actually, I think the Astros bumped ahead of them.
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  Speaker 2: They did?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, okay.
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  Speaker 2: Did they have a tiebreak or something? Because I think
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  Speaker 2: they were even on records.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, the Astros are up, Rangers are a halfback, and
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  Speaker 3: the Mariners are two and a half.
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  Speaker 2: Got it. Okay, well, so.
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  Speaker 5: I think it's going to be really tight, obviously, at
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  Speaker 5: this point. You've got to get every win that you can,
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  Speaker 5: even if you've kind of already done your job so
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  Speaker 5: to speak with this series um you got to get
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  Speaker 5: every win that you can and i think sure i.
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  Speaker 3: Mean the days of the days of entertaining the notion
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  Speaker 3: that you're going to run away with the american league
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  Speaker 3: west are over yeah all right and those those ended
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  Speaker 3: a while ago should have done it i mean i
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  Speaker 3: was just listening to a conversation yesterday on mlb network
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  Speaker 3: which you know i love myself some mlb network and
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  Speaker 3: one of my favorite shows there are a is the
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  Speaker 3: Brian Kenny show MLB now. And he had Dan O'Dowd
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  Speaker 3: and he had John Heyman who I'm not a big
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  Speaker 3: fan of John Heyman, but I like Brian and I
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  Speaker 3: like Dan O'Dowd. And even then it was August 25th,
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  Speaker 3: a national show. And I'm watching it as I'm getting
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  Speaker 3: ready to take my nap. And the last conversation I
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  Speaker 3: stayed up for that they had on the show yesterday,
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  Speaker 3: they were talking about the American league West and Brian
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  Speaker 3: Kenny's theme was, is this the worst division in the
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  Speaker 3: history of baseball? And, of course, he's a numbers guy,
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  Speaker 3: so he backed it up with numbers. No team's ever
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  Speaker 3: won a division with a 500 or worse record in
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  Speaker 3: the history of the sport, apparently, according to Brian Kenney's research.
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  Speaker 3: And so they had a conversation. And every time, I'm
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  Speaker 3: not kidding you, Anders, everything that anybody said on the
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  Speaker 3: set was, well, we kind of knew that this was
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  Speaker 3: going to be a bad division from the beginning. except
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  Speaker 3: for the Mariners. Everything was said that way. Like, yes,
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  Speaker 3: this team, I don't really impress with anybody in this
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  Speaker 3: division even now. Well, except for the Mariners. They kept
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  Speaker 3: saying that over and over. The Mariners are the exception.
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  Speaker 3: In other words, it's not a surprise that the Astros
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  Speaker 3: are at 500 right now. It's not a surprise that
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  Speaker 3: the Rangers are a game under 500. But a former
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  Speaker 3: general manager in Dan O'Dowd who still to this day
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  Speaker 3: plays in the puzzle-making game just as an analyst now,
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  Speaker 3: and a guy that lives, eats, and breathes Major League
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  Speaker 3: Baseball and Brian Kenney from an analytics perspective, and a
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  Speaker 3: bad reporter who's Scott Boris's trumpet boy, all sat on
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  Speaker 3: a set yesterday and pretty much said the exact same thing.
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  Speaker 3: The Mariners should have run away with this division. They
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  Speaker 3: have not. And even though they're the team trailing by
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  Speaker 3: multiple games, two different teams, they should still win this division.
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  Speaker 3: That's the national sentiment about it. It's harder to convince
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  Speaker 3: the local fan that that is true than it is
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  Speaker 3: a national audience. Everybody believes, nearly everybody that hasn't developed
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  Speaker 3: a Mariner crust over the years as a Mariner fan Understandably.
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  Speaker 3: Believes the Mariners should track down these two teams and
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  Speaker 3: eventually create some distance. Won't run away with it, but
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  Speaker 3: this is clearly the best team. I promise you this.
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  Speaker 3: Everybody else in the American League playoffs does not want
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  Speaker 3: the Mariners to win the American League West. I promise
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  Speaker 3: you that. And so it's as obvious as, you know,
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  Speaker 3: the nose on your face. And hopefully you didn't get
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  Speaker 3: your nose bitten off over the overnight. Um, it's as
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  Speaker 3: obvious as the nose on your face that this is
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  Speaker 3: the best team in this division on paper. They should
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  Speaker 3: win this division, but unfortunately they still have a lot
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  Speaker 3: of work to do. And it's hard to wrap yourself
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  Speaker 3: in any type of blanket of security. It's a really
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  Speaker 3: thin blanket because we've watched this team play such bad
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  Speaker 3: baseball all season long. And even now that they seem
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  Speaker 3: to be going and they seem to be inspiring hope
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  Speaker 3: and faith again with the way that they're playing. just
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  Speaker 3: in time here, it's still really hard to trust that
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  Speaker 3: they're going to maintain this level of play. Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: And the Mariners are really the only team underperforming in
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  Speaker 5: this division out of all those that you just named.
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  Speaker 5: Like you said, it's not a surprise that the other
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  Speaker 5: two that are at the top right now are where
• 17:08
  Speaker 5: their records are. So it's really just the Mariners that
• 17:10
  Speaker 5: are kind of holding the outlook on the division back
• 17:14
  Speaker 5: in terms of people viewing it as the worst division ever.
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: Well, statistically, I guess that it is. But they were
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: also saying in that same breath, the Mariners are a
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: legitimately talented playoff team that we weren't wrong about when
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: we forecasted 90 plus wins at the beginning of the
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: year and an easy American League West and many made
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: favorites on that network to win the entire American League.
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: Maybe not the World Series, but the American League this year.
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: And so they're still holding on to those beliefs, just
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: like I'm holding on to those beliefs. You're probably still
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: holding on to those beliefs. But we also have this
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: thing called tangible evidence. And the tangible evidence suggests That
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: this team has not played like a playoff team all
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: season long until like the last five days.
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 18:05
  Speaker 5: And the other tangible evidence that we have to look
• 18:07
  Speaker 5: at is the last, what, three, four years of Mariner baseball,
• 18:10
  Speaker 5: where they do kind of sleepwalk their way through the
• 18:13
  Speaker 5: first half and two thirds, three quarters of a season.
• 18:16
  Speaker 5: And then for whatever reason.
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: It is a little later this year. I'll give you that.
• 18:21
  Speaker 5: A little bit later this year that they start to
• 18:23
  Speaker 5: look like a baseball team that is playing urgently.
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: Far too late.
• 18:27
  Speaker 5: Yeah, definitely. I'm not saying that's untrue at all. But
• 18:31
  Speaker 5: we also have tangible evidence that this team knows how
• 18:33
  Speaker 5: to do it in this part of the season.
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: At some point, they always put together this, where did
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: that come from? Exactly. That's not the same team that
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: I was watching play last month. And yeah, they waited
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: longer than normal. But maybe they're doing it now. Notice
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: I didn't say, but they're doing it now. Maybe they're
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: doing it now. They certainly look like a completely different team.
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: And it's amazing when your face of the franchise puts
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: his foot in the ground and turns the season around
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: in 48 hours, how much better a baseball team will look.
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: And they just look like a completely different team, and
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: he looks like a completely different player. All right, let's
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: find out what's on tap.
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• 19:30
  Speaker 3: Seattle 4, Philadelphia 1. The Mariners still with a gross
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: 64-69 record, but it's on the rise. They remain two
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: and a half, or they moved, I should say, to
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: two and a half games back in the American League
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: West because they had trailed by three to Texas. They lost,
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: so you gained a full game on Texas, but Houston
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: was only a half game back. They won last night
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: over the Yankees. Thanks a lot, Yankees. Yeah, geez. And
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: so you only gained a half game in the standings.
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: You're actually now three back in the wild card, but
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: you've leaped three of those teams that you were trailing
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: a week ago. Yeah, exactly. Very weird. And so, yeah,
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: so you've actually made progress as well, even though the
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: math says that maybe you haven't. The fact that you've
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: knocked a couple of those teams, a couple of those
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: teams have fallen a little bit, has cleared your path
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: there as well. Going for the sweep today over Philadelphia,
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: they're going to throw all-star Jesus Lizardo. He's really good,
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: and he is left-handed. And this might be their biggest
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: challenge offensively in this entire series, even though they faced
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: two more famous pitchers in Wheeler and Nola. Lizardo's the
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: better one right now.
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: Especially against the Mariners.
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: Of the three. Yeah, and especially when you have issues
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: against lefties. And we're throwing Brian Wu today, which normally
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: you feel really great about that at home, but we
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: had him skipped in the last turn through the rotation.
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: So there's no way to 100% be sure. what version
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: of Brian Wu we're going to get today. But 110
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: is your first pitch, and again, you should have the
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: entire bullpen at your fingertips today. J.P. Crawford returned to
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: the lineup last night, got a hit in three at-bats.
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: Brendan Donovan is hopefully only going to be on the I.L.
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: for seven days. We shall see. In the meantime, Crawford
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: returned at third base and not shortstop, despite all the
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: reports that said he was only working out at shortstop.
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: Brock Rodden stayed in the lineup last night. And Leo Rivas,
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: despite being clutched twice in the last week, is the
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: guy that got sent down to Tacoma. We'll talk more
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: about these things later on in the show. Seahawks will
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: take on the Chiefs in the final preseason game. And
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: thank goodness it's here. It's on Friday. Greg Bell's going
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: to join us at 7.05. And Dave Richard's going to
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: join us. Yeah, we're bugging Dave again. He is the
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: fantasy football guru at CBS Sports and just a really
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: nice guy. He's going to join us today at 9 o'clock.
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: It's time to start thinking really hard about your draft
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: right now. Hard Knocks aired last night. We'll get into
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: that starting at 645 and talk about it with Greg
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: at 705 as well. College football, Huskies camp continues. Apple
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: Cup in 11 days. Conferences yesterday banned the pros, at
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: least the major conferences. So maybe that's the end of
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: that situation that has been started this week. The latest
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: controversy in college sports, but we shall see. And the
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: Sounders made a trade yesterday, which I will ask Anders
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: about a little later on in the show. But coming
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: up next, Mariners morning after, Sports Radio 93.3 KJR FM.
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: Great morning to you all. It is a victorious feeling
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: here this morning as the Mariners do win again against
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: the Philadelphia Phillies in a really good outing. Really impressive
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: baseball that suddenly they are playing at the expense of
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: What was the hottest team in Major League Baseball? Do
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: you know who the hottest team in Major League Baseball
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: is now, by the way? Who's got the longest winning
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: streak in the sport? I just found this out this morning.
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: I do not know. Who is it?
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: The Kansas City Royals have won nine straight.
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: Wait for it. That's baseball.
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: That's baseball. If you think it's frustrating, imagine if you're
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: in Kansas City and you've basically been out of it
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: since May when you thought you were going to win
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: the division this year. And then you're like, now? Now
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: you're putting it together and it's too late? At least
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: it's not too late for the Mariners. They can still
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: achieve a division title here, still go to the playoffs,
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: and then anything can happen in the playoffs. Mariners taking
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: on the Phillies last night. George Kirby not coming off
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: a good outing. As a matter of fact, he didn't
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: even get out of the first inning without giving up
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: six runs and then had to muscle his way through
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: a few more innings. against the Milwaukee Brewers. But that
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: was a completely different picture than the one we saw
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: last night. George Kirby was mowing fools down. Kyle Schwarber
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: never wants to face George Kirby ever again. No one's
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: made Kyle Schwarber look that clueless at the plate this season.
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: Maybe earlier in his career, but this season, I mean,
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: that was a hot hitter coming into this series. And George...
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: I mean, he didn't have a chance against George Kirby
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: last night. And you could say that about a few
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: other guys in the lineup. He allowed just six hits
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: over seven and two-thirds innings. Could have gone eight. Wanted
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: to go eight. Dan said, no, no, I'm going to
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: make the decision right now. Took him out of the game.
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: struck out nine, allowed just one run, and the way
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: that the Mariners' offense has sort of started responding, not
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: more than sort of, it's averaging like six runs per
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: game in its last eight. Well, last night, Cal Raleigh,
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: in his very first at-bat, proved, no, no, no, no, no,
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: that three-homer game from the previous night, that wasn't a fluke.
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: I'm on.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: This ball barreled down the line. Cal Raleigh has returned!
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: He has homered in each of his last four at-bats.
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: Cal Raleigh, he ends up walking twice more in the game.
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: There was a one point that he was feeling himself,
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: and he was 3-0, just swung for the downs on
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: a pitch that was way out of the strike zone.
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: But he ended up walking in that at-bat anyway. But
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: four home runs in his last two games, four straight at-bats,
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: not four straight plate appearances.
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: I love that conversation between Ryan and Aaron.
• 25:52
  Speaker 5: Ryan giving a little poke with him, like, oh, yeah, okay,
• 25:55
  Speaker 5: plate appearances, not at-bats.
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: Or, sorry, at-bats, not plate appearances.
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: Yes, yes.
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: Because a walk does not count as an at-bat.
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: Because Goldsmith's a nerd. He is. And he's got to
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: technically say that. I don't think in the record books,
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: I think it's plate appearances. They're not going to say...
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: He had four straight at-bats with home runs because there
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: was a walk in there. But technically, it is an at-bat.
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: MLB Twitter had said the same thing. Cal Raleigh is
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: homered in four straight at-bats. It was like, that's just
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: the grabbing headline.
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: Well, he's up to 169 with the batting average. He's
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: up to 18 home runs now on the season. Keeps
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: up this pace. He's going to end up with a respectable,
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: you know, around 25. Yeah. You know, if this is real,
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: what we're seeing, he definitely seems locked in. Certainly set
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: the tone offensively for the team last night. Now, I
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: say that, and they didn't score again until the sixth inning.
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: They took a lead on a clutch RBI single from
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: Josh Naylor, decided not to slide. And once again, the
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: worst challenger in America decided to talk Dan into challenging.
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: And so not only did he not slide, he also
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: cost the team a challenge last night. And then on
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: top of it, and by the way, Dan should know
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: better and his team. And then, but, but, but, but
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: he did come through with the clutch RBI single, which
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: was the most important. Got the run.
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: That's the most important part.
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: So he did well in the most important thing that inning.
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: And he knocked in the run to make it two
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: to one. But I think that maybe the biggest hit
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: of the entire game was the one that gave you
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: the three run lead where Dom Canson comes through. They
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: bring in the lefty. And he spoils that strategy by
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: singling with the bases, loaded two outs, knocking in two
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: to give you the 4-1 lead. Andres Munoz closes it
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: out in the ninth. Mariners win 4-1. Here's Dan after
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: the game. Yeah, really nice ball game tonight.
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: You know, coming on the heels of a good one
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: yesterday as well. You know, George was really the story today. Just,
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: you know, just had great stuff. Just the one, you know,
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: second inning they were able to put some hits on him.
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: and scratch out the one run, but for the most part,
• 28:08
  Speaker 4: George was on fire. A great fastball all the way
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: to the end of the ballgame and attacking. I think
• 28:14
  Speaker 4: that's what we talked about before the ballgame started was
• 28:16
  Speaker 4: his ability to attack today.
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: He got ahead. He was able to put guys away.
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: He was attacking the whole time.
• 28:23
  Speaker 4: Just an outstanding outing for him and getting us deep,
• 28:27
  Speaker 4: which was huge. The bullpen, we've been working it hard
• 28:31
  Speaker 4: here the last several days and To get a little
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: bit of a break there on the bullpen was huge.
• 28:38
  Speaker 4: He was in control of that game.
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: Dan Wilson afterwards. The team sitting there with 8-4 in
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: their last 12 games. That doesn't sound overly impressive. But
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: when you face the Yankees, Astros, Brewers, Cubs, and Phillies
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: with your backs against the wall and have gone 8-4...
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: It does say something about him. And a year of
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: excessive criticism, even from those of us who believe in
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: the roster. Right. Excessive criticism. To be able to say, hey,
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: we've got time to do this, but it's got to
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: start now. And I know that the schedule doesn't benefit
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: us right now. But you've rattled off eight out of
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: 12 against some of the best competition the sport has
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: to offer. And you're keeping yourself alive. And if you
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: can get through this gauntlet, the schedule does get very,
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: very soft in September. And now we just at that point.
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: you just have to avoid playing down to your competition
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: since you have proven to the world that we can
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: play up to our competition.
• 29:47
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I that almost that thought started to creep into
• 29:50
  Speaker 5: my head yesterday when I'm like, dang, we're playing good
• 29:52
  Speaker 5: against good teams. Is it did it all it take
• 29:54
  Speaker 5: was us to play against good teams to figure things out?
• 29:56
  Speaker 5: And then I was like, wait a second. We don't
• 29:58
  Speaker 5: play good teams basically in all of September. so if
• 30:01
  Speaker 5: that's the case then uh-oh but i would hope that
• 30:04
  Speaker 5: the moment itself in chasing the division will kind of
• 30:07
  Speaker 5: prevail that sort of mentality um and instead of who
• 30:10
  Speaker 5: you're actually facing across the diamond but yeah i mean
• 30:14
  Speaker 5: we didn't ask them to go 10 and one right
• 30:17
  Speaker 5: we just just play a couple good series in a
• 30:19
  Speaker 5: row that's and that's what they've done you said eight
• 30:22
  Speaker 5: and four like that's all we've been asking for them
• 30:24
  Speaker 5: to do play a stretch of like a what a
• 30:26
  Speaker 5: good baseball team looks like, which we know this team
• 30:30
  Speaker 5: can do. So the fact that they've done that is
• 30:32
  Speaker 5: really starting to kind of get a lot of people's
• 30:34
  Speaker 5: hopes back up.
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: With 40 to go, down four, I mean, you can
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: do the math in your head, and you know that
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: the teams that you're chasing aren't world beaters.
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: And so you can do the math in your head like, well,
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: of course that's doable. Of course you can erase four
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: games in 40 days. But it was the way the
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: team has played all season long. And having to face
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: the best competition that they've played. And coming off how
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: many straight losses to the Tigers, Rays, and Yankees? What,
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: they lose six straight at that point? And it just
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: felt rock bottom. Can you lift yourself from rock bottom,
• 31:14
  Speaker 3: find your groove against the best competition you've faced all
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: season long, and play at a winning clip? Not at
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: a dominant clip, but at a winning clip. It just...
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: It didn't seem likely, even though everybody should have recognized
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: it's doable. And you do have to give them credit,
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: since we have criticized them for their poor play for
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: most of the season. Man, when backed against the wall,
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: truly backed against the wall, where you cannot afford to
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: slip any further in the standings, and you're going to
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: have to do this against some really good teams. And
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: for them to play 670 baseball during that stretch, I
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: do think that says a lot about their character. And
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: maybe it is more than just 8-4. Maybe they have
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: found their groove finally.
• 32:02
  Speaker 5: Yeah, and I think one of the big parts of this,
• 32:05
  Speaker 5: everyone points to the offense, and rightfully so. When Cal
• 32:07
  Speaker 5: Raleigh looks right, the rest of the team just looks
• 32:09
  Speaker 5: relieved more than anything else. But I think one of
• 32:12
  Speaker 5: the big turning points in all of this was the
• 32:14
  Speaker 5: 1-0 victory against the Yankees. You had lost the first
• 32:16
  Speaker 5: two games. you needed an absolute ace performance from Logan Gilbert.
• 32:20
  Speaker 5: And the fact that you got that, that's what aces do.
• 32:24
  Speaker 5: And I couple that with how Kirby looked last night.
• 32:28
  Speaker 5: If you start to get the elite, elite pitching that
• 32:30
  Speaker 5: we know this team can be, there's a lot more
• 32:32
  Speaker 5: that this team can do.
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: All right, today Brian Wu gets the start. 110 first
• 32:37
  Speaker 3: pitch for the Mariners. That's right, a day game. And
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: we have not seen Brian Wu. He got his start
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: skipped the last round because of some sort of shoulder injury.
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: So I'm not exactly sure what we get out of
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: Brian Wu today. I do know that we're facing a
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: really good pitcher and that he is left-handed. And normally
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: that is a nightmarish combination for our offense. But our
• 32:57
  Speaker 3: offense is behaving like it hasn't behaved all season long.
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: So maybe we get different results today. Jesus Lozardo pitching
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: for the Philadelphia Phillies as the M's look for the sweep.
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: We'll talk more Major League Baseball, Mariners baseball later. We're
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: getting into Dan Wilson again today. We're going to talk
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: baseball brunch today, ABC's of the M's today. But Hard Knocks,
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: another episode last night. We've yet to discuss it today.
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: We will amongst ourselves. And then Greg Bell joins us
• 33:26
  Speaker 3: at 7.05 on Sports Radio 93.3 KJR FM.
• 33:33
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• 33:39
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• 34:05
  Speaker 3: Bell is going to join us at 7.05 this morning.
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: We have headlines at 7 o'clock as well. A lot
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: planned for you here today. So buckle up, buckle up,
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: buttercup here on this Wednesday. Hard Knocks aired last night.
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: Another episode, another great episode. Oh, yeah. And in a
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: lot of ways, kind of. dark.
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: It was dark.
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: Like it was almost like seeing the, you know, we
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: knew it was like a prequel. Like we already knew
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: what was going to happen, but we got to see
• 34:35
  Speaker 3: what led up to all of that. Like what made
• 34:38
  Speaker 3: Darth Vader, Darth Vader, you know, it was a prequel
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: last night of Jake Bobo and Bud Clark. Um, maybe
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: nationally people didn't know the stories cause they don't cover
• 34:47
  Speaker 3: the Seahawks, but, um, here with us, we already knew
• 34:52
  Speaker 3: the end of the movie. We knew what was going
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: to happen and yet we were given evidence of what
• 34:59
  Speaker 3: led up to it. Even from the beginning where they
• 35:01
  Speaker 3: just started with the praise for Jake Bobo and that
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: wide receiver room meeting that he had with Coach Jackson
• 35:09
  Speaker 3: and then Bud Clark getting established as a beloved rookie
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: on this roster, and then he absolutely slayed it in
• 35:18
  Speaker 3: the rookie talent show.
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: That was great.
• 35:21
  Speaker 3: They were like four guys that were really good. Yeah,
• 35:23
  Speaker 3: they were. And Bud Clark was one of them. And
• 35:25
  Speaker 3: so we all knew what it was leading up to,
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: and then to have to see them go through the
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: pain that they went through. Yeah, really well-crafted television show,
• 35:36
  Speaker 3: but obviously it's a reality television show. And the reality
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: is Jake Bobo and Bud Clark, two beloved teammates, are
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: out for the season.
• 35:44
  Speaker 5: Yeah, the moment that kind of got me was Bud
• 35:46
  Speaker 5: Clark when he was trying to wrap up his ankle
• 35:49
  Speaker 5: and he's on the phone with his family. And, you know,
• 35:52
  Speaker 5: as a dad, it's a little bit closer to home
• 35:54
  Speaker 5: for me where his.
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: Son's asking him, Are you okay, Daddy? Are you okay?
• 35:59
  Speaker 5: And he's trying with every ounce of his body not to, like,
• 36:03
  Speaker 5: scream in pain from them moving his ankle because he
• 36:06
  Speaker 5: doesn't want his son to be like, uh, kind of
• 36:09
  Speaker 5: scared about his health at that point. So that was
• 36:12
  Speaker 5: just a little nugget, but yeah, I mean, you could
• 36:14
  Speaker 5: tell how much the guys love, but, and not just
• 36:17
  Speaker 5: when he got hurt and they went in to say
• 36:18
  Speaker 5: hi to him on the field. It's when they went
• 36:20
  Speaker 5: into the locker room after, and they all came up
• 36:23
  Speaker 5: to him. Julian love came up to him and talked
• 36:25
  Speaker 5: with him a little bit. So yeah, he's, uh, he,
• 36:27
  Speaker 5: he definitely has that energy and you could tell that
• 36:29
  Speaker 5: they were kind of upset that he was not going
• 36:31
  Speaker 5: to be a part of the team this year.
• 36:32
  Speaker 3: And unfortunately, uh, my favorite, Part of the entire, and
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: this is just from just, not like favorite, like personal. Sure.
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: But like, there are moments in a movie.
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, of course.
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: If you're watching a movie that is like dark and
• 36:51
  Speaker 3: terrible and everything else, but it is the best part
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: of the movie. Like that shot or that scene or
• 36:58
  Speaker 3: that performance, whatever the case may be. There was a
• 37:03
  Speaker 3: shot of Bud Clark. And he'd gone through it all.
• 37:06
  Speaker 3: And I don't know if I've ever seen anybody react
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: to being seriously injured the way he did, where he
• 37:12
  Speaker 3: was thanking the trainers on the field while they're splinting
• 37:18
  Speaker 3: him up, while they're putting him in the air cast.
• 37:20
  Speaker 3: And everybody came out to dap, and so he went
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: through that experience of receiving the support, and he went
• 37:28
  Speaker 3: through the experience of having to look up at Coach
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: McDonald and tell him it's broke. He had to go
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: through that experience, and then he had to go through
• 37:36
  Speaker 3: the experience of going off on the cart, which I
• 37:39
  Speaker 3: don't know what that's like for a player. I know
• 37:43
  Speaker 3: Earl Thomas wasn't happy about it.
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: No, he was not.
• 37:46
  Speaker 3: No, he was not. And then you get into the
• 37:49
  Speaker 3: locker room, and then they show the whole experience about.
• 37:53
  Speaker 3: With the training staff and then having to talk through
• 37:57
  Speaker 3: the injury and everything that you have to do. And
• 38:00
  Speaker 3: then there was the scene, as you mentioned, with the
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: wife and the kid. And they were talking him through
• 38:06
  Speaker 3: that whole thing. He's getting his leg put in the
• 38:11
  Speaker 3: cast while he's talking to his family. And then he's
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: still keeping this positive attitude the entire time. And then
• 38:21
  Speaker 3: he gets on the crutches and the trainer says, I'll
• 38:24
  Speaker 3: get your phone. You just worry about getting to your
• 38:27
  Speaker 3: locker without putting any weight on that. And then he
• 38:30
  Speaker 3: sits down and the trainer walks away. And there was
• 38:34
  Speaker 3: this shot of Bud Clark. And you could just see
• 38:38
  Speaker 3: in his face, like, I've talked to everybody. I've gone
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: through this entire experience. I've done the training room. I've
• 38:44
  Speaker 3: done the family. I've done everything. And there was this
• 38:47
  Speaker 3: realization like, I just broke my effing ankle, and I
• 38:50
  Speaker 3: am out for my entire rookie season. There was just
• 38:53
  Speaker 3: this look on his face. It went from thank you
• 38:56
  Speaker 3: and smiling through the pain and trying to tell the
• 39:00
  Speaker 3: wife it's going to be okay and the kid that
• 39:02
  Speaker 3: it's going to be okay and Coach McDonald, yeah, of course,
• 39:06
  Speaker 3: I'm there all season long soaking it up like sponge,
• 39:08
  Speaker 3: like be ready for next season. Can't wait to get
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: back on the field. I'll be recovered in no time.
• 39:12
  Speaker 3: But then there was this one moment, and the camera
• 39:15
  Speaker 3: captured it, and God bless Hard Knocks for this, where
• 39:19
  Speaker 3: everybody moved away from him and his face immediately went... Yeah.
• 39:25
  Speaker 3: And he realized, my season's over. My first season in
• 39:29
  Speaker 3: the National... football leagues over. I don't have anybody to
• 39:32
  Speaker 3: make them feel better about it. It just soaked into
• 39:36
  Speaker 3: his heart all at that moment. And I thought that
• 39:40
  Speaker 3: was brilliant. work to capture that picture last night. Well,
• 39:45
  Speaker 3: we're going to talk to Greg Bell about it at 7.05.
• 39:47
  Speaker 3: We have more time to talk about Hard Knocks a
• 39:49
  Speaker 3: little later on in the show, Anders and I, because
• 39:51
  Speaker 3: there's a lot of other things to get to. Sports
• 39:53
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