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Chuck & Buck 6-30 Hour 2: our eyes are on the NBA, ABC's of the Mariners and we're grilling! · Chuck in the Morning

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Speaker 1: Kirby.
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Speaker 2: Let's it wrap, Hey gome T Mobile Park rising to
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Speaker 2: its feet to celebrate a magnificent performance.
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Speaker 1: From George Kirby. Hey, brilliant innings.
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Speaker 2: I gets the angel tonight, complete domination from furious George Love.
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Speaker 1: Aaron sounded like in a good mood. George wasn't a
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Speaker 1: good mood. Maybe seeing George in such a good mood
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Speaker 1: put Aaron in such a good Probably, or vice versa.
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Speaker 3: Put me in a good mood.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Mariners win six to two. The final score overcame
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Speaker 1: a two to nothing deficit, rattled off six runs unanswered.
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Speaker 1: George Kirby went eight full innings. He gets the victory.
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Speaker 1: Cole Young homer twice. Dom Canzone also hit a bomb
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Speaker 1: last night. Complete went for the team last night, and
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Speaker 1: so a little bit of that heat cooled down at
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Speaker 1: T Mobile last night. Team gets back to five hundred
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Speaker 1: on the season. Forty three and forty three. Same two
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Speaker 1: teams will square off tonight. Brian wu who's been excellent
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Speaker 1: at home and bad on the road, we'll pitch for
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Speaker 1: us at home. And Jose Soriano, who was excellent early
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Speaker 1: in the season and has been terrible as of late.
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Speaker 1: We'll pitch for them. That is your pitching matchup this evening,
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Speaker 1: first pitch at six forty Thanks to Mariners TV for
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Speaker 1: the highlight there to bring us into our seven o'clock hour.
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Speaker 1: Good morning to you, Ashley, Ryan, Chuck Powell with you
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Speaker 1: as we roll into our number two. We will have
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Speaker 1: a grill giveaway today. I'm gonna just tell you right
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Speaker 1: off the bat, it's gonna be seven forty five today,
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Speaker 1: so we're only gonna have one crack at that to qualify.
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Speaker 1: So when you qualify at seven forty five, we'll pick
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Speaker 1: the name out of the hat right then and there
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Speaker 1: and that will be our second qualifier out of four
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Speaker 1: for the week. We'll be given away that green Mountain
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Speaker 1: Pellett grill from Riches the home for the home. Let's
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Speaker 1: take a look at your headlines first, there are a
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Speaker 1: lot of them here on this Tuesday morning. World Cup.
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Speaker 1: Yesterday Brazil won over Japan. That's the only thing that
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Speaker 1: went as scripted. Germany has been eliminated from the World Cup.
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Speaker 1: The Netherlands eliminated from the World Cup. Penalty kicks decided
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Speaker 1: their fate as they are going home. While the World
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Speaker 1: Cup does continue three more matches today of interest, of
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Speaker 1: considerable interest. As a matter of fact, you're gonna have
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Speaker 1: France in action today against Sweden. That's the two o'clock match.
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Speaker 1: You've got Mexico versus Ecuador at six o'clock this evening,
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Speaker 1: and then the first match today is Ivory Coast versus
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Speaker 1: Norway at ten a m. The US won't play until
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Speaker 1: Wednesday evening against Bosnia Herzegovina. Five o'clock is the start
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Speaker 1: of that match, and of course we will hype that
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Speaker 1: up here on your home for World Cup coverage here
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Speaker 1: in Seattle Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM. Wimbledon
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Speaker 1: continues today. Serena will play today at nine am, so
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Speaker 1: she just a couple of hours away. She's going to
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Speaker 1: take on m Joint. That's right. Insert your own joke here,
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Speaker 1: may Richey, Serena's gonna smoke m Joint today, no doubt
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Speaker 1: about it.
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Speaker 3: I like it.
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Speaker 1: I love that I heard this little exchange this morning
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Speaker 1: on television. Serena is taking on Joint and then they
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Speaker 1: do a little bit of breakdown and then they're like
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Speaker 1: Serena's the underdog, like.
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Speaker 4: Of course, she Yeah, she's been out of tennis for
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Speaker 4: four years.
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Speaker 1: How could she not be the underdog in the in
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Speaker 1: the in the.
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Speaker 4: Matchup, Yeah, that would be weird. I mean, do I
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Speaker 4: think she could still win? Yeah, of course absolutely, but
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Speaker 4: she's got to earn her spot to be the favorite again.
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Speaker 1: She had a singles match in what four years? Yeah, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: she's taking on a professional who's been on the circuit. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: who's playing every week, like playing matches and stuff. So yeah,
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Speaker 1: I give her a chance to pull off the upset. Yes,
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Speaker 1: but it would definitely be an upset if she comes
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Speaker 1: out of retirement in her first match at Wimbledon and
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Speaker 1: beat somebody who's ranked, because she's also very lowly ranked. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: obviously having not played, So she's not going to be
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Speaker 1: taken on some chump today, right, nine o'clock, all right,
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Speaker 1: we'll be tuning in, all right. And then, of course,
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Speaker 1: said today three o'clock is the is the start, not
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Speaker 1: the deadline, the start of NBA free agency, and man,
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Speaker 1: it could be a wild ride. Free agency itself is
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Speaker 1: probably not going to be that big of a deal.
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Speaker 1: I mean, it's just the way that the league is
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Speaker 1: set up right now. They don't even allow some of
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Speaker 1: the better players to even get to free agency, and
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Speaker 1: so the free agency list, it's not like the NFL,
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Speaker 1: it's not like Major League Baseball. It's usually a little wanting.
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Speaker 1: If you think you're going to try to build your
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Speaker 1: team through free agency, that's going to be difficult to do.
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Speaker 1: You might be able to do sign in trades, like
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Speaker 1: somebody's rights are held by somebody else and yet they
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Speaker 1: are a restricted free agent, so you can pull off
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Speaker 1: a trade that way. But in terms of just adding
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Speaker 1: some free agents, that list isn't nearly as impressive as
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Speaker 1: the list of trade candidates right now in the National
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Speaker 1: Basketball Association. But this is I don't know, maybe they're
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Speaker 1: all I know there are. I know there are a
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Speaker 1: lot of sports fans out there that don't like the turnover,
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Speaker 1: don't like the change of teams, that like the loyalty,
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Speaker 1: that still want the cal Ripken. I played in one
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Speaker 1: uniform my entire career, and I enjoy that too. Don't
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Speaker 1: get me wrong, but I do love a good trade.
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Speaker 1: Maybe though, for us that love movement, that love trades,
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Speaker 1: that kind of live for hot stove baseball and live
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Speaker 1: for the offseason, maybe there is a limit to how
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Speaker 1: much of it we want to see. I mean, think
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Speaker 1: about this, and I just pulled up some random ranking.
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Speaker 1: I think it's oh God or the Ringer. The Ringer.
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Speaker 1: They just ranked the top one hundred basketball players today. Well,
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Speaker 1: I just took their top twenty and so. And I
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Speaker 1: could have found any list out there was the first
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Speaker 1: one popped up. So I'm just going to go with that.
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Speaker 1: It doesn't matter how they rank them. I'm just using
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Speaker 1: that for context. But think about this. Luka Doncic is
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Speaker 1: four on their list, traded just last season. Number seven
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Speaker 1: is Yannis, traded just last week. Number eight is Kawhi.
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Speaker 1: He's going to be traded today. He's going to be
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Speaker 1: traded before the NBA free agency period begins, because everybody's
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Speaker 1: got to get their chickens and their mental set for
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Speaker 1: salary cap reasons for the free agency. So he's going
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Speaker 1: to be traded today to Toronto, looks like, and they're
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Speaker 1: just going to iron out the details. Number fourteen on
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Speaker 1: the list is Jalen Brown, and that's a pretty well
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Speaker 1: known story at this point. Boston tried to trade him
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Speaker 1: for Yannis, didn't get it done. It's the second time
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Speaker 1: they've tried to trade him for a superstar player and
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Speaker 1: couldn't get it done. And there was already a rift
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Speaker 1: between Brown and Boston and the Celtics organization, and so
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Speaker 1: Brad Stevens has not stopped shopping him. Well, once you've
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Speaker 1: done that, once you've gone that far, once you've declared
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Speaker 1: publicly he's a big part of our future, after having
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Speaker 1: notably tried to trade.
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Speaker 3: Him away, I don't know.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and then the story comes out that you've not
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Speaker 1: stopped trying to trade him. They have to trade him
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Speaker 1: at this point. So Jalen Brown's probably going to get
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Speaker 1: traded at some point this offseason. And he's the fourteenth
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Speaker 1: threeank player. Katie at sixteen was just traded last year
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Speaker 1: to Houston. And number twenty on the list is Lebron
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Speaker 1: who's a free agent, and it doesn't look like he's
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Speaker 1: heading to the Lakers. The story is that he's going
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Speaker 1: to the Golden State Warriors to unite with Steph. That
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Speaker 1: one's weird to me, which would be quite interesting. But
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Speaker 1: the point of it is, in the last year and
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Speaker 1: a half, think about this, seven of the top twenty
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Speaker 1: players in basketball are going to change uniforms. I mean
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Speaker 1: that is significant. Yeah, right there. I did a little
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Speaker 1: compare and contrast with the national Football League. And again,
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Speaker 1: don't blame me for the list I grabbed. I grabbed
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Speaker 1: the first list I could find. It doesn't matter who
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Speaker 1: ranked them or how they ranked them. I grabbed Pete
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Speaker 1: Prisco's list. Okay, but he's the one that's done the
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Speaker 1: most recent one. Like it's better than the NFL networks
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Speaker 1: list because the players rank those and they're terrible. So
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Speaker 1: I grabbed Pete Prisco's list because he is actively releasing
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Speaker 1: this as we speak, and so it's the latest thing
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Speaker 1: that I could find from CBS Sports. And Pete's fine,
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Speaker 1: He's just got an abrasive person.
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Speaker 3: He's just grumpy.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, but his list, the number one guy has on
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Speaker 1: his list, the best player in the National Football League
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Speaker 1: according to him, is Miles Garrett and he did get traded.
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Speaker 1: Number twelve on his list is Mike to Parsons and
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Speaker 1: of course in the last year he's gotten traded. Matthew
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Speaker 1: Stafford is number two on his list, and Matthew Stafford's
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Speaker 1: been traded before, not in the same calendar year. Well, actually,
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Speaker 1: Garrett and Parsons weren't even traded in the same calendar year,
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Speaker 1: but within the last year they were both traded. But
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Speaker 1: that's it, you know, that's it. Sixteen of the top
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Speaker 1: twenty football players, according to Pete, have never been traded.
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Speaker 1: That's kind of so think about that these and other sports,
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Speaker 1: and even in the NBA. The idea that they set
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Speaker 1: up all of these rules was the idea was so
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Speaker 1: that you could control a player. That's why the NBA
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Speaker 1: had so many rules, so that if you have a
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Speaker 1: superstar player that your fan base is attached to, you've
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Speaker 1: attached to, he's attached to you. You want to build
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Speaker 1: a fence around him if you can, to keep him
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Speaker 1: in that uniform. Because everybody likes the notion of that's
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Speaker 1: our guy, Michael Jordan, that's our guy. I mean, I
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Speaker 1: know we eventually played for the Wizards, but that he
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Speaker 1: was a Chicago Bowl right.
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Speaker 3: No one wants to remember the Wizards thing, right exactly.
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Speaker 1: We kind of fade that out of our memory. So
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Speaker 1: here are two leagues that are kind of set up.
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Speaker 1: I mean, the NFL we have franchise tags because we
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Speaker 1: don't want we want you to stay in the same uniform.
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Speaker 1: If you're special, if you're a special player, we prefer
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Speaker 1: you to stay in the same uniform. We're not gonna
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Speaker 1: be able to stop everybody. But if we can set
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Speaker 1: up a few rules to keep you in that uniform
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Speaker 1: that keep that loyal fan base attached to you and
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Speaker 1: you to them, that's what we prefer. That's our preference
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Speaker 1: for all of it. And so on. A list of
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Speaker 1: twenty top NFL players in the game right now, sixteen
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Speaker 1: of them have never changed clothes. Meanwhile, in the NBA,
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Speaker 1: in the last year and a half, six of the
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Speaker 1: best players are going to be moved to other teams
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Speaker 1: and they're still talk to. Donovan Mitchell at a LA
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Speaker 1: could also be moved. So this is gonna be a
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Speaker 1: crazy offseason in the National Basketball Association. And then throw
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Speaker 1: out you know, Julius Randall and John Morant and Miles
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Speaker 1: Bridges was traded last week from Charlotte to Phoenix. I mean,
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Speaker 1: this is crazy how many moves are being made in
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Speaker 1: the National Basketball Association. So if you like moves and
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Speaker 1: you like off seasons like I do, not only should
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Speaker 1: you be satisfied, You might be oversatiated. You might you
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Speaker 1: might get too much. You've overstimulated me. Now that might
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Speaker 1: be too much, you know, as ace Venta once said,
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Speaker 1: three darts is too much. So maybe it's maybe that's
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Speaker 1: too many players of substance changing hands. I like it,
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Speaker 1: but I could see why some people might be even
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Speaker 1: turned off by that many players of significance being moved
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Speaker 1: to another uniform and that short period of time.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, because it's k and so you either have to
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Speaker 4: embrace it and you enjoy kind of watching that part,
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Speaker 4: or you are that person that pictures a person in
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Speaker 4: a uniform and doesn't want to picture them in another uniform.
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Speaker 4: I mean, Lebron's been in several uniforms, so picturing him
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Speaker 4: ad as well, Yeah, KD as well, So picturing them
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Speaker 4: in another one isn't that surprising? Having them go to
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Speaker 4: Golden State would be something that'd be interesting. But I mean,
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Speaker 4: it still stands out to me that last week with
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Speaker 4: the draft, you told me that twenty nine of the
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Speaker 4: thirty second round picks were traded, Like, clearly the NBA
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Speaker 4: is trade happy.
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Speaker 3: They love it.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, they're all in. Hasn't always been the case, but.
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Speaker 3: This year they are all in.
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Speaker 1: NFL has not always. I mean NFL, it was hard
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Speaker 1: to even make a trade. You rarely see if you
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Speaker 1: use one trade a year in the National Football League.
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Speaker 1: It was yeah, you know, one significant trade a year.
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Speaker 1: But now teams are embracing the trade. Teams are embracing
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Speaker 1: the trading deadline. And I love that. I love that.
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Speaker 1: But I do wonder if seven of the best twenty players,
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Speaker 1: thirty three percent of the best player in basketball could
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Speaker 1: change hands in the span of a little over a year.
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Speaker 1: I wonder if that's too much for some people. It's
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Speaker 1: not for me. Yeah, it's not for me. It's not
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Speaker 1: quite it doesn't quite cross over yet. I can't wait
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Speaker 1: to see where Jalen Brown lands. I can't wait to
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Speaker 1: see what Lebron decides to do here. And so I
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Speaker 1: dig it. I dig it. But if you're into this
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Speaker 1: sort of thing, man, you're getting an overload of it
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Speaker 1: right now.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, And I could see how some people will be like, no,
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Speaker 3: it is too much.
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Speaker 4: It's I mean, one of the things that we talk
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Speaker 4: about too with college sports, right, players changing teams all
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Speaker 4: the time, and that's too much.
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Speaker 3: And I don't want to get how am I going
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Speaker 3: to get used to this?
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Speaker 4: Well, these are superstars, So the oddity of all of
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Speaker 4: a sudden having that superstar on your team or having
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Speaker 4: your superstar go to another team, I mean, that is
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Speaker 4: for an emotionally invested basketball fan can be a lot
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Speaker 4: to deal with, especially at that like.
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Speaker 3: Seven, you know, thirty three percent of them doing it,
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Speaker 3: that would be a lot.
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Speaker 4: But I think again, as a person watching the NBA
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Speaker 4: who doesn't have a team, I'm embracing the chaos.
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Speaker 1: Embrace the chaos. And here's the other fascinating thing about
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Speaker 1: this offseason, because Lebron is like the free agent. I mean,
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Speaker 1: he hasn't even he hasn't even announced anyone that he's
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Speaker 1: not retiring. The Lakers apparently have been left in the dark.
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Speaker 1: Not to mention, you've got the Bronni situation, Like what
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Speaker 1: happens to Bronni? Are you just leaving the house and
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Speaker 1: just leaving your at work, leaving your infant behind to
14:29
Speaker 1: play with his toys? I mean, what are you gonna
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Speaker 1: do with Bronni? So that's interesting, But all of the
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Speaker 1: arrows are pointing toward Lebron going to the Warriors and
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Speaker 1: teaming up with Steph. And then we've also included Anthony
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Speaker 1: Davis now in this conversation as well, going to the
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Speaker 1: Warriors and teaming with Steph and with Draymond, who apparently
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Speaker 1: they're not gonna chase out of town after all, and
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Speaker 1: Steve Kerr is coming back to coach the team, even
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Speaker 1: though he looked like he looked like a wrung out
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Speaker 1: dish at the end of the season last year. It
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Speaker 1: looked on Steve Kerr's face when he was hugging everybody goodbye,
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Speaker 1: like I don't not only am I leaving basketball, I
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Speaker 1: don't ever want to coach again. He looked that spent
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Speaker 1: and yet little time away, and it looks like he
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Speaker 1: signed back up for more of this, more of Draymond,
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Speaker 1: it sounds.
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Speaker 3: Like as well.
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Speaker 1: So there is a chance that as you're looking at
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Speaker 1: Oklahoma City and San Antonio and I guess the Knicks,
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Speaker 1: I mean, they're the champs. We got to put them
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Speaker 1: in the conversation as well. So, but sort of the
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Speaker 1: new faces of the NBA. And are some of these
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Speaker 1: teams that were out ahead of this, especially with san
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Speaker 1: Antonio and Case. Have they created two teams that cannot
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Speaker 1: be beaten in the next ten years? Is it going
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Speaker 1: to be one or the other? The way that they've
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Speaker 1: been perfectly constructed, how much luck they had in the lottery,
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Speaker 1: how much what the decision to rebuild and higherly did
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Speaker 1: to benefit them. The draft capital that they accumulated that
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Speaker 1: has set them up that even if they do hit
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Speaker 1: a snag, they just trade a couple of their leftover
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Speaker 1: draft picks and they get out of that hole. They
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Speaker 1: seem to be in great cap situation. Are they going
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Speaker 1: to dominate the next ten years? Seems to be the
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Speaker 1: narrative right now in the National Basketball Association. Well, the
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Speaker 1: Spurs and Knicks, excuse me, Spurs and Thunder win all
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Speaker 1: of the next ten NBA titles because of how well
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Speaker 1: they're set up for the future. And here are the
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Speaker 1: Golden State Warriors and all their wrung out, tired legends,
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Speaker 1: and Lebron Durant receive not Durant, Lebron, Anthony Davis, Steph
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Speaker 1: and Draymond might all end up on the same roster
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Speaker 1: for this comes to a close. It kind of reminds
16:53
Speaker 1: me of remember the two thousand and three Lakers super
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Speaker 1: team that they put together that included the Glove I do,
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Speaker 1: where they had Shaq and Kobe and for whatever reason,
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Speaker 1: the Lakers are like, what is wrong with us? We're
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Speaker 1: falling apart. Yep, Let's go assemble the greatest team that
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Speaker 1: the rules will allow. And they went out and they
17:12
Speaker 1: got Karl Malone and they got Gary Payton and they
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Speaker 1: were sure that. I mean, there were people I remember
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Speaker 1: doing sports talk radio. There were people that thought they
17:21
Speaker 1: weren't gonna lose a game.
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Speaker 3: I lived in LA at the time. You are correct.
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Speaker 4: They were all like, it was like, oh my god,
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Speaker 4: we've assembled the greatest team to ever be.
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Speaker 1: It was unfair. People were like, what, they're going to
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Speaker 1: win seventy seventy and two or excuse me, eighty, they're
17:38
Speaker 1: gonna go eighty and two this year. I mean, they
17:41
Speaker 1: thought that they were unbeatable and they ended up not
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Speaker 1: even being very good, and that team was younger than
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Speaker 1: what the Warriors are contemplating right now. But it would
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Speaker 1: be interesting. Oh, I mean, it's certainly makes them more interesting.
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Speaker 4: Get your popcorn out, That's what I think. Yeah, it'd
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Speaker 4: be super fun to watch. But I also am like, oh,
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Speaker 4: it would also be really funny if they're terrible.
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Speaker 1: Warriors aren't all that interesting right now with an aged
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Speaker 1: Stuff and an aged Draymond and a tired Dishrag, They're
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Speaker 1: not that interesting right now. Put Lebron and Anthony Davis.
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Speaker 1: If the old men got together to show these young
18:16
Speaker 1: whipper snappers how it's done, and you assembled an old
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Speaker 1: dream team like Michael Keaton would be in this movie.
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Speaker 1: And then they went ahead to head against the Thunder
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Speaker 1: and the Spurs. I don't think it'll work, but it
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Speaker 1: makes it a lot more. It makes Lebron's life a
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Speaker 1: lot more interesting. Everybody's tired of him being a Laker anyway.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, even a sun problem certainly makes Anthony Davis's life
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Speaker 4: more interesting.
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Speaker 1: I mean, he's in the Wizards right now, for goodness sake,
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Speaker 1: that poor guy. So we'll see. But man, fascinating times
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Speaker 1: right now in the NBA, and the free agency period
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Speaker 1: begins today at three o'clock, so there's probably gonna be
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Speaker 1: a couple of trades as teams, like I said, get
18:59
Speaker 1: their chickens and their mental in order. They got to
19:01
Speaker 1: get under the cap, put their self in a good
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Speaker 1: cap position. So if they do want to try to
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Speaker 1: grab a free agent, that they've got the money to
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Speaker 1: do so, but they need to know stuff first, So
19:09
Speaker 1: we could see several trades before three o'clock. So leading
19:13
Speaker 1: up to three o'clock, much like the NFL, is going
19:15
Speaker 1: to be a lot more interesting than anything that happens
19:18
Speaker 1: after three o'clock or at least that's the way it
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Speaker 1: feels right now. All right, coming up next, ABC's of
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Speaker 1: the MS Come your Way on Sports Radio ninety three
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Speaker 1: point three KHARFM. And people do like that. We have
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Speaker 1: the alphabet as our guide to a daily Mariners segments.
19:33
Speaker 1: We never know where it's going to take us. So
19:34
Speaker 1: we're going to start with the letter d ds ford disabled,
19:37
Speaker 1: which is where reb Refsnyder is at this point in
19:40
Speaker 1: his Mariner career. He was put on the injury list
19:45
Speaker 1: yesterday and he's been dealing apparently with some issues for
19:50
Speaker 1: a little while. I know this doesn't break the hearts
19:53
Speaker 1: of Mariner fans to not have Rob Refschneider in the lineup.
19:57
Speaker 1: And I do wonder aloud, as a communicator, as a
20:03
Speaker 1: living will Rob Refsneider ever play for the Mariners again?
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Speaker 3: I think that's a fair question to ask.
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Speaker 1: Isn't that a fair question? I ask at this point
20:12
Speaker 1: because if anybody takes hold or I mean, depending on
20:16
Speaker 1: how long he's out, I mean, we are entering July tomorrow,
20:21
Speaker 1: and apparently the Mariners are already, according to Adam Jude,
20:24
Speaker 1: sniffing around about adding a bat sooner than later. They
20:29
Speaker 1: don't really they realize where the weakness is. They're frustrated
20:33
Speaker 1: as anybody else with the five hundred record at this point,
20:36
Speaker 1: so they're shopping for a relief pitcher and a bat
20:40
Speaker 1: and not necessarily waiting till after the draft in order
20:43
Speaker 1: to really focus on that, which is something that they've
20:46
Speaker 1: done in the pass and a lot of teams do that.
20:48
Speaker 1: They're not the only one. So please don't jump all
20:50
Speaker 1: over Jerry justin like you tend to do some of you. So,
20:55
Speaker 1: so it looks like they are already on the search
20:58
Speaker 1: for this. So if they find that, per match they
21:01
Speaker 1: find that bat, I mean, obviously Rob Reschneider can't be
21:06
Speaker 1: brought back to this team. He just he just doesn't performing.
21:11
Speaker 1: So I think that there is a chance. I think
21:13
Speaker 1: there's a chance he's back, but I think that there
21:15
Speaker 1: is a chance that he's not back. At this point,
21:18
Speaker 1: we might have seen him play his last game as
21:20
Speaker 1: a Mariner.
21:21
Speaker 4: Well yeah, And it's interesting because when he got his
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Speaker 4: first hit and then did as postgame press conference and
21:26
Speaker 4: talked about like the emotional things and how he'd been
21:28
Speaker 4: dealing with an injury and so he had to adjust
21:32
Speaker 4: some stuff because of something that was bothering him. I
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Speaker 4: feel like if there was really a significant injury at
21:38
Speaker 4: the time, they would have put him on the ilup
21:40
Speaker 4: right away instead of letting him go two and a
21:42
Speaker 4: half more months with something kind of nagging at him.
21:46
Speaker 4: So now it's like, okay, well it's nagging at you
21:48
Speaker 4: and you're not getting any better, not even not like physically,
21:52
Speaker 4: but you're at bats and nothing's getting better.
21:54
Speaker 1: So I don't know.
21:55
Speaker 4: It seems like it was kind of like they gave
21:57
Speaker 4: them as much time as they could and now they're like, Okay,
22:00
Speaker 4: we're done.
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Speaker 1: He might be out of time, and especially if he's,
22:02
Speaker 1: you know, going to go on the shelf for a
22:04
Speaker 1: minimum of ten days, because a lot can happen in
22:07
Speaker 1: ten days, so he may have run out of time.
22:11
Speaker 1: I mean, Brenda Donovan, I'm assuming he's coming back at
22:13
Speaker 1: some point. We don't hear anything, nothing, so, but he's
22:17
Speaker 1: taking somebody's spot, whether it's JP or the DH or
22:22
Speaker 1: goes into a super utility role. He's gonna find playing
22:25
Speaker 1: time somewhere out there. And then he is for every
22:30
Speaker 1: day DOM because at this stage, you're foolish if you're
22:34
Speaker 1: not playing Dom. Canzone every day? Yep?
22:37
Speaker 3: Absolutely you're hitting him.
22:38
Speaker 1: Third, now you are acknowledging dom Canzone's our best hitter
22:42
Speaker 1: right now. He has a nine hundred OPS nine hundred.
22:48
Speaker 3: He's got the highest batting average too.
22:50
Speaker 1: And he also against lefties. And this is still a
22:53
Speaker 1: short sample size with just twenty one at bats against lefties,
22:57
Speaker 1: but he has a nine to fifty two OPS against
22:59
Speaker 1: left So when he's been given the chance, which has
23:03
Speaker 1: been infrequently, to play against lefties, he's not embarrassing himself.
23:09
Speaker 1: He's certainly out hitting Rob Reschneider against left handers. So
23:14
Speaker 1: I think dom Canzone And this is a bit of
23:17
Speaker 1: an upset for me because I thought maybe he'd be
23:21
Speaker 1: used at the trading deadline to trade for a Byron
23:24
Speaker 1: Buxton type if you could get him. But right now
23:28
Speaker 1: he seems too valuable to move. I mean, he's in
23:31
Speaker 1: the heart of your order right now Kyl Rawley is
23:33
Speaker 1: hitting six, then dom Canzone's hitting third for the Seattle
23:35
Speaker 1: Mariners in twenty twenty.
23:36
Speaker 3: Six, Yeah, that's when he moved up to third.
23:39
Speaker 4: I was like, whoa, and he heard it. Yeah, absolutely,
23:42
Speaker 4: and he proved it again last night.
23:44
Speaker 1: Yeah, hit another home run last night. So nine hundred
23:46
Speaker 1: zero ps I mean, that's that's special. He looks like
23:50
Speaker 1: he's turned a corner. He bided his time, he swallowed
23:55
Speaker 1: the insult that he can't play against left handers. He
23:58
Speaker 1: fought his way through it, even though he I think
24:00
Speaker 1: two seventy three against lefties a year ago. He didn't
24:03
Speaker 1: hit for power, but he was putting the ball in
24:05
Speaker 1: play against left He wasn't striking out every single time.
24:08
Speaker 1: But right now, dom Canzone looks like an everyday player.
24:11
Speaker 1: He is your everyday DH until we are further notified.
24:16
Speaker 1: So again that crowds things for rob Refschneider. Well, we
24:21
Speaker 1: might still have a platoon, but the platoon is right
24:25
Speaker 1: field Rayley and who Roeblazer ref Snider. Well, there's no
24:30
Speaker 1: question that Roeblaze is out playing ref Snider right now,
24:34
Speaker 1: both offensively and defensively. So again that crowds the situation. Plus,
24:39
Speaker 1: Donovan again is on his way back to this roster,
24:43
Speaker 1: and we got to find a spot for him. And
24:46
Speaker 1: there's still the potential to make a move like if
24:50
Speaker 1: you still don't feel comfortable against lefties, seems like we
24:55
Speaker 1: still need a right handed back, which could put Roeblaze
24:58
Speaker 1: in jeopardy as well. So f today is for framework
25:02
Speaker 1: and this is another idea that I got from somebody else.
25:05
Speaker 1: This is happening way too frequently, and I'm going to
25:07
Speaker 1: start punching you people for being so clever. I'm gonna
25:11
Speaker 1: do it. This is supposed to be me coming up
25:14
Speaker 1: with these ideas, and.
25:15
Speaker 4: You're supposed to listen and be an all right, that's
25:18
Speaker 4: how radio works.
25:21
Speaker 1: This is what I do. Gosh, stay in your lane, Akita.
25:29
Speaker 3: He's pretty smart.
25:30
Speaker 1: Adam Jude came up with this one too. He's also
25:33
Speaker 1: pretty He's on the inside though. Plus he's liked this
25:36
Speaker 1: guy for a long time, but I kind of forgot
25:38
Speaker 1: about him in this process. But he mentioned this name
25:42
Speaker 1: and a list of four. By the way, I came
25:44
Speaker 1: up with Buxton first, buddy, Yeah, you've.
25:46
Speaker 3: Been on the Buxton train.
25:47
Speaker 1: Thank you. And then he started saying, maybe burn Buxton.
25:51
Speaker 1: But he's got to give the credit for that, even
25:53
Speaker 1: though he won't give me credit in his article. You
25:56
Speaker 1: know you got it from me. Spencer Steve from the
26:01
Speaker 1: Cincinnati Reds is a name that he has brought up,
26:03
Speaker 1: and I realize that that doesn't make anyone listening right now,
26:07
Speaker 1: that's rooting for the Mariners and can't wait to the
26:08
Speaker 1: trading deadline do any backflips. You might not even know
26:12
Speaker 1: who that is. I mean, it's not like acquiring Ellie
26:16
Speaker 1: de la Cruz. I can tell you, yeah, definitely not
26:19
Speaker 1: twenty eight year old kind of a utility player. He'd
26:23
Speaker 1: definitely be brought in for a platoon. There's no question
26:26
Speaker 1: about that. Somebody that Cincinnati values. He's a baller, he's
26:31
Speaker 1: a grinder. He mainly plays now the corner outfield positions,
26:36
Speaker 1: but he can play first base. He can play third
26:39
Speaker 1: and second even in a pinch, so he has fulfilled
26:42
Speaker 1: those roles in the past. But the reason why he
26:45
Speaker 1: would be attractive is Number One, he doesn't make much money.
26:48
Speaker 1: Four million dollars. You've got control over him for the
26:51
Speaker 1: next two seasons. And the Mariners do like those type
26:54
Speaker 1: of trade deadline trades more than the rentals. And you
26:59
Speaker 1: have a problem against left handed pitching. Spencer Steer actively
27:05
Speaker 1: this year right now, So if he comes here and
27:08
Speaker 1: he hits a wall, you cannot blame Jerry and Justin
27:12
Speaker 1: for this one, because right now against left hander, Spencer
27:15
Speaker 1: Steers hitting three twenty eight, and he plays against all
27:17
Speaker 1: of them with a four to twenty one on base
27:20
Speaker 1: and a six forty one slug. He has an ops
27:23
Speaker 1: over a thousand.
27:25
Speaker 3: Actively, Okay, and this is a last year, right.
27:28
Speaker 1: And this is a twenty eight year old, So there's
27:30
Speaker 1: no way that he's going to hit that thirty eight
27:32
Speaker 1: year old wall that Pollock hit. Yeah, and ref Schneider
27:36
Speaker 1: apparently hit Unknowingly, we didn't realize. We didn't realize when
27:40
Speaker 1: we acquired them that they'd hit the wall in their career.
27:42
Speaker 1: The Colton Wong hit. Yeah, this is somebody that is
27:45
Speaker 1: actively this year right now punishing left handed pitching. And
27:50
Speaker 1: he can play various positions for you. He can certainly
27:54
Speaker 1: settle into a platoon for a World Championship contender in
27:58
Speaker 1: right field with Luke Raley rather snugly. And now all
28:02
Speaker 1: of a sudden, you do have a dynamic pair. For
28:05
Speaker 1: all of you that can't stand a platoon, you're out
28:08
Speaker 1: of your mind. They've been around for one hundred years,
28:10
Speaker 1: and the Dodgers and the Rays use them. Yeah, we
28:13
Speaker 1: didn't create constantly constantly, Their Dodgers and Rays use them
28:16
Speaker 1: more than what we do. And those are the two
28:18
Speaker 1: best teams right now in baseball. So I'm not scared
28:22
Speaker 1: of that at all, And now this almost gives you
28:24
Speaker 1: like a super platoon and right field. If you brought
28:27
Speaker 1: in Spencer Steer, dom becomes your everyday DH. At that point,
28:31
Speaker 1: Donovan becomes either your starting third baseman or you're just
28:36
Speaker 1: super utility player that's playing everywhere, including given Randy I
28:40
Speaker 1: guess a day off every once in a while. But
28:43
Speaker 1: Spencer Steer along with Cincinnati reliever veteran thirty two year
28:49
Speaker 1: old TJ and Tone I mean that to me is
28:52
Speaker 1: a trade you could make right now with the Cincinnati
28:55
Speaker 1: Reds that wouldn't cost you one of your top top
28:58
Speaker 1: top prospects. Probably would cost you a good prospect, probably
29:01
Speaker 1: a Michael Arroyo. We don't need him anyway. We've got
29:04
Speaker 1: our second basement in our short stuff for our future,
29:07
Speaker 1: and we have Felton Celestin too, so we don't really
29:10
Speaker 1: need Arroyo. He's expendable if you will, and he's one
29:14
Speaker 1: of the top you know, fifty to seventy five prospects
29:16
Speaker 1: in the sport right now. So you include him in
29:18
Speaker 1: a deal, you throw in a couple of other prospects
29:21
Speaker 1: that the Reds like that aren't in our top ten
29:25
Speaker 1: and that should do it again. A thirty two year
29:27
Speaker 1: old relief pitcher who's add a lot of injuries and
29:31
Speaker 1: a twenty eight year old platoon slash utility player shouldn't
29:36
Speaker 1: cost you your top top top guys. So, but I
29:39
Speaker 1: think it is worth investing an Arroyo piece and a
29:43
Speaker 1: couple of other pieces in order to get Steer and Antone,
29:47
Speaker 1: and then that might be all you need early. Really.
29:50
Speaker 1: I mean, it's not the big splash, but then again,
29:52
Speaker 1: the big splash guys might not be available. Doesn't sound
29:55
Speaker 1: like Buxton's available. If we could add Spencer, Steer and
29:57
Speaker 1: TJ Antone right now to our or woes, I think
30:01
Speaker 1: we got a complete roster at that point, and now
30:03
Speaker 1: we're just waiting for Donovan to get activated.
30:05
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I mean, just hearing what you're saying about
30:08
Speaker 4: how he's currently succeeding against lefties. That does give me
30:11
Speaker 4: more promise than somebody that did it last year then
30:13
Speaker 4: had a season off to figure out how to undo that.
30:16
Speaker 1: Yeah. I don't know what happens in off seasons to
30:18
Speaker 1: some players, but there was no evidence that Rob Refsnier,
30:22
Speaker 1: Aj Pollock, Mitch Garver and Colton Wong. We're going to
30:24
Speaker 1: be terrible.
30:25
Speaker 4: Until they were, and I figured out who our other
30:27
Speaker 4: person that we signed last year where we were talking
30:29
Speaker 4: about Donovan Solano Rowdy Telez.
30:31
Speaker 1: Uh No, not in the off season. We signed him
30:34
Speaker 1: in spring training.
30:34
Speaker 4: Oh, I was thinking, Yeah, but in spring training. Yeah,
30:38
Speaker 4: all right, I can't remember then who it was.
30:39
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Speaker 1: We have a Grill to give away before the fourth
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and creating some great stuff. But as much as
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Speaker 1: Yeah, so we just made it a little simpler.
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Speaker 1: Okay, maybe we'll do that for the show comes to
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