Latest / Chuck in the Morning / Chuck & Buck 3-18 Hour 2: It wasn't a good WBC for Cal, we welcome him home, the Smoke = Fire and we get Reckless at breakfast with the NBA.
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- 0:06Speaker 1: End of the center field headed for the gap, so
- 0:09Speaker 1: as let me take it home. He heavy a size
- 0:14Speaker 1: just right up.
- 0:20Speaker 2: States a World Baseball Classic title.
- 0:44Speaker 1: It played with so much emotion and you can see
- 0:46Speaker 1: it born out right now. Great event, great championship game
- 0:53Speaker 1: last night. I know the team that we were rooting
- 0:55Speaker 1: for did not come out on top, but the team
- 0:58Speaker 1: that won it certainly has a few guys worth rooting for.
- 1:02Speaker 1: Man Gino swore As Salvador Perez. Both of those guys
- 1:06Speaker 1: two of the most loved guys in the entire sport,
- 1:10Speaker 1: and certainly they love their country. The tears were pouring
- 1:13Speaker 1: out last night as Venezuela. When it's first ever WBC title.
- 1:18Speaker 1: It's an event that's not all that old, but certainly
- 1:20Speaker 1: it's got more momentum now than it has ever had.
- 1:23Speaker 1: And I can promise you I could see the look
- 1:26Speaker 1: in Rob Manfred's eyes. I think he's gonna blow up
- 1:28Speaker 1: all the Major League Baseball and just have a year
- 1:31Speaker 1: long WBC competition. Don't give me any ideas like that, Chuck.
- 1:36Speaker 1: That's the kind of stuff that he does. Yeah, it'll
- 1:38Speaker 1: piss me right off. Well he won't do that, but
- 1:41Speaker 1: will drown him first.
- 1:43Speaker 3: It would piss me off.
- 1:46Speaker 1: Good morning to you, seven o'clock hour. Here we move
- 1:48Speaker 1: into the second hour here of chuckum Buck in the morning.
- 1:51Speaker 1: Here on a Wednesday, Ashley Ryan is here. She needs
- 1:54Speaker 1: her mouth washed out with soap. Bad that los Joe,
- 1:57Speaker 1: Bucky Jacobson. You know perfectly fine mouth does not need
- 2:01Speaker 1: to be soap necessary in this one. My name is
- 2:04Speaker 1: Chuck Powell and mine Scopeye Clean. We welcome you into
- 2:08Speaker 1: the hour, and we do have some frost brewed corps
- 2:12Speaker 1: like shoes, chill headlines to share with you. Venezuela wins
- 2:16Speaker 1: over the US. If there's a silver lining here, we
- 2:19Speaker 1: Americans who love our Major League Baseball, we're gonna get
- 2:22Speaker 1: our team back Cal and Wizardo and inspire everybody that
- 2:28Speaker 1: participated in the WBC. I would think within the next
- 2:31Speaker 1: day we'll be back in Peoria for the week long
- 2:35Speaker 1: stretch to get ready for the start of the Major
- 2:37Speaker 1: League Baseball season, which comes your way next Thursday. Doesn't
- 2:41Speaker 1: look like JP Crawford's gonna be ready for that. He's
- 2:43Speaker 1: got a shoulder problem. I think what you're hearing looks
- 2:47Speaker 1: like the organization is leaning toward him starting the season
- 2:50Speaker 1: on the il and then it becomes a decision between
- 2:54Speaker 1: do you go with the rookie Colt Emerson, do you
- 2:56Speaker 1: go ahead and start that, do you like that firecracker,
- 3:00Speaker 1: or do you just do some patchwork. In the meantime,
- 3:02Speaker 1: Leo Reevos starting shortstop on opening day. My guess is
- 3:06Speaker 1: they're leaning that direction. But we'll find out here in
- 3:09Speaker 1: the next week or so. NCAA tournament got started last night,
- 3:13Speaker 1: sort of these nonsense play in games. Texas won over
- 3:17Speaker 1: North Carolina State sixty eight to sixty six. Howard won
- 3:21Speaker 1: over Baltimore County eighty six to eighty three, and so
- 3:25Speaker 1: they're in the field of sixty four. Two more we'll
- 3:28Speaker 1: get in tonight Prairie View A and m versus Lehigh tonight,
- 3:31Speaker 1: Miami of Ohio versus SMU tonight, and then the field
- 3:35Speaker 1: of sixty four will be set. It will tip off Thursday,
- 3:38Speaker 1: and you can listen to the entire tournament right here
- 3:41Speaker 1: on Sports Radio ninety three point three KHARFM. We even
- 3:45Speaker 1: get off a little bit early tomorrow in order to
- 3:48Speaker 1: make room for March Madness. So the madness is here.
- 3:53Speaker 1: The women for the Huskies basketball program. They're in the
- 3:57Speaker 1: tournament They'll play Friday at eleven thirty against so Dakota State. Meanwhile,
- 4:02Speaker 1: the WNBA, speaking of women's hoops, a verbal agreement overnight
- 4:06Speaker 1: on a new collective bargaining agreement. It was quite the negotiation.
- 4:11Speaker 1: They were closing in on the deadline. They worked till
- 4:13Speaker 1: the wee hours last night. Although nothing is written in stone,
- 4:17Speaker 1: I guess there has been an agreement reached, and so
- 4:20Speaker 1: it looks like WNBA player is all going to get
- 4:23Speaker 1: FT pay raises a few more perks going forward. They're
- 4:27Speaker 1: coming off their two strongest years in the history of
- 4:29Speaker 1: the league and so a year time missed in a
- 4:34Speaker 1: year might have been devastating to that progress. So they're
- 4:37Speaker 1: going to start on time, or so it appears based
- 4:40Speaker 1: off of this negotiation last night. NBA expansion continues to
- 4:45Speaker 1: be a huge topic throughout the league, and here in
- 4:48Speaker 1: Seattle we'll talk more about it later this hour. The
- 4:50Speaker 1: Kraken could not extend their winning streak to three straight games.
- 4:54Speaker 1: They were roughed up last night by a very good
- 4:56Speaker 1: Tampa Bay team six to two, and now they head
- 4:59Speaker 1: on the road for a six game road trip that
- 5:01Speaker 1: could decide whether or not they make it to the
- 5:04Speaker 1: playoffs or not. And the Seahawks are going to open
- 5:07Speaker 1: their season. There's World champions on a Wednesday and not
- 5:11Speaker 1: a Thursday, which is traditional. Uh. And so that's just
- 5:14Speaker 1: your headlines. There's a lot of headlines, a lot of
- 5:16Speaker 1: headlines to get in busy, that is man going on? Yeah,
- 5:20Speaker 1: good night, nurse man. Is this ever gonna Sports World
- 5:24Speaker 1: ever gonna calm down? No, hope not.
- 5:27Speaker 3: Just wait till the slowest time.
- 5:28Speaker 1: Of the year. I think we want to. I don't either,
- 5:30Speaker 1: but man, just sometimes it just like go to your room,
- 5:33Speaker 1: sports World and just read a book, put your nose
- 5:36Speaker 1: in the corner, take a time out, give us some
- 5:39Speaker 1: time to reflect on the stuff you've been doing. Are
- 5:43Speaker 1: we the.
- 5:44Speaker 3: Only people that nap? Should take a nap?
- 5:47Speaker 1: They should take a nap, just a little nap. Yeah,
- 5:50Speaker 1: let us catch up.
- 5:51Speaker 3: Yeah, just a breather.
- 5:52Speaker 1: A lot of things I want to talk about. I
- 5:54Speaker 1: can only talk about things one at a time. It's
- 5:57Speaker 1: kissing me off, Buckie, it is. I bet it is.
- 6:00Speaker 3: Your feet up on the table. I have a lot
- 6:01Speaker 3: of lines.
- 6:02Speaker 1: Mad right now? Yeah, all right, well WBC last night
- 6:07Speaker 1: it seems to be what everybody's talking about here this morning.
- 6:11Speaker 1: We've already had a conversation about it. Congratulations to Venezuela.
- 6:15Speaker 1: They had a great tournament and they outplayed the US
- 6:18Speaker 1: last night. Felt like last night the better team won
- 6:21Speaker 1: the game. If had that had been a seven game series,
- 6:24Speaker 1: I think we would add a little different outcome. But
- 6:26Speaker 1: last night, Venezuela was the better team, So congratulations to them.
- 6:30Speaker 1: It was cool to see all the emotion pour out.
- 6:33Speaker 1: It felt like that was needed for that country, for
- 6:36Speaker 1: those players representing that country. They got the job done.
- 6:39Speaker 1: Michel Garcia got named MVP, although it could have been Geno.
- 6:43Speaker 1: He had the game winning hit last night with the
- 6:45Speaker 1: RBI double after the US had rallied to tie things
- 6:48Speaker 1: at two runs apiece. But Baki, when you lose a
- 6:51Speaker 1: one run game, you start looking for reasons why you
- 6:55Speaker 1: could have possibly overcome that one run. I would have probably,
- 7:00Speaker 1: I would insert into the conversation. Maybe have more than
- 7:03Speaker 1: two good at bats. Oh yeah, yeah, that's probably a
- 7:07Speaker 1: good start. They squared at least three. I think they
- 7:10Speaker 1: had two hard hit balls the entire night, and they
- 7:12Speaker 1: were both from the same player, and one of them
- 7:14Speaker 1: left the yard in Bryce Harper. Otherwise it was little
- 7:17Speaker 1: dribblers strikeouts or Will Smith pop ups ruling the day yesterday.
- 7:24Speaker 1: So I think that's the most obvious thing. Like Venezuela pitching,
- 7:28Speaker 1: they stayed on the edges. They never did groove anything
- 7:32Speaker 1: for American hitter to hit, it felt like throughout the
- 7:35Speaker 1: entire game. And I think that was the biggest reason
- 7:37Speaker 1: for the result last night. But there are other things,
- 7:40Speaker 1: certainly to nitpick. And I don't think this is coming
- 7:43Speaker 1: from Seattle bias to say you did have the best
- 7:47Speaker 1: catcher in the world on your bench last night who
- 7:50Speaker 1: hit sixty home runs last year, and you couldn't find
- 7:54Speaker 1: an a bat in a one run game for cal
- 7:56Speaker 1: Rawley last night.
- 7:59Speaker 4: Yeah, well, I mean, I'm we talked about yesterday. I'm
- 8:01Speaker 4: putting him in the lineup period to start the game.
- 8:04Speaker 4: I don't care, Just so you know, I just didn't
- 8:06Speaker 4: think that he would. Well, he should, he should have.
- 8:09Speaker 4: It's a bad call, d Row to tell you that
- 8:11Speaker 4: right to your face. Next time we're sitting having a beverage, like, yeah,
- 8:15Speaker 4: I don't know, put the guy in there. That's one
- 8:17Speaker 4: of seven people ever hit sixty homers, and half of
- 8:21Speaker 4: those guys that are on that list with him are
- 8:22Speaker 4: on steroids. So he's like, actually one of like three guys,
- 8:27Speaker 4: four guys, he's one of four maybe that that actually
- 8:30Speaker 4: did it the right way.
- 8:32Speaker 1: And I get that.
- 8:34Speaker 4: You know, at this point it's a one and done
- 8:36Speaker 4: type of a thing, right where so you're riding the
- 8:38Speaker 4: hot hand. Will Smith wasn't hot. He was three for
- 8:41Speaker 4: ten so versus zero for nine. He didn't hadn't scored
- 8:46Speaker 4: as many runs. Cal was the same as far as
- 8:48Speaker 4: getting on base as he was without knocks. So do
- 8:52Speaker 4: you think that the pitchers pitching is ahead of hitting
- 8:55Speaker 4: it this time of year? Just always is. That's the
- 8:57Speaker 4: way it is. And yesterday was a prime example of that.
- 8:59Speaker 4: I mean, you had a pitcher come out there, Rodriguez
- 9:03Speaker 4: for them, and and he was dotting, he was making
- 9:06Speaker 4: he was making good pitchers pitches that then the hitters
- 9:08Speaker 4: were having a hard time squaring up and putting anything
- 9:11Speaker 4: and play hard. If you're not doing that, then you
- 9:13Speaker 4: all of a sudden they're like, Okay, well then we're
- 9:15Speaker 4: gonna be reliant upon when this guy makes a mistake,
- 9:18Speaker 4: then we don't miss it. Well, he made some mistakes
- 9:21Speaker 4: and then there was a bunch of big swings fallon
- 9:23Speaker 4: balls off terrain. I remember had one or two good
- 9:26Speaker 4: pitches to hit that were he just kind of trying
- 9:29Speaker 4: to go yard too much right instead of just square
- 9:32Speaker 4: that thing up and they'll jump out of the yard.
- 9:33Speaker 4: I mean, that's the beauty of that team, is it.
- 9:36Speaker 4: They have so many guys that can do it. I'll
- 9:38Speaker 4: just say, I think in the fifth inning, if you
- 9:41Speaker 4: were going to end up going with Will Smith, because
- 9:43Speaker 4: you don't think that there's much of a drop off.
- 9:45Speaker 4: And Will Smith's a damn good catcher. I'm not gonna
- 9:48Speaker 4: take away from him. He's just not cal Rau's.
- 9:50Speaker 1: In the conversation for the second best catcher in baseball. Yeah, yeah,
- 9:53Speaker 1: go ahead, I'll give him that.
- 9:54Speaker 4: And yet it's not even close in my opinion as
- 9:57Speaker 4: to who first is. You were wanting to ride the
- 10:00Speaker 4: hot hand to some degree. I don't think he was hot.
- 10:02Speaker 4: I think that you know, I know that it was
- 10:04Speaker 4: because there was a lefty starter. If it was a
- 10:08Speaker 4: right handed starter, I think they go. He goes with
- 10:10Speaker 4: Cal regardless of what his numbers said. I don't think
- 10:12Speaker 4: he would have went with Will Smith. And yet that
- 10:15Speaker 4: to me is Col's a switch hitter, so it doesn't
- 10:17Speaker 4: matter you at some point in the game, are gonna
- 10:19Speaker 4: have Will Smith go against a righty where you would
- 10:22Speaker 4: much rather have a switch hitter up at the dish.
- 10:24Speaker 4: And yet twice in the fifth inning he had it,
- 10:27Speaker 4: and in the seventh inning he had another opportunity to
- 10:30Speaker 4: pinch hit because he had he was going against a rity.
- 10:32Speaker 4: The first one was against Bizardo. How you're not bringing
- 10:35Speaker 4: in cal to face Bizarda right there in the fifth inning.
- 10:40Speaker 4: I don't understand. I mean, you gave Will Smith if
- 10:42Speaker 4: he's already had a couple of a b's he wasn't,
- 10:44Speaker 4: hadn't done anything at that point in time, beside strikeout
- 10:47Speaker 4: and swing at balls that were gonna hit him that
- 10:49Speaker 4: actually did hit him. I don't understand that to me,
- 10:51Speaker 4: I really don't. I mean, like I said, I wouldn't.
- 10:53Speaker 4: I'd normally kind of run everything through the filter of
- 10:55Speaker 4: what would I say to somebody if I said it,
- 10:57Speaker 4: if I could say it to their face, I would
- 10:58Speaker 4: say this to DRO's face, I'd be like, dude, you
- 11:01Speaker 4: you started the wrong guy. But fine, I'm gonna go
- 11:04Speaker 4: with your gut feel because you're in the clubhouse and
- 11:07Speaker 4: you know what's up.
- 11:08Speaker 1: But then in the seventh inning.
- 11:10Speaker 4: For sure, you get two outs and you get a
- 11:12Speaker 4: guy on base, which who has more of an opportunity
- 11:15Speaker 4: going yard there, and you end up sticking with will Smith.
- 11:17Speaker 1: I think that was a mistake.
- 11:18Speaker 5: Well, that's what I didn't understand either. I mean, your
- 11:20Speaker 5: offense is struggling. We're all watching it happen, and there
- 11:23Speaker 5: wasn't really any shake up. Gunner Henderson didn't play it
- 11:26Speaker 5: all either, and he.
- 11:27Speaker 1: Pinch it yeah, at the very end, and p Crow
- 11:30Speaker 1: Armstrong pinchh it.
- 11:31Speaker 5: Oh did he For some reason, I'd missed that Gunner
- 11:33Speaker 5: had gotten as that bad.
- 11:34Speaker 3: But I just I don't know, I didn't understand.
- 11:36Speaker 5: I mean, to just see Cal sitting over there, I
- 11:38Speaker 5: was like, well, I mean, at this point, you got
- 11:39Speaker 5: to try everything right, You're not Your offense isn't doing anything,
- 11:43Speaker 5: so you got to make changes.
- 11:45Speaker 1: I don't know if there's any truth to this, but obviously,
- 11:48Speaker 1: I mean, again, this is an exhibition tournament. This isn't
- 11:51Speaker 1: a Major League baseball season. And I think in the
- 11:55Speaker 1: previous game, if I remember correctly, Salvador Perez did not
- 11:58Speaker 1: start at catcher Foruela and that was a big game
- 12:01Speaker 1: for them against Italy and I don't think that he
- 12:04Speaker 1: pinch hit either, So I think there is an element here,
- 12:09Speaker 1: and I'm not trying to defend it, because I'd have
- 12:11Speaker 1: started cal Raley myself. But there is an element here
- 12:14Speaker 1: of we don't have a third catcher, and this is
- 12:17Speaker 1: an exhibition tournament where we can't very well put Alex
- 12:23Speaker 1: Bregman behind the plate. You know, we can't use a
- 12:26Speaker 1: third catcher. We can't use an emergency catcher. So this
- 12:30Speaker 1: is why I said yesterday. This is one of the
- 12:33Speaker 1: reasons I said yesterday that I think maybe Cal has
- 12:37Speaker 1: had his last at bat in the WBC is because
- 12:42Speaker 1: number one DeRos has been going with this I'm writing
- 12:45Speaker 1: the hot hand and Will Smith had had three hits
- 12:47Speaker 1: to Cal's none, and then number two. I didn't think
- 12:51Speaker 1: he would use him as a pinch hitter because unfortunately,
- 12:53Speaker 1: in this format, your backup catcher is your emergency catcher,
- 12:58Speaker 1: and so you'd probably only him in an emergency situation.
- 13:02Speaker 1: And I don't know if that's any I don't know
- 13:03Speaker 1: if that's true, but no, that's a good point. I
- 13:05Speaker 1: think it might be the explanation for why you didn't
- 13:08Speaker 1: go with a more powerful hitter. But I'm with both
- 13:11Speaker 1: of you. He should have started the game. He's the
- 13:14Speaker 1: best catcher in the world. He was one of the
- 13:16Speaker 1: first guys that you reached out to to try to
- 13:18Speaker 1: get him on the team. And yeah, I know he
- 13:21Speaker 1: hasn't been hot, but if you've been following Cal Rawley
- 13:25Speaker 1: at all, you know he's got the clutch gene and
- 13:29Speaker 1: maybe last night was the night that he gets locked in.
- 13:32Speaker 1: And I'll point out one other thing. That stolen base
- 13:36Speaker 1: in the eighth was huge, and it was bang bang
- 13:39Speaker 1: And I'm not saying that Cal would have thrown him out,
- 13:42Speaker 1: but Cal's the better catcher defensively too. You know, maybe
- 13:47Speaker 1: Sonoha Sonoha doesn't get there on that bang bang play
- 13:52Speaker 1: at second base that sets up the game winning run
- 13:55Speaker 1: on the Geno double. That's another thing to factor into this.
- 13:59Speaker 1: And I know Cal had a terrible pass ball, very
- 14:02Speaker 1: un characteristic. I know he hasn't played well in this WBC,
- 14:06Speaker 1: but I'm with you, Bucky, I think he should have
- 14:08Speaker 1: been starting. I just kind of felt like he wasn't going.
- 14:11Speaker 4: To Yeah, I understood where you were coming with it.
- 14:15Speaker 4: They might not because he didn't play in the semi finals,
- 14:17Speaker 4: so that was I mean, you're thinking both these games
- 14:20Speaker 4: are big. The Dominican game was big, and then the
- 14:22Speaker 4: championship game against Venezuela was going to be big. It
- 14:24Speaker 4: just doesn't Nine at bats does not mean you're in
- 14:28Speaker 4: a giant slump, especially when you're not playing every day.
- 14:32Speaker 4: I would say, okay, so calling pitcher, you take everything
- 14:35Speaker 4: into account calling pitches. I don't think that anybody's better
- 14:39Speaker 4: than Cal at that rate. Now, blocking balls, I don't
- 14:42Speaker 4: think there's anybody better than Cal.
- 14:43Speaker 1: I don't care. He's not perfect. He's going to have
- 14:45Speaker 1: to pass ball, so be it.
- 14:46Speaker 4: There was a ball in the Dominican game that went
- 14:49Speaker 4: off of Will Smith's glove, like hit him in the
- 14:52Speaker 4: glove and bounced out to the side, which ended up
- 14:55Speaker 4: not coming back to harness, but it almost did. Throwing
- 14:58Speaker 4: guys out, there's no ifens or butts that Cal has
- 15:02Speaker 4: been having so much improved on that that I think
- 15:05Speaker 4: that he's up there with the best in the world,
- 15:07Speaker 4: and then power and the right he left he matchups.
- 15:10Speaker 4: Pitchers nowadays don't like throwing to people that are on
- 15:13Speaker 4: the opposite side of the play because they just don't
- 15:16Speaker 4: have to do it very often. I know with the
- 15:17Speaker 4: three batter rule its more often now than it was
- 15:20Speaker 4: a couple of years ago, but they don't like that's
- 15:22Speaker 4: the one of the beautiful things of having a switch
- 15:24Speaker 4: hitter and starting them. To me, it was a mistake
- 15:27Speaker 4: by d row right off the bat. But if you okay,
- 15:29Speaker 4: you do that, but then all of a sudden you
- 15:31Speaker 4: start thinking, Wow, this looks like we're a need to
- 15:34Speaker 4: run into it once or twice this game. Then you
- 15:37Speaker 4: take that, you put the guy in that runs into
- 15:39Speaker 4: it more than just about anybody on the planet besides
- 15:42Speaker 4: Aaron Judge. That's who you bring in there. And I
- 15:44Speaker 4: don't know why he didn't end up doing it. I
- 15:46Speaker 4: think that there probably is something to that. It's also
- 15:49Speaker 4: the getting somebody loose off the bench, and are they
- 15:52Speaker 4: going to be more prone to, you know, pulling a
- 15:54Speaker 4: hammy running down to first base. Sure there's all of
- 15:57Speaker 4: that stuff, but I think you asked cal, hey, if
- 16:00Speaker 4: you come up, if we get guys on two outs
- 16:03Speaker 4: and I need a long ball, you're going to be
- 16:04Speaker 4: ready to go. He's going to be lathered up from
- 16:06Speaker 4: hitting down in the cage. He's going to be ready
- 16:08Speaker 4: to rock and roll. And I think that he would
- 16:10Speaker 4: have most certainly do. I guarantees some do it. No,
- 16:12Speaker 4: but the dude has the clutch gene. I mean, I
- 16:15Speaker 4: would have felt really good about him walking up to
- 16:17Speaker 4: the dish even it would be at zero for nine.
- 16:19Speaker 4: So to me, I think it was a mistake and
- 16:21Speaker 4: I'm not going to blame it on I'm not going
- 16:25Speaker 4: to blame d Row for the fact that they didn't win,
- 16:27Speaker 4: as much as that's an easy, low hanging fruit that
- 16:29Speaker 4: a lot of people were.
- 16:30Speaker 1: Wanting to do right now.
- 16:30Speaker 4: He didn't have a great tournament, and I think that
- 16:33Speaker 4: there's room for criticism, But at the same time, to me,
- 16:35Speaker 4: it's just put the best player out there on the field,
- 16:38Speaker 4: and I don't think he did that by not starting col.
- 16:40Speaker 5: No, And I don't think you can blame him for
- 16:42Speaker 5: them not winning. I think Venezuela outplayed US and they
- 16:45Speaker 5: deserved to win. And it's not a blame game as
- 16:48Speaker 5: far as the US goes. The bats didn't get hot,
- 16:51Speaker 5: Venezuela's pitching was great.
- 16:52Speaker 3: There you go.
- 16:53Speaker 1: Yeah, I do think there's a pet Pereza not play
- 16:56Speaker 1: in that game at all. He did not pinch hit
- 16:58Speaker 1: or anything, so they're probably is something too. Yeah, that
- 17:01Speaker 1: makes sense, but it is a mistake to not start Cal.
- 17:04Speaker 1: I mean, you just got to go with the better
- 17:05Speaker 1: player in that situation, especially one with the thunder that
- 17:09Speaker 1: Cal has.
- 17:09Speaker 3: Well, sorry, bro, real quick.
- 17:11Speaker 5: If you're in the seventh inning though, and you and
- 17:13Speaker 5: it's an emergency, Cat, you know, if what have you
- 17:16Speaker 5: really got to lose in the seventh inning of the
- 17:18Speaker 5: championship game at that point, you might as well try it.
- 17:21Speaker 1: No, I hear what you said. I'm not sure that
- 17:23Speaker 1: unless it's an emergency they're even allowed.
- 17:26Speaker 3: Oh got it.
- 17:26Speaker 1: So I don't know, I don't know. I don't know
- 17:27Speaker 1: what the rules are, but there's something to that. I'll
- 17:30Speaker 1: just put it that way. And look, I mean, in
- 17:32Speaker 1: our last minute here, I gotta believe coming off the
- 17:37Speaker 1: year that he came off of the year of Cal,
- 17:39Speaker 1: where almost everything seemed to go his way, this did
- 17:44Speaker 1: not go his way. Yeah, this WBC, I mean he
- 17:49Speaker 1: is I mean you looked at his face. He was
- 17:51Speaker 1: just tortured sitting there in the bench four games. I mean,
- 17:55Speaker 1: he can't stand sitting on the bench for four innings. Yeah,
- 17:58Speaker 1: and to not to every other day, to not play
- 18:02Speaker 1: in the semifinal or the final, to have left the
- 18:06Speaker 1: WBC without a hit, to have had a pass ball
- 18:09Speaker 1: that he never has in that situation, to have the
- 18:13Speaker 1: Randy thing, to have fools from across the country call
- 18:17Speaker 1: him out for being an a hole over that. It
- 18:20Speaker 1: was just it was just not a good tournament for
- 18:24Speaker 1: the big dumper. Yeah, let's get him back in the nest.
- 18:28Speaker 1: Let's bring him home to Peoria, and let's try to
- 18:30Speaker 1: scrub that from his memory. You got one of them
- 18:33Speaker 1: will Smith men in black things that we could just
- 18:36Speaker 1: flash in front of his eyes, so we can just
- 18:38Speaker 1: forget the last couple of weeks, because let's just get
- 18:41Speaker 1: him back working with his pitchers, his guys, and let's
- 18:44Speaker 1: get him off to a good start next Thursday. What
- 18:46Speaker 1: do you say. I'm down for that for sure. All right.
- 18:48Speaker 1: Coming up next on the radio program, we'll talk some
- 18:52Speaker 1: more Seahawks football. As there is a name and it
- 18:57Speaker 1: is scaring the crap out of people to think about
- 19:00Speaker 1: this guy joining the World champions next year. We'll talk
- 19:04Speaker 1: about it next. Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM.
- 19:07Speaker 1: Another segment here on Chuck a Buck of the Mornings.
- 19:10Speaker 1: We've got al Kiniski joining us a little bit later on.
- 19:12Speaker 1: We're going to Green jack a draft today and much
- 19:14Speaker 1: much more. But I got to talk to some Seahawks
- 19:17Speaker 1: football today. I'll tell you, you hear that expression, where
- 19:20Speaker 1: there's smoke, there's fire, and it usually does lend itself
- 19:23Speaker 1: quite well to sports talk radio. When you start hearing
- 19:26Speaker 1: rumors of dissatisfaction or a person could be on the
- 19:29Speaker 1: trading block. I mean, there's a reason for it, because
- 19:34Speaker 1: more often than not, it does mean there's something going
- 19:37Speaker 1: on behind the scenes. We had a lot of leaks,
- 19:39Speaker 1: got a lot of leaks. You people out there, and
- 19:42Speaker 1: so usually whether there's smoke with something, you find out
- 19:46Speaker 1: eventually where what the fire is all about. And yet
- 19:50Speaker 1: this offseason in the National Football League, smoke equals fire.
- 19:56Speaker 1: Like if there's a rumor that somebody's gonna get moved,
- 19:58Speaker 1: we're gonna get it. Trade Dud's getting traded. Yeah, now
- 20:02Speaker 1: it might be mixed by a poor you know, medical evaluation,
- 20:07Speaker 1: but a J. Brown's getting traded. Jalen Waddle got traded yesterday.
- 20:11Speaker 1: If there's smoke, there's been fired. Kyner Murray was not kept.
- 20:15Speaker 1: Who a tongue of iiloo was not kept? Uh, It's
- 20:18Speaker 1: that's kind of the off season that we've had so
- 20:21Speaker 1: far in the National Football League. So when I hear
- 20:25Speaker 1: that the Miami Dolphins a lot of smoke rolling out
- 20:29Speaker 1: of Miami these days, are shopping devon eight chan or
- 20:34Speaker 1: is it a chain? Now?
- 20:35Speaker 3: I think it's eight chan still.
- 20:37Speaker 1: Well, now that Trevor at t N has cleared up
- 20:40Speaker 1: that his name is actually pronounced a chan, yes, then
- 20:44Speaker 1: maybe a chan becomes a chain so we can know
- 20:47Speaker 1: the difference. That's a tough one is they're not spelled
- 20:49Speaker 1: the same. It's true, But Devin a Chan of the
- 20:53Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins, I mean they're rebuilding. He's on one more
- 20:57Speaker 1: one more year on his deal. Uh. I think they're
- 21:00Speaker 1: going to move him. I don't know why you would
- 21:02Speaker 1: keep him if you're gonna rebuild things, get a nice
- 21:06Speaker 1: draft pick for him. Hear this offseason and I saw
- 21:11Speaker 1: a lot of stuff from Seahawks fans like, all right,
- 21:14Speaker 1: here you go, this is our answer for losing ken Walker.
- 21:18Speaker 1: And I read a lot more stuff from people across
- 21:21Speaker 1: the NFL. Don't let him go to the Seahawks, please.
- 21:26Speaker 1: I mean, you're already world champs, and if you can
- 21:28Speaker 1: add this playmaker who's a little bit more consistent than
- 21:32Speaker 1: Ken Walker, man and maybe a little faster than ken Walker.
- 21:37Speaker 1: It sort of makes sense to me. I don't know
- 21:39Speaker 1: if John's gonna let ken Walker walk and then go
- 21:45Speaker 1: trade and use one of his few precious draft picks
- 21:49Speaker 1: in this draft to go get Devin h Chan. I
- 21:51Speaker 1: don't know if that's what he's planning. He's probably not
- 21:54Speaker 1: going to do that, but certainly there are a lot
- 21:58Speaker 1: of Seahawks fans excited about the Eye, and there are
- 22:00Speaker 1: a lot of people that are fans of other teams
- 22:03Speaker 1: that don't want to see these two come together.
- 22:06Speaker 4: If there was, yeah, I don't know for sure, if
- 22:08Speaker 4: there's another move that you could make that would make
- 22:13Speaker 4: it more frightening for the rest of the NFC West,
- 22:16Speaker 4: or just the NFC or the NFL for that matter.
- 22:18Speaker 4: I mean, I think this guy is better than ken Walker.
- 22:22Speaker 4: I think he's I think he's faster. I think he's
- 22:24Speaker 4: definitely more consistent. Not that ken Walker isn't good and
- 22:29Speaker 4: couldn't doesn't have the potential to be actually great we
- 22:31Speaker 4: saw towards the end of the season. But this guy,
- 22:34Speaker 4: I mean, this guy has the potential, you know, being
- 22:36Speaker 4: like a two thousand yards from you know, from the
- 22:39Speaker 4: line of scrimmage type of a guy. How he catches
- 22:41Speaker 4: the ball in the backfield, he's obviously home run threat,
- 22:43Speaker 4: just like ken Walker was. Yeah, that would be one
- 22:46Speaker 4: that if I'm if I'm like the Niners and I'm
- 22:49Speaker 4: thinking we're still sticking around, We're still going to be
- 22:51Speaker 4: competitive in this thing, and I'm hearing that, I'm like, Okay,
- 22:54Speaker 4: maybe we have Maybe we need to get Christian McCaffrey
- 22:57Speaker 4: a one bee, maybe something like that.
- 22:59Speaker 1: I wouldn't let him go to Shadow.
- 23:01Speaker 5: I think the thing that makes you think that it's
- 23:04Speaker 5: even more of a possibility to is the fact that
- 23:06Speaker 5: Schefter tweeted out this morning that the Dolphins have been
- 23:09Speaker 5: at whenever they've been asked about trading him, they have
- 23:13Speaker 5: said he's not available. Well, clearly Schefter's putting that out
- 23:16Speaker 5: there because the Dolphins want better offers for him and
- 23:19Speaker 5: they haven't been impressed with what they're getting, because that
- 23:22Speaker 5: would just I mean, that's the way Schefter works.
- 23:24Speaker 1: I mean, I guess they could sign a contract extension
- 23:27Speaker 1: to him right now. They if they identify him at
- 23:30Speaker 1: twenty four years old, Like, no, that's a building block.
- 23:33Speaker 1: I mean, I know we're rebuilding, but that's a building block,
- 23:35Speaker 1: where maybe they didn't feel the same way about Waddle,
- 23:38Speaker 1: who is a little more inconsistent. But it's really hard
- 23:41Speaker 1: for me to believe that if you're going full scale
- 23:44Speaker 1: rebuild and that's what they're doing, that you're going to
- 23:47Speaker 1: identify a running back.
- 23:49Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, that's what you're going to serve lifespan, right, Yeah,
- 23:53Speaker 5: that that's.
- 23:54Speaker 1: Going to be a building block for the team going forward.
- 23:59Speaker 1: I think they'll move Whether they move him to the Seahawks,
- 24:01Speaker 1: I don't know. I would too, And it's probably gonna
- 24:06Speaker 1: cost you a second round that you're second rounder, and
- 24:10Speaker 1: maybe a pick again another pick next year, not a
- 24:13Speaker 1: first rounder. I don't think he'll go for a first rounder.
- 24:15Speaker 1: Maybe maybe that's the last pick of the first round,
- 24:17Speaker 1: but you only have control over him for one more year.
- 24:20Speaker 1: But this is somebody that thirteen hundred yards this past season.
- 24:23Speaker 1: Ken Walker just never gave us one of those seasons
- 24:26Speaker 1: five point seven yards per carry, caught sixty seven passes
- 24:29Speaker 1: this past year, seventy eight the year before. And think
- 24:33Speaker 1: about it also this way. The Dolphins were so broken
- 24:36Speaker 1: this past season at times, I mean, people knew who
- 24:39Speaker 1: was getting the ball most of the time. I think
- 24:41Speaker 1: he was the key and people still couldn't figure out
- 24:44Speaker 1: a way to stop him. Let's put it this way,
- 24:46Speaker 1: I don't think he's going I don't think John Schneider's
- 24:48Speaker 1: gonna pull the trigger on this. I don't think that
- 24:50Speaker 1: he'll let Walker walk just to give a draft pick
- 24:54Speaker 1: to a guy with one year left on his contract.
- 24:58Speaker 1: I don't think that's John Schneider's mo of operation. But
- 25:01Speaker 1: if he did pull off the trade, I'd be really
- 25:03Speaker 1: excited about this.
- 25:04Speaker 4: If you can get him for one draft pick, I
- 25:06Speaker 4: don't even care if it's you're the thirty second overall.
- 25:09Speaker 4: You get him for one draft pick. I mean, I
- 25:10Speaker 4: saw a tweet from Softy, Go get him. I don't
- 25:13Speaker 4: care if he only has one year in his contract,
- 25:15Speaker 4: go get him. Get me another super Bowl you are.
- 25:18Speaker 4: It is such a huge step in that direction for
- 25:22Speaker 4: what Because it's super cheap. It falls in line with
- 25:26Speaker 4: I mean, yeah, a draft pick, but you only get
- 25:27Speaker 4: it for one year. You're renting a player, but you're
- 25:29Speaker 4: renting a player for an entire season. He's been you know,
- 25:32Speaker 4: fairly healthy majority of his career, and it is.
- 25:35Speaker 1: And you don't have to run him between the guards
- 25:38Speaker 1: like Mike McDaniel for whatever reason did you can actually
- 25:42Speaker 1: use him when he's where he's most effective on the edge. Well,
- 25:45Speaker 1: and you know in the in the run zone blocking scheme.
- 25:50Speaker 5: And players do like to win too, So you never know,
- 25:52Speaker 5: if he comes here wins the Super Bowl, he might
- 25:54Speaker 5: want to stay here.
- 25:55Speaker 3: I mean worked for Rashiji.
- 25:57Speaker 4: Well, then you're gonna have to pay him twelve to
- 25:58Speaker 4: fifteen million dollars a year, which they didn't want to
- 26:01Speaker 4: do that this year, right with the guy they had, Right,
- 26:04Speaker 4: So this is where you get to You get to
- 26:05Speaker 4: sign JSN, you get to sign Devin Witherspoon, and you
- 26:09Speaker 4: get to run it back with a very similar type
- 26:11Speaker 4: of a running back that you had last year that
- 26:14Speaker 4: won year the Super Bowl. It's almost like you're renting him. Yeah,
- 26:17Speaker 4: you're renting them, but you're written them for a year.
- 26:19Speaker 4: And I mean to me, the thirty second overall pick, Yeah,
- 26:22Speaker 4: you could get a building blocker. You could get a
- 26:24Speaker 4: piece for the future, or you could get a piece
- 26:27Speaker 4: for this year coming up that is almost certainly going
- 26:31Speaker 4: to be better than whoever you get at thirty two.
- 26:32Speaker 3: Well, yeah, and you don't know when Charbona is going
- 26:34Speaker 3: to be healthy and Charbonay.
- 26:35Speaker 5: I think his contract's up after next year, right, so
- 26:38Speaker 5: you never know what your plan moving forward would be.
- 26:41Speaker 1: Yeah, well they're going I'm sure their plan is that
- 26:45Speaker 1: they're going to draft somebody at running back this year,
- 26:47Speaker 1: one way or the other. Even if you did trade
- 26:49Speaker 1: for h Chan at this point, but it will be
- 26:53Speaker 1: an exciting addition. I don't think I'm going to bank
- 26:56Speaker 1: on it. I don't think I'm going to bet on
- 26:57Speaker 1: it either. But I know they're saying he's not for sale.
- 27:02Speaker 1: But you know, where there's smoke, there's fire. Smoke equals
- 27:06Speaker 1: fire this offseason, and it doesn't really make sense for
- 27:09Speaker 1: the Dolphins to keep this guy. No, No, this is
- 27:12Speaker 1: the one we're keeping. Get rid of everybody else, but
- 27:14Speaker 1: this is the one we're keeping. All Right, We're gonna
- 27:16Speaker 1: get reckless at breakfast next, Chuck Ubuck Sports Radio ninety
- 27:19Speaker 1: three point three kh A RFM. That's the thing about computers,
- 27:24Speaker 1: That's the thing about a smarty pants AI. All right,
- 27:27Speaker 1: it's Chuck Buck and Ashley with you. Time to get
- 27:29Speaker 1: a little reckless at breakfast right here on the program.
- 27:32Speaker 1: And look, I know it would be a fool's errand
- 27:36Speaker 1: to sit here and take this week's NBA expansion news
- 27:40Speaker 1: and just assume that the Sonics were returning to Seattle.
- 27:45Speaker 1: You just can't assume it. I think it's gonna happen,
- 27:47Speaker 1: but I probably can't assume it. And it's probably even
- 27:52Speaker 1: crazier to start hand stitching an Afghan saying Sonics return
- 27:59Speaker 1: day twenty twenty eight, their season opener. NOL probably getting
- 28:04Speaker 1: a little ahead of your eighty. And it would be
- 28:07Speaker 1: just foolish to talk about who could be on the
- 28:13Speaker 1: roster for the first Sonics team in twenty twenty eight
- 28:17Speaker 1: and twenty twenty nine.
- 28:18Speaker 3: Only a grateful would do that, even a.
- 28:20Speaker 1: Jackass would do that. But then again, this segment is
- 28:24Speaker 1: called Reckless at Breakfast.
- 28:29Speaker 6: And so let us speculate what this team could look
- 28:33Speaker 6: like in an expansion season in twenty twenty eight, and
- 28:37Speaker 6: today's Reckless at Breakfast, let's start with the last Sonic.
- 28:41Speaker 1: Great, okay, Kevin Durant. Turns out, Kevin Durant signed a
- 28:46Speaker 1: two year extension with his new team, the Houston Rockets,
- 28:49Speaker 1: through the year twenty seven twenty eight. So, in other words,
- 28:53Speaker 1: at age thirty nine, a guy that wore the Sonics
- 28:57Speaker 1: uniform has sweared that he would love to return to
- 29:01Speaker 1: Seattle if they ever got a team back. Would be
- 29:03Speaker 1: thirty nine years old and would be becoming a free
- 29:06Speaker 1: agent at that point in his career. Kevin Durant, you
- 29:12Speaker 1: can lock on the twenty twenty eight to twenty nine roster.
- 29:15Speaker 1: Lock it up. I mean, he's still averaging twenty five
- 29:18Speaker 1: and a half points per game. He's still one of
- 29:19Speaker 1: the best basketball players in the world. How great would
- 29:23Speaker 1: it be to have KD in a Sonics uniform the
- 29:26Speaker 1: first year that they're backing existed.
- 29:29Speaker 4: It'd be amazing. I was when we went to that
- 29:33Speaker 4: Seattle Sports Commission thing. Spencer Haywood was there, you know,
- 29:38Speaker 4: longtime great he's hilarious by the way, And yet he
- 29:41Speaker 4: went on beforehand with Aaron Levine and ended up saying
- 29:45Speaker 4: every time Spencer Adwad said, every time he sees Kevin Durant,
- 29:48Speaker 4: Kevin Durant says, I'm finishing my career in Seattle.
- 29:52Speaker 1: There you go, lock it in, yeah, lock it in.
- 29:55Speaker 1: All right, here's another one. He made. The Rounds Bucket
- 29:57Speaker 1: brought this guy up briefly yesterday. Gary Payton Junior has
- 30:01Speaker 1: made it very clear that wherever he is, if the
- 30:04Speaker 1: Sonics get a team back, that he's going to demand
- 30:07Speaker 1: a trade to go to Seattle. Now, maybe that's tongue
- 30:09Speaker 1: in cheek, but the thing is, Gary Payton Junior can
- 30:11Speaker 1: control his own destiny. I don't know what kind of
- 30:14Speaker 1: player he's going to be three years from now, but
- 30:16Speaker 1: right now he's on a one year contract. I mean,
- 30:18Speaker 1: there's no reason he's not going to sign one year
- 30:21Speaker 1: contracts for the next couple of years as long as
- 30:24Speaker 1: he's still viable, as long as he's still in the league.
- 30:27Speaker 1: By the time twenty twenty eight, twenty to twenty nine
- 30:29Speaker 1: rolls around, who wouldn't want Gary Payton Junior on the
- 30:33Speaker 1: first Sonics team that returned to the Pacific Northwest.
- 30:36Speaker 3: I mean, both Katie and Gary Payton Junior sad like
- 30:39Speaker 3: they're meant.
- 30:40Speaker 4: To be, meant to be, Yeah, and ultimately, if they
- 30:42Speaker 4: have to play under some weird rules of expansion where
- 30:45Speaker 4: you're not paying, then those two guys would probably be like, well,
- 30:48Speaker 4: I know, GP Junior would would be thinking, Okay, I'll
- 30:51Speaker 4: do it for whatever. I just want to be in
- 30:53Speaker 4: a Sonics uniform again or for once. And I think
- 30:57Speaker 4: that Kevin Durant would do the same thing. I think
- 31:00Speaker 4: he'd be like, yep, I'll come back and play for
- 31:02Speaker 4: a little bit less than I've already made my bajillion dollars,
- 31:04Speaker 4: and you can all of a sudden have a couple
- 31:06Speaker 4: older veteran leaders.
- 31:08Speaker 1: Now your payroll is going to be lower. They do
- 31:10Speaker 1: this to expansion franchises their first couple of years because
- 31:13Speaker 1: they just don't want you to be able to walk
- 31:15Speaker 1: in with a complete you don't have any bad contracts,
- 31:17Speaker 1: because you don't have any contracts, so they don't allow
- 31:20Speaker 1: you to just go out there and sign a free
- 31:23Speaker 1: agent All Star team. That said, if KD were to return,
- 31:28Speaker 1: maybe because he desperately wants to play here and probably
- 31:30Speaker 1: don't want to play on a loser, maybe plays for
- 31:33Speaker 1: a low salary. Gary Page Junior certainly would play pay
- 31:37Speaker 1: for a low salary. You're going to have a lot
- 31:39Speaker 1: of young players, so there's going to be cap space,
- 31:42Speaker 1: whether or not the rules suggest you're not gonna have
- 31:44Speaker 1: as much as everybody else to begin with. And it
- 31:46Speaker 1: just so happens that the free agents that are going
- 31:49Speaker 1: to be available the Miami Heat have already planned on
- 31:52Speaker 1: making sure they're in a position to have money for
- 31:56Speaker 1: the twenty twenty eight off season, because Giannis, Jokic and
- 32:01Speaker 1: Doncic are all free agents in the year twenty twenty eight,
- 32:05Speaker 1: and so I'm not gonna call them a lock like
- 32:08Speaker 1: I did our first two participants on the roster that
- 32:10Speaker 1: I've already put on the roster. But if you did
- 32:13Speaker 1: want to get aggressive and Katie could sweet talk somebody
- 32:16Speaker 1: to joining him, that's not a bad nucleus to start
- 32:19Speaker 1: with one of those three guys. And Kevin Durant, even
- 32:21Speaker 1: if he is thirty nine years old, the joker, the
- 32:24Speaker 1: joker asanic.
- 32:26Speaker 3: I do love jokes, Yeah, jokes, I love to last.
- 32:29Speaker 1: And he can lose a step and still be great
- 32:31Speaker 1: because he doesn't have a step, Yeah, exactly, he's steps.
- 32:35Speaker 3: He has moves, yeah, and arms.
- 32:38Speaker 1: Of course, they are going to protect eight players in
- 32:40Speaker 1: the expansion draft process. That's been the rule in the past.
- 32:44Speaker 1: I think they're not going to have that same rule
- 32:46Speaker 1: this year. I think it's going to be fewer than that.
- 32:48Speaker 1: I think that they're going to learn something from the NHL.
- 32:52Speaker 1: We're going to have to throw them a bone. We
- 32:53Speaker 1: don't want the two new teams to wait ten years
- 32:56Speaker 1: in a league where it's very hard to get from
- 32:57Speaker 1: the bottom to the top. But don't want to wait
- 32:59Speaker 1: ten years for them to be successful. So I think
- 33:02Speaker 1: they are going to lessen that a little bit. And
- 33:04Speaker 1: you know what, you know whose pocket we're gonna pick
- 33:06Speaker 1: right off the bat Oklahoma City if they are so
- 33:10Speaker 1: stacked with their roster, if their path for the next
- 33:13Speaker 1: ten years is so paved in gold, I mean, who
- 33:16Speaker 1: knows who might be available off of that roster in
- 33:20Speaker 1: a couple of years that you could just steal away
- 33:23Speaker 1: from them to add to this roster. So we've got
- 33:26Speaker 1: to go get a thunder, right, We got to get
- 33:28Speaker 1: a member of the Thunder. And that makes sense that, Yeah,
- 33:32Speaker 1: I think they should pay for us. You have to
- 33:35Speaker 1: get them here to us. They might protect him.
- 33:37Speaker 5: Might be a rule though, Yeah, because they they basically
- 33:39Speaker 5: helped us our team get stolen, So it should be
- 33:42Speaker 5: like a pay a payment.
- 33:44Speaker 1: Yeah, for a downry, you can protect two guys.
- 33:48Speaker 3: Just not SGA.
- 33:49Speaker 1: Yeah, we will get the third best guy off the
- 33:52Speaker 1: thunder roster. And then of course there's the draft that
- 33:55Speaker 1: you have to work out. And yes, I did look
- 33:58Speaker 1: forward to twenty twenty eight and I pulled up a
- 34:01Speaker 1: website and you know, who comes up as they're not
- 34:04Speaker 1: going to allow us to have the number one overall pick.
- 34:07Speaker 1: They've never done that in the past. The Charlotte Bobcats
- 34:09Speaker 1: were the last expansion franchise and they were given the fourth.
- 34:12Speaker 1: If you go back even further to nineteen ninety five,
- 34:15Speaker 1: Vancouver got the sixth and Toronto got the seventh. So
- 34:18Speaker 1: the random draft lottery, yeah, well, yeah, no, that wouldn't
- 34:21Speaker 1: be a random It wouldn't be a lot You wouldn't
- 34:23Speaker 1: You don't get to be in the law.
- 34:24Speaker 3: Oh got it.
- 34:24Speaker 1: Yeah, you don't get to be in the law. They
- 34:25Speaker 1: just slot you.
- 34:26Speaker 3: They just put you out.
- 34:27Speaker 1: So we would be slotted probably in that fourth spot.
- 34:31Speaker 1: I would assume that's where that they would slot fourth
- 34:34Speaker 1: or fifth, because you're going in with another team, so
- 34:36Speaker 1: fourth or fifth. The fourth best prospect according to this
- 34:39Speaker 1: one website I looked at, is actually a familiar name,
- 34:44Speaker 1: Marcus Spears Junior. Oh it's Marcus Spears kid from ESPN,
- 34:48Speaker 1: the NFL former NFL player. Well, his son is apparently
- 34:53Speaker 1: one of the five best high school sophomores in the country,
- 34:57Speaker 1: and in twenty twenty eight, they were already projected that
- 35:00Speaker 1: he could be a top five draft pick, so there's
- 35:02Speaker 1: some name recognition. We've just added Marcus Spears Kid to
- 35:06Speaker 1: the Sonics first ever roster in their new life here
- 35:09Speaker 1: in the NBA. And then the following year, of course
- 35:12Speaker 1: we're going to take JJ Crawford. I mean, there's no
- 35:15Speaker 1: way that we couldn't, right, you know, So there you go.
- 35:17Speaker 1: We've already got the roster, we got starting lineup.
- 35:20Speaker 3: Built all already warming my heart.
- 35:21Speaker 1: Joker, Durant, Peyton, Marcus Spears Junior, and SGA Yeah and SGA.
- 35:28Speaker 4: I like where you're going with us. Sometimes it's reckless.
- 35:31Speaker 4: That's not reckless at all. That's wonderful. That's called wonderful
- 35:34Speaker 4: at breakfast.
- 35:35Speaker 1: All right, Coming up next WBC, how much blame needs
- 35:40Speaker 1: to go around for the American team not to win
- 35:43Speaker 1: the WBC title and how much of it does fall
- 35:46Speaker 1: at Mark de Rosa. We'll discuss the next Sports Radio
- 35:48Speaker 1: ninety three point three KJA R f M