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Chuck & Buck 3-31 Hour 4: ABC's of the Mariners, Hard Knocks is calling and one last thing! · Chuck in the Morning

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Speaker 3: I think I like a carnival, and.
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Speaker 3: Carnival Cash sounds one.
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Speaker 4: I mean, that sounds like probably one of the best
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, there's cotton candy is one thing.
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Speaker 1: You can just give me a big giant roll of cash.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, or yeah, just money on a stick that works too.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Instead of going to the carnival and seeing the Bearded
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Speaker 1: into a theater of cash.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Is that something like I'd like to open up some
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Speaker 2: cash curtains.
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Speaker 1: That sounds like the carnival that Ashley and I would
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Speaker 1: both love to attend. So I'll see you there, yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 1: we'll be there if any if this is true.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean they wouldn't lie to us.
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Speaker 3: we did the ABC intro.
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Speaker 1: I was gonna do this a little bit later on
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Speaker 1: the hour, but we've had different news stories break here
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Speaker 1: this morning, and I think it has forced us into
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Speaker 1: spend a little more time on some of these subjects
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Speaker 1: inside the ABC's of the ms, and so we have
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Speaker 1: just restarted our brand new year with this segment this
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Speaker 1: slash this segment slash bit, and that means we're at
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Speaker 1: the beginning, near the beginning of the alphabet. So we'll
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Speaker 1: start with a letter D and DS fort Donovan. Brendan Donovan,
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Speaker 1: who's kind of been so far this season. Like James Harden,
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Speaker 1: he's given up an awful lot on defense and a
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Speaker 1: short amount of time, but you can't be angry with
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Speaker 1: him because he's created so much on the offensive side. Like, yeah,
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Speaker 1: James Harden may give up twenty five points per game,
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Speaker 1: but in his prime he average like thirty five points
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Speaker 1: per game. So as long as you're getting net positive,
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Speaker 1: then all's good with Brendan Donovan. Well, bottom line is
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Speaker 1: is that Brendan Donovan I think will ultimately settle into
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Speaker 1: that third base spot and he ultimately is going to
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Speaker 1: cool off a little bit at the plate.
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Speaker 3: He's not going to hit four forty this entire season.
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Speaker 1: But I do big picture love what I'm seeing out
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Speaker 1: of the big acquisition of the offseason. But certainly another
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Speaker 1: era last night which opened up the gate for the
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Speaker 1: Yankees only run. We do have a little bit of
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Speaker 1: a defensive concern and it comes right from the horse's mouth.
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Speaker 1: I mean, Brendan Donovan when he sat down with us,
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Speaker 1: said that this was going to be a little bit
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Speaker 1: of a work in progress, and he doesn't feel completely
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Speaker 1: comfortable with all the things that go into playing third
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Speaker 1: base on a consistent daily basis. I mean, after all,
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Speaker 1: he was in Saint Louis. He's backing up Nolan Arenado.
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Speaker 1: So even though Brendan Donovan played some third base with
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Speaker 1: the Cardinals, it was just here and there. He was
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Speaker 1: more a second baseman in an outfielder in a DH
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Speaker 1: than he was a third baseman. But our hole was
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Speaker 1: at third base, and so the idea was put him
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Speaker 1: with Perry Hill athleticism, grit, a work ethic like few
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Speaker 1: and he'll get there eventually. And I think that he
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Speaker 1: probably will. I mean, Gino Suarez came to us a
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Speaker 1: flawed defensive third baseman and he damn near won a
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Speaker 1: Gold Glove over there. So I think with time it
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Speaker 1: is going to be fine. We just kind of have
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Speaker 1: to live with this transition process with him. But he does,
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Speaker 1: by his own words, not look altogether comfortable.
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Speaker 4: There right, No, And it was it looked sloppy a
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Speaker 4: few times over there in that corner.
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Speaker 2: I mean, there was.
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Speaker 4: The pop up that dropped between him and Rivas and Rozarena,
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Speaker 4: and then there was the one he lost in the lights, yes, yep, yes,
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Speaker 4: and that Leo was standing there with his hands up
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Speaker 4: like I don't see it either, and so and then
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Speaker 4: there was the air So I mean it was I
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Speaker 4: found myself watching the game last.
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Speaker 3: Night going ooh, cringey a little.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, And I don't think but he's making up for
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Speaker 1: all of it on offense, so we're getting a net
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Speaker 1: positive from him every single night.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely, And I don't think I was.
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Speaker 4: I don't think that one, the pop up that dropped
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Speaker 4: in between all three of them, I don't think Rivas
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Speaker 4: should have called either him or a rose Arena off.
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Speaker 2: Could Yeah, that's what I thought.
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Speaker 4: And I thought Rivas had the worst angle, So I
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Speaker 4: don't know why he was calling anyone off to try
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Speaker 4: to get that ball.
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Speaker 2: I thought a Rose a Rena.
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Speaker 4: I mean, obviously he hadn't gotten called off yet when
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Speaker 4: he did late stop, but I would have thought he
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Speaker 4: would have had the best shot at that one. So
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Speaker 4: I wouldn't put that on Donovan at all. It just
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Speaker 4: looked sloppy in that area last night.
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Speaker 3: Well, and you're.
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Speaker 1: Without your shortstop and you've got a brand new third basement.
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Speaker 1: And let's face it, Randy, a Rose Arena is a
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Speaker 1: carnival of cash, you know, and left field. I mean,
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Speaker 1: you don't know what you're going to get out of
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Speaker 1: that guy from play to play. I mean even last night,
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Speaker 1: I don't want to pick on anything. Yeah, I realized
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Speaker 1: we're you know, we're we're mending fences with Randy, and
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Speaker 1: we want Randy to be happy because we like ring right,
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Speaker 1: But dude, you have got to cut that ball off
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Speaker 1: in the alley. Yes, I mean, that is the go
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Speaker 1: ahead run in John Carlos Stanton and he can't run.
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Speaker 1: It's the go ahead yeah, trot. That's all he can
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Speaker 1: do is trot. And the only way he gets to
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Speaker 1: second base is if you let that ball get by
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Speaker 1: you in all the way to the wall. You gotta slide, dive,
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Speaker 1: do anything to keep that ball from getting past you.
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Speaker 1: And it's not like you were loafing after it, but
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Speaker 1: you didn't do everything it took to keep that ball
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Speaker 1: from splitting the alley. And that's a huge, huge base
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Speaker 1: you just gave a guy that wasn't going to get
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Speaker 1: it in any other way.
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Speaker 3: So a little frustrating.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, no, I agree, I yeah, just that whole left
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Speaker 4: side yesterday was a little Yeah.
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Speaker 1: It's a question mark. There's no question about. There are
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Speaker 1: a lot of great things about that, but that's that's
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Speaker 1: a question mark. That's a work in progress over there.
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Speaker 1: And I do think Brandon Donovan will adapt and I
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Speaker 1: think he'll be fine, and by seasons in.
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Speaker 3: We don't have to worry about defense at third base.
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Speaker 1: But bah blah blah, if by chance it is something
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Speaker 1: that lingers, he is for Emerson, because I was asked
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Speaker 1: over the weekend by you know, my buddies hanging out
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Speaker 1: over the weekend and they're huge baseball fans like I am,
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Speaker 1: about when's Cold Emerson going to be called up? And
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Speaker 1: my answer to it is simply, when they think he's
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Speaker 1: one of their best nine, he will be called up
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Speaker 1: and they'll figure out where to put him. This is
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Speaker 1: not going to be a situation where, well, let's see
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Speaker 1: if JP's shoulder comes through, or if you know, or
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Speaker 1: where JP's batting average is in July, or you know,
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Speaker 1: what's see how Brendan Donovan adapts to third base, or
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Speaker 1: let's see how the DH rotation goes early in the year. Nope,
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Speaker 1: that's not the way in my opinion, that this is
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Speaker 1: going to work. This is not going to be cold
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Speaker 1: Emerson's getting called up because he needs to fill a hole. Now,
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Speaker 1: it might be, I mean, it's not out of the possibility.
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Speaker 1: If JP can't get healthy, if he has a setback
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Speaker 1: with his shoulder, then I think we're going to see
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Speaker 1: cold Emerson called up and fill that hole and play
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Speaker 1: shortstop on a regular basis.
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Speaker 3: That's what I think is going to happen.
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Speaker 1: But I don't think it's dependent on something else going wrong.
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Speaker 1: I think what's going to happen is when they believe
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Speaker 1: cold Emerson's got a few reps down in the minor
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Speaker 1: leagues and you don't launch him on opening Day. Then
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Speaker 1: when they feel like cold Emerson is definitively one of
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Speaker 1: the best nine guys and we want him in the
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Speaker 1: lineup every day to help this team win a World Series,
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Speaker 1: then they will assess where do we put him right?
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Speaker 1: Where is the adjustment? Okay, Colt's ready right now. Where
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Speaker 1: is where Let's assess how this is gonna work. And
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Speaker 1: it might very well be Donovan's just not coming around
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Speaker 1: to third base. So what we're gonna do is, we're
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Speaker 1: gonna put Emerson a third JP's healthy, gain, he's a
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Speaker 1: short Donovan's going to be an everyday player, but he's
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Speaker 1: going to turn into that super utility ben Zobris type.
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Speaker 1: And we'll put him in right field. We'll put him
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Speaker 1: at second base, We'll put him at third on occasion,
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Speaker 1: we'll put him at DH. We're gonna get it. We're
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Speaker 1: gonna put him in the lineup every day or most
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Speaker 1: every day. But it might not be the third bait.
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Speaker 1: Maybe that's the place where Colt fills the third base spot.
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Speaker 1: Could be that, Hey, we waited on the shoulder thing
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Speaker 1: long enough. I mean, we're gonna make this move eventually,
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Speaker 1: one way or the other. Colt's ready, and we're not
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Speaker 1: gonna sit here and wait on JP's shoulder and the
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Speaker 1: world's worst shortstop range. We're not gonna let that stand
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Speaker 1: in the way of perhaps adding another special piece to
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Speaker 1: this line. So it could be that Cole Young's off
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Speaker 1: to a good start, but the leash isn't unending, you know.
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Speaker 1: If he struggles, it could be a second bait. Could
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Speaker 1: be the DH situation. I mean, it's not gonna be outfield,
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Speaker 1: but you can move pieces around where Emerson you could,
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Speaker 1: you will find a spot for him in the lineup.
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Speaker 1: So this is just me reading the tea leaves. I
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Speaker 1: don't know this for a fact, but my belief has
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Speaker 1: always been we're gonna get him a few reps down
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Speaker 1: in Tacoma, and once he proves I'm just too good
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Speaker 1: for this level, they'll find a way to get him
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Speaker 1: into the lineup every day and it will come at
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Speaker 1: the sacrifice of whatever situation isn't performing right. And I
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Speaker 1: think that's how they're going to treat this, as opposed
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Speaker 1: to Emerson's in the miners until something obvious and glaring
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Speaker 1: occurs that creates a hole.
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Speaker 3: I don't think they're going to approach it that way.
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Speaker 4: Well, no, And I wouldn't think that they would offer
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Speaker 4: him the contract they offered him if that's the approach
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Speaker 4: they were taking either. I mean, I don't think that
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Speaker 4: they would have chosen this timing to offer him this
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Speaker 4: eight year, ninety five million deal, ninety five million dollar
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Speaker 4: deal with a nine year option if they were like,
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Speaker 4: he's probably gonna stay in the miners this year, because
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Speaker 4: it wouldn't be worried about anything.
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Speaker 1: Oh, I mean, right now, they don't have to worry
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Speaker 1: about starting his clock. Not that they worry about that
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Speaker 1: much anymore anyway, but right now, I mean, there is
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Speaker 1: nothing prohibiting from them from There's no financial decision that
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Speaker 1: they could make that keeps them from activating coult Emerson's career.
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Speaker 1: I think what happened today and f is for finances
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Speaker 1: will happened today with the cult Emerson. If you're just
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Speaker 1: hearing about this breaking news earlier this morning, the Mariners
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Speaker 1: have signed young Emerson, twenty years old, to an eight year,
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Speaker 1: ninety five million dollars deal with a ninth year option,
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Speaker 1: and so they have kind of solved the cult Emerson
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Speaker 1: riddle for the next nine seasons. And I think it's
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Speaker 1: a great deal. Some people are panicking the little because
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Speaker 1: I think they remember Evan White and they just feel
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Speaker 1: an unproven guy getting a record number of dollars when
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Speaker 1: he has not seen a single.
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Speaker 3: Major League baseball pitch.
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Speaker 1: I think some people think that maybe this is a
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Speaker 1: little reckless from an organization that typically is not a
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Speaker 1: hused of being reckless Financial League.
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Speaker 4: I don't think they just all of a sudden be reckless, like,
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Speaker 4: oh you know what, we really like him.
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Speaker 2: Let's just what the hell, let's just give it a shot.
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Speaker 1: But I think it's actually a very good decision for
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Speaker 1: the Mariners, and I think it's a questionable decision by
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Speaker 1: Emerson and his agent, to be quite honest, which is
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Speaker 1: something that we can get into here in a moment.
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Speaker 1: But yes, eight years, ninety five million dollars up to
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Speaker 1: nine years, one thirty for Colt Emerson.
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Speaker 3: So he's going to be a part of this organization.
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Speaker 3: He has a no trade clause, Yeah, that he wanted
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Speaker 3: in there.
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Speaker 1: I mean, this is a guy that loves being in
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Speaker 1: this organization, sees how promising the future and the present look,
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Speaker 1: and is days away, weeks away from being activated onto
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Speaker 1: this major league roster and fighting for a World Series
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Speaker 1: in his age twenty one season, his rookie season as
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Speaker 1: a major league baseball player, and then we know we're
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Speaker 1: going to have him for nine years beyond that.
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Speaker 3: So that's the story today.
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Speaker 1: So right, that's another thing that doesn't get in the
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Speaker 1: way of this decision of when do we activate Cold Emerson.
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Speaker 1: They don't have to worry about the finance. They've already
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Speaker 1: agreed to the terms on the finances. So that's something
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Speaker 1: that has always in the past stood in the way
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Speaker 1: of GMS activating the careers of young top prospects. But
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Speaker 1: we don't have to worry about that anymore either. When
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Speaker 1: he's ready, yep, when they feel he's ready, they will
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Speaker 1: find a spot for him to play every day. Otherwise
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Speaker 1: they will not activate him. Okay, now let's talk about
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Speaker 1: the finances, because I do believe there's some hand ringing
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Speaker 1: going on. I just think this is spectacular for the Mariners.
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Speaker 1: I think this is a very Mariner's friendly deal, and
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Speaker 1: I base that on the fact that how much salaries
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Speaker 1: are skyrocketing right now in the sport. Plus, we also
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Speaker 1: have a sport in which man guys start getting to
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Speaker 1: thirty and people start wondering if they're on the decline.
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Speaker 3: That was not the case.
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Speaker 1: I grew up where twenty seven to thirty two was
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Speaker 1: the prime of a Major League Baseball player's career.
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Speaker 3: That was the sweet spot.
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Speaker 1: Now it feels a little bit more like it's twenty
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Speaker 1: four to twenty eight. That feels like the sweet spot
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Speaker 1: that MLB teams are trying to take advantage of. Well,
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Speaker 1: most guys don't reach free agency before twenty eight you
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Speaker 1: got to have six years in the league. Bucky didn't
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Speaker 1: get activated until age twenty nine, so you have to
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Speaker 1: have six years in the league before you can even
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Speaker 1: hit free agency. Cold Emerson is arriving to the majors early.
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Speaker 1: If he gets called up this year, there's a chance
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Speaker 1: he could get called up before his twenty first birthday
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Speaker 1: for goodness sake. So for him, I mean, that would
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Speaker 1: put him on track to be a free agent at
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Speaker 1: age twenty six. And keep in mind, there's three years
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Speaker 1: of arbitration that's in there as well, so yes, league minimum,
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Speaker 1: league minimum, league minimum. He still has signing bonus from
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Speaker 1: being a first round draft pick, money that he's sitting
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Speaker 1: on in the bank somewhere.
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Speaker 2: I'd like to sit on that money too.
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Speaker 1: And minimum salary still a good salary, yep. I'd like
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Speaker 1: to make minimum salary.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I make half of minimum salary.
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Speaker 3: Of a major league baseball player.
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Speaker 1: But then you get the three years of arbitration, and
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Speaker 1: now we're looking at arbitration numbers. I mean, Trek Scruball
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Speaker 1: just set their record for thirty two million dollars a year.
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Speaker 1: It says last year, it's the third year, and they
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Speaker 1: always escalate, but when you think about twenty nineteen, Garrett
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Speaker 1: Cole set the record with thirteen and a half million
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Speaker 1: dollars in arbitration. Seven years later, we've almost tripled that
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Speaker 1: two two and a half times. Yeah, we're gone two
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Speaker 1: and a half times up from that, and it's only climbing.
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Speaker 1: I mean, Juan Soto now makes sixty one million dollars
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Speaker 1: a year.
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Speaker 2: Can you imagine?
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Speaker 1: I mean again seven years ago, five years ago, Garrett
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Speaker 1: Cole I think was at the top at less than
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Speaker 1: forty and we're already up to sixty one for Soto
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Speaker 1: and Otani will someday make.
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Speaker 3: More than that. I hear.
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Speaker 2: It's not even making real money in a world.
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Speaker 3: Of rainbows and unicorn horns and skittles.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe that's what I'll get paid him. Yeah, by
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Speaker 2: the time everything was deferred.
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Speaker 1: So think about how much in seven years that that
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Speaker 1: has escalated almost two and a half times.
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Speaker 3: Well, we have cold Emerson locked up for nine.
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Speaker 1: If he would have just accepted the normal you know,
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Speaker 1: the normal routine, he would be a free agent in
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Speaker 1: six years arbitration. How why is it arbitration salary going
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Speaker 1: to be in that last year fifty? Well, he just
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Speaker 1: agreed to an eight year, ninety five million dollars deal.
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Speaker 1: I mean that's fifty maybe in one season he would
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Speaker 1: have gotten in his sixty year in the majors if
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Speaker 1: he turns out to be as good as what people
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Speaker 1: think he's going to be, And not to mention, you
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Speaker 1: get arbitration bump in year four, year five, and year six,
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Speaker 1: and then you hit free agency at twenty six and
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Speaker 1: we're talking about guys making sixty million dollars a year
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Speaker 1: now in Major League Baseball. What's it going to be
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Speaker 1: six years from now? Is he gonna be ninety a player?
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Speaker 1: If cold Emerson's as good as what we hear. So
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Speaker 1: that's sacrificing a lot. That is sacrificing a lot of
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Speaker 1: future dollars just to make sure that I have money now.
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Speaker 2: And I don't do with this organization.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't blame him. Well, he's going to be
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Speaker 3: locked into this organization for six years no matter what.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, but now he's got his no trade clause in
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Speaker 4: all his things that kind of keep him maybe make
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Speaker 4: him feel more secure.
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Speaker 1: So I mean, look, I mean everybody's like wringing their
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Speaker 1: hands over how could we do this? We did this
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Speaker 1: with Evan White, that blew it up in our face.
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Speaker 1: Let's just wasted money on the payroll that we had.
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Speaker 1: I feel the exact I felt that way about Evan
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Speaker 1: back then, and again he wasn't even one of our
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Speaker 1: top prospects. But I don't feel that way about cold Emerson.
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Speaker 1: If anything, I feel the other way around. I think
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Speaker 1: that he would have made up this money in no
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Speaker 1: time probably, and so for him to make this agreement
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Speaker 1: shows you. Number one, I want the comfort. I want
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Speaker 1: the security. That's first and foremost for me, for my family.
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Speaker 1: I want the security first. And if I become a
18:06
Speaker 1: free agent in twenty nine, that still puts me in
18:08
Speaker 1: a good spot to get another big contract before my
18:11
Speaker 1: career is over. Okay, so that's number one. But number two,
18:15
Speaker 1: I do think it speaks to I love this organization.
18:19
Speaker 1: I want to be a part of this organization, and
18:21
Speaker 1: I will sign your contract because I guarantee you Scott
18:25
Speaker 1: Boris wouldn't suggest that he does it. No, Scott Boris
18:29
Speaker 1: was Cal's agent. Scott Boris did not want Kyl to
18:33
Speaker 1: sign before he became a free agent. Can you imagine
18:36
Speaker 1: the I told you so text that Kyle got from
18:38
Speaker 1: Scott Boris after this past season.
18:40
Speaker 2: Oh gosh, I'm sure, but.
18:42
Speaker 1: You're making eighteen million dollars a year, Bud, you stuck
18:46
Speaker 1: with me a catcher, it in sixty home runs in
18:48
Speaker 1: a year. Consider the best defensive player and best clubhouse
18:50
Speaker 1: leader arguably in the game. I could have gotten you
18:54
Speaker 1: one of those sixty million dollar deals that are being
18:56
Speaker 1: thrown around now and here he wants to be well, yes, yes,
19:00
Speaker 1: but as an agent, your job is to try to
19:06
Speaker 1: look out in the best interest financially of your client.
19:09
Speaker 1: And I can appreciate somebody saying, hey, I'm going to
19:11
Speaker 1: get rich and I'm going to be in an organization where.
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Speaker 3: I want to be. Yeah, that's worth it for me.
19:17
Speaker 3: I love that.
19:17
Speaker 1: I love that mentality, no doubt about it. I mean,
19:21
Speaker 1: Bobashett has gotten booed already as a New York met
19:26
Speaker 1: and there was a little bit of joy that came
19:28
Speaker 1: to my heart. I mean, it's completely unfair this first week.
19:31
Speaker 1: A lot of guys are struggling in the first week.
19:33
Speaker 1: A lot of guys that are better than Bobaschet can't
19:35
Speaker 1: get out of their way in the first week of
19:36
Speaker 1: the season. But he was getting booed by Game three
19:39
Speaker 1: by New York met fans, and he handled it brilliantly
19:42
Speaker 1: afterwards in his response, But there was a little bit
19:44
Speaker 1: of part of me that was, like, you know what,
19:47
Speaker 1: I think it's kind of funny because you left a
19:50
Speaker 1: great situation with a great team and a fan base
19:54
Speaker 1: that adored you, and you chase the money, and that's
19:58
Speaker 1: what you get. You want to chase the money to
19:59
Speaker 1: a big market and then with rowdy fans that don't
20:03
Speaker 1: have any patients. Toronto would add patients for.
20:06
Speaker 2: You all year long, all your law.
20:08
Speaker 1: You got boot on your third day. It's a little
20:09
Speaker 1: bit of justice because you chase the money. I love
20:13
Speaker 1: the guy that isn't necessarily chasing the money, that can
20:16
Speaker 1: recognize this is where I want to be, this is
20:18
Speaker 1: who I want to play with. These are the guys
20:20
Speaker 1: that I want to build my future with. And if
20:22
Speaker 1: it cost me a little bit of money in the future,
20:24
Speaker 1: so be it. I'm still rich, I'm happy, and I
20:27
Speaker 1: hope that he remains that way. But from a financial standpoint,
20:31
Speaker 1: probably was a mistake, Probably is a mistake.
20:35
Speaker 3: Maybe yeah.
20:36
Speaker 4: I think if Scott Boris was his agent, he would
20:38
Speaker 4: have fired him.
20:39
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, probably, Yeah, I think I don't think Scott
20:43
Speaker 1: likes guys that don't listen to him. All right, coming
20:46
Speaker 1: up next the Seahawks and the News Today, they're going
20:49
Speaker 1: to be on a television program that I thought was
20:52
Speaker 1: about ready to have a funeral conducted for it.
20:54
Speaker 3: Sports Radio ninety three point three.
20:56
Speaker 1: Kjrfmue that Roger, or at the very best Roger Goodell
21:02
Speaker 1: would be found performing CPR on it like or getting
21:06
Speaker 1: it ready for the Hangman's News. I thought Hard Knocks
21:09
Speaker 1: was probably writing a letter to loved ones to let
21:12
Speaker 1: them know that.
21:13
Speaker 2: They If you're reading this, I am gone.
21:17
Speaker 3: And I just want to thank you all for the memories.
21:19
Speaker 2: Yeah, I just shiver.
21:22
Speaker 1: Yes, of course, I just thought it was on its
21:25
Speaker 1: last leg. And maybe that just runs through my own
21:29
Speaker 1: personal filter. I've just at one point, Jackson Feltz and
21:32
Speaker 1: I used to not only talk about Hard Knocks every
21:35
Speaker 1: week every show, but we actually did a segment called
21:39
Speaker 1: Chuck Knocks and and we would you do a preview
21:44
Speaker 1: of all the teams that we were the Seahawks are
21:46
Speaker 1: getting ready to play, and then we would simulate the
21:49
Speaker 1: game and give you a result, and Jackson did a
21:52
Speaker 1: play by play of it all.
21:53
Speaker 4: It was fun wear a shiny Seahawks jacket like Chuck
21:57
Speaker 4: Knox as well.
21:58
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, okay, yes, And so that's what I thought
22:03
Speaker 1: of Hard Knocks. Once upon a time. There weren't many
22:05
Speaker 1: people that were as big a fan as what I was.
22:07
Speaker 1: But I've just I can't even get through a season.
22:09
Speaker 1: I don't even remember the last season that I got
22:11
Speaker 1: completely through.
22:13
Speaker 4: I watched the last two, and I actually really liked
22:14
Speaker 4: the last two. But before that, I was like, it
22:16
Speaker 4: was like pulling teeth to get me to watch it.
22:18
Speaker 1: Uh, And so I thought that they were fading out,
22:21
Speaker 1: and I guess my instincts were right that it was
22:25
Speaker 1: dying a quick death or slow death, depends on how
22:28
Speaker 1: you look at it, because they've changed all the rules
22:31
Speaker 1: to try and resurrect it. And so, if you haven't heard,
22:34
Speaker 1: the Seahawks are going to be featured on Hard Knocks
22:37
Speaker 1: this year on HBO. So very surprising that they've gone
22:42
Speaker 1: from you can't make the playoffs and make Hard Knocks,
22:46
Speaker 1: we won't put you on. If you made the playoffs,
22:47
Speaker 1: we won't put you on Hard Knocks. We won't put
22:49
Speaker 1: you through that too, all the way till oh, wait,
22:52
Speaker 1: we might need a Super Bowl champion, somebody that's never
22:55
Speaker 1: been on the show before, in order to resurrect this
22:58
Speaker 1: corpse known as the Hard Knocks television show. And it
23:03
Speaker 1: will work here, that's for sure, and maybe it will
23:05
Speaker 1: work in every NFL city.
23:08
Speaker 3: Across the country.
23:10
Speaker 1: Certainly, we're going to watch Seahawk fans are going to watch.
23:12
Speaker 1: I mean, it's going to turn into content for us
23:14
Speaker 1: here on KJARS.
23:16
Speaker 3: As a matter of fact, it's going to be we
23:18
Speaker 3: don't we don't have a choice. We have to.
23:19
Speaker 1: Watch it because it's going to create buzz, and it's
23:21
Speaker 1: going to create talking points and we're going to have
23:23
Speaker 1: to discuss it the next day.
23:25
Speaker 3: And I'm excited to do that.
23:26
Speaker 1: By the way, it certainly is going to excite me
23:28
Speaker 1: for another season anyway. But boy, this is this is
23:34
Speaker 1: desperation by the NFL HBO to keep this program on
23:39
Speaker 1: the air.
23:39
Speaker 4: Well yeah, and I think when people saw it, it
23:41
Speaker 4: was kind of disbelief from everybody. We got a text
23:43
Speaker 4: this morning on the Tacoma Dodge text line that was like, uh,
23:47
Speaker 4: Seahawks will be featured on Hard Knocks this summer according
23:49
Speaker 4: to your website. This morning, iHeart like you guys have
23:53
Speaker 4: some false information up on your website and I wrote.
23:55
Speaker 2: Back, yes, that's correct. They said, Oh, I guess I'm
23:59
Speaker 2: late to the party.
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Speaker 4: That's how I think a lot of people approached it
24:02
Speaker 4: when they saw it, like, well, that has to be incorrect.
24:04
Speaker 4: There's no way the Seahawks are going to be on
24:06
Speaker 4: hard knocks.
24:07
Speaker 3: You sent it to me in a text last night.
24:08
Speaker 3: I ignored it because I thought it was a joke.
24:10
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it was not.
24:11
Speaker 4: Yeah, and it's it's they changed the rules last year,
24:14
Speaker 4: as you said, and so to do that and then
24:17
Speaker 4: to have I mean, they've been announced twenty twenty seven,
24:20
Speaker 4: they're going to have the Patriots. I mean, clearly they're
24:22
Speaker 4: trying to build a buzz yes, and they're doing it
24:25
Speaker 4: with two very buzzworthy teams. I mean, you've got two
24:28
Speaker 4: very interesting coaches, and Mike Grabil and Mike McDonald.
24:31
Speaker 2: You've got Drake May.
24:32
Speaker 4: You've got the story behind the Patriots and can they
24:34
Speaker 4: get back to the greatness that they had and or
24:37
Speaker 4: was this past year making it to the Super Bowl
24:39
Speaker 4: of Fluke. And then you've got on the Seahawks side,
24:41
Speaker 4: Sam Darnold, whose career maybe who's that whose year in
24:45
Speaker 4: Minnesota apparently wasn't a fluke, and you've got, I think,
24:48
Speaker 4: some very interesting players.
24:50
Speaker 1: Oh and I mean there's no question. I mean they couldn't.
24:54
Speaker 1: That's kind of my point. They couldn't have picked more
24:56
Speaker 1: interesting teams. It's the two Super Bowl teams, both with
25:00
Speaker 1: interesting players, interesting coaches, interesting executives, and interesting storylines. This
25:05
Speaker 1: is them trying to save the brandy here, and they
25:10
Speaker 1: had to change all of their rules for how they
25:12
Speaker 1: pick the teams in order to try and save it.
25:16
Speaker 1: And we'll see if it works. If this doesn't work,
25:19
Speaker 1: then it does they do have to walk away from
25:21
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, but the and the reason that it Winsdale,
25:24
Speaker 1: Let's face it, is that NFL teams were getting tired
25:27
Speaker 1: of having to put out fires the next day. They
25:29
Speaker 1: were prying too closely. But that was the only thing
25:31
Speaker 1: that was interesting about it. The NFLPA was complaining that
25:35
Speaker 1: you can't show the emotion of a guy getting cut
25:37
Speaker 1: from an NFL team. That's not fair, that should not
25:40
Speaker 1: be interesting to anyone that is watching a young man's
25:43
Speaker 1: dream die. And so they got rid of all the things,
25:47
Speaker 1: let's face it, that made it interesting because you could
25:51
Speaker 1: be said, but that's so so are movies and so
25:53
Speaker 1: are TV shows, and they have guys that don't make
25:56
Speaker 1: it through the shows, and so these were young people
26:00
Speaker 1: that you knew going in probably didn't have a great chance,
26:03
Speaker 1: and you got to watch their journey.
26:04
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it was interesting to see that and then
26:07
Speaker 3: rooting for them.
26:08
Speaker 1: And then eventually it became not as interesting because I've
26:11
Speaker 1: now seen this so many times that I'm not all
26:14
Speaker 1: that interested in watching somebody's dreams get crushed. So that's
26:18
Speaker 1: what made it compelling because we'd never seen it before.
26:21
Speaker 1: And then but we'd kind of seen every version of that. Uh,
26:25
Speaker 1: and then the NFLPA thought we shouldn't show that at all,
26:29
Speaker 1: so they sort of ran dry with all their different storylines.
26:34
Speaker 1: It got picked up by Aaron Rodgers because Aaron Rodgers
26:36
Speaker 1: was so compelling a couple of years ago going to
26:39
Speaker 1: the Jets. That was a boost, and even that didn't
26:43
Speaker 1: end up saving the brand. So they're getting desperate to
26:46
Speaker 1: try to keep it around, and we're going to benefit
26:48
Speaker 1: from it because even if it is the second to
26:51
Speaker 1: last one, the penultimate hard Knocks, maybe it doesn't survive
26:55
Speaker 1: beyond the Patriots in twenty twenty seven. At least we
26:57
Speaker 1: got to see the Seahawks featured in it one time,
27:00
Speaker 1: and it will be interesting to see what kind of
27:02
Speaker 1: access they gain with our guys.
27:04
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm just what kind of information or not even information,
27:07
Speaker 4: but just the behind the scenes stuff that we get
27:09
Speaker 4: to see because we hear so much about how close
27:11
Speaker 4: this team is, and so to be able to see
27:14
Speaker 4: a little bit behind the scenes and feel like we're
27:15
Speaker 4: getting a bit of a peek behind the curtain with
27:18
Speaker 4: this organization especially, I'm very excited. It is interesting though,
27:21
Speaker 4: because nationally still the Seahawks.
27:24
Speaker 2: I mean, people just want to, you know, kind of
27:26
Speaker 2: hate on the Seahawks.
27:27
Speaker 4: I saw people yesterday, well so they couldn't find somebody
27:29
Speaker 4: with interesting players, like we need star.
27:31
Speaker 2: Power, oh god, And I was like star Bowl too.
27:35
Speaker 4: Yeah, but I'm like star power, So JSN not a
27:38
Speaker 4: star for you, Leonard Williams, not a star for you.
27:41
Speaker 4: I mean, it's just because you're not paying enough attention
27:44
Speaker 4: or you don't you know, we're up here in this
27:46
Speaker 4: corner and you just think I need a name of
27:48
Speaker 4: somebody I see on commercials every day.
27:51
Speaker 2: But that doesn't make I mean, you know, you don't
27:55
Speaker 2: need us.
27:55
Speaker 4: You don't need to have commercial star power to be
27:57
Speaker 4: a star in football.
27:59
Speaker 1: Well, I yet when fans and loud mouths on social
28:02
Speaker 1: media do it because they're just defensive and have to
28:05
Speaker 1: act out. But in the Super Bowl you had guys
28:09
Speaker 1: who are paid to follow sports who are telling us
28:13
Speaker 1: that they've not heard of most of the guys on
28:15
Speaker 1: the Seahawk roster. Well, that's not any reflection on the
28:18
Speaker 1: quality of the Seahawks or Patriots roster. That's a reflection
28:22
Speaker 1: on the quality of you, the sports talking Yeah.
28:24
Speaker 2: And how uneducated you are for doing the job you're
28:26
Speaker 2: about to do.
28:27
Speaker 1: That You don't follow football closely enough, the biggest sport
28:32
Speaker 1: in our country by a million miles. You do this
28:35
Speaker 1: for a living, and yet you don't know the players
28:38
Speaker 1: on the best roster in the National Football League. That's
28:41
Speaker 1: a reflection on you there, Bud, whoever you are out
28:46
Speaker 1: there all right, Well, yeah, I'm it's the only thing
28:51
Speaker 1: that would have intrigued me. I'll tell you that there
28:54
Speaker 1: wasn't another team that they could have put on that
28:57
Speaker 1: I would have been interested in. So my love for
29:00
Speaker 1: hard knocks has gone away, and yet you sucked me
29:04
Speaker 1: back in only because I'm a Seattle sports talk show
29:08
Speaker 1: and I can't possibly miss this, but I doubt I'm
29:11
Speaker 1: gonna watch in twenty twenty seven. All right, coming up next,
29:14
Speaker 1: one last thing to close out the show. It's Chuck
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean tell me you wouldn't be all about it?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly, like yeah, but he also acts as every
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Speaker 4: Either way, it's going to be great. I'm just saying,
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Speaker 4: he could, you know, spice things up of it.
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Speaker 3: April eleventh.
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Speaker 2: April eleventh, be there either way.
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Speaker 3: What's your one last thing today?
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Speaker 2: I have two very short things.
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Speaker 3: Okay, okay.
32:07
Speaker 2: On Sunday, the.
32:07
Speaker 4: Mariners wore these Steelheads uniforms, and I saw some mixed
32:12
Speaker 4: reviews on social media, but I was kind of surprised.
32:14
Speaker 2: By the people that didn't like them. I thought they
32:16
Speaker 2: looked really nice and clean and awesome.
32:18
Speaker 3: Yeah.
32:19
Speaker 4: I mean I kept looking at them and saying to
32:20
Speaker 4: five Iron, like, these uniforms look great.
32:24
Speaker 3: They're great.
32:25
Speaker 4: I don't understand why anyone would have had a negative
32:28
Speaker 4: reaction to it.
32:29
Speaker 3: I think just fashion and just different tastes, I suppose.
32:32
Speaker 4: And it didn't have the you don't have the blue,
32:34
Speaker 4: the green, the teel, any of the traditional Mariner's colors, obviously,
32:38
Speaker 4: because you are replicating the Steelheads uniforms.
32:41
Speaker 3: I don't know.
32:42
Speaker 2: I just thought they were fantastic, well done, Mariners. I
32:44
Speaker 2: loved them.
32:45
Speaker 3: I think they're gorgeous.
32:46
Speaker 1: I think that's a great look and uniform a lot
32:48
Speaker 1: of the Negro League uniforms if you modernize them fantastically.
32:54
Speaker 3: Yeah, just fantastic.
32:56
Speaker 1: And so I wasn't familiar with the Steelheads one until
32:59
Speaker 1: I moved to Seattle, but I think it's a great
33:02
Speaker 1: looking uniform. I really think the Friday Night one is
33:06
Speaker 1: a great looking uniform, and I know that caught people
33:09
Speaker 1: that kind of shocked people different that they were.
33:12
Speaker 3: Yeah.
33:13
Speaker 1: I think our home whites are fine, and then everything else.
33:17
Speaker 3: Is total and complete garbage.
33:20
Speaker 1: That's my assessment of our uniforms in their present state.
33:23
Speaker 4: I like all of our uniforms, but I'm also admittedly
33:26
Speaker 4: very biased and I have a full on Homer approach
33:29
Speaker 4: to our uniforms.
33:29
Speaker 2: So there you go. I'm good with it. I also
33:31
Speaker 2: liked our old Sunday uniforms with the crew and the blue.
33:33
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I.
33:35
Speaker 1: Maykin we should do the cream ones and that just
33:37
Speaker 1: becomes the regular uniform, get rid of the other two.
33:41
Speaker 1: I wouldn't bring back a gray and then use the
33:44
Speaker 1: steel Heads and the You.
33:45
Speaker 2: Do like the gray, Yeah, you do like the gray.
33:47
Speaker 3: Well, you got to have a gray uniform.
33:50
Speaker 1: That's just it should be a like against the law
33:52
Speaker 1: not to have a gray uniform.
33:54
Speaker 2: Yeah, I understand. Okay. My other real short one, I
33:57
Speaker 2: thought it was very funny last.
33:58
Speaker 4: Night as we were watching the Mayor in his game,
34:01
Speaker 4: Brendan Donovan gets on first base and they do a
34:03
Speaker 4: close up of his head and it seemed like his
34:06
Speaker 4: hair was really billowing in the wind. And I sent
34:10
Speaker 4: you a text and I was like, man, is it
34:12
Speaker 4: just me or is Brendan Donovan's hair extra flowy?
34:16
Speaker 2: And you wrote back, weird. I was just thinking the
34:19
Speaker 2: same thing.
34:20
Speaker 4: It made me laugh so hard because I didn't know
34:22
Speaker 4: if you were telling the truth or a lot. But
34:25
Speaker 4: then I was like, I just love that we were
34:26
Speaker 4: both sitting there like, wow, his hair looks spectacular there,
34:30
Speaker 4: because it really did. It was like it was like
34:32
Speaker 4: he was in a commercial and there was a little
34:34
Speaker 4: fan blowing on the left side of his head.
34:37
Speaker 1: Well, you know what's very strange about him is he's
34:39
Speaker 1: like the rugged, dirtiest guy on the field.
34:43
Speaker 2: Yeah, has to get his uniform dirty.
34:45
Speaker 1: And yet he has this long, flowing hair and then
34:48
Speaker 1: he's got this headband on yeah, and he looks like
34:51
Speaker 1: some sort of like nineteen eighties, like you know, aerobics instructor,
34:58
Speaker 1: you know, half expecting him to have legwarmers on, I
35:02
Speaker 1: mean on the field.
35:04
Speaker 3: And so it's like this, it's like two different worlds.
35:09
Speaker 2: Yeah.
35:10
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like the guy trying to look pretty, but
35:12
Speaker 1: he's also the roughest, toughest guy, yes as well, like
35:16
Speaker 1: he can do it all the combination of the elements,
35:19
Speaker 1: and so I'm not sure really what I'm to make
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Speaker 1: of him just yet. It's just like his offense, his
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Speaker 1: offense is phenomenal and his defense is struggling, and I
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Speaker 1: think I'm not sure really what to make of Brendan Donovan.
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Speaker 4: All all I know is I'm already a fan and
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Speaker 4: the hair on point Brendon and keep up the good.
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Speaker 3: Oh wait do you meet him?
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Speaker 2: Oh? You guys interview him? And I was like, h
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Speaker 2: I love this guy.
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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, he's spent time. I'm not even kidding you,
35:44
Speaker 1: Like we interviewed it first of all when we were
35:46
Speaker 1: at spring training.
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Speaker 3: He just walked right up to our sets.
35:49
Speaker 1: Because sometimes it's really tough to get these guys to
35:51
Speaker 1: they don't really want to do interviews. Like ever, we
35:55
Speaker 1: have a good enough relationship with most of them that
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Speaker 1: they notice us.
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Speaker 3: But it's not like any of them run over and
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Speaker 3: they can't wait to do an interview.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, they're like, okay, you kind of have to ask
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Speaker 1: him and remind him and like it's today. You kind
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Speaker 1: of make them appointment, and you got to figure out
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Speaker 1: when's the best time to get them on. And then
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Speaker 1: you know, most of the time they get over there
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Speaker 1: and they have a good time. Brenda Donovan, without even
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Speaker 1: having met him, walked right up to our set, set
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Speaker 1: his bag down and said, Hey, I'm Brendan and introduced
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Speaker 1: himself to us.
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Speaker 3: Didn't have to ask him.
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Speaker 2: No.
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Speaker 1: Gino Suarez once put his this is James war is
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Speaker 1: like the nicest guy in the world. And he once
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Speaker 1: saw me coming out of the corner of his eye
36:37
Speaker 1: and surrounded himself with chairs so he couldn't get it,
36:41
Speaker 1: so that I couldn't penetrate his barrier.
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Speaker 3: And he's actually overly nice.
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Speaker 1: So this is the way that they typically treat He
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Speaker 1: just walked up and said and then I looked at
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Speaker 1: him and I'm like, hey, very nice to meet you.
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Speaker 1: Would you like to come on? He goes, well, That's
36:55
Speaker 1: what I'm here for, I said, he said, I'm a
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Speaker 1: new guy in town. I might as well get to
36:58
Speaker 1: know everybody.
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Speaker 4: I love.
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Speaker 2: That is that is that not great? Makes me love
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Speaker 2: him even more.
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Speaker 1: Then I see him the next day in the hallway
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Speaker 1: and he stops me and he says, so, how are
37:08
Speaker 1: you tell me your story?
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Speaker 3: Oh, he asked, like he interviewed me.
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Speaker 2: Man, he's a little gem.
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Speaker 3: He's a gem.
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Speaker 2: I like him, like him a lot.
37:17
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know what to think of him.
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Speaker 1: Just think great things, right right. It's like, uh, it's
37:24
Speaker 1: like Jane Fonda meets Henry Fonda.
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Speaker 2: Oh that's a lot of Fonda.
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Speaker 3: I'm very Fonda of him. Yes, very very Fonda of him.
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Speaker 1: All Right, I was I'm gonna say my one last
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Speaker 1: thing for tomorrow. So I'm just going to close with this.
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Speaker 1: Tomorrow is Draft miss our celebration begins, so a month
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Speaker 3: That began it.
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Speaker 1: So yes, tomorrow we will start our Draft Miss coverage.
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Speaker 3: We'll kick it off.
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Speaker 1: We got a couple new features that we're gonna have
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Speaker 3: Those are staples.
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Speaker 1: Rob Ring's gonna be with us, Greg Bell will be
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Speaker 1: with Draftmas, but I always try to keep it fresh.
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Speaker 1: So get ready tomorrow at six a m. We launch
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Speaker 4: Well, that's probably true, and if Bucky was here, he
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