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Chuck & Buck 2-17 Hour 2: Bring on the youngins! Cole Young and Colt Emerson join the show. · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: The challenge system this year.
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  Speaker 2: What's the organizational philosophy on who gets to challenge? When
• 0:07
  Speaker 2: you get to challenge, is it just a couple of
• 0:09
  Speaker 2: players that you're going to give that to at the plate?
• 0:12
  Speaker 2: How are you going to manage that as the organization?
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  Speaker 1: Everybody but Randy?
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I say that. I say that Randy's been
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  Speaker 3: your's been prone to in the early morning sessions that
• 0:26
  Speaker 3: you may have seen with Kate Anderson or Ryan Sloan,
• 0:28
  Speaker 3: you know, and Randy's been quick to challenge, and he's
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  Speaker 3: not always.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I intend to laugh a lot this week.
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  Speaker 2: There's not going to be anything that's said this week.
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  Speaker 1: That's funny, that's hilarious.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, what's your philosophy with the new challenge system? Anyone
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  Speaker 2: can challenge but Randy.
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  Speaker 1: That's from the president.
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  Speaker 4: That is great, not surprising.
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  Speaker 1: I think that.
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  Speaker 4: I'm pretty I'm pretty sure Rose Arena doesn't think any
• 1:02
  Speaker 4: strike called on him was really a strike.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: But the thing is, though it's not gonna work like
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  Speaker 2: they can say that.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what they're gonna do to him, start
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  Speaker 1: finding him.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, they they preached to him last year about hey,
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  Speaker 2: you know you, we don't want you to steal. You
• 1:17
  Speaker 2: don't have a green light all the time because we
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  Speaker 2: got these guys called cal Raley and Julio who we
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  Speaker 2: might want to do damage to plate.
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  Speaker 1: And he never paid attention to it.
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  Speaker 2: He just went when he wanted to go, and so
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  Speaker 2: they had they've had some issues with you know, Randy
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  Speaker 2: just kind of blowing off instructions.
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  Speaker 1: Let's just put it that way.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I mean, if if you only have a couple
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  Speaker 4: of them and he blows through two of them and
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  Speaker 4: all of a sudden you have no more left and
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  Speaker 4: you come it comes down to you really needed one,
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  Speaker 4: they'll have a talking to him like, hey, don't do
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  Speaker 4: it unless you're boss.
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  Speaker 1: Dip Oh, they have a talk to him. I'm just saying,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not sure it's gonna stick. They had to talk
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  Speaker 1: to him all a lot of things, like.
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  Speaker 2: Not pimping home runs for the other guy. They had
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  Speaker 2: talks to him with him about that. He did curb
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  Speaker 2: that some this past year, though he didn't do it
• 2:05
  Speaker 2: as much as he's done it in the past. Good morning,
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  Speaker 2: Welcome into our Day two spring training coverage here live
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  Speaker 2: from Peoria, Arizona. It's Chuck and Buck with you and
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  Speaker 2: if you miss Day one, you miss Jerry Depoto, but
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  Speaker 2: we are going to replace some of that for you
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  Speaker 2: a little bit later on in the show.
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  Speaker 1: We also have Cole Young coming up here in a moment.
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  Speaker 2: As we enter the seven o'clock hour, let me first
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  Speaker 2: get to your frost brewed corps like shoes chill headlines,
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  Speaker 2: and we do start with baseball, where Bryce Miller told
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  Speaker 2: Daniel Kramer that the elbow rested this offseason. He feels
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  Speaker 2: like he is one hundred percent right now heading into
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty six.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, he.
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  Speaker 2: Battled injuries last year throughout the campaign and then finished
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  Speaker 2: very strong in the postseason. He also, I can tell
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  Speaker 2: you he's ad a little bit of muscle to the frame,
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  Speaker 2: so certainly took his offseason seriously and told Daniel Kramer
• 3:01
  Speaker 2: he is feeling one hundred percent right now. Same with
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  Speaker 2: cal Raley. He's been a little bit under the weather,
• 3:07
  Speaker 2: no big deal there, but he's walking around and looks
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  Speaker 2: like old col Here again today, let's see we got
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  Speaker 2: Ken Walker, who will talk about a little bit later
• 3:18
  Speaker 2: on in the radio program, the running back the Super
• 3:22
  Speaker 2: Bowl MVP. It is Franchise Tag Day. The Windows starts
• 3:26
  Speaker 2: today in the National Football League off season, but the Seahawks.
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  Speaker 1: Are probably not.
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  Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, there are stories out there
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  Speaker 2: from Adam Schefter and many others suggesting that highly unlikely
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  Speaker 2: that the Mariners, who excuse me, the Seahawks, who have
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  Speaker 2: only used the franchise tag two times in the last
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  Speaker 2: sixteen years, are going to use it on the Super
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  Speaker 2: Bowl MVP. That price tag would be fourteen and a
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  Speaker 2: half million dollars on Ken Walker for a one year contract.
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  Speaker 2: They are going to try to re sign him as
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  Speaker 2: a free agent before he hits the free agent market,
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  Speaker 2: but there's a very good chance that Walker will at
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  Speaker 2: least test the market and see what other teams are offering.
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  Speaker 2: We'll talk about that a little bit more later on
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  Speaker 2: in the hour. It's a Cracking Ticket Tuesday today, so
• 4:11
  Speaker 2: keep listening. Every hour we will play that cracking sounder.
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  Speaker 2: Be the tenth caller at two oh six, two eight
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  Speaker 2: to an upcoming cracking game, and speaking of the Krack,
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  Speaker 2: and we will chat with evert fits you. We always
• 4:26
  Speaker 2: chat with Everett from our coverage here in Peoria every year.
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  Speaker 2: So the voice of the Krack and will join us
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  Speaker 2: today and is normal slot at eight thirty. We'll talk
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  Speaker 2: to him about the Olympics and the crack and what
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  Speaker 2: they're getting done during this three week break and more
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  Speaker 2: so we will do that at eight thirty, and the
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  Speaker 2: US hockey team will return to the ice tomorrow night.
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  Speaker 1: So there you go. Those are your frost brewed cores, like.
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  Speaker 2: Choose chill headlines. And I know that it's cold back
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  Speaker 2: back in town. And I will just tell you, Ashley,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, we do have ice right next door. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we do have ice here, like yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Like, yeah, that's for drinks.
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  Speaker 2: But but I'm just saying we've got ice here.
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  Speaker 5: Cars didn't sound like they were breaking when you opened them.
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  Speaker 1: No, No, that did not happen.
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  Speaker 4: No, our minivan was not frosted over.
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  Speaker 5: Again, mine wasn't frosted over. It was full on frozen over.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, we didn't have that.
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  Speaker 1: And I would just like to point out that it
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  Speaker 1: is partly cloudy here.
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  Speaker 5: Oh my gosh, how are you even dealing with that?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I'll just tell you I'm I'm continuing to wear
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  Speaker 4: my shades through the cloudy parts just because it still
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  Speaker 4: is kind of bright.
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  Speaker 1: It is annoying. To have to take them on and off.
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  Speaker 4: I'm just not Yeah, I'm not doing that. So I
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  Speaker 4: mean it's a struggle that we go through coming down
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  Speaker 4: here to do this, and I think it's one that
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  Speaker 4: actually maybe doesn't appreciate.
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  Speaker 5: Your sacrifices do not go unnoticed.
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  Speaker 4: Oh thank you, that's good.
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  Speaker 1: I'm glad you picked up on it. Yeah yeah, so, uh, anyway.
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  Speaker 5: I appreciated, but they don't go unnoticed.
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  Speaker 1: But yes, I mean, don't think we're in the lap
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  Speaker 1: of luxury here. We got ice too.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we have cloud cover, all water, we get slipping
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  Speaker 2: that yep. Yeah, get our socks wet potentially. All right, Well,
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  Speaker 2: joining us now at our set. Really excited to chat
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  Speaker 2: with this young man and he's mustache lists.
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  Speaker 1: Now it is the.
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  Speaker 2: Second year, second basement for your Seattle Mariner's cool young
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  Speaker 2: sitting down with us here on Chuck and Buck.
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  Speaker 1: How you doing, man, You're good. Good to see you. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: good to see you guys.
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  Speaker 6: Gonna be back in Peoria and in the nice weather
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  Speaker 6: and yeah, yeah, look at you.
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  Speaker 2: What what was the decision? Like, I'm not a mustache
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  Speaker 2: guy anymore.
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  Speaker 1: When did you just make that decision? I think I
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  Speaker 1: just got tired of it.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I had it, had it pretty much the whole
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  Speaker 6: year last year and just wanted to change this year.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm all clean shaven, ready to go. Yeah, looking good,
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. How you feeling?
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  Speaker 6: I feel great. I feel like I'm in a really
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  Speaker 6: good spot right now. I feel really good physically mentally
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  Speaker 6: feel good too. So yeah, it's nice to get out
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  Speaker 6: on the field. Take VP on the field. Got some
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  Speaker 6: lives today too, So yeah, it's been great.
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  Speaker 4: How was how did how did you feel going into
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  Speaker 4: the off season? Obviously as a squad, you guys came
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  Speaker 4: up short of where you wanted to be, but still
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  Speaker 4: a great run. And but for you, I mean the
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  Speaker 4: whirlwind of your first taste of the big leagues and
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  Speaker 4: that the whole learning curve. I mean there was a
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  Speaker 4: moment there during that where you were you were doing great,
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  Speaker 4: and then there was the learning process of of kind
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  Speaker 4: of going through some struggles and whatnot. So just how
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  Speaker 4: was that whole, that whole part of basically getting to
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  Speaker 4: the show and then going through some of those growths.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, it was. It was great.
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  Speaker 6: You know, like you said, there were some there were
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  Speaker 6: some good times when I was when I was up
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  Speaker 6: and some bad times, but you know, it's nice going
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  Speaker 6: to the off season having an idea and you know
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  Speaker 6: how I can improve and what I can work on.
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  Speaker 1: So that was that was really nice.
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  Speaker 6: It was nice to be back home, see my friend's
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  Speaker 6: family and you know, just work on the stuff I
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  Speaker 6: need to work on so I can come here right
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  Speaker 6: now and be in a good spot.
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  Speaker 4: So it was.
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  Speaker 6: It was a great offseason. And yeah, putting put in
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  Speaker 6: a lot of work, so yeah, I'm excited.
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  Speaker 2: Uh he had like a couple like tape measure shots, right,
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  Speaker 2: Did you surprise yourself with that or is that in
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  Speaker 2: Cole Young's bag this year?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean I was. I was definitely a little surprised.
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  Speaker 6: Hit a couple in Triple A, couple of good ones
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  Speaker 6: in Triple A. But I kind of figured it was
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  Speaker 6: just like the Air and Triple A because some of
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  Speaker 6: those parks of all flies in. But yeah, I guess
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  Speaker 6: I did surprise myself a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't think. I guess the Big League balls helps.
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  Speaker 1: But no, it was that I don't want to sit
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  Speaker 1: you exact I can I can trust me. Dam Yeah no,
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  Speaker 1: that's that can't be a trap too.
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  Speaker 6: It's like, oh, I want to do it again because
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  Speaker 6: that that's sing felt so good. But I gotta get
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  Speaker 6: back to the to the basics and in the approach.
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  Speaker 4: What were the things you said going into the off
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  Speaker 4: season it was nice to kind of get to get
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  Speaker 4: that taste of the big leagues and yet know there
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  Speaker 4: was some things you want to work on. Specifically, What
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  Speaker 4: were things that you were really concentrating on that are
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  Speaker 4: going to make you better this year?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I would say, just you know, developing a really
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  Speaker 6: solid routine each day. You know, this going into the
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  Speaker 6: kids each day, knowing what I'm going to do, knowing
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  Speaker 6: what drills I'm going to do, and then going out
• 9:25
  Speaker 6: in the infield doing some infield drills and just understanding
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  Speaker 6: like what makes my body feel good, what makes my
• 9:32
  Speaker 6: mind feel good, and yeah, just just put into work
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  Speaker 6: and you know, just trying to be the best version
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  Speaker 6: of myself. So that was kind of my mentality going
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  Speaker 6: in the off season, and yeah, it was it was great.
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  Speaker 2: Cole Young is with us here, second year and second
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  Speaker 2: basement for your Seattle Mariners, and look, I mean you've
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  Speaker 2: been a shortstop most of your life, so even playing
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  Speaker 2: second base to the major league level, you're still.
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  Speaker 1: Learning the position.
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  Speaker 2: How much more comfortable are you with it today than
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  Speaker 2: where you were a year ago when you had this
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  Speaker 2: conversation with us.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, a lot more comfortable today, I think. I think
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  Speaker 6: last year, like going into last year, you know, I
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  Speaker 6: didn't have that much experience at second base.
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  Speaker 1: It was mostly shortstop, so I mean I was obviously.
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  Speaker 6: Familiar with, you know, playing the infield, and that that
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  Speaker 6: helps a ton going from short to second. But I
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  Speaker 6: would say the biggest things that I learned last year
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  Speaker 6: was just you know, double play feeds footwork at second base,
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  Speaker 6: the relays at second base, so it's just getting used
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  Speaker 6: to that. And I felt like I grew a lot
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  Speaker 6: at second base last year, and you know, thanks to
• 10:34
  Speaker 6: Bone for that, and he helped me out a ton
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  Speaker 6: last year, and and that helped me, you know, work
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  Speaker 6: on in the off season too, just knowing just you know,
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  Speaker 6: working on the little things at second and I'm trying
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  Speaker 6: to get better at that this past offseason.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, I feel feel a lot better cool.
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  Speaker 4: I think that you know, it would be safe to
• 10:52
  Speaker 4: say that when it comes to the second base position,
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  Speaker 4: you're in pole position at this point in time, right,
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  Speaker 4: I expect you to be the starting second baseman out
• 10:59
  Speaker 4: there there, and yet we all want to be like,
• 11:02
  Speaker 4: I don't think Cal has to worry about whether he's
• 11:04
  Speaker 4: gonna be a starting catcher this year, right, we all
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  Speaker 4: want to get to that point, but we're not there
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  Speaker 4: just yet with you. And so what is it that
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  Speaker 4: you did getting ready for this spring training where it's
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  Speaker 4: you feel like you're ready for the mental side of
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  Speaker 4: what's going into I'm going out and taking this job,
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  Speaker 4: or is it I'm just going out there and thinking
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  Speaker 4: I'm not I'm just gonna go out and show what
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  Speaker 4: i can do and I'm I'm not going to lose
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  Speaker 4: a job and doing it that way.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I'd say my mentality is just just trying to
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  Speaker 6: get better every single day. Just you know, once you
• 11:33
  Speaker 6: start looking down the road, it's you can lose focus
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  Speaker 6: on the day to day stuff. And but my focus
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  Speaker 6: is just do my routine each day, just trying to
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  Speaker 6: get better. And I try not to think in the future.
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  Speaker 6: I try to stay present. And you know, I've learned
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  Speaker 6: over the past few years that you know, looking ahead
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  Speaker 6: usually you know, will hurt you. So I just try
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  Speaker 6: to just you know, be grateful for you know, every
• 11:59
  Speaker 6: day and try to get better.
• 12:00
  Speaker 1: Is it weird? Uh? You tell me.
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  Speaker 2: I don't even know if you've been teammates with him
• 12:04
  Speaker 2: much in the minor leagues, but Cold and Colt we've
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  Speaker 2: been talking about for years and you probably are the
• 12:10
  Speaker 2: future of the infield of this organization, and yet you're
• 12:13
  Speaker 2: probably competing uh here spring training. Try to explain that
• 12:17
  Speaker 2: dynamic from your perspective.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, we definitely, like we don't look at
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  Speaker 6: each other like that. It's we're we're all friends in there.
• 12:27
  Speaker 6: You know, we all have fun when we come to
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  Speaker 6: the field every single day. We you know, we talk
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  Speaker 6: about life or whatever. It is, like we don't we
• 12:35
  Speaker 6: don't really you know, care about that stuff. So we
• 12:38
  Speaker 6: we just come to the field.
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  Speaker 2: You're giving him a hot foot or you know, you know,
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  Speaker 2: like that, trying to throw them off his game.
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  Speaker 6: Definitely not No Colts Colet's always been a good friend
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  Speaker 6: since he got drafted the Mariners, and you know, it's
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  Speaker 6: been great to you know, develop that relationship over the
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  Speaker 6: past few years.
• 13:00
  Speaker 2: If you do want to just go real quick with
• 13:01
  Speaker 2: the Clippers, just right over there, that'll throw them all.
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  Speaker 4: That'll throw them all all right, He'll be great friends
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  Speaker 4: after that. I back when I played. I didn't get
• 13:12
  Speaker 4: to play in the big leagues very long, but it
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  Speaker 4: was long enough that I took a lot of pride
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  Speaker 4: in kind of being a sponge and learning from people
• 13:19
  Speaker 4: that had been there and done that. You have a
• 13:22
  Speaker 4: group of guys as far as pitchers that are tops
• 13:25
  Speaker 4: in the game, as far as the starting staff goes,
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  Speaker 4: and even some of the guys in the bullpen. Are
• 13:30
  Speaker 4: you picking their brains? Because I can remember asking, like
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  Speaker 4: Jamie Moyer, for example, like Okay, how would you get
• 13:35
  Speaker 4: me out? How what would you do to attack me?
• 13:37
  Speaker 4: So that I had a veteran's perspective on how that
• 13:40
  Speaker 4: we by.
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  Speaker 1: The way he said, it'd be easy.
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  Speaker 4: I'd just throw you fastball and side let you hit
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  Speaker 4: a five hundred feet foul, and then I'd change.
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  Speaker 1: Up you to death. I'd be easy.
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  Speaker 4: I'm like, oh god, that isn't really what I expected,
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  Speaker 4: but it works. Have you picked the brains of some
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  Speaker 4: of these guys, the pitchers on your team and and
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  Speaker 4: learned some things from them?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? I did a little bit last year. You know.
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  Speaker 6: It's always nice knowing the talking to pictures and seeing
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  Speaker 6: what they're thinking and how they attack you. And I
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  Speaker 6: started doing that a little bit last year, and that's
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  Speaker 6: one of my goals for this year is to just
• 14:10
  Speaker 6: you know, talk to the pictures a little bit more
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  Speaker 6: and try to you know, see what they're thinking and
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  Speaker 6: how they attack guys. And like you said, the pitchers
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  Speaker 6: on the staff are amazing, so you know, they they
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  Speaker 6: really know how to how to go out there and
• 14:23
  Speaker 6: you know, attack a hitter and they're very disciplined with
• 14:26
  Speaker 6: their their game plan. So yeah, you know, it's it's
• 14:30
  Speaker 6: nice trying to pick their brains and learn from them.
• 14:32
  Speaker 1: Did you go back home to Pittsburgh this offseason then? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and you.
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  Speaker 2: Saw your old friends and now that you're a major leaguer,
• 14:39
  Speaker 2: all the girls thought you were even cuter than they
• 14:41
  Speaker 2: remembered and all of that stuff. What was the return
• 14:44
  Speaker 2: home for the you know, big league hero like in Pittsburgh, PA?
• 14:48
  Speaker 1: For you? Yeah, I mean it wasn't as glorious as that, but.
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  Speaker 6: Kind of a parade, I know, you know, I just
• 14:58
  Speaker 6: you know, went back home, just did the same routine
• 15:01
  Speaker 6: I've I've done the past few offseasons. So I just
• 15:04
  Speaker 6: got to see all my all my friends are back home,
• 15:07
  Speaker 6: you know, my family too, So I mean my off scenes.
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: It's pretty simple.
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  Speaker 6: It's just you know, work out in the morning, hit
• 15:15
  Speaker 6: ground balls, go home, play some Xbox and then dude,
• 15:18
  Speaker 6: dude every day.
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: So what's your game of choice.
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  Speaker 6: I've been playing a lot of NHL, NHL. I just
• 15:24
  Speaker 6: like all the sports games, So like two K, NHL
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  Speaker 6: sometimes Madden.
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  Speaker 1: Do you play the kracking? Yeah, I mean I'll switch
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: it up, okay usually, how how it works what.
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  Speaker 6: We do will just randomize the team and I've gotten
• 15:37
  Speaker 6: to the cracking a few times, so it's it's fun
• 15:39
  Speaker 6: playing with them. But yeah, that's that's kind of the
• 15:42
  Speaker 6: day in the life.
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  Speaker 1: So it was. It was a good off season, all right.
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  Speaker 2: Well, great to see you have a great camp, have
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: a great year. Uh can't wait to see you grow
• 15:49
  Speaker 2: and develop even more. They always a pleasure to have
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: you on the show. On joining us right here on
• 15:55
  Speaker 2: Chuck and Buck.
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: In the morning.
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: Win picked up a little bit another thing we're having
• 15:59
  Speaker 2: to deal with here that Ashley doesn't appreciate. Yeah, well,
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  Speaker 2: I think brave courage comes to mind, as you know,
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: a word cloud to describe Chuck and Buck this morning here,
• 16:09
  Speaker 2: braving the elamos at times, you know, tough because it
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: does it switches sometimes when it goes behind the clouds,
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  Speaker 2: I mean it drops down to probably fifty five.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and then we're on a roller coaster all of
• 16:19
  Speaker 4: a sudden, and you're like, oh, my gosh's sunscreen. And
• 16:24
  Speaker 4: then you're like, oh, watch out for that puddle from
• 16:26
  Speaker 4: the rain last night.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, don't worry about it.
• 16:28
  Speaker 4: It's not gonna rain again for months.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so tough.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I just I admire you both so much.
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: Well that's kind of you to say, and also great
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: to have Cole Jung here on the radio program.
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, he he He didn't look natural with the mustache.
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: Now that he's walked away from us, now that he's
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: beyond ear shot, I.
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  Speaker 1: Think he looks better this way. Yeah, yeah, I think
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  Speaker 1: he was. I think he was forced. I don't think
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: he was yet.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think he's at mustache age yet. I don't
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: think his face has rounded into mustache for him.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I'm just gonna go ahead and say pretty much,
• 17:02
  Speaker 4: no one looks good but just a mustache.
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  Speaker 2: Our waiter did last night. You look like the guy
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: on the pringles can. It was a fantastic mustache, it was.
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: It was a lot of a mustache. I'm gonna I'll
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: just leave it to that. It was a lot of mustache.
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  Speaker 1: He went.
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  Speaker 2: He did a lot to keep that thing exactly where
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: he wanted it.
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  Speaker 5: Just can't stop.
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  Speaker 2: Uh No, that would have probably been creepy. You know,
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: we're talking about his mustache. But yeah, it was. It
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: was glorious, Ashley. It was really, I mean, like he
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: came up to our table and good note couldn't help
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: but notice it's like a billboard with neon lights on it.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, it was a mustache.
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: It was.
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  Speaker 4: It was like a giant caterpillar on a right below
• 17:45
  Speaker 4: his nose. It was a thing. Okay, I'm just not
• 17:49
  Speaker 4: a fan of the only mustache. Look, you know, I
• 17:52
  Speaker 4: mean it was my old my dad had it, and
• 17:53
  Speaker 4: it was like that age of folks that was a
• 17:56
  Speaker 4: thing like it did a lot of people just had
• 17:58
  Speaker 4: it and went away and understandably so oh and now
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  Speaker 4: it's coming back, huh And I don't understand why I'll
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: come back.
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  Speaker 2: Just the stash young people wanted to be different. Cole
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: Young looks looks good though he looks better without it.
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  Speaker 2: And look, I mean the job's not his here at camp.
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: He's it's not locked in that he's gonna be. He's
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: in a competition here today. I'll just say this about
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: Cole and I thought that that they handled it the
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: way I would have handled it in that situation. They
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: gave him a chance to win the job in camp
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: a year ago. At this time, they weren't gonna limit him.
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: He really had to take it though, He really had
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: to seize it, and he didn't. And so, yeah, you
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: break camp. He goes to the miners, Ryan Bliss, you're
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: starting second baseman. Bliss gets injured. Cole Young's the guy
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: that comes up. Maybe it was a little early, maybe
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: he struggled a little bit, Maybe you need a little
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: more seasoning, but he started to play better, and you
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: could certainly see why the organization's so excited about him
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: and his future.
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  Speaker 1: Those home runs that.
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  Speaker 2: He hit, I mean, he didn't connect a lot on
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: home runs, but man, they were a couple of.
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  Speaker 1: Them on me. I did not know you had that power,
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  Speaker 1: young man.
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  Speaker 2: And then you know, the league started to figure him
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: out and he started to struggle, and I thought that
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: they removed him from the lineup at the right time.
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: And it had to be a crushing blow that he
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: didn't get to be on the postseason roster after being
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: a big part of this team for most of the
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: season a year ago. But I thought it was the
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: right move. I thought that they had a better option
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: at that point in the season. So I think they
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: handled it well. How he reacts to it heading into
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: this season, we shall find out. But I know that
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: nothing has been tarnished about their belief in him and
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: his future with this baseball team.
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  Speaker 4: Of course not I mean the kids young. He was
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: twenty years old, like he couldn't even you know, buy
• 19:52
  Speaker 4: a beer. I think last year when he was up
• 19:54
  Speaker 4: in the big leagues, I can't even imagine trying to
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: compete at that level at that age. There was just
• 19:58
  Speaker 4: so much that I had to learn over for me
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: for the next five years before I would have thought
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: that I was capable of competing at that level. And
• 20:07
  Speaker 4: yet he did it, and he showed signs of ooh,
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: and not just the tape measure home runs. There were
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: some really good AB's in there. There were some really
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: good defensive plays in there. And then there was times
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: where the avalanche starts kind of rolling downhill and you
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: next thing you know, you find yourself in an o
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: for ten an oh for fifteen slump, and that's tough
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: to pull out of it at that level. To go
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: through that the first time and figure out how do
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: I deal with it is something everybody has to go through.
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: Very rarely do rookies, especially that age, come up and
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: just don't have any scuffles. You got to have them.
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: What turns you into the ballplayer you're going to be
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: is how do you deal with it? And Yeah, I'm
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: sure that it was demoralizing, but I'm also sure that
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: it was incentivizing or motivating for him to not be
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: on that postseason roster because he knows well, I kind
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: of played myself into it. I showed that I could
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: play there. I also showed that at times I'm overmatched
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: there and so I have to clean it up and
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: become more consistent. If he does that this year, he's
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: not gonna have to worry about not being there in
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: the season.
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: I would like nothing more that make no doubt.
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: He wins the job and then just you know, grows
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: and builds, and he's still got a lot of They're
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: gonna be ups and downs, certainly because he's you know,
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: it's twenty one now, he's still very very young in
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: this process, but I think that he's got a really
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: bright future as a Mariner infielder. Speaking of the future,
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: coming up next, this is turning into an infield show.
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: I mean, what look at the infielders.
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: They're so jealous a pitcher's day that they've decided they're
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: gonna seize tuesdays.
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: I guess from this point.
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: Forward, we got Brendan Donovan coming up at eight o'clock today.
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: Coming up next on the program, we're gonna be joined
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: by Cold Emerson. We just were talking about him. His
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: ears were burning. You're gonna come over here and defend himself.
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: So Cold Emerson joins us next on Chuck and Buck
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  Speaker 4: Believe people Seattle have ice?
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  Speaker 5: Drat rat That's what I said.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know if I've ever said drat give
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  Speaker 2: Colt Emerson, they picked picked a really good time to
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: do some hammering there, sir.
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Great. Colt Emerson on the radio show today. Good
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: to see you man. How are you.
• 23:21
  Speaker 8: I'm doing well, Thank you for having me one.
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: Great to be back. Great to have you on the show.
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: Great to see you again. And man for you man,
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: the show is calling. I mean, everybody's talking about it.
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: You're not too far away. I mean last year when
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: you arrived here cold and that really wasn't a possibility,
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: wasn't a strong possibility anyway, But this year it is.
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: So how does that feel to.
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: Come to spring training knowing that this might be the
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: year that I'm playing Major League baseball?
• 23:49
  Speaker 9: Yeah, it's it's a really cool feeling. Obviously, I don't
• 23:53
  Speaker 9: know if that's gonna happen or not. You know, I
• 23:55
  Speaker 9: still got a spring training at a lot of decisions
• 23:58
  Speaker 9: gonna be made, but you know, it's exciting. It's exciting
• 24:01
  Speaker 9: to be second year here and coming into a clubhouse
• 24:03
  Speaker 9: that had a lot of success last year. You know,
• 24:06
  Speaker 9: the vibes in the clubhouse are extremely well and I'm
• 24:08
  Speaker 9: just really happy to be a part of it.
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: Really, how was your off season, I mean, anything in
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: particular you were thinking about that you had to work on,
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: because last year, I mean you kind of ran through
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: the minor leagues, ended up getting up to Triple A
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: and having some success there. And yet, you know, I mean,
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: being at your age, there still is things you want
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: to improve on and things you got to get better
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: at in order to not just get to the big
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: leagues but stick and be a guy that's contributing to
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: a team that's open to win a World Series.
• 24:33
  Speaker 9: Yeah, for sure, there was a lot of adjustments last
• 24:35
  Speaker 9: year in the season. You know, I struggled to start
• 24:37
  Speaker 9: off the season, so learning what to do when you're
• 24:41
  Speaker 9: struggling was a big one for me, and you know,
• 24:43
  Speaker 9: I kind of got out of it and once I hit,
• 24:48
  Speaker 9: once I got past that that adversity per se, you know,
• 24:52
  Speaker 9: I was just on a roll, and I think I
• 24:54
  Speaker 9: had some things figured out. You know, I switched switched
• 24:57
  Speaker 9: some things, hitting instead of a like kick, going to
• 25:00
  Speaker 9: a toe tap, and I think just saw that I
• 25:03
  Speaker 9: was more consistent throughout the season, and I think leading
• 25:06
  Speaker 9: into the off season, you know, just kind of doing
• 25:09
  Speaker 9: the same thing, rolling into the same routine that I
• 25:11
  Speaker 9: was at the end of the season, I think was
• 25:13
  Speaker 9: a big thing and not not necessarily changing anything or
• 25:17
  Speaker 9: or trying to do too much with the off season.
• 25:20
  Speaker 9: You know, a lot of guys could get caught up
• 25:23
  Speaker 9: on oh, next year, it could be a big year
• 25:25
  Speaker 9: at debut, like I need to do something that's going
• 25:27
  Speaker 9: to be major, and it's like, you don't.
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: I don't.
• 25:30
  Speaker 9: I really don't think you need to do that. You know,
• 25:32
  Speaker 9: obviously I don't know what. I don't know because I'm
• 25:34
  Speaker 9: not there yet. But you know, I'm gonna keep doing
• 25:37
  Speaker 9: what's given me success and until that doesn't work, and
• 25:40
  Speaker 9: then I'll change if it doesn't work. But until then,
• 25:43
  Speaker 9: you know, you know, I feel like I'm in a
• 25:45
  Speaker 9: really great spot.
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: Nice cold Emerson. And so when this I just had
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: a thought, what a dilemma that would have been for
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: you in your career to get called up before the
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: age of twenty one. You're a big leaguer, but you
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: can't buy a beer.
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Really, I've been a challenge for you.
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  Speaker 4: I found away. I would have found away.
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  Speaker 1: You weren't going to turn it down. No, you aren't
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: going to turn it down.
• 26:07
  Speaker 4: As you got called up, teamates might have hooked me up.
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: Uh, So what did you do body wise? Like did
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: you add a little bit of weight in the offseason?
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: I mean you're so young that that certainly you're you
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: you probably aren't finished, uh growing into your man weight,
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: much less what you could do inside a gym. So
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: how did you handle that?
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  Speaker 1: For sure?
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  Speaker 9: You know, I ended the season about one hundred and
• 26:31
  Speaker 9: ninety five pounds, and I think my goal was two
• 26:34
  Speaker 9: of five and just kind of stick there and hopefully
• 26:37
  Speaker 9: stick there the rest of the season. So so there
• 26:40
  Speaker 9: wasn't much I guess getting big per se. It was
• 26:43
  Speaker 9: just like, all right, let's get as mobile as possible
• 26:45
  Speaker 9: and is get as strong as possible and keep it
• 26:47
  Speaker 9: going like that and and stay as healthy as possible. Really,
• 26:50
  Speaker 9: I mean, I really work on the health. I think
• 26:52
  Speaker 9: your appetite and the stuff you eat affects your health
• 26:56
  Speaker 9: a lot. And that was a big one, was just
• 26:59
  Speaker 9: being finding meals that I can consistently eat that are
• 27:02
  Speaker 9: healthy and we'll keep my body strong. And figuring out
• 27:04
  Speaker 9: what that looks like was a big one. And you know,
• 27:07
  Speaker 9: I got a good idea of my body. Now this
• 27:10
  Speaker 9: is year three, and I got a pretty good idea
• 27:13
  Speaker 9: of what I need to do in the off season
• 27:14
  Speaker 9: lifting wise to come into spring training ready. And thankfully
• 27:18
  Speaker 9: I figured it out pretty quick the last two years.
• 27:21
  Speaker 9: So so I feel like I'm in a really great
• 27:22
  Speaker 9: spot right now.
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: Good thing you have been eating with us.
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you're probably judging us yesterday for our Chick fil
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: A at the table, weren't you.
• 27:30
  Speaker 8: I get into some Chick fil A?
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: Okay, all right?
• 27:33
  Speaker 8: For sure, I'm a I'm a human. I'm not gonna
• 27:36
  Speaker 8: act like I'm not human, not.
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: A robot yet for sure.
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: Good stay real.
• 27:40
  Speaker 4: I mean I just got to say, getting to talk
• 27:42
  Speaker 4: to you last year a little bit, then following you
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: and talking to some other people that you know, kind
• 27:46
  Speaker 4: of followed your journey even closer. Got to see you.
• 27:50
  Speaker 4: They commend you a lot on the between the years
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: part of it, which is the biggest part of baseball.
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: I mean, anybody that's played this game knows how difficult
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: it is to go through the downs, right when you
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: expect a lot of yourself, when you've had nothing but success.
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: Then you go through a downtime and you've got to
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: figure out how to kind of pull yourself up by
• 28:06
  Speaker 4: the bootstrap, not be too hard on yourself, because it's
• 28:08
  Speaker 4: just what happens inside the game. What is it about
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: you makeup wise, because everybody that we've talked to in
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: the organization talks about your maturity between the years is
• 28:19
  Speaker 4: beyond your years. And yet that's not something that is
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: necessarily just a god given town. It's something you got
• 28:25
  Speaker 4: to earn for sure.
• 28:26
  Speaker 9: I honestly, I think I think it's where I came from,
• 28:29
  Speaker 9: you know, a small town in Ohio.
• 28:31
  Speaker 8: You know, I never was really given a silver spoon,
• 28:35
  Speaker 8: you know what I mean.
• 28:36
  Speaker 9: Like I everything I had to do, I had to
• 28:38
  Speaker 9: work for. And I think it's a testament to my
• 28:40
  Speaker 9: parents and the people around me. You know, my parents
• 28:44
  Speaker 9: sacrifice a lot for me growing up to play baseball.
• 28:47
  Speaker 9: I think I saw that, and I was kind of
• 28:50
  Speaker 9: just thought, like, you know what, don't don't waste the
• 28:52
  Speaker 9: good opportunities you have and really take advantage and even
• 28:55
  Speaker 9: though you might be uncomfortable sometimes, really embraced uncomfortable being
• 29:00
  Speaker 9: uncomfortable because that.
• 29:01
  Speaker 8: Really makes you who you are.
• 29:03
  Speaker 9: And and I still do that todday really and just
• 29:06
  Speaker 9: try to embrace every opportunity I'm given, even though it
• 29:10
  Speaker 9: might not be something I want to do, just embrace
• 29:12
  Speaker 9: it and look at it in a positive outlook.
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: Mariner's top prospect, Cold Emerson with us right here on
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: Chuck and Buck in the mornings. It's turned into an
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: infield show here today. Just add Cole Young on now
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: talking to Colt Emerson and speaking of Cole Young and
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: Brendan Donovan who's coming up later. It sounds like we
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: got a lot of versatile infielders. So how much are
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: you working at short, how much you're working at second,
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: how much you're working at third. What's your expectation on
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: where you're going to be playing this year?
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: Give us the lowdown?
• 29:42
  Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, coming into the season, I want I wanted
• 29:47
  Speaker 9: everybody to know that that I wanted to build a
• 29:49
  Speaker 9: trust that I can play any position. WoT it be, second, third, short,
• 29:54
  Speaker 9: wherever they might put me in, And honestly, as long
• 29:57
  Speaker 9: as I'm on the field, I really don't.
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: Care I play.
• 30:01
  Speaker 9: But but I'm making it known that that I'm comfortable
• 30:06
  Speaker 9: at every position and that I worked really hard the
• 30:09
  Speaker 9: last three years. It wasn't just this offseason where I
• 30:12
  Speaker 9: was like, hey, maybe I needed to work on third base.
• 30:13
  Speaker 9: It's been ever since I got to the minor leagues.
• 30:16
  Speaker 9: You know, it's been. It's been preached to me by
• 30:17
  Speaker 9: my parents when I was younger, preached to me when
• 30:20
  Speaker 9: I got here. It's like, you need to know every
• 30:22
  Speaker 9: position to give further confidence in yourself. And you know,
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  Speaker 9: I worked hard at it, and I feel very comfortable
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  Speaker 9: with the position. So so honestly, I'm happy anywhere they
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  Speaker 9: put me wherever I start off.
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  Speaker 4: I watched a couple of your games down in Tacoma.
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  Speaker 4: I was doing some of the play by play there,
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  Speaker 4: and you hit one big bomb. I mean, for a
• 30:44
  Speaker 4: kid your age to hit it that hard is impressive
• 30:48
  Speaker 4: to say the least, but you hit for high average.
• 30:50
  Speaker 4: I mean, what goes on as far as between the
• 30:53
  Speaker 4: years for you, when you think about what type of hittery.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, everybody'd love to hit three forty and sure
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  Speaker 4: and hit forty homers, but that's not not everybody's capable
• 31:01
  Speaker 4: of doing big things like that. Yet you're close to
• 31:03
  Speaker 4: a three hundred hitter and then you have some thump.
• 31:05
  Speaker 4: So what is it that you want to be when
• 31:07
  Speaker 4: it comes all comes out in the wash. What type
• 31:10
  Speaker 4: of hitter do you want to be?
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  Speaker 9: Honestly, I just want to be I want to be
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  Speaker 9: a well rounded hitter. That's what I want to be
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  Speaker 9: known as. And you know, I'm a I'm a believer
• 31:22
  Speaker 9: that that ops or or home runs are pitched, they're
• 31:26
  Speaker 9: not hit, you know, So when when that pitch is
• 31:30
  Speaker 9: thrown down the middle and you don't miss it, that
• 31:32
  Speaker 9: that's I think that that's what that's where all the
• 31:36
  Speaker 9: com home runs come from.
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  Speaker 8: You know, you don't.
• 31:38
  Speaker 9: I mean, you might hit a home run, that's that's
• 31:39
  Speaker 9: a pitch inside, a ball inside, and you you might
• 31:42
  Speaker 9: get it. But like at the end of the day,
• 31:44
  Speaker 9: the Mariners preached, dominate the zone here, and dominate the
• 31:47
  Speaker 9: zone is basically swinging at the pitches in the middle
• 31:49
  Speaker 9: of the zone and taking the boardline until two strikes.
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  Speaker 8: And I think from a young age.
• 31:55
  Speaker 9: I did that already and and I really think it
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  Speaker 9: works and it's it's really helped me throughout the minor leagues.
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  Speaker 2: And yeah, yeah, did you also pick up? I mean,
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: and you're learning all about Bucky here. I moved to
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: defense and he's like, no, we're going.
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: Back to hitting. Sorry. Yeah, I want to talk hitting
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  Speaker 1: with this guy.
• 32:13
  Speaker 4: He's gonna pick it wherever he is, sure stop, put
• 32:15
  Speaker 4: him a second, he can do that. Put him at third,
• 32:17
  Speaker 4: he can do that. He's got the arm strength. Okay, YadA, YadA, YadA.
• 32:20
  Speaker 4: I want to get into the brain about I get.
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: I like it. I like get uh so, I mean,
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: you're out of Ohio.
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: I don't know how much thought you gave to Seattle
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: Mariners baseball growing up in the state of Ohio. But
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: now here you are three years you're seeing what's going
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: on around you. You see how good a team that
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: you're trying to crack, and also a team that's built
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: with a lot of young players, have got a lot
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: of years left in this game. And you know all
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: the prospects that you're playing with and how talented they are.
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: I mean, how excited are you just to be a
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: Seattle Mariner. To be in this organization at this stage.
• 32:57
  Speaker 8: Oh my gosh, it's uh, it's amazing.
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  Speaker 9: Really, I mean, we are we this this organization is
• 33:04
  Speaker 9: going to be a winning program, winning organization for a
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  Speaker 9: while to come. And and that's the standard they set,
• 33:10
  Speaker 9: you know, that's the standard, uh, cal Jp, Julio, all
• 33:13
  Speaker 9: those guys Nails, they they all set that last year
• 33:16
  Speaker 9: or that and in years prior. You know, it's all
• 33:19
  Speaker 9: about winning really and that's the uh, that's the standard
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  Speaker 9: I want to set as well. And yeah, I mean
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  Speaker 9: if everybody can be a winning player, I mean everybody
• 33:30
  Speaker 9: can be a team guys like those are the teams
• 33:33
  Speaker 9: that win World Series and and and the other guys
• 33:36
  Speaker 9: can speak on it way more because they've been there.
• 33:38
  Speaker 9: But but coming into a clubhouse that's had success in
• 33:41
  Speaker 9: the last few years is is awesome and and it's
• 33:45
  Speaker 9: really cool to see and I'm really honored to be
• 33:48
  Speaker 9: a part of it and to be in the clubhouse
• 33:50
  Speaker 9: and see these guys the way they go about their business,
• 33:54
  Speaker 9: the way the way it was. Last win was on
• 33:56
  Speaker 9: the taxi squad and I showed up for scrimmages and
• 33:59
  Speaker 9: how loose they were and how how serious they were
• 34:03
  Speaker 9: about winning and that's the standard. And maybe they don't
• 34:07
  Speaker 9: say it, but you feel it, you really do, and
• 34:11
  Speaker 9: and everybody wants to win, and it's a really great feeling.
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: I don't know if I've ever asked this question, but
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: I mean, how did you watch the playoffs?
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: Slasher?
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: What is a prospect within an organization that has the
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: major league team that he's probably going to be joining
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: sooner than later and they're going through the playoff run?
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: I mean, I know how excited and the roller coaster
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: we went on as fans and former player in Bucky's case,
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: and in broadcasters and try to be professional journalism, but
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: I'm jumping up and down in the in the press
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: box even though I'm not supposed to do after the
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: Gino Sworrez Homer. So what is a What is that
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: for you? What was it like to just watch the
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: playoffs and not be able to contribute, and yet you
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: know that someday you will be able to.
• 34:55
  Speaker 9: Yeah, that was That was easily the best playoff baseball
• 34:57
  Speaker 9: I've ever watched in my life.
• 34:58
  Speaker 8: You know it was.
• 34:59
  Speaker 9: It was so cool because, like I mean, when you're younger,
• 35:02
  Speaker 9: you don't know the personalities you don't know the you
• 35:05
  Speaker 9: don't you don't know the people in the field personally,
• 35:07
  Speaker 9: and and having that experience knowing the guys personally, it's
• 35:10
  Speaker 9: so cool. And and some of the guys you know,
• 35:13
  Speaker 9: I played with in trip Way, so so seeing those guys,
• 35:16
  Speaker 9: having relationships with those guys and seeing them on the
• 35:18
  Speaker 9: field competing like like it. I was so locked in
• 35:23
  Speaker 9: the whole time, you know, throughout the whole we Actually
• 35:26
  Speaker 9: I was at the first game of the o DS
• 35:28
  Speaker 9: and then we went to Arizona and we were locked
• 35:31
  Speaker 9: in the whole time for that. We were still here training,
• 35:33
  Speaker 9: but when the game came on, TV was on, everybody
• 35:36
  Speaker 9: was locked in on the couch.
• 35:37
  Speaker 8: We made food like it was.
• 35:40
  Speaker 9: It was almost a Super Bowl every single day.
• 35:42
  Speaker 4: It was awesome.
• 35:44
  Speaker 8: It was. It was really awesome.
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: The entire Emerson family now Mariner fans.
• 35:48
  Speaker 9: Yes, okay, all right, they gotta be and and and
• 35:51
  Speaker 9: part part of Cambridge and New Concord for sure.
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: Okay, all right, man, Well, great to see you have
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: a great year. All right, whatever that is, but you
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: have a great year. It's awesome to have you on
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: the show, all right, Cold Emmerson joining us right here
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: on Chuck and Buck. We'll continue our spring training coverage.
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: Talking a little football next, what's going on with ken Walker?
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM sounds like football music,
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: And I know we are doing spring training coverage, but yes,
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: we are paying attention to the sports world at large
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: and our Super Bowl champion Seattle Seahawks whenever they make news,
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: and they did make a little bit of news today maybe,
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: I mean, certainly no announcement came out of Seattle, but
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: several reporters out there, including Adam Schefter, are reporting today
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: of how unlikely the Seahawks are to franchise tag ken Walker.
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: I think we already knew that. I think Greg's already
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: kind of hinted at that. I don't know why it
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: becomes a story, but it's plastered all over the headlines everywhere,
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: most clicked on story of the day in sports. And
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: so we discuss, certainly the status of ken Walker at
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: the start of the franchise tag window, which lasts way
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: too long. It should be like two or three days.
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: I mean, make your decisions, I mean tag or get
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: off the pot. That's what I've always said, is it? Yeah?
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: But ken Walker would cost one year, fourteen and a
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: half million dollars.
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: I mean you could do this. I mean, that is
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: an option at.
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: Your disposal if you give out offer. He says, no,
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: I want to test the free agent market. That's not
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: good enough. John, Well, you could say, well, sorry, Ken,
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: we do want you for at least one more year.
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: So here you go, we've got cap space one year,
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: fourteen and a half million dollars, and then you can
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: worry about a long term deal afterwards. But it doesn't
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: sound like that's the route they're going to take. Rarely
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: is it the route that they take? And they're not
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: very tag happy the Seahawks.
• 37:56
  Speaker 4: Well, most teams aren't, but yeah, Seahawks most certainly are
• 37:59
  Speaker 4: not in that category of wanting to spend that much
• 38:02
  Speaker 4: money for one season. I mean, if you're if you're
• 38:04
  Speaker 4: wanting a guy to to if you're willing to pay
• 38:07
  Speaker 4: somebody fourteen fourteen and a half whatever that franchise tag is,
• 38:10
  Speaker 4: and why wouldn't you figure out a way to do
• 38:12
  Speaker 4: a long term deal for him?
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: You know?
• 38:14
  Speaker 4: I mean it's it's you're still risking a lot of
• 38:17
  Speaker 4: money for one year versus a lot more money for
• 38:20
  Speaker 4: multiple years. But you figure multiple years, you're not gonna
• 38:22
  Speaker 4: be hurt for you know, for the entirety of a
• 38:25
  Speaker 4: long contract, and so to me it feels like it's
• 38:28
  Speaker 4: a little bit rich. I think that that number puts
• 38:30
  Speaker 4: him up there in the categories with the Jonathan Taylors,
• 38:33
  Speaker 4: And I don't know for sure if the Seahawks think
• 38:35
  Speaker 4: of him as that type of running back.
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, he certainly is hitting the market at
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: the right time. I mean, he couldn't have had a
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: better spurt, at a more advantageous time in his financial
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: portfolio to play his three best games, arguably on the
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: way to a.
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: Super Bowl win, Super Bowl MVP.
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: I mean, think think about the timing and sports. I mean,
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: cal Rawley makes eighteen and a half million dollars a
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: year and Kyle Tucker makes sixty. Yeah, they both signed
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: new deals in the offseas in one calendar year and
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: the same calendar year for goodness sake, So the timing
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: of things in sports is really all that matters. I
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: would imagine the Seahawks are going to have recognized that.
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: I would imagine that their offer initially might have been
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: like four years forty maybe they have to bump it
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: to four years forty eight if they really want to
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: keep him. And yet I still think that there might
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: be a team out there that goes a little bit further.
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: I've mentioned this before, and I'll mention it more often
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: as we get toward free agency. The Seahawks are in
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: good financial position cap wise, but there are teams in
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: better position cap wise that are desperate to turn their
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: ship around. Where the Seahawks are in nowhere close to desperation.
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: They're on the other end of the in the world
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: from desperation. So that combination of we have money and
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: we're desperate to win probably is going to win the
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: day with a free agent like ken Walker.
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 40:04
  Speaker 4: Well, I mean the idea of you know, for him.
• 40:06
  Speaker 4: You know, there's two sides of it, I mean two
• 40:08
  Speaker 4: sides of the business decisions that have to come in
• 40:11
  Speaker 4: where the Seahawks, I'm sure would love to have him back,
• 40:14
  Speaker 4: but they would love to have him back at the
• 40:15
  Speaker 4: cost and the duration of contract that they feel comfortable with,
• 40:20
  Speaker 4: considering his injury history, considering the fact that for whatever reason,
• 40:24
  Speaker 4: whether it's for his own good to keep him healthy
• 40:27
  Speaker 4: throughout the course of the season, they were you know,
• 40:29
  Speaker 4: not necessarily evenly splitting but pretty darn close to evenly
• 40:32
  Speaker 4: splitting the carries with Zach Charbonnay. I mean charbon Ay
• 40:35
  Speaker 4: was used more down on the goal line. I mean
• 40:37
  Speaker 4: he had almost twice as many touchdowns this season as
• 40:41
  Speaker 4: ken Walker did. Is that is that something that they felt, well,
• 40:44
  Speaker 4: it just worked out that way, or is that something
• 40:46
  Speaker 4: that they felt that in you know, when when the
• 40:48
  Speaker 4: field gets compressed down there near the goal line, that
• 40:51
  Speaker 4: he's a better runner in that situation. If so, you're
• 40:54
  Speaker 4: not paying him top of the line money if you
• 40:56
  Speaker 4: don't feel like he can finish the job for you
• 40:58
  Speaker 4: as well, now right, I mean timing wise, After Charbonnay
• 41:02
  Speaker 4: got hurt, he just had to carry the load pretty
• 41:05
  Speaker 4: much by himself with just a couple breathers from George Holane.
• 41:08
  Speaker 4: And I think that he did everything in his power
• 41:10
  Speaker 4: to boost his stock. It's just a matter of can
• 41:13
  Speaker 4: you change the opinions of everybody that's watched you and
• 41:17
  Speaker 4: watched everything you've done from the practice facility all the
• 41:20
  Speaker 4: way through every single game of your career. Can you
• 41:23
  Speaker 4: change their opinion in a short period of time, even
• 41:26
  Speaker 4: though it ended up as a Super Bowl run.
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: I don't think so. I think that they think.
• 41:29
  Speaker 4: Of him as this guy and there's a dollar figure
• 41:32
  Speaker 4: attached to that, and if he's going to go out
• 41:35
  Speaker 4: and search for more, then they're probably gonna just stick
• 41:37
  Speaker 4: to their guns, even though they've proven now with him
• 41:40
  Speaker 4: in the running back position, you can win a Super Bowl.
• 41:43
  Speaker 4: So I'm sure they would like him back, but there's
• 41:44
  Speaker 4: gonna be a number and they're not gonna go over
• 41:46
  Speaker 4: it all.
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: Right, our spring training coverage obviously continuing here from Peoria
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: throughout the week, we enter our number three of our
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: second day of coverage, and coming up, he has wanted
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: the newcomers and he is the most notable of the
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: newcomers added this offseason. We get to know brand new
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: third baseman Brendan Donovan right here on Chuckin'buck Sports Radio
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