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5-12 H1: Cal Struggles Continue, M's Bullpen Shows Up & Seahawks Week 1 Opponent · The Gregg Bell Show

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  Speaker 1: the Mariners when they win. It's better to talk about
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  Speaker 1: the Mariners, So we're gonna talk about why they won
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  Speaker 1: last night. Encouraging signs from a bullpen that's really in disarray,
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  Speaker 1: had a paternity leave with their best reliever last night.
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  Speaker 1: Now away from the team for a week and a
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  Speaker 1: half or so, and that's cool. I mean, baseball never
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  Speaker 1: used to do that when I was covering as a
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  Speaker 1: baseball beat writer. Chris Baby Yeah under the next.
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  Speaker 2: Back to work with him.
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  Speaker 1: Art Howe, manager of the A's that as I covered
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  Speaker 1: for the Sacramento be in the early two thousands, talked
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  Speaker 1: about how he missed the first berth, the birth of
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  Speaker 1: his first child because the Pirates, who hometown team he
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  Speaker 1: is playing for, they might have been the Astros. By
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  Speaker 1: then said nope, I don't know even know if he
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  Speaker 1: even bothered to ask. Back in the seventies. We've come
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  Speaker 1: a little way as a society by then. But another
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  Speaker 1: departure from the bullpen ferrarely is on portunity leave. And
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  Speaker 1: then some dudes last night that weren't even in their
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  Speaker 1: plans to start the season showed up big in a
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  Speaker 1: high leverage situation. Of course, the trash Cans are in
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  Speaker 1: last place. That helped too. We'll talk about that. The
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  Speaker 1: Kyle Rawley situation continues, we'll talk about that. Ten forty five.
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  Speaker 1: We're down to four possible opponents now for the Seahawks
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  Speaker 1: in the opening game thanks to what the NFL and
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  Speaker 1: ESPN announced this morning for a week ones Monday night game.
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  Speaker 1: And now we'll run down all the known matchups that
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  Speaker 1: have gone out so far, official, not rumored. There's some
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  Speaker 1: rumors out there. We're gonna talk at eleven o'clock about
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  Speaker 1: one of them with Mike Kadlick. He is the Patriots
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  Speaker 1: and the NFL writer for Sports Illustrated based in New England.
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  Speaker 1: We haven't heard much about the Patriots, have we Nothing's
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  Speaker 1: been happening since the Super Bowl with them.
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  Speaker 2: Orgization, Man, We're gonna.
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  Speaker 1: Talk to Mike Kadock about that and a lot more.
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  Speaker 1: He thinks the first game should be Patriots. That's Seahawks
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  Speaker 1: in a Super Bowl rematch. I'm going to ask Mike
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  Speaker 1: why he thinks that? Really? Yes, he does. Wow.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm gonna need a thesis. Yes, this is quite
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  Speaker 3: the Why the Patriots?
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  Speaker 2: What do they? I mean?
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  Speaker 3: I guess I'd want to see Christian Gonzalez again, That's it.
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  Speaker 1: I think the cachet is just a Super Bowl rematch, right,
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  Speaker 1: you could get that in Week ten or something. That's
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  Speaker 1: what a lot of people are saying. You want to
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  Speaker 1: do that for your first game, the showcase first game. Yeah. No,
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  Speaker 1: And most people, and now, of course, we in the
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  Speaker 1: Pacific Northwest celebrated Super Bowl sixty like no other, like
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  Speaker 1: maybe only what other super Bowl ever, But the rest
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  Speaker 1: of the country thought that game was an absolute bore.
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  Speaker 1: It was a punathon for the first three quarters. Remember,
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  Speaker 1: the Seahawks only had like a nine point lead nine
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  Speaker 1: to nothing or whatever it was into the third quarter,
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  Speaker 1: and then the Patriots did absolutely nothing against Mike McDonald's
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  Speaker 1: defense and just punted about ten times in the first
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  Speaker 1: three quarters. So nationally that Super Bowl's like, nah, no
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  Speaker 1: more of that. There are a lot of people say, nah,
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  Speaker 1: I don't need Patriots Seahawks to kick off the NFL
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  Speaker 1: season on a Wednesdayay, But Mike Cadolic thinks that's what
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  Speaker 1: it should be. We're gonna talk to him at eleven
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  Speaker 1: o'clock eleven thirty. We'll read back to your text four nine,
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  Speaker 1: four to five one, as we do every day on
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  Speaker 1: the Tacoma Dodge text line. First time, we'll just ask
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  Speaker 1: who do you want, not who you think it'll be,
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  Speaker 1: who would you like? I guess what's of what's left
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  Speaker 1: in remaining for the Seahawks to play Week one Bears, Cardinals, Chargers, Patriots.
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  Speaker 1: Those are the only remaining teams they could possibly play
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  Speaker 1: Week one because everybody else is accounted for. After the
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  Speaker 1: Chiefs Broncos announcement today that they're going to be the
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  Speaker 1: first Monday night game, ESPN and ABC announced that so
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  Speaker 1: no Chiefs, They're not going to roll the dice with
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  Speaker 1: Patrick Hutt now Mahomes and Knicks. Bill Nicks is coming
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  Speaker 1: off an ankle injury that he got in the postseason,
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  Speaker 1: So those are two quarterbacks coming off somewhat substantial inter
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  Speaker 1: of course, Mahomes's was much more significant in ACL but
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  Speaker 1: apparently Chris Man, we talked about what they risk Mahomes
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  Speaker 1: coming to Seattle showcase game would even be ready. Apparently
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  Speaker 1: they're not worried about that for the first Monday night game.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, because they're playing against the Broncos.
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  Speaker 3: It was another nasty defense that's really talented, got a
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  Speaker 3: good pass rush, good linebackers, and a great secondary.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, that's I guess they're not worried about it.
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  Speaker 3: But hey, we'll see how it all unfolds during training
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  Speaker 3: camp when Mahomes for the YouTube folks officially back. So yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I'm excited to see that. I'm hoping the Seahawks face
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  Speaker 3: the Bears charged with my second b I think the
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  Speaker 3: Chargers when you I know, it's pretty harsh on them yesterday,
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  Speaker 3: but looking back at it, that could be an intriguing matchup.
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  Speaker 1: Felt bothered you.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I was a bad night looking at the soon, like, dang,
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  Speaker 3: I just pooped all over the Chargers, like there are
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  Speaker 3: just some four and thirteen team when they're actually not
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  Speaker 3: that bad. They're they're okay, So that would be an
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  Speaker 3: interesting matchup. So yeah, Bears one A, and then I
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  Speaker 3: guess number two, I'd have to go Chargers. Everything after that,
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. There there's no way that they can
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  Speaker 3: have the Cardinals unless Jeremiah Love is running for two
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  Speaker 3: hundred and fifty yards week one.
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  Speaker 1: That is the only okay, But yes, of course he
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't have run for that by the opener time, and
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  Speaker 1: of course they have to decide that by tomorrow. So
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  Speaker 1: I just don't see that happening.
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  Speaker 3: So no Cardinals and Patriots, no chance in hell people
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  Speaker 3: want to watch that in Seattle, and I don't want
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  Speaker 3: to see that.
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  Speaker 2: For what it's worth, a.
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  Speaker 1: Lot of people in the country agree with you about
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  Speaker 1: the Patriots.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah it's cool, it's cool. And then you have the
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  Speaker 3: whole Mike Vrabel thing, do you really who his ass?
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  Speaker 3: And then hey man, sorry bud situation. I want, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: give me the shot where Mike McDonald and Rabel embrace.
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  Speaker 3: Does McDonald say, hey man, tough times, you're all one now?
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  Speaker 3: Or like, what does that exchange? I would love to,
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  Speaker 3: of course give it Mike Rabels offseason. Maybe you don't
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  Speaker 3: want to embrace him at this point.
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  Speaker 1: Just give him at a long extended farm if that's
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  Speaker 1: the the season, but hopefully you make it through the seas.
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  Speaker 1: Salute from across the season. Across the field. The Mariners
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  Speaker 1: kyl Ray fourth again yesterday, second time in two games,
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  Speaker 1: second time this season. He went over four with a strikeout.
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  Speaker 1: He's again he didn't walk, so now that's oh for
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  Speaker 1: his last forty played appearances, with only three walks in
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  Speaker 1: that spam, he's over thirty four. It's the major's longest
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  Speaker 1: hitless streak this season. His batting average is one fifty seven,
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  Speaker 1: the second the runner, the close runner up to the
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  Speaker 1: American League MVP is hitting one fifty seven last the
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  Speaker 1: last season's MVP. That's the second worst and Major League
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  Speaker 1: Baseball one fifty seven is only behind Tampa Bay, only
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  Speaker 1: ahead of Tampa Bay's Cedric Mullins has hit one forty three,
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  Speaker 1: has about twenty five thirty fewer plate appearances than does
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  Speaker 1: Kyle Rawley. And that's part of the point. It's I
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  Speaker 1: mentioned it yesterday. I don't know why they don't do
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  Speaker 1: it other than they haven't gone to him and asked
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  Speaker 1: him or told him. But they need to put him
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  Speaker 1: on the ten day injured list for a break and
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  Speaker 1: give his physical a physical break up, give his side
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  Speaker 1: aching side that Ryan Divish on Sunday in Chicago reported
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  Speaker 1: he's still getting daily treatment for but maybe more. Chris
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  Speaker 1: is a mental break and just to be done with
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  Speaker 1: trying to get his timing right. I saw Harold Reynold's
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  Speaker 1: on Major League Baseball last night talking about he's just
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  Speaker 1: a little late. A tick late, is what Reynolds said.
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  Speaker 1: Former Mariner, of course, who believes Raley is not that
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  Speaker 1: far away, but just a reset. I mean it's May twelfth.
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  Speaker 1: You could reset for ten days and be back before
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  Speaker 1: Memorial Day. We made this point yesterday. That's still one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and ten plus games rainning in the season, and
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  Speaker 1: the aos is not going anywhere. It's I don't know
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  Speaker 1: why they're dragging him through this. Honestly, They're dragging him
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  Speaker 1: through the pain of his side that he's getting treatment for,
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  Speaker 1: and they're dragging him through having to see one fifty
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  Speaker 1: seven up on the scoreboard every time he well, now
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  Speaker 1: it's plummeting every time. I get it you defer to
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  Speaker 1: the player, the veteran player face with the franchise you
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  Speaker 1: want to go, You're okay, I'm gonna go. If you
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  Speaker 1: ask a guy like Cal Rawley and that I've known
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  Speaker 1: him and talk to him in the clubhouse, he's not
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  Speaker 1: gonna say, yeah, I'll just take ten days off, Skip
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  Speaker 1: me ten days off. Please me.
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  Speaker 3: Ask you this, Greg, do you think Cal is pressing
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  Speaker 3: because of last season when he had sixty home runs?
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  Speaker 2: Did that raise.
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  Speaker 3: Expectations to maybe something that could be impossible to reach again?
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  Speaker 3: And he's just searching for that anomaly that he had.
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  Speaker 1: Sure, I mean, once you reach that platfor so what's
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  Speaker 1: next for the team? Of course the World Series? But
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  Speaker 1: for him, sixty home run seasons won't just come around
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  Speaker 1: and fall out of trees. That he will likely never
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  Speaker 1: get sixty home runs again. So it's a it's an
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  Speaker 1: expectation that's unattainable. But now he knows what he's capable
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  Speaker 1: of doing. I mean, honestly, how do you find the balance? Though?
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  Speaker 2: I guess the question how?
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  Speaker 3: I think that's what the coaches got to be emphasizing, Hey,
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  Speaker 3: we don't need you to do what you did last season.
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  Speaker 2: Right at this point, need to do thirty or just
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  Speaker 2: get on.
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  Speaker 1: Base, j Jay Buner on especially if you're going to
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  Speaker 1: beat at the top of the order, just get on base.
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  Speaker 1: Walks be paid more patient, but pitchers are getting him
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  Speaker 1: out with pitches that are not strikes, often blown away,
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  Speaker 1: some off speed. But Jay Buner made the point last
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  Speaker 1: night as the guest analyst with Dave Valley and Aaron
• 10:47
  Speaker 1: Goldsmith I'm Mariners TV during the broadcast about how he
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  Speaker 1: talked to Kyle Rally before last night's game and said,
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  Speaker 1: you're still on pace for thirty home runs. Bro, That's
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  Speaker 1: how I'd take that. Everyone will take that. But that's
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  Speaker 1: that's really not the point. Because the Mariners have home runs.
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  Speaker 1: They won last night because Julio Rodriguez hit won on
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  Speaker 1: the railroad tracks. That's how they win. They won tons
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  Speaker 1: into the well next to that the last game before
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  Speaker 1: the World Series last year because Raley hit so many
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  Speaker 1: home runs. But with their pitching staff, they don't really
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  Speaker 1: need another home run hitter. Honestly, they need cal Rawley
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  Speaker 1: to drive in runs and get on base and be
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  Speaker 1: a productive part of the order. So that Rodriguez, who
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  Speaker 1: we're going to talk about in a little bit to start.
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  Speaker 1: He's off to all of a sudden, you know, by
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  Speaker 1: the way, we spent a lot of time in this
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  Speaker 1: area and on this station ripping Julio Rodriguez for his starts.
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  Speaker 1: He's off to the best start of his career. And
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  Speaker 1: he started in the one to fifties with Cal Rawley
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  Speaker 1: in April, and now he's got the best number. We're
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  Speaker 1: going to talk about it a few minutes. He's got
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  Speaker 1: the best numbers of his career so far into May
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  Speaker 1: and this year. He's bat in three to fifty this
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  Speaker 1: month with an ops of one point one five and
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  Speaker 1: a seven to seven to five slugging as much time
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  Speaker 1: as we spend ripping Julio Rodriguez pre praising him for
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  Speaker 1: what he's doing because he is way above his career
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  Speaker 1: average for the middle of May. But with Rodriguez hitting
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  Speaker 1: behind him as he's hitting, they just need Raleigh on base, honestly.
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  Speaker 1: But to your point, Chris, he's not thinking I just
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  Speaker 1: need to get on base. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I don't know if that's accurate, but I felt
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  Speaker 2: watching him.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like he's just trying to get back to
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  Speaker 3: where he was, which not trying to say you can't
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  Speaker 3: do it. But that's just if you're in the NBA
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  Speaker 3: and you're averaging you know, one season you average like seventeen,
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  Speaker 3: and then the following season you averaged twenty seven. That
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  Speaker 3: third season, like, is everyone expecting you to average twenty seven?
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  Speaker 1: Right?
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  Speaker 3: Like I think if you can get twenty four, Like,
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  Speaker 3: who's gonna be mad at that? It's not what you
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  Speaker 3: did in year two? But damn, it's still really good.
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  Speaker 1: I'm dating myself. But when I was first covering Major
• 12:47
  Speaker 1: League Baseball as a beat writer covering the A's and
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  Speaker 1: Jason Giambi won the America League MVP in the early
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  Speaker 1: two thousands. The next season after that, the pitchers did
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  Speaker 1: not throw to him. They just off speed away some
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  Speaker 1: of the stuff we see Kyle Rowley get. Yeah, but
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  Speaker 1: they they did not come into the strike zone. You
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  Speaker 1: know what happened in next year he led the league
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  Speaker 1: in walks Giomby did, And we all made fun of
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  Speaker 1: it on the beat. We talked about how he would
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  Speaker 1: say after games, oh, I just took my walks and
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  Speaker 1: like my dad always tells me, just be patient. He
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  Speaker 1: would say that all the time. For like one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and sixty two games. He led the league in walks.
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  Speaker 1: The A's were one of the best teams and best
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  Speaker 1: offenses in baseball went back to the playoffs, and that
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  Speaker 1: was the adjustment Giomby made was, Okay, this isn't going
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  Speaker 1: to be a forty to fifty home run season. This
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  Speaker 1: is going to be on base and have Matt Stairs
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  Speaker 1: and his brother Jeremy, and John John and all these
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  Speaker 1: other dudes. Mariners had sluggers at the time they hit
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  Speaker 1: the home runs, and that's what the Mariners are as
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  Speaker 1: an offense. We deride them for just singles, strikeouts and
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  Speaker 1: home runs, but it's who they are. They're not really
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  Speaker 1: going to change, so they have other home run hitters.
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  Speaker 1: Kyle Rowley doesn't need to be an even forty home
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  Speaker 1: run guy on this team. We talked about this yesterday too,
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  Speaker 1: and I know Ian did on his show after ours.
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  Speaker 1: This team's gonna win a division if they have just
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  Speaker 1: a modicum of offense with their pitching. Their bullpen has struggled,
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  Speaker 1: but this division is so bad that the Mariners are
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  Speaker 1: going to win the division. For Kyle Rawley to get
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  Speaker 1: the Mariners to the World Series, I submit he doesn't
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  Speaker 1: need to be a sixty home run a fifty home
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  Speaker 1: run or even a forty home run guy. He needs
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  Speaker 1: to be an on basement and drive in run machine,
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  Speaker 1: a guy who hits singles, doubles and walks, and let
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  Speaker 1: the rest of the lineup get the pitches the pitchers
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  Speaker 1: will give them because Raley's on base. The name of
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  Speaker 1: the game in baseball, get on base. So the hitters
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  Speaker 1: behind you have to face strikes. You don't have to
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  Speaker 1: face strikes from the bases are empty. And if Rawley's
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  Speaker 1: getting a one to fifty seven batting average, Holy Rodriguez
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  Speaker 1: and all the guys behind him are hitting with empty bases,
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  Speaker 1: Raley on base, everyone else will hit their strikes, and
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  Speaker 1: then you play offense. I'm simplifying this, I know to
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  Speaker 1: a fault, but the bottom line is give him a
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  Speaker 1: ten day break to rest that side, to rest his head.
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  Speaker 1: And it's still only May twenty second or twenty third,
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  Speaker 1: and you got a one hundred and ten games. Let's
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  Speaker 1: see what a refreshed cal Rawley would be. They won't
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  Speaker 1: do that because they will not go to him and
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  Speaker 1: tell him that. At least, there's no precedent here that
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  Speaker 1: says Hollander de Poto or Dan Wilson's gonna say we're
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  Speaker 1: shutting you down. That would be a precedent. They have
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  Speaker 1: yet to set on a major player like this, but
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  Speaker 1: I think that's what should happen. I don't know other
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  Speaker 1: than them just not wanting to cross that rubicon of
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  Speaker 1: not having a player and telling him he's sitting. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know the reason why you would not do that.
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  Speaker 1: Four one, four to five one on the Takmodadge tech
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  Speaker 1: line for your opinions about that possible solution to Kyle Rawley,
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  Speaker 1: or maybe it just works itself out, Chris, because there's
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  Speaker 1: still one hundred and twenty plus games left, I would think,
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  Speaker 1: and that's what they it looks like they're banking on.
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  Speaker 3: I would think that Cal could get out of his
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  Speaker 3: own funk. As you mentioned, he talked a little bit
• 15:54
  Speaker 3: about it. It's up here in the head. He don't
• 15:56
  Speaker 3: say that Sunday based on that. Sure, I know he's
• 15:58
  Speaker 3: banged up, but I think he can play better with
• 16:02
  Speaker 3: being banged up.
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: That's just how I feel.
• 16:04
  Speaker 3: I believe that Kyle is not a bad player that
• 16:07
  Speaker 3: just had an outlier season and he won't be as
• 16:10
  Speaker 3: good ever again. I think he's just mentally trying to
• 16:16
  Speaker 3: figure out why he's playing so poorly and how he
• 16:19
  Speaker 3: can help his team, and as a team, they're not
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: playing well. So I think all of that is just
• 16:25
  Speaker 3: a challenge for him at this point in the season,
• 16:27
  Speaker 3: and maybe that ten day rest would benefit. But also
• 16:30
  Speaker 3: think if you take him out those ten days or
• 16:33
  Speaker 3: their possibility's even rusting now because he hasn't played in
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: any games. He's just been resting, which isn't a bad
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: thing because there's still time from the amp up get
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: back to just being a better overall player.
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: But that would be my one concern, Like damn, send
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: him to a rehab assignment and tookin for that.
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: That's true as well.
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: You can get me, could easily get him going sending
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: him up there popping some homers.
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: Okay, I feel great.
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: I'm ready to go back to it, so there's definitely
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: a way to do it.
• 16:55
  Speaker 3: But even then, I'm just like, eh, I think he's
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: capable of just playing through. I think that because they
• 17:01
  Speaker 3: need some adversity, and boy are they facing it right now.
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: But as you mentioned, the al is just not that good.
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: But even then, you're sitting at twenty and twenty two,
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: not great for your standards, and where you perceive your
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: team to be. But I think for Kyle that would
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: be a good test going through this fire of dealing
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: with pain, injury, whatever you want to call it, not
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: playing your best, still playing. You get into July, you're
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: as close to healthy as you can be. You're feeling good,
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: you're hitting better.
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: But if he's still getting treatment daily on his side
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: and it's May, how's that going to rest and get better?
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: You'd hope that over well, maybe it's an injury that
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: over time it's going.
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: To Yeah, that's what the manners are counting on. It appears.
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: So here's the thing. Roley's down, but Holio Rodrguez is
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: way up. Yeah, and again we need to spend some
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: time in Seattle talking about that. We love to bang
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: on him when he's hitting two hundred. Well, I mentioned
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: three point fifty this month after the home run last night.
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: He's sucking seven to seventy five in May. He has
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: an ops at one point one five this month. His
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: average in the two seventies here in mid May is
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: way way above what it usually is this time of year.
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: He's hitting two seventy four with a seven ninety ops.
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: The kids love the WRC plus. His WRC plus is
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: one twenty seven. Those are far and away his highest
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: numbers of his career through May eleventh. I mean, he's
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: thirty points twenty points higher than his rookie season. In
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: batting average let alone, he's one hundred and forty points
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: higher than his ops of his rookie season. Through May eleven,
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: he's thirty three points higher in WRC WRC plus by
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: every metric. He is way up hitting wise, and he's
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: still giving you the defense he gives you. Julio Rodriguez
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: is the guy we ought to be talking about a lot,
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: because we talk about him when he's down, and now
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: he's way way up. He hit the home run last
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: night and made it a three run lead for the Mariners.
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: They win three to one, and that's pretty much all
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: they got again, singles and home runs. The bullpen did
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: it last night. When we come back, we're going to
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: talk about a bullpen that has been in disarray. The
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: closer last night, Andres Munos also did something different. He
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: hasn't been doing that we've talked about on the show.
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: He needs to start doing. He did it last night.
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: We'll talk about that next on ninety three point three
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: kJ RFM won.
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: You'll trying to finish it off his tow two. Let's
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: strike up to end the game, and my Mariners take
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: game one Andres munyial strikes out.
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: You're don Alvarez to finish it off tonight.
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: Yes, the very aggressive Andres Munio is using that fastball
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: more than we've ever seen him use it. In an outing.
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: That was Dave vell at the very end on Aaron
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: Goldsmith played by play on Manors TV. Last night, when
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: the Mariners closed out the trash Cans with a three
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: to one win, Alvarez was up with the tying run
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: on first base after a two out single by Jose Altuve.
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: You heard the final out there, he did say. Dave
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: Valley made a good point, and during the inning itself,
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: how much more he was using the fastball last night, Chris,
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: How often have we talked about Andre's mune was getting
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: hit by this, his slider getting hit for game crushing
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: I mean home runs and game winning hits, and we
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: kept saying, go back to the fastball, go back to
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: the fastball. Last night he did. Yet that final pitch
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: was a change up, which he rarely throws. He's almost
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: fastball slider fastball slider, and he threw Albarez a change
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: up that he was waving out. That pitch was three
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: feet outside, and Albarez was so fooled by seeing a
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: pitch in the low nineties, not diving like a slider
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: does that he just waved at it. And it was
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: because he had used a fastball so much earlier in
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: the inning. The Altuve hit was a high and away
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: fastball one hundred miles an hour. And when Altive hit
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: that was like, well, there's only a few guys in
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: the league that could hit that pitch for a base
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: hit and elevate it like Altuve did. Okay, fine that
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: Albarez had to be thinking that, and then he gave
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: a few more fastballs. He threw a couple of sliders
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: to Alvarez, and then he got him with a change
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: up there in the game. I mean that was the
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: best Andres Munnos, that was all Star closer Andres Munnos,
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: and I mean, that was what he needs to do,
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: get back to the fastball. He told Adam Jude's Seattle
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: Times in the clubhouse in Houston after the game last night.
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: Munyos did quote a lot of emotions. I've been working
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: on a lot of stuff, and as soon as I
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: got in, I said, quote, I'm going to do my best,
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: and that's what I did. His best is the fastball.
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: It's one hundred plus and it's what everything else feeds
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: off of. And he was really slider dependent early and
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: he was getting torched and often. I mean, he had
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: many scoreless outings as well, but when he lost, he
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: lost big with the slider. Last night, he won big
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: with the fastball, and it and change up ended up
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: tying up jord On Alvarez. But that wasn't the only
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: guy that Alvarez out last night. I was really impressed
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: Chris after ninety nine pitches. You could see in third
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: inning Kirby was into the seventies and you could see,
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: oh here, this is gonna be a bullpen game on
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: a day that Jose Ferrer, the best reliever, most consistent reliever,
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: left on paternity leave. And that's on top of Matt
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: Brash of course, and Gabe Spier, the primary setup guys
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: on the injured list. So now the bullpens in shambles.
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: Three three key guys. The guy you traded for Harry
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: Ford for the veteran reliever Ferrara and then your two
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: primary setup guys are all gone. Nick, come on down.
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: Twenty seven years old. He was a non roster invited
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: to spring training. He had his twenty twenty fourth season
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: at Single A Everett interrupted by injury. Chris, do you
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: know where he began this season last month? Where who
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: was pitching for?
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it wasn't a double Ale Arkansas Travelers. Yeah, third
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: MLB appearance. That's right, high pressure six.
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: Inning, all on the road. And you know what he
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: did handle business?
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: That's he did the real story as you mentioned earlier,
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: like these guys stepped up. Not to mention everyone's favorite
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: Edward Bizardo. He bounced back after Sunday's mishap, but tossa
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: School was eighth inning. You needed that obviously. And then
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: I was pitching for I think the third time let
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: me see in four days. So yeah, shout out to
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: the bullpen for sure.
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: In the sixth inning, after ninety nine pitches in George Kirby,
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: who by the way, loaded the bases, had a couple
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: guys on a couple of innings. He got out of
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: a lot of jams with fortunate in some ways that
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: he gives up just one run, but that's what he
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: does against the trash Cans. His career eer a and
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: eleven outings is now down to two. He had one
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: bad game last year against Houston, gave up like five
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: runs in five innings four innings or something like that.
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: Other than that is Era's one against Houston, and he
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: gave up one run in five innings last night. Davila
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: comes in against six seven, eight nine against the trash Cans. Lineup,
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: got a ground out, a called strike out, a groundball
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: single in the line out to Rodriguez and it was
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: a bridge ending to get to the back of the
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: that may have earned him more opportunities. You're going to
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: see Doavil, I would think in leverage situations, especially as
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: long as Brash a spire out. And while Ferrara is
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: going to be a dad, he threw only fourteen pitches.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: But here we go. The Mariners have their rules right,
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: you can't start a new inning. They don't want to
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: start a reliever starting a new inning. So out goes
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: Dad a little after just fourteen pitches, and here comes
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: Cooper Criswell, who was on with Chuck Powell about an
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: hour ago. Criswell comes into the game. He's been into Dodgers.
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: He was a starting pitcher for a while and he's
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: been in all kinds of roles around the major leagues.
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: They got him in the offseason. He comes in in
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: the seventh inning of a three to one game. He's
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: set down the top of the Cans order one, two, three,
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: Criswell struck out Jordan Novarez out an eighty seven mind
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: hour slider that completely fulled Avage because he didn't swing.
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: It was center cut down the middle, called strike three.
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: He just did not. He was completely fooled and didn't
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: expect a slider at eighty seven right down the middle
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: to end the inning. Thirteen pitches for Criswell. Well, what's
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: that mean? He's done? Can't start a new ending Marrier's rule.
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: Here comes Edward Bizardo, bottom of the eighth leadoff member.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: Bizarto had given it up in Chicago the day before
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: with the two runs late in the game when they
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: lost two to one. He comes in, as met Chris
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: mentioned third time in four days, leadoff walk, really bad
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: mistake in a two run game. Then strikeout, strikeout, strikeout
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: two of them called. I loved how Bizardo stumped off
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: the mound after the ending end of two man he
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: was pretty pumped up. Still three one ams. Meanwhile, the
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: offense eighteen batters and nineteen played appearances made outs in
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: that stretch after the home run and the third inning,
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: I think it was by Rodriguez eighteen of nineteen retired
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: by Houston's really bad pitching staff, So the bullpen had
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: to do this. Then we talk about the bottom ninth
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: Unjos comes in. Okay, Anders, we're going to take a
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: poke at the new dad. He loves to talk about
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: how JP Crawford's defense is killing him. And sure enough,
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: the first run of the game last night, for the
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: track was off the backhand glove of JP Crawford. Although
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: I will tell you that hit scorched. There are very
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: few shortstops that would have picked that and kept it
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: from going into the outfield and prevented the run there.
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: But in a ninth inning, Chris out of you noticed it.
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: Fans may have noticed that play to start the inning
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: with the first out, charging hard and taking a short
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: hop cleanly into his glove and then throwing on the
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: run to get the first out of the ninth was splendid.
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: That is a hard, hard play to make. You have
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: to make a decision. As a short stop, you stay back.
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: And if I charge and commit, I got to commit
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: charging to this, meaning I can't wait for a hop.
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: If I'm going to charge this, I got a glove
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: it wherever it gloves. And if it's a short hop,
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: And that was a really short hop, like a couple inches,
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: and he got it and threw in one motion, that
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: changes the ending. Of course, there's all kinds of statistics
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: to tell you what happens when the leadoff man gets
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: on versus when he isn't, and whether a team scores
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: a run or not they needed to, of course, and
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: the rest was history. But yeah, we've also given JP
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: Crawford grief on this station for his defense time, to
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: give him some props for what he did in a night.
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: Thenny to get Andre s Munos off to the start
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: sweep coming. Here we go four ram series against the
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: last place team. You may be right, Chris, maybe Brian
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: was starting to night sweep coming Brian Woo started a night.
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: Bryce Miller makes his first appearance of the season tomorrow
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: off the injured list. He has never never, He has
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: not this spring thrown more than sixty one pitches in
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: the minor league rehab assignment, so it may be another
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: bullpen night tonight. It would behoove the Mariners to get
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: another Brian Wu esque start, and that he's usually a
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: seven inning plus guy. He's something of an anomaly in
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: Major League Baseball this year or this era. But if
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: Wu gives you a Wu type start, which he bounced
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: back last time and did, then you set your bullpen
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: up for what should be a bullpen day at least
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: half the game or a little more, a little less
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: than half the game tomorrow, when Bryce Miller's coming back
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: off the injured list, and then Louis Castillo in what
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: is mounting up to be a pretty important start on
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: the Thursday afternoon. Maybe it's morning our time. I think
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: it's eleven am Thursday morning series finale and road trip
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: finale in Houston, because they are doing this six man
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: rotation deal and they really are looking at, okay, what's
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: Louis Castillo look like in this six man rotation? Are
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: they going to piggyback starters? Are they going to stretch
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: everyone out with five days rest with a six man rotation?
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: How Castillo does Thursday in Houston will probably have a
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: long say about that. The other thing this six man
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: rotation does, of course, is it changes the dynamics of
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: the bullpen, and guys may not pitch as often as
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: they do, or they may have to pitch if the
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: guys get if starters don't take to this. Anyway, the
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: most encouraging thing last night to me was the bullpen
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: getting guys that they did not have in their plans
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: in high leverage situations and succeeding. We saw what happened
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: earlier in the season when guys had been forced into
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: high leverage situations that did not succeed. Casey Beans is gone,
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: Lagomina was dfaight after failing in those situations, but not
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: last night. Dodola and Chriswell nails. Of course, again, that's
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: a last place team. Into Cris's point, they need to
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: capitalize this and win four games. So and you're back
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: right in it, right, you're number one, like probably they
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: are two games back right now because the A's won
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: last night and we're not that we're watching the standings
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: May twelfth, But the point it's worth watching the standings.
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: The point is that the Al West is not going anywhere.
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: So the Mariners last night off to a good start
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: because of their bullpen, and how often have we said
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: that this season that has been the other way four nine,
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: four to five one. Your failings about the Mariners after
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: just one night, but the positive signs of the bullpen
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: and what they can continue to do. Your opinions were
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: already getting some on the text line about Kyle Raley,
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: and I submit again they should put him on the
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: injured list, give him a week and a half off,
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: a mental and physical break, and then he's still have
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: him for one hundred and ten games. And although there
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: is someone on the text line, I'm from the two
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: oh six, he was the two oh six who said
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: you need him for the pitchers, the two five three. Rather,
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: Kyle is valuable as a catcher to the pitchers, that
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: is true, and if you put him on an injured
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: list that you'd be missing that. Now, Garver has had
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: a pretty good season as far as he's really good
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: at challenges. By the way, but now that Garver's been
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: here for a year plus a couple of years, they
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: the pitching staff knows him and trust him more. I
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: would submit it would be worth losing Raleigh to the
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: pitching staff for ten days for what you get back
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: in a refreshed Raleigh and hopefully healed Raleigh and rested Raleigh.
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: So two oh six I did not see Alvarez marinerd
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: Munas through one fastball to Avarez. I don't know that
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: he threw one fastball to Alvarez. Maybe he did watch,
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: but maybe he did, but he The point was the
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: entire ending he was fastball and the change up after
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: an ending full of fastballs is what completely fooled Alvarez
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: with the game on the line. I mean, it's easy
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: to go back online and see what they he's missing.
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: The two zero six is missing the point here. The
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: point is that he went fastball to start that ending,
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: including the single to by al Tuve, far more than
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: he had all season, and that set up the game
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: ending change up that, of course he wasn't Alvarez was
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: not expecting. So thank you for the erada on that
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: Munos as. Munos is going to take this team a
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: lot further the way they play one run games with
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: the offense they have. We'll readback to texting the Tacoma
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: Dodge Tex line four nine four five to one up.
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: Next back to the NFL and back to the scheduling.
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: No Sports organization does scheduling like the NFL does trickling
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: it out. The Sporting NFL and ESPN announced the first
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: Monday Night game. How that affects the Seahawks for their
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: league opener Wednesday, September Night. We'll talk about that and
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: we'll give you all the known games so far on
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  Speaker 1: the schedule. Tomorrow. Another announcement that affects the Seahawks potentially,
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  Speaker 1: we'll talk about that next On ninety three point three KJRFM.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Greg Belt Show with Christopher Kidd
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  Speaker 1: on ninety three point three KJRFM. We'll be talking a
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  Speaker 1: is now the longest in the major leagues. This week
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  Speaker 1: Tomorrow is the next iteration of the NFL scheduled Drip
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  Speaker 1: Drip Drip they're going to announce the international games early
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  Speaker 1: tomorrow morning. There's a possibility the Seahawks. There are two
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  Speaker 1: possibilities the Seahawks can play international games that are left
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  Speaker 1: based on what's already been announced. They could potentially play
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  Speaker 1: the forty nine Ers in Mexico City, though I'm not
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  Speaker 1: sure that they'd give the forty nine ers a division
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  Speaker 1: game in Australia against the Rams and then another division
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  Speaker 1: game internationally in Mexico against the world champion Seahawks. And
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  Speaker 1: the other possibility remains a Commander's game in London. The
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  Speaker 1: Seahawks have a road date Penncil schedule. It will play
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  Speaker 1: a road game against Washington and Washington as a home
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  Speaker 1: team for one of the multiple London games the nfls
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  Speaker 1: putting on. Of course, the Seahawks in twenty eighteen played
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  Speaker 1: in Wembley in London. I was there, pitch side, outdoor
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  Speaker 1: press boxes in Europe, Chris. They're great. The atmosphere loads
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  Speaker 1: right on the field. It's pretty cool. Munich was the
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  Speaker 1: same way, but Raiders Seahawks played in Wembley what's now
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  Speaker 1: almost eight it was eight years ago. It was the
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  Speaker 1: week Paul Allen died. That's The only other time the
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  Speaker 1: Seahawks in England there are only other international game, of course,
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  Speaker 1: was in Munich, as I said, against the Buccaneers a
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  Speaker 1: couple of years after the London game. And that's it.
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  Speaker 1: You would think the Super Bowl champions would be an
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  Speaker 1: international attraction. They are, and the Seahawks have been expecting
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  Speaker 1: to be an international game this coming season. But now
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  Speaker 1: there's only two chances left. We'll find out tomorrow if
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  Speaker 1: the Seahawks get in Mexico City against the forty nine
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  Speaker 1: Ers or the Commanders in London. We also know that
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  Speaker 1: the Seahawks are not going to play the Chiefs. It
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  Speaker 1: was announced this morning. As we mentioned earlier, Chiefs Broncos,
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  Speaker 1: the first Monday night game on ESPN ABC going to
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  Speaker 1: be Week one. That's that matchup, So the Chiefs won't
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  Speaker 1: be coming here. It's down to four possibilities for the
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  Speaker 1: Seahawks to open the season the NFL season Wednesday, September
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  Speaker 1: ninth at Lumenfield. It could be the Bears, it could
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  Speaker 1: be the Cardinals, it could be the Patriots of the Chargers,
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  Speaker 1: and we've talked about a couple of reasons why we
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  Speaker 1: think it's going to be the Bears. Mike Katlike Sports
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  Speaker 1: Illustrated Report for the New England Patriots and the NFL
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  Speaker 1: at large. He's going to join us at eleven o'clock
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  Speaker 1: in the Beacon Plumbing Hotline. He thinks that it should
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  Speaker 1: be Patriots Seahawks. I think that might be a little
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  Speaker 1: bit of an Homer bias there from New England, but
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  Speaker 1: he thinks it should be a Super Bowl rematch for
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  Speaker 1: the Week one game. Here are what we know as
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  Speaker 1: the known games. Forty nine ers rams in Australia, Thursday,
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  Speaker 1: September tenth, the day after the Seahawks opened the NFL
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  Speaker 1: season on the first Wednesday opener, Cowboys at Giants is
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  Speaker 1: the week Wednesday night game. We talked about yesterday. Why
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  Speaker 1: ridiculous that was? Ryan Dunleavy from the New York Post
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  Speaker 1: even agreed that that was kind of ridiculous. The Giants
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  Speaker 1: got the Sunday night game. Week one Chiefs Broncos is
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  Speaker 1: the Week one Monday night game. Lions at Bills. That
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  Speaker 1: is going to be the second week Thursday night game.
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  Speaker 1: Week two. That is the Bills opening of their brand
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  Speaker 1: new Palace Stadium. Lions at Bills on the second week
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  Speaker 1: of the season Thursday night on Amazon Prime. That stadium,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, is not in downtown Buffalo. It's way
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  Speaker 1: out in Orchard Park, just like the currently it's built.
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  Speaker 1: It's built in the parking lot of the current stadium
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  Speaker 1: now the old stadium, so it's not any closer to
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  Speaker 1: all the fans on the downtown Buffalo. On the east
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  Speaker 1: side of Buffalo. It's a track. It's a half hour
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  Speaker 1: or so and at the two lane road and usually snowing,
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  Speaker 1: but once you're there, it's a great environment in western
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  Speaker 1: New York. The two other known games involved Chris's dad's team,
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  Speaker 1: the Cowboys. They have three known games already, all in oh.
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  Speaker 2: All primetime.
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  Speaker 3: Huh yeah, oh, look at that sucked but last year
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  Speaker 3: but somehow I have three primetime games.
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  Speaker 1: I love you, dad.
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  Speaker 2: But the point still stands. They should have one.
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  Speaker 1: Ravens Cowboys in Brazil in Week three, so the Cowboys
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  Speaker 1: will be the feature game in the very first game
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  Speaker 1: NFL regular season game in Brazil and Rio Dejian Arrow
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  Speaker 1: against Baltimore. That maybe probably with that dun that's they
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  Speaker 1: get to fix their defense. And then Thanksgiving they always
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  Speaker 1: play on Thanksgiving. They're going to play at home in
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  Speaker 1: their traditional game. But it's against the Eagles. We know
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  Speaker 1: that now it's an Eagles had Cowboys Thanksgiving Week twelve,
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  Speaker 1: and as I said, the international games to be announced tomorrow,
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  Speaker 1: you would think the Seahawks are going to be in
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  Speaker 1: a lot of primetime games, potential holiday games. They're going
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  Speaker 1: to be up to three Christmas Day games. There's going
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  Speaker 1: to be a primetime Thanksgiving game. I would think the
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  Speaker 1: Seahawks are in play for all of that. Now that
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  Speaker 1: they've won the Super Bowl, they should be getting max
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  Speaker 1: primetime in spots, holiday spots. Christmas is on a Thursday
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  Speaker 1: this year, is that right?
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  Speaker 2: Ah, I believe you're correct. Yeah, let's just go with it.
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  Speaker 2: You know the TEXTI will let us know.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it is on a Friday. So that's not as
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  Speaker 1: bad as Wednesday at the Christmas was on a couple
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  Speaker 1: years ago, but bad for the players that is it
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  Speaker 1: was a short week, but Friday for Christmas games. The
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  Speaker 1: Seahawks are definitely in play for that. And I will
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  Speaker 1: tell you just anecdotally, the league loves for their primary games,
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  Speaker 1: the crowd noise and the weather factor that is Seattle
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  Speaker 1: and the later in the season potent. In particular, they
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  Speaker 1: love to feature the Seahawks at home because of the environment,
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  Speaker 1: how it plays out on television nationally, the noise and
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  Speaker 1: all of it. So it wouldn't surprise me at all
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  Speaker 1: if the Seahawks have a Christmas Day game a Friday
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  Speaker 1: this year at home. I sure would love it to
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  Speaker 1: be at home. Selfishly, I had to travel at Christmas
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  Speaker 1: night to Chicago. Not that I'm complaining. I love my
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  Speaker 1: job and I'm cherished in privileged to be there, but
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  Speaker 1: I had to Getting on a plane Christmas Day is nothing.
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  Speaker 3: Anyone would be upset that you didn't want to travel
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  Speaker 3: on Christmas Day.
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  Speaker 1: That plane was not full to Chicago. I was.
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  Speaker 2: You were probably with people that weren't too excited either.
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  Speaker 1: That hotel was not full in the Miracle Mile in Chicago.
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  Speaker 3: You are on the list of people that are right
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  Speaker 3: there with you Christmas Day and I got to do
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  Speaker 3: something called work.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's tough. I'm not complaining. I once missed my
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  Speaker 1: play in Dallas. They had a day before the day
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  Speaker 1: that you remember when Earl Thomas after the game went
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  Speaker 1: over to the Cowboys locker room and stud kidding me.
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  Speaker 1: That game was December twenty fourth, and I stayed up
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  Speaker 1: all night to write three days worth of story, so
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  Speaker 1: I had nothing to write when I got home Christmas
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  Speaker 1: Day for the kids and the family, and I met
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  Speaker 1: the only time I've missed a plane in my career.
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  Speaker 1: I got up. I don't know why. I just laid
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  Speaker 1: down on my bed and got up. And my flight
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  Speaker 1: was at six out of DFW and I woke up
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  Speaker 1: at like five point twenty and I ran like crazy
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  Speaker 1: to get driving. I think I left the rental car
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  Speaker 1: running at the drop off place and I ran into
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  Speaker 1: the airport and I got there as the gate was
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  Speaker 1: closing Christmas morning six am. I said, come on, man, please,
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  Speaker 1: I'm trying to go home to see my kids, my family. Sorry,
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  Speaker 1: ten minutes before departure, and the plane just sat there
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  Speaker 1: for like fifteen minutes, and I watched it just sit there.
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  Speaker 1: And I spent half my Christmas Day in THEFW airport.
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  Speaker 1: That was. That was I'd call in my stocking for
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  Speaker 1: my wife when I got home from that up next.
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  Speaker 1: Mike Katlig knows about the NFL and holiday games. He
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  Speaker 1: covers the Patriots and the league for Sports Illustrated in
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  Speaker 1: New England. He joined us on the Beacon Hotline Beacon
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  Speaker 1: Plumbing Hotline next and eleven thirty where redback your text.
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  Speaker 1: All that's coming up on ninety three point three KJRFM