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8-28: Benton is in! Roxy Bernstein, Josh Lingler and Ryan Spilborghs · The Gregg Bell Show

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  Speaker 1: Now, from the Star Reynolds Sports Desk, your 93.3 KJR
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  Speaker 1: FM Sports Headlines.
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  Speaker 2: All right, here we go. Headlines are brought to you
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  Speaker 2: by Frostbrood Coors Light. Seahawks are in Kansas City for
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  Speaker 2: their third and final preseason game tonight. If you want depth...
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  Speaker 2: You got depth. 22 starters, none of them will play
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  Speaker 2: this evening. Expect to see Jalen Milrow under center the
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  Speaker 2: entire game. And I mean the entire game. Kickoff, 5 p.m.,
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  Speaker 2: by the way, in Kansas City. Leonard Williams also making
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  Speaker 2: his contract extension official yesterday. Three-year, $ 90 million deal alongside
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  Speaker 2: his wife and five-month-old son. What a story. What a
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  Speaker 2: personality as well. He's locked up here for the longer term.
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  Speaker 2: The Mariners' day off yesterday. They traveled cross-country. They take on...
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  Speaker 2: Those evil, rotten Blue Jays from Toronto.
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  Speaker 3: Let's invade them for once.
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  Speaker 2: Three-game series beginning this evening. We still have fond or
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  Speaker 2: not-so-fond memories of last October. This is, again, a big series.
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  Speaker 2: 4-15 first pitch, by the way. We're going to have
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  Speaker 2: a guy on the call nationally from Apple TV later
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  Speaker 2: on today. Ryan Spielberg's, again, 4-15 first pitch Mariners game.
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  Speaker 2: at the Blue Jays. Other NFL news, the Rams adding
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  Speaker 2: another wide receiver yesterday, trading for Tutu Atwell and sending
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  Speaker 2: the Dolphins running back Jarquez Hunter in return. Head coach
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  Speaker 2: Sean McVay insisting this has, quote, nothing to do, end quote,
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  Speaker 2: with the potential suspension of two-time Pro Bowler Puka Nakua, okay,
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  Speaker 2: and simply adding depth here to the wide receiver room.
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  Speaker 2: Clint Kubiak staying mum on QB1. What a surprise. Veteran
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  Speaker 2: QB Kirk Cousins, rookie Fernando Mendoza are still, in theory,
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  Speaker 2: competing for the job. Kubiak telling the media, quote, he
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  Speaker 2: needs another three preseason games and all those rookies do,
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  Speaker 2: end quote. Okay. Tony Romo was issued three new citations.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, boy.
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  Speaker 2: Stemming here from his July arrest in Wisconsin, he was
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  Speaker 2: initially cited for refusing to take a test for intoxication
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  Speaker 2: after an arrest.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, boy.
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  Speaker 2: The three new citations include unsafe passing on the right,
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  Speaker 2: first offense, OWI, and possessing open intoxicants. You're saying that's bad?
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  Speaker 2: I know that Greg has got Twitter open. He's got
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  Speaker 2: social media open. He posted something this morning that he's
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  Speaker 2: on the way to Kansas City. And this is also
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  Speaker 2: on the playlist. But I wouldn't doubt that this is
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  Speaker 2: probably going on loop now for about six or seven times.
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  Speaker 2: So we actually might catch him at the right time.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that would be pretty interesting, actually.
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  Speaker 5: I'm just wondering how that would sync up.
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  Speaker 3: And we have no way of knowing. Because he's listening
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  Speaker 3: to one thing or the other.
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  Speaker 2: I might text him during commercial break. I might text him.
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  Speaker 2: I being me, Mike Benton, I'm filling in for Greg
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  Speaker 2: Bell with the great Jessamyn McIntyre on the other side
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  Speaker 2: of the glass. This show is going to fly by.
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  Speaker 2: So strap in, buckle up. We got a lot to
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  Speaker 2: get to here for today because the Mariners are in
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  Speaker 2: Toronto and what is still again for probably the fifth
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  Speaker 2: time in a row. biggest series of the year and
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  Speaker 2: the Seahawks at Kansas city. Hey, if you want to
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  Speaker 2: pay full price here to watch depth and practice squad
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  Speaker 2: guys go for it, but this is what's going to
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  Speaker 2: come down to no one of any notoriety. No one,
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  Speaker 2: as far as first ring on the depth chart is
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  Speaker 2: going to play in this game. And it's going to
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  Speaker 2: be the Jalen Milrose show from start to finish for
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  Speaker 2: this evening. So we're going to also hit the sidelines,
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  Speaker 2: not just, I think in our conversation with this, but
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  Speaker 2: also from the other side of, uh, The opposing end here,
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  Speaker 2: Josh Klinger from the Chiefs Radio Network, going to be
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  Speaker 2: joining us at 11 a.m. Before that, Roxy Bernstein at
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  Speaker 2: 1020 from ESPN. He's been following the baseball scene a lot.
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  Speaker 2: We've seen him in cross paths in Seattle, of course.
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  Speaker 2: So we're going to get a chance to tap into
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  Speaker 2: what he thinks about the Mariners' chances in the American
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  Speaker 2: League West and the biggest threat here in the wildcard pursuit.
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  Speaker 2: And did the Mariners blow it? Not getting Gino Suarez
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  Speaker 2: 24 hours ago. I mean, how much are we still
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  Speaker 2: kind of thinking, what if?
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  Speaker 5: I mean, seriously, it was just like a nothing burger
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  Speaker 5: to get him, right? And he's such a positive impact
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  Speaker 5: on that clubhouse. I am so surprised that they didn't
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  Speaker 5: do that.
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  Speaker 6: I mean.
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  Speaker 2: I've got thoughts on this, just ranging from the numbers
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  Speaker 2: and how much is it worth it based on his decline.
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  Speaker 2: But we can talk about good vibes only here to
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  Speaker 2: the point of how much is this really going to
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  Speaker 2: matter if you bring a guy on who's not hitting
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  Speaker 2: the ball that well. But is there maybe a caveat
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  Speaker 2: that we're not thinking about versus depth in the lineup?
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  Speaker 2: We're going to get to that. Roxy Bernstein, by the way,
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  Speaker 2: at 1045, we should have saved this also maybe for 1045,
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  Speaker 2: return of the Mac. Mackie Samuskevich, new Kraken Ford. We
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  Speaker 2: actually had a conversation with him yesterday at Kraken Community Iceplex.
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  Speaker 2: All around the big news once again, the Kraken, iHeartMedia, Seattle,
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  Speaker 2: 93.3 KJR, a big crown jewel part of this. Our coverage, again,
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  Speaker 2: continuing from a deeper level on a multi-year extension. That
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  Speaker 2: includes play-by-play broadcasting. But we had Mackie Samuskevich over at
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  Speaker 2: Kraken Community Ice Plugs, all a part of the Kraken
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  Speaker 2: Audio Network and our Overtime Podcast. And we'll have that
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  Speaker 2: conversation come up here at about 1045. So he's in
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  Speaker 2: town now. He's living with Matty Beneers. And it's crazy
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  Speaker 2: how the two almost look alike. But they also play together,
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  Speaker 2: not just in Michigan for college hockey, but also in
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  Speaker 2: youth hockey as well.
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  Speaker 3: Irish brothers.
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  Speaker 2: They just might be long lost. Yeah, they might be
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  Speaker 2: long lost. So he's here now. How many times did
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  Speaker 2: he mention playoffs? I'll leave that for you to listen to.
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  Speaker 2: And if we can get to this also, there's a
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  Speaker 2: funny story, by the way, on when he met Matty
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  Speaker 2: and the first time that he played against Matty Beneers,
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  Speaker 2: did he go into the right locker room? I'll leave
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  Speaker 2: that here for a cliffhanger for you. But Mackie Samaskevich
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  Speaker 2: at 1045. We mentioned Josh Klingler for the Chiefs Radio
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  Speaker 2: Network at 11 a.m. And then 1115, Ryan Spielberg, as
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  Speaker 2: we mentioned earlier, from Apple TV. He's a part of
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  Speaker 2: the Mariners at Blue Jays coverage here for this evening.
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  Speaker 2: Are there any hidden landmines he thinks may be in
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  Speaker 2: the Mariners' September schedule? And the Mariners versus the Astros
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  Speaker 2: versus the Rangers. Who's the team to beat if you're
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  Speaker 2: looking at this here from the Mariners' perspective? But we're
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  Speaker 2: going to get Ryan Spielberg's 20,000-foot view here on this
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  Speaker 2: coming up at around 11.15 here from Apple TV. Jess,
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  Speaker 2: I mentioned about how much the Mariners and Blue Jays
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  Speaker 2: series is just massive here for tonight because Toronto is
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  Speaker 2: still very much in the thick of this. And for
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  Speaker 2: these two teams, this might be as close as you
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  Speaker 2: can get to make or break. And by the way,
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  Speaker 2: a great chance here to plug 49451 Tacoma Dodge text
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  Speaker 2: line because... How much are we just kind of on
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  Speaker 2: pins and needles once again for a series this big?
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  Speaker 2: Because all we're asking for for the Mariners is pure
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  Speaker 2: survival here for this series and here for the Red
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  Speaker 2: Sox series. And then they're back home. And I mentioned
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  Speaker 2: this about a few days ago in this chair on
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  Speaker 2: another show here filling in for Ian. where it just
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  Speaker 2: almost kind of feels like this baseball team is like
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  Speaker 2: an I-5 traffic jam at this point. You're cruising at
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  Speaker 2: about 60 miles an hour. All of a sudden, you
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  Speaker 2: hit the brakes, and you hit that sludge of traffic.
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  Speaker 2: You look to your right or to your left. There's
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  Speaker 2: like a flaming wreckage somewhere, a massive car crash. And
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  Speaker 2: you're like, I just can't take my eyes off this thing.
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  Speaker 2: And all of a sudden, you just get out of
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  Speaker 2: this and zoom once again. Then you're hitting the brakes again.
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  Speaker 2: Then you're hitting zoom once again. We're almost out of
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  Speaker 2: that congestion part where it seems as if it's crystal
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  Speaker 2: clear as it gets. Because awaiting after the Blue Jays
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  Speaker 2: and the Red Sox are heavy hitters such as the Athletics.
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  Speaker 2: Houston Astros, who haven't been playing that great, but are
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  Speaker 2: also still surviving. The Texas Rangers.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but that's a huge pendulum swing, that series.
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  Speaker 2: And then the Angels. And then you have a road
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  Speaker 2: series also at the Rockies as well mixed in. So
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  Speaker 2: there's a lot of anti-heavy hitters here in this schedule.
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  Speaker 2: So all you're asking for the Mariners maybe is to
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  Speaker 2: get through this thing. And maybe do you think at
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  Speaker 2: just 500, is that enough? 49451. You throw out Dylan
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  Speaker 2: Seas tonight, if you're the Blue Jays. You throw out
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  Speaker 2: Jose Siriano tomorrow night. I mean, if you can get
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  Speaker 2: two of three, you call this series a win, Jess.
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  Speaker 3: I completely agree.
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  Speaker 5: But the thing is, are they going to play down
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  Speaker 5: to their level? Are they going to play up to
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  Speaker 5: the level? I feel like that's kind of what we've seen.
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  Speaker 5: They did take care of some series that they had to.
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  Speaker 5: but will they play like we saw them capable of?
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  Speaker 2: And that was exactly the point I made the other day,
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  Speaker 2: is that we can talk about how much they've leveled
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  Speaker 2: up here to the Cubs, to the Phillies, but how
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  Speaker 2: much can you avoid playing down to your competition? And
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  Speaker 2: I used the cautionary tale of the San Francisco Giants
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  Speaker 2: series and the Cincinnati series in a comparison. Can you
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  Speaker 2: avoid playing down to your competition. Do you have confidence
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  Speaker 2: in the Mariners to avoid playing down to their competition?
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  Speaker 4: 49451.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, very quick here also, did the Mariners blow
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  Speaker 2: it with not getting Gino Suarez back? 49451. On the
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  Speaker 2: plus side, you've got clubhouse vibes that we've gone over
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  Speaker 2: and over and over on. And there's some substance to
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  Speaker 2: what you can do for your own clubhouse when you
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  Speaker 2: bring somebody back in who is familiar but is known.
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  Speaker 2: And you and I have had first-person experience can just
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  Speaker 2: swiftly lift the energy level and the mood in the
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  Speaker 2: room by just how he communicates with other people, not
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  Speaker 2: just his own teammates. I had a similar experience back
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  Speaker 2: in the American League Division Series. You've been around that clubhouse, too.
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  Speaker 2: There is actual substance here to this. The opposing part
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  Speaker 2: of this is what are you actually doing? getting besides
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  Speaker 2: clubhouse vibes and for his three mil price tag?
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  Speaker 5: Well, I mean, he did hit a grand slam during
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  Speaker 5: the ALCS, I believe.
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  Speaker 2: And that was proof that you had struggles in the postseason,
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  Speaker 2: but you found the right hit at the right time.
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  Speaker 2: And I think where I get at here from this,
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  Speaker 2: and to your point, Are we really at that point
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  Speaker 2: with how just torn apart the Mariners' depth is that
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  Speaker 2: we're actually considering Geno Suarez? Based on his. 208 average,
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  Speaker 2: his negative 0.4 war, and defense is poor to below
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  Speaker 2: average as well. But you're right now thinking about adding him.
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  Speaker 2: Is this an upgrade over from what they've had in
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  Speaker 2: their depth with Weston Wilson, Patrick Wisdom, and Taylor Ward,
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  Speaker 2: who right now is on pace to be hitting worse
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  Speaker 2: than Rob Raffsnyder? And that to me says, despite maybe
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  Speaker 2: how poor his numbers are in comparison, by all means, yes,
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  Speaker 2: my opinion, that should have been a great move on
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  Speaker 2: multiple levels.
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  Speaker 5: I don't see the downside. I really just I am
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  Speaker 5: struggling to see the downside of claiming him. It's I
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  Speaker 5: think that this clubhouse, there's been injures, injuries. And so there's,
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  Speaker 5: you know, it comes with that cow struggle in the
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  Speaker 5: beginning of the season. And I'm doing like a leveling
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  Speaker 5: down of the mood and morale there.
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  Speaker 3: That, I mean, if for that alone would be enough
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  Speaker 3: for me.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, Brendan Donovan enough. I mean, we thought we're
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  Speaker 2: going to get a big season out of him. And,
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  Speaker 2: you know, it's just like you have to keep him
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  Speaker 2: bubble wrapped, even just walking out of the clubhouse at
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  Speaker 2: this point. So, I mean, reliability, that's something to consider.
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  Speaker 2: But did the Mariners blow it not getting Geno Suarez?
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  Speaker 7: 4-9, 4-5-1.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to get to more of this conversation. The
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  Speaker 2: Seahawks again tonight in Kansas City for their preseason finale.
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  Speaker 2: But around the corner is Roxy Bernstein from ESPN. We'll
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  Speaker 2: talk with them about the Mariners' chances coming up here
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  Speaker 2: in the postseason, plus more on the AL West Horizon.
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  Speaker 2: Roxy Bernstein next on 93.3 KJRFM. But I have not
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  Speaker 2: yet been to a Rush concert once in my life.
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  Speaker 2: And I hear, to just call it an experience, not
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  Speaker 2: enough justice. Mike Benton, Jessamyn, and for Greg Bell, without
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  Speaker 2: further ado to the Beacon Plumbing Hotline, we go to
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  Speaker 2: a guy who can tell us a lot about Rush
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  Speaker 2: concerts and baseball and much more. That's our friend Roxy
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  Speaker 2: Bernstein of ESPN.com. Roxy, hello. The Rush concert experience, I'm
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  Speaker 2: well overdue, but tell me, you spend one song on
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  Speaker 2: stage in an alternative universe, you and the body of
• 12:42
  Speaker 2: Geddy Lee. What song are you picking?
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  Speaker 4: You just played it. Oh, okay, Spirit of Radio. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Come on, let's go.
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  Speaker 7: No, I and look, you're talking about maybe the most
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  Speaker 7: fickle fan base in music. And, you know, unfortunately, with
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  Speaker 7: Neil Peart passing away five years ago from cancer and
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  Speaker 7: who you never knew, you probably were not optimistic that
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  Speaker 7: this was going to happen, that Geddy Lee and Alex
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  Speaker 7: Life's going to go back out on the road. But
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  Speaker 7: Anika Niles has stepped into maybe the biggest shoes in
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  Speaker 7: rock and roll. When you're stepping in for Neil Peart
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  Speaker 7: and the drummer for Rush, with this fan base, she
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  Speaker 7: has crushed it. She has been tremendous. And it is
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  Speaker 7: an amazing show. They still sound unbelievable. And Getty just
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  Speaker 7: turned 73. And they have so much energy. I know
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  Speaker 7: they're coming to Seattle in October, right? They're coming to
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  Speaker 7: Climate Pledge.
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  Speaker 8: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 4: You got to go. I need to go. You got
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  Speaker 4: to go.
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  Speaker 2: I will be on the horn for that. I will
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  Speaker 2: be on the horn for that for sure. When's the
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  Speaker 2: last time you saw Rush in concert?
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  Speaker 4: Last Friday night.
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  Speaker 2: You're fresh out of it then.
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  Speaker 4: So last weekend, so Friday I flew San Francisco to Philly.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: Saw them at the arena there where the Sixers and
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  Speaker 7: the Flyers play.
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  Speaker 4: Friday night, Saturday night. It worked out perfect.
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  Speaker 7: I had the Phillies on Saturday night last weekend against
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  Speaker 7: the Cardinals. And then I drove to Williamsport and did
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  Speaker 7: the Major League game, the Little League Classic between.
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  Speaker 4: The Brewers and the Braves, and I flew home. How
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  Speaker 4: about that for a week? Oh, my goodness.
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  Speaker 2: You got my appetite wet now all of a sudden.
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  Speaker 2: I was just in Philadelphia as well last year, but
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  Speaker 2: it's going to happen maybe even as well. In October. Hey,
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  Speaker 2: but Roxy, great to have you here as we're going
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  Speaker 2: to get into some baseball stuff. You've also got the
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  Speaker 2: college football side of things. I can't believe that we're
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  Speaker 2: already here here for week negative one. I'll call that
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  Speaker 2: maybe not week zero, but you're in Cal Poly here
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  Speaker 2: for tonight for college football coverage. But I got to
• 14:47
  Speaker 2: first turn my attention here with you being around the
• 14:50
  Speaker 2: Bay Area a lot. What's your take right now and
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  Speaker 2: what's going on in Santa Clara with Jed York?
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  Speaker 4: Not a good week. I texted somebody that's prominent in
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  Speaker 4: the 49ers front office. I'm like, oh, yikes.
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  Speaker 7: And I just got a text back that was not ideal.
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  Speaker 7: So it has been certainly a rough week and not just,
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  Speaker 7: but a rough off season. And it's not just, okay,
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  Speaker 7: certainly this Jed York game is pretty embarrassing for the organization.
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  Speaker 7: But Kyle Shanahan had that car accident right before training
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  Speaker 7: camp started where it was pretty serious, and luckily he's okay.
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  Speaker 7: But that's what, unfortunately, offseason has been for the 49ers, right?
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  Speaker 7: It's like they can't wait to play games because that
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  Speaker 7: could be a distraction from what's going on off the field.
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  Speaker 2: Do you really believe that he would sell the team,
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  Speaker 2: Jed York?
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  Speaker 4: I find it hard to believe. Look, he'll be on suspension,
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  Speaker 4: and you can.
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  Speaker 4: Think you can recover from this?
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  Speaker 7: I mean, Robert Kraft had his transgression a number of
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  Speaker 7: years ago, and that seems to have kind of gone away.
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  Speaker 7: And it's certainly not an easy thing to try to
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  Speaker 7: move on from. And luckily, I've never been and don't
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  Speaker 7: plan on being in that situation. But it certainly.
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  Speaker 4: Is tough right now for the organization.
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  Speaker 7: I can't see it, Mike, where the 49ers and the
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  Speaker 7: York family moves on from owning the 49ers. I know
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  Speaker 7: he's sold off limited parts and small percentage of the
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  Speaker 7: organization recently, but I anticipate Jed York still having the.
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  Speaker 4: Majority interest of the 49ers moving forward.
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  Speaker 2: Let's get on to baseball here because you've been around
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  Speaker 2: this year for the entire year, matter of fact, for
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  Speaker 2: much over the last several years. And, you know, at
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  Speaker 2: least on the Mariners' side, they've got a massive series
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  Speaker 2: coming up. They've all been massive really for, you know,
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  Speaker 2: for about the last two months or so. But to
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  Speaker 2: face the Blue Jays where they kind of feel like
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  Speaker 2: that they've been resuscitated and they're back in this race
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  Speaker 2: for a wildcard spot, the Mariners are not that much different.
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  Speaker 2: And the division still may be even more of the
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  Speaker 2: play than a wildcard berth. But for just how chaotic...
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  Speaker 2: this American league West has been. And the fact that
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  Speaker 2: somebody could legitimately win this division with a losing record,
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: give me one word to describe the Mariners this season,
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: Roxy and why.
• 17:22
  Speaker 7: Head scratching because this is the team you expected to
• 17:26
  Speaker 7: take that step forward, right? As close as they weren't
• 17:29
  Speaker 7: getting to the world series last year. And it's still
• 17:32
  Speaker 7: there for the taking because there's nobody in the American
• 17:35
  Speaker 7: League that if somehow Dan Wilson and the M's can
• 17:38
  Speaker 7: get into the postseason, which I still firmly believe they will,
• 17:42
  Speaker 7: that you get in a short series with the Mariners pitching.
• 17:46
  Speaker 7: That's a team you don't want to see. And they're
• 17:48
  Speaker 7: starting to maybe find their rhythm. It's been an uneven ride.
• 17:53
  Speaker 7: The injuries and things have just not clicked for this
• 17:57
  Speaker 7: team this year. But the benefit is when you look
• 18:00
  Speaker 7: at the schedule for September, it is very favorable for
• 18:05
  Speaker 7: the Mariners. This road trip, okay, you go to Toronto
• 18:08
  Speaker 7: and Boston, but you still have to play the A's
• 18:11
  Speaker 7: two series. And the A's are horrific, especially here toward
• 18:15
  Speaker 7: the end of the year. You have the Angels coming
• 18:18
  Speaker 7: to Seattle. You still have seven with them. You're playing
• 18:21
  Speaker 7: the Rockies for three in Denver, which, yeah, in Denver
• 18:24
  Speaker 7: can beat up.
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: Your pitching staff.
• 18:25
  Speaker 7: But you're also playing one of the bottom teams in
• 18:28
  Speaker 7: the league. And the pivotal series that you have in September,
• 18:31
  Speaker 7: other than those two games to finish off that series
• 18:34
  Speaker 7: with the Red Sox, are three with Texas at home.
• 18:38
  Speaker 7: And then a two-game pit stop with the Astros coming
• 18:42
  Speaker 7: to Seattle. The schedule is there in front of them. Now,
• 18:45
  Speaker 7: I know it's easier said than done, and these are
• 18:47
  Speaker 7: major leaguers. But you would think with the way the
• 18:50
  Speaker 7: September schedule sets up, it would bode well for the
• 18:53
  Speaker 7: Mariners to finish strong and get into the playoffs.
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: The pitching rotation as of today, you've got Logan Gilbert,
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: you've got George Kirby to pick from, Emerson Hancock will
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: go today, Brian Wu, Bryce Miller, despite his struggles, and
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: even he thinks that he's been hurt. And then the
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: young whippersnapper named Cade Anderson. Out of that three to
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: four guys for a playoff series, who do you like
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: the most?
• 19:18
  Speaker 4: Well, I think you're going to lean on the experience.
• 19:21
  Speaker 7: As electric as Kate Anderson could be, right? Here's the
• 19:24
  Speaker 7: young kid coming up. When you get in a short series,
• 19:27
  Speaker 7: like wildcard best two out of three. And unfortunately you
• 19:32
  Speaker 7: could be fighting up into the last day of the season, Mike.
• 19:35
  Speaker 7: So you may not be able to set it up
• 19:37
  Speaker 7: the way you want. If you wanted a Logan Gilbert
• 19:40
  Speaker 7: to go in game one, or if you wanted Brian
• 19:44
  Speaker 7: Wu to go in game one, you might not be
• 19:46
  Speaker 7: able to set it up the way you want. And again,
• 19:50
  Speaker 7: with that wild card series. Beginning on Tuesday. Assuming you
• 19:55
  Speaker 7: can get in.
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: It may just.
• 19:58
  Speaker 7: Be determined by who's next up in the rotation. So
• 20:01
  Speaker 7: it could be George Kirby. It could be Bryce Miller
• 20:04
  Speaker 7: that makes that start in game one. You may not
• 20:07
  Speaker 7: have the luxury to set it up the way you
• 20:09
  Speaker 7: want just because you're going to be fighting potentially up
• 20:12
  Speaker 7: until that last Sunday of the regular season.
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: With the Blue Jays are putting Dylan Cease out tonight.
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: Is he going to win the AL Cy Young?
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: I think he needs to be in that conversation.
• 20:23
  Speaker 7: Because what he has done this year and look the
• 20:26
  Speaker 7: blue jays have had a disappointing season but he has
• 20:31
  Speaker 7: certainly not been somebody that you're disappointed in with their
• 20:35
  Speaker 7: performance they got him for a reason and it's not
• 20:38
  Speaker 7: his fault and what's going on with the blue jays
• 20:41
  Speaker 7: he's pitched great just about every single turn that he
• 20:44
  Speaker 7: has made but this is a team that I think
• 20:49
  Speaker 7: a lot was expected of them, but you can't point
• 20:51
  Speaker 7: the finger in his direction. There is other reasons why
• 20:55
  Speaker 7: this team has struggled. I think you need to look
• 20:58
  Speaker 7: at Sonny Gray. I think his name needs to be
• 21:00
  Speaker 7: in that conversation. Certainly Cam Schlittler. And look, we saw
• 21:05
  Speaker 7: it last year, especially in the postseason when he did
• 21:07
  Speaker 7: the Red Sox.
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: This is a young burgeoning star.
• 21:10
  Speaker 7: And even a guy like Nick Martinez from Tampa, Mike,
• 21:15
  Speaker 7: he's been a revelation. Like all of a sudden, here's
• 21:19
  Speaker 7: a veteran pitcher that's just put things together this year
• 21:21
  Speaker 7: and had an unbelievable year. And he will draw consideration.
• 21:26
  Speaker 7: But for me, I think the top three names, when
• 21:29
  Speaker 7: you look at are, as you alluded to cease, even
• 21:32
  Speaker 7: though he doesn't have the wins and that's become a
• 21:35
  Speaker 7: less valued stat these days. But Cease, with that sparkling ERA,
• 21:40
  Speaker 7: Sonny Gray, and Cam Schlittler, those are the top three
• 21:43
  Speaker 7: in my eyes in the American League.
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: You know what's crazy about the Blue Jays? I thought
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: they were dead about roughly a month ago, but here
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: they come once again. They went on a heater and
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: it's maybe cooled off a little bit. They've got injury issues.
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: I mean, Trey is savage. I point to Addison Barger
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: as well, just among many examples. But given the fact
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: that the playoff format has expanded, there's still a feel
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: that they're very much in the mix. How much do
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: you think that they're for real here for this stretch drive.
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: Well, we kept waiting for it a lot like the Mariners, right?
• 22:13
  Speaker 7: We kept waiting for this team to get going and
• 22:16
  Speaker 7: Vladimir Guerrero jr.
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: Hasn't had the great year, but here they are.
• 22:20
  Speaker 7: All of a sudden they put themselves back into contention
• 22:24
  Speaker 7: and that the whole American league, this thing is going
• 22:26
  Speaker 7: to be wild. The next few weeks, what you have
• 22:29
  Speaker 7: five teams that are above 500 in the AL and
• 22:33
  Speaker 7: And that race for the third wild card, Cleveland's got it.
• 22:36
  Speaker 7: Now they're, they're on a surge. The guardians have won
• 22:38
  Speaker 7: seven in a row and they've Steven votes team has
• 22:41
  Speaker 7: climbed a couple of games over 500 and.
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: Thank you for the Azusa Pacific drop-in, by the way.
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: I appreciate you.
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: Exactly. Come on.
• 22:50
  Speaker 7: Vote with my guy in Oakland. You go back to
• 22:52
  Speaker 7: the college days with Steven. But they used to chant
• 22:56
  Speaker 7: in the bleachers in Oakland, in the artist formerly known
• 22:59
  Speaker 7: as the Oakland Athletics.
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: I believe in Steven Vogt.
• 23:04
  Speaker 9: And.
• 23:05
  Speaker 7: He's done a phenomenal job. Look, manager of the year,
• 23:08
  Speaker 7: back-to-back years. And the Guardians now are off the deck
• 23:11
  Speaker 7: and back in the running. But they're thinking about the Central.
• 23:15
  Speaker 7: But this whole wildcard chase, there's a little bit of
• 23:17
  Speaker 7: separation right now. But that can change in a matter
• 23:20
  Speaker 7: of two days. Because Cleveland's got that spot right now.
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: But there's Texas. There's the Orioles who put themselves in trouble.
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: to contention.
• 23:28
  Speaker 7: You got the Jays who played their way back in
• 23:30
  Speaker 7: the Mariners, the twins, even the tigers with the trades
• 23:33
  Speaker 7: that they made of mys and Scooble at the deadline
• 23:37
  Speaker 7: are still kind of hovering, even if they're nine games
• 23:41
  Speaker 7: below 500, the tigers are the crazy team. When you
• 23:45
  Speaker 7: look at the numbers, Mike, because every team that I mentioned,
• 23:48
  Speaker 7: that's in the hunt for the third wild card spot,
• 23:51
  Speaker 7: has a negative run differential for the season, except for
• 23:55
  Speaker 7: the Tigers. And even though Detroit is nine games under,
• 23:58
  Speaker 7: their run differential is a plus 70.
• 24:01
  Speaker 4: It's insane.
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: And they traded off the best pitcher maybe at the deadline,
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: and here they are still right in the thick.
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: Of it, right?
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: And it's a credit to that team and to what A.J.
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: Hinch has done. And they've had a ton of injuries,
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: what they've dealt with all season long. But yet, here
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: they are.
• 24:19
  Speaker 7: They realize that the likelihood of Scooble coming back was
• 24:22
  Speaker 7: not a probable reality. So they make the trade at
• 24:27
  Speaker 7: the deadline and send him off to the Dodgers, and
• 24:29
  Speaker 7: they're kind of retooling, but.
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: I think it's awfully tough for.
• 24:33
  Speaker 7: Them to get in, but that wild card hunt in
• 24:36
  Speaker 7: the American league, it is crazy with all these teams.
• 24:38
  Speaker 4: Those last two weeks are going to be nuts to watch.
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: Astros a game up right now on the Rangers. The Mariners,
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: of course, three games back up first place in the
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: American league West and Roxy to you Astros or Rangers.
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: Who's the greater challenge here for the Mariners with about
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: one month ago.
• 24:54
  Speaker 7: I think it's Houston on, not just because there are
• 24:56
  Speaker 7: three games in front in first place right now. Um,
• 25:00
  Speaker 7: When you have maybe the best player in baseball going
• 25:04
  Speaker 7: right now, it's Jordan Alvarez in the lineup. That makes
• 25:07
  Speaker 7: it certainly a threat. But I have questions about their
• 25:10
  Speaker 7: pitching as I do with Texas. And it's just like
• 25:15
  Speaker 7: I posed this question the other night to Doug Glanville
• 25:18
  Speaker 7: when we were doing Sunday night baseball in Williamsport. about
• 25:23
  Speaker 7: the Mariners. And like I asked him, am I wrong
• 25:26
  Speaker 7: for buying a team at the time? I think the
• 25:28
  Speaker 7: M's were what, maybe nine under or eight under if
• 25:31
  Speaker 7: I'm wrong for buying them and thinking they could be
• 25:34
  Speaker 7: potentially the team to beat, but the talents there, we
• 25:38
  Speaker 7: know it. And it just hasn't happened for this team yet.
• 25:43
  Speaker 7: And now how Raleigh's getting hot. This is maybe the
• 25:46
  Speaker 7: stretch where we finally get to see the Mariners team.
• 25:49
  Speaker 7: We thought If they lay out that schedule in September, Mike,
• 25:53
  Speaker 7: it's there for the taking. The division is theirs to
• 25:56
  Speaker 7: be grabbed if they can go and run with it.
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: Again, Cal really getting hot certainly is a big key.
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: And we saw a lot from him in the first
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: couple of games of this Philly series. And maybe they
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: punted this final game, but for the greater good, because
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: you got 10 days in a row where you're on
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: the road. Guys can get banged up even more here.
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: So certainly that is right place, right time. I wanted
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: to also address Julio Rodriguez with you, Mike. A lot
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: of ups, a lot of downs for him for this
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: entire season. OPS in the last two weeks is like 535,
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: hitting just 183 in that case. We had a lot
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: of talk on our airwaves about the mental mistakes he had,
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: throwing the ball over the fence with two outs. Then
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: he had the pitch clock violation because he was throwing
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: the ball back and forth with fans from behind the fence.
• 26:46
  Speaker 6: And then.
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: First game of the Philadelphia series, the statement he made
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: hitting an absolute taser off of Zach Wheeler just sent
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: shockwaves here throughout this entire crowd that was in that ballpark.
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: Do you think we'll get to a point with him
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: being that it just seems kind of like we're asking
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: for more, but he's always had great defense. He proved
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: a lot in the postseason last year, but to a
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: point where he gets into that megastar tier with the
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: likes of, say, Acuna, Tatis, Soto, et cetera.
• 27:21
  Speaker 7: And look, he's such a dynamic player with all the things.
• 27:26
  Speaker 7: He's a five tool guy, right? He can do everything.
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: On the field.
• 27:31
  Speaker 7: And he's keep in mind, he's still 25. Like this is,
• 27:36
  Speaker 7: we all, maybe we're expecting too much from him. And look,
• 27:41
  Speaker 7: the expectations are fair because the Mariners invested in him.
• 27:45
  Speaker 7: And gave him the long contract. And we have seen
• 27:48
  Speaker 7: the glimpses of it. When you look what he's done.
• 27:50
  Speaker 7: The big moments where he has responded. Whether it's been
• 27:54
  Speaker 7: the home run derby. The all-star game. When the bright
• 27:57
  Speaker 7: lights have come on. He's been there. And you want
• 28:01
  Speaker 7: to duplicate what he did in his second year.
• 28:03
  Speaker 9: When the.
• 28:05
  Speaker 7: Numbers were just incredible. With the RBIs. Stolen bases. And
• 28:11
  Speaker 7: the average has decreased slightly. In each of the last years.
• 28:14
  Speaker 7: three years since that great 2023. But this is a
• 28:19
  Speaker 7: cornerstone for this franchise. And to get the best out
• 28:23
  Speaker 7: of him, I'm not sure what buttons need to be
• 28:25
  Speaker 7: pushed because we've seen the dramatic moments from him, but
• 28:29
  Speaker 7: yet there's been some frustration.
• 28:31
  Speaker 4: But that's In a lot of ways, that's baseball, Mike, right?
• 28:34
  Speaker 7: It's 162 games and you're going to go through your
• 28:36
  Speaker 7: highs and you're going to go through your lows and
• 28:38
  Speaker 7: you're going to have to adjust. And maybe he's in
• 28:40
  Speaker 7: a period where he needs to adjust and figure some
• 28:42
  Speaker 7: things out what's going to work better for him. But
• 28:45
  Speaker 7: this is an elite talent that has the ability to
• 28:48
  Speaker 7: carry a team for a couple of weeks and carry
• 28:50
  Speaker 7: a team in a playoff series. And that's why the
• 28:53
  Speaker 7: Mariners have been committed to him and why you've given him,
• 28:57
  Speaker 7: the Seattle Mariners, the money and the length of the contract,
• 29:00
  Speaker 7: which they've done with him.
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: Fans have seen that before from him, and they're looking
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: to see it again with a little over a month
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: now to go in the season. So, hey, finally, college
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: football's here, and you're at Cal Poly. As far as
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: me being a beach guy, I'm jealous, so I would
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: assume before you get out to... The stadium, you've got
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: about a few hours of soaking over at Pismo Beach, right?
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: Working the suntan a little bit?
• 29:24
  Speaker 4: Not today. This is grind day, Mike.
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: I'm grinding.
• 29:28
  Speaker 4: Game night.
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: You're a pro's pro.
• 29:30
  Speaker 6: Game day.
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: You're a pro's pro, man.
• 29:32
  Speaker 7: I was able to slip down to the beach on
• 29:34
  Speaker 7: Thursday or Wednesday.
• 29:36
  Speaker 4: I did that because it's a Friday night. My days
• 29:38
  Speaker 4: are thrown off.
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: Beauty, beauty, working smart. It's going to be not too
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: long before we see you back in these parts. Once again,
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: you got the NHL side of things also. So we'll
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: look forward to crossing paths, but man, appreciate you. Have
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: a good call tonight, man.
• 29:51
  Speaker 4: Thanks, man. Appreciate it, Mike. Catch up as always.
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: Roxy Bernstein of ESPN joining us on the Beacon Plumbing Hotline. Yeah,
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: I mean, with the battle over a month ago, not
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: just Cal Raleigh, but can Julio minimize the mistakes? Because
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: we've seen what he's been capable of, not just offensively,
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: but as well with the bat. And this is kind
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: of where I stop before going too far with, I think,
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: the mental side of things, Jess, with Julio, because do
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: you remember what the clubhouse sounded like after Game 7
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: in Toronto last year?
• 30:24
  Speaker 6: Yep.
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: Whose primal scream that was?
• 30:26
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: You can't tell me he doesn't care. You cannot tell
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: me Julio does not care.
• 30:31
  Speaker 6: Yep.
• 30:34
  Speaker 5: I mean, I think it's the perception of the lackadaisical
• 30:38
  Speaker 5: mistakes that he has made make it look like that.
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: But he's loose. He's calm. He's cool. He's collected.
• 30:44
  Speaker 5: He's not a Josh Naylor. I am angry all the time.
• 30:47
  Speaker 5: That's not what you see. But that scream after that.
• 30:50
  Speaker 9: Yep.
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: I do remember that.
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: That's just the thing. It's not also just with baseball,
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: but really any sport. You can't have a clubhouse or
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: a locker room or a dressing room, as they say
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: in the NHL, that is just one side one way
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: or one side or the other. I mean, if you're
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: too loose, you have no focus. If you're too uptight, well,
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: you know, you can't play. What do we say? I mean,
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: what was the opposite of, you know, too loose? It
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: was Jarrett Kelnick, who wasn't in this town, you know,
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: too long ago. But you need that balance, right? in
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: your clubhouse to be able to go a long, long
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: way and to be able to regulate yourselves emotionally. So,
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: I mean, Julio, yeah, it was certainly a massive mistake
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: of what he made two of them as well. But
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: for a player who we've seen before show up in
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: crunch time, this is going to be foot to the gas,
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: pedal to metal time coming up for this series in Toronto.
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: But big thanks again to Roxy Bernstein. We'll shift our
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: focus here.
• 31:45
  Speaker 7: To the NHL.
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: Mackie Samaskevich now in town for the Seattle Kraken. How
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: is he settling in? Our chat from 32 Bar and
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: Grill at Kraken Community Ice Plex right around the corner here.
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: Mike Jessaman in for Greg Bell on 93.3 KJRFM. Just
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: 24 hours ago, it was one of the greatest days
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: for me in recent memory because the primary part of
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: my job and what I do here at this radio station, again,
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: Mike and Jessamyn in for Greg Bell. is get a
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: chance to tell a story on the NHL scale. I've
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: been an NHL guy, a hockey guy for years, and
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: to get a chance to work on the broadcasting tier
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: at this league, when I got this job five years ago,
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: it made my dreams come true.
• 32:52
  Speaker 6: Legitimately.
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: And yesterday, it was a reaffirmation of just how important
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: the stories that we tell matters for this team and
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: matters for fans in this city when... The Kraken and
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: all of iHeartMedia Seattle announced a multi-year extension to carry
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: Kraken games, play-by-play, much more of under the hood as
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: far as how this coverage works and the broadcast partnership, radio,
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: and all of that. But all that going down. Yesterday,
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: Ian was over at 32 Bar and Grill, and we
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: also had a great chance to podcast myself, Everett Fitzhugh,
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: Al Kaniski, to kind of talk more about how much
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: this means, but also Give you dear listener. And if
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: you're a course dialed in here with this hockey team,
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: A bit of a preview as far as how this
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: team is evolving, and much of it will and could
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: revolve around youth. Mackie Samaskevich is a big part of that.
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: The Kraken got him in a trade from the Florida Panthers.
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: He comes over from that dressing room. That's at back-to-back
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: rings already for many players on that roster. It cost
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: the Kraken a first-round pick in this last year's draft
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: and a conditional second-rounder from this next season. It was
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: a trade that was made based on projection, not from resume.
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: Career high for him so far, 15 goals, but he's
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: only played two NHL seasons, and many are saying he's
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: still got a great chance to pop as a top six,
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: maybe even top-line guy as well. And he's had also
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: a great history going back with Matty Beneers. But Mackie Samuskevich,
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: who is in town now, join me, Everett Fitzhugh, Al Kaniski,
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: Here are his first impressions of Seattle in our chat
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: at 32 Barn Grill. Very well.
• 34:35
  Speaker 9: I just moved here a couple days ago, and it's
• 34:36
  Speaker 9: gone really well so far. I was obviously excited when
• 34:40
  Speaker 9: the news came in the summer. It was one team
• 34:44
  Speaker 9: that I definitely hated playing against, so it was nice
• 34:46
  Speaker 9: to kind of finally join them. And I know some guys, too,
• 34:49
  Speaker 9: so that helped out a lot. And, you know, I'm
• 34:52
  Speaker 9: excited with this group for sure.
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: You know, we often hear about when players move out here,
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: there's the nature component of this here they've been around
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: the building obviously this team's been here for about five
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: years so they understand what game night feels like how
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: much a crowd can really get you going you know
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: home team or road team as well too but you
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: know just checking out your surroundings what have you seen
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: what have you heard also as far as what you're
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: going to be playing around here for seattle um you.
• 35:16
  Speaker 9: Know i i've heard the the fans love it um
• 35:19
  Speaker 9: i heard that you know it gets pretty rowdy in
• 35:22
  Speaker 9: there and i witnessed it you know firsthand um They
• 35:25
  Speaker 9: beat up on us pretty good that one game, but
• 35:28
  Speaker 9: we definitely want to bring back playoff hockey to them.
• 35:34
  Speaker 9: They show up in the regular season, it seems, so
• 35:36
  Speaker 9: I'd love to see a playoff game there. That's definitely
• 35:39
  Speaker 9: a goal in mind, and I'm just excited to get
• 35:42
  Speaker 9: in front of them for sure.
• 35:44
  Speaker 10: A lot is made about your speed and the type
• 35:45
  Speaker 10: of player that you are, but for fans who might
• 35:47
  Speaker 10: not know, who are you as a player? What are
• 35:50
  Speaker 10: fans going to be able to see on a nightly basis?
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: I play with a lot of speed.
• 35:55
  Speaker 9: That's, you know, my strong suit, I'd say. You know,
• 35:59
  Speaker 9: I got young legs still, so I buzz around pretty good. So,
• 36:03
  Speaker 9: you know, they'll definitely see that. I love to shoot
• 36:05
  Speaker 9: the puck, too. That's, I'd say, probably my strongest. You know,
• 36:09
  Speaker 9: I shoot the puck all day, so I hope it's
• 36:12
  Speaker 9: pretty good. But, no, it's a lot of speed. I
• 36:16
  Speaker 9: love to make plays to use my teammates. You know,
• 36:20
  Speaker 9: I think it's a fun game to watch.
• 36:22
  Speaker 10: You won a championship, you've played with Matthew Kachuk, you've
• 36:26
  Speaker 10: played with Barkov, you've played with Bennett, a lot of
• 36:28
  Speaker 10: really strong generational players. How do you feel they've helped
• 36:32
  Speaker 10: influence your game and how excited are you now to
• 36:35
  Speaker 10: be able to showcase that talent and to run a
• 36:39
  Speaker 10: line of your own, to be faced in that same
• 36:42
  Speaker 10: situation as they were?
• 36:44
  Speaker 9: Yeah, it was really cool for the last two years
• 36:46
  Speaker 9: seeing those guys, how they go about their business, how
• 36:50
  Speaker 9: hard they play, how They do all the hard things right,
• 36:54
  Speaker 9: and I think that's why they're so good. Obviously, the
• 36:58
  Speaker 9: system we play in there, it works in playoffs too,
• 37:02
  Speaker 9: so I'm hoping to bring that, hoping to bring some
• 37:08
  Speaker 9: hard playoff hockey kind of play to the game.
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: I learned a lot from those guys, so I'm excited.
• 37:16
  Speaker 11: Mackie, give people a sense for what's been going on
• 37:19
  Speaker 11: with you in the offseason. You know, your season comes
• 37:21
  Speaker 11: to an end with Florida. Most guys take a little
• 37:24
  Speaker 11: bit of time off and then you start getting back
• 37:26
  Speaker 11: into training and stuff. But give people a sense for
• 37:28
  Speaker 11: what's happened between end of the season and you said
• 37:31
  Speaker 11: you just moved into town two days ago.
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 37:34
  Speaker 9: Right away, I take a couple weeks off, go on vacation,
• 37:38
  Speaker 9: see old friends, kind of just you know, uncharged a
• 37:42
  Speaker 9: little bit, and, you know, reflected a little bit on
• 37:45
  Speaker 9: the year, what you could have done better, what you
• 37:47
  Speaker 9: did really well, and, you know, play a lot of golf, too, so, but,
• 37:53
  Speaker 9: you know, I started skating, like, June 1, started working out, too,
• 37:56
  Speaker 9: you know, and then it's a long summer, but It's
• 37:59
  Speaker 9: a good thing because you get a lot of time
• 38:01
  Speaker 9: to really get better, and I felt like I did
• 38:03
  Speaker 9: get a lot better this summer.
• 38:04
  Speaker 4: Where did you spend the summer?
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: In Connecticut. That's where I grew up.
• 38:07
  Speaker 9: Nice.
• 38:08
  Speaker 11: So are you going to miss the humidity on the
• 38:10
  Speaker 11: East Coast?
• 38:11
  Speaker 4: No, not at all.
• 38:12
  Speaker 9: Not at all.
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: Especially in Florida, too. It's really bad down there. Mackie,
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: we talk about the opportunities that you'll get here. Given
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: the fact that you still have a lot of miles
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: to go in the NHL, the numbers are getting up.
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: There's obviously promise and potential, but to you personally, What
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: defines the season that you want for yourself this year?
• 38:32
  Speaker 9: I think number one is play-in, play-off hockey, like I said.
• 38:36
  Speaker 9: I think that's one of my strong suits is how
• 38:39
  Speaker 9: competitive I am and how much I want to win.
• 38:42
  Speaker 9: Everyone's happy when we win, so definitely that. I think
• 38:48
  Speaker 9: that's the only goal really coming into the season. All
• 38:51
  Speaker 9: the personal goals and all that is nice, but If
• 38:55
  Speaker 9: you miss the playoffs, it's not fun. I got a
• 38:57
  Speaker 9: taste of that last year. I want to come in
• 39:00
  Speaker 9: and help this team win and have.
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: Fun doing it. When fans hear that you love to
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: shoot the puck, that's music to their ears. They love
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: guys who can snipe. We hear about guys who come
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: up the ranks. It might be in the levels of
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: junior or for you, college hockey as well. skill building
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: means a lot and I've heard stories of guys who
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: shoot 400, 500 pucks a day sometimes. What's the most
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: that you've shot one day?
• 39:27
  Speaker 9: I usually to when i was younger i'd try to
• 39:31
  Speaker 9: get 10 000 shots in a summer wow that was
• 39:35
  Speaker 9: the goal like i count all the pucks in the
• 39:37
  Speaker 9: bucket and i just kind of trip away at that
• 39:40
  Speaker 9: and um my hands were definitely hurt after and my
• 39:43
  Speaker 9: forearms would be fired up but it's uh.
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: It definitely went a long way so what was your
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: setup like then I got a rink in the.
• 39:49
  Speaker 9: Backyard at home.
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: My parents built it when I was very young.
• 39:52
  Speaker 9: They put ice in the winter and then in the
• 39:56
  Speaker 9: summer you get a shooting pad out there and be
• 39:59
  Speaker 9: out there all day before school, after school. So I'm
• 40:02
  Speaker 9: definitely lucky to have that set up for sure.
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: I remember when I was eight or nine years of age,
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: and I took a lot of pride in just getting
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: through 99 bottles of beer on the wall. That song
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: in the summer. You imagine shooting 10,000 pucks.
• 40:17
  Speaker 3: My goodness, that's Steph Curry-ish.
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: 49451, how happy would you be with Mackie Samuskevich hitting
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: 20 goals this year? He loves to shoot the puck.
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: He wants to be that guy. and maybe brazen for
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: this roster, but yet here's a young player at 23
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: years of age. He knows he's going to get a
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: bigger role than what he had in Florida. He wants
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: to be one of those guys where you call him
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: that guy, and he's talking about playoffs. Maybe a high bar,
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: but is that what you want from your room as
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: far as setting goals? You never know. Lane Lambert's back again.
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: I will contend, I will argue, best thing to happen
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: to this team from this last year, dragging them right
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: into the fight for a long, long time.
• 41:00
  Speaker 3: 49451.
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: More of that conversation, by the way, at the Kraken
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: Audio Network side of the iHeartRadio app. Funny story also
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: that Mackie Samaskevich had. He met Matty Benirez as a
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: youth hockey player. And when he went in to play
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: against him in a tournament, went into the wrong dressing room,
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: and Matty was right there saying, are you sure you're
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: in the right place, man? He said, I kept that
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: story to myself. And that may be coming out here
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: to kind of break the ice, so to speak, for
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: for those two guys. But he's living with Matty Beneers
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: telling us. And as far as a pickup, one that's
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: got a lot of potential and a great future as well.
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: We'll take a break. A view from the other side
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: up next here for the Seahawks and Chiefs from the sideline.
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: And as well, the national view on the Mariners' playoff hopes.
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: Josh Klingler, followed by Ryan Spielberg. They're up next here
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: on 93.3 KJRFM.
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: Now, from the Star Reynolds Sports Desk, your 93.3 KJR
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: FM Sports Headlines.
• 42:11
  Speaker 2: All right, let's get after it here. Headlines are brought
• 42:13
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• 42:17
  Speaker 2: The Seahawks in Kansas City for the third and final
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: preseason game tonight. They will not play any of their
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: 22 starters. Jalen Milrow, you're going to see him from
• 42:27
  Speaker 2: start to finish under center the entire game. Kickoff, by
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: the way, at 5 o'clock Pacific time in Kansas City.
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: Leonard Williams making his contract extension official yesterday, signing a three-year,
• 42:41
  Speaker 2: $ 90 million deal alongside his wife and five-month-old son. What
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: a story, what a presence as well for him who
• 42:49
  Speaker 2: is now committed to to Seattle for the longer term.
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: Mariners day off yesterday, went cross country. They'll take on
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: the Toronto Blue Jays. Three game series opening tonight, and
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: they got a big hill to climb with Dylan Cease
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: on the other side on the mound for 15 first pitch.
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: You can watch that game, by the way, on Apple TV.
• 43:10
  Speaker 2: Ryan Spielberg's from the Apple TV crew will be with
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: us a little bit later on. Out of the show
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: we go. You know, when I think of preseason football,
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: of course, I think of depth. And you want depth,
• 43:30
  Speaker 2: you got depth. Mike Jessaman in for Greg Bell here
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: for today. Greg, by the way, on a plane to
• 43:35
  Speaker 2: Kansas City at the moment because the Seahawks and the
• 43:39
  Speaker 2: Chiefs will be getting after it. 5 o'clock kickoff Pacific
• 43:43
  Speaker 2: time here for tonight. And without further ado, a great
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: chance to go to the other side of things. Josh
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: Klingler of the Chiefs Radio Network. Pleased to have you
• 43:53
  Speaker 2: along with us here on the Beacon Plumbing Hotline. Josh,
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: you and I meeting here, by the way, thank you
• 43:59
  Speaker 2: very much for doing this. Appreciate your time. It has
• 44:02
  Speaker 2: been a while, by the way, since I had been
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: to Kansas City, and it has been too long since
• 44:08
  Speaker 2: I had been to Kansas City. But my fondest memory.
• 44:11
  Speaker 2: was when I was starting out my career and going
• 44:14
  Speaker 2: out to the old municipal auditorium, the Muni, as they
• 44:19
  Speaker 2: call it back there, for the NAI Final Four, quote-unquote,
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: so to speak, and I was doing TV sideline as
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: well and still in college, but outside of that venue,
• 44:30
  Speaker 2: I have never had better barbecue in my whole life.
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: I will take Arthur Bryant's to my grave. You, KC
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: Barbecue Recommendations, what you got, my man?
• 44:42
  Speaker 12: Well, the problem, the problem is here you step in somebody's,
• 44:45
  Speaker 12: you know, somebody's sauce if you're picking one, right? So
• 44:50
  Speaker 12: you got to get a, you got to get a,
• 44:51
  Speaker 12: you got to get a sampler platter from like all
• 44:53
  Speaker 12: over town, just kind of pop in and, and, and
• 44:56
  Speaker 12: do a little bit from everybody.
• 44:57
  Speaker 6: It's amazing.
• 44:57
  Speaker 12: Like places still open up in Kansas city that are
• 45:00
  Speaker 12: barbecue places.
• 45:01
  Speaker 6: And I'm thinking, what are you doing?
• 45:03
  Speaker 12: Like, I feel like we have enough, like there's, there's
• 45:06
  Speaker 12: always one like cropping up and giving it a shot
• 45:08
  Speaker 12: or someone's told them they were really good on the
• 45:10
  Speaker 12: grill and So they're trying it themselves. So we do
• 45:14
  Speaker 12: have some that kind of come and go, but then
• 45:15
  Speaker 12: there's always the staples. But, yeah, you can't walk around
• 45:19
  Speaker 12: and really find anything bad. And then you get the
• 45:21
  Speaker 12: parking lot barbecue on a game day.
• 45:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, oh, goodness, yes.
• 45:25
  Speaker 12: That's just the people showing off their expertise. So, yeah,
• 45:29
  Speaker 12: you can get well fed when you're in town here
• 45:31
  Speaker 12: for sure. I love how you said this is the
• 45:34
  Speaker 12: preseason and it's about depth because I've been warning people
• 45:36
  Speaker 12: about that too.
• 45:36
  Speaker 6: It's like you've got to remember the preseason is for them.
• 45:40
  Speaker 12: Like, you know, coaches and the second and third and
• 45:43
  Speaker 12: guys really trying to, you know, make a living in this.
• 45:45
  Speaker 6: Not necessarily for the fans. And it gets a little
• 45:48
  Speaker 6: bit boring at times.
• 45:49
  Speaker 12: Certainly, it's been kind of a boring preseason here in
• 45:51
  Speaker 12: Kansas City because, yeah, we haven't really seen anybody play
• 45:54
  Speaker 12: and kind of rightfully so.
• 45:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and before I get to that, we've heard Shatter,
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: you know, begin to elevate more and more just about,
• 46:03
  Speaker 2: you know, what's the ultimate meaning of life when it
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: comes to preseason? Because we see now the Pro Bowl
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: go the way of the Buffalo, and now there's talk
• 46:11
  Speaker 2: of what do you do now for the preseason? Could it,
• 46:13
  Speaker 2: you know, legitimately be around, say, 15 years down the road?
• 46:16
  Speaker 2: But from your perspective, you've been around, you know, that
• 46:20
  Speaker 2: locker room. What's your view? What have you taken in
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: as far as reaction to the importance and the meaning
• 46:26
  Speaker 2: of preseason?
• 46:28
  Speaker 12: Well, I mean, I think this particular team did not
• 46:31
  Speaker 12: have the season that they thought they were going to
• 46:32
  Speaker 12: have last year. And so certainly for the returning guys,
• 46:35
  Speaker 12: they wanted to get back after and get to it.
• 46:37
  Speaker 12: Not necessarily about the game perspective, but they hit camp
• 46:40
  Speaker 12: really hard. And Andy Reid really, really put them through it.
• 46:44
  Speaker 12: You know, up until the, I think they had eight
• 46:48
  Speaker 12: straight days, seven straight days, something like that, in pads.
• 46:50
  Speaker 12: It was kind of crazy where you're like, man, he's
• 46:53
  Speaker 12: really pushing them.
• 46:54
  Speaker 6: But he wants to build a physical... more physical team
• 46:58
  Speaker 6: than they certainly had a season ago.
• 47:00
  Speaker 12: And then for the veteran guys, yeah, they've just been,
• 47:03
  Speaker 12: you know, they were not happy to have that extra
• 47:05
  Speaker 12: long offseason. I think they tried to all make a
• 47:07
  Speaker 12: positive out of it. But, you know, this is a
• 47:09
  Speaker 12: team that's been used to playing in the playoffs and
• 47:11
  Speaker 12: been playing deep in the playoffs. And to be on
• 47:13
  Speaker 12: the outside looking in, it was kind of unfamiliar times.
• 47:16
  Speaker 12: So I think the preseason was perfect for them because
• 47:18
  Speaker 12: they needed to get back, get back out there, at
• 47:20
  Speaker 12: least on the practice field, and get after it because
• 47:22
  Speaker 12: they felt like that stuff was kind of unresolved at
• 47:25
  Speaker 12: the end of last year.
• 47:27
  Speaker 2: Josh Klingler joining us in the Beacon Plumbing Hotline, a
• 47:29
  Speaker 2: part of the Chiefs Radio Network. And Josh, part of
• 47:32
  Speaker 2: the big story from the NFL. this last few months,
• 47:37
  Speaker 2: is this Chiefs dynasty at a crossroads? Of course, you
• 47:40
  Speaker 2: got Patrick Mahomes trying to make a bounce back now,
• 47:43
  Speaker 2: age 31, busted knees. Travis Kelsey, who's at 37 and
• 47:47
  Speaker 2: said he had the summer of his life, becoming now
• 47:51
  Speaker 2: Taylor Swift's other half as well. You have Andy Reid,
• 47:54
  Speaker 2: the NFL's oldest coach. How are the Chiefs approaching week one,
• 47:58
  Speaker 2: just based on how last season ended?
• 48:02
  Speaker 12: And one of their other stars, Chris Jones is up
• 48:04
  Speaker 12: there now double figures in years in the NFL, right?
• 48:07
  Speaker 12: I mean, those are your, those are your three main,
• 48:09
  Speaker 12: three main players and obviously Andy Reed at the top.
• 48:11
  Speaker 12: So that's your core group. So if there are questions
• 48:14
  Speaker 12: around the league, it's understandable. It's that can Patrick Mahomes
• 48:17
  Speaker 12: bounce back from the injury is Travis Kelsey going.
• 48:19
  Speaker 6: To look old.
• 48:20
  Speaker 12: And, uh, as Chris Jones, uh, on his, uh, if
• 48:24
  Speaker 12: not last year, last couple of years and being a,
• 48:27
  Speaker 12: maybe a fading pass rusher. So, I mean, those are
• 48:29
  Speaker 12: questions that are going to have to be answered by
• 48:31
  Speaker 12: this team because it's still the core of this team.
• 48:33
  Speaker 6: Yes, they've drafted. Yes, they've tried to get younger.
• 48:36
  Speaker 12: Yes, they made, you know, obviously the big free agent acquisition,
• 48:38
  Speaker 12: which of course we'll be talking about, right, with Walker.
• 48:41
  Speaker 12: But it starts with that core group. And so if
• 48:45
  Speaker 12: you have questions, yeah, I get it. Now, I will
• 48:47
  Speaker 12: say Patrick Mahomes has been phenomenal in the preseason. He's
• 48:52
  Speaker 12: the perfect combination of, like, he just breathes football. He
• 48:58
  Speaker 12: gets after rehab like no one we've ever seen, and
• 49:00
  Speaker 12: he's somehow a fast healer as well. So he is
• 49:03
  Speaker 12: way ahead of schedule in terms of what everybody thought.
• 49:06
  Speaker 12: He has taken every single snap of the of the
• 49:10
  Speaker 12: preseason camp.
• 49:11
  Speaker 6: He actually was running the scout team this week because.
• 49:14
  Speaker 12: They weren't going to play him in the game. But
• 49:15
  Speaker 12: he ran all the snaps for the scout team as well.
• 49:18
  Speaker 12: He hasn't missed a day of practice. throughout the entire
• 49:21
  Speaker 12: camp and all signs pointing to him being the starter
• 49:24
  Speaker 12: on opening day, which is pretty remarkable considering where they
• 49:26
  Speaker 12: were a season ago. And I think that also helped
• 49:29
  Speaker 12: the camp itself because when you have a guy coming
• 49:32
  Speaker 12: off injury like that, that should still be healing and
• 49:35
  Speaker 12: you have every right to say, okay, he's going to
• 49:36
  Speaker 12: miss some time in camp or he's going to miss
• 49:38
  Speaker 12: some days here and there.
• 49:39
  Speaker 6: He's out there every single day. How do you not
• 49:40
  Speaker 6: follow that lead?
• 49:41
  Speaker 12: So, you know, they take their cues from him and
• 49:44
  Speaker 12: he's been, you know, the first guy to practice field,
• 49:46
  Speaker 12: last guy to leave type of guy and taking all
• 49:48
  Speaker 12: these snaps despite, you know, dealing with a bunch of
• 49:50
  Speaker 12: rehab in the, in the midst of it. So, I
• 49:53
  Speaker 12: think that has helped give this team a huge bounce
• 49:56
  Speaker 12: as well here in the preseason.
• 49:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, let's just jump into the deep end here with
• 49:59
  Speaker 2: K-9 and the departure from Seattle that made me say oof,
• 50:03
  Speaker 2: made a lot of us say oof. But a big pickup, admittedly,
• 50:07
  Speaker 2: for the Chiefs and their backfield. There's the press shot.
• 50:09
  Speaker 2: Patrick Mahomes is armed, supposedly. He, of course, won't play tonight.
• 50:13
  Speaker 2: He's had a couple fights in camp getting into the
• 50:16
  Speaker 2: news cycle. So ultimately, what's the read on Kenneth Walker
• 50:20
  Speaker 2: III from the sideline? Yours with him now wearing new colors.
• 50:25
  Speaker 6: They love him. They love him. They think he's a
• 50:27
  Speaker 6: dynamic they haven't had.
• 50:29
  Speaker 12: Last year's running game was not anything close to what
• 50:33
  Speaker 12: they had hoped. In fact, at times it was, if
• 50:37
  Speaker 12: it didn't work the first play, they were going They
• 50:40
  Speaker 12: were not interested in running the football. And so they
• 50:43
  Speaker 12: didn't have a lot of success in the run game.
• 50:44
  Speaker 12: Teams knew it. Teams loaded the box. Teams came after
• 50:47
  Speaker 12: Patrick Mahomes. You knew they were going to basically throw
• 50:49
  Speaker 12: in every down. And it became super predictable. So they
• 50:53
  Speaker 12: needed to have something in the offseason. Now, a lot
• 50:57
  Speaker 12: of us thought it was probably going to be through
• 50:58
  Speaker 12: the draft. And it seemed like this may be the
• 51:00
  Speaker 12: year that they were going to try to do something
• 51:02
  Speaker 12: early in the draft with the running back.
• 51:04
  Speaker 6: The trade came about. They went for it.
• 51:05
  Speaker 12: You know, they, they're, they're going, they're, they're, they're shoring
• 51:09
  Speaker 12: up their needs. And that, I think that's, that's been
• 51:10
  Speaker 12: a pretty good trait of this team. Like is the
• 51:13
  Speaker 12: dynasty over? I don't know, but are they still trying to,
• 51:16
  Speaker 12: to put pieces to fit, you know, ailing spots?
• 51:21
  Speaker 6: Absolutely.
• 51:21
  Speaker 12: And that was what they did with Ken Walker made
• 51:23
  Speaker 12: a huge splash in that regard. And then I thought
• 51:25
  Speaker 12: it was pretty telling a couple of weeks ago, my
• 51:27
  Speaker 12: homes was asked about this during one of his press conferences.
• 51:29
  Speaker 12: And he was asking, you know, what's, what's the, going
• 51:31
  Speaker 12: to be the difference with this year's offense. And he's
• 51:33
  Speaker 12: had a big smile on his face. He said, canine, he's,
• 51:35
  Speaker 12: They didn't have a breakaway back. They didn't have a
• 51:37
  Speaker 12: guy that could catch out of the backfield. So it'll
• 51:40
  Speaker 12: be interesting to see the full dynamic of how they
• 51:43
  Speaker 12: use them. Also, they haven't been a team that's run
• 51:45
  Speaker 12: the football with the quarterback under center. So we've seen
• 51:48
  Speaker 12: a little bit more of that as well, which I
• 51:49
  Speaker 12: think will be effective at kind of just changing the
• 51:51
  Speaker 12: predictability of this offense. Last year, everybody knew everything that
• 51:54
  Speaker 12: was coming, seemingly. And they had a very good read
• 51:56
  Speaker 12: of what was going on. And I think that they
• 51:59
  Speaker 12: have tweaked enough things. And then I obviously added a
• 52:01
  Speaker 12: dynamic running back to be able to to do some
• 52:04
  Speaker 12: different things offensively to make it look a lot more
• 52:07
  Speaker 12: Chiefs-like than it did maybe a season ago.
• 52:10
  Speaker 2: Josh, before we let you go, Garrett Nussmeier, he'll be
• 52:13
  Speaker 2: under center and opposing Jalen Milrow and kind of a
• 52:16
  Speaker 2: redo here from their battles between Alabama and LSU, but
• 52:20
  Speaker 2: what's at stake for him this evening?
• 52:23
  Speaker 6: Well, I mean, he has been really, really good in camp.
• 52:26
  Speaker 12: Andy Reid does favor a veteran backup, always has for
• 52:28
  Speaker 12: Patrick Mahomes, and so Justin Fields is here, but I
• 52:31
  Speaker 12: would say Fields has been less impressive than Nussmeier has
• 52:35
  Speaker 12: during camp. I mean, uh, coaches, kids played a lot,
• 52:38
  Speaker 12: really smart. She picked up a lot of this offense.
• 52:41
  Speaker 12: And so they're going to give him a long run
• 52:43
  Speaker 12: here tonight. They said it was, it was the plan
• 52:44
  Speaker 12: all along to have him play, uh, basically the first
• 52:47
  Speaker 12: half of the, of the last preseason game, they did
• 52:49
  Speaker 12: have their fourth string quarterback in the concussion protocol. So
• 52:53
  Speaker 12: Justin Fields will play, uh, some point in the, uh,
• 52:56
  Speaker 12: the second half, but it's going to be a long,
• 52:57
  Speaker 12: long game for Nussmeier.
• 52:59
  Speaker 6: And I don't know what's fully at stake.
• 53:01
  Speaker 12: I would say from my vantage point, it would be,
• 53:04
  Speaker 12: can he be a guy that could be the backup?
• 53:07
  Speaker 12: Maybe not fully this year, but that long-term backup, if
• 53:12
  Speaker 12: he's not too good, they have to ship off somewhere else, right?
• 53:15
  Speaker 12: You want to have that reliable guy that can play
• 53:17
  Speaker 12: behind Patrick Mahomes. My suspicion is he's just playing to
• 53:23
  Speaker 12: be the third quarterback, and they're going to have to
• 53:26
  Speaker 12: protect him this year on the roster. So they've carried
• 53:28
  Speaker 12: a couple of quarterbacks. in recent years this year, they're
• 53:31
  Speaker 12: probably going to carry three. Cause they're not going to
• 53:32
  Speaker 12: be able to expose Nussmeyer to being grabbed up by
• 53:35
  Speaker 12: anybody because yeah, he's had a really, really nice camp
• 53:38
  Speaker 12: and has played pretty well in the preseason games as well.
• 53:40
  Speaker 12: So I think he's a guy that's kind of auditioning
• 53:42
  Speaker 12: to see, I mean, I guess the, the ceiling would
• 53:45
  Speaker 12: be is, is he really the two and Justin Fields
• 53:48
  Speaker 12: is only there as the emergency guy or is he
• 53:52
  Speaker 12: playing for, yeah, just be a nice little backup this
• 53:54
  Speaker 12: season and we'll see if you can be elevated next year.
• 53:57
  Speaker 12: So not a lot of, Probably position groups up for battle.
• 54:01
  Speaker 12: Probably the same thing on Seattle's side, right? This is
• 54:03
  Speaker 12: just kind of a game to determine your depth, to
• 54:05
  Speaker 12: determine your sixth wide receiver and your eighth defensive back
• 54:12
  Speaker 12: and whether those guys can play special teams as well.
• 54:14
  Speaker 12: So pretty vanilla. And the fact that these two teams
• 54:17
  Speaker 12: obviously play in the regular season. Chiefs face both the
• 54:20
  Speaker 12: Seahawks and the Rams, who they play in the regular season.
• 54:22
  Speaker 12: Andy Reed was asked about it a few weeks ago,
• 54:24
  Speaker 12: and he kind of laughed.
• 54:24
  Speaker 6: He goes, well, neither one of.
• 54:25
  Speaker 12: Those teams will be playing anybody either. So nobody's going
• 54:28
  Speaker 12: to show anything that would probably be any relevance to
• 54:31
  Speaker 12: their game coming up in late October.
• 54:33
  Speaker 6: So I'm guessing.
• 54:34
  Speaker 12: Both will keep it pretty down the middle today.
• 54:38
  Speaker 2: As far as depth is concerned, if they're as hungry
• 54:40
  Speaker 2: as I am for Kansas City barbecue, we've got some
• 54:43
  Speaker 2: theater going down here for tonight, no matter who is
• 54:45
  Speaker 2: playing here. Josh, I appreciate your time, appreciate your insight.
• 54:48
  Speaker 2: You're always welcome back here, and have a great show
• 54:50
  Speaker 2: for this evening.
• 54:52
  Speaker 9: All right.
• 54:52
  Speaker 6: Thanks for having me.
• 54:53
  Speaker 2: Thank you very much. That's Josh Klingler joining us here
• 54:55
  Speaker 2: on the Beacon Plumbing Hotline. We're going to whip around
• 54:58
  Speaker 2: the horn here. Ryan Spielberg of Apple TV is due
• 55:01
  Speaker 2: to be joining us here in just a bit. Again,
• 55:03
  Speaker 2: the Seahawks. at the Chiefs for tonight, a 5 p.m.
• 55:07
  Speaker 4: Kickoff.
• 55:08
  Speaker 2: To wrap up the preseason, whether you like it or not,
• 55:11
  Speaker 2: whether they should have preseason or not, I want to
• 55:13
  Speaker 2: hear from you. 49451. Talkbacks are also open right now.
• 55:17
  Speaker 2: iHeartRadio app. Find the red mic icon. 30 seconds. Send
• 55:21
  Speaker 2: us what you got. Real takes, impersonations, I once heard
• 55:25
  Speaker 2: of me, whatever it takes. get it done, send it
• 55:28
  Speaker 2: in via the talkbacks. And I'd love to hear from
• 55:30
  Speaker 2: you about how much does preseason really mean to you?
• 55:33
  Speaker 2: Should we go to a format just like college football where,
• 55:37
  Speaker 2: you know, you're basically practicing all the way until week
• 55:40
  Speaker 2: one where it turns real and then you can finally
• 55:42
  Speaker 2: have players slide in. But we have not seen Seahawks starters.
• 55:46
  Speaker 2: We have not seen Jadarian Price as well. He's been
• 55:49
  Speaker 2: in bubble wrap all the way until week one. And
• 55:51
  Speaker 2: for a guy that you know, was playing behind the
• 55:54
  Speaker 2: depth a little bit over at Notre Dame, this is
• 55:56
  Speaker 2: going to be a brand new world for him. So,
• 55:58
  Speaker 2: you know, how much do you value the preseason still?
• 56:01
  Speaker 2: Is it going to go the way, say, to the
• 56:02
  Speaker 2: Pro Bowl, 4-9-4-5-1? Or send us your talkbacks right now
• 56:06
  Speaker 2: via the iHeartRadio app. And again, find the red mic
• 56:08
  Speaker 2: icon and send us what you got in there. 30
• 56:11
  Speaker 2: seconds or less. Again, Mariners at the Blue Jays for tonight.
• 56:16
  Speaker 2: 4-15 first pitch. Apple TV will be the place. We're
• 56:20
  Speaker 2: going to get Ryan Spielberg on here in just a
• 56:23
  Speaker 2: bit to discuss this. And again, as far as the
• 56:25
  Speaker 2: Mariners are concerned, the weight of this series, how much
• 56:29
  Speaker 2: does it really decide the playoff race to you, 49451?
• 56:34
  Speaker 2: They have gone through the pattern. Once you got into
• 56:37
  Speaker 2: the meat of this late July, you got through the Dodgers,
• 56:41
  Speaker 2: you got through the Rangers, you got through the Twins,
• 56:44
  Speaker 2: you got through the Tigers, you got through a stinker
• 56:47
  Speaker 2: of the Rays series. You got through quite a few
• 56:50
  Speaker 2: stinkers here of the Brewers series as well. Must I
• 56:53
  Speaker 2: remind you what?
• 56:54
  Speaker 9: 22-0.
• 56:57
  Speaker 2: Also felt like back when, you know, in the 1880s,
• 57:00
  Speaker 2: we're making up names as far as who did something
• 57:03
  Speaker 2: incredible back then. That's how long it's been since the
• 57:07
  Speaker 2: Mariners or anybody suffered a defeat that bad. It was
• 57:11
  Speaker 2: of historical proportions. And I kind of made the joke that,
• 57:13
  Speaker 2: you know, only a few years prior to what happened
• 57:16
  Speaker 2: from that last bit of history, that was Marty McFly
• 57:19
  Speaker 2: and Back to the Future Part Three territory. That's how
• 57:21
  Speaker 2: bad it was.
• 57:23
  Speaker 3: Oh, man, that was a nice pull, Benton. That was
• 57:25
  Speaker 3: a nice pull.
• 57:27
  Speaker 2: I guess whatever we can get here to try to
• 57:29
  Speaker 2: make some humor out of this. But remarkably, despite how
• 57:34
  Speaker 2: bad the Mariners have been, if you look at the
• 57:37
  Speaker 2: record perspective... This is a game of survival in the
• 57:41
  Speaker 2: American League.
• 57:42
  Speaker 3: Yes, it is.
• 57:43
  Speaker 2: That's what's going to be the important thing, because no
• 57:45
  Speaker 2: matter how bad they've been at times, no matter how
• 57:48
  Speaker 2: bleak it's looked at times, there's no Brendan Donovan. Cal
• 57:53
  Speaker 2: Raleigh at one point was the worst hitter in baseball
• 57:56
  Speaker 2: before he began to heat up against the Phillies. Julio's
• 57:59
  Speaker 2: blunders in center field. You know, we're talking about Bryce
• 58:03
  Speaker 2: Miller and a bad arm. Brian Wu can't pitch on
• 58:06
  Speaker 2: the road. I mean, this record under a traditional scope
• 58:09
  Speaker 2: was enough to bury the Mariners by now.
• 58:13
  Speaker 3: But the AL West, man.
• 58:15
  Speaker 2: This will be a different outcome in the American League
• 58:18
  Speaker 2: West and in totality in the American League. So you
• 58:22
  Speaker 2: don't make excuses here for a team that's underperforming. But
• 58:27
  Speaker 2: it's just the nature of what this American League is.
• 58:30
  Speaker 2: It is a game of survival. And once you get
• 58:33
  Speaker 2: past the Blue Jays, once you get past the Red Sox,
• 58:36
  Speaker 2: it begins to clear up wide open. And yes, I know,
• 58:40
  Speaker 2: you've got the Mariners in the same boat as, say,
• 58:43
  Speaker 2: the Astros, as the Rangers. We'll see what a wild
• 58:46
  Speaker 2: card brings here. And I use that term loosely to
• 58:50
  Speaker 2: describe what it's like pitching in Coors Field as well.
• 58:53
  Speaker 2: Teams can level up at different times and they find
• 58:55
  Speaker 2: a way here to do this. But it's a lot
• 58:58
  Speaker 2: better than I would admit in what the Rangers might
• 59:01
  Speaker 2: have on their schedule and what the Astros also might
• 59:05
  Speaker 2: have on their schedule. They still have plenty of landmines
• 59:09
  Speaker 2: here to get. through, pardon the expression. Houston, a first-place team,
• 59:13
  Speaker 2: has got three at the Mets. They're terrible. Then they
• 59:16
  Speaker 2: have three at home against the White Sox. Texas, it
• 59:19
  Speaker 2: was a game back as well of the Astros. They've
• 59:22
  Speaker 2: got three at Milwaukee, and I would argue the only
• 59:25
  Speaker 2: solace they have in a series like that is there's
• 59:27
  Speaker 2: no Jacob Mizorowski. The Brewers already blew through him in
• 59:31
  Speaker 2: this last series, so they won't see him. But you
• 59:34
  Speaker 2: have three at home against the A's, where Texas against
• 59:37
  Speaker 2: the A's this season, that is not a layup. The
• 59:41
  Speaker 2: Rangers against the Athletics this season, four and six.
• 59:44
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I know.
• 59:45
  Speaker 2: Once you get past the Red Sox, the Mariners have
• 59:47
  Speaker 2: a schedule against everybody that they've had a winning record
• 59:49
  Speaker 2: against for this last month.
• 59:51
  Speaker 3: It looks good on paper, Benton.
• 59:53
  Speaker 2: So you've got to get through.
• 59:55
  Speaker 3: Yes, you just have to get through these two series, right?
• 59:58
  Speaker 3: And hopefully... They're getting.
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 5: Hot at the right time. Pitching gets it together. And
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 5: they don't get more injured. And Julio and Cal keep
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 5: on doing what they have been doing.
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 3: And September holds what we want it.
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 4: To.
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 2: With Cal Rawley, something that the broadcast pointed out about
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 2: a few days ago I thought that was really good
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 2: in that there was some different positioning with his hands.
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 2: So there's also a technical part of this with Cal
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 2: Raleigh and what's also made a big difference. What else
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 2: is going on, really? I don't know. Some players can
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 2: get through stuff that we don't know about that has
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 2: kind of turned their emotions around, their focus around. All
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 2: of a sudden, they feel like a brand new player.
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 2: What it is with Cal Raleigh, we don't know. But
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 2: it's pretty apparent he's swinging the bat a lot more confidently,
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 2: especially given the Philly series here at this point.
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 4: So.
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 2: You get through this Blue Jays series and this Red
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 2: Sox series. Is 500 enough for the Mariners to stay
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 2: within three games? That, I think, is a magic number
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 2: in this. 500 in totality against the Blue Jays and
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 2: the Red Sox. Is that enough for you to say
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 2: they're in the thick of this for the long haul?
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 2: 49451 or give us your talkbacks. I still also want
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 2: to find out from you, did the Mariners blow it
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 2: here with Eugenio Suarez and not bringing him back? And
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 2: just to kind of refresh this once again, it's obvious
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 2: why you want to bring him back. There's obviously the
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 2: emotional component of this. But again, are the numbers worth it?
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 2: We're going to get to Ryan Spielberg right now, joining
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 2: us in the Beacon Plumbing Hotline. Of course, he's got
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 2: the Apple TV coverage side of things. And Ryan, great
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 2: talking to you once again. Hi to my man, Alex Faust,
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 2: as well, back at the broadcast booth here for tonight.
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 2: But it's great to have you. And I want to
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 2: kind of just jump into this here. I asked someone
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 2: else here on these airwaves about the Mariners and amidst
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 2: this puzzling American League picture, if you can use one
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 2: word to describe the Mariners and why, what's that word
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 2: that you're going to use for the season?
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 9: Inconsistent.
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 13: So, I mean, there's been times where you see the
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 13: signs of a good team and then they fall apart.
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 13: The thing that's just crazy is So if you go
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 13: back to last year's American League Championship Series, which I
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 13: was there for, covered the whole thing through the World Series.
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 13: So I watched Springer kick Seattle right in the gut.
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 2: That was awful to see it.
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 13: That was a series where it all ended, both sides,
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 13: both teams. I've never seen it before. I was right
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 13: on the field as a celebration was happening because we
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 13: were getting interviews from the players from the Blue Jays.
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 13: There was tears everywhere, like Seattle Mariners covered in tears,
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 13: Toronto Blue Jays covered in tears. It was such a
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 13: hard-fought series. And then you come to this year, and
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 13: both teams are not playing over.
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 5: 500.
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 13: Both teams could make it to the postseason. I could
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 13: see Seattle winning the division, and I could see Toronto
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 13: getting a wild-card spot.
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 9: But.
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 13: This could possibly be the first time since 2008 where
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 13: the two teams that were in a championship series did
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 13: not make it to the postseason the next year. And
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 13: the reason why I bring that up, it was my
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 13: 2007 Rockies and it was a 2007 Diamondbacks. So I
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 13: know what it feels like to go what Seattle's going through.
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 13: I know what it feels like to go with what
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 13: Toronto's going through. Sometimes there's just no explanation. Like as
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 13: much as you want to say the guys don't care
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 13: or it's, you know, Hey, they're worried about contracts or the.
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 2: Vibe is different.
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 13: Like the vibe is always going to be different every year.
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 13: So that that's, that's going to be a fact no
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 13: matter what, but it is nothing that somebody can like
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 13: take one variable and say, this is the reason why
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 13: we are doing this. It's just, it's maddening. And the
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 13: next year with our Rockies team, we made it to
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 13: the post season. So yeah, I know what it feels like.
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 4: It's maddening.
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 13: It's not from lack of effort. It's not from lack
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 13: of energy. It's not from lack of commitment from players
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 13: or from the front office.
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 2: It's just what it is.
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 13: And it doesn't happen too often, but it does happen.
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 2: Given the fact the Rangers are one game back of
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 2: the Astros, the Mariners are three games back of the Astros.
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 2: The Mariners, to win the American League West, favorite or underdog?
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 2: What do you got?
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 6: Favorite.
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 13: Too good of a roster for them personally. You know,
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 13: like you just got they got to play 30 good
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 13: baseball games and they're there. I don't think they can
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 13: get into the wildcard spot. So for me, it's like
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 13: their path is through winning the division. And luckily for them,
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 13: the division is wide open.
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 6: They just they got to play the brand of baseball.
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 13: I mean, the fact that they're dead last in runs scored,
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 13: they're dead last in batting average, dead last in OPS.
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 13: It's I mean, these are like stark numbers.
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 9: But.
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 13: I mean, things turn around in a hurry. Like, if
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 13: you've seen baseball enough year after year, you know, all
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 13: it takes is 30 good games. 30 good, like, just
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 13: quality games gets you to the dance, and they're good.
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 2: What about the Blue Jays? How are they viewing this series?
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 2: And aside from the injuries, what's the biggest difference in
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 2: the Blue Jays this year versus last year?
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 13: Well, I mean, Vlad Guerrero hasn't hit a homer at
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 13: home all year. I mean, and if you're Looking at,
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 13: you know, again, I'm not pointing the finger at Vlad Guerrero.
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 13: Guerrero was without Alejandro Kirk for multiple months. Addison Barger,
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 13: who is, you know, a guy that they believed in,
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 13: that he has a chance to be an all-star. He's
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 13: out for the year. Last year, George Springer was the
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 13: American League Comeback Player of the Year. Hit 32 home runs.
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 13: Those homers are missing. So it's not just Guerrero, but
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 13: their overall home run production is way down. They only
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 13: have two guys with over 10 homers, which is just wild. Um, and,
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 13: and Guerrero's on pace for eight. He's on base for eight.
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  Speaker 9: So, yeah.
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  Speaker 13: So, I mean, it's the same thing you guys are
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 13: seeing with Cal Raleigh. Cal Raleigh is going to have
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 13: the biggest drop in OPS and major league history. Uh,
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 13: he's going to go down from a batting average standpoint
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 13: as one of the worst seasons in the history of baseball.
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 13: So this is a guy that hit 60 homers last year.
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 13: And I believe should have been the MVP last year
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 13: to having, you know, one of the worst years ever.
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 13: ever by a player. And if you can make sense
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 13: of it, I'd love to hear it because I'm going
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 13: to talk about it again tonight.
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 2: No shortage of storylines. It's going to be a riveting
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 2: series here for two teams to do very much. They
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 2: feel in the fight for this. But Ryan, hey, appreciate
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 2: your time. We're going to get you back on down
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 2: the road. In the meantime, have a great call for
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 2: this evening. Appreciate you again.
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  Speaker 6: Appreciate it.
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  Speaker 9: Thanks for having me on.
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  Speaker 4: All right, thanks.
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  Speaker 2: That's Ryan Spilborgs on the Beacon Plumbing Hotline joining us
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  Speaker 2: line 49451. Your reaction after this on 93.3 KJRFM. You know,
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  Speaker 2: I'll be honest, with the Pro Bowl coming and going, Jess,
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 2: it's one of those things where I say just a
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 2: faint parting of such sweet sorrow. I, though, can't remember
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 2: the last time I have watched a real Pro Bowl game.
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  Speaker 9: No.
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  Speaker 5: When it turned to the games, I mean, it was
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 5: just a filler while you're waiting.
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  Speaker 3: For the Super Bowl.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just looking back in the corner of my eye
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 2: in the last couple of years and just how.
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 2: If I use the word loose... for physicality and defense
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 2: that's not even doing it remotely close to justice i've
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 2: seen harder spring games in college football.
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 5: Oh yeah no it's um i mean it's patty cake
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 5: but there are a lot of contract incentives that come
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 5: with that too so if you make the pro bowl
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 5: yeah You know, for the players, that's all they care about.
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  Speaker 5: Let me take my family to Miami or Hawaii or something,
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 5: you know? Like, it's not a game.
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  Speaker 3: It used to be. It used to be kind of
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 3: a game, but who's going to risk it?
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  Speaker 2: The only time I even remember, and again, 49451, with
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 2: the Pro Bowl going by the wayside, is preseason next.
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 2: Preseason for the NFL, 49451, Tacoma Dash text line, Mike
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 2: Jessaman in for Greg Bell. To be honest, like the
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 2: first time I'd ever heard of the Pro Bowl, and
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 2: this is maybe, I think, kind of me, you know,
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 2: Between Gen X and Millennial, talking from this time frame,
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 2: if any of you play the old Nintendo, Tecmo Super Bowl,
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 2: which I contend was one of the greatest sports games
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 2: of all time. It's not Tecmo Bowl where you had
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 2: Bo Jackson running around over and over and over. Thurman
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 2: Thomas in that game was unstoppable. But the first time
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 2: I had ever heard of the Pro Bowl was you
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 2: had that option in the video game to play the
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 2: Pro Bowl. And to be honest, it was a lot
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 2: of fun. I was like, hey, I can play Joe
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 2: Montana and then have him hand out the third. I
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 2: can have him hand out to Emmitt Smith. I can
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 2: throw deep field to Michael Irvin. Like it's it was
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 2: almost kind of like the Pro Bowl hit its peak
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 2: around that point, like in the early 90s to mid 90s.
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 2: And then you begin to see the rapid decline of
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 2: guys who didn't want to go. And then the actual
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 2: pace wasn't even close to like a July practice.
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 9: No, it was.
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 2: Just about time.
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 3: I think that's why they went to the games.
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 5: You know, Russell Wilson's self-proclaimed suggestion was to go to
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 5: a skills competition type of thing.
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  Speaker 3: And doing away with it, I think, is better than
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 3: having it these days.
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  Speaker 2: 4-2-5. Probably the 90s was the last time I watched
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 2: a Pro Bowl. You and I are one in the same.
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 2: 206 here just responding to preseason when I had to
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 2: choose between my Hawk season tickets or Sounders right back
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 2: after Beastquake just reference the full price for preseason tickets
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 2: were a part of the reason I gave up my
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 2: Hawk season tickets after 26 years of holding.
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 5: Them that is actually a big reason why people are
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 5: turning away.
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 2: Don't they force you to also opt in for preseason
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 2: tickets too they do And if you can't offload those elsewhere,
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 2: you're basically left holding the bag. So if you go
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 2: for the vibes, and I can see why. Hey, I'll
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 2: just use maybe an example. You know, I got two
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 2: kids who are sports rabid. Two boys, 11 and 8.
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 2: They would love to go to an NFL game. I've
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 2: taken my 11-year-old previously. His very first NFL game was
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 2: the last year of the Pete Carroll era. I want
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 2: to get him back out to Lumen here at some
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 2: point this year. But maybe if you've got that situation
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 2: where you own, say, four tickets, and you're not taking,
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 2: you know, buddies here from work, corporate, whatever... If you've
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 2: got kids, it's a great way to bring them and
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 2: help them get their feet wet, so to speak, into
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 2: the NFL. But beyond that, if you can't offload them,
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 2: you're holding the bag.
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 3: Well, and the price. Make them half-priced.
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 5: Make it more accessible to families who can't afford an
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 5: NFL ticket during the regular season.
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 2: 585, back to the video games reference. I love that
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 2: the Pro Bowl was there when playing Madden, and Madden
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 2: got rid of it a few years ago, too. That's
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 2: the detached I've been from the video game side of things.
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 2: I had no idea that Madden even got rid of
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 2: the Pro Bowl. And Madden Pro Bowl had one of
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 2: the best games that you could play with no injuries, period.
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 6: Again, 49451.
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 2: On to the Mariners, 206. Uh, hopefully Julio stops what
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 2: Julio has been doing. Oh yeah. And that means the
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 2: lobs over the field and the lapses and everything.
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 5: I mean, I think I've seen more from him since
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 5: that happened instead of, he looks a little more focused,
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 5: especially at the.
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 2: Plate, uh, from the two Oh six saying the word
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 2: I would use about the Mariners is champions because they
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 2: will win it all. That from the 206. I mean, hey, listen,
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 2: there's a reason why I have some optimism about this
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 2: baseball team, just to spy how much, you know, the
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 2: stuff that we've been talking about negatively has been front
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 2: and center, and justifiably so here for the last several weeks.
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 2: But again, it just goes back here to... How competition
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 2: in the American League West is not like competition from
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 2: last year, from two years ago to three years ago.
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 2: It's apples to oranges. And the competition has played down.
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 2: And again, with the expanded format now for MLB postseason,
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 2: this partially is designed to give teams a chance where
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 2: they feel that they wouldn't have had that chance, say,
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 2: about 10, 15, 20 years ago. That's the most important
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 2: thing about this. 2-0-6 here to describe the Mariners. Inexplicable.
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 4: 4-2-5.
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 2: Scores don't matter when you pitch position players. Just highlights.
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 2: The run differential in baseball, meaningless because it's just a
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 2: measurement of pitching, deadening up the strength of your top
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 2: pitchers as well. Some hockey reaction here, by the way,
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 2: for the Kraken and the NHL from the 2-0-6. If
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 2: Matty Benirez and Mackie Samaskevich look alike... kind of do, actually.
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 2: There should be a promo here for what they do.
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 2: Worldwide destinations. Send them out to Europe together. Maybe that
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 2: would be a great promo. That from the 206. They
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 2: do kind of look alike, actually.
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 5: What would be fun is if they accidentally went to
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 5: the wrong locker rooms, like each one went to the opposite.
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 3: If they were still, you know, they played up on
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 3: that whole story.
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 2: That's where you have to get Mackie Samuskevich in that
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 2: story involved. You've got to fully lean into it.
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 2: In hockey, I will say this. This is kind of
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 2: how guys bond as teammates. If you see something funny,
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 2: a guy does something hilarious or stupid. I mean, I
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 2: one time saw a player. I won't bring his name
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 2: up to throw him under the bus here. He's coaching
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 2: elsewhere in pro hockey now. But his indoctrination into pro hockey,
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 2: he came out from the dressing room. I said hi
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 2: to him, walked down the tunnel to go onto the
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 2: ice for a morning skate, and I heard this roar
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 2: of laughter from, like, 20 guys on the ice. He
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 2: forgot to take his skate guards off. So that first
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 2: step on the ice curse splats. That's the type of
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 2: stuff where guys just don't chirp you or trash talk
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 2: you playfully from now on. You get nicknames off that stuff.
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 2: You get nicknames off of that.
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 5: Oh, hey, just before we go, a couple of season
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 5: ticket holders have written in.
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 5: And the 206, 41-year season ticket holder, and they no
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 5: longer charge full price for preseason.
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 2: Every game is priced.
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 3: According to opponent and meeting.
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 5: And someone else also said from the 425, I'm hearing
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 5: your story about preseason tickets. They're actually a little less
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 5: than half the price of a regular game, but you
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 5: have to look at the breakdown of it.
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 3: So if you mathed it out.
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 2: Okay, that's good. Duly noted.
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 3: That is noted, and that makes me happy.
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 2: It's helpful, at least here, as far as if you
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 2: jump in for season tickets. Anyway, Ian Furness, right around
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 2: the corner of the mayor of Maple Valley. We've got
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 2: something in common, and if you're watching on YouTube, you
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 2: might know what it is. Ian's next. All right, well,
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 2: if you're watching on YouTube, I did say that we
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 2: have something in common. Myself, the mayor of Maple Valley,
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 2: as well as Mike Jessaman, and for Greg Bell, Ian
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 2: Furness is here. Nice hat. Did we kind of match
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 2: up here to the memo? I like the hat. Kraken
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 2: hoodie and the mayor of Maple Valley hat as well.
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 2: Good-looking hat. You take care of your people on the
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 2: golf course, man. That's why I partially love playing in
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 2: that tournament.
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 9: That's right.
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 2: You got the hat from the golf course.
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 8: Well, that means you actually spent money on a mulligan package,
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 8: which I appreciate that. There's all but one group spent
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 8: money on the mulligan package this year.
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 9: Ooh.
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 2: Do we out them?
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 2: No, I'm not going to out them. They're not playing
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 2: next year. I know who they are. We're not going
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 2: to sign up. Pretty simple. I never win anything, I
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 2: feel like, in my whole life. And that was at
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 2: one time. You won something this year. Oh, yes, I did.
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 2: That collection of beverages, it's Ashley's deal that she has
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 2: it through. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And it was
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 2: a six-pack of beverages. They're all pre-mixed. One was an old-fashioned.
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 6: Okay.
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 2: The other that's really good, it's coffee and whiskey. It's
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 2: a cold brew mix. Well, now we've got to say
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 2: who that is. And the other is a Gold Rush.
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 2: Is Jody out there? What company is that? What is that? Oh, man.
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 4: You should know.
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 2: They advertise on the damn station. I want to thank them.
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 2: They don't sponsor me here. Is it out there?
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 4: No.
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 3: It's Yellowstone.
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 4: Yes, Yellowstone.
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 3: Thank you.
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 2: Yes, thank you. Yellowstone Cocktails. Thank you. Yeah, name escapes
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 2: me here.
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 4: It did.
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 2: I believe a whole six-pack of that from the box
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 2: was north of 150. Oh, good. There you go. Yeah,
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 2: it's been in the fridge in the downstairs garage for
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 2: quite a while.
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 8: I'm kind of milking it a little bit. I give
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 8: you credit for that. It would have been gone in
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 8: the Furness house by now, so that's good.
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 2: Good for you. Well, the Maple Valley did not last
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 2: that long.
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 4: Okay, good.
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 8: It's down about less than half a growler now. Well,
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 8: it ain't going to be good anymore if you opened
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 8: it last week.
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 2: I killed a growler probably at one point in a
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 2: matter of days when I got it last year.
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 2: Well, once you open a growler, you've got to drink
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 2: it within a day. I'm trying to space myself a
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 2: little bit. Dude, it's going to be flat. What are
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 2: you doing? It's still good, though. No, it's flat beer.
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 4: Help.
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 5: Help.
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 7: You have to finish it within at least at the
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 7: very very like longest 48 hours.
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 2: All i think now is that you're just trying to
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 2: get me to down the whole thing tonight and have
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 2: no no bishop this is growler 101 fella you open
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 2: a growler you gotta drink it in 24 hours now
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 2: on the.
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 8: Beers i've kind of moved on more to now you've
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 8: got to get your ass back down there and buy
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 8: another growler today i moved on to mixed drinks now
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 8: and i gotta get back into the beer side wow
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 8: i guess i guess i guess the beers are almost
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 8: sold out high class yeah that's they're almost sold out
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 8: you and you're incredible i i i appreciate the thought
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 8: of trying to milk it but once you open a
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 8: growler man it don't say.
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 2: I literally did not know this isn't a gallon of
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 2: milk buddy I literally just learned this. I learned something
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 2: new today. Oh, my goodness me. It's moving, though, man.
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 6: It's moving.
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 2: It's moving. This is why we call you the captain.
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 9: I get it.
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 2: I'm here for the content, right?
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 8: You are here for the content. Brandon Montour liked that.
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 8: He liked your nickname.
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 2: He actually had a great idea for us yesterday after
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 2: you were done talking to him. I was talking with
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 2: Everett Allen. We're podcasting, so we can kind of take
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 2: more stops and starts and all that. Right. We put
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 2: Al between the benches once or twice. There's other ideas
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 2: floating around of what we can do creatively.
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 2: He actually endorsed the idea of putting me between the
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 2: benches for one game, my stuff down there, kind of
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 2: like what you see maybe before at that, uh, Coors
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 2: Light seats just behind the corner, but put me between
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 2: the benches in the ugliest 80s Gretzky era Jofa helmet.
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 2: I like that idea. I like that idea. It might
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 2: look like me with Slapshot from The Organist.
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 8: Would you then abandon the Coors Light Section 20 intermission place.
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 2: Then and just do everything down there? Oh, that's a
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 2: good question.
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 4: If we have to bring me on.
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 8: Find a way to kind of like make it around
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 8: some Coors Light branding. Anders might have to fill in
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 8: for you those intermissions. Yeah.
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 2: You can't get there from there. Well, no, but I
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 2: did the whole show from those Coors Light seats like
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 2: right in the corner. Did you do that last year
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 2: too or just two years ago? Two years ago and
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 2: at one point last year, I believe we did as well.
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  Speaker 2: All right. Memory could escape me. I'm kind of getting
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  Speaker 2: older here, so.
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  Speaker 9: Well.
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  Speaker 2: Aren't we all? Aren't we all?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, man.
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  Speaker 2: I miss hockey season, but I was trying to come
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  Speaker 2: on by and say hi to you.
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  Speaker 8: I brought the kids yesterday, and you were a way too.
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  Speaker 8: You were dialed in from the get-go. Well, I was
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 8: doing a radio show, Mike. Yeah. Kind of important.
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  Speaker 6: I was doing... Well.
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  Speaker 2: I won't get carried away with that. I'm just telling you.
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  Speaker 2: I said, just give Ian a high five and we'll
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 2: catch him later. Give Ian a high five. Yeah, no,
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  Speaker 2: it was fun. It was a good day yesterday. I'm
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 2: glad we got to make the announcement.
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  Speaker 8: Really cool that this radio station, radio group, and the
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 8: Kraken specifically are committed to doing radio the right way.
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  Speaker 8: I mean, we said it yesterday. I think there's a
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 8: few sports... I think hockey and baseball, top of the list.
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  Speaker 8: If you do radio right, those are great sports on
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 8: the radio.
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  Speaker 2: They really are.
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  Speaker 8: And I'm glad that we're so committed to doing it.
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  Speaker 8: You and Al and Fitz do a great job, too.
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 8: I'd be hard-pressed to think there's a better group in
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 8: the NHL than.
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  Speaker 4: What you guys do.
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  Speaker 2: I wouldn't be here without you, man, and others. And
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 2: this makes the world go around because you're also chipping in.
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 2: Anders Hirsch is also chipping in as well, too. And
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 2: we have the play live play shuffle. Sometimes you get
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 2: the home games. I jump in here for the road
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 2: and Andrews is absolutely crushing it here in the host chair,
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 2: but he's, he's been great. You've been great. We'll get
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 2: you back on for a, More podcasting fun, but we've
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 2: got more funsies here. I've got to go through your
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 2: agent now, I guess. Yeah, talk to Jess. I'll call
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 2: you agent boy from now on.
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 3: I take 10%.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, we'll talk about this later. Talk to Jess. What
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 2: a world we live in now. Put an invoice together
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 2: for Captain Lear. What you got here, Ian, today? We're
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 2: all over the place today. We'll do a little baseball
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 2: in the first hour.
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 8: Mariners have a huge series in Toronto starting tonight, and
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 8: we'll get into that a little bit coming up in.
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 2: The noon hour. Cease and desist.
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 8: Yeah, Chris Crawford's going to join us at 1220, so
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 8: we'll go kind of around the horn with Chris and
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 8: Anders and I. Anders played the role of Chris Crawford
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 8: on Monday.
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 2: We'll try not to talk about Game 7.
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 8: We're not going to do that. We'll let Apple do
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 8: all that nonsense. Well, Danny O'Neill joins us in the
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 8: 1 o'clock hour. Greg Bell at 1 o'clock, by the way.
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 8: He just landed. The guy that you filled in for today,
• 1:21:35
  Speaker 8: he just landed in Kansas City. We'll get his thoughts
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 8: on what's going on there tonight with the preseason game
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 8: at 1, Danny O'Neill at 1.20, and then it is
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 8: Week 0. College football season begins. And that means our
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 8: guy Rob Rang, the Ranger, is going to join us
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 8: at 2 o'clock to preview the games this weekend. We've
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 8: got a couple of interesting, intriguing, and fun matchups in
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 8: college football starting tomorrow in this week's hero.
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 2: So we've got a lot. We've got college football, NFL football,
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 2: and Mariners all coming up. And because it's the most
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 2: wonderful time of the year, college football in play, baseball's
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 2: heating up, and hockey not too far away. That's Ian
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 2: coming up here in just a bit. Big thanks again,
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 2: Roxy Bernstein, Josh Klingler, Ryan Spielberg, also Mackie Samuskevich. Mike,
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 2: Ian for Greg Bell. Thanks for joining us. I'm Mike.
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 2: See ya.