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Best of Chuck & Buck 3-23 · Chuck in the Morning

• 0:04
  Speaker 1: It sounds like baseball's almost ear music.
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  Speaker 2: They're walking onto the field.
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  Speaker 3: Mary, I went over.
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  Speaker 1: The fence yesterday.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah he did field.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, yay, let's focus on the main part of the
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  Speaker 4: story there.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm glad he you pumped. Yeah, he was pumped.
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  Speaker 1: Brian Heally's going to join us today for the first
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  Speaker 1: time this new season. We think we're going to hear
• 0:29
  Speaker 1: a lot from Ryan Healey this season. After we had
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  Speaker 1: him on for our postseason coverage a year ago, we
• 0:35
  Speaker 1: tended to like him. I guess he's enamored with us.
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  Speaker 1: So he's going to join us starting today at nine o'clock.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know exactly how often or when, but we'll
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  Speaker 1: get it to launched today before the season could get underway. Also,
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  Speaker 1: Capo Coco's going to join the show today. We've got
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  Speaker 1: a big announcement to make coming up at six forty
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  Speaker 1: five in regards to the Seattle Kraken, So we'll tell
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  Speaker 1: you more about that in a moment, and much much
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  Speaker 1: more coming your way, including a visit from Coach Bucky.
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  Speaker 3: Later this hour.
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  Speaker 1: But we've got Mariner things to discuss, a lot of
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  Speaker 1: Mariner things to discuss on today's radio show. And we'll
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  Speaker 1: just start with the fact that, I mean, this is it.
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  Speaker 1: This is the last spring training game of the year today.
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  Speaker 3: I know.
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  Speaker 1: I mean they've got to be anxious. I mean it's
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  Speaker 1: already a grind to begin with. You can't wait, like
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  Speaker 1: I've had enough spring training. But when they've had two
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  Speaker 1: straight weeks of one hundred degree weather, you know that
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  Speaker 1: they're looking forward to getting back.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean just to get going. I mean, at this.
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  Speaker 5: Point it's fun. But the newness of senior boys again
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  Speaker 5: after an offseason and you know, showing up and showing
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  Speaker 5: out for your coaches in the front office, like hey,
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  Speaker 5: look how much how hard I worked in the off season.
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  Speaker 5: All that is old Now that's all old news. I
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  Speaker 5: mean you're just like, okay, I'm one. I'm tired of
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  Speaker 5: waking up early. Baseball players typically like to sleep in
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  Speaker 5: and play games at night, and so they have That's
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  Speaker 5: one of the benefits they've had so far with the
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  Speaker 5: crazy heat is they move some of the games back
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  Speaker 5: a little bit to you know, played some night games
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  Speaker 5: because it was so hot. But I don't know for sure,
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  Speaker 5: I'm sure that wasn't all right. Guys still show up
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  Speaker 5: at the yard at two o'clock like you do come
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  Speaker 5: regular season time. I'm certain there's not a guy there
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  Speaker 5: that isn't thinking to himself, let's get these last couple
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  Speaker 5: of games over with, let's not have any injuries, and
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  Speaker 5: let's get to Seattle and start playing real games.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Well, I was gonna dive right into this roster,
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  Speaker 1: but it sounds like we've talked about like he wanted
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  Speaker 1: to not just do that. Yeah, but I think maybe
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  Speaker 1: John and Mike sat him down, like do you want
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  Speaker 1: to be on something special or not?
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  Speaker 2: Do you want to make up still a lot of money?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we are gonna make you the highest paid wide
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  Speaker 1: receiver in the National Football League, which you've deserved, which
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  Speaker 1: you've earned. Yep, it's your time, but we're gonna jump
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  Speaker 1: ahead of it a year. And why would you want
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  Speaker 1: to may get fifty million dollars a year when we
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  Speaker 1: need to surround you with other great talents so you
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  Speaker 1: can win more than one Super Bowl?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, lock it up. Yeah, And good for him
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  Speaker 5: to recognize that. You know, I'm sure that if there
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  Speaker 5: was I know the reports you're talking about where there
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  Speaker 5: were people saying he might want to go above and
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  Speaker 5: beyond the next step in the road or next brick.
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  Speaker 5: The fact that he all of a sudden, you know,
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  Speaker 5: listened to reason and the idea of, yeah, if I
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  Speaker 5: try to get every single penny, then there's some player
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  Speaker 5: or two that we're not going to have and you're
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  Speaker 5: not gonna it's gonna rabit your chances of winning multiples.
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  Speaker 1: It's twenty four years old, still, yeah, man, that's exciting.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, look, I knew they got a good player
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  Speaker 1: coming out of the draft, but there was no way
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  Speaker 1: to imagine how good this guy was going to be.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think anyone expected this.
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  Speaker 1: How phenomenal was he this year? I mean just incredible.
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  Speaker 1: I mean go back to training camp coverage and you know,
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  Speaker 1: and the little bit of hand rings that was going
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  Speaker 1: on over losing DK and is JSN just a slot receiver?
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  Speaker 1: And is he going to be able to be as
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  Speaker 1: effective wide receiver one if the defenses are going to
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  Speaker 1: you know, account for him as such, you know, is
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  Speaker 1: he going to be able to play the outside? Is
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  Speaker 1: he just a glorified slot receiver? And then he goes
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  Speaker 1: out there this year, as a record setting year, looked
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  Speaker 1: to be unstoppable. At times. The defense knew that the
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  Speaker 1: offense was geared toward getting him the ball, and you
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  Speaker 1: were still able to get him the ball at a
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  Speaker 1: record setting pace, and then you close out the season
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  Speaker 1: Travis Kelsey saying that might be the best wide receiver
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  Speaker 1: I've ever seen. Yeah, right, I mean think about that statement, Well, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that might be the best wide receiver I have ever seen.
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  Speaker 1: In Jackson Smith and jigba by seasons in at age.
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  Speaker 4: Twenty four, and just even the praise that he was
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  Speaker 4: getting in the playoffs from Tom Brady. I mean, who
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  Speaker 4: couldn't stop talking about his technique in the way runs, routes,
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  Speaker 4: I mean everything.
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  Speaker 1: He's amazing. Yeah, I mean.
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  Speaker 2: His shoulder level apparently was really impressive.
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  Speaker 1: Well, he's such a smooth runner. I mean I always
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  Speaker 1: talk about that. My dad used to hit fly balls
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  Speaker 1: to me out in the yard and it was always
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  Speaker 1: you're running on your heels, it's causing your eyes to jump.
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  Speaker 1: You gotta run smooth so that the ball looks like
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  Speaker 1: it's floating. Yeah, yeah, so you run through it. And
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  Speaker 1: uh And Jackson Smith and jig But I think got
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  Speaker 1: that same advice. His brother's a professional baseball Yeah, that's right.
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  Speaker 1: I bet your dad hit him fly ball. Stop running
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  Speaker 1: on your I wonder if his dad's my dad.
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  Speaker 3: I bet not.
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  Speaker 5: Maybe I'm gonna guess no, But you guys should go
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  Speaker 5: on more Kovich and find out for sure.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe they went to the same fly ball hitting academy.
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  Speaker 3: That's the dad flyball coaching.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe he went to my dad's coaching camp.
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  Speaker 5: I wouldn't doubt that. Yeah, I wouldn't doubt that more
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  Speaker 5: likely than you guys being brothers. Because he's the smoothest receiver.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, maybe he's not the best receiver I've ever seen.
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  Speaker 5: That's Jerry Rice, but he might be as smooth, if
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  Speaker 5: not smoother than Jerry Rice.
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  Speaker 1: He is a phenom.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's pretty impressive, and I think that it's part
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  Speaker 5: of what makes him great. I don't think it's just
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  Speaker 5: a well he's smooth. It's then it all of a
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  Speaker 5: sudden turns into football speed. If you don't have to,
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  Speaker 5: you know, chop your feet to slow down more than
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  Speaker 5: you're coming out of brakes, you're more prone to be
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  Speaker 5: able to kind of do something after the catch. It's
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  Speaker 5: impressive and now, all of a sudden he's locked up
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  Speaker 5: to a big one. And yet you I think getting
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  Speaker 5: ahead of it before, like the Rams signed Pooka Nakua
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  Speaker 5: and the bar gets raised above that. Now all of
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  Speaker 5: a sudden, it's you know, you kind of sign him.
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  Speaker 5: When you sign him, they still have to go out
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  Speaker 5: there and do probably the same thing with Witherspoon.
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  Speaker 3: And so it's a great it's a great move.
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  Speaker 5: I think that locks him up all the way through
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  Speaker 5: like twenty thirty one or something at this point.
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  Speaker 1: And I love that they're doing it now. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: when it's so obvious, why do some of these organizations
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  Speaker 1: fiddle fart around with it? When I say other organizations,
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  Speaker 1: I mean the Cowboys. I mean, when you know, hey,
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  Speaker 1: it's time and we know the caliber of player that
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  Speaker 1: we have, let's just not mess around with this. Let's
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  Speaker 1: give him the money. You know, we're not going to
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  Speaker 1: blow it out of the park. If we're going to
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  Speaker 1: try to blow it out of the park, then maybe
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  Speaker 1: we have a longer negotiation because it's not like we
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  Speaker 1: have to do it now. I mean, we've got you
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  Speaker 1: under contract for another full year, so we don't have
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  Speaker 1: to actually for two years. You know, you could do
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  Speaker 1: the They already agreed to the one year option, so
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  Speaker 1: you have him under contract for two years. You could
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  Speaker 1: do that, you could just like but if he's willing
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  Speaker 1: to just take the next brick in the road, if
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  Speaker 1: he's willing to take the highest salary of any wide
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  Speaker 1: receiver right now, man, just get it done. Yeah, I know.
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  Speaker 1: I don't pull it, don't put it off.
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  Speaker 4: I'm glad we didn't have to wait and stress. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: that wasn't really good to stress. I didn't think it
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  Speaker 4: was going anywhere. I didn't think they'd allow him to.
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  Speaker 4: But this is good.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, y'all honor him. You gotta be happy. You made
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  Speaker 1: him filthy rich.
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  Speaker 2: He's got one hundred and twenty million guarant sign me
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  Speaker 2: up for that.
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  Speaker 1: You don't have to worry about doing this over the
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  Speaker 1: next couple of years. You don't have to worry about
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  Speaker 1: pizzing him off at any point. I mean, you've made
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  Speaker 1: him happy.
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  Speaker 3: Good job.
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  Speaker 1: Now. I guess the focus will be on Witherspoon and
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  Speaker 1: whether or not they're going to do the same thing
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  Speaker 1: with him here in the coming days. But yes, Jackson
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  Speaker 1: Smith and jig Bet has received a contract extension with
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  Speaker 1: the Seahawks four years, one hundred and sixty eight point
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  Speaker 1: six million dollars, and extension makes him the highest paid
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  Speaker 1: wide receiver in NFL history, and I think that makes
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  Speaker 1: all Seahawk fans very happy to have locked down, if
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  Speaker 1: not the best wide receiver in the game right now,
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  Speaker 1: certainly one of the best, certainly in the conversation for
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  Speaker 1: best wide receiver in the National Football League. All Right, Well,
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  Speaker 1: I was planning on talking about the Mariners roster. I'll
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  Speaker 1: breeze through some details with Coach Bucky next, but we'll
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  Speaker 1: have to save that full conversation for later on in
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  Speaker 1: the show. It's Chucking buck in the mornings here on
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  Speaker 1: a Monday Sports Radio ninety three point three k JRFM.
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  Speaker 1: We also have the baseball news that I had to
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  Speaker 1: punt down the field that we'll get to roster wise,
• 9:07
  Speaker 1: Coach BUCkies and studio our pets heads are falling off.
• 9:10
  Speaker 1: There is a lot going on. And if that wasn't enough,
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  Speaker 1: we've got by breaking news, Hockey League and the National
• 9:16
  Speaker 1: Hockey League Players Association, together with Live Nation Today, announced
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  Speaker 1: the twenty twenty six NHL Global Series Finland, a pair
• 9:26
  Speaker 1: of regular season games matching the Carolina Hurricanes and Seattle
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  Speaker 1: Kraken in Helsinki, Finland, on November twelfth and November fourteenth.
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  Speaker 1: I just asked coach Bucky, our boss, that he needs
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  Speaker 1: to put together a road trip for us next year
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  Speaker 1: as a show to a on a Crack and road trip.
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  Speaker 1: I think we've just found it.
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  Speaker 3: Would you Finland?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, mister Norway, would you like to go, you know,
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  Speaker 1: war against your rival.
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  Speaker 3: I don't want to start a war. I'll go there peacefully, okay, and.
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  Speaker 2: George yeah, and then see what happens.
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  Speaker 3: We'll see what happens.
• 10:05
  Speaker 5: I know the first time we got to talk to
• 10:08
  Speaker 5: Coppo Coco, I think we were talking about some fish
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  Speaker 5: dish that they're known for, and so I wouldn't be
• 10:15
  Speaker 5: surprised if I then, you know, say that their food
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  Speaker 5: is not good, and then a war starts. But I'd
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  Speaker 5: love to go there and in peace. At first we
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  Speaker 5: got to go, Yeah, this is where I want to go.
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  Speaker 2: And it's November. We've got time to plan this.
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  Speaker 4: And they are, like the Crack and Two are planning
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  Speaker 4: a trip that people can go on their website and
• 10:34
  Speaker 4: get more info about booking their own trip there. So
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  Speaker 4: why don't we just take all of our I mean
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  Speaker 4: not take all of our listeners there, but encourage them
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  Speaker 4: to sign up and then we can just all go
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  Speaker 4: as one big crack and happy family.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you know what, Travis Moger did an act
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  Speaker 1: of a job Friday, filling in for Ashle No excuse
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  Speaker 1: for the three of us not being sent on a trip.
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  Speaker 3: That's true to hell sinky. He can hold it down here.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I was gonna says the bummers, I'm talking about this,
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  Speaker 4: but I'll be left here pushing the button while you're
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  Speaker 4: in Finland.
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  Speaker 2: But I love that you brought that up, ye, because yeah.
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  Speaker 1: That was that one. Let's go Finland. That's the trip.
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  Speaker 1: That's the trip. But we want sales staff get cracking.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, get cracking on that cracking trip. Yeah, I'm down
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  Speaker 3: with it.
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  Speaker 1: So great. We're actually going to have cap Ocacko on
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  Speaker 1: to talk about this this morning at seven thirty, but
• 11:19
  Speaker 1: we got coach Bucky in studio right now. I gotta
• 11:23
  Speaker 1: at least talk about the Mariners roster so cold. Emerson
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  Speaker 1: was sent down over the weekend, didn't make the team.
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  Speaker 1: Looks like Emerson Hancock will be the number five starter.
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  Speaker 1: Bryce Miller and JP are probably going to start the
• 11:36
  Speaker 1: year on the IL. It looks like that means Leo
• 11:39
  Speaker 1: Revos will be the starting shortstop at least for opening day,
• 11:44
  Speaker 1: for the start of the season. Ryan Bliss looks like
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  Speaker 1: he's going to make the team. None of this is official.
• 11:49
  Speaker 1: This is Ryan Divish sort of putting all the you know,
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  Speaker 1: all the thoughts together here. That looks like what's going
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  Speaker 1: to happen. But the thing I've got to ask Coach
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  Speaker 1: Bucky about is our backup catcher. Oh, because Mitch Garver
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  Speaker 1: has made the team. It sounds like Andrew Kisner. They're
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  Speaker 1: gonna even eat one million dollars that they'd agreed to
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  Speaker 1: pay to Andrew Kisner this year just so Mitch Garver
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  Speaker 1: can be on the team.
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  Speaker 5: Coach Bucky, Yeah, I don't. I can't believe. I'm gonna
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  Speaker 5: have to watch that again. I'll be cheering for you, Mitch.
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  Speaker 5: I don't understand me. I read an article and and
• 12:25
  Speaker 5: Dan was saying he's had a great spring. He hit
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  Speaker 5: a homer yesterday, his first homer the day before that
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  Speaker 5: or the game before that, a couple of days before that,
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  Speaker 5: he got a couple of knocks. Before that, he was
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  Speaker 5: hitting one hundred, one hundred.
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  Speaker 1: He was slow to camp.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, okay, we're slow to do everything. He had I
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  Speaker 5: think ten punchouts in nineteen at bats. He's not even
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  Speaker 5: really walking a lot. So I don't know exactly what
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  Speaker 5: made him have a good camp. I'm guessing he was
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  Speaker 5: very kind in the clubhouse is basically what it was.
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  Speaker 5: That's what the good camp was, because he wasn't that
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  Speaker 5: good up in he ran into a couple of balls.
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  Speaker 5: The last couple of games that he's played, he hasn't
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  Speaker 5: been all that good. But I think that is a
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  Speaker 5: big part of what Mitch Garver, what they like about him,
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  Speaker 5: is what he brings to the table in the clubhouse,
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  Speaker 5: like what he is as a teammate, because I most
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  Speaker 5: certainly don't think it's because of what he brings at
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  Speaker 5: the dish well.
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  Speaker 1: I think Cal's the one that talked him into coming back.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, because he signed for a minor league deal,
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  Speaker 1: so he I mean, Kissner signed for a major league deal.
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  Speaker 4: And he even thinks Cal I think saying like, I'm
• 13:27
  Speaker 4: glad that he wants me, yeah back here again.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, So for whatever is whatever value that he brings
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  Speaker 1: that Cal identified according to Ryan's report, that it was
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  Speaker 1: pretty much like we didn't really see that Kissner was
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  Speaker 1: all that much better of a receiver and Garver does
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  Speaker 1: bring a little bit of thump he has throughout his career,
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  Speaker 1: which Kissner has never been a hitter.
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  Speaker 3: Mm hmm.
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  Speaker 5: So yeah, I mean it's I think, thank god, the
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  Speaker 5: experiment of him being a dh that's over. I don't know,
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  Speaker 5: you're gonna have to watch him get consistent. But yeah,
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  Speaker 5: he was a backup catcher play once a week and
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  Speaker 5: then just you know, hopefully he gets a bunch of
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  Speaker 5: walks and you know, really helps us with that. Go
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  Speaker 5: go get him, Tiger, and then yeah, catches and throws
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  Speaker 5: and receives and does what a backup catcher needs to do.
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  Speaker 5: I'm I'm cheering for him to make me change my thought.
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  Speaker 5: I just I've watched it for a couple of years.
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  Speaker 5: His approach I can't stand. And yet, Okay, I'll watch
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  Speaker 5: it one hundred times this year, I guess.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Well, we'll talk more about those roster moves.
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  Speaker 1: I promise I had dedicated some time to all of
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  Speaker 1: those moves here in the six o'clock hour, but two
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  Speaker 1: breaking news items kind of knocked us off our path.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll discuss one of those breaking news items with
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  Speaker 1: Greg Bell.
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  Speaker 3: Next.
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  Speaker 1: We've sent out the Bells signal we'll ask him about
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  Speaker 1: jsn's new deal, Devin Witherspoon's possible new deal, whether Jake
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: Bobo is going to remain a Sea Hawk. It turns
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  Speaker 1: out we got a lot to discuss with Greg, so
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  Speaker 1: we woke him up. He'll be with us next Sports
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  Speaker 1: Radio ninety three point three kha RFM.
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  Speaker 3: Again.
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  Speaker 7: I'm back at through thirty five, the faith.
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  Speaker 8: To walker who offers a walk and then going deeps
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  Speaker 8: and looking inside.
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  Speaker 1: The part sunk shit, Probably what's up?
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  Speaker 3: Touch Sody, three young touchdowns.
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  Speaker 1: For all the twelves in Seattle.
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  Speaker 9: How special is to deliver this to them? Very special? Man, man, man,
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  Speaker 9: it's very special. It's great to bring it back to Seattle.
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  Speaker 9: You know, so deserving, a deserving city, a deserving team,
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  Speaker 9: and I'm just so happy to be a part of it.
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  Speaker 9: I'm so happy that I was selected to be a
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  Speaker 9: Seahawks man. I give all glory to God. You know,
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  Speaker 9: he knows what he's doing, and I'm just here trusting
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• 16:02
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• 16:10
  Speaker 1: hour Jackson Smith and Jigma. Yeah, the breaking news is
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: not that the Seahawks won the Super Bowl.
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: No, that was just an interview with him.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's always nice just to bring it up.
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• 16:24
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• 16:35
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• 16:39
  Speaker 1: Jackson Smith and Jigma is now the highest paid wide
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: receiver in the National Football League.
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: He agreed to a four year.
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: One and sixty eight million dollar contract extension, and so
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: JSN happy. I would assume here this morning, we're going
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: to talk to Greg Bell more about it coming up
• 16:56
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• 16:58
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• 17:02
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• 18:40
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• 18:44
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• 18:52
  Speaker 1: But we've been so busy so far this morning that
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: we now need to check in with our Seahawks insider
• 18:58
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• 19:22
  Speaker 1: Did you hear the bell tolled this morning?
• 19:27
  Speaker 10: Yes, I knew it was coming.
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: Well, I suppose when the Seahawks make their best wide receiver,
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: the highest paid wide receiver in the National Football League,
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: we ought to find out what's up from our Seahawks insider.
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: So Seahawks insider, what's up?
• 19:43
  Speaker 10: Well, we know what's coming. The timing of it is surprising.
• 19:46
  Speaker 10: It's a little beyond the norm. It is a lot
• 19:48
  Speaker 10: beyond the norm by a few months on how John
• 19:50
  Speaker 10: Schneider usually gets this done right for training camp. But
• 19:53
  Speaker 10: this was such a FATA company that that's why it's
• 19:56
  Speaker 10: getting done now. And now we know why they aren't
• 19:58
  Speaker 10: spending all their salary caps space on free agents from
• 20:01
  Speaker 10: other teams that they have no idea how good they
• 20:03
  Speaker 10: might fit in Seattle. They have a pretty good idea
• 20:06
  Speaker 10: how Jackson Smith and Jim is going to fit for
• 20:08
  Speaker 10: a long time here. His representative is the Win Sports
• 20:11
  Speaker 10: Group confirming this morning it's one hundred and sixty eight
• 20:15
  Speaker 10: point six million up to it's over one hundred and
• 20:18
  Speaker 10: twenty million guaranteed. That's the big number the players care
• 20:21
  Speaker 10: about and forty two point one to five million a
• 20:25
  Speaker 10: year over four years. That's a record for riches deal
• 20:29
  Speaker 10: in NFL for a wide receiver. And it's what we
• 20:33
  Speaker 10: said it'd be at the top of the market around
• 20:35
  Speaker 10: forty million a year. And Devin who's been's next, is
• 20:39
  Speaker 10: the upshot to this at the same type of deal
• 20:41
  Speaker 10: top of his market, which will be thirty million or
• 20:43
  Speaker 10: so per season. Look at the Super Bowl champions who
• 20:47
  Speaker 10: had the NFL Offensive Player of the Year at one
• 20:51
  Speaker 10: of the marquee most important positions in the sport. Yes,
• 20:54
  Speaker 10: it was he splashed hugely one year after they trade
• 20:58
  Speaker 10: DK Metcalf. But he just turned twenty four years old
• 21:02
  Speaker 10: last month, which is hard to believe. But he came
• 21:04
  Speaker 10: in the league when he was twenty out of Ohio
• 21:07
  Speaker 10: State as a first round pick. And this is the
• 21:10
  Speaker 10: backside to how expensive Super Bowl championships are. Yes, it's expensive,
• 21:15
  Speaker 10: and you lose some of your guys, and you lose
• 21:17
  Speaker 10: the Super Bowl MVP and Kenneth Walker, and we can't
• 21:20
  Speaker 10: keep everybody, but the dudes you decide to keep are
• 21:24
  Speaker 10: pretty damn good. And Jackson Smith and Jig was at
• 21:27
  Speaker 10: the top of his position. Devin Witherspoon's at the top
• 21:30
  Speaker 10: of his position, sam Donold is ascending to a top
• 21:32
  Speaker 10: of the sport's most important position, and it's clear that
• 21:36
  Speaker 10: those are the franchise cornerstones and they're going to get.
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: Paid like it.
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: Well, I know this story is just breaking, so I
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: don't know if you've had a chance to get your
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: arms completely around it, but I certainly have to ask,
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: do you know when the pay rays would kick in?
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: Is that like an immediate thing or would it start
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: next season? What are you hearing on that front?
• 21:55
  Speaker 10: Well, if it's patterned, like I haven't heard exactly, but
• 21:59
  Speaker 10: if it's patterned, this follow is exactly what they did
• 22:01
  Speaker 10: with Charles Cross and I wrote Saturday about when they
• 22:04
  Speaker 10: decided on Friday and announced that they were picking up
• 22:07
  Speaker 10: the extension fifty year options on Witherspoon and Smith and Jigma.
• 22:13
  Speaker 10: I said, Aha, I know what he's doing here. John
• 22:15
  Speaker 10: Schneider did the same thing for Charles Cross when he
• 22:18
  Speaker 10: was deciding this time last year about whether to pick
• 22:20
  Speaker 10: up the fifty year option on Charles Cross. I asked
• 22:22
  Speaker 10: Schneider at the combine, are you doing it just to
• 22:25
  Speaker 10: buy yourself time and leverage to strike a longer term
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  Speaker 10: deal at a better cap number than that guaranteed fifty
• 22:31
  Speaker 10: year option for twenty twenty six on Cross. When he
• 22:33
  Speaker 10: looked at me and he smiled. He didn't want to
• 22:35
  Speaker 10: be quoted on the record, so he smiled and nodded
• 22:37
  Speaker 10: his head. And that's exactly what happened. It took some months,
• 22:41
  Speaker 10: was lily into January and during this last playoff run,
• 22:45
  Speaker 10: but they got the deal done with Cross. What the
• 22:47
  Speaker 10: deal with Cross did is it saved the Seahawks about
• 22:50
  Speaker 10: eight million dollars in salary cap money, in salary cap
• 22:53
  Speaker 10: space and accounting money for this year by giving him
• 22:56
  Speaker 10: an extension one hundred and four million dollar extension of
• 22:59
  Speaker 10: four years, near the top of the market for left tackles.
• 23:03
  Speaker 10: It gave Cross seventy five million up front, which is
• 23:06
  Speaker 10: why he was all for it, and it ripped up
• 23:09
  Speaker 10: the seventeen point sixty five million cap number all guaranteed
• 23:12
  Speaker 10: that that fifty year option would have been for twenty
• 23:14
  Speaker 10: twenty six on Cross, and got it down to about ten.
• 23:18
  Speaker 10: That's what's going to happen here. The number would have
• 23:20
  Speaker 10: been twenty four twenty three and change on Smith and
• 23:24
  Speaker 10: Jigbow in a fifty year option, all guaranteed, all in
• 23:26
  Speaker 10: the cap. But by doing this contract, you can spread
• 23:29
  Speaker 10: the signing bonus across the length of the deal for
• 23:32
  Speaker 10: five years, counting the fact that he would have the
• 23:34
  Speaker 10: next year two and that reduces his cap number for
• 23:38
  Speaker 10: next year far better than it would have been. It'll
• 23:41
  Speaker 10: be below twenty three point eight million or whatever it
• 23:44
  Speaker 10: would have been for the cap number for the guaranteed
• 23:47
  Speaker 10: fifty year for next year. So it gives a Seahawks
• 23:50
  Speaker 10: flexibly if you know you're going to sign him anyway
• 23:52
  Speaker 10: to a long term deal. It really behooves the team
• 23:55
  Speaker 10: to do this so that gives them more spending buying
• 23:58
  Speaker 10: power for next year then have to play under that
• 24:01
  Speaker 10: fifty year option number. So that's what's going on. That's
• 24:03
  Speaker 10: the same thing that's going to go on for Devin Witherspoon.
• 24:06
  Speaker 10: His fifty year option number for cornerbacks for twenty twenty
• 24:08
  Speaker 10: seven will be twenty one plus million. They'll get an
• 24:11
  Speaker 10: extension done with him at the top of the market
• 24:13
  Speaker 10: thirty plus million a year. That'll drop that cap number down.
• 24:17
  Speaker 10: It's smart for the player to take all the guaranteed
• 24:19
  Speaker 10: money he can win. He can and he knows he
• 24:21
  Speaker 10: wants to be here anyway, and he just won a
• 24:22
  Speaker 10: super Bowl with this team.
• 24:24
  Speaker 5: Do you think there's anything to do with the pookin
• 24:27
  Speaker 5: nakup like trying to get his deal in first, because
• 24:30
  Speaker 5: I think he's kind of in that same boat right
• 24:32
  Speaker 5: where he's probably going to get an extension here soon.
• 24:35
  Speaker 5: And to me, it's good business if you're the first
• 24:37
  Speaker 5: one to get in there. Otherwise the next guy's kind
• 24:39
  Speaker 5: of like, well, I want the next bump. I want
• 24:41
  Speaker 5: to be the next highest.
• 24:42
  Speaker 10: Fad maybe, But if you do comps, and if you're
• 24:48
  Speaker 10: the Smiths and Jiggers agents, it's an easy comp to
• 24:51
  Speaker 10: say how many rings does Puku Andakua have? And my
• 24:56
  Speaker 10: guy just beat your guy head to head to put
• 24:59
  Speaker 10: the Super Bowl on the line. But that's what Nikua's
• 25:03
  Speaker 10: agents will throw all the other stats and provoled all
• 25:06
  Speaker 10: pros and all that, but the bottom line is Smith
• 25:09
  Speaker 10: and jigb is the reigning NFL Offensive Player of the
• 25:11
  Speaker 10: Year and his current value should be higher, and so they,
• 25:16
  Speaker 10: in his agent's minds, put out a number forty two
• 25:19
  Speaker 10: plus million a year that they think Nikoua's agents might
• 25:22
  Speaker 10: have a hard time matching with the Rams. But you
• 25:24
  Speaker 10: Bucky just nailed what NFL agents and free agency and
• 25:28
  Speaker 10: contract extension is all about. It's not necessarily what my
• 25:31
  Speaker 10: guy's worth, it's what my guy's worth next to the
• 25:33
  Speaker 10: next guy. Smith and jig obviously is pretty well comped
• 25:37
  Speaker 10: to anybody else in the league right now.
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: Greg bells what us our Seahawks insider. We sent out
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: the Bell signal and he responded immediately, that's what superheroes do. Jackson,
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: Smith and Jigba last hour agreed. The announcement came to
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: an extension of forty two million dollars per year on
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: a four year deal, and so he is for now
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: the highest paid wide receiver in the national full So,
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: is there any reason why Witherspoon would be treated any
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: or handled any differently? I mean, I know he's not
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: going to make that money, but considering that his contract expires,
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: he's a first round draft pick of the same draft.
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: Is there any reason why they would do things differently
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: with him?
• 26:20
  Speaker 10: No, And this follows what they've done with their franchise
• 26:24
  Speaker 10: foundation players, going back to Russell Wilson in the twenty
• 26:28
  Speaker 10: twelve draft. So no, and the top of the market
• 26:33
  Speaker 10: for cornerbacks. The only reason he Witherspoon won't make forty
• 26:36
  Speaker 10: two point one five million that Smith and Jig was making.
• 26:39
  Speaker 10: Is that the top of the cornerback market right now
• 26:41
  Speaker 10: is thirty one million dollars per year on average. They
• 26:44
  Speaker 10: take average annual value of the contract as the barometer
• 26:48
  Speaker 10: the benchmark to compare my guy to your guy. Krent
• 26:51
  Speaker 10: McDuffie with the Rams incidentally just signed a deal when
• 26:54
  Speaker 10: he got traded from the Chiefs former U Deep Husky
• 26:56
  Speaker 10: for thirty one million at four years, one hundred and
• 26:58
  Speaker 10: twenty four million. That's where Devin Witherspoon's negotiating will start.
• 27:03
  Speaker 10: Witherspoon's younger than Trent McDuffie. He's more accomplished than the
• 27:06
  Speaker 10: fact that he too has a ring and he's been
• 27:08
  Speaker 10: in three Pro Bowls in his three years. So that's
• 27:11
  Speaker 10: where it'll go about thirty one million a year to
• 27:14
  Speaker 10: put him at the top of the market. And I'll
• 27:16
  Speaker 10: be writing and story and talking to you on the
• 27:18
  Speaker 10: radio in some weeks and months to come that they
• 27:21
  Speaker 10: have the richest cornerback.
• 27:22
  Speaker 11: In NFL history, Devin Witherspoon at thirty.
• 27:25
  Speaker 10: One plus million years. So this is exactly on for him,
• 27:28
  Speaker 10: and this is exactly how John Schneider does business, and
• 27:31
  Speaker 10: this is exactly why they didn't go big splash on
• 27:34
  Speaker 10: all these names at the beginning of March because they
• 27:37
  Speaker 10: wanted to. Not only did they want to do this
• 27:40
  Speaker 10: for what their financial plan was, they want to send
• 27:43
  Speaker 10: a message inside their own locker room. If you're one
• 27:46
  Speaker 10: of our guys that we drafted and you've done it
• 27:48
  Speaker 10: our way and you've excelled and gotten us to the
• 27:51
  Speaker 10: apex of the sport, we're.
• 27:53
  Speaker 11: Going to reward you. If anybody else who walks through
• 27:56
  Speaker 11: that door, if you do it our way at the
• 27:59
  Speaker 11: top of the best of your position, we're going to
• 28:00
  Speaker 11: reward you too. And that's a powerful message, and teams
• 28:06
  Speaker 11: love to be able to send that.
• 28:07
  Speaker 10: Not every team. It's rare that you can do that.
• 28:10
  Speaker 10: It's rare that you had the cap space. It's rare
• 28:13
  Speaker 10: that you had the performance on the field to max
• 28:16
  Speaker 10: out your guys at their position at the top prime
• 28:20
  Speaker 10: of their careers. It's a hats off to John Schneider
• 28:22
  Speaker 10: and his salary, cap and management team to be able
• 28:25
  Speaker 10: to do this because it's a I can just tell
• 28:30
  Speaker 10: you from being an inside NFL lock rooms for twenty
• 28:32
  Speaker 10: five plus years. When teams can do this, it's a
• 28:34
  Speaker 10: really really powerful precedent that resonates across the league and
• 28:39
  Speaker 10: it even attracts other outside free agents. To man, these
• 28:42
  Speaker 10: guys take care of their own and it's not just
• 28:45
  Speaker 10: a mercenary pay to play, Go get a championship and
• 28:48
  Speaker 10: then go get your money somewhere else. It has a
• 28:51
  Speaker 10: real kickback effect to the future on signing, both inside
• 28:55
  Speaker 10: your own poker room and outside.
• 28:58
  Speaker 5: Gee well, I mean another guy home grown but not
• 29:00
  Speaker 5: obviously to the level of Jackson Smith and Jigbar or
• 29:03
  Speaker 5: Devin Witherspoon. Jake Bobo ends up getting kind of an
• 29:06
  Speaker 5: extended offer sheet from the Jacksonville Jaguars that I think
• 29:09
  Speaker 5: he's already signed, right, So now is it in the Seahawks.
• 29:13
  Speaker 5: It's in the balls in their court that they can
• 29:15
  Speaker 5: either match that offer or he's going to be a
• 29:17
  Speaker 5: Jacksonville Jaguar.
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: And what do you think they're going to do?
• 29:20
  Speaker 10: Yeah, it is in the Seahawks court, and they have
• 29:23
  Speaker 10: five days. He was a restricted free agent. So the
• 29:26
  Speaker 10: Seahawks right at the beginning of the league year, an
• 29:30
  Speaker 10: hour before the one o'clock March eleventh kickoff of the
• 29:33
  Speaker 10: league year, they tendered Jake Bobo. What's that mean? Will
• 29:37
  Speaker 10: you attender him an offer at a slotted value of
• 29:40
  Speaker 10: this case three point five million dollars to have the
• 29:44
  Speaker 10: rights to have Jake Bobo for twenty twenty six? Now,
• 29:48
  Speaker 10: they had a right of first refusal tender, which meant
• 29:51
  Speaker 10: its means that if another team does sign him to
• 29:54
  Speaker 10: an offer sheet, did you have the right to match?
• 29:56
  Speaker 10: That's what the Seahawks tender offer contained. The fact that
• 30:00
  Speaker 10: he has visited Jacksonville and signed an offer sheet with
• 30:03
  Speaker 10: the Jaguars means that offer must be better than one
• 30:06
  Speaker 10: year a three point five two million or that's why
• 30:08
  Speaker 10: would you sign it? Because you already have three point
• 30:10
  Speaker 10: five two million and a guarantee for twenty twenty six
• 30:13
  Speaker 10: with the team you.
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: Grew up with.
• 30:15
  Speaker 10: So the Jaguars are offering off are obviously offering more.
• 30:18
  Speaker 10: Perhaps it's multi year, more likely it's more money than
• 30:21
  Speaker 10: three point five to two million. Now, what Schnyder and
• 30:24
  Speaker 10: the Seahawks have to start thinking about is what's our
• 30:27
  Speaker 10: value calculation here? This is an undrafted rookie who played
• 30:31
  Speaker 10: only seventeen percent of the offensive snaps last year, but
• 30:33
  Speaker 10: as a special team's mainstay. He caught a touchdown pass
• 30:36
  Speaker 10: in the NFC Championship game. He bought three dudes on
• 30:39
  Speaker 10: a third and seventeen. That was the key to winning
• 30:41
  Speaker 10: the NFC West and getting the number one seed Week
• 30:43
  Speaker 10: eighteen at San Francisco and that Tenneth Palker play.
• 30:46
  Speaker 11: And he's a glue guy.
• 30:48
  Speaker 10: What I mean by that, he's an inside the locker room.
• 30:51
  Speaker 10: The Buckey knows what this means. But for those listening,
• 30:53
  Speaker 10: he's an inside the locker room glue guy. Another one
• 30:56
  Speaker 10: of those doing it the Seahawks way. Everything the coaches
• 30:59
  Speaker 10: have asked for him to do. I'm going to run
• 31:00
  Speaker 10: down and do kickoffs and punts. You want to get
• 31:02
  Speaker 10: concussed in the preseason finale Green Bay last year catching punts, sure, whatever,
• 31:07
  Speaker 10: and he does it all. How valuable is that? And
• 31:10
  Speaker 10: if that number that Jacksonville has offered him, and he
• 31:13
  Speaker 10: signed an offer sheet to exceeds what Snyder has budget
• 31:17
  Speaker 10: is worth to them, they won't keep them. They have
• 31:20
  Speaker 10: until Wednesday to decide this. It's five days. I think
• 31:23
  Speaker 10: they're gonna match it because he is a glue guy
• 31:26
  Speaker 10: and because of the message they want to spend send
• 31:28
  Speaker 10: inside their own locker room. But if that offer is
• 31:32
  Speaker 10: Richard and Schnyder had budgeted for, he was willing to go.
• 31:35
  Speaker 10: He won't do it. That's just the way he's done
• 31:37
  Speaker 10: it for sixteen seventeen years now.
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: He breaks NFL stories. He takes romantic strolls through fields
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: of cherry blossoms. That's your Greg Bell for you right there, Ashley.
• 31:49
  Speaker 10: Anybody have you gone up to?
• 31:50
  Speaker 11: You dub the last couple of days.
• 31:52
  Speaker 10: Saturday night was crazy.
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: It was so beautiful, gorgeous.
• 31:57
  Speaker 10: They've never lit it up before. I lived like five
• 31:59
  Speaker 10: blocks from there and they have never lit up at night,
• 32:02
  Speaker 10: the cherry blossoms, and they put them in under pink lights.
• 32:06
  Speaker 10: So we roll in there on Saturday afternoon seeing them
• 32:08
  Speaker 10: in their sunny glory. And then there's a table that says, hey,
• 32:11
  Speaker 10: come back tonight, smart move by the University District's Chamber
• 32:15
  Speaker 10: Commerce and Businesses. The kids are on spring break at
• 32:18
  Speaker 10: you dubbed, so they're not much going on anyway, so
• 32:21
  Speaker 10: let's open it up to the plubb. It was packed,
• 32:23
  Speaker 10: it was civil, they were playing classical music.
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: It was really cool, very nice.
• 32:27
  Speaker 10: And it's still Yeah, they won't do it at night,
• 32:29
  Speaker 10: but they're still up during the day. If you get
• 32:31
  Speaker 10: a chance to roll up to you, dub it's just
• 32:32
  Speaker 10: a beautiful natural wonder across the quad.
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  Speaker 3: Really cool.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, well, thank you, Greg, Appreciate you by the way,
• 32:40
  Speaker 5: gee real quick. Albert Breer is saying that it's a
• 32:43
  Speaker 5: two year deal for five point five million is what
• 32:45
  Speaker 5: the Jags have signed him to. So four point five
• 32:48
  Speaker 5: million guaranteed with a one point seventy five signing bonus,
• 32:51
  Speaker 5: and then there's some some over the next two years,
• 32:54
  Speaker 5: and then there's some incentives, so it could be a
• 32:55
  Speaker 5: max value of up to seven million bucks.
• 32:57
  Speaker 3: You think that's going to be too rich for their blood.
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: I do.
• 33:01
  Speaker 10: And the double years and the guaranteed money, that's a
• 33:04
  Speaker 10: million more guaranteed. Now they have a million, but do
• 33:08
  Speaker 10: they want to set that precedent again? He's really disciplined
• 33:12
  Speaker 10: to his plan and he has told us at times
• 33:15
  Speaker 10: that he hasn't been disciplined and it's burned him. Jaymond
• 33:18
  Speaker 10: Jones is another example of that, but the difference being
• 33:21
  Speaker 10: this is an in house guy, so.
• 33:24
  Speaker 11: To see, We're gonna see how valuable Jake Bobo is
• 33:27
  Speaker 11: to them in the next couple of days. But the
• 33:29
  Speaker 11: numbers you just threw at me. I would think they
• 33:31
  Speaker 11: would say, well, it's kind of like Kenneth Walker and
• 33:34
  Speaker 11: the Chiefs you're gonna offer or more more like more
• 33:37
  Speaker 11: to the point, it's more like the Bears and Kobe Prime.
• 33:40
  Speaker 11: If you're gonna offer fourteen and a half million dollars,
• 33:42
  Speaker 11: good for Kobe Bryant. If they're gonna offer him seven
• 33:45
  Speaker 11: million dollars with four and a half potentially guaranteed, and
• 33:48
  Speaker 11: that's good for Jake Bobo.
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: All right, Greg, thank you, sir. We appreciate it. Uh,
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: and I'm sure we'll bug you again soon.
• 33:54
  Speaker 11: Yeah.
• 33:54
  Speaker 10: I understood that I was up, I was writing, and
• 33:56
  Speaker 10: I expected it. I had been disappointed if you hadn't called.
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: Thanks, well, good, all right, thanks man, appreciate you. All right,
• 34:03
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  Speaker 1: and Bock Sports Radio ninety three point three kJ R
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: f M. Well, we've got quite the morning of news
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: breaking here today right here on Chuck and Buck in
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: the morning. So we've heard about JSM getting his contract extension.
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: We've already talked to Greg Bell about that. We also
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: had another story that broke today, the Kracking and the
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: NHL really announcing that the Cracking are going to be
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: involved in something pretty cool this upcoming year. The NHL
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: the NHL Players Association got together with Live Nation and
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: today are announcing that the twenty twenty six NHL Global
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: Series Finland is going to be a part of next
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: year's regular season schedule. Regular season games matching the Carolina
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: Hurricanes and the Seattle Kraken are going to take place
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: in Helsinki, Finland, on the twelfth of November, also the
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: fourteenth of November. Man, this is this is exciting. And
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: I can't believe that KJR and iHeart are going to
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: spring for us to go. I know, awesome.
• 36:06
  Speaker 5: It's amazing that it's we already have basically come up
• 36:09
  Speaker 5: to that made that decision for them that, Yeah, they're
• 36:13
  Speaker 5: sending all three of us. I've never been to Finland.
• 36:16
  Speaker 5: I heard Helsinki's wonderful. Yeah, I think Coppo Coco and
• 36:20
  Speaker 5: Ellie Toleviv want to show us their homes. Yeah, maybe
• 36:24
  Speaker 5: let us stay there just to make it since we
• 36:26
  Speaker 5: are the home of the crack, and make it a
• 36:28
  Speaker 5: little bit less expensive. So they're just gonna fly us
• 36:30
  Speaker 5: over there. But then we're going to get to stay
• 36:32
  Speaker 5: with Coppo Coco.
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I can't believe that they insist that we
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: stay on that minimum of four star hotel, which is
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: awesome on Iheart's part and kJ R's part. So yeah,
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: you know what, twist my arm.
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: We're in. Okay, we'll go, We'll go.
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: Joining us now is the Coppo Cocko himself and who
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: else would we put on to talk about this? Beniers,
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: what are you crazy? No, We're going to get you know,
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: Copo Cocko from Finland to talk about this big story.
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: Good morning, Coppo.
• 37:03
  Speaker 3: How are you?
• 37:05
  Speaker 7: I'm good, I'm good. Good morning.
• 37:06
  Speaker 11: Hey.
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: I take it you've heard about this. How excited are
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: you about being able to play a couple of games
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: for your professional hockey team where you call home.
• 37:18
  Speaker 7: I mean that's awesome. I'm excited.
• 37:19
  Speaker 12: I heard about it like right before Olympics first time,
• 37:23
  Speaker 12: and I mean it's going to be nice playing in
• 37:25
  Speaker 12: front of my family and friends, show all these guys.
• 37:30
  Speaker 7: How is Finland? And I'm the first time for me
• 37:32
  Speaker 7: play back home, So it's going to be nice.
• 37:35
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it'll be fun. Have you heard anything about the
• 37:38
  Speaker 5: festivities and stuff. I heard that they're going to be
• 37:40
  Speaker 5: doing a bunch of stuff. They're probably going to be
• 37:42
  Speaker 5: asking you to host a bunch of parties while you're
• 37:44
  Speaker 5: over there and whatnot, and and then play a little
• 37:47
  Speaker 5: hockey on the side. Have you heard anything about the
• 37:49
  Speaker 5: things that they're planning on doing over there, because it's
• 37:51
  Speaker 5: supposed to be a pretty special thing taking it to Finland.
• 37:55
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean I saw it. It's a special thing
• 37:57
  Speaker 7: and I saw I'm I was was it last last
• 38:01
  Speaker 7: year or a couple of years ago when Randallas played there?
• 38:05
  Speaker 7: I mean they had a lot of a lot of
• 38:06
  Speaker 7: finish guys also, And yeah, that's what I'm find getsing,
• 38:10
  Speaker 7: you know, like doesn't happen too often. And I think
• 38:13
  Speaker 7: people over there are exciting also they want to see
• 38:16
  Speaker 7: the games and you know, so that's that's what I'm getting.
• 38:20
  Speaker 7: I mean, we're gonna stay stay for a while there
• 38:22
  Speaker 7: and then play a couple of games. So I mean,
• 38:24
  Speaker 7: it's it's gonna be exciting.
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: Are you and your family excited about hosting Ashley, Bucky
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: and I at your house when we come over to
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: uh stay in Finland and watch the games? Are you
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: really looking forward to that?
• 38:37
  Speaker 7: I actually think it's more more of toll of me.
• 38:40
  Speaker 7: I I'm not living in hell Sinky and and that's
• 38:43
  Speaker 7: that's all these plays over there, So I think he's
• 38:45
  Speaker 7: going to be hosting.
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: You're just pushing this off to your teammate.
• 38:49
  Speaker 5: Okay, get it. You live further away from hell Sinky,
• 38:52
  Speaker 5: is what you're saying. And Ellie lives right there.
• 38:55
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I Elli lives right there. I live like a
• 38:58
  Speaker 7: couple a couple of hours away.
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: So uh, well.
• 39:01
  Speaker 5: We're willing to travel. Yeah, we're willing, Kappa, We're willing
• 39:04
  Speaker 5: to travel. I'll drive two hours through the finished country
• 39:07
  Speaker 5: side to see your home as well.
• 39:08
  Speaker 3: You're welcome, okay, Okay.
• 39:10
  Speaker 7: Then then then you're welcome. You can come to month later,
• 39:13
  Speaker 7: all right.
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: Yes, and don't do anything special for us either. You know,
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: it's no big deal. You don't have to make us
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: a special home cooked, finished meal. It's all right. We'll
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: fin for ourselves with a salmon. What are you talking about.
• 39:30
  Speaker 6: Copo, I can do that a couple of good places,
• 39:34
  Speaker 6: and yeah in Helsinki also, so I can I can
• 39:38
  Speaker 6: show you all.
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: Right, we were I'd really want I want to do this.
• 39:42
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: I just want you to know I'm not like monkeying
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: around here. Coppo Coco is with us right here on
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: Chuck and Buck in the mornings. So how big is
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: the NHL? I know, hockey is obviously a huge deal
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: in Finland. How big is the National Hockey League to
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: the average finn.
• 40:02
  Speaker 3: The big thing?
• 40:04
  Speaker 7: I mean we have the hockey league over there, and
• 40:07
  Speaker 7: then a lot of people are watching that, and I
• 40:09
  Speaker 7: mean it's time difference. It's kind of sometimes hard to
• 40:13
  Speaker 7: watch the games back there, you know, it's like doing
• 40:16
  Speaker 7: the nights. So I mean, this is this is gonna
• 40:19
  Speaker 7: be nice for finished people. I know they're excited for that.
• 40:23
  Speaker 7: I mean when I when I was young, I was
• 40:26
  Speaker 7: you know, try to watch some game games also about
• 40:30
  Speaker 7: like I said, the time difference is kind of tough.
• 40:32
  Speaker 7: And then you are sleeping at night, you know, so
• 40:36
  Speaker 7: I can't what's the games? But this, this is gonna
• 40:38
  Speaker 7: be nice, nice for finish the finish people.
• 40:41
  Speaker 5: All right, man, well, but how are you guys? How
• 40:42
  Speaker 5: are you guys feeling right now? Obviously getting down towards
• 40:45
  Speaker 5: the end of this uh hockey season and you know,
• 40:48
  Speaker 5: not necessarily playing your best hockey the last few games,
• 40:51
  Speaker 5: but you guys are kind of been hot and cold.
• 40:53
  Speaker 5: I mean, how are you guys feeling right now about
• 40:54
  Speaker 5: this push to try to get in the playoffs?
• 40:57
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean this is the best time of the year,
• 40:59
  Speaker 7: so you need wins right now you want to make
• 41:01
  Speaker 7: the playoffs. I mean that's what we what we're looking for.
• 41:05
  Speaker 7: I mean, still not too many games left and then
• 41:08
  Speaker 7: it's pretty tight right now. And I mean it's all
• 41:11
  Speaker 7: not like we we need, we need to win win
• 41:13
  Speaker 7: some games here. I mean, we haven't been doing well lately,
• 41:18
  Speaker 7: but we got to be better and I think that's
• 41:20
  Speaker 7: that's what we're going to do.
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: How are you feeling about your game? Certainly, Uh, you
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: got off to the start with the injury this year,
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: but I mean it just feels like you've been you've
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: kind of found your niche with the Seattle crack and
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: so how are you feeling about your individual game right now? Coppo?
• 41:39
  Speaker 7: Yeah, it's I would say lately it's been better.
• 41:42
  Speaker 11: Uh.
• 41:43
  Speaker 7: I mean we're playing all the all the time right now,
• 41:45
  Speaker 7: and and I kind of feel good. I mean the
• 41:49
  Speaker 7: start for the season was was not easy. You know,
• 41:51
  Speaker 7: getting hurt during the pre season. It's it's never never fun,
• 41:55
  Speaker 7: you know, just the working out and can't can't play
• 41:57
  Speaker 7: the games. That's that's why we are here. So yeah,
• 42:00
  Speaker 7: that was not easy. About right now feeling feeling good
• 42:03
  Speaker 7: and and I mean, like I said, we need we
• 42:05
  Speaker 7: need w Winston and I feel the whole team is
• 42:08
  Speaker 7: doing doing well and we are ready for that.
• 42:11
  Speaker 5: How's the addition of Bobby McMahon been. I mean, you,
• 42:14
  Speaker 5: I know, you know there's a professional athlete when the
• 42:16
  Speaker 5: team goes out and gets somebody to help you kind
• 42:19
  Speaker 5: of continue to get better as a squad. It usually
• 42:22
  Speaker 5: is kind of a shot in the arm, kind of
• 42:23
  Speaker 5: a little bit bit of a boost. Are you guys
• 42:25
  Speaker 5: feeling that right now?
• 42:26
  Speaker 3: With uh? Since Bobby McMahon's been.
• 42:28
  Speaker 7: Here, Yeah, I think he's been awesome, Like those first
• 42:33
  Speaker 7: first couple of games. How many how many goals he
• 42:35
  Speaker 7: scored already? And and I mean he's good for us.
• 42:39
  Speaker 7: He's he's strong, he's you know, like scoring a lot
• 42:43
  Speaker 7: of goals. I mean, that's that's what we need right now.
• 42:45
  Speaker 7: So so he's he's hoping also a.
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: Lot Capocaco is with us right here on Chuck and Bock.
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: So how many ticket requests will you have from friends
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: and family?
• 42:55
  Speaker 11: Uh?
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: For these uh Helsinki games next year?
• 43:00
  Speaker 7: And I already take it out. I mean they announced it, like,
• 43:05
  Speaker 7: I don't know, a couple of hours ago, so I
• 43:06
  Speaker 7: already had a couple of it.
• 43:07
  Speaker 11: I think it's it's gonna be a lot of those.
• 43:10
  Speaker 7: I mean it's it's like I said, it's gonna be
• 43:12
  Speaker 7: fun to play in front of my my family and friends.
• 43:15
  Speaker 7: How many times I'm excited for that? About I think
• 43:17
  Speaker 7: it's it's gonna be a lot of a lot of tickets.
• 43:19
  Speaker 3: A lot of tickets, A lot of tickets.
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: How many Coco jerseys will you see around your hometown?
• 43:26
  Speaker 11: Hopefully a lot.
• 43:27
  Speaker 7: I mean it's it's been a while when I played
• 43:30
  Speaker 7: there last time, you know, like like I played in
• 43:32
  Speaker 7: Finland before I got here, that's like already eight eight
• 43:35
  Speaker 7: years ago. So I think there's not too many of
• 43:39
  Speaker 7: those right now, but hopefully when we get there, I
• 43:41
  Speaker 7: can see a lot of those.
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: Which of your teammates are you embarrassed to introduce to
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: your friends and family back in Finland?
• 43:50
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I think. I mean Brandon Montor he's he's been
• 43:54
  Speaker 7: he's been trying to asking like what are we gonna do?
• 43:56
  Speaker 3: And then like you didn't need.
• 43:57
  Speaker 7: The pressure all the time, like like you gotta make
• 44:00
  Speaker 7: all the you know you earth and like things we
• 44:05
  Speaker 7: need to do there, So he's he's giving me some pressure,
• 44:09
  Speaker 7: But no, I'm actually I'm excited. I think it's going
• 44:12
  Speaker 7: to be fun to show all these guys, like what
• 44:15
  Speaker 7: do we have out there? And then I mean, it's
• 44:17
  Speaker 7: summer in Finland, it's beautiful, so that's not the best
• 44:20
  Speaker 7: time to go there. I would say about it's still nice.
• 44:23
  Speaker 7: It's always fun to go Finland.
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: So yeah, all right, well well we are. We're looking
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: forward to it. That's great, and cannot wait to try
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: your soup when we're staying at your house next year.
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: Good luck the rest of the way, good luck tomorrow
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: night against the Panthers, and hopefully we'll chat again real soon. Yeah,
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: so that's cut it, Thank you, all right, Coppo Cocko
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: joining us right here on Chuck and Buck in the mornings.
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: Yes again. The announcement made earlier today, they are launching
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: a new series Global Series twenty twenty six NHL Global
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: Series Finland. So on November two wealth November fourteenth of
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: this year, twenty twenty six, they will be playing a
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: couple of games down in Finland, where Coppocco and lv
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: to Ellie tolven And are both from. And so this
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: is a this is an exciting thing and it's I'm
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: just moved and I'm honored that Iheart's going to pick
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: up the bill for Ashley Bucket and I to go.
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: Pretty exciting, that's really exciting, awesome.
• 45:24
  Speaker 5: I'm already yeah, I appreciate it, already looking at flights. Yeah,
• 45:28
  Speaker 5: so we can figure in our show meeting today, we
• 45:30
  Speaker 5: can tell Purple Sheet and Marshall what's going on. I mean,
• 45:34
  Speaker 5: it's you know, it's a long flight, but you know, well,
• 45:37
  Speaker 5: I'll go ahead and do one stop at Lax. It's
• 45:39
  Speaker 5: a you know, a better fifteen hour trip to get there.
• 45:41
  Speaker 2: I wouldn't be surprised if they have all the info
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: ready when we sit.
• 45:44
  Speaker 3: Down here, already clicked the button.
• 45:46
  Speaker 4: If they're like, yep, here's your flight itinerary, you're gonna
• 45:48
  Speaker 4: leave on November eighth.
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: I want to reset a stone to play on our
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: fifteen hour flight so I can master the language.
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: All time, so we can learn all the bad words.
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I want it. I want it down. Fifteen hour flight.
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: I think I can master the whole.
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: Language, the whole language.
• 46:05
  Speaker 5: Bathrooms, South beer, Yeah, booze.
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah. When we're staying at Coco's, I don't want
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: any member of the Cockle family to be talking crap
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: about me, and I don't even understand that that's true.
• 46:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah, makes sense? Does it?
• 46:23
  Speaker 7: All?
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: Right? Coming up next, Mariners playing their final spring training game.
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: That's right, the countdown has reached this many sleeps. I'll
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: tell you about it next. Sports Radio ninety three point
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: three kJ R f M. What a busy morning we've
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: had here on a Monday, made busier by the breaking
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: news story in our six o'clock hour. Jackson Smith and
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: Jigba and the Seahawks have agreed on a contract extension.
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: A WR one and maybe the leagues. WR one have
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: come to terms on an extension that will make him
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: the highest paid wide receiver in the entire world. Do
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: you hear me? Bang the world?
• 47:15
  Speaker 3: Wow?
• 47:16
  Speaker 2: Wow?
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Greg Bell was with us our Seahawks Insider about
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: an hour and a half ago and told us how
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: it all came together.
• 47:24
  Speaker 10: Well, we know it's comment and the timing of it
• 47:26
  Speaker 10: is surprising. It's a little beyond the norm. It's a
• 47:28
  Speaker 10: lot beyond the norm by a few months on how
• 47:30
  Speaker 10: John Schnyder usually gets this done right before training camp.
• 47:34
  Speaker 10: But this was such a FATA company that that's why
• 47:36
  Speaker 10: it's getting done now. And now we know why they
• 47:39
  Speaker 10: aren't spending all their salary cap space on free agents
• 47:42
  Speaker 10: from other teams that they have no idea how good
• 47:44
  Speaker 10: they might fit in Seattle. They have a pretty good
• 47:46
  Speaker 10: idea how Jackson Smith and jig is going to fit
• 47:49
  Speaker 10: for a long time here his representatives, the Wind Sports
• 47:52
  Speaker 10: Group confirming this morning it's one hundred and sixty eight
• 47:55
  Speaker 10: point six million up to it's over one hundred and
• 47:58
  Speaker 10: twenty million guaranteed. That's the big for the players care about.
• 48:02
  Speaker 10: And forty two point one to five million a year
• 48:05
  Speaker 10: over four years. That's a record for the richest deal
• 48:09
  Speaker 10: in the NFL for a wide receiver. And it's what
• 48:12
  Speaker 10: we said. It'd be at the top of the market,
• 48:14
  Speaker 10: around forty million a year. And Devin Wersben's next is
• 48:18
  Speaker 10: the upshot to this at the same type of deal
• 48:20
  Speaker 10: top of his market, which will be thirty million or
• 48:22
  Speaker 10: so per season. Look at the Super Bowl champions to
• 48:25
  Speaker 10: have the NFL offensive player of the Year at one
• 48:29
  Speaker 10: of the marquee most important positions in the sport. Yes
• 48:32
  Speaker 10: it was. He's splashed hugely one year after they trade
• 48:36
  Speaker 10: DK Metcalf. But he's just turned twenty four years old
• 48:40
  Speaker 10: last month, which is hard to believe. But he came
• 48:42
  Speaker 10: in the league when he was twenty. And this is
• 48:44
  Speaker 10: the backside to how expensive Super Bowl championships are. Yes,
• 48:49
  Speaker 10: it's expensive, and you lose some of your guys, and
• 48:51
  Speaker 10: you lose the Super Bowl MVP and Kenneth Walker, and
• 48:54
  Speaker 10: they can't keep everybody, but the dudes you decide to
• 48:57
  Speaker 10: keep are pretty damn good. And Jackson Smith and Jig
• 49:00
  Speaker 10: was at the top of his position, Devin Witherspoon is
• 49:04
  Speaker 10: at the top of his position. Sam Darnold is a
• 49:06
  Speaker 10: sending to the top of the sports most important position.
• 49:09
  Speaker 10: And it's clear that those are the franchise cornerstones and
• 49:11
  Speaker 10: they're going to get paid like it.
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: Greg Bell, I wan this an hour and a half ago.
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: If you want to hear the entire conversation, you can
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: do so on our podcast ninety three to three KJR
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: dot com. I just, I just love this for the Seahawks.
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: I love this for the sea Hawks fan base. Obviously
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: love it for JSN. I mean, this organization is just
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: firing on all cylinders right now, and I love that.
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: I mean, there are a lot of really difficult decisions
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: to make as executives, really difficult ones, and some of
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: them are emotional, and you got to separate yourself from that,
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: and you've got to make the best business decision even
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: if it angers your fan base. There are some decisions
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: that we really do have to you, like Hood does
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: Bobby Wagner really have that extra juice left? Can we
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: really commit to him further than this? Those are hard decisions,
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: even Geno Smith. I think in hindsight, maybe you think
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: that was an easy decision at the time. That was
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: not an easy decision at the time to move on
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: from Geno Smith. Maybe it was for them. They certainly
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: didn't present that this is an easy one. And yet
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: there are a lot of bad organizations that screw this
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: up to Cincinnati Bengals had a contract squabble with Jamar Chase.
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: They didn't want to do it. They had to fight him.
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: Trey Hendrickson, They ruined an entire season trying to figure
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: out whether or not Trey Hendrickson what he's worth. Dallas
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: Cowboys do this every damn year with every one of
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: their players. Dak Prescott's the highest paid player in the
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: National Football League and they yet they went like two
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: years trying to figure out whether or not they should
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: pay him, and when they did decide to pay him,
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: they overpaid him. But so I just love that a
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: redot general manager and a red hot head coach can
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: recognize this guy's outstanding. He's at the top of his profession.
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: His contract's coming due let's not complicate this. Let's give
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: him the best contract in the National Football League at
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: his position, and in exchange for not blowing that mark
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: out of the water, we'll just lock him up for
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: four years so that he has the opportunity to become
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: a free agent again at age twenty eight, in the
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: middle of his prime. It's just good business and I'm
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: just glad we've got the people in charge that are
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: in charge.
• 51:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 51:19
  Speaker 5: Well, I mean, I think the idea it seems like
• 51:23
  Speaker 5: it's common sense where I mean, every single guy that's
• 51:26
  Speaker 5: at the top or near the top, at the top
• 51:29
  Speaker 5: of their position, they always are taking. Well, I want
• 51:31
  Speaker 5: when it's I'm due for a new contract, I want
• 51:34
  Speaker 5: the next brick in the road. I want the next
• 51:36
  Speaker 5: I want to be the highest paid. And that lasts
• 51:38
  Speaker 5: for until the next guy that's right up there towards
• 51:40
  Speaker 5: the top doesn't. So why would you drag your feet
• 51:43
  Speaker 5: if you think someone is there, if you think that
• 51:46
  Speaker 5: you can't get you can't live without them, You're going
• 51:48
  Speaker 5: to keep them.
• 51:49
  Speaker 3: Why would you delay.
• 51:50
  Speaker 5: It and let somebody else take the next brick, because
• 51:53
  Speaker 5: then you have to take the next one after that.
• 51:54
  Speaker 5: And to me, it seems like that. John Schneider and
• 51:57
  Speaker 5: company are ahead on this whole thing. They figured it
• 52:00
  Speaker 5: out where they how they want to do this, what
• 52:02
  Speaker 5: their protocol is going to be. And once they determine yep,
• 52:05
  Speaker 5: you're a part of our future, then they go ahead
• 52:08
  Speaker 5: and do it. I mean, I don't understand why there's
• 52:11
  Speaker 5: a lot of other teams out there that drag their
• 52:12
  Speaker 5: feet at the whole thing. Either either you think he's
• 52:14
  Speaker 5: part of your of your of your future, or you don't.
• 52:18
  Speaker 5: And if the number is, in this case forty two
• 52:20
  Speaker 5: and a half million dollars average for a year, then
• 52:23
  Speaker 5: do it. Do it when he still has a year
• 52:25
  Speaker 5: left on his deal. You've already extended the fifth year
• 52:27
  Speaker 5: option for which would be next year. Just go ahead
• 52:30
  Speaker 5: and tack that on, because now you get to spread
• 52:32
  Speaker 5: this whole thing out over six years. Now, all of
• 52:34
  Speaker 5: a sudden, you're making it more affordable. The longer you wait,
• 52:37
  Speaker 5: the less affordable it is. The less years you get
• 52:39
  Speaker 5: to spread it out over, the higher the number goes.
• 52:42
  Speaker 5: Like I brought up with you, and I brought it
• 52:43
  Speaker 5: up with Greg the pookn Nakua Think who can Akua is? Yeah,
• 52:47
  Speaker 5: he didn't have a Super Bowl but he's been right there.
• 52:51
  Speaker 5: I mean he's been right there as the WR one
• 52:53
  Speaker 5: of the NFL with Jackson Smith and Jibwa. Why would
• 52:56
  Speaker 5: you not be in a race to get your guy
• 52:59
  Speaker 5: signed before he gets signed, because I don't think Booka
• 53:01
  Speaker 5: Nakua his agent's going to hear anything about no, you're
• 53:05
  Speaker 5: less because you haven't won a Super Bowl yet. They're
• 53:08
  Speaker 5: going to say, look what my numbers are, and I
• 53:11
  Speaker 5: want the next next brick in the road. I wouldn't
• 53:13
  Speaker 5: be surprised if he ends up getting a salary that's
• 53:16
  Speaker 5: as big, if not bigger than what Jackson Smith and
• 53:18
  Speaker 5: jigbas is. And I think you get there, you get
• 53:20
  Speaker 5: to this place because you did.
• 53:21
  Speaker 3: It a little bit sooner.
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah. And that is the thing.
• 53:24
  Speaker 4: I mean, it's a really good point to the idea
• 53:26
  Speaker 4: of yeah, why would why wouldn't you if you're the Rams,
• 53:28
  Speaker 4: why are you waiting? Because you would have thought it's
• 53:30
  Speaker 4: a race to sign Nakua to an extension or an
• 53:34
  Speaker 4: in Jigma to an extension so that you're not having
• 53:36
  Speaker 4: to pay even more than the other one because now, yeah,
• 53:39
  Speaker 4: Nikua's agents are going to demand more.
• 53:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 53:42
  Speaker 4: So I mean it was, but have we doubted that
• 53:45
  Speaker 4: the Seahawks are smart. No, they're smart. They know what
• 53:47
  Speaker 4: they're doing.
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: Well, they're certainly on fire. I have doubted the midtime,
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: but they're.
• 53:51
  Speaker 2: Certainly on a couple of years.
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: Oh, they're on fire right now, There's no question about it.
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: And for those that I mean, I do the same
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: thing with Witherspoon. And for those that are worried, Oh no, no,
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: you can't pay that much much money that few of people. Nonsense.
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: Have you seen some of these contracts that are being
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: signed for players with question marks this offseason? No, you identify. Look,
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: the Rams had to give up three draft picks to
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: get McDuffie and then pay him. Yeah, the fact that
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: you have Witherspoon and then you pay him because he
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: was a great decision and he's turned out to be
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: a great player, and he's going to continue to work
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: hard for you. He's got that mentality. These are easy decisions,
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: and you pay these guys and you that have achieved
• 54:35
  Speaker 1: for you and have reached greatness and are still young.
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: These are the easy decisions in this sport. And so
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: I'm glad that And I should have known better that
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: the Seahorks aren't going to muff this up, because there
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: are bad organizations that muff everything up. All right, coming
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: up next big day tomorrow potentially, I mean Huge Sports
• 54:55
  Speaker 1: Radio ninety three point three KHRFM. Hey, good morning, nine
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: o'clock hour here on this Monday, just three sleeps from
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: the start of the Major League Baseball season. The Mariners
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: will debut this Thursday against the Cleveland Guardians at home. Yeah.
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: Last year, a year ago, it was all the way
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: to the American League Championships Series and nearly to the
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: World Series. And in that time we got to know
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: our next guest quite well. We enjoyed our time with him,
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: and we're going to try to steal some more of
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: it during the season all year this year. Joining us
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: on the program now for our first official conversation of
• 55:45
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty six, because we did not get to see
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: him at spring training like we'd planned, and we had
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: a ball, didn't we. Yeah, he missed out on all
• 55:53
  Speaker 1: of the festivities so much. Oh gosh, was it not
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: the time of our lives?
• 55:58
  Speaker 5: Probably it was probably the best day. Yeah, best time
• 56:01
  Speaker 5: that we've ever had.
• 56:02
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 56:02
  Speaker 1: Did you guys rehearse that?
• 56:04
  Speaker 10: Yeah?
• 56:04
  Speaker 7: Do you rehearse that?
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: Because that was pretty weak. No, I missed you, guys.
• 56:09
  Speaker 13: I was sad I couldn't make it out but unfortunately
• 56:11
  Speaker 13: come into my hood. I'm a I'm a dad, I'm
• 56:14
  Speaker 13: a husband, I run a business. There's a lot on
• 56:16
  Speaker 13: the plate, and I was I was sad I couldn't
• 56:18
  Speaker 13: make it out there.
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: Well, joining us now on the program is Ryan Healy,
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: former Mariner turning into a media superstar overnight here and
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: he's on our program again here today. How are you man?
• 56:31
  Speaker 1: Good to see you a media superstar.
• 56:34
  Speaker 3: I'm wonderful.
• 56:35
  Speaker 13: I got called a D list celebrity this morning at
• 56:37
  Speaker 13: school drop off with one of the other dads there.
• 56:40
  Speaker 13: Every time we talk, I go lower on the echelon.
• 56:43
  Speaker 13: So I'm just gonna ride the wave and see where
• 56:45
  Speaker 13: takes me.
• 56:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 56:45
  Speaker 1: He's there to break you down and we're here to
• 56:47
  Speaker 1: build you back up.
• 56:49
  Speaker 13: I appreciate that you need people like that in your life.
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we don't want you to get too much of
• 56:53
  Speaker 1: one thing over the other. But yeah, it's great to
• 56:57
  Speaker 1: see you. Looking forward to having a lot more conversation
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: to talk to Mariners baseball. Before we get to anything else, though,
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: what did you think of the WBC? Did you enjoy
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: the tournament this year.
• 57:08
  Speaker 13: I enjoyed the tournament very much, I didn't enjoy the
• 57:12
  Speaker 13: drama that came with it. And also just like the
• 57:15
  Speaker 13: projection of opinions onto situations that people had zero clue
• 57:20
  Speaker 13: of what was truthful or not, like Mark Durosa put
• 57:23
  Speaker 13: his footntes about the couple times. But also the storyline
• 57:26
  Speaker 13: all the players coming back of USA team cared the
• 57:29
  Speaker 13: least like there's absolutely no way and they've already confirmed that.
• 57:32
  Speaker 13: But the passion, the energy, the competition that early in season,
• 57:37
  Speaker 13: it was a treat to watch.
• 57:38
  Speaker 5: Yeah, well, I'm with you. There's a lot of jumping
• 57:40
  Speaker 5: off points there with that. I mean one of the
• 57:43
  Speaker 5: things was the cal Rawley not shaking Randy's hand. I mean,
• 57:48
  Speaker 5: you know these guys better than most and so and
• 57:52
  Speaker 5: you've been there. I mean it's to me, it's just
• 57:54
  Speaker 5: two different guys approaching competition in the beginning of a
• 57:57
  Speaker 5: game differently. What did you think it was and do
• 58:00
  Speaker 5: you feel like this is water under the bridge and
• 58:02
  Speaker 5: no harm, no foul.
• 58:06
  Speaker 13: I think it's water under the bridge. I think it's
• 58:08
  Speaker 13: a forgive, not forget. And it's not even the lack
• 58:11
  Speaker 13: of handshake that I'm not or forgetting not forgetting. It's
• 58:14
  Speaker 13: the comments after the game, and I think Randy obviously
• 58:17
  Speaker 13: was feeling himself a little bit and went off in
• 58:20
  Speaker 13: the media. And that happened a lot in the World
• 58:21
  Speaker 13: Baseball Classic, where people would say something, it goes viral
• 58:24
  Speaker 13: and then the whole world gets to now determine how
• 58:26
  Speaker 13: big or small this storyline is. Obviously, we're all close
• 58:30
  Speaker 13: to the Mariners and fans of Seattle, so that storyline
• 58:33
  Speaker 13: blew up a ton. But I felt like they did
• 58:36
  Speaker 13: a good job from Arizona, the camp here, the coaching staff,
• 58:39
  Speaker 13: Dan Wilson stepping in to talk to both and they
• 58:41
  Speaker 13: were able to bring some reality back to it. And
• 58:43
  Speaker 13: you can see Randy's comments. He's like, dude, I'm done
• 58:46
  Speaker 13: with this, and Kyle has said the same thing. They're
• 58:48
  Speaker 13: all ready to go compete. Their happy Spring training is
• 58:50
  Speaker 13: almost over. Let's go play some ball.
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: Do you think it pops back up again this year
• 58:56
  Speaker 1: or can we be comfortable that it's dead and buried.
• 59:00
  Speaker 13: That's Dettenbar. You're not gonna see this again. There will
• 59:02
  Speaker 13: be people that try to relive it multiple times, but
• 59:06
  Speaker 13: those two guys are gonna kind of shoot you it
• 59:08
  Speaker 13: off and at some point if they get annoyed, they're like,
• 59:11
  Speaker 13: I'm done talking to you about it. I'm no longer
• 59:12
  Speaker 13: to answer that question, all right.
• 59:14
  Speaker 5: Well, on the other part of it, the idea that
• 59:17
  Speaker 5: the US wanted it more because they don't do the
• 59:21
  Speaker 5: they don't act the same way, they're not quite as exuberant.
• 59:25
  Speaker 5: I don't know if you played winter ball and got
• 59:27
  Speaker 5: to experience it. To me, it's just different. It's a
• 59:30
  Speaker 5: different strokes for different folks. The way that they are,
• 59:32
  Speaker 5: the passion that Latin American players play with and their
• 59:35
  Speaker 5: fans fan with is just different. And I don't think
• 59:38
  Speaker 5: that it necessarily means that the US doesn't care.
• 59:42
  Speaker 13: Listen, I think the Latin culture has had a massive
• 59:44
  Speaker 13: impact on Major League Baseball in so many positive ways,
• 59:47
  Speaker 13: to the point where do you remember the storyline a
• 59:49
  Speaker 13: couple of years ago where I was let the kids
• 59:50
  Speaker 13: play whether you were Latin American, whoever you were, or
• 59:54
  Speaker 13: wherever you were from. They just wanted to see that
• 59:55
  Speaker 13: joy because fans can resonate with that. But it also
• 59:58
  Speaker 13: doesn't mean that the stoic's serious face, almost expectation of
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 13: excellence at the US kind of conducted themselves with this
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 13: wrong either people. You will find a way to irk
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 13: people no matter how you act, whether you.
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 1: Are too excited and to show bodie or whether you
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 1: are too calm and to present in the moment. Ryan
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: Heally is with us here on the radio program. Missed
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 1: his opportunity to party with Bucky and I because of
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: his children, right, weak sauce Loving your children, Yeah, keeps
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 1: you from drinking with your buddies.
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 10: Kind of manned you turn out to bed.
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you're not justin Timberlake. I'll tell you that. Ryan
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 1: Heally with us right here on the radio program. All right, Well,
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 1: moving past the WBC, we're three days away from the
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 1: start of the Major League Baseball season and this team,
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 1: I mean, we've spoken about it a lot, how excited
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 1: we are for the year, how primed they seem to
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 1: be for another deep run, if not the deepest run possible.
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 1: But we haven't got your thoughts on how this roster's
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 1: come together for twenty twenty six. So just big picture,
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 1: how good of a team have the Mariners put together here?
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 1: Very good?
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 13: And I don't think the world got to see it
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 13: during spring training much because they had I think it
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 13: was between sixteen eighteen bodies at a time that we're
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 13: out playing the WBC. So obviously this last week, when
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 13: everyone finally trickled back in, you're starting to see what
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 13: that a lineup can look like. You can see the
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 13: guys starting to take some shape. A few guys trying
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 13: to get extra reps that maybe didn't get as consistent
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 13: playing time during the WBC as they anticipated. But that
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 13: was an empty camp for a long time. The cool
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 13: part is you got an opportunity to see a lot
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 13: of young prospects because the Mariners done a tremendous job
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 13: of drafting and developing, so we got to showcase some
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 13: of those prospects. And obviously a guy like col Emerson
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 13: was getting a ton of press, well deserved for the
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 13: way to he he conducted himself. But also a player
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 13: like Brendan Donovan, who I feel like has added so
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 13: much value to this major league roster, not just as
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 13: the player, but as the person. And you can't hear
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 13: a bad thing said about that man in camp.
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah, well that's one of the guys.
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 5: I ended up thinking Jerry and justin about five or
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 5: six times after we talked to him at spring training,
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 5: I said, thank you, thank you for rendon on of
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 5: it one, because I'm just happy that there's actually somebody
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 5: that's gonna wear my old number thirty three that can
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 5: actually hit. That's I'm looking forward to seeing that. But really,
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 5: the way this dude is, so get get into that
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 5: a little bit. You know, this guy probably better than
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 5: most of our listeners as well. I mean, what's he
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 5: bring to the table beyond just putting the ball in
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 5: play and you know, being a ball player if you will.
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 13: It's a standard of excellence and the discipline that he
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 13: executes his work, the things that the fans don't see
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 13: on a daily basis, is to such a level that
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 13: it's not surprising why he has productive He is as
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 13: a productive of major leaguer as he is. I mean,
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 13: he's in the batting cage taking three hundred plus swings
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 13: a day. He's getting to know Perry Hill on the
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 13: defensive side to find improvements and get really comfortable with
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 13: third base early work. There's a routine that he has
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 13: in the weight room, the way that he communicates with
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 13: the coaching staff. We had a chance to interview Kevin
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 13: Seitzer during the game on Saturday, and we talked to
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 13: him a little bit about, and Brennan was one of
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 13: the guys he couldn't stop talking about. He said, Brennan's
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 13: a guy that comes up to me, tells me exactly
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 13: what his approach or intentions are before every single bat
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 13: or for every single pitchure. So he's communicating very clearly
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 13: to the coaches so that they understand what makes Brendan
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 13: Donovan tick. He's brand new to this organization. These coaches
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 13: know what he's done production wise, but not the process
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 13: that gets into produce that way, I always encourage young players,
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 13: and if there's parents or players listening to this, I
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  Speaker 13: always encourage you if you want your coaches if be
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  Speaker 13: better at their job, communicate better with them for what
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  Speaker 13: has worked for you. So at least they are communicating
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  Speaker 13: within your ballpark and your knowledge.
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  Speaker 1: Having grown up in Saint Louis myself, I'm still in
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 1: contact with a lot of Cardinal fans. I already knew
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 1: the reputation of Donovan when he got there, and I
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 1: was sort of prepared for it. And yet you can't
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 1: prepare for it. Then you sit down with him and
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  Speaker 1: you're like, oh, man, now I do get it. But
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  Speaker 1: as a professional baseball player, somebody that has been in
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 1: the clubhouse. It's your clubhouse. You've been a Mariner for
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 1: a while, and then somebody with his kind of positivity
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 1: walks in. Do you does it take you a little
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 1: while to like, wait, minute, is this guy for real
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 1: or not? Or is it just blatantly obvious? With guys
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  Speaker 1: like Brendan Donovan.
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  Speaker 13: You can like your your BS meter is pretty good
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 13: in the clubhouse of understanding if the guy is if
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 13: he's just show or if he's if he's real. And
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  Speaker 13: for me, like Brendan Donovan's a guy, if I was
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 13: in that clubhouse with him, I would be attaching myself
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 13: to the summer guards like, hey, man, I would love
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 13: to see what you do a little more, Especially if
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 13: I was a young guy, I would attach myself to
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 13: him and just say, hey, do you mind if I
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 13: go to shadow you today, like I just want to
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 13: see what your day looks like and just observe. He's
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 13: that type of player where yes, we know what he
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 13: does in the field the production, but so many players
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 13: they learned that curiosity side of what makes this guy tick.
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  Speaker 13: I think that's what that separates players of professional ranks.
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  Speaker 13: If some guys are so fixated on what they do
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  Speaker 13: and what makes them successful instead of what's that one
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 13: percent that I can find that helps take me to
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  Speaker 13: that next level? And I do believe that Brendan Donovan
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 13: is gonna bring that for a lot of players that
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 13: are currently in the clubhouse and also some minor leaders.
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 13: Minor leaders they got to spend some time around him
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 13: this spring.
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  Speaker 5: Ryan, what's your expectations for Cal and and Julio for
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  Speaker 5: that matter, I mean the two kind of main cougs,
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 5: the nucleus of this squad. I mean, Naylor, you got
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 5: a bunch of guys this year. I think this is
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 5: the best roster they've had in a long time, But
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 5: just those two guys in general, what are your expectations
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  Speaker 5: for these guys?
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  Speaker 13: My expectations of Cal is for him to be steady Eddie.
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 13: He's gonna punch out, like we know that. How quickly
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  Speaker 13: does he get his timing down? How quickly does he
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 13: get that big, strong body organized to the plate.
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  Speaker 1: I've watched him play.
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  Speaker 13: Three times live all last week, and I felt like
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 13: the quality of the swings got better day by day.
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  Speaker 13: I think he played three games in the twelve that
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 13: he was gone for for the WBC so not a
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  Speaker 13: whole lot of it. That's a guy that's used to
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 13: playing every day. And you remember this, Bucky, the bigger body, guys,
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 13: longer limb, just heavier guys. It takes us a little
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 13: bit longer to organize our swings, get our timing and
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 13: our rhythm down to feel like we're almost connected and
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 13: in sync. As returning, I didn't see that from him
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 13: for the first couple of days, and I think that's
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 13: leading to the strikeouts. But I actually read some quotes
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 13: about him this morning. He's like, I don't care about
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 13: the results in spring I care about how I'm feeling
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 13: and by taking my swing at my pitch. And he's like,
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 13: I've seen dudes that rake and spring training and really
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 13: struggle in the season. I've seen guys that you know,
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 13: struggle in the spring training and racing the season like
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 13: it doesn't determine what type of year you're gonna have.
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 13: But he's also not a guy who's gonna put expectations
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 13: on himself of I have to hit sixty homers this year.
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 1: If it's a failure for Julio.
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  Speaker 13: I'm expecting to see him come out with a little
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 13: bit more energy to start the year based off of
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 13: what I was watching the WBC. That's been the big
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 13: question mark for him is he can he have a
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 13: similar first half that he that he does in the
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 13: second half. If he does that, we're gonna see an
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 13: MVP season out of him.
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 1: Former Mariner cornerman Ryan Healey, our guest here on Chucking
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 1: Buck Here Ryan last year during our postseason run, we
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 1: enjoyed having him as a a routine guest, and now
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 1: we're hoping to have him back a lot this upcoming
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 1: season as we start a brand new campaign and he
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 1: joins us for the first time in twenty twenty six
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 1: right here on the show, Josh Naylor. What kind of
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 1: impact the full season of Josh Naylor does that have
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 1: on the team, on the clubhouse, the whole Kitten Kaboodle.
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 13: I think he's a similar comp to a Brendan Donovan,
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 13: someone that's going to raise the floor of that team
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 13: and organization overall. And it's funny. It's things that you
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 13: wouldn't expect, Like he's stole twenty plus basis last year
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 13: as a first baseman. They're not really a fast guy.
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 13: He's gotten to the point in his career where he
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 13: can start adding things onto his plate, his band with
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 13: his expanded because he knows what it takes to execute
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 13: the little things and regular basis. But he gets on
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 13: bas in spring training and he is pushing guys to run,
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 13: like Brendan Donovan was on second base, Josh Naylor's on
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 13: first base, and he was they near halfway to second base,
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 13: trying to push Brendan Donovan to steel third like he
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 13: wanted to do a double steal, and he was trying
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 13: to orchestrate it from the backside of it. And then
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 13: you get on first like and he's just playing games
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 13: with the pitcher like he's he's doing things in a
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 13: different way, observing the game through a finer or a
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 13: clearer lens now and he's accepting that challenge. And I
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 13: do believe that other players in that clubhouse have already
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 13: noticed it, have recognized him as a leader, and are
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 13: going to follow on some of the things that he's doing.
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 1: Cal was arguing that to us that I'm faster than him,
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 1: aren't I He was trying to get confirmation from us
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 1: that he that he's faster than Josh Naylor. I'm not
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 1: sure your answer, Well, I think we said yes, you're
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 1: just feeding the ego.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, play right into that big head that now
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 5: this big dumper, I mean.
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 3: Dude, all right. One thing I got to ask JP.
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 5: Crawford's shoulder has been bugging him in and played a
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 5: whole heck of a lot in the spring.
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 3: Got a quarter zone shot.
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 5: Those are wonderful, by the way, magic magic shots that
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 5: make you feel a lot better. What do you anticipate,
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 5: the band aid If he's not ready to go in
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 5: the beginning of the season, you think that's gonna be
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 5: Revos playing mostly there is Bliss capable of playing shortstop.
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 1: I think you'll see Revos.
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 13: So they've been playing Cole Young a little bit of
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 13: shortstop as well as they're trying to give themselves some
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 13: just some options there if they have multiple and we'll
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 13: see JP within the first few weeks of the season,
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 13: is my guess. I had a chance to catch up
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 13: with him a little bit on Saturday. I was like, bro,
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 13: what are you doing? Like it's too late in the
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 13: year to be nursing or too early in the year
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 13: to be nursing his shoulder thing.
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 1: Let's go. But he's in good spirits about it.
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 10: I know.
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  Speaker 13: The bigger thing is I talked to Justin Hollander about
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 13: this the GM, and you know, he was like, we
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 13: can throw JP out there any day and he can
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 13: pick it with the best of them, But if we
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 13: want to give him a chance to get it timing
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 13: down so he feels comfortable to play, and I think
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 13: he only had fifteen sixteen at bats so far in
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 13: the spring, so if we can get him, let's just
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 13: say another twenty to forty over the next few weeks.
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 13: Even if he stays down here to get him, he'll
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 13: be fine. I know they would like to have Master
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 13: Boni to be able to come on there and be
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 13: that bench roll while we display from shortstop, but obviously
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 13: he's nursing the lower extremities injury, so I think we'll
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 13: probably see Bliss take that over. But we do know
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 13: that Cole Young earned that second base spot so so
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 13: well demanded that spot with his performance every day looks
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 13: a lot more physical playing at great second base. I
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 13: would expect them to displace as few guys as possible
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 13: so that they can allow the guys to settle, and
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 13: that'll be there everyday players, So I wouldn't be surprised
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 13: if we saw Leo Revas playing shortstop every day.
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 1: Did you get a look at Emerson at all cold Emerson?
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 10: I did.
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  Speaker 13: I told Goldie this, Aaron Goldsmith, and I said, he
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 13: blended in today, and he's like, what does that mean?
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 13: I was like, will you either blend in or you
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 13: stand out on the baseball field. And you can stand
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 13: out in two ways by doing something extraordinary, doing something terrible,
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 13: or you can blend in and just look like you're
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 13: a big leaguer, look at your professional and just do
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 13: the little things the right way every single pitch. And
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 13: I felt like he did that. He commanded the strike zone,
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 13: he was able to have quality bat at their quality bat,
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 13: and he played a sound shortstop. That's a guy that
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 13: blends in and looked like a big leaguer to me
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 13: at what twenty years old? I didn't look like that
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 13: at twenty years old. Boys, I can tell you that much.
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 3: You see.
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 1: I'm telling you this as well, though, but your your
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 1: skyrocketing with your media superstardom. I mean, you're already on
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 1: a nickname basis with a lot of people on the
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 1: old D list, celebrity Goldie and Holland Z. You know,
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 1: he's already he's already dropping names down there Ryan Hea
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 1: is with us here on Chuck and Buck in the morning.
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 1: We got to ask about the pitching before we wrap up.
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 1: I mean, I think we've just come to take it
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  Speaker 1: for granted here. That's how good we think that they are.
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 1: Is there any fear that they won't be as good
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 1: as we think? Or is there something to you like, Oh,
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 1: brace yourselves. They're about to get a lot better. Where
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 1: are you at with the pitching staff?
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 13: I actually saw the top three guys go this well.
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 13: Actually didn't see Logan Gilbert throw. He threw in a
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 13: eleven am B game we'll call it. I believe it
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 13: was on Friday. I saw George Kirby throw Saturday. He
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 13: looked tremendous. Obviously, Brian Wood did what he does, going
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 13: six just sound innings on Sunday.
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 1: They look great.
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 13: I know they're looking forward to getting bryceon Miller back
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 13: the left Obleaku has been nursed a little bit. They're
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 13: gonna be very cautious with this. Emerson Hancock has looked
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 13: really good as well. The numbers, the era, you know,
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 13: the Arizona era isn't what you want to look at, but.
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 1: The overall stuff, it's electric.
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 13: Out of his hand it's a two seam four scene
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 13: combo that's like ninety six to one hundred with a
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 13: really good slider curveball combo. I like what I see there,
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 13: and if he's gonna fill in a BR five were good.
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 13: I honestly believe they just picked the name out of
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 13: the hat for the opening day starter. They had nothing
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 13: but great options and guys that deserved it. I would
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 13: have been happy for any one of the guys that
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 13: got the not to do it. So I'm happy for
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 13: Logan Gilbert. I know the other guys are as well.
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 1: Well, we're happy to have you back. It's good to
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 1: see you, good to chat with you. I'm looking forward
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 1: to several more conversations this year. I would just ask
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 1: this and this. This is not explain why I'm asking this.
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 1: This is just for informational purposes. If you've got ten
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 1: swings right now in the cage, how many would you hit.
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 13: Up off of a machine or off of like a
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 13: BP BP VP. Probably between four to six.
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 3: Good to know.
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 1: It's an interesting bar there. I'm Bucky did not probably
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 1: push a seven.
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 13: If I get a little bit of warm up rounds
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 13: in there, Yeah, I mean think Bucky's getting.
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 1: I don't know how many would you get.
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 5: The days of nine are of those days are gone.
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 5: We're gonna hope for one. We're gonna just be happy
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 5: with anything above zero.
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 1: Wow, still up to seven?
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 13: Maybe you think I hit a lot. I'm in the
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 13: k three days a week with a bunch of high schoolers.
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 13: I'm not afraid to hop from there. And you throw
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 13: a metal bat in my hands. Boys, I'm dangerous.
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 3: I'm scary, dangerous.
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 1: Head to see you, man, and we'll talk again soon.
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 1: How's that sound? I look forward to it, all right?
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 1: Ryan Haley, former Mariner, joining us right here on Chuck
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 1: and Buck in the morning. All right, coming up next,
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 1: Sea Hawks JSN. That's a check mark spoon, probably a
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 1: check mark soon. But what about that running back position?
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 1: When we're we gonna check that mark? Sports Radio ninety
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