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Chuck & Buck 5-21 Hour 3: Bravo JP, bravo!! Sup? and watch out, the tarps are off! · Chuck in the Morning

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Speaker 1: The mountain is out. That's what I'm gonna say. That's
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Speaker 1: gonna be my new pickup line.
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Speaker 2: Mountain is out.
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Speaker 1: Mountain is out.
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Speaker 3: I don't know if you're using it as a pickup line,
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Speaker 3: it might not work as well as you want to.
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Speaker 1: It's the finishing move. Finish there you go.
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Speaker 2: Start, start with hills, work your way up to mountains.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, the DDT, the Jimmy Superfly, snook off
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Speaker 1: the top rope. That's it, the mountains out, finishing move.
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Speaker 1: The Mountain's out. Well, good morning to you and welcome in.
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Speaker 1: Ashley and I are back together. So she filled in
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Speaker 1: with Greg Bell the last couple of days. So great
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Speaker 1: to have Ashley back. And we should have some news
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Speaker 1: on Bucky I think this week as well, hopefully for
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Speaker 1: those that have been inquiring consistently and repeatedly.
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Speaker 2: Every day, we get where's Bucky been.
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Speaker 1: He's been on medical leave. But we will find out
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Speaker 1: some information on that front. It sounds like here in
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Speaker 1: the next couple of days, so we will let you
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Speaker 1: know as soon as possible. I can promise you that. Also,
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Speaker 1: I want to thank Anders and Travis for filling in
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Speaker 1: the last couple of days and man they had a ball.
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Speaker 1: I mean, it was so cool seeing a couple grown
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Speaker 1: men's dreams come true being on the Chuck and Buck
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Speaker 1: radio program. It was awesome.
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Speaker 3: I feel like, probably I picture it that when you
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Speaker 3: walked in, they had like a cup of coffee ready
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Speaker 3: for you, and they're like, here's your here's your one sheets,
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Speaker 3: mister Powell.
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Speaker 1: It was so cute that they were trying not to
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Speaker 1: be starstruck, you know, that whole thing. So they pretty
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Speaker 1: much just ignored me and didn't do anything for me.
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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you know what I mean.
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Speaker 2: So they were trying to make it seem like this
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Speaker 2: isn't a big deal.
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Speaker 1: Meanwhile they were peeing themselves right. It was just cute
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Speaker 1: because obviously it was the opposite of having my coffee
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Speaker 1: ready for me, And I thought it was cute that
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Speaker 1: little game they were playing because they didn't want to
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Speaker 1: look like they were over excited.
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Speaker 2: That's why I don't have coffee ready for you every
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Speaker 2: morning too.
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Speaker 1: It was awesome. So anyway, and then didn't ask to
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Speaker 1: take a photo with me or my autograph or anything.
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Speaker 1: Didn't they look you in the eyes though, a little bit,
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Speaker 1: oh a little bit. That's surprising. Yeah, longingly Oh okay,
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Speaker 1: well that makes more sense. Yeah, so they'll be back
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Speaker 1: to their normal humdrum existences now, poor guys and Ashley
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Speaker 1: and I continue the morning.
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Speaker 2: Show, so boring old life for them.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. I'm glad, you know, I'm glad I could make
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Speaker 1: your days fellas. Congratulations.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and I'm glad I played a small part in
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Speaker 3: that by leaving the show for two days.
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Speaker 1: Congratulations for spending time with me.
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Speaker 1: And that would be fun. It would be fun. All right. Well,
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Speaker 1: this is a great topic. This is a great sports
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Speaker 1: radio topic that we have been blessed with here this morning.
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Speaker 1: I mean, it's been a hell of a week talking
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Speaker 1: about Mariners baseball this week. You want to talk about
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Speaker 1: some juicy sports discussions to have at the sports bar,
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Speaker 1: or with your buddies in the backyard, or you know,
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Speaker 1: with your wife, you know, sitting at the dinner table,
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Speaker 1: this is our husband, this is This has been a
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Speaker 1: heck of a week, and it timed out really well
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Speaker 1: because this is like the first week we haven't had
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Speaker 1: football stuff to discuss all calendar year, and yet we
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Speaker 1: get Colt Emerson this week, getting the call up out
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Speaker 1: of nowhere, we get the piggyback situation, which took up
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Speaker 1: an entire broadcast day for US yesterday, and now we
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Speaker 1: get this JP Crawford story. And so not only is
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Speaker 1: it good, not only is it juicy, not only does
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Speaker 1: it have many tributaries that flow from it, it's also
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Speaker 1: kind of good for the heart, kind of good for
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Speaker 1: the soul, I thought. I mean, we just don't see
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Speaker 1: this happen a lot, JP, just to kind of quickly
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Speaker 1: recap it, I mean, talked a lot about cold Emerson
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Speaker 1: and when he's going to be called up this season,
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Speaker 1: all the way back to spring training. And that's on
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Speaker 1: the Mariners because Justin and Jerry told us that cold
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Speaker 1: Emerson had a chance to leave camp as an everyday player. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: they didn't quite see enough, but we knew based off
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Speaker 1: of the Cole Young experience from the previous year where
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Speaker 1: the exact same script. We knew that there was a
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Speaker 1: chance he's going to be called up pretty early in
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Speaker 1: the year. He wasn't killing it Intocoma at the plate,
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Speaker 1: but he was defensively. And JP's game has slid, especially
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Speaker 1: on the defensive side. He in terms of defensive metrics
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Speaker 1: pretty much ranks last amongst starting shortstops in all of
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Speaker 1: Major League Baseball. And so there's been a lot of
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Speaker 1: conversation about is it time for cold Emerson to take
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Speaker 1: over at shortstop for the Seattle Mariners for defensive reasons,
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Speaker 1: if nothing else, the most important position on the field defensively,
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Speaker 1: with the exception of pitcher, And so is it time
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Speaker 1: to do that? And I have been very critical of
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Speaker 1: JP Crawford this season, and I have told you many
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Speaker 1: times that I believe there will be a moment this
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Speaker 1: year where I'm going to come on the air and
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Speaker 1: say it's time. I hadn't reached that point yet. As
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Speaker 1: a matter of fact, I just saw cold Emerson play
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Speaker 1: in Tacoma Friday, and I did not drive home thinking
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Speaker 1: that dude's gotta be on the roster tomorrow.
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Speaker 2: It is a crime that he's into Koma.
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Speaker 1: Right And yet two days later, he was on the roster,
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Speaker 1: and we thought, for sure, it's because Brendan Donovan's going
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Speaker 1: on the il, probably for more than ten days. We
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Speaker 1: need a third baseman. Leo Revas has been struggling, so
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Speaker 1: Cold Emerson, even if he's not quite ready, he's close
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Speaker 1: enough to being ready that he'll be the third baseman.
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Speaker 1: Let's see how he plays, and then when Donovan returns,
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Speaker 1: we'll have another piggyback situation.
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Speaker 2: We'll have more piggybacks, the better.
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Speaker 1: We'll have three guys for two positions, and we'll make
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Speaker 1: a decision on how to progress from there. Well, the
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Speaker 1: next day, Tuesday, JP Crawford's not in the lineup, and
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Speaker 1: we just thought, well, yeah, the veteran needs the day off.
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Speaker 1: Cold Emerson can play shortstop. This is one of the
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Speaker 1: advantages he gives you by being up here, because Donovan
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Speaker 1: can't play shortstop. So yeah, he just needs a day off.
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Speaker 1: Because the Mariners have told us over and over and
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Speaker 1: over that JP's our guy. He's gonna play shortstop for
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Speaker 1: the rest of the season. You know, We're we're gonna
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Speaker 1: live and die with JP Crawford at shortstop.
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Speaker 3: Well, and he got hit, Yeah, he got hit in
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Speaker 3: the arm too, So you're like, yeah, I could understand.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, give him a break, that's true. Dude got hitting
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Speaker 1: their arm, well, hit in their arm one day and
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Speaker 1: then in the back near the arm. Yeah the next day.
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Speaker 1: And then the very next day comes and cold Emerson's
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Speaker 1: playing shortstop again. Yeah. Okay, now what's going on? And
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Speaker 1: we find out it's JP who went to management, Jp
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Speaker 1: and his agent and told management, let the kid take
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Speaker 1: over shortstop, give me a shot to be the starting
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Speaker 1: third baseman, and let's see how that goes. Here's JP
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Speaker 1: after the game.
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Speaker 4: You know, I just I want to be a Mariner
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Speaker 4: for life, and I think that's the best way to
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Speaker 4: do it. And you know, just always being open to
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Speaker 4: helping the team win.
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Speaker 1: Tayle, the young guys talk about you and just everything
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Speaker 1: that you've done for them. What does it mean to
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Speaker 1: you to be that person for them?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, it means everything. You know. When I came up,
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Speaker 4: I really didn't have anyone to show me the ropes
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Speaker 4: until I got over here, and uh Dee Gordon and
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Speaker 4: Kyle Seeger took me under their wing. And you know,
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Speaker 4: I made a promise to myself to you know, be
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Speaker 4: like them. I'm gonna go here to win a wars
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Speaker 4: Heeries and stay here as long as I can. And
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Speaker 4: that's only two things on my mind.
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Speaker 1: JP Crawford after the game yesterday. Yes, this is remarkable,
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Speaker 1: I mean incredible, Ashley and I've already spent some time
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Speaker 1: discussing this this morning, but certainly there's more to discuss
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Speaker 1: from this standpoint. I mean, we are in an era
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Speaker 1: where it is really hard, and I understand why. I mean,
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Speaker 1: it's hard for a person that's put on a little
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Speaker 1: weight to realize maybe I can't pull that shirt off anymore.
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Speaker 1: It's hard for you. You've seen plenty of men who've
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Speaker 1: aged and yet still think that they can hit on
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Speaker 1: the twenty three year old at the bar, you know.
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Speaker 1: And I'm not saying you can't pull that off, Bud,
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Speaker 1: but to kind of think you can maybe let her
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Speaker 1: come to you. Yeah, to go into it thinking that
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Speaker 1: that's still you. I mean, there are a lot of
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Speaker 1: people that can't look in the mirror and see that
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Speaker 1: things have changed. Certainly in our professional world, we have
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Speaker 1: quarterbacks all the time that that threatened that they're ready
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Speaker 1: to retire, and then the moment the organization takes them
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Speaker 1: at their word, and draft it a young quarterback so
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Speaker 1: that they don't have to have a lag between you know,
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Speaker 1: good quarterbacks for two three years, and they draft a quarterback,
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Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden, the players furious that
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Speaker 1: you've drafted a quarterback. That's the sports world I thought
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Speaker 1: we were living in. The guys couldn't tell they weren't
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Speaker 1: quite as good as they used to be. Their pride
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Speaker 1: got in the way. And yet here's JP Crawford being
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Speaker 1: criticized on social media, on sports talk radio, certainly by me,
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Speaker 1: and having a twenty year old kid that the organization's
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Speaker 1: already given a nine year contract to without having seen
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Speaker 1: a single major league pitch. I mean, the writing was
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Speaker 1: on the wall that cold Emerson's going to take over
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Speaker 1: for him next year, and here's JP Crawford getting out
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Speaker 1: ahead of it and saying, being self aware, I'm not
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Speaker 1: the s shortstop that I used to be. I don't
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Speaker 1: have the same range. I still think I can contribute
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Speaker 1: mightily to this baseball team, and not just as a leader.
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Speaker 1: I'll play third base. Let the better shortstop play short stop.
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Speaker 1: I'll learn the new position. I think I can do it.
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Speaker 1: I got the best infield coach in baseball helping me.
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Speaker 1: It's not I mean, Alex Rodriguez went from short to
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Speaker 1: third in the middle of the season. Cal Ripkin went
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Speaker 1: from short to third in the middle of the season.
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Speaker 1: I mean, it's not that entirely different of a skill set,
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Speaker 1: but it's still a self sacrifice like that. I mean,
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Speaker 1: it's not Alex Rodriguez went to third because Derek Cheeter
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Speaker 1: played short and he didn't have a choice. So cal
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Speaker 1: Ripkin went to third because the Orioles were like, you're
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Speaker 1: one hundred years old and you've played every single day
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Speaker 1: for your entire life, and we've got to start thinking
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Speaker 1: about your future as a third baseman, and because this
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Speaker 1: range should been tested because of age. This is JP
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Speaker 1: the front office saying the job is yours and him
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Speaker 1: having the self awareness like that guy plays shortstop better
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Speaker 1: than I do. Right now. If that's the case, let
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Speaker 1: him play shortstop. Let me move to third. All I
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Speaker 1: want to do is be a as big a contributor
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Speaker 1: to this baseball team this year, trying to win a
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Speaker 1: World Series, and however I can help, whether it's as
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Speaker 1: a leader or as a player or as a defender.
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Speaker 1: I want to make the sacrifice necessary to make us
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Speaker 1: a better baseball team. It's awesome. It's for a freshing.
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Speaker 1: It was unexpected, very and it does speak to why
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Speaker 1: his character and why all those players love him so much,
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Speaker 1: and why the organization kept saying how valuable he is.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, they said, we're not moving him off this lineup.
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Speaker 3: We're not taking him off this team. He is too
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Speaker 3: much of a leader. And you know, we don't see
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Speaker 3: so much of what happens because we only see what
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Speaker 3: we get to see on TV broadcasts and occasionally hear
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Speaker 3: from people who are in the dugout or in the clubhouse,
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Speaker 3: you know, before and after games. And for him to
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Speaker 3: have come out and said that not only said you know,
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Speaker 3: he didn't.
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Speaker 1: It's not like he came to.
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Speaker 2: The media and said like, well, I'd play third base.
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Speaker 3: I mean no, he went to the organization and said
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Speaker 3: I want to play third base, and then went and
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Speaker 3: told his agent, I want to play a third base
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Speaker 3: so they would also contact the Mariners, so he had
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Speaker 3: somebody else backing him up, so that they knew how
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Speaker 3: how serious he was about it and about helping this team,
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Speaker 3: and him saying I want to be a Mariner for life.
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Speaker 3: I mean, we said it earlier. If if what he's
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Speaker 3: done hasn't made you hasn't made your respect for him grow,
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Speaker 3: I mean, then there's nothing anybody, any athlete can do
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Speaker 3: to increase their respect, your respect, because that it's selfless
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Speaker 3: and it's the ultimate teammate and he's trying to do
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Speaker 3: whatever he can to help the team.
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Speaker 1: And I don't know if there was any pressure applied
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Speaker 1: to him. I don't know if Justin and Jerry went
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Speaker 1: to him and said, hey, this is what we like
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Speaker 1: to do, and then that led him to coming to
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Speaker 1: grips with it. Maybe probably maybe I had to talk
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Speaker 1: with his wife, Maybe he and Cal, you know, went
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Speaker 1: to Vaughan's and Woodenville Connecticute and had a conversation, and
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Speaker 1: so maybe he needed time, or maybe he came across
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Speaker 1: it on his own. We don't know. We'll probably never
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Speaker 1: know that. But to make that kind of sacrifice mid season,
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Speaker 1: I think it's kind of unheard of. Yeah, and he
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Speaker 1: used some magic words in there. I want to be
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Speaker 1: a Mariner for life. You just became a Mariner for
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Speaker 1: life saying that, because even if you do boy for
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Speaker 1: another team, I've got to know this city. Got to
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Speaker 1: love this city and all fan bases are a little
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Speaker 1: bit different. And the one thing about this city that
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Speaker 1: I've noticed is, man, when you pledge yourself to Seattle,
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Speaker 1: like Kevin Durant, Felix Hernandez, you can play for another team,
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Speaker 1: you're one of us. That's right. And JP Crawford pledged himself.
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Speaker 1: He might not be here next year. He's certainly not
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Speaker 1: gonna be our shortstop next year. He might find his
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Speaker 1: way back to shortstop this season, but he's he's not
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Speaker 1: going to be our shortstop next year, and he'll have
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Speaker 1: to play for a lot less money next season. If
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Speaker 1: he's going to come back to this baseball team, and
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Speaker 1: I don't even think he'll be our third baseman, it's
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Speaker 1: probably going to have to be a different role. But
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Speaker 1: for him to say, whatever I've got left to give
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Speaker 1: this game, I want to give it to this team
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Speaker 1: and these teammates. You just won this city over me. Absolutely, yeah, absolutely.
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Speaker 3: And and you know there are people who are saying, well,
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Speaker 3: how can he go from how can he play third base?
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Speaker 3: He can't make the throw from short to first. I mean,
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Speaker 3: I think he can make the throw from third to first.
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Speaker 1: I think the.
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Speaker 3: Problem was, yes, his movement and how quick he had
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Speaker 3: to be at shortstop. He just doesn't have that quickness anymore.
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Speaker 1: Well, he's still got to be quick, and he caught
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Speaker 1: the hot corner for a reason, But you don't have
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Speaker 1: to cover as much range. And you know, I don't know.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I think you gotta have a hose for
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Speaker 1: third base too. Manny Machado does some wizard re like
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Speaker 1: stuff over there, throwing things underhanded. Certainly we've seen third
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Speaker 1: baseman whose arm strength started to waiver and they were
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Speaker 1: able to pull it off. But I think it's a
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Speaker 1: good point. I don't think it's a foregone conclusion. He
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Speaker 1: can go over to third base. I'm glad that he
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Speaker 1: wants to try. But the fact that he's willing to
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Speaker 1: make the sacrifice, I mean, because you're because he's not
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Speaker 1: assuring himself by that very question that that person's asking,
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Speaker 1: which I think is fair. He's not assuring himself regular
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Speaker 1: playing time by doing this. You know, if he can't
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Speaker 1: play third base, Brendon Donovan comes, they just opened He
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Speaker 1: just opened up the door for cold Emerson, and I
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Speaker 1: think the organization wants cold Emerson at shortstop. It was
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Speaker 1: out of respect to JP, who was out of respect
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Speaker 1: to his respect that he commands in the locker room
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Speaker 1: that they were going to keep him at shortstop through
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Speaker 1: thick or thin, But when he opened the door, I
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Speaker 1: think the Mariners got to do what they really think
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Speaker 1: is best for the organization. Colt's a better defensive player
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Speaker 1: at shortstop than JP is right now, and I don't
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Speaker 1: think JP's lighting it up offensively. I know people keep
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Speaker 1: pointing out his on base percentage and that he's popping
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Speaker 1: home runs. I think he's worse when he's trying to
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Speaker 1: hit home runs. Frankly, I need to see a better
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Speaker 1: batting average. I need to see more doubles because the
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Speaker 1: guy that walks a lot who doesn't run that well
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Speaker 1: is not that great of an advantage for the offense.
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Speaker 1: So I'd like to see him just put more balls
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Speaker 1: in play. Pepper the ball the other way, thinks of
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Speaker 1: that nature, and I don't know if he can play
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Speaker 1: third base, but the fact that he's willing to try
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Speaker 1: it for the good of the team and give up
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Speaker 1: a spot that apparently the Mariners have handed to him
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Speaker 1: it was his yes until the end of the year,
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Speaker 1: just a remarkable gesture. I hope that it's one hundred
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Speaker 1: percent true. I'm going to live in a world where
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Speaker 1: that's one hundred percent true. And there wasn't any interference
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Speaker 1: Ran because all of a sudden, as critical as I've
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Speaker 1: been of JP and at times cross the line probably
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Speaker 1: into being unfair towards JP, trying to be funny, trying
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Speaker 1: to get a laugh, probably crossed a line or two
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Speaker 1: in my presentation. But now I almost have like this,
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Speaker 1: I got what I wanted, but I almost have like
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Speaker 1: this guilt about it, like survivor's guilt, like, ah, he
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Speaker 1: really is an awesome teammate. Yeah. Yeah, And so now
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Speaker 1: suddenly I find myself rooting for JP to work at
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Speaker 1: third and Brendan Donovan comes back. Let's get him back
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Speaker 1: on that super utility role that he thrived in in
17:51
Speaker 1: Saint Louis, and everything will be better.
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Speaker 3: So and then the sun will come out and roses
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Speaker 3: will bloom and birds will chirp, and everyone will start.
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Speaker 1: Hitting, Yes, everyone, because the summer is almost here and
18:05
Speaker 1: we're a summer team. That's right, We're not a spring team.
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Speaker 1: Spring is for losers.
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Speaker 2: Spring is for non mariners.
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Speaker 1: I want to mention it as one other thing before
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Speaker 1: we go to the break. And then SUP is coming
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Speaker 1: up next. So if you want to get your text
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Speaker 1: questions in at four nine four five one, we'll we'll
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Speaker 1: hear from you, will answer any questions that you have
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Speaker 1: about this or anything else. But I do want to
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Speaker 1: offer a little bit of a warning. Like I said,
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Speaker 1: I did not leave Tacoma Friday night thinking cold Emerson
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Speaker 1: looked ready. I think he's going to struggle for a while.
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Speaker 1: Certainly at the plate. I think he has this matureness
18:42
Speaker 1: about his maturity about him that it won't interfere with
18:46
Speaker 1: his defense. And if we get an upgraded defensive shortstop,
18:50
Speaker 1: I think that is in itself very valuable and worth
18:54
Speaker 1: this move. But I have a feeling he's going to
18:57
Speaker 1: struggle a little bit. Almost every twenty year old does
19:00
Speaker 1: adjusting the major league pitching on a nightly basis. They
19:03
Speaker 1: got the scouting report on him, and they're going to
19:06
Speaker 1: attack him with fury, So don't run out of patience
19:10
Speaker 1: with him. I mean, there's a chance JP might have
19:13
Speaker 1: to go back to short stuff because Colt just can't
19:16
Speaker 1: hit at the major league level just yet. They have
19:19
Speaker 1: every faith that he's going to but this isn't going
19:22
Speaker 1: to be cold Emerson takes the league by storm. I
19:24
Speaker 1: don't think he's there yet, so I don't want to
19:27
Speaker 1: hear a week from now. This guy can't even it.
19:29
Speaker 1: He sucks you to call him up, cut him back down.
19:32
Speaker 1: Now that JP's open, Now that the door's been opened
19:36
Speaker 1: by the front office, and now JP's opened it further.
19:39
Speaker 1: I mean, cold Emerson's in our lives for a while
19:42
Speaker 1: and he's probably going to scuffle at a couple of
19:44
Speaker 1: things about the game, and we're going to have to
19:47
Speaker 1: live with that over the course of time for the
19:49
Speaker 1: betterment of this team this year and certainly beyond. So
19:53
Speaker 1: just offering a little bit of warning, have a little
19:55
Speaker 1: more patience with cold Emerson. He's twenty years old, just
19:59
Speaker 1: got his pubes. It's going to take a little while
20:01
Speaker 1: before this guy really does become the player they know
20:06
Speaker 1: he can be as a twenty year old. We know
20:08
Speaker 1: he's going to get better as a twenty five year
20:10
Speaker 1: old beyond. But even as a twenty year old, they
20:12
Speaker 1: believe he's going to be a significant contributor this year
20:16
Speaker 1: and a starting shortstop worthy of starting shortstop on a
20:19
Speaker 1: World Series team. That's their belief right now. But he's
20:22
Speaker 1: not going to look like that for a while. There's
20:24
Speaker 1: gonna be some hiccups, and probably on the offensive side
20:27
Speaker 1: of the baseball, So just keep it in mind, all right, Sup,
20:29
Speaker 1: is next four nine, four five one, or we'll field
20:33
Speaker 1: your questions from off the old YouTube channel, but ask
20:36
Speaker 1: us anything that you would like and direct it specifically
20:39
Speaker 1: at either Ashley or myself. Sup, Ashley, what's going on
20:45
Speaker 1: with Anders and Travis idolizing Chuck? We're probably gonna get
20:50
Speaker 1: a lot of those, is a great question today for
20:52
Speaker 1: Sup on Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM.
20:56
Speaker 3: Can you start a move in to get a standing
20:58
Speaker 3: o for JP next home.
21:02
Speaker 1: I don't think I could get that going. I mean,
21:05
Speaker 1: I might be able to get four of you to
21:07
Speaker 1: do it, but you're gonna need something a little more
21:09
Speaker 1: powerful than me. But I have a feeling he's going
21:11
Speaker 1: to get one anyway. I mean, Mariner fans are today's
21:16
Speaker 1: baseball fan is very aware, more so than ever. And
21:21
Speaker 1: I think that's social media, that is phones, having phone,
21:25
Speaker 1: more phones than social media having our phones with us.
21:28
Speaker 1: I think everybody's going to be aware of it. I
21:30
Speaker 1: think everybody's going to be moved by the gesture. And
21:32
Speaker 1: even though we play on the road, I don't think
21:35
Speaker 1: people are going to forget it. I think when he
21:36
Speaker 1: comes back home, I think that they'll just do it,
21:39
Speaker 1: do it naturally. I think Marinder fans are very astute,
21:42
Speaker 1: very well aware. You included Na Choe Hull and I
21:47
Speaker 1: think you get what's up. And I think JP will
21:49
Speaker 1: get a really warm reception his next at bat at
21:52
Speaker 1: T Mobile. Okay, yeah, I think he will too. I
21:55
Speaker 1: think he will too, be boy, it's such a great gesture.
21:58
Speaker 1: Just overall. I think Royal's fan should give him a standing.
22:01
Speaker 3: I mean, I would love it. Don't think it's going
22:02
Speaker 3: to happen, but I would love it.
22:04
Speaker 2: Up Chuck, how what is it? Where was it?
22:09
Speaker 4: Oh?
22:09
Speaker 2: Yeah, this one is actually what's up?
22:11
Speaker 4: Chuck?
22:12
Speaker 2: From the four to two five?
22:13
Speaker 3: What's up with Ashley always adding to her need to
22:16
Speaker 3: watch movie list but never actually watching any?
22:19
Speaker 1: Oh? Absolutely great call, great observation, It's true. What is
22:25
Speaker 1: with that?
22:25
Speaker 3: It's a great question. I think here's I will tell
22:28
Speaker 3: you this. This summer, I think I'm going to get
22:30
Speaker 3: to watch a lot of movies because I have been
22:33
Speaker 3: I haven't even been home for the last two months
22:35
Speaker 3: on most weekends, and that's primetime movie time.
22:39
Speaker 1: I've been on the last couple of weekends.
22:41
Speaker 2: No, I'm saying it is life.
22:43
Speaker 3: It is a lifetime of failure. I'm trying to make
22:45
Speaker 3: up for it. And you know, sometimes you feel like, Okay,
22:48
Speaker 3: I've got this, I've got to accomplish this stuff, and
22:51
Speaker 3: then I feel a little overwhelmed and I don't know
22:53
Speaker 3: where to start. So I thought last week or two
22:55
Speaker 3: weekends ago, when we were in Lacey, we were like,
22:57
Speaker 3: let's watch a movie.
22:58
Speaker 1: We started with a new one. It was terrrible.
23:00
Speaker 3: I think I told you that. And then I thought,
23:03
Speaker 3: why did we bother watching new movie? I should have
23:06
Speaker 3: made five iron pick an old movie he likes that
23:09
Speaker 3: I haven't seen.
23:10
Speaker 1: See. I might tell you something that I picked up
23:12
Speaker 1: during COVID because I left two years in quarantine and
23:15
Speaker 1: there was a there was a in order for me
23:19
Speaker 1: to stay sane. Unicorn seemed to thrive in it because
23:22
Speaker 1: she's evil. Uh. For me to remain sane in trying
23:27
Speaker 1: to help protect her, I had to create these little things.
23:32
Speaker 1: During the course of the week. I had something almost
23:34
Speaker 1: every night that we would do a different sort of
23:38
Speaker 1: and it usually revolved around the television, because that's what
23:41
Speaker 1: you go, right, you know, what we do. We do
23:43
Speaker 1: the Martini Night on Fridays, and so that revolved around music.
23:46
Speaker 1: But even that, we'll put a show on in the
23:48
Speaker 1: background and just you know, a game or something like
23:51
Speaker 1: that in the background. So I, you know, I would
23:54
Speaker 1: do these like certain evenings that I would set aside,
23:59
Speaker 1: and then you would pay it off and then you
24:01
Speaker 1: ended up looking forward to it, and you involve a
24:04
Speaker 1: food and you involve a drink in that evening as well,
24:08
Speaker 1: but the activity. So I think that's what you would do.
24:11
Speaker 1: You just call it Chuck Movie Theater. And then it's
24:14
Speaker 1: for the entire five Iron family, Mister and Missus five Iron,
24:17
Speaker 1: little five Iron, all of you, all of you as
24:22
Speaker 1: a group, look forward to it, and then add something.
24:24
Speaker 1: Don't just look forward to the movie. Add some sort
24:27
Speaker 1: of food and drink combination to make it an event.
24:30
Speaker 1: Make it an event. And then I'll give you a
24:32
Speaker 1: list and just do it for a month. Every Tuesday,
24:35
Speaker 1: for example, maybe not Tuesday because that's base it's baseball seat.
24:38
Speaker 2: Yeah, Thursdays, Yeah, Thursdays, they are probably more likely.
24:41
Speaker 1: And I'll give you four movies that I think you
24:43
Speaker 1: should absolutely check off your list. Do it for a month, okay,
24:46
Speaker 1: and then give that a try. Maybe you'll look forward
24:48
Speaker 1: to it, and maybe you'll keep wanting to do it.
24:50
Speaker 1: Not just you, but you're an entire fans. Okay, but
24:53
Speaker 1: can we You'll be so excited about you'll want to
24:55
Speaker 1: add to your.
24:56
Speaker 3: Fas it might not I will say this, it might
24:57
Speaker 3: not always be definitely not any might not be the
25:00
Speaker 3: same day of the week, because that's hard to do.
25:03
Speaker 3: But my only request is could you make sure there
25:06
Speaker 3: are no three hour or longer movies on the list
25:09
Speaker 3: to start, because that's strong way to get me to
25:12
Speaker 3: not want to continue it all right?
25:13
Speaker 1: To start?
25:13
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm saying just to start, because if I have
25:15
Speaker 3: to start with three hour movies I'm done already.
25:17
Speaker 1: You don't watch Goda Godfather too. Before you pass from
25:22
Speaker 1: this earth, you will.
25:23
Speaker 3: Should have done that after my append dect to me
25:25
Speaker 3: when I had nothing to do.
25:26
Speaker 1: You will have failed it living. I don't want to
25:28
Speaker 1: overstate it, but you will have had a wasted life.
25:30
Speaker 2: I couldn't agree.
25:33
Speaker 1: What else we got?
25:34
Speaker 3: Let's see, Well you brought up the five Iron parts
25:37
Speaker 3: up Ashley. How did your husband get the nickname five Iron? Well,
25:39
Speaker 3: that's easy because his name's Mark and we had another
25:43
Speaker 3: Mark working at the station, and I didn't want people
25:46
Speaker 3: thinking that. I ended up saying like my Mark all
25:50
Speaker 3: the time, which didn't sound great.
25:52
Speaker 1: So then I would have loved if people would have
25:54
Speaker 1: ran with it. I can't believe Ashley and Mark James
25:57
Speaker 1: are married.
25:58
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, wonder Ashley drinks so much wine.
26:04
Speaker 2: So yeah, So then we came up with a nickname.
26:07
Speaker 3: Chuck came up with the nickname five Iron because he
26:08
Speaker 3: is a huge golfer.
26:10
Speaker 1: There you go, Yeah, that's it. It fits. It's like
26:13
Speaker 1: it worked immediately. It like scored really well right off
26:16
Speaker 1: the bat.
26:16
Speaker 2: We took it to all the testing, right yeah, and
26:19
Speaker 2: it did really well.
26:19
Speaker 1: Yeah, Bucky liked it, Ashley liked it, and I liked it.
26:22
Speaker 1: And then all of our little samples, all of our
26:25
Speaker 1: testing audiences.
26:26
Speaker 3: Yeah, all of them up, all of them. So Chuck,
26:31
Speaker 3: Oh gosh, this updates and then I lose things. Oh
26:34
Speaker 3: why are the Seattle Mariners fans so sentimental and emotional?
26:38
Speaker 2: Why do they put good vibes over winning?
26:41
Speaker 1: Oh? I don't think that they put good vibes over winning.
26:44
Speaker 1: They just enjoyed. I don't think they do either. I
26:46
Speaker 1: think it's the they just like the addition of the
26:50
Speaker 1: good vibes. I see. This is what's under estimated about
26:55
Speaker 1: this fan base. I think that there's such a high
26:58
Speaker 1: priority put on winning. I mean, I get it, there
27:02
Speaker 1: are everybody gets so wrapped up with all the babble.
27:05
Speaker 1: They got a really good pr staff over there that
27:09
Speaker 1: for years has put together a really good, interesting promotion. Okay,
27:14
Speaker 1: don't get angry with them, because they put up great
27:17
Speaker 1: promotions that people want to have that merchandise. But yeah,
27:21
Speaker 1: there are some people that just want to go to
27:24
Speaker 1: the baseball game. But I think there are a whole
27:26
Speaker 1: lot more that are demanding, at least in their vocalization,
27:34
Speaker 1: that this team be good. I mean, you've had a
27:36
Speaker 1: really good baseball team, not a great one, but I
27:41
Speaker 1: think we're I think the Mariners are one of only
27:43
Speaker 1: three teams that have posted winning records five years in
27:48
Speaker 1: a row. They've had two playoff teams, and much of
27:52
Speaker 1: the fan base, I'm not gonna say most much of
27:55
Speaker 1: the fan base is furious with Jerry Depoto and Justin
27:59
Speaker 1: Hollander doing more. So I don't know, I mean, I
28:02
Speaker 1: know that there's a percentage of it that are a
28:06
Speaker 1: little bit cleveland Brownie like, we'll buy anything yourself no
28:11
Speaker 1: matter what. Yeah, And I don't support that. I've never
28:14
Speaker 1: supported that. I think you do have to kind of
28:16
Speaker 1: hold your organization's feet to the fire. But there's I
28:19
Speaker 1: think there's a significant part of the fan base that
28:22
Speaker 1: is unfairly critical of the current regime that has been
28:27
Speaker 1: delivering you at least a contending product, even though we
28:31
Speaker 1: haven't gotten over the finish line. So I don't know.
28:34
Speaker 1: I think I think the fan base is a little
28:37
Speaker 1: more demanding than what it gives its given credit for.
28:40
Speaker 2: I would agree with that.
28:41
Speaker 3: And I also think as far as the emotional sentimental thing,
28:43
Speaker 3: it's like what we were talking about with JP. If
28:45
Speaker 3: you say you're one of us, we're connected to you
28:48
Speaker 3: because we are in this corner of the country that
28:50
Speaker 3: gets or used to get at least it doesn't as
28:52
Speaker 3: much used to get ignored a lot, and so if
28:56
Speaker 3: someone chose to be here or stuck up for Seattle,
28:59
Speaker 3: it was like, yeah, we're all in this together, and
29:02
Speaker 3: so you know, we just have a different connection with
29:05
Speaker 3: the players.
29:06
Speaker 1: I think you want. By the way, here's another underestimated thing.
29:10
Speaker 1: I think you want those fans there because if those
29:13
Speaker 1: fans there that are just fiercely loyal, don't go. That's
29:17
Speaker 1: less money, and that's another reason not to spend money
29:21
Speaker 1: on the roster. Yeah, yeah, I would agree. But there's
29:26
Speaker 1: also a percentage of this fan base that no matter
29:29
Speaker 1: what they do, they're gonna blame them for not spending
29:32
Speaker 1: enough money. Like, what problems we have this year is
29:36
Speaker 1: not because the front office John Stanton didn't sign enough
29:40
Speaker 1: big time free agents. Big time free agents aren't exactly
29:44
Speaker 1: succeeding these days in Major League Baseball at a good percentage. Clip. No,
29:49
Speaker 1: you want me to go through the list, I will no,
29:51
Speaker 1: thank you, no.
29:52
Speaker 2: Thank you. All right, Well, we're going to finish this
29:56
Speaker 2: with this one.
29:56
Speaker 3: We have one that's going to take longer we're gonna
29:58
Speaker 3: get We're gonna use it for one last thing.
29:59
Speaker 2: But this is sub Ashley. Does Palmer the Great play golf?
30:02
Speaker 3: Yet?
30:02
Speaker 2: Have you thought that if and when she does?
30:04
Speaker 3: Giving her the nickname of little Pitching Wedge Palmer.
30:09
Speaker 2: The Great, that's her nickname. There you go, she does
30:11
Speaker 2: play golf, Yes, a.
30:12
Speaker 3: Little pitching wedge w P dub p dub.
30:21
Speaker 1: Well I could see that on her golf bag. Yeah,
30:24
Speaker 1: little p dub Yeah, little pitching wedge, little pitching wedge.
30:30
Speaker 3: Yeah, I like it. I like it, but yes, she
30:31
Speaker 3: does play golf. And then, as I said, there's one
30:33
Speaker 3: that's going to take longer. I'm going to use it
30:35
Speaker 3: as my one last thing. We'll come back to that one.
30:37
Speaker 1: All right, Well, well done. Tomorrow, we'll do SUP with you.
30:40
Speaker 1: We'll ask you the questions and you provide the answers.
30:44
Speaker 1: So that happens now every Friday. Coming up next. It's
30:47
Speaker 1: the newest craze in Major League Baseball. Some Mari and
30:50
Speaker 1: her fans have participated in it. It did not start here.
30:55
Speaker 1: It started in Saint Louis. Maybe you're not aware of it.
30:59
Speaker 1: I'll tell you how it all began and why Softy
31:02
Speaker 1: hates it so much. Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM.
31:05
Speaker 1: After JP looked in the mirror and came up with
31:08
Speaker 1: a really profound truth. I want to do the exact
31:12
Speaker 1: same thing, and I'm gonna have a counselor helping me,
31:15
Speaker 1: holding my hand along the way, and that is Ashley Ryan.
31:18
Speaker 1: I better not fail. Yeah, I really am going to
31:21
Speaker 1: count on you for this. We also have your cash
31:23
Speaker 1: word coming up. And since we haven't talked piggybacking all
31:27
Speaker 1: show long. We'll just do one segment on it before
31:31
Speaker 1: the show comes to close here today. But I think
31:35
Speaker 1: we need to spend some time off of this phenomenon
31:37
Speaker 1: that is taking place in Major League Baseball amongst fans
31:41
Speaker 1: tarps off and we've felt it, We've experienced it here
31:45
Speaker 1: in Seattle. I don't think it's leading to any rallies
31:48
Speaker 1: by the way.
31:49
Speaker 2: Fellas, No, not so far, not that I've noticed.
31:52
Speaker 1: But this started in Saint Louis and with of all things,
31:56
Speaker 1: a college baseball team out of Texas, Steven F. Austin
32:02
Speaker 1: out of Texas. Their college baseball team was up in
32:06
Speaker 1: the Saint Louis area. As a matter of fact, you
32:09
Speaker 1: know where they were playing, Alton, Illinois, my hometown. Look
32:13
Speaker 1: at that, Yeah, that's where they were playing. Their tournament
32:16
Speaker 1: was in Alton, Illinois, and they decided, let's take in
32:19
Speaker 1: a Cardinal game. Well, I don't even think they're Cardinal fans.
32:23
Speaker 1: And yet, as college boys who are fit might be
32:28
Speaker 1: prone to do, they couldn't wait to take their shirts off. Shocking, Yeah,
32:32
Speaker 1: and so they took their shirts off. It seems like
32:35
Speaker 1: it's something that they already did in Texas. They call
32:38
Speaker 1: it tarps off, and so they just started like a rally,
32:42
Speaker 1: started waving their towel their shirts around, bear chested, a
32:46
Speaker 1: group of them. You know, however, many players are on
32:49
Speaker 1: a college baseball team. Thirty Yeah, I don't think the
32:51
Speaker 1: coaches participated. Thirty you know, bear chested Texan weirdos were,
32:59
Speaker 1: you know, hiring their shirts around like a helicopter blade.
33:03
Speaker 1: And the Cardinals went on a roll and won the game,
33:08
Speaker 1: and so then they came back so they could do
33:10
Speaker 1: it again. And now Cardinal fans have been doing it.
33:13
Speaker 1: A different group of young men are doing it, and
33:16
Speaker 1: it's spread all over the league. It's happened in Tampa,
33:19
Speaker 1: it happened in Seattle two nights ago. It happened in
33:22
Speaker 1: Detroit last night. And apparently it was a monstrous group
33:25
Speaker 1: that was in Detroit last night. So this is the
33:29
Speaker 1: reason behind all of those weirdos with their shirts off
33:34
Speaker 1: the other night. It is a growing phenomenon in the sport.
33:38
Speaker 1: I like baby Shark better, but nonetheless, it is bringing
33:44
Speaker 1: some fun to the game. And anytime we have one
33:47
Speaker 1: of these during the course of a baseball season, I
33:50
Speaker 1: enjoy it. I mean, it gets the fans excited, and
33:53
Speaker 1: it's bouncing from stadium to stadium. So that's the explanation
33:56
Speaker 1: behind tarps Off.
33:57
Speaker 3: As a person who mention of Baby Shark immediately puts
34:01
Speaker 3: the entire song back into my head. I definitely like
34:04
Speaker 3: Tarp's off movement better than Yes.
34:07
Speaker 1: Oh, I love a baby show.
34:08
Speaker 3: It's harmless, it's fun, it doesn't get stuck in my head.
34:11
Speaker 3: I'm not like sitting there then for the rest of
34:12
Speaker 3: the night visualizing people whirling their shirts above their heads,
34:17
Speaker 3: and it's not haunting my dreams like Baby.
34:19
Speaker 2: Shark will tonight. Most likely.
34:21
Speaker 3: I think it's fun, and especially because you know, baseball's
34:24
Speaker 3: a warm weather sport for the most part, so why
34:27
Speaker 3: not enjoy it and have some fun and be be goofy.
34:31
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, well, I don't think it's going away anytime soon.
34:35
Speaker 1: I do think it will eventually, it'll Yeah, I don't
34:38
Speaker 1: think we're going to hit the World Series and people
34:40
Speaker 1: are still doing tarps off, but yeah, probably right now,
34:43
Speaker 1: it's it's a thing, and Seattle has participated in it, and.
34:47
Speaker 2: Look the broadcast couldn't get enough of it.
34:50
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, exactly, and they didn't know what it was right,
34:53
Speaker 1: which I was a little surprised because Aaron's always got
34:56
Speaker 1: his eye on the news in Major League Baseball, but
34:58
Speaker 1: the broadcast team didn't know where it had come from.
35:01
Speaker 2: Yeah, I found out on X from Ryan Divish.
35:04
Speaker 1: Yeah. It had been around for Sand Louis fans have
35:06
Speaker 1: been doing it for like a month.
35:07
Speaker 2: You know, isn't Aaron Goldsmith from Saint Louis.
35:10
Speaker 1: He I'm not, Yeah he is. He doesn't quite claim it.
35:13
Speaker 1: I don't think, okay, where I do. But anyway, that's
35:18
Speaker 1: where that all came from. And yeah, I'm not of
35:21
Speaker 1: a mind to enjoy a rally started by a bunch
35:25
Speaker 1: of men with their shirts off, But to me, it
35:28
Speaker 1: is kind of fun for baseball to have these goofy things. Yes,
35:31
Speaker 1: these trends take place, and so we'll let it run
35:35
Speaker 1: its course and it doesn't turn into the wave.
35:38
Speaker 3: Oh that's what Actually, when you said it'll it won't
35:40
Speaker 3: hang on, I was like, won't it? Because people are
35:43
Speaker 3: still trying to get the wave going at every game
35:45
Speaker 3: you go to.
35:46
Speaker 1: And it's a young person thing. I mean, if if
35:48
Speaker 1: I had to be hey, if you participate in tarps off,
35:52
Speaker 1: we're going to the World Series, I'd have to think
35:54
Speaker 1: about that. Yeah, Well, it wasn't long ago that I
35:57
Speaker 1: wanted to take tarps off all the time. I'd like
36:00
Speaker 1: in the produce section, Hey, baby, tarp's off.
36:03
Speaker 2: See now, if it starts having we might have a product.
36:06
Speaker 1: Yeah, although I filmed it. Yeah, hey mama, Okay, well
36:11
Speaker 1: definitely the words aren't making it creepier. Hey, these avocados
36:16
Speaker 1: are right, tarps off, baby mountains out, tars off. Yeah,
36:25
Speaker 1: I look for any excuse. Not long ago take my
36:28
Speaker 1: shirt off in public. There weren't a lot of reasons given,
36:31
Speaker 1: so this would have this. Weally would have started a
36:34
Speaker 1: shirt a lanch.
36:37
Speaker 2: Thank goodness we don't have one of those going on.
36:39
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, I'd be like, I'm here to make a
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