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Chuck in the Morning 7-24 Hour 3: The Ocho, new faces and breaking news. · Chuck in the Morning

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Speaker 2: recamping the week, getting you set for the weekend. We
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Speaker 2: used to do it every day. We now do it
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Speaker 2: just on Fridays, and so let us get going, because
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Speaker 2: certainly our top story here on this day is that
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Speaker 2: Seahawks training camp will open tomorrow, the world champs returning
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Speaker 2: to defend their crown, and it's all gonna happen on HBO.
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Speaker 2: You're just hanging out with Leave Schreiber and Kevin Harlan
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Speaker 2: at the training camp this year.
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Speaker 3: Have you known you feel like that's what's gonna happen.
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Speaker 2: Then we can go hit the town and then probably
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Speaker 2: become best buddies and maybe maybe a rent a casita together. Obby.
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Speaker 2: The Super Bowl champs are returning to work starts tomorrow
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Speaker 2: and the defense of their crown is underway. It's the
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Speaker 2: game of thrones and right now they're sitting on the
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Speaker 2: game of throne and all sorts of things, all sorts
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Speaker 2: of stories heading in to training camp. We've got Zach
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Speaker 2: Charboney on the pup list. We got nick Emon Warri
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Speaker 2: on the pup list. Charbone probably gonna be there for
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Speaker 2: a while. Emon Worri we Hope is on course to
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Speaker 2: start on opening Day for the Seahawks. New faces Dante Fowler, Junior,
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Speaker 2: Noah Ingbadoghany gosh I had it perfectly earlier, boghany I
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Speaker 2: love that name. I love saying that name. Emmanuel Wilson,
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Speaker 2: the twenty twenty six draft class, and a brand new
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Speaker 2: offensive coordinator in Brian Florey had of course gone are
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Speaker 2: Clint kubiak Riek Woland, Kobe, Bryant, boy A, Mafe, Ken Walker,
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Speaker 2: and a few others. Let's get it going. Twenty twenty
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Speaker 2: six Seahawks defending their championship, and it's all gonna be
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Speaker 2: captured for us on HBO's Hard Knocks. First time the
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Speaker 2: Seahawks have ever been featured, only the second time a
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Speaker 2: Super Bowl champion has been featured, or at least the
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Speaker 2: first since the Ravens were Super Bowl champions. And so
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Speaker 2: this is gonna be an ex experience like we've never
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Speaker 2: had before.
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Speaker 4: It is, and I am so excited. It's going to
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Speaker 4: be just the whole thing.
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Speaker 1: I just.
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Speaker 4: I'm an eternal optimist anytime going into a sports season,
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Speaker 4: I think my teams are going to do really well.
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Speaker 4: But there's just a different feeling when your team is
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Speaker 4: the defending Super Bowl champs and you know they're still
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Speaker 4: really freaking good.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, no doubt, Yeah, probably going to be better. And
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Speaker 2: I've never covered a Seahorks training camp with them being
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Speaker 2: world champs. I got here the year after they've lost, oh,
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Speaker 2: the Super Bowl, So I've never experienced this before that
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Speaker 2: Super Bowl, and no one has experienced them on Hard
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Speaker 2: Knocks before, So the combination of the two, this will
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Speaker 2: be a unique experience, no question about it. Now Devin
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Speaker 2: Witherspoon is in negotiations, so we've been wondering if this
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Speaker 2: will be all summed up before training camp gets started tomorrow. Well,
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Speaker 2: Greg Bell has the latest on Spoon in the negotiator.
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Speaker 5: All indications are that veterans are coming in in mass,
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Speaker 5: most of them here today. The deadline to report is today,
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Speaker 5: so face to face would accelerate any remaining contract talks
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Speaker 5: and details. Wouldn't surprise me if his agents are already
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Speaker 5: in town. This should be done soon, and I mean
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Speaker 5: within days. It wouldn't surprise me if it happens over
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Speaker 5: the weekend. The Seahawks tend to make news on a
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Speaker 5: Saturday afternoon when I'm doing something else, But now we're
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Speaker 5: all going to be at Seahawks headquarters. So yeah, I
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Speaker 5: can think of Wilson's extension and Sherman's and Bobby Wagner,
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Speaker 5: and make no mistake, I'm mentioning them because Devin Witherspoon
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Speaker 5: is the modern day version of those guys. To the
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Speaker 5: value of this team, and those guys all before side
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Speaker 5: within days, I mean like one or two or three
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Speaker 5: days of camp starting. So we're talking Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, agains.
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Speaker 5: We'll decide whether it's done or not is when the
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Speaker 5: guaranteed money comes.
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Speaker 2: Toue said this earlier in the week should be the
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Speaker 2: easiest negotiation in the history of John Schneider's contractual breakdowns
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Speaker 2: with his players. I mean, I would think you could
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Speaker 2: do this multitasking, like John Schneider could get an AB
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Speaker 2: workout in while he finalizes the Witherspoon deal. Should only
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Speaker 2: take eight minutes. Good AB workout only takes a good
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Speaker 2: eight minutes, and you could multitask. It should be so
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Speaker 2: easy to do. So I have no need at all
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Speaker 2: for this to develop into any kind of distraction, not
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Speaker 2: that I'm predicting it. I don't think that it will,
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Speaker 2: but this should just get tidied up in no time flat,
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Speaker 2: easy think. So numbers are obvious. We've got two willing
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Speaker 2: parties that love each other. Yeah. I hope this doesn't
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Speaker 2: linger into training camp too long. Item number three on
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Speaker 2: the O Show. The Mariners are getting set to begin
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Speaker 2: their biggest series of the Sea so far, and they'll
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Speaker 2: be heading to Arlington, Texas for the first of four
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Speaker 2: games against the first place Texas Rangers. Pretty flimsy first
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Speaker 2: place status, they're Texas Rangers. And you know what you
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Speaker 2: do when you're a city slicker and you head into
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Speaker 2: a rowdy bar of rednecks and cowboys. You come in,
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Speaker 2: you sing that right off the bat, that we're the Mariners.
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Speaker 2: You get the Rangers on your side. Next thing you know,
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Speaker 2: you go to hostile territory and they're rooting for you.
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Speaker 2: I've seen it happen. If I've seen it happen once.
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Speaker 2: I've seen it happen once.
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Speaker 3: If I had a dollar, right, I have a dollar.
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Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, learn something from the Blues Brothers. Win them over,
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Speaker 2: like Rocky Like yeah, Like, that'll show them. Not only
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Speaker 2: do you beat them, but you get the Ranger fans
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Speaker 2: to be rooting for you by the end of the song.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, do it.
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Speaker 2: That's how you handle a hostile crowd or rednecks. They're
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Speaker 2: not really rednecks. My dad's a redneck. Okay, one half
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Speaker 2: game he separates the top two teams in MLB's most
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Speaker 2: sluggish division. The next four days will not make or
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Speaker 2: break either team. But a little late July dust up,
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Speaker 2: I like when people call it July. A little late
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Speaker 2: July dust up between contenders. That's never a bad thing,
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Speaker 2: and perhaps the Mariners can send a message that they
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Speaker 2: are in fact the team to beat in the American
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Speaker 2: League West. This weekend, Bryce Miller gets to start for US.
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Speaker 2: Left hander Mackenzie Gore is going to start for the Rangers.
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Speaker 2: First pitch is at five toh five. I'm kind of expecting.
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Speaker 2: I mean, we just had a Rangers beat Rider on yesterday,
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Speaker 2: and he's sitting here telling us he doesn't think it's
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Speaker 2: going to be that great of an atmosphere, not going
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Speaker 2: to feel like a playoff atmosphere in Texas, that Ranger
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Speaker 2: fans really don't believe in this team, that everybody's kind
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Speaker 2: of expecting the Mariners to pull away in the second half.
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Speaker 2: And he even went as far as telling us yesterday
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Speaker 2: that he thinks the Rangers probably will sell and not
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Speaker 2: even buy at the trading deadline because they realize that
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Speaker 2: they shouldn't be division winners this year.
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Speaker 3: That's sad.
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Speaker 2: So we've got two teams that are pretty broken at
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Speaker 2: this stage in the season. So my guess is nobody's
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Speaker 2: gonna seize control a squad. I have a feeling we're
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Speaker 2: gonna get here. On Monday, one team will have won two,
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Speaker 2: one team will have lost one, and we'll be talking about,
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Speaker 2: you know, probably a split of the four games. It
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Speaker 2: just feels like both teams are playing just that poorly
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Speaker 2: that I don't think anybody is just going to seize
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Speaker 2: this opportunity to take a stranglehold of the West. But
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Speaker 2: we'll see.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I just I have a hard time picturing that
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Speaker 4: this series would be any different than the other series
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Speaker 4: we've played in.
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Speaker 3: I mean, we're not just gonna go out and dominate.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think we're gonna play a game that's gonna
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Speaker 4: make us feel really great, and then we're gonna play
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Speaker 4: a game that's gonna leave us going, what the fa
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Speaker 4: We're to play a game that's gonna be like, yeah, okay,
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Speaker 4: there were some decent things and we got away with
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Speaker 4: some things, and then there will be a game that
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Speaker 4: will just someone will fart their way to a wine.
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Speaker 2: That's probably that's probably it. In the meantime, it is
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Speaker 2: trade season, believe it or not. We're just ten days
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Speaker 2: away from the trade deadline and we have not had
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Speaker 2: a move of significance. The Dodgers added a relief pitcher
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Speaker 2: from the Colorado Rockies, but he's not very good, probably
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Speaker 2: will become great for the Dodgers, but we haven't had
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Speaker 2: any moves. Jim Bowden thinks, because it's a wonky market
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Speaker 2: that it will take probably to the last two or
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Speaker 2: three days before the deadline before we really start seeing
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Speaker 2: some activity. But certainly the hornet's nest got stirred up
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Speaker 2: yesterday when it comes to the Mariners and Mariner trade
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Speaker 2: deadline rumors by Ken Rosenthal. He reported yesterday that Mariners
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Speaker 2: have tried shopping around Luis Castile on the trade market.
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Speaker 2: They can't find any takers for the veteran picture's hefty contract,
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Speaker 2: and according to Rosenthal, it has forced the Ems to
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Speaker 2: shop another starting pitcher ten days before the deadline.
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Speaker 3: You have a call in your hero, Hancock.
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Speaker 1: You're gonna be miserable the rest of your life until
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Speaker 1: you accept that.
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Speaker 4: Trust me, trust's plan this process.
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Speaker 2: Just stay here, man, that's where we want him to be.
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Speaker 2: Stay here, be a superhero Hancock.
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Speaker 4: It's like, stay here in Billy Masson as long as
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Speaker 4: you can.
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Speaker 3: That's what I want, like all the steammates to be
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Speaker 3: doing it right, just squeezing his cheeks.
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Speaker 2: Stay here as long as you well. The rumors have
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Speaker 2: shifted to a younger, better pitcher than Luis Castillo, and
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Speaker 2: maybe that was inevitable. Emerson Hancock is now walking around
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Speaker 2: Texas wondering if at any moment he's going to be
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Speaker 2: traded away from this team. After having just broken through
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Speaker 2: into becoming a legit All Star caliber starting pitcher, after
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Speaker 2: many years of struggle and climbing and clawing to get there,
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Speaker 2: He's there three point one six ERA over nineteen starts.
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Speaker 2: But Ashley, with this tricky deadline and our excess of
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Speaker 2: starting pitching and our lack of offense, the Mariners may
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Speaker 2: be forced to get creative and that may cost us
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Speaker 2: Emerson Hancock in a deal.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, and I do feel like that's such a Mariners
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Speaker 4: fan thing to have a guy that we're so excited
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Speaker 4: about and then he goes somewhere else and is just
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Speaker 4: as exciting, if not more, for them, and leaves us
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Speaker 4: sad that we lost him. I don't want Emerson Hancock
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Speaker 4: to go anywhere I was talking earlier about. You also
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Speaker 4: don't want the mentality of him and Castillo walking around Texas,
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Speaker 4: you know, thinking that they're on the trade block. I
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Speaker 4: forgot that neither of them are pitching in this series.
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Speaker 4: So when you think about that, we could have already
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Speaker 4: seen the last time Emerson Hancock pitches in a Mariner's uniform.
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Speaker 2: For sure, for sure, we hate that you've gotten to
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Speaker 2: this point. And I don't know who the leak is.
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Speaker 2: Maybe it's Jerry. I don't know why you would leak
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Speaker 2: let Ken Rosenthal leak this out. I don't know if
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Speaker 2: you're the Mariners, because I mean, I'm not saying don't
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Speaker 2: shop Castill. I'm not saying don't shop Hancock. But you're right.
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Speaker 2: You got two of your starting pitchers, one of them
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Speaker 2: saying to the other one, you know, I guess they're
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Speaker 2: going to try to get rid of me, and the
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Speaker 2: other one's going to them. Well, at least they can
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Speaker 2: get rid.
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Speaker 4: Of you, right, at least they didn't try, and now
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Speaker 4: they're mad they couldn't.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, so I don't I would there. I wouldn't think
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Speaker 2: the Mariners love this story, but I'm not surprised that
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Speaker 2: it's come to this. A Handcock trade would likely fetch
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Speaker 2: the Mariners the veteran right handed bat that they need,
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Speaker 2: and because of four more controllable years on Emerson's deal,
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Speaker 2: I would suspect they could also fetch Prospects capital as well,
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Speaker 2: like give us, say a Suzuki Cubs, since you have
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Speaker 2: excess hitting and need pitching, give us, say a Suzuki.
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Speaker 2: But that's just Hancock Suzuki for twenty twenty six. What
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Speaker 2: are you also going to give us for Hancock twenty
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Speaker 2: twenty seven through twenty thirty, since he's under four more
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Speaker 2: controllable years, You're gonna have to give us something else
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Speaker 2: for that part of Emerson Hancock. So I would not
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Speaker 2: do a straight up Hancock Suzuki trade. I don't think
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Speaker 2: that the Mariners will, but it might be the only
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Speaker 2: way to trade one of your young starting pitchers to
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Speaker 2: get that difference making bat that you seek in a
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Speaker 2: cold market where there's just not much hitting going to
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Speaker 2: be made available between now and the deadline.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, all I know is there will be few things
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Speaker 4: that will make me more upset that if they trade
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Speaker 4: Hancock and don't get enough for him height.
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Speaker 2: Him number five. It's w NBA All Star Weekend and
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Speaker 2: the Storm are going to be represented there by second
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Speaker 2: year center Dominique Malonga against Malana Deep by Dog Storm,
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Speaker 2: Lot of possession by Tom Milonda top. Can she finish?
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Speaker 2: Yes she can? Well, good call Dick Fame. That's nice
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Speaker 2: it work.
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Speaker 3: He's pretty good at this.
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Speaker 2: That's a good call right there. Second year center Dominique
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Speaker 2: Malanga has earned I mean, this isn't one of those like,
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Speaker 2: oh do they have to all be represented? Storm had
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Speaker 2: a bad year, She's not. She's been an All Star
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Speaker 2: this year, is averaging sixteen point seven rebounds and over
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Speaker 2: a block shot per game for the Storm. Just twenty
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Speaker 2: years old. At age twenty, she becomes the third youngest
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Speaker 2: WNBA All Star in history. And even though the Storm
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Speaker 2: are having a terrible year, which is fine, they're rebuilding
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Speaker 2: and now that probably leads to maybe the number one
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Speaker 2: overall pick to add to this trio of young stars
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Speaker 2: that they're developing right before our eyes. So I don't
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Speaker 2: dislike rebuilds like a lot of sports fans. I think
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Speaker 2: they are a necessary evil and they tend to get
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Speaker 2: you to where you need to be. And I think
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Speaker 2: this bad season for the Storm is going to get
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Speaker 2: them to a really special place eventually.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, just don't screw it up by starting to win
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Speaker 4: too many and then you lose that number one option. Uh.
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Speaker 2: Chicago's hosting All Star festivities, which begin tonight. The actual
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Speaker 2: game will be played tomorrow at five thirty Snowhomish Little
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Speaker 2: League is heading to the Softball World Series d Yo two.
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Speaker 2: Slave on the snow houst A League goes out head
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Speaker 2: of the Creamville North Tailer.
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Speaker 1: What a moment.
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Speaker 4: Vance into the Little League World Series Super Special the
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Speaker 4: Mom and Me Super proud.
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Speaker 2: Twelve strikeouts for Lock closes the door eleven three winners.
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Speaker 2: Let's clear something up. Danielle Laurie is a really good broadcaster.
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Speaker 2: Uh that was her fighting off her emotions right there.
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Speaker 3: And just trying not to stop.
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Speaker 2: Trying not to cry, trying to remain professional. And so
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Speaker 2: she came off like an analyst that did not know
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Speaker 2: what to say. And it's because she did not know
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Speaker 2: what to say.
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Speaker 3: How would you know what to say? You're watching?
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Speaker 4: I mean, her daughter, first of all, has just dominated
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Speaker 4: everyone they played. She struck out fourteen in one game.
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Speaker 4: She struck out twelve yesterday, and you're watching this dream
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Speaker 4: that her and her team have all tried to achieve
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Speaker 4: happen while you are supposed to be broadcasting on the air.
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Speaker 2: I conflict of interest.
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Speaker 3: Oh man. She handled it well easy.
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Speaker 2: Win eleven to three over Idaho to earn their place
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Speaker 2: in the World Series. And they won't open that until
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Speaker 2: next Sunday, August second, and it's going to be an
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Speaker 2: early morning game seven o'clock Pacific time. It'll be ten
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Speaker 2: o'clock their time in Greenville, North Carolina, but seven o'clock
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Speaker 2: our time next Sunday against Lake Mary, Florida. And you
16:48
Speaker 2: know what they say, there's something about Lake Mary.
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Speaker 3: There got to be something about them losing.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Finally, Lane Kiffin yesterday he addressed the media. Kiffn
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Speaker 2: of course, left Old Miss and probably the scummiest way possible,
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Speaker 2: you know, yeah, yeah, maybe that old Arkansas coach might say, here,
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Speaker 2: hold my dear, uh but uh. Lane Kiffin did speak
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Speaker 2: yesterday on how he now regrets his exit from Old Miss.
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Speaker 6: I changed jobs, and as I get older and I
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Speaker 6: go through things and losing both parents. I was actually
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Speaker 6: talking to Ross Dellinger and I kind of said something
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Speaker 6: that might sound kind of funny to you, but you know,
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Speaker 6: I watched the Hulk Hogan special and I realized and
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Speaker 6: I was like, we're all gonna die. And so some
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Speaker 6: of the things that we put imports down we worry about,
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Speaker 6: and what this person says in that like really aren't
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Speaker 6: going to matter. And when I lost my dad, I
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Speaker 6: started thinking that, and I really started thinking when I
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Speaker 6: grew up there were two people that I thought just
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Speaker 6: wouldn't die, my dad and Hulk Hogan. And then I
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Speaker 6: watched that special and really like, Hulk Hogan died too.
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Speaker 6: There's no way Hulk Hogan was ever going to not
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Speaker 6: wrestle him, and he did. And so it just made
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Speaker 6: me reflect really on, like I can't be so concerned
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Speaker 6: about little things and what people say in this and
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Speaker 6: you got to make decisions.
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Speaker 2: You got to go with him.
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Speaker 6: And you do things, and you make really good decisions
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Speaker 6: and you make poor decisions. And that was a poor
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Speaker 6: usage of a term that I believe, just like many
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Speaker 6: coaches that have been therefore, was factual, but over the
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Speaker 6: course of longer interview, it was bad timing and bad
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Speaker 6: usage of the words. So it is what it is.
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Speaker 6: I apologize when I said it, and moving on.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think he's a normal guy.
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Speaker 4: It's like his decision to leave and then he's like, well, yeah,
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Speaker 4: and then the fact that I distole miss on the
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Speaker 4: way out is like what he's talking about. Yeah, I
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Speaker 4: made a choice to leave, and then yeah, I was
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Speaker 4: a jerk, But I didn't ever think hulk Cogan was
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Speaker 4: going to die.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's him saying, it's not really important that I
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Speaker 2: was a jerk. Yeah, but I will apologize for being a.
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Speaker 4: Jerk because don't you feel bad my dad and hul
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Speaker 4: Cogan died.
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Speaker 3: That's basically what he's saying.
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Speaker 2: Weird. Ole Miss went to the Final four without Kiffin
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Speaker 2: calling the shots in the playoff last year. The two
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Speaker 2: teams are going to meet September nineteenth, so circle that
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Speaker 2: on your college football calendar for this upcoming year. Phil
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Speaker 2: Steele as Kiffin's LSU Tigers ranked number twenty one in
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Speaker 2: the country to start the season. Meanwhile Ole Miss ranked eighth.
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Speaker 2: This is a pretty easy one. Yeah, I'm pretty much
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Speaker 2: rooting against Lane Kiffin and LSU. Yesindy all you're long
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Speaker 2: All right? Coming up next it is training camp time.
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Speaker 2: We have more preview for you. Let's talk about the
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Speaker 2: New Faces. Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM. The
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Speaker 2: next segment's going to be about new Faces and Ashley
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Speaker 2: just whipped some song.
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Speaker 3: That's right, that's what I did.
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Speaker 2: Good job, Good morning to you. Do want to let
19:52
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19:55
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20:01
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Speaker 2: coming your way on August sixth. I've been talking an
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Speaker 2: awful lot more at any point in my life about
20:10
Speaker 2: George Thoroughgood. I mean, I've had conversations about George Thoroughgod
20:14
Speaker 2: in the past, but never so much. Yeah, a lot
20:17
Speaker 2: of conversations, a lot George Thoroughgood here lately. Uh So
20:20
Speaker 2: August sixth, Maybe go on have a bourbon, one shot,
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20:43
Speaker 2: an honorary destroyer at some point in my life.
20:47
Speaker 3: I think that's fair. I think you've talked about him
20:50
Speaker 3: enough exactly.
20:52
Speaker 2: Yeah, I spend this much time on thorough Good. I
20:54
Speaker 2: should get some sort of patch, some sort of deputies patch,
20:58
Speaker 2: like a deputy destroyer. All right, let's talk training camp
21:02
Speaker 2: starts tomorrow for the Seahawks. Remember school, Like, I mean,
21:06
Speaker 2: I don't know about you, but I was one of
21:08
Speaker 2: those kids. I didn't fight it. I loved the first
21:10
Speaker 2: day of school, loved getting back seeing my friends. I
21:13
Speaker 2: mean I lived in a rural community and so I
21:17
Speaker 2: never really got to see friends except when I played baseball.
21:20
Speaker 2: That's the only friends I got to see with those
21:22
Speaker 2: on my baseball team or those that came to the
21:24
Speaker 2: baseball fields during the summer. But getting back, especially like
21:29
Speaker 2: you know, seeing the seeing the girls, see how they changed.
21:32
Speaker 2: I mean, that was probably number one if it was
21:35
Speaker 2: family feud. What was the best thing about the first
21:37
Speaker 2: day of school when you were a kid probably was
21:39
Speaker 2: number one answer. Seeing how the girls changed over the summer. Yeah,
21:44
Speaker 2: And then number two, though I would argue, it's new faces.
21:48
Speaker 2: I would say, when you get to meet the new
21:51
Speaker 2: kids at school and find out, Hey, what do we
21:55
Speaker 2: got going here? Do we have another athlete that's joined
21:57
Speaker 2: the group that you know I'm gonna play high school
22:00
Speaker 2: ball with somewhere down the line. Do we have a
22:02
Speaker 2: new cute girl that has come into the Oh yosh,
22:06
Speaker 2: the year that Chad Stanky moved into town.
22:08
Speaker 3: Oh man, Chad Stanky.
22:10
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I'm like, hey, what's so hot about Chad Stanky? Yeah?
22:14
Speaker 2: This guy got yeah and boy was boy was he
22:17
Speaker 2: all the talk? I mean, And I don't man tell
22:19
Speaker 2: you Ashley, when I was a kid, pretty cute little boy,
22:22
Speaker 2: and the girls they fancy me. Okay, yeah, I got you.
22:25
Speaker 2: I got chased around the playground all the time by
22:27
Speaker 2: Valerie Flora than about seven others. They really wanted to
22:30
Speaker 2: touch me and things like that.
22:32
Speaker 3: Okay, and then I have that problem.
22:34
Speaker 2: Chad Stanky came into town. He stole a little bit
22:37
Speaker 2: of my thunder all of a sudden, I'm like, hey, Valerie,
22:39
Speaker 2: what happened to me? I'd like, yesterday's meet, what happened here?
22:44
Speaker 2: So new faces are a great part about the first
22:47
Speaker 2: day of school. New faces are a great part about
22:49
Speaker 2: the first day of training camp. I would think, and
22:51
Speaker 2: yet our new faces, I don't know how much they
22:55
Speaker 2: move the needle. What's excited about our team is that
22:58
Speaker 2: eighty six percent of a Super Bowl roster is back
23:04
Speaker 2: and probably going to get a little bit better, if
23:07
Speaker 2: not a lot a bit better, this upcoming season. That's
23:10
Speaker 2: the excitement going to Seahawks training camp this year, and
23:14
Speaker 2: yet the new faces, we get to know them, get
23:18
Speaker 2: to find out a little bit about them and try
23:20
Speaker 2: to figure out how they're going to work and make
23:22
Speaker 2: us better for this upcoming year. I like saying Igbinogahny,
23:28
Speaker 2: I don't know what kind of an impact he's going
23:30
Speaker 2: to have. I think Dexter Dexter Fowler, Dante Fowler Junior
23:35
Speaker 2: is going to add to our pass rush. I think
23:37
Speaker 2: he's gonna Yeah, I think he's going to be a
23:40
Speaker 2: nice piece, a nice addition to this team. But I
23:43
Speaker 2: really and I think Jadarian Price has to contribute mightily
23:49
Speaker 2: to this team. But really, the new face that we're
23:52
Speaker 2: going to discuss the most over the course of the
23:54
Speaker 2: next five weeks and probably the entire season is Brian Fleury. Yeah.
23:59
Speaker 2: Oh see, that's the new face. I mean usually usually yeah,
24:03
Speaker 2: and the schoolyard you're talking about the kids that can't
24:06
Speaker 2: those are the new faces that you're talking about. But
24:07
Speaker 2: this is like getting a new teacher, and everybody at
24:10
Speaker 2: the schoolyard's talking about, Hey, do you like mister Fleury
24:12
Speaker 2: or not? What you read on Fleury?
24:14
Speaker 4: Jes see, what do you hear what Fleury did in
24:15
Speaker 4: his class today?
24:18
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I heard. I heard Chad Stanky has a
24:21
Speaker 2: crush on him. Yeah, probably that's a rumor I started.
24:24
Speaker 3: That's good.
24:24
Speaker 2: I tried to knock or tried to knock down Stanky's
24:27
Speaker 2: machiese MO.
24:27
Speaker 3: Good for you, Yeah, yeah, because that guy had it coming.
24:30
Speaker 2: Maybe float out to the ladies that maybe he's not
24:33
Speaker 2: as manly as you think he is.
24:35
Speaker 3: Maybe he won't like you, but it's not you.
24:40
Speaker 2: But Fleury's going to be a huge topic of conversation.
24:42
Speaker 2: Hugh's going to be joining me for most of next week,
24:46
Speaker 2: and I'm sure we're going to talk about I mean,
24:48
Speaker 2: there's there is a little bit of I don't know,
24:52
Speaker 2: anxiety about it, perhaps. I mean, I don't know if
24:56
Speaker 2: it's keeping you up at night. I don't know if
24:58
Speaker 2: you're bringing it up during the dinner table, or if
25:01
Speaker 2: it outweighs whether or not I can pay the mortgage
25:04
Speaker 2: this month. But but there's got to be a little
25:08
Speaker 2: bit of anxiety about what we had last year was
25:11
Speaker 2: really good. And I do kind of like the idea
25:16
Speaker 2: of the change. I mean, there's nothing you can do.
25:17
Speaker 2: Kubrick left for a better job. You know you're not
25:20
Speaker 2: gonna lock him in the basement, So he lose. That
25:24
Speaker 2: happens all the time professional sports. You gotta find the
25:26
Speaker 2: next guy. And we still have our defensive genius. He's
25:29
Speaker 2: the head coach. He's not gonna go anywhere. And we
25:31
Speaker 2: still got our executive, our a plus executive running the show.
25:36
Speaker 2: But now you have Now you've got offense and a
25:39
Speaker 2: new voice. He's never been an offensive coordinator before, and
25:44
Speaker 2: so yeah, absolutely, there's a little bit of how good
25:48
Speaker 2: is he gonna be at this? What's he gonna do differently?
25:50
Speaker 2: How much are we going to read into some of
25:52
Speaker 2: the things that he's done differently. We're gonna overthink it all,
25:55
Speaker 2: Oh for sure, And I can't wait because I'm gonna
25:58
Speaker 2: need Hugh. I'm glad he's gonna be there first week
26:00
Speaker 2: to show me what actually is different about what he's
26:04
Speaker 2: seeing out there on the field. So that's the new
26:07
Speaker 2: face we're going to be discussing the most during training camp.
26:10
Speaker 2: And now we've got an old face to update you on.
26:14
Speaker 2: We got some breaking news to pass along. Old face
26:29
Speaker 2: in a new place. Lebron James has made his decision.
26:35
Speaker 3: Where's he going?
26:37
Speaker 2: I am pleasantly surprised by this. I was kind of
26:40
Speaker 2: hoping that this is where he was going to go.
26:43
Speaker 2: I did not like the idea of the warriors, the
26:46
Speaker 2: old farts trying to watch band together and we can
26:51
Speaker 2: do it. It's like a Clint Eastwood movie. I didn't
26:55
Speaker 2: like that. I didn't like him. I actually didn't like
26:57
Speaker 2: him going back to Cleveland. I think you've done that twice.
27:02
Speaker 4: I don't think you need to go. Yeah, you've done
27:05
Speaker 4: what you needed to do there. You don't need to
27:06
Speaker 4: go back and try it again.
27:07
Speaker 2: I wouldn't risk any of that story of yours by
27:11
Speaker 2: going back there and possibly it blows up in your face.
27:15
Speaker 2: You know, Philadelphia seventy.
27:19
Speaker 3: Six ers, Yeah, there you go.
27:21
Speaker 2: Lebron James two year, eight million dollar deal, so very obvious.
27:26
Speaker 2: He didn't sign for the money, Nope, he was just
27:28
Speaker 2: trying to find the right fit and where he could
27:31
Speaker 2: help an organization the most win a championship. I'm pleasantly surprised.
27:36
Speaker 2: I didn't think he would choose that, even though it's
27:39
Speaker 2: what I was kind of pulling for. So I think
27:42
Speaker 2: it's terrific. And I think the addition to Jalen Brown
27:45
Speaker 2: and Lebron James, to Maxie and to Edgecombe and to
27:50
Speaker 2: and now you don't have to rely so much on
27:52
Speaker 2: Joel embiid nothing that you can that's a pretty dangerous
27:57
Speaker 2: combination of players. He doesn't have to carry the load
28:01
Speaker 2: for sure, he doesn't have to be a superstar. I
28:03
Speaker 2: think he blends really well with that group. So I'm
28:06
Speaker 2: pleasantly surprised. Good choice, Broun.
28:08
Speaker 4: Yeah, I like the choice, and I also would love
28:11
Speaker 4: to have eight million dollars. B Obviously I didn't do
28:14
Speaker 4: it for the money. Like if I made a choice
28:16
Speaker 4: and someone was like, oh, she only got eight million,
28:18
Speaker 4: clearly she didn't do it for the money, wouldn't that'd
28:22
Speaker 4: be nice?
28:24
Speaker 2: Yeah, that would be good. Yeah. Yeah, Well, at least
28:32
Speaker 2: Lebron and I finally have something in common.
28:35
Speaker 3: Yep.
28:36
Speaker 2: We don't do this for they.
28:37
Speaker 3: That's right, that's right.
28:41
Speaker 2: All right. Well, I don't know we'll end up talking
28:42
Speaker 2: about that next door, go with the game plan, talking
28:45
Speaker 2: about trade season. But maybe we should spend more time
28:48
Speaker 2: on Lebron. Well, I'll leave it a mystery. We'll be
28:50
Speaker 2: back in a moment. Sports Radio ninety three point three
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Speaker 2: kJ RFM. We'll say the Mariners ABCS of the m's
29:02
Speaker 2: coming up. At nine point thirty and Kevin collabor is
29:04
Speaker 2: going to be joining us next So with this Lebron
29:08
Speaker 2: James news breaking, I suppose we could stay right here
29:11
Speaker 2: on that. And I do think it's of monster significance.
29:16
Speaker 2: I realized there are a lot of people here in
29:19
Speaker 2: Seattle that ah basketball, I don't want to hear about
29:22
Speaker 2: until he get Sonics pack. I get it. And I
29:24
Speaker 2: realized that half of Americans hate Lebron James. Don't know
29:28
Speaker 2: why it's that intense, but I do realize that, and
29:32
Speaker 2: they are already tired of the story of Lebron James
29:36
Speaker 2: and felt that he milked this this free agency process.
29:40
Speaker 2: I mean, there's a way to criticize him. People find
29:43
Speaker 2: a way to criticize him. He didn't need to be
29:46
Speaker 2: in any hurry because he only took only Ashley eight
29:51
Speaker 2: million dollars over two years, which is pretty much league
29:53
Speaker 2: minimum now in the NBA. So the only reason there
29:57
Speaker 2: there's any reason to be in a hurry is to
30:01
Speaker 2: before the money drives up, like you want to go.
30:04
Speaker 2: You want to make sure that who's ever got money
30:06
Speaker 2: to spend, y're going to spend as much as they
30:08
Speaker 2: possibly can on you before they've capped themselves out. Now
30:12
Speaker 2: that's the only reason being in a hurry as a
30:14
Speaker 2: free agent. If you were in his situation and you're
30:17
Speaker 2: already a billionaire, you can sit there and say, well,
30:21
Speaker 2: let's see how the market plays out, Let's see what
30:23
Speaker 2: kind of moves or may what team do I want
30:24
Speaker 2: to join? And he decided to join the Philadelphia seventy
30:28
Speaker 2: six ers. So I do believe it's a really big deal.
30:31
Speaker 2: I think back to when I was on the air
30:34
Speaker 2: when Wayne Gretzky was traded and before you joke, I'm
30:38
Speaker 2: not that old, not the first time. When he was
30:42
Speaker 2: traded at Edmonton to the Los Angeles Kings. That that,
30:47
Speaker 2: I mean, that stopped countries, that shut Canada down. I mean,
30:51
Speaker 2: that was the best hockey player ever in his prime
30:58
Speaker 2: heading out of not just Edmonton, but heading out of
31:02
Speaker 2: Canada going to America. But that one overwhelmed, and not
31:08
Speaker 2: just to America, but to an organization, to Hollywood, the
31:12
Speaker 2: glitz and glamour, to La Why are they even playing
31:16
Speaker 2: hockey in La? Question? And certainly no history whatsoever. Had
31:22
Speaker 2: he gone to the Boston Bruins or the Detroit Red Wings,
31:25
Speaker 2: maybe a Canadian could understand that. But he went to
31:28
Speaker 2: Los Angeles to play for the Kings and be with
31:31
Speaker 2: his wife. And you know that's the that's the move.
31:34
Speaker 2: That's who we're losing. Canada's favorite son too. Now that
31:39
Speaker 2: was that. I mean, not shut down countries. But I'll
31:41
Speaker 2: tell you this, even when he was old and way
31:45
Speaker 2: past being Wayne Gretzky, the great one, when he got traded.
31:49
Speaker 2: I was on the air when he got traded from
31:53
Speaker 2: the Kings to the Saint Louis Bous. People don't even
31:55
Speaker 2: remember he played for this Coyotes. No, he got traded
31:59
Speaker 2: to the St. Louis Blues. And I was on the air,
32:02
Speaker 2: and believe me, and hockey wasn't even as popular then
32:05
Speaker 2: as it is now. And think about how little compared
32:09
Speaker 2: to football and baseball we talk about hockey. So back
32:14
Speaker 2: then it was even less. But I can tell you
32:16
Speaker 2: this from a national host perspective, everything shut down, Like
32:23
Speaker 2: everything else that was happening in the world, we stopped
32:26
Speaker 2: covering and for the next twenty four hours it was
32:30
Speaker 2: non stop. Wayne Gretzky's going to the Saint Louis Blues.
32:35
Speaker 2: That was the journalistic decision at that point that was made,
32:39
Speaker 2: and it's all anyone wanted to talk about or hear
32:41
Speaker 2: about he what even the same player, So same thing
32:44
Speaker 2: applies here to Lebron James. He's not the same player
32:47
Speaker 2: he was when he went from Cleveland to Miami, right,
32:50
Speaker 2: not same player he was when he went from Miami
32:54
Speaker 2: back to Cleveland or Cleveland to the Lakers. But he's
32:57
Speaker 2: still Lebron James. He's actually still really good. And so
33:03
Speaker 2: when Lebron James moves, even if it is for what
33:06
Speaker 2: we know is the final chapter in his legendary career,
33:09
Speaker 2: at least we're assuming it's going to be. I mean,
33:12
Speaker 2: it's monster news that he's changing uniforms and probably writing
33:16
Speaker 2: his last chapter of his career with the Philadelphia seventy
33:20
Speaker 2: six ers. And I love the team that he chose.
33:22
Speaker 2: I think that he chose it for all the right reasons.
33:25
Speaker 2: There's no other reason to choose Philadelphia except that's a
33:29
Speaker 2: really good team, and I think I might be able
33:31
Speaker 2: to make the difference and then getting over the hump
33:33
Speaker 2: beating the Knicks, winning the East, and maybe win another
33:37
Speaker 2: NBA championship. I even love his reasons for it.
33:39
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, and.
33:40
Speaker 4: Especially because he's made it very clear that his family's
33:43
Speaker 4: so important and he doesn't want to move them around
33:45
Speaker 4: a bunge. And his daughter's in school and he wants
33:46
Speaker 4: her to be able to stay in school. So if
33:48
Speaker 4: you're gonna move, be far away. And I don't know
33:52
Speaker 4: if the family's moving with him or what, but you'd
33:54
Speaker 4: better be doing it, yeah, so that you can try
33:56
Speaker 4: to win a championship and make the right And I
33:58
Speaker 4: think that's the right choice. I think he's got a
34:00
Speaker 4: great team around him, and I think they'll be real
34:03
Speaker 4: good and real fun to watch.
34:04
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so. I don't think Cleveland. I think
34:07
Speaker 2: he realistically looked at that and like they've got a
34:09
Speaker 2: good team, and they've got Harden's a really good player,
34:12
Speaker 2: and Mitchell's a great player. But they're so limited defensively.
34:17
Speaker 2: And I'm not the defensive player that I used to be.
34:19
Speaker 2: And if I try to be the defensive guy, I'm
34:22
Speaker 2: going to end I'm forty two, I'm gonna end up
34:24
Speaker 2: banged up. I'm not gonna make it through the season.
34:27
Speaker 2: I'm more of an offensive weapon who will at least
34:30
Speaker 2: not embarrass you on defense. I can't join a team
34:33
Speaker 2: that has two defensive embarrassments on it. Otherwise we're not
34:37
Speaker 2: gonna be able to stop anybody. So I think that
34:39
Speaker 2: was a good decision, and I think he did choose
34:41
Speaker 2: when he went to Los Angeles, there was more to
34:43
Speaker 2: just basketball. That was about like getting into Hollywood and
34:46
Speaker 2: making movies and everything else. I think there was more
34:50
Speaker 2: of an agenda than just basketball. This just feels like
34:53
Speaker 2: where do I want to end? Where do I'm going
34:54
Speaker 2: to enjoy playing basketball? Where can I be on a
34:56
Speaker 2: really good team, Where can I make a difference and
34:59
Speaker 2: maybe win another changeampionship. If that went into the decision,
35:02
Speaker 2: I think that's the perfect decision. Philadelphia, Ye all right,
35:05
Speaker 2: Kevin collabro is going to join us next. He's been
35:08
Speaker 2: in the news all week long. So Ashley and I
35:12
Speaker 2: are got a grillam Next Sports Radio ninety three point
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