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Chuck & Buck 6-12 Hour 3: The Ocho, Spencer Hawes live from Chicago? And the Mariners are on the road too! · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: Guaranteed human It's time for the O Shoe, the best
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  Speaker 1: twelve minutes of eight minutes of radio from brought to
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  Speaker 1: you by the rich complex flavor of Pendleton Whiskey weather
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  Speaker 1: By Please drink.
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  Speaker 2: Responsibly America used in a sentence, America is going to
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  Speaker 2: win the World Cup.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, that morning, the green jacket dress.
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  Speaker 2: Right now, anders Hurst is on the phone line shaking
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  Speaker 2: his head saying no, that's not gonna sorry.
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  Speaker 3: I couldn't control myself. I was like, I'm gonna wear
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  Speaker 3: the green jacket.
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  Speaker 4: Everyone's gonna be so feel so stupid that I'm so smart.
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  Speaker 2: Joining us now on the program is one of our
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  Speaker 2: two soccer experts here at Sports Radio ninety three point
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  Speaker 2: three kJ R FM. It is great to have anders
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  Speaker 2: Hurst join us to start the OCHO here today. Happy
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  Speaker 2: world cupping to you, sir, Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Good morning guys.
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  Speaker 6: Appreciate you having me on.
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  Speaker 5: I do.
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  Speaker 2: I will say I'm wearing my US men's national team.
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  Speaker 7: Jersey to it right now as we speak, so it
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  Speaker 7: is being well represented. And and you know, I subscribe
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  Speaker 7: to the theory that Softy has in the afternoon where
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  Speaker 7: if you're gonna kick off the show to kind of
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  Speaker 7: like bring a guest on to kick off the show,
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  Speaker 7: you better be a damn good guest. And I think
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  Speaker 7: that same theory applies to the O Show, does it not?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: I agree, Okay, yeah, yeah, And we couldn't get anybody else.
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  Speaker 6: So yeah, that's fair.
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  Speaker 2: All right, So let's go ahead and deal with my
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  Speaker 2: outlandish statement that you overheard while you were on hold
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  Speaker 2: the does the does America have any chance of winning
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  Speaker 2: it all?
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  Speaker 7: It's tough to say they have much of a chance
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  Speaker 7: to win it all. I do believe they will go
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  Speaker 7: on a kind of a magical run as kind of
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  Speaker 7: the the phrase that I've been using. Think of it
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  Speaker 7: kind of like a Cinderella story. In the NCAA tournament, right,
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  Speaker 7: the Florida Gulf Coast never win at all.
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  Speaker 5: It's it's like.
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  Speaker 7: They can get to the Elite eight sometimes or even
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  Speaker 7: maybe a Final four, like the George Masons of the world.
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  Speaker 6: But I feel like.
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  Speaker 2: So that's what the US team is like a twelve
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  Speaker 2: or a thirteen seed in the NCAA tournament.
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  Speaker 6: Is that what you're equating it to.
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  Speaker 7: I'd probably say more like a nine or a ten seed.
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  Speaker 7: But yeah, in that same realm they are ranked. I
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  Speaker 7: think number fifteen or sixteen in the world, so that
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  Speaker 7: would I guess translate to a little bit lower of
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  Speaker 7: a seed than that.
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  Speaker 5: But in terms of.
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  Speaker 7: Soccer, we've talked about it before. There's only been eight
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  Speaker 7: champions total in what almost one hundred year tournament. So
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  Speaker 7: it's just something that the top, top, top teams more
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  Speaker 7: often than not win. You rarely get the actual, you know,
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  Speaker 7: Cinderella story winning the tournament, but you can definitely get
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  Speaker 7: a nice run out of it, and that will be
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  Speaker 7: a positive. I'm not saying that that wouldn't be an
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  Speaker 7: amazing experience as a US men's national team.
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  Speaker 2: So what about tonight, Let's just take this one step
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  Speaker 2: at a time. What do you think of this matchup
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  Speaker 2: tonight with Paraguay.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I think it.
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  Speaker 7: First of all, you must win for the US. It's
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  Speaker 7: hard to say that in the first game of the
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  Speaker 7: season or the season, first game of the tournament, but
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  Speaker 7: it's one of those where if you were to kind
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  Speaker 7: of either draw or lose this game, you put immense
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  Speaker 7: pressure on yourself in the USA Australia match in Seattle,
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  Speaker 7: because Turkey is the second best team in this group,
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  Speaker 7: maybe even the best, depending on how you look at it,
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  Speaker 7: it's having to go into that third game needing a
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  Speaker 7: result to get out of the group would be very stressful,
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  Speaker 7: and I think there would be something where the pressure
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  Speaker 7: would be easily mounted on the boys. But Paraguay's a
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  Speaker 7: very winnable game. So that's the other reason why it's
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  Speaker 7: a must win is because you should be winning this game.
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  Speaker 7: All the expectations on this team is that they are
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  Speaker 7: going to make a run, so that would be easily
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  Speaker 7: warted if they weren't able to take care of the
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  Speaker 7: Paraguays of the world. However, I will say the champions
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  Speaker 7: of the last tournament, Argentina in twenty twenty two, they
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  Speaker 7: played their first game of the tournament against Saudi Arabia,
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  Speaker 7: probably a worse team than Paraguay, and they lost and
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  Speaker 7: they ended up going on to win the tournament. So
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  Speaker 7: there have been instances where really good teams lose their
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  Speaker 7: first game to winnable opponents and then they kind of
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  Speaker 7: figure it out after that. So but I think for
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  Speaker 7: the US they need they need to kind of start
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  Speaker 7: off on the right foot here tonight.
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  Speaker 2: Brad Evans told me earlier this week just how important
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  Speaker 2: and I had underestimated it. It is to have one
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  Speaker 2: of those like superstar players. You can't win the World
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  Speaker 2: Cup without one of those guys. I've been hearing about
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  Speaker 2: this Christian Pulisic for years. Is he one of those guys?
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  Speaker 6: Yet?
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  Speaker 7: I wouldn't put him in the category of like maybe
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  Speaker 7: a top ten player in the world, but he always
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  Speaker 7: kind of steps up his game, you know, during the
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  Speaker 7: World Cup for the US men's national team, and I
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  Speaker 7: feel like he's at the perfect moment in his career
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  Speaker 7: to kind of break out into one of those types
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  Speaker 7: of players, Like he's not the Liono Messi, Chris Cianno,
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  Speaker 7: Ronaldo Killian and Babe those type of world superstars just yet.
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  Speaker 7: But I feel like he actually gets relatively underrated across Europe.
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  Speaker 7: I mean, he played for Chelsea, he played for Dormans
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  Speaker 7: and big teams. Now he plays for AC Milan in Italy,
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  Speaker 7: and I feel like he was actually a really good
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  Speaker 7: player for a lot of those teams, but just because
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  Speaker 7: he's American kind of gets overlooked a little bit. Just
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  Speaker 7: I don't know why, it's just kind of how it goes.
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  Speaker 7: But I feel like Polisick is to the point where,
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  Speaker 7: all right, this is kind of a make or break
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  Speaker 7: tournament for him. If he were to kind of on
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  Speaker 7: home soil, breakout and show that he can, you know,
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  Speaker 7: play with the big boys, so to speak, and kind
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  Speaker 7: of jump himself into that conversation, then we can start
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  Speaker 7: to kind of dream.
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  Speaker 8: A little bit more.
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  Speaker 7: As US men's national team.
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  Speaker 2: Fans, Well, your son is getting ready for his first
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  Speaker 2: ever World Cup. He is half Argentine, he is half American,
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  Speaker 2: so he's listening right now. Who is your pick to
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  Speaker 2: win it all in your son's first ever World Cup?
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  Speaker 7: My pick to win it all is is Argentina. I
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  Speaker 7: think they're going to go back to back. I don't
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  Speaker 7: think they have as good of a team in twenty
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  Speaker 7: twenty two, but a lot of the same players, a
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  Speaker 7: lot of the same chemistry and MESSI will go back
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  Speaker 7: to back and finish off his career and right off
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  Speaker 7: into the sunset.
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  Speaker 2: All right, man, great stuff, Thank you very much. Have
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  Speaker 2: a blast with it.
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  Speaker 6: Enjoy at all.
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  Speaker 2: I know it ramps up here today and we will
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  Speaker 2: be bugging you a lot this month.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, no, I will be bugged by more than you guys.
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  Speaker 7: It's just going to be a part of the gig.
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  Speaker 7: With everything going on in the month long festival of football.
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  Speaker 7: But I hope I sufficed in kicking off the jochos.
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  Speaker 7: I like Softy's theory. Have you better be a damn
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  Speaker 7: good guest.
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  Speaker 2: You are a damn good guest today. You can take
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  Speaker 2: that home with you, all right, Okay, all right? And
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  Speaker 2: joining us right here on Chuck and Buck in the
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  Speaker 2: morning again us Paraguay tonight six o'clock coverage right here
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  Speaker 2: on the Mothership Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM.
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  Speaker 2: You'll be hearing from Brad Evans in a cast of
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  Speaker 2: thousands as we deliver for you a ton of World
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  Speaker 2: Cup games, both here on ninety three point three KJRFM
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  Speaker 2: and also our sister station nine fifty. So this is
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  Speaker 2: where you're coming to hear all of the World Cup action.
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  Speaker 2: But we've got seven other items to get to in
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  Speaker 2: our O show. Seahawks Mandatory Mini Camp came to an
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  Speaker 2: end yesterday, which means that the Seahawks twenty twenty six
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  Speaker 2: offseason program came to an end yesterday. Greg Bell was
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  Speaker 2: with us on the program. An hour ago, Mike McDonald
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  Speaker 2: decided to give away the championship rings to the players.
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  Speaker 2: He and John Schneider organizationally deciding now's the time. We'll
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  Speaker 2: have a big party tonight. Everybody gets their Super Bowl rings,
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  Speaker 2: and I think there was a message sent by Mike
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  Speaker 2: McDonald and crew about giving them their rings.
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  Speaker 9: Now.
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  Speaker 6: Greg Bell agrees there is.
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  Speaker 9: A natural logic to this. This and the player Gray.
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  Speaker 5: Is able to talked about this yesterday.
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  Speaker 9: How this doing it yes last night is a natural
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  Speaker 9: break for Okay, we're putting everything behind us now in June,
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  Speaker 9: so that when we go in July, it's for twenty
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  Speaker 9: twenty six and it's a fresh start and it's about
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  Speaker 9: a new team and new challenges and it's not some
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  Speaker 9: And they keep saying this, and they're starting to parrot
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  Speaker 9: Mike Maton. It's not about repeating and doing it again,
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  Speaker 9: It's about.
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  Speaker 5: Doing it this year. Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: I love this.
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  Speaker 2: I honestly cannot recall when other teams have given their
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  Speaker 2: players their championship rings.
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  Speaker 6: Maybe this has been going on for.
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  Speaker 2: Years, but this is how I would do it your
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  Speaker 2: last time together in your off season program to me, Ashley,
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  Speaker 2: it's a gesture of all right, this is it. This
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  Speaker 2: is your reward for twenty twenty five. The next time
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  Speaker 2: I see you, it's all about twenty twenty six. I
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  Speaker 2: don't want to hear about last season when we reconvene
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  Speaker 2: on July twenty fifth. Yeah, I would agree.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's great.
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  Speaker 4: Put this year in the past, have its proper celebration,
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  Speaker 4: have some time to go home, enjoy your ring show everybody,
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  Speaker 4: and then come back in July and it's back to business.
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  Speaker 3: I did a Google of the Rams twenty twenty two.
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  Speaker 4: When they got it, it was July twenty first, so
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  Speaker 4: they did it. They gave them heading into training camp,
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  Speaker 4: right before training camp like this better.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, me too.
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  Speaker 4: I don't want to go into the next season thinking
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  Speaker 4: about what we did last season unless you were terrible
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  Speaker 4: and you're using it as motivation. But if you are
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  Speaker 4: the best of the best, you should not be relying
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  Speaker 4: on that to get you through the next season.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I know it feels like, oh man, four
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  Speaker 2: or five weeks without football, Well, we're still gonna have football.
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  Speaker 6: There's still gonna be some stories broken.
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  Speaker 2: Witherspoon's probably going to get a deal in the next
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  Speaker 2: four or five weeks that we're going to have to monitor.
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  Speaker 6: But we're not that far away.
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  Speaker 2: We're five weeks away, five and a half weeks away
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  Speaker 2: from the start of training camp. It starts on July
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  Speaker 2: twenty fifth, and this year a different T camp than
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  Speaker 2: ever before, not just because you're returning champs, but Hard
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  Speaker 2: Knocks is going to be covering this team, so that's
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  Speaker 2: going to be a daily conversation for us.
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  Speaker 4: Which I had actually kind of forgotten about. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: I was when it came out. I was excited. I
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  Speaker 4: know that there's obviously negative sides to it, but overall,
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  Speaker 4: I'm excited to get a little bit more of an
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  Speaker 4: insight into what's going on there and just see all
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  Speaker 4: the personalities. And I'm excited for other people to see
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  Speaker 4: the personalities because this is a team of great people,
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  Speaker 4: great personalities.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah yeah, all right, so yes, there we go.
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  Speaker 2: We get a little break for the player's mandatory mini
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  Speaker 2: camp coming to an end, and then training camp starts
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  Speaker 2: on July twenty fifth. The hockey season's just about over Carolina.
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  Speaker 2: Our Hurricanes are one win away from being Stanley Cup champions.
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  Speaker 3: I had a one time to pass and even that
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  Speaker 3: one wasn't solid contact setch the cough again.
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  Speaker 6: Back to cost despair systems, pressure.
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  Speaker 2: Touch the bath Stars, hoy toash them top power play
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  Speaker 2: goal to one Carolina lead. Oh man, what an energy,
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  Speaker 2: What an atmosphere, both in Las Vegas and in Charlotte
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  Speaker 2: throughout this entire series.
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  Speaker 6: That's uh.
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  Speaker 2: Sean McDonogh on the call at ESPN Last Night, ABC
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  Speaker 2: Last Night, svetch Nikoff broke a one to one tie
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  Speaker 2: in the second period, part of a stretch of four
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  Speaker 2: consecutive Hurricane goals. They win against the Golden Knights by
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  Speaker 2: a final score of four to two. And that was
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  Speaker 2: the most lopsided game of the entire series. And I
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  Speaker 2: know they were up four to one, but it was
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  Speaker 2: still just so evenly fought throughout the entire contest.
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  Speaker 4: Well, and if the series has taught us anything it's
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  Speaker 4: that no lead is safe. I mean, look at what
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  Speaker 4: happened in last Saturday when Carolina came back and scored
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  Speaker 4: four goals in the third period to tie it and
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  Speaker 4: send it to overtime. So yeah, you're on the edge
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  Speaker 4: of your seat this entire series. But it is funny
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  Speaker 4: that I was thinking the same thing. I was the
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  Speaker 4: least exciting game that we've had, and it was still
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  Speaker 4: an exciting game.
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  Speaker 5: Awesome.
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  Speaker 2: Jordan Stall, I don't know why he decided to become
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  Speaker 2: the best hockey player in the world. But it's worked out, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: really well for the Hurricanes. That Yeah, he scored another
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  Speaker 2: goal last night, so Carolina wins at four to two.
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  Speaker 2: Game six will be Sunday.
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  Speaker 6: That could be it.
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  Speaker 2: We could be watching the Carolina Hurricanes hoisting Lord Stanley's Cup.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, Vegas head coach John Tortorelli, who's never shy
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  Speaker 2: of giving us a quote, says he's not checking out
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  Speaker 2: of his room in Charlotte, his way of guaranteeing that
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  Speaker 2: the Knights will force a Game seven and be back
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  Speaker 2: in the Southeast to try to win the Stanley Cup Championship.
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  Speaker 2: One other note from hockey Nikita Kucheroff of Tampa Bay
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  Speaker 2: to me, there's a little bit of a surprise. I
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  Speaker 2: thought this was going to McKinnon or McDavid, but it's
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  Speaker 2: koucher Off that wins his second MVP award, edging out
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  Speaker 2: McDavid and McKinnon in a very close vote. So you
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  Speaker 2: didn't help me at all in my green jacket quest.
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  Speaker 2: Pucheroff the son of a biscuit. Yeah, but he did
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  Speaker 2: win a trophy for himself. Very selfish, another selfish hockey player.
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  Speaker 4: I'm just surprised that Nathan McKinnon didn't win it. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: the Avalanche were so good and he was such an
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  Speaker 4: important part of that.
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  Speaker 2: I think he's the best player in the so good
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  Speaker 2: NBA Finals. Game five will be tomorrow. It could end
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  Speaker 2: tomorrow in San Antonio and the Spurs man They're gonna
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  Speaker 2: have a lot different lot in life. But they blew
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  Speaker 2: a twenty nine point second half lead in Game four
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  Speaker 2: for Jail and Bruntson allow him to operate at the top.
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  Speaker 2: One o one, Brunson gets it fires up at three shot.
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  Speaker 6: No, God, but that's gone. It's gone. It's gone. Look
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  Speaker 6: one point two.
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  Speaker 3: Ermado, next take the lead.
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  Speaker 6: Oh je No, that's one O seven, one o six
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  Speaker 6: Padlo Maratha Garden.
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  Speaker 5: They can't pull lieve it.
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  Speaker 2: Also ABC there with the highlight. How do you come
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  Speaker 2: back from blowing a twenty nine points second half lead
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  Speaker 2: in a finals game? And I'm not talking about coming
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  Speaker 2: back from it tomorrow night. I mean ever, I don't.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not sure they'll come back from it.
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  Speaker 6: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I mean that's probably me being a prisoner of the moment.
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  Speaker 2: Spencer All is probably listening right now and can't wait
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  Speaker 2: to give me a two cents of his opinion coming
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  Speaker 2: up here at a thirty But three days later after that,
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  Speaker 2: I think it's one of the biggest, if not the
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  Speaker 2: biggest choke job of my life. And now you're going
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  Speaker 2: to try and come back and win three days later.
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  Speaker 6: Good luck.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know. You're definitely never gonna forget it,
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  Speaker 3: that's for sure.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, if you can find a way to use
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  Speaker 4: it as motivation and not as a way that of like,
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  Speaker 4: I can't believe we did that.
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  Speaker 3: How on earth are we ever going to play basketball again?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Well, game five Saturday night, and it will be in
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  Speaker 2: San Antonio, Texas, so at least I'll have the home
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  Speaker 2: crowd on their side, even though I'm sure Ben Stiller,
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  Speaker 2: Shalla May, Jenner, Taylor, They'll probably all be there live. Probably. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: let's go to the Mariners. They truly did settle for
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  Speaker 2: a split in Baltimore. They lost seven to five last night,
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  Speaker 2: all because of a big third inning from the Orioles
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  Speaker 2: against Brian Wu who was dominating through two innings and
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  Speaker 2: then all of a sudden in the third. And it
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  Speaker 2: wasn't a bunch of loops and leaders. He got crushed
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  Speaker 2: by a series of Orioles hitters. He ends up leaving
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  Speaker 2: the mound and the third inning down six to one,
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  Speaker 2: and he took it hard after the game.
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  Speaker 10: I don't know. I'm getting pretty tired of trying to
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  Speaker 10: come up with reasons or yeah, excuss perlatives.
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  Speaker 7: I'm just.
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  Speaker 5: I'm tired of sucking it is.
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  Speaker 10: I don't you know, I said, I don't have the
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  Speaker 10: answers I'm looking for him.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Well, the answer is, you only have one effective pitch
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  Speaker 2: right now, and if you just lean on a fastball
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  Speaker 2: and nobody respects anything else, they're going to hammer it.
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  Speaker 2: And that's what's happening to him right now. I think
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  Speaker 2: he's great. I think he'll rebound from this. But he
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  Speaker 2: had a two point two five on April nineteenth. He
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  Speaker 2: now has a four point two eight ERA and it's
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  Speaker 2: all trouble on the road. At home, he's been fine.
• 16:09
  Speaker 2: He is getting crushed on the road for whatever reason.
• 16:11
  Speaker 4: Yeah, last night's third inning was the worst of his
• 16:14
  Speaker 4: entire career, his entire career.
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: On the bright side of things, Dan Wilson got his wish.
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: He rested his bullpen for an entire two games once
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: we fell behind. It seemed like it was the only
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: objective the last couple of nights, but the thirty six
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: and thirty four Mariners should be well rested for Friday
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: in Washington, d C. The bullpen should have received its
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: vaccinations and good to go on Friday tonight against the Nationals.
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: The series starts at three forty five. It'll be Bryce
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: Miller for US and right hander Zach Lettel will pitch
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: for the upstart Nationals. Cal Ralegh was in Tacoma yesterday
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: and hit another home run. It's his third home run
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: in two reab games for they Raineers. Now I'm supposed
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: to be in Tacoma tonight broadcasting the game, and I
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: hope it's the see cow. If you need a better car,
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: goesy cow for the best by bar, goesy cow.
• 17:11
  Speaker 6: If he wants your gam slowly. If you want to
• 17:13
  Speaker 6: say some dough with gussy cow and bussy cow, busy count.
• 17:16
  Speaker 6: If he mean modeling, he made me, goesy cow.
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, mosy cow. Save some money, say some time, say
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: a nicol, save a dime.
• 17:25
  Speaker 6: Howard presses every.
• 17:26
  Speaker 5: Time, goesy cow.
• 17:27
  Speaker 6: Dam oh man.
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: If you didn't have enough centive before, now he's gonna
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: give you a good car deal on top of it all.
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: I mean, that guy really can do everything.
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: Uh does he look ready? Maybe kind of looks ready
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: to me, But that doesn't mean the Mariners are prepared
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: to activate their all world catcher, or then again, maybe
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: it does. The plan was for him to stay in Tacoma,
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: have the day off tonight, and likely go back to
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: back games behind the plate Saturday and Sunday before activation
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: and time for the upcoming home stands starting Tuesday against Baltimore.
• 17:58
  Speaker 6: But as I've mentioned a couple of times.
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: This week, I don't want to keep wasting Cayl home
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: runs in Tacoma.
• 18:05
  Speaker 6: I wouldn't hate the idea.
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: If I found out later today that he was on
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: a private jet to Washington, DC and was in the
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: lineup tonight, I wouldn't hate it.
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: I wouldn't hate it at all.
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: But at the same time, if I would also understand
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: if they want to keep him home, I mean, they're
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: coming back there just in DC for the weekend, and
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: then they have a nice long home stand, so I
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: could also see if they want to, Yeah, you know what,
• 18:28
  Speaker 4: get some rest. You're doing well, We'll use you, keep
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: you warm down here in Tacoma.
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: And then send you on up North.
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: I think that's what they're going to do. I don't
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: even know if I'll get to see him tonight, much
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: less see him play. But we will be on the
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: broadcast call tonight, Riley paying myself, so check it out.
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: I'm sure Kyl will be a huge topic of conversation.
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: College World Series starts today. The face of the College
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: World Series, the pride and joy of Oho Nebraska, Kyle
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: Peterson was on with as yesterday as he is annually,
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: and of course the SEC dominate. It's the field this
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: year at the tournament, and for good reason. They're dominating
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: college baseball right now.
• 19:05
  Speaker 8: Well, when you've had a team play for the national
• 19:08
  Speaker 8: championship being the finals sixteen to the last seventeen years,
• 19:10
  Speaker 8: that's pretty loud. Nobody's ever had five No conference has
• 19:13
  Speaker 8: ever had five teams here until this year in the
• 19:15
  Speaker 8: SEC has done that. So and one side of the
• 19:18
  Speaker 8: bracket is all SEC, so they're guaranteed that another team
• 19:21
  Speaker 8: in the finals. It is the most complete league in
• 19:24
  Speaker 8: college baseball. And it's not debatable. And if it wasn't
• 19:27
  Speaker 8: before this now, is there somebody who can beat them?
• 19:29
  Speaker 5: Sure?
• 19:30
  Speaker 8: Absolutely? North Carolina's loaded West Virginia I think can make
• 19:33
  Speaker 8: a real run. Those are teams on the other side
• 19:36
  Speaker 8: that I think can potentially get to the finals that
• 19:38
  Speaker 8: are not all this. But still there's no there's no
• 19:42
  Speaker 8: league that commits to the sport more. There's no set
• 19:45
  Speaker 8: of I would say, you know, collective fan bases that
• 19:49
  Speaker 8: cares about the sport more. And there's a reason why,
• 19:52
  Speaker 8: there's a reason why they lift the trophy more than
• 19:54
  Speaker 8: anybody else.
• 19:54
  Speaker 5: They care.
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: Well, that's great because they're no longer college football's power.
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: So I got to have gotta go somewhere.
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: Peterson says, Texas or Georgia is there the team to beat,
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: And they actually face off against.
• 20:09
  Speaker 6: One another tomorrow night at five o'clock.
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: But the tournament gets started today at eleven o'clock and Omaha, Nebraska.
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: It'll be the Cinderella team in the field of eight,
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: Troy taking on West Virginia, who will lead the weekend
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: in alcohol consumption.
• 20:24
  Speaker 6: And finally, great story.
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: Here in Washington featuring two twins who have taken over
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: the track and field world and they actually wear the
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: Washington Huskies purple. The older fairy instantly knew that these
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: were not ordinary twins.
• 20:42
  Speaker 5: But magical wizards.
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: Yes they must be. Let me introduce you to the
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: Mole sisters of Montlake. Twin sisters Amanda and Hannah Mole
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: are the two best pole vaulters in the sport right
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: now help their record setting. In fact, Amanda Mole made
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: national news last night breaking the old time record for
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: pole vault clearing fifteen feet ten and a half inches,
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: and her new record breaks her sisters now old record.
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: Oh and has oh by the way, vaulted the Huskies
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: into first place at the NCAA Track and Field Outdoor Championships.
• 21:22
  Speaker 6: But I think there's a little more.
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: Track and field to go, so great accomplishment. Congratulations, and
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: maybe the sister comes back at another date and breaks
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: her twins record. We shall see. But it does officially
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: mark the only time in the history of parenthood where
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: mom and dad are proud to hear that their college
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: aged daughters are happy and excited on the pole.
• 21:48
  Speaker 6: It's never happened before, never before, not until now.
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: All right, Coming up next on the radio program, it's
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: time to check in with Spencer Hawes, and I'm going
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: to tell you something.
• 21:57
  Speaker 6: Ashley and I have been worried sick about him.
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: Sports Radio and TY three point three KJRFM.
• 22:08
  Speaker 6: All right, we couldn't get.
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: Through this week without checking in with our guys.
• 22:11
  Speaker 6: Spencer Hawes.
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: He's been our NBA insider throughout the last two postseasons,
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: and this year obviously it's been a little bit of
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: a special report with him following around his very good friend,
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: one of his best friends in the world, Mitch Johnson,
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: and Mitch Johnson's quest to win an NBA championship. So
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: here we are in the NBA Finals, and yeah, I
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: want to check in on how Mitch Johnson's doing through Spencer,
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: but first we have to check in on just how
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: Spencer's doing.
• 22:37
  Speaker 6: Are you holding up all right?
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: After that twenty nine point blow blown lead in Game four?
• 22:43
  Speaker 6: You okay, we're worried about you.
• 22:46
  Speaker 11: I've been better parlay that into a bachelor party in Chicago,
• 22:50
  Speaker 11: so we're ready for the bounce back in game five.
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, what was it like? I mean, just kind of
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: describe it from your seat. The devas that that game,
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: you know how it laid waste to San Antonio a
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: couple of nights ago.
• 23:08
  Speaker 11: It's you know, it was obviously tough to watch. I
• 23:13
  Speaker 11: kind of think it's like when people talk about going broke,
• 23:15
  Speaker 11: they say it happens slow, and then.
• 23:17
  Speaker 5: It happens fast.
• 23:18
  Speaker 11: It's like you could kind of see it percolating. And
• 23:22
  Speaker 11: once once the Knicks were kind of able to get
• 23:25
  Speaker 11: past that fourteen fifteen, it was like the floodgates open.
• 23:30
  Speaker 11: Then h man, that's a there's there's you know, ten
• 23:35
  Speaker 11: different plays that if they go the other way, it's
• 23:38
  Speaker 11: too too. Yeah, everybody's talking about the spur. They're going back.
• 23:42
  Speaker 11: They got home core back and that's what makes sports great.
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: What was the reason biggest reason in your estimation for
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: the collapse?
• 23:54
  Speaker 11: Shot selection. I think especially in the fourth quarter. You know,
• 23:58
  Speaker 11: young guys that have proven they can fight back, but
• 24:01
  Speaker 11: have also shown that they're not necessarily the best at
• 24:05
  Speaker 11: at closing teams out and put them away when they're down.
• 24:08
  Speaker 11: And I thought the early errant threes, and it's just
• 24:13
  Speaker 11: the volume of those when every possession, if you can
• 24:16
  Speaker 11: pick off ten fifteen seconds, that's that's how you run
• 24:19
  Speaker 11: out the ball. You know, It's like at a football
• 24:21
  Speaker 11: team running the ball, that's how you run the clock out.
• 24:22
  Speaker 11: And it was what got him there, but time and
• 24:26
  Speaker 11: score being able to recognize that, yes, maybe I'm open,
• 24:29
  Speaker 11: But there's a reason I'm open with twenty on the clock.
• 24:33
  Speaker 5: You know, you got it. You gotta be a little
• 24:34
  Speaker 5: more patient.
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: I think, why couldn't Mitch, your buddy get through to
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: them on that or you know, did he try and
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: it was just and he just the heat of the moment,
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: they just could not listen to reason. You know, how
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: did how did Mitch act about it afterwards? And why
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: he couldn't get his players to take better shot selection?
• 24:59
  Speaker 5: I mean that I don't have an answer for that.
• 25:01
  Speaker 11: I think, you know, the way the game is now,
• 25:05
  Speaker 11: there's so many guys have a green light in early
• 25:11
  Speaker 11: situations and even late in the game. And they have
• 25:14
  Speaker 11: a team full of guys that that thriving and making
• 25:18
  Speaker 11: open shots and taking them early. And I think it's
• 25:21
  Speaker 11: just once the momentum started started turning around, it's it's
• 25:25
  Speaker 11: tough to turn around that battleship.
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: Can you realistically come back from something like that in
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: a seven game series.
• 25:33
  Speaker 11: Well, it's unprecedented. I think it's unprecedented for the team
• 25:37
  Speaker 11: with home court to come back three one, but we
• 25:41
  Speaker 11: saw I believe in two thousand and sixteen it can
• 25:44
  Speaker 11: be done. And you know, it's it's a tall hill
• 25:48
  Speaker 11: to climb. But I think these guys that they're youth
• 25:51
  Speaker 11: and inexperience, I think, and on one side of it
• 25:54
  Speaker 11: puts them in positions like this, but on the other
• 25:56
  Speaker 11: side they might not know the difference that you know,
• 25:59
  Speaker 11: it is such a tough task to try and try
• 26:01
  Speaker 11: and pull off.
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: Where would it start for you? What are the marching
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: orders heading into game five? Because they've built a lead
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: early in all four games to this point, So what
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: is something that the Spurs just have to do in
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: game number five to avoid, you know, being eliminated.
• 26:21
  Speaker 11: Well, good starts haven't been their problem. They've they've got
• 26:24
  Speaker 11: off to those in all four games.
• 26:26
  Speaker 5: I think.
• 26:26
  Speaker 11: I think they got to come out and blow them
• 26:28
  Speaker 11: out and really put their foot down once they get
• 26:32
  Speaker 11: get out to a lead and put some fear in
• 26:35
  Speaker 11: the next that they found something they've made an adjustment
• 26:38
  Speaker 11: that they can use going forward. And I think you
• 26:42
  Speaker 11: win game five at home, get a little reset, and
• 26:45
  Speaker 11: then it really comes down to game six in New
• 26:47
  Speaker 11: York where they've proven they can win and shout of
• 26:50
  Speaker 11: one twice.
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: What's the character of Mitch Johnson, since you know him personally,
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: that leads you to believe.
• 26:57
  Speaker 6: Do not count my man out.
• 27:01
  Speaker 5: He's a winner.
• 27:02
  Speaker 11: Uh, he's gonna winner on every level, and he's a
• 27:07
  Speaker 11: competitor and he's not you know, so he's not gonna
• 27:09
  Speaker 11: let his hands off the rope.
• 27:10
  Speaker 5: And I think his.
• 27:11
  Speaker 11: Team all year have shown that have shown that character
• 27:16
  Speaker 11: as well. And I think, you know, if they're going
• 27:19
  Speaker 11: to fight until the whistle, and I have a lot
• 27:22
  Speaker 11: of faith that they're going to come back and do it.
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: Did you get near Timothy Chalomey to push him down
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: at any point during the celebration? Did you at least word,
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: were you within arms reach to you know, maybe give
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: Ben Stiller and elbow anything like that.
• 27:36
  Speaker 5: No, but it was it was weird.
• 27:38
  Speaker 11: I was kind of down looking for my friends and
• 27:41
  Speaker 11: then running into a bunch of old teammates and catching up.
• 27:44
  Speaker 11: But they I got a picture of it that I'm
• 27:46
  Speaker 11: sitting on that they really treated it like they like
• 27:49
  Speaker 11: that was it? Like yeah, like that was a championship
• 27:51
  Speaker 11: and who knows, and they you know, if they win
• 27:54
  Speaker 11: in San Antonio, then that's their opportunity to celebrate. But
• 27:57
  Speaker 11: I thought it was a little premature or something. I'd
• 27:59
  Speaker 11: try to make a little note.
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: Of Okay, I would love the idea of you have
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: a picture of like you got Larry David in a
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: headlock or something like that.
• 28:09
  Speaker 11: Just kind of the chaos of you know, it's not
• 28:12
  Speaker 11: over yet and there's five hundred people on the court
• 28:16
  Speaker 11: dancing around, players, celebrities, whoever, I mean, whatever combination.
• 28:20
  Speaker 5: I was like, this seems a little early.
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, a lot of people are saying they've never
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: seen an event like that, not just the lead evaporating,
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: but just the entire evening, the electricity. And I know
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: it ended very disappointing for you and the San Antonio Spurs,
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: but speak to that, Like, what was that building like
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: from beginning to end at Madison Square Garden.
• 28:45
  Speaker 11: I mean, it was incredible. I've never felt anything like that,
• 28:51
  Speaker 11: and it really it wasn't. I mean, the building was
• 28:53
  Speaker 11: one thing, but it's like the entire day in the city,
• 28:56
  Speaker 11: especially as you got closer to game time, was just
• 28:59
  Speaker 11: an energy that you're not going to find anywhere else.
• 29:02
  Speaker 11: And uh, honestly, for three quarters it was. It was
• 29:07
  Speaker 11: good at the start, and then for three quarters it
• 29:09
  Speaker 11: was quiet. I was I was told by a friend,
• 29:11
  Speaker 11: you know, you prepared to stand the entire game I'm
• 29:15
  Speaker 11: just sitting standing and really, until till that run in
• 29:18
  Speaker 11: the fourth that the crowd really wasn't a huge factory.
• 29:23
  Speaker 6: Right, all right?
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: Well, have you had an adult beverage in the last
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: three days?
• 29:27
  Speaker 6: Have you slipped one of those?
• 29:28
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm sending a coffee right now. It's get back
• 29:32
  Speaker 5: to sea level.
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: What what's the next plan on the bachelor party?
• 29:37
  Speaker 8: Then?
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: Can do we get to know who you're celebrating or
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: is that a secret?
• 29:41
  Speaker 11: Yeah? No, it's it's no secret. Shout out Chino. Back here.
• 29:46
  Speaker 11: We are going to Wrigley tonight to see Rufus desoul
• 29:49
  Speaker 11: uh and then tomorrow we got a little spot up
• 29:53
  Speaker 11: sportsbook rented out for game five.
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: Okay, all right, so you're not making your way to
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: San Antonio.
• 29:58
  Speaker 6: You're going to do it during the bachelor party.
• 30:01
  Speaker 5: Now we're gonna be watching from here, all.
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: Right, man, Well, have a blast, enjoy it, and who knows,
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: maybe we can see history made the other way around
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: going forward here in the finals. Got all right, man, Thanks,
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: appreciate you, all right, thanks for having me. All right,
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: Spencer hallis joining us right here on Chuck and Buck
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: in the mornings. I have a feeling he was around
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: his buddies, like over listening, I just I just love.
• 30:28
  Speaker 4: I was like, so, did you decide to go to
• 30:29
  Speaker 4: Chicago because you didn't want to come home before you
• 30:31
  Speaker 4: go to San Antonio. He's like, no, Actually, I'm hosting
• 30:34
  Speaker 4: a bachelor party that has been on the books for
• 30:36
  Speaker 4: a long time. And I'm like, of course you are.
• 30:38
  Speaker 4: Just keep that train of rolling. Bring in the cocktails.
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: Hey, guy's got a busy life right now.
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: I know I'm tired just thinking about it.
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: All right, coming up next, we'll get you ready for
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: the baseball weekend. Sports Radio ninety three point three k
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: A r F M. Wondering what to do tonight, how
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: to take in all of the activity. I want to
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: watch the Mariners face the Nationals and I want to
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: watch the World Cup.
• 31:12
  Speaker 6: It's the exact same time. Where could I go?
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: What could provide that something with multiple televisions?
• 31:19
  Speaker 6: Yeah?
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: How about the draft ring sports book over there at
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• 31:28
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• 31:31
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• 31:34
  Speaker 6: I take the under that much.
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I wonder what the under is?
• 31:39
  Speaker 5: Is it?
• 31:40
  Speaker 4: Like, I don't know how they would do that normally,
• 31:42
  Speaker 4: Like what's an average goal in soccer?
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: Because I think it's like one and a half I
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: think is usually the average over under on a soccer match.
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: But yeah, head on over there, take it all in
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: might as well. All those televisions, all those opportunities to
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: do a little wagering, and then of course games to
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: play games, and then restaurants all over the place to
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: lay the brasort casino when all you want is everything.
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: We have our Seahawks one series coming up with Brian
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: Walters at nine O'clock's never been a part of our
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  Speaker 2: one series, but now he's a big factor in the
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: Seattle media scene, and so we'll chat with the former Seahawk.
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: You can get his thoughts on whatever player he wants
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  Speaker 2: at nine o'clock. Meanwhile, the Mariners just take a train
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: ride to Washington bus ride to take on the Washington Nationals.
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: And so the team that we just faced, the Baltimore Orioles,
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: heavy on hitting, light on pitching. Will Washington's like hold
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: my beer. The Nationals are supposed to be in a
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: massive rebuilding project and they were hoping to see strides
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: taken a year ago and it didn't happen with their
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: young players, and it had a lot of people panicking like, oh, gosh,
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: we were supposed to be better than year. Have we
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: gone about this the wrong way? Well, they show up
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: this year zero expectations at all for this team. A
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: lot of people thought they were going to be the
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: worst team in baseball, period, and instead the Nationals are
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: thirty five and thirty four. They're just a half game
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: difference between us and them team that's in the middle
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: of a rebuild. They also are just a game out
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  Speaker 2: of the wildcard in the National League at this point.
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  Speaker 6: So a team that people.
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: Were sure were going to be sellers at the trading
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: deadline this year and they were already being I mean cj.
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: Abrams was a name that was tossed about this offseason
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  Speaker 2: being available to contending teams that maybe the Nationals had
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: seen enough and didn't want to build around cj. Abrams
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: and so they might be buyers instead of sellers coming
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: up at the trading deadline. The way that they have
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: played this season, and if they are buyers. It's going
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: to be for one thing, pitching, because the offense is there.
• 33:58
  Speaker 6: This is shock.
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  Speaker 2: The Washington Nationals, who are supposed to be rebuilding this year,
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  Speaker 2: are second in all of baseball and runs scored this season.
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  Speaker 6: That is sucking. The only team.
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  Speaker 2: They trail, as you might expect, the Los Angeles Dodgers.
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: And how many runs separate them from the Dodgers for
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: first place and run scored this season?
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  Speaker 6: One WHOA.
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  Speaker 2: So we're talking about the best offensive team in baseball
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: so far this season, the Washington Nationals, and they're led
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: by six foot seven inch power hitter James Wood, who
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: came into his own last year in the first half
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: and then disappeared in the second half. Well, he's off
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  Speaker 2: to another great start this season.
• 34:43
  Speaker 6: CJ.
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  Speaker 2: Abrams, if it wasn't for his bad defense, might be
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: leading all of baseball in war right now. He's at
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: fourteen home runs.
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  Speaker 6: Skinny little c J.
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  Speaker 2: Abrams has at fourteen home runs so far this season.
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: He's knocked in fifty one runs so far this year,
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: and of course he steals bases. So this is a young, dumb,
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: hungry team that doesn't want to hear we're not ready yet.
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: And they are hitting the crud out of the baseball.
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: So where do you have to get the Washington Nationals.
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: They don't pitch the ball very well right now. They're
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: twenty fifth in Major League Baseball in era. Their starters
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: are a little bit better than their relievers. But there
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: won't be any time during the course of the weekend,
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: well we'll feel like.
• 35:30
  Speaker 6: That Nationals pitchers, that's oppressive. He's so good.
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: No, that's not going to happen this weekend. If our
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: pitchers get the job done, we should score runs this
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: weekend and maybe can slow down the confidence of this
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: growing young team out of our nation's capital.
• 35:49
  Speaker 4: So you're saying that it's got the possibility for some
• 35:51
  Speaker 4: pretty high scoring games.
• 35:52
  Speaker 6: I think so. I think so.
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: And let's face at the beginning of the year, this
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: is one of those well we'll get those three. Yeah,
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: but that's I mean, they're playing really good baseball, and
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: especially on the offensive side of the ball, so this.
• 36:03
  Speaker 6: Is not going to be easy.
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  Speaker 3: I'm surprised.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I would have thought, oh, yeah, this one, we should
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: at least win the series.
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: Nope, they are playing better baseball than we are. Tarn
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: it right now, they're playing more consistent baseball than we
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: are right now, and we of course are riding a
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: two game losing streak into this thing as well. All right,
• 36:21
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• 36:24
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