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10-29 H4: A-Z ABC's, Mike Sando Joins & One Last Thing · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: Go ahead and have yourself a night on the town,
• 0:02
  Speaker 1: and then guess what? Stay at one of their fabulous
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: hotel rooms and then start it over again.
• 0:07
  Speaker 2: In the morning.
• 0:08
  Speaker 1: Nothing like getting that Casino Bloody Mary on the Saturday morning,
• 0:13
  Speaker 1: waking up because you know that's the juice to start
• 0:16
  Speaker 1: it all over again. Yeah, that sounds so good right now.
• 0:20
  Speaker 1: The Layla Resort Casino where you can get more of everything. Well,
• 0:23
  Speaker 1: we've never tried this before. I don't know if I
• 0:25
  Speaker 1: can pull it off. I think I've got a reputation
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  Speaker 1: of being a little long-winded. Uh, so we're going to
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  Speaker 1: try special edition ABCs of DMs off season, um, A
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  Speaker 1: to Z.
• 0:37
  Speaker 3: I'll try to get through all the letters. So we
• 0:38
  Speaker 3: better get started. Hey, you ready? Ready. It's for analytics.
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  Speaker 1: Um, you can sit there all you want and hope
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  Speaker 1: for a general manager or president or manager that won't
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  Speaker 1: use analytics. And you will spend the rest of your
• 0:54
  Speaker 1: time wishing in one hand that and pooing in the other,
• 0:57
  Speaker 1: and I can promise you.
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  Speaker 3: Which one we'll fill up first.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Analytics are a great tool to have in the modern-day game. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: teams went too far, became too committed to them, and
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  Speaker 1: we hired a bunch of GMs who were just nerds,
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  Speaker 1: math nerds, and really didn't have a baseball sense about them,
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  Speaker 1: and that was a disappointing era that I think did
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  Speaker 1: throw the game off a little bit. But now we're
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  Speaker 1: kind of back in the right strike zone. Teams have
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  Speaker 1: the numbers. They use the numbers. And if we can
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  Speaker 1: find a manager that can take that data to help
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  Speaker 1: him make his decisions, but his decisions aren't based off
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  Speaker 1: of the data, that's the strike zone. That's the comfort
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  Speaker 1: zone for analytics. Anybody that uses them too much is
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  Speaker 1: a fool. Anybody that doesn't use them enough is a fool.
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  Speaker 1: It's the middle ground that makes the sport and analytics work.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: To me, it's not how much or how little you
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  Speaker 4: use it. It's how you use it. It's how you
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  Speaker 4: incorporate it into your decision making. It shouldn't be a
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  Speaker 4: be all end all, but it shouldn't be a I'm
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  Speaker 4: not looking at them at all.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: So I completely agree.
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  Speaker 3: B is for bullpen.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it ended up being a problem at the end
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  Speaker 1: of the season, but it wasn't for most of the
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  Speaker 1: season last year. The loss of Matt Brash certainly hurt
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  Speaker 1: this team significantly. And the fact that we weren't sure
• 2:18
  Speaker 1: if he was going to come back hurt the team.
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  Speaker 3: But this is.
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  Speaker 1: An area of strength that the Mariners have had in
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  Speaker 1: the past. And I think that they get back to that.
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  Speaker 1: I think they aren't going to make the mistake of
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  Speaker 1: keeping themselves thin. I think they're going to be very
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  Speaker 1: active in trying to make this bullpen work. one of
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  Speaker 1: the best in Major League Baseball. That will require a
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  Speaker 1: healthy brash returning. Jose Ferrer, Andres Munoz, Bizardo Spire, Sir
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  Speaker 1: Anthony Dominguez was good for us. That's a pretty good foundation,
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  Speaker 1: and I think they'll add two guys before the offseason
• 2:50
  Speaker 1: comes to a close. Keep this name in mind. Kaima Taira,
• 2:54
  Speaker 1: who is a Japanese 5'8, 225-pound starting pitcher who, believe
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  Speaker 1: it or not, despite his dumpy body... put up better
• 3:06
  Speaker 1: numbers recently than Yamamoto did before he jumped over to America.
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  Speaker 1: I think somebody's going to pick.
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  Speaker 3: Him up on the cheap. Jim Bowden said three years,
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  Speaker 3: $ 30 million.
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  Speaker 1: That sounds like Mariner territory to me.
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  Speaker 3: And I think they're going to use.
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  Speaker 1: Him as a multi-inning relief weapon for this upcoming year.
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  Speaker 1: So I think bullpen's going to be a real point
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  Speaker 1: of emphasis for Jerry and the Mariners this offseason. C
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  Speaker 1: is for coaches or C is for culture. I think
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  Speaker 1: the two go hand in hand. I liked all of
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  Speaker 1: those guys. I really did in my experience with them.
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  Speaker 1: The one that I like the most is coming back,
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  Speaker 1: Pete Woodworth. Everybody else is gone, and I think that's
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  Speaker 1: a good thing. I think that the players got too
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  Speaker 1: comfortable with our coaches. They were too soft and too
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  Speaker 1: defending of them. And I'm not asking for a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of disciplinarians. Those days are past. But I am asking
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  Speaker 1: for a coaching staff that demands that everyone on a
• 4:00
  Speaker 1: daily basis operates on a professional manner and is there
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  Speaker 1: to play hard if for no other reason than the
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  Speaker 1: guy standing next to him i'm glad we're getting a
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  Speaker 1: new coach i'm glad we're getting excuse me a new
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  Speaker 1: manager i'm glad we're getting a new coaching staff and
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  Speaker 1: i think we're going to get a new culture.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah i think the deaf to definitely go hand in
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  Speaker 4: hand you need someone to set a standard for this
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  Speaker 4: team and i think you'll get more out of them.
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  Speaker 3: D is for defense.
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  Speaker 1: I did warn you at the beginning of the year
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  Speaker 1: with all the feel-good stories about Mariners are the team
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  Speaker 1: to beat. They might win the American League. I thought
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  Speaker 1: they were going to as well. I'm not saying that
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  Speaker 1: I didn't. But in all of that feel-good, we didn't
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  Speaker 1: spend a lot of time talking about this team's weaknesses
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  Speaker 1: before the season started. And I did mention quite a
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  Speaker 1: few times I thought defense was going to be a weakness.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't imagine it was going to be this bad, Anders.
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  Speaker 3: Last place in defense this past year.
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  Speaker 1: Fortunately, J.P. Crawford is no longer here. I know that
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  Speaker 1: sounds cruel, but he was one of the big problems
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  Speaker 1: with it. I think Cal Raleigh's defense suffered this year
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  Speaker 1: because of his injuries. I think we're absolutely going to
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  Speaker 1: see a much better Cal Raleigh. I think Josh Naylor
• 5:11
  Speaker 1: struggled with attention deficit disorder at first base, which I
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  Speaker 1: think a better coaching staff will stay on his chubby
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  Speaker 1: ass and keep him on the straight and narrow. And
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  Speaker 1: I do believe it does need to be a point
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  Speaker 1: of emphasis to shore up third base. And if we're
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  Speaker 1: not going to have Randy's bat, let's at least have
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  Speaker 1: a better left fielder.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, if you go back to the Stove podcast, I
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  Speaker 4: was with you. I think defense was the biggest question
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  Speaker 4: mark for the team going into the year, and it
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  Speaker 4: proved to be a big reason why. The Mariners didn't
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  Speaker 4: get where they wanted to, and you look at the Brewers,
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  Speaker 4: they were the best defensive team in baseball. Won them
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  Speaker 4: the World Series, but it's a big reason why.
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  Speaker 3: It matters!
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  Speaker 2: It matters.
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  Speaker 1: E is for the Emersons. Emerson Hancock had a breakthrough year.
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  Speaker 1: Colt Emerson made his debut. I actually am more confident
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  Speaker 1: we're going to see a great year out of Colt
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  Speaker 1: Emerson than I am Emerson Hancock. I think cold Emerson
• 6:00
  Speaker 1: is going to do the exact same thing. Cole young
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  Speaker 1: did this past year. I mean, he's not going to
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  Speaker 1: become a superstar in, in his first full season. But
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  Speaker 1: I think we're going to see a very similar jump
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  Speaker 1: up that we saw from Cole Young, from Colt Emerson
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  Speaker 1: in his first full season. I wouldn't even be surprised
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  Speaker 1: if we show up at spring training or summer training,
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  Speaker 1: whatever it ends up being. And just because he's so
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  Speaker 1: young and baby-faced, he might be 15 pounds heavier just naturally,
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  Speaker 1: which could help him certainly. uh, in his power game
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  Speaker 1: for sure. Um, but Emerson Hancock, I thought it was
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  Speaker 1: a nice breakthrough season. Um, I think that's the ceiling
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  Speaker 1: for him. I don't know if he gets any better
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  Speaker 1: than that, where I think Colt Emerson's got a big
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  Speaker 1: jump ahead of him this year. Yeah. It may not
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  Speaker 1: even be at shortstop. Uh, it could be a third
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  Speaker 1: base as well. Especially if he puts on the weight
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  Speaker 1: that I think he's going to eventually put on. So I, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I agree with you on the ceiling for Hancock though.
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  Speaker 1: F is for fans. I mean, I know your fans.
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  Speaker 1: They're all frustrated. F is for frustrated.
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  Speaker 3: I get it. I do understand that. We're frustrated, too.
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  Speaker 3: I'm frustrated.
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  Speaker 1: I will just say this, and I've never said this
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  Speaker 1: on the air. I don't think that you should be
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  Speaker 1: so angry about the.
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  Speaker 3: People that love their bobbleheads.
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  Speaker 1: I've heard this ever since I came to town, that
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  Speaker 1: you think that that's the ruination of Mariners baseball because
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  Speaker 1: it's Those people go to the games, make the organization money,
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  Speaker 1: and so they don't focus on making the team better
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  Speaker 1: because they're making their money anyway. Here's what I know
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  Speaker 1: about misers. Challenge a miser, they'll spend less. In other words,
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  Speaker 1: I think maybe you should be thanking those people who
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  Speaker 1: are in love with the bobbleheads because without them filling
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  Speaker 1: up those seats, maybe the payroll is much lower than
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  Speaker 1: it is right now.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think that's a Fair assumption to make.
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  Speaker 3: G is for Gilbert.
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  Speaker 1: Will he get an extension? I hope he does, but
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  Speaker 1: he is going to have to take less. Fran Brevaldez
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  Speaker 1: made $ 40 million a year. Logan Gilbert's a better pitcher
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  Speaker 1: than Fran Brevaldez, and if he wants to get market value,
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  Speaker 1: the Mariners are going to move him, and they're going
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  Speaker 1: to move him this offseason. I hope that he loves
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  Speaker 1: Seattle as much as he seems to. I hope that
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  Speaker 1: Cal is as big an influence as he seems to be.
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  Speaker 1: I hope that he's as dedicated to winning a championship
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  Speaker 1: in a Mariner uniform as he speaks that he is.
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  Speaker 1: And I think he is definitely worth a heavy $ 30
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  Speaker 1: million per year investment because he's the pitcher in Major
• 8:28
  Speaker 1: League Baseball I worry the least about having some injury
• 8:32
  Speaker 1: because of the way he trains. i think logan gilbert
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  Speaker 1: is worthy of the extension there's a chance though he
• 8:39
  Speaker 1: might end up being the highest paid player on this
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  Speaker 1: roster imagine that.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah that's weird i wouldn't pay him 40 million i
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  Speaker 4: i think you're right that that'd be the point where
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  Speaker 4: i'm like okay you can go and get that money
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  Speaker 4: but if he's willing to take some sort of discount
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  Speaker 4: i think the 30 million ranges is fair for him
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  Speaker 4: then i definitely want him on this team moving forward
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  Speaker 4: i do too.
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  Speaker 1: I do too i just love him in every way
• 8:57
  Speaker 1: h is for hatred You're going to have to put
• 9:00
  Speaker 1: aside some of this hatred.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, when Adam Jude writes an.
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  Speaker 1: Article and he does his crystal ball forecast and he
• 9:07
  Speaker 1: says Zach Netto is the big acquisition and 90% of
• 9:11
  Speaker 1: people on Twitter crap on that, I don't think you
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  Speaker 1: can be satisfied. We're not getting Juan Soto. We're not
• 9:17
  Speaker 1: getting Aaron Judge. If you're not going to be happy
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  Speaker 1: with the possibility of Zach Netto joining the Mariners, he
• 9:25
  Speaker 1: was a top 25, top 35 player this year. He's
• 9:30
  Speaker 1: coming off a five-war season. Yeah, he strikes out some.
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  Speaker 1: He's not great defensively, but he is the type of nails...
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  Speaker 1: like mentality that this team sorely lacks right now. I
• 9:44
  Speaker 1: would love to have a Zach Netto, but if you're
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  Speaker 1: going to say Zach Netto's not good enough to add
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  Speaker 1: to this roster, then who are you going to be
• 9:52
  Speaker 1: satisfied with? You set yourself up for a fall because
• 9:55
  Speaker 1: you find the best free agent on the market.
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  Speaker 3: You say the Mariners have to get him.
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  Speaker 2: They never will.
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  Speaker 1: And then you're angry at them because you set the
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  Speaker 1: expectation too high.
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  Speaker 4: Way too high. And I think it's a perfect ad
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  Speaker 4: for the Mariners, to be completely honest. It kind of
• 10:09
  Speaker 4: shores up the question mark at either second or third.
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  Speaker 4: Then you can do whatever with Emerson. or sorry short
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  Speaker 4: a third yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Cold at third and zach netto's your short stuff i
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  Speaker 1: love it if that happens i'm i'm really i like
• 10:19
  Speaker 1: zach netto a lot.
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  Speaker 4: I do too i think it's a great kind of
• 10:22
  Speaker 4: guts player that would be great on this team.
• 10:24
  Speaker 1: I is for imitation uh sports is about copycat brewers
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  Speaker 1: raise they showed us you don't have to have a
• 10:31
  Speaker 1: lot of money what you do have is to have
• 10:33
  Speaker 1: to have cohesion culture and everybody that buys in That's
• 10:37
  Speaker 1: what I want to see this team copy going forward.
• 10:41
  Speaker 1: And I wouldn't mind copying more Anders, the put the
• 10:44
  Speaker 1: ball in play mentality. I still think we swing for
• 10:47
  Speaker 1: the fences too much. I still think that we strike
• 10:50
  Speaker 1: out too much. And I think the Brewers and Rays
• 10:53
  Speaker 1: gave everybody an old school template that that style of
• 10:56
  Speaker 1: baseball not only still works, It always has worked, but
• 11:00
  Speaker 1: you convinced yourself that you've got to hit home runs
• 11:03
  Speaker 1: in this era of everybody throwing 100 miles per hour.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I definitely think there needs to be more of
• 11:07
  Speaker 4: a balance. You know me, I'm kind of a sabermetrics guy, walks,
• 11:10
  Speaker 4: home runs, and strikeouts. But I do think there needs
• 11:14
  Speaker 4: to be more of a balance. You're going to have
• 11:15
  Speaker 4: those guys that do that, but you also have to
• 11:17
  Speaker 4: have the guys near the bottom of the order that
• 11:18
  Speaker 4: put the ball in play.
• 11:19
  Speaker 1: J is for Jerry. You know, they always have that
• 11:23
  Speaker 1: phrase that they put on t-shirts. Mike McDonald does this.
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  Speaker 1: The t-shirt should say no more excuses this year. There
• 11:29
  Speaker 1: are no more excuses.
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  Speaker 3: This is it.
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  Speaker 1: If the problem was Dan Wilson and the culture, you
• 11:34
  Speaker 1: have an offseason to get the right guy in place
• 11:37
  Speaker 1: to introduce the culture that will unlock the roster that
• 11:39
  Speaker 1: you believe has the potential to win the World Series.
• 11:42
  Speaker 1: If with that new culture and that new manager, you
• 11:46
  Speaker 1: end up with the same result, there is no defending option.
• 11:49
  Speaker 1: Jerry DiPoto and Justin Hollander. The whole thing has to
• 11:52
  Speaker 1: be wiped. So you win with the parts you have,
• 11:55
  Speaker 1: and you win with a different manager, and we will forever,
• 11:59
  Speaker 1: going into the future, remember 2026 as the year that
• 12:04
  Speaker 1: could have been had we not had faith in a
• 12:06
  Speaker 1: manager that couldn't.
• 12:08
  Speaker 3: Get the job done.
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  Speaker 4: I'd even say 2025 was the year that could have
• 12:11
  Speaker 4: been if we had not had a manager.
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  Speaker 3: Well, that was a successful year.
• 12:14
  Speaker 1: It was, yes, but at the end of it, Yeah,
• 12:17
  Speaker 1: but that was still a successful year. If anybody's going
• 12:21
  Speaker 1: to complain about getting to the American League Championship Series,
• 12:24
  Speaker 1: you've got a whole other set of problems. K is
• 12:26
  Speaker 1: for Kirby. I do believe George Kirby is going to
• 12:29
  Speaker 1: get traded this offseason. I think this has been an inevitability.
• 12:34
  Speaker 1: I'm not sure that he finished on the best of
• 12:36
  Speaker 1: terms with the team either. And he had another season
• 12:40
  Speaker 1: in which he didn't live up to that lofty potential
• 12:43
  Speaker 1: we've been talking about for a number of years. I
• 12:45
  Speaker 1: think he could end up being a St. Louis Cardinal.
• 12:48
  Speaker 1: They need starting pitching. And the kind of package that
• 12:51
  Speaker 1: I think is available is maybe an Yvonne Herrera. And
• 12:55
  Speaker 1: I don't know, and this might be asking too much.
• 12:56
  Speaker 1: You might have to throw in a prospect yourself, but
• 12:59
  Speaker 1: Josh Baez. their young prospect, two right-handed hitters for an
• 13:03
  Speaker 1: organization that can't find right-handed hitters any other way. You
• 13:07
  Speaker 1: might have to find a guy with ace potential in
• 13:09
  Speaker 1: order to get the right-handed hitters that you seek for
• 13:13
  Speaker 1: this lineup.
• 13:13
  Speaker 4: Let's just hope they don't have the Brendan Donovan syndrome
• 13:16
  Speaker 4: where as soon as they come here, they start getting injured.
• 13:19
  Speaker 1: Well, there's a lot of syndromes that we'll get to.
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  Speaker 3: It's true. L is for lefty.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, 2026, I don't know how much of a
• 13:28
  Speaker 1: season we're going to have, but 2027 could be a
• 13:31
  Speaker 1: full year of Cade Anderson, and I cannot wait to
• 13:34
  Speaker 1: see it. It might be the thing I'm most interested in.
• 13:37
  Speaker 1: in 2027. He wasn't nearly as commanding as I thought
• 13:41
  Speaker 1: he was going to be, and maybe that's a great thing,
• 13:45
  Speaker 1: because even though he walked more guys than anybody thought
• 13:48
  Speaker 1: he would, he still had a 3.79 ERA and a
• 13:53
  Speaker 1: 1.23 whip in his first introduction to Major League Baseball.
• 13:56
  Speaker 1: I have a feeling that's going to get a lot
• 13:58
  Speaker 1: better as his command improves. And as he gets used
• 14:02
  Speaker 1: to major league life, I think we're going to get
• 14:04
  Speaker 1: a great year out of the lefty next year. M
• 14:07
  Speaker 1: is for manager. It won't be Dan Wilson. Will it
• 14:10
  Speaker 1: be Joe Espada? Will it be Jason Kanzler? Either one
• 14:14
  Speaker 1: of them that they decide on, Anders, is going to
• 14:17
  Speaker 1: go over like a lead balloon. The fan base is
• 14:20
  Speaker 1: going to hate that decision. If it's either one of
• 14:24
  Speaker 1: those guys, I think Espada would be an improvement over
• 14:28
  Speaker 1: Dan Wilson, and I have no idea what to tell
• 14:30
  Speaker 1: you about Jason Kanzler other than this.
• 14:32
  Speaker 3: If you hire him and you go with your gut.
• 14:35
  Speaker 1: It has to work. you cannot use. It's the manager
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  Speaker 1: excuse again next year.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and I think just because the PR side of
• 14:42
  Speaker 4: things may not be a home run, that doesn't mean
• 14:44
  Speaker 4: they'll be bad managers next year, but it won't be
• 14:47
  Speaker 4: making like, hey, they won the day in the headlines
• 14:50
  Speaker 4: after that PR press conference.
• 14:52
  Speaker 3: Josh Naylor, and it's for Naylor.
• 14:55
  Speaker 1: I think there was a major wrist injury that he
• 14:57
  Speaker 1: played through all season long. He had surgery this offseason already,
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: and that could explain why he didn't hit with power. Now,
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: there's also a brain injury here because there were too
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: many times that a guy that got the bag, he
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: got the money, got to be in the place he
• 15:14
  Speaker 1: wants to be, didn't look like he was always invested.
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: I think it's going to be very difficult to keep
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: Josh Naylor alive. involved, engaged at all times. I thought
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: we saw some scary signs this past year, but I
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: do think that that was going to be his worst
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: season last year. And it wasn't even a terrible season,
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: but he's got to hit for more power going forward.
• 15:36
  Speaker 3: Otherwise it was a bad sign.
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I hope that that is the case because if it
• 15:40
  Speaker 4: continues down this trajectory, yeah, it was a bad signing
• 15:42
  Speaker 4: for sure. We'll see what ends up happening though.
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: O is for overturns. The ABS challenge. This was the headline.
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: William Contreras wins the MVP. He hit 381 and had
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: 10 ABS overturns.
• 15:55
  Speaker 3: That's the headline. That's how valuable that tool can be.
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: And yet the baseball team I watched every day this
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: past year was the worst challenging team that I could
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: have even envisioned a team could be.
• 16:07
  Speaker 3: They were horrible in every way.
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: Not only were their numbers terrible across the board, but
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: their situational awareness was god-awful. It has to get better,
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: and that starts with the manager. and a coaching staff
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: that implements more responsibilities for using ABS challenges.
• 16:27
  Speaker 3: P is for platoons. They've been around forever, people.
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: Jerry DiPoto did not invent them, and it is not
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: about handedness. If anything, analytics shows us that sometimes the
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: lefty-lefty matchup is the preferred matchup. If we're going to
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: use analytics, let's use it the right way and also
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: stop being so bothered by platoons. Everyone uses them, including
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: the Rays, Brewers, and Dodgers. Sal Freelick doesn't play every
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: day for the Milwaukee Brewers. Platoons have been around since
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: Casey Stengel, for goodness sake. And this fan base acts
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: like Jerry invented them just to torture you.
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: Stop.
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: I don't think we're going to have as many next year,
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: if that makes you feel better. Maybe Laz Montez and
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: Michael Arroyo?
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: But I don't think we're going to have many platoons
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: this upcoming season, we shall see. Q is for the
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: big question. The big question. What's going to happen with
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: the collective bargaining agreement?
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: Are we going to have a lockout? Yes.
• 17:27
  Speaker 5: How long?
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: Um, are we going to have new rules that govern
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: how teams can build their roster? I think that the
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: owners are dug in on this and I know that
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: the players are dug in on the other side, but
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: it's going to be. if the owners get their way,
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: it changes the entire landscape of baseball more dramatically than
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: perhaps anything has ever done since Jackie Robinson. So this
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: is something that we're going to have to wait and
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: see on, but I do fear we're not going to
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: see a lot of baseball next year.
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: That is my great fear. R is for Randy.
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: Randy Rosarino is not going to be a Mariner next year,
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: but I want people to realize just what a great
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: season he had. He finished second, Anders, and run scored
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: in Major League Baseball behind only PCA and led our
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: team in RBI on a team that finished near the
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: bottom and run scored this year. What a great year
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: he had, if in fact it was his last year.
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: He was quite literally the offense for us. He scored
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: the runs. He drove them in. He got on base.
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: He stole bases.
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: He was about the only guy I think you can
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: look at offensively and say that was much better than
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: we expected.
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: S is for six starters. Are we going to do
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: this again? Even if you get rid of Kirby, the
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: potential of Gilbert, Woo, Anderson, Hancock, and Miller with Ryan
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: Sloan ready to take one of those spots, not just
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: this year, but well into the future. Are we going
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: to piggyback again this year? It's a great thing to
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: have six quality starters. Let's just make sure we have
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: six quality starters. Are you hearing me, Bryce Miller? Yeah.
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: T is for third base. Who's going to play it?
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: I mean, we're dying for an everyday third baseman that
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: we can count on. Brendan Donovan's going to fit somewhere
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: on this team. Is it Colt Emerson moving to third
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: if we pick up a Zach Netto type at shortstop?
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: Do you trade for a guy like Joey Ortiz, who's
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: a brilliant glove from the Milwaukee Brewers, even though he
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: doesn't add much offensively? Alec Boehm is a free agent.
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: I still think his best baseball is ahead of him,
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: and he's going to go pretty cheap on the open market,
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: it sounds like. Maybe that's a fit, but third base
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: is a big mystery. But it's not the mystery. U
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: is for unsolved mystery. Why do players come here and suck?
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: It is the biggest mystery facing the Mariners. How can
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: you get Colton Wong coming off a 3-5 war season
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: and he comes here and immediately becomes the worst player
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: in Major League Baseball? How does Rob Refsnyder leave Boston
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: Red Sox fans in tears because for three years he
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: dominated lefties?
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: And he gets here and he can't hit lefties or righties.
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: I don't know why Taylor Ward showed up and immediately
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: became the worst player in Major League Baseball, but he did.
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: This is something that has to be researched, and not
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: by the Mariners, by the FBI, by the CIA, by
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: whoever checks all of that artificial intelligence and extraterrestrial activity.
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: Figure out why players come here and immediately turn sour.
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: V is for Venezuelan. It's been the year of Venezuela
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: in baseball this year. They win the WBC, and then
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: William Contreras and the Brewers win the World Series. Ronald
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: Acuna apparently is available from the Atlanta Braves, and I
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: think his price, I know his price is lower than ever.
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: George Kirby for Ronald Acuna Jr.
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: straight up?
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: All right, love it.
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: W is for West. Look, West is going to be
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: the Mariners to win again. They are going to start
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: next season whenever it starts as the favorite to win
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: the American League West because nobody else did anything impressive.
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: It's just that the Mariners were that disappointed. So the
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: West is there to be won. They crapped the bed
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: this year, but it's there to be won. Again, next season,
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: nobody looks like a dominant team. X is for X Factor.
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: It's got to be Julio Rodriguez, which is sad because
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: we've gone from maybe the surest thing in the organization,
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: face of the franchise. He got lapped by Cal Raleigh
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: for that honor. And now I'm calling him an X-factor.
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: Is he ever going to put it all together? He
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: just has so much talent. But a. 247 batting average,.
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: 307 OPS and 22 home runs, and a.
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: 708 OPS, that just is not good enough.
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: The fact that we're kind of clamoring for him to
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: be back to his rookie year tells you exactly how
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: it's gone.
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: Y is for Young.
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: I think Cole Young is the absolute real deal, and
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: as big a jump as he took from year one
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: to year number two, I think he's going to take
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: another one from year two to number three. I think
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: there's a chance this guy could end up not only
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: being a perpetual all-star.
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: I think he could end up being a superstar.
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: And finally, Z is for Zanino, and this might be
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: the biggest thing for next season. Kyle Raleigh played like
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: Mike Zanino this past year. We need him to be
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: more like Cal Raleigh. He might not ever get back
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: to 2025 Cal Raleigh, but he can't be Zanino. Otherwise,
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: this entire championship window that they discussed that they have
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: could be doomed.
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: Could change. Absolutely.
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: They need him to be not even 2025. If you're
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: 2024 Cal Raleigh, I'll take that.
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: I only went two minutes over. That's good. Pretty good, though.
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: Well done. 26 letters.
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: Got through it all.
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: All right. Coming up next, Mike Sando on Sports Radio
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: 93.3 KJRFM.
• 22:58
  Speaker 6: I guess we now need to reassess what we think
• 23:00
  Speaker 6: of them in terms of valuing the interior offensive line
• 23:03
  Speaker 6: because I used a first-round pick on Gray Zabel, and
• 23:05
  Speaker 6: now they've made this trade for Quentin Nelson. So, I mean,
• 23:08
  Speaker 6: this is what the type of move people in Seattle
• 23:09
  Speaker 6: have wanted the Seahawks to make for years to address
• 23:12
  Speaker 6: their offensive line, and now they've done it.
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I saw that you had to do some explaining
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: of what you meant on Twitter, and that's the explanation
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: right there. You were just surprised that they would invest
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: that much in offensive line.
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: Well, a little bit.
• 23:26
  Speaker 6: I guess a little surprised that the price was as good, too.
• 23:30
  Speaker 6: Last week when the people were saying, well, okay, the
• 23:33
  Speaker 6: Colts fire so who's most likely to be traded and
• 23:38
  Speaker 6: Seattle go after?
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: I was.
• 23:41
  Speaker 6: Probably less, you know, on the outside of that, that
• 23:45
  Speaker 6: they would actually do it for Nelson. But they did,
• 23:47
  Speaker 6: and I think you've got to applaud it.
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: Niners countered with DeForest Buckner. Does that average things out?
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: Did we not make any headway there?
• 23:56
  Speaker 6: I don't know about that. I think Buckner's probably a
• 23:59
  Speaker 6: little bit further down the road, a little bit older.
• 24:02
  Speaker 6: So I don't know. And I think that's a great
• 24:05
  Speaker 6: addition for them, too. and they need it for their
• 24:09
  Speaker 6: rotation of their defensive lines. But I see them as
• 24:12
  Speaker 6: kind of unrelated. I don't think it's– I think that
• 24:17
  Speaker 6: either one of them would have happened on their own.
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: Jeffrey Simmons to the Bears this morning. What did you
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: make of that?
• 24:23
  Speaker 6: Oh, man. I wasn't expecting that. Two number one picks.
• 24:26
  Speaker 6: This is like the Jalen Ramsey trade. So I think
• 24:31
  Speaker 6: that's fascinating for the Bears because– Look, the Bears have
• 24:34
  Speaker 6: invested a lot in, obviously, they have their quarterback, they think,
• 24:37
  Speaker 6: in Caleb Williams. And then they spent a ton of
• 24:40
  Speaker 6: draft picks for the offense, you know, in getting Loveland,
• 24:44
  Speaker 6: the tight end, Burden, the receiver. They've made trades for
• 24:48
  Speaker 6: Joe Tooney on their offensive line. And what they've been
• 24:51
  Speaker 6: missing is some real star power up front on defense.
• 24:55
  Speaker 6: I think this move is saying, we're going to be
• 24:57
  Speaker 6: drafting too late to get one of those guys. You know,
• 25:00
  Speaker 6: do you want to be the Chiefs trying to fill
• 25:03
  Speaker 6: a premium position like left tackle and drafting Josh Simmons
• 25:06
  Speaker 6: at the end of the first round? Or do we
• 25:08
  Speaker 6: just want to go get a guy? And they just
• 25:11
  Speaker 6: went and got a guy. And I think there's definitely
• 25:14
  Speaker 6: some risk in that, but no risk at no biscuit, right?
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: I mean, this was already a great matchup for us
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: on Monday night. And now you've added the Quentin Nelson
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: versus Jeffrey Simmons element, Mike.
• 25:25
  Speaker 6: Well, you know, and you got to think, I'm laughing
• 25:28
  Speaker 6: a little bit here, but Quentin Nelson's going to be going, hey,
• 25:30
  Speaker 6: you know what? get to with a winning team. And yeah,
• 25:33
  Speaker 6: I'm not going to miss Jeffrey Simmons two times a
• 25:36
  Speaker 6: year in the NFC South, you know, as I, well,
• 25:39
  Speaker 6: you get them this week, pal, maybe you'll get them
• 25:41
  Speaker 6: in the championship game or something in the playoffs too.
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: The matchup itself, Mike McDonald versus Ben Johnson, Caleb Williams
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: against the best defense in the national football league.
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: Sorry, Vikings. What do you think of this Monday night affair?
• 26:00
  Speaker 6: I think advantage Seahawks.
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: I do.
• 26:02
  Speaker 6: I think that Seattle's defense is further along than Chicago's
• 26:07
  Speaker 6: offense from a consistency standpoint. I do think there's a
• 26:11
  Speaker 6: lot of things that Caleb Williams can do miraculously off schedule,
• 26:14
  Speaker 6: but I think you can't live off of that. And
• 26:16
  Speaker 6: so I think that he's not far enough along in
• 26:20
  Speaker 6: where he needs to be or where he's going to
• 26:22
  Speaker 6: be possibly in terms of just playing on time and
• 26:25
  Speaker 6: in rhythm and high percentage type passes. If you look
• 26:29
  Speaker 6: at quarterbacks who've– I think Matthew Stafford at his best
• 26:33
  Speaker 6: has given Seattle some problems because even when you pressure him,
• 26:36
  Speaker 6: he makes some amazing plays, precision passes, that sort of
• 26:38
  Speaker 6: a thing. I don't think that's Caleb Williams at this stage,
• 26:41
  Speaker 6: so I think it's going to be a good game
• 26:43
  Speaker 6: for Seattle's defense, and the question will just be like
• 26:46
  Speaker 6: it is every week. Does the offense– how many turnovers
• 26:49
  Speaker 6: do they have? Because that's really the only way it
• 26:51
  Speaker 6: seems like Seattle loses defensively.
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: When you did your quarterback tiers, what was the superlative
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: that stood out about Caleb Williams? And then what was
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: the negative feedback that you got on him?
• 27:03
  Speaker 6: Well, he came in number 11 overall. He moved up
• 27:05
  Speaker 6: quite a bit to number 11, so he was solidly
• 27:07
  Speaker 6: in tier two. And the ability to make the miraculous play.
• 27:11
  Speaker 6: is what stood out and gives him the ceiling to
• 27:14
  Speaker 6: be higher than Tier 2. And we saw it in
• 27:16
  Speaker 6: the playoffs last year, that amazing retreating pass, you know,
• 27:21
  Speaker 6: for a touchdown. Really, I mean, I don't know if
• 27:25
  Speaker 6: anyone's made that pass before. You know, it's just incredible.
• 27:28
  Speaker 6: He has that type of ability. The concern is just
• 27:31
  Speaker 6: a little bit of the consistency, you know, and that's
• 27:33
  Speaker 6: one of the things Ben Johnson has said. He wants
• 27:35
  Speaker 6: his quarterback completing close to 70% of his passes. And
• 27:38
  Speaker 6: guess what? When they had Case Keenum and Tyler Bajenton there,
• 27:40
  Speaker 6: those guys did. And Caleb Williams hasn't quite been able
• 27:46
  Speaker 6: to do that as consistently, but on the upside of
• 27:48
  Speaker 6: that is he makes some spectacular plays those guys could
• 27:51
  Speaker 6: never make. So I think that's just what it is.
• 27:53
  Speaker 6: You're going to have a little bit of an up
• 27:54
  Speaker 6: and down with him. The highs are super high. The lows,
• 27:58
  Speaker 6: he's done a great job of mitigating those. There's fewer
• 28:00
  Speaker 6: of the lows, but I think they'll still be there
• 28:02
  Speaker 6: against a defense like Seattle.
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: How impressed were you with Sunday night's victory over the Chiefs?
• 28:08
  Speaker 6: Very, very impressed. I thought it was a great game,
• 28:10
  Speaker 6: and I thought they did some things offensively that made sense.
• 28:14
  Speaker 6: I think sometimes these offensive coordinators, you know, are trying
• 28:18
  Speaker 6: to do too much. I think we've seen it with
• 28:20
  Speaker 6: Mike McDaniel in, in taking over with, you know, with
• 28:25
  Speaker 6: chargers and trying to do all the stuff he was
• 28:27
  Speaker 6: doing with Miami. And I think it got, it felt
• 28:29
  Speaker 6: to me like it got a little bit scaled back
• 28:32
  Speaker 6: and it obviously wasn't such a big outside zone run
• 28:36
  Speaker 6: thing for them. And it looked strange. super much more
• 28:39
  Speaker 6: comfortable for the quarterback so that's exactly what happened is
• 28:42
  Speaker 6: exactly what i think you were waiting to see if
• 28:46
  Speaker 6: it happened and the fact that it did happen and
• 28:51
  Speaker 6: it is very encouraging in terms of their ability to
• 28:53
  Speaker 6: turn the dials when they need.
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: To packers or panthers.
• 28:58
  Speaker 6: Well i think the packers to me pretty clearly i
• 29:01
  Speaker 6: just think the pan the panthers are they're both these
• 29:04
  Speaker 6: teams are super injured I think the Panthers are more injured,
• 29:07
  Speaker 6: and I think it's at Green Bay too, right?
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: I think it is.
• 29:10
  Speaker 6: I mean, it's just tough on the travel. I just
• 29:13
  Speaker 6: think physically they're going to have a tough time.
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: Mike Sando is with us here on the program. All right,
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: so a very busy week in the trade deadline. I
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: love that the trading deadline now means something in the
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: National Football League.
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: I love trades, and these are some significant things.
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: We still have a couple of weeks before we're there,
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: a week and a half before the deadline, so I mean,
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: what's going to be the next biggest move? Is it
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: Philadelphia deciding to sell or is it a Jonathan Taylor trade?
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: What in your crystal ball do you see as the
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: next big trade?
• 29:44
  Speaker 6: I think the Colts are definitely not done. You know,
• 29:46
  Speaker 6: I don't know if it'll be Jonathan Taylor. They have
• 29:48
  Speaker 6: a couple other guys, Josh Downs at receiver, you know,
• 29:50
  Speaker 6: and I think Grover Stewart is another one defensively who
• 29:53
  Speaker 6: could fit that mold. Philly, yes, I think there's enough
• 29:58
  Speaker 6: time left for Philly now. uh, for them to fall further,
• 30:02
  Speaker 6: whether it's us five in a row, they've lost four
• 30:05
  Speaker 6: or five in a row.
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 30:07
  Speaker 6: Um, so yes, I think they could be definitely a
• 30:08
  Speaker 6: team that, uh, you know, looks at that point to
• 30:12
  Speaker 6: move somebody and, you know, uh, are they going to
• 30:16
  Speaker 6: move a Saquon Barkley or somebody? I, I think you
• 30:19
  Speaker 6: just have to wait and see on some of these
• 30:20
  Speaker 6: big names, but now we know these teams, this is
• 30:23
  Speaker 6: different to have these types of names. And by the way,
• 30:25
  Speaker 6: not even in season, we've had Micah Parsons and miles
• 30:27
  Speaker 6: Garrett too. Yeah. So I think, I think that, What
• 30:30
  Speaker 6: you can imagine can happen. I think some of the stuff,
• 30:33
  Speaker 6: like this Josh Simmons, Jeffrey Simmons one, they take time.
• 30:37
  Speaker 6: And like the team works on the other team for
• 30:39
  Speaker 6: a long time. And then you find a connection between
• 30:41
  Speaker 6: the two front offices are both, you know, Ryan Poles
• 30:44
  Speaker 6: and Borgonzi from Tennessee are both from Kansas City. So
• 30:48
  Speaker 6: look at Ed Dodds and John Schneider, both from Indy, right?
• 30:51
  Speaker 6: So I look for those types of connections behind some
• 30:56
  Speaker 6: of these really big moves.
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: Mm-hmm. All right, well, we're out of time. We had
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: too much to discuss, too many topics. I do want
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: to mention, though, Mike's got a new pinned article up.
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: It's the story he's always wanted to do, taking you
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: on a wild ride inside NFL headsets on game day.
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: He even warns you to buckle up. We'll talk about
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: it next week. I don't have time to talk about
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: it right now, but I at least wanted to mention it.
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: because I am interested in exploring that with you when
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: we have time.
• 31:21
  Speaker 6: Yeah, it was fun. We'll see how many trades there
• 31:24
  Speaker 6: are next week.
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we got that, too. We're still going to have
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: a lot of content here.
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: All right, well, enjoy the football. Tell your son not
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: to worry. The Packers got this. They're going to be fine.
• 31:34
  Speaker 6: That's what I told him.
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: All right, man. I'll talk to you soon. Mike Sandoz,
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  Speaker 1: We'll close it out with one last thing next. All right,
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  Speaker 1: final segment of the show, which means we have time
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  Speaker 1: for just one last thing. The only thing is three
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  Speaker 1: one last things. So we'll get to that in a moment.
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  Speaker 2: Three last things.
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  Speaker 3: All right. What do you got for one last thing?
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  Speaker 4: Favorite Halloween candy. Oh, I want to ask you what
• 32:36
  Speaker 4: you guys are first, but I want to tell you mine.
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  Speaker 4: And it has changed in the last couple of years.
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  Speaker 4: When I was a kid, I would always try and
• 32:44
  Speaker 4: trade away my Butterfingers.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, really?
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  Speaker 2: But it's turned into my favorite Halloween candy.
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  Speaker 5: Really?
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  Speaker 3: Are you enjoying that it gets stuck in your teeth
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  Speaker 3: so you can enjoy a little.
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  Speaker 2: Bit more later? It's like the taste stays there, you know?
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  Speaker 1: I think that is one of those things, like toffee
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  Speaker 1: and that sort of stuff. You do, the older you get,
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  Speaker 1: the more you kind of like that sort of thing. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know if it was the texture when I
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  Speaker 4: was a kid that was like, what is.
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  Speaker 2: This, like crunchy?
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  Speaker 3: Maybe you just had a soft mouth. Yeah, maybe. Look
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  Speaker 3: at you with your soft mouth over there. You didn't
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  Speaker 3: want to eat hard things.
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  Speaker 2: Guess so. I learned my lesson.
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  Speaker 4: I grew up, I grew a pair and started eating
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  Speaker 4: harder candies.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I got to go.
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  Speaker 1: I don't mean to be a cliche, but Reese's Peanut
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  Speaker 1: Butter Cups. That's what I'm going to reach for first.
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  Speaker 1: But I will just give you an example because I
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  Speaker 1: also like the sugary candies, too.
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  Speaker 3: Not just.
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  Speaker 1: And I am a Starburst sucker.
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  Speaker 3: I had to stop buying them.
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  Speaker 6: Really?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: For a while, Unicorn kept buying them because it was
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: COVID and she thought that that was a treat and
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: that would make me forget my imprisonment.
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  Speaker 2: And so.
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  Speaker 3: She would buy Starbursts. And then as soon as we
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  Speaker 3: got out of COVID, we are never getting Starbursts again.
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  Speaker 3: You're not going to eat any more Starbursts. They're horrible
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  Speaker 3: for you. But I do love them. I love them.
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  Speaker 3: All right, Katie, what's your favorite? I'm going to go
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  Speaker 3: with the chewy and go Mambas.
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  Speaker 2: Mambas.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, those are just chewy, fruity, delicious. All right. I
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  Speaker 3: do like Starbursts. You like sugary first? You'll go sugary
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  Speaker 3: versus chocolatey? Yeah. What about soft or hard?
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  Speaker 2: I like it both, baby.
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  Speaker 3: Okay. Now or laters for hard.
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  Speaker 5: All right.
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  Speaker 3: And if you go soft, maybe a Tootsie Roll as well. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Are we Warheads fans?
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  Speaker 3: Tootsie. I don't think I've ever had one.
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  Speaker 2: Never had a Warhead?
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  Speaker 3: No, I don't think I have.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, it's extremely sour at first.
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  Speaker 5: Oh.
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  Speaker 4: But then it, like, dissolves to sweet, and the sweetness
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  Speaker 4: after the extreme sour makes it taste so good.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Warhead. Check it out.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 3: Kid, what's your one last thing? We're on candy. I'll
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: stick with it.
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  Speaker 5: The Athletic, they always write something cool. At the end
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  Speaker 5: of their NFL story, they're like, oh. Top 50 best candies.
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  Speaker 5: And then the overrated candies. I disagree because I'm a
• 34:48
  Speaker 5: big fan of Tootsie Rolls.
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  Speaker 3: I like Tootsie Rolls.
• 34:50
  Speaker 5: They also have Milky Way on there as well. And
• 34:52
  Speaker 5: Three Musketeers, which are two chocolates that I actually like.
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  Speaker 5: So I'm disappointed in the Athletic.
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  Speaker 3: Those are overrated. So that's my one last thing. The
• 34:59
  Speaker 3: Athletic's tripping. Frozen Milky Way?
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  Speaker 2: I'll do them both.
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  Speaker 3: Like I said, soft and hard, baby.
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  Speaker 2: Don't stop.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: There's something about like the Like, the flavor gets enhanced
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  Speaker 1: when you freeze, like, a Three Musketeers bar.
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  Speaker 2: It does, but part of the charm is that, like.
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: Soft nougat-y?
• 35:19
  Speaker 4: Yeah, the fluffiness of it, you know, especially with Three Musketeers.
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  Speaker 2: But I know what you mean. I like them both.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. It's like, I don't like biting into it, that
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  Speaker 1: experience when it's frozen, but then.
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  Speaker 3: The experience ends up being better.
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  Speaker 6: God, now I'm hungry.
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  Speaker 3: Very strange.
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  Speaker 2: What are we doing?
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  Speaker 3: All right.
• 35:34
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  Speaker 3: It's a new thing. Learn more at SeattleKraken.com. See, they
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: like wieners over hot dogs.
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  Speaker 2: S'mores yeah i guess so yeah they're not giving.
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  Speaker 1: Out free s'mores they're not doing you know three dollar
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: s'mores are they free wieners yeah three dollar wieners that's
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: what they're giving out of the old kraken game now
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  Speaker 1: uh all right well uh that'll do it for us
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: i'm gonna take a few days off god knows it's
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: been a while yeah uh so i'm handing this uh
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: this monkey show over to uh anders hurst and to
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: christopher kidd uh for the next few days but i
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: will be back late next week late next Friday. I
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: didn't want to miss more than a full week. But
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: I got things to do back home with the family.
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: So I'll talk to you soon. But, you know, support
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: our guys here. Support our new guys here. They're taking
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: over the show here for the next few days.
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: We'll keep from burning everything down.
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  Speaker 3: All right. Thank you. Appreciate it. Greg Bell is next.
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  Speaker 3: He won't make the same promise. Sports Radio 93.3 KJRFM.