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Best of Chuck & Buck 5-22 · Chuck in the Morning

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Speaker 1: Let's do the abcs of the MS are Daily Mariners segment.
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Speaker 1: We run through the alphabet, and that's our guide through
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Speaker 1: a Daily Mariners segment. We left off of the letter
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Speaker 1: M yesterday, and M is for momentum. Like the Seattle Mariners,
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Speaker 1: SMIs for Mariners. The Kansas City Royals also hate momentum.
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Speaker 1: Man today despise them some momentum. I don't know why.
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Speaker 1: I think momentum is a good thing in sports. I'd
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Speaker 1: try to take advantage of it.
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Speaker 2: It seems like it would be I don't know, positive.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, but the Mariners, just when you think they get going,
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Speaker 1: they'll go out and play their worst series of the year,
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Speaker 1: and the Royals do the exact same thing. The Kansas
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Speaker 1: City Royals had maybe not the same expectations going into
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Speaker 1: this year as the MS, but they'd certainly had high hopes.
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Speaker 1: They thought they were going to win the division this year.
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Speaker 1: They're ten games under five hundred right now, and if
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Speaker 1: you remember, they've won all three games at T Mobile
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Speaker 1: against the Mariners, and they thought that was their turnaround.
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Speaker 1: They then took two from first place Cleveland at home
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Speaker 1: the next couple of games, and the Royals were believing, Hey,
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Speaker 1: we fixed it. We're good. Everything's fine, We're all right.
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Speaker 1: We finally grabbed momentum. Yeah, we are what we thought.
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Speaker 1: We were five straight games that we've won, and we're
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Speaker 1: going to get back on track here. Well, since that time,
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Speaker 1: they've gone three and eleven and they just got swept
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Speaker 1: by the Boston Red Sox, who have been struggling all
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Speaker 1: season long this year as well. So the Royals haven't
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Speaker 1: been able to seize momentum. The Mariners haven't been able
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Speaker 1: to seize momentum, and they will do battle tonight, starting
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Speaker 1: at four forty in Kansas City. Kick a doll while
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Speaker 1: it's down. Yeah, which that's a terrible say now I
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Speaker 1: think about it now that I'm very strong, Well, I
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Speaker 1: would say. Then we're coming off two out of three.
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Speaker 1: So they've lost three straight and they've lost actually they've
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Speaker 1: lost nine of their last ten. So they seem to
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Speaker 1: have not been able to take advantage that little upswing
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Speaker 1: that they had, and so let's go ahead and keep
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Speaker 1: them in the doghouse. So Kansas City and the Mariners tonight. Now,
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Speaker 1: in order to get off to a good start in
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Speaker 1: this series, we're gonna have to be a left hander
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Speaker 1: and it's hard. It's really hard, and is for Noah.
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Speaker 1: Noah Cameron is going to start for the Royals tonight.
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Speaker 1: He is left handed. We are terrible against lefties, and
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Speaker 1: yet this might be the guy. This might be the guy.
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Speaker 1: Can we split the difference on this brain trust Jerry
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Speaker 1: Justin Dan? Can we split the difference that maybe we
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Speaker 1: I mean, it's so funny that we marry ourselves to
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Speaker 1: this righty lefty split, and yet we don't marry ourselves
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Speaker 1: to guys who have reverse splits. And that's what we
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Speaker 1: have with Noah Cameron. He gets pummeled by left handers.
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Speaker 1: He has a three to ten batting average against and
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Speaker 1: a nine to two OPS against left handed batters this year.
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Speaker 1: Can we maybe split the difference and not put ref
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Speaker 1: Schneider and Joe in the lineup? Maybe we could go
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Speaker 1: with can Zone or Rayley to see if maybe there's
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Speaker 1: something to Noah Cameron can't get lefties out, uh, and
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Speaker 1: so let's put one of the right's in. But let's
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Speaker 1: maybe maybe we could start a process of seeing if
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Speaker 1: Dom Canzone really does have to be taken out of
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Speaker 1: games every single time a left hander enters. Maybe this
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Speaker 1: is the type of left hander that we actually start
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Speaker 1: can zone.
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Speaker 2: What do you think I don't hate that idea.
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Speaker 1: Let's do it's yeah, let's do it.
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Speaker 2: Sign me up for that chuck.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. So we're slaves to the righty lefty thing and
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Speaker 1: the numbers, well, the numbers. You know, this guy hits back. Well,
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Speaker 1: can we not recognize when reverse splitz are at play?
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Speaker 1: Noah Cameron and a short sample size can't get lefties out.
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Speaker 1: So let's throw at least one extra lefty at him tonight.
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Speaker 1: How about we go Schneider and Dom today in the lineup? Okay,
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Speaker 1: what do you think? All right?
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Speaker 2: Sign me up?
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Speaker 1: Headlines next plus doesn't happen a lot, but we're experiencing
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Speaker 1: it two months into the year. A great roster remodeling
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Speaker 1: done by the Mariners. We'll get into a next sports
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Speaker 1: He totally mispronounced everything. The loser.
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Speaker 4: for a highlight. They're all in French.
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Speaker 1: Kind of broadcaster mispronounces every word.
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Speaker 4: He kind of said hurricanes correctly, but it was a little.
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Speaker 1: Kind of said it with a fancy air about him.
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Speaker 1: That's that's right. It's Chuck and Ashley with you. Happy
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Speaker 1: Friday to you all. Yes, that from Montreal Canadians television
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Speaker 1: last night as the Canadians, the Habs won six to
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Speaker 1: two over the rusted solid Carolina Hurricanes, who hadn't played
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Speaker 1: in eleven games. They lost their first playoff game in
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Speaker 1: three series last night to start the Eastern Conference Finals.
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Speaker 1: Six to two was the final score. Tonight Las Vegas
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Speaker 1: at Colorado. Colorado was a bit rusty too. They lost
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Speaker 1: to the Golden Knights in Game number one, so they'll
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Speaker 1: play game number two tonight. Is it a must win?
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Speaker 1: Can Colorado afford to lose both games at home to
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Speaker 1: start this series? Some might say that, so they'll get
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Speaker 1: started tonight f five thirty In the National Hockey League
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Speaker 1: that starts Our frost brewed corse like Choose Chill headlines
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Speaker 1: the NBA playoffs. The New York Knicks were sixteen point
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Speaker 1: winners over the Clevelanders. They won nine straight playoff games,
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Speaker 1: believe it or not, and they will play game number
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Speaker 1: three on Saturday tonight. Oka see at San Antonio for
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Speaker 1: the first time. The Spurs and the Thunder are even
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Speaker 1: at one game apiece tips at five point thirty. There.
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Speaker 1: For San Antonio, they look like they're going to be
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Speaker 1: without Dylan Harper and Deer and Fox and Oklahoma City
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Speaker 1: looks like they're going to be without Jalen Williams and
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Speaker 1: so Man limping through the playoffs the two best teams
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Speaker 1: in the West. They'll play game number two or three tonight.
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Speaker 1: I should say, have I been saying game number two
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Speaker 1: all day? Obviously that's game number three?
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Speaker 4: I hadn't heard of that, so, but maybe I also
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Speaker 4: wasn't paying enough attention to the number.
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Speaker 2: I think you've been all right.
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Speaker 1: Storm versus Sun at seven o'clock tonight. They've faced each
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Speaker 1: other for the second time this week, and both times
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Speaker 1: in Seattle. The Sun won earlier this week, so the
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Speaker 1: Storm around for their.
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Speaker 4: Reverge revenge game. It's been the long two days that
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Speaker 4: they've had to live with that loss.
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Speaker 1: That's right, Sounders Sunday this weekend, they'll be in Los
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Speaker 1: Angeles taking on LAFC, and they've chosen it as the
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Speaker 1: national game to broadcast on Fox six point fifteen. They'll
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Speaker 1: start that on the pitch in Los Angeles. Sad News
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Speaker 1: from the NASCAR world. Kyle Busch stunningly passed away yesterday
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Speaker 1: at the age of forty one. He had not been
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Speaker 1: feeling well as of late. He had recently raced even
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Speaker 1: though he had a bit of a sounds like a
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Speaker 1: sinus infection. He was taking some medication as well. There
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Speaker 1: is some thought that maybe he'd been dealing with a
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Speaker 1: ongoing issue to his health but kept trying to drive
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Speaker 1: through it. Anyway, by the time he got to the hospital,
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Speaker 1: they were describing as as a serious assume me a
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Speaker 1: severe illness, and unfortunately he did not make it through.
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Speaker 1: I mean, it's just a shocking thing for the entire
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Speaker 1: NASCAR world. So at age forty one, one of the
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Speaker 1: biggest names in the sport, still very active in the sport,
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Speaker 1: left us yesterday. We'll talk a little bit about it
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Speaker 1: later on in the show. Mariners have the day off.
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Speaker 1: They will be in Kansas City tonight. First pitch there
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Speaker 1: is at four forty. It'll be left hander Noah Cameron.
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Speaker 1: That should not make us like Trimmer, but it does.
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Speaker 2: It does. Yeah, it could have been left hander Taylor Brown.
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Speaker 2: She's in Palmer's Little League. Oh well, then I think
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Speaker 2: the Mariners would still be scared.
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Speaker 1: Logan Gilbert will start for the MS tonight. First pitch
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Speaker 1: is at four forty the Kansasity Royals limping into this series,
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Speaker 1: the Mariners hopefully getting going with two out of three
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Speaker 1: against the Chicago White Sox. We shall see, and of
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Speaker 1: course we don't know what position JP Crawford will be
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Speaker 1: playing tonight, if at all, but we'll find out probably
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Speaker 1: around one thirty today when the lineup comes out for
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Speaker 1: the first game of this series in Kansas City. Also
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Speaker 1: should mention Matt Stafford an extension. We'll talk more about
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Speaker 1: that in the Oat Show at eight o'clock. But Stafford
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Speaker 1: signs a one year, fifty five million dollar extension with
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Speaker 1: the Rams, so we're gonna have to deal with the
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Speaker 1: reigning MVP of the National Football League for at least
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Speaker 1: two more seasons, it sounds like, and then they'll hand
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Speaker 1: things over to Simpson, their first round draft pick, who
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Speaker 1: I'm still convinced Sean McVay hates perfect.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know. I don't know how. It just
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Speaker 2: all of a sudden changes.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know.
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Speaker 1: talk about the Mariners, because some men, you don't quite
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Speaker 1: see this much of a reshuffling. I mean, a team
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Speaker 1: that starts the season as American League favorites in a
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Speaker 1: lot of circles, certainly American League West favorites. We knew
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Speaker 1: that they had some players up and coming through the
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Speaker 1: system that could impact the twenty twenty six season. We
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Speaker 1: were also aware that, hey, there might be a couple
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Speaker 1: of guys this year that could have some breakthrough years.
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Speaker 1: And we've gotten that, and yet it hasn't really positively
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Speaker 1: affected the record. We're sitting here at three games under
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Speaker 1: five hundred in a head scratching fashion, but it is
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Speaker 1: affecting roster decisions. And so here we sit two months,
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Speaker 1: nearly two months into the year, and all of a sudden,
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Speaker 1: we're looking at some real major changes to this roster.
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Speaker 1: I mean it is like Ty Pennington came in here
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Speaker 1: or Gordon Ramsey.
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Speaker 2: A big truck in front and then they pulled it away. Yeah, like,
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Speaker 2: look at this new lineup.
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Speaker 1: Came in here with their crew and like, I don't
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Speaker 1: like that over there. I mean, I don't like the menu.
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Speaker 1: You know we're going to shorten that menu. I don't
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Speaker 1: like what you've done with this crawl space. You know,
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Speaker 1: the Mariners have self diagnosed their roster two months into
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Speaker 1: the season, and they have already made some major changes
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Speaker 1: to it, and there could be more major changes to come.
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Speaker 1: But for a team that believe they had it's their
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Speaker 1: best roster they've ever assembled, their best chance for a
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Speaker 1: World Series since taking over a decade ago. And to
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Speaker 1: have kind of decided two months into the year, a
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Speaker 1: third of the way into the season because Memorial Day,
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Speaker 1: it's Memorial Day weekend, and you know what they say
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Speaker 1: about Memorial Day weekend in baseball. If you're not a
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Speaker 1: contender by Memorial Day weekend, more often than not, you're
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Speaker 1: not a contender. And even though our record doesn't suggest
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Speaker 1: we're a contender, we're very much in the race both
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Speaker 1: for wild card and for division at this stage. So
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Speaker 1: we're a contender no matter how poorly we've played. And
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Speaker 1: yet some really profound decisions have been made about this
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Speaker 1: roster two months into the year, and when you kind
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Speaker 1: of step back from it, you wonder just how much
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Speaker 1: different it's going to look going forward. But let's just
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Speaker 1: take the decision on Sunday that cold Emerson's being called up.
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Speaker 1: That is a major move. I mean, we knew it
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Speaker 1: was going to happen, but cold Emerson wasn't exactly dominating
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Speaker 1: Triple A this year as an offensive player, slick as
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Speaker 1: could be on the defensive side of the ball, and
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Speaker 1: they just felt this entire offseason he's just one of
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Speaker 1: those special players. He's just ahead of the curb.
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Speaker 5: And so.
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Speaker 1: When we had the Brendan Donovan injury and the decision
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Speaker 1: that was made, you know what, let's get him right.
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Speaker 1: He's going to be on the shelf probably for more
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Speaker 1: than ten days, and it's time to activate cold Emerson.
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Speaker 1: We gave him a shot of making the team in
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Speaker 1: spring and now, even though he's not killing it in Tacoma,
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Speaker 1: he is not embarrassing himself either. He looks like he
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Speaker 1: belongs and we just have belief in this young man
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Speaker 1: and what he's made of. So the activation on Sunday
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Speaker 1: didn't want Leo Revos to be playing third base every
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Speaker 1: day anymore, and I get it. I was sick of
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Speaker 1: watching that too.
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Speaker 2: We're real sick about it.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, but even that Revos is no longer on this roster,
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Speaker 1: and who knows if or when he's going to get
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Speaker 1: his utility job back now that we've made this move,
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Speaker 1: because think about what kind of impact it's had. First
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Speaker 1: of all, we thought cold Emerson was being brought up
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Speaker 1: to play third base, and then we find out three
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Speaker 1: days later, Nope, he's going to play shortstop. JP has
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Speaker 1: volunteered to move to third base. But that's Brendan Donovan's job, right, Well,
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Speaker 1: maybe it's not anymore when Brendan Donovan comes back because
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Speaker 1: of the injuries he's dealt with and he wasn't exactly
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Speaker 1: Brooks Robinson over there at third base. Maybe the Mariners
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Speaker 1: two months into the year are going to change the way.
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Speaker 1: If JP Crawford can embrace and excel in any way
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Speaker 1: let's not say excel, embrace and hold down third base
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Speaker 1: if he's if he can make that transition, and it
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Speaker 1: can be smoother than not, because he's not going to
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Speaker 1: excel over there, but he might be proficient at playing
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Speaker 1: third base if he can do that, and they want
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Speaker 1: to keep his bat in his lineup, and they want
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Speaker 1: to keep his leadership. Now you've got a better defensive
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Speaker 1: shortstop who probably is going to struggle offensively. Almost all
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Speaker 1: of them do at age twenty coming into the league.
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Speaker 1: Very few of them hit the ground running at that point.
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Speaker 1: So he's probably gonna struggle defensively or offensively. But as
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Speaker 1: long as he can hold it down defensively, I think
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Speaker 1: the organization's going to view that as an upgrade. And
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Speaker 1: then if JP moves to third and you're a little
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Speaker 1: worried about Brendan Donovan being able to with the types
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Speaker 1: of injuries that he has, I mean we're talking groin
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Speaker 1: and core and hip and all sorts of things that
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Speaker 1: he jarred on that base pads hernia surgery, not hip hernia,
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Speaker 1: hernia surgery in the offseason, and maybe maybe when he
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Speaker 1: does come off the injury list, there will be this
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Speaker 1: feeling of he's not going to be an everyday player
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Speaker 1: for us. He wasn't really much more than a platoon
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Speaker 1: player and utility player for the Saint Louis Cardinals, and
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Speaker 1: the Mariners fell in love with him and we came
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Speaker 1: pretty close to doing it. We just haven't gotten to
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Speaker 1: see him enough on the field because of all of
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Speaker 1: his injuries. But if he comes back and JP's doing
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Speaker 1: all right at third base, maybe better than what Donovan
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Speaker 1: was at third base.
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Speaker 2: I would love that.
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Speaker 1: Would the Mariners then entertain Well, Brendan Donovan now can
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Speaker 1: become our super utility player and he plays more often
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Speaker 1: than not. But it does free us up to not
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Speaker 1: have to play him every day, which could possibly rest him.
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Speaker 1: We could also use him at the corner outfield. We
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Speaker 1: could use him for a day off for Cole Young
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Speaker 1: and until we do something at the trading deadline, prime
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Speaker 1: candidate that could be our DHF every day, and you
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Speaker 1: want to talk about something that might be able to
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Speaker 1: preserve him, so you move him around the field, give
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Speaker 1: guys rest, And maybe that's what Brendan Donovan. I mean.
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Speaker 1: There's a utility player that was what Leo Revos was
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Speaker 1: supposed to be, and then there's a super utility player
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Speaker 1: which ben Zobras sort of started, and that means they
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Speaker 1: play pretty much every day. They just might not play
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Speaker 1: the same position every day. And that's what I'm talking
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Speaker 1: about with Donovan. I'm not talking about turning him into
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Speaker 1: Leo Revos, but maybe he becomes the ben Zobrist on
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Speaker 1: this team, which is a really.
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Speaker 4: Valuable asset well, and if he's already had success doing
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Speaker 4: that in Saint Louis, I mean why not.
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Speaker 2: It sounds like that might be where he flourishes.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, if JP stumbles upon success at third, and all
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Speaker 1: of a sudden, you're getting Donovan back. Okay, Now we
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Speaker 1: can play him at third, and we can play him
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Speaker 1: at second, and we can play him corner outfield, and
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Speaker 1: we can d h him. We'll keep him in the
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Speaker 1: lineup frequently. But maybe it's just not playing third base
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Speaker 1: every day, and maybe that's an asset to this team.
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Speaker 1: So then that takes Revas because now, all of a sudden,
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Speaker 1: I've got a shortstop that can play shortstop and third
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Speaker 1: I can play a third baseman. I got a third
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Speaker 1: baseman now that can play third base. In short I
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Speaker 1: got a super utility player that I can use at
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Speaker 1: any given day at about seven different positions. And even
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Speaker 1: Cole Young can still. So what need do I even
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Speaker 1: have for a utility player. I don't even have need
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Speaker 1: for Leo Revas anymore. Yeah, so I don't even need
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Speaker 1: to bring him back. I don't need to call him up.
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Speaker 1: I can maybe keep a Patrick Wisdom on the roster,
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Speaker 1: so that I've got some big threat coming off the bench,
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Speaker 1: so that's a possibility. So that's a change already. That's
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Speaker 1: another change. That's already four changes we've talked about and
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Speaker 1: we're not.
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Speaker 2: Even to June goodness yet.
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Speaker 1: Okay. I think maybe Johnny Pareda as much as cal
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Speaker 1: fought to get Mitch Garver back. I like what I
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Speaker 1: see out of Johnny Pareda. I think he is just
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Speaker 1: seamlessly transitioned into this backup catcher role.
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Speaker 2: Seems like it.
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Speaker 1: He seems to make more contact than what Mitch does.
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Speaker 1: And Mitch has a reputation of being a far better
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Speaker 1: power hitter and a far better masher of lefties. But
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Speaker 1: we just haven't seen it. We just have not seen it.
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Speaker 1: This is three years of waiting for this and it's
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Speaker 1: just not there. And Mitch has a great relationship with
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Speaker 1: the pitchers and they don't seem to struggle at all
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Speaker 1: when he's behind the plate with their stuff. I think
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Speaker 1: they really trust him. But Parada seems to have already
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Speaker 1: won that trust in a week and a half. And
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Speaker 1: I love his energy. I think it's infectious. And I
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Speaker 1: don't dislike the idea of having Mitch Garver on the roster,
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Speaker 1: but when Cal comes back, we might have a different
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Speaker 1: backup catcher. Johnny Parada might take over this job. Now
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Speaker 1: he's got options. I believe where Mitch Garver wouldn't, you
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Speaker 1: would be just getting rid of him, right, But I
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Speaker 1: don't think it's out of the realm of possibility. And
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Speaker 1: then we still have right fielders and dhs. We have
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Speaker 1: two right handed hitters that can't hit lefties, Ref Schneider
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Speaker 1: and Joe, and I do believe they are going to
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Speaker 1: give those guys more time to prove themselves. I think
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Speaker 1: it has been a short sample size, but it's getting longer,
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Speaker 1: and we still don't get production out of Ref Schneider
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Speaker 1: and I think Joe's been slightly better. But let's face it,
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Speaker 1: we didn't bring Connor Joe in here to be a
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Speaker 1: big roster piece. That was just a veteran in case
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Speaker 1: some things went sideways, which they did. But Victor Roblaze
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Speaker 1: is about ready to return from Tacoma. He's like right
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Speaker 1: on the lip of being ready to come back to
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Speaker 1: this team. And Brennan Davis is hitting four hundred and
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Speaker 1: forty foot home runs in the Pacific Coast League over
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Speaker 1: the batter's eye and dead center field. Maybe Brennan Davis.
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Speaker 1: It's time to activate him. You had to activate him
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Speaker 1: because of a clause in his contract to the forty
19:49
Speaker 1: man roster, So he's on the forty man roster, and
19:53
Speaker 1: I don't think he can be too far away from
19:56
Speaker 1: being activated on this team. They're going to give ref
19:59
Speaker 1: Schneider a lot longer look when Roblaze comes back. I'm
20:03
Speaker 1: sure Connor Joe's the guy that goes out, but I
20:08
Speaker 1: gotta believe that ref Snyder doesn't have too much longer
20:11
Speaker 1: to get it going. When I've got Brennan Davis, a younger, stronger, faster,
20:17
Speaker 1: more athletic outfielder who's killing the ball and Tacoma and
20:23
Speaker 1: was killing the ball and spring training, I gotta believe
20:26
Speaker 1: he's not too far away from taking ref Snyder's job.
20:30
Speaker 1: So that would be two more roster maneuvers, and one
20:34
Speaker 1: of those two would be significant.
20:36
Speaker 6: Yeah.
20:37
Speaker 4: Absolutely, And it is, yeah, very hard to sit there
20:40
Speaker 4: and make a case for Rob Refschneider to stay here
20:43
Speaker 4: with what's been going on and nothing against him, but
20:46
Speaker 4: I you know, I thought maybe or a lot against him, well,
20:49
Speaker 4: I mean personally, nothing against him personally, Yeah, but you know,
20:53
Speaker 4: you had a we had a moment where we thought, Okay,
20:55
Speaker 4: now he's out of his slumpy talked about his struggles,
20:58
Speaker 4: and nothing other than a couple hits here and there
21:02
Speaker 4: has happened.
21:03
Speaker 1: And he's admitted to he's mentally messed up right now,
21:07
Speaker 1: and we thought maybe he pushed through that, And right
21:11
Speaker 1: now he's right back in a slump and looks defeated again.
21:15
Speaker 1: And I'm rooting for him. And I don't blame Jerry
21:18
Speaker 1: or Justin at all, and neither should you. Listening that
21:24
Speaker 1: that was not a bad decision in the offseason, the
21:27
Speaker 1: Boston Red Sox fans were weeping when Rob Refsnyder got
21:31
Speaker 1: away from them this offseason. Well, he has been really
21:33
Speaker 1: good lately. He's a good teammate, and he's proven it's
21:36
Speaker 1: a lot better defensive player than he gives credit. He's
21:39
Speaker 1: given credit for as well. So it was not a
21:41
Speaker 1: bad decision. But for whatever reason, it's one of the
21:44
Speaker 1: great mysteries of the world.
21:46
Speaker 2: Why it keeps happening.
21:47
Speaker 1: That whenever guys that dominate left handed hitters or pitchers
21:51
Speaker 1: come to Seattle, they stink.
21:53
Speaker 4: Yet I don't know why, and anyone who would be
21:55
Speaker 4: blaming Jerry or justin for that would only be doing
21:57
Speaker 4: it in hindsight, because I'm sure pretty sure most people
21:59
Speaker 4: were really positive about that move when they added him.
22:02
Speaker 7: They were.
22:03
Speaker 1: It's very similar to the Aj Pollock move, which people hated, right,
22:07
Speaker 1: But that just shows you what happens when you come
22:10
Speaker 1: off nearly going to the World Series. People are a
22:12
Speaker 1: little more open minded, yeah about things. And then pitching wise, again,
22:17
Speaker 1: Emerson Hancock has forced something here that maybe the organization
22:22
Speaker 1: kind of hoped would occur. Certainly, Emerson Hancock was creating
22:27
Speaker 1: some buzz in spring training, Pete Woodworth told me on air,
22:30
Speaker 1: and then more off air, Emerson Hancock looks fantastic. So
22:35
Speaker 1: I knew that Emerson had taken a new step in
22:40
Speaker 1: his development, but until you actually see it in games,
22:44
Speaker 1: you can't believe it. And now we've seen it in games,
22:46
Speaker 1: and so now think about that in two months time,
22:49
Speaker 1: Emerson Hancock feels like a fixture. And what do we
22:53
Speaker 1: do with Luis Castillo is the question? Right now? Do
22:56
Speaker 1: we have a relief pitcher, a twenty four million dollars
22:58
Speaker 1: per year relief pitcher on our hands in Luis Castillo?
23:01
Speaker 1: Can he still be the leader of the pitchers if
23:04
Speaker 1: he's coming out of the bullpen, So that's a significant move.
23:07
Speaker 1: Farrer has looked real out of the bullpen. But we
23:10
Speaker 1: nearly have that solved, all things being weak equal, everybody's healthy.
23:15
Speaker 1: A bullpen of munios Farrer, Brash, Bi Zardo, Spire and
23:20
Speaker 1: Criswell and potentially Castillo, who I love the way he
23:24
Speaker 1: looked in the seventh inning a couple of nights ago.
23:27
Speaker 1: I mean that is that's a bullpen right there, that
23:31
Speaker 1: is deep, and that is lights out from the seventh
23:35
Speaker 1: inning on bullpen right there, and who knows what Castillo
23:38
Speaker 1: could add to that. So just significant, significant changes. And
23:43
Speaker 1: that doesn't even take into account what you might do
23:46
Speaker 1: at the trading deadline this year. And I'm going to
23:49
Speaker 1: tell you right now, I'm already on the go get
23:51
Speaker 1: Byron Buxton bandwagon, because if we continue down this road
23:54
Speaker 1: of just not being able to hit left handers, what
23:57
Speaker 1: do you think we're going to see in the playoffs?
23:59
Speaker 1: Probably a lot of they're going to build their rosters,
24:02
Speaker 1: they're going to build their rotations in the playoffs to
24:05
Speaker 1: throw as many lefties as us at us as possible.
24:08
Speaker 1: We have got to if we don't prove it with
24:10
Speaker 1: who we have that we can hit lefties, then we're
24:13
Speaker 1: going to have no choice but to go acquire somebody
24:17
Speaker 1: at the deadline that is a little more proven, and
24:19
Speaker 1: not just against left handers but overall. And I like,
24:22
Speaker 1: I've got Byron Buxton on my radar, and then that
24:24
Speaker 1: shakes up the roster as well, because then where do
24:27
Speaker 1: you put him? So it's it's been a heck of
24:30
Speaker 1: a remodel already. I mean it's like buying a brand
24:33
Speaker 1: new house and you're sure you love it, and then
24:35
Speaker 1: you've been around that neighbor two months later, it's six
24:39
Speaker 1: months of reconstruction, Like, why did you buy that house
24:42
Speaker 1: if you didn't love it the way that it was? No,
24:44
Speaker 1: we just had a real problem with you know, the basement.
24:48
Speaker 2: With the everything.
24:49
Speaker 1: Yeah, And so it's been a bit of a tide
24:52
Speaker 1: Pennington situation that the Mariners have undergone. And I didn't
24:56
Speaker 1: think we would see that much roster upheaval two months
24:59
Speaker 1: into the year. But I think it's the right path.
25:02
Speaker 1: I think we're heading in the right direction to making
25:04
Speaker 1: this a better team, and the moves are certainly not
25:08
Speaker 1: done at this stage. All right, coming up next, we
25:12
Speaker 1: will discuss the inevitables. No, not the Incredibles. Yeah, I'd
25:15
Speaker 1: like to talk about that cartoon as a really good way,
25:18
Speaker 1: but no, this is the inevitables, a topic that I
25:20
Speaker 1: brought up yesterday and we really didn't get to flush
25:23
Speaker 1: it out, especially some of your suggestions. So the inevitable
25:27
Speaker 1: things that are going to happen to our sports lives
25:29
Speaker 1: in the future. We'll go ahead and go through those
25:32
Speaker 1: next on KJR.
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Speaker 1: while longer. He's on medical leave. Ashley and I've been
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Speaker 1: months now.
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Speaker 2: Roof is getting heavy?
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Speaker 1: Is the roof getting heavy?
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Speaker 2: Roof's a little heavy?
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Speaker 1: Oh wow?
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Speaker 4: Notice that over in this corner it's like sagging. Yeah,
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Speaker 4: trying my best.
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Speaker 1: Jordan said, the ceiling is the roof? Where the roof
26:15
Speaker 1: is the ceiling?
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Speaker 2: Or did who said the roof is on fire.
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Speaker 1: I believe that was P Diddy.
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Speaker 2: Okay, we don't quote him.
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Speaker 1: I don't know. It is beautiful out though today. And
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Speaker 1: did you notice something today? You can tell that it's
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Speaker 2: Oh, and you can smell the sea. You know it's
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Speaker 1: Whenever you can smell the sea because it stinks, I
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Speaker 1: They can just take it in all right, let's get
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Speaker 1: started your eight top stories of the day. We do
27:29
Speaker 1: this every Friday, and my goodness, what a week for
27:33
Speaker 1: the Mariners. I mean, there is just a lot happening.
27:37
Speaker 1: What the hell's going on out here?
27:40
Speaker 8: Well, look scared because his eyelids are jamm and his
27:43
Speaker 8: old man's here.
27:44
Speaker 1: We need a live was it a live rooster?
27:47
Speaker 8: We need a live rooster to take the curse off
27:49
Speaker 8: hoses gleven. Nobody seems to know what to get Millie
27:52
Speaker 8: or Jimmy for their wedding present. About right right, We're
27:55
Speaker 8: dealing with a lot of shit.
27:58
Speaker 1: I think maybe the best delivered line in the history
28:02
Speaker 1: of Kevin Koshner's career right there.
28:03
Speaker 2: Pretty good?
28:04
Speaker 1: Ah man? Do I love that scene? So the Mariners,
28:09
Speaker 1: I don't know if they're chopping heads off roosters these days,
28:12
Speaker 1: but obviously trying to get their blank together this season,
28:17
Speaker 1: sitting at three games under five hundred, But they gave
28:20
Speaker 1: us a lot to talk about this week. Sunday the
28:24
Speaker 1: surprise call up of number one prospect Colt Emerson, then
28:28
Speaker 1: on Tuesday the great Piggyback Experiment of twenty twenty six,
28:33
Speaker 1: and then Wednesday, JP Crawford's self demotion, which he made public,
28:38
Speaker 1: freeing up Colt Emerson to play his normal position of shortstop,
28:42
Speaker 1: as JP is going to try and transition into a
28:47
Speaker 1: third baseman for this team midway through the season, this
28:51
Speaker 1: late in his career, So what's next. I have no idea.
28:54
Speaker 1: Julio announces he's dating a Kardashian.
28:57
Speaker 2: I mean, okay, I'll have a real problem with that one.
29:01
Speaker 1: It is a day off on Thursday. We had one
29:03
Speaker 1: yesterday for everyone to catch their breath. But man, what
29:07
Speaker 1: a week for sports talk radio, What a week for
29:09
Speaker 1: the Mariners. I mean, seems like an awful lot of
29:12
Speaker 1: transition for a team two months ago that seemed to
29:16
Speaker 1: be in a place of how excited they were about
29:21
Speaker 1: how their roster was, how great they were set up
29:25
Speaker 1: for a championship run this year. And I still think
29:28
Speaker 1: they believe. I know they believe that's still to this day.
29:32
Speaker 1: But man, that's a lot of significant shake up. That's
29:35
Speaker 1: a lot of significant news to take place in one week,
29:38
Speaker 1: two months into the year.
29:39
Speaker 4: And yeah, it did seem like every day it was like, oh, okay,
29:42
Speaker 4: well now no, you don't have to just talk about
29:44
Speaker 4: a win or a loss or a game like we
29:46
Speaker 4: normally do each week. It was just from one, as
29:49
Speaker 4: you said, from Sunday all the way through. I mean
29:51
Speaker 4: on Wednesday, when I was filling in for Greg. We
29:54
Speaker 4: were supposed to have Anders on to talk World Cup
29:55
Speaker 4: at ten thirty, and he luckily had forgotten and gone
29:59
Speaker 4: home because it I felt weird going from piggybackgait to World
30:03
Speaker 4: Cup because we had it scheduled. So it worked out
30:05
Speaker 4: for the best that we could talk basically mariners forty
30:08
Speaker 4: minutes straight because that's really what everybody.
30:09
Speaker 2: Wanted to talk about.
30:10
Speaker 1: Hmm. And the reason you want to talk about it
30:13
Speaker 1: and why there's such good topics is because we're not
30:16
Speaker 1: sure about any of them. No, there's an argument for
30:19
Speaker 1: bringing up cold Emerson because I do believe he's the
30:22
Speaker 1: better defensive shortstop. He's the best one in our organization.
30:25
Speaker 1: But there's certainly an argument against calling him up period.
30:29
Speaker 1: Is he ready for it? He's twenty years old. He
30:32
Speaker 1: wasn't exactly lighting Triple A on fire. Are we bringing
30:36
Speaker 1: him up too quickly? And if he does struggle, what
30:38
Speaker 1: is that going to do to his psyche? How much
30:40
Speaker 1: could that push him back? I don't want to send
30:42
Speaker 1: him back to tacomb at some point this year.
30:44
Speaker 2: That's the one thing I do not want.
30:45
Speaker 1: The Great Piggyback Experiments. I mean, I thought it was
30:48
Speaker 1: an interesting idea. For the most part, I think it
30:50
Speaker 1: went really well. I thought it was effective. Everybody pitched well.
30:54
Speaker 1: I didn't even think Munyo's pitched poorly and coughing up
30:57
Speaker 1: the lead in the ninth. But the experiment at the
31:00
Speaker 1: very end ended up blowing up in their face. And
31:04
Speaker 1: it's back to the drawing board, at least for one
31:06
Speaker 1: more round of it. We're going to do it one
31:09
Speaker 1: more time and maybe beyond we shall see. But we
31:12
Speaker 1: do get to apply the things that maybe we didn't
31:15
Speaker 1: do well in the experiment, adjust the formula, adjust the
31:20
Speaker 1: mathematical equation, and maybe do it better this next time around.
31:24
Speaker 1: And maybe that includes one nothing games trump all.
31:28
Speaker 2: Yeah, we don't.
31:29
Speaker 1: Just stick to a script when we are literally a
31:33
Speaker 1: home run or a goofy play away from coughing up
31:36
Speaker 1: the lead. So I think that's an adjustment that they'll
31:38
Speaker 1: make going forward. And then JP Crawford his gesture seemed wonderful,
31:43
Speaker 1: like the self awareness and the self sacrifice to say
31:48
Speaker 1: I might not be the best man for the job
31:50
Speaker 1: at shortstop, if the kid is give him the job
31:54
Speaker 1: and let me have a crack at third base while
31:56
Speaker 1: Brendan's out with the injury. Seemed like a really great
32:01
Speaker 1: gesture on his part. And yet we don't know if
32:05
Speaker 1: he's going to be able to make that transition to
32:07
Speaker 1: third base. And again we don't know if Colt Emerson
32:12
Speaker 1: is one hundred percent ready to take over as the
32:15
Speaker 1: starting shortstop for a World Series contender.
32:18
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, and the yeah, the unknowns definitely, I mean,
32:21
Speaker 4: are just add to the fodder, right, add to the conversation.
32:25
Speaker 2: But I'm excited to see what might happen.
32:28
Speaker 4: I'm looking forward to the lineup coming out today and
32:30
Speaker 4: seeing what, yeah, how it looks.
32:32
Speaker 2: So we'll see.
32:33
Speaker 1: Well. They will play in Kansas City tonight against the Royals,
32:36
Speaker 1: who are also struggling. More on that in a moment,
32:39
Speaker 1: But before we completely transition out of story number one
32:42
Speaker 1: into story number two, there is the JP Crawford announcement yesterday,
32:47
Speaker 1: which leads us with all sorts of questions.
32:50
Speaker 9: You know, I just I want to be a Mariner
32:52
Speaker 9: for life, and I think that's the best way to
32:53
Speaker 9: do it, and you know, just always being open to
32:56
Speaker 9: helping the team.
32:56
Speaker 1: Winfle the young guys talk about you and just everything
33:00
Speaker 1: that you've done for them.
33:01
Speaker 2: What does it mean to you to be that person
33:04
Speaker 2: for them?
33:04
Speaker 9: Yeah, it means everything. You know. When I came up,
33:07
Speaker 9: I really didn't have anyone to show me the ropes
33:09
Speaker 9: until I got over here and Dee Gordon and Kyle
33:11
Speaker 9: Seeger took me down into their wing. And you know
33:15
Speaker 9: I made I promised him myself to you know, be
33:17
Speaker 9: like them. I'm gonna go here to win a worse here.
33:19
Speaker 9: Then it's they there as long as I can. And
33:20
Speaker 9: that's only two things on my mind.
33:22
Speaker 1: I love it, just love it. I mean, the Cynics
33:26
Speaker 1: can pooh on it if they'd like, but I don't
33:28
Speaker 1: even care. I don't even care. If they went to
33:30
Speaker 1: him and prepared him for what they were going to.
33:33
Speaker 2: Do, it shouldn't matter.
33:34
Speaker 1: Yeah, he still is taking, certainly the high road. And
33:37
Speaker 1: all I ever want to hear from a veteran player
33:40
Speaker 1: who maybe is on the back side of his career
33:43
Speaker 1: is I just want to help the team win a
33:45
Speaker 1: championship and I want to be here longer than this year.
33:48
Speaker 4: Yeah, if you're pulling anything negative from that, you probably
33:50
Speaker 4: hate kittens and puppies too, Like, I can't help you
33:53
Speaker 4: at that point.
33:54
Speaker 2: I just can't.
33:55
Speaker 1: What do you think he'll play third base tonight?
33:58
Speaker 2: I think he will.
33:59
Speaker 4: I do too, Yeah, and I'm and I think if
34:01
Speaker 4: he makes one mistake, people, I knew it was going
34:03
Speaker 4: to be a failure. You got to give the guy
34:05
Speaker 4: a little bit of room to warm up into the position.
34:08
Speaker 2: But I think he will. I think he'll be fine.
34:10
Speaker 1: Maybe they give him one more day because you're going
34:13
Speaker 1: to face a left hander tonight.
34:15
Speaker 2: He gads, I know, oh god tonight.
34:18
Speaker 1: Yeah, And so they'll put Wisdom at third base tonight.
34:22
Speaker 1: But we will see him play third base before the weekend,
34:25
Speaker 1: no later than Saturday. I find sure that.
34:27
Speaker 2: Yes.
34:28
Speaker 1: Like the Mariners, the Royals had huge hopes heading into
34:31
Speaker 1: this season. Thought they were going to win the American
34:33
Speaker 1: League Central and then who knows. But like the Mariners,
34:35
Speaker 1: they got off to a frustratingly poor start. Unlike the Mariners,
34:40
Speaker 1: there's been very little sign that they are coming out
34:43
Speaker 1: of it. Kansas City has a ghastly twenty and thirty
34:46
Speaker 1: record right now. Sixteen days ago, they'd won their fifth
34:50
Speaker 1: straight game and thought they were back on track. But
34:53
Speaker 1: since then they've just slipped right back into nothingness. They've
34:57
Speaker 1: gone three and eleven, including being wept by the Boston
35:01
Speaker 1: Red Sox in their most recent series, and the Red
35:04
Speaker 1: Sox aren't even playing good baseball this year, of course,
35:07
Speaker 1: part of that five game winning streak a couple of
35:10
Speaker 1: weeks ago.
35:10
Speaker 2: Who was that against you?
35:12
Speaker 1: They swept us at T Mobile, So we've got to
35:16
Speaker 1: prove we can beat the Kansas City Royals first and foremost. Tonight,
35:19
Speaker 1: Game one of the series will begin at four point forty.
35:22
Speaker 1: They will throw a left hander and Noah Cameron, but
35:25
Speaker 1: a left hander who's not been good this year, not.
35:29
Speaker 2: That that's going to say that hasn't mattered a lot.
35:32
Speaker 1: And maybe a little differently, a left hander who can't
35:36
Speaker 1: get lefties out. Okay, so maybe, as I suggested earlier,
35:40
Speaker 1: maybe this is a decent time to experiment with dom Canzone,
35:46
Speaker 1: who at two seventy six against lefties a year ago.
35:49
Speaker 1: Maybe give him a start today.
35:50
Speaker 2: I like that idea.
35:51
Speaker 1: Maybe see if he can hit this lefty. Logan Gilbert
35:54
Speaker 1: will start for us.
35:55
Speaker 2: Okay, let's go. Don't let them start another win streak.
35:58
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, please, we can't. We can't get swept by
36:02
Speaker 1: the Padres and the Royals in the same season. Come
36:05
Speaker 1: on now, item number three on the O show the
36:08
Speaker 1: Stanley Cup playoffs. Well, they've reached the conference finals, and
36:12
Speaker 1: last night the Eastern Conference Finals got underway in the Carolinas.
36:18
Speaker 1: Now there's the rust versus rest debate that's going to
36:22
Speaker 1: that's been lasting for years, decades, it's going to continue,
36:26
Speaker 1: it's going to last for generations, whether or not rust
36:29
Speaker 1: or rest hurts you in a playoff. And then there's
36:34
Speaker 1: the Carolina Hurricanes hockey team, who might have taken rust
36:38
Speaker 1: to a whole new level.
36:42
Speaker 3: You haven't get this, well, abut a year ago, I
36:47
Speaker 3: was chopping that tree when suddenly it began to rain,
36:51
Speaker 3: and right in the middle of the chop, I rusted solid.
36:56
Speaker 1: Been that way ever since. Yeah, they rusted solid like it.
37:00
Speaker 1: After eleven days off, eleven days off awaiting the results
37:05
Speaker 1: of a seven game series between the Montreal Canadians and
37:08
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Sabres, the Hurricanes waited, and they waited and
37:14
Speaker 1: they waited, and everything they did to start the playoffs
37:19
Speaker 1: eight and oh this year seemed to simply rust solid
37:23
Speaker 1: on them, particularly their star defenseman Jacob Sloven who shouldered
37:29
Speaker 1: all the blame for the Game one loss. He got
37:31
Speaker 1: to the end of the game he says, I'm taking
37:33
Speaker 1: responsibility for that. I was terrible. We lost because of
37:36
Speaker 1: me tonight about that.
37:38
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's some leadership right there.
37:40
Speaker 1: Some JP Crawford's done.
37:41
Speaker 2: That is right there. That's what I was thinking.
37:44
Speaker 4: And it is interesting because I was wondering, so when
37:46
Speaker 4: other teams look at that performance in Game one next
37:49
Speaker 4: year and be like.
37:50
Speaker 2: You know what, I think we need to lose a
37:51
Speaker 2: game in the middle of sweeping.
37:53
Speaker 4: Just give ourselves a little less time, maybe extend the
37:56
Speaker 4: series a little bit.
37:57
Speaker 1: I don't know. There's nothing scientific, there's nothing mathemat back
38:01
Speaker 1: this up. But my belief is that that rest hurts
38:07
Speaker 1: you at the beginning of a series, right that the
38:10
Speaker 1: team that has the momentum and didn't wait, they've been
38:13
Speaker 1: playing you know, playoff hockey or playoff basketball, whatever the
38:20
Speaker 1: case may be, and that first game rust does hurt you.
38:24
Speaker 1: But I do believe over the course of seven games,
38:27
Speaker 1: rest does come into play to help you.
38:31
Speaker 2: I would agree with that.
38:32
Speaker 1: I mean, the Canadians just got beat up for two
38:34
Speaker 1: straight series. For fourteen games. The Carolina Hurricanes have played
38:39
Speaker 1: six fewer games over that time, and so I think
38:43
Speaker 1: over the course of the series that rest that's saving
38:47
Speaker 1: their bodies will actually benefit them. But for the first game, yeah,
38:51
Speaker 1: I think it is difficult after eleven days off to
38:54
Speaker 1: match the intensity required for winning a playoff game.
38:57
Speaker 4: Yeah, and as you said, Montreal had all the momentum
39:00
Speaker 4: coming off that game seven win, and they're pumped, they're
39:02
Speaker 4: feeling it.
39:03
Speaker 2: So I get it.
39:04
Speaker 1: Game two Saturday at four o'clock. Game two of the
39:07
Speaker 1: Western Conference Finals tonight at five. The Golden Knights of
39:11
Speaker 1: Las Vegas are up one zero, and I think Colorado,
39:13
Speaker 1: who didn't spend near the time on the beach as
39:16
Speaker 1: the Carolina Hurricanes did, but I think they were rusty
39:19
Speaker 1: in game number one as well, and they suffered for it.
39:22
Speaker 1: Four Item number four on our eight item o show.
39:25
Speaker 1: The NBA Playoffs continued last night in the Eastern side
39:29
Speaker 1: of things, and man are the New York Knickerbocker's red
39:33
Speaker 1: hot hard on the drive.
39:35
Speaker 10: Spin moves flowing away one hand, that shot as God,
39:38
Speaker 10: everything going down.
39:39
Speaker 1: Tonight for Josh Hart j Allen. The Runners can't kid it.
39:45
Speaker 10: The follow this punsin comes out of the pack two
39:48
Speaker 10: on one break, Putzel to the basket, packs and Hall
39:52
Speaker 10: ESPN on the call.
39:53
Speaker 1: Jason Hart scored a team I twenty six point or
39:55
Speaker 1: Josh Hart not Jason Josh Hart? I wrote Jason this
39:58
Speaker 1: morning at three o'clock, what was it on.
40:00
Speaker 2: GOOFERSH you were it was three o'clock.
40:02
Speaker 1: It was three o'clock. Josh Hart scored a team I
40:04
Speaker 1: twenty six points and the Knicks won their ninth consecutive
40:07
Speaker 1: playoff game. That's right, their ninth consecutive playoff game, with
40:11
Speaker 1: a one h nine ninety three win over the Cleveland
40:13
Speaker 1: Cavaliers Thursday night. Not only have the Knicks won nine
40:17
Speaker 1: straight games in the postseason, they have dominated during that stretch,
40:21
Speaker 1: outscoring their opponents by a combined two hundred and twelve points.
40:27
Speaker 1: It's an NBA record. Keep in mind, not just for
40:31
Speaker 1: the postseason, but for any stretch of nine games in
40:35
Speaker 1: an NBA season. That's the largest point margin, and they
40:39
Speaker 1: are doing it in the playoffs. Incredible, how well the
40:43
Speaker 1: New York Knicks are playing. I honestly did not think
40:46
Speaker 1: they were capable of playing this well.
40:47
Speaker 4: I don't think most people thought they were, so it's
40:49
Speaker 4: been a surprise to a lot of people now.
40:51
Speaker 1: They haven't made the finals since nineteen ninety nine. They
40:54
Speaker 1: are wearing the that heavy cloak throughout the playoffs, and
40:58
Speaker 1: the Indiana Pacers took them out last year when they
41:01
Speaker 1: were supposed to break that stenchy stretch. So they're not home.
41:08
Speaker 1: Hey's not in the barn. They got two more wins
41:10
Speaker 1: to get. But man, they just look so much better
41:14
Speaker 1: than the Cleveland Cavaliers to come back from that twenty
41:16
Speaker 1: two point deficit, like it was nothing.
41:18
Speaker 4: Well and that seemed to deflate. I mean that seemed
41:21
Speaker 4: to almost like wound.
41:22
Speaker 1: Cleveland wounded.
41:25
Speaker 2: Yeah, for for Game two, it was like, oh, there's
41:26
Speaker 2: a freshmore can we do?
41:28
Speaker 1: It's a fresh wound. New York has a two zero
41:31
Speaker 1: series lead. Cleveland will switch to host Saturday at five
41:34
Speaker 1: o'clock Thursday. Excuse me, Thunder and Spurs. If you combine
41:39
Speaker 1: nearly spells Thursday, it does.
41:40
Speaker 4: I like that.
41:41
Speaker 1: Thunder and Spurs. Their series is even at one. Spurs
41:45
Speaker 1: will host Game three tonight. They will tip that off
41:47
Speaker 1: at five thirty. Darren Fox and Dylan Harper might both
41:51
Speaker 1: miss this game for the Spurs, and Oklahoma City looks
41:54
Speaker 1: almost certain to be without Jalen Williams in this game.
41:57
Speaker 1: So yes, the injuries creeping up on everybody the deeper
42:01
Speaker 1: they get into the playoffs. Other basketball news, The Storm
42:05
Speaker 1: back in action tonight against Connecticut. I hope they didn't
42:10
Speaker 1: fly home to Connecticut.
42:12
Speaker 2: In a real place.
42:13
Speaker 1: I hope they hung out and checked out all of
42:15
Speaker 1: our sites. Maybe went to the space needle.
42:18
Speaker 2: I'm gonna guess they are went to the pink door.
42:20
Speaker 2: I'm gonna guess they were.
42:21
Speaker 4: Worried about the travel back and forth, so I'm going
42:23
Speaker 4: to assume they stayed here.
42:26
Speaker 1: Sorry, you didn't have a Mariners game to go to
42:27
Speaker 1: last night, ladies.
42:28
Speaker 2: Sorry about it, York.
42:30
Speaker 1: Excuse me. The two teams just played Wednesday. Storm lost
42:36
Speaker 1: to the Sun eighty to seventy eight, and now they're
42:39
Speaker 1: playing them again tonight at home. So it's not like
42:42
Speaker 1: a home and away, right, It's a home and a home.
42:46
Speaker 1: So back to back games against the Connecticut Sun over
42:50
Speaker 1: here at Climate Pledge Tip will be at seven o'clock tonight.
42:53
Speaker 1: Both of these teams have won just one game in
42:56
Speaker 1: the early portion of the season, and if the on
43:00
Speaker 1: one Wednesday, well then it's our turn and they only
43:04
Speaker 1: have one win. That means their only win came against
43:08
Speaker 1: the Storm, So you're right. Revenge. Yeah, it's all about revenge.
43:13
Speaker 2: I would be super angry for what happened on Wednesday.
43:17
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's time.
43:18
Speaker 2: It's it's been too long.
43:20
Speaker 1: Settle this score, take that win back. National Football League
43:24
Speaker 1: Matt Stafford has signed a one year extension where fifty
43:28
Speaker 1: five million dollars, Meaning it looks like we have the
43:31
Speaker 1: reigning league MVP to deal with for at least another
43:34
Speaker 1: two seasons. But that better be it.
43:36
Speaker 6: It's always a long full from the top of as
43:39
Speaker 6: Easy West, I've been waiting to say this to you
43:41
Speaker 6: for a long time, deep down in my stomach, with
43:46
Speaker 6: every inch of the hypeer straight.
43:57
Speaker 11: But God, do I respect you.
44:00
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's kind of the way I feel about Stafford.
44:01
Speaker 1: I actually love watching him play football.
44:04
Speaker 2: I know I hate that I have respect for him.
44:06
Speaker 2: It's gross.
44:07
Speaker 1: Yeah, But and it might not be just another two seasons.
44:10
Speaker 1: You know how they are. They talk about retiring forever,
44:14
Speaker 1: and then when they think about, oh, but this is
44:16
Speaker 1: fun and I make a lot of money, he might
44:19
Speaker 1: talk himself out of that. But we know for at
44:21
Speaker 1: least two more years he'll be quarterbacking the Los Angeles
44:24
Speaker 1: rams damn him.
44:25
Speaker 4: I feel like every time he talks any quarterback talks
44:28
Speaker 4: about retirement, though, you gotta put like one thousand dollars
44:30
Speaker 4: in the pickle jar.
44:33
Speaker 1: Maybe yeah, maybe. And then our seventh item here, Kyle Busch. Yesterday,
44:39
Speaker 1: monster story in the sports world, NASCAR living active legend
44:45
Speaker 1: passed away, and it was a stunner, not just to
44:49
Speaker 1: the entire sports world, but certainly to the NASCAR world.
44:53
Speaker 1: Marty Smith works for ESPN and does a lot of
44:56
Speaker 1: their coverage of NASCAR, was oken up about it yesterday.
45:01
Speaker 12: It's truly impossible at this moment, Scotty to try to
45:06
Speaker 12: properly articulate and speak eloquently to Kyle Busch's influence on
45:14
Speaker 12: the sport of NASCAR and the people within it and
45:17
Speaker 12: the millions of fans. There's never been a driver that
45:21
Speaker 12: had greater talent in the history of motorsport than Kyle Busch.
45:26
Speaker 12: Kyle was not somebody about whom you were on the
45:29
Speaker 12: fence as a competitor. He was a guy that he
45:34
Speaker 12: made you feel you loved him or you hated him.
45:38
Speaker 12: And just to think about the fact that now he's
45:44
Speaker 12: gone is just impossible to try to process. It's just
45:49
Speaker 12: an unimaginable tragedy.
45:52
Speaker 1: Forty one years old, Kyle Busch passed away. He had
45:55
Speaker 1: not been feeling well as of late, was working through it,
45:58
Speaker 1: which in his line of work that's pretty demanding on
46:02
Speaker 1: the body. He was not feeling well, went to the
46:06
Speaker 1: hospital with what was described as a severe illness and
46:10
Speaker 1: he did not come out of that hospital. Passed away
46:13
Speaker 1: at the age of forty one. And it is shocking
46:16
Speaker 1: to see someone still active and one of the biggest
46:20
Speaker 1: names in his sport pass away. I could not believe
46:23
Speaker 1: what I was reading on my television yesterday, and I
46:26
Speaker 1: am not even a NASCAR fan, but certainly sent shockwaves
46:30
Speaker 1: throughout the entire sports world yesterday. And we will talk
46:33
Speaker 1: about it a little bit more later on this hour.
46:37
Speaker 1: Final item of the OJO Sounders will play Sunday. They'll
46:40
Speaker 1: take on LAFC that will be in Los Angeles six
46:44
Speaker 1: point fifteen and it will be a nationally televised game
46:47
Speaker 1: on Fox. Coming up next on our radio program, we
46:51
Speaker 1: follow up with our sup with you question your grades
46:54
Speaker 1: on Dan Wilson to this point in the season. What's
46:57
Speaker 1: your letter grade and why we're taking we're taking stuff
47:01
Speaker 1: off of YouTube and We are also hopefully gonna have
47:05
Speaker 1: a recorded talkback or two to play for you on
47:09
Speaker 1: Dan Wilson next on KJR. Jake Peavey today at nine
47:12
Speaker 1: o'clock from MLB Network. You know, excellent pitcher. He just
47:16
Speaker 1: watched the Mariners play on Sunday. We didn't play well,
47:19
Speaker 1: but he watched it. So we're gonna have him on
47:21
Speaker 1: at nine. And then Berkeley Catton is going to join
47:24
Speaker 1: us today at nine thirty, so we'll talk to the
47:26
Speaker 1: youngster about the National Hockey League and when he thinks
47:29
Speaker 1: he'll shave for the first time, So we'll do that
47:32
Speaker 1: at nine to thirty. Coming up on the radio program,
47:35
Speaker 1: so you'll hear from them. You'll you've already heard from us.
47:39
Speaker 1: We want to hear from you. It's time with sup
47:41
Speaker 1: with you and I've already loaded this thing up with
47:44
Speaker 1: a question from an hour ago, your letter grade on
47:48
Speaker 1: Dan Wilson's managerial work so far this season and why?
47:53
Speaker 1: And we got some talkbacks reason that fancy talkback feature.
47:56
Speaker 1: That's right, We are all right, So what do we get?
48:00
Speaker 11: You guys begetting jeans here? Oh my letter greed for
48:04
Speaker 11: coach Dan Wilson. Is I for incomplete or incompetent.
48:10
Speaker 1: Oh thanks, Oh that's incomplete and incompetent are two different scores.
48:17
Speaker 2: Yeah, he said, incomplete or incompetent.
48:19
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what I said. Yeah, that's two different scores.
48:22
Speaker 1: There's not really, they're not they're not synonyms.
48:26
Speaker 4: No, No, Incomplete would mean you know what, I haven't
48:29
Speaker 4: seen enough yet to make a judgment, right. Incompetent would
48:32
Speaker 4: Incompetent would be I've seen enough and the guy sucks
48:35
Speaker 4: at his job.
48:36
Speaker 2: That's what that would be.
48:37
Speaker 1: I would I wonder if I would have taken home
48:41
Speaker 1: a letter grade of I to my mom, what she
48:44
Speaker 1: would have said, I, how did you get an eye?
48:49
Speaker 4: I don't know, Mom, I would have said, Oh, I
48:50
Speaker 4: think my teacher just has an accent. It's supposed to
48:52
Speaker 4: be an A.
48:54
Speaker 1: I think it might be for inebriated.
48:57
Speaker 11: Yeah.
48:58
Speaker 1: I was drunk a lot in the third grade, and
49:00
Speaker 1: that happens. All right, let's go, let's get another one.
49:03
Speaker 13: The entire hiring process of Dan was an F. When
49:06
Speaker 13: Dan was hired my guy, that an F. There was
49:08
Speaker 13: no search committee. That's an F. Jerry hired his friend,
49:12
Speaker 13: that's an F. Jerry hired Cow's best friend. That's an F.
49:17
Speaker 13: Everything about Dan is an f f F failure, failure failure.
49:22
Speaker 13: The guy looks like he pooped his pants every single
49:26
Speaker 13: freaking game. Dan is horrible, and so is Edgar.
49:30
Speaker 4: I don't love that out there at the end, and
49:32
Speaker 4: it's very he's He definitely is not incomplete or incompetent.
49:38
Speaker 2: He knows what he's great he's giving me.
49:40
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, he's very sure of himself. And it makes
49:43
Speaker 1: me feel a little better that I was a little
49:45
Speaker 1: worried I was being too harsh on the air. You
49:47
Speaker 1: are not.
49:48
Speaker 2: Yeah, the f a little harsh, a little harsh.
49:51
Speaker 1: Um Man, there was a lot there. I think there's
49:57
Speaker 1: something to everything that he's saying, but obviously I'm not
50:01
Speaker 1: going to go as far as how he's saying it.
50:05
Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean I thought they just saw Dan
50:09
Speaker 1: Wilson as man He's going to be a great manager something.
50:12
Speaker 1: I think every I think people felt that way about
50:14
Speaker 1: him when he played that. Yeah, that's that guy's got
50:18
Speaker 1: manager written all over him. He's a catcher, he's smart,
50:21
Speaker 1: everybody likes him. That's got that guy's got manager written
50:25
Speaker 1: all over him. And maybe you do possess eight of
50:29
Speaker 1: the ten qualities. Let's say to be a great manager.
50:34
Speaker 1: But what about those other two? You don't know until
50:36
Speaker 1: they're thrown into the fire. I do think he struggles
50:39
Speaker 1: with the x's and o's portion of the game, and
50:43
Speaker 1: he has since he took over, and particularly when to pinch,
50:46
Speaker 1: who to pinch hit with, and when to make pitching changes,
50:50
Speaker 1: a feel for the game, which, yes, boiling it down,
50:54
Speaker 1: it really sounds bad that way. You really struggle with
50:56
Speaker 1: having a feel for.
50:56
Speaker 2: The game, right, Yeah, that is it.
51:00
Speaker 1: Service was amazing at pitching changes. That was his strength.
51:03
Speaker 1: But Dan's much better with the clubhouse, and that really
51:08
Speaker 1: is his job. His job is to get the most
51:10
Speaker 1: out of the team. The problem is you're not getting
51:12
Speaker 1: the most out of the team. You are falling well short.
51:15
Speaker 1: So I don't know if i'd like the you know,
51:18
Speaker 1: light the world on fire like that last caller did,
51:22
Speaker 1: but I think he brings up some really good points.
51:24
Speaker 4: Yeah, he did have one thing that was glaringly wrong though.
51:27
Speaker 4: Dan Wilson is not cal Raley's best friend. That's logan logan, yill,
51:31
Speaker 4: don't you dare try to diminish those that friendship.
51:35
Speaker 1: All right, we have another idea, You have another one.
51:37
Speaker 2: This one's different all right, Chuck.
51:39
Speaker 14: Yeah, I'm gonna go ahead and give Dan Wilson an
51:41
Speaker 14: A and the fact I'm gonna give Jerry Depoto and
51:43
Speaker 14: the rest of the front office and in A as well,
51:46
Speaker 14: because ultimately, the Ownership group should be scared to even
51:49
Speaker 14: be in Washington State, and the fact that they're not
51:52
Speaker 14: means that everybody else is doing their job perfectly.
51:55
Speaker 2: So hey A plus, Wow, it was different.
51:59
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's one way to go about it right there.
52:02
Speaker 1: That's a little different than the previous caller. Correct. Yeah,
52:07
Speaker 1: I'm I'm not as worked up. I didn't grow up
52:10
Speaker 1: with this team like you do, and it has been
52:12
Speaker 1: historically cheap, and I understand that's hard for you to
52:16
Speaker 1: get over, and they're certainly not big time spenders now,
52:21
Speaker 1: But I don't think our payroll is the problem this year.
52:28
Speaker 1: Certainly you could go further with it, no doubt about it.
52:31
Speaker 1: But we have a good enough team at our payroll
52:34
Speaker 1: to be much better than we are right now. So
52:38
Speaker 1: that kind of flies in the face of his logic
52:41
Speaker 1: because he's saying, because Ownership's done such a bad job,
52:45
Speaker 1: everybody deserves an A. I don't think I go that far,
52:49
Speaker 1: but I kind of like the roundabout way that he
52:52
Speaker 1: graded the entire process.
52:53
Speaker 2: All right, there you go.
52:54
Speaker 4: We're gonna go to text now, all right, I have
52:56
Speaker 4: Takoma Dodge text line from the four two five A
52:58
Speaker 4: B plus B plus. He has to filter from the
53:01
Speaker 4: top down to him with all their ideas, and he
53:03
Speaker 4: also has to be a player's coach. He ain't lou Panella,
53:07
Speaker 4: but he's trying to do what they want him to
53:09
Speaker 4: do and feel the players out on how they're.
53:11
Speaker 2: Doing and what they need to do to get on track.
53:14
Speaker 4: So I'll say B plus because he's got to do
53:15
Speaker 4: it on both ends and he gets all the blame.
53:18
Speaker 1: Seems reasonable. I think that. And this is one thing
53:21
Speaker 1: that I think a lot of Mariner fans are guilty
53:23
Speaker 1: of a little bit. They're just assuming that it's Jerry,
53:27
Speaker 1: like on a phone like Phil Knight used to be
53:29
Speaker 1: with Oregon from the ball. Yeah, well he was rumored
53:32
Speaker 1: to be. It's not that extreme. Does Jerry have a
53:37
Speaker 1: lot of influence, Yes? Does Justin then by proxy have
53:40
Speaker 1: a lot of influence? Yes? Do they meet every day?
53:43
Speaker 1: And is Jerry and Justin part of that process? Absolutely?
53:47
Speaker 1: Are they the biggest part of that process in terms
53:49
Speaker 1: of coming up with organizational philosophy, not just overall, but
53:53
Speaker 1: from day to day. Yes, yes, but I don't think
53:56
Speaker 1: that's unlike other places in Major League Baseball. This is
54:00
Speaker 1: not Mikesosha throwing away scouting reports in the trash like
54:04
Speaker 1: he did with Jerry and Anaheim. You are part of
54:08
Speaker 1: that process. General managers are involved with it. And so
54:14
Speaker 1: from what I've heard, once the game begins, that's all Dan.
54:18
Speaker 1: Now do they say this is what we like to
54:21
Speaker 1: see and this is our plan as a group going forward. Yeah, absolutely,
54:26
Speaker 1: And I do think that the text is right from
54:30
Speaker 1: this dandpoint. I do think trying to manage all of
54:34
Speaker 1: that right now. For Dan this early in his career,
54:36
Speaker 1: I think he struggles with it. The more different things
54:39
Speaker 1: that you put beyond win the game, just go win
54:44
Speaker 1: the game, make the moves to win the game. I
54:46
Speaker 1: think Dan has so many things that he's trying to
54:49
Speaker 1: think about at once that maybe he's not thinking for himself,
54:55
Speaker 1: he's not thinking on his feet. He does look nervous
54:58
Speaker 1: to me. I know we did fair or unfair yesterday,
55:02
Speaker 1: and I realized this might be unfair because I'm just
55:05
Speaker 1: trying to read the poker player across the table. But
55:08
Speaker 1: if he is playing poker against me, I'm like, this
55:10
Speaker 1: guy is shaking in his boots.
55:12
Speaker 2: Well, and I told you that's not unfair because that's
55:14
Speaker 2: your opinion of what you're seeing.
55:16
Speaker 4: Now, if you said he's clearly overwhelmed or he's clearly
55:19
Speaker 4: not you know, ready for you just said, but maybe
55:21
Speaker 4: that's unfair, maybe because it is an opinion, right, it
55:24
Speaker 4: is your interpretation of what you're seeing. But I think
55:27
Speaker 4: to say he looks nervous or something along those lines
55:30
Speaker 4: is not unfair at all.
55:31
Speaker 1: And I don't like that. I don't want my manager
55:33
Speaker 1: to be that. Well. Now, maybe I'm the only one
55:35
Speaker 1: seeing it doesn't sound like I am. But like I
55:39
Speaker 1: said yesterday, when I'm on a rocky ship, I better
55:44
Speaker 1: not the captain of the ship. Better not be nervous.
55:46
Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree.
55:48
Speaker 1: You know, if we're getting ready. You know, if the
55:50
Speaker 1: if a guy starts a fight, my buddy starts a
55:53
Speaker 1: fight in a bar, he better be good at fighting.
55:56
Speaker 1: He better not be leaving it, leaving it to us.
55:58
Speaker 1: He better be calm and ready. You know you've been
56:01
Speaker 1: the quarterback. Better be the calmest guy in the huddle
56:03
Speaker 1: with the game on the line. Stuff like that, and
56:06
Speaker 1: I just don't get that impression. But I fully admit
56:11
Speaker 1: might be way over my skis on that.
56:14
Speaker 2: All right, we got two more to get to this one.
56:16
Speaker 4: From the two oh six grade c seventy four percent,
56:19
Speaker 4: his in game decisions, whether it's directly from percentages or
56:22
Speaker 4: his gut, just isn't up to par.
56:24
Speaker 2: He doesn't have enough experience. I'm with Chuck.
56:26
Speaker 4: I'm not gunning for him to be replaced, but I
56:28
Speaker 4: don't think i'd be upset over it if it happened.
56:31
Speaker 1: Yes, well, he's pretty much just quoted me, so I'm
56:34
Speaker 1: going to agree with him. There you go.
56:36
Speaker 4: And from the eight five nine Dan Wilson grades before
56:40
Speaker 4: first pitch, B, in game D postgame interviews.
56:44
Speaker 2: FFFFF.
56:46
Speaker 1: I agree with both of those last two takes.
56:49
Speaker 4: Yes, for sure, we got I wish I want someone
56:52
Speaker 4: to go talk to him about the postgame interviews.
56:54
Speaker 2: We just need a little bit more, a little bit more.
56:57
Speaker 1: I don't think they care. They're the same organization that
57:00
Speaker 1: won't give us, won't allow their sideline reporter who they
57:04
Speaker 1: hire give us injury updates in game for whatever reason.
57:08
Speaker 1: They don't care if we get information in a timely fashion.
57:13
Speaker 1: Or in a charismatic fashion. I think they love the
57:16
Speaker 1: Dan Wilson is a vanilla wafer in a world of
57:20
Speaker 1: delicious cookies. In a press conference, I don't think they.
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Speaker 1: I don't think that bothers them in the slightest that
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Speaker 1: he gives us nothing and says the exact same thing
57:30
Speaker 1: after every loss.
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Speaker 4: I think I could pull any press conference from a loss,
57:34
Speaker 4: or any press conference from a win and play it
57:36
Speaker 4: and people would think it was the press conference from
57:39
Speaker 4: the game before.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, he's bad at it. Yeah, But then again, if
57:44
Speaker 1: he was getting the most out of all of his
57:47
Speaker 1: players and he was not screwing up, in my opinion,
57:53
Speaker 1: late game decisions, I don't care if he went out
57:56
Speaker 1: there and you know, grabbed Ryan Divish's microphone and farted
57:59
Speaker 1: in it, I don't care.
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Speaker 2: Actually might be more entertaining if we.
58:04
Speaker 1: Were if we were thirty five and sixteen right now. Yeah,
58:08
Speaker 1: he can just go out there and moon the Seattle
58:12
Speaker 1: media hoard for all I care.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, if he wins the World Series, he can just
58:15
Speaker 4: go out and go in his postgame press conference and
58:19
Speaker 4: I'm good.
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Speaker 1: All right, Jake Pevy at nine o'clock coming up next,
58:23
Speaker 1: we will discuss what is the biggest story in American
58:27
Speaker 1: sports right now? Sports Radio ninety three point three kha RFM,
58:42
Speaker 1: nine o'clock hour. Here on a Friday, here we go,
58:45
Speaker 1: final hour of the week. Chuck Powell, Ashley Ryan with you.
58:48
Speaker 1: We've got Booze News to close out the week. We
58:50
Speaker 1: also have Berkeley Catton joining us this hour, but we're
58:54
Speaker 1: going to start with a special guest. Never had the
58:56
Speaker 1: pleasure of chatting with Jake Pevey, of course, former Cy
59:00
Speaker 1: Young Award winner, a longtime San Diego Padre and Chicago
59:04
Speaker 1: White Sock and San Francisco Giant, Boston Red Sock, and
59:09
Speaker 1: he has had one hundred and fifty two career wins
59:11
Speaker 1: and now he's making his living putting his handsome mug
59:13
Speaker 1: on television everywhere. He's on MLB Network, MLB Central, MLB Now,
59:19
Speaker 1: MLB Tonight. You see Jake Pvy all the time. And
59:21
Speaker 1: then we got to see him Sunday night on the
59:23
Speaker 1: NBC broadcast as he broadcasts one of the worst Mariner
59:27
Speaker 1: performances in a decade. But he got to see it
59:30
Speaker 1: right there, close and personal. So we're going to talk
59:33
Speaker 1: to him about that and many other things. Jake Pevey
59:35
Speaker 1: joins us right here on, Chuck and Buck. How are you, sir,
59:39
Speaker 1: Chuck too kind? I'm very well buddy, excited to speak
59:42
Speaker 1: with you. Yeah, well, what was your impression. Did you
59:44
Speaker 1: have a good time when you were in Seattle this weekend?
59:46
Speaker 1: And certainly you got to watch us play bad baseball
59:49
Speaker 1: here in Seattle. I'll tell you that much.
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Speaker 7: I did watch some tough Seattle baseball. I will tell
59:55
Speaker 7: you this since the year two thousand and two, I've
59:57
Speaker 7: been coming to your great city. I'm in love with
1:00:00
Speaker 7: the city. I got to uh walk around and get
1:00:02
Speaker 7: re acquainted. The weather, as you know, was glorious for
1:00:07
Speaker 7: the weekend. So yes, I love being back in the
1:00:09
Speaker 7: great Northwest and your team. I certainly not firing on
1:00:14
Speaker 7: all cylinders. But after that series, you bounce back. You
1:00:16
Speaker 7: take two or three from the White Sox. That's good
1:00:18
Speaker 7: young team who's playing well.
1:00:20
Speaker 1: You know.
1:00:20
Speaker 7: Now you go to Kansas City and we got the
1:00:23
Speaker 7: A's coming up where we can go mixing ground up
1:00:25
Speaker 7: in division. At the end of the six game road trip.
1:00:28
Speaker 1: Roland Smith drive you nuts at all because I apologize, no,
1:00:34
Speaker 1: right right, I was beautiful.
1:00:36
Speaker 7: I called it a few times in prep for that
1:00:38
Speaker 7: because he has, you know, he has the experience of
1:00:42
Speaker 7: the game call. That was my first time in person
1:00:45
Speaker 7: getting to call a game there for NBC. So you
1:00:47
Speaker 7: saw my first one, Chuck.
1:00:49
Speaker 1: Oh, okay, Well, I think you did just great. So
1:00:52
Speaker 1: and and yeah, I'd like to get your thoughts because
1:00:54
Speaker 1: I know you're working there at MLB Network. So you've
1:00:56
Speaker 1: been talking about every team this baseball season. Despite the
1:01:00
Speaker 1: poor start that our baseball team is off to and
1:01:03
Speaker 1: despite the bad baseball you watch them play over the
1:01:07
Speaker 1: weekend against the Padres. What are your overall impressions of
1:01:11
Speaker 1: this team going forward? And what would you say to
1:01:15
Speaker 1: our fan base here in Seattle about a rough start
1:01:20
Speaker 1: during the course of one hundred and sixty two game schedule.
1:01:24
Speaker 7: Well, I think if anybody knows, it's your fan base,
1:01:27
Speaker 7: that the season is ebbs and flows. He even last
1:01:31
Speaker 7: year's run wasn't all just great. There was times, you know,
1:01:35
Speaker 7: outside cal Rawle, he's just historic season to where things
1:01:39
Speaker 7: didn't you didn't know how they were. My general take
1:01:43
Speaker 7: first third through the season, the pitching staff is still
1:01:46
Speaker 7: the strength of this team, and we know this, but
1:01:49
Speaker 7: they've all taken a little step, not backwards, but but
1:01:52
Speaker 7: they just haven't been quite as good as we've seen
1:01:55
Speaker 7: George and Logan in Brian Wu in years past. I
1:02:00
Speaker 7: think they will catch stride, and their starters are really
1:02:04
Speaker 7: what we.
1:02:07
Speaker 1: Hang our hat on in Seattle.
1:02:08
Speaker 7: We gotta get Munyos in the back of that bullpen
1:02:11
Speaker 7: brash and getting those some of those guys fire back
1:02:13
Speaker 7: will make a big difference in getting a ball to him.
1:02:15
Speaker 7: So I still think your pitching staff is just fine.
1:02:18
Speaker 7: I like it better than anybody out West for sure. Now,
1:02:22
Speaker 7: lineup wise, it looks a little light because of some
1:02:26
Speaker 7: of the injuries. When cal Rawley's not in the middle
1:02:28
Speaker 7: of your lineup, you're missing in a presence that just
1:02:31
Speaker 7: can't be replaced. I don't care how he was playing.
1:02:34
Speaker 7: It's Cayl Rawley, and we saw that we wrote his back,
1:02:37
Speaker 7: you know, almost to a World Series last year. So
1:02:40
Speaker 7: getting him back and getting him somewhat going, I think
1:02:42
Speaker 7: this is a blessing in disguise to keep him healthy,
1:02:46
Speaker 7: give him kind of a fresh start of the season,
1:02:50
Speaker 7: so to speak. But the lineup's just got to make
1:02:53
Speaker 7: a little bit more contact. Chuck, I believe you did
1:02:55
Speaker 7: not make it to the World Series and Toronto did
1:02:58
Speaker 7: because of their bats. Their beats were a little more
1:03:01
Speaker 7: contact driven. They put some balls in play that made
1:03:05
Speaker 7: the difference, and I'd like to see your team have
1:03:07
Speaker 7: a little less swinging this.
1:03:08
Speaker 1: Jake Peeve is with us former Cy Young Award winner.
1:03:11
Speaker 1: I would like to ask who of our Mariners starters
1:03:14
Speaker 1: reminds you of yourself? I think I have an idea.
1:03:16
Speaker 1: I wrote it down who I think you might say,
1:03:18
Speaker 1: but which of our Mariners pitchers reminds you of Jake Peevey. Well,
1:03:23
Speaker 1: it's Brian wu For me, I just loved the fastball sinker.
1:03:29
Speaker 1: That's how I wrote down. That's how I wrote down. Yeah,
1:03:33
Speaker 1: that's the thinker. I was a big proponent of using
1:03:36
Speaker 1: the sinker. You know. I think like I just talked
1:03:39
Speaker 1: to some guys.
1:03:40
Speaker 7: Here about facing Garrett Cole tonight and they were talking
1:03:42
Speaker 7: about it, and they were talking, well, you know, they
1:03:44
Speaker 7: were asking about velocity and I was like, it's back,
1:03:47
Speaker 7: it's all the way back ninety seven, touching ninety nine,
1:03:50
Speaker 7: And they say, yeah, but it's straight. Hitters don't care
1:03:53
Speaker 7: how hard it is. If it is straight and they
1:03:55
Speaker 7: know it's coming, they can hit it. What they do
1:03:57
Speaker 7: have a problem with even if they know it's coming,
1:04:00
Speaker 7: is a little bit of late movement there in that
1:04:02
Speaker 7: last five foot before it gets to him, and those
1:04:05
Speaker 7: balls can get off the barrel quick outs. When you
1:04:07
Speaker 7: see the innings that Wu has been able to do,
1:04:09
Speaker 7: the six innings plus stretch that he was on there
1:04:12
Speaker 7: for a while until last year, you'd do that because
1:04:15
Speaker 7: there's some quick outs. But there's also swinging this Brian
1:04:18
Speaker 7: Woula again, and he hasn't quite been the guy that
1:04:21
Speaker 7: we've all seen. George Kirby wasn't quite the guy on Sunday,
1:04:25
Speaker 7: but he was just a couple pitches away from being
1:04:28
Speaker 7: a really good day. So I think those guys are
1:04:31
Speaker 7: gonna round in the form and carry you on to
1:04:33
Speaker 7: a division title unless these aids can figure out how
1:04:38
Speaker 7: to get some of that pitching. Sevarino was great for
1:04:40
Speaker 7: them last night. I just don't think they had the
1:04:42
Speaker 7: pitching to outlast year.
1:04:44
Speaker 1: Guys, do you see Wu's upside as cy Young? I mean,
1:04:48
Speaker 1: you want a Cy Young and he reminds you a
1:04:50
Speaker 1: little bit of yourself. I mean, we've got a league
1:04:52
Speaker 1: of scooballs and freeds and all sorts of excellent pitching
1:04:57
Speaker 1: in the American League. The Schlittler look like he's the
1:05:00
Speaker 1: real deal with the Yankees. But do you see Brian
1:05:03
Speaker 1: having that kind of upside or anybody else on the
1:05:05
Speaker 1: Mariners rotation? I do.
1:05:09
Speaker 7: I think you've got guys that project all the way
1:05:11
Speaker 7: up top. I think you can see Logan Gilbert at
1:05:15
Speaker 7: times in the past few years. Project is a real,
1:05:18
Speaker 7: real number one. But Brian WU for me, when he
1:05:21
Speaker 7: is right and healthy, he is the best that you
1:05:23
Speaker 7: have to offer stuff wise, and I believe yes he
1:05:26
Speaker 7: can round into form. And you know, the ballpark that
1:05:29
Speaker 7: you guys play into being a bit bigger than most,
1:05:32
Speaker 7: it gets guys in the strike zone, and I think
1:05:36
Speaker 7: Brian could even take steps forward. But yes, he is
1:05:40
Speaker 7: a cy Young Award contender and winner when he puts
1:05:43
Speaker 7: it all together from start to finish.
1:05:46
Speaker 1: Jake Pevey our guest here on Chuck and Buck in
1:05:48
Speaker 1: the Morning here on this Friday, talking some baseball. He's
1:05:50
Speaker 1: with the MLB Network and of course a long successful
1:05:53
Speaker 1: career in Major League Baseball. And I'm guessing you were
1:05:57
Speaker 1: never asked to do a piggyback game with another starting
1:06:02
Speaker 1: pitcher in your career, told beforehand that you're gonna go
1:06:05
Speaker 1: four and then we're gonna let Chris Sale go five.
1:06:09
Speaker 1: I'm guessing you never experienced that in your career, and
1:06:14
Speaker 1: I'm wondering what you thought of our Tuesday experiment to
1:06:18
Speaker 1: try it with our overcrowded starting rotation, putting Miller and
1:06:22
Speaker 1: Castillo in the same game, with the idea that they
1:06:25
Speaker 1: both work a chunk amount of the game.
1:06:30
Speaker 7: You know what, I wish I would have seen the game,
1:06:32
Speaker 7: but I did not see that particular game, only saw
1:06:35
Speaker 7: the highlights of it.
1:06:37
Speaker 1: And again, I think, you.
1:06:39
Speaker 7: Know, and look, I'm just speaking off the cuff here.
1:06:41
Speaker 7: I think Castillo would probably be the odd man out
1:06:44
Speaker 7: when you've got you know, Emmerson Hancock punching out fourteen
1:06:48
Speaker 7: guys in seven innings or so, that is there's no
1:06:50
Speaker 7: way this guy's going anywhere. That buys you some runway
1:06:53
Speaker 7: and you got to stay right and so to have
1:06:56
Speaker 7: six guys, and I know it seems too many, Castillo
1:06:59
Speaker 7: being the vet guy that you want to get going.
1:07:02
Speaker 7: But when I saw him come out of the pin,
1:07:04
Speaker 7: correct me if I'm wrong.
1:07:05
Speaker 1: I saw a little bit different edge from that guy.
1:07:08
Speaker 7: And he came out and had some strikeouts and he
1:07:11
Speaker 7: showed that oh gosh, this guy. Were used to starting
1:07:14
Speaker 7: and stretching him out. But how do you win World Series?
1:07:17
Speaker 7: How did Dodgers end up being on the top of
1:07:19
Speaker 7: the world. The two teams I won with those starters
1:07:22
Speaker 7: have to go to the bullpen in the postseason.
1:07:24
Speaker 1: So why not start with that experiment now because you're
1:07:27
Speaker 1: crowded up.
1:07:28
Speaker 7: Top and you know, see who can do it the best.
1:07:31
Speaker 7: And again, when Steele came out, it didn't seem to
1:07:34
Speaker 7: be that big of a problem that I actually liked
1:07:36
Speaker 7: some of the swag I saw from him.
1:07:39
Speaker 1: Would it have been a problem for you? I mean,
1:07:41
Speaker 1: let's put yourself. You were a Bryce Miller typing up
1:07:43
Speaker 1: and comer at one point, and then you are also
1:07:45
Speaker 1: a veteran who's you knew that your game was fading
1:07:48
Speaker 1: a little bit toward the end. So if if your
1:07:51
Speaker 1: manager would have come to you in that situation, how
1:07:54
Speaker 1: would you have embraced or perhaps protested, being used in
1:07:59
Speaker 1: that situation?
1:08:02
Speaker 7: I would it wouldn't have been no protest. That's that's
1:08:06
Speaker 7: first and foremost. It's a team game first, and you
1:08:08
Speaker 7: have to bow to what the team needs. And ego
1:08:11
Speaker 7: is it has no place inside a clubhouse. It's going
1:08:14
Speaker 7: to create problems, and the best teams understand that and
1:08:17
Speaker 7: navigate that well. So look, I wouldn't have protested it. Again,
1:08:22
Speaker 7: it's just what the team needs. And you wouldn't be
1:08:25
Speaker 7: in that situation if you were doing what you wanted
1:08:28
Speaker 7: to do.
1:08:30
Speaker 1: And so that's the way I look at it.
1:08:31
Speaker 7: You're having these conversations because of stuff hasn't went right.
1:08:35
Speaker 1: When it doesn't go right.
1:08:36
Speaker 7: You just need to do what everybody kind of knows
1:08:39
Speaker 7: where they stand and on the team, and you do
1:08:43
Speaker 7: what the team needs at that moment. And I truly
1:08:47
Speaker 7: think that Castillo is such a team guy.
1:08:50
Speaker 1: He can even be a trade ship.
1:08:51
Speaker 7: I think other teams might catch lightning in the bottle
1:08:54
Speaker 7: and maybe you can address at the deadline. With the
1:08:57
Speaker 7: depth of starters, you have some offense. If that's still
1:09:00
Speaker 7: the problem, look last year we certainly made huge splashes
1:09:03
Speaker 7: at the deadline. So I think it's a good problem
1:09:06
Speaker 7: to have, and I think Castillo again has handled it.
1:09:09
Speaker 1: Being the pro. He is just fine.
1:09:11
Speaker 7: Albeit it is a little bit different getting.
1:09:13
Speaker 1: Ready to come in those games.
1:09:15
Speaker 7: Yeah, as a reliever, put it to a starter or
1:09:18
Speaker 7: having plenty of time.
1:09:19
Speaker 1: I think that's one thing that I learned about Jake
1:09:21
Speaker 1: Peevey since your time at MLB Network. I mean, I
1:09:24
Speaker 1: remember watching you play and you kind of had an
1:09:27
Speaker 1: edge to you, and I didn't know. I didn't know
1:09:29
Speaker 1: if you were a jerk or a nice guy. I mean,
1:09:32
Speaker 1: I couldn't tell. And I would imagine that's a compliment
1:09:35
Speaker 1: to you, because you probably wanted people to think when
1:09:38
Speaker 1: you were on the mound that you had an edge
1:09:40
Speaker 1: to you. But since you've been at the MLB Network,
1:09:43
Speaker 1: it is amazing the compliments that people give you about
1:09:46
Speaker 1: what a great teammate that you were. And so I
1:09:49
Speaker 1: say that not just to flatter you, but we not
1:09:52
Speaker 1: only have the Castillo situation where, trust me, Jake, he
1:09:55
Speaker 1: is beloved in that locker room and yet is kind
1:09:59
Speaker 1: of facing a demo. And we also have a shortstop
1:10:01
Speaker 1: who's one of our leaders in JP Crawford. I'm not
1:10:04
Speaker 1: sure if you know the story that's going on there,
1:10:07
Speaker 1: but he's he's basically self demoting himself from shortstop to
1:10:13
Speaker 1: third base, potentially maybe on the bench eventually to make
1:10:18
Speaker 1: room for a young kid that may make the team better.
1:10:22
Speaker 1: And I'm just curious from your perspective, Number one, when
1:10:27
Speaker 1: an organization comes to a leader and ask them to
1:10:29
Speaker 1: take a lesser role. What that does to the locker room?
1:10:33
Speaker 1: And then secondarily when somebody actually volunteers to do it,
1:10:37
Speaker 1: what kind of impact could that have on the clubhouse? Well,
1:10:41
Speaker 1: it just shows you who we have, who you guys
1:10:43
Speaker 1: have in.
1:10:43
Speaker 7: JP Crawford, what type of guy is and getting out
1:10:46
Speaker 7: in front of Hey, what could be.
1:10:48
Speaker 1: A talking point?
1:10:50
Speaker 7: It said earlier, the guys know where they stand if
1:10:53
Speaker 7: he understands the future in Seattle, in what that looks
1:10:57
Speaker 7: like at shortstop in.
1:10:58
Speaker 1: The present day.
1:11:00
Speaker 7: And with the young man coming up and doing what
1:11:02
Speaker 7: he did, I you know, got to watch him their
1:11:05
Speaker 7: play in his first major league game. I saw the
1:11:07
Speaker 7: homer and he certainly looks not overmatched or overwhelmed by
1:11:13
Speaker 7: the moment. So again, I just think this is the
1:11:17
Speaker 7: Mariners being the complete team. I love Dan Wilson, what
1:11:20
Speaker 7: he brings to the table, just the experience, the steady
1:11:23
Speaker 7: Eddie presence, and I think it rubs off on the
1:11:26
Speaker 7: other guys. And you're speaking of Castillo and JP Crawford
1:11:31
Speaker 7: being your team leaders going through a bit of a
1:11:33
Speaker 7: different time, but they're handling it with his absolute much
1:11:36
Speaker 7: grace professionalism as you can That's what it's about. That's
1:11:40
Speaker 7: why I believe in your mariners and why they can
1:11:42
Speaker 7: get it going. Just got to get Brenda Donovan back
1:11:45
Speaker 7: and being the baseball player he is and col back
1:11:47
Speaker 7: in the middle of this thing. And it looks a
1:11:49
Speaker 7: little bit different now with Rayley going and a Rosa
1:11:52
Speaker 7: Raina just not all out there at the same time,
1:11:54
Speaker 7: but coming.
1:11:55
Speaker 1: Do you think we're in good hands with Dan Wilson?
1:11:58
Speaker 1: I do.
1:11:58
Speaker 7: I like Dan, really do, and I spent some time
1:12:01
Speaker 7: with him before that game. I played against him, so
1:12:05
Speaker 7: I know what type of player he was, and I
1:12:08
Speaker 7: know how cerebral he was behind the plate, So I
1:12:12
Speaker 7: think that that's a huge part of why cal Rawley
1:12:15
Speaker 7: is so good behind the plate, and just game management
1:12:20
Speaker 7: for a catcher who was who Dan was as his
1:12:22
Speaker 7: playing career. I think it's utmost important that you have
1:12:27
Speaker 7: a leader like that who can really identify and get
1:12:30
Speaker 7: in with the pitching staff of this team and have
1:12:33
Speaker 7: some input or insight, because that is your strength. Dan
1:12:36
Speaker 7: was known managing the pitching staff down there at the
1:12:39
Speaker 7: bottom of the offensive line up, doing what the offense
1:12:42
Speaker 7: is needed. But at the end of the day, Dan
1:12:44
Speaker 7: was protecting the pitching staff. I see that a lot
1:12:46
Speaker 7: in his managerial style.
1:12:48
Speaker 1: Jake Peevee is with us right here on the Chuck
1:12:50
Speaker 1: and Buck and normally my co host is Bucky Jacobson,
1:12:54
Speaker 1: and he played for the Mariners and his mate, I'm here,
1:12:58
Speaker 1: are you here? Can you hear me? Yo? It might
1:13:00
Speaker 1: have lost him. Hello, Jake, you're there? Might have lost him.
1:13:07
Speaker 1: Looks like we did lose connection. Oh man, that's unfortunate.
1:13:11
Speaker 1: I was about ready to wrap it up. I was
1:13:12
Speaker 1: ready to bring it home, very strong finish there. But
1:13:15
Speaker 1: I think we lost Jake Peevey. If we can get
1:13:18
Speaker 1: him back there, yeah, if they're good, If we can
1:13:22
Speaker 1: get him back quickly, we can pick up the conversation.
1:13:26
Speaker 1: But good stuff, good stuff from him here today. And
1:13:30
Speaker 1: you know, uh, to be up close and personal with
1:13:33
Speaker 1: the Mariners over the weekend lends a little bit of
1:13:35
Speaker 1: insight from an outside insight, from an outsider's perspective. I
1:13:38
Speaker 1: think we got you back, Jake.
1:13:41
Speaker 7: Sorry about that, Chuck.
1:13:42
Speaker 1: I don't know what happened. I don't either. I don't either.
1:13:44
Speaker 1: I'm about ready to get to the big finish, so uh,
1:13:47
Speaker 1: I appreciate you calling back. And I was just saying
1:13:49
Speaker 1: my normal co host is Bucky Jacobson, and he played
1:13:52
Speaker 1: for the Mariners as well, and and every time I
1:13:57
Speaker 1: bring up pitching velocity, he kind of roles his eyes
1:14:00
Speaker 1: because he thinks it's exaggerated. He thinks that these guys,
1:14:04
Speaker 1: they're all throwing one hundred and two, one hundred and
1:14:05
Speaker 1: three miles per hour. He thinks that guys through that
1:14:09
Speaker 1: hard in his day as well. What's your thought, I mean,
1:14:13
Speaker 1: you want to say young, and you know, probably mid
1:14:16
Speaker 1: nineties is what you topped out at. What do you
1:14:18
Speaker 1: think of all these pictures, these Jacob Mizzerowski's who are
1:14:22
Speaker 1: sustaining one hundred and three miles per hour for five innings.
1:14:26
Speaker 1: Of the uptick in velocity, are you buying it?
1:14:30
Speaker 7: You know, I think it's yeah, yes, I'm buying it
1:14:32
Speaker 7: to a certain degree. Do I think that technology has
1:14:35
Speaker 7: gotten better and allowed us to read it.
1:14:39
Speaker 1: Maybe a bit better?
1:14:40
Speaker 7: Yes, And so I do think these kids are bigger
1:14:44
Speaker 7: and they're stronger, they're able to train very specifically, and
1:14:50
Speaker 7: the way you can watch a young pitcher, Cam Schlitzler is,
1:14:54
Speaker 7: for an example, getting drafted as a seventh rounder and
1:14:58
Speaker 7: throwing you know, ninety boorish miles an hour.
1:15:01
Speaker 1: The way they can go. Put your body in these
1:15:05
Speaker 1: labs and you've.
1:15:06
Speaker 7: Got kinesiology degrees working on getting you in the most
1:15:09
Speaker 7: powerful positions. They can get a mile or two out
1:15:12
Speaker 7: of almost every picture that goes in and really wants
1:15:15
Speaker 7: to look at maybe making a wholesale change. So I
1:15:18
Speaker 7: do think the training and the kids are bigger and stronger.
1:15:23
Speaker 7: That doesn't necessarily means better. I think we're gripping it
1:15:26
Speaker 7: and ripping it and throwing more balls down the middle
1:15:28
Speaker 7: than we've ever thrown. And again, some of its analytics,
1:15:32
Speaker 7: some of its stuff, But yeah, I don't know. I
1:15:36
Speaker 7: think the swings are the reason there's so much swing
1:15:40
Speaker 7: and miss is because of what we've taught these guys.
1:15:42
Speaker 7: We want them to slug, slug slug. And so you're
1:15:45
Speaker 7: watching pictures. Yes, they're maybe throwing a bit harder with
1:15:50
Speaker 7: a touch better stuff than maybe ten years ago, but
1:15:53
Speaker 7: the swings are also bigger all the time, and strikeouts
1:15:57
Speaker 7: were deemed okay just a few years ago, and so
1:16:01
Speaker 7: you're just watching guys take way too big of a
1:16:03
Speaker 7: swing for in my opinion, for all three strikes instead
1:16:07
Speaker 7: of having a two strike approach. And then when stuff,
1:16:09
Speaker 7: and velocity's upticking, you're certainly gonna have trouble. So for me,
1:16:14
Speaker 7: I think the answer is a little bit of everything,
1:16:17
Speaker 7: you know. I don't think that it's all what it is.
1:16:20
Speaker 7: And Nolan Ryan and Billy Wagner, Randy Johnson, they were
1:16:23
Speaker 7: doing about what these guys are doing when the eye test.
1:16:26
Speaker 7: But overall the kids are bigger and stronger. You know,
1:16:30
Speaker 7: you get down there on the field with them, they're
1:16:32
Speaker 7: huge guys.
1:16:32
Speaker 1: Yep, yep, yeah, no doubt, and they got the different
1:16:35
Speaker 1: training now and they kind of got that down pat.
1:16:38
Speaker 1: So it's interesting where we're at in modern Major League baseball. Well,
1:16:44
Speaker 1: I enjoyed that. Appreciate you taking some time for us
1:16:47
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Speaker 1: Well, hopefully we can do this again another time. I
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Speaker 1: Well, great Friday morning to you all. We're coming close
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Speaker 1: to the end of our work week and then a
1:19:25
Speaker 1: three day weekend here. Well, joining us now on the program.
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Speaker 1: I don't know what his Friday night's gonna look like.
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Speaker 1: star of your Seattle Kraken now joins us here on
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Speaker 1: the Chuck and Buck radio program. Hi, Barklay, Hey, how's
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Speaker 1: it going. Thanks for having me on. You got big
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Speaker 1: Friday plans? Do you?
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Speaker 16: I think you nailed it right on the head there, crazy.
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Speaker 1: Are you back home or do you stay in Seattle
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Speaker 1: in the off season.
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Speaker 17: I'm going to be back and forth this summer, but
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Speaker 17: as of right now, I am in Saskatoon in Canada.
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Speaker 1: Okay, what's Saskatoon like? Give me a description. Be the
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Speaker 1: head of Saskatoon's you know, pr staff, and tell me
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Speaker 1: what is great about a summer in Saskatoon.
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Speaker 17: I mean, it's great, you know, it's it's a big city,
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Speaker 17: but it still kind of feels like a small towns,
1:20:30
Speaker 17: but like three hundred thousand people here and just right
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Speaker 17: in the middle of the prairie you can see your
1:20:35
Speaker 17: dog run away for days and that's not even a joke,
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Speaker 17: But that's how flat it is. But it's home and
1:20:40
Speaker 17: I love it and growing up here, have all my
1:20:42
Speaker 17: best buddies here, so it's nice to be home.
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Speaker 1: How do you How are you received when you come home?
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Speaker 1: I mean, I would imagine you're not the first hockey
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Speaker 1: star that's ever come out of Saskatoons. So is it
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Speaker 1: just old hat in Saskatoon when an NHL player comes
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Speaker 1: home to hang out? Or are you a pretty big deal?
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Speaker 1: Do they made you around like a conquering hero? No?
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Speaker 16: No, I'm just a regular guy here. I think, like
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Speaker 16: you said, there's been lots of hockey players to come
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Speaker 16: from here, and and you know, I think hockey is
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Speaker 16: a big deal. But Canaday just just another dude hanging around?
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Speaker 1: All right? I kind of like that. I like that
1:21:18
Speaker 1: about your offset. And then Berkeley Caton is with us
1:21:21
Speaker 1: right here on Chuck and Buck in the morning. Some
1:21:24
Speaker 1: I mean there are people that I mean, I played sports,
1:21:27
Speaker 1: have been around in sports all my life. I played,
1:21:30
Speaker 1: but I probably watched a lot more than I even played.
1:21:33
Speaker 1: And I played all the time, and it's but I
1:21:36
Speaker 1: watched more probably because and that's why I'm probably doing
1:21:39
Speaker 1: the job I have, right Now, obviously you played a lot.
1:21:43
Speaker 1: You can't get to the NHL unless you get on
1:21:46
Speaker 1: that track and it becomes sort of your life's ambition.
1:21:50
Speaker 1: But how much time did you spend actually watching hockey
1:21:54
Speaker 1: as a kid. Were you a huge NHL fan? Yeah,
1:21:59
Speaker 1: of course.
1:21:59
Speaker 17: But the thing about where I grew up was in
1:22:01
Speaker 17: Saskatoon that there wasn't really an NHL team around me.
1:22:05
Speaker 17: There was the Edmonton Oilers and the Calgary Flames and
1:22:08
Speaker 17: and the Winnipeg Gets.
1:22:09
Speaker 1: But I'm kind of right in the middle of all
1:22:11
Speaker 1: three of those teams.
1:22:11
Speaker 17: So I spent a lot of time watching the Western
1:22:14
Speaker 17: Hockey League, you know, going to games there, then obviously
1:22:19
Speaker 17: watching games on TV, you know, of the Edmonton Oilers
1:22:22
Speaker 17: and stuff.
1:22:22
Speaker 1: But as a kid, I think.
1:22:24
Speaker 17: I just breathed it and always just enjoyed being around
1:22:28
Speaker 17: it and watching it. And it's, you know, just the
1:22:30
Speaker 17: way I kind of grew up in the culture around
1:22:32
Speaker 17: here in Saskatoon.
1:22:33
Speaker 1: It's just hockey, hockey, hockey. So did you have a
1:22:36
Speaker 1: favorite player growing up and was he in the WHL
1:22:40
Speaker 1: or the NHL.
1:22:42
Speaker 17: Yeah, I had lots of favorite players growing up. I
1:22:45
Speaker 17: think when I was really young, I liked Pavel Datsuk.
1:22:49
Speaker 17: You know, he played for Detroit and was just a
1:22:51
Speaker 17: super you know, skilled player, and I tried to pick
1:22:54
Speaker 17: things from him. And then you know when I was
1:22:57
Speaker 17: when I was young, I was didn't really grow oh
1:23:00
Speaker 17: too much. I was laying it's bigger guys. So I
1:23:01
Speaker 17: like Johnny Gudreau too, just the way he danced out there.
1:23:06
Speaker 17: So I've had lots of favorite players through of the year,
1:23:08
Speaker 17: but never really won in particular.
1:23:10
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're so young, you're picking guys that are also
1:23:15
Speaker 1: that played not long ago. I mean, yeah, I didn't
1:23:18
Speaker 1: think I was gonna get awayne Gretzky out of you,
1:23:20
Speaker 1: but that that really does highlight your age. Berkeley Caton
1:23:27
Speaker 1: is with us here. So now that you're a professional
1:23:29
Speaker 1: hockey player, you just had your first hockey season, I'm curious,
1:23:32
Speaker 1: do you watch the Stanley Cup playoffs when you get
1:23:36
Speaker 1: the chance or now that you're a member of the
1:23:39
Speaker 1: crack And I don't know there are any sort of
1:23:41
Speaker 1: rules about Hey, if I'm not in the playoffs, I'm
1:23:44
Speaker 1: not gonna watch.
1:23:46
Speaker 17: No, I'm definitely watching. It's a little weird knowing and planning.
1:23:49
Speaker 1: Some of these guys.
1:23:50
Speaker 17: Yeah, it's a little different watching which is really cool.
1:23:53
Speaker 17: But I think it's cool just it's a different style
1:23:56
Speaker 17: of hockey than the regular season, I think. So just
1:23:58
Speaker 17: to kind of, you know, watch that and feel that
1:24:01
Speaker 17: out and hopefully you can get there soon would be great.
1:24:04
Speaker 1: But yeah, I've been watching it. Well, play analysts for me,
1:24:07
Speaker 1: who do you think looks the best right now? I
1:24:11
Speaker 1: don't know, I kinda.
1:24:13
Speaker 17: There's been two upsets so far in this you know,
1:24:16
Speaker 17: conference finals, so I mean.
1:24:19
Speaker 1: I don't really know.
1:24:20
Speaker 17: I've always thought that Colorado was kind of the team,
1:24:23
Speaker 17: but I guess you never really know come playoff.
1:24:26
Speaker 1: Time, right Yeah. Yeah, Well hopefully you're going to learn
1:24:29
Speaker 1: what the playoffs are all about very soon. Yeah. How
1:24:33
Speaker 1: disappointing was it? I mean for you it was your
1:24:35
Speaker 1: first season? He got a long time left in this league.
1:24:38
Speaker 1: But what was it like being around veterans who may
1:24:42
Speaker 1: be running out of time to get this job done?
1:24:46
Speaker 1: What was it like to have the season come to
1:24:48
Speaker 1: a disappointing year, a disappointing end, and to be a
1:24:52
Speaker 1: part of that, but also to be a part of
1:24:55
Speaker 1: other people's disappointments. Yeah, I think it's from myself.
1:25:00
Speaker 17: It was a huge learning experience obviously coming out of
1:25:03
Speaker 17: the break, we were in a really good situation, and
1:25:05
Speaker 17: just how quick things can turn, you know, if you're
1:25:08
Speaker 17: not on top of your game as an individual and
1:25:10
Speaker 17: as a you know, on a team. But like you said,
1:25:12
Speaker 17: there's lots of guys on our team that you know,
1:25:15
Speaker 17: got a couple of years left to win, and obviously
1:25:17
Speaker 17: we want to help those guys get to get there.
1:25:20
Speaker 17: So I think, you know, we know we have to
1:25:22
Speaker 17: do this offseason as individuals and you know, come September, be.
1:25:27
Speaker 1: Ready to go and just run with it from there.
1:25:29
Speaker 1: What did you learn about yourself and your own game
1:25:32
Speaker 1: in your first year?
1:25:35
Speaker 17: I just think that the consistency of it is so important.
1:25:38
Speaker 17: Playing eighty two games next year eighty four games, Just
1:25:42
Speaker 17: how consistent you have to be every single night, and
1:25:46
Speaker 17: you know it having a good not B game, but
1:25:49
Speaker 17: if you're not on top of your game, knowing how
1:25:50
Speaker 17: you can still impact the game in a positive way
1:25:53
Speaker 17: is one thing I kind of learned so and again
1:25:55
Speaker 17: being around the Jordan Eberies of the world and the
1:25:57
Speaker 17: Jane Schwartz and you know, the channel of Stevens and
1:26:00
Speaker 17: just guys whipping around and just picking their brain was
1:26:03
Speaker 17: huge for me and you know, they helped me out
1:26:05
Speaker 17: a lot throughout the year.
1:26:06
Speaker 1: What's the difference in the precision between what you'd played before,
1:26:10
Speaker 1: the leagues you've played before, and then you get in
1:26:12
Speaker 1: the NHL and you're surrounded by the best in the league.
1:26:15
Speaker 1: I mean, I got to imagine that maybe you could
1:26:18
Speaker 1: get away with a mistake in the past and you
1:26:20
Speaker 1: could control the puck still if it got a little
1:26:23
Speaker 1: loose where maybe you don't get away with that anymore. Oh,
1:26:28
Speaker 1: that's exactly right. That's a huge thing. Mistakes on both ends.
1:26:33
Speaker 17: If they happen, they're usually capitalized on the other way.
1:26:38
Speaker 1: And how was I saw that very early?
1:26:40
Speaker 17: Just how good the players are and how one little
1:26:43
Speaker 17: mistake can you know, go the other way and have
1:26:47
Speaker 17: a great scoring cancer even a goal. So you know,
1:26:50
Speaker 17: just like you said, it's the best players in the
1:26:52
Speaker 17: world and they're gonna make hockey plays everywhere.
1:26:54
Speaker 1: So just learning how.
1:26:56
Speaker 17: To manage the game, I think was one thing that
1:26:58
Speaker 17: I kind of tried to pick up on this year.
1:27:00
Speaker 17: And yeah, it's that's very true statement. There is a
1:27:04
Speaker 17: lot of precisions out there.
1:27:05
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, we enjoyed watching you, and we of course
1:27:07
Speaker 1: have big expectations not to put too much pressure on
1:27:10
Speaker 1: you going forward. You can't wait to see how much
1:27:12
Speaker 1: improvement you show us for next season. Do you think
1:27:16
Speaker 1: the Stevenson's miss you, Well, it's funny.
1:27:20
Speaker 17: I was actually hanging out with him yesterday because they're
1:27:22
Speaker 17: about twenty minutes from me. Okay, so yeah, Tayler, Yeah, no,
1:27:29
Speaker 17: me and Chandler grew up in the same city obviously,
1:27:31
Speaker 17: in Saskatoon here, so they have a place owning an
1:27:34
Speaker 17: acreage and with a little pool. So we were swimming yesterday
1:27:37
Speaker 17: and hanging out, so you know, we uh, you know,
1:27:41
Speaker 17: they don't miss me too much.
1:27:42
Speaker 1: I don't think I already saw them. It was very good.
1:27:45
Speaker 1: Did they call you if you've been away too long?
1:27:47
Speaker 1: Like parents worried about you, if like, if they haven't
1:27:50
Speaker 1: heard from you in a while.
1:27:52
Speaker 17: Yeah, I think so. I think they're little ones. Uh
1:27:56
Speaker 17: we're thinking I was moving into their house there they're
1:27:59
Speaker 17: asking all my stuff. So it's funny there.
1:28:02
Speaker 16: Yeah, they're awesome though.
1:28:03
Speaker 17: They were great to me all year.
1:28:05
Speaker 1: That's great. That is awesome. What a great story from
1:28:08
Speaker 1: this past year. Well man, it was great. Hear and Frey.
1:28:11
Speaker 1: Thanks for coming on the show, taking some time out
1:28:13
Speaker 1: of your busy life, have a great off season, and
1:28:17
Speaker 1: can't wait to see the twenty twenty six, twenty seven
1:28:20
Speaker 1: version of Berkeley Caton. Yeah me too, Thank you very
1:28:23
Speaker 1: much for having me on. All right, Berkeley Catton joining us
1:28:26
Speaker 1: right here on the program, And I probably should explain
1:28:28
Speaker 1: it for those that are a little confused. So I
1:28:30
Speaker 1: guess in the National Hockey League they do well to
1:28:34
Speaker 1: sort of take care of the young'ins. So here's Berkeley
1:28:38
Speaker 1: comes into the league, doesn't have a family of his own,
1:28:41
Speaker 1: doesn't have as much money as some of the veterans,
1:28:44
Speaker 1: and so I guess that's kind of a time honored
1:28:46
Speaker 1: tradition that some of the veterans, hey, you need a
1:28:50
Speaker 1: good meal or whatever the case may be, they kind
1:28:53
Speaker 1: of take them under their wing, almost adopt them, and
1:28:55
Speaker 1: they spend a lot of time at their house, and
1:28:57
Speaker 1: they might even move into the house, which apparently was
1:29:00
Speaker 1: the case with Berkeley Catton and veteran Chandler Stevenson, both
1:29:04
Speaker 1: of them being from the same area, and so Berkeley
1:29:07
Speaker 1: Catton's rookie season, he was basically Chandler Stevens adopted son
1:29:13
Speaker 1: this past year. So that's why I brought that up,
1:29:16
Speaker 1: and It's very funny that the reaction was, no, I
1:29:18
Speaker 1: just saw him yesterday. I was right down the road.
1:29:21
Speaker 2: No, I don't miss him.
1:29:24
Speaker 1: That's phenomena. You would you would think that, you know,
1:29:27
Speaker 1: Chandler Stevenson and Missus Stevenson and maybe even the maybe
1:29:32
Speaker 1: even Berkeley would be like, Okay, we just spent an
1:29:35
Speaker 1: entire hockey season together. I'm going to see you next year.
1:29:39
Speaker 1: Go do your thing and give me a break. But
1:29:41
Speaker 1: they obviously like each other enough that Chandler's like, you
1:29:46
Speaker 1: want to come over and swim?
1:29:47
Speaker 2: Yeah, come on, come over for a swim.
1:29:48
Speaker 1: May that's awesome.
1:29:51
Speaker 2: Let's get out and.
1:29:51
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