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Best of Chuck & Buck 4-14 · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: Good morning anybody out there. We're live and gentlemen, welcome
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  Speaker 4: Complete?
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  Speaker 1: This is Chucking Buck in the Morning. Why you people
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  Speaker 1: are beyond you. Let's go, Let's get the game off. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: good Tuesday morning. So you welcome into the radio show
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  Speaker 1: called Chucking Buck in the Morning. Sports Radio ninety three
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  Speaker 1: point three Gay JRFM. Great to have you with us,
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  Speaker 1: says Ashley Ryan.
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  Speaker 4: Is here.
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  Speaker 1: My name is Chuck Powell.
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  Speaker 6: And the lights are on, and all the lights on
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  Speaker 6: my bord are on.
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  Speaker 1: Yip.
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  Speaker 7: Everything worked.
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  Speaker 1: I did have a we're liveing on time.
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  Speaker 7: Had a little nervousness right at six o'clock. I'm like,
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  Speaker 7: is it gonna work today?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: I added in the elevator as I was coming in,
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  Speaker 1: because we're still being powered by the generator outside. So
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  Speaker 1: I saw that on the drive in and I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: oh boy, this was the problem.
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  Speaker 7: Yesterday, but at least it wasn't on fire.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was not on fire number one, so check
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  Speaker 1: number two. Yeah that it sounded like it was working.
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  Speaker 1: It was humming, it's loud. Yeah, I'm really mechanically inclined,
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  Speaker 1: so all I could do is just press my ear
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  Speaker 1: to it. It was operating. Well, I have no idea.
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  Speaker 1: But then I got in the elevator and I hit
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  Speaker 1: the bar. But I'm like, oh no, if the elevator's
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  Speaker 1: not working, and I hit it again, I oh not this, gosh,
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  Speaker 1: not again.
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  Speaker 2: Oh no.
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  Speaker 1: And then I realized, Oh, because we get up at
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  Speaker 1: ridiculous hours, and I'm not thinking because I'm trying to
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  Speaker 1: figure out what I'm going to talk about first today,
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  Speaker 1: I just keep hitting the button on the floor I'm
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  Speaker 1: already on.
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  Speaker 6: Oh yeah, no, it's not going to go anywhere if
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  Speaker 6: you're on that floor. So yeah, I wasn't gonna move
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  Speaker 6: up from P one, all right?
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  Speaker 7: Fair?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, when I'm on. When you're on P one
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  Speaker 1: and you hit P one, you don't go upward.
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  Speaker 7: Nope, you're there, You're already there. You've already arrived.
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  Speaker 1: So it turns out operator error.
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  Speaker 6: Well, that can happen sometimes we have an excuse this
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  Speaker 6: early and you know what, we've been.
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  Speaker 7: Through a lot.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's true. Apparently they went through a lot more
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  Speaker 1: Friday than what I realized. Yeah, I'm glad I was,
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  Speaker 1: you know, under the scope on Friday. Colon uscopy was
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  Speaker 1: a big, big, major improvement over what the staff went
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  Speaker 1: through on Friday. I'll get ten of those before I
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  Speaker 1: go through. Well the staff went through on Friday.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: And I was texing with Jessamin on Friday because I
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  Speaker 6: saw the social media stuff and I was like, wait,
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  Speaker 6: was it actually a fire or was it?
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  Speaker 1: Because we had a.
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  Speaker 6: Lot of people asking this yesterday when we weren't on
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  Speaker 6: the air, and I said, well, they left over from
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  Speaker 6: the fire, and they're like, oh, it was real. We
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  Speaker 6: thought Ian was joking. No, there was an actual fire.
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  Speaker 6: Our boss, Purple Sheet said, quote every fire truck in
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  Speaker 6: the city was outside our building. They had staging areas
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  Speaker 6: and command centers and all sorts of things here, and
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  Speaker 6: then they got everything fixed there, but the power was
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  Speaker 6: out in the building, so then they brought a generator
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  Speaker 6: in and then that caught fire over the weekend and
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  Speaker 6: then that's the reason why we had issues yesterday because
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  Speaker 6: of the new generator that came in.
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  Speaker 1: And apparently the new generator was all set on Sunday
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  Speaker 1: and then it reset itself overnight.
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  Speaker 7: And then everything went out.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, and everything went out, and our engineers didn't know,
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  Speaker 1: so when we got in and everything was dark, it
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  Speaker 1: was news to them. So the scramble was on. So anyway,
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  Speaker 1: that's the reason I mean, I am a pullback the
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  Speaker 1: curtain type of person. Most bosses don't want us to
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  Speaker 1: even mention that that happened yesterday. But if you missed
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  Speaker 1: us yesterday, a lot of you did express how much
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  Speaker 1: you missed.
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  Speaker 7: Us yes nice day.
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  Speaker 1: It was really nice to see here we are back live.
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  Speaker 1: That does not happen very often, Believe me. I worked
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  Speaker 1: at Sports Fan Radio Network in Las Vegas when I
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  Speaker 1: started in this business, and there were we were off
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  Speaker 1: the air so frequently. There were so many engineering mishaps.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we did our show out of the Las
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  Speaker 1: Vegas MGM Grand That's where I did my show on
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  Speaker 1: a daily basis, And one day I drove to work
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  Speaker 1: and the entire casino was dark, like there was power
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  Speaker 1: out on the entire block. So the entire casino was dark,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm like, oh my gosh, Joe sand screwed something up.
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  Speaker 1: He was our engineer sports fan. I was sure that
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  Speaker 1: he'd clipped the wrong wire and shorted out the entire
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  Speaker 1: block of Las Vegas. So anyway, it happens very rarely here.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, sure, we have some technical difficulties now and
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  Speaker 1: then every radio station has to deal with it. But
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  Speaker 1: I don't think I've ever been off the air for
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  Speaker 1: an hour and a half. Yeah, that was the first
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  Speaker 1: I've since I've been here. Yeah, and so it was
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  Speaker 1: good to finally get on the air. No reason to
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  Speaker 1: get angry about it. Here we are again, and hopefully
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  Speaker 1: we're back into the routine with you here this morning.
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  Speaker 1: Bucky Jacobson's still not here, so we're still not back
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  Speaker 1: to normal, but at least the lights are on, the
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  Speaker 1: powers on, and we are ready to broadcast. And I
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  Speaker 1: hope I didn't jinx anything by talking about it here
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  Speaker 1: this morning. So we'll knock on some wood here to
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  Speaker 1: get us started on this day. By the way, before
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  Speaker 1: we move into Mariners sweeping the astros, I do want
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  Speaker 1: to say I now have a topper for you know,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people complain about the guy who who
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  Speaker 1: talks about his fantasy football team, like any even people
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  Speaker 1: that play fantasy football, aren't interested in hearing you, you know,
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  Speaker 1: for a half hour, go on and on and on
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  Speaker 1: about your fantasy football team shortcomings or successes. It's a
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  Speaker 1: common joke, like I don't want to hear about your
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  Speaker 1: fantasy football team. Don't take it on dates, and don't
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  Speaker 1: take it two buddies at the bar unless they're in
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  Speaker 1: the same league with you. But I now have a
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  Speaker 1: topper for that. Oh it's colonoscopy tales.
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  Speaker 7: Oh you know what?
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  Speaker 1: It is unreal how many people can't wait to tell
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  Speaker 1: because I think when you first get it done, you
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  Speaker 1: don't think anyone would possibly want to know. But then
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  Speaker 1: whenever somebody knowingly does it because we talked about it
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  Speaker 1: on the air, then you should have seen the people
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  Speaker 1: come out of the woodwork. And poor Rory and Luke,
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  Speaker 1: who are like twelve and fourteen and work in our
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  Speaker 1: sales staff. They're sitting like one station over from the
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  Speaker 1: sales men and I on Thursday, and oh my gosh,
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  Speaker 1: it was like a half hour of people telling their colonoscopy.
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  Speaker 7: Oh my gosh, which I don't.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, can we start talking about fantasy football?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah?
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  Speaker 7: Right, your team do this mass bracket.
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  Speaker 6: But that's the funny thing too, is it's like, I
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  Speaker 6: don't really know how many tales there can be, Like,
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  Speaker 6: it's not I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, they want to talk about the mix, and then
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  Speaker 1: they want to talk about what you ate afterwards, and
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  Speaker 1: then they want to talk about the profofall and how
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  Speaker 1: long and what what was your procedure, And then it's
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  Speaker 1: just it's a thing. Yeah, it's a thing. I mean
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  Speaker 1: people I don't think volunteer it. But if you open
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  Speaker 1: the door.
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  Speaker 7: Then they were like, yes, let's talk about that.
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  Speaker 1: They can't wait to kick it in.
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  Speaker 7: Because normalized colocopies.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe the wife doesn't want to hear it, and that
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  Speaker 1: they're like, oh, I got a great story to tell.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody's gonna hear it. So anyway, Uh, if you're like
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  Speaker 1: that or your friends are like that, know that you're
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  Speaker 1: not alone. Yes, it happens. I talked about it all
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  Speaker 1: day yesterday at the office and all day Thursday before
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  Speaker 1: the procedure at the office. So well, welcome into the
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  Speaker 1: radio program. Hopefully it's better than a colonoscopy. We've got
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  Speaker 1: you here for the next four hours talk about all
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  Speaker 1: sorts of things today. Our draft MIAs countdown continues, and
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  Speaker 1: we have a baseball team that is nearly dug out
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  Speaker 1: of the hole it created for itself. The Houston Astros
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  Speaker 1: and their beat up, beat up starting rotation ended up
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  Speaker 1: being quite the blessing for this team to fix what
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  Speaker 1: had ailed them. A four and nine start, had a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people panicking out there, and yet the Mariners
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  Speaker 1: did turn it around sort of in one series. They're
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  Speaker 1: still not completely out of the hole, but have a
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  Speaker 1: chance tonight to get back to the five hundred mark
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  Speaker 1: and then let's just start over. Yeah, take a deep breath,
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  Speaker 1: and then we can just start all over and figure
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  Speaker 1: it out that way. But four straight way the Houston Astros,
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  Speaker 1: and I don't care if they are injured. It is
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  Speaker 1: precisely what the Mariners needed. And they did get a
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  Speaker 1: lot of help. I mean, the Astros pitchers walked twenty
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  Speaker 1: seven batters over the course of the four games that
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  Speaker 1: we played them. But and the ms who scored only
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  Speaker 1: six runs in the entire Rangers series where the Mariners
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  Speaker 1: got swept, didn't have a game where they didn't score
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  Speaker 1: at least six runs in this four game series, so
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  Speaker 1: twenty nine runs overall in the series. I mean a
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  Speaker 1: get well series to a degree from the standpoint of Okay,
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  Speaker 1: it took thirteen wins thirteen games to get four wins
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  Speaker 1: out of the gates, and then you just picked up
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  Speaker 1: four in a row against what is supposed to be
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  Speaker 1: a team that we're going to battle this year in
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  Speaker 1: the American League West. So yes, you can get well
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  Speaker 1: in a hurry, and the Mariners did just that. And
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  Speaker 1: I think it's actually encourage that even though Josh and
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  Speaker 1: Julio and Cal got a little healthier as hitters over
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  Speaker 1: the course of these four games, Josh with the big
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  Speaker 1: game yesterday, they're still their numbers are so bad this
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  Speaker 1: year still at this point that it is just so
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  Speaker 1: highly encouraging that you could look after seventeen games at
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  Speaker 1: three hitters in the middle of your order, all with
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  Speaker 1: slugging percentages under three hundred, under two ninety as a
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  Speaker 1: matter of fact, and yet you're sitting there at eight
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  Speaker 1: to nine on the year, and you know, at least
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  Speaker 1: are treading water seventeen games into the year. So it
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  Speaker 1: was sort of a get right series, and you don't
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  Speaker 1: care how much help you get from the injury gods.
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  Speaker 1: You take it. You take the wins when you can
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  Speaker 1: get them. And maybe the Mariners still aren't playing their
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  Speaker 1: best baseball seventeen games into the year. As a matter
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  Speaker 1: of fact, I think maybe they just finished to stretch
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  Speaker 1: up their worst baiting to play this entire year. And
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  Speaker 1: yet you're sitting there with an acceptable eight and nine
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  Speaker 1: record seventeen games into the season.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, you did it against a division rival, and I
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  Speaker 6: don't think Houston's going to be terrible all year.
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  Speaker 7: So you take those wins where you can get them.
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  Speaker 6: And you know, it was a frustrating start, or has
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  Speaker 6: been a frustrating start for the Mariners, But to sweep
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  Speaker 6: these four games, I think, yeah, it gives them that
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  Speaker 6: boost of confidence. It gives them that little Okay, we
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  Speaker 6: can take a bit of a breath, because you know,
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  Speaker 6: when we're four and nine and everyone's panicking, not panicking, but.
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  Speaker 7: There were a lot of panicking.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of people have already folded the tents for goodness.
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  Speaker 6: But I can't say everyone because then people will write
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  Speaker 6: back and say, oh panicking, No, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: No, I'm glad. I hate representing it that way. But
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people were panicking.
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  Speaker 6: For sure, and there were a lot of people who
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  Speaker 6: were frustrated like we were, because it was an irritating
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  Speaker 6: start to the season.
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  Speaker 7: And so to whatever aspect you.
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  Speaker 6: Can use to gain that momentum and that positivity and
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  Speaker 6: putting your team in the right direction.
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  Speaker 7: I mean, the pitching was great, and I just it
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  Speaker 7: was awesome. I'll take it. And I'm not sad at
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  Speaker 7: all that Houston has lost eight in a row.
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  Speaker 1: No, no, no, not at all. I know you want
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  Speaker 1: us to have sympathy for you. It's never going.
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  Speaker 7: To good luck.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, but look, I mean, seventeen games into the season,
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  Speaker 1: with the exception of Luis Castillo, the pitching looks good,
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  Speaker 1: too great at this point. The bullpen is looks fine. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: the defense has been bad seventeen games into the year,
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  Speaker 1: But the thing that really stands out is those big three.
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  Speaker 1: And we talked about it a lot last week. I
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  Speaker 1: said it last week before the Astro Series even got started,
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  Speaker 1: when you were sitting there at four and nine, and
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  Speaker 1: I said, go ahead and start panicking if you truly
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  Speaker 1: believe cal Raleig, Julio Rodriguez, and Josh Naylor. Overnight became
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  Speaker 1: the three worst hitters in the American League. Have you
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  Speaker 1: really believed, because that's the why we're four and nine.
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  Speaker 1: There's no other I mean, defense was part of it.
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  Speaker 1: Some sloppy base running was part of it. Luis Castillo
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  Speaker 1: not being really part of his game was part of it.
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  Speaker 1: Not being on his game as part of it.
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  Speaker 7: But it was those one run losses.
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  Speaker 1: Dan Wilson, I don't think has been sharp as I
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  Speaker 1: want to see him, but those were all minor factors
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  Speaker 1: and you were still just with all of those factors,
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  Speaker 1: losing by one run in nearly every single game that
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  Speaker 1: you played. Well, you can see if just one guy
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  Speaker 1: out of those big three has a day Josh Naylor
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  Speaker 1: knocks in five runs and it's two homers, just one
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  Speaker 1: of those guys. And so you were operating in a
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  Speaker 1: series of one run losses with your three worst hitters
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  Speaker 1: or three best hitters hitting as bad as they possibly
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  Speaker 1: can hit. Playing. Yeah, And so I said it before
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  Speaker 1: the Astro series start, if you really think that this
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  Speaker 1: is who they are, then I would panic, you know,
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  Speaker 1: because we're not going to overcome cal Ralely, Julio Roda
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  Speaker 1: Vegas and Josh Naylor hitting under one forty all season long.
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  Speaker 1: We're just not going to overcome it. And even though
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  Speaker 1: none of them are what I would describe as on fire,
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  Speaker 1: you did see Josh Naylor finally get his first extra
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  Speaker 1: base hit, so you got to see some production yesterday,
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  Speaker 1: and he pretty much carried the team to their six
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  Speaker 1: runs yesterday, Julio, as we talked about with Ryan Healey yesterday,
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  Speaker 1: Ryan said, he looks the one that's back. He looks
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  Speaker 1: like he's on and now he's not getting balls to fall,
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  Speaker 1: and he's not hitting a lot of balls over the wall,
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  Speaker 1: but he's making consistently hard contact. He got a couple
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  Speaker 1: more hits yesterday, got the batting average over two hundred.
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  Speaker 1: It's a start. And then for Cal, I mean, I
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  Speaker 1: would like to think that we are all on the
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  Speaker 1: same page on this, that maybe he'll never have another
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  Speaker 1: season like he had a year ago. But he was
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  Speaker 1: already really good yeah before last season, So you know,
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  Speaker 1: I do suspect that he's going to be at least
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  Speaker 1: that player. He's at least going to be twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: four col even if he's never twenty twenty five col again.
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  Speaker 1: And so a couple hits yesterday for him still not right.
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  Speaker 1: I think he's the one that looks furthest away frankly
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  Speaker 1: from who he is. But you are seeing progress, you
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  Speaker 1: are seeing a step in the right direction. And the
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  Speaker 1: good news is you're only seventeen games into the year,
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  Speaker 1: so we still have five and a half months of
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  Speaker 1: baseball to play, and we're eight and nine with those
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  Speaker 1: three hitting about as badly as you possibly can. So
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  Speaker 1: not only are we seeing signs, we're now starting to
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  Speaker 1: see production from the three of them, and it feels like,
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  Speaker 1: finally we're ready. Okay, seventeen games into the year, we
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  Speaker 1: can get back to five hundred right now, We'll take
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  Speaker 1: that Mulligan, Cal, Julio, Josh hitting Finally. Now let's see
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  Speaker 1: who's the best team in the American League West.
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  Speaker 6: Let's go yeah, exactly, and it is we talked about
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  Speaker 6: two in those first what is it, I can't do
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  Speaker 6: math now thirteen games that we had a lot of
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  Speaker 6: bad luck that went our way too, and we've got
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  Speaker 6: to get some good luck that goes your way. And
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  Speaker 6: that hit that Cal had yesterday where the pitcher just
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  Speaker 6: decided I'm not going to run all the way to
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  Speaker 6: first base and Cal hustled down the line and got
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  Speaker 6: that single.
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  Speaker 7: I mean, those are the things that kind of now have.
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  Speaker 6: To go your way, right, You got to get those
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  Speaker 6: little things and it will ebb and flow all season long.
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  Speaker 6: And so you know, just being in the right place
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  Speaker 6: putting the ball in play, you never know what's going
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  Speaker 6: to happen.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and you got some brakes from the Astros injuries
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  Speaker 1: and the pitchers couldn't find the strike zone. And but
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  Speaker 1: I would also give credit to the Mariners. It's not
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  Speaker 1: like they were all over the place. There were a
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  Speaker 1: lot of good at that. So this is part of
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  Speaker 1: this team's profile. They take walks and they hit homers.
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  Speaker 1: That's how they they operate offensively. So how the way
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  Speaker 1: they've operated now for years, and they're trying to get better.
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  Speaker 1: They're trying to find the pieces that put the ball
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  Speaker 1: in play more consistently. But really what their offense is
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  Speaker 1: built on is getting walksting traffic and then hitting the
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: home run and then relying on their pitching. And that's
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: kind of what you saw to an exaggerated degree, because
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: to your point, you caught some breaks with Astro's pitchers
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: injuries and then barely missing the strike zone consistently. Throughout
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: the entire series. But you did score six runs yesterday
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: with only one walk. Yeah, and so to me this
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: was a bit of a healing series. It does feel like, Okay,
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: now let's start the season. Yes, let's go, let's come
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: bring it on, Padres. You heated rival you and all right,
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: let's find out what's on tap for the rest of
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: the show. What's on tip? What's on tap? Nothing but
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: kolonoscopy stories four hours? Get ready, people, I ge't wait,
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: that's what that's what's on tap?
• 17:52
  Speaker 6: Keith texted in, what's the plan to make up for
• 17:54
  Speaker 6: the ninety minutes we missed out on yesterday?
• 17:56
  Speaker 7: There you go, Keith, you answer.
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: We'll do a podcast. Yeah, yeah, Tales from the Dopes
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: on Scopes. Oh good.
• 18:09
  Speaker 7: I probably would listen, honestly, I would.
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I would not. Mariners win yesterday six to over
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: the Astros. They do sweep the series. So eight nine
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: on the year in just a game and a half
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: out of first place.
• 18:20
  Speaker 7: Oh my gosh, season's over.
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I know.
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: I know.
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: It's not a it's not a long season. I know
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: it's never early. They can't be.
• 18:28
  Speaker 6: Right, Chuck, because we were in last place last week
• 18:32
  Speaker 6: Mariners at Padres Tonight six forty starts on.
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: We'll cover more of it in Mariner's Morning After at
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: the bottom of the hour. Some other sports that are
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: going on. NBA playing tonight Miami and Charlotte is one
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: of the matchups than the nightcap will be Portland and Phoenix.
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: Portland and Phoenix are the top two teams. This is
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: the way it works. So Portland and Phoenix winner tonight
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: gets into the playoffs as the seven seed. The loser
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: then awaits tomorrow's winner Bewean Golden State and the Clippers.
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: Then those two teams play on Friday for the eighth
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: and final spot in the NBA Playoffs. So that's how
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: the play in tournament works. In case you're not familiar,
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: I think most of you are, or maybe you forgot.
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: The eastern side it will be Miami and Charlotte, so
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: that's the bottom feeders. So they will play. The winner
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: will the loser will be eliminated, and the winner will
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: play the loser Tomorrow night. On the eastern side of things,
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: they will play excuse me, Friday night. Tomorrow night's game
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: will be all right, I've confused myself, so easy. Yeah,
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: you know what I'm talking about. But yes, that's that's
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: tonight and the play in So they still haven't figured
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: out the sixteen teams in the playoffs. And you know,
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: message to Adam Silver. You have all this talk about
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: tanking and load management. You've got NBA head coaches like
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: Steve Kerr saying we need fewer games, being public, being
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: absolutely like bombastic about it. You don't help your cause
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: when you take an already watered down playoffs where everybody's
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: saying Chalk's going to prevail, there are no upsets in
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: the first round, and you decide, instead of shortening them,
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: which is what you know you should do, you need
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: fewer teams in the playoffs. You've always operated with too
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: many teams in the playoffs. And your solution to all
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: of these things is let's put more teams.
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: In the playoff.
• 20:30
  Speaker 7: Yeah, it makes no sense.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: It's dumb. And so you know, I don't even encourage
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: you to watch. I really don't. Just let it play out.
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: Will update you tomorrow morning, and I'll do a better
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: job of explaining that the format to you tomorrow.
• 20:46
  Speaker 7: And I probably won't have watched, but I'll read about it.
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: WNBA draft was last night, did the Storm win. The
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: night kind of felt like they did, I think based
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: on I don't watch a lot of women's basketball, and
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: I I certainly don't watch a lot of Spanish women's basketball.
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: But the highlight reels that I saw of this Awa Fom,
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: which is what AI says, is our name's pronounced, even
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: though every highlight I saw says fam uh. But awa
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: fom or fam. Well, we're all formerly.
• 21:18
  Speaker 7: Now yeah we are, we are farmerly.
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, the highlight package I saw of her, we got
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: the best player in the draft. The Storm got the
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: best player in the draft last night.
• 21:29
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: Now, whether or not she can adjust the life in America,
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: we shall see. But six foot four athletic, three point shooting, ability,
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: interior post moves, there's nothing that she's not physically capable
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: of doing on the women's court. And so you can
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: have square her shoulders shooter Asi Fud and you can
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: have passer Olivia Miles. I'll take the six foot four
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: inch gazelle who can do everything.
• 21:56
  Speaker 7: Yeah, it's going to be fun to watch her.
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: It is going to be farm to watch her. Plus,
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: they made a trade for Flo J. Johnson out of
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: LSU last night. There's a really interesting story there, which
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: I am going to share with you a little bit
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: later on. But bottom line, has felt like the Storm
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: won the NBA WNBA Draft last night crack and fell
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: to the Kings five to three. So at least we
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: don't have to suffer them winning every single game of
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: the last two weeks of the season where they were
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: eliminated from the postseason. I would not have liked that.
• 22:26
  Speaker 6: No, and then you would have looked at the SAMs
• 22:29
  Speaker 6: standings and seen, oh, they missed the playoffs by two points,
• 22:32
  Speaker 6: when really that's not the what happened.
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: Everett FITZI will join us today at eight thirty, and
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: then we are nine sleeps till the NFL Draft, and
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: so we of course will celebrate traft miss with Rob
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: Ring at seven oh five. Stocking Stuffer is an extended
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: edition today at eight and the second edition of Miracle
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: at thirty. Fourth pick today at nine to thirty. But
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: coming up next. More on the Mariners win yesterday. It's
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: Mariners Morning after on KJR.
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: Naylor looking to ride.
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: To fall into the big part of the yard, get cow,
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: plenty of time to get in from third.
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: Naylor shoots this deep.
• 23:11
  Speaker 5: Right field gone John Stieler, he's been waiting for him.
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: His first of the year. He's a three run homer
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: in the first inning. Now that is a good situational
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: hitting slunk center field back, he's.
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: Gone other line.
• 23:36
  Speaker 5: Johnsh Miller has Howard on back to back pitches his
• 23:42
  Speaker 5: second of the day.
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: Well, getting that first home run will certainly put a
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: skip in your step, and Josh Naylor goes back until back.
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: He's making up for lost time. Aaron and Dave on
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: the call last night Mariners TV with the highlights or
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: not last night, but yesterday afternoon Mariners do win over
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: the Houston Astros by a final score of six to two.
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: It is a four game sweep for the Ms against
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: a division rival, and suddenly they've gone from four to
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: nine to eight to nine in a very short span.
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: So have nearly climbed out of the hole they dug
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: for themselves at the start of this season, a season
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: of high expectations that got off to obviously a very
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: cold and unexpected start.
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: But then again, this.
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: Team always starts slow, and so maybe they've started to
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: rev it up. Josh Naylor at two home runs. He
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: knocked in five of their six runs they scored six
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: runs in every game of the series against the Houston Astros.
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: They had scored six runs in the entire series against
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: the Texas Rangers when they were swept in the Metroplex.
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: And so the Mariners hopefully back on track. Hopefully the
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: Big three are back on track. We'll test that theory tonight.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: They'll take on the San Diego Padres.
• 25:02
  Speaker 6: Oh, Padres, they better not try to take that guitar
• 25:07
  Speaker 6: from us.
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you better not claim you're bigger Eddie Bedder people
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: than we are, even though he likes the Cubs more
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: than both of.
• 25:15
  Speaker 7: Us, that's right, but we are the real.
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: Anger Growl rivalry.
• 25:25
  Speaker 9: Wow.
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: So it's just a short three game road trip, So
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: four game homestand three game road trip and then right
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: back at home starting on Friday, weird the MS eight
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: and nine on the year. Brian Wu gets the start Tonight,
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: he'll take on Michael King, a battle of right handers,
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: all star caliber right handers of both of them, and
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: so this will be a tough matchup against the Padres
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: team that has won five straight games. We'll talk more
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: about that abcs of the MS coming your way at
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: seven thirty. As for the rest of your frost brewed
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: cors Light Choose chill Head. NBA's play in round of
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: the playoffs will start tonight. Miami Charlotte is the first game.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: Portland Phoenix is the later game. Remember that Portland and Phoenix.
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: The winner gets into the playoffs as the seventh seed. Automatically,
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: Miami and Charlotte are the bottom feeders in the East
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: and so whoever loses gets eliminated. The winner will have
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: to play tomorrow night's loser between Orlando and Philly, and
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: they will play that game on Friday. So we're still
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: a few days away from setting the sixteen team field
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: for the NBA playoffs, but the play in doubleheader begins tonight.
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: Luka doncics not sure he's going to be available for
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: the NBA playoffs. He went back home, went overseas, didn't
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: go back home overseas to see doctors he trusted more
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: than his own in Los Angeles. And I guess they're
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: not sure if he's going to be ready for the playoffs.
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: We shall see WNBA draft last night, they celebrated Draftmas
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: the Seattle Storm by feat seemingly winning the night. With
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: the third pick, they took Spain's Awa fom, although a
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: lot of people are pronouncing it fam.
• 27:12
  Speaker 7: She said bomb.
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: She did say pomm.
• 27:14
  Speaker 7: Video she said, Hi Seattle, this is Awa.
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: Fom tm fom Okay, good flow. J Johnson out of
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: LSU was also acquired by the Storm in a trade,
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: and they got a third first round pick in Tana
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: Mayer out of Duke at fourteen. Overall, the crack and
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: fell to the Kings last night five to three. We'll
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: talk to Everitt fits you about that and other cracking
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: things at eight thirty today. And yes, we are nine
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: sleeps away from the National Football League Draft, and joining
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: us now is our NFL draft expert around these here
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: parts from Fox Sports Rob Ring. Good morning, Rob, Good morning, Chuck.
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: I'm great. How are you feeling, you know, ten nine
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: days shy of the NFL Draft? Are you starting to
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: sweat at the palms and and you know, armpit areas
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: at this point?
• 28:04
  Speaker 9: I am not. I am ready to go. I'm excited
• 28:06
  Speaker 9: about this draft. I think it's been a little bit
• 28:09
  Speaker 9: undersold and underrated by others, but I think it ties
• 28:13
  Speaker 9: in very nicely to the Seahawks needs.
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: Well, let's talk about those needs. I think that's a
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: good place to start here, you're drafting at the bottom
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: of the first round, second round, and third round. Most
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: people believe edge rusher, cornerback, and running back are the
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: three biggest needs. Do you believe that John will address
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: those three needs with those before the end of day
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: number two? Do you think it's that pressing of a need.
• 28:40
  Speaker 9: I do, and I think that it ties in pretty
• 28:42
  Speaker 9: well again with the strength of this draft class. Now,
• 28:45
  Speaker 9: the running back class is not as as deep and
• 28:49
  Speaker 9: doesn't have the top end talent, but the edge rusher, cornerback,
• 28:53
  Speaker 9: and wide receiver to me are unquestionably the three best
• 28:57
  Speaker 9: positional groups. So yes, I would be surprised if that
• 29:01
  Speaker 9: first round selection for thirty two overall. Of course, assuming
• 29:05
  Speaker 9: seats and trade, it's that that selection will be used
• 29:08
  Speaker 9: on one of those three positions, and then I expect
• 29:11
  Speaker 9: that the second round is actually going to be a
• 29:14
  Speaker 9: player who's going to be very valued similarly as the
• 29:18
  Speaker 9: player you get in the first round, also at least
• 29:21
  Speaker 9: one of those positions. Once we get in the third
• 29:23
  Speaker 9: fourth round. Obviously seallis currently have a fourth round selection,
• 29:26
  Speaker 9: I think give a good possibility that he trades down.
• 29:29
  Speaker 9: But I think that once you get in that third
• 29:31
  Speaker 9: or fourth round. That's what things will get a little
• 29:32
  Speaker 9: bit more best player available strategy. But to start off
• 29:37
  Speaker 9: the draft check, I would be stunned if the Seahawks
• 29:39
  Speaker 9: are not getting themselves a corner, an edge rusher, or
• 29:43
  Speaker 9: running back.
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: Now what their first selection, whether that's thirty two or
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: they trade down to thirty five, thirty six, thirty seven,
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: wherever that beat, wherever that might be. Do you like
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: the depth of the running back group? Or based on
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: our conversation from last week, are you more of a
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: mind that man Seahawks with their running back hole better
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: get one of these better running backs in the draft?
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: Price who you raved about last week or Washington? Do
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: you feel like running back is such a need that
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: maybe they do need to knock that thing out earlier
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: than later.
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: That's the way I would approach it.
• 30:21
  Speaker 9: I'm a big advantage of daring on Price. I mentioned
• 30:23
  Speaker 9: last time we spoke, I didn't say there's a good
• 30:26
  Speaker 9: chance that he winds up having premit the production that
• 30:30
  Speaker 9: Jeremiah Love is much more celebrated former teammated Notre Game
• 30:35
  Speaker 9: has in the NFL. There's no question that Jeremiah Love
• 30:39
  Speaker 9: is a better athlete. I just think that we're talking
• 30:41
  Speaker 9: about instincts for the running back position than JENDERI on
• 30:45
  Speaker 9: Price as the best instinct going to.
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: Give you a beautiful fit in Seattle's wide zone offense.
• 30:50
  Speaker 9: All of that said, I think that, you know, having
• 30:53
  Speaker 9: evaluated John Scheider in the way he attacks drafts now
• 30:56
  Speaker 9: for twenty years, basically, I think that Mike Washington is
• 31:01
  Speaker 9: going to be somebody that that Schnyder is going to
• 31:03
  Speaker 9: be absolutely smitten with. And I recognize the fumble issues,
• 31:07
  Speaker 9: and he had seven fumbles that he or seven times
• 31:10
  Speaker 9: he put the ball on the ground, only lost a
• 31:12
  Speaker 9: couple of them, but still seven fumbles over the last
• 31:15
  Speaker 9: couple of seasons and bounced around different colleges. But at
• 31:18
  Speaker 9: the same time, you're there, they're shades of Adrian Peterson.
• 31:21
  Speaker 9: When you see this guy at sixty to one, two
• 31:23
  Speaker 9: hundred and twenty five pounds running in the four threes,
• 31:26
  Speaker 9: it's just easy to get excited about the explosive element
• 31:30
  Speaker 9: that he would provide. I think that frankly, he would
• 31:32
  Speaker 9: be a better a better tandem with George Hallane while
• 31:38
  Speaker 9: you wait for Zach Charbonnet and Kenny McIntosh, et cetera,
• 31:42
  Speaker 9: et cetera to get back onto the field for you.
• 31:44
  Speaker 9: Then even Jenderim Price, who I think has had a
• 31:47
  Speaker 9: little bit of similarities U. So it might be a
• 31:49
  Speaker 9: little bit redundant to a player like a George Halaney
• 31:52
  Speaker 9: who you know. Schnyder and Mike McDonald are both unprompted
• 31:55
  Speaker 9: mentioned many times. So I do think that Halani is
• 31:58
  Speaker 9: playing a significant role in this. So I think if
• 32:01
  Speaker 9: there's good depth as far as a couple of the
• 32:04
  Speaker 9: other backs, I think that you could get Jonah Coleman
• 32:07
  Speaker 9: from University of Washington's another player I'm very high on.
• 32:10
  Speaker 9: Think he's the third round slection all day long. Emmitt
• 32:13
  Speaker 9: Johnson from Nebraska. But after that, chuck to me, I
• 32:16
  Speaker 9: said a moment ago a good depth, I was remissent
• 32:20
  Speaker 9: saying that I think that it falls off a cliff
• 32:22
  Speaker 9: a little bit, and everybody else you're gonna be finding
• 32:24
  Speaker 9: on day three. They're gonna be kind of rotational backs
• 32:27
  Speaker 9: rather than a guy who could be the bellcal if
• 32:29
  Speaker 9: you need one.
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: Rob Rang is with us NFL Draft expert we lean
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: on during draft season during draft mess. He's with the
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: Fox Sports and you can follow rob at rob Rang
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: rob Ra a m g on X He's got a
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: lot of really interesting angles and articles written about the
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: NFL draft. As we sit here, just nine sleeps away
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: from the first pick of the twenty twenty six draft.
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: All right, give me a plumb of a pick at
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: edge rusher then on day number two for the Seahawks.
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: Somebody that's looks like a great fit for Mike McDonald's
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: scheme that might be available at the end of the
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: second round or possibly end of the third round. Go
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: ahead and dartboard this thing for me, Bullseye an edge
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: rusher that seems like a great fit for the Seahawks.
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: Well, you know, it's funny.
• 33:17
  Speaker 9: I really think that the edge rusher talnel is very
• 33:21
  Speaker 9: much at its best at number thirty two overall, and
• 33:23
  Speaker 9: I would be surprised, frankly if Seattle decided to go
• 33:27
  Speaker 9: in a different direction other than edge rusher with either
• 33:31
  Speaker 9: number thirty two overall or in a slight trade down.
• 33:35
  Speaker 9: I've talked to before about Gave Actis from Illinois, my
• 33:39
  Speaker 9: Zion Young from Missouri. Both of them have that physicality
• 33:44
  Speaker 9: and the size that it seems like that certainly John
• 33:48
  Speaker 9: Schneider has preferred and it feels like the Mike McDonald's preferred.
• 33:52
  Speaker 9: They're roughly six y four two hundred and sixty pounds,
• 33:55
  Speaker 9: long arms, physical at the point of attack, better runs
• 34:00
  Speaker 9: frankly than.
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: They are pass rushers.
• 34:02
  Speaker 9: But again, just kind of parsing through the Tea Leaves series,
• 34:06
  Speaker 9: it seems like that the Seahawks are really concerned about
• 34:10
  Speaker 9: the fact that in losing boy Mafe, they lost that
• 34:12
  Speaker 9: speed rush element, and so if they're looking for a
• 34:15
  Speaker 9: player like that, to me, are Mason Thomas and Cassius
• 34:19
  Speaker 9: Howell are guys that make an awful lot of sense.
• 34:22
  Speaker 9: And I mentioned our Mason Thomas, and I've seen that
• 34:25
  Speaker 9: that some are projecting him as a possibility for the
• 34:27
  Speaker 9: Seahawks at number thirty two overall, and I get the twitch.
• 34:30
  Speaker 9: I mean, he's he's six foot three, he's two hundred
• 34:33
  Speaker 9: and forty pounds, so he's significantly undersized. He's got short arms,
• 34:37
  Speaker 9: but he is lightening off the edge, and he plays
• 34:40
  Speaker 9: with physicality, and so there's some intriguing things there. At
• 34:44
  Speaker 9: the same time, he also was a player who was
• 34:46
  Speaker 9: struggled with durability, and so number thirty two overall to
• 34:49
  Speaker 9: me just feels too rich. So I think that if
• 34:52
  Speaker 9: he is somehow available number sixty four. Overall, he would
• 34:55
  Speaker 9: make an awful lot of sense. The player that I'm
• 34:57
  Speaker 9: actually plugging in for the Seahawks, at least as of
• 35:00
  Speaker 9: right now, in the final mock draft that I'll have
• 35:03
  Speaker 9: a Fox Sports dot Com as well as one on
• 35:05
  Speaker 9: Seahawks dot Com is right now is going to be
• 35:08
  Speaker 9: Casius Howell from Texas A and M. Now, maybe things
• 35:11
  Speaker 9: change in these next few days, but I really think
• 35:13
  Speaker 9: the cashus Howel makes an awful lot of sense. He
• 35:16
  Speaker 9: is a very productive pass rusher, also very quick off
• 35:19
  Speaker 9: the ball. But one of the things I'm most intrigued
• 35:22
  Speaker 9: by with him, Chuck, is that earlier in his career
• 35:24
  Speaker 9: when he first he began his career at Bowling Green
• 35:28
  Speaker 9: and was very productive as a pass rusher there. Transfers
• 35:31
  Speaker 9: to Texas A and M, and initially they just had
• 35:34
  Speaker 9: so many talented defensive linemen two years ago that they
• 35:37
  Speaker 9: actually asked him to play more of an off ball
• 35:39
  Speaker 9: linebacker and he would drop into coverage, and that, to me,
• 35:42
  Speaker 9: is one of his The secrets with him that I
• 35:45
  Speaker 9: think is gonna really appeal to the Seahawks is that
• 35:47
  Speaker 9: versatility and so if.
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: You're gonna be two hundred and forty five pounds.
• 35:51
  Speaker 9: Then I think that they want a guy who also
• 35:54
  Speaker 9: can not just pass rush, but also drop back into
• 35:56
  Speaker 9: coverage and play the run, and Casius Howe does all
• 35:59
  Speaker 9: of those things, and so to me, he is the
• 36:02
  Speaker 9: one that makes a lot of sense. Now I mentioned
• 36:03
  Speaker 9: one of the players as far as top sixty four pick.
• 36:06
  Speaker 9: If we're waiting to the second round, Kiroon Crawford, the
• 36:08
  Speaker 9: edge rusher from Auburn, to me, has a lot of
• 36:11
  Speaker 9: the traits that you're looking to develop. He's a speed rusher,
• 36:13
  Speaker 9: he's a former basketball player, and so he's a guy
• 36:16
  Speaker 9: that you know is still learning the nuances of the position.
• 36:20
  Speaker 9: But when everybody was looking at Kendrick Falk the big
• 36:24
  Speaker 9: first round, no question about edge rusher for Auburn, they
• 36:28
  Speaker 9: kept looking at Kieron Crawford number twenty four. Who's this
• 36:30
  Speaker 9: guy splashing? I think the Crawford checks off a lot
• 36:33
  Speaker 9: of Seahawk boxes as well.
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: Let's talk the uub angle here in this second conversation
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: with rob rang Denzel Boston, what kind of day do
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: you think he's going to have on Thursday?
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: Ike, He's gonna have an exciting one.
• 36:47
  Speaker 9: I don't necessarily believe that he's going to be a
• 36:49
  Speaker 9: top fifteen, top twenty pick, but I would be surprised
• 36:52
  Speaker 9: if he was not a first round selection.
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: And I think he's good enough Chuck that.
• 36:57
  Speaker 9: While I just argued that edge rusher, back and running
• 37:00
  Speaker 9: back should be the priorities for the Seahawks, I just
• 37:03
  Speaker 9: think if you're going to take the best player available approach,
• 37:07
  Speaker 9: and Denzel Boston is still somehow on the board at
• 37:10
  Speaker 9: number thirty two overall. I recognize that what the Seahawks
• 37:14
  Speaker 9: have done at wide receiver and extending Jackson Smith and
• 37:17
  Speaker 9: Jigbun bringing back with Shichih. But but Boston six with four,
• 37:20
  Speaker 9: you know, two hundred pounds, has the lateral agility he has,
• 37:23
  Speaker 9: he can make people miss. People forget that he was
• 37:25
  Speaker 9: a punt returner as well. For you, dub, I just
• 37:29
  Speaker 9: think that his ability and make people miss at that
• 37:31
  Speaker 9: size and with his hands, and obviously the regional ties
• 37:35
  Speaker 9: you have Emerald Ridge High School in the PU office area.
• 37:38
  Speaker 9: You know, I mean, this is a this is a
• 37:40
  Speaker 9: homegrown product and a very good one at that. He
• 37:43
  Speaker 9: to me is a slam dunk first round selection.
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: Let's go another wide receiver that seems to be making
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: a lot of headlines right now. Carnel Tait, who at
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: the draft, he didn't run at the combine, he didn't
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: run a great forty, so he seemed to be falling.
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: And now Rob, I mean everywhere I love it's I mean,
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: it was up to number seven yesterday. It's all the
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: up to number four some of the rumors and the
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: Tennessee Titans. This seems to be the wild card of
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: the first round right now and the hottest name going
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: right now. How do you evaluate Carnel Tate, the wide
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: receiver out of Ohio State.
• 38:18
  Speaker 9: Well, I understand why there there's some buzz about him
• 38:21
  Speaker 9: right now, just because it's funny. Almost every position you
• 38:25
  Speaker 9: can make an argument, Oh is it this guy the
• 38:28
  Speaker 9: top guy, or is it this guy or is it
• 38:30
  Speaker 9: wide receiver. It's almost consensus, at least in my opinion
• 38:33
  Speaker 9: and conversations with scouts as well, that Cardinal Tate is
• 38:37
  Speaker 9: the number one wide.
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: Receiver in this class.
• 38:39
  Speaker 9: And so I just for similar reasons what we have
• 38:42
  Speaker 9: talked about with Denzel Boston from the University of Washington,
• 38:46
  Speaker 9: I just think Cardel Tate is just a little bit
• 38:48
  Speaker 9: better in a lot of different ways, you know, but
• 38:51
  Speaker 9: again a you know, no shade towards Denzel Boston, terrific player,
• 38:56
  Speaker 9: but Caronel Tate just the lineage of Ohio State wide receivers,
• 39:00
  Speaker 9: the fact that they just come into the NFL and
• 39:02
  Speaker 9: all of them seemed like they run a little bit
• 39:04
  Speaker 9: slower than you expect, but they just play so damn
• 39:07
  Speaker 9: fast because they just are just really instinctive players know
• 39:11
  Speaker 9: how to use their body. Obviously, Jackson Smith and Jig
• 39:14
  Speaker 9: But did the same thing at Ohio States. I think
• 39:16
  Speaker 9: the lateral agility, the body control. He was often used
• 39:21
  Speaker 9: as more of a slot receiver. Cardinal Tate was early
• 39:24
  Speaker 9: in his college career and he got overshadowed by all
• 39:27
  Speaker 9: the other superstar buck guy wide receivers. And then this
• 39:30
  Speaker 9: past season, even with Jeremiah Smith on the field, you know,
• 39:34
  Speaker 9: he's the super sophomore of course gonna wind up being
• 39:36
  Speaker 9: a top five selection himself next year, that.
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: Cardinal Tate was the guy.
• 39:41
  Speaker 9: I mean, he was the one that went over the
• 39:42
  Speaker 9: top and became the vertical threat, something that he wasn't
• 39:46
  Speaker 9: always known for being able to do.
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: And then there were.
• 39:48
  Speaker 9: So many like highlight reel catches where he just skies
• 39:52
  Speaker 9: up into the air, and even with bodies surrounding him,
• 39:55
  Speaker 9: he was able to just pluck the ball out of
• 39:57
  Speaker 9: the air.
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: And make the spectacular play.
• 40:00
  Speaker 9: I think from a scouting perspective, when you're talking to
• 40:03
  Speaker 9: your general manager and you're kind of pounding the table
• 40:05
  Speaker 9: the team owner and you're like, this is the guy
• 40:07
  Speaker 9: I believe that can take our franchise to the next level,
• 40:10
  Speaker 9: it's easy with Cardinal Tates highlight reel to make that argument.
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: What's the intrigue for you right now nine days away
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: from the National Football League Draft? I mean, obviously for us,
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: it's what are the Seahawks going to do? And then
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: there's the top of the draft, which seems to have
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: been settled for quite some time. But is there a
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: player or is there a team that right now just
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: intrigues you more so than anybody else as we sit
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: here a week and a half away from the first
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: and second selections.
• 40:41
  Speaker 9: Which I gut's a really interesting question, and there are
• 40:43
  Speaker 9: so many different things that were kind of running through
• 40:45
  Speaker 9: my head as you were explaining it. A couple of
• 40:49
  Speaker 9: teams I think are fascinating. It is because they have
• 40:51
  Speaker 9: to figure out what the heck they're doing at the
• 40:52
  Speaker 9: quarterback position. Certainly the New York Jets, who have as
• 40:56
  Speaker 9: much draft capital, two first round picks, a couple of
• 41:00
  Speaker 9: second round picks, you know, what are they going to
• 41:03
  Speaker 9: be doing, especially at quarterback? Of course, it's former Seahawk
• 41:06
  Speaker 9: star Gino Smith is, you know, kind of the holdover
• 41:09
  Speaker 9: quarterback that they have right now, but he's obviously not
• 41:12
  Speaker 9: their future. And so is Aaron Glenn feeling enough pressure
• 41:15
  Speaker 9: that he is going to push to citizen left maybe
• 41:18
  Speaker 9: a Ty Simpson in this class because obviously the number
• 41:21
  Speaker 9: two overall pick that they have for Anna Mendoza is
• 41:23
  Speaker 9: going to go to the Raiders. So are they willing
• 41:26
  Speaker 9: to make a trade up for or are they willing
• 41:29
  Speaker 9: to use their second selection gets number twenty overall to
• 41:33
  Speaker 9: take that quarterback. So that's going to be interesting. Arizona
• 41:36
  Speaker 9: Cardinals a very similar situation. Pittsburgh Steelers. What's the long
• 41:40
  Speaker 9: term plan behind Aaron Rodgers assuming mister Rogers decides to
• 41:44
  Speaker 9: return and grace the NFL with his presidence yet again?
• 41:48
  Speaker 9: You know so, I think those are all fascinating storylines.
• 41:51
  Speaker 9: And then that the Ty Simpson angle, and to me,
• 41:53
  Speaker 9: it's Ty Simpson at quarterback jendarium price at running back
• 41:58
  Speaker 9: win does the second player at those respective positions when
• 42:02
  Speaker 9: did they come off the board. That's going to have
• 42:04
  Speaker 9: massive ripple effects for a team like the Seahawks, who,
• 42:07
  Speaker 9: of course, you know, have other needs. And I think
• 42:10
  Speaker 9: that if you do see these quarterbacks and receivers and
• 42:13
  Speaker 9: running backs, so called skill position players go earlier than expected,
• 42:18
  Speaker 9: and there's a real possibility of that that's going to
• 42:20
  Speaker 9: push down a very very talented corner or edge rusher
• 42:25
  Speaker 9: that has no reason being available at number thirty two overall,
• 42:28
  Speaker 9: but could in this particular draft class. And that is
• 42:30
  Speaker 9: exactly what John Scheider is hoping for.
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: All Right, when's the last mock come out? And where
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: can people find it?
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah? Well, the last monk will come out.
• 42:40
  Speaker 9: Actually, I'll turn into the editors on Sunday, okay, and
• 42:43
  Speaker 9: then it will likely yeah, it will likely be available
• 42:48
  Speaker 9: at both Fox sports dot Com and Seahawks dot Com.
• 42:51
  Speaker 9: I would expect by say Tuesday at the latest, and
• 42:55
  Speaker 9: I have to have my mock draft done a couple
• 42:58
  Speaker 9: of days before the actual draft. It also it gives
• 43:00
  Speaker 9: people time to check out those websites foxsports dot com
• 43:04
  Speaker 9: Seahawks dot Com for for what I think is going
• 43:08
  Speaker 9: to happen before U before we start to learn about
• 43:11
  Speaker 9: some of the moves that actually are made in the
• 43:13
  Speaker 9: hours before the draft, and then you can see all
• 43:15
  Speaker 9: these draft analysts out there change everything at the last second.
• 43:18
  Speaker 9: Nick themselves look smart. I'd rather look prophetic. Uh, you
• 43:22
  Speaker 9: know a little bit a couple of days before.
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: All right, well we'll go over that, and we'll go
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: over a Sea Hawk mock next to Tuesday, as we
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: always do the week of the draft. So we'll do
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: that next week.
• 43:33
  Speaker 6: Uh.
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: I know they feed us well over at the vMac
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: during the draft, But are you with me? Maybe they
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: could give into this draft miss theme a little bit more.
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: Maybe we do a draft Miss Goose this year. Maybe
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: some figgy pudding, you know, maybe that should be available
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: this year. I don't know if they're as much swept
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: up in the draft miss spirit as you and I are.
• 43:52
  Speaker 2: Rob, Well, that's unfortunate.
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: Should be should be some dog out.
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: There, exactly.
• 43:59
  Speaker 9: I like the ideas of the you know, the the
• 44:02
  Speaker 9: suits and the gowns that we saw and in the
• 44:05
  Speaker 9: WNBA draft last night. You know, I'll do, you know,
• 44:09
  Speaker 9: give them give them the owl storms certainly credit for
• 44:12
  Speaker 9: kicking off draft miss in fine fashion.
• 44:15
  Speaker 2: So hopefully the Seahawks will follow that lead.
• 44:17
  Speaker 9: And yeah, I'm expecting uh you know, suits and uh
• 44:21
  Speaker 9: in gowns and and crob legs and fountains and.
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: Yes, yes, yes, a nog fountain. I'm with you one
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: hundred percent. I mean, would it killed Dave Pearson to
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: put on a tie? Come on now, all right, Rob,
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: Well we'll talk to you next week. Great stuff, as always, appreciate.
• 44:36
  Speaker 9: You, looking forward to it, Chuck as always.
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: Take it, Rob right joining us right here on, Chuck
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: and bucking to follow Rob at Rob ring uh there
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: on X And he's got his mock coming out next week,
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: which we will go over with him. Yeah, I mean,
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: I want Schneider dressed as old Feziwig danceing a jig
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: right in the middle of the old auditorium for us
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: all to us. Every time they make a nice draft pick,
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: it comes out and he dances, and he's from a
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: Christmas Carol. Oh yeah thing, I know that, Cal Yes, yeah,
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: he was the one that really taught Ebenezer Christmas spirit
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: that he forgot all about. That's what I would like
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: to see Schneider do.
• 45:13
  Speaker 7: I thought that was the Ghost of Christmas.
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: He always had a red solo cup in his hand.
• 45:17
  Speaker 7: Oh yeah, and I don't know how I missed that.
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, always dancing a jig out there, just I mean,
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: just a merry fella.
• 45:24
  Speaker 7: Sounds like it mirth. Yeah, that sounds just like John Schnider.
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: That is John Schneider to a t Yeah. Come on now,
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: get swept up in it. Stop acting like you're cooler
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: than the room. Seahawks. Get in the spirit like your
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: World champs or something. ABC's the DMS next on kJ
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: R Draft right here on this eight o'clock segment on
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: a Tuesday, just nine sleeps away, nine magical sleeps away
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: from NFL Draft Day, and so our draft miss holiday
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: does continue right here on Chucking Buck in the Morning.
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: Ashley is here. My name is Chuck Powell. Bucky is
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: out again today and we've got a full fat segment
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: of NFL Draft rumors there we're going to get to
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: because they're heating up. Now, Oh, they are heating up.
• 46:13
  Speaker 6: That's what's actually making this fire go. That's what's roasting
• 46:16
  Speaker 6: these chestnut You're.
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: Right, you're right, it's what feeds the fire every single
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: rumor because after we take the the rumors out of
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: the stockings. Then we just throw the paper right into
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: the fire and we both did the mushroom cloud, you know. Yeah,
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: all right, so let's get into it. Actually, let me
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: mention this first, because we do have a little college
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: basketball breaking news. I know a lot of people are
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: keeping an eye on that college basketball transfer portal and Washington.
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: The headline isn't who they added, it's who they lost.
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: Jj Mandiquit is going to Arizona. So Arizona landed him
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: and Derek Dixon out of North Carol to their backcourt today.
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: No surprise. Arizona's doing well in recruiting, both out of
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: high school and on the transfer portal. I had a
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: feeling they were going to be good at that, and
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: so there you go. They'll just reload, as you know.
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: So there's the breaking news here this morning. Let's get
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: into some of these draft rumors, and let's start with
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: the latest thing that just came across my desk. This
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: according to Albert Breer this morning of Sports Illustrated and
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: many other you know platforms. He is saying that now
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: that we are nine sleeps away from the NFL Draft,
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: some of the strategies are starting to be revealed by
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: NFL teams. They sat around. You know, you sit around
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: for months and you wait, you wait, you wait for
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: somebody to call you. Well, it sounds like those that
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: were wanting to be called have decided to do some
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: calling around. Breer lists the following teams in the top
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: ten as those that are looking to get out their
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: current draft position. The Arizona Cardinals at three, the Tennessee
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: Titans at four, the New York Giants at five, the
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: Cleveland Browns at six, and the Washington Commanders at seven.
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: That's right, picks three through seven. All teams don't want
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: to draft where they are more evidence that perhaps this
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: is not the greatest draft. And yet why are you
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: trying to get more picks? Maybe they just don't think
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: that it's worth the juice, is worth the squeeze at
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: three considering the money you've got to pay. And I'm
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: sure they're not looking to drop to the bottom of
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: the draft. They're probably trying to get some more Day
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: two picks in there. But the Cardinals, Titans, Giants, Browns,
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: and Commanders, according to Albert Breer just this morning, are
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: all looking to get out of the top ten and
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: add more picks, and so take that for what it's worth.
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: A lot of these rumors, this is part of the
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: draft miss holiday, they're not worth it much. But there's
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: there's one of those nuggets is true. I can promise
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: you that. And according to Breer, who's not exactly a
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: loose source there, he's saying, they're all looking to get
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: out of the top seven.
• 49:08
  Speaker 6: Well, and if they're all looking, then that's bad for anyone,
• 49:11
  Speaker 6: for all of them, because then there's a lot of Yeah,
• 49:14
  Speaker 6: that gives everybody else a lot to work with to
• 49:16
  Speaker 6: try to trade up.
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: That's true. That's true. I mean, I'm sure that they
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: all It wasn't a coordinated effort.
• 49:21
  Speaker 7: No, no, not just saying, oh, that would be bad.
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: All of that information to get out there all at once. God,
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: damn it, damn it, Brier.
• 49:28
  Speaker 7: Oh, come on, you're supposed to save ours till next week.
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: All right, let's talk about the Seahawks. They're sitting there
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: at number thirty two. Rob rang was on with us
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: about an hour ago. He is expecting, like the rest
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: of us, the Seahawks do trade down from the thirty
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: second pick overall, but he also urged us set seven
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: oh five or urged the Seahawks do not mess around
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: with this running back position, even though there is some
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: depth there. He believes that the second wave of running backs,
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: which is pretty much anyone not named Jeremiah Love, the
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: second wave of running backs is something to capitalize on.
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: He's a big fan of Jendarian Price out of Notre Dame,
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: but he actually likes another player as a better fit
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: for the Seahawks and thinks that you need to grab
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: this guy sooner than later.
• 50:17
  Speaker 9: I think that, you know, having evaluated John Scheider and
• 50:20
  Speaker 9: the way he attacks drafts now for twenty years, basically,
• 50:24
  Speaker 9: I think that Mike Washington Junior is going to be
• 50:27
  Speaker 9: somebody that Schneider is going to be absolutely smitten with.
• 50:30
  Speaker 9: And I recognize the fumble issues, and he had seven
• 50:33
  Speaker 9: fumbles that he or seven times he put the ball
• 50:36
  Speaker 9: on the ground, only lost a couple of them, but
• 50:39
  Speaker 9: still seven fumbles over the last couple of seasons and
• 50:42
  Speaker 9: bounced around different colleges. But at the same time, they're
• 50:45
  Speaker 9: shades of Adrian Peterson. When you see this guy at
• 50:47
  Speaker 9: six to one, two hundred and twenty five pounds running
• 50:50
  Speaker 9: into four threes, it's just easy to get excited about
• 50:53
  Speaker 9: the explosive element that he would provide. I think that frankly,
• 50:57
  Speaker 9: he would be a better a better tandem with George
• 51:02
  Speaker 9: Hallane while you wait for Zach Charboney and Kenny McIntosh
• 51:07
  Speaker 9: et cetera, et cetera to get back onto the field
• 51:09
  Speaker 9: for you. Then even Jaderim Price, who I think has
• 51:12
  Speaker 9: a little bit of a similarities, so it might be
• 51:15
  Speaker 9: a little bit redundant to a player like a George Halaney,
• 51:18
  Speaker 9: who you know. Schnyder and Mike McDonald are both unprompted
• 51:21
  Speaker 9: mentioned many times. So I do think that Halani is
• 51:24
  Speaker 9: playing a significant role in this. So I think that
• 51:27
  Speaker 9: there's good depth. As far as a couple of other backs.
• 51:30
  Speaker 9: I think that you could get Jonah Coleman from University
• 51:33
  Speaker 9: of Washington's another player I'm very high on. Think he's
• 51:35
  Speaker 9: a third round selection all day long. Emmitt Johnson from Nebraska.
• 51:40
  Speaker 9: But after that chuck to me, I said a moment
• 51:42
  Speaker 9: ago a good depth. I was remiss in saying that.
• 51:46
  Speaker 8: I think that it.
• 51:47
  Speaker 9: Falls off a cliff a little bit, and everybody else
• 51:49
  Speaker 9: you're gonna be finding on day three.
• 51:51
  Speaker 2: They're gonna be kind of rotational.
• 51:52
  Speaker 9: Backs rather than a guy who could be the bell
• 51:54
  Speaker 9: cow if you need one.
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Rob reiterating that he thinks that the Sealks shouldn't
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: mess around with that at some point on day number two,
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: second third round, go ahead and grab your favorite running
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: back on the board, especially considering the need that they have.
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: I tell you, though, it's a groundswell. It's a groundswell.
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: Everybody seems to be jumping on this Mike Washington Junior
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: bandwagon a lot right now, and for sure on the
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: first one to serve it. Yeah, yeah, but yeah, we're
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: seeing it. I think Brady Henderson said it. We He's
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: heard Hugh say it last Monday, and now he got
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: Rob ring on the Mike Washington Junior to the Seahawks
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: a train. Just don't know if John Schneider and Mike
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: McDonald are on that train. But I mean, look, this
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: is a guy that has had fumble issues. It's not
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: like he dominated the college. I'll tell you what made
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: me perk up. And I'm just watching highlights of the
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: dude I see him running. I don't even realize who
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: it is. I'm trying to figure out even the red
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: uniform based off of the video that I'm seeing in
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: the background and I'm like, is that Obama that Arkansas?
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: You know? And then once I actually got a chance
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: to like zone in on it, I figured out the
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: team player everything else, but I just saw the moves
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: that he made. That's all I could see from my
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: vantage point with my television when they started airing that
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: high like package. Just saw the way that he moved.
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: And even though he's bigger than ken Walker, he moves
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: in the open field like ken Walker. And I know
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: how John is with his doppel gaming. He loves finding
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: guys that were successful with him and finding their body
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: doubles and the way that they play and the way
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: that they move. Jordan Brooks. Brooks was drafted because he
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: reminded John of Bobby Wagner. You know that he does it.
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: He does it all the time, and sometimes they don't
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: even have to be a runaway success like Bobby Wagner was.
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: Sometimes it's like, that's the type of running back that
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: I'm looking for. And even though ken Walker wasn't everything
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: that we wanted him to be, we still to this
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: day believe in his talent. He's everything. He is everything
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: that we were considering that he'd be when we drafted him.
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: Like that's the type of running back that we need
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: for this system. We need a home run threat. We
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: need somebody to make moves in the open field. And
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: Mike Washington Junior, to me, in the open field, had
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: that shiftiness that Walker has once he gets past that
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: first line of defense. And so that's what stood out
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: to me, and that's why I jumped immediately on the
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: Mike Washington Junior bandwagon. Then you watch him play at
• 54:35
  Speaker 1: the or participate in the NFL Combine, you realize, oh geez,
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: I didn't realize that he was that fast. I mean,
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: he's Walker fast with more weight, a lot more weight
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: and size to him as well. So I mean one
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: thing one plus one does not always equal to But
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: that's what got me going on Mike Washington Junior in
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: the first place. Is man, that guy moves like Walker
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: in the open field. And if he they can convince
• 55:04
  Speaker 1: him to do some of the things that Canine wouldn't do,
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: which is take what the defense has given you, which
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: was a big issue for Mike McDonald and for John
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: Schneider trying to get Ken Walker to that point then
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: and they can get him to do it sooner than
• 55:20
  Speaker 1: his fourth year in the playoffs, then maybe they could
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: have that Ken Walker type running back and not have
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: to skip a beat. So I've been on this guy
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: from jump and it's great. It's actually great to hear
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: guys that I respect and admire, like Hugh and Rob
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: and many others, Brady, many others who seem to be
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: on the Mike Washington Junior train as well.
• 55:44
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I've heard his name a lot and is I
• 55:47
  Speaker 6: have not watched him play any more than seeing a
• 55:50
  Speaker 6: couple of highlights here and there. But I trust John
• 55:53
  Speaker 6: for sure that if that's what the type of running
• 55:55
  Speaker 6: back he's looking for, sign me up.
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, we shall see. But yes, Mike Washington Junior
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: is certainly a name. I think all Sea Oork fans
• 56:03
  Speaker 1: know the name by now as well and are monitoring
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: that as we get closer to the draft. All right,
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: let's talk about Denzel Boston who there's now this website
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: and I'm glad that it exists, and frankly I haven't
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: been using it enough and putting together the draft miss catalog.
• 56:20
  Speaker 1: But it is a consensus. It's an industry consensus big board.
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: And so what it does it combines all the rankings
• 56:27
  Speaker 1: of all of the major draft publications and then gives
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: you a feed as to who, on average are the
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: top rated players. For example, Fernando Menzosa is number one,
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: Rvel Reese's number two, Jeremiah Love is number three. Well,
• 56:44
  Speaker 1: Denzel Boston is at number twenty nine right now, and
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: of course the UB product has been expected to be
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: a first round draft pick this entire time, and yet
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: now there might be a little bit of doubt. I mean,
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: you have thirty two picks in the first round. Maybe
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: he does slip past the first round, maybe he slips
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: to thirty two. Rob also pointed out that if he
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: went that far, he feels, despite all the capital that
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: they have invested in their wide receiver group, that the
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: Seahawks would have to be interested a little bit, have
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: to kick the tires on Denzel Boston. I don't think
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: that they should or would, but I would just say
• 57:24
  Speaker 1: this because we talked about it in our wide receiver segment.
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: You know, even despite all that money that has been
• 57:31
  Speaker 1: spent on wide receivers right now with this team, you know,
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: they still don't have a Denzel Boston type. And Hughes
• 57:41
  Speaker 1: talked about this in the past, and I've stolen from it.
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: Sometimes you want your wide receivers to be like a
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: basketball starting five. You kind of want little point guard,
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: kind of want to power guy, power forward, kind of
• 57:53
  Speaker 1: want a long, fast guy. You kind of want a
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: couple of wings. You know, you sort of want that
• 57:59
  Speaker 1: dime mention, that multi dimension out there in your passing routes.
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: And there's not a Denzel Boston type. We've got a
• 58:08
  Speaker 1: JSN type, which is really kind of a Cooper Cup type.
• 58:12
  Speaker 1: And then you've got like a speedier version of those
• 58:14
  Speaker 1: two in Rashid Shahed. But where's that long I mean,
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: a year ago, we're talking about where's the guy that
• 58:20
  Speaker 1: can take the top off of the defense. I don't
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: think we're as worried about that as much anymore after
• 58:26
  Speaker 1: seeing JSN pretty much do anything he wanted on a
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: football field this past year. And I don't know if
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: Tory Horton, you know, the idea is so and plus
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: we got Rashid Shahed and we've got Tory Horton that
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: showed a little bit of that ability as well, so
• 58:41
  Speaker 1: we don't have to me that issue this offseason. But
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: where's that guy that goes up above the defense, not
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: behind the defense, above the defense, and that's something that
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: Denzel Boston could give you. I still don't think it's
• 58:57
  Speaker 1: worth spending one of your top draft picks on. I
• 59:01
  Speaker 1: think we've spent enough of our finances on wide receivers,
• 59:05
  Speaker 1: and I don't think it is a whole a weakness anything.
• 59:08
  Speaker 1: I think that it is an absolute strength of this
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: football team. So I'm not doing it. But I do
• 59:13
  Speaker 1: get his point. I mean, sometimes value is value, and
• 59:16
  Speaker 1: you probably could justify taking a Denzel Boston if he's
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: still sitting there at number thirty two on the board.
• 59:22
  Speaker 6: I yeah, I was surprised when Rob brought that up,
• 59:25
  Speaker 6: but I again, you know, when when you're dealing with
• 59:28
  Speaker 6: the Seahawks or with most NFL teams, Yeah, they're looking
• 59:30
  Speaker 6: at the best player available.
• 59:31
  Speaker 7: But I would be surprised if that's where they went Correat.
• 59:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, they say they look for the best player available.
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: They never look for the best player available. It is
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: the best player available that meets your immediate needs. I mean,
• 59:43
  Speaker 1: sometimes you can get to the point that you are
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: so good, so successful, so deep, and I know that
• 59:49
  Speaker 1: the Seahawks have been there before and maybe they're there
• 59:52
  Speaker 1: now that you can just flaunt it like we don't
• 59:55
  Speaker 1: have any holes. We're just taking the best player available.
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: But most of the time that doesn't happen. Yeah, the time,
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 1: it doesn't happen, all right, And it's not just holes
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 1: this year, you also are reading out with the holes
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 1: that you're gonna have the following year and maybe the
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 1: year after that. After all, these players that you draft
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 1: next week are going to be part of your plan
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: for the next at least four seasons going forward. Another rumor. Man,
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: this guy has been all over the board here throughout
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 1: this process. Carnel Tait. He is the fastest riser now
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: in the entire process. And it's funny because he was
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: the fastest dropper after the NFL combine. He didn't run
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 1: as fast as a forty as what people expected him to.
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 1: There was an Adam Schefter controversy. That's what started the
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: Mike Florio Adam Schefter fistfight on Twitter over whether or
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 1: not those were even accurate numbers that were being spread
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 1: about Carnel Tait. And so he started to plummet a
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 1: little bit.
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 7: And now forty gate.
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and now all of a sudden, he he's just
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 1: rising way up the board again. I mean pretty much
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 1: you just google NFL trade rumors or excuse me, draft rumors,
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 1: and you're gonna see Carnel Tate's name mentioned repeatedly yesterday
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 1: in stocking Stuffers, We put them all the way up
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 1: to seventh in the draft because that was a Daniel
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 1: Jeremiah trade that was floated out yesterday and his latest
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 1: mock and worth noting again. Usually at this stage, Daniel
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 1: Jeremiah is still not assessing players. I mean, he's done
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 1: all of his homework, all of his research, he has
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 1: his big board, he has his evaluations done. If they
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 1: start changing stuff at this point, nine sleeps away from
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 1: the NFL Draft, they're changing it because they've heard something,
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 1: and maybe it's a lie that they've heard, but nonetheless
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 1: they start manipulating things because they believe it's a reliable source,
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: and so they start sculpting their boards a little differently.
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 1: Toward the end, mel Kiper does the exact same thing.
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 1: They pretty much all do the exact same same thing.
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 1: So it sort of was a indication. It was a
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 1: flag to say, oh, Daniel Jeremiah, who's pretty locked in,
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 1: has heard something about Carnell Tait rising up the board. Well,
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 1: today's rumors the last twenty four hour cycle. Forget about it.
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 1: They've got him going all the way up to number three,
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 1: possibly to number four, number five, three to five range
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 1: for the Ohio state wide receiver and so prizingah. I
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 1: mean yes and no. If you would have told me
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 1: that at the beginning of the process, I could have
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 1: bought it, because I do believe in Carnel Tait. But
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 1: I didn't think after the forty drop forty time drop
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 1: that he experienced that we would be talking about him
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 1: getting back into the top twenty five before or into
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 1: the top five before the draft. But that seems to be.
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 1: He's the hot name again. Maybe cools off again before
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 1: next Thursday, but he is the hot name again right now.
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 1: One that's not quite as hot is the Miami tackle,
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 1: Francis my Goa Malgoa, the tackle who for a long
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 1: time has been mocked to the Cardinals at number three. Well,
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 1: not been a good week for Miami. Hurricane rumors, I
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 1: mean the Reuben Bain story. People were wondering if that's
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 1: going to affect his draft status, you know, the traffic
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 1: incident that ended in a fatality, even though it was
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 1: not deemed his fault. He's not going to be held
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 1: legally responsible, doesn't look like. And yet the negative news
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 1: could that affect his draft status? That came out. We
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 1: dealt with that yesterday, and now they're talking about Malgoa,
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 1: who was being mocked to the Arizona Cardinals at number
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 1: three almost everywhere. Now they're saying he's going to need
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 1: back surgery. Boy, that's a bad timing for that story
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 1: to come out. I've left tackle that might need back surgery.
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 1: A guy that's carrying around three hundred and thirty three
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 1: and forty pounds is going to need back surgery sooner
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 1: than later. And so you do now wonder how that's
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 1: going to affect his status for the draft as well,
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 1: or how quickly his agent his PR team can downplay
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 1: those rumors so that he's not affected come next Thursday.
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 1: I mean, he's still gonna be a first round pick.
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 1: They're talking about just cleaning things up. It's not like
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 1: he needs some major surgery, but back surgery with a
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 1: three hundred and thirty pound twenty two year old getting
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 1: ready to enter the NFL draft nine sleeps away, not
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 1: a good timing for that story for him.
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 6: No, And even with a cleanup usually that's about a
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 6: six week, take it easy kind of recovery.
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 7: I mean, he'd be in training camp on time.
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 6: But it's not usually if you're dealing with back surgeries,
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 6: it's not one of one.
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 7: There will be more down the line.
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 1: Eh. Yeah, And that's something everybody's going to scramble a
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 1: little bit for medicals now from now until Thursday. And
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 1: then finally this rumor, which really doesn't have to do
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 1: any any player. Mike Rabel apparently is not going to
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 1: speak before the NFL Draft because.
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 7: He doesn't want to answer questions about Dane, right.
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 6: But it's it's such a mistake because he's gonna whenever
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 6: he does speak, that's he's gonna be asked about it.
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 1: I get not conducting a press conference to deal with it,
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 1: because that's giving too much credibility. If you're trying to
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 1: downplay it, that's getting too much credibility to the story.
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 1: I'm not going to hold a press conference and let
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 1: you ask me questions about my possible marital Yes, I
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 1: understand that. But when you start skipping things that are
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 1: the normal part of your head coaching job to avoid questions,
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 1: now you're making a mistake. I heard somebody else say
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 1: this the other day. I don't even know who it was,
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 1: so I'm not gonna give him credit. Just you know,
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 1: I always feel compelled to to say that I didn't
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 1: come up with this idea, but he mapped out there's
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 1: another talk show was he mapped out of scenarios like
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 1: you know what's going to happen on that that press conference.
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 1: He's going to be asked a question. He's going to
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 1: open it up about the draft, and the first three
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 1: questions are going to be about Diana Russin. And the
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 1: first first time you say, hey, I'm not here to
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 1: answer those questions. That's personal matter. The truth will come out.
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 1: Let's move on, and then the second person will ask
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 1: a question about it. Hey, look, seriously, double down on this.
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 1: We're not doing this today. You know, you know you
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 1: got to give me time. I'm here to talk about
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 1: the draft and that's it. If we can't do that,
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 1: then I'll leave. And then a third person's going to
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 1: ask something, and then he'll lay the hammer down. If
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 1: this is going to continue, then I'm going to walk away.
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 1: If you want to talk about the draft, I'll answer
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 1: any of your questions, but we're not talking about that's
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 1: all you got to do. You don't even have to
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 1: answer the questions. But don't sit there hiding under a
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 1: desk and acting like you're not man enough to face
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 1: three questions before the media will move on from it
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 1: and start asking you about aj Brown trade rumors.
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 6: Well, and don't act like if you don't speak before
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 6: the draft, that those questions aren't ever going to come
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 6: for you, because they are. Whenever you speak first, you're
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 6: going to get those questions. You handle it like that
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 6: and you move on.
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, don't conduct a press conference out of the blue
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 1: to deal with it, right, but don't let it interfere
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 1: with your daily responsibilities as head coach. Otherwise you look
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 1: very guilty, and it looks look you're hiding and trying
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 1: to formulate the right thing to say before more information.
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 7: Gets and it looks like it's interfering with your ability
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 7: to do your job.
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 1: That's right, So I think that's a terrible mistake. If
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 1: that's just a rumor and he's still going to an
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 1: answer as well, yeah, then so be it. But if
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 1: that take some advice, watch this go down way too
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 1: many times field the questions, blow them off, say that
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 1: you're not going to talk about it and at least
• 1:07:36
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  Speaker 8: Hi, sir well, I think both of you have wonderful hair,
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  Speaker 8: and I think both of you do marvelous jobs.
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  Speaker 1: Oh well, well, thank you, thank you, you too, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you too. I'm going to tell you right now you
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  Speaker 1: are lying about at least one of those two things.
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  Speaker 1: It might be different for you the real ones.
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  Speaker 8: Which one I'm lying about?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I mean they're playing out this string. Is this
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  Speaker 1: weird of me to say I'm glad they lost last
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  Speaker 1: night because I think it was going to bother me, Everett,
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  Speaker 1: if they went on like a seven game winning streak
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  Speaker 1: to close out the regular season and still miss the playoffs,
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  Speaker 1: I think that I would have been angry that, oh,
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  Speaker 1: now you're going to play your best hockey. So I
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  Speaker 1: was kind of glad to see him have a clunker
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  Speaker 1: last night.
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  Speaker 8: You know, you're not the only person to say that,
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  Speaker 8: and I think for a different reason. I mean, the
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  Speaker 8: more losses that you pile up, unfortunately, the better your
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  Speaker 8: draft position. You know this This is a from what
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  Speaker 8: I've been told, from what we're seeing, a pretty strong draft. However,
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  Speaker 8: I am in the other camp. To quote the great
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  Speaker 8: Herm Edwards, Hello, you play to win the game, and
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  Speaker 8: I'm very much on the you know, I want to
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  Speaker 8: go into the summer happy. I remember talking to Jared
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  Speaker 8: mccannon a couple of days ago and I asked him,
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  Speaker 8: I said, you know, what do you want out of
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  Speaker 8: these last five game? And he goes, Honestly, man, I
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  Speaker 8: just want to go into the office and feeling good.
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  Speaker 8: You want to have a good taste in your mouth.
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  Speaker 8: And that's kind of the sentiment from a lot of
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  Speaker 8: guys around the office or around the locker room, is that,
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  Speaker 8: you know, we just want to feel good. So I
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  Speaker 8: understand where fans are coming from. It's like, hey, listen,
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  Speaker 8: you know, I've never been a big fan of tanking,
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  Speaker 8: but obviously there is this tanking culture that we're seeing,
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  Speaker 8: definitely in the NBA and amongst some NHL fan basis.
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  Speaker 8: It's like, hey, listen, if we're not going to make
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  Speaker 8: the playoffs, might as well put ourselves in the best
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  Speaker 8: position possible. I'll never be on that on that train,
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  Speaker 8: but I certainly understand why. You know where folks are
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  Speaker 8: coming from, and I get it from your perspective. You know,
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  Speaker 8: it's like, you know, why couldn't we do this back
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  Speaker 8: in October, back and back in January. I understand that,
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  Speaker 8: But for me, I'd love to go into Vegas and Colorado,
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  Speaker 8: win these next two games and at least be able
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  Speaker 8: to hold your head kind of high for the next
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  Speaker 8: couple of weeks going into the off season.
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  Speaker 1: What did you think of Todd Lwicki's speech last week
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  Speaker 1: and how did it go over as far as you
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  Speaker 1: could tell with the players.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, I think you know, Number one, with Todd's speech,
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  Speaker 8: you could really sense the disappointments and the unhappiness there.
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  Speaker 8: You know, Todd hired me. I've known Todd you know
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  Speaker 8: now for six years, which is obviously not as long
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  Speaker 8: as half the people in the city apparently, But I think,
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  Speaker 8: you know, you could really tell that he expects more ownership,
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  Speaker 8: expects more. You know, there was that, there was that
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  Speaker 8: very disappointed tone in his voice, and I think you
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  Speaker 8: could even hear from him. He wears a lot of that,
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  Speaker 8: the vibe in the front office, in the locker room,
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  Speaker 8: in amongst the players, amongst the coaches, everyone collectively. This
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  Speaker 8: is all of our faults. We have not done a
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  Speaker 8: good enough job for our fans, We have not done
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  Speaker 8: a good enough job for this team and for this organization.
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  Speaker 8: And he wears a lot of that, and you can
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  Speaker 8: sense his sincerity I've talked to a lot of people
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  Speaker 8: in the last couple of days a week about that
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  Speaker 8: press conference, and they're like, man, you know, Todd is
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  Speaker 8: a very passionate person, but you could see the reflectiveness.
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  Speaker 8: You could see the man, we have to get better,
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  Speaker 8: we will get better in his demeanor. So you know,
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  Speaker 8: I was I was left leaving that press conference with
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  Speaker 8: a sense of you know, it's going to be a
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  Speaker 8: tough road. It's going to be a challenge. You know, retools,
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  Speaker 8: it's not a rebuild, it's a retool aren't easy. And
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  Speaker 8: when it comes to players this offseason, whether that be trays,
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  Speaker 8: whether that be through whatever means, it's going to be arguably,
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  Speaker 8: I think the biggest summer, even bigger than this team's
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  Speaker 8: first summer when they had the expansion draft, because you
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  Speaker 8: have to get this right. And I also love the
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  Speaker 8: fact that he didn't shy away from the Sonics question.
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  Speaker 8: So many people are asking, you know, do you have
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  Speaker 8: an eye to the Sonics? Do you need to get
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  Speaker 8: this right before the Sonics come back? And he was
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  Speaker 8: honest about it, and he goes, yeah, you know, we
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  Speaker 8: need to have two competitive winter sports in this city.
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  Speaker 8: And so the Kraken are committed to do every doing
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  Speaker 8: what it takes to get over this hump that they've
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  Speaker 8: been in, and it's going to be a very I
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  Speaker 8: don't want to say a long process, because I do
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  Speaker 8: think that with the right moves, depending on the draft position,
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  Speaker 8: I mean the Crack and luck into the number one
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  Speaker 8: overall pick, you draft Gavin McKenna, Well, that's a franchise
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  Speaker 8: altering player. A lot of people are putting him in
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  Speaker 8: between Celebrini and Batards, so you fall into that spot. Well,
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  Speaker 8: then all of a sudden, maybe this two three four
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  Speaker 8: year plan turns into a one to two year plan.
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  Speaker 8: So you know, I do think that the Krack and
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  Speaker 8: are are bound for better days, and I think it'll
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  Speaker 8: start this summer.
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  Speaker 1: You know, if not for all the losing since the
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  Speaker 1: trading deadline, we would be celebrating Jason Bottrill's move for
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  Speaker 1: Bobby McMahon as one of the great deadline moves ever.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he brought exactly what you hoped you would
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  Speaker 1: bring to the table, and yet you didn't win enough
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  Speaker 1: games to get into the playoffs. And now he becomes
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  Speaker 1: an unrestricted free agent, if I'm not mistaken, after the
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  Speaker 1: season comes to a close. So considering the kind of
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  Speaker 1: show he put on for the Kraken here since putting
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  Speaker 1: on that sweater, I mean, how important is it for
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  Speaker 1: them to keep him?
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  Speaker 8: That's priority number one as far as I'm concerned, and
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  Speaker 8: from my all accounts, that is the goal. That is
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  Speaker 8: the main you know, that's your blue ship that you
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  Speaker 8: put up on the bulletin board, and that you need
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  Speaker 8: to re sign Bobby McMahon. But also get line because
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  Speaker 8: there's probably thirty one other teams who are going to
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  Speaker 8: be lining up for Bobby McMahon as well. This is
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  Speaker 8: not this is not the strongest free agency class. I mean,
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  Speaker 8: after the Utah Mammoth re signed Nick Schmaltz to an
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  Speaker 8: eight by eight, I mean Bobby McMahon, based off of
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  Speaker 8: his recent play and his stress run here with Seattle,
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  Speaker 8: I mean, he's been the best player in the NHL
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  Speaker 8: amongst teams, amongst players that switch teams. He's got the
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  Speaker 8: most points of any player that switched teams at the deadline.
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  Speaker 8: So he's on an eighty six point pace. I believe
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  Speaker 8: if you extrapol eight picks over the course of an
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  Speaker 8: eighty two game season, what he's doing in these last
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  Speaker 8: sixteen games or for the last twelve thirteen games at
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  Speaker 8: the Cracking. I mean he's on an eighty plus point
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  Speaker 8: pace for the whole year, So that's paramount. That is very,
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  Speaker 8: very paramount for Seattle. But then again, like I mentioned before,
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  Speaker 8: there's going to be a lot of other teams that
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  Speaker 8: are going to be in the market for a player
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  Speaker 8: like Bobby McMahon, So the Krack and may have to
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  Speaker 8: get creative there. You know, it's going to drive up
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  Speaker 8: the price a little bit. But we heard Todd last week.
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  Speaker 8: They're committed the Cracking to do, are committed to spending
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  Speaker 8: the money. They they've got the open check book. And
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  Speaker 8: then also too, there's gonna have to be some maybe
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  Speaker 8: unpopular moves, some some controversial moves, if you will. You've
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  Speaker 8: got four first round draft picks the next two years.
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  Speaker 8: You've got a couple of prospects, a couple of guys
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  Speaker 8: on your roster that garnered some attention at the last
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  Speaker 8: couple of deadlines. So you know, you talk about a
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  Speaker 8: seismic shift this summer that could entail moving some fan favorite,
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  Speaker 8: some core pieces out in order to bring in the
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  Speaker 8: right folks that you need to get over this humb We're.
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  Speaker 1: Going to see you Friday or hear from you Friday.
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  Speaker 8: I'll be there Friday. Okay, yeah, yeah, I want that
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  Speaker 8: green jacket.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, you've only been an analyst for our green jacket
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  Speaker 1: the past, and now you're going to play the game. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: I can't go in match whim Going in with a
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  Speaker 1: great effort fits you right here on the old radio program.
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  Speaker 1: All right, well, well you'll look forward to that. Thank you, sir.
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  Speaker 1: We appreciate it, and we'll see you soon.
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  Speaker 8: All right, Chuckie, talk to you. Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: All right, the more of your Seattle crack and ever
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  Speaker 1: it fits you, joining us right here on Chuck and
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  Speaker 1: Buck in the morning. All right, Coming up next, we've
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  Speaker 1: already talked about maybe the NBA playoffs are too predictable
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  Speaker 1: these days. What about golf? Has it gotten too predictable
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  Speaker 1: in the last few years. I'm gonna ask Ashley Sports
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  Speaker 4: M on of the YouTubers get the dancing.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, they're really enjoying it right now. Boy, they're all
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  Speaker 7: in a great mood today. Are they really sarcasm hashtag
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  Speaker 7: sorrow people?
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  Speaker 4: There?
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  Speaker 7: I don't even know. That's a great question.
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  Speaker 6: Don't ask them, though, I'll give me an idea. Apparently
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  Speaker 6: we aren't loud enough in the chat. I guess I
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  Speaker 6: don't understand.
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  Speaker 7: What that means.
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  Speaker 1: We're not we're not participating in it.
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  Speaker 6: Well, and I try, but you know, I don't know
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  Speaker 6: if you know this. We're running a radio show, okay, right, yeah,
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  Speaker 6: and so I'll So somebody was going like, there's.
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  Speaker 1: An expression called old dog new tricks.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, working on it over here. Yeah, And
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  Speaker 6: someone was writing like ten texts in a row talking
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  Speaker 6: about and I was like, what are you talking about?
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  Speaker 6: And now I'm rude because I asked what they were
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  Speaker 6: talking about.
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  Speaker 1: Just one person, because I don't worry about that.
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  Speaker 7: Oh no, there's another person. There's a couple other people
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  Speaker 7: who just like but they're just negative every day. So
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  Speaker 7: we just move on from that.
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  Speaker 6: Oh you know, there's always that person that just wants
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  Speaker 6: to come on to complain about everything you do.
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  Speaker 7: But they're still there. Oh well, I say, hey, welcome fun,
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  Speaker 7: thanks for being here.
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  Speaker 1: Well, at least everybody else got the dancing today they're enjoying.
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  Speaker 1: You're welcome. I know, I got a little few of you,
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  Speaker 1: a little steamy under the collar, a.
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  Speaker 7: Bit hold on let me look. Yeah, and I'm still looking.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Probably a couple of you fellas are like, I don't
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  Speaker 1: even swing that way.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, but man, I might consider it, might consider it.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 1: Those moves, Oh, they just aren't typical of sports talk
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  Speaker 1: radio hosts.
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  Speaker 7: That's the truth.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know that's what YouTube's going to unlock for us,
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  Speaker 1: no doubt about it. Good morning to you. It is
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  Speaker 1: Chuck and Ashley. We roll into our nine o'clock hour.
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  Speaker 1: We do have Miracle at thirty fourth pick coming up
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  Speaker 1: a little bit later on this hour, our brand new
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  Speaker 1: Draft miss feature this year on Chuck and Buck in
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  Speaker 1: the Morning, our Draft MIAs coverage, and one last thing
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  Speaker 1: to close out the week. Certainly a lot to do,
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  Speaker 1: There's no question about it. As we are now just
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  Speaker 1: nine sleeps away from the actual NFL Draft Day, we've
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  Speaker 1: got a baseball team that has turned things around, or
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  Speaker 1: at least it appears, four straight wins over the Houston Astros.
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  Speaker 1: And I get it. The Astros are beat up right now,
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  Speaker 1: and I say good, And I'm not saying that as
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  Speaker 1: somebody that hates the Astros. I'm saying that as you
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  Speaker 1: took advantage of an opportunity that they gave you, and
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  Speaker 1: you didn't give them one break the entire weekend. If
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  Speaker 1: they're going to miss the strike zone, I thought those
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  Speaker 1: are some really good at bats by the team. You
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  Speaker 1: ended up earning twenty seven walks and the four games
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  Speaker 1: against the Houston Astros twenty seven walks. Now, on one end,
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of a broken pitching staff. But on
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  Speaker 1: the other hand, it's not like they were missing by
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  Speaker 1: a mile. You were forcing them to pitch to throw
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  Speaker 1: strikes to you they were missing. We now have this
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 1: handy dandy ABS Challenge system where we can't have an
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  Speaker 1: umpire behind home plate who's tired of calling balls or
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  Speaker 1: as sympathy for the pitcher. They've got to call it
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  Speaker 1: straight up or they're getting tired because the innings lasting long.
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  Speaker 1: We're trying to take that human element out of the sport.
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  Speaker 1: And so we had a lot of good at bats
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  Speaker 1: and we couple those with some big hits, and that's
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  Speaker 1: really how they've operated offensively the last few years. We've
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  Speaker 1: really struggled organizationally putting the ball in play, but hit
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  Speaker 1: a lot more home runs than what T Mobile is
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  Speaker 1: used to sing, and they get a lot of walks.
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  Speaker 1: They do get a lot of walks, and so that
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  Speaker 1: combination was on full display in these four games against
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  Speaker 1: the Houston Astros, and you end up winning all four.
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  Speaker 1: You scored twenty nine runs in the process. You had
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  Speaker 1: scored six in the previous three game series total against
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  Speaker 1: the Texas Rangers. And yet the Mariners don't have a
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  Speaker 1: single game against the Astros where they scored fewer than
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  Speaker 1: six runs. And so again, good on you. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it's not giving the other team a break. It's not
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  Speaker 1: being satisfied with three out of four and winning a series.
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  Speaker 1: It's having an opportunity on Monday afternoon with a distinct
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  Speaker 1: pitching advantage starting wise, Kirby versus Burrows, to go out
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  Speaker 1: there and make a statement. Take all four of them,
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  Speaker 1: show no mercy, you know, it doesn't prove that they're
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  Speaker 1: back on track and they're back where we want them
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  Speaker 1: to be. But sitting here at eight and nine, four
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  Speaker 1: game winning streak, all of a sudden, you gained a
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  Speaker 1: lot of ground in a very short period of time.
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  Speaker 1: But most importantly, Ashley, they took advantage of their opportunity
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  Speaker 1: and it kind of feels like they're on track.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, and that's all you can do, right is you
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  Speaker 6: can play the team that's on your schedule, and it
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  Speaker 6: doesn't matter how many injuries they have or what kind
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  Speaker 6: of decimation they're facing.
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  Speaker 1: You got to play them.
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  Speaker 6: You gotta beat them, and that's it. And you know
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  Speaker 6: that's going to happen to us as well well. As
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  Speaker 6: the season goes on. We'll deal with injuries and things
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  Speaker 6: of that nature, and you just have to You can
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  Speaker 6: only do what you can do. You can only play
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  Speaker 6: the team you're playing. And I'm so glad that they
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  Speaker 6: came out of that with a sweep. I think looking
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 6: at the injuries, we would have thought, oh well, we
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 6: went into the into the weekend saying they have to
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 6: win this series.
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  Speaker 7: I wasn't going to take a split. I didn't want that.
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  Speaker 6: I wanted fully back on track. I didn't ask for
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  Speaker 6: a sweep. I mean, it would have been great, but
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  Speaker 6: I wasn't trying to be too selfish. I just thought
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  Speaker 6: with the way that Houston was looking right now, taking
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  Speaker 6: three out of four seemed very doable, especially with the
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  Speaker 6: pitching we have, and so for them to have come
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  Speaker 6: out with this sleep was just the icing on top
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  Speaker 6: of the cake.
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  Speaker 1: Honestly, yeah, well got the job done and look like
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 1: I said, I don't know if it's completely righted at
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  Speaker 1: this point, but you did mostly dig out of the
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 1: hole that you created for yourselves. That's on you. Mostly
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 1: dug out of that hole. And so you're sitting here
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 1: with almost at the even mark, with a thousand games
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 1: remaining in the regular season, to prove that, yes, we
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 1: are much better than our Al West foes, and I
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 1: still believe that not only will they end up in
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 1: the playoffs, not only do I believe they will end
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 1: up Division champs. I think this will eventually be a
• 1:23:44
  Speaker 1: lot easier season. But they have to put us through
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 1: some sort of turmoil. They can't help themselves, and it
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 1: always feels worse when it is at the beginning of
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 1: the year. But to sit here at eight and nine,
• 1:23:56
  Speaker 1: not great, not exactly what you were hoping for. It's
• 1:23:59
  Speaker 1: nothing good, not what you were hoping for. Certainly, seventeen
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 1: games into the year, we were all hoping for just
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 1: a better start. For once. It didn't happen. But if
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 1: you're riding the ship now, great, Yeah, no worries whatsoever.
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 1: And so you're sitting here at eight and nine with
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 1: cal Rawley still hitting one fifty four and even though
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 1: Josh Naylor hit two home runs yesterday, still just two
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 1: extra base hits this entire season. And Julio, even though
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 1: he's hitting the ball a lot harder, just did get
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 1: his nose above the two hundred mark. So for you
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 1: to have a total of five home runs between those
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 1: three guys seventeen games into the year, still collectively hitting
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 1: well below two hundred on the year, every single one
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 1: of them with a sub two ninety slugging average, and
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 1: you're eight to nine, I would have thought it been worse.
• 1:24:47
  Speaker 1: So I said this last week. I'll remind you of
• 1:24:50
  Speaker 1: it again that if you believed a week ago before
• 1:24:54
  Speaker 1: the Astro Series that Cal Raley, Julio Rodriguez, and Josh
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 1: Naylor had in the offseason and became the three worst
• 1:25:01
  Speaker 1: hitters in Major League Baseball, then panic. But all three
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 1: of them are showing signs of coming out of it.
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 1: I think Cal a little slower than the other two,
• 1:25:10
  Speaker 1: but they're all showing signs of coming out of it.
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 1: I know they all will eventually come out of it.
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 1: And when they do come out of it, you saw
• 1:25:18
  Speaker 1: what just one of them hitting can do in a game.
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 1: He knocked in five of the six runs yesterday. So
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 1: I think there are great signs Josh Naylor's out of it.
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 1: I think there are great signs Julio's out of it.
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 1: We still got to get Cal He's still got a
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 1: little ways to go. But to get those three going,
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 1: I mean makes a world of difference for the Mariner Yeah.
• 1:25:38
  Speaker 7: Just absolutely a world of difference.
• 1:25:39
  Speaker 6: And if you would have told me before the season started,
• 1:25:42
  Speaker 6: La Mariners are going to start four and nine and
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 6: then Houston comes to town for a four game series,
• 1:25:46
  Speaker 6: I would have thought, oh, no, this is gonna get up. So,
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 6: I mean, I just you never know what's going to happen.
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 6: You can't play the game on paper. You got to
• 1:25:54
  Speaker 6: just see what's happening. But if you would have said, oh,
• 1:25:57
  Speaker 6: by the way, they're four and nine and these guys
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 6: aren't hitting and he's coming to town, I would have thought, again,
• 1:26:02
  Speaker 6: we might get swept. So for them to all starting
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 6: or seemingly be starting to warm up, I mean it
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 6: seems like a slow warm up because I think we've
• 1:26:10
  Speaker 6: had this conversation a couple times where Col's gotten a
• 1:26:12
  Speaker 6: hit or Julio's gotten a hit and we're like, oh,
• 1:26:14
  Speaker 6: maybe this maybe this is it, but it does seem
• 1:26:17
  Speaker 6: to be a slow, yeah, transition into getting the hitting
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 6: going for them. And that's all right because the team
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 6: seems to be picking them up.
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 1: Well, I mean, maybe it's not a slow Maybe it's
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 1: just like Josh Naylor was just a little bit off. Yeah,
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 1: as I said all last week, just a little bit off,
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden he's on. Maybe he
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 1: goes on a tear. Maybe, I mean, maybe Julio's ready
• 1:26:35
  Speaker 1: to go on a tear at this stage. And if
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 1: those two guys are on a tear, then I mean
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 1: it shows you, I mean, everybody that wants to panic
• 1:26:44
  Speaker 1: in the month of April, for goodness sake, in four days,
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 1: you're out of that hole.
• 1:26:48
  Speaker 7: Well, and that's what we talked about last year. You
• 1:26:50
  Speaker 7: said they could be out of it.
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 6: By next week, and people were like, oh, yeah, no,
• 1:26:53
  Speaker 6: they're not. Well look at that one game below five nine,
• 1:26:56
  Speaker 6: and they're facing a better team in the San Diego Padres.
• 1:26:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah, healthier team starting tonight, and you don't want to
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 1: backslide at all. But even San Diego I don't think
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 1: quite as good as they've been the last couple of years.
• 1:27:09
  Speaker 1: I've called them a world Series contender each of the
• 1:27:12
  Speaker 1: last two years, and two years ago they probably should
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 1: have won the World Series and they gagged against the Dodgers,
• 1:27:18
  Speaker 1: had a two oh series lead and couldn't hold onto
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 1: It was disapointed. They were the better team that year.
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 1: That gets lost in the history of it all. They
• 1:27:26
  Speaker 1: were the better team that year and gagged it away.
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 1: And then last year I thought they were a really
• 1:27:30
  Speaker 1: good team again, and I think they're a good team now,
• 1:27:33
  Speaker 1: maybe slightly less. They have won five straight games. They
• 1:27:38
  Speaker 1: are ten and six on the year, but they're only
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 1: hitting two twenty seven as a team. They have a
• 1:27:43
  Speaker 1: six ninety five team OPS at this point, so they're
• 1:27:46
  Speaker 1: not exactly hitting the cover of off the ball either.
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 1: But what you do want to do against the San
• 1:27:53
  Speaker 1: Diego Padres is not betrayling in the eighth inning because
• 1:27:58
  Speaker 1: Mason Miller is off to one of the greatest starts
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 1: in baseball history. You don't think about that with a reliever.
• 1:28:06
  Speaker 1: But I'm not saying he's off to one of the
• 1:28:08
  Speaker 1: great starts for a reliever in baseball history. He is
• 1:28:12
  Speaker 1: off to one of the great starts for any player
• 1:28:15
  Speaker 1: in baseball history. The Padres closer has faced twenty four
• 1:28:19
  Speaker 1: batters so far this season and struck out nineteen of them.
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 7: Yeah, he's pretty good.
• 1:28:26
  Speaker 1: That's impossible.
• 1:28:27
  Speaker 6: I saw someone had put together, like I wish I
• 1:28:29
  Speaker 6: had saved it, but like his whole stat line of
• 1:28:31
  Speaker 6: what he's done, Oh, that he's I mean, it's just incredible.
• 1:28:35
  Speaker 6: They put it basically like if he'd pitched a whole
• 1:28:37
  Speaker 6: if he'd been pitching in one game, how it would
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 6: have looked. And I was just blown away by it.
• 1:28:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean nineteen k's and seven and a third inning,
• 1:28:45
  Speaker 1: so he's allowed one hit to this point, he's walked
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 1: one batter. And then if you take the WBC where
• 1:28:51
  Speaker 1: he was just as dominant for Team America. Mason Miller
• 1:28:54
  Speaker 1: we all knew was one of the best closers in
• 1:28:56
  Speaker 1: the game. We all know that he throws one hundred
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 1: and three hundred and four miles per hour and he's
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 1: got a nasty, wipeout slider. But all the times we've
• 1:29:04
  Speaker 1: seen Mason Miller pitch with the A's the last couple
• 1:29:07
  Speaker 1: of years, and fortunately we weren't trailing a lot against
• 1:29:11
  Speaker 1: the A's, but when he came into the game, you're like, well,
• 1:29:14
  Speaker 1: this game's over. Well, he's better now than he's ever
• 1:29:17
  Speaker 1: been in his young career. And so that's waiting for
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 1: you at the end of every single game in San Diego.
• 1:29:26
  Speaker 1: And the best way to avoid ever seeing Mason Miller
• 1:29:29
  Speaker 1: is to be winning.
• 1:29:31
  Speaker 7: Yeay, So start winning early and just keep it up.
• 1:29:34
  Speaker 1: Right, right, So let's just go ahead and not be
• 1:29:37
  Speaker 1: losing going into the ninth and everything will be just fine. So, yes,
• 1:29:43
  Speaker 1: that's the match up here for the next three days
• 1:29:45
  Speaker 1: against the San Diego Padres. But let's spend the rest
• 1:29:48
  Speaker 1: of our time this segment talking about what's coming, the
• 1:29:52
  Speaker 1: inevitability of what's coming. And this is a good thing.
• 1:29:55
  Speaker 1: This is a great problem to have, There's no question
• 1:29:57
  Speaker 1: about it. So I'm not sitting here complaining. There are
• 1:30:00
  Speaker 1: a lot of teams that don't even have someone as
• 1:30:04
  Speaker 1: good as Bryce Miller as their number one starter, much
• 1:30:07
  Speaker 1: less to be sitting there. Can't wait to get our
• 1:30:10
  Speaker 1: number five starter back despite all of the you know,
• 1:30:14
  Speaker 1: chaos that it could create. But news yesterday that Bryce
• 1:30:19
  Speaker 1: has just done a bullpen session that was positive enough
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 1: that he's going to start on a reab assignment, and
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 1: that reabssignment could go one game, could go three games,
• 1:30:32
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's not like an arm that he's coming
• 1:30:34
  Speaker 1: back from or I mean it's an oblique So I
• 1:30:39
  Speaker 1: would assume you're just trying to get him back into
• 1:30:42
  Speaker 1: pitching condition. It's not about the injury anymore. He's out
• 1:30:46
  Speaker 1: of the woods on that front. It's just trying to
• 1:30:48
  Speaker 1: get him back, get his pitch count up, get his
• 1:30:51
  Speaker 1: velocity where it needs to be, and then then you
• 1:30:55
  Speaker 1: activate him. Well, they might kick this count down the
• 1:31:00
  Speaker 1: road a little bit. I mean, we still just have
• 1:31:03
  Speaker 1: a short sample size on new and improved Emerson Hancock.
• 1:31:08
  Speaker 1: And certainly nobody's gonna want to make the decision of
• 1:31:14
  Speaker 1: demoting Luis Castillo to the bullpen. Nobody wants to do
• 1:31:18
  Speaker 1: that to the Rock. Everybody loves the Rock in the organization,
• 1:31:21
  Speaker 1: especially the starting pitchers. They adore him. He's like their
• 1:31:25
  Speaker 1: big brother and they I mean, he's the leader of
• 1:31:30
  Speaker 1: the group. I mean, there are a lot of leadership
• 1:31:33
  Speaker 1: qualities in that group, but there's no doubt Louis.
• 1:31:37
  Speaker 7: The daddy, Yeah, and they all have a massive amount
• 1:31:39
  Speaker 7: of respect for him.
• 1:31:40
  Speaker 1: And he's not pitching well right now, and so certainly
• 1:31:45
  Speaker 1: they're not going to want to make a decision of
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 1: putting Luis Castillo in the bullpen at any point that
• 1:31:52
  Speaker 1: is just not going to be a comfortable conversation.
• 1:31:54
  Speaker 2: But what do you do?
• 1:31:56
  Speaker 1: I mean, I think Bryce Miller is going to have
• 1:31:58
  Speaker 1: a great year this year, and when he's ready, I
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 1: want him in the starting rotation. I also don't want
• 1:32:05
  Speaker 1: to demote Emerson Hancock because, man, that is a real
• 1:32:10
  Speaker 1: kick in the teeth because next to Brian Wu, he's
• 1:32:12
  Speaker 1: pitching better than anybody right now, and statistically even better
• 1:32:16
  Speaker 1: than Wu. And man, that's hard for him to have
• 1:32:20
  Speaker 1: gone through the journey he's gone through, watched all of
• 1:32:23
  Speaker 1: his best buddies surpass him and lap him in this
• 1:32:27
  Speaker 1: race toward wins at the major league baseball level. He
• 1:32:30
  Speaker 1: spent more time in Tacoma than he ever wanted to
• 1:32:33
  Speaker 1: spend while his best friends are pitching thirty miles up
• 1:32:39
  Speaker 1: the road at t Mobile in front of forty thousand
• 1:32:44
  Speaker 1: in a cathedral. Tacoma's great. Love it. But that's not
• 1:32:49
  Speaker 1: exactly what Emerson Hancock wants to be doing this year
• 1:32:52
  Speaker 1: the way he's pitching right now, So that would be
• 1:32:55
  Speaker 1: a real kick to the gut, Like, what do I
• 1:32:57
  Speaker 1: have to do to stay in this starting rote, but
• 1:33:00
  Speaker 1: it's a numbers game. I do not want to see
• 1:33:03
  Speaker 1: this go to a six man rotation. I think that
• 1:33:05
  Speaker 1: there's the fear that it messes up everybody a little bit,
• 1:33:08
  Speaker 1: and I don't want to do that. George seems to
• 1:33:10
  Speaker 1: be on a roll right now. Logan finally pitched a
• 1:33:13
  Speaker 1: really good game, Brian's off to another great start, So
• 1:33:17
  Speaker 1: I don't want to go to a six man rotation.
• 1:33:19
  Speaker 1: I don't want to send anybody to the bullpen. As
• 1:33:21
  Speaker 1: was suggested by Ryan Heaey yesterday, this isn't a demotion
• 1:33:24
  Speaker 1: to Tacoma for Emerson, but it could be a demotion
• 1:33:26
  Speaker 1: to the bullpen. Don't want to do that. Well, that's
• 1:33:29
  Speaker 1: a completely different job, that's a completely different regiment. Right now,
• 1:33:33
  Speaker 1: he is on a roll.
• 1:33:34
  Speaker 2: I don't know what to do.
• 1:33:36
  Speaker 1: I really don't. And so the idea of maybe Bryce
• 1:33:40
  Speaker 1: could be ready after one rehab start will probably turn
• 1:33:43
  Speaker 1: into wouldn't kill us to give him three rehab starts
• 1:33:48
  Speaker 1: just to buy you some time. So you're getting further
• 1:33:50
  Speaker 1: out of short sample size for new and improved Emerson Hancock,
• 1:33:55
  Speaker 1: and then you get two or three more looks to
• 1:33:57
  Speaker 1: try to get Luis back on track and It also
• 1:34:01
  Speaker 1: would afford you the opportunity to make sure Bryce is
• 1:34:04
  Speaker 1: one hundred percent ready to go. But you're looking at
• 1:34:07
  Speaker 1: most three reabs starts at most, so that's fifteen days.
• 1:34:11
  Speaker 1: So that's two weeks to try and to decide exactly
• 1:34:16
  Speaker 1: what we're going to do with this rotation. It's a
• 1:34:19
  Speaker 1: great problem to have, but it is a difficult one
• 1:34:22
  Speaker 1: to solve. Yeah.
• 1:34:23
  Speaker 6: Absolutely, I mean goodness, I am so thrilled that we
• 1:34:25
  Speaker 6: have too many great pitchers. But yeah, I think the
• 1:34:29
  Speaker 6: one thing that I would hate to see the most
• 1:34:31
  Speaker 6: is Emerson Hancock sent back to Tacoma. I just think
• 1:34:34
  Speaker 6: that would be a travesty for this young man who
• 1:34:37
  Speaker 6: has been who has done everything they've asked of him
• 1:34:39
  Speaker 6: every single time, not just this year. He has done
• 1:34:41
  Speaker 6: everything they've asked of him. He's come up to the
• 1:34:42
  Speaker 6: bullpen when they needed him. He has come up and
• 1:34:45
  Speaker 6: filled in for injured pitchers when they needed him, and
• 1:34:47
  Speaker 6: that's what he's doing right now, and he's doing.
• 1:34:49
  Speaker 7: A stellar job.
• 1:34:49
  Speaker 6: And that would be really demoralizing for him to say, Okay,
• 1:34:53
  Speaker 6: so I just went up and kicked some butt and even.
• 1:34:55
  Speaker 7: That's not enough.
• 1:34:56
  Speaker 1: And I also can't have Bryce suffer that, right.
• 1:35:00
  Speaker 4: I can't have.
• 1:35:01
  Speaker 1: He was our best picture in the playoffs last year.
• 1:35:04
  Speaker 1: I can't have Bryce Miller come back. And I'm like, oh,
• 1:35:09
  Speaker 1: we don't want to rock the boat.
• 1:35:11
  Speaker 7: Can't penalize someone because they got injured.
• 1:35:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, how do a feel those rain Air uniforms are sharp.
• 1:35:19
  Speaker 7: Merch.
• 1:35:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:35:21
  Speaker 1: So I can't do that to him either, And I
• 1:35:23
  Speaker 1: don't know if I can. But one of those things,
• 1:35:25
  Speaker 1: I don't know if I can hurt Luis Casteel's feelings.
• 1:35:28
  Speaker 1: I agree, but one of those things has to happen
• 1:35:31
  Speaker 1: without some other element falling into place. As they often say,
• 1:35:35
  Speaker 1: you know, often these things take care of themselves. But
• 1:35:37
  Speaker 1: what if it doesn't. Like we said, this is a
• 1:35:40
  Speaker 1: great problem to have, but it is not an easy
• 1:35:43
  Speaker 1: thing to solve. And it looks like you're looking about
• 1:35:45
  Speaker 1: two weeks to try to figure out exactly how this goes.
• 1:35:48
  Speaker 1: I actually think the worst thing is to put him
• 1:35:50
  Speaker 1: in the bullpen, and I know that flies in the
• 1:35:52
  Speaker 1: face of what Ryan told us yesterday, But right now,
• 1:35:56
  Speaker 1: I want to keep Emerson on the five day rotation.
• 1:35:59
  Speaker 1: I don't want to have him go down, get his
• 1:36:02
  Speaker 1: rhythm thrown out of whack. Uh and then ask him
• 1:36:06
  Speaker 1: to come back and ask him to change his rhythm again.
• 1:36:10
  Speaker 1: So I think I kind of want to keep him
• 1:36:12
  Speaker 1: on a five day rotation, five game rotation, and if
• 1:36:16
  Speaker 1: that's Tacoma, that's Tacoma, and he's going to have to understand.
• 1:36:19
  Speaker 1: I don't like doing that. I'm just saying I think
• 1:36:22
  Speaker 1: I would hate sending him to the bullpen where he
• 1:36:25
  Speaker 1: doesn't know when he's gonna pitch or how.
• 1:36:28
  Speaker 6: Yeah, it's one thing to do that during the playoffs,
• 1:36:30
  Speaker 6: but at this point in the season, Yeah, that's that's
• 1:36:33
  Speaker 6: a tough thing to do, right, And then at some.
• 1:36:35
  Speaker 1: Point you'll probably have to ask him to go back
• 1:36:36
  Speaker 1: and that that jerking around. And these players today, especially
• 1:36:40
  Speaker 1: these pitchers, are such slaves to their routine. I don't
• 1:36:44
  Speaker 1: I don't know if.
• 1:36:45
  Speaker 4: I do that.
• 1:36:45
  Speaker 7: I'm glad I'm not the one in charge of making
• 1:36:47
  Speaker 7: that choice.
• 1:36:50
  Speaker 1: I said it last week. I trade Castillo for you
• 1:36:53
  Speaker 1: and a half, That's what I would do. Yeah, And
• 1:36:55
  Speaker 1: that that frees it up, because Kate Anderson looks like
• 1:36:57
  Speaker 1: he's gonna be ready a lot sooner. Anybody thought if
• 1:37:01
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• 1:37:03
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