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Best of Chuck and Buck 5-8 · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: Good morning, money, is anybody.
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  Speaker 2: This is Chuck and Buck in the Morning's why you
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  Speaker 2: three point three kh A r FM. It is wonderful
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  Speaker 2: to have you with us on this Friday. That's right,
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  Speaker 2: you heard me correctly. It is Friday. Celebrate today. Celebrate
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  Speaker 2: this morning around the house with your pants off. It's Friday.
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  Speaker 2: It's Friday, once a week. It's Friday.
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  Speaker 1: That's how I celebrate every Friday. No pants?
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  Speaker 2: Did your mom? I met? Your Mom's a lovely woman.
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  Speaker 2: Did she like?
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  Speaker 5: Uh?
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  Speaker 2: Did she like? Does she sing songy around the house? Yes? Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: are all moms that way, I think.
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  Speaker 1: So she sings to my dog, she sings to my cats,
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  Speaker 1: she sings to her cats, she sings to every everything. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and I do too.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And then Palmer does.
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  Speaker 2: I think that. I think it's a trade in a
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  Speaker 2: lot of because I'm kind of sing songy too. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: but I really think like Mom's yeah, I think he
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  Speaker 2: comes sing songy. I don't know what what that trade is.
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  Speaker 2: But like Mother's Days on Sunday, and I was just
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  Speaker 2: thinking about my own mom when I said Friday, because
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  Speaker 2: she always had this song, It's Friday, It's Friday. Once
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  Speaker 2: a week, it's Friday. That was it. But she would
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  Speaker 2: sing it every Friday.
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  Speaker 1: I love it because once a week it was Friday.
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  Speaker 1: And she was not lying.
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  Speaker 2: She I mean, she nails it. She is. She's nothing
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  Speaker 2: if not accurate.
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  Speaker 1: I think it comes from the fact though, that especially
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  Speaker 1: like if you have kids when they're little, Yeah, you're
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  Speaker 1: talking to them and they're not talking to you, So
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  Speaker 1: then you just kind of get used to and say
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  Speaker 1: with pets like oh blah blah, well what are we doing.
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  Speaker 1: We're sitting here doing chores around the house by ourselves,
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  Speaker 1: and all I have to do is talk to my
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  Speaker 1: kid who's not talking because the baby or my pets.
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  Speaker 1: So then you just kind of I don't know, like
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  Speaker 1: Bunker's years will perk up if I sing around the house,
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  Speaker 1: so then you'd get a reaction, and then it's just
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  Speaker 1: a fun, fun thing.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, she always said it's always on a Wednesday, the
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  Speaker 2: wedds begin to though.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think that I could like remember any songs
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  Speaker 1: my mom things because they weren't like helpful for the
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  Speaker 1: day of the week.
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  Speaker 2: Well, they weren't exactly great songs, Quincy Jones. She's not
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  Speaker 2: Bob Dylan, not real deep sense.
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  Speaker 1: They made sense right, Well they couldn't.
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  Speaker 2: They cut to the chase of it. Yeah, right to
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  Speaker 2: the core of the matters. And now I don't know
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  Speaker 2: if the winds really did start to blow on Wednesday.
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  Speaker 2: So that could be just a big lie spread by
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  Speaker 2: somebody that gave me life. Yeah, so she might be
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  Speaker 2: a Liar's a there's a chance of that. I don't
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  Speaker 2: know there's any statistical data suggests that Wednesdays the winds
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  Speaker 2: blow harder than they do on any other day.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna look it up.
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  Speaker 2: But she certainly married herself to it and sang about
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  Speaker 2: it every Wednesday from my entire childhood. But very interesting,
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  Speaker 2: very interesting. Indeed, speaking of mothers, do you have Mother's
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  Speaker 2: Day plans? We are on Friday. It's Mother's Day. For goodness, I.
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  Speaker 1: Am so glad you oh about Mother's Day plans because
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  Speaker 1: here's the thing, and it's really nice to know that, Like,
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  Speaker 1: no matter what you do in life, everyone's thinking about
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  Speaker 1: you when it comes to Mother's Day. Like they're like,
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  Speaker 1: you know what, we got to do something special to
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  Speaker 1: celebrate the moms. So if you're a travel softball mom,
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  Speaker 1: they're like, you know what the moms really want on
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  Speaker 1: Mother's Day weekend to travel to Lacey to watch a
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  Speaker 1: softball tournament. That's what they want. Moms don't want a
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  Speaker 1: weekend off of staying in a comfort in moms want
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  Speaker 1: softball in Lacey.
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  Speaker 2: Why would they do that? I mean pretty much everybody's
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  Speaker 2: aware of mothers. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, that's why it's called the Mom's Celebration tournament because
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  Speaker 1: I can't.
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  Speaker 2: Take a Sunday off. Everybody knows that moms get run
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  Speaker 2: ragged when they have kids that play sports.
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  Speaker 6: Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's all I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: It's all I'm saying.
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  Speaker 2: Huh, so let me take Let me guess that's a
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  Speaker 2: dad that runs the league.
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  Speaker 1: Most likely because there's no tournament on Father's Day.
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  Speaker 2: There's no way, you there's no way that any decent
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  Speaker 2: mother out there is going to schedule some sort of
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  Speaker 2: softball tournament on Mother's Day.
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  Speaker 1: No, because there's no mother out there that was like
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  Speaker 1: you know what. I remember when I was traveling with
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  Speaker 1: my child during softball season and we had tournaments every weekend. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: there's no time where I wanted time off. So we
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  Speaker 1: should we should make sure the moms are all off
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  Speaker 1: at six am so they can have their kids to
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  Speaker 1: the field by six forty five.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's garbage. Yeah, if you need me to
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  Speaker 2: sign a petition, sign.
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  Speaker 1: I might need you to write it.
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  Speaker 2: Oh I need to write one, all right. It might
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  Speaker 2: have some colorful language in it. I'm not sure the
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  Speaker 2: office that it lands at will appreciate it. But I
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  Speaker 2: think about it. When I played, and I don't think
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  Speaker 2: I played little league and high school. I don't think
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  Speaker 2: in Midwest in the in the in the eighties that
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  Speaker 2: we were playing nearly as much as these kids seem
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  Speaker 2: to play today. I mean, we played once during the
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  Speaker 2: week and I, if I remember correctly, like once on
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  Speaker 2: the weekend, okay, and that was about it. But it
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  Speaker 2: was like one game. It wasn't like a tournament. We
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  Speaker 2: rarely had a tournament. They had like two tournaments a year.
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  Speaker 2: But I can't tell you for sure if we didn't
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  Speaker 2: respect Mother's Day. I don't. I don't remember it, but
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  Speaker 2: I wouldn't put it past us even then to have
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  Speaker 2: played on Sundays. But it doesn't ring a bell. So
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what's happened. I don't know if the
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  Speaker 2: people run in the Little League have just decided they
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  Speaker 2: hate mothers. I don't know. It's a strange decision to
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  Speaker 2: have arrived at. I'll tell you that much.
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  Speaker 1: I will say it is a strange decision. But it's
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  Speaker 1: not Little League that hates the mothers. Little League we
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  Speaker 1: only played Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, so we had three games
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  Speaker 1: in the week. This is select that we travel for.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, I was on a select team. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's a lot different.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I just want to say Little League full respect of
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  Speaker 1: all the moms that we're not playing little.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so is respecting mother's It's just when you have
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  Speaker 2: an advanced child, then you don't you have to sacrifice
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  Speaker 2: all motherly gifts?
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  Speaker 1: Correct? Yeah, well look what you did. You created this
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  Speaker 1: mess so.
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  Speaker 2: Understood now it makes sense. Yeah, I get it now.
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  Speaker 2: Never mind. Yeah, not gonna make that draft after all,
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  Speaker 2: now that it makes so much sense.
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  Speaker 1: The good news is too. By the way, I haven't
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  Speaker 1: been down to the Olympia area in two weeks, so
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  Speaker 1: I mean I've really been missing it.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you're just gonna have to find the bright Si.
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  Speaker 2: You're gonna have to find a cafe that you love
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  Speaker 2: and make five iron take you.
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  Speaker 1: I'm mister bright Side.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what you're just gonna have to do. You're
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  Speaker 2: gonna have to make everybody kiss your butt. Okay, you know,
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  Speaker 2: Palmer the Great has to get bring you orange slicense done.
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  Speaker 2: Palmer the Graat has to punch open your caprice. Yeah
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  Speaker 2: that's right, get it, and you just sit there and
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  Speaker 2: you get a foot rub right there in public. Done
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  Speaker 2: from your husband. Yeah on Sunday, Well you keeps Actually,
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  Speaker 2: somebody else will just we'll just write it for you.
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  Speaker 1: You just tell them, wouldn't that be nice.
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  Speaker 2: While you sip on some wine?
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, sign me up.
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  Speaker 2: That's what we got to get done. Love it that
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  Speaker 2: sounds like Mother's Day softball to me.
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  Speaker 1: Yes it does.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, Happy Mother's Day to everyone. We actually will
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  Speaker 2: have a mother, a brand new mother on the show
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  Speaker 2: a little bit later on in the program. We also
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  Speaker 2: have cash. If moms still like cash out there, one
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  Speaker 2: thousand dollars could be yours Grand Slam Cash contest if
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  Speaker 2: your mother give it a go, one thousand dollars. Your
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  Speaker 2: keyword is going to be cash. Entered at ninety three
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  Speaker 2: to three kJ R dot com. We don't play on Sundays.
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  Speaker 2: We won't make you play cash contest on Sundays. Won't
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  Speaker 2: make you work like that. No, we're nice, No, no, no.
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  Speaker 2: We give you the Sunday and Saturday off from the
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  Speaker 2: cash contest because you've earned it. Like kind humans, you
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  Speaker 2: deserve it cash contest, and in spirit of my mother,
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  Speaker 2: in this Mother's Day, it's time for the cash contest.
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  Speaker 1: We want to give you lots of money. You've got
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  Speaker 1: a chance to win one thousand dollars, but it's not
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  Speaker 1: a very big chance.
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  Speaker 2: That's it.
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  Speaker 1: That's it, that's it.
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  Speaker 2: We nailed it all right. We got what's on tap
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  Speaker 2: for you coming up in a moment. We'll tell you
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  Speaker 2: exactly the mother that's going to join us today on
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  Speaker 2: the radio program. Then, But man, we got more news.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I realized we've been talking about this a lot,
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  Speaker 2: but man, it is. I was just talking with somebody
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  Speaker 2: about it last night about Oh, I know it was
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  Speaker 2: my sushi guy parents. I'm like, who was I talking
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  Speaker 2: about this with? But we were talking about the six
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  Speaker 2: man rotation possibility for the Mariners, and I did point
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  Speaker 2: this out yesterday. It's kind of funny that we have
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  Speaker 2: an eight teen and twenty baseball team right now, so
• 10:02
  Speaker 2: we're off to a much worse start than we all
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  Speaker 2: had bargained for. We have a superstar catcher who's hitting
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  Speaker 2: one seventy. We are the worst defense in Major League
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  Speaker 2: Baseball right now. We have the third worst batting average
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  Speaker 2: with runners in scoring position, which seems to happen every
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  Speaker 2: year before the month of August to the Seattle Mariners.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, we've got some problems. We got some issues.
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  Speaker 2: We've got a shortstop that can't move to his left
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  Speaker 2: and right.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that lists is pretty long.
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  Speaker 2: It's a pretty long list of problems that the Mariners have.
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  Speaker 2: And yet the big topic when it comes to the Mariners,
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  Speaker 2: the one that you can't go anywhere without discussing. The
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  Speaker 2: one that we've brought up over and over has to
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  Speaker 2: do with the team strength. This is the big issue
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  Speaker 2: that we have. It has to do with the strength
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  Speaker 2: of the club, which undoubtedly is our starting pitching. And
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  Speaker 2: so we have new information guards to how this thing's
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  Speaker 2: going to be handled. And I don't I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: hes state to call it information. I'm going to call
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  Speaker 2: it some reporting that has been done that has led
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  Speaker 2: to even further speculation. Okay, and I'll say this, I
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  Speaker 2: don't like what I'm hearing. Oh and I don't know
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  Speaker 2: if those listening are going to like what I'm about
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  Speaker 2: to report. But according to our friend Adam Jude, that
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  Speaker 2: Bryce Miller is done with his rehab, that what they
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  Speaker 2: saw on Everett was enough. I think they have been
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  Speaker 2: trying to buy a little bit of time, but that
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  Speaker 2: Bryce Miller is probably not going to have one more
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  Speaker 2: rehab outing in Tacoma. Still a chance. We still don't
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  Speaker 2: know anything officially, but it looks like what they saw
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  Speaker 2: on Everett two days ago that they believe Bryce is
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  Speaker 2: ready to be activated. And so we have a five
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  Speaker 2: man rotation. Most teams do with their starting pitchers, and
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  Speaker 2: suddenly we have six starting pitchers because Emerson Hancock. It's
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  Speaker 2: not so easily dismissed this time. It's not so obvious
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  Speaker 2: that Emerson's the guy on the outside looking in. As
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  Speaker 2: a matter of fact, it's just the opposite. Emerson looks
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  Speaker 2: the best of all of the six starting pitchers, and
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  Speaker 2: yet typically the Mariners have a five man rotation. Again,
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  Speaker 2: most MLB teams do. So what are we going to do?
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  Speaker 2: We now have six healthy starting pitchers, five of you
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  Speaker 2: know what, they say, you can't lose your spot because
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  Speaker 2: of an injury. I don't know one hundred percent believe
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  Speaker 2: in that, but I do get it. I get that.
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  Speaker 2: I do believe in the gist of that. So does
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  Speaker 2: Bryce just resume his spot in the starting rotation even
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  Speaker 2: though it has been typically the fifth man in the rotation?
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  Speaker 2: Do you take Luis Castillo out of the rotation because
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  Speaker 2: of the five currently in the Mariners rotation, he is
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  Speaker 2: undoubtedly the one that has been the worst yeah so
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  Speaker 2: far this season. Or do you take Emerson Hancock out
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  Speaker 2: of the rotation because of that rule of Hey, you
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  Speaker 2: don't lose your spot in the starting lineup because of injuries.
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  Speaker 2: And now everybody's healthy again, and because Emerson had had
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  Speaker 2: a little experience in the bullpen a year ago. The
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  Speaker 2: other possibility is to go to a six man rotation
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  Speaker 2: and let all six guys just form a new rotation.
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  Speaker 2: There have been a lot of people that kind of
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  Speaker 2: liked that idea, including Ryan Healy, who knows a thing
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  Speaker 2: or two about baseball. A lot of people hate that idea,
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  Speaker 2: including Bill Krueger, who knows a thing or two about
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  Speaker 2: pitching in Major League Baseball. He doesn't think that that's
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  Speaker 2: the way to go. I don't think that's the way
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  Speaker 2: to go either, because I think you possibly bring harm
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  Speaker 2: to all six of your guys by not keeping them
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  Speaker 2: in their rhythm, their rotation, their team that they are
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  Speaker 2: such slaves to in the modern day. Yeah. I mean
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  Speaker 2: we've pointed it out before. Give Logan Gilbert an our
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  Speaker 2: rain delay, and you might as well give up on
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  Speaker 2: Logan Gilbert.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah you, yes, loss.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know why that is, but I think it's
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  Speaker 2: because they're so strict with their routine, and so do
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  Speaker 2: you risk getting all six guys out of their routine,
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  Speaker 2: especially when three of them are pitching so damn well? Okay,
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  Speaker 2: so that's that's the landscape. That's the conversation. And we've
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  Speaker 2: been having it now for a couple of weeks, maybe
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  Speaker 2: more than a couple of weeks, and it's all because
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  Speaker 2: Emerson Hancock has become such a damn good pitcher. He
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  Speaker 2: just looks fantastic. He just looks like the real deal.
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  Speaker 2: Whatever he picked up in the off season. Pete Woodworth
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  Speaker 2: just told me to my face a couple of days ago, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: some things have changed. He is throwing harder, That armslot
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  Speaker 2: has worked, he's added a sweeper. But he also told
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  Speaker 2: me the main ingredient is that he has the confidence.
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  Speaker 2: He now believes that he belongs and he is showing
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  Speaker 2: that pitch after pitch. There is one guy, one guy
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  Speaker 2: in all of the world, that has struck out fourteen
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  Speaker 2: or more batters in a Major League Baseball game this year,
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  Speaker 2: and his name is Emerson Hancock. So why then do
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  Speaker 2: I have to hear a report from our friend Adam
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  Speaker 2: Jude suggesting that it is on the table that Emerson
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  Speaker 2: Hancock will be removed from the starting rotation.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I would legit be angry if that happens,
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  Speaker 1: and I have a lot of faith in what this
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  Speaker 1: organization does, especially most part, especially with pitching. I will
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  Speaker 1: be pissed, like straight up pissed. There's no there's nothing
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  Speaker 1: you could do looking at what has happened thus far
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  Speaker 1: in the season that you could have an excuse or
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  Speaker 1: reasoning for why that would happen. Nothing.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, the only thing would be because we believe
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  Speaker 2: in our five and we don't think that you should
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  Speaker 2: lose your spot in the starting rotation because of injury. Fine,
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  Speaker 2: I don't bet.
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  Speaker 1: Bryce Miller should lose a spot because of injury either.
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  Speaker 2: How about performance? Yeah, I mean, are we really going
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  Speaker 2: as far as protecting If Luis Castillo is such a
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  Speaker 2: great guy, then can he not look that he has
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  Speaker 2: a six and a half ERA and Hancock has a
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  Speaker 2: two and a half RA and not see that? Okay?
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  Speaker 2: I mean it's going to be an uncomfortable conversation with
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  Speaker 2: whomver you have that conversation with. So we're just going
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  Speaker 2: to do it to Emerson again. I mean, we get it.
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  Speaker 2: In the past, Emerson wasn't getting the job done, but
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  Speaker 2: he's getting the job done this year. And the idea
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  Speaker 2: that you're going to take out your most effective starting
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  Speaker 2: pitcher to this point in the season, just because of tenure,
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  Speaker 2: just because one makes a higher salary, just because you
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  Speaker 2: don't want to have a difficult converse station with a
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  Speaker 2: more seasoned veteran. You'd rather have it with the guy
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  Speaker 2: that has been pulled back and forth from the miners
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  Speaker 2: then a puppet. Yeah, I mean, and I understand why
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  Speaker 2: he wasn't performing, but I'm with you. I want Emerson
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  Speaker 2: to stay. I think that it's without question that Emerson
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  Speaker 2: Hancock has to stay. This is to me a decision
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  Speaker 2: of six man, Yeah, Miller comes back in the bullpen
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  Speaker 2: to build him up a little further, or Castill moves
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  Speaker 2: to the bullpen. In order, I would choose Castillo moves
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  Speaker 2: to the bullpen, Miller comes back to the bullpen, and
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  Speaker 2: six man rotation in that order. Notice Emerson Hancock leaving
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  Speaker 2: the rotation isn't a part and there's not a fourth option, No, nor.
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: Should there be. I mean, you know it can be
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: even just as simple. I know that stats obviously don't
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: tell everything, but you've got Luis Castillo's given up the
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: most hits, well not the most, but he's given up
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: forty four. Emerson Hancock has given up thirty four. Emerson
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: Hancock has the least earned runs of all of the
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: starting pitchers. Luis Castillo has the most earn runs of
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: all of the starting pictures. Emerson Hancock has the most
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: strikeouts of all of the starting pitchers. Luis Castillo has
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: the least strikeouts of all of the starting pictures.
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: Night and day so far this season is night and day.
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: Yes, so what could you possibly look at and say? Yeah,
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: it almost seems because it's just easy for them, this
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: just makes sense. No, do not do this?
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah, because Emerson's such a sweet kid. Yeah, he'll let's
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: rip his heart out just because he's a sweet sweet
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: I'm getting all fired up. But the idea of this happening. Now,
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: there is one other piece of information I will share,
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: and I heard this from Divish on the Puck Podcast
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: that Divish believes that they'll stay with the five man
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: rotation and that you're going to kind of have a
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: handcuff situation. In other words, Miller, it'll be a five
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: man rotation. Miller will work out of the bullpen, potentially
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: not reporting this as fact, Miller, but the idea is
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: that one starts and goes four and then the other
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: pitches four. Yeah, so that's an idea. Okay, you know
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: from the standpoint of still trying to ramp up Miller. Yeah,
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: still trying to protect Luis from maybe his own ineffectiveness
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: so far this season. Yeah, and also it might give
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: you an opportunity to save your bullpen for an entire day.
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: I mean, if you went four and five, five and
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: four with those two guys, imagine the benefit of being
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: able to arrest the entire bullpen. Problem is are you
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: going to be able to prepare for that? I mean,
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: what if Castillo's on a roll or Miller's on a roll,
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: So they might do that as well, And they could
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: even flip flop, like Miller starts the next time and
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: Castillo comes out of the bullpen. So it's not a
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: foregone conclusion that that's where they're at. It just was
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: reported by Adam Jude that it is part of the
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: conversation that Hancock could be removed and put back into
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: the bullpen, which obviously Ashley is fired up about. Yeah. Well,
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: we're going to talk about it more as the show
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: goes on. As a matter of fact, we have a
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: pretty important guest today. Let's find out what's on tap?
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: What's on tap, what's on tap. The pitching coach for
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: the Seattle Mariners, Pete Woodworth, is going to join us
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: today live at seven o five from Chicago, Illinois, where
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: the team is getting ready to take on the White Sox. Now,
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: Pete's got to play the game a little bit. I
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: don't know how many clear cut answers we're going to
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: get from him, but we'll certainly ask the questions and
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: try to make it easy on him, try to not
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: get him in trouble with his bosses. But we'll get something.
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: We'll get something from Pete and hopefully make him laugh
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: a couple times as well. So we'll do that today
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: at seven oh five. The Mariners are in Chicago South
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: Side to take on the White Sox, who are a
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: little bit better this year than they've been the last
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: three seasons. Then again, they've lost one hundred games three
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: years in a row, but this year just a half
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: game back of the Mariners. Sean Berk starts for them.
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: He's got a two point seven to two era. Emerson
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: Hancock will go for us, and there is a chance
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: it's his last start for a while. As much as
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: that might bother you, the NBA playoffs are obviously continuing,
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: but the WNBA regular season tips off tonight. Opening Night's
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: going to take place. It starts at four o'clock. It'll
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: be the Connecticut Sun taking on the New York Liberty.
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: The Storm will host the Golden State Valkyries today, so
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: they will play on the opening night docket. Only three
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: games this evening, and the Storm are the only team
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: that will have the stage to themselves, along with Golden State,
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: of course at seven o'clock, and that will be played
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: here in Seattle. Tomorrow will be Page Becker's versus Caitlin
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: Clark Dallas at Indiana at ten am. That's the showcase
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: game of the opening weekend. In the WNBA NBA Playoffs
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: last night, both the Pistons and the Oklahoma City Thunder
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: rolled easily to their victories last night. They're up two
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: to zero in the series. Tonight, New York at Philadelphia
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: and San Antonio at Minnesota Spurs Wolves are the only
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: series that right now is even at a game a piece.
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: The NCAA tournament has officially expanded to seventy six. Teams
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: will grouse about that later on in the show. And
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: in the National Football League, the refs, I don't know
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: if they voted last night. I don't see any information
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: they were supposed to vote last night to ratify their
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: new collective bargaining agreement, but we I've not seen any
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: verification that that came through, So who knows. Well, We've
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: got that story going on, and of course Aaron Rodgers
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: is getting ready to visit Pittsburgh this weekend. But knowing him,
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: he might just be taking a tour of the Heinz
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: ketchup fact.
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure what it is.
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and he doesn't even stop by the facility. So
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: we will, on the other side, talk more about this
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: as though we again have another episode of OPQ. That's right,
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: we are a little interested in other people's quarterbacks right
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: here on Chuck and Buck Sports Radio ninety three point
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: three KJRFM.
• 23:25
  Speaker 7: Yeah, turial teams like one of the finishing touches of
• 23:28
  Speaker 7: this offense has arrived. Late last night at the Minnesota
• 23:31
  Speaker 7: Vikings agreed to terms with former forty nine ers stand
• 23:34
  Speaker 7: out Juwan Jennings, one of the top free agents available.
• 23:38
  Speaker 7: He signs a one year, eight million dollar deal deal
• 23:41
  Speaker 7: that can be up to worth up to thirteen million
• 23:43
  Speaker 7: dollars an incentive. This deal done by agent Drew Rosenhaus
• 23:46
  Speaker 7: brings to conclusion a long long wait where Juwan Jennings
• 23:50
  Speaker 7: was thought to be one of the top receivers in
• 23:52
  Speaker 7: free agency just did not materialize. The Minnesota Vikings quickly
• 23:56
  Speaker 7: swooped in again conversations. He eventually visited in the a
• 24:00
  Speaker 7: week or so later a Greek to terms. He now
• 24:02
  Speaker 7: joins Justin Jefferson Jordan Addison in a really good wide
• 24:06
  Speaker 7: receiver room for JJ McCarthy or Kyler Murray or whoever
• 24:11
  Speaker 7: is their starting quarterback.
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: Hey, good morning, it is Chuck and Ashley with you
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: Chuck and Buck in the Morning Sports Radio ninety three
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: point three KJRFM. For those of you joining us, maybe
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: for the first time, Ashley's nickname is not Buck.
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: Uh yeah, No, it's actually yeah, it's not Yeah.
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: We have another guy on the show, Bucky Jacobson, who's
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: been out on medical leave out for a little while longer,
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: and so you got Chuck and Ashley in half for
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: a few days now, So welcome into the radio program.
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: We roll into the seven o'clock hour. In a matter
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: of moments, Mariner's pitching coach, Pete Woodworth is going to
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: join us on the radio show from the South side
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: of Chicago. But let us start with your headlines. Ian
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: Rappaport working hard at his new job at ESPN, breaking
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: stories left and right, including last night's Juwan Jennings store.
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: The former now San Francisco forty nine er wide receiver
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: signed a one year deal with the Minnesota Vikings last night,
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: and so the forty nine ers lose a veteran And
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: we didn't seem to have too much trouble with him
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: this past year. Kind of locked him down, kind of
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: frustrated the heck out of him. But we have had
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: some trouble with that guy in the past. I'm glad
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: he's out of the division.
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't need him here. Farewell to see him
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: twice a year.
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: Farewell do you want? Also from your headlines, the NFL,
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers is going to visit Pittsburgh this weekend and
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: it looks like he will visit the Steelers facility. It's
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: not just to go on a tour of the Hinds
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: catch Up factory. He is going to visit the Steelers
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: facility and probably agree to a deal. So it looks
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: like he'll remain the Steelers quarterbacks. NFL revs did not
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: as far as I could tell. They were supposed to
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: vote last night to ratify their new agreement to wipe
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: out any thought of having replacement officials this year. But
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: I don't see anywhere where that has been a story.
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: So get on at rapaport. Yeah, lazy son of a gun.
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: So we'll see, but I'm sure it will get done eventually.
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: NBA playoffs last night, Detroit and OKC are both up
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: two to zero and their series they're in the same
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: position the New York Knicks are in. They'll take on
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: the Philadelphia seventy six ers, but for the first time
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: in Philly starting tonight. San Antonio and Minnesota the only
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: series right now that's one to one, and that will
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: They will play game number three tonight in Minneapolis. In
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: the WNBA, the regular season opens tonight. Three games on
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: the docket. Connecticut Sun versus New York Liberty is the
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: first game of the year. Only three games on opening night,
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: and the Storm will play one of them. They will
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: host the Golden State Valkyries tonight at seven o'clock. Meanwhile,
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: the big feature attraction tomorrow in opening weekend for the
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: WNBA is Dallas at Indiana, so that'll be Page back
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: and Azy Fudd making her debut taking on a healthy
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: Caitlin Clark and I think a healthy Sophie cunning M.
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: I think she's back and ready to go for the
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: Indiana Fever. So the WNBA season gets underway this evening.
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: Stanley Cup Playoffs last night, just one game and the
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: Carolina Hurricanes just absolutely worked their opponent again, made the
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: Flyers so angry the Flyers just started throwing fists at them.
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: But Carolina whooped up on Philly by a final score
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: of four to one. They are up three to zero
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: in that series, looking very much like it's going to
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: be Carolina versus Colorado in the Stanley Cup Finals this year.
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: They seem to be dominating the playoffs right now. And
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: in Major League Baseball, the Mariners will be in Chicago tonight,
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: game one of a weekend series against a new and
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: improved White Sox team. First pitch will be at four forty.
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: Sean Burke, with a two point seven to two ERA,
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: will start for the White Sox. Going for the Ms
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: will be Emerson Hancock, who we want to be in
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: the starting rotation forever and joining us now to discuss this,
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to the show, the very talented,
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: the very entertaining Pete Woodworth, pitching coach for your Seattle Mariners.
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: Good morning, sir, Good morning Seattle. How are you doing.
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: How are things in Chicago?
• 28:23
  Speaker 5: It's very Seattle. Ye yeah, a little uh oh, a
• 28:26
  Speaker 5: little overcast, little little drizzly.
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: You and the coaching staff go out of the town
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: getting a knife fight or anything like that. Last night.
• 28:38
  Speaker 5: Nineteen twenty Chicago, do any bootlegging?
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: You an actor? Last night.
• 28:50
  Speaker 5: We got our moonshens.
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: You know what. I just called up your Wikipedia page
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: just to see if I would see anything on there
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: that I wanted to ask you about, and it just
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: struck me. You're you are thirty seven years old. I mean,
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: when did you start this job? Doogie? What were you
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: like fourteen when you started with the Mariners?
• 29:15
  Speaker 5: I was I was reading at at an early age.
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: I was in the fifth grade, reading at a twelfth
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: grade level. Thirty seven years old. You know what that means?
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: You're too young to even know the Doogie howser reference.
• 29:33
  Speaker 5: But when that's not true, me and Neil Patrick Harris,
• 29:37
  Speaker 5: we go way back.
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: Okay, good good, I'm glad. I mean put this into perspective.
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: You've not You're not just some first year pitching coach.
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: You've been with the Mariners for quite a while now.
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: Justin Verlander is forty three. When Justin Verlander was a
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: senior and he's still pitching in the majors. You as
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: a pitching coach, you were in the sixth grade, Pete,
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: it's how young you are. Just wanted to put that
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: in respect for you.
• 30:03
  Speaker 5: Hm hmm, Yeah, that was that was fraction the year.
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: All right, good year. Yeah, that was a good year. Well,
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: we're glad to have you, and you're not even to
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: your prime yet as a pitching coach. So, uh, now
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: that I know that, I think even that much more
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: of you. Uh well, I got to ask you a
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: few questions. I don't know what answers you can give me,
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: but I got to ask them anyway. So what is
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: going on with your starting rotation? What can you tell
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: us about Bryce Miller coming back to the roster and
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: how that might affect your rotation? Three? The fifth.
• 30:48
  Speaker 5: The rotation I just coach him, so I can I
• 30:51
  Speaker 5: can give you some insight on on what they look like.
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: I didn't think you were going to tell us. I
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: didn't think you're going to break news with us this morning.
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: But I can't not ask you because it's all we're
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: talking about here in Seattle. Mm.
• 31:08
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's a it's a good, good problem to have
• 31:11
  Speaker 5: you walk out into your garage and you say, which
• 31:14
  Speaker 5: one of my Lamborghinis am I going to drive today?
• 31:18
  Speaker 5: It's a it's.
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: A great issue to have. Yeah, But.
• 31:25
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I can't. I don't have much more information on
• 31:30
  Speaker 5: the other than we have six Lamborghinis that are fueled up.
• 31:35
  Speaker 5: I did get to see Bryce the other night pitching Everett. Yeah,
• 31:38
  Speaker 5: he is trending in the right direction. He didn't strike
• 31:43
  Speaker 5: out as many eighteen year olds as I thought he would,
• 31:45
  Speaker 5: But yeah, the.
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: Stuff looks really good and he feels.
• 31:50
  Speaker 5: Really good, which is obviously the most important part coming
• 31:53
  Speaker 5: through a rehab, all right. So I got that, Yeah,
• 31:56
  Speaker 5: you can go out there and compete and afterwards you
• 31:59
  Speaker 5: don't feel any any pain or discomfort.
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: All right. So now I got to get creative with
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: how I ask this, because I certainly don't want to
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: put you in a pinch, and I don't want long
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: pregnant pauses in our conversation. So is do you have
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: such a good group that if one of them was
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: asked to go to the bullpen for a while of
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: the six that that would be fine with them. Yeah,
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: they'll still pitch, okay, all right, they won't.
• 32:35
  Speaker 5: Quit the team, one of they won't start a queue.
• 32:44
  Speaker 5: One of one of the best things I've heard guys
• 32:47
  Speaker 5: say throughout the years is that the more they realized
• 32:53
  Speaker 5: that the the number ending doesn't really matter, okay, like
• 33:01
  Speaker 5: whether it's the first or the fourth, or the sixth
• 33:04
  Speaker 5: or the ninth. Once they realize that, like, it doesn't
• 33:08
  Speaker 5: matter what number the ending is, every ending is the same.
• 33:11
  Speaker 5: You have to get three guys out. They're either right
• 33:13
  Speaker 5: handed or or left handed. The score doesn't matter the
• 33:18
  Speaker 5: time of day, like it's if you can boil it
• 33:21
  Speaker 5: down to it, it's simplest game, like it's you versus
• 33:25
  Speaker 5: a hitter. It's you executing pitches to get three guys out.
• 33:29
  Speaker 5: If you can do that, it doesn't really matter. And
• 33:32
  Speaker 5: the more we they put pressure on different innings or
• 33:37
  Speaker 5: different situations or different environments, they're just adding more to
• 33:43
  Speaker 5: their plate that's unnecessary. So I've I've found that the
• 33:49
  Speaker 5: guys that that do this job the best are the
• 33:53
  Speaker 5: guys that really simplify it down to that.
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: All right, Well, I'm going to ask this, and again
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: I don't think this puts you in any kind of
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: hot water here. What would the effect of a six
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: man rotation be? What what are the potential problems with
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: asking all of your guys to change their routines? If
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: any Maybe there aren't any problems. Maybe it would be
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: perfectly fine with everybody.
• 34:24
  Speaker 5: I don't know, we haven't really done one since what
• 34:27
  Speaker 5: was that twenty twenty Yeah.
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and that was one veteran in five.
• 34:36
  Speaker 5: You know, young kids, and I know you and may
• 34:41
  Speaker 5: only be thirty seven, but that feels like twenty years ago.
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: We did that. I don't really remembers of it. Yeah,
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: but but I mean, guys are such I mean, I
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: know how you know, locked into routines, especially the modern
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: picture is. And so if you're suddenly just disrupting all
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: of their routines a little bit, do you see that
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: as something that would be a problem only if you
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: make it.
• 35:15
  Speaker 5: We had we had a group of sleep experts come
• 35:19
  Speaker 5: into BRING training this year and tell us, you know,
• 35:22
  Speaker 5: obviously sleep is one of the most important things, one
• 35:25
  Speaker 5: of the most important factors in mental health, uh, physical
• 35:29
  Speaker 5: health as well. Uh, and this is telling us that the.
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: Most important factor.
• 35:35
  Speaker 5: Of sleep is going to bed at the same time
• 35:39
  Speaker 5: every night, and like having that routine easy to do,
• 35:43
  Speaker 5: and everybody everybody's looking around the room like this guy
• 35:47
  Speaker 5: has no idea what our schedule was, Like does he?
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: There's no chance you can go to bed.
• 35:55
  Speaker 5: At the same time three nights, so we with with
• 35:59
  Speaker 5: our wacky schedule and travel. So yeah, like routines are important,
• 36:05
  Speaker 5: but uh, I get like, if you get so rigid
• 36:10
  Speaker 5: and stuck and strict in this routine, I have to
• 36:13
  Speaker 5: do this, it has to be at this time, and
• 36:15
  Speaker 5: then when it doesn't, you freak out like you're you
• 36:18
  Speaker 5: can't perform at at this level. So to have to
• 36:25
  Speaker 5: have variability, to be able to adjust, that's one of
• 36:28
  Speaker 5: the key components of successful players.
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: Our guys can.
• 36:36
  Speaker 5: Can bounce around, They'll be fine.
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: Okay, I'm I'm getting the impression that maybe sixth man
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: rotations not in the cards or is it a.
• 36:46
  Speaker 6: Possibility I'm pushing for like a ten man rotation. Just fine, Fine,
• 36:54
  Speaker 6: the more the better I want Revas pitching every tenth day.
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: That's what.
• 37:05
  Speaker 5: Hey, don't sleep on the short low slot upshoot pictures.
• 37:12
  Speaker 5: They're going to take over the world here in the
• 37:14
  Speaker 5: next couple of years.
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: That's the category. Yeah, okay, fine, Pete woods that was
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: a low blow. Pete Woodworth is with us pitching for
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: your Seattle Mariners. All right. So why is Emerson Hancock
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: having this season? What changed about him since last we saw.
• 37:35
  Speaker 5: Him, since the end of twenty five. Yes, I think
• 37:43
  Speaker 5: the second half of twenty five started to put in
• 37:47
  Speaker 5: motion and really like plant seeds of true real self confidence.
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: And I you know, I.
• 37:56
  Speaker 5: Feel like we talk about this every time we talk,
• 37:58
  Speaker 5: but guys finally figuring.
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: Out that they belong, Guys that finally.
• 38:02
  Speaker 5: Figuring out that they're good enough, Guys that get over
• 38:05
  Speaker 5: that hump of of the first year or two of.
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: Self doubt.
• 38:14
  Speaker 5: Of the novice, you know, freshman, sophomore mistakes.
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: That all kind of culminated in the in the second
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: half last year.
• 38:25
  Speaker 5: And he looked in the mirror and it is it's
• 38:28
  Speaker 5: comfortable with who he is and started, you know, not
• 38:33
  Speaker 5: trying to impress other people and not trying to be
• 38:36
  Speaker 5: somebody else and just be Emerson Hancock. And then all
• 38:40
  Speaker 5: the gears started fitting together and next thing, you know,
• 38:42
  Speaker 5: you're having success, and that breeds confidence, and then the
• 38:45
  Speaker 5: confidence breeds more success, and that it just keeps it
• 38:48
  Speaker 5: going and going. And he had a great off season
• 38:52
  Speaker 5: where this all kind of came together and showed up
• 38:57
  Speaker 5: the spring just in a good spot and ran with
• 39:02
  Speaker 5: it and hasn't stopped.
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: And he had a dad's strength. Yeah, that always helped. Yeah,
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: it seems to Yeah, it seems to, Luis.
• 39:13
  Speaker 5: I'm excited for for Jose Ferrer to come back.
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: Oh oh, is that happening soon too?
• 39:19
  Speaker 5: He has a baby coming soon, so he might be
• 39:22
  Speaker 5: throwing one hundred and ten.
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I can't wait till Cal starts having kids. He
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: needs more power. Pete Woodworth is with us here on
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: chucking Buck in the morning. All right, So Emerson's look great.
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: We've explained the reasons Luis Castillo has not looked as great.
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: All right, what is what's the difference? What's what's wrong?
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: If anything with the rock? Right now?
• 39:48
  Speaker 5: There's nothing wrong with the rock. The rocks. The Rock's
• 39:52
  Speaker 5: throwing better than he did last year. It's been an
• 39:57
  Speaker 5: unlucky month for him. It's not what it's not what
• 40:02
  Speaker 5: he wants to hear. It's not what what anybody wants
• 40:05
  Speaker 5: to hear, but unfortunately that's a part of our game,
• 40:10
  Speaker 5: especially as a pitcher. But on both sides of the ball,
• 40:13
  Speaker 5: like you can you can throw the perfect pitch and
• 40:17
  Speaker 5: the guy can still hit it.
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: You can pitch in good counts and still give up runs.
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: You can.
• 40:25
  Speaker 5: You can tit ninety five ninety six and the stuff
• 40:29
  Speaker 5: be just as good, if not better than it was
• 40:32
  Speaker 5: last year. But you just don't get the results. And
• 40:36
  Speaker 5: we've you know, you see that with hitters that are
• 40:39
  Speaker 5: going through slumps, that are swinging at good pitches, that
• 40:42
  Speaker 5: are you know, putting the barrel on the ball when
• 40:45
  Speaker 5: they do swing at good pitches, and unfortunately there's just
• 40:48
  Speaker 5: guys that are standing where it is, uh for for
• 40:52
  Speaker 5: that period of time. Yeah, that's that's the tough part
• 40:56
  Speaker 5: about this game is you could be doing things right
• 40:59
  Speaker 5: and still fail, and five days later you have to
• 41:03
  Speaker 5: go back out there and and not fight those demons,
• 41:08
  Speaker 5: but continue to do what you're doing without the distraction
• 41:11
  Speaker 5: of Okay, I have to be better than last time.
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: You know, these first.
• 41:16
  Speaker 5: Couple haven't been going well, so now I have to
• 41:19
  Speaker 5: I have to throw twelve shutout endings. I have to.
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: You know, guys fall in the traps.
• 41:25
  Speaker 5: We're like, okay, this is this is this is my
• 41:28
  Speaker 5: era in April or to get this down to this,
• 41:31
  Speaker 5: I have to do it like no, just continue attacking zone,
• 41:36
  Speaker 5: continue winnings and one ones, continue executing pitches. The game
• 41:41
  Speaker 5: will reward you at the end of the day, at
• 41:43
  Speaker 5: the end of the season. Why we play one hundred
• 41:46
  Speaker 5: and sixty two. There's too much luck involved at times
• 41:51
  Speaker 5: to look at a small sample and say this is
• 41:54
  Speaker 5: the final product. And his name is the Rock for
• 42:00
  Speaker 5: a reason, not because he has tough skin or because
• 42:04
  Speaker 5: he's extremely heavy and dense.
• 42:07
  Speaker 8: Nowayne Johnston, he's had way more hair than Dwayne, not
• 42:16
  Speaker 8: even closely.
• 42:17
  Speaker 5: He's they've played two different games. He's the most consistent
• 42:26
  Speaker 5: professional athlete I've seen. Yeah, and he's he's gone through through,
• 42:33
  Speaker 5: you know, little rets like this in the past. There's
• 42:37
  Speaker 5: no panic. I mean, it's obviously not thrilled about the results,
• 42:43
  Speaker 5: but he knows who he is, he knows that he's
• 42:46
  Speaker 5: executing pitches, and he's doing everything he can not to
• 42:51
  Speaker 5: try to panic and overdo stuff. And that's why he's
• 42:57
  Speaker 5: the Rock.
• 42:57
  Speaker 2: He's extremely consistent. I think that a lot of Marinder
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: fans a little worried about Munos in the same ways
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: I am not at all. And yet he's even professed
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: that he's lost a little he lost a little bit
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: of the command of his slider, the feel for his slider.
• 43:14
  Speaker 2: Does he have it back? Soothe the worries of our
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: listening audience that Andre's Munos is just fine.
• 43:22
  Speaker 5: Same thing like Nick Kurtz and Matt Olsen get two
• 43:27
  Speaker 5: good sliders to dead center and T Mobile Park. Yeah,
• 43:34
  Speaker 5: we need to get a little a little chicken, the
• 43:39
  Speaker 5: sacrificial chicken. It's another guy that like he's to execute
• 43:44
  Speaker 5: good pitches and guys, ah, I have never seen a
• 43:47
  Speaker 5: guy hit that pitch.
• 43:48
  Speaker 2: Off that guy. He's he's being challenged, he's being tested.
• 43:55
  Speaker 2: And I've always told me, like Mooney.
• 43:57
  Speaker 5: Has to do it in the in the toughest circumstance, UH,
• 44:02
  Speaker 5: starters you have, you have five or six innings, you
• 44:04
  Speaker 5: can you can give up a solo home run here there,
• 44:08
  Speaker 5: shoot Logan, he gave about three in one inning and
• 44:10
  Speaker 5: we still threw the ball well and we won that game.
• 44:14
  Speaker 5: But in a one run game in the ninth inning,
• 44:17
  Speaker 5: one pitch, UH can be the determining factor. And again
• 44:21
  Speaker 5: it's not always about did you execute it? It's did
• 44:27
  Speaker 5: Matt Olsen, on an absolute bender of a first month
• 44:29
  Speaker 5: of the season, go down and hit h one of
• 44:33
  Speaker 5: the best sliders on the planet, the center Apo. Sometimes
• 44:37
  Speaker 5: he's got to tip your cap. He's had a couple
• 44:40
  Speaker 5: a couple outings where he's got himself into trouble. But again,
• 44:45
  Speaker 5: like the stuff is fine. He's not commanding anywheres better
• 44:49
  Speaker 5: than he has in the past. The results just aren't
• 44:54
  Speaker 5: perfect like they have been. So again he's being tested
• 44:58
  Speaker 5: to trust himself and the t trust this stuff and
• 45:04
  Speaker 5: to not let his confidence be affected by a couple
• 45:08
  Speaker 5: pitches here and there.
• 45:09
  Speaker 2: Fascinating good stuff, good stuff. So Chicago, South, We're gonna
• 45:14
  Speaker 2: do anything fun in Chicago while you're there. You're gonna
• 45:16
  Speaker 2: go shopping, You're gonna go paint the town red. I mean,
• 45:19
  Speaker 2: what are you gonna do in the windy city over
• 45:21
  Speaker 2: the weekend other than just instruct you know, pictures how
• 45:24
  Speaker 2: to throw pitches? Uh? Well, I brought my kite nice
• 45:32
  Speaker 2: Lincoln Park, Oh Navy pier Okay, even better? Right, Yeah,
• 45:39
  Speaker 2: that's right. I'm so I am picturing you trying to
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: fit your kite into your carry on and it's not
• 45:48
  Speaker 2: even folded. It's just the full kite. It's like sticking
• 45:51
  Speaker 2: out on the sides, each four side, and you're carrying
• 45:56
  Speaker 2: the string in your hand, the ball of yarn.
• 45:59
  Speaker 5: That's how I'm gonna get to the ballfire coming that
• 46:01
  Speaker 5: fly there?
• 46:04
  Speaker 2: No, I mean.
• 46:05
  Speaker 5: Yesterday we had the AFTA here. Yesterday it was I
• 46:11
  Speaker 5: don't know, everybody thinks they're so we have all this
• 46:15
  Speaker 5: adventure going on. I just enjoy walking around the big
• 46:20
  Speaker 5: city Chicago, New York. The architecture that sounds really nerdy
• 46:25
  Speaker 5: as I'm saying it, but the architecture here is incredible.
• 46:29
  Speaker 2: It's just cool to see. Yeah, great music you Bill
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: told this. Yeah, great museum's great history. Yeah, it's a
• 46:36
  Speaker 2: it's a fun talent for that. There's no doubt at
• 46:38
  Speaker 2: least deep Dish pizza that you have Deep Dish pizza.
• 46:40
  Speaker 2: Or you want a strict diet, you know you are
• 46:42
  Speaker 2: getting up there.
• 46:43
  Speaker 5: Strict diet.
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: You're gonna be thirty eight only hard boiled eggs.
• 46:48
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I gotta take care of.
• 46:50
  Speaker 2: That, all right, man. Well, thank you very much.
• 46:53
  Speaker 5: I started doing a thing where wherever whatever city we
• 46:56
  Speaker 5: go in I find they or artists that have that
• 47:03
  Speaker 5: started there. So I always enjoyed coming to Chicago because
• 47:06
  Speaker 5: I get to throw on a lot of smashing pumpkins
• 47:09
  Speaker 5: and walk around.
• 47:10
  Speaker 2: Okay, well I like it. Exciting day. Yeah, today is
• 47:16
  Speaker 2: the greatest day you'll ever know. You go, all right, man,
• 47:24
  Speaker 2: thank you very much. Great to catch up with you
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: a little bit. Thank you for dodging my really hard
• 47:29
  Speaker 2: Mike Wallace asked questions and we'll bug you another time.
• 47:33
  Speaker 2: All right, you got it. Always a pleasure, all right,
• 47:37
  Speaker 2: have a great weekend, thanks guys. All Right, there he
• 47:41
  Speaker 2: is Pete Woodworth, pitching coach for your Seattle Mariners, joining
• 47:45
  Speaker 2: us here on the radio program. That was that was
• 47:50
  Speaker 2: like surgery right there.
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: He was prepared.
• 47:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but I think he gave us answers. It didn't
• 47:55
  Speaker 2: sound like he gave us answers, but I think he
• 47:58
  Speaker 2: gave us answers. I was going to talk about the
• 48:00
  Speaker 2: NCAA tournament next, but I don't think we can. I
• 48:02
  Speaker 2: think we've got to react to what I believe I
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: picked up on. Okay, and maybe what you picked up
• 48:08
  Speaker 2: on as well. But man, I love that guy. Pete
• 48:11
  Speaker 2: Woodworth joining us right here on Sports Radio ninety three
• 48:14
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• 48:27
  Speaker 2: the Oat Show. You're on this Friday at eight o'clock.
• 48:28
  Speaker 2: You're eight top stories of the day, also the ABC's
• 48:32
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• 48:33
  Speaker 2: a close here today on this Friday. You're just joining us.
• 48:37
  Speaker 2: You missed our conversation we just had with Pete Woodworth,
• 48:40
  Speaker 2: a pitching coach for the Seattle Mariners, and obviously we
• 48:43
  Speaker 2: got a pretty juicy sports radio topic going on here
• 48:46
  Speaker 2: the last couple of weeks. What they're going to do
• 48:48
  Speaker 2: once Bryce Miller does come back from his rehab, which
• 48:53
  Speaker 2: sounds like he's ready to come back. Sounds like his
• 48:56
  Speaker 2: outing and Everett was enough for the Mariner to get
• 49:00
  Speaker 2: ready to activate him going forward. He won't have one
• 49:04
  Speaker 2: more tune up. It doesn't sound like in Tacoma. And
• 49:08
  Speaker 2: now they've got to make that decision. It's a great
• 49:10
  Speaker 2: problem to have, but they have to make that decision.
• 49:12
  Speaker 2: So we just had Pete Woodworth on and I hope
• 49:13
  Speaker 2: people can't appreciate the dynamic. I thought. I loved that interview. Yeah,
• 49:18
  Speaker 2: I loved that interview, and not just because I'm a
• 49:22
  Speaker 2: big fan of Pete and not just as a pitching coach,
• 49:24
  Speaker 2: but as a person.
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: He's awesome.
• 49:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we have had a lot of laughs over the
• 49:29
  Speaker 2: years with him, and he's got this just chill personality
• 49:35
  Speaker 2: that is just fantastic. But understand the difficult position that
• 49:39
  Speaker 2: he's in. He can't answer anything about it's not his job.
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: It's stepping set the rotation or the lineup.
• 49:46
  Speaker 2: It's stepping on the toes of Dan Wilson, it's stepping
• 49:49
  Speaker 2: on the toes of Justin Hollander, it's stepping on the
• 49:51
  Speaker 2: toes of Jerry Depoto. They haven't announced to us what
• 49:56
  Speaker 2: they want to do for reasons. They want to make
• 49:59
  Speaker 2: that announcement himself. So if Pete Woodworth comes on and
• 50:02
  Speaker 2: as good a relationship as we have with Pete and
• 50:05
  Speaker 2: just start singing about, oh, this is what we're going to.
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: Do, yeah, that's not known a fly, nor did we
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: expect that to happen.
• 50:11
  Speaker 2: And I also had to ask the questions because it's
• 50:15
  Speaker 2: he's the pitching coach and we've been talking about this
• 50:18
  Speaker 2: pitching situation. Could you imagine I did an interview with
• 50:20
  Speaker 2: him and never brought that stuff up'd be weird, And
• 50:22
  Speaker 2: so he had He's not a pr firm, he's a
• 50:26
  Speaker 2: pitching coach, and so he's trying to Number one, I
• 50:29
  Speaker 2: want to give you something, but you know I can't
• 50:32
  Speaker 2: give you what you want, So how do we want
• 50:35
  Speaker 2: to navigate this? So if you heard some hesitation, to me,
• 50:38
  Speaker 2: the hesitation and the delays was the beautiful part of
• 50:40
  Speaker 2: it because it was him trying to like, all right,
• 50:43
  Speaker 2: how do I want to say this? I loved it.
• 50:46
  Speaker 2: I was like on the edge of my seat interviewing him,
• 50:49
  Speaker 2: like what is he going to tell us? And I
• 50:51
  Speaker 2: think he did tell us some things, not a lot.
• 50:55
  Speaker 2: He wasn't direct, right, but you know, when you ask
• 50:58
  Speaker 2: about a six man rote, he's not worried. He made
• 51:02
  Speaker 2: it very clear that some of the things that I've
• 51:05
  Speaker 2: voiced that I'm concerned about, the pitching coach is not
• 51:09
  Speaker 2: concerned about that at all, and.
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: He would know best.
• 51:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, certainly, I mean he's pitching coach. Yeah yeah,
• 51:15
  Speaker 2: and he knows how these guys operate. To me, I'm
• 51:18
  Speaker 2: a little worried about messing up all of their routines
• 51:23
  Speaker 2: because I've seen a group of guys that when they
• 51:25
  Speaker 2: get a rain delay, stink that night, or if they
• 51:29
  Speaker 2: get thrown out of their rhythm at all. They don't
• 51:32
  Speaker 2: seem to pitch as well. And yet he says, I
• 51:36
  Speaker 2: mean and he knows them intimately, that's not a concern.
• 51:40
  Speaker 2: That's not a concern for us. So I suppose six
• 51:43
  Speaker 2: man rotations on the table, but I didn't get the
• 51:45
  Speaker 2: impression during the course of the interview that they are
• 51:48
  Speaker 2: going to do that. If they did that, Pete's not
• 51:50
  Speaker 2: worried of the impact that's going to have on the
• 51:53
  Speaker 2: six starters. But I don't know about you, actually, but
• 51:56
  Speaker 2: I got the impression that it's going to be sort
• 51:59
  Speaker 2: of piggyback situation, and I don't know which guy is
• 52:03
  Speaker 2: going to be which two are going to be chose
• 52:05
  Speaker 2: to piggyback. But when he goes out of his way
• 52:08
  Speaker 2: to suggest that pitchers don't really care when they this group,
• 52:13
  Speaker 2: they don't really care when they pitch. They just want
• 52:16
  Speaker 2: to get the guy out and they just want to
• 52:18
  Speaker 2: help the team win. So when he says that, it
• 52:22
  Speaker 2: I kind of deduced. And if this is unfair Pete,
• 52:26
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry. I kind of deduced from him trying to
• 52:30
  Speaker 2: avoid the question directly that two guys are going to
• 52:34
  Speaker 2: be piggybacked, as Ryan Divish has been suggesting two guys
• 52:38
  Speaker 2: are going to be piggybacked in this situation, and both
• 52:41
  Speaker 2: of them will be fine with doing that. So I
• 52:45
  Speaker 2: hope it's not Emerson. To me, the only decision is
• 52:49
  Speaker 2: Castile and Miller. Is that who you That's who you
• 52:52
  Speaker 2: do it with. So Castile probably starts and then Miller
• 52:55
  Speaker 2: is your long reliever. And hey, I think there's some
• 52:58
  Speaker 2: benefits to if you who could pull this off. I mean,
• 53:02
  Speaker 2: if you have an opportunity once every five days to
• 53:05
  Speaker 2: sit your entire bullpen, can you imagine what kind of rest,
• 53:07
  Speaker 2: what kind of relief that would be for Dan, who
• 53:10
  Speaker 2: seems to really struggle with when to pitch guys out
• 53:13
  Speaker 2: of the bullpen and when to give them them a
• 53:14
  Speaker 2: day off, if he had one built in day where
• 53:17
  Speaker 2: pretty much it's Castile for five and Miller for four,
• 53:20
  Speaker 2: or the next time it's Miller for five and Castile
• 53:22
  Speaker 2: for four. If that's true, then I mean, even though
• 53:27
  Speaker 2: it's unorthodox, I'd never seen anybody do it, not at
• 53:30
  Speaker 2: the major league level. It's stuff you did in the
• 53:32
  Speaker 2: Little league because you could only pitch four innings when
• 53:35
  Speaker 2: I was in the Little league. And then the other
• 53:36
  Speaker 2: guy had to pitch three. I mean, I've never seen
• 53:39
  Speaker 2: it at the major league level, but I could. I'm
• 53:43
  Speaker 2: squinting to see the merits in such a thing, and
• 53:47
  Speaker 2: if you could pull it off, if you could execute it,
• 53:50
  Speaker 2: it certainly would help the bullpen, especially in its current
• 53:54
  Speaker 2: beleaguered state with two of its five best guys on
• 53:57
  Speaker 2: the IL.
• 53:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I could definitely see the merits of it. I
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: could definitely see if it was going to happen, that
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: it would be Castillo and Miller for sure, and I
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: would be okay with if that was their solution. I Mean,
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: the one thing I took away for sure is that
• 54:10
  Speaker 1: these guys are all aware of the situation and that
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: Miller is coming back, and they all want to help
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: this team win. I mean, that's that was what I
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: got from it. There's no worrying about hurt feelings or
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: getting hurt feelings. They don't care when they pitched or
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: what they do, as long as they just care about
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: the out. That to me says we've talked to these guys.
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: They're up for whatever the plan is going to be,
• 54:35
  Speaker 1: and all they care about is when it's their time
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: going out there and getting the outs.
• 54:39
  Speaker 2: If there was anything that surprised me. I was not
• 54:42
  Speaker 2: surprised at all about the Munios answer, because that's the
• 54:45
  Speaker 2: way exactly how I feel. That's the way I have
• 54:49
  Speaker 2: positioned it on our radio station now for most of this,
• 54:53
  Speaker 2: for all of the season. And yet for him to
• 54:57
  Speaker 2: be as emphatic as he was about Castillo's fine.
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he said he's even pitching better this year or
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: throwing better this year than he was last year.
• 55:04
  Speaker 2: I don't see that.
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: I didn't either, so I you know, I'm I.
• 55:11
  Speaker 2: Don't know if that's just rallying to the to the
• 55:14
  Speaker 2: Rocks defense because they all love him so much, But
• 55:17
  Speaker 2: I did. I did suspect that I was going to
• 55:20
  Speaker 2: hear we're going to stick by him. We're certainly, you know,
• 55:25
  Speaker 2: but I didn't expect it to be that emphatic, like
• 55:28
  Speaker 2: to go as far as saying, I don't see him
• 55:30
  Speaker 2: struggling when he has six and a half RA and
• 55:33
  Speaker 2: his velocity is down and he's terrified to challenge anybody,
• 55:37
  Speaker 2: so he works two inches outside the strike zone no
• 55:40
  Speaker 2: matter where he throws the ball. To me, those are
• 55:42
  Speaker 2: things that are worriesome to me. That suggests that maybe
• 55:44
  Speaker 2: there's not enough faith. But that answer of they call
• 55:48
  Speaker 2: we call him the rock for the Rea for a reason.
• 55:50
  Speaker 2: It's not because of how he's built. Yeah, it is
• 55:53
  Speaker 2: because of how steady and consistent he is as a
• 55:57
  Speaker 2: pitcher and a human being and a professional athlete at
• 56:00
  Speaker 2: all times in everything that he does. So the pitching
• 56:05
  Speaker 2: coach is seeing what he needs to see out of
• 56:08
  Speaker 2: Luis Castillo right now. So any thought that Luis Castillo
• 56:12
  Speaker 2: was going to get ripped from a significant role on
• 56:17
  Speaker 2: this pitching staff, that if he said anything, he demolished,
• 56:21
  Speaker 2: and he thought of that, Luis Castillo is not going
• 56:23
  Speaker 2: to be put in some uncomfortable, you know, mop up
• 56:27
  Speaker 2: role in the bullpen to make room for Bryce Miller
• 56:30
  Speaker 2: coming off the injury list and to keep Emerson Hancock
• 56:33
  Speaker 2: in the starting rotation. So it sounds to me like
• 56:37
  Speaker 2: one person or a combination of two people in one
• 56:42
  Speaker 2: spot are going to be asked to perform some sort
• 56:46
  Speaker 2: of bullpen role. And it kind of feels like it's
• 56:49
  Speaker 2: going to be that Piggybecks because he said he did
• 56:52
  Speaker 2: say as long as they get in their work, Well,
• 56:56
  Speaker 2: that doesn't mean Bryce Miller comes up here and suddenly
• 56:59
  Speaker 2: is pitching the seven, right It means he's going to
• 57:02
  Speaker 2: have to get in his work, he's going to have
• 57:04
  Speaker 2: to work a bulk in the starting rotation. So it
• 57:10
  Speaker 2: sounds like that's where they're going to go with this.
• 57:13
  Speaker 2: That's what I gleaned from the interview. I'm just hoping,
• 57:17
  Speaker 2: hoping that the decision is not that Emerson Hancock is
• 57:21
  Speaker 2: taken out of the role that he's delivering, because I
• 57:25
  Speaker 2: need more than four or five innings every five days
• 57:28
  Speaker 2: out of the guy that's pitching the best on our
• 57:30
  Speaker 2: team right now.
• 57:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it would. I mean him and George Kirby are
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: pitching the longest outings too, so yeah.
• 57:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, So I found that fascinating. Yeah, and I know,
• 57:41
  Speaker 2: and I know that there were some pauses, and I
• 57:43
  Speaker 2: know that there was some well and part of it.
• 57:45
  Speaker 1: I will say too, is sometimes on the phone there
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: is just a pause in the connection, and so there
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: was that added, so it made it sound more dramatic.
• 57:54
  Speaker 1: But no, he wasn't just you know, some people were like, oh,
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: he's just not one need to talk. No, there's a
• 58:01
  Speaker 1: pause on the phone. There was a delay because you
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: can even tell at the end when he said bye
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: and then it was hey bye, you know, there's sometimes
• 58:10
  Speaker 1: that happens on the phone. Sometimes it doesn't. I don't
• 58:12
  Speaker 1: know why.
• 58:13
  Speaker 2: I think it added to it because I'm like, I
• 58:15
  Speaker 2: want these answers. I know this is tricky for him.
• 58:18
  Speaker 2: What is he going to say about it? And so
• 58:21
  Speaker 2: I I really enjoyed it. We have the OCHO coming
• 58:25
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• 58:27
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• 58:58
  Speaker 2: on a Friday, Gray to have you with us. And
• 59:01
  Speaker 2: when I say us, it's Ashley Ryan and Chuck Powell
• 59:03
  Speaker 2: with you. Bucky Jacobson still out on the extended medical leave,
• 59:08
  Speaker 2: so yes, that hasn't changed. Still there's open set amount.
• 59:13
  Speaker 1: Of time sent them on a medical hike.
• 59:15
  Speaker 2: That's right, he's on a medical hike with his medical backpack,
• 59:19
  Speaker 2: looking into medical things. And so we welcome you into
• 59:22
  Speaker 2: our eight o'clock hour on a Friday, and that always
• 59:24
  Speaker 2: includes the Oh Joe, Your eight top stories of the
• 59:26
  Speaker 2: day to get you ready for your own medical hike
• 59:29
  Speaker 2: if you're taking one this week in or to recap
• 59:33
  Speaker 2: the week here in Seattle Sports. And so the eight
• 59:37
  Speaker 2: top stories of the day, we shall detail them surely,
• 59:40
  Speaker 2: all Starting now, the Mariners have too many starting pitchers.
• 59:46
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's kind of crazy how big of a
• 59:48
  Speaker 2: story this has become, considering the fact that they're off
• 59:51
  Speaker 2: to a disappointing eighteen and twenty start. Our superstar catcher
• 59:55
  Speaker 2: is hitting one seventy right now, we have the worst
• 59:58
  Speaker 2: ranked defense the major leagues at this stage. An injured
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 2: third baseman who should be on his way back might
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 2: even suit up tonight against the Chicago White Sox. I mean,
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 2: we've got some issues on this baseball team. It has
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 2: not gone that swimmingly. And yet what we've talked about
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 2: NonStop for the last two and a half weeks has
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 2: been the strength of the team, adding another really good.
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 1: Pitcher to it, getting strengthier.
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 2: And what on earth are the Mariners going to do
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 2: with their starting rotation once Bryce Miller re joins the group. Well,
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 2: pitching coach Pete Woodworth joined us one hour ago, and
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 2: he had a difficult time kind of answering some of
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 2: my questions. We knew that going in he wasn't going
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 2: to be able to tell us exactly what was going
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 2: to happen. That's not his job, that's not his role.
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 2: He is not the Mariner's pr arm. But what he
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 2: did say, and you can read into this all you want,
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 2: is that, Yeah, our guys really don't care when they pitch.
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 5: One of the best things I've heard guys say throughout
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 5: the years is that.
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 2: The more they realize.
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 5: That the number ending doesn't really matter, like whether it's
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 5: the first or the fourth, or the sixth or the ninth.
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 5: Once they realize that, like, it doesn't matter what number
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 5: the ending is, every ending is the same. You have
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 5: to get three guys out. They're either right handed or
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 5: or left handed. The score doesn't matter the time of day,
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 5: like it's if you can boil it down to it,
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 5: it's simplest gain, like it's you verse a hitter. It's
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 5: you executing pitches to get three guys out. If you
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 5: can do that, it doesn't really matter. And the more
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 5: we they put pressure on different innings or different situations
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 5: or different environments, they're just adding more to their plate.
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 5: That's unnecessary I think that was.
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 2: The most telling thing that he said. I think, and
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 2: I am definitely reading between the lines here because he
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 2: defended Luis Castillo to a rather emphatic degree. During the
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 2: course of our interview today. He said that, you know,
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 2: Bryce Miller is ready and looks great. He's praised Emerson
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 2: Hancock all the way back since spring training. He's the
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 2: one that told us it's a different emmosson Hancock. He
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 2: told us that in spring training. He gave us that one,
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 2: and we've ran with it on this show ever since,
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 2: and we've seen nothing to dispel that from Hancock so
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 2: far this year. So when he says pitchers really don't
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 2: mind when they pitch, that's a little different from what
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 2: it used to be or maybe in other organizations, because
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 2: I do think that they do mind. Yeah, maybe he's
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 2: got such a good group, not just talent wise, but
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 2: I mean they're best friends. They all just love one
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 2: another like it. Maybe they are fine with it. Maybe
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 2: they do have the right mindset. But when he goes
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 2: out of his way to say our guys really don't
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 2: care when they pitch, it's still just getting hitters out,
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 2: it does sort of suggest to me Ashley that they're
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 2: going to ask someone to jump out of the starting rotation,
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 2: maybe just temporarily, and maybe take on a little different role.
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 2: It won't be as a three out reliever, might be
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 2: a long reliever. This piggyback notion that Ryan Davish has
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 2: talked about might be something that is in play here
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 2: where Castile puts you use piggyback Castillo and Miller together,
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 2: or Hancock and Castillo together, or Hancock and Miller.
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 1: Together or Kirby, those are the two that are not allowed.
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 2: I would say that about Wu and Gilbert too.
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 1: Well yeah, woo, yeah, you're right, there's two options, Miller
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 1: and Castilla.
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah. So reading between the line, it kind of sounds
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 2: like they're going to do the piggyback thing and they're
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 2: going to ask someone to jump out of the starting
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 2: rotation and into a different role. Now, he didn't give
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 2: us any indication as to which guy that might be.
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 1: Right, No, and he didn't, and nor should we have
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 1: expected him to say something like that. It was going
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 1: to be breaking news all over Sports Center. I mean,
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 1: that's that's not why we had him on, right. I
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 1: just as as you mentioned, I like that this group
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 1: is seems to be the group that just wants to
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 1: help the team win. His comments just kind of furthered that.
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 1: I mean, we saw, you know, the guys coming out
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 1: of the bullpen in Game five against Detroit and the
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 1: Alds last year, like eager to go in and help
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 1: that team get that extra I mean, very very long
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 1: game over with and send the Mariners onto the Alcs,
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 1: and they were all so happy to participate and to help.
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 1: So I think that's what this team is.
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, i mean postseasons old.
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 1: No it is, but I'm just saying they but they
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 1: have they've always seen they I mean, he's just furthering it.
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 1: They don't care when they pitch, They just want to
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 1: get the Well, it.
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 2: Sounds like whatever decision's made, this is what you can
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 2: read into Pete's comments that he believes his guys are
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 2: going to be okay with it. Yeah, and there are
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 2: going to be hurt feelings and there's not going to
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 2: be somebody that's going to pout. He even joked about
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 2: them quitting the team.
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 1: They're not going to have a coupe.
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, So that's what he's confident in. What I'm not
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 2: even sure he knows is going to happen, is what
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 2: the ultimate decision is going to be, And maybe he does.
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 2: He might, he might know, he might already know what
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 2: they're planning to do. But he didn't seem to be
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 2: worried about a six man rotation ruining people's routines or
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 2: methods for preparing. And he didn't he didn't have really
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 2: any concerns to speak of. He thinks it's a good
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 2: problem to have another great picture being added or potentially
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 2: great pitcher to this mix. Bryce Miller, according to Adam Jude,
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 2: has been declared ready to return to the majors after
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 2: his most recent rehab outing and Everett. There was thought
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 2: that he would have one more rehab outing and Tacoma,
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 2: but it doesn't sound like that's going to happen. He
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 2: might join the team as early as today in Chicago,
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 2: we shall see, or at some point in Chicago. I
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 2: doubt it would be today because he just pitched a
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 2: couple of days ago. Also, according to Jude, even Emerson
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 2: Hancock moving to the pen is a possibility in all
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 2: of this, even though he's been our most effective starting
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 2: pitcher all season long.
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 1: So start a coup if that happens.
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, great problem to have, as we've talked about repeatedly,
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 2: no easy solution though, will see what they do going forward.
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 2: In the meantime, they get back to action tonight after
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 2: a day off, they'll be on the South side of
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 2: Chicago taking on the White Sox. More COMI steps in
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 2: COMMI deep in a white Field packing mokshopter Moonday. Munataka
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 2: Moura Kami, who I wanted the Mariners to get this
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 2: off season, goes the Chicago White Sox on a scant
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 2: two year, thirty four million dollars deal, which was shocking
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 2: considering the numbers that were befloating were being floated around
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 2: at the beginning of the process. I mean, we're talking
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 2: one hundred and fifty two hundred million dollars is what
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 2: they thought. Morikami was going to get the latest Japanese
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 2: hitting sensation, and instead his value just kept dropping in
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 2: the offseason. The White Sox got him for a song, basically,
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 2: and he has rewarded them, not just with his fourteen
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 2: home runs, which is second in all of Major League
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 2: Baseball to this point in the year, but also just
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 2: kind of that face and middle of the order kind
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 2: of presence that seems to have changed the whole outlook
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 2: for White Sox baseball. This is an organization coming off
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 2: of three consecutive one hundred loss seasons, including one hundred
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 2: and twenty one losses just two seasons ago. But the
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 2: Socks have some juice back in their organ to say,
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 2: thanks to Morikami and some others. They've got a couple
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 2: pitchers that have stepped up big time so far this year.
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 2: And here they sit, I mean, not good seventeen and twenty,
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 2: but just a half game difference from the Mariners. This
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 2: is a different team than what we faced the last
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 2: three years. The Chicago White Sox actually show some life
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 2: right now.
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah they do. And I mean people have been talking
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 1: about them this for their with their start to the season.
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 1: At one point, didn't they sweep somebody early in the season.
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 1: That was kind of a surprise. I can't remember now
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 1: as I'm saying it, but yeah, they They're definitely not
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 1: You're not going in saying, oh, that's an easy sweep.
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 1: You're not doing that, well.
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 2: Oh no, oh no, not way work?
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 1: Well definitely not so doubly you're not saying it. But
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 1: you know, I think even the way we were playing,
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 1: if they were playing, how they were last year, I'd
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 1: be like, oh, we probably have a good chance at
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 1: a sleep. I got, we got to play good baseball.
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 2: First pitch is that four point forty Sean Berke will
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 2: pitch for them. He has a two point seven to
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 2: two era. He is one of those guys young White
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 2: Sox pitchers off to a terrific start this year. Meanwhile,
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 2: Emerson Hancock goes for the Mariners, and might it be
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 2: his last start for a while. I sure hope not.
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 2: I think that would be the one mistake that'd be
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 2: the one decision that I think I would just categorize
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 2: as that's dumb. I will lose my you know what
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 2: item number three on our eight item o show. Tonight,
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 2: the WNBA regular season gets underway and the Storm will
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 2: be one of the three opening night game.
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 1: That was gosh ten or twelve.
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, his voice sound a little sped up, Yeah.
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 1: More young when he came out, Yeah yeah yeah yeahs
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 1: song and he had a couple of good songs. Yeah,
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 1: liked him.
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 2: Okay, well consider this your storm warning. They're in action
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 2: tonight at seven o'clock. There are three games. The first
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 2: one's being played at four o'clock. Connecticut and New York
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 2: will tip the season, but they actually have to play
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 2: while another game is going on. Meanwhile, the Storm will
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 2: have the stage for themselves tonight at seven o'clock, taking
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 2: on the second year Golden State eight Valkyries. Storm have
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 2: a new look this season. Nanekago mackay is no longer here,
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 2: Erica Wheeler is no longer here. They're both playing for
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 2: the Sparks this year. Skyler Diggins is now a member
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 2: of the Chicago Skyler Diggins and Gabby Williams plays for
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 2: the Valkyries, which is tonight's opponent. So a completely new look,
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 2: a very large roster. I mean they're gonna be interior
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 2: heavy with the way that they're attacking this plus the
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 2: debut of Floge. Yeah, let's go Alyssa. Charles Charleston Smith
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 2: has a new role this year with the Storm, so
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 2: we'll talk about that with her and preview the season
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 2: today at nine o'clock. But the big showcase game this
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 2: weekend in the WNBA is ten am tomorrow morning. It
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 2: will be Caitlin Clark returning to uniform for Indiana and
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 2: they will host Dallas with Paige Beckers and also a
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 2: Zy Fudd making her debut so ten am tomorrow, that's
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 2: the big show case game of opening weekend in the WNBA.
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 1: I would say I will be watching, but I will
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 1: be at softball. Oh well that's right.
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 2: Well, Happy Mother's Day.
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 1: Thank you.
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 2: NBA playoffs man. The first round look ended up being
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 2: really intriguing when I didn't think it was going to be.
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 2: And the second round that everybody was looking forward to.
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 2: Are we just going to have a bunch of sweeps
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 2: and one five game series? Last night it felt that way.
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 2: Detroit handled Cleveland again.
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 9: Dickens over the cutting hair, back to Dickens, screamball, cutting
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 9: hair loses, Truss.
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 2: Cutting, Han cunning Ham, Detroit one oh seven ninety seven
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 2: over Cleveland. They are up two to oh. Was that
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 2: Prime Video there? Is that? What that audio is from?
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 1: I'd love to give you an answer on that.
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 2: I'm sure I wanted to credit somehow. Yeah, it's either
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 2: Prime Video or Detroit Pistons Audio Network.
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah, one of the other.
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 2: There you go. Okay, see also is up two to oh.
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 2: They demolished the Lakers again last night, one twenty five
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 2: to one oh seven. SGA isn't even playing well and
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 2: yet they're still destroying the Lakers. Here in Round number two,
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 2: New York's up on Philadelphia two games to none, but
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 2: the series does shift to Philadelphia starting tonight and San
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 2: Antonio and Minnesota. That's been the only compelling series to
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 2: this point. San Antonio will is even up with the
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 2: Wolves that won a piece, so they'll play in Minnesota
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 2: for the first time tonight. Stanley Cup playoffs. Man, this
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 2: is starting to feel like a four gone conclusion. There
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 2: are like two runaway trucks in the NHL right now,
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 2: and they seem to be on a collision course to
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 2: meeting in the Stanley Cup finals, Colorado Avalanche or one
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 2: of them in the West and on the East, the
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 2: Carolina Hurricanes are just toying with people to work with
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 2: across the scene. Spechnikoff picks it to his stick Gosta's
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 2: pair at a special one timer stars. Oh, finally a
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 2: goal from him showed up. Setchnikoff.
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 1: If that is your real.
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 2: Name, I don't think it is. I think your name
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 2: is Andy Jones.
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 1: He Justikoff sounds more hockey.
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 2: Like, Yeah, exactly. You get more respect in the locker
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 2: room when your name is Svechnikoff.
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 1: That's probably true.
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 2: The Hurricanes might be the least hyped great team in
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 2: pro sports. I mean, they just win every year they don't,
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 2: and they've won it all before in the in this era.
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 2: They went into Philadelphia last night and just did the
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 2: exact same thing that they did when they were home,
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 2: maybe even greater or so. They just whooped the Flyers
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 2: four to one. The Flyers found themselves without answers, and
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 2: so you know what they did. They just pulled a
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 2: framber Valdez. They just tried throwing things at the Canes.
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 2: They were so angry and so frustrated that well, not baseballs,
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 2: but their fists. They just started getting in fights. They
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 2: were just that's what a really frustra It's like when
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 2: you're you see two brothers, eight year old, nine year
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 2: old brothers wrestling in the backyard and one doesn't have
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 2: answers and just starts getting angry and starts punching instead
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 2: of wrestling. That's the way that they conducted themselves last night.
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 2: And the Canes are like, whatever, will beat you up too?
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 5: Yeah?
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 1: Fine, They're like, all right, if you want to throw
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 1: some fights in here, we can have some fun. Yeah,
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 1: we can get get into fisticuffs.
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 2: I mean, you're doing it because you're insecure.
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 1: Let's face it, it says a lot more about you
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 1: than it says about me.
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 2: Canes are up three to zero in the series. They'll
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 2: vie for the sweep. On Saturday Tonight, Montreal at Buffalo.
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 2: The Sabers are up one game Buffalo go oo in
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 2: that series, and then Las Vegas and Anaheim also played
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 2: tonight for the first time in Anaheim in that series
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 2: is even at one game a piece. Him number six
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 2: on the Friday, Oh Joe. The NCAA tournament yesterday was
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 2: officially expanded to seventy six teams. I'm not bothered by
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 2: it at all.
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 1: You're not bothered at all.
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, No, I don't know why we played that clip.
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 1: You have no problems with it.
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 2: I mean it's not ruined. But I just don't know
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 2: why in sports we take the things that are the
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 2: best things and, for lack of a better phrase, dick
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 2: with them.
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 2: Agree, Why do we do that? Why is that necessary
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 2: to do that? I mean, you have a lot of
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 2: things that need fixed in college athletics right now. Work
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 2: on those. Yeah, don't take the one thing that has
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 2: been just a steam engine, just locomotive throughout the years
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 2: and now let's try to soup it up. You've made
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 2: it worse. You made it worse when you went to
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 2: sixty eight, and now you've made it worse by going
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 2: to seventy six. And I know you're not done abusing it.
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 2: It's gonna be worse yet. Before it's all said and done,
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 2: you're gonna ruin the only great thing left about college basketball.
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and you know, not that they're playing the sport
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 1: for the brackets, but a lot of people are watching
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 1: March Madness because of the brackets. So that's gonna be
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 1: a whole other thing to deal with, is how the
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 1: brackets all all of a sudden get all screwy.
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 2: Well, we're gonna have to count them. I'll tell you that.
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 2: There's so many games now that we can't just like
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 2: not count them any You know, you're.
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 1: Gonna have to have your bracket done on a Monday.
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 1: You don't get to have all week to sit there.
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 2: And you gotta have your braget done on a Monday.
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 1: That's or at least Tuesday morning. That's dumb.
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 2: And you gotta fill it all out. You gotta fill
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 2: the whole thing out. You gotta fill out twelve versus
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 2: twelve and all that stuff.
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 1: I gonna have nearly enough time to go back and
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 1: forth and think about my picks too much.
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah, because it's gotten you so far. Yeah, clearly, finally
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 2: from the National Football League, Aaron Rodgers is visiting Pittsburgh
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 2: this weekend. Even in Pittsburgh, they know what he's really
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 2: famous for.
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 1: Discount double check.
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 2: I would love that if Aaron Rodgers was just visiting
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 2: Pittsburgh to be the smart ass that he is and
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 2: just decides to go and there's just a thousand pictures
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 2: of him for two and a half days going around
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 2: Pittsburgh and seeing.
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 1: All the sites and just taking pictures of things.
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 2: And never even goes to the Steelers facility. So it
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 2: was accurate. He is visiting Pittsburgh this weekend, but he
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 2: never even goes to.
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 1: See My wife had never been because I keep her
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 1: in a secret remote location so no one can ever
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 1: meet her or see her.
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 2: That would be great. I hope you do it. But
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 2: it does sound like he is going to sign this
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 2: weekend with the Steelers. So once again, a lot of
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 2: hype around Aaron Rodgers and looks like he will settle
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 2: where we all expected him to settle. Meanwhile, the Cardinals,
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 2: rumors can now die that we're connected to Aaron Rodgers.
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 2: Of course, this week for the sea Hawks, Dante Fowler
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 2: Junior became a Seahawks. Earlier this week we also got
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 2: a little bit of an indication of who might be
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 2: the next Seahawks ownership group. Apparently a trio of billionaires
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 2: might combine in this effort. One of the guys, like,
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 2: the only guy that you might know is the guy
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 2: that owns the Celtics. Wick is his name, and he
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 2: did some great things with the Celtics when he took
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 2: over ownership there. But he's part of the trio. But
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 2: who knows? Who knows how legitimate it is. NFL refs
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 2: were supposed to vote on a new an agreement last night.
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 2: I have not heard whether or not that went through.
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 2: I don't even know if they had the vote, so
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 2: we haven't gotten any word as far as I can see,
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 2: whether or not. We know for a fact that the
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 2: NFL refs will be ready for the start of the season.
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 2: Maybe we still will have replacements, who knows. Finally, Sounders
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 2: in action against San Diego. That will be tomorrow night,
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 2: seven point thirty at lumen Field, All right. Coming out
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 2: next on the radio program, SUP is something that we've
• 1:19:08
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• 1:19:12
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• 1:19:16
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• 1:19:19
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• 1:20:22
  Speaker 2: a few times in the past, but never in her
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 2: new role. You're going to hear her this year on
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 2: all sorts of Storm Games and a former basketball player herself.
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 2: Of course, you know her as a television star and
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 2: we know her as a true sunbeam in the Seattle
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 2: sports scene. It is Alyssa Charleston Smith joining us right
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 2: here on Chuck and Buck in the morning. Great to
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 2: have you with.
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 5: Us, Wow, a sunbeam. Thank you, Chuck, make my week
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 5: so sweet? Thanks for having me.
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 2: Oh well, thanks for being on with us. We greatly
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 2: appreciate it, and so so Color analysts for Storm Games
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 2: this year. Tell us how this came together and how
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 2: much we'll be seeing you.
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 5: Yeah, well, what an honor. I mean, it was very unexpected.
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 10: I think it comes after Elisee Woodward, who is a
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 10: total legend in the game, stepped aside.
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 5: She wanted you play by play.
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 10: She's with a Portland fire now, And really it only
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 10: happened with that, because why would you ever want to
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 10: let at least wood Word go except for when she
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 10: wants to do something else. So I think that's.
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 5: What made way for the position. And it's something I
• 1:21:35
  Speaker 5: could not say no to because I.
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 10: Love being part of game broadcasts, being part of live action,
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 10: and I love love working at Fox thirteen too. It's
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 10: not going to be easy to be there less. But
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 10: I think it's going to be basically a dream come
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 10: true to work with a storm and be around practice
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 10: and see dom alonga dunk pretty much every day.
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 2: Well, you can be I mean we're friends, so nobody
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 2: else is listening. You can be honest with us. Was
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 2: that the only thing that that kept you from possibly
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 2: wanting the job, Dick Fane, was that the one thing
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 2: that was a hurdle heart that was difficult to overcome.
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 5: Just between you and me. Yeah, since we don't have
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 5: any eyewitnesses.
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 10: That I tried to talk to the storm to see
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 10: what we could do there, if I could be played
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 10: by plate and color analysis, but they were like, no,
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 10: it's it's a little bit too much talking.
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 5: So no, I to work with Dick too the best.
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 5: He's an O G two.
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 2: Well it's that's overstating it a little bit.
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 1: But he did have a pager.
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he did have a pager and don't Yeah, and he.
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 5: I got questions about that recently.
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 2: Did he or was it? I think he's still nineties.
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 1: He probably still had. Bet was one of the first
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 1: to have a pager, right, and he also was one
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 1: of the first people to make a phone call right right, that's.
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 5: Oh yes, the commercial.
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 10: That's why he didn't answer my text yesterday after the
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 10: page he left me on rid, so I got to
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 10: get the pagers.
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 2: Don't get him started telling me stories about phone calls.
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 2: He'll never stop talking. Oh boy, Alica Charleston Smith is
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 2: with us. But you played basketball. For those that don't
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 2: know you, they see you on Fox thirteen. You played
• 1:23:15
  Speaker 2: basketball in college, and so what kind of player were
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 2: you when you were actually you know, lasen up the sneakers.
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 5: Yeah, because now I'm a husband, that's what you were saying.
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 10: I did play basketball, and I think people start realizing
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 10: that when they see me in person. I get that
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 10: every single time of you were actually recognized as me.
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 5: Wow, you're a really tall in person. And I used
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 5: it for good.
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 10: When I was in college, I was I was kind
• 1:23:44
  Speaker 10: of a stretch forward. I mean a lot of getting
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 10: to the rim, shooting threes, a few pull up jumpers
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 10: here and there. But I had a good little college.
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 5: Career, played overseas. After that, good enough college career to
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 5: play overseas.
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 10: And won from championships at Idaho and then one championship
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 10: overseas and what's crazy is what I just realized. All
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 10: Wall sawm their number.
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 5: Three overall pick the Storms just a few a few
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 5: weeks ago. She's playing in Spain.
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 10: She's playing for Valencia, and they're waiting for her season
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 10: to finish before she comes and rejoins the Storm. So
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 10: her contract is technically suspended right now, but she'll join
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 10: the team hopefully in late May early June. Her point
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 10: guard is my point guard that I had in Luxembourg
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 10: my one season playing overseas is the point guard. And
• 1:24:28
  Speaker 10: she's like all over their web page and like all
• 1:24:31
  Speaker 10: over their articles.
• 1:24:31
  Speaker 5: I was like, no way, good for live on.
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 10: So I'm gonna try to get the scouting important, more information,
• 1:24:35
  Speaker 10: some insight and so on.
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 2: Awa. But connection there, you're turning into like the You're
• 1:24:41
  Speaker 2: turning into like the Kevin Bacon of basketball all of
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 2: a sudden, right before our eyes. There's a comment, I
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 2: don't know, Well, there's always that that game where you
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 2: can connect Kevin Bacon and three jumps, and yeah, I
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 2: think I think that's I think that's what what you
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 2: might be becoming right before our ey here. I love
• 1:25:01
  Speaker 2: that you played in Luxembourg. I know that the capital
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 2: is Luxembourg. That's about all I know about Luxembourg. Yeah,
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 2: I cast that's.
• 1:25:09
  Speaker 5: All most people know. Actually a lot of people think
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 5: it's the city in Germany or France.
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's act and there's a king in Luxembourg, right,
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 2: Luxembourg has its own king. If I'm not mistaken, a
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 2: dukie A dukie, do you see?
• 1:25:23
  Speaker 5: Hy?
• 1:25:23
  Speaker 2: Okay? All right? Melissa Charleston Smith is with US color
• 1:25:32
  Speaker 2: analyst this year for the Storm, who will start their
• 1:25:34
  Speaker 2: season tonight at seven o'clock against the Golden State Valkyries.
• 1:25:38
  Speaker 2: And so she'll be with our own Dick Fane this
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 2: year and still be doing her duties at Fox thirteen.
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 2: Let's talk about this team. Let's preview this team. You've
• 1:25:46
  Speaker 2: already mentioned a couple of names, and both of them
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 2: are very tall basketball players. There has been a major
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 2: shift that has gone on with the Storm roster this offseason.
• 1:25:57
  Speaker 2: I mean a dramatic one, and it just it feels
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 2: like they're heading in a new direction. And I mean,
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 2: correct me if I'm wrong. Seemingly building around the interior
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 2: with one of the longest, most athletic front courts in
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 2: the entire league. Is that the way you see it?
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 5: Absolutely the same way I mean, you could take my
• 1:26:17
  Speaker 5: job right now.
• 1:26:18
  Speaker 10: That's a perfect description because they let their top five
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 10: scorers walk essentially a free agency, and for those who
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 10: don't know, more than eighty percent of the league was
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 10: a free agents this offseason because the new CBA was coming.
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 10: Your top top players are now getting paid one point
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 10: four million dollars and that was the entire salary cap
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 10: for the team last year. Just a reminder, every single
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 10: player is making more than your.
• 1:26:44
  Speaker 5: Top players last year.
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 10: So like the average salary is two hundred and seventy
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 10: thousand dollars, your supermax was like two fifty last year.
• 1:26:50
  Speaker 10: So the league is completely different right now. And in general,
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 10: you knew there was going to be a lot of changes.
• 1:26:57
  Speaker 10: Every single roster has a lot of shakeup, except for
• 1:26:59
  Speaker 10: like the New York Liberty, who somehow added like another superstar.
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 10: They're going to be crazy good, so is Las Vegas.
• 1:27:05
  Speaker 10: But the Storm was willing to make changes, and I
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 10: think they saw after the Jewel Lloyd Rihanna Stewart's sup
• 1:27:13
  Speaker 10: Bird era that got them two championships.
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 5: Twenty eighteen and twenty twenty.
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 10: You added Mecca, who is a Hall of Famer certified
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 10: Skyler Diggins, a phenomenal point guard that will be a
• 1:27:22
  Speaker 10: legend forever. But it wasn't enough, Like, it wasn't enough
• 1:27:26
  Speaker 10: to get you pass the first round of the playoffs.
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 10: They ran into the Las Vegas Faces both times and lost.
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 10: So front office, General manager do you change up the coach?
• 1:27:36
  Speaker 10: But the front office and GM decided like, there are
• 1:27:38
  Speaker 10: some changes we got to make, and kudos to them
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 10: because it's scary to rebuild. But every time, I know,
• 1:27:42
  Speaker 10: Dick Fame has said this, every time they have it's
• 1:27:44
  Speaker 10: heard of the championships. So this team maybe got the
• 1:27:48
  Speaker 10: most potential just because we don't know exactly what Don
• 1:27:53
  Speaker 10: Malonga can turn into. I mean, the general managers voted
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 10: her top three in the entire league.
• 1:27:59
  Speaker 5: If you had to.
• 1:27:59
  Speaker 10: Pick a play right now to build your franchise around,
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 10: she's your top three. And I mean that's crazy. You
• 1:28:04
  Speaker 10: got like Asia Wilson, and I think Paige Becker's the
• 1:28:07
  Speaker 10: top of that list, Caitlin Clark's and that mix. But
• 1:28:10
  Speaker 10: dom Alonga ended practice yesterday with a two handed dunk
• 1:28:14
  Speaker 10: a lob from Natisha Heideman, and so Niisa Hidevan is
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 10: going to be likely your starting point guard. She came
• 1:28:20
  Speaker 10: up from Minnesota. Dom is a unicorn. She's chasing history
• 1:28:24
  Speaker 10: five more rebounds. She's going to be the youngest player
• 1:28:26
  Speaker 10: to ever get two hundred. She's just like she had
• 1:28:29
  Speaker 10: the first she's the youngest to be a get a
• 1:28:31
  Speaker 10: double double last year.
• 1:28:32
  Speaker 5: And then really, I.
• 1:28:33
  Speaker 10: Think the star, the most exciting player, the one that
• 1:28:37
  Speaker 10: you're going to see the face of and you're going
• 1:28:39
  Speaker 10: to see all over x and all over the Seattle
• 1:28:41
  Speaker 10: Times because of her quotes and her energy is Flaje Johnson.
• 1:28:45
  Speaker 10: They totally turned this season on its head the storm
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 10: Front office by drafting her, making that trade with Golden
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 10: State and getting Flage.
• 1:28:54
  Speaker 5: Because she is such a good energy. I mean, she's
• 1:28:57
  Speaker 5: got over I mean just for her popular She's got
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 5: over two million followers, two million followers on Instagram. She
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 5: has a song with Lil Wayne, Like she knows every
• 1:29:08
  Speaker 5: famous person in the world.
• 1:29:09
  Speaker 10: She's like signed with Jay Z's Rock Nation. But she's
• 1:29:12
  Speaker 10: incredibly humble too, Like she's.
• 1:29:15
  Speaker 5: Every player I've talked to is like Tuflage sets the
• 1:29:17
  Speaker 5: tone as a rookie. She's first in laughs out. She's
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 5: doing like a six thirty am workout every single morning.
• 1:29:24
  Speaker 5: She's got multiple albums, you can go listen to They
• 1:29:26
  Speaker 5: were playing her songs during warmups of that preseason game
• 1:29:29
  Speaker 5: at Climate Sledgerina. She's just hilarious.
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 10: Like I talked to her about getting that song with
• 1:29:34
  Speaker 10: Lil Wayne is like featuring and Sue Bird helps with
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 10: the assist and so you know, me thinking I'm like
• 1:29:40
  Speaker 10: a fun wordplay, like you know all teime assists. Leader
• 1:29:43
  Speaker 10: gave you an assist. She totally dugged on me by
• 1:29:46
  Speaker 10: saying like, uh yeah, like sub Bird threw me the
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 10: lob and I dunked it, like she totally stole the show.
• 1:29:51
  Speaker 5: And she just like I don't.
• 1:29:53
  Speaker 10: Know, just the way she talks is so engaging. She's
• 1:29:56
  Speaker 10: a total star.
• 1:29:57
  Speaker 5: So and then you're not even talking about it as
• 1:30:00
  Speaker 5: Asie mag.
• 1:30:00
  Speaker 10: Boogore, who they obviously cored. They want to keep her
• 1:30:03
  Speaker 10: around for a long time. She's blossomed, but really this
• 1:30:07
  Speaker 10: is her year to step up and shine. She's going
• 1:30:09
  Speaker 10: to be out for six eight weeks with an injury,
• 1:30:11
  Speaker 10: which is a total bummer. But I think the other
• 1:30:14
  Speaker 10: young pieces around Dom and Flage, it's gonna be so
• 1:30:18
  Speaker 10: interesting and lasting. On Flage because I know I'm taking
• 1:30:21
  Speaker 10: this question way too long, but her father was actually
• 1:30:25
  Speaker 10: killed six months before she was born, and so her name.
• 1:30:28
  Speaker 5: Flage for those who don't know quite how to pronounce it.
• 1:30:31
  Speaker 10: His rapper name was Camouflage, and so as an ode
• 1:30:34
  Speaker 10: to her father, her mom named her a Flage. And
• 1:30:38
  Speaker 10: she's kind of taken his rap career and wanted to
• 1:30:42
  Speaker 10: continue it. That's why she's always balanced both, even though
• 1:30:45
  Speaker 10: it's been really hard, like playing at LSU and balancing
• 1:30:47
  Speaker 10: a rap career not easy. So just some of the
• 1:30:51
  Speaker 10: background on her, it's just it's a fun team to
• 1:30:53
  Speaker 10: talk about, and they seem to love each other and
• 1:30:55
  Speaker 10: love the new head coach Sonya.
• 1:30:57
  Speaker 2: Well, I got a million more questions stuff of that
• 1:31:00
  Speaker 2: response that you gave me, but I'll start with this one.
• 1:31:03
  Speaker 2: You brought up the dreaded R words, so it is
• 1:31:06
  Speaker 2: a bit of a rebuild. But how long before they're
• 1:31:10
  Speaker 2: thinking they'll be in contention? I mean, is this a
• 1:31:13
  Speaker 2: contending team this year despite the giant turnover they've had
• 1:31:19
  Speaker 2: on the roster, or are they so young and is
• 1:31:22
  Speaker 2: it so green of a group that maybe it will
• 1:31:26
  Speaker 2: take a little while before they're winning.
• 1:31:29
  Speaker 5: I would say national perspective, the expectations for the form
• 1:31:33
  Speaker 5: are not high. I mean, it would probably be a
• 1:31:36
  Speaker 5: successful season from the national perspective, zoom out.
• 1:31:39
  Speaker 10: If they made the playoffs, it would be a big surprise.
• 1:31:42
  Speaker 10: They're going to surprise the teams. That being said, I
• 1:31:44
  Speaker 10: mean they preseasons doesn't really matter much. But to enter
• 1:31:48
  Speaker 10: Golden State Valkyrie's environments, I mean, that's a fan base
• 1:31:52
  Speaker 10: that sold out fifteen thousand season tickets, like WNBA record,
• 1:31:56
  Speaker 10: it's a really cool atmosphere. And this young team went
• 1:31:59
  Speaker 10: into Balhalla and nearly beat the Valkyrie, is lost by
• 1:32:03
  Speaker 10: two at the very end of a tie game with
• 1:32:06
  Speaker 10: thirty five seconds left. So I think there's gonna be
• 1:32:09
  Speaker 10: moments where they really do surprise teams that don't take
• 1:32:12
  Speaker 10: them seriously enough, or teams that don't bring energy that night.
• 1:32:15
  Speaker 10: And you know how much of a grind at WNBA season.
• 1:32:17
  Speaker 10: It's just like the NBA. It's more condensed than the NBA.
• 1:32:20
  Speaker 10: But there's forty four games. There are gonna be a
• 1:32:22
  Speaker 10: lot of teams that don't have energy any given night.
• 1:32:25
  Speaker 10: And with Flage alone, she truly changes the game energy wise.
• 1:32:29
  Speaker 10: I think this year again, like internally, they're not like
• 1:32:34
  Speaker 10: putting too much pressure on themselves. I think they're mostly
• 1:32:36
  Speaker 10: thinking about, like, let's build through this system that Sonia
• 1:32:40
  Speaker 10: is bringing in.
• 1:32:40
  Speaker 5: It's going to be kind of running gun. It's gonna
• 1:32:42
  Speaker 5: be a little Paul.
• 1:32:42
  Speaker 10: West Head style, like they want to get a good
• 1:32:44
  Speaker 10: shot early in the shot clock, and they're gonna run
• 1:32:48
  Speaker 10: a lot of transition. They're gonna get up in your
• 1:32:49
  Speaker 10: grill like defensively. So it's gonna be a fun style
• 1:32:53
  Speaker 10: of play to watch. Even if you don't have the
• 1:32:54
  Speaker 10: wins and losses this year, you're going to see so
• 1:32:57
  Speaker 10: much growth.
• 1:32:58
  Speaker 5: But I think contention wise, they're.
• 1:33:01
  Speaker 10: Probably at least a year out from making a run
• 1:33:04
  Speaker 10: in the playoffs, maybe two years from like making a
• 1:33:07
  Speaker 10: deep run.
• 1:33:08
  Speaker 5: Just because you're.
• 1:33:08
  Speaker 10: Getting Awa late this year, you know, like you don't
• 1:33:11
  Speaker 10: have her until probably June, so that kind of sets
• 1:33:14
  Speaker 10: you behind me ball a little bit. But I think
• 1:33:17
  Speaker 10: you do have some bets, like Jordan Horston's coming back
• 1:33:19
  Speaker 10: from the ACL.
• 1:33:20
  Speaker 5: She was an awesome two way player.
• 1:33:22
  Speaker 10: Before she tore aur ACL before last season, so she
• 1:33:26
  Speaker 10: inserts right back into the starting line up as a
• 1:33:28
  Speaker 10: really quality starter.
• 1:33:30
  Speaker 5: I think it's just going to be kind of Yeah.
• 1:33:32
  Speaker 5: I think the fun.
• 1:33:33
  Speaker 10: Part is going to be watching them surprise the league
• 1:33:35
  Speaker 10: this year with low expectations, not being beyond maybe sneaking
• 1:33:40
  Speaker 10: the playoffs, but it's been done before. It's going to
• 1:33:43
  Speaker 10: kind of depend on what we see from coach Sonia
• 1:33:46
  Speaker 10: in improving how quickly they can improve and checking in
• 1:33:49
  Speaker 10: on that, you know, each month.
• 1:33:50
  Speaker 2: The fun part, you know, as far as I can
• 1:33:53
  Speaker 2: see from my view, is you might have the longest
• 1:33:56
  Speaker 2: and most athletic team in the league and seeing what
• 1:34:00
  Speaker 2: they might be able to do, because I've seen the
• 1:34:02
  Speaker 2: highlights of FOM and that's that's like next level like size, length, athleticism,
• 1:34:09
  Speaker 2: and I mean, she can handle she can do a
• 1:34:11
  Speaker 2: lot of things. And so you mentioned earlier she might
• 1:34:14
  Speaker 2: not be available. So when does the Dom FOM show
• 1:34:18
  Speaker 2: get underway for the Storm and just how good could
• 1:34:23
  Speaker 2: it possibly be for the long term.
• 1:34:27
  Speaker 5: I would say mid to late June.
• 1:34:30
  Speaker 10: I mean the latest that all will be in Europe
• 1:34:33
  Speaker 10: is May twenty.
• 1:34:34
  Speaker 2: Third, Okay, so still well she's in the.
• 1:34:37
  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, So that's like the finals of vigas Imina
• 1:34:40
  Speaker 5: over in for euro of basket, what she's competing in.
• 1:34:44
  Speaker 5: She's going for a championships obviously, and I believe the
• 1:34:47
  Speaker 5: last check they were in the Semis. But the latest
• 1:34:50
  Speaker 5: she could still be, you know, playing a game is
• 1:34:52
  Speaker 5: May twenty third over there. So after that, you.
• 1:34:55
  Speaker 10: Know, you're going to give her a little bit, you know,
• 1:34:58
  Speaker 10: a couple of days at least off, and then how
• 1:35:01
  Speaker 10: do you incorporate her the right way into WNBA styles
• 1:35:05
  Speaker 10: to like we all know it's more physical, there's no surprise,
• 1:35:08
  Speaker 10: no ifs ands or butts about that. And then getting
• 1:35:11
  Speaker 10: her Sonya told us that she wanted to make it
• 1:35:14
  Speaker 10: simple at first, you know, like, I'm not going to
• 1:35:16
  Speaker 10: throw everything at her early on, and we'll see how.
• 1:35:19
  Speaker 5: She absorbs all the information. But that's going to be
• 1:35:24
  Speaker 5: a really fun front court to watch, and it will.
• 1:35:26
  Speaker 10: Likely be I mean, dom is twenty Allas nineteen, no doubt,
• 1:35:30
  Speaker 10: that's going to be your youngest front court potentially in
• 1:35:32
  Speaker 10: WNBA history when they're on the court together.
• 1:35:35
  Speaker 5: So they're going to change the face of women's basketball together.
• 1:35:39
  Speaker 10: I really like this is going to be the most
• 1:35:40
  Speaker 10: exciting front court to watch in the WNBA simply because
• 1:35:43
  Speaker 10: of their athleticism.
• 1:35:45
  Speaker 5: And the way they play is just so smooth, it's
• 1:35:47
  Speaker 5: so much fun. But their chemistry is going to take
• 1:35:51
  Speaker 5: a little time.
• 1:35:51
  Speaker 10: They've played against each other overseas, dom and Awa, but
• 1:35:55
  Speaker 10: or actually just say dom and fom like you did
• 1:35:58
  Speaker 10: have a perfect You need to pitch that to the Storm,
• 1:36:00
  Speaker 10: maybe make some Money's not.
• 1:36:03
  Speaker 5: Going to give you the free Yeah, you're not going
• 1:36:05
  Speaker 5: to win the contest. Get a little money from Storm
• 1:36:07
  Speaker 5: for that.
• 1:36:11
  Speaker 2: Uh well, by the way, happy Mother's Day. This is
• 1:36:15
  Speaker 2: your first Mother's Day, right.
• 1:36:18
  Speaker 5: Yeah, thank you.
• 1:36:19
  Speaker 10: She said Happy Mother's Day to me by waking up
• 1:36:22
  Speaker 10: at four a m.
• 1:36:23
  Speaker 5: Last night and not going to sleep until and going
• 1:36:25
  Speaker 5: back to sleep until six. So it's the sweetest gift.
• 1:36:29
  Speaker 2: It's opening night. She's excited.
• 1:36:33
  Speaker 10: Yeah, but thank you for that. That's so sweet. She
• 1:36:36
  Speaker 10: is truly a life changer. Her name is Charlie and
• 1:36:39
  Speaker 10: she's light of my life.
• 1:36:41
  Speaker 2: He after me, Oh that's so sweet.
• 1:36:45
  Speaker 5: Little Chuck.
• 1:36:49
  Speaker 2: That grow great in grade school, explaining that went away.
• 1:36:52
  Speaker 2: You can call me little Chuck though. So let's pitch tonight.
• 1:36:59
  Speaker 2: Tell they give us your best TV personality pitch for
• 1:37:03
  Speaker 2: the Storm opener Alyssa Charleston Smith the Dick Fane on
• 1:37:07
  Speaker 2: the call. What do we need to be aware of?
• 1:37:10
  Speaker 10: You're going to get a really really fun game. I mean,
• 1:37:13
  Speaker 10: Golden States returns a lot of their players that was
• 1:37:16
  Speaker 10: a team that made France or made WNBA history by
• 1:37:19
  Speaker 10: becoming the first expansion team to make the playoff.
• 1:37:21
  Speaker 2: Last year.
• 1:37:21
  Speaker 10: They brought back a lot of players and they stole
• 1:37:24
  Speaker 10: a Storm favorite. Gabby Williams, who led the League of
• 1:37:26
  Speaker 10: steels a total menace on defense, joined Golden State. She's
• 1:37:30
  Speaker 10: kind of from that area. She's from Rena, but played
• 1:37:33
  Speaker 10: AAU ball in the Bay Area. So I mean that
• 1:37:37
  Speaker 10: is that's a really fun team. Golden State plays and
• 1:37:40
  Speaker 10: the head coach has NBA experience, just like the new
• 1:37:43
  Speaker 10: Storm head coach has NBA experience. They play really smart basketball,
• 1:37:47
  Speaker 10: they love to space the floor. But you've got to
• 1:37:50
  Speaker 10: come for the Flage show. I mean, she scored twenty
• 1:37:53
  Speaker 10: points in the preseason. I believe the only rookie that
• 1:37:56
  Speaker 10: I've seen to score twenty others than Haley Van Lift.
• 1:38:00
  Speaker 5: With Chicago's guy, and they cut Hailey Vandles. I don't know.
• 1:38:02
  Speaker 5: Chicago's kind of a weird spot right now, but Flage
• 1:38:05
  Speaker 5: is a total star.
• 1:38:07
  Speaker 10: She's going to be You're going to get the chance
• 1:38:09
  Speaker 10: to see a blossoming rookie, potentially Rookie of the Year,
• 1:38:13
  Speaker 10: because she's going to have all the opportunity. There's no
• 1:38:15
  Speaker 10: pressure on this Storm team, and that's usually when you see.
• 1:38:18
  Speaker 5: Players play their best ball.
• 1:38:19
  Speaker 10: A lot of players have a chance to remake their
• 1:38:22
  Speaker 10: careers with the Seattle Storm because they came from out
• 1:38:24
  Speaker 10: places or they didn't get the opportunities they wanted last
• 1:38:26
  Speaker 10: year with the Storm.
• 1:38:28
  Speaker 5: And then you've got a unicorn in Don Malonga.
• 1:38:30
  Speaker 10: I mean truly, she's her game has become really really impressive, versatile,
• 1:38:36
  Speaker 10: and you might get a dunk. I mean, can you
• 1:38:39
  Speaker 10: imagine you might get a lob from Flage Johnson to
• 1:38:41
  Speaker 10: Don Maloga throwdown.
• 1:38:43
  Speaker 5: That's all you need to know the bird.
• 1:38:47
  Speaker 2: All right, Well, thank you very much for joining us,
• 1:38:50
  Speaker 2: so I appreciate it. Have a blast, not just tonight
• 1:38:52
  Speaker 2: but all season long. Congratulations on the new post. Sorry
• 1:38:56
  Speaker 2: about Dick being part of your life going forward forward,
• 1:39:00
  Speaker 2: and we will chat with you again soon.
• 1:39:02
  Speaker 5: All right, Yeah, thank you so much for having me.
• 1:39:06
  Speaker 5: I appreciate you both.
• 1:39:07
  Speaker 2: All right, Alyssa Charleston Smith joining us right now here
• 1:39:10
  Speaker 2: on the radio program, still working at the Fox thirteen,
• 1:39:13
  Speaker 2: but now doing color analysts for Storm games, and they
• 1:39:16
  Speaker 2: do debut tonight. Dick does a tremendous job on the
• 1:39:18
  Speaker 2: call there with the storm, and so sounds like an
• 1:39:22
  Speaker 2: exciting little transition period Organizationally, they are going to be.
• 1:39:27
  Speaker 2: I mean it's like six five six six six four. Yeah,
• 1:39:32
  Speaker 2: and athletic and long and the best leaper. I mean,
• 1:39:35
  Speaker 2: it's going to be interesting to see how long this
• 1:39:39
  Speaker 2: takes to come together. But once it does come together,
• 1:39:42
  Speaker 2: it could be kind of revolutionary. You know, watching basketball,
• 1:39:46
  Speaker 2: they know one of the critics criticisms of men of
• 1:39:49
  Speaker 2: women's game is that it's not ever played above the rim.
• 1:39:53
  Speaker 2: This is going to be the closest they're going to
• 1:39:54
  Speaker 2: get to it, and it's history to this stage. It's
• 1:39:57
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  Speaker 2: left off of the letter G. G is for gauntlet.
• 1:40:50
  Speaker 2: And I wouldn't exactly call the Chicago White Sox. They're
• 1:40:53
  Speaker 2: not ready to have anything about them be called a gauntlet.
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  Speaker 2: They are a team that's lost three eight one hundred
• 1:41:01
  Speaker 2: lost seasons. They've had three straight hundred loss seasons that
• 1:41:04
  Speaker 2: they've suffered through, lost one hundred twenty one games two
• 1:41:06
  Speaker 2: years ago. They got a long way to go before
• 1:41:09
  Speaker 2: they're going to compete again for a division title, for
• 1:41:14
  Speaker 2: a world title. But they've made a lot of progress
• 1:41:17
  Speaker 2: in the last year. One of those reasons more a
• 1:41:20
  Speaker 2: kami who the alphabet might get to here in a moment.
• 1:41:23
  Speaker 2: But also they're getting some really good pitching so far
• 1:41:26
  Speaker 2: this year. And if there is a gauntlet that the
• 1:41:29
  Speaker 2: Mariners pitching wise, would have to face, they're kind of
• 1:41:33
  Speaker 2: facing it. They've got this guy, Sean Burke tonight, six
• 1:41:38
  Speaker 2: foot six inch, two hundred and forty pound, twenty six
• 1:41:40
  Speaker 2: year old, and he's off to a terrific start this
• 1:41:43
  Speaker 2: season with a two point seven to two ERA. Then
• 1:41:47
  Speaker 2: they will have Davis Martin in game number three, and
• 1:41:50
  Speaker 2: Davis Martin right now leads Baseball Reference war statistic. Oh like,
• 1:41:57
  Speaker 2: in other words, Baseball Reference, they've got their pitching statistics.
• 1:42:00
  Speaker 2: They're saying, this guy has been the most valuable pitcher
• 1:42:03
  Speaker 2: so far this season in Major League Baseball.
• 1:42:05
  Speaker 1: That's pretty good, and that comes out of nowhere.
• 1:42:07
  Speaker 2: I mean, this was a twenty nine year old, kind
• 1:42:09
  Speaker 2: of a nobody on the scene. He pitched a little
• 1:42:12
  Speaker 2: bit last year, but this year, I don't know if
• 1:42:15
  Speaker 2: he's figured some things out or if as a matter
• 1:42:18
  Speaker 2: of time before that success blows up in his face.
• 1:42:21
  Speaker 2: I'd like to think that by Sunday it Mike, But
• 1:42:24
  Speaker 2: that guy has been All Star caliber. That guy's been
• 1:42:27
  Speaker 2: Cy Young caliber so far this season, and no one
• 1:42:30
  Speaker 2: saw that coming. And then in the middle, you've got
• 1:42:33
  Speaker 2: Anthony Kay and Anthony Kay has been a bit of
• 1:42:36
  Speaker 2: a journeyman middle reliever, long reliever starter for a little while.
• 1:42:40
  Speaker 2: Then he went overseas and then he came back as
• 1:42:43
  Speaker 2: part of the Chicago White Sox, and he's not having
• 1:42:45
  Speaker 2: a good year. He's not having a good year, And
• 1:42:48
  Speaker 2: yet you're probably wondering, then how are we put him
• 1:42:50
  Speaker 2: in then the gauntlet?
• 1:42:51
  Speaker 1: I have an idea. Is he a lefty?
• 1:42:54
  Speaker 2: Yep, At anytime we faced the lefty, we turned them
• 1:42:59
  Speaker 2: into steam ve Carlton. So so yes, we're gonna face
• 1:43:05
  Speaker 2: a guy that's been that's pitch better than anybody this
• 1:43:08
  Speaker 2: year according to Baseball Reference. In Game three, we're going
• 1:43:11
  Speaker 2: to face a guy in game number one that's been
• 1:43:15
  Speaker 2: also a surprise two point seven to two era, and
• 1:43:18
  Speaker 2: then we have face a left hander in the middle,
• 1:43:20
  Speaker 2: so we might as well be facing the nineteen eighty
• 1:43:25
  Speaker 2: six Atlanta Braves at this stage. Perfect.
• 1:43:30
  Speaker 1: So there you go, exactly what we want to hear.
• 1:43:32
  Speaker 2: If they could create a gauntlet, they've created a gauntlet
• 1:43:36
  Speaker 2: for us this weekend. We still should win the series,
• 1:43:39
  Speaker 2: but don't get any ideas about sweeps. That's probably not
• 1:43:42
  Speaker 2: gonna happen. H Is four hurts, and it does hurt
• 1:43:46
  Speaker 2: me a little bit that Munataka Morikami went for so
• 1:43:50
  Speaker 2: little this offseason, and I like Brendan Donovan, don't get
• 1:43:53
  Speaker 2: me wrong, and I'm glad we have him on the team,
• 1:43:57
  Speaker 2: but he went so much lower than what the expectation was,
• 1:44:02
  Speaker 2: and almost every team just got scared of him, including
• 1:44:05
  Speaker 2: the Mariners, because they felt he struck out too much,
• 1:44:08
  Speaker 2: that he was at such value by the end of
• 1:44:11
  Speaker 2: the process. Couldn't we have added Donovan and Mourakami.
• 1:44:15
  Speaker 1: Oh, wouldn't that have been great?
• 1:44:17
  Speaker 2: You know? And I've heard, well, he's just another Geno Suarez,
• 1:44:20
  Speaker 2: what's wrong with that?
• 1:44:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Geno Suarez was actually great for this team.
• 1:44:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I hate guys that can hit fifty home runs
• 1:44:27
  Speaker 2: this season.
• 1:44:28
  Speaker 1: They're the worst, and with great attitudes too.
• 1:44:31
  Speaker 2: I hate young people, young twenty five year olds with
• 1:44:37
  Speaker 2: Gino Suarez power upside and more athleticism the worst. So
• 1:44:43
  Speaker 2: I don't know what scared people off, but he's making
• 1:44:46
  Speaker 2: a lot of people look foolish right now with the
• 1:44:49
  Speaker 2: season that he is off to and maybe he spends
• 1:44:51
  Speaker 2: the entire second half striking out every single at bat
• 1:44:55
  Speaker 2: and he will be exposed because there was something to it.
• 1:44:58
  Speaker 2: There was something to every single major league organization being
• 1:45:02
  Speaker 2: worried about signing this guy, despite the fact that Japan
• 1:45:06
  Speaker 2: was presenting him as the next Japanese phenom, and those
• 1:45:10
  Speaker 2: guys have been good. Well, I got to tell you this,
• 1:45:14
  Speaker 2: but you you know my you know my rule. I
• 1:45:18
  Speaker 2: want seven Japanese players. You know, I'll take every phenom,
• 1:45:22
  Speaker 2: especially the ones that have low price tags attached to them. Yeah.
• 1:45:25
  Speaker 2: So if they're a phenom and they're from Japan and
• 1:45:28
  Speaker 2: they're not gonna cost me much, I'll take them all.
• 1:45:30
  Speaker 1: Yes, please give me all of them. Can get a
• 1:45:32
  Speaker 1: seven for one deal.
• 1:45:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah, And he's kind of changed the entire face. I mean,
• 1:45:36
  Speaker 2: they they're now an IT team again, and they're still
• 1:45:39
  Speaker 2: a long way away from winning, but they you know,
• 1:45:41
  Speaker 2: people are buzzing about the White Sox so far, and
• 1:45:44
  Speaker 2: he's probably the biggest reason. Do you know what his
• 1:45:46
  Speaker 2: nickname is, or at least for some people, I do not.
• 1:45:50
  Speaker 2: They are calling him the Big Dumpling.
• 1:45:52
  Speaker 1: Oh well, I really like that. I really like that
• 1:45:57
  Speaker 1: a lot. Oh man.
• 1:46:02
  Speaker 2: So anyway, we have to face more comy this weekend,
• 1:46:05
  Speaker 2: Big Dumpling, and he could have been on our team.
• 1:46:07
  Speaker 2: We could add the dumper and the dum the dumpling.
• 1:46:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, would have been great.
• 1:46:10
  Speaker 2: Right, PR missed PR opportunity right now, heavily's throwing things
• 1:46:14
  Speaker 2: at the work.
• 1:46:14
  Speaker 1: I would be too, That is a missed opportunity.
• 1:46:18
  Speaker 5: Uh.
• 1:46:18
  Speaker 2: Finally, I is for info, and we're about ready to
• 1:46:21
  Speaker 2: get some really interesting information here. I would think in
• 1:46:26
  Speaker 2: the next twenty four to forty eight hours. Obviously this
• 1:46:30
  Speaker 2: six man rotation thing, whether what we're gonna do with it,
• 1:46:34
  Speaker 2: We're gonna have that answer here. I would assume by
• 1:46:37
  Speaker 2: the end of the weekend. If Bryce Miller is going
• 1:46:40
  Speaker 2: to be activated before that, Now, keep in mind he
• 1:46:43
  Speaker 2: just pitched and Everett what night was that Wednesday, So
• 1:46:49
  Speaker 2: he probably wouldn't even pitch until Thursday, Friday set Monday,
• 1:46:54
  Speaker 2: so he might not be activated. I mean, I think
• 1:46:56
  Speaker 2: Jude was reporting that he would be activated at some
• 1:46:59
  Speaker 2: point during the weekend series, but there's no really reason
• 1:47:02
  Speaker 2: to activate him until he can actually pitch for you
• 1:47:05
  Speaker 2: that day. So they might try to buy some time,
• 1:47:08
  Speaker 2: they might try to kill some time with this, but
• 1:47:11
  Speaker 2: it sounds like the next time that they feel he's
• 1:47:14
  Speaker 2: ready to pitch, he will be as a Mariner. So
• 1:47:17
  Speaker 2: when that happens, then, I mean, there are plenty of
• 1:47:20
  Speaker 2: options right now to send out Dave la or Simpson
• 1:47:26
  Speaker 2: or Suarez, who are on the roster right now because
• 1:47:29
  Speaker 2: we've had Spire hurt and Brash hurt and some other
• 1:47:33
  Speaker 2: things that have taken place. So that's going to be
• 1:47:36
  Speaker 2: an easy solution there of who's roster spot that Bryce
• 1:47:40
  Speaker 2: Miller takes. But of course the big question is then
• 1:47:44
  Speaker 2: who gets demoted and what way, what form does that
• 1:47:47
  Speaker 2: look like, and that'll be a big topic of conversation
• 1:47:51
  Speaker 2: heading into next week. Now, the other thing is Brendan Donovan.
• 1:47:55
  Speaker 2: I'm hoping we hear it tonight. I don't know if
• 1:47:58
  Speaker 2: we will, but Brendan Denovan's going to be activated at
• 1:48:01
  Speaker 2: some point during this road trip to Chicago. And so
• 1:48:07
  Speaker 2: the obvious thing is that Leo Revoss then moves to
• 1:48:10
  Speaker 2: the bench, thank goodness. Uh. And then I would think
• 1:48:13
  Speaker 2: that the obvious move is for Parada to then go
• 1:48:17
  Speaker 2: back down to Tacoma, and Cal is ready for catching duties.
• 1:48:24
  Speaker 2: So the only reason not to happen is if Cal's
• 1:48:27
  Speaker 2: not ready to get behind the plate with his injury.
• 1:48:31
  Speaker 2: So if Johnny Pareda has to stay on the roster,
• 1:48:34
  Speaker 2: then I would think the roster crunch comes in the
• 1:48:37
  Speaker 2: form of Connor Joe, who's done a couple of things.
• 1:48:40
  Speaker 2: Think we have a little more confidence in him than
• 1:48:42
  Speaker 2: what we did at the start of the Connor Joe
• 1:48:45
  Speaker 2: experience here in Seattle. And he looks he kind of
• 1:48:48
  Speaker 2: just reminds me of like a mortal combat hero. He
• 1:48:52
  Speaker 2: does character like.
• 1:48:53
  Speaker 1: He could have like leather fingerless gloves on and he's
• 1:48:56
  Speaker 1: like fighting, punching right.
• 1:48:58
  Speaker 2: And a really interesting helmet. Yeah, laser beams come out
• 1:49:01
  Speaker 2: of his eyes or something like that. He's kind of
• 1:49:03
  Speaker 2: got that look about him. But yeah, I would think
• 1:49:07
  Speaker 2: it's Parada. I would think Cal's ready to resume catching.
• 1:49:11
  Speaker 2: But if not, I think Connor Joe's the one that
• 1:49:14
  Speaker 2: gets squeezed out, you know if once you activate Donovan.
• 1:49:19
  Speaker 2: And I'm hoping we get that information today, So yes,
• 1:49:22
  Speaker 2: we're all waiting for information. There's a lot of information
• 1:49:25
  Speaker 2: that is going to be sent out in one Giant
• 1:49:27
  Speaker 2: Mariner pr release. I would think at some point today
• 1:49:31
  Speaker 2: that's going to clear up some of our confusion that
• 1:49:34
  Speaker 2: we have. Maybe it will be two separate ones, since
• 1:49:37
  Speaker 2: they might not be in any hurry to activate Bryce
• 1:49:40
  Speaker 2: Miller if he's not ready to pitch right now like today, Ye,
• 1:49:44
  Speaker 2: then maybe it's going to be in two separate ones,
• 1:49:46
  Speaker 2: but we're going to have the most two most interesting
• 1:49:49
  Speaker 2: Mariner press releases of the season over the weekend while
• 1:49:53
  Speaker 2: the team's on the south side.
• 1:49:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm going to be refreshing my email over and
• 1:49:56
  Speaker 1: over and all right.
• 1:49:58
  Speaker 2: Coming up next, we're going to Ashlely, are going to
• 1:50:00
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• 1:50:19
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• 1:50:21
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• 1:50:25
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• 1:51:01
  Speaker 2: Apparently he's already chased off Christopher Kid. Yes, he's already
• 1:51:03
  Speaker 2: had enough.
• 1:51:04
  Speaker 1: Of him, He already left.
• 1:51:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's done. Yeah, so blame him. Maybe not a
• 1:51:07
  Speaker 2: great sign there that Travis Moger is already having to
• 1:51:11
  Speaker 2: rescue you know, Chris Kidd. Probably not this early into
• 1:51:14
  Speaker 2: Greg Melface too, But yeah, that's gonna be the magical combo.
• 1:51:19
  Speaker 2: I like to call him Temo Travis Moger. Yeah, yeah,
• 1:51:24
  Speaker 2: I get that sometimes. Yeah, that's one of my nicknames.
• 1:51:27
  Speaker 1: Go I'll see something shocking.
• 1:51:30
  Speaker 2: So yes, Travis and Greg coming your way next. So
• 1:51:34
  Speaker 2: there you go. We got it all set up, and
• 1:51:36
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• 1:51:39
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  Speaker 1: everything out of this cup now.
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  Speaker 2: I really do, Yeah, including my own sorrow.
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  Speaker 1: Well, the Mariners are in Chicago, makes the white sauce.
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  Speaker 2: The cleanest awkward transition and radio history ever in Chicago.
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  Speaker 1: To face the white socks and these aren't your twin brothers.
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  Speaker 5: Weird?
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  Speaker 1: Huh? Yeah, Munataka more commis over there in the Windy City,
• 1:53:18
  Speaker 1: hitting home run after home run. Yeah, he has more
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  Speaker 1: than Matt Olsen. And that went well for us. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, okay, so it didn't go well because we
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• 1:53:37
  Speaker 1: Uh So the Diana We're Sini Mike Rabel thing got weirder.
• 1:53:40
  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, did it?
• 1:53:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah? A video came out yesterday of the duo going
• 1:53:45
  Speaker 1: on a boat ride in Tennessee, and boy was she
• 1:53:48
  Speaker 1: super pregnant, like really pregnant.
• 1:53:51
  Speaker 2: How many like pregnant women just go on a boat
• 1:53:54
  Speaker 2: ride with their coworker friend.
• 1:53:58
  Speaker 1: It was definitely not romantic. She refused to take photos
• 1:54:05
  Speaker 1: with anyone, and he was like, I'll take one, but
• 1:54:07
  Speaker 1: you can't post it.
• 1:54:11
  Speaker 2: You take your sudoku, I'm gonna take my cross.
• 1:54:14
  Speaker 1: We'll sit on opposite ends of the boat.
• 1:54:16
  Speaker 2: Let's just go out as friend.
• 1:54:17
  Speaker 1: It's just I want to give me and my wife
• 1:54:19
  Speaker 1: want to gift you something during your pregnancy, little comfort
• 1:54:23
  Speaker 1: boat ride.
• 1:54:25
  Speaker 2: That's an easy one to explain to the wife. Hey,
• 1:54:30
  Speaker 2: what were you out doing today? I'm just hanging out
• 1:54:32
  Speaker 2: with pregnant Diana Russini.
• 1:54:34
  Speaker 1: I mean, is there's something off about that Mother's Day
• 1:54:39
  Speaker 1: on Sunday? Im not sure if you heard that. And
• 1:54:40
  Speaker 1: according to apparently every survey on Earth, all moms want
• 1:54:44
  Speaker 1: for Mother's Day is some free time. Time to do
• 1:54:47
  Speaker 1: absolutely nothing, relax, unwined, maybe read a book, kick their
• 1:54:51
  Speaker 1: feet up, have a glass of wine.
• 1:54:53
  Speaker 2: Sounds exactly what you're gonna do.
• 1:54:55
  Speaker 1: It sounds sounds easy enough, right, Yeah, exactly what I'm
• 1:54:57
  Speaker 1: gonna do. Mom's out there. Let me know how it goes.
• 1:55:02
  Speaker 2: As she downs her Yellowstone.
• 1:55:05
  Speaker 1: I will be in Lacey with a boatload of other moms,
• 1:55:08
  Speaker 1: not Mike Grabel, who would also like to be doing
• 1:55:12
  Speaker 1: that free time thing. But instead we're gonna be watching softball. Now,
• 1:55:16
  Speaker 1: before you go saying, oh god, you're a bad mom,
• 1:55:19
  Speaker 1: you don't want to go watch softball, I love watching
• 1:55:21
  Speaker 1: my kid's softball or her play softball. I should say
• 1:55:26
  Speaker 1: I watch about eight games a week lately.
• 1:55:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:55:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, And I just think if you're gonna acknowledge that
• 1:55:30
  Speaker 1: it's Mother's Day by calling something a mom celebration tournament,
• 1:55:36
  Speaker 1: you're missing the point. Mom doesn't need an entire softball
• 1:55:40
  Speaker 1: tournament to feel celebrated. Mom needs sleep. Mom needs a
• 1:55:43
  Speaker 1: clean house. Mom needs gas to be cheaper. Mom needs
• 1:55:47
  Speaker 1: to sleep in her own bed, mom needs booze.
• 1:55:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel bad for you. I do. I think
• 1:55:55
  Speaker 2: that is very shortsighted. Whoever did this tournament and they
• 1:55:59
  Speaker 2: don't get it, And that is really sad to say
• 1:56:01
  Speaker 2: at this stage in life that you don't understand that
• 1:56:04
  Speaker 2: a mom just wants to be sort of have her
• 1:56:06
  Speaker 2: day to herself. Yeah, just to herself and the people around,
• 1:56:09
  Speaker 2: not by herself.
• 1:56:10
  Speaker 1: But if it was a Father's Day tournament, all the
• 1:56:12
  Speaker 1: dads would be off doing their own thing and the
• 1:56:14
  Speaker 1: moms would be taking the kids to the tournament.
• 1:56:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, I feel really bad for you, But I'm
• 1:56:18
  Speaker 2: going to say something. I think I feel worse for
• 1:56:22
  Speaker 2: Mike Grabel because what on earth does he get Diana
• 1:56:26
  Speaker 2: Russini for Mother's Days?
• 1:56:28
  Speaker 1: Great question?
• 1:56:29
  Speaker 2: What about his wife? Yeah?
• 1:56:30
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, does he have to get her something too.
• 1:56:32
  Speaker 2: He's got to get her all the things.
• 1:56:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, good.
• 1:56:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but he's just going to try to kiss up
• 1:56:38
  Speaker 2: to But what how do you thread the needle of
• 1:56:41
  Speaker 2: my mom?
• 1:56:44
  Speaker 1: Do we even know it's not his child?
• 1:56:46
  Speaker 2: Don't? I want to get something to the affair that
• 1:56:50
  Speaker 2: I had that became public, that's been going on for
• 1:56:52
  Speaker 2: six years, and they may or may not be my children,
• 1:56:55
  Speaker 2: and you could be the mother of my children. And
• 1:56:57
  Speaker 2: yet I don't know, and yet maybe we do know,
• 1:57:00
  Speaker 2: And what do I what gift.
• 1:57:01
  Speaker 1: Says that I'll tell you. What we do know is
• 1:57:04
  Speaker 1: that Diana Russini had getting anything from her husband.
• 1:57:07
  Speaker 2: I would hope not. Yeah, I hope he's not. Like
• 1:57:10
  Speaker 2: I know, we've had some tumult here.
• 1:57:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah, here's a new diamond.
• 1:57:14
  Speaker 2: There's a bouquet of flowers. You've really had a hard time.
• 1:57:17
  Speaker 2: Show you how much you mean to me. I will oh.
• 1:57:20
  Speaker 1: I will also say this is not the only Mom's
• 1:57:22
  Speaker 1: Day tournament out there. We did get a listener text
• 1:57:24
  Speaker 1: on the Tacoma Dodge text line him and his wife
• 1:57:27
  Speaker 1: will be at the Bombs for Mom's Tournament. His wife's
• 1:57:31
  Speaker 1: pissed too, because yeah, it's a creative title. But mom
• 1:57:35
  Speaker 1: doesn't need bombs. Mom needs sleep. Mom needs a clean house.
• 1:57:41
  Speaker 1: Mom needs gas to be cheaper, Mom needs to sleep
• 1:57:45
  Speaker 1: in her own bed, Mom needs booze. Those are all
• 1:57:48
  Speaker 1: the things mom needs. Notice baseball and softball aren't on
• 1:57:52
  Speaker 1: the list.
• 1:57:52
  Speaker 2: Right right, Yeah as a really really big swing and
• 1:57:56
  Speaker 2: a miss.
• 1:57:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but there you go. You know what, Hey, they're like,
• 1:57:59
  Speaker 1: you know what We're gonna make moms be there, but
• 1:58:01
  Speaker 1: let's make them think it's for them.
• 1:58:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:58:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, there we go. That's it. That's the booze news.
• 1:58:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, you know what, Just because of that, I'm
• 1:58:09
  Speaker 2: going to go to watch some softball on Sunday. Maybe
• 1:58:13
  Speaker 2: I'll fill in for a mother. You can go home
• 1:58:15
  Speaker 2: and I'll just sit there in fear for her son
• 1:58:18
  Speaker 2: or daughter.
• 1:58:18
  Speaker 1: Walk up behind the mom, tap her on the shoulder. Yeah,
• 1:58:21
  Speaker 1: I'll take over.
• 1:58:22
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna go about this. Yeah, the Diana Russini Invitational.
• 1:58:25
  Speaker 2: Just gonna head on out there and have myself a
• 1:58:32
  Speaker 2: gay old time.
• 1:58:33
  Speaker 1: I love it. Yeah, let's do it. Bring some Yellowstone
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• 1:58:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that's good in this cup.
• 1:58:39
  Speaker 1: Is that's the old fashion. It's my favorite.
• 1:58:40
  Speaker 2: I don't want to steal it now, No, that's your cup.
• 1:58:43
  Speaker 2: Oh it is, but I need it for Fridays though.
• 1:58:46
  Speaker 1: Well, yeah, I got extras.
• 1:58:50
  Speaker 2: Oh I'm gonna take it. Yeah, all right, that'll do
• 1:58:52
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