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Chuck & Buck 5-12 Hour 2: Headlines and fixing Cal, Super Bowl predictions and an Emergency Reckless at Breakfast. · Chuck in the Morning

• 0:07
  Speaker 1: Two outs. Manah, when you're trying to finish it off,
• 0:10
  Speaker 1: he's too too. Let's strike a tend the game and
• 0:16
  Speaker 1: the Mariners take Game one, and race Moonhill strikes out
• 0:21
  Speaker 1: your don Albaaze to finish it off tonight. Yes, so
• 0:24
  Speaker 1: very aggressive.
• 0:25
  Speaker 2: Andrece Munio is using that fastball more than we've ever
• 0:28
  Speaker 2: seen him use.
• 0:29
  Speaker 1: It in an outing.
• 0:30
  Speaker 2: You through one hundred, you should be able.
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  Speaker 1: To do that. Seven o'clock hour, hour number two of
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  Speaker 1: Dave Valley, Aaron Goldsmith are part of the media. I
• 1:32
  Speaker 1: used that in a sentence there. Tom Mariners TV broadcast
• 1:35
  Speaker 1: last night. What the call? The Mariners do win over
• 1:38
  Speaker 1: the Houston Astros three to one the final score, so
• 1:42
  Speaker 1: they get their four game series in Houston. Started off
• 1:44
  Speaker 1: on a good note. George Kirby has been an Astros
• 1:47
  Speaker 1: killer throughout his young career and wasn't his best last night,
• 1:52
  Speaker 1: but certainly very good. He allowed just one run over
• 1:56
  Speaker 1: five innings, struck out seven batters, but lost track of
• 2:00
  Speaker 1: his pitch count. It got up on him and he
• 2:02
  Speaker 1: barely got out of the fifth inning before the team
• 2:05
  Speaker 1: turned things over to four different relievers to close out
• 2:09
  Speaker 1: the Astros, including two guys that we have not pressed
• 2:13
  Speaker 1: into that kind of role before, well at least one
• 2:15
  Speaker 1: of them. Nick Devila worked scoreless sixth, Cooper Criswell a
• 2:20
  Speaker 1: scoreless seventh, Bizardo and then Munos closed it out for
• 2:24
  Speaker 1: his eighth save of the year and looked very Munos
• 2:27
  Speaker 1: like I would agree with that. Yeah, yeah, that's our guy.
• 2:31
  Speaker 2: I gave up one hit yeh scared us a little bit. Yeah,
• 2:34
  Speaker 2: but other than that got it done.
• 2:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you kind of threw some nasty, nasty stuff to
• 2:40
  Speaker 1: Jordan Alfim.
• 2:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and that last pitch he struck him out on.
• 2:42
  Speaker 1: I was like, oh, good word, good job man. So
• 2:46
  Speaker 1: three to one the final score of the Mariners, now
• 2:48
  Speaker 1: twenty and twenty two on the season. They will face
• 2:52
  Speaker 1: the Astros again tonight. It'll be Brian Woo versus tatsua Emi.
• 2:57
  Speaker 1: That is your pitching matchup. First pitch is at five ten,
• 3:01
  Speaker 1: and I would assume the team will be without Jose
• 3:03
  Speaker 1: Ferrer again today. He was sent on paternity leave, and
• 3:07
  Speaker 1: so we might have to see a patchwork bullpen again
• 3:11
  Speaker 1: tonight to get us through it. But of course the
• 3:14
  Speaker 1: main goal is for Brian wo to go eight innings
• 3:16
  Speaker 1: or so. That would help a lot. Brian. I mean
• 3:19
  Speaker 1: I'm not just don't ask you for a lot. I
• 3:22
  Speaker 1: mean you've never helped me move.
• 3:23
  Speaker 2: I would ask you for anything.
• 3:24
  Speaker 1: Actually, yeah, you never bought me lunch. I never looked
• 3:27
  Speaker 1: at you and like, hey man, I'm a little short
• 3:28
  Speaker 1: on rent this month. I think you could help a
• 3:31
  Speaker 1: brother out.
• 3:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's never offered either.
• 3:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so I don't know. Think you owe me a favor, frankly,
• 3:37
  Speaker 1: a personal favor, and I would like to cash it
• 3:39
  Speaker 1: in a little bit tonight. Give us eight shutout innings.
• 3:42
  Speaker 1: What do you say, Bud, be a pal, Yeah, be
• 3:45
  Speaker 1: a pal. Let's take a look at your frost brewed.
• 3:48
  Speaker 1: Of course, like choose chill headlines before we continue with
• 3:51
  Speaker 1: the Mariners conversation. I mean, because if Brian Will gives
• 3:56
  Speaker 1: me this favor, I might ask for a car. The
• 3:59
  Speaker 1: NFL schedule will be released officially on Thursday. We already
• 4:03
  Speaker 1: got a leak this morning. The Kansas City Chiefs and
• 4:06
  Speaker 1: Denver Broncos are going to play Monday night football. The
• 4:09
  Speaker 1: first Monday night football game of the year. Might be
• 4:12
  Speaker 1: the second technically, because we've been doing the two Monday
• 4:15
  Speaker 1: night football games on opening weekend.
• 4:17
  Speaker 3: Did text into the Tacoma Dodge text land and say,
• 4:19
  Speaker 3: didn't they say they're not going to do maybe to
• 4:21
  Speaker 3: at least an opening week.
• 4:23
  Speaker 1: Maybe maybe, maybe that's true. But we do know the
• 4:26
  Speaker 1: Kansas City Chiefs and Denver Broncos are going to play
• 4:29
  Speaker 1: Monday night football of the opening weekend. We don't even
• 4:32
  Speaker 1: know if it's in Kansas City or Denver. At least
• 4:34
  Speaker 1: I haven't seen that updated to this point, but it
• 4:38
  Speaker 1: does eliminate another possible home opener season opener opponent for
• 4:44
  Speaker 1: the Seahawks on Wednesday to begin the year. The Kansas
• 4:49
  Speaker 1: City Chiefs were a candidate to play that game a
• 4:52
  Speaker 1: rematch against ken Walker. That's not going to not a
• 4:55
  Speaker 1: rematch but a matchup against ken Walker, So that's not
• 4:59
  Speaker 1: going to happen. It's looking very much like it will
• 5:02
  Speaker 1: be the Bears that the Seahawks will start with. Let's
• 5:08
  Speaker 1: say elsewhere in our cors like choos Chill headlines. It's
• 5:11
  Speaker 1: PGA Championship week as well, so the second major of
• 5:15
  Speaker 1: the year will start on Thursday. Will do a lot
• 5:18
  Speaker 1: on that tomorrow. It's preaking this week. So the second
• 5:22
  Speaker 1: Crown of the Triple Crown, a second Jewel of the
• 5:25
  Speaker 1: Triple Crown, will be held this Saturday. But we won't
• 5:28
  Speaker 1: have a Triple Crown winner this year because Golden Tempo
• 5:31
  Speaker 1: is not going to race the Kentucky Derby winner. NBA
• 5:34
  Speaker 1: Playoffs last night, Okase ouse the Lakers from the playoffs
• 5:39
  Speaker 1: in four straight games. They are now eight and oh
• 5:42
  Speaker 1: in the playoffs. The Thunder they haven't even had Jalen
• 5:45
  Speaker 1: Williams available to them their second best player, and they've
• 5:48
  Speaker 1: gone eight to no so far in the playoffs. San
• 5:51
  Speaker 1: Antonio is going to be taken to at least six
• 5:53
  Speaker 1: games with the Minnesota Timberwolves, so okac's gonna have all
• 5:58
  Speaker 1: that rest in the West for the Western Conference Finals
• 6:01
  Speaker 1: and whoever comes out of the Minnesota San Antonio series
• 6:05
  Speaker 1: will not be able to say the same. Tonight Minnesota
• 6:09
  Speaker 1: san Antonio in Texas Game number five. And yes, Wimby
• 6:12
  Speaker 1: will play in the game. He was not suspended for
• 6:15
  Speaker 1: the elbow he threw at nas Reed Cleveland and the
• 6:17
  Speaker 1: squared there series with Detroit last night, so the Cavaliers
• 6:22
  Speaker 1: and Pistons were even at two games apiece. Finally, Stanley
• 6:25
  Speaker 1: Cup Playoffs, Colorado is up three to one on the
• 6:28
  Speaker 1: Minnesota Wild. They won five to two last night Buffalo
• 6:31
  Speaker 1: at Montreal, Tonight at Anaheim at Las Vegas. There you go.
• 6:34
  Speaker 1: Those are your frost brewed cors like choos chill headlines
• 6:38
  Speaker 1: here on this Tuesday. And the Mariners do win over
• 6:41
  Speaker 1: the Houston Astros. It is nice we seem to add
• 6:45
  Speaker 1: the upper hand in that relationship right now. Feels good.
• 6:48
  Speaker 2: I enjoy it. A lot more than when it was
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  Speaker 2: the other way.
• 6:51
  Speaker 1: Yes, for sure.
• 6:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I didn't like it when they owned us. Yeah,
• 6:54
  Speaker 2: I like owning them to keep doing that.
• 6:57
  Speaker 1: And look, I mean we've actually fared really well against them.
• 7:00
  Speaker 1: Even when the Astros were still winning the division. The
• 7:04
  Speaker 1: Mariners were playing well heads up against them. So I
• 7:07
  Speaker 1: don't think there was there's been an intimidation factor with
• 7:11
  Speaker 1: the Astros in four to five years. I really don't. Now. Now,
• 7:15
  Speaker 1: we still have a lot to do to settle the
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  Speaker 1: score because they owned the division for a decade and
• 7:21
  Speaker 1: we're coming off our first division champion in a quarter century,
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  Speaker 1: and so there's a lot to do to settle the score.
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  Speaker 1: But not only have they not played intimidated by the
• 7:32
  Speaker 1: Houston Astros the last few seasons, now they seem to me.
• 7:38
  Speaker 1: I don't want to get carried away because we see
• 7:39
  Speaker 1: I'll have three more games to play against them. But
• 7:41
  Speaker 1: we kind of used them to get well against I
• 7:44
  Speaker 1: mean earlier in the year that the Mariners.
• 7:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's for sure.
• 7:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah, And now here you are losing two out of
• 7:50
  Speaker 1: three to the Chicago White Sox. It's all right, it's
• 7:52
  Speaker 1: the Astros. We always get well against them. That's quite
• 7:55
  Speaker 1: the reverse of fortune.
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  Speaker 3: It is because you, yeah, you used to be just
• 7:58
  Speaker 3: even two years ago when it as you could see
• 8:00
  Speaker 3: that we were starting to at least even out. It
• 8:03
  Speaker 3: was still a scary thing when you had the face
• 8:04
  Speaker 3: and still would you know, we would, as fans especially
• 8:07
  Speaker 3: stress out.
• 8:08
  Speaker 2: So to have it be the opposite now and not be.
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  Speaker 3: Even remotely scared, I mean, I'm a little scared regardless
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  Speaker 3: of who were playing at this point, with how the Mariners.
• 8:19
  Speaker 2: Are playing, but not nearly what I used to be.
• 8:23
  Speaker 1: So Mariners went last night by a final score of
• 8:25
  Speaker 1: three to one over the Houston Astros. Julio with a
• 8:29
  Speaker 1: big fly home run, some aggressive base coaching early in
• 8:34
  Speaker 1: the contest which led to two runs that ended up
• 8:36
  Speaker 1: being the difference in the game. George Kirby not great,
• 8:40
  Speaker 1: but sound, and he got through five innings with the lead,
• 8:43
  Speaker 1: and then the bullpen did its job, Davila, Criswell, Bizardo
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  Speaker 1: and Munos closing it out for a three to one victory.
• 8:52
  Speaker 1: So good. Hopefully it launches something. Hopefully it gets the
• 8:55
  Speaker 1: team on the right track. Of course they don't. They
• 8:58
  Speaker 1: actually hate momentum them as an organization.
• 9:01
  Speaker 2: We don't need any of that.
• 9:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, like, momentum in the spring just don't go together
• 9:06
  Speaker 1: in Mariner's Baseball and the Jerry Depoto era. So we'll
• 9:11
  Speaker 1: we'll try to tap into momentum. We'll try to cash
• 9:14
  Speaker 1: in on that, say July, August, and September. But right now, no,
• 9:19
  Speaker 1: we don't take advantage of anything positive.
• 9:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah, late summer's more of our momentum time of year.
• 9:25
  Speaker 1: Anything early, the momentum is in bloom finally.
• 9:28
  Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly, it's just you're you're trying to pick the
• 9:31
  Speaker 3: fruit off the tree too early, and it's very bitter.
• 9:34
  Speaker 1: Aren't strawberries a summer fruit?
• 9:36
  Speaker 3: Yes?
• 9:37
  Speaker 1: They are.
• 9:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so yeah, just wait, wait till they're right. Stop
• 9:40
  Speaker 3: trying to make momentum happen.
• 9:42
  Speaker 1: Right, We're not a bed of flowers. We're more like
• 9:45
  Speaker 1: a patch of strawberries. That's the Mariner's Baseball.
• 9:49
  Speaker 2: Bring it on in July.
• 9:51
  Speaker 1: So, but a lot of good stuff from last night,
• 9:54
  Speaker 1: and so I hesitate to bring up something bad, but
• 9:57
  Speaker 1: I really from yeah, yesterday we talked about it a
• 10:02
  Speaker 1: little bit. But from the time we finished the show
• 10:06
  Speaker 1: to this morning, because we have Ryan Healy on at
• 10:08
  Speaker 1: nine o'clock, we don't have Bucky right now. So normally
• 10:10
  Speaker 1: we would be leaning really heavily into forcing Bucky to
• 10:14
  Speaker 1: fix cal Raleigh right now. What's wrong with his swing,
• 10:17
  Speaker 1: what's wrong with his approach, what's happening with him? And
• 10:20
  Speaker 1: I've played a little bit of amateur baseball analyst with that,
• 10:25
  Speaker 1: but I really want to get to the bottom of
• 10:27
  Speaker 1: it because we're gonna need this guy. I know we
• 10:29
  Speaker 1: won last night, and I know he contributed heavily to
• 10:31
  Speaker 1: the victory last night. I mean he caught Kirby d Vila,
• 10:34
  Speaker 1: criswel Bizardo in munios. He was a huge part of
• 10:37
  Speaker 1: that game plan. He always is, but for four again
• 10:42
  Speaker 1: last night, which means cal rally is over his last
• 10:44
  Speaker 1: thirty six. He has never looked worse or more lost,
• 10:50
  Speaker 1: I think, at any time in his career. And remember
• 10:55
  Speaker 1: cal didn't exactly take the league by fire. He was
• 10:58
  Speaker 1: striking out a lot early in his career and he
• 11:02
  Speaker 1: had to kind of punch through that. Once upon a time,
• 11:05
  Speaker 1: he shared the catching duties with with oh gosh, damn
• 11:10
  Speaker 1: with Tom Murphy. If you can't forget Murphy. Yeah, So
• 11:15
  Speaker 1: he's just in a bad place right now. He's even
• 11:17
  Speaker 1: told the reporters, it's terrible. He's got a two thirty
• 11:20
  Speaker 1: eight on base percentage, one fifty seven batting average. And
• 11:25
  Speaker 1: I heard what Jay said that at the end of
• 11:28
  Speaker 1: the year. Boy, even as bad as season as he's having,
• 11:31
  Speaker 1: if you can just times everything by four, he's at
• 11:34
  Speaker 1: twenty eight thirty home runs this year and that's still
• 11:36
  Speaker 1: a good year. No, it's not. Because a batting average
• 11:41
  Speaker 1: times four is still one fifty seven.
• 11:44
  Speaker 2: That's not great, Jay, that's not.
• 11:45
  Speaker 1: Only not great.
• 11:46
  Speaker 3: That is.
• 11:48
  Speaker 1: You hit eighth, ninth in the lineup, and the only
• 11:51
  Speaker 1: reason you're in the lineup is for your defense, because
• 11:54
  Speaker 1: you're a catcher. I mean, we have to accept I
• 11:57
  Speaker 1: mean I've accepted long ago cal Rawley's ever going to
• 12:01
  Speaker 1: be a three hundred hitter, a two eighty hitter. I
• 12:05
  Speaker 1: think that there might be seasons where he does it
• 12:08
  Speaker 1: two twenty to two forty. Uh but one sixty actually
• 12:13
  Speaker 1: one fifty seven. No, No, that's that's not acceptable. Now
• 12:18
  Speaker 1: we know what the team has invested in him, we
• 12:20
  Speaker 1: know what he did just a year ago, and we
• 12:22
  Speaker 1: know that it's still mid May, so there's a lot
• 12:25
  Speaker 1: of time to come out of this. I mean, my goodness,
• 12:26
  Speaker 1: showe Aotani can't get a hit right now, Shoe Aotani
• 12:29
  Speaker 1: might be the one guy slumping as badly, and the
• 12:34
  Speaker 1: superstar department is cal Raley right now. And don't you
• 12:37
  Speaker 1: have every faith that Shoe a Otani is still going
• 12:40
  Speaker 1: to end up having a successful year. Of course he will,
• 12:43
  Speaker 1: and I think cal will come out of this, but
• 12:46
  Speaker 1: there's a lot of work to do here. And as
• 12:49
  Speaker 1: as playing, you know, sort of the Bucky fill in
• 12:53
  Speaker 1: on this. I mean, I've been saying this all season long,
• 12:58
  Speaker 1: and we heard Dave talking about last night, we talked
• 13:00
  Speaker 1: talking heard Jay talk about it last night, we talked
• 13:03
  Speaker 1: heard Harold Reynolds talk about it yesterday on MLB Network.
• 13:06
  Speaker 1: He's just not on time with the fastball, and until
• 13:09
  Speaker 1: you get on time with the fastball, you're never going
• 13:13
  Speaker 1: to hit at the major league level. And cal Raley,
• 13:17
  Speaker 1: on top of that, is pretty much swinging at everything.
• 13:20
  Speaker 1: As Aaron I thought very appropriately pointed out last night,
• 13:25
  Speaker 1: I mean, he's he's not taking pitches because he's so
• 13:30
  Speaker 1: insecure right now about hitting behind in the count. He's
• 13:34
  Speaker 1: trying to jump on something so that he can just
• 13:37
  Speaker 1: get it hit, so that he can just contribute so
• 13:39
  Speaker 1: he can time something up. And so he's pretty much
• 13:43
  Speaker 1: swinging at everything, and teams are taking advantage of what
• 13:48
  Speaker 1: is a slow bat right now, a lack of confidence
• 13:52
  Speaker 1: and the fact that he's over aggressive at the plate,
• 13:56
  Speaker 1: and so they are just peppering him with fastballs above
• 14:00
  Speaker 1: strike zone and he is swinging through all of them
• 14:03
  Speaker 1: because he can't catch up to them. And so I
• 14:06
  Speaker 1: think Bucky would give him the advice that Jay Buhner
• 14:09
  Speaker 1: shared last night. You just got to look fastball, period.
• 14:12
  Speaker 1: If you got to start early, you got to start early.
• 14:14
  Speaker 1: If you end up looking foolish because they break off
• 14:18
  Speaker 1: a breaking ball, then look foolish. But until you can
• 14:21
  Speaker 1: catch up with the fastball, you're not gonna be able
• 14:25
  Speaker 1: to hit Son. So cal Rawley, I didn't think that
• 14:29
  Speaker 1: he would be going through something like this. All hitters do,
• 14:33
  Speaker 1: including Aaron Judge, but he is going through a period
• 14:37
  Speaker 1: right now in the season where he has a liability
• 14:40
  Speaker 1: at the plate. And so they've moved him to fourth,
• 14:44
  Speaker 1: but that's still a really big spot in the order.
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: They might have to take it a step further until
• 14:49
  Speaker 1: he can get right. Take him down to sixth, take
• 14:52
  Speaker 1: him down to seventh, maybe in the lineup right now.
• 14:55
  Speaker 1: But he is a broken hitter right now, and the
• 14:57
  Speaker 1: same guys that were whispering in his ear last during
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: a sixty homer season are the same guys there. So
• 15:03
  Speaker 1: you know that Kevin Seitzer and Edgar Martinez are giving
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: him sound advice, he can't execute it right now. Then
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: you add the psychology of the sport where all of
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: a sudden, you think you're doing all the things that
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: you should be doing to get out of your slump,
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: and nobody's going to ever question Cayl Roley's work ethic.
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: I promise you he's taken extra VP, and then he's
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: gone through a stretch of maybe I'm taking too much VP.
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: So he's working his tail off, and it's a big tail.
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: He's working his tail off to get right for this
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: team right now. But knowing that he's working hard, he's
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: getting the right advice, he knows what he's doing wrong,
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: and he still can't even come close to medicating it,
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: to fixing the wound. At this point shows you just
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: how difficult this game is, how hard it is to
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: hit at the major league level, even for someone who
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: a year ago achieved something we never thought we would
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: see from a catcher sixty home runs in a season.
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: But even the pre sixty homer cal Raley was an
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: all star caliber catcher, and so we went into this
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: season saying, as you know, we can't expect him to
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: hit sixty home runs. So as long as he's still
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: the cal Raley that we knew prior to twenty twenty five,
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: then we're good. We're good with that cal Raley. But
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: right now he's nowhere close to being that and it
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: has to get fixed.
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah, And yesterday, sitting into our post show meeting, our
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: boss said, is this the most disappointing, you know, MVP
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: to MVP runner up to follow up year from anybody
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: we've ever seen. And you have to look at it
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: and say, at least for the start, Yeah, this is
• 16:46
  Speaker 3: extremely disappointing, and obviously no more disappointing to us than
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: it is to cal Rawley.
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: He's the one that's trying to fix it and working
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: hard to fix it.
• 16:54
  Speaker 3: And you know, talking about the mental aspect of it,
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: I go back to Rob Refsneinder talking about on a
• 16:59
  Speaker 3: smaller scale, obviously what he was dealing with at the
• 17:01
  Speaker 3: start of the season and unable to get a hit
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: and the mental toll it takes, and how many many
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: conversations he was having with like their mental coaches and
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: the mental side of things and trying, you know, just
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: trying to will yourself to figure it out and get right.
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: And then it's just kind of a vicious circle, right
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: because it's if then you go out there and you think, Okay,
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: today's the day I'm going.
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: To fix it. This is going to be good.
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: Then you could you know, you go oh for four.
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: All right, Now I got to go back and try
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: to figure it out again tomorrow. So what did I
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: do today? And you're just in your head so much.
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: It just you know, the between the ears things. Bucky
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: would say, you got to get all of it right.
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: Well, I mean every time he hits a ball hard,
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: he's out in front of it and he pulls it
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: down the line, and then he suddenly goes into a
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: hole and now he doesn't want to go oh two,
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: so he tends to swing out of the strike zone
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: and then he's O two and now he's susceptible to
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: everything because not only does the pitcher have him at
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: a disadvantage, he also doesn't have the confidence hitting down
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: in the lineup so he's swinging. As Aaron pointed out,
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: he's he's swinging more than he normally does, so he
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: doesn't even have an eye of the strike zone right now.
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: And then when he doesn't swing, it's usually on a
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: called strike three. So it's like that's when you need
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: to perhaps have to go out of your strike zone.
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: So that's how off he is. I mean, they used
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: to say about Greg Maddox. When Greg Maddox was on
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: his game, he would get you to swing at balls
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: and take strikes. I mean, think about that and go
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: watch some Greg Maddox. He was unbelievable about it. He
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: had hitters tied in such knots with the movement of
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: his pitches and his mastery over them psychologically that he
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: would get them to swing at stuff that wasn't in
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: the strike zone and they would take all of the
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: stuff that was in the strike zone. I mean, that
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: is mastering the hitter. And right now cal Raley's like
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: the opposite of that is every at bat, like facing
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: Greg Maddox, he seems to be swinging in everything early,
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: whether it's in the strike zone or not, and then
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: when he's in the hole, he ends up taking some
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: sort of backdoor slider in the zone and so he's stuck.
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: He's stuck, and it happens to the best of baseball players.
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: Like I said, it's happening to show a Otani right
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: now too. I watched him play last night against the
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: San Francisco Giants, that's not a good pitching staff, and
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: he looked absolutely lost. I mean, he looked just as
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: lost as cal Rawley. So if it can happen to
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: show a they can pretty much happen to anybody. Aaron
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: Judge goes through these long stretches of ineffectiveness. He's just
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: going through it right now. I have every faith he's
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: going to come out of it. I have every faith
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: that we're going to end up with a thirty five
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: home run season out of cal Rawley had a batting
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: average probably around two twenty five because he has such
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: a big hole to dig out of. But I'll take
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: thirty five homers to twenty five batting average and excellent
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: defense from cal Rawley. That's fine. That is just fine.
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: What we're not going to be able to achieve our
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: goals with is if our best player is hitting one
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: fifty seven. So no, we can't just times it by
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: four and say it's good enough, because it is not
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: good enough. And we had to call out even our
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: most favorite players when they are slumping and struggling and
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: costing the team. And that's what he's doing right now.
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and is and he knows that, and that's probably
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: just eating them up inside.
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: And especially for the season to have started with him
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: and Naylor and Julio all really cold, and now you've
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: seen Naylor and Julio figure their stuff out and he's
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: still there figuring it out. That's got to also be
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: just extra annoying to him that he's the one that
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: can't figure it out.
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's torturing him. You can see it in
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: his face. I see I get it.
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: I don't blame him.
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: You can see it on every pitch, you can see
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: it in the in the dugout. Even as Ashley pointed out,
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: even with the victory last night, where he did his
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: job behind the plate last night wasn't the same, you know,
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: look on his face after a victory. He's just he's
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: really fighting it right now, all right. Coming up next
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: on the radio program at his NFL schedule week, who
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: do we have scheduled to play the last game of
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: the season this year in the NFL, I mean the
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: very last one, the Super Bowl one. Well, somebody's come
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: up with the five possible Super Bowl matchups, and so
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: we're going to go over that list next. Sports Radio
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: ninety three point three KJRFM. All right, good morning to you,
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: Chuck and Ashley. Whether it is NFL schedule release week
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: on Thursday, we'll know everything. But in the meantime, we
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: sit around waiting for leaks.
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: Leaks everywhere.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: Welcome leakage. That's what we're doing.
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: Sound great when you put it that way.
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we got buckets in our hands and we're just waiting.
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: We're just staring up at the NFL roof and waiting
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: for it to leak.
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: Like there's a lot of other things we could do
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: that would be a better use of our time, right, Yeah,
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: but they want us to talk about lakes.
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: I know. So we got one this morning. I don't
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: know if we've gotten any more. I guess I should
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: have checked that, but we did get one this morning.
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: And it does pertain to trying to figure out the
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: mystery that is, who will the Seahawks open their defense
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: against for the Super Bowl On the opening Wednesday of
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: the year, and that is that the Denver Broncos and
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: Kansas City Chiefs are going to square off on Monday
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: Night football, September fourteenth, that's the opening weekend of the
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: NFL season, which it takes another team off of the
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: possibilities for the Seahawks in Game number one, because the
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: Chiefs were one of the nine teams that we could
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: have faced in this opener. So that takes the Cowboys, Giants, Chiefs, Rams,
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: and forty nine ers off the board. It leaves just
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: the Cardinals, Chargers, Bears, and Patriots. We don't think the
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: Cardinals and Patriot it makes sense. So it really comes
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: down to Chargers and Bears. And we have already said
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: we think it's going to be the Bears.
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: Chargers and Bears and Bears.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: Oh my, but I want to know who's going to
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: play in the last game. Do you think they'll reveal
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: that on Thursday? Who's going to play in the last
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: game of the football season?
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: Oh gosh? If they did, would that take all the
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: suspense out of the season.
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: It might? It might If we found out who the
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: Seahawks would play in the Super Bowl Thursday.
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: I'd still enjoy the whole season.
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: It's fine, but there has been a sight out there
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: Yahoo that has decided to predict what they believe are
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: the five most likely Super Bowl matchups at the end
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: of the year. So we're going to go through the list.
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: Let's do it. Are we starting at one or five?
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: You can either way.
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: I'll start at one.
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: They think the most likely super Bowl game will be
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: between the Los Angeles Rams and the Buffalo Bills.
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: Idiots make it to the super Bowl again.
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, in all honesty, I get why they would make
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: the Los Angeles Rams the favorite. Very hard to repeat
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: in the National Football League. There was such closeitness to
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: the quality of the Rams and the Seahawks. We can
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: all admit that. We can all recognize that. And even
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: though Matt Stafford will be a year older, he was
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: the best quarterback in the National Football League last year,
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: so I don't see some dramatic drop off. They did
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: improve their secondary immensely, which was their big weakness. They
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: got some JSN insurance, so I will go ahead and
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: acknowledge I think the Seahawks are the team to beat
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: this year. But I can see why anyone would think
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: that the Los Angeles Rams. So I'm actually all right
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: with that portion of it. It's the Buffalo portion that
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: bothers me. How on earth after the Buffalo Bills took
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: a step back and have hired an offensive coordinator from
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: within and didn't really improve the team much with the
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: exception of DJ Moore in the offseason, I don't see
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: this team being the favorite to break through this year.
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: I put them as a top five candidate, but it's
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: hard for me to believe that they would be the
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: favorite to win the AFC.
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: This year, that after all their struggles that they've had
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: to get to the Super Bowl in past years, that
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: all of a sudden, this would be the year they'd
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: break through.
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: It does seem it does seem like an odd choice.
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: I'd name them a candidate. I'd name them a top five,
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: top six in a very evenly dispersed AFC. Where in
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: the NFC, I think there are only three teams that
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: I see as possible Super Bowl participants this year. Not possible,
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: but probable. I mean we are talking about the top
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: five right the probable Where I'd like, if it was
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: a roulette board, if there was an NFC roulette board,
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: I would put all my money on three teams. Okay,
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: if I was an AFC roulette wheel. I'd probably put
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: a little bit of money on about eight or nine
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: teams to make it to the super Bowl.
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: Well, let's see if your three teams are three teams
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: that they've put in from the NFC, let's do that.
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: The second most likely super Bowl scenario, they say will
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: be the Denver Broncos versus the Seattle Seahawks.
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: Oh so that's a humdinger. That's a humdinger right there.
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: I liked the way it went the last time we
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: played Denver in the Super Bowl, Yeah.
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: Exactly that that worked out alright, and it was very
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: close to us playing them. I mean, bo Nix doesn't
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: get hurt. The Patriots aren't beating them, absolutely. Yeah. So
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: I mean Bucky's fear that he was heading down that
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: road again with the Seahawks looking clearly like the best
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: team in the NFL, the fear that he had of
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: getting blown out by the Seahawks. He said on our airwaves,
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: I'd rather than there's part of me that doesn't even
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: want them to make it.
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah, because he didn't want to go through it again.
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: And I can understand that now. He was like, obviously,
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: I'd rather have him make it and that happen than
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: not make it. But yeah that he still gets reminded
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: of that score every single multiple times a year.
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, every day by Ashley. Actually he just puts it
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: right there. If it's the final score right there, it
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: is workspace. I mean get I get Denver. I'd put
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: a little I'd put a stack on the AFC roulette
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: wheel for Denver, and I think i'd put my biggest
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: stack on the NFC wheel for the Seahawks. So I
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: don't know if I'd have my biggest AFC stack, but
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: credit to Sean Payton man. They turned that thing around
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: in a blink. And I do think Bonnicks is a
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: lot better than what a lot of people thought he
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: was coming out of college. And I suspect he's going
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: to get even better this year. So yeah, I'd put
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: them as a top three, top four AFC contender for sure.
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: So I think this is a more likely scenario than
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: game one.
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: All right, how about scenario three?
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: Then the oh we're back to the LA Rams this
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: time they'd be playing the Kansas City Chiefs.
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: Well, we're doing the top five, as far as Yahoo concerns,
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: the five most likely Super Bowl matchups, So They've got
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: Rams and two of the first three. So they're clearly saying,
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: we think the Rams are the favorite. And so okay,
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: we're going to go ahead and acknowledge that you think
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: the Rams are the favorite. I can see why you
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: might say that Kansas City. I don't have them in
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: my top five AFC teams, and I have all the
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: faith that Patrick Mahomes is still going to have. Patrick
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: Mahomes is going to have this first stretch of his career,
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: and then there's going to be Travis Kelcey's eventually going
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: to retire, and then I think he's going to have
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: another stretch where he's going to win a couple of
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: Super Bowls. I think he's going to have two big
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: blocks of winning. But I can't imagine after the two
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: years ago, the team that just kept winning by a
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: point and people were wondering, how are they pulling this off? Well,
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: that was obviously an indication of what was coming. And
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: I know they made it the Super Bowl that year,
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: it was an indication that they were starting to slide.
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: And then last year they were bad. They weren't even
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: they were barely competitive a year ago. It's hard for
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: me to believe as much as I believe in Mahomes
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: and Reid, it's hard for me to believe that that
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: roster can be fixed in one offseason and they're right
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: back on top again this year.
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and especially because again there's quite a few AFC
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: opponents that are gonna be tougher than there this year. Okay,
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: number four matchup, This one the outlier of all five
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: of them, The Philadelphia Eagles versus the Houston Texans.
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: I kind of like this one, do you. I mean,
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: I don't want this one, but Philadelphia is that third
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: team on the NFC board, and they would have the
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: smallest stack of chips that I would be betting on.
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: Houston might be my favorite.
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: Really.
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: Now, c J. Stroud obviously has to get fixed. I mean,
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: he was filling his jersey pants with pooh. Yeah at
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: the end of last year.
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: C J.
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: Stroud not good.
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: You can't win with a quarterback who's scared.
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: Oh, but but they still almost won that game when
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: he was soiling his armor. They still almost won that game.
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: That's how great their defense is. They've improved their running
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: game in the offseason, and I just got to believe CJ.
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: Stroud has a bounced back season this year. So I
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: think the Texans are very dangerous. I think the Philadelphia
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: Eagles are very dangerous. I could see this one happening,
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: but it wouldn't certainly be above Houston Seattle or Houston.
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: Rams, right, Okay, all right?
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: And that brings us to our fifth and final projected matchup,
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: the Kansas City Chiefs back in it again.
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: Playing the Seattle Seahawks be a fun super Bowl. It
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: would be a fun super Bowl.
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: But you know one we haven't seen played Ken Walker
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: that Super Bowl MVP against his former team. You know,
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: Mahomes obviously must have had a magical, like the greatest
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: year in Patrick Mahomes' career to come back from that
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: injury and lead his team back to the Super Bowl.
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: I mean, that would be if that's what we're dealing with,
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: that'd be a remarkable story. Kansas City Chiefs, best team
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: in the last ten years with the best quarterback of
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: modern day against a team trying to go back to
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: back and right the wrongs from Super Bowl's pass.
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: And everyone who was so mad that there were no
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: fun storylines in this year's Super Bowl would be so
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: thrilled that they'd have something storylineing to talk about.
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: Oh look, now we've got superstars we could talk about.
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: I had a chance to get Taylor on our show.
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, that would be amazing. That said again,
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: does this mean they think the Chiefs even though they
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: put the Bills number one, they have the Chiefs on
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: two of their five games. Does this mean that they
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: think the Chiefs are the favorite in the AFC? Does
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: this mean they've completely overlooked I think Jacksonville and how
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: good they were at the end of last season and
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: should have kept playing. Or the Chargers, if they can
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: keep their offensive line healthy, it might be the difference
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: between them being a contender. They didn't even put them
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: on the board. I would have had a different AFC
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: team in every slot, and I'm not sure I would
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: have had the Chiefs in any one of the slots.
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: And I think that's a fair thing to say.
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, but yeah, I mean, at the end of
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: the conversation, crap list.
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, clearly. I mean there's two spots that have something
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: right with the Seahawks in there.
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: If I had to pick it now, and thank god
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: we don't, I would say, if I'm making the NFL
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: schedule on Thursday, I would say, and there's a little
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: homer in this. I'll admit I would go Seattle, Houston,
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: all right, that would be my stot.
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: I'd say Seattle, Denver, Seattle, Denver.
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: All right, all right, final list, all right, coming up next,
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: we have a reckless at breakfast for you know, it's
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: not Wednesday. This is an emergency reckless at breakfast. This
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: list has to be given out today at this very
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: moment because Spencer Hawes is coming on the show at
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: eight o'clock and he needs to tell me I'm crazy.
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM being card today.
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: Good morning, it is Chuck and Ashley, and yes, we
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: are going to get a little reckless at breakfast this morning.
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: We'll do it again tomorrow at seven forty five as well.
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: It's normal slot. But I have an emergency reckless at
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: breakfast because we may have I don't think we did,
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: but we may have seen Lebron james last basketball game
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: last night. He was knocked out of the playoffs by
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: the Oklahoma City Thunder never did get Luka Doncic by
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: his side for a single playoff game, and he is
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: dismissed unceremoniously by a rolling OKC in four straight games.
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: So did Lebron play his last game? I don't think so,
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: but there is a chance that we now have his
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: full resume. And so this is something that I've been
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: sitting on for a while, and today seems like the
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: day to use it. My top ten NBA players of
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: all time, And the reason that I'm bringing it up
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: is to put Lebron in his proper perspective, because I
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: am a Lebron fan. I know a lot of you
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  Speaker 1: out there aren't. Bucky is not. Actually I think's kind
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  Speaker 1: of in between.
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  Speaker 2: I don't mind him.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I'm not like, oh my god, Lebron's awesome,
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  Speaker 3: but I admire what he's done.
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  Speaker 1: Fane loves him, Hugh hates him, you know that sort
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  Speaker 1: of thing. But nonetheless, I am a Jordan first guy.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think Lebron has achieved Michael Jordan's status. Michael
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  Speaker 1: Jordan is number one on my list, I would agree.
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  Speaker 1: I have a feeling Michael Jordan's going to remain number
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  Speaker 1: one on my list until I die, until you put
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  Speaker 1: the coins on my eyes.
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  Speaker 2: Unless Bronni James can come up and swoop that spot.
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  Speaker 1: That's not going to happen. So Jordan's number one on
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  Speaker 1: my list. To me, Lebron James is number two and
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  Speaker 1: though So here's the reckless part, here's the here's the
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  Speaker 1: significant part of why I'm making this list because I
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  Speaker 1: think that Lebron is a lot closer to one, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm not saying he's close, but I think he's a
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  Speaker 1: lot closer to one. Then three is to him. Okay, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: So that's the reckless at breakfast part of all of this,
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  Speaker 1: because anybody can come up with their top ten lists,
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  Speaker 1: but I think Lebron. The gap between Lebron and who's
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  Speaker 1: three is wider than the gap which is significant between
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  Speaker 1: him and Jordan at two and one. Okay, So three
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  Speaker 1: is Magic Johnson and four is Larry Bird on my list,
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  Speaker 1: And you want to talk about the two most important
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  Speaker 1: players in NBA history, Jordan and Lebron. Can't hold a
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  Speaker 1: candle to these dudes. The league was getting ready to
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  Speaker 1: fall apart until Magic and Larry came on the scene.
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  Speaker 1: And it wasn't just because of the white black thing either.
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  Speaker 1: They were also took over a league that was known
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  Speaker 1: for cocaine more than it was for competitive basketball, and
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  Speaker 1: then all of a sudden we got thrust into our
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  Speaker 1: basketball world two guys who were animalistic competitors, well rounded players.
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  Speaker 1: I mean almost like they were delivered to the NBA
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  Speaker 1: by God to save the NBA. They were the perfect
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  Speaker 1: one two tandem to turn around the league, and not
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  Speaker 1: just from a perception standpoint, but they put pressure on
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  Speaker 1: all other players to take the damn thing. Seriously. We're
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  Speaker 1: here to play for championships. That's all that matters. And
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  Speaker 1: I think that they, more than anybody else, changed the game.
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  Speaker 1: And they were also extraordinary. If Larry Bird wouldn't have
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  Speaker 1: had all of his back injuries, we're I mean, it's
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  Speaker 1: hard to imagine how many championships he won if he
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  Speaker 1: hadn't had to go through Magic and had to go
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  Speaker 1: through Julius Irving and the amazing Sixers team back in
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  Speaker 1: the day, probably would have won ten championships if Magic
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  Speaker 1: and Julius Irving weren't around at that time. So I
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  Speaker 1: think that they the three and four on my list.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, I like the list so far.
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  Speaker 1: Number five, I've got Bill Russell, and I know that
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  Speaker 1: the stats aren't there, but I mean, championships are championships.
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  Speaker 1: I'd like to put Wilt ahead of him. Wilt's numbers
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  Speaker 1: are just so incredible, but I can't because every time
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  Speaker 1: he faced Billy lost. So I will put Bill Russell five.
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  Speaker 1: I will put Wilt six. I've got Tim Duncan seven. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I know I haven't mentioned Kareem yet. Tim Duncan number seven.
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  Speaker 1: I put Kareem number eight. I have a hard time
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  Speaker 1: in my head because I did not get to see
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  Speaker 1: Leu al Cinder play. I'm believing it or not too
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  Speaker 1: young for that. But I did see Kareem play, and
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  Speaker 1: the Kareem that I saw was one of the most
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  Speaker 1: boring guys to watch. Didn't play defense. All he had
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  Speaker 1: was a skyhook. I realize he was great, don't get
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  Speaker 1: me wrong. I got him in the top eight, but
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  Speaker 1: I can't get out of my head that receding hairline,
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  Speaker 1: those goggles, and that ugly looking shot of his. So
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  Speaker 1: I put Kareem Abdul Jabbar at eight. Then I've got
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  Speaker 1: Kobe nine, and then I've got Steph Curry ten. And
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  Speaker 1: that's right. I did not put Shaq in my top ten,
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  Speaker 1: even though I wanted to. And I don't even have
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  Speaker 1: Shaq head of Hakeem Olajuwan, who I have at number eleven,
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  Speaker 1: but that is my top ten list. But the point
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  Speaker 1: of the reckless of Breakfast this morning, the emergency was
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  Speaker 1: to put Lebron's career in my opinion, in my reckless
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  Speaker 1: at breakfast opinion, in its proper perspective. No, he's not Jordan.
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  Speaker 1: I don't even think it's that close. But it's closer
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  Speaker 1: than number three to him, and that, to me is
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  Speaker 1: the is the perspective that I have on Lebron james career,
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  Speaker 1: if in fact it's.
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  Speaker 3: Over, well I don't think it's over. I think he's
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  Speaker 3: going to have one more year. Yeah, but I can't
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  Speaker 3: wait to hear what Spencer thinks about your list.
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  Speaker 1: He probably thinks I'm dumb.
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  Speaker 2: Well, hopefully all right.
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  Speaker 1: He's next. Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM